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' t. WMUMk, WtoraaiPsitotor. imenby, ILLINOIS. - Qrsss Yictqs&i baa rsigssd forty- ik years, one yasr longer than Queen Sen. The Utter was in her 70th year When aha 41*3. Queen Yiotoria Is 64. Garfield the aaeodotes and incidents a largeool- ledlm of«orap»books,. avd Girardin, the French editor, ̂ probably carried the system to greater perfection than any other man. f £ I ft r fe; l PJUHIDXXT MCCOSH, of Prinoeton has written a letter to show t thetendenoy to athletic sports at Anoiou colleges has had bad results. The craze has been carried too far. Y OF all who oomposed the United States Senate which assembled in July, 1861, only Mr. Anthony and Mr. Sherman can be said to be still in 4 active political life. The rest are dead 4»r retired. • Loins Hmmm, of St. Louis, failed miserably in an attempt to eat fifteen ' "j^ies within an hour, on a wager of $5 4|nd the costs. He began well, but be­ came much distressed at the tenth pie, |jnd at twelve pies and a h&lf lost all ^lontrol of his stomach and retired. - BUFFALO is rapidly becoming one of Hie most important coal-distributing ;§K>ints in the country. More than 9,000,000 tons were received there last - Jtear, and the receipts of anthracite '"fere 50 per cent, greater than for the previous year. •*'> JOHN H. DUTTON, an old bachelor, Tires all alone in Shelburne, Vt., does Ibis own cooking, makes his own clothes, and expends his spare moments in piec- £bg up bedquilts, his last quilt contain­ ing 15,376 pieces three-quarters of an indi square. , •' ••*«* • • THE Government has decided to re­ lease Sitting Bull and 140 braves from Uailitary custody. They will be taken 4rom Fort Bandall and placed upon a Reservation at Standing Bock Agency. They profess an earnest desire for a life of peace and industry in farming *nd stock-raising. : T H E Y think they have discovered in Portland, Ore., the meanest man on the pacific coast. Some benevolent ladies .contributed money to buy a stove for a poor widow and placed it in his hands, fie made the purchase, but kept the Hew stove himself and gave the poor Uridow his old one. The ladies threaten to roast him on it. * AT Heidelberg, Germany, an En­ glishman,being much put out at the way a student used his knife at dinner, at length ventured to suggest that he fnight cut his mouth if he continued the Operation. The student, remarking that lie had a birthright to lacerate his mouth to his heart's content, left the hall and 'L. A _ a --< J ji UYQUV J» I>IU*UEU£E, »UW «M BUUBC^IMUUT •hot dead by the Englishman. SEVEBAX eminent English geologists thinks that Wales is to be the new El porado. Small pieces of gold washed away from the hillsides have been found in the valleys of Llanelltyr, and they «ay if there are nuggets of gold in the valley or in the course of old river beds, then there is gold quartz in the mountains. If some of the mountain ranges were tapped, it is likely a real gold field would be found there. THEBE is a genuine political curiosity in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. The recently elected Sheriff has de­ clined to hold office for the reason that . it may interfere with his business. Like Artemus Ward, who used to say that he never let business interfere with his drinking, the politician seldom lets business interfere with his politics. The Pennsylvania man is a rare case. He should be preserved and sent to the Smithsonian Institute. THEBE is at present a great deal of writing about the return of the Hebrews to Palestine. The calmest writing seems to oome from Hebrews, al­ though George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" has inspired not a little enthusiastic trhetorio. The Jewish World, of Lon­ don, is said to be the organ of the "Reformed Jews," and it says that the mission of their race is to propagate a sensible view of life and not to restore the kingdom of Israel. REV. DB. COIXYEB, of tfeW 'York, says: "I have nourished the conviction for some years that a woman should do anything which she felt called upon to do as the helpmate of man, not only in the home, but also in the great world, from being a soldier to being a preach­ er, a priest of the most high God. She must answer for herself for what she ' does as we men do, and she must be ""tried by the results that she achieves. , J wonder how many of us would stand ' that test?" • A CHICAGO paper agrees with Dr. .Dix in regard to the inability of women * to compete with the other sex in col­ lege discipline. "Where," it asks, "is the woman who can pull a creditable -oar in a college boat race? Where is the woman who has ever attained any vskill as a base-ball pitcher ? What women have attracted attention and won praise by their excellence as foot­ ball players? Are there any women who would prove efficient in a college 'rush' or could stand 'hazing." witli -cheerfulness and fortitude ?" : ' Mas. W. X. VAWDWtmrW'W%£ sieged for invitations to her fancy-dress ball the other night that she was well nigh distracted. A Boston woman of­ fered her a picture of one of the old masters in exchange for a card of invi­ tation ; another asked one on the ground that she had known the old Commodore and her husband had had business re­ lations with him. At last, driven fran­ tic, apparently, by these applications, Mrs. Vanderbilt either invented, or somebody- kindly did for her, a story that "Herr Most and his 'followtois would on the evening throw bombs into the windows in revenge for Yanderbilt's discharge of a large number of brake- men and laborers on the New York Central railroad. One of the cosumesi at the fanoy ball was composed of the tails of white cats. The bodice was low and ornamented with cats' heads. On the lady's forehead was a cat's head, and a cat's tail depended from her back hair. Thccats were all killed toordei for this occasion. THE Supreme Court of Illinois, full bench assenting, has rendered an opin­ ion declarut in substance that the Pull­ man Palace-car Company and like cor­ porations are common carriers,'placing them on the same category as railroad companies. This is contrary to the decision given by the same tribunal some j^ars ago, and affirms .the principle the Illinois Legislature has endeavored to embody in a statute. The suit was brought by Luke Nevin, of Blooming- ton, against the car company for refus­ ing to permit him to occupy the sleep­ ing berth assigned him, which he offered to pay for. The lower courts decided that the plaintiff had no power to en­ force accommodations from the car company, and it was, optional on its part to furnish the same. The court asserts that the running of sleepers has become a business social necessity, and in this view the law can impose obliga­ tions on the company, the same as on railways, ferrymen .and inn-keepers. In the language of the opinio^: "When, therefore, a passenger who, under the rules of the company, is entitled to q berth, usual fare, and to whom no per* sonal objection attaches, enters th<) company's sleeping-car at the proper time, for the purpose of procuring ac­ commodations, and in an orderly and respectful manner applies for a berth, offering or tendering the customary price therefor, the company is bound to furnish it; provided it has a vacant onq at its disposal. For a breach of any o| thash implied, -duties, _ the , h'oldB the company clearly Bablei* A AWBCWaumAL. To RKttomwfui* on horses, take a piece of coap«4rated lye as large as a walnut* pat it into a bottle with rain water enough to dissolve it and apply with a feather. AN Illinois correspondent states that sxpefienee liM taught him that cattle will theft* belter on good, bright flax straw than on oat or wheat straw, and he never knew cattle to be injured from eating it. IN selecting potato seed two things •hould be kept in mind; first, plant only such seed as may be expected to pro­ duce smooth, fair-sized potatoes; sec­ ond, plant only when the seed is in fall iFi He aecord- avage a Worn-out grand 'which he had bought for eighty vigor. Cheever. BASSWOOD trees are urged for plant­ ing by the roadside, as they serve the double purpose of attractive shade and abundant forage for bees. They also an old Patagonian ingly gave the sa< piano, francs. A few days after making this gener­ ous present, De f^nt^nA morn­ ing to pay an early visit to the Patago­ nian. He found him sleeping peacoful- lv with his wife inside the piano, from which he had carefully removed sound­ ing-board, strings, etc., and which, thus transformed, constituted a not uncom­ fortable bedstead. This may account for the final rest­ ing-place of old "grands," but what is the end of worn-out cottage pianos ? lii LB6EJTO. Thrilling Adventure. An old showman tells the following exciting story of his experience when connected with a well-known menagerie during an engagement at Smithland, Ky.: "After the exhibition was over," he says, "I passed into the menagerie to talk to the watchman. From some cause he was absent from his post, and I walked across the amphitheater toward my old friend, the elephant, to give him an apple, for we were the best of friends. He was one of the largest elephants I ever saw, and was as good-natured as he was large. I was about half across the ring when I heard a growl, and, looking around, saw to my horror one of the lions out of his cage and approaching me in a crouching manner, ready for a spring. I thought of a thousand things in a moment, and among them I must have regretted perpetrating so many old worn-out jokes at the performance that night. I had sufficient presence of mind to realize my dangerous situation and to know that it required the utmost caution to extricate myself from it. One hasty motion on my part and I would be in the jaws of the monster. I felt that mv only hope was the elephant, if I could reach him, but he was chained by the foot and could not reach me. Nearer and nearer came the lion, waving his tail in a manner that meant business. If I turned my back he would spring; if I took my eyes from him, I was lost. It was a terrible moment. I glided back­ ward swiftly as I dared. I had another fear. I feared stumbling backward, and knew if I did fall I would never rise, but that where I fell I would make a meal for that lion. As I neared the elephant I saw that the lion understood my movements, and, fearing he would be balked of his prey, he prepared to bring the matter to a crisis. I then saw that I had but one hope, to rush with all my speed to the elephant. I think I must nave jumped twenty feet when I turned, and I know the lion jumped thirty, but he just missed me. How I completed the race I do not know. I lljF knew that the elephant's trunk CHARLES BEADE, as everybody knows, is a firm believer in the scrap-book, and has an immense number of newspaper -clippings properly indexed, from which he obtains much of the material for his stories. Bev. Dr. Talmage finds many illustrations for his sermons in news- •i paper article and Henry Ward Beech- •or has trunks full of old papers. . The was around m me up on his was saved." waist and he was lifting I only knew that I Photographic Speech. The new system of teaching the deaf and dumb by directing them to look at a person speaking, and to note the po­ sition of his lips in giving utterance to different sounds, has now been in prac­ tice for several years on the continent, and, as our readers are probably aware, has also been adopted in this country with some success. A continental teacher has now hit upon a plan of far­ thering the instruction by having re­ course to photography. A model has been chosen whose lips are particularly expressive in their action, and a series of photographs taken of him' while pro­ nouncing the different sounds that go to make up a language. Such a "speak­ ing likeness" has f>een obtained that, in many cases, even an untrained observer has little difficulty in guessing the let­ ter on the lips of the model, as the pho­ tographs are displayed one after an­ other.--Photographic News Farms in the United S The following table shows the num­ ber of farms in the United States in 1880, and the number in 1870: 1880. 1870. Total number of farms .4,008,907 9,269,085 Under 100acres 4,208,374 2,075,338 One hundred to 500 acres 1,695,983 666,064 Five hundred to 1,000 acm.... 75,972 16,873 A thousand acres and ovar 28,678 8,720 purpose nt forag m«h> excellent timber whenever it be­ comes desirable to fell them. ONE of tile best disinfectants, says Hie Poultry Bulletin, is Condy's fluid, which is made by putting one ounce of potass, permanganate in a pint of oold water. For use, one ounce of this fluid should be added to half a pint of water. THE cause of club-root in cabbage is claimed by a German experimenter, Woronin, to be a parasitic vegetable, which lives and feeds on the healthy tissue of different cruciferous plants. All weeds of that order (producing pods, like turnips, mustard, radish, etc.) should be eradicated while land is being rested preparatory to a re­ newal of cabbage-growing. THE Indiana Farmer says the Ben Davis apple is so poorly flavored that even the coddling moth generally passes it by for some better variety, and the consequence is that but few of these apples are wormy, and, being of high color and handsome shape, they are a very popular apple at the city fruit stands, where they outsell other kinds about two to one on the average. ft , TREFOIL is said to be extensively used in England for alternate husband­ ry, but it is reported not suitable for permanent pasture mixtures, except in very small quantities. A writer states that this plant is well deserving of cul­ tivation on light, dry and high, elevated inferior soils, and on such will yield a greater bulk of herbage than any of the cultivated clovers. It is highly nutri­ tious, and eaten with avidity bv cattle. From the great depths to which its roots penetrate, it is not liable to be in­ jured by drought, and is thereby enabled to retain its verdure after the grasses and other plants are burnt up, a fact worthy of notice by Western farmers. FARMERS who burn green wood are probably not aware of the waste of heat. The sap uses up--that is, carries off in a latent state--a very largC portion of the heat produced by its carbon, or its dry material. As much man and team power is required to haul three or four cords of green wood as for six or eight cords of dry wood. The lesson is: cut the fuel and split it as finely as it is to- be used, in the grove; haul it home when well dried, and keep it in a dry place for use. It will be worth far more fer heating purposes than if burned green, or wet, or damp even. The only exception to this advice is, when by reason of easier hauling on snow, and on account of the leisure of men and teams in winter, it may be expedient to haul home the green wood then; but in all eases let it bw w»U dried before-it is used. To STOP a colt from pulling back on his halter in the stall, take a sufficiently long piece of half-inch rope. Put the center of it under the tail like a crup­ per, cross the rope on the back, and tie the two ends together in front of the breast, snugly, so there is no slack, otherwise it would drop down on the tail. Put an ordinary halter on (a good one), and run the halter strap, or rope, through a ring in the manger or front of the stall, and tie it fast in the rope on the front of the breast; then slap his face and let him fly back. He will not choke or need telling to stop pulling back. Let him wear this awhile, and twice or thrice daily scare him back as suddenly and forcibly as possible, ter one or two trials,he cannot be induced to pull back.--Chicago Evening Jour­ nal. IN England hav is considered so nec­ essary that notwithstanding the difficulty of curing it there it constitutes an im­ portant food for stock. In the West, with our hot, dry harvests, the curing of hay is comparatively simple. As a rule the hay may be cut down in the morning and raked the same afternoon. If al­ lowed to lie in the heaps until sweating has fairly commenced, it may then be removed to the stack, and it will come out bright, sweet and comparatively free from dust. When clover consti­ tutes a considerable part of the hay more care is necessary. The leaves form the important part of the value. It is raked into windrows as soon as it is fairly wilted (say when it is half dry),t and then put into high, narrow heaps; it will usually cure sufficiently by the next day, or at most the second day, and may then be removed safely to the stack. A mistake with the most of farmers is in supposing that hay may be stacked greener than when it is put in a barn. Such, however, is not the case. In a tight barn it is less exposed to the ac­ tion of the air than in the stack. If too green, it will heat in either case, but more destructively in the stack than in the barn, for the oxygen of the air pro­ motes violent fermentations. (The perfect exclusion of the air is the sum of value in preserving perfectly green fodder in silos.) Now, the comparative exclusion of the air is the interger of value in the saving of partially dry fodder in the stack. We do not believe in putting up hay so green that it will more than undergo a kindly sweat either in the stack or barn, and for this reason we counsel that hay be fairly air dried. If brittle, it is too dry; if limp and clinging, it is too green. The hay­ maker soon learns to distinguish when hay is just right. One thing must be carefully observed--hay must never be stacked moist from rain or dew. The moisture of the sap contained is an en­ tirely different thing from that of rain or dew in the economy of preserving hay; hence, in hauling when damp from dew, the tops of the cocks should be laid on the outside of the stack or next the sides in the barn.---Breeder's Oa- geite. Use for Old Pianofe A Labrador tribe, it is said, madetfie barrels stolen from a wrecked whale- ship serve as chimney-tops, the West Indians utilized Timothy Dexter's warm­ ing-pans for sugar-ladles, and the Slians find no worse use for English beer-bot­ tles than to stick them up as household gods to keep evil spirits away! But the drollest instance of unthought-of capa­ bility is reported in the London Truth: What beeomes of old pianos? That HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. BROILED QUAIL.--After dressing, split down the back, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and lay them on a gridiron, the inside down. Broil slowly at first. Serve with cream gravy. SPONGE CAKE.--Three eggs, one cup sngar, one cup flour, three table-spoon­ fuls sweet milk, two table-spoonfuls melted butter, two heaping teasponnfuls baking powder, one-hfdf teaspoonful ex­ tract of lemon. Baked in layers, this makes a very nice jelly cake. CHEAP FRUIT CAKE.--Soak one large cupful of dried apples over night in a little water; take out, chop as fine as raisins, add one cup raisins, cook them in one cup molasses until well pre­ served, drain off molasses and add to it four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup sour milk, two teaspoqpfuls soda, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful cloves, flour to make a stiff batter, add fruit and bake in a slow oven. METROPOLITAN CAKE.--Light part: Two cups sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two and one-half cups flour, whites of. five eggs* three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Me in two cakes. Dark part: One- half cup molasses, one-half cup floor, one cup raisins, one teaspoonful ctnna- mon, one-half teaspoonful cloves, two large spoonfuls of the light part. Bake in one cake and place between the two light cakes with jelly or frosting. CHICKEN CROQUETTES.--One cold boiled chicken chopped fine; then take a pint of sweet milk, and when the milk is boiled stir into it two large table- spoonfuls of flour made thin in a little cold milk; after the flour is well cooked with the milk, put in a piece of butter the size of an egg, add salt and cayenne pepper; stir all well into the chicken; roll up with your hand, and dip first into an egg beaten up, then into cracker rqlled fine, and fry in hot tallow (fresh tallow, half and half lard, is very nice). ALMOND PUDDING.--Turn boiling water on to three-fourlhs of a pound of sweet almonds; let it remain until the skin comes off easily; rub with a dry cloth; when dry, pound fine with one large spoonful of rose water; beat,six eggs to a stiff froth with three spoon­ fuls of fine white sugar; mix with one quart of milk three spoonfuls of powdered crackers, four ounces of melted butter and the same of citron cut into' bits; add almonds, stir all together and bake in a small pudding dish with a lining of pastry. This pudding is best when cold. It will bake in half an hour in a quick oven. CORNED BEEF.--A good piece of beet T- - V 11 _ J i * ite dish with nearly aUfpNanik. Put it into the pot with enough cold water tc just cover it. When it comes to a boil set it on the back of the range so that it will boil moderately. Too fast boiling renders the meat tough, yet/ the water should never be allowed to tcease boil­ ing until the meat is done; skim often. Let it boil four or five hours, according to thp size. It must be thoroughly done. In England, where this dish is an especial favorite, carrots are always boiled and served with the beef. The carrot flavor improves the meat, and the meat improves the carrot. Do not put the carrots into the pot, however, until there is only time for them to be well cooked before serving (about three- quarters of an hour). Serve the carrots round the beef. In America cabbage is oftener boiled with corned beef. When about to serve press out all water from the cabbage, adding little pieces of but­ ter. Serve the meat placed in the cen­ ter of the cabbage. Little pickles are a nice garnish for corned beef, with or without the vegetables. Horse-radish is a never-failing relish with oorned beef. • • t The Reversion of Sititfiowera. That the sunflower follows the sun in its westward journey is well known, but when does it turn ite face back again to the east to greet the morning sun ? Mr. C. A. White, of Washington, in a letter to Nature, relates an incident which throws some light upon the subject. One evening, he says, during a short stay at a village in Colorado, in the summer of 1881, I took a walk along the banks of a long irrigating ditch just as the sun was setting. The wild var­ iety of Helianthus grew abundantly there, and I observed that the broad faces of all the flowers were, as is usual in the clear sunset, turned to the west. Beturning by the same path less than an hour afterward, and immediately af­ ter the daylight was gone, I found, to my surprise, that much the greater part of those flowers had already turned their faces full to the east, in anticipa­ tion, as it were, of the sun's rising. They had in that short time retraced the semi-circle, in the traversing of which with the sun they had spent the whole day. Both the day and night were cloudless, and apparently no un­ usual couditions existed that might have exceptionally affected the movements of the flowers. I doubt not, adds Mr. White, that many persons like myself have supposed that sunflowers remain all night with their faces to the west, as they are when the sunlight leaves fhem, and until they are constrained by the light of the ris­ ing stm to turn to the east again. It is not my purpose to offer any explanation of the phenomenon here recorded, but it seems to me improbable ' that it could have been an exceptional instance; and I only regret that no opportunity has occurred to me to repeat the observa­ tion. . . "•. It's the Wajr. The first thing a citv man does when he becomes rich is to buy a farm, move into the country and bankrupt himself trying to raise enough to keep him from starving. A rich countryman, on the other hand, buys a brown-stone front in the city and becomes interested in stocks, with a like result.--Philadel­ phia News. "1 HEABS smart men say dat times is different at different places," said Undo Mose. "I believe dat's a fact, for do time feels longer to de boy what holds do hoss dan ter de man what goes inter de whisky shop." _ . CUEI0U8 A PLAN is suggested tor mechanical!; There is no portion of New Orleem so fall of interest to stranger or resi­ dent as that which a stranger prettily called the "New Orleans of George W. Cable." Its old, red-tiled houses, aOiuv with £7dai, overhang­ ing roofs that serve as a sort of awning, some with high balus­ trade of tiles set on end, forming an odd decoration around the edge of the roof, are pretty to look upon. Time has softened the angularities in these small houses, the winds of many years have blown a rich soil upon their tops, as, witness, I passed a cottage on Bourbon street the other day, upon the tiled roof of which grew,, in luxurious pro­ fusion, golden rod, each stalk at least four feet high. Far down upon the- corner of Royal and another street stands a big square house, built in old French style. It is five stories high, and, although there are great scars upon the gry stone walls, and the ornate carvings over the peaked tops of 'the small-paned windows are beginning to crumble off, it is a build­ ing whose architectural features attract the attention of all the sight-hunting strangers. About forty-five years ago this house belonged to a wealthy old French woman, whom one may call Mme. La Laurel. She owned many slaves, and when she went to live in her Boyd street residence she furnished some of the rooms in grand style. That the madame was a she-devi~>T who tortured her slaves, all the tow was beginning to know. There was a deep well in her back yard, in which, it is said, she hung the negroes, even to the little babies, suspending them by the arm, so that the black, cold, foul- smelling water came up to their lips, and there they hung till almost dead. If they died in the water, especially the babies, who could not naturally endure much of such treatment, the body was weighted, the rope cut, and the poor, freed darky sunk swiftly out of sight. In a room on the lower floor of the house Mme. La Laurel had built a sort of dungeon--a brick room inside of a brick room. It has one window, with iron gratings across it, and is as black and awful-looking as any dungeon you can imagine. The floors in this echo­ ing old building are full of murderous- looking stains, and to-day, if water is thrown upon them they come out blood- red. It was up in the garret, though, that the worst torturing was done. Here- this bloodthirsty old woman, so they say, upon the least provocation, used to take her negroes, tie them to the walls or nail them by the hands down to the floors, and then amuse her­ self by cutting off their ears, tearing out their nails and cutting out their tongues. One night there came a hoarse roar blowing down the narrow length of Boyal street, and toward mid­ night a black crowd of human beings --that awful result of an outraged com­ munity, a mob--surrounded that state­ ly, grim building. The old French mistress listened in scorn to the storm­ like clamor, until the tumult of people apparently came to halt under her own windows, and she heard her own name cried out with threats for her of the torture. She sprang down the oaken stairway, across the marble hall, past the dun­ geon, then full of festering wretches, past the well of water--they say the raSSOtt 'tk w to-day in frwiug io the little negro babies on the bottom-- hnd, unloosing the heavily-barred back feates, she made her way to the river bide. She dodged her pursuers, and brossed the river in a canoe. JFin ally bhe escaped tc Franoe, where she after- Ward died. They say the mob, after freeing the negroes, fairly gutted the house. Of course, the place is haunted. |By all the laws of sensationalism it bould not but be a place where black ghosts walk. The building was onoe Used as a public high school, but the parents of the girls were superstitious fend would not allow their daughters to cross the threshold of the place; so it was abandoned. 3 removing scars left from small-pox ulcerations. It is by daily rutoOBIg the part with fine sand. A small sponge filled with soap-lather and dipped in marble-dust offers a convenient wajr of doing this. DR. ELLIS, of the Canadian Associa­ tion, has made analyses of the milk of cows feed with different kinds of food. He finds there is a greater amount of fatty matter in the milk of cows fed OB distillery refuse, but he saw no evidence that the milk was impaired by such feeding. CHAIBS and camp-stools as used by undertakers in funerals, who take these seats from place to place, are rightly viewed by the Scientific American as disseminators of disease, and it with nearly equal reason deprecates the car­ rying around of the ice-boxes from houBe to house. Mr. Bouteledge held lately at a scien­ tific meeting that the paper trade was probably the one which turned to im­ mediate use more waste products than* any other. In it was utilized cotton, flax, hemp, and jute waste, and old ropes and canvas rags. In fact, the pa­ per manufacturer could turn to profita­ ble purpose any vegetable fiber. KRUPP'S works at Essen, now em­ ploy some 439 steam boilers; 456 nteam engines, with an aggregate horse poweir of 18,500; 89 steam hammers, varying in weight from 200 pounds to 60 tons; 21 rolling mills; machines for making tools, 1,622; furnaces, 1,556, of which 14' are high furnaces; 25 locomotives, and 5 propellers, with a tonnage of about 8,000. Annual production, 300,- 000 tons steel and '2(5,000 tons iron. THE main wheel of a watch makes four revolutions in 24 hours, or 1460 in a yea, the second or center 24 revolu­ tions in 24 hours, or 8760 in a year; the .fourth wheel (which carries the second hand) 1,440 in 24 hours, or 525,600 in a year; the fifth or scrape-wheel, 12,964 in 24 hours, or 4,728,400 revolutions in a year ; while the beats or vibrations made in 24 hours are 388,800, or 141,* 912,900 in a year. A MIXTURE of 20 parts of hard soap, 40 parts of kerosene, and 1 part of fir balsam has been found very effective in destroying the insects which damage the orange tree. Prof. C. V. Biley is the authority. Other valuable plants, notably the vine, might be similarly protected by a spray from an applica­ tion of the same recipe. It can be di­ luted at will with water so as not to in­ terfere with the constitution of the plant. THE Japanese are almost a race of vegetarians, depending mainly for their nitrogenous food upon the leguminous {>lants--some forty varieties of peas and >eans which they cultivate. These foods are quoted by Mr. Van Buren, a consul to Japan, who has also noticed "an expression of good humor upon the faces of men, the amiability and some­ times real beauty of the women, and the comfortable, open-eyed serenity of the babies." POST MORTEMS in Germany of aniemio (bloodless) subjects have exhibted livers discolored with an excess of iron, which has probably resulted from the use of iron preparations as medicines to im­ prove the blood. This observation simply proves that iron alone will not improve the condition of the blood, but IS ^ivpvoitcd VkU\)L UUQWUOl!) the liver. Poor white blood is due to a fault in the assimilative processes, and if the blood lacks iron this fault cannot be remedied by merely pouring iron so­ lutions into the stomach. Bemedies to be useful must improve the assimilation or nutrition and enable the system to make use of the iron which is sufficient­ ly supplied in ordinary Footers Health Monthly. ' > l&£US f Conjagal Companionship. ' "Another discouragement that Dr. might have prescribed for divorce is persistent, unselfish intention on the part of married couples to be compan­ ionable. Companionship is the basis ol all lasting unions of male and female,' even among the animals. It is quite true that most couple were originally mismated, but no fact is better known and recognized, outside of family cir­ cles, than that extreme differences ol intellect, taste, acquirement, disposition and nature are no bar to the most de­ lightful and enduring friendship, unless in one person or the other there are positive vices or selfishness that pre­ vent the formation of auy true and hon­ orable bond with any being whatever. Even heathen philosophers have urged man and woman to perpetuate and per­ fect their union by mutual and persist­ ent devotion toward each other. But Dr. Dix has indirectly discouraged this in nearly all of his lectures. His in­ junction that wives shall be obedient to their husbands; his reprobation, or at least suspicion, of modern women's de­ sire to be well informed on subjects of which their husbands talk; his criticism of women who are not content to be housekeepers and nurses and nothing more, are all calculated to make women the inferiors of their husbands, and, consequently, to a great degree uncom­ panionable. The lecturer might justly have given his male parishioners, re­ spectable and otherwise, some hard raps, for the custom of many of them is to devote the better part of the day to business, most of the remainder to their male acquaintances, and only their stu­ pid hours to their families. And, if marriage is the holy institu­ tion that preachers proclaim it to be, why did not Dr. Dix blame the clergy of all the churches for not making its duties and blessings th^ subject of fre­ quent sermons and instructions? Ser­ mons on regeneration, adoption, sancti- fication, total depravity, redemption, backsliding, malice, envy and uncliarita- bleness abound, bat what veteran church-goer has heard during all his life a dozen sermons on marriage?--The Hour. ^ Salted Mines. "Father," began the boy as he looked up from his First History, "are silver mines very fresh?" "Fresh! What do you mean?" "Why, they have to put salt on 'em to make 'em keep, don't they?" "What nonsense! I don't un­ derstand you." "Well, I heard some men in the car say you salted a silver mine and made a hundred thousand dollars, and I wanted to know what the salt was for." The way that boy was hustled off to bed made him dream of cyclones all night. KNOWLEDGE without justice' ought to 1*HE FAMILY DOCTOR. To CUBE a bruise or sprain bathe it in cold water, and then apply a decoc­ tion of wormwood and vinegar. ONE of the best disinfectants, says the Poultry Bulletin, is Condy's fluid, which is made by putting one ounce of potass, permangenate in a pint of cold water. For use one ounce of this fluid should be added to half a pint of water. PAINS in the bowels maybe mitigated or removed by applying to them rubber bags of hot water, or folds of wOolen cloths wrung out from water as hot as can be borne. The same thing is true of face-ache, ear-aches and of most aches and pains. A SUBE cure for chapped hands is something greatly to be desired. Try this: Wet youT hands in warm water, then rub them all over with Indian meal; do this twice, then in the water used to wash off the meal, pnt a tea­ spoonful of pure glycerine. If it is not pure it will irritate the skin. MILK and cream should never be al­ lowed to stand in the sick-room, for they quickly absorb every disagreeable odor and unhealthy exhalation; even water and the more solid foods rapidly absorb every taint in the atmosphere; they should not be kept in or near the sick-room unless it is temporarily ab­ solutely necessary, and then they should be very closely covered; these remarks apply even to cracked ice and fruit. BECOMMENDATIONS THERAPEUTIC AND OTHERWISE.--Try popcorn for nausea. Try cranberries for malaria. Try a sun-bath for rheumatism. Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try cranberry ponltice for erysipelas. Try gargling lager beer, for cure of sore throat. Try sh allowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try buttermilk for the removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains. Try the croup-tippet when a child is likely to be troubled in that way. Try hot flannel over the seat of neu­ ralgic pain, and renew frequently. Try taking cod liver oil in tomato catsup if you want to make it palatable. Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head." Try hard cider--a wineglassful three times a day--for ague and rheumatism. Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the even­ ing. Try breathing the fumes of turpen­ tine or carbolic acid to relieve whooping cough. Try a cloth wrung out from cold- water put about the neck at night for sore throat. Try an extra pair of stockings out­ side of your shoes when traveling in cold weather. Try walking with your hands behind yon if you find yourself becoming bent forward. Try a Silk handkerchief over the face when obliged t« piercing wind. , „ t • ' Ob Um openwc mt tbe Senate sf] Mtv Wta&e introduce* »i that Lwtlfr. Beater to •ulna Ite l •tea to is; Mdfowth. peaitaittesr. Tto Senate resumed ~ -- •Meratkm of an amendment to thai ndndtac annbw at the . ssfSsftassse: &j^sjss&grsa>T through the second stag* at am not withoat opposition. Okut twenty-three Senators WW* •n Satardny, the 7th inst., and ]fx. pfed the chair. The Senate 'Mil* read a second time. Tern sead and ordered to third leadtaK (to portant at which are the bfiwn 1500 per annnm to the DainraMBV and to turn all Sacs ooanty tnarare tnatea few members at the Hooae reauus day at the capital, and. for w amnsement, met and read a few time, heard a few committee report*, and th-- adjourned. Tax Senate convened with only thirteen members on Monday, tte (th, i ered unlucky, and that Joarned. In the Honaa, 1 feceaent, some budnaas was done. A amass* petitions for and against tto IilWMi MB a sis nteaented. Several new Utta f aw luliuilawiif, including two by Mr. Wast ter tto topn*MM5(t of Stat* roads. One "" priseo by the State Board of Agrionltorofo unprorement of road* and high mm, sad other anthorlxea Connty Sam ors to make awards tar tto tfon of good roads, not to to Nsflfeaa In length In each section. A MB tafcro- r Mr. Stevens nropoalB to atmptl »8- paniesto bofld and toaa taNMtrd»> construction < one mile 1 dnoed by Mr. I ̂ . _ way companies to boQd and torn in rtffir da- pot* at all stations having infesMtaata. fifty bills were read a Brst timaand wtdared to seoond readina, mifclng s total at 91 Mlla now on second reading. n«ht «r Ma Mils wage read a second time and «dmdt>atklr|Hri- bur. Tto only one of lmportanoe was Ovtl l amend the law la relation to tdAsta, drunkards and spendthrifts," so that it not be neoessary to have two separate Mali to determine the sanity of a pemon sappoaed in­ sane and for the appointment of a oonserrator for his property, waa read a seated tet passed to tncorder of third reading. Mr. railroad btll was seat forward to Attempts to get tto consent of tto _ depart from the regular order to allow M&S to be brought up ana acted neon we«a «aak|( ically sat down npon, and a debate fbDowad oa House blU 151. This l the statute compelling towashte publish an annual statement of count in a newspaper. . _ the enacting clause of find enough friends to of the members was placed on thrf order of Varnell wanted to introduce bill to provide for tto clearing rf from small water courses that<~ mer and overflow lift is aaa snwa ̂Sua# . soon for it. any railroad to th* < graph companies, and pwnishlag interference to the construction of telegraph toes wit passed. >ads. The bin to rscimace uie oonsomsaresi Iways was read and diecuseed, finally being the special order for noon mat day. In onae, Mr. Haines introdnoed abillpcemib- Mr. Merritt moved to reoondder which tto bill to regulate tto stopp •at towns of 3,000 inhabitants was j •was reconsidered and sent to tto Co: Railroads. The btll to CsclMtate tto eonsolMatteai .of railways' made the i the House, lag the qualifications of [tended to meet the objections to tow < (The special order for tto day, tto Qt Sropnation bill, was then taken ap.tl ill substituted for tto House Mil, former considered clause amount for the Governor's < reduced from $3,000 to $3,000, and the item of $2,500 for the Executive Mansion to 92,0001. Tto House inserted i for cleaning Eirtraits in the anslon. The Democrats ifttaft' ie State House and theKxecetlve e Democrats attacked tto UB la detail, proposing to reduce the salary of a porter from $700 to teoo, and following that with a mo­ tion to reduoe the total appropriation tor eteks In the Secretary of Male's oflmina^S^a to $9,000. These were rejertod. The seventh para­ graph was not concluded at tte adjournment. • MB. WEIGHT, from the Committee on IQeo- •tions, reported the petition tpr sal question of woman Hutfrageintto judges of the facts only." The special order, be­ ing the reconsideration of the vote by which to fix the salaries of future Legislators at I80IL Waa lost; the bill was reconsidered and beaten. In tto House, a deadlock was created by Democrats bieakintf a quorum when the other sido at­ tempted to bring up the contested-oleotiott of Bradwell versus McNally. The sitting fcdjoorned at noon amid considerable • railroads for personal lnturies. THKBE was a fall attendance in Che I on Tuesday, tto 10th. Mr. Sanderiiad latin , duced a bill to require tto Appellafe Court Wh«e affirming a decision to give in brief its reason. The Mil to prohibit and pnni»h conspiracies to prevent competition was read a second time awl fought over at length, and finally tto Mil went under the table. Mr. Merrill's bul to require all railroad trains to stop at all stations at UN inhabitants waa also defeated. Senator White called up tto WU to authorise cities to license dealers, brokers and com­ mission merchants, which was discussed and recommitted. The bill to appropriate WMpat annum for the State and county agitonltual so­ cieties passed. The bill to amend the law In re­ gard to minority representation In Councils, so that the election shall to once In two years, came up next. lt< to Carllnvllle, Bunker 1 andWateeka. Tto bill passed with ency clause, was sent to tto.OoTernor.who signed it, and it Is now a law. Mr. BfeO*a bill to permit City Councils to levy 9 mills for water and sewerage < pwrpots was road and sent to a turd i mslag The bill to provide fer training schools tar toys was read a seoond lime without ofrpuslUmu and the Benate adjourned. In tto House, a substi­ tute bill from the Judiciary Committee to taswn-. AAluklrv SsvspAii committee i the Senate'on the morning of 11. after which the following MTIS-'WTTO tat* traduced: Mr. Oilman iatroOaosA wto* «• called the West Permanent BoadhOl: by Mr. Hamilton, & bill to provide thatwtoFtto ctty and township elections are hod oas tto same day, one calm and one bos only shall to ased: by Mr. Flfer, a Mil to prevent watolim of Judgment where the defendants do not reside; by Mr. Xferl; to permit cities to divide their territories into wards. The bill to authorize the establishment of in­ dustrial schools for boys came up. It WM op- jposed by Senator Torrance, and after a brief struggle the bill went to the wall. A Mil **»- •tiding that no telegraph company shall nave power to contract with the owner or any land or h* exclusion of any ottor Mr morning < f April 12. Tto committee says that the constitution prohibits the submission of *pore than one amendment to tto constitution at a time. As one resolution for an amendment had 4̂ ready been adopted by tto Sen­ ate, it was impossible to adopt another. The Governor sent in the following notafaa* tions for Canal Commissioners: Charles Beat, of Whiteside*; 1>. I. Callagan, of Peoria, and George F. Brown, of Grundy. For hrk Coaa- tnissioner on th* Weŝ Side, P. McGrath. Trus­ tee of Southern Normal, .H. C. Falrbrother. of St. cialr. Mr. Bell introduced a btll maklng lta felony for any banker or banaefficer, or for any public officer, to deal in options. Mr. Hereley called up his resolution to adjourn sine die Mav 17, and it waa recommitted. Mr. Fifer, from the Committee oh State Chari­ ties, reported back twenty-seven appropriT " bills which were sent to the Committee en J>ropriations. The vote by which bill 111 ost was reconsidered, and the bill passed. It eavs: "Juries in all criminal A Kew Use for Tombstones. M. Aurille, an architect, ordered of 4 Paris upholsterer named Distrait a suit of bed-room furniture for 2,500 francs. He was delighted with his bargain, until one morning his wife, while dressing, read on the back of the * toilet table "Regrets eternels," engraved, in the marble. The effeet produced on her mind by this discovery led to further investigation of the furniture. The marble top of a chest of draweia was lifted, and on the underside M>* and Mme. Aurille read: "Bon pere. ton epoux." All speculation was then at an end; M. Distruit h:ul gone to the cemetery for his marble slabs. M. Aurille declared that he would have na such sepulchral memorials in the house, aucUasked the tradesman to take hack the furniture. The latter having de­ clined, the architect refused to pay the bill. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine held that the marble was not less marble because it had oaee been put to funeral Use, and ordered M. Aurille to pay. % IN the town of Cameron, N. Y., the*fc?» reside' ten" farmers whose farms join each other. They have ten babies, awl there are onl̂ Uuae .W* -- their ages. I , 5 ^ - 1 Vt '4 /•i f-'r,- K; J ' '• ' f t ' „ if .... ... i. I IS