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Wm ipwglMiiirfin iff . Tn Mil. numbsr - of - busanesa fafl- uroeift th* United Stetee tatef the first Mf of the currant yesar wsfr*i.€87, fetfa* Wm Mto&om for the flMNftte 5,69a In Great «*» increased in „ 9 js. „ - «r-' Americsti fail- ' mw are largely confined to small { Jpeslers. THK Hon. George W. Hart, of Ken- tnokj, has a oommoa cattle pond which no one ever-suspected of ooatalning an y fleh. Becently one of the h&ed men und iCfr&Jhf*atfish, the largest |about eight inches in length. It ppowl' ther found their way through an underground passage from Ohio river, a distance of thirty- MVSICAX. wonder is exhibited in cm. B iflMDaUed the canina. The tlotes are produced by dogs, twelve of %hom are seated in a row inside a long Keysjoh the outer board oom- -j #aunic^ie with wires, which touch each || I animal's head, and when the performer $'// Irtiqikp* the ivory, and the contact warns , $he dog, a whine, a. yell, a bark, or a ..o-^jpsss growl is the response. The har- jnony is defective but the laborious (,*rainiqg has given the strange orches- ./*rftft moderately-tuneful faoility. f* : 1 • VICTORIA'S reign of forty-six gears' is longer by a year than Eliza­ beth's, and exoeeded in length only by. .$*:« #MMO of Henry III., Edward IIL, and - i^Ueorge III During her sovereignship 4he world has gained cheap newspa- ars, cheap postage, telegraphs, trans* tlantic steamers, and a score of revolu- ag. inceptions end discoveries, n edaroely ever misses a book note that oomes from the press in {land, and, so says a writer in Har­ are Bazar, is fond of George Eliot's rrks, att<f keeps a set at hand. A lady waithlg reads the newspapers, and flpljnarks what she thinks will interest her ' jnistress. ' : :£|i A SA!N FJIASCISCQ minister sued a . ;|^oimg msh for his marriage fee. It jteems that the preacher retained the In* as does it." But when «• propose to eat a thin crust, fresh baked, with itperisetly pf dados •»& ihe psaagiaphfots oftis neWspepor must set up a moan at the provincial igno­ rance whieh would do so. II is time this sort of nuisance should expend itself. Pis is an American dish; it is palatable, comestible and digestible. Pie is the perfection of a lunch. Pie isheell&fuL Pie is good. If that be treason, make the most Of H. Long live pie! THE novel-reader of the period readi­ ly can understand why some young people seek all sorts of odd places in which to get married. One ingenious writer of fiction places his hero and heroine in an old tower and lets them make lore to their heerta'oontent; an­ other scatters four Bbmeos among four Juliets in an unlightad dungeon of a castle in Spain, while a third casts his most interesting characters upon a raft at sea, that they may take the bitter with the sweet their courtship with no one to molest them. It is no wonder that seme Busoeptible lads and lasses get to be sentimental in practice, and, to come to the point of this paragraph, says the Philadelphia Time*, it is not unreasonable that Miss Wiley and Mr. Barr should hate decided to have their nuptial ceremony performed in the surf at Ocean City. These lovers, both of whom hail from St. Louis, made up their minds that they would be married thus, and so on Thursday they marched into the sea together, standing in water to the depth of the bride's shoulders. The bathers had Withdrawn, and the bridal party had the beach to them­ selves. A few friends stood at the edge of the white sand when the clergyman stepped in and did his best to tie a knot in Jack Tar style. The sky was bright, the breeze was grateful, and the waves were just frisky enough to lend zest to this undertaking. Indeed, the whole occasion was pleasant, and nothing marred it, save when Neptune, seeking to kiss the bride, ducked her in as bouncing a billow as ever buffeted a mermaid. Perhaps the bride shed a tear at the thought that she never would have a real rich wedding gown to stow away in camphor, hut if so, the pearly drop must have been counter­ balanced by the laugh that came away Wet the floors of Brftd aboebent, fattened quickly is the great se- branch of poul- ... , .. ... , , up from her father's boots when he re- «p«tae th. bridegroom to a<icU>(l th>| he won]d ̂ „„ ̂ g]̂ , . and hand over $5 for being made a The bridegroom did not bills to pay. care to exchange good money for the ftorap of paper; hence the suit, whieh *ras decided tri the preacher's favor. The case illustrates the folly of delay |n such matters.. It is a shabby fellow |who, on hfs wedding day, will not pay Jfche parson; but, if this important duty fis neglected, the case may have a differ­ ent look after tbf honeymoon, with its incidental expenseS and frequent disillusions. HOME DKCORATIOK. TQK }Tale $}aqI *88 >as 149 men *f on' svejage age of 22 years 5 month*, Of these, fifty-nine smoke, pfjsixty-four indulge in hazing during - ^sophomore year, seventy have attended I long, but not quite so wide. A HANDSOME little lamberquin for a bracket is of black satin cut in points. Trim the edge around the points with short and fine silk or chenille fringe. Across the top paint a vine with green leaves and red berries, and on each point put a rose-bud or tiny spray of forget-me-nots or of heliotrope.--De­ troit Free Frees. A LOVELY cushion is made by em­ broidering a spray of o1d:fasnioned pinks on a ground of pale blue. Around the edge of the cushion put a full puff of pale silk satin. Where the puff is joined to the bine satin sew a good- seized pink cord. The cushion whoa completed should be about half a yard the -rupees, #ixty-five drink liquor, a*d Cotogregfttibnalists, seven- Episcopalians, teli Pl'esbyteri- seven Methodists, five Baptists, " . " two^ Catholics, two Beformed, and Jut to professions, fifty $ will study law, twelve medicine, , . ' «ix theology, one surgery, fifteen • will teach, twenty-seven enter business, » ^ ^ eix journalism, three civil engineering, and twenty-four are undecided. The , average expenses have been,lighter *»Wlthaii usuii--1883 for freshman year, s $904 for sophomore, 1994 for junior, I and $1,007 lor senior. |; >VV,--V f --' SF I'- THK Ruseian Government has pub- '*<••*'!'w lished the terms on which it has con- . t j w* s ^ j eluded peaee with the Vatican. In all . Boman Catholic seminaries in Russia fi Government supervises es« pecially the professors of Russian his­ tory and literature, and reserves the ' right of a general inspection. The teachers of these seminaries cannot MOl A TABLK scarf that is tasteful and quite inexpensive is made of dark green felt; it should be about half a yard wi^e; have it pinked on the edge and on each end put out a strip of silk patchwork, familiarly called "crazy" patchwork. Have this strip about one quarter of a yard deep. Make fringe, of the felt, cut in very narrow strips, and six inches deep. Each edge of the silk patchwork should be feather-etiched. PRETTY mats for ornaments on a mar­ ble mantel are made of scrim or of linen momie cloth. They should be long and narrow, and be trimmed with lace across the bottom, and have some pretty design in Kensington embro:dery on them. The more effective and strik­ ing the design, the better form it is in. Stand a vase or jar on the unorna mented end, and let the other hang over the mantel. A BEAUTIFI I. tidy for the back of a large chair is made of a square piece of cloth about ten inches each way; on this i» sewed patchwork of plush and velvet in the form of a wide-spread fan The corners of the block are of black Velvet, and on the top, drooping over the fan, is a spray from a moss-rose bush, in ribbon embroidery. The edge finished with lace. This design is sdb* qualify, save with the consent of the Gorenunent. Jfo J}ishoprio can be es­ tablished in Russia, "save with the con- I pretty foi a block in a quilt or a sent of the Czar, who promises that | pillow, gradually "he will mitigate the excep­ tional laws which have been issued it his Roman Catholio subjects. lie nHpnjtouii isNjthat the entire cause of vCathol|cis A ix^mussia rem$ins?under the Czar first, and the Pope after him. A TBiuiaviiAB episode involving a young lady, a "stern parent" and, a A PRKTTY way to fix a palm-leaf fan im to paint it. Mix some ultra-marine or Prussian blue with a little silver-white paint, and make it (juite thin with boiled linseed oil. Paint the fan on both sides, handle and all, with it. If you choose to detorateit, paint a poppy or some buds and stems on it; tie a blue ribbon around the handle and put it in a convenient place. If you prefer to make it pink, use crimson or madder , . should be muk hed before thty . begin to grow. Coarse t t a w w i s a g o o d m a t e r i s l , i f f r e e f i o r n weed seeds, aadft all tie better if from the barnvard and saturated with man­ ure wato*. • SBKMI&X'S package is sometimes a haphasard aAiir. The size of the pack­ age often depends upon the price he is obliged to pay for the new seed. Seed- men would do well to ttate the number of seed in a packet where a small quan­ tity is offered at a high prioe. THIS oountry is enthusiastically spoken of by an English visitor as a land where the reaper runs all summer. in Texas in May, and some- Hie harvest travels north- ward by steady marches unt 1 it ends in September in Northern Dakota and Mmneerilfc. IK buying farma it rarely pays to pur­ chase one badly run down, with an idea of improving it. The oheapest im­ provements are always to be had ready- made. If the owner goes to work to improve the run-down farm he finds a never-ending job, and himaelf an old man before the farm is fitted to Buit his ideas. WamtU anybody claims a "roy- rlty" he must, on demand, give the number of the patent under which he ciaims it. If hie refuses to do this, it would be fortunate if a bulldog, fed on taw meatier a month, investigated the contents of the fraud's pants, or a stout No. 18 boot helped him off the farm. Rural New Yofrker. SAYS the Prairie Farmer: If the horn of a back or other animal is found to be growing in a way not desired, it may be changed by scraping with a knife on the aide to which it is wishrd to turn its growth. The scraping dries and hardens the horn, while on the op­ posite side growth eontinuee without interruption. THAT oft discussed question of feed­ ing stock may be summarized in a few words. Let the food be good, and the amount depend upon the age, condi­ tion, objects in view and amount of ex­ ercise. Feed with great regularity and let there be a variety, remembering that in the young animal, flesh, strength and fat are to be formed. WHEN an agent tells you that his fer­ tilizer, offered for $25 per ton, is worth as much as that of aome well-knoww firm which oharges $50 per ton, have naught to do with him. The component parts of a good fertilizer have fixed values, and no firm can sell a prime article for less than those values. You yould not be apt to sell dollars for 60- cent pieoes. FKAHCX appropriates upward of $5,000,000 annually to the direct en­ couragement of agriculture by irriga­ tion, drainage, indemnities, teachiug, model farms and the fight against the enemies of agriculture. European na­ tions are fast learning the mistake of discriminating in favor of commerce and manufactures against agriculture. A CORRESPONDENT of the JVeto En­ gland, Farmer thinks farmers makes a great mistake in not being willing to pay good wages to a thoroughly-capable man when he can be had, but aather seeking out cheap laborers who cannot be trusted to work alone, and whose labor is of far less value in any cireum> stances. There is a good deal of solid sense in that idea. THE London Times, in commenting on the avidity which Americans display in picking up all the fbreign grade stock that is offered for sale, says "it is quite a question whether the improve­ ment and increase of our live stock would not in the end be better--even to the largest breeders--than the Americah gold which js being left in the place of our blood. THK law of Ontario provides that any person who ties or fastens any animal to, or injures or destroys, any tree planted or growing upon any road or highway, or upon any public street, or cuts down or removes any such tree witlumtthe permission of the proper authorities, shall be fined not over $25, or confined not more than thirty days in the county jail.--Chicago Journal. WHITE specks in in butter, says dairyman, are caused by too rapid souring of the. milk, or by keeping the cream in too warm a place. The cream should be stirred every day as fresh cream is added to it. When fresh cream, containing more or less milk, k mixed with that which has skimmed previously, and has become somewhat sour, the milk is at once curdled, and the small flakes of curd beeome enclosed in masses of cream, which is quite impossible to separate from the butter after churning. Care­ ful management of the cream is the best preventive.--Chicago Journal. MAHAQKIIKKT OF SITTING HHKS.-- At this time of the year our hens begin to manifest a desire to sit. Our first care is to find out whether they f( m cfttoyMV. ' lajgtit (Ifcy Of IVAUO •» and you chickens. five in of a lemon. (Bourbon) *jM <&k|| IU <•vp. flHP loyfT, .w^ichljl^ ft decided dash of j lfcke and white in the same way romance in it, happened in the Canadian -- village of Lacolle, the other day. The village hotel-keeper has a winsome •• daughter, an operator for the telegraph . * company, fritti whom a railway man fell warned her to do so no more, and, rumor says, horsewhipped her to en­ force obedience. He then started down ~ to do the same thing for the girl's lover. But the railway m«| turned upon his OtXJfc--Nine weight in angftr, ihe flour, andthejom and RED MAYONNAISE. --To give bright color to mayonnaise, lobster eoral pounded to a powder and rubbed through a sieve, then thoroughly blend­ ed, oi r juice from boiled beats. SABOIXE DRESSING. --Pound in a mor­ tar until perfectly smooth the yolks of four hard-boiled eggs aud three sardines freed of bones. Add this to either of the shove and you have an excellent fish dressing. CHOCOLATE Moss.--Beat the whites of three or four eggs to a stiff froth and add half a pound of powdered sugar. Take a quarter-pound cake of baker's dhocolate, dissolve it with boil­ ing water (but OM&e it very thick), and flavor with, vanilla. When quite cold, mix it with the frosting and serve ia a glass dish lined with sponge cakes. HERMITS.--A cupful of raisins, stoned and chopped, a cupful of butter, two of sugar, a teaspoonful each of cinnamon and olove, hiuf a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little milk; one nutmeg, three egga, flow enough to roll out. Boll the dough thin, and cut it with a round tin. Bake the cakes eight to twelve minutes, in a rather quick oven. COITEE CAKE.--Take one cupful of brown sugar and stir it, with two- thirds of a cupful of sweet butter, to a cieam. Beat into it two table-spoon­ fuls of molasses, two well-beaten eggs, one cupful of strong coffee, one pound of seeded raisins, one cupful of cur­ rants and half a cupful of citron, aliced thin. Flavor with one teaspoonful of ground doves, one of ground cinna­ mon and one nutmeg grated. Add one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in boiling water. COCOANUT PougD CAKE.--Beat half pound of butter and one pound of ulverized sugar to a creamy froth; stir in gradually one pound of sifted flour in which yon have thoroughly mixed two teaspoonfnls of baking pow­ der, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoonful of grated lemon peel--this may be fresh or dried; four well-beaten eggs, a cupful of sweet milk, and a quarter of pound of grated cocoanut; beat this rapidity; bake in buttered tftia in a moderate oven. TOMATOES AXD Onom--Skin and slice thin half a dozen tomatoes and three raw onions; mix together. Make a dressing of the beaten yelk of an egg, salt-spoonful of salt, a pinch of mustard, of pepper and of sugar, two table-spoonfuls of salad oil or thick cream, and one or two table-spoonfuls of sharp vinegar. Beat all together untif quite thick and spread it over the tomatoes and onions, and set on the ice an hour before serving. APPLE JELLY.--Pare, core and quar­ ter two dozen large, spicy, sour apples. Boil them in enough Water to cover them, until very soft. Strain the juice through a flannel bag made into a cone. If the juic» 44t%d|ft|. drop through the ^d %w^Hppr strain * second time* put three- sugar. fktatfc . , to|kec. tfcM, d> t̂lM hsad v tatsteoM be In nmpatlqr with people and friendly to their The States furthermore says: "The must no longer be a political in thehouse of its own party. Its 136 electorial rote? entitle it to the first position and make it sufficiently powerful to enforce what it demands" From this point of view it argues that the South nereafter, instead of follow­ ing in the Wake of the Northern Dem­ ocrats, shell go into conventions pre­ pared to d otate candidates and politics. The State* utters the truth. It can­ not be called into question. It has been held in abeyance since the war, as the South waa not in a position to urge it owing to internal contusion and po­ litical chaos, ii has been gradually working up to it, however, its first step being to overcome the new voting ele­ ment which was, created by the con­ stitutional amendment, and which made at least four or five of its States strongly Republican. It has accom­ plished this by terrotvm and outrages upon the ballot-box, and now it is pre- ^fnsAt. The Man Who CouM Cennee* 1 gtnmge Bats with Their Owners. J. J. Allen has a widespread reputa­ tion, being no other than the famous "hat-keeper" of the Lindell Hotel, St. Louis. For the wonderful faculty of indignant, | recognizing- the proper owners of hats as they entered and left the dining- room a medal was presented him as be­ ing the "premium hat man in Amer- aeveraly, and, going to the hotel, met his daughter, who ran jftway with him, leaving Che enraged father in bed from the effect* of the beating intended far the unwelcome suitor. "I was for vesrs the wondering gaze of the ignorant," said he, in a private • t a vim i conversation. "I never made a mis- lv5» ,"*-ftshed him j ^ j ̂ ad once seen the hat on the man s head. I connected the two in­ stantly, and the picture would not pass out of my mind, however many such might be there." "Did it require no practice?" "Not any; I could always doit. In fact, I could not help it. It made me THE Indianapolis NfWt i^kes t^e I famous, and I havd been spoken of in following spirited defense of American I Europe, Asia and pai-ts of nea. - ^ J "How many hats did you ever have can mixup a mess f ^ your mind at once? - V - A t i ip. a of hteat, potatoes and dough a foot across and six inches deep, bake it, and when it is cold dig it out in cliuuks end eat it. They call that "pie," and it is ,ble to eat that sort of thing--a of iikgestd^l^ititftble stuff as witness Bam Wallort testimony to 'The highest I ever^went was | and l made no mistake." "How do you account for power this pared to assert the dominant power of Southern Democracy and to dictate to boil fifteen to twenty minutes To every pint of jelly add the juioe of one lemon. the Northern Democracy just as it did before the war. Advantage was taken of the confusion in the South after the war by the Northern Democrats to put forth their candidites and to dictate 'politics, but it is evident now that the time is once more near when they will (be compelled to take back seats and .obey the behests of their old masters. The South has 136 electoral votes, or Jtwo thirds of the number necessary to •elect, and so long as it can hold itself solid by stamping out the Republican majorities it is evident that it proposes hereafter to have something to say. The Statex is right in the assertion that "the Democratic party is in the South, not in the North or West." It might be stated more exactly that the South is Democratic (under force and compulsion in some sections) and that jthe North is Republican. Were it not for the Celtic vote in cities--were the Jrish to divide their vote--the North would be almoet-solidly Republican. Northern Democrats are the refuse of ithe party. They never dictated a policy or originated a move when the South Svas in power. They were camp-follow­ ers, taking what was thrown to them and doing the d'rty work of the main larmy, ana evidently the time is fast •coming when they must drop the lead and Vetire to the rear. Without the iSouth they can fly no higher than the bobs on a kite-tail when there is no ikite to pull them up. ' The utterance of the States is but a lOpetition of the old menace, and the North must prepare to meet it. If the South is to be solid the North must close up and be solid also. There is at resent no hostility between North and iouth. However the South may feel, lu the North there is no prejudice Against the South. There is not a man in the North who does not wish well to the South. There is not a capitalist in the North whose money is not ready to go South whenever it is asked for and Its safety is guaranteed. But if the South is to dictate the policy of the Dem­ ocratic party it is folly to assume that that policy will be agreeable to North­ ern Republicans. J'he aims of South­ ern Democrats i&e not the aims of lorthern Republicans, and never were, is a wide gulf between them, but .not of necessity gulf dividing hostile factions. But when the South arrays list. arrayc of the "I have a sort of second sight I do wQl persist or not. Most of the Asiatics will sit steadily and make good mothers the nen-eitters, when mixed with other breeds, will often manifest a disposi­ tion, but they are likely, to sit two days or a week and then leave the nest Try some nest eggs under the sitter for a day or two; then if she stays on the nest till you lift her off, you can safely put all the eggs under her that she will cover. When a hen will fly off the nest when you put the eggs under her, do not trust her. These precau­ tions are very important, especially when we get eggs that are high priced. We must also see that when we aet hen it is not where other hens can gain access to her, as they will get in and crowd the Other hen and break the eggs. Where you do not have a place especially for sitters, make a slat door and put in front of the box. I have my nest boxes so made that they have to* get into them from the side. This is to prevent them from roosting on the boxes. When you have a hen sitting nicely, sprinkle some sulphur on her, and also in the nest. Keep the lice out if you want your chicks to live. Some poultry fanciers recommend put­ ting lard under a fowl's wing. You might as well throw your eggs against a rock, as when the pores of an egg get etoppe i with grease rubbed off the hen they will not hatch. When a hen breaks an egg on which she is setting, wash it immediately with blood-warm water. Dse strong, healthy heas for Bitters. Some recommend putting soil under a hen. This is to provide a little moisture, which is good, but a better way is to sprinkleta little warm water Engineers' Superstitions. "Amsterdam is now on the dead list, said an old grizaled engineer of the New York Central railroad, as he glanced over the account of the third fatal aocident at the crossing in that village. The reporter was ignorant of the significance of the term "dead He expressed his euriosity. "By a dead list I mean,* said the en­ gineer responsively, "that that crossing is now out of danger. Three deaths, you know, baptizes it. That is what the boys say. You know they believe that if one man or womaft is killed at a certain point there are dead sure to be one or two others before long. Super­ stition? Yes, that is what u is ana no mistake. But some of us engineers who have run a machine for twenty or thirty years, as I have, take stock in it because we have Been it proved time and time again. I don't belieVe that three deaths are sure to come one after another, but I can't help wondering why it is so often two. That's what they call the duality, isn't it? When you come to think of it, everything goes by twos. You have two legs, two eyes, two hands, two ears, two nostrils, and two rows of teeth. There are two parts to a day, two divisions of the year, winter and summer, and two orbs of light. The pair is the natural number. Ihave a record at home of the accidents that have occurred while I have been on my engine. I can show you the dates to prove that they have been in eight cases out of ten two at a time. Several times three have happened in succession, but two is the usual number. People would say that was superstition, but when you see it over and over again you can't blame us. I know engineers who will knock off for * week or so, after an accident to their train in which somebody has been killed, rather than run the risk. There was a ease when young Piatt Truax was killed near Schenectady in 1878. You know they are now trying three young fellows in this city for derailing the tram. A few days before a freight on which he was : running had an accident, in which the fireman was hurt so that he died*--I think he died--but the accident was not at the same point. It was west of Schenectady. The train-men told me afterwards that Truax had a premoni­ tion of death. It I had my book here I could give you a heap of information about deaths* on the rail to show you that there is something strange in it. Anyway, most of the engineers have a rather strong fear of rej rotation when­ ever blood is spilled along the line. Of course there are those who are as superstitious as old women. Those are the fellows who see ghosts." "See ghosts?" "Yes, the disembodied spirits, ae the mediums call them, of people they have run over. Not long ago an engineer you know by name resigned, because ho said the specter of a woman he had ground to pieces at Fonda used to appear every night at the exact spot." --Albany Jotimal. hat like to be called a fortune-teller. * I over the eggs each day, more especially no£ sSCl^ fortunes.--] "tor two.weeks' incubation. Take the am no*, own, * 1 hen off the nest carefully each d^y, and Chicago News. SILK culture has passed the bounds of experiment at Knoxviile. Prof. S. H. Lockett, of the University of Ten- has made a practical test of jitself solidly to dictate the policy country, when it refuses to allow Re­ publicanism an existence within its borders, then it is time for the old tlnion party of the North to Bink all its differences, unite all its factions, and £resent the unbroken front of a solid forth. On that ground there is victory. --Chicago Tribune. Always Had a Master. There are phases of hypocrisy, but the Democratic party can always be trusted to adopt the one best suited to its purpose. It is nothing without a master. v Its old master was slavery, its new master the whisky ring. It obeyed ordem and has no troubles of conscience, for it has none. .It is not alarmed at inconsistency, for inconsistency is its chief glory. It has no rule of action save to oppose what the Republican party advocates. Members of the Republican party in Ohio secured the passage of the Scott law, a high-license law. The whisky ring ordered it to fight that law and the Democrats are denouncing it in Ohio. In Iowa the Republicans have ascer­ tained the will of the people to be for prohibition, declares its purpose to see that will is obeyed. The whisky ring orders the Demo­ crats of Iowa to advocate a judicious license law and at onoe the welkin rings with Democratic demands for license. Hoadley, a Democrat in Ohio, de­ nounces the Scott law, and declares the only consistent course for temper­ ance men to take is to advocate prohibi­ tion. Kinne, a Democrat in Iowa, says pro­ hibition is wrong and a license law right. Hoadley says prohibition will pro­ hibit, Kinne says it will not. Kinne says a judicious license law is just the thing. Hoadley says it is not. Yet Kinne and Hoadley are both good Democrats, and are consistent each in doing just what the whisky ring in its locality demands. ; The people in both States understand this.--Creston (Iowa) Gazete. v Political Notes. OUT. HAMILTON charges the Dem­ ocratic party managers with taring stolen $500,000 of Maryland State funds. It is high time the New York Hun's ad­ vice be taken to "turn the rascals out." THE Democracy of Baltimore are in trouble. The Mayor, jail-warden and qther prominent Democrats are under indictment for malfeasance while serv­ ing as members of the City Fire Board. Bun the rascals in. IN a New York picture-gallery is a painting of an old man in his night­ shirt, vainly hunting by the light of a lantern for a flea. It would be an ex­ cellent copy for a tableau of the Demo­ cratic party discovering an idea.--Cin­ cinnati Commerxial Gazette. THK question of campaign corruption in this State, in 1880, has at last sim­ mered down to the following: The Republicans had money. They spent it in the legitimate woik of the contest, and carried the State, The Democrats had money. The local candidates and strikers stole it, and used the same for. has shown, at* Smrts upholdeDt. gttptfc m that fl̂ Jy csreetn lot the earliest nourishment children brauaht up by digestibilityof any milk is inversetyee the quantity of caseine which reaMiits in the skim-milk. DRS. MITCHELL and Beiofeert find that the foil-grown lizard will bite and canse a wound that may prove fatal. Unlike that of other reptiles its saliva is alka.ine, not acid. A little injected into a pigeon caused the death of tike bird, (which was long, fat and plump), in lese than nine miuutes. MORE than twenty years ago Hen- nessy called attention to the superiority of water for the abeorption and dif­ fusion of heat derived from the sun. His conclusions have gradually com­ manded increasing support. Mr. W. Henel, in a recent publication, has main­ tained that the difference in tempera­ ture between the Northern and South­ ern hemispheres is vary slight, and that the Southern hemisphere, whieh has the larger mass of water, hits the higher temperature of the two. A NEW explosive has bees invented by M. Turpin, a Parisian chemist. It is said to be very powerful, and, unlike nitroglycerine, dynamite and gun- cotton, it has the highly-important property of not being affected by con­ cussion. It is made by the combina­ tion of two liquids, which oan be trans­ ported like ordinwy chemicalg, and need only be mixed when the explosive is about to be used. It can be employed in its liquid form or when absorbed by silicious earth. Frost does not affect it. At Cherbourg experiments have been made with this substance upon slaty rocks containing quartz, and also upon old cement-work, and the report of the engineers praises it very much. A VERY exhaustive series of re­ searches on antiseptics aud the volatile properties of putrefaction have been made by M. liustave le Bon. All of his conclusions are of great scientiflo interest, but they hardly admit of in­ telligible or useful precis. The exper­ iments explain, however, the so-called accidents which have attended the ex­ humation of bodies buried for a long time, and prove that the atmosphere of cemeteries may, contrary to what haa been stated, judging from its freedom from microbes, be very dangerous The volatile alkaloids engendered by the action of microbes upon certain organic substances play, beyond doubt, an im­ portant role in many affections. Avoid walking in oemeteries is the movwl of thia. You know that the theory of gases and vapors, now generally accepted, is that they consist of molecular or atomic projectiles darting to and fro, clashing and recoiling--endowed, in short, with a motion not of vibration, but of trans­ lation. When two molecules clash, or when a single molecule strikes against its boundary, the first effect is to de­ form the molecule, by moving its atoms out of their places. But gifted as they are with enormous resistency, the atoms immediately recover their positions and continue to quiver in consequence of the shock. Held tightly by the force of affinity, they resemble a string stretched to almost infinite tension, and therefore capable of generating tremors of a most infinite rapidity. What we call the heat of gas is maae up of these two motions--the flight of the moleeules through space, and the quivering of their constituent atoms. Thus does the eye of science pierce to what New­ ton called "the more secret and noble woris of nature," and make us at home amid the mysteries of a world lying in all probability vastly farther beyond the range of the microscope than the power of the microscope, at its maxi­ mum, lies beyond that of the Unaided eye.--Prof. Tyndall. •Blegaa cxmntj. Tn new etty dtosstaiy ef tains StSAasatea ' 3MS- isnif ins! iisfl at 4 fMtt nra-aamAX Is to Wisilisll Chcroh at Sniffle a a Far, of Cairo, was chlorofi of a |i(0 gold watch and 1 & Bow--, an old and respected cttte-- ot Kattoeto, dtodof pinfjili of ttolKmefck Tmt aensne* has spvefnted a w. CMk vieeB. H. MeGna, rssfepsd. A i*aoa nsaberof huttagpertlsshave been organised thtoughoat ttsBMe, and • lively slaughter of WrAsiseapeeled. TU* Belvidere Standard tells of • jtlsfeerd weighing eighteen and a half poaadt lift lug been tpeared the other day at Garden Prahi?. A JZBSCT heifer, 2 yen* did, bekmglaete a farmer near Iineoia, in oae week isuu*ty gwrslQOpenadsof milk, and another week lM^povnda Josxra Dianas, of Ni taming from a picnic, waa •tabbed by a stranger named Offllgsn , Wf latter wse arr--tsl Tint 81 Mary's Trainh«-8ohoot foe ®ej* ef Chicago, cmxendssed its startŝ and filed nolioeef the organisation et the 8fc Mary's Training-Buiwwl- EAST 8r. Lotus Is exetted over a esas eg miscegenation. Mra Michael Bhaagtaen ̂ white, having jast married But leeH, ft burly, coal-black negra. Mnoe. MAW SUCITA, Yaol&y Btdlo, Tryell. Vaclav hare organized the Mp BulUlig ftsd Loan Association of ChtoagOv wUh a eepilsl of 11,000,00a Paor. Foaaas, State Kntesaotaglstt reports to the Department of Agrieultnte that the Hessian fly is still In the wheat stubble sad in the flaxseed throughout the whole Boath- ern portion ef nitaolfc A nun building in Qa!eaa has seen sns vice as * Baptist Church, Catholic school, CathoHb Chnn&i, saloon, barbershop, bleok- smith and wagon dkop and:a paint shop, he» slde helag moved three ttinea IT is now said that George KeBegg, tin Jet- let suicide, was to-the T inoohi |sil fonrdsqrs previous to the tines of the immartŝ na ef tne Mt Pulaski triple, nrartp; sad oonldaot have been one of the gttflty ptotlaft Ovxa #85 have beau raised br the althwni of Mou^PnhMldfettipnu^^o l̂̂ jrî a suitable headstone gnir Ihe jiase el Ml Carlock, one of the victims of the tdple mordei which oocurred in Logan oowaty a a short time aga Tan largest sturgeon ever caught at Lafee Zurtah wss landed tqra gentleman reoentty. The weight waa a< pounds The julli man was aeout three-fottrtla ef an hens drawing it ln,aaridthe alMissolthftSM«r4 whieh had gathered on the hshli Mmr NMXXIS ANDDMH, aged M* attempted to commit suietde by Jumping Into Ihailnnr from thOfGlsik statset bridg* ta Chloaga, but was saved by a ssnstnlaa on theexonr don stsainsr Qaaelle, who plunged in, caught the wenwn, ttiift held har up until aastsMikce was rendsthd breparlgr at asea in a boat. Mrfc Aaimsnn was > taken tnhnr home She gave as the reamn iK thft attempt upon her own Mle thpt hsthushaa# • had treated her so brutally that she di#ust care to live longer. Ax altercation arooabstwoanFttlimm nekr flyover :«bO'ewh«nihto'U§ ̂ Bcfaroeder had parted troth ils~nillJ>Hl'lft>': Sohroeder sold Burner 'Ae asî "se«Mif : days ago. Behiesds* dwwe the esw ontoC I John Howard Payne and Jenny LIML One who was present relates the following incident in the career of John Howard Payne: "Perhaps the most thrilling quarter of an hour of Payne's life was that when Jenny Lind sang 'Home Sweet Home' to him. The oc­ casion was the Jenny Lind concert in Washington the night of Dec. 17, 1850. The assemblage was, perhaps, the most distinguished ever seen in a concert- room in the country. The immense National Hall, hastily constructed for the occasion on the ruins of the burned National Theater, was filled to over­ flowing, notwithstanding the high price for admision, and the fact that the weath­ er was cold and rainy. Among the not­ ables present and occupying front seats were President Fillmore, Daniel Web­ ster, Henry Clay, Gen. Scott and John Howard Payne. Jenny Lind opened with the 'Casta Diva,' and followed with the 'Flute Song* (in which her Voice contested rivalry for purity and sweetness witli a flute in a duet) then the famous 'Bird Song,' and next on her programme the 'Greeting to America.' All the {neces were applauded appar­ ently to the full capacity of an enthusi­ astic audience, and Mr. Webster, who was in his most genial after-dinner mood, emphasized the volume of plaud­ it by rising from his seat and making Jenny a profound bow, as if responding for the country to her '(greeting.' But When the 'Swedish Nightingale' an­ swered the enocre by turning in the di­ rection of John Howard Payne and giving'Home, Sweet Home,'with all the wonderful tenderness, purity and simplicity, fitting both the words and air of the immortal song, the difference was at onoe seen between the mechan­ ical applause called out by a display of fine vocalization and that elicited by the 'touch of' Nature that makes the whole world kin.' Before the first line of the song was completed the audience was fairly 'off its feet,' and could scarcely wait for a pause to give ex­ pression to its enthusiasm. People ordinarily of the undemostrative sort clapped, stamped and shouted as if they were mad, and it seemfd as if there would be no end to the uproar. Mean­ time all eyes were turned upon Payne, a small-sized, elegantly-molded, gray- haired gentleman,wiio blushed violently at finding himself the center of so many glances." - THK sunflower does not turn with the sun, but a recent observer finds that a majority of the flowers do have a prevailing direction when opening. In the case of one of the perennial sun­ flowers of Bixty-eight flowers, up to one time all had their heads inclining to the southeast. Three days after this, with seventy-three flowers open,, twenty-one among the older ones had advanoed toward the northeast, their horizontal , faces becoming nearly ereofc during tha j What inebriated, was caoelMt-afceaft 'ourney. , .. ; lag off th ; goa An nessee, naa maae a practical „nii j;Vin'fc onrrv the i.nj,,' ease, the jury simply fendtsgfWfci seeded ft. oenidatf% to mfgflle tln eow, when a quarrel ensuedi Sud ..Busier 4«ew ft revolver and.dhot fchtoedse through Ihe:; head, from the effects of %hfcfirtt Is lhou«ht he cannot reoovec Burner fled to the wOod ̂ pursued by the oonstable Solietimsago flhttlff ftaskins, ofOsoeote, effered arewaidef |30for the lmMMt'ei||; white man named Hugh Oat%alCae WbmKj Oalnes,'iUa» Harry Hhtlhewa, sales IMII Douglas, alias Hugh Mome ̂allss John Pea nors, tor horss sUsilB#;ta the vfetnttyef Osceola Clare, who Is ft general creak *M| well-known to the pottle of rfasr tmrm%, i several weeks a ̂attempted to lflteeate Ms pal, confined in theOeoeolh Jafl, t̂ r paatag a Jack screw to htm through a Wlatewot the jail. Chief Meyen aadOfllssrMShaftuy; of Cairo, arreeted him, and he now Isa- gulshes in jail, awaiting instructions firma Osceola JOBXFH WAOKKS, who enjoys the .trgpwf tion of being a hotel beet, adopted «a Irreg­ ular method of replenlsMag hie wardrobe,. and is now in the C&tfeSgO jsit |t* (acer- tsined that Mr. Bert Heieomhe hOStffted at the Marion House, and thenj wh«e Beet was absent, he foiged an order f*«n rait of the letter's clothing and presented it to the landlord, who gave up the suit Charles Austin was victimised in the aesaewsfrlr Wagner. The fellow was arrested and tsksa before Justice FOote, who held him to the Criminal Court In |C®0 ball, ths dsfmdaut pleading guilty. It is ssid that Wagner not long ago beat the Palmer House out of about •150 worth of wine and board. FR&KXIB CnaxsBBs. the female sailer, was before a Justice for the same old offense for which she has before been arrested fkaakle appeared in court in a suit of seller gar­ ments, and chewed tobacco and expecto­ rated like a real man. She wssssat to the Bridewell on a #100 line She' from the institution only a few having been sent there by Jnstloe on a 950 fine for wearing olcfthe* Of «hee( |̂ posite sex. Frankie not only*'has a fcs*|t-'- ness for dressing like a sailor, bat <|je. also do a ssftec's woik. having <pn dlfta . occasions shipped as a member of a vasssih crew. She was always put as her sex wss discovered. A MAN registered ai the Commercial HeMb Chicago, as Mr. Crowley sndwifft. Dg reported for breakfast or--dl proprietor ordered the door of thftl opened, when the man and found lying on the flow, dressed in their night clothes, fhei and transom were closed, a&dgaei ing in the room. The m*a dio*lilifM patrol wegori arrived. Till was identified as that of At) was an Irishman about "il. ytilii cld,' j been employed sinoe last ApSB tender. He left the place whe*4 h#wfts * ployed somewhat under the hquor. The woman whom he ̂ teshM;] hotel is taid to be a stareo VwaDWr, him hv chance daring the etefctigg.̂ enable to talk and the CoaldaM physician* are in-doubt legardii Sfcte result of her case. It is ji , that tbo couple had noiUv <nl1«|l'if <| Ung suicide, bu!> that mi M .Mi , T M