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7 8Phe JRc^tnrg piaindealtt J. VAS 8LYXJL Publisher. j -McHEKRY, ILLINOIS. IdUCVLTlISlL AND DOMESTIC. r Little M«1I. XK Mttle Sell! God bleBR tbe child! jTreg, John, yon have a home; J IVB been a drosdin' alt along To see this hour come. Fo* Nell's oar baby, John ; fhe's all That's loft to wife and me-- Oot bonntie lass! without her here What would the old home be t Sont mind, John; I'm womanish About my little Nell. Im, yes, I know, I know you will, You 11 always nee her well. v She's tender. John--* snowy lamb I've carried on my breast, That's Scept my od heart warm ao long. Been fondled and care*Bed; And sheltered from the stoma ao well, Shell need a love-kept MM.;*, . 1 know it. John, you are good and troe, And wc axe getting old. She'll need a strong arm by and by ; Pcriiapu 'tis just as well ' That she should .go'away from ns, Aci we from litUe NeH. Ltt'S SEE! The house 1B roomy, Job*, And ooly wiie and me; - there's plenty room and welcome, too, For you and Nell, you see. Thfi nightB are gettin'long to oa, Our years arc gettiu' f<jw; We'd like to have our Nellie near Vntil she's left to you. Tbe farm has got too large for me-- The hands wants leadtu' well, So you can take the for'ard plow And 111 stay back with Nell. ble^H juu, iueii! wui6 right along, - > ltty little Nell is yours; You'd better go and tell her, John; 1*11 see about the chorea. Around the Farm. IIIIITNOIB received premium for butter at the fall Exposition at Philadelphia. I HAVE had some experience in that business, and I came to the conclusion that I would would not, under any cir­ cumstances, thresh another bundle of grain bound with wire. The wire winds arotrnd almost every pulley there is in a Machine, and I had to stop very often, as the boxes -would get hot.--factory and Farm. IT is stated by a French ohemist that the flesh of animals killed in the latter part of the night will keep much longer without salting than the flesh of those slaughtered jin the day-time. This proves that the flesh is better fitted for keeping when the life and blood are taken from the animal when the tem­ perature is the lowest, and respiration the least active. Hence the reason that tbe flesh from animals highly heated, or hard driven, will scarcely keep at all. AN English vicar testifies that he has seen a pair of swallows, when the time for migration came and thay found their young brood too weak to fly, plaster the nest up with mud with the six young •wallow? in it. Returning in the spring, they aroused the young swallows, whioh were found to be none the worse for "their long hibernation. There is a sug­ gestion also that the swallows were ae- %ustomed generations ago to hibernate regularly, and, though they have since discovered the preferabiiity of migration to a warmer climate, they are yet able to return to the old habit in case of need." GEO. W. OUBTIS says, "That what­ ever poetny may have said of the farmer, history tells of him a hard, sad tale. When we first see him in England he is a shepherd, wearing a brass collar; he is S part of the estate, like the flock he tends, and the earth he tills. Gurth is fiie born thrall of Cedric." The farmer was a slave. Or, descending English history, take another fact. The national income of England is supposed to have increased tenfold in a century and a half, or from the time of William III. to 1851; and during all that time the smallest proportional share always fell to the ag­ ricultural laborer." A sPMNXiiiNG of sawdust was put in the bottom of the barrel, then a cake of ice, fitted in the sawdust, then apples set on the end as thick as could be packed, then sawdust sprinkled on these •applftf? again, and so filled; and packed 4way in the ice-house, covered well with sawdust, and they were fresh and good when taken out. I havfe found good . apples in the leaves under the trees in the spring, where the snow laid on. Apples can be frozen up in the fall in tight barrels and kept so till spring, then rolled into a cool, dark cellar to thaw gradually and be all right. I put ft way a barrel that way once, in a closet in an upper story, and they froze up. It stayed there until warm weather, when I rolled it to the cellar and thawed it out and it* was as good as ever.--Ohio Farmer. " IT is always best for a fanner," says trecent writer, 44 to produoe wool of one >rt or the other. Wool that is neither tone thing nor the other, neither long nor short, will not usually command a satis­ factory price so readily as if it were either the wool clipped from merino rfheep or from the backs of some lpng-woled breed. An intelligent 4ealer in wool assures us that good de­ laine wool should be at least three inches in length, and be a round, strong staple. The practice of buying wool at an aver­ age per pound, without regard to its -Quality or condition, id paying a prem­ ium for and encouraging the growth of poor and dirty wool, for grease and filth cost but a trifle per pound compared with choice, clean wool. Wool-growers who raise wool above the average as to quality and condition can do better than to sell it at an average price by sending it to a reliable commission merchant, where it will be sorted and sold accord- I ing to its merits. This is a safe and sat- I isfactory way to sell good wool. It is 5 not to be expected that wool-buyers will . advise farmers to thus dispose of their wool, for it deprives them of all the commission for buying, beside some 12 -cents per pound in addition for all the delaine wool they sort out." About the House. SPOKOE OAKS.--Four eggs beaten sep­ arately, to the yelks add one cup of '• sugar, beaten well, and then the whites, lastly add one cup of flour, put lightly in with spoon, not beaten, bake moder­ ately quick. MATRIMONY.--Pare and cut into «m»ll pieces two dozen fine peaches; cover them with sugar and let them stand three or four hours. Then beat them into one quart sweetened cream, or cus­ tard, and freeze. Panned poaches may be used. WARS 8ATJG» VOR PUPMW. Twoc*p- fuls of brown sugar; one cupful of but ter; one cupful of sherry wine; twoeggs. Beat all together very light before you add the wine. list it 8tetais nnt hoi! (put it into a tin bucket- and put that into a kettle of boiling water)* stirring all the time until it scalds and thickens. Into your sauce bowl put & teaspoonful of vanilla, and pour the sauce in. TO ROAST A TUBKEY.--It should be killed at least two days in advance. Make a forcemeat of grated bread crumbs, pCppCfj anaol' w> ^ TniyiAOz-l suet, and the beaten yelk of an egg. Chop the liver, gizzard and heart for the gravy. Stuff the craw and the body, and sew up the openings. Dredge with flour, and put the bird into the hake-pan, with the botton well covered with butter. IT is usual to detect gas escapes by applying a lighted taper or candle to the suspected place of leakage. This is dangerous, and many explosions have thus been occasioned. A. safer mode is as follows : Mix dark soap and water in the proportion of two pounds of the former to five or seven pints of the lat­ ter. The sticky paste or Mquid so ob­ tained is ready to be applied by the brush to the gas pipe, when, if an es­ cape is taking place, bubbles will read­ ily be seen on the liquid; thus the po­ sitions of the gas escapes are indicated without any danger, CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING.--One cup nf raiflf ntiminMl finp• nnn Ann nt Or-- r-- rr -- j 1' -- v. leans molasses, one cup of stoned and chopped raisinsj; one cup of currants, teaspoonful of cinnamon; teaspoonful of vinegar; a little pinch of salt; one cup of milk; three and one-half cupfuls of flour, or enough to make a batter thick as cuke; one teaspoonful of soda, dis­ solved and poured through a strainer. Steam it for five or six hours. Put it into a buttered -cake pan (one havibg a hole through the center), cover it with a big tin lid, and place it in your steamer. A little brandy poured over it, and set on fire just as it goes to the table, gives it the fine appearanoe of the true old feudal style. BURRED THEATERS* Heller's Basket Trick. The trick known as the4'basket trick," •which Mr. Heller introduces as the last feature of his performance at the Won­ der Theater, excites a good deal of sur­ prises as it is only natural it should. The conditions of the trick are simply as follows: A large basket is brought out and placed in full view upon a bench supported on four primitive wooden legs, and leaving an open space between the basket and the floor. There seems no possible way by which a human being once in oould get out of that basket without being saon. The baekoe placed by Mr. Heller and his assistant, Mr. Heller next brings forward a pair of overalls which cover hi™ to the neck, and whioh have no outlet at the ends of the sleeves or legs. When the overalls are drawn on and a hood drawn over Mr. Heller's head and attached to the main garment by strings, there -remains no outlet for so much, as a finger of the performer to get through. But as Mr. Heller is about to remove his coat for the purpose of donning his garment he remembers that he is in New York in­ stead of Australia--that is his carelessly- stated excuse--and a screen, whioh reaches up to the performer's neck, is placed behind the basket, and the per­ former retires behind this and effects the change. So far as one notioes, his head does not once disappear during the time he is employed in drawing on the overalls. The last vision one has is of Mr. Heller's own face disappearing in the ample hood, and immediately he steps out from behind the screen, and, with the help of an assistant, climbs into the basket, the lid of which is closed upon him and locked. As far as the hu­ man eye can discover this is Mr. Heller who has just gone into the basket, but in the same instant---almost before the cover is down--Mr. Heller makes his appearanoe in ordinary evening costume at the entrance of the theater, and walks down the ais e, inquiring 14 vrhat was being done with him." He immediately ascends the platform, opens the basket, and nobody is within. The question is still an open one. Hew did Mr. Heller cease to be the man in the basket, and, whoever the man in the basket was, how did he get out ?--New York World. Buchu Helmbold. Dr. Helmbold, the monarch of buchm, has been divorced from his wife on her application. Although he had expressed great regard fer her, and was accustomed to say President Grant had spoken of her as 44 the handsomest woman in the United States," he changed his tune when the decree was granted, and pro­ fessed to be highly delighted. He said he post have a banquet to celebrate the occasion, and thereupon dispatched finely-engraved invitations for an enter­ tainment at Delmonioo's to prominent gentlemen in all parts of the country. Daniel Webster's Widow. The widow of Daniel Webster, who is now reported as an octogenarian and living at New York citys and, after ten years' withdrawal from outer life, at­ tending church regularly on Sundays, was Caroline Bayard Leroy, the daugh­ ter of an eminent New York merchant. Mr. Webster's first wife, the mother of his four children, was Grace Fletcher, of Hopkinton, N. H., who died in 1828, and Mr. Webster married Miss Leroy in 1829. WALNUT trees sometimes attain pro­ digious size and great age. An Italian architect mentions having seeu at St. Nicholas, in Lorraine, a single plank of the wood of the walnut twenty-five feet wide, upon which the Emperor Fred­ erick III. had given a sumptuous banquet. In the Baider valley, near Balaclava, in th& Crimea, stands a walnut tree at leant 1,000 years old. It yields annually from 80,000 to 100,000 nuts, and belongs to five Tartar fami­ lies, who share its produce equally. THE beautiful spint ef beneficence has endeared Christmas day to the poor and the young. What a joyous time it brings to the heart of childhood! ^nd how pleasant it mu3t be to a truly generous nature to participate in the usual felici­ ties of the holiday season, and to observe the exultation of the young at the tokens of affection they receive 1 8ouae I»«id«»ta of the Richmond Tragedy. sixty-five years since the Rich­ mond Theater wag burned, Deo. 26, 1811. From that time until the Brook­ lyn disaster no calamity of equal horror bsb ooomr^i to any theater in this coun- w j. By ifc « was supposed at least 120 persons lost their lives. In the •• Historical Collections of Vir-« grow, by Mr. Henry Howe, now of Cincinnati, published in 1845, is a de­ tailed acoouut of this disaster, together with an engraved representation of the soene. The building was a three story fitTiwhnw. p'-SlS SS u Quaker meeting­ house, standing on an open lot detached from all otlxer buildings. An Episcopal church, called the Monu­ mental Church, was subsequently erected on the spot, to commemorate the event. The remains of some of the unfortunate victims were deposited in a marble urn, which stands in the front portico of the church. Among those who perished in the names were George W. Smith, theGov- ernor of Virginia; A. B. Venable, Presi­ dent of the Bank of Virginia; Lieut J, Gibbon, of the navy, " in attempting to save Mise Conyers," and many others of th® very choicest citizens of Virginia, The editor of the Richmond Standard was jh the theater at the time of the disaster, and in his paper of the next day he gave these details: "Last night the play-house in thin city was crowded with an unusual audi­ ence--not less than 600 persons. Just before the conclusion of the play the scenery caught fire, and in a . few'min­ utes the entire building was in flames. The editor of this paper was in the house. He is informed that the scenery took fire in the back part of the house by the raising of a chandelier; that the boy who was ordered by some of the play­ ers to raise it stated that if he did so the soenery would take fire, when lie was commanded, in a peremptory manner, to hoist it. He obeyed, and the fire at once communicated to the scenery. 44 The boy gave the alarm, in the rear of the stage, and asked some of the at­ tendants to cut the oords by which the oombusfrible materials were suspended. The person whose duty it was to do this fled panic-stricken. This unfortunately happened when one of the actors was playing near the orchestra, and the greatest part of the stage with its horrid danger was obscured from the audience by a curtain. 44 The flames spread with almost light­ ning-like rapidity, and the fire falling from the oeiling upon the performer was the first notioe the audience had of their danger. Even then many supposed it a part of the play, and were a little time restrained from flight by a cry from the stage that there was no danger. The performers and thoir attendants in vain endeavored to tear down the soenery. 44 The editor of this paper was niwmijg the first to escape. No words »x- pross his horror when, on turning around, he discovered the whole build­ ing to be in flames. There was but one door for the greatest part of the audi- enoe to pass. Men, women and children were pressing upon each otner, while the flaines were pouring upon those be­ hind. " The editor went to the different windows, which were very high, and im­ plored his fellow-creatures to save their lives by jumping out of them. Ignoranl of their danger, they were afraid to leap down, while those behind were seen catching on fire and writhing in agony. At length, pursued by the pressing flames, they pushed those nearest the win­ dow, and the people began falling upon each other with their olothes on fire, some half roasted. * * * 14 The people outside were seen wring­ ing their hands, beating their heads and breasts; and those that had escaped seemed to suffer greater torments than those enveloped in flames. All of those in the pit escaped and had cleared them­ selves from the house before those in the boxes could get down, and the door was for some time empty. Those from above were pushing eaoh other down the steps, when the hindmost might have got out by leaping into the pit. 44 The loss of a hundred thousand friends on the field of battle oould not touch the heart like this. The most savage barbarians will mourn our un­ happy lot." Perfidious Man. A breach of promise just instituted by a young Boston woman, the daughter of the keeper of a fashionable boarding- house, against a young man who now lives in Syracuse, N. Y., is just now at­ tracting considerable attention. They became engaged ten years age, when the girl was 16, and the youth, then a boarder with Hie girl's mother, gave the orthodox engagement ring and an en­ dowment life insurance policy for $3,000 in the Charter Oak company, of Hart­ ford,^ Ct. In 1869 they quarreled, but didn't break the eugagement, and in 1871 they made up again. But the per­ fidious lover had mean tvhile fallen in love with a fair Maine girl, and, lust month, quietly married her. Our Bos­ ton girl was wild when she heard of it a few days age, but, with an eye to busi­ ness", she went to Hartford, had papers served on the insurance company to se­ cure the payment of the $3,000 policy, and has now brought suit for $15,000. Anecdote of an iowa Judge. An Iowa cowespondent of the Inter- Ocean writes: 44 Yoar readers are no doubt familiar with the anecdote of the poet Coleridge's father, who was a clergyman of the primmest class. His wife was like hi~a in neatness and prim­ ness. On one j. -*asion he was goiiSg to attend a convocation of white necker­ chiefs, to be absent a week ; so his wife put six or seven shirts in hie valise, and charged him to put on a clean one every morning. He promise to do so. At the end of the week lie returned, and on examining his valise his wife found it empty. But the good man had obeyed her. He had put on a olean one every morning, and forgotten to take any off. Judge M. is equally as thoughtless. A short time ago, he had occasion to visit Des Moines, to attend Court; and, as he was to be absent from ten to twelve days, his good wife put up two or three clean shirts, thinking that num­ ber would suffice, as the Judge usually makes about two a week suffice him, es­ pecially when at home. He was absent eleven days j had a very exciting case ; became thoroughly absorbed in it; for­ got self entirely, and with one excep­ tion, brought his shirts back olean and unruffled. He had forgotten to make any change 1 tkain i»ATlfc fttkmor Different MWIM of Dylafc --Some Curioua Facts. (From the New Haven Register,]* • The popular ideas relative to the dif­ fering* of persons on the point of death are undoubtedly to a certain extent er­ roneous. The appearance of extreme agony, which is often presented under these circumstances.. 1R flnA fjo. cular independent of any ©x- traordinary sensation of the nerves of feeling. Those who die a natural death in the very last stages of existence are scarcely conscious of bodily suffering not more than they frequently are of the attentions and solicitude of friends. Those who die by violenoe or acci­ dent undoubtedly experience a degree of pain proportionate to the event of the "oodily mutilation. Hanging is doubt­ less an unpleasant mode of death, but few, after all, "shuffle off this mortal coil" more easily than those who are suspended by the neck. It is «Ain to drowning in this respect. The blood immediately seeks the head and soon deprives it of all consciousness. The effort to inhale the air, which are kept up for some time after the cord is at­ tached, and which cause such violent movements of the chest and extremities, arise from the influence of the spinal marrow, whose sensibility is not so often destroyed by the congestion of blood as that of brain. Persons who die by decapitation most probably suffer more, though their pain is onlv momentary ; this is the case with those who blow out their brains. The sensation produced by a ball pass­ ing through the body would be difficult to describe bygone who has never expe­ rienced it, but it is something ningnfar in this case that those who are shot, al­ though the 41 leaden messenger of death " may not have penetrated any es­ sentially fital organ, immediately fall to the earth, apparently under an i'rresisti- ble feeling of their approaching return to dust, exclaiming, as it were, invol­ untarily, 441 am a dead man!" A dagger wound in the heart, for the few moments which are oonsumed in the ebbing of life, must oocasion unut­ terable feelings of agony, independent of the mere sensations of pain in the parts sundered by the entrance of the blade. The rushing out of the blood at each convulsive pulsation of the heart must seem like the actual spectacle of the flow of life. Those who are crushed to death may not expire instantly unless the cranium happens to he involved in the casualty. Where the skull is not fractured there is probably an inoonoeivable agony for a few seconds---a flashing thought of home, friends and family, and all is over. Those who are cut into by a heavily-burdened railroad carriage must experience some mmiky sensa­ tions. If the neok is broken low down the person does not necessarily die on the instant. His situation is the most dis­ tressing of any which can be imagined. He may live and have a being tor days, but h® cannot move. His face may ex­ press all the passions, feelings and emo­ tions ; but beyond the motions of his breast and countenance his energies do not go. His arms are pinioned at his side ; his legs are lifeless ; and he essen­ tially sees his body in the grave, whiio he is _ yet in the full possession of his faculties. ^ The least disturbance of his position is liable to launch him at onoe into eternity. In taking laudanum a person exists in a state of insensibility for a length of time, a melancholy spectacle to his friends. In poisoning from arsenic a great amount of suffering is undergone. The sensibility of the stomach is ex­ ceedingly acute when inflamed, and the effect of arsenic is to produce a fatal in­ flammation of tbe vise us. Prussia acid is rapid, and acts by paralyzing the brain. in* reflecting on the horrors which death presents under the different as­ pects of violence the mind becomes sat­ isfied with disgust. We cannot do bet­ ter than turn to the contemplation of its features in the milder course of disease, where, if the mind be at ease, the final exit is made without any of those revolt­ ing exhibitions of bodily suffering. THE SUPREME COURT. OppoMd to Acting «• Umpire |» PolWee-- iaterrtow with One of th* Justice*. [Washington On*-, York Tribune.] The disposition indicated by Senatora and Representatives of both political parties to make the Bupreme fjourt of the United States a tribunal for the ad­ judication of questions growing out of Precedential elections is viewed by lum­ bers of that high judicial body with ev­ ident signs of apprehension. The emi­ nent jurists who compose the court have conferred with eaoh other upon the sub­ ject in an informal manner, and have iinJfnnmln H...4 1. oMv&i uu the part of Congress is to be treated with disfavor. In speaking of the subject within a few days, one of their number, whose opinions and experience are entitled to the highest consideration, said that he sin­ cerely trusted that Congress might find some other solution of the Presidential complication than a reference of ques­ tions of dispute to the Supreme Court of the United States; that the three co­ ordinate branches of tbe Government should be preserved in their respective powers, privileges and duties; that to refer the questions as proposed would bo equivalent to depriving the court of its present, high position in the confi­ dence and respect of the people, and to give it the character of a political tri­ bunal : that the fundamental duties of the court are judicial, to pass upon laws passed and approved by the joint exer­ cise of the defined powers of the legis­ lative and executive branches of the Government, and for that reasdn it is particularly essential that they shall keep aloof from political contro­ versies. He said that on political questions about one-half of those xerci sing the elective franohise are ar­ rayed against the other half, and there­ fore whatever might be the decision of the court, however just and impartialp at least one-half of the voting population would regard their action to a greater or less degree in a partisan light; that in the heat and exoitement of party antag­ onism the political complexion of the court would be a subject of public com­ ment and speculation. He said when this point is reached then the court will have lost its exalted place in the respect of the people. He cited several instances of a semi-political character, in which the action of the court as to the impar­ tiality of its judgment, was questioned^ the most notorious being the Dred Scott decision, upon which those of the gen­ eration of that day still living have not even with the lapse of time lost the force of their hostility toward the court. He said that he made no reflection upon the action of the court in that case, but simply alluded to it as an in­ dication of the state of popular feeling at that time, and of the Mof? which the consideration of the question gave the court in the estimation of the members of one of the great political parties of the day. He said that ques­ tions ef a semi-political character fre­ quently came before the court in one way or another ; but questions growing out of Presidential elections are purely political. He said that the court never stood higher in the confidence of the people, and every member of the court desires to preserve this satisfactory re­ lation to the Government aud the peo­ ple. He admitted that the complica­ tions on* the Presidential questii n are not trifling in their nature, and will re­ quire great forbearanoe on both sides to unravel them, but said - that ho had great confidence in the good sense, sound judgment, and patriotism of the people, and that these impulses guiding the American heart will go further to­ ward a permanent pacific solution of the question than courts or arms. of strangers from abroad. As I am * laboring simnly for the love of scienm, f \ J* I waive all cWm to the treasure and treasure and l̂lv offer it, with intense enthusiasm, entire ̂ A City Paved with Hold and Stiver. Referenoe has been frequently made in these columns to the fact that if this city was not the New Jerusalem its streets were at least paved with gold and silver. Previous to the recent macadam­ izing of C street curious persons, at one time and another, had aesays made of ti e mud that abounded there. None of these assays were less than $7, and one of them went as high as $11.58.,per ton. The latter assay was made from the mud which Was clinging to a buggy wheel when the vehicle stopped in front of the California Bank. ' ̂ Recently C street has been macadam­ ized with quartz taken from the Andes and old Ophir dumps of waste rock. The old mud having been taken off th© street, fifty-two feet in width was filled sixteen inches deep in the center and four inches at the edges- with this waste quartz. The whole distance from Sut­ ton avenue, wher • the work ends on the north, to the Gold Hill line, where it is to stop, is about a mile. There will be a place from the Fourth ward school- house to the top of the Divide which will not receive the rock. This will leave a little over 5,000 feet which is and is to be macadamized. By far the greater portion of the work is already done. To fill the street for this distance with rock will take at least 16,166^ tons. Some pieces of this fill are rich in both silver and gold. Experts place the value of the whole at from $8 to $10 per ton. Taking the lesser estimate as an average, and thore is now on and to be placed on C street not less than $133,833$ hi gold and silver.--Virginia (Nev.) Enter­ prise. PBOF. HrxtiEY says ; 44 The general notion of an Englishman when he gets rich is to found an estate and benefit his family. The general notion of an American, when fortunate, is to do some­ thing for the good of the people and from which benefits shall continue to flow. The latter is the nobler am­ bition. HOMERIC RESEARCH. Dr. Srhliemann'a Kzearatloiu in Greece-- Discovery of the Tomb of Agamemnon. [From the New York Tribune.] The recent statement that Dr. Sclilie- mann had resumed his excavations at Hissarlik, on the plain of Troy, at the invitation of the Turkish Government, was incorrect. After accompany ing Dom Pedro to the Tread, h(* returned, to Argolis, in order to continue the work of exhuming the ruins of the ancient cita­ del of Mycenae. It was not generally considered a promising locality; for tlie ancient capital of Agamemnon had lost its importanee8 save that of tradition, long before the decline of, Grecian power. In faot, after its destruction by the Argives, in the year 463 B. C., it does not appear to hive been inhabited. When Pausanias visited the spot, more than six centuries later (about A. D. 170) he fbund the ruins in much the same condition as now, exoept that the tombs of the Homeric heroes were still distinguishable. But the rubbish and vegetation of 2,300 years have long since hidden everything exoept the so-called 44 Gate of Lions, a part of the ancient Cyclopean wall, and a ourious dome- shaped structure, known as the 44 Treas­ ury of Atreus." stDr. Schliemann found the work of excavation very difficult With his ac­ customed thoroughness, he firs* went down to the native rook of the ragged hill upon the crest of whioh the old city was built, a depth of twenty-five feet below the surface, and then drove lateral shafts in several directions. Although tbe remains of the masonry unoovered were of a very interesting character, and some coins, pottery and implements were found, the result seemed slight in comparison with the great laber and expense. The most valqable object he recovered was a mold, or die, for coining money. But now, all at once, the pa­ tient explorer has his splendid reward. In a letter to the King of Greece, writ­ ten at Myoense, on the 28th of Novem­ ber, he announces that he has disoovered the monuments described by Pausanias as the traditional tombs of Agamemnon, Cassandra, Eurymedon, and their com­ panions, who were slain at a banquet by Clytemuestra and ^Egisthus. The tombs, he says, are surrounded by a double parallel circle, with tablets evi­ dently erected in honor of the dead. Within them he found an immense quantity of archseological treasures, in­ cluding a number of articles of pure gold -- another testimony for Homer, who speaks of the 44 gold-abounding Myoense." Dr. Schliemann's letter, which is very brief, conclndes thus: 44 The treasure alone is sufficient to fill a large museum, and the most splendid in the world. In^succeeding ages I am sure it will attract to Greece thousands AII son* ^ Wamted to divide fairly--TOw &0h» glishman who took his half-a-davii. THKBK are 18,000 Israelites in San Francisco, five synagogues in the State and three in Ihe city. WHITE horses axe now used exelnuva- ly in Paris at funerals of chiklrat or young unmarried people. THE late Gov. Wise, of Virginia, re- uu to recommend a day of , thanksgiving, because unauthorized to interfere in religious matters. A SPECIAL bureau is to be at Paris where wine may be analyzed at the desire of any person who doubts the honesty of his wine merchant. IT is reasserted that Ole Bull's trouble is only an aggravated case of mother-in­ law--that lie is painfully Ole Boll dozed, in fact.--St. Louis Republican. CAMFORNIA has more insane people than any two Western States, The causa is doubtless the greater business excite­ ment than in the older-settled States, _ WHEN St. John (New Brunswick) little boys get drowned while skating, the daily papers of the city produce a map snowing the scene of the dis­ aster. LTJCT HOOPER reports that the boo­ bies in French colleges strip and paint all newoomers, exrapt glish Freshmen, of whose muscles tb«j have a wholesome fear. , LIEUT. A. W. VODGKS, H S. A., in, exoavating some shell mounds at Tampa, Fla., discovered relies which he con­ siders go to prove that the mound* builders were addicted to cannibalism. WE'VE dried biro, ad bolasses, bathid eur feet, tallow'd our dose, ad put od * red fladdel dight cap, but it's do m, We bust sneeze id out. Dow is winter ob our disoondent--a-chew t-- Inter- Ocean. THE death is announoed of Mis#-1 Lydia Priscilla Sellon, whose name i# well know, as that ef the founder of ,, terhoods in the English Church, It if. now about thirty years since isfae nmdes*'A took the work. - THE head of Napoleon ITL, by Mei#' sonier.inthe gallery of the Luira»feOflJff|fc - has been defaced by some vandal, wfa#<" seized a moment while the gallery wm\ •• deserted to gratify Ms spite against * person by a cruel wrong to art. AOAIN at Christmas do we WEAVE, The holly round the Christmas hearth, The silent anowa poaaeea the earth And calmly falla the Christmas ere. Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, Draw torth cheerful day from nioM; • O Father, tonch the caat and Sight Tke light that shone when Hope wMtam. A TBKEiaiiB etymologist has disoovered: that the name Howard is merely a ooiv ; ruption of Hogward, in other word% ; Swineherd. It is enough to make 44 th# blood of all the Howards "--the hous* ' of England's Premier Duke-- run coML- •' A YOUNG Chinaman has been admitted' to the collegiate institute of Napa, CaL* without opposition from the students^ who treat him as well as though he waa of their own race. He has puled witfc his queue, and dresses like an Ameri­ can. The' youth of the victims of tlis Brooklyn fire is one of the most notable features. Those who were burned were mostly in the gallery, where children, are generally in the majority. The Graphic says that the average age of the dead was about 21 years. One child of 7 and two men over 60 were among the number. THE question of the hour in San Fraa' dsoo is: Will tapioca explode? A sample bought at a oorner grooeiy in that city had a decided tendency to "go off" when brought near the stove, and , it was sent to a powder-mill to be an­ alyzed. It is supposed to be a com pound of nitrate of potash, with sugar and flour or starch. The grocer wilt be prosecuted. A TEXAS desperado named Lynch diet} a short time ago from the effects of morphine, whioh he began to take IB ' 1864, as on anodyne while suffering from the affects of a wound. H© gradually increased the doses until he wm able to consume an enormous quantity rithouft immediate inj#y0 But in the course of • ' time he beoame deaf and a paralytic,and his skin became very dark, almost black. OmUSTMAS THEN' AMD MOW. . A little scarlet stocking Hanging from a chair,. A little cradle rocking, Baby Bleeping there. A mother kneeling, praying For a Savior's care. Can 8€t> no silver lining, Only golden hair. A stocking in the dr<«war, '1 Cradle down b-.'low, A little marble tablet Hidden by the anovr. A mother looking inward. On this Christmas mora. Can see the silver lining, < > Feels that Christ was born. THE Christmas dinner of modern days is, as most of our readers know, a gather d ing together of generations, an assemM - bling of Israel by its tribes. Contrast with this modern Christmas dinner-- well as with the high festival of yore-* ' the dreary picture of a Christmas da/ and dinner under the stern prescriptions , of the Puritans--as given in his 1 iary, by Pepys, the chatty Secretary to the Admiralty, 411668, Christinas day. TB dinner/' thus he writes, "alone witk my wife, who, poor wretch! sat un­ dressed all day until 10 at night, alteiv ing and lacing of a noble petticoat; while I, by her. making tbe boy read to me, the 4 Life of Julius Ctesar' and 4 Dei Cartes' Book of Music.'" OF all times M the year the Christ­ mas-tide is that at which hearts and purse-strings should open widest in thoughts and deeds of charity. Those should give who never "gave before, aud those who are charitable always should at this season give the more. Some of,. our overflow of happiness should uot, fail to reach the poor and miserable, ' whom Santa Clans, an aristocratic fel­ low, is otherwise apt to slight " To give is more blessed than to receive,'* especially when with so little so mnohr happiness may be brought about. Th% most of those best able to give, who are. not apt to be personally acquaint**!1 with misery and the proper wayfr* tor its relief, will do well to distribut#- their bounty through the regularly or­ ganized channels, which reach all c'\sscs. -sr. <-;T / j-rt "I