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flaintlealer , 1. VAN SLYKE. Edi Iter as* Publisher. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. < • K R 'C •: V t~ r 1 . f HENRY M. STANLEY shows the effects <oi the African climate and this expos- tire. He is very gray. The natives call him by names which signify "The. Han of Fire," and the "Breaker of llocko." II "MY letters average twenty-five to thirty a day," oays Mr. Whittier, the poet, "and when 1 am sick they ac­ cumulate, and then when I get well I make myself sick again trying to <catch up with my answers to them"-- too many, it is to be feared, being re­ quests for autographs. Vis ALIA, California, furnishes a pretty bird story. A small bird, which : accidentally discovered its likeness in a looking-glass in a paint shop, makes daily morning and evening visits to look at its reflection. While be ore the mirror it performs all the ooquet- ish acts by which a bird could render itself graceful and attractive: The feathered dandy has become quite tame and is a favorite witii the workmen. divisions,which, in this manner, testiflaa ita regards for the aged patriot. *. IN the federation of Australia; & now nation has been found and another epoch has been marked in the world's history. Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, West Australia, and Tas­ mania, are now confederated into a single nation, and New South "Wales and New Zealand, which have not yet gone in, owing to the existence of a tariff difficulty and other legal diverg­ ing interests, are free to enter the new community whenever they please. Un­ questionably it will not be long before they do %o. The advantages which will accure to the confederated provinces will be an inducement,and,if there were no other influence, the pressure of the greater upon the smaller would be sufficient to accomplish it The new nation has an area of 2,743,423 square miles. If the other two provinces were included it would reach 3,164,995 square miles, or three times the are£ of this country when our Constitution was adopted iu 1787, and as much as Our space now. With the other two provinces it would have a population of nearly 3,500,000. Its population is fully as large as ours when we became a Nation. - • i: A MONTREAL hackman, who took a couple to church the other night to be married and quietly slipped off during the wedding-ceremony to earn a little extra money, was surprised on return­ ing to hear the bridegroom boldly ask for the money he had made while away. The coachman, however, seeing a con­ stable on hand, and not being desirous of becoming delendant in a lawsuit, handed over the cash and drove the .newly-wedded pair home. THE* Galveston News relates an amusing incident ill connection with the disastrous fire there. A little 8- year-old, who had been one of the suf­ ferers by the fire, hearing that he might get relief by applying to the committee, determined to prepare his . claim. After careful consideration it was written out and presented the fol lowing unique series of items: "A bi- cicle, $3; two ginnie pigs, $2; one prery dog, $1; half pound shot, 5o; A rifel, $6; car tickets in bank, 65c." COL. MAPLESON was a witness the other day in a suit which he had insti­ tuted to recover the duty paid on some armor and costumes he had brought to this country for use on the operatic stage. "What is your busi ness?"' he was asked. "I^m an im­ presario," replied the Coionel, with ofty dignity. "Well, now, tefi us, Mr. apleson," said the lawyer, "what is an resario?" , "An impresario," said pleson. unbending somewhat, and revealing the suggestion of a smile, "is a man who tries to please" the public and never succeeds.** ftt :.i m Sfe'. K:,. who was recently mar riedin London, has immortalized him ^ self by a new departure in weddings, and has imparted some novel features to a rite which perpetual repetition has made almost hopelessly monoton­ ous. The ceremony, which took place •=• in one of the ritualistic churches, was essentially Wagnerian, as it began and ended with selections from "Lohen­ grin," and the absence of stage scenery and theatrical properties was atoned . for by costly vestments, lights, incense, and full choral service, the whole con­ cluding with the singing of an original hymn entitled, "We Laud Our Heavenly Bridegroom." A SINGULAR account is about to be closed in Philadelphia. The firm of Baker & Comegys failed in 1807, and there remained in the hands of the as signee after settlement, $5,000 belong ' ing to missing creditors. Since then ! several assignees have had charge of the fund, which, by judicious invest ment, now amounts to $30,000. The .present executor a few days ago peti­ tioned the court to appoint an auditor to settle the account, which has been done, and notice is given for all per­ sons intersted to come forward or be debarred from making claim on the fund. The great-grandchildren of Baker are the only ones known to be legally entitled to the money. Seventy- eight years is a long time for the settle­ ment of an estate. OPT of the 401 members of the pres­ ent Congress, representatives and sen­ ators, there are 285 lawyers. The Sen­ ate has fifty-seven lawyers out of sev­ enty-six members. Messrs. Stanford and Camden have, however, practiced but seldom, Mr. Payne retired a num­ ber of years since. TheJ States of Rhode Island, Virginia, Nevada, and New Jersey have no lawyer in the Sen­ ate. Twenty-two states send none but lawyers; the states of California, Kan­ sas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, and Vermont divide their seats with the lawyers. There are four manufactur­ ers, one planter, one lumberman, one civil engineer, one merchant, two min­ ing operators, one railroad president, two bankers, one retired merchant, and one journalist in the Senate. Loris KOSSUTH is not poor, as re­ ported. He obtained a large amount of money from lectures delivered in England. At the same time his sons, far from being shepherds, have been excellently educated. One of them, Francis, has charge of sulphur mines in Cesana; the other is director of the southern division of the Italian rail­ roads, with a salary of 30,000 francs a year. Kossuth, contrary to reports, is in excellent health, and, although nearly 82 years of age, often walks five or six miles a day. In Hun­ gary he is still very popular, but never goes there, as he is afraid of stirring up any public demonstration which might injure numerous friends who hold of­ fice under the government. He is re­ turned at every election as a member Parliament by one of the Hungarian •aitLcl-.-- JX Louis PASTEUR, an eminent chemist of Paris, determined, about five years ago, to find a remedy for, perhaps, the most dreaded ofc all diseases. He had previously discovered a method of in­ oculation which prevented splenic fever in cattle and sheep, and experi­ mented in the expectation of making the great discovery that hydrophobia could be prevented by inoculation with the virus of rabies. In October last, Pasteur announced that by the means stated hydrophobia was preventible in human boings. Previously, in June, 1884, he had published the success of his plan m the treatment of dogs bitten or scratched by mad animals. At the present time Mr Pasteur has more than seventy persons under his care. They are both male and female, and of all ages, ranging from infancy to an advanced period of life. The French govern­ ment has placed the Hotel Dieu Hos­ pital at Pasteur's disposal for patients whose wounds require dressing. Most patients live' near his laboratory and call to be' inoculated as often as need be. The discoverer of what promises to prove a great boon to mankind, is neither a surgeon nor physicia^and employes a surgeon to operate under his instructions. M. Pasteur is a native of Dole, in the Jura, and is about CO years of age. Be is an honorary Fel­ low of the Royal Society of London, and is personally well-known to En­ glish men of science. Perhaps the best way of stating his methods of procedure in the matter which gives him notoriety throughout the world, is to give a translation of what he himself said of it in a recent interview: "I first take the poison from the brain of a mad dog. With this I vaccinate a rabbit, which will dio within fourteen days, and this gives the poison for a second one, which is vaccinated the same way. I continue this practice until I ha\*e reached the twentieth or twenty-fifth. From there up to the fiftieth the rab­ bit will die in eight days, and after the fiftieth the animal will become mad within seven days. This procedure enables me to determine the most im­ portant feature of the treatment, namely; the duration of the period of incubation. There were people who were afflicted with the fa£al ttfaease several years after, the accident, while others died after a few weeks." Tlie Smoking Habit* Mr.Chauncey M. Depew met a friend who offered him a cigar. Mr. Depew declined it and said: was a con­ firmed smoker, smoking twentv cigars a day, up to about a dozen years ago, when I gave up the habit. I now do not use tobacco. Twelve or thirteen years ago I found myself suffering from indigestion, with wakeful fits at night, nervousness, and inability to submit to much mental strain. I was in the city of Albany one day and bought a 25- cent Partaga. 1 was walking up Broad­ way, and at the corner of State street took tho cigar out of my mouth and looked at it I had smoked about an inch of it A thought struck me. I haa been reading a German savant's book on the un health fulness of the use of tobacco. I looked at my oigar and said: 'You are responsible for this mischief.' I threw that Partaga into the gutter and resolved never to smoke again. For six months I suffered the torments of the damned. I wanted to smoke and I resolutely refused. My appetite meanwhile was growing bet­ ter, my sleepfwas growing sounder, and I could do more work. I did not smoke up to two or three years ago. After I had worked for seventeen hours continuously one day, late at niglit, I thought I would try a good cigar as a soothing influence. I lit the cigar. It was delicious. I enjoyed the aroma of the smoke and the pleasure of the cigar more than I can say. The next day I smoked four cigars, and the next two. I found the use of tobacco was affecting my physical system, and I stopped it entirely and have not commenced againI and probably never shall." J SerVtan Mountaineers. Mountaineers are said to be "always freemenone can with equal truthful­ ness add that the costumes of moun­ taineers' wives and daughters are al­ ways more picturesque than those of their sisters in the valleys. In these Balkan mountains their costumes are a truly wonderful blending of colors, tosay nothing of fantastic patterns, apparently a medley of ideas borrowed from Occident and Orient. One wo­ man we just passed is wearing the flow­ ing pantaloons of the Orient, of a bright yellow color, a tight fitting jacket of equally bright blue; around her waist is folded many times a red and blue striped waistband, while both head and feet are bare. This is no holiday attire, it is plainly the ordinary every day costume.---Outing. Sure Enough. "That vehicle looks a little drunk." said a friend to Spicer as a wobbling carriage passed them on Washington street. "Good reason," said Seth, "the seats are all full and the axle is a little sprung."--Boston Commercial Built- TRICKS OF AH AUTOGRAPH HUNTER Hard Work to Get Letter* From Bisuaarck,' Tennyson, and Other Famous Men. When in England I served an ap­ prenticeship to the art of autograph hunting, which ended in my becoming a proiicient. Yet I blush at times to think of the "ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain" resorted to by an otherwise unsophisticated damsel as a means to an • end. I suppose I have always been a hero worshipped, for when a girl not yet in my teens 1 consumed my little allowance of pin money in buying portraits' of distin­ guished men and women, with which to adorn my album. Autograph let­ ters of celebrities are now harder to obtain than they were a»fe^ years ago. It has become a mania with so many that "men of light an<J leading" are deluged with applications for their au­ tographs, and a hunter must indeed be ingenious and indefatigable who can elicit a reply from those whose cal- igraphy is worth having. At first I hunted exclusively for autographs, but it occurred to me autographs alone were of little interest or value unless affixed to a letter, and I will tell you how I enhanced the value of my col­ lection. The two hardest nuts to crack, or, in other words, the two celebrities who are icily indifferent to the opportunities of autograph mon- fers, are Bismarck and Tennyson. !ven scraps of their handwriting are valued at $10 apiece by bric-a-brac dealers in London. Innumerable let­ ters sent direct to the great Chancel­ lor brought never a line in response, and I grew sad. A bright idea struck me. Why not write to his wife, who is reputed to bo benevolence personified ? I suited the action to the word, and by return of thq/mail came an imposing epistle, with the Berlin postmark upon it, which set my heart beating at a fear­ ful rate, and destroying my appetite for a whole dav. It contained a cabi­ net photograpH of Bismarck, wit^i his bold, clear signatne at the foot, and a kind of note from the Princess, saying that she was happy to comply with my request. Oh! how I gloated over that portrait. It was a speaking likeness of the man who rules Europe, and looked all the more striking from the fact that it represented him in the full glory and blaze of his military uniform, with a helmet shading the upper part ct his face, and leaving the lower part, With its iron-clad jaws, clearly depicted. Tennyson's autograph was my next 4ftsideratum. It came to me unex­ pectedly, but not till I wasted much ink and paper in appealing to the laureate himself.' I wrote to the Duke &f Wellington, a little man with a big heart who wore cotton gloves and in­ variably rode on the top of an omnibus, asking for a few words or lines in the handwriting of the hero of Waterloo. He sent me a check, yellow and musty, which had been filled in by the Iron Duke, and, to my unutterable joy, he enclosed a batch of letters, hoping, as he playfully put it, thrit they would be worth a place in my album. Tho batch of letters consisted of one from Tenny­ son, another from Queen Victoria, and cno in the legible, though somewhat boyish, handwriting of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. There were others from smaller fry, but this trio did indeed form a place in my album, and, as I am a conservative, they oc­ cupy a very prominent position. Lord Beaconsiield was another un-gel- able individual. His secretary would respond to your first application, say­ ing that his Lordship never gave his autograph to anybody. It was nselcss to impress upon Beaconsfield that his was the only autograph necessary to make your collection of modern celebrities complete. You might wait long and anxiously for a rejoinder, but you wouldn't get it. Then, perhaps, you would write, expressing regret lor having trespassed so much on his val­ uable time, and, if you weie rash, you would spend 25 or 50 cents on an ele­ gant photograph, and urge him just to affix his signature thereto and return it. He would do neither, and any further portraits you might send him would be gone from your gaze forever. But I got his autograph neverthe­ less. My brother came across an im­ pecunious man, who had in his heyday, spent some months of his existence in writing a laudatory poem on the royal family, and who has ventured to sub­ mit the proof sheets to Beaconsiield. "I finished the proofs this evening, and have read them with transcendent in­ terest," wrote Beaconsfield in reply. A small sum purchased this letter for me, and I was the happy possessor of Beaconsflcld's autograph. Yon Moltke is a dear old man. He will send his autograph to anybody, but he has this peculiarity, that he al­ ways returns your own communication with his signature cramped into a corner. Charles Darwin would rarely re­ spond to an application for his auto­ graph, but when I wrote, asking for an elucidation of what to me was a com­ plex portion of his "Origin of Species," he was prompt in replying. His cali- graphy was wretched, and I left like asking him to explain his explanation. An initial letter, a dash of the pen, and a final letter were made to represent a word. His reply could only be under­ stood bv guess work and the aid of a powerful microscope.--New York Sun. Chats with Trurelers. "Heard of Dick Fellows, the single- handed stage-robber, haven't you?" asked an Arizona ranchman. "Dick is a small man, with light complexion, blue eye3, and light hair, and the last man you would pick out for a desper­ ado. Well, about two years ago I had the pleasure of making Dick's acquain­ tance. Myself and a party were camp­ ing out near the mouth of the Black Canon. It was just after dusk and as we were seated in a circle telling yarps Dick suddenly came in our midst. 'Well, boys,' he said, 'I've lost $42,000 to-day, but I'll buy the whisky if any one will go for it;' concluded he, throwing down a $20 gold piece. I didn't know the man then, and, not wishing to offend him, I volunteered to go. When I returned Dick and the boys were fast friends and we drank the liquor while he told the story of his great loss. " 'Boys,' he began. 'Wells and Fargo went through to-night with a chest tilled with the money 1 lost Charlie Wheeler was a-drivin' and alongside of him was Jim Hume, the mountain de­ tective--an* he's a good one--in the employ of the express company. Just as the old stage came lumberin' out of, the canon I stepped up on a big flat rock and looked over the barrel of my Enfield at him. Jim saw me, too, an' ye.led: "Dick Fellows!" an' we both fired at the sametime. Neither on m was hit and Charlie whipped up. an* that's how I lost the money. But now mark me, boys, I'll get even with Jim Hume before two months, and you'll ail be witnesses, too.' ' tick left us then and we saw nothing of him until the two months were up, when he came upon us just as sud­ denly aa he did before. 'Jim Hnma made a good stake in savin' the box,' he Baid. 'Wells and -Fargo thanked him and gave him a watch worth $300 and a pair of pearl-handle', aelf-actin', revolvers, but they'll bo mine to-night and a good bit of dost with 'em. Jbe at the mouth of the Black Canon and see how I do it,' concluded Dick, as he examined his rifle and looked at his cartridges. We were all waiting and when we heard the stage rumblin' down the canon we got out where we could see. Dick mounted a rock and brought his repeater to bear on Hume before the detective could get the drop on him. Mim Hume, halt them bosses! yelled Dick, 'an' throw off the box an' the Swatch an' revolvers Wells and Fargo give ye.' 'You've got me, Dick,* said Jim. as he proceeded to obey the command, while Dick covered him with his Winchester. When everything was off he ordered the sta?e to move on, never molesting any of the passen­ gers or exchanging a word with them. Dick then broke open the box and took $17,00(1 in gold J root it, which he packed away on his person and strolled away in the darkness." If hat Energy Has Done. Twonty-five years ago a few young men in London resolved to meet every evening to exchange ideas. The num­ ber gradually increased till it was nec­ essary to hire a room. Growing ambi tious, they hired lecturers, and many people were brought together. Many of them now trace back their success to this effoat at gaining knowledge. Indefatigable industry coupled with a desire for knowledge produces great result. Walter Scott, when he was in a lawyer's office, spent his eveimigs in study. John Britton, the author of architectural works, jjid-i-^lr studied my books in betj--onrwinter evenings, i> ecause too poor to afford a fire." He used every opportunity to read; the books he picked up for a few moments at the book-stalls helped him, he says. Napoleon had indomitable persever­ ance and energy. Dr. Livingston at the age of 10 years, worked in a factory, bought with his' first wages a Lat grammar, and studied it until twelve at night. He studied Virgil and Horace tho same way, and finally entered col­ lege, and was graduated. Many will ask how they can advance themselves in knowledge. The first is determination; the next persever­ ance. Walter Scott give this advice to a young man: "Do instantly what ever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business; never before itV Business men often say "time is money." But it is more than that to the young man< If used rightlv it is self-improvement,culture, strength and growth of character. The habit of idleness is a hard one to got rid of. Time spent in reading anything and everything is weakening to the mind Books chosen and read with care, cul­ tivate the mind and character. The books you^read should raise your thoughts and aspirations, strengthen your energy and help you in your work. Thackeray says: "Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life frequent that which is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly. Note what great men have ad mired; they admire "great things ;nar row spirits admire ba^ply, and worship meanly. . Sage tirejp. "When I was a boy," said th e Oaip* tain to a Detroit Free Prcs;s reporter, as they paused in their usual game, used to live down in Onondago County, in the State of New York, and there knew Sage Green. He was a joliv dog who used to get on a spree about 6nce in six months, and Buch a spree! Just as long as his money lasted, the spree lasted. He'd drink, drink, drink, until ^is last cent was gone, and then he'd go home and sleep it off, and get up and go to work, and he wouldn't touch a djop until it came around time for another spree. .. "One night after Sage hail wound up a spree for lack of funds and gone home to bed, he couldn't sleep. Hour after hour he tumbled and twisted about iu bed, but there was no sleep for him. He'd never been troubled that way before, and it bothered him. He got up and walked about the house, drank some cold water, bathed his head, but it wouldn't do--he couldn't sleep. "Bimeby lie oame to the conclusion that there was something wrong some­ where, so he got up, lighted a candle, and commeuced an investigation. And what do you suppose he fouud was the mutter ? Sage had a big jack-knife in his pocket, and wedged in between the blade and the handle he found a little thin 5-cent piece. Sage pulled it out, put on his pants and hit, and wont to the door. He looked up the street, and down the street, but not a light could he see, tor it «vas long after midnight and all the saloons were closed upj^-^" " 'D-- ye!" said Sage, pinching the 5 cent piece, 'you ain't going to keep me awake any longer!' and he threw it as far as he was able. Then he went back to bed and was sound asleep in five minutes. It's your deal. Major." LaSalle, the Ureal Explorer. Robert Cavalier de LaSalle was born at Rouen about 1635. He em­ igrated to Canada in 1(>67, and engaged in the l'nr-trade, making excursions among the native tribes. In 1G75 he was appointed Governor of Fort Fron- tenac, and encouraged to carry out his cherished scheme of a voyage of discov­ ery. Having built a vessel on Lake Erie, he began his voyage in August, 1670, and passed through Lakes Hurou and Michigan. He went down the Illi­ nois River to Peoria, where he bnilt a fort, and, his vessel having been wrecked, he returned by land to Fron- tenac in 1680. Jn 1682 he renewed the enterprise with a larger party, and de- cended the Mississippi River in canoes from the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico, reaching there in April, 1682. The part of the river below the Arkan­ sas had never before been explored by a white man. In 1683 LaSalle went to France, and, having obtained a commis­ sion to plant a colony in Louisiana, un­ dertook a voyage to that region by way of the Gulf "of Mexico in 1684, but failed to find the month of the M ssis- sippi, and landed in Texas. There ho encountered great difficulties, and at last was murdered by his own mutin­ ous crew in March, 1687. .LaSalle, in his ability to frame large plans and carry them forward to successful com­ pletion, must be ranked among the greatest explorers of history.--Inter Ocean. A Litt'e Hard of Hearing. "What is your patronymio, sir?" asked the civil service examiner. "My what?" asked the applicant "Your patronymic." "Oh, yes; T didn't catch your mean­ ing at first; I'm a barber."--Tidbits. IT will not do for Gabriel to blow hie horn in the presence of some men-- unless Gabriel tlesire8 bis from drank. BY BEN: PEBLEY POCB7. At one of President Lincoln's morn­ ing receptions, just before the close of the war, there were two quite aged isitors, poorly clad, but with frank, open countenances. "Now is your time, dear," said the husband, as the Presi­ dent politely dismissed the one preced­ ing them. The lady stopped forward, mado a low courtesy, and said, "Mr. President" Mr. Lincoln, looking over his specs, fixed those gray, piercing, yet mild eyes upon her, then lifted his head, and extending his hand Baid, in the kindest tones: "Well, good lady, what can I do for you?" "Mr. President," she resumed, "I feel BO embarrassed I can hardly speak. I never spoke to a President before; but I am a good Union woman down in Maryland,and my son is wouuded badly and in the hospital, and I have been trying to get him out, but somehow couldn't, and they said I had better come right to you. When the war first broke out, I gave my son firBt to God, and then told him be might go fight the rebels, and now, if you will let me take him home, I will nurse him up, and just as soon as he gets well enough he shall go right back and help put down the Rebellion. He is a good boy and don't want to shirk the service." I was looking full in Mr. Lincoln's face. I saw the tears gathering in his eyes, and his lips quivered as he re­ plied: Yes, yes, God bless yon! you shall have your son. What hospital did you say?" It seemed a relief to him to turn aside and write a few words, which he handed to the woman, saying: "There, give that to Stanton and you will get your son if he is able to go home with you." "God bless you, Mr. President," said tho father, the only woTd^Ke had spoken; and the mother, maklhg a low courtesy, fairly sobbed: "O, sir, we are so much obliged to you." "Yes, yes; all right, and you will find that that will bring him," was spoken with kindly tones. Judge Evans of Texas was one of the most original members of the House during the Pierce Administration. In personal appearance he strikingly re­ sembled old Sam Houston, or rather he looked as one would imagine the hero oi San Jacinto looked when aboAt 45 years of age. He measured at least six ieet two in l^is stockings, had an eagle eye, strongly-marked features, thin brown hair, w.th a board and mustache which could have been improved in color and cjjmeiiioesSDy any prepara­ tion. A^Tennesseean by birth, he at first emigrated to Arkansas, and thence to Texas, identifying himself with the progress of the great Southwest a sec­ tion of the Republic that is yet destinod to exert a great political influence. In the Mexican War Mr. Evans raised and commanded a corpB of "Texan Rangers," wheih did good service on the frontier. After bis return he was elected by the Legislature District Judge, and I have been informed that he astonished "the bar" by setting aside the antiquated rules of practice which had obstructed tho course of justice, and by creating an ontine reform. He was one of the electors who voted for Gen. Pierce, and he was afterwards elected to Congress from the Eastern or San Augustine District , Judge Evans was of the old-time Democratic school in politics, although ' that independence which was a salient point of his character made him at times "kick over the traces." On the slavery question he was an ultra and uncompromising Southern man, defiant and hostile toward all Northern men, and he completely "took the wind from the sails" of Gen. Quitman by his first speech, which was a bold demand for the abrogation of all neutrality laws. Apart from this sectional hostility to "free soil," and fondness for "fillibust- ering," Judge Evans was a valuable member of the House, giving all im­ portant questions a consideration which was manifested in his clear, well-di­ gested remarks whenever he spoke. Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes,was always handsomely dressed, and on state oc­ casions she appeared to great advan­ tage. although her hair was dressed in an old-fashioned style and she never wore jewelry of any description, not even a breastpin. She had such a bright, animated face that nothing seemed lacking to complete the favorable im­ pression she made upon every one who came under the influence of her radiant smile. That smile was the reflection of a sunnv disposition and a n itnre at rest with itself. She and her husband looked like a couple »who lay down at night to peaceful slumbers, undisturbed by nervous dreams of ambition, and awoke in the morning refreshed and well prepared for the duties of the day, which never found them fretted or flm-Tied. At one time in his life Presi­ dent Hayes had displayed a fondness for intoxicating beverages, and his wife had become rigidly temperate. At the White House she endeavored to carry out her Ohio total abstinence ideas, and to exclude wines and liquors, to the annoyance of Mr. Evarts, then Sec­ retary of Sate, who refilled to permit the diplomatic corps to be invited to their customary annual dinner unless wine could be on the table. This Mrs. Hayes refused to allow, although her husband used to drink wine at the tables of other people, and when she celebrated her silver Wedding it was a strictly temperance banquet, although the steward managed to gratify those' fond of something stronger than lemon­ ade. True, no wineglasses obtruded themselves, no popping of champagne corks was lieard.no odor of liquor tainted air fragrant with tho perfume of inno­ cent. beautiful flowers. The table groaned with delicacies; there were many devices of the confectioner which called forth admiration. Many won­ dered why oranges seemed to be alto­ gether preferred, and the waiters were kept busy replenishing salVers upon which the tropical fruit lay. Glances telegraphed loone another that the missing link wos found, and that, con­ cealed within the oranges was deli­ cious frozen punch,a large ingredient of w hich was strong old Santa C'roix rum. Thenceforth Roman punch was nerved about the middle of the slate dinners, car« being taken to give glasses con­ taining tiie strongest mixture to those who were longing for some potent beverage. This phase of the dinner Was named by those who enjoyed it, "tiiu Lite-Saving Station." 'Wubhint* the Salamander." This has been heard of the world over, mere or less vaguely, as a performance at German students' meetings. How many people suppose it to bean inhu­ man treatment of an inoffensive little animal, I do not know; but it is noth­ ing else than a simultaneous and vigor­ ous rubLing of the bottom of tho beer glasses upon the bare table, first straight in un.i out from the edge of the table, and thea around and around iu a narrow circuit, br cUl at the every one's eyes intently fixed upon the face of the comrade opposite. It is not necessary to fix them upon the glasses to see that the beer does not slop over, for every glass is closed with an overlapping decorated cover. It is a queer caper, but it is done with an energetic earnestness that demands re­ spect; and still more queer is its name, "Rut>bing the salamander," the origin of which no one seems to know.--Al- jjha Child, in the Boston Transcript. Bean Krmnmell. After explaining the really remarka­ ble success of Be&u Brummell, who on a fortune of only $;;0,000, with no birth to brag of, no education nbr great na­ tive wit, conquered the leading place in London society simply by beiner the best dressed man in London, the Spec­ tator draws a dark pictrtre of his end. It says: "The social supremacy so strangely won was not upset by any re­ turn of society to common sense. Brumicell quarrelled with his royal patron, but seemed little the worse for the exclusion from the Prince's circle, and, indeed, wag thought to have come off rather the better in the quarrel which followed the old intimacy. The Beau ruined himself at the gaming table, at which sums not less than his modest patrimony were nightly lost and won with a publicity wliicn would entitle us to be severe upon our ances­ tors if we could ignore our own stock exchange. Brummell had no Parlia­ ment to pay his debts, and was obliged to escape them by a hasty flight to the Continent." The story of his latter years exhibits a moral which has no need to ba pointed. The friends of his prosperity were not unkind--ungrateful would scarcely be the word--for he had done nothing which could call for gratitude. Liberal presents were sent to him, and if his fall had taught him the common­ est lescon of prudence, he might have ended his days in comfort But he had learned little or nothing. As time wen' on, some of his old acquaintances died and some became iadifl'erent or weary of incessant demands. The poor* crea­ ture sank into more and more humiliat­ ing depths of poverty. The man whose wardrobe had been the admiration and envy of London was reduced to a single pair of trousers, and looked decent only in winter, when he could cover the deficiencies of his wardrobe with a cloak. The Nemesis of foppery was upon him. The old fastidiousness gave place to a neglect which made him re­ pulsive to his neighbors, and the man who had made a favor of his greeting was banished to his own chamber, lest he should offend the guests «f a third- rate inn. It is pleasant to find that a little ray of light cheered up the last scene of all. He was removed to the hospital of the Bon Sauveur, an insti­ tution for the treatment of the imbecile, which was managed by an uncloistered sisterhood. pThere, in the room which Bourrienne had occupied before him, he spent the last eighteen months of his life. "I never was so comfortable in all my life," he said to an old ac­ quaintance; "I have all 1 wish to eat and such a large fire." And there he died, with a prayer--almost the first, we are told, whioli he is known to have uttered--upon his lips. One of the silliest, if not of»the most noxious, PAPKB and leather may be rendered very pliable by soaking in a solution of one part of acetate of sodium, or potas­ sium, in four to ten parts of water, and drying. "A HINDU loom, complete," says aa exchange, "is worth 68 cents, end weaves shawls, stlka, and muslins, which our most expensive apparatus cannot equal." THERE are now 353 cotton mills in South, with 1.460,697 spindles and 27,- 004 looms, against 180 mills, 713,989 spindles, and 15,222 looms in 188& The increase has been 1/3 mills, 746,- 708 spindles, and 11,782 looms. THE immense structure devoted to the State, War, and Navy Departments at Washington, is the largebt granite building in the world. It will have co-it, when finished, at least $10,250,- 000. It covers more ground than the Capitol, by an acre. It is entirely fire proof. A GERMAN paper says that forty paVts of paper pulp, ten parts of water, one part of gelatine, and one part of bichromate of potash, with ten parts of phosphorescent powder, will makee paper which will shine in the dark, and which will be suitable for labels* sisrns, etc.- $££ FOR producing a red stain on wood, the wood is plunged first in a solution of one ounce of curd soap in thirty-five fluid ounces of water, or else rubbed with the solution, and then magenta, in a state of sufficient dilution to bring out the tone required, is applied. Ail the aniline colors behave very well on wood. PRINTED matter may be copied on any pap#r of an absorbent nature by dampening the surface with a weak so­ lution of acetate of iron, and pressing in an ordinary copying press. Old writing may also be copied on unsized paper if wet with a weak solution of sulphate of iron, mixed with a small solution of sugar syrup. IT is worth remembering that during the first visit of cholera at St. Peters­ burg, in 1832, says Iron, a firm of iron founders employing 500 men, informed them that all those who would not take a teaspoonful of powdered charcoal on entering the works in the morning must leave their employ. The conse­ quence was that they did not lose a single man when myraids were dying around them. ANOTHER application of paper is to be noted, viz., its use as a substitute for wood in blocks or bars, whenever a knife is employed in a mechanical cutter. It is found valuable in paper mills where an under cutter is used ; also in the cutting of blocks of envel­ ope works, yne outlasting a dozen of tho wooden blocks. In its mannfac- ture, sheets of paper are compressed by enormous force into blocks or bara, harder than wood and far more dur­ able. HEMARKINO upon the general im­ pression that ^n iron mast is much heavier than one of wood of the same dimenensions, the statement is made by a well-informed writer that the re- verse is really the fact, a sixty-rfoot trunk of spruce or yellew pine, two feet in diameter at the base, weighings , . i, . . . ' i«far more tnan the shells forming the phases of human folly may be said to fmodern ircn steamship mast3, fn iU have reached in him its most character­ istic development. A Modern St. Anthony. No picture ever; limned by Morelli has created the sensation produced by bis "Temptation of St Anthony," which, on its exhibition at Turin and Paris, was for weeks the talk of the jrsthetic town. It is a picture marvel­ ous iu composition, deep, complicated, and at first almost incomprehensible in conception. What is so subtle, so original, and, if I may so express it, BO modern in Morelli's treatment of this by no means unhackneyed theme of the temptation of the founder of mon- asticism, is that the temptation arises from within the man's own breast, and is not broucrlit to him from without. The temptations suffered by St Anthony were the hallucinations of his own im­ agination, aroused in him by abstinence and privation from all the joys of the flesh. Anthony, we read in the legend, was assailed often by the demon, with whom he did fierce battle. Thus was it named in mediieval days. We of the nineteenth century read in his story an allegory of how nature avenges the doctrines that err against her laws, and it has been given to an artist of fervid imagination, born in a positive age, to foretell the tale to our modern comprehension. The phantasms of this monk are like to the famous dream of Don Rodrigo in Manzoni's immortal book, that which Lady Macbeth names your fear."--Art luslration, of this is aflorded in khf, case of the new American cruiser At- lanta, the mi\nmnst of which is two feet in diameter at the base, aad tapers Cf to seventeen inches at the top. at v, hich point the tunnel is fashioned square, V? its length reaching sixty eight feei ; four and one-half inches, the foremast A being two inches shorter. The method of construction in this case is peculiar; that is, three T-shaped rods of steel, the length of the mast to be made, are affixed, base outward, in circular wood-. , en frames, and, around the skeleton, thus formed, the ready-shaped plates » are riveted in place. The plates are. twelve feet in length and about three- * • eighths of an inch in th»"kne«|, : | am "the very paitfllngsOf, Jow'xzcttT Vv:;« •V ' - ' Jotham's Fowl Act. At midnight, on his silent roost, the wattled gobbler sat and dozed away the hours, and heeded not the stealthy step of Jotham on his "towers." It was Thanksgiving eve, and all the house was still. The hencoop quiet stood beneath the sloping hill, its feathered inmates clucked in quiet, dreamy mood, nor thought of harm to any of their cherished brood; whde Jotham (hardened, unsentimental sin­ ner) surveyed the coop and planned the morrow's dinner. The fat young gobbler long had filled his eye, to mate with Susan's matchless pumpkin pie. So to that peaceful coop he slyly bent his way, and seized with iron grip his hapless prey. No more that gobler speads the fan-like tail,but all his mates discordantly bewail the act of Jotbam, who, at one fell swoop, removed the pride of that once happy henhouse coop. Lying Too Far A part. In a hunter's camp different men be­ gan to jinfold their yarns. Among others a Kentuckian said he once shot a buck in such a way that the bullet, hitting the right ear, passed through the heel of the right hind foot. Jeering and laughter greeted this monstrous story. "Brown," called the Kentuckian to his companion, "tell these fellows if what I say is not as true as gospel!" ' Why. yes." replied the other, "I sow it "myself. Yon see, gentleman, when he pulled the trigger of his rifle*, the buck was jnst scratching his head, VHth his hoof." Then he whispered to' his friend. "That was a narrow escape. Another time don't lie so far apart." Tne ureii* Won. Spoaking of circuses and elections suggests a heated contest in this county some years ago, when there was a cir­ cus exhibition on the day following the election. The negroes, as usual, were circus struck, and one of the contesting sides resorted to a'clever ruse to secim both their good will and their votes. A thousand circus tickets were boucht. and on tho day of the election a ticket was given to each darky, or white man either, who was willing to accept it and vote accordingly. . T he circus carried 4ke dayAtlanta '•m ' • v k ^svC%tA Abnormal Animals. i : Tho expedition undertaken by Mr. < Caldwell (who was aided in his equip­ ment by funds from tue Government ;i Grant Committee of the Royal Society) f is perhaps the most interesting, be­ cause the animals which he has gone to study are of large size and already more or less familiar. The Ornithor- hynchus and the Echidna are hairy quadrapeds [mammalsj peculiar to Australasia, which differ from all other hairy quadrapeds in having, like birds, but a single aperture to the exterior for the intestine and the ruimorenital canals, and in having the skeleton of , the shoulder-girdle and some o'her features of structure similar to those of reptiles. Like those of reptiles, their bodies are comparatively cold, in- <§l stead of being kept in a definite "blood heat" [100 degrees FahrenheitJ as are , those of all other m.tmmals. It had , often been reported, and somo kind of *; evidence had been given to support the v statement, that these strange beasts lay their eggs like birds and reptiles, instead of retaining the egg-like struc­ ture within the body and allowing it to develop to a certain condition of maturity, as do all ether hairy quadrapeds. One of Mr. Caldwell's objects was definitely to as- • certain whether these animals lay egg« or not, and, of moro importance than , that, to examine minutely the whole * historv of the growth in the egg. and to compare it on the one hand with the - corresponding development of birds and reptiles on the other with that of or- > dinary hairy quadrupeds or mammals. Mr. Caldwell has found out all about these animals and collected them in quantities. The Echidna lays a single egg, which she then carries about her 1 in a pouch formed by a fold of skin on " the ventral surface of the body, similar i to the kangaroo's pouch. The duck-mole, on the other hand, lays two eggs at a time and does not carry them about, but deposits them in her nest, an underground burrow like that of the mole. Naturalists are await- : ing with great interest Mr. Caldwill's account ot what goes ^on inside these eggs while the young ono is growing , there; that is to say, an nccouut of the •' differences and resemblances between S the structures which gradually arise in in these mammals' eggs and those which are familiar t > ns as occurring in j the ca«e of the common fowl.--K lav Science Monthly. ldiomatife (And they say Engljsh is guage of the futur<v*oe!) French Visitor-^^I call to see Mon* sienr Roliard. Maid--"You can t see him, air; he'a not up yet" ;•< • (., I French Visitor--"Vat you tell? 1 .com vaster, and you sa.v can't see heem because he not down; now you say can't see hcem because l.e not oop. Yen vitl he be iu ze middle, madem­ oiselle? I no compr'end!"--drip. VERY few salesladies marry gentlemen.--Indianapolis Tivie*. . v » . :