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|?lamdealet 4. VAN SLYKE. Etf Itorast fsMlsker. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. HOBATIO SKYMOCB has been appointed jBoad Commissioner in the town of Deer- Jfield, N. Y. - ; THB highest rate ever brought in this «mniitry by a municipal 5-per-oent. loan jxas just been secured by the Boston •water loan of $324,009, due in thirty yean. It was issued at 81-20 per oent. §M»min3k. THS courtesy of the Senate suffered a alight abrasion when Mr. In galls, of Sans as, intimated that, in the matter of wind, Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, could only be matched by the patent ventilat­ ing apparatus of the chamber. PBOBABLY no woman has held office zander this Government for a longer peri­ od than did Mrs. Margaret Silliman, Postmistress at Pottsville, Pa,, who died recently. She was appointed by Presi- *dsnt Lincoln, twenty-one years ago. /" < SOUTHBBN boys carried off the honors this year both at West Point and Ann, apolis. At the Military Academy, of the first four graduates two were from Missouri and one from Mississippi; and «t the Naval Academy the Oadet Mid­ shipman who graduated at the head of iiis class was Mr. Lewis Nixon, of Vir- THX coloredfminister who whipped his wife at Alexandria, Va., was fined $4 by • tfJustioe. He had no money, and was given a week in which to pay. On the intervening Sunday he preached from "the text, " Whom the Lord loveth He -ehasteneth," drawing from it the con­ clusion that he had punished his wife -properly. Then he asked the congrega­ tion to contribute the $4 for his fine, and they did it, though the plate had to be passed six times before the amount •waa realised. -> AN extraordinary tricycle journey has "been accomplished by the Vice Presi- , -dent of the Lyons Bicycle Club, accom­ panied by his wife, on a two-seated ma­ chine. Tbe travelers went from Lyons, through Nice, Genoa and Borne, to Na­ ples, returning via Florence and Turin, the whole journey representing a dis­ tance of some 2,300 miles, being accom­ plished at an average of about fifty to =aixty miles a day on the road. EDWARD BABB, of Missouri, was at the head of the late grwlu ating class at West Point, with an average of 1,934 5 -out of a possible 2,000. The father of young Barr, who has thus graduated -with such distinguished honor, said to liis son, some three ^ears since, that if lie would graduate with distinction he -would make him a present of $10,000. The incentive had its effect, and vourg "Barr starts out in life with educated Jwains and a plethoric pocket. • BBTUBNS just published in London give for Great Britain and Ireland a total of only 3,134,721 electors. Of these, 1,212,996 live in counties, 1,891,- 719 in boroughs, and 30,086 are on the university lists. Birmingham is the largest constituency, having 64,051 elec­ tors ; Liverpool is next, with 62,039, and Manchester next, with 53,042. Of the •3,134,721, there are 2,591,402 credited to England, 228,278 to Ireland, and 115,- 121 to Scotland. ROBERT BONNER has invested about 1882 ,000 in fast horses altogether. His first purchase of the kind was made in 1859, when he bonght Lantern and Light for $9,000. He paid $40,000 for Pooahontas, $35,000 for Dexter, $20,000 for Edward Everett, $20,000 for Startle, ^16,000 for Edwin Forrest, and $36,000 for Barns. Last year he bought Escort 'lor $3,000, Halcyon for $4,000, and Keene Jim for$4,000. IN 1881 New York oily disposed o *2,656,077 barrels of beer, an increase of $16,030 barrels--about 1,000 barrels a day--over 1880; Philadelphia disposed of 965,178, an increase of 133,000; St. Louis, 876,000, an increase of 166,000; Milwaukee, 844,662, an increase of 160,- 308. Brooklyn absorbed 749,228 bar­ rels, Boston, 697,240; Cincinnati, 731,- 789. Albany decreased her supply $3,790 from that of 1880, and Buffalo 15,475 barrels, the only cities that did not show an increase in that time. THB advocates of Sunday rest will be reinforced by the alleged discovery that metals become fatigued; that, like menf they oan be utterly worn out and disin tegrated by a constant strain upon their iibers, and that even a little period of •quiet gives tools and machinery a chance to recuperate, and results in their lasting longer.. It is already maintained that horses stn 1 cattle are much better work­ ers for aa interval of Test, and if to the animal the mineral kingdom is to be added as a witness in behalf of Sunday, the argument becomes formidable. having two castings from it. It is about two feet high, 16 to 18 indies wide, about an inch thick, weighs from 80 to 100 pounds. On the right-hand top is the representation of a city, underneath the monogram " A. F." In the center is a representation of Jacob's well. On the right is a figure of the good Samar­ itan, and underneath a picture of Christ. It contains the following inscription : "Jacob Bran. .Van Frolin Tan Sa­ maria. Jhn 4." This is said to be very old Dutch. The figure 1 with a figure 5 underneath is on the lower right-hand corner, with an arabesque in the center containing a hieroglyphic, and a 6 with a 9 underneath on the left-hand side showing the date to be 1569. STATISTICS of the new St. Gofhi&riS railway are interesting and suggestive. Its total cost is set down at 60,000,000 francs, its total length at 113 miles, and the length of the tunnel alone at 9J Work on it was ca^pied forward both day and night by an average of 2,347 men. One million ki'ograms of dynamite were consumed in the blast­ ing, and 900,000 cubic meters of rock were excavated for the tunnel alone. The loss of human life was great, owing to the extraordinary difficulties of the work. Of men killed in the tunnel on the spot there were 177, and of men in­ jured 631, some of whoift afterward died of their injuries. For the entire line the total number of deaths was 310, and of injuries 877. THB number of casualties in the vol­ unteer and regular armies of the United States during the War for the Union, 1861-'65, as reported by the Provost General in 1866, was as follows: Killed in battle, 61,362; died of wounds, 34,727; died of disease, 183,287; total died, 279,- 376. Of these 29,725 died while prison­ ers. This terrible mortality appears still more impressive when compared with the total number of soldiers who died during our war with Mexico, which was as follows: Killed on the field, 1,049; died of wounds, 508; total, 1,557. The Confederate records were in part lost or destroyed. So far as records preserved show, the number of the Confederate troops who died of wounds or disease was 133,821, of whom 26,774 died while they were prisoners. NBABIIY all the male members, of the German imperial family are well-trained and proficient artisans, and the members of both sexes are accomplished in the fine arts. Both the Crown Princess and the Princess Frederick Charles might succeed ss painters, end the former is skillful as a sculptress. Frederick Will­ iam himself has been the designer of many a church and public building. Prince George, under the name of "Con­ rad," is a dramatist of considerable rep­ utation. But it is music that has most occupied this royal house. Frederick the Great, in the darkest ]>eriod that he experienced, played the flute; while his sister, tho Princess Amalia, and Prince Louis Ferdinand were good composers. The present Prince Albrecht is well known and admired for his compositions, and a growing formidable rival is the hereditary Prince of Meiningen. Four of the favorite military marches of the present day are said to be of royal origin. A Promising Member or the Bar. When Hon. J. P., of Maine, was a lawyer fresh at the bar he was consid­ ered to be a very promising young man, albeit somewhat wild. But he apparently became very steady in his habits after he became intimate with the dignified and venerable Judge K. One day, when the distinguished Judge had settled into the conviction that J. P. had left off all of his wild ways, he, on suddenly entering a room where some of the young lawyers were supposed to be studying up law points, came face to face with a game of poker just as tlie promising J. P. was in the act of raking in the stakes. The sedate Judge stopped aghast and instinctively throwing up his hands exclaimed, in his ponderously-solemn tone : " I am profoundly astonished, Mr. P.I What foil? !g® J. P. promptly responded: " I don't wonder that you are struck. It astonishes everybody that sees it that they should "call" me on three queens when I had four aoes and a king and another king in my sleeve. It was folly!" A Famous Tipple. In the Almanach des Gourmonds men­ tion is made of a famous doctor, M. Gustaldy, who flourished about 1789. The doctor was a great advocate for what was called the nuptial wine. It was made after this fashion : A pint of good Bordeaux was heated nearly to boiling point over an open fire. It was then transferred to a teapot or other vessel hermetically closed. Two or three ounces of loaf ougar were then added, and two teaspoonfuls of a liquor which, in the doctor's day, was sold in the Cafe du Midi, 74 Rue Montina-tre. What was this liquor, or is it ? For, accord­ ing to Grimod de la Revniere, this precious drink fosters and preserves do­ mestic peaoe, and is the healer of all home differences. HERB KRUPP'S possessions at Essen, Oermany, are enormous enough, as some ireah statistics of them will show. He lias of steam boilers no fewer 439; of steam engines, 456, their aggregate horse-power being 18,500; of steam ham- . mers, 82, varying in weight from 200 pounds to 50 tons; of rolling mills, 21; of machines for making tools, 1,622; of furnaces, 1,556, of which 14 are high furnaces; of locomotives, 25; and of steam propellers, 5, their total tonnage 'being 7,800 tons. Krupp's annual pio- ductioji is 300,000 tons of steel and 36,000 tons of iron. At present the population of his workingmen's city is 15,700. A PiiATK of probably one of the oldest , atoves in existence anivedin Albany N. Y., the other day, for the purpose of The Umbrella. As to the origin of the word umbrella. The English name is borrowed from the Italian Ombrella. j The Latin term Um- bella is applied by botanists to those blossoms which are clustered at the ex­ tremities of several spokes, radiating from a common stem like the metallic props of the umbrella. The term, as is seen, does not give the slightest idea of the use of the article so designated, and we might well take a lesson f"om our cousins, German or French, who have invented distinct names for that used to ward off the rays of the sun and that employed against rain--namely, liegeti- schirm, paraplori ; Sonnenschirm, para­ sol. THB Boston Globe administers a tonio to a correspondent thus: "To S. F. B.: You say you have pleutj of money, are free from disease, have all your time at your command, but feel languid, etc. Perhaps you are a dreamer and a drone. Go to work. That will brighten you up. Should like to be your guardian." A KTSS Is called tetenamequilistU in Mexico. Good long kiss, that, -- ' "1't BEPUDIATIOJ IN ARKlftHlflL PFrotn tin Chicago Tribune. ] The State of Arkansas some yeatt ago scaled her debt very heavily, and there is now pending before her people an amendment to the constitution practi­ cally repudiating the rest of it. A strong effort was made by a minority of the Democratic party to save the credit of the State by protesting against the amendment, but the majority of the party in the recent State Convention in­ dorsed the repudiating platform, and committed the party in the State to its adoption. As there will be large por­ tion of the Republican party also sup­ porting the amendment, the probabil­ ities are that in November Arkansas will " emancipate" herself from debt by writing upon her constitution an irre- pealable law prohibiting its payment. In the legal arguments before the United States courts of Tennessee con­ cerning the validity of some of the bonds issued by that State, the venerable Charles O'Conor in Ms argument la­ mented the adaption of the Eleventh Amendment to the national cons titution eighty years ago, wherMy|aM legal means were abolished through which a State Government could be compelled to pay its honest debts. He regarded it as a national reproach that State Govern­ ments were recognized as possessing power to incur debts and liabilities, without any i»ower •rating anywhere to enforce the payment on their part of their obligations. During the last ten years the hand of the scaler of State debts has been busy at the South. South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisi­ ana have "paid" their debts to a large extent not even with the frankness of Micawber. They have simply tendered the creditors new bonds for a proportion of their debts, declaring the rest "off" Arkansas has taken two or three chances at the debt. The Legislature declared that a large proportion of the State debt had been contracted by "alien adventur­ ers," and sponged it off the books, and the State court declared another batch was "invalid." On the debt not yet formally repudiated no interest has been paid for many years, and now it is pro­ posed to declare formally in the consti­ tution that this debt never had a legal existence. Of course both political par­ ties in that State, being controlled by cheap demagogues, will vote this act of repudiation; and next year will adver­ tise Arkansas as a State "entirely free of debt." These States have taken the direct road to perpetuate their poverty. For fifteen years they have advertised over the broad earth that they had nothing in common with the principles of politi­ cal freedom so universally established in other States of the Union. Tuey un­ dertook to inform the world that there was a "solid Sonth" in which there were two distinct and separate races; the one the superior, governing and ruling race, and the other the inferior, servile and governed race. It was an­ nounced that this condition of society was unchangeable and should be perpet­ uated, and no matter what means might be necessary to maintain the supremacy of the one race and abject political deg­ radation of the other those means would be adopted. The resolve has been maintained. During the present year almost 1,000,000 immigrants have come to our shores from foreign lands. Last year and during the years since 1866 the tide of immigrants has poured into all the Northern States, but the "solid South" has been avoided by them as if it were a land of pestilence. Except in the case of Texas the Southern states have been avoided by these millions of immigrants--these men seeking homes for themselves and their families have had no more thought of migrating to the solid South than they had of going to Africa. In the far-off homes and villages of the people, where they dis­ cussed the future they expected to share in the land of freedom, they no more considered the States of the solid South as part of "America " than they did San Domingo. They have therefore direct­ ed their course to all parts of the coun­ try where the "superior raoe" and the "race born and eduoated to rule " does not abound. Arkansas is one of the States which have been cursed with this polioy which has warned off all immigration. Arkan­ sas, with her immense natural advant­ ages, ought to far in advance of Kansas, Iowa or Minnesota in point of population and general activity, industry and wealth; and what a spectacle is she made by having a convention of her leading citi­ zens meeting in solemn conclave and formally resolving to repudiate that por­ tion of the State debt which had not al> ready been repudiated! What an ad­ vertisement this for the political morality of a great State which appeals for immi­ grants ! Immigrants do not make new homes in a State where public dishon­ esty is made a governing policy, and where public debts are repudiated that taxation may be rated low. What an encouragement for capital is offered by the formal repudiation of the public debt! If the State repudiate, why not counties, and cities and towns ; why not corporations, firms and individuals ? No State or municipality can prosper with an impeached or blighted credit, and while for a time a few demagogues may rule, and hold offices, and lord it as the ruling and dominant race, and boast of how they delivered the State from the bondholders, the curse of repudiation will rest as a blight upon the State and keep it in poverty and in sloth for gen­ erations to come. The man or the com* munity that pays a debt by repudiation will nev^rgrow wealthy by honest labor; and no State and no community can ever be prosperous when labor is not made the foundation for all wealth. Repudia­ tion is the most oostly of all means of paying public debts. A REPUBLICAN SENATE. [From ths New York Tribune.] The gain of a Republican Senator in Oregon is of great importance. It as­ sures a Republican majority in the United States Senate till after the new President takes his seat on March 4, 1885. Whether tile Republicans hold or lose their control of the House of Rep­ resentatives in the meantime the Senate is secure, and secure by what promises to be a safe majority. The terms of 26 Senators will expire in Match, 1883. Of these 11 are Republicans, 14 are Demo­ crats, and one,'Davis of Illinois, is In­ dependent. T ie Senate stands at pres­ ent 37 lie publicans, 37 Democrats, one Independent, and one Readjuster, Mahone. Several changes in the new Senate have already been made. A sec­ ond Readjuster, Riddleberger. has been chosen to replace a Democrat from Vir­ ginia, and a Democrat has been chosen to replace Kellogg, Republican, from Louisiana. This is likely to be the only loss that the Republicans will sustain. With the change made to date, and counting the gain of a Republican from Colorado, and that of the Republican \ • • who is certain to be chosen in Illinois to •uooeed Judge Davis, the new Senate will stand 38 Republicans. 36 Demo­ crats and 2 Beadjnstera. Whatever the Read j listers may do, it is safe to predict that they will not vote with the Demo­ crats. The States at present represented by Democrats whoso terms expire in 1883 are Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Geor- S'a, Kentuoky, Mississippi, New Jersey, orth Carolina, Oregon, South Caroli­ na, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Of these they have lost al­ ready Oregon and Virginia, and they stand a good chance for losing New Jer­ sey, North Carolina aad Tennessee, New Jersey has had a Republican Legislature for the past four years, and is likely to have one next year, in which case Sena­ tor McPherson will give way to a Re­ publican, who is pretty certain to be what the late Gov. Williams of Indiana would have called a " more abler man." North Carolina and Tennessee are both very unoertain for the Democrats, and it is not improbabla that they may choose Republican, or at least anti-Bourbon, Legislatures. As we have said, tho only State in which the Republicans we likely to lose a Senator is Louisiana. The other States which are to elect Senators to succeed Republicans are Colorado, Kansas, Maine. Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne­ sota, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. No one of these can be called doubtful. By holding all these^ and by gaining a Senator in each of the States of Oregon, Illinois and New Jer­ sey, two of which are already assured, the new Senate would stand 39 Repub­ licans, 35 Democrats, and 2 Readjusters. This is very likely to be the way in which it will stand, with the possible ad­ dition of two anti Bourbons from North Carolina and Tennessee. It is clear, therefore, that the Senate is safe for the Republicans till Maroh 4, 1885. The terms of 25 Senators will expire on that date, but except through death or resig­ nation there will be no vacancies to be filled in the meantime. The Democrats may be aole to keep the Republican majority a very close one, but there is no possibility of their seouring a ma­ jority for themselves. Tho Lessoa of the Contested-Election Case. Mr. Burrows told the simple truth when he said that " the country has yet to hear one word or syllable of denun­ ciation of tissue-ballots and other elec­ tion frauds in the South from the Demo­ cratic minority in tho House." The Democrats have been united in their championship of fraud, and their defeat in so bad a cause cannot fail to add to the popular distrust with which their party is regarded wherever the purity of the ballot-box is maintained. Mr, Horr, of Michigan, described the Republican purpose properly when he undertook the other day to tell why these election cases have been urged with so much energy. It is essential to the existence of the j Government that elections shall be pro­ tected against terrorism and cheats. Mere party advantage is of minor im­ portance by comparison. The Repub­ lican party seeks ee recruit? from Bour­ bons and no assistants from their meth­ ods. He is not ready, nor is the Repub­ lican party as a whole, to open its arms to such a man as Chalmers because the latter is disgruntled at the failure of his party assrn i iies to keep Mm in a seat which he held for several years without a shadow of claim. Mr. Jyowe has been seated in place of Gen. Wheeler, the bulldozer, though Mr.LM» is not only a Democrat but & G«SWrt>aCKer8 and thus doubly arrayed against the princi­ ples of the Republican party. The Re­ publicans have been engaged in rebuk­ ing fraud and depriving it of the fruits It has brought forth in the South. This is a mission which is at once honorable and necessary. The Southern Bourbons must be taught that they cannot con­ tinue to exercise an undue influenoe over national affairs by means of ballot-box stuffing or other devices to defeat tho will of the majority. The anti Bour­ bons of the South must be encouraged to assert their rights by the assurance that when they do so they shall be sus­ tained by Congress. These two lessons, once thoroughly impressed upon the Southern people, will work a political revolution in their section; and henoe the expulsion ef Wheeler, Chalmers, Dibble and Finley from the House, to which they were never elected, has been of the highest significance with regard to the rule of maj orities.--Chicago Trib­ une. Bond Reasons for Leavlag the Demo­ cratic Party. To OouTertiear Paulding, Esq., President of the Democratic Club, Cold Springe, N. T.: Allow me to tender herewith my res­ ignation as a member of the Central Club. I am led to take this course and to sever my connection with the Demo­ cratic party by the attitude of the party at Washington and at Albany. The ac­ tion of the larger portion of the Demo­ cratic party in Congress in antagonizing the passage of the Tariff Commission and iu refusing to extend the charters of the national banks is utterly at vari­ ance with my view, and, as I believe, detrimental to the welfare of the country. The ground upon which intelligent men can refuse to extend the charters and to prolong the existence of institu­ tions so beneficial to every one and so closely connected with the prosperity of the country is a mystery, and yet I find that the Democratic party in the House of Representatives, with a few notable exceptions, refuse to support the meas­ ure. Again, the refusal of the Democratic members of Congress to allow the con­ sideration of election cases, questions of the highest privilege, I legard as almost revolutionary. These reasons in brief, and the utter incompetency which the Democratic majority in the Legislature has shown, induce men to join the Republican party. This, while it has made many mis­ takes. is. I believe, the one best fitted to govern the country and State, and to ; which their progress and prosperity are ' best committed. Therefore, with tho kindest personal feelings toward you and toward all the members of the club, I am compelled to hand in my resignation. Very truly yours, * JAKES WILTON BBOOKS. QABBISOW. N. Y. Beecher and the Uambler. When the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was preparing his famous "Lectures to Young Men," he held a long interview with one of the most notorious gamblers in the country, and then U6ed the in­ formation about gambling and gambling- dens obtained from him in his wonder­ fully-realistic discourse on that subject. After the delivery of the lecture a " too previous " young man tried to turn the laugh on Mr. Beecher by asking him how he could describe a gambling-hell so accurately if he had never been in one. "If you never have been in one yourself," retorted Mr. Beecher, "how do vou know my description is accur­ ate?" THE FAMILY D0CT0B. DrhPKPsiA.---This simply means poor digestion. It is far easier to prevent this horrible disease by regularity of meals, eating slowly, chewing faithfully, and by the use of a moderate quantity of plain, simple and well-cooked food, than to cure it by drugs. THE SPABB BOOM--This room, long vacated, dark and damp, the bedding almost moldy, may be good enough for pirates, whom we may wish to rid the world of, but not for our dear friends. And yet thousands are annually al«n by being kept for a night in such damp beds, contracting colds too severe to yield to ordinary treatment. APPLES.--A more extensive use of ap­ ples as food at our mea^s, remarks Dr. J. H. Hanaford, will do much to dimin­ ish dyspepsia and biliousness. They are "loosening," and, therefore, tend to re­ move constipation--a prominent cause of digestive derangement. The acid of this fruit--one of the very best known in aid of digestion--acts favorably on the liver, causing it to secrete the bile, which is nature's cathartic, thus preventing this constipation. While eating them between meals must derange the stom­ ach--like the use of all food at that time--they are really a very valuable food, demanded especially in warm weather. They may be too cooling in the coldest weather, while the mora aoid berries are better in the spring and summer. EAT YOUR BREAKFAST FIRST.--Dr. Hall is authority for the following thoughts upon breakfasting before much exercise in the open air, particularly in districts where fever and ague are abundant: Breakfast should be eaten in the morning before leaving the house for exercise, or labor of any kind; those who do it will b© able to perform more work, and with greater alacrity, than those who work an hour or two before breakfast. Beside this, the average duration of life of those who take break­ fast before exercise or work will be a number of years greater than those who do otherwise. Most persons begin to feel weak after having been engaged five or six hours in their ordinary avoca­ tions; a good meal reinvigorates, but from the last meal of the day until next morning there is an interval of some twelve hours; hence the body, in a sense, is weak, and in proportion can­ not resist deleterious agencies, whether of the fierce cold of mid-winter or of the poisonous miasm which rest" upon the surface of the earth wherever the sun shines on a blade of vegetation or a heap of ofiai. This miasm is more solid, more concentrated, and henoe more malignant, about sun­ rise and sunset than any other hour of the twenty-four, because the oold of the night condenses it, and it is on the first few inches above the soil in its most solid form ; but as the sun rises it warms and expands and ascends to a point high enough to be breathed, and being taken into tne lungs with the air and swallowed with the saliva into the stomach, all weak and empty as it is, it is greedily drunk in, thrown immediately into the circula­ tion of the t>lood and carried to every part of the body, depositing its poison­ ous indueucs at the Ycij iOUuuuu-uenu of life. If early breakfasts were taken in regions where dulls and fever and ague prevail, and it, in addition, a brisk fire were kindled in the family-room for an hour, including sunrise and sunset, these troublesome maladies would dimin­ ish in any one year, not ten-fold, but a thousand-fold, because the heat of the fire would rarefy the miasmatic air in­ stantly, and send it above the breathing point. But it is " troublesome" to build fired night and morning all sum­ mer. It being no "trouble," requiring no effort to shiver and shake by the hour, weeks and months together. The Values of Vegetables. All vegetables have an effect on tho chemistry of the body, so that we can­ not speak too highly of their importance at table. We will mention a few of these matters first, and dispose of this aspect of the subject, so as not to seem to mix pharmacopoeia with the kitchen. Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and forms part of the cure for rheumatic pa­ tients at such health resorts as Aix-lef- Bains. Sorrel is cooling, and forms the staple of that soup aux herbes, which a French lady will order for herself after a long and* tiring journey. Carrots, as containing a quantity of sugar, are avoided by some people, while others complain of them as indigestible. With regard to the latter accusation, it may be remarked in passing that it is the yellow core of the carrot that is difficult of digestion--the outer, a red layer, is tender enough. In Savoy the peasant) have recourse to an infusion of carrots as a specific for jaundice. The large sweet onion is very rich in those alka­ line elements which counteract the poison of rheumatic gout If slowly stewed in weak broth, and eaten with a little Ne- paul pepper, it will be found to be an admirable article of diet for patients of studious and sedentary habits. The stalks of cauliflower have the same value, only too often the stalk of a cauli­ flower is so ill-boiled and unpalatable that few persons would thank you for proposing to them to make a part of their meal consist of so uninviting an article. Turnips, in the same way, are often thought to be indigestible, and better suited for cows and sheep than for delicate people ; but here the fault lies with the cook quite as much as with the root. The cook boils the turnip badly, and then pours some butter over it, and the eater of such a dish is sure to be the worse for it Try a better way. Half boil your turnip, and cut it in slices like half-crowns. Butter a pie-dish, put in the slices, moisten with a little milk and weak broth, dust once with bread­ crumbs and pepper and salt, and bake in the oven until it gains n bright §olden brown. This dish, which is the 'leamontese fashion of eating turnips, is quite unsuited to cows, and ought to be popular. What shall be said about our lettuces? The plant has a slight narcotic action, of which a French old woman, like a French doctor, well knows the value, and when properly cooked it is really very easy of digestion ; but in our country, though lettuces are duly grown in every garden, you otten hear the remaik, " I can't eat salad;" and as few cooks Know how to use a vegetable which has been refused in its raw state, the lettuces are all wasted, and so is the ground in which they were • grown.-- Mrs. Beeves' Book on Cookery. Brown Negroes. People not familiar with them through life are apt to confound these with mu- lattoes; but they are quite distinct. The brown negroes are, as a rule, much more intelligent than others. We began to notice this in childhood. There were two large families on the plantation, one brown and the other black, and the dif­ ference in point of intelligence was very notable, as seen in the parents and in all the children. And often through life we have observed the ttame thing. These brown people come from Central Africa, where they are hali civil zed, having large cities, settled government and fixed laws. Comparatively few erf them were captured and sold to the slave dealers, pertly because they were remote from the coast, and also because of their su­ perior intelligence, better arms and higher courage. In America they have no doubt to some extent become min­ gled by marriage with the far more nu­ merous blacks, and lost their distinctive hue. But a good many have kept their clear brown color unchanged, probably through instinctive affinities in marriage, "natural selection."--ffichmaauL Mc- ligious Herald. '8 ILLINOIS NEWS* DiNtnai is to have a now 990,000 church. TUSCOLA is talking of having a glu­ cose factory. WHILK repairing his stables at Tuscola Owen Jones and his boys killed over 500 rats. LEXINGTON has determined to build two brick school-houses this summer, one costing $3,000 and one $2,000. A BROTHER of Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, occupies the pulpit of the Methodist Church in Chester. - • A km at Quincy, named George Sne- decker, burst an artery while sneezing, and died before the flow of blood could be stopped. Miss AiiicK WELCH, Superintendent of Schools at Farming ton, will be a can­ didate for County Superintendent in Fulton county. - - THB heirs of Christian King, of Mc­ Lean and Woodford counties, recently sold 164 acres of land, in the southeast­ ern part of White Oak township, for $7,380. MRS. MARIA DAVIS, of Springfield, has been granted arrears of pension amount­ ing to $1,500. Mrs. Davis lost two sons in the Mexican War and (me in the re­ cent Rebellion. THE committee to solicit subscriptions for the Gov. Wood monument, at Quincy, have collected over $2,000, and are confi­ dent that the remainder the sum re­ quired can be obtained. THK Beef-C»nning Company's works at Fast St Louis, which had been closed for some time, have reopened. The opening of the works gives employment to 600 men, boys and girla. THB construction of the new gluoose works at Peoria is being pushed forward rapidly. An army of men are employed on the structure, and the first building will be ready for operating on the new corn crop. A HOBBIBU double tragedy was re­ cently enacted at Xenia, Clay county. W. B. Johnson shot and killed his wife, and then shot himself, using a large navy re­ volver to do the work. The parties to the tragedy were from Centralis. Matri­ monial troubles, covering a period of eight years, led to the bloody deed. THE "grip cars" of Chicago are far more deadly than the elevated-railroad trains of New York. The list of victims is truly appalling. The cars are run by a contmuuus cable, like the same in San Francisco, but the company seems to have adopted insufficient precautions against continual slaughter or maiming of people. AM 18 year-old boy named William Russell met with a singularly accidental death in Jo Daviess county. He was engaged in plowing corn in the field, and had fastened his gun to the plow in order to have it handy should any ducks fly over. The weapon was dis­ charged by the sudden jolting of the plow, the whole charge striking Russell iu the throat He lived but a short time after the occurrence. A ST. LOUIS paper having published that Frank Rande, the notorious des­ perado, was dying in the Chester (III.) penitentiary, it should be stated that Rande isn't dying, and isn't in the Ches­ ter penitentiary. He was convicted of murder in 1878, in Galesburg, and was given a life term in the Joliet peniten­ tiary, where he is at present, and where he is enjoying the best of health. He is working in the harness department, and has not been punished since the first year of his incarceration. THE official returns of the late elec­ tion for Justice of the Supreme Oourt in the Fifth judicial district give ma­ jorities as follows: cBAie'8 MAJOBIRNA. Bureau 3M Knox...., 611 L» Sulle... 1,894 Mercer ........... 88 Peoria. 870 Warren SOS Woodford. 26'J Total 4,035 M'CULXOCH'I HAjounu. Grundy 140 Henderaon 18 Henry. 257 Marshall 93 Putnam. Hi Stark - 331 Total #83 Craig's majority in the district, 3 088, an increase of 175 over his majority nine years ago. REV. E. STON& preached an interesting sermon in Chicago on the subject of th general progress of Methodism in Illi­ nois in the last forty-four years. The sermon covered many of his experiences, beginning with his arrival at Peoria on the 26th of April, 1838, the latter bein^ then a town cf 500 inhabitants. Peoria had no Methodist church then, and did not have until two years later. The Illi­ nois Conference included the Territories of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minne­ sota, all of which were then sparsely settled, the combined population being about 500,000. About 165 ministers were then doing the work of salvation. In 1840 there were $58,000,000 worth of taxable property in the State, while in 1881 the one-third value of all the prop­ erty was $800,000,000. So it could be seen that a mig!i%y nation had grown up in the Northwest, a new civilization, as it were. The great mass of the people who had settled this section were from the South, and they gave character to the institutions, making many attempts to introduce slavery. Up to 1832, all the Governors had been Southern men. Whatever civilization there was, was of the Southern type, which was stratified. No outright slav­ ery beiug tolerated, the upper aad lower classes were wanting in the ideal civili­ zation. "You have heard tell," said be, " of the 'poor white trash' of the South. 1 don't 1ifc« the term, but most of these were of the poor white trash order. The 'poor white trash' were the non- slaveholding class. They never had owned slaves, never could hold them, and were too poor to get an education. Being unable to compete with slave labor, they came North. They had oome here simply to make their bread, but after they got here, many of them, who made money, wanted to own slaves, these people were nearly all church members, earnest and honest, but the church ha» made wonderful progress in the character of its religiou since then." He said that in 1851, in the Methooist church, there were in Illinois 2.1^0 preachers, 250,159 members. 3,260 •hurches, valued at ?7,755.000 and 1,427 parsonages, valued at $1,342,000. t here were also 3,723 Sunday schools, and $249,865 waa raised that y*ar fot . * HM7STB1AL STATISTIC* Clwkri WaMfwai-- BoOstbiNa. 38% wbfabnlaiw to the nuurafaotara of otMBinl% show there are 1,849 ertaMi«h«--i daiotad to indnrtry in tho United Otatss. IhlwpU feH •eatod, including building* aad mxihfmry. ft# •85,486,858. This invHtmrnt gives enplfljN ment to 29,600 peroooa, whose aggregate ef wages in the year of 1880 amounted to 911,* 829,723. The total nine at all Material* iMed WM *77,8*4,381, and of product* •117.407,0M. Manufactured manure# forand the pntMiosf prodoot, which «M mlaad at common havd Mipi «««i« being 860. BeellM of Bnaiantti The advaaoe statement of the Duraan od" , , Statistics of exports of domestie teaadstafl* , 1 from the Various customs district* of th* 'J United States during the month of May xnalossf > i. a poor exhibit as compared with the oom* .. - ~ spondiDg month of 1881. The total vahiM ef < . "I#' ', exports for May. 1882, are $10,11/7.415. ' • -•'-'ft- ~'y •19,804,618 iu 1881. The t£*I ralueT f« fiv» vT' ^ months ending May 31 of the present veer. < J were t65.509.6t7, again* Wi.m^Tter tS» * oorreepoodiug period last year. The totals (at - '• •}, the eleven months ending May 31 were 1167,- ' 653,532, the amount for the eleven months end* ing Ma; 31, 1881, being §244,955,418. Production ef Oold acid Rlmb The Secretary of the Trmnajry recently milted to Congress the report or the Director of the Mint upon the production of gold and, silver in the United States in 1881. Th» total product of gold for the rear waa #34,700,000, of silver, f43,WM),000. Colorado take* the first' place among the producing States, with a yield of more than •SO,<>00,000. California foliowar.. with » yield of near.; •19.000,000, and Nevada,,,-^% '£• which nt one time ranked first. i« now third, * with a product of less than •9.000,000. \ Tho Tide of Immigration. Daring the month of May there armed ta the customs districts of Baltimore, Boston, De­ troit, Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Passamn quoddy, Philadelphia and San Fmicieco 141,035 immigrants. Of this total number of immigrants there arrived from En­ gland and Wales, 13,404; Ireland, 19,747; Soot- land, 3,015; Auxtria, 4,890; Belgium, 100; Dest> mark, 2.700; France, 645; Oermany, 41,747; Hungary, 648; Italv. 5.141; Netherlands, 1,917; Norway, 7,161; Busaia, 1,986; Poland, 1,188^, Sweden, 19,372; Switzerland 1.849; Dominioa. of Canada, 10,622: China, 4,861; and (ton sll other countries, 664. The total number of im­ migrants &rri¥ed m the custom districts named from Iho principal foreign countries for tho eleven months ended May 31, 1882, as oom» pared with the same period of the previon year, was as follows i Countries 1882. XnKlHnil aad Walas 77,1ST Ireland. Scotland 16, #66 Austria I7.8U7 Oermany.................. ........226,810 Norway.. 23,3-6 Sweden H,9N Dominion of Canada. 84,530 China 36,710 All other ooontrlee 93,419 1 175,so: 39,86 «,59« ;s* »;s 1 Skocifaff Afkkr. Harper's Bazar, which la very nup|i% from being a sensational paper, unfold* (^"5 this touching tale : " A beaatirol woman of our acquaintance aome jealni ago bad an experieaoe bj means of tt# poisonous custom that will hardly shared bj any in ttie generetion to OOL „ Accustomed to admiration of her beauty^§ her dislike of a few gray hain drove heap to the use of a dye, and, as she oontinneci it from day to day with gentle applir** tions for some years, she had the satis* ̂ faction of seeing her beauty to all efleoft*" unimpaired ̂and had not the remotest" , idea that the work of Wlveiing was all the time going on.with frightful oelerity , under the dye, and every day increased/ the lavages in the dark color of he# „ locks, if the truth wen kaowr. Bat fre-« - quent and violent headaches at last made her physician and her husband positively eommand her to «M dyeing, an4 to cleanse nar hair oughlv of the dyee. She want with he* detergents into the father dark bathing . v room, where- there waa no n i rir, as ohanoed, and spent an hour or two ill 1 the process of washing and scouring* v te ' and at length came out into the light, •/ * • ansing btfore a mirror as she did sou. ; hat first glimpse of herself was a hoN t , rible revelation; she had gone into tho ' , • room a dark-iiaired beauty in the gnisd - \ of youth; the woman in the mirror had / y ̂ the long gray hair of age falling round. . her white tarn, The sudden change waft too much for her tried nerves, and shtt fell in a dead faint on the floor It ii,: fortunate for others that the fashion of gray hair is likely ta save them the bio# of so sadden a change from the appear* •nee of youth to that of age." Another Iowa Cyclone. Independence, Iowa, mi visited by a i tating hurricane on tho afternoon of June 2U The day had been a most; oppressive one. At 4:30 p. m. rain began to fall, the wind at thai- time blowing briskly from the southweat In ^ few minutes another current seemed to coma from the northwest, aad they met near Inde*! pendence. Suddenly it grew dark, and the peopi# were wild with flight The citizens nearly ait went into their cellars, but there were thousand^, of country people in the city, who had com to see SeijU* oircu*, and they not ouly tilled stores but lined the streets. The darkness du not last long, but an opening appeared in I clouds, and at that spot there were rapu changing colors of purple, pale green and other colors, and that sec-med to be almost d£> rectiy over the city. It was then the hurrioan| ^ commenced, and the time of the destractioi| v * was not over three minutes. The scene wa£': one of the wildest confusion and terror. Homes were picked up and dashed to the ground. de» mulishing them as badly as were those at Grin- nelL Roofs, boxes, boards and gravel* stones were flying promiscuously through the air. Wagons were overturned and demolished, horses were ruoning away and becoming en* tangled m the tiiepuoae wires that had been - ' thrown to the ground, and everything ssssesSf; to be in chaos. There were nearly twenty-fiv*'- bonsea completely wrecked and more than that;',- number of barn*, while of those that weMj^ damaged from $5 J to $100 each there were ova^?(; ? 100 houses and ac many barns. Hundreds werif{ unroofed, or partially so, had their window^ broken and were damaged by falling " Cellars were generally chosen by the res „ as places of refuge, but the rural witora tool* , shelter at the most convenient plaoea. Th» deaths will number four, and the damage property will approximate $175,000. Thenl^ were many miraculous escapes, and the only " • wonder is that more lives were not lost TtM| ' c t.zeus of Iowa now anxiously watch for ftbs appearance Of th" om nous black clouds. State Fairs. Tbs following is a list of Stats si dent fairs to be held this fall: Ohio Columbus Anjr. Indiana .IndlaiupoUa.. ..8«pi. 3 V Illinois Springfield Sept IMA Michigan.. JJK'JWOB sk-pt, i8-at' low® MuJnas Sept. R ;•; Pemrsylwala l3ilt.Bl>urga....«.8spt. n-3j^, WLecQiisiu.... ••••«.<»<...<, *••••••••••%•»•/•• Kansas .....Tojpeka. .Bap*. 11-tft.. • Montana „Belaaa, Sspt. Arkansas L tt e Husk Oct IML • Nebraska .Oiaaha., Sept U-li, Texas Auctiu. --0<et, 8t Louis St. Louis. Oct 2-T. "J; J Colorado leaver. .sua. South CaroMaa...Columbia. 8«pt. U-& w Tri-Sta'e Toledo... Southern Ohxk... Central Ohio Hecbaniaabaig.Sept. 19-*3A Sabiua .„Babina ..Aug. ft-3& Blanches bar B anche«ler....Aug. 28-8ipAL Wellington Wellingtea.....S^pt. 22-JA Hartford Harilorii......«Sept &-&. Guernsey County Independent...Washington ....Sept 2T-3|^ •; Jamestown .Jamestown Aug. !MU ; Ptta&kaia Pataskaia Au*t. ?3-S|i Neweomarstown. .NswoomsratowaOct. s-6. ' Westervii.e Wsaterrills S- pi. AKifc- • • . •• ' ••'2r Cljde Chyde OotS-C _ New London -N»w London.. .Sept. Greenfield...... ..OffMtfltfd Oct ic-iai <%\ Western HfchigaBOMttd S*pide..S<tpt. Mahsoka County..Oskatoose..»...A<W- ^ C«>rb.>'. sJ i e Dis- : t.k-6, it ....Oct ..j 4 Toronto, Canada..Ton>i»to §• V(" Northeartsrn IwL*a»srtoe ...Ook. »*> ., • vt < % t V «A i