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|gfg|ciiri» I. VA* SLYKE, Etttr <M Publ'shef. McHENRY, I ~ ILLINOIS. WENDBI»IJ PHILLIPS is 70. and Judge Jcre Black is 72. • „ MONTPBLIEB, the burial-] ident Madison, at Orange Court House, Ta., was sold at auction for §19,000. IJK 1861 the War of the Rebellion IWbke out, and in 1871 occurred the great fires at Boston and Chicago. The year 1881 is crammed full of startling events. -g» ' AT Eilg&FTOII, Mo., last Septeml>er, Nathan Andrews was murdered by Clay Snell, si ace which date five members of an effort to have her admitted to the Bloomin^dale asylum, but a medical ex­ amination developed the fact that the young lady was perfectly sane. These proceedings and the fact of his wife's departure from him FO affected Mr. Ayers that 1m became broken down in health and died, his funeral occurring within two months of the marriage. Just as the affair was beginning to die out, except in the minds of the parties directly interested, it is brought to the surface again by the action of Mr. Ayers" widow, who has begun proceedings to compel the father of her late husband to give an accounting of his son's .property, which the lady would like to handle herself. Two KEN engaged in a petty swindling trick have victim zied numerous business houses in Chicago lately by going into the KRTJPP, the great cannon manufact­ urer of Europe; a few weeks ago had in his employ 23,000 men, but new orders obliged him to hire an additional force of 8,0Q0, which places him at the head of the population of a small city--more than 30,000 men. the latter's familv have died, throe of 18tore8 and Purchasin£ a small article, ihem from shame and grief. | valued probably at 75 cents. The sales- ; j man in attendance would make out a cash check for 75 cents, and a $20 bdl would be handed him. The package would generally be handed back to him with a $10 bill and $9.25 in change. The customer would seem not to like it, and would walk up to the desk, deposit the $9.25, fumble in his pockets and ask the cashier to please give him a $10 bill for the change. He would not find the 75 cents pecessary to complete the $10 in change, however, so he would call to his friend to loan him the sum, saying so much small change was a nuisance. The cashier would hand out the $10 desired, the man would take it, and then in a modest, hesitating way ask, 44 Or would you just as soon give me the $20 bill for this $20 in change ? " pushing the bill and change toward the cashier. The latter would probably think the man was a "crank " but would, through courtesy, indulge him by handing out the $20. In the confusion the cashier would not see that he had been victim­ ized out of his own $10 just produced for the exchange of the small pieces. JOHN J. MURPHY, a Boston billiard- saloonkeeper, refused to let Frank Fran- oilow play in his place because he is a negro. Francilow sued him, and the United States Court is now trying to de­ cide whether or not a billiard hall is'a "place of public amusement" within the meaning of the civil-rights statute. THE Charleston News tells this for title: A lady in that city has a large Brahma cock. A few days ago she had a canary bird. The bird by accident got out of its cage and iiew down into the yard, and as quick as thought the cock made a rush for the little songster, and swallowed it whole, feathers and all. THEY have an original way in Venice of protesting against a bad tenor. A gentleman in the parterre of the Teatro Malibran recently opened his umbrella, and held it toward the stage, evidently to keep off the shower of false notes. ,The auditorium at once became a forest of open umbrellas. The tenor fled, the curtain fell, and art was avenged. SUBSTANTIAL progress has been made in the work of boring the tunnel under the English channel--on the French side a distance of 1,800 meters and on the English one of 1,600, or 3,400 meters in all, which are something more tlftin one-tenth of the entire distance to be pierced. It is believed that if the re­ quired $100,009,000 can be raised the work might be finished in a compara­ tively short time. One estimate is that the tunnel could be made fit for traffic in four years. JOHN HAY does not approve Col. Rock­ well's translation of the phrase Strangu- latu.9 pro licpublica, written by Garfield on the 17th of Julyiost, into "slaugh­ tered for the republic." He writes from Cleveland, saying: "The Latinstrangu- lare, in its literal sense, applies exclu­ sively to death by choking or suffocation. It is derived, without change of mean­ ing, from the corresponding Greek verb, which comes in turn from the noun THE BLvns-itmrTiiC FMT. • Bossing snd gay in the early dawn, Yr«ah from a Dap on the parlor wan. Oat for a flight over garden and law%\ Hearing no trouble and dreading nefafl. Came a fly-- A lively, frolicsome, biue-bo tile fly-- •ad hi* feet C Were aa neat. And his style As complete Aa his brain W an replete VMh the mischief that laughed in hifijftf' " What gtoriona fnn I'll hare to-day,' When (lie baby'8 aaHop and the nurse away; Wheu Rtiver lie? by the kitclieu door; I'll waken them both and urnke thorn roar! Oh, what larks!" Cried the rollicking, reckless, btos-botUs fly; " What a cry," Said the fly, " There Will be After me When I've done With my fun J* And ha wtokrdly winked his wee eye! HThen 111 go and dance on grandpa'* head, While he struggles to brush me away; And tickle his ear till he'll wish I waa dead I ^>d over the table at dinner I'll play Kack and forth • Aad feast on crumbs from a freahly-baked ptel And I'll sip From the lip Of each glass That may pass' All sweet things "Dinner brings!" Quoth this riotous blue-bottle fly. But, alas for the plans he had laid! And alas for the day just begun! For this fly soon iit in the gratef ul ->is<s. To escape the lu>t rays of th« sun. And to dream Of the sight* that should aooa greet his eye, Whan, unseen. From the green Of a litub Above him. On his head- By a thread- Feil a spidfet Who coolly devoured that blue-bottle ly. --Ckrittian lrni- n. CHRISTINA. She was the result of an experiment-- a desperate experiment Mother and I lived alone in the dear old homestead, just outside of a drowsy village in Delaware. Old Sandore worked the farm, and lived in the tenant house, as he had done for thirty years, but he was getting old and cranky, and threatened every month to leave us. But our great misery--44 the messenger of Satan sent to buffet us"--was the 44 girl " who was not in the kitchen. With all the neighborhood, we de­ pended for servants ou the free negroes, who invariably decamped in a body, to the fields or the great canning-houses, as soon as the jfteach crop come in. We tried a wandering Irish woman ; she drank. A genteel American who had seen better days ; and she disap­ peared with my one silk dress. During the whole spring and summer mother and I worked, cleaned, canned berries, milked and churned, and 44 tried '" a succession of poor creatures who left us with our patience worn to the last thread. One night mother announced, "I an going to try an experiment. It shall be with a foreigner who cannot speak a word of English ; who never heard ol •privileges,' of canning-houses, of the fashions or the beer-shop. I will go to THE weaning of a baby elephant doesn't seem to be a vwy difficult task. ,, ., ««*7 * _ .«• . . long midsummer agony. The word, in The famous offspring of Hebe was taken ! .. ° . , ., ' *• • f lint. flpnsiA • irvrtnr^l' that sense, means 'tortured' or 'tor­ mented.' There is authority for such use of it in Ovid, Seneca and Juvenal. All the evidence we have indicates that m , , on the 17th of July the President's own The mother utters a sonorous protest j , - „ . | hope of recovery, as well as that of ius attendants, was still strong. May we ffom its mother the other day at Bridge­ port, Ct., where both animals are in winter quarters, and is now living com­ placently on a diet of crackers and milk. occasionally, and looks fondly toward the little animal tethered at the other end of the apartment. But both are getting used to the separation, and no trouble is anticipated. straggala, a halter. So good a Latinist i Philadelphia to-inorrow, board an emi­ grant ship and carry off an untamed savage--a woman Friday." 1 laughed at it as a joke, and was a good deal startled that night when moth­ er at prayers asked that she 44 might be successful in her undertaking," adding, after a little pause : 44 May the woman I shall bring be ol help to us, in making our daily life more cheerful and peaceable, and may we help her upward in her way through life." "Well, mother," I said, doubtfully, as we started up to bed, 441 never knew ydu to ask the Lord before to conttol the kitchen affairs." "Some people," she said, gravely, 44 think it an iubult to the Almighty to suppose that He concerns Himself about our little worries. Perhaps He has flis messengers for such small work in the upper world, jftst as He has in this. I don't know. But I do know that He as the President would scarcely have chosen a word of such narrow and inap­ propriate meaning, when the better word occtstts, to describe death by wounding, must have been ready to his hand. But there is a metaphorical meaning of strangulatus which is used in the poets and in writers of post-clas- sical prose, especially writers upon law, which was probably in Gen. Garfield's mind as he lay chained to his bed in that MB. -SETTLES, managing partner of the Madeley Coal and Iron Company, North Staffordshire, England, must be regard­ ed as a peculiar mau by his workmen. He voluntarily increased the wages of his men 10 per cent, recently, and now he has told them that they must con­ tribute 5 per cent of their increase to the funds of the other colliers' in the neighborhood, who are oji a strike for a similar advance, or else he will reduce their own wages 5 per cent A colliery proprietor supporting a strike is, indeed, a novelty, and Mr. Settles must be a sharp and very long thorn in the side of his fellow-proprietor. " impressive and memorable legend means 'Tortured for the Commonwealth?' A WHIP of sole leather, two feet long, burned in the center to make it hard, oiled at the extremities to make it pli­ able, and mounted on a hickory handle a foot and a half long, is the exquisite instrument with which an officer of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys is said to have been in the habit of enforc­ ing order and punishing offenses among the lads under his charge. His favorite plan, according to accounts given by the pupils, was <to strip off a boy's outer clothing, tie him over a chair back, and lay on the lash until the blood flowed profusely. The charges have been de­ nied by the.officer, and a olose examina­ tion into the matter has been instituted. . . . , , , , , , , . , . . | d o e s a t t e n d t o a l l t h e t h i n g s t h a t l a s k not, then, reasonably infer that this most ^out »» e Mother was as simple and direct nk a child, even in her religion. j The next day she visited the city, went I aboard a Bremen vessel and brought home--Christina. She was about 10, fat j and round as a churn, with clear skin, blue eyes, a funny little knob of haix atop of her head, a white muslin waist, i short gray woolen petticoat and heavy ; shoes. | 44 She cannot speak a word of English," said mother, looking half scared. 4 4 She | is a Norwegian. The agent said she had j a dreadful history. But her honest face tempted me. I seemed to hear a voice saying, 4Take this one."' 44 She is an escaped convict, no doubt," I said. 44 That guiding voice of yonrs, little mother, induced you to bring Biue Peter out of the almshouse, who set lire to the barn. Well, I'll show her about the supper." Christina followed me--dumb and watchful--from kitchen to dining-room, while I laid the table, prepared tlie muf- A Sioux Bill of Fare. One of the peculiarities of the latest United States style of feeding the noble red man is the fact that he is given government rations, and at the same time appropriations are made which are supposed to maintain him. Sometimes a wild Indian who don't know much about groceries and how to prepare them for food, comes in and draws his regular soldier ration in this way. For instance, up in the Sitting Bull country, an Indian came in from the warpath who had never teen any ol the pale-face style of food, and drew his rations. He made alight meal of green unground eoflee the first day, and us lie overate, and the coffee swelled on him, he had difficulty in buttoning his pants around ' the pain that lie had on hand. j He felt very unhappy for a day or two, j fins, fried chicken and "made coffee. | but laid it to the fact that he hadn't j She did not ofter to touch anythi anything or to help me. But tbe next morning, when I went down to make ready the breakfast, there was the table laid, and the chicken, muffins and coffee, precisely as she had seen them the night before. She was faithful and imitative as a Chinaman, and she was already a good cook and dairy maid. She learned a few words of English, and with them she show«>d her gratitude for any simple kindness shown her. We fancied, too, that she took pleasure in the beautiful country about her. It never looked more beautiful than it did that summer. The great orchards were red with fruit, constant showers kept the forests pure in tint, the wild rose and swectbriar covered every field and ro/ulside. But the poor Norwegian was wretched­ ly unhappy. Her unsmiling face and wide, sad eyes seemed to carry misery into the barnyard and dairy, and leavened the very bread we ate. When she was safely in her own room I heard her stifled sobs until late in the night. 44 One is almost tempted to rememlier your convict theory," said mother, anxiously, one day. 44 It doesn't matter. We'll keep her if she were Lucretia Borgia herself," I said, luxuriously leaning back in the rocking-chair on the porch. 44 The idea of being free from pots, pans and brooms at last!" We tasted our comfort at leisure; brought out some fancy work and books which we had never hoped to find time to read. Then came a letter from Julia Webb. -- Biiciiiijf. ^ Kn. I* wns n thunder clap in our olear sky. A GREAT sensation was made in New the suspender button, the deep drawn ! was a cousin only by the sheerest . " 7 sigh and the smotherwl cuss word, all • courtesy; a beauty; a sponed heiress; a A WOMAN thus describes Patti: " She is not quite five feet in height, and has a slender, yet well-rounded figure. Her complexion, smooth/and clear, is with­ out the insinuation of a wrinkle to mark the faint coating of powder and rouge. Her eyes are the most wonderful I have ever seen in a human head--large and full as were Adelaide Neilson's, but more beautiful in the rich and velvety darkness that is seldom seen except in exercised much, and the consequent ennui and indigestion resulting there­ from. As soon as he had succeeded in getting the interior department quieted down a little, he tackled his ration of candles. These he decided to parboil, in order to avoid trouble from indigestion. The dish was not so much of a glittering suc­ cess as he had anticipated, and as he re­ morsefully picked the caudle wicking out of his teeth with a tent pin, he made some remarks that grated harshly ou the aesthetic ears of those who stood near. He then tried a meal of yeast powder with vinegar. He ate the yeast powder and then took a pint of extremely potent vinegar to wash it down. At first there was a feeling of glad surprise in his stomach, which rapidly gave place to unavailing remorse. A can of yeast powder in an Indian's midst don't seem to be prepared for a pint of vinegar, and the result of such an uufortunate combination is not gratify­ ing. Every little while a look of pain woula •ome over the features of the noble child of the forest, and then he would jump about seventeen feet and try to kick a cloud out of the sky. Then he would sit down and think over his past life. It took about a week for him to get back to where he dared to get up an other meal for himself. Then he the women of the South. Unlike most singers, she has a small mouth, red and ! fricaseed a couple of pounds of laundrv ripe as a strawberry, and her teeth are soaP an<* ate tllat- white and glittering. Her hair is fine . ?arnebt and t*5C"Pied ^k, the , , . ... troubled expression of the countenance, and glossy, and over her forehead a few ; followed by the quick, nervous twitching short locks were curled.' of the muscles of the face and then the swelling up of the body, the bursting of York upper-crust society last summer by the wedding, in Astoria, a suburb of New York, of Miss Hattie Cole and Charles Wesley Ayers, and the sensa­ tional developments which followed the union. On returning from their wedding tour the couple at oua separated, and rumors were cm-rent that the bride's •Kind'had given way. Her father made sigh betoken the gastric agitatian going on within. An Indian prefers a link of bologna sausage and a two-year old dog to the hi^h-priced groceries so common to our modern civilization. -- Larnjtie City Boomerang. SOME things are past finding out The love for whisky is what staggers a man. belle with a dozen lovers. She was coming en route to Newport, to spend a week with us. 44 Very likely s >me of these trouble­ some men will follow to find how your hermitage suits poor little butterfly me," she v.n>te. 44 But you will make them welcome, darling auutie ? There is a Count Pasco who is my chief nuisance just now. Such a charming, ridiculous creature 1 I shall be delighted to give him a peep into an American midttle- class interior. And it will be a good opportunity for you and Cousin Martha to have a glimpse of a foreign noble­ man. Your gloomy life needs a little cheering." vl tore the letter up, a litfle viciously, Icofrtess, and mother laughed. 41 Nev^r mind, Mattie," she said. ,4-It is true ; We are middle-class people." 44 It isn't that. But you know, moth­ er, even if potatoes turn out well, we shall not have a dollar over when the year is out. How are we going to meet this high tide of company and fashion and foreign nobility? Julia is quite capable of staying a mouth if the whim for 4 hermitage' life seizes her." 44 We can do without our winter dress­ es," said mother, thoughtfully 44 But even with that the table must be verv plain." I wondered secretly if the blessed woman had put this calamity in the care of the angels. Afterward I believed she had. Julia came; so did the lovers ; feo did Count Pasco. There was a regiment of them at the Tillage inn, but they took our house by storm all day. There were charade pwtlies, picnics, excursions. Julia trailed her magnifi­ cent silks or gauzy lawns up and do TO the wet meadows ; she called the old homestead 44 a charming old rookery;" pointed out the inagnillcent sweep of hill and valley to the east, with the great, glittering plthie of the biUfcfecyond, as a nice little effeot;" ant! told Count Pbsco that mother and I were 44 queer bits of humau bric-a-brac." But she was so pretty and brilliant and willful that nobody could be augnr with her. One day I found her in the kitchen with a blue silk wrapper perched on a flour barrel, while Christina, standing before her, poured out a flood of words, Bobbing and wriugiug her hands. Tears) too, hail wet Julia's rose-leaf cheeks. 44 What is the matter? Can you un­ derstand her ? " I asked. 44 Pretty well. You know I passed a summer in Norway, and picked up a good deal of the language. Poor thing! She was brought here by mistake." 44 By mistake ? " 4 4 Yes. It seems they were frightfully poor--her mother and brother, aud her­ self--and she went as nurse with some tradesman's wife to Bremen. When her tima of service was out she was sent home, but by some mistake, at night, was put aboard the steamer for Phila­ delphia instead of for Christiana." 44 Why ! We ought to send her back again I " I cried, feeling as if I had been concerned in a case of kidnapping.5 44 No. Better bring her family Ait here. She says it is so beautiful ; so plenty to eat; it is like the Garden of Eden. If her mother and Jan could come, she would have nothing more to ask." 4' She might save her money and bring them." 44 It costs a good deal. It would take her years to earn so much. Beside, Jan is under bonds to pay a debt of his father's. I don't know how much-- 81,000 or $2,000. No; she'll have to carry her burden like the rest of us. Where's the Count? " and she skipped out of the kitchen humming a song, while Christina turned hopelessly to hei work. The few stammering words in hei own tongue, however, had made the poor girl a slave to Julia. She followed her around from that day, waited on her, told her her story a hundred imes. 441 am horribly bored,h«r this unend­ ing talk of 'mutter, mtf^r,* Mid 4 J«n, Jan,'" said Julia, stretching her tiny mouth in a yawn. 44 It is the only thing she knows," said mother, gently. * 44 Do keep her away from me to-day, then," impatiently. To-day was to be signalized by an oyster-bake on the shore of the bay. The Count and% four other worshipers were supposed to act as cooks and servitors, but Christina did all the work. She built the fire of driftwood ; cut the bread ; made coffee and baked the oys­ ters, running incessantly to Julia with the biggest, her round face red as a peony. It was a gray, gusty day, too gusty foi ns to use the little sail-boat which wae drawn no on the beach. This disap­ pointment offered Julia a chanoe for petty, willful pettishness. 44 Too provoking ! I had set my heart on a sail! " she cried, pouting. 441 will wager a rose against a pair of gloves that I have it yet, Count!" her eyes sud­ denly sparkling. The bet w.is taken. Half an hout afterward we missed Julia, and the next moment saw her in tiie cockleshell of a boat drifting out of the little cove, the sail half raised, flapping in the wind. She stood on the lxnr, her red ribbons fluttering, kissing her hand, saucily, 441 have won ! I have won the bet 1" she cried, j 44Put about!" shouted the Count. "You are going out to sea!" Weru^hd down to the edge of flit | water, nil shouting orders at one •. j Julia, terrified by the sudden conscious- j ness oi her danger, sprang on the bow. j A heavy flaw e ime just then, and the boat was capsized instantly. •4 Mon Dieu ! I cannot swim," cried the Count. The other men were in the same case. Two of them, however, threw themsePwa^iuto the water man­ fully, but were washed back.r A solid body leaped nito the surf with a splajsh"' It was Christina, divested of shoes', stockings and outer petticoat, striking : out boldly for the place where the girl ! went down. | 44 Hurrah for Old Norje!" cried the Count 44 She swims like a frog I" She came back with Julia, a very wet and drabbled butterfly, in her arms. There was no justice, to my mind, in the end of the accident Julia, when dry again, was rosy and pert and charm­ ing as ever ; but poor Christina had been thrown against the hull of the boat. She was quite badly injured, and was laid up in bed for a month. M other and I had her work to do, while J ulia took wing to Newport. I 44 Tilings are strangely ordered in this world," I said, as I laid clown a half-read letter from her one day in October, full of her gayeties and successes, and glanced at Christina, beginning to limp heavily about in the kitchen. 44 They always come out right," said mother, quietly. 44 What is that on the other side ? " ! I turned the letter and read : | Oh. by the way, I thought I owed " Old Norje" borne repir»-ion for her injuries in my be'ual'. So I wrote to our Consul in CLriwtia- 1 na to pay Jan'* debt for me, and to send him ' snd his mother out ty tlic next steamer. You toM me that Old H inder? had finally grumbled bunself into his grave. Why not tako Jan M a . farm hnnd and put him and hist mother into the• tenant lioiwe? I have ordernil from New ; York a few o.lds and endH to make it comforta­ ble for tiiem. Thoy will arrive in Philadelphia ou next Monday. | I could hardly finish ; the tears choked \ me. 441 have been very unjust to Julia," ; I said. < We agreed not to tell Christina, bat to surprise her. We had grown very fond of the patient, affectionate creature with her everlasting chatter of 44 mutter and Jan." The 44 odds and ends " proved to be a very complete, though plain, pleniah- ing for a house, Chris! ina helped to olean the house for " the new farmer,** and to arrange the pretty furniture. On Monday, mother went up to Phil­ adelphia to meet the steamer. She was to come down in the morning train next day. I watched it pass on to the little Btatioa. , A handkerchief wave 1 out of the car window the signal that all was well. I saw from the porch three figures aJight on the platform and take their way across the field. When they had time to reach the ten­ ant house, I said oarelessly: " Come, Christina. There is some­ thing yet to be done for the new farmer. " I hope," she said, in her pleasant broken English, 44 he will be goot neighbor. It is nioe house. It is as foot as our pastor lives in at home. his is fine country for the poor, Mam- zel Martha." I nodded. I was too excited to speak. When we reached tbe steps, mother came out, her face all in a glow,. 44 They are inside. They are all we could wish," she whispered, eagerly. "One minute, Christina," and she ran to the astonished girl, smoothing her fair hair, retying the gay handkerchief about her neck, while I harried into the room. A heavily-built man in the Norwegian dress, with honest, blue eyes, stood waiting, aud beside him a tall, erect old woman, with a peculiarly gentle, kindly countenance. They were both greatly agitated, and scarcely noticed me, their eyes being on the door. It opened. I heard mother say, with ® child. Ood bless you," and Christina came in. She stood one momeut dumb and still, her hands stretched out in amaze­ ment Then came the cry: 44O. Mutter' Mutter! O, Jim !" It was the pent-up love and longing of years forcing its way into speech. We came out and lei't them alone to­ gether. Mother and I had prepared a little feast for them ; a good, substantial sup­ per as foundation, and frosted cakes, flowers and grapes as embellishments. After awhile wo brought them out to it, but they only ate to please us. They were tot) deeply moved for such little pleasures. After supper we went into the kitchen, and the old mother, looking at the fire upon the hearth that had been kindled for them in a strange land, said a few words in a low voice, and they all sank reverently upon their knees whde she prayc d. Siother and I knelt with them. What did it matter that the words were in a strange tongue. We understood her, and the Great Father of us all heard us as we kneeled side by side. 441 think, dear little mother," I said, as we went homo that night, '• God heard your prayer when you went out to find your savage that day." 44 He always hears," she said quietly. --Youth's ('otnpanion. A Typical Indian Village. (From Dirdwood's "IpduMrisl Arts of India."] Outside the entrance of the single village street, on an exposed rise of ground, the hereditary {Hitter sits by his wheel, molding the swift revolving clay by the natural curves of his hands. At the back of the houses which form the low, irregular street, there are two or three looms at work in blue and scarlet and gold, the frames hanging between the acacia trees, the yellow flowers of which drop fast on the webs ns they are being woven. In the street the brass and copper smiths are hammering away at their pot* and pans; and further down, in the verandah of the rich man's house, is the jeweler working rupees and gold mohra into fair jewelry. Gold and sil­ ver ear-riugs and round tires like the moon, bracelets and tablets and nose­ rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of tbe great tem­ ple, which rises over the grove of man­ goes and palms at the end of the street, alx>ve the lotus covered village tank. At half-past three or four in the afternoon the whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of the women going down to draw water from the tank, each with two or tliree water jars on her bead; and so, while they are going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titi- an'tt canvas and moves like the stately procession of the Panathenaic frieze. Later the men drive in the mild, gray kinc from the moaning plain, the looms are folded up, the coppersmiths are silent, the elders gather in the gate, the lights begin to glimmer in the fast fall­ ing darkness, the feasting and the music are heard on every side, and late into the night the songs were sung from the llamavana or Mahatharata. The next morning at sunrise, after the simple ablutions and adornments performed in the open air before the houses, the same begins again. This is the daily life going on all over Western India in the village communities of the Dakhin, among a people happy in their simple manners and frugal way of life, and in tjie culture derived from tlie grand epics of a religion in which they live and move and have their daily being, and in which the highest expression of their literature, art and civilization has been stereotyped for 3,000 years. French and English Women. A stranger in France is surprised to meet women where ho expects to meet men. The bashful American gentleman hardly knows w hat to say when a woman presents herself to receive orders for boots or shirts. 44In the commercial class in Paris," sajs a writer, "the man always appeals to the woman; the wo­ man "always steps forward. The woman proposes the conditions of a bargain. She takes you in hand.; she proposes conditions; she narrows down the bargain; she thinks of things tnat he would not have thought of." An English lady performs household duties wliich many American women would deem intolerable. She is eco­ nomical, too, no matter how wealthy her husband may be, and keeps an expense book, in which every penny of expendi­ ture is set down. Each child has an al­ lowance and a blank book, and is taught bookkeeping, at least so mncli of it as may be learned from keeping exact per­ sonal accounts. Not uufrequeutly the daughter of the house is the iamily book­ keeper, and learns to check, indorse and file bills, to balance accounts, and to make out a balance sheet which shall present a clear statement of income and expenditures. Two national traits-- economy and work--explain the fact that a little island supports 20,000,000 Eng­ lishmen. And now they tell us bed-bug bites cure rheumatism. They discovered the fact from observing that boarders at Cincinnati hotels never have the rheuma­ tism.--[Boston Post A WOMAN-SEARCHEB. PTIMB Atlatfcfc I From th« Detroit Ptwt.J Perhaps searching female prisoners is not one of the most grateful tasks in the world, but that is the vocation of a lady who resides in the Hawley block, and has lived there steadily in the same suite of rooms for sixteen years. Mrs. Hoose, the lady in question, is a pleas­ ant-looking woman, still young. Noth­ ing in her appearance would indicate any unusual strength or determination. She was not at all averse to being inter­ viewed, nor did she seem to think there was anything unusual or unpleasant in i her calling. 441 don't mind it at all," she Jaid, ] 44 when ladies are sober, but when they ! have been drinking they sometimes | make me a good deal of trouble. They I are all innooent, every one of them, at least they say they are, and when I find the goods on them they wonder how they could have got there. I searched two colored girls the other day who were ac­ cused of stealing $1,500 from a man who strayed into their den. They laughed at me and asked if I thought they wouldn't be smart; to carry the money around with them. Anyhow they didn't have it" 44 Have you many shop-lifters ?" 44Yea; they are my best customers. One was brought to me not long ago who tary provision has been made against- pestilence. It follows that }x>ptuation, is increasing with great rapidity, and tbe i probability is that some year, when the ' crops will fail, literally myriads of hu- . mau beings will perish of hunger.-- f Demoresf* Monthly. • ' THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. raal Befift •( Msaeisir Kirk- d •v; A large part of the report of Secretary Kirk- wood is devoted to the discussion of the inter- -gtitt j 'ft' minable Iodian question. The Secretary be- " j , • lievesin dealing leniently with the Indian. in|( ^ educating and civilizing him. and absorbing J" j •' him into the mass of onr citizens. To this end he recommends Liberal appropriations for the maintenance of the schools at the agencies. , •... ,-+ 4'When-the Indian shall have learned to spesk k • 1 and write our language? to earn his own hvirg » * tS t̂* i; by his own labor, to ooey the law and aid in „ making and administering it, the Indian prob- ' \ , lem wili be solved, and net nntiltben. Money if wisely applied to these ends wid be well spent ; ^ Money withheld from these ends will be ex- * travagance." 8 > .*' Seerttary Kirkwood deprecates the practice of constantly compelling the Iudi&n to 44 move on" weHtward, before the march of the white ***** settlers. He believes in Riving him a littl* 4'sh<jw for hia white alley." TIIL-J ouMant ab­ rogation of treaties and "the hnsthng of tnbet off ot reservations where they have long dwelt, 'to make room for the white man, hag, in hU judgment been a serious obstacle to the pad- fioation and civilization of the savage*. ThoSeo- -;-**** M r e t a r y t h i n k s w e a r e a s k i n g t h e I n d i a n t o o • * « * . . _ w „ -- p a pleaded pitifully. She said she would j the timber or on th« prairie, Witt) the belief give me all she had in the world if I would only let her go; that her husband was a respectable man and it would break his heart. I had to search her, and I found concealed under each arm­ pit a splendid silk and bead cord and tassel. One smuggler whom I searched had no underwear on, but whole pieces of goods were rolled around her; hei hair was very thick and I fouud several Eairs of kid gloves twisted up in it. Her usband never came near her, but her brother tried his best to get her cleared." 44 Do the women you search belong tc a very low class?" 441 search the worst and the best. Many cases never get into the papers. Well-dressed and respectable women get drunk and disorderly, and are brought in, and thev send for me to go to the Station ancl search their pockets for their names and address, and for mor­ phine, as these women are all morphine chewers. 44 If her husband is Bent for to take her home and pay a fine, he always la\ J her wrong-doing to morphine. There'ie another class of women ; old maids, whe work in shops by the day, who once oi twice a year go out on a spree with some gentlemen friends who are sure to ac- 'J I that at some fntnre time he will be compelled to cboose between abandoning the frusta of hit labor or his kindred and tr.be. White men would not do so. and we should not ask Indiana to do so. Mr. Kirkwood recommend? that ex­ isting reservations be curtailed in size, that the titles to them be placed by patent as fully under the protection of the courts as are the titles of all others of onr people to their lands, and that encouragement and aid be extended to the Indians in building houses and culti­ vating tbe soil. There are now in the States and Territories west of the Missouri river 102 reservations, large and small, on which are located, in round numbers, 224,<H»0 Indians. It is re-ommended that Congress create a commission of three or >5 four eminent citizens to visit during the next t-y»uA j year tlie reservations for the purpose or recoui- *" * mending, if they shall deem it wise to do so, tlie concentration of the Indians on four or five ,v largo reservations. Further legislation is, in the judgment of Mr. Kirkwood, necessary for the definition and punishment of crime committed ou reserva­ tions. . < The Indian trust fund now amounts Is 5 v" ta,I86,0>0. . Secretary Kirkwood states, during the lad . v * V S f i s c a l y e a r * p u b l i c l a n d s w e r e d i s p o s e d o f a s f o l - < ^ lows : Cssb, 587.017 aeres : homestead entries, 6,028,100 acres ; timbet-culture entries. 1,763,- 799 acres ; [military-warrant localities, 55.661 sores; Supreme Court scrip locations, 2S,2fil acres. For railroad purposes to States: Iowa, 75,- 821; Minnesota, 488.466; Kansas, 281,277. t To corporations: Pacific railroads, 211,'.K& State selections approved for school indemnity, •At*' "4 ,**)£, ' 4 . :W; >.-v ctise them of stealing their pocket-bookft^j 15,880; swamp, M'.),001. Grand total, 10, Oue man dropped his pocket-book on thc Kl^.^S- Btreet and had a lady arrested whom he , Thu ^ recttiPt8 fr?m said hiwl |>ii*ko(l it up \ but fouud nothing, and she was let go." j Urnd, .States and Territories, 1,814,788,921 44 Arc thev very much frightened when i acres, of which 784,906,980 acres have besa you examine them ?" 44 Yes, and they offer me everything to let them go, but I tell them I must da my duty and usually coax them a little : but if they resist they know I would use main force. Sometimes I have such hard characters to search that the po­ licemen who bring them in are afraid to let me go in a room alone with them. I»ut they never offpr me any harm. Some of them are dressed beautifully and with good taste, too. It is net allowable for the men to search them ; but one respectable lady, who was brought in for shop-lifting, or 4 klepto­ mania,' as they call it now, refused to have me search her, and the captain ol the precinct searched her. 'I tell you it would melt a heart of stone sometimes to hear them cry and go on. The old ones g;?t hardened to it and don't mind, but those that are new at it, just as soon as I find the goods, will wilt right down." The room in which she oonducts thit searching operation is furnished with apertures which give the public the op portnnity to watch both the inspectoi and inspected, thus destroying any pos­ sible chance of collusion. >•: ;ls. A Lawyer's Knse. Thursday's proceedings in the poliee court, says the San Francisco Chronicle, I were enlivened by an intellectual con- j test between a witness, who claimed to be deaf, and one of the most experienced legal lanterns that aided the court in its ' search for justice. j 4'You are deaf, are you?" shouted the ! attorney. j 44Yes, sir," answered the witness. "Can't hear at all?" continued the at- i torney, casting his well-known see-me- j catch-him look upon the prosecuting Attorney. "I can hear a little," replied the wit- ness. "Can you hear a watch tick?" asked the lawyer, in a lower tone. 44I can, when I hold it close to my ear." came the answer. Thereupon the legal gentleman took a ponderous six-ounce silver time-'engioe from his fob, and, handing it to the wit­ ness, directed him to hold it to his ear. 44Do you hear it tick?" came the ques­ tion, in a tone a little louder than the ordinary. 44No, sir," promptly responded the witness. Can't hear it at all?" persisted the lawyer, speaking now almost in an un­ dertone. 4'I can't, sir," promptly answered the witness. The lawyer's face began to shine like Solomon's Temple in a sunset, as he reached for his watch, remarking to the witness, 4'But you can understand me quite readily, can't you?" 44What's that, sir?" gasped the wit­ ness, Buddenly recovering himself. 44Your Honor," said the lawyer, 44it is surveyed. The area of the land surveyed th« last fiscal year was greater by 6,058.750 acre* than that of tho previous year. The area of . w public land disposed of the last fiscal year wu IMS by 3,898,971.60 acres than that of th* previous year; the aggregate cash reotipti were greater by $2,508,642.56. Secretary Kirkwood states that on the S3tk of June, 1881, there were 268,830 pensioner! on the rolls, classified as follows: Army in­ valids. 153,025 ; army widows, children, ani dependent relatives, 7(>,683; navy invalids, 2,187; navy widows, children and dependent relatives, 2,008; soldiers and sailors of th< war of 1812, 8,898; widows of soldiers and Bailors of that war, 26.029, During the year 28,740 names were plaoed oi th* pension-roll, and 10,712 were dropped, making the increase for the year in the num­ ber of pensioners 18,028. Rince 1861 the sum of $506,345,044.31 has been paid to pensioners. The Commissioner renews the reeonmenda- ^ s-j; tiou of His predecessor that the law tiling the , ^ date of the commencement of increase of pen- \ % I , •ion at the date of the surgical examination e» | tablishing the right to increase be repealed, and that authority be given for the readjustment ; in certain eases of rates of pension which wen .•><;» allowed. "l! The report of the Commissioner of Patent* M 4 4 ® show* an increase of business for the year ending Jnne 30, 1881. Hie number of applies- 1 tions for patents was 22,932, an increase of ' J 1,942 over the previous ye«r. Applications for designs, 585; reissues, 588; c&vrate, 2,342; trade-marks, 464; appeals, 771; disclaimers, 18; labels, 337. The number of patents granted, including reissues and designs, was 15,175, aa increase over tho former y-ar of 1,526. Number of trade-marks registered waa 482) labels registered, 181; patents withheld foe non-payment of final fee, 1,439 ; patents ex­ pired, 4,272. The total receipts of the office wen t798,- 896.52, an increase over the previous year of •59,348.40. The progress of education during the year has been substantial and satisfactory. The in­ crease of normal schools and teachers' insti- •m rt> •'"i tutes has made tho facilities for special tm» 0?%$ ing more accessible to the rank and file ot the teaching classes, especially in the South. ¥••• M •i **,' - i- ii'lk% A Cornish Village. On the summit of the wes? bank it touches the village of Saltosti, which is built down tlie hillside to the water's I edge, and which is like most other tish- | ing villages in Cornwall--clean, solidly | put together, unornameutal, and a ! whitish-gray in color. The deficiency of color is dispiriting to the artist whohas " I come from the contemplation of the j more opulent architecture of the Conti­ nent, The cottages, one and two stories : high, of concrete, brick and stone, ; with diamond-paned windows, have been designed to shoiter without any ; other idea than utility. Their white or yellow walls seem to be vertical strata of , the indigenous rock of th^r foundations. I The sashes and tlje doors are painted j black, and the streets are made Io{ S"17 macadam. What little color there is gains brilliancy from ; oontrast with these Quiet sur- , roundings. The verdure is the greenest, and the fuchsias blaze in relief. j Up on the hill, with a somewhat dis- , orderly little grave-yard inclosing it, is i a serious-looking, square-towered '"..Vv rttat .hat U. can hear „dl. H. is imposing on the court." The lawyer was about to return his watch to liis pocket, having previously 3})ened it to note the time, when he suddenly started. He held his watch to his ear, looked at it, and shook it. 44Your Honor," he remarked, with an apologetic glance at the wituess, 4'I was mistaken; the man is deaf. My watch has Btopped because it is not wound." A few moments later the examination of the witness was taken up by the at­ torney, who almost burst his diaphragm in his efforts to make himself understood by the now consistently deaf witness. A Vast Population. According to the recent census of India, its popiUationnumbers250,000,0(X) of s -ills; about five times as many as the United States. There is raised bv j f ixation in that country S354,000,00(). The surplus over expenditure is §4,000,- 000. This vast empire is undr r the control of tli*1 British Government* One of the difficulties in its future is the rapid increase of its population. Every few years a short crop brings ou a fam- ; ine in some one of the districts. Malthas argued that population always outruns ' the meaus of feeding it, and he clainu d that war, pestilence and famine were necessary to reduce the number of mouth*, so that all who survived could : be frd. The English domination in ' India has put a stop to ware. Famines . . . w o r n weather of centuries, which has smoothed ! all the edges. The church is nearly j seven hundred years old--the tower i older--and where time has made a gap | or a seam, the 44 restoration" has been ; effected in the most economical way. i The concrete used to fill in has include, i the fragments of the ruined part, and j bits of gargoyles and other carved word' l are fouud imbedded in the plasterk ! Look from the houses to the people-- : there is an infallible correspondenoa, The men are brown wud strong, a little < sad, with large frames, but no spare ; flesh ; and the women, who are grand at : the oar, are scarcely their inferiors in . , physical proportions. They are frank and independent in manner, gathering their living from tlie sea. There is little vice among them--the smart dresses and chubby faces of their children are cer­ tain indications of domestic virtue; but that some of them fall to the besetting sin of t'.ie English may lie inferred from . what we heard oue of them say ot a neighbor: "He wass as dhrunk as, fourty maintops'l-sheet blocks."-- W* ML • Kidt ing. UNCLE Mpsn m 't Jim Webster <5o Austin Avenue: '41 heered hofe yer pa­ rents was dead. What did yer git from 'em?" askfd Unele Moee. "Lemme see,-' said Jim. pensively : 44 From my fodder l*se got dese he.tu crooked legs. and from my mudd" r I inherits,a aro partially provided agaiuBt, and saui- j ness in de chist."--. Tejcti* •Sifting**