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* * : • ' ••'V. . ;c«rj; paittdwlci 1. VAN SLVKE, MMARAML McHENEY, ILLINOIS. SSfAHimvalids resorted to the hop-fields in Central New York at the season of picking last fall,and expressed the opin- . ion they derived great benefit from the odor given off lay the blosaoana. -- • «JS, Coii. JOHN S. MOSBT is said to have ' -written home to a friend in Alexandria, g- Va.. that; a good dentist could make a fortune in Hong Kong, China, in leas than ten years, as .good dentists are now ||Uard to find there, and the charges for t|toiy kind of dental work are enormous. :'IJ. MAJ. WILLIAM ARTHTTB bears no re- fcemblanoe to his only brother, the Presi­ dent. He is in his 38th year, and has a complexion, full faoe and light f>rown mustache. During tt\p last five ^reara h« has been stationed at Omaha, t Paul, Fort B|iford and Helena, T. ; . . 4 THB Hon. Jonathan Ohanoe, of Rhode Island, is said to be the only Quaker in |Oongress. On taking his seat in the |House he affirmed instead of swearing) 'find from the gallery his wife and two ^daughters,. clad in gray, with demure !;»' -Quaker bonnets, looked down upon . Jiinx. • I, * *2$ " | AN innocen fc-looking young servant Sly" girl kept her employer's family in a V ' flight for six months, at Norwich, Conn., •ft* "* l»y ringing the door bell and rapping on W>> „!< , the windows at unreasonable hours. I They were sure that a ghost was about, I , land it was only after watching for twelve ?!/•„ iuights that a detective solved the mys- ||-/" * jtery. ' ' I': THB late census of Japan shows a total £• -population of very nearly 36,000,000. , The Mikado and his family are shown at 'the head of the Biatistics as twenty men jiand* seventeen women. Yeddo, of the fastness of which the old geographies "used to tell such tales, contains only , 057,121 inhabitants. Kioto approaches ' it closely with 822,098, and Osaka comes next with 682,668. IK"- in fact, he wanted to be tooth­ less and use false teeth instead. He in­ sisted on chloroform being used, but the dentist declined to administer it. How­ ever, a physician was finally sent alter, and Draper went out after a friend. The dentist appreciated the danger of the operation and tried to argue Draper out of it, but without success. Draper re­ turned with a friend shortly after the physician arrived. The chloroform was administered, but after extracting the upper teeth the dentist noticed a deathly pallor about the man's face, and, exam­ ining him, it was found that he was dead, and all efforts to resuscitate him were unavailing. TUB FAMILY D0CT0B. marrying or giving in children of the land, the girl* , went out having got married that ail the others at once, which was they are thrifty and their neighbors sky tl most of the work.! A , St •A : Tn following is recommended fat inflamed eyes: Borax, half a dram; camphor waler, three ounces. The above simple prescription is in common use by the highest medical authorities. It makes a wash unexcelled for the treatment of inflammation of the eves. In using it, lean the head back and drop ! a mile in length,! be. three drops in the corner of each, and i wit'i the turf neat then open the eyes and let it vurk in. j *ide, was said to Use it as often as the eyes feel baaly. j Large numbers ot " FOOD and Health " recommends, as be seen in the fieid^ an antidote against infection (in small- *» 'Manitoba, pox, scarlet farer and diphtheria) the -- 1 Jk~ fumes of boiling malt vinegar. It is | What Constitntq k i with the St some of lea, but one r-r went forth return home . As a race lustrious, but Fthe women do M|II ditch about fully dug, and ted up on each tomtiu's work. ILIjfNOK claimed that "they dispel infectious par- i We hear ifc 8om.,ti: tides rapidly and kill their virulence, ' ft member of Cougrei inated no great m particularly if used in time. Where these fumes are used windows and doors AN advance summary of the quarterly rep9rt of the Kansas Board of Agricult­ ure announces that the total value of the twenty-two field crops raised in 1881 is $91,910,439. or more than 30 per cent, greater than in any previous year in the history of the State. The two that con­ tribute the largest share of this immense total are wheat and corn, the former maMag $21,705,275 and the latter $44,- 857,963. la prodactiop, average yields were not so large as. in 1880, but the in­ creased price of farm products made the harvest of this year much nft>re valuable. The report says : " While it is true that the long-continued dry weather and the armies of chinch bugs did immense dam­ age to the crops of the State during 1881, . ,, , . wmuows ana aoors ti»n to originate * should be closed and not opened for | destroyed the u-ef about twenty minutes. After this time the fresh air can be freely admitted. measllI»s« When these fumes are used repeatedly , ImemefromtiS™ will vrnieUj b. kept off." * r45e SerrS! Z THERE is no law in this country to 1 of the other twentieth prevent the consumption of hot bread but the law of common sense, and un- fortunately that is a dead letter M A governing principle in the lives of a great many people. That hot bread in nine cases out of ten will produce dys­ pepsia is no newly-discovered fact, and especially is tl.ia terrible result sure io follow persistent indulgence on the part of those whose pursuits are quiet, in- member of Congress. many members see ' keeping their names than by Thd ninth annual meeting of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association was held at Dandee, Kane oounty, Deo. 14, 15 and IA There was a good at­ tendance, and a number of interesting papers read. O. S. Cosoon, of Bdvidere, read a pa­ per on *' The Cow as Queen," in which were aiso to j be showed that much of the prosperity p. Ptof. Grant, of the Northwest was due to the cow; "j that now cheese was selling at 8 cents, butter at 45, and milk in proportion, Congressman. while other farm products were not objected against commanding such prices. The cow had that he has "orig- long since supplanted cotton and corn, The arnbi- and must ultimately stand at the head measures" has £>f the list of agricultural products. less of many a Etslage a d silo were tl e i taken up. Of these " great B. H. Broomell, of Aurora, read a paper intieths never giving the history of ensilage both in ittees to which Europe and America. He believed that e greater part it was the coming feed, not only for rejected. Yet dairymen, but for stock-raisers, being better way of ] cheaper than hay and more Jiighly lore the public ! relished by cows. the introduction of " great ; g. J. Oatman, of Dundee, followed which ne\jfr pass beyond with a paper giving his experience in building a silo, the only one in Illinois. ffaabcrot Mhocfei «nrr>n«d , Teachpr* employed New school bourns built Illiteracy FINANCIAL nmii. Receipt* Expenditure, including ] .<10,140,555.99 . 7,706, 656.68 measures the primal state or ikislation. The f member of Congress w b attends to his j ^en opened' in November the cows business, watches thef Interests of hia relished the feed, and soon learned to constituents and of th<j Country, guards the treasury, gives 1b support to the purity 0 government aJjftd against its I doors and sedentary. And yet the re- j corruption, who »pei is j formers, or those who call themselves j : such, the men and women* who work ! | themselves into white heat over the sale : j of a glass of cider, will go on year after*, j year, not only making no outcry against 1 j this pernicious indulgence, but* actually ' yet there need be no immediate appre- j themselves up day by day with \ , I Uie hot and poisonous gases of the oven. | the present and the fei when he has something to say, and tl o speaks to the body which he addros ss , not to Bun­ combe, is far more fafluable than he whose vision is so strained upon "great measures" that have ing accomplished ant reached, that he overk ARTHTTK CHAMBEBS, the prize-fighter, varied the monotony of a sparring ex­ hibition in his Philadelphia resort by introducing Peter Johnson, whose feat of strength concerned his stomach. Johnson delighted the assembly by making a meal of two dozen rawoystera, a pound of sugar, a bar of yellow soap and a gallon of beer. He aspires to the title of the Human Ostrich. I MASK TWAIN complains that some­ body in Australia has been personating him there where he has never been in his life. Becently he has received a letter thence asking if he was dead. He inks the impostor has even gone te agth 'ot djidf for him, whinh is what he wouldn't have done for himself. If he" will only stay dead, he says he will call the account square and drop the grudge he bears against him. A iitrridt Ohio girl, making a con­ tribution -to the Garfield monument fund, addressed a quaint lette# to " Mr. Committee," in which she efeid: " I am a little girl 7 years old, and I live five miles from Hiram, our dear Presi­ dent's former home. Now, my Uncle Oscar, living in Cleveland, said I could not spell hippopotamus. He bet me a dollar/' I won the bet. It is the first dollar I ever earned, and I would like you to please accept this as a token of love to our beloved President Garfield," hension that the farmers are in want, when it is ascertained that the value of $122,450,406 is divided among them this year." LAVISH expenditures in public build­ ings for Paris entirely departed with the termination of Baron Haussmann's offi­ cial career. Baron Haussmann, after being first authorized to spend $35,000,- 000 in the embellishment of the city, ended in 1869 with an expenditure of the enormous total of $120,000,000. It is now said that the new postoffice and Hotel de Ville will cost, when finished, $14,000,000, and that the Church of the Sacred Heart on the hill of Montmartre at least $5,000,000. Of the Opera House, which is not yet completed, the cost al­ ready has been $10,500,000. Some no­ tion of the outlays which have been made on the Hotel de Ville maybe learned from the fact that the estimate for doors, window frames, glass, fire­ places and locks alone amounts to $140,- 000, while about three tunes that sum is set down for art dscorations and fur­ niture. On the four outer walls of the building will be placed in niches no fewer than 106 statues, each six feet in height. All will represent persons born in Paris who have reached eminence in various walks of life. This servant of the housewife can be made as terrible a stomach destroyer as the distillery, and the sworn foes of the i prospect of be­ little of being b'ks the practical, jrible. If every member of Congress were to originate some great measure " during his term, we should hate an average of a eat it with avidity. The increase in flow of milk was perceptibly noticed soon after they commenced feeding. They used common white corn. It cost them $1 per ton to put the ensilage in the aila A lengthy paper on ensilage from Dr. A. S. Heath, of New York, was read by Bee. McGlincy. The Doctor is enthusi­ astic on the subject. The dairymen visited the farm of Jesse Otman & Sons, near Dundee, where they inspected a silo and ensilage, and watched the cows eagerly eat their rations. The dairymen almost unani- l^tter are apt to .be jts best patrons, hundred and fifty " great measures " in , favored the system of preserving the House, and a round dozen in the ! v„,i n,:„ i Dyspepsia paints the nose and sours the temper as surety as dram drinking, and many sufferers from the former, though by their own willful acts, inveigh the most loudly against the latter. A. well- defined ease ot jim-jams is the climax to a course of intemperance, and warns the victim that his alternative is death or immediate reformation. But the dys- Senate, annually. Think of the ava­ lanche of debate that would follow. Three hundred and sixty-five days, of twenty-four hours each, would not suf­ fice for the talk, or if the irrepressible orators should obtain leave to " print," the fyongres8ional Record would swell to such proportions as to affect the price * •» j lv QUvU UWllO DO W V v v**v *vvi pepsia that hot bread, mince pie and | of paper. Think of four hundred men, ; kindred abomination cause has ho sud- | den warnings. The man who uses them I goes on making himself and those | around him wretched, and refuses to acknowledge that he is a sinner above good and bad, wise and foolish, nccom plished and ignorant, bursting and over­ flowing with the advocacy of some "great measure" to be launched upon a suffering Congress, and an af- those whose lighter faults he fiercely i flicted people ! "The number of meas condemns. ures, great and small, introduced into A BABY is a very tender, thing, people the Forty-second Congress was 10,698, say,' but most of them are very far from I of which 634 became laws, and the other knowing how tender. Imagine how | 10,064 went to the general limbo of most nereous you are in certain states--when recovering from illness, say, when the fall of a book or the slam of a door A boa been introduced in the Legislature of Kentucky which provides that a convention to revise the constitu­ tion of the State shall be called if at the next August election it shall appear that a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition shall be in its favor. The present constitution, which was framed in 1850, prescribes an impracticable condition for calling such a convention, which is that a majority of all the voters in the State shall vote in its favor. The supporters of the present movement rely upon the inherent right of the peo­ ple to alter or reform their Government at such time as they may think proper. " GATS" furnishes this pen portrait of the new Attorney General: Brews- j ter is one of the most eccentric men who ; ever appeared in a national Cabinet. I j know him pretty w ell. Imagine a rather j graceful man or tlw medium a»a©, f with small feet, flexible ankles, well- | turtted limbs, and the figure of a French | aristocrat. I might make this descrip- j tion more vivid to a very few of your readers if I would say the figure of a ! Philadelphia aristocrat of seventy years | ago. This body is alVays carefully | dressed. William Pinkney, in his most j gorgeous days, never paid more scrupu­ lous attention to his clothing. Mr. Brewster always wears gloves in the street or in his carriage, and knows where they are instinctively. His shirt- cuffs and collars are invariably spotless, and you may sometimes find raffles in his shirt-bosom or peeping out of the top of his shirt. This is particularly Pinkneyish. Brewster, with his blue coat and brass buttons, wears a buff or white vest of rich material, and gaiters cover his feet. He is a couttier in all his aspirations. If he undertakes to call you a swindler and a murderer he will do it with.the grace of a fencer to whom the rapier comes as natural as the makes you quiver and feel faint, as if some one gave you a blow. A puff of wind will set it gasping, its little fcreath blown quite away. A noise will make it shiver; a change of summer air makes it turn death cold. A baby is the most nervous of beings, and the tortures it suffers in going to sleep and being awakened by careless sounds when "dropping off" are only comparable to the same experience of an older person during the acute nervous headache. Young babies ought to pass the first months of their Uvea in the country, for its stillness no less than its fresh air. But where silence is not to be com­ manded, baby may be soothed by fold­ ing a soft napkin, wet in warmish water, lightly over the top of its head, eyes and ears. It is the best way to put AEMNIA WTIWW IO I* «••• ->>«!•» tried hundreds of times with a child so irritable that f>arogoric and soothing sirup only made it wide awake. "great measures." The most useful member of Congress, those who best serve their constituents and the country, are not the most frequent or the longest speakers, or the continual originators of "great measures."--Providence Jour­ nal. Immigration Statistics. The total immigration to this country from 1820 to 1881 amounted to 10,808,- 189. The year 1820 is the genesis of our statistics, as previous to that time no statistics of immigration were officially green fodder in this way, C. Adams, of Dundee, read an excel­ lent j>aper on "How to Manage a Dairy Farm for Profit." C. H. Larkin, of Elgin, and R M Patrick, of Marengo, gave their views on the necessity of the States fostering the dairy industry, just as it does the horti­ cultural interest. R. P. McGlincy gave a longthy and interesting report of the transactions of ! the Elgin Board of Trade for 1881, ! showing sales of over 10,000,000 pounds i of cheese and nearly 4,000,000 pounds of I butter, of a total value of over $2,000,- 000. Officers were elected as follows: Dr. Joseph Defft, of Elgin, President; R. I P. McGlincy, Secretary; R. M. Patrick, j of Marengo, Treasurer ; C. C. Buell, of j Rock Falls; Israel Boies, of Genoa; j Gen. L. B. Parsons, of Flora; E. H. Seward, of Marengo; N. Eldred. of Gil- ! man ; H. C. Edwards, of Dundee; Isaac H. Wanzer, of Elgin ; H. W., Meade, ot Hebron, and C. H. Larkin, of Elgin, were elected Vice Presidents.' During the session the dairymen were entertained by an interesting address by Gov. Cullom, from which we make the following extract: Illinois was made a State in 1818-- now nearly sixty-four years ago--with a population of 40,000. We have grown Balanm t Amount paid teachem 0,773,245. M In regard to the statistics presented^ on the subject of illiteracy the State Superintendent is not satisfied as to their accuracy. It is found difficult to get school officers to report closely upon this subjeot, and hence the figures pre­ sented are much less than those pre­ sented by the United States Census Bureau. The fact is ascertained that illiteracy is more extensive among the males, and that the main cause is at­ tributed to the negligence of parents. But few in the State of Illinois can in­ terpose as an excuse for illiteracy the inaccessibility to the public schools. In these latter years of progress they abound plentifully in all localities. The statistics in regard to the number of persons under 21 years of age and of [ those between the ages of 6 and 21 are * evidently taken from the census reports, I and therefore are not a faithful showing j for 1881. The number of pupils enrolled in 1881 is about the same as in 1880. That there is no more is accounted for from the fact that there is an increase in the number of private schools and the at-! tendance at the colleges. The number of teachers employed in 1881 is less than the number embloyed in 1880, which is a gratifying evidence of educational ad­ vancement. It shows a growing disposition not to make so many changes in teachers. There are places here and there where schools frequently have two or three teachers in one school year, which always results in there not being much teaching done. In the number of school houses built in 1881 an increase is shown over the number built in 1880. The financial exhibit of 1881 n represented by larger figures than the exhibit of 1880, the receipts reach­ ing over 81,000,000 and the expenditures over $7.500,000. > Vang years of peace atilksd tfce WiH gra««i> qat*er where th« light «a* wwi; IUmh of blowtotn, lightly blown asunder. Drop down white petals on the silent gnn; , For life id kind, and *wect things grow tmbiddtSr Turning the scenes of strife to bloomy bow«jr»; One only know* what eecreto may be hidden Beneath this cloud of flowert. > N Poor heart, above thy field of sorrow ' For smitten faith, and hope untimely vlaift,, V'ave thon the »oil whereon thy dead are lylUt To the poft emiViiht and the cleanging rail*} ' ̂ Love work* in ailence, hiding all the trace* , : Of bitter conflict on the trampled sod, ,;S' ; And time shall sliow thee all life's battle-plSBifc VeUed bj the hand of God. PITH AND POCff. kept. The total number of Jmmigrants ! Jo 8,078,769 in 1880. We have gained for the years ending June 30, 1880 and | in lofiAii naorlv Krt 4100 HAP unmim 1881, will be seen bv the following 1880 457,257*1 1881 669,431 i By far the largest number arrived at j New York, the figures of the Bureau of j Statistics showing that at that port the total arrivals for 1881 next on the list in Huron, Mifh. Ill,170. There are where the arrivals w» A "fine ' Baltimore, 40,017; Boston al be wet and laid over its ! town M^s., 41,018; and Philaclelphia 34,865--leaving 41,491 who arrived at A towel would head, the ends twisted a little until it mad$ a sort of skull cap, and, though baby sometimes fought against being blindfolded in this way, live minutes usuaily sent him t>ff into deep and bliss­ ful slumber. The compress cooled the little feverish brain, deadened sound in his ears, and shut out everything that took his attention, so that sleep caught him unawares. Teething babies find this very comfortable, for their heads are always hot, and there is fevered beat­ ing in the arteries each side. The Chicago Timet says : Dr. John Forman, of this city, sent a note to Com­ missioner De Wolf, containing a clip­ ping from an English paper, showing the death-rate from small-pox in Lon­ don during the year ending May 29, 1881, as reported by the health author­ ities, among vaccinated and unvaccin- ated people. The numbers covered are so' large as practically to eliminate the element of accident, and shows, in a way which argument cannot, the value of vaccination. The figures below show the number of deaths in 1,000,000 inhabit­ ants of the two classes : Lowell Mill-Girls, 014 Style. The home life of the mill-girls as I knew it in my mother's family was nearly like this : Work began at 5 o'clock on summer mornings, and at daylight in the winter. Breakfast was eaten by lamp­ light, during the cold weather ; in sum­ mer, an interval of half an hour was al­ lowed for it, between 7 and 8 o'clock. The time given for the noon meal was from a halt to tlirce-quurtors of an hour. Tne only liouis of leisure were from half- past 7 or 8 to 10 in the evening, the mills closing a little eiirlier on Saturdays. It i _ cooking-spit. I remember a year or | W]i8 au imperative regulation that lights ^ migrants of the year ended June 30, L.i v.-*-'- • ghouia be out at 10. During those two j rpjjg distribution, as regards Eu- when it was too cold for thirty-three other ports. A statement as to the ages of the immigr nts for the year 1881 will be interesting in this compilation: *• Under 15 years of age 1U,480 Fit teen and utider*0 yaar* of ag»..... 454,495 Forty years of age and upward 61,456 It is worthy of note that by far the greater part of the immigrants are men under 40 years of age, or, in other words, of men who, if they remained in Europe, would be subject to military duty. It has been estimated by careful statisti­ cians that of the 10,808,189 immigrants who have come to the United States since 1820 up to June 30, 1881, Ireland and Germany have furnished over 3,000,000 each. The totals for the seven grand divisions, made by the Bureau of Statistics, are as follows: Europe 527,441 Ariu. 11,982 Africa 25 America .127,635 IKIKI.'ISof the Atlantic......... Island* of the Pacific.......... All other ixmntrio* uud inlands 159 in population nearly 50,000 per annum aince we became a State. The area of our State is 65,405 square miles. It is larger than Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland com- bmjikl. Ite surface is the most level of e IAU&M. with perhaps two excep- •While &r9m year to y«*ir the usiuess of our people is changiu# and Ws- i becoming more diversified, vet the foun­ dation of the wealth of Illinois is our rich, productive soil. Illinois, according to the census of 1880, produced more corn, wheat, rye and oats than any other State in the tfnion. • In comparing the productions of Illinois with those of the United States, we have reason to con- gratulate ourselves that we live in a tate that produces such a large propor­ tion of the entire cereal crop of the country. The census figures are ss fol­ lows : SIUHFIN. Corn in the United State 1,784,hoi.fiSS In Illinois 827.796.895 Wheat ir, the United State*............. 4S!V>!H,Ai)5 In Illinois.. . #l,'3t>,455 ,OutH in the United States.. 407,919,71 'J In Illinois. Rye in the United State* In I11ITM>:*.. ,F8,121.r»81 Barley in the United States <44.n9, >79 In lliinuio 1,2293.93 These figures show that Illinois pro­ duces about 18 percent, of the entire corn crop, 11 per cent, of the wheat, 15 per u o,» cent, of the oats and rye, and 3 per cent. l'o98 ! of the barley, which is certainly a credit- M'J1 I able showing. This State also raises moro horses and hogs than any other there are but three States Patents. New Illinois patents: JamesW. man, Chicago, ventilator wheel or fan; J. W. Blogett, Chicago, loop and lock- stich sewing machine; James Brady, Dixon, cultivator; C. B. Brainard, Joliet, frame for supporting and stretch­ ing woven-wire mattresses ; J. Burton, Geneva, manufacturing sized paper; G. E. Buschick, Chicago, boiler furnace ; D. Carskden, Chicago, machine for separat­ ing ores; L. W. Craney, Chicago, con­ vertible table and bed; Thomas H. Hodge, De Kalb, barbed fence-wire; S. Elliott and T. B. Jeffery, Chicago, sew­ ing-machine ; C. D. Field, Chicago, magazine-stove ; P. W. Gates, Chicago, j machine for breaking stone and crush- j ing ores ; W. W. Giles, Chicago, drilling- ! mathine; W. Hayden, Chicago, needle- j bar for sewing-machines; N. W. Holt, Chicago, dust-collector; A. J. Hull, Sterling, pump; James W. Mc- Donough, Chicago, telephone; B. Phelps, Moline, corn planter; B. Phelps, Moline, check-row corn-planter and check-knob for corn-planter; J. v. Seem, Macomb, clock-calendar; P. H. and T. A. Sprague, Cornel), pump- plunger; D. Sprecher, Richview, nut- lock ; J. E. Stoetzel, Peru, hearse and coffin barrow; L. M. Summerlield, Mat- tooh, carpet-stretcher ; L. M. Summer- field, Mattoon, shirt; D. C. Thompson, Chicago, bellows; James Thompson, Chicago, box-joint for sewer-pipes; J. A. Thompson, Chicago, boot and shoe strap; K. Tysdal, Lee, mitten; D. F. Van Liew, Aurora, grain-car door; O. Wahl, Chicago, vacuum-pan ; A. Wem- ufe, Chicago, tft&chine for cutting grain ; G. L. Williams and H. Bundl( Ed- mtftlaville, billiard-cue. The Pawn Shop in China* China knows all about the pawn shop, and tiie uses of that dubious establish­ ment. But their monetary transactions are conducted in a manner much more favorable to the borrower--that is, the public--than among ourselves. Not only is the interest charged less than one-half that paid here, but the care taken in storing the articles pledged is much greater. Indeed it is the usual practice for people to send their winter You can tell dog-wood by ita POSSESSES great cobbler. THE latest definition ; A naturalist--- One who catches gnats. THE EC AU temperature is what dlfr* , gusts a man with every climate/ SHIP Captains ought to be'gooddaae- ers, because they are good'skippers. ' ' * ' WHKN a tenant wishes to hold his ' dwelling for another year he re-leases it. THE phrenologist is a man who can­ not do" his work well uilleas he feela right MURDEB on the high C is * occurrence among a certain clf£& of so- i prano singers. I THB Empress of Austria wears a train | thirty feet long. There a*e probably I no train-robbers in Austria. • I A FASHIONABLE yOUItg lady, like VSL ! inexperienced printer, makes a great I bustle in correcting her form. i WEBSTER was an esthetic, because he ! enthusiastically says in his dictionary^ J that the verb "speak" is too utter. , ! A KAN can get into good society Leadville if he hasn't had the jim-jama ̂ . but he'll have to stand being regarded as rather fresh. • . ^ ? ^ , CASSAGNAC, the French editor, haa " fought 110 duels. He has thereforeTOtt'W-It!®! as much risk as a man who haa played three games of base-ball. " Do NOT marry a widower," said tha old lady. "A ready-made family is lika* a plate of cold potatoes." "Oh, I'll* Boon warm them over," replied the dam> sel; and she did. MISS SWISSHKLM says: "If men wora boots at all the boots should reach to the waist and be fastened to a belt.** Think of a man with such boots having* i the jim-jams, (fceat snakes! " No," SAID Mrs. Goodington, casting * her eyes over specs to the silhouette qt her lamented Dauiel. "I can't say as f like to see a man too stout, but just little inclined to petulancy, you kmm.* IN « garb that was guiltless of colors , She stood, with a dull, lmtless air-- • creature of dumpa and ot dolors, ., ^' ' • % But most nndeuwbi} fair; . v( The folds of tier garments fell round mt\' Brveaiing tlio curve ot each limb; Weil-proparti iiied and cracvful I found ter Although quite alarmuigl; thin. - --ffta Whit er. "MRS. JONES has sent to borrow mj bonnet, and I don't want to loan it to her. What message shall I return?'* said a lady to her husband. The reply was clear and prompt: " Tell her ai# has your good will, bat cannot half your fixtures." " I'M not very proud of yonr progreaa in school," remarked a New Haven mother to her son, who was struggling along in grade five. "There's Charley Smart is way ahead of you, and he isn% as old." " I know it Teacher said he'd learned all there was to learn in my room, and that left me without anything to learn." IN a primary school, not very long ago, the teacher undertook to convey to her pupils an idea of the use of the h|* phen. She wrote on the bhwkboam "Bird's-nest," and, pointing to the hy­ phen, asked the school: "What ia tn§A for ? " After a short pause, a young am of the Emerald Isle piped out: " PhuM\ ma'am, for the bird to roosht on." A GENTLEMAN called to consult a phy­ sician with regard to a rheumatism which caused him much pain. The doctor immediately sat down and wrote clothes to the pawn shop on the appear- i him a prescription. As the patient waa ance of spring, and their summer gar- j going away the doctor called him back, ments when the cold north winds begin j "By the way, sir, should my prescrin­ to blow. They are in the habit of doing j tion happen to afford you any relief '-it, 'i Vaccinated. ATI a?ca over 20 90 Between 30 and 5.61 Under 5. Unwucinated. Ml age* over 30. Between 30 and 5... 4,520 Under 5. 6.950 "J)®. M. G. MuXiHALL has an article ti the Contemporary Review for De­ cember, giving some interesting facts as to the average wealth of the British people. He estimates that since 18(10 the British people have built 1,500,000 new houses, have rebuilt or replaced 800,000 old ones, and are 50 per cent, better lodged than in 1860. The aver­ age rent of each house is £43 per annum in London, $15 in the rest of England ̂ nearly £15 in Scotland, and a little un­ der £A in Ireland. He finds that each inhabitant was worth £180 in 1860, near­ ly £220 in 1870, and about £250 in 1880. The ratio of paupers was 4 per cent in , 1870, and 3 per cent, in 1880. A. Mr DBAPKH, bailing front Hammond, Ind., entered the office of a Chicago dentist and desired to have all his teeth extracted; two ago sitting before one of the hotels at Long Branch with Mr. Brewster in the pleasant evening, and heard proceed­ ing from his lips one of the most delight ful voices I ever listened to. He seemed almost a professional conversationalist, so easy were the changes from one thing fo another, and the general pitch of the thought and sentiment so high. He seemed like one of those rare Irishmen you sometimes find in London or Dublin, who, with the poetry of their country have the English feeling. The Decay of Babylon. In the early Christian times, the site of Babylon was nothing better than a marsh. This condition of the soil was owing to the entire neglect of the sys­ tem of irrigation on which Babylonia depended for its fertility. The canals in connection with the Euphrates hud long been filled up, or become choked with the neglected deposits of ages, and the water, spreading idly over the sur­ face of the ground, produced malarious fens, fatal to every species of healthy vegetation. The largest of these canals, which connected tt\e two great rivers of Mesopotamia, was opened again by the Roman Emperors Trajan and Severus, and Julian's fleet passed through it from tiie Euphrates into the Tigris ; but the decay of Babylonia could not be ar­ rested. Scorpions and serpent^ infest d the remains of Nebuchadnezzar's pal.nce when Benjamin of Tudela visited the countrv in the twelfth Christian century, and in still later ages the very site of the proud city was a matter of doubtful speculation, of which the natives of the Mesopotamian plain knew as little aa the visitors from distant land& Dr. Holland's Last Yersea. The following verses appeared in the Youth's Companion, over Dr. Holland's signature, ana they havtf a peculiar in­ terest, in view of the fact they were the hut he ever wrote : It life awake and will never On the future's distant shoN. ', awrf the rote of lore aud the lily m PSMS Shall bloom there for evermore-- Lat the world go round and round. And the suo sink into the sea; m Slee whether uader the grolee^ Ok, what will it mUtmr to MT Germniiy 21il,4t^ Sweden Gilir.t tar. -"iwitztsrlaud., Greece. • 1"'Turkey IU Europe. Hungary -- Ita j 16,3< j Total, Europe..537,441 mm'.'. MI . evening hours, the girls to sit in their own rooms, the dining-room was used for a sitting-room, | • • where they gathered around the tables, and sewed, and read, and wrote, and studied. It seems a wonder, to lp°k . back upon it, how they accomplished so i Denmark. »,ir.it i>iaud much as they did, in their limited allow- ! Franc s^a. ance of time. They made and mended their own clothing, often doing a £;ood deal of unnecessary fancy work besides. They subscribed for periodicals; took booki from the libraries ; went to sing­ ing schools, conference meetings, con­ certs and lectures ; watched at night by a sick girl's bedside, and did double work for her in the mill, if necessary ; and on Sundays they were at church, not differ­ ing in appearance from other well- dressed and decorous young women. Strangers who had been sitting beside them in a house.of worship were often heard to ask, on coming out, "But where were the factory girls ?" Lowell was eminently a church-going Total v v #»,43i i State, and From this statement it ia apparent that ! which exceed ours in number of cattle-- Europe furnished five-sixths of^ the im- | Texas, Missouri and Iowa have more. The number of horses in this State, ac­ cording to reports, is 918,909; cattle, 2,045,366; tons of hay, 3,484,242, valued at $24,184,087. rope, was as herewith given: England. fi.%177iMn.ta. Ireland. 72,3421 Netherlands.. LVUM: N-u'way 1,0'iT1 Portugal Isle of Man. •;IKoninanla.... Austria. 31,110 titmsta Begiuni Fiulapd 1 s,svr 33,705 171 80 4,80ft 176 6,614 4S4 <8,7isu 11,393 73 Illiuois Public Schools. The public schools of Illinois an per­ haps of more importance to the people than all other public interests. Fos­ tered and supported by the State, they have grown into a vast agency for good to the common weal. The citizen who icrvea popular education contemplates The Plate Where Cats Can't Live. with a feeling of pride the public-school IBodie (Cai.) Free Press.] system of Illinois. The office force of Jim Townsend, of Lundy, haa been the Superintendent of Public Insbruc- making some experiments with an or- tion is now taxed with the matter of re- dinarv domestic cat. It has been re- viewing and revmng th« re/^rt® °f -- ' County Superintendents for the year It has been peatediv stated that a cat could not live I County Superintendents lor it an altitude of 13,000 feet above the i ending June 30, !881, sea. Mr. Townsend has demonstrated ! compiling them for the biennial report. he „nd mother^Uemjm J* I .. I though the remains in » h»U-digest«l j this, not because they stand in need of money--far from it; they may be at the moment at the height of affluence--but simply because the pawn shops afford the safest, most convenient and generally the best wardrobe they can procure. Not only do they obtain the advantages of this depository without payment of rent, but they have also the use of a certain amount of money, which, as a rule, they are able to lay out at considerable higher •interest than that which they have to allow to the pawn-broker. That the arrangement does not tend to the undue advantage of a class of usurers, but real­ ly benefits the community, is proved by the result; for although China has been called the land of pawn-broking, there are fewer unredeemed pledges therc(than in any other country. Thus the. Impe­ cunious Chinese have all the advantages advantages attaching to a pawnshop, with none of the inconveniencea which people in other lands endure. Trichinas. After all, it seems, ninety-nine-hun- dredths of the apprehension abotit tri- cliiute in pork are groundless. M. Ke- bourgeon, inspector of slaughter-houses at Paris, has been making a series of exhaustive experiments on the subject. He fed raw triclii nosed pork to dogs, | rabbits, rats, doves, himself, his wife I 11 nd children, and was unable to detect ' any fevil effects from it. He examined, microscopically, the tissues of several animals so fed on trichinae meat, but ceived are as follows: Person* under 21 Between 6 and 21 Vumbar of schools. Pupils enrolled Teaebi-rs employed....... New school-houses buUt Illiteracy riMAMCIAI. EXHIBIT. _ _ ascent of Castle Peak, which is a little pice ; and the hush of the old-fashioned over 13,000 feet high. They took with Sabbath had there a peculiar charm, by them a cat, Thomas, thai was a year old, contrast with the week-day noise. The and had lived at an altitude of 6,000 feet mill-girls not only Cheerfully paid their with no symptoms of disease. Mr. pew-rents, but gave tfifeir earnings to be Townsend had the cat in a box, and as built into the wails of new churches, as HKy went up he took observations and Ke . u the population increased. Their contri- noted very carefully its ©very movement. ^ Expanded, including butions to social and foreign charities also When the summit was reached they were noticeably liberal. Whakthc*y did pitched their test. This was about two fer their own families--keeping a little j o'clock in the afternoon. The cat par- sister at school, sending a brother to col- : took of some food, and after playing for lege, lifting the burden of a homestead an hour or so, fell asleep and did not please lpt me know, aa I am myself .suf­ fering from a similar affection." THE humorist of the Haivk-fiye, Bob Burdette, feeling in a penitential moofl' stands up in meeting and accuses hint* self as follows: ^ fi I accuse myself of various and nxaaegy . ous faults. B .< I accuse myself of a love of ease. m I accuse myself of a hatred for work, v *" ;•] I confess that I have a good voice 1*3%'.:i ^ sleep. . . -I S jt"'t I accuse myself of throwing a quaf|.. ,,4' ^ of ink and a box of pens into the Saf v quehanna river. f I accuse myself of wishing those wei® all the pens and that was all the ink iil the world. I accuse myself of spending all my postage stamps for cigars. I accuse myself of wanting to be cadi* ier of a Newark national bank foe about fifteen minutes. ^ That is the kind of a duck'I afll, ghostly Hawk'Eye, but I promise ftfc better. f : I promise myself that every day. I make more promises in half an how than I can keep in ten years. I can't imagine where all mv promisea go. I can't keep them, but I am posir tive nobody else takes them. A stranger may Retimes, b^M never does it again. / „„ T So no more at piraentb ' • * r" * ' , ^ , r f- K4 The Pleasures of the Title. t ,Y. The simplest food will not suffice jg» maintain a community in mental alii phvaical health, and to produce the .. Balance on hand.. Amount paid toichera The counties from which reports have not yet been received are Calhoun, Car­ roll, Douglas, De Kalb, Du Page, Edgar, debt from a parent's old age--was done j wake up until nsar midnight. When it • Effingham, Ford, Henry, Iroquois. Ma- ietly as to pass I did recover consciousness it set up a ©on, McDonough, Pike, Vermillion, so frequently and so quietly , _ , „ , . without comment. Their independence ' howling, and a]<peared much distressed. Wabash and Washington. The footings was as marked as their generosity. While ! Townsend pitied it and endeavored to cf these sixteen counties, made from the they were ready with sisterly help for | make it feel at liome, but it was of no ; figures taken from tne previous fcnamuU one another whenever it was needed, j use. It kept up a constant moaning, j report, are as follows: nothing would have been more intolera- and displayed symptoms of having fits. , Number under 21... ble to most of them than the paupei When morning came the cat was offered j gctow«• spirit into which women who look to re- 1 food, but it refused to eat and acted even ; pUpjis enrolled latives or friends for support so easilv>fnore strangely than during the night, j Teachers employed.^.. - subside. Perhaps they erred in thfr^Sx- I Townsend says it would open its mouth j 35U rection of a too resolute self^rdiance. as if gasping for breath; would jump j FINANCIAL KHIBIT. ' That trait, however, is iTpart of the ; abont, and then go to sleep and wake up ; '-"i:::!- common New England inheritance ; and i with a start. All this while close watcn j Amount paid teachers 6f»,iO£9T there was, indeed, nothing peculiar j was kept and|every%movementjioted. j Adding tl e 1880aggregates to the ag- about the Lowell mill-girls, except that they were New England girls of the oldier and hardier stock.-->Lucy larcom to the Atlantis. ...,1,310,194 | state were abundant in the intestines. ( , j The result of his experiments completely j highest form of efforts. A people who ssks'om satisfies him that that thorough malting j live on rice will usually be found unfit to IT,8M completely destroys the life of trichinse. <J0 anything better than grow riee. I His impression is that the meat must j "Monotony in food, as in other things, remain in pickle from eighty to 100 days ! begets dullness. For all classes there .$8,867,311.06 I jrj or(Jer to kill the parasite. The French j must be something in life to look f<»- . 6,7i>6,0J6.»i j nr^r prohibiting the importation of ; warii to if men are not to become soured j .$i,07i,j74.M : American pork on account of the prey a- i an(j( constituted as we are at present,' 4,085.142.39 ]ence of trichinse has already been j©* i the pleasures of the table umst continaa scinded. . [to form aa important element among the 7, Z , 77 ~ pleasures available for man. But it the A Romantic Town ia the Sierras. [ £se of iuxur0us food be defensible on The most romantic town on the coast t these grounds, absolute waste of food, is Meadow Lake. It is close up to the ; at anv rate, produces the ill effect an mm it of the Sierras, near a beautiful lake. It grew up in one summer to be a great town. Thousands of people put thousands of dollars there. There was. plenty of gold, rich gold ore there, But the gold had a terrible liking for the rock and nobody could get it out. A few stayed the first winter. The snow fell twenty or thirty feet deep. The people made tunnels from one h<uise to the other, and contrived to get through the winter. The only way in and out was on snow shoes. The next spring , A Xennonite Scene. Mennonites intend keeping to themselves, and bare no intention of ... .'.^I WHO acjjt 4MJII i - - ~ ~ -- j iiUUiUg LI C 1WV ----o WHO Uli DUUW DIIUCS* X UC ogling At five o'clocktn the afternoon the oat : grescates of the eighty-six counties com- . everybodv ran away and the town col- died of exhan OSOBOKW but then edited a pa by his surroi nrsd by his pointed out, without any compensating advantage. The dinner at every glut­ tonous city feast contributes his quota to the already existing distress iu »OUM other part of the community. So does the guest at a charity dinner. The money he subscribes to the chanty IS merely a transfer of wealth which leaves the world neither rich nor poorer; the dinner he eats or leaves increases the poverty of his neighbor.--The Fort­ nightly Review. President Lincoln living OTOH never told ge Washington never A man ahomd be judged ing circumstances, meas- Saeai sixteen - Persons si rom the 1881 reports received, we j apg^| an&ell down. Adventurous par- would be a great admirer of Tatmagi. fee following fair estimate of ag- ; ^es have every year tried to work the ! Said Lincoln^: "When I hear a mas "*- % ' - i w v > n r u i r l l VlA IU* __ *n *1 * la! fPk» l.wk v t i'I i _ ,•. .wfcfr OA tl lia m'ANI i which may perhaps be m- Ihtly by the reports of the ities not yet received: :. 1,493,010 k ore, with very little success. The last news is that a new process haa been tri«-d which bids fair to be a success.--Trucktr (Nev.) Republican. ,V7>. -f-f* preach I like to set* him act as if he ware fighting bees. "' That's Talmag ̂to a dot. It's a way he haa of throwing hia MM into it.