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* •• • ip : ' ' ' • " Kite;W« ; : 1 .. * : >T»> , • ;itc Jfltgcnrg §lnindealfl\ a _--.MM. J. VAN 8LYKE, PCBUBHEH. tcHENRY, ' ii i ILLINOIS. GOSSIP OF THE UA1. TH« tissue of the Russian Minister to Washington is pronounced with a double sk-aetion sneeze, WMjUis. q^led ihiscMlaiX. ' ; / . / 5 THAT irx^ife&fbie DHAIM$^$S$IMUD, rgeant Bates, is now tramping through Janata, with the American flag. Will kot sfbtAS friend of the human race ' rfiopfc \um on the spot ?" THE steamship City of Berlin has just lade the fastest time between Tiiver- 5iand New York ever accomplished-- days, eighteen hours and ten lutes. • . WHAT in the name of the good Lord is 3& JButler going to do now f * An East- paper announces that a thousand-dol- sword is being manufactured for him Massachusetts cutlery company. %e going to have another war ? ACCORDING to a writer in the Stockhol- a New York publication, that city mtaias 13,000 acres of land, all but J,00(fofwhich is mortaged at an average >f $160,000 per acre. According fa this riter's calculation the whol4 mortaged lebt of New York city amounts to $1,- ),000,000, neatly as much as the whole lterest-bearing debt of. the United »tes. v ONE of our exchanges remarks, in a •deprecatory tone: " Because we happen jto take our shotgun and Start out for a [Saturday afternoon's gunning, it is no I reason why half a dozen impudent per- lsons. should inquire if we were on a tour for collecting subscription money. The times are hard, and ammunition costs too much money to be wasted on delinquent subscribers just now, " DES MOINES, Iowa, possesses a youth- I ful literary prodigy in the person of a little girl of eleven years, named Tiiliar. B. Fearing, who is in fragile health and 2early blind. She dictates to hsr mother literally by the hour such verses as this : Ob, the hands that white aad trembling, Oramping yet life's lingering ray; Standing 'neath the crimson banner. Waving ever to the day, Banner* that are ever tossing, •' Wjiere the mighty shadows play. Gov. GASTON, of Massachusetts, is a de­ cided second-termite. In 1854 he was elected a member of the State Legisla­ ture, and was again returned in 1856. In 1861 he became Mayor of Roxbury, and was re-elected at the expiration of his first term. In 1870 he became Mayor of Boston, and was the successful candi­ date also at the next election. In 1874 he was elected Governor of the State, and is now the Democratic nominee again. ONE of the remarkable men of the Ala- (bama Constitutional Convention is Col. Bethea. He is a lawyer, but has had only one case in his life. It was his first and last. The case involved a large amount of property, and his fee depend­ ed upon his success. He won; his fee was 8^0,000, and with this he gracefully retired from the bar. A legal career so bri.ef and so brilliant fofl-a probably been tli j lot <$. no other man since litigation began. , AT Jacksonville, I1L, the other day, a muscular son of Ham relapsed into a comatose state, and, according to all out­ ward signs, had shuffled off his mortal coil. The undertaker who came to measure the body was frightened out of a year's growth on being seized by the supposed corpse, who held him with a muscular grasp, saying: "Look heah, boss, better quit your foolin' 'round dis chile, or somebody H get hurt. I'se not gone yet, sah!" MR. SIITJSHKB, the largest ntan ever born in Tennessee, died recently at GreenVille, in that State. He was btit nineteen years of age, and had he not been bent by an attack of rheumatism, would have been nine feet high. His boot was 18 inches long, and one of his bauds was about the size of four ordinary ones. He could sit on a chair and pick up anything three feet from him. Hi« head meaf*lred about 14 inches, anfl his -cjiest feet in circumference. t *His •coffin \y&3 8} feet long, 28 inches wide and 2i Met deep. • TH^ report of the Grand Masterof the Independent Order of Odd Feltows to the Grand Lodge, recently in session at Indianapolis, shows the order be^in a flourishing condition, and growing rapid­ ly, especially abroad, lodges being con­ tinually-organized in the German empire, while Switzerland has grown to the dig­ nity of a grand lodge. In Peru, Chili, the Sandwich Islands and Australia good progress has also been made, and a start has beeii made in Great Britain. The number of grand encampments and lodges in this country is 84; subordinate lodges, 5,987; subordinate encamp­ ments, 1,630; lodge members, 488,701; encampment members, 83,445. Cloud Agency. The cattle, after being overweighed, are turned out of the pens by twos, threes, or fours, according to the numbers to which each sub-chief is entitled, the Indian children having meantime been shooting them full of arrows. When they are turned loose, the Tnflfami ride them down and dis­ patch them with innumerable errbws, pistol bullets and rifle balls. The squaws skin and cut up the carcasses, and the Indiana sell the hides to the traders at 98 each. Sometimes the meat is taken home, but as a general thing the car­ casses are left upon the prairie where the animal was shot down, and a great deal of valuable food is allowed to go to waste, for the reason that the Indians dra'sr more rations than they can eat. In consequence of being thus generously fed by the government these Indians have given up he hunt almost entirely. MB. HOBAOE WHITE, late editor-in- chief of the Chicago Tribune, who is now sojourning temporarily in London, is writing a aeries of articles for the Fortnightly Magazine, entitled "An American's Impressions of England." In one of his papers, describing what John Bull drinks, Mr. White says: "Ex­ cessive moisture and a cold climate are more convenient than philosophical as reasons to explain why the Englishman is addicted to sherry, brandy and stout, while the Frenchman, German and Ital­ ian are content witl^ sweetened water, light wines and tliin beer. In America it is thought that drinking seems to be rather perfunctionary than enjoyable-- rather in the way of boisterous polite­ ness and good-fellowship than as a means of assuaging thirst. With an English­ man, drinking seems to be a matter of 'true inwardness.' He drinks because he likes the liquor and its effects. If a man must burn his stomach with alco­ hol, it seems more reasonable that he should do so because he likes it than be­ cause he doesrit" MB. CHARMS H. HAM, one of the edi­ tors of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, has been removed from the office of Apprais­ er of Chicago. It is hard to have to give up a good fat office, the principal duties of which consist in drawihg the salary. It is harder still to be made the butt of innumerable jokes, as Mr. Ham has been. About every editor and re­ porter in the West has took his turn at perpetrating a joke or a pun a^ the ex­ pense of the unlucky Ham, his name fur­ nishing the handle for most of them. One calls him a "cured Ham," another a "dried Ham," another a "pickled Ham," and so on and so forth. The Chicago Tribune bard poetises in this cruel strain on the fruitful theme of Edi­ tor Ham's dcapitation : Mysterious Presidential ways are; For Ham's no longer our Appraiser; Ended bis official days are; Grant carved him with a razor. It lent right, we are assured, ' To carve a Ham before he's cored. Gone to meet Phil. Wadsworth. ILLINOIS NEWS. A WESTERN correspondent relates how Jbe*f is issued to the TmHawa at the Bed NHJWOOD has the finest school house in Macoupin county. THE hog cholera is prevailing to an alarming extent in Jersey county. EAST ST. Louis has lost its Turner Hall by fire. "THE Waukegan Glen Flora Springs must have a $50,000 hotel," say the pro­ prietors. J AS. TAN HORN, a prominent farmer living near Jerseyville, after a long ill­ ness, has passed away. A MAN named Bates, 7 feet 11$ inches high, weighing 478 pounds, is one of the novelties of Peoria. » THE 8-year-old son of Capt. Horn, of, the propeller Metropolis, was drowned at Peoria, the other day, while fishing. THE murderer of Alderman Long, of Champaign, now in jail at that place, claims that the shooting was acci­ dental. IN some localities in the center of Illi­ nois the schools have been forced to sus­ pend on account of the prevalence of fe­ ver and ague. MAJ. MCLAUGHRY, Warden of the Illi­ nois Penitentiary, states that the prison is in a very satisfactory condition, and that it is making money every month. AT Danvers, McLean county, they are raising money among business men by subscription to put up street lamps in the business part of that place. THE Chicago Evening Post and Mail has been purchased by Maj. A. W. Ed­ wards, formerly of Oarlinville, and lat­ terly one of the Wardens of the Illinois Penitentiary. THREE painters were badly, and it is thought fatally, injured at Rockford, a few days ago, by the giving way of a scaffold, which precipitated them to the earth, a distance of 40 feet. THE County Commissioners of Morgan county have ordered that $110,000 be levied upon the taxable property of the county for the year 1875 for county pur­ poses, including interest on county in­ debtedness. CHESTER has a little scandal in which it appears that a Mrs. Mary Able asks divorce from her iusband Philip, be­ came of cruelty, and in which Philip de- clares,that his wife asks separation be- cause she loves a " nigger." CtiiHOUK county has no bank, railroad nor telegraph office, but she has fine native marble, inexhaustible limestone, fire olay. plenty of floe orchards; and over 100 miles of wharfage on the navi­ gable rivers--the Mississippi and TlHanis. CHICAGO is unwilling that Mr. Moody should believe he controls the revival business, and declines, therefore, to de­ fter its conversion until the gentleman can make it convenient to come oh and attend to it. A revival is to be organized at once under the auspices «f the city churches. THE people of Macoupin county, hav­ ing agreed to compromise their Courfc- House debt, are confronted with another legal obstacle. The only, way in which fhey can settle the old debt is by an issue of new bonds, and such an issue would be illegal unless made by the authority of the Legislature. JOHN J. SOOTT, of Edwardsville, was shot and fa,tally injured one day last week, on the Madison county fair grounds, by Wn». B. Griggby, also of Edwardsville. The altercation was the * - .•! outgrowth of-an old grudge between parties. Griggsby was arrested and lodged in jail. Both parties are about 65 years of age. ILLINOIS postal affairs: Office Dis­ continued,--BinOsa, Kankakee county. Postmasters Appointed--Akin,Franklin county, William G. Brown; Holder, McLean county, William Fleming; Piasa, Macoupin county, William O. Denny; Randolph, McLean county, French Hallingshead; Walkersville, Greene county, Ezra Swank. LAST Saturday night a sad affair occur­ red at a farm-house about five miles east of Edwardsville, the circumstances being as follows : A boy twelve years of age, named P^iSior, went to stop at a neighbor's, named Dawson, nobody but the children being at home. During the evening some trouble occurred between young Proctor and Dawson, and Proctor started home, but returned soon and commenced pounding on the front door; Being asked who was there, Proctor made no reply, when young Dawson got his father's rifle and fired through the door, shooting y oung Proctor in the breast, killing him instantly. AN attempt has been made to secure by entry the whole of a fractional sec­ tion of land, consisting of 118 acres, located in the very heart of Chicago. Beuben Middleton, a Washington land- shark, two or three weeks ago applied at the land office, in Springfield, to enter the tract mentioned, and offered, in payment therefor, " Porterfleld scrip." The application was rejected by the Register and Receiver, for the reason that the Porterfleld scrip did not apply to double minimum land,and for the fur­ ther reason that the land had already been appropriated by the United States to the State of Illinois, under the old Canal act. Middleton took an appeal from this action, and all the papers have been forwarded to the General Land 'Office, and will be decided there. BECENT postal changes in this State : Pontoffiees Established--Fox Station, Bandall county, Lemuel Watkins, Post­ master ; Irishtown, Clinton county, Catherine Diffeuer, Postmistress. Dis­ continued--Hawthorn, White county ; Lynchburg, Jefferson oounty; Rook's Creek, Livingston county. Postmasters Appointed--Adair, McDortough county, Andrew J. Miner; Brimfield, Peoria county, John H. Herrington ; Crab Or­ chard, Williamson, county, Hugh M. Parks ; Grand Tower, Jackson county, John Dillinger; Harvel, Montgomery county, G.» J. Ramsey ; Hinsdale, Du Page county, Albert L. Pearsall; Kan­ sas, Edgar county, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Herrick; Lake Forest, Lake county, Gilbert Rossiter; Lakewood, Shelby county, Colmedia P. Roberts ; Lorain, Adams county, J. S. Akins; Mckena, Will county, Ozias McGooney ; St. El­ mo, Fayette county, George W. Fletch er ; Table Rock, Fulton county, John H. Hunter ; Walnut Prairie, Clark county, Robert Williamson. WILLIAM L. GBEENE, formerly Asses­ sor and Sheriff of Greene county, and ex-Mjayor of Carrollton, left his home in the latter place several weeks ago, and wandered over tike' country. He was heard of a few days since at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he lay sick, and his physi­ cian there informed his friends of his situation. They remitted hi™ money, and Mr. Greene returned home last Monday week, in feeble health. He got. up a few mornings since, and proceeded to the kitchen to make a fire, and his wife followed him and told him to re­ turn to bed. He stepped back into the bedroom, took a Colt's navy revolver, held ifc to his head, and. without sayingva word, fired, killing him instantly. About five years since, Mr. Greene, then being in good circumstances, went into a co­ partnership and operated a steam flour- ing-mill at Carrollton down to the pres­ ent time, in which he sunk his entire fortune. This is believed to be the cause of the rash deed. The deceased leaves a wife 'andseveral children. THE death is announced at Vernon, in France, of the inventor of the apparatus eommonly known as the siphon, by which aerated waters are so easily used. He had acquired a large fortun*. AWUGULTtmAL AM) DOMESTIC. Around tfc« Farm. BE sure to test any new variety of seed, on a small scale, before you ven­ ture a full crop. THERE are thirty-eight agricultural col­ leges in the united States, 389 teachers, and 3,917 students. A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen­ tleman says he has been experimenting with Berkshire swine, having kept them with Suffolks, Yorkshires, and Chester whites, and he is thoroughly convinced that he can make more and better pork and hams with them tliau with any of the others on the same food. J BLEACHED BARLEY.--Some _©t the Western barley, discolored by rains, has been bleached by chemical process, giv­ ing it a nice appearance, but spoiling it for brewers' use. Farmers should, be cautious against using this bleached bar­ ley for seed, as the chemical bleaching may very probably have impaired if not destroyed the vitality of the germ.--Jiu- ralNew Yorker. Auj farm machinery should receive two good coats of paint whenever it has been sufficiently exposed to cause the paint to scale otf and lose its glossy ap­ pearance. A few quarts of the prepared article is economical, and will go a long way in protecting machinery during the exposed period: and there is no. doubt that when unprotected bj paint when in use and by shelter when not in use more injury is done than by ordinary wear. ARTICHOKES.--A correspondent of the Country Gentleman recommends grow­ ing artichokes. He grew fiftv-six bush­ els last year from one-thirteenth of an acre, and expects to do much better this year. _ He adds that the same piece of land is in artichokes this year that bore them last, which remark to those familiar with the artichoke seems rather super­ fluous. It would be more in point if he would tell us when he grows anything else on that small piece of ground.-- Sural New Yorker. GET BID or THE OU> Fowm--There is no profit in keeping fowls until they die of old age or disease. It is better every way to make at least an annual clearing off of old and undesirable stock. They may not bring a very high price in market, but selling them will stop the consumption of food needed by more useful fowls, and, in many cases give much needed room in the yards or sleeping places. Many farmers are very careless with their poultry, considering them at best, as a necessary nuisance. We have seen considerable flocks on farms in which the number of cocks was one-fourth of the whole, and where the only selection made in reducing the number was by killing the largest and finest looking of each year's fowls. ASSORTING FRUIT.--The trtfe way to make fruit of any sort last a long time is to cut out all the windfall, the worm- ripe and defective specimens and use these first. We take boughs and other early apples into the cellar, spread the fruit out over paper on the cellar bot­ tom, keeping all the sounder apples by themselves. Then the fruit is picked over every week. Every apple is han­ dled with as much carefulness as one would handle eggs. By tlr.s means we have fruit a long time after our neigh­ bors' fruit is gone. The slightest bruise will cause the fruit to decay. If placed in a cool, airy room they will keep at least a week after being gathered. Pears should not be allowed to ripen fully on the trees, as in such cases the flavor is never so good as it is when the fruit is gathered early and ripened in the frnit room. Some varieties are now ripe enough to gather; but where there is a good supply of any of the en their season may be prolonged by gathering them at intervals of a few days, as they then come in for use successionally. Many kinds of plums are now ripening fast, and those for preserving should be gath­ ered as soon as they are ripe, in order to prevent unnecessary exhaustion of the trees. Any that are to be kept for des­ sert will have to be protected from both wasps and birds. .-"--s ' * - - 'i&ev&Base* - SAVE your suds for the garden and plants, or to harden yards'v»heu iandy. A WASH composed of a teaspoon ful of powdered borax to a pint of rain water is excellent for removing dandruff from tiie hair. To ciiEAN lime out of teapots boil _in the kettle Irish potatoes with the skins on. This softens the lime which is easily washed out. , DELICIOUS ROLLS.--Half a teacup of butter, mixed well with one pound of flour, half teacup of yeast, a little salt, and enough milk to make a good dough. Let it stand in a warm place for about two hours to rise. Then make into rolls and bake in an oven. LOIN OF VEAII.--This is best larded. Havo every joint thoroughly cut, and between each lay a slice of salt pork; roast a fine brown, and so that the upper sides of the pork will be crisp; baste often. Season with pepper;^the pork will make it sufficiently salt. a BIRD'S-NEST PUDDING.--Pare ana core six rich, tart apples. Set them in a pud­ ding dish, filling the cavity of each with blanched raisins, two blanched almonds, and a teaspoouful of sugar. Then pour over it tapioca, prepared by soaking for three hours, one cup in two cups of boil­ ing water, and two cups of stewed ap­ ples, sweetened. Bake until the apples are tender. BEFORE commencing to sweep a room, take out Jjll the chairs and light pieces of furniture, and oover lip those wliich cannot be easily removed. Draw back the \rindow-cnrtains and pin them up as high as you can reach, opening the win­ dows from six to eight inches, both top and bottom, and then close the doors. TTang cotton cloths, kept for the purpose, over the pictures and mirrors. Now the room is prepared for sweeping, and damp tea leaves should be sprinkled all over the carpet, especially in the corners; if they are not to be had, bits of b^ftwn paper, wet with water, can be substi­ tuted. But one or the other should be employed to keep down the dust. Sweep all carpets the way of the pile, i. e., ac­ cording as their breadths ate sewed, and not across them. If the fireplace is in use all the ashes should be removed from the grate before the carpet is swept, and, while the dust settles, the grate and hearth can be cleaned. Then fasten a soft cloth over a long-handled hair broom, and sweep the cornices and curtain fixtures. Before returning the chairs and small articles to the room dust them thoroughly with a painter's brush, Carved wood-work can be cleaned with a short hair fnrniture brush, and china or­ naments With a Soft cloth, but u feutucif duster is ^ the best adapted to eWning raised china and gildod work, Pin.no keys can be dusted with a pieoe of old soft silk, kept for the purpose A BEWITCHED BOY. Frightful Plague in Fiji. Further information from Fiji conveys still darker accounts of the plague which has recently passed over the new colony. A resident of long standing, writing to a Victorian contemporary, says: " The death rate is not yet made up, but the probability is that 40,000 Fijians died during the four months' plague. The native population of Fiji is now about one-third only of what it was when I lauded here twenty-five years ago." The accouTits given of the magnitude of the disaster are less harrowing than those of the sufferings of the victims, "Very few died of the measles, the majority dying of subsequent disease in the form of dysentery, congestion of the lungs, etc. Want of nourishment or starvation carried off thousands." We are told that "all work was suspended for two months. You could pass through whole towns without meeting any one in the streets, which were soon completely cov­ ered with grass. Enteruig a house you would find men, women and children, all lying down indiscriminately, some just attacked, some still in agony, and others dying. SOme who were strong enough attempted suicide, and not always unsuc­ cessfully. " We are further told that " as the scourge became more permanent four or five were buried together in one grave, and generally without religious service. In some cases the dead were buried under the earthen floors of the houses, in others jnst outside the house. The burials were hurried, and the prob­ ability is that some were buried alive. In many instances the husband, wife and children, all died. In one village all the women died, andih another all the men," It is interesting to read of the different mental effects produced by the torture of disease. It is not surprising to find that " some made fruitless appeals to their ancient god. Some inland tribes, who had only recently embraced Christianity, considered that the disease was conveyed by their religious teachers, and they dis­ missed them and then abandoned their new religion. Among these some were for killing the teacher's wife and child, whose husband and father had died of the plague, to stop infection." But while some in their distress fell back their former superstitions, the greater number are said to have borne their eala- mity with fortitude, and to have Bunered ancl died under the influence of Christi­ anity.--Sidney {Australia) Herald* WMdnlil PerfonMBcen of Henry IMener--Feate that Blral Trained Ac bats--Baperntition in Pnnnaylrania. [Poitrtowrt COP, Heaaio# £M1«.| T You have, no doubt, ere this, heai& , , about the bewitched Diener boy at Boyer- town. The story is the event of the Sc|^ son, and nothing else is talked about wi this Tfigion. For the purpose of getting the facts in the case, we yesterday visiir ed Boyertown and interviewed the laa and his parents. The lad said he was nearly 10 years old, and that his name was Henry Oscar Diener. He is of stoat build, regular features, rosy eheek% ^ clear, intelligent blue eyes, and promia- . en t forehead. ° 'J' He converses with ease, ancl appeared " to have had some little education. His general appearance indicated health, no matter what produces the "spe with which he is afflicted, no bodily ment was noticeable. Here is what father, Adam Diener, and his moth who formerly resided in Beading, had say about the remarkable affair : Last March oue year ago he had thjfc first spell, and, witn the exception ot sevem months last spring, he had one, and sometimes two, every day. Whs'Je the fit is on bis eyes become glassy, foo® contorted, hands cold and skin of a livid H} A Strange Case. years the Institution for the Education o? the Blind, who was totally, and it was sup­ posed, irrecoverably blind. She had been blind from infancy, we believe. Her mind was active--quick to grasp and annalyze such subjects as were pre­ sented in her various studies; all her faculties were keen, with the exception of the one great affliction--sightless eyes. She left the institution in due time, her mind well developed by the course of instruction received witliin its walls, and returned to her home, somewhere in this State, but to us unknown--her parents being well-to-do and respectable people. But now comes the strangest part of this account. On Thursday this young lady, for she is now about twenty years of age, re­ turned to the city--not as a blind girl, but to enter, as a pupil, the State Insti­ tution for Deaf and Dumb. She has lost her sense of hearing and also of speech, but has gained partially the sense of see­ ing. This wonderful transposition has not been the growth of years, but nature has effected it within a comparatively brief period. Here is certainly a strange case, and challenges the investigation of medical and scientific men. Dr. Giiieii, Superintendent of the Institution for Deaf and Duuib, is v.atcliiug the case with great interest, but gives no expression of obiuion, as it was so recently brought under his notice. We hope to publish his diagnosis of the case, or at least his opinions concerning it, in du£ time. Hie sense of sight, we all know, acts strangely in individual cases. There lives in this city a person who can see well enough in daylight, but as evening approaches her sight grows rapidly dim, until by night it is lost entirely. It is said that there is a boy living in Quincy who cannot see at all in the daytime, is blind in fact, but as daylight fades into night, his vision becomes perfect, and he can see plainly in the dark where other persons with good eyes cannot see at all.--Jacksonville (III.) Journal. ConTeMhnn OT Spelling-Revisers. Mr. E. Jones, ov Liverpool, England, won ov the most zelus laborers for a revized orthografy, and won ov the most judishus, writes uuder date ov Aug. 3 : " Wud it not be possibel to get a con- venshun ov spelling reformerz ov aul English-speaking peepel at the Philadel- fia Centennial ? It wud be a glorious thing to du, or even to attempt, so az to hav an interchanje ov ideas. ' This is certainly a favorabl time, and a grand oportunity. No insuperabl ob- stacl stands in the wa ov caryiug out this propozishun. If • those interested wil muve at once,/it can eazily be dun. Sual we accept this ofer from England ? I, for won, sa yes! P. L. N. E. Jumal ov Education. To the Editor of the Chicago Tribun: ^ DERE SUB: Plese to giv the abov the benefit of yur serculashun. The pro­ posed revision wil be an imens benefit tu al, and has finaly becom possibl. We cannot yet tel just whot the revision shud be in al its detales, but, surely, ther is not wonting sufishent skil and scholarship to efect it Truly yurs, . D. P. LINIWLEY, Offis Rapid Writer, Andover, Mass. Sept. 7, 1875. ^ NOTHING is so disoouragingto a young lawyer just as he waxes eloquent about angels' tears, weeping willows, and tombstones, as to be interrupted by the cold-blooded Justice with, " You're off your nest, bub ; this a case of hog-steal- ing." hue. He will spring over chairs, sit their backs squirrel fashion, suspend himself by his hands to nails in wall, jump out and in windows, and pels form a teat which the most expert showv actor would not dare to undertake, that is, of walking around the room on tho surbase, the width of which is not over one inch. He at times becomes furious, and the family are obliged to keep their distance. He scratches and bites but does not raise an arm to strike. He passes around the floor on all-fours, like a dog or any other four-footed animal. Bus imitates to perfection the mewing of a« cat, the barking of a dog, th e chirping of a bird, the neighing of a horse, and the bleating of a lamb. While the spell is on he frequently breaks crockery ware and upsets the fhrniture, but was never known to sustaiu any injuiy to his person therefrom. The fit, or whatever it may be termed, usually lasts about half an hour, and when it leaves him he awakes as though from a dream, seemingly much refreshed. He can tall all that took place while in that state with a clearness and minuteness most remarkable. Now the family really be-t- lieve that the boy is bewitched, and bass their arguments on the following inci­ dents connected with the affair: Tlie first day lie* had a spell it was brought about, they say, through his falling oat with an old woman of 70, residing with her daughter in Engleville, about one mile distant. This woman is said to be a sort of sorceress, and from some cause not explained she took a deep dislike to the boy. He passed her house daily on his way to school, and upon one occa­ sion, when he refused to accept a piecs of bread from her hands, she went over a long rigmarole of incantations, and re­ marked that the devil would take pos­ session of Ms body for a certain time every day of his life. Last April the old hag visited Chester oounty, and re­ mained away until about two weeks ago. Most remarkable to state, the boy had no spells while she was gone, but on tits very day of her return they returned also. -The woman on ihat^day seen by the neighbors in front of the boy's residence making peculiar motions with her arms, and drawing circles in the sand. Last Thursday week Mr. Diener .took his son to Reading to a witch doo- tor, on Neversink street, who now has his case in hand. No medicine was pre­ scribed, the ifiodus operandi of the treat­ ment beiug purely of the black art kind, and the family are forbidden to divulge the nature of the cabalistic signs aud incantations they are obliged to perform* Hundreds visit the boy daily, and the story we have related here is the one re­ peated by the party to all those wh^ oallV' Had Been Around. At the City Hall market _ while a lady was purchasing a'whitef a man about fifty years old, and a stranger to her, approached and re­ marked : *' Missus, I have traveled over Europe Asia, Africa and the Holy Land. I have viewed the pyramids, sailed on the Nile, and fished in the Tiber. Permit me to offer you a word of advice: Don't cook that fish with the scales on." " I didn't mean to, sir," she indignant­ ly replied. "Very well, Missus, I have crossed the Atlantic fourteen times; ascended the Andes; sailed up the Missouri and down the Mississippi, and tramped across the Great Sahara Desert. Let nas say one word more: Cut the head off be­ fore you cook it 1" " Do you think Fm a heathen!" she retorted. " I guess I know how to cook a fish!'~ u'l. : 5 r You may, madam--you majy. I have \ lot Uncle Sam, drawn a pension, kept soldiered for Queen Victoria, t for- postoffice, learned to fiddle, and wa never sued in my life. I beg you pardon, madam, but let me advise yo* not to eat the bones of that fish. Some.. folks eat bones and all, but they sooner* or later come to some disreputable end!** " I'll thank you to mind your own business!" she said, as she picked np the fish. "I have traveled over the smooth, prairies," he replied, with the greatest politeness, " climbed the Rocky Mount­ ains, killed Indians, fought grizzlier suffered and starved and perished, and I leave you with the kindest and most earnest wishes for your future welfare. >x • H "1 m • ; • l ; '«> . ;H ' : ;> And he went away,--Detroit Pres*. ln^r THIS good little boy was sitting on the front steps whittling up his sister's em­ broidery frames and muttering to him­ self, "This ain't no good world to live in unless a feller is his father's and moth­ er's only orphan boy. What makes m* git so mad is to have my sister go and take all my ripe peaches to give to that big loafer of a sweetheart of hers thai comes round here seven nights in a week _ to git a square meal, and makes out as i§ • '****. he wanted to talk politics with the oh! man. I wish they'd marry and go to Texas, I do!" And then he threw rwwi; - remnants of the frames in the street seemed lighter hearted. #r DURWO the past year, 145 new streets were opened in London, and 7,764 new houses built.