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[cffrmti f laindealct i. VAttSUXE, EOtatw* PufcUshw. IfcHENRY, ILLINOIS. OHIO has 7,643 prisoners in her jails. T AT.VRWII TT", |j[ooius, <JF Philadelphia, Owns $75,000 worth of dogs. BOSTON is giving its poor children tree excursions this year, and-takes ont •4,203 on oac|rop<*«i(W^ A NASSAU (If. HI) Jus wooden leg through the spokes of a 4torriaee-wheel, and brought up with a jfound turn the runaway horse attached. If BarnuUx doesn't engage that gifted gperformer he has lost his cunning. MRS. PLATTE, of hoaifviiie, Xy. Mo fell on a stove, burned all the llesli from Qne side of her head, and scorched part Of her skull so badly that it began to crumble, still lives, and the injured bones seem to be a pp>$$s of restoration. of crime in them. And the first objec­ tion 'raised to the • new tunnel betvtBen England and Franco wider the channel is that in three honrs a cavalry force might be sent through to hold the ap­ proaches at the English end ; in eight lours 25* 000 men miglif be sent through to hold it against any number. To this it is replied that a can of nitijp-glycer­ ine or dynamite would make the tunnel impassible. Beside, it wiliW by common consent. '45 ACCORDING to the census of the year 1870 there were in the United States in that year 202 deaths by lightning, or twenty-five more than by yellow fever* Tiiis year the deaths by lightning show tt heavy increase, many of the most re­ markable cases having been reported, ' ------ - " * "* '*"• • Toofess, in a recent interview, says he £ad a great time in gettihg Lee into the Confederate service. Davis wanted io make Cooper the ranking General, while Virginia wanted Lee made the ranking General. To keep Virginia out of the Union Lee was given the place. SMOKERS will please take notice that a Judge in New York lias just decided that a man has a right to punch a smoker in the libs with the end of his umbrella if he " puffs the smoke of a bad cigar in his face, even if it is in a smoking-car.** The man has his right to smoke, and the umbrella man has his right to punch, and the New York laws refuse to step in and say that either was wrong. The smoker, who sued, had to pay costtl f PATRICK HENRY was twice married and left fifteen children, and there are now living probably more than 100 of his descendants. William Wirt Henry, a member of the Richmond bar and Rep­ resentative of that district in the State Senate, is his grandson. Senator Roane, of Virginia, was his grandson, and Gen. Joseph £. Johnston is his great-grand- nephew, as was also William C. Preston, the distinguished Senator in Congress from South Carolina. <•**» A MAN and . his wife, of th,e name of Jboaet, have been sentenced in Switzer­ land to peh&l servitude fb/lifs for hav­ ing murdered all their children, number­ ing either five or seven. They adinit having pat live . to death, and there is reason to believe that they killed two others whose births they concealed. Their motive for committing anmes so t«rtrib!y unnatural and revolting was pimply to save themselves the trouble and expense of bringing their children up, for, though in humble circumstances, the Zvssets seem to have been far from poor, a considerable sum of money hav­ ing been found in the house when they were arrested. The p!an they adopted to get rid of the children was to deprive them of food, and when the process of starvation did not appear quick enough, or the little ones cried too much, it was accelerated by strangling or knocking them on the head. When the jury gave ift their verdict they expressed re­ gret that, under the present law of Berne, the Zyssets could not be sen­ tenced to some severer punishment than perpetual imprisonment. In the year ending June 1 twenty- eight deaf men were killed on the rail- | load tracks of the United States. In I Hie same year two were shot for burg­ lars while prowling around houses, and fourteen were run over by vehicles in if"1#*) pablie stauuts.- • Ifr isnssterfed on em­ inent medical authority that, while sad­ ness usually accompanies blindness, ob­ stinacy goes with deafness. When a deaf man will plod along on the railroad track, head down and eyes %u- the rails, he dots more than most men with two good ears would attempt. .O --•--' i i,' .ft U Bi SUICIDE in Berlin is showing signs of increase, and investigations into the , causes of itareon -feofcr Ofr-a -MBgfo re cent Saturday there were four cases' and statistics for the three years be­ tween J875 and IS7B placfc the city far ahead of London in tiie number of sui­ cides, and at only a short distance be­ hind Vienna. There were eighty-five such deaths to each 1,4)00,000 inhabit- ants'in London during those years, and 285 in Vienna. For Berlin the propor­ tion was 280 per 1,000,000. Leipeie shows the most alarming rate, it being greater even than the rate of Paris, at 450 per 1,000,000 inhabitants against 400 for Paris. PROF. DRAPER, who made a close study of the comet, said to a New York reporter: " The comet has been, on the whole, an excellent subject for observa­ tion, and the results I have obtained are far beyond my expectations. There seems to be no reason why we should not at any time fall in with a comet far larger than any that has ever appeared. It is well known that the inter-stellar spaces are thronged with isolated bodies of an Bizes, from that of a shooting-star, which is dissipated by a short flight through the «air, to that of the largest comet; how much larger some of these spheres may be it is vain to conjecture. Now, the sun is moving through space at the rate of from twenty to forty miles a second, and may at any time fall in with a body of inconceivable size, which, being drawn toward it and rendered lwninous by its heat, would be turned from a dark, invisible mass into a radi­ ant comet. Indeed, it is pretty certain that in the course of time our sun will run foul of some other system of stars, which will bring the solar system to an end. It is not impossible that our sys­ tem, should it fall in with a sun of suffi­ cient size, might itself be turned into a comet, and so come to an end. The possibilities that lie buried in the con­ verse of stars and nebula1 are limited only by each man's imagination. There may be systems a* cosnpftsWour own, or much more so,* which have lost their light by the lapse of time, and are now invisible; and such an obstacle in our path would not be discovered until we were close upon it. Bat these aqeieUn speculations, and have no end." THE Hon. Williapi Walter Phelps, Minister to Austria, lately had his first audience with the Emperor. Preceded by his jaeger, in cream-colored livery and headgear of white plumes, Mr. Plielps was escorted through t^any cor­ ridors and salons of the palace, the way linod with bowing lackeys. At last, in a lofty salon, destitute of .furniture, he was presented to Francis joseph, who was dreBsed in full uniform. Emperor and Minister exchanged courtly saluta­ tions, and then held a conversation in French--a conversation cordial and com­ plimentary. Bows the most profound "concluded the audience, ppd, tl#> Mis­ ter retired, as he had oome, through the lanes of saluting attendants. KINO KALAKAUA, report says, is roam­ ing up and down the earth looking for some guileless Prince or Princess upon whom he may unload the Sandwich islands. The population of the king­ dom is now estimated at only 56,000, -of which one-tenth is foreign. Capt. Cook in 1779 thought the Sandwich islands had a population of 400,000, but this was a mere guess. In 1823 the numlier of inhabitants was estimated at 142,000, And in 1853 at 73,138. Ten years ago it was 5^899, and is even less now. The revenue of the kingdom is only about $500,000, of which one-half is consumed in the payment of salaries. The debt • is $300,000, and there is a pretty con­ stant deficit On the whole, it isn't surprising that King " Calico " should v be anxious to sell out. THE tendency of the conservative En­ glishman to rush into objections to a new idea is as marked as the alleged dis­ position of nature to abhor a vacuum. Although the population of Great Brit­ ain is liable to be decimated in the rail­ road trains, they will not adopt simple expedients to prevent the £ | _ j Antiquity of the Earth. Theologians of every sect and creed had persistently taught that only some 6,000 years had elapsed since the earth sprang into being. The suggestion of its greater antiquity was received with a storm of theological opposition, which Underwent. little abatement during half a century, and of which even yet the ground-swell may occasionally be felt in some of the dark recesses of ignorant miftds. The majority of those who railed the storm were the social or pro­ fessional ancestors of these who now, in like manner, oppose the doctrine of evolution ; but the change which has come over the latter races of combatants is itself some proof evolution affects the minds of men, whatever it may do to their bodies. Fifty years ago the full force of an anathematizing odium t/ieo- lofficwn burst upon the heads of the assailed geologists, with a violence hap­ pily unknown among the opponents of evolution. Then, as now, the represen­ tatives of geological science explained to the world the great facts upon which their conclusions w«re based. Then, as now, myriads of E«».U were in doubt whetlur to resign themselves to the leadership of geologists or of the theo­ logians. But those who ranged them­ selves under the banner of Cnvier, Lyell and Sedgwick ultimately found them­ selves on the victorious side. One by one the theologians laid down their vitu­ perative weapons. The late Dr. Chal­ mers early accepted the geological creed. Dr. Pye Smith received the fellowship of the Royal Society for his well-meant endeavor to reconcile the Mosaic narra­ tive with the writings of the geologists, earning some hnrrl names from the de­ fenders of the orthodox camp for his sup­ posed abandonment of their holy cause. Meanwhile, the geological batteries made sad breaches in the defenses of that camp. A late Dean of York valiantly confronted the assailing hosts when assembled in his cathedral city. Singly he faced his foes like a new Horatiua, but speedily fell beneath the sharp arrows of Sedg­ wick's biting eloquence. The last liy- patian geologist who strove to restore the dying faith was Young, the clerical au­ thor of the " Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast." He, like the Dean, lifted up his warning voice in a geologi­ cal section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, but in vain. Even a Julian could not have re­ stored the ancient belief, and Young wae not a Julian. Truth proved too much for error; and, though occasionally a theologian may still be found so ignorant of what is going on around him as to uphold the exploded doctrine, the race has almovt become extinct.--COHtempo­ ral"}/ Review. A BALTIMORE conductor had just sig­ naled for his train to start, when a woman "rushed down street, dragging a little girl by one arm. He waved his hand to arrest the train and assist the woman to get upon the car, and as he was about to start the tain again he noticed the woman and Ar little child getting out. Hurrying to wr Spot where she was Blighting, he was the matter, and the woman replied, quite nonchal­ antly. ***** hex little ipri wanted to kiss her papa before heleiv" mmrois aura, SENATORDAVID DAVIS' faxes'amount to 138,000. | i f r .. ' Thk Madison county peach rebn is a* e n l i j f e f a i l u r e . l U U L WOI:K on the new depot at Peoria is to commence at once. IT seems to l»e the determination that Springfield shall have paved struts. H. GROVE, of Tazewell county, re­ cently sold two Clydtjadale btaliions for $2,500. ' ; ; • \ ' A HEROIC coach eortipai^v *al, btjn organized at Peoria with a capital of 315,000. THE woolen mill at Lacon is filling a Government order for 13.0GJs shawls for Indians on the plains. SAMUEL SCARRETT, a well-known Peoria county farmer, hanged- hiinwAlf to a tree in his orchard. Miss MAY I. REED has resigned as County Superintendent of Schools of Piatt county, and married. Two noxs have died in Decatur of ockjaw, caused by wounds inflicted in firing toy pistols on the 4th of July. DAVID THORNTON, a well-known liquor dealer and local Democratic politician, died lately in Colorado of consumption. MRS. DHCSIIIIIA WISE, of Macoupin oounty, who came to Illinois in 1816, receives a pension of $8 per month, her husband having been a soldier of the War erf 1812. THIEVES entered the residence of Wright Powell, a wealthy farmer of Saline county, while the family were away from home, and robbed the house of $500 in money. WORK on the coal shaft at Atlanta has been abandoned. The sinking of the shaft began three years ago. The trouble was with water. The shaft had reached a depth of 140 feet. COL. F. D. STEPHENSON, of Clay county, Who has been apjx>inted an Ex­ aminer in the Pension Office, at $2,000 per year, was one of the youngest Illi­ nois Colonels in the late war. Es-Gov. OoiiSSBY is in LendviHa. He will remain in Colorado until fall looking after mining enterprises in which he is interested in connection with Chicago and Springfield capital­ ists. BISHOP SPALDING, of Peoria, and W. J. Onahan, of Chicago, have concluded negotiations for a tract of 60,000 acres of land on the line of the Fort Smith and Little Rock road, in Arkansas, for col­ onization purposes. A BAND of gypsies recently passed through Pekin, having in their posses­ sion a 14-year-old girl, whose skin was white and fair, and who evidently did not belong to their tribe. It is thought tliat the child was abducted. MR. INGLE, an extensive' farmer and canner, near Hoopeston, Vermillion county, has 500 acres of cane this year. He estimates that some of his Torn will yield 100 bushels to the acre. He raises corn to can, and will pnt up 1,000,000 cans, commencing in August. FRED SCHNEIDER, a brick-mason, while working on the top of a three-story new building at Bloomington, accidentally fell through an aperture to the basement below, a distance of fifty feet, and was crushed to a pulp. In falling he broke a joist two by six inches in two. THE committee of the citizens of Bloomington appointed to solicit con­ tributions to secure the expenses of the proposed soldiers' and sailors' reunion, in that city, have succeeded in obtaining pledges for $3,200, the amount required. Tlw other condition was that all roads ueBterrag 'here would" give special re­ duced rates, which they have done ; also on all lines controlled by the Wabash. This settles the fact that the reunion will be held in Bloomington. So says the Pontagraph. THE reports of the correspondents of the State Department of Agriculture, at Springfield, make a good showing for corn, and give but little encouragement for over a third of an average crop of fail wheat. Meadows are nearly up to an average in condition, and,' although the wet weather has made it difficult to save the clover, there has been a fail- crop of hay. Clover is heavy ; timothy rather light. Pastures are generally in excellent condition. The reports re­ ceived at the department give encour­ agement for a good crop of oats where the storms have not lodged the crop. THE Illinois State Board of Health has issued the following orders in rela­ tion to the transportation of corpses : Rule 1--The transportation of the bodies ot persons who have died of sin ail-pox, AsiM'.e eliolora or yellow fi-vor is abnolu elv forbidden. Rule 'J From Nov. 15 to March 15 all dead bodies limy be transport d without restriction, excepting thu t odito of those who have died ol diphtheria, scarlot-fever, typhus or typhoid le­ ver. liule a--The bodies of those who have died ol diphtheria, eoarlet 'ever, typhus or typhoid fever, nt all times, and ail bodies proxentud tor transportation lrora March 15 u> Nov. 15, inuat IHJ closely wrapped in a disinfectant cerecloth, placed in a metallic or troodea eotlin, and ihU inclosed by a ti^ht wooden box. MICHAEL MCMAHON, of Chicago, died a frightful death from hydrophobia. Spasm after spasm followed each other in rapid succession, and it required the eflorts of u half dozen men to hold him in his cot. No amount of physical strength seemed sufficient to prevent him from biting and tearing with his teeth the flet-;h al>out his arms and shoul­ ders, and for a half hour prior to death he wits literally Ixithod in blood. The extraordinary exertions put forth by the man sow tired him, however, and he fell back thoroughly exhausted, and in this condition died. The dog by which j the unfortunate man was bitten was a little Tirindle cur, which he one day brought home with him from his work I along Hie docks. He was teasing and | tormenting the canine, when the dog j suddenly seized him by the thumb and ! held OH so teuacionsly that he had to j choke him to death in order to make | him release liis grip. The disease man-; ifested itself two weeks afterward,'with, the result mentioned. A BATHER sanguinary bill for divorce has been filed in one of the Chicago courts by one John C. Heilex against his wife. Th% aggrieved husband has made a schedule of his grievances, and he sums them up chronologically and numerically as follows : " That at their house she did to your orator the follow­ ing--viz.: 1*. On or about the 15th day of May, 1881, she threw a wooden lx>xstt your orator, aiming the same again a his head, and barely missed her mark. 2. On or about the 20th of May, 1881, she took up a chair, and would have hurled the same against your orator had he not arrested her arm. 3. On or about the 31st of May, 1881, she struck your orator in his face with her fist. 4.' On or about the 5th\of June, 1881, she took hold of and threatened to throw an iron pot, with hot soup, at your orator. 5. On or aboilt the 20th day of June, 1881, she threw a cofl'ee-pot, with hot coffee, upon the upper part of your orator's body. 6. On the 8th day of July, 1831, she threatened that she would take your orator's life by shooting him with a re­ volver which she had taken from your orator's trunk, in his absence, by break­ ing it open for the above purpose, which threat your orator has reason to fear, and actually does fear, she might carry into execution, inasmuch as she, on one previous occasion, expressed heaself that she Would give your orator no rest till she got him into "the grave; on another, that she wished she oonld poison him, and, on another, that she wished a rail- load^ train would smash liiui, so she Could pick up the pieces of fienh torn from his body." llllK vlafcia. Bjlbe* Itlown Bureau Carroll Cue Champaign. CLI} Colen ... Crawford... Cunibort*nd..... I>c Kalh. ..j1" . il)«- K*ib.k. ®eWitt. Douplsw......... I>u 1'age......... E<l(jar Ed ward R.. ....... EfHnfrliun....... Fajette,......... Ford Franklin... Fulton.......... f Fulton........... Gallation... ..... Oiwue........... Hamilton.. . 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Vandalta.,.!.. Paston. Benton..,.*..., .Canton.. Avon „.. Siiawneetown. Carrollton 3uLeangbato.. .Warsaw...... . Bigg® villa,.,.. C Kiibridca^.., . Onsrgis........ Watwka....... .Cari>ondate:... NawtoH....l... Mt. Vernosi .. •TerveyvUla ,Ga!?na...v., ... . Warren..,„.j,... Aurora,,,,, ... . > m t o i . . . . KHOXV1]1»K&. .. .Ijibertyvina... . WmiXcgan Ottawa..... i.., Pontiac...,4,.. .Fairbuqr..,t. . . Lincoln.., Z.., .Atlanta....?... . Decatur... t.. .CarlinviUe.i.. .Centralis.,*:.. .Wenonn,..;... .Havana..., . MetropolU.... . Macomb....., . Woodstock;... . Rloommgton.. .A'edo .HilUbifflo .laeksouartUe,.. ,SuUivan.».... , Oregon. . Roeliclle .Pinekfaeyffte. . MontioeBO.... .PittKfleML.... Oolconda .Sparta. ... .Cheater...;.... .Oiney......... .Port Byntt... .Hillsdale...... .Springfield.... .Rush vine.i... . Shelby villa.... .Wyoming.i... .Toulon....,.. . Belle vilW:;.... .Delavaa....... . JoiiesbwOi.... • Catlin... I>ai!vill#..i»... • Hoope«ta» .Monuioaa.... .Curnil . .Sterling..;.... Morrison.5 . A!l>atiy...f..., • Marion........ .Rock ford. .El Paso... Fatif. ..........Sept. »-# Sept 6-9 Anff. 22-M Sept ltO-23 Sept. 6-# .........Sept. 13-16 . Aug. 90 to Sept 3 Sent 37-40 ...Sept. 13-17 Sept 97-30 • .Sept 29 to Oct. 1 ...**. :«Sept 19-23 ......... Sept. 20-23 ,Aug. 23-m .Sept 13-W Sept 6-8 ...........Sept 6-8 ........ Oct 4-7 . i . . . O c t 4 - 7 Sept 21-M . .Aug. 80 to Sept. 3 ...Oct 11-14 Oct 4-7 ........Sept 20-aj . .Aug. 30 to Sept 2 .........Oct 18-21 Sept 1S-17 Oct 19-21 ...... ..Sept 13-16 • Aug. 29 to Sept 8 • v. Sept 13-ia Aug. 15 Oct 11-14 ...;....Sept 20-23 ...Oct 11-14 Oct 11-14 ....... .Sept. 27-90 - .Sept 13-16 ..Bept 13-16 Sept »>-9 .Sept 12-1® ..........Sept 21-23 ..Sept 3R to Oct 1 • ...Sept. 5-10 ........Sept 13-16 Sept. 5-9 ..Aug. 29 to Sept 2 Sept 6-9 Sept. 20-28 septr,-9 .....i.iSept, ..Sept 19-23 Oct 4-7 ..Sept. 13-16 ........Sept 13-16 Sept. 13-16 Sept. 21-24 ........Sept 20-23 Sept 27-30 Aug. 22-26 8ej,t. 2t>-28 Sept. 20-'44 Sept 6^> Oct. 4-7 Aug. 15-19 ....Sept. 20-23 Oct Ml Sept. 28-30 Oot. 11-14 Sept 13-17 Sept 7-9 .........Sept 14-16 Sept. 12-17 ..Aug.30 to Sept. 8 Sept 20-24 Sept. ft-9 Sept 20-23 .'i. Oct. 11-14 .. 1 ../Sept 1*16 1 Sept 13-17 .... */...... Sept 13 Sept 20-24 Aug. 22-26 Sept. 0-9 Sept 6-7 Sept. 13-18 Sept 0-9 ..Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 Sept 27-80 Sept 12-16 Sept. 12-17 THE FAMILY DOCTOR. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. HEBR TROMHOLT thinks he can traoe a connection between the frequency of displays of anrora and- the phases of the moon. DR. RICOTTX maintains that while Spaniards, Italians and French can be acclimatized in Algeria, people from the North of Europe cannot. This result, if well established, may have a very im­ portant bearing upon the oolonizatiou of Africa in the near future. Mb. Wromft, in*^.. Ana&«< states that American corned-beef is twice as valuable, as an article of diet, as fresh boneless beef, and tlint the cooked ox­ tongues contain less salt and more nutri­ tive matter than the dried tongues usual­ ly sold in European markets. M. GREHAUT proved in recent experi­ ments that the quantity of carbonic acid exhaled by any one individual of au animal species varies but little. Irrita­ tions and inflammations of the respiratory mncoii8 membrane decrease the exhala­ tion of carbonic acid, which then tends to accumulate in the blood. MB. W. H. PREECE, the) English elec­ trician, has determined with much ac­ curacy the area protected by a properly adjusted lightning-rod. His conclusion is that the protection extends to a conic space whose height is the length of the rod, the base being a circle Jiaving its radius equal to the height of the rod-- an opinion which has been held by scien­ tific men for a long time. CONSIDERABLE changes in the water- level of several lakes in California and Oregon are reported. It is stated that Goose Lake, thirty miles long, was nearly dry in 1853 and 1854, but con­ tained ten feet of water in 1870, and its depth has since been increasing. Clear Lake is also ten feet deeper than in 1854, while Tnlie Lake, in the same region, is now ten or fifteen feet higher than then. THOUGH the invention of the barometer is due to the mathematician Torricelli, yet in England Sir Christopher Wren was the first to suggest that the varying weight of the atmosphere was the true cause of the variation in the height of the mercury. This was a theory op­ posed, to that of the disciples of Des­ cartes, who ascribed the variation to the influence of the moon. NEARLY every year there falls in some part of the world a greater or less quantity of fine yellow powder, which fall is popularly believed to be a shower of sulphur. Investigation, however, shows the powder to be the fine pollen of a species of pine tree. The pollen grains float easily in the air, and are often carried by gales a thousand miles. When they fall on snow the effect is often startling. FOB preserving the natural colors of dried flowers and plants, this process has been recommended by German scientists: Dissolve one part of salicylic acid in 600 parts of alcohol, heat the solution to boiling in a shallow dish, and draw the plant through it slowly; shake off any excess of liquid, dry between blotting paper, and press in the usual manner. Natural colors are said to be thus preserved in greater perfection than by other processes. * IT IS believed that porosity is a prop­ erty of all bodies. An experiment per­ formed some years ago, to ascertain whether water could be compressed, re­ sulted in proving that gold is porous-- the water inclosed in a hollow sphere of gold and forced by the violent pressure applied passed through the sphere and ap­ peared on the outside. The pores through which the liquid was driven could not have been more than the two-millionth of an inch in diameter. A. CERTAIN Count Hugo von Engen- berg, of Fratzberg in the Tyrol, is making use of microphones--sunk in the ground on a declivity of a hill, and connected separately with a single telephone and small battery--to discover a source of watar for his castle. He intends to con­ duct the experiment by night, when dis­ turbing sounds and vibrations of the ground are less frequent than by day. If a stream of water flows near the ap­ paratus it Avill pass the sound to the telephone, and thus reveal the spring. FOOD has three aspects in which it taunt be considered in regard to health. First, there is the kind or quality; sec­ ondly, the amount, and, lastly, the pre­ paration or cooking. BBOII< meat of any kind of food long enough and it will change to charcoal. After meat is heated through, every fur­ ther addition of heat advances its condi­ tion toward the charcoal state. But its CbarCOnlift untireW -- bin [ "n Saturday occurred a brace of ddents whiwti came near resulting the death of two of oorcittern*. Jol Keepsell vw unloading hay. In h barn with a patent fork. A liad been swnng out over longest and loveliest month 111 the cal­ endar. Then we were never depressed by bad weather. Then headache had no lodgement nearer than our neighbor's brain, Thed personal rheumatism was unknown to us. Then insomnia had not been invented, and we were not obliged to draw upon the apothecary for vials of sleep. Then we could walk twenty miles a day without fatigue. Then all was gold that glistened. Then we were young.--Janus T. Fields, in rper"ft Magazine. the - "" .t,'° l°*'1 fifing mure than JiJtccn miUmni Ml "R;X "THE MTERMT ON ^ "UB"F ,J°BT Hre s*n it ht e«- c*h °t I b*ckw»~* iUOlVlt£UI.Y wyth the liquor in the bowl. Then pour on enough boiling water to convert it into a jelly, and mix it well. Take it alone, or add a little milk where the stomach is debilitated or the person is consumptive. It is a light, delicate and nourishing dish, and excellent for dys­ peptics. TAKE CARE WHAT You EAT.--Many people fancy it makes no special differ­ ence what they eat. They do not dis­ like anything that's set before them. They take what comes, and think they 8 re satisfied. They have eaten enough. What more would you have ? Between the cultivated foolish ones and the dweller in boarding-houses, to whom everything has the flavor of hash, there 'is a golden mean that may be summed up in four words: " Good food, good health." That what you eat makes what you are. " If vou drink beer you will think beer." Ham and eggs have flavored many a bad sermon, and too many pies have, no doubt, led to much domestic nnhappiness. It is not enough to be satisfied, to be merely filled. The boarder who said a certain meal " was very tilling at the price " was one of the most foolish of foolish kind.--Food and Health, FROM an acorn weighing a few grains, a tree will grow for a hundred years or more, not only throwing off many pounds of leaves every year, but itself weighing several tons. If an orange twig is put in a large box of earth, and that earth is weighed when the twig becomes a tree, bearing luscious fruit, there will be very nearly the same amount of earth. From careful experi­ ments made by different scientific men, it is an ascertained fact that a very large part of the growth of a tree is de­ rived from the sun, from the air, and from the water, and a very little from the earth; and notably ail vegetation becomes sickly unless it is freely ex­ posed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which contain three important elements, equally essen­ tial to both vegetable and animal life-- magnesia, lime and iron. It is the iron in the blood which gives it its sparkling red color and its strength. It is the lime in the bones which gives them the durability necessary to bodily vigor, while the magnesia is important to any of the tissues. Thus it is the more per­ sons are oat of doors the more healthy, the more vigorous they are, and the longer they will live. CLOTHING AND HEALTH,--A lecture was given in Manchester, England, by Dr. Haddon, who took for his subject "Clothing." In treating this subject. Dr. Haddon said that what he wanted was some light material which was a had conductor of heat, and, which at the same time would allow free ventilation as regarded the surface of the skin, and the nearer our clothing imitated the fur of the auimal the better should we be protected. Material made of silk or cot­ ton allowed n ore lieat to pass through than materials made of wool, and there­ fore the woolen material was the better. Color was of gre.tt importance when oar clothing was exposed to luminous heat, and light-colore d clothes were the best for summer nnd black for the winter. As regarded ventilation of the skin, clothing was generally considered neces­ sary to keep the air from us, but it had been proved that those clothes which al­ lowed most air, up to a oertain point, to pass through them kept us warmest. Woolen fabrics were best suited for tiu- derclothing, and, as a general principle, the whole body should be covered with, flannel, varying in thickness as the son required. A (treat Financial Achievement. t is only eighteen weeks since Gen. eld was inaugurated President, and forkful during that brief period his admin- mow.^ation has been able to arrange for a AMD UR. . ygT But, b«ing of one hand bereft, & It is to my thiaking conclurirdr plain • That that which remains must fie left. Sj * On1 t he other baud, too, y»u'U agree with 1 rbough tt» right hand the l«ft hand mm By right of position it still haa the right To tie called the right hand--«• yw see. WhewM--lot'# tansgMMs--4f Hie left 'K» Tho^htlieiDg taken away-- H'tww right tta$ the Ufthad^been left, wttww* Then the left VIA til* right, to to w. But though either be right, and though M 'Twere better that neither should tall; ***** 8plt* ^J?*40-0' dther hwi, , f >•> j, right-Maded at all. TW * ' • " i u iiii ! • 'Mu, hm'• . PITH AND POINT* . '4arf#- TH1 whisky worm is still *4 waAtf! A TALL story--The attio.,,' - # * THEBB will always be hairs wherf i fiiis saving has been accomplished mainly by the conversion of . the out­ standing 6 per cents. and5percents, into call-1 Kinds bearing only per cent, in­ terest. In addition to this, however, provision has been made for the pay­ ment of 394,705,400 of the high interest, y,. , • „ bonds out of the surplus revenue to ap- ' island of ht. Helena ? ply on account of the sinking fund ( "Robinson Crusoe, there are hounds. THK RE ia a decided change for the bet^ ter--when he loses. .mil PARADOXICAL as it aaay seem* Jonson was called " rare Ben Jonson,'*. because his work was done well '* * • CLASS in history--Professor--""Wha^*",? important personage was oonfiaed, "" ®fc H-- saving per annum •15,-fhe total 441,164. This achievement wonld be a great credit to the new administration under any circumstauces, but its merit is ma­ terially enhanced by the fact that it fol­ lows an abortive attempt of the recent Democratic Congress to carry out some similar measure. When Congress as­ sembled last winter there was little for it to do except to pass the regular ap­ propriation bills and agree npon a fair and practicable refunding act. The con­ sideration of the appropriation bills consumed but little time, for no Con­ gress ever allowed a budget to slip through so easily. But the refunding measure, though it was known to be of vital importance, was postponed from day to day, and failed to receive earnest attention until after the holiday vaca­ tion. When It was finally approached the Democratic majority was gov­ erned more by a desire to make party capital out of it than to reduce the burden of the debt. The demagogues in Congress believed it would be popular to embarrass the na­ tional banks by coereing them to sub­ scribe for low-interest bonds, which, as subsequent events have proved, were to be eagerly sought by the public. The refunding bill which passed the House provided for an experimental rate of in­ terest. (3 per cent.), and contained the obnoxious provision in regard to the banks. The Senate removed in part the glaring injustice of the bill, but the Democratic majority in the House re­ mained obstinate, and preferred to ad­ journ without any provision in regard to refunding rather than surrender its war upon the banks. In much the same spirit the Democratic majority in the Senate refused its assent to a fair ap­ portionment bill because it did not suit the purposes of the Democratic leaders. President Garfield and Secretary Win- dom were confronted at the outset with this embarrassment, which many people believe the Democrats desired to put up­ on the incoming administration. They were equal to the emergency, however, and assumed the responsibility of nego­ tiating a renewal of the loan upon such terms and conditions as were bound to disarm criticism from any quarter. An extension of the old bonds at the rate of 3i per cent, interest, terminable at the 1 option of the Government, was oflered to holders who might apply within a given time, and the applications were greatly in excess of the limit that had been placed upon renewals. The pro­ ject has proved to be a great success, and not merely redounds to the credit of Garfield's administration, but reflects upon the narrow party spirit shown by tlie Democrats, who might have worn this feather in their own cap.--Okieago Tribune. A Sad Story of a Wrecked Life. The most thrilling and sadly sugges­ tive temperance lecture is the sight of a once noble, talented man, left in ruins by intoxicating drink. A Washington paper tells of a ragged beggar, well known in the streets of that city, who once held an important command in the army, having been promoted for personal bravery, from a cavalry Lieutenant to nearly the highest rank in military ser- vico. One night, not long ago, when he had been too successful in begging liquor to sate his craving, and while lying helpl' ssly drank in the rear part of a Third street saloon, some men thoight to play a joke on him by steal­ ing his shirt, and proceeded to strip him. Underneath his shirt, and suspended by a string from his neck, was a small canvas bag, which the men opened and found it contained his commission as Brevet Major Genaral, two congratu­ latory letters--one from Gen. Grant and one from President Lincoln--a photo­ graph of a little girl, and a curl of hair --a "chestnut shadow" that doubtless one day crept over the brow of some loved one. When these things were discovered, even the half-drunken men who found them felt a respect for the man's for­ mer greatness, and pity for his fallen condition, and quietly returned the bag and its contents to whers they found tnem, and replaced the sleeper's clothes upon him. When a reporter tried to interview the man{ and endeavored to learn something of his life in the past few years, he de­ clined to communicate anything. He cried like a child when told how his right name and former position Were ascertained, and, with tears trickling down his cheeks, said: "For God's sake, sir, don't publish my degradation, or my name, at least, if jou are determined to say something about it It is enough that I know my­ self how low I have become. Will you promise that much? It will do no good, but will do my friends a great deal of harm, as, unfortjinu tely, they think I died in South America, where I went at the close of the war„" Intemperance and the gaming-table, he said, had wrought his ruin. Then. Then the summer mornings were full of singing birds, always waiting outside our windows to help us begin the day with happiness. Then dowers were born as if to accompany the birds in their be­ nevolent mission. Then all our dreams were pleasant imaginings, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, frolic visions of untroubled joy. Then June was the Ohio. Hie trouble with the Ohio Democracy has already commenced, and the party is like a house divided against itself, be­ side being founded upon the sand. The nomination of Book waiter as the candi­ date for Governor is very distasteful to the old rock-rooted, moss-covexed Bour­ bons, for several reasons, each one of which will lose him many votes. He was a Republican up to 1872, when he " Greeleyized," and has never been formally baptized into the Democratic church. Then the con­ vention that nominated him did not "go its length" in favor of free trade, but spoke of the " encouragement of pro­ ductive industries," which is a sop to the protectionists, and Congressman Frank Hurd and his associate free-trad­ ers are as mad as* can be. Nexf, Book- waiter is a monopolist, a bloated bond­ holder and opposed to the prohibitory liq­ uor laws, so that the cry of an ti-monop­ oly iB of no avail with such a candidate at the head of .the ticket. Ohio has got to be a large manufacturing State, in iron next as large as Pennsylvania, and " a tariff for revenue only " is not a popular political motto to write on a banner except with the old hunkers of the Democratic party, and Bookwalter is suspected on all hands. The honest men of the party feel scandalized be­ cause their candidate for Governor opened his " bar'l" and literally liought the nomination. So many persons and papers allege. He is rich and can do it, and the boys seem to have correctly "sized his pile." So between tariff and free trade, monopoly and anti-monopoly, prohibi­ tion and free whisky, the Democratic party of Ohio will be like the troubled sea this fall, stirring up mire and dirt. In the mean time, the united Be publi­ cans, with their excellent ticket, will sweep the State like a prairie on fire, and re-elect Gov. Foster by a largely- increased majority.--Chicago Journal. Nominating a Bank Account. The Demoarats of Ohio have nomina­ ted an unknown name, an empty record, and a flush pocketbook as their candi­ date for Governor. When the Duke of Newcastle designated the dull and im­ becile Sir John Bobinson as leader of the House of Commons, the elder Pitt exclaimed : " Why, his Grace might as well send bis bootjack to lead us." The Ohio Democrats have chosen, not a bootjack, but a bank account, to lead them.---Philadelphia Presn. Life. The following stanza was written by Mrs. Barbauld in extreme old age. When it was repeated to' Wordsworth, he said : " I am not in the habit of grudging people their things, but I wish I had written those lines." Life! we've been so long together, ^ Through pleasant and through cloaaj weather. TTis bard to part when friend* art dew, '* Perhaps 'twill cost a eigb, a tear ; Then Bte.il away, give no wanting, Choose thine own time; not good-night, BUT IU tome brighter cUm Sid me good-juoraiug. BEACoN8FiEiit> ascribcd his success to, women. Adam laid all his trouble m'..* the same source. Adam, we are ashameit ; f of you. Beaconsfield, you axe a gentle# ̂ man. ̂ ' NO>TICH at the door of a ready-mad ̂'* clothing establishment in one "of the* poorer quarters of Paris :£, " Do not gtft somewhere else to be robbed; walk iitrtw*" here." "I'D sooner be cursed than kiKedC%^F says Tennyson in his latest volume^! which leads us to think that there are % f" great many homely women in hi*>J *" neighborhood. A TROT lawyer asked a wonran on witness stand her age, and she prompt*#^? ly replied: "Old enough to have soi&.? #• milk for you to drink when a baby, and^nni, haven't got my pay yet." ^ WHEN you hear a young lady vem carefully say, " I haven' saw," you may ? be quite confident that she is a recent'• r graduate of one of the most thorough o&'!* our numerous female seminaries. - ' LITTLE Johnny went a fishing withortl? I consulting his parents. Next morning., -; a neighbor's boy met him nnd asked # 44 Did "you catch anything yesterday "Not till I got home," was therather>- sad response. *' " WHT do not more of our young met5"1' get married?" asks a recent writen#,» " Whist! till we tell him. There isc'lfo;; more than about one youug man in tei( • who is worth marrying, and the girla are finding it out.--New Haven JRrgia^'-' ter. THE school girls of a Massachusett* ~ 1 school met and organised a society fotyli mutual improvement The Committer j- - on Bides reported one which forbade thfcl" jV use of slang words. Up spoke a littlff" girl: " Oh, that's a bully rule--ni vot**';.̂ for that I" " THERE, Henrietta, don't be forevejr gazing into the mirror. It looks verPt Dad." "I was thinking, mamnw, that* *?! it looked very good; ana, beside, fathe»HTiJ^ says I should look on the bright sicfe, in* 'im% eluding, I suppose, the bright side of i| mirror." HE was 70 and she was 18, and the# ̂ ' were on their wedding tour. He%>ointelft ̂* out to her the beautiful scenery, anenc. said : " We may have many annivep*. ,; saries of this occasion." "Yes," shp^,, answered, "you will probably live long enough to have a tin wedding." " Y6TTTRK "sister "'MeHa^" leiier, you ?" asked the little trotter, not yet3 m out of dresses. "Well, what do: it you think about it ?" was the replying.,^ - question, with a redness of the face thaF.^.^ nearly matched his hair. "I fink, said the little one, " that mamma talka " awfully 'bout the 'margarine on yon hair gettiu' the new wall paper dirty* ~ There's where the child made a He drew no candy that trip. . u ; V •f? 4*1 v ,i i»:dr Opt. Oo*a w»» ia th« gui-tlttfe. i,ni ^Stratght awl strong and Ui', * . " Ho matter bow high Ikk iu ighbor* KtMC He orertoiM them nil., " - With silken plume and bright green dMik," He really cut* a dwii; • i BUt when he inarrii'" L.tna Ueau, " He'll liu* hit* rank--1 tliiuk it'amean-- * .'si v?i And bo plain Succp 1'ar.h. A JOHNSTOWN lawyer attempted t<|. raise four motherless kittens on a bbttlej/' *^ but failed. The kittens died and th#?'* lawyer is inconsolable.--Exchange. Th«* sequel should have been reversed, or,,: .'» rather the lawyer should have done thf|, , .f dying for the four kittens, and been ink consolable beside. It's all well enough1 for a lawyer to raise legal objections o%**k' a slim basis, but when it comes to ing the same principle to anything has life why he deserves all the boote., jacks the kittens would have gotten iff they had survived the raiae.~ Gazette. " WHBX is-a man not a man ?" askeft < • v Jones. Of course he expected everyi^,^ A BKABtir i i. maid iu Carlia'e On the buok of her ueck had a hisl*. When ber lover forgot, / ; • > ; And hugged the sore spot Bor scream* could bs beam'fofr i CAPT. CORV. it One said it was when he was foot enough to deal in conundrums; anothec. answered it was when he worked over jokes a thousand years old, and a third told Jones to look in the glass and see for himself. Jones says he didn't see what in time they were driving at, but' somehow he had lost all interest in his conundrum, and hadn't the heart to tell them the true meaning. Perils of Bidieale. I know of no principle which it is of more importance to fix in the minds of young people than that of the most de­ termined resistance to the encroachment ot ridicule. Give up to the world, and to the ridicule with which the world en­ forces its dominion, every trifling ques­ tion of manner and appearance; it ia to toss courage and firmness to the winds, to combat with the mass upon such sub­ jects as these. But learn from the ear* . 4 liest days to insure your principle# ^ against the perils of ridicule; you cai| fJ% no more exercise your reason, if vovi live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life, if you in the constant dread of death. If yo«** think it right to differ from the times!*;$• and to make a stand for any valuabl^i'* point of morals, do it, however rustic?,** however antique, however pedantic it® mav appear, do it, not for insolence, but " seriously and grandly--as a man wh<| wore a soul of his own in his bosom, an<t? did not wait until it was breathed intuit him by the breath of fashion. Let men call you mean, you know yo%Ws are just; hypocritical, if you are honp^ll estly religious ; pusillanimous, if yo#~f- feel that you are firm ; resistance sooi|t & converts unprincipled wit into si»eer#p? respect; and no aitertime can tear fron|'4^ you these feelings which every man ear* * riea with him who has made a noble an«|r successful exertion in a virtnoua ---iSidney Smith. TKACKEB--•" Why did Eve « pie?" Child--"To make her tot W'