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. « . ... r- -, • --•* f V- • -V; .;. ' -.^4' \v * ?laiutlcalei 1. VAN SLYKC. CMa rasi Publisher. "KOHENBY, ILLINOIS. ' ' V,v" -V-A; • '• ' "•'": : f ' " - , ! - • ' • • . ' • ' • •V' VA:/-:1; .-r • •*. . •• •. V. , . ̂ ' - - QUEEN* VICTORIA'S message of sym­ pathy to Minister Lowell is the fourth •of its fcinil that she has sent to repre- • sentatives of our Government at London. Her reign, beginning in 1837, bridges the death of three American Presidents who have died in office, and the fourth who has come near death. THK following is a list of donati<mato • colleges daring the last college year: Western Reserve College $.<>00,000 Harvard 500,000 Yale 4 '250,000 Amherst : 75,000 Tnfta. a ,1'Ji i,000 Smith ...... 43,0<X> Dartmouth 110,000 University of Vermont 50,000 Weeleyan.... 100,<i00 Colby .....1 30,000 Buchtel (Ohio) . 75,000 "Chicago Industrial School.... '25,000 Weeleyan Female College (Georgia) .. 70,000 THE President's relatives say that, with the exception of an attack of fever ; and ague years ago when a boy, and oc­ casional touches of dyspepsia in later . years. Gen. Garfield has never in his life been ill. His habit has always been v to live on plain, substantial food, and he has never indulged in late suppers or rich food, to which the average states- . man is addicted when in Washington. a lien for $75,000, Mr. James C. Carter one for $100,000, Mr. Charles Hart one for $11,617.91, and Mr. Alfred Roe one for $3,000--all for legal Bervicetfc THK Australian census, of which the approximate results were made known early in May, has surprised and disap­ pointed the people of Victoria, who find themselves less numerous by more than 1Q0.000 than they had supposed themselves to be. The total population of Victoria is 855,796. Allowing for the natural increase by birth^ the sta­ tistics reveal an actual loss of 21,000 during the decade, and it is further­ more entirely among the the male popu­ lation. This state of affairs revealed by the census has provoked expressions of discontent throughout the colony. A correspondent of the London Globe says that the most obvious cause is the faulty system of land legislation, which tempts a poor man to settle on the land though he may have no capital and no experi­ ence in farming and grazing. After a few years of miserable existence his dis­ content urges him to remove to some other colony where the land laws are still more liberal, in the hope of better­ ing his condition. It is supposed that New South Wales has absorbed the largest part of the population which Vic toria ought to have retained. ' THE Southern Pacific railroad owns in California, Arizona and Texas 2,266 miles of railway. When completed to New Orleans, its total length will be 2,397 miles. The securities, outstand- . . , , , , , , j , u • j .. . with the lady who has been his wife now mg and to be issued, representing tins J . A WELL-KNOWN citizen of Albany, N. Y., relates to a New York paper an experience of his early life to illustrate the danger of conviction on mere cir­ cumstantial evidence. He had had a lover's quarrel, known to her family, vast property, amount to $130,873,900. The Southern Pacific have a land grant in California estimated at 11,000,000 acres, much of which, however, is an arid waste, and having very little, if any, value. NEAR the observatory on Mount Ve­ suvius a hotel will soon be built.*3 Land has already been purchased, and the start of the enterprise was formally cele­ brated a few days ago by a dinner at the •old Hermitage. Tourists, weary of the hot and unwholesome air in the city be­ low, have often wished for a place on the mountain where they might enjoy for a permanent time the pure and re­ freshing air that sweeps over its crest. A MINING shaft at Tombstone, Arizona, which had not been worked for months, was examined, and, as the man neared j strongest circumstantial evidence of a for twenty years. One evening he called upon her and a reconciliation took place. In the anxiety of restored love and con­ fidence she expressed the fear that he might be assaulted while passing through a disorderly part of the city while on his way home, and to reassure her he took a pistol from his pocket, told her that he always carried it, and was explaining its mechanism when it was accidentally discharged. The girl's parents rushed into the room, expecting to discover a murder or suicide, but, fortunately, no harm had been done, although the bul­ let grazed the girl's face. On his way home the lover threw his pistol into the river and has never since carried one. He thinks that any jury in Christendom would have found him guilty of murder if he had killed his sweetheart, for, against his unsupported denial, the 8CBAPS OF SCIENCE. the bottom, the one at the windlass was startled by cries of " Hoist like the devil I" When the explorer reached the surface he said: "Why, there are about seventeen rattlesnakes, fifty-two horned toads, 1,000 rats and half a dozen Gila monsters down there. I wouldn't give a cuss for the mine except as a side-show or a menagerie." motive could have been brought. ODD SCRAPS. A MOST important disoovery has been 4mc#n iv Spain. While engaged in work­ ing the lead mines in the province of Segovia, seventy miles northwest of Madrid, the miners found an entrance to an immense cavern, in which they found, upon an argillaceous deposit, and in the midst of stalagmites, 500 skeletons of men and women. Ten well-shaped and perfect skulls of a pre-historic type GRAINED wood should be washed with cold tea. $OUB milk removes iron rust from white goods. TRY pure benzine to remove stains from hair-cloth furniture. THE free use of lemon juice and sugar wiU always relieve a cough. CREAM of tartar rubbed upon soiled white kid gloves clean them wtett. CUT hot bread or cake with a hot knife, and it will not be clammy. MOTHS will eat the all-wool reps, but not the mixed silk and cotton upholster­ ing. CAMPHOR placed in drawers or trunks will prevent mice from doing them any injury. CEILINGS that have been smoked by a A CUKIOUS instance of the deodorising of illuminating gas was recently cited by Prof. Relisen. In Dresden a quantity of gas escaped from a pipe outside of a dwelling and passed through the earth into the house, with its odor entirely gone. It was breathed unconsciously, and several deaths occurred in conse­ quence. SOME interesting archseological dis­ coveries have just been made in Algiers, near the sea-coast, on the seat of the an­ cient Utica. The remains of a temple consecrated to the infant Hercules; a stat­ uette of the god in white marble, evi­ dently Greek; a Bacchus, life-size, also in whit*, marble; and a number of fine mosaics, seem to indicate the probability of a great "find." THE great telescore just completed by Howard Grubb of Dublin for the Vienna Observatory is the largest refractor now in existence. The steel tube is thirtv- three and one-half feet in length, and the instrument weighs near seven tons. The objeet glass is twenty-seven inches in di­ ameter, while that of the great telescope at Washington, hitherto the largest in the world, measures twenty-six inches. THE use of the electric telegraph in Arctic exploration seems excellent and practical. By such aid sledge parties ciouid be kept in communication with the main body of the expedition. The wires would be made as light as possible, and laid along the snow or ice or the frozen ground, either of which would sufficient­ ly insulate the wires without the. use of the usual poles and glass insulators. AT THE Paris observatory Thollon is carefully studying the sun's surface and has described a number of interesting hydrogen explosions, appearing like gi­ gantic displays of fireworks, and some­ times remaining visible for two days. One of them sent forth a stream of fire to a higlit of more than 200,000 miles-- & distance nearly equal to that of the moon from the earth--while explosions reaching to a hight of 25,000 to 50,000 miles are by no means infrequent. AN ACCOUNT was recently given to the British Royal Society, of the trans­ planting of a bone, the first successful instance of the kind ever recorded. A piece of diseased bone had to be removed from the arm of a boy of three years in a Glasgow infirmary. Fifteen months after the operation no new bone forma­ tion had appeared, and the experiment of bone-grafting was undertaken. On three different occasions portions of hu­ man bone were transplanted, the grafts being taken from patients from whom wedges of bone had to be removed for the purpose of straightening their limbs. These wedges were divided into many small pieces and placed in the child's arm. The fragments grew together and adhered to the bone of the arm above and below, ultimately converting a use­ less arm into a thoroughly useful one by the formation of a complete bone. SOME conception of the enormous en­ ergy of the human heart may be formed when it is considered that a good climb­ er can only ascend 9,000 feet in nine hours--that is, working continuously for a considerable time, can only raise his own weight 1,000 feet an hour--while the work done by the heart is eqniveut to raising its own weight (ten ounces) 13,- 860 feet high every hour. A still more striking illustration of the great power of this little organ may be found by comparing it with the most powerful en­ gine ever made by man--the Bavarian locomotive, of the Vienna and Trieste Railway--"which can only raise itself through 2,700 feet an hour. That is, its energy is less than one-fifth that of the human heart. Of course, the actual work done, by both engine and climber, is much greater in amount than that done by the heart, but relative to the weight, the energy of the heart far exceeds the other two. have been obtained, beside chipped , stone and quartz implements and frag- " kerosene lamp should be washed off with * * O oaHQ wotat* ments of rude pottery. THE contents of New Hall, Sutton Coldfield, which is reputed to be the oldest inhabited house in England, have fallen under the auctioneer's hammer. It is the ancient family mansion of the Chad wicks, was originally built in 1200, and was enlarged in 1360, from which date it has borne its present name. Mr. John de Henley Chadwick is the twen­ ty-sixth lineal descendant of the foun­ der. Charles LL was concealed at New Hall when a fugitive during the civii war. Two PHILADELPHIA mechanics have succeeded in utilizing tin scraps. They began their experiments a few years ago by melting tin scraps and galvanized- iron refuse, and have succeeded in pro­ curing a superior article of iron from them. They now employ sixteen or eighteen workmen. They pay $3 a ton for tin scraps delivered on tha premises. These are placed in a furnace and car­ bonized, so as to make a soft iron or semi-steel. It is said that one ton of scraps will make a ton of metal, and by condensing the fumes from the furnace with water eighty pounds of oxide of tin is recovered. THE American newspaper paragra- pher can be funny no longer over the supposed aches and twinges of the jolly cucumber. A French chemist cal s it a | and also freshens them. soda water. SINGLE cream is cream that has stood on the milk twelve hours. It is best for tea and coffee. IN BOILING eggs put them in boiling water. It will prevent the yoke from coloring black. IN MA KINO a crust of any kind, do not melt the lard in flour. Melting will in­ jure the crust. CREAM that is to be whipped should not be butter cream, lest in whipping it change to butter. P A FINE comb loosens the' dead skin of the scalp just as friction rubs off the scarf skin of the body. A FEW dried or preserved cherries, with stones out, are the verv best thing possible to garnish sweet dishes. DOUBLE cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and cream for butter frequently stands forty-eight hours. IN POTOSI the most violent headaches, so very common there, are cured by putting the feet in hot water. A SOLUTION of common salt given im­ mediately is said to be a successful remedy for strychinia poisoning. SALT extracts the juices of meat in cooking. SteakB ought therefore not to be salted until they have been broiled. IN ROILING dumplings of any kind, put them in the water one at a time. If thev are put in together they will mix with each other. THE only sure and efficient way to warm cold feet is to dip them in cold water and then rub them dry briskly with a coarse towel. To BEAT the white of eggs quickly put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt cools " pleasant and agreeable fruit, and easi­ ly digested," and advises the French peasants to plant liberally. An English doctor does not hesitate to recommend the cucumber to his convalescents, and the royal physicians of Spain prefer it to the heavy banana. For a score of years this fruit has hung its head in deepest humility, taunted, ridiculed and despised, but the day has at last arrived when Kings hanker for it and statesmen welcome it as a regulator of the liver and a joy forever. THE Jumel estate, which has been in j litigation since 1865, is to be sold and j the proceeds divided. The estate con- j sists of 1,400 city lots in New York lying between One Hundred and Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Seventy-fifth streets and the King's Bridge road and Harlem river, and valuable water priv­ ileges on the Harlem river, and also of three lots and buildings at the north­ east corner of Broadway and Liberty street It is incumbered by liens for unpaid taxes and assessments, mort­ gages and counsel fees amounting to $130,855.07. Mr. Charles O'Conor has THERE is a greenness in onions and potatoes that renders them hard to digest. For health's sake put them in warm water for an hour before cooking. WHEN washing oil-cloths, put a little milk in the last water they are washed with. This will keep them bright and clean longer than clear water. FURNITURE needs cleaning as much as other wood-work. It may be washed with warm soap suds, quickly wiped dry and then rubbed with an oily cloth. To MAKE silk which has been wrinkled appear exactly like new, sponge it on the surface with a weak solution of gum arabic or white glue, and iron on the wroug side. A PASTE made of whiting and benzine will clean marble, and one made of whit­ ing and chloride of soda spread and left to dry (in the sun if possible) on the marble will remove spots. EGGS coated with butter in which two or three per cent, of salicylic acid has been dissolved and then packed in dry sawdust without touching one another will keep fresh for a year. THERE is a house on the boundary line between Hartford and Windsor, Ct., which ghosts have no title to visit. It was built fifty-five years ago, and has been inhabited ever since, much of the time by a dozen persons, but there has Rover been a death in & A Norwegian Village. Vossevangen is a little farming hamlet on the west shore of a beautiful lake. The region is one of the best agricul­ tural districts in Western Norway; the "Voss" farmers are held to be fortunate and well-to-do. and their butter and. cheese always bring high prices in mar­ ket. As we drove into ihe village we met the peasants going home from church; the women in short green or black gowns, with gay jackets and whito hand­ kerchiefs made into a flying buttress sort of head-4ress on their head; the men with knee-breeches, short vests and jackets, thick trimmed with silver but­ tons. Every man bowed, and every woman courtesied as we passed. To pass any human being on the highway without a sign or token of greeting would be considered in Norway the height of ill-manners; any child seen to do it would be sharply reproved. Prob­ ably few things would astonish the rural Norwegians more than to be told that among the highly civilized it is consid­ ered a mark of good breeding, if you chauce to meet a fellow-man on the high­ way, to go by him with no more recog­ nition of his presence than you would give to a tree or stone wall. It is an odd thing that a man should be keeping the Vossevangen Hotel to­ day who served in America's civil war, was for two years in one of the New York regiments, and saw a good deal of active service. He was called back to Norway by the death of his father, which made it necessary for him to take charge of the family estate in Vossevangen. He has married a Vossevangen woman, and is likely to end his days there, but he hankers for Chicago, and always will. He keeps a fairly good little hotel on the shores of the iake. Iu one corner of the dining-room was a large round table covered with old silver for sale; tankards, chains, belts, buttons, coins, riugs, buckles, brooches, ornaments of all kinds--hundreds of dollars' worth of things. There they lay, day and night, open to all who came; and they had done this, the landlady said, for years, and not a single article had ever been stolen; from which it is plain that not only is the Norwegian honest himself, there must be a contagion in his hon­ esty which spread it to all travelers in his country.--Atlantic- hysterics was l»elievel to be brought upon the subjects by those who Lad made this alliance with the powers of darkness, it sent a terror to the heart which made these good and just-mean­ ing men as cruel as death. Science has explained the phenomena, where they have not been proved as fraud, and with the knowledge of natural laws aud the objects of nature the terror lias been Very greatly diminished. Knowledge is the antidote to fear, but the sail fact re­ mains that only a part of the people in the most enlightened community have knowledge even of the rudimentary sort which enables them to see that this is a universe of law aud not of mysterious terrors. The people who do know are not generally aware of how much of the old-thne superstition of the days of witchcraft remains.-- Newburyport Herald, minora HEWB. A LARGE amount of wool is being shipped East from Quincy. CHICAGO will increase her water snp- ply 15,000,000 gallons a day. THE wife of Col. D. D. Morrison, of Quincy, died of consumption. THK Peoria firemen cleared £500 on their Fourth of July celebration. THK Fulton county ,coal mines have been leased to a Burlington company. Cou HENRY H. WOOD, of Jackson­ ville, was sun struck at Quincy, and died soon afterward. SEVERAL cases of typhoid fever are reported in the southern part of Sanga­ mon county. > COL. Rrrrs S. MILLKB, a well-known age of 74. THE Hon. S. P. Bartlett, of Quincy, has been appointed bv«Qov. Cullom as Fish Commissioner. THE pork-packing at Chicago since the close of the winter season is esti­ mated at 1,353,000 hogp. THE extent to which now buildings are being erected on the bluff at Peoria this season exceeds belidfc A LITTLE son of D. W. ifcCamey, of Springfield, aged about 10 years, is the latest victim of the toy pistol. DURING the month of June tlje mail- carriers of Bloomington delivered 98,- 399 pieces of mail, and ^pllected 30,721 pieces. A. J. BRONSON, of Breeds, * Fulton THE FAMILY DOCTOR. PMPARATION FOB CORNS*--Jscow, in the Vratch Vedomonti, recommends painting the corns with the following preparation : Extr. cannab. indie®, 5.0 ; acid, salieyl., 20.0; collodu, 240.0. In all cases where it was used, the oorns rapidly disappeared. NEW REMEDY PORBALDNESS.--Incases of confirmed baldness the new remedy proposed is to remove the scalp, bit by bit, and substitute, by skin grafting- pieces of healthy scalp, taken from the heads of young persons. The success which has heretofore attended operations of this nature in cases of scalp wounds gives a promising outlook for this new mode of curing baldness; and perhapB the day is not far distant when the shin­ ing pates of our venerable fathers will bloom with the flowing locks of youth. TOOTHWASH. --According to the Journal of Pharmacy, an excellent toothwash containing glycerine is made as follows; Soap bark, ground, 4 ounces ; glycerine, 3 ounces; diluted alcohol, sufficent for 2 pints; oil of gaultheria, 50 drops ; oil oi peppermint, 20 dwpa. Macerate the soap bark in the mixture of glycerine and diluted alcohol for three or four days, and filter through a little magnesia pre­ viously triturated with the volatile oil. Thus made, a much better preparation is obtained than by macerating the bark in the dilute alcohol, and adding the glycerine afterward. How TO TREAT A COM).--When you get chilly all over and away into your bones, and begin to sniffle and almost struggle for your breath, just begin in time and your tribulations need not last very long. Get some powdered borax and snuff the dry powder up your returned to New York. They met at the house of one of her friends--sho- wondering how he looked, he anticipat­ ing a second vision of beauty. She saw a handsome man. He looked and ^fiied: "You are the mm& anr lnd so it was. lawyer of Quincy, has just died at the ^ it frequently, pour some on your hand­ kerchief and wipe your nose with it when­ ever needed. Your nose will not get sore and you will soon wonder what's become of your cold. Begin this treat­ ment in the forenoon and keep on at intervals until you go to bed, and you will sleep as well as you ever did. I am just telling you my experience. --Nellie, in Germantoum Telegraph, FOOD FOR HKALTH.--It is diffi­ cult to lay down any strict rule as to the amount of food to be taken in twentv-four hours by grown-up peo­ ple. Men require more animal food then women, and those engaged in ac­ tive exercise require much more than those who live a sedentary life. Labor­ ers can get through much more work iu county, hitched his hoise near a swarm j a day when well fed than when living on o f b e e s , w h i c h a t t a c k e d t h e a n i m a l a n d ~ . . . stung it to death. IN a murder trial at Chicago, three jurors were prostrated by heat. In con­ sequence the jury was discharged and the prisoner remanded for a second trial. WHILE Frank Reynolds, a farmer of Adams county, was driving a field en­ gine on the highway, a bridge broke down. He suffered injuries from which he died. THE Wabash railway assumed con­ trol July 15 of the Peoria, Pekiti aud a moderate diet. The different kinds of food should be well apportioned; it is equally bad to live on a purely farina­ ceous diet as it would be to take only fat or meat. What is required for a state of health is to take a fair proportion of each. It is important, also, that meals should be taken with regularity, as it is a very bad plan to allow intervals of vary­ ing lengths between meals. It has been estimated that the food required every twenty-.four hours by a man in full health, and taking free exercise, is of meat 16 oz.; of bread 19 oz.; fat 3} oz.; and water 52 fluid oz.; that is about Jacksonville railroad. The road runs j 2} lbs. of solid food, and about three from Peoria to Jacksonville, and is i pints of fluid. eighty-three miles in length. THE Illinois State Board of Heilth propose, as a means of checking small­ pox, to examine emigrants arriving in the State, and to vaccinate all those who have not been operated upon. IT has been ascertained that the sup­ posed suicide of Julius Stearps, an aged Hebre .v of Chicago, in EwlWunry last, A WATER FILTER.--Serious sickness would often be averted trom the house­ hold if, among other sanitary regulations, none but filtered water was drunk by its members. Water may look and taste like the purest, and still contain disease-germs that we would retreat from in horror if they but presented themselves duly laboled. Wells, cis- was really.a case of miu4W foriWeyi |,^rns and springs, tfcat occupy ground the perpetrators being. Austin Burns, a • J07rer than that of drams, vaults or white boy, and James Tripp and Charles I barnyards, within a hundred feet or Denton, colored. The nearro" lads were i ™ore» should bo regarded with suspi­ cion, no matter how " splendid" the water may appear. A good and efficient Denton, colored. The negro lads were caught in Burlington, Iowa. D. CULLITY, of Centralia, has filed with the Railroad and 'Warehouse Com­ mission a complaint against the Vandalia and Illinois Central railroad, charging extortion and uujust discrimination in ^ freight rates. The chief specification^islwithsmail hoIes> 0u this arrange a that he was charged $1 per mile f°r^ layer of clean, small pebbles, and over forty miles on a car-laad of merchandise I tl;em a j ()f chlirco.tl aud ^ aud household goods. j topping it with more pebbles. Over ZED, one of the sons of Prof. Barnes, i this put another with holes in it, or a of Muncie, found a pistol in a rain bar- j luyor of good-sized stones, to prevent filter can be made in .this way : Take a cask, remove one nul and set it up­ right, the open end at the top. At one-third of the distance from the bot­ tom place a round partition, pierced rel, where it had been thrown alx»ut a year ago by one of his oldei brothers. The pistol was rusty from age and the trigger refused to work. Zed finally got the hammer pulled back, but he could not get it down again. Growing im­ patient, he rested the barrel of the pistol on his knees and tried to push the ham­ mer down. About this time the pigtol went off of its own accord, the ball pass­ ing into his right leg, striking the l>one, and, glancing off, passed out on the other side, making an ugly wound. IT will be seen from the following statement, prepared by Secretary Fisher, of the Department of Agricult­ ure, that fall wheat prospects have not changed for the better during the past month. The reports of the oondition in Northern Illinois have been more dis­ couraging with each succeeding report. May 1 there was a prospect for 73 per cent, of an average yield por acrefon the very limited area that was not plowed up. June 1 the condition was reduced to 63 per cent. July 1 the prospects indicate only 57 per cent, of an average yield per acre. The condition gives en tlio pebbles from being disturbed when water is poured in. A faucet is to be placed in the bottom to draw off the water. A pail of water and a lump of ice placed iu the top of the cask and closely covered supplies the perfection of drinking water for twenty-four hours. The Argument of a Loadrd Gun. " Talking about those times right af­ ter the war, we certainly did have a i branch establishment of hell down in j Slireveport. Such a reign of terrorism ! I never saw, and never expect to wit- j Hess again. The towu was held by col- | ored troops. There were about 100,000 I bales of cotton there at the time, and or- ' ders had been issued against smoking on j the streets. Some of our men, through force of habit, had forgotten the order, ' and some three or four had been shot | down in cold blood for having a cigar in | their mouths. One day, as a New Or- j leans packet came up to the wharf, I saw | Moj. DuiHe, of the 'lost cause,' one of I the bravest devils that ever breathed, i and he was evidently going to land. I smoking as he Political Liinarjr. American politios has developed many eccentricities, but we think there never has been anything so utterly aimless as the attempt to keep alive the so-called Greenback or fiat party. It is hard to believe that a State convention has been held under the auspices of that singular organization, and a full State ticket has! been nominated, in Wisconsin. In the name of all that is reasonable, to what end ? There can be no hope of success for such a faction in Wisconsin. Men waste their votes who go through the form of depositing a fiat ballot at elec­ tion, and others waste their time and money who get up the conventions and conduct a campaign. The name of the fiat party may be of some use in certain sections of the South, where a majority of the people desire to protest against Bourbon rule, and have not the moral courage to do so under the name of Re­ publicans. Even there any other desig­ nation would serve as well as "fiat" But iu Wisconsin, or in any other State where the ballot is free, it is sheer folly to maintain a party organization whose aim is a thing of the past, and whose fol­ lowing is not large enough to elect a Congressman if the whole party vote were concentrated in a single district. What is there that a fiat party can accomplish? We have greenbacks in plenty, and the people will not consent to degrade them to irredeemability; we have an abundance of gold and silver; we have an elastic bank currency which can be expanded to any extent which the business of the country may demand. What better condition of the currency can be demanded or suggested ? Every man in the possession of his faculties must know that the American people will not even consider a proposition to tamper or experiment with the present system of coin and redeemable currency. To what purpose do a few men in the different States endeavor to prolong a delusion that was long since exploded, or to build up a party with no sound foundation and no taugible material? The feeble struggle of the fiat party for continued existence is absolutely beyond comprehension. It has become so insig­ nificant in its proportions and so en­ tirely devoid of reason, aim or scope that it no longer has a value for demagogues as a disturbing element in politics. It is not worth the while of the Demo­ cratic leaders to encourage its existence as a means for drawing off Republican votes. It has ceased to be a diversion in in any sense of the word. The principal feature in the platform adopted at the absurd flat convention in Wisconsin was the indorsement of wom­ an suffrage. This is a political aim; not a lofty or very popular one, per­ haps, but still an aim. But what pos­ sible affiliation is there between fiatisin and woman suffrage ? The fiat leaders of Wisconsin might as well pass resolu­ tions indorsing Gambetta's scheme for the 8crutin de listc in France. If wom­ an suffrage is to be made the live issue of that party, the theories of fiatism be­ ing confessedly dead, why doesn't the party abandon the name of fiat and adopt that of woman suffrage ? It is ir- ritatingly ridiculous to continue a name (land skeleton OBganisatkci without arfniK ' bones or marrow, and the men who are engaged in this sort of business would seem to be fit candidates for the lunatic asylum.--Chicago Tribune. A SBIAT uajtb nitf. 4 f - .?* VfrfOT s *rd dW. Nwr vnr won ; ... Stall man look on him. any moT®, * * .4'^ • Intiall or Senate, nhali hiset«iu<rat ?aim •*' ^ Give hope «o a nick nation. In hi* prime . - Not nil ihe world could daunt him; yet , " A poor mute ghost, a aomMhiof we call rfeatlk' w f • Ha< silenced him forever! Let the land ' Look for hi* pew; he hath not yet been faun4UM~* A Crimaoo bird, of not ao many dav* . •«' As there are leaves upon the wildliDg lit). ' ' Sings from yon lycamore; thl* rk>)et r -f T Sprung up an hour since Iran tlx 6 bio-- , At noon the rain fell, and to-night the ana Will rink with tti oU splendor in the seal And yet to-day a god died. ' • - * Nature ariks On our mortality. A robin's death, Ktothe unnoticed falling of a leaf, • ^, • la atore to ber than when a great man diMt . 5' . -T. B. AUrmk^' . PITH AJfD POINT. A . . . ,, | noticed that he was 0 -- -- couragement lor a larger average yield stepped ashore, and I took the first per acre in this division thanjin the cen- i cht41iee to inform him of the order. He tral or southern division. The area of fall wheat in this division is, however, but a small fraction of that in the cen­ tral or southern portions of the State. Nearly one-half of the fall-wheat area of the State is found in this division. The gloomy prospeots reported on May 1, which indicated but 59 percent, of an average yield per acre for Central Illi­ nois, was reduced during the Succeeding laughed and said : * Oh, pshaw ! That'll do well enough to play on boys and old women, but it won't do on me, Vest.' "Icautioned him again, feeling Bure there would be trouble in the camp if any of those darky sentinels should see him. We walked up into town, he smoking all the time, and got along well enough, till suddenly a big negro stepped out from behind a corner, and, month, and on June 1 there was reason j leveling his musket about five feet from to expect only 42 per cent, of an average Uufiie's iiead, observed What Frightens People. What we don't know is what frightens us. Soldiers can nrave the known ter­ rors of the battle-field. Sailors dare the known perils of ocean storm, of shipwreck and of collisions with icebergs. But soldiers who have dared the dang&rs of a hundred battlefields have been terri­ fied at the apprehension of a ghost and dared not sleep in a house reputed to be a haunted house. The brave sailor, who will stand by the ship and do his duty in battle and in storm without flinching, is terrified by some superstition of an unknown terror, the unlucky ship, or the beginingof a voyage upon Fridaj, and nothing can reassure him against the vague evil. The old fathers of New England were brave men in defend­ ing their homes from the Indiuns and the French, but when it was rumored that many among their own people had made covenants with the devil, when J yield per acre. Tlie completion or near approach of harvest July 1 in the several counties comprising the central division lias enabled correspondents to more ap­ proximately determine the yield i>er aere, wliich is given at 40 per cent, of an average. Nearly ha,lf of the area seeded to wheat last fall is repotted as having been plowed up. There will be less than one-third of an average crop of fall wheat in the central division of the State. The leading wheat counties of the State are to be found in the southern division. There was but a small propor­ tion (10 per cent. ) of the wheat area seeded last fall in Southern Illinois that was plowed up, wlien compared with the central and northern divisions. This confirms the impression entertained by observing wheat farmers that the injury to wheat in Southern Illinois is charge­ able more to the injury from insects and drought this spring han to the severe cold weather during the past winter. May 1 there was a prospect for 80 per cent, of an average yield per acre. June 1 the condition indicated but 49 per cent, of an average yield, and the same con­ dition--49 per cent.--is reported July 1. The reports of the harvest confirm the estimates of correspondents that there will not be half an average yield per acre in Southern Illinois. The quality of wheat harvested is only from fair to good, but, taking all things into consider­ ation, will grade better than expected. Drop dat cigah 1' " Duffie surveyed the muzzle of that instrument about a second and a half, and then he dropped it. ' • Tramp out de spahks!' was order i number two, the musket meanwhile | keeping its unpleasant position. " Duffie tramped. I * " 4 Tramp out dose uddah spahks!' ' again commanded the darky. 'Dat's | enough. Now you kin move along.' J "I was an amused observer of this i episode, but had nothing to say until we j had got off a few feet, when I meekly ! asked: j . «'«Duffie, take a fresh cigar ?' •'I don't think he was favorably im­ pressed with the personal liberty in and around Shreveport; but I tell you, gen­ tlemen, there is more solid argument in a loaded shot-gun than all the decisions of the Supreme Court." The Wrong Woman. A Cuban planter visiting New York saw a charming woman on a Brooklyn ferryboat and fell in love with her. Ho traced her to her home and learned that she was a widow, respeetably connected. He was called to Cuba, whence he wrote a letter full of affection. Her friends inquired and found that he would make a desirable husband. She wrote until there was an offer of marriage and an acceptance, and the weddiajr-dav was fixed. She prepared her bridal-robe and Dressing for a Photograph. * " The question is often asked," said an experienced photographer, "why actors and actresses take the most pleas­ ing pictures. It is because they study the principles of art and good taste in their profession and understand how to dress Moreover, they usually bring a selection of veils, flowers, curls, braids, laces and sometimes costumes to give the photographer a choice of accesso­ ries. They come when they are wholly at leisure and are not flustered. A red face takes black, and they know it. Then they do not load themselves down with gewgaws and lial>erdasheries, to show all that they have got in worldly goods. Few persons know how to dress for a picture like an actress. The best materials for ladies to wear when about to sit for a photograph are such that will fold or drape nicely, like reps, winceys, poplins, satins and silks. Lavender, lilae, sky blue, purple and French blue take very light, and are worse for a picture than pure white. Corn color and salmon are better. China pink, rose pink, magenta, crimson, pea green, buff, plum color, dark purple, pure yel­ low, Mazarine blue, navy blue, fawn color, Quaker color, dove color, ashes of roses and stone color show a pretty gray in the photograph. Scarlet, claiet, garnet, sea-green, light orange, leather color, light Bismarck and slate color take still darker, and are excellent col­ ors to photograph. Cherry, wine color, light apple-green, dark orange, golden and red brown show nearly the same agreeable color in the picture. A black silk always looks well, and it takes well if not bedecked with ribbons and laces that will take white. Dark Bismarck and snuff' brown usually take blacker than a black silk or satin aud are not easy to drape. A rilk, because it hae more gloss and reflects more light, usu­ ally takes lighter than a woolen dress. Ladies with dark or brown hair should avoid contrasts in their costumes, as light substances photograph more quick­ ly than dark, and ladieB with light hair should dress in something lighter than those whose hair is brown. Few ladies understand how to arrange their hair so as to harmonize with tlie form of the head, but blindly follow the fashion, be the neck long or short, or the face nar­ row or broad. A broad face appears more so if the hair is arranged low over the forehead or is parted at the side, aud a long neck becomes stork-like when the hair is built up high, Avhile a few curls would make a most agreeable change in the effect. Powdered hair gives good effect, and powder should be bestowed upon freckles.--New York Sun. SOME curious phenomena--electrical shadows so called--have been lately de­ scribed by Herr Holtz to the Oottingen Academy. They are obtained by fixing to one rod of an electrical machine a concave disc having a piece of silk without wrinkles adhering to it; at the point of the other discharge rod--placed opposite--appears, when the machine is worked, a small, feeble luminous star, and on the disc a circle is seen. When objects are interposed the shadows ap­ pear on the luminous circle. They are not optical shadows, as is proven by the fact that all opaque objects do not give them. They are produced in general only by conductors of electricity, and in­ sulating bodies give little or no shadow. A glar-s rod with one end made conduct­ ing by heat gives a partial shadow, which gradually disappears on oooling. A KXMTUOK.1 company insures Whiakjr, but declines to take fire risks on the tomers. « s THKH she lag hsr from the drawbridge. Sought to end this life of donbCj. ' • ' * " But the gods to her were cruel, i < For, alas! the tide was out. " ••FRITZ " EUMBTT says he has afg&Mh the pledge hundreds of times. Irs no use, however. "All signs fail in 'dry* weather." Fvu. many a maid has toyed with keruaeaa, And sailed to glory in a gorgeous glare; ' 5 - Full many a man has poked at glycerine, * ' And flown promiaouous through the desert air. " ACQUIRES the confection " is tha Boston girJs' translation of " Takes the cake." Similarly, " Tlie proper caper" becomes " The correct contortion." •• I TOLD her I'd never smoke another cigar," he said, softly, " and I won't; a pipe's good enough for me," and he drew a match over the leg of his troua-, era. „ ' PBISONKB behind the grating of a odL Visitor--"What are you in for--con­ tempt? " " I hope not; I haven't got so low as that yet, Why, I'm in for a simple drunk only." A GOOD churchman was oommentiag at the breakfast table on the conduct of one of the vestry, when he was suddenly interrupted by his hopeful, aged 7, ex­ claiming : " Papa, why don't you pull down your vestrymen ? FALSR ears, says the London Lancet, are the new "fashionable adjunct'* in Paris, and have already been noticed in the London drawing-rooms. They are described as "pearlv" and shell-like." The hair is allowed to oover the ugly things made by nature. " Do YOU love tiie, sweet z" wan the wall he wolei, Aa he pressed her close to his heart's wild throfe. blng; " Does love's fierce tide irrigate your soul I Is your heart with mine simultaneously bob* bing V" Her soulful eyes flew up to his face, And pierced hi* own with their lovely glitter, Then toft she murmured with witching grace: "Do I love you, George? Well, I ehooM ter!" --Quincjf Modern Arga. A WASHINOTO* jury has convicted a man of manslaughter who, by way a£ celebrating last Christmas, leaned out at the back window of his house and fired a pistol in the air, killing a woman at her wash-tub. It was the first time he had ever fired a pistol. SOHE ladies of the Ebbitt House, Washington, were discussing the numer» ous newspaper allusions to Mrs. Gar­ field's sweet temper and amiability, when one of them, who looked as if hsr life had been a battle with unfortunate circumstances, quietly added : " But I suppose Mr. Garlielil never came home at 2 o'clock in the morning and tried to get iuto bed with his boots on." THB following pomelet is ft*C«U«nt«( its kind: From off" the running rivulet the toy ***** || thawed. And the flutter of the wingiet of the dorelet ia nbmtui* . 11ie<qnnck:et of tlxr dock tot tn tha brooklet we hsar, And the rootlet of tbo piglet will presently appear. . --Tej.m S' fitir:*. LONDON Punch : Old gentleman (mil­ itary man, guest of the Squire, converse ing with smart-looking lustic)--« " Wounded in the Crimea, were you? Badly ? " Rustic--" Tlie bullet hit me in the chist, here, surr, an' came out of me back." Old gentleman--" The deuee! Come, come, Pat, that won't do. Why, it would have gone right through yoitf heart, man!" liustie--"Ocli, taix, me heart was in me mouth at the tonne, surr!" CUBRAX was once pleadiug, when .an ass began to bray, and the Chief Justice interrupted the orator in his address to the jury, saying : "One at a time, Mr. Curran, if yon please." Curran said nothing in reply ; but when ha had fin- ished his speech the Judge began to read his instructions to the jury. Very soon the ass began once more to bray, and Carrau spoke up: " Does not your Lordship'hear a very remarkable eeho in the court ? " GETINO even: There has been • great deal of bad feeling between two Galveston families, hence there was much surprise when they intermarried, A friend, in speaking to the father of the bride, asked if the families had made friends. " Not a bit of it. I hate every bone in my son-in law'a body." " Why did you let him marry your daughter, then ?" " To get even with him. I guess vou don't know that girl's mother as well as I do." " WE have heliotypes, madazne, that I can show you, prints of rare beauty, oopies of the old masters and of new Rreductions of art; but these can hard-j serve your purpose." " Prints !" she exclaimed, with animation; ".why, I am out to-day to buy something of the kind for a dress. Do your prints wash?" The interview was becoming a little gainful, and so he explained matters to er, to which she responded with an elongated "Oh!" and, calling her boy away from pictorial explorations among the oooks, she went on like an ebb-tide^ Standing on His Dignity. A prohibitionist went into a saloon, nnder the influence of liquor, and asked a prominent politician to treat "You can t be thirsty again. Ton have just had a drink." "Of coursh (hie) I'm not thirsthy," was the indignant response. "If I don't drinksh schepton when I ish thirsthy, what advantage have I got over a beaaht of the field?" A GERMAN naturalist has contrasted the behavior of different animals towards steam machinery. That proverbially stupid animal, the ox, stands composedly on the rails in front of a locomotive with­ out having any idea of the danger which threatens him; dogs run among the wheels of a departing railway train with­ out suffering any injury; and birds seem to have a peculiar delight in the steam engine. Larks often build their nests ana rear their young nnder the switches of a railway over which heavy train&jupe constantly rolling, and swallows make their homes in engine houses. A pair of swallows have reared their young for years in a mill where a noisy throe hun­ dred horse power enguitfis working night and day, and another pair have biiilt their nest In the paddh&bo* of a steamer. " How MUCH is that?"' said a mourner | in a flower shop, pointing to a wreath of immortelles inscribed "To my mother in-law." " What vou like," replied the florist; "I have had it for tons years, and no OM has avav eSwd It."