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J. MMtLYXe. tdtorawtratl sher. MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. _ • f j f : . TH£ gilded nickel is still cheating the Anple, and it is likely to Bend some of the sinful to State prison. To know­ ingly pass one'of the coins as a $5 gold '"jneoe is decided to be counterfeiting. THE systematic deportation of title inhabitants of the West of Ireland by the British Government has begun. The emigrants are furnished passage by the Government, and are paid so much money from a specific fund. , ; " NOT any more ocean for riieP ex- •diimed Mr. Beecher recently. "Never! I agree with Br. Thompson, who said that when he came on deck the ocean looked like one vast dose of ipecac. One of the attractions of heaven to me it that 'there shall be no more sea.' I will visit Europe again when I can 'tialk there o? go on wheel*.* ' ,t , PERHAPS as remarkable I* •ever occurred was that of a grave-dig­ ger on Long Island the other day, who, when the remains arrived on the ground, had not completed his work. The mourners departed at nightfall, leaving him at his task. Next morning lie was found lying dead across the cof­ fin. A Coroner's inquest decided that he died from heart disease. MRS. HENRIETTA CALDWEI*, *F Louisville, was one of the converts of the "Mountain Evangelist," Barnes. She has recently named two of her children, who are twins, "Jesus Christ" and "George O. Barnes." A local paper indulged in. some oaustio com­ ments on this strange act, for which die has instituted a libel suit against tile paper, claiming $10,000. SHERIFF MICKELL, of Lincoln county, Miss., passed a cow in the road. He said "Shool" to her, which was obvi­ ously improper.- One may shoo a horse, or shoo a hen, but a cow--never. The bovine made a run for Sheriff Mickell, and the first thing he knew he was flying through the air twenty feet from the ground, propelled by the horns of the indignant cow. The Dep­ uty Sheriff of Lincoln connty adminis­ ters the office temporarily. THE managers of the University of Pennsylvania %are considering a plan whereby women may be admitted to that institution, not, however, upon the same terms as men. They will receive Instructions at a different time, and though the examinations will be the same the classes will not meet at the same place. At the same meeting of the board a veterinary department was established in the college. Horses will be admitted on a footing of equality with the male students. „ " : A CUSIOuS milt foT • damages has been brought against the Rev, Father Fleming, of Boston, by a girl 17 yetrs old, assisted by her parents. She has been the subject of hysteria and claims to have had visions of the dead. She has exhibited paper images which she declared were angels sent her by her dead brother. Father Fleming per­ suaded her to give them to him, which die did on condition that he would not harm them. He said he would cut them in two, which he did, whereupon she accused him of murdering them. He said she ought to go to confession oft- ener and carried away the images. She kept saying, "I want my angels," and every time he came asked him for them. He refused to give them up, and she brought suit to recover them. MRS. HENRY B. STANTON writes from London that Miss Susan B. Anthony arrived in England on March 6, after a particularly pleasant voyage. Miss Anthony left London to spend Easter in Bome, but before doing so she went to see .Mr. Irving and Miss Terry in "Much Ado About Nothing." Next morning some one asked her how she enjoyed it. "It was so stupid I could hardly keep my eyes open," was her prompt reply. "Irving mouths the English language so that I did not un­ derstand a word he said, and what I did understand was not worth hearing, and he moves about in such a stiff way that one might imagine him just recovering from an attack of rheumatism. The •only redeeming points to me were the beautiful scenery and the love-making, which was cooler, more distant and more piquant than usual." A BETTER illustration of that kind of law which "takes a man as well where he ain't as where he is" has probably never been seen than the great case of Slater vs. Sister, recently decided in Humboldt county, Nevada. The whole thing is rich and is thus explained by the Silver States: Some time since Mrs. Mary Ann Slater, of Golconda, brought suit in the District Court for a decree of divorce from her husband, William Slater. Pending the trial of the case the couple met at Bain's ranch and a fight ensued, in which the hus­ band was worsted. He bandaged his battered head, came to town, entered •complaint against his wife, and suc- •ceeded in convicting her of assault and battery, for which die was fined $120 -or sixty days in the county jaiL Yes­ terday her suit against Slater for divoiroe -came up in the District Court. She was taken from the county jail to the court 'room to testify in her own behalf. Ex­ treme cruelty on the part of her hus­ band was the ground upon which she •relied for a divorce. Slater failed to appear, and the court granted a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony here­ tofore existing between the parties on in tHo . . . [ f l o w n a b r a n c h a » d k e e p i n g ft in eon en his paart, while she is serving a term jteotwith or lfcxied to a small aeptit in in the oounty jail for whipping that vaM foot* are formed. The ™ sKissat'BTsarjB can say, after this, that laws are not aa ! far more easily propagated Ahps than inconsistent as the politicians who are by cuttings. selected by the people to make them? THE popularity of the hanged Molly agLoo own curneu to account by several of their widows, by making it the advertisement for their groggeries in the Pennsylvania mining regions. Mrs. Jack Kehoe keeps the tavern which her husband started in Girard- ville. A pool-table fills the center of the bar-room, which is the largest apart­ ment in the building, and over the bar hangs a framed lithograph of Jack Kehoe. This is the room in which the most desperate of the Mollies met to discuss the advisability of murdering objectionable bosses. Mrs. Kehoe pre­ sides over the bar. She is 35 years of age, tall and handsome. She was once said to be the most beautiful Irish girl in the Mahonoy valley. "The Miners' Home" supports Mrs. Kehoe and her family comfortably, and she has some money in bank. A year or two after Kehoe's execution she began receiving offers of marriage, but refused to give ear to them. One indefatigable suitor, John Carey, pressed his suit so ardently that she relented, and they were married a few months ago. Before his marriage Carey worked in the mines. Since he settled himself in the tavern, hdwever, he has devoted his time principally to fiddle playing, and his rendition of the "Shan Van Vocht" is, in Mr. Monahan's opinion, "betther than Bloind Tom cud doot." His wife retains her first hus­ band's name for business purposes, and rules the family and Carey with a rod of iron. Thomas Munly left a pretty widow. Last July she married a miner named Murphy, and opened a saloon in Gilberton. Mrs. McGehehan has one near Landsford, and is still young and good-looking. Pat Hester's widow lives near Locust Gap, and keeps the bar once owned by Pat. The Widow Carroll sells rum in Tanaqua, in a small, old- fashioned tavern called "The Home." The wife and two children of Jimmy Kerrigan, "the Squealer," also live in Tanaqua, while Kerrigan is loafing about the country, despised by nearly every one that knows him. INtiERSOLL ON DEATH. Oration Delivered Over the Grave of a Dead Friend. Again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. We question, but there is no reply. Out on the wide waste seas there drifts no spar. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks. In the very Mafltof life another heart has ceased to beat. Night has fallen upon noon, but he lived, he loved, he was loved. Wife and children pressed their kisses on his lips. This is enough. The longest life contains no more. This fills the vase of joy. He who lies here clothed with the perfect peace of death Whs a kind and loving husband and good father, a generous neighbor and honest man, and these words, build a monument of glory about the humblest grave. He was always a child, sincere and frank, as full of hope as spring. He divided all time into to-day and to­ morrow. To-morrow was without a cloud, and of to-morrow he borrowed sunshine for to-day. He was my friend. He will remain so. The living often become estranged, the dead are true. He was not a Christian. In the Eden of his hope there did not crawl and coil the serpent of eternal pain. In many languages he sought the thoughts of men, and for himself he solved the problems of the world. He accepted the philosophy of Auguste Compte. Humanity was his god, the human race the supreme being. In that supreme being he rested. He believed that men are indebted for what we enjoy to the labor, the self-denial, the heroism of the human race, as as we have plucked the fruit of what others planted, we, in thankfulness, should plant for others yet to be. With him immortality was the eternal consequences of his own good acts. He believed that every good thought, ev­ ery disinterested deed, hastens the har­ vest of universal good. This is a relig­ ion that enriches poverty, that enables us to bear the sorrows of the saddest life, that peoples even solitude with the happy millions yet to be; a religion born not of selfishness and fear but of love and hope; the religion that digs wells to slake the thirst of others; that gladly bears the burdens of the unborn. In the presence of death how belief and dogmas wither and decay. How loving words and deeds burst into blossom. Pluck from the tree of any life these flowers and there remain but the bar- , . . ren thorns of bigotry and creed. All ! home-made implements is, they should wish for happiness beyond this life, j made ready beforehand. The farm- All hope to meet again the loved and ! er ma7 convinced that it will pay in lost. In every heart there grows this ^*e ©ud, but he will rarely stop half a sacred flower of eternal hope. Immor- i m ™*e busy season to make a plank As AN illustration of the profits of corn culture in Los Angeles county, Cal., the Anaheim Gazette cites the case of a farmer wlio last year sold 1,150 centals of corn from thirty acres. He sold it for $1.63 per cental--a total of $1,874.50--and his cash outlay was barely $150. THE milk of a eow in her third or fourth calf is generally richer in quality than a younger one, and will continue so for several years. In dry seasons the quality is generally richer, although cool weather favors the production of cheese. Hot weather increases the yield of butter.--Farm, Herd and Horn*. THE poorer the oondition of the cow, good feeding being supplied, the richer in general ia the muk. If a cow be milked only once p day the milk will yield more butter than an equal quantity of that obtained by two milkings, and even less by three. Morning mUk is of better quality than that of the evening. --Farm, Herd and Home. IT should be remembered that no matter how good and rich a milker a cow may be it is unreasonable to ex­ pect the quantity and richness of the product to be kept up unless both the quantity and adaptability of the food are matters of attention. Do not expect impossibilities, even if you are the owner of prize milking animals. A WRITER in the Fruit Recorder makes the statement that one of the neighbors planted some cabbage plants among his corn where the corn missed, and the butterflies did not find them. He has, therefore, come to the conclu­ sion that if the cabbage-patch was in the corn-field the butterflies would not find them, as they fly low and like plain sailing. SANDY soils are,in the average farmer's sense of the word, the lightest of all soils, because they are the easiest to work, while in actual weight they are the heaviest soil known. Clay, also, which we call a heavy soil, because stiff and unyielding to the plow, is compar­ atively a light soil in actual weight. Peat soils are light in both senses of word, having little actual weight and being loose or porus. I THINK the value of flax straw for feeding stock depends generally on how much seed there is in it. I have stacked upon my place seventy-five or 100 tons of flax straw. I have also a a quantity of prairie hay, which I do not value very highly for the wintering of stock, and I was obliged to fence it in to keep it from being eaten up, while my flax straw went untouched. I would not give 50 cents a ton for flax straw for feeding stock, as there is not any substance in it.--Farmer's Review. I CAN recommend the following plan for growing a successful vineyard: Select a high location, mark out the rows eight feet apart. Commencing, say on the east side, lay off four rows eight feet apart. Then leave a space ten feet in width, to be followed with four rows, as before, and space of ten feet. The rows should run north and south, and the vines, of such varieties as Concord, Moore's Early, Worden, Brighton, Pocklington and Rogers, should be planted twelve feet apart in the Lady and Delaware may bs planted closer, sav eight feet apart. Cultivate thoroughly with a row of potatoes between the vines. After the first year stretch the wires over the row, one two and the other three and one-half feet above the ground. Train the vines low, so they can be easily laid down and covered with some kind of mulch. After the frost is out, in spring, lift the vines and fasten to the wires, cultivating thoroughly, as before. If this plan is adhered to, every man, woman and child can have a supply of the health-giving grape.--Cor. Iowa Homestead. A WESTERN subscriber, possessing a large garden which is quite free from stones, uses an implement which he calls "a planker." After his soil is har­ rowed, he "planks" it, and finds it in splendid condition, rarely requiring even the use of a rake. It is made of two heavy planks, each eight feet long, placed side by tide; two six-inch boards are laid on at angle of forty-five de­ grees, starting at the outer corners of the planks and meeting in front at the center. These boards are nailed firmly to the planks to serve as battens, and hold them together. At the point where the boards meet they - are firmly bolted together, and a hole made for the cleving. When the horse is in mo­ tion, the front edge of the planker is elevated a little, so that it glides upon the lumps, and, aided by the weignt of the driver, who stands on the back edge, completely crushes them, and leaves the soil in an admirable fine con­ dition. On many soils the planker would evidently bo of great service in preparing for ruta-bagas, carrots, and other root-crops. In that case, the parts may be doubled in size, and two horses used. One point about these f i a t - N we& farmer, nure, s: muck, loam or with Ins manure necessary to afteitttfr gasses, is a waste ef makes his manure which his crops will OVtffcfhe le ma- of the he mites which is | liqtuds and and only a deception ly find out. T||_. evei^«iil%JlMiybeneaagear'l»eai« few riakee of white laee across the top of the head or an arch of artificial flowers caroling the back of the neck to | a formidable structure like a coal scuttle, | in the depth of whose shadows a pretty I face glows like a strawberry peeping mi., - , I out from a nook ia the meadow grass. While it is important that every farmer j Touching the genus bonnet we have should always have at hand sufficient j nothing to say,; but we have a few un- !»hwl>«nta to *ho I'VO" -' ! . . 13 " s . V Jt . . „ - . a , -- BciauMno suggestions to oner in regard liquids, but few farmer* work to the j ^ one Qf the species 6f which it is coin- , , , , - . ito the j posed--the poke bonnet. This bonnet barn yard as many loads ttf muck, loam J £, named, we presume, from the fact or sand as they have of manure. The | that its architecture conveys the idea of large additional cost of removing twice or three times such large quantities of materials but little better, if as good, as the soil upon -whioh it is spread, never comes back in the increase of crop*.-- Massachusetts Plowman. HOUSEKEEPERS* HELPS. HOT SLAW.--Chop or shave, as fine possible, a small head of cabbage, either white or red, and put in a stew- pan with one teacupfnl of vinegar," one- half teacupful of water, and a small piece of butter dredged with flour. Salt and pepper to taste. Stir and cook until the cabbage is tender. . .. -* . , . . _ _ „ : nary prepcfctionxor a change of stvle. STEAMED ^ BROWN BREAD. One cup Poke bonn&s mre exaggerated into of sour milk, one-half cup of warm j positive ugliness end psssed away, and water, one cup of molasses, one-half j woman learned to speak of anything teaspoonful of soda, one and one-half unbecoming as "poky." In our day, cups of Indian meal, one-half cup of j when feminine taste has developed in a flour. Steam three hours and bake wonderful way and women are going one-half hour. It may seem thin, but, back through all the ages and searching loftiness and projection. The term is considered an Americanism; but the combination of words is a natural one, and Moore makes Miss Biddy Fudge, at a time when this form of head-dress was very much exaggerated by fashion, speak of bonnets: --hkh op Mid poking Uka thing* that are pat to Keep chimney* from smoking. Without doubt it was the exaggera­ tion of the type a couple of generations 'ago that drove the poke bonnets out of fashion. Therqjs always a tendency to push a prevailing mode to an extreme and so m*ta it uj^iculous as a prelimi­ nary prepAtio: it will be just right when done. CUSTARD.--One and one-half quarts rich milk, one cup sugar, one-half box felatine, four eggs, vanilla to taste, dissolve the gelatine in milk; add the yelks and sugar; let it come to a boil, then remove from the fire. When cool add whites of eggs, etc. Pour into mold. To be eaten with cream, if pre­ ferred. BREAKFAST DISH.---Chop fine ss much cold beef or mutton as is re­ quired; add a pint, more or less, of good soup stock; season #ith pepper, salt and ground cloves, thicken with browned flour, and pour boiling hot over little bits of nicely-toasted bread. Garnish with slices of lemon and serve at once. CELERY SALAD.--Wash and scrape two large bunches of celery, cut in small pieces and lay in water for two hours. Put in a salad bowl and pour over a dressing made as follows: Bub the yelks of two large eggs to a smooth paste, with a half-teaspoonful of fine salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper, a tea- spoonful of dry mustard and cupful of vinegar. STEWED BABBIT.--Skin and clean the rabbit, cut into pieces^ put one-fourth of a pound of butter into a stew-pan, and turn the pieces of rabbit about in it until nicely browned; take out the meat, add one pint of boiling water to the butter, one table spoonful of flour stirred to a paste in cold water, one table-spoonful of salt, and a little grated onion, if liked; let this boil up, in the costumes of all climes for hints as to the most becoming attire, there has been a revival of the poke bonnet, but in a moderate shape. All the charms of the old fashion are preserved and none of its grotesqueness has been copied. To the masculine critio we think no ^kher species of bonnet recommends itself so strongly. One of its greatest merits in his eyes is that it conveys the idea of comfort. It covers a woman's head, comes all round her face and is tied under the chin, giving her a snug, comfortable look such a* she has in no other head-gear. The projecting cave of the bonnet--we are obliged to fall back on the architectural term, as our millinery vocabulary is very limited-- shadows the face and gives an air of modesty that is charming to a man in inverse proportion to his own impu­ dence. At the same time, as now con­ structed, the poke bonnet does not hide a woman's face in the affected way of our grandmother's time, but allows a man to get a fair look at a passing beauty without ducking his head under a portico of straw and ribbon more tan­ talizing than an umbrella on a wet day. We trust the poke bonnet will go on conquering and to conquer.--Buffalo Courier. shoulders of those nesfflsr. the lights and shades than those of electric " , the whole, the atmospheric brilliancy surpasses whatever is known in the North as much as our Northern sky surpasses tho London fogs, where men are forever doubtful whether their celestial luminary is the sun or the JBOOBL--cor. JSew 1 or k Post. ., - _ ::r _4 The Hone ef Lords. ;* ^ H. Labouchere, a member oi Parliament, writing to the Fortnightly Review, says the House of Lords is composed of hereditary land-owners, who collectively own 14,258,527 acres of land, and whose collective incomes are about £15,000,000. They have per­ sistently opposed, so far as they dared, every measure of reform brought for­ ward during the present century, and more especially every measure that has militated against their own class inter­ ests. Not only are they conservative in the real sense of the word, but in the party sense. When a conservative min­ istry is in power they are useless; when a liberal ministry is in power they are actively pernicious. Notwithstanding their wealth, they are not independent. They are place-hunters; they are clam­ orous for decorations, and they dip heavily into the public exchequer. In pay, pensions and salaries they divide among themselves (including the sala­ ries of the Bishops) £621,336 per an­ num. It may lie an open question whether the system of one or two cham­ bers is the more desirable. No sensi­ ble person, however, can advocate a chamber, destined to act with comtrol- ling impartiality, composed of enormous­ ly wealthy men, draining vast incomes from lands, absorbing large amounts of public money in pay and pensions, and perpetually intriguing to secure the triumph of the party to which the great majority of them permanently belong. It is surprising that so astounding a legislative assembly as our House of Lords can have existed so long in a country inhabited by sane human be­ ings, and its existence in any country where the paramount assembly is elect­ ed by a numerical majority would, of course, be out of the question. , Killing Tenderly. Science is about to take soine of the pain and terror of death away ftom ani­ mals which it is necessary for man to slaughter. Mr. St. George Lane-Fox, » well-known English electrician, has add the meat, stew slowly till the rab-! devised an apparatus for killing ani- bit is tender. Serve hot. ®als which is absolutely painless. I Worn-out horses which are to be de- QHICKEN PUDDING.--Oot up the j prived of life under this process, have chickens and stew until tender. Then ; their heads and feet wetted with salt er or other affair. Hence we call such matters to mind in a time of leisure, that they may be provided.--Country Gentleman. ONE of the important questions which every farmer has to decide is the best method of composting manure. Farm­ ers do not agree on this subject; while pome hold that it is best to apply ma­ nure in its green state and composit it with the soil, orhers believe it compost it in the yard by mixing with it an equal quantity of muck or loam. Advocates of the last method claim that the ma­ nure is thus decomposed and brought into plant food that is immediately available. The advocates of compost­ ing directly with the soil claim that it saves a large amount of labor of haul­ ing in material to compost with, the pitching of it all over, and the carting out and spreading twice the quantity; and they also claim that during the pro­ cess of decomposition in a compost ap, under ordinary conditions, a por- n of the fertilizing e'ements is lost; , if applied directly to the soil, the »s of decomposition improves the i .aition of the soil and prepares it for plant growth much better than if ap­ plied after decomposition has taken place. While it is probably best for most crops to apply the manure in the green state, there are some crops that need forcing with manure already well de­ composed. For example, strawberries ATLANTA has a factory which daily' that have been set one year sometimes produces 1,500 pounds of oleomargar- require a fertilizer that will act at once, me. | Grass land, if manured between the tality is a word that hope through all the ages has been whispering to love. The miracle of thought we cannot un­ derstand. The mystery of death and hope we can not comprehend. This chaos called the world has never been explained. The golden bridge of life from gloom emerges and on shadow rests. Beyond this we do not know. Fate is speechless, destiny is dumb, and the secret of the future has never yet been told. We love, we wait, we hope. The more we love the more we fear. Upon the tenderest heart the deepest shadows fall. All paths, whether filled with thorns or flowers, end here. Here success and failure are the same. The rag of wretchedness and the purple robe of power lose difference and dis­ tinction in this democracy of death. Character alone survives. _ Goodness alone lives. Love alone is immortal. But to all there comes a time when the fevered lips of life long for the cool, delicious kiss of death. Tired of the dust and glare ©f day they hear with joy the rustling garments of the night. What can we say of death? What can we say of the dead? Where they have gone reason can not go, and from thence ^revelation has not come. But let us Delieve that over the cradle nature bends and smiles, and lovingly above the dead in benediction holds her out­ stretched hands. take them from the gravy and spread on a flat dish to cool, having first well seasoned them with butter, pepper and salt. Make a batter of one quart of milk, three cups of flour, three table- spoonfuls of melted butter, one-half teaspoon of cream tartar, a little salt. a layer a cupful of the batter over it. Proceed till the dish is fulL The batter must form the crust. FRENCH BO^LS.--One quart of flour, Butter a pudding-dish an^ jeut of the chicken at the *! water; they are then led into a stall and made to stand on an iron plate con­ nected with a negative pole of a con­ denser of a capacity of about 100 microfarads. The animal's head is then touched with the top of the pole, where­ upon it falls dead. There is no pain for there is no sensation, or possibility of any. If requires one-S*wu of a sec ond after the infliction of the injury before the pain can be felt; but in this case the animal is killed in about the thousandth part of a second. Unfort one or two eggs beaten with an even i unately, animals slaughtered for food table-spoonful of sugar; dissolve a small cannot be treated in this way, as the yeast cake in a tumbler of tepid water;; flesh is uneatable. This new process, stir this well and pour into the eggs, j therefore, can only be used for horses. Sift the flour into the tray; reserve a . dogs and cats, not intended for food third of it to work into the dough after i supply. It is well known that animala the flour is wet up. Into the remainder j killed by lightning cannot be eaten of the flour sprinkle a teaspoonful of | and must be burned or buried. But salt, and rub in well a heaping table- 1 here again science has taken a step for spoonful of butter or lard; pour the j ward. An English society for provid yeast in, and stir the flour in gradually, j ing a sanitary and humane method of When the dough can be rubbed from | killing animals for food have raised a the hands, flour the board or bottom of i fund for erecting a model abattoir in tray, and begin to work the dough up- ( London. Everything that skill and ex- on it. Sprinkle down more flour (out I perienee can suggest for minimizing the of the third reserved); pull the dough | pain of the infliction will be employed, to pieces; repeat this until all the re- j For sheep the arrangement includes .a served flour is worked in; continue to j stupefying chamber, through which work the dough until it feels light and j each animal will pass on its way to the spongy to the touch. The dough for j knife. The anesthetic used can be pro- light rolls should be softer than for | duced for a trifling cost. The quality bread. Grease the pan in which you j of the flesh is by no means deteriorated will put the bread to rise; lay the dough j by these humane devices. In view of in; press down with the hand until it the revolting scenes which takes place covers the bottom; lightly cover over at our public executions, why should not capital punishment be inflicted by an electric machine, such as that used by Mr. St. George Lane-Fox for making away with useless and disabled animnln ? --Demorest's Monthly. with lard to prevent a crust from form ing; throw a clean towel over. Set it to rise where it will be kept moderately warm. When it has risen take it im­ mediately from the pan and roll into a round strip; pull it into pieces of uni­ form size (never very large); mold into either round or oblong shapes; grease the pan slightly in which they are to be baked; lay the rolls in, touching. Let them rise again, which should be | crusade in favor of "fresh in half an hour; bake in a quick oven, j fought bv- the sanitarians, not hot enough, however, to blister or burn. The Southern " 'Gator." Six thousand baby alligators are sold in Florida every year, and the amount of ivory, number of skins, and quantity of oil obtained from the older members of the Saurian familv are sufficient to entitle them to a high place among the products of the State. The hunters sell young " 'gators" at $25 per hundred, and the dealer from 75 cents to $1 each. Live alligators 2 years old represent to the captor 50 cents each, and to the dealer from $2 to $5, as the season of travel is at its height or far advanced. A ten-foot alligator is worth $10, and one fourteen feet long $25 to the hunter, while the dealer charges twice or three times that price. The eggs are worth to the hunter 60 cents per dozen, and to the dealer 25 cents each. The dead alligator is quite as valua­ ble as the live one, for a specimen nine feet long and reasonably fat will net both branches of the trade as follows: THE HUSTEK. I THE DKAJUEB. Oil $ 5.50 Oil $ 7.50 Sldn 1.00 Skin 4.00 Head 10.0uiHead 25.00 Total $16.50! Total $36.50 The value of the head is ascertained by the number and size of the teeth. Dealers mount especially fine speci­ mens of the skull, but the greater num­ ber have no other value than that of the ivory they contain.--James Otis, in the Continent. An Exertionist. Old Mrs. B. came to town on an ex­ cursion, and when asked why she was in such a hurry to leave she replied: "I've got to; you see as how I dame in on an" exertion trauit awl my ticket perspires to-night." The Fresh-Air Fallacy. Fifty years ago few people knew much about ventilation, or, indeed, be lieved much in its importance; and a air" was Now the tide runs the other way, and all the dull people have learned the phrase "fresh air," and insist on having what thev call "fresh air" at any cost, and without regard to times and places Two men will come into the spacious parlor of a club; the air, though warm, is muoh purer, and cooler by five de­ grees, than the furnace-blast of the streets they have left. The incomers are entirely comfortable until one of them notices that the windows are shut. Then they remember the formula "fresh air;" the windows are ordered open; in comes the heated gust from without, laden with the animal refuse that forms the chief ingredient of the dust in our large cities. These intelligent gentle­ men draw near the open window; they inhale the "winged odors" of the streets, they murmur their formula, "A little fresh air;" they have cleared their consciences and are happy. And in traveling what do we not suffer from this ignorant conception of "fresh air!" We have all seen the lady who must have the window open in the railway carriage; in the summer she breathes the railway sparks and cinders, and she catches a severe cold on every winter journey; nothing short of pneumonia will convince her narrow ignorance that there are other things to think about in traveling than what she calls "fresh air."--T. M. Coan, in Harper's Maga­ zine. The Atmosphere in Mexico. The strangest feature of Monterey to Northern eyes is the clearness of the air, such as that which made me, as I stood on the Mount of Olives, think the Dead Sea within an hour's walk, though I found it a day's ride. Among the strange serial phenomena here I class the foot-liills standing out so promi­ nently that you think you can see round <iheir corners and into the interspaces Men's Love Letters. Men of mature age generally write the most impassioned love letters. At­ tachments at that age are deeper, and less anxiety not to compromise oneself is shown and felt. From 25 to 40 they are more cautiously warded, and even occasionally signed with initials. Men between these ages, beside being desir­ ous to avoid commiting themselves, are more or less ashamed of any display of sentiment. A young man from 18 to 25 will inundate the object of his affec­ tion with letters full of the most fer­ vent protestations, as evanescent as they are ardent. After 50 men are often wise enough to vote the writing of love letters an unprofitable occupation; but some carry on the practice to a very ad­ vanced age. Their protestations are then ingeniously flavored -with touches of the paternal, which sometimes en­ tirely mislead the unsophisticated re­ cipients. A German of most ages will address his sweetheart in the second person singular, and indulge in dreary descriptions of his every-day life, giv­ ing her little anecdote;) about himself, interspersed by a quantity of senti­ mental platitudes which most of our own girls would designate "bosh." Frenchmen, in their love letters, are as expensive as they; are insincere. Not that they have the least idea at the time that they do not feel every syllable they write. Compliments and aggregated expressions of devotion are idioms of the French language, and flow naturally from a Frenchman's lips, even under the most discouraging circumstances. A HHOUJ HUM surrender $3,000 in lMWa _ Bontfaara Honest Mmltow** boadaie. was r--11V njjy f ispir wi April. TIM Senate Mo aaent aMlM gomtoajd A IWjMttMr, Bo»th«rt> Kopyk bat aotMacwa oowfcTlng th« Chicago JoatfoM. mwwd to aurtyoM ilfaaei. eni Bood bill until next WednwdAr . , Mr. Btaw tttnd«ort»nariotkm,«Uik fened to" tl» Judiciary Conuattes, tab rjodmnt aunitmt the faaMtw Ilia Impvovranent Company, running asatrwt tfejalr franchise, only lea-ring their dams in tbofar con­ trol. Mr. Dnncan called op the bfli to dtstciak the different ootmttea of the Btate for fees at coontv officers under the census of 1880, and it pained, lb. Xeedle* called the Boad bin tar counties not ander townafaip otwdaAn, aa#, it passed. Mr. Mason Introduced ttw foBowtnti WBBIU, Our aaaoaiat* Bmnafnt, ttaa Hflij' Thomas Cloonan. baa raoeive4tl»artaeOT4S the death of his lather: therefore, That Senator Cloonan nave indeSnlfee of absence and that w* tender to our sincere svmpathy in this bona of his reavement. The resolution wal. mmlwopur • adopted. In the Hon*e, the aMaojaiatMBs oi the Adjutant General's office wan* iihImmII, J4. J00, the Democrats allowing Ota txlnae W(S throueh. The remainder of the amrniBB awr sion was devoted to wrangling wr thaaaiiry Oi"' the Secretary of the Board erf PobttoChatlaaa ̂ After a waste of a gnat deal of rateable and considerable rhetoric, $aoo «M lopped 08. The same waste of raw material fotetui ia afternoon on the next Item, rasnlttaCC la %te* dnction of the appropriation of $S,oat far ctatfe hire for that officer. An animated pemnaalde- , bate, in which several of the iMflita at both ' tddee took part, and Mr. Hahm the btaaMnlf> party, had bis say. consumed the whole dn, and very little piuawea waa made npontfaebA, Ykrt few members of ttt Qeaeial As-V sembly had returned on April ftk. WhMt tha ̂ two houses met in the afternoon there waaaafeiif quorum in either branch. The Senate &<Uoonia4 without attempting to transact baataeaa. The ' House, by general oo&aent, artraaoed aemal bills to second and third reading, tat none or them were of special importance. Mr.BMnAaally . attempted to call np his Stock Yard bill, whidt raised a little rumpus and precipitated adjourn* meat. ON the meeting of the Senate on the ht of' May, Mr. Merritt introduced a resolution mi|Hli Ing Assessors to assess property at its full caah value. A few reports from oonuaftteea of Bdaor importance were received, and a small munb* ̂ of DiUs were sent to a third reading, anMHij which was the appropriation bill for the Sefom School at Pontine. Mr. Hantiteaft- bill to provide that only one bal* lot and one ballot-box shall be used la elections where the township and city occur at the same time, was sent to reading. Mr. Breggre&'s bill to tlx the par _ _ Legislators at (8 per day for the first ninety days, and ii thereafter, and that no per diexa shall be allowed except for actual attendance, was fought over for a while, and left over at ad­ journment. Business began in the Houae oa committee reports and the introduction of a few tardy bills. The House adopted a Jointieaotattoft introduced by Mr. Wood, of Cook, providing foe the sending of duplicate copies of all printed State documents to the Historical Society ak Chicago, with the object of providing against the possible contingency of a loss of the State library by fire. The resolution also provid as foi the return of one of the duplicate copies of each document to the State library after its destnte* tion, should it occur. Mr. Clark of* fered a joint resolution making Mai 18 the day for final adjour It was referred to the Committee on . All the morning session, with the exception of i < r # few minutes, was devoted to wrangling over aa amendment to ont down the proposed allowance for law books for the library of the Axmellat* Court of the First district of Chioago, IM ra> sultof the debate wa«< the adoption of the amend- merit to appropriate $6,000. This point wal reached late in the afternoon, when no furthog business could be transacted. AITKB a few committee reports to the Sen* ate on the morning of the 3d inst., theMerrite ,. v resolution instructing the Governor to enforM ' the law asainst Assessors for false swearing waa r ̂ read and referred. The West Permanent Road *• 4 • bill was taken up, amended in several antmgortp -t; % ant points, and ordered to third reading. Oa ' 4 motion of Mr. Condee to reconsider the vote ; M which Mason's sleeping-car regulation bifi ' rsed, Mr. Condee made an intense uneeoh favor of reconsideration. Mr. llaeoa got the floor to reply, bnt a demand for they-- tion was made and toe vote was taken and The Bergeron bill, which was in order ca ad­ journment, was taken np and all amendments voted down. Mr. Whiting offered an amende ment forbidding passes to members of the Aa» sembly, and punishing by line, and argued for the amendment. An amendment forbidding members of the Legislature to aocept railroad- passes was carried, after which the UU1 waa kill * ©'ConnelPs Impudence Daniel O'Connell has been cfttletf the Irish Demosthenes. In addressing an immense crowd, his voice would glide as easy as a bird flies, to the verge of the audience, and stir to sobs and laughter. But eloquent as was his tongue, it could wag as saucily as a fisherman's. Once, meeting a certain Irish noble­ man, who sported a ferocious pair of whiskers, O'Connell impudently asked, "When, my Lord, do you mean to place your whiskers on the peace establish­ ment ?" When you place your tongue on the civil list!" rejoined his Lordship. He knew the humors of the mob, and would play the buffoau i& order to please' them. During the Dublin election his oppo­ nent was a Mr. West. O'Connell, at the hustings, resorted to a favorite weapon, the calling of nicknames. "Sow West" and "Ugly West" were hurled again and again at the opposing candi­ date. "Gentlemen," replied Mr.West, good- humoredly, "Mr. O'Connell takes ad­ vantage of me, for he wears a wig." "I scorn ail advantage," exclaimed the mob-orator, snatching off his wig and exhibiting the baldest of scalps; compare us now, boys; is Bow West the beauty ?w Of course the crowd cheered their favorite, but judicious friends grieved at the coarse-grained jest, the "tinsel upon frieze," of one who could 1m a Titan when on his mother-earth. The Elderly Gentleman and the Porter. An elderly gentleman presented him­ self at one of the entrances of the new law courts of London. "No admittance except on business," said the porter, who did not remember having seen the elderly gentleman before. The latter explained that his name was Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone. The port­ er thought he had heard the name some­ where, in a paper, likely; bnt orders were orders, and--finally, however, he was convinced, and Mr. Gladstone went on his way speculating upon sublunary reputations, and the janitor remained wondering that this Mr. Gladstone--or whatever his name is--should insist up­ on going in that way against orders.-- London Globe. itled. T t. e bill to appropriate the proceeds at the tax lovy for military purposes was readied and discussed by Messrs. Whiting and Clongh. In the House, bills to appropriate money to pave the* streets about the Capitol building aad to BBSU yiein Siats uvw«, u«ua ins -jmeoiai* ticdMV occupied the day aad caused a good deal «t dis­ cussion. The bill to complete uie State Hoaa* . went through with a rush, but the one to pave, the streets had a narrow squee^finallTpeaalBCt^:>• THE special order in the morning of the 3d inst. was Whiting's bill to relieve inenn-bereft property from double taxation. Mr. Meirit? moved to postpone till to-morrow. Lost, and the bill was amended and sent to third reading. A number of committee reports wcro handed ia* . and eereral bills sent to third reading. Mr, Bice's High-License bill was reached, and oa motion of Mr. Merritt the bill waa postponed/r for one week. Mr. Rice protested in strong terms against such action, but it waa carried. Mr. Merritt moved to go into executive seaaioa, to compel the special committee to report on thl nominations of Chicago Justices of the fin if, Lost--19 to 36. The Governor seat ia a com­ munication, which was as follows: To tha ; '» .̂ Senate: For the purpose of avoidingoonftiakra. . V»nd to designate the order of wtctKMstoaof the • ' * ̂ p e r s o n s w h o m I h a v e h e r e t o f o r e n o m i n a t e d M T . - . - v the Senate for confirmation as Justices of the Peace for the city of Chicago, I transmit here* with, M a supplement to my original manage r-t, - making such nominations, the following ̂ i showing the order of succession of said persoe so nominated for Justice of the Feaoe. Foe' South Chicago--Thomas B. Brown, Hardin D. Bravton, 1>. Harry Hammer, George A. Meech and John R. Prindlvtlie as their own sttcoeMorat David J. Lyon, to suoceed Logan D. Wallace ̂ and Peter Foote to succeed John Snmmerfiel4> For West Chicago--David Scully, Charles W. .'I Woodman, Max Eberhart, Orlin P. Ingersoll ""| ; David Walsh, as their own sncessaon|| Francis Chursell to succeed Gustave Daman*- \ and Joseph Le Boeuf to succeed B. A. Fisher.. . For North Chicago--©faarles Arnd, his own aoe« oessur: Louis Kistler to suoceed Henry Hudsont John c. Barker to succeed A. H. Robinson; Qeoi Kocster to suoceed H. A. Kaufmann, and Charlee E. Thornton to succeed P. L. Hawkins. Aftef considerable time had been consumed by dile# tory motions, the General Appropriation bill waa a g a i n t a c k l e d i n t h e H o u s e , a n d t w o o r t h r e e " clauses were finished up. BEES are kept in Mexico chiefly for the wax they produce. Being a Catho­ lic country, large numbers of candles are wanted for burning in the churches, and the authorities allow no material to be used in making them but pure bees­ wax. THE making of sassafras oil is now a leading industry in many parts of Vir­ ginia. The raw root costs $1.50 per ,000 pounds. A WEST POINT cadet begins with the same pay which a Prussian Captain re­ ceives after twenty years of service. OH, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms me hurtful.--Richter, Dr. Wajland's Decision. „ rt The late Dr. Wayland, the well- known President of the Brown Universe ity, was noted for his fatherly ways witli the students. A former pupil tells thi|tv anecdote of his teacher, which showgt ; that the doctor possessed one paternal j" trait, decision. When I was a Sophomore, my ohum* a Junior, was going out of town to- preaeh. I strongly desired to go with him that I might hear his sermon,- and told him so. "Well," said he, "all right; glad tor have you come, but I don't believe Prex'll let you off." For it was a J ule that who ever wished to leave town/ must get the President's permission. "I'll try anyway," said I, and de­ scended to the President's office. Knocking, I was saluted with a high keyed "Come in!" and found myself in the awful presence. It was evening and the doctor sat at his desk writing, with a green shade over his eyes. As he looked up inquir­ ingly, I began: "Doctor, I--I--I called to see, er-~ if I could leave town fore day or two I* "Well, ahem! Sick, my son?" "No, sir--but"-- "Well, you cant go!" and the doctor resumed his writing, and I--went out knowing I couldn't. THE British sovereign has ̂ solute right to eoutrol the custody and! education of all the branchee of the' royal family of England during their minority. This was laid down in the reign of George II., when all the Judges signed an opinion that, by vir­ tue of the prerogative, this claim on the part of the King could not be op-» posed. Mr. Greville relates in 1m 4 " M e m o i r s " h o w G e o r g e I V . , a n x i o u s t o , annoy the Duchess of Kent and Prince I Leopold (afterward King of the Bel-; gians). entertained the notion of taking the Princess Victoria from her mother's! care, but the Duke of Wellington ia- - uced kin to abandon the project ' ?K!" f», t * 4k ,*• : *• *S ' ,A..i >J • %