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V'-J- ' •-f *• ftntadraler I. VAN M.YKC. E«ter*rt fuMfelwr. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS SKCOSTB C HOICK. j4 liet me kiss yarn for your stater; y- fSiirv.J? "V^u're a (lain y little elf. ' If I hud not woiioil and mi«(*ed her. ??•'- Sr? I w uld kiss yon tor yoursojf, . So thin rroffe ed oscnlat on jdHPftn Oom th from a combination '?•?: ap wnt Hdml ation .-i-;. S;Sf v And a love laid on the shelfc 2 •< -«iTPo be mirs you're rather youthful '«7 * All this to appreciate. 1 * Tbn've ridicu ously t'nthfnl-- ' \ IVii'leuinnocence of eight. r- : i i -iffi&One unlnckv exclamation, i • Quite beyond all expectation, lrontrlit. lo liiiht a Bi t nation, ' f c - y f v « W h i c h d c i d e d t h e r e ' i if< £ v ri'f-'. Those dark eyes would tempt a TitlUt, jjt y« • Wiih the tangled curls a bore. ' You're miniature edition O. th Kirl 1 used to love; - V- But yi.u hav< not reached the station ' Where you i'normal occupation -!.• 5-;,3 Isadrsperatc flirtation I With some poor, deluded cove, V Yon are pretty-- and yrn know it-- With tho^e eyes of dnsfcy has. ,{ S-;i" , Prn!>a.!>Iy yon will outgrow iti "Sfrl, Pretty rtkildren oftei do. !*,' " Now you k.IOW the situation . . m* r ' That I hold io your re ati a, ; ;.•>: . ;*&?.. ' You mu->t not express negauBfc >'.i • S H I crave a kivs of yon. 4\.. *! me kiss you for your slstifcji, ?*"? . 4. » You're a dninty little elf. ' ; , It. is long since 1 have kissed • ' You do very well yourself.;-. > v ' +' Wi'd and v <kles< dissijwition" Cured my blind in'atu..t on, V vv- Now 1 love a maid of -tation . And *b inland store of pelf. " 'jwm JS.:SmWu in the Current ' i - A BAD SPELL. „• JTonnaveieard of the city of . llio loveliest ev' r you kuloux- !«:, ... And the following tala '• I am sure can not fail g T"o be reMfwit h emotion by yioux. f," this bustliuK youne city of Sioux t> . Came a scion or Albion trioux; S isfc., ^W'b«|i the name was i>r nounoed fflw " heariUK, he flounced,' I . And at onoe in a pa- aicn he fllonx. # 2*Vw tell me, O people of Sioux," ' -.'H leKhonted, "what can a man dioux? % ! As "ii« spelled, •o we say it, ,'v -« And that-is the way it v.- 'Should b<}!" An i he blustered and bttonx. JSM " ^nd a" fhronch the city of Sioux MS- ,.. ' <4*bat man raised a hnllabullioux, • - " With madness enraged, - l»ike a tigernncaged, ... . »'•> «'4knd fell upon Gentile and Jioux. / ^ 51 • , . t A its over the city of Sioux Uk iPi - ' Be rushed, Rtill the madder he grloux, - T i l l h e f e l l i n a 1 1 ' , *i, ,'S And his soul promp'lytt , - 5 . J » e f t h i s b o d y -- s a u s f u r t h e r a d i o u x . *i3Bien ' coroner's jury of Sioux Jiir . L «Cheiv verdict most so emnly drfoux, Mi- W "By disease of th • heart agf:' Victim's life did de art" .Yon have heard the sad tale; I am thrloux. „'{f • 'Jhlt JiYrtncifCo Wnsp. MEDICAL CCLLESE STORIES. * When I was at the University of •7T-'several years ago," said a youthful looking physician, "l had been -work­ ing very hard from the beginning of the flexion until some time in February, ifhen my eyes commenced to give me great deal of trouble, and my physi­ cian forbade my -studying at night until they should get better. Having noth­ ing to do at night, and being a perfect owl, I thought I could not spend the earlier p«rt of my nights better than to improve my knowledge of human anatouiy in the dissecting-room. The Anatomical l ooms at the university are about 200 yards from any house in "wliich people live, and were only open during tbe afternoon. I exolained my position to the professor of anatomy and obtained his consent to work there alone at night. He said at the same fl& did not consider it a very rfol plaie -oenjoysone*s self alone, that I was the tirst student who . tever worked there at night. Then the janitor assured me that he had of­ ten gone to the dissecting-room in the morning and found some of the sub jecte moved from their position of the previous afternoon; and although he .•tad been janitor to the dis-ecting-room for more that fifteen years he could not lie induced to go there along at night. •"I said, however, that I was deter­ mined to do the work, if I had to tie the subjects to the table'to keep them from going away. So I bought a lamp ^d sent it over by the janitor. I worked on for a week or so without be­ ing disturiied by any post-mortem live­ liness on the p rt of the subjects, and reely liked the idea of working . apart from a horde of noisy medical students # and the unwelcomed interruptions of the demonstrator. And I could work much more satisfactorily, too; I could atop when I felt like it, and sit •down and study. I learned a great «eal of anatomy in that way, and my 4Qlb8e;}uent courses in New York were aftich easier for that night work. "One night I had gone to the room about 8 o'clock and worked on until 11, when it commenced to rain furiously. I had no umbrella, and had to wait vptil the storm was over or get wet. 1 da not care to-risk the latter, and took tip my "Gray's Anatomy' to while away the time. 1 read until I was tired, and it seemed to be raining harder than «ver. Then, for the first time, the Janitor's stories occurred to me. I sat stad thought about them until I almost bad an attack of the horrors, and then tried to forget them by reading mord anatomy. Several times I was on the point of going home in spite of the nun. but I knew that my room-mate would insist that I had been frightened into taking water. Finally, about 1 Vclock, my nerves had become strung la the highest pitch, and I started Wjbcnever a rat ran across the floor. I really uucomtortable, and was just iking that I would go to my room oy rate, when suddenly something ;k the window behind'me with ter- Sforce, and seemed determined to ove glass, sash, a id all to get at me. whole English lauguage cannot «#ress how thoroughly frightened I "Tbe window was immediately be- Eme, quite small, and about five from tlie floor. I was sitting on a stool, close to the table, with my book propped against a subject; be­ tween me and the opposite wail were fopr or five tables, on each of which WM a subject How I managed to fret firbni my position behind that table to the opposite side of the room I have never been able to determine. At any rate, when I recovered my equilibrium I Was standing behind the table across " room, holding a large cartilage fe in my hand. But the window wan " rattling a furious rate, and I was that X could distinguish some- white moving rapidly over it. I t^nmfouuded, with mv eyes abso- ' lumping out on my oheeks. f% and it seemed fully a century, object began to move more f,a»d then disappeared with a motion from the window. 1 knite at it as it passed away, [!*• window. 'J he next morn- i snowy owl was found near v31»it#r«a« b>id had "vainly sought ' from the storm, attracted by " Vfi| the dissecting-room. "Although I was terribly frightened that time, l never felt the least hesita­ tion about go.n? into the room after­ ward. Now go on with your story." "I do not know whether my expe­ rience was more frightful than your.s or not. At any rate I am satisfied with it. I took my fir-^t course of medicine at Medical College, in the winter of 187t?-77. I was a green country boy of leighteen. and had never regarded the «lissectiug-room as a good place for spending the night. But our room was open until 10 o'clock at night, and my time to work was from 8 until 10. For the tirst three weeks I did not inina it at all. or at least very little, for I al­ ways had company. But on a certain memorable night there was not another inan in the room after 9. The other «tudents had agreed to go away and leave me alone. At first I thought seriously of going with them, but it seemed so silly to run away from dead men that I stayed. I regretted afterward that I did not go. "The peculiar feeling which you de­ scribe came over me, and I had begun to wish for a dog or anything else to keep me company,when I heard a noise, and, looking up hasti]y,I saw something which almost took my breath away. Vv ithin ten feet of me was a table upon •which was a subject, covered with the msual sheet, and that sheet was moving as though the subject was determined to get up and come after me. There Was no mistake about it; the sheet was moving or being moved at a very lively rate. I could almost feel the hair try­ ing to aet out of my head. I looked at it and the motion continued. I could not have moved if my life had depend­ ed upon it. The dead body seemed to be having a regular convulsion under that cloth, and finally one foot seemed to get out and then the-other. My low­ er jaw seemed to hang down to my waist and I was in an agony of terror. Then the head got out from under the sheet. That horrified me into strength and, seizing a leg-bone, I threw it with all the force that I could command at that moving covering. Then the mo­ tive power in the shape of four or five rats jumped to the floor and ran off. But I did not go into that room again at night for a year, and I could scaroe- lv look at a sheet for two months with­ out feeling an almost uncontrollable impulse to run." Those stories reminded me of an ex­ perience which a student at the Albany Medical College had some six years ago. He was well known as a man of great nerve, and some of the students, desirous of testing him. made a wager that he could not sit all night in the room with a corpse, with his back to­ ward it, only looking at it every half hour. When he did look at it ho was to remove the sheet and record tjie ex­ act appearance of the countenance. He readily agreed to settle the dispute, and in a few days one of the students came to him and said that a stranger had died in one of the hotels, and that he could try his experiment there. He was to go on duty at 8:30 at night, and was on hand at the appointed time. He made bis tirst examination of the face and saw that it was in a state of per­ fect repose. He then took his seat, with his bsck to the body, and read un­ til 9 o'clock, when he noticed what he thought he had at first everlooked that there was a slightly drawn expression of the countenance. This was recorded and he resumed his reading. At 9:30 he uncovered the face and was astonished to see that the lips were slightly parted and that he could just see the teeth between them. This was also recorded, and he sat down and tried to read, but could think of noth­ ing except the parted lips. At 10 o'clock he was a good deal excited when he got up to make his observa­ tions ; his hand trembled as he drew back the cover from the face, and he was horrified to find that one hand had moved from its position, that the eyes were half open and thrown back, and that there was a ghastly grin on the face. He tried to detect any movement ot the face, but had not the nerve to watch. When he sat down he imagined he heard a movement behind hhn, but could not look around. He longed for 10:30 o'clock, and yet felt that he could not uncover that terrible object again. The half-hour seemed to come all too quickly, and with a fierce determina­ tion lie looked toward the table and saw that the body had moved. Almost fainting with terror, and yet nerved by the remembrance of his promise, he drew away the sheet. Great drops of prespiration stood out on his forehead as he saw that the corpse had raised itself to its elbows, the hands clinched, the grin more hor­ rible than before, and the eyes wide open and staring wildly across the room. Although almost paralyzed with fear, he faithfully recorded what he saw, but he could not look longer; it was too terrible. Then he sat down, and for half an hour his blood was chilled by hearing regular movements behind him. He would have given worlds to look around, and could only restrain himself with the greatest difficulty. Eleven o'clock came finally, and with a great effort he arose to perform his duty; as he turned around he saw the body slowly glide from the table to­ ward him, Though terrified beyond expression, and almost crazed with fright, he either became the brave man that he had always been or was driven to desperation, for he seized a chair and made for the "subject," which gave a yell and rushed to the door just as the other students burst in and congratu­ lated him on his wonder ul nerve. He at once saw that he had been the vic­ tim of a practical joke and was him­ self again in a few minutes. They had paid an actor of some note to simulate the corpse, and he almost spoiled the fun by sneezing.--Phila­ delphia Fre.HH. v AGRICULTURAL. • • •% fcEMRlW HRLPI. HON. C. M. CLAY, of Kentucky, states | PILLOWS stuffed with crushed and that cows that oannot be distinguished dried sunflowers are very beneficial to from those imported from Jersey are those afflicted with malaria. He Knew What He Was Abont. The negro chairman of a convention which met in Little Hook rendered an important decision. During -a clamor for recognition the chairman said: "Let de cheer--let de cheer rule on dat p'int. De cheer rules dat de two gennermen kain't talk at de same time. One gennerman mus' talk, an' arter he gits dun de udder gennerman he kin talk." "Who's got de flo'?"demanded a del­ egate. "Neber mind who's got de flo'. Keep on er axin' yer unpovermentary ques­ tions an' yer'll see who hab de no'-- hab all o' hit dat yer kin kiver. I takes' dis heah mefod fur ter 'nounce myse'f de nominee fur county jedge. All in faber ob de measure will make it known by sayin' 'I,' and dose opposed will please gin up dar seats ter pnssons whut's got more sense. De 'l's' hab it. --Arkanxaw 'Jraveler. LIFE is girt all aronnd with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished p> add their point of I gbt to our sky. QUEEN VICTORIA has another elephant as a gift from Kiug John, of Abyssinia* very common m Russia, and the best specimens sell for $10 a head. MR. CLAKE READ, of England, de­ clares that the English farmer needs the wisdom of Solomon and a good part of his riches also to be able to farm land to a profit nowadays. . N Ohio cultivator says: "As potash is the fertilizer most needed by the on­ ion, the best results are economically obtained by applications of good wood- ashes and other material rioh in pot­ ash." A FLORIDA correspondent advises farmers how to tighten wagon tires. When the woodwork in the wheels shrinks, and the tires become loose, he thoroughly soaks the woodwork in some, boiling linseed oil. THE six best and most desirable va­ rieties of grapes for home use and gen­ eral culture are: Concord, Warden, Brighton, Jefferson, Pocklington and Duchess--two blacks, two reds, and two whites. They are noted for their qual­ ity, hardiness and general healthiness. A GOOD wheelbarrow is a necessity. No implement equals it in utility about the garden, or on the farm for that mat ter. They are not expensive. Select one with reference to lightness and strength, as the boys are often delegat­ ed to use it The common dirt-barrow is the best. IN Prussia, in the year 1882, there were examined 3,808,142 hogs, of which 1,852 were trichinous. In that year 1,- 365 pieces of American pork were fonnd to be trichinous. Sixty soldiers of one regiment were made very sick by eating some raw German pork which a butcher had stolen and sold to them. PROF. J. P. SHELDON writes of the Ayrshire cow as follows in one of a series of articles on dairying in Eng­ land : "The Ayrshire, taking them for all in all, with the single exception of beef-making, are the best dairy cows one can mention, particularly where the soil and climate are none of the best." AN Iowa butter-maker says that the best butter color is a pailful of corn- meal mush, fed warm once a day, the cow being of the yellow variety. He also adds that it will increase the milk and butter as well as give a good color. The man's advice may be good, but it is evident he hasn't been "seen" by the butter-color manufacturers. To GROW large strawberries, select the Sharpless, Longfellow, Jacunda, or Lincoln, especially the first named, and plant them in rich Foil. Keep them scrupulously free from weeds,and water them at night when needed. Cut off every runner as soon as it appears. Do not let the plants bear the first sea­ son unless they are set out early in the 'all, which is the best time, as a season is saved. Renew the plants every fourth year from your own runners. THE culture of flowers to those who really love them is a recreation, not a labor, and in the hands of those who love them they seem to thrive almost everywhere. The increase of varieties, the improvement of bloom, and the ex­ tension of culture within the last few years have been alike wonderful and encouraging. Roses are the most beautiful and queenly of all flowers, but the most subject to disease and in­ sects, and the most difficult to raise. No protection for the half-hardy sort is so good as to tie them to a stake and surround them with long rye straw tied to a taller stake. SPECIALTY IN FARMING.--The assist­ ant in agricultural experiments in the agricultural college at Ames, Iowa, presents strong reasons why the farm­ ers Bhould commence to be "specialty" farmers; that is, each one should se­ lect some one branch of agriculture, as wheat raising, or dairying, or the breed­ ing of one kind of stock, and bend his whole energies to its mastery in all of its details, instead of cawying on mixed husbandry that includes the raising of oats and corn and wheat and stock. He assumes that the average farmer of to­ day spreads his energy over too many different kinds of work to advance much in knowledge of any one. The subject of agriculture is yearly becom­ ing broadened by science. The writer refers to workers in scientific matteis; how hopeless would be the task of a scientific man who attempted to become a second Leonardo, the master of all the knowledge of his t.me. For a man now to accomplish anything of benefit to the world in study, he must not only take one branch of study, but a single division of that branch. Thus, in farm­ ing, the man can accomplish most who limits himself to work in some one small part of his great profession. For in­ stance, instead of in\esting,$500 in cat­ tle, $500 in horses, and $500 in swine, let him put .all of his capital into the business of breeding CM class of stock. Let his reading be/largely on the habits of this stock/and its treatment and care by the nfiSst successful breed­ ers, and let him atrond all gatherings of like breeders, where he may hear inter­ change of experience in his chosen work. No doubt tliis is every good ad­ vice if not carried too far. It is well, indeed, to have a large number of "specialty" farmers who will rapidly improve their departments of agricul­ ture, and thus benefit all farmers. It will do very well for those farmers in good financial circumstances, if they have a taste for one kind of work, to devote to it their entire time. In most cases where there is intelligence and energy displayed, this "specialty" farm­ ing would prove more remunerative than general farming, and besides would tend more to increace the com­ mon stock of knowledge. But a very large majority of farmers are not fitted mentally for such work; BUCCOBS in a special line of work requires more than ordinary ability. They have not ready means, and could not afford to have tiieir little all "in oile bottom trusted " Agriculture is so limited by the weather, bv disease, and by insects, that a variety of crops and different kinds of stock seem to be necessary for most farmers, so that if one is lost by a frost or a pes­ tilence or an insect, others will be left on which the husbandman can subsist To tbe average farmer, then, whose book account is not very large, this ad vice to give up all but one branch of agriculture is not good. He must con­ tinue to have his different crops, his cattle and his hogs and his sheep. Andt indeed, such a system is best for main­ taining the soil's fertility, for the rich' t-st soil will become worthless by long- continued use in tbe bearing of one p'.ant. "Mixed husbandry" is essential to the best agriculture of which any country is capable, and it presents t prob'em--a broad one, indeed, oom pared to the improvement of one breed of cattle--that should be solved: It is, the rotation of crops beat calculated to i-ustain tbe fertility of the land, and the relative amount of stock per acre that can be profitably kept on a farm. I.an-big llepubllcaxk. THOSE who fail with overv other kind of hou>e flowers in the waiter usually succeed in growing the hyacinth in pot9. GKIDDLK CAKES.--Three eggs, half teaspoonful of salt, one pint of sour miik, one teaspoonful of soda, flour enough to make a batter. FRITTERS.-- lwo eggs, one cup .of milk, two teaspoonsful of baking pow­ der, flour to make a thick batter. Drop into hot lard and fry brown. To MAKE sausage keep its shape in flat cakes, after making them the size you wish, dip them into flour; this will effectually prevent their falling apart. CASES of metallic poisoning have been traced to cheap silver-plated pitchers. Where the lining is broken or worn, galvanic action is set up and the base metal rapidly oxidized. THE French method of administer­ ing castor oil to children is to pour the oil in o a pan over a moderate fire, break an egg into it and stir up; when it is done, flavor with a kittle salt, or sugar, or currant jelly. VEAL TOAST.--One cup of chopped veal, one cap of hot water, one table- spoonful of butter, one teaspoonlul of salt an'd a slight sprinkle of pepper; place on the stove and when qule hot pour over buttered toast PRESSED BEEF.--Take corned beef and chop ur> so that the fat and lean may be . evenly mixed; add one tea- spoonful of dry mustard; put into a pan and place over it another pan, right side up; put into this two flat irons for a weight and let it stand over night. Serve cut in slices. BROWN apple satioe, to serve o i the platter with pork chops, is made by taking a little soup stock, or, if you have some roast-beef gravy, it is still nicer; into this put the apples which are reeled and cored and sliced; let them cook unffl tender in this, season with salt and a little red pepper. When the apples are done, beat them until light and soft. MEAT balls to drop into soup are made of veal, with about one-fourth as much suet as veal, and with three- fourths of bread crumbs, with salt, pep­ per and parsley, or other herbs to your taste; add one beaten egg, which will moisten and hold the ingredients to­ gether; make into round balls, drop into hot lard and fry quickly; drain them well on a cloth, and they are ready for the soup. A NICE dessert for a plain dinner is made in this way: Make some pie­ crust which will be delicato without being greasy, roll it out thin, but see that it is even and that there are no spots where it will break. Cut it in strips or squares that will hold a spoon­ ful of jam, then double them or fold them together, wet tbe edges with the white of an egg, or, if you take great caro in pressing thom together, a little water will answer well. Fry them in lard that is heated to the boiling point Sitt powdered Bugar over them. They may be served warm or cold, as you prefer. An Indian's Honesty. An exchange tells a story of an "In­ dian's Honesty" which carries with it an excellent le-son. The native, or un­ educated Indian, yon know, was addict­ ed to the use of tobacco; but now that we have the Carlisle Indian School and the the government is furnishing so many helps to enlighten tbe red man, with the growth of knowledge all such vices must dissapear, and the In­ dian become the good citizen all who read this are aiming to be. Well, an old Indian once asked a white man to give him some tobacco for his pipe. The man gave him a loose handful from his pocket The next day he came back and asked for the white man. For," said he, "I found a quarter of a dollar among the tobacco." "Why don't you keep it?" asked a bystander. "I ve got a good man acd a bad man here/' said tlie Indian, pointing to his breast, and the good man say, 'it is not mine; give it back to the owner.' The badm>nsay, 'Never mind, you got it and it is your own now.' The good man say,'No, no! you must not keep it.' So I don't know what to do, and I think to go to sleep, but the good and uad man keep talking all night, and trouble me; now I bring the money back and I feel good." And the wrter goes on to say that "like the old Indian, we have all a good and a bad man within. The Lad man is Temptation, the »ood man is Con­ science, and they keep talking for and against things that we do every day." I have no need to ask you if the bad man or the good man wins, little bright eyes as you read this for yours is the task to put Temptation far away, but do not you meet every day some one who is listening to the bad instead of the good man within? REMARKABLE TREES. Pay During The Revolution. The scale of compensation was at the extreme of moderation. In no degree, however, in the absence of value to the currency in which it waa rated, could pay have been invested with the attrac­ tion of reward. Yet it is submitted as not devoid of interest. To the office of director of the military hospitals was attached the pay of $150 per month, two rations, one for servant and two of forage; to that of the chief physi- •ian and surgeon of the army, $140 per month, two horses and wagon, and two rations of forage; to each of the three chief physicians and surgeons of the hospitals, $140 per month and two rations; to the pur­ veyor, $130, and his assistant $75 per month; to the apothecary, $130 per month, and his two assistants, $50 per month each; to the fifteen hospital physicians and surgeons* $120 per month each, and and to eaoh of the twenty-six mates $50 per month. The stewards received each $35 per month; the clerks and storekeepers $2 per day; tlie seven matron < 50 cents each and a ration per day: the thirty nurses each 2 shilling nnd a ration per dav, and the orderlies, if soldiers, 1 shilling and a ration, and if citizens, 2 shillings and a ration a day. --Magazine of American History. • A Kansas City Appetite. "Will you have some soup or fish?" asked the waiter of a stranger. "No, sir. Bring me some meat and pertaters, and coffy." Alter he had finished. his meat and pertaters, and coffy, he leaned back in his chair and said: "Now, you kin bring in your fish and soup, if you want to, but you shouldn't «o tritlin' with a Kansas City man when he's hungry "--New York Star. FIVE thousand molecules earn sit com­ fortably on the point of a pin. Herein the molecule differa materially from man. Sana of the Not bie .Monarch* of MM Vn* ml Mill Kx stlng. One-third of the land surface of our planet, says tiie Boston Transcript, is covered with trees. The largest treo in the world is situated in Ma->coli, near the foot of Mount Etna, and is called "The Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses," and is believed to be the oid est tree in the world. Its name arose from the report that Queen Jane of Aragon, with her principal nobility, took refnge from a violent storm under itg%ranch«s. At one time it was sup­ posed that it consisted of a clump of trees united, but on digging away the earth, the root was tound entire and at •no vetv great depth. Five enormous branches rise from one trunk, whioh is 212 feet in circumference. A part of the trunk has been broken away, and its interior is hollow, and large enough to contain a flock of sheep, or to admit two carriages driving abreast through it. It still bears abundance of fruit, and its collectors have built a hut with­ in the trunk, the better to promote their proceedings. At Tortworth, Eng­ land, ther^ exists a chestnut tree meas­ uring, at four feet from the grouud, six­ ty feet in circumference, although at the present time it is nearly a sylvan ruin. A fig tree stands on the north­ erly bank of the River Johnstone, in East Australia, in latitude 27 degrees, longitude 151 degrees, near Brisbane, measuring three teet from tho ground, 150 feet, and at fiftv-five feet, where it sends off great branches, eighty feet in circumference. There lies upon Mount Bawbaw, Gippsland, Southeast Austra­ lia, a gum tree measuring 480 feet as it lies where it was broken ofl' at the top, and it is calculated to have stood 520 high; it measures six feet in circum­ ference. In Bougouderch, near Con­ stantinople, is a plane tree measuring 145* feet in circumference. At Bajak, Bournarbashi,, Asia Minor, is a pond overshadowed by three gigantic plane trees, the trunk of one of which, one foot from fclie ground, measures forty- three feet in circumferenco. The largest tree in the United States stands near Bear Creek, oa the north side of Tule River, California. It meas­ ures 140 feet in circumference. In Tuolume grove, Nevada, stands "The Dead Giant Redwood Tree," measur­ ing 119 feet in circumference, which has been so entirely hollowed out by long use as a chimney that the road- makers could not resist the temptation of completing the work of camp-fites, so they have cut a great archway right through the farther side of the poor dead stump, and led the road through it, so that now the high, crowded coach daily passes through the very heart of the great tree, which may have been young in the days of Julius Caesar. There are thirteen other trees standing near it measuring from seventy-two to ninety-six feet in circumference. The "Grizzly Giant," the monarch of the Moriposa grove, measuring ninetv-two feet in circumference. The Tularo- Fnesno forest, so called from being sit­ uated in those two counties (California,) extending seventy miles in length, with a width in some places of ten miles, con­ sists mainly of big trees, with a multi­ tude of smaller ones, measuring from six to 120 feet Near Santes, in France, stands an oak tree measuring ninety-one feet in circumference. At Holwood, near Bromley, England, stands an oak tree with a root projecting on one side into the shape of a settee. Seated upon that root, William Pitt and William Wilberforce held together a conversa­ tion, as a result of which the latter, in 1782, brought the question of the abo­ lition of the slave trade before the House of Commons. The tree is still known as the Wilberforce oak. Pliny (A. D. 23) tells us of a plane tree growing in his time, which was in itself a lorest. The Governor of Lucia gave an entertainment to his friends in the hollow trunk, which ii eighty feet in circumference. John Dowd discovered in Calaveras County. California, a grove •oK 103 trees covering a space of fifty acres, measnring seventy to ninety-six feet in circumference. Throuhout all England there are oak tree-* of remark­ able size. The "Cowthorp Oak," on the banks of the Nidd in Yorkshire, meas­ ures at the ground seventy-eighty feet in circumference. The famous tree called the "Charter Oak," near Hartford, Connecticut which fell Au9^ist2i, 1856, was thirty-three feet in circumference at the ground, and it fell so as to leave eight feet of stump on one side and six feet on the other. A double trunked oak tree is standing in a garden in South Beaver, Pennsylvania which begins at the root with a single trunk. This divides into two, aboat one foot from the ground and continues thus for ten feet, and then be­ comes united again. Each of the twin trunks, at the point of division, meas­ ures three feet in circumference. Must Have Met a Bear. "Hanner," he said, as he got home from town, " here wa< a feller in the post-oQice from Philadelphia, and the way he talked was enough to raise my hair. He said corn was going to be awful short." "Did he? But we never tise any corn." "He said cotton was way behind." "O, well; I can put off my quilting." "And tobacco wasn't two-thirds of a crop." "Well, we don't smoke or chew." . "But' he said beef and pork would be awfully high this fall." "Did, eli ? Well, we can eat fish and kill a lamb once in a while." ^ "But, Hanner, it's awful to feel that everything has been knocked endways," he protested. "There, there, Samuel," she soothing­ ly replied, "we've got two acres of buckwheat and four of turnips, and the Lord watches ever the people in Penn­ sylvania as well as elsewhere. We'll dry a few more apples and pull through somehow."--Wall Street News. A RouudSuui Lost in Wall Street. "You may not believe me, gentle­ men." said a weather-beaten tramp, ap­ proaching a crowd of brokers near the Stock Exchange, "but I lost a round sum of money on Wall street not so many years ago." The hat was passed around, and the tramp put awav $1.75 in quarters. "How much was this round sum of money that you lost?" was asked. "It was a penny. I dropped in dowt a coal-hole.--New York Sun. WE have, as a nation, the fewes. number of days when work is stopped. In England, Germany, or France there are so many national or local celebra­ tion days that, had we half as many, there would l»e less unkindness in an embargo on Suuday recreation.--Nash' ville American. "WHY ars they called almighty dol­ lars, papa?" he asked of his father. And the old man replied promptly: "Because they are almighty hard to get" Mexico. in shape a deflected trapezoid; iij area 741,596 square miles; stretching through almost eighteen degrees oi latitude and banded by twenty-five full meridians; traversed by the great mountain rangj that reaches from Bohring's Straits on the north to the Straits ot Magellan on the south (here called Sierra Madre); breasting tho Gulf with 1,000 miles of «oast, lapped bv tho gentle Pacific along 4,000 miles of shore: holding within its limits 146 cities, 371 towns, 5,743 villages, 5,869 landed estates, and 16,326 farms; pos­ sessing urban property to the value o3 $ 168,143,582 and suburban property to tho value of $213,620,832; the homes ot upwards of ten millions of people; this is the Mexico of to-day--once the land of the Chichimecas and the Kingdom of Neguameth, the home of the Aztecs anl the empire of Montezuma, the con­ quest of the Spaniards and the inglori­ ous dominion of Cortes. Mexico is a Federative Republic of twenty-seven free and independent States, one Federal Districti and one Territory. Tho supreme poller of the Federation is divided into three IT-inches--Executive, Legislative, and J udicial. The Executive power is vested in a President, elected by a vote of the people every loar years, his term of office beginning December 1. He is assisted by six ministers--for Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice and Public Instruction, Public Works, I-inanceahd Public Credit, War and Navy. The Legislative power is vested in a National Congress, composed q(a Sen- fcto and Chamber of DeputielL Tbe Senate is composed of two members from each State and the Federal Dis­ trict, one-half the number being elected overy two years. The Chamber of Deputies is elected as a body every two years, one deputy being allowed to every 40,000 inhabitants, and to every fraction thereof in excess of 20,000. Tho Federal Judicial power is Vested in a Supreme Court of Justice, with subordinate District and Circuit Courts. The judges of the Supreme Court are ejected for a term of six years by a v> te pf tho people; District and Circuit judges ore appointed by the President. The State governments are almost ' ientical with those in our country. On a war footing the army is com­ posed of 131,523 infantry; 25,790 cavalry; 3,650 artillery. Total, 160,- i-03 men. .The navy consists of seven war vessels and four or five coast truavds. Of the people of Mexico, 1,882,522 I elong to the Caucasian race; 3,765,044 (o the native Mexican race; 4,354,318 to the mixed races. According to the Constitution, all persons born in the Republic are free, and slaves receive (heir liberty on entering upon Mexican soil. All who are born of Mexican fathers within or without the territory l»f the Republic; foreigners who may iiecome naturalized according to law; and those per ons who acquire real fiitato in the country, or who have children born to them therein, are, ac- y-rding to the Constitution, citizens; «nd all citizens are obligated to aid in lie defense of the country and to con- ;ribute to the public revenue. Many false notions regarding the tllexicau people are current in this SDuntiy. They are, with the exception uf those of one mountainous State, peaceable and well disposed towards foreigners. No people respect law and officials more than they; aud paradoxi­ cal as it may upper, this is why revolu­ tions are BO easy, for when a high official rebels, so great is the respect of tt»o people tor him, that they follow him at the risk of property and life. Unlortupately our conception of Mexi­ cans have been moulded in conformity with the ruffians who congregate along the border, tl.it region being their favorite resort, as they can escape ar­ rest by crossing the division line.-- South and West. A Simple Remedy. A correspondent writes us as follows: "You published not long since some very fine articles on dyspepsia, etc. I would like to suggest a good substitute for pil.s, tonics and liver-regulators, used so much by in door people (who eat but little and have but little appe­ tite for what they do eat), as well as by many others, who suffer from constipa­ tion. "It is simply coarse wheat-bran. One can easily determine by experiment how much he should use. 1 have found a half tea-cupful a day to be my own proper quantity. I mix two teaspoon- fuls of sugar with the bran, moisten it well Avith cold water, and eat it raw I find it quite palatable. "Without further change in the diet, constipation will disappear within aday or two, the appetite improve within a week, and, within two weeks, one will find himself alter dinner someday with a headache on hand, caused by over­ eating--a shame in one old enough to know that he who has an appetite has something to controL The action of the bran is mechanical. There has not yet been time for any radical improve­ ment of the digestive organs." The above suggestions are well so far as they go. The bran will relieve con- stipatipn in all ordinary cases. This is what gave the old Graham bread its value. But the whole wheat-flour in­ troduced within the last few years, we think in most cases, will be found an improvement on both. It is an im­ provement on the Graham bread, from tho method of grinding and from the careful selection of wheat It is an im- provement on the white flour plus bran from the great fineness of t' e bran, thus less liable to cause acidity, and from its comprising that portion of tbe nheat--always bolted out from white flour--on which largely the brain and nervous system depends. The whole wheat-flour not only re­ lieves constipation, in many cases, but helps to cure dyspepsia, by nourishing those nerve centres whese vigorous con­ dition is essential to the action of all the organs. But it must not be forgotten that dyspepsia has many forms and many causes, and each should have its own peculiar treatment. Every form, how­ ever, requ res the removal of the cause ns the nine qua non.-- Youth's Com­ panion. Piiblie Parks. Paris has 172,000 acres in parks, or 1 acre to every 18 inhabitants; in Vien­ na the proportion is 1 acre to 100 per­ sons; in Chicago, 1 to 200; in Philadel­ phia, 1 to 300; in Brooklyn, 1 to 639; in New York, 1 to 1,353; but New York proposes to buy 3,808 acres for addi­ tional parks, at at estimated cost of $2,000 per acre, or in the aggregate at the cost of $7,616,000. A YOUNG gentleman wishes to know which is proper to nay on leaving a young lady friend after a late call -- good night, or good evening? Never tell a lie, young man; say good morn­ ing. PITH iKBPOISt. *0, WHERE shall we find content wails a magazine poet. He should ii |* vite a homely girl to polish off a coup of quarts of ice cream with him. "WELL, how do you like our town'LL^. Stranger--"Very nice place. Ju^f* consider that there are twenty-twit' trains on which you can leave it daily.f A MAN in Cincinnati has discovered (pf process by which a corpse may be con* verted into marble. What a lovelier* barber-pole Sara Bernhardt woul|| ^ make. _ THERE is a town in Arkansas whic" struggles under the name of Limbu ger. We'll wager a scent that it's live town. And you mite say remark: bly strong. A FASHIONABLE New York worn a says she will spend the summer tween Newport and Saratoga. It look! as though she had taken a cottage in Connecticut. SINGS a seaside poet: "Alone mjt lonely watch I keep." You are lucky. Man with the gold three base-ba 1» keeps ours more than three-halts of the" time. ARTIST'S friend (pointing io sketch) --"Say, Harry, where dicP vou ge| this?" Harry--"Why, I got that oii of my head." Friend--"Well, it's ifc:; lucky thing for, your head that you gojps it out." "So YOU think John is becoming great man in the city?" said a farmer, speaking of his absent con to a com­ panion of the youth. "Great man 1 I should say so. Why, there ain't a bar­ keeper in the city hardly that he don't call by his first name." "HAVE von been a good boy all this week?" smilingly asked a Sunday- school teacher. "Yes, mum--been goof J every day," replied the boy. "That'll' right; always be good. Now tell mfr what made you good; can you tell me , that?" "Yes, mum. Pap said if I was a good boy all th^ week he'd take me to Coney Island and ride me on the whirligig after Sunday-school to-day." --New York Star. THE Colonel, who lives in the South, was finding fault with Bill, one of his hands, for neglect of work, and saying * he would have no more preaching about his place, they had too many protract­ ed meetings to attend. "Bilf ain't no preacher," said Sam. "He's only a 'zorter." "Well, what's the difference between a preacher and an exhorter?" "Why, you know, a preacher lie takes a tex', and den he done got to stick to it. But a 'zorter--he kin branch." Two NYMPHS named Luck and Ill- luck. who lived in a wood, wished to know which of them was more beau­ tiful than the other. They went to a fox in the wood and asked him for his , opinion.^ He turned to them and said: / "lean give no opinion uuless you walk / to and fro for a while." So they did. Quoth the fox to Luck: "Madam, yoitj are indeed charming when ^ ou comq in." Quoth he to Ill-luck : " >ladam, your gracefulness is simply inimitable when you go out" "I THOUGHT you represented thiij place as a perfect sanitarium," cried, the' disgusted valetudinarian, as he,' viewed for the first time the slough of , despond for which he had parted with his cash; "you said the inhabitants : were never sick here. Where aro the ! inhabitants?" "I told you only the truth," replied the real eetate agent "These frogs are tho only inhabitants; and I never knew one of them to be-.- sick; on the contrary, they are all won­ derfully healthy."--Boston Tran­ script. ... . NOT A CHICAGO MAS. * v We lingered, in the act to part. The last word sM I rnspoken. By the qnlck seating of my heart , The silence faintly broken. So beautiful she s emed and pare-- Ah me! how I should miss bar. Unable lanK- r to endure My wish, I tt"ked to kiss her. A blush of deepest rose o'erspiead Her face, as 1 to mask it. As, w th a woman's art, she said. . "Why, Frank, yon Bhould not aak tfcr- i." H A Blast on the Foghorn, v The lonely sailor has always been a subject of solicitude to sentimental people. I rather envy the sailor who has grown accustomed to seasickness. There's an awful lot of bosh talked about the dangers of the sea. 1 am not opposed to any arrangement which will make the sailor's life, or anybody else's, safer. But I protest against the fog­ horn. Wherever there is fog on the bay that cursed foghorn begins, and makes a fellow's back creep. It is the most painfully lugubrious noise that is known to creation. It is enough to make a ship founder so full is it of warning and sensation of disaster. It starts all sorts of miserable ideas. Suppose a ship should strike on the rocks and everybody go down, would it not be horrible ? And yet to come down to the plain facts, it is far I09S likely that a ship should strike on the rocks than that a railway trainf should fall off a trustle, or that a dummy should run awav on one of the hills and the brakes refuse to work. But what I want to get at^is the value of the fog­ horn. When there is a fog on the bay will anybody be so venturesome as to bring in a ship? How often does it really warn people on board steamers with any value, that could not bo ob­ tained in a more agreeable way. To save a few people a certain amouut of danger, the whole northern part of San Francisco, say 100,000 people, are com­ pelled to suffer the paiuful effect on the nerves of a foghorn. It is a costly benefit that discommodes a whole city to save the weary manner who ought: to be wrecked if he is fool enough to take so much risk.--San Fancise• Chronicle "Undertones." Miglitly Mixed. "Phew! what is that that smells so loud ?" said Mr. Smith, on entering a room where Jones and Brown were conversing. "I don't smell anything," said Jones. "What does it smell like'?" "It smells like gas escaping." "Oh! that is easily accounted for," said Brown. "How?" queried Smith. "Why, Jones und I were talking pol­ itics. That is gas, you know." "Yes," said Smith "i see; you have got your breaths as well as your poli­ tics mixed."--Paris Beacon. DURING the tenth century persons accused of robbery were put to trial by a piece of barley bread, on which the mass had been said, and if they - could not swal low it they were declared guilty. Sometimes a slice of cheese was added to the bread. The l<rea<{< was to be unleaevned barley, and the cheese made of ewes' milk in tha month of Ma?. "Is MAN inferior to woman ?* aaka a correspondent That depends alto­ gether whether it is a married man or- a bachelor. REPENTANCE without amendment k like continually pumping without mending the leak. t