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jMtgjnmi fbWaln J. **111LYKE. Editor . McHENBY, I - ILLINOIS. THE 8upreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a promise to marry made Hon Sunday is valid. The eW ieilows have been there. THE assessed valuation of rsal estate # New York is $l,035.203,fl6, and of personal property $198,272,682. The amount to be raised by taxation this gear, is $29,412,831. DUBIHO the last fiscal year Uncle Saxu taold 13,003,000 acres of his farm. The -various railroads and States parted with least 7,000,000 acres, and most of it was sold to actual settlers. That means wealth and prosperity in the future. It jl not the men in cities, but those on the -fertile acres, that hold the keys that will Mflg>en the vaults of the world, WHEN you tell a fish story it is no use ~to mince mctters. The Kiicktitat (W. T.) Sentinel Bays: "A gentleman, while crossing the Big Kiicktitat at Wa- kiakus ford one day this week, "experi­ enced a great difficulty in fording, from the countless number of salmon running up the stream being so thick and com­ ing with such force that his horse could scarcely keep his footing." EVERY young man should learn- to smoke. Twenty years ago a Yankee yeoman on an American man-of-war win­ tering in Genoa gave a German visitor a light for his cigar, and subsequently »gave him some valuable information on a technical point. Reeently the quon­ dam yeoman, who is now practicing law in a small Maine town near the New 'Hampshire line, has received informa­ tion that the grateful German, dying, has bequeathed to him 72,000 francs. A BAGKJAOE-BMASHBB lit Utica, N. Y., undertook to bang up an old hunter's trunk on his way to the mountains. The shooting materials on the inside ex­ ploded, knocking the smasher from his pins and setting fire to his clothing. It would be good for trunks as a class if one would explode about every two -Weeks. Baggage-smashing, however, is "the only way the baggage men have of getting even with the unchristian prac­ tice of calling huge dog-houses two sto­ ries high, with a basement, trunks. The owners of these ungainly monstrosities are responsible for a great deal of wicked swearing from porters and bag­ gage handlers. THE decrease in the number of sheep in Great Britain and Ireland in the thir­ teen years from 1868 to 1881 amounted to 7,712,000. The loss in England was 45,548,000, or 26J per cent; the decrease for Wales was 201,000 sheep, or 7J per ^oent; for Scotland 381,000, or 6.35 per cent; for Great Britain the reduction Was 6,130,000, or 32} per oent.; for Ire­ land 1,564,000, or 32} per cent; show­ ing for the United Kingdom a loss of 7,712,000 sheep, or 21.65 per cent. This great difference is startling when we And, from the agricultural returns in 1868 and 1881, that the loss of sheep has not been compensated for by any ma­ terial addition to the number of cattle, or by-a profitable exchange of breeding and grazing for the cultivation of grain. ONE of the maddest freaks of cruelty on record is reported in the Austrian Reichenberger TageblatU A man, who was very fond of roast hare, gave his wife formal notice that unless she larded the meat more thoroughly in the future he would lard her. The next time the dish was served he found that again the meat had not been prepared as he de­ sired ; whereupon, in a furious passion, he proceeded to cany his threat into literal execution. He threw his wife upon the floor, tied her hands, gagged her, tore off her dress, and drew strips of lard through her bre ast Then he locked the door, left the house, and made for parts unknown. After a while the unfortunate woman, was discovered and released by neighbors, but in a pre­ carious condition. age, that he might aid him in recovering it At first the young man declined to answer, but he finally replied, "A pound of French candy." The oandy was re­ turned to this city from Providence, Thirteen letters and postal-cards were written abcut the stuff, to say nothing of the delay of fifty tired passengers fdr ten minutes Saturday night A BIO bog has burst in East Glare, Ireland, and the "oldest inhabitants" are recounting past occurrences of the same kind within their recollection. The phenomenon is occasioned by the gradual accumulation of water, especial­ ly in rainy seasons, underneath the mass of vegetable matter usually found in low ground. This peaty stuff floats on the water, and is poured out over the adjoin­ ing land if an opening into the edge of the bog happens to be made. Iu other cases, the bog, having become filled with water like a sponge, literally bursts. In the East Clare catastrophe large areas of land under cultivation for potatoes were buried beneath the semi-fluid mass of vegetable earth, which moved forward very mudfa as lava flows down the mount­ ain-side from the crater of a volcano. Such occurrences are not uncommon. In Counties Gal way, Limerick and Clare considerable areas of bog have burst their bounds at various times in the same manner. A bog near Charleville, in 1697, is said to have completely changed the face of the country, as is not unlikely, since it covered forty acres and moved forward for a long distance. A hill in the neighborhood completely disappear 3d, and valuable pasture-lands were buried to a depth of sixteen feet Some eight or nine years ago the " Bog Dunmore" burst over a fertile valley. A ST. LOUIS reporter recently called on the two-headed, two-voiced, four- handed, four-legged, single-bodied girl on exhibition in that city. He sent up his card, but the only answer he got was from the hotel bell-boy, who said she was eating supper. At any rate one side of her was eating spring chicken; the other was talking and drinking claret In ten minutes another report an­ nounced that friends were calling, and that the soprano-voiced end of her was talking French to one gentleman, while the contralto was scolding another one for not being livelier. Iu an hour and a half the reporter sent up his card again and followed it to the door, where he could hear what was said. The bell-boy handed the card to one of her. " What is it, dear?'* said the other part " Oh, it's that horrid reporter, again," said the head nearest to the boy. " You take, that card down stairs," said the other head, " and give it to that man, and Bay that if he sends it up again I'll go down and scratch his eyes out" The other head was saying at the same time, "Oh, go down, go down and let me go to bed. Tell him I am just about to retire, and cannot be seen." The bell-boy started for the door, and heard the sweet voice say, "Which side will you sleep on, dearest?" and then the, two-headed woman carried on an animated conver­ sation with herself. the pbe»idihi«s coachman. THE Buffalo Express telle the follow­ ing story of Mr. Simon Wolf, the late American Consul General at Cairo, Egypt: He reached Cairo about the time of the great revolt He was sitting in front of Shepherd's Hotel, taking his after-dinner coffee, when an excited En­ glishman rushed up to him and cried : "Have you heard the news, Mr. Con­ sul ? There is to be a general rising to­ -night, and every European ani Christ­ ian in the city is to be murdered." Mr. Wolf went on drinking his coffee, appa­ rently unmoved by these dreadful tid­ ings. "Do you not hear me?" reiter­ ated bis agitated informant " The fa- " nalic8 intend to kill every European and Christian in Cairo." "Yes, I hear you," quietly responded Mr. Wolf, "but I do not see how that affects me at all, since I am an American and an Israelite," NOBWIOH (Ct) Bulletin; A well- dressed young man approached the con­ ductor of the train for Norwich at New London Saturday night and asked him if he would delay his train a few minutes While he went for a valuable package he had left in the palace-car o* the Shore Line road. He replied " I will," and kindly waited. The conductor saw the ferry-boat nearly across the river with the car which the young man was look­ ing for. He gave the signal to start, and the train sped northward. He in­ terrogated the young man and upbraided him for detaining him longer than ne­ cessary V y not giving him notice when he was ready to go aboard. Thinking there might have been Government bonds or priceless jewels in the missing package, he asked what was in the pack- A Cartons Character. The late Duke of Osuna, was a curious specimen of an old-fashioned Spanish grandee. He had about fifty titles, many of them being historical. He -vas a singularly stupid and a singularly lib­ eral man, being possessed of vast es­ tates. He married a German lady, but was with difficulty prevented from run­ ning away on the day of the ceremony. He always insisted that the Empress Eugenie owed her throne to him, as the Emperor Napoleon would never have married her liad he not feared that if he delayed she might become Duchess of Osuna. For some years he was Spanish Ambassador at St. Petersburg, but he always refused to draw his salary, as to do so was beneath the dignity of an Osuna. His notions of hospitality were of the grandest. In Madrid open house was kept in one of his palaces, whether he was there or not One day a ladv told him that she was going to some town in Spain, and, presuming that he had a palace there, he begged her to use it; but, finding that he was mistaken, he at once ordered one to be bought and furnished, in order that the invitation should stand good. It was difficult to praise anything in his presence, for he at once insisted upon the person who praised it accepting it One of his es­ tates in Spain was so large that it sup­ ported a band of robbers, who respect­ fully called themselves " the robbers of the Dnke of 0?una." Of this he was exceedingly proud. A Doctor on the Bicycle. " A Country Surgeon" writes to the London Lancet about the bicycle as follows: " I have been a bicycle rider for the last five years, with an ever-increasing d elight the more proficient I became. This summer I have turned both of my horses out to grass, and have trusted to my bicycle alone, going on an average about fifty miles a day. I find I get through my day's work with less fatigue than on horseback, and without the mo­ notony of driving. My work is done quicker ; my usual pace is ten miles an hour, and I can go at the rate of fifteen when pressed. A bicyclist's steed is always ready saddled, and on arriving at our destination does not require a bo v- to hold him. It can be ridden with almost as much ease in wet as in dry weather, but is not adapted for a hilly country, though all moderate hills can be sur mounted. Since I invested iu my new fifty-two inch, I rode ninety-five milts in one day without unusual fatigue. 1 can 'confidently recommend all men who are fond of exercise without fatigue, and who wish to curtail their stable ex penses, to take the trouble to learn the bicycle." IN the Washington newspaper offices they have pails of ice-water standing around handy, like fire-buckets on a steamboat or in a hotel. When a man comes in to tell about a new scheme he has for reaching the North pole, all hands grab a pail of ice-water and they souse him, and he goes out seeking a warmer climate. If this ice-water treatment had been practiced for the last fifty years when smart Alecks were talking about sanding expeditions in search of the North pole, many valuable lives would have been saved. ALKWT H» TMRNMW ABMTHW _ •T Mt'rral « hler (Washington Repunlicm.] | Probably the most widely known face i hi Washington is that of Albert, the j President's coachman. Albert is as black as the afee of spades, as pleasant as a summer day, and as genial as Pom- mery sec. He was standing in the road­ way, iu front of the White House, re­ cently, and the Republican smilingly saluted him and inquired "Well, Albert, how do you like the horses ?'* I firmly interlaced, showing that the ani- | mals must have engaged in combat, and, J getting entangled in such a manner that I they were uuable to extricate themselves, 1 had died From starvation. Hence the ! dead-lock. - What hones?" asked Albert diplo­ matic dly. ^ " The President's new team," said the scribe. "Dey's werrygood hosses," replied the amiable Alber*; "werry spirited and werry stylish." "Are they as good as ex-President Grant's?" queried the man who repre­ sented the only newspaper in Washing­ ton. " Dey's werry nice hosses, butGineral Grant's hosses woz hosses, boss, an* no mistake. De off hoss of the present team ain't as good as he mought be." "How do they compare with Presi­ dent Hayes' team ?" asked the reporter. " Humph !" laughed Albert; " would be purty hard fur to find wusser hosses dan Mr. Hayeses, 'ceptin' you got 'em outen a cyart Dey was de wuss hosses I ever seen." Just then the Georgetown fire engine came by on its way to Ryneal's fire, and Senator Kellogg's horse, which was be­ ing held by a stalwart darkey, began to jump around and display his heels. "Good Lord A'mitey!" ejaculated Albert, "young Mister Arthur is out wid de buggy, and I do hope he wone come across datdere injine." " Why, Albert, isn't he a good driver?" asked the reporter. *' Purty good driver, boss, purty good driver; but I tell you when a hoss sees one er dese steam injines he jist wants to git away from dat dere locality ez soon ez ho can." " How long have you been driving for Presidents, Albert? " Fo'teen years last October." " Is it a good place, Albert?" the Republican. " Well, boss, it's a werry good plaoe. " Are Presidents good people to work for?;' "Some of 'em is, but one what I knowed wasn't ez good ea he mought The Republican then marched oft Treeless Regions. The steppes of Asia are the grandest of all in extent, and perhaps the most varied in character; for not only are the vast areas of that nearly-level and tree­ less country, which lie along the north­ ern and northwestern side of all the great central elevated mass of that con­ tinent, usually designated as steppe, but a large part of that central region itself is described ur.der that name by recent eminent geographical authorities, so that we may include in the various forms of steppe existing in Russia and Central Asia the grass-covered plains of the low­ er regions, and the almost entirely-bar­ ren valleys lying between the various mountain ranges which are piled up over so large a portion of High Asia. Ab­ sence of trees is the essential feature in both the "steppe" and the "high steppe," as these regions have been, and may perhaps with propriety be desig­ nated ; but the lower regions are in large part well covered with grass, and suitable for occupation by a pastoral people, dependent chiefly for the means of sustenance on their flocks and herds, while the liigher valleys are almost un­ inhabitable, very sparsely covered with a shrubby vegetation, and both too cold and too dry to offer any attractions ex­ cept to the adventurous geographical explorer, who has still much to accom­ plish on the great plateau of High Asia before its topography and natural history will have been anything like sat­ isfactorily made out, even in their most general features. The vastness of the area which may be designated as steppe on the Asiatic continent is almost over­ whelming. Nearly halt of the 18,000,000 square miles which Asia covers is essen­ tially a treeless region, and perhaps a half of that half belongs to the high- steppe division, in which cold and dry­ ness are the predominant characteristics. From the fact that the steppes of Rus­ sian Asia have been longer known, and more written about than any others in the world, the term steppe has been most ordinarily applied to similar areas in other countries. This is especially the case because such a use of the word has been sanctioned by Humboldt, who was the first to draw popular attention to this variety of surface as a feature of importance in physical geography. In North America, where the treeless re­ gions occupy so large an area, and where- many of the physical conditions so close­ ly resemble those prevailing on the Asiatic continent, the use of the term steppe has never been introduced among the people. Here, in fact, the charac­ ter of the surface, and distribution of vegetation over it, as well as its climatol- ogical peculiarities, have all been more satisfactorily and fully made out than in Asia, in spite of the fact that the latter country has been so much longer an ob­ ject of scientific study. How • New Hampshire Weaaa Llvei ob #40 a Year. In the Woman s Journal "T. W. H.* relates the story of a New Hampshire woman, who by the sadden loss of her little invested property had remaining only an old farm-house and some land. " The sufferer was wholly alone in the world, had a paralyzed am and was threatened with blindness. The only work which her enfeebled condition per­ mitted was in the way of knitting and making artificial flowers ; by these two arts she could earn $15 annually." Her whole available income was $40. She api rjpriated tne fourth of it for reading. In her own v&m interesting account of her life she says: "In very cold spells I took a warm freestone and crawled into bed. I was too ill to work, and thus to do saved fire* wood. I would put mittens on my hands and read awhile, and, when the room became too cold for this, cover all up and think over what I had read. This saved me in a degree from ener­ vating myself still further by fruitless poring over poverty and privations." As for food: " One-fourth pound of meal, 1 oent; one-fourth pound of dried beans, l£ cents; 2 cents9 worth of salt pork--cents in all--would support me a day and a half very well This was my usual fare three days out of seven. Three cents' worth of ttarley, boiled with 2 cents' worth of butcher's trim­ mings and 3 cents' worth of potatoes, would make wholesome, nourishing food for two days and go a long way toward supporting existence. * * * I made a considerable use of rioe Mid baked fish. In cold weather a pound of oatmeal cooked Monday would serve as a dessert through the week. Sometimes I had a gift of milk, and then I feasted like an epicure. Now and then I had some kind of a vegetable,»«s a beet or a turnip, aud from time to time bought a \ few cents' worth of butchers' scraps, queriea\ more to season food than to be food. sOnoe a month I indulged in a baking of Ohriuts, or got a pound of lard and au eating of doughnuts, about six, one© at a time, in a tin cup over my oil- stove." The writer says: " There could be no reductions beyond hers, for she literally bought nothing in the way of Clothing whatever. So she lived, HO to •peak, on the past--on the wrecks of her ownv clothing and ether people's. She made a whole suit out of an old strawbed ticking, combined with the fragments of a pair of the drilling overalls that some workman had left on the premises; these she cut into strips, ana made, she de­ clares, a very stylish trimming. She unraveled old, worn-out, homespun un- der-garments, and made yarn which she knit into stockings. She had fifteen mottoes in the house made on white muslin and cotton flannel; these she boiled clean and had a supply of material for undergarments, being the first per­ son, probably, who discovered a real use tor 'mottoes.' She found behind a closet-door an old overcoat of her fath­ er's, out of whose quilted lining of black lasting she made for herself a cloak that looked like quilted satin. The question of hats or bonnets was easily settled; she wore none for three years. As for shoes, the inexhaustible liniug of the father's overcoat provided her with slip­ pers which wore better than leather." A Wily and Treacherous Beast. There is no creature in the world so cunning as the eiephant, and no creat­ ure, moreover, so full of duplicity. Its cleverness at simulating attachment to its keepers can only be equaled in the Human race by the hypocrisy of the slave toward his master. The elephant in the Jardm des Plan tee in Paris never forgave his keeper for haviug made him ridiculous before the crowd as semi tied to witness his performance on a penny trumpet, which the poor man had betn at the greatest pains to teach him. A note came out in " J'ai du bon tobac," with a shrill squeak, when it should have been deep contralto. The creature was vain of its artistic skill, as all artists are, and flinging down the trumpet made a charge against the iron bars of its cage which sent the crowd flying right and left in the utmost terror, while the keep­ er who fortunately had time to creep through the opening left at the bottom of the cage for the purpose of escape in time of danger, ran out of sight immedi­ ately. He never dared enter the cage again, for he knew by the expression of the creature's eye that the grudge was owing still. The new keeper wisely withdrew the penny trumpet, and " J'ai du bon tobac " was heard no more. To wound the vanity of the greatest of beasts is as dangerous as to trifle with the greatest of monarchs. Dead-Lock. Just how this expression arose, as ap­ plying to legislative bodies, is difficult to trace, since organizations of this kind have been at times equally and stub­ bornly divided on certain questions since "time immemorialand there seems to He no fitter expression for this particular state of things. The origin of the term is undoubtedly derived from the fact that in forests hunters have often come across two skeletons of deer with horns Geese Herding.̂ Various methods have fagpn devised of exterminating wild geese without avail, until geese herding has become a profes­ sion as distinct as herding or trapping. In the early winter the geese appear in the grain counties in myriads, traveling about in vast flocks. Their hunger is insatiable, and the new wheat is rapidly destroyed. Dr. J. H. Glenn, whose ranch in Colusa county covers most of the arable land in that county, nuipber* ing 75,000 acres, or nearly twelve square miles, expends about $10,000 in herding his geese. He recently purchased in this city between $2,000 and $3,000 worth of cartridges, about 250,000 in number, of 44 caliber. He has constantly in his employ, while his wheat is grow­ ing, about forty men, all of them mount­ ed, and nearly all armed with Henry rifles and field-glasses, who patrol his property during the day and on all moon­ light nights. These men are regularly organized in­ to a patrol guard. They discover with their glasses the flocks of geese, which at a distance of 300 or 400 yards look like a white blanket spread over the green wheat, and they thereupon plant a bullet right in the middle of the flock. This unexpected visitation sets the flock on the wing, and the gee«e herder fol­ lows them up, keeps planting bullets among them till they rise to a great height, and, disgusted, leave the vicin­ ity. Few geese are killed, the object be­ ing to keep them on the wing, and con­ sequently off the wheat fields. Those that are killed are carried off and shorn of their feathers, but the revenue from them amounts to little. On Dr. Glenn's ranch about 8,000 cartridges are used in a day, which represents about 20,000 geese daily put to flight. Oftentimes a thick fog blows in, and this appears to be the favorite time for the geese, and they devour the wheat with great energy. The herders then, fearful of shoot ng each other, are al­ most baffled, but wnen the fog rises the flock are put to flight, and for hours thereafter the air is filled with feath­ ers and geese, and Glenn's ranch resounds with the clatter of rifles and the frightened cries of the persecuted fowls. To pay his men, buy ammuni­ tion and maintain horses costs Dr. Glenn some $10,000 per annum, but it saves his wheat, which yields 0100,000, as without the geese herders half would be destroyed. The herders become very expert in their business, and are gener­ ally good shots and capital horsemen.-- San Francisco Call. A Double Advance. In the ante-bellum days a New York State grocer raised the price of a cer­ tain grade of tea from " 3 shillings " to 45 cents; and an old farmer who came in' with a barrel of cider-vinegar to sell could hardly credit his senses when told that his favorite brand of tea ,had ad­ vanced several cents per pound. " What on airth is the reason for this sudden raise ?" he inquired. "Scarcity of tea-chests," was the brief answer. * " Well, do you want my vinegar?" "Howmuoh?" - "Eight cents a gallon." "I only paid you 7 cents for the last" " Yes, but cider has riz, you see." " What has brought cider up?" asked the astonished grooer. "Scarcity of bung-hole plugs," was the quiet but serious reply. "They looked at each other without winking, and then tea dropped back to 38 and cider to 7 cents.--- Wall Street Daily News. THV absent-minded hen is a great trouble to herself. She forgets where she laid her last egg. MTIJPPJFOTFCI N'I,NRR»S ̂ ILLINOIS NEWS. It" toriti: three days for a postal card to reach Henry from L&con. JOHN M. RIOHTKR, aged 86, one of the oldest settlers in Illinois, died at De- Witt THE Democrat, of Lewistown, wants the spoiling of the name changed to Lewiston. SINCE March 1 the Michigan Central has brought to Chicago, nearly 50,000 immigrants. THE people of Lacon have made a bargain to build a bridge over the Illi­ nois for $15,000. The bridge has a pon­ toon draw. THE question of saloon or no saloon came up at Ferris, Hancock county. The vote was a tie. The settlement then was by lottery, in accordance with law, and the saloons won the day. MR. ELUENDOBF, a prominent tem­ perance agitator, of a Chicago, recently told a reporter that one out of every twenty-five women in the city were ad­ dicted to'the free use of liquor. CHICAGO Times : N. K. Fairbank and several others have been negotiating for a block on Michigan avenue, between Adams and Monroe streets, on which to erect an art and music hall oosting $1,- 200,000. SAM WATKINS, night telegraph oper­ ator at Vandalia, while bathing in the Okaw river was seized with cramping, and, before any assist ance could reach him, was drowned. His parents reside at Green Valley, 111. J. 8. ARNSPIOBB, a farmer living near Bloomington, met on the road, near his house, a stranger carrying saddle-bags and other items of his property. He j went on to the house, got a double barrel • shot-gun, and captured the burglar. SENATOR DAVID DAVIS writes that he will repair to Bloomington on the ad­ journment of Congress, pay some atten­ tion to private business for a week or two, and spend the remaining portion,, of the heated term at Eastern summer resorts. AFTER the heavy storm Mr. Root, living near Farmer City, found a num­ ber of rare and curious fishes near his : house on the ground. They are de- ! scribed as having four distinct legs pro- j trading from their bodies, the legs being furnished with perfectly constructed toes. SOLOMON HABT, of Lexington, Mc­ Lean county, is afflicted with an unusual and peculiar malady. The tissues and muscles controlling the action of the ^ fingers and : hand have become hardened, losing j their natural flexibility, so that the fin­ ger joints instead of playing freely are perfectly rigid. A SAD case of drowning occurred in i Rock river, at the mouth of Kishwaukee. A large party had gone there for a pic­ nic and to fish. Some young men went j ir swimming, when Abram Wing, son of i J. L. Wing, of Centralis, was drowned, j Strenuous efforts were made to rescue ! him, and in doing so another of the j party came near being drowned also, j SEVERAL leading members of the St. | Louis Merchants' Exchange, owning ' property and doing business on the 111- ! mois side, have organized the East St. ' Louis Pioluce Exchange, and applied • at Springfield for a charter giving equal ! rights and powers with the Chicago | Board of Trade. Nearly three hundred (members of the St Louis Exchange have applied for membership. THE State Board of Health held its quarterly meeting at the Grand Paoifio j Hotel in Chicago. A resolution was • adopted requesting the Congressmen to j uphold the National Board of Health in their system of inspection, and asking ' for an appropriation to carry on the ! same during the threatened yeilow-fever : period. The Secretary was directed to inform the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical ; College that they could not have ac- ! credited physicians graduate in March ; and July every year, uuder penalty of ; revocation of the contract of 1879. THE Citizens' League of the State of Illinois has just issued an address to the j people of the State. The league has for i its aim the suppression of the saie of in- j toxicating liquors to minors. The first- , thing of the kind was formed in Chi- | cago in November, 1877. and its work , has been so beneficial that since that |-time a number of the larger towns of ] the State have organized similar associa- ! tions. For the purpose of extending I the work all the leagues of the State met : in convention May 27, of this year, and j adopted a constitution and by-laws uu- ; der the title given above. j CONGRESSMAN HAWK, of Mt Carroll, i who died recently at Washington, was j born in Hancock county, Indiana, April j 23, 1839; was educated at the common {and select schools of Cfarroll county, Illinois, and at Eureka College, Illinois; entered the Union army as First Lieu­ tenant Sept. 4, 1862, was promoted to Captain February, 1863 ; was breveted Major for soldierly conduct, the commis­ sion being dated April 10. 1865; was Clerk of the County Court of Carroll County Illinois, from Dec. 13, 1865, to Feb. 27, 1879, having been elected four times in succession to that office ; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to ti-e Forty-seventh Con­ gress as a Republican, receiving 17,061 votes against 7,468 votes for L. G. Johnson, Democrat, and 4,160 votes for John M. King, Greenback candidate. AN editorial writer of the Bloomington Pantayraph, who has traveled during the last four weeks through more than thirty of the best corn-growing counties of the State, and who has given the corn crop special attention at this time of the year for more than fifteen' seasons, sum­ marizes the condition of the crop as fol­ lows : In not over one-tenth of the State is there a fair stand^.of corn in &n average condition. About one-fifth of the corn acreage is now drowned out and entirely ruined. On roll.ng prairie' aud tile drained land there is a prospect of perhaps two-thirds of a crop. With favorable weather from this time for­ ward there is not very good protpect of a little over one-half an average yield for the entire State, while there is the contingency of a too sudden drying of the soil and of an early frost, as well as that of a continuance of the wet weath­ er, so that on the whole the condition of the corn crop may be called more pre­ carious than it has ever been before at this season since 1858. £ A 1'2-YEAR-OLD boy in Chicago drove a nice horse and wagon to the i orse market where he offered to exchange the harness for a saddle and sell the wagon for $2.50. Nobody would buy it unless he had written authority. So the little fellow drove off and presently came back with the following: " I will let my son John give the harness for a saddle and the wagon for $2.50. Mrs. ZaehmanD."- As the writing was scraw- ly, the horse dealers told him he must identify himself so as to make sure that he was Mrs. Zachmaen's son "John." This baffled him and he sought counsel of a newsboy. The bootblack pointed liim to a house near by into which he entered and found himself in the pres­ ence of a policeman, who on hearing his story at once arrested him and car­ ried him off, while the bootblack jeered and cried: "Hi, dere, sonny, did you sell your hoss ?" Tne boy had seen the horse and wagon standing by a curb­ stone and thought it afforded him a tine chance for speculation, which ended in tears apd a sleep in the poiiee sta­ tion. . IN Vermont, Fulton county, week be­ fore last, occurred the death of Mrs. Emma Enochs, wife of Thomas B. Enochs. The circumstances connected with the death are strange indeed. She gave birth to a child, but some months before the birth of the child she had a presentiment that she would not survive it. and so firmly was this fixed upon her miud that she made arrangements for her funeral, making her choice of the minister to perform the burial service, and asking that seme of her early com­ panions should sing. When the chi d was born she gave evidence of recovery, and when the physician visited her he found her laughing and joyous and hopeful. He left her, expecting that she had passed the most critical period. In about three or four hours after the physician had left her, she cried out, and her brother ran to hey. She clasped him around the neck, told him j she was dying and in a few moments ex- j pired. On the same morning of the day | of her death, her mother, who resided j in Lewiston, some distance from Ver- j mont, arose early, and stated that she j felt that some calamity was impending. -n"oajtaahtl inflammation from even S3.W rSb J5 ̂ dfOUght I slight exposure to col * thTjJ™* nothing ot it; but before the day was; thfnks it"shoald done she received a telegram announcing THE FAMILY DOCTOB. A PHTSIOIAX who has fa " pulmonary gymnastics" by icallj inhaling deep breathai distending the lungs, baa increased 1 chest measurement from 87 to 46 inch He cautions others against doing this la "raw" cold air. The temperature should be above 60 degrees. MODERN COSVRNIEJTOES.--That emi­ nent physician, Dr. Frank H. HamiltOft, delivered a lecture in New York on tibf| "Enemies of Health," in which hedwelf on the dangers ef what are called "med ̂; ' *•"' ern conveniences,*' and declared that ntf 1 - f dwelling house Bhouid have connection N with a sewor, and that the best hoosei , ' \ t now built in New York were so oon-- n ̂̂ structed. He also advocated big, open ' fire-places, or grates, instead of hot-aiif / ̂ furnaces, and went on to condemn 4 *1 ' * • whole catalogue of habits and vices whiol* ̂ were sapping the strength of the Amer-4 icac people. THE British Medical Journal that the local effect of tobacco on th®%»- 1 ( r„v mucous membrane of the nose, throat ' f and ears is as predisposing to catarrhal * diseases as is inefficient and insufficient^ * clothing in the case of women--the factr ' being that such effect on the mucousv membrane of the superior portion of the* " respiratory tract causes a more permanent r « relaxation and congestion thau any othei?' * iy, known agent Therefore, as tobacod , v ^ depresses the system while it is produc-» '"fa ing its pleasurable sensation, Mid as i$ prepares the mucous membrane to take r; her daughter's death. What is stiil more strange, on the morning afterward, several gentlemen relatives of the de­ ceased were talking together, all ignorant of the death. Their number was joined by another gentleman, who asked after require no further evi­ dence to show that its use ought to bq discontinued by every catarrhal patient* --Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. REMEDY FOR LOCKJAW.--If any per*" son is threatened or taken with loekja,# from injuries of the arms, legs or feet^ , her health and that of her parents, and ' do not wait for a doctor, but put the^. remarked upon ttie fact that he was I present at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. ! Enochs, but while they were talking j the telegram was received announcing her death. tfhe Sidewalk Her. What Is it that induces people to tske constantly more than they need ? Is it , exousable thrift or inexcusable selfish­ ness ? Take the average men on the av- ' erage suiewalk. It is generally wide i enough for two people to pass easily and j for three to be abreast when need be. 1 But how many a man ignores the plenty ] of room there is on either side and takes i his half out of the middle, the same as j part injured in the following prepara* tion: Put hot wood ashes into water hot as can be borne; if the injured _ cannot be put into water, then wet thic folded cloths in the water and appl; them to the part as soon as possible, at the same time bathe the back-bon4 from the neck down with some laxativ# stimulant--say cayenne pepper and water, or mustard and water (good vine#: gar is better than water); it should be a# hot as the patient can bear it Don% hesitate; go to work and doit, and don't stop until the jaws will come open. N<fc person need die of lockjaw if these cti§ rections are followed. A WBINKLE for brain-workers--e3peo* ially those who are suddenly called upoi for an extra amount of work. Too geni erally they fly to t^a and coffee, povve \ - £< you often see him when riding aloue in a buggy sitting plump in the middle of the seat as if to revel in the greed of t ful auxiliaries, urdoubtedly, but the possession and a joy that he had it. all ! exact too <>eavy payment for their servi| alone, and that no one else could possi- j ices. Brillat-Savarin recommends a en|14:- bly sit there; or, in a railroad car you ) of chocolate with the smallest piece of see him taking his half of a whole seat j amber powdered and added, as yoii out of the middle, and his face showing alternate joy of having it all, and alter­ nate fear that some one who is paying fare as he is may be so greedy as to ask for the other seat rather than to stand up. But on the sidewalk, and taking his half out of the middle, leaving you not room enough to go by at all, or not enough to "go by without having to touch him, he is the true representative of selfishness, particularly if he is a fat man; and some way fat men do this more than lean men, or else ate more censur­ able in doing it, Bince they take up so much more room. Indeed, it seems a vice or selfishness--conscious or uncon­ scious--peculiar to fat men. Who has not wondered, as he has seen a fat man coming in the middle of the walk, appa­ rently taking the whole sidewalk with him, and seeming as if he were sorry that there was no more of it to take, how would sugar, though not as a substitut# tor sugar. He declares this mixture en« ables him to get through an immsns|p^ f amount of work, while allowing him t® sleep tranquilly when his labors wera ' ;> over. On the other hand, twei^p cups of strong coffee prevented hiss! from sleeping forty hours. Marshal (~ Richelieu, who took Minorca from th|t' - English, was the inventor of this innoc* / nous stimulant Its onty fault is that $ *- eosts money. A LEMON CURE FOB COHSTTMPTION. -J- A correspondent of an English medicap journal furnishes the following recipe a#'. ^ anew cure for consumption; "Put ' dozen whole lemons in cold water boil until soft (not too soft), roll squeeze until the juice is all extracted^ sweeten the juice enough to be palate.1 ble, and then drink. Use as many as dozen a day. Should they cause pain o£ and i • ) i he couk] bti Baftilv pa.sed, ifat all. future will probably post up a placard i i,^Ane i * °r to inform the thoughtless and check the j I , ^ •(jf r»f & and have an appetite. Of course as yo\l ' get better you need not use so many. to inform the thoughtless and check the selfish, saying, " Lean people are re­ quested and fat people will be required to take their half of the sidewalk from one side, and not in the middle, so that other people may have some use of it, too." Of course, many people do this unconsciously, and no doubt do. But there are some who do it, knowingly and purposely The man who, if he were a j usi lemJ ^ding to the direction# : ; pig, would always stand m the middleof j we ^IVU 8tiitt^ Qne in particu!aJ was bedridden and very low; had tr v?tf; Follow these directions and we kno# that you will never regret it if there if < any help for you. Only keep it up faith»v " fully. We know of two cases where botljp of the patients were given up by tin* ,, physicians, and were in the lust stagey of consumption, yet both were cured bj the trough to eat, always does it, and always seems to take pleasure in doing it He's the porker of Iowa State Register. Some of Buckland'g Stories. The author goes on to tell a curious anecdote of a child he met with when inspecting the Coquet in Northumber­ land, who, having been taken to see a pantomime in which there was a scene of a forest inhabited by monkeys, was so impressed that "the next morning he imagined himself to be a monkey." He would not speak, would not sit at tabie, but insisted on eating out of a plate placed on the ground, by which he crouched on all fours. If anything to eat was presented to him, he always put it to his nose and smelt it before eatiug it. "This curious monkey-fit lasted several weeks, but the idea gradually passed out of bis head." A following paper contains an anec­ dote of Joe the chimpanze, who was liv­ ing iu the Zoological Gardens some twel ve years ago. He usutto be let out in the morniugs for exercise, and when the time came for going back to the cage he de­ lighted in keeping just out of reach of Sutton, his keeper. "Noamount of brib­ ery of fruit or sweets would cause him to descend from his perch. To what passion of the monkey's mind could an appeal be made, and iu what form was that appeal to be presented ?" Mr. Bartlett, the superintendent, had observed that two weak points in Joe's character were curiosity and cowardice ; and he, there­ fore approached the keeper in a mysteri­ ous manner, aud pretended t » poiut out to him some strange monster in the dark passage underneath the gas pipe, saying: "Lookout, there he is, there he is!" This worked upoa Joe's fear and euri- the Bide walk.-- i ®v®ry^ng that money could procure, , but all in vam, wher., to please a trteud, she was finally persuaded to use th# I lemons. She began to use them in Fe!*»v ' - ruary, and in April she weighed 14<| pounds. She is a well woman to-day and likely to Jive as long as any ojt, jagy"* ; Ma m The Catflah Aristocrat. John J. Ingalls, Senator from Kfrn&S, 'j writes an article on "Catfish Aristoe#--• , - racy" for the Kansas Magazine. Hem - • , ; is a descriptive passage: Gathereq^;#y around a rusty stove choked with soggj^'"' driftwood, he drinks sod-Corn from a ti& cup, plays old sledge upon the head of ^ an empty keg, and reels home at nigth- | fall, yelling through the timber, to hia ~ squalid cabin. A score cf lean, hungry curs pour in a canine cataract over the worn fence by the horse-block, as their master approaches, bayiug deep- mouthed welcome, filling the chambers of the forest with hoarse reverberations, mingled with an explosion of oaths and frantic imprecations. Snoring the nigtlt ' away in drunken slumber, under a heaj» ^ of gray blankets, he drawls into hia muddy jeans at sun-up, takes a gurgling drink from a flat, black bottle, stop- tsred with a cob, goes to the log pU« y the front door, and with a dull a£ if , slabs off an armful of green cotton woods texmake a tire for breakfast, which con^ gists of the inevitable " meat and bread,** ." - and decoction of coffee burned to a char* v *«: coal and drank without milk and sug r,^ 7 Another pnll at the bottle, a few grtdnak of quinine if it is ager day, a chaw of v ̂ navy, and the repast is tinished. Th^ sweet delights ot home have been en» - ,vV- joyed, and the spiritual creature goe# ' forth invigorated for the struggle of lite^ *, to repeat the exploits of every yester f $! ; dav of his existence. * * * An ami t %u osity until he gradually came *0 , mal, bird, Unl imited, unaccustomed t<* , , - } «ie passage, crooning with agnauon. J ̂ couscience V , Then Mr. Bartlett aud he ^< right reason, gregarious upon the botr< Jrjj cc!c?1Dt> ou » ,e ' * _ g ; torn lands, where they swarm with ua» '-t'N imaginable fecuudity. During the waf * they became guerrillas aid bushwhack**, .3 | , ers under Price, Anderson and Qttaj^ w trell; assassins; thugs; poisoners of I wells; murderers of captive women im<| ,1 children ; saekers of defenseless towns t T' ^ house burners; horse thieves; perpe*1 " trators of atrocities that would make tli$ >2 blood of Sepoys run cold. ^ out!" fied as if in great alarm toward Joe's house, with the effect of inducing Joe to rush into it himself at top speed. Joe, Mr. Btickland adds, never found out the trick, with which he was repeat- edlv taken in.--Saturday Review. Resulting in Coolness. The " preliminaries " of the occasion had all been settled. That is, John had i asked Julia, and she had consented. ( They were sitting on the front veranda i watching for the sable curtain of night j to part and give them just one look at; the new comet "Oh, by the way, Julia," said he, a little nervously, "my income is--is-- $850 now. l>o you think we could live up to it? " " Why, John, you precious, I can live up to an income twice as big as that all by myself." The farewell kiss that night was a mere mechanical bit of osculation. Jfew Hawn Register. THE Sanitary Commissioner of Mir sissippi reports that in a practice of: nearly half a century among swine-eat^* ing people he has not met a single case , ^ of poisoning by trichina? by the use of pork that had been raised and slaugh? i tered in the Southern Atlantic or Gulf 8tates. It is a fact that the hogs fed upon corn are most subject to trichina^ ^ and this it because corn is infested witii-, ^ • rats, who in turn are infested with para* 3 aitea. IN almost everything, experience ig ̂ more valuable than pceeept-- Ulian.