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r . ' • ': ,,. 1. • ...• * . ', " * V ^4r .: * : • . . '-^ V-*: I P"; Itt |plt||«nrg §tahrdtaltr. J. VAN BLYKE, PUBUSHEB. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. WOS8IP Or THE Dili B, THBEEFOOT is putting his best foot forward in the race for Sheriff of a Minnesota comity. <*• JAMBS GORDON BENNETT, JR., of the New York Herald, is going to marry the ^Laughter of "Bucliu" Helmbold. A DOVBXiB marriage recently took place in an Iowa corn-field between a couple of romantic young men who left home with their girls ostensibly to go to a circus. THE champion heavy couple* are Mr. And Mrs. Bates, of Whitesburg, Ey. He weighs 478 pounds, and she 413; both measure 6 feet 11| inches in height, is 28, she 27. AT a meeting; of the merchants of Windsor, Canada, opposite Detroit, re­ cently, it was agreed that hereafter a discount of 20 per cent, should be •charged On United States silver Coin. Ws thought they would before long. The mediums have commenced getting •communications from Ralston. He hasn't told yet what he did with tile $4,000,000 he defaulted, or whether/he suicided or not. army officers in Texas and their superiors finite In advising the Indian Department to send them to Florida. * BABRY SULLIVAN, the Irish tragedian, received a great ovation at the haiids of his countrymen in New York. The Sixty-ninth regiment escorted him to Booth's theater, the neighborhood of which was thronged with enthusiastic people. THIERS was recently a wholesale shoot­ ing of illicit traders in horse-flesh in New Mexico. Four notorious horse- thieves were taken out of the Fort Au­ gustine jail at night, marched to a little grove, tied to one tree and shot down like dogs. THE Prince of Wales has ordered the manufacture of several hundred gold and silver medals bearing his noble pro­ file, which he intends to distribute in his contemplated Indian tour, and the world will be forever indebted to the royal philanthropist. THE circumstances of Miy Balston's death now indicate at least an equal probability that it was from apoplexy, suddenly developed in going into the water for a bath while in a highly ex­ cited condition of mind and warm state of body. It would oe more agreeable to his friends to accept this view, yet nothing seems to us more natural than that he should choose to end his life at this great crisis in his career. He was large enough to be a philosopher in the end but he had not the culture which brings it as a ready minister in times of trial; and we do not think it can be held a fatal charge against his character that, in a moment of so great a revulsion, he chose to accept death rather than read just life. .. Mb. W». IftwrH, of Hobok«*v N. J,, recently had a thrilling adventure with an escaped madman. While driying leisurely along the highway he was ao- oosted by a sprightly-looking, well- dressed gentleman of some thirty years old, who declared M Vas fatigued and sadly in need of a ride. Mr. Fouh, be­ ing of a kindlj disposition, gave him a seat in his buggy. The oonduct of the lunatic who accompanied Hood in the balloon was gentle compared with that of this stranger. * He began by twisting his face into a variety of convolutions; then his eyes glared as if with rage or torture; he stared menacingly at the driver, and made a powerful effort to snatch the reins. Mr. Fouh affected not to notice this much, and drew up the horse. He coaxed his dangerous com* panion to alight and adjust the bit in the animal's mouth. The lunatic jumped out, and then Fouh plied his whip with fury. The horse flew away, and the driver was blessing his stars, but on looking behind him, to his horror he saw a man clinging to the vehicle and lean­ ing over him, with a huge knife flashing in his hand. Fouh seized his whip and dealt him a heavy blow on the head, fell­ ing him on the road. The horse still rushed on, and the madman rose and followed closely for some time, when his strength failed him and he was lost sight of. It is safe to wager that the next stranger that applies to Mr. Fouh for a ride, will not be so readily accommo­ dated. KRUPP, the German cannon founder, has refused to sell the British govern­ ment one of his big guns. In reply to a for one he said he was " willing & HEBE MENTION. to contract for the arming of as many ~ ^fQrJ»imd ships as England wanted, at home or abroad, but he must decline to part with specimens for experimental purposes." AM: the waiters at the Twin Mountain House, where Beecher makes his summer headquarters, are either students or teach­ ers, who are spending their vacation in a healthful atmosphere, and obtaining a fair remuneration for light labor. What they lack in experience is more than compensated by careful attention and Agreeable manners. Suitable provision is made for their oomfort and the, pre­ servation of their self-respect, and they are in no way identified with the ordi­ nary servants of the hotel. THE Philadelphia Press states that the long-projected and secretly-negotiated aif-line rdad from Boston to the West, which is designed to be a great rival to all the other roads now running from the Eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains, is gradually working its way through Pennsylvania by a series of links "which are regarded as mere local roads by the people living along the line, but which, when all finished, will constitute one of the great thoroughfares of travel, if it does not rival and override several which are now regarded as monopolies. AN English paper, giving some evi- j <lence with regard to the tenacity with j which snails hold on to life, relates that | n lady, having collected some with pret- j tily marked shells, wished to preserve j them. She therefore subjected them to | a, bath in boiling water, and put them on ! a shelf to dry. The next morning, to j her astonishment, she* found the boiled j snails crawling about the shelf, and some ; of them taking their breakfast upon the j paste she had meant to use in cementing ! itheir shells together. The tender-hearted I lady sat down and had a " good cry," J rand resolved that she would never at- j -tempt to boil snails again. A CURIOUS relic of old slavery times turns up in the shape of a race of ne­ groes, ex-slaves of the Seminole Indians, j These people were moved with their j owners, the Seminoles, from Florida to i 'Texas, many years ago. Subsequently they fled into Mexico, and, induced by \ ' certain promises that were never kept, j returned to Texas, where they are now j in an impoverished condition. They | want rations and transportation to Flori- { , da, in which State they think they can j make homes for themselves. They num bet. about 500, men, women and chil- j <lren; are a distinct race from the Semi- j noles, and are like all negroes, except; that they are accustomed to bearing ^ arms, are hrave and daring, and superior •. "to the , Indians in fighting qualities. The A±..h&rj FLY time is nearly over. DETROIT has a Sunday law. A. H. STEPHENS weighs 96. A NORWICH, Ct., cat has 26 toes. KENTUCKY has 100,000 Grangers. THE camp-meeting season is over. A PENNSYLVANIA hen catches mice. KU-KZJUXISM in Illinois is about ended. IOWA'S population has increased 100,- 000. GILT-EDGED paper oollars are the lat­ est. BOSTON has 17,305 more males than fe­ males. THE Marquis of Lome has written a poem. ' , * BOSTON is to have a University lor women. FRANCE makes 175,000,000 bottles ev­ ery year. Gov. TILDEN is a bachelor, and worth $5,000,000. ILLINOIS NEWS* EJUW ST. LOUIS has organized aftiili- tary company. ILLINOB lost 28,348 soldiers and sail­ ors during the war. ^ THE flax crop fa? Chwnjiwig* ewmfy averages idxmt eight to ten busbels to the acre. The straw brings fo per ton. THB question of erecting m free bridge across the Illinois at Peoria will be voted upon by the citizens of that place at the next annual election. WASHINGTON PARK, in Quin«y, has about fifty English sparrows. The au­ thorities are about to place bird-hoases in the trees few their comfort during the winter. JOHN A. BOYLE, of Tremont, is the champion bean-raiser of the State. The Pekin Times has seen a pod from his vines which was twenty-eight inches in length. PEORIA folks are honest One of them found a pocketbook containing about $2,000, the other day. Instead of in­ vesting it in bonded whisky, he returned it to the owner. THIS election at Carlinville, on the pro­ position to compromise and to fund the Macoupin County Cottrt-flouse debt at seventy-five cents on the dollar passed off quietly and with but a small opposi­ tion vote. A. B. SEYBOLT, of Chenoia, caught a boy stealing apples from a barrel in his store, and tied his hands behind him and fastened him to the railing in front of his store. The result is a suit for $5,000 damages brought by the boy's father. - THE Assistant Inspectors of Grain lately applied to the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, at Springfield, for an increase of pay to $2,000 per annum. Their pay was in­ creased from $1,500 to $1,600, all the advance now warranted. THE Southern Illinois Annual Confer­ ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church convened in Centralia, last week, Bishop R. S. Foster presiding. Rev. T. H. Herdman was elected Secretary. There was a very full attendance, about 300 ministers and lay delegates being pres­ ent. SPRINGFIELD has a female base-ball club, consisting of nine blondes and nine brunettes. They played a game at Bloom- ington the other day, which resulted in a victory for the brunettes by a score pt 66 to 20. They are variety show per­ formers from St. Louis, and Springfield is not at all proud of them. .THE Bloomington Pantagraph tells this: "A widow, with five children, wishing to again enjoy the sweets of married life, th$ other day came to the county clerk's office and desired a mar­ riage license. As the other party was uftder age, she brought the boy's father along to give his consent. She got her license and now ' treads the ways of the blest.'",. L ILLINOIS postal matters: Office Established--Honery Bend, Mont­ gomery county, James C. Craw­ ford, Postmaster. Discontinued--Wed- ron, LaSalle county. Postmasters Ap­ pointed--Annapolis, Crawford county, Jacob L. Myers ; Fremont Center, Lake county, John Bchm ; Houston, Ran­ dolph county, J. S. Holt; Hurricane, Montgomery county, James B. Runyon; A MAN has just died in Brazil at the age of 160. SEWING-MACHINE Singer left a fortune 1 Mill brook, Kendall county, Jacob Budd; of $13,000,000. " "" ~ BAYARD TAYLOR protests against the prize candy business. COL. HATCH urges that the Seminoles be returned to Florida. VANDERBILT is said to own no real estate in his own name. STOREY,lof the Chicago TimcA,is build­ ing a $40,000 residence. OVER 4,500,000 missives go to the Dead Letter Office yearly. BARXUM has an advertising car which will fit any street railroad. "GRASSHOPPER HUMP" is the new name for the pin 'em backs. Two children in Cedar Rapids were nearly killed by chewing green card­ board. A BUST of President Lincoln has been ordered for the public library at Spring­ field, 111. THE Chilian government contemplates the introduction of salmon into the riv­ ers of Chili. MR. MOODY'S admirers in Chicago propose to,finish his mission church for a welcome home. THE Bible is now printed in no fewer than 210 languages. In 1854 it was printed in only 50. Gov. KIRKWOOD, of IOWA, has avowed himself a believer in the distant advent of woman's suffrage. Q ANTHRACITE coal, in large quantities, has been discovered in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia. ^ IN Des Moines recently the life insur­ ance agents had a crack base-l all nine, who could beat any amateur club in ,tlie vicinity.. A wag made a bet with/the leading man of the insurance in west that within three days he oould get I up an amateur nine to beat the insurance club in a friendly game. The bet was taken, and when the day came, the agents were horrified to discover that every man in the opposing nine carried a heavy policy on his life. The effect was that the agents did not dare to bat, throw, nor run hard, for fear of injuring some of their policy-holders, and the in­ sured were triumphant victors over the insurers. AFTER all he has said about oat-meal diet, Dio Lewis has the dyspepsia. New Liberty, Pope county, Milo Veley; Osco, Henry county, D. L. Purviance. THE Hon. A. E. Stephenson, member of Congress from the Thirteenth Dis­ trict, presented to the Governor the other day a petition from /900 citizens of McLean county, asking the pardon of John and Patrick Roach, now in the jail of that county under sentence of impris­ onment in the Penitentiary for manslaugh­ ter. The Governor refused to consider the petition, because an application has been made to the Supreme Court for a supersedeas in the case. THERE is a slight hitch in matters theatrical at Chicago. Manager Mc- Vicker, having brought out a new local play--" Running a Corner "--thought it would be an additional attraction to have one of the companies of the gallant First (Chicago's pet) regiment appear on the stage, as it was referred to a number of times in the piece. To this Col. Mc­ Clurg agreed, but afterward changed his mind and sent an order forbidding the appearance of the company on the stage. He then left town for some days, and Mr. McYicker published a caustic letter showing that McClurg had broken his pledge. McVicker says that at one time he thought of suing McClurg for dam­ ages, but concluded, as he says, that "the Colonel's responsibility, like his word, was of no value." AGRICULTURAL AND DOME STIC.' Aronml the Farm. EDWARD CLEMENS, of Levant, Me, has a pair of steers four months old, that girt four feet five inches and weigh 1,060 pounds. THE receipts of wool at Chicago from January 1 to August 20 were 26,480,418 pounds; the shipments amounted to 34,- 725,271 pounds. SAVE the soot that falls from the chim­ neys, when the latter are cleaned. Twelve quarts of soot to a hogshead of water makes a good liquid manure to be ap­ plied to the roots of planted THE Michigan Farmer, published at Detroit, has purchased a large four-cyl­ inder Hoe press. The Farmer is the oniy itgricultiiral paper printed in Mich­ igan, and its prosperity proves that the farmers of the Wolverine State are a leading class. CUBE FOR TEXAS FEVER.--The St. Louis Stock Yards Reporter says: One of the largest ranchmen in Texas assures us thai one quart of sweet oil and a ta- blespoouful of calomel given to a beef, when first stricken with the disease, is an infallible cure for the fever, and that he lias used this remedy with success for years. .A PENNSYLVANIA farmer writes to the Bucks County Intelligencer that the Colorado beetles attack the tubers as soon as thev are dug and the vines with­ ered. In this case the potatoes were covered with the beetles and it was found necessary to gather them and remove them from the lk>ld to prevent the beetles from destroying tbem. fr MANY horses are mined by harsh treatment when they are "colts. Their dispositions are soured, and they come to look on man as a demon and an ene­ my. Teach the colt by every act that you are his friend. Be kind to him always and you will gain his confidence to that degree that he will always obey the word when he understands your meaning. A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie Farmer, who has kept sheep for ten years, gives the following statement of his expenditures and receipts. Ho com­ menced with 32 sheep, and at different times bought 42 more. He has raised 356 lambs, killed 158 sheep, sheared 726 fleeces, or 4,136 pounds of wool, worth $1,357.92, and has sold 206 Bheep for $475. Each sheep has paid him $2.51 per year. WINDGALLS are the result of inflam­ mation of the sheaths of the tendons, by which is caused an excessive secretion of the synodial fluid. The inflammation is generally caused by over exertion, sprains, or strains in driving or drawing. They cannot be permanently removed when once they are formed. They may be temporarily removed by pressure and Vyvrylrtorng r\v norofnl Wicfmnnrf* VT . but un they return on the first occasion of extra exertion the treatment is scarcely worth while. any ordinary 1* u9eto,i small funi)^it j. „ -MMnttlended tot the ice bo put ii a MI T1 ™ plate, which vessel * afrather bed and cow pillow or cushion, feat, bar A Double-Headed Child. ? / 'I Dame Nature, who moves in mysteri* W Six pounds of ^ Vlt, it is sai'.lf d conductors of heat. ice kept in this way wall a week. , To FICKLE PEARS AND PRA* Seel medium-sized pears amI sok . , stone peaches; stick them full <A ®love®- Boil seven pounds of sugar with 01 ie S®1* Ion of vinegar ; an ounce of mace an. ounce of allspice. When it bails k in the fruit and let it cook gently tflf a straw will .pierce it. Remove the fruit with a skimmer and boil the sirup down for a few minutes ; then pour it over the fruit. Cover close. At the Detroit Police Court, fie was a young man with a sentiment al aii". His hair was drawn back over his ears; his eyes had a far off look; one could see poetry in all his motions, es­ pecially in the way he stubbed his toes against the stove as he balanced out. In searching him the night before the police had taken away Me last poem. It was a poem entitled 41A Wail." One verse will introduce the young man's merits : When I look around rae snd see other boyv kpw it clakcM mo feel sad To be a louclv lx>y eince mother is dead Hark! I hear a voice saying, my child rejoice, be of Rood cheer, Tho' out of sight, ycl in my BORI'S memory yoo are enr dear. • My happy days of childhood I wish I could again recall; 8omfe happy days since then I spent, but them snr- pa*eed all. Mother is doad and gone, I hope her aonl is with the angels bright- May she r<>i.t in peace with the Mints who enjoy eternal life. " Ferdinand Thompson, did you write a you arter (iored by a Bull. S%s the Mankato (Minn.) Union: "George Hartung, son of Christian Hartung, who lives by Eagle lake, six miles from this city, was attacked by a vicious bull, on Wednesday evening, and gored nearly to death. The skin was torn from one side of his face, and the cheek bone broken. A horn pene- trateiVbis body an inch from his heart, also his lungs, so that the air escapes from the wound. The fleshy part of his thigh was gored through, and the skin and flesh torn, from one finger. Besides there were many other wounds. Hiw father and brother rescued him by shoot­ ing tfye-enraged beast. SAVE YOUR SOAFSVDS.--A person who would throw away a barrel of soft soap, or a boxful of kard eoap, would be called wasteful, as such material will operate like an excellent fertilizer when spread around fruit-trees of any sort, or berry- bnahes. After a barrel of soap has been diluted, and has passed through the washtub, the elements of fertility in the , mass will-be even more valuable to grow­ ing trees and plants than if applied in any other manner.--Exchange. IIYE FOR PASTURE.--The past winter and spring clearly demonstrated the great value of rye for winter and spring pasture. The unusual scarcity of grain and hay for Btock consequent upon drought and grasshoppers proved beyond question the profit in a field of fall sown rye. It served not only for fall, winter and spring pasture, but where stock had not been allowed to run upon the field during wet weather, good crops of grain were harvested. The rye pasture is es­ pecially good for young stock of all kinds, and where farmers do not feel able to put in a large area for their en­ tire stock, a small patch for the wean­ lings will richly pay. Prepare the ground well and sow early.--Kansas Farmer. About the House. DOUGHNUTS.--One cup of sugar; one cup of cream, or if you don't have it, take a cup of sweet milk; add a lump of butter the size of an egg; one teaspoon- ful of cream tartar; half a one of soda; flour enough to roll. To make feather brushes to use in greasing pans, or brushing egg over tarts or pastry, boil the wing feathers of a turliey or chicken for about ten minutes, then rinse them in tepid water, dry and tie them up in bunches. RUB fresh lard over every part of a tin dish, and then put it in a hot oven and heat it thoroughly. Thus treated, it is said that tinware may be used in water constantly, and remain bright and free from rust an indefinite-length of time. To WASH LINENS.--Put in the water, used for washing them, a little dissolved pipe clay; it will give the dirtiest liuens the appearance of liaving been bleached, and cleans them more thoroughly with one-half the labor and one-fourth the soap^ A FEW drops of perfumed oil will often secure books and manuscripts from the deteriorating effects of mold and damp. The species of leather so extensively used by bookbinders owes its power of, withstanding, the effects of these de structive agents to the tar of the birch tree. To remove flue particles of gravel from the eye, svringe it with lukewarm water. Be careful not to worry the eye under the impression that the substance is still there, which the enlargment of some of the miSute vessels makes the patient be­ lieve to be actually the case. If the eye should feel sore avoid a strong light. GBEEN GRAPE JAM.--Put the grapes in a jar/ and let them cook in a kettle of boiling water until they are soft and can be separated from the seeds. Strain through a fine colander and to every pound of grapes put a pound of white sugar. Boil all together very gently un­ til a thick jam is formed, and then put in small moulds or glasses, and cover with paper brushed over with the white of an egg. To PRESERVE ICE.--To preserve small quantities of aoe for the sick-room, or this trash ?" asaed his Honor alter pour­ ing over the poem for five minn^a "Ye8,sir--that poetry." " And your mother is dead "Yes, sir." » " Well, I don't blame her for dying. I wonder that her ghost doesn't go around groaning with the bilious colic." " I think I am a good judge of poe-' try," stiffly replied the young man. *' You are, eh ! Well, now you hear me. It was your first drunk, and you dfty go, but if I over catch yon here again with any more poems in your pocket I'll legally and theoretically make your heels mash your shoulder-blades! Those verses are trash, sir--regular skim-milk nonsense, and it's my business to warn you that it will be forty times better for you to hunt for an ax and a woodpile than to go any further with the poet's trade."--Free Press. Children's Fears. The objects that excite the fears of children are often as curious and unac­ countable as their secret intensity. Miw* Martineau told me once that a special object of horror to her, when she was a child, were the colors of the prism, a thing in itself so beautiful that it is difficult to conceive how any imagina­ tion could be painfully impressed by it; but her terror of these magical colore was such that she used to rush past the room, even when the door was closed, where she had seen them reflected from the chandelier, by the sunlight, on the wall. A bright, clever boy of 9, by no means particularly nervous or timid, told me once that the whole story of Aladdin was frightful to him; but he never was able to explain why it made this impression upon him. A very eurious instance of strong nervous apprehension, not, how­ ever, in any way connected with super­ natural terror, occurred to a yoiiug girl about 8 years old, the daughter of a friend of mine. The mother, the gentlest and most reasonably indulgent of pa­ rents, sent her upstairs for her watch, cautioning her not to let it fall; the child, by her Own account, Stood at the top of the stairs with the watch in her hand, till the conviction that she cer­ tainly should let it fall took such dread­ ful and complete possession of her that she dashed it down, and then came in a paroxysm of the most distressing nerv­ ous excitement to tell her mother what she had done.--Mrs. Kembe, September Atlantic. A Pugnacious tioat. His head was the shape and size of a Bullitt county watermelon, and he was so black that charcoal would make a light mark on him. The goat was asleep, leaning against the side of tho house. The darkey was smoking a decayed cigar. He espied the goat, looked at the lit end of the cigar, grinned, then at the tail end of the goat, "grinned louder," looked all around to see that nobody was looking, and touched the lit end of that cigar to the tail end of that goat.- The goat turned a handspring, and the negro opened liis big mouth to laugh, but the goat butted him so quickly between the chin and his breeches-pockets that his jaws came together, making a noise louder than the report of a gun. The negro's hat, boots and cigar lay in a pile, ten feet off, while the body was curled up like a horse-shoe in the mouth of a sewer-opening. When he "came to" he looked around at each one in the crowd, and dispersed the crowd bv saying: " Will some ob you gemmenr shoot me wid a pistol ? A nigga dat's as big a fool as I ain't got no business libin."--Louis- ville Courier-Journal. ons ways sometimes, revealed one oil „ her most curious freaks in the confine* 1 ment of a. H. Hyatt, the estimabl® landlady of jlyatt House of this ** ' '.r| places on the 27th aii5 28% ©I JaglL month, by which- sha gave still-birth 1 a child with two heads on one body£ 4 which, at the noli<ntation of the parents wnscntpd to and on Sunday Lyman Clark, Esq., en* * 4 cased it in alcohol, where we were pe#> / " 1 mitted to see it on Monday and obtaitt * w •*" S this description for publication. <« 1 The corpse is twenty inches long fro# i top of head to end of toes, and betweei ">'$ six and eight inches from point to point *! ^ * shoulder, the encasement preventing- j S? eXk ^ mea8llfeDient, and weighed twelve poo. n.ds ftt birfh. The body is a perfect. - J femat e.ti8,V°» ^d hanisomely de- ^ velopet. ' v"1"1?1" m any ticular, v kough there is a little distort'*,..., - tion of thv ^ f11*168 and on© of the heads, ̂ j caused by t. ie^^verity of manipu^Hoi* . 1 required in delivery, and the two - < arms, hands, iL legs*, feet afed : 51 have the distinct ^d perfect form of ,•" natural and healthy v ehild} the only dig- ^ fcinguishable differ*.>noe °' the e ntire ;:1 body being in the ""usually broad shoulders, upon which . ?e8$ two distinct, ^ independent and perf<v '^7 developed „V .K'- .i heads, of the average sist* 'of an eight or nine-pound child, both apparently of »size. * The faces are perfect, resemvie each" v'p-5v!jj other in every detail, and each possess- ing a beauty rarely seen in infants--the 1 1 eyes, ears, noses- and mouths being dis- v .1 tinct, and fully and equelly matured on each head. ' The necks are of usual length, and :M Drs. Allen and Brown are satisfied a branch of the spinal cord extends to each head and has a junction with the main cord high up in the back, and are of the opinion that there is but one heart and one pair of lungs. From each head to the point 6f the shoulder is about the same distance as onv children in general, and the heads, in an upright position, are separated by a short space, the ears nearly touching, and on the back of the shoulders is a fleshy substance just rising above the surface of the skin between the two heads. In short, it is a perfectly and beautifully developed female form, with two equally dovelcped and beautiful mental organizations upon it, and an en­ tire absenoe of any other deformity in even the minutest particular.-- Windom (Minn.) lieporter. Odd Fish. Frogs, toads and serpents never take any food but thr,t which they are satis- lied is alive. If a bee, wapp or hornet stings, it is nearly always at the expense of his life. Turtles dig holes iij^ the sand by the sea shore and bury their eggs, leaving them to be hatched by the sua. juobsters are very pugnacious, and light severe battles. If they lose a claw another grows out. Naturalists say tliat a single swallow will devour six thousand flies a day. Tho tarantula of Texas is nothing mora than an enormous spider. A single codfish produces more than ft million eggs in one season. A whale suckles its young, and is therefore not a lish. The mother's affeo- tion is remarkable. Toads become torpid in winter and hide themselves, taking no for-4 for five or six months. Serpents of all species shed their skins annually, like sea-crabs and lob­ sters. Turtles and tortoises have their skele­ tons partly outside of, instead of within* the body. It is believed that crocodiles live to be hundreds of years old. The ancient Egyptians embalmed them. in South America there is a prolific honey bee that has not been furnished with a sting. In the darkest night fishes pursue their usual movements the same as by day­ light. Serpents never feed on anything but animal food, which they themselves put to death or swallow alive. Seals are as intelligent as dogs, and may be made to perform many tricks like them. The head of a rattlesnake has been known to inflict a fatal wound after being separated from the body. If the eye of a newt is put out another perfect eye is soon supplied by rapid growth. Fishes have no eyelids, and necessarily sleep with eyes open. Alligators fall into a lethargic sleepy during the winter, like a toad. There are agricultural ants in Texas that actually plant grain and reap before the harvest. Horse Racing Time this Season. The Syracuse Standard gives the fol­ lowing table of records made at Eastern courses this season: 2:15 15* Lulu, Bufl'aio, Goldsmith Maid, Roclientei Jenny Lind. The Hon. Lyman Tremain, writing from Carlsbad, Germany, relates the following: " On Sunday before last quite an interesting littie incident oc­ curred at the conclusion of the services in the English Church. As there was no regular organist, the Rector had re­ quested that if any lady present wis American Girl, Pdughkeepsie Ssnjf Judgo FuUcrton, Cleveland.............(.....2:1S Lady Maud, Rochester. ,2:18J£ Lucille Goldduxt, Rochester........ ... .M...£:19^ Hopeful, Springfield ... .2:20 May Queen, Utio* .Jfcitt Gon. Garfield, lTHca...... Clementine, Rochester. .2:81 liarun, Rochester. 2:22 Mollie Morris, Buffalo ....2:22 Adelaide, Uflt-a. 2:23jf Joker, Springfield 3:23 Idol. Rochester. .2:23 Joe Irving, Springfield 2:23 Lucy Turpin, Rochester,,.. .............2:23 Cozotte, Cleveland ..2:2# Bonner, Utic».„ 2:23 Sensation, l>ouKhkeepsi4. .2:23^ Korea. Rochester . .2:23>tf York State. Cleveland ...2:28*4 Little Fred, Spriiig&eld...... ........2:2# Grafton, Cleveland. 2:!MV Carrie, Cleveland, fcMX Albei t, Buffalo 2:9*Sf willing to play on the melodeou the next j k»r .".'.V'. Sunday, lie would be obliged if she Orient, Kocbester.,....w MS would inform him. At the close a lady, who was a stranger to him, volunteered her services. Discovering that she spoke in broken English, he said : ' Do you think you are competent to play upon the melodeonV Said she, 'I think I am. Perhaps you may not doubt it when I tell you my name. It is Jenny Lind Goldsclimidt.' He cheerfully ac­ quiesced, and propounded no more questions as to her capacity. She ap­ peared to be a woman of fifty or upward, with nothing about her to attract atten­ tion, and was dressed with great plain­ ness and simplicity, without ornament of any kind. Her countenance, no longer beautiful, seemed to me plainly marked by sorrow, sadness and oagfw" Eva, Cleveland.. Breeze. Utlca Nellie Walton, Rochester............. Lewen«ki, Cleveland St. Julian, pouxhkeepsiou Duke, Cleveland Annie CollinH, 1'tioa Frauk Ferguson. Poughkeepaie...... Great Eastern, Utica. Twilight. I'outfhkfe^psie Tom Moore, l'oughkeepai#.. Sandhill, Cleveland Jtuik Draper, Poughkeepak; White-Cloud, Poughkeejxsie 231* *** 2S»i PMX ......237 aar ......aaijf 938 2:31 2:81 AND now here's another argument in favor of stealing: "A Connecticut boy was kicked by a horse the other day and he would have been killed had noc the force of the kick been broken try some stolen apples which he had J niidiijin.nwfcw if, < .A?: