The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

. ,v »> j t1 *' 4 I . VANSLYKE, EfltoraM * & * jf»1 »»«%» JSt vJIWA >4 ••* •**» V - •vtf v..1 '4 h - - V' i V it.; •H ' *»&, *•{#<$£**! What tfce MCHENKY, ILLINOIS. As extremely-unusual occurrence *kMhappened at M. Rothschild's bank, iq r^aris, the other day. A band of some " ilfty Polish Jawa entered the bureaux -^nd claimed pecuniary assistance. As ihey refused to retire unless their de- - *lband -was complied with, M. de Botha* ... ,«hild was obliged to send for the police expel them from his premises. THE Soldier's Home estate at Wash- ^ jfagton covers 502 acres. There are ^•00 inmates, with 150 out pensioners, •ho get $8 a month. Th» revenue is ^ *bout $160,000 a year, derived in part k, •from $100,000 levied by Gen. Scott on the city of Mexico for having permitted guerrillas to fire on American troops, . • * «nd from a fee of 12| cents a month ' • deducted from the the pay of ill sold- . '4trs in the army. THE latest "American* story going rounds of the European press is ;#gthat of a traveler of that nationality who found it necessary to excuse his inabil- ;v to join in the hilarity of other travelers because of his poverty. ; ^Gentlemen." said he, "I know I'm . | "."ijaore or less of a saturated blanket on Vthis party; but the fact is, I'm a very j|oor man--steeped to the lips, I may •ay, in impecuniosity. When I tell , .you, in strict confidence, that this is my •Wedding tour, and I have been com­ pelled to leave my wife at home, you ' ean form an idea of the narrowness of juy resources." \ -- V , THK artesian well which was bored •_ -ft Akron, Col., 112 miles from Denver, lias met with an unfortunate mishap. .fe^\JITork was going on finely when, at a llepth of 1,250 feet, the ponderous • drill, with its weight of 2,000 pounds , above it, stuck in the tube, and could [jji:.: 3|ot l>e forced down to the bottom. , r H>inoe then all efforts to prosecute the y . %ork have proved unavailing. The it" ' ^ork was under the management pi Prof. Horace Beach, the United tBtates Artesian Well Commissioner, •••'. tfho believes that abundance of excel- f ent water can be made to spout to the urface in Colorado in artesian wells & frhich are sunk to the depth' of 2,000 RLF*'- THE Bell Telephone Company had a of men recently in Camden, N. J., putting up. a line, and they proceeded Jfo dig a hole in whicth to place a pole , I ID front of a property owned by a Mr. Beckett. Mrs. Beckett, in the absence ' "<it her husband, protested against the . digging of the hole, but without effect .. jipon the minions of the corporation.- finally she sent for husband. When ,Jie saw how things stood he went for a f lawyer. As soon as he went away Mrs. :/^ jBeckett put on her shawl, and, going I' out, jumped into the hole and dared ylhe workmen to dig it any deeper. The $ . workmen stopped until the husband re­ turned, when he made a compromise, f lulled his wife out of the hole wherein he had pirated herself, fend allowed the work to proceed. ^ FJYFJ IK a party iq St. Joseph, Mo., were i young man "noted for his converse- *lional powers," and a beautiful girl "from one of the upper counties." In the course of a struggle for a trinket *the girl sank her'ivory teeth into the * V«&eshy part of the young man's arm." He politely concealed his pain until he •returned home, when, on removing his garments, blood was found trickling -'ffrom the wound. Next morning the lacerated arm was swollen to twice its statural size, and he was laid up for sev­ eral days. The St. Joseph paper, in relating the incident, refers to another and worse one of a similar nature that •Occurred at Cape Girardeau a few years igo, in which a young gentleman actu­ ally died from a playful bite on his thumb by a young lady. The paper Remarks: "It frequently happens that /the bite of a woman is poisonous." Mtt- " : ABOUND the Chicago Board of Trade '.lave grown up shops where, by furnish­ ing the machinery for cheap gambling •on the price of grain, the proprietors * * ^ have made fortunes. In a small way, and for the benefit of small gamblers, ^Jhey imitate an incident of the business daily done on 'Change. That incident is the buying and selling of speculative trades of cereals, not with the intention ©f delivering or accepting the com­ modity itself, but, at an agreed time, of settling upon tjie difference in price. .'There would seem to be no occasion for •' i •<* the Board of Trade to fear the rivalry of these common shops, but it has es- • eayed to^crush them out by inducing the telegraph company of withhold' from them the quotations of the markets i- ' made on 'Change. These quotations I iftre essential, since they are the arbiters by Wfiieh the small transactions of the customers of the shops are determined. |The matter is now in the courts. • % THE confusion caused by a number of different places in the same country bearing the same name is nowhere more ? felt than in Brazil. In that empire there are thirty-five towns and villages called Santa Cruz, and as many as 172 named Santa Anna, seventeen Santa Isabel, forty-six Santa Bita, and twenty-four Santa Maria. Unless the province and postal town are exactly given in each of these cases, a letter or paper may wander about in the hands of the postoffioe for months before it reaches its destination. And these par­ ticulars are the more necessary, as, while there are 9,660 towns, villages >nd hamlets in Brazil, the number of postoffioe* ia only M0O. The same etil is frequently felt iu the United States, where repetitions of the same name for different places are very com­ mon. One of the most favorite names in recent times is Bismarck, which has been given to a dozen diSerent settle­ ments in the Western States. THE channel tunnel to connect tha shores of England and Fffcfnce is stfll a vexed question. The Law Journal, referring to the appointment of the committee of both houses of Parliament in connection with thiB matter, says sight must not be lost of the fact that such Parliamentary sanction is not necessarily required at all. If the tun­ nel should be worked from the French Bide alone, the soil of the tunnel as it progressed would be French, and the question would not be whether the tun­ nel should have Parliamentary sanc­ tion, but whether it should have Par­ liamentary prohibition, by confiscating the property of the company in English soil when the foreshore was reached. If Parliament refuses sanction to the tunnel, it is far from following that the tunnel will not be made; and the real question before the committee will be whether Parliament should refuse sanc­ tion now that it is asked for, at the risk of the tunnel being made in the future without any sanction being asked.. WHEW'Harrison made Webstei retary of State the rage for office in Massachusetts got to fever heat. Among those that went to Washington was t, neighbor of Mr. Webstor, of habits too convivial for his own good. The Secre­ tary did his best to get him to leave Washington, promising the very first office his old friend could fill. But the office-seeker, day after day, went to the State Department to ascertain if the office had yet been found. Mr. Web­ ster gave orders not to admit him. One morning he went, determine! to know his fate, and his looks showed it. Drawing a large knife, he forced his way to where Mr. Webster sat alone writing. Seeing the maniac, for maniac he was, Webster reached fqr the bell. Seeing this, the fellow shouted: "Don't touch that bell, Dan Webster, or Hi cut your heart out of you! You promised to give me an office and you haven't done it. I have lived here until I have spent every cent I had and all I could borrow; I have been kicked out of my boarding-house, the mort­ gage on my farm is foreclosed, the homestead, with all its furniture, sold, and my wife and little ones turned out, houseless, homeless, on the world. And now," he said, as he advanced, "all I have to say. to you, sir, after such treatment, is to tell you, in the lan­ guage of the lamented Shakspeare, to go to , you!" Then he left. . In what part of the works of the "fomented Shakspeare" the words are found has never been ascertained. SUGGESTIONS OF TALUE. Do WOT neglect to put on a pair of gloves before beginning to sweep, if you wish to keep the hands soft and smooth. A SMALL heated bar of iron applied to the head of a rusted screw will ren­ der its withdrawal as easy as one just inserted. WHEN bread is taken from the oven, wring a clean cloth out of water and wrap around. Then cover lightly with the usual bread cloth. This makes the crust nice and tender. A LITTLE powdered borax put in the water in which laces, muslins and lawns are washed will improve their appear­ ance greatly; use just as little soap as you possibly can. A PASTE made of whiting and benzoin will clean marble; and one made of whiting and chloride of soda, spread and left to dry (in the sun if possible) on the marble, will remove spots. A GOOD way to clean lamp-burners when they have become covered with soot and gum is to boil them up in a strong solution of soda water. The wicks need an occasional washing, too, to remove sediment. MECHANICS who desire to produce a deep brmiant black upon iron and steel may try Jhe Nfoilowiiig recipe: Apply with a fine hpiir brush a mixture of tur­ pentine and-sutphur which had been boiled together. IF you dip your broom in dean hot suds once a week, then shake it till it isc^lmost dry, and then hang it up, or stand it with the handle do-#n, it will last twice as long as it would without this operation. THE approved manner of eating an egg is the English fashion. Set the egg upright in the cup, make an orifice in one end and eat out of the shell, flavoring to taste. Eggs discolor silvei so much, little ivory spoons may be used for egg-spoony If of silver the spoon should be laid in' cold water as soon as used. THE little white worms which some­ times make the earth in a plant-jar look as if is alive, can be driven out by stopping the hole in the bottom of the jar, then cover the earth with water in which you have dissolved a little lime. Let this stand for several hours, and it is not likely that you will be trohbled with the worms any more. SILVER in constant use should be washed every day in a pan of Buds made of good white soap and warm water, drying it with old soft linen cloths. Twice a week (after this washing) give it a thorough brightening with finely- powdered fluting, mixed to a thin paste with alcohol, rubbing longer and harder where there are stains. Then wipe this off and polish with clean, soft old linen. Attractions the Orange Grove Lacks. The orange grove, whatever may be its attractions, certainly does not invite one to stroll in its shelter. Oranges require incessant cultivation. The soil must be kept loose and entirely free from grass and weeds; channels must be opened for irrigation, and shallow basins to hold the water scooped under every tree. To walk in an orange grove, therefore, is about as pleasant as to walk in a potato field.--California correspondence. THERE are said to be 2,200 convicts in the Texas penitentiary. Of this number three-fifths are negroes and Mexicans. . JESSY LIND. ' C • I 'L ^ of Hwrmmi of th« Great Singer. "In order to folly understand my connection with Jenny JLind," s«u<i Sir. Barnum, "it is neee sary to go l.ack. to her arrival in th s country. The day was Sept. 1, 1850, and she was accom­ panied by her two cousins. Miss Ali- manzioni a.id Max H. ."orkberg, and Benedict a:.d Bell tti. Tin- rmblk* had been aroused to a tremendous pitch of enthusiasm; a prize of $200 for a greet­ ing ode, to be sung by Miss Liud at the tirst concert, had been awarded to Bavard Taylor, a complimentary poem had been sent in by Mrs. L. H*. Sigour- ney, and the newspapers vied with the poets in welcoming her. Jenny Lind's tirst concert was to be held at Castle Garden, on the evening of Sept. 11. The sale of tickets had assured receipts of nearly $20,000, and a few days before the concert was to be given I inf. rmed Miss Lind that I wished to make a slight change in our contract. I had agreed to pay her the asto iishing price, for those days, of $1,000 a concert for 150 concerts, I to have the option of closing the engagement after 150 had been giv* n. In addition to this I was to pay all her expenses and the expenses of her attendants and servants. I now said to her,Jbefore a single concert had been given, 'I am convinced that the*e concerts are going to be a greater suc­ cess than either of us anticipated, and I want you to receive not only the $1,000 and expenses, but after taking out $5,500 per night for expenses and my services 1 want you to have half the balance.' She couldn't under­ stand at first what 1 meant, but when she comprehended what it was she just threw her arms around my neck and cried out: 'Oh. Mr. Barnum, you are too good.' I requested her to notify her lawyer, and said that I would have mine meet him and change the contract accordingly. She toid me to let my lawyer do it alone, and fix everything just as I pleased, but I insisted upon her intrusting it to her lawyer and she accordingly turned the matter over to John Jay, to whom she had a letter from Baring Brothers, London. John Jay was a great man, but he was one of the meanest that ever lived. The un­ paralleled success which was opening before Miss Lind aroused the jealousy of evil advisers, and her 'tuppenny' cousin Max and one or two others apparently secured the influence of Mr. Jay. To the liberal offer of increase of contract Mr. Jay interposed the objec­ tion that 150 concerts was a long en­ gagement. I replied that I would con­ sent to abide by my largely-increased offer and allow Miss Lind to terminate the contract by the payment of $25,000 when 100 concerts had been given, if she chose to do so at that time. To this proposition Jay again said that 100 concerts were a great many and he couldn't advise Miss Lind to accept. I I finally said that I would give her the privilege of terminating the the contract after fifty concerts,, provided she would at that time pay me back the sum which I had offered to give her above the amount stipulated in the London con­ tract, with the conditional privilege on her part of terminating after fifty or 100 concerts, was signed, and a series of the most brilliant concerts ever given in this country inaugurated." "After our separation I heard of a peculiar freak Which she played in Philadelphia on a subsequent visit. When with me she stopped at Jones' Hotel, and everything went along quietly and pleasantly. Afterward she went to the same house, while her 'ad­ visers' were managing the concerts. Everything about her rooms had been fitted up with care for her coming, and for her table in the dining-room a val­ uable new cloth and new napkins had been procured at considerable expense. Jones told me afterward, his anger finding vent in unbounded profanity, that being out of sorts when she came to the very first meal she found fault with the starch in the napkins, grabbed them up and threw them at the heads of the waiters, jerked the table-cloth from the table, smashing the dishes in doinjaj so, and actually tore the cloth half in two before she could be stopped. She was sorry for it afterward, and was made to pay roundly for the damage done. During my association with her, however, I never had any serious trouble, and we were always the very best of friends, and are so to this day. An Exchange of Remedies. "How is it, my dear, that all the men glance up at your window when they pass, while not a soul looks up at me from one end of the day to the other ?" asked one ancient maid of another, as they met on Clinton street and ex­ changed boxwood kisses. "He, he, do they ?" giggled the other. "I didn't know it. I can't imagine why they do, I'm sure." "I don't think you're any more at­ tractive than I am," sniffed the first, "and yet I never catch a man's eye when you are on guard." "It's the fault of the men," simpered the fortunate one. "1 don't know why they do it, any more than you do." "If you will tell me, dear, how you manage it, I will give you a recipe for that wart on your nose. It cured mine." "Beally," sighed the other, rubbing her wart reflectively, "I would jike to get rid of that wart. If the recipe is any good, I will be glad to help you catch a look from a man once in a while. Tell me what it is, and Til try it." "Not much! You give me your recipe for a man, and then, if it works. 111 give you the formula for tfye wart." "Oh, mine is sure to work; you've noticed that yourself, for you just said so. What will cure the wart, dear? and then I will tell you why every man who passes our house once, looks up at is when he passes agaiiu" "Just make an incision in the wart and drop in lemon juice. I^ow tell me how to catch the men. ! Pm dying to know." "Just rub a little soap on the side­ walk, and stand at the window where they can see you as they come down. As they drop, give a little squeal, wring your hands, and look sympathetically after them as they go away. Not one of 'em but what will go a block out of the way to look up at the woman who pitied, instead of laughed at him, the day he sprawled before her window. You try it, and 111 bet you find it as good as your wart remedy. By the way, how much lemon juice did you say?" And having exchanged full particu­ lars, they separated, each hurrying home to try the other's recipe.--Brook­ l y n E a g l e . . • • - - - - Anglophobia ̂ , "Anglophobia," says an American writer, "has taken a strong hold of a portion of our people. There is a craze to be English--English in appearance, j English in eye-glasses, English in ac­ cent and drawl, English in dog-cart, I IBnglis î in riding-habit, English in whip (with a loop at the end, the real use of which half of these amateurs d6 not know, and for whica there is no use in America), English in cOmnosure. al»- sence of enthusiasm, emotion aud the < uitivation of general apathy. The last is the crowning cap sheaf of idio \v." In order to be superior in an Engl sh way these folk imagine that the correct thing is to suppress all emotion. To prove one's elevation in the intellectual world is to treat existence and all be­ longing to it as a "howwid boah." To sit in a club window with an eye-glass screwed into one's eye and drawl out weak criticism and sarcasm on all that passes; to treat every effort of humani­ ty to better itself with lofty supercil­ iousness; to dread being seen; to affect to be amused by their fellow-idiots, and to affect to be superior to all human emotions, passions or appetites, are the ways in which these imitators (?) of En­ glish society show their disease.-- American Register, Paris. The Astor Place Blots. The trouble arose because of-what was believed to have been the ill-treat­ ment received by Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, while in England. When W. C. Maeready, the English tragedian, came to this oountry and his appear- pear&noe at the Astor Place Opera House was announced, an immense fac­ tion declared he should never be al­ lowed to play. True to their word, on the night of his first performane a wild mob filled the theater and surrounded it, fully '20,000 strong. I was then in command of the Seventh Regiment, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon I re- j ceived orders to be ready to quell the expected riot at the evening perform- | ance. By 6 o'clock the regiment had assembled in the Armory. I personally superintended the distribution of am­ munition to the men, and I would like to take occasion now to settle a ques­ tion in dispute in this respect. There was not a man in the regiment in pos­ session of blank cartridge on that night, and any story to the effect that blank cartridge was used is purely fic­ titious. We fired to hurt. Toward 9 o'clock we received orders to disperse the mob, and by the time we reached Astor Place it was fully that hour. The regiment was as yet with empty guns, but when I saw what I had to deal with, the instant order was close col­ umns en masse and load at will. Had it not been for this I verily believe the mob would have massacred the whole regiment. Their attack upon us was at once furious and determined, but we responded in like measure. Of the rioters 134 were killed outright and over 100 wounded. Several of our boys received pistol-shots and 143 were wounded with stones and other mis­ siles. Thirty-two stand of arms were broken in the hands of our men, but the State replaced them. I have al­ ways believed the firing on that night was a salutary lesson to the mob spirit in tikis oitj.--Gen. Abram XHtryeo. Eye Memory. Look steadily at a bright object, keep the eyes immovable on it for a short time, and then close them. An image of the object remains;*it becomes, in fact, visible to the closed eyes. The vividness and duration of such impres­ sion vary considerably with different individuals, and the power of retaining them may be cultivated. An eccentric old man, the once celebrated but now forgotten "Memory Thompson," trained himself to the performance of wonder­ ful feats of eye memory. He could close his eyes and picture within him­ self a panorama of Oxford street and other parts of London, in which picture every inscription oyer every shop was so perfect and reliable that he could describe and certify to the names and occupations of the shop-keeping in­ habitants of all the houses of these streets at certain dates, when postoffice directories were not as they now are. Although Memory Thompson is for­ gotten, his special faculty is just now receiving some attention, and it is pro­ posed to specially cultivate it in elementary schools by placing objects before the pupils for a given time, then taking them away and requiring the pupil to draw them. That such a faculty exists and may be of great service is unquestionable.--Gentleman's Maga­ zine. . *o • Had a Weak Potot. One of those good, old-fashioned fathers--bom and reared on a farm, but willing to see his children lead an easier life, came down to "York" to see about getting his son Moses into a bank. He went to a friend, and the friend sent him to the cashier, and the cashier said: "Is your son quick at figures ?" "Tolerably quick." "Is he ambitious?" "Yes; he wants to get Ob.* ^ "Is he a hard worker?* "Well, Moses kin mow his three acres of grass per day." "Why does he prefer a bank to a store?" "I swan I I never asked him why, but I guess it's because he thinks there's a better chance to climb up. Moses is right on the climb." "He is perfectly honest, of course?" "Well, now, that's thus only weak point Moses has got, and I was going to say to you if you took him in that if you keep a wire fence between Moses and anv money lying around loose, and if you have a rule agin hos-trading, and if you don't allow shaking dice or card- playing, and if he will keep sober, Moses will make one of the most tre­ mendous bankers this country ever saw!"--Wall Street News. A SWEET GIRL GRADUATE. She Interview* the Hone Receive* Homo Solid Advice. f l:iom the Chicago Tribune.] : > "Is this the place ?" A prepossessing young lady stood in the doorway of the editorial rooms and was gazing around the apartment with a friendly but somewhat mystified man­ ner. "It depends on what you want," re­ plied the horse reporter. "If you are on a wild and fruitless search for a piece of plum-colored satin to match a dress, or a new kind of carpet-sweeper that will never by any possibility keep in working order three consecutive days, you are joyously sailing away on the wrong tack, but if you would like an editor * "That's it," said the young lady, "I want to see an editor; I guess its the literary editor. I saw such a sweet poem in the Tribune the other day. It went like this: nimm fit the Senate, oa the cm third reading W*re tag passed: Appropriate*i*Mienc el*. oxpital at Jacksonville; tdr t|it Hantaan aonnment; FranMin county tor Bapptewinc Ka Etaet; to pat TUchard Shtnnick 15.768 as damages suf­ fered by him by reason of the failure of the State to perform a contract with him for work and material on the Southern tnsan* Asylum; »iP ress&z for a deficiency in the crur ' " WSJ; to DorseyWriteta LettW to SI "tary Martin^ rent Chester penitentiary for _ May and June, r limit the fees from licenses in the Washing- the months of April, May a "Haho." approached the edge Of Camas prairie, then a land almost unknown, but now made famous by the battle­ fields of Chief Joseph, we could see through the open pines a faint far light on the great black and white mountain far beyond the valley.- "Idaho!" -.shout­ ed our Indian guide in the lead, as he looked back and pointed to the break of dawn on the mountain before us. "That shall be the name of the new mines," said Col. Craig, quietly, as he rode by his side. The exclamation, its significance, the occasion and all conspired to excite deep pleasure, for I had already writ­ ten something on this name and its po­ etical import, and mad6 a sort of gloss­ ary embracing eleven dialects. Looking over the little glossary now, I note that the root of the exclamation is dah! The Shasta word is Pou-dah- ho! The Klamath is Num-dah-hoS The Modoc is Lo-dah! and so on. Strangely like "Look there!" or "Lo!" is this ex­ clamation, and with precisely that meaning.--Joaquin Miller, in The Continent PERSONAL hostages were given as late as the peace of Aix la Chapelle, when the Earl of Sussex and La Cathcart were sent to Paris as hostages for the restitution of Cape BretoK r The bloom on the heather is fading. The moorlands are crimson {Old. God grant wo may live together, darling, Together till we grow old." "Well," said the horse reporter, "our- bloom-on-thc-heather editor is out just now, but maybe some of the rest of us could attend to your case. What is it you want?" "O nothing in particular. Only I thought it would be nice to meet the literary editor, and talk to him about authors, and poets, and everything like that. Don't you think Elaine is lovely ? It always seems to me----" "Now you're talking," exclaimed the horse reporter, enthusiastically. "Five or six years ago when Elaine beat the 3-year-old record, I picked her out foT a pretty smooth article, and told the boys then that she was liable to beat 2:20 if her off hind leg didn't give way." "I don't mean a nasty, horrid old horse," said the young lady. "I was re­ ferring to Tennyson's heroine." "O yes; you mean the girl that fell in love with Launcelot and floated down the creek in a dugout to where he and Guinever were sitting on the bank .swapping large, tliree-story-and-base ment lies about their deathless passion for each other. Launce was a daisy, wasn't he ?" "I don't know about that, sir," said the young lady in rather more formal tones. "You don't seem to appreciate the full meaning and power of the poem." "Probably not," was the reply. "Ten­ nyson and Longfellow and the balance of the free-for-all bards may be a trifle too high for me, but when it comes to simple little stanzas from Macoupip county about the rose is red, the violet's blue, sugar is sweet and so are yon, I am wiser than a serpent. I can tosa home-made, copper-bottomed rondeaus and madrigals into the waste-basket with an airy graoe that would make your head swim." "I am going to graduWle next month, sir," said the young lady, "and I've got to read an essay. Isn't it funny ?~ "Perfectly sidesplitting," responded the personal friend of St. Jnlien. "And I thought," cotinued the young lady, "that perhaps the literary editor would give me some advice about, the subject of my essay and the general manner in which it should be treated. But possibly you could do it just as well, and the coming graduate smiled a sweet and encouraging smile. "I guess likely I could," was the re­ ply. "You've gotyou«rwi^ 4reis all made, I suppose. ?" j "Yes, sir. "Well, that's a good deal. Toucan wear black shoes safely, that's one com­ fort," said the horse reporter, glancing downward at the young lady's feet. "Why, of course," she replied. "Of course I shall wear shoes." "Yes, you can wear them, but I saw a girl once at a seminary commencement that was all rigged out in a white dress and wore black shoes. She had large, voluptuous feet that always mad? people look to see if that part of the building where she was standing wasn't sagging a little, and when she pranced out on the stage the effect was some­ thing like a coal-mine with a white dress hung out to dry over the top of it. What were you thinking of writ­ ing about?" "I didn't exactly know, sir. That was what puzzled me." "The Bud of Promise racket is n pretty good one," said the horse re­ porter. "The what?" "The Bud of Promise racket. It's a daisy scheme for girl graduates." "Couldyou tell me," asked the young lady, in a hesitating manner, about this " "Rcteket," suggested the horse re­ porter. * "About this racket?" "Oh, certainly. You want to start the essay with a few remarks about spring being the most beautiful season of the year--the time when -the tender blades of grass, kissed by the dews oi heaven and warmed by the kindly rays of the sun, peep forth, at first timidly, and then in all the royal splendor of their vivid colors, from the bosom of the earth that was such a little while ago wrapped in a mantle of snowy whiteness and fast bound in the chilly armB of hoary-headed old winter. Then say that as the glad sunshine leap* through the bits of foliage that begin to come out and cast their grateful shade upon the earth they fall upon the buds that are lading the fruit trees, and soon on every branch the buds rip­ en and burst forth in a wealth of floral loveliness. Then compare the maiden, just stepping forth from the precincts of the school and gazing with wistful, eager eyes out into the world with the little bud upon the tree, and say that she, too, by the aid of the sunlight which comes from education, will soon develop into a woman, that priceless gift of God to man, and ever cast about her the holy light of love. That ought to fetch 'em." "It sounds nice, doesn't it?" said the young lady. - "You bet it does, sis. There is noth­ ing so sweet and alluring as a palpable lie. Of course, you and I know that when a girl graduates she is as useless as a fan in a cyclone, but it won't do to say so. You just give it to 'em the way I told you and you'll be all right." "Thank you very much," said the young lady, starting for the door. "Don't forget to tie your essay with a blue ribbon," said thenorse reporter. "No, sir, I wen't." "And tell your papa to buy a bouquet to fire at you." •» "Yes, sir." * "Remember about the glad sunlight. Any sunlight that isn't glad is of no Use m a graduating essay." • s "Yes, sir. Good-by." ;v "Bon soir. Come around when you fall in love and I will put you up to a great scheme for making Charley de­ clare his intentions several months ear- tisr than would otherwise be the case." tonian Home at Chicago to tao.oeo per annnm; to appropriate $138.73 to A. H. Oambrill, and to appropriate $198.19 to Alex. W. Hope as balar ce of salary as Froeecnting Attorney of the Alton City Court, and the (hn ral Levy Wll for the year? 1883 &nd 18Si. This cleafed the Hcu«e bills on third reading. The Committee on Judiciary reported back to lie oil the table the biim and resolutions remaining in its hands. Mr. Laning, on behalf of the Senate, presented Rev. T. A. Parfeor, Chaplain of the Senate, with a gold- headed cane. Mr. Morris' resolution to place the Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks upon the pay­ roll from the beginning of the session was amended, so a» to include all committee clerks, policemen and janitors, and passed. Mr. Oill- ham's resolution, providing for a joint com­ mittee to hivesticate strikes by coal mineTS, was amended so as to limit the time employed by the committee to thirty days, and passed. A resolution extending thanks to the Hon. W. J. Camp)>e21 for the impartial manner in which he has discharged his duties as President of the Senate was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. Mr. Campbell acknowledged the compli­ ment and returned thanks. The last report was received from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, the journal of the day was approved, and ai 6:3$ p. m. the gavel announced the Adjournment sine die. In the House, Mr. Kintbrough, on be­ half of the members, presented Mr. Collins with amagnifioent watch and chain. The Compul­ sory -Education bill was passed bv a vote of yeas 86, nays 6. The following is the text of the bill: ___ A Mil for an act to secure to all children the benefit of an elementary education: Be it enacted by the people Of the Sute of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That every person having the control and charge of any child or children between the ages of 8 and 14 years shall send snoh child or children to a pub­ lic or ( rivatc school for a period of not less than twelve weeks in each school year, unless such child or children are excused from attending school by the Board of Education or School Di­ rectors of the city or school district in which such child or children reside. Such'excnse may be given by said Board of Education or School Directors for any good cause shown why said child or children shall not be required to attend school in conformity with this act. SEC. 2. It shall be a good defense to any suit brought under this act if the iierson under whose control suoh child or children are can show that the mental or bodily condition of such child or children is such as to prevent attend­ ance at school or application to study for the period required by this act, or that such child or children has been taaght in a private school or at home for the time specified in this action snch branches as aro ordinarily taught in pri­ mary or other schools, or has acquired the branches of learning ordinarily taught in pub- lie schools, or that ho public school hss been taught within two miles by the nearest traveled road of the the residence of snch child or child­ ren within the school district In which such child or children reside for twelve weeks during the year. SEC. 8. If any person having the control and charge of any child or children shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this act, said person snail pay a fine of not less than $6 or more than $30; suit for the recovery of the fine and ooets shall be brought by any Director or member of any Board of Education of the dis­ trict in which snoh person resided at the time of the committal of the offense, before any Justice of the Feaoe of said township. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on all Justices of the Peace in this State tor the enforcing of this act: soeh tine shall be paid, when collected, to the Sohool Treasurer of said township, to be accounted for by him as other sohool money raised for sohool pun. popes. Bee. 4. It is hereby made the doty of Sohool Directors and members of the Boards of Educa­ tion toproftecateoffenses ooenrring under this sot The neglect so to prosecute by any Sohool Director or member of any Board of Education within twenty days after written notice has been served on snoh Director or member of snch Boards of Education by any tax-payer residlnff in stioh district that any person has violated this act nhsll tnbjocft him or them to * fine of to be sued for br any tax residing in the sohool district where the viol tion of this sot ooenrred, before any Jnsttoe of the Peace in the township where the said sohool district may be located, and when snoh ftne is oollected it shall ho reported by said Treasurer and aooounted for as other money raised for school pwpoeei sad beoome a part of the sohool fund of said township. frte ftwt rtiu--route trial ago Thur-day, says'a _ tngton. It lastsd three; ni uiiiliigliiililpij The second trisi the date of the the Goveinmeat;ba»bee»«af*«*. years. Farther proceedings, civil and criilfes; inal, already begun, are likely to list longer. The tri%l just closed, to say one before it, Which was of ' duration, is said to have be*B tkeicNIfiA jury-trial on reoorX It was al*Q OMefiHw most expensive. The eo-t to the Qmip* ment and the defendan s tmit heavy. The array of legal aWStift numbers at lea^t, has been mat ,yB the side of the Government, ne<wtC «t times, the full force oi theDe Justice, with the Vttorney Gei head, three special attorneys, . quently more, with a corps Of ex|>«s$ de­ tectives, postofBce agents, inspectors and other servants have been emptoywt In­ deed, the whole machinery of tto fikowttSa- ment has been at the command of thepttSt- ecution, &nd frequently in use. The amounts paid so special attorneys ant given below. To. this grops sum should he added the cost securing the afctonaaafee of witnesses. Generally tney wew ftwafra gre it c istance and their numbor w«a. ajtaltfc 1<0. Under this head for hoEtitiOs toeoosft will be in the neighborhood oi total cost to the Government, sincet' eoution began to the present time, fall short of W.\Mk To the defendants the expense hM bsen very great. It has been borne principally "J two or three of them. Seven lawyt is, gen­ erally high-priced, have been employed* and other expenses have been borne Though the cost w> the defendants has not been 'aa great as to the Government, it has eeate near enough to it to cause a heavy and con­ stant draught on the pockets of those who bad pockets with something in them. The following are the payments made t|jr the Government to special attorneys' to the dates specified. The statement wUl thrpw liprht on the general question of cost of tats 8,8*8 Nov. Mi, MSI. 5,«T Jan. 2*. 1883...... *«n 8T8 March 25,18&... S.TM 7,434 ---- 6,224 Total »B*w*mt • • .tM00 Jan. M»u.. *10. The last hour of > session, from 5 to 6 p. m., wasasospesc QSMWraeatun. Books ana pa­ pers were hurled through the air and the m«p- bers yelled until they wete hoarse. The speaker was powerless to preserve order, and the leasloa ended in a long-oontinued yell, while draaSsn Bepnsentatlves kept up the turmoil and elaia- «M tor rsoognition tuT-the last fallof the «svsL The Law. Text •fOM Hlyh-LlocoM Law Baactad tqr t£s Lmlilatta SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people <\f the State of Illinois, represented in the General Astrtiwlv, That hereafter it shall not be lawful for the corporate authorities of any city, town or village in this State to grant a license for the keeping of a dram-shop, exoept upon the pay­ ment, in advanoe, into the treasury of the city, town or village granting the lioenM. such sums as may be determined by the respective authori­ ties of such city, town or villsf not less than at the rate of live hundred dollars ($000) per annnm; provided, that in all caaea when a license for the sale of malt liquors only is granted the city, town or village granting such license may grant the same on the payment in advance of the sum of not less than at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars ($100) per an­ num; and provided further, that the City Council in cities, the Board of Trustees in towns and President and Board of Trustees in villages may grant permission to pharmacists for the sale of liquor for medicinal, mechanical, sacra­ mental and chemical purposes only, under such restrictions and regulations as may be provided by ordinance. SEC. 2. The County Board of each county may grant licenses to keep so many dram-shops in their county as they may think the public good requires, upon the application by petition of a majority of the legal voters of the town, if the county is under township organization, and if not under township organiiat.on, then of a ma­ jority of the legal voters of the election precinct or district, where the same is proposed to be lo­ cated, and upon the payment into the County Treasury of such sum as the board may require, not less than live hundred dollars ($500) per an­ num for each license, and upon compliance with the provisions of an aot entitled "An act to provide for the lioenslng tor, sad against the evils arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors, approved March 8,1874. in foroe July 1, 1874; provided, that in all cases where a license is granted for the sale of malt liquors only, such board may grant the same upon payment to the county treasury of a sum not less than $150 per annnm for each lioense • pror uind, further, that such board shall not have power to issue any lieense to keep a dnun-shop in any Incorporated city, town or village, or within two miles of the same, in which the corporate authorities have authority to lioense. regulate, restrain, or pro­ hibit the sale of liquor, or in any place where the sale of liqnors is prohibited by law. Sec. & Any person having a lioense to sell malt liquors onlv who shall, by himself or another, either as principal, clerk, or servant, directly or indirectly sell or give any int oxicating liquor other than malt liquors in a less quantity than one gallon, or in any quantity to be drank upon taial: Nov. 10,lMl......| »,800 0ct. 20, ISM..., Jan. Acril 13, 1882 MavS, 1882 May 31,1882 Oct. 14,1882 Nov. 10,1881.. Total. , ooox. Deo. 38,188L. $1,M9 Feb.4,18S9....... Total... ..J....... OtBSON. Feb. ft, 1SS2. March IS. 1*$....$1,000,Dec. 1$.SMB..; June 14,1803 mDeo. IN, 1883.. Jans M, 1883...... M8»Match 2?. 18».... Aug. 23,1883 SXSiMay 85, la83 :5M> MEU1CK. June ll, 1*83 $5,«oetManfc 8,1883..... tjm Dec.'16, 1883 U,OOO Aprfl S3,1«3 MW Total i.. .JfMig Allen A. Pinkertsa -- A.Hnk«tsfc.....Ui..».W;.X>&.... Mi >••••**•tee*a»eee I total.; ej»e • oi* • ..JWg. , T . . . . » A t • * t i a M » To the above fcayinMits others are » be added, which eglr--ildertlbly fitintartftM Mgregate paid to the QeTanmeat lawyan TSorseyhaswrlt en the following letter to the aewljjr elected feorstary of theRepuP Oen. John JLutOTittraNB, Kas. DBABSIK; Atattawwflen L waseeetoidlB a darkroom,notabletoseetbswaUatlts ed me, I received a Isttsrftwa feei swered by dictation, aa X-ha»S besei' for saaay months. I sepfoaed mj asat te yon, bet tfc twins eas tN mlttee, at the wqj accepted the pUSeat the sanest sotting the Blaine aids, 11 of dev. MOOMSCS, who that yon have made of ma. m the premises, or in or upon any adjacent room, bidlding, yard, or plaoe of public resort, shall foi- each offense he fined not less than $30 nor more than $100, or confined in the County Jail not lessthan ten nor more than thirty days,'or both, in the discretion of the oonrt. The penalties nrovided for M this sectkY may be enforced by indictment or information in any court of competent Jurisdiction, or the fine only may be sued for and reoovered before any Justioe of the Peace of the proper county, and in case of conviction the offender shall stand committed to the county Jail* until the fine and costs are fully paid. A conviction under this section shall forfeit the license by the defendant, and the court rendering judgment upon such con­ viction shall in such judgment declare a for­ feiture of such license. purpose, and that weald leave a pntasasat Bi» tory of Ha honorable existesoe, and what had transpired te llMtf. 1M0, MM/MM Snd» î that that record belonged t̂o 1' tional Committee, shd that the prpper custodian of it. V been kept; that built to eat up what be had a right to spseww *» be the evidenoe of honesty at the end of each campaign. By the great maa-i of jpsople of tntelHgseggla, the North, Mis beUevednoW, and wUfbeha- lleved for all time. that there Is aot ems* a word, a dot, or aline In any record that w show a wrongful act on the part «t aay asrtiia charged with the duty of representing, Uw Se* publican party duringaHattnnaloaittMagn. Mr. Chandler was, unquestionably, the abliwt saaa . who served as an executive officer of the Rapeb- licaa National Committee, being oaeoCthelrtk. if not the very flrat, who was recognized as the real bead of the Republican party m the ifbai assigned him. It was. therefore ̂ only jaaepsr that those who followed htm should be governed by the precedents he Uid down. Mr. Chandler gave Gov. McCo Gov. McCormick, fhi to the one yon have w , no reoords to give. They were mj predeoessovs, and you are my sueoeasor. I baveaothiac lame to give to you than they had to give fta I have a great mass or patoers nlaanc to the las* campaign. They an ehisly atade an ef hlUsi addressed to me and letters written ny me to others, la which aeoasooaM have the sHghtaM interet t exoept to obtain curious iafonpatMtB. • • When I accepted the secretaryship I madeit a condition that pot a penny ef money aabsmlbsd for political purposes should obo* tate af hands. aad there never was a dollar of theatfc- soribed funds reoelved by me or paid.ont hf ape personally. Money was used under my dZreo- soeoentsne iaia aown. ». in iwuvDN mp s tcvicr wnwiw i written me, told me be had I have rscards showing the i ttarssofum. The only aeons of'the* Mart I have are the paid checks, my own aoattfba- tioa tad my namrtufaste baak book showing charges of my own folly. I regret more than! can tell that I made tt possible that sash reoords should beta ay hands; hat they ace here, and I think it best to keep them as a re­ minds of the splendid gratitude of power. 1 do not owe the Bepnblicaa nations! Conuattee a cent of money or a grain ef 1A tht intdft of tbi brought abont by the efforts I had pnt forth under its directions, and in its behalf, a brutal aaianlt was mads upon me at the lash meeting of the committee, when I was not pree- ent to osfend myself. Net one among the mrty members present had the courage or manhood to resent the miserable oowardioe of an aaiM* tioua hypocrite. But never mind that, the JMI* • se sheets of justice will some time be written. by the hand of honor. So far aa yo* ate 1 ally conoerned, if there anoe sheets of justice will some time be by the hand of honor. So far aa yo* ate . ally conoerned, if there is any paper homy pai* session, or any suggestion I can make that yda think will be useful to you, I will be ratt&se to» respond to your call. STEPHEN W. Dons**. , FLORENCE MARRYAT says that when Dickens was writing "David Copper- field," and at a time when its publica­ tion in a serial form was about half completed, an American firm procured somebody to write a conclusion, and thus put a bogus book on the market. This version of the story married David to Agnes rather abruptly. Dickens had intended the same thing, but when the news of this audacious piracy reached him he forthwith introduced Dora and made her David's wife with as little delay as possible. IN the English army shoe-store scrupulous attention is shown to shape and make in conformity with high surgical authority. The inner line of the boot is made straight, so that the great toe is not pushed outward, dude- fashion. A shoemaker usually meas­ ures his customer's foot when he ia seated, and thus fails to allow adequately for expansion. The safe plan is to stand up and have the outline drawn on paper with a pencil. The British soldiers' boots are made wide in the tread and low heelftt. FLOATING som. *t;-i ivi/* ' -yj THE street railroad in Jacksonville, to be extended two milea. ^ TEA. raising is among the lateat expert* ments in South Mississippi. " " V*-' --4* A FINE vein of mos^-agate has been discoVt * 4 ered in the mountains east of Fresno, Cai. > -1 *' \4 ̂ THE full endowment of 4A0,iX)0 for tha,- ' School of Philosophy, at Princeton, N. 3 has been secured. ' " THE third one of five elephant seats re*; . rd cently placed in the Zoological garden Ok. , .r ;*». P h i l a d e l p h i a h a s d i e d . ' t ' . - w ' ' - IK Florida miles of railway have r$ 4 '• cently been completed, end miles ai|R^i *' - now under construction. • -<» * A NUGGET from an Inyo (CaL) mine was t J, on exhibition at Loe Angeles last week, v | which had an inirinsic vaiue ef $.40. , 4 • ^ JOHN G. WMRNN has had a school hous% ^4 ^ named for him at Denver, and has aoknowt* ° a s edged the compliment iu a graceful?letted ' THE value of the orchard orops of FtogfttaL twelve ve&rs ago. were estimated at abqai , < - 'fi $».<),(# 0." To-day fl,500,iX<) would buy them Is Bear Hill pond. Harvard, I*j, J turtle whose weight, according to the eeti - ^ mation of these who have seen it, will reecH1* - t 175 pounds. 1? A QRADCATINO clste in a young ladie^ « *>4 school in Ohio, instead of adopting aetaMk ring, have invented a claes ki^a Its teexefe will be imparted otily to their llJUA tlL|££ 'iLjiy®. I *» •>...•*? i '