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fSgtoftcnrg f laiaslcalet 1. VAN SLYKC. E«tS * 1 I I * MOHENBY, ILLINOIS. LORD BEACOXSFIELD died with one <hml in that of two peers whom he had •created. No relative was in the room. who had taken a fancy to another girl and had married her. On the wedding night the forsaken maiden effected an entrance into the room occupied by the newly-married couple, where a brink fire was burning in a stove, and crammed the stove-pipe full ol ragp. Tlris caused the coal gas to fill the room, sufiboaiuig the bride and bridegroom. OF Louis Philippe's sons four are now living--The Dukes of Nemours, Aumale and Montpensier, and the Prince de Joinville. THK proposition of an American <.• company to construct a railway through Newfoundland has been accepted by .the authorities. ELECTRIC lighting is in successful op­ eration on more than sixty steamers of •the Mississippi river and its tributaries. It is believed to add much to the safety of that kind of traffic and traveling. PBINCKSS STEPHANIE, the bride of Prince Rudolph of Austria, is, according •to the learned genealogists, her hus­ band's aunt. As royalty often sets the fashion in Europe, it may yet become fashionable for aunts and nephews to inter-marrv. WHEN Jay Gould was on the witnes* stand the other day, he was asked about j •an investment and replied: " I invested j either $5,000,000 or $10,000,000. ij don't remember which." Of courso not. j It's unreasonable tto expect a man to re- j member about such a small transaction as that. j Six trained hones on exhibition in I 'San Francisco are remarkable for hav- ! ing been taught by kindly means. In i proof of this the trainer uses no whip in j .making them do their trickB. and they • will readily obey a stranger. The gen- j oral belief of trainers of beasts is that :they can only be controlled through j ifear. A HABTFOD rich man being asked to I •contribute to a local charity declined be- j cause he wasn't able. "But I have j heard," said one of the ladies, "that j your income is $50 a day." "That's a j slander, madam, a slander; who dared ! tell you such a falsehood as that? It's | nigh on to a hundred, madam, nigh on | to a hundred." But she didn't get any- I •thing all the same. j A THRILLING exhibition of nerve was furnished by a Cincinnati house-painter a few days ago. We quote from the Commercial . of that oity : Bernard Koehler and Fritz Hisgen began paint­ ing a large house at Betts street and Central avenue. Three o'clock in the afternoon found them close up under the eaves of the house, and sixty-five feet from the ground. They had just fin­ ished the surface within reach, and had started to lower the scaffold a few feet. When the required distance had been reached, Hisgen called to his partner to hang on to the rope until he (Hisgen) tied his own, when he would come over and perform a like service for him, Hisgen had just completed his own knot, when Koehler cried out: " Come over quick; I can't hold it." Hisgen, as quickly es possible, started across the aerial bridge, but had not gone two steps when he saw the man let go his hold, and felt the ladder give way beneath his feet. As he began the fall, in the energy of desperation he, with both hands, grasped the almost-smooth top of the fourth-story window cornice and there hung in the air, a distance of sixty feet from the pavement. He then gave an exhibition of nerve that terrified every one who saw it. Placing the toe of one boot against the window frame he gave his body a slight pendulum motion away from the house. A second push gave him a better impetus, and as he swung on the return toward the window he re­ leased his hold and went crashing through the glass safely to the floor of the fourth-story room, from whence he immediately looked out through the aperture he had made to see what had become of his companion. Koehler had not l»een quite so fortunate. As he went shooting through the air he caught the hanging rope with I otli hands and less­ ened his speed all the way down at the expense of all the cuticle of bis palms, which was burned off by the friction. He landed in a sitting posture on the sidewalk, and was taken to the hospital with a pair of very sore hips. SCRAPS OP SCIENCE. JOHN BROWN, living near Stateville, N. <1, with a view of breaking a little nephew •of the habit of eating dirt, took him out •to a tree and toid him of his purpose to 'hang him. He accordingly tied a rope -around his neck and swung him up to a limb. After letting him hang awhile for the purpose of frightening him he »cut the child down. The experiment had been carried too far. The child died from the effect of the shock and injury. AN Alabama father committed suicide liecanse he thought his wife loved their daughter more than she did him; a Cali­ fornia girl because her father married a woman who was her junior; a Rhode Island mason because he carelessly built a wall out of plumb; a Georgia negro because he could not feel that he had a satisfactory quantity or quality of piety; a Maine farmer because a balky horse exasperated him; and a Michigan bride because her husband of three days swore at her. FACTS AND FIGURES. A RECENT cable dispatch says that the J war on American canned meats has com- | <menced in Berlin with remarkable vigor. Prof. Boloff, a leading man in the Im- j perial Department of Health, delivered ! a lecture on the subject, in which he | .said that these meats are prepared by the j most infamous system of manufacturing, j especially corned beef, and asserted that ; -the flesh of horses and cats are used. 1 'The lead soldering on the cans, also, he ; asserted to be the means of poisoning .many Europeans. • " I TAKE for a text," said a St. Louis -colored pastor, " the words: ' It is more i .blessed to give than to receive.' There i • are many who come to church who j would do well to remember these words. ! They are of that kind who come here ! .and driuk and eat of the good things, j but who are never here at the time the j •box is passed around." A tall brother ! istood up and said: " You're a liar, sir-- | 41 liar--liar--liar." There was a great | -commotion, ending in the ejection of •the disturber. A CLEVELAND saloon-keeper enticed ' 4wo schoolboys, aged 6 and 8 years respec­ tively, into his drinkery, locked the j •door, gave them strong drink, and en- j •ticed them to fight each other for the j -amusement of himself and four or five { •companions. The brutal exhibition was ; •continued for several hours. When the j •children reached home their frightful j condition resulted in an investigation,"! which in turn resulted in the brute of a •saloon-keeper baing fined $50. It is a pity the law did not admit of his being j •sent to the penitentiary. LORD DERBY has an income of $750,- 000 a year. LAKH ERIK is 344 feet higher than Lake Ontario. The falls of Niagara are 162 feet high. THE butter, oheese, egg, and milk business of'this country are estimated to be worth $40,000,000. TITS British Government spends $700,- 000 annually on its consular service, and the United States only $300,000. THREB firms WE NOW engaged in can­ ning Boston baked beans, and their ar nual production is not less than 4,00C, - 000 or 5,000,000 cans. IN VARIOUS parts of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are remains of beehive-shaped huts, underneath which are chambered burial places. YThese huts are of great antiquity. ABOUT the year 400 of our era died Simon Stylites, a Syrian, who had lived in self-imposed martyrdom for thirt; years on the top of a granite column 30 or 40 feet high. ON THE New England coast, moss is collected in great quantities. The white kinds are kept for food, forming an im portant industry, while the coarser kinds are placed on the farms. NBAR Jerusalem is a building entirely rock cut, about 90 feet wide and a 100 feet high, which is reported to be the place to which the Apostles retired be­ fore the siege of that city. IN AUSTRALIA the average temperature for a certain three months was 101 de­ grees Fahrenheit in the shade. In the winter snow-storms often last three weeks, and cover the ground to a depth of 12 to 18 feet FRAGMENTS of celestial bodies in the form of meteors occasionally reach us from the distant regions of space. The stones exemplify the same chemical and crystallographic laws as the rocks of the earth, and have afforded no new element or principle of any kind. THE Marquis of Lorne receives $50,- 000 a year salary as Governor General of Canada. The Princess Louise has an annual grant of $20,000. She received $150,000 on her marriage, which brings in $6,000 more, and with an allowance of about $15,000 to the Marquis from his father, the Duke of Argyll, the couple have an annual income of about$100,000. Strict economy is the rule at Rideau Hall, as it is at Windsor Castle. IN THE tropics of the Old World the annual rainfall is, according to Dana, about 77 iuches, while it is j 55 inches in South America. In the Eastern United States it is 40 to 50 inches, but west of the one hundredth meridian, beyond the Mississippi to the Sierra Nevada, it is mostly 12 to 16 inches. The annual amount in Gb-eat Britain averages 35 inches; in France, 20 to 21 inches; farther from the coast, in Central Ger­ many and Russia, only 15 to 20 inches; but about the Alps, it is mostly 35 to 50 inches. THE Mansion House Committee for "•the relief of the Irish famine, by a re- port just published, received from Eu­ rope £32,153, and from Asia £20,516 8s. •9d., from Africa £1,407, from America £26,875 4s. 2d., from Australia £94,916 *6*. 8d., making, together with unclassi­ fied foreign subscriptions and grants 'from the American funds remitted to the Archbishop of Tuam, a total of £181,655 9s. Id. The United States also sent the Constellation to Ireland with relief provisions. IN the Hungarian village of Gycina, a young girl has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for a murder com­ mitted under peculiar circumstances. She had been abandoned by her lovef, Tender Advice. All who have seen a French wedding know of the homely and frequently af­ fectionate manner in which the officiat­ ing priest delivers a little homily to the intending husband and wife, in which, celibate as he is, he speaks with the au­ thority of deep experience on the du­ ties of bearing and forbearing, on the happiness and privileges of the married state. But all were astonished at the surpassing plainness of speech of the following priestly address : "It is from the bottom of my heart, Joseph, that I congratulate von upon the first step you are taking. It was, indeed, sad to see you wasting your youth in a iife of dis­ gusting drunkenness. However, all is well that ends well, and it pleases me to think you have said gooa-by forever to that wine-shop. As to you, nay poor Catherine, thank heaven that you have been able, ugly as you are, to find a hus­ band ; never forget that you ought, by an unchangeable sweetness and devotion without Ixiunds, to try to obtain pardon for your physical imperfection, for, I re. peat, you are a real blunder of nature. And now, my dear children, I join you in matrimony." A mw form of thermometer the temperature of any place at a con­ siderable distanoe through the agency of electricity. THE cranium in giants is usually small in relation to their Btature, but enormous in absolute measure, although their in­ telligence is generally small. An exam­ ple was Broca's giant Joachim, credited with a very slight amount of sense. Yet this great imbecile had a huge cranium, and his brain weighed nearly as much as that of Cuvier. THE drawings of the planet Mars, made by Prof. Harkness in 1877, have been transformed from the orthographic representation to Mercator's projection, and a map of the planet has been con­ structed. General tables have been computed which give directly the areo- graphic latitude and longitude of the center of the disd of Man and the posi­ tion angle of its axis as seen from the earili. TH* value of spongy iron upon a large scale in the filters of water works is be­ ing tested at Antwerp. The water is first allowed to pass through a mixture of iron and gravel covered with sand, and then it goes into a second basin, the bot­ tom of which is covered with sand. The experimental results have been more satisfactory than those from ordinary filters, and there are no indications of of any necessity for renewing the iron, which serves tooxydize the organic mat­ ters suspended in the water. DR. SIEMENS has lately experimented on the fusion of metals by means of elec­ tricity and has succeeded in melting 4 1-10 pounds into a compact ingot in 4} minutes. In melting large quantities this electrical method is rather more than twice as costly as the ordinary furnace, but for the fusion of precious or refrac­ tory metals, for chemical purposes, and for other applications where the question of economy is secondary, the new method is convenient and practical. In melting small quantities it may even prove eco­ nomical. A STEAM carriage has been used for some time in Berlin. The Leipzig Ga­ zette mentions that another German city. Chemnitz, the manufacturing center of Saxony, with a population of about 50,- 000, is also using a steam ear for the traus]>ort of merchandise through the streets without the use of rails. In two months it made forty-four trips, carrying 406,500 pounds, which were easily dis­ tributed in all parts of the city, on grades and curves as well as ou levels, without causing any accident to vehicles or pe­ destrians. THE earth's eastward rotation, together with the increase iu rate from the poles to the equator, has a tendency to throw the waters of streams against their west­ ern banks sufficient to produce quite marked effects in many parts of the world. It is noticeable in large rivers where the deposits are earthy, and the pitch of the water is small and iu the direction of the stream, the bank against which the water strikes the more forcibly being high and steep while the other is low. The effect has been observed in many streams of Europe and Asia, and on the rivers intersecting the low land of the Atlantic border of the United States. A COMPARISON of the principal expend­ itures for lighthouse service in France and the United States has recently been published by Emile Allard. He fiuds the average annual cost of light to lie $716 iu France aud $2,358 in the United States. A large part of the saving in the French service is undoubtedly due to the difference in the co*.t of labor; but lie thinks that much of it is owiug to the vigorous economy which the engineer of the department of bridges and high­ ways bring to the execution of their la- liors, and to their careful avoidance of introducing luxurious arrangements which do not contribute to manifest utility. Ucntus in the Hanks. "It is surprising," says Smiles, "to find so large a number of illustrious men--poets, authors, and men of science --who have led a soldier's life, and fought by land and sea, at home and abroad." The list, indeed, is a curious one, and well worth giving publicity to. Among poets, for instance, Dante was a soldier. He was banished from Flor­ ence as much for his services in the front line of the Guelph cavalry at Oam- paldino as his politics. Chaucer served as a soldier under Edward IIL in his in­ vasion of France in 1379 ; was captured, and remained a captive for some time. George Buchanan served when a .young man ajB a private soldier in the Scottish army, and in 1523 was present at the at­ tack on the Castle of Wark. Ben Jonson served as a private soldier in the low < countries. Sir Philip Sydney's war re­ cord is historical. Algernon Sydney j commanded a troop of horse in the Iru-h ' rebellion, and Davenport and Lovelace j held commissions under Charles I., while j Withers was a Major among the Round­ heads. Bunyan was also a Roundhead soldier. Otway wap a Cornet of horse in the army in Flanders, and Farquhar held a commission in the Earl of Arrt r v's regiment. Steele, the essayist, enlisted as a private and distinguished himself at the battle of Namur and the siege of Venloo. Coleridge enlisted in a dra­ goon regiment, but he made such a poor soldier that his Colonel was glad to help him to obtain his discharge. Lope de Vega was a soldier on board the bpanish Armada, and escaped the English to return home with his almost- numberless plays, and end his life as a priest and familiar of the Inquisition. Cerventes received three arquebus wounds in his breast, and lost a hand at the battle of Lepauto, but lived to write " Don Quixote." Calderon, dramatist and priest, began life as a soldier. Camoens, the famous Portuguese poet, was a soldier. Loyola, the founder of Jesuitism, bore arms when his re­ ligious inspirations first dawned on him. Rene Descartes, the French mathemati­ cian, learned the rudiments of his phi­ losophy and mathematics in the army. Maupertius carried on the studies in mathematics, which were destined to distinguish him, while Captain of dra­ goons. Molus studied optics while an engineer in the army. Rochefoucauld was a soldier in early life, and was several times wounded. Lamarck, the naturalist, served many years under Marshal liroglie. Niepce, ihe inventor of photography, learned chemistry whiie in the dragoons. Will­ iam Cobbett rose from the ranks to be­ come a Sergeant Major before he be­ came an author. Sir Roderick Murche- j son was a Captain in the Enuiskilien I dragoons previous to winning fame as a geologist, and T. R. Lee, R. A., served as an officer before he graduated in art as one of the foremost landscape painters of the time. A Paris Industry. Among the curiosities of Paris is the market for cigar stumps in the Place Maub^rt. Every morning from 8 to 10 o'clock this scene of business is full of life. A kilogram of stumps from Lon- dres cigars is worth 1 franc 50 centimes to 2 francs 50 centimes, according to the length of the stump. The ends of ' cigars at 5 and 10 centimes each only ! bring from 75 centimes to 1 franc 50 • centimes the kilogram. There are four or five wholesale dealers in cigar-stumps • who have their headquaiters in the j wine-saloons of the vicinity, and there ; deal with their furnishers, who are mostly poor old men and women and | ragged gamins. Much of the tobacco • thus scraped together is sold to work­ men, and much is also said to be export­ ed under the title Tabac de Paris. There was an old fellow in the Maubert quar- THE MIS8I88IPPI PLAN. Revrln«io»i« of lb Utaalc* Hade by Ihe lion, iolm K. I.ynrh- How His Election BM Kepmcntatlve from Che '• MtormrinK District " Wu Reversed. The Hon. John R. Lynch, of Natchez, Miss., who did good service in Congress, passed through Chicago, the other day, and was interviewed by a reporter for the Inter Ocean. Mr. Lynch made a ter formerly, who became so rich at this strong fight for re-election to Congress last fall, as he had done before, but was counted out by the Democrats, and the seat that he was entitled to given to John Chalmers, notoriously known, as "Fort Pillow" Chalmers, on account of his connection with that horrible : humble business of selling cigar-stumps | that he had an annual income of 15,000 francs.--Parisian. An Incident of the Blockade. A correspondent of the Boston Adver­ tiser, discussing the subject of color i blindness, relates the following as comintr . . . . under his own experience when em- i *7 "unn8 *"e war- ployed in the blockade of the port of , Wilmington, North Carolina, during the • war of the rebellion: "The ships on | hlockade duty got under way at suuset, ' ana at dark moved to their regular sta­ tions, some going well in toward Fort Caswell under low steam and in a specified beat j To prevent as far as possible our own • ships from mistaking and firing into each , other, each supposing the other a block­ ade runner, as did happen more than once, my own ship getting three 24-pound shells from one of our own vessels, a In reply to a question, Mr. Lynch said that he had not been in Mississippi for several weeks, but was now on his return theie ; that he had been spending several weeks in preparing his case for presen- the arm gradually relieved the side of the carriage of the pressure upon it. But of a sudden, whether from a late recognition of the impropriety of the thing or the sight of another bean crim­ ing never was known, the lady started with volcanic energy, and. with a flash­ ing eye, exclaimed: "Mr. B., I can support myself !" /"Capital 1" was the instant reply. " You are just the girl 1 have been looking for these five years. Will you marry me ?" and others further off, keeping ! 40 ^e House of Representatives v steam and in a specified beat ! 8es8\on in December. " What are the main features of your case, Mr. Lynch ?" asked the reporter. "There were nine ejection precincts," said he, "at which the polls were not open, and no, election, of courso, was held. In all of these precincts my DllwlO V/UI \'Uw V* V n li V VOOV 1S| U * > ' m a . | , t r system of challenging and answering sig- ; *nen wero in majority. There were nals by showing or flashing a red or white , wo , Precincts at which an election light was established. As we all knew ! ^2? held, and where everything passed the station or beat of each ship, we could • ?, P?ace^b» V, at -each of which precincts usually tell with tolerable certainty what i , ^ republicans had a large majoritv, vessel was sighted. But, to prevent ac- ' , from which returns were never cidents, it was the rule for any ship ' m . » 'n fccbfodly the votes from said doubting to challenge by showing the j ® Tver>' suppressed. Even ex- challenging signal for that particular ^'u,hiig these precincts, the whole num- night. If no answering light was shown, ' v » *a ^ie ^strict was or an incorrect one, the challenger had a > », which number I claim to have right to fire. One night my own ship 1 ftS* 15,000. The testimony was challenged. We were so near that ° *>-- - - * ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. SATURDAY, MAY SI.--SKKATK.--The BOOM Joint resolution requesting the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners to revise the sched­ ules of passenger and freight rates on the vari­ ous railroads of the State was called up and concurred in. The House bill for the preven­ tion of the spread of pleuropneumonia was made the special order for Tuesday morning next- The Senate bill limiting the time of reg­ istering voters to within two weeks before elec­ tion, and abolishing the use of affidavit* in cit­ ies of over 5,000 inhabitants, was read a seoond time and made a special order for Tneeday < morning next. j House.--The Anna Appropriation bill wu sent to third reading. Mr. Struckman, by unanimous consent, called up the House bill to stenre > cjualitv ammic the severs! counties of !H; .ii 11**2 matter of the admisHiou of pa­ tients into the State Hospital* for the Insane, and had it read a third time and passed. Ap­ propriation bill̂ were sent to third reading for the touefit of pnlflic institutions at Pontiac, Jacksonville, Kankakee and Chicago. T Hot**.--The House this morning passed the Senate bill providing for the creation of a s£fc» ing fund by municipal corporations for the pig­ ment of local indebtedness. The 8entte a^» propristion bills for the Reform School, the State Normal University, the Anna Hospital, the Deaf and Dumb Hcitoolln <ifa- cago, the Jacksonville Insane Hospital, (be Jolset Penitentiary, the State EoOd of Agriculture, the Asylum for Minded Children, the State Laboratory at Normal, the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Jacksonville, and the GenatfU Appropriation bill were passed as fast a* Uk» Clerk conld call the rolL The Republicans ii- tempted to call up the Senate bill rearranging the County Commissioners' di.-tncts in Godk county, but the Democrats refused to vote, and, as the Republicans lacked two votes of a qito- ram, they had to let the matter drop. ".71. passed : For the giving of new bonds by county officers who hold over ; the Spring ield Water Works bill; authorizing the exchangeof old sad unservicable arms for new arms and eqaifgiMflfa ; authorizing cities, towns and school districts and other municipal corporations to Institute suits for taxes on forfeited propertv, and mat­ ing the assessment of real estate 'prima- evidence of ownership : on mpchanics* ' iens - the Pharmacy bill, and the Tax Lery ML* Doorkeeper Wilcox was presented wit* * seL • ' ' ' = • ' • ROTHS' RAYA6E8. *1* I ••w Fan, Rnp, Robes Jtay Saved. In the matter of moths the traditia& al ounce of prevention is worth majfey pounds of cure ; the best way to prevent their ravages being to lay away fuis aadl MONDAT, May S3.-- SENATE. -- The Senate j woolens just as the season for weturijtyg ~ them is over. The worst month few all hands on my vessel knew well what ship made the challenge. We answered by showing a red light for three or four seconds. Again we were challenged and again we answered as before. All hands i taken in the case goes far to prove this. j "Iuthe counties cf Adams, Clav- i bourne, Jefferson, Washington and Wil- : kinson not less than 5,000 votes were counted as returned for Chalmeis that were polled for me. The testimony were at quarters. Almost immediately I en *u l'ie °°untio8 of Washington and after our second answer the lock-string I Adams, especially, in support of this of the 100-pounder rifle on board the ' is conclusive in every way. Giv- , challenger was pulled, the gnu pointed ins Chalmers the benefit of these frauds I Jh® House Appropriation bill for the Eye and dtec.lv at my Wpilymissing,fire. I SSSSSW& Before the gun could be repruned we l recmct Inspector and County na Iiwane AsTiU£n. for rebuking the reeentlv were made out, and no harm done. The commissioners, was as follows: Lynch, | burned wing of the same institution; next dav an interview was had with the ; l(\^l-r'; Chalmers, 10,257. As returned | requring the publication of the geological re- commander of the challenging ship and i l)-v t,ie Commissioners to the Secretary P01*8 at a C08t of «10,000; appropriating $600 he was informed by me that his chal- of State vote was as follows: Lynch', I 0I1! Atherton Clark, who was overflowed by 5,393; Chalmers, 9,172. oanvened at the usaal hour. There was no quorum present, however, and, after transact­ ing a little nnimportant business, an adjourn­ ment was had. HOUSE.--No quorum was present until after­ noon. After passing the hill providing for an appeal from the County to the Circuit Court ou the question of removing county seats, the House returned to the regular orut-x of Senate appropriation bills on second reading, tackled the General Appropriation bill, providing for the ordinary and contingent expenses of run­ ning the State Government for the next two years, and spent the whole afternoon in con­ sidering it and the committee amendments. TTSSDAT, May 24.--SENATE.--A communica­ tion was received from the Governor, appoint­ ing E. B. McCagg, of Chicago, as Trustee of the Kankakee Insane Asylum, in place of John H. Clough, resigned. Bills were passed: ! lenges were correctly answered, I my- j self seeing it done. Why our answers | were not seen by his ship could not be j made out He informed me, however, j that he had been many mouths in com- ; mand of his ship, and never before had j that gun missed fire." j A Moorish Dnst-Man. j Two things are dc rignrur in all books of Eastern travel; first, the witty disser­ tations on small vermin, without which - , . ---- no regular l»ook of travels in any latitude ' v.8 aro on ^e statute books of Illinois, The number of votes rejected by the Commissioners was as follows: Lynch, 5,522; Chalmers. 1,085." " What reasons were assigned for this wholesale rejection of votes?" "The chief reason," said the Missis- sippi gentlemau, "was on account of some printers' dashes. The objection is too frivolous for anything. The law does, indeed, prohibit any pictorial designs on the ballots, just* as similar can be considered complete; second, ! loathsome pictures of the general tiltlii- ] nesB of Eastern towns, where we are led to believe that sanitary precautions are ! absolutely unknown. Will it be credited | that one of the first things to catch my | eye, as I looked down into the narrow j street of Tetuan from my bed-room win- I dow that morning was a downright i Moorish dust-man? There ho was, in flowing rol>es and white turban, driving Ohio, Pennsylvania and nearly all the other States; but in this case tliere was nothing of the kind. There was simply at the foot of each ticket, a printer's dash, such as is used between articles in newspapers. Yet, on this account, the vote was declared fraudulent, though the dashes, believe me, were not as large as those ~ere (indicating) between the In­ ter Ocean editorials." "Were there any other his mule before him, with its capacious ' 418 that, advanced?" 1 1 i * IT_ v • • • I * * A VWit linr MN QAII WAD reasons, BO basket paniers. He lifts up his voice in dismal howls, till the maid-of-all-work 'Another reason was that the election clerks failed to send up, in some in­ comes forth, bearing the daily ashes of \ stances, with the returns, the list of the her bouaein a large wooden box, which \nam®8 °* those who voted, but this made the Moor empties into sis mule paniers j110 difference when it happened on the with lofty dignity, and passes on to the ' °^ier side of the house. A third reason next door. In fact, that peculiarly | waf i» 8ome precincts, the precinct excellent system known to modern Eng- j officers did not state for what offices lish sanitarians, if my memory serves ; Lynch and C'1 timers were candidates-- me rigidly, as the Preston Pall 'Systems J fearful on. . . truly. is iu full swing in Tetuan, and has been, no doubt, for centuries. The dead dog, and festering vegetable refuse (in the sacred interests of truth, I am forced "i to make these unsavory allusions), which, "By waj oi U.ustration I will give you an illustration: In the Bolivar precinct, in Bolivar coumy, the returns were made about as follows: John It. Lynch received 311 James R. Chalmers according to the l)est authorities, ought, I received 45 votes. The astute Commis- to litter the narrow slit of a street l»elow, j sioners decided that this was an insuf- are as non-existent as the sickening fieient return, from the fact that they odors which ought to, and undoubtedly I ha(l not stated what offices the men were would, accompany them if there; and to ; candidates for, and they therefore sum up, tliis most thoroughly Eastern town of Tetuan is positively a place to live and flourish in, not merely a hotbed of plague and typhoid. Full of satisfac­ tion at tliis interesting discovery of the Moorish dust-man, I was composing myself to await further revelations of Eastern life, wlieu a heavy bundle of fire-wood projected from the housetop directly above me came whizzing past my nose, and induced me hastily from the window. Jewish handmaiden sending down a morning's supply of fuel to Juanita, the cook, who stood expectant below at the house door.--Temple Bar. Catting up A Hone. In France, when a horse has reached threw out the whole vote of the precinct* fcJn one precinct in Jef­ ferson county, where I had. about 200 majority, the inspector who had been appointed to carry the returns to the county seat was overtaken on the road by armed men--Democrats, of course--and the box forcibly taken out of his possession, and, with its contents, destroyed. I have in my possession an to withd*raw'pj aflhlavit of an election officer who was a It was the I Democrat, in substantiation of this asser- ! tion." j Mr. Lynch said further that he was of | opiuion that public sentiment in his dis- j trict was decidedly averse to Chalmers' | pretensions. " The V icksbti rg Her a Id," j said he, "the leading Democratic paper in the district, admits that Chalmers was the age ol twenty or thirty, it is destined j fair,.™ntl defeated in spite of for a chemical factory; it is first relieved of its hair, which serves to stuff cushions and saddles; then it is slaughtered ami skinned; the hoofs serve to make combs. Next the carcass is placed iu a cylinder and cooked by steam at a pressure of three atmospheres; a cock is u)iened, which allows the grease to run off; then the remains are cut up, the leg bones are sold to make knife handles, etc., and the coarser, the ribs, the head, etc., are converted into animal black and glue. The first are calcined iu cylin­ ders, and the vapors when condensed form the chief source of carbonate of ammonia, which constitutes the base of nearly all ammoniacal salts. There is an animal oil yielded which makes a capital insectcide and a vermifuge. To make glue the bones are dissolved in muriatic acid, which takes away the phosphate of lime; the soft residue, re- everything that was done in his behalf, ! and that it reflects no credit on him or his party or his State to be claiming a j seat to which he has no equitable title." I " What encouragement are you re- j ceiving, Mr. Lynch, iu making your | contest ?" " My case is full and complete, the I testimony conclusive, and I have not the ! lenst doubt but what I will be success- ! ful in the contest. At any rate, I am j uncompromisingly determined to fight the case out to the bitter end." I "Is there arny encouragement for the j Republican party in the South ?" I " I believe there is. Garfield's elec- I tion is construed by the liberal and con- ' servative jiortion of Southern Democrats as a rebuke to the methods by which the South has been made solid. Many of them are now satisfied that the Demo­ cratic party can never get the ascenden- taining the shape of the bone, is dissolved ! ^ in this Government as longfr as the in boiling water, cast into squares, and | "°u^h 18 solidly Democratic through dried on nets. The phosphate of lime, j frfl,ldulent methods. acted upon by sulphuric acid and cal- i . J0,11 860 hope for the party cined with corbon, produces phosplio- in "ie Malioue movement ? rous for lucifer matches. The remain- , Yes, sir. At least to the extent "of a ing flesh is distilled to obtain the car bo- | ballot, and that is the main interest nate of ammonia; the resulting mass is ' we have in Mahone. The Mahone move- pounded up with potash, then mixed I meut wiU h.ave a. effect aidiug with old nails and old iron of every de- j our eff°rte h* this direction. I believe scription; the whole is calcined and vields i Mflione ought to be sustained and_ en- magnificent yellow crystals--prussiate of , couraged by the National Republican potash, with which tissues are dyed a lJlU"ty aI1<l the administration for the Prussian blue, and iron transferred into I moral eiiect it will have on the colored 6teel; it also forms the basis of cyanide people of the South, who see in Mahone of potassium and prussic acid, the two protection against the Bourlnni element " • that has kept them down so long." most terrible poisons known in chem­ istry. -^Scicntific American. EXTRACT from diary of the Czar: "11 p. m. A quieter day than usual. A j noise was heard in wainscot about 8 p. m.; turned out the guard--mouse. Czar- j ina fearfully nervous; no wonder, this j boycotting business must stop--1 shall go ont if it blows me. My eldest son looked at me rather curiously this after­ noon; seemed to be examining iny points. Can he have joined the Nihilists? Took a pill to-night; had it analyzed; made guard swallow three of them to make sure. Hark, what was that? Nothing, of course, a falling cliticker, what fool­ ishness. Shall uow take my nightcapo- wiskeyvicli."--New York Commercials " Do you see any indication of a break in the Democracy of Mississippi in svm pa thy with the Mahone movement?" "There is some evidence of it, but it has not yet assumed shape. It may be that in course of time the opposition will lie sufiifiently strong and well or­ ganized to make a successful fight against Bourbonisin." How He Proposed. A bachelor too poor to get married, yet too susceptible to let the girls alone, was riding with a lady "all of a sum­ mer's day," and accidentally--men's arms, awkward things, are ever in the way--dropped an arm round her waist. No objection was made for a while, and the Henry dam ; giving the Sixth regiment Illinois National Guard $1,075 for services dur­ ing the riots of 1877. The bill extending the time of registration of voters to within two weeks of election day and making registration an absolute prerequisite to voting was made a special order for to-morrow morning. H0C8K.--The General Appropriation bill was amended and sent to third reading. Bills passed as follows : The Elgin bill, appropriat­ ing a total of #237,650 ; to appropriate $4,000 to the widow and children of one Stelgebower, who volunteered and was mustered into the State service in May, 18G1, and, while obeying orders, lost both arms by a premature dis­ charge of a State cannon; to appropriate •2,000 to refurnish the Supreme Court House at Mount Yemon. Appropriation bills on sec­ ond reading took up the remainder of the day. WEDNESDAY, May 25.--SENATE.--Senator Mer- ritt presented a resolution announcing the death of the Hon. A. L. Knapp, pf Springfield, an ex-Senator and member of Congress from this State, and expressing the condolence of the General Assemblv with the family of the deceased in their affliction. The resolution was unanimously adopted and ordered spread upon the record. The joint resolution requesting the Illinois delegation in Congress to support the bUl giving pensions to the survivors of the Black Hawk and Mexican wars was adopted. The vote by which Benator Condeo'a bill, requiting plaintiffs in suits to deposit $6 advance costs, was defeated yesterday was reconsidered, and the bill passed. The Senate then went into execu­ tive session on the appointment of E. B. Mc­ Cagg:, of Chicago, as Trustee of the Kankakee Insane Asylum, in place of John H. Clough, resigned. The nomination was confirmed. The bill providing for tbe return of property taken on writs issued by J iibttces of the Peace, where the value of the property is in excess of the jurisdiction of the Justice, was read a third time and passed, as were the bills for the pro­ tection of money of minors in the hands of guardians; authorizing the acknowledgment of mortgages before County Judges; dividing the State into judicial districts so far as the juris­ diction of Justices of the Peace is concerned; permitting tho State to buy land tat delinquent taxea. HOUSE.--Mr. Wright, of Du Page, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, called up several small appropriation bills, and the House proceeded to pass them without delay. One reimburses the city of Anna to tbe tune of $300 for quarantining against yellow-fever in 1878. Another appropriates $248, with interest from 1841,to 1866, to pay off the last outstanding so- called Macallister and Stebbins bond, the old appropiiaUon for which has lapsed into the treasury. Another appropriates $250 for the repair of a Cairo fire-engine, injured at the late fire at Anna. Still another appropriates $71,- 000 per annum to pay the expenses of the Illi­ nois National Guard under the levy annually made for State military purposes ; the proceeds of which are in the State treasury. Another appropriates $1,000 for repairs to the Court House of the Supreme and Appellate Courts at Ottawa. The last on the list was a bill to reimburse the city of Khawncetonn to the amount of $000 for helping Snarantine tbe Ohio river in 1878 and 1879. >ther bills were passed : To appoint District School Treasurers in districts of not less than 2,000 inhabitants, and to empower Township 'lreasurers to settle with them ; to reward John A. Lyle, the famous State-cannon victim, with $3,000, in exchange for a couple of lost arms ; to give one Hope the sum of $1%, the bal­ ance of salary due him as Prosecut­ ing Attorney of the Alton City Court; to give one Manuel A. Boals the sum of $3,433 for material used in building the Feeble-Mind­ ed Institution at Lincoln ; appropnating $1,000 to Senator Archer for professional services in defending the State against certain claims be­ fore the Claims Commission; appropriating $2,000 for the Illinois Horticultural Society ; to pay the Crommelin and other claims to the amount of $4,691, as allowed by the Com­ mission of Claims; to appropriate $1,600 for the erection of a monument at Chester, over the grave of Shadracb Bond, the first Governor of Illinois ; to make the tax on gross earnings of the Illinois Central rail­ road available f«r payment of ordinary ex­ penses of the State Government, and to make an appropriation for paying the balance of the State debt from tbe general revenue fund. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to calling the roll on and passing the Senate ap­ propriation bills for the various State institu­ tions that have occupied the tune of the House on second reading for a week past. THITBSDAT. May 26. --SKNATK.--The Senate concurred in a joint resolution passed by the House some weeks since with regard to the importation of adulterated tobacco. The Sen- nte passed the bill to authorize the Chicago West Park Commissioners to increase their park tax to 5 mills. The House bill to allow the Chicago Lincoln Park Commission­ ers to extend their lake-shore drive to the water works was passed Other bills passed: To allow incorporated towns to increase their vote of taxation 1 per c nt. above thtir charter limit; to require ottk-ers having in their custody public funds to prepare and pub­ lish a statement of their receipts and disburse­ ments; requiring all parties paying money to School Treasurers to notify Presidents of Boards of School Trustees and the Cierks of school districts of the amount paid and the purpose thereof; requiring Clerks of Courts and Sheriffs, at the expiration of their terms of office, to pay over to County Treasurers all coits and fees remaining in their hands; legalizing leases, bailments, and con­ ditional sales or railway rolling stock; provid­ ing for the inspection of tenement houses; revising the law in regard to State printing; amending the Road and Brtdg# law. A number of Senate approprittion bills amended in the House came back for concurrence, and alid through aa rapidly as the roll oould be called 1 over. moths is said to be June, and befdti that time all articles likely to bo mo­ lested by them *hnnld m seooraljr packed away. < Fortunately furs, which are the most difficult thing to protect from the moth, are also the lirst which may be laia aside for the season. Before this *i$ done have them beaten thoroughly,* e., whipped well with a small rattan^ which is what furriers use for the same purpose. Then examine the felt care­ fully, and where you find the hairs mat­ ted tightly together part them and wet the spot thoroughly, vet daintily, so M not to touch the adjacent hair, with spirits of ammonia. After this fold tb$ garment, with layers of newspapers be^ tween each fold, and srurn camphor sprinkled on the fur, and, finally, eithefr sew the bundle in an old sheet or wi«j» it in newspapers, pasting the edges. If this is done carefully and speedily, you may rely with comparative certainty that your goods are beyond reach of tn« small destroyer. " * The best moth-proof chests are thoat made of cedar, to the odor of which the insect has an unconquerable aversion and the camphor-wood chests which seamen bring trom the East Indies. The genuine cedar chest is a massive an® costly affair, made of inch cedar plank, with walnut moldings and iron clamp* Fortunately for people of moderate means, Yankee ingenuity has contrived cedar packing trunks which answer all purposes of utility, and which are flSr less expensive. These are the ordina/y packing trunk lined with a thin veneer­ ing of cedar, which, though less than the eighth of an incn thick, fits closely in eveiy crack and corner, and rendelta the trunk at once moth-proof and air­ tight. No camphor is needed in such a chest; only be careful to see that no traces of moths are in the garments be­ fore packing, and lay away smoothly with newspaper layers between eats* strata of clothes as an additional pfli- caution. Paper barrels with close-fitting heads form another effectually moth-proof case. The paper of which these are made is thoroughly impregnated with, coal tyr, and whatever is put into theai is practically safe from tlie incursions of the moth miller. Tar paper is sold by the sheet as a moth preventive, and any one may make for .herself a moth­ proof chest by lining an ordinary pack­ ing box with this paper, patting a lat¥r also under the lid. * Common newspaper is also a valuable moth preventive. The moth-miller is said to dislike printer's ink. For ad­ ditional security it is wiser to lay tile parcel away in a closed trunk, but where packing-chests run short it is generally safe to put them on shelves in a mouse- proof closet, the danger being that the mice may cut the paper and the moth- miller thus effect an entrance. In the case of valuable furs, aboil which there is cause for uneasiness, ex­ amine them three weeks after storing; The eggs of the moth-miller hatch out in from fifteen to twenty days, and the moth begins at once its destructive work. Therefore, by this second inspection as­ surance may be made doubly sure. An Ill-Used Letter. If we laugh at our English neighbors for their use of the letter " h " they can return the compliment; for we rob "u** of half its rights. U in tube is the u In use; yet we hear only "toob." U in fmre is the same as u in duty; but the atter is pronounced as if the u were 00. In tune, allude, aptitude, caricatmp, conclude, consume, costume, delude, in­ clude, induce, deduce, absolute, disso­ lute, duel, duly, elusive, erudition, ex­ hume, exude, flute, revolution, glue, illusive, ingenuity, introduce, Jupitor, jurist, lucid, lucifer, lucre, ludicrous, lukewarm, minute (the adjective), mul­ titude, neutral, nutriment, obtuse, op­ portunity, penurious, plume, prelude, premature, recluse, rectitude, resoln- tion, resume, revenue, sue, eervitmsp, solution, stupid, tulip, tumult, tutor--in all these the u should be long, as in the word pure. But it is Americanized into the sound of 00 in good. There is 110 defense for this in any American stand­ ard dictionary. On the other liaud, if the " u " is slighted in many instances, it is unduly distinguished in others. In many words ia which u and a are asso­ ciated, the first of the partners is award­ ed the profits of the firm. It is another Americanism. The place where clothes are washed is, in the " old country," * laundry, the u bring silent; we American­ ize it into lawndry. But the u should not be heard in the word at all; nor in taunt, launch, vaunt, jaunty, gauntlet gaunt, haunt, fiauut, jaundice and other similar words. It is American, too, to pronounce suit as if it were soot; new as if it were 1100, dew as if it were doo, flew as if it were floo, and floe as if- ii were the same thing. A Poem from Bible Texts. The following poem, formed from dif­ ferent Bible texts, is worth preserving: Clin* to the Mighty One, can* to thy gxM; Cling to the Holy One, He (fiv»n reMef; Ciiug to the Gruciou* One, C.inK in thy Cling to the Faithful One, lie will Buatain. Cling to the Liviug One, C.ing to thy woe; C!ing to the living One, Through at! be ow; Cmg to the Pardoning OnS^ He gpcaketh ptios; CUng to tbe Hea^IAG OM, Anguish shall < Cling to the B eeiling Only 0 ing to His •!<!• S C.ing to tli* Ki»en OMt Is Huu abide; Cling to tbe COMING OK, Hone shall atise; Cling to th« IteignlagOK, Joy lights thins sgr«> Pa htTxbc ML Hsh. rli: 11. Heb. lit: 11. Ps. cxri:( Pa.exvl:fc PIL iv: 4. 1 These, v: IK Pm. iv: SI. HeKstfcSL PSL lint t. 1 John lvr HI Rom. > ii: John xiv: 37. John xiv: U Exv«L XT: Fa endttt. 1 John a.- n. John isff. Bom. vfc a John tri Rev. xtUlM. Tiius it 11 hw|t; . PlxrtTtL