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' -A- -:-% - - ^ i «**.-:*•, A"' ? •'., ;«•»** '*» m<«® ISESSE^nKraEh J. TAN 8LYKE, EDITOR AND PuBiipcfiai. JlcHENRY, ILLINOIS momt TH ^ Cicada. . Cicada. with her little stove, Vm frying fritters "neath theineit The aizzlivg dpi «t^ through i Waa wafted by 1 ; The tempting Lured all the Who sat mil Ihi Or round ner in a circle stood. Kaofc begged a fritter of the maid, ^jft' 7 Who frowned, and whirled her Httfe broom, jf' Oook your own dinners. Go!" she aaid; i,1 " Tot idlera I've no food nor room." 0 . •{?" i : H| % , hungrj Uijj. thzpagU the *bo4. u * •, C a m e t o t i f c i u l a * s I r i t c h e n d o o ^ / * ' '®l«(^8edw4*ra '̂jiî «i®i ho&M ?? *%\ C She seeraf î»jx4ary.iy« 4 \̂*iu s -'-mi A little, little food, I pray. And let me eat it *nec.th this tne. Pre wandered hunpy all the daj„*» --t- ' •_ •? No, ao--be off! « $|«& \ J| J # And stormed, an<( knit her' angry brow. , «* 7T'*»'j JMi'n f fjttO ' So Idle traiiap am I, my dear; I spend my time in useful work. And many a night I guard you Jiere - , While be«tt kod WolveA arciiidyofi fu^kl' And once I nursed your mothet oid.'• If.'. When she was ill and weak. So, dear Cicada, do not scold; But grant the little boon 1 a •lte««.Isayrthp4<N |̂ And droye her out and bange Alas! alas !*he never dreamed The punishffimWfiwlnfidi* •k." the rli ing fritters in ̂ tma. - The angry fairy waved her wand And changed her to a locust there. And ever a!J £* >«*. | * Her race this insect's body wear, «~l And in the August hot and still, Their sizzling swells upon the breew, And all the locusts, as they trill, Seem frying fritters in • P. Crunch The Mmn-fK*4mA •*« the Watt*-***, f & a large^n4Mef #tier»ttll ke chief scorns were paneled, there lived, once upon a time, a farmer, whose ill fate it was that every servant of his that was left alone to guard the ̂ Jiouse-on t̂ e Bight of Christmas ovo, Sshile tlft reat fcf the family went to church, wal found dead when the family returned home. * As soon as the report of this was spread abroad the farmer had the greatest diffi­ culty in procuring servants who would •consent to watch alone in the- house on that night; until at last one day a man, , a strong fellow, offered him his services tout up alone'arid guard the house. The farmer told him what fate awaited him for his rashness, but the man des­ pised such s'Hfc-jmt persisted JB Ms determinatieti. ft* On Christmas eve, when the fanner and all his family, except the new man servant, werfc preparing for church, the farmer said to him: "Come with us to churqfr; I cannot leave you h'&re to die." But the other replied, KI intend to stay here, fdt it would be unwise in you to leave your house uprotected; and, be­ sides, the cattle and sheep must have their food at Hid proper time." " Never the beasts," answered the farmer. bo rash as to remain in Q& hons^ this night, for whenever w4 hAve returned from churcH on this sight we have always found every livmg thing in the housedead, with all its bones broken." But the man was not to be persuaded^ as he considered si! these fears beneath his notice; farmer knd the rest of the servants"#ent away and left him be­ hind, alone in the house. As soon as he was bjr himself, he be­ gan to considctf lidrHfe gStarf against anything tha£ t plight occur, for a dread "had stolen over him, in spite of his courage, that swuethiiig strange Iras about to take place. At last he thought that the best tijiiag to do wjw, first of all, to light up til feppjy room* andthen to find some pllie |4 . vrhkili to hid© him-, self. As sodlri0ib 1ia4 lighted all the candles, he moved two planks out of the wainscot at the end of the room, and, creeping into the space between it and the wall, restored the planlts to their places, so that oee plai ̂ y into the room, and^efe avoid being himself discovered. V>v. L V>^ .k. a He had scarcely finished concealing himself, when two fierce and strange- looking men entered t^e room and be­ gan looking about. One of them said, " I smell a human being." „ " No," replied the other, i%no^ human being here." Then they t took a candle and con­ tinued their aiearth, until they found the man's dog asleep under one of the beds. They took it up, and, haying dashed it on the grourld till bqne in itf body was broken, liurled it from them. "When the msbiserv ant «bw this, he oou- gratulated himBelf cm not having fallen into their hands. Suddenly the room was filled with people, who were laden with tables and aU kinds of table furnitSf sih er, cloth* and all, which theysyi^ad out, and| having done so, sat down to a rich sup­ per, which they |«§! Jbo with them. They feasted noisily, and spent the remaind^of the ui^ht in drinking fend dancing. of 'them were ap­ pointed to keep guard, in order to give the company due warning of the ap­ proach citiher of anybody, or jof the day. Three times they went QTft, fd^flnys re- tuBraiiig with the news'tliai taey sa# neither the approach of any be­ ing, oor yet the break of day. But when the man-servant suspected K%e *° spent |je {jumped ftom 0i j^be bf *]i^ceaQ]ii«iiE. iuto the room, and, clashing the two planks together with as much noise as he could makeM shouted like a mwlmim: •"The da/f tlie da>! f) ft On these words the whole company rose scared from their seats and rushed headlong out, leaving behind them not only their tables and silver dishes, but 1 feven the very clothes they had taken off for ease in dancing. In the hurry of flight many were wounded and trodden Under foot, while the rest ran into dark­ ness, the man-servant after them^ clap­ ping the planks together and shrieking, 'The day! the day! the day!" until they came to a large lake, into which the whole party plunged headlong an<cf disappeared.^ ' •• r; w- • " From this l£e> man lchew*th4m to W /Water-elves. • 1 Then he returned hcone, gathered the corpses of the elves who had been killed in the flight, killed the wounded ones, and, making a good heap of them aU,' burned them. "Whfen he had finished this task, he cleaned up the house and took possession of all the treasures the l̂ ye^nad left behind thiol, "j* * *-] On the farmer's return, his servant told Mm all that had occurred, and showed him the spoils. The farmer praised him for a brave fellow, and con­ gratulated him cm having escaped with lus life. The man gave him half the treasures of the elves, and ever after prospered exceedingly. , I Our ^(neea«or* Managed IU mm early ages, " when wild in woods the noble savage ran," compliance Tpth the request, " Will yofc|iv* me a ?" involved, if the camp-fires had out, a spell of unremitting hard rk, conRitfemhie manual dexterity, and an unstinted application of " jelbow- pease." The primttive mo4e strflc- mfce was by rubbing one piece etdry d " a gieat m«IKt«de of experiewees, good or lfed, in a few minutes; but that th<| thoughts and emotions of a long Ufa may surge through the mind during the seconds oif RsphyxtRHon is mrtnifostly impossible. i > | i pit'*; if 4-"' 1' ' ' This was the last visit tpe water-elves ejrer paid to that house. > 1 H , ftww* MUh, Jwwtli amS B«||k " They tell me that there is a kind of fish in the Indian seas called the pea­ cock fish, blouse of his brilliant colors. I wonder if he is as proud as our land peacock, and whether or not he>can spread his toil on grand occasions a|ter the fashion of the bird tlbat struts 'into my meadow sometimes? " This bird lives on a fine estate near by, but onee in a while he comes over to astonish us with his splendor. One night I dreamed that he came aloAg, And had just spread himself and put on his grand airs, when ten little youngsters sprung from no­ where in particular, and began to point at him with shouts and laughter. "Ho! ho!" cried they. "Isn't he proud? Ho! ho!" A queer little stumpy-tailed dream- dog was with them, and he fairly sneered instead of barking. "Well!" exclaimed the peacock, in the harshest voice you ever heard, " what if I am proud? Who'd ever see these tail-feathers, I'd like to know, if I wasn't proud? Look out that you're not proud--you that haven't a feather on your bodies--p-a-a-u-w!" , This was too much for tlie ten little boys. They gave a shout, and sprung npon the peacock, and each one tried to get a feather, but he gave a tremendous scream «md-- I awoke, and there wa$the awl, with every ray spread, rising to the tune of oock-a-doodle-doo!--Jac k-in-the-Pul­ pit for November. A _ _ _ _ _ _ mnrnra a\jd a asic ultuxuc. After all that has been said about the richness of ores in the Comstock lode, and the enormous wealth in that de­ posit, it is surprising to learn that the average yield lias been only $43 a Ion. The "big strikes " of rich ore were all duly proclaimed, loud and long, for the purpose of selling the mining Stocks, but the low yields of ore were passed by unnoticed--and this is the way in which the exaggerated idea of the rich­ ness of the lode obtained. Some of the first' ores did yield enormously, at times as high as $4,000 a ton; but these cases were exceptional and rare. The whole quantity of ore from the twenty mines in, the lode has been 6,324,210 tons, and the whole amount of bullion obtained from it $271,874,842, being at the rate of $42.9K per ton. At-first View, $271,000/ 000 in gold and silver looks like an enormous yield of money in ten years, but it is not half as much, after all, as the value of the California wheat crop for the same time. Besides, it has re­ quired a great expense to work the mines, so that the net profit of Corn- stock mining has not been nearly as large as might be supposed.--81. Louis Republican. JPAQK8 INSTEAD Of BRIDESMAIDS. Instead of bridesmaids, fashion in France now prescribes tsro tiny pages, who are chosen from the prettiest of the boy relatives of the bride Or bride- groom. These are dressed in velvet of the bride's favorite color. At a recent wedding the tiny court-dress worn was of sapphire velvet, with white silk stock­ ings and velvet shoes with diamond buckles. A bouqnet composed of a rosebud, ap. .orange-blossom, and a branch of rayrWe is attached to the left aide. They perform the usual role of the bridesmaid, carry the bride's missal, bouquet and gloves, and, in addition, meet her and assist her from and to A1 I.J-. JL r! J.J 77) upon another until incandescence was induced. Probably Jabal, the fath­ er of dwellers in tents and herdsmen, and Jubal, the father of musicians, were indebted, when they needed a light, to Tubal Cain, their half-brother, the first " artificer in brass and iron," who doubt­ less "gathered" his smithy fire so that it might smolder through the night and be ready for blowing up i« themorning. Howevter this may be, a care of those who lived in very early stages of the. worlds history would appear to have been to keep their lamps or fires con­ stantly burning, rather than to depend upon means of striking fire when their 1^Ps few&,g»ne out." (Matthew jcxv., 8.) It may be supposed that when Abraham and Isaac proceeded to Mo- riah fdt the teifijbl& spc^plioe in. pros­ pect, it; was a lamp, and not a lucifer, that the patriarch had when he " took the fire in his hand." The maintenance of a continuous light was imposed upon the children of Israel as a religious duty: " Bring the pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." (Exodus xxvii., 20.) The ex- tiaguished lamp or candle was evidence of the divine displeasure: " The lamp of the wicked shall be put out." Re­ turning to early methods of staking fixe, a tribe of South American savages improted updft the dry-wood-friction process. They discovered that they oould generate showers of sparks by the sharp, abrasive contact of a certain kind of pyrites upon siliceous or flinty stones. The sparks, directed upon a quantity of dry, readily-inflammable fibrous ma­ terial, obtained a flame, .with compara­ tively liltie trouble Leyoud procuring and preparing materials. In the matter of " striking a light," tBfc human family remained in a state of comparative bar­ barism till within a period almost within the recollection of many juniors of ".the oldest-*inhabitant." Our grand­ mothers kept the kitchen fire 'alight all night by placing a block of coal upon it and packing it with small coal or ash­ es, so as to allow it to smolder only till the morning. The first triumph of " ap­ plied science3 in " striking a light" lay in the discovery of the combined capa­ bilities of burned linen, or tinder, flint and steel, and brimstone-tipped wood matches, or "spunks," as they were called in some parts of the country. The steel was of the form of the letter U elongated and reversed, the narrower stalk being the handle; the broader, which had a serrated outer edge, was used for striking the piece of flint, and producing the sparks that ignited the tinder, which in turn lighted the brim­ stone-tipped match. The lighted tin­ der, when it had served its purpose, was extinguished by a close-fitting inner cover that was pressed down upon it. The flint and steel were also used for lighting match-paper--thick, porous, paper that had been dipped in a solu­ tion of saltpetre and afterward dried. The match-paper was held close to the piece of flint, with its edge at the point of impact with the steel. It ignited readily and burned freely, but without flame. Amadou, or German tinder, and " touchwood," being woody tissue in a certain stage of decay, were sometimes used in the same way as match-paper. The methods of initiating fire, as has been seen, were, up to this point, by rude mechanical expedients. It is only during the last half century that sci­ ence may be said to have been applied to the manufacture of matches. One of the earliest novelties was the " in­ stantaneous lighting-box," which con­ tained a bottle charged with sulphuric acid and fibrous asbestos. The tipped match was let into the bottle and caught fire in itor contact with the acid. The revolution ixi match-making, and the origin of the match-manufacture, as a large and important industry, may be said to date from the. introduction of phosphorus a$ an igniting agent, applied in various ways. XTX6IM? TBS CMAWOBM. . Many are vain of their high living. But, j.f a man becomes honorable by how much more honorable is the worm thai eats kim! A man may be said to be in a stew .when yoa make his blood boil. The parting of Memnon's marble lips in music at the touch of the sun was not more wonderful than the gash of bird- melody at dawn--the great dumb woods, full of darkness, all at once singing out alcrad, if there be only a streak of red arid a flake of mother-of-pearl in the There is dew in one flower, and not in another, because "one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off, God rains good­ ness and merpy as wide as the dew, and, if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them. The father who in passion chastises his son is truly like him that beateth Never interpret social maxims too liter­ acy. To "speed the parting guest" it is not essential that you kick Mm down A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a stock of money. The most ignorant have sufficient knowledge to detect the faults of others; the most clear-sighted are blind to their own. If the tree be good the fruit will be good; but if the tree be bad no amount of cultivation will produce good fruit. Believe nothing against another but upon good authority, nor report what may hurt another unless it be a greater hurt to others to concealit. So far as religion is concerned, we want a religion that not only bears on the sinfulness of sin, but on the rascal­ ity of lying--a religion that banishes all small measures from the counters, umall baskets from the stalls, sand from the sugar, chioory from the coffee, alum from bread, lard from butter, strychnine from wine, and water from milk-cans--that will iiot put all the big potatoes and ap­ ples on top, and wear a long face while in the act. iro tfOKJS ON HIM. & having come to the attention of some of the workmen in a boiler shop on Larned street that an old vagrant was in the habit of sleeping in an old boiler |a the yard, three or four of them came down at an early morning0 hour, cut off his retreat by pushing a barrel into the orifice, and then, armed with sledges and hammers, they made such a din as only boiler-makers can. When they had become tired they pulled away the barrel and looked in. The vag was rubbing his eyes, and, as they called to him, he replied: "Hey? What ju soy? Was that a fire-alann?" r: j ?•$ -' v • -V #WC* *'*>}• ' They were by no means satisfied, and next morning they turned on the water to test boilers and thrust the hose into the boiler. By-and-by the old chap came crawling out, wet as a rat, and, as he landed on the ground, he inquired: "Boys, have you got any soap around here?" , They gave him a pieoe used at the wash-basin, and, as he crawled back into the boiler with it, he remarked : " It's four weeks since this shirt was washed, and, if you gents will let that water run for about fifteen minutes more, youll be doing me a great favor! I'm sorry to bother you, but Fll try and not waste any of the precious fluid 1"-- Detroit Free Press. viwemjQfaxnski A hippopopotamus and a guaft was a feeding and they coxuc to^eUidi and luked at one a other • wile a ftonish. When the hip§x> had hiked enough, it ' pnld a root from 'tween its feet and et it down. Them the giraft lieked in sum leafs from the top o# a tree and sed: "I never sed a poor feller so short cnpfpled like you, wicfe ha* get to stand- on his o'wn dinner." But the hippo it snifed bout like a coal seller, and sed: -The differnce 'tween me «*! you i* I do my dining to home, like geatlemcM, bat you got to putyurnoat." " v A feller ke was a bnntin' in Africy, and there was a o4her feller^ and one of em he went onto a hi] bout as highly as a steeple, but no whether cock, and he cude see abuv tlie trees and he seen a girafts hed a stickin' up. oat of the woods, hi like a libbetty pole, only no flag on it, jest eais. Then the feller wich was c>n the hil he come down to the other and sed: " Have ytm got a ax?" " And the other feller said yea he had; wot of it? And the feller wich had ben on the hil he sed: * You take yure ax and go in them woods and hik up, and you wU, find a tre wich has got a cammel a groin' on it, and you jest cut the tre down and pick the cammel." Theil the other feller he sed: "O non cents, how can cammels gro on trees?" But the hil man he was offle mad, and he sed a other time: " You mite jest as wel say: 'Oh, non cents, how can snakes grow in the ground?' But s'pose I was to tel you I have et snake root with my own mowth, wot then?* But wen Billy, that's my brother, had the stumk ake last time, he was give cat nip tea, but give me serp squills and you may have ol the oat nip, and the stumk ake, too, but wen Bildad, that's the new dog, is sick to his stumk he chews gras like oxes. One time n slteprd dog he felt a little sick and et gras for to make him thro it up. And a old sheep sed to the dog: Seems to me that if mutton ain't good , enough for you you better quit this biz ness, and let us run it our selfs." make believe to be doing somethings and wear the solemn aspeot apd caltt conscience of a serious purpose. Ifthejr are not doing mme "workf" they am pulling it to pieces, or they are showing- it to somebody, or they are just going to show it to somebody. They tho*» oughly understand the art of beu* strenuously idle. ;» ••c*W 'jni-- Mllx&ois items. I <> *" • • i'i'% --During the past year 10,000 feet of sidewalk has been laid in --The stone is upon the ground for* new bridge across Big Book creek, nesiiw^ ̂ Piano. : .• -j* ^'2" • • ' 1 '*.•••%*, i --Ten tons of slate is DISOBEYED the carriage-sidfek. 1 MAJPID&TT Of THOUGHT. '"S. By way of ascertaining just how fast we can think, experiments, with the use of several forms of apparatus, have been made by scientific men. In all the ex­ periments the time required for a sim­ ple thought was never less than the for­ tieth of a second.. In other words, the mind can perform not more *Wn 2,400 simple acts a minute, 1,500 a minute be­ ing the rate for persons of middle age. From these figiires it will be seen how absurd are many popular notions in re­ gard to the fleetness of thought, how exaggerated are the terrors Of- remorse­ ful memory that moralists have invent­ ed for the moment of dying. And we may reasonably "discount" also the stories told by men saved from drown­ ing, cut down before death by hanging, rescued from sudden peril from other L f No doubt d man may think of THB CARES Of WEALTH. A comical incident of the r^ent sav­ ings-bank run in Foughke^psi^, as re­ lated by the Eagle, illustrates woman's ways. Two sisters, living with a lady in that city, took alarm, and went to their mistress for counsel. She advised them by all means to leave the deposit in the bank. But they -didn't; they took it out. And, having it in their possession, they were troubled to know where to keep it. So they gave it to the lady to keep till the next morning. It was de­ cided that it should be buried in the earth in a flower-pot standing at the window, aim there it was deposited. Having so much money near her, the lady did not sleep well, and she disin­ terred the precious trust and put it un­ der her pillow. With the early da$m the owners of the money appeared att the lady's room., The dopr being un­ locked, they entered and went directly to the flower-pot. "Oh, my God! my God! I am ruined entirely." "T^e money's gone! They have dug it up." A gentle voice from the bed was heard: "Here, take your money. I lay awake till morning taking care of it, and just as I get asleep you come waking me, and all because you were two fools;"-- New York Tribune. A BOY lately died at St. Gall, in France, in consequence of swallowing over a dozen stones of prunes. They were found clustered ill one spot in his intestines after death. ' HOW PHIL BBERIDAH ORDERS. It may not be generally known, but is nevertheless a fact, that Gen. Phil Sheridan owes his fame and success as s military hero to a flat disobedience of orders. At the beginning of the war he was a Captain in the regular army, hav­ ing graduated at West Point in 1863. In the fall of 1861 he was appointed Quartermaster of the Army of the Southwest, under command of Gen. Curtis, with headquarters at Spring­ field, Mo. An expedition to Arkansas was organized, and Gen. Curtis headed it in person. The march of the army was harassed by attacks from bush­ whackers and guerrillas, and there was great need of horses to meet and re­ pulse these classes of combatants. Gen. Curtis dispatched a courier from Tim­ ber Hollows to Sheridan, with instruc­ tions to forward immediately all the horses he oould procure; if there was no money on hand with which to purchase them, to go out and press them into the service. In those early days the war was not carried'into Africa, so to speak, as in later times, and Sheridan refused to - run any risk by such an irregular proceeding, and sent word back to Cur­ tis that he would send no horses for which he had not receipts, and, having no funds on hand* he oould not procure them. Gen. Curtis was furious at the presumption of the Quartermaster, and ordered the contumacious officer to for­ ward his sword to the General and re­ port to Gen. Halleck, in command of the department, at St. Louis, under ar­ rest. Sheridan left Springfield in pur­ suance of these orders, and that was the last heard of him in the Army of the Southwest. In the spring of 1862 he appeared again as Colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry, after which time his. progress was rapid and brilliant, and known to the whole country. How he got out of the trouble with Gen. Curtis the archives of the War Department may be able to tell, but it is not known to those who were associated with him in Missouri. The stirring events of that period left but little time to look up the records of individuals, however famous. The episode was the/making of Philip, though. Had he not dis­ obeyed orders he might and would in all probability have served through the war, rising no higher thari a brigade or division Quartermaster. se4*>*ed ~ - : cover the roof of the new City Hall Sandwich. * , A society for the protection of loon-keepers has been organised ifri Moominghm. , _ --Bee-keepers in the vicinity of Biku ̂v Kalb are having their swarms itoim bf*'- 4 >• • > *< / midnight prowlers. "M'K --Marengo barbers axe having a war, V They now give a good, clean shave for - " f i 1 5 cents, and a hair-cut for 15 cents. V x f --•George Rowley, formerly of Plan% 'jl' was recently murdered by the Indian^ - * liear his home in Chase county, Neb. ,'}« ^ •> --CoL Harlow, the Secretary of Stato£" is the first of the executive officers o f̂ ^ hand with' f biennial repert' to Governor; -V' --Among other results determined b£; ' ~ the late election was the adoption of r, t township organization by Williamson ... county, in this State. , ; r ^ ?|, --Samuel A. Buckmaster, Speaker the Illinois House of Representative^ ' in 1868, cjied at Alton, a ̂ lew days agt% > ? after a short sickness. '*• . 1 --Mrs. William McCullough, widotr.* of Lieut. Col, William McCullough, of / • 1 ̂ the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, died o| , " paralysis at Bloomington recently. ^ f --The Committee on the Revision the Military Code will meet at Springs'* '"; -- "-CN field on the 20th, instead of at Chaeago*. •***-» •6 the request of a majority of tW::1 ^4, members. -s •' «!'**.4 /; 4.' » . U- * ' I , . The Northern Insane Aaylum. j , . » ~ Dr.E.A. Kilbourne, Superintendent ̂ * ̂ of the Northern Hospital for the In? sane, has just completed his fifth bien^*U *' uial iteport to the Governor of Illinois for the two years ending Sept. 80,187%*- Dr. Kilbourne compares the number of inmates of the hospital at the time of x his last report with the number on Sent. ~ 80, 1878, *as follows: In 1876 ther$>. >?,• were in the hospital 463 patients--230: being males, 233 females. Since then * " , 413 patients--215 males and 198 fe-^ ^ males--have been admitted. Of tho* ^ ; 1 ' *1 A MAJST8 TIJBW. Women have a peculiar faculty for doing nothing, WithW outside show of industry, whi<|h men cannot share. They are positive, restless--anything but in­ active. 'When a man is not smoking, he generally likes to be doing something or other, no matter what it is; and if he is doing nothing, it is obvious to him­ self and to the whole world that he is doing nothing. He has not wit enough, or^art enough, or inclination--which of the three?--to conceal the truth. But the most desultory of women alwayB from the Cook county asylum at Jeffer |̂| son; over 40 from county infirmaries? and jails in our own district, and stilt , others on account of the dangerous nat-< ^ ure of their disease. This has swelled * ^ the aggregate number of chronic cases. ' received during the past two years to| ^ ^ fully 107. The number discharged was.- \ 351; of these, 58 were transferred to t H Jacksonville on Nov. 22, 1877, in ac- ^ cordanoe with the law redistricting the*" j ^ * State. Other removals to Jacksonville/*'1 * >^^4 later and to county infirmaries made1**' • ^• *?• $ * the total number transferred 81. The^ s^ ; whole number under treatment has^ ^ been 876. Of these, 79 have been dis-^; charged as recovered; 43 as much im- " '*•' proved; 59 as improved; 115 as station- * S9!?" ary; 1 not insane. There have died 54/'*' ' * There were in the hospital on Sept 30, "'"-/-* i 1878, 525 patients. The percentage of" recoveries on the total number admitted is 19.2; percentage after deducting 107 chronic oases, 25; percentage of recov­ eries on number discharged, under three months' duration, 22.5. The special appropriations for out- aide and other improvements granted by the last General Assembly have nearly all been expended. The report discuss­ es the subject of mating separate pro­ vision in connection with the peniten­ tiaries fqr the custody and treatment of insane criminals, as they exert a very pernicious influence upon the ordinary insane. The report suggests the desir­ ability of establishing a pathological laboratory in connection with the insti- tution, for scientific research and study '*;* .MS- of the pathology of insanity. Upon the 3 > ; subject of amusement the report men- ^ tions that in the past two years the pa­ tients have enjoyed a reasonable num­ ber of amusements of various kinds; plays, concerts, pantomimes, and mis­ cellaneous entertainments given in the amusement hall at short intervals by the employes, and also amateur and profes­ sional artists. Other features of amuse­ ments, such a^ lhe publishing of a liter­ ary journal* etc., are mentioned. Van- ^ - i v ous donations from different parties are '&&& % gratefully acknowledged by the Super- i intendent. The report contains the fol­ lowing statement of receipts and dis­ bursements for the past two yean: Cur­ rent expense account, $211,239.32; bal- ^ ^ anee on hand Oct. 1,1876, $6,083.06; f ' total income, $217,322.37; orders issued on treasury and paid, $211,568.20; cash in hands of Treasurer Oct. 1, 1878, $5,754.17. Deducting outstanding in­ debtedness on pay-roll to Oct. 1,1878 ($1,976.04), leaves a balance of $3,778,181 - Mi - ' * * .•ii&S'fc', a •