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^•T* •> "17; .* ^""T<^' ,* *»- -7^f*-,^rr * *»" i, ~\T- vej •tm&tzu •,«*t* -f - - V •!- <• » ~ 4 ' ,* , ' I. Sv-' f *" < * * * 1 • »- <&i ', REGENT II PIIINDCALN I. VAN M.YKE. Editor art PBMMMT. IFOHENBT, ILLINOIS. 75$4»iw mahore. Ste D««lar»c u«e^«lv»cmtljr tkat Be ®s Dene wttta Bmurbon ttemoeracy-- Hii Reply to theL«wTaut«o( Ben Kill--The Latter Also Gets a Terri­ ble fSiMpliiy ^ Handa mt 8eMatter • H®»r. [Washington Oor. Chicago Inter Ocean.) ®iere was witnessed in th« Senate Chamber* "OO Monday, one of the moat extraordinary and ®oet dramatio scenes that hare ever ooourred -hare. This «raa when Mahone aroae to reply to Ben Hill, and hurried to an effective rlim.T m debate that would hare been unusually inter­ esting had not the Senatorial Boene now to be described oocurred. Mr. Pendleton oalled op the resolutions tn regard to the organisation of the committees, And proceeded to discuss the actions, motives purposes of the Democratic Senators. The .pomt on which he laid meet stress was that im­ putations cast on the Democrats were unjust. In making the claim that there was a Demo­ cratic majority when ell the vacant seats were fullr ho intimated that there had been oonfer- enoes at the other end of the avenue, in which ^*6 distribution of p&tronsge !mu| been useo to affect the organfcation of Uio kfo»fttt>_ Mr. Allison moved that the Senate go into executive section. The Democrats called for the ayes and noes. All the Republicans (except Edmunds, who was absent, for Ihe moment, and paired with Gar­ land) voted aye, and all the Democrats except Gwland voted no. The vole stood*: Ayes. 35 * noes. 87. When Mahone voted "aye" the.* was a round of applause, and ..when the vote was announced there was a murmur of satisfac­ tion, even from those who {sympathized with the Republicans, but were patiently awaiting a soeno. When the resolution in regard to the com­ mittees came to be voted on. Senator Conk- ling arose to reply to Mr. Pendleton, beginning with, " He accuses who excuses," and denying that imputations had been cast upon t-he Sen­ ator from Oaio or on other Democratic members. Mr. Conk ling's speech, while it waa more finished than Pendleton1 a, was full of strong points, impressively and skillfully made. He more than intimated that Mr. Pendleton should take advantage of the first opportunity to withdraw his remark in re­ gard to bargains and conferences at the White House. In conclusion, he said that the proposition as to the pairs had come from a Democratic Senator, and in reply to Bayard, who had re­ ferred to the plan of waiting for men who were not Senators, and might never be, as a queer performance, said that, while individuals might die, States could never die. avid con- stru tivoly all the seats were filled. The seats now vacant were sure to be filled by Republi­ can^, and nothing oould be more wanting iu utility or more scant in propriety than after wa ting so long to now organize the Senate without recognizing that fact. Ben Hill, in his reply to Conkling, treated that gentleman with the greatest courie-y, the end and aim of his speech being to smoke out Mahone. He denied that the Republicans had a constitutional majority, or lint tbev would have when the vacant seats hod occupants, and claimed that there was no reason for delay. If tliero wne a Republican majority how had it been obtained? by whom and when? Had somebody sent here as a Democrat been seen, or beeu tilien poHsession of and csiried a-vav ? Asserting thit thirty-eight Senators hud been elecied as Democrats, ami one as an independ­ ent, who would act with the Democrats, Mr. Hill said again and again that the Repub­ lican claim to a majority was ba«ed on the assumption that some* Dem ocratic Senator, or Home Senator elected as a Democrat, would be false to liis trust and treacherous enough to vote with the Republican*. He rnng a41 possible changes on this accusation, and inti­ mated that there could be no doiA>t as to the honestv and good laith of the new Senators from Georgia and Tennessee. Said ho, with extravagant and exaggerated emphasis: "Who is the one? Who can he be? Can the Republicans receive him with affection or with respect? Stun a man is not worthy to be a Democrat! Is he worthy to be a Republican? Any Republican on tho floor would recefte xhe intimation that he would vote with the Demo­ crats as an insult. Why should not such an in­ sinuation be insulting to a Democrat ?" During the latter part of Hill's speech, which was as ra wing and exasperating in its innuendo and offensive in its assertions as it could be made, Mr. Mahone left his seat and was in consultation with Don Cameron and other Republicans in the hall. At the conclu­ sion of the speech Senator Logan arose to re­ ply, when all eyes were turned to a little, slen­ der man, with iron-gray hair and whiskers, who bad slipped quietly down from tho took row of seats to the space in front and to (he left of the Clerk's desk. This w;is Mahone, of Virginia, quaint in dre.-ss, composed in manner, and intent on the work before him. Th(<re was on the instant intense excitement^ all the visitor* on the •floor rising to their feet with a jump and crowding down on the outer row of the Senators' chairs. In the galleries a fresh crowd poured in at the door, the new-comers bending forward owr those half rising in their seats. Even at that mo­ ment people noticed that Mxhone wore pantaloons cut in the old-lashiorced way, with Slap* in front, and that hts cuffs and necktie had nn ancient llare and flabbiness. His deep- set eyes showed no embarrassment, and the cut of his hair and the contour of his long beard in some way suggested the figure and pose of the hoad of John B. Gough. This sug­ gestion became more tangible as he began his speech with redundancy of gesture ana acro­ batic vehemence of movement. Senator Logan having yielded, Mr. Matinni began quietly with a comment on the eager­ ness of the Senator from Georgia to disclose his position. He thought the gentleman might have been more direct, and jinked him the simple question. Then Bpiinjeng for­ ward, half across the space, he addressed Hill personally, with great vehemence of manner, taunting him with playing the part of the cintodkn of tho Democratic party, and assuming that no one could speak without his consent. Then be proceeded to say, with & gymnastic twist and crouch of his body, that he owed nothing to the Senator from Georgia or his party. Ho was in tho Senate as a Virginian, wi>h as proud a name as Mr. Hill himself. lie was not there to represent the Democracy, they had done so much injury to his Ho'.'tiou, but he hold that ho was a better Democrat ilian the gentleman from Georgia him: ell. He nerved notice on Hill that he was the custodian of his own Democracy, and that he did not intend that any man should criticise his conduct by innuendo. Ho reviewed the Democratic record, referred -with stinging keenness to the pretentions of tho8-j who cried fair oonnt and used tissue bal­ lots, nndsaid pliti ly that he had been assailed simply because he had refused to act with those who hftd made wur upon him and the people he represented. Mr. Hill hud sought to disoover the Democrat who has dared to differ with the caucus. He wanted that gentlemau to knew henceforth and forever that " Here is a rnau." It is impossible to convey a fair idea of Mr. Mahonc's manner, without wigeftiug the inco­ herence and tumbling rhetoric of a fervid " hit and nu*8" talker. But there was nothing of tins. He drove alon^ m his vehement wav with a tight rein, holding himself well in hand even when most violent, and being smoothly deliber­ ate when he was expected to be most tempest­ uous. His words were well chosen and sent home with incisive dirtc ness-. His bearing was incongruous, contrasted with that of the o'd S(>n«t/.r >. nti' vet ther« wq# an at-hene amier in his self-contained demeanor and a sort of jauntiness about the figure, that was trimly cut without being neat. At first there was uneasiness, an anxiety on the part of Re­ publicans, many fearing that he would not be able to cope with Hill. Tbis anxiety disap­ peared lH'fore he Im.'l n twd t' re« sent*ino««. and he was universally recognised as a m" who could take care of tdmself. Ev ry scene turning on the surprises of the speech, and ti.sro were many of them, was of mg UlJ sensational character, but all were sebpaod b*: the one tnst occurred wh«n Mahone. apologizing for his intrusion, took big seat, rheie wr.s suoh a whirl of applause that no st­ em pt was made to c ieck it, and tne Bepab- ican S nators erowdod about the Vizgnuan to lhf>t<' huii'lj. Hill, tn his reply, affected a lofty unoonown, tad, while d> olaritig that he bad not alluded to he Senator from Virginia, aimed to deal a*, rerar blows. Circling round in an evasive, ntalieing way, be managed to repeat in sub­ nets wliat be tiad said in hu first speech, and in shontod: " Was he elected as a Democrat? Will the »ntk>man auxwer that?** Mahone was on his Met is an Jastan ̂and xoatad Mi l Bea^uster!" **lwm -• Several other que«t!on« were answered in a a^claxnatorj wiy, Muhono it 000 time losiof his head so far as to say; '* The wt/i foment of tu© gentleman is unwar­ ranted and untrue." But at the end of the paaaage-at-arms HHl had made no point, and Mabone had succeeded in making eiear hi* attitude. Senator Logan began, in (he midst of the confusion, a speech of reproof, with Hifl as the subject, iu the course of which he aalled the gentleman's attention to tho fact that he (Hid) had himself changed opinion in that, ek-cted to a convention at the beginning of the war as a Union man, he had voted for se­ cession. Senator Hoar then took op the cudgel and metaphorically belabored poer Hill, who by this time was in a dreadfully tight place. Dared to do his worst by Mahone, whom he had driven to desperation ; twitted of his political treach­ ery by Logan, relentlessly chaffed by Conkling, he was ill at ease. In this condition, when, half cowed, he sat, trying to assume a good- natured leer, Hoar began on him, Ordin­ arily, the Massachusetts Senator is one of the most mild-mannered men in the Senate. He never loses his temper, and, while serious and terrible in invt-ctive wnen aroused, he never loses his erudition in the excitement of passion. In his most polite English be arraigned Hill as being the tirnt man who had ever dared to nse On that floor and mult* such a vile ait&ok upon a new Senator, be­ fore he had an opportunity to even give provocation. He denounced the insolent big­ otry of the spirit that denied the right to a Sen­ ator to do as his conscience dictated. He fssid the days when the methods of the i>lave driver and plantation overseer oould oarry their meth­ ods to the Senate had passed- and now a Sena­ tor wan responsible only to the oonntrv, his State, his conscience, and his God He closed with a denunciation of Hill's bullying tactics, to which the Georgia Senator baa no reply to make. After MahoiM'g speech h® was warmly son* gratulated ;>y many Republican Senators, hold­ ing a levee on that side for several minutes. Air. Conkling came around and joined the knot _of his new friend and shook his hand heartily, and saying loud enough for every­ body in the vicinity to hear : " I believe I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance, but I am auxious to know you better. I am proud of you, proud to know you, sir, and to congrat­ ulate you. You are impregnable. I am proud to see you stand for the honor and independ­ ence on this floor of your State against unpar­ alleled insolenoa." The Building of Homea. Double doors--folding or sliding, are a great social "institution." By them two rooms may be thrown into one. A good broad hall becomes in summer an extra room. The air circulates. There is a freedom, an openness about the house, which gives an air of superiority to even very humble dwellings. The superiority is real, too. If we invite a few friends for the evening, it is not nec­ essary to confine them to the " parlor," but the doors are thrown wide open, our guests will till parlor and hall and sitting room and kitchen, perhaps, and yet all are one company, for the broad doors being open tho whole house is thrown togetlu-r. Music sounds through such a house delightfully, and people have a good time and love to oome, because it is so cheerful and social; even a fu­ neral loses much of its stiffness, so op­ pressive in the little isolated rooms, if broad halls and doorways connect tho mourning company of neighbors in one group. Another point in our home building which we too often overlook is the exposure of the principal living and sleeping rooms to the direct influence of the sun. The effect of the sunlight is best gained when the house stands with its corners toward the cardinal points, for thus the sun shines with considerable power on all sides ©f the house every clear day in the summer, and yet his power is broken, because at noonday the rays strike two sides obliquely, and very soon leave the southeastern eida in the shade. We should not forget that the sunshine is healthgiving; dampness and shade, if slightly in excess, injure the health of both men and animals. One thing mora is the importance ef having 6omeprovision for fire in the chambers. We build for health and not for sickness, and I do not hesitate to Bay that many a family mourns the loss of a member simply because the sleeping room could not be easily heated. The best mode of heating no doubt is by an open fire of some kind. It is very easy in building to make open fise-plact» in at least those chambers tlirough which the chimney passes. These may­ be loosely bricked up, if desirable, but so that the flues may be promptly opened in case of illness. Chimneys ought to be built with seu- arate flues fcr each principal fire. In that case the chamber fireplaces need never have their flues bricked up, but constantly open, thus affording the best ventilation at al; tim?s. Of course open fireplaces are not economical of fuel, but in the chambers fire is seldom wanted, and stoves may be used, if preferred. As to economy of fuel, builders, as w« li as architects and proprieto- s, eithr r fre­ quently o/erlook one important fact, or they do not look at it, that is, tl. at the warmest part of any room is farthest from the floor ; so if we make our rooms ten or eleven feet high, we must heat the air in all that upper pai t before a person sitting at a table begins to feel at all warm, unless he is where he gets radia­ tion from the stove or open tire. Low ceilings effect the greatest • economy of fuel, and even make open fires econom­ ical as compared with stoves and high ceiling. Notwithstanding that open fires always make good ventilation, while rooms or houses warmed with furnaces and stoves usually have poor ventilation, and often are oppressive, with a stale, nauseous odor, hke tho dormitory of an orphan asylum. Nine feet if, I think, an extreme height for the ceiling of an ordinary country house, say one in which thy largest single room is not more than twenty feit square, or of equivalent area. For houses with rooms of medium size, eight feet is high enough. Beside, there are other numerous considerations which tend to the saving of fuel, and, at the Barne time, increase the healthf ulness and comfort of a home. THE FAMILY BOCTOR. CONBTEPATTON TOTJ BE NDOTOD BJ drinking a tumbler of oold vster on rising in the morning. To OBTAIN a good night's sleep, Bponge the entire length of the spine with hot water for ten or fifteen minutes. FOB chapped akin, take of oxide of zinc, one dram; lard, two ounces. It is also good for any kind of sores. FOR NKCRAMIA.--Take a good hand­ ful of the common field or Canada this- tle, pour two quarts of boiling wafer on, and boil down to three pints ; take a wineglassful three times a day before meals. THB following is recommended as a cure for neuralgic headache: Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a small cup of strong coffee. This will usually afford immediate relief in neuralgic headache. Tea ordinarily increases neuralgic pain, and ought not to be used by persons affected with it. To CUBE corns, sayB Dr. Footed Health Moii'hly, take one measure of ooal or gaB lor, one of saltpeter, and one of brown sugar; mix welL Take a piece of an old kid glove and spread a plaster oh it the size of the corn and apply to the past affected; bind on and leave two or three days and then remove, and the corn will come with it. EACH inhalation of pure air is returned loaded with poison; 150 grains of it added to the atmosphere of a bedroom every hour, or 1,200 grains during the night. Unless that poison-laden atmos­ phere is diluted or removed by a con­ stant current of air passing through the rooms, the blood becomes impure, then circulates sluggishly, accumulating and pressing on the brain, causing frightful dreams. INOBOWINO TOK NAIM.--TP cure in­ growing toe pails, one authority says, put a small piece of tallow in a spoon, heat it until it becomes very hot, and pour on the granulations. Pain and ten­ derness are relieved at once, and in a few days the granulations are all gone, the diseased parte dry and grow destitute of all feeling, and the edge of the nail ex­ posed so as to admit of being pared away without any inoonvenience. BAD cooking is responsible for a large amount of ill-health, and so is rapid eating. Few persons chew their food perfectly fine before swallowing it. They have, so they think, not time to eat as they should, and so they swallow something and go about their"work. A writer says : Three digestions are known to physiologists--moufch digestion, stom­ ach digestion, bowel digestion. To make the first complete, the food should be ground fine by the teeth and mixed with the saliva and nothing else; then, and not till then, it is ready to be in­ troduced into the stomach, and go through the second process. The stom­ ach is a patient, long-suffering organ, bat it cannot always do the work of the teeth and its own too, and when, from sheer inability to meet the unjust de­ mands foroed on it, dyspepsia with all its annoying train takes possession, the hapless victim can only mourn over his unwise haste and repent of his omissions when it may be too late to repair them. Children especially need to be instructed as to the necessity of thorough masti­ cation of their food, and the habit formed in them of ckewing it fine and taking ample time to eat. IT is an old German adage that •' more people dig their own graves with their teeth than with spades," and verily it would seem so, if we could look at "the immense number of dyspeptics, rheu­ matic and gouty individuals, creeping through life in pain and wretchedness. Yet it is impossible to induce «ven think­ ing people to control their appetites, and to eat such things and at such times as nature shows them is necessary and right. Dr. Hall declares unhesitatingly that it is wrong to eat without an appe-* tite ; for it shows that there is no gastric juioe in the etomach, and that nature does not need food, and not needing it, there being no fluid to reoeive and act upon it, it remains there only to putrify, the very thought of which should be sufficient to deter any man from eating without an appetite to the remainder of his life. If a tonic is taken to whet the appetite, it is a mistaken oourse, for its on:y result is to cause one to eat when alread}- an amount has been eaten be­ yond what the gastric juice is able to prepare. The object to lie obtained is a large supply of gastric juice; whatever fails to accomplish that essential object, fails to have any efficacy toward the cure cf dyspeptic diseases. The formation of fsastric juice is directly proportioned to the wear and tear of the sys­ tem, which it is to be the means of supplying, and this wear and tear can only take place as the result of exercise. The efficient remedy for dys­ peptics is work--out-door work--benefi­ cial and successful in direct proportion as it is agreeable, interesting and profit­ able. * Temporary Preachers. In Boston there is a certain religious publishing establishment, which is rec­ ognized as a headquarters for ministers seeking temporary preaching places. It is besieged by a run of preachers who have a dash of the '"'carpet-bagger" ele­ ment in their ecclesiastical and profes­ sional make-up. Some of them are men of talent who are a little run down. Some are men who have worn themselves out in pastoral service, some are do-nothings, and some are very excellent brethren, who are worthy of steady employment, but who somehow or other do not man­ age to be favored with "calls," as their more lucky brethren are. Any church wanting a supply for a Sunday is almost sure to find it here in various grades of quality, and at corresponding rates of mry be prejudice, but in the only preju­ dice I have no wish to part with. I know of no pleasure that will oom- pare with going abroad, except one--re- turpi'ng home."--D. (Jontva^fr v~ "^•••7 1 : 7;'. .. CyeUaes. Jt. If we consider th® regions^in wlncfi cyclones appear, the paths they follow, and the direction in which they whirl, we shall be able to form an opinion as to their origin. In the open Pacific ocean (as its name, indeed, inip'ies) storms are uncommon; they are infre­ quent also in the South Atlantic and South Indian oceans. Around Cape Horn and the Oat>e of Good Hope heavy storms prevail, but they are not cyclonic, nor are they equal in fury and frequen­ cy, Maury tells us, to the true tornado. Along the equator, and for several de­ grees on either side of it, cyclones are also unknown. If we turn to a map in which ocean currents are laid down, we shall see that in every "cyclone region" there is a strongly-marked curreut, an<| that each current follows closely the track which we have denominated tho storm- cj. In the North Atlantic we have the great Gulf Stream, which sweeps from equatorial regions into the Gulf of Mexico, and theaoe across the Atlantic to the shores of Western Europe. In the South Indian ocean there is the "south equatorial current" which sweeps past Mauritius and Bourbon, and thence returns toward the east. In the Chinese sea there is the north equatorial curreut, which sweeps round the East Indian arohipclago, and then merges into the Japanese current. There is also the current in the Bay of Bengal, flowing through the region in which, as we have seen, cyclones are commonly met with. There are other sea-currents beside these whieli yet breed no cyclones. But we may notice two peculiarities in the cur­ rents we have named. They all flow from equatorial to temperate regions, and secondly, they are all "horseshoe ourrents." Now, if we inquire why an ocean cur­ rent traveling from the equator should be a "storm breeder," wo shall find a ready answtr. Such a current, carrying the warmth of intertropical regions to the temperate zones, produces in the first place, by the mere difference of temperature, important atmospheric dis­ turbances. But, the warmth of the stream itself is not the only cause of atmospheric dis­ turbance. Over the warm water vapor is continually rising ; and, as it ibes, is continually condensed (like the steam from a locomotive) by the colder air round. "An observer on the mooa," says Capt. Maury, " would, on a winter's day, be able to trace out by the mist in the air the path of the Gulf Stream through the sea." But what must hap­ pen when vapor is condensed? We know that to turn water into ra^or is a process requiring--that is, using up--a large amount cf heat; and, conversely, the return of vapor to the state of water sets free an equivalent quantity of heat The amount of heat thus set free from the Gulf Stream is thousands of times greater than that which would bo gen­ erated by the whole coal supply annually raised in Great Britain. Here, then, we have an efficient cause fpr the wildest hurricanes. For along the whole of the Gulf Stream; from Bernini to the Grand Banks, there is a channel of heated, that is, rarefied air. Into this channel the denser atmosphere on both sides is continually pourmg, with greater or less strength. When a storm begins iu the Atla tic, it always makes for this chan­ nel, " and, reaching it, turns and follows it in its course, sometimes entirely across the Atlantic." - B? alike reasoning we recount for the cyclonic stoi ms' j^vftilmg ftf fhe North Pacific ocean. Nor do the torna­ does which rage in parts of the United States present any serious difficulty. The region along which these storms travel is the valley of the great Missis­ sippi. This river at certain seasons is considerably warmer than £he surround­ ing lands. From its surfaco, also, aque­ ous vapor is continually being raisrd. When the surrounding air is colder, this vapor is presently condensed, generating in the change a vast amount of heat. We have thus a channel of rarefied air over the Mississippi valley, and this channel becomes a storm track, liko the corresponding channels over the warm ooean currents.--Prof, li, A. Proctor. Some of these are the material of the | pay. The more expensive ministers are walls, their impenetrability to air and moisture,, "deafening" of the floors which adds greatly to their warmth, good joiner work about windows and doors, etc.--A Farmer, in American Agriculturizt. Fir Forests. not to be found in this way, but rather j the low-priced ones. A few of these re- I ceive as high a fee as twenty dollars a j Sunday. Many are glad to go for ten, ! and there are some whose efforts can be l secured for five dollars. These five-dol- j lar brethren are not esteemed, either the [ most eloquent or the most original. They 1 generally have a faded manuscript or two with them. Sometimes they are given to what they call extemporaneous preach­ ing, that is to say, they preach without manuscripts, but they give their hearers The fir tree growths of Pugel Soand form one of the wonders of the American world. They average 200 feet ia height, and some specimens have been cut that t ^ measured 320 feet in length and 12 feel a repetition of what they have preached in diameter at the base, with a straight over and over again so ottea that they and well proportioned log length of 90 have no need of a manuscript as an aid feet to the first limb. The cedar trees to memory. This Boston headquarters are in like proportion, and are most valu- of ministerial supply is an informal able for wooden wares of all kinds, while thing which attends to itself, and has the firs are the best for spar and ship grown np from the mutual necessities of timlier yet found in any country. There churches and ministers. It regulates it- are few nations that do not use them in self, costs nobody anything, aud is worth ship building. One-fourth the wealth a great deal to those who make use of it. of San Francisco was culled from the flrs Its operation is quiet, and few people ! of Puget Sound while the government except those who are directly benefited ! slept, and to-day all the principal steam by it know of its existenoa. mill owners who saw and prepare for market from 100 to 200,000 feet a day to Home. each mill--and there are thirty or more "I have traveled some little in my mills--are residents of San Franciscp, day, and I never yet saw the place over where they invest their profits, to the the sens where I could say, ' Here will I great injury of residents of the Sound, live and die.' My steps have been ar- rhere is, apparently, no exhaustion of rested by beautiful spots, by savage the timl>er, and a century will powsibly spots, by great and luxurious cities ; a ela]»e before Pug; t Sound forefcts will M week, a month, I conld spend in many, cleared of their immense resooroee of m- a year iu some, and spend it happily; ried tree growth*. ^ bat not life--not all my days. This "Bob" Toombs Brass Band. I suppose every one oonnected in any way with the University of Georgia, says a letter to the Atlanta Constitution, has heard of the famous oak iu front of the chapel, and in connection with it I will relate an anecdote of Bob Tombs, show­ ing his impetuous, irresistiblo nature, which so characterized him in his after life. Toombs had been attending college two years, and was within a week of graduating, when, in a difficulty, he stabbed oue of the students, inflicting a serious, but not fatal, wound. & For this act he was expelled by the Faculty, who soon after were petitioned by the gradu­ ating class- to allow him to graduate with them, as he had so nearly completed his course, and had also been given a speaker's place. Toombs himself petitioned them, but both were refused. He apparently sub­ mitted, but on commencement day, when the chapel was crowded with visitors, and the Seniors vehemently orating pre­ paratory to receiving their diplomas, he stationed a brass band under the spread­ ing limbs of the oak, whose music suc­ ceeded in bringing scores of t;own people, who were not then in the chapel, and also of clearing it of nearly all its audi­ tors. Then, in as cool a manner as possible, he placed himself in a chair aud made an oration, such, it is said, as was never spoken by a student here bt fore or since. He never received his diploma, Chough after his celebrated Boston speech, it was sent him, but was returned with the answer: "D--n the diploma; when it would have been an honor to me I was refused it; now, when I am an honor to it, it is offered me." He was afterward re­ conciled with tho Faculty, and is now one of the staunohest supporters of the college. An Empress Who Makes Her Toilet in Stable. about the ^ Empress: - "One day the Countess, heating that their Majesties had ridden into the stables, hurried to the stalls to receive them. Alas! Eliza­ beth was changing her habit in the stall beside her horse, and Franz Yoself had to act as screen to this impromptu toilet scene. The Countess never told exactly what they did and said, but her maid gathered enough next day to describe it to me as being very disagreeable. The grooms told me that the Empress often changed her dress in this way in prefer­ ence to going into the house. 'Less danger of taking cold,' she says, and no­ body dared dispute tho imperial will. She refuses all refreshment except a gloss of water during her visit, and one of the grooms carries a little square pack­ age tissue paper, for the imperial lady never uses any other substance to wijpe the perspiration from her pretty (aea. M^reoent letter has this A^pfman Empress: - "One Air OLD STORI RETOLD, i perspirationjb hospitable as any real Southern gentle man could be, for he ladled ou^ the whisky in the most liberal manner, be­ ing particular to give his distinguished guest three drinks to one, aud gauging his own dose with great care, for fear that if he didn't ho might I030 the thread of his argument and the demi­ john might run dry before the Governor of South Carolina should be ready to dust out for home, in which case it would look like he had not properly observed the laws of hospitality, whiuh would nave been a self-infiicted thom in his side for years to oome, and no amount of apology oould ease his mind or enable him feel warranted in showing his countenance to his fellow-men, espe­ cially in his home district, where for generations it had been a main point with every geutleman to keep his visitor well supplied with creature comforts, and to hand him a good gourdful as a stirrup-cup when about to take his de­ parture for the bosom of his family. Singular to relate, the cautiousness manifested by the Governor of North Carolina was of no avail, for at one and the same moment the jug went dry aud the Governor of North Carolina, mudli to his subsequent mortification when he learned the fact afterward, dropped off into a quiet sleep, while the Governor of South Carolina continued to keep ou with his argument, holding the empty gourd in his hand in close contagious­ ness to the demijohn, and wondering at the apparent absent-mi udedness of his bitheito-attentive host, to whom, after a minute and a half of painful silence, he mode use of but one remark: • Governor, don't you think it's a long time between (kinks ?' the remark btung overheard by George, the body-servant of the .Governor of North Carolina, who, knowing that there was something wrong, took to tho woods, where he remained in seclusiou for three days, but the Governor of South Caro­ lina, receiving no reply from the Gov­ ernor of North Carolina, mounted his horse and rode sadly homeward with an irrepressible feelihg at his heart that there was coining to be a hollowness in iriendship, and that human nature was in danger of drifting into a oondition of chaotic mockery." Ever since the occurrence so touch- ingly described by the conscientious historian, a common form of invitation to join a social glass has been, " As the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina, it.'s a long time between drinks." The form is as efficacious as that used by the itinerant minister when called upon to turn two into one at short notice---" Jine hands." Only A Dos* We were all crying, every one of us. Father declared it was smoke that had got into his eyes aud made them smart; but mother threw her apron over her head aud sat rocking and sobbing for ten minutes.. Plicobe and I just threw our­ selves down on the floor by poor Leo, and I took his dear old shaggy head in my lap, and the hot tears dropped one by one; and Phoebe petted his poor old stiff ears and smoothed out his thin, gray hairs; and then we took off the old brass collar that was marked all over with hieroglyphics that we had scratched with pins iu the proud days when he first wore it; then we cried again, and just t'nen iu walked Squire Toots, and he didn't seem to know what to do when he saw us all so distressed; lie looked at us and then at Leo; then ho took out his handkerchief and gave his nose a real Sunday-school blowing, and said kind of huskily: " Why, it's wicked to feel s' bad. Anv- Ixxly d* sposeit was apussoa; 'taint only ft dog!" That just made us all feel worse! There wasn't any Heaven for him to go to, and we knew we Could never see him again, and we couldn't remember any life without Leo, we were such little tots when he came to us, and he had been one of the family all the time. Father used to lecture him just as he did us ohildren. "Where did I see you to-day, sir?" he would say. "Over at Mr. Mason's, as­ sociating with that dog that steals! Shame!" And then Leo would whine, and pretty soon father would say: " Go to bed, sir!" and he'd sneak off to liis box in the back shed and lay awake all night to protect us while we slept, and lie never once in over fourteen years was forgetful of his trust--and he was "only a dog." Only a dog! Why, was there ever a time that we went racing home from school that Leo hadn't met us half-way to race with us and do all sorts of funny tricks at our bidding, and how proud we had always been of him with his hand­ some stately presence and superior man­ ners and how safe we felt to hear his deep-chested bark as we went to sleep. Well, death had found him sure enough, and we buried him out iu the grove is a little hollow, where he loved to lie on hot summer days, aud there will be no resurrection for him, though there will be for the vilest thief he kept iirom our doors; but none the less, in looking over his honest, blameless life, in which he was never faithless to any, even the smallest trust, I dare apply to him the Master's meed of praise: "Well done, good and faithful servant;" though as 'Squire Toots said, "He was only a dog."--If. Quad. How He Got On. Bon to his father, who has asked him where he is in his class now : * Oh, pa. I've got a much better place than I had last quarter." "Indeed? Well, where are yoaf "I'm fourteenth." "Four­ «h« Semnor mt tanth Carelt- aa Said M» the CoTernmr ef North Carolina*. * A great many years ago the Governor of North Carolina reoeived a friendly visit from the Governor of South Caroli­ na. After a real North Carolina dinner of bacon and yams the two Governors lit pipes and sat in the shade of the back veranda with a demijohn of real North Carolina corn whisky, copper distilled, within easy reach. "There was noth­ ing stuck up about these Governors," Bays a North Carolina State historian, in the homely but vigorous language of his section. " There they sot and smoked, and sot and smoked, every onoe in a while taking a mutual pull at the demi­ john with the aid of a gourd which they used as a democratic goblet. The con­ versation between the two Governors was on the subject of turpentine and rioe, the staples of their respective States, and the further they got into the subject the lower down they got into the jug, and the lower down they got in the jug the dryer the Governor of South Carolina got, who was a square drinker aud a warm man, with about a million or more pores to every square inch of his hide, which enabled bin to histe in a likely share of corn- juice, or other beverage, and keep his carcass at the same time well ventilated and generuHy always ready for more, while the Governor of Jforth Carolina was a more cautious drinker, bat was mighty smre to strike bottom at about the twelfth drink, like as if nature had measured him by the gourdful. Well they sot, and smoked, and argued, and, cl»«6"g© of stabbiug a parsnip, in a row the Governor of North Carolina was as r® a 8a*oon> over a °f fifteen-ball pooL When the savage nature of plants shaH become fully developed, what a terrible revenge may be expected from the cornstalk upou the descendants of all those who are now connecting its name with Le Due, tho Agricultural Commissioner, in his effort to make it the sugar-producing shrub of the coun­ try. We trust, however, that the corn­ stalk will not bear malice, and will be generous and let by-gones be by-goues. Men in those days will doubtless have trouble enough driving awav marauding bands of tomatoes, and their allies, the onions, without giving unnecessary of­ fense to plants of other varieties. We see now how it is that President Hayes has always made a pet of the pumpkin, nud sought to curry favor with the Hubbard squash. He was making him­ self solid with these vegetables. This is also proved by his appointment of so many Ohio men to offioe. Ho fears the time when their ferocious natures will be developed, believiug that he will live a thousand years, as is shown by the way he takes care of his money. He desires to get along peaceably aud agree­ ably with all, and would not for the world stain his hands with the juice of the beet, or chop a red cabbage into sour krout.--Peck's Sun. teenth, you little lazybones ! Tou were eighth last term. Do yon call that a bet­ ter place ?" " Tee, sir; it's nearer the stove." Evolution In Plants. foanrin, in showing that them waa evolution irf plants as well as in animals, poiuts out that there are certain species which decoy insects into tho folds of their leaves and crush them, actually feeding on the kisects, while a plant in India will masticate a beefsteak, a rabbit, or a chicken. These plants, being in a wild state, of course are effeminate, but if cultivated oould be brought to wonder­ ful proportions physically. If carefully tended, and given all the food and drink they required, with a horrusoutal bar to practice on, there would seem to be no reason why they should not joia a tur­ ner society and might carry off a prize off a silver water pitcher. Mr. Darwin claims that all plants are ferocious to a degree, and only need to be denied their cu -tomary sustenance and tempted with animal life iu order to have their savage natures developed and brought to light. Some wealthy people, followers of Dar­ win's school, are already making experi­ ments in this direction, and it is possible that the day is not far distant when the traveler, who is forced to travel tlirough a lonely wood, will find himself suddenly confronted by a murderous band of cuoumbere, and he will be forced to yield. If the wealthy savauts pursue their experiments to the fullest possible extent it may be no unusual sight, some time in the next century or thereafter, to see a carrot arraigned in court on a chfiirgi The Homes of America. It is not a mere accident that the homes of America are the most comfort­ able and comfortiug on earth. Nor are these home comforts due simply to me­ chanical skill or economic judgment. A country which lias limited the powers of its government stimulates society, and highly moral society produces the most perfect homes which human eyes or poetic visions can behold. No one knows the American system well who does not know the Americau home. Our political system is publicity itself; American so­ ciety lias never yet been fully charac­ terized; while the best result of both, the perfect home, lias been praised in gen­ eral terms, but not described and ex- r plained in its true fullness. The novel- writers, from whom suoh descriptions might be expected, have failed ignomin- iously in their attempts at showing the maturest results of our social system. Yet this system is unique, and it is a marked advance upon aH European models. The English home approaches the American home, while the German home approaches the English; but the ideal American home, not rarely realized, IKIS a comfort, a character aud a dignity all its own. it may seem to be wanting in the graces, traditions and responsi­ bilities peculiar to the best English homes; it surpasses them in moral dig­ nity; it differs from all the others in be­ ing the result of a highly refined civiliza­ tion; it is the best aud purest outcome of our ethical system. There has been much pleasant banter about the great American novel that is to come. Let it not dwell too much on politics; British politics are larger than ours. Let it not tell too much of busy people; the French arc as industrious and industrial as we are. Let it not confine itself to analysis of character or sentiment; other nations have both in abundance. Let it describe the purest and sweetest of American homes aud let it describe, not an ideal, but that reality which distinguishes the American home from all others, and shows it to be the best outcome of our history, our political institution and our social system.--Boston Advertiser. FAIX1YH UAV1 4 V kts ,,. Awl death rfdts on the briesZ Vttti i«y breath availing Th<> st*rk and tree% It CTieres us aut to see - f o r ' t i s t h e i r t i i u « t o d i e ' 7 with all nature wkiier-#** leaves that round us 4|pi Bat wb«i the Any is leemSi* 1* it li tin; xnd lorn and 1- Bachelors in History. In antiquity it was considered un- Eatriotic to remain unmarried. Hence achelors were subject to peculiar dis­ abilities in the Spartan and Koman code. They were obliged to pay extra taxes, and under Augustus they were barred from the inheritance of real estate, ex­ cept from their nearest relatives. Only one of our Presidents was a bachelor, and he was a failure. Bachelors aw not as successful in life as married men. It is said that one of Washington's as­ sociated patriots in the revolutionary struggle was a celibate. All had the in­ fluence of marriage and social life. Hence the tendency against wedlock which marks the present day is among the worst features in society. Speaking of marriage, it should be a complete union of affections and of intellectual powers. It may be added, that a man's wife should to a certain degree be his business partner. She should know something of his risks and financial diffi­ culties, and iu this way the burden of life is often divided. Walter Scott con­ cealed from his wife his connection with tho Bannatynes, which caused his ruin. It is one of the best features in General Grant's character, that he takes his wife along and gives her a full share of those dignities aud honors which spring from uational gratitude. Biblical Authority for Immersion. A Kentucky preaoher rose to speak and opened the Bible. The first verse that met his eye happened to be "The voice of the turtle shall be heard in the land." "Brethren," said be, "at first sight one wonld not think there was much in this text, but ou a little consid­ eration you will see there's a great deal in it. Now, you all know what a turtle is. If you've been along by a pond you've seen them sitting on a log ^?tQ* niag themselves. Now, it is said, _ 'TI10 voice of the turtle shall be heard in the land.' But the turtle hasn't any voice that anybody ever heard, so it must be the noise he makes in plunging on the log into the water. Henco we umst <x>»- dude that immersion is meant, aiul chas j im*TM>rn'n" will beoome universal. Ami in our p ah bi iwamlng The Bun-ray ofVleHght, Xt taddeofs us to O, 'tin a mournful thing; They should uotiii'd* pnrink-- The tint fall In sprtag. Wkst though yoang Hf« has psrtsi From earth, m spring haa] " Or o-d and weary-hearted It »ipld» to winter's Msurt f OricTe not but humbly tami StatxnisFiirn to the call Xor Mora their simple inactili Tk« leavM that round as fsl PITH AKD POINT. THBT that govern most make the kMl noise. Dn> yon ever bear a bed task, «r aw a needle point? TBUTH is simple, requiring neither study nor art. HAVE not the cloak to make whoa ft begins to rain. " BLESS their dear little soles," sag* the ladies' shoemaker. A WASHINGTON correspondent says it is eight years since a Senator was sees in his seat intoxicated. No CONTESTS, either for men or Iromea, are to be found in Norway or Swedes. They are absolutely forbidden by tbe laws, "MAMMA, the teacher says all people are made of dust." "Yes, my dear, aa they are." " Well, then, I s'poae aa- groes are made of coal dust." " WHAT is your wife's particular , little game ? " asked a friend of a henpecked husband. " When she gets thoroughly '"mad," he answered, " it's draw poker. DOCTORS say that in large oities the night air is healthiest. The appearanee of the fashionable young man of the pe­ riod does not go to bolster up this the­ ory. THE man who thinks it foolish to re­ ward his wife's devotion with kind words and caresses is the same one who woa- ders why it is that womefn sometimes gs wrong. AN exchange says it's a very bad thing to get rich too rapidly. We never thought of that before. Here's another danger to worry about and strive ta guard against. THEKK are now more than 1,300 wom­ en in the departments at Washington, the majority employed in the bureau at engraving aud printing, and in the Gov­ ernment printing office. THE ** Poets' Corner" of the Mitchel Public Library at Glasgow oontains at present the works of 1,222 Scottish pouts and verse writers, of whom 1,02S are named, and tho rest anonymous. " LOT Me Dream Those Dreama Again" is the title of a n >w song by Will Hayes. All right, Willie. Jnst state what kind of pie you tackled be­ fore dreaming them the last time, and we will fix it for you. A PHOTOGRAPHER acted as MIURF^R of ceremonies at a friend's fuueral, and, as he lifted the cofiiu-lid for the mournera to look at the remains, whispered to the corpse, " Now, look natural." Fovceat habit.--Brooklyn Union-Argus. "TWIXT the Gloaming and the Dark " is the title of the latest novel issued in New York. A Chicago young man is thinking of getting out one en­ titled " Twixt the Old Man and the Bark." He called when lier father wae at home and the dog untied. A OOUNTKYMAN from New Hampshire, who had never heard of a bicycle, cante to Boston, and, when he beheld a youth whirling along upon one of those any vehicles, he broke out into soliloquy thus : " Golly ; ain't that queer. Who'd ever 'spect to see a man ridin' a hoop skirt."--American Queen. A LONDON scientific journal says the cucumber is known to have been culti­ vated for more than 3,000 years; that k was extensively grown in ancient Egypt. Perhaps it was the cucumber, and not the asp, that Cleopatra took to her bosom, with fatal results. We always did doubt that snake story. THK 8-year-old daughter of a family who has the decorative craze the worst way was discovered with the big album, daubing the faces of the photographs of her parents, brothers and sisters with water oolors. When tjie little innooent was scolded, she replied that she waa "only decorating family mugs." - IN the United States fish culture dates back barely a quarter of a century, while in Europe the industry has been system­ atic for more'than 600 years, and in Asia for thousands of years ; and yet the United States, at the International Fish Exhibition at Berlin, Germany, excelled all other countries in their exhibit of Ap­ pliances and methods pertaining to fiak culture. IT is said that there if as much differ­ ence between a cultivated oyster and one taken from its natural bed as there is between our best Bartlett and the com­ mon pear. The cultivation of the mol- lusks also greatly increases the supply, as the oyster raiser watches his beds and keeps them free from the depredations v of the starfish, the drill And the peri­ winkle--all enemies of the oyster. A NEW HAMPSHIRE farmer agreed la sell his farm for $2,000, but when the day came he told the expectant pur­ chaser that his wife was in hysterics about the trade, and he " guessed he'd have to back out." The purchaser com­ plained, and finally asked how much more would induce him to sell. " Well," replied the thrifty son of the Granite State, " give me $250 more, and we'll let her cry." The King ef Barmali'8 Finance. AiBOHg' the thousand and one odd things »liieh affect the state of commer­ cial markets, surely massacres and lot- teries must be reckoned among the od­ dest Yet these are contingencies which the British merchant in Rangoon lias to •ftlrft into account iu casting up his pros­ pects of a profitable trade. The massa­ cres of his reigning Majesty of Burmuh in the spring of 1879 at once sent dowa the returns of tho dutiable goods ex­ ported from Rangoon to British Burinah fifty percent The Mandalay trade was affected about the same time in a manner quite as characteristic. The King hav­ ing just finished with his massacres, es­ tablished lotteries for the purpose of fiil- his exchequer. The bait took at oneeu Every one who had jiowers of locomotion of any kind posted away to ttie "golden city," to Btake his cliauec\ Tho Treasury profited, the population did not. Mom of them lost every pennyworth of pr*>|»- erty they possessed, and wora too poor even to got back to their bomsa.--Jt*aH Mali Qazefie. Jam BILLIKGS says, "Sucoese dosil kousist in never makiag blunders, but is never making the same one the seckoiul -