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J. VAN SLYXE, Editor and P«bt sfc«r. M HEKBT, ILLINOIS. THE Burlington Hawkey e says "there is one good reason about this 2-cent postage. The smrm of spring poets won't be compelled to lace the awful fact that the stamp on the envelope is worth three times as much as the poem on the inside. It will only be worth twioe as much." A BTOBY comes from Canton, China, of a woman who, to punish a female slave who had stolen some food, oat a slice from the girl's thigh and made her •cook and eat it. This simple remedy would not serve an American housewife. To save her provisions nothing less than * fricassee composed of an entire ser­ vant-girl and several of her cousins would answer the purpose. - Tax famous Spreckels sugar planta­ tion in Hawaii is the largest and most •complete in the\world. It is many miles in extent, and the improvements on it are estimated to have cost $4,000,000. "The four sugar-mills, capable of making 100 tons of sugar a day, cost $1,000,000, and the outlay for water on the planta­ tion has been nearly as much more. The, water supply comes through two ditchos, one fifty miles long, the other "twelve, and for the water privilege, ir­ respective of the expense of conveying it to the plantation, Spreckles pays $10,- 000 a year. The yield of sugar is from 20,000 to 25,000*tons per annum. • HBM= A JAPANESE woman who had lived in America since childhood returned to her native land. She writes back to the Independent from Tokio. She has quickly regained facility with chop­ sticks, and is convinced that skill with them is hereditary. She found the men of that city more polite, as a rule, than Americans. She became perfectly familiar with the Japanese language within a month, though she supposed she had entirely forgotten it. She has resumed the native dress and considers it very pretty and graceful; but she positively cannot bring herself to ar­ range her hair in the true Japanese fashion, which is beautiful in appear- ' ance, but which requires so much po­ matum that the thought of it is repul­ sive to one accustomed to the American coiffure. JUST above Lawrenceburg, near Cin­ cinnati, lived Mr. Newhouse, who owned a ten-acre tract so rocky and sterile that he ceased all attempts at cultiva­ tion, dammed the Whitewater river, that ran through it, and built a mill. Something above Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Hunt had forty acres of the very best of land. The late floods covered all this territory. When they subsided the surface of Mr. Hunt's farm was found - *5 «om l»low; filled Mr- New house's pond, and covered his unpro* ductive rocks, several feet deep, with the richest land in that fertile valley. Mr. Newhouse has, at the regular value of such possessions in that locality, made $5,000 by this curious movement in real estate, while the farm of Mr. Hunt will be good for nothing until re- : stored by a long system of tillage and :• fertilizing. " SENATOR TABOB, says the Chicago Times, was in the Senate a month, and he probably regards that period with more pleasure than he does the day when he learned that his grub-stake had made him one of the richest men in the country. Recently Tie was in Washington again for a day or two, and . a correspondent says: "While here the Senator took a friend to visit the capitol, now the resojrt of visitors chiefly. Taking him into the Senate chamber, Tabor pointed out with mingled humor and pride how he had left his mark on the desk he occu­ pied for the memorable thirty days of his term. It was caused by the scrap­ ing of his cuff-button as he' wrote, scratching the right-hand corner of the polished wood."* There is one advant­ age in a short public career. The chan­ ces that a man may make a fool of him­ self are considerably reduced. It is this circumstance that probably enables Tabor to look baok upon his term in the Senate with so much satisfaction. WHILE David Davis was dining one day at Wormley's with some friends, among whom was the slim Mr. Evarts, the conversation drifted to athletic sports and foot-races. Mr. Evarts, with a view to one of his sarcastic jests, turned to the great trunk alongside of him, from which he himself may be supposed to taave been whittled off as a sliver, and suggested that such sports were something entirely out of his line. "Well, Evarts," replied Judge Davis, "perhaps you think I can't run? Now, look here, I'll bet you a case of wine I can beat you 100 yards if you will let me choose my ground and will give me •five yards start., I'm heavy, you know, and I want solid footing." Mr. Evarts was satisfied that he had a "dead-sure thing," and as the evening had ad­ vanced the dignified company resolved to unbencl itself still further for the sport. "Come on, then," shouted the Senator, "follow me 1" So away they went, down a narrow alley that runs between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Marching into it for a dis­ tance of five yards, while his an touched the brickwork on each side, he quietly observed: "Now, Evarts, get in behind me, and take your time. I am going to take mine!" THE foreign visitor to these shores lias, with very few exceptions, de­ nounced pie as a deadly invention of Slii ^SSi^'ifluIld native pie-eater, and has often been tempted to reach out a hand to save him from a life of-suffering and dyspepsia. Coming from a nation where pie is treated with no less contempt than is bestowed by Herr Bismarck upon the inoffensive and salutary American hog, he is unable to understand by what un- happy chance the AmpTican people have become a nation of pic-eaters. Every disagreeable peculiarity of American society he attributes to pie. Pie is re­ sponsible for every variety of evil in our politics. Ruffianism and crime are due pie, and pie, indeed, iA the source of almost as many ills as "that forbidden fruit whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe." Yet spite of foreign scorn and prejudices the pie habit survives, and each year adds thousands and thousands to the adorers of pie. The American love for pie can never be conquered. It is the strongest proof of American birth. The person who does not eat pie is regarded by Americans with distrust, and for­ eigners who do eat it are hailed as brothers. The United States will ex­ perience a thrill of satisfaction and good feeling to hear that the Cssar hps or­ dered 1,000,000 pies for his coronation ceremonies. It will rejoice to learn that there is at least one foreign nation that does not share the hostility felt by other great powers toward pie. Russia and America have always been on friend­ ly terms, but this gratifying proof that the Czar is alive to the beauty and ex­ cellence of pie will unite them in the strongest bonds of sympathy and good­ will. High Buildings. The erection of several apartment houses in this city of unprecedented hieght has provoked the inquiry whether it would be judicious to set any limit to the dimensions of such structures. The subject has been debated by some of the officers* connected with the Board of Health. They allege that where buildings are carried so high that the sun never penetrates to the street be­ low, a powerful element in the laws of hygiene is withdrawn. In this country we have never adopted the law of easements as it is understood in En­ gland. There it is held that the use and enjoyment of a house with windows overlooking a neighbor's lot entitles the owner, after a certain period, to a right to the light and air over the adjacent ground, and the law will not allow buildings to be erected to a height which will intersect an angle of 45 degrees from the lowest of such windows. In the city of London this principle has been relaxed recently by some Judges. Still the old common-law maxim holds good: "So to use your own as not to injure another's," and it mav be doubted whether the extent to which apartment houses have been carried is not an in­ fringement of the neighbor's rights and a substantial injury to property. Not only is there a damage to owners, but society suffers by the withdrawal of conditions which permit proper ventila­ tion, free currents of air and the action of sunlight, which is in itself a most powerful sanitary agent. At present tlio l«)ili1in« rornilutinBa rnnnim thfti & certain area of each block only shall be covered by the building, and it may be reasonably argued that where buildings are carried to double the height of an ordinary house this space reserved should oe proportionately increased.-- New York Tribune. Why the Bible Is Not Now Read so Much as Formerly. It has been strikingly said that were Shakspeare's works destroyed, every line that he ever wrote could be recov­ ered from the pages of other authors and the speech of the people. So, every text in the Bible has been quoted by somebody as proof or illustration, to point a moral or adorn a tale. Even our secular literature is sweetened and elevated by thoughts and expressions from the Scriptures. It would be as impossible^ to subtract the Bible from our modern English literature, which is read by everybody, as to unbraid the sunbeams, and extract the yellow or violet. rays from the tides of light that fill the solar system with warmth and cheer. And people do not now read the Bible as a book as they did in former days, because they do read what con­ stitutes its spirit and its life, the very substance and essence of it, in every book and pamphlet, in every story and newspaper they take up. We no longer go to the well with our pitcher to get water as in the olden time, for the water has been brought into our houses, so that we have only • to touch a knob in any room to have our wants supplied. If the Bible to-day is le38 as a book, and is less read anywhere, it is very largely because that which makes the reading of it serviceable and edifying has gone in to all other books and is unconsciously absorbed by all who read anything.---New York Star. A Had Scene. During his residence in this city, John Howard Payne attended the saddest and most impressive mat-riage that ever oc­ curred on this continent. John C. Colt, the murderer of the printer, Samuel Adams, was under death sentence, and on the fatal day he was married to Car­ olina Henshaw, his former paramour. The ceremony took place in the cell at noon, and among those present were the clergyman (Antlion), Samuel Colt, brother of the prisoner, Lewis Gaylord Clarke, editor of the Knickerbocker, and John Howard Payne. Marriage is the basis of home, but what a homeless man iage was this, where the bride ex- pectecl to be a widow before the set of sun, and where the groom was propos ingto escape the gallows by suicide! By 4 o'clock the excited public learned that the deed had been accomplished, the weapon being a dagger, which, no doubt, had been furnished by the pris­ oner's brother.--New York lettSt* '• A Sweet Ditto. Sandy was a country gardener and, like many other country lads, he had a sweetheart. One night Sandy told her that he "liket" her "awfu' wee." She simply responded "ditto." Sandy was not very sure what that meant, but he thought he would ask his father; so the next day, while at work, he said: "Father, can you tell what 'ditto* is?" "Ou, ay, Sandy?" replied his father. "Dae ye see that cabbage?" "Yes." "And dae ye see that ither ane, that it's jist the same?" "Yes." "Well, that's ditto." "Gracious goodness!" exclaimed Sandy, S^id she oa' me • cabbage head?" • %VX*Y cere and attention shown to homes, no nutter what their condition is, will bring its reward. The kind of influence thrown around a young horse will have its effect on its character in after yeavs. THE fleeces of my sheep are'badly injured around stacks. Long-wooled fleeces are more damaged than the? downs or fine wools, since they at e longer and more open, and oatch more beards, chatt and straw. A KENTUCKY farmer cures fowl chol­ era by boiling a bushel of smart-weed in ten gallons of water to three gallons and mixing the decoction with their food twice a day for three days, then every other day for a week. THE general effect of lime is to ren­ der available the plant food already in the soil, without itself supplying any significant amount. Liming cannot, therefore, be successfully repeated ex­ cept at considerable intervals. IF a cow's hind feet are tied together she cannot kick. It will make the cow some trouble for a time, but the mind of the milker will be secure and undis­ turbed. After a few weeks a slight cord "on each leg will be enough. WEED out your stock and get rid of the poor milch and butter cows. The profit in a dairy comes wholly from the good cows, while the poor ones not only do not pay for their keeping, but they reduce the profit made by the others. MANY a man has had his pork fail to keep properly because it was salted in a frozen condition. Frozen meat, whether beef, pork or mutton, will not properly assimilate the salt, and cannot be depended on to keep in hot weather. THE Americttm Cultivator says: Whoever places much dependence on the strainer for securing clean milk will never make gilt-edge butter. Allowing dirt to get into the milk and then de-, pending on the strainer to get it out is a poor apology for cleanliness. More or less of the dirt, especially everything of a soluble nature, and some that is not, will find its way through the mesh­ es of the strainer. SORGHUM has been used and well liked as a soiling crop--that is, to be cut and fed when green. The seeds are of considerable value for food for probably all kinds of stock. They may be fed either whole or ground. The green stalks have also been highly corn- mended-for ensilage. It is probable, however, that it is as a soiling crop that sorghum has most value for feed­ ing. The early amber is a good variety for this purpose, although the orange will give a larger yield. The seeds are hardy, and may be planted quite early in the spring--in fact, some prefer planting in the late fall to secure an earlier growth in the spring. They may be planted in rows, say three feet apart, with a half dozen seeds each foot or eighteen inches. The crop may be cut and fed at any time after it is fairly grown until it begins to ripen. The early cut will, in a favorable season, give a fair second growth. We do not think it desirable to attempt drying or storing the stalks, unless in silos. Cat­ tle and hogs are fond of the stalks, and hogs like the seeds much.--Breeder's Gazette. IT is not in the power of any class to monopolize the privilege of breeding the best, and it is the duty of every farmer to take heed and learn a lesson from the experience of those who make a specialty of breeding for blood and merit. Farmers admire good stock as Ki/«V>W «•» any fnav a*a alnw to avail themselves of advantages they possess. A man who lately sold a high- priced colt was not a farmer; he knew nothiug of stock-raising outside of horses. He was not even a judge of any breed of horses except the one he was accustomed to, and yet he disdained to raise a scrub colt. What he has done can be done by every farmer, and, while it is not expected that so large a sum will always be realized for a ycung colt as $5,000, which he received, yet it is an easy matter to raise one that will sell far up in the hundreds. Are farm­ ers and stock-raisers willing to be idle and see novices outsell them, and beat them at their favorite pursuit ? But it is not the trotter alone that brings the higher prices. A good farm horse, bred from first-class draught material, of known blood, has a marketable price which is commanding. The scrub is a parasite, and the farmrr who does not know better than to breed his mares to anything and everything because the fee is low had better abandon his call­ ing and leave it to others to follow. As with horses, so with other stock. Inferiority in stock is the signpost of bankruptcy, and points unerringly to destruction, for experience has proved that no farmer has yet been a first- class practitioner on the farm who did not keep a close watch on the method of breeding his animals and keeping them up to perfection. -- Farmer's Magazine. IN France and Germany, according to a French writer, something Of a rage has set in in favor of the use of the drill in sowing small grains. Dr. Es- bein, a noted German agriculturist, has recently published a paper on the sow­ ing of seeds in lines by machines. Hand sowings, however carefully ef­ fected, have the uniform vice of irreg­ ularity. The economy of seed by reg­ ulated distribution and equalized cov­ ering is enormous. Take rye, for ex­ ample; the thirtieth part of an ounce of rye contains on an average thirty- three seeds or grains; this would rep­ resent 360 grains per square yard. Re­ mark in the autumn and spring a good field of rye* and you will never perceive 360 plants in a square yard of soil, per­ haps not more than twenty-five to twenty-eight, all badly grouped and of unequal development. Judge, then, what must be the waste of grains in broadcast sowings generally. Institute a contrast with a field sown by a ma­ chine, and the comparison will be con­ clusive. Again, they say in Norway, where the fate of the harvest is a ques­ tion of a few days, and where the winter snows often commence to fall before the stacks are carted home, the sowing of the principal crop--oats--is effected by the machine, and such secures invariably an advance of eight days in the harvest. The complement of the sowing machine is the horse hoe; impossible to employ this instrument if the plants be irregu­ larly distanced, ftf. Thomas estimates j that to sow the 18,000,000 acres under • wheat in France, seed valued at 300,- ' 000,000 francs is required. The four- fifths of this value, or 240,000,000, are | lost by unproductive hand-sowinga. Doctors' Bills of Chicago. , / I stumbled upon some figures that are positively appalling, when it is con­ sidered that so many people and so much money are required to relieve Eain and to make the attempt to save fe in a great city like Chicago. I find that there are 1,300 reerolar physicians '-4,• v. •• !«•> intUaeitj,** dowd «#q6-ne**H*epi*>ns: It but a flair" X Ip told, that each one of these peraenmteoeives, on an average for his nift||^.or profits on his business, •5,W«mually. It will be seen from this tb« fnis class of at­ tendance Mid aerrtoi done costs every year in Chicago the enormous sum of $12,500,000.--Letter from Chicago... HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. HOMINY CAKES.--Two table-spoonfuls of fine cooked hominy, one teaspoonful of salt, one table-spoonful of butter, two table-spoonfkds of boiling water, one cup of yellow corn-meal, one and a half cups of boning milk, two table- spoonfuls of sugar, two eggs, the yelks beaten light and smooth, the whites beaten stiff, <me teaspoonful of baking- powder. Bake in hot buttered gem pans for twenty minutes. CAPER SATTCE--Chop a table-spoonful of capers and mix with a quarter of a pint melted butter; add a little cayenne pepper; let this cook for three or four minutes,then add a teaspoonful of flour rubbed smooth in three table-spoonfuls of cold water; let this come to a boil. If you choose to do so, add a teaspoon­ ful of Worcestershire sauce ; it imparts an agreeable flavor. Of course this quantity can bo increased indefinitely if tne proportions are preserved. CORN AND BEAN SOUP.--Take two pounds of beef, a pound of pork, a pint of black or navy beans (soaked over night), a large onion, a small carrot, a head of celery. Put the above ingred­ ients into the soup pot with a gallon of cold water, and let simmer gently for five or six hours. Take off and let it get cold; remove the grease and place it on the stove to boil again. About an hour before dinner add a quart of canned corn. Strain the soup, season with cayenne pepper and salt, and serve with or without the addition of boiling cream. A DELICIOUS PUDDING.--Mix three teaspoonfuls of baking powder with one quart of flour; chop a quarter of a pound of suet very fine, also one cup of raisins and one of currants ;pour over the fruit a cup of molasses, a teaspoonful of mixed spice (cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, or mace) and one cup of milk; then gradually mix in the flour. This makes a stiff batter, but none too much so. as the pudding will have more body than if the batter is thinner; when every lump of flour is stirred out put the bat­ ter in a pudding-dia|r, and steam fot four hours. , , CRYSTALLIZED FRUITS.-- Crystallized fruits form a prominent feature in all confectioners' windows just now, and beguile boys and girls into spending all their spare money for them. If they care to take the trouble the; can pre­ pare oranges at home, which will take the place at half the expense of the costly fruit. Peel and quarter the oranges, make sirup of one pound of sugar to one pint of water, let this boil until it is like candy around the edge of the dish, then dip the oranges into this and let them drain; keep them where it is warm and the candied - sirup will be­ come crystallized. BROWNED KIDNEYS.--Browned kid­ neys make an excellent dish for the breakfast table. Melt some batter in a saucepan and when brown put in slices of kidneys, cut thin and rolled in flour; if you do not cut the slices thin they should be cooked for five minutes be­ fore they are rolled in flour. One reason why kidneys in the various ways they quay be .cooked. <«re not generally liked is simply because they are fre­ quently served when about half cooked, and there are few stomachs capable of digesting a raw kidney. If onion is an agreeable flavor put a few bits in the melted butter. CHOCOLATE CREAM DBOPB.--Two cups powdered sugar, half cup of milk. Put them into a saucepan, and beat until it boils. Then boil five minutes precisely, without stirring. Set the pan into a dish of cold water; stir until the mixture creams. If it should turn to sugar it is cooked too much. Then mold into small balls. Flavor if you wish. Take half a cake of good choco­ late, scrape it, then put into a saucer over the top of a steaming teakettle till dissolved. Drop the cream balls into the chocolate, roll over quickly, take out with a fork and slip on a buttered platter. a A Care Containing Embalmed Bodies. Leaving the high road to Nazareth to the right, we followed a path for about half an hour which took us to the vil­ lage of Sheik Abreik. It was a misera­ ble collection of mud hovels, in the muddiest of which dwelt the Sheik. After much palavar and promises of abundant backsheesh we got him to ad­ mit the existence of the caverns of which we were in search, and persuaded him to be our guide to them. The first was called by the Arabs "The Cave of Hell." Its entrance seemed to justify the ill-omened appellation. It was a steep, sloping tunnel into the bowels of the earth, just large enough to admit the passage of a man's body. To slide into this feet foremost after a-lietvy rain involved a coating of mud from top to toe. After going down a few yards we found a chamber in which we could stand erect. Here we lighted our can­ dle and looked about. We found that it was the first of a series of similar chnmbers opening one into another. Each contained stone coffins, hewn out of the solid rock. The bodies were em­ balmed, wrapped in cloths, as we read in Scriptural accounts of burials, notably in that of our Savior. "Each in his nar­ row cell forever laid," they remain un­ disturbed until rude hands, ages after­ ward, "rolled away the stone from the mouth of the cave" and rifled the con­ tents.--Nazareth Cor. New York Sun. Cause Enough for Delirium The writer once met with a parallel to the old story about "got 'em again," on board a steamer in the West Indies. A passenger, occupying one of the main-deck cabins, experienced certain strange manifestations for several nights in succession after he had retired to rest, so hideous in their nature that he was nearly driven mad. Unhappily this gentleman had a propensity for in­ temperance, and feared to mention his nocturnal persecutions, leat they Bhould shame him in the eyes of his fellow passengers, by turning out to be the product of a diseased brain--delirium tremens. But he wasn't so bad as that; for a huge land-crab as big as a dinner plate, which had somehow found its way into his cabin, was at length dis­ covered there. What the poor fellow must have suffered nightly with this awful crustacean crawling over him, must have been enough to drive any one mad.--New York News. A QUAINT pibtare-frame for a photo­ graph of cabinet size is made of white wood painted tine; ehoose-a tint from • moonlight seene; decorate with a bare limb at a tree- upon whioh* an owl is peiehing. D» not make it a plant blue, but shade ft and give it a cloudy appear­ ance. I AN odd sofa pillow is made of diark gTeen plush and is shaped exactly like a fluQi sock, ttimusiiull and. tied around the neck with a cord. Th« lacing around the top of the sack is delicate pink satin, and the cord tied about is the same color, finished with pink willr tassels. A beautifully designed monor gram is wrought in the center. To MAKE a whisp-broora holder cut two pasteboard hearts, ten inches long, eight across the top; eut two wedge- shaped pieces three inches long, one inch at top, for the sides; cover with black ladies' cloth, and line with blue flannel; join together, and work around the edges with gold-color silk, in but­ ton-hole stitch ; on the front work with gold-color silk some pretty pattern in chain-stitch; in the center work your monogram. Hang with cord and tasseL VERY pretty rugs may be made by cutting out circles of bright, soft cloth, about two inches in diameter, then run a strong thread around the edge, just as you would to cover a button-mold, draw into a snug gather, and fasten in the center a little knot of bright wool or raveled yarn; catch them together in any shape you ple&3e, octagon, oval, ob­ long or square; tack to a dark-colored foundation. Many have the old-fash­ ioned knit rugs. They can be bright­ ened up wonderfully by n<l<ling little tufts of wool or raveled yarn here and there, as fancy may dictate. A LACE bed-spread is made of antique lace squares. Choose those of uniform size and of the same quality. When you have enough, set them together with strips of satin. Remnants of satin can be purchased sometimes at very low figures. For a border catch the squares together, diagonally and fit in half squares of the satin. Put the edge of the lace squares over the satin, having first taken the percaution to overcast very delicately the edges of the satin. Tli" wr«n,d mav be lin«d or not. u vou ple*p*t kind of snles every day. Reaper*, Wimewers, hay rnkee, plow*. Imrrows, hay pilforks, seeders--In (net everything a man w"need* to |||| ^bountiful oC(Fr.i,,k Mead at bottom prices. Give dohim a call. IN the- wondroo* air of the Alps, 1,000 feet above the. sea level, putrefac­ tion is unknown, and! the bodies of those lost in the snow are perfectly pre­ served from change. CALIPERS are said by some tw havO been invented by an artificer of Nurem* beqp in 1540, and by others a. much older origin is claimed, it being- aaid that pictures in calipers are displayed on Roman tombs;. TRUTH is as impossible to be soiled by any out --Milton. ta seirtf tat ofttM* •BRA sbflNt MFQftOWSB* 40M! fetwMettltfUia i mSim tlie roll er liar vent its crops--enn be bought of ) rfc DKCORATTON DAY:--A meeting under y®tlie ati«pi4-e» of tlie Grand Army of the ci, Republic will he held at Hie Culver brHoiiin linll. In Richmond, en Saturday at evening. April 28th, to make a r range- ie: the shelf), and long enough to reach across the front of the shelf and around at either end; baste a pretty, contrast­ ing stripe of cretonne through the cen­ ter, and stitch it on with the machine; hem the lower edge of the flannel, and finish with as pretty a worsted fringe as you can afford; bring the upper edge up over the edge of the board, and make fast with minute iron tacks; and you will not only have a convenient re­ ceptacle for lamps, books, or vases of flowers, but an addition to the furnish­ ing of your room in the shape of a very artistic and eye-pleasing shelf. THE honor of kissing the toe of the Sultan of Turkey is reseuvod for the Vizier, Ministers and certain privileged Pashas. This act of homage is pep- formed with the utmost solemnity, and is marked by every sign of respect worthy of so important an occasion. OSWALDU8 NORHIBOERUS, who was famous for his minute contrivances, is Baid to have made 1,600 dishes of turn­ ed ivory, all perfect and complete in every part, yet so small, thin and slen­ der, that all of them* were included at once in a cup turned out of a. pepper­ corn ef the common size. They were almost invisible to the eyei DR. P. A. WILLUTO thinks he has ob­ served as evil results of coffee-drinking gout, congestion of the liver, indiges­ tion, nervous debility and irritability, mental depression, etc. His attention was first directed to coffee as a cause of such affections by observing a disap­ pearance of them- in Southern women whose supply of coffee was-for & long time cut off during tlie war. WHEN, says Dr. Squib, the fixed stop­ per of a glass bottle in sists manage­ ment--such as warming the neck with a wet cloth wet with warm water, by tapping, and by the wrench or by all these in combination--there is another means which will almost always suc­ ceed. Let the bottle be inverted so as to stand on the stopper in a vessel of water so filled that the water reaches up to the shoulder of the bottle but not to the label. Two or three nights of this treatment may be required some­ times before the stopper will yield. WHAT with the inventive attractions and the growth of the country, the an nual income of tlie furniture manufac­ turers of the country is not less than $120,000,000. But it would Vie much * ler if the workmanship were more ient. There is too much by far of "it will serve to sell" in she furni- business. There would grow up a lit foreign trade for our products if ^putting together was more honest, "design, finish and material are all tive. Jjiere is much nonsense talked about ding the values of foods. Chexni- considered it is well known what constituents of ordinary diet are, it is no secret that the values of ferent articles vary greatly. But 'is too frequently overlooked that food which a hunter or a plow- itaxy levy bask to the In the few members were present, who nam ad­ journed »tbetr share of aday'slegMstttaboa*- uccu uuuvj jiu. wifuraiR incv-- bill to fix tfcfrjpay ef 1--tj-- ef the Assembly at ttler day tar the fits* »n of. • wgriar satoktt, aadftperday tarthertlaMtttl* stnedteadjovi Us on sooond reading were «H he whole aiwioa twteg talrar ay * bill to prtvent fon market by wtftholdlnt flea . Cronkrtte aiiDM to have ft sfesefestilfl •;y'\ She Was a Twin. Indebted to a M st w^rre- spondent" for the following anecdote concerning the recent registration of female voters in Boston. Its accuracy is vouched for by an eminent artist-- one of the most distinguished stone­ cutters of the Hub. Enter old lady of a certain age. "I wish to register, sir?" "Your name, pleaue?" "Almira Jane Simpson." "Your age?" "Beg pardon!" "Your age?" "Do I under­ stand that I must give my age?" "Yes, miss, the law requires it." "Worlds, sir, would not tempt me to give it! Not that I care. No; I lmd as leave wear it on my bonnet as a hackman does his number; but I'm a twin, and if my sis­ ter has a weakness it is that she dis­ likes any reference made to her age; and I could not give my own, because I do not wish to offend her."--icago Budget. . ; • What Rich Men Believ* "Why do those rich men on the Pa­ cific coast,'" said I, "w&nt to come to the United States Senate?" "They merely obey a law in every man's nature who has been success fid in some one thing, namely, to believe that they know everytliing about every­ thing else. Those men have become rich. They think that is all there is to life, and that if they can get into the public councils somewhere they can work a change in other men's views, who will just sit down and hear them. They are entirely unaware that a man may be the richest person in the land, and still have the least influence, and-perhaps the least happiness."--- Gath, in the New York Tribune. Snubbed Him. Young Pease was "sweet" on Clara, but he didn't have the courage to tell his love man fashion, so he went to work in a roundabout way. "Do you know, Miss Pink," he said, ""that Charley Green is terribly in love with you?" "How do you know that, Mr. Pease ?" demanded Clara. "Oh," replied Pease, "I judge him by myself." "You judge him by yourself, do'you?" said Clara; "well, then, please judge Itm «aly when you are by you^g^ An Unfortunate Client* : Nobody was more bitterly witty than Lord Ellenborough. A young lawyer, trembling with fear, rose to make his first speech, and began: "My lord, my unfortunate client--my lord, my unfor­ tunate client--my lord--" "Go on, sir, go on," said Lord Ellenborough; "as far as you have proceeded hitherto, the court is entirely with you." . v Ben Franklin's Ticker. Benjamin Franklin's old "bull's eye" watch is owned by a man in Lancaster, Pa. Large offers have been refused for this watch, including one of $1,000 per annum for ten years from a New York company, simply for the loan of the watch during that period to display in the window of their office on Broad­ way. Plenty of Orders. "Did you get any orders?" asked the boss of the drummer who had just re­ turned from his first trip. "Any or­ ders?" echoed the drummer; "that'sthe trouble; that's the trouble; that's all I did get. I was ordered out of every shop I went into before I could sell a thing. O yes, orders enough, ii that's alia fellow wants." man cannot relish and assimilate would Ttouvwes a light attendance in tlie Sen­ ate on Tuesday, April 17. A few cflanaltteers- portn-haTtns been made, Mr. BrrggMB dneedaUDIo tlx tfc» Geneial ninety days < for any farther ttae tttHi sine t A few bills on sooond reading were nearly the whole aiwioa betas fair-- ay by-JCt. Merritt's bill - to frtrest the market by public tion* I Mr. by the-Cterk for the information at 1 There betas objections hl» requijal waai and he availed himself of his " " the resolution. The m jectlons shouted out. from the was so load that be crold hardly L _ . voice.. Hr..Cronkift» ataied tfc«-oli$M resolution to.be to carder a count a( ~ in the Brsdwell-McN*ny election. the Elections Committee. It * out of order, and tlx Clerk to call the- roll on the appeal) Cnafts from the decision of the chair, rejx>rt of the Elections Committee la of the highest prtrilese and eatttk cedent* over all other business. Th erats refrained from voting and tBere upon the roll-call only seventy vot«a--seven leas than the number requisite to make a quorum. The House-then adjourned. THB Chair presented » memorial ftom Society of Friends, in the Senate on the morning of the 18th. inst.. asldn« for legislation to aaatet in eating for discharged prizonsm. The smash­ ing motion! waa Mr. BelTs motten to recaiagipr the vote of whioh Mr. Whiting s amendment la the buoket-shop bill was carried^, and a Kmc discussion took place, after which the enactiM clause was stricken out. The bfll to pWridi for the organisation of corporations,, aaaocla tfons or societies for the purposa at furnishing Hie, indemnity benefits to tlie widows, heirs or devisees of <kK . ceased members thereof was read a third ttaa ̂ ̂ and passed. It puts ail such, organizations tot- ,, , - ,y . der the laws of the State. The bill to pamdk t, railroads toconsolidate, passed. AnNlWMlt» . . pay Mr. Eckart $-n>o for semoe* renderadi aa clerk of the committee to investlxatetlMlttk. ' - Louis bridm-ohaigen, waa adopted. Mt. Maank ,, • ,,'i introduced three bill relation to we argaatat- ' ' Uonof Chicago, The-c bills were propawd. hr •, - -py the Citizens' Associati n and are intended to simplifythe Government of t' at great metrdp- oils. All interest in LecMaiin prooeedtasa centered ia the action of the House Ofttba Brad- .r " wall-McNally caae. When the proceedings be- gan, at 9 :S0 a. m., all the Republicans were pass- .,=5 ent bnt one--Representative Rcok, of the Klrt* enth district, lint, when the roll was caDoAott the question of sustaining the chair. Statics^ ef ' "t~< Kichland, announced that he waa.pair«d wttbaa ^ absent Democrat. A call of the House ahowad '% only seventy-live members present, as the D«aa- - : -iM ocrats dMilned to vote and Book confined w&m- «, inc. The Hons* therefore adjourn ?d «khogt " ? doing any business. Chaxgrs are mad» of all sorts of improper influences having been uaod in this matter. • THK special order in the Senate on the 10th Inst, was the consideration, of Mr. Clouch's hill revising the military codet After cons"derabl* discussion, the bill went to third reading. Mr. Lansing's bit}, providing for the pul ~ of a cheap s;a;uto-book. was made a order for next Wednesday. Mr. Road bill for townships not under shtp organization was craerad to third i cause torture of the most acute kind to j uu°Jo{» Hm^1o^°^pimentiSi^<ncaeededk a person compelled to pursue a seden- 1 with the help of a special agent or thePoatoSoe Wv lifA On what tlie former would Department and a Senator, fa» ge ting the rec*l-tary life. starve the latter would live nobly. To PREVENT the escape of soot into the atmosphere in places where bitu­ minous coal is burned, Mr. Albert Pet- eitrant Rook to his seat, where he voted aye upon the question of sustaining the rat­ ing of the Speaker, and the deadlock be­ gun eight days before wta broken. When the committee report in favor of seating BradweB came up, a motion was made to substitute the minority report, in favor of Mctf ally, and Bpen zold constructs two cylinder?, one above this Rook stubbornly refused tovo*e, again leav- the other, leaving a space between them Heimblicana without a ^ . House adjourned, and the Repubtteans held a rather greater than their diameter. • caucus, where they resolved to continue ths cir- They are placed either in the chimney j ens. or in a place above the grate, having communication with the smoke flue. The upper cylinder rests on a plate, (losing the chamber, except inside the Cylinder, so that the air around is not tn AjyonlafiAn A haaA n? Kvuua is wound spirally inside both of the cylinders, giving the smoke a rotary A msoMjnoK was introduced and passed In the House Veb. 7, calling upon the Auditor of Public Accounts to transmit to that body Infor­ mation embracing a statement of the bonds is­ sued by counties, townships, cities and towns, in pursuance of au act to fund and provide tor ii^3nrY^^jx> r*»?55d dchts Cf 2322^^ m\tmm - etc., in force April 16,18«»; also a nSSTti the assessed Hlue or all taxable property In - the various ©otintiew of the State (exoepi- motion, which forces the particles of ingoroperty lielonging to railroad companies) Boot to fall dowh to a chamber outsid. ^ the lower removed from cylinder, whence it may be )m time to time. v*"' - Axioms In Fruit Tree CultnMfc •; 1. Instead of "trimmed-up" trees, ac­ cording to the old fashion, to make them long-legged and long-armed, trim them down so as to make them even, snug and symmetrical. 2. Instead of manuring heavily in a small circle at the foot of the tree, spread the marnre, if needed at all, broadcast over the whole surface, es­ pecially where the ends of the roots can get it. 3. Instead of spading a small circle about the stem, cultivate the whole sur­ face broadcast. 4. Prefer a well-pulverized, clean sur- the years 1868 to l*7» inclusive. The reuort ia now being printed, an l will be presented t* the House soon. The total amount issued doling , the years named was $l5,r>i<\751.r>8; amount 6t principal reduced and canceled, $<S.:#ki.<*7.9T; amount outstanding Sept. W>, 1882, $ 04.31. Under the act of Feb K), bonds iu aid i f rail- • roads were issued to the amount ot ASSESSED VAtNE OF TAXABLE PROPEHTT. Year. 1 Amount, i Year. v Amount. 18B8.......Jt 460,817,905 1874..., $1,(I21,065.:US 186!>........ 478,!>97,i»SW 18T«........ l,03i,7ai,?« 1870. 460,789,51.2 1870........ 95<i,717.U3 1871 477,080,784 1*7* 1872.,.,.... 484 491.42J 1878 1873........ 1,205,832,315 1879 STATE TAX IJKVIKiX :.f'4 Bate I Yeaon$100. Year. 18681 1 . . . . . . . . S .65 l̂ Ti.......... 1869..,.,,,. 1.30 1875.... i87o.;....;.i.....i.: .«su» ;..u.^. .* 1871... .90 1877 .C^.. .» 187 2 .TVMI7S M 36 187# .W S1«,6»M& 743,623,7» 1873 « . i ....... v .M> Ltf.» . In obedience to tuc same resolution a stat?m< _ g face in an orchard, with a moderately- j track of railroad companies and the assessed __ _ ' . _ * valiiA rt# ail pflilrnati f is given showing the number of miles of _•••. *| . i • -i „ i value of all railroad property in the serotal rich soil, to heavy manuring and a sur-1 counties of the State for the yean isns to 1S78 face covered with a hard crust and, inclusive. weeds and grass. 5. Remember that it is better to set out ten trees, with all the necessary care to make them live and flourish, than to set out 100 trees and have them all die from carelessness. 6. Eemember that tobacco is a poison, and will kill insects rapidly if properly applied to them, and is one of the best dings for freeing fruit-trees rapidly of small vermin.--Canadian Farmer. AGGBEdATE ASSESSMENTS. 1868... $ 14,081,708 1874 1869 16,381),981 1875..... 1870„.i..V... 19,242,141 1876 1871 22,556,126 1877 1872.......... 24,384,428 187S 123,a»,47S>i ,...i«l,t07,5!M .... ujm,m $ .... 3S,9*,0» .... 4i,a7,aa .... in.mi-Mi yJW * r'•' ~kd!i Wanted--An Apron and a Frying-Pan. ' Thoroughly as canoeing has been Iffcudied, there are yet two secrets which BO canoeist has ever fully mastered. Canoeists without number have tried to invent the perfect apron--an apron which will wrap so closely around the canoe as to keep every drop of water out of the canoe, even in the heaviest sea, and yet will not confine him even for a second in the event of a capsize. No one has succeded. The perfect apron is among the arcana of nature. Hope ever lures the canoeist on to new experiments in apron-making, but he never reaches the desired goal. Often he fancies that he has succeeded, but he always finds that his apron is not Sprite perfect, and that other men be-6re him have tried precisely the same apron and discarded it. Then there is the perfect frying-pan, the bottom of which can be kept clean so that it will neither impart the taste of fish to all food cooked in it, nor blacken whatever part of the canoe or her stores it comes in contact with. The search for this frying-pan is like the search for the fountain of youth. Perhaps in another and a better world it may be found, but so far no man has yet found it.--New York Times. A Large Estate. There axe several single estates in Mexico containing from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 acres, and the famous Salailo ranch contains over 600 square miles of land. It lies partly in the States of Nuow Leon, Coahuila, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi, on the highway to Mexico, and on the line of the new railways. It occupies the central table­ lands of Mexico at an average elevation of 4,000 feet. Chains of mountains rich in mineral wealth traverse the estate. The boundaries of the estate extend more than 100 miles from north to south, and flourishing farms and large mining } V , What Is a SpengeT Scientists have wrestled long bitterly over the nature and origin of the sponge. Up to not many years ago most of them agreed on classifying it simply as one of the most infinite series of submarine vegetables. Later scien­ tific opinion, however, sets down the sponge as an animal, or rather a bunch of minute animals of low organism, cell-shaped, equipped with a stomach and digestive machinery, throwing off from their bodies masses of fecundated eggs, and developing in combination with each other that fibrous mass which ultimately leaches our markets as the sponge of commerce. Take one of these masses which we call a sponge and examine it more critically. It will be found to be a group of small fibrous cells which, after ramifying more or less, connect with large round apertures Ssnetrating far into the spouge mass. y suet on, or some more occult pro­ cess, the sea water is drawn through tha smaller cells and their partitions. The living organism then takes up from tha passing fiuid and devours tha ittinuto algue, on which it is supposed to fefjL The water, then loaded with excrement* pours outward in a constant current through the larger orifices. Haeckel, the famous German naturaliat. con­ tends that the sponge sheds moat lum­ inous scientific light on the remoter methods of evolution. So that, contem­ plating one of these inert masses of fiber hanging in the drug store, evolu­ tionists may regard it with something" of the reverential regard due to a pro­ toplasmic ancestor.--New York Fo»L Smokers' Ettyuetteb 'in sojourner in New York says: ."Tina brotherhood of smokers I have never seen more forcibly illustrated. The raggedest gamin presents his cheroot for a light on Broadway alike to tha laborer, the bond owner and the nioa voung man, and has his claim allowed, by all with equal promptness. In th* great city one touch of ignited to­ bacco makes the whole world kin." ^ "WHAT ia twice read ia ooiamonly bet­ ter remembered than what ai -tner aoribed.--Samuel Johnson, v -rr.. A. w . ,X„^ ....... *