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'tess. taken violently ill, and four days from the time of eating the On a post mortem examination his stomach was. found fell of bark twisted into balls. A negro very foolishly threw a bucket of water on a large mass of molten iron in a rolling mill at Paducah, Ky, a few days JAMES SHAW A Pityrleton. -A Good Rat Trap.

Farmers who are troubled with these pestiferous, destructive rodents about tbeir barns and stables, might try the following pUngiven by the Journal of the Farm: Take a barrel, which will hold water, cut the head a little smaller than the top of the barrel, pass a string through the center of the head, and hang it up so that it may hang perfectly free inside the barrel, three or four inches below the chine. Now, put in five or six inches of water, and drop some grease on the top of the barrel head, which you must- balance by tacking on some thin pieces of lead place your trap, where the rats can get on it easily, and it is ready. They come up to the grease, aud in stepping on one side of the head the other naturally tips up, and in goes the rat. The head soon gains its equilibrium, and is ready for another. Sometimes, when there is considerable grease around where they can get it they wont take it for bait.

In this case, put a little anise-seed in your bait. Cleansing Blankets! It is quite as important to hhve blankets on our beds clean as to have the sheets pure and white. The Boston Journal of Chemistry gives (lie following method of cleansing blankets Put two large tablespoonfuls of borax and a pint bowl of soft soap into a tub of cold water. When disolved put in a pair of blankets, and let them remain over night. Next day rub and drain them out, and rinse thoroughly in two waters, and hang them out to dry.

Do not wring them." But this is not the only domestic use to which borax may be put. Says the same Journal: Borax is the best cockroach exterminator yet discovered. This troublesome insect has a peculiar aversion to it, and will never return whjpre it has once been scattered. As the stilt is perfectly harmless to human beings, it is much to be preferred for this purpose to the poisonous substances commonly used. For cleansing the hair, nothing is better than a solution of borax water.

Wash afterward with pure water, if it leaves the hair too stiff Borax dissolved in water is also an excellent dentifrice or tooth-wash. ounce vial, and jealous of Dick into the bargain, what should he do that morning but send an officer after the ring. You might have heard Mr. Dean groan clear across the street. The officer was very polite, and listened to all the family had to ay, but whether he believed it or not lve'no means of knowing.

All I can say, with certainty, is that old Mr. Van DuSter interfered, and said if Dick could pay the price of the ring, the lowest price eight hundred dollars he needn't go to jail the matter would be hushed up. Eight hundred dollars Why, old Mr. Dean just earned his salt by tending to an oven at a bakery. There was nothing in the house of any value but Mrs.

Dean's piano, aud that wouldnt bring more than three hundred. Of course it went, though, and John had to be written to (I dont know what his blue blooded wife said to make tip the balance. He did this in the shape of a loan. I did think John hard faced. He might have given Dick the money for their mothers sake.

It was too bad for such a young fellow' as Dick to be saddled with a debt, even if he had been careless. After this the boy cquldnt afford his time to go to school, so he got a clerkship. At first he held up his head with the best of them, but after a time the cold shoulder was-turned to him. The Van Duster's hadnt kept their word; the story was whispered around that Dick had stolen the soltaire and couldnt return it because the Jew he had sold it to refused to give it up. Dick was nearly wild.

He ran away to work on a farm in New Jersey. I believe his mothers letters were all that sustained him. Never fear, Dick, said she, this mystery will be cleared up in Gods good time. Wo cant sec why the trial was sent, but perhaps it was to make you patient and lull of charity for others. You may depend upon it as the truth, that The sorrows of your youthful day W1H make you wise in coming years.

The old gentleman gave right up, and the care of the whole family fell upon Nell. She is a shrewd little manager, and has found enough embroidery and copying to do to keep off starvation as for clothes they havent had many. She is a most remarkable girl. (I do hope she is coming round the comer!) All the amusement she seemed to have was going to the door, standing on the steps, and looking down the street. (More shingles, boys! Im about out of breath) Ah, well, what with Mrs.

Deans cough this mystery, and all, we have been a suffering family but we have our blessings, not the least of which is Nell We have had some cosy times this winter, too, popping corn over the coals but its all past now. They went to Thirty-fifth street yesterday. I dont know how I could have borne it but for the reflection that I was dying for thf good of the family. Yes, when I fall, murder will out! The ring comes to light Boys, youJre sharp-eyed, but you wont get it. I keep looking out for Nell; she told her mother she should watch that kitchen chimney when it fell.

Bravo! There she stands! Thats Nell, the modest girl in the blue dress, with the bird on her bat Make way for her. Bravo, Nell, Im reeling. Hammer away, ye iron-hearted men, Ive got my death-blow. Sharp, Nell, Im dow dow down Please, sirs, let me look here for something says she. Yes, Nell, look in the northeast comer.

Hurrah! Shes found it! That revives me Hurrah I wish I had some hands to clap Three cheers for the little girl in blue! Fare well! Our Young Folks. since, when a terrific explosion followed, throwing the hot metal in large flakes in everv direction, and setting lire to the building. Nobody was hurt, but the negTO had his clothes nearly all burned off him -v-Thb daughter of John Fields, of St Albans, Vt, entered her fathers burning barn a few days ago, and, while the fire was dropping upon her head, burning it to a blister-, released several head of cattle and three horses. She also wielded an ax with the strength of an athletic man, demolishing a hog-pen, and driving the inmates from danger. A man named Joseph Truck was burned to death at LaCrosse, the other evening.

He was attempting to fill a lamp while burning, when the fluid in the can took fire and exploded, saturating him with the inflammable stuff. He was instantly a mass of flame, and before he could be rescued, was burned so horribly that he died in a short time. Frankling Andrews, while engaged at work in a saw -mill, about three miles south of Delta, Ohio, met with a most terrible accident. While at work in the mill he slipped, and in falling, his neck struck the saw, which was in motion. His head was instantly severed from the body, and thrown a distance of some twelve feet Sarah Johnson, of Williamson, Tonn.

wntie attempting some days ago to sepa rate two roosters that were fighting, was wounded in the arm by a spur. Tetanus ensued, and she died. Her husband, Claiborne Johnson, a consumptive, was so affected by her death that he commenced sinking rapidly and also died, and was buried at the same time. Thomas Plunkett, of Fountain, Minn a few days ago, went ane into a field, some distance from his residence, to burn some brush and grass. After kindling his fire, he, being a very old man, became fatigued and (ercome with the heat and smoke, fainted, and fell into the fire.

When he came to, his clothes were nearly burned off, his face, arms, hancis and body were shockingly burned, and he died a few days afterward. A gentleman living in Chesaning, recently sent a dispatch to Colonel Parke, of Nebraska, saying, I shall be at Omaha, meet me there. The operator ommitted the in the word there, so the dispatch read meet me here. The Colonel at once started on his journey ot 1,100 miles and only learned his mistake on arriving at Chesaning. That was a dear mistake, and it is proposed to ascertain who shall foot the bill.

Dennis Dreher, of Farmington, went out hunting the other day, and while crossing a fence he slipped and fell. His rifle went off', the bullet taking effect in his mouth, tearing away his tongue, passing through his nose, and escaping through his eye, completely tearing it out of its socket. The unfortunate man was living when found, but no hopes were entertained of his recovery. In Fond du Lac, a few nights ago, a Mrs. Alpin, who bad been sick for some weeks, arose, and in attempting to get something from the secretary, knocked over the lamp, spilling the oil over her dress, and in an instant her clothes were ablaze.

Her daughter, twelve years of age, sprang from her bed and succeeded in extinguishing the flames but not until her mothers hands and arms were badly burned. A FAMILY MYSTERY. REVEALED BY A CHIMNEY. Here I am, at my last gasp. Ive stood it thirty-five years without flinching but now my time is come.

Pleasant sky, you and I must part. Bright sun, good by. Remember Im but a bumble instrument, and forgive me for smoking in your face. Look, iron-hearted men, see how a hero dies! The blood is settling under my finger nails (to use a figure of speech), yet its not I that will cry quarter. Well, wbat would you do.

Here I am alone; shovel, tongs, cooking stove all gone that make life desirable Yesterday you climbed on top of the house, sirs, and tore off the tin roof, rolling it up into parcels like so much jelly cake. I looked on and saw you, but the bitterness was past. The time I could have wept was when the family mg family had notice to quit. When they were gone rocking chairs, work baskets, cough medicines, and all what did I care for the rest? I saw you pull down the walls till the air was so thick with plaster you could have cut it with a knife. I saw you rip up the chamber floor as if it had been a rag-carpet.

I watched you pulling away the door steps where she used to go and stand, looking up-and down the street I saw wondering children and old women, too, coming to pick up shingles and clapboards for kindling. Little by little, crash after crash, down went the house, till there was nothing left standing but the other chimney and me. And this morning he was taken now Im sole survivor. Ah, but I could a tale unfold, only nobody listens. Few indeed understand the language of chimneys.

(Talk about the language of flowers!) I hear some foolish fellow saying 1 look like a monument. Well, so I am a monument, smiling at grief. My grief "began to come, or 1 began to come to grief, last winter, when? first lieaid the talk about. improving the street. I knew ice were a frame house not a beauty one story, with a basement kitchen, and most likely our room would be better than our company.

I tell you I hated to break up The family had serious talks about it over the kitchen fire, close to my best ear. Mother, said the old gentleman, rubbing the patched knee of his gray trousers, we used to laugh at our neighbors on the 1st of May; wholl laugh now? Where shall we go, and whatll become of us? Think of his appealing to her, a sick woman, that sat coughing in her chair! But thats always the way it was mother here, and mother there. Never mind, Able, said she cheerily Nell will look us up another rent and John will pay for It all the same. John lives in Boston, and has a wife with blue blood in her veins. I am not quite sure wbat blue blood is, but its something that keeps her arms length from this family.

Ah, wcll-a-day sighed the old gentleman, its trouble upon trouble. Ive been a broken-down man ever since that mystery of Dicks." They always called it the mystery. There, there, father, dont give way. Look up to heaven and have faith Twill all be cleared up yet. But no, the old gentleman only looked straight ahead for consolation, mto the bowl of his tobacco-pipe.

Reckon I've reason to know where be looked. Manys the time I thought I should choke There are three children, John, Nell and Dick. Only one at home now. Nell, bless her heart, I always did my best to draw when she laid on the shavings. SJied sing even a coal pit into good-humor.

Her lather never could understand why she should have so much better luck than he had, making a fire. (I find Im getting wheezy. Thats right, little boys, put on more shingles it warms my heart.) Unw Ill plunge right into the heart of my story. The fact is, I know more about it than any of the rest of the family. A year ago, when Dick was attending school, he came home one night with a diamond ring on his finger.

How splendid! Whose is it? said Nell, flying round to make butter toast for supper. Thats telling, said Dick what if its my own? Humph Then its paste. II Paste, indeed Its a solitaire worth, seven hundred dollars. Nell let the toast burn. She put the ring on her finger, and twirled it round and round.

Knowing it was worth seven hundred dollars, and itsftwner wouldnt take a thousand, it dazzled her eyes almost out of her head. After Dick had teased her long enough, he told her it belonged to James Van Duster, the wealthiest boy in school. And he dont know Ive got it, added Dick. 11 1 just slipped it off his finger when I was helping him with his Greek. Wont it be a jolly joke when he goes round inquiring for it to morrow Dick, how dared you? said Nell and then I smelt the toast burning, and heard her scraping it with a knife.

The rings too large you mustnt keep it on your finger, Dick let me have it for safekeeping. You, Nell Why, youd serve it up in tha toast-dip, just as you did with the salt-spoon last week, But think, Dick, if anything should inrvovi 1a oimli cmlnnrii1 in-nrol I1 The Gold Hill NTws of a recent date says Poor Hinkler who died last week, had only five doctors to attend him. They each doctored him for a different disease, and he was only sick a week. One doctored him for consumption for pneumonia, one for asthmastic diarrhea, another for chronic inflammatory bronchitis, and the last one'went in on general- principles against a formidable combination of all these diseases, crossctj with several othet undefined ones, and the last dose he ordered from the drug store, which was a teacupful of ammonia, laudanum, sulphuric acid, tincture of cantharides and rye whisky, equal parts mixed, arrived just ten minutes too late. Hinkler was dead.

The express agent at Arcadia, Ohio, the other day, threw into the stove by mistake. The greenbacks burned finely. Pbijbs ins's White Wine Vinegar la a most aipeiD article for table nee. Warranted pure The Buffalo Commercial prints the following letter from one of its old and prompt-paying patrons Please discontinue my paper from the time that I have paid up to. I do net stop the paper because i do not want it, but to get rid of an intolerable old bore that intrudes himself in my house, regardless of time or circum-stancLS, to sit for au hour or two, three or four times a week, to read my papers, and who is a thousand times more able to take a dozen papers for himself than I am to take one.

If the nuisance is stopped I shall send for the paper again. The New York Tribune tells the following, on the authority of a printed letter "from London: About -ten years ago a young American from New York, Walter Hastings by name, dining in London in company with Lord 0 ex pressed the opinion that solitary confinement in a dark cell was not so dreadful a punishment as had been represented, llis Lordship, so goes the tale, offered Hastings 10,000 if he would undergo entire seclusion for ten years. The proposition being agreed to, a cell was fitted up in Lord town house. It was from twelve to fifteen feet square. The prisoner was to be allowed candles, a few books, writing materials, plain food the latter served by a man who was not to be seen.

In this way Hastings has been living for a decade of years, his term expiring about the first of the present month. lie is now released, and has received, we suppose, his hard-earned money. He emerges from his dungeon in rathera dilapidated condition, appearing, thoughonly thirty-five, like a man of sixty yearj of age, his frame stooping and his steps totteriug, his face sallow, his hair aud beard white, his voice tremulous and his speech hesitating. He is coming directly to America and we should not wonder if Mr. Barnum knew something about him.

Taxes Repealed and Those Still in Force. A- For the information of our readers, we publish the 'ollowing summaTy of the in ternal reveille taxes still in force, and showing tlose repealed by the act of Congress ajprovcd July 14, 1S70: TAXES REPEALED. From anc after October 1, 1870, taxes on sales, saring and excepting taxes on sales paid by stamps, and the taxes on sales of leal tobacco, manufactured tobacco, snuff, tigars, foreign and domestic distilled spirts and wines also, the taxes imposed in sthcdule A on carriages, gold watches, billard tables, gold and silver plate; special tax on boats, barges and fla lax on legacies and successions, on passports; anl on gross receipts; stamp taxTmposedin schedule on promissory notes for a stun than one hundred dollars, and on receipts for any sum of money, or fir the payment of any debt stamp tax imposed in schedule on canned aDd preserved fish, shell fish, fruits and vegetables. From and after May 1, 1871, all special taxes imposed by section 70, act of June 39, 1864, as amended by section 9, act of July 13, 1866, and by section 2, act of March 2, 1367, except the special tax on brewers imposed by said section. TAXES STILL IK FORCE.

Special taxes (or license tax) on distillers, rectifiers, wholesale and retail liquor dealers, manufacturers of stills, manufacturers of tobacco and cigars, dealers in manufactured tobacco and cigars dealers in leaf tobacco; also taxes on distilled spirits, fermented liquors, tobacco, snuff and cigars; on all wines, liquors or compounds known or denominated as wine and made in imitation of sparkling wine or champagn, but not made from grapes grown in the United States on all liquors not made from grapes, currants, rhubarb or berries jgrown in the United States, but produced by being rectified or mixed with distilled spirits, or by the infusion of any matter in spirits, to be sold as wine or by any other name taxes on sales of leaf tobacco, manufactured tobacco; snuff, cigars, foreign and domestic distilled spirits and wines; stamp tax on brokers sales of stocks, bonds, gold and silver bullion and coin, promissory notes and other securities stamp taxes imposed in schedule or agreements on contracts, bank checks, drafts, or orders for the payment of moneys, bills of exchange, promissory notes when for a greatel sum than one hundred dollars, bills of lading, bills of sale of ships or vessels, bonds, certificates, charter parties, brokers contracts, corn veyances, entries of goods, insurance policies, leases, Custom House manifests, mortgages, powers of attorney, probate of wills or letters of administration, protests also stamp taxes imposed in schedule on medicines, perfumery, cosmetics, friction matches, wax tapers, cigar lights and playing cards, whether of domestic or foreign production taxes on incomes above two thousand dollars per annum also taxes on interest or coupons paid on bonds or other evidences of debt issued and payable on one or more years after date, and on the amount of all dividends of earnings, income, or gains hereafter declared by any bank, trust company, savings institution, insurance company, railroad company, canal company, turnpike company, canid navigation company, and slack-water company, and on all undivided profits of any such corporation which have accrued and been earned and added to any surplus, contingent, or other fund. These latter taxes are to be paid only during the year i871. How Advertising Compels Attention. A writer in AU the Tear Round says The truth is, in this world sheer labor and industry always make themselves felt. This is a theory that would be dear to Mr.

Carlyle as representing something real and genuine. Work, he would tell us, is never thrown away. Men who spend sums of money, and sums of trouble and toil, together with much ingenious polychromatic device iu flourishing their names and wares, are pretty certain to find such bread as they have cast upon the waters returning to them. The wise who travel in the underground railways and see Kittos Starch staring at them from over the heads of their vis-a-vis in the carriages, or the Grasshopper Sewing Machine, no doubt salute those titles with a pish and a pshaw But later, as their eye wanders over the newspaper or dead-wall or omnibus knife-board, or flyleaf of a magazine, and sees eveiywhcre.as a murderer does blood, Kino's Starch, Grasshopper Sewing Machine," a kind of dull, insensible impression is produced. By and-by, when either of these important necessaries are in demand in the readers family, and when there is an impression of doubt or ignorance, the poor aid-de-camp of conceit, or conscious superiority, steps in, and aids the advertiser.

'tere all are groping in the dark, it is hard to resist the conscious sense of superiority. Starch! Why, there is a fellow called Kitto, who seems to be in great demand at least bis name is everywhere. Sewing machine Get the Grasshopper-only four guineas. It will thus be seen that advertising owes a good deal to the pardonable little infirmities of our nature. Threshing Machines.

Read the advertisement-of the Taylor Thresher in another column, and send for their descriptive price-list. This is the grain and time saving Thresher which has attracted 60 much attention during the past two or three years. Every organ demands sustenance and support from the stomach. If the stomach cannot supply the aliment required, the whole system languishes. To rouse and regulate this great supplying organ, there is no preparation at present known that will compare with Dr.

Walkers Vinegar Bitters; and as two-thirds of all human ailments originate in indigestion, it follows, logically, that most of the diseases flesh is heir to are curable at their source, by this powerful vegetable restorative. Corn and llonr are 6taple articles but not more so than Johnson's Anodyne Liniment where known. It is good for children or adults, for any internal 'soreness of the che6t or bowels, and the best Pain Killer prepared, under whatever name. died and fifty thousand dollars is derived from a tax of Beven per cent, on moneys won at the licensed gaming tables. They have a daily average there of 14,631 players, and one to every eight of the entire population.

A curious fact, which throws a great deal of light on the character of Louis Napoleon, is that he never opened the highly important reports which his confidential military agent at Berlin, Colonel to till, sent him from 1866 till 1869, and in which that keen sighted observer predicted all the calamities which befell the Imperial armies in the year 1870. These reports were found in the private cabinet of the Emperor at the Tulleries with the seals unbroken. A curious incident is related of a vessel in the Baltic Sea. The bark Providence, from 1 Iartlepool, lately sprang aleak, and all hands were forced to work at the pumps until they were utterly exhausted. Their hope of saving the vessel or even own livek had almost gone, when the leak suddenly stopped.

After the port was reached and the cargo discharged, a search was made, and it was found' that a knot in one of the plauks had been forced out, but the hole was tightly plugged up by the body i a fish. A Florence correspondent to the London Standard narrates a terrible scene on the stage of the Principe Umberto Theater, in an equestrain spectacle. An engagement between brigands and sharpshooters is represented, and one of ibe latter fell in so natural a manner as to win applause. Soon, however, two ipen came out and picked up the prostrate actor, when it was found that he was shot through the head. The piece, when loaded, contained only powder, and it is presumed that the ball was afterward inserted by an enemy.

The late Professor William Gibson, while going through the ward of a hospital with Velpeau, that surgeon brought him to the bedside of two men who were under treatment for some slight fracture. Would you believe it, said Velpeau, these men have made a living for the last fifteen years by being knocked down and run over. When they sec a light wagon driven by some wealthy person coming by, they step across the street, and are sure to be run over, picked up, and carried to some hospital, and then they sue for damages. When their money becomes exhausted they begin again. Nearly every bone in their bodies has been broken.

Conscientious head of family (an old lady, giving the paper, on Monday, to the Enumerator) Here is the paper, Mr. Accumulator, but I want particularly to say something for the information of her Majesty, bless her heart, likewise her family! which you. see it says, slept or abode and I wouldnt deceive her Majesty and her government on no account, and the fact is, that I didnt sleep a wink all the blessed night by reason of a tooth, which I hope you'll explain the Queen, and say I couldnt have it took out on Saturday, as my dentist is of the Jewish persuasion, which I dont blame him for, quite the reverse, but I am going to him to-day to have it extricated, and so please to say thatjl only Abided, eta Punch. Miscellaneous. Shocking Fruit The electric current.

A Storied Earn The novelists pay. Ground Rents The effects of an earthquake. The French fair in Boston netted $80,000. The Directors of the Mutual Life, of Chicago, are among the best men in the Northwest. A man who has no bills against him helongs to the highest order of no-biU-ity.

The 'President of the oldest Life Insurance Company in New York is insured in the Washington Life. There are in the State of New Yorl one-hundred and thirty-three savings banks, with assets amounting to two hundred and twenty million dollars. Chang, the Siamese twin who was seized with paralysis some months ago, has recovered sufficiently to walk about with the aid of a crutch. A cotemporary publishes the following advertisement Wanted by a boy a situation in an eating house. He is used to the business.

An exchange mentions a case beyond the ordinary oculist. It is that of a young lady who, instead of a common pupil, has a college student in her eye. The Rev. Stephen Smith, a colored preacher of Columbia, has built a $30,000 home for aged and indigent colored people in Philadelphia. A client once burst into a flood pf tears after he had heard the statement of his counsel, exclaiming, I did not think I suffered half so much until I heard it this day- A Troy man who recently was paid $1,500 insurance money on some prop that was burned, visited a gambling den the same day, lost more than half the amount, and ever since has been wishing his house had not burned.

There is a man in Baltimore whose conscience has evidently been under better discipline than his pen. He writes to Gen. Spinner Mr. Treasurer off the united States, i enclose the som off three Dollars in hear, which belongs to the U. S.

Gove-nant which I have ronged them off. A clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply interested audience the alarming increase of intemperance, when he astonished his by exclaiming A young man in my neighborhood died very suddenly last Sunday while I was preaching the gospel in a beastly state of intoxication. Recently, on opening Yarmouth Town House, Massachusetts, it having been closed Bince the last annual meeting, it was found that a squirrel and her five young ones had taken possession of the ballot-box. The mother had made a nice nest among the ballots cast for Selectmen and other town officers. The nest and young were removed, but, when the town meeting was dissolved, the nest and young squirrels were restored to the possession of the ballot-box, and the Town House looked up.

Arithmetic. Jones: I thought I warned you particularly, cook, against boiling my eggs hard. Now, how is this Here they are boiled fit for salad, in spite of every direction. What did I tell youf Oh, sir, I remember exactly what you told me, and acted accordingly. The eggs were in the water to a moment irecisely nine minutes.

Jones: Nine! told you three. Cook Yes, sir, but there are three eggs. Of course if one takes three minutes, boiling, three must take nine. I may be a fool, sir, but I hap-mto know what three times three makes, ir all that Strawberry. Cherrys are good, but they are too much like sucking a marble, with a handle tew it.

Peaches are good if yu dont git enny ov the pin feathers into vure lips. Watermelons will suit enny-body who iz satisfied with half sweattened drink but the man what can cat strawberry's, besprinkled with crushed sugar and bespattered with sweet kream sumboddv elses expense), and not lay biz hand on hiz stummuk and thank the author ov strawberrys, and stummuks, and the fellow who pays for the strawberrys, iz a man with a worn-out conscience a man whose mouth tastes like a hole in the ground, that dont karc wlja( goes down It -ffosh Bitting. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Religions and Educational. The American Tract Society has issued 442,000,000 tracts in 141 languages and dialects during the last forty-five years, Mr.

Spurgeon reports that during the past six years the gentlemen of his ool lege in London have baptised 11,861 persons. It is said that not less th'au 1,000 school houses will be erected in Wiscon sin the present season, including many first class structures. w-The reported gains of the Baptist denomination for 1670 are 2,608 churuches, 2,031 ministers, 7,623 baptisms, and members, A little girl, twelve years old, of Woodbum, 111., has received a silver medal from the minister for attending Sunday-School 185 Sabbaths without missing. Mr. Jay Cooke, the banker of Phila-pelphia, has presented the congregation of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church of Washingtoft with a communion set of solid silver.

The Illinois State Superintendent of Public Instruction is issuing a circular to the teachers of the State, an examination of teachers for State diplomas, during the first week in August, in Spring-neld. James I'aiiuu Uilnk.s inai me ment of children to public schools from nine oclock until two, and then keeping them at dancing and piano till dark, and then obliging them to study till nine or ten in the evening, is simply a wholesale massacre of the innocents A Methodist church is being built at Balt Lake City, to cost $30,000. The main audience room will seat 1,500 people. The two lower stories are to be arranged for educational purposes of the Salt Lake Seminary; embracing three departments, with two recitation rooms off from each. The receipts of the American Tract Society last year were $492,182, of which $370,118 were from sales.

The expenditures were $491,787, of which $237,028 was appropriated to the manufacture of books and tracts. Three new periodicals have been established, and forty-five new volumes issued by the society during the past year. The Methodist Sunday School Union has resolved to invite the schools of the North to become patrons of the needy Southern schools, each patron school to be put in correspondence with some school in the South, and thus be directly and intelligently enlisted in practical church extension. At a late meeting of the Providence Conference of the Methodist Church, the candidates for membership in the ministry were severally inquired of if they used tobacco. All answered no, except one, who confessed to the habit but said he did so for medicinal purposes.

Bishop Janes responded, Well, brother, I hope it will cure you quick. The whole conference applauded. A few Sundays ago, the Rev. Dr. Tyng, of New York, preached his semicentennial sermon, in which he stated that he has, in the half century, delivered 10,800 sermons, has received 3,000 person by profession into the church, and has had 25,000 children under instruction in his Sabbath School.

Fifty young men have been prepared for the ministry under his instruction. His congregation has contributed for benevolent objects $3,000,000, besides $600,000 ibr me building of ftmr churches and six chapels. Incidents and Accidents. A Harrisburg mother broke her babys neck, the other day, by giving it a playful toss. A Boston woman was recently sentenced to the House of Correction for six months for stealing coins from a dead womans eyes.

A three-year-old child of R. R. Tupper, of Flint, fell into a bucket of boiling water the other day, and was fearfully scalded. A little three-year-old girl, named Mary Spikens, fell into an out-house vault in Chicago a few days ago, and when found life was extinct. Jane Forest, a little girl of Peoria 111., was recently severely gored by an infuriated cow.

It was probable she would die. Near Alton, the other day, a boy named Jones, while engaged in driving a farm roller over a plowed field, fell in front of the roller, which passed over him, crushing him to death. Alexander Randall, of Otter Tail County, Minn- blew into a rifle the other day to know if it was loaded. His funeral was not a large one, because the country is sparsely settled. While four high-school children were taking a sail, at Chicopee.

a few days ago, the boat parted, and three of them Arad Southworth, Kate Hunter and Minnie White were drowned. A six year old child of Mr. Atkins, of Fredonia, Kansas, was poisoned a few days ago by eating what was supposed to be sheep sorrel It was with difficulty that its life was saved. A little girl aged three years, the daughter of Mr. McClure, of Loudonville, Ohio, was fatally burned the other day by her clothes taking fire from a stove.

She lived only a few hours after the accident. A little three-year-old child of C. B. Bentley, of Tama City, Iowa, died a few evenings ago by poisoning from the coloring matter on three sticks of candy. Mr.

George Kernodle, who lives about two miles from Thomtown, was seriously burned, a few days ago, while extinguishing a fire which had spread from a burning pile to his house. A boy, twelve years of age, son of John Howard, living southwest of Marcelline, HI, was attacked by a vicious sow the other day, thrown to the ground, and badly cut and tom by the enraged animal. Two drunken men, named James Dings and John Hand, perished in the flames of a burning building in Syracuse, -N. a few nights ago. Other persons escaped by jumping from windows.

While Thomas Hinds, with his wife and child, was driving along the bank of a small stream near Dubuque, Iowa, a few days ago, he drove over an embankment into the water, and all three were drowned. The bodies were recovered. A little daughter of Charles Petit, of Chicago, was fatally scalded the other day by the upsetting of a kettle of boiling water which stood on the stove. The child was alone in the room at the time of the accident. While playing at a bonfire in Chicago the other evening, the clothing of a little boy, named Thomas Echa, caught fire, and before he could receive any assistance he was so injured that death ensued in a few hours.

The Galena (HI.) Oaaette of a recent date reports the horrible case of a little six-year-old boy, son of John Mahony, being almost chewed to pieces by a hog. The hog attacked the little fellow as he was on his way to school A boy near Brooklyn, Iowa, aged fifteen veers, who ate a quantity of slfpppery I elm bark, a day or two after wards was 1 The all-gone feeling which people sometimes 6peak of, is caused by want of proper action of tfie liver and heart. These may be assisted, and the bowels regulated, by Parsons' Purgative Pills in small doses. Hash. BY JOSH BILLINGS.

flash iz made out ov cast oph vittles. Hash haz done more for the human race ov man than almost effny other breed ov food. For breakfast, a small tender-lion steak, sum few ham eggs, 3 baked potatoze, a plate ov buttered toast, sum slap jacks, 2 cups ov coffy, and sum bash iz good. 1 like to eat bash this way better than enny other. Sum pbolks alwus raize their noze up at hash.

If yu search history with one eye, yu will find theze folks, 20 or 30 years ago, more or less, were bom on hash. I hav seen hash miself, that i had mi doubts about, but i et it, and still liv. I love hash as a principle, and this iz my rule, i watch the landlady, and if she eats it, i take the seckond plate. This makes me very popular at all the boarding houses which I attend. If folks would be a leetle more penurious with their hash, and not git stubs ov tallo kandles, babys morocko shoes, and now and then a fine tooth comb, that want more than half worn out, into their hash, hash would stand to day, at the head ov all mux food.

New York Weekly. Symptoms of Liver omplain, and of some of ilie Diseases produced by It. A few days since a Mr. Scott, of Brownsville, went to a drug store in that place and bought a bottle each of whisky and corrosive sublimate, the latter dissolved in alcohol. He then proceeded to the store of W.

T. White, and gave him a drink of what he supposed to be whisky, and took a swallow himself, but soon discovered that they had drank from the wrong bottle. Scott has sines died from the effects of the poison, and White was not expected to recover. M. P.

Carlock, who lives near Atlanta, HL, recently lost a little boy under peculiarly sad circumstances. A barrel had been sunk in the ground to receive the waste water from the kitchen sink, and here the little fellow was found, not in the barrel, but leaning over the edge of it, with only his face and hands immersed. The top of his head was not even wet. It is thought that he had attempted to drink from the barrel, and had been unable to -get back. A little Meriden, girl not more than eight years of age, seeing a man in the street on a Sunday beastly drunk, around whom half a score of boys were congregated for the purpose of making sport, boldly went among them, took the man by the hand, sharply reproved the boys and by her actions and words shamed them into good behavior.

Then leading the man away she wept bitterly over him, asked him if he had no daughter to love him and feel disgraced at his conduct, urged him to stop drinking, and tried to get him to go home with her where she assured him, her father would give him food and raiment and pray with him. That girls influence will be felt if she lives a few years longer. Foreign Gossip. London, England, has over 6,000 policemen. The Emperor William has decided not to allow the erection of any statue of himself during his lite-time.

The total expenditure in Europe for education, science and art, is more than $100,000,000 per year. The Empress of Russia, contrary to the unanimous predictions of her physicians, is recovering her health. Quite a number of Parisian merchants refuse to pay the debts which they owed German firms previous to the breaking out of the war. Of the total number of deaths recorded in England and Wales from 1851 to 1850, nearly one-half were those of children under five years of age. The census returns of Bradford, England, show a population of 140,000, being an increase of 42,000 since 1861 of Sheffield, 240,000, being an increase of 55,000.

The Emperor of Germany is a practical printer. All thefamily are obliged to have some trade. William choose to be a typo, and worked at the case three years. A citizen of Ottawa, Canada, has taken out a patent for a new style of boat oars, by which a man, when rowing in the usual manner, faces the direction in which the boat is going. A man of letters, in London, advertises for newspaper work, as writer of Sweeny.

In common parlance, a horse is said to be sweenied when the muscles of the shoulder appear to have perished away, and the skin seems to be attached closely to the shoulder blade. These symptoms may arise from chronic lameness in the foot or other part of the limb. In such case, of course, it is of no use to apply remedies to the shoulder. Cure the foot, and the shoulder will come right, although stimulants and rubbing will expedite it. But genuine sweeny, as I understand it, is quite different from the above, although the appearances are the same.

It is caused by hard drawing in a collar that is too large; or where no whif-fletree is used, but the traces are hitched directly to the thills, as in jumpers, they are called or by jumping fences, or the like. Rural sweeny may be discovered by mo ing the horse in a circle, or causing him to step over bars, when you can generally determine the seat of the lameness. For such cases irritants, with friction, is the proper treatment. Blistering liniment, or seton, or a piece of leather inserted under the skin, will cure, with the rest. The writer once cured a horse by blistering, and upon turning him out, sometime afterward, he jumped a high fence, and the operation had to be gone through again.

Rural New Yorker. A sallow or yellow color of skin, or yellowish brown spots on face and other parts of body dullness and drowsiness with frequent headache dizziness, hitter or bad taste in mouth, dryness of throat and internal heat palpitation, in many cases a dry teasing cough, with sore throat, unsteady appetite, raising of food, choking sensation in throat distress, heaviness, or bloated or full feeling about stomach and sides, pain in sides, back or breast, aud about shoulders colic pain and soreness through bowels, with heat constipation, alternating with frequent attacks of diarrhoea piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of extremities rush of blood to head, with symptoms of apoplexy, numbness of limbs, especially at night cold chills alternating with hot flashes, kidney and urinary difficulties; female weakness, dullness, low spirits, unsociability and gloomy forebodings. Only few of above symptoms likely to be present in any case at one time. All who use Dr. Pierces Alt.

Ext. or Golden Medical Discovery for Liver Complaint and its Complications, are loud in its praise. Sold by all first-class Druggists. 567 Godeys Ladys Book. Towing the Prize is the title of the steel-plate presented to the subscribers of the Ladys Book for June.

This is followed by a slx-flgure colored fashion-plate, containing walking Deeses, evening dresses, etc a beautiful wood-cut Illustration of four children nghtiug with leaves, and another entitled 14 The Lily. In addition to all this, the publisher haa been lavish with his wood-cut fashions on the extension sheet and in his designs for the work department. With the many excellent etories by popular writers in this number, wo commend it to the public. The Household Tonic. The efficacy of Hoetetter's Celebrated Stomach Bitters as a specific for recruiting the enfeebled body and cheering the desponding mind has passed into a proverb.

In the United 8tatee, where this marvelous tonic has borne down all opposition and eclipsed all rivalry, the demand for it has annually increased In a heavier and heavier ratio for years, until at last, the regular sales of this preparation exceed those of all other etomachlcs combined. Eminent members of the medical profession and hospital surgeons without number bavo candidly admitted that the pharmacopoeia of the faculty contains no prescription that produces such beneficial effects In dyspepaia, general debility and narvous diseases, as Hostetler's Bitters. To use tha language of a venerable physician of New York, Hie Bitters are the purest stimulant and the safest tonic we have. But the uses of the great vegetable antidote are much more comprehensive than such praise would Imply. As a preparatory antidote to epidemic disease, a genial stimulant, a promoter of constitutional vigor, an appetizer, a stomachic, and a remedy for nervous debility, no medicinal preparation has ever attained the reputation of Hos-tetters Bitters.

It is the household tonic of tho American people, and in all human probability will be so for centuries to come. The magnates of science recognize its merits and that it is emphatically the medicine of the masses, Is proved by its vast and ever increasing sales. ing Dick checked himself, and I suspect he blushed. Nell, with all her kindness of heart, couldnt help laughing, for Dick was as harum-scarum as the breeziest hurricane. I felt low-spirited from that moment, and was afraid I never should breathe freely till the ring -was fairly out of the house.

In the evening Dick came down into the basement kitchen again to crack some butternuts. He knelt by the brick hearth and began to pound. I could have told -him better than that; there was a crack in the comer ot me nro-piaoe. ah of a sudden off slipped the ring and danced into it. You could have knocked me over with feather But as true as I stand here, that boy went whistling up-stairs, and never missed the ring till Nell asked what he had done with it.

You may depend there were a few remarks made then! Dick rushed up-stairs and down, and the whole family went to hunting. Next morning a carpenter was sent for to take up the boards under the dining-room table. There was a hole in the carpet there, and Dick was almost sure hi must have dropped the ring when he stooped to pick up ms knife. How I longed to be heard I talked as plainly as I do now but whats the use when people will insist upon it that its the wind sighing down chimney? Nell suggested that the ring might be round the fireplace. Youre warm, my dear, said joyfully.

But as fate would have it, they only picked out Hie wrong brick, and didnt strike deep enough, either. Here lies that solitaire, as solitary os Hamlets fathers ghost! Here it lies, at the northeast comer, eight inches from the sur free. What of that? said trying to be as philosophical and cold-blooded as a lightning-rod. Pshaw Nothing but dust of the earth, any way. I mean nothing but coal dust! Peaco to its ashes But James Van Duster didnt agree with mo on that subject.

He thought more of the ring titan he did of his best friend. He wasnt quite as absent-minded as Dick took him to be. He knew when the solitaire was drawn off bis fiigqr as well as either you or I would know, And being fellow, wi" a high and mighty young leading articles, reviews and correspond- roviaed It nany, ac- to tfie. decision of Kaiser William, ence, or as newspaper editor, proi was not much trouble. The imperial eagle of Germany Getting Behind.

What a piece of work it makes when the farm work gets behind I wonder if other business suffers as much from neglect as this I have been trying ever since last April to get my work along where it ought to be, but at almost every turn I am put back by certain jobs that ought to have been done a year ago. If they had been attended to then, they would not have cost one-tenth of labor that has been expended on them, or other work that was neglected a little too long to finish up some of them. Truly a stern chase is a long chase, and a stitch in time saves nine. If I am caught so another season, I shall think I dont know my business. I never expect to find any farm of a hundred acres in such good condition that I cannot see enough for two men to do at almost any season of the year, either out of doors or in but I hope to get this so that I cannot see enough for ten men waiting for mto get round to it A Young Farmer, in Boston Journal.

Running accounts will run away with a persons credit more rapidly than anything else. is to lie single-headed, resembling the American spread-eagle. The heart of the German eagle will represent the Prussian eagle, and that of the latter will contain the Hohenzollern eagle. It is said that Queen Victoria intends to reside lor a few weeks every year on her newly-purchased Irish estate in County Kildare, with the hope of diminishing, if possible, the hatred of the Saxon so long and so offensively displayed by her Fenian subjects. Hong Kong affords a singular instance of tint curiosities of taxation, One buu- Levi Lyman, a rich old man at Walpole, N.

is disposing of his property inlittle bequests among his friends while he lives, instead of leaving it to be quar relied over after his death, and finds it much more agreeable than the other plan. Persons aflllctod i 1th any of tho diseases arts-liver, stomach, nervous de- A Norwich family found a mysterious mixture in the coffee-pot, the other morning, which, it was explained, was due to there not being much coffee in the house, mum, and I put iu a little tay to fill up. Ing from a dlBOrderei blllty, dyspepsia or liver complaint, should try Porry Davis Pain Killer. It seldom falls to effect a cure In a very short time. Those troubled wife ague or chllla will find (t a sovereign remedy.

mind as narrow as the neejt of a half-.