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qKctug fllnindealct I. VAN SLYKE. Editor w ii Publisher. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. THB State debt of Ohio, amounting to $4,000 ,000, lias been refunded into 3} per-oent bond?. JAI GOULD'S son is A patron of all aorta of sports, and frequently takes in iiand-glove and cock-fights. VNRAN BEAM'S brother has a farm in the Indian Territory, and lives with the Indians, having a squaw for his wife. MB. OWEN, of the California Mcrcu- Tjf, started a subscription which has re­ volted in $3,000 for the widow of John -Brown. , THE manufacture of oil from American «otton seed has begun in Italy on a large scale. It is mixed with olive oil, And sold for table use. Skilled mechanics, such as weavers, cigarmakers and goldsmiths, only re­ ceived from $2 to $5 a week without board, and they were alive when they got to this country. It is no wonder that immigration is setting in. NEVADA has enacted a law designed to prevent opium-smoking, which makes the possession of opium or of an opium pipe a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. This statute is very obnoxious to the Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco, and interferes with their profits; and they have retained three leading lawyers, two of California and one of Nevada, to test the validity of the law, and, if necessary, to carry the question to the United States Su­ preme Court. SOUTHERN ELECTI0N8. SPEAKING of Senator Conkling, Henry - Ward Beecher says: " I am his friend. I admire his way of fighting, and 1 ad­ mire his pluck and nerve. Whether he is right or not he fights like a cava­ lier." ONLY one telegraph line is in opera­ tion in China, from Shanghai to Woo- sung, twelve miles. An effort is now being made to extend the wires to Tientsin, but fhe native Mandarins are opposed. JUDGE MCCRABY. of the United States •Court, recently distinguished himself near Keokuk by shooting a rattlesnake which was about springing on his little sou. The poisonous serpent measured five feet six inches in lengtli. IT sounds a little at jar with conven­ tional notions that a Methodist or any dissenter cannot by English law be a clergyman, but this is the case. He gets the title of Reverend only by court­ esy, since none but those ordained in the Protestant and Boman Catholic churches can be regarded as legally in holy orders. The Legislature for some oenturies has considered that a man in orders and charged with a care of souls has quite enough to attend to without distracting his mind from the duties of a spiritual pastor to those of a political factionist. Accordingly, the clergy of the two Episcopal churches are debarred from sitting in Parliament. GLADSTONE contemplates reducing the interest on Great Britain's public debt by a new issue of consols at 2J per cent., which he believes would bo readily taken up to the amount of $250,000,000. The funded debt of Great Britain is now $3,547,152,965. The interest on that and the terminable annuities (about -$350,000,000) is $143,220,915. CANADIANS would not consent to let the United States take any of the glory of Hanlan's victories abroad, because his home is in Canada, and now the To­ ronto Globe reminds the Yankees that the winner of the Derby "is the son of the famous English horse Leamington, and his dam was the daughter of the no- less-celebrated English horse Aus­ tralian." THE project of a balloon trip across the Atlantic, which received a quieting blow in the Wise-Donaldson fiasco of seven years ago, is now revived by King, the aeronaut. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of keeping a balloon in- ' flated long enough for the purpose, he will undertake an air journey from the Mississippi to the Atlautic coast. THE unprecedented exodus to Europe this spiing has revived with more than usual vigor the periodically-discussed question of the causo of sea-sickness. Eminent medical men are discussing it, and, as might be expected, to the infinite disgust of the tourist, they disagree. Dr. Alonzo Clarke, a famous New York authority, says it is a puzzle to doctors, but he thinks it is a disorder of the stomach. It is modified by low diet, and the best food is soup with toasted crackers in it. . Sea-sickness does no good to anybody, but is an injury. Dr. George H. Beard says that no more benefit is derived from it than from aa attack of typhoid fever; that it is a func­ tional disease of the nervous system, mainly of the brain, but sometimes of the spinal cord. Dr. Fordyce Baker snggeBts bromide of sodium. Dr. William A. Hammond says he takes ten to fifteen drops of chloroform or lump sugar with bromide of potassium. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. Two TOUNG men, unmarried, and hav­ ing some money to squander, promised to give a ladies' sewing circle in Frank­ fort, Ky., $10 if its members would keep absolute silenoe at its meeting for the space of one hour. The ladies took ten minutes to express, altogether, their opinions of these young luen, and then resolutely set to work and actually won the money. Two BOYS of Madison, Wis., went to a menagerie and became filled with the idea cf starting a beast show of their own, using such material as was within rea 'h. They painted strips on a white pony for a zebra, sheared the hind half of a big Newfoundland dog for a lion, cut off the fore legs of a calf for a kan­ garoo, and were about to make a tailless cat, by chopping, when their father dis­ covered them. THE population of London, according to the census taken early in April, is 3,814,571. This is a gain of 560,311 in ten years--a number within a few thou­ sands of the present population of Brooklyn. The percentage of increase from 1861 to 1871 was 16.1, but during the last decade it has been 17.2. In New York the percentage of increase was 16.0 from 1860 to 1870, and 28.0 from 1870 to 1880. A CINCINNATI man strangely disap­ peared. The shrewdest dotectives were put on his track, and at the end of nine weeks they seemed to he no nearer him than when they started. Then a close observer of human nature got the Mayor to appoint the missing man to a position in the city Government. Two hours later the appointee, all out of breath, •dashed into the Mayor's office to be -sworn in. IN Berlin the street-cars do not begin running until half-past 7 in the morning, and. as the schools open at 7, the chil- <dren have to walk, some of them a long <distanoe. The oars stop for passengers only at certain points, several blocks apart. The driver never stops after he •has started, and will not wait a half- minute when he sees thel jierson ap­ proaching. One cannot alight where he will, but must jump fiom thp car when in motion. THE Chicago Times had} a reporter interview a large number of immigrants on their arrival at Castle Garden, and some oi their statements are astonish­ ing. One able-bodied man, 35 years old, Stated that he was a farm-laborer from Lower Prussia, and had received only 1 mark, 25 cents, a week as wages. He might have been a 25-cent kiud of a man, T>ut other emigrants corrol>orated the statement that those were the ordi­ nary wages. A tailor stated that he only received $1.25 a week and boardel himself, which shows that it takes fully nine tailors in Prussia to inkke a man THE white of an egg into which a piece of alum about the size of a walnut has been stewed until it forms a jelly is a tine remedy lor Bprains. It should be laid over the sprain on a piece of lint and changed as often as it becomes dry. A MEDICAL journal gives the following simple remedy for relieving hiccough : "Inflate the luugs as fully as possible and thus press firmly on 'he agitated diaphragm. In a few seconds the spas­ modic action of the muscles will cease." A STANDING antidote for poison by dew, poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four applications will never fail to cure the most aggravated cases. THE cure for night sweats depends entirely on the cause. Malaria gives rise to it, and then the cure is quinine and arsenic. Debility may cause them. Iti that case tonics and good, nutritious food should be used. Consumption canses it, and the cure is sulphuric acid, ten to twenty drops in water, an hour alter meals. Oxide of zinc and hydro- cyanite extract pills, and, above all, atro­ phia sulphate, one-two hundredths of one grain to begin with. This must be taken with great care. Dr. Nairn, of London, says he sponges the body with tincture of belladonna, but tho drug is too powerful to be used by any one but a physician. MILK, says Dr. J. H. HamiforJl, con- ta ns all of the elements needed to sus­ tain life in the young, and is one of the simplest in use -- wholesome, if it is pure. Its purity de{>ends on the health of the producer, and that largely on the quality of the food eaten. If at first {jure, it may become otherwise by care-essuess. To keep it in tins, made of | lead nnd arsenic, if it become sour, es- | pecially, is to endanger the life of the j family. If uncovered or in any way ex- | posed to fresU paint, or to filth or poison I m any form, it soon l>ecomes affected by absorption, since water and all liquids containing it are grand purifiers of the air, these impurities being retained in the liquids. Never keep milk in a newly- painted pantry--only water, and that to be thrown out. CORN silk is 6aid to be an efficient and powerful remedy for dropsy, bladder troubles and diseases of the kidneys. The Louisville Medical News gives an account of the medical properties of corn silk, and the cures that have been effect­ ed by its use. The way to use it is to take two double-handluls of fresh corn silk and boil in two gallons of water un­ til but one gallon remains. Add sugar to make a sirup. Drink a tumbler of this thrice daily, and it will relieve dropsy by increasing the flow of the urine most enormously. Other diseases of the bladder and kidneys are benefited by the remedy, which is prompt, effi­ cient and grateful to the stomaoli. The treatment can be continued for months without danger or inconvenience. Geraniums. For constancy of bloom the geranium is nnequaled. Small plants, that can be bought ve/v cheap, if put out iu May, will completely fill a bed in three weeks alter planting, and early in J une will be a mass of fiowtrs, and continue go" ting l>etter and better until blackened by the frosty nights of autumn. While other plants are wilting under the scorching rays of our summer sun, the geranium t>eems to glory in the hottest weather. There is such a variation in the color of the flower, as well as in the form and color of the leaves, ttiaf. with a few vari­ eties of geran.iKns a more artu-t.c and varied bed cau be made than with almost any oilier dower. The center of a Lugo IhhI mav l>e scarlet, wuh li^lit colors around, or a few rows on the bordei may he o|jtlie silver-leaved kinds. In/leeil, ve have seen delicate and intricate pat­ terns formed of nerauiums alone in some of the celebrated gardens oi Europe. A THAVELF.R in Germany speaks of a certain kind of sausage the like of winch never was seen in tho earth Belogua iu the heavens above. »kanMlew Manner In Which NeffroeM Are Prohibited from Voting Since the Shot-(Sun wan > helved. [Tarboro (S. C.) Cor. New York Tr.buise.] I have not myself seen an election in the South--though I should like much j to be an observer on such an occasion in I some regions which I have visited--and ^ can then fore only report what is said on j such matters by persons of the different | classes above mentioned. In Missis- ! sippi, in Southern Alabama and in I Louisiana, the negroes are not permit- | ted to vote without restriction ; or, if j they are permitted to vote, their vote ! is not fully registered and return<xl. ! They are hindered from voting, and in j making records and returns their vote is I to a considerable and effectual extent j neutralized or excluded. I do not say that this is done everywhere, or at every election, in the States I have just named ; but it has l>een done widely, frequently and recently. I conclude that the negro vote is thus restricted or interfered with in these regions, because the leading citizens, Democrats, have themselves told me that it was done, that they themselves did and managed the work, and they have described to me the method* by which it was accom­ plished. In Southern Alabama prominent lead­ ers in Democratic politics say that in the "black districts "it is common to have at each place of holding an elec­ tion two ballot-boxes, one for white vot­ ers aiid the other for the negroes. The approach to each ballot box, they say, is by along, narrow passage or "gang­ way," inclosed by a railing on each side. If the blacks are present, and likely to vote in such numbers as to " threaten the overthrow of society," or give cause of alarm to the leading white citizens, the offered vote of some ignorant negro is challenged. The "gangway " is full behind him with^i long line of negroes pressing forward in s.nglc tile, and im­ patient to vote. The negro selected for challenge is always one who lives in a distant part of the township or dis­ trict. Somebody is dispatched to sum­ mon witnesses from his neighborhood, or some other cause of delay is discov­ ered. Everything is conducted with judicial quietness, dignity and deliber- ateness. Of course tho other negroes cannot vote until the case is set­ tled. It comes to an end by-aud-by, and the decision reached is, usually, that the challenged negro has the right to vote and his ballot is accepted. It is not the plan to refuse the right or opportunity of voting tc any individual negro. That would irritate the negroes and put the " guardians of society " at a disadvantage. The challenged negro's vote is taken and the voting goes on quietly and peaceably until it is neces­ sary to repeat the performance above described. When the Lour for closiug the polls comes, there has not been sufficient time for the full negro Repub­ lican vote to be polled, the counting of the ballots shows that there is a suffi­ cient Democratic majority and that the intelligence of the country has again succeeded in preventing "the overthrow of society " by iguorance and incapacity. " But," I asked, " what if the negroes become tiled ot this enforced waiting, and, understanding its purpose, should push forward and demand that their votes shall be received ? " I _" Then," uswered my informant, sig- i niflcacftly, * there w-a oaUiMon, The j negroes are the attacking party, and, of course, they will be worsted." In some parts of Mississippi the meth­ ods of preventing " the overthrow of so­ ciety " are d scribed to me by the act­ ors as being similar m essential features, though the particular arrangements by which the object is accomplished are varied to suit the circumstances. Some­ times the negroes are allowed to vote without restriction, and " society is b'aved" by judicious elimination and substitution in making up the returns of the election. This is the method now most commonly used in Louisiana, or iu important portions of that State, as I was informed by prominent cit.zens and business men, Democrats. All the other classes of citizens men­ tioned above say tiiat these accounts are tiue, that these are the methods em­ ployed for suppresning or neutralizing the negro Republican vote. All agree, too, that for some years past there has been a very gent r.U dosire on the part of Democratic managers and citizens, nearly everywhere in the South, to avoid collisions and disturbances at elections and political meetings, it being thought best to depend upon more quiet and less objectionable methods for managing or neutralizing the political power of the ne;;ro Republicans where they are in a majority. In Southern Alabama and in Missis­ sippi influential Democrats said to me: " Some of our people, some editors, deny that the negroes are hindered from voting; but what is the good of lying? They are interfered with, and we are obliged to do it, and we may as well tell the truth." 4m head of the Pension Bureau with a view of procuring such legislation as will re­ lieve the pressure upon the departments. As an argument for the passage of this resolution, it was stated that no less than 65,000 claims have been pending for five years, and 30,000 for ten years. Comrade Bodle, of Washington, was chosen Chairman of the committee. A series of resolutions were adopted, commending the local organization o& women in the several departments for the furtherance of charitable and other work under the auspices of the separate posts. The resolutions also urge the creation of a Women's National Relief Association, under the title "Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, by special indorsement of the national en­ campment, G. A. R , June 15, 1881." In the evening a grand reception was accorded the visiting delegates by the local posts. Welcoming addresses were delivered by Gov. Porter and the Mayor of the city, with responses by Com­ mander-in-Chief Wagner, and there were spirited addresses from Senator Har­ rison, Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn, Post Commander William Earashaw, of Ohio, and others. These speeches were interspersed with music by home talent. During the eveuing a gold badge of the order, set in diamonds, was presented' on behalf of the encampment to ex-Com­ mander Earnshaw. The second and last day's session was devoted to business. The meetings all who would be considered as admitted in the stylish arcana. She could not lay down to take an afternoon's loll but she must have one servant to scratch her h ad, two to tickle her feet, and a fourth to fan her delectable person while she slumbered. The thing took--it V>b^ame the rage, and not a sable belle iu all Hayti but what insisted upon l>eing fanned and scratched and tickled in the trae imperiid style. Sneer not at this picture, my most excellent townBwomen, for who among you but are daily follow­ ing fashions equally al surd ?--Irving. ILLINOIS NEWS. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Annual Meeting- of the National En­ campment at IndianapoliM. The annual meeting of the National Encampment Grand Army of the Re- j public began at Indianapolis on the 15th of June with a very satisfactory attend- : anoe. The encampment was called to ! order by Gen. Lewis Wagner, Coni- mauder-in-Chief, amid prreat enthusiasm. | The street along the line of march and | til-* theater were handsomely decorated, | and the reception which the delegates j received was cordial in the extreme. The entire day was occupied with rou­ tine work. The annual report of the i ommander-in-Chief proved a lengthy and substantial document. All the de­ partments are iu efficient condition with the exception of Kansas and Missouri, and consolidated returns show Nebraska and Minnesota lead the van with in creases resj>ectively of 174 and 156 per cent. Wisconsin shows 100, Michigan 97, Ohio 72, the larger departments of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Illinois showing gains var> ing fioua 31 to 58 )*-r cent. On Dec. 31, 18S0, there were 976 p ists with ov6r 60,000 members, a g tin o; 2t0 po-tts and over 15,000 members m one year. A I evolution passed indorsing the ef­ fort ot Clara Barton to hav the Gjvern- mert r auction and adopt the priucipies for the amelioration of the wound, d lornii.lated by the Geneva Convention and adopttd by treaty by nearly all the civili/.eil naii.'iis of tl$ earth. Further, that the beneficent purposes of the cou- v< ii.io co'uui< nd tu mselves with p-.-- culiar force toihe remnants ot the Grand Ann , and that its purpot>cd meet with hearty approval. A ie,-o utton passed directing th« ap­ pointment of a committee to comid.-r the subject of de ays in the settletn- lit of pension claims, aud to confer with the THE receipts of live stock in Chicago for last week were : Cattle, 24,887: hoes. 119,356, and 7,441 sheep. A WELL-KNOWN farmer of Logan 'coun­ ty has just loaned $5,000 for five years at 6 per cent, interest. OFFICER TIM MAHONET, of the Chica­ go police force, was shot dead by bur­ glars whom he was trying to arrest. THE Governor has reappointed J. C. Glover, of Chicago, B. F. Shaw, of Dixon, and Martin Kingman, of Peoria, Canal Commissioners. REI-BEN F. BROWN, a farmer of Peoria county, was killed by lightning while driving in a wagon with his son. The latter was uninjured by the bolt. SEVERAL cases of small-pox are re- „ ported r.t Hull and Kinder hook, Pike were held with clost«d doors, and the I county, and the local and State health proceedings were not made public. | authorities are doing their utmost to The following officers were elected to I prevent its spreading. serve for the ensuing year : _ Comman- THE body of a son of Supervisor Saw- der-m-Chief, George S. Merrill, of Mas- yer, of Dorchester township, Macoupin saclmsetts; heuior \ ice Commander-in- county, 22 years of age, was found in Chief, Charles L. Young, of Ohio; Caliokia creek in a badly-decomposed state. He was subject to fits. HAVING been stung by a locust, Mrs. Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief, C. V.' R. Pond, of Michigan ; Council of Ad­ ministration, H. F. Blancliard, of Maine, J. M. Patterson of New Hamp­ shire, E. J. Ormsby of Vermont Silas A. Barton of Massachusetts, H. M. Durfee of Connecticut, VV. H. Bright of New York, R. F. Fott *r of Pennsylvania, D. A. Peloubet of New Jersey, W. Y. Swi- gen of Delaware, Charles H. Richard­ son of Maryland, S. S. Burdette of Po­ tomac, H. B. Nichols of Virginia, W. H. Baldwin of Ohio, W. H. Armstrong of Indiana, John Stephens oMllinois, A. W. Guthrie of Iowa, J. E. Brown of Nebraska, J. C. Carpenter of Kansas, O. A. Jones of Michigan, H. B. Har- shaw of Wisconsin, J. A. Coulter of Montana, Hiram Moore of California, li. H. Goddard of Rhode Island ; Chap- lain-in-Chief, Joseph F. Lovering, of Massachusetts; Surgeon-in-Chief, Chas. Styer, M. D., of Pennsylvania. In the evening a camp-fire entertain­ ment was given, with which the reunion closed. Mr. Randall's Scheme. Mr. Sam Randall has the reputation of being a very successful schemer, but he will scarcely be able to secure his election as Speaker of a Republican House of Representatives. If the va­ cancies caused by the resignations of Messrs. Morton and Frye shall be filled by the election of Republicans, of which there is little doubt, the number of Re­ publicans in the House, elected as such, will be 147, or a majority of the whole membership. In such an event,- Mr. Randall will not be likely to waste any time upon his proposed combination. But, in case one, or even both, of these districts should be lost to the Republi­ cans, there is no reasonable! probability 1882. that Randall's schteniew««ld%w»., in the general bill embracing the mat- Hvatt Smith, elected as a Greenbacker tftr eft efeetnfa Treafc- against Chittenden, is just as stanch a nr'irs 1wat Republican as the extremist he dis­ placed, and has already repeatedly de­ clared his purpose of acting and voting with the Republicans. The majority of the other Grecubackers in the House will be almost equaUy disinclined to act with the Democrats. The last session of Congress served to develop the most pronounced antagonism between the Democrats and Greenbackers, and the men who lire struggling against the Bourbons in the Southern States, whether under the name of Greenback­ ers, Readju.->ters or Independents, will not care to neutralize their advantages by a coalition with the Bourbon Democ­ racy in Congress. But there is another element iu such a contest which Mr. Randall is naturally- slow to acknowledge. It is a matter of great doubt whether, in case the Demo­ crats were iu complete control of the House of Representatives, he would be able to secure their nomination for Speaker. Of all the nlen who ever oc­ cupied that position, Jlr. Randall was probably the most tyrannical. He used his position to direct party movements and legislative matters to suit himself. He was literally the "Boss" of Con gress. He exercised g-eat power while he held the position, but he did not make himself friends. His absolutism was acutely resented by many lead­ ing Democrats, and his constant interference became exceedingly ir­ ritating. Moreover, Bandall was not a good presiding officer. He familiarized himself with the rules, but he was hesi­ tating and uncertain in his decisions, and his willingness to construe any rule or precedent in favor of some point which he desired to sustain for the mo­ ment frequently entangled him in em­ barrassing complications fr.-m which he could not extricate liimself. It is only due to Randall to say that the subsidists r.rid jobbers Sound no favor at his hands, but this fact also made him enemies who will not assi>t iu any scheme look­ ing to his re-election. There is not the smallest chance for Mr. Randall to be re-elected Speaker, aud he will be fortu­ nate if he shall be able to retain the leadership of his party on the floor of the House.--Chicago Tribune. The Style. Though it would seem that the people of all countries aiv equally vehement in the pursuit of this phantom, style, vet in almost all of them there is u strange diversity in opinion as to what consti­ tutes its essence; and every different class, like the pagan nation, adores it under a different form. In England an holiest citizen packs up himself, his family, and his .style in a buggy or tim- whisky, and rattU away to spend Sun- day. A Baronei i . quires a chariot and pair; a Lord nir»t needs have a ba- Dukfc Stoltberg, of Grafton, was given a quart of whisky bv her husband, to neutralize the jwison of the insect. Her funeral is generally attributed to the liquor. MR. G. S. NEWMAN, one of the wealthi­ est farmers of De Witt county, was unloading, corn at Wapella, when liis team started up, throwing him out and under the wheels, which passed over his l>ody, killing him. THE Illinois State Liberal League was organized at Farmer City, 111., with forty-eight charter members. Dr. W. A. Pearce, of Camargo, was chosen President, and F. F. Follett, of Rock- iord, Secretary. AT a meeting of the Executive Com­ mittee of the Youug Men's Christian Association of Illinois, recently held at Bloomington, it was determined to hold the next meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association of the State ui that city in September. OLD JOHN HANKS, who lives near De­ catur, mauled rails with Abraham Lin­ coln, when both were young men, and cherishes the greatest reverence for his dead friend's memory. He recently showed the following note to a reporter. It was sent about a week beforo Mr. Lin­ coln's marriage: DEMI HANKS: 1 am to be married next Tkurwlay eve, the 19Ui, to Mary Todd. I hope you vail bo ou deck at early candleliyht. A. I.INOOI.N. A NUMBER of County Superintendents of Public Instruction, says a State con­ temporary, are considerably exercised in making the discovery that county boards have been authorized by a recent act of the Legislature to make the appoint­ ments for the one-vear interim between the time of the expiration of their pres­ ent terms and the time fixed for the eiec- This provision was insert- urers, Clerks, etc., on one of the last days of the session. It is a fact that in many Republican counties there are Democratic lx>aids, and vice versa. As a matter of course, Republican Su­ perintend'•ut.s in counties having Demo­ cratic boards, and Democratic Superin­ tendents in counties having Republican boards don't like the situation. If bounced, they will consider that the Thirty-second General Assembly legis­ lated them out of office, when in fact it was not so intended. A FEW days ago the Chinese residents of Chicago received a note neatly written iu Chinese oliirography, ns follows: "Plioul: kj 1, j ki ulu umj, lij k kj jtp cu5w--kp k p ; NB gil--1 Jo, khm weg- ifrdwodj 0 a e ouck xif--eqpi." Trans­ lated into English the note reads: "Yourself and ladies are requested to attend at Greenebaum's Ilall on to-mor­ row afternoon a grand sacred concert aud feast." About 400 Celestials responded to the invitation. There being but one Chinese lady in town, she was hardly enough to go arouud, and did not ap­ pear. A reporter, ^ho spent a short time in the banquet hall, says the "scene was certainly a queer one. Huddled about a dozen tables were the feasting Celestials. Nearly all of them had their square-crowned hats on, and most of them were ^jpated with their feet resting on the front rungs of their chairs. The viands were served in capacious tin pans, and everybody was helping him­ self out of whatever dish suited his fancy. There were no individual plates, and the chop-sticks were flying with the greatest rapidity In the gallery at one end of the hall was the orchestra. It sounded like Thomas' orchestra. Reference is made to Mr. Thomas Cat." PEKIN, Tazewell county, has an inter­ esting curiosity--a relic of the Mexican war. The leg that Santa Anna left be­ hind in his hasty flight from the battle­ field of Cerro Gordo, and which was enptured by Sergeant J. M. Gill and Privates Samuel Rhodes and Samuel Waldron, of Company G, Fourth Illinois infantry volunteers, has just been re­ turned to Sergeant Gill by Mrs. Mary McCook Baldwin, of Paris, France. Her lather, Gen. Daniel McCook, having, with Mr. Gill's consent, taken the leg to Washington, D. C., for the purpose of depositing it in the Patent Office or Smithsonian Institute, as Mr. GUI thinks, about 1862, as Mrs. Baldwin thinks about 18'J7 or 1808. But for some unknown cause the leg never reached the notional depository of such relics, and on the death of Gen. McCook arnl the bubsequ-.nt death of his wife, tho leg, with otUer artich s of virtu, was sent to M,*. Baldwin in l'aris. Sergeant Gid has been working for a year to find the exact wiiereauouts of this trophy. Mrs. Raid win knew Sergeant GUi's title to be perfect, and forwarded the leg from P.iris as soon as she learned that he desired it. The leg is in good pres- TAKING DIANA'S PHOTOGRAPH. The Way the A (troa*men Slake tht Inconstant IHMK Sit far Her Uke. rouehe aud four but a Duke, C'l »,uuue=iitui» ~-- -- o s> Duke, cannot pi eibly lumber his stvle j ervation, has been well caivd for, the ' " leather of the boot shows fine quality and finish--in tact, a well-made boot. There is a small break at the ankle joint, along under a c .ch and six, and half a score of lootmei This style has ruined the peace and I rmouy of many a house- nolu, for no s< iner do they set up for style than insl mtly all the honest, old comfortable mm ocrtnvonie furniture is discarded, and you .-talk cautiously about, among tlie uncomfortable splen­ dor ot Grecian chairs, Egyptian tables and Etruscan va>es. The vast improve­ ment in mmitiue demands an increase in the dome-t c establishment, and a timily that OIKC required two of these strvants lor convenience, now employ liaif a dozen lo: styie. Bell Brazen was one of these patterns of style ; aud what­ ever lreak sLe was seized with, howevvr preposterous, was implicitly followed by but this had beeu made and mended be­ fore its capture. Mouej-Earning Women. A rightly-proud man will do any sort of labor rather than have his wife labor for him. If his wife have the time and the fancy to employ either her brains or her fingers in tasks that will bring re­ muneration, this money is hers, and not his, and when he begins to look forward to her earnings as a part of his income, he also begins to lose his pride in being the bread-winner and protector of his family. [From the Baltimore News.] Photographs of the moon are not mere scientific curiosities. Thev not only serve a useful purpose in astronomical research, but tliev have a commercial v ue. Few collections of stereoscopic views are destitute of one or more of these photographs. They are as i>opular as pictures of some actresses. The war lese views are obtained is interesting. veryboay knows that a stereoscopic picture of a person or a waterfall is got by combining two pictures of the object taken from different standpoints, so that each shows a little around the corner, and the two being combined make the object appear to stand ont in lifelike perspective. To produce the same effect j* ltli the moon, advantage is taken of the fact that she vibrates, or rolls a little upon her center, in swinging about the earth, so that at one time we see a little more of one side than usual, and at an­ other time of the other side. When two photographs of the moon, taken at op­ posite librations, are combined'4 by the stereoscope, the lunar orb seems sus­ pended before the eyes like a ball that the hand can grasp. America is ahead of Europe in the art of celestial photography. Englishmen of science, who, like all Englishmen, have a keen eye for the detectiou of special excellence in the work of their own countrymen, admit this. They say that the photographs of the moon taken by Mr. Lewis M. Rutherford, of New York, are better than those taken by their own Deiaroe, who Is so conspicu­ ous an astronomer that one of the oceans of the planet Mars has been named after him. Mr. Rutherford's lunar photo­ graphs are so fine that they can be suf­ ficiently magnified to furnish a better view of the moon's rocky scenery than many amateur astronomers can obtain wiih the full power of their telescopes. Everybody has seen what is called " the old moon in the new moon's arms." When the moon, only a few days old, appears as a narrow crescent, the uuillnminated portion of her orb is seen shining with a faint, ashy light. This light comes from the earth, and is reflected back by the moon just as the landscape is faintly visible in full moon­ shine. A few weeks ago, M. Janssen, of Paris, succeeded in makinc photograph8 of the moon that showed this phonomo" non clearly. So lisrht that spransr from the sun was reflected from the fields and water* of the earth to the moon, was thrown back from her stony surface to the earth again, and after* this triple journey yet retained enongh power to stamp the faint picture of lunar land­ scapes upon a photographic plate. Moon photographs are taken by the aid of telescopes, the prepared plate be­ ing fixed at the focus of the instrument in the place of the eye piece They are obtained only one or two inches in di­ ameter. and have to be enlarged. Fine ones will hear l>eing enlarged to a diam­ eter of two or three feet. Mr. Ruther­ ford uses a refracting telescope to photo­ graph the moon, the object glass being peculiarly corrected so that it focuses the actinic rays. Most other astronomi­ cal photographers u«e reflecting tele­ scopes, in which a concave mirror takes the place of an object gln$s. The moon is not the onlv celestial object whose picture can be taken. Pho­ tographs are also made of the sun, show­ ing the spots and the phenomena of. eclipses. Venus and Mercurv have l>een photographed when in transit across the pun's jisk. Even stars can be photo- <rraph«f, in>l recently Prof. t)rnper. of this city, succeeded in photographing the Great Nebula of Orion, which as­ tronomers believe to be an enormous ma^s of gaseous matter containing in itself the germs of future world and suns. The Best Stimulant. Geo. D. Prentice has contributed largely to the gems that Bparkle in our English literature. This, upon stimu­ lants, may be placed with the golden saying of ^Pythagoras : There are many times when the pulse lies low in the bosom, and beats low in t he veins ; when the spirit sleeps the sleep which apparently knows no wak­ ing in the house of clay, and the door is hung with invisible crape of melan­ choly ; when we wish the golden sun­ shine pitchy darkness, and are very willing to fancy clouds where no clouds be. There is a state of sickness when physic may be thrown to the dogs, for we will have none of it. What shall raiso the sleeping Lazarus? What shall make the heart beat music, and the pulse dance to it through all the myriad thronged halls in our house of life ? What shall make the sun kiss the east­ ern hills again for us, with all its old awakening gladness, and the night overflow with "moonlight, music and dowers ?" Love itself is a great stimulant, the most intoxicating of all, and performs all tliese miracles ; but it is a miracle it­ self, and it is not a drug-store, what­ ever they say. Tiie counterfeit is in the market, but the winged mes­ senger is not a money changer, we assure you. Men have tried many things, but still they ask for stimulants--the stimulants we "use, but require the use of more. Men try to drown the floating dead of their own souls in the wine-cup, but the corpse will rise. We see its lace in the bubbles. The intoxication of drink sets the world whirling again, and the pulses playing music, and the thoughts galloping, but tho fast clock runs down sooner, and the unnatural stimu­ lation only leaves the house it fills with the wildest revelry--more silent, more sad, more deserted, more dead. There is one stimu ant that never fails, and yet never intoxicates--duty. Duty puts a clear sky over every man--up into his heart maybe into which the skylark of happiness alwiys goes sing­ ing. Hints to Hotel Uueats--At the Table. On entering the dining-room assume a mild indifference to the wishes of the head waiter, and seat yourself wherever you think best; it doesn't matte^if you take a seat belonging to a regular boarder, who has occupied it for years, let him learn that variety is the spioe of life; besides the head waiter will be blamed, and you are certain he de­ serves it Should you observe an acquaintance at the other end of the room, addres him from where yon sit, say something funny; ask him if he's got over that drunk he had at Rochester, or something to that effect. This will be appreciated by every person in the room, and stamp you as a gentleman of liumoroi J propensities. Verdict of "not <*uiity." It would be well to have v'our full name and address writteu in your hat, not necessary for publication, but as an aid to your identi­ fication, after the landlord has got through with you. LAST year California produced over 10,000,000 gallons of wine, and nearly 100,000 boxes of raisins. A BELLS. Khe waa the prettiest girl. I weea. That mortal eye h»d ever aeen; Her name was Atiabrl Christine. Her lianas were curled with lundoHne, Her cheeks were smoothed with TuailMt Her teeth were brushed with fine dentin' Her face was washed in coaline, H cr glnres were c<eaned with (piinBl^ She wore a 'iress of grenadine, » 1/oopett over a shirt of Unlliantiac^ H»r |H>tt(coat was bombazine. Her tool was shod with kid Her wounds were healed with rrnnoHna She sailed away irom Muscatine. Iu a ship they called a hrigantin^ She flirted with a gay marine, Till tUey reached the Republic il m«ilHll>. W here they were married by a dean. And lived oo oleoiuarjanne. - - Bl»omi*a(o* 8ft. PITH AUD POINT. UHBBROBOTTND work--An earthqnaka. WOHKN'S rites--Marriage ceremonies. " LET'S shake t" as the Jersey ague said to the earthquake. WHAT would you call a young physi­ cian ? A patient waiter. A BROOKLYN girl speaks of one of her fellows as her night- blooming serious bean. THB average woman is composed of 243 bones, 169 muscles, 22 old news­ papers aud 210 hair-pins. ISN'T there a seeming incongrnousness in describing a total-abstinence lecturer as at work in the moral vineyard ? TUB inhabitants of the Cannibal islands say that the flesh of American politician tastes exactly like mule meat. OWING to the inadequacy of quaran­ tine regulations, "Pinafore" has been introduced in Japan along vritb small­ pox. EPITAPH FKOM AN ENGLISH CHURCH-TAKD ON AN OLD MAID. Beiieatli this *tone, a lump of clay. Lies Arabe ik'Yoi.ng, Who on th - 34 h of May Began to hold her tongue. " i5o YOU know what business Mr. Doddridge follows ?" " No ; but I've heard that he owns a gooddea1 of land." " Oh, well, then, he's probably a farm- acist." " THE shallows murmur while the deeps are dumb," quoted an anti-stal­ wart, for the benefit of a Coukling man. " Yes," retorted the latter, " you appear to have a good deal to say." A WEALTHY manufacturer of Connecti­ cut, having built an elegant mansion, and wishing to take a second wife, said to his architect : " Which agrees best with a brick and brown stone, a brunett? or a blonde ? " AN English girl writes that no man will stare long at a woman who does not stare back. That sounds very well, but if she does not stare back how is she to know whether the man has stopped staring or not ? He--"She is a remarkably sweet singer. I don't know when I have heard such a fine voice, Did you notice her bravura passages ? " She--"No; but I noticed the lace on her dress. It's real Hamburg, and just lovely." COMPASSION ATE old lady (paying her fare)--"How jaded your horse looks, cabman 1 Is not the bit uncomfortably large for his mouth?" Cabby--"It am t the bit in his mouth, mum; it's the small bit in his stomach, mum." OVB exchanges often allude to Pitts­ burgh's "glass men" and "iron men'* holding meetings. An iron man must be a "feolid" citizen, but we shouldn't think a glass man would succeed in business. He'd " break " too easily. " PA, what is the difference between civilization and barbarism ?" " Civili­ zation, my sou, is blowing your enemy to pieces with a bombshell at a range of four Aiiles. Barbarism is knocking his brains out at arm's length with a tental. club. " THAT milk is pretty blue, landlord.**' " Don't understand it, sir ; my cow is well fed, I milk her myself, and I don't put water in the milk." " Well, the weather has beeu quite wet and I reckon the cow needs shingling ; that's about it,"--Austin Si/tings. " I QUITE agree with Byron," said the plaintiff, a lady who v\os suing for di­ vorce. " There is no such thing as friendship be tween mau and woman." "That, madam," remarked the counsel for the defense, "is only true whett they are mar.ied." THE VESPER BUO. The evtjninx s'.ar it. vo~i*»r lump Al*>ve th." w.'nt had lit, The duxky oil' tauiu of the niglit Wtre f>>il«w;uK over it He w:2e.d her wtiis. and c'asped her hand, Aud t 'Id bis tale of love; He cal ed her every tender name, •' My darlinK," " duck " and " do**#." A tremor nhoois her ffciry lorrn, Her eyee begun to bUnl>, Her blood rose to a hundred, and She cried, " I think--I ih.nk"-- He Highed, " You think you love ml!" for Hia soul was on the rack. " Oh, no," she yelled: I think a bug la crawling down niy.back." THAT young student who was study­ ing for the ministry at the Phillips Ao- ademy, and who was killed while com­ mitting burglary, had a queer idea ot what constituted the necessary qualifi­ cations for the ministry. And yet he may have supposed that house-breaking was as necessary in a theological semi­ nary curriculum as base-ball, boat-rao- ing and hazing a student half to death, at Tale or Harvard.--N«rri»toum Her­ ald. Mk. O'FLANIOAN was going along the road, when an angry bull rushed down upon him, and with nis horns tossed him over a fence. Mr. O'F., recovering from his fall, upou looking up saw the bull, pawing ana tearing up the ground, whereupon, Bmiling at him, he said. "If it was not for your bowing and scraping and your humbie apologies, jou brute, faix I should think that you had thrown me over this fence on purpose!" Anti-Fat Roles. For those people whose embonpoint is a matter of solicitude, whether because it is uncomfortable or unfashionable, the following diet is proposed: ^ May Eat--L^ftii mutton &QQ bocf, T6FTI and lamb, soups not thickened, beef tea and broth ; poultry, game, fish and eggs; bread in in ode ration; greens, cresses, let­ tuce, etc.; green peas, cabbage, cauli­ flower onions; fresh fruit without sugar. Mav Not Est--Fat meat, bacon or hi™ butter, cream, sugtr, potatoes, oar- rots, parsnips, rice, sago, tapioca, maca­ roni, custard, pastry aud puddings, sweet May Drink--Tea, coffee, coooa from nibs with milk, but no sugar; dry wine® in moderation; brandy, whisky and gin in moderation without sugar; light bitter beer soda and seltzer wat^r. May Not Drink--Milk, except spar­ ingly; porter aud stout, swett ales, sweet wines. As a rule, alocholio 1 quors should be taken sparingly, and nevwt without food. Too Snir^t. Some men, and b ., => also, are so smart as to thiuk the.v ean dispense wi:h honesty. Such usu dly overreach th. m- SfIves, as did the boy icft-rivd to li '<•: A youngster was scut by hL- p.*reut to take a 1- tter to the postofli» and p»y the postage on it. The ' ov r.-turnod hisrhlv elated, aud said, "laia -r, l » • " a lot of m, u putting iett. rs iu a ht ii place ; and, when ut» one was^looJuug, 1 biipped yours iu for uoihiug.