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fgtgtntg f tainfaaltt J. VAN SLYKE. E«w wmi ttMMv. McHENBY, UJJNOI& mm I in i i :IJW QECB3ETABT BUIKE HU decided not to s ' letters of iutaoduotkm to Ameri- going abroad other than to officers the Government traveling on official IK Worcester's new Dictionary, among le 11,000 words admitted, the word boom " has a place. It is defined as ynaaning " an enthusiastic Mid Spontane­ ous movement in favor of a person, thong y >si^ a# /t ,/^or cause. * IAKFEKLD, who speaks French land Gerjban fluently, is said to be the jffirst President's wile able to talk with ;«• ̂ foreign diplomats in the court language Europe. Her husband is also aooom- lished in German and French. AT the beginning of this year there was in bond in these United States 27,- .s® 11,153 gallons of whisky. About 20,- ^;<000,000 gallons were of the celebrated Kentucky variety. What a tremendous number of sore heads, external and in ternal, these figures represent. MB. THOMAS A. SCOTT has recently made gifts to several Philadelphia insti­ tutions amounting in the aggregate to over $150,00a>| Of this $50,000 go to the endowment of the chair of mathe­ matics in the •University of Pennsyl­ vania, $50,000 to Jefferson Medical Col­ lege, $30,000 to the Orthopedic Hospi­ tal, and $20,000 to the children's de­ partment of the Episcopal Hospital. WARD A. KNOX, formerly of Company D, First Maine heavy artillery, has just received a pension of $12 a month on ac­ count of almost total blindness due to the pressure of air produced by a cannon ball which passed close to his face dur­ ing the battle in front of Petersburg. The testimony to the injury and the •cause of it is perfectly satisfactory, though the case is very rare and possi­ bly unique. As SOON as the new wing of the State .Department is ready for occupancy, it is the intention of the President to re­ move the executive offices there, and make the White House a residence rather than an office. The White House needs thorough renovating and repair­ ing to make it fairly habitable, as all •of the improvements that have been made u|x>n it from time to time have been of a make-shift character. A MAN built a house worth $10,000 at Andover, Mass., without spending a dollar. He bought all the material on •six months' credit, and, at the end of the time, refused to pay. All the stuff was fast in the house, which he had sold to his wife. . The labor was obtained on the _ 4iame plan, and even the widow who boarded the workmen was swindled. te'Uxe man lives placidly in his fine resi­ dence, but is not greatly loved by his neighbors. SBNATOB DAVID DAVIS has architects preparing plans for a magnificent hotel which he intends to erect in Blooming- ton during the coming summer. The Senator also intends to build a number -of houses upon his farms, lying in differ­ ent parts of. Central Illinois. It is esti* mated that he has made over $200,000 in the last three years in the rise of some of his real estate, situated in Chi­ cago and other portions of the State. DUBIKO the war William H. Augur, a Union soldier, helped three sisters who were in great distress at their despoiled home in Virginia. At the death of the last of them, some years ag<^ it was pro­ vided that the estate should be kept in trust for certain missing heirs until 1881, and then, if they were not found, be given to Augur, who had returned to his family at Meriden, Ct. The time has now expired, the heirs have not ap­ peared, and Augur is to receive $100,000. " THK people ask for a sign, and no sign shall be given unto them," cannot be said of the^hicago people. A firm there has put up a sign costing $2,500, and the Chicago folks claim that it is the most expensive sign ever put up in this country. It is 136 feet long and tive and a half feet wide. It took 4,000 feet of lumber and 640 days' work to complete it. Four hundred dollars -worth of gold and $250 of metal orna-» ments were used in its construction. Chicago is mistaken about its being the most expensive sign. A New York man had a sign that fell one windy day and nearly killed a man. The owner of the sign had to pay $4,800 and costs, which makes that sign the most expensive as far as heard from. increased during late years on an aver­ age 1} per cent, annually; that of En­ gland 1| per cent; that of France only three-quarters of 1 per cent.; and that a# Italy by only one-half of 1 per cent From the, results of the census just ta­ ken in Hungary we learn that the popu­ lation of that state has increased during late years hardly one-quarter of 1 per cent. This is the more remarkable, as Hungary has incurred no losses by war or pestilence during the last decade and a hall Perhaps what the author of the " Vicar of Wakefield " said, " that only he is an honorable and useful mem­ ber of m community who marries and rears a large family," may explain the degeneration of the Latan and Magyar Hfiuta H. BOTSSKX, the «tll- knownwriter, contributes a.»hort paper to the Critic upon Russian Nihilism, in the course of which he gives the sub­ stance of an interview between himself and a prominent Nihilist. The follow­ ing statement made by the latter to Mr. Boyesen formulates the aims for which the Nihilists are working in a very con­ cise and straightforward manner: "What the great body of the Hussion people wants, is constitutional govern­ ment. We have outgrown our swad­ dling clothes ; and the patriarchal des­ potism, which answered well enough as long as the majority of the nation lived in Asiatic barbarism, becomes odious and impossible as soon as European thought invades the country and we gain the self-respect which is the inevitable con­ comitant of culture. The great argu­ ment which the Government uses is that we are not yet ripe for even a limited self-government. But if we were good enough to shed our blood in order to bestow the blessings of constitutional government upon our Slavonic brethren in Bulgaria, Roumelia, and Serbia, why» the conclusion lies near that we have a right to expend that for ourselves which we- have the power to bestow upon others. Therefore our own radically corrupt despotism seemed tenfold hate ful to the Russian people after they re­ turned from their victories south of the Balkans; and when the Czar, after hav­ ing appealed to our patriotism and love of our kindred, disappointed our legiti­ mate expectations and attempted to force us back into the old treadmill, it was inevitable that the Nihilists, who formerly had been an insignificant par­ ty, should rise to become a dangeious power in the state. It is a mistake to suppose that the great body of those who now call themselvep Nihilists wish to make a tabula rasa of the past, and to start a radically new order of society. There are half a dozen different sects within the party, and all that unites them is their common hate of despot* ism. Let the Czar grant representative government, with a Parliament and responsible Ministers, and, above all, let him abolish the shamefully cruel and barbaric secret police, and within a year Nihilism would sink back into its former insignificance." FACTS FOB THE tURIOVS. THE Bureau of Education has pre­ pared a table showing the condition of primary education in forty-seven differ­ ent countries. The following table states the number of primary schools in each of the principal states of Europe, and in Japan, together with the school pop­ ulation of each: CoutUrie*. Austria Hungary.... Bavaria .... Belgium.... IK um&rk So. of School*. 16,164! 16,48(1 7,184 5,72!) 2,940 Eugluid and Wales 17,168 France Ire and Italy Japan JJetlierlanda... Portugal PruuBia Koiuiiauia Russia Saxony.. .v."".. Scot'and..... Spain Sweden Switzerlaad.. ... 71,547 .... 7,521 ....47,411 ....35,459 .... V" 4,510 ... .34,SUM 2,319 ...15,077 .... 2,134 .... 8,003 ....98,117 .... 8,tT0 .... 6,088 \o. of Pupil*. 2,1.-4,684 1,559,636 Ml,304 687,749 231,953 3,710,8X3 4,716,935 1,031,995 1,931,617 2,163,962 486,737 198,131 4,001,776 108,824 1,096,851 451,324 508,452 1,410,476 508,354 411,754 THE late enumeration of inhabitants taken among some of the nations of Eu­ rope prove some very singular facts. According to the census of 1880 the population of the German empire TBB cuttle-fish has three distinct hearts. ELEPHANTS always disturb the water before they drink. THE woodpecker can thrust its tongue out full three inches. THE albatross, the largest of sea birds, flies with a velocity of 100 miles an hour. THK little bird called the swift darts through the air at the rate of 180 miles an hour. THE noise made by a school of fish sounds, in the deep sea, like the rum­ bling of thunder. THE horn of a rhinoceros, when oat through the middle, is said to exhibit on each side the rude figure of a man, the outlines being marked by small white strokes. OHANO-OUTANOS, in a state of domesti­ cation, will sit at the table like men and eat every kind of food, using the knife and fork; and they will drink wine and other liquors. THE main artery in the common whale is a pipe into which a man might creep with ease; the heart throws tout from twelve to fifteen gallons of blood at every pulsation; the tongue has been compared to a vast feather-bed, on which half a dozen men might find am­ ple room for repose. The whale's tail not infrequently has a surface of 100 square feet. IF the eaith could be suddenly stopped in her orbit, and allowed to fall unob­ structed toward the sun, under the ac­ celerating influence of his attraction, she would reach the central fire in about four months. But such is the compass of her orbit that, to make its circuit in a year, she has to move nearly nineteen miles a second, or more than fifty times faster than the swiftest rifle bail, ant', j moving twenty miles, her path deviates I from perfect straightness by less thau | one-eighth of an inch. ' AMONG the extinct species of animals, the remains of vihich are found in Amer- j ica, may be mentioned the Eobasileus | coruntus, a beast as large as the Indian i elephant, but standing low, having pro- • portions more as in the rhinoceros, j The physiognomy was very peculiar. On | either side of the front, above each *or- I bit, rose a stout horn, its base continu- j ous with that of its mate. Immens jly ; prolonged nasal bones supported ou j each side, near the extremity, a mas v.v.' I reversed shovel-shaped protuberance, i These beasts probably lived in herds like elephants of the present d iy. IN Persia they bottle up the R tears a3 I of old. This is done in the following ; manner: As the mourners are bitting : around and weeping, the master of cere- ' monies presents each one with a piece cf ! cotton wool, with which to wipe off his i tears. This cotton is afterward squeezed • into a bottle, and the tears are preserved I as a powerful and efficacious remedy for | reviving a dying man after every other ! means has failed. It is also employed as a charm against evil influences. This custom is probably alluded to in Psalm lvi., verse 8: " Put thou my tears into a bottle." The practice was once uni­ versal, as is found by the tear bottles which are found in almost every ancient tomb, for the ancients buried them with their dead as a proof of their affection. COFFEE made out ot dates is the latest innovation. It will make a panic in the bean market A PRINCIPLE. . • -v - TfcM to Wfc*t Ih« ftepnMlcaaa Are Ftffbtinir Far. , T [WMbtagton Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] The Republicans more plainly defined their position to-day relative to the con­ test now pending in the Senate than they at any previous time have done. They denied that they were engaged in a petty scramble for the possession of the minor offices of the Senate, and affirmed that they were contending for two great prin­ ciples : First, that it is the constitution­ al right and duty of the majority in oountry to govern ; second, that it is the duty of the Republicans by every means in their power to encourage that element in the South which seeks to disintegrate the Bourbon Democracy by guarantee­ ing to all classes a fair election, a free bal'ot and an honest count. That the Republicans have a constitutional ma­ jority, aside even from the vote of the Vice President, there is no doubt, for not only Mahone, but David Davis, voted with the Republicans upon that question. David Davis stated in his last speech that, the Republicans having ob­ tained possession of the committees, his vote would not be interposed to prevent them from logically completing their or­ ganization by the election of officers. Mr. Davis has been absent two days from the Senate, and has not sought a pair, which favors the Republicans; so that the Republicans stand on the strong ground of a numerical majority of two Senators upon this question, while the Democrats are forced to accept the posi­ tion of revolutionary filibusters. As to the second point, it was made clearer to­ day than ever before that the Republi­ can Senators think that they have as­ surances, on which they rely, that their present movement is an important one in the interest of the breaking up of the solid South. The mails come from Vir­ ginia daily laden with evidences that the stand which the Republicans have taken in support of Malione's independent position is strengthening the opposition element in that State, and greatly dis- oour ging to the Bourbons; that if the contest continues without any faltering on the Republican side the result will be of great assistance in the movement for the overthrow of Bourbonism in the fall elections and the election of an anti- Bourbon Governor, Supreme Court and Legislature, which will elect the Sena­ tor who shall be the colleague of Senator Mahone after next spring. The fact of the possession of the Senate offices the Republican Senators treat as insignificant. The Read j asters in Vir­ ginia also regard it in that manner. Their theory is that the resolute fight which the Republicans are making in support of their candidates, one of whom has ventured to come out from Bourbonism and to defy it, is a token to every man of that class in the Southern country that, if he is bold enough and brave enongh to assert his convictions and to defy Bourbonism, the solid Re­ publican party North will extend to him the hand of fellowship on national grounds. Whether the Republicans are misled or not in this opinion, the thirty- eight Republican Senators from the North and West, without an individual exception, certainlv believe that that is the situation in Virginia and in other portions of the South to-day. It is upon that ground that they place themselves, and the contest that is going on in the Senate, therefore, they wish to have re­ garded not as a struggle for the petty spoils of the Senate offices, but as a great contest, than which none has been more important since the war, which involves the enforcement of all the amendments to the constitution and the recognition of the sanctity of the freedman's ballot, the exercise of which Bourbonism seeks to prevent or to de­ stroy. It is for these two reasons alone that the Republican Senators assert (and are in earnest when they assert it) that they will keep the Senate in con­ tinuous session during the summer rather than surrender their constitu­ tional right and duty to control the Sen­ ate or to abandon a contest which will bring discouragement and dismay to what they think is the growing inde­ pendent movement in the South. The Bourbon Senators understand this, and clearly gave expression to their fears in the vigorous speech which Senator Beck made this afternoon. He said that the Virginia fall campaign had begun upon March 4 in the Senate Chamber; that the Republicans were now seeking to elect that Legislature and Senator which should wrest the Old Dominion from Democratic control; and that he and the thirty-seven Democratic Sena* tyrs with him were bound to stay here and contest that issue iu the Senate Chamber. The issue is clearly joined, and the mere offices themselves are rap­ idly being lost sight of in the debate which is each day assuming broader proportions. The matter of confirma­ tions, too, the Republicans say, is tri­ fling, for with possibly one exception (that of the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court bench) there is not a single office in all the list named which is not now filled by a competent person, and the republic will receive no detri­ ment, they state, by the fact that the placemen and the spoilsmen are com­ pelled to stand aside and wait until the principles upon which the republic itself is founded, and which the Republican party has been striving to secure, shall, if possible, be secured now. Republi­ can Senators, commenting upon the fact that the Northern press quite generally condemn their course here, say that the Republican press, when they fully understand the situation, will mod­ ify their comments, and iu any event that the position assumed by the Re­ publican Senators has been taken after the most careful deliberation as to the policy which was best for tlie party. Two of the new Republican Senators spoke to-day, and helped to s'trip this contest to some extent of the disguise and mystery which the Democrats have sought to throw around it. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, made his maid­ en speech, and Senator Sherman, appar­ ently to the surprise of the Democracy, very eari_estly supported the Republic­ ans in their position as regards Mahone. If the Democrats adhere to their posi­ tion they will in effect force the thirty- eight Republican Senators to take the stump in Virginia in opposition to the Bourbons. This reinforcement to the anti-Bourbon element had not been ex­ pected. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, addressing the Senate upon this question, said the American people would look upon this contest, which involved nothing but a few officers, with a good deal of indiffer­ ence, but back of this was a principle which was recognized in every deliber­ ative body in the world: that was, that the majority of any body must decide every question that came before it. The rights of the minority were not defined, but prescribed. Here the majority was in favor of a change of officers. It was shown by many votes, and it was more than a constitutional majority--it was a majority of the Senators without respect to the voting of the Vice President. Did anybody question the right of the majority to elect officers ? The minority said " No, you shall not do that." Per­ haps the majority was wise and right. That was a matter of indifference. The question was who should determine the order of business. Any majority was a majority. It was because Southern republics had disregarded this law that they had never been able to establish stable governments. He made a strong argument in opposition to the right of minorities to filibuster by withholding their votes, and criticised the action of his own party associates in having at various times resorted to that method. He was glad to co-operate with the Senator from Virginia (Ma­ hone), and he believed the movement originated by that gentleman would be the dawning* of a new dav for the South. The solid South would be broken and American politics cease to be sectional and become national. He welcomed the Senator as the avant courrier of the men who would follow and break down sectionalism and procure equal rights and privileges to all men. Mr. Sherman went on to argue, that the proposition to elect a few Senate officers was entirely too narrow a basis for a revolutionary movement If, as had been stated on the other side, the election of Riddleberger was to affect politics in Virginia and help to break up the Bourbon Democracy, then so much the better. That would be additional justification for the position taken by Republican Senators. He informed the other side that the Republicans of the Senate would cover Mr. Mahone with their shield, and protect him with their strong arm. If the Democrats attacked him, they attacked the Republicans. If the election of Riddleberger would strengthen the Republican party, then the Republican Senators were justified in electing him. There was not a Dem­ ocratic Senator who would not be gov­ erned by a political motive like that. To call it "corrupt" or "dis­ honorable" was to use a term totally unworthy. "We," said he, "buy no man. We barter with no man. We have made promises to no man. There has been no promise made, no hope or expectation of reward held out--noth­ ing that is corrupt. Our motives for entering into the movement are as pa­ tent as day, as light aa the sun, and can muffs, dainty little hats, collars, cuffs, bags, portemonnaies, for a thousand other articles of feminine use, it was the most delightful, the most beautiful, the most indispensable of all possible ma­ terials. The demand for it increased with a rapidity almost marvelous, and the fashion, instead of wearing itself out, has, if anything, steadily increased. Indeed, the best Alaska sealskins, like the furs of the sable, the silver fox and the Russian sea otter, command an al-. together fancy price, and a handsome jacket of close texture and uniform col­ or, with no white hairs to break the continuation of its tint, will fetch as many guineas as five-and-twenty years ago it would have fetched half-crowns. The result is that the luckless Beals have had waged against them, now for several years, what practically amounts to • war oE extermination. HOUSEHOLD HELPS. be proclaimed froi every stump. W Senator from Vi lieve we will ih terests, and break the South which cry housetop, and our hand to the cause we be- the public in- k bitter spirit in vailed since the war. We belief#, while extending our help and aid to those men in expi easing their opinion (even if we do not agree with that opinion), while aiding them in defending themselves against the ostra­ cism of a great and powerful sectional party, that we are doing good to our country. And we propose to carry out that policy. In carrying out that policy we do more good to the South than we do to ourselves." Mr. Sherman asserted it to be a fact that all movements looking to repudia­ tion had come from Democratic Govern­ ments. He recalled the time when two Democrats had proposed to repudiate the debt of Ohio (when it was $25,000,- 000). The good sense of the men of both parties had frowned down that proposition. One of its authors (Mc- Nulty) had been driven to Washington, where he was eleoted^CMprk of a Demo­ cratic House of RepreMntaftiies, and the other (Boyington) had "been driven into exile, and from that time to this there had never been any threat of repudia­ tion in Ohio. The proposition, a couple of years ago, to pay by an increased issue of "legal-tender notes the interest on the national debt was of Democratic origin. The outcry against Riddleberger, as be­ ing tainted with repudiation, could not come with good grace from the Demo­ cratic party, which had been the au­ thor and promoter of every proposal of repudiation ever made in the United States. Reverting to the right of the majority to prevail, he de­ clared that if the majority should yield that right, there would be an end to all legislation or business in the Senate. Every party going out of power should yield gracefully to the inevitable. The AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. REFUSE SAW.--Refuse salt and brine from the pickle barrels should be sown broadcast under fruit trees. WOOD Asmta--Where this can be pur­ chased cheaply enough it will pay to procure a quantity ana scatter it liberally under the fruit trees. SINGTMAB GRAFTING.--A tomato vine nan, with some difficulty, been grafted upon » potato. It was done simply as a matter' of euriosity. EABLY LAMBS, --April lambs are best. Lambs that come after the first of June seldom grow thrifty or amount to much. If intended for fairs or breeding stock February and March lambs are neces­ sary. SUIIFHUB FOB ROUP.--Roup will some­ times yield to the following treatment: Open the affected fowl's beak and with a tube, which may be formed of paper, blow half a teaspoonful of sulphur down the throat. Three applications have been known to curs. WHEAT.--See to it that your land is well prepared before sowing wheat if you desire a good crop. Roll before sowing if the laud is clayey, roll after sowing if it is sandy. Do not make the mistake of thin seeding. Use about two bushels of seed to the acre, and drill in rows five inches apart. STORING CABBAGES.--Leave them in the ground as late as they can be pulled up by the roots, then pull them up and pack them in level beds, six feet wide, with alleys between of the same width. During tine next two or three weeks, or until the ground freezes, cover them gradually with soil until it is six inches deep. It is of the greatest importance that the final covering should be de­ layed as long as the season will permit. QUALITY OF WOOL.--Amateur shaep- growers are not all aware that the wool of sheep grows most rapidly in cold weather, and that any check in the qual­ ity and amount of feed at this time in­ jures the quality of the wool When sheep are well fed in the wiuter the wool starts to grow, but should any starving take place the wool fiber would have a weak place in it, and render it entirely unfit for combing wool, which brings such a good price in our markets. It could only be used where poor grades of wool were used, as in coarse blankets and ear pets. NEW METHOD OF RINGING PIGS.--Cer­ tain Poland China breeders at Rtuhville, Indiana, give their method of ringing pigs, that, with four years' trial, has proved far superior to the old method. The ring should never be put in the gristle. If by any means it should be too deep in and feels solid iu the gristle, cut the ring out with nippers and put in another that is loose in the skin. Then the pig will suffer no pain, will go right off to eating, and the pig or hog can not root with the ring in the center of the nose, nor do they ever tear out as in the old way. PRODUCE OF AN ACRE.--An Ohio farm­ er sends to the Practical Farmer an ac­ count of the products of an acre lot, which, he says: "I have cropped for several years as a truck patch, plantiug If liked very rich make entirely with it in potatoes, sweet corn, and vegeta- milk, if not, half water. Boil water and bles, until it became foul with weeds, milk together; then stir in the chocolate particularly those meanest of pests, but- which has been previously mixed with ton weed, red root, and foxtail grass. It j water, and continue stirriug till it boils; was becoming so foul I could not get j then sweeten to your t.iste and take up. only half a crop, s6 I determined to | A tablespoonful of chocolate to a pint of eradicate the pests. In the spriug of 1 milk or water is about the right propor- {Fraw MM BMBAKFAST TOAST.--Mix two table- spoonfuls of sugar, a little salt and a well-beaten egg in one-half pint of milk. In this mixture dip slices of bread and fry them on a buttered griddle until they are light brown on each side. MOLASSES CAKE.--One cup of molasses, three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of cold butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda in half a cup of boiling water; salt and spice, of each one tenspoonfuL Stir very thin and bake quickly. COOKIES.--Ona and a half cups of white sugar, four eggs, one cup of lard, half cup of butter, three tablespoonfuls of water, one teaspoonful of soda, a half grated nutmeg; roll thin; dust over witjh sugar and toll down lightly. Bake it quickly. DIXIE BISCUITS.--Three pints of flour, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls erf lard, one small cup of yeast, one cup of milk; mix at 11 o'clock, roll out at 4 o'clock and cut with two sizes of cutters, put­ ting the smaller one on top; let rise until supper. Bake twenty minutes. LEMON PIE.--For each pie take the yolks of three eggs, one cup of sugar, a tablespoonful of butter; grate the rind and press out the juice of one lemon, half a cup of cold water, two spoonfuls of flour, a pinch of salt; reserve the whites of the eggs for the top; mix two spoonfuls of white sugar with them. CUSTARD PIE.--Line a deep plate with pie crust and fill with a custard made of one pint of milk, three eggs, three table­ spoonfuls of white sugar and a pinch of salt; flavor with nutmeg; bake until firm in the center; this you can tell by insett­ ing the handle of a teaspoon; do not let the oven get hot enough to boil it. CABBAGE SALAD.--One quart of very finely chopped cabbage, two-thirds cup of sour cream, two well beaten eggs; sea- sou to taste with sugar, salt, pepper and mustard. If you have no celery to chop with your cabbage, put in a tablespoon­ ful of celery seed. Add a little vinegar. This is yery fine, will keep well several days and is excellent for picnios. CHOCOLATE, NO. 2.--Scrape the choco­ late off fine, mix it smooth with water, 1879 I plowed the ground and sowed it in oats, and at harvest cut and threshed eighty bushels of No. 1 oats, for the be­ ginning. Then, again, I plowed and sowed it in buckwheat, and from this planting threshed eighteen bushels of fine buekwheat. A third time I plowed it about the middle of October and sowed it in wheat, and cut and threshed from this third planting twenty-five bushels of No. 1 wheat this season. But this is not all. I sowed this same acre in clover this laAt spring, the first week in March, and bv the middle of August cut two and a half tons of fine clover hay, tion. STARCH.--(Very fine)--Two table­ spoonfuls of starch wet iu cold water; add one teaspoonful each of gum arabic, white wax, and fine salt; pour ou one quart of boiling water; boil ten minutes, then strain; add two more tablespoon* fuls of starch wet in cold water to the strained starch. If any, is left over it can kept for next time; it will be good though thin as water. If a polishing iron is used after the usual ironing the clothes will look like new. WHITE SPONGE CAKE.--Place a clean seive over an earthen bowl, and measure IMHOD LEGISLATURE. . * WmwssDAX, April ft.--TIM afternoon teaiflV'- broogtit in a few atraegliajr t t A* ft o'clock they convened the Senatowid pursuant to •dJoamiMBL jowaaL* _ _ solemnly read, and imroedMieW th bodies adjourned until THURSDAY, APRIL 7.--SKICATB.--TLFCE VFCOFE £|0R wM devoted to the order of Me on saeoaC reading, and » good mmrtf wero mtMyved aln ̂ one stage, MUM of them being impsdnt SMSS* ores. H»e Committee on iotoOMai a ̂ wfajehnoMb the provision ofthelaw!*- of revised Mhednlesof rates laid down by the BaOroad Cooudaeieium, Senator Hunt introduced a reeoluftm exjmm- ing the regret of the Senate at the deatli of Senator Robert.N. Bishop, of Edgar wn»t». The resolution was adopted. Howi.--A nmnber of bOle were read a «ea> ond time and sent to third reading, when the hoar arrived fur the apeeial order, Mnaa'seaaal reeolution, which orders pumping worts aft Bridgeport. The resolution was oonenrred in. Reapportionment wee made the spiwisl order for next Wednesday. A raohrtita was pea- sen ted giving Beharian, the contestant from the Fifth district, ®760 for expenses. mi« on eeo- ond reading eontuoed, and one making inn»> My for five years ground for divorce was Ullai. A number of claims for logs of arms, log-, • by bursting State oannois went, sJoj^f after » long ttqnabbie. FHIBAT, April 8.--SXKAT*.--Senator Edward* introduced a resolution providing for anaA» joumment sine die May 3. It was laid orm under the rules. The House bill appropriating #5, TOO for the completion of the Llnooln mooa- ment st Springfield was taken up out of its order and passed, as was also the House 1)01 appropriating $4,798 for the completion of ifca l>o<3glM monument at Chicago. The b'll p«r- nutiing the Canal Coiami*aionen to sell lan4^ lieing an attempt to capture the Chicago lake, front, wss killed. Housx.--A joint resolution providing for Mt adjournment sine die at 12 o'clock noon, Tu«s> day, May 3, was voted down. The bill, amend­ ing the act in regard to disabled members of police and fire departments, by providing for an addition to the present relief fund in tfca shape of all moneys collected as a t** on dogs, wan read a third time, but failed to gpt una required number of votes to paSi it. BilSf! were passed ; Few the election of County Judges, Clerks, Sheriffs, Treasurers and School Superintendents on the Tuesday next after the Hrxf. Monday in November, 1882, and every four years thereafter; for the election of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Cook eotmty, Coun^f Surveyors, State's Attorneys and Coroners, OB the Tuesday after the first Monday of Novem­ ber, 1884, and for every four yearn thereafter, with a provision that Coroners shall be elected in November, 1882, for two yea**; for the election of County Treasurers and As­ sessors in counties not under township organk zaiion in November. 1882, and every four \cs» thereafter ; to enable Justices of the Peace to order a return of property taken under writ of replevin or attachment where the value of the property exceeds the jurisdiction of the Justioe; to hurry up the lawyers in the matter of filing transcripts of records by requiring thoni to tihow up ten day.4 before term time font cad of on the firs!: day of the term; to preveut fsha changing of the height of a legal fence oftener than once in five years; providing that whenever property has been for­ feited to the State for ---- or mors years UM tax liens thereon may be foreclosed in equity iu the name of the people and the land be HUM under the order of court, with the right of aa> dt mption from sale the same as in other tax liens ; authorizing cities and villages which iwe or may become the owners of toll bridges to continue collecting tolls ; authorizing incorpo­ rated cities and villages to provide by ordinance for holding tbtir annual and town elections oa the same day. All these crops within sixteen months, into the seive one enp of powdered sugar, But still the ground is not exhausted, for at the present writing there is a fine crop of pasture six inches high. FAT BACON.--The English object to our hogs because they are too fat, and we are advised to feed them more bar­ ley and less corn. This, says Joseph Harris, is all very well; but if our hogs are too fat (which I very much doubt), the way to correct the difficulty is not cer yieJumK recording quit claim thefdv to Village of Riclunoud, alii! George Mreet, 6(1 cents, ORQIN. A. S. Martin was allowed de thtloii for services man Ue police P. J, cariWM allowed as compeusa the'vic-esas police constable, couijar £7 - said) they would not let the majority go on with public business, except as they should dictate, they put that majority in a position which they could not surren­ der without endangering the Govern­ ment. The majority must rule, or there was in the country nothing but a Mex­ ican republic. DJOVCIU Ul accvuaak m«u»6sr l tnware, G t. A large, lean hog does not furnish Milk Cans, pork or bacon which either the Pocket Cut J1"ican or English market requires. ?e-boned, lean hogs are not scarce, he improved breeds are too fat it is which he en m8e we ,j0 not manage them prop- cheaper thar. We may have to let them get county, life growth before we fatten them. g<K>dsl aii(if'ea^ °' selling them at nine or ten ntlis old we may have to keep them " I they are fifteen or eighteen months People Wfco Forget They Have loiej. One would hardly believe that there are many who forget they have money or that there is money or interest due them, and yet it is a fact. There lies in the Treasury Department to-day $1,400,- 000 of unclaimed interest on government bonds. The sum is getting larger every day. This seems strange, but it is true. This vast sum of money, or much of it, can be drawn by simply applying for it by whoever is entitled to it and has the registered bond on which the interest is due and not paid. There are thousands of persons who have bought bonds, and not knowing how to get the interest on them, prefer to lose the same rather thau to expose the fact that they have the bonds. Others have interest due them, and actually forget the fact, and it lies in the Treasury vaults waiting for them to apply for it. Should one of the clerks of the bond division inform a per­ son to whom interest is due of the fact, and the same is discovered, he would be instantly discharged. Our government „ is like that of other countries, dishonest ' spring, in matters of this kind, and is. always willing to keep that which belongs to others, if it is not called for. Should one of its clerks be honest enough to give out a hint, he is discharged on the ground that it is not probable he would be engaged in volunteering information unless he received a certain percentage for his services; and this he has no right to do. The government takes the ground that the person to whom the in­ terest is due should not be required to pay for the information; at the same time the same government will not itself volunteer the information.--Chicago Inter-Ocean. Keep them in a thrifty, growing condition. In the aumuier and autumn the food will consist principally of grass or corn fodder; iu the winter we can feed corn, bran, ensilage, &c. The point is to keep the pigs constantly gaining till they are shut up to fatten. In this sec­ tion a good plan would be to have the pigs come in May, June or July. The sow aud little pips should run out every day to grass. The sow should have slops, or anything that would favor the production of milk. Feed her liberally. As soon as the little pigs are old enough to eat give them some cooked or soaked corn, or oat or barley meal, with all the skimmed milk you can spare. Noth' ing is so good for little pigs as milk- Success in raising pigs probably de­ pends largely on feeding liberally till the pigs are three or four months old. Let a half cup of flour, a half cup of corn starch, one teaspoonful of Royal baking Eowder; run them through together; ave ready the whites of eight eggs beaten to a stiff froth; add one teaspoon­ ful of rose extract; mix thoroughly and bake in square tins about two indies deep, in a quick oven. Serve it out in small squares. To MAKE CHOCOLATE.--Take three even tablespoonfuls of Baker's chocolate, grated; for convenience put in a bowl or dish holding over a quart; then add two tablespoonfuls of white granulated sugar, mix the chocolate and sugar thoroughly; then add one tablespoonful of boiling water; be sure and have the water boil­ ing; stir until smooth; then boil one pint of milk and one pint of water together, when it really boils pour it gradually over the chocolate mixture, stirring all the time. The ohooolate is now ready for use. OxEiiBT.--First, have fresh eggs, not omelet eggs (in restaurants all eggs that will not in any way do to boil, are put aside for omelets), break the eggs in a bowl, and to every egg add a table­ spoonful of milk and whip the whole as thoroughly as) you would for sponge cake. The omelet pan must be so hot that butter win melt almost brown in it, but not quite. Then run the whipped eggs and milk into the pan and put it directly over the fire. Take a thin- bladed knife and run it carefully under the l>ottom of the omelet so as to let that which is cooked get above. If the fire is right the whole mass will swell and puff and cook in about one minute. Watch carefully that it does not burn. It is not necessary to wait till the whole mass is solid, as its own heat will cook it after it has left the pan, but begin at one side and carefully roll the edge over and ihem have the run of a grass or clover , m rolled ^ then let it nnctiivn onH offof horvoar. thav will nA , _ _ * ' SCENE at a stable : Funny Freshman (to hostler, who is rubbing down his horse)--" Pat, I'm afraid you're currying favor with that horse." Hostler-- "Faith, no! I'm merely scarapin' an acquaintance."--Harvard Crimson, pasture, aud after harvest they will do well on the wheat stubbles. The cost of raising pigs in this way is very little. In the winter they will need richer food. They should have dry, warm quarters, with plenty of clean straw. Where cows or cattle are fed grain or oilcake, or where the new system of ensilage is practiced, the pigs will to a considerable extent pick up their own living. In my case we give them warm slops twice a day during winter. They may seem to stand a moment to brown. Turn out on | a hot plate and serve immediately. Henry Clay Fond of Whist. Henry Clay's favorite recreation for many years was a game of whist, to which at one time he was passionately addicted--not for the stakes, but for the distraction and excitement of the game. Mr. Wintlirop says that there is a tradi­ tion that while Clay was visiting Boston be getting too fat, but this will not hurt j £ 1818 and lodging at the old Exchange them. I like to see them in good condi­ tion when turned out to grass in the And till the grass is abundant and nutritions I should feed the pigs night and morning with the same food thev have had during the winter. With good pasture well-bred pigs that have been properly cared for during the win­ ter will keep fat and thrifty with little or no extra food. They will be in a healthy growing condition, and can be fattened in three or four weeks st any time deemed desirable. The Rage for Sealskins. Some thirty years ago sealskin was common enough. Boxes were covered with it, gloves and driving-rugs were made of it., costermongers and cabmen cut their caps from it. Then came a time when some cunning furrier discov­ ered how to dye it a rich dark br jwn, and to give it that exquisite soft and downy texture whieh is its chief charm. At once ladies adopted the luxury. It was soon found that for cloaks, jackets, Coffee House in Congress street, a serv­ ant rushed into the parlor in which he was at the whist table with a few gentle­ men of the old school, and announced that the hotel was on fire. " Oh, there will be time enongh, I think," cried Mr. Clay, "to finish the game," and finish it they did before the hotel was burned to the ground. A similar tradition was current in Washington at a later period thnt, while Mr. Clay was Speaker, he and his friends had passed a whole night at cards, and were still going on with their games when the hour was close at hand for the opening of the morning session of Con­ gress. "Wait a few minutes, gentlemen," said Mr. Clay, " and I will wash my face and hands, and run down to the House and call'John Taylor to the chair, and then I will come back and we will have another rubber." PKOSPKROTT unmasks the vices, adver­ sity reveals the virtues. , Anecdote of Barry Yelvertaa. The rules and regulations fox* the ar­ ranging and carrying out of affairs of honor--the duel--during the latter part of the last century, and the beginning of the present, were exhaustive and precise. Certain infractions of social order wflTO held to be unpardonable. A blow, lor instance, could not be overlooked; and then there were certain acts set down as equivalent to a blow--such as giving th® lie direct, and so on. In shor£--wo speak now particularly of Ireland---'wtMtt. a ma® has been guilty of offering ipantt of any kind, it was at onee determined, on reference to the rales, what the repar­ ation must be. The sword and pistol were always in order, though the thirty- six articles of the Code, sometimes called "The Polite Commandments," were framed with a special aim to protect the quietly-disposed and weakly citizens from insult, as far as possible; and tho resort to arms, under this oode, was avoided where it could be properly done. This introduction will enable «s better to understand the pith of the following story, which was told to me by a son of the sod. Among the gay and festive of the fsajg ̂ ionable society of Cork there was not one more prominent than was Barry Yel- verton, the wealthy and eccentric nephew of Lord Avonmore. In the use ol the sword and pistol he was a master. Ho could shoot a finger from a glove in the air, at twenty paces, hit the bull's eyo nineteen times in twenty at thirty paces, s raising his pistol, and firing at the word; while at sword-play he was deemed well- nigh invincible. One night, at the Mayor's ball, where a large and select company were gath­ ered, Barry allowed himself to drink to a state of wild intoxication: and, while in this unfortunate condition, he man­ aged to insult a number of orderly man. Some he jostled violently; to other® he used grossly abusive language; and stOI others he insulted by treading cruelly on their toes. What more he might have done, or what the closing scene of the night might have been, had he beeh suffered to keep on, there is no telling; but at length two of his friends, assist­ ing his valet, got him away bom tho scene. On the following morning, when ho was able to realize what he had done, he wrote a note to each of the men whom he had insulted, appointing a meeting for that afternoon, at three o'clock, at the riding-room of the regimental bar­ racks; and these notes were dispatched by trusty friends. At the appointed hour three-and- twentv men were assembled, each of them having come in answer to regular summons; and in due time appeared Barry Yelverton, with swords and pis­ tols f>orue by a servant, while in his hand he earned a blackthorn staff. Upon referring to a paper which ho held, he found that to six of the gentle­ men present he had given offence which the code made equivalent to a blow; ai> to each of these, in turn, he offered his blackthorn staff, bidding tliem to take satisfaction by striking him over the back, in retaliation, as severely as their needs of revenge, or redross. might dic­ tate. To five others he had offered af­ front which might l>e wiped away by simply craving pardon; and to these he handed each a card, with the simple sentence thereon written,--"I ask your „ pardon!" To the remaining moiety ho turned and said, with a polite bow: "To you, gentlemen, I can only offte sneh satisfaction as you may demand. Here are swords and pistols; 1 acknowl­ edge your right, and 1 will give each hlfc turn, as he shall elect." We need hardly add that the affair ended in a hearty laugh and a jolly tiuufc The wounded honors were all healt d, and Barry had established himself firmly in the good opinion of those whom M had offended. ' LmtKiGE--No; an editor doesat knew everything. Editors only claim to aver- ; age about three times as much knowled^O as the ordinary run of men. But peiftano this is a low estimate. Editors are n®»» ozadly modest--JMMNf JHm. : -