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I. VAN SLYKE. Etiter and PaMMier. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. I Some time ago a compassionate Ger­ man nobleman bought the favorite old horse of the Emperor William, Sad* owa, and kept it in comfort till its death, a short time ago. Now the skin has been well tanned and dressed, and is preserved as an ornament and relic, in the nobleman's country seat. Clara Belle says the majority of : fceillet-girls have hot the limbsof a Venus of Milo by any means. The work they are obliged to go through develops certain muscles until the lines of beauty are entirely lost. The feet grow to enormous dimensions, and when they walk they are as awkward as cows on the ice. . : At Bremsier the Empero? ftnd Em- pfcess of Russia did not sleep in the splendid State apartments prepared for . them, frat occupied » spare room connected with that of the Grand Duke George. At home they follow the practice of often changing their rooms, so thst none but their personal attendants know where they sleep. varieties tf gfems, now "li ilonref, Md standing twenty-five feet to thirty feet high, and these, after having been twice lopped during the five years since they were first planted. But' gums are not the only trees, for they are relieved by hundreds of pines, catalpas, tamarix, ficus, wil­ lows, cypress, olive (doing splendidly), acacia lophantha, and a lot of others. On a farm at Pottstown, Pa., rabbits girdled a lot of young apple-trees some years ago. In two cases of choice fruit the owner undertook to 6ave the trees. The young shoots which usually spring up from below the "girdle" were allowed to grow long enough to reach the sound bark above the "girdle," and then inserted under the bark, after the manner of inoculating trees, and se­ curely tied. They grew and nourished the main stem of the tree above, and now, after some years, the trees rest entirely upon their inserted ^supports and are as vigorous as any in the or­ chard. One of these trees has five of these "legs," which have now by growth been almost consolidated. The other tree has seven, all entirely distinct as yet, but growing closer. The old stem below the insertion is dead and decayed in the one tree, and in the other it is entirely gone, and they look as if stand­ ing upon stools. A new hobby-horse has been devised . far boys. It consists of the model of a horse mounted on a tricycle. It is driven by means of the forward wheel, as in the case of an ordinary tricycle, the steering handle appearing above the horse's neck about where the bridle should Ite held. Motion is given to the horse's legd by cranks connected with the wheols. It is possible to keep the oobra harmless under music for a considerable time. It is related by a naturalist who closely studied the habits of animals in India, that he one day spent an hour pointing a cobra, which was kept danc­ ing the whole time upon a table. He frequently handled it, and examined its spots, and the spectacles on the head. He was surprised afterward to find that the fangs had been left in. It is just a hundred years 6ince the famous Gen. ; Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, died at Cranham Hall, ;near UpminsteT, Essex, and was buried in the church there, within a stone's throw of his house. ,The old manor house, no longer exists, but a handsome farm house stands on the site. Gen. Ogle thorpe lived to be 88. He had fought under Prince Eugene, and yet might have dandled Sir Moses Monte- fioro on his knee. Thttlr Origin and Madtife Meaning. The origin end primitive meaning of ft great majority of the titles in use at the present day are known to but few persons. As marks of distinction, how­ ever, they possess an intrinsic value which is not exceeded by any other re­ ward that may be given for a man's service to his country. Thus,- in most cases handed down from generation to generation, they acquire an historic in­ terest and preserve in the memory of prosperity a family distinction which would otherwise be quickly forgotten. Hence, in estimating the peculiar worth of a title, it must be regarded as con­ ferred for an unlimited period--a fact which makes such a distinction all the more to be coveted as a prize of honor. It is observable that in those coun­ tries where despotism exists in all its force, it has long been customary for the heads of communities to assume the most solemn and awe-inspiring titles. Some of these are most curious, and if "not always honorable in themselves.it is sufficient if the people respect them." In Madagascar, for instance, one of the King's titles is "Mighty Bull," and the term "Son of the Sun" was borne by the successive Egyptian Kings. In Dahomey the King is the "Lion of Lions," and in Zululand some of thfe titles of the King are "Thou who art forever," "Thou who art as high as the heavens," and "The Noble Elephant." Among further instances, we are told how by the wandering Arabs the title "God" is applied as the generic name of the most powerful living men known The Texas Court of Appeals has re* i them. In the same way, toward the Ieai for them. women were of flaeappearanoe, many of them; not rough, uncouth peasant girls, but intelligent and well-dessed-- evidently belonging to good families. The color in their cheeks, and the buoyant, easy manner in which they walked, indicated plainly the good which this exercise does.--Letter in Boston Transcript. A Novel Court House* At Magipe Bay I left the steamer, launched the Allegro once more, and returned to, my primitive mode of travel. As I paddled toward the beach, the little cove was very animated, with a large fleet of fishing barges coming in to the two wharves, and with groups of men at work on the docks and about the flakes and buildings scattered along the terraced hills. And the cordial hospitality of the agents of the fishing firms added still more to the impres­ sion that one was in civilization, It is PUBLIC BY BD: mUT POOBK. "Filibustering" was almost unknown in the Senate, when, in February, 1865, the majority, headed by Trumbull, de­ termined to pass a resolution recogniz­ ing the State government of Louisiana, and the minority, led by Sumner, was determined that they should not. . The radical Democrats joined the minority, Hie copperhead lion and the abolition lamb fraternizing harmoniously. After several days of sharp debate, the Sen­ ate met on Saturday evening, the 25th of February, at 7 o'clock. One who wit­ nessed the scene wrote that "Trum­ bull and seventeen others were deter­ mined to admit Louisiana that night; 4Sumner and eleven others were equally determined that this should not be done. They were all very good- humored about- it during the first couple hours, until some on both sides began to grow tired, and each insisted well to give here at least one of the j that the other should yield. The yeas During the month of August enor­ mous swarms of ants passed over the town of Solotliurn, in Switzerland. They c?me from the Jura Mountains, and formed a cloud, consisting of seventy-five perpendicular columns, in which the ants circled around in spiral form. The storm lasted for twenty minutes, the height of the cloud being upwards of ninety feet. Millions of them fell to the ground, however, with­ out making any visible change in the phenomenon. school-books are not de- A New York firm > American ^*";<i|red in Argentine. sent text-books into the country, ac­ cording to contract, but neither the histories nor the geographies were ac­ cepted. It was found that they repre­ sented the condition of the country as it was twenty-five years ago and alluded to it as the "Argentine Confederation." The use of the term was a mortal in­ sult to the people, since it was decided by civil war that Argentine is not a confederation of State?, but a nation. A Natjgatuck farmer, finding his field raided, watched night after night for the melon thief, but was unable to catch him, and decided that he must come barefooted, so he took several sharp scythes and placed them so that ft person walking about would be likely to find them without much effort. The next morning one of his neighbors, a young man who had previously been in robust health, called the doctor to attend him for rheumatism, and was '^confined to his bed for a long time, but "the depredations off the melon patch were not continued. „ cently disposed of a novel suit against j a telegraph company. A sheep-raiser went to the office of the company to ( send a message to his ranch. The op- j erator handed him a blank, whereupon j the Texan, remarking that he knew ! "nothing of the business" and had never written "a message in his life," j asked the operator to write it He» dictated this: "Meet me with two ! horses and Shep." "Shep" was the I name of his dog. The operator wrote, : "Meet me with two horses and sheep." j He showed it to the sender, who, evi- | dently being as little familiar with spelling as he was with writing, pro- ! nounced it satisfactory. When the Texan reached the specified place he , was met, much to his surprise, by his ! men with a( drove of 2,500 sheep. The sheep had been driven a long distance through the wintry weather. Many of them had died, and others had suffered seriously from exposure. The owner sued the company for damages, and won his case in the lower courts. The Court of Appeals holds that the com- ! pany is not liable for the consequences of the error in the dispatch. It says that in writing the message at the re- : quest of the sender the operator acted ; as the agent cf the sender and not of the company. "True, he was the agent of the company to receive and forward messages, but not to write them for others." Miss Mary Murfree, "Charles Eg­ bert Craddock," is described as a young woman who is anything but in­ teresting-looking or attractive. She is short and painfully crippled, square and angular. A brown skin, very red lips, small white teeth, and black,snap­ ping eyes; her hair brown and worn in curls about the forehead, surmounted by a braid, make her look countrified. The month is large and the teeth per­ fect. When she speaks the mouth stretches to a surprising degree, and the teeth shine in a set smile, the eyes snap, the heavy eyebrows lift, and in­ telligence illuminates the face. Then only is she at all interesting. She is a magnificent pianist, Withal, she is modest and retiring, and never talks shop. What may be done by a community in the way of tree-planting in an arid district, has been exemplified at James­ town, in South Australia. Five years ago the corporation commenced the planting of a previously treeless region, with timber. Up to that date the place must have been as undesirable *a town to live in as could be found. In summer there was nothing to mitigate the blinding glare of the sun, or the intol­ erable radiation of the heat from the fissured surface of the" hard-baked earth. The hot winds swept across the wide expanse of scorching country, bringing with them clouds of all-pene­ trating dust. In the winter there were no natural means of breaking the force, or diminishing the inclemency of the gales which came howling down from the north. But the corporation has changed all that. It has planted over 20,500 trees of various' kinds, and the once glaring and dusty streets are pro­ tected, shaded, and ornamented with Our old favorite, Christine Nilsson, has been writing in defence of the heavy payments made to singers in modern times. The sums thus .paid have often attracted notice and a great deal of envy on the part of those who forget that it is only the first in the profession to whom money-making cOmes easy, and that- hard work for little pay is the lot of almost all the 1 rest. If few get much, a great many get little enough. When Gabrielle , visited Russia in 1768, and Catherine ! II. wished to engage her services, she ; asked 5,000 ducats as salary. "Far too much," said the Empress, amazed. "Why this is more than I pay my Field Marshals." "Then let your Field Mar- ; shals sing for you," replied < Gabrielle. Five hundred. n dollars a night was paid abont 1775 to Agujari for singing two songs during her en­ gagement at the Pantheon concerts in London; it was an immense figure in those days. When Catalina first came to London in 1806, she bargained for 1 $10,000 for singing at the King's Theater in the Haymarket, for the sea- , son, which lasted from September 15, j 1806, to August 1, 1807, together with j $500 to pay her traveling expenses,-i and one clear benefit But she ended in receiving muoh more than that The 4 total amount got by her from the theatre in 1807, including benefits, was $25,000, and her total profits with con- - certs was about $86,000. Alboni had $10,000 and Sontag $30,000 for a season at the Qjiera in London. Here Patti had $5,00fNor eaclfihight close of the fifteenth century, when the King's supremacy in France became thoroughly established, the additional word "majesty," as Mr. Herbert Spen­ cer points out in his "Ceremonial In­ stitutions'* (IL., p. 868) grew into use as specially applicable to him." Hence, referring to the title '"majesty," as es­ tablished by Louis XL, ii has been justly observed how inappropriate it was in his case. In our country it appears that Henry Till, was the first to assume the title majesty, and it was Francis I. who Sal­ uted him with it in their interview in the year 1520. An addition was after­ ward made to this title, and "his sacred majesty" was the terin applied by sub­ sequent sovereigns, which was" again changed to "most excellent majesty." Formerly, too, the Kings of* England were saluted by the title of "your high­ ness" and "your excellent grace." The first hereditary Duke created in England was the Black Prince, by his father, Edward III., in the year 1337; the Duchy of Cornwall, then bestowed upon him, thenceforward becoming at­ tached to the King's eldest son. The Dukedom of Lam-aster was soon after conferred on his third son, John o' Gaunt. In the «arly stages of the feudal period, however, the titles Baron, Marquis, Duke and Count were often confounded. Thus, as Chernel re­ marks iik his Dictionaire Historique (1855), "the neme Baron appears to have been the genuine term for every kind of great Lord, that of Duke for every kind of military chief, that of Count and Marquis for every ruler of a territory. These titles are used al­ most indiscriminately in the romance of chivalry." The old English title Earl implies an elder, as also that of Alderman, and, to quote Max Muller's words: "like many other titles of rank in the various Teutonic tongues, it is derived from an adjective signifying age." It was introduced into England by the Normans at the Conquest, from which period to the end of Henry III. Baron and Earl were the only names ol dignity or titles known in England. The title of Marquis was first con­ ferred in England by Richard II., who, in the year 1387, created llobert de Yere, Earl of Oxford, Marquis of Dublin. Seldon, in his "Titles of honor." would derive the term from the word "marcliio," wllich had been in use to describe both Earls and Barons, hut more particularly those who were Lord Marches, or -Governors of fron­ tier provinces. The title Viscount is of comparatively modern standing in this country, not having been intro­ duced until the reign of Henry VI., who in the year 1439 created John, Lord Beaumont, Viscount Beaumont, by letters patent. The title of "sir" in days gone by was given to all who had taken a decree, or had entered into or­ ders. Once more, the term "esquire" is coeval with the Conqueror, and had its origin in the chivalrous practices of the olden times.--London Standard. peculiar scenes connected with this part of the coast The cohntry Judge, j Mr. O'Brien, was holding court in a i building on the hill, to administer | justice then for the entire year. The | county Court House is a small yacht, 1 the Ruby, then riding at anchor with- j in the bar; she moves up and down the I coast during the summer, and anchors ! at any place where her presence may 1 be required. The judge, seems well j fitted for the post, being a dignified and i portly man of an easy-going nature, I who can wait any length of time for a j fair wind, while his twinkling eye seeks ; more for fun than for the sternness of 1 justice. As he was1 the only officer, the court was organized by his sitting down behind a deal table, and telling the people that they must be silent excepting when called on to plead their causes, or give evidence. One cise was nominally the trial of a man for stealing an auger; but as the Norman blood of the defendant and plaintiff warmed to their national rec­ reation of disputing, they' became tremulous with excitement, and turn­ ing their backs to the court, passed a half-hour in mutual recrimination, in the course of which was revealed the real point at issue--a fight that had occurred the past winter. Here their wives came in and added the chorus of their shrill testimony; and, taken alto­ gether, the uproar was, at last, too much for even the placid judge; he turned them all out, and court ad­ journed for a cigar and a rest. Once outside, the litigants had the affair all over again in their own way. And finally the case con Id not be decided until the auger could be produced. Another case was a charge of assault and battery with knives, which the rougher characters of the coast use too frequently iustead of their fists. A suit brought for libel was announced by the husband of the plaintiff as a case of "in- llamation de charactere." And so the proceedings of this unique court con­ tinued their revelation of some of the manners and traits of the people.--C. H. Farnham. in Harper's Magazine. Sure of One Thing. There was a case of assault and bat­ tery before one of the justices the other day, and a witness with a black eye, several strips of court plaster across his nose, and ofte ear badly lopped over, was asked by the defend­ ant's lawyer if ho saw Brown strike White. "Can't say as I did," he replied. "Did you see .the whole affair?" "Mbstly." * "Well, how was it?" "Well, Smith and me sot on the reaper talkin' evolution. Jones aud Green sot on the grass talkin' religion. Brown and White sot by the edge of the straw-stack disputing on politics. Three or four boys»^was Jn the barn gettin up a dog fight" "Yes, go on." "Fust I knowed, somebody called somebody else a liar. Next I knowed, evolution, religion, politics, and fighting dogs was a rollin' over each other on the grass, and every man kicking, and biting, and hitting away for all he was wuth." "But did you see Brown strike White?" "Can't say as I did." "Did you see White strike Brown ?" "Can't be sure about it The only thing I'm sure of, mister lawyer, is that my old woman came out with a pail of hot water and licked the hull crowd, and had over two quarts loft for next time."--Detroit Free Press. Improper Uses of the Devil. The Devil has been put to many im­ proper uses, whatever may be his good uses. He has been used to carry our sins, when we should bear the blame ourselves. For scarcely is anything bad done but we charge the Devil with tempting ns to do it, and so measura­ bly get rid of the responsibility. He lias been used extensively in swearing, and thus made to promote profanity. His name h&s been given to many pic­ turesque places, thereby profaning much that is romantic and inducing thoughts about him out of place. He has been used as a term of comparison, by which he has been made to resemble everything on earth. "Like the devil" has been predicated of the most unlike things and persons. He has been used as the terminus for all sorts of journeys recommended. "Go to the devil" is p prescription used when all other rem­ edies fail. He has been made the standard for all weights and measure­ ment, "heavy as tlie devil," "fast as the devil," and like comparisons, being in such use as to almost supplant the metrical system. Through the most uncertain standard he squares more men and things than any unit yet de­ vised. The Devil has been used more out of place than in it, being more on earth than in hell. If we had„to make Life in Amsterdam. A phase of. Dutch middle-class life was revealed to us the other evening. *Ve were walking along the quays that face the Y, or Het Ij, as this portion of the Amsterdam harbor is called by the natives, searching for a little steamboat that would take us almost anywhere, when we'came upon a boat that didn't look big enough to steam very far from the city; certainly not into the Zuyder Zee. The captain talked Dutch very volubly, and, I have • no doubt, very correctly; but we got from him only a vague idea of where the boat was going. However, wo got on board, and found that we were on a ferry-boat that went across the Y to some pleasure grounds. Here we found enough to entertain U3 for several honrs--a grove fitted up with all sorts of gymnastic apparatus, and scores of people enjoying them­ selves to the top of their bent The curious feature about the place (aside from the astonishing fact that we did not have to pay to enter the grounds-- I still think it was a blunder on the part of somebody that we did not) was that eight out of every ten of the ath­ letes were young women, seemed to be fascinated with sports that are usually monopolized by boys. It was not an extraordinary thing to. see young wo­ men from 20 to 30 swinging, but I was greatly amused at some of the feats.that they did and at others that they under­ took to da The "giant's stride," as it is called in England, is peculiarly a boy's sport. Four strong ropes, with big loops at the ends, are attached to a movable block on a pivot at the top of a high, strong post. Yet these strong, robust Dutch girls would half sit in these loops and whirl around with all the aba&don of born athletes, touching a foot now and then, sailing into the air, laughing and shouting all the while. up our impressions of hif Satanic It was great sport for them, and at Majesty from the many things he has times it was highly diverting to the been said to look like, it would be as spectators--when they wotild miss hard to get a consistent opinion of his" their footing and get bumped against appearance as of his character.--Aits- each other. But they were utterly un- ti7i Bierboicer. in the Current. ;-- -- Swedish Trait*. treat peculiarity and nays have been called half-a-dozen times on motion to adjourn, to post­ pone, to lay on the table, by Wade, Chandler and Sumner, with no other objects than to kill time and to weary "the enemy" into an abandonment of its object; but the majority showed a bold front, and seemed bent on"sitting it out. At about 9 o'clock Carlisle of Virginia, took the floor, and delivered a violent harangue against , the administration and its policy. Then came a little war of words between Messrs. Saulsbury and Pomeroy. The Delaware Senator rose to explain how muoh the De­ mocracy of hfs State had been com­ pelled to endure, what trials and tribu­ lations had fallen to their lot under military despotism, how they had been persecuted nigh unto , death for wor­ shiping the living and the true diety of State rights, how they were compelled to take test oaths and how the minionB of the administration pursued them with unrelenting vengeance. All this he said in the tone of a devout Meth­ odist brother unbosoming himself in a class meeting. Brother Pomerov then related his Kansas experience. He was glad to meet a brother who had passed through a like fiery furnace of tribulation with himself. Like Brother Saulsbury, he, too, had been the sub­ ject of military oppression. He * re­ membered very well when, away out in Kansas, the influence of bowie-knives was felt at the polls; he knew some­ thing of test oaths. He had seen men kept from the polls because they wouldn't swear to support the Lecomp- tion Constitution, as well as the Con­ stitution of the United States. He had a distinct recollection of hearing men called upon to take an oath that they would never write, circulate or say anything against slavery; and he, him­ self, had been asked to swear that slavery existed by law in Kansas. Here was a meeting of extremes--or rather, a coincidence of experiences-- in this matter of persecution for con­ science sake. Blessed are the meek. It was grpwing late, and and Reverdy Johnson had a little account to settle with Mr. Sumner. So he took the floor to reply to something the great "apostle ot freedom" had said about him, and to him, and in the course of his remarks lAade this argumentuin and hominum; "Why didn"t the Senator from Massachusetts incor­ porate in the charter granted to a hotel company, the other day, a provision that there should be no exclusion of guests on account of color?" "Would you vote for it?" inquired Mr. Sumner. "No," said Mr. Johnson, "and although the Senator from Massachusetts might vote for such a proposition, I am sure he wouldn't patronize a hotel conducted on that principle, especially if he had Mrs. Sumner along with him." The hour-hand of the Senate clock ikas at XI, and the minute-hand at XII, when Ben. Wade suggested ns it was getting late they had better adjourn. But Trumbull demurred. "Then," said Ben, "let us have yeas and nays." The majority was becoming restive and ill-tempered, and began to accuse the minority of an attempt to browbeat them and defeat the will of the Senate by dilatory motions, but this had no other effect than to draw a long speech from Sumner, in the course of which he admitted his intention to bring to bear all the artillery in the arsenal of parliamentary law to avert such a i calamity as the passage of the resolu­ tion would be--the Bull Ruii of the ad­ ministration. Mr. Trumbull seemed de­ termined, he said,'to cram the resolution down the throats of the Senate; this reminded him of a threat made by a British officer once, to cram the Stamp Act down the throats of the American la hand, some in "I've got a' good one for you, Jack; none of your two for a cent I gave a quarter for it, or I'm an Injun." "Hank, you know I can't toueh thai thing now. A fellow can't smoke while he is training." "What's the matter old fel? You never said die in Benicia." "See here, Hank," said Heenan, "Fve got to get this muscle as hard as a brick" (folding his left srm and feeling of the biceps), "and tobacco wont work. Charlie would kill me if I were to smoke that cigar. He's just made up his mind that 1 shall win, and he won't let me look at a cigar. He won't even let the boys smoke in my room." The trainers of prize-fighters, pedes- trains, oarsmen, and billiard champions cherish no moral convictions about to­ bacco, but they all have one fixed and inflexible rule in regard to its use by their candidates. And that rule is ab­ solute abstinence.--Diet Lewis' Nug­ gets. One great peculiarity of trav­ eling in Sweden is the extreme quiet people on the pointof hiS isword. and lack of flurry. The Swedish are a , At half-past eleven it was evident taciturn and noiseless people. They : that the minority would carry their do much by signs, and never shout; a j point The ma ority members were Swedish crowd makes singularly little j losing their temper--which was a bad sound. Swedes, even of the lowest i sign for them; while Ben Ykade^andliis clas3, never push or jostle. It is the ! colleague seemed just entering into the custom to do so much bowing and hat- j spirit of the occasion and preparing lifting that one is obliged to move more slowly than in.England to give time for all this courtesy. When a train leaves a platform, or a steamboat a pier, all the lookers-on lift their hats to the departing passengers and bow to them, a compliment returned by the travelers. If you address the poorest person in the street you must lift your hat. A gentleman passing a lady on the stairs of a hotel must do the same. To enter a shop or a bank with one's hat on is a terrible breach of good manners. If you enter or leave a cof­ fee room you must bow to all occu­ pants. Passengers on board the little steamers which ply about Stockholm invariably raise their hats to the occu­ pants of any other9 boat which passes near them. The very men in charge of the looks on the canal bow politely to the sailors as the boats go through. The Tea Was Hot. A New Yorker, looking for winter quarters, struck a good-looking land­ lady on Shawmut Avenue, and, after terms were arranged for "board* and lodging," remarked that he wanted something hot for supper, and was met with the reply they always had it„ On taking his seat last evening'withaslim- ' the people of Louisiana, looking spread before him, he remarked to the girl that he expected something hot, when Bridget said: "Fots the matter wid the tay?"--Boston Globe. themselves for a long siege. MoDougal was there, sober as a judgo, foff a won­ der, but for that reason, porliapa, not acting with his brother Democrats. He was unwilling to let the night pass without putting himself on the record, so he jumped up and made the predic­ tion that if volubility and wisdom was one and the same thing, Mr. Sumo^r would be the wisest man in the world, This»elicited a smile on both sides of the Senate chamber. Mr Trumbull was becoming de­ moralized fast He sent a friend with a flag of truce to Sumner and offered to surrender by adjourning, provided it could be understood that a vote would be taken on Monday. Mr. Sum­ ner, feeling himself master of the situation, refused to accept any terms, and demanded an unconditional sur­ render. The champions of the new State government of Louisiana flung to the breeze the token of submission, and acqueisced in the adjournment The Htate government, which, Mr. Sumner had truly said was "born of a bayonet," was not recognized, and subsequent events showed that it would have been better for the Republican party had it never attempted to force rulers upon Ordinal Views of Astronomy. The London Truth gives the follow­ ing original observatiens on astronomy from a sermon of a Welsh curate preaching to an English congregation: "A star is but a lidl dot in the skyee. Saw many starrs mek one plannat. Saw many plannata mak a constellesshon. Saw" many constellesshons mek one milkee wtv. Six milkee weys mek one rorriborriallia. conscious of everything except the en­ joyment they got from the exercise, and did not mind bumps or being dragged around over the ground. A rod or two further on would find half a dozen young women having a match to see who conld make the most rounds on a horizontal ladder; and two or three put up a spring-board and at­ tempted a jump. The girls had a mo­ nopoly of the sport that evening, cer­ tainly. There were only a few young tgen about, and they looked as if they The Color Line in Boston. * Miss Flite, who has just returned from the country, says she thinks it must be awful to be a negro. "Just think," she says, "a negro tnight spend a whole summer at the beach, and when he returns to town, nobody would suspect for a moment that he had been away."--Boston Transcript. "i An Iowa man has commenced the manufacture of crutches that'will hold half a pint of whisky, and nearly eve^y man in town has commenced limping, and the county is full of cripples.-- Newman Independent. Words are spiritual forces, angels of blessing or of cursing. Unuttered, we control them; uttered, they control us. The Sixth Sense. „ Thesefriie of humor has rightly been described as the sixth sense. "Life is a jest,"--to most of us a dubious one-- but, ho, "the humor of it" He who discovers not where the laugh comes in is as much to be pitied as an unhap­ py wight in a garden of fragrant flow­ ers with a cold in his head. It is a sad fact that there are many who may be likened to such an afflicted being. The sense of humor, like many other good things, is the possession of the minori­ ty. Yet there is no faculty the ordin­ ary mortal prides himself so much upon las his sense of humor. The possession of the five other senses he is conscious does not atone for the absence of the sixth. If he is blind, he does not blink the fact and wears spectacles, blue ones if necessary. If he is deaf lie presents an ear-trumpet at his friends without the slightest compunction, but if he feels that the laughter of life is to him but dumb show, he is desperately care­ ful to coribeal his infirmity. To this ehd be laughs lustily and uproariously often when the true humorists are glum and silent. He will go into hys­ terics over the modern farcial comedy. The idea of a drunken husband hood­ winking, by a series of ingenious lies, the wife he has deceived, is rapturously funny to the moral cripple with only five senses. With the morbid self-con­ sciousness of many sufferers under physical or moral defect, he strives to conceal his infirmity by airing it on every possible occa­ sion. He continually buttonholes his friends with some "deuced good story," which, it need hardly be said, turns out in recital to be more "deuced" than "good." The primary object, however, is gained. The world never discovers that its boisterous humorist is only playing a part. On the contrary, with its usual gullibility, it laughs and ap plauds and votes the "deuced good story teller" an "infernally amusing fellow." It is easy, but needlessly cruel, to "show up" the, "infernally amusing' fellow." He can be "floored" in a trice by a vol­ ume of "Happy Thoughts," or "Alice in WTonderland," without recourse to the heavier tomes of Thackeray or Dickens. But, after all, the imposi­ tion is a harmless one. If he bores the minority, he pleases tho majority, and the best thing the humorist minority can do, if it cannot laugh with him, is to laugh at him. The influence of this sense on the en­ joyment of life is immense. Even pov­ erty is enriched when its humor is dis­ covered. The sense of humor not only supplies what has been called the "wine of life," but is also responsible for much of its harmony, to use the word in its widest sense. As in marriage, so in friendship and the other relations of life. The sense of liumor knits diverse natures together which otherwise would remain as far asunder as the poles. There is one ad­ vantage, if such it can be called, at­ tendant upon the possession and culti­ vation of the Bixth sense. True sense of humor is always accompanied by an equal perception of pathos. It is need­ less to multiply instances of this truth. With little Paul Dombey and CoL Newcome staring us in the face, so to speak, such a proceeding would be a slight on the memory of the two great­ est humorists of modern days.--Lon­ don Standard. He Might Have Stolen $100,000. After a brief pause, the banker who had told no story said: "I can tell you a true story of a young broker's clerk who, from deliberate honesty, threw away an opportunity to steal $100,000, when he knew that he would never be detected. When George I. Seney was speculating heavily in railroad securi­ ties, he had a large amount of bonds hypothecated with a first-class Wall street firm. The bonds bore interest- paying coupons, and under the terms of the hopothecation, Mr. Seney's clerk was to have access to them every six months for the purpose of clipping the coupons. The clerk was known to the broker's firm. One day when ho drop­ ped in to cut off some coupons the hy­ pothecated securities were handed to him, and he was left in one compart­ ment of the offices. The firm, of course, retained in its possession a list of all the hypothecated securities, which it was accustomed to compare with the securities returned by the ek»rk. On this particular occasion the clerk found infolded in Mr. Seney's package other good, negotiable bonds of the v^lue of $100,000. They had evidently got mixed up with Mr. Seney's securities through one of those unexplainable mistakes that happen very rarely in broker's offices. "The clerk cut oft' the coupons that he had come after and restored the package of securities to a representa­ tive of the firm. The «xtra $100,000 of bonds had been slipped into the clerk's coat pocket. Mr. Seney's securities were compared one by one with the check list and found t9 be all right. " 'Is everything there?' asked the clerk. \ " 'Oh, yes,' said the broker, as he prepared to put away the box. 'Every­ thing is as straight as a string.' " 'You are sure that there were no other bonds in that box ?' " 'Perfectly,' answered the broker, with a confident air. 'We never gets things mixed here.' " 'Well, how about this $100,000 of bonds?" asked tho clerk, drawing the extra securities from his pocket. The broker leoognized them instantly, and mentioned the name of the person to whom they belonged^ His astonishment knew no bounds when the clerk told him where the bond* had been found. The broker said that he would hav£ sworn in court that those identical bonds were in a certain place in his private safe. The clerk was asked to accept $100 as a souvenir of the occasion, but he declined." "That fellow will get away with a million yet," said the brisk, natty John C. Heenan on the Use of Tobacco. Interested for forty years in physi­ cal training, I have been acquainted with all classes of muscle men. I have known the puglists, oarsmen, pedeis- ! trains and billiardists, and would say 1 in passing that I have iound many of 1 them interesting persons. With rare I exceptions they had been devotees of tobacco. Entering the list it was hard. with their social environment, to refuse j the weed, but they were all compelled I to abandon it During the time John ! C. Heanan was in training for once of j his historic fights I had a long con- i versation with him and hiiS famous trainer ^about tobacco. While at Ben- ecia, as some of his fellow-workmen there have since told me, John was a devotee of the pipe. In my first con­ versation with him we had been talking, - . . . .. . over some of his California experience, banker, as he put on his nat and started particularly the discovery of that won- 'or the car.--New York Times. „ r . . . --Shade State House at SpriagfteldL * --W. L. Simmons," dealer in grain ij|̂ Sandwich, assigned. Liabilities, $40,000$ assets, $20,000 to $30,000. --E. B. Washburn, says that Lisle Smitll, the ontor, was the first man who called Abraham Lincoln "Old Abe." * --The fieshless skeleton of a ws^ discovered hanging by a strap to a fence Op Matt Brown's farm near Aurora. ^ --The Illinois and Michigan Canal will - be closed for navigation from Lockport ttf LaSalle on Wednesday, November 25. i --The failure of W. G. Jackson, forni. ture dealer at Joliet, is announced. Th# Sheriff has taken possession of the store. V-An "immediate delivery" letter whid* reaches the Chicago postoffice on Sunday morning is delivered immediately on Mon­ day.--Inter Ocean. i --W. S. Campbell, book-keeper for Rea­ son Robinson, of Springfield, was arrested for embezzling $3,000, but managed to es­ cape from the officers. --Marshall Field, of Chicago, has takta out a building permit for his new seven- story block, the estimated cost of which is $500,000. The building permit cost $680.50. ' j --The Board of SuperviSenr ofCnmbsJK n land County offers $1,000 and the citizeni of Toledo have subscribed $1,500 reward for the discovery of the incendiary who set fire to the Court House. ^ s --Judge J. D. Caton, of Chicago, wiHw to the American Naturalist that at F into Clara College, in San Jose Valley, in Cali­ fornia, an artesian well 170 feet in depth is flowing, from which are discharged sight­ less fishes from one to two inches in length. --At Freeport Mrs. Brookman acci­ dentally used a dish in which was rat poison to mix fibur with which to fry s chicken. After dinner the family of seven persons became dangerously ill, but were relieve*! by the prompt attendance physician. --A Boston paper says: "Six noen sus­ pected of blowing up Chicago horse-cars with dynamite have been arrested." The Boston paper is "way off." It is in St. Louis that these arrests have been made* Chicago horse-cars go too fast to be over ­ taken by dynamite.--Chicago Times. --The jury in the case of Charles Dtijr* bin, on trial at Decatur for murdering his illegitimate child, returned a verdict of guilty, fixing Durbin's punishment at twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Dur-, bin married the child's mother soon after, its birth. . i --The agricultural editor of the Chicago Tribune speaks of "the celerity of a hen after a potato bug." The facts, are a hen would starve to death with a bvshel «f potato bugs in reach of her bill. A hen, in other words, doesn't go for potato bugs. --Inter Ocean. , " V --The expressed determination of Miss * Mary Murfree ("Charles-Egbert Craddock") never to marry is believed to be the result only of discouraging local observation. She will probably hold to her resolve while she stays in Missouri, but note what hap­ pens before she has lived in Chicago a year!--Chicago Tribune. ] --James H. McNeal, charged with bigamy " at Decatur, having deserted his wife and children in Pennsylvania and mai; uncle's widow, pleaded guilty and i leniency of the court. Judge Hug tenced him to one year in the penit but suspended it on condition that he^ a good husband to his second wife. •--While coming into Chicago with a load of hay, a farmer named Miller, very fool­ ishly smoked his pipe. At the corner of State and Thirty-seventh streets he knock­ ed the fire and ashes ont of the pipe into the hay, and the load and the wagon were soon a mass of flames. Miller released his team, but not {intil the animals wese badly burned. . --Mary Hunting, who conducted the ba­ by farm at Chicago that was thoroughly ventilated in May upon the death of one of the little ones whose mother had refused to pay for its board any longer, escapes with­ out punishment. The grand jury indicted her for manslanghter, and the State's At­ torney had the case strickeh off the docket," the evidence being insufficient to convict her. --When Lamartine died a fond fofr a statue was raised at once in France, but the statue has not yet been erected. It is too early to draw any moral from this ap­ plicable to the Grant Monument in Chi­ cago; but the fact will afford & sort of con­ solation if this city fails to get the monu­ ment w ithin a reasonable time. As a rule it is easy to get a monument;when you have the money.--Chicago Tribune. --A poet in the Rambler demands sadly information as to "where are the girls of the past." Without wishing to say any­ thing in disparagement of a bright weekly, it must be remarked that a poet who can feel the slightest interest in girls of the past in the midst of Chicago girls of the present has no eye for the beautiful in nature and ought not tabej encouraged. Be ought to be killed.--Chicago Tribune. --The case of Mrs. Mary Henry, of Chicago, against Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, of East St. Louis, for the possession of Ida May Cavanaugh, a child, niece of Mrs. Henry, was decided at Belleville in favor of the Seotts, who had previously adopted the little girl. For gix years Mrs. Heniy took no interest in the welfare of little Ida, but when the child became heir to some land in Missouri, Mrs. Henry at onoa claimed the right of guardianship. • ./ --"I see a great many funny paragraphs in the newspapers about Chicago and Sit • Louis gills' feet and the shoes they wear," said a Boston dealer who trades with those towns. "So far as St; Louis girls are con­ cerned, these paragraphs are wide of the mark, for both men and women in all that section of the country have remarkably small feet. But it is unquestionably true that the Chicago foot is unusually large, though I wiil not pretend to give a reason for it. Yon may form some notion of the difference in size which exists between the 3oston and the Chicago foot from the fact £hat in the latter city men's sizes average nearly 11. while here the average is about 74. There is about the same difference? in women's shoes. So the joke about Chicago girl's feet may be said to be strictly found- ed on fact." (/MM1} "-j IT *1 s? , V £ isc A. ' * Mi. M