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"•m. flntudcula J. VAN SLYKE. EDITOR AND ItcHENRY, ILLINOIS. YAXJ; COLLEGE has 108 instructors, 1,037 students, and 126,000 volumes in -the libraries. SAX FRANCISCO rejoices ever a one- poan d-ftud -o-hftlf baby, and mothers 4nd physiciaris seem equally pleased «nd astonish*!. • fthild is *r«U formed and in good health. THK descendants of Lafayette who are coming to the Yorktown centennial will oome as passengers on the United States man-of-war Trenton, which will be sent from this country early in September. grave, much curiosity arose aa to the expected source of profit. The matter is now clear. He advertises fdr relatives or friends of every pauper who dies, and keeps the remain $ as long as possi­ ble for recognition. In lialf the cases somebody comes forward to pay well for a burial elsewhere Hun in Potter's Field. A CURIOUS LUUI.OICO occurred at the jail in Cincinnati. " Cheeky George," who is in for stealing a buggy, became ac­ quainted with a fellow-prisoner, Alice Burke, who was under seutence for fcurceny, and the two agreed to be married. As soon as Al­ ice's term expired a clergym n was sent for and tho two were made one. Alice now visits her husband daily, bringing him food and flowers, aud when he goe3 to the penitentiary, to serve his sentence of one year, she proposes to OHIO women are as enterprising as her i accompany him. It is said to be a ease men. The papers give an account of one who was divorced from her husband* and ten minutes .afterward was married to a Pittsburgh: tttan and eft ronte fautu the State. ACCORDING to Herr Fuchs' annual re­ port on the subject of volcanic eruptions, the activity of volcanoes in 1880 was father small; the only remarkable erup­ tion was that of Manna Loa, on the Island of Hawaii, on Nov. 5. AT Saratoga, N. Y., the Temperance -Convention passed a resolution thanking the Almighty for the growth of popular interest in the cause of temperance, and strenuously insisting that the duty of fill men as patriots or Christians was to be total abstainers. THK now Rhode Island Liquor law provides that no license shall be grunted for any place situated within 400 feet of a public school, and that a majority of the land owners within 100 feet of the place for which the license is asked shall be sufficient to prevent the granting of •the license. Bfeftzico is becoming the favorite field for missionary enterprise. The Metho­ dist Church Sotith appropriates $82,500 this year, and other denominations are showing increased energy in that direc­ tum. Mexico will, at this rate, soon outrank China and Africa in missionary ^^nterprise. VASILY TCHOOMAK, aged 96 year?, has just died in the hospital of tho Odessa prison, with the reputation of having in the course of liis existenoe committed, alone or in conjunction with others, •eighty murders, and also of having es­ caped no fewer than five times from Siberia, of pture love laughing at locksmiths. THE rules of the Methodist Episcopal church stipulate that the profits of the Book Concern, which are heavy, shall not be appropriated to any other**pur­ pose than " for the benefit of the travel­ ing, supernumerary, superannuated and worn-out preachers, their wives, widows and children." The disbursement of the money under this rule has been in the hands of the Bishops. The next an­ nual conferences will act on a proposi­ tion to turn the profits over to the con­ ferences, pro rata, for distribution, and to compel an annual dividend of all the profits not actually needed for capital. MRS. DEACON GROVEB, aged 60, was seated mending her son's stockings in his house in the town of Horselieads, N. Y., when a tramp entered and asked for something to eat. The old lady went to the cellar and when she came back her gold-rimmed spectacles were gone. She said to the tramp: "You've got my specs." He deuied it, and, quietly lay­ ing down the plate, she went to a bureau, took a revolver tHerefrom, pointed it at the tramp and told him if he didn't lay those specs on the table she would shoot him where he stood. The tramp took the spectacles from his pocket and mild­ ly laid them down. "Now," said she, "eat what I have brought for you and get out." He ate and departed. When her son Augustus appeared, the old lady, again taking the revolver froipa the bu­ reau, sai 1 to him : "Augustus, how do you cook this weapon ?" Political Bonrbonisnu The Charleston Aew*, which is the leading organ of Southern Bourbon sen­ timent, admits, with Senator Hampton, that there have been "irregularities" and frauds in the elections of that State, but it boldly justifies them by the right of revolution. It says that what was done in 1876, in 1878 and in 1980--that is the violence and fraud by which American citizens were deprived of their fundamental right--was necessary. But it holds it to l>e no longer necessary. The Democratic party have resolved, as it says, "to carry the elections by hook or by crook." and, hav­ ing succeeded, the colored vote be­ ing disciplined and suppressed, the process is no longer necessary. The colored- voters were not murdered and harried, and the boxes filled with tissue ballots, says the Xews, in effect, merely to ,ve the offices to one set of men rather than to another, but to assure the very existence of the people. The plea is not new. " 1," said Louis Napoleon, as he shot down the Parisians in (rowds and shipped them by thousands to Cay­ enne-^-" I am the savior of society." That imperial worthy continued the sal­ vation of society iu similar ways for some years. When one body of citizens announce that the destruction of the equal rights of another body is indis­ pensable to the peace ot tae community, it is mere anaivhy, and not bloody an­ archy only because there is no resist­ ance. !ue Charleston ATew» says that this suppression of equal rights is no longer necessary. But certainly it can not ex­ pect that its word will be taken upon the subject. Mr. Frve's illustrations of the frauds upon electors were not drawn irom old documents, but from tlie rec­ ords oi the last election. So the reports of the examination of witnesses in the Fifth Congressional district of South Carolina sliow by uncontradicted testi­ mony that at Edgefield Court House nearly 2,000 colored Republicans were not allowed to vote; at Johustone's, in the same county, 400 or 500 colored voters were prevented from voting, and one colored man was killed, and no ef­ fort has been made by the authorities to briug the crimina.s to justice. At other places in the district cannon were planted, barricades erected, :ind tlie voters assaulted with Cayenne pepper thrown in tliair eyes, and driven fioni the polls ; the supply of Republican tickets for certain polls was seized and lestroyed ; one poll was closed in the middle of the day; one was not opened ,it all. These facts are more significant than the assertion of the News ttiatsu-h proceedings are no longer necessary. They show that what was thought to be necessary four anil five years ago is thought'to be necessary now, aud that nothing can be more unmanly than tlie denials of Southern Democratic Sena- Keifer is now in Washington busily at work preparing for the contest. There is no doubt whatever now but that the Republicans will be able to elect the n»-xt Speaker, and organize the next House to suit themselves. This i« all tlie more important now, owing to the vacancy canscd by the two Sew York Senators resigning their seats, and making it possible for the Democrats to keep the control of the standing committees of the S- nate. Other complications may arise that may affect the choice of the next Speaker, and give it to some of the less prominent candidates. The Democrats have l>eett trying to effect a fusion with the Greenbackers and thus secure an e>ectiou, but the certainty of Diugley's election in Elaine in place of Frve, and the disaffection of Speer, of Georgia, a former Democrat, makes all these Bour­ bon schemes as baseless as a dream, much to the disappointment of sly Sam Randall and irascible Joe Blackburn.-- Chicafff* Journal. SCRAPS or 8CIEHCK. THE little city of Brantford, Ontario, claims the honor of having been a the birthplace of the telephone--Prof. Bell's first experiment* having been made at that place. M. RAOCL PICTKT, of Geneva, whose discoveries in the liquefaction of gases have given him a world-wide reputation, announoes the discovery of a process of who reformed the coinage, like every­ thing else, was the first to issue pennies without tlie indented cross; and, to make up for the loss of the queer- bhapt d half-pennies and farthings hith­ erto in use, supplemented the silver coinage with circular pieces, bearing the same value aud denomination. He fixed the standard of the penny, more­ over, by ordering that it should weigh thirty-two grains of well-grown wheat, distilling alcohol by ice! He states that or» which was a more accurate test, that twenty pennies should weigh one ounce. A Thorough Job. Judge M , a well-known jurist liv- the method is a very cheap one. A TRICPCLE driven by electricity was a recent exhibition in the streets of Paris. The experiment was made by M. Trouve, WASH MGDANIEL was convicted of wife-murder in Georgia, but the Gov­ ernor commuted his sentence to impris­ onment for life. A fellow-convict in the Dade country coal-mines concluded that McDaniel deserved capital punishment, took upon himself the office of execu tioner, and killed him with a pickax. GEMS OF THOUGHT. OUT of 101 Derbys, a Prince of Wales has won tfnrie, in lTfw ; a Royal Duke, York, in 1816 and 1822; other Dukes, ten times ; Lords, twenty-two times; a foreign Count once, 1865 ; a foreign Bar­ on twioe, 1871 and 1879; a foreign Prince ford is a spotless reputation, in 1875, and an American sovereign in 1881. Other winners have been English commoners. A GOOD life is always great. Sii-ENCE does not always mark wis­ dom. HE THAT sips of many arts drinks of none. LITERATURE is the immortality of speech. OCR best things are near of, Lie close about our feat A M AN must becomes wise at his own expense. OUR friends' faults reconcile us to their virtues. MODERATION is the silken string run­ ning through all virtues. IN THESE days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses. To SELECT well among old things is almost equal to iuveuting new ones. THE purest treasure mortal times af- VERA CRUZ is not a natural harbor, there being sin ply aroodatead separated from the gulf by a low coral reef, which affords little ffroteetion from the fierce northerly storms. The work which Capt. Eads has contracted with the Mexican Government to do there is to build a jetty wall to connect the upper end of the reef with the land, forming a break­ water. BROCKTON, Mass., now manufactures more sewing machine needles than all Europe combined. They are turned out by the million and shipped all over the world. The needle, made of the best of steel, passes through thirty different hands in its manufacture before leaving the factory ; it is of various sizes and shapes, curved, straight, two-eyed (twin holes), and the cheapest costs three- quarters of a cent. AN American in Paris is Baid to have offered Meiseonier 10,000 francs for one of his sketches, to which the painter replied: "The price is 20,000." " Twenty thou­ sand ?" asked the American, who thought his oftjr; of tea had been extremely lib­ eral; " but it did not take you more than a dij to do it." " True," replied Meis- sonier, "but it tooktne fifteen years to learn how to do it in a day. ' WHEN the Tenth Massachusetts regi­ ment of volunteers went to the war a drummer boy of 12 years accompanied it and served his term of enlistment. That boy is now a millionaire, and enter­ tained the survivors of the regiment at his r< sHienc;! near Boston the other day. Twelve years ago he was earning a sala­ ry of ^40 a month, but, by energy, enter­ prise »nd the use of his brains, he dis­ covered that " there is always room at the to|»i" MR. J. H. WADE has offered to the city of Cleveland a private park of 100 acres opened and maintained, by him in the Seventeenth ward of that city, on condition that the municipality shall expend from $100,000 to $175,000 in the improvement of the property. He re­ serves for an institution, supposed to be educational or charitable, within the grounds a lot not exceeding eight acres. Tlie proposed park will have a frontage of 1,100 feet on Euclid avenue. A SAN FRANCISCR undertaker made a contract to bury the city's pauper dead for 60 cents each. As that price would not l>egin to sover the cost of the regu­ lation coffin and the digging of a EVERY man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. HE WHO has not mastered himself, by whom can he not be overcome? No SUCCESS has ever oome without re­ peated struggles and failures. MAN does not lack so much the knowl­ edge of his duty as his will for it. HOATtftcco money is covetonsness, squandering it is equal folly and 6in. POVERTY may excuse a shabby coat, but it is no excuse for shabby morals. ^ THE divinity of charity consists in re­ lieving a mau's needs before they are forced upon us. IT WAS a maxim of Euripides, cither to keep silence or to speak something better than silence. LOVE penetrates further into any tomb of darkness and doubt than any other faculty of the human soul. THB most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasures of others. NEVER fiar to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. POETRY makes hope a formation, grief makes it a solace, aud desolation makes it the brighest flower that adorns earthly creation. HE WHO is false to present duty breaks^ a thread in the loom, aud will see the* defect when the weaving of a lifetime is unrolled. HE WHO is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled. « FAITH, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side and bend to every necessity. FIS LIKE thn bird, ttut, bait Lag in her flight Aw Mir, on bouitbs tou Uig'it, kreli thorn give way beneath hM and yet sings, Kuowiug liutl she bath »iagfc -- VieUv H go THERE is no sorrow I have thought more al>out than that to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fall. -- George Eliot. THE good tilings of life are not to l>e had singly, but come to us wiih a mix­ ture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to tlie tail of it. WQAT a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury to me. I would not exchauge it for all the thrones in the world.--Xapolon. IF A MAN empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment iu knowledge al­ ways pays the l>est interest.--Franklin. THE l>est receipt for going through life happily is to feel that everyb.xiy, no matter how rich or how poor, needs all tlie kindness ho can get from otli rs. Use A I- Y the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. LOVE is the best investment of all, save conscience and the sentiment of duty. The.HO are the treasure-houses of life, the great market wherein the shares are always rising. deforms the ILLINOIS KKWB, THE Chicago and Alton pay-car leaves about $70,000 in Bloomiugton each month. THB first car-load of winter wheat of the season received in Chicago was from Ashland. NICHOLAS MILLER, of Champaign, who last week committed suicide at Cairo, left property valued at $50,000. A OOLORKD woman at Bloomiugton has received $1,800 bounty and pension money due her deceased brother. THE premium list for the Illinois State Fair aggregates .820,000^-sa id to be a greater amount than is offered by any other society in the country. THERE are four establishments in Pe­ oria that manufacture overalls. They give employment to 200 women, and cut up 3,000 yards of goods daily. THE Peoria Public Libtary has 4,472 volumes, and was run last year at a cost of £2,947. It now has $1,000 iu the treasury, and 1,407 subscribers. CAPT. W. W. I .OWDERMILK, of Auburn, Sangamon county, has recently been appointed by Gov. Cullom as his Assist­ ant Secretary iu the Executive office. REV. T. K. HI DOES, who was chap­ lain of the One Hundred aud Sixth regi­ ment during tho war, died recently at his home in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. FRANK VIVELII, a banker at. Carroll- ton, died recently from suffocation, caused by a tumor in the neck. He left a large family and a handsome fortune. REV. J. W. WHITE, rector of the Episcopal church at Joliet, has been presented by bis parishioners with a tine horse and carriage and an Alderuey cow. ANDREW BALL, of Delavan, purchased tore,"exeeptTh^ Maine * imponed Holsteiu bull last aud Massachusetts are as bad as South j winch he paid $245, He is Carolina. There were great elector 1 17 montus old, aud weigns over frauds of the Southern kind in New Y< ik j 1.""" pounds. in 1868, in Tweed's palmy days, aud they | GEN. J. II. Moons, of Decatur, who led to the passage of laws which insure : was recently api>ointed United {States honest elections so far as tlie ballot- | Consul at the Port of Callao, Peril, has boxes are concerned. | left New York for Callao, accompanied We are not unmindful of the plea for | by his son, Harry Moore.' tho suppression of the colored vote. It | THE Rev. Robert Collyer, of New is the assertion that intelligence and i York, preached, in Unity Church. Chi- property and character cannot submit to 1 be ruled by ignorance and dishonesty, and that the most conservative *md pa­ triotic Northern community would do just what the whites in South Carolina do if it were turned topsy-turvy by elec­ tion laws. To this, tiowever, the reply was made by the President in his inau­ gural addiess. He admitted the danger that arises from the ignorance of tho t voter, aud that bad local government is ! an evil which ought to be prevented. | But he truly added that suicide is ! not a remedy. The violation of the j freedom of the ballot is a crime | which, if continued, will destroy the | Government itself. The Southern Bour­ don policy is correction of ignorance and vice by fraud and corruption. Sensi­ ble men in the Southern Slates cannot expect that sensib e men in the Northern States will submit to the consequences of sueh a policy. The plea is to purify locul Government. But the suppression of votes equally affects the national Government. The Charleston News confesses that the procedure is revolu­ tionary, but justifiable. If, then, the vote of the solid South had elected the Demo­ cratic candidate, the result, by thisadnm- sion, would have been revolutionary. It would have luen due to what the leading Bourbon paper calls justifiable irregu­ larities--that is, violence and fraud. Since Senator Hampton and the Nnwx i>oth admit the fact, there need be no further Democratic denial of it; ami when South Carolina or any other State takes the same energetic course in pur­ suing and punishing such " irregulari­ ties" as Congress took in dealing with those in New York, the cry of free vote and fair count will have lost its force. Until then a "solid South" will be op- jv >sed as the great national danger--not vindictively, but simply because it will mean Government by force and fraud.-- Harper * Weekly. mwm Pirn AND POIHT. WH AT he saw: fL\t .! rr mw .T, "t1 • % jh» motors to the vehicle. The first trial was so successful that the experimenter proposes making a larger moter, by i means of which he expects to attain a speed of 12 to 18 miles an hour. j DR. HAMMOND states that there are ' very few, if auy, cosmetics which do not contain lead. He also saya that death ! from lead poisoning by tlie use of | cosmetics is by no means an uncommon case. The introduction of the lead iuto I the system produces various effects, oolio, j paralysis, prostration of the nervous i system and insanity being the most com- j mon results. I THE nearest star is 18,918,000,000,000 miles from us; and Sir J. Herschel cal­ culates that if a person stood upon that star and looked towards our earth, not only would our mighty sun be utterly invisi­ ble, but if the sun were so enlarged as to fit the earth's orbit--that is, instead of being 800,000 miles in diameter he were more than 180,000,000 miles in diameter--even then that stupendous orbit would be covered with a human hair held 25 feet from the pupil of the eye! M. ALFRED DUMENIL claims to have made an interesting aud useful discovery --how to preserve plants in a perfectly vigorous state without any earth. Dur­ ing a constant trial for several months he has never fouud tho least interruption or disturbauee of tho vegetative functions of the plants treated by him; but, on the contrary, mauy of the plants have blos­ somed with a vigor which as an exper­ ienced horticulturist, he has never seen in his garden. Further particulars cou- cerinng this alleged discovery will be awaited with interest. THERE is one thing in which our Brit­ ish scientific contemporaries find as much unalloyed pleasure as the average American editor does iu a pun on Edi­ son's pet light, and that is in "poking _ _ . _ fun" at the discoveries aud pseudo-scien- j him the^ contract and it made a rich man tific theories of Brother Jonathan. A i him." this anecdote. He had once oocasion to send to the village for a carpenter, and a sturdy young fellow appeared with his tools. " I want this fence mended to keep the cattle. There are some unplaced boards--use them. It is Out of sight from tlie house, so you need not take time to make it a neat job. I will only pav you a dollar and a half." The Judge went to dinner, and, com­ ing out, found the man carefully plan­ ing each board. Supposing that he was trying to make a costly job of it, he or­ dered him to nail them on at once just as they were, and continued his walk. When he returned the boards were planed and numbered ready for nailing, '• I told you that this fence was to be covered with vines," he said, angrily. " I do not care how it looks. "I do," said the carpenter, gruffly, carefully measuring his work. When it . was liuiblied there was no part of the fence so thorough in finish. "How much do you charge?"* asked the Judge. "A dollar and a half," said the man, shouldering his tools. The Judge stared. "Why did you spend all that labor on the job, if not tor money " For the job, sir." . " Nobody would have seen the poor work on it." " But I should have known it was there. No; I'll take only the dollar and a half." And he took it and went away. Ten years afterward, the Judge had tlie contract to give for the building of certain magnificent public buddings. There were many applicants among mas­ ter-builders, but the faoe of one caught liis eye. "It was my man of the fence," he said. "I knew we should have only good, genuine work from hiin. I gave Her«» liM a man whose crown was BY MOWING in in empty na, --.StenhmvilUi Herald, No Boouer in the gun tae Mew Tl-an iip tb* s Ulen stair --Jticbv*wi Baton. And met ftp ftiri on heavest _ W ho lit tlie fire with kerosene. ,««««««. --Sicemtr4 Ilai icag Journal. uu »1PO astride • stool, , 1 be man who tampered with • P.rjnem. And with delight, bebe?d the sight. The Caar iu white--via dynamite. --I't ca Tribnmt. jlAnd a"pt> me* the reck'ess b'oke Who brought OB an original jokfe --Mem A rg*. And also met the MVnr, jren Who wro»e the poem oa " --Er.t Graplkic. And looking on, right by hi» aide, _ . .» Was the youth who from free* •nhHbV' *• «»wT* » --JHoming New*. Turning aronnd, from sudden wUa, Ho xsw the boy who oouidut swim. --PetUriile J' unial. The man who called the ed tor a liar, raw below him in the fire. --Hmxriebvr;i TeitgrapK And tortured below, in the usual way, Wa' the man »ho failed tMptatetop*2<TM • --HcKtan Hitter. And the man who left church before the ooaeetM!? ***" He n eo there In otter dejection. --Kteknk Constitittion. ron D9Vi *rr • t o * • »»**»* am v4 u; if d *43 h9tm - ! {W?S t «•.*-$ us bffrrrMMf Speaker of the Next Honse. cago, a memorial sermon of Judge E. Peck, Eli Bates and Gilbert Hubbard, late of that city, with w|^om fnr twenty years he was peraonaUy^ftuainte^l. A 8HORTAOE of $31,Ow has been dis­ covered in the accounts kept by Albert J. Smith, one of the bookkeepers of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, of Chicago. The culprit is a nephew of the late Sol A. Smith. THE State Supreme Conrt has affirmed the judgment of the McLean couuty Circuit Oouit in the case of Mrs. Aman­ da Perdue, who was was awarded $3,500 damages for iujuries sustained by a fall on a defective sidewalk. AT a point, in Peoria where a water- pipe underlaid a gas-pipe the water-pipe burst, and .he escaping water boiled the sharp sand against tlje gas-pipe until it actually wore a hole in it, aud then the water entered the gas-pipo aud ran all over the city. L\WBESCE MAHONET, a bridge car- peuter on the Wabash, St. -Louis aud Pacific, was burned to ashes iu a tool- car at Monticello, Piatt county, tlie other night. lie was last seon about midnight. All the clothing and $IG0 in money belonging to the bridge gang was burned in the car. JOHN CLAYBOBNE, an c* constable at I A1 lentown, and a well-known citizen, | had an altercation with his wife while in I a state of iutoxicat:on. During the | scuffle which endued he drew a revolver I and tired one H'lot at his wife, which I took effect in her left side. She cannot possibly recover. THE straw-fallen condition of the wheat in Southern Illinois is owing to severe weather during the winter, which raided the wheat and prevented it tak­ ing root properly. The fallen wheat has none of the little liber roots wh<ch branch out in every direct on and fur­ nish nourishment and support to the | stalk. IN the United States District Court at The Speakership of tlie next House of j (j0|iri Bate, l>etter known as A SENfcCAL disposition handsomest features. Representatives is already atti acting considerable attention among mem ers- elect, and the different candidates are already quite active in getting iu, their work. The prominent candidates are Keifer of Ohio, Kasson of Iowa, and His- cock of New York, with Burrows of Michigan and Reed of Maine as stri ng contingents. How Mr. Hisc ick's c n- didacy will be affected by the conte-t now going on in Albany, it is impo? sible to say; otherwise we should regard him as a strong candidate. Of course, no one will wonder that Ohio should have a candidate. Tiie State that lias already the Presid. nt, the Chief Just ce of the Supreme Court, the General of the Army, a-i Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and nu­ merous other good offices at homo ami abroad-7-not t<> mention the prominent figure which Mr. Hayes nd John Sher­ man cut in the last administration -- could not we'l afford to see the Speaker­ ship bestowal upon some other Stut », I ke Iowa, for example, that o dy give the 11--publican ticket la->t fall ahout W),000 majority! But G« n. K«-if< r is a good man, a brave soldier aud a fait(,fu' and honest memb r of Congress. Nearly all those Ohio fellows are good men, a-)d that w A hat makes them so hard^ to beat It is understood that Gen. Keifer wjl li«i backed by all the Ohio influence, and as t;e is the warm personal friend an 1, n>r- tner colleague of the. President, it is hiuhly probable that his ele\nt'on t<» the Speakership won' I be a "•••i.titie.iti >n to Mr. Gar-field. It rem ins to be we > whether the State «»f Ohio di in'allowed to gobble anv more ot the good pace* i i the git ot the people, or »h tl.cr '«he "ill bw invited to stand a little back " where she cau see just a-t well." f'i the language of the President him«elf, " Ohio has had abont enough." Oeu. | Dr. Olin, was sentenced to imprisoii- ! ment for three years and a tine of 8100, and Dr. Jordan* was given one year and $100. Their offenses were the use of ' the mails for the eircidatiou of demoral­ izing literature, James D. Doyle, the ! c<>uut< rfeiter, was ordered to Joliet for ten years. MB. B. P. PKICE, of Chicago, has b-.'en appointed Registrar of the Grain Inspection Departni. nt at Chicago, vice H. S. D« •an, re-igned. Mr. Dean will " take another jx-t-itiou in the department. Mr. William Mitchell sucoeeds Mr. Price as Cashier ot the Inspection De­ partment, and (Jen. Robert Pearson has t een appointed to tlie chief clerkship made vacant by the promotion of Mr. ; Mitchell. I Gov. CL'LT-OM has just issued » pardon ' for Joseph Holtcamp, who was convict­ ed of hircenv at the February, 187H, term of the Circuit Court of Jo Daviets county, and sentenced to the penitentia- ' rv for "six years. The young man is very low with c >usum|»ti.)u. On representa­ tion of Mime ot tiie leading citiz-ns < f Jo L>aviess it was decided best to let h.m KO to hi- friends, who will give lion Liott>r euro and attention. i V NKN'I IJVMAN of wealth is about or- ga izing. at I'eonn, a e ub to be known M» the Opera-House Martyrs," whose :uui shall ne to^imi'lyr themselves f..r th < benefit « f tiie city. Ea.;h mem- b- r of the club will '»« required to have »rr ve<l nt >0 years of age, to be an in­ valid and t» be child ess. The initiation fee is to be $100, >n•' the memliership is to be Imt'd to 20». Ea<-h member must ayree to take 1 fe insurance in tiie sum of°#5 000. the proceeds of whi -h is to be set aside mi ojn-ra house fund, until there slndi h v,» a cumulated the snm of $1,000,00,1, which, considering tlie rate of m itality, must accumulate within fifteen years. late London journal--au authority in its special field--indulges iu considerable editorial ridicule of oertain partially developed Yankee projects. On another page of the same sheet a local corres­ pondent seriously declares it to be his belief that the time will come when in­ dividuals will be transmitted by tele­ graph ! He argues that in certain elec­ trical and vital processes molecules are by gradual dejxxsition made to build up i bodies of considerable proportions--cer- | tain kinds of molecules tending to pro- j dtice certain invariable forms. Ho would | first get the "elementary molecule" of a j man, and then build liiui up from it by j the addition of other like molecules, as a i pyramid is produced by the piling up of cannon balls. Success having been achieved thus far, the man might be dis­ solved by electrical means in London, sent by cable to New York, and then rebuilt from the solution by the success­ ive deposition of his molecules at the New York' end of the electric circuit.** This somewhat novel scheme--not a "Yankee notion" but a plan for which Johnuy Bull must lie held fully responsible--is noticed mainly to show the beam iu the eye of our contemporary across the water, but partly for the benefit of the travel­ ing public, as the suggestion of this means of tr.iwii.ig with the velixrity of thought must produce such a pauic among railro:ul monopolies as shall re­ sult iu a material reduction of ikoir tariff. El Is worth's Death--Grief of President Lincoln. Iu an account of the death of CoL E. Ellsworth, iu Alexandria, Va., on May '24, 18(51, by the hand of the taveru keeper Jackson, furnished the Philadelphia Time* by Capt. Frank E. Brownell, liis avenger, occurs the fol­ lowing: "It was only a short time, however, when a message came thaTthe President wishe/l to see me at the engine house. I went. There was no one but the Pres­ ident, Capt. Fox, of the navy, and the undertaker. Mr. Lincoln was walking up and down the floor, very much agi­ tated. He was wringing his hands, aud there was, I thought, the trace of tears upon liis cheek. He did not appear to notice my entranoe at first. Lifting the cloth from tlie face of the dead man he exclaimed, with a depth of pathos I shall never forget: ' My boy, my boy ! Was it necessary this sacrifice should be made ?' After a while he made me re­ late the whole occurrence in detail. I hod scarcely finished before Mrs. Lin­ coln came, and I was again asked to re­ peat the story of the tragedy to her. The following letter from Mr. Linooln to the {wrents of Ellsworth has, I think, never been in print: " In the nntinifelT loss of jour noble son our • fflictien hero ia pcarcely less than your own. ho urncii ot promised usefulness to one's coun­ try. aud of bright hopes for one'n self and fr't-ud-s harr rarely beon no suddenly darkened no in his fall. In ioze aud years and ihjonth- ful apoeanuWB a bov, his power to ooniUnand men »-&« surprisiugly great Tnis power, com­ bined with a tine intnlkct and indomitable eu- erj$y r.ivi a ta«le altogether military, constitut­ ed iu h'.ai, an •torn d to me, tho best natural talent in that department I ever knew. And ytsi he wan fioxularly modest and deferential iu HOT'ial intercom*e. Mj acquaintance with him bey on lews than two years ago, yet through Uie ktur half of the intervening period it was at* intimate at) the disparity of our agea and my . np'OwJiig engagement* would permit To me ho a .j .eared to have no indulgences or pa»- t m is aud In ver heard him inter a profane or uiteiiiperbte word. What was more conclu­ sive of i w go>d heart, he never forgotlits par- uut«. Tue honors he labored for so lau iably, and in the sad end so gallantly gave his life, he meant for them no less than himself. In the h"P« that it mav bo no intrusion on the sacred- ne«4 of yom sorrow I have ventured to address U<w tru'ute to tlie memory of my youus.; friend and vour brave and early-fallen child. May (kwfg.ve vou the consolation which is beyond all earthly itower. Bincerely your friend iu a coiumou alHicti 'n, A. LINCOLH. It is a pity that boys were not taught in their earliest years that the highest success belongs only to the man, be he carpenter, farmer, author or artist, whose work is most sincerely an thor­ oughly done. The "Utter" Kangaroo Sonp. A^ny one in London desiring to in­ dulge in a basin of kangaroo-tail sonp can do so much more readily than if he were living in any of the great antipo­ dean towns. Several of the colonial meat companies have made the tails of the kangaroo an article of export for oonsumeis in England, and a shilling or two will place a Londoner in possession of a luxury of Australia which the col­ onists there can generally obtain only after a hard day's work ou horseback. As a matter of tact, it is the rarest thing possible to see a kangaroo hanging in a colonial butcher's shop; and potage queue de kangaroo is a rarer item on the oarte de jour of a Melbourne or Sydney diuiug-room than it might be in the res­ taurants of the Boulevard des Italiens or Rjgent street. The soup is a thing which, if once tasted, is to be forever re­ membered. Prepared, as it ought to be, with a due admixture of white wine and the yelks of hard-boiled eggs, it is richer than that made from hare or grouse, with a peculiar and quite inde­ scribable flavor. But, except the liver aud digestion be sound, it is not to be p lrtaken of with impunity. Had Brillat Savi rin but tasted it, he would have im­ mortalized its merits. No pen except his could do justice to its appetite-in­ spiring aroma and its gastronomicaUy quite "too utter" savor. But, for tlie rest, travelers have as­ sorted that the hams of the kangaroo--- t je only other parts of the animal which ever find a place at table--are equal in ia-.to to venison. In this opinion few who have partaken of them will conour. Every allowance may be made for men weary with hunting in the Australian bush; but, experto crede, any one oapa- ble of making such an assertion never deserves to eat a venison pasty again. Not the skill of a cordon bleu of the kitchen,d^pwever celebrated--not all the PITT no faith in the rem one ol» wctDv !•'*** an who talks about it. EVEN the weakest man ia strong enough to enforce his conviction. 1 *"n'l UNWORTHY of note--The man who his property all in his wife's name. • • I CAS'T possibly be beat," as the drum with a Dusted head remarked. ' . POVERTY may exouse a shabby ' ̂ but it is no excuse for shabby morals. STRENGTH with men is insensibility greatness is pride, and calmness indifr?1"' ference. • GRANT graciously what you cannot rer^ fuse safely, and conoiliate those you cannot conquer. NOTHING is ever dome beautifully wliiok *»: M is done in rivalship, nor nobly which i^ ,y } done in pride. Wi i H roller skate* npcra her feet 1 n v . a She bw ftty glided round ib« rink, And sudden-y, in a manner it's hard to She » a t d o w n q u i c k e r t h a n s h e o o u l d w i n k . ) y < a No PARAGRAPHIC squibs will be tole­ rated on tlie Fourth of July. But if yotf '•v's want a good special joke on it just lfljb. , me cracker. GOLD may be a good thing to havd, * ' but someway the man that possesses * doesn't prosper as well as the one lots of brass, after all. " THOU hast been a faithful servant to me," said the old hunter, gazing fondl^ H * on his trusty ride. Nevertheless he dis­ charged it the next instant. THET charged a quarter to see theif snide performance, but they got no quax** - •* ter when the infuriated and indignant . ., audience gave them a bad-egg ovation. * "To ASMS! to arms! They come**! 1f they come !" was the excited exclama* s<f s tion of a Kansas City man, when li^v,;. formed that he was the fattier of triplets. WHETHER perfect happiness would W5 ^ s secured by perfect goodness this worl^^rfj will never" afford au opportunity of d^- . ciding, but thb, at least, may be main* ' tained, that we do not always find visin ncj ble virtue. _ « » • ' (ND f - •• AN impertinent fop made sport of ut old farmer's large nose, mouth chin; but the old farmer silenced him by saving: "Your nose, mouth an* chin all had to be made small, so 'ill there'd be material left for your cheek*" A OOUPLK of lawyers engaged in ft ., case were recently discussing the issue. " At all events," said the younger a more enthusiastic, "we have justioe oa our side." To which the older and warier replied : " Quite true, but whaAT - we want is the Chief Justice on our side.?** IN a murder trial in Nevada a citizen,,. ( was being questioned as to his qualifies*- tions to sit in the jury-box. One query 1 was: " What would you do if you wee# . on tlie jury and the case was," etc. "Sure, I'd do whatever was plazin' to the rest of He waa ' 1 he Origin*! Penny. The old. old penny in Iviy.iiu I, as i' other countries, was of silver, ::n I _ il.s appearance throughout the earliest tim of its history would rather astonis! those who know nothing of numismatic lore. From the Saxon times, in whirl it was the only piece of silver extant till those of Edward I., it was stamps- with a square cross. This enabled the roi i to be readily broken into halves oi quarters, which then served the purpo- of half pence or fsrthings. But the lat­ ter c< in wa* not much inferior to tin va'ue of the present English p nny, in­ asmuch as the unbroken piece w«s vsl uel at one-thirtieth of a mark or three­ pence st-rling. At this time ^ five o them seem to have made a skilling, or s illing, so that the relations betweei what are now chief English silver ant' bronze coins have entirely altered in the oourse of s<x ocntnnes. King Edward, subdue the rankness of kangaroo or laby --London Globe. Smart Children. A child of 3 years of age with a book in its infant hands is a fearful sight. It is too often the death warrant, such as the condemned stupidly looks at fatal, yet beyond his comprehension. What should a child 3 years old-- nay, 5 or 6 years old--be taught? Strong meats for weak digestions make not bodily strength. Let there be nursery tales and nursery rhymes. I would say to every parent, especially to every mother, sing to your children, tell them pleasant sti ries; if in the coun­ try, be not too careful lest they get a little dirt upon their hands and clothes ; earth is very akin to us all, and, in children's out-of-door plays, soils them not inwardly. There is in it a kind of consanguinity between all creatures; by it >ve touch upon the sympathy of our first substance, and beget a kindness for our poor relations, the brutes. Let children have a free, open air sport, and fear not though they make acquaintance with the pigs, the donkeys and the chick­ ens--they may form worse friendship with wiser-lookiag ones; encourage a familiarity with all that love to court them; dumb animds love children, and children love them. There is a lan­ guage among them which the world's language obliterates in the elders. It is of more importance that you should make your children loving than that you should make them wise. Above all things, if you become old and poor, these will be better than friends that will never neglect you. Children brought up lovingly at your knees will never sbci their doors upon you, and point where they would have you go.-- The Housekeeper. the company," said he. cused. ? . THK range of friendship has hardly a limit. Intercourse is not needful to ilt : continuance. Equality in years is not fb t requisite. Nor is parity of position es> sential. The finest natures triumph over Bocial inequalities, mutual trust and , affection can bridge over the chasm be- . t ween wealth and poverty. THEHE are a great many people wi»* > would like to be relieved of drudgery. Coleridge's words, or, better, the gosjil words, would point out the way. The upward path is one of perpetual victory. There is an indirect way of getting th| things of this world, and that is by wiy of the kingdom. A MARRIED gentleman, every time to * s a u ces in the world--could disguise ormet the father of his wife, coraplaiirrti* wa*" «to him of " ' ' the temper and disposition his daughter. At last, upon ouo ooo»* sion, the old gentleman, becoming weary of the grumbling of his son-in-law, ex­ claimed : "Yon are right. She is an impetuous jade, and if I hear any man complaints I will disinheret Sier." TFC* husband made no mote complaints. , Lawyers as Law Maken. A writer in the Journal of Agricul­ ture thinks that if farmers would only recognize the power tbev. possess, a*d act in unison, they would make them* selves a ruling power iu our State and Na­ tional legislative halls, instead of being represented by lawyers, bankers, ana chronio office-seekers, who care muefc more for Belf than their constituency. He adds: "Some people say we must have laws, and lawyers know best how; to make laws, and says 'I, etc.,' I admit they can frame laws to suit their profs®* sion much easier than auy intelligent farmer, but I believe there is, aa yet, enough intelligence among the farming classes to franja laws that would be more jnat than many enactments upon onr statute books at present--the products of the legal fraternity. It takes a lawyer ta frame a law that allows him three et four hundred dollars for settling a onft- thousand-di'liar estate. Who says an honest legislator could lend his intluonee to enact such laws ? Ere long a farmer can not sell his farm produce legally without a lawyer s assistance." THKT met on the staira. " Hello!" " Hello!" "Say, old boy, yon are growing mighty careless." " How?" " Why, just now I found the door of your room wide open." "That's all right. I haven't been jjone a minute." " Well, I kuew you'd do the same by ;ne, and so I shut it." " Thanks. The first time 1 find your loor open, tlie spring-lock set to catch • nd the keys on your desk I'll return the avor. Please seud me up a burglar and a crowbar as you go down." What She Called Him. A well-known educationalist vowAea for the truth of the following: A tosoher ia a lower grade in one of our puUio schools received a new pupil--a httto miss of six or seven years, named, say Mattie Brown. After takiug her name for the school rolls according to the eoi- tom. the teacher said: - - i * "What is your papa's name, MatfctqiT "Mr. ,Bn>wu-" , "Yes, but what is liis firet name? . "Don't know--lib name is jnsl JS. Brown." idea struck her, ma call him?" 'What does your Yes, ves--I know," then as a brigM ur majfc Oh! I know what vou moan now^* ~ "ma she caQa the inuocent child replitd, him a darned old fool." It is s;ife to conclude that the did not register the child's father O. F. Brown. aa .iMgjg