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SIw JjfaJitnrg flaintelfr. J. YA^fLTKEt Vrmuyiz*. MoHENRT, ILLINOIS. A WRL€ULTURA.L AS D DOMESTIC, TH« Old Brown Hoom, --psssspp: ®he trembling shadows of green ItiTet :'w Upon the old roof lay With isoisGiess fiulierinm throughout The loug, long Rummer day. The warm, glad sunshin* softly citfet »Down through their cooling shade. And shining arrows, tipppd wita gold, * Among the shadows laid, • itnd gently waved the elm tree o%r, ^ And light the winds came dowa , ' . .Upon the old house nestling then®-- + »<jTS The dear old house of brown, The woodbine clambered tenderly Above trie lowly «toor, * Trained by Boft hands, whose gentle touch Will guide the vineTno more; A honeysuckle, on whose bloom, 'Mid fragrance, slept the dew, And humming bird* light hoverai Mttd Where roses thickly grew; Beneath the low green mosBy eavea The swallow's darting wings Went in and out, with twinklings bright, Through many balmy spring*. Beside the narrow grassy walk The flowers, with hearts of gold, Were nodding, while gay peomee Their crimson leaves unrolled; And hollyhO' k«, rets, pinK and white, . .• Along the borders grew, , * While violets 'mid bright greea gram i !. Upturned their eym ef blue; " -But still the graceful elm tree WM The glory and the crown Off the old house beneath tbe That dear old house of brown.. Around the Farm. ONIOKS given as food to horses in the first stages of the epizootic are said to be very beneficial. They cause the ani­ mal to cough and sneeze and discharge freely from the mouth. Try them. A GORRERPONDKNT of the Neiv Eng­ land Farmer says that he has seen the applieation of a Liberal dressing of muck give that part of the field to which it is applied a decided appearance of fertility over the rest of it, thirty years after the applieation was made. THB following gives the contents of circular cisterns for each foot in depth: JHavirter. Barrels. Five feet 4.66 Six feet 7.7i Seven feet 9.13 Eight feet 11.93 Uinc fe*t ....15.10 Ten feet....... ...; 18.65 ONE feature of fruit growing by the farmers, who are mainly the fruit grow­ ers, is the neglect to thin out the crop when the frnit is about half grown. The refuse taken from the tree at that time, being one or two of the smallest from a cluster, and all the small and knotty ones on the weak twigs, etc., are profitable food for all classes of stock. To PREVENT an ox or steer from going ahead of his yoke-mate when attached to a sled or cart, put a chain around his end of the yoke and fasten it to the pole or tongue of the sled or cart, just back •of his fore leg, allowing liim to come up even with his mate. He will soon give up the habit as a bad job.--R. W. in Main Farmer. HUNGARIAN GRASS. --The Lancaster {Pa.) farmers lately discussed the merits and demerits of this grass. The major­ ity of the speakers believed it an ex­ haustive crop. Several had found that wheat did not do well on land sown to Hungarian the previous year. It was recommended to cut it before the seed had ripened, and even then to feed it sparingly to horses. A HIGHLY respectable and' wealthy farmer in Connecticut gives the follow­ ing as his experience : When I first came here to settle, about forty yea^ ago, I told my wife I wanted to be rich. She said she didn't want to be rich--all she wanted was enough to make her comfort­ able. I went to work and cleared up my land, I've worked hard ever since and got rich--as I wanted to be. Most of my children have settled about me, and they have all got farms, but my wife ain't comfortable yet. A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Home recommends the following mode of pro­ tecting fruit trees from mice: Take common roofing tin 11x20 inches, have the tinner cut it into two equal parts, leaving 10x14 inches, and rolling it lengthwise, which leaves it ten inches high. If made smaller they will not be large enough to protect the trees until the latter are out of danger. It is not essential to have them close to the trees, but they should be close to the ground, so that the mice cannot get under them. A CORRESPONDENT of the London Ag­ ricultural Gazette traced the change of opinion with regard to hay in his own neighborhood. "Years ago the prac­ tice here was almost invariably to feed the milking _ cow on hay alone ; then some few dairymen began to give those cows that had lately calved two or three pounds of linseed cake per day; then some of the poor grass land on the dairy farms would be broken up, and some mangels were grown. Now the rule is often to cut up partly straw and partly hay, and mix with pulped mangels, and give each cow four or five pounds of cake or meal, or both." AN Iowa correspondent says: Tell your friends who plant broom-corn that no one ever had prime brush by keeping it down before cutting, as I have twice seen recommended lately, as the louse that infests this plant turns red, when it dies, and colors the brush. If it hangs down, there is no strangling or sprawl­ ing brush; and if it is cleaned of seed when it should be, just after blossoming, the value of the seed will not equal tlie difference in the value of the brush if allowed to ripen before cutting. The best broom-corn is secured by curing partly or Wholly in the shade. Great care should be used to avoid heating, to which broom-corn is very liable. It is folly to break down broom-corn to make its crooked ways straight, as aiiy fool knows that if he bieaks it down it dies all above the break, and for one crooked head he will get a dozen little sprawling, worthless ones coming out of the stalk just above each leg. About tbe Houae. WAX flowers, if left out in the driz­ zling rain, will be thoroughly cleaned in a short time. A SIMPLE remedy for biting the nails is quassia. Wet the fingers and allow them to dry; if tasted it will be a bitter reminder. I gave it a trial and it was effectual. INDIAN BUSK.--Two light cups of In­ dian meal, one cup of flour, one tea­ spoonful of aajeratus, enough sour or * u&_. buttermilk to dissolve, one cup of sweet milk; stir in three-fourths of a cap of molasses. IP the inside of your tea-pot is black from long use, nil it with water, throw in a small piece of bard soap, get on the stove and let it boil from half an hour to an hour. It will clean as bright as anew dollar, and costs no work. BREAD BAT.TIH,--Break the bread in small pieces, and moisten with milk, or a little warm water, season with sr.lt, pepper and nutmeg, adding a little fine sage or parselv and a small piece of but­ ter, mix and form into small cakes or balls; roast with beef or chicken, or fry after meat in a skillet. PUMPKIN SHORT CASE.--One cup of stewed and strained pumpkin or squash, one cup " C " oatmeal porridge, and one cup water. Beat thcr.c up together, and then add three cups fine Graham flour. Mix thoroughly, spread half an inch thick on a baking tin, and bake half an hour in a good oven. Cover for ten min­ utes, and serve warm or cold. HOT SI<AW.--Butter the size of an egg, half a cup of milk, yellow of two eggs, teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth of a tea- spoonful of pepper, small level teaspoon­ ful of dry mustard and three tablespoon- fuls of vinegar. Put the butter into the skillet with the fine cut cabbage and the other ingredients, and stir all the time until the cabbage heats well through. To MEND CHINAWARE.--Take a very thick solution of gum arabie and star into it plaster of Paris until the mixture is of proper consistency. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges of the chinaware and stick them together. In a few days it will be impossible to break the article in the same.plB.ce. The white­ ness of the cement renders it doubly val­ uable. BREAKFAST MUFFINS.--This recipe will be valued by housekeepers as a dainty substitute for bread at breakfast or tea : Two eggs well beaten with a cupful of sugar and a lump of butter the size of an egg ; to this add one pint of milk with a teaspoonful of soda, one qiiart of flour, and two tablespoonfuls of cream tartar ; bake in muffin-rings on top of the range, or in gem-pans in a quick oven. Mark Twain's Report of an Accident. Mark Twain recently tried his hand writing up a distressing accident for a Boston local paper, and this is how he did it: Last .evening about 6 o'clock, as Mr. William Schuyler, an old and respected citizen of South Park, was leaving his residence to go down town, as has been his usual custom for many years, with the exception of only a short interval in the spring of 1S50, during which he was confined to his bed by injuries received in attempting to stop a runaway horse by thoughtlessly throwing up his hands and shouting, which, if he had done so even a single moment sooner, must invevitablv have frightened the animal still more instead of checking its speed, although disastrous enough to himself as it was and was rendered more melancholy and distressing by reason of the presence of his wife's mother, who was there and saw the occurrence, not­ withstanding it is at least likely, though not necessarily so, that she should be re- connoitering in another direction when incidents occur, not being vivacious and on the lookout, as a general thing, but even in the reverse, as her mother is said to have stated, who is no more, but died I in the full hope of a blessed resurrection upward of three years ago, aged eighty- six, being a Christian woman without guile, as it were, in property, in conse- of the fire of 1849, which had destroyed every solitary thing she had in the world. But such is life. Let us all take warn­ ing by this solemn occurrence, and let us endeavor so to conduct ourselves that when we come to die we can do it. Let us place our hands upon our hearts, and say with earnestness and sincerity tlia* from this day forth we will beware of lb-( intoxicating bowl. A Non-Explosive Lamp. _ In Paris, the watchmen in all maga­ zines where inflammable or explosive materials are used or stored employ for the purposes of illumination a light pro­ vided according to the following simple and ingenious method: An oblong vial of the clearest glass is taken, and into it is put a piece of phosphorus about the size of a pea, upon which is pored some olive oil heated to a boiling point, the vial being about one-third full, when it is closed securely with a tight cork. To use it, the cork is removed, the air al­ lowed to enter the vial, and it is then re- recorked. The whole empty space in the bottom by this means becomes lum­ inous and the light obtained is equal to that of a lamp. e As soon as the light grows weak, its power can be increased by opening the vial and allowing a fresh supply of air to enter. In winter it is sometimes necessary to heat the vial be­ tween the hand for a while, in order to increase the fluidity of the oil. Thus prepared the vial may, it is stated, be used for a period of six months. Maxims. Delusion is the devil. The most incorrigible delusion is con­ ceit. A pill in the mouth makes the whole world bitter. Easy roads lead to hard places. . Habit is a dead tyrant's old law. To be poor is to begin to be perfect. God's gifts are not in man's cur­ rency. A blow argues a rough and wretched soul. Genuine modesty is the sense of im­ perfection common to the wise and good, impossible to the fool and vil­ lain. Our pride is of service to all but our­ selves. Virtues and vices go in troops from fear of the enemy. Mingled virtue and vice make a very uncer tain twilight in the human soul. Kindness is not relished plain ; it needs the sweet sauce of flattery. The door-sill of home is the threshold of heaven. The delicacy of ordinary friendship is such it cannot endure a naked or ragged associate. JERRY BLACK chews up a paper of to­ bacco every six hours, and expectorates copiously. A Harrisburg lawyer on»je said to him : «' Take my advice, Judge, and keep away from Africa. If Stanley ever met you there in the dark he might mi take you for one of the sources of the Nile." ILLINOIS ITEMS. THE Springfield woolen millw have a capacity of 800,000 yards of manufac­ tured goods per year, and gives constant employment to upward of 100 hands. SKKKIIT IBYIN, of Cairo, received a telegram a few days ago informing him of the murder of Jonathan Brush, by a man named Daniels, in Pope county. Brush was quite a prominent resident, and well known through* the lower part of the State. His murderer escaped. No further particulars. . IT I® stated at Springfield, by author­ ity, that the authorities at Washington have given Albert Smith a full acquittal on all the indictments pending against Inm at Springfield for whisky frauds, bribery and conspiracy, in return for his late confession, and that they will be dismissed at the next term of court. THE body of Mr. Joseph Berry, who mysteriously disappeared from his home in Pekin, last November, was recovered a few days since on Six-Mile Island, just below Pekin. Several wounds were dis­ covered on the body, but were hardly sufficient to warrant foul play. The jury returned a verdict of death by acci­ dental drowning. A SPECIAL from Joliet says: "At a special meeting of a majority of the Board of Commiseioners, held at the prison yesterday afternoon, the salaries of employes, from Assistant-deputy war­ den down to the last recruit on the wall, were reduced twenty per cent. This is the second reduction tney have suffered within a few months. There are 150 idle convicts in the Penitentiary, who are living on half rations." AT Springfield, laat week, Judge Treat, in the United States court, granted a decree of foreclosure and ordered the sale of the Oilman. Clinton and Spring­ field railroad, at ihe suit of Morton, Bliss & Co., Thomas A. Scott, and Hugh 0. Jewett, trustees of the stockholders. The sale will be made at the door of the United States court room in Springfield, on the 8th day of June. The amount involved is about $2,800,000. Thirty days is allowed for redemption. DEI<LE MASON, of Peoria, the wife of W. T. Dowdall, the editor of the Na­ tional Democrat, died at her husband's residence in Peoria last Wednesday morning, after a lingering sickness of three months, of typhoid fever. Mrs. Dowdall wrote both prose and poetry beautifully, contributing largely to the columns of her husband's paper and other journals. She was a lady of rare attainments, and a good wife and loving mother, and will be greatly missed. ONE morning last week James Dona­ hue, a young man about twenty years of age, was found in the ditch by the side of the Chicago and Alton railroad track in Bloomington in a senseless condition. Sunday night he died. A coroner's jury decided that he came to his death from exposure, as it appears that he was in­ toxicated that night, and it is supposed he fell into the water and remained there several hours. There were no bruises upon his person to indicate that he had been injured by the oars. THE other day Joe Ellis, a drunken brute, got aboard conductor Chamber­ lain's train, on the Rock Island road, at Tiskilwa, and made himself obnoxious to the passengers. The conductor kind ly requested him to be quiet, which only made him worse. He was put off the train at Burlington crossing, and, going to an open window, drew a revolver, rested it on the sill, and with deliberate aim fired at the conductor, who was standing in the coach. A passenger at the instant of the discharge pushed the conductor aside, who was not three feet from the gun, and thus saved his life. Ellis was promptly arrested. FRIDAY afternoon the city editor of the Bock Island Argus, a young man named David J. Van Meter, had a fight in a saloon with a man named John Staiibach. The trouble was commenced by the latter, Van Meter having written something offensive about Stanbach in the Argus In the melee Stanbach was kuocked down and cut in the temple with a small pocket knife by Van Meter. He was taken home and cared for, but died Sunday evening. Van Meter was immediately arrested and lodged in jail on a charge of murder. In the post mortem examination the blade of Van Meter's knife was found in the left tem­ poral bone of Stanbach's skull, the point of it extending three-eighths of an inch into the brain, the left hemisphere of which was covered with a thick clot of extravasated blood. He "Cooked His Goose." A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press gives the following explanation of how the phrase originated : Happening to read in ** M. Quad's Odds " of a frontier justice's court and the proceedings therein, it brought to my mind a case somewhat similar that was tried in Osseo, Mich,, by Justice Thompson, many years ago. The case was in regard to the ownership and pos­ session of nine geese. The plaintiff proved by four witnesses his title to the geese, and the defendant asserted his claims by four witnesses equally as cred­ ible. The testimony was based on fa­ miliarity with the general appearance of the geese in question, and each of the parties was confident that it must be de­ cided in his favor. Wise old Justioe Thompson was in a quandry and took some time in making up his judgment. At last he announced his decision thus : The costs to be equally divided between the two parties : The constable to give the plaintiff four and to the defendant four geese, and take the odd goose, dress and cook it and invite the suitors to eat of it. The judgment was carried out; "the goose was cooked," and the suitors renewed their friendship over the savory dish. The phrase became a catch­ word and was used to indicate disap- £ointment in cases of over confidence, [either man got his bird as he certainly expeoted ; " his goose was cooked." , A Promising Trade. With all the disadvantages under which we labor in attempting to rival the English trade in cottons, we seem to have taken a start which will doubtless lead to large and unexpected results. The quality of our manufacture is yearly improving; the good will of foreign na­ tions toward us is more and more favor­ able, commercial interests alone regard­ ed ; and other considerations are such as to soou enable us to compete with Eng- j land in other markets 00 a better foot-1 ing. The list of countries to which we now export cotton goods in considerable quantities is already large, and indicates a wide geographical range. China, Ja­ pan, Brazil, the Argentine Republic, Chili, Mexico and England will illus­ trate the statement.--Troy TimiiUk Life in Silver Land. The tourist, on first setting his foot down in this strange city, is struck by the startling phases of character which meet him on every hand. Every nation under the sun has its representative en­ tered here in the race for gold, and every situation in life may be encoun­ tered. With a gross population of fif­ teen thousand souls Virginia City sup­ ports no less than twenty gambling hells and^ two hundred saloons ; the chink of gold and silver resounds everywhere from early dawn till long after midnight. The mad pursuit of wealth never halts, and the burning desire to spend it when once it is secured knows no cessation. There are men here with incomes of three hundred thousand dollars per month on the one hand, and shiv­ ering wretches without a farthing on the other. The most startling illustration of the wonderful opportunities of the country hSj? been th e experience of what is popu­ larly known as the bonanza crowd, com­ posed of four men--John W. Mackay. James G. Fair, James C. Floodt and William O'Brien. Three years ago Flood and O'Brien kept a retail grog­ shop in San Francisco, a " sample- room," where the thirsty might imbibe bad mm and a worse headache at any hour of the day or night. Mackay, a few years ago, ran a steam-engine at one of the mines ; he has also worked in the •mines with pick and shovel. James G. Fair is a mining expert--the best in the region ; he has been a mining superin­ tendent for many years. It happened that Mackay and Fair became cognizant of the fact that a certain mine, the stock of which was at a very low ebb, contained some exceedingly rich ore. Having saved a few hundred dollars, they induced the proprietors of the San Francisco grog-shop to join them in purchasing a controlling interest in the stock. Instead Of levying an assessment on the stock, as the rule had been un­ der the former management, they de­ clared a dividend, and were not long in proving the soundness of their judg­ ment by the developments which they brought to the surfaoe. From that time they have prospered. Their next ven­ ture was the purchase of the Consoli­ dated Virginia mine, a property which had hung like a dead weight around the necks of its stockholders. They sunk the Bhaft deeper, and still deeper, until they reached a depth of fifteen hundred feet, and not only prdved the existence of rich ore, but had the satis­ faction of recognizing in the deposits which they opened up unlimited wealth for themselves, and generous dividends for their stockholders. For more than a year this mine has been yielding near­ ly $2,000,000 a month and paying divi­ dends of $10 per share per month.-- Virginia City (Nev.) Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune. Vegetable Hair Dyes. " But I may continue to use my hair dye? my*vegetable hair dye?'" Yes, wnen you have found a hair dye which ia (wrtainly not made of acetate of lead wfth sulphur, or of some other "poison­ ous compound. Suppose you believe that it is purely vegeiuuie, what warrant have you that it is innocent ? You know something of our native poison ivy and of the poison sumac, popularly mis­ named dogwood, which injure the blood of hundreds every year? You have read of the violent drugs, fox-glove, " Indian poke" (veratrum), ipecacu­ anha, opium, belladonna, and of the deadly poisons, prussic acid and strych­ nine ? These are all vegetables, all plants and products of plants. Hair dyes, like candies, are shoddy, are made for the benefit of the seller, not the user. Gray hairs, sound teeth, healthy skins and stomachs are very kindly evils. You buy two sorrows in everything that dam­ ages these. In Death they were not Divided. On Tuesday, the 22d of February, at the same hour of the day, and at the same minute of the hour, Deacon Noah Pease and his wife Lucinda; of Elling­ ton, who were united in marriage more than sixty-throe years ago, passed away from this life together, and entered upon the life to come almost without any sep­ aration, even by death itself, and this not by the same disease, but by dis­ eases entirely distinct and unconnected. Both were over fourscore years of age.-- Bockville (Conn.) Journal.y LIKE one raised from the dead is Mrs. Jane Reynolds' husband to her, and this is the how of it: In December last, two bodies were found near Waverly, N. J., under circumstances that indicated that they were those of suicides. They were taken to Newark and buried, and on the 24th of January one of them was ex­ humed and identified by Mrs. Jane Rey­ nolds, of Brooklyn, as the corpse of her husband. She took the body to New Haven, Ct., and it w^s buried there. Yesterday, to the astonishment of Mrs. Reynolds, her husband appeared to her, hale and hearty. He explained that he had taken a trip to northern New York. --Springfield Republican. BAD feeling has for some time existed between two families namied Story and Hood, both living in Freestone county, Texas. As young Story was on his way to mill recently, Wiley Hood met him and killed him. No one knows what oc­ curred between them at the time. Young Hood rode to his father-in-law's and told him what he had done, and whore to find the body of Story. He then left for parts unknown. BRIGHAM YOUNG has just completed, from his own plans and under his own supervision, a new store on Esust Temple street, Salt Lake City, that is 318 feet long, 53 feet wide and three stories high. It is built of; red sandstone, roofed with iron, and is the finest commercial estab­ lishment west of the Mississioni. IF music has charms to soothe the savage breast, it failed to do so in the case of two Dublin street musicians, who quarrelled over the merits of their re­ spective fiddles and musical skill until one of them killed the other. Relics of a Dead Race. Mr. A. J. Conant, the artist, returned recently from the Ozark mountains, where he passed a week in exploring some remarkable caves on the Gasconade and tributary streams, lying principally in Phelps aod Pulaski counties. Mr. Conant about two years ago made some interesting discoveries in the region mentioned of human skulls and skele­ tons, supposed to belong to a people who existed before the historic period, and as it is understood that he has been engaged since 1862 in collecting the ma­ terials of a work on archaeology, it may well be supposed that he is enthusiastic in following up his discoveries. He and his party first visited Brace's cave, BO named after one of the early settlers, who made saltpeter from the cave deposits. The cavern is in the limestone formation, with an entrance about 130 feet in the bluffs above the Gasconade river. They first entered spacious chamber, but as the passage narrowed, the party were forced to get down on their knees and crawl some distance. They next made a nearly per­ pendicular ascent of fifty feet, when thev entered a Inrco oha'abs? sriarkHnc V ~ O with stalactites of a snowy whiteness like alabaster, with hundreds of bate hanging in festoons from the roof. Hav­ ing explored the caverns, the work of excavating began at the mouth of the cave, where bones and implements? were found. They made a vertical section of six feet, and studied the stratification of the soft deposits. The layers changed from a black, rich soil to ashes, alternat­ ing with strata composed of soil and ashes intermixed. It was in these strata that human bones and fragments were found. The skulls exhibit a low facial angle, and the teeth, some of which dropped out, are as well preserved as if drawn by a dentist yesterday. There is the skull of an old man, known from the knitting together of the sutures, and also one of an infant, of almost wafer­ like thinness, and the several parts sepa­ rated at the sutures. Beside the skulls there were found arrow and spear heads, flint implements, knives, and awls for sewing skins, made of bone, very hard and polished; also, the bones of the turtle, deer, and wild turkey, intermin­ gled with various fragments of carnivor­ ous and browsing animals not yet iden­ tified. Great care was required in ex- humingfthese remains, as the skulls were liable to be broken by the pick. The second cave explored was about a mile distant from the former, and is locally known as Ash cave, from the fact that there is a deposit of ashes from the saltpeter manufactured there about thirty years ago. These saltpeter operations nave BO far disturbed the original de­ posits that nothing satisfactory could be obtained, except one corpse, which was found in a sitting posture, with the knees draw*h up to the face. With this corpse was also found the nearly entire skeleton, very much decayed, of an elk or large-sized deer.--Missouri Repub­ lican. Silver Change. The passage of the Silver Resumption act through the House by so large a ma­ jority has surprised those who have not watched the change of public opinion on the Bilver question. Tne discussions of the last thirty days have developed facte and statistics which have an important bearing on the whole question, and set it inan4kU>e»ed light, and one-far more favorable to silver resumption. The facts ii> leave no­ thing to be said by those who are op­ posed to replacing them with silver coins. The fractionals last only about a year. It costs about $11250,000 a year to re­ place them with new bills. Some $9,- 000,000 have been lost or worn up by the people without redemption, which is a tax on them to that amount. Silver coins last fifty years, are seldom lost, and never burned up; and, though they cost more in the outeet, are immensely cheap­ er in the end. The Government has $12,000,000 of these coins lying idle in the treasury, and $4,000,000 of silver bullion waiting for coinage. Silver is two per cent, less than greenbacks, ow­ ing to the demonetization of silver by Germany and the consequent throwing of a great quantity of it on the London market. A question in addition is not simpler than that presented to the con­ sideration of Congress, so far as the re­ placing of fractional with silver coin ia concerned. But iho House bill gcca be­ yond this, and makes silver a legal ten­ der for any amount not exceeding $50. It practically resumes in silver. And it is thought the Senate will pass the bill with some important modifications, thus opening an unexpected way out of our financial embarrassments.--New York Graphic. Park Packing. The following figures, which w& copy from the annual report of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, show the num­ ber and weight of hogs packed in the several States for two winter seasons: Number of Hog*. AV.GTOSH Weight. in your lap, puss waves it coquettishly, or droops it in drowsy setisfaction. But the same tail, when its proprietor is an­ gered, becomes a veritable bottlebrush, in which each particular hair stands on end as if electrified. The Rejection of Richard H. Dana, Jr. [Washington Cor. Chicago Times.] There was a long discussion in the ex­ ecutive session of the Senate upon the disposal of Dana. Morton made the opening speech against Dana's confirm­ ation. He regaled his associates in rela­ tion to Dana s literary piracy. A gen­ eral firing off followed. Senater Ed­ munds replied to Morton in a speech of upward of an hour and a half in length. He made the strongest possible plea for Dana. He was very earnest and gestic­ ulated more than usual for a man of frigid temperament. He said that this literary piracy charged upon Dana was no piracy whatever.. He said that all English precedents and American decis­ ions were upon the side of considering mere notes and citations as common property. Such citations as had been taken by Dana were open for anyone. Mr, Morton in reply to Mr. Edmunds said that granting this, there was the un­ deniable fact that Mr, Dana had sworn that he had not taken them. Mr. Bout- well spoke a few words in favor of Dana. It came out in the discussion that, con­ trary to the general outside belief, the President had long been in favor of with­ drawing Dana, but had deferred to Dana's wishes in allowing hie i,ame to remain before the Senate. There was no excitement in the session. There were some 60 Senators present, 13 of whom did not vote at all. Of the 13 who did not vote all were Democrats except Oglesby, of Illinois. At the close of the session a vote was taken with the fol­ lowing result: 30 nays to 17 yeas. The following are the yeas ; Morrill and Ham­ lin, of Maine ; Wadleigh and Cragin, of New Hampshire; Morrill and Edmunds, of Vermont; Boutweli and Dawes, of Massachusetts; Anthony, of Rhode Island; Conkling, of New York ; Fre- linghuysen, of New Jersey; Ferry, of Michigan ; Sherman, of Ohio; Windem, of North Carolina; McMillan, of Minne­ sota; Booth, of California ; Hamilton, of Texas. Of the Republican. Senators who voted against him were Cameron, of Pennsylvania ; Morton, of Indiana ; Cameron, of Wisconsin; Mitchell, of Oregon ; Logan, of Illinois ; Sargent, of California; Sharon and Jones, of Nevada; Paddock and Hitchcock, of Nebraska. Senators Howe, of Wiscon­ sin, and ChHstiancy, of Michigan, were absent. If they had been present they would have voted for him. 1 States. 1875-'6. 1874-'5. 187;V6. 1874-"5. Ohio 822,935 871,736 272.536 277.305 Illinois 1,913,895 2,104,770 277.207 267.254 Indiana 563,367 661,490 263.035 259r4Al Iowa 351,406 409,327 271.325 255.74^ Kansas .. 34,276 48,694 291.336 218.546 Kentucky 26L>,156 305,794 C68.98H 262.374 Michigan 49,542 54,082 293.309 294.563 Minnesota 24,630 24,218 300.837 294.625 Missouri 555,319 708,690 270.104 237.455 Nebraska, 21,825 26,727 273.073 231.063 Tennessee 21,530 23,522 269.546 243.368 West Virinia.. 5,787 8,820 268.541 251.303 Wisconsin 209,255 280,724 259.165 265.739 Pittsburgh, Pa. 4,000 4,000 319 236 Atlanta, G».... 7,200 4,000 260 280 Total 4,850,192 5,537,124 272.61 263.475 Grand total: 1875-'6 4,850,192 272.61 1874-5 5,537,124 262.475 1873-4 5 ,383,810 . . . . . . . . 2 6 8 . 3 6 9 ; 1872-3 6,456,00 i 289.51 187l-'8 ..4,782,408 282.20T 1870-'l 3,623,404 285.124 An Expressive Appendage. Pussy's temper may be known by the demeanor of its taiL. When the tail is erect it is pleased ; when angry, it lushes it; and when excited and about to spring, the tail quivers. The tail changes its expression as its owner outgrows its early innocence and commences to de­ velop its treacherous and catlike nature. The tail of a catling, before the blood of mice has reddenod its incipient whiskers, has no deceit or malice in it; it is carried about honestly, bolt upright, rigid or oscillating in a paroxysm of fun. It lengthens or limbers until, as the mature puss sneaks round the chicken coop or prowls in the lardef, its air and motion betray all its changeful nature. The tail of the veteran mouser varies as con­ tent or passion sways its owner. Purring The Noble Briton's Financial Fore­ thought. The Pall Mall Gazette of a late date says: An inquest was held on Satur­ day by Dr. Hardwicke on the body of a man who died from the bursting of an aneurism of the aorta. The deceased, it appeared by the evidence, was taken iuddenly ill in a shop which he had en­ tered to make a purchase. He staggered into the street, and a doctor who was on the spot, seeing that he was covered with blood, asked the passers-by to as­ sist in taking charge of him. With the exception of a policeman they one and all refused, asking " who was to par them for their trouble." At last a oab was procured and the dying man was re­ moved to thewockhoaa#, h®% wa» dead.. on liis arrival. Another inoident of the siimfi nafeiim ia yeoord™ by c, corre­ spondent of the Daily 7'elegraph, writ- • ing from Portsmouth. During the se- ' vera gale on Sunday last, assistance was required by a boat off Ryde. The life­ boat was on the beach ready to be launched, but the men refused to put off until £5 was forthcoming. There was a crowd of between 400 and 500 people looking on. A subscription of a few pence all round would have produced the sum required to meet the chivalrous demand, yet the money was not raised, nor did any volunteers come forward to man the boat without a thought of rec­ ompense A man, supposed to be a local tradesman, chanced, however, to pass that way, and with wonderful prodigality produced a £5 note. The effect was electrical. The lifeboat was manned and a rescue effected. A Detective's Ruse. For the past three weeks a man has been in Oconto, Wis., whose actions have been somewhat remarkable. Dressed as a beggar, and bagging from door to door, he obtained access to a number of houses, and being quiet and inoffensive, no shadow of suspicion was raised that he was anything more than lie represent­ ed himself. He would sleep m barns and take what shelter he could from the weather during nights, and many times during the day he was a target for the youngsters to snow-ball. Last week he found the man for whom he was looking and disclosed himself. He was a de­ tective from Nevada, who had followed a murderer, for whose apprehension a heavy reward had been offered, for three years, capturing him at last. Extraordinary Coincidences. The San Francisco Chronicle relates the following series of strange coinci­ dences: "A few years ago there resided at the Mission San Jose, in Alameda county, two young ladies, between whom, although not of kin, a strong friendship existed. They were married at the same time and by the same serv­ ice. They then took up their residenoes, one at Hay wards and the other at Alva- rado. In the course of time they gave birth to children on the same day, the birth of one child preceding that of the other by two hours. Three weeks later both children died on the same day, the eldest d;> ing just two hours before the other. Three weeks after the death of the children both mothers died on the same day" A Soda bouanxft. Mr. Pontey, geologist of the Union Pacific railroad, describes two soda lakes in Wyoming Territory, the larger one of which covers about 200 acres. The other covers about three and a half acres, and during the greater part of the year it is a concrete mass of soda crystals. The soda is nearly all carbonate, and in qual­ ity is said to be.fully equal to the im- J>orted article. It is estimated that the arger lake would yield, on evaporation, over four aud a half million dollars* worth of soda, and the smaller lake, al­ ready crystallized, is supposed to con­ tain another million dollars' worth of soda, t«Smw