The Farmer'* Rank.
The fartnor with the nabob rank*.
Ami with the gildod millionaire*;
l'or ho controls substantial banks,
And holds in them the safest shares.
Mis banks are banks of loam and day,
His shares are plow-shares In the mold;
The more they break the more they pay,
In dividend* of green and gold.
His face is bronzed with summor skins,
His honest hands are hard and brown ;
Hut there is something in his eyes
That came with light from heaven down.
He is not of the earth a clod,
With kings and millionairee ho ranks,
Where wood-birds sing and blossoms nod,
The farmer owns the best of banks.
PUNWENT PARAGRAPHS.
A corn dodger—The man who wears
shoes.
A man is like a carpet, when he is
kept down by tax.
Rscnlaptns practiced medicine oven
when an infant, which gave rise to tho
song, " M. D. is tho cradle."
The best description we have over
beard of a slow man wan that he wan
too slow to get oat of his own way.
The facetious postage-stamp clerk
who told a man that asked for two twos
that this was not an nsthetic po<t
oflice is now looking for a new sitna
tion.
A boy at Moline, 11., had to be
whipped thirteen times before ho would
consent to be vaccinated; but patience
and a peach-tree limb at last won the
victory.
Mo longer doth tha snipo
Pipe;
Mo longer doth tho quail
Hail;
Rut now wo like Ihem most
On toast.
Friend of the family to the boy twins:
•Tm afraid yon little fellows don't al
ways agree. Yon fight each other some
times, don't yon V Twins: "Yeth, thir,
thomtimlb." F. of the F.: "Ah, I
thought so. Well, who whips?' Twins:
"Mamma whips!"
One of tho sorest preventives of sea
sickness is to take oWt your stomach
and viscera, and leave them ashore
nntil yon return. This plan is attended
with some little inconveniences, bat it's
a solid preventive. Cat this out and
pnAte it in yonr hat. It ma/ save your
life next summer.
Brown, of Pniladelpbia, is a kind
hearted man. Every night ho gives
each of his children five cents for going
to bed early, so as not to disturb him
when reading the evening paper.
About midnight he creeps noiselessly
upstairs, takes the five cents from their
pockets, and gives them a whipping
for losing it.
"When I was yonng," says s yonng
man, mournfully, "my venerable grand
father never used to tip me, his invari
able excuse being: 'At yonr ago yon
haven't any need of money; but later
on, oome to me.' Well, when I was
eighteen I went to him and he coldly
hnttoned np bis breeches pocket and
said: 'At your age you ought to bo
making your own way in the world !'"
Twelve thousand shovels are manu
factured in the United States every
week. And yet, remarks Burdette,
when a man wants his own individual
shovel after dark, he has to paw and
claw around over two tons of soft ooal,
feeling for it, making remark* in tho
meantime that are enough to blister
any ooal shovel that ever hid itself be
twoeu the end of the shed and an empty
barrel.
A Ban Francisco paper says: "A very
hungry arrival at the Palace rnshed into
the dining-room the other day and fell
npon the eatables with great determina
tion. ' I declare I' said one of those
hotel funny dogs, who sat at the same
table. •My dear sir, yon remind me of
the Prodigal Son.' 'Exactly,' said the
hnDgry man, as he speared another cat
let. ' I'm foreed to eat with the hogs.'
And the lardy-dah was carried oat on a
chip."
Question in a French journal; "When
a lady receives a visit from a gentle
man, ought she to rise or remain seated
when the visitor enters and when he
takes his leave ?** If the lady lives in
Washington, says an American paper,
she will rise without regard to Parisian
etiquette and accompany him as far as
the hall, to see that he doesn't carry off
a ten-dollar ivory-handled umbrella in
place of the dollar and-a-half cotton
one usually carried by visiting states
men.
"Do yon believe in Bronson Aioott's
theory of mithetio eating?" arked n
Boston Isdy of her Chicago admirer.
" I don't know what Bronson Aioott's
theory of (esthetic eating is," he an
swered, "bnt when I'm hungry, a brace of
mutton chops, some porterhouse steak,
a dozen or two buckwheat eakee, four
acft-boiied eggs and a plate of bash
make a meal that is tostbetio enough
forme." "Yes, yea, bnt yon don't
understand me," impatiently added
his fair interrogator; "Mr (Aioott's
theory has reference to persons, not
to Pig*"
The street letter-boxes in Ban Anto
nio, Texas, have baen robbed so fre
quently that the postmaster has ordered
them taken down,.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Mashes.
Hashes of overy detcription, nays a
New York |Mpcr, are worn by tho
million, from the tiny infant in arms to
the silver-haired matron of mature
yearn. In the latter case the nash is
draped low on the left side of tho skirt.
This fanhion in a conspicuous feataro
on some of the most elegant imported
costumes. In dresses designed for
more youthful wearers, and where the
corsage is pointed behind, the broad
nash is net directly under it, giving tho
back of the tournure tho bouffant ap
pearance now no much nought for.
Mbort llnir Annln In Fashion.
Hhort hair in ugain in fanhion, and in
spite of all that can be or ban been
said to tho Jcontrary, ladies are sacri
ficing ull that remains of their "crown
ing glorv ' which is left from tho ravages
of bandoline, heated slate pencils and
crimping pins, to tho Moloch of tho
present fanhion. Those short, rippling
locks are to the last degree charming on
heads, hnt to many ladies it is far
from liecomiug, as it given them a mas
culine appearance not at all prepossess
ing; and even the pretty, round, tony
faced girls who turn themselves into
bewitching little Cupids by this style of
coiffure mast remember that they will
bo obliged to resort to the inevitable
Derby bat for a head oovering, an bon
nets, hats and tho stylish little French
toques cannot vory well be kept secure
without some foundation to which they
may l>e fastened.—.V< ir York Evening
Pout.
Thr .r.thritc f'raxr.
It is not by any means certain tha
tho esthetic craze is a craze at all. It it
dimply an innovation which, like a
pendulum suddenly act in motiou, has
swung past its lino of perpendicular.
One thing in certain ; this innovation
is boginning to dhow itself in tho style
of dres* worn by ladies in away that
promises the most complete and tho
most desirable revolution that can be
imagined. It is gotting to bo the
fashion for ladies to wear ostumes
adapted exclusively to their style of
looks, so that the garb of every lady
does to some extent represent hor
self; to produce, as if it wore
a blossoming of hor inherent
qualities. Now this is something in ac
cordance with the law of nature, and
the effect cannot help bnt be satisfac
tory. Wo shall have diversity instead
of uniformity, but as the diversity will
be nniform in consistency with the
varied expressions of nature, it will be
that diversity that yields a sense of
completeness instead of the broken,
dislocated effect produced by the uni
formity of the present style. It msy
be possible that the loUhetic innovation
will reach and to a great extent remodel
and beautify man's dross as well as
women's. Therefore let ns welcomo a
craze that promises to give us beauty
for deformity, and naturalness for un
nat ursine**. Chicago Expresa.
fashion Xnffi,
White is tho favorite festival oolor.
American silks and satins are winning
new praise abroad.
Embroidery on the fabric is the trim
ming for cashmere drosses.
Cable plush, with a cord bet ween
plush stripes, is a novelty.
Invisible green is the fashionable
color for tailor-made cloth suits.
Breakfast caps of silk muslin have
bows of plush ribbon for trimming.
The Marguerite corsage, with round
half-low neck, is worn by yonng ladies.
A green volvet corsage and train is
worn with white and gold brocaded
| satin.
Polonaises are fashionable, bnt must
match the skirt with which they are
worn.
Jockey rnstnmes, consisting of a long
coat basque and plain velvet skirt, are
considered very stylish.
Bonnets, muffs, pelerines, dress trim
mings, and fans made of peacock
feathers are mnoh favored.
Dolly Varden lives again in a new
polonaise, a novel neckerchief, and a
daintly shaped dancing shoe.
Pale pink and silver are very fashion
ably {combined in toilets designed for
yonng ladies' dancing parties.
The Parisian l£ir-dre*aer* complain
of a growing disposition in ladies to
dress their own hair, dispense with pro
fessional coiffeurs, and wear no false
tresses.
Pearl fringes, white silk, eheniUeand
seed appliques in elaborate flower de
signs, and cut crystal fringes, are lav
ishly employed upon coatly and elegant
bridal toilets.
Long heßhd India cashmere, just be
cause it is nnoommyn and unpreten
tious, is used alongside of the richest
silk, velvet and plush cloaking fabrics
for wraps of high ceremony.
Paris prescribes very plain dreues for
yonng ladies' evening wear, on whioh
no lace appears, the only trimming
being plaiting* of toile or of tho mate
rial. No lace is worn in the nook, only
tulle plaiting.
i Amoug the novelties in neok dressing
are the deep rolling collar and high
Elizabethan ruff; the former made of
heavy brocade velvet or satin, the lat
ter of wide lace of some rich pattern,
plaited up exceedingly full inside the
rolling oollar.
A pretty walking dress for a young
lady la mado of dark laurel green, Vi
gogne, with a plastron of moss green
plnflh, tho bnttona imitating urnall red
bcrrien. A pelerino and muff of the
plunh are lined with deep ctimson
surah, and finished with handsome tan-
Held of dark green chenille.
Among fabrics for children's dresspa,
nothing can be prettier than the soft,
moss like plushes which come in small
mnlti-colorod stripes ; there are also
chined, plaidod and moired plushes, all
of which ure used most effectively for
trimmings—that is, for sashes, revcrs,
collars, pockets and shoulder capos.
Lost of all, and most beautiful, are the
pale-hueu plushes in pale bine, silver
gray, pink and lilac, to be daintily
made np with white lace trimmings.
Homo of tho new Bernhardt gloves
which reach.far above the elbow, and
are especially designed to Im worn with
short-sleeved evening toilets, are
finished at tho tops with insertion
bands of costly point or duchesse lace
three inches wide, and above this a ruf
fle of tho same lace, put on with little
or no fullness. This gives a soft and
delicate look to that portion of the
glove which generally lias an unfinished
look, especially in tho Danish glove
that is left nn!<onnd at tbe top.
ItiiHtinfi Women ami Children.
Tho crying evil ia Russia, !o it re
membered, is and will be, heaven
know* for how long, its scanty popula
tion; ami tho main causes which pr >•
vent its growth are tho fearful mortality I
among tho children of tender age (forty !
per cat. before tho age of Uv.-) and the j
forocd barrenness of th- women Tho ,
women, especially of the peasant class,
usually marry late in life— not •' till
they have hardened their bones for
their hnabind's work"—and they are |
crushed by unconscionable hard t oil,
both in their girlhood and wifehood.
Here, as in Germany, a good helpmate
is expected by hei lord to be " as strong
as a mule," and hr mulish strength is
not spared, oven wbilo she should be
entitlod to the tenderest care. With
respect to the chil Iron tbosrt of tho
lower order, especially in tho emntry,
suffer from exposure to tho cruol
climate, partly owing to the boor's con
ceit that it is well tho weakling should
perish and only tho hardy survive, but
in a great measure from that dire
neceasi'.y whinh bids poverty sink or
swim. But even am tog the wnlbto-do
peoplo the children's constitution is
tampered with and vitiated from the
cradle by injudicious coddling and cot
ting. For the nursery, as we ail know,
Is an exclusively English institution,
and the children thronghont tho conti
nent, Germany, perhaps, excepted, are
sacrificed to their parents' blind fond
ness, being made to share the meals, to
keep the late honrs, and join in tho
talk of grown np peoplo, as much det
riment arising from tho unsuitable diet
as from the unnatural precocity of their
rnontal development, Hence nowhere
does one see so many pale, thin and
pnny, as well as knowing children of
tho upper classes, as thronghont tho
czxr's dominions; nowhere do so many
succumb to the treatment. But apart
from the training of children in private
j families, even in tbo foundling hospi
tals of St. Petersburg and Moscow (this
latter harboring as many as 13,000 in
mates, and the former providing for
29,000), we learn from Murray's hand
book, which lavishes the highest praises
onthevartnessand munificences of those
pnbli - charities, that "the mortality
among the children is very great," and
yet that " too msny of these infants are
saved at the expciso of the offspring of
the narses left at that critical age to be
bronght np by hand in tho villages." 80
little ia the Russian fit to govern human
beings even in tho narlieststago of their
existenco. —London
The Value of Local Paprr*.
Every honest reflecting mind knows
that tbo local newspaper adds much to
the general wealth and prosperity of
the place, aa well aa inoruaaea the repu
tation of the town abroad. It benefits
all wbo have business in the place, en
hances the value of property, txwides
being a public convenience, oven if not
conducted in the intereet of the ruling
politioal power. Its columns are not
filled with brilliant editorials, still it
benefits yon in every way. It increase*
j trade, it cautions against imposition, it
saves you from loss, it warns yon of
danger, it points out different advan
tages and increases your profits. Now,
If yon want such a paper yon most sup
port It by advertising jour bnsincaa in
it; assist in increasing its circulation by
getting your neighbors to subscribe
with yon for It. If you want snob a
paper, yon mnat not consider it an act
of charity to support it, bnt as a means
to increase your own wealth aa wall as
that of the place in whioh you live;
therefore, support it by advertising and
•nbacribiag and paying for it.—.Vw,
TIIE FAMILY IMMTOK.
Hlmpln llen,fit > |or Catarrh and llrom bill*.
It is now generally known that carbolio
acid is strongly disinfectant, and very
usefully applied to sores or pur
ulent wounds. Wood creosote is sim
ilar, is decidedly antiseptic, and quite
volatile. It is therefore natural to
suppose it would be useful when up
plied to catarrhal and bronchial affec
tions which arise from diseased or pu
trefying mncus. We learned of its
use for this purpose from Dr. Pesoetto,
a leading physician in the nated Italian
medical school in Gencm, Italy, from
whose conversations we gleaned por
tions of tho important article on
"Catcbiug (.'old and the Itemedies,"
given in last December's Anuricin Ag
ricultural. We have since recommended
the following treatment in many cases
with the best results. It can do no
harm, is simple, and is eminently
worthy of trial both for temporary and
chronic affections.
Fob Bbohcbitis.—Got from tho drug
gist's a little good wood creosote. Put
two drops of it into a bottle holding ft
pint or so. Pour in a little more than
half a pint of clear water, and shako it
well; also shake wall always before
using it.. Take a mouthful of this, throw
the head lia"k, gurgle it some time io
tho throat, and then swallow it. Re
peat this every two hours, more or less,
|soas to use the liquid within twenty
four hours. Pleach subsequent twen
ty-four hours us" three drops of the
creosote in three or four gills of water.
This three drops a diy may be con
tinued as long as bronchitis appears.
Two to fonr days is usually enough,
though it mar be continued indefinitely
without harm.
Fi.a CATAHmi.-~Prcj.are the creosote
water as above, in any amount, at the
rate of one drop of crootoVc to ono giil
of water {four dr ipi to tho pint), or a
little more water if tho creesoto l> -
very strong and the water too irritat
ing. Make a fresh mixture once in
iwo or three dars, an 1 as much oftener
as more is needed. Take a handful of
this water, previously well shaken, and
snnff it through the noon into the
mouth an 1 eject it. A little going
down the throat will do n 1 barm. l)o
this t wo or three times, and r -p it it a',
bedtime, in the morning on rising,
and, if need ho, occasion!? duripg the
day. Ia fart, keep the nual passages
washed out with the creosote water.
Its vapor will evn jienetrato tho bony
cavities, and also be drawn into the
lungs with useful results. It destroys
the purulent moms, and tends to pre
vent its further secretion. It is useful
for any discharges from the nose or
lungs produced by colds or general
weakness.
For broachit.s, an 1 especially for
catarrh, good rare cooked beef or other
nourishing food, and junirte if needed,
to obtain and retain a vigorous system,
are capital aids to the ere nolo or any
other medicine Antorican AiHcul
turM.
JfUlletec.
Apropos of an article on mistletoe
which appeared in the Pall Vail (fa
itfife, a correspondent writes :To those
who hove not looked into the matter it
swill l> a surprise to learn that English
mistletoe ia rarer on oak trees than on
other trees. But it may be of some in
terest to state that in other parts of tho
world oak trees are a Tery favorite
abode for this curiniy parasite. When
some years ago I was traveling ia early
April through Arcadia, on my way to
visit tke faraons temple at we
passed on s rugged mountain side
through what was evidently the rem
nant of an ancient oak forest. Tho
trees were bnt dwarfs compared with
onr British oak, and they were very
thinly scattered. Bnt on every tree
grew one or more big bunches of mis
tletoe It was of a beautiful pale
green, verging toward yellow, and very
piotnrmqne it looked among the bare
gnarled branches.
El ward A. Frroman. the English his
torian, wbo ia now visiting this oountry,
said to a lialtimom interviewer:
"There is one thing that striken tne M
peculiar in this conntrr, and that is
your newspaper*. They ate conducted
on an entirely different style from tboae
in Europe. In your paper* moat of the
space ia taken np with local new* that
mnat internet only tboae realding in the
locality where it ia published. Your
newapapera publiah matter* that our
journal* would never think of printing.
In our newapapera wo And newa from
all quarters of the globe, and which ia
of greater general internet. Bat I aup
pjee thia ia because you have no oenter
like L >odon. That oity ia to oa what
New York and Washington together are
for you. One ia the commercial and
the other the political capital of the
oountry, while London la both. Then
are only two New York paper.) that print
any foreign nawa af consequence. I
notioe that the aixa of your papers, aa
well, aa of our*, ii larger than that of
French papers, whioh arc pnbliahed on
email sheets, and I am at a losa to
aooonnt for it"
TOPICH OF THE DAY.
More railroads wero built in the
United States lost y< ar than ever be
fore. About 0,000 miles oi track were
laid on 25* different roads. Texas leads
with 1,411 miles, and Colorado follows
with 500 miles; lowa, Dakota and Ohio
have added over 400 miles each to
their railway system, while Vermont
constructed only two miles, and Rhode
Island but one mile and a half.
According to a German economist
tbe income of the world is #13,520,000,-
000; debt, #10,020.000,000; taxes,
#2,002,000.000, eapitsl, 8*5,612,000,000.
Sweden has the smallest debt, or #50,-
000,000; France tbe largest, or #2,140,•
000,000. The United States has tho i
largest income and England the most j
capital. Italy is the heaviest taxed,
jtayiug thirty five per eout. of its in-1
come for tans, to the average fifteen !
per cent of other nations.
Mr. Jackson, u young American who
has become the favorite friend of the
king of Wartemberg, has ceased to be 1
a citizen of tho republic, having sworn
allegiance to the country wherein ho
has come to high honor. He has lately
been made a baron and privy coun
cillor, and his breast is covered with
decorations bestowed upon him by the
Austrian emperor, by his royal friend
and by the king of Saxony. A corre
spondent of tho Boston Herald saya that
the father of this youth, who is both
modest and intelligent, was a relative
of Stonewall Jackson.
Dennie Dnnlap was a throe card
monte man attached to a circus. A
greenhorn whom he had swindled out
of #2OO, at Assumption, La., complained
, to a justice, who not only issued a war
rant but went to the tent to serve it.
Dennie was operating another victim,
and ho quietly offered the justice #2O
not to Interrupt him for ten minutes.
This proposition was declined. Then
the gambler angrily d<w a revolver,
but the justice tired quickest, killing
him instantly and coolly recovered the
#2OO from his pockets. Tho gambling
' privilego of tbat circus is now for sale.
One of the Strang, at incidents of the
Vienna theater fire came to light in the
rescue of a young artillery private after
three days and nights of pecnliar suf
fering. Ho endeavored to escape from
the burning building by a stage door,
bat owing to some mishap fell through
a broken trap into a deep cellar. Here
the poor fellow remained for seventy.-
two hours without sleep or food, and
from tho constant pouring of water into
tho cellar from the engines came near
being drowned. His cries were at last
heard by an inspecting fireman, who
took him out of tho water, which was
np around his chest.
The census office has eomtni nioned a
representative to oollcct in (urination
regarding the water supply and the
sewerage system* of the larger citiea is
the country, with a view to gaining
light on the problem* concerted with
the rate of mortal ity is the different
cities and the diseases which chic fir
prevail This investigation is in keep
ing with modern progress, which aims
at gjtting at tbs root of everything
with scientific exactness. Thus far
three citiea have been examined—Phila
delphia, Chicago and Cincinnati. The
latter prides itself npon the fact that
moro water flows throrgh its sower*
than in either of tho other places
named.
United States Consul Baker, of
; Bnenos A? re*, thinks that tba ostrich
. can b domesticated in the United
States and made profitable. He de
scribes an ostrich farm situated about
fifteen mi lea from Buenos Ay res, and
give* many instructions tor the benefit
of those in this country who maydenire
to go into the business. Pall grown
birda cost from #I,OOO to #1,200 de
livered at Bnenoa Arras, and 5,000
birds can be kept on 6,000 acros of
land. Tho gross income derived from
ehicks prodnoad by one pair of birda is
from $2,000 to #?,000 per annum. At
Cape Colony $40,000,000 are invested
in the business, and the business, and
the value of the feathers annually pro
duced is #4,500,000.
Frank White, of Leadviile, 001., re
turning alone from a trip in the Indian
country, fonn-l himself freezing to
death in a blinding snow-storm on the
Grand river. Kamembering that he
had beard of old travelers on the plains
talk about the latent heat In a snow
bank, he dag a deep hole in a drift
with hia hand* and crawled in. Pres
ently he began to feel more comfortable,
and the deli jhtfnl but ominous drow
siness which prooedes death by frees,
ing stole over him. lie fought against
It in vain, and at last became uncon
scious. The next morning ha awoke,
not in eternity ar he had confidently
expected to do, bat In the snowdrift,
warm and snug aa the traditional bug.
Through thia extraordinary experience
Mr. White has con Delved each • high
opinion of the value of latent heat to
the mining community that ha k
anxious to have it called regularly on
tbe exchanges.
A committee of Presbyterians well
known in philanthropic work, with Mr.
William K. Dodge at their head, have
presented a memorial to Congress ask
ing for amj 1° appropriations for the
education of Indian children, and for
the passage of a law providing for the
settlement of Indians in severalty, their
lands to be held by them in fee simple.
The committee say : "If the city of
Philadelphia, with its KOO,OOO people,
can easily educate its 105,000 children,
bow much more easily can the nation,
with its 50,000,000 of people,undertake
to educate its 50,000 Indian children V
Tbe memorial farther points out whut
has heretofore been accomplished in
this direction, and refers particularly
to the training schools at Hampton,
Carlisle and Forest drove, in which the
education of Indian children Las al
ready shown gratifying results. The
committee suggest to Congress "the
huthorir.uion of the establishment of
other similar schools at military }o*t*
' which have been or may be vacated in
! different parts of the country."
An interesting discovery is reported
from Pole, the chief cava) station of
tho Austr an empire, and formerly a
station of the Itonian fleet. Near the
huge amphitheater, only .second to the
coliseum in size and massivencnj of con
struct ion, some workmen were lately
engaged in digging an ice cellar for the
use of fhe squadron and the naval ar
senal, when at about a yard's depth
from the surface they camo upon a
statue nine feet three inches in height,
representing a Human emperor,'and in
a state of almost perfect preservation.
This effigy, executed in Grecian mar
ble of the finest quality, is stated to b
the most beautiful and highly finished
| effigy of it* kind in existence. It has
not as yet been recognized as the por
trait of any particular emperor, but
would apj>e*r to be rather an ideal or
' typical presentment of the Human
Oar. It is supposed that tbia noble
Matue originally a lorned one of th
niches of the restilmle belonging to the
1 theater built by Augustus CVsar in
' honor of his daughter Julia, and licar
! ing her name. .
: At a meeting of the National Asso
: cia ion for Uie Protection of the Insane
i and the Prevention of Insanity, held in
New York, Dr. C. F. Dana, in a paper
I read by him, gave the following intcr-
J eating facts: There are at present in
the United State# about (>3,000 insane
. people, or ona to 777 of the popnla
, tion. Twenty years ugo the ratio was
, one to 1,310; in 1875, one to 033. The
ratio in England is one to 350. By
i sections the ratio ia: In New England,
one to 588; Middle States, cne to 000;
[ Western State*, one to 850; Southern
; States, one to 1,100. The ratio to
which we may look forward in the fu
ture ia, in New England, one to 500;
i West, one to 000; Sonth, one to *OO.
i In I*Bl there were seventy-four State
and thirty-four private asylums. The
cost of maintaining tbcm was $12,000,-
000 a year. The needs of the insane
I are want of room in ssylnms, acpara
tion of acute and chronic patients and
epileptics, improvement in the laws of
commitment, more amusement and
work for patients snd a separation of
State asylums fmn political influence.
Concerning tho growth of the iron
interest in this oonntry, it appears from
tho report that in 1870 the total nom
bor of hands employed in the varions
iron and steel works of the country,
and in tho mining and other operations
in direct connection with those works,
an increase of mora than eighty-one
per cent. Of the total number of
hands, 72,037 in 1870 and 133,203 in
1880 wero males over sixteen years of
ago. Women's and" girls' labor is
soarcely used at all. for obvious reasons,
only sixty-six being engaged in the
work in 1880 snd eighty-two in 1870.
The total amount paid in wage* was
840,614,981 in 1870, against $55,476,785
in 1880. As we have said, the average
prions of skilled and unskilled labor for
1870 are lacking. In IHgo, however,
I skilled mechanics received on the sv
•W 82.59 a day, and ordinary laborers
got 81.24* the highest wages paid being
in the Pssifio States, where the mills
are few, an 1 the lowest in North Oaro
lias, whera the labor waa largely that of
oolored men. In the Eastern States
the average for skilled mechanics was
82.70 a day, and for unskilled workmen
81.21; in the Western States 82.70 and
sl-31, respectively, against 83.50 and
81.75 in the Pacific Slates.
The tea plagues of a newspaper office
are bones, poets, cranks, rata, cock
roaches, typographical errors, exchange
fiends, book can maser*, delinquent sub
aortbera and the man who always
knows how to ran the paper better
than the editor does hi man If fi'rsr
1 o-k Commercial,
"Make Somebody Glad," urges a re
cent poem. Hundreds of yonag men
oea comply with this request by simply
bidding her good-night two or three
hours earlier on Sunday nights.