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n Ptgcnrg §hindflftr. J. TAW BLYTOE, Pnuno. MoHETBT, ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL AKD DOMESTIC. 11,1111 " >- The Robin and the Cherriefc »«You're * little thief," I said, | Tto Robin Redbreast, blithe sad fall. ,3*L|S " Yon stole my cherries ripe and red-* J1jt | Now, what have you to say to that ?» f |n songfnl speech he sweetly Said, His bosom glowing like the morn. " I take my pay in cherries red Tor working in your vines and A-, " My sweetest strains I sing for you," He said, in music low and soft; And then his brown wings shook the wP'- In showers from his organ 16ft. T'ik« **»se the devr fell, and I ntd, Between the pauses of his «train, 44 Sweet robin, eat my cherries red-- I will not call you thief again." How every year, when spring returns, , ; He perches on the topmost bough, 1 And there his tinted bosom burns, i. With sonps of cheer that speed the ]pMr. He toils amid the fruit and corn, And saves the crops from wasteful blight; - He calls me up with songs at morn, He soothes me with his songs at r" as The robin is my prince oi ®eiw-- , I wish him joy and length of . days pe more than pays for all he gets » In honest toil and hymns of praise. W. Bungay. Around the Farm* Tax wool dip in the Stated for 1875 amount*? to nearly 2005000,000 pounds. In 1869 the wool clip amounted to 160,- 000,000, an increase of 40,000,000 pounds in seven years. To remove warts from the udder of a cow, use the ordinary pyroligneous aoid {wood vinegar). Let the warts be well coated with it three times a day, when they will gradually disappear and leave no discoloration of the skin. If near the teats, sponge them with warm water be­ fore milking, and apply the aoid after. IT is a well-kpown fact that clover has the peculiar property of being able to extract from the atmosphere, without the aid of manure or stimulants, nitro­ gen sufficient far its own proper growth and management. The straw and roots of the clover contain a large amount .of nitrogen, and these, when plowed down, are therefore as valuable to the next crop sown as a copious supply of guano. ACCORDING to Bochard, a French vet­ erinary surgeon, a simple method of preventiug flies from annoying horsee consists in painting the inside of the ears, or any other part especially troubled, with a few drops of empyreu- matic oil of juniper. It is said the odor of this substance is unendurable to flies, and that they will keep at a distance from the part so anointed. FKRIIE TO MEASURE WHEAT, SHELVED CORN, ETC.--Take four-fifths of the cubic feet of grain for bushels. Exam­ ple : Take a box that is five feet in the clear every way 5x5x5x4- : = 100 bush­ els. This rule gives 2,150 cubic inches to the bqphel, instead of 2,150 4-10, i. e., 9 6-10 too much, or nearly half a bushel too much in one hundred bushels. If the grain has been shaken down in the bin or box a due addition to the meas­ urement must be made for the same, it will consolidate by being shaken. THE wolves and cayotes are becoming so numerous and bold in some parts of Colorado as to attack and kill full grown cattle, such attentions having heretofore heen reserved for young or sick stock, and hunters are troubled by cayoies •breaking into their camps and stealing everything they can lay hold of, in one instance pulling a shoe from under a sleeper's head and devouring it. OXEN should be well fed, and well carded every day, to bring them into good condition for spring work. A weak animal will soon give out under the first hot suns of spring. A bull may be made to at least earn his feed. He will be more tractable and more trust­ worthy for it. A bull had better do much of the hauling and odd jobs of the farm, than to be tied up to fret and be­ come savage. THE dairy interest is an immense one in the United States. The annual but­ ter crop amounts to in the neighborhood of $500,000,000. Add to this the price paid for milk and the sum realized from the cheese, and we have an aggregate which is startling. An interest so vast should not be neglected. The consump­ tion of butter increases with the im­ provement of the dairy cow. The finer the quality of the butter the better it is relished and the more of it is eaten. The man who labors to improve the dairy animal deserves the warmest grati­ tude. WATER FOR COWS.--Dr. Grafts, of Binghampton, N. Y., said to the Ver­ mont Dairymen's Association that cows prefer warm water to cold, and therefore often pass by a stream of $>uro water and drink in pools of surface water. Mr. Hfcwley referred to the ability of cows to sift out bad matter from their food, so that the same food affects the milk of different cows differently, but there is no safety in feeding bad food or water. Rotten potatoes are bad for cows, the putrefactive germs in them often remaining undeveloped until they come in contact with the air in the milk. Dr. Crafts said that water which is cov­ ered with green slime, frog spittle, is not stagnant, and that, as a general rule, it was safe to drink water in which frogs live. DURING the leisure hours at this sea­ son of the year it is a good plan to make boxes say twelve inches square and eight inches high, without bottom or top ; these placed over the cucumber or melon hills and covered with grass gives an im­ petus to the plants early in the season that nothing short of a hot bed will effect. If very early, place a little fresh manure around these boxes to keep the contents warm. It is astonishing what an effect this simple contrivance will produce ; and not only is it valuable for protection from the cold weather, but it is equally valuable as a protection from melon bugs and other predatory insects that seem to watch for our choicest esculents.--Neto York Tribune. A boat the House. IN order to soften hard water, either boil it for sometime or add a quantity of clean lime water. Sal soda is some­ times used, but it will color the clothes yellow. FOB salt rheum, the following cured an old friend who had been a sufferer for years : A tea made of clover blossoms, I have recommended this receipt to oth­ ers, who have tried it with good results. Bias MUFFIKS,--To one quart of BOUT milk three well-beaten eggs, a little salt, teaspoonful of soda, and enough rice flour to thicken to a stiff batter. Bake in rings. WASHING BIIACK COMOOES. --Take boiling suds, and rub out as quick as oool enough for the bands; rinse in dear water, and stiffen in skim milk: iron on the wrong side, and they will look as fresh as new goods; and not grow rusty. A PLAIN SAUCE.--This sauce will be found exellent, and quite good enough for ordinary use. It is made by cutting a large head of celery fine, and boiling till soft in a pint of water. Thicken it with butter and flour, and season it with saiC, pepper and mace. INDIAN TRIFLE.--Boil in a quart of new milk with a large stick of cinnamon; thicken it with rice flour, first moistened with cold milk, and sweeten to your taste. Pour it into a dish, and when cold cut it into the shape of a star, or any other shape you please ; take out the rice and fill the place with custard. Ornament with slit almonds and spots of <nnx&iit jelly. CRACKED WHEAT POBRIDGE, --Sift the fine flour all out of it; then add suffi cient water to the wheat to cook it in. Stir it to cause the bran to rise to the surface; pour off the bran into a sieve, saving all the water, and return this to the wheat. Continue to wash until all the bran is removed. Separate the wheat from the water, and bring the water to a boil, continuing to stir occa­ sionally; then add the wheat and stir constantly until it comes to a boil. Then set it on the stove cover and let it boil very slow for an hour. Now stir in the flour and salt to taste. It is good hot or cold, in milk or with sweetened cream. LADIES will find that a pretty sitting- room ornament is made by taking a spruce cone and baking it in an oven till the scales open out equally. It is then filled with equal parts of sand and grass seed, a string tied to the top, and the whole put in the dark in a jar, with water enough to come .half-way over the cone. In a week it is placed in the sunlight, when the seeds sprout rapidly, and in a month fill a gallon jar completely. It is then taken out and hung in the win­ dow. Every morning it should be thor­ oughly soaked in milk-warm water. An Artificial Mother. Mr. T. B. Rogers, the famous poultry- raiser at Wethersfield, has >" sensed the Krecise thing," and has invented what e calls an " artificial mother " for the rearing of young chickens. He esti­ mates that about 50 per cent, of chick­ ens hatched are lost by suffering from cold, by being stepped on by their mother^ by cats and other animals, and in various other ways. He also finds that chickens to he profitable should be hatched in the winter. He hag hatched three broods in mine weeks with one hen --that is, he takes away the chickens as soon as hatched and places fresh eggs under the hen, and in this way keeps her busy propagating chickens. Mr. Rogers' next move was to get some in­ vention that would take care of the chickens when hatched, and he has con­ structed what he calls an "artificial mother." This is a box with" two oom- partments, and about three feet by two and a half feet wide. In the rear is a lid covered with wool, which shuts within nine inches of the bottom ; this is cut off from the front part by a strip that can be raised on lunges. The front is protected by lattice work, giving plenty of air and light, and on the outside are tin troughs, in which gravel, food and water are plaoed. The chickens can easily get their bills into these, and when they have got their fill they can run under the wool-covered lid, which is so soft and oomfortable that they imagine they are under the old hen's wings. Mr. Rodgers had in one of these boxes yesterday a brood of twenty one chickens, sixteen of which were hatched last Thursday, and five on Sunday. They were all as lively as crickets, and seemed perfectly at ease. He took them to the Spring­ field poultry show on the noon train, where they will undoubtedly attract a good deal of attention. Mr. Rogers deals exclusively in light Brahmas, and thinks they are TIIO best layers, as well as the uioHt profitable ittwm tor the table. --Hartford Courant. Bull-dog Courage. An evidence of the courage and pug­ nacity of the English bull dog was shown in a remarkable manner a few days since, in England. A dog of this description, who had never been accustomcd to see trains until lately, has taken a great aver­ sion to them, and has made a point of chasing them whenever he has had an opportunity of doing so, but, of course, without being enabled to catch them. On the morning in question, being out with his owner's brother, in the vicinity of the Somerset and Dorset railway, be­ tween the Midford and Wellow station, the early train from Bath was heard to be rapidly approaching. Hie dog, as usual, was off directly. The gentleman, knowing they were in advance of the train and fearing the dog would be killed, called loudly to him to come back ; but quite in vain. He then ran to see what would be the consequenoe of the brute's folly, and was just in time to see the dog boldly charge the cow-lifter of the engine and disappear* The gen­ tleman then closed his eyes for one mo­ ment, not wishing to see the dog's re­ mains torn to pieces, and on opening them the next moment, much to his pur- prise, he distinctly saw the dog under the rapidly passing carriages, evidently waiting an opportunity to make a dash between the wheels, but their, to him, unusual velocity rather bothered him ; h% therefore, remained until the last carriage had passed over him, and then emerged, wagging his tail as though he had done something to be talked about, and having sustained only a few cuts about the head, and losing all the hair from one side of bin THE beet time for felling timber is when the tree contains the least sap, and that is the case in midsummer, and mid­ winter. In general, all soft woods, such elni' kme, poplar, and willow, should be felled during winter. Oak, alder, beech, and pine are better cut in sum­ mer. HOLD OH* Perhaps You Hadn't Better be ao Fast Abont Oolng to the Black IIUls--Hear what this Man Saya Abont Them. The Denver Netvs publishes the fol­ lowing letter from Fort Laramie, Wyom­ ing territory: A think a few facts may deter some persons from going where thousands will find nothing but disappointment. I ar­ rived here yesterday from the "hills," and, like many others, found I had made a great mistake in going there. Persons to the hills with the expectation of finding gold without digging hard for it will be grievously disappointed. As a general thing, the diggings are deep-- from fifteen to thirty feet; the oountry is fiat (the gulches have but little fall), and great expense is attached to opening claims in most localities. Very little prosWK>,ting has hwn ^n$. anf| hnt JiHlo gold has been taken But; at Custer City mmmg is entirely ignored, and town lot speculation and house building have taken the place of mining. Everybody owning claims there is on " the selL " A very few claims in any of the gulches are showing paying prospects. There is water only about three months in the year, and a claim must be first-class to pay expenses. It will take three months to open a claim at Ouster. Deadwood creek, ninety miles north of Custer, is probably abont as good as anything found there yet, and in this gulch there seems to be a second deposit gold, in about two feet of earth, and it prospects tolerably well. But below this is from six to eighteen feet that contains but little gold until bed-rock is reached, and then five dollars to the pan will not more than pay for working. The new comers are very much excited, but the old miners are nearly all anxious to sell. If there are any mines in the Black Hills that will warrant a stampede like the present one, I have failed to find them. And that is the honest verdict of all the par­ ties with whom I have talked, who know anything n»bout mines. They may yet discover rich diggings, but they certainly have not got them now, and the chances for another California are not good. It makes one's heart sick to see the poor devils who are going to the mines minus money, blankets, grub, or even guns. They may be met by dozens, bogging their way; and the weather for the past month has been eolu, windy and extremely disagreeable, and there are no ranches beyond Fort Laramie where these impecunious tramps may find shelter. Flour and groceries have been obtain­ able at prices quite reasonable at the mines, and this has proved a most for­ tunate fact, for but few had taken in more than enough grub to last them on the way. Corn is $18 per 100 pounds. Freight from Cheyenne has shot up from three to six cents to twelve and twenty cents per pound. I don't see how those blanketless and penniless fellows will find grub unless ground hogs and prairie dogs are plenty. On an average, about forty persons leave Cheyenne every day, and these we not a tenth pari of the arrivals at the hills. At the present rate of immigration there will be from 20,000 to 25,000 per­ sons in the hills by the 1st of July, and, judging by my own observations, nine- tenths of them will be disappointed and disgusted--a starving crowd, as most of them have their last dollar invested in their outfit. If the mines should turn out good, a year hence is soon, enough to go there. 1 My advice to the majority is, that if they can get a good chanoe to make board and clothes, they had better give the Black Hills a wide berth, for before another sixty days passes a change will take place, and an army of disgusted and foot-sore gold seekers will turn home­ ward. Third-Class Postage. The present outrageously extortionate rate of postage on printed or third-class matter has proved a source of very con­ siderable profit to the express compa­ nies. A great many packages which formerly passed through the mail pouches are now sent by express. The house of representatives passed a bill for the re­ form of this evil several days ago. Since then Senator Hamlin, chairman of the committee on postoffice affairs, has in­ troduced a bill which would be a great improvement on the piesent law. It provide as follows: " Fc distanced not exceeding two miles, one oent for each two ounces or fractional part there­ of ; for distances between 300 and 80(£mile8, two cente ; for distances between 800 and 1,500 mties, three cents, and for each additional 1,000 utiles, one cent additional for each two ouueos or fractional put thereof. A epecial rate 1&i however, proposed for transient newspapers and magasiB08s nmii©2ya one c€n& for every two ounces or fractional part thereof, for any distance uot txc©©ding 1,000 miles, but for any greater distance double this rate is to be paid. Tbe bill also provides that all occasional publi­ cations, prices current, catalogues, and annu­ als, and all regular publications devoted pri- marily to advertising purposes, or for'free cir- cmatioBi at nominal subscription rates, shall hereafter be considered aud charged as third- class matter. Other provisions authorize the writing of a brief form of presentation, or of a brief description upon books and magazines, or an., oilier articles mailed as third-elasa matter, and allow insufficiently prepaid matter to be carried to its destination in cases where there has not been an evident intention to underpay the full amount; provided that double the de­ ficiency shall be collected at the other end. When the sender is known, however, he is to be notified and required to make full DieDav- ment" * * ' The present law was passed in the last hours of an expiring congress, and the only excuse for its passage offered was the plea that it was supported under a misapprehension. Prompt work should be made of its repeal. The presentrate is.one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, and it was further provided that no package weighing more than four pounds should be mailable. A statement from the postmaster at New York shows that the revenue of the government at that office from third-class matter has fallen off several hundred thousand dol­ lars since the present law went into effect. Throughout the country tbe remailing transieut newspapers has been so far stopped as to be a serious embauro upon the dissemination of knowledge. The Mishap of a Lu nclieon Party . A cruel disappointment was that of a party of ladies and gentlemen exploring the depths of thet Bonanza mines the other day. It waa arranged that a lunch was to be eaten on the 1,500-foot level, and therefore at noon large basketfuls of dainties, both liquid and substantial, were lowered into the depths. These decended first among a group of honest Oornisn miners, delving on the 1,200- foo vel, who in abscence of any in­ structions, decided, after much discus­ sion, that it must be an American aa- ttonwl holiday, or something of the kind, aboge ground, and that this waa a kind­ ly Utile compliment from the,*Bonanza princes. They therefore fell to on the eatables with much vim. When the ex­ hausted excursionists inquired for their refreshments, they discovered only the empty hampers and about twenty biawpj miners full of chicken g&lad, Boederer, eto., dancing a Cornish break­ down by the fitful light of the flaring torch.--San FYancisco News Letter* OJJSOIS ITEI8. Aw Indian grave has been found abont fiv© miles south of Clyde, on Cahokia creek. Some parties dug into it, and found a hatchet, tomahawk, and many other trinkets. When just under the remains they found a gold bullion weigh­ ing twenty-seveh ounces, troy weight: also, about sixty-three ounces of silver. GEORGE E. SAKD and William Graham, of Chicago, had a quarrel on Clark street last Sunday morning, and the result of the affray was that Graham was shot, frosi the effects of which he died three hours afterward. The cause of the quarrel waa a false oourteean. Sard es­ caped. THE city attorneyship contest at Peoria has been settled .\t last. George H, Kettelle was removed some time sinoe by the Mayor, and Lawrence Harmon appointed in his place. A case on a writ of quo warranto was taken into court by Kettelle, when it was decided in Har­ mon's favor, sustaining the action of the Mayor. GREAT interest waa manifested at Bloomington one day last week by citi­ zens taking part in the planting of a cen­ tennial tree in the business part of the city. It was a white elm over fifty feet high and one foot in diameter at the base. Twenty-two horses were required to haul it from Funk's Grove, where dug, to the place of planting. THE material for the building de­ signed as the Illinois centennial head­ quarters having all been supplied by Chicago parties, was this week shipped to Philadelphia, and the erection of the building will be commenced at once. It is to be completed and furnished be­ fore the 1st of May. Mr. Jonathan Clark, a well-known Chicago builder, has goneto Philadelphia to superintend the erection of the building. THIS Illinois centennial commissioners have sent a circular to the publisher of every newspaper, daily and weekly, in the state, requesting that a copy of each paper be sent to the Illinois headquar­ ters, on the exposition grounds, com­ mencing on or before the 1st of May, and continuing through the centennial season. These papers will all be neatly tiled in the reading-room of the Illinois building, and be accessible to visitors. It is hoped that every publisher in the state will respond. MAYOR HAT, of Springfield, has ad­ dressed a lengthy message to the city council announcing that in future the only policy the city can pursue, in view of the injunction which is in force, is to "pay as you go." No debt can be in­ curred, and he urges the most rigid economy in every department and simply suoh expenditure as will protect the city pta&my from deterioration. The debt now existing is so large that it will be years before any further improvements can be made. AT Peoria, early last Tuesday morn­ ing, an alarm of fire was sounded from box 6, which proved to be Pettingill & Smith's spice mill, which is also occu­ pied by Allaira, Woodward & Co., as a chemical manufacturing establishment. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is supposed to have started in the spice mill. The premises were soon deluged with water and the fire extin­ guished, but the damage from smoke is considerable. The loss is estimated at from $4,000 to $5,000, and is fully cov­ ered by insurance. IT is announced unofficially that Wil­ bur F. Storey is about to dispose of forty-nine hundredths of his interest in the Chicago Times newspaper for the sum of $500,000. The purchasers are announced to be Cyrus H. McCormick, Perry H. Smith, F. H. Winston, and oertain Eastern individuals -all Demo­ crats. Mr. Storey still retains the con­ trolling interest in the paper, but he is to follow the usual practice observed by the over-tasked but prosperous editorial frame in America, viz., to take a trip to Europe. This arrangement will, it is understood, go into operation about the 1st of June. A ROCXFOBD dispatch of last Saturday says: " In this city, last night, a das­ tardly attempt waa made to assassinate either Judge William Brown or his wife. The facts are as follows: All the in- mates of the house were in sound slum* ber, when the atmosphere was rent by a shock, a crash, a trembling of the air, a rattling of windows and doors, and then all was still again save the sighing of the night wind. Mrs. Brown was amkened m if from a tragic dream. All nigiit she lay pondering amid an uneasy drowsiness upon the nature of the dis­ turbance. The morning revealed the startling fact that the house been firel into, and that the ball from a pistol had passed very near the bed, struck a doer, rebounded across a room, and lay upc-n the carpet near the bureau, 'in* bail passed through the clofed blind diagonally, whizzing thnugh the room at the same au|ie. It entered about four feet from the bed, and struck a door at the foot of the bed, the ball in its passage almost strking the foot of the bed. The evi­ dent intention was to hit the bed if pos- sibe. The ball was a pointed cartridge, anc made a deep dent in the door, and retennded nearly across the room, so tlia the pistol must have teen quite near the fence. Mr. Mofiatt heard the shots fired, and Mr. Briggs also heart! two T1IE BROOKLYN HORROR. Bnntlae «r «*• Some tor And Paoplo- filekening Scenes of Death, Destruction and Suffering--Thrllltn* JLeapa for Life by the Aged to be crashed and Below. We glean from the New York papers the following heari-rending detolla of the destruction by fire of the Brooklyn Home for the Aged, by which some twenty olu and infim. people met death in its most appalling form. The home was under charge of the Little Sisters of the Poor. They there afforded a home to the aged and indigent of all religious persuasions, and have by this noble work earned the blessings of large num­ bers of destitute and infirm, whose con­ dition especially appealed to their sym­ pathies. These Sisters of the Poor are for the most part of French extraction, and have had eighteen homes in the United States conducted on the same principle that they conducted the insti­ tution on Busliwick avenue. Their funds are obtained by their own appeals to the charity and philanthropy of the public, and they ask for no other assist­ ance. The fire broke out at 4 o'clock the morning- and SO rapidly did it iiCuii iiisi JLU lens than iuui an hour the whole east wing of the building was in fiames. The alarm was transmitted to engine 17, on DeKalb avenue, •.he engines were on the spot and began their work with courage and promptitude. Soon after their arrival they were reinforced by other fire com panies from the eastern district, under command of the assistant chief engi­ neer. The scene that confronted them was such as to baffle description. Within the building, as seen from the outside, the aspect was tragic in the extreme, "Sav© me!" "Save me!" rose with piercing emphasis from the cracked and feeble voices of old men who were bed­ ridden. re-echoed by women who were crippled. With the energy of despair, and in the wild effort to avert death, the mere thought of whioh makes the heart stand momentarily still, the aged crea­ tures besieged the windows, and opening them allowed a current of air to pass in and fan the flames. Their screams were dreadful. One poor old man, as the flames rushed toward him, where he stood in a third story window, got upon the window-sill, and jumped (or, rather, threw himself down upon the ground.) He was killed instantly ; and his example came near having a fatal effect upon an­ other of his companions, who imitated it, and was carried from the spot with his bones broken and his joints dislo­ cated, suffering terrible agony. In the woman's department, after the panic had in some degree subsided, many of the females sank into inertia, and, after the police dragged them away from their cots on which they had lain down, they returned to the room and insisted on going to bed again. It was with the greatest difficulty that they could be induced to ieave? and when they were led outeids, they waadered about jiim- lessly until many of them were picked up by charitable persons in the vicinity and provided with shelter. Others of them insisted on saving the beds on which they had slept; others bewailed the sad condition of the sisters, and all of them gave way to idiosyncrasy wholly foreign to the supreme necessity that impelled the officers to get them out as quickly is possible. Meanwhile the terrible work of destruction w going on in the ill-fated east wing. There the flames, gathering energy, as if stimulated by the despair of human "beings, shot from the basement to the first floor, and in rapid succession to the roof, through which their forked tongues projected, in fifteen minutes after the fire got well under way. The work of demolition , th ' WW fi'fei- t twt firemen worked with determination They were, however, impeded by the male inmates, who, on the fire­ men going inside, insisted in clinging to them, and thus hindered them in their efforts. Shortly before the roof fell in, which occurred about 5 o'clock, the police were obliged to go up and rescue from it a number of old creatures who had fled thenoe in terror. At the hour of 5, however, the roof over the east wing gave way and fell, carrying in its descent the debris of the charred floors, the whole pile of rub­ bish descending to the basement. A volume of smoke rolled upward as it fell, and the fire:::en continued to pour a liberal volume of water upon the ruins beneath, which, with the burning wood and iron work of the cots, etc., that had fallen in it, hissed and sizzled. When the smoke cleared away, the firemen saw that the effort they had made to save the building had resulted successfully. They had cut the rocf over the first tier of dormitories, and had thus cut off the approach of the flames to the second tier, although into the latter the fire had rushed, scorching the beds beneath their infirm and prostrate occupants. In one of these rooms on the third story, second tier, a horrible sight presented itself to the gaze of the fireman who first was able to make his way through smoke and flame into it. There, stretched upon S.R.WF All Sorts. THE Swiss, according to Grace Green­ wood, are the most mercenary people in Europe. PROCTOB KNOTT '* looks like a fat par­ son with pink cheeks and a white mus­ tache.'* THZBX is a cottonwood tree at Texas Bend, Mo., which poMowea a girth of forty-nine feet. f •' THE American girl is not pcpulfe in England. Her feet are too small, and Hf̂ . she's over-smart THE deepest mine in Colorado ia the -tf } Burroughs, in Alpine County. It has .1,̂ " r eached a dep th of 915 f ee t C r? 4 THE eggs of sole and turbot are to be t':' imported from England and hatched on •****' the coast of Massachusetts. JOHN W. CRIPPRV. of Potter COUNTY, » agrxl 17 years, weighs 218 pounds ̂ and is six feet three inches foil, _ A IjEarned French judge onoe said T ̂ tnat at least one party to every divorce |2ir suit was unfit to be married again. THE smallest tax paid by any Aiders ' man of Boston is on $9,000, the whole ̂ Council being taxed on $2,150,000. _WKSTON pours whisky in his brogans when Is® walks sss Ixsidon. of the fact that, Mother Stewart in there. A CAMFOBNIAN who recently under­ took to pay a debt with a basket full of silver half-dollars, was warded off with a shot-gun. A 8I3TKH IN-I»AW of Thom&ssen, the dynamite fiend, has been discharged from a dry goods store in St. Louis On account of the relationship. THE kangaroo has been introduced on several large estates in Franoe, and is now hunted in that country as game. It readily adapts itself to the climate. AND now cometh Maggie Ford, of Washington County, Iowa, with the boss quilt, which she has pieced with her own hands. It contains 12,140 pieces in it. CONGRESSMAN HODMAN says he never was a good speaker, and tnat he has to hold on to his desk and steady himwAi# when he pronounces the word " eleemo­ synary." THKKE is something elongating in country air. Country boys in England average an inch and a quarter more in height and seven pounds more in weight than, city boys. CARDINAIJ MCCI»08KEY has bought, it is reported, the oountry residence built by the late I*) Grand Lockwood, at N<ff- walk, with the intention of ft * Roman Catholic convent. COIIOSSAI* statues of Hendriok Hudson, Robert Fulton and Prof. Morse arete be placed upon the piers of the new rail­ road bridge across the Hudson Biver at Ponghkeepsie. VIRGINIA complains that she has to pay $100,000 for an eighty-day session of her Legislature when one good law­ yer for $1,000 would have prepared move and better laws in a week. Ims gone back to the old Washingtoman method of bringing about temperance reform, and clubs are being organized all over the Stats to take a total abstinence pledge. COME, Mr. Tennyson, the Prince of Wales has killed a tiger. Mr. Tupper would be a great deal more demonstra­ tive on the poet laureate's salary of £800; a year.--Cincinnati Commercial. m » Uf '*3 $<f(. jjO r • ma m i . THOT had a little city election at Lara- H»t. mi©, the other day, and oat of 100 irotett polled, only sixteen ballots were deposit- Gu fcy women. The Wyoming women 5 appear to be losing their interest in pol- f*8 itics. ail! HIS xoix JLsuaire iiowai i impj* HAVH that THE Fort Dodge (Iowa) Times says tat Mrs. D. Ai Dodd, of Humboldt 1 County, has lately presented her liege was rapid, and to avert its spread tha lord with another heir, the twenty-sixth rirpmpn vnrlrAfl with i.i *i . J I in eighteen years. Of the twenty-six, fourteen are twins. And yet they have none to spare. x DON CABIIOS fled to France and thenoe to England, because he " desired to stop bloodshed." The shedding of blood did not seem to affect him until there was danger that his own precious blood might be poured out, and he be* came sensitive. , « • THE SOtJIi'.* HOPS. . Behold! we know not any thiSg; I can but trust that goo d shall fal At last--far off--at last, to all-- And every winter change to spring, So rune my dream: but what ami f An iufaut ciyiug in the night-- An infant crying for tfcm I'ght-- And with no language tout a cry. ^-AffrmtTennymm. '"KM 'nit i PosfrTraderghlps--Fat Jobs. The Committee on Expenditures ill -/f the War Department, says a Washington correspondent, has never made a report u'^ to the House before, and a Cabinet oil- "A cer was never before impeached. This Committee has only just begun its work.. It is now the purpose of the Chairman to summon all post-traders and to inves­ tigate in detail the circumstances of their appointment. The bureau offioes of the War Department are also to |ke> examined, as it is stated that some of them have pecuniary interests in thosf traderships. The Committee already «4 ft# •ice their pallets, the mattresses, quilts, and claim to have information about several even pillows, of which had been singed Gf these appointments. It is stated that by fire, being partially covered with J the trader at Camp Supply paid $10,000 ah(ts. Aiisbolieal^ttempt was made to bum the Judge's house about four years s»n», and the family providentially escaped suffocation. It is evident that the life of the Judge watf aimed at, as the"e is no cause whatever for an attack on Mrs. Brown. The most intense ex­ citement and indignation prevails here. No clue as to who the parties were lias been obtained. Judge Brown,, who was presiding at the Circuit Court at Galena, wat telegraphed( for. water that had subdued toe flames around them, lay the corpses of nine unfortunate creatures, some of whom were paraly tic3, and all of whom had been unable to leave their beds. A few of them were burned, and the hair upon their heads Binged. but all doubtless died from suf­ focation caused by smoke. On the sec­ ond floor, likewise, one old man was found dead seated in a chair. He also died of asphyxia, and had been so infirm that he was unable to leave his seat. The firemen, however, continued the work of pouring water upon tbe embers, and when these cooled they began the search for those who were burned. Their labors brought from beneath the debris the charred and mangled bodies of eight men, whose remains fell with the floors on which they perished. This made in all eighteen dead victimsof the holo­ caust, including those who died from suffocation. Those burned were of course unrecognizable, and their black­ ened remains presented a sickening sight as the firemen dragged them out and gave them in charge to the sisters, the clergy, and the brethren from St John's college. These, in turn, conveyed the remains to the basement of the institu­ tion, and there wrapped them up in sheets and blankets to await the arrival of the oorrer. ' . iH ns !»« ui annually for his post. The tax at Fort. . Sill amounted to $40 per selling day. . ,7 which was nearly all paid by command. ' * The income of Marsh was $40,000 an- • Ai* nually, which was extorted frem th» soldiers and officers at the fort prices charged were downright robbery. An ex-army officer, who has spent a great many years on the frontier, and who has long been familiar with the profits arte* ing from these tradership^ furnishes the following statement as to the number and profits of these posts. & The capital necessary for'a trader to start a single post is $15,000. A five- company post of infantry or cavalry fe called a single post The annual profits to the trader of a fire-company cavalry post are about $50,0<M)S with' additional profits derived from contracts for fair- . age. The profits at a single post from the sale of goods alone amount to m- 000. These posts, as they are managed < • by post-traders, ywld from regular sales. fully $15,000, The three best posts ace Fort Laramie, with from six to ten com­ panies ; Fort Sill, with ten companies ; Fort Buford, with from seven to ttt- companies. These yield from 50 to 10ft per cent profit The other posts are Fort Russell; Fort Richardson, eight . m companies; Fort Sully, six companies r ' *7 Fort Union, ten companies. **** >41 si* Ift