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" b : W - - 1f% i * *e* * t" • , ,• *< *V-S. i* I'." cHENBY, V ANOTHER attempt is being made in the Pennsylvania Legislature to have the State indemnify Allegheny county for the losses by mob work in 1877. The amourtt asked for ft $2,500,000, i^s\e|4 of ^4|04o*0(j0,4 as last winter, and it is said that the reduction repre- «ents the portion intended for the I S THE Ohio Legislature is considering ihe adulteration of food and medicines. It is informed by a Cincinnati chemist Ok&k liver fcB0 "kidney complaints, so OMnmon and so destructive to human 1IM are largely due to the use of sulphuric acid in the manufacture of sugar and sirup. He also declares -that quinine pills are extensively adul­ terated, and that many other medicines ai^e not to be depended upon. *' THE old mathematical probrettr of ltow to square, the circle has been 4M>lved at last, as furnished by a sub- «oriber to t}» New York World. Here it. in: . ' I R C' ti B -• . i c a bus :v" . : : : T B A R E S T . C B E A T E ' , - • ' * l U S T B B „ I S T E E l * - • i; THK purchase of the main exposition lltiilding at Philadelphia by Mr. B. C. .Mitchell for •97 ,000 was a successful speculation. The cost of removing the huge structure and other expenses amounted to „ about $100,000, and the Hateriali oi which it was built have been sold for about $500,000, leaving a profit of $300,000 to be divided among Mr. Mitchell and the five other gentle­ men whom he associated with himself in the enterprise. * MEDICINE was administered to a sick clergyman on' Long Island by several of his kindly-disposed parishioners. In­ stead of giving him pills and plasters, they gave him some wood and coal, which they put in his cellar. To this they added some money, which they pleasantly placed in his hand as they shook hands at his bedside. It was agreed by all concerned that these rem- -edies were the best that could have been administered to the suffering pas­ tor. He is now convalescent. • . THE strongest man at Granite Cor­ ners, N. Y., is Stearns Carpenter, who is now 80 years old. Five years ago he grasped a twenty-four-foot iron rail in each hand and walked off with them. At ftn earlier period he shouldered a cannon that weighed 1,400 pounds, and & s, cf 4-ss tfc=* weighed 1,900. He used to go around where the neighbors were killing hogs, and when a particularly-big one was slaughtered he had a habit of twisting his fingers into its bristles, lifting the animal1 off the ground and guessing at its weight. ^DURING the war, while Sheridan was making his raid through the Shenan­ doah valley, an old woman who kept a toll-gate on the turnpike tried to col­ lect toll from the whole army, and be­ came very indignant at the jeers and shouts of the boys. She is so much encouraged by the success of other .claims that she proposes to have a bill Introduced into Congress to pay that toll with interest to date. She sincerely believes that Sheridan swindled her out of a small fortune, and threatens to get even with him yet. 1 • • • JONATHAN LOXGFEIXOW, of Del­ aware, is a well-to-do farmer nearly three-score years and ten in age. He was twice married, and finally found liimself with twenty-eight children to educate. As the shortest %wav out of this dilemma, he built a school-house on the farm and engaged a young lady .,of leas than 30 to conduct the school. This engagement continued several years, when his second wife died. After K season of mourning Mr. Longfellow turned his attention to the schoolmarm, whom he found good to look upon, and now he has solved the problem of edu- .^jifjtkm by marrying the teacher. t ••--;--;-- • ANOTHER contribution to the long list of singular presentiments is made by Mr. W illiam E. Cramer, editor and " principal owner of the Evening TF*#- consin, who escaped with painful burns from the Newhall House. During the week preceding the fire Mr. Cramer was strangely apprehensive of a coming conflagration, repeatedly said that he was afraid some catastrophe was near at hand, and gave practical proof of his anxiety by asking to have his in- $irance policies examined. To be sure, fires have been frequent enough during the past few weeks to make everybody thoughtful, and My Cramer's infirmi­ ties of both sight and hearing would natuitolly make Mm peculiarly sensi­ tive. __ •PENN8YI.VANIANS are finding out that thee State has some blue laws, as sealots in several towns have undertaken to in­ flict the prescribed penalties. Any person over 16 may be fined for using the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost in a profane manner, and it IP held that the following clause makes it possible to punish any infidel who fqqiresses his views: "If any person shall wilfully, premeditatedly and de- spitefully blaspheme, or speak looselv and profanely of Almighty God, Jesus Christ, tfceHoly Spirit, or the Script- i of truth, such person on conviction thereof shall be nenteoeed to pay a fine nofcexceedSnftlMHmd nndeige an im­ prisonment Hot exceeding thtue moftths, or either at the discretion of the court." SCOFFERS make merry over the partiality shown by Bostonians for baked beans. The Advertiser patiently bears the abuse, having become so habituated to it that it knows all the jokes which can possibly be made on the subject, 'instead of retaliating," sqys this journal, "we send our favorite viand broadcast over the world. We do not laugh, as we might, at the South­ erner for his eccentric habit of eating terrapin. Politeness has hitherto for­ bidden our remarking that the Western men keep all their tender chicken grouse for home consumption,-sending us only the old, tough hens, just before they would die Of old age. The fact is that, while the rest of the country has been making fun of us, we have been forcing them* to eat our dish at our price." BEEDER MOORE, who shot himself at Waterford, Pa., recently, because a young lady would not marry him, con­ fessed, it is said, before he died that he had sworn falsely against Charles Stafford eight years ago in charging him with having confessed that he was the person in a mask guilty of a crimi­ nal assault upon a young lady, for which he was sentenced to twenty years in State prison. A man named Mc- Gows, while dying in Michigan two years ago, admitted that he was the criminal. But no attention was paid to his confession, and the accused is still in prison. Stafford himself says that on the evening of the assault he was on his way home when he met McGows, who asked «him to change vests with him. As Stafford thought McGows' was a better one, he agreed. The young lady did not see the face of her assailant, but she had a distinct recol­ lection of the vest, which she described. He told this story in court, but the jury did not believe him. Moore, who ac­ cused him of confessing the crime, gratified an old grudge in doing so. It is probable that he will now be par­ doned. A Few Minutes in the Dublin Exposition. The Dublin Exposition is in a sort of a small crystal palace on the upper part of Sackville street. There is one large and long hall, with arched glass roof and galleries all round. At one end is a large organ and a place for an orches­ tra. From the centre of this main hall, another extends at right angles like the letter T. Many banners are on the in­ ner walls, but the flag of England finds no place there. In the very center hangs an immense extent of bunting-- the familiar Stars and Stripes. The others are mostly flags with harps on them, or the sunburst or the shamrock. An offshoot of the main hall is devoted to machinery, a gigantic locomotive, built in Ireland, being a conspicuous whiwi. A slnaaer is ntwmk !>• the evident attempt te exclude everything British. /All the cards attached to arti­ cles had printed instructions for exhib­ itors to state whether all or part of the article was a product of that island. Above the machinery hall is a picture gallery and a large portrait of the Queen, taken when she was much younger than she is now, occupies the place of honor at the end of the hall, but among modern paintings the largest and most conspicuous is one of Mr. Gray, the lately imprisoned editor of the Freeman's Journal. There are toa^y unexpected nooks around the ex­ hibition building. Just as you think you are through with it you stumble on some passage that leads, perhaps, to the rotundas, where, in a couple of cir­ cular rooms, are more paintings, and further on Irish-made furniture. In the main hall are a number of flags in glass cases lent by Mr. Parnell. These flags were used in some of the early risings in Ireland, and their tat­ tered folds are eloquent protests against the folly of early rising. At the end of this hall, also in a glass case, is the first number printed of the Dublin Free­ man's Journal, dated September 10, 1763. In its article, introducing itself to the public, it said, over one hundred years ago: "The quick and affluent Communication of a free press are as Animal Spirits to a Body-politic or So­ ciety." I thought that was rather pro­ phetic in the Journal, written more than a century before "the quick and affluent communication" of the free press began to rise the spirits of the body politic over here. Numerous ob­ jects are for sale in the exhibition build­ ing, most of them being mode by evicted Irish tenants. There were brooches arid bracelets carved out of bog oak, and first attempts at lace made by poor un­ fortunates who were striving to stave off hunger a little longer. One stand was devoted to the sale of portraits of the Irish patriots. Davitt's and Dillon's pictures seemed to be in most demand. --Luke Sharp. • W 'J; BUI Recipes. ^otefnovo oils, varnishes, resins, tar, oyster soup, current jelly and other se­ lections from the bill of fare, use ben­ zine, soap and chloroform cautiously with whitewash-brush and garden hose. Then hang on wood-pile to remove the pungent effluvia of the benzine. To clean ceilings that have been smeared by kerosene lamps or the fra­ grance from fried salt pork, remove the ceiling, wash thoroughly with borax, turpentine and rain-water, then hang on the clothes-line to dry. After, pulver­ ize and spread over tho pie-plant bed for spring wear. To remove starch and roughness from flat-irons, hold the iron on a grindstone for twenty moments or so, then wipe off carefully with a rag. To make this ef­ fective the grindstone should be in mo­ tion while the iron is applied. Should the iron still stick to the goods when in nse spit on it. To soften water for ltousehold pur­ poses, put in an ounce of quick-lime in a certain quantity of water. If it is not sufficient, use less water or more quick­ lime. Should the immediate lime con­ tinue to remain deliberate, lay the water down on a stone and pound it with a base-ball club.--Laramie Boomerang. HEINRICH HEINE, when he was a student, once wrote to a friend: "Send me 50 thalers right away, or I will starve myself to death at your ex­ pense." ef Ohm. Ww IK K«IMy;«rrMn. aylwfla, ti ttt ltnu Thinly, M, IMS, w «•» MB (H. DM* iMn MB. CHAIBMAN--'There are many reductions in the rates of existing duties proposed by the bill we are about to consider wldeh my individual judgment does not approve. I fear they may be found in practice to be ao great as to embsxrass or suspend important industries, and, by thus restricting the de­ mand for labor and impairing the efficiency of our productive power, will put Ameri­ can consumers of articles at the mercy of those who, by reason of the withdrawal of our competition in any particular industay, will have a monopoly of our markets and may, as they have hitherto done, control prices therein. Nevertheless I shall support the bill in all its features, submitting amend­ ments to its text onlv in case I Rhall be in­ structed to do so t>v the committee over which I have the honor to preside In all legislation upon the tariff of a coun­ try with a population exceeding 50,000, UJ0, with continental dimensions and resources unparalleled alike in their abundance and diversity, a spirit of compromise most large­ ly control in the maturing of such bills. This bill as a whole is, in my judgment, the most perfect tariff bill ever submitted to the American Congress. It proposes a complete substitute for title Si of the Re­ vised Statutes of the United States, and gen­ tlemen will therefore find on the opeuing pages of the bill a number of sections in which no change is proposed; they ore here simply that they may be part of the bill and consequently part of the title for which this bill is proposed as a substitute. On page 8 we leave those sections and proceed to the first of the proposed schedules, on chemicalsi I trust the committee will bear in mind that the bill does not propose a change in the natuie Of our customs regulations and tariff duties. It proposes no new scheme of customs revenuea What it proposes is a revision of the existing tariff and an adapta­ tion of its provisions, under which maiw of our industries have been organized, to the changed condition of circumstances. The progress of science, as exhibited in chemistry, that science which penetrates and permeates every department of indus­ try from the humblest handicraft to most delicate and complex departments of pro­ duction--the paegress, I say, of this science has since our tariff was framed been marvel­ ous. The most scientific men, the boldest projectors in this country or elsewhere would not in 1800 have believed that in little more than twenty years there could be ac­ complished results such as our industrial classes are now familiar with and the bene­ ficent results of which the consumers of textiles, metals, drugs and of an infinite va­ riety of articles are to-day enjoying So, too, improvements 'made* possible by the progress of chemistry have been made in the metals and all forms of utility or beauty to which they are applicable. The Tariff Commission speaks of the iron Industry as a dyinsr industry, it has conse­ quently, in an infinite number of eases, clas­ sified iron and steel under the same rates of duty. Not only is steel supplanting iron, which crucible* or cast steel could not possi­ bly have done, but there are characters of steel then unknown and unsusjiccted--the Bessemer, the open-hearth, the i honias-Gil- christ or basic process and a large mlmber of other processes--which produce at re­ duced cost low carbon steel, and have given us improved material, not only for railroads but for almoRt every branch of construc­ tion. So rapidly has adequate protection developed these* methods that many of us are.unconsciously usingsteel liaii- anil spikes and other articles of hourly need, believing them to l>e iron. I have a friend whose business has grown to be more than #5t>u,000 per year. Tins business illustrates the fact that under the dominion of science in a country free to develop its resources, the ingenuity and industry of whose people are stimulated by liberal rewards for their labor and enterprise, there is no such thing as waste. Every staple material used by the gentleman to whom I refer was waste fifteen years ago. Not only were they waste, but almost every one of them was an obstruc- tton and aamovance to the wnnle antonar whom they "accumulated." l'iogiess in mechanics can hardly be said to have lagged behind that in chemistry. Not only have combinations of metals and their form and uses changed, but that which twelve, fifteen or twenty years ago was produced as a rude whole is now frequently produced in many parts. The result is that,under the influence of science and invention large classes of jroods disappear from enumera­ tions and classifications of the existing tariff. Thus numerous questions are raised for de­ cision by the treasury upon the appeal of but one party, the importers, for under existing law lie onlv has the right to appeal from the decision oi a Collector. Hence it is from want of proper schedules and classi­ fications that the Treasury Department makes much of our revenue law, and the courts upon further appeal make often­ times still more It was one of the complaints, Mr. Chair­ man, of the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Mr. Alexander Hamilton, that in devolving on that office appeals from adjudications by Collectors of ports that offi­ cer was burdened beyond the endurance of humanity; that he could not give personal attention to these numerous conflicting ap­ peals upon the proper decision of which so much of the Government's revenue depend­ ed. in those early days, therefore, these questions began to be' referred to clerks, and to-day questions involving the capital, energy and enterprise embarked in vast fields of labor are disposed of by minor clerks in a by-room of the treasury, and if appeal be * taken from the decision the American producer of the commodity has no voice, cannot get before the courts, and cases made up for court are made by these same subordinate clerks, whose de­ cisions are to l>e overruled or sustained. This condition of affairs is a perennial fount­ ain of suspicion and open scandal. Bight here, sir, I renew my a. -ertion that this Tariti" bill is an improvement on any ever submitted to Congress. The Tariff Commission was unable to perfect its work. The time given it was insufficient for the work e nfided to it; and the commission de­ serves neither the censure which has been lieaned upon it upon the one hand, nor the laudation its work has received on the other. Considering the brief time -riven it, and the want of experience in such labor of many ot its members, that commission performed what I regarded as a wonderful work, and so far as its conclusions resulted from thorough consideration I accept the most of them. But when the Committee on Ways and Means came to examine the schedules "pre­ sented by the commission we found some of them (relatively few) which appeared to have been delil»erately considered, but that most of them appeared to be the reports of sub-committees to whom particular subjects or schedules had been referred, who ha*' made their report oftentimes after very has­ ty work, and which report had not been revised by the whole commission. Thus it occurred that articles appeared twice, once in one schedule at one rate of duty and again under the same name in an­ other schedule at another rate of duty--in one case in the metal schedule at 30 cents a pound, I think, and under the same name In the chemical schedule at 30 per cent ad valorem, a very different rate of duty. The committee found itself very seriously reflected on as having made inroads on the commission's free-list, while in truth and in fact it has made large additions to that list One of the cases which led to most grievous condemnation of the Ways and Means Com­ mittee was the striking off the free-list of cabinets of antiquities, eta Well, now the committee, had it been disposed to do so, could not deny that it had struck those arti­ cles from the free-list, but it oould not for the life of it see why it should be twice in that list, and it struck it out once and left it in once Again, sir, it was found the oommisnion had omitted a great many articles found in the present law, and which ought to be there and which we have embodied in this bilL Yet, notwithstanding these evidences of haste and want of time to consider by the whole commission, I say it performed a work for which I am profoundly grateful and for which I believe if we enact this bill into law the country at large will be grateful. They have made schedules and classifica­ tions more perfect than any I have ever seen; and in these classi­ fications they have sought, and the committee has* extended their work in that direction, to embrace all the articles in the chemical world and the world of colors and drugs which discovery and invention have added to the lists of chemicals since the last revision of the tariff. And with referenoe ̂and parte of . da« relation to duty on that « value and M^^^^wj*j»ialand^SL^S and character of ttis labor required to the article tnorssaaji Tltis/together with the faot that wMeltoOominlarton and the oommittee kavesop** to nuke theelaa*. fl<»tioa» so there shall be no difficulty In Mnraif tovbat clan an import belon ̂ tc«ether wm definitions embodied in the bill inr Dae eWHtaieriun. such as tba definition of steel,wfll --lul theonstoms HH- oers in determining1 what Is due to tho revenue and what ii due to those whoss capital and skill are embarked in our pro­ ductive Industrie* To complete this it has been the objeot Of the committee, in all "basket" classes as I hive heard them called --blanket classes, catch-alls or classes pro­ viding for articles not otherwise provided for, to keep the rate of duly above the schedule rates. The committee have sought to put the rates in those paragraphs higher than the schedule rates so as to make it the interest of the importer and the foreign niamifactnref who consigns goods to his agent in this country tv> put his articles in their proper class, to classify them ac­ cording to the Tariff MU and not'as now to classify them under new nomenclature, under changes of name, so as to get them into the not otherwise provided for classes at lower rates of duty than those named for these articles on the schedules. Thus the Treasury Department has decided as to a large class of articles on which the duty should be very advanced, that inasmuch as they appear in no classification of the exist­ ing tariff they are manufactures not other­ wise provided for, and must consequently be admitted at little more than nominal duty. Thus the whole tariff has been de­ ranged, and the spectacle appears of a low giade or a low-priced article, which happened to be classified, paying double the duty that an article worth triple its value which was not classified is required to pay. This. Mr. Chairman, is not the onlv means by which we have sought to prevent the burdening of the treasury ana the courts and to secure an honest administration of the law. The commission recommended a Customs Court; and the committee has adopted that idea in connection with tho Court of Claims, and has in connection therewith embodied a provision which will be acceptable to every American manufact­ urer and to every hODMt importer of for­ eign goods into this country It contains a provision never hitherto recognized in prac­ tice or embodied in our statute* It is as follows: "And any person having Interest in the proper classtflcation and rating of such mer­ chandise, whether as importer of similar merchandise which has paid a higher duty, or as manufacturer in this country of similar merchandise, may in like manner give notice in writing to the Collector, within ten days, of his protest from such decision, stating clearly and concisely his reasons for such protest, and requiring a re-examination of the case; and. in the event of the Collator maintaining his original decision, the said protectant, whether importer or manufact­ urer or owner, may in like manner as above provided carry the case bv appeal to the :-ourt hereby created; Provided--" And gentlemen will see how conservative the committee have been in this matter, and how perfectly they have guarded all inter­ ests-- "Provided, That such importer, manufact­ urer or owner aforesaid shall give bond to secure all costs arising from such interven­ tion. " I shall not attempt, Mr. Chairman, to dis­ cuss the details of the bill I shall not con­ sider the rates of duty imposed on any arti­ cles or class of articles. I am very anxious that the bill should have full and free con­ sideration, and yet it should be promptly disposed of. I liave no desiie to waste time in debate. On the contrary, I hope that, in view of the very elaborate discussion of all abstract questions relating to the tariff at the last session, the committee of the whole will determine to make general debate brief and to consider the bill Dy paragraphs and then consider it fully. There are but few weeks of the session left Hie business of the country is almost at a standstill Men are neither willing to manufacture nor import Those who need goods for their own use or as stock in their stores are buying only from band to mouth. The whole oountry is suffering. The pro­ ductive employments, beginning with the mines, the oosl pitsi tt|> fotgSS and the fur- rafl Himi-- #»Wi»ii ail the stages of mannfabtuMnf llSlnstry to those regions in which the most costly gmxl < are produced, are palsied by uncertainty; and while expressing the hope that our friends on that side of the House will agree to a very brief general debate and let us get speedily to the consideration of the bill, I beg my friend-* on this side of the House to be faithful to their constituents and the country in this emergency and to lie in their seats whenever the House may be asked to go into committee of the whole on this bill with a view to its speedy conclu­ sion. We owe it to the country; we owe it to the toiling millions who labor; we owe it to the men of enterprise and industry whose capital is not commensurate with their un­ dertakings, and who will be embarrassed »>y long delay and stagnation of busincs-*; we owe it to the revenues of the Gov rnment; and, Mr. Chairman, we owe it to th.' fair fame of the Forty-seventh Congress that we shall act with promptness and expedition upon a matter that so vitally affects the in­ terests of all of our countrvmen. He Baker's Dozen. ̂ baker's dozen" is thirteen, and owes its place among numbers to a cus­ tom that sprang from an old English law, which attached a heavy penalty to the offense of selling bread under weight. Prudent and conscientious men added another loaf to the twelve to avoid injustice or punishment. But the custom did not outlast the law, nor was it introduced into other arithmetical calculations until recently in Deluwnro, where the Sheriff added an extra lash to the number named in the sentence. The case is not parallel to that of the English bakers, and their custom can­ not, even in Delaware, be cited as a pre­ cedent. When this outrage .was called to the attention of the presiding judge that officer smiled, as judges always do before being de ivered of a witticism, and suggested that the extra lash should be deducted from any future sentence. For this arrangement there is no provi­ sion by statute. Besides, it suggests not only that whipping is not reforma­ tory, but that in order to avail himself of the judicial method of satisfaction the prisoners must start a fresh account on the wrong side of the ledger. How can he get credit for the thirteenth lash unless he does something to deserve another dozen ? Thnriew Weed and his Sweetheart. "When I was working in Coopers- town," Mr. Weed said, "I and two other young fellows were arrested for insult­ ing some girls while going home from meeting. I was never more innocent of anything in my life, but I had no friends and was threatened with jail. Suddenly a man whom I did not know stepped forward and gave bail for me, and a law­ yer whom I had barely seen offered to serve me as counsel. My trial came on and the girls completely exhonorated me from having anything to do with it. A year or two after this I fell in love with Catharine Ostrander, of Coopers- town, and married her, and abetter wife no man ever had. It was ten years be­ fore I found out how I had been defend­ ed. Meeting the lawyer in Albany I asked him. 'Why,' said he, 'it was Cahtarine Ostrander's work.' She liad felt rather shy and had not told me in all that time. But the next year that lawyer was surprised by being nomi­ nated and elected Attorney General of the State. Not altogether because he had interceded for me; he was just the man for the place. I very rarely liad a man elected or appointed to office for reasons personal to myself."--Rochester Democrat.. AMONG the perfumes greatlj mod in London society are white rose, liugi- panni and ihlang-ihlang. ThsfoDowtnybflhiiisipuswla tfcs Senates* its starts* on Js& M: By II* Fletcher, to provide for ths the Boards of pMttnttay under one management By Mz. to provide for MM tTivfaf of MM pantos 3 pest cent, of the gross reoelbte By Mr. Duncan, to provide for the ohnsmostiiNi of oounties under the Federal oensos of 18WL By Mr. HalL to amend the Boad and Bridge law of 187ft By Mr. Lemma, to provide tor the ordinary and other expenses of the Southern Insane Asylum, at By Ufa* Edwards, to provide for the repeal of the net requiring the publication of Township rrcasurer's receipts and disbursements Uy Mr. Merritt, providing that all corpora­ tions doing business in the State are hereby declared to be citisens thereof. By Mr. Sun­ derland, to amend the act in relation to the Illinois and Michigan canal, providing that each of the Commissioners of said ««i»l shall receive 91,000 per annum for services, and shall not receive any fees or emolument, liy Mr. Conaee, m regard to bets, pools and wagers. The bill provides that those who sell pools shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than •201) nor less than $10 for each offense. By Mr. Herelev, to prevent gambling establishments. Mr. Needles pre­ sented a joint resolution providing for the examination of the books of the Illinois Cen­ tral Railroad Company in regard to the ac­ counts kept with the State treasury rela­ tive to the annual 7 per cent tax. Mr. Nee- dies moved to suspend the rules that the reso­ lution might be taken up and put upon its passage. Objections being interposed, the resolution went over for future considera­ tion In the House, thirty bills in all were introduced, and they embraced almost every known topic -- hedge fences, barb wire, amendments to the criminal code, changes in the exemption laws of the State, dogs and sheep appropriation bills--in short, a little of everything. Mr. Bethea, of Lee, led off the business by presenting a bill to reform the primary election systems of the State by legalizing them by swearing the officers of elections and pun­ ishing voters who make false oaths by fine and imprisonment Mr. Greathouse, of Calhoun, offered a bill to give the accused in all criminal cases and misdemeanors the last argument of counseL Mr. Fuller, of Boone, introduced the bill punishing dealing in future deliveries of stocks and bond* Mr. Harper, of Cook, in­ troduced a bill making the license for liquor saloons $500 per annum. Mr. Littler, of Sangamon, offered a bill which, if it becomes a law, wi'l prohibit such exhibitions as shoot­ ing at objects held by persons, trapeze per­ formances without the use of nets, and other acts in amusement halls which may endan­ ger life or limb. Mr. Quinn, of Peoria, pre­ sented a bill to repeal the present Tramp law. Mr. Leyster offered a bill to empower Judges of Circuit Courts to appoint short­ hand reporter* Mr. Hullivan, of Cook, in­ troduced a bill to amend the Practice act by providing for the service of process upon any firm, company or association doing business in this State, and being non­ residents thereof; by leaving a copy of such process with the resident manager* or agent of such non-resident firm, etc. It enables the creditors of the clerks of such firms to garnishee such Arms. Mr. Matthews intro­ duced a resolution legalizing verdicts in criminal cases when found by three-fourths of the jury. There was no quorum present in the Sen­ ate on Jan. 27. Mr. Bay presented a bill pro­ viding that Township Treasurers shall loan moneys with rate of interest at not less than 6 per cent nor more than 8 per cent per an­ num, payable annually, instead of semi-an­ nually, as now provided by the School law. In the House, nothing was done bevond the introduction of a few billa The on!y ones of any significance were as follows:* By Mr. Caldwell, repealing the law of 1881 requir­ ing officers having in their custody public funds to prepare and publish an annual statement of the receipt and disbursement thereof. By Mr. Crandall, requiring pro­ prietors of toll-bridges, other than those operated by railroads, to keep their struct­ ures open for the convenience of the public night and day. By Mr. Curtis, providing for tho inspection of illuminating oils manufact­ ured from petroleum or coal oils. By Mr. Greathouse, making the Railroad Commissioners elective instead of appoint­ ive officers By Mr. Purneli, Hmioifr ex­ emptions from executions to actual resi- dents of the Btate. By Mr. Purn«U, giving MMHwnwvd vitr |>vnXXI wwnawwt wSd maintain good roads at at an expense of not more than 25 cents on each I10U valuation of property in said town There was no quorum in either house of the General Assembly on the 29th ult A rai road accident at Bloomington prevented the Chicago members and others from the northern part of the State arriving. They came in fate by the way of Jackson­ ville. In the Senate Mr. 11 ice presided, and a call of the roll showed only seventeen present No business was transacted. Mr. Crews, of Jefferson, presided over the House. A roll-call, on the motion of Mr. Quinn,reveal­ ing the fact that no quorum was present, an adjournment was effected. The following Mils were presented in the Senate on the 80th ult: By. Mr. Bice, to re­ vise the law in relation to township insur­ ance companies by providing that non-resi­ dents of townships may be permitted to in­ sure the property they may have in such townships, but shall not bo directors; by Mr. Rogers, to appropriate SlN.lKJO to purchase a fann for the Feeble-Minded Institute at Lincoln; by the same, to appropriate {>(>•»,IHK) for the ordinary expenses of the Feeble- Minded Institute; by Mr. White, to legalize primaiy elections and to regulate the same; by Mr. Duncan. to fix the terms of court In La Salle county; by Mr. Herelev, to amend law in regard to inroi'porutl<th of cities and villages by pro­ viding that Aldermen and Town Trustees may tlx their own per diem, not to exceed $.'»;" hv Mr hmicau, to amend the act in re­ gard to IwMardy, bv providing that, in such CUM* appeal* may W taken from County to Appellate; jntrts; by Mr. Berggren, to amend thf law In relation to mort- gugoM bv Iei|ulring those persons who make chattel mortgujres to make oath. The Needles joMtlutimi providing for a joint committee to examine tho accounts of the Illinois Central Railroad Company with the Htaio was taken up and passed without dis­ cussion or opposition. The resolutions la­ menting the death of Hon. Greenbury L Fort were taken up, and, after appropriate eulogies had been delivered, adopted by a rising vote. Nothing was done in the House except to talk over the Illinois Central in­ vestigation resolution. Quite a discussion arose in the Senate, on the 31st ult, over Senator Merritt's reso­ lution requesting the Illinois Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote for the repeal of the law allowing the removal of cases from the State to the Federal courts. The resolution was adopted without divis­ ion. Walker's compulsory education bill, providing that persons having charge of orphan children shall send them to school three months in the year, and Whiting's bill, taxing express companies :> per cent of their earnings, were reported back favorably, as was also the Free Public Library bill. The House appropriation bills were duplicated in the Senate, and duly referred. Beside the bill of iienator Buger, providing for the legalization of primary elections, no measures of general interest were included in the score of bills fired off in the Senate. Thy sensation of the day in the Senate was the personal explanations of Senators White, Matner and Herelev. Mr. White had read in the Chicago Timeg an article which more than intimated that the Senators named and other members of the House and Senate were Leg­ islative sand-baggers. Mr. White denounced the article in strong language as a malicious slander, declaring that unless a retraction was made he would commence a suit for damages on his return to Chicago. The oth­ er Senators were less severe in their denun­ ciations of the Tanes, but de­ clared the article to be slanderous. The Varnell resolution providing for an in­ vestigation of the accounts of the Illinois Central railroad came up in the House. Va­ rious amendments were offered and voted down, after which the resolution in its origi­ nal shape was put through by the over­ whelming vote of 1C!KO25. The House spent a long time in a profitless discussion as to what pay should 1>e allowed the State House elevator" conductors, and the remainder of the day was , taken up iu the intro­ duction of thirty-five new bills. Mr. Billings presented a bill "to compel telephone compa­ nies to give all telegraph companies the same privileges. Mr. Crafts, of Cook, intro­ duced the bill prepared by the Prisoners' Aid Association to establish and maintain a bureau for procuring employment for dis­ charged prisoners Mr. Crews presented a measure placing the crime of rape in the . - at not tees than three *30a-j°r "fecial sessions. Irrespective of time. The same gentleman came forward with a propmOfam tn urnswnl the city of Shawneetown with •HS.UMtora! j>y floods Mr. Mette, of"Cook, offered a joint resolution to submit to the people a progMMttion to remove the State capital and to tint end offered abmaUowfĵ thepc to vote upon looatixe the capital at . field, Chicago, Peoria, Decatur, Bloominirton. CentraHa or Belleville, and limiting the cost oT removal to •2,000,00a A bill propos­ ing to punish by fine those who obtain li­ quor on the false pretense that they are of .age, was introduced by Mr. 0>8hea. Mx. CFConnell, of WilL presented a bill contain­ ing similar provisions to those of the old Anti-Truck Mil passed in 1877 and vetoed by the Governor. The only other measure of importance was that of Mr. West, of Mo- wan, to punish by fine or imprisonment As­ sessors who make fraudulent returns. Mr. Shaw presented a resolution to the Senate, on the 1st inst, providing for an amendment to the constitution requiring State officers when entering upon their offi­ cial duties to swear that they will not, dur­ ing their term of office, seek or accept any other office under the State or national Gov­ ernment Mr. Merritt presented a resolu­ tion providing for the removal of Mr. Laning. Democrat, from the Committee on Corporations, to be replaced by Mr. Hamil­ ton, Democrat, and moved" to suspend the rules to consider the same. Lost The resolution asking members of Congress to vote for the Sherman bill extending the bonded period was reported back from the Committee on Federal Relations, with rec­ ommendation that it pasa Messrs. Seeresfc and Torrance, from the same committee, presented an adverse report The follow­ ing new bills were introduced: By Mr. Gill- ham, to provide for the election or appoint­ ment of Boards of Education; by Mr. Ray, a number of bills providing for amendments to criminal law--one to amend the act in regard to change of venue, and one to amend the act in regard to practice in courts of record; By Mr. Thorn, to appropriate money to make certain improvements asked for by the Com­ missioners for the Southern Illinois peniten­ tiary. By Mr. Fifer, to provide for the in­ spection of illuminating oils By Mr. Hogan, to relieve Mound Citv bv appropriating money to pay a certain ciaim against the State. In the House, the day was literally wasted in talk. There was a long wrangle over the page question. A score or two of boys wished to enter the service of the State at a small per diem, and each aspirant had more or less legislative backing. The usual amount of speech-making was indulged in, and, after several roll-calls, five boys were appointed pages, The discus­ sion of this important question consumed a third of the session. The momentous question 6f appointing two journal clerks consumed another third of the day; and the dispute as to whether the Senate joint resolution in­ structing the delegation in Congress to urge legislation on the question of changes of venue from State to Federal Courts should go to the Committee on Judiciary or the Committee on Federal Relations led to . a talking match that con­ sumed the lematning third of the session The Judiciary fellows got the resolution re­ ferred to them The safety of the countrv being thus assured, the wise Solous ad­ journed. THE DEADLY SNAKE HOLE*,: A TWt Which Charley Campbell Made a~i*1 Found Them all at Horn*. [From the Fresno (Cat.) Expositor.] A thrilling adventure recently took place at the White Rock quartz mine on the north side af San Joaquin, in Fine Gold district, which for nerve and dar­ ing is equal to anything we have ever heard of. There is an old shaft on the mine which had been unused for years, and recently it became necessary to clear it out and use it in working the mine. The shaft is about thirty feet deep, per­ pendicularly, with an incline of thirty feet more. A number of rattlefpakes had taken possession of tho inclosure, pro) >ably in the start by falling down tup niiaii/uliu wT bud till the whole bottom seemed like a writhing mass of reptiles. At first an effort was made to clean them out by discharging giant powder cartridges at the bottom of the shaft, but this pro­ cess only succeeded in killing such of the snakes as changed to be at the top of the incline, and as a last resort one of the workmen, Charles Campbell, agreed to go to the bottom and kill the horrible venomous reptiles, whose hiss­ ing and rattling could be plainly heard at the top of the shaft. Procuring a quantity of antidotes for snake-poison, and making all needed preparations for raising and lowering the adventurous man who was about,as it were,to place his life in his own hands, Charles Campbell was lowered into the shaft by his tremb­ ling fellow laborers. He was armed only with a lantern and small stick. The stench occasioned by the poisoned breaths of the rattlesnakes was almost overpowering, but nothing daunted he proceeded on liis errand. Reaching the bottom of the shaft he gradually groped his way down the steep and slippery incline, stopping ever and anon to kill a veno­ mous rattler that impended his way. Beaching the bottom he plied his stick with vigor, while the mass of snakes squirmed and rattled, their eyes spark­ ling like diamonds and their forked tongues lapping the air as they moved their heads in the intensity of their fury or struck with their poisoned fangs at the brave man that had dared encroach on their quarters and give them battle. Rapidly they fell over in the agonies of death under the unnerring blows from his live-oak stick till not a single one was left alive. Thirteen large snakes, with from seven to nine rattles each, were killed, and two with fourteen and fifteen rattles respectively. In addition a number of younger ones were de­ stroyed. Finishing liis daring labors he returned to the bottom of the shaft and was hauled out, bat the sickcning and poisonous air of the snake-den so over­ come him that he fainted away on reach­ ing the top. Restoratives were admin­ istered and he was taken to his home, where he lay sick two or three dayi, " Empty Church Pews. B. Baring Oould, in his work on Ger­ many, states that only 14 persona out ef 100 attend any religious service in that land. In the city of Berlin, with 800,000 inhabitants, the churches fur­ nish accommodations for only 25,000 souls. There is but one church regu­ larly open, the congregation of which contains about 200 women and 23 men. Dr. Schwabe writes that in the large cities on the Continent ouly 2 per cent, of the male population attend church. In Russia, the secret assembly .of the Nihilist has been substituted for the peaceful congregation of worshipers. In France the churches are attended almost entirely by women, and in Italy by women and lieggars. . , An Authority on Beaniv- The Sunday morning bean carf is not as profitable as it used to be iu some quarters of New England. Withiu the past few years the cost of beans, of pork, and of labor has increased, while the price of the classic products hot from the place ot cooking has l>een raised but slightly. The farmer rather than the manipulator of the venerable in tho bakehouse, is enriched bv the trade in this article of diet, which phi­ losophers eat and at which the incon­ siderate anew.--Bottom DaUy Ailver- titer. CU1I0U8 IKB TAXADIUM ink hi realty manent black ink kaovtt. this writing fluid is ««* tie there is m the stow at chemical materials fe ^ However, there I'M of late tity of it discovered in Ceylon. WHKRE tlie air is charged with phtu' luuies, the tints oi ioiiage in ti)G fall, so noticeable elsewhere, are not produced, and there is no burst of glory in the woods before the into the repose of winter. The simply blacken, shrivel np, and to the ground. PAPER has come into nse in some ef the restaurants in Germany as platen for dry or semi-dry articles of food- There is no reason why glased paper cups should not be employed at rail­ road stations, so that passengers could take a cup of coffee along with them, instead of hastily drinking it at a lunch- eon-counter. ^ LEONARDO PA YmciHhns foreshad­ owed the telephone: "When one is up­ on a lake if he puts the opening of a trumpet into the water and holds the point of the tube to his ear he can pm- ceive whether ships are moving at a re* mote distance. The same thing oc­ curs if he thrusts the tnbe into uae> ground, for then, also, he will heaf what is going on far away." DR. P. A. WILLUTO thinks he has crib- served as evil results of coffee drinking1 gout, congestion of the liver, indiges­ tion, nervous debility and irritability, mental depression, etc. His attention was first directed to coffee as a cause of such affections by observing a disap­ pearance of them in Southern women whose supply of coffee was for a long time cut off dnring the war. WATER, in passing into vapor, ab­ sorbed and hides nearly one thousand degrees of heat. A cord of green wood, produces just as much heat as a cord of the same wood dry. In burning the dry wood we get nearly all the heat, bat in burning the same wood green, from one-half to three-fourths of the heat produced goes off, latent and useless, in the evaporating sap, or water. Chem­ istry shows this, and why, very plainly. THE Japanese are almost a race of vegetarians, depending mainly for their nitrogenous food upon the leguminous plants--some forty varities of peaa and beans which they cultivate. These foods are quoted by Mr. Van Buren, a consul to Japan, w ho has also noticed an expression of good humor upon the faces of men, the amiability and some­ times real beauty of the women, and the comfortable, open-eyed serenity oi the babies." ; SAYS LeffeVs Mechanical News, care should be taken that the belts should be kept soft and pliable; and experience has taught us that the best artidlefw this purpose for leather belting, is good castor oil. It softens and at the time removes all dirt and the surface of the belt, thereby _ it to adhere the more closely to the pulley. Hesin is sometimes used to pre­ vent belts from slipping. While this may have the desired effect for Hie time, in the end it causes the very thing which the purpose is to prevent** by stiffening and hardening the belt, and causing a scale to gather on the face of the belt, thereby preventing the* surface of the belt proper coming in contact with the pully. After inch scales have gathered on the •nan «a» hww castor oil will easily ret to give the best' results, shottld good attention. - : Origin ef Fepriar Fhrntfr / ^ "Crochet."--This word, with wllSon the ladies are most familiar, is froa fie French crache--a hook--and describes a kind of thread or worsted wotk sisting of loops made with a small designed for tho purpose. It was In­ vented in France a little over' thirty years ago. "Phantom Ship."--The legend of the "Phantom Ship" is that she was origi­ nally a vessel loaded with great wealth but a horrible murder having been com­ mitted on board, the plague broke out among the crew, and no port would al­ low the ship to enter, so it was doomed to float about like a ghost as a punish­ ment for the crimes committed on board of her. The story is told in an intensoly fascii ati ig manner by Walter Scott. "Leap in the Dark."--In the debate* .. in the English House of Lords on the reform bill in 18G8, the late Lord Der- by applied this phrase to the proposed legislation. It was, however, not origi­ nal. It has been traced to a song in the British Museum collection, where it occurs in the line: ; All you that must take a leap In the d*iic. Thomas Hubbies, on his death-bed i*" 167i), is reported to have said: "I am taking a frightful leap in the dark," which is not unlike the expression of Rabelais in liis last illness--"I am going to the Great Perhaps." Motteaux, In his life of Rabelais makes the latter say, at the approach of dissolution, "I: am just going to leap into the dark." • "Ta-ta."--A term of late much used, as one of humorous farewell. It is a purely Southern expression, and if given a meaning entirely different from that it started out in life with; and how it ever came to be applied in its present tense is a little surprising to any one to the Southern "manner born," and es­ pecially to any one familiar with the idioms of the South of ante-bellum days. No who was ever petted, loved ' and spoiled by a kind old black "mam­ my" can ever forget that "ta-ta," in' baby dialect, is "thank you," or to give an exact definition from unwritten • Southern vocabulary, " thanky." Thejr can never forget mammy's coaxingly reproving tones, nor her "churchy, when, in correcting some chihfiah fee* V getfulness, the omission of thank for some slight favor, the gift of an applet or, perhaps, a stalk of sugar-cane, aim would say: "Honey, where's yo' man­ ners ? Whyn't you say 'ta-ta?'" Of course as the children grew larger this pet way of expressing thanks was laid away with their baby clothes, and the "churchy" that mammy had taught- them--a funnv substitute for a bow, consisting only in a sudden bending pi the knees, whi< h caused a comical down and up --> as put away with the jingling rhyme of -arly childhood. . ^ A Person passing a Barnyard 'Observed by a Mule, to be in" Distress* "Tell me," said the Mule, "what is the Cause of your Sorrow, that I maar Sympathise with you." "Alas," said the Man, "I am Dead Broke, a§d I. know not how to Mend my FortUMPk'* "If you will just Step inside of this Yard," remarked the Mule in a Kindfy tone. "I will Try to make a Raise for You." The man did so, and the Ftoet that his Hat was Found in tike Adjda ' ing State the next Day warrants II* Belief that the Mnfe ftlttled hi* Pledge, ^ ' *< i ' . - J