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. - . * - ; 1. VAN SLYKE. t« Iter and Pnhllshe;. McHEENBY, ILLINOIS, A raw days ago Mrs. Canfiel^ aged 75 years, was married in a Connecticut town to Henry Baldwin, aged 22. It is safe to wager that Mr. Baldwin will never have cause to complain of his wife flirting with other men. The most depressing thought connected with such a marriage is that when the liusbandia 75 years old his wife will be 123. In a ̂ ondon circus a wonderful horse named Blondin walks along a tight rope nine inches in breadth at a height of twenty feet from the ground. The horse, which mounts and descends a flight of stairs at each end of the rope, js lead by its trainer, Signor Corradini, at first with the use of its eyes after ward blindfolded. Underneath the rope a net is spread, so that in case of the animal missing its footing it would not ba injured. In Mr. Megnill Morales' yard at Fort B|yerst Florida, there stands a paw paw tree that elicits the wonder of all who see it The tree has been planted there hardly one year, and is not more than twelve feet high. From about three feet from the ground its trunk is completely loaded with fruit. There are not less than fifty or sixty of the paw-paws, some of which would proba­ bly weigh three or four pounds, and at the top still more blooms are coming out. \ Fboh the records of observations made at thirteen Prussian stations since 1873, Prof. Muttrich has deter mined that forests exercise a positive influence on the temperature of the air; that they lessen the duly varia­ tions of temperature, and more in slim­ mer than in winter; and that the tem pering effort of the leafy forest is in summer greater than that of the pine forest, while in winter the pine forest has more influence than the disfoli- aged forest THE Atlanta ConstiUitiom sfcys the north Georgia marble is the finest n the World. A looal quarrymen has just cut a counter for the Kimball House sixteen feet in length and four feet broad out of one solid block. He says: ""We could supply a "flawless marble column eighty feet long and live feet in diameter. A hundred years from now the quarries will hare been barely touched. The supply of marble of surpassing quality and of every shape and color is exhaustless." LOVE rules a kingdom of contrasts. Heine, dreaming of angels, married a pprisette. Freytag turned from courts to a kitchen, and espoused his house­ keeper. Bacon, master of philosophy, was joined to a woman who had a loud voice and dressed like a chambermaid out on a holidav. What is more pite­ ous than poor Keats pouring out all the typical luxuriance of his soul to Fann Brawn. He is a poet, she a feminine commonplace. Idolatry on the one side, a mingling of curiosity and vanity on the other. COLONEL JEFF THOMPSON, engineer on the first train that tan into Greenville, Indiana, states that as he entered town he saw a large man standing near the track with an open umbrella, as a pro­ tection from the heavy rain that was falling. With a spice of mischief he asked the large man to close the um­ brella, so as not to frighten the train from the track. Whereupon the large man hastily closed his blue cotton um­ brella and watched the proceedings with head uncovered to the pelting rain. Db. Pehl, of Petersburg, claims to 'have made the important discovery that motion destroys the impurities of water. At a' test when water was brought into rapid motion for an hour by means of a centrifugal machine the number of developing germs was re­ duced by 00 per cent. Further experi­ ments will show if this destruction of germs is due to the motion of tho mass of water or to molecular motion. If this discovery of Dr. Pehl's be con­ firmed, it will become possible to de­ stroy bacteria and render water com­ paratively pure simply by passing it through a centrifugal machine. A NEW HAVEN "society" young lady, who is very fond of dog.*, invited about fifty fashionable belles with their ca­ nine pets, to her residence. A sumptu­ ous repast was provided for the ladies and their quadrupeds. Two of the lat­ ter, however, broke the harmony of the night by-inaugurating a fight. They tusseled and rolled over tho carpet. Two other dogs began to fight; then the whole fifty joined the melee. The butler and coachman were called in, and found the ladies ctyihg and scream­ ing, and standing on chairs. The gen­ eral fight was stopped; the young ladies gathered up their darlings from the battle-field and went home. In his very pleasant account of J'A Trip to Mexico" Mr. J. Margati tells as follows how a telephone conversation is conducted in the polished Castilian tongue: "The regular response from the central office to a telephone call is 'Mande usted,' which is equivalent to 'At your command.' Then prelimina­ ries are gone through something as fol­ lows: 'Good morning, senorita; how do you do?' Tery well, I thank you; what service may I render you?' *Will you kindly do me the favor of en­ abling me to speak with Don So-and- So, No. 857?' 'With mueh pleasure,' etc., and when the connection is made the usual polite introductions are gone through before proceeding to the busi­ ness on hand. A STORY is told of a French portrait painter, which illustrates the idea of the ruling passion strong in death, and the weariness resulting from doing the same thing over and over again. The priest had been called in and had ad­ ministered to him the . last sacrament, supplementing this ceremony with a few words suitable to the solemn occa­ sion. "Now," said he, "you are about to leave this world. You will soon be in the presence of your Maker, to stand before him .forever, face to face." The dying artist, already foiling into a stupor, aroused himself, and, looking at his confessor, faintly and plaintively whispered: "What, always front view, never in profile ?" A distillery has lately been put in operation in Charleston, South Caro­ lina, for the manufacturing of oil from pine wood. The material is subjected to intense heat in sealed retorts, and one cord of it is said to yield 15 gallons of tnrpentine, 80 gallons of pine wood oil, 50 bushels of charcoal, 150 gallons of wood vinegar, and a quantity of in­ flammable gas, and vegetable asphal- tum. The oil alone is worth about 25 cents a gallon, and is used by painters and shipbuilders. Apart from its com­ mercial value, the proems is interest­ ing as showing how modern chemistry is able to supplant those old destruc­ tive chemical processes by which a single article was produced from a given material, and all the rest wasted or rained. ' Is one of his speeches delivered in New York, Mr. Webster said: "It has so happened that all the public services which I have rendered in the world in my day and generation has been con­ nected with the General Government. I think 1 ought to make an exception. I was ten days a member of the Mas­ sachusetts Legislature, and I turned my thoughts to the search of some good object in whioh I could be useful in that position; and, after much re­ flection, I introduced a bill which, with the general consentof both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature, passed into a law, and is now a law of the State, which enacts that no man in the State shall oatch trout in any other manner than with the ordinary hook and line. Mrs. Nannie iliraiiES, living at Hall's Station, Texas, while on her way to see a Bick neighbor, was attacked by a furi­ ous bull. Seeing no way of escape or any assitance at hand, she called to her children, a boy of 6 years and a girl of 7, who were with her, to run for their lives, while she stood her ground, and taking oft* her shawl awaited the furious animal's approach, and as soon as he lowered his head for tbe fatal plunge she spread the shawl over his head and caught him by the horns. The animal pushed her back some twenty or thirty feet, when she loosed her hold, and, springing aside, ran to her children who by this time had gained a safe distance. The animal, after pawing and goring the shawl to his satisfaction, lay down on it and took a rest, while she and her children proceeded to the neighbor's house.1 * ' {S-, Dr. It N. PiFRR, of Chicago, ap­ peared before the Master in Chancery at San Francisco to examine as an ex­ pert the celebrated marriage certificate of Sarah Altliea Hill, whom a jury has just decided is entitled to the name of Mrs. Sharon. The lady stopped him just as he was about to take holcf of the paper and demanded to know if his fingers were clean. The Chicago ox- pert in chemicals and macroscopic sub­ jects was rather nonplussed at the sud­ den question, and did not recover him­ self until Mrs. Sharon had with a sharp knife trimmed his finger-nails as dex­ terously and expediously as would a manicure- After scraping the nails and, with a delicate snow-white hand­ kerchief, rubbing hia hands, she gave him permission to take the paper and place it under his magnifying glass, since, as he said, she did not discover that he carried any dangerous chemic­ als eoncealed under tho nails. 1 Artistic Work ia Hair. Hair-dressers' Association in Parish tailed by I know not what grandiloquent title?, are gradually creating kindred institutions on this side of the water. Soirees conducted on the most aristocratic lines are held periodical!*- in London, at which artis­ tic competitions take place, and gold and silver medals are awarded. It is already becoming a common thine: when you sit down to have your hair cut in some senii-fashionable little ate­ lier to see gorgeous certificates in sp'ondid frames to the effect that the operator whose shears are musically whirling around your head is the hold­ er of a go'd, or silver, or bronze medal in some famous artistio competition in connection with the dressing of hair. It is not, therefore, surprising that a serious attempt is being made to revive a dead-and-gone custom which many of my readers will probably remember. Hair rings set in gold, necklets of hair, watch-chains of hair, gold trinkets with hair trophies in the shape of weeping willows and impossible monuments will, I am sure,occur to most people who look back to their youthful days. Half a century ago this kind of thing was popular every where, and some­ times very artistic combinations of va­ rious colored hairs--gray, black, white, brown, and red--were to be seen in ef­ forts at landscape and architectural art. The particular gold medalist who hon­ ors me with his attention whenever my locks are in danger of suggesting Bun- thorne or Oscar Wilde, has just finished quite a remarkalde picture of Bruges in hair the labor of some years. A Tit­ tle way off it has all the brightness and sharpness of a clever etching. The Orleans family, I learn, are reviving thh old fancy for hair jewelry in France, and a lady frieird of mine who gossips charmingly about fashions tells me we shall soon again hear on this side of the channel of love trophies in the shape of locks of hair, hair lockets, hair bangles and many other hirsute devices for utilizing French ingenuity. --Joseph Hatton's London Letter. Greece's Public Schools. . In the public schools of Greece the four Gospels of the New Testament are used as a reader by the children of the most advanced clases of the prima­ ry department, and the new minister of education proposes to extend their use into the higher schools.--Foreign Let' CUMPSKSOFPABI&. Ia the Faubourg St. Gcrmaln-How the Parisians Amu« Themselves. To be living in Paris in the Faubourg St. Germain was Worth waiting for, writes a correspondent to the Spring­ field (Mass.) Reiiublican. There is a certain air about this quarter, such as is to be found nowhere else in Paris. In it there is visible little of the out­ ward elegance and even splendor,which characterizes many of the hotels in the neighborhood of the Champ Ely sees an I the Park Monceaux; but an atmos­ phere of respectability and distinction, a something suggesting a sort of digni­ fied discretion surrounds and enlolds these streets, whose s.lence and repose are most grateful after the great ex­ citement and bustle of the boulevards ar.d the great thoroughfares on the other side of the river. On this side are almost all of the famous an­ cient buildings except the Louvre and the Touileries. Every inch of ground is historic. On this side, as is well known, live the Legitimists and the Ciericals. In the direction of the Lux­ embourg every third shop iB a reposi­ tory of images of saints and Virgin Marys, prayer-books and rosaries and church utensils--objet de piete, in a word. The entrances and courts of many of the inns are ornamented with statues of saints with gold haloes and bright-colored starry garments, just as those of the worldly hotels in more fashionable quarters are decorated with plaster casts of canovas dancing girls, and other profane figures. In the former the priests and provincial no­ bility "descend" when they make their infrequent visits to the capital. Through these streets the venders of fruits and vegetables and the menders and makers of all sorts of objects pass crying their wares and trades in those varied tones and modulations whteh it is said they are taught in a school ex­ isting in the neighborhood of the Halles. Omnibusses and tramways are in sufficient abundance for convenience. We even have our greatest boulevard, St. Michael, close by the Latin quarter. In fact, what is commonly called "the other side of the Seine" is a city be­ yond a city, a sort of subdued Paris, more agreeable to our mind than the other; for the influence of this monster capital is nervous and .exciting enough even in a diluted form. The spirit of thrift and economy in the people is carried to an avidity for gain which strikes the foreigner in tin- pleasing contrast to their many more agreeable qualities, but wherever pub­ lic institutions are concerned the gen­ erosity is unexampled. The museums and < ollections, among the finest in the wor4d, are absolutely free. You are not even obliged to pay two cents for leaving your umbrella in charge of an employe, but are allowed to carry it into the galleries--a thing wliich we would no: permit were we the munici­ pality of Paris. At the Sorbonne and the College de France lectures by the most famous professors in the country may be attended free of charge by both men and women. Even in the private courses, cours fermes, to which ladies are not admitted, a uian, although he be u foreigner, has only to enroll as a student, and the doors are open to him without expense. At tho school of design the same privilege* is extended to every one. Paris offers to all with­ out distinction of *ex or nationality a liberal education gratis. Among the lower or lower middle classes, there seems to be just now a mania for the higher branches of education. In. every ward there are evening olasses where shop girls and clerks and whoever de­ sires it receives instruction in French history and literature and in foreign languages. The teachers are gentle­ men and ladies who give their time and services. As for amusements, it is well under­ stood that Paris is the city par excel­ lence for these. Perhaps the thirtv- five theaters are not too much out of proportion in a city of about two mil­ lion inhabitants. But the theater is only one of the numerous forms which pleasure assumes, and its prices are so varied as to meet the oxigences of all. A ride on the imperiale of an om­ nibus, or in one of the little steamboats on the Seine, is a real recreation, and one within the limits of the most re­ stricted purse. For 15 cents at the Cirque d'Hiver, one may hear a Beet­ hoven symphony and excellent solo ar­ tists. The people profit by these op­ portunities, and their enjoyment be­ comes also a means of education. How easily here, in the presence of great numbers, is solved a problem which has batHed us during the last few years in 13oston--how to make music cheap enough to be obtained by ail. Sunday is of course the great day here, as all over the continent. On this day all the theatricial matinees take place. On Snnday afternoons there nre three symphony concerts to choose from, besides the conservatory 'Concerts, which 1 egin in January, and which are said to otler the most j)erfect performance of orchestral music in Eu­ rope. People wickedly say that if the projected tunnel across the channel ever becomes a reality, the first use Englishmen will make of it wilt be to abandon London on Sunday afternoon. Certainly there is enough to tempt them here. ___ Bob Bnrdeite Interviewed. "How long have you been lectur­ ing?" "I started on my brilliant career in 1876. I went out alone at lirst, man­ aging myself and practicing on the un- fenced and defenseless villages of Iowa. That same winter the Redpath lyceum bureau, of Boston, generously came to the relief of the people, and put me on its list, and I have 'hollered' under its management ever t-ince. I go from here into Iowa, thence west into Kan­ sas, tliencn round a stake at Newton and east through Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, to the place of beginning, reaching my home at Ardmore, Penn­ sylvania, April 1, after which date I will tell the Prince fairy stories and try to answer his questions until May, when I will take him to California. I had an engagement to-morrow night at Perry, Iowa; but a telegram from there reached me at this point cancelling my engagement They have the amall-pox there. They took it in preference to the lecture. They could get it cheaper and it would last longer. They are to be pittied; indcoi they are. Bun in without credit." "Whp do you consider the leading American humorist?" "There are two humorists now living who lead the world in humor. I am the other one. You would hardly think it to look at me, but I am so funny it hurts me to carry it around. Shall I sav something funny?" "No, don't please; I am not feeling very strong to-night. How old are you?" "Few and evil have the days of the rears of my pilgrimage been, and they have not attained unto the days of the rears of my father's in their pilgrimage. noVofcfc I irajp 40 years yeung o» the 30th of lasting. No cards. My boy will be 8 years old next AptjL He will get into jackets and knickerbock­ ers on his next birthday. At paesent he wears kilts and weigh* a ton. He is the only real boy, all others being imi­ tations. He is all wool and a yard wide, burns with a white ash, warrant­ ed not to shy, bite, bolt, kick, balk.cnt in the eye, rip, ravel, or run down at the heel, is gentle, sound in mad, limb, and condition, and oan do his--" It is recorded." said the scribe, as the lecturer paused foe, breath. "How many lectures have you?" ~I have four subjects. One lecture is all that a man needs. All jokei are old as the Greeks, so that the only new thing about a lecture is the subject Mr. Beecher is the most expensive lec­ turer in the field, Gough is the mo3t enthusiastic. Mark Twain is the fun­ niest. Joseph Cook is the sol id est, St. John ia the most advertised, Talmage is the best natured and tallest and I am the best. There are two things about lecturing I fairly hate, I hate to begin and I hate to quit. I am scared to death every time l begin to talk. In my first year of chin-chin, I told Mr. Beecher about nervousness. 'Oh well,' the old man said, 'never mind that, I can give you some consolation for that You'll never get over it.' And I never did and I guess I never wilL" The Faces of Audiences. An eminent lecturer declares that all audiences are about alike to him. He enters at 8 o'clock the public hall, and finds a circle of humanity coiled around him just like the one he saw in some other hall on the previous night Our experience is different. We fiad no two audiences alike. Each one is as different from all the others as one man's face varies from another's physiognomy. Some and euces are dulL In the village we find poor schools or stupid churches or unenter­ prising newspapers. Every thing is profoundly silent save as a cough or a sneeze interrupts one. Tho stolidity of the assembly reacts upon the lectur­ er. While you are speaking you look at your watch. You begin to measure off you lecture with less interest than the merchaut measures a yard of cassi- mere. You say to yourself: "Half through 1" "Three-fourths through!" "Five minutes more and I may quit!" And you close your manuscript, shake hands with the treasurer, and go out. t another place the audience beam upon you as you enter. Everybody seems to say: "Welcome to our town! We are all waiting for you. Now do your l>est. If you have any wisdom or wit, fling it over this way." Your smallest joke goes off like a pack of Fourth of July fire-crackers. You are amazed to see how people take things. Your poorest lecturer catches enthusi­ asm from the good-natured audience. You feel as if you were in youfr own parlor talking with a group of eel lege chums. The hour and a half seems to you only like twonty minutes, and after shaking hands with tho men, women, and children, you are so well pleased that the commercial part of your en­ gagement seems most insignificant. You get your pay before yon came to the peroration. Let audiences know that oftentimes they are responsible for the stupidity of the speaker. The at­ tempt to build a fire among green wood makes a smoke, but no blaze.-- Dr. Talmage, tn Trank Leslie's Sun­ day Magazine. Wood Growing Scarcer and Scarcer. "We should look to tho protection of our forests," said a well-known builder. "When you consider that tho United States and Canada have sank in the scale of timber shipping from first place to about the twentieth, you will agree with me. Sweden and Norway once were regarded as inexhaustible sources of supply, now we have to im­ port oak from Poland. Northern Rus­ sia was once covered by forests from the Baltic to the Ural Mountains. Now it is so bare that St Petersburg gets all of her heavy timber from countries east of the Empire. - The Finland for­ ests on no so vast that it was thought that they would last forever, have been nearly cleared away. The forests at Vistula and the Menian considered as the source of sunply for the great tae- mel trade have diminished to such an extent that it is hard to get an order filled at Konigberg, Trent, orDantzig." "But Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain have immense forests." "True, but think how difficult and expensive it is to get to them. Ger­ many has about .'10.000,000 acres of tim­ ber iand, Australia about 45,000,000. Most of this, however, is in Bohemia, Gallioia, and '1 ranssylvania, and un­ available for European markets. Italy owns some 13,000.000 acres, but it is also hard to get. Spain possesses for­ est land of 8,51)0,000 acres, and Portu­ gal 1,000,000. These two countries are about the only ones where tmber can be procured to advantage., Franco has 22,000,000 acres--hardly 'enough for herself, while England ha3 no forest land wnatever." "But the United States--" "Merely a handful of trees in the Northwest How long will the^ last? I tell you we need to look to the pro­ tection of the forests.--Neic York Mail and Express. . How the Eng.lih Brink. r As for drinkinor, I fancy that among well-dressed men there is not much difference between the two countries. There is vastly more drinking at meals here than in America, but not, I think, so much bar drinking, and there is nothing here to offset the immense con­ sumption of lager beer among us in the hot reason. For instance, I don't believe any ordinary bar in all Eng­ land supplies as many people in one day as will swarm into John Hert's place the first day the mercury climbs up to ninety next summer. But tbe poor people drink here in a shocking way. One sees the proof of this daily in the great number of bleer-teyed, ragged, hideous old l>eggar women to be met everywhere, chiefly drunk, and obviously drunkards. There are pub­ lic Lonfos at every corner, in almost every street It is said that the great brewers own four-fifths of them, and let them to publicans at exorbitant prices--a system ndt unknown in the United States, I believe. There if so vast a share of the crime, misery, and squalor of the slums of London to be laid at the doors of these "pubs," that it is fair to say one thing iri their favor or in favor of the law controlling them. At the tap of tbe bell of mid­ night every one of them is closed. Not in a Pickwickian back-door sense, bnt actually, and likewise until service is over on Sunday. When it is thought worth the while to make a law in Eng­ land it is enforced to the verge of harshness, and when it is time for bars to close they close with a bang.--Har­ old Frederic, in Utica Observer. SOME people are always finding fcult with nature for putting thorns on roses; I always thank her for having pit rose* on KEWHraciaaa of public kin. ; * -i* . - • M BEN: PERLEY POOBE. . Mr. Lincoln's religious opinions have been the subject of much diseUssion since his death. Eminent, during a long and eventful life, for his kindness of he;art and generous sympathy for tho opinions of a)I men of whatever station »u:fc.i,.„w;„„i.«„ a ±i_ in life, he listened to the discussions ^ { v ' °" , pr^8en* upon religious subjects that were forced ' if • i |)a er, me upon him, even bv zealots, with patient i his sum had placed there to politeness; and because he did not! by thftt veT combat them, however extravagant, ®, ["f., r', Ralston com­ mitted suicide, but the fact has been rise which might take might require $10,000. Ifbe„ lei me M?e either sum I would be glad to avail Isyself of his asisstancsi On the day this letter must have reached' San 1 rancisco I received a telegram from Mr. Ralston; telling me to draw on Lees & Waller for $10,000. With the telegram in my hand I went to Letter in Cleveland Leader. A Famous Naturalist. The fame of Seth Green as a master of the rod and gun, and as an enthusi­ astic, practical pisciculturist, is world­ -wide. He is a keen observer of nature The ̂ nation, *to"whom jn a11, her.m(ood9; but * especially noted for his intimate acquaintance with fishes and birds, and their habits, and the profound knowledge he possesses of the vegetable and animal life upon which they feed. Mr. Green is gifted with remarkable conversational pow­ ers, is clear and luminous in statement, and no one can listen to him w ithout rare entertainment and instruction. He is untiring in his researches after knowledge, and has a marvelous apti­ tude for combining and controlling the minor and insignificant forces of na­ ture, so that they will work together for the advantage of man. His labors extend far beyond the mere cultivation of fish. Among his melon vines Mr. Green has laid boards. Lifting up those boards multitudes of toads were found concealed there by day. At night they come out and feed upon the insects that infest the melon vines. It was a simple device, and one that suc­ ceeded admirably. The toads were harnessed to his scheme of gardening, and worked faithfully and well. There is a hint in this to other growers of melons. Mr. Green is a born experi­ menter, and is not slow to get at the bottom facts in the matters that at­ tract his attention. He is not disposed to adopt the speculations or conclusions of others, except so far as they are based upon proved conditions. He has reduced to practical use and given to tho world the results of long years of study and observation, and the world is better thereby. He is in the full vigor of industrious life, and will yet accomplish much more in the field of his special pursuits.--American Agri­ culturist. each one so honored came^am^ng ^urea suic.ae Dut uie ract before the public to be recognized M disputed, and I doubt it very much.* the representative of the President's personal views on this subject. Hence the contradictory assertions that he was an atheist, an infidel, orthodox, or disbeliever, according to each one's own pecub'ar faith. History will little reckon what were President Lincoln's religious views. his name and memory are dear, care nothing for what he may have said to presumptious religious zealots, or what such religious zealot* may have said to him. The people of tliia great land of ours, who fondly cherish the recollec­ tion of the acts of kindness of him who, "with malice toward none ^ftid charity for all," devoted his life to the interests of mankind, will care little for his sec­ tarian views of religion. His great heart of sympathy for all mankind has won the love of the millions, who have no anxiety as to whether his opinions were heretical or orthodox, measured by the standard of religious bigots. That he had faith in the great princi­ ples of Christianity, that he exemplified them in his life, that be taught them in his family, that he impressed them on his children, are facts established beyond cavil or question. The appointment of Mr. Waite, a Toledo lawyer, who was only known at Washington as one of the counsel in the Geneva conference, to be Chief Justioe, naturally oreated some sur­ prise at Washington. It became known, however, that it was the result of the inner workings of Ohio politics. When the Whig'party in that State was abandoned, its old leaders naturally drifted into the Republican party. Ewing and Corwin were such devoted Whigs that they never fairly and iully became installed in the new organiza­ tion, but Delano, Galloway, Ben Stan • ton, Sclienck, Goddard, Waite, Horton, and many others less prominent, very heartily entered the new organization, though they did not seek prominence, and, as Chase was Governor of the State, he very naturally became the prominent Republican figure in Ohio. The ambition of Governor Chase to become President led him into the error of calling about him as his confi­ dential adviser* chiefly such men as had formerly acted with the Democratic party, while at the s me time he spared no pains to cripple every prominent Republican who had been a leading Whig in the State. A bitter warfare was the result, and Chase found himself powerless to crush out all those men. In their local districts they were popu­ lar, and Delano made a strong contest for the United States senatorship against Chase, before the Legislature, in the winter of 1851MS0. In the sum­ mer of 1860 several of those old Whigs turned up in the Chicago convention, greatly against the wishes of Mr. Chase, and it will be remembered that Mr. Delano seconded the nomination of Mr. Lincoln in a brief speech, which r»t once blasted the prospects of Chase and gave great encouragement to Mr. Lincoln's friends. Practically, that closed out Mr. Chase in Ohio, and he was never again before the peop e of this State as a candidate for any posi­ tion. bchenck became minister to En­ gland, and Delano became Secretary of the Interior. The latter, although not intimately acquainted with Mr. Waite, knew him to be a man Of eminent legal abilities, conscientious and worthy of any trust aud position within tho gift of the Government When the Presi­ dent was' looking about for snitable men to serve as counsellors for the Government at Geneva, Secretary De­ lano at onco thought of tbe man who had sympathized with him in the fight against the Chase dynasty, and named Mr. Waite to tho President, who, hav­ ing great confidence in the judgment of Mr. Delano, appointed Mr. Waite. All know the highly creditable manner in which Mr. Waite acquitted himself at Geneva. When the President had twice failed to appoint an acceptable person to the position of chief justice, he consulted with his Cabinet-officers upon the subject, and Secretary Delano again recommended his friend Waite, aud til* President adopted the sugges­ tion. The burning of the transport steamer Cataline, in June, 1801, at Fortress Monroe, disclosed the fact that al­ though her lit st cost was only $18,000, and the expense of running her for ten weeks $10,000 more, making $28,Q00, she had been chartered for $10,000 a month, making $25,000 for the first ten weeks. A provision in her charter se­ cured to her owners $50,000 in case she was lost, and she was also insured for $25,000. The result was that the net profit to the owners was $72,000 for ten weeks. A Millionaire's Beginning. Warwick Martin, the author of sev­ eral books on political economy, told me he lent Ralston, the Californiamil­ lionaire, who committed suicide a year or two ago, the money to pay his pass­ age to California. Said he: "Ralston was born in Virginia, on the other side of the river, very near the Ohio line. ' Be worked for my brother for some time as a young man, and I acquired perfect confidence in him. I was for years a banker in New Orleans, and I once lent young Ralston $7,000 without any security other than his own honor. This was in 1845. Ralston had some interest at the time in a steamboat on the Miasissippi river, and I think he nsed the money in connection with it. When the California gold fever broke out he came to my bank and took up his note, paying cash in full. He then said: 'I am now free from debt, but I have no money. I want to go to Pan­ ama, and perhaps to California. I think there is a chance for me to make something in the embloyment of Fritz & Garrison, at Panama. If I do not succeed there, I wish to go to Califor­ nia. Will you lend me money to go to the isthmus, and credit, so that if I fail there I can go to San Francisco ?' I replied: 'Certainly,' and gave him enough to take him to Panama, ayd a letter of credit sufficient for the re­ mainder of the trip, if it was necessary. A few months after this I received a letter from him, remitting from Pana­ ma my letter of credit and the money I bad advanced him. It was twenty years after this before I again heard from him personally. He had then bo- come the great San Francisco Million­ aire, and lie was one of the wealthy men of the Nation. I was in New York in 1869, and needed money very badly. 1 wrote to Mr. Balston and ioldhifl} that I pas abostto engage in The Near-Sighted Ones* As to how one becomes near-sighted, M. Sarcey observes, first, that "Antiquity does not seem to have known what this defect was. You know," he says, "of what enormous di­ mensions tho Greek and Roman thea­ ters and circusses were. Thirty thou­ sand spectators could sit with ease in thom. None of them ever had or felt the want of opera glasses. I imagine that it wns with the ancients as it was with the sailors of the present day. Accustomed, from father to son, to look at objects at a distance, never reading, and letting sleep repose their eyes as soon as the sun sets, they ac­ quire that sort of piercing sight that Fenimore Cooper likes to endow his savage Indians with." In the present day, M. Saroey con­ tinues, men Wi ar their eye-sight out in the day-time by excessive reading and writing, and in the night­ time by gas-light and over heated at- moi phere. The proportion of short­ sighted people, according to the cele­ brated occulist, M. Perrin, whom M. Sarcey cites, has increased in the large government schools from 30 to 50 per cent, in fifteen years. And in Ger­ many, it appears, matters are still worse, because the Germans read more than we do, and their Gothic type is still more fatiguing for the eyes than ara Roman characters. M Sarcey warns his readers against believing in two popular errors in respect to short sight The first, that such sight re­ mains stronger than the normal as one advances in years; and in the second, that it is wrong to wear glasses for this defect Both of these assertions he d(H dares to be absolutely false. The Hair. Prof. Wilson, of England, is high authority on the hair. He condemns washing it, and advises, instead, thor­ ough brushing. This promotes circu­ lation, removes scurf, and is, in all re­ spects better than water. Cutting the hair does not, as com­ monly tliought, promote its growth. Most of the specifics recommended for baldness, not excepting petroleum, are mere stimulants and are seldom or never permanently successful. Some of them give rise to congestion of the scalp. When a stimulant is desirable, ammonia is the best. It is safe. For falling out of the hair, Dr. Wil­ son prescribes a lotion composed of water of ammonia, almond oil, and chloroform, one part each, diluted'with five parts alcohol, or spirits of rose­ mary, the whole made fragrant with a drachm of oil of lemon. Dab it on the skin, after thorough friction with the brush. It may be used sparingly or abundantly, daily or otherwise. For a cooling lotion, one made of two drachms of borax and glycerine to eight ounces of distilled water is ef­ fective, allaying dryness, subduing ir­ ritability, and removing scurt. Both baldness and grayness depend on defective powers of the scalp skin and are to be treated alike. What is needed is moderate stimulation, with­ out any. irritation. The following is good: rub into the bare places daily, or even twice a day, a liniment of cam­ phor. ammonia, chloroform and aconite, equal parts each. The friction should be very gentle. Gambling in New Orleans. The spirit of gambling seems to be in the very air of New Orleans. It ap­ pears to have possession of all classes of the community, and it manifests itself in a great variety of ways. It is not of recent growth." From the origi­ nal settlement of New Orleans, nearly 200 years ago, down to the present time, its people have wooed the god­ dess of chance with all the fervor and eagerness which characterizes them to­ day. Gaming is the popular vice of the Latins, which have stamped their impress so indelibly upon the morals and manners of that city. The passion for play is contagious, and it has been fostered in New Orleans by the course of event*. The long reign of king cot­ ton, inducing constant ventures into the field cf speculation, and the uncer­ tainties growing out of the civil war and tbe abolition of slavery, only served to spread and intensify the gaming fever, and to-day it rages as violently as ever.--Correspou cWnce Ch icago Times. ^ A WOMAN who bestows her love upon a man without money will have more fun in her life than if she bestows it upon money without a man.--Feck's Sun. . ^ partook mnoh of ell. Setter. Hwritt, aadCsld- Hsinea. Calhoun, eC Be Wit*. » A. i. Streeter. Mt. Mi* vreflentattv* MaaMlllaa.as6 Tmcf SftlBflt Ftve ' _ Iter adjoeiafii^ntMnl fWrrtfiwiH^lmiwnt About, thirty mtanbm* ot tfte Boaae --wnhleil in the All of fi| imiiiitfifta ttWtrod a lwiriwl or two of coMiittao s Qftt* attwtMrjataew MQa wen m their physicians; bylfr. ICeCord, a vafcnM I dnctkm. intended to wife theoi^- J and jacks a Uenrwthe •"* aforesaid: by Mr.MacM. ure amendta* (he election law. The bill pro­ vides for the tmttoa of a Board of HtatO. u. wwMnw H v.vu mm > u icnil VUB9I the CoBuntaaioam shall held «BN MM, two. and three jreaa, Mspeottvahr. One at u» ia- portant features.s< Mil pwiii-- «*»•* iw Board of Commt--Iopw ahaU <ouM sons representing at Uait two at the ] parties, and U is mandatory that soohi parties he represented oil the board. The Idl concludes with provisions for a thoronah fpos- tration of legal voters, makiBK election dava legal holidays, the iodnt of alsottan te be the registry boardsTdeSiiiactheQ*aSuicii!t!oa5 of voters, and the pay of JwJcea and eierta. Five Ben*tors and twenty-two members of tte House met tn Joint session, and the praei of the sssemblmge partook mnefc of tilo of a circus. Yarnell. well voted for Mr. Hi gave his support to man voted for HreprenMitattro Mr. Mahoney for Carl Pretzel, fi iuiMmii Hoca- tric statesman recorded htasslf for Aadi«w Jackson. Col. Morrison received IB-- vOtea and Gen. Logan one. Nothwo whatever was done in either Timnrb of the Legislator* on the 6th test When the hour for the Joint session arrived, four Senators, headed by Mr. Whitney, marched in, sad. to­ gether with twenty-six members of the Houses constituted the joint assembly. In the absence of Speaker Haines. RoDraaenta- tive Caldwell umldtd,. -mi Oit tSbs roll- call Long voted! for I N. Cobert and Collins for Dr. Joseph Bobbins. Robbtns ts Ixgan ̂moat bitter enemy. Mulhearn voted tor John Colrin. Dorman for J. 3. Cnrran, thirteen Democrats for Morrisoa, and four Repabhcaas for Logan. A. few unimportant bills were introdnoed in the House. Scuicblt anything in the way at lagMattan was dome by tbe Legislature on the Tthinst. The Senate did absolutely nothing. The House read a few bills tbe first time, and a few unim­ portant bills were introduced. Six Senators and forty-two members of the Hons* constituted the Joint assembly that convened at noon and went through the fftroa of bal­ loting for United States Sesatoc... Speaker Haines presided, and on a callot the roll thirtv- one votes were cast. Pike, of McLean, facetious­ ly voted for his Democratic collas--u. Simeon West. Collins again cast an ominous ballot for Logan's bitterest Republican enemy. Dr. Rob- bins, of Quincy. Mulhearn adhered obstinately to hia first love, James H. Ward, mt Chicago. Barry voted for Andrew C. Wilsen, one of his Democratic constituents, while four Bapnb- licans voted for Logan and twenty-three Deme* crata tor Morrison. • • Bnxs on second reading occupied what littte time was given by the Senate to legislative work on the 8th Inst. Senator Boattnrorth's bill for an ant to authorise cities and villages to convey real estate held bv them for school or academy purboses to the proper school officers was taken up and ordered to a third reading without discussion. One or two more bills were read and advanced on the calen­ dar, after v hich the Senators amused them­ selves by sending to the Cleric's desk contra­ dictory telegrams regarding the result of the Chicago election. Nothing whatever was done in the House beyond tbe advancejnent of two or three unimportant bills on the calendar. Twenty-five Senators and eighty-one members of the House answered to their names when the Joint assembly convened at noon. Only one vote was cast on tbe ballot for the election of United States Senator--that of Senator Hereley, for Senator Mason. About two-thirds of the Senators were pres- snt when that body met .on the 9th Inst.,.and considerable business of importance was 1 beted. The thirty-page eo mm ft tee bill, was a substitute for Whiting's celebrated drain­ age bill, was lead a third time, and passed with out an opposing vote. The following bills wtn Introduced: To amend tbe election law; te amend the law in relation to towniibip organiza­ tion; to provide that ail buildings of fbuT ot more stories in height, sot used exclusively tor private residences, shall have fire escapes in the shape of metallic ladders; to revise the law relating to the commitment and detention of lunatics; to compel all manufacturers ot canned food to place thereon their stamp or t: ad«- mark. Senator Merritt's bill providing that the Hail roan and WarehouM CrtWIWltsstOBem shall be required to approve the system of inteflock- Ing ana signals adopted at railroad eiessings the absenos, death, resi* nation, cr inability ef the Judge of a Cpnntv or Probate Court of anv county, any County or Probate Judxe may hold such court m*U the return effneh **dg* or the appointment or election of Ms successor, was unanimously" passed by the Senate. The bill providing that the unclaimed dead ef peniten­ tiaries, houses of correction, hospitals, and in­ sane asylums shall be, on request.tocned over to the medical colleges for scientific purposes, was ordered to a third readiog.after some ahicnMion. The only work accomplished by theHouse of Uep- resentatives was the passage of the anti-truck bill by a vote of to 2f>. It providaa as fol­ lows: It shall be unlawful tor any person, company, corporation, or association employing workmen in this State to maku reduction from the wages of his, its, or their workmen, exoept for lawiul cash .actually advanced. Any de­ duction made from the wages of any workmen (except for cash actually advanced! may be re­ covered in any appropriate action before any court of competent Jurisdiction, to*e%her with50 iper cent, damages tor attorney ̂foes ot pla|mtiO or plaintiffs. All attempts to cVkde' or avoid the provisions of this act shall be deemed a violation thereof, and for every violation, in addition to the civil remedy, there shall be a to imposed of not less than $10 nor more than tWO. One hundred and sixty-four members of the Legis­ lature answered to their names when the Joint assembly met at noon. There were a half- dozen or more Republican absentees, and as n consequence that side of the House found Itaell In no condition to cast a'ballot on the Senatorial question. Senator Streeter was the only stem- ' ber of the Legislature who thought it necessary to cast a vote, and he voted tor John C. Btak, • Kentucky Did Mot Want to 1 The people of Kentucky did 'l noft de­ sire to secede, and they allowed it §very time they had a chance to express an opinion. They showed it at the elec­ tion in the summer of I860, at the Presidential election in 1860, at die Congressional election: in May, 1861, by a majority of over 51,000; they showed it at the legislative election in August, 1861, whon tbe Union men were put in by an overwhelming ma­ jority in the Legislature; they showed it decisively by furnishing nearly 80,- 000 soldiers to support the Union cause, and they showed it, finally, and to the disgust of the Confederate gen­ erals and authorities, when they declin­ ed to rally to the Confederate standard when Johnston came to Bowling Green and Buekner to Green Eiver; and again when Bragg brought his forces within sight of Louisville and Cincinnati.^ Senator Blackburn has made the claim7 that Kentucky furnished 47,000 soldiers to the Confederate cause, and Mf. Shaler, in his recent history, pnts the number at 40,000. We believe that neither or them can give an authority to support his estimate. Twenty-five thousand, to our mind, is a libera 1 fig­ ure at which to put the number of Con­ federate soldiers furnished by Kentucky, although up to September, 1861, the facilities for enlisting in the Confeder­ ate service in Kentucky were as great as for enlisting in the Union service, although a good part of the State was in the possession of th& Confederates from September, 1861, up to February, 18H2, aud nit hough in the summer and fall of ist;2 they had every facility tor securing Kentucky recruits.--Idifp- : ville CcmtnerciaL ' - ' ' < vit- 1 * ik': - M' : <## - < itf ' '. •• *4; . ^ -jitr * 1 -J ^ As i*; 4 : . :<..' ' " * 'J mih v' %- ' ^ J f*T 4 '! ( m> '4 i- i i\* | si-i Hit.'- f S* % Trt * -•I, • ft .. V' fm. "H THESE are swans on the Thames Eiver that are known to be 150 years old. For five centuries the vintners' company there has kept a record of certain swans, and the ages of the speciirens of this lone-lived species of- water fowls are known to a day. ̂ (C|f T ' * : r-- • ft t Youxg man, never call anotlter ftt . S# - ii rl "liar" if be is not. It is unjust to UK ply the term to him, and if he ia he inoys it himself. • Fd?K , hundred omnibuses pagq. tjiven. point in London every daj, |«r fording to a recent computation. < , ~ te I- k'r* most sincere whfck THAT grief is