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auk& flMy M Mr iffftfctttw flamdcato ̂ J. TAN 8LYKE, EDITO* AK© PUBLISHES. VcHpNKY, ILLINOIS. 1 ' ' ' • \ t * t>VM jifVENILMS* C faflke DtiMe OtWM f* ! + »' ." llfcftt are you saying, *; Tou dew? little cricket, ~'v• i ,' i Qtfrplng so shrill r "' ¥n the dark green jj Piping and Binding The whole night Bontyoucet tired And wet with daft ;* Yen teach me a leason, > Tou dear little cricket, * *, , . SWer tired and croM .. ^ -J1 * •'••. In the dark-green thick#^"^- IWeary and fret s Over duty ao soon; . MjonkMpiobgix v * f» "• *' i ftali always in ton*, -pi •¥• ', {I will try to be like yon, / ' Ton dear little cricket, || Chi rpinsr away |n the dark-green thicki Whatever Ood bids me 1*11 do with my might, Though it's only the ainj . ,A song in the night. Corporal. 4v|| TeMUiMM. Jm Jm One hot morning in the motltti Of I >(rt3roses there came a strange crowd to the s , 'door of "Heart's Content." | -X They were not way-worn, nor pallid, T^iior hungry-looking, but they were tat- |̂iered and dressed in all kinds of oast- garments you can imagine--two lit- ^ffcle women and one little man. But why did not Tony bark as usual, J|tmd go into spasms of fury and disgust, 'tis he was wont to do when such people came to breakfast? On the contrary, ever a dog laughed, he did, with every uscle of his body, while his little lunt tail was so agitated that you could scarcely see its delighted twinkle. These tramps asked for something to eat. Grandmother looked at them gravely and kindly over her glasses, -while grandfather said, fiercely, looking up from his paper, "We shall have to send Tony away if he hasn't the wit to "bite such people as these." Then grandma asked, "What would you like to eat? " and the man (he was so small that his long coat dragged at lis heels) said, promptly, "Bread and marmalade;* and one of the women {she was small, too, and her dress was a world too wide and too long in the waist) said, "Lemon pie." "And what will this other poor woman have?" asked gentle grandma, and the other one answered in good broad Irish brogue, "A cold potato, mum." Grandma turned and /went into the house, and diFappeared at the pantry door. Then there began a whispering among the beggars, and grandpa de­ tected both of the women looking over their shoulders with a great deal of satis­ faction at the skirts that dragged so heavily about their feet. They spread them out behind, and were so vain and complacent over them that one would never have dreamed they ! were forced to get their food by asking from door to door. It was a little odd, indeed, that hungry people should have the heart to feel Tain over their own finery. Meanwhile Tony had flattened him­ self out on his front paws, his sensitive ears dipping and rising as if to catch every word of the conversation, and his eyes so full of humor and amusement-- as if he could not keep some very fanny secret, to himself --that one of the women warned him with her forefinger, as if to •ay, "Do behave, Tohy! Grandma brought out a beautiful slice of bread, spread thick with malade, Mid gave it to the man in little brown, dirty hands; also a piece lejnon pie on a pretty china plate, wi Gold Locks' own fork upon it, for o -- woman, and the "cold potato, mum," the other, who dipped a little court as she took it, and--what!--why, thret snickered! Now why did they not sit down that ample door step to eat their i lunch, if they had really come a 1 way over the dusty roads? . Qp yhy did they not try the^old ( | idea chair that stood near? i Surely, if they had traveled far, tl I j wdttld be glad of the shade of the elm which stood with its fine tran close to the well that its roots, had trouble in reaching down and help themselves to the cool water bel Or, if their feet were sore with heat, those of tramps must often be, tl] " weuld be quick to discover the pie; shade of the lattioe over which the ginia creeper spread such a leaves. But no, they showed no desire to down, nor even to quench their thi at the pump, the spot wayfarers were ways the first to seek when the s scorched the world as it did that day There they stood, and the blushi dismay of the woman with the pot seemed to grow more and more fa: to the others, and, instead of pityin her, or sharing their own dainty fa with her, they burst into anoth smothered laugh. Grandpa, still looking very stern and I savage (as he really had ! known to look before, one always to see that fed from the tramp to the sparrow), said, "All these tramps have bad man­ ners. I really cannot imagine why Tony don't bite them !* Then grandma asked mildly if* they were looking for work. What! another titter from all three? It really was very impertinent, bat grandma did not mind it. "And what work can you do?" she asked of the man.. "If you are a good, strong, willing fellow, I think some farmer win be glad to get you." fie looked up at her, roguish and sheepish in the same breath, and she went on: "I might find some soouring or cook­ ing for these w&men, but I do notaUojr trailing skirts in my kitchen** ' At this grandpa spoke. "I should want to take a feather- duster to all three before I took them in. Tony, do pray bite them; dent you see they are tramps?" At this point Tony's delight could no longer be kept to himself, and it burst out in a series of barks, as he went capering round and round upon the grass, as if he were bewitched. Barely the secret he had been trying to keep must have gone to his Wain and made him a happy lunatic, i| you could judge; by his actions. { Grandpa laughed quietly to himself at Tony's (Kid way of keeping disreput­ able people off the premises, and grand­ ma kept on asking the kindest, sweetest questions, even though she got no an­ swers. The tramps seemed afraid to speak. They had no pitiful histories to tell, that was plain, or they would have told them to her; for who could better oomfort the troubled than she? Another very strange thing in their conduct was, that whenever grandpa spoke or scowled, they turned their faces right toward him, and looked straight into his eyes, as if to have him cross was the most curious and ridicu­ lous thing in the world. The little brown-handed man had made great orescent bites in his bread, as if every mouthful relished; the woman with the pie plied her fork with a good deal of skill; but the cold-po­ tato woman did not taste of her chosen morsel, which fact amused the others amazingly. This could not last long, and you can judge with what astonishment grandpa and grandma heard these words, in a coaxing voice, " O, grandma, I want a piece of pie, too!" Who were these saucy tramps ? Why, it was Edith and Gold-Locks and Ted. --Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, in Youth'u Companion. A. JtUSSlAN FORT KISS 8. The gloomy fortress of Peter and Paul at St. Petersburg promises to play a prominent part in connection with the revolutionary movement in Bussia. Founded by Peter the Great, it early began an evil career as the state prison of the unfortunate Czarowitch Alexis, who, rightly or wrongly, posterity be­ lieves to have been done to death by the hands of his despotic parent. After­ ward it became the regular place of de­ tention for prisoners of state, and, per haps, for 160 years the cellts have never been without their complement of in­ mates. In Catherine's reign the dun­ geons were more t^an once so over­ crowded that whole batches had to be removed by boat to the Schlusselberg fortress, higher up the Neva, just as at the present moment swarms are nightly smuggled away from its grim interior and dispatched in hooded carts to Si­ beria or Saghalien. As to the number of victims that have lived and died within its limits during the century and a half of its existence nothing with cer­ tainty is known, and probably the world will always remain in ignorance of the nnfnr' * 4* I >0 .,±:A '..at ; FABJUES AND ANJBVDOTJB8* BY UTTUE JOHNNY. There was a dog, and there was a oat, and there was a lam, and there was a ox. The dog it sed to the ox the dog did: "That's a mity long tail you got there, mister, with a nice topple to the end, but you cant waggle it wen you meet yure master Then the cat it sed to-jibr OK| too: "No, in deed, and you can't bio' it up like a bloon wen you git mad.'® Then the lam it sed: "You ain't able for to twinkle it, either, when yon think of something funny." The ox he thot a while, and bime by he spoke up, and sed his ownself: "I plade hooky wen I was a little boy so much that I dident lern them vain ac­ complishments, that's a faok, but I got a tolaby good bisnesa edcation, and I cess mebby you fellers wude have to cum toMne for to hnllup you out if you had to fil a order for ox-tail scop." Wen Mr. Gipple was in Afrioa he seen sum natif niggers wich is called fiotteniops, and they likes their beef raw, like dogs, and he see 'em cut it oft of the cattle wile they was a life and bellerin. And sum of the catties had ben cut up a good deel that way, but not ded. One day the King of the Hottentops he see Mister Gipple, and he said, the King said: "Did you se any catties long the road you cum? Cos mine have strode a way and I can't find them." Mister Gipple lie said: "Yes, sir, jest over be yond that hil is a porter-house stake with one horn broke off, and bout a mile further long yule find a rib roast eating the willers, and nearby I see two honches of bull fiting sum soop-bones, and onto the other side the spring I ges yule se a liwer and sum tripe a layin' in the shade and chewn their cuds " But Mister Bnly, the butcher, he kanocks 'em onto the hed with axes and cuts their throte in a minnit, and me and Billy we say.hooray! Cows is beef, and a oalef it is veal, but little pigs is mutton. One time I was in Mister Brily's shop, and he had out off a pig's hed and set it on the top of a barl, and ole Gaffer Peters he cum in and seen it, and he sed, ole Gaffer did: "Mister Brily, yure pig is a-gittin' out." Mister Brily he luked, and then he sed: "That's so, Gaffer, you jest take that stick and rap him onto the nose fore he can draw it in." So Gaffer he tuke the stick and snooked up reel sli, and fetched the pig's hed a regular nose-wiper, hard as ever he cude with the stick, and ka- nocked the pig's hed off the barl, and you never seen sech a stonise old man! But Mister Brily he p'tended like he wasn't look'n', and ole Gaffer he sed "Blister Brily, you must excuse me, bat, when I struck at that pig, it dodged and cut its-hed of agin the edje of the barl." Uncle Ned he sez the sabbadges in Feejy eats thempelfs, and one time there was a mitionary preeoher went there for to pes wade 'em to atop it, and, one day wile he was goin' round the country preachin' pork an* beens, he stopt at a sabbage's house for to git diner. W'en him and the sabbage set down to the table, there wasent nothin' for to be et ony jest a man's leg. The mitionary preecher he was afraid of the sabadge, and dident kanow wot to do, so he stuck his fork in the leg and turned it over, and sed: "I can't eat this, coz it's too done. Wot kind of a cook have you got?" , So the sabbage he took it away, and bime by he cum back with a other leg, wich wasent only jest warmed thru, and set it on the table and sed: "No gest of mixe shall ask for enny thing and not get it. That's the cook." A MAHSACHVUETTS CANNIBAL. A correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing from Otis, Mass., sajs: A cannibal would apparently create a sensation in most any civilized commu­ nity, but a man with the most cannibal and heathenish tastes is living in peace and security here. He is about 50 years old, and calls himself Smith. People think he is crazy, but he denies this, and says his habits were formed by a twenty years' residence among the South sea Caribbees, having been cast on one of their islands by shipwreck while he was quite young. He openly shows his preference for human flesh, but says he has not gratified his appe­ tite for it since he left New Jersey, where he ate a man several years ago. The circumstances under which he ob­ tained his favorite dish there he de­ clines to telL He says, however, that he will yet eat some of the fat and handsome young people in town, pre­ ferring those who do not use tobacco or wear whiskers, and he has done his best on several occasions to induce men and children to become his victims. Once he offered to work six months for a little girl, if she would promise to let him eat her afterward. He is also a man with an iron jaw, and chews up pie-plates with the greatest of ease, while he seldom takes the trouble to emove the bones from beef which he reats, and, as a native says, " he chaws hens right down without wringing their necks." He prefers raw and unseasoned meat, always eating the fish whioh he catches right off the hook, without pep­ per and salt. When he finds a snake he bites it through the back and then devours it, and his disgusting taste nev­ er allows him to discard meat or eggs which are rotten. Smith is also an idolater, and up among the hills, hidden in the forest, he keeps a wooden image, his fetich, before whioh he performs his ablutions (the onfy washing his person gets, one might judge from his appearance) every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. At home he worships a stuffed squirrel, while gnarled trees and almost every­ thing strange and uncommon are ob­ jects of hia adoration. A GREAT TEMPTATION. And What Cmusod It to Se Overtime, John Becket stood upon a ledge of rock overlooking the sea, while the sun was slowly sinking into a great frosty bank of cloud. John Becket was by trade a fisher­ man, and no braver or more industrious man ever lived upon that coast. John had bnt one enemy, and that was a man of his own calling, Samuel Henderson. They had onoe been partners in busi­ ness, and the two had toiled together many a day upoti the waters, but at length a division arose between them, and the old oonnection was severed. Now,as John stood there, his thoughts were of Samuel Henderson and a certain sickly-faced child at home, limping about on crutches,, whose mother lay in her grave. It so happened that one day this child was playing upon the shore when Henderson returned from fishing. Henderson, being a high-tempered man, calling to the ohild, and bidding him leave the fish alone which he was string­ ing, and the ohild not heeding, struck it with the oar of the boat, little think­ ing, perhapsj of the weight of the blow, or what would be the result. For months the child languished, and when at last it left its little bed it was to hobble about a cripple. And it was of the in- juiy done to the ohild by, Henderson that Becket's thoughts were busy as he stood upon the ledge as the sun sank among the clouds, and the wind that lifted his hair told him of the storm that was fast approaching. John Beckett boat was snugly beached a few yards distant; he had not been out that day, but something always drew him to the shore when a storm was approaching. How he en­ joyed it now. How cooling were these first big drops of rain. How black the sea looked with the shadows of the clouds upon it. How the thunder mut­ tered, like a voice calling him out of the distance, and, as he cast his eye over the face of the sea, he detected Hender­ son's boat making directly for the shore. The boat came fast, for the winds bore it along with them; now he saw it lifted high upon some seething orest; again it was lost in the hollow of \the sea--a few more struggles and it was close to the coast, with Samuel Henderson standing in the stern, striving to steer into the cove on the right, and around the point of rock whioh jutted out be­ tween him and the land. Then was the moment of John Beoket*s great temp­ tation. "I can save this man," thought John; but a fiend in his heart whispered: "No, let him perish! He is my enemy." Henderson looked toward him where he stood, and, in spite of the bitter hatred between the two, Becket oou^d not help feeling admiration for the cool, courageous sailor in the boat be­ low, facing death with as apparent un­ concern as if he were merely touching land upon a bright, sunny day. High in the air rose the boat on the top of a huge breaker, and the two men appeared to one another so close that one step might have brought them to­ gether. Then down, down, down, and John Becket could see that Henderson was many yards from the rock yet. One moment of hesitation, and away he sped toward his boat, and, seizing a coil of rope that lay within, hurried upon the rocky foreland that Henderson was striving to round. He reached it, and, giving one end of the rope that he held a tremendous hurl jpto the air, sent it high over Henderson's head, who, oatching it as it fell, wound it fast around his body; and, as the next wave lifted his frail bark upon its crest to dash it mercilessly upon the rocks, he gave a leap into the sea, and, striking out manfully to keep himself afloat, slowly, cautiously, but steadily, Becket drew him in, and in less than five min­ utes the two men stood together on land--Henderson pale as a ghost, his hair dripping with salt sea-water, and his clothes clinging to his long, spare limbs, but in his eyes the light of grat­ itude; and in a moment more their hands were clasped in one another's; and in that meeting, to whioh life and death were invisible witnesses, the past was forgotten. THREE pretended cabmen of "Paris have just been sentenced to penal servi­ tude for life for taking their passengers to the outskirts of the city and there I robbing them. ILLINOIS NEWS. ... Hie.Mew todweg*! School UMb SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the Qeoer&l Assembly, That any seven or more persons, residents of this State, a majority of whom aro women, who organize, or have organize#, under the general laws of the State relating to corporations, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and carrying on an Industrial School for Girls, shall hare, under the corpo­ rate names assumed, all the powers, rights and privileges of corporations of this State, not for pecuniary profit, and shall be and are hereby exempted from all State and local taxes: Pro Tided, however, that any persons organized, or who may hereafter organise as above set forth, desiring to avail themselves of the provisions of this set, shall first obtain the consent of the Governor thereto, in writ­ ing, which consent must be filed in the offioe of the Secretary of State. Bsc. 2. The object of Industrial Schools for Girls shall be to provide a home and proper training school for auch girls as may tte com­ mitted m their charge; and they shall be main­ tained by voluntary contributions, except as hereinafter provided. SKC. 3. Any responsible person, who has been a resident of any county in this State one vear ..nrii-tirn. next preceding tho time at which the petition is , nreoAntad. mav natitmn thi* fWwfrw .»f ! 1 . J girl in *he oare thereof, who has been by« school pat oat to a trade ô employment in manner hsnrimfter provided. Bsc. lit. Tlx officer* auu irasteesof any la- dostrial Hchool for Girls in this State i ~ ceive into such school all girls oa fhereto, under the provisions of this nhallhavs the exclusive custody, care and guiixdiaaaiilp of suoh girls tbey shall pro­ vide for their support and oomfort; huitrast knowledge aa opacities, and pport a< hom in such branches of naefnll may be sotted to their years and capacities, i shall cause them to be taught In domestic avo­ cations, such as sewing, knitting, and house­ keeping in all its departments. And for tte purpose of their education and training, that they may assist in their own supporiL <hey shall be required to pursue suoh tsnlra suitable to their years and seat, as may be pr*. scribed by such officers and trustees. Sic. 11. Any girl committed under the pro­ visions of this act to an Industrial School' for Girls may, by the officers and tarustses of said school be placed in the home of any good citizen, upon suoh terms and for such purpose and time as may be agreed upon, or she may be gl7enJ°an7 suitable person of good character who will adopt her, or she may be bound to any reputable citisen as an apprentice to leam any trade, or as a servant to follow i presented, may petition the County Court of said county to inquire into the alleged depend­ ency of any female infant then within the county, and every female iafant who eomes within the following description* eball be con­ sidered a dependent girl, vis.: £*ery female infant who begs or reoeivea alms while actually selling or pretending to sell " ihF * ment which, in the judgment of said gflSww and trustees, will bo for her advantage, and all and singular of the provisions of the act entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to approved February 3Bl so far as they are " appU- any article in public; or who frequents any street, alley, or other Dlaco for the purpose ol begging or receiving alms: or who, having r.o permanent place of abode, proper parental care or guardianship, or sufficient means of subsistence; or who, for other cause, is a wan­ derer through the streets and alleys, and in other public places; or who lives with, or fre­ quents the company of? or consorts with re­ puted thieves or other vicioos persons, or who is found in a house of ill-fame, or in a poor house. The petition shall also state the name of the father of the infant, if living, or, if dead, the name of the mother, and, if neither the father nor mother of the infant be living, or to be found in the county, then the name of the guardian, if there be one. If there be a parent living, or a guardian, the petition shall set forth not only the denendency of the infant, but shall also show that the parent or guardian is not a fit person to have she custody of suoh infant Suoh petition shall be verified by oath, and, up­ on being filed, the Judge of said court shall have the female infant named in the petition brought before him for the purpose of aete< na­ ming the application in said petition contained, and for the hearing of such petitions the County Court shall be considered always open. SEC. 4. Upon the filing of such petition the Clerk of the Court shall watte a writ to the Sheriff of the county, directing him to bring such infant before the court, and it shall be the duty of the court to order a jnry of six to be summoned, to ascertain whether such infant is ft dependent, as alleged in such petition, and also to find if the other allegations are true, and, if found to be such, they shall also find her age in their verdict; and when such infant shall be without counsel, it shall be the duty of the court to assign counsel for 1'ier; and if the jury finds that the infant named in >the petition is a dependent girl, and that the other material facts set t forth in the petition are true, and if, in the opinion of the Judge, she is a fit person to be sent to an Industrial School for Girls, the Judge shall enter an order that such infant be oommitted to an Industrial School for Girls in the oounty, if there be suoh sohool in the oounty; but if there be no such school in the county, then to any Industrial School for Girls elsewhere in the State, to be in Buch school kept and maintained until she arrives at the age of 18 years, unless sooner discharged therefrom in the manner hereinafter provided. Before the hearing aforesaid, notice shall be given to the parent or guardian of the infant) if to be found in the county, of the proceed­ ings about to be instituted, and they may ap­ pear and resist the same. SEC. 5. If the court finds as in the preceding section it shall further order of record that such infant has no guardian, or that her guardian or parent is not a fit person to have the custody of such infant, as the case may be; and the court may thereupon appoint the President or any one of tho Vice Presidents of such Industrial School the lawful guardian of such infant, and no bond shall be required of sack guardian, and such guardian shall permit such infant to be placed under the care and in the custody of such Industrial Bobool for Girls, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 0. A warrant shall thereupon be issued in duplicate by the Clerk to some suitable per­ son, a resident of the county? to be designated by the Judge, authorising iiim or her to take in charge and care the dependent girl named in said order of the court, and convey her to the Industrial School for Girls to which she is to be oommitted, and said warrant aball be sub- stantially as iollows: 8TATE or ILLINOIS, I „ county. ( * The people of the State of Illinois, to . Tou are hereby authorised to takn forthwith Into your charge and care , aged years, who has been declared a dependent girl, and convey her to (as the case may be) Industrial School for Girls, and of this warrant you are com­ manded to make due return to tbis court after its execution. Witness my hand and the seal of the Oounty Court 0f county, this day of ----, A. D. . [Bcul of court] - county. cable, shall apply to and be hiiuftiw upon such officers and trustees, upon rant girl and upon the person to whom suoh girl ia bound; Provided, tha* any disposition made of any girl under this section shall not bind her beyond her minority; And Provided fvrthnr, that suoh offioere and Trustee* shall' have a supervising oare over such girl *o so© (hat she ia properly treated and cared for. And in ease suoh girl is cruelly treated, or ia neglected, or the terms npon which she was committed to the care and protection of any person are not observed, or in caae Such care and protection shall for any reason cease, then it shall be tte duty of such officer* and trustees to take and receive Buch girl again into the custodv, oars, and protection of said Industrial Sohool. SEC. 12L NO imbecile, or Idiotic girl, or one incapacitated for labor, or deformed, nor any girl having any infect ous, contagions or in­ curable disease shall be committed or received into any Industrial Sohool for Girls in thia State. SEC. 13. Any girl oommitted to an Industrial Hchool for Girls, under the provisions of this act, may be discharged thereby in accordance wi ~ the judgment of good of the girl or the good of the school would be promoted by such discharge, and the Gov­ ernor may at any time order the discharge Of any girl oommitted to an Industrial School un­ der the provisions of this act SEC. ll. All Industrial Schools for girls in this State shall be subject to the same visitation, inspection and supervision of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities as the char­ itable and penal institutions of the State, and, avoiding as far as practicable sectarianism, suitable provisions shall be made for the moral and religions instruction of the inmates of all industrial schools for girls in thia State . r- y ins, unaer xn« provisions or ana ischarged therefrom at any time, > with the rules thereof, when, in of the officers and trustees, the Clerk of the County Court of • This warrant, with the receipt therein, shall be returned to the Clerk, to be filed by him with the other papers relating to the case; and this warrant shall be a sufficient and compe­ tent authority for the proper officers and agents of the Industrial School for Girls to which it is directed to receive, keep and de­ tain the person therein named, and a duplicate copy thereof shall be delivered to the matron or other proper officer of euch sohool to be kept at the school by such matron or other proper officer, which duplicate shall have thereon a full copy of all indorsements made Tn the one returned to court, and be record-by her in a book kept for that purpose, and said book shall always be open to the inspec­ tion of any person. SEC. 7. Upon receiving the dependent girl, the matron of the school shall indorse upon the warrant referred to in the preceding sec­ tion a receipt, as follows: (as the case may be) Industrial 8chool for Girls- Beccived this- -dayof- - ,A .D. -Katran. the girl named In this warrant. [Seal of school ] SEC. 8. The fees for conveying the dependent girl to an Industrial School for Girls shall be the same as for conveying a juvenile offender to the Reform Sohool for juvenile offenders at Pontiae, in this State, and they shall be paid by the 'counties from which Buch dependent girls are sent, unless they are paid by the parent or guardian. 8EC. 11 It shall be the duty of the County Judge to see that every depen tent girl commit­ ted bv him to an Industrial School for Girls shall, at the time she ia conveyed to the school, be furnished with three chemises, three pairs of woolen stockings, one pair of shoes, two woolen petticoats or skirts, three good dresses, a cloak or shawl, and a suitable bonnet. The expense of said clothing shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the certificate of the County Judge. But, if the dependent girl have a parent or guardian, the court shall ren­ der judgment against him for the amount to beptsid by the county for such slothing,,together with the cost of oolleotiou; and, if such ex­ penses and cost of collection are recovered, the money shall be paid into the county treas­ ury. For the tuition, maintenance and care of dependent girls, the oounty from which they are sent shall pay to the Industrial School for Girls to wbich they may be committed, aa fol­ lows : For each dependent girl under the age of 10 years, 910 per month. For each dependent gnrl 10 yean and under 14 years of age, *10 per month. For each dependent girl 14 and under 18 ware of age, per montk And upon the proper officer rendering proper accounts there­ for quarterly, the County Board shall allow an<i order the same paid out of the county treasury. Provided, that no charge shall be made against any county by any Industrial School for Girls on account of any dependen State Items. A WEATHER- STAT I OK of the ftTSt-tfttilS has been established at Springfield, togr the United States Signal Service. Re­ ports from eighteen stations aro Hk ceived there twice a day. f THE total number of hogs assessed in this State, in 1878, was 8.335.550; and, in 1879, 2,814,532. Total number of fat hogs for the 1879 market, 2,013,718. Total number of hogs marketed i& 1878, 2,345,391. ON the 1st of June, according to tl* report of the Illinois State Hoard of Agriculture, there were 762,788 sheep in this State, of which 155,582 were fit for market purposes. The number as­ sessed in 1878 was 775,757. Lake county leads all the rest, with more than 64,000, of which nearly 15,000 ate lit lor market. The number of horses in the State this year is 881,951, against 904,948 in 1878; the number of mules and asses assessed this year is 122,818. ADTANCE sheets of the Auditor's In" surance Reports for 1878 are made pub­ lic, and show an aggregate of life poli­ cies outstanding Deo. 31 of $81,183,601; the losses paid during the year are $144,069; policies issued during the year, $8,601,760. A general ̂ falling off in business is shown for the year. The decrease from 1877 in the number ol policies issued is 982; in the amount ot insurance, $8,456,755; in premiums re- oeiYeii, $859,202; in losses, $62,246. Of policies terminated during the only 8.85 j»«r cent, were " death. THE pamphlet list of premiums of the approaohing Illinois State Fair, which is to oe held in Springfield In September, is now published. The list gives all particulars concerning roles for entry and other matters of interest to exhibitors. The premiums offered amount to $14,466, to be awarded to the various departments of the fair as follows: Class k--Cattle,... Class B-- Horses Class C~ Sbeep Ciam D--Swine. Class E--Poultry ClassF Mechanic............ Clatm 61 Farm products...... Clara H- Horticulture Clara I--Fine art Clara K--Textile fabrics ...... Class lr-- Natural hiatory ..... Clac.i M--Military Clpg JMtacation . % %CUKRENT TTEM^I Two WOMKH have been admitted ^ the bar in Toledo, Ohio. ARTIFICIAL ice, said to be superior to nature's product, is manufactured in the South at a cost of only 70 cents per ton. It is turned out in blocks two and a half feet long by ten inches in thickness. How TO get fat--Go to the butchcgfte --Boston Post, How to get lien--T*ke a mortgage.--New York Graphic, How to get pursey--Drive an ice-oart in summer and the plumber's trade in winter. A HKXJ»LK8S paraly tio at Dover, r is kept alive by constant motion, slid has been constantly rocked night and day for several years. It is also ueos*» sary to rub his limbs often to indnee circulation. A HOBNKD owl was captured a few days since, near the town of Somerset, Pa. The bird was one of the largest and finest of the species, and was •to the Zoological Gardens, at mount Park. IT takes from three to five years to go through college, and from four to se*ea years to learn how to mix fancy drinks behind a bar. Yoang men pushed tor time should take the first eoorae.--- troit Free Press. •'.idi