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I "r life Jptlfnrg $Imn%altr. J. TA^BtTKE. PtrBUWflgR.> ' _ M5E^3T% - - ILLINOIS. r£95~ •• fnm^rn «». • •••£-£& GOSSIP OF THE 1>A1. THEY know how to do it in Honduras on the American plan. The Minister from that land of teak and mahogany to Eiiglan(JLbî «abbftged $1,000,000 on a fraud his wife in the transaction. A FEW months ago some valuable mills j at Rockland, Canada, were set on fire by "a passing steamer and destroyed. The owners of the property sued the company -to which the steamer belonged, and Jrnve just recovered a verdict of $210,000. KOSSUTH is living in comfort AT Barra- conne, a village between Turin and Ri- voli, absorbed in the cultivation of fruit, flowers and vegetables, and keeping an eye on^ris collections of minerals and in­ sects. ^Kossuth was 73 years old on the 16th of^feptember. _ * • ' * *'• " THJ '̂California wheat. <*©p » very short liuf? year, yielding only 425,000 tons, of which 225,000 tons, or about 7,000,000 bushels, constitutes the export. The gmpe cpop is immense, the largest ever known, and the wine production will amount to over 8,000,000 gallons. AN enterprising English resident of Hokadsdi, -Japan, having set up a bank­ ing business and commenced the issuing of notes of hand, payable on demand, the Japanese government promptly sup­ pressed his business by issuing a decree forbidding the circulation of the little L O. U.'s. ___ THE Cincinnati papers reoord the death of CharlotteCrampton, atone time one of the most famous actresses on the American stage. She was born in 1816, and made her debut on the stage at Cin­ cinnati in 1831. She seems to have lost her dramatic power several years ago, and of l&te has been but little heard of. 9 " WHAT is a statesman?" is the bold caption of the leading editorial in a New York illustrated weekly. The editor need not travel far to get an answer to his conundrum. Let him drop over to the Tombs and the Hon. William M. TVeed will enlighten him on the subject. We believe the " Boss " is the ODly mln whoever claimed to be a statesman by profession. AT the funeral of his favorite daughter the Khedive of Egypt distributed among the crowd 450,000 pieces of silver coin, from 1 to 5 piastres each. Upon the lid of the coffin the jewelry of the deceased, valued at 3,000,000 florins, was exhibited. Twenty-four buffaloes were killed by the priests before the Mosque Bilah at Cairo, roasted an^ eaten, and then 3,000 priests said praystipfcy the tomb for seven day* THE recent explosion at a celluloid factory in Newark, N. J., accompanied by serious loss of life, has led many to ask, " What is celluloid ?" It is anewly discovered substance manufactured from gun-cotton, eamphor, and several other ingredients. It can be made to resem- j ble ooral, ivory, tortoise-shell, etc., ac- -cording as is desired. It is light, strong and capable of taking deep or delicate •ooloring, and is largely used in the manu­ facture of fancy poods. THE floods in France during the latter part of September were more disastrous mid widespread than those of the pre- -vious ij|on$h. The rains caise. do «*n in torrents for days and nights, swelling and overflowing the rivers and smaller streams, and causing extensive destruc­ tion in towns and country. Such fains and such a flood nave never been known in that country. Many millions of dol­ lars' worth of property was^ destroyed, -and many persons were drowned. THE following from the Lincoln County (Ga.) Advocate shows to what •dire misfortune any marrried is lia­ ble : " Last wegk we announced, on the authority of a certain hardware mer­ chant of this town, that his wife had just T>een delivered Of a pair of twin girls. This week, on the same authority, we have to announce that the wife of the same merchant has been delivered of an- •other child. The last one is also a girl, weighs nine pounds, and the mother and -child are doing well.' SOMETIMES an item gets into the news­ papers which digs a pair of rowels into '•the sides of the imagination, so to speak. Heroes an instance from the New York n / " A Hartford man recently got a piece of tough meat lodged in the lower part Of the oesophagus, making breath­ ing difficult and threatening inflamma­ tion, and Was treated by Dr. Ellisworth, -of that city, who killed a number of -dogs, and, with the gastric juioe of their •stomach coatings, succeeded in dissolv­ ing this pieces in the course of the -day." SCORE one more for old Ireland! On the 30th of August last thehackmenof Pajjp, France, celebrated the annual feast in honor of their patron saint, who is no less a person than St. Fiacre, a na­ tive of Ireland, who come to Paris in the :year 597--as long as 1,278 years age-- ana invented cans ior tne ueneiw ui uid Parisians, and they still persist in calling those vehicles by his name--fiacres. What would Frenchmen do without an Irishman for President of their Republic and without an Irishman to invent car­ riages for them. , ? WS5X£MVSZ<T, convicted SF «Sesnplsaity in the abduction of Charley Boss, has given a new turn to the search for the miawng boy by suggesting exploration of the Catholic Orphan Asylums. No­ body seems to have thought of it before^ and yet there is no place at which the abductors when pressed by pursuit would have been more likely to have placed him, It appeal's, however, that the suggestion was a mere conjecture on Westervelt's part, and that he doesn't know the boy's whereabouts, so that the Charley Boss mystery remains as much a mystery as ever. „. • / COMMISSIONER PRATT, of THE Internal Bevenue Department, is preparing his annual report. We learn that it will pre­ sent a favorable view of the national dred dollars, and for school purposes 11 ______ r- Jw* p'awu ngninst & plank fenos, through which she could look at the hogs in an djoining lot. While thusl ooking, with her head between the second and third planks, shemnst have sidled off the box, her feet dropping into a narrow hole made under the fence by t.h« pip, leav­ ing her suspended by the neck. A little sister, two years older,'playingjto and fro, told W ma that Kmm» was sutloep with hor head in the fence. The mother hur­ ried out to find her child cold in death. Perhaps twenty minutes had olapeod from the time the child had loft the house. THE Governor and Auditor have, in accordance with law, fixed a -»te of State taxation upon the asseBsnf'&t of 1875. The total equalized assessment for 1875 is $1,085,529,856. The last General Assembly authorized to be raised $1,800,000 for general revenue purposes and $1,000,000 for school pur­ poses, making a total of $2,800,000. The rate of taxation for revenue pur­ poses is fixed at 19 cents on the hun- AGEICULTURAL A5B BG5SEST5C. 3# finances. The receipts for the first three months of the present fiscal year show an increase of revenue amounting to $2,000,000, and the estimated receipts for the fiscal year will aggregate $120,- 000,000, which exceeds those of last year by $10,000,000. This is certainly an encouraging presentation, especially in a season of suoh marked and general business depression. The improvement is partly due to the additional tax oh whisky and tobacco. THE story about Conductor McKin- ney, of the Hartford and New Haven railroad, and his $1,000 bill iB again on its travels Five years ago he called upon a sleepy passenger on a night train for his fare, when the latter handed him a $1,000 greenback. Thinking it a $100 bill, he went into the baggage oar to change it, and there discovered its „real value, but when he tried to return it the passenger denied having given it, and olaimed to have given him a ticket, a statement which his companion corrob­ orated. The conductor finally concluded that the men were thieves, and, after keeping the bill awhile and no owner appearing, put it into a bank, wj^$> it still lies. /•: ILLINOIS NEWS. BuBGiiARS made a big haul in Wenona one night last week- Three or fou? stores were entered, and about .$1,500 worth of plunder secured. MARTIN SFBAOUE, one of the statdosrls at the Champaign Industrial University, while practicing in the gymnasium the Other day fell and fractured one of his legs. •»- THE brewery of John Wichmann & Co., at Peoria, valued at $35,000, was burned last Tuesday night. An employe sleeping in, the building narrowly es-^ear exceed caped. * * THE Rev. Robert Laird Collier, of Chicago, btw declined a call to a Boston church with $6,000 salary, and has mt cepted the pastorate of a church at Leices­ ter, Eng. .n GEO. P. KIEBSTKD, one of the oldest settlers of Grundy county, as dead. He had been Circuit Clerk, County Sur­ veyor, and Beoorder sinoe the organiza­ tion of the county. BEX;. F. MCGEE, who has been acting as Deputy Postmaster under J. H: Bar­ ton, at Carbondale, for the pafct six months, was arrested by Special Agent E. E. Boyd, of St. Louis, Saturday morning, charged with robbing registered letters, etc. MB. H. OSXSIVEIATG, who feoeatly bought the Bocskford, Bock Island and St. Louis railroad in behalf of the Ger­ man bondholders, is ready to pay up and take possession when the court makes the necessary orders. Several combina­ tions are reported forming to get pos­ session of the road, and among them are mentioned the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago and North­ western, and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. MR. R H. SPADER exhibits some fine gold-bearing quartz taken from the sur­ face, in Macon county, in the vicinity of Decatur ; also some genuine pearls, free gold, garnets and iron pyritea. The pearls are pronounced genuine by ex­ perts, and the quartz to contain gold in considerable quantities. Mr. Spader has spent seven years in tracing gold in­ dications in Illinois, and feels confident that it can be obtained in paying quan­ tities. He is attempting to interest capital in his discovery. THE State of Illinois has 102 counties. The Seventeenth Congressional District is composed of only four counts: Mad­ ison, Macoupin, St. Clair and Monroe, and one of them a small county. These countieq had in 1874 over 385,000 acres in wheat, over 352,000 acres in corn, over 82,000 acres in oats, 97,000 acres in grass, 31,000 acres in other field pro­ ducts, 151,000 acres in inclosed pasture, 25,000 acres in orchard, and 496,000 acres in wood; and the value of the pro­ duct of this one district, including the live stock, was, in one year, equal to the whole sum of the mortgages on lands in the State of Illinois. AT Mount Pulaski, on Monday of last week, little Eriama Sfeinberger, aged about twenty months, while playing in the yard at home, stepped on a small cents on the hundred dollars. These make a total rate of 30 cents, and this rate will raise $3,256,619, leaving $456, 619 for abatements, commissioners' de­ linquencies, and reductions. This ex­ cess is about 14 per cent, on the gtoss amount authorized to be raised. MERE "MENTION. \ . _. J LIGHT travels 192,000 miles a second. THEY have moose trots at Canada fain, COLORADO is building a State Univer­ sity. THERE are 1,761,171 Baptists in the country. V A TEXAS editor has a beard over three feet long. Two PARISIANS lately fought a duel with forks. CALEB CUBBING is said to be popular in Madrid. v A MONUMENT to O'Connell Is projected in St. Louis. THE Methodists of the country num­ ber 2,100,000. KNOCK KNEED girls should not wear pin-back dresses. THE salt trade of New Mexico is be­ coming very large. A POTTSTOWN girl actually has Malaria for her first name. MB. ROBERT DAMI OWEN continues to improve in health. IT is proposed to widen London bridge at a cost of £55,000. INDIA has 750,000 acres devoted to the cultivation of opimo.s A COLORED military company has been organized in Buffalo. BISMARCK'S daughter is 38, but she's Bismarck's daughter. MACADAMIZED roads have been for cen­ turies in use in China. A SAVANNAH Judge has decided that umbrellas are property. THERE will be eleven State elections on the 2d of November. THE French war estimates for next £20,000,000. CAMBRIDGE conferred 555 degrees dur­ ing the pest academical year. TWENTY-ONE pigs in one litter, bom Oct. 15, at Chichester, N. H. THE population of New York, as given by the corrected census, is 1,056,115. THE damage to property by the Gal­ veston storm will not exceed $150,000. A NEW YORK boy has become insane from reading burglar and pirate stories. VELOCIPEDES are to be used hereafter by the messengers in the Italian army. TEACHERS in Tennessee are hereafter to be paid salaries without distinction of sex. THE Lake Superior mines since 1856 have yielded nearly 7,000,000, tons of iron. THERE are some sinners in London. One Trillion of npopky rgo to church. ^ ONE firm in San Francisco has just shipped 800 tons of pears to the Eastern market. THE value of the estate of the late ex- President Johnson proves to be about $176,000. LOUISIANA'S last orange crop amount­ ed to 16,250,000, and realized a net profit of $810,000. THE estimated coot of the tunnel un­ der the channel from France to England is $30,000,000. A SAN FRANCISCO policeman wears a $1,000 diamond stud. He is presuma­ bly on the beat. How They Hatch iu Clim. Why not do so here ? Much as we may be disposed to laugh at some of the primitive ways of the Chinese, we can­ not help recognizing the fact that in some things they are way ahead of us. Their process of hatching hen's eggs without the troublesome old hen or arti­ ficial heat, is, we think, worthy of adop­ tion by their more civilized California neighbors: " Large baskets, each twice the size of an ordinary barrel, and thickly lined with hay to prevent the loss of heat, are filled with the eggs and Yhen carefully closed with a closely fitting oover of twisted straw. The eggs are now left for three days, after which" they are removed from the basket and re­ placed in different order--those eggs which were before on the surface being now on the lowest tier. At the end of three days more the position of the eggs is again altered, and so on for fifteen days, after wbicli time the eggs are taken out of a basket and placed on a shelf in another apartment and covered with bran. In the course of a day or two the chicken bursts it shell and makes its way out of the bran, being at once taken in charge of by an attendant, who is al­ ways on the watch. The whole secret of this process is in the fact that the animal heat of tlfe whole mass of eggs being re­ tained by the basket, which is formed of materials which do not conduct caloric, is sufficient to support the animal life of any particular egg, and to foster its de­ velopment." Thm Fanner Ring. temar Mt to hiaoldtnn-chalv, " V twyndfate, (k'u Ctotttented there, JL Kate, 1 doclare," IP| ati* tOlii*^df.\ who iu ] •;V • rincu uui The bard tlznea here. t TtKragh the leaf of life U yellow and wre. ** RN the King and you aw» the OUMH Of this fair w<?ne, '.J. Vy ,-<i Those flp'ujs of green AIMI gold between. . fpMe MM* gwwritiK upon the'hill,' Taking their fill, ' ; AndoheepsostUL' Uke miaqr held by a single will. / . ; , t 1 fowls are our subject* all; i f A'hey heed the call, ••'« And like a squalL On fast wings falL upbuiwverwe scatter for them the f i* ** "Tie not in vain ^ We live and reign blthlBpor »nd caim domalfe., "ind whether the days be dim OT AM. In rain or shine. ^ v-- These lands of mine, s a 3(hese fields of thine. • >'M In ohwdf and in sunny glow. «1 Will overflow ^ • • With crops that grow. " When Kotd is high and when it is low. " Dnyexpdwith shifting of stocks andabues. ' • And bulls and beare^ / • And strifes and cares, 1 And the affairs - . ; Of BpAonlMioa in mart and street, . IB this retreat ; , SWCvt |Vc5,e-0 OaO meet with plenty on her rural beat." Aroniid the Famt. THB beat oil for making boot and har­ ness leather soft and pliable is castor oiL • A FEW drops of diluted carbolic acid in a kettle of glue will keep it from spoiling for several days, in the warmest weather. BAW hide makes the best" and most durable belting for farm or other ma- chinexy. Pal the hair side next to the pulley. 4, " . . Tire ?.<?<*• tflnoea in the United States is estimated to be greater than the na­ tional debt, or more than $2,300,000,000. The cost of repairs and interest is more than $400,000,000 a year. How TO GEE BID OF STUMPS.--GCIL Colquitt, of Georgia, in a recent ad­ dress, said to remove stumps from a field all that is necessary is to have one or more sheet iron chimneys, some four or five feet liigb. Set fire to the stump and place the chimney over it, so as to give the requisite draft at the bottom. It will draw like a stove. The stump will soon be consumed. With several such chimneys of different sizes, the re­ moval of stumps may be accomplished at merely nominal labor and expense. A FRIEND sends us a sitting of eggs-- fifteen--veiy securely packed. Each egg is wrapped in several distinct pieces of paper, 7x9 size say, as stiff as the stiff- eat newspaper we get. Each piece of paper is wrinkled and crumpled by the hands in wrapping, quite disguising the form of the egg, and surrounding it with pponge. So protected, you may f drop an egg on the floor without break- «v?ho pref« iiig i!l« SiieiL fatmnu hi u box lined with old rags, as these were, eggs ought to go to BaUyhackin safety.--Connecti­ cut Courant. YES* oft^n a screw-hole gets so worn that the screw will not stay in. Where glue is handy the regular carpenter makes the hole larger and glues in a large plug, making a nest for an entirely new hole. But this is not always the case, and people without tools and in an emergency often have to fix the thing at on.ee. Generally leather is used, but Al~ - ~ 2 _ r- aVKJ. 1 !% ""o <•»> uuoo uut tiOiu wcu, The bm or W things is tb dtrt narrow strips of cork and fill the hole complete­ ly; then force the screw in. This will make as tight a job as if driven into an entirely new hole. --Apicrican Builder. MB. FRANCIS GERRY FAIRFIELD writes in the Scientific American, that "a bland solution of carbolic acid in com­ mon wliale oil or kerosene is the scienti­ fic remedy for the rot. The best way to use it would, I think, be to dip the po­ tato, just before planting, in the solution, which is veiy inexpensive and very easily obtained. I may add that my experi­ ments convince me that carbolic acid in this bland solution in no way impairs the germinal activity of the tuber; but, by way of certainty, let me recommend to your farmer readers to first try the ex­ periment on a few hills next spring, and if successful, to adopt it as a remedy for he »» HATCIO had some exporter:cc, says ft correspondent of the Country Gentle­ man, in eluvtu raising, I will say for the benefit of any who may be interested in the subject, that I believe it produces more milk than either timothy or corn fodder, and at the same time 1 find that land improves by frequently being seed­ ed to clover. As to whether plaster is indispensable, I have always used it- and with varied results. The presen season I had twenty acres of clover which I had intended for seed, and to which I applied, about May 20th, one hundred pounds of plaster per acre. On examining the heads this fall, I found that veiy few of them had seed--in fact, I do not think the twenty acres would have produced five bushels, and I aban­ doned the idea of cutting it for seed, and put a part in for feeding, and pas­ tured the remainder. On au adjoining farm I saw some clover well filled with seed where no plaster was used. bulter in a quarter of a pint of milk, and mix with the above, then add two well- beaten eggBp a Utile salt and pepper, and mustard, mix all well together, and bake in' a piedish for half an hour. HARD TIMES PIIUM PUDDING.--Quar­ ter of a pound of finely chopped suet, the same of grated bread crumbs, cur­ rants, raisins, and flour. Add two table- o|njvjLuuia V4 uiviwiaco mro M "TOT J^iuu l/l milk; all of which must be well mixed together* and boiled in a mold for three and a half hours. Serve with sauoe. MEAT LOAF.--Chop fine whatever cold meat you may have, fat nd ean to­ gether; add pepper, salt and finely chopped onion, "two slices of bread which have been soaked in milk, and one egg; mix well together Mid bake in a form. This makes an admirablejtea or breakfast dish. - : • 1 " •--: WfS,- t New Styles. FAMi HATS. Private milliners, says Hearper'* Bazar for the current week, have had their fall openings of bonnets, and set­ tled the matter of shapes for the season. Fashionable French milliners have al­ ready modified the extremely large bon- ami j fit Koffinriinflp nf f.lua season j and now make a graceful bonnet, of admirable proportions and smaller siae. The flaring aureole brim is re­ tained, but the crown is smaller, and the cottage sides lit the head so closely that the bonnet scarcely needs an elastic for holding it on. The ribbon strings that we recorded as a sensible fashion, it seems are not to serve their nfttnral pur­ poses of tying the bonnet under the chin, but are to be crossed behind the head and passed around the neck as a drapery for the neck, instead of the black lace scarfs {lately worn. Black tulle and lace are used for this purpose as well as ribbon, and this is tne only way in which black lace appears upon the bonnets. Ecru cashmere lace is seen in all the best millinery houses, but is most sparinglv used. Very full face trimmings,, usually of velvet/ chiffonnc --that is in regular loops, knots, half- bows, rosettes, that are placed on one side, and in many odd curves a la Renaissance--are all in the new bon­ nets. The stylish flowers are full soft tufts of roses, or carnations, or artemis- ias, with brown foliage, mossy buds, pine cones, burs, and unblown buds. Felt hats will be worn before the velvet ones are put on, and manv of them are %o handsome that they will be worn on dressy oooaaions throughout the season. GLOVES. There will be less matching'the glove with the sliade of the dress than former- Such dark shades are now chosen costumes that light-colored gloves of some harmonious tint are used to brighten the toilet. Thus with myrtle green, plum, or navy blue dresses the gloves are of the neutral shades of mode color, wood, drab, or cream. For those monotoned toilet there are dozens of shades of each oi the styiisu colors, slate gray, blue, green, and brown. It is said that gray will be the prevalent color for gloves to wear with various dresses. Brown is shown in all the "beige" hues, and the blue-black gloves of last year reappear. The safest purchase, however, is the demi-shades of brown and gray, such as the natural colors of undressed kid gloves, as these are worn with any dress, and especially with black costumes. brancli, All sorts. KOSSUTH devotes all his time to agri­ culture and mineralogy. GEN. ROENAIANS is superintendine mines in Eagan canon, Utah. \ T a T y a P * , y ) y > f j i o g # ̂ dancing with a French circus. A CAT at Belchertown, Mass., IdUed black snake the othelr day that nine feet in length. THE Mormons TMVO rsosntly @ a church in London. A meeting broken up by a mob. OSTRICH farming, for the sake of feathers, has become a regular of industry in South Africa, THAT there are 140,000 marriageable! girls in California is because there is fl|| law against minora marrying, THE loss of human life on MatagoxddF Bay in the late storm was 225, and ofti cattle in that vicinity, 75,000 head. A LADY advertises in the New York, Herald that she wants to sell " a basket! carriage and a pony built to order," A MIBSOITRIAN comes into court andt^1 wants to collect the following bill: Henrys Fray--To elopiag with asy wife, $15. ' *1 THERE is still a live law in Maasao3nii-> ^ setts which fines a young man $5 if heflff^ walks out with his girl after sundown, y > *•*./ ON® hundred and ten woodehucW;-. 'V's'" have been shot in New Berlin, N. this summer by Louis Graves, aged years. . CHICAGO has eighteen steam elevators* s with a combined capacity of 15,350,G0& / r ix bushels, representing a capital of fB,« i*' 000.000. r 4:^ . HAZTSO has broken out again, in Har*..^ vard, and many of this year's freshmen; have been most t^uelly and diagracefttlljf maltreated. . # PASSING $1 bills raised to $5 wattr . -><m pretty poor .business for a minister of . • i About th« Boose. To BKHOVB FIII-SPECKS.--Boil some onion skins, and use the water in which they have been boiled. POTATO CHEESECAKES.--Four ounces of mashefl potatoes, butter, flour, and sugar, and two eggs; mix all together with a fork, and bake in tins lined with puff paste. LAMPS are liable to explode when trim­ ming is neglected. The wick being charred low down in the tube, the flame obtains access to the oil below. To DESTROY ANTS.--Wrap a piece of gum camphor in cloth or paper to keep it from dissolving and place it in or about your cupboard or sugar, and it will drive away those pests. To REMOVE STAINS ON SPOONS caused by using them for boiled eggs, take a little common salt, moistened, between the thumb and finger, and briskly rub the stain, which will soon disappear. PUTTING cream on onions instead of butter (or even a little milk if one has no cream), removes much of the strong flavor, and renders them less likely to affect weak stomachs unpleasantly. CHBESE PUDDING. --Gi^te three oz. ot cheese, five oz. bread, warm one oz. of ygmhett-21 Inter viewiMlc ~ It. GooBbeftia baa toeea agataHinter* viewed at Vienna by the Presse. Con­ gratulated on the peaceable progress of French politics, he eulogized the good sense and tact of his countrymen, who, i in spite of the strange procedure of the Assembly and the useless annoyances of incapable Prefects and obnoxious May­ ors, have displayed admirable composure and moderation, patiently awaiting the amelioration of their position at the next election. He is not uneasy at party di­ visions and the intrigues of Legitimists, Orleanists, or Bonapartists, for all these shades do not penetrate to the heart of the nation, which only desires and needs a liberal government, carrying on con­ scientiously public affairs and watching over the good administration of justice. With six or eight years* internal and ex­ ternal peace France will astonish the world evon more than now, by its: ines haustibie material and moral resources. The Bonapaiikfct may at most double their numbers hi the next Chamber, but in spite of their fuss and activity tliey cannot seize on the government, nor tamper with the spirit of discipline which prevails in the army. The army and navy are the best elements of France, and no idea can be formed of the moral enthusiasm produced by the war; they are a pattern of honor and duty, and sub­ mission to the public interests. Speak­ ing favorably of Marshal MacMahon, M. Gainbetta says it is well that he is not a politician properly so called, whom party interests might perhaps draw into griev­ ous acts. His loyalty he has never for an instant doubted. Chinamen as Farmers* The Natchez JDcrnocrat-Courier gives an interesting acoount of a number em­ ployed in Chicot county, Arkansas. They are most serviceable as tenants, and dis­ play far more ability than the negro. The terms usually made are 100 pounds of lint cotton to the acre, the planter furnishing a mule with which tocultivate the crop " ' " ™ has had his breakfast At 11 o'clock one of their number is sent in to cook their dinner, the hour for which is announced by the display of a small pennant. Half an hour is usually consumed at the meal, and returning to the field they work until dark. During plowing time planters are compelled to see to it that their animal3 have time to rest and eat, as the Celestials appear to be blessed with no compunction where mules are concerned. Their Pawing is with furrows straight as a rule, iney also seem to be adepts in cultivating vegetables, all their gardens being kept in perfect order. A supply of the prin­ cipal vegetables is carefully dried and kept for the winter. Their house is the personification of neatness, every uten­ sil being scoured bright as silver, while the clothes are clean, and in personal appearance they are never offensive. With great difficnlty they can be re­ strained from working on Sunday. Gospel--the "Rev." N. A. Bandall Clinton, Me. THE tongue of a horse became par­ alyzed in the Oneida Yalley. Being un­ able to take food oar water, he died. A! very unusual case. ^ VERMONT has had frost, snow, haU,^ and freezing weather, and her loving swains have already commenced to court in the chimney corners. BISTORI made $10,000 in one week in Australia. Lots of strong, robust men« would cheerfully have worked two or. {w • j three weeks for that much money. MISSOURI Sheriffs allow a condemned prisoner to lie down in his coffin and see I if it will fit, and permit him other privi- ^ leges, such as seeing the soaffold built,. feeling of the rope, etc. Ty An Indiana Judge recently granted a- V "If new trial to a man convicted of a serious ' * crime, of whose guilt there were no r^a- soiiable doubts, on the Erround tfeii* Ife- jufOS took notes of cue eviueiioe I . A young and beautiful New Jersey girl,, who was falsely accused of theft and . acquitted on instructions from thei jlS Judge, sprang on the bench aad gave his Honor a resounding kiss "for his*"1' mother, THE State of Nevada, with a popula- l^ a^ f tion of 55,000 inhabitants, has 90% t? nl licensed liquor saloons and "comer gro- r ceries," an average of one saloon to- 1"\' every sixty-one inhabitants, Including - r women and children. S THE New York World dedans fer- vidly that what New Yodt oeedsiHuJf a dozen restaurants like those in Sai% Francisco where a dinner of five courses, f ,«•*?• including a pint bottle of fine table* -{ J claret, can be had for the sum of fifty; 1- cents. 1 \>f* MR. TOKB, of Aylesbury, England^^^ recently sold eighty fine cattle for $214;« r > 650, being an average of $2$25 a head/lb^ The highest priced beast. Bright Em.- -;' -1'# press, brought $10,800: the other cowtffpsif' sold at $8,000, 47,500, $6,000, two «&§&& $5,000, and heifers at from $4,000 to/s $6,000. ^ ; THE natural result of an equal eom% mingling of the sexes in a Wyoming juryi^ was exemplified in a ease wherein fiv«(P days and nights of deliberation led--not ir it to a verdict, of course--but to five elope^ . . | .^j- ments, and there would undoubtedly v;|, w have been sis 'if the xcmaining • wom&E hadnft beta* & iyu' law. > QUEEN Victoria is credited hav­ ing fired thenrst shot M Wiinbledoii^-'-i '̂ when the range was opened, and wit having bit the bull's eye ; but the fa that her rifle was aimed,and then steadiec in a vice, sixty yards from the seat which she handled the silver cotd thai' pulled the trigger, is usually omitted from the narrative. • A FRENCHWOMAN in a crowd who saw,. a German soldier blow his nose in. a1 gar way, exclaimed : " What! with: our five milliards, they have not got" pocket-handkerchiefs yet." She was sent to prison and fined, but the crow<t»« ^ £aid her fine and made up a purse fop '-Islf s , er "for the pleasure she had caused!^.«j|: them." This happened in Lorraintt. " - An Ancient Equine. - • Old "Jim," that good old horse, property of Thomas B. Botts, Esq., i^" _ w no more. He departed this life a few"5 * 1' davs ago, after a long and faithful ser­ vice of about forty years. His exact age , , „ ™ , is not known, but enough is known to At early dawn the Chinarn :ugtjfy the belief that he was in the breakfast and is in the fields, ^igbborliood of forty years. H© was purchased by Mr. Botts from. 'Robert McCart when he was about three years old, and Mr. Botts has owned him thirty- seven years since then. He was bred, we believe, by Uncle Jimmie Jones, whov doubtless oould tell his exact age. Mr. Botts' children are now nearly all grown, and this old horse* year after year, car­ ried them to town and to school. He was gentle and kind, and was, like ail good horses, a little lazy, and required the switch and cluck to get him _ . We doubt whether there is another horse „ . of his age in the counter, unless Chad- dock has one.--Flemingsburff (£&)* Democrat « - TT Harfnn " ^ ' A FBW Sundays ago a young uniwnau s became drowsy at church, and, puwu^ ^ hk head in his father's lap, closed ms • eyes. Just as he seemed to be fairly gone, the preacher said : "Evwg' . MI at least one drop of Adams biooa IB at this the small bw^roee I A HARDWARE dealer in Detroit has painted the third commandment on i up to whisper : every length of stovepipe in his stook. | been a mighty ng