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"s-s , - TV? -1--;Y'" r • yy 1-y , • * zy*™ •S ftli (§enrg flaiadtalcr J. VAN SLYKE. « Iter aai Pabltshs;. |McHENBY, ILLINOIS. | THE mortgage upon Mr. Parnell's Restate at Wicklow, Ireland, has been gjpaid with a check for $35,000 on the testimonial fnnd. This is said to leave Turn a sure income of $20,000 a year. MATOK SHAKRSPEABK, of New Orleans Collects fines from saloon-keepers and jgamblers, and with the funds is erect­ ing a system of Almshouses, one of which, located on a twenty-acre orange farm, has been erected at a cost of $34,000, and in which the wives and children of poor drunkards are cared lor. . THE following appears as an adver­ tisement in a London paper: A lady wishes to recommend another lady who, through no fault of her own, has be­ come in distressed circumstances, thinking ;that if 1,000 benevolent persons were each to subscribe £10 it would place her again in affluent circumstances. The recommended lady might get along nicely on $50,000. Her wants are moderate, and her ideas are not ex- Ax interesting and successful attempt lias been made in Prussia to make the ravens do the work of carrier-pigeons A few days ago three of these birds •which had been especially trained for the purpose were thrown up at Cob- lentz, and all three arrived at Thurant, a distance of about thirteen miles, in -eighteen minutes. Their flight is some what slower than that of pigeons, but they are safer as carriers, as they (ire less exposed to hostile attacks. .' THE latest way of making a raise comes from Clinton, Mass., where it is said a lady mixed a batch of bread which failed to rise, even after a delay of twenty hours. She did not wish her lather to see the waste of flour, so she buried the dough in the garden. The next morning her father called her out to see an enormous white mushroom of an unheard of variety that he had dis­ covered. He was calling his neighbors to see the euriositv, when his daughter enlightened him as to the nature of the plant. • ACCORDING to recent reports, South Africa will soon be important for some­ thing besides diamonds and Zulu wars. Mr. David Sones, a mining engineer, lias just sent to England a formal re­ port, in which he states that there is good ground for believing that there are abundant coal mines in South Africa. The coal which has already been mined is rather poor in quality, but it is steadily becoming better. If the supply of coal should prove to be abundant and good, South Africa will present many attractions to the emi­ grant of Great Britain. \ . ' CANADIAN jewelers complain that it has become all but impossible for them to compete with dealers in smuggled goods from this side of the line. The smugglers make their trips by way of Detroit, Buffalo or the Suspension Bridge. They find plenty of buyers in the Canuck towns who pay cash on de­ livery, and are thus able to undersell the honest traders. It is said that un­ less this illicit trade is stopped all dealers in Canada will have to depend on the smugglers or go out of the busi­ ness. So bold are they that in soliciting orders they agree to deliver the goods in a specified time free of duty. GREAT strides are making in the con­ quest of frontier lands. A correspond- dent says that Colorado has added 125,- 000 acres to her fertile territory for <1883. This i£ due to reclamation of barren uplands of no actual value and substituting an equal acreage of land insured against drougth and assured of perrenial crops forever. This trans­ formation has been effected by canals of irrigation, husbanding mountain streams in reservoirs, and spreading the waters over the fond. California adds to this year's agricultural capacity four times as mueh land, and the ex­ tension now in progress will add as much tonext year's capacity. *TEN years- ago a lady living at Matu> chen, N. Y., swallowed a dozen of her false teeth. at dinner, and thought but litle of the possible results. One day she felt a pain on her right shoulder. Upon examination she found a lump, and beeoming apprehensive that It might be a tumor, she consulted her family physician. That gentleman, -with the aid of a lancet, opened the protuberance and extracted a hard and -white substance resembling porcelain. The lady suddenly recollected her tooth- swallOwing performance, and pronounc­ ed the chinaware to be one of her miss­ ing set of teeth. Since that time the lady has been shedding teeth from vari­ ous parts of her body, having recovered already nine of the set. CHARLES RAWLINS, 13 years of age, managed to steal a ride across the Atlantic after a good deal of trouble. ILeft an orphan in Liverpool when 5 years of age, he lodged in boxes, lofts and stairways, depending alternately on charity and the garbage cart for food to keep him alive, and wearing anything lie could get for clothing. Jimmy Welch, an old-fellow lodger, came to this country a short time ago, and ever Since then Charles has been on the look­ out to cross the pond. Presuming that steamer which left Lvcgg^ool «aine to America, he got carried to Ger- -tnany once as a stowaway, and had to Set back to his old quarters by the 'ine metho .̂ Getting jtis gearings more accurately, the next time he suo- oeeded in reaching Boston and finding his old friend, who was delighted to see him. THE progress of trade concentration in important sectional centers is most marked on the American continent New York is even more of a central trade point in the United States than London is in England. The gross amount of customs dues received in London in 1866 was £10,550,063, out of a total for the united kingdom amount­ ing to £21,763,000, Liverpool receiving £2.867,000. During the last fis.sal year, on the other hand, New York received $147,901,488 in customs, Boston coming next in rank with only $23,476,440. Then followed Philadelphia with only $12,250,000, Sao Francisco with about $12,500,000, and Chicago with $4,169,- 113. Baltimore received a little over $3,000,000, and New Orleans a little over $2,000,000. The gross customs revenue for the entire country in the fiscal years 1888 was $216,780,069; 1 / V mmi Chicago Inter-Ocean: The decision of the Dakota Judge who pronounces the late Capital Commission an uncon­ stitutional and illegal body, whose acta are null and void, was not unexpected, and is very gratifying to the southern tier of counties, the inhabitants whereof were opposed to the location of the cap­ ital in the northern half of the Terri­ tory. The case will now be appealed to the United States Supreme Court before it is finally settled. If the capi­ tal had been located in the southern end of the Dakota empire the northern counties would probably have endeav­ ored to set the decision aside, for there is no place upon which the two sections can agree. ^ The corner-stone of the new Capitol Building has been laid at Bismarck, and the work of construction is going on rapidly. The decision will not interrupt it, and the result will be that when the Territory is divided the northern half will have its Capitol all ready for occupancy. - , WHEN a man wants to teH a very ex­ traordinary lie he should take some care about the nom de plume under which it is issued. An inhabitant of Helena, Arkansas, wants a credulous public to believe that he has found De Soto'a bones, and so with rare judgement he takes the name of George Townsend, leaving out the Alfred, for they don't go much on middle names out in Arkansas, Townsend, tells his picturesque fabri­ cation in the following manner: "A year ago last April two darkies digging along the shore of Old Town Lake, a few 'miles from Helena, turned them up at a depth of three feet in the sand and loam. The grave of the Spanish con­ queror, thus disturbed, might have been lost forever but for the discovery among the bones of a large number of pearl beads and a large silver cross, which the darkies offered to sell me. I saw through the deep incrustations on the cross that it was Spanish in its work­ manship. Fragments of the trunk of a tree were present in the loam and two huge spikes of rude workmanship, that looked as if they might have been hastily turned from a forest forge, were there. As I saw these things the thought suddenly rushed through my mind that I had found De Soto's grave, and now I am convinced that I have, and that the sacred bones in that box were once the first adeiantado of Flo­ rida.. The Petunia as a Home-Plant* I have always been afforded great sat­ isfaction by the Petunia, not the double ones, but the ordinary strain grown in the summer garden. Every season I prepare a plant or two for win­ ter use. I start them in August, taking the cuttings from such varieties suit me best. By the time cold weath­ er comes, I have nice, thriftv plants, which generally begin to blossom as soon as brought into the house. Put in a sunny window they will fairly run riot, and you will have flowers by the dozen. When the blossoming branches have grown to be long and slender, cut them back within five or six inches of the top of the pot, and new ones will shoot at once. Petunias are not often troubled with aphis, or red spider, and dry air does not affect them much. I generally grow mine as basket plants, letting the branches droop. Some pre­ fer to fasten them to a trellis. In either way they grow well. They will furnish a crop of flowers all winter, and their bright colors rttake any room cheerful. If you have no other flowers at hand to select from, take half a doz­ en into the house for winter use, and 1 warrant you much pleasure from then if you do not let them freeze, Thej flourish best in a rich soil to which con. siderable sand has been added. Th< single kinds are much to be preferred to the double ones for ordinary rooms as they bloom more profusely and theii buds are not likely to blast.-- Writer in t ick's Monthly. 8NAKE-H AXDLISG. - Stance Eirartoncn in India with Pytbom Mid Cobras. Apropos of Dr. Stradling's interest­ ing snake anecdotes in your Journal, I ?end you a note illustrative of the ilanger of handling fcertain kinds of makes. Out here, individuals of one 3ect of fakirs--religious mendicants-- are frequently met with wearing youifg and tame pythons as necklaces. One such animal took the fancy of an officer and for a few rnpees was transferred from the fakir's neck to his; and for some time both were on very good terms. One day our friend sat down to breakfast with the python ronnd his neck, a thing he had never done before; the tail of the animal came across the arm of the chair and instinctively coiled round it. The leverage thus obtained seemed to revive its memories of victim- squeezing, and in a moment the officer was in the pangs of strangulation, bound fust to his chair and the awful coil of the python around his neck. But in that supreme moment of horror appalling he retained his nerve; with his left hand he seized the reptile's head and with his right grasped a table- knife and was just able to inflict a gash behind its head, and then the suffocating ooils fell slack. The officer was afterward found prostrate on the floor in a dead faint, from which he only recovered to be seized with brain- fever, the delirium of which was en­ tirely occupied with encounters with monstrous serpents. In course of time he recovered, but no onet could recog­ nize in that pallid, grav-haired, and careworn shadow of a man the once stalwart, hearty and enthusiastic sports­ man. Another note to illustrate the ex­ treme danger of handling even dead snakes. Major Dennys, a police officer in the Central Provinces, was recently out shooting and killed a large cobra. His companion asked to see its poison- fangs, and Major Dennys, seizing the head with one hand, opened its jaws with the other to exhibit the fangs, which, in the approaching rigidity of death, closed on his finger. Aware of his awful risk he sucked his finger and hastened home. But all assistance was unavailing; he died in three hours. I once kept and freely handled a snake declared to be innocuous; it escaped, and after much searching could not be found. Presently my boy ran up with tears in his eyes, declaring that his three pet rabbits were all deadf and, true enough, they were so, and quite rigid. Coiled up in the hutch was the missing snake which my boy and I had so frequently handled! The handling of snakes is often un­ avoidably forced upon us by the extraor­ dinary and oftentimes incomprehen­ sible positions in which snakes are frequently encountered. We are apt to fancy that snakes are essentially grovelling creatures, forgetting that their ventral scales give them admir­ able facilities for climbing. Unless you recognize this fact, it is difficult to understand how snakes get into the roofs of up-country bungalows, which are supported by smooth and white­ washed walls ai d pillars; how you meet them on the upper shelves of your bookcases, or in other apparently inao- cessible situations. But when you meet snakes in the act of ascending trees, and apparently with nothing to hold on by, you are re­ signed to your fate, and are prepared for sanguine encounters anywhere and everywhere. If you are a lady you must not be surprised--as my wife was --at a deadly snake dropping out of the sleeve of your velvet jacket, which your ayah was helping you on with, that jacket having previously hung from a wall peg, leaving it three or four feet from the ground. Nor, if you are going out calling, must you be astonished if a cobra looks in upon you from the double roof of your brougham. How did the one snake ascend the smooth wall and get into the jacket? How did the other pass up the smooth and glass like sides or wheels of the brougham and get into its double roof? I might adduce illustrations by the score of these strange rencontres, and they show us how we must always be on our guard against snakes. Yet it is marvelous that among Europeans we very rarely hear of deaths from snake­ bite, while the bare feet and legs of natives leave them frequently and fatally open to attack.--Chambers' Journal. The stranger soon withdrew, and every thing might have ended then and there if the brokor, on reaohing Buffalo, hadn't ascertained that the "twenty" was a counterfeit and that he waa $JL5 out of pocket.-- Wall Street New*. AURIC ULTUBAL. HONEY intended for fall and winter use should be kept in a cool bat dry place. AN Indiana farmer puts alternate layers of straw and partly-cured clover in his mow. CREAM from Jersey cattle is said to require less churning than that of any other breed. A PROMINENT Califoznian, who has fifty acres in the raisin grape, says when­ ever grapes become unprofitable for raisins he can make money by feeding them to hogs. He contends that grapes will fatten hogs faster than any other known food--from two to three pounds per day. MANY a method or system for accom­ plishing an end is met with the objec­ tion from farmers that it involves trouble; just as if trouble should make any difference in business. Profits should be the consideration, and no matter the trouble, provided it be paid for in the profits. AN experienced arboriculturist ad­ vises dwellers in smoky and dirty towns not to plant evergreens in their grounds, as is so generally done. Soot ,and smoke stunt and spoil the strees, and they soon become anything but things of beauty. White poplars, silver maples, American elms, and the ailantus Dead-Heads at Country Falls. One sore affiictidn which all fair managers suffer, is the continual beg- ging for dead-head tickets from persons who have not the slightest claim for favors of this kind. If the applications came from persons unable to pay the price of admission, or if the request was made in language becoming a merchant, the case would appear less aggravating. But the facts, as all officers will attest, are of an entirely different character. Men who are worth their thousands will tackle an officer, and with brazen-faced boldness ask for complimentary tickets for themselves, their families and any relatives who may be visiting them. A refusual to comply with their unreason­ able request is met with argument to show the advantage of securing the ap­ plicant's influence, followed up by insin­ uations that a further refusual will re­ sult in injury to the association. Too often these rich beggars carry their point and the result is that the crowd upon the grounds is but a poor index of the gate receipts. By this system of showing favors to all who can show the shadow of a claim, as well as thoso -tfho ... have the impudence to ask until they j are better in such places, receive, the price of tickets must be advanced, and those who come in by honest and honorable means are made to bear the burden which their unscru­ pulous neighbors have dodged. As an illustration of how this is done, we will cite a case coming under our observa­ tion last fall. .While sitting in the treasurer's office at one of our county fairs, a gentlemau well known to be worth at least $10,000, and who was not a stockholder in the association, came up to the ticket-window and requested free tickets for some relatives of his who had just arrived from Ohio. Oi course the application was at first re­ fused, and the man stood there begging and arguing until he secured the coveted tickets. In answer to our inquiry the officer in charge replied, "Oh, that isacommonocctirence." This is an evil that should be got rid of at once. The officers of our fairs should set their foot down on this practice, re­ duce the price of admission to 25 cents a head, and then serve everybody alike, rich or poor, influential or otherwise. The idea of one-fourth the visitors en­ joying immunity from purchasing tick­ ets at the expense of the other three- fourths who are willing to pay their way, is neither popular, profitable nor just, and the sooner dead-heads are dis­ carded the better it will be for officers and visitors.--Peoria Transcript, The Most Monotonous Business Known. The business of herding sheep is the most monotonous known. I can imagine no more mind-destroying occu­ pation. It is fit only for greasers, men who are below their dogs in intelli­ gence. It is seldom an American engages in sheep herding. When hard up and unable to obtain other work they wisely prefer the penitentiary and its mild excitement to prowling over a desert after a flock of stupid sheep, and they are right. I have seen sheep herders in Southern Colorado sit for hours on a rock or under a sage brush looking at a flock of sheep, or slowly walking to and fro in the dust rising behind the animals as they fed ovgr the prairie. These men led a life of such irritating monotony that a nervous American, forced to do the work, would have swallowed one of the banapa-like cactuses growing on the plains, in his mad desire to break the direful monot­ ony.--Correspondence New York Sun. Ex-LIEUTENANT FLIPPER, the negro, has been heard from again at EL Paso, Tex., where he has raised a big scandal The Old Town Clock. The old town clock is mute. Its days of usefulness arc over, and it stands as a relic of bygone times upon the old church tower, looking for the day to come when it shall become dust and crumble away, as have many who have gazed upon its face or listened to its musical sound as it tolled the passing hours. Had it the tongue of mortals what tales it could tell of love and hate, birth and death, marriage and parting, peace and war, plenty and famine. How often has the bell within the moss- grown tower pealed forth the glad uotes of joy, or tolled the solemn knell of death! As one look sat the weather- beaten face and motionless hands of the old town clock a feeling akin to reve­ rence fills his heart. Beneath a gener­ ation has passed. Men who have risen to national fame and passed away have heard it strike; the felon in his cell has listened to its stroke; maidens watching for truant lovers have heard the knell of her hopes peal forth from the old tower. Ah, who can conjecture how much of hope or despair, pleasure or pain, has been witnessed by this silent sentinel of time? Many years ago this public time-piece did its duty properly, to the advantage of the citi­ zens of the growing metropolis, bnt it is now dead. It has tolled its own requiem; it sleeps its last sleep, and stands as its own monument. Let it stand as a warning to the world that man and his labor must alike perish.-- M. B. White, in Arkanaaw Traveler. •• '•:<*?>• I* ' and been fined for negro's wife and thres if he complained to the] ling another He Humored Him. A New York, stockbroker, who was on his way to Bffalo, observed that one of liis fellow-passengers was closely re­ garding him, and after a time the man came over and asked: "Didn't I see you in Chicago in 1879? The broker wasn't in Chicago that year, but thinking to humor the stran­ ger, he replied in the affirmative. "Don't you remember handing a poor devil a half-dollar one night in the Trefaont?" "I do." "Well, I'm the chap. I was hard up, out of work, and about ready to commit suicide. That money made a new man of me. By one lucky shift and another I am now worth $25,000." "Ah! glad to hear it." * "And now I want yon to take $5 in place of that fifty cents. I can't feel easy until the debt is paid. The broker protested and objected, but finally just to humor the man he took his $20 bill and gave him back $15. Why He Brought Them Back. A small boy with an intelligent face went into a fruit dealer's store and, de­ positing a box of grapes on the counter, stood looking down. "I don't want the grapes, my little fellow," said the dealer. "Fve got as many now as I can sell. Take them away." "They are yours," the boy said, look­ ing up. "Mine?" "Yes, sir. Yesterday evening I came along here and took this box of grapes from the stand at the door. I knowed it was stealin' an' my mother always told me not to take anything that did not belong to me, but I couldn't help it. Just before I left home my little sister that was sick said,'Oh, if I had some grapes like them I saw down town, 1 could eat 'em.' We didn't have no money, an' nobody knowed us, 'cause we had just moved into the house. Mother washed clothes, but when sister got sick she had to quit. When I took the clothes home the lady told me to come next day for the money, but when I went there the house was shut up and the people was gone, so we didn't have any money to get grapes with. Mother said, 'Never mind, we would get some money after a while.' I saw her go into the other room, an' when I watched her. she had her face buried in a pillow, and was prayin'. I come away down town, an' stood aroun' a long time waitin' to get a chance, an'after a while, when you wasn't lookin', I took a box an' ran away with it." "But why did you bring it back?" the dealer asked. "Because," replied the boy, choking down a sob, "when I got home the little girl was dead."--Arkinsaw Traveler. A WRITER in the New York World says that he had a variety of sweet corn with tall stalks and ears set high. By selecting only the lowest ears formed on the stalks, regardless of their size or general appearance, he has produced a corn in every way equal to the original, but with the ears set comparatively low On the stalks. The fodder part of the plant has also been materially reduced in size. A Dainty Cradle. The foundation was a simple little iron beadstead. This had been painted a perfect gold color with gilt paint which comes for coloring picture frames. To the top of the bed was affixed a frame of woodwork, having a'circle at the top, and slender boards reaching to the bedstead and forming a sort of tri­ angle. This was covered with a white linen drapery, caught back so as to look like angels' wings, and on it were embroidered in outline stitch, with pale blue and gold, two angels, one on either side, with their hands joined in the middle. The circle at the top was em­ broidered at the top in a design of pink roses and butterflies. Beneath the angels was the little prayer: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pra.v to God my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. The lettering was in blue and gold, with a wreath and harp of gold below the verse. Around the bottom of the bed was a frill of the linen, bordered by blue stitching and embroidered in flowers, birds and little Dresden china designs. The whole effect was very charming. ^ , 1 Example More Powerful than Precept. Little children should never get an­ gry," said Grandpa Binks to the little second-story Binks. "Little children should always think twice before saying naughty words." There was a bad boy hi the Binks household, and he had found an old ra­ zor that looked like a saw. He put it in grandpa's box. Grandpa was going out that after­ noon and had to shave. He got the lather all nice and ready, put a towel under his chin and pulled the razor from the box. "Remember what I told you this' spoonful of flour' rub together until morning," he said as the children in an- smooth; to this put enough boiling swer to a wink from the bad boy began water to make it thin enough to cover to quarrel; "always think twice before each apple; grate over them nutmeg; you, -»!,-> 6SF" ! -- I -- 1 & * bake in a slow oven one hour or more. ^ ~ 7 , . . , , i CINNAMON BOLLS. -- R u b o n e t e a c u p o f 11^ il0fi ^rd or butter into four coffeecups of at the bad boy, he took anothei look at fl into which ha7e been siffced one the razor and remarked that he guessed teaspoonful of salt and three teaspoon- fuls of baking-powder; stir in with a knife sufficient water to make a crust as RAILLERY is sometimes more insup- for pies. Roll into one large crust, portable than wrong; because we have then spread with melted butter, sprinkle a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiou- thick with cinnamon, then with light lous to be angry at a jest.--Rochqfour • brown sugar. Now with a sharp knife IN regard to blight on quince and pear trees, an Eastern gentleman says that several years of experience has convinced him that an annual salting in the spring is an almost sure preven­ tion. He says that for trees two or three years old, use about a pint of salt, sown broadcast as far -as the roots extend, and increase the quantity as the tree grows older. A caution is in place here; oversaving is as ruinous as judicious salting is beneficial. IN cutting oats for fodder, says the the Chicago Jotirnal, the grain'should not be hardened. The right time is when the crop presents a gray or faded, but not ripened appearance. It is cut and laid in swaths, wilted, bound in small sheaves, and set in long, double rows till well cured. It is better fo store them loosely. If wet weather de­ lays curing hoy, they may be put in round shocks and capped, and left two or three weeks. Fea to cows in winter, this fodder will impart the color to butter given by pastures in summer. It is eaten clean, with no waste. One ton of oat fodder is said to be worth as much as two tons of hay THE USE OF THE DRY WELL.--There are certain household wastes which can­ not be fed to the poultry or pigs, can not be burned, and will not decay on the compost heap. These, in a country place, where the*cart of the city scav­ enger is unknown, will accumulate. The articles we refer to are old fruit cans; tinware past mending; saucepans, which a crack has rendered useless; old bottles and leaky stoneware jugs and jars. These and others will ac­ cumulate, and a proper regard for neat­ ness forbids following a too common custom of throwing them into the road. If a mibbish heap is established in an out-of-the-way place, enterprising boys will find it and scatter its accumula­ tions. There is but one effective way to dispose of rubbish of this descrip­ tion--bury it. A dry well is a useful adjunct in every neatly-kept country place, be it large or small. In an out- of-the-way corner dig a well or pit, cov er it with pieces of plank too heavy for children to remove, and drop into this all kinds of indestructible rubbish When this well, which need be but a few feet deep, is partly filled, dig another .near by, using the earth taken out to cover the rubbish in well number one. This effectually disposes of the unsight­ ly accumulations of rubbish, while the amount of labor required is not large, and the incidental drainage afforded may be beneficial.--American Agricul­ turist. • HOUSEKEEPERS* HELPS. HAM AND EGGS.--Take pieces of col«!P ham copped very fine, and after cook­ ing, if raw, add beaten eggs to suit your taste. Fry or bake a short time. HORSERADISH SAUCE.--Take two teaspoonfuls of made mustard, two of white sugar, a little salt, and vinegar enough to make the sauce of the proper quality; pour this over a teacupful of grated horseradish root. ROAST LAMB.-- Wash in cold water, lay in a dripping-pan and set in the oven to roast. Baste often, and after one-half hour covered with buttered paper; ten minutes before taking up, remove this and dredge with flour; as it browns bring to a froth with butter. TOMATO CHOW-CHOW.--Six large ripe tomatoes, one large onion, one green pepper, one teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of * brown sugar, one pint of vinegar; peel and cut fine the tomatoes, chop fine the onion and pep­ per; add salt, sugar and vinegar; stew gently one hour. COLD MEATS.--Remains of boiled ham, mutton, roast beef, etc., are good chopped finely with hard-boiled eggs, two heads lettuce, a bit of onion, and seasoned with mustard, oil, vinegar, and, if needed, more salt. Fix it smoothly in a salad dish, and adorn the edges- with leaves of parsley. POTATO PUFFS. -- Take cold roast meat, either beef, veal or mutton, clear it from gristle, chop fine, and season with pepper and salt; boil and mash some potatoes and make into a paste with an egg; roll it out with a little flour; cut it round with a saucer; put your seasoned meat on one-balf, and fold it over like a puff, turn it neatly round and fry it to a nice brown. BAKED APPLES.--Take ten or twelve good-sized, juicy apples, pare and core. Butter a baking-disli, and put in it the apples; fill the cavities with sugar. Take a half tea-cup of butter and table- and eight inches long. Then roll each piece the same as jelly roll and bake in a moderate oven. CHOW-CHOW.--One peck of green tomatoes sliced and well sprinkled with salt; let stand over night; pour all the water off in the morning and add one quart of small onions, twenty-five small pickles sliced, half pound of ground mustard, half pound of mustard seed, quarter pound of celery seed, one ounce of black pepper, forty head of cloves; mix well together and cover with white wine vinegar, and let simmer forty minutes. Wait for the last crop of to- > matoes; if put in glass and sealed it will keep until spring. FRIED APPLES AND PORK CHOPS.-- Season the chops with salt and pepper and a little powdered sage and sweet marjoram; dip them into beaten egg and then into beaten bread-crumbs. Fry about twenty minutes, or until they are done. Put them on a hot dish, pour off part of the gravy into another pan to make a gravy to serve with them, if you choose. Then fry apples which you have sliced about two-thirds of an inch thick, cutting them around the apple so that the core is in the center of each piece. When they are browned on one side and partly cooked, turn them care­ fully with a pancake turner, and let them finish cooking; dish around the chops on a separate dish. Foolish Wirla. A little incident which occurred at a watering-place in the summer of 1882 is suggestive enough to furnish a story- writer with a plot. . A young physician, whilfe spending a few days at a summer resort, was at­ tracted by the picturesque face and charming grace of a young lady who was under the care of her parents. Every day found him more in love; and when she returned home he could not resist the impulse to jump aboard the train which was carrying her away from him. * Her father and mother did not go with" her. "She was placed under the protection of a young married lady; hence Dr.,L who was strict in his ideas of decorum, did not join them, but remained unseen in the back of the car, eagerly following every motion of his friend with his eyes. He noticed with some surprise that she had taken possession of. a whole seat, piling up satchels, shawls, etc., although the car was rapidly filling. An old man with white hair approached and asked if the seat were taken. She stared at him and made no answer, remained standing. She whispered and giggled with her friend, who was but little older than herself, and no wiser, apparently en­ joying her rudeness. Half an hour later a young man opposite was seen to take more than ordinary notice of them, and encouraged by their manner, he touched his hat, evidently made some commonplace remark, and then con­ tinued the conversation. Soon after he called a friend and introduced him, and before the end of the journey was reached the acquaint­ ance seemed to have become quite fa­ miliar. As the young lady left the car, she was surprised to find Dr. L , in whom she felt a real interest, standing near the door, calmly regarding her. He courtesously escorted her to the platform. "Why did you not come to us?" she cried. "We needed you." "No," he said, quietly, "you do not need me now, nor at any other time." She never saw him again. Now every young girl who acts rude­ ly and unbecomingly in a railway car may not lose a lover by her folly", but she certainly does lose the respect of all those observers whose respect is worth having. Modest dignity commands honiage from every stranger, but free­ dom of speech and manner in public, are not only vulgar, but they lead to dangers that no girl should encounter. The retirement that comes from quiet­ ness and modesty should be her safe­ guard. A foolish girl, while dining pt the St. Louis Hotel, Quebec, entered into con­ versation with the waiter. "How did the Princess Louise df ess at dinner ?" she asked, giggling. "In dark woolen stuff, buttoned to the chin," said the man. "Like anj lady, she did not wish to be looked afcf#-- Youths Companion. * | . Jay Wa?n't"fosted. * *When Jay Gould was on a trip west a Chicago reporter was seijt out to head him off and write up an interview. He overhauled the magnate down in In­ diana, and, as Mr. Gould was in his special car, the reporter sent in his card by the conductor and soon followed it in person, or at least tried to. The door Of the car was locked. He rapped on it, and Mr. Gould appeared. The re­ porter held up his card. Mr. Gould stared at it. The reporter shouted his name. Mr. Gould didn't seem tp hear it. The shover of the quill then called out: "The Chicago wants your opin­ ion on the question of refunding the 6 per cents!" Mr. Gould regarded him through the glass with such a frigid expression that the interviewer has had cold feet ever since, but finally opened the door and asked: "Young man, do you want me?" "Yes, sir. Mr. Gould, I want to in­ terview you on the subject of " . Mr. Gould began to shut the door. "On the subject of the devil 1" yelled the indignant reporter as he saw all hopes fading away. "Young man," said Mr. Gonld as he opened the door an inch or two, "on that subject you had better see Jim Keene. He's got all the points ahd is anxious to give them away to spite old Flood!"--Wall Street News. < ILLINOIS Mas. 8ARAH ZKAJU.KT, RESIDING MOT JolM, 's celebrated her 86th birthday, with the aidLeC thirty-six descendants. , JOHN LKIJIOS, near East twenty head of cows sad stock csttlewlth 4 something like the mad itch. ' ' ' FIFTY owners of c4ptl mines In (MR county have been Indfi*to4, tor failing t»W|> vide scales for weighing mined, provided by the new law. \ WORK upon the Milhngton bridge is pro-' greasing finely, and the people of that vicinity ̂ are congratulating themselves upon prospect of soon having the structur# pleted. THK Clinton Library * association is to hold a series of entertainments this iHnter, the proceeds from which are to be applied l-|*l for the benefit and enlargement «f the library. * . A Hum of valuable Durham cattle broke out of a pasture near Joliet and got on the track of the Rock Island road, #heM fifteen of them were killed and several others fatally injured. v 7 ̂ THE dredge-boats for the great drainage canal are nearly ready for use. One was located on the line between Tasewell and Mason counties. Others will be finished on v each side of said line. * PARTI as at Lexington, Ky., are in negotia. tion for the purchase of Aztec and Aretlno, the sw;ift-running horses owned by Powers ft Son, of Decatur.' The offer of $15,000 cash ! for the two horses has been made. ACCORDING to a Sycamore paper, a Swede who lives near Ohio Grove lost nine acres of tomatoes by the early frost. In an ordinary season he would have picked ^1,000 worth from them; t)iis season be >only got $(0. 8gpw.&LI. SAMUELS, Superintendent of the m poor-farm of Morgan county, reports that he*j;j^iy ^ ^ i now has under his chargo 106 paupers, which ^ . * FOR some offending, we suppqse. Sandwich ; has been smitten withHhc plague of lizards. ^ < There are llzardf "to tho cellars, lizards in the - * cisterns, lizards in thto walls, lizards eVery- t , * V ,.ij where. There are marvelous stories told ? ^ - about them which almost equal those of '""vl Egypt. No particular reuoD been as- #' ;T ^ signed for the appearancdef theseSinpleasant j i.tC , S" guests in sneh numbers.' ' + f-' ..-n't*. THE finest of fish are being caught in largo ;^ quantities at Havana, and being shipped in > % w •• ;v all directions. Ducks aro plenty, and the ^ Nimrods of Illinois and other States are con- . • j* * v. gregatlng there preparatory to a charge upon " , • , "J|,j the feathered tribe. The annual gathering ^^ j at Havana, which has been very latge for".. several years, bids fair to be as large as ever, * ' if not larger. • • • -.5^4 WHIM: the Georgia minstrel band Was playing In front of ̂ the opera-fcouse at De- ' ** catur, a span of mules attached to a street- nH oar became shocked at the discord and . j wheeled around suddenly, pulling the ear ^ off the track and heading it eastward. Hhe»?M- is the largest numbed of paupors that has ever bben taken oarc of by tht county at^ny one time. * mc «#s$ incident cansed a big laugh and a brief daiayt but no damage. p. THE city of Havana has commenced salt against the Wabash for $1,860, a penalty for »<* non-compliance with the State statute by ,1' i' neglecting to furnish a suitable depot and tts* J; i W , ' other public conveniences connected with ^ said road in Havana. They will sue the com­ pany before a Justice of the Peace, every three days, for $50 per day till tho statute Is compiled with. The depot is considered a db» * gractf, and Havana is in earnest. . ' • THE Hon. C. J. Fry, a prominent Republican politician of Free port, and ono of the wealthi­ est men id Northwestern ItnTiWis,' at Lisbon, D. T., and writes home glowing; reports from the reoently discovered go',) fields in that vicinity. Mr. Fry has invested ^ largely, as have also his two sons, Frank and, he'd go oat and see if it looked like rain. cauld. at out the strips about four inches wide [000. Assuring a Virtue. One of the most curious customs of the provincial Italians of the lower classes is observed in connection with their marriages. The bride is dragged from her home by main strength. T^lie struggle begins in her own little room, to which she must cling,beseeching her married women fiiends, who are ap­ pointed to bring her forth to the cere­ mony, to permit her to remain there. She clutches the bed-post in despair and shrieks when she is torn away from it, then she catches hold of the door, then the staircase, tables, chairs, any­ thing in the w:iy, till she is dragged to the outer door. If she does not do this she is accused of immodesty, and the more she struggles the more heroic is her virtue accounted to be. states that one sample of sand assayed over $200 per ton of gold and $36 of silver. As is already well known, thirty-eight of the victims in the never-to-be-forgotten dis­ aster of the Diamond mine at Braidwood were of the Catholic faith. Of the thirty eight six of the bodies were recovered. The •*' solemn rites of the church will be held over the remaining bodies. On that occasion the ** ,, Catholic societies of Joliet and Braidwood will participate and pay honor to the dust of the departed in a becoming manner. Anuxn- ^ . ber of clergymen from abroad will assist Father Bennett in the ceremonies. ' ?> Miss EMMA BOWD, the viotlm of th« terrt* V > ble outrage in Christian county, visited J- j Springfield, the other day in company with 3 her father and sister, to consult with her - | physician. Although somewhat nervous yet, ^ her health Is said to be practically restored* ' Jf and she has not had one of those "parox- ~*-.p V; oysms," or "spasms," of which we used to ^ ^ hear so much, for tbe past three months. The trial of her alleged assailants is set for ^!, ' the 15th of November, at IlillBtoro. She de" ^ clares that she will be-there, and expresses t; confidence in her ability to stand the ordeal '* f she will have to undergo. ; * « A NEW YOI;K jeweler has just im­ ported a diamond as big as a hickory nut--the biggest ever brought into this country. It weighs 125 karats, and i will lose 30 karats in cutting. The | Koh-i-noor weighs 102i karats. The New York diamond is valued at $100,- Fon a number of years the financial mat­ ters of Macoupin county have been more or less complicated, nnd recently tbe Board of Supervisors has had a great deal of trouble in endeavoring to settle the county's indebted* ness. The other day a Deputy United States Marshal served papers upon the several, members of the board, requiring them to apt. pear at the November term of court and show cause why they should not be proceed­ ed against for contempt in neglecting to obey a writ of mandamus commanding a levy to pay 137100 Judgment in favor of L. A. Be- quard, of St. Louis. MOOMEV, the convict who some months ago brutally murdered his cell-mate in the peni­ tentiary at Joliet was recently placed on trial for the crime. The defense having tried tt throw a cloud over tbe testimony that was given by the medical experts, the remains of the dead convict were exhumed and the head cut from the body. It was then placed in a* box, and when court opened the following morning a mysterious-looking box was placed upon a table in front of the jury, tt had'been reported by a witness for the defense that they were going to prove that the wouud.de­ scribed as having penetrated the ear, knock­ ing out several of the teeth, was an impossi­ ble one and could not be made. The box waft, opened, and a decided sensation occurred in the court-room when the ghastly head of the murdered convict was exposed to view. The body had been buried five months. The face was well preserved, the skin being drawn and wrinkled. One side of the fact' had been dt»> sected from the ear to the loWrr jaw, shewing the course of the knife through the ear. The side of tbe jaw was broken, and several teeth missing. The knife must Have been struck with all a man's strength to pierce the jaw­ bone, the direction o<«the blow show ing It to have been utterl*Jmpossft>le for-Anderson to have done it hinu^p. ThB completely upsets the theory of suicide^*'The jury all had an opportunity of inspecting the hea<> before ft was removed. Mooncy, the accused, sat within ten feet of this .terrible death's heed, but never allowed his eyes to glance In that direction. - » r , _ i' V > . Dow, Of Maine, k>ctu*tu-in DecaMr I recently. » "V A" •1