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IHamdealei !. VAN tLYKE. E«Ra r and Pwitllaltsr. licHENRY, ILLINOIS. NAOT, the caricaturist geta as A salary from Harpem. 44 OIIIVKB OPTIC " has published sov <enty-five books for boys. EDISON has taken out more patents from the Patent Office than any other «ingle inventor. CINCINNATI'S leading dub, the Queen City, has half a dozen members whose united wealth is put up at the high figure of $20,000,000. THE canal around the Mussel shoals, Tennessee, will be completed within two years, when the Tennessee will be navi­ gable from Paducah to Knoxville, some 580 miles. A FIBM at Augusta, Ga., received a cablegram from London for a bottle of medicine. The message cost $7.50, the medicine $2, and the express charge to liondon is $2. 50. DURING the White Pine excitement of 1868 Hamilton, Nev., had a population of thousands, two large daily newspapers, and all evidences of prosperity. To-day it does not contain sixty souls. containing carbonic acid. If the cave at present is only a small one, it is gradu­ ally becoming larger by the erosive power of water. In former days the bottoms of cisterns have been known to drop out. . INASMUCH M competition here is rather over active in the drug trade, enterprising limbs of druggery may like to know that France is yearning for them. A correspondent writes : "The: dearth of druggists is extraordinary. A j place J often visit, situated hardly twen- i ty miles from the capital, is surrounded by a dozen populous villages, and at none can drugs be bought. Hummer visitors have to drive six or seven miles to a town to get prescriptions made up." To supply this crying want, the Minis­ ter of the Interior has lately sent a num­ ber of medicine chests to rural com­ munes, for which they pay $40. One portion is at the disposal of the doctor, the other at that of the Mayor. GEMS OF THOUGHT. - IT was recently discovered that board­ ers at Cincinnati hotels never have rheu­ matism, and some genius as yet to fortune and to fame unknown began to pry into the fact and now announces that bedbug bites are an effectual cure for that painful disease. A FASTIDIOUS Poughkeepsie girl has written to the Presidents of all the prin­ cipal colleges in this country to inquire whether she should say " mumps is" or *' mumps are." Some of the Presidents spoke feelingly of "one mump," while others were tenacious of "one mumps." It is strange that authorities differ on such vital questions. A STOBY of heroism comes from Cal­ ifornia. Congressman Page, of that State, who learned to handle horses when he was driving a California stage for a living twenty-odd years ago, saved a life at the risk of his own, in Sa'i Francisco the other day, by stopping. a runaway horse. He did it by having the good sense to jump on the horse's head instead of at it. EX-CADET WHITTAKER evinces a dogged determination to revenge him­ self on the people of this stricken coun­ try. It was first rumored that he was going to lecture and the nation trembled and slunk back in terror. It appears, however, that he was preparing a more fiendish mode of revenge, and is now wreaking it on the public. He has start­ ed out to devastate the land at the head of a minstrel troupe. WOMEN are proverbially credulous, and it is from them that the numerous so-called fortune-tellers that infest every large city derive the greater part of their revenue, and the amount that many of these humbugs are enabled to thus accumulate in the course of a few years would surprise most people were the truth known. The victims of these frauds generally pocket their losses in silence, but [occasionally one with pluck enough to see the matter through recovers the stolen money. Mrs. Crozier, of New York, is one of these. Having lost (some valuables, she applied j to the seventh daughter of a seventh ! daughter for information as to the per- j son guilty of taking them, and paid $14, > all the money she had, as a fee. She then wrote on a piece of paper the name of the suspected party, and, after consid­ erable shuffling of cards the paper turned up again with the words "Not guilty," written on it. Tne woman's husband, when he found where his hard-earned money had gone, swore out a warrant for the fortune-teller's arrest, and she was not only made to refund the $14, but also held in $300 bail for good be­ havior, the alternative being six months in the work-house. The statute of New York, fortunately, includes under the head of disorderly persons those who ' 'pretend to tell fortunes, or where lost or stolen goods can be found." If the husbands of other deluded women would follow the example set by Mr. Crozier the fortune-telling business would soon be at a low ebb in this coun- tr7 ' HISTORICAL. AFFECTATION is certain deformity, A iiOVKiiir girl is above all rank. VEHEMENCE without feeling is rank. FEW save the poor feel fof the poor. VICTORY belongs to the moat preserv­ ing. NEXT to exoellenoe is the appreciatios of it. - AMBITION is but the evil shadow of as- piration. LET US respect gray hairs--especially our own. THE more I see of men the better 1 think of animala, THE first great work is that yoursell may to yourself be true. COMMON sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. 0 THE men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions. BE NOBLE! and the nobleness that llaa In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. DEATH expecteth thee everywhere ; be wise, therefore, and expect death every­ where. To BE exempt from the passions which torment others is the only pleasing soli­ tude. WHO would venture on the journey I of life, if compelled to begin at the j end. ! LOVE'S like the measles, all the worse j when it comes late in life.--Douglas i Jerrold. How far that little candle throws it*. I beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty I world. I ADVEBSITY, how blunt are all the ar- I rows of thy quiver in comparison with j those of guilt! I HE WHO cherishes his old knowledge, j so as continually to acquire new, may be ! a teacher of others. ! THERE is no rule more invariable than J that we are paid for our suspicions .by finding what we suspect. WHAT novelty is worth the sweet mo- nQtony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? THE law forbids you to revepge : when it ties up the hands of some, it ought to restrain the tongues of others. THE mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure one road to wisdom by the sorrows we have under­ gone. THE obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. THERE are four varieties in society : the lovers ; the ambitious ; Observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.-- Paine. THE talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can well ; and do­ ing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. THEHE is less misery in being cheated had a headache. The fun was kept up for some time, until a very funny gentle­ man happened in the saloon one day and tilled the alligator's whisky full of Jamaica ginger. That," continued Mr. Booker, looking fondly at his pet, who blinked stupidly, "set the poor fellow against whisky. He reformed as sud­ denly as be took to drink. We poured the liquor as usual down the funnel, but before half the tumbler had been emp­ tied the alligator waa standing on the lloor hissing like a snake. I started the funny man out of the house with a bung driver, and the alligator cried large tears for nearly two minutes. Since then the pyor fellow has been a little temperance society all by himself, and drinks nothing but blood, and, as if to prove the truth of the story, the alli­ gator slashed his tail about and grinned wider than ever." ILLINOIS NEWS. THE Southern Illinois Normal at Car- bondale numbers 234 students. A LADY of Pekin has given birth to a boy on every 4th of July during the last four years. " THE glucose works in Pekin have ceased operations until oorn decreases in price. THE old original rail of the Bureau Valley railroad was taken up last week and new rail laid. SIXTY new families will soon locate at Decatur, belonging to the men at work on the new Wabash shops. A NORMAN stallion, recently imported at a cost of $2,000, died of lung disease the other day in De Witt county. ONE Peoria carpenter has ctfatracts to erect twenty-three residences in the low­ er part of the city next spring. THE Sullivan (Moultrie county) militia company recently invested $400 in wheat in Chicago, by which they cleared $200 in three days. A NEW steamer for the Quincy and St. Louis trade will cost $120,000, and will make round trips daily--up by night and MRS. WILLIAM YOUNG, of Secor, The Speculative Mania. The disposition to get rich suddenly ensnares many men who are engaged in safe pursuits, and with whom it is only a question of a few years when they will have an assured competence. They are tempted by the occasional gains of lucky , gamblers, embark on the sea of specula- do^n by day- tion, and not infrequently lose honor as 1L . .. well as their worldly possessions. Take 1 Woouford county, jumped into a well, the case in Boston, of Henry B. White, ! ?ne rescue her little who was for a Jong period identified J ^ who had fallen ill. with the insurance interests of New Eng- THE County Court of Adams county is land. He was greatlv esteemed, and J petitioned to create a new levee district, made Secret:iry of the Shoe and Leather j embracing some 4,000 acres of good hot- Insurance Company, of Boston. He was! torn land just below Quincy. paid a fine salary, attended closely to j THE Board of Supervisors of Marion business, and his habits were considered j county has decided to levy no tax for the exceptionally good. Suddenly he disap- ensuing year--a measure of relief in View peared, and an examination of the books of the failure of the corn crop. of the concern revealed the unwelcome , T . . i.nps<. fact that he had, at odd times, appropri- 1HKBB has bet u eousi«erabk SK kness ated $15,000 belonging to the company . to his own use. It was subsequently j 7mrtW learned that White had been dabbling in " i among horses at Springfield, caused chiefly by the damp weather and muddy re is no " piuk-eye." THE name of the postoffiee at Har- wood, Champaign county, has been changed to Dillsborougli, in honor of S. Dill, the principal proprietor of the town THERE is a iu:\n in Peoria who, during several years, has squandered almost $18,000 in the Royal Havana and other lutely ruinous. In a shocking number of cases there is not simply a loss of than in that kind of wisdom which per- j money, but as events prove, a loss of in stocks aud losing on his speculations As a result, he became guilty of em­ bezzlement, lost his place, became a fugitive from justice, and brought misery and disgrace upon his wife and children. The terrible danger of gambling in any shape is that, with persons of a weak nature, it finally holds out some tempta- tion to betray trust in order to gratify a I lotteries, and he has never yet drawn u passion which has l>ecome an imperious i prize, necessity. People begin with hazarding their own money aud end with putting the money of others at stake. The form of gambling which is illustrated by speculations usually starts with a desire i than the outlay. to muke money faster than by the com- SALES of farms have been recently mon routine of business. Men, urged made in Logan county at $50 And $60 by their own greed, which is too often I per acre. Forty dollars would have stimulated by extravagant wives and been considered a good price for the daughters, and tempted by the chance ; same lands three years ago. fortunes of others who hav<4 gone safely j THE three greatest establishments in through the whirlpool, turn aside from | Peoria, Hamlin's, Coming's and Wool- the slow-going and absolutely safe pur- ner's, are credited with having paid out, suits which have never failed them, and i in the aggregate, a little over $1,000,000 venture into speculations which are at | last year for pay for employes. best uncertain, and in most, eases abso THE vegetables raised in the garden of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, near Bloomington, this year, are estimated to have been worth $3,230, or $2,117 more THE Queen of England has a fortune of $80,000,000, and an annual income of S3 ,250,000. Her children are cared for in magnificent pauperdom by the state. And yet England is not more generous to her royalty than America to her com­ mercial princes. Vanderbilt has a property of $120,000,000, and an income of $10,000,000, while GouJjJ is worth $100,000,000 in his own right and is sovereign over 11,714 miles of rail, cap­ italized at $646,500,000. A NEWSPAPER lady, writing about the opening of the United States Supreme Court for the new term, was principally struck by the number of new gowns worn by the Justices, and passed the further criticism on that distinguished body of jurists that Chief Justice Waite's gown is of satin de chine, while those of the Associate Justices are only satin de Lyon. This is a fair offset for those writers, who, in order to describe how a woman lectures, mainly report what she wears. And, after all, the clothes ques­ tion is often an important one, whether it concerns the bench or the ballet. THE first pier in Nantucket was con­ structed in 1723. MARC ANTONY paid 1,600 pounds for a pair of handsome boy slaves. THE art of cutting and polishing dia­ monds was not known till 1476. CRCESUS was King of Lydia in the middle of the sixth century, B. C. CLOVES have been brought into the European market for more than 2,000 years. As EARLY as 1651 there was a public coach running between Konigsberg and the Russian frontier. AT THE beginning of the present cen­ tury the English laws made 160 crimes punishable by death. ALL the wire in England was made by hand till 1565, when the art of dr.iwiug it in mills was introduced by foreigners. MUMIFICATION was practised by the Egyptians from the most remote period to the sixth century of the Christian era. FORKS are mentioned in a charter of Ferdinand I. of Spain, 1101. They wero introduced into England in the sixteenth century. THE first law school of any note imthe United States was founded in Litchfield, Conn., shortly after the cjose_of the Revolutionary war. ^ - #--.) THE oldest letter ever found scaled with red sealing wax was written by a Dr. Knight, at Spires, 1624, to the gov­ ernment at Bayreuth. AMONG the Greeks of the time of Homer, tables • were not covered with linen, but were carefully wiped between the courses with wet sponges. THE origin of savings banks is attrib­ uted to Rev. Joseph Smith, of Wenover, England, who, with two of his parish- oners, opened one for the benefit of the parish. ACCORDING to Gibbon, the art of man­ ufacturing paper from vegetable fibre was brought from China in 651, and about the same time the Saracens learned to make it of cotton. DURING one hundred years the Nor- ceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. IT IS with diseases of the mind as with diseases of the body : we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. IF HB does really think that there ie no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us court our spoons.--Johnson. POVERTY is hard, but debt is horrible. A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life. ALL the knowledge we mortals can ac­ quire is not knowledge possible, but knowledge comparative, and subject tc the errors and passions of humanity. WE WALK in the midst of secrets ; we tegrity ; all that makes life desirable is offered up at the same questionable alter. A rational view of life would sug­ gest that it is not really desirable to get suddenly rich. The employment of life are in the nature of discipline and it is bet­ ter that men should fill up the full measure of their vigorous manhood in honest and useful work, and take their ease toward the close. A young, rich man, will, in nine cases out of ten, get into evil ways, and if he do not entirely squander his money he will squander healtli, morals and worthy ambition. If you are doing passably well at any vo­ cation, however humdrum, stick to it and let speculation alone. A bird in the hand, etc. Any man who can see his way with reasonable clearness towards a competence at the end of his journey, is Eq ual iz&tlon. The following is a statement show­ ing the equalized value of lands, lots and personal property (other than rail­ road) in Illinois, for the year 1881 : are encompassed with mysteries. We 1 fortunate and ought to be satisfied : he know not what makes the atmosphere that surrounds us ; we know not what relations it has with our minds. THERE are moments when our pas­ sions speak and decide for us, and we seem to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that* in one instant does the wo»rk oi long premeditation. should take no risks whatever. With the majority of men life is all the way through simply a struggle for present needs, with nothing to show at the end. --IxmisviUc Commercial. Interesting Reminiscence. , yon ^ find the exact spot which the! Sylvester Marsh, of Concord, New follow is peeking on the inside of ! Hampshire, projector and principal ; t} h ,j {his hp wi„ clo until the in_ | .iT*ey oi the White Mountain R<oi-, • . . , , , ,, • 1 Daves*.. How Chickens Get Out of Their Shells. Take an egg out of a nest on which a hen has had her full time, carefully holding it to the ear, turning it, around, AFTER the "experience that many j American cities have had with wooden j pavements, it is curious to notice the j adoption of the material in the streets of London. entire length with the blocks of wood. " There is joy in Victoria street," where the work is nearly finished, and Bennett street rents have gone up since traffic | the Duke of Newcastle cautions teachers was opened on wood. A society paper ! of horsemanship against reviling their ftlao states that "it seems a thousand i pities that, while the wood pavement is 1 thus being adopted in the West End, j the city authorities are busy extending , the use of asphalt east of Temple Bar." ! i mans in England shaved their faces. Piccadilly has been paved its j William de Percy was styled, 011 account of his peculiarity as to this point, William Algernons, or William with the whiskers. As LATE as the reign of Charles II.. pupils with harsh language and throw ing stones at them, "which," says he, "many masters do, and for that purpose carry them in their pockets." ON an average 1,000 grains of quinine are daily sold in the little village of Schagticoke, near Albany. Yet a year ago the place was regarded as one of the most healthy in the State. It is charm­ ingly situated in the hills of the Upper Hudson valley. Malaria appeared soon after a railway embankment was con­ structed, which checked the course of several small streamy and caused the for­ mation of stagnant pools. This is one of ten thousand instances which show that malaria comes from choked-up , . T - . • „ „ ! who said ' hardly ever" fifty dollar? water-courses. In ninety-nme cases out ^>efore or<2er was restored.. - of a hundred the remedy is a free flow of | the streams. ^ Pinafore Revived. Last week a strapping negro woman was up before an Austin justice, charged with unmercifully beating her boy, a saddle colored imp. "I don't understand how yon can have the heart to treat your own child so cruelly." "Jedge, has you been a parent of a wufless yaller boy lik' dat ar cub oi mine?" " Never, no never," ejaculated the judge with great vehemence, getting red in the face. " Deu don't talk." There was such a sensation in court that the judge had to call "next, ' four or tive times, and to fine a man to his early experience m ine ** e«i. xt ; ^lie eggs in this condition from under will be read with interest by all inter- ^ remove it to the house or some ested 111 the early history of the Wes . • other suitable place, put it in a box or In speaking of the rapid growth 0 e ; nest. keeping it warm and moist, as near JYest, I nave time to mention only a ew , ^ temperature of the lien as possible facts. I left Boston October , (which may be done by Faying itbetween - t0? me itwo bottles of warm 'water upon some fua U i11*?' nrvT ^ 1 WT1J cotton or wool), and lay a glass over the then had but 3,000 mha n . box or nest, then you can sit or stand, largest vessels on Lake Erie was^ sixty . ^ Ls m(wt (.onvei;iont> an<1 witness the Countie*. ,4 mount, I Cauntira. A mount Adams $16,('56,187 Livingston.. $10,337,088 Alexander... 1,722,464 Logan 8,644.04C Bond 2,S6A,4'.w! Macon 9,062,478 Boone 4,250.iM5|Macoupin ... 10,416,74V Brown 2,57*2,567 MadiHOU .... 13,298,49* liareau 10,646,724 Marion 3,786, "6C Calhoun 958,617 j MarobaU ... 4,597,404 Carroll 4,704,09(1 'Mason 4,394,ISC Cans 8,7P4,37"> Massac 1,064,37* Champaign . 11,^94,(^8 MoDonough. 8,419,625 Clirixtian.... 8,558,718 MoHanry 7,101,51} Clark 2,743,'2t>4 McLean 18,638,006 Clay 2,520,H10|Mcuar<l...:. 3,847,734 Clinton 3,578,262 Mercer 6,359,405 Coles 6,868.6!0|Monroe 2,634,581 Cook 148,9S4,'.I40| Montgomery . 7,545,7.K C rawford ... 2,169.426; Morgan . 8,427,(15'. Cumberland. 1,659,6811 Moultrie 3,403,567 DeKalb 4,«>3fi.!W0 Otfle . 9,702,01*' I»e Witt 4,752.022|reorl« . 19,001,'.-31 Douglas 4,60S, 455, Perry . 1,970,537 Dnp*(je 5,088,4 4('.;Pmtt . 4,721.484 Kdgnr T.lOO.OTiilMke . 7,972,88- K iwnr.ls .... 1,914.95V l'o|H» ,... . l,47S..V*5 Kflltighaiu .. 3,417,569 l'ula-ki 652,143 . 1,787,'llV: l-'aytte . 3,82:;,084'l'n!ua!ii .... 652,143 . 1,787,'llV: Vord 3,744,4il8.Kainloi]>h. .. . 4,*';u,w l'ranklln . 1.20. .874iliich:aiMl ... . 2.t'4 7>lS Fulton . in,3.>l,ii77'K'H-k Jululid ,83'j Oailatin l,407,92fi|Salili(? 1,22 t. "94 Ortvn 0,15^,778 Sangamon.. . 16,Ji i,7«- Grundy.. .. 4,647.MljS.'hnyler ... . 3,809,694 lliUlli't. 11. .. . 1.42M:<h.Scott 2,C6"i,."> I'i Hancock . 9,115,244,Sh'-iby 7,11.. 7,38C Hardin fil.\4'iil Slark 3.974,41! Hi'iuleinon .. 2.81)1,'> 11. St. Clair . 14.4Ss.19I- Henry . 10,,.W.'),44;',StPi>heliFOI).. . 8,323,JitH, lro<iuois !»,M7,:«i7 Tli/.cw ell . ... . 9,0.o.:i't Jsckeon 2,148,7(KM"nion . 1.625,395 1 Ja»|it»r 2,297,8(i) Vermillion .. . 11,<1'.5,581 ! Ji'fl>r»on 2.357,643 Wabash 1,8<W.00? j J.'ruBy 4,166,600 Warren . 7.813,76.* 1 Jo Diveiw..,. 4,WK>,73>J Washington. 4,3. 6,977 j -l<ihii.4on 1,(I'll,4-'7 Wavn« 2,612.161 i Kane 12.38fl,(i'.'3 White 2,56U,'.! Kankakee... B.461,522 Whiteriilo.... 8,:;2H, 1 K.-ndall 3,976,4Jt. Will 11,767.131; Knox 13,216,179 Williamson.. 1,499.27» I Laku fi,518,315 Winnel ago.. 8,700,138 1 I.a Salle 18,'i8i),55H Woodford... 6,8-3,363 | I.awrcucfl ... ',816,148 1 L>e 8,066,183 Grand total . *754,486,000 The assessment of the taxable prop­ erty of railroads for 1881, as iixed by the State Board of Equalization, is as follows: .Yfljm' of Railroad, AIHOUnt. tons : now vessels run from Buffalo^ ol over 2.000 tons. The Erie Canal was fin­ ished to Bufialo in 1&27. Then there was= no harbor at Cleveland, buf afterward the sand-bar was removed and piers built at the expense of the govern rneut. Detroit was only a trading post ; the and Baltimore, Ohio ami Chicago B iwl«'Bvii,e Mining Company Cnlro oand St. I.OIIIH Cairo and Vlnoonnes and Alton nn<l lines Chicago, Burlington and Quincy... I true modus operandi. Now watch the ! little fellow work his way into the world ! and you will be amused and instructed, as I w often been. Aiter he in. »<* j gggj- SSVS0'":::'.::::::: j his opening he commences a nibbling j t'bicuK" and im>ioi« River motion with tlie point of the Upper bill i Chicago anil Illinois Southern r>rineiv>ftl blisiness was buvine furs and ' OU OU'S^e 8'ie^» always work- j Milwaukee and Northwestern., principal business was miying luis ana ^ th(> right (if you havc the lar^e Chic/^ Mihvft„ko«and s,. r,.,i skins from the Indians. The government . ^ t]ie egg jrom yon and the hole 1 cwcaKo and Northwester had troops at Fort Gratiot, east end ol ; «,!<l 01 ^ ul" nu\" Lake Huron. There were also govern- ! l ™rked.hl" a " ment troops at Mackinaw and Chicago. around. say withmon,.-half aninoh I went to Ohio in company with Nath'l i m a perfect circle he then forces the cap Pease, whose object was to begin the *)r lmtt eIU* of tho shell oflf, and then packing business in the lake region. He i ^ cl!an0e .to K iai- lten hls ' only found hogs and cattle enough dur- j thexeby loosening his legs somewhat, j i>..niui ing the whole winter to make 700 bar- j and th^T Jtangfe body 1 E,stst. rels. This was taken to Buffalo in the ! from the shell.--American Farm Jour-. Fultn„, n.o firai rkrrwwirmst fMXl* \ Grind 1 spring, being the first provisions shipped from the West through the Erie Canal. We carried out on our persons about S7,- 000 in Boston bills, but were unable to bicago and Northwestern. Chicago, Pekin aud Southwestern Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific Chicago and Sprinfifteld Chicago and Western Indiana Cincinnati, Effingham and Quincy Cincinnati, Indiana, St. Louis and Chi­ cago Danville, Quincy and Ohio River Dauvillleaud Southwestern Louis and Carondelet Louis Connectinff. County Xarrow-Ciauge Grind Tower Mining, Manufacturing and Transportation Co Havana. Kabnil and Eastern Illiucia Midland Illinois and St. L^uis Indiana, Bloomington and Western Indiana, Decatur and Springfield Indiana and St. Louis mvllle Southeastern Kankakee ami Southwestern Lake Erie aud Western Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Louisville and Nashville. -I'exas Sift- IT is thought that Knoxville, Term., is built over a mammoth cave. An en­ trance to the cave was recently made in the heart of the city at a distance of 200 feet below the surface of the ground. A larger hole was made, which opened into a chamber of unknown size. One of the hands threw a rock and could hear it fall in the distance. The formation on which the city rests is limestone, a car­ bonate of lime which is soluble in water ! Public School Discipline. • There is in the public schools too much j of this military drilling which forbids a ' tired and restless child to change its po­ sition and rest from a cruel constraint. It is sometimes absolute torture to a del- icate child to maintain the stiffness and ! stillness enjoined by the foolish teaeher. A moderate amount of freedom of move- 1 ment can not be productive of distmh- : ance to a well managed school. The i teacher who thoroughly knows his busi- ! ness and is born to his work is never an 1 unreasoning martinet.--New York Tri- ' bvne. Coal. The ancient Britons are believed to find cattle and hogs'enough to vise all the • have had coal before the Roman invasion; monev, and carried back a portion of it I it was not, however, used as fuel in En- ; in the spring. I went from Chicago to . gland before, probably, the l>eginning 'K»nki Ohio in the winter'33 and':U on an In-; of the twelfth century. In 1231, Henrv dian pony. The stopping places were of- ! III. gave the the townsmen of Newcastle _____ ten thirtv miles apart, through Michi-I leave to dig coals and stones from the Louisville, New Mbauy and si. Louis.... gan. Chicago had a garrison"of eighty common s..q ; but wood continued to soldiers, and '250 or 300 citizens. I be- ; compose the general iuel, at least so gan the' provision business in a rather j lon<r as the forest and thickets afforded novel aud primitive way, by hnjiging my j an ample Mipplv for that purpose. In cattle on a large Elm "tree, near where • the reign of Edwar 1 I. the use of coal the postoffiee and custom-house now was forbidden by royal proclamation in stand, following the business until I j consequence of the supposed injurious slaughtered 185 large cattle and 500 : effect of the smoke. But in spite of this hogs daily. This was progressive for the j prohibition it continued to be consumed; times but in magnitude not to be com- j so that we find in 1376 a regular duty of - • - * "" T "' * levied on all coal brought soon after which coal pared with what has been done since I 3d. per ton left the business in '52. Last season ; from Newcastle . there were hogs enough slaughtered in j was ns<-d as fuel in the royal palaces. Chicago, if placed in line, single file, to , Since the time of Charles I. it lia< be- .•eacli 2,000 miles. The principal beef- packing is now done in Kansas aud Mis­ souri, five or six hundred mil&s west of Chicago. Why the Alligator Swore Off. A pet alligator at Camden, N. J., which was addicted to intemperance, was reformed by putting Jamaica ginger in its whisky. The bibulous education of the alligator was begun by giving it a drink of port wine, and from this it was but a step to whisky and brandy, until the experimtnt became an expensive one. The story of the. saurian's refor­ mation is thus t"hl by the owner : "It WHS like pouring water down a rat hole, and we had to let up after the first day. The alligator got so full that he couldn't eat his breakfast the next day, and put up one paw as though lie come almost the only fuel used in Lon­ don, and most other towns ard districts throughout the kingdom. The method of making "coke," by extracting the bit­ uminous quality from coal, wasdiscovered by John Hacket in 1627, who obtained a*pateut, with the object of rendering coal as useful as wood for fuel in houses, without damaging the furniture or in­ commoding the inhabitants with smoke. Ohio and Mississippi. Peoria, Decatur and Evansville. Peoria. Pekin aud Jacksonville Peoria, Pekin and Union Pcnnfylvania Company Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Kapids City Rock Island and Mercer County Bock Island and Peoria South Chicago and Western Indiana 8t. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute St. Louis Bridge Company and Tunnel railroad Bt Louia Coal St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago 8pringfield and Northwestern •Sycamore and Courtland .... Terre Haute and Indianapolis Wabash, Chester and Western Wabash, St. Louia and Pacifiu 9H.1271 1 fi.W.I 5,<1S«,7(I3 JHtV-'l 20;t,i:« 10.i,VJ4 1,H»0 615,96! 10,713 1.75:2,743 3,770.0-.il 444,2«:i 4,26.>,0<» 437,2H1 406,443 107,445 l!»0,S2a S2,4H2 8S'J,Oi>7 25,055 4i»,6:18 162,167 116,243 576,112 211,176 722,3H3 305,722 1,451,347 i9i,:>M 3:W,7S0 307.650 314,'iiil 790,36* 44.417 3<-8,323 12,2«5 2,0:iS,*y6 814,3HS 283,142 76,049 80!),4 til 265,8117 4,0(5 116,<176 386,613 32,313 1,014,742 33,948 98,706 1,369,279 126,777 18,205 1,453,476 114,000 6,334,903 froud of Venice, even though she is ut the dowerless bride of the Adriatic; proud that she was once conquered by Napoleon; proud of the church and square of St. Mark's; proud of the com­ merce she once had; proud of the palace of the Doges, with its qnaint Moorish- Gothic architecture; proud, for aught I know, of the Bridge of Sighs, "a prison and a palace on each hand," and of the horrible machinery of persecution un­ derneath, running down a hundred steps iato the gloomy earth, where the early Venice developed all that was devilish in man. But Venice is a bankrupt city, only half fed, a pauper of glass gewgaws and filagree, slowly returning, through gloomy grandeur, to the quagmire from which it sprung.-- IV. A. Croffuf. Soldiers', and Sailors' Homesteads. The first requirement is that the per­ son has served for ninety days in the army, navy, or marine corps of the United States during the rebellion, has remained loyal to the government, and has been honorably discharged. The next privilege such soldier or sailor has is, " such homestead settler shall be allowed six months after locating his homestead, and niiug his declaratory statement, within which to make his en­ try, and commence his settlement and improvement." The time the settler has seaved in the army, navy, or marine corps shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title ; or if discharged on account of wounds re­ ceived or disability incurred in the line of duty, then the term of enlistment shall be deducted from the time hereto­ fore required to perfect title, without reference to the length of time he may have served : "But no patent shail issue to any homestead settler who has not residedjupon, improved, and. cultivat­ ed his homestead for a period of at least one year after he shall have commencod his improvements." No. matter what, persons say who solicit, the privilege of locating homesteads in the name of sol­ diers and sailors, at considerable expense, when there is no prospect of settling on the land selected; soldiers and sailors will observe the important requirement of at least one year's actual bona fidc resi­ dence and cultivation of the homestead. Respecting the five-year homestead, the homestead law says : By making an entry an inceptive right is vested in the settler, and his final title depends on his residence upon,'and cultivation of, the land embraced in his claim. This resi­ dence and cultivation must continue five years, unless he was a soldier or sailor in the late War ; or if he prefers to pay for his land, or at private entry, he may after.six months' settlement and cultiva­ tion! make the necessary proof. This early payment is called commuting homestead entry. Such homestead set­ tler (an ex-soldier or sailor^ shall be al­ lowed six months after locating his home­ stead, and filing his declaratory state­ ment, within which to make his entry and commence his settlement aud im­ provement. Another point is covered by rulings of the department, as follows: After a soldier has resided on his home­ stead long enough to make his military service five years, further residence is unnecessary to secure patent Electricity the Benefactor. Electricity--we shall want a shorter word very soon, oh, philologists! and a better oue, " amberishness " being a stu­ pid description, aud the proper one, if you knew it, would be " Indra "-- can already be made to do many things, though it does them all imperfectly, ex­ pensively, or with a certain uneasy hesi­ tation, as if some Demiurgus did not quite know whether he was justified in giving such power as that to such a race of men, and every now and then held up his hand. Man may--and man will, if ten more years be given him--use his new slave upon his favorite work, the only work he permanently and always admires, that of killing his brothers wholesale; and Demiurgus may be wor­ ried about that Still, electric work is done, and work greater than ringing angry little hotel bells. There is, to be­ gin with, always the telegraph, which does take messages across the Atlantic ahead of time. Then, though the big electric lights flicker and go out unex­ pectedly, and the little lights are not as bright "as they should be, and all the lights are more or less disagreeable in color, aud nobody will give you the least dependable hint about the cost, and everybody tells a different story about the distance at which the force begius to tire and slacken, there is certainly light; light, if you will pay the money, almost limitless in quantity, and in practice able to go all the distance from the gene­ rator that is wanted. And, slowly, slowly, but quite visibly, the obstacles to the use of that light passes away. Subdivisiou, the old difficulty, considered insuperable, has been mastered ; a meas­ uring instrument for the light consumed has been invented; yesterday, some weeks ago, the color of light that human eyes find easiest was secured; to-day, this very week, the flicker has been con­ quered by an application Faure's accu­ mulator ; and to-morrow, perhaps,, the easiest, cheapest and handiest generator of the force will be shown to a Parisian audience, anxious chiefly to know if with electricity substituted for gas theaters will not light up very well indeed.-- The Spectator. WHEN I RE 1*1 K Iff BE IK. When I remember how the Ions days srrew In grace and beauty to the Summer's ; When I remember how the moon aroae ' "• And glorified the nij;ht for me and yon, bow 1 looked up into eyes as true .gjttf- A» the ehTTuil, chnna»>l«^« stars that »hon«»» * Dear God, I know tlwn wiiat it is to be slow. r * Whrn I remember the glad, sinking mirth , ( , That Ailed the world for us that nappy tiifML. The lift of life, its cadence anfl it* rhyme^ g. t That wo hear only once npon this earth: Why, then. 1 newly seem to know love's ' Love that I wore as lightly .is a flower. And die a thousand deaths for want<>f,tbisMt4l*M|fcv When I remember how the billows kiwsoa TTie draining shop1 as we md'; idly by-- How they rellecftd the wliole snn^t sky, * That glowed with crimson ami with' amethyst. And there was nothing ont of life w<> misled;* " It wns so flawless, perfect. ni<»ht or 'lay, _ gwtut pityine Christ! men have gone mad WM mused thir way. .w PITH AND PODfl. Grand total. $51,877,932 "JERUSHA, lovest thou me?" "Yes, Michael, thou knowest I love thee." Lovest thou me more than all else? Lazy Venetians. The saddest thing in Venice is the absence of newspapers. I have never vet seen one in the hands of anybody but a traveler. The red-faced Venetian sits lazily under the half-drawn curtain that takes the placj of door to his shop, waiting for customers, knowing nothing of the world without; the women, bare­ footed or iu toe slippers, shuttle and jju*xot iuu(i «11c 1111 *i n tuaii nil piap / • * - • "Yes, Michael, thou knowest I do " -It! about but no one has a newspa- is well," said he. «'But," said she gaz-i ^ or, afbook ; tlie so&l'er gondolier ing lixedlv at the north star, << who Ws 1uarrels ^ aP1extra cellt^81E?1 f/°f hls .Terush, ?"•' " God, God who hears the passenger but he never heard of Amer- widow's an.1 the orphan's crv; God loves ica> or of ^ has ^ver read a Jerusha."--Chicago Xews Letter. ! ™rd even of his own language. All are Imitation Diamonds. Professor Hanuay's imitation monds are only one of the many kinds. I speak of them because they are proba­ bly of the highest grade, but there are other artificial stones sufficiently lunpul aud beautiful to puzzle the connoisseur. It was once the popular impression that the "gentry"--in the good, old-fash- ioned acceptance of the term would deign to wear nothing but gems of the purest water, leaving paste, glass aud the like to their imitators; but it was this very creed that first tempted Mad­ ame Grand Dame to say, "I can very well afford to wear artificial stones ; no one would dare attach suspicion to jew­ els " Instances are common where la­ dies of familv, often for the liquidation of some private debt, have sold their sets of real diamonds and worn for years their counterpart in imitation : while 'owners of very rich "parures," especially actresses, aud other people ac­ customed to travel, are iu the habit of storing them away in some place of keeping, and having made for common use a similar set in paste; aud jewelers state that it is nothing extraordinary for them to alter diamond ornaments into the prevailing fashion by mixing them plentifully with imitation stone. In the Mi'Idle Ages there was a law against putting false stones in real settings or real stones in false settings.--Progress. Practical Arithmetic. "You can't add different things to­ gether," said an Austin school teacher. " If you add a sheep and a cow together, it does not make too sheep or twoeows.' A litt'e boy, the son of an Austin av­ enue milkman, held up his hand, auu said: ^ <• That may do with sheep and eows but if you add a quart of luiik and a quart of water, it. makes two qiuu o! milk. I've seeu it tried." THS yonng man with his finknuislaoha backs down. THB more flour ft housekeeper has the more she kneads. A CASE without a parallel Is manifestly not a printer's case. WHT is there nothing like leather? Because it is the sole support of man. A PECULIARITY of the clock is that qs . soon as it strikes it goes on 'with ita work. " I'll join you presently," as the min­ ister said to the young couple as he went for the church key. A BUSINESS college advertises guaran- * teeing to make ita pupils " better writers than Shakespeare in his palmiest days.** HERE is another attempt to deprive , woman of her rights: A male wretch has got up an invention to prevent the slam­ ming of doors. ' WE are T/bld that the ancient Egyp­ tians honored a cat when dead. The ancient Egyptians knew when a cat was most to be honored. " IT'S sot you are, winter or summer,n said the snappish wife to her drunken husband. " And it's scold you are, sum- , mer or winter," he replied with a malic­ ious grin. THERE are some experiences in life which make us feel like the boy who, when he stubbed his toe against a sharp stone, said he was too big to cry aud too badly hurt to laugh. THIS is a beautiful language of ours. Ben Hogan, the retired pugilist, who has turned preacher, is spoken of as the ex-pounder of the prize ring and the el- pounder of the gospel. J. W. RILEY has a poem on "The Lost Kiss." He doesn't make it very plain as to how he lost it, but it is pre­ sumed her mother came into the room just in time to catch her at it. " WHAT makes you feel so uncomfort­ able when you have done wrong?" asked a teacher who was lecturing his pupils on conscience. 44 My father's leather strap," answered a little boy. . A LADY who had quarreled with her bald-headed lover said, in dismissing him, " What is delightful about you, ( t my friend, is, that I have not the trouble 7 " of sending you back any locks of haar." * A LITTLE girl went timidly into a shop - and asked the shopman how many shoe­ strings she could get for a penny. " How long do you want them ? " he asked. "I waut them to keep," was the answer, in a tone of slight surprise. SCENE--A butcher's stand. Butcher : " Come, John, be lively now; break the bones in Mr. Williams' chops, and put. Mr. Smith's ribs iu the basket for him." John (briskly): " All right, sir, just aa soon as I've sawed off Mrs. Murphy's . leg." THE newly-arrived chambermaid hav­ ing observed her mistress going out for the evening wearing a pair of twelve- button gloveB, confidentially remarked - to the cook: "It bates all. Shure I niver expected to see a lady wid stockin's on her arrum?." *. A MAN who was fishing for trout in the Tionesta years ago, so the story runs, caught his hook in a bag of gold '1 and brought it safely to shore. As h®;' looked at the gold he sadly said : " Just.; my luck; never could catch any fish!" --Oil City Derrick. A LEADVILLE man in one week was attacked and scratched by a catamount, hurt by an explosion, had a bowlder roll down on him and stave in two ribs, and' was kicked by a mule. And a local ed­ itor remarked that he had "been some­ what annoyed by circumstances lately." A QUESTION of supply: Parish clerk ^ (at vestry meeting on the question of 4 organ blower's salary, the rector in the ' chair)--" You see, sir, it isn't as if there- • was only the hymns, but there's the comin' in and goin' out, and the 'sponses and the prayers and the psalms take a won'erful deal o' wind!"--Punch. HE was at breakfast, wrestling with a piece of remaikably-tough veal. His wife said to him, "You always say there's something to be thankful for . in every­ thing. I fancy you'd be puzzled to find something to be thankful for in that veal." "Not at all," he oheerfully re-, sponded, stopping to breathe; " I was just thinking how grateful we should be we met it when it was young." AT a dance, the other evening, he was introduced to a very becoming miss, and so, of course, was doing his best to merit his good luck. Feeling a sudden . indisposition, he excused himself for a minute, and, on returning, was in the (jjft. act of removing a few kernels of coffee from his vest pocket, when the damsel astonished him by Baying: " Don't chew that; I had rather smell the new rum." He didn't apologize. How Johann Strauss Writes his Waltzes. Strauss and his wife were enjoying a quiet walk in the park at Schonau re­ cently. when suddenly the composer ex­ claimed : " My dear, I have a waltz in my head ; quick, give me the inside of a letter or an envelope to write it down, before I iorget it." Alas ! after much rummaging of pockets it was iliscovered that neither of them had a letter about them--not even a tradesman's account. Johann Strauss* music is considered light, but it weighs heavy as lead ou his brain till he can transfer it to paper. His despair was heart-rending. At last a happy thought struck 1' rau Strauss. She held ont a suowy linen cuff, and Johann smiled. In two miuutes it was MS. Then its mate shared the same fate, then Frau Strauss* collar, then not another scrap of stir^hed iinen on which to conclude the composition. His own linen was limb colored caiic i--no hope there. Johann became frantic. He was much the worse for having been allowed to write three-quarter of the waltz. He was on the |>omt of dashing home lik1 a madman Wuen another happy thought struck Frau Strauss. She plunged her hand into a capacious pock-1, tished out a purse, o|x?ued it and uLspiu} ed, to his- delighted gaze, a bran new hundred o-uld'n note. Hurrah ! The entire finale was written on the bank-not-?, aud then Johann Strauss relapsed into his tgm* placidity. No MAN, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and an­ other to the multitude without fiualiy getting bewildered as to which iuay W Wue.