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* * f ̂ ppf' finfiiffilTl xuajioib im rutg f laiMflcaTei VAN SUMS. Editor and PMMMMT. cHENRT, ILLINOI& THE President's only brother, a pay­ master in the army, will be attached to Gen. Hancock's stall ADAM BOTIIB, of JBattleford, Canada, has hit on a new way of raiding potatoes. Being pressed for time in the spring, he dug holes in the sod and dropped in the cuttings, covering them lightly with •arth. This was all the attention they received, and he has taken up a heavy •top erf large and fine-looking potatoes. So MANT seized pistols have accumu­ lated in the Memphis (Tenn.) Court that Judge Horrigan has issued an or­ der directing the Clerk to throw all. except army or navy pistols, that have been in his hands more than six months into the Mississippi river, and into such deep water that they cannot be fished •at " - IN a Montreal breach-of-promiso suit it was shown that the pair agreed upon a day for marriage, and marked it in a calendar of her diary, and that he twice surreptitiously rubbed out the mark and put it a month ahead. She caught him at it on the last occasion, and sought by a recourse to the law to compel him to keep the original promise. „ READING (Pa.) Eagle: The will of the late Gerhart Bechtel, of Washington township, was filed and letters testament­ ary granted to his son, Levi Bechtel. The following sentence occurs in the will: " And I further disinherit .and pro­ hibit from participation in the distribu­ tion of my estate such of my male de­ scendants as persist in wearing mus­ taches. " A PhujAdeiiPhian's scheme for en­ riching himself was to secretly marry an heiress who was almost idiotic, charge her to tell nobody of the occurrence, and wait till she should die, when he would claim a share of her estate. She told her mother of the marriage, how­ ever, and, by means of a legally-ap­ pointed commission, the contract has been declared void by reason of her mental disabilitv. BAYAUD TAYLOR'S venerable parents, Joseph and Rebecca Taylor, live quietly aod comfortably at Kennett Square. They have now lived together as man and wife for sixty-seven years. A short time siuCc Joseph passed his 85th "birth­ day, aod more recently Rebecca reached her 82d anniversary, which a number of friends recognized by sending her a handsome birthday cake. " I FANCIED," said Senator Williams, of Kentucky, to a group of friends, the other evening, "that when I came to the Senate I should be able to say some­ thing on any topic that came up with which I was familiar, but the dignity, courtesy, frigidity and stupidity of that body has frozen all the eloquence there ever was in me, and I couldn't get up now and say a word, unless I crammed for it, to save my life." A LADY guest at several of Judge Hil­ ton's elegant dinner parties at his villa near Saratoga last summer remembers Mrs. A. T. Stewart at one of them seat­ ed by Senator Burnside, and that' she wore in her hair a diamond comb which cost $10,000. Eleven superb stones composed its ornamentation. She has laid aside mourning, and, though 70 years of age or more, is youthful in fig­ ure, lavish in dress, and can walk two miles without exhaustion. A MAN sent $5 to New York for a mu sical instrument advertised to play any number of tunes equally as well as a piano. In a few days his coveted prize came to hand through the mail. It was a fair-sized package, and cost 12 cents postage from New York. He opened the wrapper and found a box ; the box wa» the overcoat of another box, and inside of the second box was another of smaller dimensions, and there was a jewokurp. THE valuation of the real and personal property in Massachusetts subject to taxation is $1,6-48,239,976, an increase since 1880 of $63,483,174, of which $24,- 677,419 is on personal property and $38,805,755 on real. There has been a gain in every county. The total wealth of the cities as compared with the total of the whole State is about two-thirds, and the increase over last year is a little in excess of this ratio. There are now nineteen cities, and there was a gain in each. The total tax levy for all pur­ poses in 1881 was $24,180,245. for quotations on No. 30 sheet-iron. If it is adopted, it will have an enormous sale; each bale will require a sheet 76x44 inches, and weighing twenty-two pounds, and, as the annual crop of cotton is 6,000,000 bales, it would take 66,000 tons of sheet-iron to bale it. THB New York Public, taking the prices for 1860 as the nominal standard of 100, has compiled a table based on ihe price of forty-three staple articles which shows the average prices for the last twenty years. The following will give an adequate idea of the range : 186 6 .131 0011872 12X00 186 7 ....HW.00I1873 113.00 186 8 140.00| 1874 115.0U 1869 -. - Hfi.iiOl 18T5 107.00 187 0 118.00 187« ...100.00 187 1 120.001 Priees fell after this until in 1878 they were at their lowest, touching 81.40 or 19 per cent, below the standard. Thence they rose in 1879 to 98.03; in 1880 to 108.08, and this month are 111.02, being very near as high as they were the year of the panio. Part of this rise is due to natural causes, like the crops, part to speculation, part undoubtedly to infla­ tion caused by the addition of silver coinage and certificated Two YEARS hence an entirely new system of railroads from ocean to ocean will be in operation, and already the bet­ ter part of the great chain is completed. The termini will be New York and San Francisco. The roads forming the routes will be the New York, West Shore and Buffalo, the New York, Buffalo and Chicago, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Northern Pacific and the j Oregon Navigation Company's lines. I The system will be in direct opposition : to the Vanderbilt lines and Union I Pacific railroad, and it is claimed for it | that it will run through the part of the j country that supplies the greatest amount of travel and freight business. The Eastern line will be the New York, West Shore and Buffalo railway, extend­ ing • from New York to Buffalo. The West Shore, as it is called, will be a powerful rival of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad. The length of the road will be 425 miles--some sixteen miles shorter than the Central. The road is to be straighter than the Central, and the projectors assert that the running time will be decreased at least one hour between New York and Buffalo. The West Shore is under con­ tract to Syracuse, and the work of con­ struction is being vigorously prosecuted on all sections. Just as soon as the surveys can be made west of Syracuse work will be begun. Trains will be running from New York to Albany on the west shpre of the Hudson river next summer, and by the middle of 1882 the entire line will be in operation. The road will be double-tracked from one end to the other. Steel rails will be laid and the bridges will be of iron. they separated, and the second entered a tobacconist's, and after making a small purchase gave in payment the identical twenty-franc piece received at the other shop. The confederate shortly after went in, and was repeating the same stratagem as before, when the police of­ ficer stepped forward and arrested him. «*MS OF THOUGH ̂ THE passions are the voioe of the body. A KAN of thought is willing to die, will­ ing to live. WHAT loneliness is mora lonely than distrust? PHOSPCBITT makes seme friends and many enemies. ALI that is human most retrograde if it do not advance. NOTHING dies so hard and rallies so often as intoleranoe. GOOD manners and good morals are sworn friends and firm allies. WE SHOULD believe only in works; words are sold for nothing everywhere. NATURE never moves by jumps, but always in steady and supported advan­ ces. IT IS easy enough to forgive your enemies, if you have not the means to harm them. THE worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. TBUTH never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the sever­ est correction. As SOON go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire flare with words. --Shakespeare. I INEGLECTRD calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. Lirr us enjoy the fugitive honr. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on and carries us with it. WB ABB not what we are, nor do we i I T-. TI . *T*OT. e8'eem each other for such, but i forfcable ni l^ More ^ for that we are capable of being. | tha uarfiut* Thft fnfW ^ (1nwn NOTHING makes the earth seem so spa­ cious as to have friends at a distance ; they make the latitudes and longitudes. MABK this well, ye proud men of ac­ tion ! Ye are, after all, nothing but un­ conscious instruments of the men oi thought. I AM yet apt to think that men find their simple ideas agree, though in dis­ course they confound one another with different names. Diary of a First Baby. The first day or two after the birth of our child is more or less indistinot in our memory. It doesn't seem to be very definite or fixed. Floating through our wild waste of brain there is a chaotio panorama, and there seems to be nothing but a mixture of events. We see in our mind's eye an excited young man prano- ing wildly through the moonlight down town. The solemn hush of midnight seems to pervade every thing. The young man seems to have dressed him­ self in a hurry, and one suspender is hangiug down by his side. He rings a door-bell and a physician comes to the door. There is a hurried conversation and then all is still. Pretty soon two men pass up the street. * * "* * It is to-morrow! A beautiful parboiled child is nestling in a roll of snowy blanket. The father gets a magnifying glass and looks at the features. The nurse tells the fattier that the child is the living picture of him, and the enraged parent brains the nurse with i a decorated wash-bowl. First Day--The child opens its mouth I twice, emitting a falsetto wail that makes the cold chills go all over the ad- I joining block. Tillage Life in Western India. In this new work on the "Industrial Arts of India," Mr. C. M. Bird wood says of the typical village : • " Outside the entrance of the single j tunities. village street, on an exposed rise of ground, the hereditary potter sits by his wheel, molding the swift-revolving clay by the natural curves of his hands. At the back of the houses, which form the low, irregular street, there are two or three looms at work in blue and scar­ let and gold, the frames haugitg be tween the acacia trees, the yellow flow­ ers of which drop fast on the webs as they are being woven. In the street the brass and copper smiths are hammering away at their pots aud pan^ and further down, in the veranda of the rich man's house, is the jeweler working rupees and gold mohrs into fair jewelry, gold and silver earrings, aud round tires like the moon, bracelets and tablets and nose­ rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great tem­ ple, which rose over the grove of man­ goes and palms at the end of the street, above the lotus-covered village tank. At 3:30 or 4:30 in the afternoon the whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of the women going down to draw water from the tank, each with two or three water jars on her head, and so, While j they were going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas, I and moves like the stately procession of I the Panathenaic frieze. Later the men j drive in the mild gray kine from the moaning plain, the looms are folded up, the coppersmiths are silent, the elders ! gather in the gate, the lights begin to j glimmer in the fast-falling darkness, the j feasting and music are heard on i every side, and late into the night the ; songs are sung from the Ramayana or Mahabharata. Tlie next morning, with sunrise, after the simple ablutions and adorations performed in the open air be- IF ANy one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was nc other just man. SOCIETY is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. SONGS of departed glory are the priv­ ilege of a ^conquered people, and pro phetio hopes are a consolation seldon> wanting to the oppressed. LIFE is like a game of whist. I don"' enjoy the game much. but.I like to.pL.\ my cards well, and see what will be th'j end of it. -- George Eliot. I THINK most readers of Shakespeare sometimes find themselves thrown intc exhaulted mental conditions like those produced by music.--Jlolmes. WHERE necessity ends, curipsitj begins ; and no sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than we sit down' to contrive artificial ap- riat.itna fnlmsnii • r , THE infinite bliss of nature ID feal in every rein, The light and life of the Rammer Blossoms in heart and brain. OTHER rules vary ; this is the onlj one you will find without exoeption that in this world the salary or reward is always in the reverse ratio of th6 duties performed. No WAY has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar. Labor, iron labor, is for him. The world the parents. The father goes down town fkt 2 o'clock a. m. for a soothing potion for the child. Gets one for himself at the same time. Third Day--Respiration normal, pulse regular, amount of laudable howl mate­ rially increased. Tenth Day--The mind begins to de­ velop, and the father notioes that his child has no teeth, and will have to be fed on ground feed and bran mush for some time. Fifteenth Day--The child passed the night pawing the air and rehearsing a voluntary in G, fifth added line above. Twentieth Day--Signs of internal dis­ turbance, with indications of squalls and the pale blu6 colic. Twenty-first Day--Fell out of bed without fatal results. Thirtieth Day--Began to notice the father, and manifested a desire to be­ come more thoroughly acquainted. Fortieth Day--The dissipated flush caused by late hours and constant atten­ tion to vocal music began to disappear. No noticeable change for several months, except the growth of the braili and partial disappearance of gastric re­ bellion. „ The growth of the mental faculties seemed then to be more and more no­ ticeable, so that at this date the child already seems to know more than the old people. The mental expansion of the juvenile is something that is simply appalling.--Nye's Boomerang. Words and Phrases of Stock Operators. Eastern journals devoted to stock mat­ ters use every possible effort to keep I their readers thoroughly posted on the I jargon of the street, and publish defi- I nitions of words and phrases current j among the speculators of Wall and | Broad streets, the Chicago and St. Louis I Chambers of Commerce, etc. The idea | is worthy of adoption here, and, as an initial step, the Chronicle jiubmita the CKNTRALJA is threatened with the loss of the machine shops of the Illinois Central railroad. DR. L. B. MARTIN, of Peoria, re­ ceived a fatal shock of apoplexy while visiting a patient. THB Ingersoll Hotel, at Peoria, for­ merly occupied by Pope Bob as a resi­ dence, was sold for $23,000. STATE AUDITOR warrants to the amount of $233,853.72 were paid by the State Treasurer during October. THB flouring-mill of Lancaster 4 Er- win, at Girard, Macoupin county, valued at $15,000, was swept away by fire. A HERDIC transportation compauy has been formed, who propose to supply 600 of the new-fashioned vehicles for hire. A COLLISION of freight trains at Asto­ ria caused the death of Martin De- Camp and Isaac Rosser, and demolished several cars. PEORIA pays the largest tax on dis­ tilled liquors of any city of the United States. It leads Chicago $1,000,000 and Cincinnati by $3,000,000. A CAPITALIST in England has sent $170,000 to a gentleman in Peoria to in­ vest in real estate and for the erection of business blocks thereon. THE Peoria County Grange has made arrangements for a series of five agri­ cultural lectures by prominent farmers of the United States and Canada. UNDER the title of the Board OL Trade Telegraph Company, a charter has been obtained at Springfield by several Clii- cagoans to construct and operate a tele­ graph line to St. Louis and other points. CAPT. LOWDERMILK, President of the Illinois Association of Prisoners of War, sends out a circular to his comrades urg- I ing earnest work to secure an act of | Congress granting pensious to all who j were inmates of rebel prisons. THE editor is ahead again. Mr. V. E. Foy, of the Taylorville Democrat, has I recently won a wager that he could | shuck fifty bushels of corn in twelve hours, and has been solemnly proclaimed | the champion husker of Christian I county. I THE National Fat-Cattle Show, under | the auspices of the Illinois Board of ; Agriculture, was held in the Exposition I building, at Chicago, last week. It was I the fifth annual exhibit of its kind, and ' in every respect surpassed any of its predecessors. DR. PAAREN, the Illinois State Veter­ inarian, has been notified lately of the existence of what was represented to be pleuro-pneumonia in different parts of the State, but has fouud, on investiga­ tion, that in most-instances the disease i was Texas fever, which has prevailed but Italy, though her forest area extends over nearly 14,000,000 acres, does not do much in the way of a timber trade, as the roads leading to the forests are so bad that it is almost impossible to move the timber when cut. Much the same is the case with Spain, which has 8,500,- 000 acres of forests; while -Portugal which has only 1,000,000, finds a good market for her timber. RAILWAY STATISTICS. [From the Chicago Evening JcjtmSiE^ ^ ^ There are now sixteen railroad compa­ nies in the United States, each of which controls and operates more than 1,000 miles of road. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, which has 3,627 miles, is the longest of all, although its debt is comparatively small. The Union Pacific has a debt three times as large as the St. Paul, with a track half as long, but re­ ports earnings nearly five times as large. The New York Central is the most prof­ itable road in the country per mile. The following table will be of interest to the ^now. general reader: PITH AND FOIHT. v -f,, Cent. Pacific Chic. & Alton. O., 11. & Q.. 111. Central.... L. S. & M. S.. N. Y. Central, N.Y.L E. & W. N. Pacific. U. Pacific. W., St. L. 4 P. L. & Nashv... C., U. I. & P. < p Gross •VRT ' 1 Earning*. Horning* 1,449 418,317,740 $7,986,970 1,591 8,.'»4.t,183 $7,986,970 J,5So 20,410,424 1,031 7,681,22". 3.652,402 3,105 20,492.045 10,687,562 13.02<i,118 5,343,692 2,5ia 17.341),34'J 8,>.'17,750] 1,287 S, 3,4,811 3,747,533' 1,177 18,720,000 8,310,000 1,000 31,175,913 10,669,219 1,009) 18,6.13,109 7,049,184 98Si, 2,230,181 709,0H8 1,845 2,230,181 25,'94,006 a,47!-] 12,428,111 2,378 7,436,843 2,227,643 !.»«$!. 11,161,662 5.265,116 DtbL' ope- liuu. ilie woriu fonowillg carefully prepared lexicon of was created as an audience for him; the the ComStoek: 1 . atoms of which it is made are oppor- , Bear marke^_«o called because --: i rators have to " grin and bear it." I To sell short--to promise to deliver | what you haven't got. Often adopted I outside of stocks, with a paralyzing ef­ fect on credulous creditors. 1 To cover one's shorts---Generally, to buy a big loss. A call--This, from your broker, gen­ erally means " more mud." More mud--A peremptory demand that the unhappy purchaser Bhall wallow Don't. Don't sleep in a draught. Don't go to bed with cold feet. Don't stand over hot-air registers. Don't eat what you do not need just to save it. Don't try to get cool too quickly after exercising. Don't sleep with insecure false teeth in your mouth. Don't start the day's work without a good breakfast. Don't sleep in t zoom without ventila­ tion of some kind. Don't stuff a cold lest you be next obliged to starve a fever. Don't try to get along without flannel underclothing in winter. Don't use your voice for loud speaking or singing when hoarse. Don't try to get along with less than eight or nine hours' sleep. Don't sleej) in the same undergarment you weai' during the day. Don't toast your feet by the fire but try sunlight or friction instead. Don't neglect to have at least one movement of the bowels each day. Don't try to keep up on coffee and al­ coholics when you ought to go to bed. Don't drink ice-water by the glass; take it in sips, a swallow at a time. Don't eat snow to quench thirst; it brings on inflammation of the throat. Don't strain your eyes by reading oi working with insufficient or a flickering light. v for three months in certain localities^ In the other cases he found the disease to be simply inflammation of the lungs. JOHN STOKES, a farmer living a few miles north of Carlinville, while return­ ing to his home from that place, got into a quarrel with Alf Hogan, when Hogan struck him over the skull with a large piece of timber, inflicting a terrible wound, which will prove fatal. Both parties were under the influence of liquor at the time. DIPHTHERIA is prevailing to an alarm­ ing extent in Galesburg. Several deaths among children have occurred recently. It is claimed that it is caused from the impurity of the water. The water is procured from wells, and the long-con­ tinued rains have filled them up with surface water, which necessarily is very impure. LEWIS L. CLUXTON, of Vandalia, was in the habit of applying to Gov. Cullom for requisitions for the recovery of fugitives from justice. The applications were all regular, and returns were made accompanie d by the Sheriff's receipt for the prisoner. In making the applica­ tions Cluxton always represented him­ self as the messenger, and thus ob­ tained mileage and other expenses. He was detected the other day, and has been arrested. The signatures to the requisitions were forg.-d and doctored Don't be too modest to ask the way tc Tlie next morning, with the water-closet when you have a call 1 that way. Don't use the eyes for reading or fine fore the houses, the same day begins j work in the twilight of evening or early again. This is the daily life going on I morn. all over Western India in the village , communities of the Dakhan, among a j people happy in their simple manners and frugal way of life, and in the culture derived from the grand epics of a relig- ! ion in which they live and move and j have their daily being, and in which the I highest expression of their Don't try to lengthen your days by cutting short your nights' rest; it is pool economy. Don't wear close, heavy fur or rubber caps or hats if your hair is thin or falls out < asily. Don't eat anything between meals ex- art and civilization has been stereotyped ! ceptin£ fruits, or a glass of hot milk if j there a mot her, comparatively well-to-do for 3,000 years." i you feel faint. ! carries her infant " bound in swaddling more deeply in the ^ ^ j (jeapond to draw mileages aud expenses, ! Curbstone brokers--Men who rule the i market--in their minds -- and always ' have millions--to get. | Corners -- Expressive of the tight i pinch given short sellers on an over- ! sold market. | Highest quotations--What buyers pay | for stock. j Lowest quotations--What sellers get I for shares. | Carrying stock--Packing it from one broker to make good your overdraft with another. Flyer--A clever little operator on the side which generally bursts the main game. Limited order--Five shares at one fell swoop--largely in vogue on the Corns tock. Put--The privilege of going through and " staying put." Margins--What operators say they will never buy on, and always do. Milking the street--A dairy operation not attempted on C street--only appro­ priate for experienced pullers at the stock teat.-- Virginia City Chronicle. Neapolitan Babies. There are millions of babies in Naples -- babies enough, I judge, to supply all the rest of the world if the crop should happen to grow thin anywhere. There are babies in arms, babies on balconies, babies threatening to tumble from in­ numerable front windows. Babies in wagons, babies under horses, babies making mud-pies in the "stradas," but about half of them under 4 years of age are as naked as when they were born. I don't think there is a cradle in Naples, any more than there is a rock­ ing-chair in England; but here and THE Peabody gift for model lodging houses in London has increased very handsomely through its own income 1 since it was first made. Originally the gift was $2,500,000; now the gift is worth $3,600,000, or over $1,000,000 more than when made. The increase has been chiefly due to the income from the build­ ings. At the same time the entire ex­ pense of the management of the trust is less than $4,000 a year. Here, indeed, is a wise and noble charity administered wisely and well. It is said that the oc­ cupants of the rooms include all kinds of working people, from the common laborer and laundress to the skilled arti- WORD comes from Memphis that sheet- iron is likely to find a new use on an ex­ tensive scale in its application to the covering of cotton bales. The present hemp covering is used solely because of its cheapness, but, as it admits moisture and sand, it causes a considerable waste of cotton. A number of heavy cotton dealers have, therefore, written North How to Tell Good Eggs. ; A good egg will sink in water.* j A boiled egg which is done will dry | quickly on the shell when taken from j the kettle. ; The boiled eggs which adhere to the I shell are fresh laid. I After an egg is laid a day or more, the ! shell comes off easily when boiled. j A fresh egg has a lime-like surface to , its shell. Stale eggs are glassy and smooth- of! shell. Don't take some other person's medi­ cine because you are troubled somewhat as they were. Don't blow out a gaslight as you clot lies,"' like tlie people of Jerusalem and the American Indiaus. wiapped tightly round and round from head to foot, iike a cocoon or a cigar, and some- THE Illinois Woman-Suffrage Conven­ tion was in session at Champaign for two days. Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, of Evauston, was in the chair, and Mrs. Elizabeth Loomis, of Chicago, acted as Secretary. A number of prom­ inent visitors from abroad were in at­ tendance. A new constitution was adopted and the following officers elect­ ed for the ensuing year : Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert re-elected 'President; R. W. Nelson, Chicago, Secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth Loomis, Chicago, Treasurer; Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas and W. B. Babbitt, of Chicago, Capt. W. S. Har­ bert, of Evauston, and Hon. C. B. Waite of Hyde Park, Advisory C m- mittee ; Mrs. Fernando Jones, Mrs. W. D. Babbitt, Mrs. Helen Starrett and Mrs. Shedd, of Chicago, Hon. S. B. Castle, of Sandwich, Col. J. S. Loth- rop, of Champaign, Mrs. C. B. Waite, of Hyde Park, and Mrs. Louis Ward- ner, of Anna, Executive Committee. NEW Illinois patents: H. Ald- ridge, Chicago, car-roof; L. Ander­ son, Chicago, banjo; A. M. Bil­ lings, Chicago, system of trucks for railways; W. Bower, Olney, lemon­ ade-strainer ; G. W. Brown, Galesburg, cultivator; G. W. Brown and S. G. •Holyoke, Galesburg, cultivator; C. C. Burroughs, Decatur, corn-sheller (re­ issue) ; J. Christiansen, Chicago, wash- stand and water-closet; J. Christiansen, Chicago, sleeping-car ; J. Click, Chicago, machine for cutting circular objects ; G. Falk, Peru, elevator ; J. M. Fultz, Quincy, portable shower-bath ; J. Gra- lian, Chicago, lubricator; J. P. Hall and H. Jacobsen, Niantic, seed-planter; G. W. Hilliard, Brighton, faucet; F. A. Johnston, Chicago, extension-chande­ lier ; H. F. W. Liebmaun, Chicago, de­ vice for imparting motion to toy wind- wheel ; J. Lowtli, Chicago, lounge ; L. D. Melutosh, Chicago, galvanic belt; A. Miller, Chicago, obstetric forceps; C. C. Mulford, Streator, alcohol cock ; L. H. Page, Chicago, egg aud fruit carrier; J. N. Perner, Buda, stalk-cutter; C. A. Raggio, Chicago, cask-stopper; T. would a lamp : many lives are lost everv j times its arms are also imprisoned. year by this mistake. -- Dr. Foote't i These m'uute specimens of the lazzaroni 'Health Monthly. !are g^eraily good-natured, iike their . xl . , , ^ fathers and mothers, and where clothes I Schafer, Maroa, stovepipe-thimble ; P. An Ingenloir^fvn^imlle. I can be afforded, they are always worn-- | Schneider, Sliipmary, line-guide for har- A pair of swindlers played off in Paris j more or^ - -I- Croffut's Corre- the following ingenious trrck: A well- ^pond^n'-e. dressed man entered a tobaecoist's shop on the Boulevard Bonno Nouvelle, and after purchasing three cigars gave a five- Eggs which have been packed in lime i franc piece in payment; but after receiving his change he declared that it look stained, and show the action of the lime on the surface. Eggs packed in bran for a long time smell and taste musty. With the aid of the hands or a piece of paper rolled in funnel-shape and held toward the light, the human eye can look through an egg, shell and all. If the egg is clear and golden in ap­ pearance when held to the light, it is good; if dark or spotted, it is bad. The badness of an egg can sometimes be told by shaking it near the holder'p ear. THE name MilwaukeeTs derived from an Indian name Mahn-ah-Wauk, signi­ fying a council ground. was a twenty-franc piece which he had given, and on the woman who had served him asserting the contrary, he added that it was a piece of the reign of Louis Phillippe, bearing the date of 1846; the shopkeeper then looked among the gold in her till, and finding a gold coin such as described supposed she had been mistaken, and at once gave him the dif­ ference. A police agent in plain clothes happened however to be standing by, and having his suspicious excited, de­ termined to follow the stranger. He presently saw the individual join another man in the street, and the two went to­ gether to the Place de la Bourse, where The Wisdom of Dumas, the Younger. We enjoy thoroughly only the pleas­ ure that we give. I prefer a knave to a fool; sometimes he takes a rest. A man looks a woman from head to foot; a woman looks a man from foot to head. Never attempt to convince a -woman of anything by argument; you must resort to emotion. God would have been very illogical and cruel if, having made life what it is, He had not also made death. Those whom we have loved and lost are no , longer where they used to be, but, ever and everywhere, where we are. GLUCOSE is used for sizing paper for making printers' rollers. ness; M. W. Shafer, Freeport, coffee and spicemill; J. C. Tunniclift", Galesburg, cutter-head for rounding fellies ; C. D. Westland, Chicago, grate for stoves; G. D. Whitcomb, Chicago, rotary mining- drill • C. Whittaker, Chicago, faucet. The World's Forests. There are about 34,000,000 acres of forest in Germany (of which 20,000,000 are in Prussia), bringing in an income of $50,000,000 per annum. The state forests are taken great care of in all parts of Germany, in Prussia alone $500,000 being spent every year in replanting. The imports of timber exceed the exports by over 2,000,000 tons. Austria and Hungary have upward of 43,000,000 acres of forest; but in Austria proper the state does not possess more than 7 per cent, of the wooded area, and Austria is now obliged to buy most of her timber in Bosnia and Montenegro. Servia and Roumania have some very fine forests, These statistics give a faint idea of the tremendous amount of capital that is l>eing employed in the railroad enter­ prises of the country, and the mighty influence it would be capable of wielding in a commercial or political way, pro­ vided it could be concentrated upon a given object. But this danger is not nearly so great as many people appre­ hend who take a one-sided view of the case. Many of these great roads are rivals, and will continue to be as long as they exist, from the nature of their work and the object of their projectors. What is for the interest of one is not always for the interest of another, and the inducements that one holds out to secure trade and travel for its line ofteu force others to make deductions that inure to the benefit of the com­ munity. A great corporation is not necessarily a great monopoly, but may be so conducted a* to be » be- I neficent institution conferring and dis­ pensing blessings upon ali within the reach of its influence. The great gain to the farmers of the West, and hi the produce consumers of the East in the decline of railroad charges during the last ten years is enough to astonish the farmers themselves. A reduction of a few cents per 100 pounds upon freight between Chicago aud the seaboard signifies a saving of so much money in the pockets of the pro­ ducer or consumer. * To make this mat­ ter plain, Mr. Edward Atkinson bases somo estimates upon the business of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, and the calculation is astonish­ ing. He says: "The total saving to the whole country in the cost of moving merchandise from 1870 to 1879, inclusive, a period of ten years, as compared to the rates charged from 1866 to 1869, inclusive, has been $1,200,000,000, or $100,000,000 more than the reduction of the national debt since the war ended. In the case of the Central the charge for moving 9,441,213 tons of freight in 1879, was $18,270,550, the rate per ton per mile being . 7954 cent.i. Had the charges been as high as in 18(10-9, the transportation of the same freight would have cost $44,920,- 550, or 1.9567 cents per ton per mile. The New York Central line does about one-twentieth of the railroad business of the United States. The conclusion is obvious that the reduction of the trans­ portation tax adds vastly to the amount of capital available for use in further railroad construction and in other ways." Mr. Atkinson thinks that the farmers of the West secure a large proportion of this reduction, as the statistics of the New York market clearly show. "The average prices in that city of a given quality of flour, wheat, corn, oats, beef, pork, lard, butter and wool in 1880 were only a fraction less than in 1869. The cost of moving thirteen tons of mer­ chandise made up of these nine articles from Chicago to New York in 1869 was $185, and in 1879 $61, the difference be­ ing $124. As the New York price was about the same in each year the West­ ern producers and sellers received the gain." In most of the Western States the rail­ road corporations have been put upon their good behavior (1) by the construc­ tion of rival lines; (2) by the right of the Legislatures under the constitution to take the property and franchises of incorporated companies and subject them to public; use, the same as private prop­ erty; (3) the police power of the State can be exercised at any time to prevent corporations from so conducting their business as to infringe upon the equal rights of individuals and the State at large; (4) the power of the Legislature to annul any charter that it has granted whenever the business of the company is so conducted that it becomes injurious to the public welfare, and (5) the popu­ lar jealousy that exists in the community against the overreaching policy of corpo­ rations. Herein lies the safety of the people. FANNY DAVKNPOET calls the train o| her new silk dress " cyclone " beoanae if ' . sweeps everything before it, IT is said that spurious virus tor vae*. • cination i» sold in Philadelphia. A mail who would do that should be pitted--* •' deeply. f, MRS. Hoinsnni, who Imd somebody remark upon the hunting tlie English preserves, said that was j what her little Johnny did in hers. "IF yon grasp a rattlesnake firmly about the neck, he cannot hurt yon, says a Western paper. Keeping a block ahead of the snake is also a good scheme^ NEW YORK papers disclose that mus­ sels are destroying the oysters. The muscles most destructive to oysters, however, are attached to the New York jaw. SHE (of literary torn)--" Doesn't thfa remind yon of a lawn fete under Louis XIV.?" He (matter-of-fact)--" Beg par­ don, that was rather before my time, you " (Silence.) A BUCKS county farmer found a silver quarter in his horse's foot and he is se­ riously thinking of sinking a shaft in the animal's leg, and starting a wina -- Philadelphia Chronicle, A GENTLEMAN sat a long time, very a4- tentively musing upon a cane-bottom chair. At length he said, "I wonder what fellow took the trouble to find all them 'ere holes and put straw around W ? " WHAT in the world could that pretty Miss Gray see in old Young, I wonder ? remarked a lady. "I don't knowunlpo^ she fell in love with him as an especially old antique. She's an enthusiastic col­ lector, you know." THE father of a St. Louis bride pre­ sented his son-in-law with 80,000 head, of cattle. " Papa, dear," exclaimed his daughter, when she heard of it, "thai was so kind of you ; Charley's awfully fond of ox-tail soup." A LITTLE 3 year-old, whose mother was mixing a simple cough medicine for him, watched the process and asked if it was good. He was permitted to taste, and exclaimed, " It is awful good, mam­ ma, let's keep it all for papa." A KAN told his friend that he hafl joined the army. "What regiment?" his friend asked. "Oh, I mean the army of the Lord." "Ah, what church ?" "The Baptist." "Why," was the re­ ply, " that's not the army, it's the navy." WHO money gains through other's woeat Who's paid for telling what he knows? Who for advice gets quid pro quos ? The lawyer. Who. like G. WASHINGTON, can't lia. But always ready is to try, J If H* be paid exceeding high? ; The lawyer. » Who goea about with bag of green, And clients greener still, I ween ? Who groweth fat as they grow lean ? The lawyer. " HERE'S my wife and I," said a hus­ band, with much complacency, to his silver-wedding guests, "who have been married five-and-twenty years, and in ail that time haven't had a single unkind word with cash other." "By Jove!" exclaimed one of the guests, " what a stupid time you must have had of it 1' " WELL, Charley, what are you read­ ing ?" said a father to his son. " Oh, I'm reading 'Daniel in the Lions' Den.' " His father goes over'and picks up the book and finds it is a dime novel called •' Pete Jones in Africa." " Why," says he, "this is a dime novel." "No, pa, that's only the ' revised' of ' Daniel in the Lions' Den.'" THB story k» toW of »«anny Soot, who, having lost his wife, was receiving the commiserations of a friend. " You have had a great trial, Mr. Camp­ bell." "Yes, sir, you may well say that," was the reply. And then, paus­ ing, with a shake of the head: "Not only was it a great trial, but, let me tell you, a matter of verra considerable ex­ pense." A MAN who particularly desired to sell a piece of property made veiy flattering representations to the purchaser in ref­ erence to the eligibility of the neighbor­ hood as a place of residence. When the time came to settle, however, his con­ science smote him, and after the money had been paid over he frankly remarked; " You asked me about the health of this place, and I told you there were only hall a dozen doctors in it. Well, that was a lie. There are at least twenty or thirty." " Great heavens !" exclaimed the pur­ chaser, turning quite pale. " I know it's pretty bad," continued the real-estate' man; " but I'll strike off 10 per cent, oi the purchase money, and if you'll follow my advice when any of your folks get sick and call in the grocer's wife, I reck­ on you'll pull through aU right" GRANDPA'S WHISKERS. Grandpa likes to kiss wee 8allto; She rays no. SAYS his whiskers thick and bushy Prick her jo. , Grandpa's head in smooth and OU the top. Where the hair BEGAN to thin, AND Would not stop. Grandpa kissee; Sal lie questions. So 'tis said, "Grandpa, why uot put your whlakara On your head?" Coin and Jewelry In the Malls. On an average ^200,000 in gold coin, bullion or jewelry is sent every day as third class mail matter through the San Francisco postoffice. Half of this is shipped by the Government; the rest is private remittances. There is no armed guard or other precaution against rob­ bery, and private shipments are simply inclosed in ordinary wooden boxes. Be­ fore Secretary Sherman originated the present system of exchanges through the postolKoe, gold was charged letter rates, or S3.60 per 81,000, and its trans­ portation was profitable ; but now the postage and.registration amount to only 70 cents, aud gold shipments are a loss to tlie postal department, beside offering temptations "to criminal enterprises.-- San Francisco Chronicle. A Good Reason. "Did you hear of tliatxcase upon Mar- j ket street?" said Barber to Brewer, j when they met at the postoffice this j morning. | " N o ; w h a t a b o u t i t ? " i n q u i r e d i Brewer, interested. j "Why," said Barber, "a man lay { there in the house nine days before the family would bury him. Had the funeral yesterday." "By gracious," said Brewer, "that's an outrage. Why didn't they bury him before ? Superstition ?" " No; not exactly that," and Barbel drew Brewer's ear down toward his mouth. "That wasn't it. fie was not dead."--Lowell Citizen. The Tap of a Hammer. The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go. In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Boxbo- rough was sold. The collection con­ tained a copy of Boccaccio, published at Venice in 1471. Among the distin­ guished company which attended the sale, were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer and the Duke of Marlborough, then Marquis of Blandford. The bid stood at 500 guineas. "A thousand guineas," said Earl Spencer. "And ten," added the Marquis. You mighl have heard a pin drop. All eyes were bent on the bidders. Now they talked apart, now ate a biscuit, but without the least thought of yielding one tc another. The contest proceeded until the Marquis said: "Two thousand pounds." Then Earl Spencer bethought him of waste of powder, when Lord Althorp came to his side as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew th« tight. Father and son whispered to­ gether, aud Earl Spencer exclaimed: "Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!" An electric shock went through the assemblv. "And ten," quietly added the Marquis. There ended'the strife. The spectators stood dumb when th« hammer fell. The stroke of its fall sounded on the farthest shores of Italy. The tap of that hammer was heard in the libraries at Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of hundreds of years, and M. Van Praet groped is vain among the Royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfet Boccaccio. The Unreasonable H«b A hen is a most inconsiderate Mid unaccountable creature. Now that she can lay eggs worth three cents a apieoe, she takes a vacation and refuses to have anything at all to do with business. By- ami-by, when chicken seed are down io fifteen cents a dozen, she will put on extra help, and even work nights to flood the market. The hen is no financier.-- Springfi' !d L'nion.