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-- f_ &&> *«*44Ji Vi*** . '«H.^ «u i ,.«,? .^.w,,^.*, * i rt *&»,. "" "< • -r ;t ' *' tta#' 93K 3ttf8tIirI! flaindraltt •UTBLTTS, MdHMSBY, ILLINOIS. •6RICULTU KA1< AND DOMESTIC : . "n" ij ' -»*k. *•» •- Hemlocks. #-, ,, 1 knew * forest tranquil and auguct, Down whoee green deeps my atepa ««ti4 often •tray, Whan leisure met my life M dew meeta dual, Pnmd spaoiona chMtnuts verged each winding Way, „ And hickories in wboae dry boughs winds were shrill. And tremulous white-boled birchen. Here, one day, #ta»liing beside the Maroe-held steal of I found a beautiful monastic grove. Of old primeval hemlocks, living still. Bound it the forest rustled, flashed and throve, But here were only silence and much gloom, A* tbough some sorcerer in dead days had wove, With solemn charms, and muttered words of doom, X . A cogent spell, that said to time, " Depart!" And locked it in the oblivion of a tomb. Thick was its floor, where scant ferns dared to start, With Uwny nAAr|l6?t and &B o!& spriHfl ifjr. Limpid as crystal, in its dusky heart. 7 Vaguely enough can language ever sajr f What somber and fantastic dreams, for ata, Held shadowy reyel in my thought that difj How stem similitudes would dimly be Of painted braves that grouped about their king; Or how in crimson firelight I would see Some ghostly war-dance, whoee weak cries took wing Weirdly away beyond the grove's dark brink; Or how I Boomed to watch by that old spririg The timid, phantom deer steal up to drink! ' Around the farm. BBAKM that have made themselves nuisances in wet lands may be killed bj draining off all superfluous moisture. Some varieties of brake will grow only in heavy wet soil, and taking out line water is taking away one of the elements essential to their life and growth. THE number of eggs annually laid by a fowl is estimated at fifty-two, which would weigh about six pounds, and as ft fowl seldom weighs more than three pounds a hen lays annually double her own weight. Seventeen eggs will weigh on the average two and one-fifth pounds. --London Grocer. A FARMER who has profited by experi­ ence writes this sensible paragraph: "In building a new bam I would study to put in all the windows I oould possibly get in, of course not making a green­ house of it, but as many as most folks put into dwelling houses. It is so much better doing the work in a light bam than in a dark one, cattle are more easily taken care of and are more quiet and better contented in a light place **»»» in a dark one." A SINOIA grain of barley was planted by an agriculturist in the Isle of Man, in 1872, and the same year produced three hundred grains. These were sown, and the second year's produce was about half a pint. These were again sown, and the third year's produce was fourteen pounds, which being again sown, have realized this year about seven bushels, covering a space of on© hundred .yards by five. Thus there has been pro­ duced in four years seven bushels of bar­ ley from a single grain. THE beet material for hot beds is horse manure well turned and mixed with about one-third its bulk of cak leaves. Another excellent mixture is the above with cotton waste, one-half waste snd leaves^ the other half manure. The middle of March is the proper time to start the bed in northern States, and a mild day should be selected for the work. Dig a pit about 3 feet deep in front, 8 inches deeper at the back, and 6 feet wide. This affords an opportunity for adding linings if it be deemed necessary, when the heat in the bed de­ creases. EVEBY human being who eats bread or wears clothes, has a direct interest in the results of the tillage of the soil;, and in farm economy in general. Hunger and nakedness are wants of the most ur­ gent character. The Creator of all tilings has placed these wants alike in every being. All are equally dependent on successfid agriculture for the means of happiness. Let the soil become per­ manently exhausted ; or far less, let a famine prevail over the land but a single year, h id tho heart shrinks from contem­ plating the acciLos that would inevitably foilow so great a calamity. .A wise,(;j>ra- cleMi poxn-Jation wiH al^ya prppare far the future. K ' ' Mam "77»iu' ITr, Business.--» J olio Johnson, of Geneva, N. Y., came to this country with little more means than to plant him on his American farm. He saw the needs of his soil and com­ menced draining off its surplus water, .and the jeers of his neighbors at his fol­ ly were soon turned to astonishment at • the crops he produced. They saw hi™ reap a wheat crop double the average of the State, raise catfcl® and feed sheep at a profit, while others reported only ln«a, Me proceeded, with the calm confidence of knowledge, to tile drain his 400 acres, at an expense much greater than he •paid for his farm; but for some years, in relief of his old age, he has been able to rent portions of it for $15 per acre. He had faith in hi? business -Live Stock ijuTtuU. Mow MUCH WORK A HORSE CAN DO.-«- At a meeting of the British. Association, at Dublin, Mr. Charles Bianconi, of Caspel, read a letter relative to his ex­ tensive car establishment, after which a gentleman stated that at Pickford's, the great English carrier's, they could not work a horse more than ten miles a day, and wished to hear Mr. Bianconi's opin­ ion on the subject. Mr. B. stated that he found by experience he could better work a horse eight miles a day for six days in the week than six miles a day for seven days. By not working on Sunday he effected a saving of twelve per cent. Mr. Bianconi's opinion on this point is of the highest importance, for he has over 900 horses, working hirty-seven' conveyances, which dailv travel 4,244 miles. It is also the result of forty-four years' experience. A FABMEB writes that he and his neighbors, having some grain to oarrv to market, took the precaution to ac­ curately weigh it before leaving home. The buyer made the loads four or six bushels less tlian they should be. One of the fanners had no evidence of his home weight9 and so could do nothing, -as the grain was already mixed with that in store. The other had a witness of the weight of his grain on the home •oales, and compelled the buyer to pay. for the full amount. There is little doubt that such frauds are often at­ tempted these hard times, when buyera' profits are light. Every neighborhood at least ought to bava platform-aceles, and many farmers could much better afford to buy them than to sell their produoe exclusively at buyers' weight. ..BaaN> • , i FmufiruBK POMSH.--Equai propor­ tions of turpentine, linseed oil and vine­ gar, thoroughly applied and then rubbed with flannel, is an excellent furniture polish. PERFUME FOR GI/JVES.--Roee leaves powdered, half an ounce; essence of cloves and mace, each one drachm; frank­ incense, quarter of an ounce. Mix, put a portion in a drawer with gloves, and they will retain the scent for a consider­ able time. MASHED POTATOES.--Where economy is P. great object, and for those who can­ not digest rich dishes, the following is an admirable mode of mashing potatoes. Boil them till thoroughly done, having added a handful of salt to the water, then dnr them well, and, with two forks placed-neck to back, beat the whole up till no humps are left. If done rapidly, potatoes thus oooked are extremely light and digestible. To MASK WELSH RAREBIT. <~Cut or grate some good cheese, put a bit of butter and some made mustard to it, put it in a frying pan over the fire and stir it smooth; a little milk may be added to it; when it is hot and a smooth paste, spread it on slices of nicely toasted bread and serve hot. STUFFED EGGS.--Boil them hard, cut them in two, remove the yelks and beat them up witii a little grated ham, pars­ ley, pepper and salt to taste; replace this mixture within the whites, cut the under- part a little so as to make them stand well on the dish, and serve them with white sauce. To REMOVE INK FBOX PAPER.--Shake well together one pound of chloride of lime in four quarts of soft water. Then let it stand for twenty-four hours, after whioh strain through a clean cotton cloth and add one teaspoonful of acetic acid to an ounce of chloride of lime water. Apply this to the blot, and the ink will disappear. Absorb the fluid with a blotter. HOMINY MUFFINS.--Take two cups of fine hominy boiled and cold; beat it smooth; stir in three oups of melted butter, two teaspoonfuls of salt and two tablespoonfuls of white sugar; then add three eggs well beaten, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, and one large cup of flour; bake quickly. The Boston Elm. A peaceful-minded Detroiter receive! notice that there was something for him at the eypmnr office. He went to the offioe, paid $5.60 charge* and took a heavy package away. He was not long in discovering that a friend of his in Boston had sent him a piece of the famous old elm which fell the other day. The friend wrote on the shipping tag that the relic would doubtless be highly prized and carefully treasured, but he was mistaken. " Hist that old kn<$ into the alley," roared the angered reapient to his boy, and it was his ted Then the man brought his fist down on the table and exclaimed: " What is the Boston elm to me ?" Eoho answered. " What do 1 care if all the ftlm* Boston ever had fall down?" shouted the man. Echo got off another speech. " I don't care for old trees, or young trees, or elm trees, or basswood bees," shrieked the man, "and the man who sent that infernal chunk by express was never brought up in a Christian way and stands no show of salvation I" An Unfortunate Family. David Turley, who was yesterday exe­ cuted at Sacramento for the murder of William Shaw, came originally from Missouri, His father was a Brigadier General in the Confederate service dur­ ing the rebellion, but met with his death by the accidental discharge of his own pistol; his older brother died; his young­ er brother killed Ms mother by accident, and -was Mrnself afterwards killed by bushwhackers, from which his eldest lister became insane and died. Jolm Turley. amtker brother, murdered in a row in western little more than a year ago. The brother who made the appeal for the condemned man's life was only lately discharged from eighteen months imprisonment in the Colorado jail for shooting a man at Central City. Turley's age was thirty-four.--&m Fran­ cisco Chronicle. Peculiar Art Botes. A nioe thing in oil for your dining- room--a box of sardines. A good place to study marines--Ports­ mouth. A panel picture--when you are sum­ moned on a jury. A flower pieoe--"the miller and his men." The art club--a maul-stick. A good warm coloring--the brown on a breakfast roll. _ A good figure pieoe--the multiplica­ tion table. A study oi heads--phrenology. A good drawing--fifty thousand dol­ lars'in a lottery. High colors--the clouds and sky.-- Hartford Timet. Happy Pigs. _ Reynolds* Newspaper, a London pub­ lication, declares that the queen's nogs are better cared for than many of her subjects. " Then we came to the pig­ gery," says an article descriptive of her farm. " Several of the hogs were so fat that they could no longer open their eyes, yet they seemed to have no diffi­ culty in moving about. We saw sacks apparently stuffed with hay and sewed up lying about on the straw, and on in­ quiry learned that they were pillows, one for each pig, for them to rest their heads upon when asleep." IN the billiard saloon he found, that his adversary was too much for him. He said : " Let us try a new thing; let us blindfold each one eye, and I bet I will beat." The other man consented, for he was confident of his skili, but he lost With the bandage his opponent played as well as without, for he was* blind in one eye. ILLINOIS ITEMS. GROUND has been broken lor the tion of a $100,000 court-house and post- office building at Danville. MONARCH KTJim, a horse owned by Gates Strnwn, of von ^ Seoond purse in the 2:80 trot at New Or­ leans a few days ago. t JACOB Kraut, on© of the Chicago*par- tiee charged with defrauding the reve­ nue, has compromised with Hie govern­ ment prosecuting officers. The terms are that he is to plead guilty to the in­ dictment against him, and pay a fine of $50,000. There will also be a nominal imprisonment. CAssfus M. NICHOM, of Bloomington, a well-known sport, has sued J>rs. Little tod Fisher, of Leroy, for malpractice, alleging thnt through their negligence he was compelled, some months ago, to have a hand amputated into which a splinter had been driven, whioh they failed to find until mortification de­ stroyed the hand. LESTER SMITH, a rough tramp, was killed at Peoria, one night last week* by John Ward, night watcnmftn of a distil­ lery. Smith, with several comrades, came into the yard of the distillery to drink some of the slop beer, when they were ordered off by Ward. Smith made a motion as if to draw a weapon, when Ward fired, killing him instantly. THE Republican Central Committee of Chicago has determined to call a conven­ tion to nominate candidates for city offi­ cers on Thursday, April 6. By the re­ cent re-districting of the city two Alder­ men are to be elected from each of the eighteen wards. Mayor Colvin Alnimg that, according to the special act of 1872, he is entitled to serve until 1877. GIVE US Illinois for plucky school- marms. Last week a Miss Li^oretia Cundiffj who teaches in the Morrison school house, near Maroa, walked ®ine miles and back to and from a school ex­ hibition, and then shook the mud off her No. 2's, and sighed because the road wasn't longer. History doesn't record that her b»»u was With her, either. JOHN ATKINSON, of Clinton, married, and father of Iwo children, has eloped with an antiquated grass-widow em­ ployed as a servant at the Magil! House, taking with Mm $200 in funds belong­ ing to the Odd Fellows' Lodge, of whioh he was Treasurer, and leaving numerous bpls unpaid. It is said he has defrauded his wife bv forging her name to papers, by which ne obtained money. THE body of Jacob Dambrowich, for­ merly a quarryman in the employ of the Joliet Stone Company, was found in a pool of water not much over a foot deep, near the C. A. and St. L. railroad cross­ ing in Joliet, one morning last week. Hie verdict of the coroner's jury was that the deceased fell into the water while intoxicated and was drowned. He leaves a family in very destitute circum­ stances. IN the Maoon county murder case, on trial in the Sangamon Circuit Court, the jury came into court one day last week and reported that, after thirty-six hours' consideration of the case, they were un­ able to agree upon a verdict, and were discharged. The evidence was very con­ flicting, and the failure to agree upon a verdict is, therefore, not nurjuaung. The bail of the aooused was then nxed at $1,000 each, and this the. Adamses said they can easily give. ONX of the most shocking murders ever committed in Quincy ooourred last Tuesday morning, the victim being a woman of doubtful character, named Anna Ferris. She was found in her room by her step-mother, lying upon the bed, her he?d having been beaten in a most brutal manner and her skull fractured in several places. A hammer oovered with blood was also upon the beds with which the crime was doubtless committed. A well-known young man of that city, named Geo. Adams, who is of a respect­ able family, li» been lodged in jail, charged with the murder. RECENT postal changes in State: Office Established--Buell TTill, Hamil­ ton county, Granville Hemgate, post­ master. Discmitinued--Hale Bidge, Schuyler county. Postmasters Ap­ pointed--Alvin, Vermillion county, J. B. Peters; Eberle, Effingham county, Joseph Wilson; Emma, White county, Theodore, Stock; Kemper, Jersey county, J. N. IlatvLioOn; Cakdale, Washing­ ton county, J. R. Moiiiaon; EicMand, Sangamon county, T. F. Aidcteon; Skelton, JLogan countys Thomas J. Cor win; Wayne City, Wayne county, Har­ mon Grfiatiiouse; Wheeling, Cook oounty, Jacob Himsinger; Winfield, DuPage oounty, Bernard Welter. A RECENT dispatch from Springfield, reports a new phase of the Maooupin Oounty Court-house bond question. The special says : "It was reported a few days ago that the Newark Savings Insti­ tute had obtained judgment in the United States Court here, vs. Panliorstet al., for $585. The suit was against the super­ visors of the county for the year 1873, who refused to levy a tax to pay the in­ terest on the court-house bonds for that yew , and was based on the theory that they were personally liable for the dam­ ages resulting from their negle«fc to per­ form their official duty. InTspite of the fact that the bondholders got the judg­ ment, they propose to appeal to the United States Supreme Court, on the ground that the supervisor^ are person­ ally liable for nearly $27,000 daas«g«s." A PEORIA dispatch of a recent date has the following item: "Another nairrow-guage railroad project between this city and Burlington, la., is broached on 'Change here. Articles of incorpora­ tion for the Peoria and Burlington Company were filed in the Recorder's office her© early this week, and now Mr. George Snyder, Secretary of what is known as the Burlington, Monmouth and Illinois River railroad, is canvass­ ing our business men in the interests of this company, whioh, in case it is built, will operate through almost *h«=> mana country as the Peoria and Burlington. It is morally certain that but one of these routes can be built, and it but little difference to Peona which one it is. Either one will be of great bene­ fit to her trade and oommerce Mr. Snyder did not accomplish much in the way of cash promises, but he received any quantity of encouragement far his enterprise.'1 THE following is a list of patents re­ cently issued to citizens of tnis State: treadles, M. DeBay Spaulding, Chica­ go; locomotive fire boxes, G. W. Til- ton, Chicago; draw-bridge gales, Jar cob Schwennesen, Chicago; friction <intdM% J. Turner, Chicago; soda casks, Ira N. Herrick, Chicago; gig- saddles, Andrew Ortmayer, Chicago; treadles, StOIman W. Robinson, Cham­ paign; wind-wheels, James B. Lucas, Pellsvilie; £rain doors for cars, Ze- bina M, Hibbard, Frmnort; millstone picks, J. B. Endriss, Monmouth; can openers, John S. Dunlap, Peoria; heating stoves, Chauncey H. Castle,' Quinoy; window frames, J. Skinner, Mason City; hog traps, David M. Crowder, Bethany; spring bed bot­ toms, J. E. Lord, Quincy; aWlr und heel supports for boots and shoes, tfas. S. Nelson, Hillsborough; road scrapers, R. D. Louden, Wesley; toy pistols, Samuel B. Goedale and D. C. Good ale, Du Quoin; grain cleaners, E, W. Johnson, Foreston; combined whip-sockets and rein-holders, J. Q. A, Woodworth and W. H. Bamron, Ma­ comb; treadles, Stillman W. Robinson, Champaign. Hooding the C&larado Desfert. The project for transforming the Col­ orado desert of Southern California into a lake by turning into it the waters of the Rio Colorado is again agitated in California. What is known as the desert is 9. district about 100 miles wide, lying between the river and the mountains on the west, and extending into Lower California. Portions of it are from 100 to 120 feet below sea-level, and the theory is that, by shifting of the sand, bars were formed,, cutting off the chan­ nel oonnecting the gulf then covering the region with the ocean, and that, in time, the water covering the desert was carried off by evaporation. The region is rainless, and the midday heat in sum­ mer averages 140 degrees.' Yet, as often as the Colorado overflows and the water finds its way into the desert a short dis­ tance along the bayou known as the New river, luxuri^pt vegetation springs up. The project in fact is not for forming a lake (though one would be formed) for the sake of inducing rainfall, but for a gigantic system of irrgiation by tapping ttie Colorado near Fort Yuma. Years ago the necessary concession was ob­ tained from Mexico, into which the lake formed would probably extend, and charter for the project obtained from the California Legislature. Only the necessary grant from Congress was lack­ ing, and that the A It a California states will again be applied for. It is claimed that the soheme, if carried out, will re­ claim millions of acres of now desert, uninhabitable territory. iMkj It Failed. Col. Pmingan was a Florida planter wealthy and hospitable. Toward the poor he was always kind, and even the shiftless he would not turn coldly away. A. man who had often been the object of boirntj TO named Jake Hartruff. Jake was a squatter in the woods, where he had a IOR cabin and a small clearing. Upon this land he sometimes raised corn, and with Ms gim he captured game. Of the game he ate the flesh, and the skin he traded for whisky. Long before the winter wag over he was sure to be out of corn, in which emergency he would bring his bag the ooltoel for a supply, wh^^jgyalfr faWaMrt. <W upon a timejrute came wiraiiis bag very early in the season -in fact, winter had just set in. "Why, how's this, Jake?" demanded Finnigan. "Seems to me you are rather early in your call for corn." " Well, Colonel, fact is my crop failed this yer season." } 14 Failed! How is that f I thought this had been an uncommonly good season for corn." "Y&as, I s'pose it has, ColoneL But y*jsee I forgot to plant." . Ben Butler. The following is the latest stray told about Gen. Butler: Some gentlemen were hotly discussing a matter which roused the General's ire, and in his anger he made a remaxk grossly offensive to one of the party. Not caring to have a Eersonal quarrel there, Mr. nursed is wrath until he next saw the General. Then he demanded an apology. Quoth Mr. Butler: " I owe you no apology, sir! The remark was not addressed to jou at all. I meant Col,---- i" "jtfut you looked direct;!? at me, and I could not help knowing that you meant me by your look." Uofe at all, sir ! Not at all I ha! ha I I'd like to know how you or any other man can tell where I am looking!" Longevity la England. In England, last year, there died 676 people aged ninety-five years and mere, of whom 486 were women. Of these, eighty-nine bad attained 100 years or more, and it is very remarkable that no less than seventy-nine of this number were females. The oldest of the men in the obituary of the year died in the Wolstanton district, Staffordshire, aged 103; but a woman who died in Hurst Almshouse, Exeter, was 108, and anoth­ er at Newport, in Monmouthshire; had reached the patriarchal age of 112. Of these eighty-nine centenarians, nine were found in London, thirteen in North and South Wales, six in Yorkshire, and six in Horfoik. Hard Workers. Men who use their muscles imagine that men who depend upon their brains are strangers to nard werk. Never was there a greater mistake. Every success­ ful merchant doe® more hard work in the first ten years of his business career than a farmer or blacksmith ever dreamed of. Make up your mind to work early and late if necessary to thoroughly master the detail of the busi­ ness upon which you propose to enter. The habit of persistent, rapid work once formed, you have gained a momentum that will cany you successfully through many a pinch in business where a less persistent worker would find it vastly easier to lie down and fail. A TOCNO man in Great BarrSsgton Mass., couldn't get up oourage euougn to " pop the question " to hi® girl, and' so sent his offer by mail. He gat a postal-card in reply, briefly saying: "Fetch on the preacher." DB. LINDEBMAN, Director of the Unit­ ed States Mint, states that the produc­ tion of gold and silver after the 1st of May will be $7,000,000 per month. Tke Comforts of Wool to British Law yen. John Paul, writing from London to the New York Tribune, thus discourses of the " Woolsack :" Strange how they keep on doing a thing beoaufee someone, years ago, did it once! "Before cushions were invented the lord chancellor sat on a ••'•"e '»* wooL go sae M#iu tuiau- cellor of to-day must still sit on a wool­ sack. Where's the sense of it ? If he sat on a file of Tribunes now he might learn something I All very well to ex­ plain the woolsaok by the yarn about wool being once the great staple of the kingdom, and this bag being intended to perpetually remind the lord chan­ cellor tnat he site there pledged to pro­ tect the interests of the people. Had they wished to .remind him of anything they'd not have given him so soft a seat of it--a few pins would have been put in. Cheese was a staple of the country quite as much as wool. " Why did they not set his lordship up in state on a fine Stil­ ton ? In such a case he wouldn't have liad to go out to lunch. No, no ; I tell yon that our English friends believe in wool; they find that two fold virtue in a wool sack which by Falst&fTs fancy lay in a good sherris sack--or possibly he meant wool all the while! To their thinking wool carries with it wisdom as well as warmth. And they insist on applying it to one end or the other of all tl«ei.r legal luminaries, wnile the lord chancellor, who is looked to for opinions 01 weight, involving the vastest interests, must have it at both. For barons of law and bar­ risters only, it is enough to a layer on the head as a wig. An Unloving' Mother. Chinese women are not remarkable for their love of children, and think it quite proper that blind babies should be killed, making no more fuss about it than if the victim were a kitten. Sever­ al years since a little girl was sick with small-pox, and when she got well it was found that her eye-sight was gone. This was hard, but even her own mother said she ought to be killed; that as she was blind she could not be taught to 000k, sew and keep a house in order, so that when she grew up no man would marry her, and her parents would have to sup­ port her always. Day by day the hard­ hearted woman talked in this manner to her husband until he consented to get rid of the child. He called the little thing to him one day, and taking her by the hand, ied her toward a pine thicket on a hill at some distance from her home. Incredible as it may seem, he intended to leave her in this thicket to be eaten by wolves or die of starvation. As they walked along, however, he began to think bow cruel it was to treat his child thus, and at last he turned back home and told the mother that he had rather work harder and keep the little one. She did not like it much but had to submit The girl is now fifteen, and has learned to do so many tilings there will be no trouble in getting her a husband, and the par­ ents •will not, have to work for her much longer. ' Poisoned Arrows of the Papuans. The warlike habits of the Papuans and their implements of warfare are de­ scribed in a private letter recently ad­ dressed to l>r. Hooker. The writer sgkye tbat no nan leaves his dwelling, for his bit of cultivation even, without his powerful bamboo bow and a few deadly poisoned arrows. These poisoned ar­ rows are only a few among a great num­ ber not poisoned, the former being dis­ tinguished by elaborate carving and painting, probably to prevent accident among themselves. They are each pointed and barbed with human bone brought to almost needle-like sharpness, most carefully and neatly finished; they are poisoned by plunging in a human corpse for several days. Poor Commo­ dore Goodenough and his men suffered from arrows so poisoned. It is a sort of blood poisoning that, like other kinds of inoculation, does not develop itself for several days, the slightest scratch being sufficient to render almost inevitable a horrible death. The symptoms are ac­ companied by violent spasms like teta­ nus, with consciousness until the last.-- Nature. . What Is the Hnn f Prof. Budolph, in a lengthy paper on the RUB. RFTVA; A molten or white hot 856,000 miles in •diameter, equal­ ing in bulk 1,200,000 worlds like our own, having a surrounding ocean of gas oil fire 50,000 miles deep, tongues of flame darting upward more than 50,000 miles, volcanic forces that hurl into the solar atmosphere luminous to the height of 160,000 miles; drawing to itself ail the worlds belonging to our family of plan­ ets, and holding them all in their proper places; attracting with such superior force the millions of solid -and stray masses that are wandering in the fathom­ less abyss that they rush helplessly toward him and fall into his fiery embrace. A Woman's Swimming Exploit. Mrs. Jessnp, of Hilclreth's Crossing, got adrift in the Eel river in a small boat, and as there were no oars and she was getting far out in the stream, she took the rope attached to the bow of the boat in her mouth slid or jumped into the river, swam ash©re9 going partially with the current, and making a trip of forty yards or so, reached some willows Or bushes first and then pulled through to towtjsl the craft ail the time and tied it safely, and then walked back to the house dripping wet. -̂ -Mendocino Oai. ) Democrat. THE color of soldier's uniform is shown to be not so much a matter of taste as of vital importance. Experi­ ence proves that men are hit in battle according to the color of their dress. Red is the most fatal; the least fatal, Austrian gray. The proportions are : Red, twelve; rifle green, seven j brown, six ; Austrian bluish gray, five. - QUEEN. VIOTOIPA. has intimated to Lord Dnfferin her desire to contribute to the projected improvement of Quebec by a gift of £10,000 for the construction of one of the proposed city gates, which is to be named " Kent'5 gate. E. L. KENTON, of Hartford, who re­ cently killed himself on aaobunt ©f financial troubles, is found to have had $50,000 assets over liabilities, after all. TANTRIFID MEAT.--A handful of brown sugar, thrown upon the hot oven bottom, while the meat is cooking, will relieve it of any bad odor caused by taint. *i*r- r-; j*.' IT tM' •*r,Uk- iwiroj m *14 ii|«fcH i ti.%' >••'« J«t : m .1 * •if##! All Sorts A NORWEGIAN expedition to the Arctic seas will start early this spring. OCT of 150,000 women in China not more than a few thousands can read or write. , CHICAGO bankrupts are much annoyed by letters from people who have fast trotters for sale. THE wife of Don Carlos has retained to Pau--the same as the wives of worth­ less hns bands usual! do.-- Worcester Press. . Gnxsoow claims to be tho seoond city in the British Isles. It luas a population of 547,598, against the 473,405 of Liver­ pool. THE Patent Offioe at Washington dur­ ing its business hours last year granted patents at the rate of one every twelve minutes. MR. SETH GREEN protests against the wholesale slaughter of the sea-lions in San Francisco bay. He says the whole of them do not destroy as many fish as one Qjiinaman. " CAPTAIN JIM," leader of the gang of river pirates who robbsd the vessels off Communipaw, N. J., was arrested in New York last week. His history is one of crime and violence. AN English boy, nine years old, the son of an Englisn miner, lulled his little brother by an accidental ehor. He then hid the body under a stairway, and tried to set fire to the house. THEY have got a boy in Binghamton five years old, who is physically perfect,, healthy, talks distinctly, is very active, and weighs only nine pounds. He is twenty-three inches high. EXCLUSIVE of the metropolis, there are no fewer than 972,836 owners of land in England and Wales, of whom. ' v* 269,547 are owners of upward of an acre, the others holding less an acre. THE waters of the New York harbor have been nightly visited lately by ama­ teur river pirates. The attacking force numbers twelve men, fully armed and sufficiently bloodthirsty to satisfy all the requirements of a dime novel. A wooD-oHomm in San Joee, CaL, found in the heart of a redwood tree, ten feet in diameter, twelve perfect acorns. The explanation is that the wind deposited the acorns three oentu- ries ago when the tree was young and tender. A ROMANTIC young girl of Christian oounty, Ky., clipped off her brown curls, dressed in boy s clothes, and clandes­ tinely started for the Blaok Hills on foot. On the first night out that .Indiana tor­ nado found her on a mud road and rolled her around for a quarter of a »il«- She returned home. THE longevity of English physicians is illustrated by the fact that the London Medical Times mid Gazette has selected at random from the annual necrology :ijust one dozen whose united ages amounted to 1,075 years, giving an aver­ age of eighty-nine years and seven months to each." A YOUNG man in London having trod on a dog's toe, was bitten so severely that he died five days afterward. Hie relations summoned the proprietor of the animal before a magistrate, who ren­ dered the remarkable decision that, there beini? no evidence that. dog was ferooious before being trod upon, he must dismiss the plaint. Two BROTHERS, named Andrew and William Boucher, were drowned while intoxicated, at Batavia, N. Y. It is not known how the accident occurred, but it is thought that they chased Andrew's hat, which was found some distance from the bodies, on the frail ice cover­ ing the creek, and, breaking through, were too greatly chilled to assist them­ selves. "I* frequently happens," wrote a traveler in the wilds of BuenoB Ayres, " that the owner of a thousand oxen and horses, and five times sis many sheep, has not a bed in his house, and is too lazy to take the wool from the sheep's back to spread on the ground beneath him. The skull of an ox serves bim for a seat, and the horn for a cup, and is all his household furniture." IT should not be sup«osod that there- are no Jews who would not like to return to the Holy Land. There is a Jewish society in Russia whose members con­ tribute one rouble each to a common fund. At stated periods fortunate mem­ bers are chosen by lot and sent to Pales- line, where, out of this fund, they are supported for the rest of their lives, and permitted to pass their lives in medita­ tion. The sooiety is called "The In­ quirers after the Welfare of Zion." THE Kentucky Legislature is to be asked to abolish lotteries, and petitions have already been presented for signa­ tures in the churches of Louisville. The petitions set forth that the lotteries ace " a blur upon the name of the city, a stain upon the fair name and fame of oar honored Commonwealth, a snare for the unthinking and tuiwaay, a system of gambling clothed in the garb of charity, and, 111 too many instances, supported and fostered by a show of respectability, thus leading into its remorseless tmW in@& and women of all classes and grades of society." THE following verses, it is said, ai# issued on leaflets for distribution to drivers and others having the care of horses, and on cards for tmr»anng up in stables, by the English Sooiety for the Prevention of Oruolty to Anin»1«; Going up bill, whip m* not; Conning down hill, harpy me not J On level ground, spare me not; Irflotie in stable, forget me not. Of h»y And corn, rob me not; Of clean water, stint me not; With sponge and water, neglect me toot; Of eon, dry bed, deprive me not. Tired or hot. wash me not; H sick or old, chill me not; With bit or reins, oh, jerk me not ttfcd when you are anj{ry, atrilro ntt not; - • _ ., College Wealth. Columbia College is worth $4,413,652, and owns unproductive real estate worth $747,350 more; Cornell lias $1,153,999, with $700,000 unproductive real estate ; Hamilton has $300,000 worth of product­ ive funds, anil $320s000 unproductive; Syracuse, $250,000 productive and $300,- 000 unproductive ; Rochester, $170,000 productive and $335,000 unproductive ; Madison College is worth $344,396; Union College, $465,000; and Yasser owns real estate worth $647,847, bat bM enly $281*000 of pcodaotive fmta, '*F * I m rf*!* &M. -v