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H**"- ju ̂ I • ill j;r cnm >» Itatudcaln I. VAN SLYKE. Editor ami Publisher. McHENBY, vfc" -- ILLINOIS. CLAREUCE BABTON, the Washington editor who figured in the Soteldo afl'air, is a nephew of Barton Key, whom Gen. Sickles killed many years ago. WHVN Gen. GordoifJ of Georgia, re­ signed from the Senate to better his fortunes, he went into Southern railway speculations, and has already realised a large fortune. THI last report from the Bender fam­ ily places the old man in the mountains of Oregon! He must be tired of that country, and the next report should land him down among the pines of North Carolina. 1 SBNATOB HBHXT G. DATB, of West Virginia, was in early life first a railroad brakeman and Inter a conductor. He started a small private banking estab­ lishment at Piedmont, W. Va., and from that has grown the national bank of which he is President, He is now a millionaire. THKBB is a great demand for the re­ port of Guiteau's trial. It was taken by the official reporters at a cost of several thousand dollars. A resolution is pend­ ing in the House Printing Committee to have printed 5,000 copies for distribu­ tion. The reporters, however, want, in addition to their pay for the work, to have f, monopoly of the publication, and are usjpg their influence to keep the resolution from passing. partment alooe or when there is only cms other ¥ ! A. TOUNO New York farmer fell in love with a pretty young woman who came to make a visit in his town, wooed and won her, insisting upon the marriage at once, to which she consented. A num­ ber of guests were invited, the two were married, all the young men in the neigh­ borhood insisting upon kissing the bride, which made the new bridegroom very indignant indeed. She made her escape at once into an adjoining room, and the bridegroom has not seen her since--at least he lias not been able to recognize her. In faetr she was a smooth-faced boy, and the courtship, wedding and all were the "make-up" of what his comrades were pleased to call a practical joke. ACCIDENTAL rich finds of gold still oc­ cur in California. Some men who were reoently walking along the road on Fray's flat, in E. dorado county, notioed • piece of quartz which had been crushed by a wagon running over it. The specimen was found to contain con­ siderable gold, and the party making farther explorations came upon a pocket" from which they took in one day what was estimated at from $11,000 to $13,000 worth of gold. • LouisviiiiiB widower, having taken a Sunday afternoon's walk with a young girl, pas joked about it afterward and showed that he liked the teasing. Soon after she brought a suit against him%r $15,000, and, being an old skinflint, prominent lawyers who volunteered their services, together with popular prejudice against him, obiaiued a ver»" diet of $15,000 in her favor, for, as he said when he paid it, " one Sunday af­ ternoon's walk." MBS. DORRIS, who was recently stran­ gled to death and robbed near St. Louis by her grandson, Russell Brown, and a oompanion, left an estate valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Among the befteficiaries of the will is Bussell Brown, who is remembered by a bequest which will n alize several thousand dol­ lars. Brown has employed the leading criminal lawyers of the city, and the money he receives from the aged rela­ tive whom he murdered will go to pay fat his defense. THE prizes won by Vermont boys last year in competition for the awards of­ fered by the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College have been declared. Twenty-five young farmers obtained yields of over eighty bushels of corn and over 250 bushels of potatoes to ihe acre, and the yields range from these figures up to the really remarka­ ble ones of 127 bushels of corn and 552 bushels of potatoes to the acre ! The latter result, at the prices obtained for potatoes last fall, would represent a re­ turn of over $300 per acre. FOB years the money-drawer of an inn near Philadelphia has been continually pillaged in some mysterious manner. Until a few days ago not a singie .thief had ever been caught, though many a bartender has been suspected and dis­ charged. vLast we^k, while workmen were repaifiiig^thfe floo^of the second story they exposed to light&nd air the nests of half-a-dozen rats, made soft and comfortable by fragments of t/ank notes and fractional currency. supposed that $1,000 was stolen, but only $1.25 is now fit to resume its place as a part 01 the circulating medium. NEW YOBK dry-goods merchants com­ plain that their trade is being damaged by the ^sthetic movement. They of the " Inner Brotherhood" care only for odd tints, and have no regard for the quality of the material. A dirty red or green- ery-vallery color appeals to their dam­ aged minds in a way that silks and rich goods of the fashionable colors cannot. The modistes say also that the aesthetic style is not a profitable one for them, and that it cramps their inventive pow­ ers. The merchants and modistes may rest content. Fashion and vanity will soon biing the limp disciples bickto their doors. THE London Truth is moved, to say that the thefts, murders and outrages in the English compartment cars are in­ creasing, and there seems no remedy against them short of the adoption of the American style of car. A murderer might, he pays, in nine cases out of ten, escape by jumping out as the train is slackening speed. Had Lefrov done so, it is doubtful if Gold's murderer would have been discovered. A correspondent says that a few days before he was in a oompartment car with another man they both watched each other as though the other was a cut-throat, for they had .no assurance that such was not the case. Every time either put his hand into his pocket, the other stood ready to throttle i&n. No one dares to get into m com- MARTIN F. GONWAY, an ex-member of Congress, died recently at the Govern­ ment Hospital for the Insane, at Wash­ ington, in the 53d year of his age. He was born in Charleston, S. C., and when 14 years old went to Baltimore, where he became a printer. He was one of the founders of the National Typograph­ ical Union. In 1854 he moved to Kan­ sas, where he became a member of the Legislative Council. He was chosen as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court under the Topeka constitution. He was also President of the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention in 1856, and in 1860 was elected to Congress as a Republican. He subsequently settled in Washington, D. C. A MOST rem >rkable surgical operation has been performed by Dr. William Goodell, of the Philadelphia University Hospital. This was the successful re­ moval of a tumor weighing 112 pounds from the person of a woman; The Phil­ adelphia Ttmcs, which gives a descrip­ tion of the operation, says that the woman was about five feet and five inches in height, and that, owing to an ovarian tumor, she measured quite as much in girth. The tumor made its ap­ pearance about nine years ago, and grew with amazing rapidity. For some time the woman had been unable to as­ sume any but a sitting posture, and her vitalitv was being slowly and surely sapped. The patient was placed under the inflnence of ether, and the operation safely performed in the presence of thirty attending physicians and sur­ geons. When the mass had been com­ pletely taken from her person. it was placed in a tub of the largest siae, and tilled the vessel to within three inches of the top. The tumor was weighed and turned the scales, as has been said, at 112 pounds. It is believed to be the largest ever removed from a human be­ ing. Subsequently the patient, now re­ duced to a mere skeleton, was gently placed on the scales, and found to weigh seventy-five pounds, or thirty-seven less than the mass taken, from her body. On recovering consciousness the patient could hardly find language to express the sense of relief she experienced. The absence of the weight that had beqn a burden to her for so many years wAs ro novel and pleasant that she was compar­ atively buoyant in spirit. WHBN a " critic " begins to gush there is no stopping him. For example, take this "masterpiece of criticism" upon Patti, from the Cincinnati Commercial: She could not have been painted by any artist whatever. She stood there be­ yond the brush of even Bounat; she stood there, not only the artist without a peer, she stood there art embodied-- she was art. The first effect of her pres­ ence was so dazzling that people held their breath ; they knew that bhe dazed them, but did not at all know why. In her ears and around her neck she wore diamonds, and each one of these stones would have made the dower of a Prin­ cess, the ransom of a King. They flashed and flashed until around her face played the exquisite tints of the rain­ bow ; the necklace looked like an aure­ ole dropped from the head weary of its weight of glory; yet the aureole seemed not content to be thus placed, but sent its lines of light to encircle the head above that needed no longer to wear a crown. All other faces would have grown into almost indistinctness thus lighted with the rainbow flashes of the diamonds, but not Patti's. Bright as were the jewels, they were not brighter than her dark eyes; dazzling as were their flashes, her face gave out glories as brilliant. It was not until the graceful salutations she gave to every part of the house--to the box on the right she gave her first bow--not until her arms were raised that'any eye was taken from her face, set as it was in the glorious light of the flashing jewels; then her arms flashed flames like electric fire; they were the diamonds that in that light and with the motion gave another kind of brilliant setting to the shapely arms. Then, perhaps, the eyes wandered to the dress she wore. The Secret of Advertising. Some merchants use but very little judgment in advertising. So long as they have an " ad." in some pap<jr, and paying for it, they thiuk it is sufficient, and trust to luck for the consequences. They bliut their eyes and discharge their gun in the air, and wait for the game to drop. They are for duck and get crow. Advertising requires as much good judgment as any other part of a mer­ chant's business. Judicious advertising always pays. There are some business men who seldom advertise, and they are always complaining about their trade. They treat advertising as the impro­ vident, shiftless persons do roofs. When the sun shines they do not need patch­ ing; and when it rains they can not patch them. When trade is fair, they see no need of advertising; and when trade is dull they say they can not afford to advertise. Moral: Repair a leaky roof when it is fair weafchel, and adver­ tise in all seasons. Advertising pays all parties interested better than any other oommeBeial investment THE FAMILY DOCTORS iNoanom iob tmaowoiEa. Nearly every one knows what to do iq ease of injury or sudden sickness, but it often happens that uhder Ihe excitement attending such circumstances they be­ come confused and forget all they know about it. The following suggestions might be pasted up on the inside of the closet or book-case door, where they could be ra'erred to promptly: For stomach cramps ginger ale, or a half-teaspoonful of the tincture of gin- gor iu a half-glass of water, in which a half-teaspoonful of soda has been dis­ solved. Swallowing saliva often relieves soar stomach. Hot, dry flannel, applied as hot as possible, for neuralgia. Whoop ng oough paroxysms an re­ lieved by breathing the fumes of tur­ pentine er carbolic acid. For cold in the head nothing is better than powdered bocax snuffed up the nostrils. A fctrong solution of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda;, taken frequently, is a reliable remedy tor diarrheal troubles, particularly those arising from acidity of the stomach. A standing antidote for poison by dew, poison-oak, ivy, etc., is to take a hand­ ful of quieklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Throe or four applications will never fail to cure the most aggravated cases. If children do not thrive well on fresh milk, it should be boiled. Sowdered resin is the best thing to stop bleeding from cuts. After the powder is sprinkled on, wrap the wound with a soft cotton cloth. As soou as the wound begins to feel feverish, keep the cloth wet with cold water. For burns, sweet oil and cotton are the standard remedies. If they are not at hand, sprinkle the burned part with flour, and wrap loosely with a soft cloth. Don't remove the dressing until the in­ flammation subside*, as it will treak the new skin that is forming. For nose bleeding, bathe the faoe and neck with cold water. If the artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief tightly at>ove it. For bilious colic, soda aud ginger in hot water. It may be taken freely. Broken limbs should be placed in natural jH>sitions, and the patient kept quiet until the surgeon arrives. Nervous spasms are usually relieved by a little salt taken into tue mouth and allowed to dissolve. Hemorrhages of the lungs or stomach are promptly checked by small dottes of salt. The patient should be kept as quiet as possible. Sleeplessness caused by too much blood in the head may be overcome by applying a cioth wet with cold water to the back of the neck. ^ For pains in the chest or stomach as much Dover's powder as will lie on a silver 5-cent piece. Wind colic is promptly relieved by peppermint essence taken in a little warm water. For small children it may be sweetened. Paregoric is also good. Chlorate of potash dissolved in water is a standard remedy for sore throat, particularly if the throat feels raw. Tickling in the throat is best relieved by a gargle of salt and water. Indigestion is the proido cause of col­ ics, diarrhea, hea i,«ches, constipation a*d many diseases of the bladder. Food that is not digested ferments and be­ comes powerful acid, causing irritation •ml -wbf mrer it»enohrfc Many fevers are caused by it. Pepsin is the best remedy, it taken immediately after eating. If pepsin is not taken, the acidity should be controlled by bicarbon­ ate of soda or potash. Sickness of the stomach is most promptly relieved by drinking a teacup- ful of hot soda aud water. If it brings the offending matter up all the better. A teaspoonful of ground mustard in a cup of warm water is a prompt and re­ liable emetic and should be resorted to in cases of poisoning or cramps of the Btomach from overeating. Pains in the side are most promptly relieved by the application of mustard. Sprains and bruises call for an appli­ cation of the tincture of arnica. Avoid purgatives and strong physics, as they not only do no good, but are positively hurtful. Pills may relieve for the time, but they seldom cure. The pill-taker's latter eud is always worse than his first condition. Stomach bit­ ters are a snare, and only create a desire for stimulants. Eat only such things as agree with you, and not too much at a time. By heeding the warnings of your stomacn many doctor's bills, may be avoided. Shun feasts and big feeds. Give ehil» dren plenty of milk and bread, graham or oatmeal crackers, and good ripe fruit. They will not oniy thrive on this diet, but keep healthy. In every house there should be a little nook in which a few simple remedies are kept. Among them should be ex­ tract of ginger, Dover's powder, pepper­ mint, chlorate of potash, bicarbonate of soda, sweet oil, paregoric, camphor, ar­ nica, a bottle of pure whisky, cotton, old muslin for bandages, some sticking- plaster, a box of ground mustard and some ready-made mustard plasters. Always strike alight when you go to get any of these in the dark, and be sure you have the right one. An observance of these suggestions will pay well for the trouble. Old-Time Sleighing Parties. There is a vast difference between the sleighing parties of to-day and the sleighing parties of old times. Then they had but one sleigh. It was a square box*, very heavy, and the back of the sleigh was higher than the head when seated, over which a coverlet was thrown. The sleigh was so heavy that two horses were required to draw it. The sleighs •were nil painted yellow aud were called the "family sleigh." They would not accommodate more than two persons. Then they frequently had good sleigh­ ing for a couple of months, and sleigh­ ing parties were the order of the clay. The farm wagon-body was placed on the runners of the wood-sled, a lot of straw was put on the bottom, and the young men and women seated themselves on the straw. The fiddler always accom­ panied the party. They would drive to some tavern, (there were no hotels then) when the first thing in order was to get a glass of "flip." Flip was simply cream beer, which was served up in large mugs. Every landlord had an iron rod about two feet long, with a ball on the end about the size of a walnut, which was heated r^dhot and runin every glass of beer, which heated it and made it foam. This was called "flip." After drinking flip the music struck up and there was a dance, and those who did not desire to dance played games of different kinds. The Judge's Philosophy. A certain, circuit Judge was always sore of meeting some cutting or sneer­ ing remark from a self-conceited lawyer when lie came to a certain town in his rounds. This was repeated one day at dinner, when a gentleman present said : 44 Judge, why don't you squelch that fellow ?" The Judjge, dropping his knife and fork and placing his chin upon his hands and his elbows on the table, re­ marked : " Up in our town a woman has a yaller dog that, whenever the moon shines, goes out upon the stoop and harks and barks away at it all night." Stopping abort, he quietly resumed eat­ ing. After waiting some time it was asked: " Well, Judge, what of the dog and the moon?" "Oh, the moon kept right on," he said--Troy Times. German EmigratiM. There is abundant reason why these people should come to us, and very little why they should remain where they are. l'htre is no doubt that, one and all of them have a natural attachment for the land in which they have been born and reared, or that they will shake the dust of Germany off their feet with many and bitter regrets ; for the Germans are not only a home-keeping people, but patriot­ ism is a very vital force with them. But if they are patriotic they are also prac­ tical, and if Germany makes life harder than it i eed be, and new careers can be secured elsewhere under better auspices, her children will smother their com­ punctious now as aforetimes, and will go where they can have a living chance for themselves and for tli^ir children. The kind of government to which they have been subjected from time immemo­ rial has always pressed heavily upon the Germans of all classes in life, but especially upon the commonalty, and it would seem that the present Imperial system presse* rather harder than any other kind of government. That the Germ ans do not need to be ruled with a particularly heavy hand our experience with them abundantly proves. We have no more industrious, frugal, law-abiding, orderly, and useful class of foreigu-born citizens than those which come to us from the land where Bismarck's policy of iron aud blood apparently render l fe scarcely worth having. It is the con- sorip'ion that these Mrigrants who are hurrying to our shores are chiefly flying from, and if they keep hurrying at the present rate, it w.ll soon become a ques­ tion with the powers that be whether something must not be done to modify the system which conip^ Is so large a portion of the male population to pass the best years of their lives uuder arms, or else to check emigration. It certainly eeems feasible to devise some method of preventing the military service from being the bugaboo that it now u, while maintaining the military establishment at its proper strength for the meeting of oertain contingencies which are exceed­ ingly likely to occur in the near future. These contingencies would not have their present importance had the men at the head of German affairs refrained from pushiug their enemies of 1870 and 1871 to the wall, but they could not re­ sist the temptation to humiliate the French to the uttermost, and now they are paying the very dearest possible price for their lack of generosity and stat es­ manlike forcast. The modification of the military system, however, so as to give the yonng men of Germany some kind of reasonable pretext for staying at home instead ot liying to America, does not seem to occur to the riders of Ger­ many; while they have l>een cudgelling their brains for a good while pant to pat some check on emigration. In this, how­ ever, they have thus far had little or no success, and are not likely to have ex­ cept by the adoption of stringeut meas­ ures such as even so %Jd atid unscrupu­ lous a man as Bismarcdtwould be apt to luwiUU uhnut £- the tide of emigrati >n is steadily and with increasing force setting America- ward, and we are receiving accessions to our population which we can well afford to heartily welcome, and which are oer­ tain to add materially to our wealth and our strength.--Philadelphia Telegraph. What a Woman fan Do. As a wife and mother, woman can make the fortune and happiness of her husbiind aud children; and, if she did nothing else, surely this would be sr.fti- cievit destiny. By her thrift, prudence, aud tact, she can secure to her partner aud to herself a competence in old age, no matter how small their beginning, or how adverse a late may be theirs. By her cheerfulness she ean restore her hus­ band's spirit, shaken by the anxiety of business. By her tender care she can often restore him to health, if disease has overtasked his powers. By her counsel and love she can win him from bad company, if temptation in an evil hour has led him astray. By her exam­ ple, her precepts, aud her sex's iusight into character, she cau mould her child­ ren, however adverse their dispositions, into noble men and women. Aud, by leading in all thiug a true and beautiful life, she can refine, elevate, and spit itu- alize all who come within reach; so that, with others of her sex emulating and as­ sisting her, she can do more to regener­ ate the world than all the statesmen or reformers that ever legislated. She can do much, al*s! perhaps more, to degrade man if she chooses to do it. Who can estimate the (evils that woman has the power to do ? As a wife can she ruin herself by extravagance, folly, or want of affection. Site can make a de­ mon or an outcast of a man who might otherwise become a good member of so­ ciety. She can bring; bickering, strife, and discord into whathos been a happy- home. She can change the innocent babes into vile men ind even into vile women. She can low^r the moral tone of society itself, and tjius pollute legis­ lation at the spring head. She can, in fine, become an instalment of evil in­ stead of an angel of good. Instead of making flowers of truth, purity, beauty and spirituality spring up in her f.x>tsteps, till the earth smiles with a loveliuess tiat is almost celestial she can transform it to a black and arid desert, covered with the scorn of all evil passion and swept by the bitter blast of everlasting death. This is what woman can do for the wrong as well as for the right. Is her mistion a little one?. Has she no worthy woik, ias has become the cry of late? Man may have a hardier task to perform, arougherroad to travel, but he has none Idtier or more influen­ tial than woman's. Moderi Courtship. This is a modrn courtship in a nut­ shell : The lighS were so bright that they seemed garsh, and the parlor of the MoWishes wa» radiant in upholstery of the past decade. Eulalie, the pride of the family, ju;t making preparations for celebrating he nineteenth birthday. Old Bullion makng an evening call. "My dear Miss IcWish. There is in­ deed a disparity n our ages. You have youth and beauty I, years and wealth. But I trust there san be some reciproc­ ity between us?' "Indeed, my dear Mr. Bullion, wealh is not to be despised. Neither is old age--and delicate health." The last clause it an undertone. A kiss that was like tie rattling of an old parchment againt a satin cushion closed that bargain. Ye'll bet the old man outlives her.--Ntv Haven Register A PHILADKLPSA engineer claims to have invented amachine by which the (tower of the titfrow b* utilised. nxtioni im Pratr wants a railroad to Strsator. A SATBBOOK farmer sold a hew weigh­ ing 760 pounds. TH® talk about suic works at Streator is being revived. . THE top-spinning fever has broken out among the boys of Springfield. A TKLEPPONB line to El Paso from Bloomington is talked of. A NATIONAL bank has t)een formed at Streator, with a capital stock of $75,000. THKKE are now pending twelve casee of divorce in the Circuit Cou.tof Cass county. IT is said two new and large distiller­ ies will be bnilt at Peoria during the coming summer. THE Springfield Yonng Men's Chris­ tian Association has 308 members, and its expenses last year were SI ,036. STBKATOB is sued in the Circuit Court by a Mrs. Bo wen for $5,000 She was injured by falling through a de­ fective sidewalk, A MAN in Peru, La Salle oounty, starved his horse to death. The poor dumb brute had been tied in a stable two weeks, and whan found it had eaten its manger and sides of the stall. CHARLES CHADPOCK, of Astoria, Ful­ ton county, has giveu $3,000 toward building a new Methodist church at that place. At least $10,000 will be raised at once, and the best, Methodist church ed­ ifice in Quincy district will be built thin summer. Gaw. MONULTA, of Bloomington, has negotiated a settlement between Harp township land-owners and the railroad bondholders, after eleven years of war­ fare. The railroad oompany agrees to put a depot in Harp township between Clinton and DeWitt stations. DURING the year 1881 31,773 arrests were made by the Chicago police force. Of these, 17,892 were American born, and of the balance^ 13 881, there were 4,700 Irish, 3,8(H) Germans, about 1,400 Canadians, English aud Scotch, 840 Scandinavians; and of other Europeans, about 1,100, of whom 50 per cent were Poles. STREATOR, although a town of up­ ward of 12,000 inhabitants, is as yet in­ corporated as a village. Tnis state of affairs has become very grevious to many prominent citizens of the young city, and a petition has been circulated to bring the matter of ohanging the charter up at the spring electdou. THE Rev. M. Finerty, pastor of a Methodist Episcopal Church at Ma- kena, Will eounty, is under arrest in Chioago. The charge against him is that he attempted to outrage a young lady named May Sheridan. Before being arrested the reverend gentleman was treated to a cowhiding by a female friend of the lady whom he had assaulted. THE Chicago Times says that the well-known merchants, Messrs. John V. and Charles B. Farwell, are about to erect in that aity one of the most mag­ nificent wholesale buildings to be found iu the world. The new bu,!di,ior will cover the entire block bounded by Ad­ ams street on the south, Monroe street on the north, Market street on the east and the river on the west, with a front­ age of 397 feet on Market street, 237 feet on Monroe street, 239 feet on Ad­ ams street anu 398 feet on the river. It will be six stories high, exclusive of a double basement in the rear half and a 14-foot bahemeut iu the Market street side, and will cost &50,000. The inolos- ure will oover an area of 91,5)0 feet, in­ clusive of a court 13,750 feet. Gov. CuiiiiOM has issued writs of elec­ tion to fill the vacancies in the House of Representatives of the General As­ sembly of whii-h he has received official notice, as follows : In the Tenth Sena­ torial district, comprising the counties of Jo Daviess and Stephenson, caused by the death of the Hon. Jos. Moore ; in the Twelith Senatorial district, com­ prising the counties of Ogle and Lee, occasioned by the death of the Hon. John H. White; and in the Forty-third Senatorial district, comprising the comi­ ties of Fayette and Mariou, caused by the death of the Hon. Tilmau Raser. The writs direct the Secretary of State to istue orders of election to the County Clerks of the several counties named, commanding them to cause au election to be held on Tuesday^ March 21, to till said vacancies. It is understood that the Governor will call the Legislature together about March 23 or 24, giving the members about ten days' or two weeks' notice when he has finally fixed the date of the special session. As to what will be included in the call in ad­ dition to the Congressional and Senato­ rial apportionment is as yet unknown. Why the Taxes Are Higher. There are a great many who want to know why the taxes are higher this year than for some years past. One of the persons who is desirous to know the rea­ son has written to Gov. Cullom, and the Governor has given a reply which we print below: EXBOVTIYZ DzPABTmCHT, I BnnoriEU), IU., J*u. 28, IMS. < W. F. Kutmtii, Esq., Sterling, IlL DEAB SIB : Your favor of the 20th inst. is received, inquiring why the rate of State tax for the year 1881 is higher than for 1879 and 1880. In reply I have to say that the last General Assembly (the Thirty-second) authorized to be raised on the assess­ ment of 1881, to meet its appropria­ tions, $850,000 more than was author­ ized to be raised on the assessment of 1880, and $1,550,000 more than was authorized to be raised on the assess­ ment of 1879; but, while the amount authorized to be raised on the assess­ ment of 1881 was so much larger than the amount authorized to be raised on the assessment of 1879, the amount of money actually needed to meet the ap­ propriations made by the Thirty-first General Assembly was about the same as was needed to meet the appropria­ tions made by the Thirty-second General Assembly. The great difference in the levies was occasioned by the fact that, when the Thirty-first General Assembly met in January, 1879, there was in* the State treasury a large surplus of funds de­ rived from the payment of back taxes, principally on railroad property, which was taken into consideration by that General Assembly, and only such an amount was authorized to be raised on the assessment of 1879 as would, with the surplus in the treasury, meet its ap­ propriations payable the first year. When, however, the Thirty-second Gen­ eral Assembly met in January, 1881, there was no surplus of any consequence in the treasury to be thus considered, and that General Assembly had to au­ thorize to be raised on the assessment of 1881 a sum sufficient to meet all its appropriations payable the first year, making of a necessity a much larger levy The appropriations made by any Gen­ eral Assembly, payable from the first year's levy, are always larger than those payable from the second year's levy, for the reason that all extraordinary and deficiency appropriations are paid out of the first year; hence the rate of State tax on the assessment of 1882 will be much smaller than that on the assessment of 1881, perhaps by 12 cents on the $100 valuation of property. The rate of Htute taxation, although seemingly large, is not large when taking into account the immense charitable, educational, penal and reformatory institutions of the State, and of which every citizen may justly feel proud. The following table shows the several amounts appropriated by the Thirty second General Assembly, and for what purposes appropriated : for What Ptcrpom. t*uyab t t'„ffab,e | iuUU from levy frtnn U vg for Two Of 1881. vf 18S2. Ytarn, EdneatimaL Charitable 1a tltu- tlODB. Penal and reforma­ tory __ Legislative depart­ ment Judicial department.. EKVU ive deparuueut Miiita'y " AgTicmtnral and fcati| tieuitural purpoaM, contingent appro­ priation for Canal, Bailroad and Win. house C<imnu8i*ian- CTH. Interest at school fund, sanita­ ry and some email DtiMoellaneouK ap­ propriations . ..... tl,091,0(XI 995,372 385,640 110 «R6 8t)5,0<10 ti7,«47 njn* TOW...., 190,83* $LVJ?7, IUU 163,700 2«,TOO 289,150 301,416 70,080 im,«M WW.1S1 •s.swvns «'yi.-ns $2,168,100 1,643,82 J 440,940 382,366 524,190 4gS.882 192,573 88S,4S7 Xue properly oi luo ouiw u at a very small per cent of its actual value. To illustrate: III 1873 the equalized valuation of all taxable prop­ erty in the State (and which was then conoeded by the State Board of Equali­ zation to be only 70 per cent, of its nctual value) was $1,355,401,317, while in 1S81 the equalized valuation of all taxable property was only $899,813,538. From this it may be seen that, while the property in the State has largely in­ creased in value since 1873, as every one knows, the assessed valuation for taxa­ ble purposes has decreased about 41 per cent. If the equalized valuation of the taxable property for 1881 had been even the same as in 1873 a rate of 23 cents on the $100 valuation would have produced sufficient State revenue. The statementisentirely true that Illi­ nois is out of debt, having no obliga­ tions outstanding except about $20,000 of bonds, which have been called in, but have not yet been presented for pay­ ment. The money is in the treasury with which to pay them whenever they may be presented, and in the m jaati me they do not draw any interest. Very truly yours, S. M. CUOLOK. Lively Time on the Rsllrsai. Some people seem beam with a faculty of raising the ancient mnscu'ine juvenile. They get folks who are minding their own buhiuess and merely want jieace and quiet, into a l sorts of scrapes. The fao- ul;y is peculiarly developed in the com­ mercial tourist usually referred to as a drummer. He's the man who makes love to all the pretty servant girls in the hotels and gets their notions so high that the? »on't notios thA porters, ami |t maki s the latter wantto "slug" the drum­ mers. O ie of this class of gentlemen was at an up-country railway station and discovered, while waiting for a train, a wasp's nest. An idea at once Btruok him. How he achieved the feat without getting hurt we don't know. Probably the wasps were dormant with cold. But at auy rate, he got that nest down and tied it to the tail of a large yellow dog that was fooling rouud the depot The dog started to run and that so stirred up tbe wasps that they sent a courier out to investigate, and as he did so in a manner so disagreeable to the dog that he ouly ran ihe harder and made three wild cir­ cuits of the depot. The train mean­ while came in, aud as trains don't stop at country stations, it was just sturtiug as the dog came round the third time. Wdd with pain, the dog leaped aboard the train and plunged into a crowde*} car, just as the brakeman shut the door. The poor brute got beneath a seat aud tried to curl up. The car was hot and it wound up the wasps and they came out and iu about half a minute the men in that seat jumped up so hard they nearly stove holes in the roof, and the way they clawed at their legs was a cau­ tion. Everybody looked. Then others l ei'ame interested. And the dog started on the run through the car. The wasps went for him and everybody in the oar. A wild scene took place. Men cursed and clawed wildly. Women got up ou the seats and danced--and the dog, which everybody thought to be mall, tore up and down the aisle, howling. The conductor came in, thinking the> people insane. He promptly joined the* show. As the train was flying, folks couldn't jumb oft No mad-house ever saw such a scene. There wss profanity enough to sink a ship, and the brakeman gazing in at the door said it beat any­ thing he ever saw in a variety show. Fin­ ally the conductor stopped the train, folks got out, aud the car was cleared of wasps and dojg. But the passengers didn't get over it. They were an awful mad set, and occasionally after they got started again a man would find a stray wasp in his trousers and rise and yell. They talked of suing the railroad, and if they cou'd have got that drummer his death would have been frightful. But he had gone on a train the other w*y.-- Boston Post The Colors of the Sky. The explanation of the colors of the morning and evening skies is thus stated by Sir John Lubbock in his Pres­ idential address before the British As­ sociation : Tyndall has taught us that the blue of the sky is due to the rejec­ tion of the blue rays by the minute par­ ticles floating in the atmosphere. Now, if from the white light of the sun the blue rays are thus selected, those which are transmitted will be yellow, orange and red. Where the distance is short, the transmitted light will appear yel­ lowish. But as the sun sinks toward the horizon the atmospheric distance increases, and consequently the number of the scattering particles. They weaken in succession the violet, the blue and even disturb the proportions of green. The transmitted light under such cir­ cumstances must pass from yellow through orange to red, and thus, wliile we at noon are admiring the deep blu>' of the sky, the same rays, robbed of their blue, are elsewhere lighting up the evening sky with all the glories ot sun­ set. Ifhese Son Was Het "Papa," said little Harry the other evening, "is your father a gun ?" "Why that a funny question, ray boy. Of course, he is not; he is a man." • "That's what I thought; but last night when young Mr. June, that you don't like, kissed si>ter Mary, over the front gate, she told him to be careful or father wonld hear ; and Mr. June said: • Pshaw, I ain't afraid of that old son of a gun and then they both laughed, and he kissed her again. Ain't that funnv?" The old gentleman was ab­ sorbed in thought, and did not reply.-- StetibenviUe Herald. X H tff. mm AI*» rour. A KAXiowAXi salute Here's to yrmf A CHWA set--A beak on a ptaralsla nest-egg. FuurLnon statural stsad ail of weather. MAXT an unlucky saflor bsa Ml a shark ing fate. ESTHETIC editors have their psstn minis from sun flour now. WokthxiKss checks--Plaid lumw with the seat torn out. Som men are like the BOOB. Thaj get full once in about so o ten. How TO make a barrel of floor • great way--Ship it to Australia THB sun is no invalid, bat it always goes South to spend the winter. ABOUT the last thing a man tKint« OF giving to his girl is a switch, and yet that is often what she needs the most. THE careless man and the thief are equally tronblesome. Neither of them ever leaves anything where he it. WHEN two women are talking togeth- --'it is safe to predict that they are say­ ing evil of a third; when two men, tbat they are saying good of themselves, THB intelligent compositor left.osft the letter d in a paragraph about a beautiful actress, and informed the pub- S§ lie that crows flocked to see her wherever chi went. " So YOPBdaughter has married a riuh y| husband." "Well,** slowly replied the % father, " I believe she has married ariok man, but I understand he is a very poor husband." ii'M STATISTICS show that women commit suicide most frequently on Sunday. It I i is on that day mat the humiliation of having to wear last season's bonnet is most keenly felt--Syracuse Herald. PERSISTENT Party--"Not at home? But are you sure he isn't? Don't you think you had better goand ask?" New 'M maid--" No, sir; it wouldn't be a bit of Si good. He told me he wasn't, most dia-. || tiuctly." * ONE of the Oscar Wilde agonies : A S ' new agony is for a girl to buy a 36-cent ̂ tambouiine, paint a sunflower iu ona gf corner and a pond lily iu another, and f ^l hang it up on the wall as a decoration. | i This signifies: " Art and mu*ie hava joined haftds, let 'em jingle." OWE of our friends advertised tor a serving man, and the next day appeared VJ a stout person of grave air wearing Mi enormous blue spectacles. "Have yuu weak eyes?" said our friend. "No, sir," said the applicant, " but I scour pots and things so thoroughly that the glitter of them hurts my sight."--J,r, Figaro, || THE great apostle of the esthetes was asked which of all the numerals he thought the most truly beautiful and 0 serenely lovely. " Why, four, to be If) sure," he replied with an air of inex- Eressible languor. "And w^y?" asked ^ is fair questioner. " Because it's two HI And that was all he said twos. ds$r jSKom-nuo. *„?£• " that • w 70 sM D ' you suggest to me ? " I|»ve the prob-em up at cittern, •'* A» tx> much for my he»<l; ••Why, don't jou sceT 'tis pain You're a Polly gone," lw --Saturday Sight. How PEOPIIB do change, to be sura. |- There are the Pingreys, for instance, f Six months ago, before they were mar. f' ried, when Henry used to leave her | house, M irtha would stand at the gate f| and throw kisses at him until he was out | of sight This morning, when he left J home, instead of a km Martha threw a fire shovel.--Boston Trarworipi, SEVERAL residents of Norwich, (X, recently witnessed what they call a -- "singular lunar phenomenon." "Two 5; pyramidal luminous protuberances ap- ^ peared on the moon's upper limb." This & is not singular. On account of the prev­ alence of the small-pox, the moon had been vaccinated on the upper limb- hence the protuberances. It "took." If the moon had been an op:>ra singer, the operation would have been per­ formed on the lower limb. --Norristoum Herald. WHO is this Ferocious looking Man? He is Foreman in a Printing office. He ||J gets Paid for Throwing Men Down Stairs when they Come to Lick the Editor, and for putting wrong Date* at the Head of | the Paper. He can Pi more type in | fifteen Minutes than Seven Printers can | set up in Two weeks. He loves to ask i the Editor for Copy. If it Were not far % Him the Paper would Look pretty Well f every Morning. Everything would be J Fat, and none of the Live Ads would be Left out. , The Breeches Movement. ^ Accepting knee-breeches as the thetic clothes, several persons have writ en in their favor that they will avoid the bagginess to which trousers are subject at the knees from the devo­ tional posture and from the habit of sitting with one leg resting on the other. Not to discourage this movement, but to prevent disappointment in a worthy effort, it should be mentioned that this idea erf the exemption of knee-breeches from being kneed is a radical error, for that their be­ ing fastened just below the knee, and the tightness which befits this gar­ ment, allow no slack for the bending of the knee; therefore would knee-breeches be kneed more than trousers. That shorter form of breeches which does not come to the knee wonld be requisite to avoid this bagginess. Yet the tights woru under these would bag. The esthetic clothes are not free from diffi­ culty, but no one should be discouraged. Tne cause is worthy of a great effort, and of a great sacridce if necessary. Let ^vtry aspiring esthetic say with Harry V., "Once more to the breach, dear friends!" The Scotch Highland cos­ tume is absolutely exempt from bagging at the knees. It has also a picturet-que- ness far surpassing Mr. Oscar Wilde's black breecues, black stockings and stiff dress-coat, and more be titling the ei-thetic renaissance whose emblems are the sunflower and the lily.-- Cincinnati Gazette. Childhood. The qualities which sre the aseet iP tractive in childhood are not by any means the most valuable in maturity. We look for determination, decision of character, firmness in the man, aud re­ fuse him our respect if he have tuem not. But, when the child exhibits these qualities, even in their incipient stages, we are annoyed aud even repulsed. In­ stead of rejoicing in his strength of will, and guiding it into right channel*, we lament it as a grievous fault in him and a mii-fortune to us. It is the meek and yielding child who cares not to decide anything for himself in whom we de­ light, and whose feeble will we make still feebler by denying it ail exercise. Yet, when he grows up and enters the world aud yields to teiapt«tiaa, and per­ haps disgraces himself and fassily, we look at him in imbecile wonder that so good a child should turn out t© be so bad a man, when, in truth, his evmtm has been only the natural outcome of Ms psat tits-and training. -if'xj !l mfa i A:# ,