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r * 1 one of the purest men in public life ; SuJtCHVtJ f&UttttuCillflf | Collamer, of Vermont, an able debater; V^.O to ^ ' _ Anthonv. a crentlemanlv and successful J. VAN SLYKE, Editor Mi Publisher. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. % !HOK. JUSTIN S. MORRILL, of .Vermont, HOW 71 years of age, is the oldest member •of the United States Senate, and the youngest is Senator Al{brich,of Rhode Island, now 40 years of age. THE Russian method of seiriag tea is ;a pleasant variation from the usual way. A slice of lemon and about a teaspoonful -Of lemon juice are added to each c9p; no milk is used, but BUgar to suit the teste. • * i m *if~" - : OF tlfe $118,000,000 of gold produced "by the world last year, nearly one-half -was milled in the United States, and $70,000,000 of the $90,000,000 worth of silver produced in that year was up­ heaved from American soil. - P. R. LOCKE (Nasby) tells, in the To­ ledo Blade, how he was converted by Redpath on the Irish question. Rcdj- path only said,. " Come with me." He declined to argue; he merely showed Mr. Locke a series of pictures, of rags and starvation, of destitution indescribable, of misery beyond the power of tongue or pen to depict. He counted, "in a five miles' drive," 500 women without shoes or stockings walking in the cold mud. In Fermoy, " a tolerably pros­ perous village " for Ireland, the women not only had neither shoes nor stock­ ings, but they had scarcely anything to wear. Locke saw evicted tenants -- hungry, bare-footed, bare-legged and bare-headed women, and pretty women AMONG the mummies recently discov- ftt that - trudging along the cold wet •ered at Thebes, it is asserted, with all rosd m a drenching, rain-storm.^ And the earnestness of truth, is that ef UNTIL she was 14 years old Victoria •did not know she was heir to the throne. But on seeing a genealogical table one day she discovered the fact, and said to her governess, " There is much splendor, but much responsibility." Then with tears she exclaimed, " Baroness, I will be good." She was more sober and ;. |Dore dignified ever after. Anthony, a gentlemanly and successful legislator; Buckalew and Cowan, of Pennsylvania, were able to hold their own in debate against the best; Garrett Davis was a forcible bat imprudent speaker; Dooiittle, a fine orator ; Fes- senden, the ablest Senator that Maine produced ; John P. Hale, brilliant but not studious; John Sliermrm, ready; Lyman Trumbull, a good lawyer and de­ bater. His old opponent, Oliver P. Morton, Mr. Hendricks says, was able, strong and earnest, but extreme in his expressions. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. GOLD can be beaten to such a degree of thinness as tobeoome partially tran»- parent. THE cavity containing the brain of the rhinoceros is only apout half as large as a human skulll - *' ON a wing of a butterfly have been found 100,000 scales, and on. that of a silkworm moth 400,000. hand, stored and a stock for several years ahead--a sufficient supply for their community. Thev are not a warlike race. After the Navahoes, their more warlike neighbors, conquered them, or perhaps before, they built their village or town in the form of a hollow square, as a qiv»si fortress. Into this hollow square they lead their flocks and herds at night, shut the gate, climb up by ladders to the roof of their adobe houses, haul up the ladders and go to sleep in confident security. The entrance to WITH a piece of wood in their *"*"^1, or with their fists only, orang outangs are j their dwellings is "only by the roof--like able to drive off even elephants. j flu- Indians of Taos aud ether plac'es in IN a lecture delivered before the Royal j New Mexico--as a means of safety. Institution of Great Britain, Prof. Ball Tht-ir worship is A fixture idolatry said that if the ideas of geologists in re* ] and Catholicism, softar as could be as- gard to the age of the earth were cor- certained. They worship a »ery ancient rect, and that if 50,000,000 years was | figure of the Transfiguration--the origin "Pharaoh's daughter," the identical maiden who rescued the infant Moses from the cradle among the bulrushes. It is said the body is that of a lady of rare beauty and exquisite form, and so per­ fectly preserved that it appears as if only recently embalmed. WHBN the Mennonites first went to Kansas some of them had no money and <were obliged to dig holes in the ground to live in, but at the end of a year they were able to put up houses. Many of them have planted trees around their houses, and some have done more than this. There is a law in Kansas which provides that a homestead shall be given to any one who plants a certain number of trees. Some of the Mennonites have in this way acquired two homesteads. THERE are said to be 800 bachelors under the supervision of a Presbyterian, Superintendent of Missions in Manito­ ba, and a Woodstock (One.) editor pro­ poses to get up an excursion of marriage­ able girls of the Dominion to the abode of the bachelors referred to next spring, when it is hopei the bachelors' fancies will turn to thoughts of love and matri- j the Irish. mony. The Ontario editor says he is«j»vince Mr. Parnell that he was a dema- next he saw a flying squadron of 150 soldiers - fine-looking fellows, well fed, well mounted, and well armed with loaded carbines -- riding away from the scene of an eviction. Redpatli invited " Nasby " into a typical cabin, where, in its single room ten feet by twelve, with a hole in the wail for a window, the wet earth for a floor, a smoky fireplace in one corner, he introduced him to its seven occupants. About the fire three or four children,* dressed in scanty cotton slips, were huddled. In another corner there was a brood of chickens, and a pig repeatedly poked his snout in at the loose-hanging door. The little holding attached to the cabin had been improved by three generations of family tenants from 3 shillings to 40 shillings per acre a year. In America Mr. Locke thought the land for which the tenant pays $10 per acre rent might sell for $1 per acre ! Iu another cabin Mr. Locke saw a bed consisting of four i posts driven into the ground, some ! stringers covered with rough boards, j and on the boards dried leaves and j heather covered by some , old potato j sacks. When Mr. Locke entered the Emerald Isle lie was prejudiced agaiuBt He says he tried to "con quite serious about the matter. He will receive applications from Ontario girls. SAYS the New York Hour : "It really looks as though our Brooklyn bridge was to be a great engineering failure. There has been miscalculation somewhere. The engineer declares it cannot be used for steam transit purposes, without 'new towers and new cables, which is not to be thought of.' Then, a thousand tons of steel, not called for in any of the pre­ vious estimates, have recently been pur­ chased. There are vague rumors that weak places have been found in the cables. In any event, the bridge will be of little practical value, as people in a hurry will prefer to use the ferries. This bridge will be a monument of the era of corruption and maladministration in which it was begun." gogue ; that the Irish had no reason for agitation ; tha t Ireland could only be properly ruled by the English ; and that they ought to be thankful to the kind Providence that has given them a supe­ rior race to protect and care for them.'» After a day with Redpath, jLoeke was "wet, .weary and mad." The day's sights, he says, " were too horrible for talk." Mr. Locke will not dispute any more with Mr. l?araell. . P. S. HEWES, a farmer, living in Bucks county, Pa,, has constructed on his place a miniature railroad about 150 yards long. The ties and rails are of wood, the gauge being 4J inches. A double track runs a distance of 50 feet, and three side tracks, seven switch-posts, a trestle-work 10 feet long, three turn, tables, a depot, six locomotives and six­ teen cars. The locomotives average thirty pounds each and the cars ten pounds. , The pay-car is especially fine, being upholstered and containing every convenience. On pleasant evenings the neighbors are amused by seeing the road in operation. A STEAMER SMASHED. comparable with geologic time, then " in no probability none of the stars now visible to the unaided eye can then h«ve been visible from the earth. THE Japanese have discovered that a few seconds previous to an earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power. They place a cup of bell metal under a suspended horse-shoe magnet which has a weight attached to its armature. On the magnet becoming paralyzed the' weight drops upon the cup and gives the alarm, and out rush the families to the open air for safety. PROF. HCTDHINSON has, in one of his lectures, mentioned a very interesting fact ascertained in Berlin. Among Ro­ man Catholics, who prohibit marriages between persons Who are near blood relatives, the proportion -of deaf-mutes is 1 in 3,000; among Protestants, who view such marriages as permissible, the proportion is 1 in 2,000 ; while among Jews, who encourage intermarriage with blood relations, the deaf-mutes are as 1 in 400. Eaos, says M. Arsonval, during the first days of incubation absorb much heat. This process is accompanied by an absorption of oxygen and an abun­ dant liberation of carbonic acid. During sleep animals absorb much oxygen and evolve little heat, the emission of car­ bonic acid varying very little. Animals are not merely the seat of oxidations and combustions." Every living being is, at the same time, a reducing apparatus which effects synthesis. IT was the discovery of sheet-iron rolling in 1728 which gave the great im- ' petus to the tin-plate trade In England. The manufacture of tinned sheet-iron had been introduced there from the con­ tinent in as early as 1670, but it had not become established until about half a century later, and for marly years the- English continued to import plates from Hamburg, to which they now send thousands of boxes annually. The con­ tinental and early English tin-plates were hammered, not rolled. A MISSIONARY residing in Northern In­ dia tells of a class called "Chumus" (comprising tauners aud shoemakers) who have a legal right to the bodies of, all cattle that die, and who eat the meat of such cattle, whatever the disease that causes death. A physician, who resid­ ed among the Hindoos twenty-five years, says that those people remain as healthy as the other Hindoos who are vegetari­ ans, though at times they eat enormous* ly of the Hesh of cattle that have died of epidemic and virulent diseases. A CHARGE of three kilograms of dy­ namite placed on a plate of iron five centimeters thick and one meter square makes a hole seven centimeters in diameter. A hole fifteen centimeters deep and two centimeters across was made in an anvil weighing 200 kilo­ grams. A wall 250 meters high and half a meter thick was blown down by three and a half kilograms in zinc cart­ ridges. A boat laden with hydraulic ce­ ment sank in the Rhine, near Cologne, and impeded navigation. One hundred and thirty kilograms of " Btonebreaker" were simply placed on it fln<1 exploded by a battery on shore. The boat and its cargo were reduced to fragments, which the current carried away. of which they know not and have no tradition. Unlike the Navahoes or NabajoeS--their neighbors--they are a peaceful, simple race, but are dwindling away and soon will become extinct, es­ pecially as they intermarry--other mar­ riages being strictly prohibited.--Port Chester Journal. IT is unnecessary at this time, says a contemporary, to recall the catalogue of rascalities in this country during the past six or seven years. With hardly an exception every one of the men con­ cerned in the frauds and robberies are found to have stood as well in the com­ munity aa Baldwin. Commencing with Carleton, Secretary of the Union Trust, nearly all of the men engaged in rob­ bing the public enjoyed the reputation of being good citizens. * 400,000 Chaniis H. Phelps, cashier of the State Treasury Department at Albany J. C. Duncan, Batik President, San Fran­ cisco Stephen Wardwcl!, eaxlnur o' Commercial National Bank, Provulor.ee, R. I...... ... David Gage, City Treasurer of Chicago, Theodore Wick," Treasurer ofOhio. The Water Commissioner, of Pjttsonrgn, Hearv Xicholt. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association ot New Abraham Jackson, lawyer and President^ B >ston, Ma**» The War Eagle 1Clinn Affnlnot a Bridge at Keokuk and Breaks It In­ to Fragment*. KEOKUK, Iowa. Nov. 5. At 7 o'clock laat evening slirill and continued whistling at the Keoknk and Hamilton bridge, followed by the ringing of firo bells, drew hun­ dreds of people to the levee to find that a steamboat load of passengers had miraculously escaped death. The palatial passenger- packet War Eagle in attempting to p&tis through the draw was completely baffled by the eddies and cross cur­ rents and swung around against the biidge, breaking out one span and entailing a loss of ooo to the bridge. Several jives were lost, but the names cannot at 'ireaent be learned. The head clerk of the War Eagle makes the following statement: Capt. Jerry Wood wan iu command. Hii':ini Beadle and William Tijbles were the tilots, and both were in the pilot-houHe, though it was Bea- die's watch. I had just eaten supper and went back into the cabin to talk to some hidies I knew. I heard the whistle blow for the bridge and the bells ring to check headway. Know ing that it was customary to drop inside the long pier. I felt no uneasiness until the alarm whistle blew twice, which meant to back her round. About that time William Holmes, third clerk, came through the cabin, iu which there were only ten or twelve ladies, the remnant beinp on the outside at the bridge, tie threw up Lis hand and paused out the starboard gangway. I paid no atten­ tion to him, knowing he was easily alarmed in emergencies, but in a lew minutes he returned and signaled me. I then excu-x-l myself Luir- riedlv and went to him. He i;aid : '"She's gone this time." I ran out the larboard gangway on to the larboard guard forward of the bar­ ber-shop, and saw that we were broadside to the bridge and that the boat was hacking strong. I instantly rushed into the cabin and gave the alarm. I caught hold of one lady and cried out to the rest to Uillow me, as the boat was going to strike the bridge. We all pa«sed«out the after-door on to the starboard guard, reaching there just as the crash came. I 20,0l>0 500,000 90,i >00 nOO,OUO 200,000 Jobu B. Morton. Philadelphia E. -T. Winslow, Boston, Mass . G. VanHollen, City Collector, Chicago D. D. Spencer, Chicago • • • • • • • Jotiu C. Tracy, Bank President, Hartford, Conn., falsification of accounts to the ex­ tent of HiMreth ft Tighe, lawyers and agents, New York, over soo,ooo 1,000,000 C00,0ti0 130,000 2,000,000 Total $5,490,000 The fact that these men were all edu­ cated, highly respectable citizens is well calculated to shake confidence in all men intrusted with the management of financial institutions. Ex-Gov. HESTDBIOKS, of Indiana, has been telling a reporter his opinion of some of his associates in the United States Senate. He thinks that Reverdy Johnson was the ablest lawyer ; Charles Sumner the most successful legislator ; McDougal, of California, the readiest orator ; that Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, was a good orator; Grimes, of Iowa, kept catling to the passengers, who seemed bewildered, to get on the hurricane deck. They not seeming to understand I led the way, and* they followed. A* soon as the boat struck the biidge the span gave way with 300,000 i fearful crash, and I feit considerably relieved. knowing that the chances for saving life would now be much better. I looked forward and saw that the boat was leaning on the west pier, her stern having cleared the ea6t pier whert the break m the bridge occurred, and that the peoplo were chniljiag from the boat onto the bridge. I took one ladv and ran forward on the larboard side down the steps abreast of the smoke­ stacks, and assisted in passing the passen­ gers out upon the bridge until the boat swung off. One lady refuted to go. Seeing that a greater part of the pasnengers had escaped and were safe, the second clerk, Alex. llobinaon, and myself determined to stay with the boat. In a very short time she swung clear of the bridge, and we went down on the lower deck to see if she was making water or not. 8om« one had been in the hold and reported that sh« was, but not very fu-t. I ran up stairs and quieted the fears of the few remaining lndiee on the boat, and got all forward, so that ir case we went down we could get ofl without much trouble. The boat ther floated with the current with her head dowr stream to a point a few hundred yards below the elevator, where, with the aid of one wheeJ and the assistance of parties who came in i gkiff and took a line ashore, she was made fasi resting on the railroad track, which is covered with water, the river on the outside bein, about fifteen feet deep. The dredge-boat W D. Smith came down and held her stern ii until she was securely fastened. 600,000 100,000 THS hook of a Chicago angler caught in the collar of a dead man, and he pulled the bodv to shore and went up town and told that he caught a corpse weighing 900 pounds. The force of habit will crop out under the gravest circumstances. The Demoralization of Riches. Said an aged politician and editor to me, "I like to read your off-hand social sermons, because they seem to be con­ fessions. Now let me make a confession to you ! I don't believe, although I, lave a large summer house at the most ,succvS*si'ui resort in the country, that the dissipations and broken habits of the long season do me any good or give me any rest, or that I am as well in­ sured for length of days in the idle sum­ mer as in the severe winter. And can you tell me, i hou Diogenes of Broad­ way ! why everybody is visiting the summer resorts and at such an increase of board bills and family expenses ?" 'It is the rise of wealth," said I, "re­ sulting from the development and specu­ lation in a new country, giving an unrest to young and old, and making the most forward our leaders whether in physics or morals. None dare be independent where all can be rich. When George the Fourth was ruling a successful em­ pire that had just finished thirty years of war and was trading with the whole world, Beau Brunimel, who could starch his collars and neckties the nicest, WM the next man to the King, though a bharper and a parasite, ana the King, without a single virtue, was called the ' first gentleman of Europe !'" " Alas !" said the political sage, "there is too much wealth, I fear, to make us as happy as we have been. I am sure people are not as happy as in the day of small incomes aud quiet hab­ its. I know most cf our rich men, and as men they are not the social equals of the moderately rich men of forty years ago. Rufus Ktng was then my neighbor at Albanv, considered the richest man north of "New York, and the leading banker. He told me that it cost him oulv $3,000 a year for his whole expens­ es and family, and no other man lived as well iu Albany. Yet his expenses would not now pay his children's school bills. When I was Collector of the Port of Al­ bany, at a salary of $4 a day, I felt as if I had got a lift that would make me in­ dependent, and when I saved $750 a year I felt that I was on the high road to success. No man in those days had SI,000,000, or, if he had, he was consid­ ered to have vast responsibilities to his country and his God. Now $1,000,000 excites no admiration, and I do not think it brings much compensation. It only goads the man to push out for more. His relations to his faculties and his health are worse. His career is really more contracted, because he is sitting down by the million like a pin by a loadstone, unable to get away from its influence upon his mentality.' -- Goth, in New York Tribune. A Strange Tribe of Indians. Looking on the map of New Mexico, on the eastern confines of Arizona, iu latitude 34 and longitude 100, you will see the country of the Zunies. These Indians are white as any other pi-ople, have light, flaxen hair, and the Indian ladies might even b > considered blond;: beauties. Some of tliem have red eye;-;-- albinos. The women have regular, pretty features ; are very modest, gen­ tle, moral and truthful--as also are the men. They are intelligent, cultivate > their corn cereals, and always have on s Fools and DampiuMls. [Detroit Free Press.] The world has agreed for the sake of convenience, to divide its fools into two species. One it calls simply a fool--the other, to adopt the word which Doe- sticks applied to his friend, it calls dampliooL This is used strictly in its scientific, not profane senes, and has no­ thing in common with the shallow and random use which angry mqn make of it to give vent to their momentary irrita­ tion. It is as distinct and technical a label as "mustang" to describe a species of horse, or "terrier," to describe a species of dog. A fool is often harmless, and may be snubbed and kept in order. A dam- Shool cannot be. A fool is often tolera­te and docile. If he cannot be taught much wisdom, he may be taught obedi­ ence and respect. But though a dam- {>hool may have intelligence, he has ittle or no reverence. A fool may have some humor, but a damphool has none. A fool can be made a fool erf, a damphool makes a fool of himself. A fool may have a little sense, but whatever other sense a damphool may possess, he is sure to lack common sense. A iool may be humble and retiring, but it is the es­ sence of his kinsmen to be conceitcd and self asserting. A fool generally knows he is a fool, and is often dolefufwhen he thinks of it; but a damphool never knows it and so is happy. A fool is often stu­ pid, headless, blundering, aimless, like a hen or a fly; the other is strutting, irritatiug, conceited, like a tprkey or a {>eacock, or a noisy nuisance, like a Juue leetle. A fool is often patient, well- disposed, and though slow, good-natured like a jackass; but his foster-brother is apt to bear malice, and is intelligently obstinate like the mule. To the ranks of the odious kind of fool belong those who hanker morbidlj for notoriety--the Tanners, the Brad- laughs, the Guiteaus, ths Boother., the Count Johannes and George Francis Trains. Poor Train, however, has stepped down and out of the ranks, and now appears to be simply and only a fool. The fool is an object of sympathy --of pity, compassion and help; his robust relative gives cause for disgust, for sport, for derision and ridicule. Shakspeare of course saw the difference between these two types, and has drawn them with his usual clearness and acute- ncss. His fools and clowns are famous --Touchstone and Dogberry, Launce, Slender old Gobbo, and the like. But his daiupliools--such as Justice Shallow, Pistol, Falstaff, Polonius, Old Capulet-- have equal consideration. When in the play of "Midsummer Night's Dream," the* dramatist changed bottom the Weaver into an ass, he turned his dam­ phool into a simple fool, yor Bottom the Ttfearer imagined ha'can' write a play, take the chief role and be stage- manager all at the same time, making ^limselt' pompous and ridiculous, indeed; but changed into an ass he is docile and humble, and wants only to have liis head scratched and to be fed on dried peas and good sweet hay. A fool may be pious and reverential, Relieve in creeds and religion: but the other sort is quite likely to be an atheist. David undoubtedly meant to write that the damphool "hath said there is no God." Wmess. Idleness does more to reduce the aver­ age length of human life than the full normal exercise of one's industrial ener­ gies. In other words, more men and women rust out tliau wear out. Ease tind abuud mce of the good things of this life have apparently little influence in staying the hand of decay and death if the mental and physical faculties are re­ strained by 'will or circumstances from useful employment. Care* also, as the proverb says, will kiil a cat with its nine-fold hold ou existence, popularly speaking. Lack of proper sanitary con­ ditions appears to Jiiwe less to do iu nar­ rowing the space between the cradle and the grave than worry and the intense, mischievous reactions caused by at­ tempts to ease the burdens of life by mental or physical stimulation. These .general statements have received abun­ dant confirmation from the statistics lately compiled by Dr. G. F. Kolh. Oc­ casionally lie pushes his conclusions too far, however He seems to think that infant mortality, for example, could be reduced if mothers would suckle their own children, and in support of this he says that out of 100 children suckled by their mothers, only 10.2 died during the first year ; of those nursed by wet-nurses, 29.33 died ; of those artificially fed, 60 died; of those brought up in institu­ tions, 80 died. But all mothers can not yield the necessary food for their off­ spring, and the weakness which under­ lies the incapacity is far more likely than not to be transmitted to most of -the lit­ tle ones, however carefully fed otherwise, who slip away into premature graves. As a rule, the death-rate of infants in institutions is far too high, and with proper sympathetic, enthusiastic, and vigilant supervision, it can be reduced very considerably, as the gratifying ex­ perience of the management of infant asylums in and near New York suffi­ ciently proves. Is That a Mosquito! y "An' so you're a-going out to the East Hingies, my darlint Mrs. Marnonov," said an old Irish crone to the young "%ife of a soldier about to embark for Madras; "I've been in them parts mee- self, and well do I remember the torment I weut through night and day with the muskcatoes. They have long suckers hanging down from their head, and they'll draw the life-blood out of ye be­ fore ye can say pease." This terrifying account lived in the memory of the young woman. The vessel made the Madras roads; the decks were crowded; all hands were delighted at the sight of land, Mrs. Marooney among the rest, but her joy was of short duration, for on shore she perceived an elephant. Horror- struck at the sight, and in breathless igitation, she approached the mate, ex- clamiug with uplifted hands, "Howly Moses! is that a muskcato?" ILLINOIS NEWS. DIPHTHERIA is prevailing among the children ot Quincy. CARLTLE, Clinton couty, has sub­ scribed $4,000 to sink a coal shaft. CENTRAIIIA is still threatened with the loss of the machine shops of the Illinois Central railroad. THE planing-mill of Menke, Grimm k Co., Quincy, was obliterated by flames, wiping out $20,000. MRS. ELLEN CROSBY, of Peoria, in­ herited 828,000 last week, through the death of a rich brother in New Jersey. THERE are nearly 18,000 head of Texas beeves now being fattened on slop in the cattle-pons of the various distilleries at Peoria. DR. D. K. GREEN, a former member of the Legislature, was buried at Sal Am ( Marion county. His funeral was largely attended. A CARROIJI/TON man sold cider without a Government permit, and was amazed to find himself assessed in the sum of $200 for so doing. THE Female Seminary building at Peoria is makiug rapid progress, and when finished it will be a great orna­ ment to the city. THE coal mines of Menard county now number seven--four at Petersburg, and one each at Sweetwater, Athens and Tallula.^ A shaft is being sunk at Green- view. ^ . MCLEAK ' county produced JP 1880 more corn by a million bushels t.lnm ten the practice of medicine by those unskilled in the profession. I must hold that charging a fee is not a neces­ sary element- to constitute a violation of the act. Of course, a person who should, in a case of emergency, render gratuitous service would not be liable c the penalty. It is not intended by the iaw that a person not licensed shaii stand by and see his fellow suffer from sudden rtffi.o tion waiting the arrival of a licensed physician or surgeon, or become liable to the penalty of tbu law if he furnishes re lit-f. By doing stu-h an act, he wouid not become a physician or "one engaged in the practice of medicine." The iaw Applies to thoso who make a business of prac­ ticing medicine, and it is wholly immaterial whether fees are charged or not. A different view may have arisen from the examination cf old Eugli^n precedents, which, m ule the charging a ti« material; but SUJU wt*r»> based upon a statute winch was passed for the bene tit of the prw-'Mtioner, andt not, tike our l.iw. for tho 1 eneiit and pro ection of the peo*- pie. Very truly yours, JAXES MCCABTNKY, At: iniey Geuerei. Mixed Metaphor. * Our readers have perhaps heard of the member of the German Reichstag who »poke of " the car of revolution rolling and gnashing its teeth as it rolled." The incongruity of the ideas entering into this metaphor has been far surpassed recently by a Virginia orator. A civic ^deputation from Boston aud Providence was passing through Fredericksburg, Va., on their way to Richmond. The Fredericksburg people gave them a pic­ nic. In the speech of welcome, the orator of the day, after declaring that " he would not, if he could, air his vo­ cabulary with glittering but cobwebbed generalities," but would employ rather - . . v -- ^ , , " English unadorned, homely but hoh- States, which are the six New England est old Anglo-Saxon," went on to con- States, California, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon. INCLUDING the rates of taxation on property in school districts, there are 264 different rates of taxes on property in Peoria county this year. Some of the townships have fifteen different r^tes of school taxes alone. THE Delavan (Tazewell county) Times says: "Twenty-two oar-loads of cattle shipped from the drought-devastated sec­ tions of Southern Illinois have been sold here this month, and more are to follow. About 1,200 have been sold al­ together." PEOIUA adheres to the custom of charging theatrical companies a fee for performances. The custom originated from spite, a certain theatrical manager having refused to dead-head a former Mayor and City Council at his enter­ tainment. REV. DR. LOROIER preached last Sun­ day to an immense audience in the Brattle Square Church, Boston. He announced that his mission was to raise £4,000 from Eastern brethren to aid in the erection of a new Baptist Church in Chicago. THE probabilities are that by next year the daily consumption of corn by Peoria distillers will reach 50,000 bush­ els. Tims this town will use each day fjiA com ruisCxi ou tbirty_t^?o each growing forty acres averaging forty bushels per acre. THE track-laying on the St. Louis Central has reached Beaucoup, Washing­ ton Jcounty, the grading is completed coot the following remarkable pot­ pourri: • 'We think it right and proper that your first rest should be here on your pres­ ent pilgrimage to our capital city--a pil­ grimage from the land of Lexington to the land of Yorktown--the very Alpha and the very Omega of these struggles have commenced for and •mlminated in cementing together the Continental States in a free and great republic--a pilgrimage from where Warren bared his breast to the storm of battle and fighting fell, to where Washington struck, with his spotless and stainless sword, from the top tenacious embrace of the then crouching lion thirteen stars that have attracted to their orbit the grandest con­ stellation that has ever existed in the tide of time !" Shakespeare's critics have fbttnd fault with Hamlet for waiting to "take up arms against a sea of troubles " (perhaps Shakespeare wrote "against assailing troubles "), but that feat was nothing to what Washington is represented as doing in the above sentence. We have a "grand constellation" floating in a " tide, " aud this grand constellation has been " attracted to tha orbit of thirteen stars," and these thirteen stars are held in the embrace of the British lion, aud Washington is striking the stars from his grasp with a " spotless and stainless sword. ' If we could get .a competent artist to put this scene on canvass it would be an overwhelming display. A Clever Rascal. , u ^ One fine day a man, meanly clad and beyond the county line, aud, there being apparently poorly fed, presented himself no delays on account of the erection of • before Julns Sandeau. "Sir," said he, bridges', work will progress as rapidly as , "you behold before you a great sinner, possible the next two months, at the end one who has been severely punished. I of which time the road is expected to be . am a priest. One day I chanced to completed to Pinckneyville. THE Grand Commanderv of Illinois Knights Templar elected Loyal L. Munn, of Freeport, Grand Commander ; Henry Turner, of Chicago, Grand Treas­ urer ; Gil W. Barnard, Grand Recorder; N. T. Gassette, Grand Warden, and J. P. Ferns, Grand Captain of the Guard. On his retirement from the Grand Coui- mandership Gen. John C. Smith re­ ceived a vote of thanks aud a splendid je ;vel of a Past Commander. glance at a book. It was one of your novels, 'Marienne.'" "Continue, my good man," said Sandeau, kindly, not without some of the pardonable vanity of the author. " To make a long story short, I fell. The Bishop suspended me for neglecting the duties of my pro­ fession to immerse myself in the fascina --but enough. I do'not know a soul to whom to come for monetary aid but yourself." "Here is a louis, my good fellow," said Sandeau, much moved. " Come and see me again, and I will see sister aud the hired girl then came to Mrs. Hudson's assistance, and succeed­ ed in wresting the revolver from the in­ furiated man. Hudson's next move was to seize his helpless wife by the hair and drag her out into tho yard. There he found an old shovel, with which he struck her three times upon the head, crushing in the skull. Supposing that he had ac­ complished his murderous purpose, Hud­ son went to his brother's house, reported what he had done, aud disappeared, was not seen again until morning, when he was found dead in his orchard, where he had liu&g himself to an apple tree. At last accounts Mrs. Hudson was alive, but not expected to survive her injuries. She married Hudson about a year ago, and was the widow of Enoch Gilpen. The tragedy is attributed to. Hudson's jealousy. A Doctor Defined. Dr. John H. Rauch, Secretary of the State Board of Health, recently called upon the Attorney General for his opin­ ion as to whether or not it was necessary in prosecutions for violations of the Medical Practice act to prove that the accused person charged a fee. The At­ torney General holds that this is un­ necessary, and, as this decision will prosecutions in this govern future prosecutions m State against quacks and other unli- | paper, insect bottles and tubes ceneed "doctors," for whom it may prove g^gieal instruments, boxes of ; THE I-ITTLE RED HE!*. Once a mouse, a frog and • little red fiik , Together kept a honee; , The frog was the laziest of frogs, And lazier was the mooae. ^ The work all fell on the little Who had to get the wood, ,jr And build the (ires and scrub and COOlf - And sometimes hunt the food. - One day, as she was scratching aroondt . ̂ j She found a bag of rye; Said she, "Now. who will make somobMfldf1* - - Said the lasv moose, "Nol It" "Nor I!" croaked Ik* frog W ha io«d-ha shade, * Red hen made no reply, ;3|k Bnt flow around with a bow) and ̂ KW, i N And mixed and stirred the rye. _ ^ "Who'll make the Are to bake the brefdF^ ^) Said the mouse again, "Sot I!" • And scarcely opening his sleepy eyes ' 7' f,° * Prog made the same reply.' 'if fttrrf The littie^ed hen said never a ward*') t'-'liov+h Beta roaring fire she made; , And while the bread was baking brown, "Who'll set the table?" she said. * "'Not I!' paid the sleepy frog with a yaws, Nor I!" said the mouse again; : ">'i* "w So the table she set and the bread pat Who'll eat this bread!" Baid the hen. 1 "I will!" cried the frog, "And II" aqa--Vad. fet« moose, _ , And they near the table drew; v ' "Not mnch yon won't!" said the little nd taefei ' f' And away with the loaf she flew. t --[Elmira Telegram. prra AND ponrr. A DOUBLE tragedy occurreil^the otBer | what I do for yoa.'%* . nipht. near Ijaomi, a town iu Sangamon I Next day, as bandeau was lounging county. John H. Hudson, a farm r, ' along the boulevard, he met Mery, after retiring with his wife to their room, ; looking pensive, not to say gloomy, drew a revolver aud aliot at her, with- 1 " What's wrong with vou? "My dear out effect. A scuttle ensued, which end- i boy," replied Mery m a hollow tone, ed by his throwing her down stairs. His | "do you know that we authors do much harm iu this world without being con­ scious of the fact ? Now, laat night, as I was sitting down to dinner, there came--" At this moment they espied Theophile Gautier bearing down upon them, his visage wrapped in a melan­ choly not wholly devoid of satisfaction. " I say, fellows," he cried to them from •for, "you know there are some idiots who pretend that literature is without aiiy influence upon men, either for good or evil. Now, one of my books has He ! ruined the career of a man I never saw in my life, and whose profession you couldn't guess if you tried a hundred times." "It was a priest, the villain 1" cried Sandeau and Mery together. " Who told you ?" demanded Gautier. Then, as a sense of the situation dawned upon him, he added, "Oh ! I see. Well, he was a clever rascal." A French Missionary in Africa. Our examination of Debaize's store re­ vealed some strange things. There were twelve boxes of rockets and tire-works, which would require about forty-eight men to carry them; several lioxes of dy­ namite (for what conceivable use no one knows) i wo barrels of gun-powder, innu­ merable revolvers and guns, two coats of armor, several boxes of brandy, two loads of penny popguns, a load of small bells, large quantities of botanical smashed, medicines interesting and instructive reading, the opinion is herewith given in full: STATE or ILLINOIS, ) ATTORNEY GENEHAL K Orricit, > SFlUSOriELD, Oct. 10, 1880. ) The Hein. John H. Rauch, M. IX, Secretary State Bounl t)l Health. DEAB SIB: I have the honor to acknowledge your favor of tho 5th mat, asking whether or uot, in prosecution# lor the violation of tho '• Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the (State ol Illinois." it is neceiwary to show i hat the person accused charged a fee, in order to sustain a conviction. 1 respectfully submit th© following reply: Ser 3 ot the act referred to declares the penal- ty which Khali attach to "any person practicing medicine or surgery in this State without com- nlvinK with the provisions of an act, witu the . , proviso that it xaall uot apply to those in prac- , peaceably, as became a priest, agamst tice ten year*, etc. No other exception is made, j tjie ]ieatli. H, in Spite of this, the sav- and no reference is there made to charging or ^ |)reast refused to be softened, their not charging fees. If a person "practices medicine" without complying with the uro- viBionf, of the act, he 1* liable to the penalty. What, then, in " practicing medicine! 1* chaiving a fee a necessary part of "practicing aw-dicine?" ' , , ••.. Taking the words in their usual and ordinary surgical without labels, photographic apparatus; every conceivable appliance for geo­ graphical research, though he was per fectly ignorant of the working of the most simple instrument. He brought with him also a hurdygurdy, valued at four thousand francs. His intended scheme of progression through hostile countries was truly French and admirable in its absurdity. When he came to a village with the natives ready to oppose his passage, he would try the softening influence of music ou the savage breast by strapping the hurdygurdy on a man's back, and with another to turn the handle, march blood would then be on their own head. They would find that they had to deal with tho church militant! With all the calmness of a French nature, he would clothe himself in complete armor, ndse . , confusion in the enemy's ranks by a dis- ssgniflcatiou,_wc would ^®a®n̂ 0l̂ ^®gte0 j charge of rockets, and march delibernte- " practicing medicine public that he will presenile for the diseased who mav apply to him for relief, and who mala-., the treatment of Huch Ins chief occupation cr business. If he did that he would be "prac­ ticing medicine," and whether the Kerwces werf gratuitous or exorbitant, rates wer. charged would be wholly immaterial m deter­ mining that <iuestiou. But the statute conies to our aid, and in sec. UWIYS: "Anv person shall be regarded a* practicing medicine within the meaning ot tlu>. 1 i _ .i. .ii fn a, 1)1 ly to victory cr death.--Central African Lakes. Thomson. THEY were standing just by the front gate of the old farm-house, Farmer Robinson leaning on the gatepost. "Well, Miss, I hope you've enjoyed yourself this summer. We hain't put on much style for vou, but we've mean* iglit." " Dou't mention , . i 0 1 , i to treat vou all ri ^ V*-. tet 1 it. pray," replies Mi» Ftaroy -It been the most delightful season 1 ever knew. Why I've learned so much about and to prescribe for tho sick nothing in the act shall be construed to pro­ hibit students prescribing under the supervis­ ion of preceptors, or "to prohibit gratuitous services in case of an emergency.' The object of the act, an indicated through­ out all its Darts, is to prevent the practice oi medicine by unqualified persons, and to pro­ tect the public from the evils that might attend farming that I really believe I shall set out a small watermelon orchard in our garden next snmmer and will start a pumpkin patch in our conservatory it* the •winter." THS man who went to work with a int. must have been a lawyer. '* WHICH is the better off, tea or ooflfee ? ' Coffee, as it settles itself, but tea hag to?" draw. THS crying baby at the public meet- ) ing is like a good suggestion; it ought to be carried out.. . , POPE says, " Whatever is la right," Brown takes a different view; • • " He says his wife 'loped last night, . .. t, " She's left and he's left, too." A KAN, having a terrible attack of ; lirium tremens, was, for a wegk, the star of artistic London society. They1* thought he was an aesthete. > THE acme of politeness was reached by the Nevada mining superintendent,^ wno posted a placard reading : " Please do not tumble down the shaft" ' ' * "IF Jones undertakes to pull my ' ears," said a loud-spoken young man,5" " he'll just have his hands full." Those who heard him looked at his ears and smiled. - * "You are weak," said a womaai to,hatn son who was remonstrating against her marrying again. " Yes, mother," he re - * plied, " I am so weak that I can't go' a1* stepfather." < ; ...; f IT is aa-'d that the girls of Poughkeepaie « When they drink Vasaar ale get sough teepata . That of the police <5 *•>« It takes two apice • m- To escort home each bibuloua geepsle. MRS. SPITIOOINS was boasting of itir„ new house. The windows, she ssitl' were all stained. " That's too bad! Btti won't turpentine or benzine wash IT, off?" asked the good Mrs. Oldbody. _>ffJ NEW JERSEY is trying to claim Noah»;f because he was a Mew-ark man. Ye%* but you know he looked out of his Ark- ansaw land. Give the South a fair show in this thing.--Burlington Hawk- EyUZ "HAVE some milk this morning asked the milkman of Toozer, who stoaift at the back door. "No, not tliis milkf' some udder milk," said the little oofe} And the milk-man walked a ehalk-lin£r away from the house. {. AN Irish lady was so much on her. guard against betraying her natidhaf accent that she is reported to hat#' spoken of the "creatureof Vesuvius^ fearing that the crater would betray hefe again. , , t AN old maid, not attractive, recentta, read in a temperance lodge an originaT Eoem entitled, " The lips that tonon quor shall never touch mine," and thief jwaog men present gave her thriMfc cheers. . ,*«» AN Iowa Methodist minister, who been arraigned before his conference faf} going to a circus, promises never to go. to another. The jokes brought his miu8l back to the time of the flood and ssid-4 dened him.--New Yatk Commeretkfr Advertiser. . ,i )S OOUBBBT said to one of his friend* who was talking of getting marrie^f "Why don't you marry Miss X. oyajr there? She's a perfect angel." "ShA may be au angel, but she's painted.**' " Well, did you ever see an angel that wasn't painted ? " A HORBID man--" Won't yon pleas** play us something, Miss Hanvnenr* andbang?" asked Fogg. "I, shouljL like to ever so much," said she, looking at her watch ; " but really I have IMT time." "So I have heard," repiifill* Fogg, "but we'll overlook that, jam know." » " How UNFORTUNATE !" exelaimed ftj good New Haven lady. "I see thijik young Greengage just missed being ruii over and killed by an express wagon. Sensation in the room, and the young' lady of the house, who is sweet oat Greengage, stepped on to the veranda, to allow her feelings to subside. A DRV-GOODS clerk, who had a mapt outlandish way of walking, had to go tQ; a distant part of the store to tind some goods which a party of feminine cui-' tomers deairou to see. " Walk this way,' ladies," he said, as he swung himsail> ofE. "But we can't walk that way/' cried a pert miss; " we never learned, that style, you know." The clerk is now drilling his tibia in the motions el1 a new gait. "CAN pa make a circus, ma?" "I don't know, Johnny; I suppose he could if he had a great deal of money to buy horses and wild animals. But why do you ask, Johnny?" "O, nothing much. Only I saw that Gaston fellow that you told Sis to have nothing to de with, standing with his arm around h«« at the back gate last night, and he said to Sis, 'I s'pose if yer old man came along now he would make a circus,' and Sis laughed and said, 'you bet!'" FANTASIB. Kiss mine eyelids, beauteous morn. Blushing into life new-born I Lend me violets for IUV bair. And thv russet robes to wear, And thy ring of roseate hue, Bet in ilrops of dismond dew! Kiss ray cheek, thou noontide ray. From mv love BO far sway! , ;. - Let thy splendor streaming down Turn its pallid lilie» brown. !"1 ' Till its darkening shades reveal , Where his jjasaion pressed its seal. --©. W. Holme*. THE petty Duchv of Baden is a ftmhjr little kingdom, with a funny, fussy littla court, as full of ceremony, equipage^, liveries, powdered wigs, and elaborate officials as any of tho big courts of th®' German Empire, and its parallel is not hard to find in Offenbach's spnclttjy satire upon the doings in the Grand Duchy of Gerolstein. However littlai the Duchy may be, it is largely connected, for the Grand' Duke is son of Printvp Sophia of Sweden, and his wife, Louise^ is daughter of the Emperor of Germany.' The ducal pair, having married Septem­ ber 20, 18.r>6, the«20th of last Sept., w*' their silver veddiug, and it was cel»* brated in connection with the guweofn. marriage of their daughter to PnnOft Guatavus Adolphus of Sweden.