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ictrs fttaintlealci J. VAN SLYKE. f ••»*«»«. ILLINOIS, tlcHENfeY, « » m • •>.£•£ 11 "the HOUSE." p y from «ftM Q«n«ll»i'• k fj'rom Harper "• MaffsitrMv] f. Prom the galleries of the House of , jfeopresentatives popular government ap- jftears to consist of a confused mass of •Jjienks and desultory men--the desks lit­ tered with books and papers, and the 4oen contirranlly walking about in every •diiwction; of a" vast amount of private Aorreapondence, a relay of page boys Obeying a Turkish magnificence of flapped hands from this and that mem- «ker to do his errands, and a monotonous •ironing by the clerks, together with a •#iiiiimuin of oratory. All this against a Signified background of cigar smoke in ""the lobbies, and of coat-rooms and bar- 1>er shops, where Congressmen lounge #nd joke, or confer on coming measures. Jft is also apparent, from the amount of trork done with the penknife, that the tfiouse is determined to have order as to its finger-nails, whatever may be the late of public business in this respect. -*§Tou hear some half-audible speaking, l)ut general walking, talking aud rust­ ling suggest how Demosthenes, if he had •njoyea the privilege of a seat in this body, might nave dispensed with the Aid of the sea. Then a division takes plaoe, and mem- , bers pour in from the lobbies, the res- Jaurant, the committee-r-joms, to pass -Hike a drove of sheep between two tel- |j|ers. The efforts of inexperienced or J*iii important members to get attention litre pathetic. One is perpetually swag­ gering about, but never speaks; another .gets up and murmurs, but, being ig­ nored by all parties, sits down, with a fehastly disappointment, and tries to took as if he did not feel he was being looked at; another, with Chadband hair, irises for information, asking, in a bland Voice, a question so needless that some one on the other side answers it, to save fctlie Speaker's time, and Chadband, after ^waying uncertainly on his toes for an instant, subsides so abruptly that he •can't at once recover the use of his limbs Sufficiently to steal away toward a cloak- -*oom. Yet at almost any moment, ex­ cept in the "morning hour" and oa -bill day," an exciting andraas- rly discussion may begin, which ^promptly fills the chairs and enchains • Jtevery listener. The general demeanor i: i*)f the House, too, is more business-like, «; excepting for the amount of preoccupa­ tion, than that of the House "Hof Commons. Those who come to look ".Ion, with imaginations trained by history Injand the press, are grieved to go away ., "without seeing a single member spring 4" lat another's throat, or even call him a ^fliar. The homogeneity of the faces and '1 'persons on the floor is another point for ' ^remark. It is clear that Americans are jAmericans, however wide asunder their "^abodes may be, and it occurs to one that if the representatives of different sec- "ri*tious were to get hopelessly mixed up .and changed about the same day, it would i>roduce no incongruity so far as their outward appearance is concerned. , To imagine these comfortable gentle­ men arrayed, in their frock-coats of identical make, on opposite sides in a •civil war, or as the lawgivers of separate -confederacies, would be grotesque, if the reality a few years ago had not been so tragic. A few distinctions of East and r South and "West may perhaps be. •traced in the physiognomies, but individual peculiarities assert them- - "selves fax ifkore strongly. The man of the people, with his indifferent necktie and 44 well-met" manner; the smug, well-to-do lawyer ; the 44 elegant speak­ er the richest members, with heads partially bald and faces seamed with fine wrinkles, wearing a look of long resigna­ tion to the collection of dividends; or ithe plethoric, rosy-faced man who gains his point by private champagne rather *than public speech ; the quiet gentle­ man of refined manners ; and the gory -antagonist--all these, and other types •lieside, may be sharply discriminated without regard to State or geographical lines. It has grown to be the fashion to say that Congress accomplishes nothing except to disturb trade, but if that is so, it is not due to idleness. Accomplish­ ing nothing was never before so labori­ ous a task. House members are the busiest people in the country, with their caucuses, their incessant committee meetings, their speeches and prepara­ tion, their dense correspondence with •constituents, and interviews with visit­ ors. AB Author's Labors. Dr. Prime's little granddaughter got into his lap, and after taking the pen out •of his hand, asked him, demurely: 44 Grandpa, how long have you been writing in this way? Ever since I was a little dot, you have been writing, writing, -every tyne I come; did you always write just so?" Then her grandfather tola her how long he had been writing lor other peo­ ple's pleasure and profit. 44 The first piece that I ever wrote for the New York Observer was printed in that paper April 7, 1888. From that ttime to this, about forty-three years, with a brief interval, I have been writing everr week, and almost every day, for •the *Observer. It is curious to see how much ope writes in such steady work. Suppose a minister writes sixty pages every week in making his sermons (less than ten pages a day, and he can easily ! write ten pages in an hour or two) he will « write 3,000 pages in a year, or 30,000 , pages iu ten years, or 120,000 in forty. | 1 haw written on an average more than J Ave columns efcch week for forty years, ' or 10,000 colums in all; at least 100 vol­ umes of 400 pages each."--Cincinnati Commercial. - Discovery of a Letter Written V Adan I* Josh Billings' 440ook Book and IPicktorial Receipts," the following in- tweeting letter is found: EDOXIA, DSCWBO, Year Twe. DEAK EVE--I have been on th# runpsge now one month, prospecting for our new home, *na •and have aee-ii #ani6 nnches th&l will do pr®wy well, but none of thora just the ticket. Td6 •old garden is & bud plaoe to beat, bnt we have Ibst that, and are turned out now to root hog " -or die. Wo will fight it out. now, on this line, if it take# all summer. Eating that apple was * great blunder, but, my dear girl, lot bygones fee bygone*; there is hope for u« yet, Jnet as «oon an I strike a good claim I will come back to you. Watch over Cain closely; he is a brick. The weather is raw and cold; I feel that I am too thinly clad. No more now from your loving AT»W. PJL--Has Cain oat another tooth yet? How to Keep Warm. The most sensible way of meeting a cold spell is to make the system a stove of itself, and this may be done by eating largely of highly carbonaceous food. In cold weather you ought to eat plenty of fat food--fat ham, pork and beans, ba­ con, fat beef, pork sausages--in fact, all manner of ereasv aliment may be in­ dulged in when the mercury h»s si nk into the basement of the thermometer. Food ijiiliis kind is slowly burn d in the jp^nrinr" ^wnnomj of the eater, but the animal heat evoked is greater than that produced by any other kind of animal ood. Wear plenty of clothing, not necessarily in heavy outer wraps, which only keep off the wind, as in garments which cling closely to your skin and re­ tain your animal heat--the heat you are making in your personal stove. Cioth- ing by itself does not warm, but bv its non-conducting power prevents animal heat from passing away from the body too rapidly, or the outside temperature from reaching the body. Then, as to sleeping arrangements. Lot< of people COLD WIXTKBS. •r Mi ftiiay •* PWFCNUMRY 7. 1MT. The winter of 1779-80, says the Al­ bany Argus, began as the winter of 1800-81 did. The cold weather set in about the middle of November, and continued until about the middle of February. During that long period there was not enough warmth in the sun's flays to melt the snow on the ground, nor to affect in the least the fet­ ters of ice that bound the creeks, ponds, storm followed . . , - - , .andrivers. One suow . -- fill the stoves in their chanr. era to red ^<>0^ unta the ground was so hotness, till the air is alinost suffocating. | covered that it was difficult to go from * great mistake. The room piacc to place, and the iee upon the should be lio warmer than usual; but , rivers at all convenient points was used extra bed-covering should be used, tie , meu aud teams and animals in plaoe who goes to bed with an easy conscience, i 0| The cold winds were so pierc- just enough food in his stomach to j jjjg that wild turkeys were found frosen keep the gastric juice out of mischief, ' to death in the forests and domestic fowls his room not warmer than 70 degrees, \ feU fr0zen from their roosts. The deer and enough clothes on him to keep the j an(j buffalo sought shelter from the pick up its twenty or thirtv or forty ot sixty years, and can hold them all in its grasp and say I once lived one of those summers and winters. We can all look at that bunch of faded flowers and say I saw them when they were fresh and beautiful. This recollection is, there­ fore, that mental attribute which alone will make possible a resurrection from the dead. The only immortality that can be thought of is, therefore, one which can look back upon tins first ex­ perience of being. Unless friends shall know each other, there will be no meet­ ing of friends, for take away the recogni­ tion and all else is empty. Thus the future world awaits wholly upon mem- ! ory--the creator of immortality.--Prof. | David 6'Hrinff. animal heat from passing off too rap idly, will ple^p the sleep of the just whose' notes arS' provided for.-^JEr- change. > . . Keeping to the Right. ; cabins of the settlers, and all kinds of wild auimals perished in the forests for want of food, which was buried beneath the snow. The fierce wolf and panther, which usually skulked about the bound­ aries of the settlements only by night, Parsons going about iu public plaoea j now came near in broad daylight in should remember to 44 keep to the right." This is almost everywhere the /ale, especially for persons riding or driving. In England, it is said, drivers paaB each other on the left. They pre­ fer this, because it enables each one to see how near lite wheels are going to the other carriage. But throughout this ccjuatry the custom and law for vehicles are to drive on the right side. When one is driving along a country road, with no carriage approaching in front, he can choose the best part of the road; but# a* soon as another comes to meet hjiu, he' ought ft? drive well over OIK the right-hand/>ide. tf the other vehicle does the same the two will pass in safety. Yet one cannot always trust that the pther will do this. Suppose it is a Hock of sheep or a drove of cows which oao meets, or « house which people are hauling along the road by means of opte|i, as is sometimes done in this coun­ try. Buch things cannot be expected to keep to the right. Whoever meets them must do the beet be can to avoid accident. He must not drive to the right obstinately, but must use common sense. For a drove of animals a good way is to stop one's wagon entirely and let them go past in their own way. Sometimes one meets an ignorant or search of the bones and offaii thrown from the cabins of the settlers. No rain fell, the pioneers wero compelled to ob- ; tain water for drinking, cooking, etc., by : melting ice and suow. The Northern and Western rivers were tightly Ijound by frost, and even as far south as Nash­ ville the Cumberland was frozen over with ice thick enough for the safe pas­ sage of emigrant trains. The Delaware, at Philadelphia, had ice three feet in thickness, and Chesapeake Bay and Long Island Sound were frozen over. I Another similarity between the winter 1 of 1880-81 and that of 177^0 was the TIE FAMILY DOCTOR. Ir a child has r bad eamehe, dip a ping of cotton wool in oil, warm it and plaoe it in the ear. Wrap up the head and keep it out of draughts. 8ICK-HKADACHB can often be greatly relieved, and sometime entirely cured, by the application of a mustard plaster at the base of the neck. The plaster should not be kept on more than a quar­ ter of an hour. BLKKDING at the nose can be stopped by vigorous action of the jaws, as if in progress of mastication. In the ease of a child a wad of paper should be placed in the mouth and the child instructed to chew hard. It is the motion of the jaw that stops the flow of blood. DR. FOOTE'S Health Monthly says that a cold bath as a tonic can be safely used 44all the year round"--by those who can bear it at all--if one will remember that the temperature of the water should be uniformly about 60 deg. Fahr., and not take it as it comes, cool in summer, and way down toward freezing in winter. FOB neuralgia in the face, or other acute suffering elsewhere, the following reme- | dy has been tried with good effect: Cut ! a thick slice of bread all serosa the loaf --fresh bread is best. Soak (me side for try as fer south as South Carolina or Alabama, was thick enough to eow all the mountains of the eastern part of North America, with the exception of Mount Washington. This peak pro­ jected, as a lone sentinel on that vast waste of ice, 200 or 300 feet. In the latitude of Northern Massachusetts, ho conceives the ice to have been two or three miles thick. The bowlders were all torn off by the advancing ice sheet, from the projecting rocks over which it moved, and carried or pushed as 44 bot­ tom drift," scratching and plowing the surface over which they passed, and being stretched and polished themselves in return, till they were finally brought to rest by the melting of the ice. They were not carried as far south as the iee sheet extended, seldom beyond the par­ allel of 40 degrees north. The native copper of Lake Superior was drifted 400 or 500 miles south ; and the pudding stones of Roxbrtry, Mass., were carried as far sonth as the Island of Penikeae. --Scientific American. CoHoctlnglDebts la Mew York State* like most other civilized States, New i York long ago abolished imprisonment for debt, but, also like most others, her statutes permit special proceedings for detention of debtors who are believed to about to go beyond the limits of the mild autumn Wtal «,Rafef the cold began, in November, 17T9, the leaves had hardly fallen from the trees and shrubs were putting forth new growth. The 6ame condition of tluugs was witnessed last fall. The winters of of 1783, 1784, 1785, 1788, 1792, 1796, and 1799 are all reporte4 as having been very severe. It is stated in "Hildreilth's Pioneer History" that on the 26th of December, 1788, the Delaware and Ohio rivers were both frozen over, and navigation was suspended upon them until the 18th of the following March. soldiers were sent to How a Great Engineer Got Bis Start. James B. Eads was born in Indiana in 1820. He is slender in form, neat in dress, genial, conrteous and nearly sixty years of age. In 1833, his father stir ted down the Ohio River with his family, proposing to settle in Wisconsin. The boat cahght fire, and his scanty furni­ ture and clothiug were burned. Young Eads hardly escaped ashore with his pantaloons, "shirt and cap. Taking pas- sago on another boat this boy of thirteen landed in St Louis with his parents; his little bare feet first touching the rocky ; a minute in boiling water, and rapidly shore of the city on the very spot where (sprinkle cayenne pepper over the hot gtate and the jurisdiction of her courts, he afterward located and built the largest j side. Apply while still smoking hot to _ , charced with fraudulent 1 n the painful surface. The bread retains the neat long enough for the cayenne to be^in tc act, and cayenne does not affect delicate skius as mustard does. It acts as a rubefacient, but not a blister. An­ other excellent remedy for congestion from cold is to apply a poultice of flax­ seed meal and cayenne pepper. By keeping a bit of oil silk on the outside of the poultice-cloth it will retain both heat and moisture for a long time. that his schoolmates would frequently WHAT a common complain t, headache is! go home with him after school to see it ny3 the Family Physician, and yet no work. A locomotive engine, driven by one geems to know anything about it. a concealed rat, was one of his next ju- j you suffer from it for,years, and yet you venile feats in mechanical engineering. | jon't go to a doctor, or if you do you From eight to thirteen he attended ! derive very little benefit from his advice. school; after which, from necessity, he . goQie people suffer from it at night only, was placed in a dry goods store. j while others are troubled wkli it in the Over the store, in St. Louis,. where he ' daytime as well. It occurs most fre- stcel bridge in the world, over the Mis­ sissippi--one of the most difficult feats of engineering ever performed in America. At the age of nine, young Eads made a short trip on the Ohio, when the en­ gineer of the steamboat explained to him so clearly the construction of the steam engine, that 1 >efore he was a year older he built a little working model of It appears that the laws gov- of this kind in New York TIE BVTCRBM 1A Atmicberlnreda lender ma!d; To woo ber worn hid s. > And he rant her cnpie» • t yoatdaf % m ' la ftet, nal tauttrMMi ' Tlwglrl, »'««! he cou'd rot roet--. She «onrt love him *R a broQMr; Bnt. when lniplorpd to marry, Md: "Tripe, p!«aae, *nd find MtoChtr.* The butcher FH I panned OmjgM; Hif p'e*« became much boldir. . The pirl at la«t, ta fit 4 raiief. Dive to him a cold abonldet. He knew then that hla hope* • Hut, a* he k ft, he mid: " RH»ee von have caused me FH haunch j-ou when I'm dead." He pined and grew ao tliin and ] He felt hi* end wan nigh; Bat hi« woe wan each be did oat- km Whether to liver din. He tried to drink to drown his flHM, Aad there fonnd no relief, ipfpjfvf. Bat daily grew more wobegoo#-- Y*u never aausage grief. *•»,'; Attest his weary sonl fonnd ml; Hid aorrowB now A re o'er. No fick'c maid now trouble*! Pork reacUer, he's no more I " Mmmdtr. PITH ASl WI**. V!*: I In 1792, when soldiers were ^ | the disastrous battle-field of General St. i^deperson who wilTnot turn out to" hTs | Clair, to bury the bead, they encamped jight. It is not the law that one may • w-here Cincinnati now stands, January revjv.j drive into his carriage and break it, and The snow was reported two fee^ say, ««I drove to the right and he ought,! deep on the ground, and the Ohio Rive* our IMt to have done so." One must drive as was so strongly froaen lhat the aoldien ended-- rode their horses across from Kentucky these wisely as he can to avoid doing mischief. But if a person, driving carefully, runs into another, who did not keep to the right, all the blame will be on the other driver, and he will have to pay damages. Therefore, it is particularly important to keep well to the right when turning •harp corners. by a Mr. on the ice. The 7th of February, 1807, was knowi for years as cold Friday, and was th • ground-work for many a grandfather e tedly to tale. On the evening of the 6th th all classes weather was mild and raiu began to fa^>, after as night-set in. In a few hours the rai ,elw vith For foot passenger* on sidewalks the ! changed to snow which fell to the deptl^ p]der 1A in not so nositive. In manv ooun- I *** Blx inches, after which a hiirricaii' rule is not so positive. In many ooun try places the sidewalks HI e not very dis­ tinct, or it is considered good manners to allow a lady or old person to walk by the wall. In all large towns, where there are established sidewalks, the best rule is to walk on the right-hand side. A boy who crowds along on the left- hand side of the walk shows that he does not understand the custom, and seldom gets along as fast. In cities foot passengers should keep on tho sidewalk except when they cross the street at a crossing; they have no business to be on the street between crossings, and if they go there it is at their own risk. Horses and carriages have no right to intrude on the sidewalk. A boy in Troy was walking along the sidewalk near a livery stable when a horse came walking out of the stable with no one to lead him. His owner, inside, had allowed him to cpme out alone, believing he would go straight to the drinking trough. instead, he •strayed along the sidewalk. He was a horse which had a bad habit of kicking, and, coming near where the boy was, he kicked him, though the boy did nothing to provoke it The boy was so badly hurt that a lawsuit was brought, and the court said that the owner of the horse must pay damages ; his horse had no business to be upon the sidewalk. Any one who lets an ugly horse go loose upon the sidewalk must pay for the mis­ chief it does to persons who do not mo­ lest it. It is no answer to say that the owner supposed the horse was trained not to go upon the walk.--A Lawyer, in the Christian Union. began to sweep over the land. It greJi°r<*ufi'^y colder and colder as the night praras speed- gressed, and the next morning the tree^ consider- in the forests were cracking like the retft|jy ports of guns, and everything was bouu' ' f . in fetters of ice. There was no the»'OUB mometer to register the cold, but thedaiuger por- comes down in history and tradition s(>ean left, cold Friday. bite rest Only a Pair of Guinea Fowls, jjj In the 44 good old times/' Sunday wii^' a,|d strictly kept in Connecticut But ir neighbor, Rhode Island, was inclined tf1' w * hold very liberal views as to Sabbatli T!»e mint* breaking. Natives of 44 Little Rhixlvn to a«e»i»e who had settled in the 44land of stemlpf positive habits," were not nnfreqnently placed li n„ 0f .)nr. their Sabbatarian laxity in oonflict wir ® their more strict neighbors. _ deep ana One of these settlers was Benjamin Wilkinson, who kept one of the best of He was a man of was engaged, his employer lived. He was an old bachelor, and having observed the tastes of his clerk, gave him his first book on engineering. The old gentle­ man's library furnished evening com­ panions for him duriug the five years he was employed. Finally, his henlth fail- ine oCTtmn,1 that paper refused to publish^ the following language: "Ij you have chosen to say what y we have made ̂ statement of j they are, so thitt the foul which have filled the air ofth for the past week, set on foot Bunker and hts Wterie o« K allies, way bo understood,' No* It isH fact that one caj turii a corner, pass along the enter a place of„business with ing some expression of opinio behalf, and if these expresi considered slanderoup by the they must be favorable to Mri and If. a« they My, "the air t« the tide or public sentiment against thetfl^ fln re is on in tlie Ellsworth atfldavlts n ticnlarty ettfphatic In boil that Mtirphy'4"client.'" In :*»i take so mhch interest, ofle retainer and fee for doing al fessloped bufljiess the flnancl and reeponsWmy ol his So j F. and, Oren D. Ellsworth, aif mote. Another feature quitJ «Jjl§ is that said ••elieitj"!^* he remained in it a fuL constant, car«| ropes to pig-lead until a ton or so was safely hoisted into his own boat; then quently in women, but still you often hear men complain of it We believe that the best remedy is hypophosphite of lime in one or two grain doses twice a day. This is soluble in water, and should be taken in the form of a mixt­ ure, nothing else being put with it, with the exception, if you like, of a table- spoonful of sirup, to make it more pal­ atable, although it is really by no means disagreeable by itself. Another good remedy is nux vomica--five or six drops of the tincture in a little water three or four times a day. It is liiglily recom­ mended, fend you may hope for great things from it. Then you must do all you possibly can to improve the state of your general health. It is probable that you are below par somehow or other, although we must admit that it does not follow of necessity. If you feel gener­ ally out of sorts, and your appe­ tite is poor, quinine will do you good. If you ate pale and ansomic, you must put your faith in iron. Cod-liver oil is au excellent remedy for improving the general nutrition ; many people feel quite in a glow after each dose. taverns at Thompson. much public spirit, and had done many ] making a signnl by a small line attached An Ho Music in TheswelTes, amusing incident occurred things to beautify the town. Before his advent the ground on which the meet- ing-house stood, was covered with bush, old stumps, and rock. He transformed it into an attractive oommon and train­ ing-field. He was a generous man, and wished all to share in the good things of life, j them for lifting entire vessels. So he planted a peach pit by every rock to the barrel, he was lifted on deok, and took command again. The sunken cargo was soon successfully raised, and was sold, aud netted a handsome profit; which, increased by other successes, en­ abled enegeticEads to build larger boats, with powerful pumps and machinery on in Ghent while the American and British plenipotentiaries were forming a treaty of peace between the two countries. A looker-on might have seized it to quote against the Americans Shakspeare's lines beginning: The man that hath no mode in himaaif. The authorities of the city, anxious to honor the representatives of the two na­ tions, proposed to give a grand musical entertainment The leader of the band called upon the Americans to get their national air. The question was imme­ diately raised bv the three Ministers-- Adams, Clay and Bayard--as to whether 44 Hail Columbia" or 44 Yankee Doodle" was the national air. Having settled that to the latter belonged that honor, tlie gentlemen were requested by the band-master to give him the air. Mr. Adams, looking at Mr. Clay, said, 441 cap't do it; I never sang or whistled a tun© in nay life." 44 Nor I," said Mr. Clay. 44 Nor I," repeated Mr. Bayard. 4 4 Call Jolinl" exclaimed Mr. Clay, referring to his negro servant John entered. "John, whistle 4Yan­ kee Doodle' for this gentleman !" John whistled it accurately, the lead­ er wrote down the music, and the next day tke Ghent band played •' Yankee Doodle" as the national ai* of the Unit­ ed States. Edacation ia India. India is often regarded as a country plunged in the darkness of heathenism and ignoranoe. So it is, but not to the extent generally supposed. ^ There are 66,000 schools and colleges in India, with an attendance of 1,900,TOO. The natives prove themselves veiy proficient in languages--indeed, Lord Northbrook opce said that very few European for­ eigners could speak English as well as it was spoken by the natives of India. Scientific education in India chiefly con­ sists of instruction in medical science and civil engineering, and in both branches great Buccess has been at­ tained. The medical colleges have sent out a great number of thoroughly com­ petent native surgeons and physicians. There is little technical teaching given in India. The natives are said to have retentive memories and expansive im­ aginations, but not sufficient steadiness and maturity of thought They subord­ inate their reason to their imagination. Girls' schools for all classes ace bemg established. A PHYSICIAW gives directions how to see the blood circulate. His method is not as simple as the old way of calling a prize-fighter a *»&*•. . and along the road side, that boys, travj-uVun uj--.. elers, and church-comers might have pituberatfon free supply of peaches. thttt it On winter Sundays. Wdkinson s tal ern, being near the church, served asj 1,1 " 44Sabbs,-day house." The shiverii| of.Jhe con- congregation--there were no stoves ,rds little in meeting-houses in those days--fou»Din ao^iety warmth by tlie glowing hearth and, ler|z#t|on of may be, in something from the bar. i But Wilkinson was not a strict Sabljpe® t tarian. His neighbors overlooked sitcom pare not dry failures to keep in harmony wjits members their ideas, seeing^ that he had b<|gte„ lo gm!ti brought up in worthy citizen. congregation was disturbed all throif eri' the morning service by what souni protest, the like the creaking of a rusty-haudinrin not ang-. grind-stone. The noise came from | extent, auH tavern yard. L,er» ftam the That was the ounce that broke T nt back of the much-enduring Thompsf® a 1,11 » iaiis. Not even the best inn-keeper ili eve that tlie . t. the State could be tolerated tniv annMAO A JWitvli 11 £fl V fit TIOOTl " • » « i i.1 l 11 l... Chicago Fire, inwhlch w< 3 the following: '"The pe streaked with blood." T effect upon the business persons thus entangled si commercial agent of tlii lags" Informs us that time of Bunker's arrest, from the Chicago ! quiring for the busings* IW, aeei 'K c.mt "laten to Bunker Brokers.' up in Rhode Island, and wa . a n,mKer T ntizen. But one Sunday ^ < > , J »j.'or lite 1*K till finn wan disturbed ail throvf®^ ^ "urn thirty-six h Mbeen rtis«lo "to wee aiid li< mid know" all the force of ,The trains are greatly I) roads blockaded, with travel almost entlirely «u J We bsve h»d quite / ing divine sen-ice. Accordingly at n<x>n the deacons aud the selectmen waited upon Wilkinson, and charged him with turning a grind-stone on the Sabbath- day. "I deny the charge," he promptly answered. . 44 Why, we hear it now," retorted tho officials, as a long-drawn, creaking sound startled them. "Come aud see for yourselves," said the landlord, smiling mischievously, and leading the way into his yard. 44 Gentlemen," lie said, 44 let me intro­ duce to yon the first pair of Guinea hent brought into Thompson." It was their doleful cries which had ruffled the serenity of the congregation. ftecond Life. Ifww may inquire solemnly and with many a doubt whether any other world than this awaits the human race ; but, onoe admitting a second life, the dark cloud of punishment must be seen on that remote horizon. There can be no second life without a memory of the events of this career. It is the chain of memorv which makes a resnrrection from the dead possible. If a person should arise from the gr.tva and have no con­ sciousness of ever having lived before, that would be no second lifo on;_v in a most trilling and unjust sense. Dr. Ed­ ward Beecher once published quite a volume to show that man is now in his seoond world, and itt death will pass to j his third and last. But if we have most utterly forgot tea any sr«ch first life this is made our first exist* nee by the very fact of such forget.l'uliiess. If we did all live once before in this planet or in some other planet, that f;u*t has been forgot­ ten with an amazing uniformity and thoroughness. Memory makes this our first life. A thousand volumes from all the wise men of all nations could not in­ tervene, with their learning and elo­ quence, and oppos9 tlie simple evidence of memory in this strange case. It is your first world. Your memory can for them as I has to hanswer tho bell for. •Aven't you got a sixpenny bit of yer own?" 441 guess I can find one." And away his lordship went, really enjoying the thing, and shortly returned with a tan­ kard ot foaming half-an'-half. The valet drauk it with a keen relish --emptied the pot--aud then offered to return it, with: 4 4 There, my good fellow--I m much-- But the visitor put the pot back, and cat the speech short with: 44 Return the tankard yourself, my man; and when your master returns, be kind enough to tall him thatLosd fiodoo- dale called." His lordship left the dazed and eon- founded valet supporting himself against , 0 Elizabeth the door-post, _ t^por^pot fallento , White and Clean Teeth Cleanliness of the teeth is to the eye what purity of breath is to the sense of Binelliug. Nothing, indeed, is more de­ sirable in the appearanoe of a lady than clean, white teeth, and the gums the color of the rose ; nothing more repul­ sive than unclean, discolored and un- cared for teeth, thickly incrusted with tartar. The most l)eantiful face and lips are disagreeable if the latter, when open, exhibit the offensive spectacle of neglect­ ed teeth. The whiteness of teeth is liable to be lost by the inlluenoe of various causes, and they are tarnished by the action of different elements and by the exalations of tho stomach. When the loss of whiteness is occasioned by the production of tartar, a coral stick may be used to clean the teeth and to remove the tartarous salt; the blackness of the teeth may be sometimes corrected by pulverizing equal parts of tartar and salt, and, after washing the teeth, rub them with this powder. Tlie gums can­ not be healthy unless they are firm and ted, and adhere to the roots of the teeth --these qualities depending, in a great measure, on the health. The gums are liable to a variety of accidents which im- ] pair both their health and beauty, and which often transform them into very unsightly objects. Sometimes they grow soft, swell and appear full of liquio and corrupted blood; at others, they project, and cover a great part of tlie teeth ; they also become inflamed and painful and affected with offensive uloeis. A good cleansing mixture may be made, by amalgamating an ounce of powdered myrrh, two spoonfuls of white honey and a little green sage in fine powder; wet the teeth and gums with a very little of this, at night and morning. Pow­ dered charcoal is also an effective article for cleansing and whitening. Needles. A writer in the Home Journal briefly tells of the progress made in the last 2,000 years in forming the little imple­ ment so serviceable to women: 4'Among the uncivilized people, at a verv early period, rude attempts were made to form needles or bodkins of bone and ivory, by means of which they might stitch their garments together; but among the more refined nations of antiquity, as the Chinese, Hindoos, Egyptians and Hebrews, line needles must have been in common use. "Pliny mentions needles made of bronze for sewing and knitting as being used in his time, and bronze needles of a larger size have been found in Egyp­ tian tombs, which must have been made 4,000 years ago. The action of moist­ ure and tho atmosphere would have destroyed smaller ones. "The Spanish, or at eel, needle was in­ troduced into England in the time of but the process by made was kept a secret, and the art was lost till the year 1650, when it was revived. 4 4Great' improvements have since been introduced in needle-making, and the fine ntecljneedles of that period bear but a faint resemblance to the delicate and practices. erning o are so construed as to permit very gross and barbarous abuses, and a movement has commenced which will doubtless result in such modification of the law as may remove this reproach. It is said that in the jail in New York City there are nine men who have been imprisoned for long terms--one for four years-- without any other charge than the creditors' alleged belief mat they in­ tended to leave the State. Being unable to give bail to the amount of creditors' claims, these unfortunates are detained at the pleasure erf those upan whose suit they have been committed. Such a practice is, of course, intolerable, and now that its existence is exposed, meas­ ures for its suppression will not lie long delayed. Perhaps the law would not have been left till this late day in the present form, but for the somewhat ex­ ceptional relations which New York holds with the general business of the oountiy. The city being the commercial center and general supply poiut of nearly the whole country for many important lines of trade, her merchants are naturally large creditors of non-residents, and the legislation of the State was doubtless framed for the purpose of giving them as much security as posssible in their dealings with persons living beyond the limits. The law under which delators are imprisoned in the manner complained of was designed to bring reluctant or dishonest debtors to terms, in case they should venture into New York jurisdic­ tion; and it is possible that the amend­ ments which are now sought will retain something of this sort of moral suasion. While the State assumes to enforce the obligations of debt contracts, there can be no very strong objection to means of enforcement which will at least ex­ haust the property, open or concealed, of debtors. The fault with the present law of New York seems to be that it leaves the poor debtor at the mercy of the creditor, instead of requiring prompt proceedings to test his ability to pay. If fraudulent concealment, or diversion of a debtor's assets is made a crime, he should at least be allowed a fair trial when charged with it. The existing law in New York practically permits sentence for imprisonment for life upon the mere affidavit of a creditor, without jury trial Or any other judicial proceeding to de­ termine his guilt or innocence of fraud. It is strange that a system capable of such barbarous abuse, and which, as the evidence shows, has been made the in­ strument of most atrocious oppression, should have received so little public at­ tention heretofore, in a city whose news­ paper writers and reporters sre supposed to be always on the lookout for matters of a sensational character.--Minneapolis Tribune. _____ WHAT this ooun try wants is a automatic telephone answerer. PEOPXJB with badly-ventilated ooat* , cellars are not admirers of Voltaire. iL t Troi only hand in this world whicllp blesses those who grasp it is alcll haadi SMAXiIi dishes are decorated so hands > somely now that pickles look unhappy ̂ -> j, *. : the floor, his face the picture of horror and despair, looking for all tho world like one who wished he had nerar been born! The Affectionate SOB. It ia all very well to be polite to la- „ , dies bnt some people in this oountiy ! highly-tempered needle of the Present carry it too fan There were setr- ! day, which requires to pass through the eral persons in a Galveston avenue car, j hands of no less than 1 JO workmen be- ... - 1---- --'--1- fore it is ready for use. and one of them was smoking, which was allowed, as there were no ladies in the car. A rough-looking country cus­ tomer. with an expression that reminded one of an Irish potato, scowled a time or so at the smoker, aud finally said : 44 You ain't got no right to smoke when there are ladies in the car.-" " I don't see any ladies," replied the astonished smoker, looking around. 44 Maybe not, but my mother was a woman, and you slia n t smoke, while I am in the car, out of respect to bsr memory." The smoker gazed at the homely feat­ ures of the mau with s mother, and then, throwing tho cigar out at the window, said Where the Bowlders Come From. All have seen the immense bowlders called 44lost rock" in some sections, scattered over tho northern part of the United States, which -have little or no resemblance to any mass of rock any­ where in the vicinity, and have perhaps asked the question : Where did they come from? also the heaps of sand, gravel, and cobble stones of various sizes, whi 'h form many of our ridges, j knoHs and hills, and which are totally j unlike any fixed rock near them. All these phenomena are attributtd to a I single cause, and that is the gre at sheet of ice which nature stored up years a^o Why didn't you tell me sooner your j without the necessity - it k... .*«- an im houaa. According to Agassi*. mother was a woman, --Galveston Newt, if yon knew il?" an ioe house. According to Agassiz, the sheet of ioe, extending in this coun- The Mining Prospecta. Behold the prospector who wandereth over the face of tlie earth. He traverseth the hills and pioketh the barren mountains with his pick. The pangs of hunger grip his bowels in the morning, and at night he lieth down with only a blanket to cover him. And tlie graybacks ooms forth and rend him. And he lifteth up a voice of laaoenta- tiou in the wilderness and cries sloud to heaven: " Why has this affliction come upon me, and why do the terrors of hell oom- pass me round about ?" And while he sleeps the wolves devour his substance. And when he flndeth the aroppings he diggeth iu the ground and tacketh np the location notice on the board. Then he hieth to the valleys and say- eth to the capitalist: • « Hearken unto mo. for I have struck it big. Here are the samples from tho ground, and behold the gold paaketh lousy the rock with richness.'* And the twain return to find others toiling upon the claim. And the prospector grsspeth his gun, giving: ( 44 Get ye gone from here, for this is holy ground." And a fire coming oat of the bush smites him on the hip, and he calleth with a loud voice : 441 am done for; take off my boots." And they hasten to take off his boots, and the fragrance of his socks reacheth unto heaven. And hegiveth up his ghost and is gathered to his fathers. And behold, others work the mine.-- Nevada Monthly. Capacity for Sleep* Public men, subjected to severe men­ tal strain by exhauBtiag duties, learn 'to sleep anywhere and at any time. Napo- lean once slept for an hour in the middle of a battle, with the roar of artillery about Brougham alept for twenty- four hours at the close of an exciting week in the court-room. A story told of William Pitt, when Prime Minister of England, exhibits this facility: A mutiny had broken out on a ship of war, and the mutineers had imprisoned Admiral Colpoice, and threatened him with death unless their grievances were redressed. It was feared that the exam­ ple would become oontagious, and the mutiny become general. Several members of the Cabinet, led by Lord Wiudham. went in dismay to Pitt's house for oounsel. He wss ssleep, but they forced their way to his chamber a n d r o u s e d l i i m . . . . Tlie great statesman sat np m bed, heard their excitiug story, and wrote calmly: . " . 44 If Admiral Colpoice is not given np, fire upon the ship from the batteries un­ til she is destroyed." , He then lay down on pis pillow, and was suoring before his surprised col­ leagues had leit the room. They could not understand how sleep was possible in wch an emergency. in them. THERXOUSTKM reform late in Kfeg ̂ they never beoome temperate until near f̂ ̂ .«v ly 60. n-> WHY is the American stage like th .̂.- American eagle ? Because it has wings^ . and flies, of course. 1 a THE principal of a young ladies* _s inary in Syracuse has so exhausting inflicted her pupils with "deportment that, when left alone, her girls d 1® a# < likesixty. f | 44 Do YOU favor my suit ?" said Ciand# ̂ to Angelina, the other day. 44 Yea," ws^, the crushing reply, 441 look with moq^ favor on the new clothes than I do oft / * the owner." ' , ~ EVEX the wisest is sometimes^a tbolL A For example, the philosopher wno wfflJI ,,,| ̂ his spectacles when he was asleep that he might recognize friends he might Beo " , in his dreams. INDIANA, has a law to prevent wea^;- minded persons marrying. A crust# . \ bachelor insinuates that the weak-mind ̂ ed are the only persons who ever think of doing such a thing. . ̂ FATHER TUCB is pictured aa an oil , ̂ and bald-headed gentleman, but he ms#> v;l|| ages to skip around quite lively, all th# j. same, in spite of being handicapped by agricultural implements. AN exchange frantically ̂ asks: " Ain p':'M blacksmiths who make a living by for ̂ +$ ing, or carpenters who do a little cou>» *; terfitting, anv worse than men who soft iron and steel for a living f " A BACHKMHI at a banquet in New­ castle, Eng., gave the following toasts 44 The women and coal of Durham coun­ ty. Qh, how desolate our fizeaidM would be without them!" Ynnci is the richest city in Italy H is almost free from debt. And with d those canals, too I The Venetian Alder men and State legislators are fearfully behind the age.- i\wk. AN impertinent fop made sport of Hi old farmer's large nose, mouth, and chin; but the old farmer silenced him by saying, 44 Your nose, mouth, an' chin all had to be made small so 'at there'd be material loft for your cheek." IT takes a country school-master tat shrewdness. When the weather is cold and the school-house imperfectly heated he puts the head of the class nearest the stove, and then all the scholars work like blazes to rank high in their studies A GENTLEMAN once remarked to a witty' lady of his acquaintance that he must have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. She looked at him care­ fully, and, noting tlie size of his mouth, replied, 441 don't doubt it; bnt it mart have been a soup-ladle." AFTER all the evidenoe was in, a Gal­ veston Judge asked the accused,, who was charged with stealing a watch, if he had anything more to offer. 441 did have an old silver watch to offer yon, Jedge, but my lawyer borrowed it, ana hasn't brought it book yet."--GalveHtm Newt. MANY physicians claim that intemper­ ance is a disease. It must be con­ tagious, then ; at any rate, a man who gets drunk finally eatohes it when ho goes home. There may appear to bo some little discrepancy or contradio- tion here, but w» «m&'t stop for that now. 44 Yas," remarked a musical oritie,m- cently from Kansas, "the fiddlin' wee" bully; but I tell you when that fat ehap with the big mustache laid hold of toe base fiddle and went for them low notaa in the violin-oellar, I just felt as if a : S "it buzz-saw was a playin' 4 Yankee Doodfe* an my backbone." •TWAI Sunday ev» and the wnall boj atBoS With bla eye to the keybo'e waaac*. And be aaw hia aiater Beaa;'a nead On Absalom Tbompaon'a veal, Then be ran to bta parent aterc and toM, And the parent atern replied : wTher«> ain't DO barm In a vo«t; sjiSaMt,1* But the lad refoaea to elide. "There ain't no hanu in a veat, I know," And hla eye* flaahed brighttt>at talaate, 1 at itn't it damteraaa, dad," he uM, When Absalom Thoznpson'a in itT " Sam John- What <*B*t itn't OCTRAOB by a policeman: was up again yesterday. brings you here this time ? " asked ine Recorder. 44 De pliceman, sah; do same what brung me heah last time.** 441 mean what did you do?" 441 was jess passin* a grocery store, when I struck my head agin a ham what waa hanging ""by de dore. I tuck de ham down to put it somewhares whar it would be safe from folks bustin' their brains out agin it, when de fust I knowod a pliceman tried to get de ham away from me, and becase I wouldn't let <fo ham go he jess benng me slong, toa ̂ i House of Wurtemberf. The house of Wurtemberg, it is said, derives its name from the following ]*> 8*44 A poor burgher fell in love with tho daughter of the Emperor Of Austria, tad as the young people saw no prospect of obtaining the imperial consent to the union, they fled together into Suabia, where they*l>ought a small piece of land, and established an inn. It stood at the foot of a mountain, and its possessor therefore went by the name of 4 Wirt am Berg,' OT tlie 'Landlord at the Mountain.' One day the Emperor was traveling to Frankfort, and stopped oa ou his way at his daughter's house with­ out recognizing her. She knew him directly, aud persuaded her livsband lo make himself known to the Emperor, and to bog liis forgiveness. Accordingly, •airing their little sou they fell at his feel entreating his pardon, which he willingly granted. Moreover, the Emperor cre­ ated his son-in-law a duke; but in mem­ ory of this occurrence he waa to keep Ida name 4 Wirt am Berg,' whkh eahoa ̂ sequentiy became Wurtomberg,"