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IflSiPPlJI qmi r- vWmwkp mm wir •PP! MHP (cmg f toindralw I. VANSLYKC, UMarantfFeMMMr. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. * I, ?' • :f '. WHEN a bnmmer has reached the bottom of his pocketbook at a bar in Chicago his coat, vest or hat will be ^ purchased, and payment made in drink. The dicker stops only at his trousers and shirt. The stock thus obtained is pat on sale in a second-hand clothing branch of the establishment. A man may here literally drink the clothes off his back. < - _ SHEEHAN, the New York sculptor, • and Colonel Knox, the proprietor of a Texas newspaper, are now lamenting the share they took as principals in the mock duel on Long Island a short time ago. Sheehan sorrowfully admits that the hoax has nearly ruined his business, and his harlequin antagonist does not see that, even as an advertisement for his paper, it has done him any good. AN English traveler has arrived at the conclusion that tobacco is an ex <ellent criterion by which to judge of a people's civilization. He claims that the farther yon get from good govern­ ment the worse the tobacco becomes. The rule will scarcely hold good. The best cigars are from Cuba, Mexico and Manilla. The Turks use superior to­ bacco. It is not in Mexico, Cuba, the Orient, or Turkey, however, that the best governments are found. A SINOULAB verification of the old proverb about a guilty conscience need­ ing no accuser was brought to light in Kew York the other day in the case of Albert Strittmatter, a young clerk, who forged the signature of his employer to checks to supply himself with money. A detective, who was looking for a man whom Strittmatter greatly resembled, arrested Strittmatter. The clerk's guilty conscience suggested only one reason for the arrest, and he told the surprised detective all about his for­ geries. A COLLECTOR of internal revenue in Kentucky is in trouble for using the franked official envelopes of his office for his private correspondence, with the view of saving his pennies. A Louisville dispatch says no one there believes he "willfully did wrong, but let his vanity and ambition run away with his judg­ ment." That is a very mild way of put ting it when a man is detected in de­ frauding the government. Men do not steal from vanity, and if there is any ambition about it, it is to excel in mean­ ness. The envelopes themselves bear an extract from the law providing for a .penalty of $300 for using them for other than official business. Maybe the col­ lector could not read, and is one of those for whose education a federal ap­ propriation is asked. safe r is-' redoubtable Brick Pomeroy seems to have abandoned the field of journalism and become an honest miner. As is usual with his enterprises, they have to be just a little more stupendous • than anybody else. Brick's scheme now . is running a tunnel under the highest peak iqjbhe Rocky Mountains in Colora do. It is to be 25,000 feet long--the longest tunnel in the world, not except­ ing the great but useless Sutro bore in Nevada, which took twelve years to dig, The object of Mr. Pomeroy's tunnel is primarily to reach an enormous deposit of silver ore which he knows lies under the peak, and after that is worked out and the tunnel-projector becomes a bonanza king, the tunnel is to be sold ...to a railway company, which, by its use, will be enabled to shorten its line be­ tween Denver and Salt Lake 230 miles Mr. Pomeroy has about 4,000 feet of the tunnel run, and means to finish it in three years if he can find a jot of capi­ talists with faith as great as Iris own to come in and help him along. IP I: ; . THE Democrat, of Corrollton, Mo., says: "On Thursday 'Jim' Lawton in vited fifty neighbors to see him beat his own time of twq years ago, when his wife baked bread in eight and a quar­ ter minutes after the wheat was stand­ ing in the field. At 6 minutes and 10 sec­ onds after 4 the Buckeye reaper stood at the corner of the growing wheat. Men were stationed every few feet along the line of grain ready to seize an arm­ ful as it fell from the reaper, and to rush with it to the thresher close by. The mill was just sixteen rods distant. At the drop of the hat the mules sprang to work, and in a minute and half about a peck of threshed wheat was in the sack and on a horse that began a race fbr the mill. A minjite and seventeen seconds later the flour was delivered to Mrs. Lawton, and in 3 minutes and 65 sec­ onds from the starting of the reaper the first griddle cake was eaten. In 4 minutes 30 seconds from the start­ ing of the reaper a pan of biscuits was passed out to the spectators." pe­ lf: * '• v ; SOME of the causes which brought about i the recent trembles in Austria were of a ludicrous nature. Some revo­ lutionary peasants near Agram de­ manded of an official to see the papers in which the, new taxes were written down. "I have neither papers nor new taxes," he replied. "Tell that to some­ body else, sir; we know very well that vo.u have brought the papers." "I as­ sure you it is not so." After a long parley, which ended in a search for the documents on the officials body, the peasants at last believed him, and one .spokesman asked: "So the new taxes do not exist?" "I assure that you they do not" "And we have to pay no taxes according to the lengtli-jil̂ ror rniia- tache?" "Most certainly not." "Neithor according to the children we have ?" "What are yon thinking of?" "Neither according to the number of eggs in our houses?" "Who ever told you such a thing ?" Thereupon, with loud excla­ mations of joy the peasants, who had gathered together from many different parishes, dispersed to their ^omefc THE mill in Dal ton, Mass., in whicl the paper for the United States cur rency is made, is described by the Bos­ ton Herald: "Eighteen or twenty treasury girls, who earn $3 a day, count the sheets, examining each one closelj and rejecting all imperfect ones. A* automatic register at the end of tlx* machine registers every sheet as it it cut off and laid down. The registei man takes them away in even hundreds, and they are immediately counted in the drying-room. In all the various pro- cesses of finishing every sheet is count­ ed, and they are again counted on their receipt at the Treasury Department in Washington. The great protection of the Government against counterfeiting lies in the paper here made. The dis­ tinctive, feature is the introduction ol colored silk threads into the body of the paper while it is in the process of man­ ufacture. They are introduced while the paper is in the pulp, and are car­ ried along with it to the end of the ma­ chine, where it is delivered as actual paper. This has been more fatal than anything else to the professional coun­ terfeiters." MAGGIE GALLAGHER, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in the police court for thirty days in prison and to pay a fine of $50 for drunkenness. When she heard the sentence she hurled a heavy ink­ stand at the Judge's head. He dodged, and the missile flew through the win­ dow and fell to the pavement, the ink splashing over a lady's elegant silk dress and totally ruining it. The lady, in trying to shake the ink from her raiment, frightened a'team of spirited horses, that ran away with a carriage containing two ladies and child, upset- setting a fruit stand and throwing the ladies into a butcher cart, while the child was fastened, in a bunch of tele­ phone wires about ten feet from the sidewalk. The team could not be stopped, and continued on their flighty finally plunging through the plate glass windows of a china shop. Thej ran through the entire length of the store, spreading destruction and devas tion on every hand; ran out of the bad door, leaped into the canal, and were drowned. Now they talk of calling on the Judge for damages because hfl dodged the inkstand. A COON got into Boston and up in a tree, in Worcester street, the other morning, and everybody stopped to see him. That part of Boston, for two oz three blocks around his coonship, was literally jammed. How to dislodge the coon was the quesit&ii^ ^there wasn't a man in the multitude who didn't know just how to get him, but every man desired some one else to try his particular j)lan. One fellow, how­ ever, climed the tree and thought he would take the animal down gently, but teeth and nails were too much for him. Then it was proposed to knock him down with a club, but some tender hearted woman remonstratad. He could not be shot, for there were policemen at hand to arrest anybody who might violate a corporation ordinance. A nrfm climbed the tree with gloves on. but he was quickly repulsed; and a like fate was that of another who went up with a of piece carpeting to throwovei the coon's head. Finally a ladder was sent up to the top of the tree, and in an unwary moment the coon deserted hie branch and clung to the ladder as af­ fording better protection. The laddei was moved from the tree and gently lowered toward the ground, a strip oi carpeting was thrown oyer the coon,, and he was captured. English and American Suburban Lands. Within twelve miles of the Bank ol England is an estate of 1,900 acres, with excellent residence buildings,splen- did park, vast plantations of larch, oak, fir, and plenty of rich land for farming, for sale at $1,000 an acre. Equally near New York City Hall it would sell foi $10,000 an acre. The Campsev estate in Suffolk--4,100 acres--with an Eliza­ beth mansion, woods, etc., sold for $525,000, but little, if any, over average prices of Northern Illinois farming lands. Four miles out of Dublin a cor­ respondent of a Boston paper finds land selling at $2,500 an acre. Alexandra Park, London, six miles from the center of the city, containing 163 acres of land admirably located for suburban homes, is offered for sale for $700,000, the buildings, including the Alexandra Pal­ ace, thrown in. Similarly situated real estate seems to be considerable highei in America than in England.--Chicago Inter Ocean. Going Backward. Real Yankee wit is about as good aa the staple article in any other conntry. We are a people who look forward and not backward, and take more delight in what we have made ourselves than in what our grandfathers were. When we do gaze into the past we are apt to follow the course of the gentleman who said: "There ain't many men in the country who could go back two genera­ tions without breaking their necks ovei a lapstone or .an anvil. Now, I have taken a great deal of pains to trace out our family line, and the only way ] could do it was to skip all the mechan­ ics and farmers, jest touch lightly on the merchants, lawyers and ministers, but to dwell purty particularly hard on them that lived high and did nothing. In this way most men might be able to get a coat of arms that would be satis­ factory. _______________ A KEARNEY,[Neb.,)physician is said to have worked up a large practice, in his mind, by hiring a small boy to come to the church he attended on Sundays and hastily call him, for which service the ing, but we have : ilence in that whic telligent, practice fault with many AGRICULTURAL. Do not'try to milk cows, especially heifers, too rapidly; milk with a steady, continuous movement, and not by jerks. A MARYLAND farmer whose farm is situated in woods credits his cows with keeping his potato fields free from beetles. CIDER from late apples is of better quality and possesses more body than that from early apples. It will also keep much longer. Two quarts of seed sown oa an acre have produced fifty bushels of wheat. Where all the conditions are favorable, the American farmer should not sow more than half a bushel per acre. But the agricultural reforms are never sweeping; therefore, let the wheat- grower try one bushel per acre. A WRITER in the Country Gentleman recommends the soaking of the wood composing a summfer house in crude petrolexim, saying it will make any common wood about or nearly as dur­ able as cedar, besides imparting to it a rich brown color. It would be an ex­ cellent idea to apply the same preserva­ tive to trellises, etc., on lawns. FARMERS often object to orchard grass because it is apt to stool out and form clumps. Dr. W. J. Beal says that this objection has arisen from the practice of using too little seed in seeding. If the seed is applied liberal­ ly and a continuous sod formed at once, the clumps will not occur. The seed should not be mixed with clover seed or other green seed if a fine rich soil is de­ sired.--Chicago Journal. DR. HEXAMER, of New York, has for several years adopted the practice of planting sweet corn with peas. At every successive sowing of peas, corn is dropped in the same drills, the grains several inches apart. When a few inches high it is thinned to a foot apart, and, as it finishes its main growth after the peas have ceased growing, it does not interfere with them, and it requires no additional cultivation. This treat ment acts besf ~~^h the small growing Borts. CAREFUL experiments have shown that corn which is hilled will blow down more readily than that which has level culture. This can be accounted for by the fact that corn roots run very near the surface, and when hills are made the plants are confined to the small space covered by the hills, while in the level the roots run from one row to the other, thus enabling the corn to stand strong; as nature intended, being thus in way liable to be blown down except by winds of unusual violence. WE are advocates, says the Farmers' Advocate, for the generous feeding both of stock and land. Within limits, and under the control of discretion, bo- vine stock, young and old, in milk and out of it, will "pay for their bite," if the bite is a generous one; but when the bite is a niggardly one, the stock do badly, and the farmer remains poor. We do not believe much in fancy farm- good deal of confi- is progressive, in- and generous. The lk is that they either underdo or overdo a thing, and we hold by the intelligent medium. Dairy cows in milk want watching on the food question; they should always have enough, with nothing to waste. So long as they eat up cleanly with relish, and keep up in condition, the rest goes well enough as a rule. Lavish and par* simonious feeding are equally foolish and wasteful, and the man who suc­ ceeds is he who steers midway between these two with his stock. Both land and cattle Bliould be made to. produce all they conveniently can, even when produce is low in price; and when this policy is constantly pursued, the great­ est advantage can be taken of markets when they rise. THE GRAPE CROP.--The grape crop of the United States, not spoken of as a leading staple of agriculture, is really becoming so to an extent that appears to be, as yet, little understood or ap predated by the miscellaneous public Its real importance, however, was re­ cently shown by a remark made by a leading and influential European con noisseur in wines, who had been trav­ eling through the grape-growing dis­ tricts of the United States, to the effect that he was satisfied that our American wines ought not to be rated as inferior to the corresponding classes of foreign wines, and that he believed that in the course of time their excellence would be fully recognized and established all over the world. Aside, however, from this judgment, the culture of the grape as fruit for edible purposes has made immense progress in the New England and Middle States and in the West, and, although as yet we cannot say that these grapes are equal to the fine im­ ported articles from Southern Europe, they are certainly very much improved in quality and abundance as compared with the grape used for the same pur­ pose in the same regions fifteen or twenty years ago. The manufacture of wine from American grapes has im­ proved so much in the hands of the German, Spanish and Italian capitalists who have established themselves in this business ih America, that since the grape disease l)e$an to prevail in South­ ern Europe large quantities of Ameri ;an wine are used by foreign manu­ facturers.--Germantoiai Telegraph. £/®OW MUCH WHEAT-SEED PER ACRE. --Where wheat is not at all crowded, in a rich, mellow soil, and the tilling is dot impeded, the average number of items for each plant is about sixteen. Each one produces a head or ear, con­ taining on an average, under reasonably favorable conditions, fifty grains. Thus 5ne grain yields 800 grains. At this rate, the man who sows two bushels to the acre would harvest 1,600 bushels jer acre, or else much of the seed is ost. The average yield of the country, however, is less than fifteen bushels per »cre. A bushel of wheat contains, Drdinarily, 750,000 grains; two bushels, 1,500,000 grains. An acre of land con- wins slightly above 6,000,000 square nches. So that each plant has fbur jquare inches from which to derive sustenance. Measure that on the ground and see how small it is. Can fou expect the plant to make a vigorous growth on four square inches? Can fou expect it to tiller and produce six­ teen stems? Can you expect it to nature sixteen full headft ? The result >f this crowding is plain. The plant jannot get nutriment when growing so lensely. Some must die that the >thers may live. The strong triumph ind the weak succumb. This struggle 'or life begins as soon as the plants ap­ pear above ground. As the plants grow arger, they require more room, and >thers must give way, and very few, if my, attain full growth. All ate cramped ind starved. Tillering is impeded; nany plants do not tiller at all, and hose that do, tiller imperfectly. The tome is trne of earing. Full ears can- ** *Ti' - ^ tains about 800,000 heads. It ia safe to say that, on aoeoabt of tflletijgg, these are produced by 300,000 plants. Con-" sequenty, only one-fifth of the grains sown produce mature plants; tfhese plants produce less than one-fifth of the proper number of steins by tiller­ ing, and these produce imperfect heads. This is almost entirely caused by crowd- . ======= HOUSEHOLD HELPS. POFVETS.--One quart flour, one pint milk, two eggs, beaten light, butter size of an egg, three tablespoonfuls baking-powder; bake quick. SAUCE FOR PUDDINGS.--One quart of milk, the yelks of five eggs, with two extra eggs added; add one-half cup of sugar, and flavor with vanilla, as for stirred sugar. | LEMON PIE.--Three eggs, one grated lemon, one cup of sugar, one-half cup i of water, two spoonfuls of flour; bake; | beat the whites separately and add I sugar, not quite as much as for frosting; put into the oven and brown a little. POTATO CROQUETTES.--Add to four or five mashed potatoes a little nutmeg, cayenne and the beaten yelk of an egg. Beat well with a fork; roll into conical balls, which are to be dipped in egg and cracker or bread crumbs, then fried in boiling lard. A little minced parsley is an agreeable change. MEAT TURNOVERS.--Take cold beef or lean meat of any kind; cut in small bits; season with salt and pepper; boil and mash some potatoes; make into paste with one or two eggs ; roll out with a dust of flour, cut with a saucer; put the cut meat on half of the crust; fold the other half over and pinch to­ gether; fry brown in butter. POTATOES LYONNAISE.--Half a pound of cold boiled potatoes sliced, two large onions chopped, a heaping teaspoonful of minced parsley, butter size of an egg; put the butter into a saucepan, when hot drop in onions and fry to a light brown; add sliced potatoes until thoroughly hot and of light color; mix in parsley and serve immediately. OAT MEAL GEMS.--Take one cup of oat meal and soak it over night in one cup of water; in the morning add one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of saleratus, one cup of flour and a little salt. They are baked in irons, as other gems and muffins. If on first trial you find them moist and sticky, add a little more flour, as some brands of flour thicken more than others. POTATOES A LA PARISIENNE.--Cut the potatoes uncooked, and with a vege­ table cutter, three-fourths of an inch in diameter; cut as many little balls as you can from each potato; throw these balls into boiling hot lard and fry about five minutes, until done, when they must be skimmed out immediately and put on a napkin; salt, but do not cover. The cuttings may be used for soup, or boiled and mashed. TOMATO SAUCE.--Peel and cut in small pieces one dozen large ripe and juicy tomatoes; add six small green peppers and two medium-sized onions, chop these very fine, stir in a coffee-cup­ ful of vinegar, two or three tablespoon- ful of salt, a teaspoon each of ginger, cloves, allspice and cinnamon; stew the tomatoes and all the ingredients but sugar and vinegar fives minutes before taking from the fire. ' PRESSED APPLES.--Choose some firm, sound apples, not too ripe; put them on a baking-tin in a slack oven, and leave them in all night. In the morning take them out and pinch them, one at a time, betweeh your finger and thumb,working all around them. Put them into the oven again at night, and pinch them in the morning, and continue doing both until they are soft enough. Then place them between two boards, with a weight upon them, so as to press them flat, but not so heavy as to burst them, and let them dry slowly. ^ "VERMICELLI PUDDING.--Into a pint and a half of boiling milk drop four ounces of vermicelli, and keep it sim­ mering and stirred up gently ten min­ utes, when it will have become very thick; then mix with it three and one- half ounces of sugar, two ounces of butter, and a little salt. When the whole is well blended pour it out, beat it for a few minutes to cool it, then add by degrees four well-beaten eggs, the grated rind of a lemon; pour a little clarified butter over the top; bake it from one-half to three-fourths of an hour. WILD WESTERN COURTS. Ben Butler and the Baby. Going to New York some days since says the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, in company with Col. John ScreVen, of Savannah, we entered a sleeper at Washington City. Passengers were taking their places, and in a few mo­ ments General Butler came in, accom­ panied by his wife. She was rather a dressy woman for her age, and carried in her arms a black-and-tan terrier of rare blood, dressed with gay collar and ribbons. Just after them came a negro girl, just such a one as may be met half a dozen times on any block in a South- em city, bearing in her arms a child about eighteen months of age. The lit­ tle fellow was yelling at the strength of a lusty pair of lungs, and the nurse, though kind and patient,failed to soothe him with caresses and soft words. Gen­ eral Butler took him, and the youngster screamed louder and kicked more vig­ orously. The General tried to tell him baby tales. He fondled him, dandled him on his knee, and sung the entire libretto of Mother Goose from "Hi Did­ dle, Diddle" to "Bide a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross," and still the young­ ster yelled and would not be comforted. Finally, clasping him closely, the Gen­ eral, with great good humor, said, Young man, I have coaxed you and sang to you in vain; now you will have to kick and yell it out." The spreams of the little fellow became less piercing, his kicks subsided in vigor, and finally he sobbed himself to sleep. Hia sor­ row had been "washed away in tran­ sient tears." Upon inquiring *e found that the child was that of Mrs. Ames, the daughter of General Butler, and had been that night parted from his mother for the first time. The patience, kind­ ness, and good humor displayed by General Butler made us think better of him. ' How to Judge Hen. Don't judge a man by his family re­ lations, for Cain belonged to a good family. Don't judge man by the clothes he wears. God made one and the tailor the other. Don't judge a man by his speech, for a parrot talks, and the tongue is but an instrument of sound. Don't judge a man by his failures in life, for many a man fails because he is too honest to succeed.--Electric Light. Pooa people in New York pay the corner grocers for coal by the pailful tb* Border Bench of BUmmnl ' Hi tin ml •tartllng Scenes In the Back Counties. [St. Louie Globe-Democrat. I , In alluding to his experience on the bench in Southwest Missouri, Judge Geiger gave a number of reminiscences of legal life in that region. "Of course society in the days shortly preceding the war was in a demoralized condition, and besides Southwest ISJis- souri was a comparatively new country, and naturally the men chosen for judi­ cial positions were not elected for their legal learning or fitness," said Judge Geiger. "In fact, we had very poor material to select from, and conse­ quently some conducted their courts in such a manner that trials were simply farces. But, understand, this condition of affairs did not last long. Southwest Missouri now has a bar that will com­ pare favorably with any portion of the State. Even then we had a few good lawyers like Governor Phelps. "There was a judge in Southern Mis­ souri who was quite a character. He had, before assuming the bench, brought suit against his wife for di­ vorce, and lost his case. Shortly after­ ward he again brought suit, and it was pending when he was elected judge. About his first official action was to set the divoree case for trial. It was tried before him, as he refused to appoint a special judge to hear it, and though the evidence, it is said, was unfavorable, he decided the case in his own favor. I believe this is the only instance on record where a man divorced himself. If the case had been tested of course it would have been reversed, but it never was, and the judge was free to marry again, which I believe he did. "The idiosyncracies of a judge in an­ other district were about as amusing as those of any other. A case was tried before him and judgment for a small amount rendered against the defend­ ant. The latter refused to pay, an ex­ ecution was issued and the defendant was brought before the bar. On his ar­ rival the judge adjourned court, de­ scended the bench and knocked the man down. Then throwing his weight Upon the defendant's body he com­ menced striking him in the" face, at the same time saying, 'Condem you, you, will you ever refuse again to pay a judgment of this court ?' The man was only too glad to liquidate the obliga­ tion, when the judge allowed him to get up. "There was another judge down there who was noted for his cowardice, and he was frequently imposed upon. A desperado was brought before him charged with horse-stealing. After the jury had returned a verdict of guilty and the judge was about to proceed to pass the sentence, the defendant, who was almost a giant, stood up and said: 'Judge, if you sentence me I will cut your heart out.' The judge was nat­ urally frightened, but recovering him­ self, turned to the Sheriff and said to that officer, 'Mr. Sheriff, I guess maybe you had better turn this man loose, as ne is a bad egg and has killed two or three men.' The prisoner was imme­ diately set at liberty. "Only a few years ago there was a •cene in one of our courts that beats anything you have ever had in St. Louis, where your attorneys are on their mus­ cle, and some of them trained pugilists. A lawyer who is quite prominent in State politics took exception to the rul­ ing of the court, and said the judge didn t know as much about law as a pig did about Suudav. The result was the judge left his bench, gave the attorney a sound thrashing, and terminated the fracas by breaking a chair over his head. Assuming the bench he said: 'This eourt will impose a fine of $50 on Mr. for contempt of court, and the judge of this court will be fined $1 for disturbing the peace.' It was after- afterward discovered that the judge never paid the dollar, but charged it up to the costs of the case. "The last thing of aay interest that I remember that took place in a South­ west Missouri court was in Mount Ver­ non. My friend O'Day was one of the actors in the drama. A yoiing man named Wicks, who was agent at Spring­ field for the 'Frisco road, was being tried for embezzlement. O'Day, as at­ torney for the railroad, was prosecut­ ing. The counsel for the defense saw that the evidence was very Btrong against his client, and there was no possible chance for his acquittal, so he determined to furnish his client an op­ portunity to escape. O'Day was mak­ ing a speech when the opposing lawyer jumped up excitedly and said: 'O'Day, you are a- condemned liar, and you, your honor, don't know any law.' As a result of the remark a general fight was precipitated, during which Wicks es­ caped, and has not been heard of since. "A well-known lawyer was retained to appear for a murderer. As a fee he received a wagon and team, a farm, and 1,000 bushels of corn. The case was a difficult one, the defendant being charged with a deliberate murder. The lawyer by the use of strategy and un­ ceasing labor, had his client acquitted. The latter then told the lawyer that if he did not return everything he re­ ceived as a foe he would murder him, and the threat had the desired effect. Manners and Dress Noticed in Ctolng Across the Continent. A uniformity that strikes me,Vnipe- cially after twenty years of Europe, is the prevalence of one language, of one accent, throughout the Jcngth and breadth of the land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Unless it be in the case of some casual emigrant, one hears only one speech; and this is the more re­ markable when one considers the varie­ ties of appearance which are manifested as one goes Westward. Not only has the English race been distinctly modi­ fied by its colonization on the Atlantic coast, but further modifications are visi­ ble in its Westward progress. There are, also, peculiarities of costume that are discernible in various centers of the West. On the streets of Cincinnati, as of St. Louis, one may observe a ten­ dency in this summer season to wear a kind of evening dress on all occasions. The gentlemen appear largely with white cravats, presenting what would be in England the appearance of a vast concourse of parsons. The ladies ap­ pear in gauzy white dresses, more diaphanous for their neck and arm than would be found in any cities of Europe. As one reaches the plains and pauses from time to time at the stations, there piay be noticed a tendency to color and picturesqueness in the costumes of men. In this one may hope there lies the possibility of a return to that bravery in dress which, in the animal kingdom, is generally found with the male sex. Without going too profound­ ly into clothes-philosophy, I may say that the plainness of male dress through so many generations, as compared with female costume, seems to have been largely due the increase in the number # mm am woum- I* tfr® West of Europe, as one iees in the pictures, the gentlemen were still more finely arryed than the ladiee; but that time was in a time when, as yet, the fe­ male sex had not followed man in his westward migrations. Every woman was then made sufficiently attractive by being an object of competition. So soon, however, as the numbers changed and a man became an object of compe­ tition, he found no more reason to keep up a smartness of appearance, and his costume was determined by convenience and interest. May it not be that out here in the West, where the migration of man has again gone beyond that of woman, as to number, the male sex shows at least a faint tendency to re­ sume some of its outward attractions ? --Movcure D. Conivaij. ILLINOIS STATE NEW# Tax Construction committee of Will county favor* the old site at Joliet for a new court" bourn. • at 75 cents a damn at cents and wiM docks The Wandering Jew. The latest work of the poetess 'who sits upon the throne of Boumania and writes under the non de plume of "Car­ men Svlva" is a new treatment of the oft-told tale of Ahasuerus, the Wander­ ing Jew. It has been well remarked that one may interpret this legend as a type of its own persistence. Once more a new turn has been given to the old myth, and "Carmen Sylva's" version is not the least fortunate and profound. Unhappily, as is too often the case with this writer, the treatment is not quite level with the conception. "Jehovah" is the name of the God of Israel, but of the atheistical skeptic, the God-seeking, belief-seeking Jew, who can not die until he has found Him. Since Goethe's identification of the legend with the history of struggling humanity, this idea is not new. But it is both bold and new to treat it, as "Carmen Sylva" has done, from a wholly modern--we almost said Darwinism--point of view. The wanderings of her Ahasuerus are undertaken to find proofs of the exist­ ence of a God. He says: "When you can show me the God that has created all, the God who leads the sun, the God w hose voice sounds in the storm, then I will pray to him. But before that I will not bow. One said he was God, and he died. You say he was God, and you killed him. I laughed when God languished and fell and bled. My God can not be thus." Many stages of ex­ istence, many metamorphoses of being and mind, has Ahasuerus to go through before he is brought to the knowledge that God is no visible great king, but a spirit and a truth, and a working power pervading all things, whose manifesta­ tions have been evolved and made evi­ dent through the ages in the form best suited to the peoples and the temper wherewith it dealt. Very tender, as well as powerful, is the scene in which he comprehends that God is the life of the universe. He falls on his knees, and cries: "My God, my God, my God! I sought Thee on the whole earth; I sought Thee in sacrifice and renuncia­ tion ; in sin and in madness did I seek Thee. I have suffered all woe on earth, have drunk of all great. Doubt was my food, darkness my day. But now my eyes see. God is in life." And, having thus spoken, the spell that bound him is broken, and he dies. "Gott ist im Werden" is the German version, of which "life" is an incomplete rendering; but the English language, so poor in philosophical terms, can only approximately cover this with the clumsy "becoming." -- SL domett' Gazette. The Leaves of a Tree. In I recent lecture Prof. Beal talked about leaves. Among other good things he said: As is well known, a tree can­ not grow without leaves. These are put forth every year, and are a contri­ vance for vastly increasing the surface. An oak tree of good size exposes sev­ eral acres of surface to the air during the growing season. It has been estimated that the Washington elm at Cambridge, Mass., not a very large tree, exposes about five acres of foliage, if we in­ clude both sides of the leaves. Leaves are more nearly comparable to stom­ achs than to lungs. A leaf is a labora­ tory for assimilating or manufacturing raw materials into plant fabric. The cellular structure of the leaves, wood, and bark of a tree, is a complicated sub­ ject to treat in a popular way. It re­ quires a vast surface of leaves to do a little work. By counting the leaves on a seedling oak, and estimating the sur­ face on both tfides of each,we can see how many inches are needed to build up the roots and stem for the first year. After the first year the old stem of the oak bears no leaves. It is dependent on the leaves of the branches,or its children for support. A tree is a sort of a commu­ nity, each part having its own duties to perform. The root hairs take up most of the nourishment. The young roots take this to the larger ones, and they in turn, like the branches of a river, pour the flood of crudo sap into the trunk, which conveys it to the leaves. The assimilated or digested sap passes from the leaves to all growing parts of the plant, and a deposit is made where most needed. If a branch is much ex-1 posed to the winds, the base of it has a ' certain support or certain amount of nourishment. So with the trunk of a j tree. If the base of a branch of the ' main trnnk is much exposed to the winds and storms, a much thicker de- • posit of food is made there. The winds give a tree exercise,which seems good to help make it strong. Our toughest wood comes from trees growing in exposed places. The limbs of a tree are all the time striving with each other to see ' which shall have the most room and the most sunshine. While some perish in the attempt, or meet with only very in-. different success, the strongest of the strong buds survive. A Recipe for Hugging. George W. Peck, who ought to know, says that you should go at it calmly and deliberately, even prayerfully, and l>e as gentle as though she was an ivory fan. The gentle pressure of a hand that a girl loves, even the touch, is as dear to her as though you ran her through a stone-crusher. You should not grab her as you would a bag of oats, and leave marks on her that will last a lifetime. A loving woman should not be made to feel that her life is in danger unless she wears cosets made of boiler iron. The Terrible Infant. Five or six eouples had been invited in to play cards and listen to music, and peaches had been passed with other re- ' fresliments. The party was just ready to break up when the terror of the fam­ ily entered the parlor and called oat: "There*pa,what did ma tell you?" The "governor" probably knew what was coming, but before he could get the youngster out of the way he shot off the other barrel with: "Masaid if wo bought clingstone peaches we'd save at least half, and we have!"--Detroit .FVee Press. j HOT-SCOTCH uight-capa will soon be | all the rage. J are aeUin?a GreeW u k B ^ q u a i l a t « atflt^SO. j A rABxaftftear Charleston raised on ty-flve acres tea tons of brogsp-corn for which he received abo ̂$1,C00. r AN Alderman in Waukegan, T|^O attempt­ ed to put a distasteful motion, was elected from the chamber by the M&fbal and policer man, his desk being torn frbta the floor in the struggle. Tm Attorney General of Illinois h«to given an opinicn that certain criminal Illustrated papers of New York are proscribed ia this State by law, and that the sellers may be fined or imprisoned. TERESA STCKLATA will, it is announced, be taken from the Joliet penitentiary to Balti­ more, Md., by her brother at the expiration of her sentence of imprisonment tbr tbe murder of Charles Stiles. THE Highway Commissioners of Martin seem to be opposed to giving the citizens of Colfax a western outlet from the village. Re" cently they doggedly " sot down " on the pro. posed routes, one of which is an urgent ne cessity. Perhaps ne A spring they may elec* a Commissioner who will look after the good of the public, rather than the interests of one or two men. THE Secretary of State has licensed the fol­ lowing corporations: The Chihuahua Mining company, of Chicago, capital $2,000,000. The Holly Publishing company, of Chicago, capi­ tal $30,000. The Canton Creamery com­ pany, of Fulton county, capital $7,000. The Auburn Roller SH liny company, of Sanga­ mon county, capital $25,000. The Chicago Sand and Gravel company filed notice of in­ crease of Capital stock from $16,000 to ?25,000. JAMES A. CINNINGHA*, proprietor of the Danville Starch Works, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. The amount of his indebtedness is about $100,030, mostly to parties in that city. The amount of his assets is about $50,000, consisting of the works and real estate in DanvLle, and stock on hand. Cunningham came there about three years ago, from Terre Haute Ind., whore his starch factory had Just teen burned, and was assisted by a liberal dona­ tion from Danville citizens to erect works in their city. About $60,000 of his indebtedness is to parties connected with the First Nation­ al Bank. Tua monthly reports from the Wardens of the penitentiaries havo been received by the Governor. Joliet had on hand Oct. 1 a total of 1,335; received during the month, 72 from courts, 1 from the insane asylum, and 1 out on habeas corpus; discharged, 50; died, 2; sent to insane, asylum, 3, Bnd temporarily out on habeas corpus, 1; leaving on hand Oct. 81, a total of 1.3*8. Chester, Oct. 1, had on hand 576, and received during the month, 51; discharged, 11; died, 1, and pardoned, 1, leav­ ing 614 on Oct. 31. The pardon was to Ed­ ward K. Pierce, a United States prisoner. THE arrest of Octavius Pierce, of Chicago- in Springfield for placing underground in, surance is a sledgehammer blow at the bus!" Bess, as Mr. Pierce is one of tho brokers who are alleged to be almost exclusively engaged in it. Tho penalty upon conviction is a line of $500. The trouble with the companies which do not comply with the State law is that their assets are so small that, In case of a loss, they won't pay if they can avoid it; and a policyholder is unable to sue them here, since the officers cannot be brought into oourt. But cheap insurance is attract­ ive to some people, mainly the Ignorant, who imagine that every policy Is good, and, as long as these companies exist they will find brokers who will handle their business in this State and run the risk of detection and punishment. SOKE weeks ago Miss Helen Close com­ menced a suit for $10,000 damages for al leged malpractice against Mrs. Mary J* McGlashan, a "scalp-surgeon," having an office in Chicago. Mrs. McGlashan has retorted with a suit for $35,000 damages for alleged slander against Miss Close. Mrs. McGlashan says that she has enjoyed the good opinion of her neighbors and has car­ ried on business as scalp-surgeon " with won- derful success,"Causing new hair to grow on waste places, and covering the head with beauty and lighting the eye with gladness, to the great benefit of her pocket. Notwith­ standing all this, the. defendant with the purpose and design of injuring her, the SOtla 1 of October last in a certain conversation ma- j Uciousiy represented that plaintiff could net do anything she claimed to do; that she was a humbug, and she would do her all the barm she could and sue her into the bargain. By means of this Mrs. McGlashan says she has been greatly damaged and has lost divers nnd sundry profits she would otherwise have made, beside being greatly injured in repu­ tation. FURTHER investigation of the ease ef J. W Parks, the peripatetic peddler and imposter* confined in jail in Galena, who had with him two young girls aged 8 and 18. years, whom he eent out on begging expeditions throughout the towns visited by him, leads to the belief that they are the offspring of John M. Good­ win, a stonemason of Independence, Iowa, who has let them to Parka for the base pur­ poses to which they hare been put for a share of the profits realized by the latter. The children, according to their story, have been subjected to punishment and abu3e at the hands of Parks, aud have also been the vio- tims of his vile passions, oeeupying the same arartments with him nightly. The case baa created ne little excitement, and there are- not a few who would be willing to take a hand in the lynching of the brute Parks. State's Attorney Wijiden went to Independ­ ence with a view of searching out the parenta of the children if possible. IT has been determined to hold a meeting In the courb-houee at Springfield, In thia State, on the- 3d of January, 1SS4, to ceo»- mi'tnorat* the atoptloo of the State con­ stitution of 184£. The meeting is to be held in the room in which the constitution was adopted. A historical address will bo- de­ livered by Gea. John M. Palmer, known surviving members of the conveHsn that adopted this constitution are: Wiliiaat&. Archer and William A. Grimshaw, of Pike county; George W. Armstrong, LaSalle; Jamea M. Campbell and Joseph Eccles, Mont­ gomery; Niniaa W. Edwards and: James H. Matheay, Sangamon; M. G. Dale* Bend; David Davis, Mclean; John M. Palmer, Ma­ coupin; George W. Rives, Edgar; Walter B. Scares, Jefferson; Anthony Thernton, Moul­ trie and Shelby: James W. Singleton, Brown; Thomas C. Sharpc, Haucoofc; Thompson R. Webber, Champaign and Vermillion; Edward M. West, Madison; L. E. Worcester, Green; William B. Powers, Adams; William Thomas* Morgan; Selden M. Church, Winnebago; JamesTuttle, Logan; E, f. Colby, Cook: O. C. Pratt, Jo Davies. The President of the con­ vention was Newton C)«ud, of Morgan county, who has been several years dead; the Secre­ tary was Henry W. More, of Gallatin, and the Assistant Secretary Harmon Q. Reynolds, ot Hock Island. Mr. Reynolds is at preeent living in. Kansas. vi'-. K . J ' r s' \ -1" «•' v,, *v4( I*"*' ' \ • ^ <y '% & •U\f ' ; aJ- ' ~ ' • v?: r vm r 1 IK a E&feon at Carmi, Joseph Bmt̂ killedLnkt KUltngimith with aieveirat»« k