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Slit <P(||eDig llamtltaltr, J. TAN8LYKE, Pcsusheb. A i "ji'"1 . kcHENBY, - - ILLINOIS. ; I6B1CULTIIE1L ARD DOMESTIC. ' Around tk« Farm. • IT i* said that oats boiled and fed in «lop to hogs afflicted with cholera will «iure them up in a few days. To REMOTE rust, saturate with paraffine f teroeene) oil and let it stand twelve ours, and afterward scrape the parts Where the rust is most set in with a Itnife. Then take some emery cloth and keep it wet with paraffine oil, Mid rub till you remove all the rust, which you <' will not have much trouble in doing, -- without in any way causing any harm to f ^16 iron.--English Mechanic. • I EXHIBITED at the New Jersey State f air, two weeks ago, a Hubbard squash hich I raised in 1876, the mate of which #as used the middle of August, and. to all appearance and taste, was as good as mew. No particular care was used to , keep them, except to keep them in a _ warm, dry air, being kept last winter in r'-it closet by a warm chimney, and during "le summer in a very warm attic.-- luntry Gentleman. . THB loss caused by the shrinkage in . -fiie milk of dairy cows (the past season) will amount to thousands of dollars. • , Farmers must learn to supplement their pastures with green forage--millet or <5»rn; an acre--more would be better of «ither--this year would have made the •oows smooth and sleek, filled the milk- J>ails, and been a most grateful panacea or the disease which has made the bam- M^rard desolate.--Moore'a MuraL A VERY intelligent correspondent from *Orange county lately expressed to us in Conversation the conclusion he had Reached after some experience with Claw- •on wheat, which .was to the effect that it will not bear grinding while as new as other varieties may be safely ground-- flour from old Clawson wheat having made the best of bread, while that from sew had failed to do so.--Country Gen yyeman. A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural T*ome, Speaking of the benefit which birds ren-er the farmer, says: "On Thursday Hjtoist, while at work near a wheatfleld, my attention was called to the fact that tome of the wheat had been picked from ..^the heads in certain parts of the field. 0Ab my neighbor seemed to think that #t© mischief was done by yellow birds, I procured a gun and killed one of the . fupposed offenders. Although inter- " ..jupted while taking his breakfast, we found in his stomach only three grains t-of wheat, .and, by actual count, 350 i^eevils." THE poisonous property of brine, in which pork or bacon nas been pickled, when fed to pigs, is known by unfortu­ nate experience to many, and, years ago, was mentioned by the celebrated veter­ inarian Youatt. Quite a large number Aof cases are on record in which swine ^Jfcave died in consequence of a small <qoantity of such brine having been mixed with their feed, under the mis- K<taken impression that it would answer "the same purpose and be equally bene- Hcial as the admixture of the same quan­ tity of salt. And for one case in which death has occurred from this cause, there are scores in which pigs have suf­ fered more or less severely. IN the case of Texas fever, something -can be done by the owner of an infected pasture. Such pasture should at once "be cleared of all cattle, and by way, of precaution against the possible develdp- • ment of the disease, all cattle that have "been on such field should receive one- half ounce hyposulphate of soda; and <>ne dram carbolic acid, to be repeated twice daily for a week. These agents • /may be easily given disolved in drinking -%atei\, or mixed with food. The cattle eliould also be cleared of ticks by rub- «. ling them over with kerosene, or by us­ ing a liniment of one part oil of tar and fifteen parts whale oil.--Prof. Law, in f'jpfew York Tribune. 1J BOOTS have become a necessity with J'>rogressive farmers, as winter stock ood, and their great value in this con- nection should commend them to those >-i-4vho have not essayed their cultivation Even the owners of work and driving liorses in the large cities, where no op­ portunity is had to raise them, annually buy hundreds of bushels of carrots, mangel-wurzels, turnips, etc., to be fed in connection with grain food to their liorses, and they are well assured of the t profitableness of using them; for the ani- ' Jtoak are always sleek, fat, and glossy in appearance, and never become hide­ bound oi sickly.--Practical Farmer. three grated lemons, use only the. rind of one; pour one quart of boiling water on the gelatine, add the lemon and sugar, mix well, then strain; add a glass of sherry wine; pour in molds to cool. To KntP Oxpattt FBOM BEOOIOSO SDUB. --Last fall I put some cider in a kettle and brought it to a boiling heat; then filled some bottles which 1 had ready, as for /Mining fruit, and poured the hot eider into the bottles, and put the oorka in tight. The cider is as sweet now ar new cider. INDIGESTION FBOM ONIONS.--"Asth­ matic" recommends raw onions for sev­ eral complaints. I like raw onions very much, but they leave unpleasant effects in mouth and breath for about thirty hours--the result of their being undi­ gested. Can " Asthmatic," or anv other reader, recommend any cur© for mis in­ digestion? DRIED- APPLE OAKS.--Soak three cup- Ms dried apples over night, then draw off the water, through a sieve ; chop the apples slightly, then simmer them in three cupfuls of molasses for two hours; after that add two eggs, one cupful sug­ ar, one cupful sweet milk or water, three- quarters cupful butter and lard, one teaspoonful baking powder, flour enough to make pretty stiff batter, add oinnamon, cloves to taste. LOOKIKTT AT THE TEAS 18*0. soap Alxrot th® HOUM. WASH grained wood-work with cold tea. NEVER leave vegetables soaking in •water. To BRIGHTEN stove-zincs, rub with kerosene. ' " . TRY a verv small piece of hard and a little butter in hot starch. CLEAN silverware once a week with soap and warm water and rub well with flannel. ! SPONGE CAKE.--Mix one cupful of jflourwith one heaping teaspoonful of "baking powder, one cupful of sugar, three eggs, one table-spoonful of sweet milk; stir briskly; bake at onoe. To REMOVE BLACK-HEADS FROM THE SKIN.--Black-heads may be got rid of and prevented from returning, by wash­ ing with tepid water, by proper friction ,, -with a towel, and by applying a little <jold cream. SCROFULOUS SOKE EYES.--The com­ mon blue violets, which grow wild in many places ; take the top and root and wash cloan, and dry ; make a tea, and drink several times a day; wash the eyes with it each time. SPICE BALLS.--One-half cupful good butter and one cupful sugar, creamed; - one well-beaten egg, half cupful molas- , ses, half cupful sweet milk, one cupful chopped raisins, teaspoonful of ground cloves, one grated nutmeg, teaspoonful ^ of soda; mix with sifted flour enough to jroll out; cut in pieces and roll up in a ifball; do not let them touch each other in the pan; when baked, frost; flavor the frosting with lemon. Forestalling the Oennu-̂ hkcr Vy a OOMI at Possibilities--Figures Shewing the la- mMe of Population of the Vailed States Since 1790. [From the New York San.] The speculative American mind is al­ ready exercised concerning the present population of our beloved country, and is taxing its Yankee privilege of guess­ ing what that population will be in the year 1880--if this weary old world lives long enough to hail that year of enumera­ tion. Under ordinary and regular conditions the merest tyro in mathematics could forecast our increase. But the condi­ tions are not ordinary, and great allow­ ances must be made for variations. For instance, if we had a certain ratio of in­ crease from 1840 to 1850, and from 1850 to 1860, it would naturally follow, sup­ posing conditions equal, that something like a similar ratio would prevail, for the next ten years. But the conditions are radically changed; the circumstances are not only different but exceptional, and no formula of the past can be made to apply. The war of the Rebellion, besides abolishing slavery and upsetting almost every established idea and institu­ tion in the land, made fearful inroads into the population of the country. There was not only the loss by battle and attending evils, but the absence of 500,000 of young and mid­ dle-aged men necessarily reduced the natural increase in times of peace. Then there was a rapid decline in immigra­ tion; a decline that has continued to the present time, and bids fair to go still further. Between the arrival of 500,000 and less than 100,000 in a year there is a very material difference. It should be noted, too, that the great majority of immigrants are men and women in the beginning of life, founders of immediate families. These hints are thrown out to prepare the reader for the estimates, to be made further on, of the population of the Union now, and the probable population in 1880. Keep in view the tremendous drain by actual loss in the war, the natural retardation of increase in conse­ quence of the absence of heads of families, and the sudden reduction of immigration. Going back to the first census taken in 1790, we summarize the enumerations up to 1870. Bear in mind, however, that a considerable fraction of population has been added by annexation, as in the purchase of Louisiana and Florida, the conquest of Texas, the partition of Mexico, and the forlorn outpost of Here is the Summary: Total Increase Population, in 10 years. ..... 3,929,914 .... 5,308,483 .... 7,239,881 .... 9,633,8M . . 12,866,030 ,....17.069,453 .... .23,191,876 .J. .SI,'MS,321 ....38,558,371 The uniformity of the increase up to the war of the Kebellion is very remark­ able. Taken altogether, it shows a lit­ tle more than 8§ per cent, a year. At thai} rate we should have had in 1870 about 42,500,000. We fell short about 4,000,000. We are getting well along into the last half of the decade, and several State enumerations were made in 1875. From these, and from the figures of the past, there may be found reasonable grounds for estimating the present population, and the probable population in 1880. ENUMERATIONS SINCE 1870. Censuses were taken in twelve States in 1875. • Michigan took one in 1874, and Missouri and Nebraska in 1876. In the following table are given the results of these enumerations, compared with the Federal census of 1870, showing the increase of population in actual number of persons; giving also the rate of in­ crease by percentage: Pnndat'n, PupultPn, 1875. 1,330,544 528,437 857,039 1,651,912 *1,334,031 597,407 12,086,637 t257,747 62,540 1,019,413 4,705,208 101.920 258.239 823,447 1,236,699 percentage produces supposing _ to continue: Alaska. O-WtM .wo X810...... 1820 1830 1840 1850...5 ... 1860 1870.... 1,379,269 1,931,308 2.399,941 3,232,198 4,203,433 6,122,428 8,251,445 7,115,050 Per cent, inc. 38.i6 36.38 33.06 33.57 32.70 36.45 35.58 22.63 States. 1870, lows.. 1,194,020 Kansas .... 364,339 IiOUiBiMM.. 726,915 Massaohu'ts 1 457,351 Michigan... 1,184,059 Minnesota.. 439,766 Missouri.... 1,721,295 Nebraska... 122,9J3 Nevada..'... 42,491 New Jersey. 906,096 New York.. 4,382,759 Oregon 90,923 K. Island... 217,353 8. Carolina. 70'.,600 Wisconsin.. 1,054,670 Incr'se, Incrsase. per ct. 156,524 164,038 130, J24 194,561 .149.972 157,611 364,242 134,814 10,049 113,317 322,449 13,997 40,886 117,841 181,929 States. Iowa.... Pop'ilaVn • 1870. £moao L o u i s i a n a ™ 7 9 6 ^ 9 1 5 MaMachnsctte 1,457,861 Michigan 1,184,067 Minnesota 489,766 Missouri 1,721.296 Nebraska 122,988 Nevada 41491 New Jersey 906,096 90.29 New York.. Oregon Rhode Island.... 8onth Carolina.. .Wisconsin....... Totals. « 90,923 217,858 706,006 , 1,054,670 which refill for 1880, 1670 to 1875 JPsr Cent., PwOatn Inereasei,^ 1880. 1,507,068 692,475. 987,nar 1.846,473 1,484,001 785,048 3,449,759 892,561 62,589 1,182,780 8,027,657 118,917 299,126 941.288 1 418 518 96.12 S19JB6 47.80 14.TS ss 14 610,636 90.84 19,115,404 The States that have made no enumer­ ation since 1870 must be estimated, of oourse, in accordance with their previous ratios. We give them with their per cent, of increase from 1850 to 1860, and from 1860 to 1870: 13.11 45.01 17.90 13.35 12.66 35.85 21.16 109.67 23.66 12.51 7.86 15 89 18.81 16.70 17.25 Totals.... 14.610,636 16,863,020 2,253,884 15.42 *Census of 1874, tCenbua of 1876. Now let us compare the rate of in­ crease above indicated with those of previous enumerations. In order to make the comparison more clear, we must double the rates above given to correspond with the ratios of earlier pe­ riods of ten years: Increase percent. 1850 to Iowa.. Kansas Louisiana. Massachusetts.. Miohigan....... Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Nevada .v.;.. New Jersey........ New York .. Oregon .. Rhode Island...... South Carolina.'.'.. I860. tei.ii LEMON JSLLY.--One ounce of gelatine, I Wisconsin. . 36.74 23.78 88.66 2,730.72 . 73.30 87.27 25.81 287.13 18.36 5.30 154.05 Increase percent 1860 to 1870. T6.91 240.00 2.07 18.38 58.01 125 53 45.62 877.11 519.87 84.88 12.98 79.10 3LM 0.27 85.90 Iw. Ins. I I860 to 1860 to States, I860. 187c, Alabama..... 24.95 3.40 Arkansas.... 107.41 11.26 California...308.21 47.44 Connecticut.. 24.10 21.15 Delaware 22.84 11.41 Florida. 6G.6T 33.70 Georgia...... 16.57 12.70 Illinois. .101.06 48.36 Indiana..... 36.63 24.45 Maine 7.78 *2.17 *Loes. Surely each of these States must have increased since 1870 considerably faster than during the war period; yet we will take in round numbers very nearly the rate of increase from 1860 to 1870, and apply it as follows: PopttlaHim Increase, Population Inc. Inc. 1850 to 1860 to mates. 1860. 1870. Maryland.... 17.81 Mississippi. . 30.47 NewHamp.. 2.54 N. Carolina.. 14.22 Ohio... 18.14 Pen.nRysvsnia 25.91 Tmmmee®... 10.68 Texas........ 184.21 Vermont .... 0.31 Va. and W.Va 12.28 13.86 4.63 *2.44 7.93 13.92 21.19 13.40 35.47 0,49 4.44 States. in 1870. Alabama 996,992 Arkansas 484,471 California.... 560,247 Connecticut. 537,454 Delaware . 125,015 Florida. 187,748 Georgia 1,184,109 Illinois 2,539,891 Indiana.. 1,680.637 Maine.. 626,915 Maryland..... 780,894 Mississippi......... *27,923 New Hampshire..... 319.300 North Carolina. 1,071,361 Ohio 2,665,260 Pennsylvania........ 8,521,961 Tennessee 1,258,520 Texas 818,579 Vermont 330,551 Virginia and W. Va. 1,667,177 Totals .23,605,008 Add above 14,610,636 per ct. 400 1X00 50.00 90.00 10.00 80.00 12.00 88 1100 15.00 26.00 12.00 40.00 a oo 13.34 30.84 in 188.), I„03fi,869 525,60? 840,870 644,744 137,516 244,282 1,325,202 8,809,836 2,100,791 626,915 875.451 869,318 318,300 1,157.069 8,065,049 4,402,439 1,409,540 1,146,010 330.551 1,750,535 9*,61ft,394 19,115,404 Aggregate 88,115,641 90.00 45,731.798 We shall probably have over 46,000,- 000, the Territories included, in 1880. Some rather enthusiastic editors feel confident of 'more than 50,000,000, but that is clearly too high a figure. That would demand an increase of 30 per cent, all around, which, considering the fact that immigration has dwindled to almost nothing, is not expected. SECTIONAL MIGRATION. It is little satisfaction to take State by State, and show where the people of the several States go to when they go at all. We are essentially sectional, and our in­ ternal migration runs on lines of latitude in the most remarkable manner. Tnke the swarming hive that has peopled the great West, for instance. That hive comprises all New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. What this Eastern section has done in the peopling of the country may be un­ derstood from the tables herewith sub­ mitted. We divide the country into four sections--the Eastern, embracing New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; the Western embracing Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis­ consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kan­ sas, and Nebraska; the Pacific, embrac­ ing Nevada, California, and Oregon; and the Southern, taking in all the old slave States except Missouri, which goes with the West. These condensed tables show the number of natives of the Eastern and Middle States in 1850, 1860, and 1870; the number of such natives resid­ ing within the said territory, and the number of natives of the Eastern and Middle States who were living in otheT States; also the percentage of all nativtifchmond." of said section who had gone to tb«h on tjie West and South. Lr Batte- Jn 18": opposite 695,;' , 365,fN o 1 scat- i.m;]lter"»tiug 16VI. '-Now 4,oooJ?' "Let us 696,t 3,341,1 -- -ffO ef Mr. 10038640 112961? Increase per ccnt. in ten years..' 21.47 ii.'a Murphy In the last column the white popul|ek tion only is included. | for the ULL1H0IS ITEM CAXBohal a frost early this year. BiiOOMnfOTON is to have a new skating rink. QUINCY is to have a new fenoe around ner Court House. TEE Cairo and St. Louis railroad will probably be running within a month. HON, BYBOK C. DUDLEY, of Naper- ville, has been appointed Administrator in Dupage county, by the Governor. MR. AND MB& JAMBS NKZLY, of Knox county, have celebrated their golden wedding. _ THERE are twenty-four female nota» lies public in the State, seventeen be­ ing in Cook county. THE Fairfield woolen milla are now making 3,000 yards of prison stripes for the Illinois penitentiary. JONESBOROXTGH has jugged some of the boys for indulging in that relic of bar­ barism, the charivari, ROBERT T. LINCOLN, of Chicago, is said to have declined the Third Assist­ ant Secretaryship of State. A COLORED man, Albert Curtis Smith, has been found guilty of murder at Chicago, and is sentenced to be hanged, DITRING the month of October the Jol iet prison received 148 convicts and dis­ charged sixty-three, increasing the pop­ ulation thereof eighty-five. A CONFLAGRATION of considerable magnitude destroyed a good section of the principal street in Centralia a few nights sinoe. Loss not very heavy. THE proposition to issue $500,000 oounty bonds for continuing work on the new Court House in Chicago was re­ jected by an almost unanimous vote. ISAAC B. ESSEX, a prominent horti­ culturist, was run overlby cattle on his farm, six miles south of Jonesborough, one day Inst week, and died next day of injuries received. ARTICLES of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State by the Chester and Kaskaskia Railroad Com­ pany. Their proposition is to build a railroad from Chester to TfftHlwmlrln, THE report of Judge Otis, receiver of the Chicago State Savings Institution, holds out _ the gratifying prospect that "the depositors of that collapsed concern will realize about 40 peroent upon their rtlaiwin, CAPT. J. D; HAMILTON, State Pur­ chasing Agent at the penitentiary, has been removed and J. D. Leland, of Lockport, appointed to the position. Le­ land occupied the same position wndar Palmer's administration. A DISASTROUS financial failure has oc­ curred at Bloomington, Mr. Corydon Weed, of that city, an extensive loan agent for Eastern capitalists, having gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities, about $1,800,000; assets, hardly anything. The proprietor of the famous "Phoenix Nurseries," at Bloomington, has «•?«<> been pushed to the wall. THE Supreme Court of Illinois ban de­ cided that optional trading on 'Change is not unlawful, but that the devices known as "puts" and "calls" are ille­ gal. This sustains a principle of traffic that has for some time been a matter of serious controversy in the Chicago Board of Trade. LIVING IX m IT4TB. States. In 1850. Maine #84,310 New Hampshire.. 871,469 Vermont. 877,441 Massachusetts.... 894,818 Rhode Island 145,491 Connecticut. 447,594 New York... 2,698,414 New Jersey 518,810 Pennsylvania 2,266,797 Total 8,805,074 In I860. 676,066 382,521 413,852 1,040,585 155,264 476,310 3,469,492 612,084 2,862,516 New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts 3,633 14,445 10,839 Increase per cent. 1870 to 1880. 26.22 90.02 35.80 26.70 25.32 71.70 42.35 219.34 47.30 25.02 14.72 80.78 37.62 33.40 34.50 one and a half pounds of white sugar, { The next operation is to reduce *}•"» To show how these Eastern and Mi die States have spoiled themselves fc*** reP°rt the \N est, we take only the State » opened Michigan. In 1870 that State containeiing Nov. 916,049 inhabitants who were born w of Mr. the United States. They were native^ exceed of the following States: , Michigan. 507,268 Connecticut 7,4f verS U,e EASTERN AND 1UDOX.E. Rhode Island l,i: i Maine 8,932 New York 231,51 i New Jersey 8,0Sf daugll- IWylvunla 28,5o|e Beve|] Eastern and Middle...' 309,44§y with So it seems that of the natives of tli«] _f .. United States living in Michigan^ 55.3v. per cent, were born in that State, 33.7*Pay and per cent, were from Eastern and Mid-4 die States, and 10.85 per cent, frouo. Garri- other parts of the Union. Of the laar in the I %u contingent, only a mere sprinkling came j^nnago to from the South, and a large proportion *" of those were colored people. The line of migration in the South is even more distinctly marked by lines of latitude than in the North. The over­ flow of the South Atlantic States is due west toward and beyond the Mississippi. Of course the border States give some­ thing to their neighbors, but the flood is not in that direction. The Territories have not been taken into consideration in any of the above calculations. One of them (Colorado) has been admitted as a State since 1870. The native-born population of all the Territories in 1870 was 348,530. At the rate they are growing this would mean nearly a million in 1880. So we may "guess" the entire population at the next centennial census at somewhere near 47,000,000. THE hog cholera in Stephenson and the adjoining counties is playiug havoc among the hogs. They are also dying off in large numbers from a dis­ ease of the lungs, so-called. Heavy loss in some neighborhoods has been inflicted up an breeders, individual farm­ ers losing herds of fifty to 100 swine. THE State House appropriation, which was submitted to popular vote at the re­ cent county elections in this State, was It every kind of books will be and should the Purchasing Cj ourehti«e ever great a bookv it is not possible for tH every want which, perhaps,[ vate donation would supplj CRYSTAL LAK EDITOR PLAINOEALEK.- are seated with our pen in form j'our numerous readers weather (tor upon that we ha to say) nor of dog-fighta or nor will we, unless Charlie's away froin him. That w;e thi be werth recording, but of soi principal events of the past tv Election passed oft very nvt much noise being made t the advocate of the ticket that •ne vote, only one heing a re a this Precinct. If experience anything we should think, the Secret Society men would 1* their ideas In regard to such have nothing te do with poll! possible, tramp the earth about them nrmly, making a mound about the sur­ face to hold the tree from vibrating in tne wind, and you will have no trouble about their growing. There is miihinp so beneficial to farmers or villagers as plenty of trees." THE total vote of Cook oounty at the late election was about 57,800. McCrea's majority over Lynch for County Treas­ urer was 6,933. Klokke's majority over Lieb for County Clerk was 5,390. Judge Jameson's majority for Superior Court Judge over H. G. Miller was 13,779; this increase is accounted for by the fact that Jameson's name was on the Communists' ticket. Loomis' majority for County Judge over J. E. Smith was 6,061. Knickerbocker's majority for Probate Judge over Haines was 6,412. Stephens' majority for Clerk of the Criminal Court over Barrett was 9,924. Hancliett's ma­ jority for Probate Clerk over Kavanaugh was 8,240. Lane's majority for School Superintendent over Plant was 8,298. All the successful candidates are the regular Republican candidates. AN incident which created quite a ripple of excitement at Leland, on elec­ tion day. was tke appearanoe at the polls of Misses Hughes, Hurd and Squires, lady teachers in the public schools, who went together to the polls and insisted upon casting their votes /or School Commissioner, their argument being that if a woman was intelligent enough, and had a r%ht to be a School Commis­ sioner they ought to be allowed to ex­ press a choice in the matter. The anti- woman suffragists were on hand in force, who immediately demanded that they pay a poll-tax if the judges allowed them to vote. This, of course, created a big laugh among the hangers-on about the polls, but the ladies insisted, as they retired, that, in the refusal of the judges to receive their votes, they were denied their rights. EARLY one morning last week the house of Samuel Brown, an employe of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, at Qalesburg, was discovered to be on fire. When broken into by the firemen the dead body of its owner, Brown, was found on the floor. His little boy, who hail alarmed the neigh­ borhood, said that one Charles Carlson, hat! set the house on lire, and Carlson was arrested. He first denied all knowl­ edge of Brown, but finally confessed that he had been with him the evening before, and to the stealing from him of some $45, a watch and snuff-box, which he produced. They had been drinking together all the evening at Brown's house, and a partial test of some sedi­ ment in the bottom of the glass used showed the presence of strychnine. The drift of the evidence before the Coronor's jury was that Carlson gave Brown and the boy stryohnine, and then fired the house to hide the crime. THE proceedings of the last Board of Equalization are out of press. In addi­ tion to the usual tables of assessments, equalizations, corporation reports of com­ mittees on routine work, etc., it contains colored maps of the State, showing the additions and deductions of each class of property, a detailed statement of the assessment of all classes of railroad pro­ perty for the years 1876 and 1877, ac­ companied by a chart showing the com­ parative length of the main track of all railroads in the State; comparative tables of assessments and deductions of all classes of property by counties for the past five years; the amount of real estate forfeited to the State for years 1871 to 1876, inclusive; losses by forfeitures and rewards on personal property; tables of swamp lands granted the State and by the State to different counties; amount of State tax levied and school fond dis­ tributed for 1875 and 1876, and numer­ ous other tables. AJJL SORTS. LEARNED professors have occasionally been outwitted by sayings of the simple. Dr. Hill, an Edinburgh professor of the last century, met in the suburbs of the city an inoffensive creature who was generally regarded as an imbecile. Somewhat irritated by the creature's in­ trusion on the privacy of his walk, the professor said to him, " How long, Tom, may one live without brains?" M I dinna ken," said Tom; |"how lang hae ye lived yersel ?" LAST year England imported over $10,800,000 worth of eggs. examine and report upon the Claims of the Dearborn and Clark street people for the Custom House front door: Thomas R. Jackson, of New York, Su­ perintendent of Construction of the Post- office building there ; Mr. Martin, of Ohio, one of the oldest Special Agents of the Treasury, and Mr. Harrison, Special Agent of the Postoffice. A DISPATCH from Springfield denies the report that Gov. Cullom has ap­ pointed a commission to ascertain the value of the additional land required for the State House, and that the property has been appraised at $220,000. Ac­ cording to law, the Governor and two of the State officers are created a commis­ sion to condemn the ground, if the indi­ viduals who bound themselves to convey it to the State free of cost do not fultill their contract within a specified time. The time has not yet expired, and noth­ ing has yet been done about the con­ demnation. SATS the Kendall County Record of an old horticulturist: " S. G. Minkler has had experience enough in the nursery business to be aa oracle on the tree-planting question, and we believe him when he says this is the best fall We have had for years for setting out forest trees, fruit trees, ornamental trees, raspberry and blackberry plants, etc. We have had bounteous rains which have put the soil in splendid con­ dition for this purpose. Dig capacious holes, put the roots in as naturally as The Deepest Mines. Twenty years ago the deepest mining shaft in the world reached only about 2,000 feet below the surface. The very deepest, we believe, was a metalliferous mine in Hanover, which had been carried down to a depth of 2,290 feet. The deep­ est perpendicular shaft to-day is the Adelbert shaft, in a silver-lead mine in Prizibram, in Bohemia, which has reached a depth of 3,280 feet. The attainment of that depth was: made the occasion of a three days® festival, and still further no­ ticed by striking off a large number of commemorative silver medals of the value of a florin each. There is no record of the beginning of work on the mine, al­ though its written history goes back to 1527. Quite reoently an elegant com­ memorative volume has been written and printed, which is most interesting read­ ing to those who have a taste for either the actualities or antiquities of mining industry. There are two other locali­ ties, however, where a greater depth has been reached than at the Adelbert shaft, but not in a perpendicular line. These are: 1. The rock-salt bore-hole ear Sperenberg, not far from Berlin, which a few years ago had been bored to a depth of 4,175 feet. 2. The coal mine in Yiviers Remus, in Belgium, where the miners, by shaft-sinking, to­ gether with boring, have reached a total depth of 3,542 feet. Turning from these two mines, no shaft in unbroken perpen­ dicular line has as yet exceeded the depth of 3,280 feet.--Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel. A Puic-Strlokea Tillage. Passengers on the deck of a large pleasure steamboat, running through the Narrows of New York harbor, several years ago, were amazed and greatly alarmed by seeing a large cannon-bail pass over the boat. The bail was from a cannon in Fort Hamilton, which the ginters had supposed was aimed at a target nowhere near the boat. The residents of the quiet village of Minton, in England, have also had an experience of bombardment in time of pease. At midday, a 16-pound shell fell in the middle of the main street, and plowed up the turf a long distance. Another shell soon fell into a garden near by, and a third, entering the roof of a barn, ut­ terly demolished the building. The frig' itened villagers fled from their homes to the open country. It was soon ascertained that the Royal Horse Ar­ tillery were practicing gunnery upon a lofty eminence some two miles distant, and that the gunners had put thsir targets in a line with the village. A mounted messenger informed the officer in command of the village catastrophe, and the firing * ALMOST the en.iro 12,000 miles of Russian railroad has been created sinoi i86a THE trade between England and Ne# South Wales has doubled in the past tefc years. THE London Timet has sent in ALL thirty-seven correspondents to report the Eastern war; CHILDREN who are remarkable fit what they know at 5 yean old at®ge»? erally more remarkable at 25 for whiSt they don't know. I RANCID butter is liked in Iceland, nfl a commission of Icelanders ne in this country to establish an agency for for­ warding the article in large quantities THE exports from Great Britain to thjk United States were, in 1872, valued 8203,685,000, in 1876 at $k,170,00dl The latter figure is the lowest since 186uL A COMPARISON of the coal discovered in the far north by the recent Arctic expedition, with coal from fti|. teen different seams in Great Britain^ shows that the composition is very nea#* ly the same. GERMANY has on hand a war fund d| 1,460,000,000 francs. This is kept iE reserve for actual need in case of wai The annual expenses of the army »nj navy are paid with the ordinary revo* 5 nuee, THE owner of one of the most fash­ ionable bar-rooms in Chicago is a bank­ rupt. Among the claims against him 1m one of a druggist for $1,000 "for mfc teriale used in compounding liquors^ A clergyman made this fact - tub theme for an uncommonly effective tenjp perance sermon. ^ - EVERT RUSSIAH soldier actually pnlP est at the seat of war will, according to the terms of a decree juat issued by t!*» Emperor, be capable of promotion to aa officer's rank for distinguished military service. Further advancement will b» dependent on their successfully passing the usual examinations. MANY of the African KingaboMt of m unbroken succession in weir for thousands of years. They are abso­ lute despots exoept when controlled by custom and religion; but in general their government is liberal and kind. Mohammedanism is professed, but tilt fetish superstitions generally prevail, and belief in witohcraft is general AUNT BETSY, an aged negro woman* lived alone in a shanty in Kansas City. The neighbors of her own race believed she was a witch, and that she frequently held long consultations with the devil Consequently, when she was not seen for several days to stir out of her houto they thought the evil one was with her, and dared not go in. At length' ft policeman found her dead. She had starved to death. A NEW invention--a torpedo baUooni# is being experimented with in Bridge­ port, Conn. It is designed to oonvey torpedoes by means of a balloon above a hostile army or city, when, by an au­ tomatic arrangement, they are detached, arc! exploded by a gauge fuse. It has attracted much attention, and an agent of the Russian Government is observ­ ing the experiments. INDICATIONS of a prehistoric people, which are plentiful in Southwestern Col­ orado, have lately been discovered in Western Nevada. Antique pottery and undecipherable writings on the rocks are the most common tokens. At one place, engraved upon a rock, is the nude figuro of a man, holding in Ms right hand ft shrub, the outlines of which show COS- siderable artistic skill. A DUTCHMAN was riding in the can, and wanted to get outat a certain avenue. When the street was reached, he oams to the door of the car, thinking the con­ ductor would stop. As tiie conductor paid no attention to him, he said, " Sa^, condooctur, you don't sthop de oar; I vast to get out here." The oonductor waft was another Dutchman like himself, and replied: " Veil, vy you don't xay so; I can't sohmell id." THE timber used in the Corns took mines oosts $17,000 a day; the fire-wood, mostly consumed by the steam engines, $6,000; candles burned in the minea, 10,000; the quieksiivcr leat, $2,000; ana the ice needed to cool tho water for drinking in the hot lower levels, $1,000* day. The Consolidated.Virginia alonft uses ice daily worth $18G. Over two tons of bullion, containing 40 per cent, in value of gold, is produced, valued aft from $130,000 to $150,000. THE English railroad compamee look years to discover that it is the third-claw passengers who pay. At the outset of railroads, everything was done to win the custom of the first, and no change has been so great in the management of English railroads as that which has taken place in the policy and behavior of rail­ road companies toward third-class pas­ sengers. In 1870 the receipts from the third-class were £186 to every £100 from the first-class. By 1875, £283 Smm the third against £100 from the first. THE olive tree, like the orafcge and lemon, is readily grown in California, Heretofore it has been cultivated more for its foliage than anything else, and it* fruit has been allowed to wither and go to waste. Within a year parties have been utilizing the fruit by manufactur­ ing it into oil. Some of this oil has been put into the market and it hat found a ready sale. It is of a bright, rich color, and, if not equal to the pura imported Lucca oil, it is esyjmaji; to most of the olive oil sold. . Texfts 'Table TM& b ' r, A San Antonio gentleman recently had oocsftion to visit a neighboring towif. He did not expect much in the way of accommodation at the local hotel, and in this his anticipations were more than realized. He was very hungry, but had the luck to lose most of his appetite be­ fore he got tlirough with his dinner, owing to his discovering a few blonde hairs in the soup. He thought the land lord would feel very bad about it, buft that gentleman merely remarked, as he excavated a perishing fly from the butter? » All I ask is, Judge, that you don't fish 'em out with your, finger. You have got to use a fork. It is one of the rulaft of the house that no gentleman is e& pec ted to put his fingers in the vittie% This ain't no railroad town, but, when ft comes to style and tone, we carry off the blue ribbon every time the hor% toots."--AiUonio MtrakL