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OxMm nrj Sch E2H»CU fttWTer Bigli %,;bfw£,.€4 seventy- em. i ~ f»-AP^PAGR II®r JKSSS *#l|ufi&diaffft>w; ;,f ?' t The liWt <jf «r> yonr offering ctaere, Yen ceunt in flow*ra my BUT youra--, tied ble*s yon, one and aH.* FEEDEBIOK WEIOHMAX is tbe name of on old German in Cincinnati who is 107 years of age. He fought in the battle of Waterloo, and came to this country when he vu 90 year* old. His sigkt isoaly dfigbtly feu pared and hia hearing is itilf good. " He is very active, doing all the marketing for his daughter, with whom he lives. He litis' never taken any medicin ine his life, and has been an immoderate smoker from hia boyhood. For the last fifty years lie taa$ rfeeii M tie morning as soon as it is light, end gone to bed at dark. DUBIKG the recent debate on the Navy- bill Senator Morgan, of Alabama, related a curious incident of the ^kill exhibited by some of the Washington gun sharps in the manufacture of heavy ordnance. He had been describing the way in which a gun about thirty feet long was constructed, and continued as follows: "When that gun was built at the navy-yard in Washington City, and they undertook to balance it on its trunnion, it took, I am informed, 1,400 pounds on -the end of that gun to make it balance. A single man or two gun­ ners with machinery could not raise tliat gun to pat it in line for action in battle. It has been hustled out of, the naty iwtrn io Annapolis." : NP>' THE Louisville Commercial thinks lynch law is better than statute law for Kentucky. In the last two years, it says, there have been a dozen lynchings in the State, every victim of which am­ ply deserted l\ia fate^ Within the same time there have been more than 200 killings, a large number of which were cold-blooded murders, the perpetrators of which fell into the hands of the law, yet there have not been more than half a dozen executions. In Lexington, a few weeks ago, a man was executed who, under the beautiful mode of ad­ ministering justice, had had four or five trials and convictions, as many ap­ peals, and was finally hanged after fl^ht\ng years* ~ • - Ul J/S '•. A NHW JEKSEY woman whose trust had been cruelly deceived broiight suit ior breach of promise, and demanded $10,000 damages of her recreant lover. The jury looked with favor upon her claim until they learned that she had already had three husbands. Instead of considering'the capacity and fragile nature of the femal&heart, and estimat­ ing the in jury at four times the usual rate.it was resolved that $25 would cover the fracture in the plaintiff's case, and a verdict was .rendered ac­ cordingly. What a woman needs in such an emergency is to be tried by a jury of her peers. Twelve widows would, for instance, decide in short or­ der that the oftener they arc bereaved of their matrimonial partners the more tender and susceptible do their hearts grow, ttatil the happy day of equal suffrage and jury duty arrives the wo­ man vho Becks a legal bftlm for affec­ tions tampered with must expect to meet with gross injustice. OBERLIK (Kansas) Herald: A yohng man engaged in picking Christmas turkeys, finding the work tiresome, climbed upon a barrel for a breathing spell. There is nothing extraordinary in such an occurrence except that the barrel, having no head in it, provided a narrow-gage, short-line route to the ground, and the young man secured ex' cursion rates by doubling up and going through like a jack-knife. When the end of the division was reached he struck tbe ground with such force as to jar the lights out of the windows in the neighborhood and oreate the impres sion that an earthquake had visited the town. People rushed out to see what the commotion was, and soon located the scene of disaster by discovering the young man's feet protruding from the barrel, making frantic signals of dis trees. The young man was finally liberated by having the hoops of the barrel knocked off, though one unduly cxcited individual vainly essayed to pull him through the bunghole with .the aid ef a corkscrew. ACOOBDWO to a New York letter writer, "Patti makes * great deal of money, and she spends a great deal. At the rate* she lives it must cost her somethiftg like a hundred thousand dollars a year. She has a retinue of people, and a large suite of apartments at the Windsor Hotel--private tables, of course--and her own chef, whom she brings with her. Then she has a cas­ tle in Wales to keep up, and that is an enormoqisJjM, QJV, her income- Even when she does not live there she has ten or a dozen people taking care of the bouw, and as many more on the place. The castle itself is as large as a small hotel. It'has forty-five furnished rooms, b( sides other rooms that are not funnislied. It is a whim of Patti to keep up this place, and she has enough money to indulge herself in expensive whims. Besides the money that, Patti earns she has $2.0,000 that can never be touched; at least the principal can­ not be touched; she has the use of the income, of course. But this she does not lay much stress npon. The income of $20A,0U0 is a small item to a person who mokes as much money as she does. Christine Nilsson is really wealthier than Patti, because she has more laid ? np and better invested than is Patti's sioncj. The castle in Walea, which ™™ .v, "W- fertune, is an ex- penee rather tjfflpn income. All thai mbwbf that Cfa&liue Ntlaeon has in reittMlate brittgtfcer in a good round interest. Then NilRSOII ia thtifty. She spends very little money compared to Patti. It is bard to say which is the wiser--the one who spends as she goes or the one who lays up her money. Patti will always have that $200,000 to iaii bads - sa, cs s&s The tteaeiit* St •«*«* Aatftenas*. ra^trateWiiipl^^ij^al strength and skill by cottfttg off victorious in over 2U0 contests!of sparring, running, fheii" Uiel A Noted Africa! Sir John Sinc'air, of friend of Washington kuown and ronw After her except Nicolinrs children, aikd to those she is very liberal now.** - EX-SENATOR Doourmfc,of Wisconsin: De Toqueville, fifty years ago, when our population was only 15,000,000, said tbe time would surely come when it wonld be more than 150,000,000. That was a startling prediction at that day, but the census tables show that we shall reach that point at the middle of the next century. From a table be­ fore me it appears that at tho begin­ ning of this century our population was a little over 5,250,000. At the middle of it it was nearly 31,500,000. Our present population is over 50,000,000. The decade from 1850 to 18G0 added 8,250,000, the decade from 1860 to 1870, embracing the war period, added only 7.000,000, while the one from 1870 to 1880 added about 11,000,000. It seems, therefore, certain, if we arespared from war, pestilence, and famine, that by the end of this century our population will be about 78,000,000. By the middle of the next century, in the year 1950, it will reach 150,000,000, and realize tho prediction of De Toqueville. So that children born in 1884, who live to the age of 66 years, will behold the United States of America a nation of 150,000,- 000, and such people as the world has never seen. -tfee should be . T« by ev«r» rowing, and tugging, said: "if men j cultivator of tbe soil on both who do uot take exercMO only knew its I sides of the Altantic Ocean. He saw delightful effects, they would not long j the agriculture of his country, the be without them. Two ihin«?s ordinn-! finest source of knw'- r-ufcsi«tnnft« 5 a!" *£ste* m mtm MTGIONMFF ..»*««- i Stiunan MM, in * wmfafaaH. 1 | *0 j Ms* t-?SC intv-TvO\i?r;-^ ? thing. They are laziness and bashful- the farmers had with other countries ness. The last is the stronger iafinence. and other districts from which they A man doaa not like to got out in the j could draw instruction, little improve- open air in a boat or even in his club's ! meat was to be expected, except gymnasium, or on its cinder path for tho j through the united exertions of influ- first few times. He is painfully self- ential individuals, aided by the liberal tater to see NM4 -yeno# FELICIANA, (La,) Sentiriiili We were shown this week an article, which has been secured for exhibition at the World's Exposition, which will prove a veritable curiosity to our Northern and foreign visitors who are unacquainted with the negro and his habits. We of the South are well acquainted with the ingenuity exercised by the old time class of our colored population in mending their wearing apparel, and we frequently see one of this race domed in a suit which might be likened unto the coat of Joseph, "of many colors;" but we doubt if there are many who have ever seen anything to equal the article selected for exhibit. It is noth­ ing more nor less than a pair of pants, owned by an old negro of this parish, ; nd which is a most wonderful piece of patch work, the garment consisting of not less than 200 different pieces. As a place became worn it was replaced by another piece of cloth, until to-day the pants are a heterogeneous mass of color and material, and there remains only one piece of the or'ginal garment, measuring two inches by ono and a half inch, and each patch is of a material different from tho other. The owner of the pants is a well-to-do and highly respected colored citizen of West Feli­ ciana, named Edla White, who has at­ tained the ripe old age of 83 years. He has obtained quite a competency, which he attributes to those remarka­ ble pants. But the remarkable part of the history of these pants remains to be told. Edla claims that he has worn these pants for forty-three years, and he has refused several good offers for them. George B. Enochs, of Phil­ adelphia, no longer than last winter offered him an order for the best suit of clothes he could select in any store in exchange for his pants. Ho wished to place them in the Philadelphia Mu­ seum. It was with some difficulty that Willie Irvine, who secur?d the pants, did so, tho old man contending that "dem pants was his luck." The Postal Currency. Pc*tal currency, which was the "change" during the war and until the resumption of specie payments, was the invention of Gen. Spinner, who has represented the Syracuse district of New York in Congress, and had been appointed Treasurer of the United States by President Lincoln. Small change had vanished, and in buying a dinner in the market change had to lte taken in beets, cabbagcs, potatoes, and what not. Gen. Spinner was constant­ ly appealed to from all quarters to do something to supply the demand for small changs. He had no law un­ der which he could act, but after buying a half-dollar's worth of apples several times and receiving for his half-dollar in change more or less different kinds of produce, he began to cast around for a substitute for small change. In his dilemma he bethought himself of the postage stamp. He sent down to the postoffice department and pur­ chased a quantity of stamps. He then ordered up a package of paper upon which government securities were printed He cut the paper into various sizes. On the pieces he pasted stamps to represent different amounts. He thus initiated a substitute for fractional silver. This was not, however, a govern­ ment transaction in any sense; it could not be. Gen- Spinner distributed his improvised currency among the clerks of the department. They took it read­ ily, and the trade folks more readily. The idea spread; the postage stamps, either detached or pasted upon a piece of paper, became the medium of small exchange. It was dubbed "postal cur­ rency." From this Gen. Spinner got his idea of the fractional currency, and went before Congress with it. " That body readily adopted it, and but a short time after Gen. Spinner had begun pasting operations a law was on the statute book providing for th^ issue of the fractional currency which became so popular. The fac-simile of postage stamps was put on each piece of cur­ rency, and for a long time it was known as "postal currency." An enormous amount never was presented for re­ demption, and the government was con­ sequently the gainer.--Ben: ' Pefley Poore. . Tendency of Modern Warfare. The tendency of modern warfare is to make it all but impossible for a nation to quiokly put itself upon an effective war basis. We have practically no ex­ perience in the work of constructing great gunB and great ironclads,^&£• ton Herald. , THERE are 1.500,000 colored voters in this country oat of a total of 11000,- 000. conscious. He knows that hii skin is white as a woman's, and his undeveloped muscles do not corrugate t ,e smooth, round symmetry of his limbs. He thinks eveiybody is looking at him, per­ haps inwardly laughing at him, and may be--and this, of course, is worst of all--pitying him. As a matter of fact, the men around him are too much en­ gaged in their own projects for s-^lf-ira- provement to give him more than one thought. They look at h m, size him up. conjecture the possibilities of his athletic future, and dismiss him from their thotights. As for the lazy men, all most of them want is to make one determined effort to resist the tempta­ tion of indolence, and onco they, too, taste t)ie benefits of exercise, they will be loth to give them up." "A great many of the uninitiated sup­ pose," said the listener, who had just observed the athlete drink the fifth glass of champagnc, "tbat a man who gets into the athlete business must give up all his small vices, and if he wants to be any good must totally ab­ stain from tobacco aud stimulants." The athlete, who talked very enter­ tainingly, 6miled a little and repliod: "A man who is w'lling to work need not be a teetotaler. There; for in­ stance, is Ned Hanlan. Ned ^iii come down to New York and lead the whole party in making a night of it Earlv in the morning, whether lie has been to bed or not, he will surely be rushing around in a Harlem boat-house, hurry­ ing the boat-keeper, and saying: "For heaven's sake, get me into a boat quick! My head's bigger than a house.' Then out he goes and works like a steam engine, sweating enough before he gets through to almost sink his boat When rubbed down he can forget t!?e night before, except for the fun it gave him. Now, there's another man--Snllivan. He won't do that. If he would he need not have blasted his reputation." "Do amateurs ever attain the sam«* athletic perfection as professionals?" asked an other listener. "Very seldom,"' was the reply (the speaker began his career as an ama­ teur). "That question was mooted once, at a time when a crew of Harvard oarsmen were making exceptionally fast time. A match was made between them and a crew of professional*. The latter rowed out to the turning stake- boat, rowed back, rowed around the college men, went out around tho stake- boat again and won easily. The reason for tho superiority of professionals is that they are alf seli-reliaut. When they work together they know the im­ perative neoessity of obeying orders, but at the same time they are all gen­ erals themselvet, a« well as their com­ mander." "What do yen thi^k of gymnasium exercises?" the athlete was asked. , "That sort of thing alone amounts to vety little. Man' is naturally ambitious, and he needs competition to stimulate him. Howing is a good thing. The oarsman sees another, and he tries to see if he ean beat him. The boxer'B contest is even more exciting." "But one who i wishes to excel in physical exercises should begiu when very young, should he not?" "Not too young. Boys are injudi­ cious, overdo things, and do them­ selves lasting injury. Some of the most successful professional athletes never began to develop themselves un­ til they were matured." "Now, I am 27 years old. Would it not be pretty late in th9 day for me to put on the gloves or the spiked shoes t" persisted the last questioner. The athlete smiled at his eagerness and caused hope to spring within his breast by saying: "Home men who have gone way up as boxers, oarsmen, and runners never thought of adopting such a profession until after they Were over 30. You have read of great schol­ ars who never began their mental stud­ ies. and great book authors who never wrate their lirjt chapter until they were much older than that." When the dis­ ciples who had been s't ing and learn­ ing at the feet of this physical Gamaliel went away, there was n stern purpose expressed in strong gleams of their eyes to become Hanlans, Hazaels, or Sulli- vans of the future as quickly as their daily drudgery, and office hoars would permit,--New York Dial. .. • -- w. ~ Ignorance of Etiquette. The late Lord Brougham, seeing« herald bungle in a court ceremonial, observed that, "The foolish man did not know his foolish business." Fool­ ish or not, the laws of et-tiquette, which are supposed to be so binding on per­ sons in high station, appear to be by no means generally understood by these exalted ones. "Lord Malmesbury'a Memories" have just been telling us how an invitation to a concert at Buck­ ingham Palace was onee issued to the members of the Diplomatic Corps, "male and female;" and how Lord Bussell, being Foreign Secretary, went to a court festivity unsuitably attired ; and how various Ambassadors, French, Italian and Austrian, who ought to have been models of decorum, were always doing wrong things--flying into tem­ pers, speaking loudly and coarsely, and bthaving with gross rudeness to ladies. This week we have seen Mr. Chamberlain, a Cabinet Minister, ban­ dy words with Lord Randolph Church­ ill, a Duke's son, in a style which might be Voted vulgar even at a vestry meet­ ing. If gentlemen holding high posi­ tions in a country noted for aristocratic refinements cannot behave themselves in public, we need hardly wonder that the inexperienced dip!omati»ts whom the French iiepul'lic sends to distant lands should so often get their country into trouble by ruffling tho feather* of barbar ans- The recently published Malagasy Blue Book showed that the war with Madagascar was brought about in the first instance by the flip pant disrespect of the French Consul m addressing native dignitaries: and now a C'linese Yellow Book discloses that Li-Hung-Chang would have been much more accommodating with French plen potentiaries if these had not persisted in putting petty affronts upon him. One of ihem committed ex­ actly the same blunder as M. Bened­ etto perpetrated at Ems in 1870, when he walked up to the King of Prussia and presented him with an ultimatim without having first solid'ed an audi- •«nc& This breach of good m«nners , patronage of the government. Impressed with" these convictions,.he printed and circulated, in 1793, his plan lor establishing a board of agriculture; and in a few days afterwards he moved, in his place at Parliament, nn address to tho Crown in favor of the proposed establishment, which WKS carried, 101 to twenty-six, the board organized and he made president In a speech which he made while the subject was under discussion in Parliament, he pointed out tho obvious advantages which would re­ sult from the establishment. In the first placed, according to his biographer, he regarded it as a general magazine of agricultural knowledge and a society of refere..cc, to which any question might be sent connected with the improve­ ment of the country. In the second place he showed that, by agricultural surveys carried on under the Auspices of such a board, every fact or observa­ tion known in that country, connected with the improvement of the soil or tho stock it maintained, would bo collected. In the third place, that by establishing an extensive foreign correspondence, the discoveries and improvements ap­ pertaining to other lands would be much sooner and more widely rendered available than if dependent wholly on private exertions. In the fourth place, that it was only through the means of such a board that any general improve­ ment of stock could be looked for; and that, in the last place, it might be the instrument of obtaining a statistical ac­ count of England. Five thousand pounds, $25,000, was the annual grant, and, the privilge of franking was given to the board. The two great primary objects of the board were to ascertain the general agricultural state of the country, and the means ot improving that State. As the most effectual way of accom- plis ing these objects, agricultural sur­ veys were made, and "in the course of a little more than a year," aa stated by a distinguished writer on husbandry, "the board of agriculture had printed a body of authentic facts respecting the agr.cultur.il and internal economy of the country greater than was ever ob tained by any other nation since the beginning of time. But these works, amounting to about eighty vo umes, were too voluminous for general use, and the next object of the worthy president was to condense, and bring within the compass of a vol­ ume, all the most material facts thus collected, in order to render theoi available to the practical farmer and more conductivc to general improve­ ment He laid it down as a maxim in literature, that "knowledge, previous to its being brought into a con­ densed state, may be compared to a small portion of gold dispersed through a great quantity of oar. In that rudo condition the strongest man cannot sustain its weight, nor convoy it to a distance, but when the pure metal is separated from the dross; a child may carry it without difficulty." Ho published a ' "Code of Agricul­ ture," which raised tbe cultivation of the soil to the dignity of a science, and embodies a vast amount of useful in­ formation. He was also instrumental in promulgating the knowledge of Elkinson's system of draining, and its be ng extensively adopted; in inducing Davy to undertake his valuable work upon agricultural chemistry; in insti­ tuting and giving etlicicy to the High­ land Agricultural Society, and in in­ troducing to public notice McAdam's improved system of road making. Ho also published, alter his "Code of Agri­ culture" had passed through the press, a "Code of Statistical Philosophy," a "Code of Finance," and had nearly pre­ pared for publication a "Code or Digest of Religion." . What a pity it is that we could not have a few auch men in this conntry, who would turn their backs on politics and politicians, and would seek, as Sir John Sinclair did, to improve the cul­ tivation of the soiL--American Culti­ vator. The Tell-Tale. With the aid of a pair of compasses or pencil and a bit of string, carefully draw two concentric half-circles,--that is, from the tiame center, and one about half an inch within the other. The size of the design makes but little difference but the result is more easily seen if the diagram is as large as convenient Divide this double half-circle into a number of compartments, and in each place a letter of the alphabet, a numer­ al, or a name, as the fancy may dictate; the object being that there shall be no possible mistaking of one compartment for another. Rule straight lines from each compartment to the common cen­ ter. Now take a small button--a shoe- button is as good as any--and fasten a bit of fine silk thread about eight inches long to it, making a knot in each end of the thread. Now let one of the party take the thread by the end, and hold it so far above the fisrure that the button shall hang about an inch and a half above the paper. Let him fix his mind firmly upon one of the compartments, and then close his eyes. Very soon the button will develop a pendulum-like motion, and before long, generally in about three minutes, it will begin to move ttfward the compartment of which the holder is thinking. It really seems, at the first glance, that the button itself is influenced by the unconscious exer­ tion of will on the part of the experi­ menter. But closa investigation will reveal the fact that the hand moves with a slight tremulons motion, which, being transmitted through the fine thread, moves the button. Much amusement can be had by putting the names of t'ie people in the compart­ ments, and the n feeing of which one the e x p e r i m e n t e r i s t h i n k i n g . -- J P o r - man, in &L Nicholas. IrotMcowi 006 of A of the ball ly in their dainty MMI Ot ootor. On# wfti tt , . t. ̂ !«-* 'i **• ̂ ̂ avastfesr-ssa® "W l«ag alar gimanfis oi paio blossoms, roach* ing from the waist to the hem. An­ other lovely dress was in white tulle, the back crossed with a wide , ribbon sash of the new vivid aoarlet known •• pomegranate color. The broody flat folds of tulle that covered the frunt of the skirt were held in place atone side by a large branch of pomegranate blos­ soms with buds and foliage^ while equally large elusters of daisies were scattered at intertnls over the rest of the dress. For the mother of the bride a magnificent toilette in dark garnet velvet was shown. The skirt was caught up in high panier draperies, laid in flat folds just beneath the waist, so as to show the underskirt of deep garnet- hued satin, covered with a pattern of very large flowers outlined and leaves in dull old-tapestry tints with gold. Anoth­ er, but perfectly simple, dress was com­ posed of a plain full Bkirt of deep rose- red velvet, slightly raised at the side3 aud in front, so as to show a flounce of the finest point a l'aiguille falling over a plait ing of pale pink satin. But the crowning splendor of the trousseau was not quite finished, and so, by special favcr, I was admitted to inspect it in the guarded sanctum of Mr- Worth himself. In a small room, at the end of a long corridor, which all visitors to his establishment will remember, tho King of the Dressmakers was hard at work. On a high platform stood one of his saleswomen, arrayed in the skirt of his. latest masterpiece, which Mr. Worth was engaged in draping with his nnerring ami dextrous touch the com­ plicated folds of the tulle at either aide of the skirt front, answering meanwhile an unceasing fire of questions from his different head workwomen as to the trimming of a corsage, the looping of a train, etc. The dress on which he was busied was really exquisite. It was made with a short, round skirt, the front being composed of white faille. Up the center of this front ran a slen­ der wheat-sheaf in gold embroidery, and at either side of this central design a swarm of dragon-flies, worked in gold with their wings in tiny looking-glass bends, was scattered over the white surface, The buck of the skirt was covered with five tucked flounces of tulle, each edged with a flat plaiting of the same material. These flounces met side draperies of tulle, in which was sot from waist to hem at each side, a gar- laud of variegated morning glories in rich hues ol blue, pink, and cream white. The corsage was in white silk, bordered around the upper edge with a 'flnt passementerie in beads and gold. No pt'uer trimming was allowed to its severe and rich simplicity, though ono of the chief workwomen present dis­ coursed wholly in favor of a garniture of gold-spaneled tulle, but Mr. Worth quenched all her suggestions in a very decided manner. The apartment itself presented no features of interest, ex­ cept in the photographs wherewith one side of the walls was literally covered. They were reproductions trom the his­ torical female portraits in the Louvre- Catherine de Medicis, Marie de Medicis, Marie Antoinette, Mine. Recamier, and others--which evidently served the master of the establishment for his studiss of new fashions. In one corner wrapped in an oid shawl, lay Worth's little black dog, watching his master's proceedings with absorbed attention. "He inspects every dress that leaves the establishment," remarked Mr. Worth, as I stopped to caress the pretty, intel­ ligent little animal. This is the litt e creature that is amiability itself to all strangers until 6 o'clock. After that hour he expects his master to depart, and bnrks lustily at every newcomer who may chance to drop in to detain him. Mr. Worth himself is in vigorous, health, and will, in all probability,dress the granddaughters of the belles of the Empire who first claimed the exercise of his remarkable aud original talent. I was shown ono of his work-rooms (the finishing room) on this occasion. It is fitted with long counter shaped tables in varnished mahogany, on which are spread the costly fabrics in course of manipulation. When the dresses are completed, all to the last touches to be given to the draperies and trimmings, they are mounted on manikins and are taken into a small side room, where these last details are perfected. The boating, lighting and ventilation of this portion of the establishment are alto­ gether admirable.--Lucy Hooper's .Paris Letter. A Good Suggestion. A French druggist advocates the em­ ployment of cylindrical whit# bottles for mcdicine to betaken internally,and square colored bottles for those in­ tended for external use. The differ­ ence in shape \ti 1 prevent a large num­ ber of the night-accidents now HO com­ mon nmon? people who cannot, or . will not rt ad a label.--Exchange. •. IK Washington Terri ory, otrl stuffed with sauerkraut is a favorite article of diet Drinking Mineral Waters. Up to the beginning of the eighteenth century it was the rule at Karisbad to subject the patient to a course of vio­ lent purgatives. Then the patient drank mineral waters for seven days, bathing for the next seven without drinking the water. The water-drink­ ing was a more serious matter. Dr. btoffmann, writing in 1?65, says that no more than fifteen to eighteen glasses should be drunk the first day, but that later on the number should be increased to thirty, and, in certain cases, to forty glasses. Dr. Tilling, writing in 175P, records that he himself drank from fif­ ty to sixty glasses in the course of two hours. Dr. Sangrado never prescribed warm water on a more extensive scale, and the puzzle is how the patients managed to swallow and retain these large quantities of warm mineral wa­ ters. I have read that the natives of the Queen Charlotte Islands try to cure themselves of ailments by drink­ ing a bucket or two of sea water; but, then, they never expect to retain so much water long in their stomachs, whereas the patients at Karisbad did not drink large doses of water in order to make themselves sick. The expla­ nation is that they drank so many glasses of water in a warm room, and that much of it passed off in perspira­ tion, just as in the case of water drunk in » Turkish bath. Indeed, the pa­ tients were expressly ordered to re­ main quiet, so as to perspire the more freely. Dr. Dav^d Becher, one of the leadiug physicians of his d»r, set him­ self in 1/<7 to oppose the old custom, insisting that the preferable method of taking the waters was at the springs. Ho wa< laughed at and denounced as an innovator by the admirers of the ancient ways; ye' his views and advice prevailed and were followed in the end. It may be noticed in passi'-gtliat not only human beincrs were enjoined to use the waters for their health's sake, but that the virtues of these wa­ ters were supposed to bo as advantage­ ous to the lower enimals. The "Muhi- I runn," which iu now a favorite one witn water-drinkers, was lo g used ex­ clusively a< a bath for sick horses, Experience** __ mttheir sheep throa^ cainend^waters whieh i ti. Weet Each furmer wiilllNwIit. his 6k particular spring. It .cgfci&tfi scab in sheep, removes corns, and rheu­ matism in men, and is efficacious oni- versaHy."--Nineteen th Century. Thsra ia a deep hush in big Schoolroom, although it is crowded with the fathers, mothers, and the pretty Bistera of each boy, and the other boys' pretty sisters. Through the open win­ dows, the sweet June breeze blows in, sweeping the school-room stuffiness from the hooks of the room; the ladies' fans sweeping to and fro with a gentle susurrus; the boys seated in a corner upon long settees, fidget uneasily, and long for tii-j exhibition to lie over. Jamie has just spoken such a nice piece; Jamie is the boy who is always dressed so neatly, who goes through his steps &o prettily at dancing-school, aud who brings fruit and flowers to his teacher at school, where he always .stands at the head of his class, holds up his hand as a sign of eager intelligence when a class-mate stumbles in recita­ tion, and shows many other indications of gaining success and hatred in after­ life. There is a gentle murmur of ap­ plause, as he gives his graceful bow, on finishing his declamation; he enunci­ ated BO distinctly tho fragments from Everett's oration. And now tho audience, looking at the programme, read: "SPEECH OF MAKULLUS TO THE ROMANS." «'»(. Shakespeare.--Thos. McElroy. Thomas is seated among the boys, red-faced and trembling, his eyes pop­ ping out of his head, with suppressed emotion. He knew his pieoe so well, when he declaimed it to his mother last night, but now, oh! horror! he can remem­ ber the first lines only! "Wheretor* rejoice? What conquests brings yo honii-V What tributaries follow htm to llorae To itiaco in captive bonds his chariot wh' el«? Ye blocks, ye stcnes, ye 'worse than senseless thing)*! Knew ye not.. Pompsy? Many a time snd oft--" What did they do "mony a time and oft?" Something about 'battlements and chimney-tops," and "triumphs and Pompey," but what, oh! what? Tommy totters to the platform, try­ ing to catch on to the missing verses on his way. Will they come back when he gets to them in his declamation ? Ah, the terror of the situation! He is now upon the platform; he has giv­ en that awkward jerk to his head which boys imagine to be a bow; he raises his baud in the "Fourth Position of the Oration," according to his Comprehen­ sive American Reader. He feels he is stumbling all too fast through the verses he knows, but that rock ahead! that "many a time and eft" business! He sees the universe is a blank to him after "Pompey." He hesitates, he stops; the verses will not come; tho room seems to whirl arouud him; he hears Jamie's shrill, spiteful laugh; he sees the little girls put their fans up before their faces to hide their smiles, and he hears the teachers and distinguished guests in the front seats uneasily shuttle their feet It is all overt He yields to the inev­ itable, and, giving another jerk of his head, precipitately leaves the platform and rushes out of tho room; and as he runs down tbe stairs the whole speech of poor angry Marullus comes back to him as clear as daylight, evon to the final exhortation of the Bomans to prayer, and he hears faintly through the door the voice of the ne*^ ejfaker in decl&matory cadence: T1 rum tl dnm dom. Ti rum ti dum tl dnm.? ~New York Life. Cyprian Lepers. The ancient disease of leprosy, has long prevailed in the Island of Cyprus, but it effects as a rule only the Chris­ tian population, only one Mohainedan being known to suffer at present from the disease. It exists in three several forms, but sevoral of the victims have all three varieties at once, and most of them havo more than one. The unfor­ tunates now ihfected with the malady do not seem to lie regarded in these latter days with as much fear and ab­ horrence as was inspired by them at an earlier epoch, when the western parts of Asia was so terribly afliicted by the scourge. There is, of course, a general desire to seclude them and avoid their society, but still some lepers are mar­ ried to healthy persons, who do not trouble themselves to separate from them. Endeavors are made, whenever an undoubted case of leprosy is discov­ ered, to induce the sufferer to become an inmate of an asylum, which is called in rather homely phrase, the "Leper Farm." This place had been enlarged during the year preceding the last med­ ical report from the Island, and it then contained fifty inmates, including sev­ eral whose history is extremely curious, and two children not at present affect­ ed, but born of leper parents resident in the "farm." The disease is said to be more prevalent among males, but there are several female patients, and, until her death last year, at the age of 00, there was an old woman who might be regarded as the patriarch, or rather, matriarch of the establishment. She was the first patient admitted to it, and had lived there over fifty years. She had professed to have suffered from the disease for about seventy years, but without any great pain or appearand) of weakness. The opinion of the med- ioal officer, who has had good opportu­ nities of studying the disease at the farm, is that there is still no certain knowledge whntever as to its origin. The old-established idea that it is capa­ ble of hereditary transmission is, how­ ever, born out by his experience; and one notable example is quoted to show that it can be contracted by contagion. doge, and cattle. While this practice j years. Cor Heaven's Sake Don't Tell Ihem. The marvelons stories of intelligent d«gs and cats suggest the alarming thought of what would happen if these intelligent creatures could club their intelligence and use it collectively iu helf-defense. M. Meunier descr.bes how a small female terrier, distressed at seeing the lurious efforts of • male friend--a fat spauiel--to escape from tho table leg in a French restaurant, to which he was tied, gnawed the cord in two and effected his liber ation, amid much mutual rejoicing. The process of beina; tied up and being set free by gnawing was several times repeated, evidently to the great amusement of the dog's master. But what if the fact tlia' cords can be gnawed should be communicated to other chained and corded quadrupeds? How long would any dog remain fast?--tall Mail Ga­ zette. QDESP VICTOBIA has 1,000 people in her household *t ft oost of $3,000, £90 a 'fftiMlBi • "fcuwissra" liieBWtr* t*r<w men, Its to vnwrent »• tlto ta piray BOWS, • onto have be«pt wak) wtftltiliiaio tiftr tnsoraaoe wpwitw ind for Hamilton, to incorporated Installment pi ingr the act ( ord by pi Bnmaer, peUate Coasts _ venve; by Sepstor < between the fegea Juries; and aatead" real and person}.: amending thesckooT increasing the pay i day; Senator *Wtii__ _ ingr that at 8m neat* . amendment for woman u _ The bill for the current sembly under the OMKfMilyt paused, and that providing aa »p® the Illinois exhibits at NtwC a third reading with aome L- pending question in the House was Mr. Poller's appeal fnm. th cision, that a motion not to send notice to the Senate was oat «( Speaker aaked the Clerk to rsait tfra ogtlM be had drawn to be sent to the Senate, wfcntt transpired that the notion had Mnr iMMa) Clerk's hand's, but Was in th* eion of the door-keeper. Mr. *aid he had overrated tho mnttna , nf Mr. Fuller and allowed the appeal pro tp"""!, Now he thoneht he had better eostM ttfkr- ror aud allow a vote directly on Mr. Knlhet'e motion, that the Speaker be rtli utilAT aot to •end the notice to the Senate. On tike rnM tall only four person? answered, both mas uiinf absentees, and being afraid to maka aQMrttnt lest the other fellows catch_lhem. Teats, Un- land, and MacMillan vote# aye, and voted no. On motion ot Mr. MrHMFlT tin Tfoiiwi adjourned. A EtAROE number of bills were Introduced In the Senate on the 15th, among them the 4i& lowing:: By Senator Darnell, for the relief of George McKee, injured by the (HwllMn at a piece of ordnance belonrin* to the State dtllti- nois: by Senator Morris, to reimburse the ACty of Shawneetown in oomplettnf Its mm provided to be 126,000; bySeaata to amend the apt promoting medtata^MM* f*r~ gery in Illinois, so that sQperlntmdettls ot bridewells, hospitals, vnd insane aayhUM, a* also coroners, »hall tpa oyi " ' "" " " * paupers to any licensed under a penalty of HO to $100 by Senator Tabbs, to inirodc of physiology and hygiene faa special reference to tho effects ot narcotics; by Senator Evans, to AailmtftlMr est to prevent adalteratfeB of food, medicine; tt»> bill provides for the I of a sanitary commission;' by Sena aon, to amend the landlord and tenant aoa l actions for distress of rent, by exeatptia* Sloe worth ot crops; by Senator Cloagk. to yttWi persons guilty of cruelty to children; by Sena­ tor dough, providing tint flme_ imnnoqil through the agency of the Hamane flnntm be applied to the society's support; by Aba­ tor Organ, that a County Qsnrt to held in White County in April and KwtnKir; by Senator Organ, to prevent the MutntaeUne and sale of oleaginous substances IntettfltlMlQt dairy products; by Senator Bay,tomwf an appropriation of $2,000 per annum for the 1111- \101s Horticultural Society; bySenaaor Fttnk, making an appropriation of >5,<HM toward tlW Illinois exhibits at the Mew (11liimis II llllisHInii. bv Senator l ui'k, to provide that alf COOfttf Surveyors shall plane a copy of tlrelr"WisHl*£• tion« with tho County lie carder; by Senator Hill, to divide the State, exclusive of Cook County, into districts for Count# OouHo1 ftx- ty-two judicial districts are provided tear; by Hen.-itor linger, to amend the act concerning i urora so that a full panel of the graad ^nry shall consist at l.vfiitv - Mufee teen of whom shall be sttlllt stitute a grand inry. . - When-' Honse met Mr. Fuller (Rep.) called attention te his notification of the previous day that fae WvUkt move to reconsider tbe vote by Which tkS min­ utes ot Jan. is were adopted andtbo Cfcair i tained. After debate of some i« " ons question was called. 11M 1 one, refrained Iran aaswering;" Slttig kept silent o*. side, the result being no a motion was made to later a resolution Was interjeoteftl House flag be lowered t» taut iia pcofniQC for n deceased theregreta This was adopted motion to adjoarn ont i ory of Vr. Colfax was this point was kept np ant, the Honse separated to meet next morning. • Tnn following bins were tntroduoedla t|p Senate Jan. 31: By Senator Bell, to amend aeo* tions l and * of the law to aaenro theeniorQe- ment of the law fir prevention at crarttf te ani inals,which provides for theapppintiaentef a Board of Commissioners, one for £aat St. bonis, one for the city ot Peoria, and one tar Chicago, to pee that all stock is properly cared fbc>an$ to enforce the law to prevent entity to* i By Senator Shumway, to. prevent am' fraudulent, criminal or immoral adv the penalties imposed are from $60 to and from thirty days to one year in prisoai; by Senator Hamilton, to amend the law wllllli| to the terms of Circuit Judgeg, and leprsvidl for the election of four Judges in eacli dtcall in­ stead of three, as the law now pvovliaBi Senator Tubl>s, to annul tho school law and change the law respecting loans of (nhool moneys in the hands of townablP Tweefiw tw. and provide for the annual payuenta oflnter- est instead ot semi-annual, as the law aow|Ke- vldes; by Senator Duncan, tomilro tbe fcnroea ot evidence in tults for personal ininrlesiweei by employes while in line of dnty with employer; i>y Henator Duncan, to ltoad and Bridge law. by ptovldtaL districts may determine the amooafc< |ti of the expenditures to be made r and repairing roads; by Senator' the appointment of a dvil-serrioatmmakteaaon. and to determine the qnelttkatlosS of appwMees in the State service, and to take as the Governor and 8ehatora by Senator Crawford, to the regulation of pimary Senator Whiting's woman sUffnyre TSWBtl was read and referred t.) tho CmnlttHiW Elections. The bill appropriating t̂ NSfer Cbf CommtsB oners of Illinois at the New Orknaas World's Fiiir was passed. The House held a continuous session of twelve hoars, malice# toy much disorder. The first question tefaae twk body was on Mr.Haines' notification fe the Sen­ ate that it was ready to proceed to count the votes cast for State oflicerp. This WHS defeated, three Democrats voting with the Republicans. Amotion te adapt the rotas ot the last Assembly was also rejected, as alko a resolution to appoint a committee oa aoatasted seats. Another resolution for counttnn the bal­ lots on the '23d caused a heated dtbatl, SM a substitute resolution to vote for f oers was declared out Of order. resolution was defeated, and adjournment tlH evening was next voted down. Mr. Linegarthen offered a resolution that no busiaesa be transact­ ed until a permanent orgShltMSSia *"BM1 been effected, which Mr, Haines deetoed te beonfc of order. An app*i Was taken trom tho ded- sion, bat Mr. Haines (etnas* to sntenafe M. Next. Mr. Whiting's drainage ̂bfll « duced. it being read and rtr»ad Mold -- "" r,Mr. ~ ..-JS ons scenes. Finally, Mr. Halnes.salfthajHSW resign, threw down the Ravel, ana leursu. Mr. Linegar, in the rush for the Spealiae*s stand, was swept aside, ana Mr. Cronkrit? wae seated. A motion to mase tbe latter telBVQeay rpBOkm , received general assent, and the Hon so a*-,-, journed. " ' ? THE Democratic caucus reeolntion of pre* * test aeainst the decision of Gov. Hamilton on the I.eman-Brand election case waa Introduced in the Senate by Mr. Merritt en Jan. IX and made tbe special order for Tuesday. Jsn. tl. Senator Alnsworth reported the list ot Bfmmtt- teee of the Senate. Senators MerrittawBMw hart M'emoerats) demurred to the repott. Sad ' Mr. Merritt introduced a resoluti n nivwMta-'** apportionment ot the Chairmanship* a bordfng to the respective stremthlof the partire. TtMO wa» voted down, and Mr. Rhinehart gave notice that he wonld moveareconsidoratfcmef thewte on the 27th. Tbe motion to adopt bf.lkttl committees submitted was carried byn^ote of 38 to 18. Five ot the Democrats \ote i witb the Republicans in cider to hxve a < ha w tiMts- t4der The following h.Us wero n~i s<X)>il: fir Senator TLompson. to appropriate JthMaSLlOr the Illinois lu-sustria! Vniveraityat Chamimti]' By i-ena'or Gillhain, tor an »prWfriS>"> or '• S-G.tHX) for the htitte Board of Agriculture: ly Senator Ros< xti, to amend sect on i ef thoswMM * law, and to make the tinit- of ren a S0& •a'See of . school lands in e years inst "aid ot •000 J*er, SO _ th- law now î ; by Sena or OochrMMyjte amend tho law re'atirg t > jnrlee, pr that ni e jurors shall tie competent ' a verdict iu civil cas»s, an l that sign the fame for presentation la the House, the minutes she Mr. Cronkrita had I een i hoseu ' Mr. Haii:es were co rec e I to that he hud only Veen • taeted i residina o;i:cer. The reiu:»iinier of w«s tak. n up in roll-calls for adJM other time-killing ques ions. At I caucus at ninht, Mr. Cronkrite didate for Sp.\,fcer, wherenpon j nominated for that position. " steerinc committers decided* Mr. * uller. All the l e nocratlc 1 Legislature sinned a memorial elect Cleveland asking that t^a M. Springer be appoint-ed Se terior. Op the 33.000 Indians ii Dakota 30^ we said to speak (be English lnuguogn.