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'•itf A'- - » - « - W w w » V *'• ' »****•»• ̂ 1. VAN M.YKE, HcHENRY, ILLINOIS. BOBTOS HAS just opened a home for the accommodation of worlring boys who receive small pay--errand boys and of- •"fice boys--and they are boarded and lodged for from 60 oenta to $1.50 per "week. Each boy is furnished with a single bed* a separate waahstand and toilet arrangements, and hooks to hang his clothing upon. There are also read­ ying, writing and recreation rooms. W- " A TREBAX SHOWMAN who was riding 'On the New York Elevated roadwitli a newspaper man, was bewailing the • trouble of getting polite and well-man­ nered performers. In his despondency* he turned and spat lavishly out of the <car window on whomsoever might lie below. "Polite manners are easy enough," he said, spitting again, "to a anan who "takes any pains about them." THS industrial census of Philadel­ phia nukes an excellent showing for the -business of 1882. The number of the •establishments was 11,752, employing "236,443 persons, of whom 142,513 were Jtnen, 66,113 women, 27,817 youths. The total value of manufactures repre­ sented was $545,193,500. These are in­ teresting figures, coming from a city usually regarded as being the mostcon- «ervative, after St. Louis, in the Un­ ion. •' -t' " v ;i A wsal̂ hv old German of Chicago, in spite of his age and his children* was •about to marry a pretty girl of 18, who "had been his housekeeper. His children •objected, and on the eve of the wedding ^abducted the bride and gave the old man some "Katzen musik," or a "char­ ivari" Pete, the son, who caifcied her •off, "is a terrible thief," the old man • says, and has stolen a great many things from him, bat this, he thinks, is the "worst thing he has yet done. His filial ^misconduct nearly breaks the old man's heart, especially if "Pete" should marry ithe girl himself. 7 THE matter of providing a corps of 'trained nurses in every community re­ ceived attention in the Cleveland meet ing of the American Medical Associa­ tion. A member recommended the «stablishment of schools for the efficient training of nurses of both sexes, "such training to be brought about by lectures and practical instruction, to be given by competent medical men, either gratuitously or at such reasonable rates as shall not debar the poor from avail­ ing themselves of their benefit." The dependence of the physician on the com­ petent and faithful nurse was acknowl- FOB ' A the invention of a friend of Ida now la Mosoow. - Mas. BELL, wife of Prof. Graham Bell, the electrician, was one of the deaf pupils of Dr. Gallaudet, In Wash­ ington. Prof. Bell first met W at a reception at the college, and so expert wassbe in reading speech by the mo­ tions of the lips that they conversed to­ gether for some time without hi* dis­ covering her infirmity. At last, walk­ ing. through the conservatory, where some of the Chinese lanterns had gone out, he made some remark requiring an answer. But none was forthcoming, it being not light enought for her to see the movements of his lips. He repeated the remark, and again got only silence for reply. Mystified, he soon esoorted her back to the parlor, and then, in the brilliant light, asked l^er why she had not answered him; but his amazement was redoubled tenfold at her ready re­ ply: "I $ave qeyrer heard tsoand in all my'life.^* - v ** A NEW YORK correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial knows a city mis­ sionary who oame across, in one of the city hospitals, a man who had taken poison with the intention of committing •uioide, and was dying. The mission­ ary asked hjm if he was prepared to die, and he answered that he wished to be. He was delighted at the assurance of getting solvation only by accepting it. Subsequent discoveries, however» rather startled the good missionary. The man had had hard luck and was tired of life; but, believing that he could ,no4 be* saved if he took hia out life, he made a careful study of the doctrine of a death-bed repentance. Without disclosing his purpose, he consulted several clergymen, and at length settled in his own mind that the sinner whp repented at the last mo­ ment was as sure of heaven JM any sanctified for years. Having settled that point, he sought a sui­ cide which, while certain to kill, would leave him conscious long enough to make his peace with heaven. So he swallowed deadly poison and was taken to the hospital to die. There liS re­ pented and gave every indication that his contrition was sincere. "Now," says the clergyman, "what are we to believe concerning such a departed soul as that? He relied on the promise, jet he was, to a, certain extent, a triokster--a religieub confidence-man." e time past the steamers arriving at Marseilles from Alexandria and Messina have brought •considerable quantities of quails, which are to be found in abundance in the •districts near both those ports. The birds are caught in nets and conveyed in shallow, well-ventilated boxes, aijd supplied with plenty, of food during the voyage, «o that they may reach their ^destination in good condition. Each box contains an average of 100 quails. &ome steamers have brought in this way in a single voyage as many as 20,000 quails, and one of the Messageries Line landed 30,000. * * . * • PROF. WRIGHT, of Oberlin, has lately -been investigating anew the signs of the glacial period in America, and finds that the great sheet of ice. must have •covered the territory between its north­ ern limit at Alleghany county, N. Y., southwest through Pennsylvania, •entering Ohio a few miles north of the Ohio river, which it crossed on the line between Campbell and Pendleton coun­ ties, Ky„ and recrofcsed near the touth- •ern boundary of Dearborn county, Ind. All this territory bears marks of glacial action, and is dotted all over with ^boulders, which now lie hundreds of railes south of their source. When the glacier extended across the. Ohio it must have formed a dam from 500 to 600 feet high. Tito BKV. DB. CUYLKB recalls Chat, when the late William E. Dodge enter­ tained the 'delegates to the Evangelical Alltonce in his Madison Avenue man­ sion, "certain famous German theologi­ ans wandered over the house, as through a dry and thir*ty land, in vain quest for a glass of beer." At a banquet given to a foreign railway king, and where -Croton water was the only scarce beverage, Mr. Dodge said to his waiter: "Set a pitcher of ice water by my plate and don't you bring a wine bottle neat me." When Gen. Dix honored him with a complimentary dinner at Fortress Monroe, during the war, every wine glass was reversed, "as a silent tribute to the conscience of the guest." A FIW»CH gentleman, in ord r̂ to rid liimself of organ-grinders, takes a chair •on the piazza, listens 'with evident satis­ faction, applauds at the end of each piece and calls his wife and chamber­ maid to follow his example. Finally they all disapper in the house and close the window just as the Italian finishes a piece and takes off his hat for a fee. He waits a few minutes, and then, with •digust painted on his face, departs, after carefully noting the number of the house. He is seen there no more. Bpt an Englishman says the only way •consists in making up small packets of poisoned macaroni, and planting them judiciously on door-steps in quiet squares and other haunts of the enemy about the time when experience has shown tha% he maybe expected. This is Aspects of €tndnnatL Cincinnati is like London. In'the heat of summer or in the cold of winter you look up through the laden atmos­ phere and see a cheerful sphere of burnished copper doing duty for the sun. . The air is filled with the whole­ some carbon that is said to oonfer upon chimney-sweeps a complete immunity from all contagion, and which enjoys the credit of making London one of the healthiest cities in the world. Cincin­ nati, like London, also has its occa­ sional river fog, when the white vapors of the Ohio invade the streets, arrest and mingle with the smoke, immerse all things in obscurity, and eonvert the creations of architects, great and small, into noble masses, free from all small- ness or meanness of detail. This smoke of Cincinnati is as in­ valuable to the eye of the disinterested artist who concerns himself with the physical aspect of the city as it is dis pensable with to the Cincinnatian. Like all communities in the great valley of the West, its fuel is identical in effect with the same economical, heat-giving, and smoke-begetting coal that gives to the English town its grimy, inky hue, and to our own Pittsburgh that com- flexion which baffles all description, t imparts its distinctive color and a variety of quality to the Cincinnati landscape, which, considered together with the situation and topography of the town, make it one of the most pic­ turesque of American cities. The exterior of Cincinnati is as deep in color as that of London. Its trees are of the same ebony as those in the London parks, and its stone and brick work has the same disposition to solemn black. It has less of newness and of the ephemeral' virtues of fresh paint than perhaps any other of pur cities, and courts instead the air of a serious and well-rooted prosperity, founded in the antiquities and tradi­ tions of its less than a century of exist­ ence. About it, in the suburbs, ,at Clifton, and even within the city limits, artists do not fail to find abundant material. The canal, which is known as the "Rhine," and which is a sort of territorial line of demarkation for the German population, is particularly rush in picturesque material. It is not wie same as that for which its namesake is celebrated, but it lias artistic value, and it is not overlooked.--Olive Lagan- to Harper's Magazine. German Philosophy. A new on tliirdy vas dried out and gone vilted. Mishter Herod was King Chews. Mishter Rothschild vas Chew of der Kings. Vhen a feller's mudder-by-law gofs died, you could mit some propnedy vent into half-morning. Vhen a voomans vants to been a nun­ nery, yoost told her dot die vants to lead an nun-nadural oxistence. Adam was a h6g-- he yoost got mar- riet mit alt der vimmens in der vorldt. Kreen pastures may been a bully ting to make songs about, but no kreen pastor vants to been laffed at. A tree dot vas made down by some axes looks pooty veil shop-fallen. Der shtone dot makes over der grass, he dond grow pooty veil on dot. Of your houses was made mit glass dots besser you throw der vindow out before you vhent of dot houses dherein mit shtones.--Carl Pretzel's Weekly. of der der A $5,000 Funeral. A Chicago undertaker said the most costly casket he ever saw was for a widow, who left $5,000 to be spent for her funeral expenses. The casket itself cost $1,400. It was lined with black and purple silk velvet, and had a solid gold-plate, which alone cost $300. The florist's bill was $919. Drapings, car­ riages and numerous other incidental expenses made up a bill of $5,000.---Na­ tional Republican. NEARLY 3,000 persons perished in the Manila earthquake in 1645. HATE ANIMALS SOULS. IMMH Why the Writer Suppose* that They [From the Troy Daily Times.! We assume in the beginning that it is admitted that matter in itself is inert and senseless; that the material organ­ ism of the human body in itself is, in respect to its final causes, as powerless as the common clod, until it is animated by a spiritual agent, which direets and uses its members and organs, with an intelligent purpose; that, when this spiritual agent is withdrawn, the whole material organism ceases to act and the process of decomposition immediately commences. This spiritual agent can­ not be discerned by the senses, and cannot be known in ourselves by con­ sciousness, and in others by its phe­ nomena. To this agent we refer the phenomena of the bodily motions and perceptions, memory, reason, sympathy, love and will, showing that we must re­ fer the same class of phenomena to the same cause. If, therefore, we refer certain phenomena in man to the soul as its cause, we must refer to the same phenomena in animals to the same cause. Moreover, if any animal manifest a single phenomenon which in man we refer to the soul, we must refer the same phenomenon to the soul in that animal also, and, if One animal has a soul, we must infer that all animals have souls. That ndt one but many animals manifest the phenomena, two or more that we have enumerated as psychical, no one, we think, will deny. We shall, therefore, djgxniss this part of- the subject briefly. wfefF 1. Animals move thv ^selves and di­ rect their members 3'tfch intelligent purposes. Inert matfer cannot exert itself in this way. Therefore, animals are not inert matter. 2. Matter which does move itself and direct its members with intelligent pur­ poses has a soul. Now animals do move themselves in this way. There­ fore animals are a matter animated by a souL 8. Animals evidently perceive the world of material objects Ibout them by the means of a sentient organism. The act of sense perception is a complex process which involves the energy of a spiritual agent or soul. 4. They manifest the pheuomena of memory. They remember familiar ob­ jects, their homes, the faces of men, sounds, odors and tastes. 5. They manifest intelligence in their movements. They are also manifestly guided by the relation of cause and ef­ fect. • 6. They" manifest sympathy and af­ fection and the moral quality of faith­ fulness toward liumain beings. All these are the phenomena which in man we ascribe to the active energy of the soul. If these phenomena are the result of the action of the material organism in animals, they are the re­ sults of the material organism in man, and the theory of the materialist that these phenomena can be attributed to material substance must be admitted. If we deny this in respect to man, we must also deny it in respect to animals, and admit that they have souls as well as men. It may be urged that these phe­ nomena that are observed in animals belong to the lower forms of physical energy, and that the phenomena of the higher forms are wanting. We admit this fact, but urge that it does not de­ stroy the force of our argument. In the great variety of organic beings which have life we see a great diversity of development. There are living creatures whose organism is of the very simplest nature* and as we ascend the scale of being we find the material organism becoming more complex, until wo reach man, the most highly devel­ oped of all. We do not, however, be­ cause of this diversity, refuse to consider any particular species as an organic being. We are willing to admit that animals and men are alike in having a material organism of the same general nature; also that man is an animal, the highest in the scale of being. Now the spiritual nature of both follows the same analogy. The soul of the animal is the same general nature as man. It is spiritual, does not occupy space, and its energy result in psyenical products of phenomena. This soul, however, is not as fully developed, is not so com­ plex in its nature, not so high in the scale of spiritual being as the soul of man. Nevertheless it is a soul, a spirit­ ual being distinct from the material organism which it animates. What be­ comes of this soul after death of the material organism ? In our own case, we know that the soul does not perish, but that it passes into a higher state of existence. We believe that after death the human soul will develop faculties now dormant and unrecognized, appro- riate to the condition of its new state of existence, just as in a child the facul­ ties are aroused into life one after another. So it may be that the animal soul may finally develop the faculties of the soul as those which we as human beings now enjoy.--O. E. Nerwin, Anandale. N. Y. . Where Hen Kiss Each Other. An effusiveness pervades all classes of society in Germany, and one sees old men and boys saluting each other, if he haunts the railroad stations and watehes the departures and arrivals. In America kissing of friends and ac­ quaintances is left to be monopolized almost entirely by ladies; but in Ger­ many the men take their share of the good tlung-r-if good thing it may be called--and kiss and hug each other on occasion in a way that is truly affecting. You will see two friends standing on the platform at the railway station, one of them going off on a journey of pet- haps six hours' duration. They stand there, talking very rapidly and regret­ ting the stern necessity that compels tlieiu to part. The conductor calls, "All aboard 1" the two friends throw tfcemsfelves into each other's arms; kiss each other, first on one cheek and then on the other; pat each other on the back; kiss again; give each other a final bear-like hug and* resounding smack and tear themselves apart--one to take his station at tfce car-window, wave his handkerchief and strain his eyes for one last look, and the other to stand on the platform and do the same.--Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. The Petroleum Fields of the World. Nearly all the petroleum that goes into the* world's commerce is produced in a district of country about 150 miles long, with a varying breadth of from one to twenty miles, lying mainly in the State of Pennsylvania, but lapping over a little on its northern, edge into the State of New York. This region yield­ ed in 1881, 26,950,813 barrels, and in 1882, 31,398,750 barrels. A little pe­ troleum is obtained in West Virginia, a little at various isolated points in Ohio, and a little in the Canadian province of Ontario. There is also a small field in Germany, a larger one, scantily devel­ oped in Southern Bussia, and one still larger, perhaps, in India. The total prcdnotion of all the fields, outside of the region here described, is but a small fraction in the general aoconnt, how­ ever, and lias scaroely an appreciable influence upon the market. Further­ more, the oil of these minor fields, whether in America or the Old World, is of an inferior quality, and BO long as the great Pennsylvania reservoir holds out, can only supply a local demand in the vicinity of the wells.--UR? Cen­ tury. Anthony Trollope's Wonderfal Fertility. He published too much; the writing of novels had ended by becoming, with him, a percoptibly mechanical process. Dickens was prolific; Thackeray pro­ duced with a freedom for which we are constantly grateful; but we feel that these writers had their periods of ges­ tation. They took more time to look at their subject; relatively (for to-day there is not much leisure, at best, for those who undertake to entertain a hungry public) they were able to wait for inspiration, Trollope's fecundity was prodigiottd; there was no limit to the work be was ready to do. It is not unjust to say that he sacrificed quality to quantity .\Abundance, certainly, is in itself a great merit; almost all the greatest writers nave been abundant. But Trollope's fertility was fantastic, incredible; he himself contended, we believe, that he had given to the world a greater number of printed pages of fiction than any of his literary con­ temporaries. Not only did his novels follow each other without visible inter­ mission, overlapping and treading on each other's heels, but most of these works are of extraordinary length. "Orley Farm," "Can You Forgive Her?" "He Knew He Was Right," ire exceedingly voluminous tales. "The Way We Live Now" is one of the long­ est of modern novels. Trollope pro­ duced, moreover, in the intervals of larger labor, a great number of short stories, many of them charming, as well as various books of travel and two or three biographies. He was the great im- provvisatore of these latter years. Two distinguished story-tellers of the othei;1 sex--one in France and one in En­ gland--have shown an extraordinary facility of composition; but Trollope's pace was brisker even than that of the wonderftil Madame Sand and the de­ lightful Mrs. Oliphant. He had taught himself to keep this pace and had re­ duced his admirable faculty to a habit. Every day of his life he wrote a certain number of pages of his current tale, in­ dependent of mood and place. It was once the fortune of the author of these lines to cross the Atlantic in his com­ pany, and he has never forgotten the magnificent example of stiff persistence which it was in the power of the emi­ nent novelist to give on that occasion. The season was unpropitious, the ves­ sel overcrowded, the voyage detest­ able; but Trollope shut himself up in his cabin every morning for a purpose which, ou the part of a distinguished writer who was also an invulnerable sailor, could only be communion with the muse. He drove his pen as steadily on the tumbling ocean as in Montague Square; and, as his voyages were many, it was his practice before sailing to come down to the ship and confer with the carpenter, who was instructed to rig up a rough writing-table in hia small sea-chamber. Trollope has been accused of being deficient hi imagina­ tion ; but, in the face of suo&i a fact as that, the charge will scarcely seem just. The power to shut one's eyes, one's ears (to say nothing of another sense) upon the scenery of a pitching Cunarder and open them upon the loves and sorrows of Lily Dale, on the conjugal embarrassments of Lady Glen- cora Palliser, is certainly a faculty which has an element of the magical. The imagination that Trollope possessed he had, at least, thoroughly at his com­ mand. I speak of all this in order to explain (in part) why it was that, with his extraordinary gift, there was al­ ways in him a certain touch of the com­ mon. He abused his gift, overworked it, rode his horse too hard. As an artist, he never took himself seriously; many people will say this was why he was so delightful.--Henry James, in the Century. la the By-and-By. "Good-morning, sir; how is the infer­ nal-machine market, to-day f" '*• "Firm, sir; firm." "Prices off any V" "Not a shade." "How many kinds do you handle?" "Ten different makes, sir, ranging from the size of a pill-box, warranted to blow np a town alderman, to a ma­ chine large enough to shake down a whole block of buildings." "I want something to blow up a Chi­ cago hotel." "Exactly; I see. lean furnish you just what you want for $200, 10 per cent, off for cash down. Just received a supply from Philadelphia last night." "That's a pretty steep figure?" "Very reasonable, sir; very, consider­ ing the active state of the market. Fact is, sir, all the shops are behind on their orders, and we won't get a decline in ?rices until more capital is invested. ou desire revenge on an hotel clerk, I presume?" "Yes, sir." "Well, by taking this machine you blow up the entire building, clerk, pro­ prietor, guests, servants and all. Being that one of our firm is interested in a Chicago daily, and will have a chance to profit by the sensation, I'll make the price $175. How shall I ship, and by what line?--Wall Street News. An Interesting Relic. George Washington's carriage is now in a rather mlapidated condition. It is much larger than the carriage of the present day. The front wheels are very small, while the hind wheels are unusually large. The body of the coach is of a light-cream color, while the up­ per part is black. Green blinds are be­ hind the windows and old-fashioned lamps are on each side of the driver's seat. It was built for Gen. Washington by a builder in Philadelphia named Clarke, and Washington always rode it out, in the height of style, with six cream-colored, horses and postillions and outriders. When in the spring of i791 he visited the Southern States he lade the whole journey, 1,900 miles, in/ that coach.--New York World. ' THE total acreage of Scotland is 18,- 946,694. One nobleman owns 1,326,- 000 acres, and his wife 149,879. An­ other has 431,000 acres, a third 424,000, a fourth 378,000. Twelve proprietors own one-quarter of the whole acreage of the country, seventy-one qwn one- half. Nine-tenths of Scotlani to 1,700 persons. iflWDlfltti i cSestroy-of great value on the farm aa era of insects. NF.VEB turn cattle to pasture until the fences are thoroughly impaired, for if cattle once get aooostomea to going over a broken-down fence it is often dif­ ficult to prevent them from going over the same after it has been repaired.-- Chicago Journal. AN enterprising farmer near Bead­ ing, Pa., has a room fifty feet square, entirely surrounded with ice, in which he stores fruit. In this refrigerator he is able to keep apples and pears until they will bring twice or thrice the same fruit marketed when first picked. CLOVERSEED will germinate when 3 or 4 years old, if kept in an even temperature and dry. It is sub­ ject to attacks from insects, and con­ sequently deteriorates in quality from that and other causes. It is beat to use new seed, but that remaining over till the second year may be used with safe­ ty. Everything depends on the care of keeping. A WESTERN farmer who tried wheat bran as a manure for wheat reports that the effect of an application of one ton of bran to the acre was equal to that obtained from the usual applica­ tion of a mixture of bone dust, guano, lime and wood ashes, and the differ­ ence in yield of the orops that received bran aj compared ynth thosg jaqt so, treated Was very gfeat. L. H. BAILEY, of South Haven, Mich., and of the oldest fruit-growers of this State, once received a lot of ap- JANCARY 1 was made the beginning of the new year in France ini.564, in Scotland in 1599, but not injEngland until 1752. J NATURE has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss roses.--Willis. pie trees that in appearanoe were dead. They had been delayed two months in reaching him. It was in the pioneer times, and new trees coultl not be pro­ cured readily. He therefore set out all the seemingly dead trees, first letting them lie tinder the water for two days. Nearly all lived to have their products take the first premium at the fairs.-- Lansing Republican. l ACCORDING to New York dealers oleo margarine is now as much of a regular market product as butter or cheese. For years it was regarded by the butter merchants as an illegitimate product, and the Mercantile Exchange sub­ scribed many thousand of dollars toward driving the stuff out of the market. Agents were employed to make sure that the law regarding the stamping of oleomargarine as such was complied with, every effort was made to influence legislation unfavorable to the oleomai- garine makers and dealers. All such failed, and the Mercantile Exchange now numbers oleomargarine among the staple articles of trade.--Chicago Jour- nvl. THE American Agriculhirtfl ISYS: There are five methods in which Per­ sian insect powder may be applied to destroy insects: As dry powder; as a fume; as an alcoholic extract diluted; by simple stirring of the powder in water; as a tea or decoction. The pow­ der may be diluted with ten times its bulk of flour, or any finely-pulverized material, as wood ashes. It - is reoom- mended to mix the powder and other material twenty-four hours before use. In a closed room the fumfts from a small quantity will kill or render inactive common flies and mosquitoes. For ap­ plication to insects on plants the pow­ der mixed with water, and the tea made from the herb dried, are more oon venient, and quite as effectual. IN a conversation with an experienced chicken raiser he informed us that he had been very successful in conquering that precarious disease in his young fowls by the application of air-slacked lime. As soon as a manifestation of Spes in his fowls appear, he confines i chickens in a box, one at a time, sufficiently large to contain the bird, and places a coarse piece of cotton or linen cloth over the top. Upon this he places the pulverized lime, and taps the screen sufficiently to cause the lime to fall through. This lime dust the fowl inhales and is made to sneeze, and in a short time the cause of the gapes is thrown out in the form of a slimy mass or masses of worms, which had accu­ mulated in the windpipe and smaller vessels. This remedy he considers su­ perior to any remedy he ever tried, and ne seldom fails to effect a perfect cure. Ho has adjured all those mechanical means by which it is attempted to dis­ lodge the entozoa with instruments made of whalebone, hog's bristles, horse hair of fine wire alleging that people are quite as certain to push the gape worms farther down the throat of the fowls as to draw them up .--Poultry Nation. A correspondent of the Michigan Farmer has the following neat piece of satire on "wash-day:" Were I a stat­ istician I would try to amuse myself and the public by estimating the num­ ber of people who live for the different dayB in the week; assuming that teach­ ers live for Saturday, and the country girl, who has a regular beau, for Sun­ day. The latter is quite apt to develop into one of a class, greater than all the rest, and soon become a woman who lives for Monday. Before the wedding ring is dimmed, she has made her housework the ultima thule of her ex- < istence; each week a circle of triumphs of which the family wash is the grand commencement. This must be large, snowy white, and hung up at an early hour, in some conspicuous place, to Eroclaim to all who see that she still ves and leads. The pantry may be empty, the house in confusion from the Sunday relaxation, and aching head or back may plead for an easy day, but the claims of ambition and a patriotic love of the old New England custom, brings out the tubs and suds to triumph over all. What if this does include the gathering together and putting to soak of the clothes on the previous day. What if she hears an undertone in the sermon, a chorus to the hymns, of robes that are not like the angels, and finds a thought of the morrow's work intruding upon her Sunday's rest! Her devotion to her wash becomes well un­ derstood, and no fr.ond dares to call while it is in progrev; while nothing comes so near to breaking her heart as to have a relative display the abomina­ bly bad taste of being buried on Mon­ day. Physical aches" and mental* de­ pression may come upon her; winds and rain descend upon the earth; win­ ter's cold stand at an appalling degree, but the woman who lives for Monday will wash on that day though the heav­ ens fall. • HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. PRESSED VEAI.--Take three pounds of veal chopped fine, two pounds of lean, raw pork, also chopped fine, three eggs, a piece of butter the size of an egg; pepper and salt well; bake two hours. When cold, slice it thin. It is like pressed meat and is very nice. To REMOVE PAINT.--One pound of soft soap, one pound of soda; dissolve in one pint of boiling water; lay a thick 9 brush; leave it for one or hnbotm ta it begins to softin the paint, then aprape off what yon can and repeat When all is removed wash thoroughly with clean water. BRUNSWICK BLACK, thinned down with turpentine until it has attained the right tone and coldr, will, if a little varnish is added--about one-twentieth of the bulk of the black and turpentine --prove a stain for imitating walnut and teak wood. There is no difficulty in getting the mixture to dry hard, and it will take a coat of varnish first class. CATFISH IN BATTER.--Cut the fish in pieces about two inches in length and one inch in thickness, beat three eggs very light, adding salt, pepper, and enough Worcestershire sauce to flavor them; dip the fish in this batter, and then roll it in cornmeal or in cracker crumbs; fry in plenty of lard until it is a dark blown; garnish with lemon sliced, if no greens are available; cel­ ery tops, parsley or small and trader lettuce leaves are preferred. RUBBKR CAPS.--One objection to the ingrain carpet is that the high heels which servants delight in wearing oa thick shoes seem to catch at the threads and drag them out of place, producing i a rough surface; another ia that the legs of heavy chairs have the same ef- j feet. One way to save these carpets is to cover the ends of the chair legs with rubber caps at a cost of about 17 cents. The servants' high heels are, ef e amenable to no such remedy. INOTSHIONS.--An English pincush­ ion will be found a very pretty addition to a toilet table. The cushion should be round, with an open space in the center for the reception of a flower vase or glass, and can be either of simple colored paper muslin, covered with lace or muslin, or can be provided mord elaborately with an embroidered or painted silk and deep fringe or border­ ing to match. The glass supplied with a few fresh flowers is a great improve­ ment to the toilet table. WASTE PAPER BASKETS.--The fash­ ionable color for Ornamenting waste paper baskets is a deep rich orange. Scarfs of silk of this hue are drawn carelessly about two sides of square baskets, * or draped from the top of those which are round or oval. Orange ribbons are embroidered with daisies or corn-flowers, and drawn slantwise over one side of a basket or ran in and out of the meshes of • the wicketwork in such a way that all the embroidery is fully shown. BICE MUFFINS.--Boil a half pint of rice until quite soft, and set aside until perfectly cold; beat three eggs very light and put them, with a pint of wheat flower, to the rice, making it into a thin batter with a quart of milk; beat it well; add a large table-spoonful of compressed yeast and set it to rise, or use two table-spoonfuls of Hecker's baking powder (if baking powder is used they must be allowed to stand after it has been added). Bake in the same manner.--The Caterer for JKay. STATE O0O.MO Arm far Charities, ud tlWJW tm JTlH-- rpraaitto (UcunMNail The following Is • eoadenesd sa&fbtt ot the appropriations mads by the reoiat Gen­ eral Assembly of Dlinoft; for the twojeara " ending July 1, 1895: QEJfPUL, ATPBOnniTHW Bajj. Total Governor....... ; Secretary oC SUto............... Auditor. ' * THIMIIHII Superintendent of PabUe Instrootloa.. Attorney Oemeial AAJatant OtaoiL Bosidet PnbUc Charities............... Conveying oonvlota Faftttmtnn J entice Conveying Juvenile offenders........... Printing, paper sad stationery-- Snnrem* Coin* Appellate Court Cluma Conndasion Publtopadnttng and binding.... Interest on School Fond Htate Hoose laborers, eto. • * Historical Library sad Mnaennu. Railroad and Wartltttoe CotexUMion*n> Thirty- PlNi Only a Mechanit. "Boys," says an exchange, "do not sneer at the hard-working mechanic, for beneath that dust-soiled jacket may lurk the spirit of true nobility." The exchange is eminently correct. It is, indeed, wrong to pass through this world sneering at mechanics. A good, average, able-bodied mechanic is a bad man to sneer at. At almost any unexpected moment he is quite liable to suddenly transfer some of the dust on his jacket to the broadcloth coat of the sneerer, and jolt him severely if he sneers too hard at the mechanic. If a boy or young man is contemplating sneering at a mechanic, it would be quite as well not to let the hard-work­ ing meclianio catch him at it. When the boy wants to sneer real badly, and feels that he can't hold in any longer, it would be far better, instead of plunging right into the midst of a lot of hard­ working mechanics, to seek some secluded locality and have his sneer out all by himself. It would look a great deal better, and the boy would look better when he went home to the bosom of his family. No boys, it is neither polite, genteel nor wise to sneer at a mechanic. Neither is it healthy. The habitual sneerer at mechanics is sometimes cut off in the flower of his youth. Life is too short to indulge in such perilous recreation. The sneerer is too often found in a pen­ sive mood, abstractedly engaged in applying pieces of raw beefsteak to his eyes, trying to reduce a swollen nose with generous decoctions of arnica, feeling hia lame back, or picking the gold tilling out of his teeth which he happened to casually cough up soon after his indulging in his playful little sqeer at the hard-working mechanic. This is a practical lesson in parlor etiquette which the youth will not be liable to forget in a month or six weeks. The next time he feels called upon to Bneer it may be at a cow with a board over her face, or a poor blind girl, but it will not be at a mechanic. Polite* ness pays in the long run, and the lesson can never come home to a young man with greater force or earnestness than when he takes occasion to con­ temptuously sneer at a hard-working mechanic, and the mechanic happens at the time to be looking that way.--Texas Siftings. Travel Toward Europe. The fare in round figures to Europe is $100 each way on the best ships, though sometimes an extra $30, $60, or even $100 is paid to secure a full room, or one of the officers' rooms. The offi­ cers of these ships are generally allowed to sell out their rooms. There are steamers which take passengers out for as low as $55, $65 and $75, and on some of these lines passage can be had to Glasgow or London and return for about $100 to $120. There are fees to be paid on all of these vessels, however, which bring the figure up consideitebly. A4 s'general rule it costs $250 to go to Europe and back, and, take it all in all, it is a very cheap expenditure of money for a man worn out in business and needing real rest and health. It takes about eighteen days to go to Europe end back, notwithstanding the adver­ tisements of seven and eight days' passages. These passages are not counted between port and port, but be­ tween light. And light. They count, for instance, from the time o'f leaving the bar, twentv miles below New York, to making Fastnet light, in Ireland. It often takes four hours to go down the bay, and, after leaving Fastnet, nearly another day is required to reach Liver­ pool. Numbers of people go out on these steamers merely for the voyage, and come back on the same ship, hav­ ing five or six days, sometimes eight or nine days, to spend ashore, which lets them 'run down to London, and some go as far as Paris.--Cinc'mna H En­ quirer. • FALSE face must hide what the false heart doth know.--Shakspeare. MrIHh v K* 1** 1 Kmniom frartL Assembly Copying and diatrikatlac laws; Thir­ ty-fourth Awembly.... Heating and lighting State House..... State Board of Equalisation. Joliet and Chester mffylfitj , SU*e Board off HeJlff™™. State Libsacy... ..i... Distribution of School Pond _ „ , Bureaaof Labor Statistics Fish Commissioners 10gNa;j;.:.,n<, Total,,s-......*.t JUaUMN? o-w •A m it Include the indefinite amount whloh may be paid out in refunding tans or pnndias- ingBuprttne Oerat lranora, both of items appreciate "whatever; axscuxiva AMD T.SOTST^TTTE. For salaries of Slate DOMri Sad pay of officers and ' . fearth General Apppmfi JlllhoisNai •Illinois am •State Board o£ Shawneetown ft Bitldwiod ind11 Pneorvlng flags £a AdJnUnt General's tW- tsls. ___ Deltciency appropriation for employee.. :KMe Clare ttood-enfflecera. Mound City (reimbu State Horticultural | Stmte Law Library. MoUigaa Monument. Hlfttols Dairymea'a AsspdatHn. i... gUUaian's Baa Battle Moanmenl Total *Contla«ent fsad. tTo this ahcwild be added the appnp for the ase of eaeh oountyor other ~~ oral society, where there is one, tittpf {#3,398.66 returned. STATS CHABRISB. The following table shows the tntai i propriationa for the institution supervision and control of the i of chairitles--nine charitabletnatitvkioDS i the Reform School at Pontiac: Ordinary .Institution. «expenses. BpeelaL 1ML • t Northern Insane . p, Hospital.......... A 313,000 ta,m I *4,111,»' tMff* • f f fw (relief) third General Assembly indden- *80,00* Eastern Insane Hospital. **,000 Central Insane Hoa- „ P «tal 930,000 Southern Insane Hospital. M%M0 Institutien tor the Deaf sad Dumb.. 194,000 InstitutiOB for the Wind 04.000 Asylum for Feeble- Minded Children. jtokUers* Orphans* Home Eye and Ear Infirm- . ary Bta te BefOra School 84<000 46,9*6 UM» Totals ...4MM.000 IWMM MOW QUAsxna worn rsa anam,. < This statement, however; deesaottasii the contingent amount approximated (he, increased ordinary e Kankakee Asylum, in view i the new baildhtcS farwhie! apim>priafced|«a,«Ja st «ii0.00g This, ad ' j'*1"4 mmf H4.nr' ' • a:--. «3,00tM-;=.:;'r» 1H HH propriated tor th years aye*-an inereass ofnearty whiotiiSfiff.OOO Is for additional̂ the insane, ̂ and the mutaik Increased ordinary expenses o< the hospitals, due to their enlargement for hlinOM Of gftrmllfllg ABC theStata ̂ Joliet-- U Contingent fond t 00,000 Bepalrsand improvements...... 36,300 ̂ Chester-- Deficiency, three months.....«,.$ 30,000 Ordinary expenses ltO^M New land 4.000 ' Improvements *,C '* '* ' .> jtoucumut. State l̂ dTersity Southern Normal University State Industrial University Desf and Dumb School, Chicago. State Laboratory at Nomal... ff- !«tr- »•»!> { V '.N !t < . i * j its >•1. • t • >- • asnrfew*;** , • : . : nuvA*act4Bia. « :;v1r ' .Tacot> and Nicholas Lticlnger Robert Wilson. ItlchardShinntck........................ A. H. Gambrill Franklin county Uacob O. Chance. Estate of Alfred 89plnk....U... BEc&prrouLixoM* " General appropriation officers and next Assembly.... ASS mmr*' I institutions. '... Iccatioaal Institutions 1vste claims Total While the abeve total ta aot atetoMy reet, in view of the unoertain amounts* which taay be used for rehmdinf taxes, puzu. charint Supreme Court reports, aadrta e# -̂J comaging agricultnnl fairs, It |s rsaoonahfjf accurate for all practical proposes. In addition to the forecoing the Assembly made two oontlngeat tions--one of #531,719 for the eon tke 8t*te House, snbtoct to w . î̂ voto; and another of #891,000 HrpSStf: fair the State's one-half of the, JtSSSta rounding the Capitol, but oonoageat iqMMa the CitT of Spriaffteld pavlnr l* " ~ The addition fo these two items litipn: the grand total to #7,178,088. WHERE THS MOKHT IS TO COMB The General Levy bill provides a tax of #1,500,000 for 1888. IAS -«*' the bill also provides for plaetaff t» tha**? r credit of the School fond, to be used tar , ' . , : lMTan unexpended baltSoe of #l«[o«> © •' ̂ besnportioned among the eevenl ooa»Me#i , as provided by law, making the entire mm „ ^W lev ̂with the old brf̂ ̂evenJPL ̂ 00a There is at present about •4.0CQ,QB0 h(M - the State Treasury to the credit of Dp% , ,> " several funds. Drafts to the meant of #500,000 will probably be drawn bstwsai * * t now and July l, leaving an estimated balk. ance at that time of about t̂ SAOOOt This, with the revenue to be raised during the next two years, amount# .̂ ; to #3.50)1 uoq, against total appropriations of #7.178.038, It shoald be remeasbered. hew«> • ever, that the State derives an annual revafi /; JB nue, not before referred to. of #500,000 to " #70u,i0J from the Illinois Oeatzai Wsjftmad* ! Company; that#331,712of the 8tateHoas#;tii,; ; appropr ia t ion cannot be used except by per - _ . •< ,»* mission of a subsequent General l»emhlyt * '* that the canal ana Joliet penitentiary oa»* f tingent funds are rarely drawn upon, but are simply appropriated to meet possible ooa» <" tlngendes; and that much of what woald' appear te be new appropriations was realhr ; . ̂ appropriated and used during ths reoenat • *" s w. session for Assembly expenses, incidentals# ,i , etc., and is therefore not a charge upon tiNfc, . balance now in the Btate treasury. At th% t same time it is spt to strike the average tax~ ,. payer that the Thirty-third General Assent* *3 r hly was rather a "liberal" body. He who is most slow ua madtfttgr ** • - ^ f J promise is th© most faithful in the per* formaaee of it.--Rosaeau* $ •••< '• kr-'.V,.-'V.;.'-r,'- • . * i - •. ;... b