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,.f r y K *" ^ * . ;, I *'\ V • •• .-v.;': :r •: -'"V" •:••.!,. " '"tV » t ». 1 , ««W.' - » " 1"'*1 ' ' u Jt »i «t •*«, •» ' « .' i *,V au,U. ^.--A i» >. »r,* *"•*¥'•' V" - r*~ ", * x ,-"*j * i»V'~l'v ^ V* >,* » *.. ;' * 'y<+U gr[ • •> * * * > , , • -. *v * " - *k V' ' t.,i -• Vi* > ' \ " , • •. ', • C I ^vV'7 !l« I. VMSLYKE, McHENRY, TT.T.TWOTfi THE modest frame house in which Oen. Grant was barn is still standing on one of the principal streets of Point Pleasant, Ohio. It stands some little •distance from the river, and no previous iioods have ever reached it. During fthe last flood, however, it was entirely wprrounded by water, and for a time it was feard that it might be swept *ray. But it is still standing unharmed, and jtbe family who live in it have their occupation of it. ' SOKE idea of the magnitude of the Igisiness of raising sweet-scented flowers tfor their perfume alone may be •gathered from the fact that Europe and •British India consume about 150,000 gallons of handkerchief perfume yearly; Ithat the English revenue from eau de •cologne is $40,000 annually, and that jthe total revenue of other perfumes i« ^estimated at $200,000 annually. There tis one great perfume distillery atC amies I in France which uses yearly 100,000 pounds of acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower leaves, 32,000 ^ lunds of jasmine blossoms, 20,000 of be rose blossoms, and1 an immense (quantity of other material. : MB. WOAIAX REESE, 70 years of age, [living at Orangeburg, South Carolina, Relieves in exercising his authority .as a parent. His son Andrew, 35 years '•of age, was a bad boy, and the old man {Ordered him down on his hands and fenees and proceeded to whale him with |a big whip. The boy endured the pun- !ishment until he thought the old man iflhould be tired, when he jumped up «and made a lunge at him with a knife. Jlhe spry old chap dodged the blow and the knife went into the stomach of jjolm Green, who was standing by en- jjoying the scene, and killed him. An­ drew was convicted of murder, and sentenced to a life term in the peniten- •^7- 4* " AN old woman named Robinson, well jknown as the Queen of Costermongers *11 over London, was buried there the other day. She had been for years a .Tender of cat's meat, and made a for­ tune in small usury. By direction of flier will, her remains were borne by four men wearing white smocks, fol­ lowed by twenty-four women wearing •violet dresses, Paisley shawls, hats with white fe#hers, and white aprons. ]The corpse was shrouded in white satin, with a handsome wreath around the iead. Free drinks and pies were served at pnblio houses named. There was an immense attendance, including •lumbers of pony carts and donkey bar-' vows crowded with costermongers. nanofa interested ia his sport that he did! not notice me until I had approached! very near to him, so that j oould see exactly how he baited his hook and played his fiA. He fished in this wises There was a large hole through the log on whioh he lay, and he thrust hisfore-t arm through.the hole and held his open paw in the water and waited for the fish to gather around and into it, and, when full, he clutched hi* fist andl brought up a handful of fish, and salt and ate them with great gusto;' theri down with the paw again, and so on; The brook was fairly alive with little trout and red sided suckers and some black suckers, so the old fellow let himself out on the fishes. He did not eat their heads. There was quite a pile of them on the log. I suppose the oil in his paw attracted the fish and baited them even better than a fly hook, and his toe nails were his hooks, and sharp ones, too, and once grabbed the fish are sure to stay. , A WASHINOTOK oorresponde&ttitthe Boston Advertiser says that four ex- Senators, Kellogg, of Louisiana; Po­ land, of Vermont; Eaton, of Connecti­ cut, and Pryor, of Alabama, appear in the lists. Dingley, of Maine; Curtin, of Pennsylvania; Stewart, of Vermont; Long, of Massachusetts, and Kellogg have been Governors. Hitt,of Illinois; Kasson, of Iowa; Phelps, of New Jer­ sey, and Curtin have represented the oountry abroad. "Richelieu" Robin­ son is the moet striking-looking, and so deaf he can hear but little of the pro ceedings; Abram S. Hewitt is the most nervous; William Walter Phelps the most precise in dress; Belford,of Colo rado, the wildest; Lyman the most seliolarly; Randolph Tucker the most difficult speaker; Poland the most be­ nevolent-looking ; Kitt the slenderest; Dorsheimer the largest; "Sunset" Cox the smallest; Kasson the most diploma tic; "Phil" Thompson the most inno- oent looking; Floyd King the bravest looking-; Washburn the richest; Geddes the most like George Washington appearance; Bingham the handsomest; Wadsworth the most aristocratic; Reed the most sarcastie; Horr the dryest; Blackburn the most eloquent; Carlisle, perhaps, the ablest; Eaton, certainly, the quietest; Keifer has the largest neck; Anderson the shrillest voice; John W. Wise the biggest lungs. F.AHT. GKOSVENOR, the eldest son of •the Duke of Westminster, who has just «lied, was chiefly remarkable for his $reat, and, for his age, immense size; Ilia habit, which probably occasioned this size, was staying in bed until 3 in the afternoon, and his passion for engine driving. He had been subject from one-and-twenty years and upward to •epileptic, but when on the engine MWild -Irishmen" was always accompanied by the usual driver and* stoker, so that the public suffered no risk. His young widow is one of the beautiful daughters of Lord Scarborough, and their little "boy, Lord Belgrave, who is destined to inherite the vast estates, is a fine little fellow, called in the family "Bend Or," mfex his grandfather's Derby winner. , THE Nihilists are reported to be ham- pfered in their warfare against the Rus­ sian Government by the lack of money, jwxi the numerous recent raid's upon ,the cash boxes of the mail coaches are ascribed to them. There have been iive attempts so rob the mails within a period of seven weeks. At one that oc­ curred on the load to Nijni Novgorod, jtwoof the assailants were captured by company of soldiers who were- de­ spatched after them and surrounded them in a patch of forest land. They Tefuspd to disclose their identity, but ,trom their clothes, appearance and lan 3£uage they are supposed to be students. Papers found in their possession a «aid to show clearly that they belong to rthe revolutionary party, and that they made their attack as part of an organ­ ized plan designed to replenish the Ni­ hilist treasury." T ' A WEEK or two ago a French noble- anan shot himself in the Hotel de Paris «t Monte Carlo. Before, however, com­ mitting the "rash act" he paid a grace­ ful tribute to his female friends which •bowed that not even the near approach of death could make him forget his -national politeness and regard for the .Air sex. Some twenty ladies, both of the grande and the demi-monde, reeeiv ed a handsome boquet with the Comte de \ compliments and regrets that ^unavoidable circumstances prevented 9iim from further continuing their •charming acquaintance. Shortly after­ wards they heard the news of his death. This Frenchman certainly knew how to •die becomingly; in fact the whimsical -oourtesy of the act could scarcely have 1>een surpassed by. Beau Nash himself, ma we learn from his epitaph in Bath Abbej, "De vita hand indecore deces- 4it." The police authorities of course made prodigious efforts to hush up the ^affair, and the Count's body was smug­ gled out of the hotel at midnight, ' LEWISTON (Me.) Journal is responsi­ ble for this bear story: "I came sud­ denly upon a.very large bear in a thick •wamp, lying upon a large hollow log fLorosr a brook fishing, and be was so in CINCINNATI Enquirer: WJR.Sprague, the living skeleton now on exhibition at Harris' Museum, underwent a medical examination yesterday in the amphi­ theatre of the Good Samaritan Hospit­ al. The room was crowded with phy­ sicians and students. Dr. Dawson, who had made an examination of Sprague some years ago, delivered a lecture on him. Mr. Sprague was placed on a table, divested of all olothing except a oovering of his loins. The Doctor called the case "progressive muscular atrophy." The only other oase of the kind in which the man lived for any length of time was one of twelve years' existenoe. The skeleton's skin looked as white an marble, and was drawn tightly over the ribs and bones. The impression of every, bone was plainly visible. The Doctor said that it would be guess-work to say how much longer the remarkable man would live. The muscles, bone and skin were all there. He could talk freely, and when doing so, or in breething, reliance was placed upon the abdominal muscles. In.time the face would ossify and beoome just as the body. Electricity was applied to Sprague, but he said that he did not feel it. A stronger current was put on near his arm. This made the skeleton writhe and twist. The bones flew up and down like a jumping jack with q string to it. A comparison was madq between Sprague's arms and legs an^ the bones of a human arm and leg, and if any thing Sprague's were the smallest. Wblttler and Cable. It was ,the first time that John G. Whittier and George W. Cable had evei met, and the venerable poet had come betimes to greet the novelist from the Crescent City. It was one of the fath­ ers of our literature hailing one of hex youngest sons. "I am glad to see thee, friend," Mr. Whittier, said, as he strode into the room and stretched out his hand. K] have read all thy stories, and I like them very much. Thee has found an untrod­ den field of romance in New Orleans, and I think thee the writer whom we have so long waited to see come up in the South. I did not expeot to find so young a man as thee. But why did we not hear of thee before ?" "Circumstances were against me," re­ sponded Mr. Cable. "I had to get out into the world at a very early age. 1 had a widowed mother and sisters tc support, and a boy can hardly maintain a family with his. pen. But I have al last launched into a literary life and am trying to do what I can in pursuance ol my favorite plans." "Thee has done a great deal in s short time, then. If thee can do as well in the future as thee hast done in the past, thee should be satistisd. The publishers will be always after thee now, and urge thee to write continu­ ally." "They have already tried to force me," said Mr. Cable, "but I refuse to listen to their demands. I do not.be- lieve in forcing the growth of the young tree."--Boxton Coir. New Orleans TimexDemocraL • Iiaeoln as a Man and Lawyer. For al>out six months out of twelve; for eleven years, I s ept with him, said Leonard Swett. of Chicago, and it took a pretty long bed for lx>th of us. Sin­ gleness was pronounced the President's most remarkable trait. He stood out separate and independent at all men. He possessed uunsual wit. was careless in his dress, never tasted liquor nor used tobacco, but led n quiet, simple economical life. In court he would divide his case into five points and give away three of theni, l»nt the other two were most always the winning cards, and he never let them slip out of his SIM* : rbatrCovstraettoa. Their Carat is* IMt Pnwmrtoa. The teeth are divided into four parts --the enamel, which covers the entire rater surface; the dan tine, which comes next; the pulp, vulgarly, called the aerve, and the cementum, which sur­ rounds that portion of the tooth within the gum as the enamel does outside. The enamel of the teeth is the hardest portion of the human system. It ia as unyielding as flint and composed of al>out the same substance as glass. The enamel is formed of hexagonal rods packed tightly together, sharp at both ends and only visible under powerful microscopes. The dentine is composed of hollow tubes, which form a complete network through it, each tube being open on the end proceeding from the pulp. The pulp is the nerve. It re­ sembles in look and color wine jelly. It is traversed in every direction by tiny nerves, and has both venuoua and ar­ terial circulation. When a dentist lab­ ors at teeth he may hammer away at the enamel as he pleases and he will not hurt, but the moment he reaches the dentine, or fundamental formation, the pain begins to be acute, and the patient is likely to say, "There, you've touched the nerve." But the pain is intense when the pulp itself is reached and the blood flows. The mechanism of the tooth is wonderful. The open­ ing into the roots of each tooth is much smaller than the smallest pin point in an adult person--yet through it pas­ ses a nerve, a vein, and an artery. I hear it asked 'what is the use of blood where there is no feling, as in the tooth ?' The answer is that a certain fluid is manufactured in the pulp which permeates the tubes of the dentine, and even reaches slightly the enamel, for hard as that is, it has life. Decay of the teeth is most frequent among people who live most luxuriant­ ly. With these people the edibles are of such a character and so cooked that the teeth of their children have no ex­ ercise. The teeth need exercise for their perfect developement as muoh as any portion of the body. The children should not avoid tough steaks and the hard crusts of bread, but take hold of them. Every pressure of the tooth brings it down into the gum and forces the blood with greater velocity than otherwise into the tooth, tending to its growth and strength. The blood oarries with it to the tooth lime, which is car­ ried to the dentine, giving the tooth solidity. The great destroyer of the toeth is a concretion called often 'tartar,' which is really salivary calculus. After peo­ ple have arrived at the age of 35 more people lose their teeth from this than all other causes cqgnbined. The lime in the salva, as it is thrown forward from the parotid and sub-lingual glands, comes in contact with oertain ammonia in the secretion of the mucous glands. The lime held in solution is precipitat­ ed against the muscle of the teeth and then forms this calculus. At first this is soft, but if left it becomes so hard that it will crack like glass. It forms a rough deposit, which if uncared for will work between the gums and the teeth, caus­ ing an irritation that is sucoeeded by inflamation and suppuration, which goes on around the roots of the tooth until it is undermined and ready to drop out. It takes years to do this, but it is finally accomplished. Hardly a man who has passed middle age has sound teeth, and mostly from this cause. As to the care of the teeth: They should be brushed five times per day-- upon rising, after breakfast, dinner and tea, and before retiring. It is during the night that most of this forma A pick is also good, if not metallic. The best thing to use, if one is used, is silk foss, by which every portion of this 'tartar' can be scraped from the teeth. Tobacco, having nicotine about it, of­ ten soothes toothache, but from this it should not be assumed that it is good for the teeth. It is, indeed, very bad, as the nicotine gathers on the teeth just as the tartar does, with the same effeot. --Dr. G. JR. Thomas, Detroit. firs. Topnoody's CoM Daft Mr. Topnoody was buttoning "ttp his coat to go down town the other night, and as he closed in with the fire he re­ marked to his wife: "My dear, this a terrible cold night." "Yes, Tcpaoody, quite cold enough for a sealskin sacque." "But, my dear, I don't think it will last," he continued, not recognizing the hint or the interruption. . "No, I don't think it will. In fact, Topnoody, 1 feel quite sure that by next July there won't be enough frost in the ground to kill a potato bug." "My dear, you are getting to be real fnnnv, ain't you?" "Oh, yes, I've been reading the funny newspapers and I have to do something to dispel the gloom." '"I think, my dear, that this is the coldest weather I ever experienced." "Possibly, Topnoody, but that is not my experience." "No? Why, my dear, we have al­ ways lived in this neighborhood, and I certainly would remember any colder weather than this." "I don't care what you remember; I know what I know." "You were never any further north, were you?" "No." "Then, my dear, I am sure you are mistaken. I have kept a record of the weather and I know the temperatore of every day for the past thirty years, and noae is colder than this." "There is one day you havent record­ ed, Topnoody, but I've got it down in my mind and have had it there fresher every hour sinoe its occurrence." "And you are sure it was a colder day than this ?" "Yes. I know it." " Well, I like to know what day it was, so I can make a note of it." "It was the day, Topnoody, that I married you. and the more I think of it and of you, the more I am convinced that it was the coldest day in my life, And you know me well enough to know that it is only on a very cold day " "Good evening,"said Topnoody, mak­ ing a break1 for the door.--Merchant Traveler. Old bat Good. The story going the rounds about the Senator from Arkansas who ate a chunk of soap, disguised as a caramel, and never winced it the dose, brings to mind a little incident that once occur­ red--or is said to have occurred--in Virginia City, though the story is not particularly new. It was customary in those days to set on the tables in the restaurants as a condiment, a dish of little but very hot pepper berry, known as the "chilicopeua." Two Irishmen walked into a restaurant and seated themselves at a table. "Phwat's them, i Pat?" said one, pointing to the chiiico- "Berries, I tink," said the Pat pat a couple of berries in his mouth, and in a moment the tears were streaming from his eyes. "Phwatj are ye cryin' about. mo»?" asked hi# companion. "Sure," said Pat, "I got a- letter to-day that me ould mother is, dead." Whde Pat was saying this the other man was chewing on some chili- copenas, and the tears were coming into his eyes also. ""And phwat are ye cryin* about?" asked Pat "Sure, I'm cryin' to think that yer mother did'nt die be­ fore ye were born."--San Francisco po*K • Jty, ,/ ! BLOODHOUND& THE DOG DOCTOR. pen as. other. How They Are Trained mt m Tnu Prison. "Yes, they are the {amous blood­ hounds--tliat is, as much bloodhounds as you will find in Texas. They are simply foxhounds trained to hunt men." "Do you keep them shut up all the time?" "Yes, they would make it lively for the boys if they got out." "How often do you have occasion to use them during the year?" "Not more than two or three times. Convicts will not leave when they know good hounds are on hand to catch them." "Could you not dispense with the hounds and -depend upon your guns?" "No, indeed;you can't hold convicts with shotguns. It is the fear of the hounds which keeps them quiet. De­ sertion is useless when recapture is a moral certainty, as is the case when good hounds are employed." "Do you have any trouble in proper ljttraining your hounds?" Oh, no; that is about the only sport there is. Here comes the puppies. We will give them a run and let you see how it is done." A trusty was tent down the lane and over the fence, through a large field, on a run for diear life. When he had ac­ complished about half a mile, or half his circuit, the puppies, three 6-months- old hounds, were put on his track, and they started, nosing the ground and yelping as they ran. On they kept, over fences and through stubbles and ditches, never ceasing their noise. Sometimes they would run over the trail where the trusty had made an abrupt turn, but soon they would re­ turn to the spot where they lost the scent and cautiously feel their way until certain they had the trail, when they would off again. The trusty was a long-distance runner, but the soft ground made his impromptu track heavy, and he lagged as he approached the end of his run, evidently fatigued. The dogs gained on him rapidly, and were yelping close upon bim. He was ordered to run to a tree or fence and get out of their way, so that they w;ould have to find him. He first tried to climb a high gate post, but the dogs, with their noses to the ground, were upon him almost, and forced him to take shelter m a wagon which was standing in the yard, where he hid him­ self in the bed just aa the dogs oame to the gate. They looked upthe gate post and smelied around a little, tlien with­ out delay followed the trail to the wagon and discovered their prey, lying panting like a tugboat. I looked at the perspiring convict, and my heart smote me for being the cause of his race, but I soon found. out that it was a great privilege, enjoyed by but few, and giving the puppies a race was con­ sidered by them the very essenoe of pleasure. The convict took an old blanket in his hand and alighted on the ground, where the dogs fought him fiercely, making vidojMjipVtBgp for him. He repulsed them by buffeting them with the blanket, jumping away and thwarting them in any manner without hurting them. Finaly one of the dogs fastened his teeth in the con­ vict's coarse pants, and, holding on with unyielding tenacity, was swung round and round with vigor until tired. The dogs were then taken by a guard, and the oonviot went away highly pleased with his sport.--Houston Post Baying Out a Hotelkeeper. Once more the foaming beaker was passed around, and then the second old man began his second anecdote. Ouz! company played- one night in a town, eight miles distant from Danielaonville, Oonnecticutt. It was in the spring, and the weather was beautiful. In the morning, before the company started for Danielsonville, two of the men, who were great pedestrians, went to the manager and asked his permission to walk to the next town. The permission was granted, and the two fellows ground off at the rate of four miles per hour, arriving in Danielsonville a little before the rest of the company rolled in on the cars. Accommodations for the en­ tire party had been engaged by the ad- Yanos agent at the one hotel of the place. The manager went to the hotel and inquired what kind of rooms were ready for his people. , "I don't know that we can. give you any, said the clerk, looking coldly at the manager." "What do you mean? Didn't our agent make arrangements with you ?" "Yes; but I've changed my mind since." "Changed your mind! What for, Fd like to know?" "That's my affair." "And the clerk cooly turned his back and walked away. The enraged and mystified manager rushed out to seek other accommodations. Of course, he did not find any. But while out he met the two men who walked down. "Didn't get any rooms, did you? ask­ ed one of them. "No; what's the matter here?" "Well, I'll tell you. Some kind friend of the hotelkeeper telegraphed him that the company was broke and two of them had to walk." The hearers of the second old man gave vent to various expressions of dis- guest at this instance of Yankee shrewd­ ness. "What did the manager do?" asked Ptaxrimander. "Well, III tell you," answered the narrator. "He had $1,500 in small bills done up in two rolls so that they look­ ed as if they contained much more. He went back to the hotel and called for the proprietor. That person approached in a haughty manner and coldly said. "Well, sir, hat do you want?;' The manager looked at him from head to foot. Then he drSv but his rolls of money and, slamming them down on the counter, askci in a voice of thun­ der: "What'll you take for your infernal little shanty ?" "The astounded landlord fell of about two tons. Then he bowed very low and, rubbing his hands together, said: "What can I do for you to-day, sir?'--- Theatrical Ittviiniscence New York Times. . COOK meat is the leading delicacy for dinners both among the blacks and whites at Jefferson, Texas. MRS. MOLLIE HUNT-MCCALBB-ODOM is the name of a Texas poeteNt. f Am Hoar With Him While He Describes Hie Customer* »nd His I'mcllco. Forming a group in 9 dingy room were a bald-headed man, wearing horn spectacles, with a fringe of whiskers around his face, a snarling, shaggy- haired dog, and an elegantly dressed woman, who looked as if RIIO might cry. On shelves and tables were stuffed dogs, birds and queer-looking animals. On ia bench at the man's side were half a dozen pairs of forceps and a lot of den­ tal instruments. "Please, please, don't hurt Dot any more than you can help," the lady plead­ ed, tearfully. "Not for a moment, mum," the old man said, as he pressed the dog's body between his knees and violently yanked open hi.s mouth. "I'll be as gentle as possible with him." Ho picked Tip one of the forceps and pulle.l out one of Dot's teeth, scraped the other teeth with an instrument that looked like a nnt-nick, and lanced the gums. As soon as Dot reached the lloor he took a firm seat on his haunchos, braced his feet, raised his head, and howled dismally. The lady picked him up in her arms and shed tears of sym­ pathy. "He'll be all right now, mam," the dog doctor said^ as he pocketed a crisp $10 note, and opened the door for the lady to pass out. "His teeth's in good order now, and ho won't suffer with his gums." "I often pull out dogs' teeth," he ex­ plained to the reporter, who had been watching the treatment of Dot, "and more often I scrape and clean 'em up, I do more of it nowadays than I did thirty years ago, when I first began dog doctoring. It's more fashionable for ladies to keep dogs than it used to be, Dogs is like children some--I if ean the little lap dogs. They eat too muoh sweets and their teeth get bad, and when their teeth is bad, why they've got to be fixed, so what doe31 do a few years ago but prints on my cards 'Dog Doctoring.' It has brought me in lots of customers. You ought to see the carriages that the ladies often comes in, and they wear diamonds that almost blinds me. They don't seem to care for money much so long as their dogs is fixed all right. And then they watches me^jke a cat watches a mouse while I'm at vrork on the dog's mouth, and if I ainT as gentle as a kitten, why they goes for me like a whirlwind." • "Do you ever fill dog's teeth ?" "I never did that, although a lady onoe wanted me to fill a pet dog's teeth with gold. I told her that I couldn't do it, and, although she was a regular customer, she went right away and •never came near the shop any more." "What dogs are generally brought to you for treatment ?" "Pugs, spaniels, and Scotch and Skve terriers. Black and tans used to be well thought of oncc, but nowadays lad' ies don't seem to care for them much. According to my notions, the best pet dog of all is a cross between an Italian greyhound and a black and tan. They are the best watch ddgs, too. Tliat re­ minds me of something which hap­ pened when I first began dog doctoring. Somebody brought me a dog of that /breed to treat. I concluded that it needed a dose of medicine, and tried to force some down its throat. It was no go. The dog bit me half a dozen timea, and upset seven doses of medicine, prepared another dose, sat it down on the floor, and sat down to get wind for another attempt Just think how sur­ prised I was when the dog walks up to where I left the medfeine and licks it up as if it was fond of it." "Do you set dogs' broken bones?" "Often, I've done lots of queer things with animals. Once I put a glass eye in a dog." "How did you happen to do that?" "A lady customer had a dog and* cat which didn't agree very well, and one day, while she was out, they fought, and the dog lost an eye. 'Did you ever put a glass eye in a dog ?' says she to me one day. 'No, mum,' says I; 'and I never heard tell of such a thing.' 'Can't it be done?'says she. 'Almost anything can be done,' says I. 'Well, then,' says she. *1 want you to have a glass eye made for Henry.' Henry was the name of her dog. So I had to take the dog to a man who made glass eyes for one, and when it was United I took it to the lady's house and put it in." "What happened then?" "Why, Henry wouldn't have it at all. He scratched it out with his paw. We tried to make him wear it, but it was no use. Henry was a positive dog."--New York Sun. "Don't the English make any effort to check this evil ?" "O no, it is so common that they don't care to interfere. Oace in a while when a men gets to smashing things too generally and endangering people's lives, he will be locked up until he gets sober. But so long as they only injure themselves, no matter if they do break the peace, nothing is done about ifF7; Sights in Hong Kong. of the first things I noticed upon landing in Hong Kong was the dissipa­ tion which is always going on. At first I thought some celebration must be in progress, but upon making inquiries I was assured that this was not the case. "It is always so," said the American citizen. "Every day a certain number of sailors are allowed to come on shore, and they avail themselves fully of this privilege. As there are some two thousand of these sailors at present on board the men-of-war in Hong Kong harbor, this city is quite lively most of the time. It is the men aboard these war-ships who get the wildest, for the enforced idleness of their life breeds recklessness when once they get ashore. These sailors are beardless young fellows for the most part, and though they have a swaggering and tyrannical Jmien, I should not think that they would impress the Chinese as very formidable. Walking about the streets in company with a citizen, I saw liter- lilly hundreds of these sailors crowding the saloons so thick that you could not pee the counter. Outside of the saloon jtlie street would be packed with rick- slias, for a sailor gravitates toward a rickisha the first thing upon coming ashore. He does not have to gravitate far, for the Chinese runners almost at­ tempt the perilous feat of walking on {he water in their eagerness to meet the sailors half way. Soon after landing the sailors gravi­ tate toward a saloon, and, numbers breeding reckless jollity, it is not long •before they cease to be free moral ;igents. Then they curse and beat their rickisha men, and ride about with scarce ,\ny cognizance of whither they are be- I na carried. As I have already intimat­ ed^ I am implacably opposed to the Chinese; yet mv indignation was kin- Uled in their behalf at first when I witnessed the brutality with which they are treated by these sailors. But my commiseration was all dissipated when my friend said: "Don't pity them. John Chinaman is under now, but he will be on top pretty soon. Wait till the sailors get stupidly drunk, and they will be igno mlniously dumped out by the wayside, while these long-suffering 'heathen Chinese' will procced complacently to go through their pockets. Don't mis­ place your pity." Russian Proverbs. Good friendship is beetter than wealth. Seven men do not wait for one to dine. He whb has pie has friends. By honest labor one cannot get rich. He who chews slowly works slowly. The Moscow pie3 burn like fire. The soul knows its measure. Live plaiulv, and you shall live a hundred years. Envious eyes know no shame. An uninvited guest ia worse than a Tartar. Even a fly likes to fill its stomach. A house is good not by its walls, but' by its pies. Don't take too much, or you will tear your pockets. It is better to live on bread and water than to live with an angry wife. Don't open your mouth at the sight of somebody else's pie. A hundred friends, are better than a hundred roubles. Don't live as you like, but as God orders. Who does not drink to the bottom does not know what is good. Table cloth off, friendship is gone. A dry spoon scratches the mouth. A full man does not understand a hungry one. There is paradise where therg is plen­ ty of bread. " ^ Everv cook has her own ways. , The mbre honor, the more expettift I obey him whose bread I eat. A glass of wine adds mind. God guards him who takes care pi himself. " A man beats his wife a day and cries a year. Believe your own eyes rather than rumors. Every body is the smith of his own luck. In a calm pool devils live, . £ Sj » Where there is love there is Goo. An untried friend is like an uncrack- ed nut. Honey is on his tongue and ioe under it. A present is cheap, but love is dear. Don't blame the looking glass if your face is ugly. One can not hide a bradawl in a bag. Velvety, but with a string. There is no family without a deform­ ed member. Ypur elbow is near, but you cannot bite it. Every fox takes care of its tail. * When money speaks the truth keeps silent. Trust in God, but mind your busi­ ness. • Don't spit in the well; you may yet drink from it. - Truth is straight, but Judges are crooked. Swine's eyes fear not dirt. You can not take two hides from one ox. Who tries his luck loses his money. Don't ask a priest for change or a tailor for remnantB. An attentive fool is more dangerous than a foe. A hone has four logs, and yet he stumbles sometimes. Where there is a neck there trill be* yoke. The apple does not roll far from the apple tree. One never tires working for himself. Fear nobody but God. " *f ' ' 1 •< - /, '•* A Cemmoa Cast * 1 An aged gentleman of our acquaint­ ance went out after a hearty meal to re­ move the ioe from the sidewalk. He worked, as an old man naturally would, with his head and shoulders bent low. He suddenly fell, became unoonscious and soon died. What was the cause of his death? Apoplexy,--the physician would say cerebral apoplexy (apoplexy of the brain), to distinguish it from apoplexy of the lungs, or of some other organ. In cerebral apoplexy--rather in one form of it--some of the minute arteries of the brain give way, and the blood, trickling out accumiilates and presses on some great nerve center, and outs off more or less fully its power to act. Let it l>e remembered that the proper action of all the bodily organs, in­ cluding even the brain, is dependent on a force supplied by the nerve centers, as much as an engine depends on the force supplied by steam. One thing that prepared the way for the attack in the above case was the hearty meal, which stimulated the heart'and caused it to pump the blood into the brain with a fuller .and more vigorous stroke. Another was his exercise immediate­ ly after eating. This still further in­ creased the action of the heart. A third was his posture, which im peded the flow of blood from the brain througe the veins, and thus helped to increase the fullness of the vessels. But all this would not have been likely to cause apoplexy in the young or middle-aged, the coats of their arter­ ies being tough and elastic. In the aged, however, the coats generally undergo "degeneration," either "fat" or "lime" taking the place of the muscular fiber, and hence are easily broken by an un­ wonted pressure. Now, in such cases, let the heart's action be intensified by vigorous exercise after a hearty meal, and a stroke of apoplexy is a matter of course. Indeed, the aged cannot too carefully guard against whatever greatly increases the action of the jieart --Youth's Companion. ^ ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. COT. "Boa" IKQBRSOU, has ordered *«en gross of wine made In MesBla, Mexico, to be sent to Washtnsfe». Tnx amount of grain now in store afloat in Chicago sums up 23,783.876 bushul% -against 23,5(1,638 bushels a week ago. TUSKF. is a good deal of complaint la" Springfield about the gasoline street-lamps. ' Strong- winds extinjruista many of them. Tax Republican Committee of the Ftftfc Congressional Diiteget decided to bold the District Convention at Elgin, on Thursday, April 10. This convont'on will nominate a Congressma'], select a irember of the Itatft Board of supervisors and two da}e?ates and alternates for the National lieputiHean coa» veation. AT a recent session of the Board of Suptfltiy vlrors of Fayette County, *hey voted by a majority of five, to expel from the oSceof Superintendent of 8chools B. F. Shipley, for several terms his own successor. The charges preferred were drunkenness and neglect of ^ Uutios. Jlls successor is ex-Sheriff Jesse 1 j Mays. Mr. Shipley says he will contest the v ^ action of,the board in the courts. • , # v.. POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESBAH and ike-. How Coffee, Tea and Cocoa Ajftet ffo, %>r. James Fraser, in an Edinburg medical journal, gives the results of a series of experiments to determine the effect of the ordinary infused beverages, tea, coffe and cocoa, on the digestion ot albumen. He finds that all retard di­ gestion, except in four instances, name ly ham aud white of egg with cofFec, and fish with cocoatina and with cocoa. (Salt meats are less retarded in diges­ tion than fresh. The retardation i greatest with cocoa, less so wit h tea ami least so with coffee. Cream aud. sugar reduce the retarding effect of tea, but increase that of cocoa. He recommend- as a practical conclusion that albumi noid. especially fresh meat, should noi be taken with infused beverages. ». FIELD daisies haver been colored BY placing their cut stems in aniline violet ink. They refuse to absorb auy color irom black ink. Peonies have been colored as they grow by applying vari­ ous dyes in solution to the ground in which they stood- distant Postmaster General Katton were la Chicago last week in conferenca with Mir Potter, General Manager of the Chicago* Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and OoL Thompson, of tho rail tray mall service. The result of this conference was a deeWoa to put on between Chieago and Omaha a fast mail train. This train will Sefcro Chicago every day at 3 a. m., and will reach Burling­ ton at 8 a. m. and Omaha at 8 p. m. the uaias day. Tna Judiciary Committee ot tfee House ot Representatives has reported in favor of dividing Illinois into three Judicial district*.' Tho plan is that the Northern District shall comprise Mercer, Henry, Bureau, La Salle, Grundy, and Kankakej Counties; the South, ern District the counties of Madison, Bond Fayette, EffineRam, Jasper, and Crawford; and the Central District tho counties lying between the Northern and Southern DM ti-iots, as described above. It is proposed that terms of the Circuit and District Courts shall be held at Chicago and Springfield, aa uow provided by law, and at Cairo the first Monlay iu May and November. A TRAMP recently applied at the house of Mr. King, near Dawson, for something to eat, but was refused. At nfcht, in company with a fellow traveler, he made his appearance with the intention of robbing tho house. Mrs. King, however, became aware of their inten­ tions, and, securing an ax, stationed herself behind the door and awaited developments. One of the men walked in, and had hardly passed the threshold before a well-directed blow frcm the ax in tho hands of Mrs. King laid him senseless at her feet. His compan­ ion advanced to his aid, and was also laid out by the courageous lady. The villains soon rovived enough to make their escape, and \ when the husband of the brave Mra King [ returned home his wire told bim the detptt^ and then fainted like an ordinary woman* . . "V"'-I" • fc" ; Roads and Bridges. At its last meeting In Springfield the State- Board of Agriculture passed a resolution fa­ voring a systematic effort for the construo- t!oa of permanent State roads. Immediately i thereafter the Score'ary of the board under- ' took to collect information from all the eoun- •<•••* ' - HI "m r- >'< ties of the State relative to the amount of tax for roads and bridges paid annually by each for the last five yeacs, boginning witfe 1870. Every county responded except Alex­ ander, though a few of thorn fail to produce, tho figures for some of the years. Excepting Alexander, every county gives figures for 1882 complete, and for 1863 e'even are raiae- ing. The following table shows tho collection of bridge and road tax for each oounty for 1983, and the total collections for the saaae purpose for the five years from 18T9 to 188S inclusive, and may be accopted aa exact, ex­ cept aa to the iew c^ass of tioned: C or.nties. Ariamn........ Koixi Tioone Brown. bureau (M'lnnn.............. Carroll.. Cass Champaign..... Christian Clark Clay Clinton Cole • Co-jit Crawford Cumberland.......... De Kalb De Witt ...i.... Dowlas Dti Page lvlgar Kd words... v......... Kttltizham... Favecte FVrd . Fiauklin............. Fultjn (•aliatyn Oreene..... <; randy T........ Hamilton Haocosk Hardin. Henderson....... .... Haitv.. Irnquois 'rk^on ....V... Jasper x........ leitorson •Ier«i>y •To Daviess roh-ison.. Kan-* Kankakee Kendall Knot 1 ak-- La Salle. Law rence............. Livingston.... .....;. (.ogan Macon Mnconptn Miiiiron \Uricn Mv shall Mason Massac Mi-Donoujth McHenry--....... . McLean Menard Mercer. Monroe Montgomery... Morgan .......... Moultrie <>g> P«>r1a. • • l'e- liatt I lie l"oi»o... .......... Pulaski 1'unam vlolph ..•••• !u.-h!»n I ....... Ktx-k Island.......... Saline Sanu'ftH.ou........... Sotmyler So: tt Sh'lxy....... sj. ar . ^t. Clair.. Stephenson T.i;-ewell. Union Vcr.r.iliou Wabish ...... Warren Washington AVavne e. White *id 9 AVi 1 Williamson .......v... Winnebago. ......... W oodford 4^.^ im 3.KX190 13.M8.S1 8.3M.U 75,078.9H 1,856.66 38,331.55 140.00 43,31 S4.W3.10 16.847.14 6,633.33 16*78 09 23,871.47 0,890.i4 43,51131 13,044.00 318.82 31,11X80 35,860.89 8,147.06 •,761.53 19,71624 34,687.97 8,255.01 46,̂ 58 33 l.SX'.Sl 6,290.9s 36,743.91 *1,5 0 67 86.59 7,*50.27 ee,o 2.43 •V>T0.06 V,427.74 5.S37.94 a 1.7JI.7T m 46,8».32 38,115.5? 18.C01.69 35,777.73 8,K:0.86 101,787.43 ltyi'4.17 36,3'U.OB 43,53X45 48.090.15 40,581.55 * 63,873.61 12,873.79 16,903.58 18,042.11 1,685.09 96.5 4.38 50,768.76 6,64'.12 S7.S07.2S 3,687.47 33.036.70 lo.wiio 38.SB.77 64,3 rr. 94 Totalis five years. t 127,440. C3 13,345.37 31.227.96 25,23182 361,1X2.75 14,942. 6» 96,807.10 14,520.54 167,865.64 104,896.63 47,660.62 19,794.61 •8,701.66 93,039.49 107,683.15 901,634.66 31,068.47 143,742.10 <1,624.94 47,479.08 91.886.03 110,383.34 IS,5C1.38 36,076.34 61.200.44 67,180.44 34,663.69 118.742.48 8,887.62 35,417.32 90,467.53 3,877.88 109,574.83 6,199133 37,162.61 172,135.80 Ml,2>1.94 38,557.72 35.56.1.49 27,8«».«S 35,4S9.22 108,453.71 5,885.91 191,728 41 113,191.71 67.0S2.SW 10-.',00 (.27 38,!WH.53 334,5T«.4« 31,883.49 129,764.25 187,051.37 140,3.>2.03 140,270.04 149.6C3.891 130,522.02 40.747.21 64.661.31 52.213.97 9,453.9S 70,702.94 82,35W.lt» 190,0*). 4* 2S.002.7S 120,21s. in 16, TOO. ST S4.70T.8J S4.424.3t svrej.15 133.«H,QT 168,320.01 Sl.lSO.t'S 68.76a. 28 119.6!*!. I* lM*'..ST 6S.374.8i •r t i „W>I- i m - * J * pS. 5 * . 8,87',41 6,374 VI 7.4'W.OO 31 .* & #> 1,272.98 etv*oiT 188,24'.83 VM14.03 4,467.69 81,520.13 9V7B2.1 21.016.67 3 '.*">6,74 147,915.41 2,643.17 T9t375JB 39,1 Jo. 04 nt.s64.ai 1,8>0. 65,'<51.tiS 3,313 li 11,351-45 ».l 17.38 139,443.31 ll.^Xt 1*» 7.08918 34,- 4 >. 4M-tt.ll 11.641.49- 164.74'. 4* .637.W & .M8-V81 7,183 U 1.699 61.tM.lt 17.002 71,**V.84 36.213.68 Total ,687.18 The footings for ti e yet rs not rcprescated in tho table sro as follows: For ISIcs tV 25i>,8jl; for 18S0, SI,.$59,-117; for 18S1, $1,483,- 979; and for 1S<_\ $I,- >e,i60. Cook CDu«ty, not reported for 1883, is reported for eadi of the other years. Two HUKTEBS cen?ht IN miaka N«|tflj|« itfctswtatMt • ••fw\ ) > • «.•»« i-