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ly I J, -M i Hi piy ^rSfc"ff*. >*?•*• ^ f,.>£ ^ jftf ""g flainflealn J , I. WW tLYKE. Editor MNI PMWMIM. MoHENRY, - - ILLINOia OSCAB WxLDX $ays that Writ Whit­ man, the poet, is the greatest man he has met in America. Whitman, he de­ clares, is much more esteemed in En- gland than is Longfellow. A guessing pool at the ootton crop has been started on the .Little Book Ootton and Produce Exchange. Five dollars a guess is to be paid to enter the pool, the ** best gnesser reciving the whole paid in, minus expenses. TEKBX is a young man traveling around in Eastern Texas vaccinating the negroes with beeswax. He charges a ( dollar a vac., represents himself as be­ ing appointed by the United States Gov­ ernment, and threatens that dire penal­ ties await those who refuse to be oper­ ated on. " ' . • - • OHAS. BALL, of West Swanzey, VT, while digging around a cherry-tree in his yard a short time since( brought to light a badly rusted hatchet, which bore on one side the initial letters G. W., and on the other side the figures 1741. \ There is no telling what can't be found in Vermont when you dig for it THERB is an opinion prevalent that young ladies lose their presence of mind under circumstances of peril. This was not the case with a young lady of Buffalo, whose lover took her sleigh riding, and began to propose- just as his horses - started to run with the sleigh. Being determined to have it over with, he got the question out at the moment the sleigh struck a mile-post. The girl was thrown high in the air, but as she came down she uttered a firm " Yes, Charlie," and then fainted. UPO* being informed by a New York Tribune reporter of the passage by both houses of Congress of the bill for her benefit, the widow of the late Abraham Lincoln/ 'pressed herself as very grate­ ful to / Senators who presented her ease in Congress, and said that now she should have an operation performed on her eyes in a short time. Hitherto she has not felt able to incur the expense at­ tending this. In response to the ac- oount of her condition reoently pub­ lished, Mrs. Lincoln has received a check for $250 from a New York mer­ chant, who does no£ wish his name to be made pulbic, to pay for any extra at- tendence she may need. Accompanying the oheck was a letter, in which the giver referred to his gift as sent in the spirit of a son to a loyal mother. drive to Syracuse sad put up at aliotel until arrested by the police, when they profess to believe that kidnapping is a' 'joke." The Princeton students were nilTB IHTEIXI6ENC*. [*re» Dr. r«*V» HMIth Monthly.) AMONG forty-seven thousand dogs • * • ». -i tho pound of New York City fined for their conduct, the- police at- ; during five years past, oaly one was tempted, but failed, to arrest the Will- | *onnd to have hydrophobia. A FOND mother wrote to att enthnsifts- ! bo young lady who had established a physiology class for girl: "Please do | not teach my Mary Ann any note about I her insides. It will never do her no j good, and it'tf rude." IF WB were provided with a sense of and then, in quiet times of peace, emer- acute as many animals possess, ' . .. , , , .. , it would probably be a great aid in diae- gencies spring up which demand the nosig {f*there ^ BOS|e (ike88e4| ^ highest order ot heroism. One of these are accompanied by a definite odor, and • ' ' possibly all are, to some extent iams College students, wliile it is pro­ posed that the law shall deal with the Cornell law breakers as if they were or­ dinary offenders. STAUNTON Valley" ^tirgxnitm : Now Ms. GLADSTONK gave a dinner to his tenants the other day, and was greatly amused by an uninvited guest who quietly entered end took a aeat a£ the head of the table close to the host; some of those present taking him for a tenant, others for a clerk. During din­ ner the stranger drank plenty of wine, handed a letter to Mr. Gladstone, and cheered him to th"? echo. When the dinner was over, us Mr. Gladstone went into the street, this individual tugged at his coat-tail to impede his progress, and was ^rres'ed. The letter began, " My Dear Satan," and was to the ef­ fect th*t the writer, having just oome up from hell, offered Mr. Gladstone his services. "If," he added, "you require brimstone, I can give it you cheap." The letter was signed ""Old Harry." - The man refused to give his name.- • In an interesting letter to the Boston Herald upon Webster's famous 7th of March speech, Mr. Oliver Johnson de­ clares, upon the authority of Joshua R. Giddings, that Webster had prepared an anti-slavery speech in accordance with Northern sentiment The brief of this, in Webster's writing, was placed in Mr. Giddings* hands by George Ash­ man, and he was requested to inform Webster if it would satisfy the anti- slavery sentiment of the North. The brief gave Mr. Giddings the fullest satis­ faction, and he felt no further anxiety as to Webber's position on the great ques­ tion. Mr. Giddings had no positive knowledge by what arguments ana ap­ peals Webster's fixed resolve was over­ come, but he believed that through bis to beoome President he was seduoed to take the Southern side, Sen­ ator Foote, of Mississippi, being the chief negotiator. Those statements were made to Mr. Johnson by Mr. Giddings in the course of a private interview in the spring of 1851 at Salem, Ohio. TV* colleges in this country are con­ ducted on two different theories. The ' older ones, like Harvard, Yale, Prince­ ton, Dartmouth and the like assume that the faculty are the guardians of the pupils, standing in place of their parents and responsible for their personal and moral education, outside as well as in­ side of the class-room and college grounds. The other colleges, like the University of Michigan and Cornell, while not wholly relaxing the paternal authority, do not emphasize it, but are disposed to reduce it to the narrowest limits. Whatever may be the influence of these two theories upon the individual student, the effect upon the collective student floes not differ much. Viola­ tions of civil law occur under both ad­ ministrations about equally, and alike in both colleges the studeDt, when acting in his collective capacity, cannot be dis­ tinguished from any other rowdy. In Princeton he tears sidewalks up and signs down, breaks street lamps and re­ moves gates. In Williams he goes to theatrical and musical entertainments, and with horns and whistles brings them to an ignominious end. In Cornell the Sophomores break into the room of two Freshmen, thrust then into s. haok, emergencies oocurred at Waynesboro on Wednesday of last week. Trains Nos. 22 and 14 and 12 .and 16 on the Chesa­ peake and Ohio road, going east, had or­ ders to meet and pass four sections of extra trains coming west at Blue Bidge. The extras were late, and as a conse­ quence eleven trains were blocked on the main track above Waynesboro awaiting PROFESSOR LEWIS, of Stevens Insti­ tute, lias made four hundred analyses of food and drugs, and found that in all cases of adulteration, excepting one, no poisonous material was employed. In one specimen of pickles copper was found. ^" Dn. Hswurr, of Lake Superior, be­ lieves that diphtheria crisis brought into his family by the house cat It died of their arrival. After three of the extra ; some affection of the throat and glands • • t 9 •_ 1 x a _ 4% < A? %T . J fh A nAnk A«\il wi 4 -H- Lll * _ iV trains bad passed, the first section of No. 14 started out and commenced ascending the heavy grade to the tunnel. Bain and sleet were foiling, and, the engine of No. 14 being unable to draw its cars, the engineer of the train immediately fol­ lowing it, Mr. R. P. Irving, detached his engine from his own train, and coup­ ling on to the rear car of No. 14 aided the ascent. After pushing the first train nearly a half mile and giving it a good start, Mr. Irving reversed his engine and started to return to his own train, but ere he had reached it he saw a detach­ ment of the train coming down the mountain at a rapid rate, it having be­ come uncoupled from the engine. In an instant the intrepid engineer realized the peril of the situation. Thirteen heavily loaded cars were coming down a seventy-five-foot grade, and each revo­ lution of the wheels was adding velocity to their speed. With rare presence of mind and an iron nerve that few men of the neat, and violent diphtheria then attacked two of his children canned the*r death. . NUTMEG® should be need sparingly, for they possess a narcotic property that constitutes them a drug. A lady who was induced to take nutmeg tea by her nurse was made drowsy by it and finally put into a profound stupor resembling that of opium. DR. EMMKT recommends the fat pork, properly prepared, as an excellent sub­ stitute for cod-liver oil. We should our­ selves prefer the cod-liver oil, but, when they can bo digested, flaxseeds carried in the pocket and eaten raw afford a large amount of fatty substance. A SUGGESTION for hoarseness worthy of trial is the use of common liorse-rad- dish prepared in sugar--one part, to nine parts of sugar. A little of this mixture in the mouth, swallowed slowly, gives relief. The remedy (horse-raddish) is not a new one, but, to us, the sugar way of using it seems to be a new and good one. THE St. Louis Miller, the Scientific American, aud the Massachusetts Eclec­ tic Medical Journal endorse onions as paw*., Irving started hi- engine to ^S^'i^xScTcM^'m.de'bJ meet the descending mass and break the force of the collision. He ran up to within a short distance of the oars, and then, reversing to lighten the shock, clutched the lever in his firm grasp, and bracing every nerve in his body awaited the catastrophe. A moment and the crash came. The shock of an avalanche could scarcely have been greater. One of the cars climbed up on the boiler of the engine, and another wa^ wrecked. But the brave man had accomplished his purpose. The wild train was stopped, and the engineer had saved many pre­ cious lives and thousands of dollars' worth of property. Comfort from Bewspapers. Many years ago, in one of the severe winters when there was much hardship among the poor, a city paper suggested that old newspapers, spread over the bed, would form an excellent substitute for blankets and coveilets. This brought upon fee journal a great deal of harmless riflicufeffi^ oth. a-h *»ut it . most every one of OBIT exchanges comfort to many a poor family. In the nave seen a $5ffi Tetnerty Of a Itus matter of bed-clothing, especially, we are apt to associate warmth with weight, and do not consider that there is no warmth in the coverings themselves, but that they merely prevent the heat of the body from passing off. Whatever is a poor conductor of heat will make a warm covering. Paper itself is a poor con­ ductor, but still poorer are the thin lay­ ers of air that are confined when two or three newspapers are laid upon one an­ other. A few newspapers laid over the bed will keep one much warmer than some of the heavy, close-woven blankets. We do not propose newspapers as a sub­ stitute for blankets and oomforters, but it is one of those make-shifts that it is well to know. In traveling one may, by the aid of a few papers, secure a com­ fortable rest in a thinly-clad bed, and if we cannot afford to give a destitute fam­ ily a blanket or a comforter, we may show them how to increase the useful­ ness of their thin coverings by stitch­ ing a few layers of newspapers between them. It may be well to remind those wh» grow window-plants that, by re­ moving them away from the window, and arranging a cover of newspapers over them, they may be preserved from harm in severely cold nights. With the plants, as with ourselves, it is not so- much that cold comes in as that the heat goes off, and oiten a slight protection will prevent the escape of heat--Amer­ ican Agriculturist. The Idol of Hindoo Women. Hindoo girls are taught to think of mar­ riage almost as soon as they can talk ; in­ deed, they are often contracted in mar­ riage at six or seven vears of age, and go to live with their Wsbands at twelve or thirteen. Before this, at the age of five, they are taught to propitate the gods in order to secure a good husband, and their little minds are distracted by the idea of what a model husband ought to be. The orthodox conception is a husband like the god Siva, who was holy, austere, advanced in years, and faithful and devoted to one wife, the goddess Doorga. Good little girls revolt at the idea of a husband marrying a second wife while the first is alive, and will con­ sequently confess their anxiety to marry a faithful spouse like Siva, and they learn from their elders to utter the most vindictive speeches against their rivfel wife. But, for all that, Krishna is the idol of Hindoo women, and he was any­ thing but faithful to one wife. He not only kicked over her milk pans, ran away with the clothes of the milk-maids, but danced and flirted with other men's wives, eloped with royal damsels, and married an infinite number el beautiful women. A Successful Bluff Game. A sneak-thief grabbed the carcass of a lamb that hung on a hook in front of a meat market, and, on finding he was pur­ sued, ran into an plley near by, threw his booty behind a pile of boxes, and boldly turned back. His pursuers met him at the corner. " Where's that lamb?" demanded one. "Whatlamb?" innocently asked the thief. "Why, the one you ran around the corner with a minute ago," explained the one who had taken hold of the stranger. "I'm not the man. You've made a mistake, but I did meet a fellow just now, running like thunder, with a sheep over his shoulders. He turned that cor­ ner there just two minutes ago." " He's our man," exclaimed both, and off they started, leaving the real thief to disappear hastily down the street. The men found the stolen meat, but did not oatoh the thiet--Detroit Fr«* Pre**. boiling down the juice of onions to a syrup, that can ber taken as a medicine, bnt eating freely of well-cooked onions is a good way to obtain their medical effect TOE habit of chewing gum, common among children, is objectionable be­ cause it tends to separate the gums from thebase of the teeth and exposes the sensitive portions of the teeth to the air, makes the teeth prone to decay and, furthermore, induces an unnatural flow of the salival fluids as does smoking and chewing tobacco. A WRITER in the Nineteenth Century says that contagion consists of minute solid particles and not. gaseous inatioiis. If this is trr-.s ra cats understand that a person who breathes only through his nose will be much less likely to catch a contagious disease in a sick-room than would a mouth-breather. Free ventilation, perfect cleanliness and frequent changes of clothes afford the best means of removing the contagious particles given off by siok persons. ANY suggestions from Russia or for­ eign parts seems to have wide circulation whether it is valuable or not. In al- H every one of o«m exchanges we- ' - * ussian feet hearing in one ear, while a still lar­ ger percentage were found not normal; (3) among the children of Well-to-do p t- ents the figures are more favorable than among those of the pom-; (4) the per centage ot defective hearing increases with age ; (5) country schools yield re­ latively better results than city schools. Most of those whose hearing had been ft und abnormal had never been subjected to any treatment, and mauy had no sus­ picion even of their failing, just as in cases of eolor-biindness. Not a few of these children had bA-.n considered and treated as " inattentiveand justice demands that in future every "inatten­ tive " child be examined with reference to its ears.-- Vienna Xeue Freie Presae, JlmrserjTaiet. J IDianarTribaMi) Is the Man in the Big Ooat and Bread Hat? It is a Hack Driver. What is a Hack-Driver. He frequently is a Reformed Train-Robber. He does not rob Trains any more, but he robs poor young men who are too Full to Walk Home at Night. Does the Hack-Driver Drink? Yes, whenever he is Invited. He will also Smoke one of your Cigars if you will Urge him. Will the Hack- Driver stop the Hack at the Corner and let you Walk the Rest of the Way to the House so that yon may Tell your Wife that you walked all the Way Home? He will by a Large Majority. n. Here we have an Oyster. It is going to a' Church Fatr. When it Gets to the Fair, it will Swim around in a big Kettle of Warm Water. A Lady will Stir it with a Spoon, and Sell the Warm Water for Two Bits a pint Then the Oyster will Move on to the next Fair. In this way the Oyster will visit all the Church Fairs in town, and Bring a great many Dollars into the Treasury. The Oyster goes a great W»y is a Good Cause. * nt Is this a Locomotive Head-light? No. Then it must be a Drug Store Illumin­ ated. No, it is a man's Nose. What a ) funny Nose it is. It looks like a Bon­ fire. Half a dozen such Noses would make a Gaudy Fourth of July Celebra­ tion. It is too bud that such a lovely- tinted Nose should have such a Homely Man Behind it. The Nose has eo^t the Man a great Deal of Borrowed Money. If it were not for the Nose a great many Breweries would Close and a great many Distilleries would Suspend. If the Man drinks too much Water, his Nose will lose its Color. He must be careful about this. How man? such Noses would it Take to make a Rainbow half a Mile long? Ask the Man to let you Light your Cigar by his Nose. IT. This is a Contribution Plate. It has just been Handed around. What is there upon it? Now Count very Slow or you will make a Mistake. Four Buttons, one Nickel, a Blue Cnip, and one Speo- tacle Glass. Yes, that is Right -What will be done with all these Nice Tilings? They will be sent to Foreign Countries for iuo good oi lite poor ll«iuwSS. uu« the poor Heathens will Bejoiea ̂ •. 1 it; Here is a Man who has just stopped his Paper. What a Miserable looking Creature he is. He'looks as if he had been stealing sheep. How will he know what is going on, now that he has Stopped his Paper? He will Borrow his Neighbor's Paper. One of these Days he will Break his leg, or l&a Candidate apothecary quoted as follows: Salicylic acid, thirty parts ; extract of cannabis indicus, five parts; collodion, 240 parts. It is to be appied by means of a camel's hair-pencil. There can l>e no harm in trying it, but we don't believe we should Car OAs* nothing nMtotK' ing him just Right, Children? TL This man is a School Teacher, going to Sit Down in the Chair. is a Bent Pin in the Chair and He is There it will lose many dollars if we were to offer to | Bite the School Teacher. The School pay one dollar to every reported case of cure bar it An Excltlag Melodrama* [Clncinnab Enquirer.] The fifth ast was lively. The stage showed the interior of a barn. There were two apartments on the lower floor, and a hay loft above. The hero came into one room, drank out of a bottle, and had delirium tremens. The actor suf­ fered dreadfully. He saw hideous beasts, lie wres tied with himself in the straw, he described a cemetery of open graves, he told about his supposed dead daughter, and altogether he made' it as unpleasant as possible for himself and the audience. "Merciful heavens!" he cried, when the paroxysm was over, and he fell asleep. Then the wife dashed into the other room with the daughter. She expressed, emotion as the freezing, hungry, de­ spairing mother dashed to and fro, flinging her arms wildly about, and rat­ tling in the circumscribed space like a pea in a pod. At length she took the little girl up a ladder to the loft to get warm in the straw, and was down again in a jiffy. As an acrobatic performance it hat! merit "Merciful heavens!" she -cried, end darted out into the storm to searoh for her husband. Then came a prayer by the little giri There was the child praying above, un- 3onscious of the besotted parent wallow­ ing in the straw below. The hero wok;e in mental and physical tarturd. He wished to die, "Merciful heavens!" he cried. His eyes fell on a halter. He would hang himself. He tied the rope around a beam overhead, climbed on a manger and adjusted the noose. The horritied child implored him to stop, but he thought her voice was imaginary, and did not heed it. He leaped from the manger, the noose seemed to tighten round his neck, he made wry faces indi­ cative of strangulation, and stifled ex­ clamation by women in the auditorium denoted,that they were thrilled. The child made an outcry and racket, and at length found an ax, which had been left in the loft to chop hay. She ought to have used it to cut to the rope, and thus rescue her father. She hacked away vigorously, but without severing a strand. The hanging hero made fresh grimaces, drew up his legs, straightened them out, quivered, and did all he could think of to fill out the time. But still the ax didn't cut. I heard excited words from the author, as he suffered in the prompter's corner. Eventually the actor reached up and deliberately untied him­ self; and a roar of laughter by the audi­ ence drowned the voices of the charac­ ters as tfiey crowded into the stable to close the play. Defective Hearing in Children. Di. Weil, of Stuttgart, has during the last year examined 4,500 school-children in reference to their hearing. The ex­ amination, which included boys and girls of all social classes, yielded the following results; (1) A normal ear Teacher is a very Able Man, and he will find it out as soon as the Bent Pin Tack­ les him. Will the School Teacher rise again? We should Smile. But the School Teacher TUII not Smile. He will Play a Sonata with the Ferrule on the Boy's Back. The boy put the Bent Pin in the Chair. He is trying to be a Hu­ morist When the School Teacher gets Throiuh with him the Boy will eat his meals from the Mantel-Pieoe for a week. VII. The Dog looks Sick. He has been Celebrating the Fourth of July. There is a bunch ot Fire Crackers tied to his Tail; also a tin Dipper. The Dipper does not Seem to Bother him as much as the Fire Crackers. He is Wishing it was Christmas. We fear he la not a Patriotic Dog. ̂ The Reason Snakes are Long. •"Do you see that fellow up there?" said Mr. Rivers, pointing to a huge red snake, some ten feet long and two inches thick, of the kind known as the gopher snake. "I'd rather have that fellow on my farm--if I had a farm--than ten dol­ lars. You would be astonished at the amr unt of vermin, of all kinds, they can get away with--gophers, rabbits, squir­ rels, birds--^anything in fact, that he is big enough to get himself outside of, and that means a good deal, although vou might not think it to look at him. You are aware, I suppose, of the peculiar construction of the lower jaw. It can be unhinged, so to speak, and then the snake is nothing more than a long sack with the mouth open. I have watched one of them stow away a squirrel--long tail and all--without making any bones about it. He commenced at the head and slowly drew the squirrel in bit by bit, his teeth and jaws working on the animal somewhat as a man draws in a rope hand over hand. Finally the body was safely housed and then only the tail remained; that slipped down in the twinkling of an eye. I never realized till then why snakes were made so long it is to make room for the inconvenient tails of other animals predestined to be snake meat. In an improved state of existence, when the tails have been evo- lntionized off the backs-of the other ani­ mals, probably snakes will be cut short- The Tramp. [Ingcrsoll.] I sympathise with the wanderer, with the vagrant out of employment, with the sad and weary men who are seeking for work. When I see one of these men, poor and friendless--no matter how bad he is, I think that somebody loved him once--that he once had a mother--that he slept beneath her loving eyes and wakened in the light of her smile. I see him in the cradle, listening to lullabies sung soft and low, and his little face is dimpled as though by the rosy fingers of jok And then I think of the strange and winding paths--the weary road he has traveled, from that mother's arms to vagrancy and want AM English meohanio has Invented a D _ _ , v , i horseshoe composed of three thicknessea can in a quiet neighborhood hear whis- ! of oowhidt compressed into a steel mold pering of ordinary loudness at a distance ! ana subjected to a chemical preparation, of twenty to twenty-five metres ; (2) de-' " " "* fecta of hearing are exceedingly common in the public schools 30 per cent of the children were Umad to h**e~imper- It will iastlonger than the common shoe, weighs only one-fourth as much, does not split the hoofs, requires no calks TBI FROWLTI11 "HTLUCTW.^ The theory of the Republican doc­ trine of protection is very simple. Ita purpose is to foster home industry, to create A demand for home labor and to insure fair wages for honest work. No nation can be really independent that is obliged to look outside of itself for what is essential to its life and to the comfort and happiness of its people. The disadvantages under which the South labored during the civil war is a significant illustration. Although it was in some degree benefited by the protective principle, the people of that section never availed themselves, as they might have done, of its stimulating influence, and were, as a consequence, wholly dependent upon sources outside of themselves for many things essential to a vigorous prosecution of the war they forded upon the country. They were crippled at the start because oi this dependence^ and it was a source of weakness to them during the whole of the contest With the North it mm no* mx What­ ever was necessary--munitions and sup­ plies of every eor£ from a cartridge to a cannon, and from a shoe to a chapeau-- were all available, promptly and in superabundance, at our OTO workshops, factories and laboratories. But for this '--the result of the persistent way in which the protective principle had been fostered--not oiily would years have been added to the contest, but the result might have been less satisfactory to our national pride and less gratifying in its practical issuea. The fathers of the Revolution wen Badly crippled beoau->e of their povert/ in all the departments of industry, ancfc the War of 1812 furnished new proof of the embarrassments which are insepar­ able from dependence upon other na­ tions during a struggle with a foreign power. If the United States had been as capable of meeting the exigencies of war as they are to-day, there would have been no War of 1812, or, if there had been, it would have been fought better and would have closed sooner. There is no surer guarantee of perpetual peaoe than abundant preparation for possible war, and no nation has this preparation which has not within itself the ability to produce whatever is necessary to push a war with alacrity and vigor. The United States is thus prepared to-day, and that it is thus prepared is owing to the fact that, under the pro­ tective principle, the needed industries have been fostered and encouraged until they are ready to respond to any demand that may be made upon them,* whether in war or in peace. If the United Statea is respected and feared now more than ever before, it is because it can compel respect, and it can compel respect be - cause it has reached a point in material wealth and in manufacturing resources when we are not dependent upon either the friendship or forbearance of any mo­ tion for what is necessary to enable ua to repel invasion or to vindicate our iin tionai honor. If protection had done no more than this it would deserve to be well though! of by every intelligent statesman and every true patriot in the land. But this national advantage is but an incident The real merit of the principle, and the real reason why it should be tenaciously adhered to is because of the beneficent influence it has exerted upon the proa- peritjy and happiness of the people by on an active^KSaS9^r thus insuring to every man" a fair day's wages for a fair day's service." That the protective principle has wrought out these results is susceptible of demonstration, and it is because the millions of workmen who find abund­ ance of remunerative employment in our thousands of workshops, mills and factories understand the whole subject in its essential rudiments that the free trade and revenue tariff sophistries not only fail to find favor with our intelli­ gent artisans but prove fatal to the po­ litical aspirations of all who assume their championship.--Albany Evening Journal. Davis and the South. " History is philosophy, teaching by example," and one of its manifest les­ sons is the danger of excessive territory to the integrity of a republic. When Rome had conquered the world she jji®* covered that even the consolidated character of its republio was incompe­ tent to control the magnificent distances of her territory, and, under the influ­ ence of private ambition and public cor­ ruption, her Government became con - centiated into a single imperial hand That was not the day of telegraph and railroad with a network of iron nerves, easily connecting the uttermost ends of a continent with the central administration, and therefore the parallel with our Government does not exactly obtain. But in one particular does similarity exist. The especial defect of such an enlarged jurisdiction is the necessary ignorance of one part of the country concerning the habits and ideas of another. En­ grossed with their immediate interests and enterprises, the people have little time to consider the sentiments or prejudices oi those who live hundreds-- or, as with us, thousands---of miles away, and are surprised to discover,upon some unexpected occasion, that tiiey know so little of each othei. This was entirely exemplified in our late struggle, and we find further evidence in a lead­ ing editorial ot the Philadelphia In­ quirer, commenting on the recent speech of the ex-President of the rebel Con­ federacy. That paper quotes these words of Davis : " The cause of secession is not lost, but only sleeping. You have done your duty in the past, and may God spare you to do it in the future should ever the necessity agaiu arise." The Inquirer makes this comment: That Northern men take no stock in Davis, except to pity his stubborn stu­ pidity ; that his talk is " nothing but a voice," and observe that he is only a wreck left by the retreating tide of se­ cession. " He simply denotes a storm that once raged, but which, subsiding, has left him to indicate its tury." There are very many who think with the In­ quirer "that, the South has repudiated its chosen chieftain, and is deaf to liia utterances. Nor is this the only matter in which the Nortft is wofully ignorant of Southern sentiment When Joe Johnston casually connected Davis with the disappearance of the lost Confederate specie, how quickly the Southern press and people defended him and forced Johnston to a retraction ! Davis was not a great man, hardly a great failure, but he surely is not an ar­ rant fool. He knows the South with the sure instinct of his Southern head. He is too wise to speak often, and too wise when he does speak not to say what his audience will appreciate. When he says that the lost cause is not dead but sleep- ingt and that the South expects every man to do his duty when the time comes, it is reasonable to suppose that he means what he says, and that the ap­ plause of the people' means that they agree with him. It is the dangerous fol­ ly of a false security to urge that Davis is a petrified fossil, ignored and repudi­ ated by the South. It is lamentable non­ sense ; it borders upon recklessness to apologize for a sullen soldier who laughs the good-natured excuse to scorn. Davis was a prominent man among eminent men. He is yet sound in mind and body --so far, we mean, as his inner sense goes. Why should not he mean what he says ? Has the South forgotten the lost cause? If so, what mean those move­ ments, parades, memorial days aud the steady increase of military schools, with the military feature in all of them? There is scarcely a Southern youth who has not some military training and does not know the uses of warlike service. Read their school books and see if they are not written by the ghost of the Re­ bellion, walking in arms, with its visor down, on the shadowy platform of the lost cause. The wish is the father of the thought, and we are apt to believe what we most desire. Beside, prosperity and strength incline us of the North to peace and amity. And it may be that Davis does not understand his people as well as the Philadelphia Inquirer, and is mereiy a melancholy old man,, garrulous of the past and " wandering in quest of some­ thing--he knows not what--he cannot find." Perhaps so; but it is at least the part of wisdom to keep our Republican anchors firmly rooted in the firm bed of the Union, and occasionally to let our glasses sweep along the Southern, hor­ izon.--Omaha Republican. ILLDTOVB BKIRV A HKW bank is proposed ' at Streator, THRRB is some prospect of a pressed* glass factory being started in Ottawa* UTICA, La Salle county, feels confi­ dent of glass-works in the spring. STRKATOR claims a total ot monthly pay-rolls of $150,000, to La Salle's $100,000. A RIVER signal station is to be estab­ lished at Peoria, and a signal officer ap­ pointed. THK Burton racing-course and near Streator, forty-four acres, were i the other day for $6,000. A NEW engine for the Peoria MH! Fap- mwgton railroad is the largest locomo­ tive that runs into Peoria. MR. AND MRS. SAMTJBIJ F'ARGO, gf Dixon, lately celebrated the 60th anni­ versary of their marriage. SINCE NOV. 1 Chicago packers lml slaughtered 2,168,000 hogs, against 2,588,000 for the corresponding period last season. MRS. WILIIIAM MILLKR, of Disco, Han­ cock county, soaked her clothing and hair in kerosene, and applied a burning herself to a crisp. A CHICAGO Times reporter interviewed many of the wholesale merchants of city, all of whom reported business bet­ ter than ever before known. THE Chicago bank clearings for lart week foot up a total of $51,506,333.30, being about $8,300,000 more than foe the corresponding week last year. CAPT. ET.IEI/S dog killed forty-two sheep for M. Byrne, near La Salle, and the bill was $208, which has been paid. • -- -- . »• The dog lost his life in the skirmish. Democratic Clerk's Sweet-Scented I Tmt 111 tho Potts trial at Mur- j physboro returned a verdict of not guilty. This was the murder which oc­ curred at Carbondale fair-grounds last fall. A CHICAGO girl mercilessly eowhided a young man for slandering her, and then entered suit against him in the Circuit Court for $10,000 damages for the same cause. JOLIRT papers announce that a rail­ road is to be built to that city from Crown Point, Ind., giving Joliet a seoond outlet to the East, and that the contract for construction has already been let THK internal-revenue collections of the Fifth (Peoria) district for January. 1882, amounted to $1,046,123.15, an in­ crease of $158,970 03 over the corres­ ponding month of 1881. The export shipments for 1882 were 4,182 pack­ ages, containing 393,961 gallons. A SYNDICATE of Chicago capitalists have agreed to erect a new State House in Texas, receiving as compensation tor the work 3.000,000 acres of land. The builder who is to do the work is said to be Matthias Schuell, his bond being signed by John V. and Charles B. Far- well. It is said that the building will cost about §2,000,000, while the land is worth from $3,000,000 to $15,000,000. CHICAGO Journal: " We are receiving statements from Southern Illinois, con- irniuciuig uic tulcgou 'aiuiuC dlZ tress in that region. The fact of DM matter is, no doubt, that in some of the poorer counties and among some of the more shiftless and improvident popula- bouaht for ^on» *bere is much poverty and destitue ^ tion, owing to the shortage of lastyear'a crops, caused by the drought; but this Account. Mr. Adams, the late Democratic Clerk of the House of Representatives, had curious and original ideas of what things Congressmen were entitled to have at public expense. During an examina­ tion of the Clerk's aocount of the dis­ bursements of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives at Wash­ ington, the following fragrant items among a multitude of others almost as sweet-scented were found: Two perfumery cases, bought for a member at $10--£20. Three fans, bought for a member, at $66.50 per dozen--$16.63. Three fans, bought for a member, at $59 per dozen--$14.75, Three fans, bought for a member, at $39 per dozen--$9.75. Two necessaries, bonght for a mem­ ber, at $18 per dozen--$ 5. Six toothpicks, bought for a member, at $56.34 per dozen--$28.17. Two fourteen-carat charm magic pen­ cils, bought for a member, at $183.60 per dozen--$30.60. Six silver-egg pencils, bought fbr a member, at $36 per dozen--$18. Two bottles of cologne, bought for a member, at $1--$2. knives, bousht- for a member-- $109.67. Three card oases, bought for a mem­ ber, at $41.33 per dozen--$10.3$. Two handkerchief boxes, bought for a member, at $9 per dozen--$1.50 One odor-case and vases, a member--$12.85. One fine opera-glass, bought for a member--$40. • One hair-brush $1, and ease $17, bought for a member--#18 kMeea 111 Administration and ON fltotft. An Associated Press telegram from Washington says: " The indications are that the administration believes in the policy of putting Federal offices where they will do the most good for the party. None but Republicans in good standing are getting appointments now, even to minor postoffioes. From every Southern State there is a small clique of Republicans here manipulating the appointments for those States respectively, with the exception of Virginia, and Mahone's influence with the administration is too potent for any Republican to compete successfully wiUi him. Indeed, Mahone's influence is not confined to Virginia. Stalwart Re­ publicans from other Southern States ore glad to have his assistance in their efforts to get offloe. The Presi­ dent seems to be very much im­ pressed with the organization of a Liberal or anti-Bourbon party in the South; and office-seekers from that section are all advocates of that policy. It is the purpose of the Republican party to make coalitions wherever they can to advantage in the approaching Congres­ sional elections in the South, and the administration favors this plan. They expect to in this way offset Democratio gains in the North. Boarbonlsm in Georgia. A correspondent of the New York Time* has had an interview with the Hon. Jonathan Norcross, who was the last Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia, upon political prospects in that State. Mr. Norcross was firmly of belief that the Republicans would plant themselves upon the Felton platform, and that it would command the support of the Independent Democrats, because the latter have become convinced that the Bourbons are not only acting against the best interests of the people, but also against the material interests of the State, as was shown by their refusal to encourage the recent great Cotton Ex­ position at Atlanta. One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the declaration of Mr. Norcross that, the Bourbons have everywhere declared never to offer nor give an office to a col­ ored man if they can help ife, the Repub­ licans and Independents have ceased to hold out promises of office to colored men for their votes, telling them at all times that merit and capacity can alone furnish the necessary passports to posi­ tions of honor and trust" The negroes have come to understand this, and are now working heartily with the Repub­ licans and the Independents to contrive some method of preventing the Bourbon* from cheating them out of their votes. MM LCOT HOOPS* writes to Sam­ per's Bazar that there are three classes of women in Paris who dress a great deal --the mondaines, the demi-moudaines and the actresses. The working people and the wives of the tradesmen have a certain garb to which they adhere al­ ways. The old Catholic nobility wear the plainest clothing; in fact, it is al­ most mean. It was first adopted aa a rebuke to the wild extravagance of the Second Empire, and continued from eco­ nomical and political reasons. THS touchstone by which men ftry m ia moat often their own -- Btate of things is probably exceptional." A RECENT telegram from Springfield says: "While small-pox cases continu- lo ba reported occasional!}' from differ- of '* believed to be either"fia or entirely stamped c easy to communicate this disease that it is liable to appear at any time in unpro­ tected localities, where vaccination has not been general, and the authorities do not want to be * too previous' in pro­ nouncing the danger over. The returns received by the State Board of Health show that an immense amount oi work has been done as the result of the school- vaccination order of the hoard. This order has been complied with quite gen­ erally throughout the State, and under it probably 500,000 persons have been vaccinated. It is noticeable in* the re­ turns that the work of vaccination has been very thorough in all the localities near which small-pox has appeared, but in those supposed to be remote from danger the protection has not been so thorough. It is at such points that the disease will hereafter appear, if at any." Talk Correctly. Probably there is not an in common use, from a pencil to a piano, which is used so iiaperfectly as language. , You were well taught here, and most of you have been using the English you learned for some time since you gradu­ ated. But, if you will let me be plain, I suspect that it would be sale to offer a gold medal as a prize to every young lady here who will not before iw-morrow night utter some sentence that cannot be parsed; will put no singulars or plurals into forbidding connections; will drop no participles, double no negatives, mix no metaphors, tangle no parentheses, begin no statement two or three times over without finishing it, and not once con­ struct a proposition after this manner: "When a person talks like that, they ought to be ashamed of it." We all repeat and perpetuate conven­ tional blunders and hereditary soleciams without once applying the study of four or five years in syntax and coajugatkm to our current speech. Where is the re­ form to begin ? I say emphatically, set about grammatic correctness* first of alL Watch yourself. Criticise yourself. Be intolerant with yourself. Get some house­ mate to expose you. Say over the thing correctly till the mistake is made impos­ sible. It would be no more discredit- able to your training to finish a picture while ! out of drawing, or to misspell the name of one of our Territories, or to mistrans­ late a line of Virgil, or to flat in musifl^ , than to confound the parts oi speech in a morning call. Nothing is to be said of slang. If I were to exhort those who are here <m that matter, it should be only to forbear­ ance, in that they are obliged to hear it from their ill-bred acquaintances. "Awful handsome"and "honridnioe"and "jolly sunset," and all that pitiful iMalect, coming of weak heads ana early negleot, we shall have to bear with till select and high-toned schools have chastened the manners, and elevated the spirit of the better conditioned classes; and through them, the improved standard will work its way outward and downward into the ; public schoola and the homes of the : people, Unexpected hyperbole is often witty; but nonesense is not, nor an stale repetitions of nonsense. An ill-natured baeheior shamefully ». porta that he has entered in hiadMiyn thousand actaps of talk of yovng womea overheard in the strseta and 1MMN% of which seven hundred and eighty bsietai with "Say® I," or "Save k*aid * - hundred and twenty contain tae Mixtions "just splendid," "stook »p," " perfectly lovely. "--JWafcay Ehmi* ** i f " " '