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~..r . \ ' £ ' J. ^Mclenrs flaindtalfr. . • 44^- I . * • < J. VAN BLYKE, Potijmtou V JFOHENRY, ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL 4HO DOMESTIC. /• September. f Agatt the harvests white and gold Have ruatled round the glowing land, The meadow swathe like billow* rolled. Till sheave a of grain in wigwams stand Where Plenty pitched her tawny campi; The hickories light, their yellow lamps, The nights are growing bold; The ffiommu ulnrioo !<*<.«> **>«<» light, The birds are clouding np for flight, The daisies growing old. The katydids' all-night dispute Proclaims the end is near-- The rafter peaks again are mute, The barn's sky parlor like a flute Without a breath of1 cheer-- The bobolink has ceased to Hiring Upon the reedy spear. His marriage bells have lost their ring. The reees' leaves have drifted down,' The lilies *11 are dying-- The stricken flfildn are training brown, The canflower psles his golden crown. The winged seeds are -Ir'.ng-- »- ' The gorgeous forest*; by-sncWby • • ' Will kindle like a imnset sky, IV heaven there and here ! ' ' The pageant, of the grand campaign' ' Will dim in autumn'K latter rain. Thanksgiving come and go again For this Centennial year. . --Btnjwmin J""„ Taylor. Around the Farm. TH* London Milk Journal says that * pint of milk heated a little, but not boiled, taken every four hours, will \ check the most violent diarrhea, stomach-, ache, incipient cholera and dysentery. It is a cheap and agreeable sort of medi­ cine, and will not be likely to kill if it does not cure. IT seems to me that I read all kinds of cures for ivy poison except the right one. I have always endeavored to keep it be­ fore the public, but have failed. It is to dissolve sugar of lead--a bit the size of a hazelnut---in half a teacup of sweet milk or warm water. Apply as warm as can be easily borne, with a soft, linty piece of linen rag. Three or four appli­ cations are sufficient to effect a cure. If the p6ison is on the face, and near the eyes or mouth, this astringent wash may be constantly applied. It is a marvelous cure, and, by watching closely, one can see tha fevered blisters turn from white to yellow during the application. MR. R PETERS, an extensive nursery­ man of Delaware, recommends the fol- lowing plan of planting young orchards, now adopted by many of our most suc­ cessful fruit-growers: O O 0 O X s X s X s X O X O X 0 X O X s X s X s X , ' O X O X O X o X' s X s X 8 X O X O X O X 0 0 represents standard apple trees, thirty feet apart, forty-eight trees to the acre; s, standard pears or cherries, thir­ ty-live to the acre; x, dwarf pears, dwarf apples, dwarf cherries, plums, peaches or quinces, eighty-two to the acre. There will be eight rows of apple trees, six trees in a row, on an acre. Mr. Peters' arguments in favor of this plan are substantially as follows: 44 It is a great loss to plant and grow an orchard on the old principle--trees forty to fifty feet apart. This arrangement provides for 165 trees to the acre instead qf twen- ' ty-seven, as on the old plan, thus put­ ting on one acre what would require six acres, planted forty feet apart. It is easier and cheaper to fertilize and culti­ vate one acre than six. The intervening trees, being dwarfs and close growers, wijll not interfere at all. The trees can be headed so low as to shade the ground and the trunks, which is indispensable to successful fruit growing. Grain or grass seed should never be sown in a young orchard, and with this close ar­ rangement there is no inducement to do so, as the farmer cannot turn in stock without having his young fruit trees de­ stroyed." THH 'Germantown (Ga.) Telegraph says : 44 The long debated question as to the best material for stable floors is being revived. A clay floor was held out for years, and such was the earnest­ ness of its advocates and the many ar­ guments brought to bear upon it, that we were induced some fifteen or twenty /years ago to try it. In three or four months we had the planks back again, being severely satisfied of the disadvan­ tages of clay for horses. Our present floor of plank is simply in^ined a little from front to rear, where the usual gut­ ter is made to carry off the liquid void- ings. We do not believe in sand, coal ashes, sawdust, asphaltum, flags, cob­ ble-stones, or any of these modern de­ vices to injure horses. Thus far we have never noticed that this little inclin­ ation was in any way injurious; and we doubt whether the wooden grating placed over the planking would be ad­ visable on the ground that the animal would be no more comfortable, while this movable grating or second floor might lead to accidents. When a per­ son can keep horses in a good Bound, healthy condition for from five to seven years, as we have done on a ca?ef ully instructed plank flooring inclining a little to the rear, it is just as well to be satisfied with it" •book the House. WHO has not suffered the horrible discordance of a squeaky boot ? And now some one says that a double row of nails or pegs, or two rows at right angles to each other will stop the noise, which is caused by the rubbing together of the layers of leather composing the sole. , BRKAD PUDDING.--Soak the bread in 1 cold water, then squeeze it Very dry, take out the lumps, and add boiling milk, about half a pint to a pound of soaked bread ;beat|up two eggs, sweeten, add a little nutmeg, and bake the pudding slowly until firm. If de­ sired, a few raisins may be added to the pudding. To HAVE a good light the wicks of kerosene lamps should be changed fre­ quently. They may be washed, if not too short, or replaced by new ones. The unsatisfactory light sometimes afforded by kerosene lamps is often caused by the pores of the wick being filled with refuse matter, which obstructs the free passage of the oil. THE sheep is naturally a clean animal, and very particular in regard to its food's being clean. Feeding troughs should be made or placed where the sheep cannot jump over or step into them. A speck of dirt, if no larger than a pea, falling into the trough from the sheep's foot, or a flock of poultry getting into the trough and leaving their tracks or droppings, will often prevent the sheep from eating their food. FISH CAKES.--Take one pint bowlful of salt codfish, picked up very fine, and two pint bowlfills of whnlp raw n«fil«d potatoes; put together into oold water, and boil until the potatoes are thoroughly cooked. Remove from the fire and drain off all the water; mssh with a potato masher; add a piece of butter the size of an egg; two well-beaten eggs; pepper ap.fl salt, to taste. Mix well, and fry in hot lard, butter or drippings Do not freshen the fish before 'boiling. These cakes meet with much favor whenever made. LEMONADE FOB AH INVALID. --This is too often made by simply squeezing a lemon into a tumbler, picking the pips out with a spoon, and then adding sugar and cold water. The best method of making lemonado is to peel the lemons, otherwise the lemonade will be bitter; out them into slices,, taking away the pips, and then pouring boiling water on the slices, adding, of course, sufficient sugar to sweeten. This, after being well stored, and the pulp pressed with a spoon,must be carefully strained through a piece of |fine muslin, ard allowed to get cold. When oold, a piece of ice is an improvement. Gold, weak lemonade, made this way, not too sweet, is one of the most refreshing drinks possible for hot weather; and incases where there is a tendency to take fluid to© often--a tendency, we fear, rather of the age in which we live--a large jug of lemonade, made in the manner we have described, will often prove a harmless substitute for a glass of sherry, or a little drop of cold brandy-and-water, or a glass of beer, as the case may be. A BURGLAR'S FATE. Ornahed to Death by a Falling; Stone While Breaking Into a House. [From the New York Times.] Shortly after 6:30 o'clock last evening, while Patrolman Ryan of the Nineteenth Precinct, was standing at the corner of Sixth avenue and Fftieth street, his at­ tention was attracted by a loud crash ooming from the south side of Fiftieth street. The officer hurried in the direc­ tion from which the sound had come, and on arriving in front of No. 68 West Fiftieth street, found that the crash had been occasioned by the falling of a sec­ tion of brown stone forming the arched pediment over the front door. Beneath this heavy stone lay the bruised and senseless form of a man who had been crushed by the fall of the arch. The offioer obtained assistance and relieved the man from the mass of stone which pinned him fast to the stoop. The noise had attracted the attention of inmates of the house, which is occupied by Mr. A. Morgan, but they all failed to recognize the man, and it was a mystery what brought him on the stoop of the house at that time. The injured man -was taken to St. Luke's. Hospital, where he died soon after admission. It was found that his head was crushed in and he had besides received other injuries of a severe nature. On searching Him at the hospital the police officers found in his possession a number of articles of jewel­ ry, two skeleton keys, and a screw­ driver, the blade of which was bent. It was then apparent that the deceased had been engaged in robbery, and on making inquiry it was ascertained that the jew­ elry found upon his person had been stolen from the residence of Mr. J. Sear­ ing, No. 64 West Fiftieth, street, by whom it was fully identified. Capt. Mount, of the Nineteenth Precinct, and detective Leving thereupon made an in­ vestigation, from which it appeared that, while th9 family of Mr. Searing were at dinner in the basement of their res­ idence, the deceased unlocked the front door with a skeleton key and sneaked np-stairs into a bed-room on the second floor, lie then forced open a bureau drawer and stole therefrom the jewelry, which was afterward found on his person, and which is valued at $400. The burglar then threw open a window on the second floor and stepped out up- the pediment over the front of the ad­ joining house--Mr. Morgan's residence --it being clearly his intention to enter that house through the second floor window, which is immediately above the pediment. The stone which was fastened against the front wall of the house with cement was evidently loose, and as the burglar stepped upon it it gave way. He fell on the stops, and the stone fell upon him, crashing in his skull. The rail­ ings of the stoop were smashed by the heavy weighty and several of the steps were broken. Honors to Canine Sagacity. There is a native dog in Newfound­ land now 16 years old. He is gray and his fangs have fallen out £but he is pro­ vided with a cozy kennel and food that does not need much mastication. Around his neck is a glazed collar bearing three medals, one of silver and two of gold. One of the latter is from the Royal Hu­ mane Society of England, the other is the gilt of an American Captain, and the silver medal is from a former Mother Superior of St. Michael's Convent in St. John's. All three are testimonials in recognition of the animal's sagacity in saving lives.---Toronto Globe. SEVEN years ago a oompany in Cali­ fornia began the manufacturing of beet­ root sugar, with a capital of $100,000. This year they will turn out over a million pounds of sugar. So great has become the production of this kind of sugar in France that it has made such inroads upon tbe commerce of Great Britain that English refiners have united in asking that their Government enact a law for the protection of their interests. DESPITE stagnant trade and a bad sea­ son in 1875, as many as 10,073 new houses were built in London, 160 new. streets and 4 squares were opened and put under police protection, covering nearly 30 miles, and 3,775 houses were in process of erection at the dose of the year. . INEBRIETY IN AMERICA. A DUeaae--Canaea of the NervouaneM of Americana--Kvolutlon Applied toPtan-- --A Problem that la 8ol?lng Itself. At the recent meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates, Dr. George M. Beard, of New York, read a paper on 44 The Causes of the Increase of Inebri­ ety in America," which is given in .ab­ stract below. The habit of drinking to intoxication was defined as partly a vice and partly a disease. The inebriate is one who drinks to excess against his will, and in of resolutions VO the , IUIU when there are no external temptations to do so. Inebriety resembles other nervous diseases in Its hereditary char­ acter, and in its periodicity. It runs in families^ and in many oases the attacks come on litre attacks of neuralgia, at mathematically regular intervals. During these intervals the inebriate is perfectly self-qpntrolled, and may not be tempted by the presence of stimulants. The inebriate desires to recover as much as the neuralgic sufferer. The commonly- accepted cause of the increase of inebri­ ety in America is the increase of intem­ perance ; but this is a great error. For fifty years the better classes have been growing more and more temperate There never was a time in the history o. civilization when there was so little ex- oessive drinking in proportion to the population as now. The fundamental proposition of the speaker was that inebriety was increas­ ing, because the higher classes?--the brain-working classes--were becoming more sensitive and nervous. That ftinc­ torial nervous disease and nervous sen­ sitiveness on which inebriety depends has been on the increase for many years in all the great centers of civilization, but especially in America. This is proved by four methods of investiga­ tion : (1.) By comparing the higher and lower classes of the present day. The majority of the cases of drunkenness (which is a vice and may be cured) are among the lower orders--the abjectly poor and ignorant. The majority of the cases of inebriety are among those men and women who are more or less culti­ vated. In both classes, however, the vice may lead to the disease. It is found by observation that not only inebriety, but all allied nervous states, axe incom­ parably less frequent among the literary, professional and business classes than among those who live by manual labor. Hay fever, for example, is unknown in the tenement-house population of New York. (2.) Bv a comparison of the present time with a quarter or a half century ago. There is pretty general agree­ ment among good observers that our fathers did not suffer as we do from a variety of nervous symptoms. We are more susceptible to drugs, to tea and coffee and tobacco, as well as to aloohol when unadulterated. (3.) By a comparison of the present time with the middle ages and the few cen­ turies preceding the nineteenth century. The mediaeval epidemics of hysterics and StfVitus dance were psychical not physi­ cal, the result of superstitious and un­ trained minds acting on strong bodies, and not of nervous exhaustion. That form of trouble yet survives in the so- ealled 44servant-girl hysteria." Insan­ ity as well as inebriety has certainly in­ creased since that time, making all al lowance for deficient observation of those ages and the more extended phi­ lanthropy of the present. They have increased during the past fifteen years, and out of proportion to the increase of population. (4.) By comparing the nervous status of woman with that in past time. The child-bearing and ohild- rearing capacity has diminished. Fe­ male inebriety, "though not so abundant as reports would have us believe, is yet not infrequent both in England and America. Inebriety and all functional nervous maladies and symptoms are more frequent in the northern part of the United States than in Europe. This is explained partly by the degrees of our climate and violent alternations of heat and cold, partly by our free institu­ tions, and partly by the pressing neces­ sities of pioneer life. It is true that brain-workers live longer than muscle workers, and that longevity has increased with the pro­ gress of civilization, but for a variety of reasons nervousness is an aid and friend to longevity. While inebriety may shorten life, yet nervousness, on which inebriety depends, and of which it is the expression, may protect the sys­ tem against acute and fatal disease. In­ ebriates are to be kept away from alco­ hol;, which is the exciting factor, by confinement in an asylum. This may need to be supplemented by positive tonic treatment. Not an inconsiderable proportion of cases are permanently benefited by this system, which origi­ nated in America and is now introduced into England. By successive elimina­ tions a thoroughly acclimated race may be developed. This process appears to be already going on. If this view be then the problem of inebriety ana of allied nervous states is being slowly solved for us by foroes in com­ parison with which all our organiza­ tion and institutions are but as the chips and the foam on the surfaoe of the ocean tide. Kew Fatal Horse Disease. A strange and fatal disease has at­ tacked the horses near the foothills above RockviiDe. Some ten have died in few days. Upon a post-mortem ex­ amination the membrane that supports the bowels is of a yellowish color, and is soft and rotten, while the whole cavity outside the intestines is filled with wa­ ter. Messrs. Alex and Joe Blake have lost six, while several other gentlemen in the neighborhood have lost from one to two. No remedies yet applied have arrested in the slightest degree the dis­ ease when a horse was attacked.--Santa Rota (Cat.) Democrat. A Bride Sol in Her Teens. A unique wedding took place at Clo- verdale last Sunday, at the residence o£ one of our citizens. The happy pair were from the Dry Creek mountains.. The bridegroom^ was about 3$ or 20 years of age* add-over the bride's Iiea«d some 12 summers hal lightly dance<Ju The happy twain left for Texas the next day. We were told the bride quietly in­ formed a couple of ladies- that ehe she wasn't the first one what was married ynnng" 4'nnfa JSttM (OaL) Democrat. A SHARP DETECTIVE. One «t the Most Remarkable of the don Poliee. One of the most remarkable of the London police is Druskowitz. No one looking at the short, blonde-mustached, and rather dandified young man would suspect him of being the cleverest of detectives. He is about 84 years old, but looks less. His father was a Dal­ matian. He himself speakn flkmv run fy»-- ber of languages, and is thus nearly al­ ways sent abroad where any case occurs in a non* English speaking country need­ ing the services of a detective. In London Ms special work is among foreigners who go there as fugitives from justice. It is generally found that such persons betake themselves to special localities. Usually they lie hid­ ing for a few days, but they soon find it impossible to remain indoors any longer, and so, having shaved off their beards, if the had one, or having put on a false besard if they had formerly shaved, and wearing a wig and specta­ cles, they wily forth at night, and, being in want of amusement, they betake themselves to the Alhambra. That is the favorite resort of foreigners in Lon­ don, and Druskowitz is, therefore, a frequent visitor there. He appears much interested by the performance, but his thoughts are elsewhere. He is watching some one individual in the audience, follows him when he leaves, tracks him to his hiding {dace, and then sets to work to find oat who he is. Woe be to the man who really is a crim­ inal if Druskowitz be on his trail. There is little chance for him, Drus­ kowitz has an extraordinary moral in­ fluence over criminals; it is something like that of the rattlesnake upon the bird. He carries no arms, yet he does not fear to go up to an armed desperate man and arrest him, and, though, armed and desperate, he succumbs. Druskowita was engaged nine years ago in a remarkable case. In 1865s Vital Douat, a Bordeaux wine mer­ chant,. went to Paris and insured his Hie for a sum equal to £5,000. Shortly afterward he went to London to escape the consequences of a fraudulent bank­ ruptcy. Some time later, his wife, clad in widow's weeds, presented her­ self at the insurance office with the nec­ essary legal document attesting her husband's death. There was nothing suspicious in the papers. Nevertheless the company determined to make some inquiries before handing over the amount of insurance. Druskowitz was called in, and he ascertained that on December 1,1866, some one named Ber- nandi had called at the Register's office in Plaistow and registered the death of Poiiat; it was entered as due to heart disease. Druskowitz found out the undertaker who had conducted the funeral, and learned that everything had been prop­ erly ordered and paid for, and that the funeral had been performed at Leyton- stone by the Catholic priest. One thing seemed strange. The coffin had not been sent to any private house, but direct to the cemetery. Further in­ quiry failed, to discover any doctor of the name attached to the certificate of death. The next step was to obtain an order for examination, and on the coffin being opened there was found, not the body of Vital ̂ )ouat, but a block of Further inquiry elicited the fact that Douat had been present at his own fu­ neral, and afterwards gone to America, whence he had supplied his wife with documents intended for the insurance company. Some time afterward he re­ turned to Europe, went to Antwerp, bought a ship, sent her to sea with a lot of rubbish, and, having her previously insured for a large sums had her burned. Arrested and brought to trial, he was visited by Druskowitz, who felt sure that this was the man he wanted. Douat was found guilty and condemned to im­ prisonment, with hard labor; but the Frcnch Government claimed him under an extradition treaty, and ho was tried on the charge of fraudulent bankruptcy, found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for a comparatively short period. - Perils of Ballooning. D. S. Thomas, an aeronaut who made an ascent from Bridgeport, Conn., re­ cently, tells the following exciting story of ms adventures during the trip: "About 6 o'clock in the evening, after laboring for several miles to make a landing and sava my balloon, I was thrown from my basket into some pine timber, in Koeklands Plymouth county, Mass. The brittle limbs broke when I struck them, but they eased my fall con­ siderably, and I landed upon the ground with only loss of clothing. Could I have had some assistance I think I could have saved my balloon, but when last seen it was at a great height over the Atlantic, headed for Europe. Seeing the ocean before me I determined to land in a valley which I saw, and where I thought the wind must be light. I get out my anchor, which caught in a stone wall and parted in an instant. The wind was now blowing a gale, and I de­ termined to wreck the balloon in order to save it. Having no rip-line or col­ lapse cord I dashed into the timber with the hope of making a rent, but being new and of very strong material, the balloon only rebounded and plunged through the top of the timber at a great rate of speed. Some idea ef the wind may he had from the fact that I traveled the Mat fifty miles of my trip in sixty minutes. While dragging through the timber tbe basket was several times turned- bottom up, which lost me my ballaafei, thus counteracting all my ef­ forts at the valve. Mr. Thos. P. Hink- ham, living near by, came to my assist­ ance*, and to him and his family I am indebted fox kind care." CURLS IS CH11A. THS English Duke, of Sutherland,has transformed 2,000 acres of moorland into arable land, at an expense of >£30 per acre; or $300,000 for the whole. If the English nobility always absorbed land in this way, there would be little complaint of their conduct. Aft anti-pigtail movement has been discovered in China, and the authorities have decreed that any many found with scissors in his hand in a crowd shall be ste&BgJedi 4 the Mlafortnne ot Being Bora In the Celea- llalKlngdoB, - From a letter from Mrs. Julia F. W. "Plumb, in China, to s friend in this city, we gl«an some items relative to the treat­ ment of girls in that far away land. Mrs. Plumb, prior to her marriage, lived in Des Moines, and has many ao- quaintances and friends in thiw city. She is the wife of a missionary in that oountry, and is living near Fooohow. The letter says: 44 Some time ago Nathan and I went otif. "Mnallntytor C5U32.** ** house with a tiny little black-eyed baby in his arms, about 2 months old. * Two years old' he called it, for it was bom during the last month of the old year, and so had lived in two years. Thus the Chinese count ages. It was clean and bright, and almost pretty, and he begged us to accept it, They were very poor; had no clothing or rice for it, and it was a girl This last was the crowning mis­ ery, I was sorry there was no foundling asylum in the Mission, as there has been at one time in its history. I think if if; had been a white baby we would have accepted the gift. As it was, Nathan exhorted the man to keep it and not drown it, as he was suggestively near the river. He told him how wrong it was to wish to kill babies bemuse they were females, and much more which th© man seemed to understand, and promised us he would let the baby live." It is not an unusual thing to find little girl babies east out to die. 44 Some time ago I was at East Street Chapel, attending my women's meeting. A strange woman came in, and after the services were over I entered into con­ versation with her. She seemed to be quite an intelligent woman and in good circumstances, the keeper of a shop. I inquired about her family. She said, 41 had but one child.' I said, 'Only one child? No girls?' She replied, 4Oh, yes; girls in plenty; five or six, I forget which. I drowned them as fast as they were born.' I had never heard such an avowal before, and I was shocked. I raid, 4 How could you? Was it not hard to do?' She said, 'Yes, it was hard; some of them were unwilling to die, and one took hold of my finger and held on to it; then I was frightened greatly.' I said, 'But how could you drown your own little babies, whion you ought to love and nourish? Did you not love them ?' She answered,4 They were girls. They must be clothed and fed, and if they had their feet bound like mine, to make ladies of them, they could not work and bring in money hk«* boys. I have one son. He eats opium and gives me a great deal of trouble. It's better they were killed! It's bettor BO.'"-- Iowa State Register, A Plausible and Iteautlfnl Demon. Catherine de Medicis was essentially a type of her age and nation. lagos phrase, "Virtue, a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus," might well have been the motto of the Italian of the sixteenth century ; to be honest, honor­ able, and ingenuous, was, in his creed, to be a fool; to be Shifty, cunning, and dissimulating, was to be a man worthy of all respect; the most pitiless of assas sins when his interests were balanced against human life, but wholly destitute of that sanguinary ferocity, that tigerish love of Wood, which breaks out in the Frenchman whenever Ms passions are aroused by political or religious fanati­ cism. Thus Catherine was by nature tolerant, and averse to cruelty; but ruth­ less as destiny to all who threatened her ambition. A skeptic to revealed relig­ ion, she was profoundly credulous to eve/y superstition; an astrologer at­ tended her wherever she went; she never engaged in any scheme without first consulting the stars; and after her death all kinds of amulets and charms were found upon her person. She is accred­ ited with having been profoundly skilled in the science of poisoning, which reached such a terrible perfection among the Italians at the close of the middle ages; a pair of gloves, a bouquet, a per­ fumed handkerchief} could convoy death to an enemy and yet defy detection. Marvelously tenacious of purpose, fer­ tile in resources, and... unscrupulous in notion, she might have crushed al who opposed her dominion, and rendered her •power absolute, had she possessed more of the grandear of wickedness; but her policy was ever temporizing, ever emas­ culated by an excess of subtlety; she preferred poison and the dagger to the ax and sword, preferred to maim rather than crush an enemy; she excited terror, but never aw«. Yet, when, oocasion re­ quired, her courage was unquestionable. She was a dauntless huntress of the stag and the wild boar, and had frequently sustained severe injuries in their pur­ suit. And Brantome tells URs speaking of the siege of Rouen: 44 She failed not to come every day to Fort St. Catherine to hold council and to watch the firing of the batteries. 1 have often seen her passing along that hollow way of Si Catherine, the cannon and musket shot raining around her, for which she cared nothing. * * * When Monsieur the Constable and M. de Guise remonstrated with her, saying that misfortune would come of it, she only laughed and said she would not spare herself any more than them, since she had as good a cour­ age as they had, but not the strength their sex had designed them," In man­ ners she was affable and courteous, and had the sweetest of smile i and the most musical of voices; and, rarest praise of all in that licentious age, scandal scarcely frarwighftil her reputation.--Temple Bar. The Polar Expedition and Blames' Theory. The recent news from England is that the steamer Pandora that was sent north about the first of last July, to bring the news from the exploring expedition that went out last year under Capt. Nares, had got as far north as Upper Navic, which hies beyond Disco, and is the resi­ dence of the Governor of Greenland, and the last point north from whenoe there is communication this way, and she reports no news from Capt. Nares, but would steam on northward as the sea was clear of ice, and would reach Smith's Sound in a few days, at which point Capt. Nares was to leave a report of his discoveries up to that time. He is to remain a year longer, and the Pan­ dora is to brhtg home some news from him, and she may be expected home in a few days; and if Capt. Nares is for­ tunate enough to reaoh the open Polar Sea as the Swedish expedition did laat year, and runs into a warm and genial climate, and can report the finding of a rich country abounding in rich land, : large rivers and splendid forests of tim­ ber, as the Swedes report, then tbe 44 Symmes theory " will be proven be­ yond a doubt, and the country of 44 Symmzonia " will become a fixed fact, . Who is not anxious to hear ths news inunQapt. Nares? All Sorts BUT one woman lends her refining presenoe to the Vermont Penitentiaiy. And the Independent says: " We don t understand just where Ttrwnna is." A oow in Harrison county, Ky., has had twin calves seven times in succes­ sion. BuFFAliO Boii has sent a New Orleans friend a precious bit of Yellow Hand's scalp. THERE have been given and aeoepled at Paris notes payable at the fall of the republic. Kara JOHN, the reiguing NWWMH of Abyssinia, claims to be a linaril descend­ ant of the Queen of Sheba. PEBHAPS there is not a meaner thiaf than the Peoria fellow who stole a quilt from Ms paralytic mother's bed. Dio LEWIS is making a tour of Cali- • fornia with a party of men and women. At last reports they had slept i& open air 164 nights. THE Philadelphia Exhibition is to close cn Nov. 10, the day originally chosen, the managers having decided not to extend it. THE old practice of troops cheering on charging an enemy, which was abolished in the British army, some time ago, is to be revived. WINTER is ooming. The leaves are reddening along their tips like a young woman's ears when she is proposed to by a man of 60. THE inhabitants of Montenegro say that when God was distributing stones over the earth the bag that held burst aftd all fell there. " THE Star Spangled Banner" was first set in type by M. S. S. Sands, edi­ tor of the American Farmer, who is still living in Baltimore. _ A SPANISH proverb says that a paper' cigarette™ a glass of fresh water, and the kiss of a pretty girl will sustain a man for a day without eating. A PIANO which had been in use for ® number of years in a female seminary al at Oxford, Pa., was put up at auotion re- oently» and knocked down for 25 oents. THIS is from Ohilds' obituary columns: Safe in the amu af Jesn% As she sweetly would stag; Bts ie resting iss Jrtsub, She is under kta wing. Gone to meet her brother. FOTTB MHILION salmon eggs from Mo- Cloud river, Cal., were shipped east from Sacramento the other day, for distribution among the streams of the' Atlantic coast. AT the recent meeting of the British Association a paper was read by Capt. J. S. Hay on the horned men of Africa. He also exhibited sketches of two Afri­ cans with horns. Two BOYS at Sonora, OaL, recently bought a saw-blade and file which they passed into the jail to the prisoners there. The boys were arrested and held to answer in bonds of $500 each. A COMMISSION of Americans has ar­ rived at Valparaiso for the purpose of working the gold mines at Catapuloo, and representing a oempany organized in California with a capital of $1,000,000. A NEW cmuse for action. A man named Bowman, living in New York Sfcatej, whitewashed his wife recently, in one of their periodical quarrels, and was ar­ rested therefor and sent up for thirty days. Nor only are the Southern Himalayas of stupendous height, rising to a max­ imum of nearly 29,000 feet, but Thibet itself is a table land, in no part of it per­ haps less than 8,000 oi feet abo¥o' the level of the sea. THS practice of killing boys for steal­ ing apples is not tolerated in Pemisylv.*- nia. An old man has just been fined one dollar and costs ana sent to jail for sixty days for shooting an amateur Turpin who was robbing his trees. THE City of Mexico is growing. The hacienda of La Teja, a fine estate about three miles out, belonging to Martinez de le Torre, the defender of Maximilian on his trial, is to be divided up into lots and incorporated in th© city. A NOVELTY in the form of a folding scissors has made its appearanoe, the backs of which double up on the blades,, so that the whole can be put into a little leather case like that for a pair of eye­ glasses, and occupying scarcely more space. THERE lives at Boston Highlands, Mass., a venerable dame named Harriet Hawley, who is 103 years old, and who has never visited a 1 heater nor ridden in a railroad oar. Her father stood by the side of Gen. Wmxm when hm fell at Bunker HilL THE Boston Journal thinks it ill omen for the Hopkins University, in Baltimore, that it was opened with an address from Prof. Huxley, and without a word of prayer or any recognition of the Creator, although several clergymen were present. Mas. APKT.ATTOS CHAI<K,a widow, aged 38, of Winsdor street, Bishopegate London, died suddenly of heart disease, soon after being confronted by the wife of & man to whom she was to have been •married that day, and who had paved himself off as a bachelor. REPORT says there are 700 working men's dubs in Great Britain, with a mem­ bership which averages 120,000 They are opposed to the liquor traffic, and their club-rooms, of which there are many, are kept open on Sunday to in­ duce men to visit them" instead of pat* ronizing the gin-shops. IT is well known that the nearest stars, or rather suns, are so far distant from our earth that even light--with its tre­ mendous speed of 190,000 mile® per second--oocupies more than three years in its journey to us. Another illustra­ tion of the same fact is contained in a recent astronomical announcement, namely, that a certain comet will be, in 1879, 44 very near" the orbit of Jupiter This 44 very near," put into %urea> means only nine of miles I