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ir» I. VAN SLYKE. EdHor and Publisher. McHENRY, n. iiM1'1 ILIINOia 1860 there were four Presidential Of the eight candidates, Han-* ticket?, bal Hamlin alone is living. JAMBS BOTSBM. JjOw*I.t<, the Ameri­ can Minister at London, is 62 yean old, Irat of fresh and youthful appearance. A cures: in a Topekv (Kan) drug­ store sold a bottle of Hostetter's bitters to a man, drank it and waa arfested -while drunk.' The druggist waa also ar- 3c®eted. . f ^ ITHKBB f* a doable marriage in a <c^*cus side-show at Galveston. The £pant wedded the fat woman, and the _ living skeleton became, the husband of the time that the conversation was going The nineteen samples shown at the tea- party were teas grown on the farm of Mr. Jackson, at Mcintosh, 6a. The original plants were of the Askam varie­ ties, and were brought to this country by Mr. Jackson, who was a tea-grower in India for sixteen years. The expert tasters sipped numerous-cups of Ameri­ can and of Indian teas, and their judg­ ment, was favorable to those grown iu the United States. AN experiment of great importance has been made at Calais, Prance. Between that place and Dover, England, conver­ sation has been kept up by means of a nqwkind of telephone called the electro­ phone, attached to the telegraph lines between the two places. The listener at Calais was able distinctly to distinguish not only the words of the speaker at the other end, but also to recognize the speaker by his tone of voiee. Daring *he Circassian girl. In celebration of the Jwppy event a banquet was given in the int to employes of the circus* % . SOME boys in Pottsville, Pa., caught' in a trap, saturated it with turpen- "tine, and set it on fire. The door of the trap sprang open, the rat dashed out, And in his agony crawled np the panta­ loons of the boy who did this act of •cruelty. The lad's' leg was terribly burned, his clothes took fire, and his lite was for some time despaired of. Tffie immigrant arrivals at Milwaukee -Airing April numbered 7,158, an in­ crease of 31.1 per cent on the number in April, 1880. Of the new-comers -4,451 settled in Wisconsin, 2,043 in Minnesota, 425 in Michigan, and 229 in Dakota. The increase in settlers in Wis­ consin over the month of April* 1880, is -83 per cent. ... THUS Orangemen of Montreal lately #Vected in Mount Royal Cemetery a monument iaC Hackett, who was killed in the riots three yean ago, and put the benefit and American readers "none on the wires were being used for the transmission of messages by telegraph, and that transmission was made without any interruption whatever. The inventor of the electrophone is of opinion that it can be used in connection with an At­ lantic cable, and the success of his exper­ iments so far seems to juetifyhis belief. THB book-trade all over the world is perishing. Newspapers, periodicals and cheap editions are driving out bound books. Life is too short to be consumed in reading huge volumes, when meji can get the concentrated essence of them in a dozen other forms. Light literature has the largest sale, and it is put in one- story volumes. The reviews, magazines and newspapers give the millions all that they ever get of the more elaborate works. We observe that the Messrs. Harper and other Eastern publishers are endeavoring to stop the drift toward cheap publications by procuring the passage of a one-sided copyright law,, which shall give American publishers all thereon an inscription that " he met his •death at the hands of an infuriated Irish Catholic mob." The Trustees of tha oemetery, all of whom are Protest­ ants, asked that the words be erased, and caused it to be done after the re­ fusal of the Orange committee. of the gain of an arrangement with for­ eign authors. They might qp well at­ tempt to sweep back the ocean with Mrs. Partington's broom. These things must be as they are. The people have learned to use the cheap books, and they will not return to the high-priced system for the sake of the Harpers or any other publishing firm already too rich and powerful .for the good of the reading public. The people do not wish to have it in the power of any men or set of men to crush out competition in this country. THKRE is great want and misery in -ftfe State of Bolivia in consequence of Ihe ravages of locusts on the cereals-- -especially rice and Indian cern. The locusts have swarmed all over the whole country, even covering up the streets the book-traL (me^ and public places. The po rer classes j trade in CO(jtly and exclusive of •of people are in a deplorable state. bouD(1 volumes) p^h. states can be Nunez, the former President of Bolivia, j without it. \lias declined a renomination, doubtless j because hie foresees great difficulties in -the way 9f ruling a starving people. tNTEBESTINCt rARAtiBAFHS. THE great cavern which was disoov- -ered last year in Colorado has been thoroughly explored. Forty rooms are ^accessible, and many of them contain a profusion of stalactitic formations, in .some cases translucent, and in others varying in color from red to pure white Shining crystals, tufts of satiny .fiber, .slender arms resembling growths of -coral, rams' horns twisted in every con- -oervable way, pillars, pendants, statu­ ettes, and grotesque shapes of life are j Sunday night was not binding. | A FAN is indispensable to a woman who : can no longer blush.--Sprinfield Jte- (pubican. | BOYS are near-sighted. They will veil 1 just as loudly at a boy playing marbles i in the same ring as at one five blocks i away. J A VIBGINTAN has taken, muoh pains to ' oonvince himself that four out of every I five murders are committed when the | wind is in the East. j _ THE meanest man in the oountry lives I in Missouri. He pleaded in a breach of promise suit that a contract made on .among the curiosities of these halls. ipwo-EKaidsmniT recently retained to Si Petersburg from a successful bear- hunting expedition in Russia, after an absence of three weeks, during which they traveled 1,500 versts in sledges and 160 in snow shoes, through dense tangled forests, over frozen marsh and lake, the -thermometer often standing below zero. In the course of twelve days actually de- A KNOWLEDGE of Greek and Latin is a great thing in the cure of elaborate and high priced diseases, but a poultice is the best thing for a blind bile. THE heroine of a recent novel is quite versatile in the crying business. In one place the author says "her eyes were suffused with salt tears," while iu an­ other he tells us that "her tears flowed fresh." DR. HOLMES says that writing poetry is not halt as easy as some folks imagine. Don't let him stuff you with any suoh nonsense. It's the easiest sort of work, and poets always get rich.--Detroit Free •oted to hunting they killed «vith spear .and gun no fewer than twenty-three j bears of all sizes, to the great satisfac- j A WISCONSIN paper discussing the lion of the peasants, whose crops and j question of female suffrage, thinks one live stock suffer heavily every year from the ravages of these animals. SUE General Government is becoming "interested in parks. Besides its vast public domain it has the Yellowstone Park, big enough for a State, the To- Semite big trees, the Island of Mac^i- jiaw, and several others, and is going to «dd one more of 500 acres on York river, to be called Lafayette Park. It contains the house in which Washington dictat­ ed the terms of surrender to Cornwallis, ;apd has been purchased by the York- town Centennial Association, with a view of presenting it, after the conclusion of the celebration in October, to the Unit­ ed States, to be preserved forever as a park. As A man, says Labouchete in the Xiondoii ZVMM, Lord Beaoonsfleld had many amiable qualities. When he liked lie could be an agreeable companion, but this he seldom cared to be. He usu­ ally sat silently nursing his fancies, and replying, if addressed, by an epigram or a grandiloquent j hrase. With some women he was popular; with others he -was not, for he treated them all as pret­ ty dolls, and paid them exaggerated •compliments. One of the greatest of the Whig laAies sought once to pene­ trate his policy. She talked long and learnedly. " You darling," was his only •answer. He was a warm friend, and was probably more loved by his personal ^subordinates than is the case with most Ministers. GKX. LB DOO, Commissioner of Agri­ culture, recently gave a tea-party to a dozen tea-tasters in the office of A. A. IJOW & Brothers, New York. For some years Gen. Le Due has been zealously distributing tea plants from China to be grown in different parts of this country, and last year the first results of hi* labors--about sixty pounds of tea-leaves --were gathered at the Georgia tea-sta­ tion. The quality of the tea encouraged lie Due, and thousands of plants have jbg^aaet out in the gardens of of the surest ways to cure a woman of I the mania would be to "force her to | serve upon a jury with an unweaned i baby in her arms! | COUNTRY people pity the denizens of a i oily who have to use lake or river water, but when an Ohio farmer cleaned out his well last week he fished out two cats, a paint keg, two old brooms, an old hat, a boot and a dozen shingles. Two men in Accomac Cownty, Va., engaged in a quarrel a3 to whether there ! were thirty or forty days in a month, | and the thirty-day man had to beat the j other man within an ineli of his life be> j fore he could convince him of his error, j A^GREAT deal of the religion of nowa­ days is like that of the Boston clergyman I who was getting up a petition to have a murderer pardoned, when he discovered | that the crime had keen committed on a Sunday. He said he couldn't stand such depravity as that.--San Francisco Post. Miss GLADDIS HOMAK, of Mapleton, Illinois, committed suicide rather than have to get up in the morning before She i wanted to. This ought to. show parents j how really unpleasant it is for young j folks to practice that execrable maxim, | "Early to bed and early to rise," etc. i _ MEN sometimes say that, though their lives may not be just right, tbeir hearts are all right. Impossible! A farmer never puts the poorest apples on the top of his barrel, nor does the merchant place the meanest goods in his show window. The best part of us is our out­ ward life.--Ta Imafye. GAMEETTA is the most rapid talker and writer among European statesmen; in t public speeches he has at times delivered ! one hundred and eighty words a minute, j and when he puts pen to paper--which ; is rarely--he writes at the rate of forty ' words a minute. Stenographers find it i no easy matter to keep up with him. j THE kind of tea that <many persons ' buy is shown by the testimony erf a Rhode Island lawsuit, in which it ap­ peared that a shop-keeper had only one kind of tea, but sold it to different cus­ tomers for various kinds and at various prices, suiting the pries to the desires of the purchaser. His stock was limited, ' but he wished to make it appear full; and the success with wbich he accom­ plished his purpose showed how little knowledge most tea-drinkers have of the differences between (Hie brand and qual­ ity and another. IN the fashionable world there are very many more men who are puppies, thaa thtte^pa jpuftaes who are men. 'MQZ J> 8.; Facts fob the curious. Tan bee-beetle can draw forty times its ownweight. T«9b eggs of the eheesemite are so mi- note the*.» pigeon's egg would hold fully 100,000,000 of them. THE sea anemone can at its pleainuo turn inside ou$ and again assume its natural shape and appearance. THE census figures show that more than three-fourths of the people in the United States live at an elevation of less than 1,000 feet above the sea. THERE is in Springfield, Mass., a piano made in 1770 by an uncle and brother of John Jacob Astor, both of whom were at that time piano makers in London. THB grasshopper has between his throat and his stomach an apparatus called a gizzard, with more than 200 teeth in it, for grinding his food. IT has been reckoned that a aphis, or plant-louse, may give rise in one summer to a qnintillion (1,000,000,- 000,000,000,000) of little ones. WHITE alligators found in Brazil travel far and well on land. Their skulls and bones are frequently seen in the forests, and they deposit their eggs in the woods. THERE lies buried near Naples, not only the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, but another which flourished 1,000 years before Christ, the ancient city of Cumse. Few remains now exist to stimulate the mind of the traveler. MORE than one-tenth of the inhabi­ tants of the United States live in ten cities--New York, Philadelphia, Brook­ lyn, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Balti­ more, San Francisco, New Orleans and Cleveland--whose aggregate population is 5,033,780. THE whistle of a locomotive can be heard 3,300 yards through the air; the noise of a train 2,500 yards ; the bark of a dog and the report of a musket can be heard 1,800 yards ; the roll of a drum or an orchestra 1,600 yards; the human voice travels 1,000 yards ; the croaking of frogs, 900 yards; the chirping of crickets, 800 yards. DR. JOHNSON tells an extraordinary st ry of a sea-cucumber which he pos­ sessed. He forgot to furnish it with fresh water, and the creature became sick and dejected. Under this neglect it wasted away in a most remarkable man­ ner. One by one it ejected its tentacles, its teeth, its digestive tubes. These fragments lay here and there, scattered about the aquarium. Still what was left of the creature was not dead. Its empty sack contracted at the least touch. As soon as fresh water was provided the animal began to revive again, reproduc­ ing one after another of its lost organs, and at the end of two or three months appeared to be as well and as happy as before. FBBNCH newspapers report the discov­ ery in Algiers, by the archaeologist M. Tarry,;of a city which had been intombed in the sand. M. Tarry's attention had been awakened by the mound-like ap­ pearance of the sandy soil, and some digging brought to light the minarets and upper portion of a mosque. Furtlur excavations laid bare a terrace, a tower and about a dozen houses, all in excel­ lent preservation. He reported his dis­ coveries to the Government of Algiers, which has undertaken to have the site thoroughly explored. The place is in the southern part of the province, not far from the town of Ouargia, and ex­ posed to the full blast of the sandy winds from the desert. Probably a suc­ cession of siroccos bearing clouds of anfnj completely filled up the streets and houses, making the town uninhabitable, and so drove tint the population. At present there is no ground tor conjecture •a to the date of the occurrence.1 Life In Borneo and Madagascar. The island, of Borneo is inhabited by a considerable variety of races, of very different origin and different degrees of civilization. The most important numer­ ically are the Dyacks, the Malays, the Chinese, and the Buginese. The Dyaks are generally regarded as the most abo­ riginal, %nu aie broken into numerous tribes. The Malays are a people of low stature, being, as travelers tell us, from four and a half to five feet in height, while the Dyaks are taller, but still con­ siderably shorter than the average European. In general among the Dyaks jieitlior beard nor whiskers are present, but this does not hold good of all the tribes. Tattooing is commonly prac­ ticed by most of the tribes. The men generally go bare-headed or wear a biight-colored kerchief. It has been the custom with many tribes to preserve the skulls of their slaughtered enemies as trophies of their success in war, as the possession of a certain number of human heads is necessary before a man can be admitted to some of the most im- Sirtant of the social privileges. The yak is intelligent, and in moral charac­ ter is iar superior to the civilized Malay, being unsuspicious and hospitable, and honest and truthful in a striking degree. The greater portion of this race have substantial dwellings, and cultivate rice, the banana, sugar cane, and some cot­ ton and tobacco for their own consump" tion. The distinction between Land Dyaks and Sea Dyaks is founded fiot upon the localities they inhabit, but upon the favorite pursuits of the respec­ tive tribes, which lead some to cultivate the soil and others to a life on the waters. The inhabitants of Madagascar number about 5,000,000, and are divided into two groups, the black of the western slope, and the olive of the eastern. The political divisions are four in number. The Hovas are the ruling tribe, a race of middle height, well proportioned, with straight or curled hair, and hazel eyes. The Government is a military despotism, and although Christianity has been adopted, still many yet practice the heathen customs, such as infanticide and polvgamy. The Madagaseans are much addicted to divination, which they prac­ tice according to certain defiuite rules, with the help of beans, rice, straw, sand, or any other articles that can be easily counted or divided. Trials by ordeal until within a few years prevailed. First Gold In California, Gen. Sherman has given this account of the first discovery of gold in Califor­ nia: "I remember one day that two men, Americans, came into the office and inquire J for the Governor. I asked their business, and one answered that they had just come down from Capt. Sutter on special business, and they wanted to see Gov. Mason in person. 1 took them in to die Colonel and left them together. After some time the Colonel came to his door and called me. I went in, and my attention was directed t > a series of papers unfolded on the t lble, in which lay about half an ounce of placer gold. Mason said to me, 'What is that ?' I touched it, and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked, ' Is it gold ?' Mason asked me if I had ever seen native gold. I answered that in 1814 I was in Upper Georgia, and there saw some native gold, but it was much finer than this, and that it was in vials or in transport nt quills; but I said that if this were gold it could easily be tested--first, by its malleabili­ ty, a^ aaat by aeidpi 4took apiece m - S.V ... = ^ - my teeth and the metallic luster perfect I then catted' to the okrit (Baden) to bring an ax and hatchet frrm the backyard. When they were brought I took the largest piece and beat it out flat, and beyond doubt it wag metal, and a pure metal. Still, we attached little importance to the .fact, for gold was known to exist at San Fernando, at the south, and yet was not considered of inoflh value. j I ̂ PITH AITP POUT. „ A NOISY towel--A crash. > v a As A general thing yriang lawyer* don't have maily, trying times. ONE way for an actress to lose her good name is to put it on her handker­ chief. , WHEN mining operations begin to pan out, it is generally in vein to look for dividends. IT is a remarkable fact thai one meets the greatest inn attention at the best- kept hotels. • ADAM ought to have said "Hardly Eva," when ne was tempted to bits the apple. IT is a little singular that family jars, old as the Garden of Eden, have never been added to eeremic collections. f SOME fellow has found out that the highest timepiece ever adjusted was " When' the sentinel stars hung their watch in the sky." WHAT utter nonsense to speak of stock reports ! Every child knows the report does not come tram the stock, bat from the barrel. AN old proverb says : " The anvil lasts longer than the hammer." This is probably the only consolation the under­ most man in a fight has. A NEVADA girl's love letter--"Dear Jimmy: It's all up. We ain't going to get married. Ma sava y«H~re too rough, and I guess sLe'srignt. I'm sorry--but can't you go to Europe and get filed down?" " THB Oneida community, at Niagara falls, is going to build a spoon factory. There is so much "spooning " by bridal couples at Niagara falls that such a factory may be neoessary there.--JVor- ristown Herald. A UACimii, maid In Curtis!* Ok tbo buck of her neck t)'a4 ft faia)*, Vhcu her lover forgot, And hugged til* sore Wjpot. Her Mrrnnm could be heard far kmlala! THE Norristown Herald hopes that the time is near at hand When a patent corn slieller, two threshing machiues, a bed quilt, a fool race, a soap peddler and a horse trot will not make one county agricultural exhibition " THIS isn't a menagerie," sharply ob­ served an irascible deacon to a man who was trying to force a passage through the crowd at a church doorway. " No, I presume not," returned the stranger, " or they wouldn't leave any of the ani­ mals to block up the entrance." AT a fire in London, while the en­ gines were discharging their contents against the front of a house, an inscrip­ tion on it became nearly obliterated. " By my sowl, exclaimed a witty Irish­ man, "this is a queer time for a joke." "And who is joking?" growled one of the firemen. "Why, don't you see, honey, how vou are playing upon words ?" replied Pat AN INQUIRY. H« atood * bronind «ud battered form, Within an old embrazure warm, And leaned upon s oaiino® old, Hast aniiken in the lragrMt mold; Then turning from the mtjr gas. With fcelp of crutch he tottemd oa. A iwttt girl faoa looked m at him. And iteet eye* acanned hla aspect grim, And aweet voioa aaid in qaivaf tow: " o gallant warrior, do not S|a.. But teU bm» tan MM wba* ySf ftmght, And where theae fearful wounda were Wioagkl Wert smitten la the furiona tide. That drenched In blood the baetion'a aida T Or fought upon the slippery deck, t And aanrf defiance from the wraekf Or waxed the «tarry banner bight Bravely resolved to do or die?" " Ho d en, youLg gal!" tSie vetaEMnlAi "I am iwhitewuliMtaftadap'1* I never lit; this trouble la Inflammatory iheuniatial" | THEY put a lot of ignoramusefe into a jury box nowadays, and then attempt to tickle a man's vanity by telling him that he is to be tried by a jury of his peers. No wonder BO many criminals commit suicide, rather than have such a stigma cast upon their family name.-- Rochester Herald. " WHAT is the difference between cameos and intaglios ?" asked a success­ ful broker of one of his lambs. " Sim­ ply this," replied the lamb; "since we became acquainted my fortune is in in­ taglio, aiui your cheek in cameo. That is to sav, my fortune is sunk and your cheek 'stands out in relist*--.Boston Transcript, Curious Beminiscenees. How strange it must seem to msnr our readers to be informed that the United States Court was once occupied trying a woman for the crime of being a scold. The prisoner was the notorious Ann Boyal. She was tried at Washing­ ton in 1829, the following being an ex­ tract from the indictment: " The said And did annoy and disturb the good people of the United States by lier open, public and common scolding to the com­ mon nuisance of the good citizens of the United States and to the evil example of others." The prisoner's counsel pleaded in her defense that the English statute, which punished common scolds with ducking, was obsolete aud hence the in­ dictment could not be maintained. J^Lge Cranch, however, held that the ottenso wss not obsolete, and added that all cor­ rect legal authorities decided that being a common scold to the nuisance of tlio neighborhood is an indictable offense. The judge thereupon fined Mrs. Iioyal $10, and ordered her to give security for good behavior and to stand committed until the above-mentioned security should be maintained. This is, the only instance of the kind I have ever heaxd of in the history of our country, and hence I give it as a legal curiosity. An­ other bit of antiquity is found in the fol­ lowing extract from army orders a half century ago: "Cadet R. E. Lee, pro­ moted to brevet second lieutenant artil­ lery, July 1, 1829." How little could any one have imagined the part which this cadet was yet to play in the bloody work of internecine strife!--The Hermit «'n Troy Times. Seventeen Before Breakfast*. When we hear a man, puffed up with his own truly gooduess, express his pity for a poor wretch in a patronizing way, we think of the poor heathen who suddenly discovered that he was a worse fellow than he had suspected. The missionary read to him the commandments, and to each the heathen responded, " Me guilty." When it came to " Thou shalt not kill," he quickly answered, "Me not guilty." It was a relief to him to know that there was one commandment he had not broken. "But," said the missionary, "not only does he break this commandment who commits mur­ der, but he also breaks it who feels in his heart that he would like to kill an­ other." "Me kill seventeen before breakfast!" cried the poor man, utterly eestdown. BBXTADP8 RULEBS. _ at latent *f t*« m4W* at (*• S«Ver*f The Norman line began with William the Conqueror; then came in succession the housed of Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, the Commonwealth, Stuart-Orange, Stuart and Hanover. William the Conqueror was the sixth sovereign of Normandy. Henry IL, the first of the Plantageiiets, was the son of Matilda of Scotland, a direct deeoandant of Edmund IL, su*- named Ironside, who was the son and successor of Ethelred II., born in 989, and King of the Anglo-Saxons in 1016. Henry IV., as the last of the Plantage- nets (Richard IL) left no children, was the eldest son of John of Gaunt, lhike of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward HL, and of Blanche, daughter and heiress of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, great-grandson of Henry III. Edward IV., the first of the House of York, was descended from the fifth son of Edward UX, as the Lancastrian Kings had de­ scended from the fourth son of the same sovereign. Henry VII., the first of the Tudors, was a descendant of Henry Y. James I. of England, and VI. of Scot­ land, was the son of Lord Darnley and Mary Queen of Scots, and his right to the succession rested on his descent from Henry VII., through his great- grandmother, Margaret. Charles II. was the second child among six of Charles L, and started anew the Stuart line at the restoration. Mary, who with William of Orange, ruled Britain, was a Stuart, as was also Anne, "the good Queen." George I., of the House of Hanover, was descended on his mother's side from James L The following will show the length of the rftiVn ̂ ol the several houses : - ̂ , < .. -- U»a Karmaa tiaa ?. ,.1.; Plantagenet llM-1399 Laaraater.... 1SS9U61 l«6i-uss i 1*85-1603 5tu<rt ; • Commonwealth : lAlu-lttuo Stuart Stuart-Oranga. MSti-Uoa Stuart lWi-1714 Hanover The following will show at a glanoe the rulers. There were often a number of Queens, and, as the space is limited, only the actual rulers' names are given : Norm an-- William 106S-1087 Wm. Rnfua... . 108r-J10t. Henry I U0M135 Stephen 1185-WM Piautaganat-- Henry 11. 1154-118V IVchard 1 118&-U9f> John Henry III 12!«-12.2 Edward 1 .1172-1307 Edward It 1307-1827 Edward IIT. 1&7-137J llicharrt II 1377-1899 Lancaster-- Henry IV Henry V 1418-1422 Henry VI 14M-1461 York-- Edward IV 1461-14^ Tudor-- UBR-SS8 Elizabeth lM8-iSJki Stuart-- •lames I^. .1S03-162J Charles 1 1&U-M49 Commonwealth-- Parliamentary Executive I649-MS33 Protectorate 16U JMo Stuart- Charles II .^00-168.1 Janie* II 1(03-1688 fttuart-Orangw-- William and Mary I69S-M94 William III 16M-170J Stuart- Anna ....17S3-.1T14 Hauover-- Edward V U8S-1483 George 1 17M-17a7 Richard III 148,-14Sft George II 1727-17W) Tudor-- Ueoige III 1T«0-i8JU Henry VII l485-1509;Gt*<>nfe IV 182 1-18.(0 Henry VIII MC#-1!>47 William IV 1830-1187 Edward VI .lB4T-l5j«|Viotprta i . .1' The Two John Thomases. • A young school-miss who* has been told to hunt up the story of the " Two John Thomases" writes td us for the particulars. They were Dr. John Thomas, who graduated at Catherine Hall, Cambridge, in 1713, was rector of 8t Yedast, Foster Lane, was consecrat­ ed Bishop of Liucoln April 1, 1744, and translated to Salisbury in 1761, and who died July 19, 17G6; and Dr. John Thomas, Fellow of All Saints College, Oxford, rector of St. Benedict's and St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf,consecrated Bishop of Peterboro, Oct. 4, 1747, translatod to Salisbury in 1757, and who died May 1, 1781. Tiie story of the difficulty iu de­ scribing th^rn is certainly genuine. Bishop IN * i was speaking of l/tu Thomas, v» one asked, " Which Dr. Thomas-do you mean?" He an­ swered, " jhn Thomas." The questioner replied, "They are both named John. ' •* Well, 1 mean Dr.* Thomas who has h living in the city." "They both have livings in the city." " Dr. Thomas who is Chaplain to the King." "Theyare both Chaplaius to the King." " Dr. Thomas who is known to be a very good preacher." "They are both known to be very good preach­ ers." *' Then," said Newton, triumph­ antly, "the Dr. Thomas who squints.*' " They both squint! ' was the equally- effective auswer, and Bishop Newton gave it up. Whether they Bquinted equally bad we cannot say, but the lirst above-named was one of the most de­ cided specimens ever presented in good society. He was once telliug a humor­ ous story and remarked of the hero that "the fellow squinted most hideously." This point waa telling, but the Bishop increased the effect by turning his own ugly face around to each person present, with an extra distortion at each turn, and remarking, in a subdued undertone, " Do you know, I hate your squinting fellows 1"--New York Journal of CbfH- meroe. . A Whe Employer.. • New Y&rk merchant who has.a large iron mill in Pennsylvania heard that his employes intended to found a small M- brarv for their own use. Most employers would have regarded such an enterprise with condescending approval, mingled somewhat with uneasiness as to whether they might not themselves be "struck" for a subscription, and as to how small a sum they might give without being called mean by their rivals. Bat what the emploj'er pf the men who wanted a library did was to himself select and purchase for his employes a library of 5,000 volumes and provide proper apart­ ments in which to take care of it. The library will prove a good busiuess invest­ ment. Men worth keeping are not likely to go away from such a special benefit to them and their famjlies. The better class of workmen elsewhere will be at­ tracted to the mills that offer the use of ft large feSlKfetfon of books in addition to tbeir weekly pay, while the mere tramps in that particular department of labor will find the mill not at all to their taste, for somehow drunkenness and strikes are quite infrequent in the neighborhood of good libraries. Many other employers would find profit in investing money judiciously for the benefit of their own men.--New York Herald. did not wish to incur an obligation with­ out a certainty of being able to pay it. Mr rule was "Pay can't remember the time wiien any man could not have had Jar the aekrag what I owed. Another thing I wish to say: All the money I ever made waa in mechanical business, and not in Specu­ lation.--Peter Cooper. • ! /g- 'I Hi ' . Care ef the Teeih. m •• *' - any young miss, if »hai|Mra&' amiable expression and clean, whit* end pearly teeth, will be called j»t least -gocxl lwking" while the otherwe beautiful, if disfigured by foul and! black teeth, with unsightly roots and a conse­ quent foul breath, will be regarded as uncomely, if not shunned on account of a foul breath. As one smiles--and young misses love to do that--the teeth are the most conspicuous ornament of the face, and it is important that they be kept clean. To do this it is needful to cleanse them daily, at least, using a soft brash after breakfast; use with a dentifrice made by dissolving two ounces of borax in three pints of boiling water adding, when not quite co!d,«teaspoon- ful of spirits of camphor; bottle and use with an equal quantity of tepid water. The same may be used to rinse the mouth at any time, while the brushing at bedtime, also, in certain cases will be of great service. By such means the teeth are made beautiful, preserved, the tartarous adhesions removed, decay ar­ rested and health secured. The fastidi­ ous miss who learns that Uie tartar is but an accumulation of salivary muctis, phosphate of lime, in which " wriggling eels" are imbedded, living creatures! may not hesitate to remove them. I will add that the use of castile soap and wa­ ter will aid in their extermination. The teeth are covered by an enamel-- resembling ivory---hard and brittle, which resists most acids, such as will dissolve common-bone. When this is cracked and removed by the use of hot and cold drinks or food, by craoking nuts and the like, the acids easily reach the true bone, of course destroying the teeth. It is more than foolish, there* fore, to bite off pins, thread and the Hfc* or crack nuts with the teeth. Do not remove the first teeth too soon, till they are loose, nor let them remain after they are loose, badly decayed- mere shells--sifece they are a somoe of harm. If removed too soon Jtliey may deform or destroy the second set. To preserve the teeth it is needful to use them, to chew our food thoroughly, not only for the sake of good digestion, but for the sake at the teeth, since na­ ture is economical and removes them if not needed and used, as seen in the cows fed on distillery slops, with little or no hay. I will add to What I have already said in reference to fine fleer, that the teeth suffer for want of bone materials, if that is used, unless an article is used containing these bone elements, for the bony structure, the teeth indfuded.-- Dr. J. H. Hanaford. nxima uaouieaa. member# of toathMg eondoMt deatt of Hon. Chariea Hitchcock, of 1 jtaoident at tin ConattotiojaU MONDAY, Hay t.--SauTx.--Ths at 5 o'docl ~ - • out doing i JIousx.--The House met this morfting it anal hoot, ̂ aiwfat m* : members, phoU£ ** and gotatong an bestitcc»^wtthaau<|awm^.ff The roqnlar order of Home bilia q* --niwn uu|| to thvd > ij of St. Clair, Madison atili Bond catottaT ' Tran>«r, May 1®.--8*HA-m. -1Waweoft leeomidar ttw votsby trtiWi tl--ate WM--|ti Exptern Mil was daCyatadwas oaBai Pay as Ton Go. I learned three trades. I learned to be a brewer, a coach-maker and a ma­ chinist, all before I was 21 years old. I worked three years at $1.50 a day, and 1 saved enough out of that to get a start in life. I was making machines to shear cloth. Then I bought the patent right of the machine and made them for sale. That was before the War of 1812. I de­ termined to give the world an equivalent in some form of useful labor for all that I consumed in it. I went on and en­ larged my business, all the wliile keep­ ing out of debt. I can not recollect a time when I could not pay what I owed any day. I would not spend money be­ fore I earned it. Another rule I had tvas to keep clear of the banks. I never asked them ^pr accommodation. I never got thaaa to 4 u' T r The Decoration ef a Boom. Crude white is in favor with* house­ wives for ceilings--"it looks so clean." That is just its fault It lookh so clean, even when it is not, that it makes all else look dirty, even though it may be clean. To paint the flat ceiling of a moderate-sized room by hand is simply a waste of labor. It is only at great per­ sonal inconvenience that one can look long at it, while, as a matter of faot, no one cares to do so. You see it occasion­ ally, by accident, and for a moment, and, that that casual glimpse should not be a shock to the eye, as it is as well to tint it in accordance with the room, or even cover it with a diapered paper, which will to some extent withdraw the attention from the cracks that frequent­ ly disfigure the peilings of modern houses. What hand-pain ting we can afford may best be reserved for the pan- uels or doors, window shutters, and the like, where it can be seen--theae doors and the other woodwork being painted in two or three shades of colors, fiat or varnished, according as we prefer soft­ ness of tone or durability of surface. Perhaps it will be best in this instance that the woodwork r.hould fall in with the tone of the dado; but this is not a poiQt on which any rule . qan. be laid down. The decoration of the panels should be in keeping with the wall paper patterns. It may be much more pronounced than they, but still it must not assert itself. One great* point of consideration in the decoration of a room is the relation of the various patterns one to another. It may often be well to sacrifice an otherwise admirable design simply because you oau find nothing else to go with it. A single pattern, once chosen, will often oontral the whole scheme of decoration.--J/a^aztn« of Art. '. • Sew Industry* Self-supporting industrial employment for women is attracting more and more attention from the public as the necessity for it becomes daily more ap­ parent. The diversification of indus­ tries, which is now increasing with such' wonderful rapidity under the demands of modern life is furnishing rapidly many new opportunities for all degrees of intelligence and skill, and a plain, practical hint upon the subject was offered recently in the proposal that shops should be established where mend­ ing could be done. The idea is so sim> pie and reasonable that it seems almost useless to dilate upon it, but hero is an occupation which could be remunerw tively added to the Work of many of the small shops in which there must neces­ sarily be much time not fully occupied. Iu the variety shops, which are already generally attended by women, a simple card is only needed to announce the fact that mending is done, to produce an in­ stant demand for small services. Es­ pecially in cities where a large pai't of the population is employed away from home, both men and women would glad­ ly avail themselves of some assistance of the needle in repairing the damages wrought by the wash»tnh, or accident upon the wardrobe.-- WasMngtotiCriUc. aspacud order/ortha hoar. ble diacosHon the motion waa Senator FuUer'a reaoiataon OR iMurt m mM ipitu 11 o'clock to-B»ocp»w. Senator 9 " half of the Revenue Committee, wof thoQarlandHoaa£Ul giving Hi field tfe powar to construct national watae. Jacksonville was i*ad a third ttnaaed tmmtL-m HOUBK.--The whole day was apsat QJM^ tfea f •' Elgin bwane Asylum appropriation, and «t td- . journment the bill waa about half ootMiderod. • « ' ^ May 11.--SZXATS.--BiB* wm ** passed: Authorizing the JUSnjad and Wsi®- ** '* _ £ house CommisBtoneiu to asMMfrh impaction * \J: district* of pnblio warehouses: the Farm Drafet- tM*' ' ^ age bill Hemtor Merrill's VsfeMd Pwhry fo- \ nuance bill, killed once, and revived on » mo- . / t 4v*; tion to reconsider, was called up, pat to the .' ",'SA teat, and failed to paaa by a vote of yeas, M, ^4 « \ % aavg, 16. Senator tmnderiaad'a Prodiutiau ..... i - bill was defeated by 16 to 22. A reaotatkm fbr Mar 27 waa talked over aad was defeated by 16 to 22. n Ma adopted. The Senate bill authorising the mm- adjournment on May 27 waa talked over Senate sq\- I##-., ployment of Isaac It. Hitt aa State sg«nt to collect war cl&ima due from the Geoeiml-<3o*•> | ernoient to the State waa killed. HOUSE.--Bills wore iutrodaoed: To provid* for the publication of the records of the UK- .. note volunteers in the Blackhawk and Hexioan ware : to classify the tftt counties In the State, ̂ . on the basis of the new oeoaas, W*h#egard to mT " lew aud Halanea. A reaolntion Indorang Oar- field in hiscoHrw in regard to aosnasttoarwae vW refused recognition by a party wet* tf*-? the Democrats vo ing for it in hope* _. ' of a flubt. The Penitentiary Appwpun f t i o n b i l l w a a w r a n g l e d o v a r f«- a w w ral-hoars-; aud postponed. Than the House refuted t© Huapen 1 the roles to take up the Beaate Ad- 1 journment resolution. 19M tAll prahibitiag ^*4 •/, pool-aetling was sent to third readug. A hill to enable private warehousemen to sell nn-r*-1 claimed property was read * third tiiasaad / passed, as was the bill submitting to a vote of _ the people, at any general election, the propo- v sitioato appropriate $521,000 to oomplete lha State House. * .' • TmmsDAt, May 12.--SENATE.--Bills were passed: Placing taxes dne in the fifth classi­ fication of claims against estates, and provid- ***** ' ' ^ ing for the payment thereof; a wolf aad fox* scalp bounty hill; requiring ottoan aok&a* over by reason or the new Election law to give new bonds; requiring Cteks of OoMta' going out of office to tarn over to nfc* their successors all books, papers and moneys wmainiuj? in their hands, nd gnrttg ***• -J-v courts the power to grant nwapnlwiy process in case of refusal; giving Appellate.,, Courts extended powers in isstring wntsof ^ % mandamns, etc.; legaUsiiifg drainage iftisiiinlir t -i ,, - and the aosessmenUif benefits in such districts ' » organized in pnnunnoe tothe present lar; mak- * * %j ing the terms of ottos of School Superintend- rate ents conform to the new Election law; per- > ,, mitting cities and villages to build and , ' I maintain bridges ana tarries within five mil<?& of thsir oorpo|»lto limita; giving v«a- dees the right to bring raits for forcible ratty * ^ and detainer against vendors who fait to gfvs UP P°«esaion of premises sold, aeoordiag to i contrast. The Senate then went uscntiw - ^ \ '* session aad confirmed the appointment of t -' « tj Charles Oalighsr, of Alexander conafy, aa >t>« : Trustee of Anna Insane Asykna, in piaaa of - .. . J William P. Brunei-, resigned^ and also a km ' j number of Notaries PnUia • • » " v - HOUSE.--The £lyi» Appropriatisn bill sent to third reading. ThaOoamitta^ w Bales " w reported on the 8enaie joint resolution ̂̂ viding for the final adjournment sine die on . , A'*?' tue 27ta inst.. wtta Sn amendment snMtttttfag ̂ • Ipfe ' Monday, May 8fl. The aanodnMat «as curred in, and the joint resolution, ss amend- • • . ed, adopted. Tie ^propriatkm for the Gar**-*"") bondale Normal School waa ftmgjht <wsr im+M several hoim, reduced and the "Irifl atnt t» •> W third reading. I lie Jaclatmville Efllnd Asyfaflft ..... appcopriation foUowed tha HM eoana. \: * *-A' * years ago, in the parish , ; .. *i Fllgrlma in Patersoa,., / Paterson, N. J., enjoys one of the moat densely populated families in America The City Physician of that place, believing that an epidemic was creaking out iu an "apartment of two rooms," threw aside the official tape and form peculiar to our City Board of Health, and personally visited the scene of his suspicions. He fouod twenty-two freshly arrived Hollanders in "the two rooms hired for one family," aud more than that, all the members of it were not at home at the time of his call. Ten meu were absent looking for work and old acquaintances. Progeny was the epidemic the Hollanders had brought with them, and as the entire thirty-two were healthy, happy, and able to sit up and take their combined ninety-six daily meals, the Doctor left them to continue to multiply, increase and perform all the other duties incident to decent Dutch life. From all accounts this exhibition exceeds anything so far produced in the combined greatest shows on the earth. "I iiS**ki A Masonic Legeni. Many years ago, in the parish ot! Carpahairn, io Oauoway, a rude aad aa* queatered district, there were oolytkiw Free Masons, the minister, a tailor and* mason. Tha mason, being .deaixous lo introduce his son to the aame myatery, * v V caused a lodge to be called fbr the pur- ' ^ pose at a lonely cottage, where the mm- {'# , « monies were proceeding when a knock , "'.'h was heard at the door, The mason, whose name was Dun, went to see who w.._ *' . it was, and found an old woman, who ad- .; "* ? dressed him as follows: : . "The Masons are mat thenfalit# "Yes," " Well, ye ken my web was stolen laat week ? " Yes, Janet, bat what busineaa haa f that wi* the Mason meeting t" Mp.'. " Ou, ye ken, ye'll be raann* the d#*S ̂ ard I wad just like if ye wad aak him, t- # . ̂ - since he's thereat anyrate, whowtole the rf, weh." . ."f "On, ay, Janet; Just you gang «wa* then, and we'll see what we do." Mr. Dun then returned to the' In* terior of the cottage, and mentioned to the Biinister wlu^ passed between him isi«l the old woman. The ekegyman rebuked him ^ sevcandy^ for oonoaamg to the superstitious notions of the aged crone, and said he feared that it would "affront them a'." *'• Naa fear o* that," answend the ma­ son, 46 just leave it all to me.** , . ; ^ Next day, when Janet called upon Mr. Dun, he told her that " the de'il" had , ^ not exactly communicated the name of ***['" ; ̂ the thief, but he mentionad that; if the ' goods were not returned before Thursday next, the home of the guilty person ^ ' wonld fall upon him in the night time, * and the whole family would be killed. This, he aaid, was a great aaeret, and he strictly forbade her eonunaineating it to more than one person. Away went Janet, quite satiahed; air though it might have been expected to occur to her that the prediction of pun­ ishment to a thief was not exactly a characteristic piece of conduct on tike part of Old Nick. The aeeret waa speed­ ily imparted to her next.door neighbor, with many injunctions as to tha pro* priety of letting it go no farther. As a matter of course it was known to tha whole parish before night. On the third morning thereafter Ji et's web was found lying at her door,, with a part winch had been cot .oft at­ tached to the main bod y of it A TWy Me. «, He waa not prompt in filling Ms an* gagement the other evening,, and hp . cam® into the room hurriedly aud himself into a seat. As he dia lb, Spa' "1| . embroidered butterfly which dOeoraiaa ̂ a chair back came off, as a matter of ' course, and he jumped up to replace it. "Never mind," said she in a iriigiitir acid tone of voice, "time aad Jkiffgr araifc tot no man." «#i^ »,• 1 M V ' * fan- M 4,.1 • W. • '5 WM i-j . {*,'?:Ji A. R Yon hwo, «C patented a device fear winding a watch by means of the motion of the weanrll m . - - - •- ^ 1 0 j siii