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;fl|c§Settrg fJIaiuileatet i. TAN 8LYKE * SON, *»Jf / HcHENRT, ILLINOIS. Gov. CoijQrrrT, of Georgia, and Sena- "tor Brown deny absolutely that there ~,,s f -was any bargain between them and ex- Senator Gordon regarding the letter's ^resignation and the appointment of his successor. THE Pope has recently undergone snc- "<cessfully a surgical operation of a pain- jful, though not a dangerous, character. He is far from strong, and it is thought ladvisable that he should not spend the summer in Borne. MR. JAMBS WOODS, a leading citizen peirson county, N. C., felt so well ^satisfied with his future prospects that 3ie exclaimed, "I wouldn't swap my •chance for heaven with any man." He 'had scarcely pronounced the words ~when he fell from his chair dead, and -went to realize on his investment. sixth place. Norway during the past two years has increased her tonnage 34,194 tons, while in the same tune the tonnage of the Dominion has bee® in­ creased by 21/626 tons. THK death of Henry S. Foote was re- • anotely caused by an accident with which lie met some months ago in Washing­ ton. Rising suddenly from his seat his head come violently into contact 'with a low-hung chandelier, under which he was sitting. A sharp point of •the bronze inflicted a severe injury, of which little was thought at the time; but it grew worse, and he finally sub­ mitted to a painful surgical operation without experiencing any benefit. A PROMINENT Auburn grocer gave a lot of clothes to his washerwoman to be laundried, and the honest woman found in the pocket of one of the garments $3,000 in bills. Being an honest woman, she promptly returned the money to its rightful owner. Many a man would have thanked the woman and thought no more about it, regarding her act as only one of duty. Not so our grocer. He believed in encouraging honest worth by rewarding honest deeds, and ao he gave her--a bar of soap. I* a recent number of th«* Youth'* Companion, "H. H." give* some valu­ able information to invnWrfs who may l>e "* s^kiftg Itculih in Colorado, lilt her opinion, the climate of Colorado is not specifically curative, but in the earlier stages of consumption it arrests the disease so long as the patient re­ mains there. Asthma is nearly always relieved in Colorado, and the dry air and sunshine are a marvelous tonic for those suffering from general debility and prostration. But those who have any form of heart-disease, or any tendency to it, would be seriously in­ jured by the rarefied air of that section of the country. Some nervous persons, also, are from reasons little understood as yet unable to sleep well there. In Colorado there are many inconveniences which an invalid must encounter. The hotels and boarding-houses, as a rule, are poor. There is good food in the markets, but the art of cooking has by no means reached a high standard. The chances for obtaining employment in Colorado, unless one can use his muscles vigorously in manual labor, are very slender; there is little demand for brain- work*, or accomplishments. Out-door life is what will benefit the consumptive invalid; and if he is a lover of nature, and has strength, and pecuniary means, he will find sufficient amusement. But those who are very feeble will be likely to suffer for the loss of accustomed com­ forts and luxuries. THE DEEPEST GORGE WORLD. TBI CURIOUS A5D INTERESTING. I with the same result. However near I ' was to a sneeze, the introduction of the | pledgets stopped it at once Nor was | AOES OF ANIMALS.--A bear rarely ex- : there any inconveniencefrom their ; ceeds twenty years; a dog lives twenty | presence, making them sufficiently firm j years ; a fox fourteen or sixteen ; lions [From the Arizona Miner.] I DO£, *° tickle, and yet leaving them i are long-lived--Pompey's lived to the In March last a party oi prospectors, i sufficiently loose to easily breathe ; age of seventy. The average age of cats thirteen in number, procured the nec- | through. This is really worth knowing, j is fifteen years ; a squirrel and hare essary papers from Gen. Wilcox al- I ^or incessant sneezing is among the ; seven or eight years; rabbits Tfce Perilous Bomai of a, Party mt Prokpcclon into Cataract Canon, Colorado. V v«vu, vtuwa or- j # 11 mj- , . ; 1 " "t j ctuo , S0V8I1, lowing them to visit the Indian village j gravest 9* smaller ills, ana it seems | Elephants have been known to live to on Catfmwt. oreek, inhabited by the Ava j ONV' co.no.IISTOTI to hope that i the great age of 700 years. Pigs live to Supais, a tribe of Indians numbering j this simple plan may furnish the most j the age of thirtv years ; the rhinoceros all told 200 souls. The party went from | efficient renieay aganist^o^iie of the most j to twenty. A liorse has been known to • ->--L j live to the age of sixty-two, but averages Williamson valley to the Bill Williams ! distressing symptoms of hay fever, range and thence to Pine Spring. Here they found every indication of an old sea bed, the gravel and rocks being round and smooth, similar to those in the ocean bed. From Pine Spring the party directed their course for the Ava Supai village, which is reached by de­ scending from the table-land down one PITH AND P0I>X THE jockey leans on a 2:40 gait. A MAN may be right and yet be left. i twenty-five to thirty. Camels some­ times live to the age of 100. Stags are I long-lived. Sheep seldom exceed the j age of ten. Cows live about fifteen years. Cuvier considers it probable Tis yerv easy to re-cover an old «m-1 K 8om,etimes ?ive 1,000 years. m 1 I lie dojphm and porpoise attain the age , , „ j«f thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at of the roughest trails ever traveled by i, " 80 the slow eater calls for catchup j the age of 104 years. Ravens frequent- man, for a ° distance of fourteen miles, > means business. ^ j ]>v reach the age of 100. Swans have dropping 3,000 feet. At places along1 SPEAKING of reptiles, is " Landlord, j1)een known to live 300 years. A tor- the trail we are told that it fis not over ; Fill the Flowing Bowl" a treat ode ? ' toise has been known to live 107. twenty inches wide, and winds around j " WHAT do you most like next to your- THE CHANGE IN THE FROG.--Nowhere self ? " asks an exchange. A gauze-silk ' *** the animal kingdom is there so favor- undershirt, if the weather is vers- hot. ftMe an opportunity for peeping into na- "I DON'T mean to reflect on you," said*ure'8 w"orksliop as in the metamor- one man to another. " No," was the re- ! Ptoses ,ot the frog. This animal is a the perpendicular walls of sandstone that loom above for hundreds of feet, while on the other side dark, deep can­ ons exist, hundreds upon hundreds of feet deep, where, by one false step or : pjy "you're not polished enough to i when it comes from the egg, and KoQot ^ sent to reflect upon anybody." g ; Stains such the first four days of its type, and receives or returns proofs of his works. The winter he spends in Cambridge, and the summer in his cot­ tage at Nahant. His carriage is erect, and there is little in his manner to sug­ gest his poem "Morituri Salutamus." The warmth of his love is lavished upon his children, who are all in all to him. Indeed, few men eujov the company of those tho.m daily oj docs Mv Longfellow.--Philadelphia Press. life, having neither eyes nor ears, nos- move, man or beast would be eternity. With great care and good m . ., , . . , , . luck ten of the partv succeeded in , n® Puzzle blocks originated m Phil-; trils. nor lvsnimtorv It crawls «*» vill .J three of ante mm,- ; Arouglf iTZu. Sr . bev returnmg rather than run the gant- ^ ^Xe 'eL Vome i ?'bile a neck » grooved into the flesh, let m passing down into this awful yet _ en iiegets iiome. I Its soft lips are hardened into a horny passing marvelous crevice in the earth. THE Philadelphia North American j bonk. different organs, one after A Companion of Lincoln. Mr. Nicolay was a voung man of 24, at a desk in the State 'House of Illinois, when Mr. Lincoln selected him from the subordinate position he filled, to come with him aud be a silent, industrious, confidential sharer in those memorable four years of toil Mid heartache. He has told me many incidents of the inner life of the White House in those days. He is a small, spare man, singularly un­ prepossessing in looks, and of delicate constitution. He is onlv fascinating when he talks. Then you forget all else. He was a German lad who came to this country with his father and brother, and lived in great penury in an obscure town of Elinois, till at about 16, after he had picked up some precari­ ous bits of knowledge, he began to work in a newspaper office, and thenceforward his rise was steady. Lincoln used to see him bending quietly at his desk when he came into the office of the Secretary of State at Springfield, and took a liking to him. I have often wondered if he humor-- as I and IfLUiais hWd orders However, it is said to produce good j leuges you to fight a duel. He will feel corn, pumpkins, melons and beans, with t all that you can feel, and more too. The the aid of irrigating water, of which . man who rushes at you With a spade is they have an abundance. Tliev have a . is the chap to look out for. peach orchard of 250 trees, which were, j " FIND out your child's specialty " is on the 1st of April, loaded with small j the urgent Advice of a phrenologist. ] Three or fourdays more elapse, and the ! <iuietue8S- H« has the subdued confidential relations which is described as being of a yellow- *1*8 mouey is all gone. . u.uir cuinc Bimiue .. .. . ish color and mostly composed of sand, j NEVER be afraid of a man who elial- f *ink back into the body, 'while in - those who have long waited THE London Times says that the Rus­ sian Nihilists carry about their persons the types with which they do their printing. If it is necessary to publish a proclamation or other document, the compositors meet in secret, and, in the quickest possible way, put in type the manuscript, and then print it from a hand press. When the necessary num­ ber of copies is ready, the press is taken to pieces and put in the pockets of the conspirators, who immediately return to their homes. HANNIBAL ROE had read that bears would not eat dead men. Therefore, when he found himself caught in a Mon­ tana canon by a big she bear, he lay as etili as death on his face. But she bit him horribly, and he had about made up his mind that she was not to be im­ posed upon, when she heard one of her cubs cry, at a little distance, and trotted off, doubtless intending to return at her leisure. Roe was so badly wounded that his recovery is doubtful, but he managed to escape by dragging himself through a creek and hiding on the other side. IN Nashville, Tenn., the principal of one of the city schools noticed one of his pupils, a girl in the fourth grade, leaning her head upon her hands as if she did not feel well, and asked her the cause. She said her head ached, and was given permission to go out and bathe it, but she declined, saying she was afraid she was about to have a chill. She was then advised to go home, and left the room. As she turned out of the gate a buggy from the corner above drove up, she got in and was driven away. When school was dismissed, the astonished principal was informed that the girl had run away and been married. "GATH," the well-known newspaper correspondent, gives the following pen- picture of Roacoe Conkling as life ap­ peared in the Chicago Convention: "He was dressed as usual in tli§ Sen­ ate, and looked as well as at any time in the past five years. His linen was clean and fine; tasteful sleeve-buttons were in his white cuffs ; a fancy tie was at his throat. His beard, mustache, and hair were combed and brushed, and his hair, though thin, was ringleted about the neck behind in little flattened, padded curls. A shade of blue was in his dark coat, which fitted him like a Prince's. His trousers were of gray summer ma­ terial. In his hand was a figured fan. He was a pleasing object to look upon as he stood just a little self-conscious, yet ostentatiously deferential, like Alcibi- ades begging votes. His blackish eyes, with the light of humor in them, set in his head like a pigeon's, and his bust, breast, poise of head and throat, and an apparent tail stuck up somewhere be­ hind invisibly, seemed all pigeony. white, well-bathed, and saucy. His face is as peculiar as his traits, and is not an American in type. The nose concave, well marked and finely sentient, would be vulgar but for its delicacy of form, but is stuck up in a rookery way, wad the dark, small eyes, shining under straight brows and lashes, carry mis­ chief and aggressiveness in them, withal full of ^self-enjoyment and saucy confi­ dent. The strong parts of the face were the head and chin, the iatter car­ rying the Scotch obstinacy. A trifle of red remains in its lamb's fleece. He closes it up with 'habitual strength and decision after saying anything nettle- some, and by both temperament and habit he is at his best in the presence of great audiences." property, Their houses are built with poles, in a rude manner, and thatched over with bear grass and tule. The only stock they have are a few ponies. Cataract creek heads in the Bill Will­ iams and San Francisco mountains, the streams connecting some distance above the Indian village. This stream emp­ ties into the Big Colorado, fifteen miles their place others come, much more complex, arranged in vascular tufts, 112 in each. Biit they, too, have their day, and are absorbed, together with their framework of bone and cartilage, to be succeeded by an entirely different peaches about the size of acorns. j When vou have tried this, vou wilYfiiid bleatlliug apparatus, the initial of a sec- mi n «-•» 41 • • ~ ond correlated group of radical change. the intestines^ prepared forjtWe re­ ception of animal fb^lan-,p}jieg of veg­ etable ; four limbs, fully equipped with hip and shoulder bones, with nerves and blood vessels, push out through ti e skin, while the tail, being now supplant­ ed by them as a means of locomotion, is carried away piecemeal by the absorb­ ents, and the animal parses the balance of its days as an air-breathing and flesh- feeding batrachian. PECULIARITIES OF DEEP-SEA ANIMALS. -Deep-sea animals, as a rule, have either no eyes at all or have very large eyes. As an example may be cited the crustacean, astaeus zalencus, most close in confidential relations upon great men. He lives in a neat house of his own on B street, Capitol hill, and has a wife and 14-year-old daughter. When he returned from his four years' consu­ late in Paiis it wasjgenerally felt that as a relic of Lincoln he ought to be provided for. In his keeping were secrets of TIIINRRC "V state to which no one but himself held JZX Z »<•?» MaraW rows of teeth, the stomach, the abdo- The party was well received by these | it not so easv. Sometimes'rock candv red people, who stated that t^ir gioatest seems to be the favorite, and then again desire was to be left alone in the enjoy- j there is a marked tendency to taffy mentof their land and other property. | who fears he is reje'eied- " But you know, Rebecca, we are com­ manded to love everybody." Rel»ecca --"Yes, and so I do love everybody." Robert (pinaforically)--"What', every­ body?" Rebecca (shyly)--" Well, vou know present company is always ac­ cepted." A JONES propounded the following the below the Ava Supai town, and a short I ®ther e\ening, after sipping of his al- distance south of the junction of the I ^ ^ this drink like Little and Big Colorado rivers. ' m , • , course nobody could guess, The party attempted to explore Cata- j a after lie had divulged by saying it ract creek to its confluence with the Col-1 ̂ a?,a , "Uid, nobody dared to orado, but were unable to do so from the sm * • knew that the landlady's fact that they encountered precipice I e^ es were uP°n them. after precipice from 100 to 200 feet per- !. -A- WOMAN bought a circus ticket for pendicular, and it was in attempt of D. W. Mooney valley, to descend one of dicular precipices, 100 feet ; ^ < _ , w ^ ^ he was dashed to a sudden and rocky • there," said the man as she came up. i possibly tile anima? uses Tt^toleeHts tomb, where he now rests as he fell, his ! " Big ? Why, you ought to see his j way with, as a blind man uses his stick j companions being unable to rescue the ! brother !"--Detroit Free Press. j There are also abundant hairs on the! body. Mr. Moonev took a small rope, WHEN Jones is asked by the "hova " ' animal's surface, which are probably! hardly half an inch m diameter, tied one jn tlie presence of Mrs J to go on'a organs of touch. Many deep-sea crus- W.V ^ 1,an^ snslK;u<^d Jt over the , gander party, and the ladv of lus heart tacea however have very large eyes, brink, then, taking hold ofthe rope, with lun. peculiar lisin innection. m^d, evidently for the purpose of was soon dangling between the bright a jOUe8 !" kllowa that the unit ml« niakmg use of some small quantity of! heavens and the dark gorge below. Evi- enfoLdTJd^quickly ansJZ - ^^t which must exist in ill depths. | dently cramp came in his arms, or his I "Should iikG iro hnv* • l„,t In the absence of sunlight the only j volunteers wa* 2,678,967, divided as fol- " honor, I believe FM «l thit other souree of H«ht ™««t be phospho- ! lows: Maine, 72,114; New Hampshire, night " , j rescence of certain of the deep-sea ani- I 36,629: Vermont, 35,262; Massachusetts, 1 mals themselves. No doubt many ani- 1152,048; Rhode Island, 23,699; Connec- of the Supreme Court, which Chief Jus­ tice Chase created for his attached friend and follower, R. C. Parsons, of Cleve­ land, was vacated by that gentleman to run for Congress, Mr. Nicolay had little difficulty in securing the position. Ev­ erything about the Supreme Court is as eternal as the mutations of this transi­ tory life will allow, and Mr. Nicolay no doubt has practically a life tenure of his office. The salary originally attached to it was §2,500; it is now put at $3,000, and supports very fairly, and something more, a man with small family and un­ ambitious tastes. The duties are scarce­ ly more than nominal, and his vacation covers the whole time that the justices i are scattered about the country presid- THE Town Board of Peters! nard county, prohibit the sale of intoxi­ cating liquors in less quantities than one barrel. DC PAGE county now grants license* to sell beer anrwhere m the county for *75, ' y J FARMRBS in Sane oounty are sowing salt on their idlest to keep the chinch bugs quiet. THE most fashionable affair in M«lmw township, Tazewell county, is the measles. They axe scooping in every body. GEOBGS RUSH, SR., of Eureka, ap­ plied an overdose of caustic to some warts on his hands, and died from th« effects thereof. THE harvester works at Piano now employ over 500 men, and have shij 1,200 narvesters, and are under to manufacture 3,000 more. THE stockholders of the S&ngamon County Agricultural Society have voted on the State-fair location as follows: Tn favor of a permanent location, 243; op­ posed, 15. THK Governor has pardoned Stephen Joy, convicted of manslaughter by the Fulton County Circuit Court in March last, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The pardon was asked by nine of the jury, nearly all the coun­ ty officers, and very many of the most prominent citizens of Fulton county. The pardon is granted in view of Joy's physical condition, and in response to the wish of the leading citizens of the county in which he lived and where the killing occurred. IiiMuraace la nilatta. T. B. Needles, State Auditor, haft it* sued his report upon insurance---Hid twelfth annual document of this nature. Following are the more important sta­ tistics in the report: x There are authorized to do lire and business in this State 181 oompuuea, which ato thus classified: . . . . . • . . . . 4 I* < . . . . . 3* S 181 v to tli<i common crtiy-fisli which i iiig over tlicir circuits. It is not a place mind gave way, and he fell from almost the top to his rocky and lonely grave j below. The party remained nearly two ; days, devising means and plans to res- • cue the corpse, but with failures, as no i one cared to risk a descent upon the j weak rope. The Indians informed tfie 1 party that no one man had ever passed | through the canon ; that, in fact, a pass ; age was only possible for the birds of ; air or the spirits of the dead. Nearly Three Million of Soldiers. A statement has been issued by the War Department giving the number of men furnished in the Union army by each State and Territory and the Dis­ trict of Columbia from April 15, 1861, to the close of the rebellion. It shows that the total number of -.•.f . A SUCCESSION of direful shrieks is j malg a8 in sllallow Water, emit light "in I ticut, 57,370; New York, 467,047; New heard on (he first floor. Fond mother j the d 8ea . aud the deev.ma a£imals | Jersey, 81,010; Pennsylvania, 366,107; -- mat is the m^tef wiUi Billv ? ; wit]l oves probabIv congregate round ! Delaware, 13,070; Maryland, 50,316 ; • tt6 ! them or grope their way in the ghx>m ; West Virginia, 32,068; District of Col- HP j fvrvm iMt<\ ---- aK i* umKin U70« Oliltt Q1Q A/1Q* Tit<1i<ana muttef Goldred «ei^ai»t--BKjftse crying about de jewbffrrics." "He can't have any more. He lias had four saucerfuls already." "Dem is de berrv ones he am whooping about. He's all from one bunch to another as they lie scattered over the bottom, just as we lialf-feel, half-see our way from lamp- n t ,, ! post to lamp-post in a night fog. Some The party retraced their steps and | 8X4 °"e" UP' Galveston J\ews. : iose their way, as we do sometimes, and went around Cataract creek to the Grand j AT a legal investigation of a liquor | get into shallow water, and a good many canon of the Colorado. They took in j seizure the Judge asked an unwilling ! deep-sea animals have been from time -.. 1 J .. i Tt'lfnuau urno tn A.... i.. • 1 _ . * __ il 1 this peculiar freak of nature, and de- | witness, " What was in the barrel that scribe the walls, which are about ivr- ! you had? " " Well, your Honor, it was pendicular, as being about two miles ! marked ' whisky' on one end of the bar- from the apex to the water. Where J r^l and ' Pat Duffy' on the other end, so they beheld the Grand canon the water that I can't say whether it was whisky THERE is a long grade on the Terre Haute and Logansport railroad in In­ diana. A heavily-loaded freight car broke loose from a train and started down this incline. It gained a fright­ ful rate of speed, and was going in the direction from which a fast passenger train was soon to come. A dreadful collision was thus imminent. A loco­ motive was quickly sent in pursuit of tlie runaway. The chase was most ex­ citing. The engineer, by forcing a speed of sixty miles an hour, finally overtook the freight car, fastened to it, and drew it in a reverse direction, just in time to prevent a disaster. THE HOME DOCTOB. GEOBOE W. ALDRICH, of Wayne county, N. Y., has an Indian relic, plowed up on his farm, that has thus far defied the guesses of all who have seen it as to its use by the aborigines. It is of stone, nine inches in length, two inches in diameter at one end and running to a point at the ether. Through the entire length of the thing is a groove one-half an inch across and the same depth at the largest end, com­ ing to a point at the smallest end. It lias a highly-polished surface, which exhibits under a magnifying-glass vari­ ous hieroglyphics which are invisible to the naked eye. THE post year was not a prosperous ;year for the shipbuilding industry of •Canada, the number of new vessels ' built and registered being 265, of 24,227 ions, against 340 vessels of 101,506 tons in 1878, while in 1874 there were con­ structed 496 vessels, of 190,756 tons. •Canada, however, still holds the proud position of the fourth maritime power of the world, nearly equaling Norway, which ranks third. In 1877 Canada Tanked fifth among the maritime states, Italy having the fourth place, but last j'aar that nation dropped back to the FOB sleeplessness a high London au­ thority recommends, instead of stimu­ lants, a breakfast-cup of hot beef tea, made from half a teaspoonful of Liebig's extract. It allays brain excitement. HOARSENESS.--Bake a lemon or sour orange for twenty minutes in a moder­ ate oven, then open it at one end and dig out the inside, and sweeten it with cugar or molasses, and eat. This will sure hoarseness, and remove pressure from the lungs. SIMPLE DISINFECTANT.--Cut two or three good-sized onions in halves, and place them on a plate on the floor ; they absorb noxious effluvia, etc., in the sick­ room, in an incrediby short space of time, and are greatly to be preferred to perfumery for the same purpose. They should be changed every six hours. THE Family Physician says that there is no more valuable indication of disease than the temperature of the body as measured by the thermometer, and especially in the case of children. It gives early information of disease, and admits of an infected child being set apart before mischief is done. The Physician consequently advises mothers to learn how to use a clinical thermome­ ter--a very simple process. The proper temperature of the body is 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit. LIVE out of doors as much as you can. It is the place for a man to be. It is good for the health. A distinguished physician was in the habit of saving : " However bad the air may lie out of doors, it is always worse in the house." It is good for the temper. People who are always shut up in a house are apt to grow fretful and peevish. They are prone to acquire narrow views of things, and to worry over trials not worth con­ sidering. it is good for the whole char­ acter--for strength, hope, patience and fortitude. It expands and softens one's nature and makes one more charitable. Dr. Footers Health Monthly tells how people get sick : " Eating too muih and too fast; swallowing imperfectly-masti­ cated food ; using too much fluid at meals ; drinking poisonous whisky and other intoxicating drinks; repeatedly using poison as medicines ; keeping late hours at night, and sleeping late in the morning; wearing clothing too tight; neglecting to wash the body sufficiently to keep the pores open ; exchanging the warm clothes worn in a warm room dur­ ing the day for costumes and exposure incident to evening parties; compress­ ing the stomach to gratify a vain and foolish passion for dress ; keeping up oonstant excitement; fretting the mind with borrowed troubles; swallowing quack nostrums for every imaginary ill; taking meals at irregular intervals, etc." is described as being 100 yards across ; still, from the elevated view of the ex­ plorers, the furious stream appeared to bo a silver thread of only a tew inches in width. A canon two miles deep is a grand wonder, which will, when the thirty-fifth parallel road is completed, draw thousands upon thousands of won­ der-seekers annually. French Heels. I saw a tall, stately and elegant lady on her way down Broadway. dressed faultlessly, judging by the standard of present fashions, and was an object of interest and scrutiny as she moved" through the feminine crowd. She looked as unconscious as anybody whose heart was bounding with the knowledge that her clothes were being admired. Her gait was easy, even and graceful, until all of a sudden she stopped, and in a flash grew two inches shorter. The or Pat Duffy that was in the barrel, be ing as I am on my oath." ' A DAMSEL from over the river was looking over some books in a Quincy bookstore, endeavoring to make a selec­ tion, when the clerk asked, " How- would you like the 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ?'" She replied : " Oh, we've got two of 'em now, one of 'tm just as good as new--only been washed twice."--Modern Argo. "How long has she been dead?" in- She was • quired a bereaved husband as he stepped into the room. "About five minutes," answered a tearful bystauder. "Well, it's all right. I never got a chance to see any of my folks draw their last breath. If a hundred of my friends were to die, 'twould be just my luck to miss it every time." Grief will assert itself. AN agricultural paper has an article on "Washed and Unwashed Butter." It says that the markets now demand to tune picked up near the shores at Madeira and elsewhere, and have found their way iuto museums as great rari­ ties. No doubt the sense of touch is the one mainly relied on by most deep- sea animals. Very many are provided with special organs of touch, such as long hairs, or, in the case of fish, enor­ mously long fin-rays. washed. A pound of butter that comes I into market without having its face j washed and its hair combed is not very j inviting, that's a fact. --JYorrititowii ! Herald. I TIB sweet iu the dim moonlight To wander f rth to meet her; I And the zeplij in blow an >ou onward go-- There's uothiug that i» Hweeter! I You sing a *011# us you walk uloug, Aud tbink how happ.v you shiil greet her; But your warble's hushed and your hope* are crushed, I Together with that "skeeter." --Ufteketuack Republiean. shortening of her stature startled me. She rocked for a few seconds like a ship J that butter shall not only be fresh and in a short sea, and then righted herself, ; rosy, but be properly worked and rose to her former height ajd passed on. " " ~ ~ What could it mean? I had not been de­ ceived as to the lessening of her length, for her dress, now as before, cleared the sidewalk on which it rested during her brief dwarfage. Determined to solve the mystery, I followed her until precisely the same thing happened again"; and that time I saw the simple cause of the astonishing effect. Fashion­ able shoes are now made wtth liigher heels than ever, and the heels of the shoes are placed so far forward that the heels of the wearer project rearward. In faet, these French heels, as they are called, are now just as near the middle of tlie foot as possible and not destroy the center of gravity. To walk on them is difficult, and without practice is as dangerous as skating to a novice, but the ladies learn after a while toman age them very well. particular lady, however, tlie heels were so near the counterpoising spot that she was about evenly balanced on them, and no exercise of skill could save her from tipping back on them. They did not overturn her, but let her own real heels down on the ground, while her toes pointed skyward, and her stature was shortened by just the height of the French heels.--New York letter. Making CaUs In Paris. Tlie French madame daily performs these rites of society as she says her prayers. In her carriage are placed the necessaries for a long round of calls. She has a bunch of violets or tea roses, and uear by the hand-glass, the scent- T .1 i bottle, the pin cushion, the bonbonniere Io .ho case of tin. flUed Fcougl, or h '̂it j candy drops, the card-case and the : small gold pencil-case, which marks off each social duty when discharged. . Now that the carriage is ready and ; at the door, madame comes7 down and ; settles herself for a comfortable time with a novel, which, accompanied bv a silver powder box and puff, is nearly always with her. The carriage is as somber in coloring as the costume-- ^ ~ •; olive green, chocolate brown, navy blue i 8i"x" dynasties, and then "slept, To Cure Fits of Sneezing. --,n Knni.Ji ~ A correspondent of the British Medi­ cal Journal says : "Dining the recent rapid changes of temperature I caught _ a severe oold in my head, accompanied i servants of those holding official by a most incessant sneezing. My un- j appointments and to the superior officers fortunate nose gave me no rest. * The i the army, and any one who was to slightest impact of cold air, or passing dress his servants in this way would " ' '1 • only be laughed at '-aid ridiculed. Xothing New Under the San. The puzzle of 15-13-14 never was copyrighted, and much compassion has been spent ou the inventor for his lack of foresight, which lost him the profits of his popular toy. But there is a doubt as to whether he | could have taken out a copyright. Some shrewd observer has discovered in a picture of ".Melancholia," by Albert Durer, in the fifteenth century, the ' " gem puzzle," with the numbers from j one to sixteen arranged so as to count ; thirty-four in twenty different ways. • So often do not only history but trifles ! repeat themselves that one is sometimes ! led to doubt whether there ought to be ; a copyright or patent for anything as being new under the sun. 1 The story of Shvlock gave rise to ve- I liement discussion in the Prussian Par- | liament the other day. One member i asserted that the incident used by Sliakspeare really occurred in 1587, but j that it was the Christian who demanded the pound of flesh, and not the Jew. j Singularly enough the faet was proved | in debate' that the leading idea of the story is found in ancient Hindoo mythol- I °8"v- irving's legend of Bip Van Winkle is ' supposed to be borrowed from Norse ! folk-lore ; but it really originated in China. As told thore, a villager went out to the mountains and found two old men playing chess in a cave. They handed him a date to eat. He stood watching them through a game, when one said to him : " You have been a long time with us ; now, go home." . Stooping to pick up his staff, it crum­ bled to dust in his hands ; and when he returned to the village he found the ru­ ins of a vast city. Centuries had passed. The terrified dreamer became a hermit, and after many years become immortal; in which part of the legend there is cer­ tainly some truth. Nihilism, which is working such rav­ ages in society, politics and religion in Russia, was*a dominant influence in China in the tenth eeatury. It destroyed " like the umbia, 16,872; Ohio, 319,649; Indiana, 197,147: Illinois, 259,147; Michigan, 89,372; Wisconsin, 96,424; Minnesota, 25,052; Iowa, 76,309; Missouri, 109,111; Kentucky, 79,025; Kansas, 20,151; Ten­ nessee, 31,692; Arkansas, 8,280; North Carolina, 3,155; California, 14,725; Nevada, 1,080; Oregon, 1,810; Washing­ ton Territory, 964; Nebraska Territory, 3,147; Colorado Territory, 4,903; Da­ kota Territory, 206; New Mexico Terri­ tory, 6,561; Alabama, 2,576; Florida, 1,290; Louisiana, 8,224; Mississippi, 545; Texa«, 1,965, and the Indian Nation, 35,030. The troops furnished by the Southern States were, with the excep­ tion of those of Louisiana, nearly all white. Florida furnished two regi­ ments of cavalry, Alabama one white regiment, Mississippi one battalion and North Carolina two regiments of cav­ alry.--ew York Sun. The Richest Women in America. The richest woman in America, and, indeed, excepting royalty and Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the richest in the world, is Mrs. K H. Green, the wife of the Vice President of the Louisville and Nashville road. She was a Miss Bobin- son, and her father was a whaling master at New Bedford. He owned a fleet of ships known as tlie blue line of whalers, and from this profession was known as "Blubber Bobinson." He died when his daughter was a mere girl, and left her a fortune of about $8,000,000. She lived slenderly and prudently, and gave the management of her affairs to Mr. John J. Cisco. As her tastes were sim­ ple and her wants few, she was able to transfer her enormous income almost every year to the body of the fortune itself, and it has now accumulated to more than $27,000,000. Her husband, Mr. Green, was a very rich man when she married him, and has been success­ ful since. It is said by one who should know that the income of this couple is $2,500,000 a year. Mr. Green is rather large in stature, quiet, reserved, saga­ cious and of modest habits. He is about 47 years of age, and she is about 43. The richest v oung ladies in New York are the Misses Garner, the daughters of Commodore Garner, who was drowned under a yacht that overturned a few years ago". He made his fortune in Wall street, and, upon his death, was able to leave his daughters $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 each. Added to this, they are charming and beautiful young la­ dies. Joint-stock companies of Illinoi* Mutual companies of Ulinoia. Joint-stock companies of other States. . Mutual companies of other States Foreign companies ' Coeiialt) u>ui[iaui(.'s Total The number bf district, county and township mutual tire insnrance companies organized in this State and authorized to transact bttaineaa during the current year is 132, being ah increase of three during the past year. The Illinois Mutual Insurance Company, of Alton, and the Western Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company, of Chicago, have been or­ ganized since the last report. Proceedings were instituted in December last against the Illinois Insurance Company, of Chi­ cago. This company was operated under a charter granted in 1865. incorporating the Western Phcenix Insurance Company--a com­ pany which long ago abandoned business. The court has rendered a decision sustaining the law, but no further result has been reached. Since the last report twenty-two companies, with an aggregate capital of #14,211.673.75, have been authorized to do business in the State, and thirteen companies with an aggre­ gate capital of $3,240,000 have ceased to do business in the State. The business transacted in this State during 1879 by all companies re­ porting to this oftice for 1880 is as follows: F;r» rinks written $479,675,409.73 Marine and inland risks written 54,000,033.64 Total risks written $&U,2$4,4£i.26 Premiums received on fire tldn writ­ ten. $4,727,oea 13 and In-Premiums received ou marine land risks written 334,976.13 Total premiums received >1 ^ ' Fire, marine and inland % louses incurred $1,937,596.M Expenses estimated at 30 per cent, of premiums - fM WQ*lv«d 1,485,317.11 3,413,913.57 ? ' . leaving an apparent profit of $1,899,143198 on the business in this State during the year. ' * ' The average premium rate charged is U3 cents. ' <W on every .?1U0 insured. The ratio of losses to <. 10* risks written is 36 cents on every §100 insured,, - . A and to premiums received, 39 cent* on every' dollar received. • , *§> The following figures show the total aaaeta of all the companies : r Real estate .....$ 10,761,761.44 Loons on bonds and mortgages 36,392,010,70 ' Bonds and stocks owned by cMnpantas, 80,416,2U.2S Loans on collaterals 4,653,557.69 Cash 10,579,821.32 Interest due 1,134,237.13 Premiums in eoune of odllecttoa 6,072,600.80 All other admitted assets 3,989,687.28 Total. .$143,938,694.50 Losses adjusted, unadjusted, and re­ sisted $ 6,394,759.45 Uucovered premiums. 33,614,2*7.68 Due on dividends, scrip, interest, and for borrowed money 868,455.74 All other claims except tor paid-up capital 6^87.508.19 i Paid-up capital 51.642,700.00 Total 98,888.692.06 Surplus as regards policy-holder* 95,738,237.12 Surplus over paid-up capital 32,076,747.66 . The following oompaniea abowan impairment \ of capital: AUemanla. of Pennsylvania. $ 9,806.43 Faneuil Hall, of Massachusetts 87,453.76 ' Franklin, of Massachusetts. 3,209.61 Merchants' and Mechanics", of Virginia... 40,874.97 Pacific Mutual, of Sew York. Total IKOOMB. Fire premiums Marine and inland premiums Total.. Interest and dividends All other sources Large Schools. The experience of a third of a century, says a foreign -writer, has convinced many observant persons that the aggre­ gation of children in huge schools is a mistake. There can, of course, be no cultivation of individual character in --in the simple English style now b&^ I fabled Ito'Van^Winidei to waken in an- j such schools. The children are dealt coining so fashionable in Paris. No other aire and begin again its murderous : with in masses, and each child is only a cockade is to be seen in the men's hats. I vork. * '<rn Thev act together As in England, the cockade is confined ! NKARLY all the female companions of Queen Victoria are widows. from the outside air into a warm room, equally brought oh a tit of sneezing. In vain I snuffed camphor and Pulsa­ tilla ; the light catarrh still triumphed over me. At length I resolved to see what the maintenance of a uniform temperature would do toward diminish­ ing the irritability of my Schueiderian membrane, and accordingly I plugged my nostrils with cotton wool. The effect was instantaneous. I sneered no more. Again and again I tested the Ex-Gov. BBOWN, the new Senator from Georgia, is not as fine a looking man as his predeoessor, having a cleri­ cal appearance, with long white whis­ kers, taperiug to a point, and bwino slightly bald. IN Lee county, Ga., while Anthony McConn, a colored man, was at church, his residence burned down and hit three ahildr«-n with it. It is believed th*t mil efficacy of this simple remedy, always ' incendiary started the fire. unit in a crowd. They act together with the precision of machinery; but Longfellow at Home. they are lost when called upon to act He dresses in a suit of black broad- alone. There is, moreover, as all visi- doth and is very much of a democrat, j tors to these large pauper schools have conversationalist, he has noticed, an unjoyous look in the chil- ~~ dren. They have old heads on young ! shoulders, in the sense, not of wisdom, ' but of hopelessness. They are dull, 'apathetic, helpless. They are like A charming drawn many dear friends to him. lie has a marvelous faculty of putting one quite at his ease. Rising early, he takes a comparatively light breakfast, and, if the day is bright, indulges in a walk for several hours, varying his route daily. His rambles sametimes lead him to that great city of the dead, Mount Auburn ; occasionally he visits Cambridgeport, plants which are brought up without sunshine. They are, in fact, exotics, shut out from all contact with the cares that beset their class, ignorant of fam­ ily life, fed with the regularity of well- 46,554.68 .$135,991.45 .. .$50^379,366.37 .. 7,560,843.00 .. .$57,931,109.37 ... 6,538,200.75 939,325.83 Total cash income $65,388,533.94 Items not included in cash income are as fol­ lows: Premium notes received daring the year snd running unpaid . . . $ 1 ,448 ,64^39 Dejjmsit premiums for perpetual fin 354^086.84 Receipt for calls on capitis, and other sources than income XXPEKV1T7KK8. Paid for fire loaaes $30,147,794.14 Paid for marine and inland 1 oasts 6,296,377.17 Total Dividends paid... Commissions and Salaries Taxes All other expenditures. ' L; :-^v ... $36,444.071.31 ... 6,337.750.07 ... 9,307,809 ... 4.927,760.85 ... 1,681,655.21} ... 4,635,330.22 and once iu a while he .walks to Boston kept animals, but without any practical to see his friends or his publishers. knowledge of the conditions under He "alia on his printer* every day at which their after lives must be pawed two when he has anything io put in in the struggle with the worid. Aggregate expenditures. $63,134,378.23 The following figures show the results of the ' fire insurance busineaa in this State for 1879: Risks written $479,675,409.73 Premiums received 4,737,080143 Average premium rate 99 Losses paid 1,781.499.46 Rates of loss to risk written..,., 37 Ratio of loss to premiums received... 37.69 . All companies doing business m this State employed on the 81st day of December, 1879. a J total paid-up capital of #51,642,700, not includ­ ing tlie capital stock of foreign companies, and possessed $142,938,694.50 of admitted assets, excluding assessment notes aud asset* of for­ eign companies held abroad. Their liabilities, ; including capital stock and scrip, amounted to : the income during the year was #63,388,535.94. and the expenditures #63,131,- 87*.'23. being 9t!.55 per cent, of the total income. : These companies carried risks amounting to $6,983,813,353 ; with s 139,829,067,78 of net as- sets, including assessment notes of mutual i companies, bwug #2 for every £100 insured. Thirty township mutual tire insurance com- ; panics organized under "Au act to incorporate ' and govern mutual tire insurance companies in : townshps," iu force July 1, 1872, and jmrwrty t township mutual tire insurance coupuin «.r ganized under revision of said act, in force July 1, 1874, have tiled statement# and received- oertiiicates of authority to continue bwuMn the curreut year. Three companies have or­ ganized under the provisions of rvvi««xl towtfc- ahip law sinc« Jan. 1, 1880, and have aathuhty to ae busiiMMs, : The conditions and buiwMS ot thtM panies is thus set forth: Liabilities lawnm tor U*».... ftt^CL4S Paid tor losses.... " All other 1 Total oxpetxlituiee Risks tn forte I*k.\ 31, l|j».w.„.„. Risks written in 1KI.... Bteks Wrasnmit'il i» WK.. . Bhki ta twee Sea Si, IKt.. SyMW it-- -- t «M«UK Jk 4 a <