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Ecprar( flxwifalw f i 1 f McHENBY, - - HJJHOIB B*v. NILSOH ATBXS, a ptominent Episcopal minister of Baltimore, pub­ licly acknowledged that he believed in purgatory, and was summarily deprived «f his pastorate. If he were a Catho­ lic clergyman and did not believe in purgatory, he would be similarly pun­ ished. Verily, the path of the preach­ er is thorny. HARRY BEATTY, a seventeen-year-old t>oy at Easton, Pa, is the latest ex­ ample of what dime-novel-reading will 4o for the rising generation. He was an enthusiastic student of trashy litera­ ture, and when his father attempted to iehastise him for some misconduct the lad drew a revolver and shot his parent. He was disarmed, soundly thrashed, and then fired from home. Not the least of the evils in the world to be cor­ rected is much of the reading matter printed for and permitted to get into the hands of the young. A FASHIOHABLT attired young man «lid a very oomtemptible thing in the atation in New London, Connecticut, the Other evening. Calling a newsboy, he took a paper, handed him a dollar, and cried: "Come, hurry up, the ca^s will start in half a'minute." The little fellow counted out ninety-eight cents into the extended hand of the young man, and a second later off went the train. The dollar proved to be a counterfeit of the plainest kind. Good- natured employes at the station com­ bined and made good the small boy's loss. THE evidence seemed overwhelming Against Edward Johnson, a colored man, on-trial for burglary in Batavia, Ohio. His trial had lasted four days, and the audience in court thought him •ure to be convicted. He asked per­ mission to speak and talked forty-five minutes. He fairly tore to pieces the State's network of evidence, plunged most of the jurors in tears, amazed the Court, captivated the audience, and made a speeoh which the Cincinnati papers say has no parallel in rude elo­ quence sinoe the days of Chief Bed Jacket.^ He was acquitted. * A HINT or two as to old-time leap year privileges or penalties may be found in the following from a book printed over a century ago: "Albeit it is nowe become a part of the common law in regard to social relations of -life that, as often as every bissextile year doth return, the ladyes have sole priv­ ilege during the time it continueth of making love to the men, which they do aither by words or by looks, as to them seemeth preferable; and, moreover, no man will be entitled to the benefit of the clergy who doth in anywise treat lier proposal with slight or contumely." THE Paris Morning News gives cer- ,tain hard facts regarding the climate of .Nice, which, if correct, throw a curious light upon that "health resort." They go to show, in fact, that it is the most unhealthy city on the face of the globe. The death rate for the year is as fol­ lows, per 1,000: London, 22; Paris, 23; New York, 25; Nice, 44. Among the large cities, those which show the few­ est number of deaths in proportion to population are, in the order of their su­ periority, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brook * lyn, Baltimore, Brussels, Edinburgh and Christiania. A REMARKABLE instance of .tamest bankruptcy has occurred in England. In 1874 Mr. Samuel Osborn, a steel manufacturer of Sheffield, was com­ pelled to file his petition iti bankruptcy, with liabilities amounting to £70,866, and assets estimated - at £50,969. He bought back the business from the creditors by a composition of 12 shil lings on the pound, payable in three in atallments, the last of which was paid three months before it was due. Mr. Osborn determined to pay the balance of 8 shillings in the pound, and set himself ten years in which to ac­ complish this task. A sum of £28,000 was required, and the other evening : the creditors received the intimation that Mr. Osborn was now prepared to pay the whole of their claims in full. For his overcoat he donned a costly vel­ vet tunic with gold fringes. He then drew a pair of polished steel gauntlets upon Ilia hands, oovered his breast with a brilliant cuirass, and placed a richly mounted sword at his side. His servant then put on a velvet robe and helmet, and struek up a tune on an organ mounted in gold, To the crowds gath­ ered around he then exolaimed: "I am Mangin, the great charlatan of France! Tears ago I hired a modest shop in the Rue Rivoli, but could not sell pencils enough to pay my rent. Now, attract­ ed by my sweeping crest, my waving plumes, my din and glitter, I sell mil­ lions of pencils." This was true. His pencils were the very best. Owixo to the great depreciation ol landed property in Ireland two schemes are said to be under consideration to relieve the owners. The first is to es­ tablish a land bank with a capital of £10,000,000, guaranteed by the govern­ ment to pay 3 per cent. It would be empowered to lend money to landlords for incumbrances created before the Land Act of 1881, the interest to be 3$ per cent., and tho loan to be a first charge upon the land, repaynl^e' as a terminable annuity in seventy-two years. The second scheme is to establish a land security company (limited) with one government or official director, and two directors to represent the shareholders. The capital would be, as in the case of the bank, £10,000,000, to be garanteed by the government for seventy-two years, - The company would have power to borrow money on debentures at 3 per cent, on the gov­ ernment guarantee, and to charge up to 3| or 3} per cent. Its object would be to lend money either to .landlords to pay off incumbrances or to tenants to buy their holdings, the rate of interest in each case being a maximum of 3} per oent. Compulsory powers would be given in certain circumstances. Modern Age for March: Prom­ inent among notables at Washington may be mentioned Col. Tom Ochiltree, Member of Congress from Texas. No man has ever "said" more m a given time; no one has ever done more, to say nothing of having "done" Eu­ rope, Asia, and Africa, with America thrown in several times. No one has "ever caught so many fishes, ever killed so many reindeer, ever trapped so many beaver." He has probably swam Hellespont oftener than Leader him­ self, and with better success, since he lives to tell the story! By some happy arrangement of the stars he is "on the spot" at the precise moment that every event of importance takes place. He is probably the only man living who has declined an invition to dine with the Prince of Wales upon a plea of a "previous engagement." He confesses to being a "little disappointed," as well as the Prince j but, "II faut souffrir pour etre belle," . says the French pro­ verb, and to be distinguished also de­ mands sacrifices. It was more distin­ guished to decline, so he acoepted the sacrifice and declined the invitation On intimate terms with the crowned heada of Europe, during his recent so­ journ in Paris, he was "hand and glove" with the high officials, and consorted chiefly with the nobility' within the sa­ cred precinots of the Faubourg Saint Germain. His intercourse with august personages is marked by but one un­ happy faux pas. It is reported that during a recent visit to Queen Victoria, he persisting in singing "John Brown's Body"--in spite of the frantic panto­ mime of the American Minister--the interview broke up in a panic. Natur­ ally the idea of "John Brown's body" (her John Brown's) "moldering in the grave" was harrowing! It was a case of mistaken identity, but the effects were fatal; his star in that quarter has set. In the last campaign he nomina­ ted himself for Congressman, ran, and "got thar." It is according to the eternal fitness of things that he repre­ sents a Texas district. There is a vast- ness, an expansiveness, a longitude and latitude, as it were, about him peculiar­ ly fitted to represent that great State. THE manufacture of rope from as­ bestos is likely to become an insustry of oonsiberable importance in England, the strength of the article being esti­ mated at about one-fourth that of ordi­ nary hemp rope of the same diameter. Bope of this material of one and a half inches in diameter is stated to have a breaking' strength of one ton, and twenty feet of it are calculated to repre­ sent a weight of thiiteen and one- fourth pounds. Some of the purposes, as enumerated, to which this kind of rope is especially adapted are theatres, fire brigades, and neans of escape from dwelling and public building3, its ad­ vantage being that it will not break and •drop its burden if the flames bear upon 'it. It is made like ordinary rope, and is sjniu from Italian asbestos thread. MAKOIN, the celebrated black-lead pencil 'maker of Paris, is dead. He drove every day in an open carriage, at­ tended by a servant, to his stands, either by the column of the Place Ven- dome or on the Place de la Bourse, yis servant handed him a case, from r'hich he took large portraits of liim- lf and medals with descriptions of his ncils, which he hung on either side oltaim. He then replaced his round lial with a magnificent burnished hel- ineV mounted with brilliant plumes. The Insane Once and Now. The old idea was that insanity and sanity wer^ separated by a very broad boundary line; that the mind as a whole was either sound or unsound. Such, too, were the methods of dealing with the insane that no greater calamity could befall one than to be pronounced ed "crazy." A modern prison was a paradisa to the "bodlam" of a century a*?0- It is now known that insanity is mere­ ly a disease of tlio brain; that the brain may be affected in eVery variety of de­ gree, and in different parts; and that if taken in time, and with appropriate treatment, the brain may be healed and sanity restored, Of course, as- other organs, if once inflamed or congested, are afterwards somewhat more likely to be again similarly attacked, so it is with the brain. Nothing more measures the vast chauge in the manner of dealing with the subjects of this ailment than the fact that it is now a very common thing for murderers to plead insanity as a bar to conviction. Hence, in part, it is that Massachusetts, now commits to the asylum for life--subject to a possible pardon bv the Governor and Council-- one adjudged "not guilty of homicide by reason of insanity." If Guiteau had b^en tried in Massachusetts, he would probably be now alive within the walli of an insane asylum.--louth's Com­ panion. YOUNG man, remember that a friend is another self. The one needs the as­ sistance of the other. If you have found & true friend be tliou true to him. for ye know not at what hour that friend will prove himself to you a friend indeed. IT is estimated that not less than 200,000 small bluefish are being caught every day, Sundays not excepted, oh the borders of Connecticut, and half of them are allowed to spoil A Party Without A Policy. The Democratic Congressional cau­ cus on the tariff question was a dismal failure. It was called to agree upon a tariff policy and to "pro­ mote harmony." It accomplished neither result. The resolution finally adopted is simply inconsequential; it leaves the breach in the party as wide as it waa before, and, if it has any meaning, it denotes that no'tariff legis­ lation will be agreed upon in the Ho JBO which will be of the slightest benefit to the country. If this shall be the result of the nominal victory won by the revenue reformers in the election of Carlisle as Speaker, and after four months of almost exclusive attention to the tariff question, tho Democratic party will find it difficult to account to the country for the agitation it has oc­ casioned and the flagrant neglect of all other public business. The caucus resolution was passed by a vote of 114 to 57. It was proposed fey Morrison and advocated by leaders in his faction, and it was opposed by Randall and his followers. Hence the vote may be construed to represent the relative strength of the high-tariff and low-tariff Democrats. It divides the party into about two-thirds on the one side and one-third on the other. This is probably a pretty accurate indication of the actual proportions of the dis­ agreement. But the tariff-reform ele­ ment still further confessed its power- iesiiess to control the matter by the feebleness of the resolution it p?oposed, which is as follows: Resolved, That tho bill commonly known as the Morrison tarlif bill shall be taken up (or consideration at the earliest practicable day. and a reasonable time lor delate allowed thcreoa. and after such debate that a bill be passed lor the reduction of duties and war tariff taxes; that the adoption of tfiis resolu­ tion Bhall not be considered bind njr in con­ trolling the individual action of Democrats, except to the extent that each member may feel that he ought to be influenced by the ex­ pressed opinion of the major.ty of his asso­ ciate.-'. So far as the above resolution may be construed to control the protection Democrats at all, it imposes a moral obligation upon them not to move to strike out the enacting clause of the Morrison bill, but to tolerate a discus­ sion of the same in the House. In con­ sideration of this concession on the part of the Randall faction the Carlisle- Morrison faction does not exact from the minority a pledge to support the Morrison bill. In fact, the intimation that "a bill be passed for the reduction of duties and war taxes," though it is not hinted where the votes are to come from, is a tacit admission that there is no expectation of passing the Morrison bill. The logical conclusion from all this is, that if any bill be passed which concerns the tariff it will be a deception and a fraud, and will make so infinites­ imal a reduction of the tariff that the protection faction will not consider it worth their while to make a row about it. What a lame and impotent conclu­ sion to a reform movement which start­ ed out with an ostentatious display of strength and courage! But the Randall faction demanded still more concessions from the major­ ity without making any on its sidfe. To this end a supplementary resolution was adopted favoring tho repeal of all tobacco taxes and reducing the tax on brandy distilled from fruits (apples, peaches, etc.,) to 10 cents a gallon. This is evidently designed as an enter- ing-wedge in the scheme for overturn­ ing the whole internal revenue system. The avowed purpose of the protection­ ists is to abolish the revenue derived from whisky and tobacco, and thus re­ duce the Government's surplus to an extent that will render the reduction of taxes on the necessaries of life imprac­ ticable. The representatives of the whisky interest would not consent to the proposed reduction of taxes on the fruit brandies unless they had assur­ ances that it nhall be followed by a sim­ ilar reduction on whisky. But the en­ tire remission of the tobacco tax and the reduction of the whisky tax to 10 cents a gallon will scarcely warrant the maintenance of the internal revenue system of collection, and the next step will be to abolish it altogether. The outcome of this movement, unless checked- by the Republicans, will be the abolishment of the whisky and to­ bacco taxes, whicli will benefit nobody but the consumers of these stimulants, in order that bounties may continue to be assessed upon the whole people in all articles of daily and necessary con­ sumption for the benefit of certain favored classes.--Chicago Tribune. Shall Voters Vote I This is not a question of party. It a question of lifo or death for the prin­ ciples of republicanism, of democracy, of liberty on which the Government it­ self is founded. The Copiah investigation shows be­ yond peradventure that the. negroes are not to be allowed to vote in the South unless they vote the Democratic ticket; it shows, also, that no w hite man is l)e permitted to exercise his choice if his vote at any time threatens the rule of the reigning oligarchy. That this plan of intimidation has given the minority complete' power in the South is a palpable fact. The first stage--that of frightening those who oppose the Democratic party into re­ maining away from the polls--has been passed; the next will be to frighten them into voting as the bourbons di­ rect, and this consummation is near at hand. Formerly the Southern States had a representation in Congress based on the number of whites and three-fifths of all other persons--meaning, of course, the slaves. Now they have a representa­ tion based on the entire population, white and black together. Of course this increases their political power very decidedly. Representation, in theory, is what the word signifies--the appear­ ance of one man in the national Con­ gress and other national bodies as the representative of a given number of in­ habitants. They cannot all go, so they send a man to speak and vote for them. This arrangement is theoretical only in the South. The plain truth is that in a political sense the majority of the voters ofthe South are absolutely without rep­ resentation. The members of Congress returned are the members elected by the minority. The electoral votes cast for President are the votes which the minority of the voting population re­ turn. Is this to continue? Yes, for mark what tho chief of the Copiah county bulldozers, Mr. Dodds, says, echoing the words of all the otliers of his class: "8o you indorse the resolution that no man shul! be allowed to organize the negroes.'" ask"d Mr. Hoar. Most emphatically. If you should send jour biggest man--Gen. Grant--down into our country to organize the negroes, he woiild be killed at once. All our trouble last tail waa ftuiutm lite County Supervisors^ We M BECOfiATIYE NOTES. ILLINOIS STATE tdoasnl Johnny, were determined to elect our men and get rid of the Independents. We would have taken human lite if it had been necesMryln order to get rid of thorn. Yes. we would do it if they had a majority of the votes. In some oases I deny the right of franchise to tho majority, and I beliero in a quiifloaton to limit the suffrage. We limit it. anyway. 1 believe it is a moral obligation to get rid of the independent's, even if they are In a ma­ jority, ai;d that opinion Is shared by the good whito people. That was the cause of our troublf* last fall*" Without moralizing or appealing to any sentimental feeling in the business, what is likely to be the outcome of it? That it is revolutionary and subversive of the laws and the constitu­ tion, all admit. Is it likely that the Republican party, for.example, defeat­ ed by force at the polls, will submit tc> such defeat without a struggle ? Is not this sort of business leading straight on to civil strife and a fight for the su­ premacy ? "This country cannot endure half slave and half free," said Mr. Lin­ coln. We may safely add that neither can it exist with democratic forms in' one-half the States and autocratic forms in the other half. It must be all one* thing or all the other.--Chicago Daily New** Two Kinds of Crime. The North acknowledges with shame that there is much crime among its peo­ ple : much of it fierce, bloody, and des­ perate, and that, in altogether too many instances, the courts are incompetent to deal with criminals properly. But the crimes in the Northern States are not of the class of those murders in the South which are receiving the at­ tention of the United States Senate and are arresting the serious thought of the whole country, nor are they the out* growth of like circumstances. The crimes in the North grow out of the natural depravity of human nature; they are committed for the usual mo­ tives that prompt crime. The men who commit the crimes are of the criminal classes; they are arrested, jailed, trted, convicted, and punished in many cases, although, as we have sfeid, in too fre quent instances they escape adequate punishment; but tlicy so escape be­ cause of the tricks of unscrupulous lawyers or the senseless technicalities of hair-splitting courts. The press of the North, however, and the best peo­ ple of the North are earnest and instant in condemnation of crime, and in rebuke of the meth­ ods whereby, at times, criminals are enabled to avoid just and swift penalty for their misdeeds. The crimes in the South which are complained of are crimes without motive other than that of difference in political opinion or action. They are committed by those who = are recognized as of the best classes, the representative man of the community. The committers of these crimes are not arrested, they are not troubled by the law, they are not tried, they are not convicted, they are not punished. On the contrary, they are honored, they are lionized, and, as in the case of the assassin of Matthews, they are elected to public ofiice as a testimonial of public regard and as a reward of merit. The press of the South does not condemn these crimes. The newspapers, if they do anything, uphold and defend them. Democrats everywhere, in Congress and out, feel by an instinct that these crimes and criminals are for them and of them, and they build a wall of defense about them. Now, these statements are true as to the crimes in both North and South. There is not a single element of similarity between the two classes of crimes, nor is there any possible likeness in the attitude the peop e or the two sections maintain toward them. --Chicago Inter Ocean. k Woman's Burning Words. I see by editorial notes yon receivo small contributions for the wife of the murdered Matthews, of Copiah County, Mississippi. Will you do me the kind­ ness to accept the inclosed ? It is but a mite--would it were more. My heart bleeds at the recollection of my own experience in Mississippi. At theclosq of that dreadful April Sabbath, before me lay, within a space of a few feet, Johnnie, our dear son, with his left hand shot off and his young heart shot out; Cornelia, our girl babv, bleeding literally from head to foot, exhaus ed and with none to bind her wounds; my husband, truly the image of his God, murdered by those exulting In cowardice KO mean, in infamy BO vast. That hell iiiv.ee in ana devils stand aghast. Mv husband said to me: "My de^th will not go unavenged or be in vain. The Republican party is too loyal in every principle of freedom. They oj the North will rouse from their leth­ argy, and make it impossible i,;i.»t sucty crimes can be re-enacted." T;;y death will affect more than thus far iiving I could do." When I have prayed at thq feet of justice, kneeling int.) t:ie very dust of entreaty, remembering his words, I have begged for legal retribu­ tion for the sake ot the living Republic­ ans of the South, and I have been soothingly told, "They dare no more tq do such crime." They waited net till the blood of my beloved had ceased to voice the Lord's question to Cain till in the same shameless State they made Henry Gully, the murderer of my daughter, a member of the Legislature. The murder of Vance, and at various times and places of many poor negroes, have scarcely been recorded. Bow the brave Matthews' uneasy sleep in a bloody grave takes down another com­ mittee. No loyal Southerner, whether child, maiden, or of glorious manhood, is protected in life under their own Hag. Were such permitted <n other lands the American Congress would be the first by unanimous vote, to utter pro­ test against "Man's inhumanity to man." E .IILY S. M. CHISHOLM. --Washington Republican. Beading Men Out of the P#r. A Tin Can once succeeded iu getting itself attached, by several frank and in ge iious boys, to the trii of a :i--.e Dog. The Dog started for Cli cago. "The Tin Can started, too. They fared along to­ gether,, not without conaiderable dis­ comfort and apprehension on the part of the head of the procession, 'lhe Tin Can, being empty, made much noise as it rattled over the rubble, and at last the Dog, slightly turning his head.^rc- marked in a mildlv-remonstrating voice - "It strikes me you are a good deal of a nuisance on an expedition of this sort." Whereupon the Tin Can reddei.e 1 al­ most to the color of the tomatoes it had formerly contained, and retorted wit} some heat: "The sooner the breal comes the b.-tter. I hereby read yoi out of the Animal Kingdom!" In this apologue the empty Tin Ca-» does not represent the Hon. Henrv Wiitterson. He is one of the frank ;n 1 ingenious boys who tied it on.--17to- York Sun. SLIPPER BAGS.--Large bags to place slippers in for parties, or to carry rub­ bers or waterproof to opera or theater, are made of gray, brown or stone color, with a monogram embroidered, braided, or outlined in the center. COMB CASES.--Cases for brushes, combs and sponges are not hard to make, and useful in protecting them from dust. Brush broom cases orna­ mented with applique work, or with a monogram worked in silk, or with a bunch of flowers are very pretty. PAINTING os CARDBOARD.--When painting in oils on cardboard or paper, if the card is first rubbed over with megilp it will leave no dark rim of oil aronnl the picture. Megilp, as. of course, you all know, comes in tubes the same as the paint, and will dry im­ mediately after it is applied. Rub it on evenly and quickly with apiece of soft tissue pai>or or linen. CATCHALLS.--Pretty catchalls are made of paper fans, with the rivet which holds the sticks together with­ drawn and a cord Substituted. The fan is drawn together and one stick lapped upon the other and fastoned, thus making a cone-shaped receptacle. A cornucopia of coarse, strong paper is fitted into this, and ribbon passed in and out between the sticks forms bows in front. A ribbon loop is attached by which to suspend the catchall. WINDOW. CURTAINS.--Very pretty and inexpensive curtains can be made of cheese cloth, and tho materials re­ quired for an ordinary-sized window cost only $1.50. They can be made with or without a border. Shonld the border not be used, turn a hem three inches wide down the front, and across the bottom of the curtain. This should be caught down with herring-bone stitch in gold-colored silk. The cur­ tain is then embroidered over with rings, double rings they may be called, executed in chain stitch with embroid­ ery silk. In each set of rings there should bo one of gold.silk, the other of different color, such as gold and blue, gold and cardiual, gold and green. Brown will also contrast prettily with gold. Crewels may be used iu stead of silk, although in that case embroidery will present a heavier appearance They can be hung on poles or cornices, whichever may be most convenient, al­ though poles are almost invariably used. The curtains are very pretty if made with a border of darned work, and, for design, sprays of autumn leaves can be arranged with good effect, embroider­ ing each spray with different colored silks, cardinal, gold, brown and green. Draw the stitches from point to stem of the leaf, and then darn back and forth through the silk stitches only from side to side of eaeh leaf, as in darn­ ing a stocking, but do not let the stitches seW through the material. Then outline each leaf round the edge with the same color in <chain-stitch. This shows each leaf in solid color oh the light ground. A straight line of herring-bone stitoh on the inside of the border, dividing it from the groundwork of the curtain, gives a pretty finish. They have somewhat the appearance of the Madras curtains now so .much used, and as the work is not at all diffi­ cult, one feels well repaid when the pretty drapery is hung at the windows. The Economical Mice of Iceland. Dr. Henderson, in his Travels, gives his testimony to the correctness of the popular belief amongst the natives of Iceland, of the remarkable instinct of a species of mouse, the accounts of which have been doubted by some natnralists. He says: "This animal, which is sup­ posed by Olafsen and Povelsen (writers on zoology) to be a variation of the wood, or economical mouse, displays a surprising degree of sagacity, both in oonveving home its provisions, and the manner in which it stocks them in the magazine appropriated for that pur­ pose. In a country, says Mr. Pennant, where berries are but thinly dispersed, these little animals are obliged to cross rivers to make their distant forages, their return with the booty to the mag­ azines, they are obliged to repass the stream; of which Mr. Olafsen (Olafsen and Povelsen) gives the following ac­ count:' 'The party, which consists of from six to ten, nelect a flat piece of some light substance on which they place the berries on a heap in tho mid­ dle ; then, by their united force, bring it to the water's edge, and, after launch­ ing it, embark, and place temselves round the heap, with the heads joined over it, and their backs to the water, their tails pendant in the stream, serv­ ing the purpose of rudders.' Mr. Hooker, in his 'Tour in Iceland,' ridi­ cules the idea of any such process, and says, that every sensible Icelander laughs at the account as fabulous." Dr. Henderson then goes on to cor­ roborate the statements of Olafsen and Pennant: "Having been apprised of the doubts that were entertained on this subject, before setting ou^ on my second excursion I made a point of in­ quiring of different individuals as to the reality of the nccount, and I am happy in being able to say, that it is now established as an important fact in nat­ ural history, by the testimony of two eye witnesses of unquestionable veraci­ ty, the clergyman of Briatnslrek, and Madame Benedietson, "of Stickesholm, both of whom assured m« that they had seen the expedition performed repeat­ edly. Madame B. in particular recol­ lected having spent a whole afternoon, in her younger days, at the margin of a small fake on which these skillful navi­ gators had embarked, and amused her­ self and her companions by driving them away from the sides of the lake as they approached them. I was also informed that they make use of dried mushrooms as sacks, in which they con­ vey their provisions to the river, and thence to their homes. Nor is the structure of their nests less rcmarkal >le. From the surface of the ground a long passage runs into the earth, similar to that of the Icelandic houses, and term­ inates in a large and deep hole, intend­ ed to receive %nv water that may find its way through .the passage, and serv­ ing at the same time as a place for their DOV^J craft. About two-thirds of the pasHitge. in two diagonal ro -ds, lead to their sleeping apartment and the mag­ azine, which they alwavs contrive to keep from wet."--The Eye. The Different Kimis of Pads. "It is really astonishing how many different kinds of pads are being in­ vented," remarked Fizzletop at the breakfast. "Yes," responded Mrs Fizzletop, "if we are to believe what we read in the newspapers almost anv kind of invalid a in be restored to health l»v some kind of pad. Consumptives are cured by breast pad and lung pad. Then again people who have liver disease are cured by liver pad." "Yes, and there are kidney pads to cure people who suffer fiom Briglit's disease, and there are stomach pads." "There is onekii help a man much,' who reads the paper** "What kind of pad are you talking about," asked Col. Fizzletop, harshly. "A foot pad. I read in the paper that a man was knocked down and rob­ bed by a footpad."--Texas Siftings. Barett's Boyhood. _ Tho writer of this article was at one time an employe in the Detroit Times ofSce, a dailv paper published and own­ ed by Mr. Sherlock, the proprietor and manager of the Metropolitan theater, located on Jefferson avenue, Detroit. I remember well on one bright and beauti­ ful day in June of a handsome young lad entering the office and making ap­ plication to the editor for a situation to learn the printing business. He ap­ peared to be a manly fellow of prepos­ sessing appearance. Arrangements were soon made and the lad was assign­ ed to the case with stick in hand to learn the mvsteries of the devil's part in the art preservative of all arts. And now, kind reader, occurs one of tho most im­ portant events of this young lad's life --he falls in love--not like Yorick's love, but real, gennine love--with one of the most bewitching women that probably ever appeared upon any stage. To be brief about it, the lady in question be­ coming acquainted with the fact, en­ couraged these little romantio flirtations upon his part more for the innocent amusement it afforded her than for any­ thing else, and carried it on with all the fervor and spirit of the two lovers in the balcony soene of "Romeo and Juliet." Being a constant companion as well as a room-mate of Lawrence Barrett, I had a good opportunity of studying •tho character of the 1M>V. He soon l»e- came a regular attendant behind the scenes, watched every movement and gesture of the actors and took in every play. It was no uncommon thing for him to arouse up in tho night, jump out of bed and walk up and down the room personating Richelieu or some other great charactor in Shakspcare's plays. In these mid-night performances I was the only spectator present,but I made the old house ring with applause when Bar­ rett warmed up and threw his whole soul and mind into the play. Young Barret was a boy of very limited means. With no friends to help him he had to depend upon his own exertions and work out his own salvation. Born an actor, with a love for the profession that knew no bonds, with plenty of pride and ambition to carry it out. with him there was no such word as fail. After an absence of nearly fifteen years from Detroit, what was my great surprise, in walking down Pennsylvania avenue one day during the rebellion, to seo announced upon the theater bills, in large capital letters; "First appear­ ance of Lawrence Barrett, the great tragedian, in 'Hamlet." That night I was again a spectator, not alone in small room, but in a large, fashionable theater, packed from the orchestra to the gallery with a discrimating and in' telligent audience. The next day I had the pleasure to meet my young friend, talk over old times and congratulate him on his great success. To-day he stands at the head of his profession, without probably a rivol in this or any other country in sliakspeare's characters. No one has watched his career with more pride and satisfaction than your humbl* oorres pondent.--AUa California. His Regular Business# According to the Hour, young Rounceville was very much in love with Ida Mumfev. Rounceville was manly, dressed well, danced gracefully, and, more than all, was an excellent talker, being famous for his brilliant and en tertaining conversation. He had not yet proposed to the young lady, but in order to meet her at one party gave up another very large and brilliant one at Wedgewood Hendrick's, at which Mr. Prodder was present. Prodder had al­ ways said that llounoeville was a good feliow, bnt could not afford to marry, and positively forbade his daughter to become interested in the young man. At the party just mentioned Rounce­ ville determined to offer himself to Miss Ida, tell her frankly that he was poor, and leave his fate in her hands! When he had spoken to her alone in a little side-room, and she replied by putting her hand on his shoulder, he knew that he bad lost nothing by his candor. Just then the couple heard Prodder and Mumfey in low conversation out­ side the alcove. "All there is about him is just this," Prodder said. "I was telling young Pqrk I wished I could find some bright fellow like himself to come to my wife's birthday party and stir up the stupid folks a little. He named Rounceville and said I could hire him at $25 a night, that being his regular business. He's gone back on Mrs. Wedgewood Hen- drick to-night, and lost $25 just to see your daughter. What can you think of such a fellow?" "Why, I think ho must care a good deal for the girl," exclaimed Mumfey. "When I was a young fellow I cared more for $25 than all the girls alive." As soon as the conversation ceased for a moment the youug man turned toward the girl and whispered: "It is all true," and Ida threw her arms around Rounceville's neck. "Well, what are you^ going to do about it ?" The couple heard Prod­ der ask. "I'm going to Say 'yes,' if he asks me for my daughter," said Mumfey, "and I'm going to offer him a half interest in my business. Young fellows that can make themselves agreeable, even when they're paid for it, are hard to find, and those that care more for a decent girl than they do for upper-crust society and a $25 job are scarcer." For Less Than He Offered. "I might buy this if you'd sell it to me right," said a dirty fingered boy in a candy store, as he picked up a piece of molasses candy, and bit off the end of it; "What'll you take for it?" "Why, it's five cents, that's what they charge for it everywhere." "O, that's too much, 1 hain't got but two," replied the boy, biting off another piece. "Then get out of here," and the store­ keeper made a jump for him. lie got, and to.ok the candy with him, which he intended to do when he wept in.--Harttori^Swhday Journal. How He l>id It. "During the craze for Union Pacific stock," said an old broker, "1 furnished shares to thirteen different clergymen in New England, all of whom sold their government bonds or took their savings out of the bank to buy with." "And how.did they make out?" "Twelve of them lost three-fourths of their'investment."' "And what about the thirteenth?" "Oh, it was through him that I sold to t 'e other twelve, and he made about $5,000."-- IVall Street News. . PI A PLUIO lad named Tooley, only 14 old, was sent to the County Jail the other day* for malicious mischief In throwing through the ear windows of ptMta| A ORXAT many who expect imssoa tlelwtlta ̂ the National VepnfcUoao Convenitoa wfll «a , doomed to^ disappointment. Outside of delo ̂ * sates and people who have a rl|ht M 1m| . present, not more than 4,000 eaa be aoooiai ' % modated. THB Danville, OIney and Ohio River Bos*, is to be foreclosed at onoe. Charles Howard, the present receiver, will retire, and Major . , Henderson, General Manager of the Indiana^' . '*• Blooming'ton and Western, will: he appointed y inhisstoad. MR. STAFFORD, the savior of the LAKE^T « ' front, Chicago, called on Mayor Harrison and,'^, •, . v ^ notified him again that there must be no base- „ ball on the lake front this summer. He says;.»/< A%^ ~ .-; /J he wilFbe on hand with his little injunction s: . the moment it is attempted. SH *•-•* , Ma?. KATE KINGSTON, of Jerseyville. has *' *; obtained a verdict of $500 against Patrick, ' Dunpy, James O. Haileron, Nicholas Fallaoe, v : Re miff Hurd, and Fred Hurd, for selling - . i m •• #r; liquor to her husband. Dr. Thomas A. Klng-^/'" 8ton, thus contributing to his habitual drunk-.^ . ennoss and depriving , her ot her means of: ; ' support. s W, • TOUNG man claiming to represent a Ola- "V1' clnnatl journal spent Ave days at Sprtng&eld. ̂ - " * where he told a reporter he waa ordered to?* - steal the original draft of the "black law" of ,/! ̂ 1852, for which ho would receive $1,000. He" . >"> * *«-^gSj secured admittance to the vault in the Capi- ' ? tol, bnt was so closely watched by the custo- ^ " .. dian that the attempt at larceny was a ban- - " t '• doned. - * Now vonu your dogs, if they are worth \ saving. If they are not worth saving,' ' • m> '*4 them "die the death." The Common Coun- -• , 'v| ell has passed an order for the shooting of allWf ,. , 'I dogs found at large without muzzles on. If aoi • \ •" •' order of the same kind could be passed and , '* '< enforced regarding some humans that are • worse than canines, honest people would, by and by, feel entirely secure in person and property.--Chicago Journal. » * A WRITKR in the Prairie Farmer, who call#' himself "Man of the Prairie," speaks of tha i- : " alleged agricultural advantages of Colorado^ • ' and other States and sections of the country^ , , ^ and comes to the conclusion that, all things 1 ,, | considered, Illinois is quite as good as any ofe.* ' 4; them. "I am going to try and do my duty* .•"' and be happy where I am," he says, " be„ J • | lieving heaven to be just as near Illinois aa ' 1 . any other 8tate or any Territory." Tmc Cook County Committee on Charitiea < , is talking of providing uniforms for the pau* -' J, 'j'- pen--a blue shirt or blouse and blue pants--* Instead of giving them a regular suit of -J clothes. It seems that a large number of-' • , - "bums" are in the habit of going to the Poor- House when ragged, and getting a suit of : < new clothes. Uniforms, it is believed, wilt stop this practice, as the "bums" will nof « wear them in Chicago. , , A STRANGE coincidence Is told relating to the death of two elderly citizens of Pike County. Frank Lawson, Sr., and William * Donley lived neighbors in Pennsylvania, and fifty-one years ago they came to Illinois to* ^ gether, settling as neighbors again in Pike County. Last week Mr. Lawson was taken ill with pneumonia and in a few days diedk , Before burial Mr. Conley was taken ill wltlt %• [£ the same disease and in like manner passed away. IN of several saloons of Chicago* , which are under one and the same pro0rie» torshlp, large stone statues Of eminent Scotch statesmen, poets, and writers havt : been standing for several years. Early one morning last week these statues were de«- molisbed by some person or persons unr >';• known. The supposition is that some of th^ resident Scotchmen, who have often expres their indignation that the great men of thi nationality should bo put to such "b uses," could give a good guess as to the ho and the why of this work of destructionj The figures were chiseledoutof freestone, represented Waiter Scott, Itobert Burtu^. • , James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd), et^: •" . . ' and were valued at tUM each. -fi'-n' C. ROBDMNO, of Lyndon, has,been E«%'^ ^ vio'ed of the murder of a lad named Luci% . - and sentenced to death. Rcebling had bec% drinking, and went into a store, where ha .« met A. Lucia, a lad of 18 years, whom he or* dered to go hoice. The boy, not desiring anj" trouble, left the building and went to a liver#; stable, lioebling went by the building and" . saw Lucia in a chair, began swearing at him^ , , and said: "I told you to go," and snore he , would make him go. Having his revolver in. 2 ; *' bis hand, he fired at the boy, the bullet lodg^ ingintlie thigh. Lucia lived about three weeks, and suffered great agony. Hoebllny and Lucia had always been friends. A NEW ORLEANS paper says: "Chicago ii now sure of four largo and important con­ ventions--the Anti-monopolists, Kepublicanst Democrats, and Industrial Congress. Its hotels are promised a supply of visitors the whole summer through, and it will make nearly as much out of this convention busfc> nesa as it does from tho lumber trade. At this rate Chicago will soon claim to be tha convention city of tho country, unless New * Orleans disputes the honor." Chicago is aU ready universally recognized as "the convenr tion city of the country," and there is no oo-> casion for her to make any further "claims'* in this direction. But the New Orleans paper does her injustice In associating mercen­ ary ideas with her willingness to entertain these great national gatherings. This springs _ _ __ from purely philanthropic motives, and it prompted by a desire to afford the politiclan||, . an opportunity to conduct their deliberation^, in an agreeable climate and a pure moral a% . mosphere, where they will not be exposed t|fe* v the seduotlve influences of octoroon balls, or liable to be corrupted by the still, small voice of the wicked "rounder."--Chicago Time*. MB. FRED H. WINKS, Secretary of the IUi- . V nois Bdard of Public Charities, who is en» deavoring to br'ng his work for the census Jf office to a final conclusion in the face of in^ ' 1 sufficient appropriations and interminably ;• - r delays, is employing his leisure momenta., while here in the effort to secure represents^ ' tion on the part of the United States in tha Internatidnai Prison Congress, which meets at Korae, Italy, next October. His father* who is dead, was the originator of the move. meat, and was seat abroad on this mission • by the Government, in which he met with; ' such success as to add materially to the credit of our nation in the eyes of Europeans of di^ tinction. Mr. Wines is actuated partly ip < filial regard for his father's memory anft partly by his own interest in the subject a|| | the repression of crime. He disclaims any personal motive, and does not wish nor e<« pect to be appointed as Commissioner to tha congress. , Tho Government of Italy halt asked the American Government to send one or more delegates, and the President an# Secretary of State have privately signified^ their willingness to do so if Congress will confer the necessary authority and make tha : • necessary appropriation. Cousmissioner Eaton, ofthe Bureau of Education, ha# putK i lished a circular or information on tho suh* ject. Tho Attorney General favors tl movement, and it appears likely that Wines will succeed.-- • fxeia I. COCKING MAINS is the tending spent owners |sf fo* Is at Quiucy. ? •_ r-• i i! VV