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V • J * V.' ; >« "H ' •* rnrn fftointJcaltt VAN SCNUT. ESRsr art Pabllah*. MoHENRT, U." . ss ILLINOIS. L-.II. i • • , m , GBOBGIA lias had more snow jfchis WIN­ der than Illinois. The globe has «ri- dtantly shifted its girth. W- AH Irish coachman at Washington, tirho Raw Oscar Wilde, was asked what ' he looked like. "Be jabbers, he looked t£ke a big boy with his little brother's £ants on," was the reply, and the de- foription is said to be a good one. ' LIBXJT. HATBS, who lost his life with fj|ton. Ouster at the time of that fearful Itoassacre, left two orphan sisters, who )|re now in Washington in destitute cir- iiamstanoes. They have been making fcnderclothing for 10 cents apieoe in or­ der to buy bread. THK Jersey Board of Education re­ cently charged a lady teacher--through the principal--of incompetency. The Iftdy teacher put in a counter charge that the reason the principal thought her ifcoompetent was because she wouldn't ,T»t him walk home with her. Lady teacher retained. MBS. JANB GBIY SWISSKBDM says that "not one woman in 10,000 has room in­ side her clothes for the rise and fall of ttie ribs in breathing.'* Whereupon the Inter Oeean remarks that Mrs. Swiss- helm must shush around loose inside of , hers, for the has never been accused of being "short of breath." hi« food should be prepared. He eats what is spread before hiaa, and appgar^ satisfied. The domestic corps of Vhe Executive Mansion numbers nine per­ sona. This does not include the driver, footman and ushers. Miss Mary Mo Grath, who came with Mrs. Garfield, still remains in the position of house­ keeper. She has very pleasan t manners, and seems to have a thorough under­ standing of her duties. Ann E iza Her­ bert presides over the culinary depart­ ment. She is well known in the city, having lived here a number of years. The rest of the servants have been em­ ployed at the White House for a num­ ber of years. THE declination of the physicians Who attended the late President Garfield to present their bills, and their alleged preference for reliance on Congressional generosity, lookB more like rapacity .than molesty. It is like the "Just what your Honor pleases " of the hack- man who expects to get more than his Jlgalfare. OSCAR WILDB received a setback at Washington the first time he went out. He took in the House of Bepresenta- tives, and during the proceedings sent his card to Speaker Keifer, evidently expecting that gentleman would ad­ journ the House, or perhaps announce the sacred presenoe of the aesthete and notify the members to brace up. But what the Speaker did do was to send word to Mr. Wilde that he did not re­ ceive callers during the sessions of the House, and this caused Mr. Wilde to go of in a frame of mind. "How is this for cheek?** inquired J. R Davis, one of Barnum's representa­ tives, Girard House, Philadelphia, to a reporter, as he grabbed a handful of the skin on the left side of John Hoffmier's face and pulled it out five or six inches, like so much India-rubber. The repor­ ter was strack dumb by Mr. Davis' cheeky behavior, but he was still more astonished to see Hofifmier smile as though he enjoyed ,the maltreatment. Then Mr. Davis explained that Hofifmier 1 --George Eliot. is the wonderful " India-rubber man"' who has puzzled German and French savants for several years. Although the rara avis with the elastio cu­ ticle does not speak or understand English, he smiled approvingly when Mr. Davis ceased speaking, and then,,as if to sustain his reputation, pulled a handful of skin on the back part of his head around to his mouth and bit it, oovered his entire face with the folds of skin which he drew up from his throat and neck, and pulled the skin on his arms and legs thirteen inches away from the flesh. The most remarkable thing is that as soon as the skin is released it instantly contracts to its original piece, and as far as appearance is concerned does not differ from the epidermis of any healthy white person. The skin is very fair and its texture is remarkably fine--so fine, indeed, that it feels more like an infant's than an adult's. , GEMS OF THOPFLHT. ^ AM. that live must die, rsssinn through nature to eternity. NOTHING of worth or weight emu' lie achieved with half a mind, 'with a faint heart ana with a lame endeavor. # THB art of poetry is to touch the pu- sions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. H STOCKIST is the homage vice pave to virtue. » Tats right of private judgment -is ah. M>lute ni tresj American cttizefc.^-<?4r> nela. ' I STJPPOSB all phrases of mere compli­ ment hare their turn to be trtia. A man is occasionally grateful wheu he sera 4 thank jun."--George Eliot. path* that lead to a vottti'ilm Pity « the stralj[ht««t.--FleicJn •. * a very wise man that believed ™ ̂ 8 man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not car© who should make the laws of a nation. Uss; every man after hie desert and who should 'scape whipping ? THE children of to-day will be the architects of our eouhtry's destiny in 1900.--Garfield. 3 Fqucs a* have no mad to be o' we have allays'the look U4>e tt* o' the road when there's anything to be No WALLS n fair a* thai* »nr (Inelw baild • Tlew* *° bright a* thow our Tinions gil<l i' _ --0. IT. iialnMW. ViCB itself loses half its evil by losing all its grossness. WHO ever knew truth putto the woree, m a free and open encounter ? --Milton. . THE touchstone by whioh m<>|1 try ns u often their own vanity. How many lessons of faith end beauty we should lose if there were no winter in year! JUDOS POSTER'S quotation from the novel of Ouida, where she makes a. character say: " Let me be the ugliest man in Europe,' rather than remain in mediocrity among the medium, plain faoes. There is not a hair's breadth difference between notoriety and fame. If I could not be Alexander I would be , Diogenes, If I were not a great hero I would be a most ingenious murderer," was most pat, and as complete a de­ scription of Guiteau as could ba given. Not, perhaps, that he so reasoned with himself, but his whole thought aud ef- ort was to make himself notorious, aud what he called great. To do that no ac- wss too vile and no crime too heinous for USm to commit | THE Cheethams keep a boarding house ' in Brooklyn. According to Mr. Cheetham he found himself in a dispute with his | wife the other morning, during which he remarked that her mouth was too big, and he saw blue flames coming out of it. j Thereupon he ran to his room, into which she fastened him with a strap. I , He oontrived to ran out and strike at' I her, forwhieh she gouged him in the | cheek. Her story, as told in the Police I j Court, differed from this. "My hiis-• j band," she said, " came down-stairs and , : accused me of being too free with Mr. I j Lobe, a German boarder, and of having ! s*ud' au revoir,' which he defined as 'good I I by, sweet love, until we meet again.' In the evening when Mr. Lobe came I I home I asked him to take up the in«n!t! I my husband had put on me, but my hus- jband wouldn't fight. When I found | that Mr. Cheethain would not ti^ht with a man, I very gently poured six glasses of water down his back and one tumbler of vinegar to preserve bim for future reference. He immediately got up 'tT^ i stmck me. I caught hold of his whiskers | and gave him a squeeze. He then said j I had gone t^ a picnic with a young man, j I asked him to take that statement back, and he refused. I then proceeded to " ~ ! box his ears. 1 asked him again to take t umnrL0**Z eift has been proffered j ifc back) and he 8ttid. am ^ny, my jewel, but it is the truth.' I boxed his ears again and gave him a third chance to take back what he had said, but, as he still refused, I gave him a still heavier j box on the ear. Your Honor, I don't j know how to ffght, but I can everlast- ! ingly catch hold of a man and squeeze I him so that he cannot give me a black 'eye." - ' to the city of Baltimore by Mr. Enoch Pratt, President of the National Farm- en' and Planters' Bank of that city. At » cost of over $1,000,000 he proposes to establish and endow a free circulating library for the benefit of the entire city, provided that the municipal corporation will create an annuity of $50,000 for the perpetual support and maintenance of tile library and its branches. Mr. Pratt has already contracted for the erection of a fire proof building which will cast $225,000 and will hold 200,000 volumes. This building, together with the site, he will deed to the city, and will make a cash donation of $833,000, subject to the provision bv the city of the annuity of $50 ,000, the institution to be known as the Pratt Free Library. THB Dofris murder at St Louis recalls many local reminiscences of the Dorris family. One of these relates to the late Gen. Dorris' passion for gambling. The Globe-Democrat says: Who has not heard of the famous Dorris row on Olive street, between Eleventh and Twelfth, of which it is told that it was lost and won n a single night, at the or'nary game of poker? Who has not heard, in one way or other, that wondrous tale of the play A Boston Girl In Chicago. I feel that I am very far from Boston. I realize that I am many miles nearer the line that separates civilization from the land of savages. And into these Western solitudes I have brought a vol­ ume of Herbert Spencer to refresh and cheer my mind. He always fascinates: an<l the fact of his being still unmarried has something to do with it, for you know there is a halo surrounding the eelibate which marriage utterly de­ stroys. As in most philosophical ques­ tions, it is useless to ask why this is so. We can only observe the working of the phenomena, but not its canse. But truly, of Spencer I never tire. His ideas of the higher life are so consoling--the development from an "indefinite, in­ coherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity." What could be truer or more conclusive ? Perhaps the illiterate mind might be staggered by the unusual combination of polysyllables, but we who are cultivated can appreciate the subtle significance of a definite, eoherent heterogeneity. His ideas of of Gen. Dorris with Mr. Lucas, on that memorable occasion? It was a Saturday • l?Te» however, are not extravagantly night, so it is handed down, when they QxW)m "»ATJ . ' ,, , . man with tender eyes and raven-lmed met. The block against $30,000 was the • • - -- - game, and, if common belief is not off, ; three nines lost Mr. Lucas his block. , Theu the story goes on to detail the call ; of Mr. Lucas on the recorder and trans- j fer of the title to the winner, who ! marched unconcernedly home to dinner j -with the deeds in his pooket This--if j not, what else?--gave to the block the i name of the " Poker Block," and to " three nines " a "Lucas" hand. At the j opening of the war Gen. Dorris was re- j puted worth a round million, and, not • ' withstanding heavy losses since then, is to-day looked upon as good for half that sum. j I Lira in the White House is thus de- scribed by a Washington correspondent: i President Arthur usually breakfasts be- 1 tween 9 and 10 a. m., and dines between ! 6 and 8 p.m. His breakfast generally . consists of two or three kinds of meat, fish, fowl, eggs, served in various styles, etcr., and dinner is served in from six to ten courses. He is not very fastidious in his tastes, although he rarely eats what is known as a boiled dinner. Since he has been in the White House he has never intimated to Steward Crump his likes or dislikes concerning the manner mustache, having seated himself by ywr side, should tenderly take your hand In his, and then assure in fervent tones that he is conscious ot a molecular change in the vesicular nerve matter of hi9 system, whose concomitant is love, and that you are the external object which has caused the change. Would an ioe bath be more chilling? An hysterical woman would certainly lift up her voice and shriek aloud. No wonder that Herbert Spencer has lived to the age of sixty without marrying. IK THE clothing bouse: » " I want a bang-up, oommon sense suit One that'll be dressy and not too good for busi­ ness." BE MOIIKI UL the noblmen (hit IIM In other men, sleeping, but never dead. Shall rise iamaj«aty to meet thlno own. m'j^ Sous circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. ^ MAKY mean things are done ih the family, for which moods are put forward ns the excuse, when the moods them­ selves are the most inexcusable things of all. A man or woman in tolerable health has no moral right to indulge in an unpleasant mood.--J. G. Holland. A GOOD book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treas­ ured up on purpose for a life beyond life. A MAN in love, setting up his brains as a gauge of his position, is like determin­ ing a ship's longitude from a light at the mast head. No MAN fully realizes what opinions he acts upon, or what his actions mean. To HAVFC failed is not much to be sad about, out to feel that you .have failed is a cause of sorrow. WOMAN'S ruling passion is to fascin­ ate and rule those more powerful she, , . BAFTURE is often cooled by contest with its cause, especially if under ward conditions. PERHAPS to a woman it is almost as dreadful to think of loosing her beauty as of loosing her reputation. WHEN men first love as lads, it is with the very oenter of their hearts, nothing else being concerned in the operation. There is much littleness in trying to be great. A man must think a good deal of himself, and be conoeitcd enough to believe in himself before he tries at all^ Tie Pot*Laek dub. At a meeting of the Pot-Luck Gtafc each male member, according to procniie, ! contributed a specimen of the handiwerk j in the culinary art, and the result was | quite novel. I "Here," paid the artist, sketching the j twentieth letter of the alphabet, 44 is a drawing of ,4T." His contribution was highly esteamed. "And lu re," siiid the;printer, prodnc- ing a hoadXui of tvpe, 4,is some *pi* of my own making." He said this in a crusty tone. "And I'v^jbrought a hot goose," said the tailor, dropping his iron on the table. He was ^retted with hisses. "And I," said the poet, with a Mileeian accent, proffering a manuscript 4'have here some tender-loins." His nffAring was voted very beeflting. I "And I hope," said a sad and timid- looking member, presenting his wife, "you will relish this 'rib.'" And then h e a d d e d i n a s t a g e o f w h i s p e r : 4 4 1 can spare her, therefore she is a spare rib." The carpenter now stepped forward and said he had prepared "a little plane board,"--placing the board on the table as be spoke. . The shoemaker said he thought some of the members needed a little brain food, therefore he had brought a 44 sole," also a "tongue." The former was pretty 44 scaly." 44And here," said a smart young man, with a goneness in his voice, introducing j his best girl, 14 is a little drunk." He was j pronounced 4,too fresh," and his girl gave him the cold shoulder all the rest of the evening. Then a newspaper hnmftrist cast his • eyes over the assemblage, called it a , "rare meet," poured somed gritty sub­ stance out of a cone-shaped piece of paper, and made Joe Miller turn over in hia prave by remarking : 44 The best I can do in the culinary line is the -- which is here." The club immediately adjourned out jof respect for his gray-haired pun, say- | ing that they didn't want any 4'taffy" > in their dessfrt.--The Judge. ' ' j Punctuation J Pnnctation is an art, ana one that has been learned in comparatively modern tinto. The Greeks did not know the '^neaning of it, and left no spnee between their words. Tlie Romans put up a kind of division without any . acparept ham, fat of meat, butter, ore am, sugar, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, beet root, rioe, arrowroot, sago, tapioca, macaroni, vermicelli, semolina, custard, pastry and puddings of all kinds, sweet cakes. May drink tea, coffee, cocoa from nibs with milk but without cream or sugar dry wines of any kind in moderation) brandy, whisky or gin in moderation without sugar, light bitter beer, Apol- linaris watwr, soda water, seltzer water. May not driuk n .ilk except sparingly* •porter *nd stout., sweet ales, gweet wines. As a rohv ^<*»holie liquors Growth - of Our live Stock «ad Mn ' " • Interests. By the statistical returns of -the cen­ sus of 1880 there are in the United States 10,356,996 horses, 1,814 108 mules, 999,092 worWa'g oxen, 12,442! 137 milch cows, 22,463,562 other cattle, 51 - 1-3.903 sheep, and 47,688.371 swine. Of these the increase has been in milch eows between 1870 and 1880 from 8 935,332 to 12,412,137; of other cattle from 13,566,00® to 22,466,562. The ag­ gregate of cattle iu 1870 was 23,830 008 and in 1880, 35,877,791; an increase of 12,Qui", 183. In the ten Northwestern States the increase has been quite extra­ ordinary in the last ten years : HISTORICAL. Michigan............. OIilo. ...v.....*,..... Iadiftna.U, ...... Illinois Wisconsin ........i. Mlnnoftote, ........... Iowa......'. Missouri Nebraska..... ' 3M,5T3 767,0*4 S04.'.HI 865,915 478,874 275.539 864,097 •81.409 4!B^M 1«1,««« ToU> 9,289,856 5,371,831 Or an increase of 63.3 per cent. Ten years ago there were no more than 3,. 000,000 miloh cows in the ten States of the Ohio valley a id the trans-Mississippi. There has been in ten year§ in this ter­ ritory an increase of more than 2,000,- 000. The enlargement of dairy interests in the West has been double that of the East In 1870 the aggregate amount Sroduced annually was: Of butter, 514.-i2,983 pounds; of cheese, 53,492 153 pounds ; milk, 2.53,500,599 callous sold in the market and to factories. In 1880 the product of the dairy had increased nearly threefold, and milk had increased more than twofold. Iu Michigan the yield in 1870 was: Batter, 24,400,185 THB Spanish Celts raised temples fload saaig hymns of praise to death. A single day, at the dedication of the Cokxsamm by Titas, 5,000 pemhed. AUGUSTUS solemnly degraded an over- Oirew the statue of Neptune because his fle.-t bad been wrecked. r Tae favorite rtiaxim of Philip n. of Spain was : 44 It is better not to reign at aU than to reign over heretics." TOWARD the end of the eighth century lhe sale of slaves beyond their native provinces was in most countries forbid­ den. ![ At THB beginning of the fourteenth [ century the church for tbe first time | gave i>e r mission for lhe dissection Of hu­ man bodies. MEGBET, the friend of Charted XII., exclaimed at the instant of the kings death: 44The play is over; let us go to supper." MARCUS AUBELETTS, by compelling gladiators to fight with blunted swords, rendered the combats to* a time com­ paratively harmless. Sous troubles seem to be brewing in CJashmere, the Maharajah of which has Jeen suspected of intriguing with **»•> Afghans and Russian*. IN THK year 630 A, U. C., Cains Grac- ihus caused a law to be made supplying P® poor with ooro ft prico wiMt it tie more than nominal. ' - SM FRANCIS DRAKB called his own plunder of towns in the West Indies, and lestruction of ships on the sea, <4singe- ngf the beard of the King of Spain." AT ONB porcelain manufactory in lapafc the elny nits have been worked •or more than 2,000 yews, and the de­ posits seem scarcely more than scraped. OK T®B death of the Emperor Otho, who is j^aid to have killed himself to "oid being the cause of a civil war. loihe of his soldiers, filled with grief and' tdmiration, killed themselves before his sorpse. . y AT THB time of the introduction ot postage stamps by Sir Rowland H*ll, he estimated that the increase of letters posted on the 14th of February, was not less than half a million throughout the United Kingdom. THE triple wall which formerly sur­ rounded Constantinople, and which He lost. Between Qnaemtomi and Liv­ erpool he offered the waiter two sover­ eigns if he would shave ofjf hia chin whiskers. There *ra« no indication th«t tbe man gave the offer the slightest consideration ; yet, when the next was served, he appeared with mutton- chop whiskers and pocketed his two sovereigns, saying, ' Thank you, sir," with a face as grave as an owl.--Prog­ ress. .... ILLINOIS NEWS. J**- tritityEPOB* 18 * 1,0 lightedi >leo- A NEW gas oompany is to be organized in Chicago. . THE floating indebtedness of the city of Springfield amounts to $7.65. CrAiiRNA will be ornamented with a $2,000 soldiers' monument, erected by Jo Daviess county. A PEORIA firm reoently made a pur­ chase of hardware stock, for amounting to $100,000. THB country roads leading to Spring­ field are again in a horrible condition, and the city streets are worse than hor­ rible. A VALUABM horse stolen at Gamp Point, Adams county, three years ago, has just been recovered. It was found in Missouri. IT is said that Emma Abbott offered $500 to have the Peoria Opera. House called the Abbott Opera House, and the offer was declined. GRAVEMNO Peoria county roads been commenced. Twenty-five thou­ sand doUars is appropriated for roads, equally divided j" hp*ililered nuute >l seeinc jvam . • ku,<J aud 8 7 % t rJSut jnst to iilagiit me then you nid : " Bat reeti#' you mu»t n- k pnpa," ' Bmnmuf Thongh wfcil you know he'd let jrondo TOUT vUfc IPU teaso--you know yoa an. What trader wooin* scene* ire had la rmtrnnlwa for neither »i»oke: pwuomi™^ Our partinjr*. ah! how glow and nd • parlor chairs we broke! " tm M, Mqrcna Your IM<r Ijk ltd gulden hafcr ai«n»li> 1 (he a ehnrm Your baby skin, BO soft aad fair, TOtir Irab raoldeti band and arm; ™ But cromiiig alt this beauty cornea a IfUbenfaib rerti»jj bar-- Your coiisciousncM makca it the |>re«ty, but--you know you an. Yon While I wx»«d ^ou'd lore me all your dm! wurocaat eye and blushing cheek, how I live about 73,200,355 ; cheese, 670 8J4 1 V I re M*h°met IL, formed pounds; ill 188D, 2,012,418: milk, 2 277 - 11^ ,i1mliree»able defenoe. Tlie 822 gallons; iu 1880, 4,355,614. ' ' u ' ' In Ohio iu 1870; Butter, 50,266 372 pounds; ift 1830, 100,53^704; cheese. , present Sultan must have its value in mind, as he is having his own palace and garden Burrounded by three similar waliB. WHRM Pope Pias IX. died in 1878, he bequeathed to his successor the conflict with Russia defeat of the French in 1870, 8,169,048 pounds 1880, 2f -• §07,144 ; milk, in 1870, 22,275,304 mU- lons; in 1880. 44,550,608. In Illinois, in 1870, butter, 36,083,403 u -- -- POUIMLS; in 1881), 108,250,215; cheese, in • UItramontances, opposition against Italy 1870, 1,664,703 pounds; in*880, 4,984,- I *°d G<fmnny- The situation has now 109; milk, in 1870, 9,258,545 gallons; in !- Russia and Germanv desire *>W<» Ittr.ltiMA ' -- 11 -1880, 18,517,090. In Indiana, in 1870, butler, 22,905,385 pounds; in 1880, 68,846,155; cheese, in 1870, 283,807 pounds; in 1880, 851,421; milk, in 1870, 930,d83 gUlons; in 1880, 1,873,966. in Iowa, in 1870f feufclefc, 25,519,179 pounds; in 1880, about 76,536,537; cheese, in 187'), 1,087,741 pounds; in 1880, 3,251,523 ; milk, iu 1870, 088,800 gallons; in 1880. 1,377,600. Reward of Industry. A poor friendless lad might have been seen wandering along the streets looking for employment. He presently halted in front of a butcher shogyNid. walking ; boldly up to the |}^r^riettnppned-fer job. There was somethingln the young man's frank, honest countenanoe, Whi(£ struck the proprietor favorably, j " Not afraid of hard work J'1 lie asked, I " No," responded the lad with a j trembling Toice. " I have supported my ! mother and two sisters for five years by i hard work." j Ho was put on trial at $5 a week maul- j iog leatliety berf. Hid hie atardgrfmnra and healthy oonstituticm came Is gootf ' ^lay.; One day an old lady cams in to j jfspme beef, aud the pconnetpr iold : attend to tfte cuStotnef. " * -m to "A tenderloin steak, if you please," •aid she. " Here's a cut that nobodv but the , first famUies get," responded the boy hours in milk, over their faoes, to diapel smilingly as he sliced off four pounds of ; the parlor incident to dissipation. In peace with the Vatican. The relations of the Pope to Italy and France are not greatly changed, although the former Vatican ns a municipal affair, and the French government has drifted into almost open hostility with it * ' TenetUn Extravagance. The eztravaganoe of women in their jewelry and dress brought ruin on many a household, and from the sumptuary laws of later history we gather tho ex­ tent to which the evil had run. As an instance of female eccentricity in Venice, we may mention the high-heeled boots they wore. Invented originally to keep their dresses out of the mud, the»» boots grew into such an excessive size that the soles and heels were frequently over a foot m height, consequently a Venetian lady had great difficulty in locomotion, and required two mnid servants and two men-servants to accompany her in her walks as a support from falling, aud to prevent this folly and unnecessary ex­ penditure, frequent statutes were passed, but, says one government decree, "the ladies of Venice pay but little heed to our orders." Into their baths these de­ votees of fashion would throw musk, amber, aloes, myrrh, cedar leaves, lavender, mint, etc, their pale cheeks they would rouge with paint, aud during the night they would place slices of raw veal, whioh had been soaked for several method. Up to the end of the fifteenth century only the oolon and tho commit were introduced, and the latter at that time only as a perpendicular figure. We are indebted to Aldus Manatius, an eminent printer, for the comma as we have it now, and in 1790 he introduced tbe semicolon into printing, and pub­ lished a set ot rules for the guidance of writers. It is not known by whom notes of interrogation or exclamation were m. xt • a. iv v „ , first used, but inverted commas (") were " That s just the cheese. Everv way brought into common use by a French equal to custom made. Nobody H know' ' ' * " - • the difference, and a third less in price. short, hundreds of strange reiipes are extant for preparing in unguents to make their hands Mid feet soft, to make their nails rosy and their skiu glossy. In the tough round and cast it with a heavy hand on the eoaleo, jamming i| down with a quick, dexterous movement, until the indicator marked six even pounds. Then he snatched it off before the deli­ cate machinery, used to weigh beef, had time to recoil. "Six pounds and a halt, madam," he said, looking her square in the face with bis clear blue eyes. Tbe proprietor of the stall called hi™ in that night, and remarking that t» had . ^ watched his course carefully, Jjddei that ! jewels, or, of the finest crystal, as a reward for his quick, comprehensive would alofte satisfy their taste. Dearly A WILL was filed in the Peoria County Court, not long since, containing a sen­ tence composed of 196 words. It was written by a young lawyer. ' TftE prinoipal of the public school at South Abingion, Knox county, was vin­ dicated by a jury trial, last week, for the whipping he gave a bad boy. C. C. AXTELL, of Warren oouuty. a sucoessful bee farmer, has at present 200 stands of bees, and marketed, last season, a produot of 6,000 pounds. IT is said Ttliat the emigration from La Salle county, of farmers, to Iowa and other parts of the West will be larger the coming spring than for years. _ A SEWANT girl in the employ of M. K. Olds, of Minnesota, poured oil in a stove and succeeded in burning down Mr. Olds' fine residence. Loss, 88,000. UNDER the apportionment proposed there are so few losses that the bill will probably pass. Illinois by its operation would gain two Congressmen, and there­ fore would be on .a par with Ohio, which, gaining one, would have a rep­ resentation of twenty-one in the House. Illinois having twenty-one Congressmen, Cook county would be entitled to'four. THBHB lads who fell into the hands of the St. Louis police finally admitted that they were runaways and lived in Peoria, 111., where they had been un­ mercifully thrashed by their teacher at school. This outrage, as they termeait, had caused them to leave their homes. Charles Green gave his age as 11 years and his brother as 12, and Frank Thom­ as as 12. THE Mayor of Chicago has ordered all the gambling-houses closed on Saturday night, on the ground that it is the day upon which artisans and laborers receive their wages, and that this order will prevent the gamblers from preying upon them. He lias also directed the police to prohibit tho gambling-bouses from setting forth lunches, and froth either selling or giving away liquor. THB town of Brookfield, La Salle county, owing repudiated bonds of $50,000 voted as aid to a railroad com­ pany that never performed its contract, has for years elected town officers whose duty it was to dodge legal service. The Town Clerk, who has for a long time been in the .Black Hills, was, however, ; last week found at home aad served I with notioe of arrest at the instance of I the JlStna Insurance Company, owning tho bonds. The jfijtna figures up prin­ cipal and interest at $105,000, but would accept $79,000 and call it square. ILLINOIS began her political career under̂ warrant of Patrick Henry Dee. 12, 1778, he being then Governor vi Virginia. Tho Territory was created as one county, and the warrant directed to sec'oaion of their rooms the Venetian "John Todd, County Lieutenant Com- ladies gave much time to music, and to singing of madrigals ; they took but lit­ tle exercise, exeept in gondolas ; they delighted in chess, and even in ibis modest pastime their extravagance was unlimited, for richly wrought gold and silver men, set with chalcedon, jasper, quick, oomgkrehen: grasp of the business he would raise his salary to $25 per week. This shows the advantage of doing everything well, and when the boy's mother back in New Jer­ sey henrs of his success there will be joy in that household. Young men starting out i| life should learn to adapt them­ selves to their surroundings and never let an opportunity pass. Tribune. Appetizing1. Sydney Smith said: "An excellent and well-ammged dinner is a pieas> >*«g ooeurreiMvs, And a great triumph ot civilized life. It is not #nly the de­ scending moreel and the enveloping sauce, but the rank, wealth, wit and i jeauty which surround the meats ; the learned management of light and heat; the silent and tairid services «f the at­ tendants ; the smiling ^nd sedulous host ^roffbring relishes ; the exotic bottles ; the embossed pi ate ; the pleasant re­ marks ; the hand-ome dresses; the cun­ ning artifices in fruit aud farina. The hour of dinner, in short, includes every- tliing ot senauid and intellectual cratifi* cJtion whicljf a great natiun glomes |n did they love all gabies of ehafites, foi many authorities tell us, that in Venice cards were first invented : tarocchi was the favorite "game, Jbr 'which eleganU/- dsafcgaed cards wp»e executed sud stamped, m tlie law demanded, with the Seijatbrnal.pesmissio^. . It wae opt long before the evils of gambling manifested Salt Lake 1 themselves, for a decree of the council ' of ten, in 1506, prohibited games of chance, the eale of cards and dice, obliged servants to denounce theii masters wh<? had gambling parties in their hortsee. Yet this most have been repealed, for nowhere did gambling go to greater lengths than at Venice in later yeajs? the Ridotto and Gasini o! Venice were far greater hells than even Monaco and Hombur^--Fraz«rf% Magazine. mandant." An, excerpt from Gov. Hen ry's instruction* will be read with in­ terest to-day. "You (Todd), in your negotiations with the Indian^, will con­ fine the stipulation, as much as possible, to the single object of obtaining peace from them. Touch not the subject of lands or boundaries till particular orders are received. When necessity requires it, presents may be made, but be frugal, and let them know that goods at present is scarce with us." How, in the race for manhood, Illinois has outrun eleven of the original thirteen States, let the Fed­ eral census for 1880 demonstrate. 0,'r U «"** And well you knew it was not true. nmniacJ <|uette--you know you are. »* 'V At y°n coolly turned asid« sad calmly that w-e must part; You gm,ke of something petrified, which you pleased to term your heart, With utter hne<ll<"?Rn« sM you placed*ur HTM loves, upon a par-- . „ Voa said unmoved wr'rf never ItM. hi littl* --Jou know you are. .^ 1 We,U.h * broken ,M«t. >' feMtl tboogU , then that'twas so, ^ • V a y*irPMI"rt' ia that art to drowa droTn^11 shroud I met a Weli«| " . . . Pn «»»»» you by far, ,v. And well 1 see she cannot be the *rmnt flirt ' Know you are. --Cambridgt TWf imi.^ .*. '~J1~-- = i? >,f 1 ; * * PITH AlfD FOIST. „ . was just as bitter at thtf v heoodqnered. * • ? ; A DOG can keep tip his pants without the use of suspenders. WHEN an old actress paints her hav- « tf* look young she is np foe loip 1 time. • SoMBmen never go to churoh for feat'*'* their shoes may squeak as they w»)tt ^ • down the aisles. ^ A BOSTON man proposed to start 4"^ '• paper and call it the Umbralia, becaus** > everybody will take it. ' ' The Prince of Wales, it is said, haf J reoently taken to American whisky, and , ^ is row iuldressed as " Your Kyenesa." ; 1 & THK man who says that woman ha never invented anything should li&te_ for a few minutes at the keyhole of th# ' sewing society. ^ ^ A MAN in the suburbs calls his wife * *,• "Shadow," because she iscontmuall#' '̂ following him around. He is afraid ci^V h i s o w n r h a O o w . « ' - • AN exchange wants to know "whether , L our colleges turn out gentlemen." Ger- f taiuly not; the gentlemen are allowed • i to go on and gnuluate. »' ^ , THEKE are seven school superintend^ * ,, . ents, tweaty ministers, twenty-six phyat^" , icikns, four lawyers and three editors ot'*> •?' * the feminine sex in Kansas , , " ? ' ^ THB Parisians have eaten 250 jaolh' ssses this year. It a Pariseune saya,, 1 > ^ ^ you look good enough to eat, you wiU ^ know how to value tlie compliment "' \ , ""i A GERMAN complaining of the over- *- - shadowing inluenee of militarism: ^ the effect on your children ; if we havf^ ^ handsome, well-made boys they join thf 5* ' % I military; if . girls, the military in£i| » them," . "V: ; AitAzr man, having a wife name Hope, whose custom it was to pull her husband's boots every evening, *wa|c wont to exclaim on such oocasions " How truly it is said that 4 Hope is th*. r. ". yanker of the sole.'" . SMITH--" I onee possessed a splendid . - dog, whioh could aiwaya tliwtjngrninh be^# *" tween a vagabond and a respeotable pepj * son." Jones--'* Well, what's beoome of him? " Smith--*' Oh--I was obliged t<f > give him away. He bit me." . , ,,» A MiiiiiioNAim, who was looking at* f / level tract of land which he had just- / • , bought at an extravagant price, said t+ - -; the agent who had sold it to him : "f / do admire a rich green flat." "So d#!? 11" significantly replied the agent. ^.Thk Canadian Indians are organizing brass bands, and can no linger bfti,«. - classed with the uutootered sitvage^, • *f This may iu a great measure account fafe,, y t h e r e c e n t s t a t e m e n t t h a t C a n a d a r e » r r ^ gards her Indiiui policy as a failure. ' 'l n , , ^ A YOUNG lady admitted to hermammt v, ' that her beau had kissed her on cheek. "And what did you do? " aal the old lady in a tune of indignation.' . "Mother," said lhe young lady. cannot tell a lie; I UuneJ the othec : J J cheek." • ,> " ONB of the best presidiiig officers w# ever saw," says the New York Stm, "was a page in the House of JRepre^;, , sentatives at TVusiuugton, who used to>' . « p^ucjag. 1 What the Photographer Ssys About Widowers. "What are they?" the reporter in- qitind. • -vr V- ^ / > " Those," answeted llr. Sou by, " are photographs of dead wives. They were brought here a long time ago and the bwners have never returned for thetn. These you set,here el* not a quarter of what I have had. They began accumu­ lating at suoh a great rate that I had to A Prpduotire Battle Ground* Hundreds and thousands of old sol- ; P** .th®^ U,P iu boxes and stow them diers, l>oth Confederate and Federal, la the lumber room. They were will remember Missionary ridge, near ! . ^ere "J" husbands, and, my. you Chattanooga. It is the site of one of I™* .?n?bt, 806 tlie 9orrowful and Same thing made up would cost you--" " H'm ; yes. How much have I got to pay for an overcoat to match ?" "I can sell you an overcoat. There, ain't that a daisy 1 Silk lined, for $--to you, you know.' " Got any o' them thirty-seven cent suspenders left I'm ooming all to pieces ?" Dealer does him up a pair in a hurry, and forgets to ask him to call again.-- Neat Haven Register. IN the latitude 40? heavy snows are more likely to occur in the last half of January and first of February than earlier. Erinter to supersede the use of italic* ut the English adopted them to specify quotation. Excess of Fat. The following is offered as a diet for excess of fat. 'The patient may eat lean mutton and beef, veal, lamb; tongue, swet t bread, soups not thickened, beef tea and broths, poultry, game, fish, cheese, eggs, braid in moderation, greens, spina«lv weterores#, jnustard and cress, lettuce, asparagus, celery, radishes, French b^mvs green pea% Brussels sprouts, .cabbage, cauliflower, onion?, broccoli, sea-kale, jellies fla­ vored but not sweetened, fresh fruit in moderation without sugar or cream, pickles. May not eat fat bacon and most decisive bittlesof the war--ragged, »ky |teep, .|»og^ soil af"any part of the taule land, a*iuT was, until recently, regarded as woitliless. For what pur- pose men ha!d it was not known by themselves, or anybody eise. Three or four years ago its lands would not bring over §2 or $4 an acre. Now the ridge is covered with orchards, and the profits are suoh that ao laud can be bought for less than $40 or $50 an acre. It is thus old ideas give way before new condi­ tions aud new infusions of brains and energy. ,, How It Works. Everything bears hard upon the poor. The rich man who puts nothing into the contribution box, Sunday morning, is at onpe supposed to have left his pocket- book ia his other tratssii; but the poor man who lias but one suit of "Mhfj can't get off so easily* ' . • . r BATS always shew off the wiags ff flies before eating then. - IV- % ' "»*»'- pitiable-looking faces they brought wath j them! The poor men would come in j and, with tears in their eyes, present j photographs of their deceased wives and ! ask for portraits of them. ' Spare | neither pains nor money iu making the r'ctures,' they would say, and, of course, would follow out instructions. The pictures were finished, but never called for, and hence it is that you see this collection. Some of the men have gotten married aud the others, I sup­ pose, have forgotten that they ever wanted portraits of their dead wives. Perhaps they think it wouldn't do to let a seoond wife be confronted constantly with a picture of a first wife."--New Orieans Times. He Never Similes. The English waiter never smiles, or, if he does, nolxpdy ever catches him at it. the matter by saying : " Brethren, don't Newfoundland As England's oldest colony Newfound­ land is worthy of notice. Discovered in the reign of Henry ViL and incorporat­ ed with the realm during the time of Elizabeth, its history is replete with curious facts and abounds in instances which illustrate the difficulties which are to be contended against in the colo­ nization of a new district. According to the accounts left by those who were among the first to visit the new acquisi­ tion, the land was fruitful, the fishing wonderfully fine, and the presence of mineral ores which were discovered in the soil promised much for the subse­ quent prosperity and wealth of the coun­ try island. A railway in the interior, a system of general education and other modernizing modifications have been 8uccessfally introduced. As regards its mineral wealth Newfoundland now occu­ pies the sixth place in the list of copper- producing regions, and other minerals, such as gold, silver, nickel, lead aud iron ore, are found in moderate quanti­ ties. The fisheries are, however, the important object. A Minister's Predicament. Daniel Webster had an anecdote of old Father Searle, the minister of his boyhood, which is tob good to be lost: It was oustomary then to wear buckskin breeches in cool weather. One Suuoav morning in autumn, Father Seark j brought his breeches down fro.n the garret, but the wasps had taken posses­ sion during the summer, and were hav ing a nice time of it iu them. By dint of effort he got out the intruders and dressed for meeting. But, while read­ ing the scriptures to the congregation, he felt a dagger from one of the en raged small-wiii&led fellows, and jumped around the pulpit, slapping his thiglis. But the more ho slapped and dauced, tbe more they stung. The peoj le thought him crasy, but he explained stand behind old Gov. i'enuuigton, Mew Jersey, when he was Speaker, tell him what to do.'1 A CANDIDATE fur the office of Auditor J ? of Public Accounts wtis suddenly Called,r -«§ 1 upon for a speech. On rising, he com- * menced : '*Fellow-citizens, you have; ^ colled on me for a few remarks. I h<tve j - < K ~ none to make. I have no prepared ^ " speech: Indeed,. I,am no speaker; * f have no desire to be a speaker--I only S "' "9,-l want to be Auditor." LADY from the country--"Tm xny son keeps very irregular hours in town." Servant--" No, indeed, ma'am; my master retires at 9 and rises at 5." Lady--"Indeed,! And what does he do j, with himself ?" Serv<nt--"Breakfasts, % ma'am." Lady--" What! at 5 in the | morning V Servant--** Oh, no, ma'am; at 5 in the afternoon." MQBIBOND husband (to esthetie wife) --" Well, Jennie, the doctor says I must soon leave you. l>o not grieve ; I have provided handsomely in my will. You ^ will keep my memory green, won't you, my love?" Eothetie wile (sobbing)-- " Dearest, I will; and 1 will see that your grave is kept green also [reflect- lvely], but not one of those horrid bright m $;4i M' gray green, with m. wilt look too While on file City 6f Bome Bufus Hatch wagered $10 thtt he would l«ihg a smile to the face of the waiter at his table be- f<L«e.the steamer sighted the Irish cpast. be alarmed; the word of the Lord is in my mouth, but the devil is in ray breeches J" Webster always told It with great glee to the ministers.. * . - 'I colors. A nice an old-gold toi awfully lovely fj A YOUNO delivei<<o himself in a asked the 1 "• <6 elerk if he the room. "Yes," was pipe was ^ hauled out anal^^^^HPu was busily ' e n g a g e d i n b n i l o i p j H K m u s i n t h e a i r , - » S when the Judge laid a fine of |S upon him. " I thought you said I oould %>,- irnoke here ?" inquired he indiguantly of the clerk as soon as he got his breath, . '/?• " I did," was the reply, as that busy t V] officer proceeded with his minutes^, V 1% " didn^ you smoke ? In Twrrrpffrffli nn ftmnfinaa six] ftiwiga patente relating to chemistry, published uiethe Proceedings of the American Chemical Society, we find the following inventions mentioned: A method of making articles from waste amber by treating the pieces with solvents and sub­ jecting them to prsssore; a process of obtaining the petlojnes of natural flow- ers by absorption, the flowers being steeped in vaseline which takes up the essential oils and is thus transformed into a perfume; a new fuel ousurisring of coal-dust ground with Ume and formed while moist into masses of convenient sisa and shape; an illuminating oil made up of petroleum and a sma'l portion of chlorofoim; and a plastic mass called tripolith, whioh is a substitute for piaster of Paris and is said to have advantsees o*er that sui«Uneeb ]wesuniably foru* ttoe oif aeulotora At' x'- i