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WAf^¥W' s- : i. T4K 8LXXK, *«•* A FablUlMr. : : ILLINOIS flcHENBY. EPITOME of the week. Condensed Telegraphic Hews. ' *j ' ' TRB OLD WORLD. ^F$i®qTurkish forces, on thS Wtfc, mcnated WMM, Rustdrak, Olistrfa, lidiik sal Er*erounn. A PARIS telegram of the 10th say* A dispatch h*& h*m r®eeiv.» fr&a Ragsŝ , r.i*t« lag that a renewal of hostilities between Tup- key and Montenegro was imminent. . THE Turkish Province of Epirus has decreed its annexation to Greece. BISMARCK has instructed the German Ambassador at Rome that Germany refrain* from all interference until the new Pope to elected, after which she may act. A BKRUN dispateh to the London Ami of the 11th nays Russia had declared lMr resolve to rea&nex Bessarabia, despite Boumania*s protest GREECE proposes that her troops continue to occupy the territory in their j>oa- seasion until the European Congress decides the questions at issue between that Govern­ ment and Turkey. The Chamber had ap­ proved the Government's action In withdraw­ ing from Thessaly. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch says the Turkish Parliament had, by a large majority, declared the Turkish Cabinet to have been unconstitutionally formed. A LONDON dispatch of the 12th says gKat activity prevailed in all the British ar­ senals and navy yards. All vessels at Chat­ ham have been ordered to be got ready for sea aft once. Never since the Crimean War has inch activity been shown in preparation. ,JplN reply to the request of the British foreign Minister for the details of the armis­ tice, Prince GortRehakoff, the Russian Pre­ mier, has replied that the details only concern .Russia and Turkey---iti other words, that it is '••Be of England's business. , SEY. ALEXANDER DUFF, D. D., adis- tiaguiehed Scottish Missionary, is dead. THE King of Siam has decided to l a diplomatic representative to the United •padac J. F. TRACY, formerly President oi the ChtejBfco, Rock Island % Pacific Raflload, died at Erie, Pa., onjtlie 18th. «'• THE honsfe of I>aniel Reafdoa, at Wioti»m,N. B., was burned, a few day# ago, and he, his wife and fourehildwo, periahed in the flames. THE strike of the Crispins at Lynn, Mass., has been virtually ended by concessions upon both sides, and all , the boot ajid shoe es­ tablishments have resumed operations. ^ THERE is to be a National Fat Cat-, tie Show at Chicago, opening In the lifMK lion Building, «• th« M of fieeeodMiw - - - • THE jfitna Iron Works, of. Ironton, Ohio, has suspended payment. Jit had a capi­ tal of $1,000,000. THE old family mansion of Daniel Webster, at Marshfield, Mass., Was burned, on One morning of the 14th. ' PRESIDENT HAYJM has refused to n> move Gen. Anderson from tMrofltee of United 8tatea Collector at the Port of New Orleans* THE house of J- Leftridge, near Iron- ton, Ohio, caught, fire tile other day, and fcia three children, who were alone in the hoase, pei'iblitu in the Somes. AI«I. hostilities in the Island of Cuba were reported suspended, on the 14th, and the insurgents, headed by theft chiefs, were said to be trying to arrange tettns for a permanent peace. 1 AMONG the nominations sent to the Senate by the President, on the 15tb, were the following: Bayard Taylor to be Minister to Germany; John Baker, Of Illinois, to be Min­ ister Resident at Venezuela; Wm. A. Howard, of Michigan, to be Governor of Dakota ; A. . Speight and W. C. Quimby, of Texas, and John Van Renerden, of Oregon, to be Honor­ ary Commissioners to the Paris Exposition. JOHN T. ABLES was hanged at Car­ thage, Mo., on the 15th, for the murder in April, 1874, of John I- Lane. On the same day at Madison, Ind., John W. Beavers was also handed for the murder of J. W. Sewell, an Indianapolis real estate dealer, whom he had enticed into the country under the pre­ tense that he wanted twtouy k farm belonging to deceased. MRS. JAWE PITjf AN, wife of Ben Pit­ man, the well-know phonetic writer and pub- Usher, died recently at her residence in Cin­ cinnati, and, in accordance with her own re­ quest expressed in her will, the remains were taken to Washington, Pa., on the 15th, and there successfully cremated in the LeMoyne furnace. The operation was completed in less tbaatVD hoars. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 18th says the Sultan would retire to Broussa, la Asia, on the approach of the Russian Armies. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the •-Mth announces the arrival of the British fleet that place. It was also reported that the Bnssian forces were on the march thither, and only a few hours distant. ( AN Athens dispatch of the 14th says %MIng had been renewed on the Thessaliai frontier. * THE Turkish Parliament wafe dis- . IffaQved by Imperial message, on the 14th. ton ^ftnltan stated that the necessilfes of the situ- «tftion compelled this step, and that f|e hoped Speedily to reconvoke them. i i ENGLAND has notified Russia that a «Jpfusal to vacate Constantinople, or should they do anything to impair the freedom of thf •traits or the Bosphorous, would be considered a casus belli. A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the llth says the arrival of the British fleet off Con- Stominople was looked upon there m an act ol *r. •NTIA BUCHAREST telegram. «f the lStfa says the feeling there was exceedingly bittei - toward Russia, and there .was some talk of re Boumanlaa contingent. ^ •'* m mw wono. 'ON the 9th, at New York, a young whose alleged insanity had been_ the -MbJect of inquiry by Commissioners since the Oth of December previous, was declared to have been of sound mind and sever to have been insane, although she had been confined in mi asylum for over seven years. It ap­ peared that, in case she was adjudged a lunatic, her brothers and sisters would receive about 9200,000 more from their father's estate, as she would be unable to dis­ pose of her share by will. The jury found 1fcat all of her brothers and Bisters approved, ' •id some of them were instrumental la being1 S^CT!^ her incarceration. <n ** was reported from New Orleans, ,• the 10th, that the two colored jurors in the .-Andergon trial lia<3 stated, to responsible j>er\ tfeg that their verdict of "G'iflty, but recom­ mended to tie mercy of the Court," was ren­ dered under an impression that such verdict ,Wae tantamount to an acquittal, *nd that they %ere so informed by the other jurors. Both Mire very young men, and it is claimed that one i them is disqualified as a juror, having been born in 1858. Mr. Wells had given bail in the i;Sum of #10,000, end had been released from ^Confinement. . L L O Y D P. BAKER and Eugene L. *%eyer, Qf Kansas, and Thos. H. Buckler and Bobert McLean, of Maryland, were appointed % President Hayes, on the 10th, Honorary Commissioners to the Paris Exposition. 1 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, recently nominated as Collector of the Port of Mew ifork and defeated through the efforts of Senator Conkling, died at his home in Mew York City on the evening of the 9th. On the 10th, a letter from Archbishop Wood was read, in the Catholic Churches in ; ittaucli Chunk, Pa., in which the recent alleged > iaising of a yonng woman from the dead, by •ne of the local priests, was pronounced a de­ lusion and a pious fraud. The Archbishop . further stated that a repetition of anything of the sort in his Diocese, would be visited by the . severest censure authorized by the laws of the Church. , HON. GIDEON W ELLES, Secretary of the Navy under President Lincoln, died at Hartford, Conn., on the evening of the llth, from the effects ol a carbuncle, which had confined him to the house tor two weeks. HON. CHAS. M. CONRAD, a former . United States Senator and Secretary of War under President Fillmore, died at New Or- . leans on the llth. He was seventy-three years A VESSEL reached New York, on the I llth, having on board the Captain and crew of Itbe schooner Sallie M. Steelman, which was recently abandoned at sea. According to the story of the survivors, they suffered most . frightfully before their rescue. Two men were '• killed and eaten, the provisions having been '•'entirely exhausted or washed overboard. Be- r J., -J*fore being reduced to this extremity, their -.v^-i^jOBly diet for eight days was fresh water and . tobacco. The Steelman was making the run \ from Charleston to Baltimore, and encountered •ft the stointjg^lch wrought such direful havoc * t- »* off Cape '.IfV- oomRnmmt, SENATE.--A large number of peti­ tions were presented, on the llth, in favor of the r emonetizatlon of silver, as waa also a re­ monstrance against such remonetization from the New York Chamber of Commerce Peti­ tions were also presented and referred, from all parts of the country, in favor of a Consti­ tutional amendment securing the elective franchise to women A bill was introduced and referred to provide for a water route to facilitate transportation between Lake Michi­ gan and Lake Erie The Silver bill was taken up, and Messrs. Davis (W. Va.), gaule* bury and Coke spoke in its favor. HOUSE.--Bills were introduced and referred--declaring forfeited all grants of pub­ lic lands to railroads or other corporations where the conditions of the grants have been violated, and appropriating the land to the use ol actual settlers; for the protection of the alluvial lands of the Mississippi ; making customs duties to the amount of one-fourth part thereof payable in legal-tender notes; to provide for a survey and estimate for a ship canal, with stone sides and bottom, from deep tide-water near the mouth of the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Mo., with branches to Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha.... The Military Academy Appropriation bill Was further considered in Committee of the Whole. SENATE.--A bill was passed, on the 12th, appropriating 1275,000 for the purchase OF the Preedmen's Bank building in Wash­ ington--A favorable report was made cm the House joint resolution declaring it inex­ pedient to reduce the tax on distilled spirits. ... .Resolutions of the Ohio Legislature, de­ claring all bonds of the Government to be pay­ able in silver coin, favoring the passage of the Bland Silver bill, and declaring that Presi­ dent Hayes and Sec'y Sherman, in opposing the remonetization of silver, did not represent the views of the people of Ohio, were present­ ed, read and laid on the table... .Bills were introduced--providing for the liability of receivers of railroads in the State courts of the several States of the Union; to extend the commerce of the United States with Mexico; to provide for the completion of a 8outliern Pacific Railway Mr. McDon­ ald (Ind.) spoke in favor of, and Mr. McPher- •on in opposition to, the Silver bill. Housj&.--The formal presentation oi Carpenter's picture of the "Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation" took place at two o'clock, the Senate present in.joint eosvention. Mr. Garfield made the presenta­ tion spcech The Military Academy Appro- priation bill was further considered in Com­ mittee of the Whole. SENATE,--ON the 13th, IN ad­ vene report was made .on the petl tion asking lor an appropriation from the Chinese Indemnity fund to aid *in tne relief of persons suffering from the fam­ ine in certain Provinces of China A bill wa» pasfeea Providian for the sale of lands in Kansas A bill was introduced and referred to promote the deposit of earnings in the pop­ ular loan, and to provide for funding the Na­ tional debt into home bonds convertible into currency... .Messrs. Merrimon, Saunders, Hereford, Maxcy and Voorhees spoke in favor of the Silver bill, and Messrs. Sargent and Dawes argued against it. The understanding was arrived at by unanimous consent that the bill and amendments should bo finally dis­ posed of on the 15th. HOUSE.--A bill was reported, and made the special order for the Sfrtb, granting pensions on account of wounds, etc., con­ tracted in the service of the United States since March 4, lbfil, for the pavmeht of ar­ rears of pensions, and for the restoration to the rolls of names of invalid pensioners stricken therefrom on account of disloyaltv. ....An exciting debate occurred in Commit­ tee of the 'Vhole on the Military Academy .Appropriaton bill, the proposed amendments to which were all finally disposed of and the bill was reported to the House. SENATE.--Bills were introduced, on the 14th, to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Lincoln, and to organize the Territory of Okolohoina... .The House joint resolution declaring that a reduction of the tax on distil lea spirits is inexpedient, was debated and passed--40 to 9 Consideration of the Silver bill was resumed, and Messrs. Jones (Nevada), and Wadleigh spoke thereon, the former advocating and the latter opposing the measure. Mr. Blaine submitted a substi­ tute for the bill, and addressed the Senate on the same. . HOUSE.--The Speaker presented a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that interuafl revenue receipts for the current fiscal year to date, as eom- Eared with the same period last fiscal year, ad suffered a decrease of $4,^*59,21 H. and suggesting, as one of the causes of this de­ crease, thea'jitation of the reduction of the tax on spirits aud tobacco. The Secretary urged a reduction of appropriations for the service of the Government during the fiscal year, or an increase of taxation in such form as might be best, and the Commissioner of In­ ternal Revenue recommended the passage of a resolution in regard to tobacco similar to the one passed by Congress in regard to the tax on distilled spirits. After considerable de- Date. tne communication, was referred to tnfe Committee on Ways and Means--The Mill- #wy Jfccademv Appropriation bill was amended and parsed A bill was introduced and re- ferred to prescribe the time for the payment of Its tax on distilled spirits....The bill granting i>cnsions, to the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican and other wars was considered fn Committal' of the Whole. „ SENATE.--After the transaction of some unimportant business, on the 15th, the Silver bill was again taken up and the debate was closed by Mr. Allison (who had charge of the bill) after Mr. Iugnlls had spoken in its favor. Several amendments were then re­ jected, and the following were agreed to: Striking out of the House bill the free-coinage feature, and providing for the purchase of silver bullion by the Government to the amount of not less that $2,(XX),000 nor more than $4,000,000 per month--49 to 22; providing for an International Commission to adopt a cnnimoi) ratio between gold and silver--40 to 30. The Senate was still in session up to the morning of the 16th, considering oroposed amendments to the bill. > HOUSE.--A joint resolution was re­ ported and referred authorizing the President to invite the International Monetary Commis­ sion to consider and recommend uniform rates or relative valuation in coinage and legal- tender powers of gold and silver... .After go- ing into <-oiwniitfcee of the Whole on the pri­ vate calendar and considering the bill appro­ priating $875,000 to pay certain Southern mail extract<»n!s the House adjourned to the Coolness on the Field of Hondfr. My father went to the field as second for & man who was a novice and a coward. He was a young fellow of lymphatic tone, with straggling whis­ kers up to his ears--always a sign of weakness. He could not hit anything with a pistol. Going out to practice the evening before, he fell into a tre­ mor at passing a new-made grave, that finally gave way to actual tears. He was utterly banged up. His hands shook like he was palsied, and his lips tried to run over his face. He was de­ termined to light, however, and had told my father he would go to the field if he had to be carried there in a cart. My father saw that he was a man at heart, and determined to chase the goose flesh off of him. He saw that all he needed was confidence. He at once began to treat the matter as if the hitting of the other man was an accomplished fact. He then commenced discussing the point at which it was desirable to strike him. "I wouldn't hit him in the head," he said; " it is hardly ever done, and takes more time. Just put your ball in his body, about two inches below the arm­ pit." By taking everything as a mat­ ter of course, he succeeded in impart­ ing confidence to his friend. The next morning he made him eat a comfort­ able breakfast, discussing the hunger he might feel after the duel. When they had reached the field he put him in position, and then said to him, care­ lessly: "Don't wait to raise your pis­ tol to his head. As soon as it's level to within two inches of his arm-pits, pull the trigger. Just below the arm-pit, remember!" And sure enough he did put his ball right there, and walked off the field, remarking: "I knew I had hit him before I pulled the trigger." Skill with a pistol! Why, that is nothing. 1 saw one of the best duelists I ever knew put out of nerve by his opponent putting on a pair of eye­ glasses, gazing at him intently, then re­ moving them, wiping them, and re­ placing them to his eyes. A green man is just as safe on the field as a pro­ fessional duelist. I am almost inclined to think that he is a little safer* He is m^repareful -Cor. Philadelphia Times. • ' Talking Photographs. t >'i SOME time ago the Scientific Ameri­ can suggested that by the use of stereo­ scopic photographs and the phonograph an audience might be apparently ad­ dressed by a person who was not pres­ ent among them. Mr. Wordsworth JDonisthorpe, in a communication to Nature, says: Ingenious as this suggested combina­ tion is, I believe I am in a position to cap it. By combining the phonograph with the kinesigraph I will undertake not only to produce a talking picture of Mr. Gladstone which, with motionless lips and unchanged expression, shall positively recite his latest anti-Turkish specch in his own voice and tone. Not only this, but the life-size photograph itself shall move and gesticulate pre­ cisely as he did when making the speech, the words and gestures corre­ sponding as in real life. The mode in which I effect this is described in the accompanying provisional specifica­ tion, which may be briefly summed up thus: Instantaneous photographs of bodies or groups of bodies in motion are taken at equal short intervals--say quarter or hall seconds--the exposure of the plate occupying not more than an eighth of a second. After fixing, the prints from these plates are taken one below another on a long strip or ribbon of paper. The strip is wound from one cylinder to another so as to cause the several photographs to pass before the eye successively at the same intervals of time as those at which they were taken. Each picture as it passes the eye is instantaneously lighted up ty an electric spark. Thus the picture is made to appear stationary while the people or things in it appear to move as in nature. I need not enter more into detail beyond saying that if the in­ tervals between the presentation of the successive pictures are found to be too short, the gaps can be filled up by du­ plicates or triplicates of each succeed­ ing print. This will not perceptibly alter the general effect. I think it will be admitted that by this means a drama acted by daylight or magnesium light may be recorded and reacted on the screen or sheet of a magic lantern, and with the assistance of the phonograph the dialogues may be repeated in'the very voices of the actors. When this is actually accomplished the photogra phy of colors will alone be wanting to render the representation absolutely? complete, and for this we shall not, 1 trust, have long to wait. THE wholesale merchants of the United States now employ, all told, not less than 60,000 travelers, at i»n aver age expense of at least $8,000 each making as direct cost, to the whole salers, of this system the enormous ag gregate of $180,000,000 a year. --The Graphic thinks that the holes in the average hotel towel and napkin are the cleanest portions. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS* BHBBIFF ELLIOTT, of Sangamon County, re­ turned to Springfield, on the morning of the 10th, from Bangor, Me., having in custody the Rev. John M. Chenpweth, alias Wells, etc., etc., who was arrested on a requisition from Gov. Cullom on a charge of biammy in having married a woman in Auburn, in Sangamon County, when he was already married. It turns out that he is a polygamist, having also married in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and other points. He is also wanted in Kentucky for forgery. When in that county Wells was an eloquent Baptist preacher, also a Magistrate. He abandoned his wife in Auburn a year ago and went to Scott County, where he married again, and thence moved to Indiana, where his seventh or eighth marriage took place. ONE of the Smith & Johnson elevators on the Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago track, at Kankakee, burned early on the evening of the 8th. About 600 bushels grain in store and a car-load on track were destroyed. There was an insurance of $500 on the grain. The build­ ing was insured for $4,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. This is the seventh elevator burned in Kankakee within eight years. THE Supreme Court recently rendered a decision that will surprise and grieve a great many people, and make more "helpless the al­ ready demoralized managers of Chicago city finances. The decision appears to be to the effect that that city, having reached the limit of indebtedness allowed by the Constitution, cannot legally increase that indebtedness, neither by temporary loans nor certificates of indebtedness; nor can it in any way anticipate the collection of taxes. All such loans or an­ ticipations are therefore void. The Chicago papers do not feel alarmed for the holders of these illegal claims against that city, for if thej- understand the spirit of the people of Chicago, they will never avail themselves of this legal privilege of repudiating the obliga­ tions for money. advanced them in time of need. The payment of certificates is only postponed. But how is the city government to he run? Where is the money to come from that is to pay the teachers and buy the fuel that is to warm the school-houses? Who will pay the police, and what will become erf the thousands who depend for their daily bread on the compensation they receive for making the city habitable? In view of the decision, and the already unsatisfactory condition of that city's finances, these are very grave questions. DDKINO the present packing season Chicago pork-packers have slaughtered 2,101,000 hogs, against 1,430,75? for the same period last season. THE clearings of the Chicago banks for the week ending Feb. 9 footed up a.total of $18,- 305,334.80, being about $1,000,000 less than for the corresponding week last year. THE Red-Ribbon advocates are moving upon Chicago, and are said to meet with astonishing success. RICHARD KIMBALL, of Mount Auburn, made an assignment under the State law, on the llth. Assets, $5,000; liabUities, $9,000. AT Clyde, a station on the Indianapolis & St Louis Railroad, on the night of the 10th, a son of William Lancaster, a prominent farmer living one and a half miles south of that place, and who has for some time been partially de­ ranged. by epilepsy, succeeded in escaping the vigilance of his watchers, procured a club, anil, entering the apartments of his father, dealt him a powerful blow on the head, crushing the skull so badly as to cause death at eleven o'clock next day. The son is under arrest'. THE residence of Amos Hart, in Keene Township, in Adams County, was burned on the night of the 10th. The fire was seen about one.o'clock by neighbors one and two miles off, but the result of it was not known until early next morning, when they found the re­ mains of Mr. Hart, nearly consumed, lying near the doorway. He is believed to have been robbed and murdered. AT Centraiia, on the llth, the Delivery Clerk of the express company, in delivering a package of merchandise to the Occidental Hotel, was wounded in the hand by the explo­ sion of the package, which proved to be a lot of percussion burglar-alarms. The show-case was riddled, window-glass broken, and the clothing of the express clerk was torn. JAMES MLLHALL accidentally fell through an open hatchway , at a Chicago shipping- house, on the llth, and was instantly killed. AT Danville, on the 10th, Mrs. Emily Cope, returning from a visit to friends, was found in dying condition near her residence, into which she was conveyed, expiring almost im­ mediately. A NOVBL case was pending in the United States Court, at Springfield, on the 13th, wherein Geo. W. Brockett, Administrator of the estate of Charles Hagen, sued W. R. Mc- Kean, Picaidcnt of the St. Louis, Vaudalia & Terre Haute Railroad, for $5,000 damages in having caused the death of Hagen. McKean was a member of the firm of McKean, Smith & Co., who constructed that railway and built its bridges and depots. In the building of the East St. Louis freight-house, the lumber used was treated by the formanizing process, which consisted in soaking It in a solution or com­ pound of corrosive sublimate, arsenic and salt, to render it fire-proof and otherwise pre* serve it. Hagen, it is claimed, was poisoned by handling and working upon this lumber ae a carpenter, and died in consequence of such poisoning. THE Greenback State Central Committee met in Chicago,'on the 12th, and appointed Delegates to the Toledo Convention. Among the resolutions offered and adopted was one requesting the Governor to convepe the Legis- ture in special session to pass what is com­ monly know as a " stay law." THE Auditor, in preparing the details of his annual insurance report, discovers that of the 300 fire Insurance companies which did busi­ ness in 1877, about twenty will be excluded tot the ensuing year, by reason either of failure to comply with the law or! desire to abandon business in Illinois. JOSEPH BOSWORTH committed suicide at Blue Mound, in Macon County, on the morn­ ing of the 14th, by shooting himself in the temple while sitting at the breakfast tabfte. financial difficulties are said to have been the Inducing cause. ABRAHAM JOKES, an aged colored citizen of Springfield, died on the 121b, from starvation. MORGAN COUNTY has seventy paupers. TRAINS began on the 5th to run between Cairo and St. Louis over the Cairo &St. Louis Railroad, which has been in a condition of suspended animation since lastfalL Life bi Italy. THE Italians live very simply. The country people are content with a diet which most American farmers would despise. They have four necessaries of life, the supply of which is always first considered--bread, maccaroni, oil and wine. The ordinary bread is coarse and ratner dark, but decidedly more nutritious than that made from our finely-bolted American flour. We im­ agine that brea<3 is good in proportion as it is white, and thus lose much of its best property. The Italians sometimes cook maccaroni in salt and water, from necessity; but, whenever possible, in meat and broth, with the addition of cheese and tomatoes. The otf^e oil, which each farmer makes for himself,' is far better and wholesomer thjni ||rd; in fact, it is almost equal to fresh but­ ter. Whatever is fried in it is sweet, palatable and easily digested. A great many Americans, knowing olive oil only as a medicine, shudder when they hear it spoken of as an article of fooa. Yet 1 have often seen them, in Italy, heartily relishing their chops, and omelettes, and fried fish, without the least suspicion of the fact that much of the flavor was due to the oil. Wine, onions and oil, to a great extent, sup­ ply the place of meat; but eggs and fish are also plentiful, and usually cheap. The flesh of pigs and goats-- the raising of both animals being little' expense to even the smallest land-own-, era--is much more common than veal or beef. Old or disabled horses are fattened and slaughtered, and many an unconscious visitor to Rome, Naples or Florence, takes his share of roasted horse in the restaurants. After a little experience I learned to distinguish the flesh; and having no prejudice against the use of it, I frequently ordered°it for dinner. It has a coarser grain than beef and a slightly paler color; the flavor is similar, but with a suggestion of sweetness. If the horse be not too old, he furnishes a really palatable roast. The people work steadily, But not with haste or energy; and they take their full share of tne many holidays which their Church allows them. Their houses are always solidly bijilt of stone, and last for centuries; but only those who are in exceptionally good circum­ stances have separate rooms for guests. Ordinarily, the neighbors come and go almost like members of the family, sit­ ting beside the fire of fagots in the winter, or under the vine trellis in the summer. There are always a few ap­ ple and fig-trees near the house. The latter bear fruit twice a year (in June and October) and contribute a good deal to the daily food of the people. I must not forget to mention three other important articles of nourishment --in Northern Italy the pumpkin; in Central Italy, Indian corn; and in Cor­ sica and among the Apennines, chest­ nuts. Pumpkins, cut into slices and baked,, are sold at the street corners, and the inner kernels of their flat seeds are as much relished by the boys of Venice and Florence as peanuts are by ours. At the cheap open-air theaters, where children are admitted for five cents, the gravel floor is always covered with the hulls of pumpkin-seeds. The Italians know corn as well as we do, and they would not learn much from Mr. Hewitt's proposed missionary corn- restaurant at Paris, except some new varieties of cooking. They roast the green ears instead of boiling them, and their favorite dish (polenta) is a sort of thick mush, or 44 pone," made of corn- meal, salt and water. Italy is the only country in Europe where an American can get fried mush, and quite as good as at home. The chestnuts are very large--such as we call 44 Spanish" chestnuts--and exceedingly nutritious; they are not only roasted, but ground into flour when dry, and baked as cakes. In Corsica they are a more im­ portant crop than even wheat; in fact, chestnuts are called 44 Corsican bread." --Bayard Taylor, in N. Y. Tribune. be, to try on each pair until one found with which J,he, best, entirely ignovjpyr! seldom, if ever, thQ |?8 best resnifis th a single many pairs wiH prove suited td constant Me;Naiid amination shows that in ft read' t it is es the great he one in, ex- Speetacles--Thelr TJse and Abuse. THE following interesting and in­ structive article was written by Thomas F. Nelson, a well-know^ Chicago opti­ cian: Among all the numerous appliances of whatever kind or nature designed for the purpose of giving aid and comfort to mankind, there are none of such gen­ eral importance, and at the same time so little appreciated or understood, as eye-glasses or spectacles. 'From usage or custom people have come to consider them as essential, and even indispensable, at some time in a person's life, but as to the when and how of fitting them, but few thoughts are given, although there is an old idea 44 that the longer a person can do with­ out glasses the batter," which has been the cause of a great deal of inconve­ nience as well as injury. It seems somewhat olrange that so delicate an organ as the eye should be permitted to receive such rough treat­ ment at the hands of the public in gen­ eral, and in particular at the hands of (so-called) opticians, jewelers, and, worst of all, the traveling vendors of such trash as would blind one-half the population of the United States in a year's time, if they persisted in using them after they have been purchased-- not always because of the quality of the glasses fitted, but because of the bungling, incompetent manner in which the selection is made. When should a person commence to wear glasses? This is a question de­ pending on so many causes and condi­ tions peculiar to each individual, that to attempt to answer by fixing a date would prove an arbitrary rule that would apply to only a very small pro­ portion. l*his one fact is"understood and acknowledged, that when glasses are needed to counteract the failure of distinct vision from age or other causes, it will be felt very soon after the neces­ sity Appears; ana for comfort and con­ venience, if for no other reason, steps should be taken at once to, have glasses properly selected and fitted. It often happens that glasses are actually a necessity and should be worn where their necessity has never been suspected; in cases of this kind optical defects exist that increase with time, attd when the difficulty begins to be felt and the inconvenience noticed, the injuiry is beyond satisfactory assist- ance, and the result is weak and con­ stantly failing sight, if not absolute loss of vision. Other defects exist that, while they do not work positive injury, are inconvenient, and with the aid of glasses can be almost entirely over­ come. _ Glasses in all cases demand great care, knowledge and experience to have them properly fitted, and it might be well to state right here, that unless they are properly fitted they are far worse than none at all. The ordinary method pursued by jewelers, opticians, travel­ ers, etc., is to place before the victim, a number of pairs of different focus, and allowing him or her, as the case may large proportion there exists a differenbe in the two eyes of each individual which requires the fitting of a different lens to each eye, for to see distinctly and com­ fortably the two eyes must work ex­ actly together and within, the powerpf the little muscles that control the eye. These factors miffltllways the calculation in Ijbe proper ftytfng of ' " " * I -i every pair of glades by the £i optician or jeweler! J | | " 11 1. The natural or nereditary condi-* tion of the eye, which will show the existence of optical defects thajrmaji - have been caused by disease or acCi- ** dent, or that have existed from birth. 2. The power of accommodation of." each eye separately and together, jUtfl) for both near and distant vision. 3. The general condition of healthV' 4. The occupation or. profession,, showing the proportion of strain to be^ placed upon them by use. ( , Under these general heads come a mass of information that is necessary ' to the proper selection of glasses, audi , which renders it impossible ,to au*ive at any correct conclusion without prop­ erly understanding the subject and the- " force of the various conditions. , , To be thoroughly familiar with these I causes and conditions requires years of * v study and considerable experience. And now a word in regard to thfr > quality of the lenses and tne manner in * which they are fitted in the frames: Un- ' less they are first-class white flint or pebble properly ground (not pressed) > and securely set and centered in the ' frames, they are worse than none. The great advantages claimed for pebbles by traveling vendors or incompetent dealers do not exist, And their wonder­ ful properties are only a cover for a bi&; price, and in nine cases out of ten the flasses sold for pebble are white flint; , he only advantage the pebble have ' over the best quality of white flint is their extreme hardness, which renders them susceptible of a high polish, and • they are not easily scratched. 1 he cheap trash fitted with glasses Eressed into the shape of lenses1 should e avoided. Look over your friends and acquaintances, and; see how many of them are suffering injury .and incon­ venience from weak or failing sight, i and should you be able to trace it back you will discover its existence dating , from and irritated by badly fitted or! trash eye-glasses or spectacles. Eating Forbidden Frill., A GOOD story is told at the expense of two Western Members of Congress, who, having secured orders for bouquets from S. S. Cox, Chairman of the Com­ mittee on Books and Bouquets in the House, delivered the same, and, while waiting to have the nosegays made up, meandered idly through the conserva­ tories of the Botanical Gardens. They came upon a tree having red berries thereon, and, like Adam and Eve, were tempted to eat. They tasted it, and found the fruit pleasant to the mouth,' and went on helping themselves till one of the men employed in the place gave them the law, which prohibited plucking fruit or flowers. The gentle­ men, feeling that they were privileged, paid np attention to the remonstranoe until the man, somewhat irritated, said: 44 Well, gentlemen, if you will eat you had better select some other fruity for that is a deadly poison." *' This was a lie trumped up for the oc­ casion; but you should have seen the* startled faces of the legislative raiders. They fled in terror from the place, without taking order on their going, or order on the bouquets. They were head­ ing for the nearest apothecary's shop,., when one of them cried, hi;̂ re, The popular physician was hailed, came to a stand-still, heard the horri­ ble story, and, tumbling out his colored driver, carted the law-makers to the nearest apothecary's, and then began the medication. Ileroic doses of an emetic were administered, and while the poor Solons were in intense agony throwing up their boots that canny Scotchman, Smith, of the Botanic Gar­ dens, was sent for. 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