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Sht JKtHfttrg filamrUalcr. • " *J. VAN 8LYKE, PUBUBHK*. HOHENBY, ILLINOIS. iOKICVLTUKiL 1RD DOMESTIC. The Boys. Tmma-pati ot my wadding paction. Tills frpflt 'where the old home stsn<s. Ana I fca-d the choosing of it From all my father's lands. We were young, but we were not foolish Or wasteful, you may depend. And my mottier always taught me Twae better to save than spend. For awhile, you know, it was lonely " "" "" '"O twUSc m\l u£iy, And no one to come anigh me To hear what I had to say; But when I eat with my baby, My boy, asleep on my arm, I didnt much care for the neighbors Or anything else on the farm. There,were Jack and Ben, yo« remember, They wore all that I ever had; And Jack wan his mother's idol, Though Ben was a likely lad. And w<i saved up every penay. Nor envied another's joys, For a httle farm is a little cramped For a oouple of growing boys. X WM bent on their having learning, For I wanted my Jack ana Ben To be able to serve their country Whenever she needed men. And father uaid I was silly, For he never could understand , • • Hie use of spending money For an} thing else than land. But I kept to my way of thinking. And, though not overwise, I saw That both had a taste for study, But Jack had m taste for 3»w. And I kndsr that my prayers and prudence They would after awhile acknowledge. And it paid for all the struggle Whes 1 entered my beys at oollege. I can see that father is failing. And there is no strength in his arm To swing the eoy the in the meadow, Or to do tho work on the farm. And somehow I've lost my courage, Though 1 try to be oalm and brave; But what can .1 mother do but weep, , With beth her boys in the grave ? The house was never so lonely, And my poor old man and I Bit oft in the chimney-corner And dseam of the days gone.by: And when the too solemn silence Is broken by sudden noise, ' We start with the old-time gladness, And whisper, " Her© come the boys!" Around the Farm. TBB farmer who breeds high grade and thoroughbred stock, whether horses, cattle, hoga, or sheep takes better care of them, realizes more money from the feed they eat, and a liberal profit for the extra care. The higher the grade, the better the profit. Tho more enterprising farmers see this and profit thereby. A MXLOH cow can be brought well througn the winter on good hay, with­ out any other food, but the question arises, Will she not do as well or better on hay of inferior quality, with the ad­ dition of roots that cost less to the farmer than any other provender ? We have had cattle kept in good thriving condition throughout the winter on good straw, with two feeds of turnips daily. --Farmers* Advocate. IT is a good plan for every farmer to save all the wood ashes he can produoe on the farm, and to use them wisely. They are worth at least 30 cents a bushel or more, and we would not sell them from the farm for less than 40 cents. A bushel of good hard wood ashes contains four pounds of potash,in addition to some soda and a consider­ able amount of soluble silica and phos­ phate of lime. The real money value of these constituents is fully 40 cents a busheL THE freezing of fruit in the bud, often occasioned by a few warm days succeed­ ed by late frosts, may be prevented, it is said, by spreading a thick layer of •frozen manure, or of ice or snow around the trees, in February or March, while the ground is firmly frozen. The buds will thus be kept back, since the t round will thaw more slowly, and the roots eonvey no nutriment to the tree. When frosts are no longer to be feared the 'covering should be removed. JFISH oontain much valuable fertiliz­ ing matter. A good method of making them available in to mix them in a heap with earth or swamp muck, and leave tEe compound to decompose. When the fish is well rotted, the heap should be mixed by shoveling it over.' It may then be used as a top-dressing, or be applied in the hill for oorn, potatoes, or cabbage. A email shovelful is enough io; each Mil- If plenty ef swamp muck, or the top soil from woods is mixed with the fiBh, there will be little danger of injuring the land by their use. AT a reoent meeting of an English far­ mers'1 club, Prof. McBride spoke of the difficulty of administering medicine to a pig. He said : "To dose a pig, which you are snre to choke if you attempt to * make him drink while squealing, halter him as you would for exeoution, and tie the rope end to a stake. He will pull back tall the cable is slightly strained. When he has ceased his uproar and be­ gins to reflect, approach him, and be­ tween the baok part of his jaws insert an old shoe from which you have out the toe leather. This he will at once begin to suck and chew. Through it pour your "medicine, and he will swallow any quan­ tity you please. THE grasshopper region next spring will be developed by the first two weeks of dry, warm weather in the respective localities, and will comprise two-thirds of Minnesota, one-half of Iowa, all of Dakota, one-half of Nebraska, one-third of Kansas, and all of Colorado and Wyoming. Our investigator calculated that throughout the vast area designated every foot of dry ground is impregnated by at least 1,000 grasshopper eggs, A piece of earth one inch in thickness and * presenting a surface six inches square yielded 3,000 healthy-looking eggs. That was in Emmett county, Iowa, on the Des Moines river.--Milwaukee Commercial. How TO PREPARE ROIIII BUMS FOB MARKET.--Care should be taken in pack­ ing and shipping. Country dealers and shippers are in the practice of sending roll butter to market in every conceiv­ able package, including barrels, pine boxes, etc. The above-named packages should be entirely avoided, as pine will have a tendency to affect and flavor the butter e while barrels are too large and not easily handled ; beside, the weight crushes the roll. New tubs or hard­ wood boxes are the most desirable, while half-barrels or kegs will do equally well, and these only should be used. Care should also be taken before putting the butter in packages that all the sides and ends of the packages should be lined with new white mutton, thus temping the butter from defacement by touching the wood. Another bad practice is in putting the butter up in paper. This should not be done, as the paper sticks to the butter and damages the ap­ pearance. Each roll should be sepa­ rately placed in a piece of new muslin doth, washed in warm "srater, to take out the starch, and thoroughly wet in good brine. The rolls should also be of uniform si4e, and not too large. Then, again, the roll should be of uni­ form color, not packing the light one fresh made with the other that has bees oolored. About the Souse. COLD STABCE.--A splendid THING TO give gloss and prevent the iron from •ticking. Make a suds of white Castile soap, and add to your raw starch. NEW TEAR'S CAKE.--Two and one-half pounds butter, two and one-half pounds sugar, five pounds flour, one pint cold water, one-half ounoe ammonia, one-half pound caraway seed. COCOANTTPIE.---To eight <pggs use two quarto milk; grate a nutmeg fine; pour over it the milk and eggs well beaten; sweeten, salt, and flavor according to taste; make crust like a custard." HAZEII Ntrr BUTTER. --Scald and blanch some hazel-nuts; pound them to a paste in a mortar, adding gradually a small quantity of butfier. This is good to eat with wild fowl, or to flavor the most delicate sauces. CUBE FOB CHAPPED HAHDS.--Cam­ phorated ice (which is m combination of mutton-taiiow and camphor) has given me the greatest satisfaction. Also a solution of cider vinegar and pure glycerine in equal parts will cure the most stubborn chapped hands on even the thinnest skin. INDIAN-MEAL DOUGHNUTS.--A teacup- ful and a half boiling milk poured over two teacupfuls Indian meal; when it oools add two cupfuls wheat flour, one of butter, one and a half of sugar, three eggs„ and a tablespoonful nutmeg or cinnamon; if not stiff enough, add equal portions of wheat and meal; let it rise till very light ; roll it about half an inch thick; cut it into $mall diamond-shaped cakes, and boil them in hot lard. To RESTORE BI*ACK MERINO.--Soak the goods in strong soft-soap suds two hours, then, having dissolved one ounoe extract logwood (which is the amount required for one dress) in a bowl of warm water, add sufficient warm--not hot--water to cover the goods, which are to be taken from the suds without wringing. Allow the goods to stand in ths logwood water over night; in the morning rinse in several waters without wringing; in the last water add one pint sweet milk, whioh stiffens the goods a little; iron while quite damp. It will not crock, and looks as good as new. THE INDIAN BUKEATJ* Prof. Seelye's Plan for Reorganizing It. Congressman Seelye, of Massachu­ setts, has submitted to the House Com­ mittee on Indian Affairs a plan for the reorganization of the Indian Bureau, the provisions of which are briefly out­ lined in a dispatch to the Western press: Prof. Seelye proposes to take the mange- ment of Indian affairs entirely away from the Executive Department of the Government, and to place it in the hands of Trust Commission, organized upon a basis similar to those which have control of the great educational institu­ tions of the country. This plan con­ templates the appointment of a number of gentlemen of high character and emi­ nent position, who shall be ex-offioio members of the board. These Trustees are to serve without compensation,, and are to have entisg control of all matters relating to Indian management, subject to the general supervision of Congress. Prof. Seelye would mtrust£this board with the expenditure of all money appropri­ ated for the subsistence, civilizations and education of the Indians, and through it would pay to all Indian tribes an­ nuities which may be due them under existing treaties. His plan also contem­ plates the appointment of a Board of Executive Secretaries, to carij into cflect the policy adopted by the Board. This plan proceeds upon the theory that the institutions are best managed whose affairs are in the control of Trust Com­ missioners. Prof. Seelye refers to the Yale College, corporation, which for 150 yaars has consisted of seven Congre­ gational clergymen, who fill vacan­ cies in the Board as they occur, and of certain State officers, who hold the positions during their period of of­ ficial service. The funds of that institu­ tion have always been honestly man­ aged and profitably invested, and the oollege has grown in efficiency and char­ acter,, Prof. Seelye also refers to the American Board of Foreign Commisnion- ers, the affairs of which are managed by a Prudential Committee, which meets weekly at Boston, and considers every matter pertaining to the welfare of that institution. Alpheus Hardy, who has for many years been the presiding of­ ficer of the Prudential Committee, says that he has invariably called the Com­ mittee to order at the hour named for its meeting, and it has never yet occurred that a quorum was not present. Prof. Seelye proposes to make the Indian Commission which he suggests self-per­ petuating--that is, to allow the Board to fill all vacancies whioh may occur in it. He would thus take it entirely out of the domain of polities. The Indian Committee of the House has discussed the general features of this plan, and, while it is scarcely probable that it will be adopted, some of the members are of opinion that some radical change in th" present system of Indian management will be reported for action at this ses­ sion. There is a very strong feeling in the Committee in favor of detacbing the Indian Bureau from the Interior Depart­ ment, and of making it a separate branch of the Government, to be presided over by ao officer who shall report directly to the President, but who shall not be al­ lowed to sit in the Cabinet. One feat­ ure of this plan is to make the head of the proposed Indian Department ai^ of- floer who holds his position during good behavior. ^•y^TlUT METEOBITK. Where It Came From, and What Has He- come of It--A Glance at the Mathematics ol the Subject--A World DapUied with Fire. fPraf. Ellas Colbert, in Chicago Tribune. " Did you see it? Did you hear it ?" were the questions addressed in general conversation daring Friday and Satur­ day. No one needed to be told iiir.t the " it" referred to Vras the brilliant; me­ teoric phenomenon of Thursday even­ ing. And to the Tribune other ques­ tions have come pouring in ; such as-- "What was it? Where did it come from? Where has it gone to?" It is no wonder that an extraordinary degree of interest was awakened by the unex­ pected display of nyrnt/w>liniAti. as it was exceptionally grand and im­ posing--much more so than any that was ever before witnessed by white men in this region. The path of the stranger during its visible career may be nearly found from a comparison of the numerous observa­ tions made ; though many of these are too vagua to be of value in determining position and distance, and only one or two give precise information. From a comparison of the crude de-' scriptions given, we conclude that the following is an approximate statement of the path pursued by the meteorite while visible. From some point south­ west by west of Lawrence, Kan., to Miami county, on the eastern border ef that State ; across Missouri, from Cass to Marion counties; across Illinois, from Adams to Iroquois counties; across Indiana, from the southern portion of Newton county to Fort Wayne (Allen county), from there across Ohio to the southern point of Lake Erie, and over the northwestern corner of Pennsyl­ vania into Mew York State. The dis­ tance was nearly 1,000 miles; the time at Chicago about 8h. 35m. p. m., of Dec. 21, 1876; the height above the earth's surface some seventy-five miles when over Kansas, to forty miles when over Ohio. Its probable size--of that we may have something to say anon. A line drawn upon the map through the places above indicated will not be a straight line ; it will be slightly convex toward the north, but scarcely bends out so much as would a great circle of the sphere if drawn through the east and west extremities of the line. The plane of the visible path, if produced, would pass some distanoe north from the earth's center. The plane of the motion was inclined about fifteen degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. Our celestial visitor came to us after even a more extended travel than that of Satan, when (see Job, i., 7) he presented himself before, the Lord after " goihg to and fro in the earthy and from walking up and down in it" Our meteorite came to us from the depths of space ; where., for aught we know, it may have been pursuing an individual flight dur­ ing many millions of oenturies. The accompanying diagram will enable our VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., is being paved with waste quartz, which, being grushfd, ( releases gold and silver valued at $0per ton; and one street is estimated to oon tain $133,000 in metal. readers to form a general idea of the re­ lations of our visitor, and similar bodies, to the world on which we dwell. The circle, of about 1.4 inches in di­ ameter, represents the earth's orbit. Tho arrows indicate the direction of her movement, the north pole being above the plane of the paper. The ellipse represents the path of the "meteorite," the direction of motion being also indi­ cated by arrows. Of course the reader will understand that the size of the el­ lipse, as compared with the eartl's orbit, and the proportion of its longest to its shortest diameter, are not necessa­ rily those indicated by the figure. The two orbits intersect at A; ay do not necessarily intersect at any other point, though so represented in the diagram. It is evident that the meteorite may travel around the sun in its prolonged elliptic path, and the earth in her more nearly circular orbit, during countless ages, without once meeting ; just as two ships may cross and recross the Atlantic in opjtosite directions many times without " sighting " each other--much less col­ liding. But if when the earth is at the point A, the meteorite be also very near the common point of intersection, there is then danger of a collision. Whether they will really collide or not depends upon the circumstances of the case. The meteorite is traveling at the rate of (say) 20 miles per second, and the earth with a speed of 11^ miles (at this time of the year the earth's velocity is a httle great­ er than that); and the earth is continual­ ly pulling the stranger toward her by the force of attraction, at a rate which can be rigidly calculated through all the variations in their distance. If, now, we should project (portions of) the two orbits on paper, mark off upon them the place which each body would occupy at successive instants, if there was no mu­ tual attraction, and then set off from the meteorite path, toward the earth's places, the distances through which the body is drawn by the earth's attraction, we should have the actual path of the me­ teorite with reference to the earth; and could see by inspection whether the two would collide, or pass each other. In case the meteorite is found to pass into the earth's hemisphere, a further cor­ rection must be made for the retardation of f»peed due to lesistanoe of the air; and the figure would then show the least distanoe between the two bodies. There is one fact which is involved in considering the question whether, un­ der certain geometrical circumstances, the body would fall to the earth or sot-- the character of the material of which it is composed. The friction of the at­ mosphere retards the motion, and that arrested motion of the mass is convert­ ed into motion of its constituent mole- rales or atoms--it is changed into heat. The temperature of the body is raised to the point of incandescence, and may be increased many thousands of de­ grees. The exterior portions are heated more rapidly than the interior, as the heat is generated from without; and this unequal heating causes unequal ex­ pansion of the particles, so that there is a continued tendency to break up from the outside. The disjoined particles fall away, and are left behind, because the surface exposed to atmospheric re­ sistance is greater in proportion to the quantity of motion in the mass for small bodies than fdr large ones of the same material. If, now, a large meteorite were 00mposed entirely of iron, the co­ hesive attraction of its particles might be (undoubtedly would be) great enough to withstand this strain ; and the ream? would continue its journey intact, ex­ cept a comparatively small loss by ox­ idation. If, again, the composition of the meteorite be something like that of the feet of Nebuchadnezzar's image-- which were " partly of iron and partly of clay"---the more "earthy" matter would be broken off, as in the former case, leaving the iron to fall^s a me­ tallic mass to the earth, or to take an­ other excursion in space, as determined by the geometrical relations above de­ scribed. This appears to have been the composition of the meteor of lasi July. We remark here that the finding of an iron meteorite by no means proves that it was chiefly composed of iron be­ fore collision with the earth. Its larger portion of less cohesive matter may have been sloughed off in its passage through the air, and reached the sur­ face of the earth as mere atoms of star- dust. We do not propose, in this article, to enter upon a discussion of the chemical constitution of meteorites, or to de­ scribe those which have been found in different parts of the world. All that may be found in the text-books by those who wish to read it. But we ought not to forbear a few words as to the place of these strange bodies in the economy of the universe. Till within a few years past, though the meteorites were believed to have come from out­ side the earth, yet it was generally thought that there were very few bodies of matter in the solar system except the sun, moon, seven planets, some of them having satellites, and a few comets. We are wiser now. The facts of modern astronomy tend to the conclusion that the bodies above referred to are in number comparable with those we can­ not see unless when they come near us, as the birds of the air are to the motes which exist all around us, but are only visible when lighted up by a sunbeam. Our latest meteorite, a body of proba­ bly more than twenty yards iu diameter, is but one of^ a vast series of individual masses, ranging all the way up from the bulk of a grain of sand to a cloud mass so vast that a ray of light would require three months to flash from one side of it to the opposite. Our earth is a little higher up in the scale than the meteor­ ite, as the sparrow is larger than the gnat, but both are subject to the same laws, own a similar origin, and have a similar destiny. Both called out of the original chaos to subserve a certain pur­ pose ; each destined to destruction when the work is performed for whioh it was created. The meteorite that rushes blazing through our atmosphere is a world on fire. It is not probable that any living beings are destroyed by the conflagra­ tion, because that little world had long since chilled down past the point at which organized forms could exist on its surface. But the earth is passing slowly toward that point, too--as our moon ap­ pears to have already passed it--and when she has ceased to be useful, her turn, too, will come, though many long eons of death may precede the grand collapse. Analogy warrants the infer­ ence that as our meteorite and our greater world " must perish in their turn and drop to dust," so the sun and stars have the same future before them, in obedience to tho creative --* of who Sees with equal eyes, as Lord of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall; An atom or a systen* into ruin burled. And now a bubble burst, and then a world. The Rise of Silver. [From the Cincinnati Gazette.] The causes of the rise in the price of silver are these : 1. The German Empire refused to sell silver at the panic price prevailing. 2. The India Council in London some­ what curtailed their drawings on India. 3. Some of the East India produce, particularly saltpetre and ootton, have advanced in price in London. 4. rJShe purchase of silver bullion in London for our issue of change coins. It has been discovered thai the production of silver in Nevada was grossly overrated. It was a California mining stock-jobbing performance. An agent of the London Times, who has investigated the mines, estimates the product of this year at from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, and has exploded the notion that these mines are inexhaustible. The causes of the decline were the opposite of these, together with the idea that Germany was going to throw a vast amount of silver on the market. When Bland introduced his bill to re­ vive the silver dollar, it would have been worth but 79 cents. When his bill passed the silver would have been worth 98 cents. Stephens. Alexander Stephens is much feebler than when he was here in the last Con­ gress. He has chosen his seat near the rear tier of seats on the Democratic side. He is brought into the chamber every morning in a chair, to the end of the aisle on whioh his seat is located, is then lifted from his chair by a strong Door­ keeper, and carried to his seat. He never attempts now to rise from his seat when addressing the Speaker.-- Wash­ ington Letter. It has been shown by experiment that Prussian blue in oil is the most stable of pigment colors. Aniline colors, on the contrary, are the most fleeting; indeed, they are unsuitable for use by the pain­ ter. Photographs tinted with aniline colors soon lose their tints, and the colors are often seen fading while the pictures , are yet exposed for sale. THE TREASURY THEFT. ' Oa« of the Most Curious of Robkcries-lks 6 JUetectlves Raffled. [Washington Cor. Chicago Trltraiie.] The Treasury Secret Service foroe on behalf of the Government, and Pinkers ton's agency for the Adams Express Company, are earnestly at work to dis cover the stolen money of the Illinois National Bank, and to seowe the thief. No definite trace of either has been ob^ tained. The officials are very reticent as to their suspicions. Evidence they have none. There are several theories as to the manner in which the theft may have been committed. There is no una­ nimity of opinion exoept as to the con­ viction that the National Redemption Agency is no way responsible for the loss. Suspicion attaches to parties in four different plaoes, holding distinct positions in Government service, in the employ of the Adams Express Company, ana in the receiving bunk at Chicago. It cafihot be said that the authorities have evidence or even suspicions which would warrant charging the offense upon any one place or person. The history of the package is this : On the afternoon of Dec. 4 the National Redemption Agency, in the usual course of business, notified the Assistant Treas­ urer that there should be sent to ths Illi­ nois National Bank, Chicago, on redemp­ tion account, $11,990. This is the amount of the substituted package. This noti­ fication from one bureau to the other is given by a memorandum check. This notification is entered in a form book. It would have been possible, perhaps, for any clerk in the Treasurer's offioe to open the book and ascertain the charac­ ter of the money packages that were to be dispatched the next day, the amount, denomination|of the bills,and destination. The numbers alone could not be learned as no record is kept of the number of the notes, consequently the treasury can never avail itself of this advantageous clew in case of loss. These packages are daily st^nt to National banks by the Adams Express Company. That 00m- pany has its offioe for the transaction of the Government business in the 'base­ ment of the east room in the Treasurer's office. The only means of official com­ munication is by a private elevator, the upper approach of which is guarded by treasury officials, the lower by express company offi,oers. The elevator com­ municates only with these two rooms. The next morning after the notification, the clerks of the Treasurer prepare the express receipts corresponding to the entries in the book mentioned, and the vault clerk makes up the money pack­ ages in envelopes. These envelopes, with their respective amounts, subse­ quently pass through three hands, and receive separate seals in wax. The first sealer verifies the count of the vault clerk, seals the package in the middle, and addresses it from the memorandum tag. The two other senders do not see the contents of the envelope. The envelope is then handed to the per­ sons in charge of the elevator, always more than one, and token to the express offioe below. There it is receipted for by the express officers, who take charge of it At this point it is claimed the Treasurer's responsi­ bility ceases. Between the time the money is taken from the vault and the time it reaches the express offioe sub­ stitution might be passible. If it was attempted there by the experts who daily handle such packages, the work should have been skillfully done. It was not The envelope which contained the substituted paper is of a different character and make from the official Government envelopes used for such purpose. It is much darker in color. The officers have been unable to find in any stationer's stock in this city any envelope which corresponds with the one used in the substitution. It is urged in behalf of the Treasury clerks that it would have been incomprehen­ sible stupidity to have used such an en­ velope when the regular official ones that wdre in daily use were right beside them. It is, however, of course possi­ ble that the substitution could have been made in the cash-room when the package reached the office of the ex­ press company. It was not received or receipted for by the persons generally in charge. There are seven express officials on duty there. That afternoon there were but two. It happened that there was a funeral Unit afternoon of the •wife of one of tho express clerks. The others were attending it. The package was receipted for by a deputy. It re­ mained in the offioe from 1:30 till 2:45 in the afternoon of Deo. 6. The fact that the Adams Company has set Pinker- ton's agency at work shows that some suspicions possibly may attach to its own employes. The next place to which it is olaimed that suspicion attaches is at the bank in Chicago. ^ It is not considered probable that the iron safes could have been opened in transit. The messengers are not provided with keys to the through safes, neither is it believed that the ex­ press company's officers in Chicago did anything but to deliver (he package as they received it. One circumstance is reported from Chicago which is engaging the attention of the officers: The package was deliv­ ered to one, of the bank officers by the express agent at 9:16, and receipted for. There were two packages for the bank that morning--one for $11,990, and the substituted one for about $11,090, which was not disturbed. The bank officer, or clerk, who revived these pit skates is reported as stating that he placed these packages in a compartment called " Coop," locked them up, and retired before opening them to a retiring-room, and was absent fifteen minutes. Upon his return he immediately opened them, and found the^small package correct, while the large one, he Hays, oontained only soft paper out in the shape of bills. This officer is represented to have im­ mediately stepped from his "Coop," and oalled the attention of another clerk to the false package with the exclama­ tion, "How is that for high!" This absence of fifteen minutes is a circum­ stance which the officials claim requires explanation. It is remembered that there was a similar absence in the retSr- ing-room when the package of $47,500 was stolen from the treasury last year, and it was subsequently proved upon the trial that that sum was left in a crev- ice in the retiring-room until there was an opportunity for its rezuovaL ONI<7 five days separated the convic­ tion and the hanging of Catchings and Moore, Texas murderers. yty» law to be prompt down them to get the of lynchers. All Sorts. tataanut was a fire engine within two blocks of the Brooklyn Theater at the time of its burning. THMRK are very few horses In thin day that cannot get away with 2:40--accord­ ing to their owners" say f EXPERIMENTS made last season in gar­ dening prove that all kinds of vegetables will grow in the Black Hill*, VANDBRBH/T'S physicians fchfnlr ho will live through the winter, but they can't say as much for themselves. . TMKRE are Ifwvnoo persons in York with no work and no support dar­ ing the winter except charity. A CRICKET ball struck a boy, aged 11 behind the ear, in London. He fell senseless, and died in two hours. THE wine crop of Prance this year is unusually large, being a third more than the vines promised at the outset of the season. IN English military circles it is na- mored ̂ t? at 30,000 Erenoh volunteecs will join the British army in case of war with Russia. BOSTON, whioh used to sell its offal to contractors for $3,500 a year, has thua far, this year, reoeived over $20,000 b* selling it, to farmers. BOKRHAAVB, the great Dutch physi­ cian, summed up his whole ©xperienoe in one line: "Keep the head cool, the feet warm, and throw physic io the dogs." - IN Trenton, N. J., is a stallion namel Wild American, sixteen hands high whose name is so long that it touohee the ground when he holds his head well up. THE population of Peru is decreasing, being less than 3,000,000. The de­ crease is attributed to earthquakes, dis­ eases, civil war and brandy, especially the latter. THE slave trade still flourishes among the Mussulmans of Saloniea, and 100 ne- gresses lately transported there from the At 1 lean coast were sold at an average of about $150 flacly THEY are a marrying people on the Pacific slope. The number of marriage licenses issued by the proper of San Francisco during the month at November was 227. IT is currently reported and believed in Europe that companies are being formed in Russia for the purpose erf purchasing small and swift American vessels, to be used in case of war as privateers against the English merchant marine. THOU DEAREST DEAB t My heart is lying thy way, Carit&! Aa thou crusheBt the flowers, wilt tbou ortzsh it f 8*y" Carina! Or, aadder yet, wilt thoa let it stay. Where.it is lying, welladay, All on this pleasant morning la May ? Osr* ! C arina! My beautiful flower of flowers I No. Carina! Thou wilt not soorn it nor crush it so, Carina £ One true little word before we go; Close, nestle close, and whisper low: Low, while the faint aonth breezes » _ Cara! Carina! --Howard GWj/ndon. WITH referenoe to color blindness, or the lack of power to distinguish oolors, it is stated tftat very few of the persons so affected are conscious of the defect in their vision. Many railway accidents are caused by the color blindness of their employes, and the Swedish Railway Di­ rection has recently ordered an exami­ nation to be made by occulists of all tlie men in their employ, so as to guard, against the danger. Prof. Holmgren, w h o h a s j u s t e x a m i n e d t h e e m p l o y e s o f . the Upsala Gefle railway, found that, out of 266 persons examined, aighteeu war# color blind, and so utterly unfitted for railway service. THE PKICE OF A LEG. A LMSOD to Railroads-- Men Mait M TM Put Oil a Train. ItecklMaly. [From the MMhviile Amerioan.] 7 The oase of John Eagleton against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Jjouis railway---a suit for $50,000 damages for having his leg run over by a train a ye&ir or two ago, necessitating its amputation1 • --was decided at Murfroasboro last Sat-» urday before Judge Baxter, by a vwidicS of $9,000 damages in plain lift's favor. The testimony in the trial showed that Eagleton entered the train at Nashville in a state of intoxication, without having purohased a ticket The conductor called on him for his fare, when Eagle­ ton told him that some friend in another car had his ticket The conductor failed to find the friend, and tackled Eagleton again. Eagleton insisted he had paid his far®. Tho oonduotor then called upon a passenger sitting near Eagleton to prove, and did prove, Eagleton had not paid. When the train stopped at Antioch, Eagleton said ho would give an order for the amount of the fare, on some Nashville firm. The conductor told him he oould not take an order, and that he must have the money or a ticket, or he would put Eagleton off. Eagleton then pulled out of his pocket cents and handed it to the conductor. The latter said the amount ' would take Eagleton to the next station, but that he oould not. go to Murfrees- boro for that amount At this Eagleton snatched the 35 cents away from the conductor, who stopped the tain and put Eagleton off, 500 yards south of Antioch. Two men, following in the rear of the train, came tip immediately after it left and found 'Eagleton in a out with liia leg broken just below his knee, the bone being shattered half way down to the ankle. During the tiial the oonduotor testi­ fied that he put Eagleton o£f the train 100 yards north of where he was found; that he supposed Eagleton must have caught hold of the train as it moved off, and run on with its falling where he m found, and breaking Ms leg. The points of few bearing cm the oase, as stated by Judge Baxter, were; .4. That it was the duty of the oondno- tor to have put Eagleton off at a station, and that ho had no authority to put him off between stations. 2. That the oonduotor should have put him off at a safe plaoe, so as not to endanger his safety. 3. That, as Eagleton was drunk and excited, the oonduotor ought to hare been more careful, it being in the . and very dark, in selecting a and safe plaoe to put him oil •A