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m * bi>, Va., neenUj lMrt » civLjen "E. Lloyd, aged 86--who read the Bible through twenty-six times. THE gold product of the United States Ipgi year was slightly dimin­ ished, but the (silver product in«t-«?ased **>out $3,000,000. Strangly enough, the statistical returns show that the most marked activity was along the Appalachian range ia Georgia, and the Carolinaa. ? THE Iowa State Register, making a remaric which many will echo, says: "For our part, we believe that the XJnited States no longer needs, and should no longer encourage, any but the very best class of immigration. It wants and should seek quality rather 4han quantity now." WJSST POINT, Miss., with two thou­ sand inhabitants, has recently raised $50,000 for a national bank, $50,000 for » cotton-seed oil-milL increased its ad- "valorem tax-list $100,000 in one year, established a cotton exchange, voted $8;000 to a railroad, and is taikia$o(,a $60,000 cotton factory. THE French Government has repu- •diated the plan of flooding the Sahara in North Africa, and creating a new •climate along the borders of the Great Desert, as announced by De Lesseps. However, that indefatigable engineer is going ahdad with the digging of the canal, claiming that he is backed by capitalists in Europe. Should he suc­ ceed, the south shore of this basin would wash the northern boundary of the Soudan. This vast region extends from tlie Red Sea, and the Abyssinian frontier across the Continent to the West coast. THE American Consul at Vienna gave » "sheet and pillow-case" patty to cele­ brate his birthday, to the no small Amusement of the ordinary Viennese mind. Bobed in sheets, with head covered with the pillow-case, and wear­ ing masks, a "host of Americans" joined the 'Consul at supper, where the center ornament was a cake supporting the traditional cherry-tree, so inseparably connected with Washington's boyish in-1 ability to tell a lie. The tree was finally felled (with a hatchet?) to symbolize the fate of its ancestor, and the cherries were solemnly distributed. Behold -something truly American! must have been the comment of the onlookers. THE pastor of a Methodist church in Tonkers recently received a lady 100 years old upon probation, which leads "the Kingston Freeman to remark that if she conducts herself with propriety for the next six months, overcomes her natural friskiness, gives up dancing, -flirting, painting, powdering, bangs and low-necked dresses^ eschews false hair, false teeth and "pads," is prudent in the display of her pretty feet at muddy crossings, is not over-vain of her person­ al attractions and accomplishments, and puts on the quiet and dignified demean­ or due to her position, she may expect to be received into the complete rela~ tion of a church member. But she needs to be admonished that this is a world of temptation. '• r POSTMASTER GBNB&AI. OTA«DA**9 first speech in court was made when he was little more than a boy, and in the presence of mahy eminent lawyers. After the first twinge of embarrass­ ment he spoke with a freedom, elo- quence and logical force that won the attention and admiration of every one present. As soon as he finished his masterly argument, however, a reaction took place in his mind, and, all uncon­ scious of his triumph and the sensation he had created, ho fled from the court­ room, ran home to the sitting-room where his mother was sewing, and, throwing himself upon a lounge, ex­ claimed, "I've gone and made a darned fool of myself!" And he really believed that he had, although at that very mo­ ment the oourt-room was ringing with his praises. A MOVEMENT which seems likely to acquire considerable force has been set on foot by several public men in Swed­ en and Norway and in Denmark for the purpose of placing these three coun­ tries under the guarantee of the great powers, just as the neutrality of Belgi­ um and Switzerland is guaranteed by them. The partisans of this scheme point out that the three countries would derive from it many advantages, nota­ bly the reduction of their taxation, and that at the same time the stream of em­ igration from Norway and Sweden would be checked. Upon the other hand, the neutralization of these states would be of considerable service to Eu­ rope, as in the event of war in the North it would be to the general interest that the Scandinavian states should not place their great natural advantages at the disposal of either of the belliger­ ents. The promoters of the idea quote several precedents to show that a coun­ try does not in any way lose the respect •of the other powers by holding aloof from conflicts with others, and the case of Leopold I. of Belgium, who was oft­ en chosen as an arbiter in international quarrels, is adduced in proof of this as­ sertion. , THE Springfield correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal, noticing the statements as to the precautions taken to keep the remains of Lincoln from being stolen, says: "The hundreds and luradreds of people who, in the course of the past six years, have received this out of frahlMtiriiot because the :hs we beoo«nh^[ too loving and llfor such work, at least because <*ach work does not pay. But tine great sense of security entertained by the officers of the Monument Associa­ tion arises from another fact entirely, and that in the that the ashes &t the immortal Lincoln are not in that sar­ cophagus, and have not been for over six years--not, indeed, since the 8th day of November, 1876." GATH cm Russell Sage: Sage, they say, leads "the Street" now. He is 67 years old; something between Brother Jonathan and Pantaloon. Wherever he is, there is circus. Repent- less, resentless, but not relentless, he hardly has an enemy, never indulges in that ltycury, always calls you "my son," and scratches your midriff. He is every­ body's paw-paw, parentally healing them by the laying on" of hands. "My •on," he says, "sho, sho! I must get in my stray bets. My son, I've got a million and a quarter of them puts and 'calls out now. Sho! it'll never do, my son!" By this time he has lovingly fastened on to your spare-rib or Arm­ pit, or crazy-bone, and when he says "Sho" you feel like a chicken chucked up to be counted and fed on meal. Some put Sage's wealth at $50,000,000, some at half as much > more. He is the original--the vast insurer of specula­ tors. He will sell you a put, a call, or a "straddle"--the latter an insurance both ways, and at a double commission -- and he is said never to have "squatted" or repudiated these puts and calls, and seldom or never to have paid them be­ yond the moment marked for their pre­ sentment. "My son," he says, "it is twelve minutes past 1; that trade's off." He is regarded as the most phenomenal leader the Street has ever had; natural, almost womanly, with mind averse to violence or sinister things, and a feel­ ing also prevails that he has a classical education, which he does not claim for himself. He was in Congress thirty years ago, was the Treasurer of Troy city and county many years, and pos­ sessed popularity then as now. In Con­ gress he wanted the Government to buy Mount Vernon--a shameful over sight that they did not. Curious Facte in Surgety. Nature is a wonderful surgeon ;~she commences % conservative process of repair directly after an injury. "Never too late to mend" is her motto. An old man, of the enormous age of 102, came under my notice with a broken Jiip-- that commonest of fraetures among elderly people, whose bones are dry and brittle--often caused by accidents so slight as tripping the foot in a loose fold of carpet. No active treatment could be adopted; mechanical applian­ ces would have caused mortification of the skin in a subject enfeebled by senile decay; so he was placed on a water- bed and kept wholly at rest. He lay there for twelve months, suffering but little pain, and then peacefully passed away, having ended his long life in comparative comfort. After death it was found that the fracture had.actually healed, though naturally in a false position. A disagreeable little contretemps happens sometimes to young practi­ tioners who are called upon for the first time to set a dislocated jaw. It rarely happens twice to the same operator. When the jaw is "put out," the hand to effect its reduction must grasp it over the teeth as far back as possible, so as te exert force in the necessary direction on the angle. It is often no easy matter, but when it does slip in, it goes back so suddenly that the mouth shuts to with a snap iike a rat-tr&p, and the young surgeon draws an inference that for the future it will be better to shield the fingers with cork or india rubber in dealing with cases of this kind. It is a well-known fact that people whose limbs have been amputated tell you that they can feel their fingers and toes for a iong time afterward--for many years sometimes--and will even describe pain and definite sensations as affecting certain joints of individual digits. This is readily understood when we remember that the brain is the only part of the body that feels, all sensa­ tions and impulses being conveyed to it from different parts by nerve-fibers. Feelings of pain, heat, cold, touch and the' functions of the special senses are telegraphed to it. and when the con­ necting nerve is divided it may be some time before it learns to localize truly the seat of the sensation it appreciates. When we knock our "funny-bones" we experience a thrill in the little finger and inner border of the right hand, the fact being that we have stimulated the bundle of telegraph wires--known as the ulnar nerve--which transmit sensa­ tions from that finger and part of the next, in the middle of its course, as it winds round the joint of the elbow.--- An English Surgeon. * A Long bat Pleasant Sentence, - i Robert Collyer writes a friend: "I am getting a pair of wings grown to fly across the sea this summer, to hide my­ self away among the moors and rest among the heather, you know, and hear the larks, and drink at old wells and eat oat bread and milk, and hunt up old cronies, and tumble around in a river I know of, and go to an old farm house I know of, and to the church where I was baptized, on one or more Sundays, and hear the pastor preach--he does not mind that I am a heretic, and if he did I should not care--and there is a little tavern where the landlord knew my folks forty-five years ago, and I shall put up with that landlord for a spell, and it is a pleasant place and haunted by pleasant ghosts as ever anybody didn't see; and I shall toddle through some woods I know of between an old abbey and an old tower, where I used to go a oourting." ON the downfall of the Rockingham Ministry some one remarked, apolo­ getically, in Foote's h< a-ing, that they had been at their wit's end and were quite tired to death. Foote remarked that their excessive fatigue could scarcely have arisen from the length of their journey. As EVERY thread of gold ia valuable, soMevery minute of time.---Sev. John THE USE OF OIL CAKE.--A cor­ respondent of lite Breeders* Gazette says: I am iMdhwat present 200 head of cattle with oil cake, and I feed the heaviest <Mri%«fehtpound» of cake to wee quarto com meal and one peek^ of chaff (I #ae sheaf oats to cut chaff) to the Bteetf each day, and they are doing better than any cattle I ever fed. Several of my neighbors are using oil cake. I like the cue much better the mesl. I use s cake-breaker that I got from England last year. I am very sorry they are not manu­ factured here, as they will be in use a great deal soon. FOE FENCE POSTS.--A writer in an exchange says: "I discovered many years ago that wbod could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process so simple that it was not well to make a stir about it. I would as soon have poplar, basswood or ash as anv other kind of tim­ ber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after having been set seven years that were as sound when taken out as when first put iff the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect upon them. The posts can be prepared for less than 2 cents apiece. This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverized coal to the consistency oi paint. Put a coat of this over the timber and there is.not a man that will live to see it rot. FATTENING CATTLE.--It is generally admitted by stockmen that. the profit gained in rearing cattle for the market is rarely ever less than 40 per cent, yearly, and figures have been given to show thaf 75 per cent, is often realized. And this is the result of feeding cattle from birth to maturity. But it is a well- known fact that there is still greater profit in feeding a thin steer costing five cents a pound alive until it is worth seven cents a pound, because there is not only a gain by the increase in weight, let us say 200 to 300 pounds in three months' feeding, at seven cents a pound, but the two cents a pound upon the whole weight of 1,000 pounds or more. This, on the whole, was equiva­ lent to a much greater profit than could be gained from the sale of the crops that are fed. SUBSTITUTE FOR RAIN.--Hoeing and the frequent stirring of the surface of the soil are good substitutes for rain. Those parts of the garden that are most frequently cultivated show the best re­ sults. It is probable that corn, water­ melons, tomatoes, Lima beans and cabbage, and possibly other plants, if well started, in good, deep soil, may go through a two-months' drought without very serious damage. A deep, well- manured soil suffers much less than a shallow soil. Subsoiling and manure are to a certain extent substitutes for rain. Moisture comes from below. Un- derdraining is also a safeguard against drought. The course of the drains in the garden can easily be marked in a dry season by the ranker growth of vegetation above them. Irrigation in many parts of the North will pay. The soil, if well pre*pared, could use to good advantage twice the quantity of water it receives from rains during the dry months of the summer. PEKIN DUCKS.--This variety of ducks was introduced into this country from China about twelve years ago. Since their introduction they have rapidly be­ come popular with all lovers of fine water fowl, until at the present time they are almost universally admitted to be one of the best varieties, if not the very best, known and bred in this country. They are very large, weigh­ ing from fourteen to sixteen pounds per pair, are of fine form, and the plumage of both sexes is of a uniform creamy white. The legs are short, set wide apart, and are of a beautiful yellow color. The bill is of a lighter shade, approaching to a fine orange color. They are devoid of top-knots, the head being uniformly smooth and of fine form. They are very active, hardy and prolific, often commencing to lay from the middle to the last of February, and continuing, with short intervals of rest, until the end of spring. They can be successfully raised on farms not sup­ plied with ponds or running streams by keeping them well supplied with water from the well or spring, placed in troughs where thev can have free access to it at all times. This combi­ nation of good qualities certainly en­ titles them to be called a superb variety. HEN PESTS. If you expect to keep your fowls and their premises free from chicken lice, you must wage a constant warfare. The ounce of prevention in the shape of a proper place for the fowls to wallow in, and an occasional white­ washing and washing the perches with coal oil, is worth more than several pounds of cure after the lice once get a foothold on your fowls; but when they do get them, don't be discouraged, but go to work faithfully until they are ex­ terminated. The plan that I have given repeated and thorough trials--and that has never failed me--is to whitewash the inside of the houses every spring and fall, and once or twice during the summer; to fumigate occasionally with sulphur; to use coal oil freely as a wash, about the perches and on the bodies of the fowls; to use sulphur or tobacco stems in the nests, and to always keep a supplv of road dust and ashes where the fowls can wallow at pleasure. After the dust has been in use a month or six weeks, the contents are emptied into a barrel and used to sprinkle on the plat­ form, and the box is refilled with a fresh mixture cf dust and ashes. Anoint the fowls every two weeks with a mixt­ ure compounded of five ounces of sweet oil mixed with one ounce of sassafras oil, and applied with a sewing machine oil can. Carbolic powder is also an ex­ cellent remedy for lice on chickens, and to mix with the contents of a dust-box.-- Fannie Field, in Prairie Farmer. MERINO RAMS.--The fleece of the Merino ram should be dense, well-set and standing well up under pressure; and if pressed down should have suffi­ cient elasticity to return quickly to its upright position. It should be dense rather than long in staple. It should cover well all parts of the body, bead, legs and underneath the belly. It is desirable that this last should have the wrinkle running down on to and across it, and be covered with as long and thick wool as the sides. The face should be covered with a heavy foretop of wool, rimmed round, broadly over the eyes. The model ram docs not have the wool running down very close to the end of the nose; but a ram with such a face may be very profitably used on a flock if the ewes have poor faces. The fleece should be as even in length, thickness and quality on all parts of the body as possible. As to quality, a ram having a coarser fleece than the ewes is generally preferred, but we can see no reason why a ram with a fine fleece may not be equally as valuable, provided the wool is well set, dense and stands well up to lbs outer ends; if the ̂ were com* or UMvVtl iw l̂ssds. Aram -fjfigli * ftM&t- Aw Aeeo* Both? any kind; tatt c*e#Hr OTffibh charac- ter, a nun with avery strtaii, compact, even, coarse fleeoe may be profitably used. . - HOUSEKEEPERS' HUPS. MARTHA WASHINGTON CAKE.--One cup of sugar, one cup of ftweet milk, two cups of flour, one eg£ two tea- spoonfuls of baking iu>wdm, two table- spoonfuls of butter. Balfift in three layers. CI.ovB CAKE.--One cup cf sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of butter, one cup of sour milk, three cvpe of flour, two eggs, one cup of chopped raisins, one teaspoonful each of noda, cinnamon and cloves. CUSTARD FOB CAKE.--One egg, one- half pint of milk, one teaspoonful of corn starch, one tabte-spoonfal of flour, two table-spoonfuls of sugar; scald the milk; beat the sugar, flour, egg and corn starch together; add the milk, boil until thick. Flavor, and, when cold, spread between cake. FRIED CABBAGE AND BACON.--First, boil the cabbage, and when done drain f r e e f r o m w a t e r , c h o p i t u p . N e x t f r y some rashers of bacon, and when done lay them on a plate before the fire; put the chopped cabbage in a frying-pan, and fry it with the fat from the bacon; then put this on a dish with the rashers upon it. CHOCOLATE Punnmo--One quart of milk, twelve table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs, eight table-spoonfuls of choco­ late, yelks of four eggs. Put the milk and bread crumbs on the fire; let them get moderately warm; beat sugar, yelks and chocolate, and stir them into the milk; one table-spoonful of cornstarch; let it get boiling hot, then turn in a dish with the whites beaten with sugar on top, and bake a light brown. BAKED EGGS.--Butter a clean, smooth saucepan, break as many eggs as will be needed into a saucer, one by one. If found good, slip it into the dish. No broken yelk allowed, nor must they crowd so as to risk breaking the yelk after put in. Put a small piece of butter on each and sprinkle with pepper and salt. Set into a well-heated oven and bake till the whites aire set. If the oven is rightly heated it will take but a few minutes, and is far more delicate than fried eggs. ROAST VEAL STUFFED.--To eight ounces of bruised crumbs of bread add four ounces of chopped suet; shallot, thyme, marjoram and winter savory, all chopped fine; two eggs, salt and pepper to season; mix all these ingredi­ ents into a firm, compact kind of paste, and use this stuffing to fill a hole or pocket which you will have cut with Ik knife in some part of the piece of veal, taking care to fasten it in with a skewer. A piece of veal weighing four pounds would lequire rather more than an hour to cook it thoroughly before a small fire. APPLE BUTTER.--Take tart cooking apples, such as will make good sauce. To three pecks, after they are peeled and quartered, allow nine pounds of brown sugar and two gallons, or per­ haps a little more, of water. Put the sugar and water in your kettle, and let it l>oil; then add the apples. After they begin to boil stir constantly till the butter is done. Try it by putting a little in a saucer, and if no water ap­ pears around it the marmalade ia ready for the cinnamon and nutmeg "to your taste." * DOUGHNUTS.--Set sponge 4gt them about 2 or 8 oVlock; fry them the next forenoon. Make a sponge, using one quart of water and one cake of yeast. Let it rise until very light (about five hours is usually sufficient); then add one coffee-cupful of lard, two of white sugar, three large mashed potatoes or two eggs (the potatoes are nicer), and a small nutmeg. Let it rise again until very light. Roll and cut, or pull off bits of dough and shape as you like. Lay enough to fry at one time on a floured plate and set in the oven to warm. Drop in boiling lard and fry longer than cakes made with baking powder. If the dough is light enough and you heat it before dropping in the lard, your doughnuts will be delicious. An Anecdote of Michigan's Chief Justice. About thirty years ago, when Thomas R. Sherwood, Justice of the Supreme Court, Was a younger man than he is now, there was a lawyer living in Kala­ mazoo named N. H. B. B. was the *•>« te mm astfttiAaaals of OW thwn te ftUfgSfr lii ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ the iiHuil female miffimbEt Thelil• C. Guild's very entertaining history of "Old Times in TenaesMNr is the best picture of the earliest sstttmnont of the country south of Ktataeky jet produced; it is a work which will grow as the years go by. ladgiGnSdvai born near what is now the present sits of Erin on the Memphis and Louisville road, in Stewart county, Tean.,' about the year 1800. There he lived and flourished until 1812, when his father moved over into Sumner. Near 10 years of age, the youthful pi­ oneer had a most remarkable experi­ ence on his father's little farm near Erin, which he gives in his own words ("Old Times in Tennessee".* verbatim, as follows: "I must give vou s snake story, which is a part of the history of this country, and has been handed down from sire to son. "I had my deadfalls to catch squir­ rels, which'was a log eight feet long, with a pair of figure-four triggers, to which was attached an ear of corn to decoy the squirrel, and while moving the corn at the end of the trigger the log would be thrown, which, to him, was equal to the French guillotine used in those days when France got drunk on crime and vomited blood. Bare­ footed, with my only wardrobe my toga, which had two slits in the tail to dis­ tinguish me from the girls, I one morn­ ing started forth in a long trot, going around the field to examine my deadfalls. When I got to the far cor­ ner I found ode- of my deadfalls down and the tail of a squirrel protruding. I knew I had him. My entire attention being drawn to the squirrel, I straddled the log to lift it up, when my naked foot rested on the broadest back of the largest rattlesnake ever seen in Stew­ art county. He was as strong as a mule and as big around as a large yellow dog. He rapidly threw himself into a coil, and his battle-cry was heard. I knew that this meant business. In try­ ing to extricate myself I became entan­ gled in his coils. He then had elevated me three feet above the ground, resting on the broad folds. One of my feet was hung in his coils, and it was with difficulty that I extricated myself. In disengaging myself I fell headforemost upon the ground. There was no time for swapping horses or getting upon mv feet, so I rolled over and over Until I got got fifty yards from the scene of strife. 'Every time I struck the ground I thought I received a bite. Then I got up, ran to the center of the field and ' hollered' all kinds of ' mur­ der,' which alarmed my fa­ ther and mother, who came running with a hoe and an ax, thinking that Indians, who were troublesome in this section, had either wounded or scalped me. As they came up I still involuntarilv shouted murder! murder! murder! they partook of the excite­ ment, and asked me what was the mat­ ter. I could give but a very indistinct account of the situation, in which I spoke of a snake. Then they were satisfied that I had been bitten by a snake, and raised up my toga, looking for the bite, and asked me where I had been bitten. I told them I was bitten all over. They could find no marks, and wanted me to go and show them the snake. I declined to go in that di­ rection, but told them if they wanted to see the biggest snake they ever laid eyes on, to go up to the corner of the field. I remained, trembling and con­ vulsed. They proceeded to the point indicated, and found the monster snake, still lying by the dead squirrel. He was of such extraordinary proportions that it was not prudent to attack him alone. Billy Rushing and other neigh­ bors were called in to assist in the kill­ ing; five or more came. Along, forked sapling was placed on the back of the snake's back, and held there by four men, when my father stepped tin with the ax and cut off his head. We had two large yellow dogs, and the body of this snake was about as large and of the same color as the dogs. He was as long as a fence-rail, and had twenty-two rattles, being that many years old. When he was beheaded the dogs were set upon him, and bravely he kept up the fight. He would throw himself into a coil, and with the stump of his neck strike the dogs, knocking them eight or ten feet. When the dogs came out of the fight they were as bloody as butchers. He was suoh an extraordi­ nary snake that the neighbors con­ cluded to carry him home, but were un­ able to drag him. The oxen and cart La Orange (€&) JUpwrter. """"" liaT A1\. lu® were spnt for, and with the aid of hand- possessor of a most irascible temper, and gpike/he ^ rolled into the cart. His when things did not go to suit him he j - - - • - - was apt to lose it, and in the excitement used to throw inkstands, compiled laws, Supreme Court reports, and other mis­ siles handy, at offending lawyers' heads. This would be followed by an arrest and fine for contempt of court, and deep re­ pentance. B. wa§ a member of the church, and after one of his outbreaks he would make public confession, ex­ press deep contrition and be forgiven. After a while these bursts of passion got to be a great nuisance, and the law­ yers agreed that the next time he got on the rampage, the man toward whom his wrath was directed was to take up the quarrel and give Mr. B. what Paddy gave the drum. At the next term of court Judge Sherwood made some remark which enraged Mr. B., who promptly reciprocated by firing seats. The minister cast his glances was taken off and stuffed with bran, with the head attached, and it was hung up by the walls of the house as a trophy, such as the scalps that hang from the girth of the Indian warrior." Training for the Ministry. / It is well known to be a dangfifbtts' thing to ask too many questions in a Sunday school. A clergyman went into his Sunday school to talk to the scholars. "Now, my little dears," he commenced as he stood on the platform rubbing his hands complacently together, "I want all of you who never swear or use bad language to stand up." All but two small boys immediately rose to their feet, and although the teacher urged them to do likewise they retained their 8 copy of the session laws at his head. Sherwood responded with his good right arm, and in less than a minute the lawyers had formed a ring, and Sher­ wood was knocking B. out in truly sci­ entific style. Soon B. cried "enough," but was so used up that he had to keep his bed for a week. The Judge fined each of the fighters $100. A popular subscription was raised, the business men of the village chipping in, and Mr. Sherwood's fine was p.iid. When able to get out, Mr. B. again confessed to his fellow church members, and he was forgiven. These two events, being "knocked out," and Mr. Sherwood's fine being paid by popular subscription, were too much for B.; his proud spirit was broken, and ever after he kept his temper, and eschewed emphasizing liis arguments by the aid of missiles, and has ever since voted tlie Democratic ticket, unless he "scratched" at the last election.--Ghrand Haven (Mich.) Her­ ald. •_ • "MY client," sa:d an Irish advocate, pleading before Lord Norbury in an action for trespass, "is a poor man. He lives in a hovel, and his miserable dwelling is in a forlorn and dilapidated state; but, thank God, the laborer's cottage, however ruinous its plight, is his sanctuary and his castle. Yes. the winds may enter it and the rain may enter it> but the King cannot enter it." "What, not the reigning King?" in­ quired his Lordship. . UNGRATEFULNESS is the very jtoiaoa. of manhood.--Sir Philip SidnejL - toward the little fellows, paused a few moments, and then after waving back the children to their seats, repeated the request in this wise: "Now, all of you who love to go to Sunday schooT, who love the Savior, who love your par­ ents, who never do anything that you know to be -wrong, rise." Again all but the two boys rose to their feet promptly. "Little boys," then said the minister, addressing himself particularly to them, "can not you rise, too, on that question?" "No, sir," promptly re­ sponded the elder of the two. "Why not; why not, boys? What do you think will become of you if you do all the bad things I have just mentioned?" The boys shrugged their shoulders un­ easily for a few moments, and then when the whole school had simmered down to a profound quietness the elder said saucily: "Well, sir, my mamma said we should be both ministers one of these days if we kept on!" The next order of business was taken up without further delay. Hell Never Forget 1Mb A gentleman was riding along a road near the Alabama line, when he saw a fine, comely white woman plowing with a steer, 'fhis was so unusual a spec­ tacle that our friend thinks he forgot himself in the intensity of his rapt gaz­ ing. Anyhow, he was startled there­ from by the woman stopping in the fur­ row, planting her arms akimbo and ex­ claiming in a voice shrill and sharp: "You will know me the next time you see me, I reckon." • That was enough. Our traveler blush- m * 1 ART •r mi11? M tad ~ Wbjta-tun. of Citgr OMnaeflh. brief MMton. Time aot very important tHEr .... m. « A . - •• •«»*-• -^-... Mj' • 1 yy < ware oraerra w Htan if niiig, wnem nKw? calendar and cos** to b« flat call of the ym» sod nap* tad broke up the aa*.- nton, no qfuuiHi TOttHf. Arawftilte wore adtaboed to the order oC third readtar la the Senate «a tk> IftfcfeMC. aft­ er which the foQowbtf Home Ijfits wet* NM& A third time aaS pawed: Cttnton'a. »lhm!air tba Firemen'* Benevolent Awwcfattnn of Chicago # redact ite permanent bud to " " -- any surplus thereby created to bera and their Immediate tanilHw: 1 rtheBowtwa pealtn trlrt; LtoetrarX. wtth Tiding vlllagee subject foorwSow Bnaad(fen- don into improvement dlstrtota, and p ways and means to ratee the blocks above the line ot 1_ _ . in* specially, if not only, to Cairo: Tk-- authorizing County Jvdgestoperform th* of Probate Judges in the caae ot " death, resignation, or ini Senator Oillbarn's Bard-Boad bill twMHli by nnnnimooa consent, pa»Mi, and vent to tw House. The remainder rf tt» stiaaioa waa na1 voted to passing Senate bills. Thoe whl.-ifc got through the Kankakee ML foi ordtnary «mm penses, repairs and imprarementa^ " for refnrnlshlng the State law Hbrar furnishing it with bootovand tlie tdU atlnft *5,000 to the support of the Deaf School conducted by the Chicago Board of cation. The Senate High-Uoense M1E, in of the fact that the Honse is rtfll ' the ssme was postponed The Hon«c devoted another day to the litosnse bill, and wound gp in another deadr*1*' lock, the opponents of the bill breaking a o> rum. SENATOR CLOCOH'S Militia bill waa token: ng§ the first thing in the morning ot the 16th as •pedal order,, and passed. Senator Bell intra* duced a bill providing that building aasociatJMiS ' shall not be required to list for taxation notes or mortgages taken by such from their members to secure the payment monthly installments. Senator Fletcher's Mil* allowing witnesses in their own eonntfes,ln addi­ tion to witnesses testifying In foreign |1 a day for attendance and S> cents for mileage, was read a third time and Senator Needles' bill authorising the tion of certain legal advertisements in the G«fe man newspapers failed to pastas did Ssnataw 11 inis' bill, turning oyer the prooeeds of flne% penalties and forfeitures to the general revenue fund of counties, instead, as now,.to the local: school funds. The-b H transferring the balance of the delinquent land-tax fnnd h the- general revenue fund; Senator Tubl:a' bill requto-r conimon-s.'hool instruction in el­ ementary physiology and the Imar of health, paying due attention to the known effects of aleoholic drinlcs, stftnnlkatS^ and narcotics on the human sys '-rn; a bill re­ quiring lull and details i receipts irouTax Col­ lectors, and a lonp-winded scheme to revise tMa law in relation to the Dcj artmentof Agriculture. SpMwtasd Their Web* The apparatus bv means of wfc&h a raiisr constructs its web is situated in the hinder part of his body, shd coo- sists of five principal vessels, or iaternsl reservoirs, in which the gumlike ma- ierial is stored, with a nnasber of small ones at their base. From these little fleske or bags of gum tubes proceed to the outside spinnerets, five in number, which may be seen by the naked eye in large spiders, and look like fine tiny knolw surrounded by a circle. On ex­ amining them through a strong mag- ni ying-glass they will be seen to be studded with about a thousand minute bristle like points, each of which is a tube connected with those reservoirs in­ side the little creature's body; these points are called t-pinnerules. In rope-making manufactories it is well known that in ropes of equal thick­ ness that is the stronger which is com­ posed of many snfall ones twisted to­ gether. This principle has been carried out by the all-wise Creator in the spi­ der's web. From each of those 5,000 spinnerules issues a thread which is made up of many of quite inconceivable fineness. A great naturalist, who spent much time in studying spiders through I a microscope, calculated that it would take 4,000,000 of the fine threads spun by a tiny spider no bigger than a grain of sand to be as thick as a hair of his own beard. Spiders have the power of shooting out these gossamer-like threads from their little bodies, and; they generally choose to do it in the direction of the wind, so tbat the thread is carried by it to a distance until it meets with something to which it sticks. There are people who believe that the spider flies when they see her pass from branch to branch, and even firom one high tree to another, but she transports heaself in this manner: she places herself upon the end of a branch and there fastens her thread, after which with her two hind feet she presses out one CM- more threads, which she leaves to float in the air until they be fixed to some particular place. A ^,vt naturalist made an experiment in this j £ig way: he procured a small branched twig and fixed it upright in an earthen vessel which contained water1, and on the twig "he placed several gossamer spiders. The water was to prevent them getting away by anv other means i stfrtanlturni societies and agricultural'fain than by their web. Then he set him- ' pa^ Senator Tlv ur* WU in «gard to estray. self to watch them. If there was a natural current of air, or if he blew softly with his breath, the spiders turned toward the direction whence the wind" came, and, partly raising them­ selves, shot out from their spinnerets threads which were carried out in a line by the moving air. Next the spiders were careful to find out whether the ends of the lines had become firmly attached to any object or not by pull­ ing at them with the first pair of legs; when satisfied of this, after tightening them sufficiently, they made them fast to the twig; then they discharged from their spinnerules a little more of their liquid gum, which they applied to the spot where they stood, and, commit­ ting themselves to this bridge of their own construction, they passed over in safety, drawing this second line after them to use in case the first gave way. --Anon. Unnatural Attachments. Hon. J. D. Caton gives some remark- 11 the opponents of the b.11 refused to able instances of unnatural attachments among animals in his possession. A male elk, blessed with several females of his own species, abandoned them all for the society of a 2-year-old Durham heifer. Together they lay down in the shade to chew the crd, together they rose to feed. During the whole season of th8 growth of the elk's antlers they kept away by themselves, avoiding the other animals, and if no cross between Alee $ and Bos resulted, it was not the fault of want of will on the part of either. The only excuse for such conduct is that t|te elk had been brought up all his early life on a farm, in company with cattle, while the heifer had never seen a male of her own species. Stranger still was the unappreciated friendship felt by a sandhill crane for a herd of pigs. When the pigs went for water, she went also; when they lay down in the rivulet, Bha sat close to them and waited. When taken out and placed in her own inclosure she seemed to spend the whole time in looking for the pigs, and if they came near the fence showed the greatest satisfaction. As for the pigs, they d d not seem to notice the bird at all. A Hawaiian goose (Bernicla sand' vincensis), who was loft in widowed loneliness, attached herself to a sow, and never went to tliopond after the at­ tachment was formed. W hen the pigs , ^clan to advertise bv newspaper, card, dreulaii were dropped she assumed the role oi i pamphlet, book, writing, or lecture; an act t» nurse. Only two survived. These she j ownrrs ^^ u,nd to construe! would drive out of her pen onto the | ducing the nuroSerof persons necearary tfti grass; would spread her wincrs over , avail ot the provisions of t;>e act to incorporate ' them, a. it to brood them; would oh.«; \ away an inquisitive deer, and would fly ; number of dir. c ors may not »*? less than nina.- nt ft torriAr with snoli vim thnt lio onnn ' nor more than fifteen; to amend the act to re»C :m as a terrier Winn sucn vim una* lie soon • the practiceof mddicine bv incrc*«ii»e tQi learned to avoid the pig-pen. When! tees for the examining of applicants and thl' the sow was removed and the pigs were | Jesulne of certificates, etc; to amend . -J. IT. IMI , » the law relating to cruelty to animals. \ quite large the gooi-e Suill cared for) The pending business of the House was t^mpo- oleyifd and a& dabo I mrlly suspended to consider some b 11' whto^ ~ 5 Here considered and got out of tlie way. OnS- : Of them was St evens' billrequirinsi railroad con% ^ ,j; • panles to have an office in tliis State for thit transfer of stccIt was i>asstd. The wholt^^s* day was passed upon the Chamraivn I'r.iversit* * Appropriation bill, and a great deal < f politi-as'if buncombe was inuulge i in by several memoeiq. The bill was not completed at a ijouj nmen:. was Ix ateiv. Tlie Senate held an afternoon sea* slon. Senator Herggren'a biB prohiU.iug the em­ ployment of extra officeraof the General Assem­ bly, except by a two-thirds vot \ was passed' The following Senate waaanres were passed: Senator Bell a bill requiring copartnerships llk» the Lloyds to make the same deposit required ot < insurance companies; Senator Shaw's bill to-re­ lease certificates of levyon real estate; 8enator Merritt's bill to prevent one telegraph company from Interfering with a rival line in its attempts to secure ofltoas, put nppolefl,wires, eta.; Senator Ainsworth's bill to prevent indecent exhibitions on the stage, popularly known aa the anti-can­ can bill; Senator Condee's hill, applying only , Englewood, and prohibiting the neensing of a | dramshop within one mile or any oounty normal school; Senator Bogers* bill,allowingtfea- leaaa- rf school lands for live instead two rearsr Senator Needles* bill, restoring aectkm 90S « the Revenue law, which provide* that «vrr tract or lot of land offered at pnbBc aalo ami .lot said for want of bidders shall be forfeit­ ed to the btate; nnl Senator Evans' Mil, al­ io wing tirc-insiirance companies of tlOMt capital to d« buaineea in Chicago. Th* Oil-Inspection bill failed to get enough Totaa. Senator Secrest introduced a joint resolution re­ questing the Governor to state whether th* Commissioners having In charge the approrrla* i tion of $30,000 for Shawneetown had made aiy- report, and. If not, what official information ho may have upon the subject. The rates went* suspended and the resolution adopted. 4 motion to take up the regular order, the License bill, threw the House intoad:a4lnek» b.11 refused to vote, and only seventy-four members anatn red. Altera time a quorum vo ed upon the adoption ot the Willoughby amendm-nt tf« amended, and It iiw carried by secured to send the bill to a third reading, thWi was finally done by a vote of 7S to & MB. MORRIS' motion to suspend THE rulaai and take the Shawneetown Levee bill from th* table was defeated In the Senate on the 17th Inst. Bills were passed; To exempt shares at in good fi " capital stock sold or pledged in good faith for h valuable consideration from execution and sal% except for tho excess of the value thereof over and above the sum for which the same may liavo been pledged* providing that the liability of all oonntieercl:ie% townships, towns or preoincts whtah have vot*4 aid or dr na Ions to, or subscriptions to, the cap* 1 al stock of railroads under the Ballroad Aid law of 187" shall cease and determine after tha 1st day of September. 1888, and no bonds shall be Issued in such aid thereafter; to aaaend th% , sot relating to the compensatirn of owners of - n ; sheep kill d by dogs; amending the Plearo* - - rnenmonia act so as to Include glanders within ' > Its provisions, and maklnc an aprropr.'a k£ ' ' ' IS? j of $10,000 to carry ft out; authorizing tte legls*. * » r latlve authorities in citiee and villag e to ta ̂ license and regulate lumber dealers, lumber -. " brokers and lumber commission merchants; dt* rifling Cook county iuto fifteen districts for thpi: election of County ("ommis.sionery.each of whioh. Is to elect one Commissioner; ' hanging teraw Of „ County Courts in several counties; making the * ; net weight for a barrel of cranberries 'o be nine- . „ ty-nine pounds; prohibiting the changing of , ...fl'vi names and changing of places of business of oor» - poratlons; repealing the act incorporating " V the Heywarth school district; amending „ * J? I Vf- the act providing for the electio^ and qualification of Justices of th» Peaoe, etc., so as to provide that the Count# Clerk ahall keep a separate book in wbijh h$> •hall record the official bonds of all Just'oes ot the Peace and constables; Mr. White's Primary Election bill; Mr.Tanner's In >riocking BallroM- Bwltehlnx bill; making it unlawful for any phjri% them, and they obey her wishes. ' A. Burglar's Ingenuity. At a London West End establish­ ment a burglar was caught red-handed in the strong room opening a safe con­ taining a fortune, with a key as perfect as though it had been made originally for the lock. The man was convicted^ and his prosecutors, out of curiosity, begged him to tell them how he got the * -'>• t U key. "Nothing easier," he replied. 'We knew who carried the key and what it was like; so me and my pals we gets into the same carriage with your manag­ er when he's going home by rail. One of us has a bag which he can't open. Has any gentleman got a key ? Tour manager produces his bunch, and my pal, he has wax in his palm, and takes a likeness of the key of the safe while seeming to open his bag. There's the lor you." Society Note. Johnny Fizzletop accompanied his sister to a party at the residence of Col. Percy Yerger. ' In accordance with' the prevailing fashion the ladies wore low-necked dresses, very much to the astonishment of the aforesaid John­ ny. Next morning, at the breakfast table, Johnny, being engaged in read­ ing the morning paper, asked: { "Pa, what do they mean by unani- . mous ?" | "Unanimous, my son -- well, when everybody wants the same thing, then they are said to be unanimous." ! " Well, then, those ladies at the ball last niglit were unanimous, tor they all wanted the same thing." "What was it* my son ?" "Clothes.Texan Si/tings. ; An Almost Unknown Nation. Mr. Li. H. Foote has been appointe4 Minister of the United States for Corea* This is a country practically unknown- i to the rest of the world. It is a king%9i dom that has so far succeeded in exclud* ing all foreigners. Its present ruler, however, has signified his willingness . k,, to make treaties with the leading lor« . eign nations, and to allow their Minis*. . ters to reside in his capital. Th«rv United States is the first in the field*. ̂ and Mr. Foote will take up his quarter* * 'f at the capital of Coiea before the other - Ambassadors arrive. Corea is said to be . a densely-populated region. Its King* J" • ,<• in times* past, recognized the superior " v authority of China. The capital, about • *'t eighteen miles from the coast, is C«m«4 V TJ Seoul, and contains about 150^000 peo». „,\jy " pie. Minister Foote will he the white man tliat has ever set foot in it* , / The feeling is very friendly towar<f> / Americans, but undoubtedly the open* r ' ing of Corea will be of lar more ml* . .V; vantage to the trade of Germany ami ,T„-| England than the United States. Othe* , ->.< ! nations have ships and a eotmneive. an«j[ • I oan produce goo,Is more cheaply than , I w e . C o m m e r c e i s f a s t o p e n i n g u p e v e r y " . * quarter of the globe. Before the ctaset 1 ^ . of this century, every habitable scctiom ' ^ ' of this planet will 'not only be fully * known and described, but will be in ill- a ( timate commercial relations with, the,' ^ (lending manufacturing centers o$ ,, ' Jfurope and ^.meriea, -- Monthly Magazine. ^ » » • 4̂ ̂ *