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- » • IWtiitiiiitos %• ®hf ît̂ tnnr paindtaltf, J. VAN SLYKE, hmunra. IFAHENRY, ILLINOIS. JkyRIC ULTURAL ABiD DOM 1 MIC T Then and Now. Bess 4a tbe ume old mansion,. With ite quaint, moes-covered towers, And the summer sunlight Sleeping On the gleam of the garden flowers; And the wild dove, far in the flr- Cooing in monotone; And the stately, silent court-yard, With its antique dial-atone. The swallows have come ae of yon, lad, From over the sunny sea, And the cup of the lily echoes To the hum of the wandering bee. The lark, in its Bilvery treble. Sings up in the deep-blue sky; But the house is not »n it was, lad, . In those dear old days gone by. Twaa here that her garments rustled, Like music amid the flowers ; And her low, sweet, rippling laughter Hade richer the rose-wreathed bower*. But now, in its noontide brightness, The place seems cold and dead, And it lies like a form of beauty When the light of the soul has fled. All hushed is each lonely chamber That echoed to songs of old; The chairs are now all vacant, And the hearts are dark and cold. Yet the joy a I had here of yore, lad, No heart but my own can know; And the glimpses of heiven she gave me In this dear home long ago. But they went onaeve, when she left me Tlid the balm of the summer air; There's a grave far over the hills, lad-- The home ef my heart is there. To Around the Farm. HATE a good garden next year, cover it now with a heavy coat of rich, well-rotted manure, and spade it in deeply and thoroughly. IF, as we hope, onr depleting grain qystem of farming is to be changed or checked, even a little, by a new foreign trade tin beef, it will be some] relief to onr tired grain fields.--Detroit TYib une. IN many ol the Eastern States at least one-half the apple crops will go to waste, being too much to be taken care of. The Indianapolis, Ind., vinegar factory has purchased 10,000 bushels, at fourteen cents per bushel, to make cider vinegar. Two " CHEMISTS " for selling Liebig's fluid extract of meat have been fined on the application of the excise. It seems that the compound is about 84 per cent, of a so-called wine, with only a small percentage of extract of meat. The wine itself is reported to be a made- up article.--Glasgow News. A GANG of lightning-rod men has been operating in New Hampshire. By false representations they got the signature of farmers to promissory notes of 8150 each, due Feb. 29, 1877, when the farm­ ers thought they were signing for only $1.75. The scoundrels have escaped, and the notes will probably be presented for payment when due. WITH the opening English market for our choicest beeves, and with the boat herds of scalawags from Texas, Arkan­ sas, and Colorado which feed the million with poor and cheap beef, there is no profit in raising any but the best steers. Corn is plenty, and to save it from being swallowed in railroad freight, feed it to hogs and cattle, lib­ erally, but judiciously.--Des Moines Register. A CORRESPONDENT of„ the Indiana Farmer says there is much to learn in wheat culture in regard to varieties, best time for seeding, fertilizing, etc. In a paper before him he sees it stated that on a field of wheat, fertilizers to the amount of 1,000 pounds per acre were sown broadcast on a portion, and 250 pounds per acre drilled with the seed were more beneficial to the crop than the 1,000 pounds sown broadcast. THE amount of good done by the ohickens among fruit trees can hardly be estimated. We completely con­ quered the canker-worm in an orchard of 100 trees, in two years' time, by col­ onizing a flock of fifty chickens or so in the midst of the lot, not to mention the ceaselcss missionary work under­ taken by the biddies in the surrounding gardens and fields. We always preserve all the birds, too, not begrudging them a few cherries and berries.-- Scientific farmer. THE Country Gentleman says : " The wide-awake farmer should make every preparation in autumn for the timely performance of work the coming season. A week of delay in the routine of work may delay it the whole summer. Crops sowed late are reduced in amount. Weeds allowed to grow cost ten-fold to destroy. Those who have ever traveled on an ex­ press train out of time will understand this. Every hindrance is increased ten­ fold. Every local train must be waited for. Ten minutes too late is two hours loss." PBICKM comfrey is a plant with which every farmer and cottager ought to be­ come familiar, inasmuch as it is relished by all kinds of stock, horses, cows, calves, sheep and pigs, and it will grow any­ where, either in the sun or in the shade, between a double hedge or on a bleak bank, or on the hill side, in the mold or in the clay, it is very hardy and very productive. If it were planted on a richly prepared bed with some good strong crowns, I believe the product would soon be surprising. I planted some two years ago last March on: an em­ bankment, caused by building a "railway bridge. The toil consists of clay taken out of a cutting more than thirty feet deep, and yet I have already (Aug. 31) cut it five times this season without any manure whatever. If it is not wanted in its green state, it can be cut and carried to some convenient place, and cured as vhay and used in the same manner. It ought never to be allowed to flower, as it then becomes tough and woody, be­ sides losing time and checking its growth ; the more it is cut the more it grows, and I believe it is destined to be- . come a very useful and favorite plant.-- English Gazette. About the House. cake, stick the top thickly with blanched almonds ; bake and put in a large glass dish. Pour over it a full pint of old wine. Then make a rich custard and pout over ail. CHABCOAII has been discovered to be a sure cure for burns. By laying a small piece of charcoal upon the bum the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the charcoal on one hour, the wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on several occasions. IF the inside of yeur tea-pot or ooffee- pot is black fiom long use, fill it with water, throw in a small piece of hard eoap, set on the stove and let it boil from half an hour to an hour. It will clean as bright as a new dollar, and no work. A CORRESPONDENT of the Medical and Surgical Reporter asks : " What will prevent the falling of hair ?" I have used, for the past ten years, in my own case, and prescribed frequently for others, the following, with complete sat­ isfaction' : Glycerine and capsicum, each two ounces; oil of bergamot, one drachm ; mix and perfume to suit. This is to be the only dressing for the hair. •Wash the head occasionally with soft Water and fine soap. HINTS FOB YOTTNO HOUSEKEEPERS.-- A lady of long experience as mistress of ft house sends the following excellent hints for readers: " I have been a house­ keeper for a score of years, and have learned a good many little things by ex­ perience, a knowledge of which may be of use to those who have but recently taken charge of a house of their own. In the fall, when I go over my chests and trunks and closets, to take out fall and winter clothing and put away that which has been worn during the sum­ mer, I am careful to see that my material is put in one large box. All rolls and remnants of woolen I have in a bag by themselves, all bits of new calico in an­ other, scraps of new muslin in still an­ other. My worn linen is rolled up by itself, in readiness for use if bandages are required; my worn muslin likewise is in a parcel by itself. All these, with what new supplies I may have in the shape of flannel, muslin, cloths, calicoes, I keep in a chest by themselves. Then I have a trunk or drawer in which I lay such garments as are cut out and ready for the needle or the machine. In this drawer I keep my thread carefully cov­ ered in a box, as the air makes it tender; my needles, tapes, buttons, and every­ thing needed for sewing in the same place. In this way I never nave to spend any time in hunting up what I want to use. My patterns are all in a bag by themselves, the boys' patterns in sepa­ rate parcels, and the girls' the same. I have a bandbox in which are put away flowers, and ribbons, and velvets whicti may still be of service. On the inside of each closet door in the chambers is fastened a shoe bag, so that shoes are never lying round on the floor. These various little contrivances I have found very useful in enabling me to put my hand at once on whatever may be re­ quired for family convenience without tne trouble of hunting it up." Hartford's Writers. The prominence of the city in litera­ ture dates back to the first of this and last of the previous century, to the period of Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, Dr. Cogswell, Theodore Dwight, Dr. Hop­ kins and Richard Alsop, knows as the " Hartford wits." These brilliant men, who earned their title mainly by their contributions to a number of papers that were occasionally printed, may properly be called the founders of the literature of the place. Trumbull, the author of " McFingall," (who was admitted to Yale College when 7 years old, and who, settling as a lawyer in Hartford in 1781, lived to be 81), and Theodore Dwight, were probably the best known of these. Dwight was an editor, and was offered, but declined, the editorship of the New York Evening Post, before it was given to Mr. Coleman in 1801. He was in Congress in 1806, and shortly afterward established the Connecticut Mirror, a brilliant Federalist sheet, intended to be more pronounced than the Courant, that he had edited. Dwight was Secre­ tary to the Hartford Convention, and after it left Hartford. Near to these in time was S. G. Goodrich, ilio familiar " Peter Parley," who was a publisher before he began to write, and brought out Trumbull's poems in 1820 in Hart­ ford, and afterward, moving to Boston, established there the Token, in which he introduced Hawthorne and others to the public. His work in American lit­ erature was something like Knight's in England. He popularized and, either in his own name or as Peter Parley, he was the writer of 170 books, of which his compends of information--history, geography, travel--are still remembered and used. His "Recollections," in two volumes, are full of Hartford stories. The poets Percival and J. G. C. Brain- ard, the latter one of Connecticut's favorites, were his friends and contem­ poraries. Of Brainard, whose theme was mainly nature, he says that he wrote his "Ode to Niagara," admitted to be the finest ever written on the sub­ ject, in a hurried half hour, at a call for cony in the office of the Mirror, which he"edited, and when he wrote it he had never been within 500 miles of the falls!--C. H. Clark; Scribner for November. Drinking Places in Otar Large Cities. New York, with a population approx­ imating 1,000,000, has 5,700 saloons, or one to every 175 of its inhabitants. Chi­ cago, naughty, wicked Chicago, with nearly 500,000 population, has about 2,000 saloons, or one to every 250 in­ habitants. Boston, with 300,000 in­ habitants, has only 1,200 sa'oons, or one to every 291 inhabitants. Cincin­ nati, with about 325,000 population, and its .'arge German beer-drinking element, comes pretty close to Balti­ more, with 2,100 saloons, or one to every 155 inhabitants, and Philadelphia shows, with a population of about 800,000, 2,700 saloons, or one to every 206 of its inhabitants. THE London Milk Journal says that a pint of milk heated a little, but not "boiled, taken every four hours, will check the most violent diarrhoea, stomach ache, incipient cholera and dys­ entery. TIPST SQUIRE.--Take a loaf of sponge Ms honesty and paini AN honest conductor on, one of the San Francisco street-cars found a bag con­ taining $475 in coin on one of the seats of his car, where it had been left by a careless passenger who had alighted a block or two off. The conductor picked up the bag and ran back with it in the direction taken by the owner, whom he met in a fearful state of mind, having discovered his loss. A hearty shake ef the hand was all the conduotor got for CREMA1ION. Sepulehera of the Future--The Cremation Furnace of Dr. L« Mojrne, of Uttle Wash­ ington, Pa.--Description of the Building. A reporter for a Pittsburgh paper re­ cently visited the cremation hu-nace of Dr. Le Moyne, of Little Washington, Pa., and gives the following description of the singular structure : But little additional attention to the details of preparation isjaeeded to com­ plete the arrangements for the recep­ tion of the corpse that will become his­ torical ns being the first cremated in this country. No fees will be charged for cremation, it being the intention of Dr. Le Moyne to put this means of dis­ posing of the dead within the reach of the poorest of the poor. Hundreds of people visit the furnace daily, and on the day of its inauguration a multitude will no doubt be in attendance. The furnace is inclosed in a building which is at once the cemetery and the grave. Economy is one of the Doctor's pet hobbies, and the building has been con­ structed upon economical principles. It is of brick, but one story in height, with a roof of corrugated iron. It has three chimneys of ordinary size, one leading from the furnace room, one from the reception room, and a third from one of the corners of the building. The use of the third is simply to pre­ serve the architectural symmetry of the structure. The house is divided into two rooms, the reception and the fur- naoe room. The reception room is about twenty feet square. Its furniture is of the simplest kind, consisting sim­ ply of a catafalque for the bodies to rest upon, a shelved case, with transparent glass door, in which the remains of the cremated will be deposited, a few chairs for the accommodation of friends of the departed, and a small stove to make things comfortable in oold weather. A door leads from this room into the cremation department proper, which is a room of about 10x20 feet. In the cremation room there is noth­ ing but the furnace. The retort has been made especially for the accommo­ dation of coffins. It is seven and one- half feet in length, twenty inches in height, and twenty-eight inches wide. All these are inside measurements. The retort somewhat resembles a gas retort, the difference being that its sides are perpendicular instead of being arched. Above the perpendicular line, along which the coffins will rest, the retort is arched and it is built around with brick work in the same style that gas retorts are. In the work of cremation coke will be used, and it is calculated that the retort can be brought to a white heat in twenty-four hours. When this degree of heat is obtained the body to be cremated, inclosed in the plainest sort of a pine coffin, is put into the fur­ nace, and in a few hours the work of in­ cineration will be complete. The pres­ ent calculations of Dr. Le Moyne do not provide for the elimination of the wood ashes of the coffin from the human ashes of the person cremated. This, however, the doctor does not consider to be a very great objection, as the pro portion of wood ashes will be only as one pound to five, and after the furnace is in practical opetation,if this objection be found to seriously militate against its success, a method which the doctor in contemplation will be put into opera­ tion. A number of boxes large enough to hold four or live pounds of ashes will be provided by tbe doctor. These will be made of metal, or of elastic glass, the material not having yet been decided upon. Upon one end of the boxes there will be a place for the photograph of the person whos9 ashes are inside, and below the photograph will be a record of the date of the death, and of the date of the cremation of the powdered indi­ vidual. These boxes will be stored in the case in the reception-room, already described, and there they will be pre­ served subject to the demands of the relatives of the deceased. In this same case there will be kept the record of all cremations, and these will be always ac­ cessible* to persons having the right to inspect them. An index of the boxes will be kept, and the ashes of any man, cr his mcther-in law, can be got at with the greatest facility. There will be no danger of the escape of any part of the remains after they have been reduced to powder. The boxes will be hermetical­ ly sealed, and in packing them the great­ est care will be taken to get possession of every atom of tbe cremated. The height of the chimneys from the top of the building is disappointing. Visitors confidently expect to see great piles of bricks rising scores of feet above the roof, and the majority of them believe that the failure to have such chimneys will result in the poisoning of the atmosphere by the gases which es­ cape through the low ventilation. This would probably be the result but for the arrangement that has been made to ef­ fectually dispose of these gases. At the bacK of the retort there is a vent- hole four inches in diameter opening into the furnace. Through this vent the gases generated in the retort during the combustion of a body will be forced to escape into tne furnace, there being no other outlet from the retort. In the furnace they will be consumed. But little smoke will escape through the chimney, and that which does will be harmless, as will be the hot air which will accompany it. She Wanted to Register. Yesterday forenoon a determined- looking woman, accompanied by a small- sized husband, who had a retiring air, called at the first precinct in the Fifth Ward, and the wife demanded to be registered, while the husband remained outside and whistled a lonesome tune. " In the name of twelve million down­ trodden women I demand to be regis­ tered," said the woman. "In the name of the law I reply that I can't do it," replied one of the Board. "You must !" MI can't." " You shall I" "I won't." " Then, sir, twelve million down-trod­ den and long-waiting females of America shall hiss your name to scorn and con­ tempt forever more I" "It makes me feel bad, but I can't help it," replied the member. The woman glared at him for a min­ ute, favored him with a double-jointed scowl, and then walked out. Her hus­ band opened the door after she had \ olosed it with a bang, and in a voice of deep humility remarked: " I didn't want to come along, but,was forced to. Don't think hard ol mf, gentlemen!"--Free Press. A FORGKR OF SOTS. Release of an ex-Member of Parliament, After Fourteen Tears of Peual Servitude for Forgery. [From the Montreal Gazette.] William Ronpell, ontfe a member of Parliament for Lambeth, who, fourteen years ago, was found guilty of forgery wid sentenced to penal servitude for life, has lately, by special act of mercy on the part of Her Majesty, been re­ leased from imprisonment. Both from the position of the criminal and. the cir­ cumstances under which the crime was committed, the case attracted much at­ tention at the time; but, during the nearly half generation which has since elapsed, even the name of the unfortunate man had almost been effaced from the public memory. Many persons, however, will be able to recall the sensation that was caused when the forgery was discov­ ered. Roupell was the eldest and illegitimate son of wealthy parents, who married subsequent to his birth. In his will his father had bequeathed his large prop­ erty to the second son, who was the eld­ est born in wedlock. William found opportunity of destroying this will and forged another, by which the property was left to his mother and he was ap­ pointed sole executor. The deed ac­ complished, his conscience seems to have allowed him no peace of mind, and, in his restlessness and recklessness, he eagerly squandered estate after es­ tate. At last he confessed his crime, and by his confession he only shifted the consequenoes of it from one set of victims to another ; and those to whom he had sold the property which was not his became the los rs. His family gained their rights, but those who had advanced him purchase money for es­ tates, sold by him under false titles, suffered by his deceit. When he ap­ peared in the dock to reoeive sentence, he sought for no mercy, assuring the judges who condemned him that his sole desire wtus to atone, as far as possible, for the evil which he had done. In prison, at Portland, his conduct was most exemplary. He devoted all hie, faculties to the relief of the sick and weak, and administered such oonsolation as he could to the dying. Thus, wholly resigned to his lot, counting himself happy to be able to turn to any use a life so drearily overshadowed, he ful­ filled the term of fourteen years. Sen­ tenced for life to exile from the world which had known him, he seemed to have no wish to escape from his lot. When, some time ago, the Prince of Wales visited the establishment at Port­ land, he evinced a deep interest in Roupell's case, and engaged, if possi­ ble, to effect his emancipation. But the sad prisoner gently and thanktully de­ clined his promised aid, and expressed his determination to end his days in the same monotonous seclusion, lightened only by the consciousness that he was try­ ing to make some amends for the past. Since then the Queen has intimated her gracious pleasure that he should be set . jjfree, and now he comes forth. Wanted', a testimonial. They had a quarrel Sunday evening. He got mad and swore he'd leave her. Then she got vexed and told him he could do as he pleased. He left. The next night he came around again. He asked to see her alone. She readily com­ plied. She was all of a tremor. Her heart went out to him in a gush of sym­ pathetic love. She stood ready to throw both arms about his neck and cry out her joy. There was not much color in his face, and his voice was husky. He said: "I have been with you six months, Matilda, and I tried in all that time to do what was right." He paused an in­ stant to recover the voice which was faltering rapidly, while her trembling increased. "I know that I have got considerable temper, and that I do not control it always as I ought. But I have tried to be faithful to you, tried to do, everything that I thought would tend to make you happy. 'And, feeling this, I have called to-night to pee if you wouldn't be kind enough to give me a sort of testimonial to this effect, so that I could show it to any other young lady I might want to go with. It might help me." He looked at her anxiously. All the color left her face in a flash. She made a great effort to swallow something which threatened to suffocate her. Then she spoke: " You get out of this house as quick as you can, you miserable whelp, or my father shall kick you out." He didn't toy with time. He left without the testimonial. -- Danbury News. Colored Masons in Ohio. At the recent session of the Ohio Ma­ sonic Grand Lodge, at Columbus, a very earnest discussion was had on the point of order relative to the recognition of the colored Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio. The question of their recognition was presented last year and laid over. At this session the Committee on Juris­ prudence reported the matter back with a resolution recommending the recogni­ tion of the colored Grand Lodge. A point of order was then made that, under the constitution of the Grand Lodge, close resolutions were not in order ex­ cept as amendments to the constitution itself. The Grand Master overruled the point of order, and held that the resolu­ tion was in order. An appeal was taken from this decision, and was sustained by the Grand Lodge, there being about sev- enty-five majority in favor of the appeal. Exposition Visitors. The greatest number of visitors on any one day has been as follows at the different International Expositions: Philadelphia.. 267,169, on Thursday, Sept. 28. 187G. Paris 173.923, on Sunday, Oct. 27, I8ri7. Vienna 135,674, on Sunday, Nov. 2, 187d. Paris 123,017, on Sunduy, Sept. 9, 1855. London K>9,i)15, on Tuesday. Oct. 7, 1851. London 67,891, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 18C2. Philadelphia, it will be seen, surpassed Paris 83,246. Considering that Paris has 150 per cent, more population than Philadel­ phia, and that France contains ten times the population of Pennsylvania, and almost as large a population as the United States, the "turn out" at Philadelphia on the 28th of September is as extraordinary as unprecedented. CKKSLS OF OERMASY. A Fast Growing Country--The Increase of Population --An JSxcess of Females Over Males. [From the Manchester (England) Examiner.] The German census return, which Hug recently been published, gives the new- ly-formed empire the rank next to Great Britain of the fastest growing country in Europe. Within the limits now comprised in the German Empire the population has almost doubled in sixty years. In 1816 the population was 23,103.111; in 1875 it was 42,726,844, including the annexed territory of Alsace-Lorraine. The census before that of last December was taken in 1871; then the population was 41,023,095. Thus the increase of population amount­ ed to 1,703,749 in four years, being slightly over 1 per cent, per annum. It may afford material for comparison to state here that the annual rate of in­ crease in England and Wales during the seventy years previous to the census of 1871 was 1.35 per cent., the actual aggregate increase being 13,819,730, or 155 per cent While it has taken Ger­ many sixty years to double her popula­ tion, England and Wales doubled theirs in the years intervening between 1801 and 1851, and at the annual rate of in­ crease prevailing during the ten years preceding 1871, would'go on doubling itself every fifty-six years. The rate of increase in Germany from 1871 to 1875 differs in a striking manner in the va­ rious states of the empire. It was largest in the two free cities of Bremen and I Hamburg, amounting to over 16 pet cent, in the former, and 14 per oent. in the latter; but this was not so much owing to a general increase of popula-j tion as to the movement from rural into urban districts prevailing all over Europe. The increase ef population was greatest in Saxony, which had 2,556,244 inhabitants in 1871, and 2,760,342 at the census of 1375, showing a growth at the rate of close upon 8 per cent, in the four years. Next stands Prussia, the population of which increased from 24,605,842 in 1871, to 25,693,688 in 1875, or at the rate of 4.40 per C6nt. during the period. The three Southern states of Bavaria, Wurtemburg aud Baden ex­ hibit a very inferior growth of popula­ tion. Alsace-Lorraine lost--not by de­ crease of birth, but by emigration-- 20,330 souls in the four years; the popu­ lation of the Reichsland falling from 1,549,738 in 1871 to 1,529,408 in 1875, or at the rate of 3f percent, in four years. Three other states showed a decrease of population in the census retmrns of 1875--i. e., the little principality of Waldeck and the two grand duchies of Mecklenberg-Schwerin and Strelitz, the administration of which remains semi- feudal. The returns of the census of 1875 have been summarized in the state­ ment that the increase of population was mainly in the northern states of Ger­ many, more particularly in Prussia, the eastern provinces of which stand promi- neut iu this respect, and in Saxony. In other words, tbe boundary lines of large increase fall in, to a marked degree, with those divisions of the empire in­ habited by Protestants. It is worthy of remark that in this reepdet Germany is typical of the whole of Europe. The oensus return supplies some interesting information upon the relative numbers of the sexes. Prussia has an excess of 362,730 females over males, or propor­ tionately about half the surplus of fe­ males in England and Wales. In some parts of Prussia, however, there is an excess of males over females. In the district of Hanover, for instance, in the province of the same name, there was, at the census of the 1st of December, 1875, a population of 215,364 males, and 284,695 females; while the district of Luueburg, in the same province, had as many as 195,556 males, with 192,128 females; and the adjoining district of Osnabruck, 139,761 males, with but 138,001 females. The review from which wo extract these facts omits to state, with reference to the provinces where the ladies are in a minority, what is the number remaining unmarried above the age, say, of 30." HOW HE TOOK HIS. Sentencing John O. Lee to l»e Shot M Hi* Own Request. In sentencing John D. Lee, the Moun­ tain Meadow butcher, Judge Boardman delivered a long speech, in the course of which he recapitulated the incidents of the crime, and declared that the convic­ tion was only the first of punishments which would fall on the guilty leaders in planning and executing the crime that are known. The Judge also took occa­ sion to suggest that the first jury which tried Lee and disagreed was corrupt. The curious law giving a choice of pun­ ishment led to the 1 olio wing colloquy : Judge Boardman--In accordance with the verdict of the jury and the law it be comes my duty to pass sentence of death upon you, and iu doing this ihe statute requires that you may have the choice, if you desire, of three different modes of execution, namely, that of being hanged, by shooting or beheading. If you have any choice or desire in this re­ spect you can now express it. Lee--I would rather be shot. Judge Boardman--As you have made a choice and expressed a desire that you be executed by being shot, it follows that such shall be. The judgment of the court is, therefore, that you be taken hence to a place of confinement within this Territory, and that you there be safely kept in confinement until Friday, the 26th day of January, 1877 ; that be­ tween the hours of 10 o'clock in the fore • noon and 3 o'clock in the afternoon of that day you be taken from your place of confinement, and in this district be publicly shot till you are dead, and may Almighty God have mercy upon your soul. A Miser Starves Himself to Death. Dr. Thomas J. Manahan died in Brown's Hotel on Wednesday evening, of general debility, superinduced by starvation. About one year ago Mana han was admitted to the Church Home as a pauper, his clothing being torn and so filthy that it bad to be taken from him. The dirty clothing was precious to Manahan. Iu,the lining ot' the vest were packages of money, which were handed to the supposed pauper, who, instead of a grateful acknowledgment, charged the employe of the institution who delivered him the money with hav­ ing robbed him of a sum which he said was missing from one of the packages. The money was found. It was after­ ward discovered that Manahan owed, targe t*ams of money to boarding-house keepers, it being his custom to remain at ooe a short time, and leave without payinpr his bills. Recently Mannhqn ma le Brown's Hotel, in North High str. et, his home, but had* denied him­ self nourishment. Dr. Houck, who was called after the miser had breathed hi* last, gave it as his opinion that Mana­ han had been suffering from general debility. The sum of $2,600.25 was found among the miser's effects.-- timore American. All Sorts. ALL the streets of Metz have been re» named in German. ~ " MR. SmjiECK's SCHOOL" is the of an educational establishment at Nojp walk, Conn. A CORA C HKKSM k ̂ committed suicide iM New York because her husband rnftioon to use condensed milk. - MME. ANNA BISHOP, the once-famotiil songstress, has received a legacy of $5,00® from a Mrs. Ray, of Australia. " } MAN? farmers in Minnesota forbid sheeting prairie chickens on their prenkr ises, lest the bird be exterminated. PROFESSIONAL base-ball playing $k. . growing unpopular at the East. Them is more fun watching an amateur gamtt THE receipts at the gates of the Oei£ teimial grounds during September were $948,081. The Yankees understand thin exhibition business. A LOWER Canadian court has decided that reporters are not bound to give the names of informants on whose state­ ments they base their articles. A WATERTOWN (Conn.) merchant has received twenty-five cents that have been due him for twenty-five years, from a conscience-stricken debtor. A SAN FRANCISOO man committed sui­ cide because he lost his place as bajy keeper, and had to go to work in a tea store. Barkeepers most keep Hp tMb- pride of the profession. * A MAMMOTH set of scales, said to be the largest in the world, has been erected at Ashley, Luzerne county, Pa. It is 150 feet long, with the ordinary railroad width, and can weigh 1,000 tons of ooal. It cost $5,000. THE New York. Society for the Pre­ vention of Cruelty to Children is doing a good work. During the last three months it has investigated nearly 800 cases and sent over 100 children to in­ stitutions or homes. BOBBINS' island, in Peconic bay, Long Island, was recently sold for $8,000 at Sheriff's sale to Mr.* Ira B. Tuthill, who has for some years carried on a brick yard upon it. There are still $6,000 in claims against the island. ' SOME inveterate advertisers have adopted the practice of stamping firm names and addresses on the new silver coin. An easy way to bieak np this business is by a general refusal to ao- cept the disfigured coin. "WELL, my dear," said our good pastor at Sunday-school to a tow-headed urchin, " I am glad to hear you are get­ ting to be a better boy." "Why, sir," said little Joe, looking up with grave earnestness, " gosh, I ain't been sick." A SKUUCI was needed in a performance of " Hamlet," in Virginia City. It w«» Reported that Jim Orndorf had one, and it was sent for; but it proved to be the • skull of a dog, and the joke was not dis­ covered uhtil too late to provide any' other. A MAN in Paris, wishing lately to pass a joke upon his wife, hired a coffin and placed himself in it at the moment of her return after a few days' absence. On seeing the supposed corpse, she fell senseless to the ground, and has since been a lunatic. CLAPHAM, near Bedford, England, has been greatly excited by the exhumation of the body of an aged clergyman who was buried there in 1870, and who was supposed to have an important will witliin his coffin. When the corpse was raised a package was found under it, but it was a bundle of old love letters. THE Czar Alexander receives, in round numbers, $25,000 a day income ; the Turkish Sultan, %>18,000; thj Ein^i'or of Auolria, $10,000 ; the Emperor of Germany, $8,200; the King of Italy, $6,440; the Queen of England, $6,270; the King of the Belgians, $1,643; and tbe President of the French Republic, $500. IT is said that when the locusts swarmed in Central China, last summer, the Mandarins offered prayers in the temples; and the peasants, in their ig­ norance, thought them a blessing in dis­ guise, and, gathering them a la manna, fried and ate them, no doubt thinking them an improvement on their old diet of rais and mice. CHICAGO is the second telegraphic city in the country, having as much light­ ning correspondence as Boston and Phil­ adelphia combined, which is simply an­ other way of saying that our Eastern men are so long-headed that they can use the mail, while those flustered "West­ erners have to do a sort of hand-to-mouth business.--Boston Advertiserm THE fresh-water "sea-serpent" has met his end in Mendomack lake, near Rockland, Me. A sailing party met him near the shore just as they were landing, and all but one of them ran away. Win. Grinnell, of Washington, however, killed him with an oar. The snake is ten feet long, is of a dull brown color, and has a fin running the whole length of his back. The head is very long, and tbe teeth would make a nervous man shudder. THE Danbury News man has made, in Boston, his first appearance as a lectur­ er. The reporters say that his descrip­ tion of travel in England was humorous, but did not cause uproarious laughter. A point was made by asking who " ever thought of a one-legged Duke or a cross­ eyed Duchess, or a Baron with a wen on the top of his head ? No one ; yet he had actually found them to be just as other people were, and fully as mean.' THERE is a colored man in Hartford, who will drive a good-sized nail into a plank with one thump of his forehead, and with several blows can send the nau "clean home" into the mortar between two bricks. A day or two ago he was re­ quested to send a nail " right in " with one blow. He did the task, but has now a bad-looking bruise on his forehead-- the first bruise, he says, he has had in all his years of practice.