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V-*- HJtgmrg flaiudralrr i. w term, wmm m* Minhn. MOHENBY, . . ILLINOIS. ': -f V vl- • J.'V ... -•• ' Da. HAKNBEL, a German savant, has succeeded in photographing several lightning flashes, and with such saooess as to enable th'e length of the electric onrrent to be computed and also the lo­ cality where the lightning struck to be •estimated with accuracy. Valuable re­ sults are expected from further experi­ ments. A waiwrrtTAi. clock was started at , Brussels a little over a year ago. An .tip draft is obtained in a tube or shaft ? fcy exposing it to the sun; this draft ' turns A fan, which winds up the weight of the clock until it reaohes the top, when it actuates a i>rake that stops the fan, but leaves it free to start again after the weight has gone down a little. At last accounts the clock was running perfectly. THE Baltimore American has inter­ viewed some street-fakirs, one of whom, •on being asked, "In what city are you most successful?" replied as follows: "Chicago is undoubtedly the best city , in this country. The moment anybody there sees a new thing, they buy it at any price in reason, whether they want it or not. New York, like this city, is •only fair. Boston and Philadelphia are good cities: we can always do well there. The worst cities are those in the West--excepting, of course, Chicago. I refer particularly to St. Louis, Cincin­ nati and Cleveland. AMKKICANS have always been a little •off in their anxiety to honor something imported. Our girls have occasionally •shown a mania for foreign counts and men with titles. A few years ago down went our finest shade trees to make way for the allanthus. Then come the craze for the English sparrow. But we have begun to realize from the poisonous at­ mosphere of the allanthus, and the miserable pests called the sparrows, all their worthlessness. The experience ought to be a valuable lesson to Ameri­ cans. No forest trees are more beauti­ ful than our own, and the birds of no land sing moressweetly or are more at­ tractive. THE Patent •sOffike of the United States is getting to be quite an exten- •eivs department of the Governmetit^ )The applications last year weire for pat­ ents, 32,845; design patents, 1,032; re­ issues, 247; trade-marks, 854; labels> ' 749. Of these there were issued 22,- 866, and 2,056 withheld for non-pay­ ment of final fees; 7,447 patents ex­ pired. The receipts of the office were $1,095,884, and the surplus, $518,225. The business of the office is steadily and rapidly increasing. The Commis­ sion is in favor of a reduction of the •fees, as the large "surplus of $220,000 now stands to the credit of the office on the books of the office. . Miss MELINDA POPE went to Milwau­ kee to get married. Though Melinda is 129 years old, and hence at an age when -discretion should play a part in life, she did not seem to possess the fine power of distinguishing between broth­ ers who bore some striking resemblance to each other. This is the more remark­ able because Melinda was so much in love that she went to Milwaukee for the express purpose of marrying one of the Conlins. She became united to the wrong one, a dissolute youth of less than 21,when she had sought an elder shoot of the family, who was steady and respectable. Melinda, a week later, asked for a divorce on the ground of her mistake. A YOUNG man in White county, Oeorgia, had a good deal of bad luck. In attempting to cross the river in a bateau, the boat capsized and threw him into the water. Trying to reach the skiff again his foot caught in a snag, and wrenched it, and he lost at the same time a $20 watch, his hat, a shoe, and was hobbling across a field when a ferocious bull started after him. Beach­ ing a tree he climbed it lively enough to escape the bull, but got into a hor­ net's nest. The hornets objected, but he sprang to another limb, which broke, letting him fall to the ground, fractur­ ing his writs. With the broken branch be kept the bull at bay and managed to escape, but is now laid up for repairs. ACCORDING to the New Orleans Timcs-Dem ocrat, southern progress during the last four years has been of the most solid an satisfactory charac­ ter. The assessed valuation of the sight southern and southwestern States increased between 1879 and 1883 from $1,215,662,128 to $1,710,498,798. In the same States the railroads have increased from 11,604 miles to 17,891. The value of raw products raised in those States increased from $398,000,000 to $567,- 000,000. The trade of New Orleans in domestic produce increased from $159,- 000,000 in 1881-2 to $200,000,000 in 1882-3. As this increase has taken place without any inflation in prices, it shows that the South has entered upon • promising career of material prosper­ ity- ' , . -'/'J THE car Was pretty full wl^gri Charles O'Conor entered it, according to a corres­ pondent of a Chicago paper, but there was one empty seat, which the dignified old man did not take. A boy politely pointed it out to him, but he disregarded jthe information. A young woman said, f There is a seat, sir," and he thanked tier. Then a man tapped him on the jarxn, directing him to the vacant spot He shook his head, and seemed annoyed. Pinally * jolly fellow, one of whose sides encroached somewhat upon the blank seat, reached out and pulled at his coat tail. Now he was angry. A quick sweep of his arm freed the gar­ ment, and he turned upon his latest tormentor with a withering frown. "I wish to stand," he said, "and lam going to stand. I am tired of sitting, and you will please let me rest." A GOOD deal of talk is bong Jj> the papers and in railway circles about the reduction in fare between Omaht and San Francisco. The "reduction* is exactly $3. Twelve years ago, when but one road was open to the Pacific coast the fare was $100. For the past year it was $98. Now it is $95. It is presumed that the reduction of $3 is due to the completion ef a couple of new roads. By the time three more are built we may get another three-dollar reduction. There is nothing like com­ petition to equalize passenger rates. Seriously speaking, the rate from Oma­ ha to the Pacific even at $95 is an out­ rage. The distance is 1,900 miles. The fare is put at exactly 5 cents a mile which in these days of competition, pools and cut, rates on all other, rail­ roads, seems like a gross impositioip,. - MA. Z. W. MOORE, of Kaufman coun­ ty, and his son. a veritable novelty and boy giant, arrived in the city yesterdaj morning, says the Dallas (Tex.) Herald, The boy, who is only seven . years old, weighs 105 pounds and has six distinct and well-developed toes on each foot, and five fingers, exclusive of the thumb, on the left hand. His stature is pretty much in keeping with a boy of his years. The peculiarity of his dimen­ sions, however, is not attributable to his being so fat, but to the enormous size of his bones, which are much larger than those of the ordinary man. Mr. Moore says that the unnatural growth of his son began when but a babe three months old, and that when only three years old he tipped the scale at seventy- five pounds. The lad is intelligent, in good health, and his father says he was never sick a day in his life. THE genius who hovers about the Lower Lake region and furnishes thrill­ ing tales of events which he is pleased to imagine happen in that vicinity, comes to the front with the ingenious colored man of Thamesville, Ontario. A care­ less farmer drilling a hole in the earth one foot wide and fifty feet deep left the opening unguarded for his 2-year- old child to fall into. It would take days to dig down to the child's level, and no other child was intelligent enough to go down to the rescue, and at the same time small enough to fit into the hole. So the colored man got a rope, made a noose on the end of it, and nailed a number of small strips of wood together. By the aid of a mirror he carefully lowered the rope, and with the aid of his pole put the noose around its neck. It was hauled to the sur­ face with its skin considerable rubbed off, but otherwise unhurt. 7 IF California were not so for away, and cost of transportation so great, it could help out the Mississippi Valley a good deal on the question of a Irttol famine. Says the San Franciscb Jour­ nal of Commerce concerning the Bock Mountain supply: "There is n6 region on earth except tropical South America that possesses anything like the forest that clothes the great moun­ tain chain whose principal summits rear above the deserts of Arizbna, and whose feet, so to speak, are bathed in the rigid waters of the icy ocean. There are fully 700 miles of mountains cov­ ered with virgin forests, which it would seem as if the whole world could not ex­ haust. The estimated quantity of lum ber contained in these mighty forests is not less than 4,032,000,000, or 4,000,- 000,000 feet, worth in the log at a low estimate $25,000,000,000. California itself has 12,000,000 acres of wood­ lands, the annual production being about 500,000,000 feet. Panther and Wolves. The most dangerous animal in this country (said old John Cheney, the hunter of the Adirondacks) is the yel­ low panther. Panthers are not plenty, and they are so cunning that one is sel­ dom killed. They are savage, but do not often attack a man unless they are wounded. They look and act very much like a cat. When they are after game, they make a hissing noise, which is not pleasant to hear. Their scream is also very terrible, and few ordinary men are anxious to hear it more than' once. "The panther I killed," said Mr. Che­ ney, "I came across in this manner: I was out on Lake Henderson with two men, catching fish through the ice, when we saw two wolves come on the ifee in great haste, looking and acting as if they had been pursued. "I proposed to the men that we should kill them if we could. They wanted to fish, or were a little afraid, so I took my gun and started after the wolves. "I followed them some distance, and as they were scaling a ledge, they were attacked by a huge panther. A bloody fight followed. From the appearance of the animals, I supposed that they had met bofore, and that was the reason the wolves came upon the lake. "During the scuffle they all three tum­ bled off the precipice, and fell through the air abount one hundred feet into the snow. The Wolves jumped up and ran away, while the panther started in another direction." "I followed his track, and after trav­ eling a number of hours, overtook him and managed tp shoot him through the shoulder. He then gqt into a tree, and as he was lashing his tail and getting ready to pounce upon me, I gave him another bullet, and he fell to the earth dead. His body was five feet long."-- Adventures in North American Wilds. TWENTY years ago there were but about 3,000 in Portland, Oregon; now that vicinity ca^-gat^ap » two miles long. AGRICULTURAL. AH exchange says that a New York farmer runs 100 bushels of wheat through a fanning-mill to get eighteen tbushels oi the largest and plumpest kernels for seed. A JERSEY cow, owned in Baltimore, Md., gave 327 pounds of milk in seven days, from which 25 pounds and 2| ounces of bunter were made. She cost her owner $2,000. Is Virginia and North Carolina where peanuts can be grown they are the most profitable crop that can be grown there. Seventy-five bushels to the acre is not an uncommon crop, and 125 bushels have been grown. The price ranges from 75 cents to $1.25 per" bushel.--Chicago Journal. THOSE who grow oats sometimes claim that they draw more from the soil than wheat, but one who has given the matter attention states that where he has known an average crop of corn to take seventy-six pounds of nitrogen and wheat thirty-nine, oats took only thirty, and of potash and phosphoric acid oats took less than either corn or wheat. He thinks, however, that oats derive less from the atmosphere than other crops, receiving their nourish­ ment from the soil albne; and, while he knows that this crop requires less ni­ trogen, potash and phosphoric acid than wheat or corn, yet, for some unac­ countable reason, it seems to be harder on soil than the others. The Kansas Farmer warns Western farmers against the expectation that a soil, however rich, will always remain fertile without manure or rest. It says: "Kansas is not old, but many of her farmers are witnessing what other men have seen in other places, and what will be seen wherever farmers persist in working their lands continuously with­ out rest or recuperation. We insist that, all things considered, there is no better agricultural region on earth than that called Kansas; but no soil was ever found rich enough to withstand the effects of continued cropping with­ out rest or food. We insist, further, that an acre well tilled, is much more profitable than two acres only half tilled. Kansas has how many more than a million of population; nearly every county in the State has a rail­ road ; her grain and stock are shipped to the great markets of the world, on terms nearly equal with those afforded to similar articles grown in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It is time, therefore, that our farmers begin to look ahead to the time when it will be necessary to make every acre of land they own pro­ duce to the extent of full capacity. It is time to abandon slovenly methods and adopt those of economy and neat­ ness. How TO SHOCK WHEAT.--It consists of eight sheaves--no more. The first three are set close together in a row running east and west and well chucked down. Two more are set on each side of this row, the butts well ilattended against the ground and at the same time jabbed into the butts of the others. This makes the shock round, knits it together and makes it firm on the ground. To knit it closer together the shocker embraces the tops in his arms, hugs them close and finishes by giving the heads a kind of twisting lap. Then, holding the sheaf intended for a cap be­ tween his knees, he loosens the band, slips it down within a foot of the end, where he tightens it again, and then proceeds to break the heads down clear to the band and very thoroughly. It is laid on with the heads to the west. A cap prepared in this manner will cover the shock like an apron clear down to the bands and two-thirds of the way around--so completely, in fact, that no wind will ever blow it off unless the shock goes over with it. Wheat shocked this way in our fields stands up in a gale which sends a third or half the shocks to grass, or at least uncaps them in neighboring fields; and in a hour they will be dry enough to thresh after a storm heavy enough to precipitate half an inch or more of water. The cap is perpendicular at one end, and has a very decided slope at the other; the shock is small, tight, symmetrical, and stands up like a soldier of the 'awkward squad,' with his hands clapped on his trousers seams, and the rain finds no logment. It has nothing to do but run down the steep roof of the cap and drop to the ground. Now, wheat shocked this way does not need to bo stacked It is unnecessary, a waste of time and labor. If a shower suspends threshing operations it will only be for a short time.--Correspondence of the Ohio Farmer. THE WEED NUISANCE.--Weeds will assort their rights wherever there is a ohance, and if not checked will monop­ olize tho entire farm. Cultivation, in a general sense, is the best exterminator But weeds should not be removed and thrown away, or burnt in piles as farm­ ers do; they should be made a source of profit, or at least to pay for their "grub," by adding them to the manure- heap. Some may say that the seed of the weeds retain their vitality in the manure, and when the manure is spread on the earth these weeds grow and give us a world of trouble. We have heard this objection over and over again; and many either burn their weeds or cart them to some waste hole for fear of this. On the other hand, we like to see tho manure-heap cared for. It is a sign of a strong arm and a vigor­ ous intellect at the head of affairs. And even at the risk of encouraging weed seed once in a while, we would rather preach the doctrine of throwing every­ thing into this one common receptacle for all vegetable and animal refuse, than aid in the waste of good material which we so often see. Even when there is likely to be much objection from weed-seeds in a manure-heap, pro­ vided the vegetable refuse is likely to be valuable, tke seeds may be destroy­ ed by composting. The warmth of the decaying mass causes the seeds to sprout; and. if the whole mass is turned over once or twice, so as to give air enough to all the seeds in time to germ­ inate, all the objectionable matter may be destroyed. We fear far more from ugly roots of vile creeping weeds in the manure-heap than we do from bad seeds; but even these may be pretty badly worried by a"stirring over of the mass a time or two before using. But this requires labor; and How much la­ bor can be made profitable will always be a question before the saving of waste material, however valuable in the abstract it may be.--German town Tel­ egraph. HOUSEKEEPER'S HELPS. LEMONADE. -- The juice of three lemons, the peel of one lemon, a quarter of a pound of lump sugar, and a quart of cold water. Allow it to stand fire hours and strain. CURTAINS are draped much higher than they used to be. It is no longer considered essential that they meet low down, but it is good form to tie them back so that one may look out of the window, or so that a small table may be placed close to the window. AFTER the dust has been thoroughly beaten out of carpets and they are tacked down again, they can be bright­ ened very much by scattering cornmeal mixed with coarse salt over them, and then sweeping it all off. Mix the salt and meal in equal proportions. LINEN lunch cloths one yard square, with a vine and some odd and mirth- provoking design in the corners, are the fancy of the hour. These are very pretty to cover the small table used at lunch or small tea parties. Have as much variety in coloring and in the de­ sign as possible and yet be in harmony. AN excellent authority in medicine recommends a little common sugar as a remedy for a dry, hacking cough, and gives scientific' reasons for it. If troubled at night or on first waking in the morning, have a little cup on a stand close by the bed, and take hall a teaspoonful; this will be of benefit when cough syrups fail. COFFEE CUSTARD. -- Make a rich custard, at least half cream; to a quart of cream and milk allow four eggs if they are large, five if small; sweeten to your taste; cook in a farina kettle; when done stir in two-thirds of a cup­ ful of cold coffee and one teaspoonful of corn starch; the coffee should be strained through a cloth, so that there will be no dark-colored specks In the custard. THE flavor of coffee may be greatly improved and its delicate aroma in­ creased by adding a little bi-carbonate of soda to the water with which it is made. This is the reason why the cof­ fee obtained at Vichy, Carlsruhe, and other German watering places is of such superior excellence, the water in these localities containg a certain percentage , of soda. In England many persons habitually use carbonate of soda in making tea, a pinch to a pint of water being tne regulated quantity. CHERRY SYRUP.--Take the stones out of the choicest and ripest of cherries; mash the fruit into a pulp; press through a hair sieve into an earthen pan; stand in a cool place for two days. Now filter. To each pound of cherry juice add one pound of best white sugar; allow to re­ main at rest until the sugar is thor­ oughly dissolved. This dissolution may be hastened by placing over the fire and stirring with a wooden spatula. In either case skim. Now place again over the fire and allow it to boil only two or hree minutes. Take off ibe new scum and bottle for use. LEMON WHEY.--One pint of boiling milk, half a pint of lemon juice, sugar to taste. Mix and strain. BUTTER COOKIES.--One cup sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, one and one- half teaspoonfhls cream, tartar, one tableapoonful of soda. Flavor with lemon. SUGGESTIONS OF TALUS. ' A PBKTTY heading for the top of a muslin curtain is made by hemming each edge of a strip of muslin and gathering it in two places so that there shall be a puff in the center and a ruffle on each edge. WHEN buying tin covers for kettles be sure that they have rings of wire on the top, instead of flat handles soldered on, as these will not last any percepti­ ble length of time, and the cover muBt then be thrown away. IRON rust may be removed from deli­ cate garments, upon which you dare not try oxalic acid, by mixing the juice of a lemon with some salt ; put this over the rusted spots, and then hold over the spout of a steaming tea-kettle. This is almost always effectual. IF the carpet needs freshening up af­ ter tacking down, sweep and then wipe with flannel cloth, wrung out of warm water with ox gall in it, in the propor­ tion of one quart of gall to three quarts of water. The improved appearance of the carpet will amply repay the trouble if this is done once in six weeks, as the rubbing raises the pile and freshens the colors. THERE is no plant more pleasing to the eye in the garden than the bell pepper-plant, and two or three of these will yield enough of the green peppers to make a nice little jar of pickles. The filling, if made exactly as you make chopped pickles, is excellent. A few seeds dropped in the hot-bed, or a few plants purchased, will repay for the trouble. ONE objection to ingrain carpet is that the high heels which servants de­ light in wearing on thick shoes seem to catch at the thread and drag them out of place, producing a rough surface; an­ other is that the legs of heavy chairs have the same effect. One way of sav­ ing these carpets is to cover the ends of the chair legs with rubber caps, at a cost of about 17 cents. The servants' heels are, of course, amendable to no such remedy. HERE is a hint for the careful house­ wife who wishes to make the most of everything. When your red tablecloth is too much worn in spots to use any longer on the table, cut the good part in the shape of napkins, fringe them out for about an inch, if inclined to ravel easily overcast them, and it may be many a long day before any member of your family will discover that they are not regular "boughtSfc" fruit nap­ kins.--Good Cheer. BLACK silk can sometimes be fresh­ ened surprisingly by sponging with cold coffee and ammonia--a teaspoonful of ammonia to nearly a cupful of coffee. Use a very soft sponge or flannel cloth; rub very gently; and, if possible to get along without so doing, do not iron the silk at all. Spread it out smoothly while damp, and pin the edges to an ironing-table or board, and let it dry in this way. If it is too much w rinkled or folded lay a cloth over the wrong side of the silk after sponging, and iron it. ORNAMENT FOB WALL.--Take four or five fans that close and open, and re­ move the rod that holds them together at the end of the sticks. Then take a linen thread doubled through a large needle and run through the paper part near the end, thus making them open "wrong end to," and form a large circle with the sticks pointing outward. Com­ plete by a large bow in the center and a ribbon running in and out through the sticks and tied in a bow at one side. Fans with black sticks show better on some walls. A MOST beautiful and fragrant growth for a window may be obtained by soak­ ing a sea-sponge in warm water and sowing in its cells the seeds of um­ brageous grass and wild flowers, with here and there a dolicate fern and creep­ ing wild berry, known as mock straw­ berry. The hanging may be done by a gilded rod or ornamental cords. The sponge may be kept moist and distend­ ed by daily sprinkling with blood-warm water. The sponge thus treated is much lighter, prettier and more surely ver­ dant than any other spring basket*** National Farmer. A boat Razors. More ra^ors are spoiled by improper grinding thhn in any other way. The only way to know positively whether a razor is good on not is to shave with it. The eye will n|t determine its quality, but even if a razor is of the best steel and faultlessly ground, it may be spoiled and rendered quite unfit for shaving by improper stropping. A little too much stropping or not quite enough, and you will have a bad edge. Three- quarters of the people who shave them­ selves do not know how to use a razor, and consequently are liable to condemn a good one. A razor is supposed to better for a rest after it has been used for a good while. Andjt is. My idea about it is that an imperceptible rust gathers on it in disuse, and when that is honed and stropped off its edge is thinner and sharper than before. But you will not infrequently hear of a barber speak of a razor as "being tired" and "needing rest." Many men avoid wearying a razor by constant use by the expedient of having several and using them in turn. Some men have a great number of razors, and keep adding to their collec­ tion all the time. Joe Jefferson, the actor, buys at least a dozen per annum from a big cutlery house on Nassau street alone, and I knows he also buys elsewhere. I should imagine that he must have a trunk full of razors, if he does not lose them or give them away all the time. A good razor is worth from $1.50 to $2.50, but there are cheap kinds sold as low as $2 a dozen. Last year a dealer in New York imported 2,467 dozens of razors, worth more than $20,000 to him. And that is about what the demand is every year.--New York Sun. Air-Castles. Take cardboard and zephyr Md form into three triangular balls. Make threa sizes: one of the largest, five of the next, and seven of the smallest size. Each ball is formed of three square pieces, each piece being worked with zephyr in some easy pattern, or an em­ bossed picture instead. The three pieces are then joined to form a ball; the opposite points of all three meeting at top and bottom. * All the balls should be finished before making them in a castle. They should be joined by a thread of zephyr one and one-half inches long. Join them in this way: first, one of the second size, with three small balls hanging from three corners. Underneath this the largest one, and { one to wash for him. THE REVENUES. Synopsis of the Annual Roport of Commissioner Evans. Further legislation Becommended Bd* i to ConoMiona Kate It the Vinegar Men. 13M Preseentlen [ef IMMUMI •tared--Revenues of Us Department. Olin Ophir's Oddities. Walking made easy--That is bj riding. Imprudence is the soul of wit. Silence is golden; so is a red head. Suspense is the corner-stone of pa­ tience. Ignorance is the soul of innocence. Antediluvian is the only aunt that outlasts time and sense. Fossil remains longer than any other fellow. A good toothache supplies the place of a companion. Indolence and ease are the stimulus to exertion. Hell has no fury like the man whose porter-house steak* has been over-done for dinner. The wise man keeps mum at all times; so does the board of trade man on certain occasions. The world says too much about her small fry, and too little about her big men. Let not your neighbor know what your right hand is doing, or he may snatch your left bald-headed. The woman who can go, but won't, ought to be given a new. bonnet to make her. The man who calls his mother washer woman is poor indeed, but not quite as poor as the man who hasn't any ^ joulxhi A aOr About N years of age was sentenced ̂ to twelve hours in Jail fHteUttiblog on the cars at the depot at Danville, one day re- ceritiy. \ ^ILLINOIS bas 4*1 creameries awl elrnw factories, Kane edltaty leading with forty- . «i.v three. ~'M The Commissioner of Internal Revenue concludes his Ions report by stating that, although justified by precedent, he could find no provision of law whioh authorized him to make recommendations. However, he flnda law enough to make, some important recom­ mendations. One is that the statute fixing the limitation for the prosecution of offensei against the revenue laws be reduced from pve to two years. This recommendation Seems to rest upon the opinion that some court expenses would be saved If it should be Adopted. Case9 older than two years, he claims, are almost invariably lost by the Government. The Commissioner says' be has been urged to make a proclamation of general amnesty to a class of persons whom he calls "small distillers in inaccessible mountain-regions," generally known, however, outside of official communication, as "Moonshiners." Another suggestion of the Commissioner i! that tho Internal Revenue lawsdo not extend over the Indian Territory. This argument is based on the treaties. To the suggestion that extensive frauds might be committed in thai Territory, if some means should not be pro­ vided for enforcing the Revenue laws in It, Commissioner Kvans suggests that such an argument is "only to be addressed to Congress rather than to the Judicial or Executive branch of the Government." The Commissioner's estimate of the amount of the result of taxation caused by the change in the law will be 913,000,000, but he anticipates augmented receipts from distilled spirits, so that the agregate receipts for the year, unless there should be a further change in the Revenue laws, will be $280,000,000. He recommends that the law which author* izes vinegar distilleries be modified. He sayi this privilege is one which presents to un­ scrupulous persons a constant temptation together with sufficient opportunity to en­ gage in the illicit production of spirits, while its abuse is exceedingly difficult to prevent or detect, owing to the want of proper safeguards. As th« law stands the anomaly is presented of one class of manufacturers, using alcohol in theit business, who are allowed to make their own alcohol without supervision or control, while the distillers, who produce alcohol for use in all other trades and kinds of manufacture, are watched with constant care and subject ed to rigid restriction. "In my opinion," says he, "safeguards to'the revenue which ex­ perience has demonstrated to be indispensible in the one case cannot be omitted with safety in the other. I would urgently recommend I hut this privilege be withdrawn. If the law should be so changed as to allow a drawback to vinegar-makers for the tax paid on the al­ cohol used by them in making vinegar, the opportunities for fraud would be reduced to the minimum." By the consolidation of collection districti an annual saving- to the Government of $125,- 000 is secured. During the first three months of tho current, fiscal year revenues decreased $7,929,401. (The number of 'stamps issued to Collectors and Agents was 1,032,744,500, rep­ resenting a value of $462,657,114. The increased production of manufactured tobacco and snuff was over 3,000,000 pounds. Increased production of cigars, 18«,000,000, and of cigarets 98,000,000. The reduction in revenue for tobacco causcd by the act of 1881 is at least $25,000,000. The amount of rebate claimed on tobacco was $3,72C>,913; amosnt allowed, S3,524,167. The number of distilleries operated the last year was 5,129, consuming 18,644,787 bushel! of grain. The decrease of spirits produced was about 32,000,000 gallons. The amount oi spirits removed in bond for export was 5,326,- 427 gallons; transferred to manufacturing warehouses, 283,938 gallons; withdrawn from warehouses, 83,291,190: allowed for leakag* and evaporation, 2,291,013; remaining in warehouses Juno 30, 1883, 80,449,993. Seven- tenths of this is bourbon. There were in warehouses Oct. 1, 1883. 73,405,361 gallons; withdrawn for export the first three months of the present fiscal year, 752,380 gallons. The distilled spirits in the United States, ex­ cept what may l>e in customs bonded ware­ houses, the 1st of October, 1888, was nearly 116,000,000 gallons. •xy PENSIONS. three of the second size hanging there­ from. Then the remaining one of the middle size, with three small ones, and last a single small ball. The four lower corners fchould be finished with worsted tassels or balls, and long threads of zephyr attached to the castle to hang it up by.--The Battle- boro (Vt.) Household. He Winked. : During the last break in oil, a #oman who had ridden four or five block in a street car with a lone gentleman, sud­ denly turned upon him with: "You do that again and I'll appeal to the driver!" W--what?" he gasped. Oh! you villain, you know what!" Madam, upon my soul I don't under­ stand!" "Sir! you winked at me three differ­ ent times!" - 'I did! Great. Scots! Madam, but I wasn't aware of it! I am the holder of 95,000 barrels of oil, and am being squeezed so hard that I am scarcely in my right mind! Wink at you! why, woman, if oil should even advance 28 cents per gallon, I wouldn't dare wink hotel waiter! Squeezed out of $16,- 000 in an hour, and then charged with having a corner on the winking busi­ ness ! Madam, I " But she rang the bell and left him alone.-- Well Street News. GOOD breeding consists of having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manner. Beware of fthe lean man. He cannot go through the eye of a cannibal. The inebriate man thinks more of his boots than his head, and will not allow them on the ground ii he can help it. Generosity is the plaything of fools, antiquarians know better.--Carl Pret­ zel's Weekly. A Monrnfnl Reflection. A Texas man was left $2,000 by the death of an uncle in New York. He drank deeply, and went through the property in two months. While on- gaged in the completion of one of the Texas railroads, he received notice that he had again fallen heir, this time to 15,000. "Allow me to congratulate you," said one of his fellow-workmen." "Congratulate nothing," said the man dismally, "it looks very much as though there was some kind of a plot on foot to kill me off."--Texas Siftings. A Cautions Griffin. Mrs. Gwendolyn Van Style--"And, Griffin, always remember to offer the salver for the gentleman's card." Griffin (elevating himself to tiptoe)-- "Yes'm." Mrs. G. "Van S.--"And, under no cir­ cumstances, Griffin, remain waiting in the drawing-room until I come down, as you did yesterday." Griffin (letting himself softly down to his heels again)--"But suppose, mem, as I takes him to be a j&nt, mem, what'll bear watehw'. MM*?"--New York Life. - - Tin Methods of Paprlndpl<i< Judge Ferris, Second Auditor of the Treas­ ury, in bis annual report, exposes the meth­ ods by which the Boldiers of the late war and the Government are being swindled by un­ principled attorneys and agents. He sayi not one in ten applications for arrears of pay and bounty possess any merit, and not one in twenty of all these claims is filed upon suggestion or by voluntary action of claim' ant. The attorney seeks a client airf rep­ resents to the uninformed, moro jreiPrallj colored soldiers or their heirs, that they have not been paid all that is Justly due them; that some new law or new construe tion of existing law entitles them to more bounty or further pay. A small fee in ad­ vance is required, generally $2 or $3, some­ times more; in fact, all that can be got with promise no more will be demanded unlesi the claim bo allowed. The fee is paid, the ap­ plication tiled and in the end rejected. The attorney rarely looks after claims; it doee not pay. Kg has received his little advance fee, and it p&ys better to hunt up more vic­ tims. Soldiers are swindled, and, after theii claims are rejected, frequently do- nounee the Government and its offi­ cers, who simply administer the law as they find it. Another class ol worthless claims is # constantly increasing, namely, claims for boun it s already paid. In many of these cases denials of former pay­ ments are made under oath, when the records of this office, authenticated in the highest manner known to law and the courts, show conclusively payments were made years ago. Perjury Is sometimes added to forgery, and the lapse of time since tho war Increases the chances of success to the forgers and per­ jurers, Should these records be destroyed, and such a calamity is not beyond a possi biilty, the Government certainly wooid be defrauded out of millions of. money. THE daily product of the Hspatur 00*3 mine is 875 tons. This would be incased were it not for the scarcity cf cars. » Ex-Go v. BIVIIUDOI, of IUlncls,1®!?* BEEO^%' appointed one of the Directors of the ajlteJ States Central railway, and will accept. 'Sj Ma. JOHNSOS, brother of Clarence P. Johnson.Gov. Hamilton's private secretary, was accidentally shot at Springfield. Tha«f^f'^ 4 wound is considered a very dange/ous one. THE Auditor of Illinois bas issued a war* • rant for $2,500 toward a monument toCoL^jj <•» Mulligan at Calvary cemetery, Chicago, a like amount having been raised by subscrip-^ ; tion. / N. 1L TEHKBT, of Flano, while digging *, ̂ along the stream near his plaoe tbo other, > s day, unearthed a doubled-up skeleton on being straightened out measured air test , * in length. *; f" * AH Alderman in Waukegan, who attempted ' / to put a distasteful motion, was ejected from the chamber by the Marshal and policeman, hls desk being torn from the Soor in the struggle. AT a dinner party given recently In Jack­ sonville, there were foul1 ladies present whose united ages was 288 years--Mrs. Phelpha years, Mrs. Cornell 71, Mrs. Van Cleace 8T, and Mrs. Mongel M. THBRK are some 150 Gaelic (Scotch) Pree-^f " ? byterian families in Chicago, and at ameet-^i* f ^ ing held in that city It was decided to organ-.,'," ' ' * .-4; ize a congregation and arrange to have aervt- „ i ces in that language. BISHOP SPAU>INQ has purchased of Old- • dings Bros, the property on the southeast *, corner of Main and Park streets, opposite St. Patrick's Catholic churoh, at Danville, for 1 school purposes, for the sum of $3,500. ^ W. H. PARKER, a wealthy farmer, who was ' 4 ys serving on a Jury at Decatur, was so much * ' . _, s. .«s> affected by learning of the elopement and?#;* * marriage of his daughter that the court was ' **• S compelled to adjourn for a week. A JURY in the Federal court at Chicago * "5| awarded the Kerr heirs, in their suits dflPWtnst $ • * # * the South Park Commissioners, about $600,- i * M * J 000 for 11 acres of ground taken thirteen , ® years ago, being $850,000 with S per cent., J . i n t e r e s t . " 1 ^ Gov. HAMILTON has Issued the feUewln^^' ' « , - J Thanksgiving proclamation: f * r ^ In aocordanoe with a time-honored and ver^ ' proper custom, and in harmony with a procla«> * • % mation issued by the President or the United States, I, John M. Hamilton, Governor of thd? 1 *" State of Illinois, hereby designate Thursday., . "J 4i. the 211th day of November, A.D. 1883, as Thanksl ' 1 w giving day. and I request the people of thttcf' £ S t a t e t o l a y a s i d e t h e i r u s u a l l a b o r s o n t h a t d a f t , , ' M and in the manner of their choice, either in pn-> • * 4 la devout living tar: fVSK y that thaa* ned. I fnr- day thu*l vate or in public assembly, worship of God and hearty thanksgiving to ' • f' Him for the blessings of p perity and happiness whioh 1 Commonwealth have enjoys past year, and kambly divine favors may be ther recommend that set apart all the people of the 8tate whom Provi-. ^ denoe hae favored with an abundance of life's! * K comforts shall especially remember the poor. - , > the needy and distressed, and by public bountmw-':S-S\^-i&rS»3. or private charity not only fOrnish them with 4 ,\>w^ fooa and clothing to enable them to be especially-1 • * / thankful to Providence and their fellow-men our" " Thanksgiving day, but that steps may be takeni r the ' """ to reasonably care for them dnrin gtheeomini winter. JOHMM. HAMILTON. \ - A fatal accident occurred at Bluffs, tho other evening. Just as the west-bound pa* E: senger train on the Wabash pulled into the station a freight engine and caboose backed ; down the track in the opposite direction,1^ running over a blacksmith named Jones, and killing him Instantly. He was frightfully THE MINT. Be port of Director 1! orchard, la Wklck Ho Deprecates Moro Silver Coinage. The1 annual report of the Director of the Mint shows tho gold received and operated upon during the year was $49,000,000; silver, nearly $39,000,000. The coinage for the year was valued at $#0,200,704; total gold coinage, $35,936,927; silver, $28,835,470, of which $28,' 111,110 was standard dollars. The protlts on the eoinagc of the Bilver dollars was S3,"01,- 331; net silver profits the last five years, $13,K60.310. The silver- circulation, the Director says, is in excess of require­ ments, and be expresses the bcliel that equal colnasre of both gold and silver by all nations is desirable, and sug­ gests tha^ Congress consider the question whether the law directing the monthly coin­ age of $-',0 )0,000 iu silver dollars should not bo modified or repealed. The Director rec­ ommends the coinage of the gold dollar and 3 cent, nickel piei e be discontinued, the repeal of the act authorizing t^.e coinage ol the trade dollar, and the latter coins be sent to the mints and exchanged for other silvei dollars. The production of gold for the cur­ rent calendar year will be $3'.',000,000, and silver. $19,000,000. The estimated circulation of coin Oct. 1. If83, was $541.r>r.',fcW),000 gold, and $235,2til,323 in sliver. AMOXG OUR EXCHANGES. CHAMPAIGN county, 111., has 50,000 bushels of apples.' BIRDS are dying by thousands in Louisiana on aceout of lack of water. Tni-: priests of Brittany have ordered the Breton girls not to sell their hair. A SHELDRAKE, said to be tho prettiest bird in America, was recently killed near Pitta ford, N. Y. ErnovEAN immigration, to the Argentine Bcpublic is increasing. Last year the ar­ rivals numbered 51.000. A PINOLE pumpkin vine on the farm of Dr. \y. M. Clark, six miles south of Nashville, bore sixty-nine pumpkins. WARREN COUNTY, Tenn., is studying over buzzard with one perfectly white wing. mangled, being crushed beyond recognition. s s- , THE ownership of Arsenal Island, below St. Louis, is in doubt. The island once formed a part of the State of Missouri, but a change in . ̂ ^ ^ the channel of the river has brought it with- '* j in the jurisdiction of Illinois. It was the," ' *| property of the city of St. Louis, but, as the .J. ^ city cannot own property out of the 8tate, the question now arises: Who owns the island? The Secretary of the Interior has ^ , '• been appealed to to decide tho question. rJ" THE State Geologist is of the opinion that f the Decatur vein of coal will be struck at ^ Bement at about 350 feet depth. He hold* ^ out considerable encouragement. The main obstacle, It is feared, will be the sheet of ' water which underlies this section of the ' country, but that has been overcome at Lins coin and Decatur. The " preliminaries" are about concluded for boring at Bement, anc it is hoped a coal shaft will be sunk early la V the spring. * . '#* ,' J OS*E of the most domesticated quails is to be found at the place of Joe Strickltn, ol Harrlsburg. Mr. Stricklin says the bird took , up company with a hen and chicks last June, ? when it was less than half grown. It has fed ; regularly with the chickens ever since, and allows Itself to be cooped with them every night. His quailship is not stuck up at all, as when one gang of chickens grows up larger than itself it forsakes the gang, and immediately takes up with a smaller gang. THE Hon. Cyrus W. Vanderen, of Chatham, dH>d suddenly while attending a sale of lots at Springfield. He was sitting upon a fence and bad just made a bid, when ne fell over and died almost Instantly. Deceased was born in Bourbon county, Ky., May 5,1815, and located In Sangamon county. 111., in 1834. In 1856 he was nominated as the candidate of the Amer­ ican or Fillmore party for State Senator, in the district composed of Sangamon and Mor­ gan counties, being Indorsed by the Bepub- llcans. He was elected, to the general sur> prise of the politicians, and served with credit. ACROSS the Mississippi on the Loulsians bridge into our own beloved Illinois! We had v traveled trough all the States and Territoriei ' of the central West and the far West, with i " eyes wide open; had seen wonderful region* of fertility, wealth, progress, beauty and grandeur; had Aingled with various tribe* and races and communities; had sec»-much 'v h to admire and much to remember; and yet ' somehow, - when we were speeding througt the villages and cities and finely-settled an< highly-cultivated counties of Central Illinois with their orchards and gardens and grovel * and teeming fields, and through the broad corn-covered, village-dotted priiries farthet north, seeing the evidences of the earth'* « richness and of the people's industry, energy* and prosperity, we felt that, after all, there is no State like the Garden State--no country „ *. like the great, prosperous- Illinois conntry, and no people better or more blessed than art the Illinois people. We wonder why any farmer, any merchant, any artisan, mechan­ ic, or anybody who is doing woll here--CUM! most of us, in Illinois, are doing quite as well as any other people are doing anywhere^s* on the face of the globe--should desire to g« elsewhere with the expectation of bettering his condition. You may. travel over tht whole world without finding--all things cdb- ^ sidered--a better locality or a better com- * munity in which to e.sta' lish a permanent home, in which to earn and maintain acorn petency, or in which to enjoy life reasonably, than in the glorious State of Tllfnotn Tiirti Gov. Shuman, in Chicago Journal. » ill o'j FRAHK M. MonsgR, * Danville staHww tailed. /