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-- V ^fgcnrn ffkiutlcala 1. VM SLYKE. Editor and Pubtitfaar. McHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. THERE is a brick famine in the West, tao great, lias been the amount of build­ ing this season. -Vi < • % t t ' • <? ' i • ' • * / ' - > ~ •*. U. < <*• .J> «•-» A -»•»- •JLJFE '«MC£MC • - , • , , ^ TF , ^ •' - -L» " n , ?f -».»• ^ywi ».•«#«» **•*<»> ~ J SI • • • V < <• <v vSWiSfc, THE Governor of Australia receives the -same salary as the President of the Uni­ ted States. in value varies between $10 nnd $15, thus enabling the ranchman to doable his capital in a short time if his losses do not exceed 5 per cent., and he has luck. The other method is to raise stock, buy­ ing Texan, Oregon or Utah cows and the necessary number of Eastern or En­ glish bulls. This, if you make up your j ILLINOIS NEWS. THB First National, of New York, is reported to be the only institution of the kind in the world that in one year di­ vided $1,500,000 profit on a $500,000 •capital. ^ v TELEGRAPHIC communication with many of the scattered military posts in the Northern Territories has been opened "by the completion of the signal- iservice wire from B smarclc, Dakota, to Dayton, Washington Territory. STTTDKNTS of Blackburn University at Carlinville are not allowed to attend dancing parties. MORE than $100,000 pension money has been received in Montgomery coun­ ty iit the last two years. THE Decatur postoffice has 2,000 boxes S"**i U J,UU -vu'" 1 in all, of which between 1,200 and 1,300 mind not to sell a single animal in the | fifo regularly rented. first three years, is in the end more , THK net proceeds of the Bloomington profitable than the feeding up of stock. Catholic fair were about $2,200, inwfrmd At first few men went into it, the capital 88 has been stated. needed being large, but as in the last PARTIES from Chicago are talking of few vears the larger profits of the bnsi- 1 grounds in Pekin ", , .. . for the propose of running a cheese £ac- became known it is the favorite 1 * ° able to read and write, and the causes of in­ ability. Indigence of P.™^. 4. .... m In health 314 Weaknessof mind 85fi Schools itiaccewdbla........ 1M Neg'ect of parent*. >.-i. .W*«t .^i. At!!! !un Mnt«e 88 Partially blind ....... M Foreign birth '. 39 Unknown./.'. viji- iv.." 901 Whole number of males... 3,350 " 1,695 AMUSEMENT NOTES. Whole number of feint lee. Grand total. ness with men tempted by the chance of making a fortune in five or six years. MAXOB BONHY and Aid. Whitla, of Dallas, Tex., lost their tempers while ^discussing municipal affairs in a meeting •of the Common Council. Each said the other was a liar, and both expressed a -desire for a hostile meeting. They met in the rear of a saloon, at midnight, and fought with their fists. ; JOHN SHEPHERD, a farmer near Pe- -oria, 111., has faithfully kept an oath made in 1860 not to cut his hair or • shave until the election of a Democratic President. His whiskers reach nearly to his waist, and his hair is kept in braids. He evidently accepted the find­ ing of the Electoral Commission as •cheerfully as did Hayes. THE completion of the Southern Pa- -cifie railroad is looked for by the farmers •of California to open a new and favora­ ble route for the export of their vast ^surplus wheat crop. It is even proph- •esied thai this route, via the Southern Pacific, New Orleans and the Gulf, will •cairv the entire crop of that State al­ most immediately after its opening, and that wheat alone will give the road 50,- «000 tons of freight a month. tory. THE glucose factory at Geneva is to be in operation soon. The building is to be lighted by gas manufactured on THE last survivor of the wreck of the j ^ Premi^- Medusa has j™, died .t Bte ^'C'SKE Caesar Alphonse Henry was born at > this year, ,to bring emigrants from Paris in 1812, and three years afterward j °W country. his father embarked in the Medusa with j THE census return of manufactures at his whole family of eight persons. Island shows 107 establishments. Every one knows the fate of the Medusa, j T\ Proflcin« ™ M i- - , • $2,byo,y21. Ihe wages paid last year Of its living freight of 450 BOUIS 175 were • were $565,674 put on th6 raft which Gericault has j THE Illinois Grand Lodge of the rendered memorable in ilia pictoire, six j Knights of Pythias at Chicago, last teett remained on board, and 200 took 1 ^v*ec^' re-elected the Hon. George W. to the Wa and gained the African j SSSSfthJ °"~ coast nearly 300 miles from the French ! m__ -»«• • . . . « T . „ ] Two MACOUPIN county farmers went settlement at St. Louis. The Henry tq law to decide the ownership of a colt family were among these last. The 3- I valued at $30. That little question re- year-old child walked part of the way ! ma"ls undecided, but the costs of the across the burning, waterless sands ;! foot UP over part of the way he was carried by^^the •i mi i i.ii , j ot the late Col. William McClellan, aud sailors. The little caravan sowed its , mother of State Senator R. H. Mc- l'oute with corpses, but the survivors i Clellan, of Jo Daviess county, has just arrived safely at St. Louis, and among j at her home in Salem, Washington them the Henry family, safe and well j count» ' Y. from the eldest to the youngest--a result I GEN. JOHN G. FONDA, of Quincy, one _ • i j ... | of the Commissioners of the Southern mainly due to the energy of the father. I m^ois penitentiary, at Chester, has ---- • tendered his resignation to the Govern- A LION-TAMER in a menagerie at San ! or» aP^ resignation has been ac- Balance reported on hand June 30,1879.$2,094,805.92 Amount State and county funds and for- fciturew received 1,068,882.33 Amount of income of townahip fund re- «»ve<l 514,365.59 Amount of special district taxes received 5.285,v74.29 Amount received from sale of achool i property | Amount received from district bonds is- , sued for building purpos^en. | Railroad and other back taxes.......,,. i Amount revived from treasurers oth- j er toivnshipe ....I.... ! Amount rpccived for tuition | Error*) in balances reported by teWMMp treasurers in 1879 I Miccellancous receipts ;.. 33,736.33 a">2,i5a.5i '449,503.47 70,100.16 J3,251.77 40,278.87 i 109,816.60 Total amount received during the Jear ending June 30, 1880....... .$9,931,758.74 KXPENIHTUBEN. Amount paid to male teachers.....$3,019,451.18 Amouut paid to female teachers........ 2,r>87.563.,.>2 Whole amount paid to teachers ... ,W,5S7,01K 10 Paid for new school-house? 4UR,:i'2S..'i2 t Paid for new school j-iteF and grouaila-- 7H,150.(">1 ! Paid for purchase of school-house*.i.. H,320.<7 l*aid for rent of KChtxil-honsea.... .. 39,381.13 Paid for repairs and improvements^,"i.V .342,867.08 P;iid for school furniture . . 109,844.07 Paid for sch<xil apparatus 7,33<i.75 Paid for fuel ami other incidental ei-" penses i»,.^ 118 Paid Town Treasurers fofeerv1oe«<|..i".' 149,847.72 Interest j>aid on district bonds... ";fC.. Paid on principal of district h- nda.!.... 517,8i50,06 Paid Tieasurvrs of other townshi{ia; . .,. 70,857.29 Paid for insurance....; 14,286.56 Paid for tuition ;.. 444.32 .Errors in baaiices riepor.ed by Treas­ urer in 1879 j,.v. " 825,103.67 Miscellaneous expenditures 135,108.27 Total exjiendltures for y«u June 80,1880 Balance on band June 90,1880... aa«ng ; $7,531,5*41.79 3,399,816.95 Francisco gave a Chronicle reporter some cruel facts about the training of beasts. He said there was real danger cepted. THE roof of Gen. John A. McCler- nand's barn, at Springtield, was burned off the other night. Several valuable in the business. He had seen two men | horses were rescued unharmed, and a killed and one badly bitten once him-- cirriage was run out after the top had self, but he charged these mishaps to ! '>oen ^urne4 °& carelessness and tro much mercv. ' old, f 1Peki».Jea» on - 1 coat an old-time badge, " Harrison and Total of exi>enditures and tabnaoe. .(9,931,758.74 ! Amount of township funds and value of I ^ land l>elongingthoreto 7,705,722.95 I Amount of district tax levy for support j of schools 5,418,573.74 The total receipts, expenditures and balances is : For 1880, $9,931.758.74 : for 1878. 3»»,fi34,- ! 727.81 ; differenee, f 297,(130.93. This difference ' ia more than accounted for hv the difference in balances on hand at the beginning of the two years, $275,770.91. and the difference between the amounts received from other Treasurers, •54,701.03. The amount received from special taxation for 1878 and 1880 is as follows : 187a 18S0. Special taxes received $5,345,749.03 $5,285,974.29 Kail road and back taxea.. 432,789.10 449,508.47 THE discovery of beds of genuine an­ thracite in the far West is one of the .surprises of recent explorations in New I Mexico. Bituminous coal is common ! •enough west of the Mississippi, but! veins of true anthracite have generally J been confined to "wild-cat prospectus- j es." That there are inexhaustible beds ! •of anthracite in the Old Placer range, I ;and that the coal compares well with ' the Pennsylvania deposits, is the con­ clusion which a New York Tribune cor- j respondent has reached after going over | the grotuici. * j THERE is a girl under treatment at | Bellevue Hospital, New York, for ina­ bility to use her legs. She wore gaiters with ~ inordinately-high French heels. The distortion of her feet and ankles caused an undue tension of the cords and muscles of her calves. She per­ sisted, however, until her legs became misshapen, and finally she was wholly- disabled by lameness. She lies unfash- ionably on her back now, with her un­ handsome feet and legs in a shaping ap­ paratus, enduring a great deal of pain, *nd uncertain whether she will ever be *ble to walk without crutches. " You learn to tell," he explained, " what kind of a temper the beasts are in, and conduct yourself accordingly. It ain't hard to dodge them. If they spring straight at you, all you've got to do is to jump a little one side, and if they jump high for your throat you dive Tyler, 1840." When the Whigs of those days had a big barbecue at Springfield they went down from Pekin with ox teams, taking several days for the trip. JAB. B. DoxiiE, the man arrested in Chicago by order of the Treasury De­ partment, was born in Belfast, Me.", and came West about 1852. He has a sister under 'em. There's never more than j in Bradford and a brother in Mendon, one goes for you at a time, and that county. He is of good family, occur often. The wild ones are I THE trial of Abraham Ridgeway, col- THE Boogher family, of St. Louis Mo., believe themselves rightful heirs to a Iflrge estate in Baltimore. They claim that about 750 acres of land lying on both sides of Jones' falls, which di­ vides the city of Baltimore in twain, be­ longed originally to William Richardson. This laud was leased ii) several parcels at different times and to different per­ sons for ninety-nine years, the title not being fully vested in the lessee. Within the last seven years the oldest of the leases expired, and three years ago the latest one expired. William F. Boogher, •of St. Louis, has charge of the prosecu­ tion of the claim. The value of the property is estimated at $40,000,000. don't occur often. The wild ones are better and safer. This is hecause a lion I ored, charged with the killing of his used to a cage and to being poked and i steP<iau^r.at Tower last sum-n er» resulted in a verdict of guilty of teased is less afraid of you. I d sooner j murder in the first degree, and fixing his handle ten lions just from the jungles j punishment at life imprisonment in the than one that's used to the public. ! penitentiary. When I first go into a cage of untamed! HABRY J. PRICE, a blacksmith, em- ones I'd have a fire near by, with three j ployed at the rolling-mills at Springfield, or four iron rods in it, red hot. If the i ^an'-f}ltwr , , , , '! George Mitchell, also ot the mills, went beasts^go for me, the men stand ready j ont nutting, carrying a double-barreled to jab the irons in their mouths and i shotgun in the wagon. On reaching make 'em let go." He scouted the idea J home in the afternoon both alighted, that lions could be governed except by j a1?^ Tnce was drawing out-the gun, , • , . . , , , ' „ when it was accidentally exploded, both fear, excited by inhuman treatment. He ! lmn,els emptying theii: heavy charges tried never to err on the side df gentle- j. into the youi^g people. The youug ness, and had recently killed a lion by j woman received twenty-five or thirty striking it a little too hard on the heid. • "ght side, which will not ia- | flict a serious injury, but the solid part j of the charge entered her left arm below Total* *5,788,538.15 $5,735,477.76 Decrease in receipts from taxation, compar­ ing 1878 and 1880, l* $53,060.39. but the de­ crease in taxation if or school purposes is greater than thn ; for, comparing the tax levjes of 1877 and 1879, which produced tho current receipts from taxes ia 1878 aud 1880, we have : 1877. 1879. Tax levy for school pur­ poses $5,731,895.24 $5,418,573.74 Decrease in tax levy for school purposes •" 313,122.50 The difference in tho following items of ex­ penditures are noticeable: 187a 1880. Amount paid teachers $1,770,636.00 $4,587,015. W Arnoui t paid f< r new school houses Amount paid for school site®, Amount of interest paid on district IKUHIH Amount paid on principal of distr.et bonds 289.74fr.82 ' 496,328.52 28.142.80 63,150. til AN Indian thief was turned over to the •chief of hia tribe, at San Diego, Cal., and ~iij him sentenced to receive 100 lashes. The culprit was a big, powerful fellow ; but he submitted quietly to be­ ing tied to the side of a high wagon, with his legs and arms extended, and his back bared, A stalwart Indian struck the blows with all his might, using a leather lariat, and making the blood flow fit every stroke. The victim •endured the dreadful torture for a while, and then broke out into agonized screams. If he had remained silent to the end, the chief would have restored "him to the tribe ; but, as he " cried like ^a coward baby," he was afterward driven -out of the neighborhood. FRANCE has agricultural schools, for girls. The chief one is near Rouen, and is worth $160,000. It was begun from a capital of 1 franc by a Sister of Charity and two small discharged prisoner girls. 'The establishment has now 300 girls, ranging in age from 6 to 18. The farm, ^cultivated by them, is over 400 acres in -extent Twenty-five sisters form the -staff of teachers. The French Agricult­ ural Society has awarded many medals to this establishment at Dametel, and the pupils are in great demand all over Normandy oil account of their skill. "They go out as stewards, gardeners, farm ^managers, dairy women and laundresses. Each girl has, on leaving, an outfit and a small sum of. money, earned in spare hours. If they want a home, they can al­ ways return to the farm, which they are taught to regard as home. Washington Fifty Years Ago. Congress has its comedies as well as its tragedies, and the leading comedian was Thomas Corwin, a Representative from Ohio, who was a type of early Western culture and a born humorist. He was a middle-sized, somewhat stout man, with pleasing manners, a fine head, sparkling hazel eyes, and a complexion so dark that on several occasions--as he used to narrate with great glee--he was supposed to be of African descent. " There is no need of my working," said he, " for whenever I cannot support my­ self in Ohio, all I should have to do would be to cross the river, give myself up to a Kentucky negro-trader, be taken South, and sold for a field hand." He always had a story ready to illustrate a subject of conversation, and the dry man­ ner in which he enlivened his speeches by pungent witicisms, without a smile on his own stolid countenance, was irre­ sistible. President Van Burep endeavored to restore the good feeling between the ad­ ministration and Washington " society," which had been ruptured during the po­ litical rule of General Jackson. He gave numerous entertainments at the White House, and used to attend those given by his Cabinet, which was regarded as an innovation, as his predecessors had never accepted such social invitations. Ex- President Adams, the widow of Presi­ dent Madison and the widow of Alexan­ der Hamilton each formed the center of a pleasant coterie, and the President was open in the expression of his desire that the members of his Cabinet aud their principal subordinates should each give a series of dinner parties and e vening (re­ ceptions during the successive sessions of Congress. | The dinner parties were very mu^h alike, and those who were in succession guests at different houses often saw the same table ornaments and were served by the same waiters, while the fare was prepared by the same cook. The guests used to assemble in the parlor, which was almost invariably connected with the dining-room by large folding doors.. When the dinner was ready the folding doors were thrown open, and the table was revealed, covered with dishes and cut-glass ware. A watery compound callod vegetable soup was invariably served, followed by boiled fish, over-done roast beef or mutton, roast fowl or game in their season and a great variety of puddings, pies, cake aud ice cream. The lish, meat and fowl were carved and litUped by the host, while the lady of the House distributed the vegetables, the pickups and the dessert. Champagne, without i^, was sparingly supplied in long, slender glasses, but there was no lack of sound claret, and with the des- j the .shoulder, leaving an aperture large enough to admit a man's hand, and ne- | cessitatiugamputation of the arm. Young i Price received the other charge in his | right arm, several of the muscles being | torn away, but probably he will not lose ! the use of his arm. • IlinolN School Statiwtica* | The following facts are taken from the | report of Hon. J. P. SI ado, State Su- I perintenJent of Public Instruction, for ! the year ending June 30, 1880, which | show a material advance in the educa- I tional matters of the State : CENsrs OF MINOBS. ' ' Number of nia'es under 21 758,186 I Number of females under 21 742,069 | Whole number of persons under 21 1,500,855 I SCHOOL CEKSL'B. '• Number of males between 6 and SI 514,877 ! Number of fema'es betwe» n 6 and 21 497,980 Whole number between 6 and 21 1.01i),851 ENROLLMENT. Number of male persont> euro.led in graded schools 132,483 Number of female persons enrolled in graded wbools ..134,338 Numiter of male persorisenrolled in ungraded schools 230,250 Number of female persons enrolled in un- " " ' 206,970 359,069.37 306,321.65 442,77612 577,850.06 To get an exnet estimate of the net expenses of the public schools for the year there should be some deductions from the total cxiX'iHlitnrcs as given above and some additions. Both the proceeds of district I:Kinds sold for building purposes and the amount paid on principal of district bonds is included. The result ot' this is that the expenditure made in building n house by borrowing money is counted twice-- once when the house is luiilt and again when the bonds are paid. Also, the amount paid other Treasurers is but a transfer of funds. The expenditures for the State nomial^schoola and the amounts paid County 8u]><*ririiond<*nt» and State Superintendent should be included to make up the totai expenditures: Total exjH-nditures as above $7,831^9(1.79 Deduct proceed* of bonds $252,152.61 Deduct amount paid other Treasurers 70,857.20 Dcduct errors of Town Treas­ urers 23,102.07 348.112.38 Leaves .$7,2tW.829.41 Add expeiices of County Superintendents 7;i,460.77 Add expenses of State Superintendent.. 8,200.00 Appropriations for State Normal Schoo's-- At Normal $22,493 5ft At Carbondale 21,285.00 43,778.56 Total expense of public schools $7,329,278.74 If we deduct from this the amonnt received | from the several school funds for tuition fees, and from lines and forfeitures. &61<),5S7.82. it is j found that s?6,6H2,69(t.92 is the total amount of ' the expenditures for the public acliools de- | frayed by State and local taxation. I Estimated value of lots, buildings, and j grounds $ir>,(!0fi.072 j Estimated value of school libraries. 87,5(17 I Estimated value of apparatus " 181,927 j Amount of bonded school debt 8,400.304.14 j If the amount of school indebtedness in Cook county is deducted 1 roni this there is left I $1,622,609.81. Tho amount of school indebt- J edtu KK for the State outside of Cook county iu I 1870 was £2,24^.925.55. showing n decrease in I these debts in ten years of •r<52<i,315.74. The j increase in Cook county comes partly from the I rebuilding of sehool-houses after the tire, and partly from the great growth of the conntv. The decrease outside of Cook county is nearly I 27 percent. Persons under 21 Persons between 6 aud 21... Persons enrolled. graded schools Whole number enrolled 701,041 Comparing 1878 with 1880 : 1878. 1880. .1,490,834 1,500,255 .1,002.421 1,010,851 . 706,733 704,041 ! It will be noticed that there is an increase I shown in the number of persons under 21 ; | also, that the nnmlier of persons of school age j has increased; but the number of pupils en­ rolled is not so large in 1880 as in 1878 ; but this decrease is apparent rather than real, and is j due to the fact that the close of the year for i statistics is now June 30 instead of Sept. 30, as I in 1878. When the year ended, after many of the schools had begun in the fall, the report j would include the enrollment for one year and ( a large part of the pupils enrolled the second I year. Had the year for this report closed June ! 30, the number of pupils enrolled would proba- ! My he 721,000 ; that is, 011 the supposition that ! there has been the same growth per year for | the last two yeai s as was shown in the previous ! six years : [Number of school districts 11,599 I Number ef districts having five laonthsor more.11,418 j Number of dintricts having schools lent than | live mouths.' 76 1 Number of districts having no schools I0o Built during the year 265 j Who.e number of nc-hoei houses in Slate 11,883 I Nuiulier high schools 103 i Xim.>l>er graded schools (includes high) f. 1,031 Number ungraded schools 1 10,92;' I Whoie number of public schools .11,954 | Number of months graded schools were in . session 8,585 j Number months ungraded schools were in ses­ sion ,*...76.370 1 Who!e number mcuths schools in session. 84,954 • Average 7.1 | TK AC HERS. i Number mslo Teachers iu graded schoo's 1,004 1 Number female teachers in graded schools.... 3,844 ' Namber male teachers in ungraded schools.... 7,770 | Sumlier female teachers in ungraded schools.. 9,577 ' Whole number of teachers 22,255 Comparing graded, and ungraded schools, it How Tooth-Brushes Are Made. Although the tooth-brush is not a a very complicated article, no small de­ gree of skill is required in its manufact­ ure. In the first place, care must be exercised in the selection of l>one from which the handle is to be made. For •his purpose the thigh bone of an ox is used, and instead of boiling these with the joints on--the method commonly in vbgue--these joints are sawed off pre­ vious to the boiling process. The in­ creased heat necessary in the former method renders the bone unfit for the purpose of the brush manufacturer. On arriving at the factory the bones are first sawed into tne required length and thickness for brush-handles. They are next turned with a model in a simi­ lar manner , to that employed in the man­ ufacture of shoe-lasts. Then comes the polishing process, which is done by means of a sort of revolving churn. An ingeniously-contrived machine now takes the pieces and deftly punctures holes for the bristles while grooves are cut in the top by saws. Now being ready for the bristles, they are intro­ duced to the department for this work. Girls are usually employed for this branch of the business. After putting in the bristles, they are backed with sealing wax to fasten them securely in place and to fill up the grooves. All that remains to be done is to brand the brashes and pack them for market. THERE are two different ways of con­ ducting stock business ont West. The •one is to buy young steers, keep them two years on your range, and sell them .»«4-year-olds. Per head the increase sert., several bottles of old Madeira were ! appears that 8.6 per cent, of the schools of the generally produced by the W, »l,o 8uc- I ££<££ gfig ciuctly gave the age and history of each. ;,d 8cil0(jI;;. and 77.7 in ungraded. ' The best Madeira was that labeled " tho ] monthly was?e.s paid to male teachers.$235.00 Highest monthly wa^es i>aid to female teachers 163.00 . . . . . . ̂ 00 Average paid to maler 44.24 Average paid to females 35.28 Number of districts having libraries... 980 Number volumes bought during year fi,6t>5 Whole number of volumes in libraries 57,726 PEIVAXE SCHOOLS. Number reported 661 Male pupils reported in private schools..29,890 Female pupils reported,, in private schools 30,550 Whole number of pupils 60,440 Number of male teachers in private schools, as reported 622 Number of female teachers In private schools, as reported -. 875 Supreme Court," as their Honors the Justices used to make a direct importa- i Lowest monthly wages paid to ferules 10. 4- „ J . ., ,, 1 , Lowest monthly wages paid to males 10. tion every year, and sip it as they con- 1 - suited over the cases before them every day after dinuer, when the cloth had been removed. Some rare old specimens of this Supreme Court wine can still be found in Washington wine-cellars.--At­ lantic. THE gold pig worm as a charm is re­ placed by a spider of sapphires and em­ eralds. Next we may expect the rattle­ snake in rubies and pearls and then the polecat in diamonds, and then the peo­ ple will sour on the whole fashion.--Bos­ ton Post. Whole number teachers 'Number of persona between I 1,497 and 81 nn- Filtering Cistern Water. Ex-Mayor Clymer, of Reading, Pa., proposes the following, which is proba­ bly the best cheap mode of fitting rain­ water for drinking or culinary purposes: " Pure fresh water in the West is se­ cured the year round by their large and admirable cisterns, built of brick and | Roman cement. In the center is placed j a brick chimney; in said chimney the j pump is placed. The water from the i top to the bottom of the cistern is con- !' stantly filtering through the chimney to supply the demands of the pump, and this process keeps the water in the main body of the cistern in a state of con­ stant agitation, thereby it is always sweet and good. Every family can have pure water by filtering the rain of heaven from their housetops, or by filtering the impure water from our ' water basins.' " Miss EULT FAITHFUL will not visit us this season. "WANTED--A new husband," Mrs. Oates. CAU WAQNBB said Cincinnati was not likePam and the Cincinnatians hissed him. SARA BERNHARDT took the "h" from her first name and placed it in the mid­ dle of her second. THE theme of the new comic operetta Deerret, the music of which is by Mr. Dudley Buck, relates to Mormonism. THEODORE THOMAS conducted the first chorus rehearsal of the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association, for the May festival which takes place in 1882. OLIVE LOGAN, writing from London, says that the music hall song. Oh, Mary Ann, Fie for Shame; I Tell Your Ma! is all the rage there now. THE custom-house officers in New York carefully inspect the inside of fish­ ing rods. Sarah Bernhardt can't slip into the country in that fashion. A PiTTsnt'Ro paper says that Mary Anderson is billed to plav in New York for five weeks in December. It takes the handsome Mary to spiu out time. Miss ANNA DICKINSON anuounces an intention of returning to the lecture platform, but will still prosecute her various dramatic projects, lecturing on Ihmton and giving readings from her play, Atirclian. A NEW star in New York is Lillian Spencer, and she is only 16 or it years old. She is a little tiling no bigger*than Lotto. But she has a voice that was jmoulded for tragedy. Her career promises to lie an interesting one. "WELL, what do you think of X-'snew five-act tragedy?" "Hum! There were five of us iu our box, not bad judges of a play as judges go, aud we all agreed that one act should have been omitted." •Indeed! Which act?" "Well, no two of us agreed on that point." A STATEMENT published in this country that "the whole performance of the Passion Play at Oberiimmergau has l>een so deteriorated and vulgarized that, after this year, no representation of it is to be allowed," is totally aud unequivocally denied iu the Munich papers. ALL that the American public knows of Sarah Bernhardt is that she is an ex­ travagant woman, both in purse and character, lean to boninesp, on the shady side of five and thirty, capricious, unre­ liable, a shrewd dabbler in the arts, who has made a vast success by clever puffery of herself.--Brooklyn Eagle. THE moment the death of Miss Neilson was known the vigilant police of Paris sealed the doors of her room at the Hotel Continental. After the investigation the seals were broken and it was found that the window leading to the piazza was open all the time, and any one walking on the outside could easily have stepped into the room. The sealing process doesn't seem to have been worth a con­ tinental. THE beautiful play, Hazel Kirkc, which will be performed at the Mad­ ison Square Theater to-night for the 253d time, has won the laurels, having accomplished the longest run 011 record. It is probable that Hazel Kirkc will lie played through the present season, as there seems 110 signs of al»atement in the attendance, and, like Tennyson's Brook, it looks as if it will go on forever.--New York (bttimrrcial Advertiser. THE musical festival to take place in New York City in May, 1881, will un­ doubtedly be the grandest musical event ever held in this country. Some idea may be formed of the vsistiiess of the undertaking when it is understood that the estimated expense is some $70,000, al»out one-half of which is already sub­ scribed. The chorus, which has been successfully organized, numbers nearly twelve hundred carefully selected voices --the Oratorio Society section of 400 men, in the hail of the Young Men's Christian Association; another New York section of 200 meet at Trinity Chapel; the Newark section number '200; the Jer­ sey City section 150, the Brooklyn sec­ tion 150, and the Nvack section 100. All have weekly rehearsals. Uses for Sawdnst. Saw dusterine, says the Northwestern Lumberman, is to be discounted by a French chemist, who does not think its adaptability as an article of diet equal to its inijxjrtance to dyers and chemists. M. .Tanssen thinks Minneapolis is tho best place to manufacture an acid now wholly imported from France, which can l»e obtained in endless quantities from fine sawdust. How fine the dust must be he does not inform the public; but his enterprise will be of value to the sawdust world if it only leads to the use of thin­ ner saws in the manufacture of lumber. Bay City also finds a mysterious-looking building going up on the banks of the Saginaw, opposite "the metropolis of the valley," in building which the utmost secrecy has been observed. No one knows whether it is being erected to ex­ tract acid from sawdust or bismuth from salt bitterns. No doubt its projectors expect to find " millions in it " whatever the purpose to which it is destined. This is an era of progress. Hiram Smith, of Flint, Mich., turns the smoke of char­ coal burning into acetic acid, and finds the smoke of more value than the char­ coal. A patent has recently l>een taken out for window shutters in which paste­ board is substituted for wood; the slats and panels mav be covered with orna­ mental paper and painted or stamped in imitation of wood of any grain or pat­ tern. Wooden palls are being superseded by those made of paper, while paper moldings and paper ornaments are pressed into shapes aud sizes and for purposes where but a short time ago elaborate carvings and trie skill of the artist was all necessary. Aud now comes acid from sawdust. Whether to be used "ns a substitute for tea and coffee, or to manufacture the beautifully tinted lemonade which is such a favorite with lovesick swains at the annual circus, de­ ponent saith not; perchance it is to take the place of the beverage which inebriates more than it cheers, in which case Min­ neapolis is not a bad choice for a location for its manufacture, provided certain of its mill men do not take too much stock in it, payable in sawdust. Effect of Hot Weather on Troops. A German medical paper gives a list of some of 'the mo^t-notable instances where iu hot weather bodies of troops on the march have suffered severely from the heat. During the seven years' war, when Frederick the Great was marching from Marienstern upon Bautzen, no fewer than 300 men diedVon one day--the 6th of August, 1760--from sunstroke. On the 21st of May, 1827, while the guard corps was maneuvering between Berlin and Potsdam, the men, exhausted by the heat, fell down in masses on the road, and the whole force became a mere rabWle, some struggling on in vain attempts to keep their places in the ranks, others lying down and dy­ ing by the wayside. On the 8th of July, 1853, at the conclusion of some maneu­ vers in the camp of Beverloo, two bat­ talions were ordered to march to the ad­ jacent station of Hasselt to proceed by special train to Brussels ; but before the former place could be reached so many ! men had died from sunstroke, or had i fallen down exhausted by the heat, that , of the 600 men originally comprised in the two battalions only 150 arrived at Brussels. In the following year a col-. \ nmn of Prussian troops suffered in a ; similar manner, and during one of the marches of the French army in the Dobrudscha an equally-great mortality ensued. r ILL it liUa c. Torrxo. "^forwpadto the not , dents which happens in human exper­ ience, of one's dreaming that death or calamity has overtaken a friend or rela- 1 tive, aud afterwards discovering that the ! catastrophe came to pass at the exact minute of the dream, scientists say, al­ lowance is not made for the difference in j time between the place where the dreainer ; lives and the place where the death oc- j curs. Thereupon a San Francisco woman j dreamed that her father in New England ! was ran over and killed by the cars. She . awoke and looked at the clock. It was ; midnight. A week afterward, she says that she received the news of her father's death exactly as she dreamed it, and it happened at 9 o'clock in the evening of the night on which she saw the occur- | ence in her sleep. The exact difference of three hours in the time, she argued, ; made her dream and her father's death tally exactly. But some cold-blocwied critic points out that there is a mistake Ob, oft 401 feink of m dear, distant And sonny" And a dearly- In its merciless My best friend waa be in And fondly would smite as I oHwbed on fit knife ^ y And now that I'm bowed by autumn's chill blast. * 4ft ; I ask but the question, " Will father know me?* And oft do 1 dream of that bright amain As ever it shone cm lay tiid torn* and P"^.l r8* : a,, wiid riimbina'rose as a trophy I won, • And butterflies phased In JnaooeBi glee. - ;, '; Ah! that bright snn hnth set hi shadows bow dfljgff V And my heart from its sching never is free ; • ~ ^ <> In that fair mom;ng-land, where eyes never weep, _ ' In the glad home above, will father know me? ' ' " My face he knew only in life's morning hour, Ere the twin roses-had faded away; No thorn had then pierced me in plucking a lo«Cf ,,' And lifc lay before me--a promising Magr. ", • Who truly can tell what may fall on UM morrow7*" t If fair ships of ours »hall founder at as* T ^ :i i»|:.' And who but myself can fathom the sorrow •"? • Jt * Of doubting £he question, "Will father know And, oh! have I wanderedfrocn Ed«n's fair 1 When this precept kind : Save , with others i "The path that lends upward ia narrow and itnli|Mi ^ And faith in the Master gare light to the Windf Ah 1 my heart doth despond when I try to dtaas The mute mysteries hidden beyond the great aMt£ . - But in life'a darkest hour, as I sadly recline, • • < - Sometimes 1 dream sweetly that fatherU know VMK . CLABKNDON, Ark. 3 V • .. r'i PITH A5D PODTT. Wfetib drilled--The oil region/1" A " FIERY steed "--Pony brandy. ly. . THB Turkish portion--Cross-legged^! APPLE JACK is first cousin to JAM** somewhere; because when it is midnight j jams ' in Sau Francisco, it is three o'clock in : ,, , „ . . ^ ' "MAHI axe called but few are chosen" I the morning iu New England, hence, ! according to her own story her father ' was killed six hours before' she saw him ! die. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post points ont a similar dis­ crepancy in Bret Harte's poem "Her ! Letter," in which a New York girl | "dressed just as she came from the dance," is described as writiug to her | lover, a miner in the "far West." She | ends it up by bidding him "good night, | | if the longitude please," for while she "is j ! wasting her taper," his "sun's climbing ) ; over the trees." The poet has got things ! | twisted because the sun rises in New j I York three hours before it does iu San i | Francisco," and if it were one or two o'clock ! j in the morning alter tho dance when she j | was writing to her lover, he, instead of 1 j watching the sun rise was, if a good, I I young man of regular habits, like all i I Pacific coast miners, just getting into ; 1 bed. One needs to remember when cal- j j culatiug differences of time, that, al- | i though the sun appears to move from i ' East to West, the earth actually does 1 move from West to East, and that peo- j pie West of us are, at any given moment, I doing what we were doing several min- j utes or, hours ago, not what we will be I doing by aud by. On the contrary, Eastern people have finished doing for : the day or night what we are doing at the present moment--Free Prem. > "i-s "4 - - rf-; ^ 4 } -"t < 1 •, ̂ -ir avi j " Science at Breakfast." j Under this heading the editor of | Science groups together a great deal of ! information on the action of tea, coffee I and chocolate. The latter, he says, j from its large proportion of albumen, is j the most nutritive beverage, but at the j same time, from its quantity of fat, the | most difficult to digest. Its aromatic j substances, however, strengthen the di- i gestion. A cup of chocolate is an excel- j lent restorative and invigorating refresh- 1 ! inent even for weak persons, provided j ; the digestive organs are not too delicate, j j Cardinal Richelieu attributed to choco- j j late his health and hilarity during his I j later years. • \ • \ Tea and coflRse do noli afford this ad- 1 j vantage. Albumen in tea leaves, and J legumin in coffee berries, are represent- i ed in very scanty proportions. The | praise of tea and coffee as nutritive substances is, therefore, hardly war­ ranted. Tela and coffee, though of | themselves not difficult of digestion, j tend to disturb the digestion of albumin- i ous substances by precipitating them I from their dissolved state. Milk, there- j fore, if mixed with tea or coffee, is more I difficult of digestion than if taken alone, j and coffee alone without cream promotes j digestion after dinner by increasing the : secretion of the dissolving juices. The i volatile oil of coffee and the empyreu- , . - ma tic and aromatic matters of chocolate j naim' ,vny its properties ? --to occupy political office. " THIS is a perfect windfall to me " •* the apple said^when the gale shook w down. " THE suspense is over F' as the Sheriff said when he cut down the criminals body." " MY burden is light," remarked flii| little man carrying a big torch in the- procession. THE boys of Utah, we learn from As Salt Lake Tribune, boast of the nnmbor of their mothers. A PAPER speaks of a meteor " abottfc * ,\I as Inrqe as a basket." The tail mart * have been as long as a piece of string. ',, 1 ft' ' : LIVFW of (frocerym^n remind They can make their sttrch A n d w i t h s n g n r w h o l l y b l i n d . . < . . . Patting sand in all the time. ,, „ w MANY a book asrent and canvasser nail * discovered that the " welcome" on a door-mat refers to the third house around the corner. , A MAN has invented a chair that call be adjusted to 800different positions. It is designed for a boy to sit in when tpf goes to church. CICEHO said : " Nothing should till * done hastily." The old chap was wrong. „ Tf you see a man coming at von with an ax jyet away ns hastily as yon can. A SHADE of sadness crosses the faed of the poet when he reflects that the average age of the hog is only 15 years. "So young," he mutters to himself; "M» fair." THE reason why the old Norwegian poets are not more celebrated h because their names cannot be handed clown to posterity without breaking.--New lean* Picayune. A PROVIDENT nncle reproached his e£- travacrant nephew. " Ton have spent everything you had, nnhnopy boy f* " Except my debts, uncle. Yon cannot reproach me with having sp^nt thern l** answered the unabashed youth. " 'PEARS to me your mill goes awful slow," said an impatient farmer boy to a* miller. ' " I could eat that meal faster^ you grind it." " How loner do yon think you could do it, my lad ?" quoth the miller. "Till I starved to death," an- r swered the boy. ' r LAWYER C. (entering the office ef „ r. his friend. Dr. M., and speaking in ^ a hoarse whisper)--" Fred. I've got such a cold this morninsr that I can't speak the truth." Dr. M.--"Well, I'm glad that it's nothing that will interfere j your business. CHEMISTRY recitation : Professor I "What is water?" Student--"Water is an article used by some as a drink.** Professor, interrupting -- "Can yon Student r > .-•>% ,. - • - v-: i f J j accelerate the circulation, wilich, on the j other hand, is calmed by tea. # i Tea and coffee both excite the activity ! of tho brain and nerves. Tea, it is said, 1 increases the power of digesting the im- | pressions we have received, creates a i thorough meditation, and, in spite of j the movements of thought, permits the ! attention to be fixed upon a certain ob- ! jeet. Ou the other luuid, if tea is taken ; m excess, it causes an increased irrita- | bility of the nerves, characterized by sleeplessness with a general feeling ot 1 restlessness aud trembling of the limbs. | Coffee, also, if taken in excess, produces i sleeplessness and many baneful effects I very similar to those arising from tea- I drinking. Coffee, however, produces j greater excitement, and a sensation of j restlessness and heat ensues. For | throwing off this condition fresh air is I the best antidote. J Antique Furniture. I Say not there is no fun in the furni- | ture maker of Paris, particularly in him | who maketli the old furniture. On this i side the water it is concurrently admitted J that the Yankee is equal to almost | any •' 'cuteness" required by demand | and supply, but his Parisian brother is i quite his equal. The latter is now large- : ly in the way of inventing antiquities, j We are told of a party who the other ! day went into a shop near the Boulevard . Montmartre. There was a woman in the j shop. | *-r%> Has your husband gone out t" was jasked. i " N o ; h e i s i n t h e b a c k s h o p . | you want to speak to him ?" j " What is he doing ?" I " He is working," she replied ; and at the same moment an explosion was heard in the back shop.. " Ah ! what is that V" " O, it is nothing--simply my huB- band finishing a Gothic cabinet." And lifting up the curtain her worthy | husband was seen tiring small shot into a pseudo Gothic cabinet, in order to give it an appearance of worm-eaten antiqui- I ty. The Parisians are very sly. One i of their favorite tricks is to place these "antiquities" in country inns and cot­ tages. The tourist sees them ; the inn­ keeper says they have been in his family "Well, it occasionally rots Exeunt omnes. hoota," FITTING emblems are not always ap­ preciated. The neighbors of a poor fel­ low who died erected a tombstone to hia memory and had placed al>ove it the conventional white dove. The widow looked at it through her tears, and said r " It was very thoughtful to put it there. John was very fond of gunning, and it was an especially-suitable emblem." DURING the last session of the court at , Wis., Lawyer Blank had been trying for two long hours to impress upon the minds of the jury the facts of the case. Hearing the dinner-liell, he turned to the Judge, and said, " Had we better adjourn for dinner, or shall 1 keep right on ? " Weary and disgusted, his Honor replied, " Oh, you keep right v- on, keep right on, and we will go to di% , ner."--Harper's Monthly. ' 1 SOMKTIMES, not often, when the days are short, KaA peaceful sits the buil-dog by the gatat Her papa (riven a sndften, gloomy snort, _ 5 Remarking that the hour is rather late. . X bear the old man coming up tlie hall, t 's. The drowsy murmur of his awful boot; Grabbing my yellow nlster like a pall I get a running start and off I scoot-- " Sometimes. Sometimes, not often, div< the faithful doa__^_.'J®|-" A : Forget to keep the w?at of mv stripe d para; , He seems to know when I would be incog, ; «r And never gives me more than ha f a chwfc V i From far-off days an echo wanders by That makes a discord iu the Christinas ekiMM--> ~ I take the first street car I see and try , i To think that other fellows have to climb-- ? I Sometimes. -' "ft HE gracefully accepted : "I assure \ you, gentlemen," said the convict upon 1 ) entering the prison, " that the place had 4 DJJ sought me, and not I the place. My ' own affairs really demanded sill my tvmbi and attention, and I may truly say that ' '% my selection to till this place was an ei|£ i tire surprise. Had 1 consulted my owfk « interest I should have peremptorily d«j»^ clincd to serve, bnt, as I am in the hand* of my friends, I see no other coarse bu$r '• to submit." ' An Ant Worth Going Te. There has lately been species of ant which deserves to be A • * discov)6ftfSS*'^a'"'J •-< at oiice introduced to the attention of all children, servants, and ladies keeping house. No vestry should be ignorant <x the habits of so admirable a creature, aud . sanitary boards of all kinds should withr for hundreds of years ; the anmtenr pays j out ioss cf time be put in possession 0§ the leading facts with respect to them*;'-a long price for them and restores them to their native Paris, which they had left only a few weeks l»efore. Talk of Yankee' cutenessI--Harper's Magazine. ABOUT two years ago, says the Roches­ ter Democrat, Detective Bureliell told a young bootblack named Dominick Cas- tello that if he would give up chewing and smoking he should have a new hat. Soon after this the boy left for Minneap­ olis, Minn., but it seems he did not for­ get the promise, and recently, when he made his re-appearance in Rochester, well clad and bearing, the mark of pros­ perity, he claimed his reward. He proved that he had earned it, and it is needless to say that it waa cheerfully paid. This ant, it appears, abominates a rub­ bish. If its home is made in a mess it gets disgusted, goes sjully away, and never comes back. Dirt breaks its heart. The insect in question is a native of 0»> lombia, and hatches its eggs by artificial heat, procuring for this purpose quanti­ ties of foliage, which in the coma* of natural fermentation supply the news- sary warmth. When the young brood ia hatched the community carefully cany away the decomjwsed rubbish that has served its purpose as a hotbed, and stack it by itself at a distanoe froa the nest--London Telegraph. EVKBY honest shoemaker ping a way for a good