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-sm. ILLINOI& SIXTEEN whisky distilleries now in •operation in Louisville have been rein­ forced by a highwines factory, the first •of the kind in that district. Hu fllbtf jClunaiaan, was turned with STrcfnge'ceremonies by his country­ men at Wheeling, W. Va. On the way to the cemetery money was scattered in a lavish manner, and after the inter­ ment rice was thrown on the grave. Some coins and a fan were placed in the •Coffin with the corpse. *** Rev. JaiQM Beecher, one of Menrv Ward Aether's brothers, who . has buried himself and family in the -backwoods of Ulster county, N. Y., for •ei?ht years, has become so eccentric that his brother, the Rev. Thomas K. Iteecher, of Elmira, has got him into tbe insane asylum at Middleton, N. Y. »•***• J. .£w4S SIBLEY, of Dallas, Texas, went •duck hunting with $300 in currency in his pocket, and, not having any gun- wads, he • uised paper in loading. He beo^M&aoen grossed -with the sport that lie forgot all about his currency, and had shot away about $50 of his wad be­ fore he discovered bis mistake. He ho wevej thirty-seven ducks, which eost him a trifle over $1.25 each. TBERK <fier~ near Nebraska City not lonjjLago a young girl about 14 who •canaa her death literally through friqift| f while riding A horse to school alielpiyfcA a neighbor's house, when several dogs ran out and began snap­ ping and barking at the horse's heels. The animal dashed away, at which the girl became so excited and frightened that she would have fallen to the ground had not one of her brothers caught the horse and assisted her to alight. She was unableto stand, and could scarcely speak. She was conveyed to her home at 4>&M, where she died in less than an hotav. •. v ... THE School Superintendent in Indi­ ana complains of the incompetency of the public sohool teachers, and declares that the reasons why so many of them are inexperienced and poorly prepared are first, that the compensation is too small; second, that the employment is only for one year; third, that good teachers are compelled to make too fre­ quent changes; fourth, that the length of the school term, except in cities and towns, Is too short to induce teachers to remain in the profession. The Superin­ tendent adds that a good teacher is never paid enough, and a poor one is usually paid too much. THE Tuileries have been sold for 38,- 000,000 fnancs, coupled with the condi- tisn thai fche ground is cleared in six A writer in L'Hiuxtration says that he lately visited the renowned palace, and found it superb even in ruin. Those familiar with it in its glory cap| they gaze around them, recog­ nize famous features of the sumptuous past. The grand white marble chim­ ney of the Gallery of Fetes yet hangs upon the wall. The Hall of Marshals oan only be examined at risk to life. Vagabonds now climb under the pal­ ings and sleep under the walls which onoe sheltered Prince^ Mr. Ebeneser Hubbard, Chicago. A prompt reply was returned, in which Mr. Hubbard stated that his daughter was no longer Miss Fannie, but was married, and added that if the package was sent to him, he would forward it. It was forthwith mailed, and the missing picture has thus reached the person to Whom it was mailed twenty-three years ago. ' WHAT is the matter with the Chicago clergymen that so many of them should become "heretics?" First came Robert Laird Collier, who left the Methodists and joined the Unitarians; then Bishop Cheney, of the Protestant Episcopal church, inaugurated reforms until he got himself outside of what was con­ sidered by his orthodox brethren as a healthy religious organization. Next came Prof. Swing, of the Calvinistic Presbyterian church, and, after Brother Patton got after him, he (Swing) found no rest until he stepped down flttid out. Then Dr. Thomas turned the Method­ ist denomination in the West topsy­ turvy by his dissent from the estab­ lished creed of the church, and by the promulgation of theories in regard to man's future destiny which were utterly inconsistent with the popular orthodox belief, and which provoked a contro­ versy that ended in his exclusion from the fold. Now the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, of the Christian Church of the Disciples, is about to join the .little band of brills iant heretics that is headed by Cheney, Swing and Thomas. ; ; ; ^ months. A NOVEL suit has been commenoed in Dallas, S'fex., against the Western Union Telegraph Company by a Mr. Coile, of Throckmorton county. He owns a large sheep ranch in that county. Last spring he telegraphed his herdsman as follows: me at Buffalo Springs with horses and Shep." By Shep he meant the shepherd dog. • The operator wrote itr "Meet me at Buffalo Springs with times and sheep." Forthwith the Center rounded up the flock and hurried ; fh&A ' Over a 250-mile journey. The destruction to the flock was very great and the consternation of the owner •"^faj&the met the cavalcade unbounded. He sues to recover damages of $20,000. WASHINGTON gossips say that Col. "Tom Ochiltree," who has l>een elected to Congress from Texas, admits having received the German vote of his district because his opponent had once killed a German.settler and thus become un­ popular. In compliment to his sup­ porters he wiil, he says, give a "ger- man" to his lady friends at the capital , v «ot*e time bg^e Lent. A lady to whom he ma<lj|jBl)is promise playfully said: "Oh, yee^Colonel, and I have seen the very thing for one of the fa- vofs: "It is a model of George Wash- ington's little hatchet, with a picture on the blade of George, his father and the famous cherry tree.* Col. Ochil­ tree was delighted with the implied •compliment to what he calls his "vora­ cious veracity," and accepted the sug­ gestion.- So the hatchet will be one of the favors at what promises to be "the •event" of the social season. IN 1859 a package containing a da- tguerreotype of' a young lady with a pretty face and flowing curls, incased in a bltie velvet frame with a cameo on the oAtSide, was sent to Miss Fannie Hubbard, care of Eb- r Hubbard, Chi­ cago, 111. On the 7th of November, 1859, the package was sent to the dead- letter office after fruitless search by the -postal authorities to find the person to whom the picture was addressed. The package remained in the dead-letter of­ fice until a few days ago, when Mr. Mocliler, a clerk in the office, translated the "Eber" to "Ebenezer," and sent a ^postal card, reciting the above facts, to .NR T i4&#+ THE autograph letters left by the late Thurlow Weed are thought to form the finest private collection in this country. The collection includes letters written by every President of the United States since the formation of there- public. All of those since the time of Madison were written to Mr. Weed. There are also letters from most of the Revolutionary heroes, including Lafay­ ette and Baron Steuben. There- are one or two letters by Benedict Arnold. Nearly every man of note in the polit­ ical parties in the last half century has held correspondence with Mr. Weed- Nearly all of the political leaders of Great Britain are represented in the collection of letters. Many of them were received direct by Mr. Weed'from the writers during the war of the re­ bellion and since. Royalty is also well represented in the collection. Mr. Weed preatly prized this collection of autographs, and took great pride in showing some of the rarer autographs to his intimate friends. He had a room fitted up with shelves especially for this collection, and before his eye-sight failed he could lay his hand upon any particular letter he wanted. « Wh%t Is a Breed? ' Dr. B. D. Hals ted answers the above question as follows in the American Agriculturist; When any kind of farm animals has acquired certain characteristics through * Bftriea of generations, and they have become so firmly fixed as to be trans­ mitted to the offspring, with a great degree of certainty, Rtich animals taken collectively constitute a breed. The time that it has taken to develop and impress these breed characteristics has been very long in some instances, while other breeds have sprung up in a few generations. The work of establishing a good breed is a difficult one, and de­ mands several sterling qualities in the breeder. He needs to have an ideal anin^al in his mind toward which all his efforts tend. In other words, he must have a clear conception of' all the good points desired to be attained in his animals, and also must be keen to see any bad ones that are to be elimin­ ated. He needs not only to be able to see desirable qualities, but to be able to develop them, and this calls for a knowledge that is peculiar and a judg­ ment that is uncommon. Without these qualities a breeder may be car­ ried away by beauty of form or a charm­ ing color, to the neglect of deeper-seat­ ed and vastly more important qualities. The breeder who hopes to produce an animal that is the best for everything has started on the wrong track, and will come out at the end a most disap­ pointed man. The qualities that aid a horse in winning a hurdle race are not in combination with those that make an animal of the greatest service before a heavy cart. The breed whose ani­ mals make the largest amount of the best beef at 3 years is not one that will sweep the piizes for dairy products. "Jerey Queen," with her leading rec­ ord of 851 pounds of choice butter in a year would not grace the shambles when dressed for market. By a wise selection of animals for some particular points, it may be at the expense of others, with great care in getting offipring, and the use of abundant good food, excellent speci­ mens of any kind of stock may be pro­ duced. The breeder must remember that one of his fundamental principles is "like produces like," but as there is some variation, even among well-bred animals, he must follow a second rule in breeding, and "always select the best." In answer to the question put at the heading: A breed is an assem­ blage of animals possessing certain characteristics in common, which are different from those of any other group and able to retain those'points when bred together. DR. BRTNTON does not take stock in Mr. Herbert Spencer's remarks about Americans killing themselves with over­ work. He says that the life-insurance companies, whose purpose it is to get testimony for business uses rather than for after-dinner speeches, show in their tables that the expectation of life is in this country rathe" better on the grand average than in England, France or Germany. THE Snpreme Court of Iowa decides that a promissory note, properly filled out from a printed blank, except that the amount was not written out, though put in figures in the margin, is worth­ less. The marginal figures are a mem­ orandum only, and no part of the note. A6BKIULTU&1L. Corn can be cribbed in larger quan­ tities and earlier ia the saapm with safety by using ventilators. Make up­ right flues of slats or four boards nailed together at their edges and bore holes on every side. This flue 8*4*34 open at the bottom and extend through the corn at the top of the crib. The heat­ ing that starts up in a crib causes an upward draught through the ventilators which carries off the moisture and re­ duces the temperature. The cost is trifling, but the device is satisfactory in use. Sometimes rails or blocks of wood are thrown in the crib with damp oorn, but unless they are in a perpendicular position they do little good and these are not nearly so effective as an open flue. Even if corn is not damp or green enough to spoil it will materially assist in curing so as to be fit to shell and grind by giving full ventilation and free circulation of air. with xfpwt or frii stewiNf, aay, thi little beef stock; sauce, a pinch onion chapped 11 tie sugar. This or if you take the the skin from the: poured over the CELERY SOTTP. rice in three pintst pass through a part of three hei EXTRACT from a female physician's certificate, filed at the Boston Board of Health, on the death of a girl baby: " Age 5 minutes; eause of death, a long term of siokneas." MM* of Draining. ' * > It removes the fcttrpftxir %ater and prevents ponding in the soil. It should be noted that if tile drains are used they should be of sufficient size to remove the surplus water in twenty- four hours. Second. It prevents the accumulation of poisons in the soil, which result from stagnant water, either above or under the surface. Third. The ammonia is carried down into the soil by the descending rain, stored for the plant food instead of stopping on the surface and passing off by evapora­ tion, or borne away with the surface waste. Fourth. It deepens and en­ riches the soil by opening the ground, allowing the roots of the plant to go deeper into the earth; decaying after harvest, they form this subsoil into sur­ face soil, providing resources for the plant more reliable, and making the same ground better for cultivation for a greater length of time. Fifth. It avoids drought, by enabling the plant to thrust its roots deeper into the soil. Sixth. The drainage increases the tem­ perature of the soil. In some cases the average has been increased as much as ten degiees. Seventh. By securing uniformity of condition for plant gTowth, it hastens the maturing of the crop from ten days to two weeks. Eighth.; It enables the farmer to wcirk his land ii wet or dry seasons, and in­ sures a return for the labor bestowed. With our land thoroughly drained we can carry on the operation of farming with as great success and as little effect from bad weather as any business which depends on such a variety of circum­ stances. We shall have substitute certainty for chance, as far as it is in our power to do so, and made farming an art rather than a venture.--Prairie Farmer. r-- About Fattening CatUa. The following brieflets are from the reports of the experimental department of the Ontario Agricultural College: Most animals eat in proportion to their weight, under average conditions of age, temperature and fatness. Give fattening cattle as muoh as they will eat and oftimeB a d»y. Never give rapid changes of food, but change often. A good guide for a safe quantity of grain per d.iy to maturing cattlc is one- pound to each hundred of their weight; thus an animal weighing 1,000 pounds may reoeive ten of grain. Early stall-feeding in the fall will make the winter's progress more certain by 30 per cent. Glv« as much water and *<It fct all times as they will take. In using roots it is one guide to give just so much, in association with other things, so that the animal will not take any water. In buildings have warmth with com­ plete ventilation, without currents, but never under 40 nor over 70 degrees Fahrenheit. A cool, damp, airy temperature will cause animals to consume more food without corresponding result in bone, muscle, flesh or fat, much being used to keep up warmth. Stall feeding is better for fat making than box or vard management, irre­ spective of health. The growing animal, intended for beef, requires a little^xcrcise daily, to promote muscle and strength of consti­ tution ; when ripe, only so much as to be able to walk to market. Keep the temperature of the l>ody •bout 100 degrees, not under 95 nor over 105 degrees Fahrenheit. ' Don't forget that ohe animal's meat may l>e another animal s poison. It takes three days of good food to make np for one of bad food. The faster the fattening the more profits; less food, earlier returns and better flesh. Get rid of every fattening cattle beast before it is 3 years old. Every d sy an animal is kept after being prime there is loss, exclusive of manure. The external evidences of prime ness are full rumps, flanks, twist, shoulders, pores, vein and eve; A good cattleman means a differ­ ence of one-fourth. He should know the like* and dislikes of every animal. It pays to keep one man in cons'ant attendance on thirty head of fattening cattle. Immediately when an animal begin < to fret for food, immediately it begins to lose flesh; never check the fattening process. Never begin fattening withQut a de- fi ite plan. There is no loss in feeding a cattle beast well for the sake of the manure alone. "No cattle beast whatever will pay for the direct increase to its weight from the consumption of any kind or quantity of food--the manure must be properly valued. On an average it Costs, on charging every possible item, 12 cents for every additional pound added to the we;ght of a 2 or 3-year-old fattening beast. In this couutry the market value of store cattle can be increased 3G per cent, during six months of the fattening finish. In order to secure a good profit no store cattle of the right stamp and well done to, can be said at less than 4} cents per pound live weight. the OTNNig taste which Is _ able to many, and retains a delicate flavor that is excellent. BXOEIXKNT tonpto sauce, to serve meats, ia made by tomatoes in a a little pepper- mace, and a small •alt and a very lit- may be strained, ution to remove atoes. it may be without straining, il a small cup of milk until it will Grate the white of celery on a bread- grater; add this tojthe milk after it has been strained; p«t to it a quart of strong veal stock; |let it boil until the celery is perfectlv tender; season with salt and cayenne )>#pj>er, and serve. If cream is obtainable, substitute one pint for the same quantity of milk. BUCKWHEAT CAKSS.--Warm one pint of sweet milk and one pint of water (one may be co'd and the other -boil­ ing); put half this mixture in a stone crock; add five teacups buckwheat flour, beat well until smooth, add the rest of the milk and water, and, last, a teacup of yeast. Or the same ingre li­ en ts and proportions may be used, ex­ cept adding two table-spoons of molas­ ses or sugar and using one quart of wa­ ter instead of one pint each of milk and water. FRIED CABBAGE--Cut the cabbage •erv fine on a Hlutf\patter, if possible; salt and pepper, stir well, and let stand five minutes. Have an iron kettle smoking hot, drop one table-spoonful of lard into it, then the cabbage, stirring briskly until qu.tqtender; send to table immediately, An agreeable change is to put one-naif a cup of sweet cream, and three table-spftons of vinegar--the vinegar added after the cream has been well stirred--into the cabbage and after taken from the stove. When properly done, an invalid qan eat it without in­ to offensive odor from jury, and there is 'oooking. A DF.LICIOCB ST especially for t chicken, or any made by taking] g for any fowl, but e delicately-flavored f the small fowls, is about two dozen DOMESTIC RECIPES. . PICKLED GRAPES.--Fill a jar with al­ ternate layers of sugar and bunches of nice grapes, just ripe and freshly gath­ ered ; fill one-third full of good cold vinegar and cover lightly, QUINCES baked with the skins on are delicious when served warm; put one on a saucer at each plate. If mashed with a knife, the core is easily removed; then put on a little butter and plenty of sugar. In the prooess of baking the oysters; chop them very fine and inix with two cups of itr» bread-orumbs, or powdered cracker^; a full ounce of but­ ler is required; \m table-spoonful of chopped parsley, 4 little grated lemon peel, plenty of salt and black pepper, and a suspicion of cayenne pepper; mix these thouroughly; that is half the secret of success m cooking, to have the ingredients which compose a dish so blended that it is impossible to tell precisely of what it is composed. This stuffing should be moistened with a little of the oyster-liquor and the beaten yelk <ff one egg. Making Lore at the Play. An American visiting Berlin went to the theater one night, and what he saw there is thus related in a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle: One sees now and then a pair of lov­ ers in the back rows of these theaters, and as German lovers, especially among the middle classes, are privileged characters, and do as their own sweet wills dictate, it is well worth the price of admission to see them enjoy them­ selves. The first time we ran across such a couple, Chicago and I were shocked. Our puritanical bringings-up could not reconcile themselves to the open love-making. We had been used to seeing love-making indulged in in conservatories and dire hallways, while all the public. demoMtrations that we had ever,' been <v>&pUted to wink at were sly hand-squeezes and surrepti­ tious glances. Bnt the thing was different. This couple had come to the theater to amuse themselves, and while they watched the performance they did not neglect the other business on hand. It was very warm in the #tlieater that evening, but the heated air was not nearly so warm ,4a their feelings to­ ward each other So they sat very close to each other. Not only that, but he had his brawny right arm around her by no means diminutive waist, and every minute or so he would give her a hug that would nearly make her black in the face. But she seemed to like it, for every second hug she would look up in his face with a very touching expres­ sion of mingled love, trust and "do-it- again-please" on her faoe. And he, whenever this opportunity offered itself, would imprint a large kiss on her up­ turned face and gaze down into her eyes with a look '6f love that was truly touching. Betwee* the ferviditv of their love and that of the theater air, the perspiration wa$ rolling down their face in minature (jataracts. But that made no difference; they would have their cheeks togetlifr just as affection­ ately as if they liaa been on the ivy- clad porch of an Etst Oakland cottage, with the balmy air of summer evening playing about them. It seems to me that kisses under such circumstances must have >>een rather saltv. No doubt they were, but he seemed to enjoy them for all their saltness, while she fairly reveled in them. On the table in front of them was a large quart vessel of beer. Between hugs and kisses he would hand her the beer; she would take a good long pull at it and pass it to him, and he, carefully selecting the place where lierrosv lips had touched the glass, woild also drink. And though this soft of thing was kept up during the whoje evening, and was seen by a large number of people, no one but Chicago anl I paid any particular attention to it. Once in a while some old, steady Geiman would glance* that way, and iiis faee would light up with a meaning smile as he thought of his own exploits in the same line "so many Jears ago;" lut that was 'nil. The jvers kept np dieir caresses just as if there wasn't aiother person within a thousand miles of them. But it gave Chicago and I • great deal of amuse­ ment, and drev more of our attention than did the performance on the stage. Sometimes I envy the Germans in their possession of tikis liberty, and think of trying to introduce it in America. ABOUT ten days ago a little girl in Wheeling, W. Ta., while running in play, stumbled and fell, striking her forehead against a littfe mound of gravel, pro­ ducing what sremed to l>e a mere scratch on the forehetd, which, at the time, did not attract special attention. What at first seemrd to be a scratch soon en­ crusted over, but did not heal, and a doctor being called, a triangular pebble, the size of a compressed pea, was re­ moved from leneath the skin, where it was firmly imbedded. MRS. PARVENU, hearing thit onions were good for the complexion, rubbed her face all otrer with one before she went to Mrs. California' dinner partv the other evening, and she is wonder­ ing yet what the people avoided her for. Some of her rich sisters should tell her the reason. eKETlIO UP 400 FEET. U» Btmn «r Amndtaqr the Great Waafc- If one feels a desire to sup full on horrors in Washington, says a Washing­ ton letter writer, there is no way in which success is so certain and so speedy as an ascent of the 375 feet of the un­ finished Washington monument. Al­ though no accident of any kind what­ ever has happened since the work was begun, owing to the admirable precau­ tions that have been observed, the mere contemplation of the dangers to l>e avoided would give General Wash­ ington hijnself, if he were alive, the cold creeps. It must be remembered that the monument is already among the highest structures in the world, while the transportation of the gigantic blocks of stone to the top is something which has no parallel in this country and has seldom been equaled anywhere. Whether the ascent is calculated to in­ spire fear or not may be imagined from the reply mad» by one of the highest officials in Washington to the inquiry; "Were you--were you not just a little frightened going up?" "Frightened! I was perfectly terrified!" was the hearty response given with all the force of emphasis. This ascent is made by the elevator, which runs through the middle of the great obelisk. This elevator is a mere open platform, which does not deserve the name of the alleviator, as Mrs, Gen. Gilflory puts it; it is rather the terri- fier. Every time it goes up it carries from five to ten ton of stone, and the only way for visitors to get to the ; top is to huddle around the. immense mass of stone on the diabolical looking ma­ chine. The platform begins to move slowly and laboriously upward, grind­ ing and creaking at every inch from the enormous weight it lifts. In half a minute the light of day totally disap­ pears, and at that moment the horrors of the position suddenly swoop down upon one. To be dangling hundreds of feet above a chasm, with only a rope between a fall to the bottom with 10,000 pounds of stone, istenougli to appal any imagination. Although the dark­ ness ia blackness inconceivable, and the silence broken only by the groaning of the great mass feeling its way painfully upward, yet the frightful abyss appears to become of itself both audible and vis­ ible. The last 150 feet of balancing be­ tween heaven and earth is like hanging between life and death. Even the ele­ vator man gives up his heroic efforts to keep up the courage of the party. At length light from the top begins to appear, and in a minute or two a pal­ lid party of pleasure seekers step out on the platform at the top, 300 feet in the air. There is an enormous iron structure running through the middle of the obelisk, and around this the stone is blocked. Six feet are added every week in three tiers of two foot blocks. The structure is then six feet above the temporary platform, which is thereupon raised, and the work of bringing it six feet above the level is recommenced. A network of rope is securely fixed around the top of the shaft, extending several feet off, to catoh any unfortun­ ate man who may drop over--the work­ men are compelled to be on the very edge in order to complete the outer layer of stone. A young lady not long since, in a spirit of bravado, threw her­ self into this life-saving net. A* weak spot in the net would have sent her nearlv 400 feet to the earth. A contriv­ ance like the rigging of a ship is on the top of the shaft, and the wind howls through it with enormous force. When a tier or two of stone is laid the work­ men aj-e protected, in a measure, from the violence of the wind, but they Be knowledge that when they are working on a level it is sometimes terrific. If anything could repay one for the horrors of the ascent it would be the view after reaching the top. Even the most hardened sightseer must be en­ thusiastic at the great panorama spread out before him. The vast treasury builcfing looks like a Lilliputian house. The plan of Washington becomes as well defined as a checker-board. The full grandeur of the Capitol is theh for the first time realized. When it is re- meml>ered that the Capitol is of almost the identical dimensions of the great 1>yramid and of St. Peter's, being per-laps a few feet longer than either, it may seenvfhat it has nothing to lose by looking at it from any point of eleva­ tion. Everything else grows minute from the top of the monument, except the white splendor of the Capitol. It seems to be on a mountain instead of a hill, and amid the diminishing of every other object the great white doom .stauds proudly out, so high that it looks as though poised in air. A look at tlie elevator and a proposi­ tion to descend is enough to kill any enthusiasm, hovever. But it is by com­ parison with the ascent simply delight­ ful. There is no mountain of stone to make one fancy how it would feel to go to the bottom of the hideous hole with it. To the simultaneous and earnest assurances made to the I elevator man that nobody in the party would ever do so any more, he sardonically replied: "All of 'em say that!" An Anti-Fat Remedy. The widow Flapjack sets the poorest table of all the Austin boarding houses, and Gilliooly boards there. "What in the name of Heaven m^kes yon wear those tight pants? They look as if you could never get them off. Why don't you wear comfortable loose pants?" said Gilliooly to Hostetter McGinnis. "They are too tight, but they are the only pair I've got, so I can't take them off long enough to have them let out in the back. I don't know what to do about it." i "I'll tell you how you can have those pants made* bigger without taking them off." "How?" "Board with the widow Flapjack and you will have to put a puckering string in the back of them to keep them on, yon will get to be so thin around the waist."--Texas Si/tings. An Alabama Man with a Record. It is stated that John Holmes, of Morgan county, has raised eleven chil­ dren, seven boys and four girls; that he has seventy three grandchildren, forty- three boys"and thirty girls, and thirty great-grandch Idren. And further, that he is 79 years old, weighs 300 pounds, and has killed 1,500 deer and one bear. The ent re family, except one son, live in Morgan county. All the older ones lelong to the Missionary Baptist church.--Selma Times. The Perpetual Perfume of Cedar.* The pleasant odor of cedar, accord­ ing to Mr. E. Lewis, appears to be as persistent as the wood itself. Slivers taken from white cedar stumps found twelve feet under water at low tide near the Narrows en ranee to New York har- bo» had the odor of newly-grown wood, and a pieee not twice the sise of one's finger perceptibly scented a drawer for more than a year. "It is certain," says Mr. Lewis, "that the coast where the trees of which these are the stumps grew has since undergone a depression of eighteen to twenty feet, an event which may have occupied as many cent­ uries." ' A TRAVELING MOUJTAlt. " A BMKVJT Movement la CaaadlM Estate. [From the Toronto Globe.] The famous sand banks near Welling­ ton bay, on Lake Ontario, are reached by a beautiful drive of ten miles from Pictou. Over the two-mile-wide isth­ mus separating the little lakes, the sand banks, whose glistening heights are visible miles away are, approached. On pear approach they are hidden by the cedar woods, till the roadway in front is barred by the advancing bank, to avoid which a roadway through the woods has been constructed up to the eastern end of the sand-range. The sand banks stretch like a crescent along the shore, the concave side turned to the lake, along which it leaves a pebbly beach. The length of the crescent is over two miles, the width (300 to 3,000 or 4,000 feet. Clambering up the steep end of the > pleading guilty, was sentenced to range among trees and grape vines the wooded summit is gained, at an eleva- I tion of nearly 150 feet. Passing along the top the woods soon disappear, and w-e emerge on a wild waste of delicately tinted saffron^ rising from the slate- colored beach in gentle undulation and sleepily falling on the other side down to green pastures and into the cedar woods. The whole surface of this grandly undulating mountain desert is ribbed by little wavelets a few inches apart, but the general aspect is one of perfect smoothness. The sand is almost as fine as flour and contains no admix­ ture of dust. The foot sinks only an inch or t%o in walking over it; children roll about on it and down its slopes ai d rising shake themselves till their cloth­ ing loses every trace of sand. Occasion­ ally gusts stream over the wild waste, raising a dense drift to a height of a foot or two only, and streaming like a •fringe over the steep northern edge. Though the sun is blazing down on the glistening wilderness there is little sen­ sation of heat, for the cool lake breeze is ever blowing. On the landward side the insidious approach of the devouring sand is well marked. One hundred and fifty feet below the foot of this moving mountain is sharply defined against the vivid green of tlie pastures, on which the grass grows luxurantly to within an inch of the sand wall. The ferns of the cedar woods almost droop against the sandy slope. The roots of the trees are bare along the white edge; a foot or two nearer the sand buries the feet of the cedars; a few yards nearer still the bare trunks disappear; still nearer only the withered topmast twigs of the sub­ merged forest are seen, and then far over the tree-tops stands the sand- range. Perpetual ice is found under the slope of this sand slope, the sand covering and consolidating the snows of the winter months. There is something awe-inspiring in the slow, quiet, but re­ sistless advance of the mountain front. Field and forest alike become complete­ ly submerged. Ten years ago a farm house was swallowed up, not to emerge into the light until the huge sand wave has passed over. A Famous "Equestrienne." I was reading Gottsclialk's memoirs recently, and a reference that hejnakes to the furore caused at Havan the On agricultural it* Vis spends $80,000 per year lor expenses, and employs nineteen traveling salsa men. « y THK new County' ; Treasurer of Fulton county over 200 pounds, and will average ovitf 206 pounds. THE Hlinois Watch Company, at Springfield, haj determined to reduoa wages in the plate department from 15 to 25 per cent. W KITE county is now the bcuict Democratic county of the State, mfeBCf ' township bnt one having gone Demo­ cratic at the last election. CONGRESSMAN HKNDKBSON recently told a Washington correspondent that lie did n< t believe anything would be done this session toward carrying on the Hennepin canal scheme. THK Board of Supervisors of Taxe- well county have refused to make an abatement for back taxes against the Crown distillery property at Pekin, which amonnts to about $4,300. V "' ? A HAN named Webb stole a horse in \/ % Marion county Thursday, was captured ^ near Mount Vernon Fridav, and Satwr- tt- iu * x- ^ * ,i iu led <r.vs greatest Jd," was "liermosa setiorita Zoyara" me of the last ti^ie I saw person. OF EMVN»E VVERR now that "Ella Zoyara, t lady equestrienne in the w Omar Kingsley. But for a long time it was not known, and the strength and dash of Kingsley made him a phenom­ enal success. He used to be an extreme­ ly handsome fellow, with curling black hair, black eyes, small hands and feet and a tine figure. I can recall him now entering the ring as a jaunty ecuyere, his riding-whip at the traditional angle, making eyes at the men and kissing his finger tips. They used to rave over him in the Spanish-American lands to the south of us. Many were the gifts Zoyara received from amorous Spanish dandies. But I am wandering. I was going to speak of the last time I saw him as Zoy­ ara. It was at his benefit, and he was the ring-master. Many years had elapsed since he had worn the female garb. But when Zoyara bounded into the ring, the transformation was complete. No one would have recognized the snug ring-master of a few moments before. She went through the regulation feats with daring grace, and finally came to the lioops. She cleared all but one, which an awkward super persisted in holding at an impossible angle. Tlireo times she passed it, and each time the super grew more uneasy and more awkward. Finally Zoyara attempted it, but the super had lost his head. He succeeded in catching Zoyara's foot w ith the hoop, and she was dragged from her horse and hurled with much force to the grouud, where her fore- head struck against the edge of one of the wooden stools used for standing on. There was a roar of dismay from the audience, and then a storm of hisses leveled at the unhappy super. Zoyara rose, picked up the hoop, gracefully presented it to the super, smiled, kissed her hand to the audience, bounded after her horse, mounted and finished the act successfully. The whole thing was so neatly done, and Kingsley's com­ mand of his temper was so great, that the audience fairly rose at him. I admired his self-control extremely; for I had seen him drilling his troupe once when there was no audience pres- 'ent. The vigor of his profanity then convinced me that had such been the case at this time he would have laid out the super with a stool. & DURING the rebuilding of an orthodox church in a Massachusetts town the society worshipped morning and even­ ing in the Unitarian church, the build­ ing being occupied in the afternoon by the Unitarians. A visiting clergyman at the evening service, having called upon the Lord to bless the evening and morning service, added: "And wilt Thou bless as much of the afternoon service as thou approvest." A CHARLESTON (S. C.) woman blon- dined her hair with some vile concoc­ tion, and then, while braiding it, held it in her mouth. The stuff poisoned flier lips, and the poison found its way throughout her entire system. After weeks of doctoring she recovered. Miss YATES, who is, trying to indnce reforms concerning English working- men's food, is sustained by hi jh author­ ity when she says that dogs fed on white bread die at the end of forty days, while they thrive and flourish on bread made of whole meaL * " M' five years in the penitentiary. THE proprietors of the various board- ? iog houses and hotels in Springfield are » cleaning up, and making various prepar- ations to accommodate the members of | the Legislature and the inevitable Y<d lobby. ! ̂ THK fifth annual meeting of the Illi­ nois Tile-makers' Association will be;?:' held in the rooms of the Department of Agriculture at Springfield, Jan. IS ' ̂ and 17. This meeting is for the dis- "*•> cussion of dr&nage and the manufact-v ' nre of tiles. Two F KM ALE teachers in the publiei- VF-IV schools of Bloomington have been called' ' upon to explain to a committee of the,-' Board of Education why they used at- ^ rawhide on one of the bovs* in their1 charge. The matter is attracting much. ^ attention in Bloomington. "V- ROBERT W. ELLIOTT, of Chicago, and • * Annie Nannery, of Wilmington, deaf mutes, walked into the County* Clerk "st office at Joliet one day lalif week, and - by means of a pencil and paper mada it known that they required a marriaga . license, which was duly supplied. t A 12-YKAR-OLD son of John M- Mar- tin, a farmer residing some 8 or 10 miles southeast of Vandalia, while be-^f <5| ing chastised by his step-mother for1 " < misbehavior, whipped out a pocket* . \ j knife and stabbed her in the side, eev-% -' ;; ering the femoral artery and inflicting*' { dangerous wound. ^ i SENATOR T. B. NKEDLK« of Nash ^ ^ ville, and the Hon. T. F. Mitchell, of, * ^ B l o o m i n g t o n , a r e t h e c o n t r a c t o r s f o e ^ prison labor at Chester. They pay Tf 4 cents a day for each man, the highest rate ever paid for convict labor In the -- $ State. The men will be employed in . j making brick. , THE voters of DeWitt township, Do - -J Witt county, having become tired of ; paying 10 per cent, interest on $10,000 ' ~ , J of railway bonds, have decided to call * J an election for the purpose of voting to ---lJ refund them at a lower - ate of interest. The bonds are held in the East and ai Chicago and St. Iionis. . DR. JOHNSON, of Peoria, desires th* "• arm of the law to interpose and compel one Bunn to remove his blacksmith shopsfy , from the near vicini ty of the Johnson " V residence. The case has already beo|' , tried thrice, and thrice has the Jmtim'l , jury failed to agree, it is now report^ ed that Buna will sne malicious prosecution. - -- - -- THE new compromise proposition ts . .. Say dollar for dollar and intereston tho lacoupin county bonds ontstand ing, known as the Court House bonds,^^wat" voted upon Dec. 16, and was over­ whelmingly defeated. The taxpayers at" S Macoupin county will never agree to " pay one man 75 cents and another dot . lar for dollar. The question has bee*$|v J intimation for fifteen years, and thi*-> people will fight it to the bitter end. i THE census of 1880, which begins t»i appear officially ia fragments, gives th» farmers interesting items as to the com^ 'j parative production of the cereals in th#t various States and counties. In corny' ' Hlinois is ahead of all other States, and ; McLean county beats all the other counties in the world, yielding in th». year 1879, as taken by the census oc 1880, the immense crop of 11,976,581 ^ bushels. There were but three other -4 counties in the United States that esf' J ceeded ten millions of bushels, and thejr f were all in Illinois. They were Lasallc^ ' 11,148,779 bushels; Livingston, 11,094,- 013; Champaign, 10,132,525. 'j THE Peoria Transcript says: "Witl**, * | in a year past #2,000,000 hM been ex^- ' ^ pended in erecting passenger ana ^ freight depots, the Grand Opera House, J the Masonic Temple, the new hotel, th* " mammoth elevator, the new sbgar works and the Van Marter and Watson business blocks. Next year we are to. have the cable railway, the electric sys^ tem of lighting, at least two extensiv* manufacturing establishments located here, three more lines of railway will enter the city, and numerous fine build ing improvements will be made. Front present appearances Peoria will number 50,000 inhabitants within the neat fivo years." AN elaborate paper, aeeompanied by statistics which go far to bear out tho conclusions reached, has been prepared by Dr. Rauch, Secretary of the Stat# Board of Health, upon the introduction of small-pox into the United States by immigrants. Dr. Bauch shows* by statistics of small-pox in Chicago dur­ ing the last quarter-century the re*» markable coincidence between tho greater or less prevalence of the di*> ease and the increase or diminution of' immigration, and shows also that the epidemics since 1879 were all Intaro- duced by immigrants. Since the in­ troduction of the inspection servioa tb* disease bas been arrested and now it la substantially at an end in this ftity,-- Chicago Tribune. A BOLD and partly snooessful attempt was made to rob Long John Wentworto, in Chicago. We quote from the 2W& t une: "Mr. Wentwortli is the possessor of a large box in which he stores m valuable papers, title-deeds and securi­ ties, and which he keeps in l is fist- proof vault in Jack-on Hall. This bo* was in some way abstracted from the vault, and on Friday afternoon wi found hidden under a pile of the basement. The lock was and $2,000 in bonds h id been abet ed. Acting under advice, the box filled with waste-paper and under the coal. Yesterday mor young fellow who professes 1% plumber was arrested wh le oarry off the box, mad to-dagrl have a hearing." -55 • : . . .1'" M. .... .dtlf. »