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Jmttq HtaMkfor tfce year 81, IMA, ahtoria» total* of 4,Mft,7M ha*aa. This considerably SEtSarfBStt£ W something like 36,000,000 bales during " * 51 * " **" CoKDtrcTos HARRIS, of Boston,is tiymg to raise a fond of $18,000, to be plaoed in the hands of trustees for the construction and equipment of a mission oar, to be used in evangelistic work among niboad :f)ie car i»<to be constructed ytar pins and modeis «ug«eeted by- practical railroad men, and be am jfrin^M t»4o furnish a rOom tor meetings, and be supplied " with oooking and sleeping apartments(for those engaged in the work. ' '* ' »i K . , 1 i 'J summary punishment is meted out. A fe* days ago ono of the brethren got drnnk. When he became sober one of the deacons took him down and plat thirty-nine stripes upon his bare back. The erring brother seemed to think it all right and was willing to receive his punishment. A PROMINENT Milwaukee physician eaya: "At the present time there are (our leprous centers in the United States, namely, Eastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin, among Nor­ wegians ; California, among the Chinese; Louisiana, and among the Indians of the Northwest; that the disease is spreading among us, and that, too, with comparative rapidity, cannot for a moment be doubted, and it would seem that the time has oome for legislation and national action to prevent its further introduction and farther •spread." PKORIA Transcript* REFERRING to Sheridan at the battle of Winchester, in his address at the soldiers' reunion in Oneonta, the Rev. Dr. Fulton quoted, the General as saying "in untheological terms, 'We shall whip them.'" This was too much for one of the old vets of the audience, and, rising in his chair and shaking his hand at the reverend speaker, he shouted, That •isn't what Sheridan said; what he said was, 'We'll lick ---- out of 'em.'" This brought down the house. "After the confusion had subsided, Dr. Fulton fupxlingly added, "And he did it, too." t, soqM THE negroes of Montgomery ooukty, Oa., have a way of their own in dealing *ith their ohurcli officers. When one of the flock violates any of the rules1 ̂ Ven» ftnd the communication oontin- cular, indth* &M%na ot aoteiof tfe&n we of great beauty. On one side of theae passes is the name of the owner, on the other is the name of the railway granting the pass. The collection is and is in very 1 V " -- :J.Y DIBTBICT ATTORHST KIWBRT, of Phil­ adelphia, recently sent a large arm­ chair that had been occupied by Gov. Pattiscn when Comptroller to the pen­ itentiary to be recaned. It was returned promptly. Mr. Kinsey sat down in it to read a newspapelr. While idly siring-^ ing his hand to and fro Ids finger touched a slip -of paper that had been fastened to the arm of the chair and was almost imperceptible. He detached the slip, and. opening it out, saw that it vas a message from the convict who had done the repairing. The prisoner's name and the number of his cell were CHICAGO Daily Ntws: "Uncle" Bufus Hatch says he has traveled the world over, and was never beaten out of any money by a thimble-rigging trick but onoe in hdPlife. That was at Rockford last Sunday. He was there visiting old friends. At the Holland House a New York drummer Earned Kraus amused a crowd by practicing slight-of- band tricks with two blacking-box covers. "Uncle" Bufus told where the buttons were several times. Then the drumlner dropped a- button, and "Uncle" Bufus slyly picked it up. He offered to bet $5 there was but one button under the cover. He lost his money to the drummer, and the by­ standers shouted with merriment. ued: "I got three years from Williams port; got twenty-two months to do yet; will get out May 36,1885; done this chair and made a good job of it. Thia ought to be worth some tobacco to whoever it belongs. Good-by. Old man Time is rolling on; don't forget, who­ ever gets this note." Mr. Kinsey pur­ chased five pounds of chewing tobacco of the best quality, put it in a pretty box, and sent it to the convict^ with his compliments, MB. NAT"L."LM^*^I^?LI]E, Tenn,, was highly flattered at receiving a letter from "Annie L. Sullivan." The writer informed him of her mar­ riage and begged him to accept a box of wedding-cake, as a souvenir of the occasion. Mr. Smith cudgeled his brain to recall tho image of his fair correspondent, but without success. He mentally wished her much happi­ ness, tucked the cake under his arm and wended his way homeward, rumi­ nating on the pleasant incident which had befallen him so unexpectedly. Then he sample'd two pieces of the cake and found it very unpalatable. "Too much soda," he murmured re­ gretfully. Then he began to feel qualmish and the physicians who were summoned, discovered that, plenty of strychnine was a prominent ingredient in the toothsome morsel. Mr. Smith will recover, and is considerably mysti­ fied over the whole affair, but thankful for his narrow escape. Packages sent to him hereafter will be examined with the vigilance of an English Govern- meutoificial. y » ,, . * (tree for JPMry Translated Into Preea. Ella Wheeler sings: lelws passion, f ' ; #ai& EUROPEAN statisticians are gradually reducing their estimates-of the popula­ tion of China. It used to be put at over 400,000,000. Behm and Wagner induce their9 estimate' for China and Corea from 434,600,000 to 379,600,000. Peterson reduces this estimate %y 75,- 000,000, making the present total850,- 000,000.' Dr. Hipper, missionary, be­ lieves this can safely be reduced an­ other 60,000,000. Mr. Hippisley, apt- ing Commissioner of Customs, thinks 350,000,000 more nearly correct than 360,000,000. The losses by the Taep- ing and Mohammedan rebellions, and by the famine and pestilence which swept the provinoesof Chili, Shantung, Shansi, Shensi and Honan are variously estimated from 61,000,000 to 81,000,000. 1 • *r. . ».Y • *t . a " i ' . v : * Tvl , ' ' • •r .U s* 7V' >4f.!•* . * -*V i i?.13 . i * i • lis. GEORGE CUUBO*NK, Postmaster at Point Coupee, Miss., started re­ cently for a steamboat at the landing, fol­ lowed at a short distance behind by-two negro men on males carrying the When nearly to the boat he was seen to fall to the ground suddenly beneath a white blaze of light that hovered around him for an instant, and the two negro men at the same time were hurled off their mules to the ground. Those on the boat who witnessed the phenomenon rushed ashore, and almost at the same moment the two negroes recovered their feet and came up to where Mr. Claiborne had fallen. They found him a corpse, black as ink all over. An examination of the body dis­ closed the fact that the electrio fluid bad penetrated the body in two cur­ rents, penetrating the right and left breasts respectively, and mating two apertures where they entered, as bul­ lets would have made. A lot of silver coins in one of his pockets wero melted and fused together. * / • • 1 " 1 • 1 • ; • OMAHA REPUBLICANRAMW^KE sengers for San Francisco over the Union Pacific, were Sir Sidney Water- low and Lady Waterlow, of London, England. Sir Sidney Waterloir is a Libera! member of the House of Com­ mons for Gravesend, the port of Lon­ don. He is a gentleman of large prop­ erty and a ^Director of three British railways, being Vice President of the London. Chattuunand Dover railway. I gathuwdmy BngnnIki And diew them close lu s gilp of death. And she says, further on, "I meant to strangle it then and there." Now, thjjit was right. If "a useless passion" should come around scorching our soul --in July, too--we should think it was about time for a Governor to call out the troops or the fire department, we wouldn't cure very much which. And if we could get in on its throat, we'd throttle the thing till its mind was or the fire was out. Ella was right. Heroic treatment is the only tiling for a useless passion. We krew a man once who used to keep ono in his store. Not one of the white throat kind--they're the worst--but a square- necked brindle with tan marks over the eyes, and it got loose one night, rubbed off its muzzle, and got out "and bit two £>lioemen before they could wake up. at, then, this "useless passion" that the Chicago poetess tells us about had more Hves than a cat, for it got out of its grave and came and "stood by her bed till the early morning; " and Its throat was red where my hands had held it. And hot M hades its horning breath: And I sstri. the moment myejree behshd it, *A love like thto osn kaow death.' Just think of that--a "useless pal- siea" banging around your Ibed, with a white throat freckled with red finger- marks, and a breath like a blue-head match or a blast from the onion-bed! Why, that sort of thing is not right. The press ought to call public atten­ tion to it; the pulpit should not close its eyes against an evil that stalks at noonday in our very midst, breathing around ice-cream gorges until the freezers blow up. And if the Govern­ ment is too feeble or too corrupt to grapple with this monstrous wrong, let us organize vigilance committees, and, with the strong right arm of the peo- Ele's voice, drive back this haunting reath that throw# its awful shadow in discordant echoes down the long oor- ridors of the river of time.--J. tturdette. , , A Beggar ail His Beari. I remember one afternoon, when I was taking a walk about a mile from home, overtaking a most miserable- looking old man, who, bent with old age, could hardly drag one feeble leg after the other. His clothes hung in rags upon him; he never raised his bent head as he dragged himself very slowly and very painfully along. His appearance excited in most people a good deal of compassion, though I re­ marked, with indignation, that several jeered at him. His condition, how­ ever, seemed past being made better or worse. He took money without any token of joy or gratitude, and ridicule without any sign of annoyance. I fol­ lowed him as he struggled on, one slow step at a time, and at the end of about an hour and a half we were ap- ! proaching my street. He turned down into it, raised his bent back, lifted his head, Stepped lightly along the pave­ ment, and turned into a house almost next to mine. He was a middle-aged man whom I knew quite well by signt, but had not recognized in his disguise as an old man. His venerable but dirty and ragged white beard I after­ ward met, cleaned and nicely brushed, on another man who was got up as a respectable old man who had seen bet­ ter days. That beard could tell some curious stories; it has wagged mimy chins.--Cor. Jfationai Berime, Hovi *mm be used f» don't be afraid to her. H pleasant:! a&ssSr tir a$d the «o#ndaoon heals orer strawberry-grow- ooovinced that mulch- Is bad practice. They regard mulch as an in- Motion of white-oak bark and alum, but advises that they be let alone un­ less acoompanied by inflamation. A. small boxes filled With char­ coal, groundbone and pounded oyster sheik, a&d plaoed within reach of poultry, will be of great, service during the seas** %lMtt Yh* fowls u£ moulting. • : ' EVKBX additional cow, well fed, put $1^; worth of lertUity per annum on the farm, besides what she puts in her owner's pocket. Cows have been years or more, and never a liberal and humane owner in any country. AN average cow for dairy purposes should give rtoentyrpounds of milk-per da^mURilg^So din* every year hm pounds of cream for every 100 pounds of milk, and forty-fiva pounds of butter from every 1^0 pounds of cream, and fully ten povhds of cheese for every 100 pounds of milk.--Chicago Evening Journal. THE beat time to stock a fish pond is in summer, l>ut any time will do when the ground can be worked. If it is in­ tended for trout it is best to have it stocked by August in order that the fish may become accustomed to their new home before sp iwning in the fall. Fish ahould not be moved to distant ponds about the spawning time, as they are apt to be injured or rendered perma­ nently barren. COPPEBAS (sulphate of iron) makes an excellent tonic for animals. If a small quantity of it is dissolved in water and kept in a jug or large bottle, ft may be used without inconvenience. Only a few spoonfuls of such solution are necessary once a day in the drink­ ing water, and for poultry it is con­ sidered by some invaluable, as it can be poured into the water in the drink­ ing vessels. THE Ben Davis apple is so poorly flavored that even the codling moth generally passes it by for some better variety, and the consequence is that but few of these apples are wormy, and, being of high color and handsome shape, they are a very popular apple at the city fruit-stauds, where they out­ sell other* kinds by two to one on the average.--Indiana'Farmer. IT is much easier to run a pound of tallow off a sheep than to feed a quarter of a pound on it. Hence the import­ ance of enforcing gentle handling of your flocks by your herdter. We have known herders to rush sheep out of a corral in the morning as if shot out of a gun, under the insane delusion that thev needed exercise, as if an average Texas sheep doesn't take enough out­ door exercise every day it lives. The fattest Mid best-con ditionedfipeks, gen­ ially, are those that take things easy, and are not everlastingly running races with herders and shepherd dogs. AN Illinois farmer, in a communica- jrwmantpwn, Telegraph. says that fresh, clean noglara, rutroert on any kind of warts on horses or cat­ tle, will remove them on three or four applications. I have removed the warts time after time, and have never able to find the wart Idr the fourth ap­ plication. If I should send the Latia name for lard, and tell men to pay 80 cents to the druggist for about 2 cents' worth of good lard, this remedy would be oftener used. For all wounds or bruises, cracks on cows' teats, etc., it is better than any pat|nt liniments or ointments." : A WBITEB tells in the Country Gen­ tleman how farmers' wives should be treated to make their lives happier and more contented. He says: Farmers' wives are human beings as well aa th? men. But ail not always treated as suoh. They have t* work and toil, and draft always aeeV aa tench of a hapgy life as they ahoqld. They are cnWaita too dioaely to the house and largely de­ prived of outdoor air and sunshine. The farmer w&o is interested so much in his farm and making money that he thinks little about his wife, should re­ member that her wbrk is hard and very monotonous, and when he cornea in from his work at night he ahould have a pleasant word for ber. If 4 ,̂4** • good supper and things look neat and tidy about the house, he ' ahould take notice of it. Farmers should take their wives out riding more than they do, give them pure air, and let them see more of nature and thewlorious things that God has mide for all to enjoy. If your wife is a lover of flowers don't hoe them all up or let the stock into the yard. But take an interest in their welfare; spade up the flower beds; buy her seeds; set the plants out, and when you see the chickens in the flower beds, drive them opt. Another thing is, see to it that your wife has spending money; nothing that a woman hates mpre than to have to go to her husband continually for money. ^Wgggpn are taadeiosp&ndmoney as well as men, and should have It. Thev earn as much 'as the men, if they do do housework. Also, let your wife have her own way just a little, and don't trv to run the farm and the house too. If men would only think how valuable a wife is, they would always treat them as angels, and as they do during courtship. Whan house-cleaning time comes, don't ieetl, bnt take hold, help her put down the carpets, and see to it that she doesn't overwork her, and when blue Monday comes around, help her or see that she has help; don't get angry because din­ ner is late on Montlay, bnt whistle, or sing, or read the Country Gentleman aud compose yourself; you will feel a great deal better than if you scolded ypur wife aud made her feel unhappy «11 the rest of the day. If you want any advice, don't run over to a neigh­ bor, but go to your wife. Another thing men do which is unpleasant for their wives is to take them to town in mid­ winter, and, if they meet a farmer, they will stop and talk with him for two hours and forget that his wife is freez­ ing. Talk about women being great talkers! They can't beat the men when they get excited. One more thing I almost forgot to say is not to let your wife milk and chop wood just because *he is a farmer's wife. Sef tjiat she has plenty of wood or coal, not half a mile away, but near the house. It will lave her a great many steps, and when | you feel lasy bring in wafer and wood. HOUBKKEBFXtt> iQtaii'S. * ' CARAMEL one-half of add one-half a c«p of boding water, and just ainmer, not boil, foy a Quarter of an MwdjS before aerving. Thi. is also delicate on an apple pudding. : A DUATTTT TEA. -- A' dish much liked told lor tea is made of two pounds of round steak and half a pound of salt pork chopped very fine, to­ gether thoroughly, salted, and peppered, and baked. The easiest way to prepare this is to get it chopped at the meat market. When cold cut it in thin slices; if any is left it may be used for breakfast, by dipping it in egg or in batter and frying it brown. When eaten with baked potatoes this is a good and economical dish. PEACH LAYER CAKE.--One-half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, the whites of four eggs, one cup of sweet milk, two small teaspobnfuls of baking- powder and tliraeOu«m of sifted flour; bake in lavera; spread between these Mtm peaches cut in very thin slices; then pour over these sweet Inream whipped to a very stiff froth and sweet ened with pulverized augar. Of oourse, this cake will not keep, but should be made the day it is to be eaten, and it is better not to put the peaches and cream in until a little while before the cake is to be served. To PICKLE SMALL TOMATOES.--Let them lie in salt and watal^r three or four days, changing the Mine if a scum rises, then rinse them with clear water or say half vinegar and half water. The next day prepare thus: To one peck of tomatoes allow half an ounce of whole cloves, a quarter of a pound of ground mustard, half an ounce of whole black pepper, and nix good-sized onions, cut in slices. Put th6 tomatoes in a jar, putting a layer of onions and spice between the layers of tomatoes till the jars are full. Cover the whole With cold vinegar of mod strength. In a week or ten days the pickles will be ready for the table. RIPE CUCUMBER PICELES.--Pare tho cucumbers, cut them in slices abonk an inch and a half thick; take out the cen­ ter containing the seeds; lot them lie in salt and water for two days, then rinse them with boiling water; let them ie- main in this until it cools; then prepare tho vinegar; if it is very strong, weaken it with water; add sugar and spices until the right taste is imparted. Put the cucumbers in this vinegar it to the boiliDg point. A good rule to follow for the seasoning is this: To a quart of vinegar allow one teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, nut­ meg and black pepper. A little grated horse-raddish root is a good addition. This ahould be put in after the piekles are in tho Jar, and not be scalded with them. ( CARAMEL CUSTABD.--Put one-half a cup of sugar in an omelet pan, and stir it until it melts and is light brown. Add two table-spoonfuls of water and stir into one quart of warm milk. Beat seven eggs slightly, add one-half a tea- spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of vanilla and part of the milk. Strain it into the remainder of the milk and pour it into a buttered two-quart mold; set the mold in a pan of pold water and firm and a knife"thrust into* if" comes out clean. Serve it cold with caramel sauce poured over it. To cool it for dinner place the mold in a pan of ice- water, and do not remove it until it is perfectly cold and you are ready to serve it. AMpleailng Symptom. A notorious quack found his business increasing to suoh an extent that he was obliged to take an assistant. He did not,«liowever, attempt to Impose upon his junior aa he did upon the pub­ lic, very oandidly admitting that his reputation rested on a seriea of fortu­ nate guessea and luoky aooidents. "You come with me mid pay' a few visits. Yon will very soon get the hang of the thing." The first house they called at they found the maater in bed. Quack Sen­ ior, the moment be set eyas on the plaintiff, said: "There, now; how .men Of your time of life can be imprudent enough to indulge in a surfeit of water­ melon, I can't see. How many melons did you eat this morning? The best part of three, I'll be bound." The old man wondering at the acuteness of his medical adviser, admitted that he was right in every particular. The Doctor prescribed some simple remedy, and took his fee and his leave. No sooner were they outside than the embryo quack, burning to acquire such an important professional secret, com­ menced : "How did von lhow that the man had been eating watermelon ? You never looked at his tongue, or--" "Tongue be hanged," aaid the elder; "I looked in the woodshed as I came in and. aaw the rinds of three water­ melons. You must use your eyes, my boy." The lessonsank deep into the yonng man's mind,and he endeavored to profit by it on the very first occasion that he made an independent visit. "No wonder you are feeling badly," said lie t^his patient, "when you have been eating Iioree--that's enough to sicken a Jersey man." "Horse!" said the sufferer, faintly, yet wonderinglv. "Yes, horse, said JEsculapiua Junior. "Now tell me how much you have eaten." £ "Horse," repeated the parent indig* nantly, "I never did stteh a thing. "I wouldn't--" Here he got madder aa idea waa more fully borne upon him. "Get out of here, you infernal quack," and with the assistance of a couple ol the patients stalwart sons,the pretendei to medical science waa bounced. "And yet," he said when he ex­ plained his adventure to his mentor, who had lost a patient by his assistant'* injudicious diagnois; "and yet I saw a saddle in the woodshed as plainly ai you saw the watermelon rinds." Quack Senior is now advertising foi another assistant, and Quack Junior driving an ice wagon.--The Judge. Bed-Bugs. Sunlight fluid is a first-rate bug and nit killer. Apply onoe a week whil« any signs of bugs remain. It does noJ injure bedsteads, varnish, paint oi whitewashed walls. It is very seach ing, runs into the cracks and other hiding places of the bugs and routs them out and deadens them quickly. Be sure to drench them well. Kqjop all flame using Out fluid, of course. butter always take till spoon. t mignonette is used in gnat ion for iOWpr decorations. ahould not bo hong where |ea dinetly upon them. _ WEliivK biooough at once, take a lamp oi sugar saturated with vinegar. CAMELLIAS in pots are much used in decorating hall, drawing and dining- rooms. ALTTX is one Qf the best additions to make whitewash of lime that will not rub oft HJEHORRHAOE of the lungs or stomach may be quickly stopped by small doses of aalt. DRIED bark of sassafras root put arciund dried fruit will protect it from worms. BAW starch applied with a little water, aa paste, will generally remove all stains from bed tiewig. Ir yotf^wish to procrafce glue that will resist water, boil one ponnd of glue in two quarts of skimmed wiilfr f FOLDING screens for holding eight or ten photographs are handsome when covered with plush or velvet. As orange eaten before breakfast cures the craving for liquor and im­ proves a disordered stomach. To PREVENT sausages from bursting when cooking, never make a hole in them with a fork while turning them. AMONG house decorations none are so popular as jardinieres of fine majolica filled with artificial planfe and flowers. THOSE who have remnants of plush can take them to the pioture-frainer to be made into picture frames and easels. THE rage for Japanese ornaments of all kinds, for rooms, halls, parlors, chambers and boudoirs, is on the in­ crease. A THIN coat of varnish applied to straw matting will make it much more durable, and keep the matting fresh and new. FILLING a lamp when it is lighted is something that ought never be done. It can be avoided by filling it in the morning. AK excellent ahampoo is made of salts of tartar, white castile soap, bay nu» and lukewarm water. The salts will remove all dandruff, the soap will soften the hair and clean it thoroughly, and the bay rum will prevent taking cold. To EXTRACT ink from cotton, silk or woolen goods, dip the spots in spirits of turpentine, and let it remain for several hours; then rub thoroughly between the hands and it will all disappear without changing either the color ee texture of the fabric. of be* pwnpfae;! sour beer. A* ' theteedieal tkiihaa HmQkjr eolot boyifc hfif Cooperation in a French Factory. At the French Association for tiie ad­ vancement of Science, an interesting account has been given of the success­ ful application of the system of admit­ ting workmen in a share of profits, in the large cotton-printing establish­ ments of M. Besselievre, near Eouen. M. Besselievre does not, indeed* give his hands a share in the management and risks of his business. He keeps his books to himself, and pays them the wages ruling in the district, like ordi­ nary laborers. But in addition to their wages he has, since 1877, distribute among all workmen who have been in his service for five years, an annual bonus proportionate to his own profits, which has amounted on the average to 12, and in one instance reached 17 per cent, of the averagee arned year. Half and half is retained to form a nick and pens:on fund, and to provide for the family of the workingman in the case of his death. This money is invested in the business at the rate of 4 per cent., but it is not confiscated if the workman is dismissed. To give the best of guarantees against capricious dismissal, moreover, the right to dis ̂ charge a workman has been ceded by M. Besselievre to a committee, of which the majority consists of persons en­ gaged in the factory. M. Besselievre has disbursed 80,000 franca in the last six years in these extra payments to his workmen, but considers himself to have been, commercially, the gainer by his liberality, owing to their increased de­ votion to their work and attachment to their employer. The aucoeet of such experiments wherever they hive been tried, ought to encourage more fre­ quent imitations.--Pall Hall Qcuttte. Brother Gardner en £>der Penstock arose to inquire if any member of the club had heard whether Bob Ingersoll wat to lecture this winter or no*. No one seemed to have heard anything about it, and the reverend member Requested that the Secretary be instructed to write to In­ gersoll direct and ascertain. "What am do object?" qaeried the President. "1 propose dat dia olub take stops to prove dat dar' am a hereafter for the 80UL." "You do, eh? If de pusson who de­ nies sich a theory am a fool, de pusson who sols out to prove what seben- eighths of de world already believes am nex' doah to ah idiot. Sot dpwn an' save yor breaf." "But it am my dooty as a Christian man to controvert Ingersoll's argu­ ments." "It am your dooty as a Christian man to let Bob Ingersoll have all de- rope he wants! If you has got de Eroper faith he can't hurt ye. If your elief Tjron't ptan' an attack, den it am too weak to stan' alone. If, after .men and women have believed in God an' hereafter an' heaben for 6,000 years, a lawyer wid a snub nose an' a voice like a dog bar kin' in a bar'l, kin come along an' scare 'em into fits, somebody had better go to work an' plug up de knot­ holes and put new rivets in de j'ints.-- Detroit Free Press. Qoeer Things About the Human Body Some people bathe rarely, and yet there is no unpleasant odor about them, while others will b^the once a day and yet smell so bad that their presence is unpleasant. Such persons communi­ cate the odor to their clothes until the garments cannot be worn. The perspi­ ration of some persons is so sour that it will discolor metals the same as vine­ gar or lemon juice. The sweat of oth­ ers is so salty that when it evaporates it leaves salt crystals. A soldier in one of the Chattanooga hospitals was so yellow that he was known as "Saffron Sam." His sweat turned the sheets yellow. . He said that at home he never could wear a white shirt--that it would turn yellow even in cold weather when he did not perspire. A young woman in a New York hospital exuded through the pores of her skin a dark-colored liquid which was bitter, and when gath­ ered in a vial resembled a weak ink. The doctors could not aoooi^it for it. ^titfitownaag iBwetaij «t WWtoaWM an--tod «tj • Drawo the re» «*«•• Sppt I Kalb oobntjr paM he|p|j^ irolfr A IMe ef the Sleepor. ' The followteg story was told the atrieteat confidence, and we don't wish it to go any further: An invalid gentleman and his lady had engaged a berth in a Pullman of tho Northwestern railway. Toward midnight the patient awoke with aaevere pain in his back, and aaked hia wife to apply a mustard- plaster aa quickly aa possible. Hia better half at once got the plaster ready, and then ran to the other end Of the carriage to warm it at the lamp and make it draw all the better. Returning to her siok husband, the little woman unfortunately went to the wrong bed, which happened to be occupied by a stout wine merchant, who was fast asleep. She quickly drew the curtain, lifted the bed-clothea, and, in a twink­ ling, clapped the plaater on the travel­ er's back. At that moment the aiok husband called out from his berth: "Mary! what a long time you are!" Now the poor woman first became aware of her terrible mistaee. Hurrying to her husband she told him in a whisper of what she had done. The poor suf­ ferer could not help laughing, in spite of his pain, and he laughed until his pain had left him. Then all waa still for awlrile, until suddenly loud cries and imprecations were heard proceed­ ing from the wine traveler. "Herrgots- millionendonnerwetter? What is that I have got on my back ? Himmel-bom- ben-granaten-elements-donnerund - Ha- gelwetter! Whew, how it burns! Water! Fire! Ah! Oh! my back! The bed is on fire! Thunder and lightning! Water! My backT etc. We draw a veil over the rest of the story.--The Gastronom. --, | •••Oewrg* Eliot's Creed. *, .̂| 1 remember how at Cambridge I walked with her once in the Fellows' Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May, and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used s©> often as the inspiring trumpet calls ef men--the words God, immortal­ ity,, duty--pronounced with terrible earnestness how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second,, and yet IMHW peremptory and absolute the third. Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of ma- personal and unrecompensing law- 1 listened, and night fell; her grave, majestic countenance turned toward me Hke Sybil's in the gloom ; it was as though she withdrew from my grasp, one by one, the two scrolls of promise and left me the third only, awful with inevitable fatea And when we-stood at length and parted, amid the colum­ nar circuit of the forest trees, beneath the last twilight of starless skies, I seemed to lie gassing, like Titus at Jerusalem, on the vacant state and empty balls--on a sanctuary with no presence to hallow it, and heaven left lonely of a God.--Myer's Essays. f - The Ttfk Slinger or the SMewal|| "Bather curious profession that of yours, is it not?" said the reporter. "Well, yes, BO it is. But it has its ups and its downs like any other call­ ing. You want me to give you some details about the kind of life we pro- fj&piOBtl card-writers lead? Oh, it book. See, I ~stayetT in Detroit TottY weeks, and earned $125; in Saginaw, one week, $65; Bay City, one week, $70; Grand Bapids, ten days, $90; Kalamazoo, one week, 165; Pittsburgh, three weeks, $175, and Chicago, five weeks, *$260. That's doing well enough, isn't it? And yet my prioee are not high. They range between twenty-five, eents and sixty oenta per dozfn. That'a according to the quality of tho eard, not the writing. The writing ia all the same, no matter which atyle is desired. --New York Star. "•? * . i-. '• ortii •/- Her Age. "You would hardly take my daughter --Baby, we call her--to be 21 years old, would you ?" said a fond mother, sp^ak • ing of her spinster-looking child. "No, indeed, I should not," was tho every one says; but how old would yon nave thought her ?" "Oh, I don't know exactly, though, if I had been-guessing, I should have said she was about thirty-three and a half, or may be three-quarters. One can't always tell to within a month or two, you know." -Mercktmt~Traveler. Why a Young Han fiat a Pan. When Dean Bichmond was connected with a prominent railroad a young presented himself before him and quested a paas. do you want the pass?" said mrnd. "Because I don't want to "Upon what^wteda my fare!" replied the young man. Mr. Richmond, "You shall have it for your truthfulness," and turning to Ida secretary he said: "Give thia young a pass. He is the first applicant that has told m'e the truth for ages."--Cin^ cinHQii JZnQUircr, Liberality ItselL , v j * Poor relation--"I didn't know but, as you were refurnishing the house, some of the discarded articles might be of use to me, if you was only of a mind to--" Bich relation--"Why, certainly; I am glad you spoke of it. We are go­ ing to repaper the dining-room. P11 send you down the old paper when its torn off. It isn't badly soiled." Hartford Post BELT on your own judgment aa far as possible. A man who has no idea of his own, but is perpetually running to others for advice, has no* self within him, and is a mere element of a human being, borne about the world an insig­ nificant cypher, unless he chances to fasten, by accidental cohesion, to some ether floating and supplementary ele­ ment by which he forma a species re­ sembling a man. IT is always a sign of poverty of the mind where men are ever aiming to ap­ pear great, for they who are really great never seem to know it.--Cecil. Ir a man has a right to be proud oi anything it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom.--Sterne. EVERT great example of punishment has in it some justice; the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. _____ To PREVENT without mending one's ways is to pump out the ship without aster kor l4-«oatk»«ki dSf tell pdl of water and wis drowned. A ciftXM factory at Hoopestoa closed 3T a siMMssrul nu off few wtau, dorta* irhlck tfaite they pot aes*ir toeo,QW corn. -X. premature water-power mm»any** n»w ntoe at to Sovei n nent island. ° AT Qulncjr, graves at Joseph Kocwa,r the Indian doctor, ant US*£» we*o»Mh* *nd their remains weraCanM*#*. K«»rrf shot his wife ana lili aalMf * • •- MR. J. HARUCV, « of Blwood, was strickea^*«fe<.«gMj»eay ffcert teaching Bible class la «HH^?iiliiliia<if In partial paralysis oatti'Btffct, wfcen be died. A STATK warrant b cot for the a(ireS§?%t Edward Fallabee, of Dsaafcu, «(*-- 3onflscatinff «soo of tke firuftiNMjaai but nothing1 ean be IimiH oC ftfti ifjpiwn-l abouts. f IN the JOUet penitentiary, * burglar troa$ Chicago named WiOiUB Drew leaped freca the upper tier of ceUs to the stope, Sooting ̂ a distance of forty feet, ana was fatally ia? lured.. * - • THB depot of the Chicago and Alton MMMAW Brighton was entered toy bmrgtars. Thfe' was blown open and robbed etf all ifcel therein. The building was theasstbn 1 the thieves and entirely ooasiuuriL WHITBIDK county paid last YEAR THE sunt of for bounty on wolves killed. The Board of Supervisors has raised the bounty; on old wolves to f& per head, and but SI pffe head on young wolves will be paid. A YOUNG man named John Able was killed by lightning about twelve miles west of Ceotralia, while on the road to Sandoval with a load of wheat. One of the mules ho was driving was killed by the same bolt., AT Geneva, John Williams had one of Ms legs broken in a curious manner. His teast was pulling a heavy load, when one of tugs broke, permitting the whiffletree to fly bink aad strike him on the leg with so much fott& • to break it. 6 GEN. AIXBN C. FI'LI.BR. of BetvMeM* kas tendered to that city $6,000 *~i thr Tslsldlili ment of a public library, tofeeeaUed Ida Library," in honor and Memory of his youngest daughter, Mrs. I«s Hovey, who re­ cently died. DPMJIQ tke recess in s scksolat Braid wood recently, a stove was npaet, which causey stampede among the childk-eo, and a narrow escape was made from low of life. Onilhfli however, had a leg broken, and he ft' Atftr lying in a critical condition. . vt NOAH BtovoH. the Mount CMrroll mertMtiit, who, It ischarged, uttered $8,000 or $10400 In forged notes and then fled, reached tke scene of his alleged crime from Nebrartpi under charge of a dtotective, who arreted ViJ • %% where he had of C. A. Jones. if::!*. *» t!»aof aa«N»» him at Grand Island, working under the i JOHN DICKSON, a railroad laborer, about 40 years, was murdered in tU^ttia ono night recently. Nothing was the tragedy until Dtekson's body was dto- covered in an empty box-ear. Ike vietlaf a skull was crushed in, the weapon used be^ag a ooupling-pin which was found near his body. He was noticed on the street* in an Intoxicated condition, but the Qu rana *s »i quest failed to vivo any clew to wSo^tk. murderer was. The supposition fi|Mii ' lw was killed by a fellow-worlanaa fa a drankbn quarrel. brought aUbel against Charles Taeuber, wMtojfelliOii aiit'uf m dispute about 3S cents wor time ago Taeuber bought i Dreiske, and when It was worth was missiag. TaeuberStanQSj|f9Mht suit before a Justice for the in relating his woe* to a man paper, olalmed that inHHyof OS* damages, Is en aoomm^of tton.. , ;.... ... ; - 'Taa '<tadr et awoauta-paa-l sorted lane in the north her throat out frofi S§r identified as Zora Bi^ns, hS noT^Tuie^e RinoeWsUtta&r tker4, stopp*d at tfcf tite^T ao'clook lit the II i aAijft ijpfcea bill and left. A revealed the fact thai she .was. { stranger hired a buggy fkom a, U| and returned it at .a ls*s hour. where she was found wete , buggy that had been turnfll her body lay and driven tpmuri ^m otty. Much mystery surrounds it, and It kasoauasd great excitement there. • "*_» v Taa Lyceum theater, oa Desptalnes Stmet, Chicago, built lnmediately great'lire in 1871, and then kntHMtnitks Globe theater, was partially bttiWfcfrtlll * o'clock in the morning. Tko- stages aa<aroof were completely destroyed, andthm.Hmnpon the stage furniture will be i0aM!̂ )q||L A full company of variety people aA^|«%|bate wardrobes. The total lose on ̂ »aM|i|and furniture la approximated at |1S,M, lai the second story, on Deeptalnse steeek, ':to|r9_a number of sloping apartments, OOSOptSl kf Thomas Grenier, lessee of the theater, and his family, numbering six persons in all. All escaped, with the oxoeptfou of Harry Perry, 24 years old, an employe of Grenier, who waa forgotten in the excitement and: The body was recovered by owners of the theater place the loss at I with an insurance of $8,800. Grenier, who owned the saloon In the Daseasent, toaestV 000, with insurance for 9&.M0. TH* colored people of Illinois have been holding a State convention at Resolutions were adopted condemn tion of local authorities ia providing I schools for colored children, criti< gress for organising junketing and squandering Maqr In ponds, favoring the passage Compulsory Education the non-employuient of sponsible positions I tration, asking trad doors to colored lass* Louisville speeg|||4^ men who do not propairlfri etc. A resolution dsafaMt|i|t! Republican party w*f f ^ 25 to Si. An luMrews ; committee was I rious methods kgr 1 caste may be i of the means of acquiring of I ored youth in! der the act ol lation to industrial I pie of the State are < cooperation.