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cnni ^ laindcaln I. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Pur l shcr. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. IOWA'S permanent school fond amounts to §3,547,123.82, and she lias 10,741 ungraded selioo's and 503 graded ones. The cost of instruction was, last year, $1.62 per capita. POTTER county, Pennsylvania, !* the scene of a novel elopement case, in which a middle-ftged woman, who is al leged to have two husbands living, in­ duced a 14--vear-old school--boy to run away with her. SEJTATOB FAIH lives iu Charles Sum­ ner's old quarters at Washington. He is the richest man in Congress, and per-" haps the richest officeholder in the world. His leisure is devoted/to the study of finance. DUBINO the year 1881 there was pub­ lished in England a total of 5,406 new books, elf which 1,296 were new editions, books already known to the public. This shows a falling oft, as compared with the year 188I), of about 300 book*, which is attributed to the rapid develop­ ment of the perioli *al press. THERE is a movement in North Caro­ lina to commemorate the first landing •of Englishmen within the limits of the Union. It was about July 4, 1584, that Amidas and Barlowe came to anchor off Roanoke island, and the State Piers Association propose to see to it that the •vent be celebrated on the Independence day of 1884. THE Marquis of Hurtly, who is just mow sadly wanted by his money-lender, has ruined himself on the turf. At his majority he came into an estate of 85,- 000 acres, with a rent roll of $100,000. He mar tied the daughter of a wealthy banker ; yet at only 34 years of ago he is in the sore distress of poverty. OCKOBBSSMAN HASKELL, ot Kansas, a leading anti-polygamist, says that all the bills btfoio Congress on the Mor­ mon question are valueless, because ot the impossibility of proving polygamous relatious, owing so the eecrtsy of the marriage among Mormons. He believes the lemedy for the evil will be found in the reorganization of the Territory, by which the Territorial Legislature will be abolished, and tiie Government admin­ istered by a Board of Commissioners, the same as the District of Columbia^ there, and that its voyagers return in safety, what then? What good will they have done? What useful purpose will they have accomplished during the six months of darkness and icy impris­ onment? It is not at all unlikely that the balloon will start, and that there will be found men ready to go, but why? Have not lives enough been lost, has sot money enough been sunk, on these vain, purposeless journeys? EX-PKFSIDENT HATBS had his atten tion called the other day to an article attributing to his wife the sole author­ ship of the temperance legislation of the White House. He declared that this tensely heated gases~ TIIE sun. •f What t» KMWH AkMI tta OMter «f Mr It is now pretty generally admitted that the sun id but a "single star among millions, thousands of which ex- coed him iii brightness, magnitude and power." But he is our snn. "Cut off U:s rays for even a single month and the earth would die---all life upon its surface would cease."' We at the ancients felt in this matter and formu:ated into systems of SI IU worstiip the modern scientific spirit, aided by the to escope, the pyr- heliometer, the aetinomeier and the spectroscope, has evolved into the doc­ trines of the correlat or of ft_r.es mid the conservation oi energy: (1) The center of the sun is a "mass of iu- versiiy. A large numljer of these sub­ stances are unknown, or at least unused, in the United States. Of rice, which occupies in its cnl ure one-half of the cultivated land, there are 250 varieties of need in the country. Millet is ex­ tensively used, but bread raised from a "sponge " of yeast is hardly ye* known in the jxipular diet, the old Latin Por­ tuguese wotd pan l»eing, however, in use. The soybean, which in client i< ol comp< sition closely approaches animal fiber, is extensively cultivated. Pioba- ZEKE'S MAD BIDE. •» * want ilw Main tm tf» H»M «r a rr'fhira «t Wiw. 1 From ihe 1 Ui'mdelpUi* Times.J Zeke was thought to lie the dunce of the family. He wasn't dull exactly, _ because of his quiet ways and h:8 tove sleep he got to l»e known a*> t".e most back war . of the bright Bumwell boys. Zeke w&s so iazy that he couldn't count, though twelve years of age. When, along a out noon. Lis father would say: "Run, room they not only regain the:'r lost standing, but are often able to enter a grade in advuuee of their former class­ mates. The teacher in charge of this school a'tributes this result cliieflv to ' MOTHEK AID SOI. After M«aralay la>h Some years before the war a wealthy bly no country excels Japan in the va- j Zeke, and tell me what tinie'it. is." Zeke IT is "fortunate, says an exchange, that Mr. Oscar Wilde arrived^ here when he did, for we are now threatened with a visitation from another noodle who is much more utterly utter than the advo­ cate of the dado now in New York. The MW calamity is a Marquis de Lenville, who laces.pads and poses, and wears a romantic Byron lock, and a beard that trails esthetieal'y in all directions. In- stca 1 of being soulful and abstract, like <4Wi|de, he is sai l to be beefy and cheeky. As long as we have to- endure these cranks, let us have a full-fledged one. was untrue. "We mutually agreed," he said to a correspondent of the Cin­ cinnati Enquirer, "before my inaugura­ tion, that the habits and customs of our private life should not be changed. We had never been in the habit of offering wine to our guests in our own house, and determined not to do so in the (2) us face, its riety of leguminous plants raised for food. Of ti b rs and roots, the sweet potato is the most popular, though, strange to say, as much tabooed by the ariMoeratic classes as onious are sup­ posed to lie among us, {Sixteen million intelligent methods ! u our public HCU > Is. --Etc 'tinge. No Fan Being President. It is not an enjoy able t^at sometimes to lie the editor of a pa pet-, and mould public opii.iou at so much p -r nionfd, photosphere, is a shell of luminous j busliels ol^ these^" Sat-uiua potatoes clouds, the heme of tlio sum-pots ; (3) its immediate environment or chromo­ sphere is composed maiuly of inconsid­ erable gases; (4) the corona or next outer circle of the sun has as yet " re­ ceived 110 explanation which commands universal assent." " The attraction between the sun and the earth amounts to thirty-s x hundred White House. During my whole term | quadrliioiis of tons; in figures, 36 fol- this rule was violated upon only one oc- j 1'^ f~cVcllteen ciphers." Yet our -- ; « " » - ' i > e « • « « ! n o i u , honor of the Grand Duke Alexis, and ; the "fatlier of lights." " The sun's that was Secretary Evaits'dinner, given, J volume is l,300,00ti times that of the according to custom, at my house, and l p*rth, while its mass is only 330,000 «•* *» * "• *> «• I a day or two before the dinner and said, rel, but the suu's average density (found 'Mr. President, are we going to have ; by dividing the mass of the volume) is wine at the diplomatic dinner?' to which 2^^ about one-quarter that of the earth. T . - , , , . M1 , The earth is a little fellow, but compact I dimply referred to our wed known do- Blli1 ,.v „ f mestic policy. The Secretary urged that it w as his dinner, and that I ought to yield, which 1 did--that one and only that time." time, TOOMBS, of Georgia, being impor­ tuned by a passenger to take his travel­ ing sack from the car seat and let him sit down, refuses because there are oth< r seats. Passenger insists, and Toombs, rather than comply, sits on the floor himself, and giv, s up his seat to stranger. Stranger, learning the spe­ cific gravity of the person he has dit - placed, apologizes, but Toombs refuses to rise, saying : " Keep it, sir ; you are entitled to it for your rudeness," and of fercd to bet the drinks that the stranger was an Atlanta man, because no other would have had such cheek. FIVE HUKDB.II> locomotives were built in the three Patersou establishments during the past year, worth upward of $5,000,000. The price ranges from $6,- 000 to $14,000 according to size and character. This is the largest number ever turned out in Paterson in auy one year. The business wai conducted en tiroly on a cash basis. The prices ob­ tained were very much lower than in for­ mer years, and the profits correspond­ ingly less, but tlie looses were also mu -ll below the average, in consequence of the cash policy pursued. Fully 600 locomo­ tives will be completed in the same city Jhis year. THE lecture room of the Louisville Medical College is in the form of an am­ phitheater, the seats rising rapidly. A free-mauuered Texan student in the highest row put his foot on the shoulder of a Kentuckian next in front. The Kentucki.au resented the familiarity, and "they went out in an alley to light, the rest of the class accompanying them. Strange to say, the affair was not decid­ ed with six-shooters. The rules of pu­ gilism were enforced by a referee, and thirty-two rounds fought in about an hour, when the vanquished Kentuckian was carried to a physician's offico for treatment. The victorious Texan may now probably rest his feet just where he pleases. • CAPT. TYSON, of the Polaris, has be­ come a convert to Commander Cheyne's plan of reaching the Nir;h pole by bal­ loon. He contends that there is no probability tlie po'e can ever be reached by sailing there, and that this is the only mode left. He therefore is of opinion that if a balloon properly equipped were started Irom some sta­ tion in the high latitudes in May when the wind was blowing northward, it might reach the pole in time to return in the autumn. He advises the carrying of a light boat to be u-ed in case open water is found, and says eight months' provision can be taken in the balloon. The question is not whether the pole can be reached, but what is the use of willing it? Suppose the hHloon gets IN the pocket of a drunkard who died a few d iys ago in the city prison of San Francisco was found a curious docu­ ment purporling to be in brief the auto­ biography of a man who began active life with more tlun the usual share of ambition and glory. In the worn and almost illegible page was found the fol­ lowing description of the famous charge at Baiakluva, the writer at the age of 16 having apparently been one of the immortal Six Hundred : " The bugles rang out their shrill calls to charge, and we weut right at the center of our foes. The shock was a fearful oae. As we struck against the enemy a Muscovite cavalryman, witli a look as black as hate on his fac3 and his eye blazing, aimed his lance at my heart. I parried his blow and stiuck his weapon down, and then dispatched him. But it mu-t have been from him I rede ived a wound, for at night I found my left boot full of blood, and a lance wound right under the knee-cao. In striking down his lance, the point of it entered my leg, but in the excitement of the moment it passed Unnoticed. I never could tell how we ever broke through the Russian lines, but we did. Wuen we appeared on the other side I came to my senses. Then we met another line of the enemy, but our bpirits were up and we passed and well made, let the infidels say what they will, and the sun, too, is good in its way. You not only cannot look the sun in t*he fuc# with the' naked eye, but I the appliances used in the study of the | moon, planets and stars will not aufewer at all for solar work. To fiiid the spots on the sun you need only throw its im­ age through a t lescope on to a screen of cardboard, and they are as plain as freckles on some folks' faces. 1 Ever since Newton it has been known that a b am of light is decomposable into its constituent colors by passing it through a 1 risrn, and, under c rtain cir- cun.stances, the result is u ram bow-tinted band or ribbon, -which has been called the solar spectrum. In this spectrum Wolla ton, iu 181>2, discovered certain dark shadings, and from that day to this astronomers have been endeavoring, by meai s of the spectium, to determine the nature of the elements of the sun. In 1877, Dr. Henry Diaper, of New York, announced that he had discovered the presence of oxygen iu the sun. In Let, it is claimed by philosophy that the primal elements of all suns and worlds are the same, but the work of science is to prove this or prove the fcontrary. i There are a good many gue.-ses as to what sun spots r»ally are. "Cavities filled with gases and vapors, which pro­ duce obscuration," sounds right, but to­ morrow some other theory may sound better. " Suu spots are l ot disti ibuted over the sun's surface with anything like uuiformity. They occur mainly in two zones on each side of the equator and Itetween the latitudes of 10" and 30°. But the cause of ihis disirioution is uot known." As to the "Sun's Light and Heat" Herschei cah ul ted that the amount of heat received on 1 he earth's surface, with the sun in the z j. th would melt an inch thickness of ice 111 two hours and tiiir- teen minutes nearly, and of com se, if such sheet of ice were a hundred and through them like a sheet of lightning. It was a terrific work, and our troops eighty-six million miles in diameter it suffered heavily. That wound under the knee-pan was all I received during tjie bloody work of the Crimean cam­ paign. ft tires me up a little, even now, when I think of those times, just like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet; but I don't think 1 would care to see or go through them again. I went into that charge a private and came out a corporal, beside receiving two dist.n- guisliing marks for bravery and good conduct. would all melt in the same length of time. " Ot this enormous outflow of heat the earth of course intercepts only a small portion, abtiit 1-220U0Q000M.,, But even this inmute fraction is enough to melt yearly at the earth s equator a layer of ice somt thing over 110 feet thick." Better than this, our little earth intercepts ei ough of the sun's li«{ht and h-iat rach day to clothe all clouds with b-auty, to make the fruits ripen and the II jwvrs bloom; better still, to keep our li-art-blood warm and our pulses beat­ ing, and it is not from sciem e alone, but from the reverent vision of common eyes that we must get much of the best light nnd heat of the sun, the world or the stars. --Pit i ladclohia Ti turn. The Cause of Hob Law. The existence of mob l iw in a commu­ nity indicates ei lier a state of semi-civ­ ilization as «li plavi d in our frontier set- tlemei.ts wlieie government is still iu embryo, or a lack of confidence in the jnstice meted out by the court.0. When we find this disorder apparently increas­ ing in old and conservative portions ol the country, and wheii summary ven­ geance for crime is winked at if not openly Approved by sober, respectable people, it is evident that something more than ordinary is wrong. They don't approve of mob law because they believe it to be riszht. Ihey know it is all wrong, and a disgrace to the community even when the sufferer from it deserved his fate, instead of being, as is sometimes the case, an entirely innocent individual. Why is this? There can Vie only one answer. It is thedelay and difficulty, if not impossibility in many cases, of pun­ ishing criminals through the ordinary methods. The Constitution was careful to guarantee to criminals the right to a speedy and impartial trial, but that in most cases is the last thiug they want. The very first effort of a prisoner's at­ torneys. too often successful, is for de­ lay, in the hope that new subjects may engross the attention of the pubiic, wit- ne-ses become scattered and the most unfavorable facts forgotten. That the publie has any right to a speedy trial is a fact too often ignored. This of itself tends to encourage crime, for the moral effect of punishment is largely lost when so long delayed, even if conviction is attained. Then the insanity dodge has been played so extensively of late years as to practically work a denial of jus­ tice. Men whose sauity had been trusted I fill through l.fe iu every sort of business j transactions are suddenly found to have ' become irresponsible beings, and the ! law which would have held a man re- 1 sponsible in all ordinary matters sud­ denly finds him irre-ponsible should he j take a notion to imbrue his hands in the blood of bis fellow-man. To heighten j the absurdity, if possible, a person whom twelve men have declared so in- • sane that he can kill his brother without | legal responsibility, is allowed to {jo forth | a free man to carry out his deadly work j on some one else. It would seem that ' even luuaties who go about killing peo- j pie ought to be confined in the interests j of society. The general public is en- \ ; tirely out of patience with all this, and j | the feeling has become very general that I I if the courts wrill not punish crimiuals i the people will take the law in their own liand«. This is not creditable, but dealing with facts, there is no use j mincing things. When the people of this country conclude to abolish capital punishment they will do it through their Legislatures, and in the meantime they are fcardlv yet, known. About 2)0 va- expect the courts to punish enm ; speed- j rieti- a of'fish are eaten, oue-half of the Seat Yersus Vegetable Diet. Tlie most plausible argument we hav< seen offered against the vegetarians fo) some time, is coutained in a recent num­ ber of the Boston Journal of Chcmit try. It relates expeiiments of Prokssoi Hoffman, which t nd to show that a fat greater proportion of a meat diet is as­ similated than of vegetable diet. It is said " we must consider not merely how much nutriment each puluinto the body, but how much of it remains there and how much goes to waste." Prof. Hoff­ man fed a servant on vegetable diet and found that not one half of the albumi­ nous matter had been digested. Th« same man was next fed on beef, fat and flour, and only one-fifth of the albumi­ nous substance passed off as waste. Experiments of other physiologists art quoted that gave similar results. The writer then concludes that " the results of these experiments by independent investigators evidently agree in proving that a much larger fraction of nutriment is utilized in the t*ase lof anijinal than in , that of vegetable Vod. They go far to- ; ward knocking aw'tiy the very founda­ tions of vegetarianism by showing that our digestive apparatus is better adapted to deal with the former than the latter." The experiments referred to by the Boston Journal of Chemistry are not logically conclusive. There is a flaw in the premises--or lota of room for one. The men experimented upon had in all probability been raised upon a mis­ cellaneous diet, and their digestive powers are an unknown quantity, and so the experiments cannot prove much un­ til they are repeated upon a healthy per­ son w ho has been raised as a vegetarian. As people are now, doubtless meats are digested with less waste than vegetables, and possibly it remains true f.<r every­ body ; but to determine just how much advantage of this 'kind is to be credited to meat diet it will be necessary to make a large number of careful experiments upon fair specimens of meat eaters and "Vegetarians, trying each on the different kinds of diet and comparing results. The animal kingdom furnishes abund­ ant material for such investigation in different classes of carniverous and herbivorous domesticated auunals, which field invites the attention of practical physiologists who desire to settle the question.--Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. were produced list year, while the "'J. T;" or "Dutch" -- our common white potato--is left to foreigners, t e uative palate not liking it. Lily bmbs --sixteen varw ties--serve as food, boiled and served wi h " drawn butter." The lotus root is eagerly eaten without . b livion of country or decay of patriotism. Poppy seeds powdered as condiment, infusions of salted cherry blossoms for drink, horse-chestnuts and acorns are among the articles of diet. Baiting With Mtni^ws. For a long time Mr. Furness studied upon some plan to crush the milkman a id make him acknowledge the fraud he had been practicing for months, and at last an idea s rack him. He hunted up his son's fish pole and started for the lake, and after some three h« urs of patient fishing on the Government break­ water returned home with half a doz^n perch, that would average about four inches in length, and placed them in the aquarium. Then he told the hired girl to be sure and call him early enough in the morning so that he could go out aud get the milk when the milkman came along. He said lie wanted to see the milkman particularly, on business, and MIIIVUDIII |I#IU UMIIJ, UU U MIU • ,^"1' I, hallooed a m she said she would be snro and call him, j wVl . • *, ? nr® tl°lu . . . . . * 1 • • L T I K N I T V I M ' I I I I I M " 7 . . 1 . M would l«»ok at the clock and remark 4, I , , . , , w . VMII'IUU €*V UU UiUUU t/n UlUIUU. L tt e hand s a stickiu straight up ! j and get. compl mentary ticki ts to the One diy Jerr v, the bl .ck man, made tun - of Zeke, saving: "U'laug wid ye, ye do'an know \er foot Irom a hole iu da ground; g'way from heah en laru to count up yer A B C s." What Jerry said made the lad f. el ashamed, lliat night lie covered his head with a quilt, an I said to himself that he wished a bugaboo would catch him by the toes and take him to the bad place. As he was feeding the horses next morning he asked his triend Joe, the stableman, how he could learn to count. Joe laughed and winked at a big horso named Bob. "Why, you pester yon, why don't you get up onto Bob's back aud count them air hairs iu his maue ?" That made Zeke's blood teel hot in his face. "All right," he said, and bound­ ing from the hay mow he lighted upon Bob'« back. Bob was takeu by surprise. He wasn't in the habit of having boys on his baek at breskta«t, so he started on a "wild run. If Zeke con du't count he could ride a horse as a swallow rides the air. Away went Bob out the laue and up the country road. Zeke grasped a haudfid of the mane and began to pick out the black threads. "One, two, three, four, five--" bnt just as be was about to any six a violent jerk of the horse's head drew the mane from his hand. Nothing daunted, how­ ever, the boy l»eg>i;i again. Bob wasruu- niug up the road at fil l speed. warm love grew out of the ucqnairtancjp between the young lentiess.eau sind tli* clergyman's daughter, then fi teen yeant jld. It ended in his returning the next fear to chum her as his bride, and beaf ner to his home in the suuuy South^| which proved, indeed, a sunny South te the happy young couple nut 1 the angrjr mutteriags of the war were heard, and, ike many others, their litt e c.reie (en* •argeu now by two precious cluldrei^ was broken and the haupy family sepa* rattd. " * In the midst of the excitement, thfe 3ay after the secession of South Carolin% the gentleman was warned that hi-t wife s'eight-of-liauu perloimanct s, but will) i s care and worry, its heartaches and apprehensions, it is more comforting on the whole than being P.'esideut. Wh< n we were a boy, and sat in the front row among the pale-haired boys with cheeked gingham skirts at the Sun- d'y-ichool, and the teacher told us to ___ _ hve u^riahth aud learn a hundred verses musTleave the louth" teca"^"©^ h« of the Scriptures each week so that we staunch and outspoken support ot Nortl». couU be President we thougnt that srn principles, and in ob d.ence to th» unruffled, calm, and universal appro- behest of that tyrannical power which ba ion wai ed upon the mau who sue- aimed with such determination at th» cessfudy rose to be the executive of a nation's life, she turned away from thft gimktion. . i sacrtd spot where were centered all her With years, and accumulated wisdofe, ireams of love and jov, and with hat baby started for Ohio, expecting hell 1 however, we have changed our mind. Now we sit at our desk and write burning words for the press that will live and keep warm long alter we are turned to dust and ash< s. We write heavy editorials on the pork outlook, and sadly Compose exhaustive treatises on the chineh-bug, while men in other walks of life go out into the health-promoting mountains, and catch trout and wood- husband to follow with her little four* year-old son by the next boat, but th* next boat came not. The blockade wait ordered, cutting off communication as well as travel, and in vain d.d she waSL for tidings from her lost ones. Days of weary watching followed eacil other for nearly two years, and when thft oft-told tale of death in a Southern hoa- ticks. Our lot is not, perhaps, a joyous pital reached her, obliterating the last one. We sweiter through the long July ray Qf hope, the agony of despair settled days with our suspenders hanging in ajjon her. As soon, howev. r, as the limp f, stoons down over our chair whila souditiou of the country would admit of we wield the death-deahng pen, but we ; travel, she returned to her home for the do nut waut to be President. Our tala y is smaller, it is true, but , when we get through our work in ti e child, only to fiud that the relatives had gone to the far West before his father's death, leaviug him with old fiiends, ot and she did. About seven o'clock there was a rush of wheels, the j<u>g e of a bell and the milkman was at toe door. Mr. Furness be.zed the pitcher and then rushed to the nqtf num. Only three of the fish weie alive, the others having died during the night. Mr. Furness s> ized the live om s. thrust them into the pitcher and rushed out. By holding the pitcher pretty high up, the milkman was prevented from seeing what was in it, aud he poured in the milk, all unconscious ot the trap that waifr laid. Mr Furness then handed over the milk ticket and said, it beat all «hat weather we w. re having this fall. The milkman said he never saw such weather since the fall of '47, when thei e was a period of seven weeks that the suu never shone. " For goodness sr»ke, my friend," said Mr. Furness, " what on earth is in this milk ?" "I don't know, I'm sure," said the milkman; "let's see." And he bent over and looked into the pitcher. "Why, it's something alive 1" ex­ claimed Mr. Furness. "Here," said the milkmau, "let's pour it out." Aud he took the top off a milk can and held it while Mr. Furness poured out the contents of the pitcher. "Fish, by the Lord Harrysaid the astonished milkman. " Well. I should say fish! ' ejaculated Mr. F arness, indignantly, and looking at the milkman iu a searching manner. "What does it mean?" " I'm blessed if I know," said the poor milkman, helplessly. " Well, I'm sure J don't," said Mr. Fnrnes-«. j* Therew^ aJoofeppreaM th^n Jgr. Furness said : * I "I want you to tell me candidly, now, just how much water you put 111 > our milk, and whether you put in anything else besides water." " Well, you see, sometimes I am a little short. When I have milk enon^li to go around to all my customers I don't put in any water ; but when I have sale for--well say--a hundred qnarts, and oulv have ninety or ninety-five quarts of milk--well, I can't afford to IOSJ my customers, you know." "Are you short very often?" Mr. Fur­ ness asked. " Well, no--not very often," and the man blushed and moved uneasily on the seat. " I see the subject is becoming pain­ ful," said Mr. Furness, stiffly, "and I will not pursue it further. But don't you think that lureafter you can fur­ nish me with a little purer artiel> oi milk, and we will let by gones be by­ gones. " "Yes, sir. I think I can. They bade each other gofid morning, and ever since then the milk furnished the Furness family has been almost pure cream.--Peek's £un. Countin' hairs," s iid Zeke. | " What a little fool J" exclaimed the man; "he might as well try to number the hairs of my head, but before he could get through with his jjb every hair • wou'd be gray." But the dasliiug liorse and his bold rider were out ot hearing and out of sight. They went steadily on for nearly au hour. Zeke had counted a thousand and Bob's run had dropped into a swift trot. " Hold on," said a gentleman whom they met 011 the bridge; "where are you going to without saddle or bridle ? ' "Counting the hairs of the horse's mane," replied Zeke, never looking up. ! " Why don't \ou count .the hairs of his t«il?" roared the gentleman, with much merriment; but on sped Bi b with ; Zeke bending ch sely over his neck. | Soon afterward tlie frighteued horse j came to the Schuylkill River. Into the ! water he trotted, and soon he was swim­ ming for the other shore. This Zeke had , not expected. The shock of the cold 1 water caused him to forget his count, and ; he was obliged to cliug to the maue to save his life. " Anyhow," Zeke said, "I find the mane of some use." When Bob Al- - A1 1. 1. _ I , . . 4 SVCHJIicu nit: oiiiiet UTUK UU Kept uu as madly as before, bnt seeiug that his rider was more than a match for him, he at 1 st stopped short and began toTturn the head toward Zeke. Meanwhile Zeke had given ov. r his attempt to count the hairs of the mane. What he, was thinking at»out was how he could procure a bridle. His hands still grasped 110 hairs, which felt so smooth and strong that the lad de- cided to try und make a bridie out of ! them. With his jaekknife he succeeded , in cutting off several strands, which he ' tied and twisted together in a clumsy , m bv the ! w J e f VH1'1,°uT P11?? whom she could hear nothing. All'ef-an by the hat and steal home through the all- fort8 to fiud them or g°n even * ' ! Dervadlllir niuKN«VR VA thv»nL- NNR H+OIM # « * « »® , « * pervading diukne-s, we thank our Btars, as we split the kiudling and bod down the family mu'e, that 011 the morrow, al' though we may he licked by the man we wrote up to-day, our official record can , not be attacked. ! There is a nameless joy that settles down upon us as we retire to our simple couch on the flo.>r, and pull the cellar doi r over us to kf ep us warm, which the : world can neither give nor take away, i We plod al< >ug, from day to day, slic­ ing great wads of mental pabulum from our bulging intellect, never murmuring nor complaining when lawyers and physiciaus put on their broad brim chip hats aud go out to the breezy can­ yons and the shady glens to regain their health. I We just plug along from day to day, eating a hard boiled egg from one hand I while we write a scathing criticism on the sic transit gloria cucumber with the other. ! No, we do not crave the proud position cf President, nor do we hauker to climb to an altitude where forty or fifty mil­ lions of civilized people can distinctly see whether we eat custaid pie with a knife or not, | Once in a while, however, in the still­ ness of the night, we kick the covers, off, and moan in our dreams as we imagine that we are President, and we wake with the cold, damp sweat (or perspiration, as the case may be) standing out of every pore, only to find that we are not Presi­ dent after all, by an overwhelming ma­ jority, and we get up and steal away to the rainwattr barrel and take a drink, and go back to a dreamless, snocelesa sleep.--Laramie Boomerang. How Lace Paper,' is Made. fashion.- A stisk of crooked oak, whit-? i Lofe^pa^r is oqe of those thyws over ! tied smoothly, served as a bit. Zeke looked with p> ide upon his odd pieces of harness, and he was delighted when Boh, . responding to a pull of the r -in, trotted ! off homeward. That night Zeke ate his supper in pain in bed, but the strange adventure so worked upon his mind that it resulted in good. He nppli"d himself to his books, and now he is professor in wbich some people can afford to^be ro­ mantic. It is tlie oppo ito of wrapping paper, at all events. However, h.re is what a Belgium paper has to say on tin subject: " Who of us has not admired those fine outlines and wondrous paper arabesquts which cover the smallest box of confectionery, aud make the con­ tents a hundred times more aiipetszing ? one of the best colleges of the country^ 1 A^bouqiiet with its pretty collar of lace, a casket with its band of guipure, or a Advantages of Kitchen Over Shop. A girl who works in the kitchen of an ordinary family, is far safer and better protected than she would be in anv other place. She has a quiet, c >mfortal>le home. She may choose her own as­ sociates, which she could not do in a boarding-house. If she is sick, her work is lightened for her. By half the atten­ tion, industry aud effort to please, wh eh a saleswoman rnu-t « xereis *, she makes herself so invaluable to the family that she will be mistress ot the situation. As A Canary Bird. Once I was at an inn in England, with ' other strangers, when a poor man came and asked leave to exhibit a wonderful canary bird which he had. As it was a I rainy day, and we could not go out to walk, we consented to the poor man's proposal; an«l ho brought his little bird iuto the parlor of (he inn. The name of the little bird was Jewel. He stood on t he f. -refinger of his master, who said to him, " Now Jewel, I waut you to be- | have well and make 110 mistakes." ! Jewel sloped his head toward his master, 1 as if listening to him, and then nodded twice. "Well, then." t-aid lii.s master, " let me see if you will keep your word. 1 Give us a tune." The canary sang. | " Faster," said his master. Jewel sang ! faster. " Slower," said bin master; and IJewtl sang slower. "You do not keep time," said his owner. Hereupon Jewel began to beat time with one of his feet. 1 I and tlie rest of the spectators were so delighted that we^Tapped our liauds. 1 "Can you not thank tlie gentlemen for their applause ?" asked uis master ; and Jewel tiowed his head most respectfully. , His master now gave him a straw gun ; aud Jewel went through the martial exercise, handling his gnn like a true soldier. "Now let' us have a dance!" said his m ister; and the canary weut through a dance with so much glee, to the wages, the advantages are equally plain. A cook in a small family has her skill, and tj)ifH, that we all applauded board, lodging and three dollars a week --many earn more. She has time to do her sewing, and ail afteruiN>n out once a week be-i ie. If she is a capable girl, she will often have days when her work will not occupy more than half of her time. She is sure of a home as lomr as she wants it, and may make life-J.-ng friends. Suppose her to be, ii>stead, a seamstress or a saleswoman. If clie is a very go xl worker, she may be paid six dollars as wages, though that is more than the average. Out of this, if she wants a comlortable, warm room and good fare, she must pay at least four dollars a week. She then has two dol­ lars left with whi h to buy her clothes, pay for her washing and sewing, and meet other expenses--such as doctor's bills and the lii>e. She works teu hours a day, aud knows that at the most her him apain. "Thou hast done my bidding brave­ ly," said his master, caressing the bird. " Now, then, take a nap, while I show the company some of my own feats." Here the lit le bird went into a counter­ feit sl< ep, and his owner began balanc­ ing a p pe and performing other tricks. Our attention wus given to him, when a large black cat, who had been lurking in oue corner of the room, sprang upon the table, seized the poor canary b:rd in his mouth, and jumped out of the window before any otie could stop him, although we all rushed to m^ke an at­ tempt. In va n we pursued the cat. I fine roast leg of mutton with a goffered 1 sleeve--all seem to take on a new cliai m. so true is it that sometimes the mauner in which an object is presented is better than the present itstIf. There are very few manufacturers of lace paper, aud these almost exclusively in France uud Germany. It dates only within the last : fifty years, like so m;i!>y other s?!ic! s of luxury. Confectioners and pa-try cooks, of course make great use of it*; , but butchers are upw putting their ; ciioiccst joints in lace papei. Then j horticulturists, florists and cigar mauu- I faeturers employ it. A proof of the ex- | tensiou of tlie manufacture may be j formed from the fact that, while not I more than 100,000 francs' woith was 1 turned out in Paris some thirty years ago, it is now sold to the yearly value of from 6 J0,000 to 700,000 francs. It is exported | all over the world, but principally to j North and South America. Next in J order .come Ei gland, Spain, Italy, Rus- ' sia, Austria, etc. The mat: rial is rather , costly, and the paper has to be specially ; prepared by rubbing each sheet on j boili sides with soap powder j so that they may easily separate. Eight sheets | are put on the matrix, and then the j work girl beats with a email hammer until the design is cut out. Thirty blows are necessary to cut ten square centimeters. Efforts have been made to cut the paper with one stroke, but they have been unsuccessful, and the little lead hammers have to he retained. The little boxes for fruits and terrines. etc., are made, however, by machinery, but only within the last four years ; a-id as they are fifty per cent, cheaper a great many of them are sold." A Close Share. " Yes, I have had some pretty close shaves in my lifetime," answered the captain as he sat down his glass and took a seat by the stove. "Go ahead," called three or four at once. "Jnst seventeen years ago this fall. The canary bird had In en killed by him ! when I was sailing the Martin from --." almost iu an instant. The poor man wept for his bird, aud his ^rief was sad to behold. "Well may I grieve for thee, my poor little thing!" said he; "well Diet of tlie Japanese. Of 3f>,000 cows si mght re 1 in Japan last year, more than one-half were con­ sumed by foreigners on shore or sli p Few nat ves, except officers *in the <api tal, sail ore and soldiers, eat beef. Mut ton and pork beyond the treaty ports ily and vigorously. With the certainty that punishment in a legal way is sure to follow crime tlie motive and excuse for mob action will disippear, and with it the acta themselves.--StcubenvilU Herald. people cat ng fish every day. The food of the mas-ps is " 90 per cent, vegeta ble." The list of food plaifts in use, not including sea plants, was prepared for the pamphlet, with their analyses, by Prof. Edward Kinch, of the Tokio Uni- strength will only hold out a few years, ! may I grieve. More than four years and that then her p'ace will be j.iven to a younger and stronger woman. Apparently, then, there is bnt one reason why kitchen work is left to the uueduca ed ami s upid; that is, that a bright, clever girl can not hear to feel herself an interior, and lie treated as a servant. Tuere is some sense in tlii *, too; or, rather, it is not altogether dis­ creditable. Self-respect is never c >11- tempti le. But a girl sliou'd consider the other si ie < f it also. Let her put herself in the place of employer. The owner of a hou>e must l>e he uristrt ss of it. It is not only proper, but neces­ sary, thority as such. has thou fed from my hand and drank j from mv lip ! 1 owe thee ".y support, my health, and my bapi ine s. Without ; thee, what will become of me ?" j We raised a sum of money and gave l it to him; but he could not be consoled, j He mourned for poor Jewel as if it had 1 been a child. By love the little bird had been taught, and by love was it mi&sed and moui ued. A Good Scheme in Schools. In a public school at Waukesha, Wis., an ungraded d partment has for more than two years li ei ma utained with that she should exercise her au- > satisfactory results. Dull, truant, feeble and vicious children are r legated to it f om the other departments--all those, in fact, who are not able to go on with the work of the regular grades. Special methods are adopted in teaching these children, and after a few months in this TUB firmest friendships have been formed iu ^mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the deroest Baffle. Here six of the men took out pencils and scraps of paper and began to jot down names and dates, and, as the cap­ tain observed it, he continued: " But I think the closet miss 1 ever had was about ten years ago, when I commanded the Daylight. One night, along towards the last of November, we were trying to make Buffalo. That was to be our last trip. Well, that was the darkest night I ever saw, and the wind blew great guns. The schooner climbed mouutaiu high, and then slid down as if she meant to strike bottom, and I thought every plunge would be her last." "And she finally went on her beam ends?" asked one. "Oh, no--she rode as level as a duck." "And didn't she lose her masts?" "Not one. Sho went into Buffalo with everything as taut ss yon please." "Then*whtre was the miss?" asked a petulant voice. # " Why. I come within four seconds of missit^g the midnight train for Detroit!" wns ttye calm reply, as he turned over his q' * ittance of the fortuue her husband had left iu trust for her, fa led. Her handsome wardrobe and jewels , were sacrificed to secure the services df J lawyers and detectives, who received heir ̂ money only to add one more to her 1 >ng list of disappointments. Death tore her. baby from her, and, heart-broken and despairing, with no more means to carry on the search, Bhe gave up and mourned as dead her dear first-born. It is im> possible to describe her sufferings ill those years of mourning. Oulv thoa* who li|tve drained the bitter dregs call understand the misery of the sieeplesS nights, aud the sad, empty days of this poor, lonely mourner. n After many years she returned agsilk to her home and mother, in Ohio. Olfir % day, not long ago, she received fc strangely famil ar letter, bearing a far- distant postmai k, and from it learned that a child, taught iu tbe long ago thai his mother w-as dead, had been turned into the world to oare for himself, when he should have been tenderly nurtured and educated, whi e cruel and treaeher- ' • ous guardians lived in luxury upon his inheritance; and how, through all theaa years his heart had yearned with suoh intensity for a mother's lova. Anil how lis had wandered from pl»-e iu place 11 search of her, though ignorant of her whereabouts, until hope deferred had made his heart sick, aud he, too, had given up in despair; how his young wife • had found in the lining of an old trunk, a letter which she thought gave a new address, and, anxious to satisfy the coo* stant, longing desire of his life, mad# < this one more effort to accomp ish it. If; it were impossible to describe her aot~ row, it were thrice impossible to tell her ioy, or the impatience with which sh*. bad waited till time and circumstance^, through the inedium of a scrap <4 ^ time-woru paper, should bring to hereon brace her long-lonf son. , Public Politeness. I was coming up town, aud entered tUjf^; * J stage in which five elegantly dressed and fine-looking women w> re sitting on eac]^ side of it They might be the lady p%,.?i tronesses of some society. There was room for another person on each side^ ; but not one of those women moved t* • make room for me, and I rode a mile or k more, while these ten women--I do not say ladies--declined to give me a seat, a* they could have done any moment with»,... out rising or crowding. The most at them were probably mothers. But as * ' the instinct of good manners--that is^ s' of politeness, which is simply the law . of kindness--was not in the breast of one of the ten, what is to be expected of their children ? They caunot te tch what ' they do not know, and, as they know4" nothing of politeness, tlwir chi.dreu wiifc J;y§ be boors. , »'•' -* Going to the omnibus again for a sam? , pie cf manners,* I opened the door t$.< step in, the other day, when a boy took ' *1 advantage of my hoi iii g it open, j jumped in and took the ouly vacant seat, " - j tickled that he got the start of me ami got the seat. This was vouug America* * all over. The great Athenian philoso$ pher said that democracy has the found* 1 at ion 111 the principle that one mau is ai good as another, if not a little better. And many wise men have insisted that -i popular govt rmeut tends to destroy reverence for superiors and deference to w -4i others, which are essential elements ol . refined manners. " Iu honor preferring one another," is the inspired religion politeness. It is not one of the highest virtues. It ' • may l»e where tli re is no virtue. Ami t % I do not say the politest nations are the " s « strongest, nor that it is impossible to get * , money, and power, aud all that, with «' the manners of a pig. The very trait of , character which the "gintleman who.. pays the rint" exhibits when ho -v puts his foot into the trough to keepf others away while he eats, is the trait oi 1' I many who succeed in getting ninety money. But there is a better way. Amjfe; ; 3 it is the way that has few walking in it*:. | in this day of ours. ~ J 4;i A Dare-Deril of the Georgia Hautaias* There are few men in Georgia, proba- '* ^ blv, who have given the officers more- trouble than Jack Pugh, and we doubt v jt'1 if any oue has been more successful liv * eluding them. Catch him aud surround^ ;;, ;j|i him as they would, he always managed^ to slide out from under their thumbs.,'[f Long, lank, lean, and wiry, and possess-t ed of unusual activity for one of hiai^ build, he has kept up his dare-devi^, career with the fearlessness of a I order ruffian. Pugh will fight a circular saw, rtr» and has never been afraid to meet the best armed officers, always being ready ^ and on the alert His wife, too, is a> tough customer when on her muscles. 1 Some time ago one Bawls said some­ thing to her about Jack at the hons\, when she took up a board and with true; Amazonian courage cleaned him coin- pletely up, making him bite the dust in v a j'iffv. Pugh says he hasn't slept u .-ide \ of a"house iu three years. If a'l his exploits in evading the law and swindtiug the government were dished up ill dime- " uovel stvle, it would make the hair of the average boy stand wildly on end. Being au illicit distiller of the ardent « - not bis only reputation. He i* said toff?, be a dever counterfeiter.-- Jftm. V ; ' 'ti? •