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McHENB*, ILLINOIS. Tax estate of the lit Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, Ia estimated at $17,- 000,00ft. Tint neeat mystaiious tragedy in Witertotn, MM., was the only mur­ der ever oomnutted iriiilm the limits of that town. The place was settled in 1690. • career of 250 yean without a bloodstain is certainly • record. £ A pnnroBT little girl went begging at DM Moines. A man dropped a 6-oent piece into her hand. A tramp came along, Aid her he had eaten nothing in a week, and ao impressed her with hin greater distress that she forgot her own, and gave him the coin. Then he went to the nearest groggery and bought a glaas of whisky. The clitha? of the story is a tremendous whipping, given to the tramp by the original donor of the nickel. • JomrHow&ID PATHS'! eldest sister, Eloise, lies buried in an old cemetery at Lancaster, Mass., beneath a large white marble tablet supported by six stone pillars, which stand upon a red sand­ stone base. The monument,was erected by John G. Palfrey, who was her school­ mate, and it bears, beside her name and age (31), these inscriptions: "She will be talked of but little while, and, forgotten by society, will survive only in a few hearts, where the memory of such a being is immortal." "Sink into dust, frail covering of a purified spirit! Parent earth, receive thine own! God in heaven, take her soul to Thee!" %• &• A RKPOBX of H. Matson, Consul Gen­ eral of the United States at Calcutta, on the wheat production of India, places _ the amount of wheat grown in that oountry available for the European market at 40,000,000 bushels. While the advantages possessed by the United States in the matter of transportation preclude present danger of close com­ petition, Mr. Matson says the Indian supply is large enough to act as a check ' upon the enhancement of prices by speculation; and American farmers will soon find the need of reducing the cost of production, while freight charges must be regulated in a degree by the concessions of Indian railroads in that direction. WE find this little episode of life in a ; great city in the columns of the Chicago . Daily News: "Are you much hurt, dear mother?" said Miss Hunt to an old lady who had been run down and badly injured on State street. The old lady was for the moment uncon­ scious, and did not answer, and the deeply distressed and tearful Miss ^ BTnni ionV nn ftl<| 3ftjy,g Ko.t\J-Kclct • and disappeared. When the Bufferer came to she inquired for her bag, and ' being told that her daughter had taken it made known the fact that she had no daughter and that the bag contained $800 in cash and jewelry. For a poor, • hard-working girl, laboring for her bread ih a laundry, Miss Hunt, who was discovered by the police to be this sort of an industrious female, played the part of an accomplished thief tol­ erably well. AT-the last state ball at St. Peters­ burg the Russian Empress honored a young offyjer by allowing him to waltz with her. The gentleman was reputed a /famous dancer, but somehow, on this occasion, his skill seems to have desert- • ed him. The Empress and he fell heav­ ily to the floor. Thereon the Emperor ran across the' room and anxiously in­ quired from his wife, who had risen, whether she was hurt. The Empress ' replied that she had not suffered, but took the arm of her husband, and went for a time to a retiring-room allotted to her. Meanwhile the chargin of the un­ happy offioer was visible to all the guests. By and by the Empress re- turned, and, seeing the distress of her late partner, went to liim and insisted on his dancing another waltz with her- This time there was no accident, and the unlucky incident was forgotten in the gracious kindness of the popular Czarina. . THE Philadelphia Press tells the fol­ lowing on Bob Ingersoll: "Everyday the star-route court takes a recess for half an hour for lunch. The attorneys for the defense (Ingorsoll, Wilson, Carpenter, Davidge and a number of others) go across the street to a res- I taurant, where something good.is pre­ pared for them every day. Now, in front of the City Hall, during nearly all the hours of the day, stands a gray horse hitched to a covered wagon. I believe the outfit belongs to the City £ Surveyor. The horse is rather vicious, add snaps at everybody that comes near him. The other day CoL Inger­ soll passed in front of the old white horse on his way to lunch. Judge Wylie had been rather severe on Inger­ soll that day, and scolded at him and snapped at him in a very impertinent manner. As Ingersoll passed the horse the latters napped at the great orator as though he would like to take his head off. Fortunately, the horse mis­ calculated the distance, and failed to • set-his teeth in CoL Ingersoll's shoul­ der. Quick as lightning Ingersoll turned to the horse and said: 'In the devil's name, what court are you Judge of?* A score of people were present, . and the bon mot is the talk of the town." - ^ EX-SENATOB CONKLING'S law office, , says a New York, correspondent, is a - floor below Grant's, in the same build- *«.* WaBtttSmfr way. Wm library of law books, whioh be had brought from his old office at Utioa,issaid to be «na of tha beat oi its kind in the city. The oflloa itself is qnite plainly furnished, and business seems to engross the entire attention of its oocupants. Mr. Conkling, when he is in the city, can usually be found here isnsg business hoofs, as he does not usually appear in oourt exeept in very important oases. When he does argue a case he is sure to have enough au­ ditors to crowd the court-room, and while he is' speaking they listen with rapt attention. Among tike tn«n who frequently call into the office to have a chat with the great stalwart is ex-Sen­ ator Tom Piatt, President of the United States Express Company, whose offlot is only a few doors below, on Broadway. Both live at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and they are often seen together walk* ing down town in the forenoon and home again in the evening. They do not seem to be a very well-assorted pair, however, ss Conkling is tall and very dignified in his bearing, while Tom Piatt is a short and a rather "every-d^y" sort of a man. A FAMOUS Philadelphia taV^ateber named Wm. Lewis recently bet $200 that he could pick up 100 rats and put them in a barrel in one hour. He wore a sleeveless undershirt. The legs oi his trousers were tied around his ankles. His hands and arms were covered with musk, which he believes will prevent rats from biting him. He moved over to the pile of rats and without an in­ stant's hesitation thrust his naked hands and arms among than. He caught five fat fellows and dropped them into the barrel. In six minutes he had placed twenty-one in the barrel. The rats that remained Lew&was com­ pelled to catch one at a time. The first bit one of his fingers through and hung there. Lewis jerked the rat against the ceiling. The wounded finger was dipped in whisky.. Seven rats were tossed into the barrel, and then Lewis was bitten twice on the right arm. He received four more wounds before the fortieth rat was imprisoned. The fifty- seventh sprang and bit through hir lower lip. Without flinching he grabbed the rat and tossed it through the cover. He lost five minutes staunching the blood. Eighty rats were in the barrel, and Lewis had only seven minutes to pick up the remaining twenty. He gave up and got out. ̂ ':;C A Sadden Conversion. "Mr. Charles R. Train, some time Attorney General of this ancient com­ monwealth, says the Boston Sunday Budget, tells of an incident that hap­ pened in his father's church, in Fram- ingham, "a many years ago." It seems that his father, a Baptist minister, had long wanted instrumental music in his church, but had been opposed by sev­ eral prominent members of his congre­ gation, notably by Mr. Ben Haven, a oxeax neighbor and friencl, whp loved the old ways and was set against inno­ vations. But at last the pastor', who was one of the "quiet kind," and apt to carry his point, got a man into the church who brought with him his bass* viol, prepared to accompany the sing* ing of the congregation. Old Mr. Haven walked into the ohurch and took his seat in the front row of pews, put­ ting his hat, as was customary with those who sat in the higher seats in the synagogue, upon the communion table. The opening prayer was over and the first hymn given out, when the strains of the viol sounded through the church. Amazed, Mr. Haven rose in his place, gave one look up into the gallery where the musician was bend­ ing to his work, seized a hat and inarched down the broad aisle in high dudgeon. Getting outside, he tried to put on the hat, but found that by mis­ take he had taken one several sizes too small for him; in fact, a boy's hat. This gave him pause. He stopped, re­ flected, made up his mind that he was wrong, and that this was a direct sign from heaven to prove it to him. So he walked meekly back up the aisle, re­ stored the hat to the communion table, took his seat and never again opposed instrumental music in the house of God. About the most sudden case of conver­ sion on record. A Boy Who Opposed the Advancement of Medical Science. j Dr. Ike was called to see old Ned's son, and, after several visits, the doctor said to the anxious father: I "Ned, I doan wanter distress yer, ' but dat boy cant git well. De con-j glomeration ob de membrens hab dun sot in." j "Wall, I recken dat will kill him," j Ned replied. "I doan see how a chile wid his weak constitution an' conven-1 tion can get ober such a oneasiness ob de flesh. So you gins him up, doo- tor?" "Yaas, I issues my decrement right heah. Dat boy can't live five hours." About two weeks after Ned met the doctor and said: "I thought you gin that boy up?* "I did. Ain't he dead yit?" "Dead," repeated Ned, contemptu­ ously, "why he's choppin' wood dis mornin'." The doctor reflected for a moment, and said: "Dat's-a nice way to fool wid medical science. How does ver expeck folks to hab confidence in de advance­ ment of medical diskiveries when a boy acks dat way? Dat boy, sah, lifts his- sef up to dispute de 'stablished rules ob de school ob physicians. I'se done wid him." "I'se glad ob it, sah; but yo'sef must hab made a mistake." "No, I didn't, case I understand my business." "I dat yer mout hab lef too i soon. Ef yer staved dar awhile longer yer might hab 'stablished de proof ob yer proclamation." I "Look heah, Ned, yer'd better let me go an' see dat boy agin." J "No, I'se much obleeged ter yer. I'se •. got a heab ob work to do an' I need de chile. Go off somewhur an' pisen a cat."--Arkansaxo Traveler. j THE way to avoid the imputation of impudence is, not to be ashamed of what we do, but never do what we j ought to be ashamed of.--Tulley TEN of the twenty-four Jtfew York Aldermen sell liquor by the glass. I THE United States ceosus shows that yt the whole number of farms the larg­ est proportion ooenpied by actual own- »» a New England --91 per cent. Ibe next largest is 82 per cent., in the Paeifio Statea; in the West it is 79 per sent; in the middle West and in the middlefe-roup it is 78 per cent.; in the South it is 60 per cent. Ai ih« Illinois Dairyman's Associa­ tion, Col. D. T. Curtis, in speaking on the subject of grasses, said we mast have plenty of good grass, or we could not expect sucoeas in the dairy. We mi^st also have plenty of pure water for the cowa. He was not particular as to breed. Select good milkers from any of the breeds, and then keep up the dairy stock by careful seleotion in breed­ ing- TICK says that gladiolus bulbs may be kept over winter in sand in the cellar, or wherever they will not freeze. Tuberose bulbs, in order to preserve their gWrm, which will perish in a low temperature, especially if accompanied with moisture, need to be kept dry and warm. If possible the temperature should not fall much below 65 degrees, and near 70 decrees is better. Kept in a warm place, in a drawer for instance, in a room that is always heated, they winter in good condition. THE Farmer's Magazine thus says regarding sunflowers: "The sunflower yields more seed than corn. A bushel of seed will yield a gallon of oil, aad the residuum is equivalent to that of lin­ seed. TM flowers make good dye, and furnish bees with material for wax and honey. The stalks make excellent fuel, and furnish a fine fiber for working with silk. The leaves are a good adulterant for Havana fillers, and are eaten by stock. As food for the table the seeds can be ground into flour and made into palatable, nutritious bread." IF it is our purpose in rearing pigs that they shall be fattened and sold on the market for pork, it will not be nec­ essary that the dam is a pure-bred ani­ mal. Care in this regard is needed only in case of the sire. If he has come of a well-established pure-bred family of good feeding animals, his progeny from well-formed and vigorous common or iprade sows are usually all that can be lesired as rapid growers and good feed­ ers. Such sows will generally prove :juite as profitable for this purpose as the higher-priced pure-bred animals [n fact, common sows are, with a good show of reason, often deemed the better suited for rearing pigs to be fattened than are the pure-bred sows--first cost being left out of the question altogether. Ihey are believed to be more hardy, from the supposition that their digestive and vital organs are better developed. IN reading your remarks on silos and other methods of curing corn fodder I was reminded of the way in which it is often cured in Maine. After the corn is husked (which is done as soon as the corn is cut) the fodder is put in a mow or on a scaffold--a layer of straw and then a layer of fodder threo or four inches thick, or so as to cover the straw, and so on. Usually some salt is scattered over each layer. The cattle eat it readilyNin winter, straw and all. It is doubtful whether in this climate and with the corn fodder as green as it is usually cut, it could be kept in that way. But if fodder from corn planted for fodder only--to be cut before the corn is matured, or that from corn ma­ tured, is carefully cured and kept from the weather it makes an excellent food for cattle or horses. 11 cut and steamed I doubt not it would be equal if not superior to silo-fodder. When left out in the fields, exposed to the weather, mixed with dirt, dust and sand by the rains and winds, it is of little value, --J. P. S., in Philadelphia Record. A WHITER in the Christian Union says: "Comfortable barns save fod­ der and at the same time promote the growth and thrift of the stock. Cattle kept in warm barns require less food to keep up the temperature of their bod­ ies than do those who are kept in cold ones. The temperature of the body must be maintained at its normal posi­ tion, 98 degrees. If the sur­ rounding temperature is down to zero, it is evident that there must be a great loss of heat from the animal. Every one knows that if the animal were killed the temperature would soon fall to nearly the same degree as that of the surrounding air, yet the great change that would then take place is no more rapid than is constantly going on from the body of the animal. This great loss of neat has to be supplied by the burning up in the system of some of the food taken in the fat of the body, If the animal is exposed to a verv low temperature, it will require nearly all the food ordinarily eaten to keep it from freezing. This is a method of keeping cattle warm that does not pay. Farmers are realizing the truth of this, and are making barns warmer than they were accustomed to formerly." THE turnip-root celery, under which name this variety Of celery is generally sold, is comparatively little known out­ side of our large city markets, while on the Continent of Europe it is grown to the almost entire exclusion of the stalk kinds. In these two varieties of the same species it is simply shown how much systematic and persistent cultiva­ tion can accomplish in the develop­ ment of special and different character­ istics. While in the one the vital en­ ergy of plant becomes directed to its development of the leaves, in the other it is turned to the enlargement of the roots. In celeriac the productions of large, tender roots is the object to be attained. These roots, which are irreg­ ular, round, of the size of a large tur­ nip, white outside and inside and of a texture similar to parsnips, are princi­ pally used as salad. They are boiled like beets, peeled, sliced and dressed with vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. A favorite way of serving this salad is to arrange it in the center of a dish, and surround it with a broad rim of red cold- slaw, edged with some leaves of corn-salad,the contrasting colors of red, green and white making an ornament­ al and attractive dish. The sowing of the seed, transplanting and after man­ agement differ but little from that of common celery, except that, as it re­ quires not to be hilled-up, it may be planted closer,placing the rows two feet apart and setting the plants a foot apart in the rows. To obtain large and ten­ der roots the soil must be loose, deep and moderately rich, and in dry seasons a thorough soaking of water should be given every two or three days. The roots are not injured by light frosts, but they are not hardy enough to win­ ter out doors, and should therefore be heeled-in in a cool cellar, or kept in boxes covered with soil or sand. --Amer­ ican Garden. First Abuse, and Then Tally. Affluence is always within the easy reach of the British literary man. All he has to do is to visit America and go liome and write a book giving this btooain< will make mm MX!H am OQBipa- triots, and cause tk«ai{ft' MM down handacMy. The**, met a^yaar or art writes a second book, i* which ha takes back all the minTonyesewtatinnB, all the satire and all the lies in his first volume, and fives us tafty instead. Hia second l>ook consequently ta&gfe here, as his I'.rst one did over there.--Boston Tran- wript. ' , HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. - IK frying meat, fish or fowl, never aet them back on the stove to cool in the grease. Always take up while it is boil- mg hot. ROAST beef, or fowl, will be much nicer if they are kept covered while roasting; it keeps them moist; uncover just time enough to let them brown. BROWN BREAD.--Take three teacups of corn meal, stir into it two cups of boiling sweet milk; when cold, add one cup of wheat flour and-tme cup of sour milk; into the t>our milk stir well one teaspoonful of soda ; add one-half tea- spoonful of salt; steam three hours. APPLE PUFFETS.--Two eggs, one pint of milk, sufficient flour to thicken, as waffle batter, one and one-half tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder; fill teacup alternately with a layer of butter and then of apples chopped fine; steam one hour. Serve hot, with flavored cream and sugar. Cmx PIE.--Three eggs, one cup sugar, one and one-half cups flour, table-spoonful of sweet miik, two tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder; bake in a shallow pan. Cream: three eggs, one piat of milk, three table-spoonfuls oi flour, five table-spoonfuls sugar; a lit­ tle salt, flavor to taste, and boil until thick. Eo« TOAST.--Beat four egga, yelks and whites together, thoroughly; put two table-spoonfuls of butter into a sauoepan and melt slowly; then pour in the eggs and heat without boiling over a slow fire, stirring constantly; add s little salt, and when hot spread on slices of nicely-browned toast, and serve at once. • MACARONI.--Simmer one-half pound of macaroni in plenty of water till ten­ der, but not broken; strain off the water. Take the yelks of five and the whites of two eggs, one-half pint oi cream, white meat and ham chopped fine, three spoonfuls of grated cheese. Season with salt and pepper; heat all together, stirring constantly. Mii with the macaroni, put into a buttered mold and steam one hour. { POTATO BALLS.--Fonr large mealy potatoes, cold; mash them in a pan with two table-spoonfuls of melted butter, a pinch of salt, a little pepper, one table-spoonful of cream and the beaten yelk of one egg; rub it togethei for about five minutes, or until very smooth; shape the mixture into balls about the size of a walnut or small rolls, dip them into an egg well beaten and then into the finest sifted bread crumbs; fry them in boiling lard. VELVET PUDDING.--Five eggs, beaten separately, one cup of sugar, four table-spoonfuls of corn starch dissolved in a little cold milk and added to the yelks and sugar; boil three pints oi milk and add the other .ingredients while boiling; remove from the fire when it Incomes quite thick; flavoi with vanilla and pour into a baking- dish ; bake the whites of the eggs to a aim froth, add naif \ «•£> oi sugar, turn over the pudding aira placfe it in the oven and let it brown slightly. To be eaten with this sauce: Yelks of two eggs, one cup sugar, table-spoonful of butter; beat well, add one cup qi boiling milk, set on the stove until it comes to a boiling heat, flavor with vanilla. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN.--After thoroughly washing the chicken drain all the water off; never let chicken soak in water. When you are ready to fry Jt take a clean towel, lay it on the table, lay the pieces of chicken on it and turn the towel over them so as to soak up all the moisture; then pepper and salt it t pwtmcias. '•OI WATEB AS A MEDICINE. man, who was oompelled to his position in one of tme pa tilie «ty because he was w duwii with consumption, slid who Ins ever since been battling for life, although with little apparent pros- ' of recovery, was encountered in s "•way restautant. ee, he said, "that you seem sur­ prised at my improved appearance. No aoubt you wonder what could have oaused such a change. Well, it was a very simple remedy--nothing but hot water." "Hot water?" "That's all. You remember my tell­ ing you that I had tried all of the usual remedies. I consulted some of the leading specialists in affections of the lungs in this city, and paid them large fees. They went through the usual course of experimentation with me un­ der all sorts of medicines. I went to the Adirondacks in the summer and to Florida in the winter; but none of these things did me any substantial good. I lost ground steadily, grew to be al­ most a skeleton, and had the worst symptoms of a consumptive whose end is near at hand. At that juncture a friend told me that he had heard of cures being effected by drinking hot water. "I consulted a physician who had paid special attention to this hot-water cure, and was using it with many pa­ tients. He said: 'There is nothing, you know, that is more difficult than to in­ troduce a new remedy into medical practice, particularly if it is a very sim­ ple one, and strikes at the root of er­ roneous views and prejudices that have long been entertained. The old-school practitioners have tried for years to cure consumption, but they are as far from doing it as ever. " ' Now, the only rational explanation of consumption is that it results from defective nutrition. It is always ac­ companied by mal-assimilation of food. In nearly every case the stomach is the seat of a fermentation that necessarily prevents proper digestion. The first thing to do is to remove that fermenta­ tion and put the stomach into a condi­ tion to receive food and dispose of it properly. This is effected by taking water into the stomach, as hot as it can be borne, an hour before each meal. This leaves the stomach clean and pure, like a boiler that has been washed out. Then put into the stomach food that is in the highest degree nutritious and the ' least disposed to fermentation. No1 food answers this description better! . ... than tender beef. A little stale toead ^ hu»b.nd» head came <rat of the may be eaten with it. Drink nothing | i°d'tCn TufArif i«<t ..j tu.t .i t Ana then, sir, the devil came through the door, snatched up the head, and _ ^9111'" most em&entanUoM^ f̂aitwantic fa th«r way as any told hjr tbe Psyoho- aluviKT« VVmB than a lad, at Lancaster, fender of vivisection wa the medical profession he had a horror of the ghastly details of the which he imagined he could never over- _ Ha was cor^u, •ututge k> say, by a fright. Having to take some med­ icine on a windy night to Lancaster Cas­ tle, he had to pass through the room in which he had taken part in dissec­ tions. Just as he entered the room with a basket of medicine under his arm, the clouds which hid the moon suddenly parted, a door slammed, and, looking up, the future biologist saw what he thought was an enormous figure in white, with arms outstretched, looking down upon him. He turned around trembling, and against the wall opposite stood another figure in white. He dropped his basket and ran. The patients in Lancaster Castle got no medicine that night. But when he returned next day and found that he had only been frightened by mortuary sheets, he braced his nerves up so that he was soon collecting skulls. He made a flne set, but for a long time he could not get an Ethiopian skull. At last a negro died in Lancaster Castle, and the young doctor got permission to have his head. It was again a windy night when the operation of removing the head was determined upon. But habited in his long oloak, then the fash­ ion, and provided with a blue bag, th* comparative anatomist soon had the head stoWed away. As he left the room in which the coffin lay, howevpr, the wind slammed the door, caught his cloak, and nearly threw him on his face. Attempting to recover himself he lost his hold of the bag, the hW fell out and rolled with increasing , velocity down a flight of stairs, across \a court yard and settled itself upon tW neck, with one eye open and the other shut, in a room where two women shrieked. The professor rushed wildly after it, took no notice of the women,* seized the skull, put it in his bag again, and ran from the castle. Four or five years afterward he was attending a dying wom­ an, who called loudly for a clergyman to whom she had something to tell. The doctor begged her to tell him, as there was no clergyman near enough t® be called in time. At length she spoke: "Oh, sir, I had a husband who was a negro, and I fear a bad man. He died, air, in Lancaster Castle; and oh! sir, I was standing one day in the rooms when husband's head ond reading and <llwia»il total ner from o'dad menfc. Co--idmHoa of i tion bill toe tetawoBMrl fete j>er mpf ' Km • nOMMC ft im fut it in a bag, and disappeared before could do anything. And I have never done anything. Oh, sir, what can I do for my poor husband's soul."--Londqn letter to the Liverpool Mercury. *'• but pure water, and as little of that at meals as possible. Vegetables, pastry sweets, tea, coffee and alcoholic liquor should be avoided. Put tender beef in­ to a clean and pure stomach three times a day, and the system will be fortified and built up until the wasting away, that is the chief feature of consumption, rko... wi>m* » ceases and recuperation sets in. _ P sponges. "This reasoning impressed me. I be- . " W®11 to be economical, but there gan by taking one cup of hot water an no ©conomv in buying certain articles hour before each meal, and gradually i h®cftnse they are offered at low prices, increased the dose to three cups. At; Attention has frequently been called, for first it was unpleasant to take, but now | instance, to the white sponges which I drink it with a relish that I never , are offered for sale by street peddlers experienced in drinking the choicest: ®n(^.cheap fancy-goods shops. To wine. I began to pick up immediately j "®Pn vith, they are not what they are after the new treatment, and gained f®Presented to be, namely, fine sponges, fourteen pounds within two months. I' contrary, they are very coarse, have gained ground steadily in the try-, M a ru^e' their high color being due to ing climate of New York; and I telT, a hoe™1 ubo of chloride of lime. There vou. sir. I feel on a sure wav to recov- i would l»e no harm in this artificial err." " I bleaching process were the salt entirely Here an old gentleman, who had been 1 ^^J^d out of the sponge by soaking it standing near, and evidently listening | •n clear water or by a solution of anti- to the conversation, turned to the teacher and said: "This remedy of hot water drinking has attracted my atten­ tion for some time. It has been of im­ mense service in relieving me of a terri­ ble dyspepsia that tormented me for many vears. I tried numerous able chlorine. But this is not done, as your nose will tell you, and the result has been that people who have used the sponges for toilet purposes have been affected with inflamed and smarting eyes. Concerning the use of chloride of lime by these dealers in cheap sponges, a story is told by a New York physicians, and there is probably no, - medicine that is proscribed for such an ! PaPer that it is to disinfect the sponges, ailment which was not given to me; but j ft_uecessary process, because of the pre- none of them gave me any permanent I "O"® nses to which they have been de- benefit. But the simple remedy of ! washing wounds on hospital pa- drinking hot water, accompanied by a j an® other nameless, but imagin- . . . r a t i o n a l r e g u l a t i o n o f m y d i e t , h a s e n - ; s e r v i c e . I t i s d i f f i c u l t t o b e l i e v e and dip lightly in flour; fry in lard and (tirely cured me, advanced though I am that .the hospital authorities would use plenty of it; lard is better than | {n jt wa8 not the dieting alone! Permit sponges once used by them butter to fry chicken in. Have your frying pan hot when you put the chicken in, and £ive it plenty of time t« cook; when it is done, if it is not browned evenly set it in the oven a few minutes, take it up as soon as done; never let it stand in the grease. To make the gravy, put a sufficient quantity of flour in the grease to make a thin paste, and stir it until it is perfectly smooth, then put in sweet milk until it is the right consistency; don't get it too thick, and let it boil about five minutes, and season to taste; then pour it over the chicken. that did it. I' the\|ise of hot1 that"made it p< Wheat In London. The London Times gives the yearly average price of wheat during the last twenty-five years per quarter (8.252 American bushels) in shillings and pence, which for the easier comprehen­ sion of our readers we have reduced to bushfels in American currency. The prioe is the coin price. Year. Prioe Per bu. 1858 18S9. I860.... 1861.... 1862.... 1863... 1.29 1.56 Year. Per Year. Prioe Per bu. 186 7 186 8 1869...., 1.57 1870...». 1.58 1871„... 1.31 1872 .Si.891187®. . 1.88 1877. . 1.44 1878. 1187*. 186 4 1.21,1873. 186 5 1.23 1874..... 186 6 1.46 1875 LSOJ 1.61 1.64 1.S8 1.33 1880.. 1881. 1883. $1.36 1.60 1.37 1.29 1.31 1.33 1.32 During the foregoing period wheat in London reached it * highest price in August six years, in four years it was highest in May, four years it was high­ est in December, three years in January and three years in September. It was lowest in February during six vears and during five years it was lowest in December. Since 1857 the price of 1882 has been lowered seven times. Since 1865 wheat sold below the piice of 1882 only twice • iam#ndl880. tried that before. It was water that cured me, for possible to derive benefit from a judicious diet. I have also found this treatment of great benefit in kidney diseases, which are largely due to mal-assimilation of food." The teacher listened very attentively to the old gentleman's remarks. "I am glad to learn that your expe­ rience," he said, "agrees so fully with mine. I have become acquainted with various cases in which this simple treatment has effected permanent cures after all the efforts of the physi­ cians had failed. I am convinced, sim­ ply from what I have seen, that almost any disturbance of the human system that results from disorders of the stom­ ach can be alleviated, and, in most instances, cured in the same way. The very simplicity of the thing may cause some to hesitate about attaching much importance to it, but, like the proper ventilation of your dwellings, it may prevent disease and effect cures where all the drugs of the pharmacopoeia will will faii."--New York Sun. Werj Awfnl Indeed. sweetest, what is it? Are you sick? What ails my precious pet?" and the young husband bent tenderly over the graceful form of his blushing bride. "Oh, Adolphus Edward,it's too dread­ ful for anything." "Bad news from home ?" < "Worse, worse I Oh, what shall I do ?" "Tell your own darling hubby." "It's that awful Belina Tar box, she's--" She's what, my precious?" She's got a bonnet'trimmed exactly like mine and ko-morrow's Sunday!" Then the afflicted beauty buried her face in her husband's breast and trickled her pearly tears all over his $3 shirt. -- Chicago 'Eye. • THE heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.--Moore, Setting Hens. This is the season when hens run mad and will not be comforted unless they can hide away somewhere and sit day and night on a wooden nest egg or an old door-knob. Several men were discussing this riuestion in a grocery store one evening recently. A man who owns a large flock of Dorkings remarked, "Not even an act of Congress can break up a set- tin' hen." "Ever tried jammin' 'em under a bar­ rel an' pourin' water on 'em ?" demanded the man on the sugar barrel. "Yes," said the Dorking man, "I've poured water on 'em 'till they grew web-footed, like a blamed duck, and iifterward found 'em in an old coal hod settin' away on lumps of coal." ; "Tie a red rag round one wing," said a mm who was eating cheese and crack­ ers. "That'll fix 'em." "Might's well offer 'em a chromo," said the Dorking man. "I tied a whole red woolen shirt on one last spring, and dog my cats if she didn't make a nest of it and set three weeks on the but­ tons!" Then the grocer said it was time to close up, and each man girded up his loins and slowly filed out. -- Detroit iFree Press. IT takes but thirteen minutes to lead an elephant on a train, while it takes twenty for any sort-of a woman to kiss her friends good-by and lose t(ie check for her trunk--Rome Sentinel. to be disposed of at any price. But the sale of them by thoughtless, if not unprincipled, servants; could easily be effected without the knowledge of the supervisors of a hospital. Even if they are not sold by servants, they may, sooner or later, reach the rag-picker's hook, and from that pass to the bleach- kettle. The place to put them where they will do the least harm is the boiler furnace. The Mother-ln-Law. *1 have a joke about a mother-in- law," said a young man, poking his head into our office one day last week. "You have, eh?" we shouted, shrilly. We were mad, and didn't care for the instant who knew it. "You have, you son of a sea-cook; well, you can take your mother-in-law joke and pirouette to Hades with it. When we were busted up in business, who set us up ? Our mother-in-law. When our first baby was born, who was the kind angel who administered to mother and child ? Our mother-in-law. When fortune frowned and things looked as though they were going to be knocked galley- west and six ways for Sunday, whose calm, good common-sense advice cheered and encouraged us to take hold anew of the plow-handle of life and push forward to do and conquer? Our mother-in-law. Take your joke and spring it on some unsophisticated, anti- fat editor, who gleans the dregs of dis­ carded wit and swallows in the old, played-out, hysterical wit of the coming almanacs. We will not go back on our friends."--Cheek. AdJatanM Dcmocnto refused to vote, tbwte«ridng»4BO« rem, and the Hon»e aflluuiaml DLuoarrx andndnwttr ia|iu»ia wonys*- •ented to the Senate fiea 1 appointed to tarasttinte eh •gainsttheSt Looia Bridce morning of April *. BeCecndto Committee. Mr. OUlham'B MB m proiHtetton (or the i of Agrioulture and agricultural sodetiee time and paaeod. passed as follows: To Putnam county, S565 Cor construction cf a dam on the ] bis appropriation* tor expenses of the Dlnofe Jto Insane at Klain; to appropriate 1 lief of the estate of Wffifam A] county, fo* damage to lands Henry dam; to pay Jacob singer t>90 on a sUnUa appropriation* for the i doatrial University; n the Illinois Eastern ̂ Xankdkee; to appropriate t , - Illinois Dairyman's Association,! of compiling reports; to i contingent tnna for the . . _ permit special assessments to he j ments, not to exceed five; tions to teste in term-tuns davits. Adjourned nntil 5:30p. i After a week's sqoabblinf with tte over the Bradwdl-licNauy ooatost, t Uoans were fofoed to retire fAM*t~ failed to appear at the opening of and Thomas was in attc whole sick. A contest over the Jonrnat vaalia- (run. K motion to postpone the appcsnral at (r journal nntil it oouklbe printed Was foDowedl one to lay the first motion on tte table. this the roll was called and only si two Republicans voted. No quorum wtt] and a call of the House was ordered Republicans present responded except Wa of CMcaco, who indnliied in the foUovta* II speech: "Mr. Speaker, I've got tired of this t iness, and I don t want to be fooled any Ifeaiifc. If the Repablioan party has got any traitei* fta it then I don't propose to stand it any knCfear. and I shall take my saohel sad go Ima* Whereupon he took his hat *MI left lor the tratn. His deMtfem and the absence of Rook and thMM* left the Republicans short-banded. Mid was left iiut to abandon the contest. ingly all dilatory motions were withdrawn both sides, and a motion rntsred by I~ to indefinite!.' postpone the consideration of 1 whole matter received the solid Demoon vote, while bnt few Republicans opposed It, and thus the contest was ended. ONLY seven Senators were present in their seats during a brief session on Monday, ABCH 2». Mr. Mason's bill to define the statns sad duties of sleeping-car companies, them common carriers, was read a Hi and made a special order for the: Merritt's bill to prevent the saloon shares of stock Which have been " came up. At this juncture Mr. ... posed an objection to taking np and < important bills in the absence of a < the Senate adjourned. The with about twenty members The Hon. John B. McFie occupied the < lar̂ e number of bills were read a seooto and live unimportant bills were rushed t a second reading. Attempts were madel the bill for the inspection of iltum natlai second readhur, but objections knocked it < time. The blu was then made a i the 20th. The bill to repeal the locomotives to stop at railroad i the Tflden switch maohtnel a special order for the Mb. MB. HK&XLET introduced a bill in the Sen­ ate on the 34th inst. to amend the Oamelaw so that ducks may not be killed after Mk U Bs al*o introduced the bill to amend the law In re- lation to electment. Mr. VUM inttodaasd a bill to require that in Chicago all Iwawa wisds by the Board of Edocattonshah he first s^kStaS to the City Council for Its approval. A l»er of Mils were sort to after which the House voted to past up tin xroSSiwr upon a few Item ... whole seesion. The nsasl bouri having been reached, ft was dt" out ofreepect to the deceased i _.... niff, whose funeral services were suppbssdl occurring at that moment at Us former bans*. Mr. McFie offend a resolution directing fhe Speaker to appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions suitable to the occasion, which was unanimously adopted. ATTEB prayer by the Chaplain and reading of the journal a large number of committee re­ ports were received in the Senate,. April IB, the Judiciary Committee aione reporting a round dozen, seven of which w< ra con lemned to the slaughter. Two n w bills wore introduced. Several bills were read the ceoond Senate bill No. 366, on third reading, 1 order for 10;3o o'clock, was taken up. provides that when railroads crossing e introduce such a system of intsriocklng or automatic signals as to render it safe for engines " heRail- It To PREVENT men from stealing his whisky-bottle at a picnic, an Oswego ^N. Y.) man tied it to his mule's tail. No one troubled it. The Ten Virgins. A certain minister of the Kirk of Scotland, now deceased, had prepared with great care a series of discourses on the parable of the ten virgins, and had made use of them rather oftener than some of his brethren thought he should. On the evening of a com­ munion Sabbath, when assisting a brother clergyman in the same presby­ tery, he delivered one of his series, which his friend had heard more than once. When the services were over and the two ministers were on their way home to the manse, the one said to the other: "Man, John, I really think you should gie up the virgins; ye're fairly makin' auld maids of them!" and trains to pass without danger, and the road and Warehouse Commissioners approve, shall be lawful for such trains to pass the cnx ing without first stopping, as is now required. The bill failed to pass by 11 yeas to S3 nays. Mr. Condee gave notice of a motion to recon­ sider. An appropriation for the Chester peni­ tentiary was discussed and recommitted, after which the Burned Records bill passed; 40 to Ot This bill permits minutes and memoranda, tracings, etc., of abstract offices to be used in evidence when the records have been burned. Mr. Shaw called up the bill to aathor- i7.e the Chicago Appellate Court to rent rooms for their court, and it was passed. The consid­ eration of the pending business In the House, the General Appropriation bill, was temporarily postponed by unanimous consent being given to read half a dosen bills and pass them to the next order on the calendar. A large part Of the day was then devoted to the Appropriation UU The Committee on Rules reported a substitute for the resolution for an amendment to the rules providing for afternoon sessions. The adopted the report. The afternoon begin at 3 mo. except on Saturdays and Mi when no afternoon session will be bill to give policemen constabulary powers passed to the order of third reading. The Speaker announced the appointment of a com­ mittee to draft resolutions on the death of fiaa- resentative CannUT, and the House adjonzaeS '̂ WhereHellit It. T "There's nothing like starting right," observed the senior partner as he looked up from his.daily. "I see that pepper has taken a jump of 10 per cent., cin* namon is on the rise, and allspice ia running away with market quotations.1* "And you will have to increase tha price of your goods ?" queried his broth- ar-in-law from one of the back town- jhips. "That's where we hit 'em--no increase ! . We started this business with the firm ntention not to be controlled by rings or failure of crops, and our pure ground seasonings are made without referenda 1o pepper, cinnamon, spice or anything else in the trade! Start right, sir-- Btart right. If I should start a standi factory I would not depend either on corn or potatoes."-- Wall Street JYeiM. IT ia stated that "qnite a boat of farmers there aro who might make duck raising profitable if they would only make the effort; for there is as much profit in breeding ducks for market as there is in raising any other kind of stock." ! THE length of the submarine cables in the wjiole world is e-timated at 64,- i 000 milea, and their value to be $202,- 000,000. f ^ i A Stupendous Abridge across the Firth-of-FAI^ Scotland, is projected, and, indeed, ia already under way, which, if finished, will be one of the most remarkabl* bridges in the world. The main girder will l>e within a few feet of a nala in length, and will rest upon ojlindrieai piers, each of which will weigh 16,000 tons. It will, of course, be high enough for all vessels to pass under­ neath, and about 42,000 tons oi steal will be required in its construction. The estimated cost will be $7,500,000. Tobaccos. The consumption of tobacco in Bl i sia. France and England amounts to one pound a year for each inhabitant; in Italy it is one and a half; in Austria, two and two-fifths, ami in Uemuny three pounds. In Belgium the amount rises to four pounds, while Holland 'akes highest place with five and a ball pounds. In the United States tfca amount per head is three pounds. . LAST year there was an increase of nearly $25,000,000 in the deposits ct savings banks in tka Statu ot Mem- York.