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46, Miller is 43, Jsmss RusseULowell Is 64, John G. Sax* m 68. AMONG the effects of T&rsm the recluse, recently found dead near Kingston, Ont., were half a barrel of pennies, and a note for $15,000. The «nttre property, valued at $150,000, goes io R. Bomeyn, the singer. Heroid: lass itfSctw a speech at Sytttcose thirty years ago: "If a black man burns his fo$t by marrying a white woman he wv»t expect to stand -on the blisters." If Mr. Douglass still entertains the oame opinion, he displayed a good deal of heroism in voluntarily putting him­ self in such an unpleasant position. W. E. JOHKS, A farmer near Monroe Oity, Missouri, recently signed a state­ ment of the amount of property he owned, at the request of an agent of a machinery company at Cleveland. An -engine valued at $150 was then eent to him, and a demand was made for the •cash. He refused to be swindled, and drove sway the company's attorney. THE Department of Agriculture gives the eon crop (estimated) of tfee States nai&M at the following: State*. Acre*. Michigan.. Ml,1« Indiana 3,Ml,tM ijjintfs Wlfo»n(4n i.lM.fW Minnesota 721,165 Iowa .'..#,980.621 Kansas t,7WM7:i Nebraska .t,«ia,803 .»«. M,412,3W) 9S.990.000 «»».786,SOO 13,579 300 18.12*. W)0 160,629,0 0 172, *00,000 104^178,900 OF more than 61,000,000 passengers carried in Massachusetts last year not one was killed except by hisown fault. Fourteen were killed by their own neg­ ligence; sixty-one were injured. Car- coupling (eighty-six) was the leading cause; the next was falling from trains; fourteen persona being struck or knocked off by covered or overhead ****** UI IT' J if ILL. REV. DR. WILD, of Toronto, is out with another wild prophecy. In a re cent sermon he remarked that the time is now approaching when there will happen the greatest battle that has ever been or ever will be--the battle of Ar­ mageddon--when the whole world will be in arms and divided into two parties --the one under the leadership of Brit­ ain, while Russia will head the other host, Long ago, the preacher added, the prophets pointed out the allied and located Palestine as the plaoe of battle. THB political darkness of Russia is only equaled by the physical darkness fn which her people live. The candles th^jk light her churches are so much adulterated that they do not give light enough for the devout worshipers to reed their prayer books. It is pro­ posed to grant a monopoly for the ex­ clusive manufacture of candles for ohtrroh purposes, and the proposition will no doubt carry. As there ia already a monopoly in the manufacture of prayer books, which are made so costly i'urti only tu6 TSFV nculthy con­ gregations can Use them, the rich may 'ii Wrtl have a monopoly of the light. •ICHU rewards paid for the destruction ofwild animals in India in 1882 were over 125,000 rupees, and those paid for the destruction of sukes 15,000. Indian officials appear to greatly distrust the statistics as to snake bite, knowing that yearly every death from unexplained cttoees, most suicides, and, it is feared, many murders are assigned to this con­ venient cause. There is a well-known mode of poisoning, for instance, by means of the injection of a drttg called datura into the foot, which produces a phncttrre easily mistaken for a snake bite. It has been found that in remote places a regular trade has been some­ how carried on in the hatehing of snakes for the purpose of obtaining .the Government reward. rectnesa of wnich was inquired into, the. 1*000 franos as * prelimi­ nary free. No such vulgar means ss photographs w«re used, but the exact requirements being mastered, the par­ ties were fe*0fg}it ttgotllBt to meet their fate in the ordinary coarse of so­ cial life. His list included princesses, duchesses, and many Americans. On signing the marriage contract a hand­ some commission was paid. « -- SUVEBT on the Hawaiian Islands has been investigated by a correspond­ ent of the San Francisoo Chronicle- He says that the laborers en the sugar plantations usually contract with the planter for three years, and that after the contract is signed the laborer is virtually a slave. He must work eleven hours a day, and his overseer is the sole judge of his ability to work. The pay is $8 a month. The writer goes on to say: "As there is often Ixot ctno planter to two or three htmdrecl laborers, it is gping to be an impossibility to build up a country bearing tho most remote re. semblance to America on any such lines as these. The present government in Hawaii is more autocratic than shy country in Europe, with, perhaps, the exception of Russia. The Ministry held their positions solely at the pleas, ute of the King, and consequently are bound to do his wilL He is a partially educated savage, covered with a vaneer- ing of civilization. The country is largely falling under the control of the Chinese, and eventually the Portuguese will share it with them. The latter are on exceedingly frugal and prolifie race; so frugal that a large portion of their clothing is made from the, sacks in whice their flour, potatoes and meal come. The natives are decreasing alarmingly." A WASHINGTON letter-writter says of Ex-Senator Thurman, of Ohio: The old man's career in the Senate has be* come one-of the traditions of that chamber. He was such a picturesquely homely man, great head, virile features; his hair yellowish white, long and fall­ ing in tangles over his wrinkled fore­ head, small, piercing and deep-set blue eyes shaded by shaggy brows, a nose -that had won renown, full lips, and a habit of pursing them, white and silky beard, clothes that were worn for com­ fort and not at fashion's command, famous red bandana, the snuff box and its frequent use, the big clmb-like cane, all these made a picture of a man whose person was as quaint as his mind was virile. The other day I saw him in the Supreme Court room. His argument was a model, clear as ice, and about as much warmth in it; brief, months of study packed away in a half-hour; speech, he held the justice from begin­ ning to end, and it seemed as though) they ceuld have listened to him until the sun went down without being weary. But I noticed when the old man turned, to leave the court room his feet tot­ tered, and he picked his way down the steps with the tremulous caution of age, Mr. Thurman was one of the last great men of the Senate of the present gen­ eration. The fussy firmness that threat­ ens to dry-rot the Senate began while he was yet a member of it, but it never settled ob him. A sealous partisan, and a believer in rigid party disdplino, he regarded the fnnet4oDal,|ffeotaUon« thai Senators assumed with contempt. The red tapeism of the chamber never bound him, and ho broke tho unwritten lawi and customs without oompunotion. ~ ||§99JP«41m| most carious statistical information drawn out by the closing of the year just passed is that whioh the New York World offers under the head Of* "Stealings for 1883." The World classics ^ foU tow. . ' 1 . - : fflSS?.:;:.!:....!::..". tt Bank cashiers ud olerka 13 Broken* ft State treasnrer* . 3 Merchants and atrent* SS Clerks, treasurers, etc Si Chwjtyiasd t» vat 9 City WltUves 20 Coanty employe# and revenue * »*nt*. ..^SMrvV-#$»*.«.;* *• §*wyer»....*~~.. 4 f ,ooo " M>7u.000 f'!),00(l * 363, 00 a,seo.ooo •70.00 1.031.0 O 00 TC9.roo 151.000 A Totals 148 fls,980,000 * --"This table would seem to firmly es­ tablish the oft-repeated assertion that theft--in common with its companion eri^ie--'is almost wholly the result of oppqrtuzrity- The most surprising fact is that the lawyers are at the bottom of the list. No newspaper men , .figure therein--for obvious reasons. O <?• -4? 1 ! ^ 11 flft. vjjfYorl the great Pari# matrimo­ nial agent, has just retired into private life, refusing to part with the Rood will of his profession to any successor, but taking with him to his country seat an enormous fortune and a pretty daugh' ter. His modus operandi was can* ions in the extreme. He carried on his pro feesSon in a handsome suite of rooms, at one' end of which *AS a mysterious Chamber, so constructed that bis clients could oomsin ud go out without meet­ ing another. On entering the great man's sanctum the would-be Benedict or Beatrice gave full particulars of his or her position, fortune, etc., the cor- I 'S- 7-1 • ; - j .. : Refreshments for a Small Party. A few dishes, perfect of their kind are much more satisfactory than a great variety less daintily prepared. Sand­ wiches made of bread baked the nay be­ fore, and of nicely mineed boiied ham, seasoned with a little vinegar and mnst- ard and a few drops of oil, with coffee, for which genuine oream has been pro­ vided, may well come first, then chicken salad, with cneumber pickles and olives, after whioh serve cream with two or three kinds of cake, and, if vou choose, grapes, and organges. llie oranges should be partly peeled and the skin divided in eighths, and the points turned over toward the orange itself. If this is done an hour before they are served, the peel will keep its place. If the refreshments are served at small tables, at which two ladies and two gentlemen sit, two finger-bowls are all that need be placed there, immediately after they have indicated in some way that they have finished supper. At whist parties, where time is to be con­ sidered, it is best to neffe small tables, so that those who have an unfinished game on their minds can complete it speedily, while it is still possible to remember that the jack or ten spot is now high.-- NewJiork Evening Post . 024 Incompatibility. ^ w "Go right away from me," Ma a member of the Texas Legislature to a supposed lobbyist "Youcan't bribe me; I am unapprooched and unapproacable --unbril>ed and unbribable. Yon cannot corrupt me, sir!" "What's the matter with jcnV in­ quired the suspected one. "Why, you can't buy me." "Buyyou! I guess you are very nearly correct. Yon may be cheap enough, but I aa a newspaper reporter, and couldn't buy one of year bi-cupids if legislators were selling for ten cents fpiece."--Texan Sl/imga. A Single Ticket she wanted a trck^l" to Wyandotte and return, and the pale, gentlemanly agent, with the dark mus­ tache, asked as he took up the paste- l>oard: "Single?" "It aint any of your lmsiness as I know," she res^jonded tartly. "I might have been married a dozen times if I'd felt like providin' for some poor shiftless wretch of a man." He doesn't ask ladies if they want "sin­ gle" tickets any more. He's afraid to. --Detroit Free Free*. THE wheel of fortune turns incessant­ ly round, and who can say within him* self I shall to-day be uppermost.--Con* fucius. As evil thougfe* is the heart of a who has a heart is about as trouble­ some ss a wasp in the ear. VV. v 'C , 1T18BT. «* ifced ®es*las with m TThitnTlnnnn --JSffQftag pveatMtod. doxUDan X ROADS (wioh is in the State uv Kentucky), Feb. 19, 1884.-- The msrrisge of Fred Douglas with i white woman was made known in tlie Corners last nite, in the paper wich Basoom subscribes for, for me to read in hie bar to the reglers. The Corners wuz never so agitatid sence the firin upon Fort Sumter. A nigger to marry a whito woman! A white woman to marry a nigger 1 Ez Deekin Pogram remarkt chaos wus now cum agin. He wuz now pre­ pared for almost anything. Kernel McPelter pinted to it ez the legitiuit result uv freein the niggers, and the 'lateral outcome uv liepublikin triuuifs, It was nothia more than' he hed profe- side from the beginin. Give the nigger his freedom fast, tiien the balot, then let him hold property, and wat wuz to prevent his maryin white wimen, or white wimen niarvin him ? Keverthe-. les he didnt supose the besoted &e- publikin party wood re-establish slav­ ery, even with this afore their eyes. The horible oknreuce ocaaioned so much coment that it wuz desidt d to hold a meetih to consider it. The meetin-house wuz ful and I took the cheer precisely at 8. After comentin on the outrage es its heinioeity demandid, I showd that the sooperior race cood not intermingle with the inferior without debase­ ment, and after yoosin an hour or two to prove from the Skrip- ters that the nigers wuz the in'erior race, to which Joe Biglor replied that ef it wus in the Bible he'd beleve it, but he bedam ef he wood on any less testimony jedgin from the gineral aver­ age uv white men he knowd at the Corners. & Deekin Pogram then ban did me, with grate solemnity, a series uv reso- looshens whioh I hed writen and given him to hand to me, owin to his inability to reed in oonseoootiv maner, wich run ez follows: WARKAH. Frederiok Doutrlas, now uv the Cty uv Wa8h;nton, a nleer, wich notwitb- standln holds a offla wich a white Limocrat sbood he in the eojoxmeat uv, kes marled a white woman, and WAKRAS, Nacher hei sot tho seel uv disap­ proval on o the mix In uv the two races, the ono bcln Inferior and the other sooperior, and WAHKAS, Mlsce^paaahun Is a crime asrin naoher, and one wioh shood be sternly re- booked, i o matter wher and how it happens, therefore S o It R«MM, That the oltteena uv the Corners enter their solum protest agin this mrriaxo uv a white woman with a niger, and demand uv the President uv the YooniJd States the removal uv the nod niger Douglas lroiu his offis^ to the end uv emfasisin the Govern­ mental disapproval uv mlscogenashen wich is abhorent to tho Corners. Joe Bigler ariz and asked the Clwer wat misegenashun really wus, anyhow. I replied in a dignified manner that misegenashun wuz the mixin uv the two races, the white and the kulerd. Mrs. Pogram, wioh wuz present, aproved uv my definishen. "Very good," said Josef, camly, "ther is a gentleman present wioh wu malce some remarks on these resolooshens. I beg to interdoose to this meetin Mr. Simeon Pogram, wioh yoost to be wel known in this seokshun twenty jeers ago." The Deekin fel in a swoon off h» cheer, Mrs. Pogram shreeked ez ef bilin water hed bin poured down the back uv her neck, and the awjence riz in astonishment. The niger was an individgle wich wuz born into this world uv Bin and sorer about thirty yeers ago, the mother thereof bein a likely wench b'longin to Deekin Pogram, and the bornin re­ sulted in the mother's bein sold South, the baby bein sold to a planter adjinin, and the Deekin losin the most uv the hair on his venerable pol. The niger hed the Pogram nose, tho ez ther wuz sum uv thev mother in him, he wuz rather an improvement on the Pograms proper. Scasely hed Simeon showd up afore tusi awdashus Bigier ioieruwemi Pompey M'Pelter, wich endid in Mrs. M'Peltes faintin and bein removed Jfrom the houne, and to finish it he brot up another yaller man wioh he interdoost ss Washington Gavitt, a half-brother of Iasaker Qavitt, al yaler uv various shades. "There is others," sed Josef, "near by wich wood like to bear testimony in this matter, but I won't interdoose em, indivijelly, by name. Enter my chil­ dren !" And throwin the door open there surged in a perceshn uv yeler young men and women uv al shades, from the color of a noo sadle up to them which wuz almost white, whiter than any uv us, ez we wuz, with our hands on- washed. "These," sed Josef, "is al livin, breth- in proofs that whatever may be the theoretical views uv the Corners on the subjick uv misegenashen at the present time, it didn't hold them views some twenty-flvMVeers ago, or ef it did hold the views, xne praotis uv the Corners wuz quite different from its theories. Ez these felo citizens and citizeneses hev, every one uv them, white and niger blood in various proportions in ther re­ spective veins, there must hev bin con­ siderable misegenashun in this immejit vicinity some years ago. For instance, Simeon, wich looks enuf like the Deekin Pogram to be his son, is only a quarter blaok, his mother wuz only half white, wich shows that misegena- shun extended back uv the Deekin's time. And Issaker " At this pint I interruptid him. "Ther wuz no dont but that misegenashen, in a modified form, did egBist under our patriarkel institooshuns " "Patriarkel means 'fatherly,' dont it?" remarked Bigler. "Under our patriakel institooshuns, but it was not legalised as in the case j under oonsiderashun. It did not reseve sankshen uv the law. It.wuz not a ac- knolegment uv the ekality uv the niger, on the contrary, it wuz a proof of his inferiority. The niger was our bond man and bond woman to do with ez we pleesed. But this man Douglas, a niger. has acfeilly maried a white woman--aetilly maried her by forms uv law." "I see," said Bigler. *1 git "the bear­ ing uv yoor ijee. Misegsnashun to be made entirely rite and proper must fee tempered with adultery. Ef Douglnrf hedn*t maried the woman it wood hev bin al rite,! spoee. Parson,I'm delited to no wher we are on so important a ques­ tion. That we may be logikellv rite, I move the adopehea uv this addishnel reeolooshen: Kt*t4ve*i, 1 hat the corners hex no objeck- sbun to the mix In uv tbe races now or here- j after, pervidln It is done M tbe Corners bea alwuys did it, without the sankshen of mariafe. He put tbe moshun, the nigers all votid for it, and it wuz oarried. And then Bigler remarkt that ez awful ez this act uv Douglissee wuz, he didnt think the Corners need hev any feer uv say uv her nigers wan tin to mary any uv her white wimen, Or any niger wimen Wan tin to mary any uv her white men The nigers nv both do to take keer uv theifie^s, without loadin up with inenrnteHfc Efthey shood, he wnd favor a law, in the in- trest of tho nigers, forbidin that sort nv thing. An# then he adjerned the meetin sine die. It is curious that we iDimocrata can't git together for tbe purpms uv resolvin on s simple mater file this, but that iocarnasben nv infernalism, Joe Bigler, shel srise and put us to open shame. Who nos how many sores, par- shelly heeled, he opened when he gath­ ered them mulattocR, quadroons, and octoroons together that nite! Half the white men nv the Corners cum to Bas- com's the next day with their faces dis- figered and lackin in the article uv hair. It is a dangerous subject to interdoos even 20 years after the close uv the war and the deth uv the patrisrkle institoo- sktin. PEIXIOLET U Y. NASBT, (An ti - M isegenaahnnist.) , --Toledo (Ohio) Blade. COPIAH COUSTf, Mr. Hoar's B«tliu«t« «rtlw Balldo: Th« H»ir Mot Told--Mr. Frjro Intor. timed. • [Wsehlncton Cor. Chtcaco Tiibone.) 8enator Hoar, Chairman of the com­ mittee to investigate the Copiah County election murder, returned this morn­ ing. He is not disposed to talk of the investigation until the committee shall have agreed upon its report. He says, however, that the committee acted wise­ ly in holding the investigation in New Orleans, as it would have been danger­ ous for the witnesses to have testified in Copiah County. Senator Hoar says that from the testimony of Louisiana Republicans it is evident that that State is Republican by from 20,900 to 30,000 majority, but the election* machinery is so controlled by the Democratic State Central Committee that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Con­ stitution are practically nullified, and1 the majority returned for the Demo­ cratic candidates is regulated only by the whim of the committee, whioh pre­ pares the "returns* beforehand, and sends out statements of the number of votes required from each district. Senator Frve, however, talks very freely of Copiah. He said that it would have been useless to have endeavored to have held the sessions of the com­ mittee at Hazlehurst, as there is but one small hotel there, without accom­ modations, bat that the determining reason was the fact that the 150 re­ spectable Democrats who organized a club to prevent Republicans from vot­ ing, and to resort to murder if neces­ sary, still patrols the county and main­ tains a reign of terror there. "Why," said Mr. Frye, with tho greatest possible indignation, "the half hae not been told. I had never sup­ posed that it could be possible for such a state of thingB to exist. There is no republican form of government in Mis­ sissippi." Mr. Frye said that the Democrats under oath, men called respectable, leaders in society, had said that it was justifiable to kill negroes if that was necessary to prevent them from secur­ ing the majority, and that it was the duty of the intelligent minority to crush the ignorant majority by ail' possible means. There was no dispute of the essential facts of the Copiah outrage, and it is only tho Democratic members of the committee who attempt any ex­ planation of it. The only explanation which the bulldozers of Copiah County made was that they shot and whipped because it was neccsssiy*t>. intimidate the Republican vote to put the minor­ ity in power. Print Matthews, who was murdered, was not the bad man that the Demo­ crats tried to paint him. On the con­ trary, he and his family for fifty years have been the leading family of Copiah County. They have been among the wealthiest men, owned large planta­ tions, were the leaders in business en­ terprises, built churches and school- houses, and were men whose character anu or«very whites Admitted. The white men respected und stood in awe of them, as they were always ready to take thoir lives m their hands for their convictions. The colored men loved them. The trouble was not of recent origin. It'dates from the beginning of the war, when Print Matthews stood bv the Union and remained a steadfast Union man to the end, being too lame to be conscripted. He made a speech after the ordinance of secession was passed, and some of the witnesses who denounced him as a bad man admitted on cross-examination that his villainy consisted in the fact that he made that Union speech. "The situation," said Mr. Frye, "is bad beyond the power of language to describe, and the pitiful thing is that this great Government is too weak or too contemptible even to protect the poor witnesses who will go back there, many of them doubtless to be killed." Political Notes. THE vision of Springer pasting in his hat all references to the "Morrison boom" is said to chill the marrow of the author of the horizontal tariff FOE SALE--The owner, having re­ tired from business, desires to sell seven mules. It ia a bargain. Apply to W. H. Barnum, Hartford, Conn.--Chicago New*. IT is evident that the old Democratic leaders have oalled a halt on the ex­ ceedingly stupid leaders who have been managing affairs lately. • The 'Morrison men aro being disciplined, and wher the campaign in the Seoond Distric? ends with the overwhelming defeat o' the free-trade combination candidate' the sham reformers will be invited t* take a back seat until the party can b* reorganized. The Democrats in ak parts of the country ore disgusted wit| their present leaders, who have talke^ so much about principle and yet wer* unable to present anything which th' National Committee dared to put for* ward as a party platform. --Karuta! City Journal. • THIS Mississippi county (Copiah) I a connty of barbarians; it must be de veloped* into sympathy with the epiri of the age. A regiment of eoldier would do no good; a rigorous statute if there was a Congress to enact it would be of no avail. The snnlight o" publicity--whieh the press first, am npw the Senate investigation has cast upon this dark oorner of the republic --will have some effect; the slow pro­ cesses of a generally civilized country surrounding it will gradually work a change. It is disheartening to find that there is snch a spot; but, on the other hand, it is reassuring to reflect that there is no other Southern State so far behind the age as Mississippi, and that even this unhappy Common­ wealth must yield to the foroes ©f prog- - Brooklyn Union. IT is possible to have very little re­ spect for individuals and at the asms time to build a creed on faith in human- « nouevr AHD OPUTIOS. • Itifi earn by Abstinence as trnfy fcfc thoy do bj week. A msn who foregoes luxuries snd indulgenciss and mvests whsthe thereby saves, has earned the wealth that gradually accrues to him. London Saturday Review. Nothing is easier than to give some statesman of the day a nickname viiieh «*aily identifies him. to caricature some characteristic of his political career, and, by ignoring the merits which even his most determined enemies allow, to change a man of ability and convictions into a shallow knave.--London Pall Mall Budget. No future is ever in any sense new made. If God created the world out of nothing, it is impossible that any future should spring into boing out of nothing. You can not by any fiat of your will compel for yourselves a future alto­ gether unrelated to the past, with its experience, to the present with its duties.--Dr. Way land Hoyt, in New York Independent Experience has taught me that when you sit opposite a pretty girl at a hotel yon ought not to open fire by directing your observations to herself in person; you should begin diplomatically by gaining the contydonce of her mail re­ lation through the wisdom or the or­ thodoxy of yoor political or social opin­ ions. -From "My Uncle's Will," in Belgravia. But not one of us nil but will get sweetness out of pronounced lovtelty to God and reverent pursuit of each day's work. And so, perhaps, we shall find that doing the best we oan from day to day in common work is working up at last to something better than our rest less dreams, as the stars are higher and fairer than the clouds that die in the sunset--The Interior. In every age of the world, tho wealth and power of a Nation has been judged more by the extent and character of its commerce than by any other standard; and in ancient as well ss modern times, those Nations that display the most en terprise in commercial pursuits have led the van in the march of civilisation. --Hon. J. E. McDonald. Men are learning--the prospeots of belief are brightening. We have touched bottom in this matter of unbe­ lief, and the age of faith is setting in. Thinkers left the region of truth, and voyaged to the realms of materialism and agnosticism. They are tarrying now in the tropical island of pantheism, but presently they wjLJl finish the cir­ cumnavigation of the glc*bc of thought, and como back with fresh jov to the land whence they sailed.--kev. Dr. Patton, of Princeton. Don't look back. The people who are forever looking back never move forward. It is law whose working you may discover everywhere. In science, men who cling to' the past never map out any new discovert. In art, men who are satisfied with past endeavors never become great artiste. In com meroe and in statesmanship, the pro­ gressive men are the men who look ahead, not baek. We must not look back. We must look ahead and keep moving.--Rev. John it Paxton, of New York; The time will probably never come-- it ought not to--when a gentleman, whatever may be his own habits, can see a lady drinking any kind of stimu­ lant in a public place, without regret and sorrow. It is too suggestivo of greater excesses in private. It is hardly safe to say that no lady will make an exhibition of herself, because some do; but certainly no one will do so who has a mind of sufficient delicacy to appre­ ciate her own position iu society, or enough pride of character to maintain it.--Chicago Netcs. If the convict must work, he should work in the way which he will be most useful to himself, and therefore to the public, in securing the purpose of his imprisonment, which is reformation. He must work in a way to promote his self-respect. It is not enough that he should walk the treadmill, bnt he should feel that he ia of some use to himself snd to others.--Harper's Weekt^, An Incident of s Strike, B. P. Sliillaber narrates the follow­ ing incident of a strike on the Boston Potst: "I remember a strike on the Pout, many yeara ago, when Col. Charles E. Greene was at its head. The price per 1,000 ems at that day was 25 cents, and the demand was for an increase of three cents. The strike was not confined to the Pout, but was extended to all the papers, it being under the auspioes of the printers' un­ ion. Those filling the several editorial departments on the Pont were all printers, though a'little rusty from dis­ use, the Colonel himself having been in former time a very rapid compositor, and it was determined to withstand the demand until a remedy could be found. Tiie men had been modest but firm in their action, though, as oustomary in such cases, striking just at the time their services were most needed. They stood about tbe office and looked good- naturedly on the proceedings. The Colonel took off his coat, as did all of his associates, and prepared to pitch into the work. The types were wait­ ing to l>e manipulated, and the Colonel, proceeding to the copy drawer, pro­ cured a "take" in nonpariel as solid as a brick. It was the rule to take copy just as it came, and he bad no choice. He plied his skill diligently and did good work until he had achieved a 'stickful,' making exoellent time, but as for the •choet-iiouse at MeBenry by the scholar® of that acliosl. Frank and Albert L«d*t| are visit- l»g their brother who lives near Mil waukte. Tlie exhibition given by Mr, Nlckls'a school was s pronounced suecetg. Abeut eighteen dollars was obtained, which WR< divided between the "hill" Sundai •choel of this place, and tho Rlngweei Sunday sehool. Mr. and Mrs. T, J, Walsh,of MoHsnrj called en Mre. g. p. Bsldwls, Ssbbstl afternoon, Mark Dawiotr !i*« ground ever 4,30(1 bushels ef feed si nee lie commented op­ erations at Northrop'g mill, which we «*»Wf remarkably wellcoMld- ernlregions tbe reindeer and dog sutKoe the wants of the inhabitants, a horse, cow, sheep, or swine being rarely to be "ound. Further southward toward th< center of Russia the horse is the main beast of burden, cattle, sheep and swim being kept solely for their products Still further southward, in the north­ ern steppes, cattle predominate, am! are kept both for laboring and produc­ tive purposes. In the southern steppe* cattle are tho working, sheep the pro­ ducing animals. In the sparsely pop ulated eastern steppes, the horse is the «»nly animal bred. In Cenoasia, tbe Crimes, and Bessarabia buffaloes, asses and mules are included in the list of domestieated animals bred, while in the Yolga district and Csntral Jtatf* AM camel is an indispensable necessity. Thtts,shnottall vari*ti*s of dOtttesti- ted animals are to bemetwith in the vant district ealled the Russian Em­ pire. Besides mammals, poultry is found everywhere, exoept in the high north and steppes. Chickens, geese and ducks are universal, while turkeys and guinea hens arorsiaed in tbe more southern districts. Bees are kept wher­ ever the population is permanent, and m the southern provinces tbe culture of the silkworm is no unimportant in­ dustry. Domestic animals Mid their products are quite an artiele of export. The Life of s Canadian Peasant. The habitants, or peasants, are wide­ ly separated from the gentry; there seems to be no democratic, average level of society. But all classes are cm the best of terms, sharing as they do the national contentment and gayety. Their social life in winter presents the most characteristic features, but this unambitious people find time for their simple enjoyments at any season. The home of the habitant is the plainest and cheapest shelter demanded by com­ fort But his social life presents more interesting features. In this class also one is struck by the fullness of social happiness snd the meegreness of exier nal interests; for example, Mr. D the most intelligent and progressive farmer of the parish, and one of the foremost men of the connty, reads no paper and gsfa no information on even his specialty of agriculture. Hs learns less than an average farm laborer among us. "But," I said to him, "how do you keep yourself posted on the improve­ ments ?" • "Why, we dont; we dont improve, that's all. We get along well enough as our fathers did." "I should think your long winters would be a very enjoyable season for study. What do you all do with so much time?" "Oh, we loaf and enjoy our pipes. But we also have to work. We get np at half past five, light the lanterns, and go to the barn and feed the stook. After breakfast, at half-past seven, the two principal labors of winter are begun, viz., hauling wood to keep the house warm and threshing grain to eat. Those who go for for wood start at four or five o'clock. We used to see forty or fifty sleds in a line going up the mountain at St. Pacome to our wood lots. When the wind blows we set the wind-mill going, and thresh grain in the barn. After smoking the after-dinner pipe we saw wood or thresh or fan grain till the chores come again at half-past four. After supper the men always go to visit a favorite neighbor--for the parish is somewhat divided into sets--until nine o'clock. The final visit to the barn, to bed and feed the stock, finishes the day. And we dont make much ont of read­ ing." " What do the women do all winter?" "Oh, their work is never done. They, of course, keep about the same hours as the men. After making the fires and putting the bieakfast and pea-soup to cook, they take the lantern and go to milk. After the breakfast, the washing of the children for school, and the sweeping are done, they sit down to spin, knit or weave all day. Sometimes the dog may be harnessed to the little sled and mgr wife rides over to a neigh­ bor to make an evening call. But, as a rule, the women go out very Beldom, excepting to the ehuroh. Of course there are days of general scrubbing- with spruce boughs for the pleasant odor they give--of washing every three or four weeks; and seasons of special labors, as butchering before Christmas, when meats for six months are dressed, and frozen, either on the shelves of an outer room, or in boxes and barrels filled with snow.--C. H. Famham ir Harper't Magazine. > ; 4 Compound Colorfc ' * | The following table is vouchect for by the best authorities as the best for pro­ ducing oompouuu colors. The first named color and the others follow in the order of their importance. The ex­ act proportion of each can only be term­ inated by experiment: Buff--Mix white, yellow ochre, and red. Chestnut--Red, blaok, and yellow. Chocolate -- Raw, umber, red, and black. Claret--Red, umber, and black. Copper--Red, yellow, and black. Dovo--White, vermillion, blue, and yellow. Drab--White, yellow, ochre, red, snd black. Fawn--White, yellow, and red. Flesh--White, yellow, ochre, and Ver­ million. Freestone--Red, black, yellow, ochre, and white. French Gray--White, Prussisn bine, and lake. Gray--White lead and black. Gold--White, stone ochre and red. Green Bronze--Chrome green, black, and yellow. Green Pes--White and ohrome green. Lemon--White and chrome yellow. Limestone -- White, yellow, ochre, black, and red. O live--Yellow, blue, black, and white. Orange--Yellow and red. Peach--White and vermillion. Pearl--White, black, and bine.... Pink -White, vermillion, and ldleikV^ Purple--Violet, with more red, and white. Rose--White and madder lake. Sandstone - White, yellow ochre, black, and red. Snuff--Yellow and Vandyke b*ewn. Violet--Red, blue, and white. A Street Car Gum-Chewer.r Did you ever stsnd on the rear plat form of s street car and look inside at a woman who is chewing gum. uncon­ scious that any human eyes are upp>. her? Tho speed of tho animals in­ creases and she chews with rapidity ir. proportion. The car stops and tho lo­ comotion of her jaws comes to a halt A paHsenger crowds in and she mast: rates slowly but surely. The conducts approaches her for her fare and ab» Mto|>s the motion again. She shoves i forward under her frout lip while sh« is fishing for her nickel Having *at> Jied the conductor, who leaves, she throws her head baok against tbe win- low, and, with a vaoant stare, resumes >.vctive operations until she arrives at th* crossing at which she is to leave the car. Then she takes the gum from lie' mouth, puts it in her hand-bag, an<" 4uite the vehicle with an air of tri imph. I have seen this pictnre a hun­ dred times if I have once. --"Meddier.' Chicago Hera d. Spare the Birds. A French naturalist says: "Tbe Al mighty created birds to protect th« «rain, vegetables, trees and lrn»t- against the ravages of the insect trib< For every bird that dies, millions of in sects are spared from death, nod mil­ lions of ineects mean famine." Tss Hortbers Illinois tfcm will be held at Dixon April S5 I*n a. H<wros, a resident ef County afafe IMS, died atbto bo*# Mllford. » W. C. Sans has sold to John Qotdj^ acres off load in section si, of Mlastie toW» ship, Maeon county, for 97,800. QCIWCT has 149 --w»»«L nt peUtkm the saloon-keepers for a S500 lUeaae was W ' cently signed bjr mventy-ftve firms. JACKSOXVILUI and Morgan County ally, have been surpassingly liberal IS IImIt contributions to the flood sufferers. : . * . • - <• *••»* ATLANTA la somewhat asitated ovw TT», marriage of Mrs. Thomas Ktebardsmv ar whito woman with several ehUdrea to ChadMV Burkhart, a colored man. TH* church trial of Rev. Mr. 8p»rlock, of Geneseo, on charges of falsehood and scsar dalous Immorality, has resulted In a of guilty, and be Is suspended Istry. . Thu large elevstor of Ctartos Htrflh. st Modena, was burned to the ground, with fear cars of grain and a quantity of hay aM other property. Loss, 96,000; $2,000. osososw. HAWKHS, colored, of was recently oanvicted In the United Court at Springfield, of taking Ulqjtal fns in pension esses, and will go to the jeainp* tlsry. ' • . SAIJLV D. KiuSoomrc, seedier of Dr. Kilbource. Superintendent of the Rartbera Illinois Hospital for the lacane, died stUgls, aged 89. The aec«ased wss a native of Mo ̂ poller, Vt - ; vi • Jons O. HA.MU.TOK, buried In VJr0en,ifv cently, was born In ITHO. He served in ths war of 1812, was in several engagements, and drew a pension for service In that war. The deceased was a relative of Alexander nam ilton. . Axsnass WOODS, ef Fountain Creek, M making preparation for raising German omrp on his farm, north of Bast Lynn. He wilt make two ponds, covering two and ons half acres, whleh will be ftUed from his atest̂ s welL • „ „ JOSBPH McKinmtv, of Adams County, oosa- mitted suicide in a novel manner, the cause beinjr family troubles. He climlel a tree some forty feot overhanging MoKee Creok, and threw himself Into the stream, sinking into tho mud and sand. TH* Joint committee on Buildings snd Pnb* lie Charities of the County Board of rfsek County, agreed to recommend that plans lie solicited for tbe erection of a new Insane asylum which will accommodate from 1,0M to 1,200 patients, and the cost of whleh wfl* not bo leas than 9MQ.COO DOT more than 9Hfcr 000. Dcstsa a speech la defending one of th» saloon-keepers Indioted at Qulncy for asUtwr liquors to miners, recently, Mr. BeqersW; •'Now, gentlemen of the Jury, you need Itot believe what Mr. Govert, the prosecuting at­ torney, says. He is talking for s pecuniary fee--and so am 1." This convinced the jury that tho defendant was not guilty, and a ver­ dict to that effect was rendered. Oubur CAWTWSLI, of Kansas CUyfJHB.. and M. W. Tinkler engaged in a bloody at the tatter's home in Decatur, the former receiving five Btabs with a long-bladM ktttfS, one cat la the back penetrating a liMig. Tinkler was frightfully bruised with » pokfr. He Is in jail. Cant well is in a very critical condition and may die. TlnkVer Is tbe sayui who so frightened his daughter aome mouths ago that she jumped out of a window. AT the elose of tbe regular winter seeps* for packing hogs In Chicago the excess of ye* eeipts over Shipments of live bogs was Only 1,96". HT head. Including dressed bogs SMI the few driven Into the oity, the total of the reason's packing will scarcely reach 2,0C0,000 bead, against ft.»80,000 for tbe same time last winter. This reduction of nearly one>thiid Is probably due in large part to the poverty off tho last oorn crop in tbe chiof hog-breeding areas of the West. Omcans or the Illinois Board of Pharfa*.- oists have opened a war upon the {oafsssfr ers of medicines who have looked slightingly on tbe law whioh says that all practtetaff pharmacists shall be regularly regfrt'red. There were four prosecutions in cases of this character at Chicago, one day recently, be­ fore Justice R. H. White, and the defeodaails were fined 950 and costs each. TRI new organisation at Cairo which ehased the floating stock and franchise tbe Kvsneville and Tennessee River Company, paying 140 for tbe stock, hare dis­ covered that there is no money in tbe trade, and claim they were Induced to make its purchase by very favorable represeatatWsil made to them. They now threaten suit fee damages, basing their claim upon the test that the bustneas and sutroundtags see SOI as represented. <5 ARorimn smart young man, with tbe slstance of a Chicago Justice of the Peace, has played a mean trick en the girl who thinks (he la his wife. John W. Allen sad Lizxie Ooppelman are the names of the cottpla, est they live in Orlando. In order to avoid pub­ licity here, as is supposed, Allen went to Jol'ev last December and got a license is marry Ml*a Coppelman. and en tbe 18th ef that month Justice Bandall H. White pear aounced them men and wife. In doing so hs violated the law. Marshal i< FIBU> * Co. sod a clerk of the arm, named A. G. Laird, have been eswf in Chicago for 910.000 by Mrs. Mary Shanks, of Milwaukee, the charge be­ ing that the defendants, a short thne ago injdred the eomplalnant'a fame and character by accusing her of passing coun. terf eit money ia their retail store. The people at the store in question deolaro that a mounts tin has been made out of a molehill, the mis­ take of the gentlemen in charge of the moneys of the firm having been an excusable one, and ample rnd immediate apologies hav­ ing followed Its discovory. B. C. LEWIS, Railroad and Warehouse Com­ missioner, has in hand 91,000 intrusted to hiss by the State Fair Association for use in pre­ miums for horse-racing at next summer's meeting. Some of the members of the 1 MS olation at tbe last fair wanted him to put* up as purses for competition by Rh»rt-dreaesd (sdy riders. Mr. Lewis said if the membass desired to stake tbeJMate Fair a circus the money might be so appropriated. If it ware jo deal red. however, ho beggeJ to be excuse* from performing the duties of trustee of the fund. He regarded abbreviated petticoats a flrst~class attraction on the bsards sr under canvas, but scarcely a modest aseem* paniment to a horse-race. Acting on the S#> rice offMr. Lewie U>e association gave up the Idea of short-dre^ed femluitie riders, and t^ ttead of appropriating money for that pni^ pose they left the 91,000 with Mr. Lewis tS io with It ss he chose. Mr. Arthur Catoais now anxious to have Mr. Lewis eutpioy the fund for purses tor young colts at the next fair, and for that purpose Mr. Caton had a talk with Mr. Lewis at a Chicago hctlfr Chough he is favorable te the plan he ip served his decision. Tss Mayor of Qstoe* is endc*vortac «(h have hi* ml*sy raised ts 9S.6C9 per /•*. "C;". • ../r A