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c§frwg fllaindealct 1. VAN SLYKE. UNa t mi Publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Miss LIZZIE SARGENT, daughter of ex- ft inator Sargent, of California, has been Regularly admitted as a member of the fnedieal profession of San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Medical College •of the Pacific. T*s Emperor William and Gortscha- ioff are both over 80, Disraeli and Glad- atone over 70, and the Czar and Prince Bismarck over 60. It is remarkable 4hat the youngest pair in this half-dozen fcave the most bodily ailment and the poorest prospect of life. THE latest idea in the trmnelittg line is to lav tubes along the bed of the At­ lantic so that a Fontaine engine can go from thin country to Ireland in about sixty hours. The tunnel is to be a little over 3,000 miles long, and is to be built in sections, each 150 feet long by twenty- five feet in diameter. GABIBALDI is savagely opposed to the military system as now practiced in Italy. It takes the very best men of the nation, dooms them to celibacy during their best years, and leaves the race to be kept up by the sickly, the deformed, and the diseased. It . is an attempt to reverse the law of the "survival of the fitt3St." .SECRETARY EVABTS is a joker. He •was asked about the seals of the Govern­ ment the other day, and replied : "All I know about seals is that I live in a house built by the President of the Alaska Fur Seal Company. Alaska is the State qf seals, and I have charge of the seals of State, so it is fitting I should live in the house." how he was a good man with his fists, and published an anecdote purporting to be true, which credited him with having had a fight with a carpenter. In this, according to the Globe-Democrat, he was knocked down, and while the car­ penter wa3 pounding him he cried: Hold up! Hold up! I am Jesus!' "All right," said the carpenter, "I am the Devil!" and he kept on pounding. Father O'Reilly claims he used no such language, and has for that reason en­ tered suit against the Glob«*D&i#Qcrat -, claiming $5,000 damages. DB. J. L. VATTIEB, of Cincinnati, who died the other day, was the " last man" of a party of seven men who, on Sun­ day, Sept. 30, 1832, the dreadful chol­ era year, formed the "Society of the .Last Man." On the day mentioned Jo­ seph R. Mason, a prominent young artist, Dr. Vattier, Dr. James M. Ma­ son, Henry L. Tatem, Feflton Lawson, William Disney, Jr., and William Stan- bery sat in the artist's studio conversing upon the plague and the havoc it was r»!yyaing. One of the number in a spirit of levity suggested the formation of a so­ ciety to be known as the Society of the Last Man, and proposed that on each recurring anniversary a banquet should be held, at which the survivors were to attend, but invariably covers should be provided for seven. It was further ar­ ranged that when but one living repre­ sentative remained to attend the feast he was to open and drink a bottle of HUMORS OF THE DAT. How ACCOUNTS do differ! The official report of the French Government places the yield of wheat in France for '80 at 279,209,000 bushels, and the average yield at 32 bushels per acre. Moreover, it is stated that for the past ten years the average yield has been 31.3 bushel?, and the average annual production 267,- 933,600 bushels, while the country has for the last decade imported 34,110,400 bushels, making the. average annual re­ quirement 302,0i4,000 bushels. English authorities have been putting the aver­ age yield of wheat in France at J 5 bush­ els, whereas it thus appears it is greater than the English yield. THX man whose lager went the wrong way said he had an ale in his ooughin*. WOMEN'S hearts and violins are very much alike. It takes a beau to play on either of them. JOB had patience, but then Job never tried to back a carriage into a narrow shed on a dark night. AN exchange says: "The butchers of ! Baltimore are very handsome." That is when they are dressed to kill WE would like to inquire if the man who sat with bated breath got a bite? If so the plan might be at once adopted by our ignoble army of tramps. A NEW book is out entitled "Links in Rebecca's Life." Rebecca was probably a sausage maker's daughter. What an eventful abd mysterious life she must have led! I FREsuins yon understand my busi- said the census-taker to the acro­ bat. "I merely wish to know your oc­ cupation." "Oh, yes, I tumble, replied the acrobat. ON the order slate AN the door of a carpenter shop in this city a passing pedestrian discovered the following: "Cum to --'s Lacker store a Dore to fics."--Rochester Herald. SENIOR asks professor a very profound question. Professor--"Mr. W -, a fool can ask a question that ten wise men could not answer." Senior--"Thei^ I suppose that's why so many of us flunk." EXTRACT from a letter from Angelina: "Dear Henry, you ask if I return your love. Yes, Henry, I have no use for it, and return it with many thanks. Ey-by, Henry."--Boston Transcript. AN impertinent fop made fun of an old farmer's large nose, mouth and chin, but the old farmer silenced him by saying, counted 80 degrees above the freezing point. France uses the centigrade thermometer, so-called because it marks the boiling point 100 degrees from freez­ ing point. On many points the centi­ grade system is the best, and the tri­ umph of convenience will be attained •when zero is made the freezing point, and when the boiling point is put 100 or 1,000 degrees fiom it, and all the subdi- ,visions are fixed decimally. PRIMEVAL MAN. , , . ., , . "Your noee, mouth an' chin all had to be wine that had been provided at j matje Binan go 'at there'd be material left the first meal. They came togetli- for your cheek." er for the first time on Oct. 6, 1832, and on that occasion a bottle of wine, with a tightly closed cork, was produced and placed in a casket of mahogany made expressly for the purpose. The repository for the sacVed keeping of this "wine of wines " was shaped like Bun­ ker Hill monument. In the base the records of the society were preserved, and in the shaft was lowered the bottle, only to be reached by unlocking and lifting the li<£ The lid was closed and grow up. come a duchess, my daughter?" "Why, by marrying a Dutchman, to be sure!" replied the little girl. " I HAVE left all my fortune to my wife," said the philosophic husband of a grumbling and scolding spouse, "on condition that she shall marry again." " What is that for?" asked his legal ad­ viser. "I wish to be sure that there will be Bome one to regret my death i when I am gone," said the husband, locked, after which the keyhole was filled «is dot so," asked a Galveston bank- with sealing-wax in a quantity that ad- ' rapt of a friend, ' 'dot Schwindelmeyer mitted of the serf of the society being ' hash failed in pishness?" The reply was impressed upon the outside. Death j *n.the negative, whereat the bankrupt • ~ , - 1 said enthusiastically: "I am tam glad spared the little band for the first four , Schwindelmeyer yasii an honest man; and when next they met there ^en der vasli too mooch competition al- Yermont Equity. There was a certain Vermont farmer named Brown, who owned a large sheep farm, and who, once on a time, finding himself in difficulties, came down to Bos­ ton and consulted his brother-in-law, who was a lawyer, as to ways and means of raising money. The lawyer, who was a keen man of business, and had money to spare, agreed to lentl the farmer such sums as he required, provided the latter would give him a first mortgage on tho sheep farm. The farmer assented to this, the mortgage was duly made and recorded, and the farmer returned home to Vermont with money in his pocket. Time went on, and the farmer paid interest promptly, the same passing j through the hands of one John Smith, j who was a man of mark in the farmer's i neighborhood, and had accordingly been I deputed by the Boston lawyer to receive the interest and forward the same to him. j At length, however, Farmer Brown, ! finding Tittle market for his wool, and ! having invested in certain worthless out­ lying farms, again fell into difficulties, and this time sought the advice and as­ sistance of his neighbor, Smith, who, after looking over the matter, agreed to advance Brawn certain sums and take security, by mortgage of the farmer's carts, wagons, horses, sheep-shears, and j other personal property, the farm itself ' being already mortgaged to the Boston lawyer. But Brown still failed to prosper, and at length could pay interest neither to _ , the lawyer nor to Smith. ' Then it was I will be a duchess when I j agreed that his assets should be fairly How do you expect to _be- j divided between the two mortgages, and i Squire Joyce, a Justice of the Peace in the neighborhood, who was a member of the same church as Smith, was selected " MOTHER," said a little girl, who was engaged in making an apron for her doll, "I believe To OWN stock in the Chemical Bank of New York is as high a degree of respect­ ability as to live on Beacon Hill in Bos­ ton, or to own a pew in St. John's Church in Washington, and a good deal more profitable. It pays 100-per-cent dividends, and to offer to buy a share of a, man who owns it is as insolent as to ask him to sell you his baby. Jones, the brewer, who has just died in New York, was worth $1,000,000, but never teas contented till he became a Director in the Chemical Bank. He obtained stock by paying fabulous prices for it, and when he finally secured a seat in the directory the aim of life was reached. For many years Jones has been the largest buyer of barley and malt in America. He made 2,000 barrels of ale in a week, and supplied nearly all the malt that was used in New York and vicinity. He was a bachelor, and lived at the Clarendon Hotel, of which he was owner, in a magnificent suit of rooms. His sister, who lived with him, a maiden lady of 50 years, is his principal heir, but his business goes to several nephews he had taken into partnership with him. years, was one vacant chair--Dr. Mason had died. Five only were found at the table in 1839, William Stanbery having died. The artist, Mason, followed in 1842, and four sat at the table. William Disney died in 1849, and to tho banquet provid­ ed for seven but three sat down. This number remained intact until 1855, when Hecry L. Tatem and Dr. Vattier alone remained. Fenton Lawson was missing. The casket was now in the possession of Tatem. Two mouths later he fell sick, and, in his delirium, he cried : " Break open that casket, and pour out the wine. It haunts me." The next year Dr. Vat­ tier was alone at a banquet set for seven, and he performed the Bacred obligation that might have ended then, but did not, a9 he continued honoring the anni­ versaries in solitude and secrecy. Life's Drawbacks. The rich man of 1805 would generally be thought to be only mederately well ready is dish bankrupt pishness?"--Gal­ veston News. • I AN Irishman knows how to pay a com- | pliment, but he does not always put it in j the right place. A l>eautiful young lady ! happened to shudder, aud afterward said, referring to the old adage, "Some one is wnlking over my grave." Patrick could not lose the chance to say some­ thing very polite, and so he replied: " Oh, my lady, I only wish that I were the happy man!" A FASHIONABLE lady was unexpectedly left without a servant. She undertook to make her liusbaud a cup of coffee, but it took so long he asked what in the Halifax was the matter with the coffee. "I don't know," she said, bursting into tears; "I've boiled these beans for a full hour, and they are no softer now than they were when I first put them in the pot"--Galveston News. Sous time since a car used to go from' Wicklow to Dublin, and as the mare was found to travel much more briskly under the influence of a glass of whisky the habitual travelers subscribed to supply her with this stimulant. Traveler--' 'Pat, the mare won't go at all to-day. You f™. J&jS igsfiSWS ESS lie. It« lawful cowld rcorm.- „ ALTHOUGH constituting but a small portion of the vast domain acquired of France, Louisiana is still a large State, embracing an area of 26,105,000 acres of serviceable land, of which 2,483,000 are rich prairies. Of this area, much of which is as fertile as any in the world, less than one-fifth is in cultivation, leav­ ing fully 17,000,000 acres yet to be brought under the *sway of the hus­ bandman. The great drawback to many agricultural sections of the West and Southwest is the necessity for more or less expensive irrigation works. But it can be safely said that no State in the Union has more natural water courses than Louisiana, and fine fish abound in all of them. The chief of the Bureau of Immigration reports that all the up­ land and alluvial region. three-fourths of the State, with the finest forests in the United States; and, as the State is cut up in every direction by navigable waters, the for jsts of p ne, cypress, live oak, white oak, gum, ash an I other valuable tree3 furnish employment to hundreds of,mills aud thom.m Is of people in getting out lumber for the home and foreign trade. A PDBUO school and a parish school adjiin each other at Carondelet, Mo. The l.oys of the two institutions have tierco battles with snow-balls, pal Murphy, of the public school, was one day knocked down by one of the inlssil< s, and on examining it he found it Win m wle of iron slag, with only a coating of snow. He called Policeman Farley, who caught two of the parish school pupils in the act of waylaying an enemy. The Rev. Father O'Reilly saw the arrest from a window of the parish school, and went out to rescue the pris­ oners. A. fight ensued between the clergyman and the officer, during which they damaged each other a great deal, and the boys escaped. All that night several policemen surrounded Father O'Reilly's house trying to get in and ar­ rest him, and he sat at an open window xasparating them with jeers and taunts. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in re­ porting the affair, told how well the good priest was holding the fort, and reckon by hundreds of thousands instead of tens of thousands. »But, with all this increased capacity for toil aud accumuL',- ] tiou, the human system remains just j where it was. The millionaire can eat ; and drink no more on the average than : the poor man. If he transgresses the laws of digestion he suffers as much as would the pauper. If machinery, and railroads, and telegraphs have saved time aud the waste of muscle, they have greatly ; increased the wear and tear of nerves, j Wc understand hygiene better than our ancestors, and so there are fewer deaths from fevers and epidemics. The average duration of life has increased thereby. : Yet by way of unpleasant compensation, ! the mortality from brain, heart and kid- ney troubles ingrowing, and a premature and often sudden death is likely to be the fate of the enterprising man of busi­ ness. Worry kills and so does over stag­ nation. The latter was the danger of the slow old , times, while the former is the haunting specter of to-day. Safety lies in the calm middle way. Comparatively few people have the courage or the opportunity to decline fol­ lowing the multitude, even when they know that the multitude is going wrong. Yet no one has more than one life to live, and he should use it to the best advan­ tage. A fair support, with intervals of rest, and a proper attention to morals and refinements, is to be preferred to wealth gained by the sacrifice of every comfort, liable to be lost in the first financial storm, and perhaps not gained at all. Still the majority does not so conclude, comprising/! Everything goes with a rush. Even the is covered 1 Sunday leisure of a former day is often deemed wasteful, though we can now do as much in six days as our fathers did in thirty. Hardly, any one is satisfied to move on calmly and regularly. There has been no modification of natural laws in behalf of the supposed exigencies of the period. Suicide by overwork is as sure and often as speedy as by dissipation, and the most successful toilers, if they do not actually die at once, are often unfitted for the enjoyment of wealth before they have gained it. There may be a feverish enjoyment in speculation and rapid ac- „ quisition, but there is none of the trau- Princi- ' 'l11^ happiness of moderation, and the re* 1 action wheil disaster comes is fearful. There is the same restlessness in social spheres as in financial. Almost every one is striving and pushing, not with commendable ambition only, but with impetuous and selfish energy. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but we have not misrepresented the characteris­ tics of the day. It may not be possible to weigh the aggregate of happiness at present existing with that of any earlier period, for the growth of knowledge and the increased prevalence of philanthropic ideas should also be taken into account. Yet it may safely be affirmed that old sources of misery not only exist, but no and I wanted a drop meself as bad as her, so we tossed for it and sure I won the toss." MB. BELKNAP and Mrs. Green were foolish and wicked enough to elope to­ gether at Melrose, Wis. They drove a good horse rapidly, but when ten miles from town they heard a clatter of hoofs behind them. The deceived husband had got wind of th« flight, aud was in hot pursuit The race was long and ex­ citing, but anon the husband caught up, and presented a pistol at the terrified pair. "You may have your wife, Mr. Green," said the abject Belknap. "Wife be blowed?" replied Mr. Green. "You don't think I've chased after her? Oh, no! But I'll take the dollar and a half she has in her pocket" The money was given up, and the elopement was car­ ried out according to the programme. Architecture ID America. In various parts of America there is evidence of the presence of good archi­ tects, and even of good decorative artists. Frank Furness has made himself felt at Philadelphia, Lyman Silsbee at Syra­ cuse, and Robert Peabody in and around Boston. [By the way, how happens it that these leading architects should all be sons of Unitarian clergymen ?] But generally the noble public buildings in America put to shame the private resi­ dences. The chief want appears to be a greater attention to household archi­ tecture. In and around both Cincinnati and St. Louis I saw a large number of houses that might have been made beau­ tiful, and at the same time cost a third less than the expense evidently incurred. It does not seem to lie realized in many American cities that it is a large part of the art of a trained architect to save money for his employer. If any one will stop long enough in the city of Syracuse, N. Y., to take a stroll or drive through its streets, especially James street (which, notwithstanding its plebeian name, is one of the prettiest streets in the world), he will see more beautiful homes than can be picked out from Cin­ cinnati, Chicago and St Louis all to­ gether. Yet Syracuse has only 60,000 inhabitants, and few of them wealthy, according to the standard of the three more western cities I have named. But Syracuse happens to have young archi­ tects who have studied their art and mystery amid the most beautiful houses and villas of Europe ; they have learned that the hest features of these can be combined for yet more beautiful effects ; ' and they have learned that taste and : alfill go'farther than money toward the construction of a beautiful residence.-- Moncure D. Conway's London letter to Cincinnati Commercial. Thermometers. Time has shown that Fahrenheit'# ar­ rangement of the thermometer scale, in- ^ j w , stead of being truly scientific, is as have been joined' by new ones, and' that j arbitrary as the division of the Bible in- multitude of inventions has brought j to verses and chapters, and xu_i " with it a multitude cinnati Gazette. of anxietiest--Cin- A PRUDENT man advised his drunken servant to put by his money for a rainy day. In a few weeks his master inquired how much he ha I saved. " Fatih none at all," said he; "it rained yesterday and it all went." that these two points (freezing at 32 degrees and boiling at 212 decrees) no more repre­ sent the real extremes of temperature than from " Dan to Beersheba" ex­ presses the exact extremes of Palestine. The three countries which use Fahren­ heit are England, Holland and America. Russia and Germany use Raumer's ther­ mometer, in which the boiling point is to act as referee. The parties met at the Squire's office, and each spoke for himself, the lawyer first Said he : "I have a first mortgage on the farm, duly executed and recorded, and ot course, the farm must belong to me." " Not much!" said Smith. " I have a mortgage later than yours, on the per­ sonal property, and if that isn't enough to oover my debt, I shall grab the farm too. My equity is superior to yours. Isn't that so, Squire ? " The Squire hemmed and hawed and finally said to the lawyer: "You con­ sented to Smith's mortgage, didn't you?", " Never !" said the lawyer. "That makes no difference," inter­ rupted Smith. " I did it for you!" " Jes' so, jes' so," said the Squire. "I remember. The whole business was mighty simple. You jest consented as this Boston man's attorney to Brown's making a mortgage to you." " But what of it,"- cried the lawyer. " He couldn't give any binding assent to make thin mortgage better than mine." " Perhaps not in law," said theSquire, "but in equity, in equity, my dear sir; we go by equitv here in Vermont" " Yes, I call it inequity," said the lawyer, sotto voce. " Besides," said the Squire, " I amin- ' olined to believe that it was the inten- ' tion as between Smith and Brown that I the mortgage of the carts and fixings ! should include the farm too--though : the writings don't jest say sow Wasn't i that so, Smith ? " " Certain !" said Smith* " But that makes no difference, * cried the lawyer, " you must go by the rec­ ord. I've authority on that point," and he produced a bag full of books, i "Young man! ' cried Justice Joyce severely. " I'd have you know that this Court isn't hide-hound by precedents. I sit here to do equity as I understand it JEquitas non scquitur legem. Ahem !f' | " That's so in Vermont, by jingo!" cried the lawyer, waxing wroth. "Order in the court!" cried the Squire. " Besides, I mean to make it a rule in my court that the last mortgage shall always have priority. It's so with wills, why not with mortgages ? Answer that, you Boston chap." j The lawyer was dumbfounded, j "I find on the whole case," said Squire Joyce, summing up, " that the farm and personalty must be sold and Smith's debt paid, no matter what be­ comes of this Boston man. And Smith, as you say you have an interest in the wlieelrights' and blacksmiths' shops up to the village, and Brown owes a running account at both places, you just bring in those bills and mebbe--I don't say cer­ tain, but mebbe--we can fix those up if there's any balance." The lawyer took his books back to Boston a wiser man. Smith grabbed the farm and sheared the sheep and said tauntingly to the lawyer, "What are you going to do about it?"--Springfield ( Mats.) Jtevublienn. tiongh's Reminiscences. In one of his lectures Gongh refers to his love of the drama, which is not surprising, considering his owu remark­ able histrionic gifts. He gave some re­ miniscences, however, in this connection, which indicate that his memory may be failing. For instance, he mentions his , personal acquaintance with the famous performers Mathews and Kean. It may ! be rememl>ered, however, that he left 1 England at the age of twelve years, hav­ ing spent the previous years in a secluded village. When he came to America he became a bookbinder, and the reader ; may judge of his opportunities of becom- ! iug acquainted with men of such dramatic fame. Mathews died in England in 1835, : when Gough (then eighteen) was learn- ! iug to bind books in New York. Kean died two years earlier. In mentioning > this name it is always understood that f the senior Kean is referred to, since Charles Kean was too inferior to deserve 1 any special notice. So also with Kemble, , whom Gough claims as a personal ; acquaintance. The only man of the name that won any distinction was John ! Philip Kemble, who retired from the : stage two mouths before Gough was born. His brother Charles, who lived twenty years later, was .so inferior that he is never mentioned in connection with j histrionic success, though ho was con- | sidered by some a clever performer, j The great Kemble was sixty at the time ' of his retirement, and being in ill health he removed to Lausanne, where he died six years afterward. Cough's vagaries of memory are not surprising. He has drawn so liberally upon his imagination during a long career of public speaking that such mistakes are a very natural consquence. THE new rules for playing base-ball remove the pitcher five feet further from the batter. This is not to prevent the pitcher from getting " broke up," but for the sole and only purpose of allow­ ing the batter to spread to better advantage. HI* Haklto amd Appeanace 9m- nlM by Prat* Boyd DswkiM. _ At a meeting of the British Associa­ tion, Prof. Boyd Dawkins lectured upon "Primeval Man." Prof. Dawkins, gen­ eralizing frcm the distribution of the animal remains found in the early ter­ tiary periods, concluded that Europe was then joined to Africa. The evidence found in the midpliocene period of the existence of the river-drift hunter in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, North Africa, and also in India, brought us, in his opinion, face to face in that period with the primitive condition of human culture on which, in all probability, all progress had been based. The absence of geographical limitations already re­ ferred to would account for the freedom with which tlie hunter passed to and fro. Subsequently, in the cave-men he found the successors of the river-driftliunter- men of much higher type. He gave their habits the following hypothetical description : They dressed themselves in skins a&d wore gloves not unlike those worn at the present time. They woie necklaces and armlets, and proba­ bly pierced their ears for the reception of ear-rings for ornamentation. They used red raddle, and indeed some of the 5>ractices of the present time might be ooked upon distinctly as being survivals. The skins with which they clothed themselves they sewed to­ gether with bone needles, and, from the sketches they had left benind on bones and pieces of skin and the like, it ap­ peared that they were able to form a distinct idea of the creatures which they hunted, the representations thus left probably being the trophies of the chase. They were fowlers and fishermen, and it was evident from the figures of animals which had been discovered that the hunters of these times had great facili­ ties in representing forms of animals on bone, but their attempts at representing the human form were rude. They had also left behind them evidence of the art of sculpture. They were ignorant of metals. They had no domestic ani­ mals. Apparently they were not in the habit of burying their dead. We were not aware of what sort of physique they had, but there was reason to believe they were most closely related to the Esqui­ maux. They were wholly different from the river-drift men. The river-drift man was in a state of primeval savagery; the cave man was erf a higher type, but in his turn was wholly inferior to the farm­ er, herdsman and merchant who fol­ lowed him. We hail this proof of the development of the human race in times before history began, and it occurred to him they had no reason for fixing any limit as to where progress would end, his opinion being that man wouli go on increasing in knowledge and improving in the arts of civilization until in per­ haps not a very remote tenure he would be as superior to the men of 1880 as we were superior to the early hunters and cave men. Precision Precise! I never saw a deeper, or more soul- satisfying, heart-stirring, or apprecia­ tive smile than was that which dwelt upon the faces of the audience, and stole out tremulously upon the air, on a cer­ tain occasion when lawyer Holden, of Oxford County, Maine, was questioning a certain Crooked River witness on a case at law. It was a very simple matter: A man of Norway--a well-to-do farmer--in passing the dwelling of old Sam, Pin- gree, in a one-horse waggon, had run over and killed a small pig. Piugree was boiling; and failing to obtain pay by bluster, he resorted to law, and instructed Holden to sue; and Holden did so. The case came up before Justice Up­ ton. Marston was the name of the de­ fendant, and it very soon became evident that everyl>ody's sympathy was with him. Old Pingree's pigs, and cattle and animals of all sorts, had been a nuisance in the highway for years. Among Marston'^Witnesses was uncle Tim Smith--good old soul--as honest as the day is long--truthful aud simple- hearted--albeit, a little inclined to tell big stories of his own exploits. Uncle Tim had seen the whole thing--had seen the pig run under the horse's feet, com­ ing very near to throwing Marston's team into a complete wreck. Holden took this witness in hand to cross-examine him. "Now, see here, Mr, Smith: We want none of your s'posin's--none of your if s or buts; but I want you to give plain, straightforward answers to my questions.--Now then! Give your at­ tention; you saw Mr, Marston--the de­ fendant in this case--driving his car­ riage past Mr. Pingree's dwelling?" " No, sir!" "What! Did you not so declare under oath?" | "JVOVSJB!" " What: You did not see Mr. -Mars­ ton driving past Mr. Pingree's dwell­ ing?" " Yes--I did!" "Your Honor!" exclaimed Holden, turning to the Justice with fire in his eye, and a thunder-cloud upon his brow-- But Upton did not allow him to fin­ ish. "Confine yourself to the witness, Mr. Holden. Evidently, he knows what he is talking about" Then, boiling with wrath, the peppery lawyer returned to the witness., who stood as calmly cool and sereue as an autumnal morning in harvest-time. " Witness! I will ask you once more: Did you not tell this court in your direct testimony, that you stood near, and were looking on, when Mr. Marston passed my client's house?" "Yes, sir,--I did." "And, now, sir, what was he driv­ ing?" " He was driviri his HOSS, sir. Holden saw the point, and collapsed. It was a tremendous pill for him to swal­ low, but he had to do it--New Yuri: Ledger. six bushels of oyster shells, which were again covered with fuel; and after burn­ ing twenty-four hours a supply of excel­ lent lime was obtained. Tnen com­ menced his soap boiling, which was ef­ fected in a large copper pot of Egyptian manufacture. The ingredients of pot­ ash, lime and fat were then carefully mixed ; and after boiling ten hours, and hr.ving been constantly stirred, he ob­ tained excellent soap, of which he had in all about forty pounds weight The Elder Booth. Booth, the elder, knew his characters by intuition; he could assume or doff them instantaneously at will. One night, in the Charleston Theater, while i opposed to the tariff, playing in the " Iron Chest," he stood j at the " wing" with Jefferson. The lat- j ter was playing Sampson, and Bootli, of course, his great part of Sir Ed­ ward. While they were thus standing, | Booth, who was wailing for his " cue," j said to Jefferson: " By the way, Joseph, I notice that you don't sing the song in this part of Sampson. Why don't you do it in the Way your grandfather used to do?" "Well, Mr. Booth," replied the young man, " I think it must be for the reason that I don't know how. I never knew there was a song sung in the part." " Oh, yea," replied Booth, at once as­ suming the air and facial expression of a comediau, " your grandfather used to do it capitally. This is the way the song ran"---and Booth went on with a won­ derfully droll expression on his faoe, and sang a ditty beginning : A traveler stopped at the wldowt gate. Suddenly, and while he wits in the midst of this performance, the "cue" was given for his appearance on the stage. In an instant he dropped the comedy part which he had for the mo­ ment assumed, rushed before the foot­ lights, had his great scene with Wilfred, and, coming off again, met Jefferson and at once resumed the expression of Samp­ son with all naturalness, and with­ out a thought of affec4ation, went on to describe how the young man's grand­ father sang the comic song : " A trav­ eler stopped at the widow's gate." The elder Booth's memory was quite as remarkable as were some of his other characteristics. During his engagement with Jefferson he and the company went from Charleston to Augusta, a trip which Booth had not made for many- years. Yet, at every station at which he stopped he stopped he was able not only to recall the names of the principal planters who had formerly lived there, but with the utmost exactness told the number of bales of cotton they had made in a certain year, the number of slaves they had owned and other details of the same minute character. During this engagement Mr. Jefferson played continuously with Booth, assum­ ing' such parts as Sampson, the Grave Digger, in " Hamlet," and the Lord Mayor, in " Richard HI.," which latter part for some hidden reason is always thrown to the lot of the oome- dian. His impressions of Booth and Macready are that the one was in every sense a born actor, while the latter was the greatest example of what can be ac­ complished by close application, keen intelligence and untiring study. The latter won, according to Mr. Jefferson's views, by art; Booth succeeded by nat­ ural instinct. No man, according to Mr. Jefferson, has ever appeared upon the stage who threw more iutensity, soul ana passion into his performance fchMi did Booth when he was at his beat Power ot Example. Example is power. It is alike so in Impromptu Ingennitj. A striking instance < f inge u'ty in taking advantage of the r^so.ircif "f nature in an emewncy is f 'U i l in Sir Samuel Baker'* account of I i-* travels it? i Abyssinia. Hit* stock «»f soap h.id In­ come exhnu tei!; aud i.s he po-nes-'d j abundance <>f vari-us kinds of f.it, i - j cludiug that «'f elfphaut-, hiopoi'ota • , I lions and rhimwro?. h • d t rm i'e<' «• convert a quantify of - the gr- HMJ into soap. For ih H-purpose lie r q iired id Tt 'ir:; j tree, he found, w is exceptionally rich in potash; lie thort-fore burned a large quantity, ami made a stiong lye with the asiies, ^ Iiich he concentrated by boiling. There was no limestone; but the river produced a plentiful supply of ovster shells, which, if burned, produce excellent lime. What was nfxt wanted was a kiln iu which to burn the shells, and this he constructed out of one of those great ant liill^, which rise to ten feet high, common to those vallejs, and j which * the circles of wealth and refinement and in the haunts 0f poverty and ignorance. It tells every­ where, and makes its mark for good or evil all over the world of men and thought. All history is but a reitera­ tion of the power of example--power to bless and refine, or to blight and ruin humanity. Unless its teachings impress us with this truth, we are indeed poor students of human history. One has well said that " History is philosophy teaching by example." Example is power for good. Every man has influence, more or less, in his sphere of life, and that influenoe, in the very nature of the case, must tell on his fellows. If he be a good man, his ex­ ample must and will do good. It cannot be otherwise. A pure and virtuous life, like the sun in the heavens, must shine and bless, brighten and warm in the moral world. So it has ever been, and so it ever will be. Truth and purity, like so many gems in the life and example of the good man, cannot but shame and condemn error and vice in others. A fault doth never with remona Our ml ml no deeply move AN when *nother'n guila^eaa ltf« Our error doth rcproie. Example is also a power for evil. There is no estimating the extent of a bad mau's influence in the world; its moral reach is indeed fearful. " One sinner destroyeth much good," is the testimony of the wise man, as well as the practical teaching of oil experience. An instrument of incalculable harm in any community is the man who arrays his life and example against virtue and re­ ligion ; and yet thousands of our fellow- beings seem only to live that they may blight humanity with the influence of their wicked lives and evil example. Their work in the world is that ot de­ struction, for they literally "destroy much good." Cicero gave his followers the best of counsel when he said to them : " Be a pattern to others and then all will go well; for as a whole city is infected by the li­ centious passions and vices of men, so is it likewise reformed by their modera­ tion. Negro Songs. Mr. HuRlies, referring to the negro song of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," which he heard in Tennessee, aud the words of the same, -which he sent to the London Spectator, adds: "This, sir, I think you will agree with me, though precious, is obviously a fragment only." | The fact is that all negro songs are in ; some sense "fragments," for they are | never exactly oonipletc--that is, there is j no regular beginning nor end to them, j but, with the |>eipetually recurring re- i frain of the chorus, the solo lines cau be, and are, stretched out to suit the fancy of the singer. The music of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," is given in several publications of the "jubilee" order, but the words are never twice alike. There is a scrap of negro ditty, probably more than anything now to be heard iu the United States, quoted in Michael Scott's story of "Tom Cringle's Log," as follows: " Fadpr was a O rraiuantee, Modrier was a Mingo; Black ph-kaniny bucra wanted. So dew fell-a me lMer, by Jingo, Jiggcry, jiggery, jiSK*ry.M This has the true ring of heathenism, while most of the "songs of color" which we hear are intended as a religious ex­ ercises.--Inter-Ocean. CONGRESSIONAL HUMOB. : Mmt, mt mefclgan, «nb the Bnni frtS, Party* (From the Congreaslonal Record.] You gentlemen upon the Demoetaiiljil' 1 side of this House have a method of Oft*-, ' posing and finding fault with every*, thing that is existing to-day. I havC made a little list of the things I haft •' listened to and heard you oppose on thill floor. You are opposed to nations- banks. You are down on railroad* You are down on all corporations. Yoit are no friend of the bondholders. Yo|fei~^ You want %m repeal the tax on whisky, and yoU would like to take the revenue tax off of tobacco. You are opposed to the inft> provement of our harbors. You art* opposed to the defense of our cities anft harbors. You want to reduce the arm^ You want to cripple the navy. Yo* are opposed to home defenses. You am opposed to all laws and subsidies which would lead to ship-building, and which woald benefit our shipping on the high seas. You are dissatisfied with the management of the Indian a|» fairs; unhappy over our postal systei you find fault with our Supreme Cot abuse our public officials generally; you are opposed to a fair election and an honest count Now, what institutions are you in favor of? I have tried to look up and see, bipfc have found nothing that you really seeaa to unanimously favor except forgery, fraud and free whisky. I may be mis­ taken, but it is certainly an unfortunate habit you have fallen into of placing yourself in opposition to everything m existence which contributes to the real welfare of the country. Tlis combined action of men of meaW and the institutions built up by orgaife» ized labor are the distinguishing marks of our modern civilization. The pros­ perity of the country depends largely upon the success of all such under­ takings. Now, my young friend from lows [Mr. Gillette] says that the reason why he joins in these complaints is because there is a wail continually coming up from the people all over this land, s wail of opposition to banks, bondhold­ ers and corporations. Ho says the peo­ ple are opposed to all interest, opposed to those institutions which develop the industries and resources of our great country. Now, my friend will excuse me if *1 say to him that I think he la mistaken. The wail iu Iowa is not m that account. The wailing party in that State went from 48,000 down to 32,000 • in the last election. Right after the Maine election my friend will not claim that there was any wail among the Dem­ ocrats in Iowa, for all ever the oountiy they were the happiest fellows in the land. Some of us who knew that that elec­ tion in Maine was a simple Greenback victory wondered at their making so much fuss about it. But they became so anxious for something to shout al>out, got into such a queer habit, that eve«y time a Greenback pullet laid an egg dar­ ing the entire campaign they did all the cackling. In addition to this complaint of the people we hear another thing. Thej tell us the reason we should oppose this funding business is because the interest in a hundred years or a thousand years figures up fearfully. So it does. Ag­ gregates are appalling things to shape one's conduct by. Every man who esta ordinarily takes up twenty-three whole days in a year. In an ordinary lifetime that would consume four and a half years. Think of a man eating four and a half years 1 Still I always sit down and take my lunch three times a day notwithstanding the appalling nature «C that aggregate. And again, every man who lives out the period allotted to many men sleeps twenty-three years. If you should let that thought take posses­ sion of you you would never take anoth­ er nap. mterest accumulates; still, the maitly way for this natiou to do is to pay its interest promptly until it can discharge the principal. I say that this country believes in some of the present institutions. We submitted some of these questions to the people last November. The bank question, the currency question, the tariff, resumption, were all in direct issue in this campaign. The people rendered their verdict. There was Hot then, nor has there since been, any such complaint from the people as these mat would have us believe. After Maine came Indiana. Then there was Un­ doubtedly a wail on the part of oar Democratic friends, but it was not on account of the public debt Whether the bonds should bear 3, 4, 5, or 6 per cent, did not enter into their grief. It was because they saw " the haudwriting on the wall." The 184,000 Republicans Iowa did not wail. The gentleman will hardly claim that After November the situation became still more serious to the Democrats; but it was not the funding of the public debt that so both­ ered them then. What worried them after November was a peculiar disease that seemed to have taken possession of some of their leadi-g men just before the election, a sort of color-blindness, so that they did not know the hand­ writing of their own neighbors, life-long comrades. I know how to sympathise with them. I have always been troubled with that color-blindness myself. I could never tell certain shades of blue from green, especially alter dark, and God knows it was dark enough for the Democracy after Indiana to excuse < blindness. THE cut? Yankees send $100,000,000 a possess a very hard external j year out of this .country for sugar, but crust. Two nativs hollowed out one of j the French extract $35,000,000 worth of _.o--, _ those hills - a proper draught hole was ' sugar out of the best beets that they i as well, is considered mode below from the outside; it was j raise. The cute Yankees are tarnation i folly by intelligent foreigners.--/^ loaded with wood, and filled with some slow in finding out this little trick. Thedter.. The Enormous Pension Business* Persons whose tender and patriotic impulses induced them to look with favor upon the law for paying arrearages of pensions will be interested to learn from the correspondent of the Herald at Washington that "the business of pensitm claim agents has grown to vast dimen­ sions," and that there are "agents in this business who employ from fifty to a hundred clerks, and some even more. Neither the agents nor their clerks en be expected to work for nothing, and it is a pertinent question. How much ot the money clings to the fingers of middle men who handle it, and how much reaches the heroic and disabled servants of the Republic ?--New 1Wk £vemug Post. Lace. I once saw in Paris a magnificent stage costume made by Mme. Judic. On the skirt was the loveliest tablier erf rich lace I ever beheld. The dress was dis­ played on account of that lace; and that lace was worth, perhaps, 25t, for it was paper, wonderfully stamped, and repre­ sented chains of fuchsias, and looked just as much like a piece of real lace as a Paris diamoud by night looks like an old mine gem. Parisiau actresses wear that paper lace a great deal; it is tough, soft, and very effective. To wear a cost­ ly lot of lace, which may be ruined in s night, when $5 worth of lace paper looks -- h e i g h t o t