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if#!* ;JL *mmm> tmm* mm*. SPEAKING of gluttons, there is a man i& Philadelphia who ate 700 oysters in one day, and he was neither lynched nor •ent to the insane asylum. JOSEPH COOK admits that he does not know how long after death the soul leaves the body. It will surprise Mr. Cook's acquaintances to learn that there anything he does not know. AMAH living near Lake Loifia^ in Manitoba, pioked up an armful of sticks one day and, carrying them home, threw them under the stove. In a few minutes two of the sticks commenced crawling away, having developed from ieat into good-sized moccasin snakes. FOUB Chicago men have contracted to build a Capitol for Texas, to cost #8,000,000, and take 3,000,000 acres of |mblic land as payment. Their scheme contemplates an immense business in grazing, and they have secured $6,000,- 000 for investment in cattle a^l im- : jwrovements. THK world moves. 'At ; Ike !,¥IGFEIT. "baccalaureate examination at Calcutta University, two young Bengal ladies came forward as candidates, and passed. This is the first appearance of the "annex" in the native form among the graduates of the university. The two young ladies are named Kadambina Hose and Chandramukhi Bose. ' & ' ONE of the favorite projects of ex- Oov. Jewell, of Connecticut, was an exhaustive history of theold Charter Oak, for which he had been collecting 'material. He was the owner of the fine painting of the tree by Brownell, and was having the picture engraved, with the intention of using the en­ gravings in connection with his mono­ graph. ^ " AH WOKG CHINO FOO, the editor of the new Chinese newspaper in New York, turns State's evidence and says that the trouble with his people in this country is that they have no brains. The Chinese who are gifted remain at Ikome, and about the only employment open to those who are here is that of laundrymen. The first number of the paper is quite a curiosity. ^ THE people of Nebraska are the best educated of any in the world, only * 9 5-10 per cent, of the white population being illiterate. Iowa stands next, with • f«ily 3 8-10 per cent. illiterate. This is ' showing of which those young States may justly feel proud. The most illit- I^pjrate white population in the Union is in Tennessee, 3o 7-1G. Ths ssest illit- eratecolored population is in Georgia, ........ Jjp per cent. •" '• * ---- THE statement made by Mr Talmage jn his recent "sermon" on the eye, that every human being winks about 30,000 times each day, is striking, but possibly ^frue. To score 30,000 winks a day a person would need to wink, only about twenty times a minute. If there was somebody to wink at,- probably he could do much better than that. It is an inter­ esting fact, and a valuable proof that , |Ir. Talmage is doing all in his power • -'to advance religion and make the world familiar with the teachings of the Scriptures. IN France upward of a 'milium for­ eigners now reside, only 30,000 of whom ' 4re English, while 450,000 are Belgians, $50,000 Italians, 150,000 Germans, 70,- OQO Swiss, and 60,000 Spaniards, jphirty years ago the Germans num­ bered onlv 57,061, and the Italians only f,307. Three-fourths of the 1.000,-0 foreigners live in five or six of the eighty-six departments, those which Comprise the most, after, that of the fieine (Paris), being the departments on pie Belgian frontier and on the Medit­ erranean. There are 193,046 foreign­ ers, or 7 per cent, of the whole popula­ tion, in Paris. t: Their contents imfHtiiti liii f ly of tablets, i» most cases brt&m, and relating gnerally to trade anil to prop­ erty in land, slaves, etc. Others relate chiefly to the King Nebuchadnezzar, and serve to confirm the Biblical im­ pression of him as a great King. A number of figures and statuettes ate also contained in the cases, and from them it would seem that the type of beauty in Babylon, as in Central Africa at the present day, was decidedly in­ clined to embonpoint. A number of silver articles are defaced, as though intended for consignment to the melt­ ing-pot, but for some reason or other they never reached it. IN a lec'ure before the Paris Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Ball combated the generally received opinion that folly and reason are separated by a strictly drawn line. There is a broad frontier, he savs, between sanity and insanity, peopled by millions of inhabitants. He holds that the number of persons per­ fectly reasonable on all points through­ out the entire period of their existence forms but a minority of mankind. "The world abounds with people," he tells us, "whom a strict scientific diagnosis would condemn as more or less mad; yet at no time of their life would it be permissible to put them under restraint. Such people are to be seen occupying hondrably and successfully every posi­ tion in society; we brnsh against them when we take our daily walks abroad; we see them in the mirror whieb fieots ourselves." *' FIBE-ESCAPES would not ordinarily seem to be things on which very much Artistic talent and taste could be ex- j»ended, but several of the architects of • ' f Kew York have recently designed very ; . . handsome and ornamental ones. This overcomes the objection that fire-es- '• Vfeapes disfigure the buildings, and the <•;" •) Hew York hotels, without exception, ~ fre putting up escapes of the new de­ sign. The guests, who might growl ^ because their safety is of less account * " tiian the exterior beauty of the hotel , ; buildings, will probably be restored to / good humor by the opportunity to go Aown a very pretty fire-escape in case of necessity. THE statement that eleven miles of are being constructed at Moscow ,:§or use on the coronation of the Czar, fecalls an incident of the coronation of ^ Alexander II. Great preparations had ' - "been made to feed the multitude, and ^:|he signal for admission to the tables Jiras to be given by the lowering of a tag on the grounds. The day before 1 -the time fixed, an officer, experiment- ':>.;lng with the signal-flag, accidentally /van it down, and in an instant hundreds ; ,ff>f thousands of hungry people invaded * "lhe grounds and carried all before them. ^f?his time 900,000 pies are to be dis- ' iributed, beer is to be furnished free to •;-i|ll, and BubinStein is to write a march • >*nd direct an orchestra of 1,000 musi­ cians and 8,000 choristers. Y, EIOHT out of thirty cases of Babylon- r Ian antiquities recently forwarded to the British Museum have been opened and HERE are two curious weddings -- under the advice of spirits. Samuel Hides, aged 77, dug a mineral spring at Ballston, N. Y., which is now valued at $25,000. The spirits afterward or­ dered him to marry a clairvoyant and me­ dium and to deed the spring property to her. He has just applied to the courts, however, and had his marriage annulled and the conveyance set aside. At Wilton, Ct., Miss Gregory stood by the side of her father's coffin and was married by the clergyman officiating at the funeral. The bride and groom, in somber attire, took seats with the mourning relatives, and the pastor be­ gan the religious exercises for the burial of the dead. The invitations had all been out and friends had come from a distant State to attend the wedding when the bride's father suddenly died, but asked that there should be no post­ ponement of the wedding on that ac­ count. And there wasn't. Why Men Walk Into Danger. This reason is simply the worship of chance. Men habitually place their property, themselves and their families in situations where they know that dan­ ger exists and that merely perfunctory precautions are taken against it. It ap­ pears that the willingness of the world to take ohaaees is the zeal cause of the most of tue iOaa nuu ttuueluig prOuSCCu by accidents. Lumber is cheaper than brick and mortar, solid arches and tile floors; a long, hollow iron wedge is cheaper than a strongly built steamship with water-tight compartments; stoves are cheaper than safety-heaters, and green men are cheaper than experienced and careful railroad hands. All these dangerous conditions are supplied by the capitalists bccause the public will pay its money and accept all the risk just as readily as if they were avoided at much greater expense. Against this state of affairs nothing could be said if it were not for that small body of peo- Ele who must travel, who must go to otels, and who must work in danger­ ous mines and factories, and who yet demand a reasonable amount of safety in all their outgoings and incomings. They are forced to take risks against their will, although willing to pay more for safety; and they not only have a right to complain about the usual way of the world, but they ought to com J plain loudly. Perhaps they may find themselves in the majority after awhile, but if they could make other people be­ lieve they are now in the majority their demanded reforms would be forthcom­ ing. A Universal Safety Demanding Society might be found practical and beneficial in protecting its members and others from the prevalent habit jo£ "taking the chances." THE PHILOSOPHY OP SHALL TALK.-- In conversation the power to talk just because we want to say something is a great acquisition and a positive pre­ requisite. No man can succeed in mixed companies unless he is \killed in small talk, and finds it easy to speak of one's health, one's appearance, one's closest surroundings, or a flying rumor and other things which have no importance and convey no special amusement. Some profound people despise this. One thinks: "Let these trifles expend their buckshot, and.I will then fire my artillery." Perhaps, however, he finds the buckshot lasts, and that there is no demand for his artillery. His righf method would be to fire buckshot with the rest--to show that he could do bet­ ter than they--and by this means he might interest them in other modes of shooting, and even excite a desire to witness his artillery performance. I know a learned professor who talks grandly to one listener. A gentleman who met him at dinner with eight or ten others said that during the whole tame, excepting what he spoke aside to servants, the only expression which escaped the lips of the professor was the word "Yes," and that in reply to a direct question. "Now," added the in­ formant, "if he had thrown about some conversational coin his companions would have said: 'We like the quality and impress of this; we must have some more from the same mint, but of larger value.' "--Thoughts and Events. Making a Slung-Sliot ef a Cow's TalL A New Hampshire man tied a four- pound stone to the end of a cow's tail to keep that member quiet while he milk­ ed her. After they got the fragments of teeth and blood, etc., out of his mouth and put arnica and a bandage on his jaw, he stated that he should never repeat the experiment as the end of the tail naturally hit as hard a blow as he eared to endure. TREKE are six different types of the Goddess of Liberty afloat in this coun­ try, and not one of 'em is dressed in a way you would like to see your sister adopt.--Sotnerville Journal A sandy soil is best for rye. It is so hardy that it will thrive in a of exposed plaeea where wheat will faiL It is less liable to the attacks of insects than wheat. &nd deserves to be a more general crop than it is. Flowing for Grass Seed. . The prevalent idea that shallow plow­ ing is sufficient for grass seed is an erroneous one. Unlike corn, the roots of which keep near the surface and re­ quire heat, tiie roots of grass require depth, moisture and colder soil. Fro Ben Potatoes. An English authority on this subject writes: "We know of no plan equal to burying them in the ground. Dig a trench, spread the potatoes as thinly as possible and cover them with the soil, which should be mixed with the tubers. If this does not remove the frost and leave the tubers sound noth­ ing will that we are acquainted with. Potatoes that are left in the ground all the winter are usually sound in the spring, though on account of their nearness to the surface it is almost or quite certain they have been frozen. We have often observed a potato that has been partly imbedded in the soil frozen above where exposed and sound below where imbedded, yet the frost must have penetrated the soil below the potato." , ; ' ' Begolar Veeding. 1 Farmers should bear in mind, especi­ ally during the winter season, the import­ ance of feeding their stock regularly. The quiet and contentment produced by this mode of treating cows will man­ ifest itself in the increased weight of the milk pail. In the winter season the second feeding should be about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, which will allow them to have from that time to milking all they will eat, and giving a feed of hay when the milking is finished. The first stomach of the cow should be empty, or almost- so, before more food is eaten. A cow chewing a cud cannot be hungry. This regularity as regards feeding should likewise apply to water­ ing and milking. This regular system of feeding applies fully as well to pigs and sheep, when the latter are in winter quarters. Animals can be as easily trained as children, and every farmer who bears this in mind will be amply rewarded by the fine appearance of his stock and the affection which, will be bestowed upon him bv them, " ' " j Sowing Grain with Or***. Sowing grain with grass seed, says an exchange, is a practice quite com­ monly condemned, yet it is rather the rule than the exception. This enstom can hardly be defended as one to be followed, yet it has some few advant­ ages, notably among which is the smoth­ ering of weeds. On a piece of weedy land, and when green manure is used before seeding uown--land inclines to weeds, to say nothing of the risk of sowing weed seeds in connection with grass seeds--it becomes a question whether to grow a crop of weeds or a crop of grain before the grass is ready to mow. The seeds of weeds start quicker than grass seeds, and the weeds will grow up overshadowing the grass, so that the first cutting will give more o on/1 Inna rtj 1 is desirable. In such a case the dan­ ger of letting in the sunfc hot rays and of burning out the grass is just as great as though a crop of grain had been sown and harvested. If, with the grass seed, a light sowing of barley is made, the latter will grow up quicker than the weeds and overshadow them, so that if the barley be cut green and made into hay, or even fed green where soiling is practiced, a crop of good fod­ der will be secured in lieu of a crcp of weeds. In all transactions upon the farm circumstances must govern as well as the best conceived rules. . -- >n. The hens ohwter aroundtliat primitive bone mlQ, groping down the rich mor­ sels with evident delight; and, since everything necessary for the production of egg* is thus fully furnished, there is no undue strain on the vital forces, no weakening of the system, but a daily attention to business, to the complete satisfaction of the fowls and their own­ ers. You can hardly give too much burned bones to your hens to provide the necessary amount of lime for the egg shells, which can be obtained by the barrel (and generally without cost, except taking away) at hotels or restaur­ ants in your nearest city. My new tenant goes eighteen miles for them, and considers them cheap at that. The hens eat them when pounded into frag­ ments as eagerly as they pick up shelled corn, and they furnish the needed material for the egg-shell more com­ pletely than anything else." DOMESTIC RECIPES. ' , ; .. .1 . ; The C»UM|« Fly. ^ W. & Lazenby, of Cornell Univer­ sity, says: "We kept the larvae of the cabbage butterfly in check by applying a solution of whale-oil soap. This proved a better remedy than carbolic acid, copperas water, ammonia, cayenne pepper, tobacco water, Scotch snuff, tar water and several other things that have from time to time been recom­ mended. The method of applying the whale-oil-soap solution was as follows: A barrel of water was placed where it would be convenient, to which the soap was added, at the rate of one pound to every eight gallons of water. The soap gradually dissolved and the solution was ready for use after a few days. The longer it stands the more disagree­ able it smells, and the more marked are its effects. It was applied with a com­ mon watering-pot, which was furnished with a fine rose, just enough of the so­ lution being used to wet the whole sur­ face of the leaves. Three applications were made during the season, care be­ ing taken that the last be at least ten days or two weeks previous to the time of harvesting the cablmges. After an experience of three years, during which time this remedy has been used in a great variety of forms, I can recom­ mend whale-oil soap as one of the safest and most efficient insecticides known." BOBW for PoaMiy. A writer in the American Poultry Yard urges upon poultry keepers the necessity of giving to fowls a lilieral supply of baked bones and oyster shells and writes his own experience in a very entertaining manner. It is as follows: "I supposed I did my duty to my hens when I burned bones to ivory white­ ness, ground them to the consistency of flour, and fed them ocasionally, with the idea that I was giving them egg shells in a very available form. But I did not consider that the gelatine, the fat, the ammonia and other constituents of the bones, which were discharged by the internal heat (leaving only a little pure lime) were really the richest possi­ ble food for the hens and the greatest egg-producing diet that could be fur­ nished them. My sew tenant only bakes them, more or less brown, in an old tin plate on the top grate of the stove oven. This is not a very pleasant process, for, like all scorched portions of the animal frame, they give a pungent, half-suffo­ cating smell which tempts you to 'clar de kitchen' till the fresh air from doors and Windows has sent the objectionable odors into outer space. But you soon become reconciled to this invasion of ill scents when the fiery combs, the cease­ less cackle, the evident high health of your fowls and the daily-filled egg baskets show you what they have accomplished. No other food, nor any aniount of food, if this is left out, will give you such returns; and this baked bone, pounded on a rock in your poultry pens and fed with ordinary BEEP LOAP.--Chop fine three pounds of steak, add one cup rolled Crackers, two eggs, one cup of milk, one tea­ spoon each of pepper and salt, piece of butter; bake nearly four hours. BAUKD HAH.--Make a crust of water and flour, roll one-half inch thick; soak, the ham over night and scrape well; cover entirely with the crust, so the juice cannot escape, and bake it till done; remove all the crust before serv­ ing. DRESSING von POULTBT.--Plaoe in a pan a small loaf of baker's bread, one- half cup-of butter, the yelks of four eggs, pepper, salt, a little* summer sav­ ory and two onions ttlioed and fried brown; pour over boiling water enough to wet it thoroughly, then mix. VEAL COLLOPS.--Cut the veal into pieces four inches broad, dredge with flour; fry in butter until brown and then put in water enough to cover the veal. When it boils take off the scum and add three sliced onions, salt and pepper; stew until tender; remove the m.eat, thicken the gravy and add a tea- spoonful of catchup. Pour over the blown collops and garnish with slices of lemon. \ FIG CANDY.--Take one cup of sugar, one-third of a cup of water and one- f urth of a teaspoonful of cream of tar­ tar ; let the sugar and water boil until it is a pale brown color; shake the ba> sin in which it is boiling gently, to pre* vent its burning, but do not stir it at all until just before you take it from the - fire, then stir in the cream of tartar. 3 Wash and cut open some figs; spread \ them on a platter, then pour the sugar over them. Take care to have each fig covered; set them in a cool place till the sugar has time to harden. CORN CHOWDER.--Cut half a pound of salt pork in little pieces n<rt more than an inch square; slice four onions very thin, as if you were to fry them; boil the pork and onions for twenty minutes in two quarts of water; cut six medium-sized potatoes in rather thick slices so they will keep their shape; add them to the soup and boil ten minutes (meanwhile scald one quart of milk); after the potatoes have boiled, add one quart can of corn, and lastly the milk, and let all come to a boil; cover the bottom of the soup dish with buttered crackers, and pour the soup over them. CORN BREAD.--Mix well with two quarts of fresh ground cam meal, three pints warm water, one table-iboonful sugar, one teaspoonful salt, and a large table-spoonful of hop or brewers' yeast. Set in a warm place about five hours, untilit rises well. Then add about three- quarters of a pint of wheat flour, and half a pint of warm water, and let stand to rise again about an hour and a half. Pour into a pan well greased with lard or butter; let it stand to rise a few minutes, and bake in a moderately hot oven nearly an hour and a half. It is good hot or cold, but best while hot. EGG PLANT BAKED.--Parboil fifteen minutes. Then make a triangular cut in the top; remove the piece and take out the seeds. Let it lie for an hour in water, to which a table-spoonful of salt has been added. Make a stuffing of one cup of crumbs, two ounces of salt pork and an onion chopped fine; one teaspoonful of salt; half a one of pepper and of nutmeg mixed ; wet with half a cup of boiling water or stock, and fill the egg plant, tying a string around it to keep the piece in place. Bake an hour, basting often with a spoonful of butter in a cup of water. Yanpire Bats of Brazili ! Pnobably no part of Brazil is more afflicted than a portion of the province of Bahia with the scourge of vampires. Whole herds of cattle are sometimes destroyed by this venomous bat. It was long a matter of conjecture how the animal accomplished this insid­ ious and deadly work; but scientific men have now decided that the tongue, which is capable of considerable exten­ sion, is furnished at its extremity with a number of pipilue, which are so ar­ ranged as to form an organ of suction, the lips having also tubercles symmet­ rically arranged. Fastening themselves upon cattle, these dreadful animals can draw the blood from their victims. The wound, made probable from the small needle-like teeth, is a fine round hole, the bleeding from which is very difficult to stop. It is said that the wings of this dead­ ly bat fly around during the operation of wounding and drawing blood, with great velocity, thus fanning the victim and lulling while the terrible work is in progress. Some of the creatures measure two feet between the tips of their wings, and they are often found in neat num­ bers in deserted dwellings in the out­ skirts of the city. The negroes and Indians especially dread them, and there are numerous anpefstitions among the natives regard­ ing them. The Last of Hochl Skinbn. The Hochi Shimbun, an able native paper of Japan, was lately suppressed on account of its radical tendencies. The editor at once sent out invitations to the subscribers to attend the funeral obsequies of the defunct journal. Sev­ eral thousatid persons collected at the office at the time appointed, when the editorial staff appeared supporting a bier, upon which was laid a copy of the paper. The funeral procession wended its way to a space outside the town, where a grave had been dug, and the Hochi Shimhun was hurried with all the honors which attend the interment of a high functionary of State. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND francs, equal to about $5,000, have been offered by a member of the French Academy of Medicine for the discovery of a cure for diphtheria. The prize may be awarded to any one out of the profession if he •hall make the discovery. (fcaKtfoK Btt-Stwos.--A alitor Hi the Bee-Keeper's Magazine girts the following as a cure for bee-stings: "Take a pinch in the fingers of coanitton salt; put on the plaoe stung and dissolve with water; rub with Hie finger. If not relieved in one minute wet the plaoe with aqua ammonia. Care should be taken not to get the ammonia into the eye. I have used this remedy for sev­ eral years and it has never failed with me. It has always arrested the poison and prevented the swelling." AN AUSTRALIAN CORE FOR DIPH­ THERIA.--A correspondent of the Cleve­ land Leader offers the following to the medical profession: As diphtheria, that dread disease, is very prevalent as well as fatal, it may do some good, and per­ haps save a life or two by publishing the fact that a few years ago, in view of the fatal scourges of diphtheria in Aus­ tralia, the government offered a reward of $25,000 for any certain method of cure. Among other responses Vas that of Dr. Greathead, which, it is averted, when the case has not advanced to a nearly fatal termination, cures the pa­ tient in almost every instance. It is simply four drops of sulphuric acid in three-quarters of a tumbler of water, for an adult, taken at intervals not stated. Less for a child. The result is said to be coagulation of the diphtheric membrane and its ready removal by vomiting and coughing. This remedy is simple enough and certainly worth a trial where other remedies fail. VINEGAR FOR THE SICK-BOOM.--There is a French legend that during the plague in Marseilles a band of robbers plundered the dying and the dead with­ out injury to themselves. They were imprisoned, tried, and condemned to die, but were pardoned on condition of disclosing the secret whereby they could ransack houses infected with the terrible scourage. They gave the fol­ lowing recipe, which makes a delicious and refreshing wash for the sick-room. Take of rosemary, wormwood, laven­ der, rue, sage, and mint, a large hand­ ful of each. Place in a stone jar, and turn over it one gallon of strong, clear vinegar; oover closely, and keep near the fire for four days, then strain, and add one ounce of powdered camphor gum. Bottle and keep tightly corked. It is very aromatic, cooling, and refresh­ ing in the sick-room, and is of great value to nurses. FRUIT JUICES.--In addition to the fact that the acid juices of most of our , fruits--always palatable--are favorable in the early spring and in hot weather as a means of purifying the blood and of cooling the body, they are exceed­ ingly useful to the sick, especially those who are suffering from actute forms of disease, in which little or no solid food can be safely taken. Their cooling ef­ fects must be apparent in these forms of disease, while the fact that no ordinary digestion is demanded when the pure juices are taken, is an important one in the successful treatment of ordinary diseases, nourishing and yet not taxing the organs of digestion. This is made specially important by the fact that in these forms of disease the gastric juice is wanting and the digestive organs are particularly inactive, demanding rest. When these juices, as those of the strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, etc., with those of the pear, apple, peach and the like, freshly expressed and not fermented, are taken, relished by the sick,, they sustain the sinking powers in the best possibls u jv oni] ifn not de­ press the digestive apparatus. It is manifest that they contain a vital nour­ ishment not detected by the chemist, and that they are exceedingly useful to the sick, especially when there is a craving for them, evidence that they are demanded as medicine. It is de- eirable to press them through a cloth that solid substance shall not be used, since this taxes the stomach far more than does the simple juice. The Donkey. I admire his perseverance. Some people call it obstinacy, but they take put a narrow view of the burro's char­ acter. They look at him through a single-barreled eye-glass. I have seen a burro work for hours to get his foot stuck in an empty tomato-can. When he succeeded, I have known him to go miles out of the way, in the darkness of midnight, to wake up some drowsy prospector with its melancholy tintin­ nabulation. I have known him to come back repeatedly witti his serenade, al­ though he had not been encored, and no floral offerings had been received. I have known him to crawl under the projecting bed of a railroad wagon and strain every nerve to boost it off the road. True, he did not suc­ ceed in his main desire, but he did ever­ lastingly smash two coffee-pots and de­ stroy the continuity of his owner's bed­ ding. I have seen him desert a bundle of hay to go away and munch cactus and gravel. He couldn't get the same amount of nourishment from the latter in the same space of time, but he scorned to be influenced by such a con­ sideration. I respect his digestive apparatus. One day I stood on a mountain side with a dyspeptic from Greeley, who for years had eaten nothing but graham bread and cracked wheat. We were watching a burro feed. As the animal slowlv and conscientiously chewed up the flour and gunny sacks, got away witli salt bags and bam covers, gath­ ered in brown paper and old socks, and finally tackled a large-sized sardine-box, the tears welled up in the eyes of; the Greeley man, and, in a husky voice, he said: "Gracious! If I could only do that."--Denver News. PATIENCE.--There are clouds as well as sunshine in this life, and one cannot expect to live continually in the latter. The clouds are sometimes those of ad­ versity, sometimes of sorrow, and often they are the shadows of calumny. Pa­ tience is required under all these afflic­ tions. Consciousness of innocence where your good name has been assailed should sustain you, and enable you to patiently await future vindication. Be assured that the ignorant and vulgar will be­ lieve the worst that may be said of you. The intelligent and just will accord you a fair hearing before they condemn. A SINGULAR death occurred at Derby, Eng. A servant girl was found dead, suspended by the neck from a roller- towel behind the kitchen door. She had been seen in good health and spir­ its a short time before, and the suppos­ ition is that, while wiping her face, her neck was caught in the towel, and she was suffocated. This, at least, was the finding of the jury. THO following lines are sung by the children in a Mormon Sunday-scnool: A loving band of children, we're all to Zion bound. For our lather tofss--K aattw. *wn <W» sad (U around. oftfcs African Itaee to „ CiviMMttioo," it asm lis colored washwoman has agreed to tike o*t Iter bill in old exchangee in Hen of actual cash.--Texas Siftings. CLEVELAND, Pattison, Butler and Waller, the tidal-wave Governors washed ashore last fall, have given their several constituencies some little amuse­ ment by the way they have tangled their legs up in the matter of calling and granting requisition. In Connecti­ cut the intellectual Secretary of the equally intellectual Waller granted a requisition on his own hook. "WHAT kind of a figure do you think Judge Davis has out in the Senate?" "Why, he has managed to vary his biography somewhat at the expense«of any material performance, and I should tlunk at the expense of his real dignity. Few men who have sat on the Supreme bench have had so many circumstances occur to them as Davis, yet in hardly any case has he seemed to direct events or to show capacity for legislative life." --Oath's Interview with a Cabinet Officer. ALL through the prohibition contest in Iowa the Democrats of that State Erofessed to be strongly in favor of igh license, but, now that the proposi­ tion is being urged quite earnestly, owing to the failure of the prohibitory amendment, the Bourbons are craw­ fishing. If brought to a square issue, they would take the same stand there as at Springfield. The Democratic party can be counted upon safely to be on the wrong side of any and every public question, State ot national.-̂ Chicago Inter Ocean." ONE of the leading Oreenbackers of Indianapolis, says the Journal of that city, lias become disgusted with his party and proposes to abandon it. He says that it has sold out so many times that the organization is demoralized. Last fall he asserts that 2,000 Green­ back votes were offered to the Republi­ cans at $2 apiece. When the Republi­ cans declined the bargain it was eager­ ly accepted by the Democrats. Having worked the Greenback dodge for all it is worth this leader now proposes to go into the anti-monopoly business for a living. THE Texas State treasury has a sur- {dus of some $2,000,000, and the people ie awake nights from fear lest the Treasurer will run away with it. The Legislature has now before it a propo­ sition to increase his bond to $500,000, but as he could reimburse his bonds­ men and still have $1,600,000 left, if he chose to follow the illustrious example of Polk and Vincent, this iB not con­ sidered much of a safeguard. The shortest way out of the difficulty would be to appoint a Republican Treasurer and then the people could feel sure that that cash is "tliar."--Chicago Tribune. THE Massachusetts Democrats natur­ ally are beginning to ask what they have gained by placing Gen. Butler in the executive chair of the State. So far they have had little to compensate them for their trouble and expense, to say nothing of the odium they brought upon themselves. Their share of the patronage the Governor has had to dis­ tribute has been insignificant, the larger part of it having been given to the Butler Republicans. The General, doubtless, believes that the Democrats irill continue to aid him whether they get any of the offices or not, but that the only way to hold his Republican supporters is to give them the lion's share of the good things.--Chicago Tribune. THE appointment of Mr. Dorman B. Eaton to the Chairmanship of the Civil Service Commission is one with which the most ardent reformers ought to be satisfied, for he has talked and written more on the subject of civil-service re­ form than any other man in the coun­ try, and his study of the subject at home and in England has given him a familiarity with it that few men can boast of having. Mr. John M. Greg­ ory, the second member of the commis­ sion, is pleasant ly remembered by many of the old residents of this city. He was a teacher in Gregory's Commercial College here about twenty-seven years ago, and was regarded then as a man of unusual ability. He afterward removed to Illinois, where, in the winter of 1866-7, he was instrumental in procur­ ing a charter for the Illinois Industrial College, an agricultural school of which he was President for many years. Lat­ terly he has lived in Chicago. He is without doubt a most excellent man for the place to which he has been ap-. pointed.--Detroit Pout. "SHOESTRING" CHALMERS is giving the Democrats almost as much trouble as Jefferson Davis did. They don't want him in the next Congress and yet they cannot keep him out without con­ senting to a most glaring election fraud. They tried to shoulder him upon the Republicans, but the latter promptly washed their hands of him. The latest plan suggested for dumping him into political oblivion is to redistrict Missis­ sippi again and so cut off all chances of his ever getting re-elected if he suc­ ceeds in his present contest. To ac­ complish this the Democrats are said to be willing to give the Republicans two Congressional districts. The State was gerrymandered in the most shameless way last winter, and the fact that the folly has returned so soon to plague its inventors is a good proof of the short­ sightedness of political tricksters. IT was the custom of Gov. Waller when addressing a political gathering last fall, when he desired to impress those present with any particular state­ ment that he had made, to turn to the newspaper men and request them to "put that down." To such an extent was this request made during his speech in Middletown that it gave the same a look of "dizziness" when it appeared in print. It now comes our turn to ask the attention of our readers to the fol­ lowing statement of moneys stolen by Democratic officials, and to request them, in the language of our worthy Governor, to "put that down!" State of Missouri t 5800,000 State of Arkansas State of Tennessee .̂ *00,000 State of Alabama St50'0*?! City of Louisville 800,000 Grand total-- ......... H,45O,OO0 Only $1,250,000, not taken by "scala­ wag Republicans," but stolen within a few short weeks from the State and city treasuries of five Southern States by the "Bourbon Democrats," those highly moral characters that go to make up that "great party" which in a few short months will "pose" as the party of "honesty and reform." Paste this in vour hat, good reader, and when you nave time calculate the amount that the Democrats would steal out of the national treasury if they once got a crack at it; taking the above figures as a basis.--Norwalk (Ct) Ckuette. tfea of tito m term Wis in lad, fta vototalsvy taxaaaot tot HMk ot fti tw Am, in HStdte byreoaut river flood*; 1 witnesses In criminal eases the am ftu a»t witnesses ftaetvflcsaMan snowed; by Mz. tW- ww»,t»daa«ttti0ai4|iyWafar<t|w instead ct twslia. Mr. Mania lewimhil » nsotatlon provtdtnr fur the *wJiilnmit nt a Joint committee to vtatt the patSam o< tlw itete where the cfttm have sofferod tans neent floods sad report f needs ana wi dotd-kwdc wan t of a quarwn, agieskwi CeOisa, aft tbe re­ quest of Mr. Fund, stated Uw wwllUua of the Klupp resolution before the House. Psmfl then moved a call of the Horn Fifty-two members responded to their names, and the House adjourned. THE following bills were introduoed in the Senate on the 37th alt: By Mr. BenHpea, *> amend the Fee and Salary act; by Mr. Xeedlee, to provide for the publication of oertaiB k«Sl advertisements in German newspapegs; fry Mr. Fletcher, to revise the law creatfof a I of Agriculture; by Mr. money for the support of the I riculture. Mr. Tanner,from the] mittee, presented a report la fsror of Mr. Shaw's bill provMKng for tbe eleiatioai by the people of the Railroad and WawlWMf Commissioners. Accompanying lqiwt was presented a minority report signed by Messrs. Tanner, Hogan, Condee and Brans testing against the passage of the MIL Governor sent to the Senate a oom announcing the new Ballroad and Commission as follows: Wilhaa K. Brainard,of Chicago; E. C. Lewis, of La Salle; Charles T. St rat tan, of Jefferson. The communieataoi was referred to the executive seMrion. Mr. Morris called up the resolution looking to icflet tar the phawneetowa sufferers, and it was rassi.il Mr. Berggien's Mil to amend the air in Berggien's bill to amend on to criminal in The bill introduced h' ropriation of i. , ioia and Michigan canal metwfth relation to criminal inriswndenoe ww passed. by Mr. Hay to provide for b e opposition, b third reading. Mr. Clark's tlie appropriation of <60,000 for the' the Illinois and Michigan canal met wtth~ebsut&» b u t w a s f i n a l l y o r d e r e d w > a erable i MB* an- a villages vteof the corpo-» easily, oy but xUvlo nuv ««vv wills «ituna wmpMrn*" The first was Shaw's providing that three ten of the commission shall ho d at the next general election and two years thereafter: and the other wait report was adopted. la the House, Committee on Revenue reported fai •' Herrington's bill requiring dealers in take out licenses to transact business. bill, providing for uniformity of school all schools of the State, was tabled, and, on mo­ tion of Mr. Kimbrough, a substitute was seat to second reading. Bills oa second reading elaimed the attention of the House during the re at ths session. Statistics ef ReHgloas Scritfc" The denominational statistics of the census, if compiled, are not available. The Rand-McNally "Index of the "World" gives tlie following data for Jan. 1, 1881, which may be considered estimate: '•M ' '1 .1 -11 T - J thorlsing Gtty Councils and,Trastees in to submit the question of license to a vote of people and to prescribe what sureties shall he taken on the bonds given, was, after a prolonged discussion, killed by the very close vote of 18 to 17. The legislative dead-lock in the House remained unbroken, and the prin­ cipal portion of the day was consumed by a talking match between Messrs. Morrison, HUM and Henlngton. Unanimous consent having been obtained, the Committee on Appropriation* Braid wood i families Speaker Collins announced the mittee on the part of the House to visit nee town: Black, Lackie, Felker, Peterson aad Sexton. THE General Appropriation bill was re­ ported to the Senate on the 28th ult. The total amount asked for is $3,701,750, which is $28,7Sa less than that of two years ago. Mr. Archer's joint resolution giving the Governor power to voto a part only of a hill was, after a lengthy discussion, adopted. Bills were introduced Ss follows; By Mr. Morris, to consign all tinea col­ lected to the county treoury for general pur- uoses, instead of applying them to the WHO) land. By Mr. Menitt, to amend the Bailroad law by reouiring trains to stop at all places ct 2,000 inhabitants, providing a fine oftK tor neglect. By Mr. Lansing, to regu­ late charges at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. The bill provides that these yards shall be placed under the supervision of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission. By Mr. Clough, to provide for theestabUshiagotsa Industrial school for boys and girls. Mr. Whit­ ing's bill taxing express companies 1 per cent, of their gross receipts was, after a lively debate, or­ dered engrossed for third reading. In ths Mease, an immense number of bills were introdaoed. They embraced almost every known topic sub­ ject to regulation or legisattion, aheem dags, hedge fences, wolf scalps, levees, drainage, fire- escapes, criminal code, patent rights, svftags banks, fish and game, express aad (liimih companies, high and low Hoease, insurance companies, sleeping-cars, toy pistols, school books, butter and cheese, and railroads. The only ones of general Importance were as fol­ lows: By MT. Baker, cutting the salaries of the Bailroad Commissioners to $1,000 n by Mr. Mitchell, decreasing tDerate of sto«ag» on grain in public warehouses. The rats on I,000 bnshels ror the first ten days is mai cent, and a longer period in proportion; , Haines, declaring sleeping-oar companies common carriers, and prescribing maxJ_ charges for said companies. Mr. Follsr's JOgh License bill wss considered. The Mil fixes the Uoeasefee at not less than $MOnor l II.QOO per annum for eaOh BaloOn ttoa-- Jta counties. In aMsa, hnis'i aiijl iWiipiJliii sliding soale of tarlf tor podntry tqrato. it provides a license of from Wto $300 Mr aaaam for permission to sell wine* or malt liqnor, and leaves the fee for tolling alcoholic Honors SMtt per annum. One or two other amendments were offered. A motion to recommit the bill aad amendments was carried by 68 to 68. First knock-down for low license. TWKNTT bills were presented in the Senate on the 1st inst, throe of which wer<* to appropri-, ate money to pay old canal claims. These claims were defeated before the Claims Com­ mittee under the statute of limitations. Mr. Bice put in three bills to enable railroad rations to conduct their business more Mr. Sunderland introduced an emergen. to provide for the running of the oflee of County Treasurer in case of death or soddent. Mr. Condee's bill to authorise policemen to servo papers the same as oonstabks was pswsirl Sir. Clark's bill to amend the incorporathxilawjt so as to check the Incorporation of "snide" or­ ganizations wss ordered to a third reading. Mr. Morris" Indictment Amendment bill and Mr.; Hereley's bill to amend the act In regard to practice in courts of Justice wen kfflod. The bills relating to the appointment of Bailroad and Warehouse Commissi <ners oame up as the special order. There were two bills under considera­ tion. Th« members elected e every two years thereafter; and Needles',extending the term of the< era tosix years, and providing for thei siient of one by the Governor every two years,an. the Penitentiary Commissioners are now ap­ pointed. After a lively straggle, ths lasjorttj . " use, the : •• e l . *»• « .6,lT4,*a .3,133,0** MS-® i,m,7 . S3S.01S . 684.57U . 573^77 . SST.MS 833,876 1(6,437 Roman Catholls.... Baptist Methodist ... M. E. South Lutheran Presbyterian Christian Congregational Protestant Episcopal United Brethren --,-- Befonned Church in United States. 164,Tit United Evangelical 1**.90» Presbyterian South Protestant Methodist - 1JJ®* Cumberland Presbyterian Ul̂ W The Brethren United Presbyterian JS£» Befonned Church in Amenoa............ *a*»« Freewill Baptists Friends •••• Second Anventists. Anti-Mission Baptists 4»,«0 Universalis Church of God........... JA£M Weslevan Methodist..................... }t,S*T Moravian Hll* Seventh Day Adventtsts. 14,7518 Jews M.MJ Free Methodist Idrentist -- -- ii.io» Reformed Episcopal M.tO Seventh Day Baptist a,<M Reformed Presbyterian •»<**> Mew Jerusalem 4,734 Primitive Methodist WW New Mennonite American Communities... MB Shaker Independent Methodist fcl® Six Principle Baptist MB W,70S CM>43 THK decrease in the rent of farming land in Scotland averages 10 per oent. This is partly owing to poor crops for a series of years, and partly to the amount of capital invested by Scotch farmers in America. WA K ATERKNN AIKXT A K SKRUF.NT ASMO- LIHATIER is the the little Iroquois that means habitual prayer. What!®* thunderareyougivinns is the orthodox response. IF you would be perfectly sure that jqur evil deeds will not be found oat* the best way is not to do any. •siWa