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'•r ' ' •fC ' ,• i hr J. TAN 8LYKE, Enrro* AKD PUBLISHER. I t cHENR ILMNOIS OUJ? JUVENILES* / • '"-r * - v* ^ Wh0» Sab** Clous Com*m * ir^flfke 18 coming; I wish it were Ittfef Hie very best time in the whole of the yew. I'm counting each day on my fingers and thumbs-- He weeks that must pass before Santa Claus comes. Oood-by for a while, then, to lessons and school; We can and sing, without breaking the rule; Mo troublesome apelling, nor writing, nor sumsT Shore's nothing bpt play-time when Santa Clans comes. I suppose I shall have a new dolly, of course-- My last one was killed by a fall from hor horse; And for Harry and Jack there'll be trumpets and | drums, i - T o d e a f e n u s a l l w i t h , w h e n S a n t a C l a u s c o m e s . Ill hang up my stocking to hold what he bringi; • I_ hope he will fill it with lots of nice things^""** r-, Jte must know how dearly I love sugar plums: . ^ • I'd like a big box full when Santa Claus comes. |;r Acd now that the snow-flake* begin to come downi, : , And the wind whistles sharp, and the branches are ^rU: brown, 1 don't mind the cold, though my fingers it numbs; For it brings the time nearer when Saute Claus , r -t In **»*•• ' A tot i6f ft'girl--5 yeari M4,,itttfeo!k- ing like a baby of 2--with a tiny round face, a dot of a nose, two big blue eyes, A cherry mouth, the daintiest chin, the , prettiest dimple, rings of pale, golden hair, hands and feet like crumpled pink- irhite rose-leaves--and there you have f? Itay. A sad-faced, low-voiced, fair-haired young widow, [always bending Jover the lace-cushion she brought from Germany i---her fatherland--.with no one to love, and no one to love her but heir wee r 8. I"' !*- p. I mi- |&. fc. m: ft: j-daughter, and there you c, have Fay's • mamma. A hut, a mile from the village, at the • foot of a lonely hill, with only one room Jib servo for kitchen,-bedroom, and sit­ ting-room ; pleasant enough in summer, ljut very desolate in winter--and there jou have Fay's home. „ Her father, a gay-hearted Frenchman had kissed his wife and child " good' By" one day last autumn and started? lor his boyhood's home to bring Us dear old mother, who had been patiently . waiting for many long yea^s, to share %is happy life in free America. But, alas! the ship in which he sailed ^jfrent down in a terrible September ftorm, and, when the grandmother Fay :fkad never seen heard the sad news, her gray head fell upon her breast, and she quickly followed her son to heaven; • «nd the young wife, left almost friend- ' less in a strange land, put away her fair under the widow's cap, and never >#ang the sweet Rhine-land songs again. «j» After a few months' bitter struggling, I fehe was obliged to leave the vine-cov- -fjred cottage where she had spent the two happiest years of her life, sell every­ thing, excepting a few pieces of furni­ ture and " Star," the white-faced cow, and seek a shelter in the hut at the foot of the lonely hill. Here, with dear old Star's help, she and Fay just managed to live, for the pretty lace she wove--the delicate woman could -do nothing else --did not find a ready sale among the hard-work­ ing villagers. And it was Christmas eve. Franz had told Fay so when he brought the firewood--his sleigh-bells jingling so merrily that Fay longed to go sleigh- riding--that is, if mamma oould have gone too. Sitting on the floor before the cheer­ ful log fire, after the boy had dashed swiftly away up the road again, the little one suddenly remembered that the Chriatmas eve before she had hung up her stocking andKriss Kringle had filled it with candies and toys. "Tell me, my only mamma," she said, in her pretty, quaint, precise speech think no other child ever talked like Fay--"will not the stocking fill itself to-night with all things J&feautiful and sweet which the good Kriss Kringle will bring?" "My darling," replied the poor young pother, who was still bending over her lace cushion, although she could scarcely see, "I fear if Kriss Kringle remember thee he could not find thee in this small house, standing all alone by itself. He might lose his way if he tried to come here; and then think, Fay, how many, many children would cry bitterly to­ morrow morning! Thou art but one. Fay, ttfid a brave one at that. Thou wouldst not cry, my pigeon, if Kriss Kringle came not; but they would be hundreds, and not one, I dare say, as brave as thou. Think how great would be the noise if they all cried together, loud and long, on Christmas morning! "O, what fun!" cried Fay, clapping her hands and dimpling her cheek, then growing serious in a moment. "No, no, my only mamma; I mean how sad! But it is also sad that I get nothing, and have been so good--never the naughty word or stuck-out mouth for, O, *°"But, dear one," she went on eagerly, "it may be that Kriss Kringle passes here--who knows?--looking for a big house on the other side of the hill; and there will be, surely in all the great pack he carries, some little thing to spare for Fay. Not to fill a stocking, perhaps but a shoe. Yes, I will set my shoe on a window sill, and a sweet dog made of the sugar-candy, or the smallest doll, he may pop in, and then go on as fast as the wind." - f The mother smiled, and then ,sighed. "Do as thou wilt," she said, and Fay slipped off the tiniest shoe ever worn by A 5-year old, and, opening the window, set it out on the window-sill.! "If Kriss Kringle comes this way, make that he see thee, Shoe!" she whis­ pered ; and, coming back to mamma's side, she knelt and said a simple child prayer--such a prayer as the angels love to bear to heaven--and in a few mo- -mentshe* blue eyes were closed in deep./ Bright Christmas! Cold Christmas! Merry Christmas! The morning bells are sending their joyous greetings through the clear, Crisp air, and at last their sound reaches ihe hut at the foot of the hill, and wakes the tot of a girl. She springs from the bed, never no­ ticing the doll-like dress that hangs on a chair near by, all wrought with fanci­ ful embroidery by her'mother's loving skill, and, flying to the window, tugs hard at the casement. It is bound in icy chains--the rose- leaf hands cannot move it. "My only mamma!" she cries; and in a moment she has help, and the win­ dow is opened. There sits the shoe just where she placed it the night before '--and ji 3me- thing in it! "But--ah! yes," says the tiny child iH her musical voice, "the dear, the kind Kriss Kringle!" and takes from the shoe a half-frozen, wee, wee peeping bird. , "Thou wert wrong, my only mam­ ma," she says, with the brightest of smiles. " Kriss Kringle did not forget mer or Ipse his way, or pass the small house by." " ' Here's where lives the good Fay,' he said softly to himself, and dropped darling of baby-birds in Fay's shoe!"--Wide-Awake. m with Apollinaris water and pumpkin pie, a diet which, it is said, has sent sev­ eral wine-seasoned, diplomats away from the state dinners doubled up with colic. SLEE PLESSNESS. Continued , sleeplessness means decay of the faculties, loss of reason, or death. In these days of hurry and drive it is mournfully common, and arises from various causes--care, worry, anxiety, an uneasy conscience; above all, overwork and strong tea and coffee. Some of these causes it is possible to avoid, and others may be modified, and, consider­ ing the fact that unless we sleep we must die or go mad, the subject is worth study. To begin with, we have the best medical authority for saying that a re­ sort to narcotics is to he avoided, except in the last extremity. Too continiuus effort must also be avoided. It is rest to work by daylight; but if work must be done in the evening there should be, if possible--no, there must be--some rest and relief before going to rest--a few minutes in the fresh air, even if it be tipon a balcony, or in a cold room with an open window. If the dinner has been moderate and early, some very simple food, after an evening's work, seems to draw away the pressure of blood from the brain. To eat a raw onion is said to afford oertain relief, but it is not to all an agreeable means. Various plans are recommended for producing sleep. Here is one which is compara­ tively new. It is simply to compose one's self, fix the attention Jupon the breathing and breathe slowly and regularly, at the same time imagining the breath as a column of vapor rolling out at each expiration. Those who have tried the plan say that, except in desperate cases, it was "the last they knew" till they waked! Others say that the trial only made them the more nervous. There are exceptions to all rules. As regards the physical condi­ tions necessary to produce sleep, they are easily summed up: Keep the feet warm, the head cool, and the digestion regular. USEFUL INFORMATION. PEOPLE WHO CALL ON THE PRESI­ DENT. The blunders and strange perform­ ances some people go through when in the presence of greatness are amusing. No place in this country, or probably in the world, witnesses so many of these as the reception-rooms of the White House. Most of the President's time is taken up in receiving the calls of people who come to see him for no other purpose than to shake hands and thus gratify their curiosity. There are many others, however,' who visit the White House for a thousand and one reasons, and, as a general rule, the never-ending throng that seek the presence of the President are well-mannered, intelligent and easy-appearing people. Embarrassment and nervousness are generally the predominating weaknesses which the callers find themselves subject, and the marks of this can be seen on the furniture in the ante-rooms. This is of a dingy, green velvet uphol­ stery, ornamented with heavy tassels and fringe. The pendant cords of these appear to be about the only thing that can give relief to the palpitating breth­ ren, whose knees tremble while their names are being sent to Bis Excellency, and they twist, pull and pick at the loops so energetically that the uphol­ sterer has to be engaged to repair dam­ ages every month or so. To the at­ taches of the President the pranks of these people afford a constant study of the human character. One of them told me this week that embarrassment seemed at times to bring out people's true nature as readily as liquor does in other instances. He said he had seen big, stout men come to the White House to see the President, who, after they had lashed themselves up to the point of sending in their cards with&e prospect of an encounter with the personality of much power, after half an hour's fidgeting in their seats, would leave pre cipitately. Again, others would come to the house, and, upon entering, would nn.ltm.rn to every person they saw behind a desk, supposing each time that they were saluting the President. Among others who go to aee the President are many fond mammas and crowing babies, the latter of whom are invariably put forward as candidates for Presidential kisses. From old maids who visit Mr. Hayes there always comes a request for a flower to remember him by, and, as there are many of these, the, President generally manages to pull two or three bouquets to pieces every crowd­ ed day. A crowded day means 600 or 800 callers. There have been as many as 4,000 people at the Executive Man­ sion in one day, but it was during the Centennial. In the olden time that hard-swearing, heavy-drinking, social pirate, Andrew Jackson, used to keep a punch-bowl standing during the winter for the patriotic tramps who swarmed through the mirey streets to see him at his court, but now thirsty pilgrims who invade the sublimated moral atmos­ phere of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, if they expect refreshments, will find nothing of the kind. Perhaps, if they specially request it, they will probably be served GORGEOUS SCENERY OP ARIZONA. Notwithstanding the entire absence of timber or verdure of any kind upon the mountains along the Colorado river, there are ever-changing objects of beauty and interest, and the longer and more studiously you gaze upon them the more completely you are lost in ad­ miration of them. In the evening, in the interval just before and immediately after the decline of the great orb of day, these earth-giants point up their ragged edges and. grotesque columns against a canopy that is a marvel of ce­ lestial coloring. At this time of the year no clouds sail majestically over the mountain-tops. From sunrise until within an hour of sunset the imperial dome seems like a great sapphire hung over the world. Then the eastern mountains and the horizon above as­ sume a most exquisite tint of some­ thing between purple and maroon, while the elevations on the west, and the hori­ zon above, color up in lilac and gold. A few moments after sunset the whole heavens and the mountains upon either side assume a lavender hue. So perfect and so delicate are the tracings of these mountain outlines against the sky at t.tiin period of the evening that the en­ tranced vision follows them as readily as if they were just so many artistic pen- cilings upon map or parchment. Yet all t.hi« pales in comparison with the mirage on a clear morning, which cuts up these same mountains into castles, cathedrals, fortresses, esplanades, gardens, forests, and every other imaginable thing, or topples them over, or suspends them in the air at will. One can watch the beautiful effects of the mirage in this country with more delightful avidity t.Wn any other one thing that can be presented.--San Francisco Bulletin. SIGNS OF THE WEATHER, Dew is a sign of fine weather, and is never seen except under a cloudless sky. Wind and clouds are sure preventives of dew, for the simple reason that clouds are able to retain some of the solar heat; and, as they can give forth warmth, the radiation from the earth is checked, and the warmer temperature preserved. Wind evaporates the moisture as fast as it appears; and, if the wind is westerly, there is little dew or cloud to be seen. The contrary is observed with easterly wind, but a west wind blows over a vast expanse of land, and, having lost its vapor, clries up any moisture it may come across; while an east wind, cross­ ing the Atlantic, is full of vapor and sheds dew on all sides. These remarks, of course, apply chiefly to particular lo­ calities, but the influence of a west wind may be seen in the spring. Dew is more copiously deposited in the spring and autumn than in summer, as there is usu­ ally a great difference in those seasons between the temperature of day and night; in the spring, however, there is a small deposit of dew when a west wind prevails; but in autumn, during the soft influences of south and east winds, the earth is covered with moist­ ure. It has also been observed that there is a greater formation of dew be­ tween sunset and midnight. To CURE AKY KIND OF WART.--Paint occasionally with butter of antimony. EMERY.--Emery is a variety of cor­ undum, the hardest known substance except diamond. It is bruised and ground to powder in a powerful stamp­ ing-mill, and hen sifted into various degrees of fineness. PURIFYING WATER.--If two ounces of powdered alum and two ounces b^jgpc be put into a twenty-barrel cistern of rain water that is blackened or oily, in a few hours the sediment will settle and the water be clarified and fit for waseing, ai^cl even for cooking purposes. To FASTEN LETTERS ON GLA^S.--To fasten metal letters on glass, use a ce­ ment made of fifteen parts of copal var­ nish, five parts of drying oil, three parts of turpentine, two parts of oil of turpen­ tine, five parts of liquefied marine glue; melt these together in a water bath, and then add ten parts of dry-slacked lime. To REMOVE SPOTS OF BLACKING FROM CARPET.--Spots of blacking may be taken from carpets with a mixture of one ounce of powdered borax, dissolved in One quart of boiling water, and a small piece of soap, about the size of a walnut, cut fine and dissolved with borax; bottle this, and use to take spots from carpets or clothes. KEROSENE SMOKE.--The most dis­ agreeable thing about a house in the summer is' the kerosene smoke. The good wife, whenever she is not sewing or reading, turns the lamp down to save the oil, and the lamp immediately smokes like a Turk, or a fire-engine, and the mosquitoes come to enjoy the perfume. Don't do this if you want your parlor to be pleasant. If economy be necessary, put the light out altogether. OATMEAL AND SOUND TEETH--It has long been noted in Scotland that in those districts where oatmeal and not refined flours are in general use we find children and adults with the best de­ veloped teeth and jaws; and, so well reoognized lis the influence of oatmeal upon the teeth, that many practi­ tioners order its use as an article of daily diet for children in cues where dentation is likely to be retarded or im­ perfect. To BENDER CINCHONIA TASTELESS; According to the American Journal of Medical Sciences, Dr. S. Ashurst over­ comes the disagreeably bitter taste left in the mouth after taking cinchonia, by mixing the alkaloid with sugar of milk and bicarbonate of soda. According to him a powder containing one grain of cinchonia, four grains of sugar of milk and one-tenth of a grain of bicarbonate of soda possesses only the slightly sweet taste of the sugar of milk, and is quite readily miscible with water and milk, or, if preferred, can be easier swallowed of you please, dot our popular mer­ chant, Mr. Eppenstein, haf just returned from Ni Yorick mit a large stock of goods vich he i* almost givin* away on ackound of der hard times,"--Oil City D e n i d h " 7 " " " " - " " J \ - • „> ,Vll • , * *4 jf" izzmvis ITEMS. * itt dry. MORAL TALE BY LITTLE JOHNNY A preecher wich had been a wicked gamier fore he was a preecher he seen a feller wich was a gamier too, and he sed, the preecher did: "He jest play cards with pore mizable sinner and win all his munny, and wen he is busted maybe he will listen to the divine trooth and be saved." So they played, and the preecher he winned ol the feller's munny evry cent, and then he sed: "Now see how wicked you have ben for to loos yure munny, and your whife and babys haven't got no bred for to eat." And the gamier he said: "That's so," and he bust out a-cryin. Then the preecher he sed: "Pore sinner, if you prommice me into yure onner to not play cards agin He give it ol back, cos Ime apreecher." So the gamier he was astonish, and he sed: "I never see sech a good man; I prommice, yes indeed, and heaven bless you!" and he busted out cryin agin, the gamier did. Then the preecher he gave him backol of his munny, and the feller put it in his pocket, and wiped his eyes, and blode his nose gratefle, and then he thot a wile, and pretty sune he coffed, and he said to the preecher: "I feel mity mean fa»1rin back this hundred dol­ lars from a wich has rescewed me from card-playin; tel you what He do, you put up a other hundred agin it and weel toss up for the pile, hed or tails, best two out of thre, THREE-CARD monte glish railroad trains. has invaded En- MB. EPPENSTEIN'S BABIES. Yesterday a reporter called at the store of Mr. Abraham Eppenstein to make some inquiries about the health of the three cherubim that his wife had presented him the night before. "Well, how's everything?" asked the reporter, smiling broadly. "Yell, I feels pooty good all the while. Beesness was pickin' up pooty kvick. 1 half der largest assordment of goods vat vas ever brought--" "The children--the babies!" inter­ rupted the reporter; "I want to know something about the babies." "Vatbabies? Oh! dose dree leetle fellers vat come to seen me last night? I vish you vould said in your paper to­ morrow dot Mr. Eppeostein's babies are like his goods--der best der market af­ fords. "Und see here," called the happy father after the vanishing reporter, " poot in a lipe at der bottom, und said, ---St Peter's Church, of Sycamore, organized a boy choir of little lqds 10 and 12 years of age. The Coroner of DeKalJ) county re­ ports that he has held twelve inquests during the past year. -«• --In Freeport the police arrest and lock up all boys foun<Jl lounging around church doors during services. --The Chicago and Alton railroad is pushing forward to an early completion of its Kansas City extex^ion. --There have been 509 births and only 204 deaths in Winnebago county since January last--305 more births than deaths. --The Belleville Adpocate reports that Hon. Jehu Baker, Minister to Ven­ ezuela, will return to his home on a short visit early in the spring. --Four tons of cholera- killed hogs are rendered daily at Bockford. The oil is run into kerosene barrels and shipped to Chicago, where it is convert­ ed into lard oil. --A competitive examination will be held at DuQuoin, Perry oounty, on y, Jan. 10, 1879, ifor the purpose of selecting a cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. * --While some young men from Joliet were out hunting, they discovered in the woods near Joliet a cave which, to all appearances, had been occupied by thieving tramps for some time. The hunters went into , the cave and found quite a quantify of guns, pistols, knives, and burglar's tools, and everything convenient to do a general plunder business. --The late Judge Sidney Breeee, of the Hlmois Supreme Court, left a manu­ script historji of this State, the publica­ tion of which has been ifrtrusted to the Chicago Historical Society7~~Tfie society has appointed a committee to superinT tend its publication, consisting of Hon. L. B. Otis, Hon. Thomas Hoyrie and E. H. Sheldon, Esq. The venerable Judge devoted most of his leisure for many years to the work of writing this history. --An actual occurrence near McCon- nell's grove, near Freeport : A tramp entered a farm-house, and, finding no­ body at home but the lady of the house, seated himself at the table, remarking, in an insolent tone, "I'm a rutabaga, and here's where I plant myself." The lady, who was standing by the stove, picked up a dishpan, about half full of boiling water, and dashed it over Mfc Tramp, remarking: "We always cook ours before we eat them." A decision interesting to the med­ ical fraternity and people in general was rendered by Judge Blades, of Kankakee Circuit Court, in the ease of Noah Ma- gruder, who is under indictment for practicing medicine without a license from the State Board of Health. The defendants moved to quash the indict­ ments, the principal ground being the unconstitutionality of the law. The court rendered an exhaustive opinion, holding the law constitutional and the indictments good. --The Springfield State Journal contains eight pages, a large portion of which is devoted to the annual business Of that city, with many interesting de­ tails. The present population of Springfield is estimated at from 28,000 to 30,000, against 25,161 in 1875. The six public schools have an average at tendance of 2,254 out of 2,776 enrolled scholars. The total cost of the schools during the year has been $35,449.32, or $15.72 per scholar. The report indi­ cates a prosperous year for the Capital City. -By an advance copy of the thirty- eighth annual report of the Illinois In­ stitution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville--Dr. P. G. Gillett, Super­ intendent--we learn that during the year ending Sept. 30,1877, eighty-seven pupils were admitted to the institution, aud sixty-eight during the year 1878 Graduated and discharged during the two years, thirty-six. Number of in mates Sept. 30,1878, 516. The Board of Trustees ask for an appropriation of $105,000 for ordinary expenses for the next two years. --A magnificent banana tree growing at the residence of Mr. J. Carter, in Jacksonville, is now in full bloom, with its regal crown of flowers, presenting an appearance as splendid as for this bleak climate it is rare. This plant, which is 9 years old, measures 12 feet in height, and 20 inches in circumference, some of the leaves being 6 feet long and more than 2 feet wide. The large clusters of fruit as seen in our markets suggest the arrangement of the delicate white fiow- ejs on the stem. The immense collec­ tion is inclosed by a sheath-like append­ age of a deep purple hue, changing to vivid crimson as they expand backward from the flowers proper. These brill­ iant appendages „ axe numerous, and some of than more than ji length. ( 'M' THE report of the State Auditor fdt the two years ending Sept. 30,1878, sayi the Chicago Inter Ocean, shows thai the total receipts for State purposes during the two years was $3,856,feM!8% total disbursements during the same J period, $3,504,184.45; excess of receipi*/ over disbursements, $351,840.43. Froia the report we learn that it has ooa$ $31,750.63 for military purposes^ ? • $83,789.33 for the construction of th# lock and dam at Copperas creefe^ ^ $2,021,992.76 for schools; $45,167.85 fcflr V conveying convicts to the State pent* - tentiary; $4,028 to State ReformSchool; $32,211 for the arrest of fugitives frota justice. The per diem and uufcagenct the members of the Senate wrt* $40,100.90; per diem of officers of tine Senate, $36,906; members of the Houa* of Representatives, per diem, mileage, etc., $120,271.50; employes and officeNl of the House, $30,880--which, witll incidentals, amounts to a total of $237,959.30, which was the cost of thp last session of the Legislature. Ulid*® the head of incidental •• expensed $48,123.14 has been expended,. It eofi) the State $226,168.13 for the building and running of the Asylum for Feefol#- Minded Children: $52,286.14 for tifc current expenses of the Eye and Ear Infirmary; $67,306.72 for the In­ dustrial University; $89,112.30 for thft Illinois Orphans' Home; $238,042.9$ for the Northern Insane Asylmai $232,853.99 for the Central Asylum} $248,145 for the Southern and $10CE- 127.04 for the Eastern Insane Hospitw; $59,402.92 was expended for the educa­ tion of the blind, and $175,142.20 for the deaf and dumb. The expenses of the Normal School were $51,898.82; if the Southern Normal University, $59$» 135.14. The indebtedness of theNorti^ ern penitentiary, amounting to $98,©9$,- 99 has been paid, and $143,000 has be6n paid out for the Southern penitently; for printing and, stationary, $46,41 lMf% for public printing, $21,082.36; bilt&ft $13,257.54; the Railroad and Warehoua* Commissioners spent $32,373.31; t*r Sorter and reports of the Supreme ourt, $33,271; $30,200 was expended for State and county agricultural bondk; State Reform School, $81,102.61; $199,- 167.75 has been, spent on the new Statf » House. The State's Attorneys hate ifc.' oeived for salaries $83,359.68. •< 'A f-#,. HOW THE AFGHANS LITE. In accordance with the national acter for suspicion and intrigue and corruption, an Afghan dwelling-house Hi like an Afghan boorkaposh--a whitened sepulchre. The flat roofs of the housed have generally a parapet-wall formed of rail-work, thickly overlaid with mt^ and five or six feet high, to allow tke women of the family to take an airing unveiled, as their lords are very je?JoTS8 about their being overlooked. During our former occupation of the oity, an officer, who had ascended to the upper part of the Bala Hissar to get a good view of the surrounding country, wo# credited with looking at some womeh half a mile below him, and received a delicate hint in the shape of a ball from jejail whizzing past his head. But, however much an Afghan would think himself disgraced by his wife's face be­ ing exposed to the vulgar gaze, the wives may go wherever they please-in their boorkaposhes, to shop or to viBit- relation ,̂ but they must "keep their purdah," otherwise, avoid a scandal. lit some of the walls facing the street, lit­ tle loopholes with tiny shutters exist, through which an Afghan beauty may be seen glancing quickly and furtively at the passing stranger, while her grim old lord and master sits stolidly gazing at vacancy through a wider aperture below. Afghan ladies exercise consid­ erable influence over their spouses both in domestic and political affairs. Sav­ age and intractable as the men usually •> are among themselves, it is. quite beau* -• tiful to see how submissive they oan * become to the discipline of the Harem Serai. An officer has lately been tell­ ing us in the Times how Shere Ali has the slipper applied to his august head, by the mother of his deceased heir, Abdulla Jan.--Whitehall Review. K "l'( • -^ porERTT. Poverty is no disgrace, 'tis true, but we may easily make it so byoontinu- . ally whining and bemoaning our lot. When we reflect that many of the ablest men that this or any other nation has ever produced were as poor as church-mice, we see no reason why we : should not hold up our heads. Some may not respect us because we are poor; but, as a general thing, their respect, even for the rich, is not of such a na­ ture as would cause them to make self- ' sacrifices for their friends. One tried friend in poverty is worth a thousand when fortune smiles. The old adage < has it, "thatit is very inconve&ent to to be jioor," and so it is; but, then, there is one advantage the poor have over the ricli, viz: they are not sub­ jected to many of the ills, and not half the annoyance, of their more-prosperous fellow-creatures. It does not follow that " poor people must have poor ways," for the beggar in his rags may show some evidence of thrift. Poverty should not, therefore, beget habits of indolence and filth, but, on the other hand, economy, and an honest, faithful effort to accomplish something and. something in the world. * J * : fM s§ FOUR counties in Maryland under a local-option law have hibiUon of liquor selling. * ° " I L \ i Si •'4~ 9 '- , Y- - 1, A.;.1