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«P;v- . , ' : . • few mHiAvaAra Zw^"lJU03iaHE. nnxmi pm ' *TI» wTotrhed to be lonely-- . • O, if I had yon only. ; > ' •• Mschree, a bride here by my. lU« In pto--nt Knockaveal. ^ I'd tbttA of all the blisses Howled np ill Cupid's ki**«V And be the happiest man ultve from Cock to : Donegal! • i. - ' £®tJ?ow' ocJ*®*. Mborim, V--- , , . n I'mlik« a hermit, for* % * »*$&< - * worid I'w BfllM 'Iwllt eutb mimJt n ^^ourdarlin' eyes. ' * i I'm never eeein' Though room and eve I've beia' Jit'X"1' ®3 the lookout for their bright W'. , While ttmehine lit the skies! W* ' - , True an 'tis here I'm at&tidia' » -> If ewr yon'w t band la -S*3V.' ; '. Killin' me for love of ye, this awfal vow 111 keep: O, night by night my shadow _ V Will trip it o'er the meadow, , . • And wither all your burnin' dhrames, *nd<.rob yon of your sbleep! * . J I know I'm still beholdln' To all your tresses golden. To lips and eyes that stars and skies agfa§• saw their equal yet, i\; For the dtvartin' pleasure I drained from love's own treasure. And save tie not your blarney tongue I ever can forget,! • !)=••, But, listen to me, Mary, S And don't you be eonthvairy, ' If ever Sbaon from Knockabaon will wad you here below, £$ I'M die, and will not taunt yea, : But, O my ghost will haunt you " •' '*%. from midnight's hour until the IIIISII. wliwi all • the cocks must crow! ^MYSTERIOUS BQX. f v. • • » BT Ik R, g. . . Is,' t "Oh, yes, I remember Mr. Smith." |i;:. That's what any of the old folks *rould tell you. • Smith was never s| Mayor or Trustee--he was only a wagon* y «' maker and he has been dead now thirty !jV years or more. The rickety little shop where he used to work was burned down long ago, and the grave where ' they buried him is forgotten and lost, *• bat they all remember him. To l>egin with, Smith was an aboli- fe 5 tionist, and abolitionists were scarce in y4. Georgia. If Smith had only been a |fy,( s Yankee it wonldn't have been so bad. J* -" You couldn't expect anything better of a Yankee. But he wasn't a Yankee. » ' He was born right there within two ^ miles of the Court House in Shiloli--a fh*./"*; Fayette County man, teaching his chil- pgvf dren that the nigger ought to be free, fe^and that, in nature's own time, the nig- "• t gers would be free. > - That was a great word with Smith-- ; . that word "nature." He had a sort of v ' heathenism he oalled "nature's reli g _ gion," acd a lot of rules he called una j&y ture's law*." '. ' , The Deacon and^feawver Brooks 'i \ " ' went down to conWvt Smith one day. |TThey proved to him in black and white j^y ! ' the sinfulness, of al>olitionism, but to g'; i • save his life Smith couldn't see it--or H; 1 1 just wouldn't see it, I don't know which, if-- The deacon quoted soripture and the |j; * lawyer quoted law, but Smith was as < " strong an abo'ifcipnist as ever. I "The Bible is& t an argument," said | „ Smith, "any more than the blue-back " speller. Now nature " "But the code of Georgia," said the lawyer, "the code of Georgia says * J* , that " ||vr - "The oode Of Georgia's all wrong, i j said Smith. ' * "Mister Smith," said the deacon, M, ; solemnly, "I would just like to know ijt.what you do believe. What do you ^ ' s'pose is going to become of you, any­ how." Sssith. S »»(m« snrt flf fkoMjj ths- people looked down on Smith, and some of thorn pitied him. "Why the postmaster should be civil and neighborly to such a man as Smith,, was a question that nobody but Smith and the postmaster could answer. The Sunday-school Superintendent did so because he was Superintendent, and it Was his Christian duty to set an exam- pie of pious forbearance. and forgiving. Mr. Sharpe never said ao, bnt--that was why it was. * * • * • • It was Christmas ere, oold Christmas ®re, 1857. The crowd gathered around too stove at the postoffice had already waited be­ yond the usual time for the arrival of old Ballentine with the mail. There, was plenty to talk about, though, and old Ballentine was forgotten. Even politics was laid aside, and that was something unusual at the postoffice. "Who told you that?" asked the law­ yer, addressing a fanner in brown jeans, who sat on the opposite side of the stove. "Old Moses," said the fanner. "Moses is a reliable nigger," said the lawyer, thoughtfully. "My niggers have been acting mighty queer here lately, too." Yes, the signs is plentiful," said the farmer, whose name was Roberts. There was a deep silence for awh|le. ; "The militia ought to be ready," said the lawyer. "It's comin'," said Peg Dukes, the shoemaker. "It's comin', certain." "And what's more'n that," said Roberts, "I saw Smith git a box from Jonesboro t'other night just a'ter dark. He didn't have it Carried to his honse but it come thar to his shop. X seed it and he looked like he was sotter scared about it. I asked him what it was, and he just said, nothin' much, nothin* much, and that was all I oould get out of him." "I tell you, gentlemen," said the superintendent, seriously, "you all don't give that man justice. I think if yon knowed him as well as I do, you would like him better, anyhow. This is Christmas time and the box might----" "No," interrupted Roberts, "too big for that. It was two foot square, that box was, and marked on top 'handle careful.' Now, what does that all mean, and what makes Smith so anxious to hide it." "Oh, I suppose he had a reason," laughed the superintendent. "And I'll bet it was ia good reason," added the postmaster. "Y6u fellows always did take up for Smith," said Roberta, spitefully. "No," said the superintendent, "not always, but I tell you I know Smith better'n you do. He's crazy about nig­ gers and religion, but his heart's all right." "No, his heart ain't right," said Roberts. # * "No," said the lawyer, "it ain't." "He's a black abolitionist," said the deacon. A horse's hoof was heard clattering up the frozen street toward the post- office and they stopped to listen. The horse stopped and an instant later the door was thrown open and Bill Pardy entered. "Boys," he said, "I've rode hard to tell you. T|bey Bay at the mill that down below here the niggers are risin'." "What'd I tell---" "Come here a minute, boy*. I don't LOait LITE. "That's the very question that's j want you, Sharpe. troubling me," said Smith. "My idea The lawyer took Pardy's arm and mf:: is just this. Death is the end of man's life just----* "Good Lord!" exclaimed the deacon piously. " That death is the end of a man's life just as birth is the beginning. A inan can believe if he wants to that he lived before he was born " "Smith, you're crazy," remarked the lawyer, gravely. "But to *11 practical intents and pur- • poses a man's birth is the beginning of his existence. In the same way death ! is the end of his life. You didn't have : any identity before you were born, no consciousness, no individuality. In the same way you can believe, if you want to, that you live on after you're dead-- live in your children, and your chil­ dren's children. But it's practically the same thing. Your consciousness, ; your individuality is lost, and death is as completely the end of your life as birth was the beginning." "Smith," said the lawyer thonght- fully, "you're as crazy asGrandma Kob- inson." . "He is so," said the deacon. "He is so." " And slavery is wrong," said Smith. "And some of these days, Smith," continued the lawyer, "Fm going to help hang you to one of those trees out there." •'That wouldn't convince me," argued Smith. "No," said the lawyer, "but you talk to your children that way, and you talk where the niggers can - hear you. The truth of the whole matter is you're a disgrace to Fayette County." "He is so," assented the deacon vig­ orously, "a most damnable disgrace." Evidently there was no hope of eon- verting Smith. The wagon-maker looked after them as they walked off arm in arm, and for some time after they turned the corner Smith sat there on his bench and thought and thought. "Oh, well," mused Smith as he picked up his hammer and tied on his apron, "it 11 be all the same--100 years from now." Then he went back to his work. To sum it all up Smith was a crank, one of nature's cranks. The people of Shiloh never did understand him. Most of them believed simply that Smith was jcrazy. Most likely Mrs. Smith thought so. Others believed that it was nothing in Hie world but pure cussedness, and it : must be acknowledged that there was good argument advanced in support of that theory. Mabe they were right about it. . Then again there were people who thought first one thing and then an­ other--a very natural thing to do--and last of all there were some very good judges of human nature that just did not know what to think. None of these theories were calculated to make friends for Smith, and as these were the only theories advanced Smith had very lew friends in Shiloh- -very few. There was the postmaster,Mr. Hughes, and the Sunday-school Superintendent, Mr. Sharpe, and some of the school children that were too young to know what abolition and heathenism meant, but there was not many of them. Smith's little girl that was nearly old enough to start to school and could just count ten --she could count all the friends Smith had. Smith could make good wagons and good wheelbarrows, and when the school-house was built Smith contrib­ uted as much as the deacon, and when the deacon doubled his contribution stepped out upon the porch. The others, except the superintendent and the postmaster, followed, and the door was shut behind them. "I wonder why he talked to me that way," said the superintendent. "Can't imagine," acknowledged the postmaster. * * - * J* • - • * * Twenty minutes later Smith's body was swinging to a limb in front of his shop, and the Ihwyer had helped hang him just as he had said he would do. The crowd had watched the dying man's struggles grow feeble and feebler, and stop. They heard the gurgling, sobbing breath grow faint and still. He was dead. "Yonder comes Sharp," said the law­ yer, huskily. "Yes, an' the postmaster," said Dukes. "Let's look at that box," said the lawyer as he started toward the shop. So Mr. Sharpe and the postmaster cut down the body. They straightened the stiffening form and unbound his hands and crossed them over his breast. They wiped the blood from his face, and tying a bandage over the eyes they left him and entered the shop. The lawyer had forced off the lid and was looking curiously at a little parcel wrapped in brown paper. "Look here. Dukes," he said* "Here's a package with your little girl's name on it." • , "Let's see." They unwrapped it. Yt was only a doll --a little doll with white hair and blue eyes. "And here's a package for Ballan- tine's little gal," said the lawyer, as he fumbled at the box. "And one fur my youngster," said Bill Pardy, with a tremble in his voice. It was a horse, one of those with wheels, and just what little Gua Pardy wanted for a year. "Boys," said the superintendent, as the tears rolled down his face, "I prom­ ised not to qtell as long as I lived, but he's dead now, and it oan't make any differenca. Them was for the--Christmas tree." "God forgive me," said the lawyer quickly, as the tears came into his own eyes; "you mean to say that poor fellow actually " "Yes, always did do it ever since I've been superintendent. Every little gal and boy in town got sometftin' " "And a Christmas card, too," said the postmaster. "Ever' Christmas he brought me a bundle of 'em to the post- office to put in the mail, and if you look in that box Fll bet you'l find 'em. There's one to your little gal in there, lawyer, and one for your'n, Dukes, and one for Pardy's boy, and one for mine, and one for every little gal pad boy in Shiloh.- And so there was--so there was. HfiW *fMi|T»H<l«rs bmr>U«wl ' KotWith. standing Tea* CoOtee, nnd Tobacco. I have alluded to the fact that in the subjects of the census the complexion in most cases is light. While this may be due to the northern origin of the ma­ jority of New England people, and have no special bearing upon the people of longevity, it may possibly be very im­ portant as showing the* effect of the temperament upon the length of life. That the Bangnine temperament pre­ dominates in these people is undoubt­ edly a fact, and it appears that the san- guine-nervou§ (judged from complexion, color of the eyes, and general build) is most common. In theory, certainly this temperament is that which would most conduce to longevity. Other facts, of the nature of these gathered in New England, from some other locality, might offset these and disprove the theory; but, until these other facts are gathered, I think the theory that peo­ ple with nervous, sanguine tempera­ ment, and the two nicely blended, are liable to live longer than those who pass a nervous, bilious or a bilious lympliatie teinperament, with either predominat­ ing, is strong enongh to work with; and, while it does not directly teach us how to live longer, it points to something in the future that means a great deal to the human raee. The fact that the majority of the men are bony and muscular and the women plump is easily explained, I think, in the occupations. In the work of the men their muscles have been brought into play so much and have used such a large proportion of the nourishment taken into the system, that fat could not accumulate. With the women the reverse has been true, especially after they reached the age of 50, when grown up daughters took the hardest of the work from their mothers' shoulders. In regard to food the evide nce is so uniformly one way that those who ad­ vise a simple di*>t and those who cry out against meat must either hold their theories to the above facts or to give them up. There is certainly nothing "simple" about the diet of a New En­ gland farmer. It consists of salt and fresh pork and beef and all sorts of common fiiA and vegetables, almost al­ ways poorly cooked, and pies and cakes of the most indigestable sorts. The food is "plain," truly, and gives the digestive organs an abundance of work to do, but it is not such food as a theorist would recommend to one who desired to live near up to the century mark. Tea and coffee have certainly proved that they do not tend to shorten life, even if they do not prove they help to prolong it. The generally accepted theory in rela­ tion to stimulants, that in excess they are not life-sustaining, receives strong support. Tobacco appears to prove it­ self harmless, at least on the temper- ment of these people. Whether it is a help to live long requires other evi­ dence. While the farmers of New England and their wives are a cleanly people, they, are not much given to bathing. This neglect may not have prolonged their existence or made them more healthy, but it is to be presumed that it has not cut off many years or caused much disease. Neither are the mem­ bers of these households well informed in relation to sanitary matters. They know little of the unseen dampness to which the human system is so constantly exposed, and knowing little care little. May not this be an influence in favor of a prolonged existence, paradoxical as the supposition may seem ? In Iiing- ham, Mass., with only 4,000inhabitants, there are eighty people over eighty years of age, and out of these seventy-five are of light complexion. In no other town in New England, as far as oould be learned, is there such a proportjoji of old people. This town is on the sea coast, lies very low, is without sewers, and has only recently put in a system of water works. From a sanitary point of view the conditions here are about as unfavorable to long life as could be con­ ceived outside the crowded portions of the large cities. And in Boston, where the sanitary conditions appear to be the worst--in the North End and South Boston districts--the greatest number of very old people are found.--Popular Science Monthly. „ and as manifestly giau f o get ashore at e'er was seasick maid or man, and tliex* mounted the box and drove cat of th« dockyard, amid the cheers of the by standers. Not a soul seemed to have t clear idea what the machine with the polished boiler and silver-plated valves was. It certainly bore no resemblanc< to the English fire engine, which is not such a handy article as an Americac hearse painted red. "Wot is ther bleedin' thing?" said I burly stevedore to a companion. "I dunno, Bill," was the reply, "lesi it be a bloody Yankee ioe areata freezer.' <•--Firemen's Herald. THE iuriE JV OF Cllanb of the XHt, ULUflC, Mountains OEKXABi .I0KE8. fci . • r s .. The New King of the Dudes. Mr. T. Luis Onatavia, the new king of the dudes, has an unlimited supply of eyeglasses. Whenever this young man drops his single-barred glass he doesn't bother to pick it up, but imme­ diately replaces it by another, and it is said tiie dashing Brazilian always car­ ries half a dozen single glasses in his waistcoat pocket in case of emergency. They have no magnifying qualities, but are cut by the dozen from plain window- panes.--Jfew York Morning Journal. A CURIOUS notion in table decoration is to have the center of the table made into a little pond in which crabs and Smith doubled his, too; but somehow or {lobsters are other the world oouldu't get along with] dUng abofiLf ̂ ̂ Dengnr. During the yellow-fever pestflenoe ir the South this year, there was reported an outbreak in one place of dengue, oi what is commonly known in this country as "break-bone fever." Dengue--pronounced den-ga--is char acterized by severe pains' in the joints, back, necks temples, and eyes, by severe prostration, and a rash somewhat re­ sembling that of scarlet feyer. Most oi the bodily organs may be more or lest affected. The patient may have felt well up tc the first moment of attack, and his firs' symptom may have been a pain in a sin gle joint of his finger, which soon ex tends to the other joints and bones. , After one or two days there is gener­ ally a remission from two to four dtiys. when the fever returns. This, at length, gradually subsides, but leaves the pa tient weak and in much pain, and re­ covery to health is slow. It is a self limiting disease, with a tendency of it self to a favorable termination. In some cases it is exceedingly mild; in some it may be exceedingly aevere and fattR. it is probably due to microbes, and, like other diseases having a similar cause, tends to become epidemic, and may have an extensive spread. It is na­ tive to India and Bome other Eastern countries, but is wholy unknown in En­ gland. It has prevailed as an epidemic in the West Indies, South America, and the Gulf States of the United States. Its prevalence seems dependent on some undetermined atmospheric conditions, but, like most epidemics, it follows iinet of travel and social intercourse. It seems to be well established that every epidemic of dengue has been car­ ried directly from place to place. It course, and the means by which it hat made its journeys, are usually oapablc of being accurately traced. Epidemics prevailed along our South­ ern coast in 1828, 1850, and 1880, all oi which, it is believed, were clearly traceable to importation. In 1885 the dengue swept over Texas, and spared but few towns. It was of a peculiarly severe type, was attended by unusual complications, and followed by very grave sequel®, or after-results. In Austin alone there were 20,000 esses, and yet of these only twelve proved di­ rectly mortal. The infectious character o! the disease seems to have been generally unknown, and hence no efforts were made to pre­ vent contagion. The microbe, the living organism tc which the disease is believed to be doe, is thought to have been discovered by Dr. J. W. McLaughlin, president of the Texas Microscopic Association.--Com- porm% How a Reporter Got Even. The Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Card- well. and several other distinguished men, were to dine with the Mayor at the Town HaM. Their speeches were expeoted to be of European importance, and great interest attached to the occa­ sion. Owing to the great attendance the Mayor could find room for only one reporter. There was much protest on the part of the press, but it was of no avail. An expert reporter named Mur­ phy was selected for the work and ar­ rangements were made to supply all England with his report, which he was to dictate, when the banquet was Over, to a dozen stenographers; but Mr. Mur­ phy had been treated with the utmost discourtesy by the Town Hall officials. He was placed apart from the guests and was either supplied with a seat among the pots and pans of the waiters or in an orchestra occupied by the fid­ dlers. However, he took his revenge as well as his notes. When he returned to his office, where a dozen reporters were awaiting him with breathless anxiety, he smiled benignantly upon them and told them to go home. "Go home!" gasped a celebrated editor, "what do you mean? Have yoti not got the re­ port?" "I have taken down every syl­ lable," said the redoubtable Murphy; "here are my notes," slapping his pocket- book, "and there they remain. I have been grossly insulted and the speeches shall ever was as good as his word, England and the world the great men at the To have uttered their won congratulation, and warnia] derstorm from the top of Liverpool Post An American Fire Engine Joseph Arthur took horses and a real fire engine the best firm in America when he pro­ duced his "Still Alarm" at the Princess Theater here, says a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. John Vine her, an old fellow who left, New Hav Conn., for the first time in his life year to take charge of the horses "The Still Alarm" American, tour li season, accompanied his equine char# to England. Horses and engine were transported in safety to the steamer Helvetian, and landed at the Royal Albert docks, I think, or at least at some port of the London docks, to get from which to the Princess necessitated crossing half Lon­ don, including the roughest part of the East End. Vischer, in the center of an admiring circle of 'longshoreman, harnessed the who Were as playful as kittens, line of Unreliable Clocks. A contributor to the Jewelers' Weekly says: "We have two clocks in out house, and they are the most unreliable timekeepers that ever you saw. If a Soliticiau should oonnt the number of es those clocks tell in a week he would grow green with envy and go out of the business. Ott+- M them is a regular racer, and seems to consider that the principal thing in life is to go ahead. The other is a laggard, always behind time. Now, these timepieces^ which are alike as two Dromios, stand side by side on the mantelpiece. "The other day my wife and I deter­ mined to go on an excursion. 'This clock on the right gains,'said she, 'and I will set it back half an hour. This one on the left loses, I will set it ahead half an hour. Then they will both be right to-morrow morning, and we will know exactly when to start.' Well, what a joke I did have on her the next morning when there was just two hour's difference between them! She stared at those clocks, and the clooks faced her as calmly as if they were telling the naked truth, until she caught a sight 01 a grin on Bob's countenance. Bob was forced to admit that he had reversed the clocks on the shelf, so that the gainer had been set ahead and the loser back. "Recently we hired a servant girl and neglected to post her on the peculiari­ ties of the clocks. 'Call me at 6 o'clock,' I said. 'I haT& special business down town and want to get there early.' She called me and I had my breakfast. On going out into the streets I found them nearly deserted. I looked at a town clock. By George, it was only 4 o'clock! I returned to the house in an angry mood, but could not scold the poor girl. Unfortunately she had been misled by the racer, which had not been regulated in two days. I think 111 trade those clocks off for a Waterbiuy watch and s yellow dog." Durability of Paper. Modern methods in paper-making have forced attention to the probable durability of paper for documents and other matter required to be preserved. A dissertation offered to the Berlin University was rejected recently, be­ cause the paper on which it w,as printed contained too muoh wood, and its writer was informed that it must be printed on paper that wra more solid and con­ tained less adulteration. Experiments in Germany with ninety- seven weekly papers and magazines show that thirty one of them contained so much wood a nd straw and paineral matter that they oould not be expected to last more than fifty years. Sixty- three, made from the wood-pulp, were even loss durable, and only three were of lasting quality. For cheap work and transient use, wood and adulterated papers are unobjectionable, even desir­ able. It is well, however, to have some regard in the selection of papers for printed matter to the probabilities of its value for preservation.--Inland Printer. She Held Her Temper. I'm not the least bit mad," said, [austick ia the peroration of her sasional curtain lecture, "you iy dear, I never lose my tom­ my love." meekly responded "you always hold your tem- ck>f s a mustard plaster, but ke "jlazes all the same." threatening storm clond shower of tears, irrigating >.e woman who was never the unfeeling Kaustick with her sobs. The red the atmosphere eshing coolness next Himalayan India. People who visit Calcutta seldom fail to make a journey of about four hun­ dred miles northward, by the Eastern Bengal Railway, to Darjeeling. The last part of this trip is performed on a narrow gnage road which climbs the tall foothills of the Himalayan range in a most curious, zigzag fashion, the road constantly doubling upon itself at inter­ esting elevations. As the tv iveler pro­ gresses flocks of Thibet r iats appear, and a hardier race of men and women are seen than those left behind on the plains of Hindoostan. The laborers seen on the route are comjtosed of men, women, and girl®, the latter using pick and shovel as readily as do the men. These people are from Thibet, Nepaul, and Cashmere, which countries border on Northern India. These mingled races form picturesque groups, the men armed with long, swordlike knives, and the women clad itf bright colors and short skirts. When Darjeeling Is reached we are ov<w seven thousand feet above the plains, and here we find ourselves in full view of the loftiest range of mount­ ains in the world, literally the apex of the globe. What the Bernese Ober- land range is to the European Alps, this Kinchinjunga group is to the sky- reaching Himalayas; the former, how­ ever, are mere pigmies oompared with these giants at Darjeeling. The lowest peak is over twenty thousand feet in height, the tallest over twenty-eight thousand, while Mt. Everest, the loftiest elevation in the world, is 29,000 feet above the level of the sea. To Witness the sun rise ovef the Himalayas is an experience never to be forgotten. At first the stars are alone visible, the morning slowly awakening from its slumbers, while a fitful light beams out of the east. Presently the white summits come into view, one after another, as the veil of night is slowly withdrawn. A soft, amber light kisses the brow of each peak, causing it to blush like a beautiful maiden aroused from sleep. After the first salutation the rays become more anient, jxmring their saffron hues all over the range, which now glows like mountains of opals, flashing in the glorious sunlight Valley and hillside become flooded with an atmosphere of azure and gold until every outline is rendered sharp and clear by the fresh light of the dawn, thus completing a picture, the supreme loveliness of which neither tongue nor pen can adequately express. The Himalayas--signifying the San­ skrit, "The Halls of Snow"--form the northern boundary of India, shutting it off from the rest of Asia. Thibet, which lies just over the rauge, is nearly inaccessible from Darjeeling, and yet bold parties of native traders, wrapped ia sheepskin, do sometimes force their way over the passes at an elevation of 18,000 feet. It is a hazardous thing to do, and the bones of wornout animals mark the frozen way. Upon the range rest 11,000 feet of perpetual snow; there no animal life exists. Only the snow and ice rest there in endlefes sleep. The little yak cow, whose bushy tail is manufactured into lace, has been found to be the most enduring animal to depend upon when attempts are made to cross the range. She will patiently toil up the steep gorges with a load strapped to her back, and will drop dead before showing any stubbornness or signs of weariness. In an unsaccess ful attempt to ascend Kinehinjuriga a few years since an English surgeon, who'was abandoned by his native escort, finally succeeded in crawling down the mountain and "reaching human habita tion, but in so frostbitten a condition that it was necessary to amputate both of his feet at the ankles. Probably the summit of Kinchinjunga will never be trod by human feet. At the doors of the native temples hereabouts old wo­ men and su{)erannuated men are often seen turning a cylinder half as large as a barrel by means of a crank. This is praying machine, operated at the solici­ tation of some devotee, the devotional exercise being performed mechanically for a small stipulated sum. Dai jeeling is the center of a great tea producing district, and it would Beem though India may eventually become rival of China in the product of this favorite herb. English capitalists have established large, productive planta­ tions, and have employed skilled labor with profitable results. Large quanti­ ties are shipped from here to London, where it is known as Assam tea, and commands a higher price than the ordinary Chinese product. -- Boston Heralti. preci and • ILLINOIS NEWS BU Finding OM Mannseript*. The manuscripts Of some of our most highly prized works of literature were discovered by the merest accidents. In a dungeon in the monastery of St. Gall, Poggio found corroded with damp and covered with filth, the great works of Quintilian. In Westphalia a monk stumbled accidentally upon the only manuscript of Tacitus. The poems of Propertius, one of the most vigorous and original of the Russian poets, were found under the casks in a wine cellar. In a few months the manuscripts would have crumbled to pieces and become illegible. Parts of Homer have come to light in the moat extraordinary way. A considerable portion of the "Iliad," for instance, was found in the hand of a mummy. The best of the Greek ro­ mances, the "Etbiopic" of Heliodorus, which is such a favorite with Mr. Browning, was rescued by a common soldier, who found it kicking about in the streets of a town in Hungary. To turn, however to more modern times, every one knows how Sir Robert Colton rescued the original manuscript of Magna Charta from the the hands of a common tailor, who was cutting it up into measures.--London Spectator. Barter in Human Hair. A human-hair market is located at Morians, in the department of the Lower Pvrennees, and on alternately Fridavs hundreds of hair-dressers repair to the little place to buy the hair of the young peasant girls. The dealers wander up and down the. long, narrow street of the town each with a huge pair of bright shears hanging from a black leather strap around his waist, while the young girls who wish to part with their hair stand about in the doorways. The transaction is carried on in the best room of the house. The hair is let down, the tresses combed out, and the dealer names the price. This varies faom three to twenty francs. If a bargain is struck the dealer lays the money in the open palm of the seller, applies his shears, and in a minute the long tresses fall on the floor. The purchaser rolls up the tresses, places them in paper and thrusts them into his pocket. Of course, a maiden can rarely see her fallen tresses disap­ pear into the dealer's pocket without crying. But she consoles herself with the thought that the hair will grow again and by looking at th» money ia her bawiL--Galignani's M&ienger^ , BPOBTING ITEM. ' First Amateur Nimrod--It ia getting late, and we haven't killed anything yet. Second Amateur Nimrod--Well, let us miss a couple of more rabbits and then go homo. BOUGH ON THE EDITOK. Author--Have yon read the criticism of the editor of the Zeitung on my play? Actor--Yes, it is very biting. Author--Do you suppose his criticisms are biting because he doesn't get enough to bite, or doesn't he get enough to eat because his criticisms are biting? A VALUABLE BEAST. Visitor--Is it true that a lion like this can be bought for a thousand marks? Proprietor--Humph! there are cheap lions, but this blind old hero, for in­ stance, is very dear. I would not part with him for ten thousand marks. "Why is ha so dear?" ^ T "Ha, ate up uij wife's mother." v AN UNJU8T INSINUATION. First Actor--Did you read that for me in the Daily Mooter? Second Actor--Yes, I read it, and IH bet you wrot«j it yourself, and paid to have it put in the paper. That's aa uncalled-for, reflection. I'd have you know that I never pay for any- thing." GIVING HIMSELF AWA?. One of you boys has been stealing raisins again; I have found the seeds on the floor. Which one of you was it?" Tommy--It wasn't me. I swallowed the seeds in mine. A CAREFUL CHILD. Papa, won't yon please go out of the room for a little while ?" "What for, Molly?" "Well, Jennie and I want to talk about something that is not proper for mea to hear."--Texas Sifting8. Luxury the Foe to Santtaltei* Twenty-five years ago in our country the age of excessive lnxuiy commenced. When a rich man built a new house or fitted up an old one, the tiling alone considered was bodily comfort. Health, arts, and the beautiful were sacrificed. He could not be happy without his bath and commode next to his bedchamber, and the plumbers were consulted in­ stead of the physicians. People were not awakened from their doze of phys­ ical comfort until the ghost of fever and malaria came stalking into their rooms, carrying off the inmates of their beauti­ ful houses with all their modern conven­ iences, or paralyzing them with dis­ ease. Now the public mind is alive upon this subject, but too late for many places, and since the large cities, and even the mountains and our highly-dec­ orated and beautiful places of seaside, resort have become polluted with dis­ ease, is it not important that the sick, and even the well, should have some place to go to to free themselves from it: that, instead of flying from death in one place to the arms of disease in another, there might be a place or places founded and built upon true sanitary principles. I doubt very much whether our mod­ ern civilization in regard to health is equal to that of the ancients. They paid attention to persons! cleanliness, of which the moderns have little con­ ception. The remains of their splendid batlis, upon which millions were spent, are superb monuments of this fact. Their moral philosophy was founded upon the first necessity of health. Poisoned blood was believed to be the cause of insanity. A healthy mind in a healthy body was with them an axiom. --Philadelphia Ledger. Muscle for the Ocean Ferry. In his address as President of the British Association for the Advance­ ment of Science, Sir Frederick Bratn- well considered the elevating influence of prime movers as a substitute for hand labor, requiring no intelligence, and said: "Compare a galley, a vessel pro­ pelled by oars, with the modern Atlan­ tic liner; and first let us assume that prime movers are non-existent and this vessel is to be propelled galley-fashion Take her length as some 600 "feet, and assume that place be found for as many as 400 oars on each side, each ore worked by three men, or 2,400 men; and allow that six under these conditions could develope work to 1 h. p., we should have 400 h. p. Double the number of men and we should have 800 h. p., with 4,800 men at work, and at least the same number in reserve if the journey is to be continuous. Contrast the puny result thus obtained with the 19,500 h. p., given forth by a large prime mover requiring on the above mode of calcula­ tion, 117,000 men at work and 117,000 men in reserve; and these to be carried in a vessel less than 600 feet long. Even if it were possible to carry this number of men in such a vessel, by no conceiv­ able means could their power be utilized so as to impart a speed of twenty knota an hour. This illustrates how a prime mover may not only be a mere substi­ tute for muscular work, but may afford the means of attaining an end that oould not by any possibility be attained by muscular exertion, no matter what money was expended, Or what galley- glave suffering was indicted."--Arkan saw Traveler. Good Advice te Girls' Mathers. The growing period of a girl's life is full of surprises and contradictions The soul reaches out in tentacles on all sides. Through a large emotional and imaginative nature it paints rosy scenes, and dreams day dreams beyond the power of realization. Vague unrest and formless needs disturb the innei life. The girl is sensitive, moody, ca­ pricious, and hard to deai with. Moth­ ers, keep your darling very near youi heart, pour out upon her, unstinted, Jour tenderest love, gain her confi-ence, win her very soul to unclosc it­ self to your affection as the buds of a rose unclose to the soft south wind. This you cannot do unless you are much alone with her, unless you are nearer than her mates, and unless a peaceful home gives you the letturt and oppor­ tunity for confidence, *{i£l and free.-- Oakland (Cal.) Echo. A Tarantula in a Car. Mr. Louis Nevin, of Louisville, re­ cently .undertook to bring from Hot Springs an immense tarantula which he had captured there. While on the road between Hot Springs and Little Rock the spider escaped from the bottle in which it had been imprisoned, and started in a promenade down the aisle of the car. For half an hour confusion reigned and the ugly insect had all the passengers at his mercy. Finally he was safely corraled and bottled up, but Mr. Nevin was forced to take himself and his pet off at the next station. MRS. CLEVELAND is devoting a great Klflm AHO INCIDENTS THAT S**]*. „ OCCDB8XD, f..;£ portent llnl^i mt Oar Nelghbors--WcNt* dami Deaths -- Crime •ad €*en«ral Km Kotea. THE voTfc OF rmm •****. --The official vole for Pwwideat a*f Governor as tabulated tqr Ike Secretary ef State: cowmpa Adam* . Alexander.... Hond. Brown. Hureaa Olhoaa........ Carrcll Cnss { hurpaien Christian Liars..;-;-.. .*. flay Cl ntoa............... Colet.. Cook.................. ( rawfirj ............. Cumberland OKalb. DeWitt. .............. PoagSas ?>rtPafa. Edgar. l-'dwarJa........... ii. Effingham . . . . . ' . . FayflitB................ Foivl S-'ran'illB F u 1 1 O B . . . . . Z S S f i 1 0 <tl'a ia............... Greena. Grundy Hampton ......... Hun -ock.. Hurdin. Heuderaoa H*nry.. Iroquola .Fuck soil Jasper.. .....i... Jeffarsoa .......... •'ersnjr .to l)avie««........... fohuaoa . Ktuie. Kaukvke* Kotidall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kuoi 1 a;n I'M Salle.... I .awr*no*..... I*<e ! avingttou .'. • • • I<og*n Mat-on .......... .......... Macoupin. Madlaon Marion MarshaU.........'.. '• Mason M uaaao McDonou ̂ h.......... .«>... McHeury Mclean Meti&rd ...... M< r^er Monro* Montgomery.............. Moi gdui Moiutria Ogle l'w>rla.. I'crry. .... Piatt.... l>i»e.y,...,......,....n Pope............ .......... " r.!r, Etl I* utnatn It andolpli Kicblaud............ ..... Bock Island....... Saline Sansanion Hchuylar Scott. Shelby. Stark St Clair.., Ktephanton Tazewell Union Vermilion................ Wabash War ran Washington...... ....... V ay ne ........ Whita. Whiteside Will Wil.tamsdn.............. Wiun bagc.... ........... t'oodtord,.... UW an m MM mm * ins 4MB am vm M53 aw am 8 U9t 2C06 1TW 1798 UIT6 1875 1«75 3168 6<V sia{ 151 ten > - , • > j m 'l.m! 13211 & m M m 3461 axw 32 T# vf Total, .•,4iW«78! Ill sum am i SMS «N K IMS « » •a «r -i'-/ »•* i '• 236 Adams Alexander................ Bond Boone Brown. Bureau Calhoun. CarroU Cass. .'. Champaign Christian Clark......... Clay ...... Clinton.,....»».. . Colea.r.i Cook. Crawford Cumberland. IieKalb.. DeWitt Douglas DnFaga Edgar Edwards KlIluijhaHi. •.............. Fayetta. Kord rauklin Oallatin (iseene Grundy. laiiiiltoa tfanoock Hardin Henderson Henry Iroquois. •ackaon las par Jefferson..... Jersey Jo Davlaaa.... Johnson Kane Kankakaa,...-* Kendall..... Knox Lake ta Salle ;.... La-vrrenoe Lee Livingston. Logan. Macon Macoupin................. Madison Marion MmfshaU Maaon Massac Mo Donough. Me Henry...... Mol/aan. Menard. Meroar Monro* Montgomery.... Morgan Moal trie Ogle..: Peoria Party. Piatt Pike Pope Pulaski Putnam ........ Randolph. ........ Kiohland Ho.-k. Island.. Saline Sangamon. ....... Schuyler.......... Scott Sheby Stark. St. Clair Stephenson Tazewell Union ...4...... Vermilion. Wabash Warren Washing, om Wayne Wh te Whiteside Will Williamson............ Winuebajfo............. Woodford..... ttM IMS MST tow M 4086 1TW 15*9 s UN 8T4M mil im MS ... ji > j m* <nan 2<M «ao) mm 1T« 96* 75ttJ *:oa mi wis MM 1714 SOT iiw nm .<•- 4SW| 4117 ii;? iaee 5S3AI 40661 us; 1314 1 6146 4 10 ).i( I ana, ; m« : 5 AMI 61! it, 3eKH>! 3U4| S97| XI. m saan 27*; m SMS) a)-* « B: sostt -mi m< 1&m] £443 1-ilf 4t Total.. *i78M>33S3 3t imrtSiOTH "•* • . --Edward Murphy, for fiftj jraara * resident of Jo Davlesa Coaaty, died, aged eighty -four years. --Railroad managers will complain la the next State Legislature that eonsigaaee take their own time in unloading cod ears, depriving the roads of 50 per cent, of th* service the cars might perform, and Witt wkieHsf. A 1 • xikA'