r A Forthcoming Duel. Richard Schkll and Lawrence Jerome, two well known brokers, of New York, are no longer the friends that they have long been popularly supposed to bo. Both are keen and sharp as a briar, and would scorn the Imputation that they could be taken In by the ordinary and average speculator. But they have each been accustomed to trust Implicitly to the pood faith of the other. It seems that Uncle Dick, as tho former Is sometimes Irreverently called, induced the latter to invest in a quantity ot western union Telegraph stock, and then proceeded to set on foot certain reports which caused a ranld depreciation, and caused, also, Mr. Jerome to lose a goodly sum of money. The latter did not like this treat ment, and , forthwith wrote to a newspa per, and told the public just what he thought of I'ncle Dick. In the plainest and pithiest English at his command. Uncle Dick was indignant. He felt that an At tempt to horsewhip Mr. Jerome in the public street would probably be fraught with difficulties, and perhaps, with dan ger, and to pull his rival's nose, would be a paltry ana Insignificant revenge. Long and earnestly he debated the ouestion and finally concluded to write a chal lenge, inviting that gentleman to meet him on the 1st of June at some point on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Kail- road, there to commit their dillerencc to the issue' of mortal combat. He would not presume to dictate, but he thought the locomotive would be a novel and ef fective weapon. Ilis proposition was that each man should drive his own engine, and having committed his soul to heaven and his nrooertv to the next of kin. should attempt the somewhat hazardous experiment of trying to pass the other on a single track. The company would doubtless make no objection to providing the engines at a reasonable price, as they had on their lino plenty of old and worn out machines, which they would be rather pleased than otherwise to get rid of at a fair valuation. Having dispatched this challenge by a confidential messenger, Uncle Dick seated himself in his easy chair, and with some nervousness, but un abated determination, awaited the result. About the same hour Mr. Lawrence Je rome wa3 sitting in a sumptuously fur nished apartment in his residence. He, too, was nervous, though he knew noth ing of the plot hatched in the fertile brain of Uncle Dick, whereby he was to be hurled into eternity amid the crash of lo comotives : but for twenty days he had been paying his brother 2J per cent, for carrying his Western Union stock ; hence the gloom which overspread his rubicund countenance, and the maledictions, not loud but deep, which occasionally escaped him as he remembered the glowing repre sentations ot Uncle Dick. A letter ws placed In his hand by a servant. He opened it with unwonted haste, for it might be from his broker. It was not. however, and well might Mr. Jerome rub his eyes In amazement as he read the start ling challenge from Uncle Dick. At first ho was disposed to look upon it as a gigantic joke, but as he read for the second time the threatening document he neiu in ins nana, ne Decame convinced that the sanguinary spirit breathed in every letter of it, though perhaps most clearly visible in cue Plots ami scratches, was not the senseless loke of an idler, but tiie inexorable determination of a man who thirsted for his blood. Mr. Lawrence Jerome is a brave man, but he has a fami ly; and the thought that shouli he fall before the rush of his opponent's locomo tive, he would leave that family disconso late, save tor the inconsiderable consola tion to be derived from the possession ot a quantity of Western Union stock and a wrecked locomotive, was more than he could bear. More than this, even should he escape, the pleasure of contemplating the mangled remains of Uncle Dick would be dearly purchased at the cost of the locomotive. Some comfort, however, at tended the recollection that an arrange ment might be effected by which the estate of the dead man would pay for the two locomotives, unless, as was most probable, both men should be killed, in which case, except to the surviving rela tives, it would matter but little how the engines were paid for, or whether they were paid lor at all or not. Fortified by this idea, Mr. Jerome sat down and replied to Uncle Dick's chal lenge in terms, if possible, even more des perately vindictive than, those used by his opponent. He longed to take his place on the iron horse, swoop down with a whistle upon his betraver, and dash tri umphantly up to the nearest station with the lifeless form of his opponent sticking to tiie cowcatcher. This was not exectly the sort of answer Uncle Dick expected to receive, and he was proportionally nonplussed. However, there was no time to waste in useless regrets, and he at once began a diligent study of the construction of the locomotive. Hitherto the proceed ings had been conducted with perfect secrecy, but now all Wall street was ring ing with the rumor that the lives of two of its most prominent men were in peril It was received with incredulity, espe cially when the street liearj the descrip tion of weapons to be employed in the approaching combat, but as one circum stance after another lent strength to the rumor, it began to gain credence, and it was not thought unworthy ot two ot the giants of Change that in the settlement of mortal feuds they should depart from the beaten track of ordinary men.---N. Y. Sun. Dr. Whewcll. dr. w hewell, "rose trom nothing," as the phrase goes, to a great position, and corresponded with all the men of science of his time. "Science," as you remember Sydney Smith wrote of him,"was his forte, ana omniscience his weakness." Ol this last foible many anecdotes are related. A number of scholars who were engaged to time with him on a certain day agreed to read up various abstracts and out-of-the-way subjects, wherewith to puzzle him;; but they found he knew a great deal more of them than they did. At last one tackled him upon the principles of Chi nese music, and here he thought he had an advantage. " You do not appear to be acquainted witn the treatise upon this subject in the Encyclopedia Eritannica." "Aay, Sir; I ought to be so, since J wrote it myself, though J. have since found rea son to change my opinion." Dr. Whewell was very fond of ladies' society, and in it dropped his somewhat Abernethyan (not to say bearish; man ners. When ciphers were in the rage some fair charuier asked him to invent a cipher lor her a large order, which did not, however, embarrass him In the least' He sat down on the very spot and wrote her one ; "U 0 A 0 but I 0 thee : O 0 N O 0 but O 0 me." Being a poet among his other accom plishments (indeed he won the university prize for English verse), he afterward put this achievement into verse : " You sigh for a cipher, but I eigh for thee: Oh, aigU for uo cipher, but oh, sigh for me I " Cor. Harper's Bazar, Brlgham's Strategy. That extremely able person, Mr. Brig ham Young, in relinquishing many im- Eortant trusts which he had caused the atter-day Saints to impose upon him, has vet most firmlv impressed his person ality upon the form of church government even when nominally leaving It. He has subordinated the "Twelve Apostles" of uosepn bmitn to the counsellors, tne right of appointing whom has lately been con ceded to him by the congregation of Is rael. It is hardly just to say-that he has thus outwitted the Saints, but he has cer tainly accomplished a coup d'etat so far as the apostles are concerned, and wrested from them their power in order to give it to his own creatures, two of whom among WW counsellors are bis sons, TheMor- mons, so far rt least as their itrlctly reli gious notions are concerned, are essen tially mystics and believe in mystical in terpretations as strongly as did the Phar isees among the Jews. The analogy of iirighanvs seven counsellors witn tn seven angels of the dispensation, the seven heavens, and tfie "seven planets" win unuouotediy BtriKe tno imaginations of manv of them, and reconcile them to the innovation upon the ancient order oi things. The trap was cleverly ana aim- .1.... 1 .. . ,1. rr . 1 1 Vi uuuijr r,,iuii( ii,uii uic x na,c, ttii.ii wnom no consultation naa oeen ncia in regard to the matter, and before they knew It, tliev were more under the con trol oi the I'rophet than they naa ever been beloro. His successor will probably be one of his own sons, or possibly Oeorge Q. Cannon ; the Apostles Hyde, Pratt. and l nv or. beliiff c everiv debarred ironi the ofllce. In the Presidency of the Mor mons there is no longer a quorum of three, but only Brigham, with his coun sellors, seven, and among the Apostles are his devoted friends George A. bintui, Albert Carrington. George O. Cannon. Lorenzo Snow, and Brigham Young, Jr., by whose aid lie can work against tho re maining seven by taking away the mem bers still nominally connected with the Twelve, and filling up tho quorum with his own men. If the Twelve are children of light, Brigham is evidently a child of this world, for lie Is wiser than they. N, Y. World. Digestion and Legislation. How much of the distracted state of re cent legislation has been produced by tho work of law-making being carr'ed when the (trains of the l-iw-makers are ob-curcd by fumes of dinner, and the lungs disordered bv an impure atmos phere ? The evil is one which everybody recognizes in general terms; but tho re cognition is of that imperfect kind whiol produces no corresponding fruit in action The most important part of nil public business is probab'v performed by men whose st ite of health is below par, and at hours ot unusual latigue ana obiuscatton. Everybody who is accustomed to intel lectual work knows the importance of seizing the few hours during which his faculties are perfectly fresh, and he is un conscious ot the load oi heavy matter which he is compelled to drug about with him. But in practice, legislation of all kinds frequently consists in first reducing some hundreds of gentlemen to a condi tion in which their brains are working with diminished energy, and then induc ing them to catch at the first compromise which allows them to escape from a di lemma which they are too dull to solve logically. " f you want to hang him, hang him; and if vou want to let him go. let him go ; but, for God's sake, let's get out of this!" were the emphatic last words of the celebrated Cornish juryman; and they pretty well represent the state of mind in which decisions are taken by a distracted meeting of nrjy kind. Now a genuine appreciation f the vast import ance of thorough physical health would lead to the conclusion that you should no more set people to decide difficult points of legislation when they are necessarily in a state of muddle, than you should set a man to row a race lust after a heavy din ner. The work which Is done well is that which is done with a fresh brain and a system not overloaded. Our present svs tern seems to go on the hypothesis that the digestion is lur too contemptible a thing to be taken into consideration at all. Perhaps the consequences are about what we muht expect lrom the premises witn Which we start. Saturday Keview. Incremation. The Rev. Charles Voysey, an emiiwnt English clergyman, comes out strongly in a letter to the London Index in favor of the' new plan. He proposes that when death has ensued the body should be chemically destroyed, and "then,", he says, " it should be placed in some recep tacle containing those powerful agents known to chemical science, which would simply annihilate the outward form, and practically destroy it. 1 here would ne- .cessarily be some deposit, which one might call 'ashes' of the dead; and these might be reverently gathered and placed in a beautiful urn or vase, to be disposed of according to tne wishes ot the survivors They might easily be deposited in conse crated places, in niches in the walls of churches, or in mortuary chanels designed for their reception. This, too, might be accompanied by a religious service : so that the religious element is left untouched by my revolutionary proposal. The ad vantage of all tills to people of highly wrought feelings would be immense. I can imagine the peaceful calm which would steal over the mind when one could take reverentlv into one's hands the sacred urn and say, 'This holds all that remains of mv beloved.' Xo horror of dark vaults and damp graves, with their seething corruption. o precious tody being eaten piecemeal by worms of the earth, or melting awav in a loathsome stream. The form is changed ; the sut stance really remaining after chemical burning is not in the least degree suggef- tive of the past or the future. The bodv is saved thereby from every possible dis honor, purified from every decav. No words can describe the relief which such a process would bring to manv and manv an afllicted soul. On the ground of health to the community, it would also be most salutary. We little know, in England at least, what mischief Is brewing for us in our seething cemeteries. They are get ting fuller and fuller, at the rate of I know not how many corpses a day, the later ones being nearer and nearer the surface. Many are within four feet ot the turf, and that is not enough to prevent the escape oi the most ioi ii ana pestilential gases. Know ot one old cemetery which Is i:ow occupied by a cooperage, and which is constantly wet with stagnant water. All around it typhus fever is perpetually rag ing. The danger would not be so great if tne Douies were uurieu without a coffin The earth would sooner disinfect them but as it is. the mischief is nursed ant multiplied a hundred-fold by the process oi uecay Deing delayed. ' An International Scandal. Though it has been understood from the beginning that the appointment of Commissioners to the Vienna Exhibition were lionorary and carried no salary, the pressure to obtain these places has been unprecedented. At first It was hard to understand why the applications were made. Some disgraceful lacts have leaked out since, which show that the same cor ruption that had made other offices a bv- word had found footing in these places of nonor. it was charged explicitly that two of tho sub-Commissioners appointed by Colonel Van Buren had agreed to ob tain for their clients certain restaurant privileges, for which they were to be paid $0,000 and $2,000 .severally. Investiga tion has shown these charges to be but too true. When the first whisper of the scandal reached Washington, the Secretary of the Treasury telegraphed to our Minister at Vienna, Mr. Jay, asking him to act with Sub-Commissioner Thomas McElrath, as a board of Inquiry into the alleged cor ruption. They were not lonr in finding the culDrits. Instead of helping on the great work that Austria had planned, they had been portioning out the plot of land given to the United States Into places for soda-water stands and baked-bean depots. Their covetousness had overreached itself, however, in their eagerness to get their money and put their friends in possession of their stands. They will be removed, and the corruption will stop here. But the scandal will remain. N. Y. Graphic. One may live as a conqueror, a king, a magistrate; but he inuc die as a man. The bed of death brings every human be ing to his pure individuality, to the in tense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, between the creature and his Creator. Ocean Ballooning. A coRREsrownitNT of tiie New York World has been interviewing Donaldson, the aeronaut, and thus writes : lie said he had made but one ascension with a basket, and that was his first and his last in that manner. The very first time he had witnessed a balloon in mid-air he delighted in the thought of performing on tno trapeze-bar under it. in repiyio a ouestion concerning fear he smiled and stated ho was not acauaintcn witn n. -n 1 had Known wnat lear was," no contin ued, " I should never have had sufficient courage to perform for the first time the drop act." lie had reicrence to vingex tended on ins back on the bar, head and feet extended, and then to drop head first and catch himself by the toes, and in this position, hanging head downward, sail in rougn tno air nunureus oi iccc aoove the earth. "For," he continued, "it must be borne in mind that in performing the act my weight, 180 pounds, Is taken off of the balloon irom tne time i orop until i catch myself by my feet. Taking off this weight from the balloon naturally causes It to shoot up with great velocity, and therein is the great danger. The balloon rises with force when no weight Is at tached, and if care is not practiced the bar will shoot up and be Very apt to sweep past any obstructions like a man's feet, and thus throw him from the bar and send him tumbling headlong toward the earth Ik'lore I tried the experiment I had no means of ascertaining what the result would be, but as I had no fear as to the consequences I went up and successfully performed what no other man in the world has vet done." I asked him why he was engaged in such reckless and dangerous business, and he told me that at lirst ne old it in a proles slonal way as a matter of business, to ad vertise his entertainments as a magician finally lie inaugurated a system of lec tures. He would make an ascension and afterward tell the story of his aerial jour ney from tho stage in some hall, to an audience at so much a head. Now he states he desires to aid science. In a few days he will ascend in a paper balloon, glued together, for the reason, as he says, to satisfactorily demonstrate to men of science the entire safety in bal looning in the original manner. " Men of science," said the aeronaut, "cannot be induced to visit cloudland, and as long as they remain away the vast resources of that undiscovered country will remain Idle and useless forever." I found this daring man also a thinking and a careful man. He complained at length of the unwise expenditure of monev m examining ocean beds and the like, When a great natural highway in the air needed immediate attention. He dis approves of the present method of gen erating steam, Decause me weignt oi ma chinery is too great for the power re ceived. Air contains all that is required moisture from which steam can be gen erated, and pure hydrogen for buoyancy and electricity for additional power. These natural agencies in the air can be gathered as they are needid, thereby averting the necessity of carrying fuel, &c, as is at present the custom with steamships and locomotives. Ho says these things are all lying idle and waiting tiie visitation of practical scientists to ex amine and put them into use. He con tinuvd : "I would perfect and patent a llymg-maching, but nave not the time, People are afraid of height, but, seeming ly, not of depth. They cross the ocean, brave water, storm, and drunken sea cap tains, but they would shrink in holy hor ror at the thought of crossing tne ocean in a balloon." This led the conversation to the subject of ocean ballooning. Donaldson has his plans, specifications, and arrangements all finished ; and by letters in his possession his project is approved of by Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington and other scientific men Donaldson is positive of reaching Europe by balloon, and as firmly believes that the constantly blowing current of air irom west to east, at an altitude of something less than a mile high, was specially crea ted bv Providence for ferial navigation. The current that Donaldson speaks of Is a continual blowing from west to east when at a certain altitude, and by this he is confident of landing on the coast of Ireland in aoouc two ana a nan uays. He will start, however, when the lower current of air is blowing toward the east and continue In it so long as it blows in that direction. It it changes he can ascend to the upper current and still go on towards the east. His plans, he thinks, are excellently arranged, he having thor oughly provitled for every conceivable ac cident or misfortune. In conclusion he remarked : " Some day the people will assuredly hear of ocean ballooning, and it will bo regarded as ordinary a thing as deep-sea telegraphing. Passengers will be transported back and forwards. acrss the Atlantic in one-tilth the time'aiul at half the'eost of the present steamer fares. Mails will be transported by balloon, and thus ocean steamers will be only used for the transportation ot freight ana mer- chandise.' The Modern Tree of Knowledge. Jost.ui QrixcY, in speaking of news papers and their worth, savs : " l ou will find copious extracts giving the heart of tne best modern books, and intelligent summaries of the svstems thev nrlvotmto. Here are occasional sermons Into which leading divines have put their most earn est thought. Here are vigorous expres sions of the best political Intelligence cupped from the leaders oi the best news papers. And. quite as important, here are little crisp criticisms of blundering political work trom indignant citizens. whose daily duty has brought them face to lace with tne absurdities ot legislation Take the best newspapers by all means as manv of them as vou can afford and then take nine-tenths of their reading mat ter lor granted, some ot it is good for noooay; mucn ot it is goou lor some body ; but only a small part is wanted by you. But how precious are these frag ments, it wisely chosen. It you are in terested in the investigation of any politi cal subject and every American citizen should have some study of this sort you will find in almost every newspaper an il lustration of some aspect of it. Itemem ber it is better to subscribe to a few first class newspapers, that you may read at home with the scissors in your hand, than to glance over a score of them in a public reading-room. Almost everything that is good ana useful to Know gets said or copied or suggested in some column of our free press. Venerable absurdities are exposed by thinkers of acknowledged ability; and institutions worth preserv ing are defended against the assaults of the foolish. But, it newspapers may be put to nooiesc uses, nicy may oe so used as to enervate, ana even to demoralize Let us love them wisely, but not too well." Strike of the Waiter Girls. Th uuhappy waiter-girls of three Chi cago hotels are on a strike. Those at the banas uouse nave tor some time had a difference of opinion with the proprietor about the hour of rising, "reception hours," salaries, ana otner minor points. but their feelings were most outraged by a recent oraer mac tney snouia piously anstain irom nirting witn tne guests. They could be patient under other griev ances, -but under this, never; so they had a meeting and swore by all the gods and goddesses who preside over the dispen sation of hash that they wouid ttrike. And they remorselessly chose the dinner hour as the time tor action. The bell rang, and the famished guest took their places, and simultaneously the girls sallied out of the front door, dressed in their gay est finery. The frenzied proprietor pro moted laundresses, kitchen scrubs, Dell boys anything, everything to the va cancies thus created, and with this extem porized force the dinner was served. La ter in the day the " strikers" applied, for their back pay and trunks, which were refused them, and lawsuits sre expected. The trouble at the Briggs House was that the pay was lnsuincieni anu uieir ensuing-rooms not luxurious enough; the girls struck and were Instantly dis charged, and their places filled. At an- otner smaller now . " tirely about pay. anu tne propriciur hub concluded to grunt the coveted advance. exchange. The Circulation of the Blood. vt. fhnnsnrwlg of Tears, the hearts of animals had bren beating oeiore u was ais covered that the purpose of the continu ous action of that organ was to ormg tne supplies required for lnterstltional repair . 1 l . i . tha animal to tne rcmoiesb uiciuikh body, and at the same time to carry off the waste which had been replaced by fresh material. For thousands oi years, hriman hearts had been beating, and. mioii.ri ,r unnrticiai observation, tne heart-, was supposed to be the seat of thought and passion, the. center pf good and evil, devotion and love; and it was even compared by poets to an altar on which flames were burning, etc. Riii Tnniinrn hinlngists have changed all this. The human heart is no longer tho seat of the noble feelings of generosity, nVinrlrf nn1 nf lnvfil all theSO functions have been transferred to the brain, while th kMrt lina been rlesrraded to a simple hydraulic apparatus, in fact, to a machine to all Intents and purposes equivalent to a pump. if ntN.r hiivintr fullv realized the stu pVinno-n in our estimate of this noble organ, we make it our task to in vestigate its operation, our admiration nnrt (T lto-lir. p.onerninsr its exouisite con structloh compensates us fully for the dis nnnolntment which at first we may have felt when poetry had to make room for realitv. During the life of a mau, tills little pumping niacniue jieiiurms buuic 104.000 pulsations evorv twenty-four hours, 37,000.000 per year, and, in a life of su years, ncany a,uw,uuu,uuu oi puiaauuira without ever stopping, as a stoppage would 1m nt once fatal to the individual. Every pulsation projects six ounces of blood witn a force wnicn nas, oy experi ment, been determined to be equivalent to a hydrostatic pressure of eight feet, which is equivalent to a power of three loot pounds ior every puisaiion, mm 72 x 2 or 210 foot pounds per minute ; es timating the power of a strong man at 4,320 foot pounds per minute, ft is seen that the lluie niuscie wn.cn we can me heart exerts at every contraction a power equal to one twen'ieth part of the power which his whole body is capable oi exert ing : but then this power works night and day without his will, even without his knowledge, while man can only work one third of the time. The whole amount of blood propelled by the heart is 27 lbs. per minute, 1.020 lbs. per hour, 38.000 His. per day. 14.000,000 lbs. per year, 1,000, 000,- 000 lbs. in a life time. Are we not then justified in assctting that there is nothing lost to the eves of the. intellect, by the transfer of the heart from the domain f imagination and speculation to that of positive science ? The heart, with the regular musical rhythm of the contraction of its four chambers, the never failing opening and closure of its admirably constructed valves, sends the blood, which Is a most mysterious metamorphosis of the iood consumed, through the arteries, which by their elasticity equalize the rhythmical impulses into a steady current, when the blood reaches the capillary vessels ; here the blood is propelled further by capillary action, bv the forces of endosmose and exosmose ; the blood thus reaches every recess, either in muscle, ukin, nerve, or even bone. and. replacing every organic molecule which has become obsolete, car ries the latter through the veins towards the liver, kidneys, and spleen to be puri fied, and lastlv to the lungs to undergo the main implication, the throwing off of all gaseous matter, especially carbonic acid and the absorption of the vital oxy gon. Then It returns to the heart, to be again and again propelled through the body. Scientific American. Shooting Stars. Most people are like an egg, too phull ov themselfs to hold enny thing else. A reputashun for honor once lost, iz lost forever. Men whokno the least, alwus argy the most. To be a big man among big men, Iz what proves a man's karakter to be a oui frog amung taupoies, uont amount to mutch. What a blessed thing it iz that we kant " see ourselfs az others see us" the sight would tuke all the starch out ov us. I never question a suekcess enny more tnan 1 do the ngnc ov a duu uog to ue in hiz own gateway. To wake up from a sweet sleep iz to be born agm. Expectashun iz the child ov hope, and like i' s parent iz an arrogant brat. Mi friend, yumay be more cunning than most men, but yu aint more cunning than all men. Excentrlcitys are most alwus arty flshall, and the best that kan be sed of them iz. they are quite az often the result of dilll deuce az of vanity. If I want tew git at the trew karakter ov a man. i studdy hiz vices more than i do his virtews. Faith wont make a man virtewous, but it makes what virtew he haz got red hot. Those who expekt tew keep chemselfs pure in this life, must keep their souls bile tng all the time, like a pot, and keep all the time skimming the surface. Thare iz nothing so delUhus tew the soul ov man az an ockashunal moment ov sadness. The man whose only plezzure in this life Iz making munny, weighs less on the moral skates than an angleworm. Manner iz far more attraktive than matter monkeys are watched clusser than eagles are. Jelus people alwus luv themselfs more than they do thoze that they are jelous ov. The purest and best specimens of hu man natur that the world haz ever seen. or ever will see, hav bin the virtewous heathen. Men dont fail so often in this world from a want ov right motives az they do for hick ov grin. Thare Iz only two men in this world who never make enny blunders, and they are yu and tne, mi friend. Everv man seems tew have hiz price. except the newsmonger,' they prefer to work for nothing, and board themselfs. josn isuungs. Holland's Elephant. Thk little kingdom of Holland is hav-ino- it-a T?ln Van Winkle sleen of peaceful ness broken by the turbulence of a native chief In her far-away possession of the island of Sumatra. He calls himself the Sultan of Atcheen. and he is the ruler of a fierce, warlike people, who have thus far succeeded in maintaining theif Indepen dence of the Dutch. The trouble is that the Malay piratts, who are subjects of the eultan, have lately been committing ex tensive outrages on British shipping ; and as, by a treaty with Great Britain, Hol land is nledged to protect the British sub jects within the Jurisdiction of the island as well as her own, steps naa to do taiven to stop these piratical doings and get re paration. But protests had no effect with the Sultan of Atehin, and King William has finally lost patieiwe and declared war with the barbarian. Considering that the sultan has quite a formidable army, and tiieMiatAnrfl of Holland from the field of operations, the war promises to become a pretty cos'ly matter to the Dutch, and may prove as much of an elephant as the Cuban insurrection is to Spain. Spring field (Mass.) Republican. An exchange speaks of a third sex, Which it calls insects, FIELD AUD FAMILY. Ia agriculture, as in other matters, you must Invest a capital before you can get an Interest or profit. That capital may be in labor, or money, or manure. Good Tea Cakb. One egg, broken into a teacup. Fill the cup with sweet milk. Onn run nirar. One-half CUD butter. It litti nntmi-ir. one tea-sitoon each of saleratus anil cream of-tartar. Flour to make it the consistency of common sponge cake. Drop Johnnies. One cup sugar, and two eggs, well beaten together ; one cup cream, three cups buttermilk, one large hranlnu anoonfiil of saleratus. Salt and spice to suit your taste. Thicken with flour to a still batter. Drop in hot fat, a spoonful at a time. Fry the same as fried cakes. Masba's Frostino." Slice sweet oranges into a deep glass dish, removing can-fully every seed and all of the skin, i,.t- nn'ar v r im T.nufrn wmce ihh uuu , sprinkle with sugar, then grate the white of a cocoa n ut and cover about an inch deep. Stand about an hour before using. Seive in small plates, taKingcare iu nei-j the cocoanut on top. SriCK Pudding. One cup butter, one cup molasses, one cup of sweet milk. Three cups flour, one tcaspoonful of ground cloves, one of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of allspice; one tcaspoonful of soda one egg. Plenty of raisins. Steam three hours. Liquid sauce for spice pudding i Six tablespoonfuls of sugar, four tablespoonfuls oi butter, two table spoonfuls of vinegar, one tablespoonful of flour, ten of boiling water, a small lump of tartaric acid. Flavor with lemon ; mix thoroughly and boil. To Boil Lamb, Mutton, or Veal. Wrap the Joint or quarter of lamb, etc., Ptn.. In a nice cloth, wet it. and dust, it wir.h flour. Tet it remain so half an hour. Have the pot ready boiling ; dip the joint m first one cnu and tnen tne oiner men niil tr. in the not and cover closelv. Let It boil gently but steadily, an hour and a half for lamb, and two hours for veal and mutton. Sauce: Drawn butter, with iMinnnpd nnrt-lev. and sliced carrots, and nieViiul piienniiiprs. Boil carroti for a dish to eat with lamb. etc. Slice into it some potatoes, parsley and onions, and with a little thickening, you have a good soup Old Rkcipe kor Custards. The an- tiqnity of the following maybe as accept able as its excellence, liieuutuui i Klfi!. Tnke two ouarts of cream, and boil it-, well with whole sniee. then nut in the yolks of twelve eggs, and six whites, well henten nnd strained : then DUt in these eggs over the lire, and keep stirring lest they turn ; then, when tney arc uiorouf;ii- Iv hot, take it ou and stir it tin aimosi cold : then nut in l ost -water and EUgar, and takeout the whole spice; then put your custard Into several things to oase, and do not let them stand too long in the oven. When you serve them, strew on small French comilts of divers colors, or else tine sugar, which you please. A Good Farmer. One of our best and most accurate farmers informs us, says the Country Gentleman, that when a hoy as soon as he had learned book-keeping at school, his father employed him to Keep the farm accounts the cost oi moor, amount of work expended on each field time of performing operations, plowing, sowing, cultivating and harvesting, amount of crons. prices at which sale were made, &c. He soon became much interested in farm operations, and thor oughly acquainted with all the details of work, in a more complete manner than he ever could have been in any other way, and was earlv placed on the track of farm ing regularly and systematically. Let other farmers follow this example with their sons, and we should have less of random, hip-skip husbandry, and mote of order and success. Corn renews itself each year from the seed, but not so with the potato, for this plant Is propagated year after year from tubers formed on the procumbent stems, and of course, must, at each successive planting, be exactly like the original plant; for these tubers, or what we call potatoes, are net seeds but only burled or abnormal stems. Indeed, if an aerial stem, or stalk, of any kind of potato, be carefully bent down and covered with fresh earth, just allowing its top to extend out of the earth, small potato tubers will soon be formed in the axils of the leaves nearly its whole length. The procumbent stem that bears the tuber frequently shows its character by passing out of the hill, when It immediately turns, upward and be comes clotTied with leaves like the other stems. Does it Pay to Driix Wheat? A correspondent of the OAto Former answers the above question as follows : In mak ing ready for the wheat crop, does not the farmer select the best wheat land? Then does he not aim to have it in the best pos sible condition by scattering over it an abundance of compost, and with the dili gent use of the plow and harrow render it one grand mellow garden for wheat ? With equal care and judgment he pro cures seed large and plump and as clean as it can be made, even though it Is at the expense of time. After so much toil, is it not wise to adopt the best method for put ting in the grain? If the farmer has fol lowed broadcast sowing from year to year with only partial success, and frequently total failure, why not try to drill? Cer tainly the past year ought to convince a rational farmer of the superiority of the drill over broadcast sowing. It lias been a year of trial, and the drill triumphed. In a field, the soil of which was 'black loam, easily frozen, and of course would not stand a drought, the drill was used, and a tine crop of wheat gleaned, while ii sown broadcast no crop could have been expected, judging from similar fields sown broadcast. Then It is a saving of seed. One bushel of seed drilled is equal to one and a half sown broadcast ; and if the land is to be seeded down, grass seed can be sown at the same time. Let farmers think of this and act with wisdom. Buy a drill if the dimes are plenty, otherwise hire one. But use the drill by all means if you would receive pay for your toil. Grand Juries. Archbishop Whatei.ey said that ex perts, though the best class to judge of innovations of detail in their own calling, were the very worst class to decide upon changes which rose to be revolutions. The remark shewed the Archbishop's usual sagacity. It is undeniable that all great law reforms have been stubbornly resisted by practicing lawyers. We are surprised, therefore, to find in the Law Review an article, evidently written by an experienced criminal lawyer, which pro poses an innovation so sweeping as the abolition of grand juries. Thenumbcrof the grand jury is unwieldy, to be sure, and its proceedings are apt to be slow. But it is not the present grand jury alone that the critic objects to. It U to any grand jury at all. And his objection is simply that the grand jury is useless. It cannot by finding a bill secure an indict ment and trial. The public prosecutor may pigeon-hole its bill, or enter a nolle prosequi, or draw his indictment so loosely that it is sure to be quashed. It cannot by refusing to find a bill secure the release of the man whom it is unwilling to indict. The public prosecutor can dismiss his re luctant grand jury and present a new in dictment to another grand jury more pro pitious to him. In fact it is the public prosecutor who makes or mars the fates of persons accused of .crime before they are Drought to the bar, and it is he and not an acephalous, irresponsible, secret tribunal to whoai the credit for doing ids business well or the discredit for doing it ill ought to attach. The critic of the Law Review proposes to substitute for the grand Jury the United States commissioner in United State courts, and the district attorney in State courts, and tf give these function aries in name what they now have in fact the power to liold malefactors for trial and to discharge persons unjustly accused. He adduces several instances of how corrupt or stupid grand Juries can defeat the ends of Justice, and how prosecuting officers can deft at the ends of grand ) uries . Certainly the grand Jury Is costly and cumbrous,-and whether or not it is "a costly, useless, oiten dangerous joss, worshipped by the ignorant multitude, but scoffed at by its pritsts." Mio York World. Pain Kii.i.kr. In another column will be found the advertisement of Davis' Pain Kil ler. Tliero is prohnhly no other preparation manufactured that has become so much of a household word as the Pain Killer. For thirty years it hns stood before the public, and the Innumerable testimonials that have been called forth voluntarily, testify fully to im merit. When you need a liunlly medi cine buy tho Tain Killer. In all cases of excessive drinking the liver nnd kidnevswill he round seriously ntiecteu The stomncll reiuscs 10 nor, ami cannoi re tain the necessary food. The nerves are un- triimr. nnd the man feels truly wretched Of course, in such capes, tho first thing is to n tlin use of nlcoholic Bliiuulants. then restoro the disorganized liver nnd kidneys in t in r norma concuuon. xno meuiciiiB will so effectually d this as I'arker's Com pound Fluid Extract Buchu. If taken ilii-pptions.no doubts need be entertained of obtaining prompt and effec tual relief. Sold by all druggists, every where. Valuablk and Kkliablk. "Brown's Bronchial TitocnES" are mvaiuauie to those exposed to sudden changes, affording prompt relief in Coughs, Colds, etc. tfki,i.. I'nm II v Mod I cine. S'i- fard'i iW Inrlaoratnr a purely Vegetable Cnihnrtir ami r..n lor iyicpla. Constipation, Debility, Sic IleailacliB, unions aiuch. "117 nimti of Liver, Stomach anil Howels. Ask your Druggist lor 11. llrtcmrr oj imitdiiun. Soonkii on Latkk, a neglected Cold will de velop a constant Lough, (Shortness ot Jtreatn, FniliiiK Htienn'th, nnd Wnstlnir of Hefh, nil svnmtomntio of some serious Lung Allection, which may he avoided or pulliiited by using 111 time Dr. Jnyne's Expectorant. Arthur's Illustrated Home Maga zine. Among the Interesting contents of U10 Mav number nre : Frontispiece-a 1 lciure 01 me Old Homestead s The Sleeping Bnlie illustrated i The Strait, of Magellan illustrated 1 A Visit lo FricndB' Meeting; Iceland illustrated; Cruel Nursery Lessons; The Coming Schoolmaster; The (Jarpet-ciiillic illustrated; tioing with the Angels illustrated; A Day Lo-t; The Wolf and the Lainh Illustrated; The Deacon's Household! Alice and 1'liojlie Cnry and their Frionds; Crooked l'laces-, Hetty Henderson's Era; Neccs- itv rf Sleeui Our Club; Insubordination or, The Shoemaker's Daughter. The different House hold departments nre well filled with tisclul mat ter. Terms, $2.P0 a year, or $1 .50 for bIx months, with n reduction for clubs. A beaulilul steel en graving sent free to each subscriber, whi ther sin gle or in clubs. Address T. 8. An-riii-it & Son, I'hiladclplila, ra. Godey's Lady's Book. The embellish ments in the May number ' ' The Two Mothers," a steel iilntei "A Stiff Breeze," a handsome wood-cut; a Colored Fashion-l'late, and one of the best Kxtension Fashion sheets ever given in this magazine, with a full department of Designs make this the handsomest number of the year The literary contents are also very attractive, and much useful inlormatiim is given in the (in fcrcnt household departments. The publisher of this unsurpassed lady's magazine gives a hand some chromo to each subscriber for 1873, whether a single subscriber for or a club of six lor H Published by L. A. Godey, Philadelphia, Pa. TnE Children's Hour. Speaking of this beautiful little magazine the Clirittian Ex aminersays: ''The Children's Hour always ex cites a lively Interest in the children as soon as it appears. Its illustrations are bo beautiful, and so true to nature, that they strike the simple and in nocent minds of children us something made for them, and the interesting and instructive stories whfch crowd its pages are always eagerly reaa $1.2.) a year j five copies, $"ij ten, and one extra 810: extra inducements to getters-up of clubs. T S. Ahtiiur &Son, Philadelphia, Pa. Prop llio Fill Hug. It Is a great blessing to have by nature a strong constitution, but not more than one-half of the In habitants of the civilized world are thus provided Many constitutions are feeble to begin with, many others, originally vigorous, are crippled by over exertion, dissipation, unhealthy surroundings. grief, privation, or some other portentous cause, before the prime of life Is attained. But is this an evil without a remedy or palliative? No! Con stitutions can be replaced. Hundreds of thousands of Instances might be adduced In which constltu Uol al decay baa been arresteu by the continuous use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an lnvigo rant. It Is constitutional strength that enables one man to recover from a disease which would be mortal to another destitute of this element of re sistance. 'Whenever a malady of any kind obtains a foothold in any part of the human body, and be comes a hronlc fixture there, It Is proof positive that the constitution has been mastered by the dis ease and urgently requires help. In such a case Hostetter's Bitters should be taken at least three times a day. until the natural powers of the system are recruited. Then the morbid principle which generated and feeds the complaint will have to succumb to the Influence of animal vigor, aided by the toning, regulating, purlf) lng operation of the Bitters upon the organ or organs In which the ail ment Is located. Theres nothing like this mighty tonic to "prop the falling." The more inveterate and unmanageable a case of Ague may prove under ordinary truatment, the more striking is the immediate benefit of bhullenberger'a I'ills. WHEN writing to advertisers please mention the name of this paper. Secret of Perpetual Beauty. How to remove tan, freckles, pimples ITuni the skin without Injury, leaving complexion soft, clear and beautllul. Bent for 90c. Kdwln Monte, Box 200, Reading. Mleh. AUKNTN WANTKP everywhere. Samples and circulars mailed on receipt of fid cents, ii' 'H- 11AM GRAY. Mauuiacturer, Box HU, N. Y. City. THE VICTOR WASHER Is readily adjusted to any sized tub, easily operated, entirely supersedes the rub board, and Is admitted by all to be the cheapest and best washer In use. Agents wanted In every county In theU.B to sell the Victor. Kor Washers, or terms to auents, which are liberal, apply to THE VICTOR CO.. Klgln, 111. Correspondence solicited, circulars free. 'J tie tfreaU'nt bucit-Bttof inodi riijouniiil.t-in.the only original Am'HcanilluBtr.it'il paper published instruc tlve.fntcruintnKanaprojrrt'usive. Kree to every bii1 wribiT, tiie inatrulrteeiit chromo "JVar o high." Ttio niobt bnaul If ul ever published. Sold only by BuhHcrlp tlon. AffenM are having unheard-of tmccena.onejiav.nfr taken over 1.50U n nines- All pronounce lX& great von butatimi tut' bett chance for money -making ever ottered Circulars tree. Maclean, Stoddard & CoM Chicago, 111. DR. WHITTIER, mn:7:E!S:2!S- Loiiireit m'HKt-il, t i l mi! necfHiinl plijalcUn of tU tg, Owuuiutlou ur iuipblot frua. C'sUl ut- wrttt. WO RKIfcQCLASS wVJu u! blBPiiiiiloyniL'nt.atiuometduyuriJveniiiK ;nocajiituli'tjuir. 9d;full instructions and valuable pat knew of ftooda bent free by mail. A (Mrens, with six cent return nTninp. M. YOUNli tfc CO., 16 Cortlandt-at,, qw Vurk. Sewing Machine IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Agents Wanted. Send for circular. Address. " DOMESTIC 6EWIKU MACHIKE CO.,K.'T. tr0 f EACH WEEK-AGENTS WANT UP I Li.JJ VP. Business legitimate. Vartlcu. lars free. J. WORTH, etLouls, Mo., Box 2481. Write for Largo Illustrated Descriptive Price List to GREAT WESTERN Double single, MuzzleandBrcech-LoadtDgRines.Bhot Guiin.i:, volvers. Pl8iol,4c.,of every kino, for u.( ni,r buj a,at very low prlces.tiuua,t3 to toOOjl'uituU.tl lota Established YEARS. Jones Com'l and Telegraph College, FlfTU AND OLIV1 mT8, 8T. LOD18. dnnl.rs Oenn.a aod loglUh, aaa BpMlneai of Paaaua. skip). aulUta man. Wriuforoaa. HO VACATION. JONATHAN JONEBi Prmldenl. JUHK W. JUBMBOW, (lauiutf rrtsotpal. Hawr sJfci tf'rflaWmiaiil-ailttnii -HjDIO LEWIS. Editor. Epizooty Cold. Eplzooty Cough. If negleoted, will reiult in CONSUMPTION! YOUR REMEDY IS ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM! What the Doctor Sny. Amos Woolly, M. D.. of Koselnsco Co , Inn., snys t "For three years past I have used Allen s Luna- Hal. asm extensively in my practice, and I annul lulled there Is no better medicine for limn diseases lu use." jsaao A. ooran, si. v., 01 oiran Co., v., snysi "Allen's Luna llalsam not only sells rspluly, but Rives perfect satisfaction In every casewlttiln myknowl. oilfte. Having confidence tn It, and knowing; that It possesses valuable medicinal properties, t freely use it In my dally practice, and with unbounded suc cess. As an expectorant, It Is most certainly far aheaf OI any pri-pnraiion 1 na,ccrr iri nnun n. H 1 have no dnuht it will soon become a classical rem. NRtnnntel Harris, si. 11.. 01 5 Hid t-liurv. r Mr , y, Vt.( says t enlal aereni for the cure of all diseases ul Hie Throat, Brmiclilal Tubes and Limits." Pr, Lloyd, of Ohio, surgeon In the army daring the war, lrom exposure, contracted consumption, he says i " I haw no hesitancy In saying Hint It was by the tun of your Lung halsain that 1 am now alive and enjoying health." I)r. Fletcher, of T.exlngtnn, Mo., says: ' I rocom mend your Hnlnam In proierenee to any other lneul' cine for Coughs, and It gave sutlslactlun." Ors. Wilson & Ward, physicians ami ilnigfrlntK.wr to from CcntrevUle, Turn.: " We purchased Allen's Lung Balsam, ancVtt sells rapidly. We are pracllnlng physicians, as well as druggists, and take pleasure in reeommendl ng a great remedy, such as we kuuw this to he." ... rif Physicians do not recommend a mcdielns which has no merit. What they say ahout Allen'a l.iuio- Knlnnttl can be taken as a fact. Let all af. flleti J test It at oncu, and be convinced of Us real merits. It Is harmless (0 the most delicate child. It contains no Oplnm in any form. Directions accompany each bottle. Call for Allen'a Lung falsam. I. N. HARRIS Si, CO., Proprietors, CWCINNATI, OHIO. I y For Pitle by nil Medicine Denier. 12,000,000 ACEESl Cheap Farms! tub cubatzst land in market, for tale by the In the Great Platte Valley. 3,000,000 Acres in Central Nebraska Kow for sale In tracts of forty acres and upwards on rtve ano ten tears' credit ats feb cent. no ad vance interest required. Mild and healthful climate, fertile boil, a abundance of oood water.- THK HfcST MAKKKT IN THK V, fcHT 1 TnegTCRl Mining regions of Wyoming, Colorado. ITtah ana Ne vada, being supplied by the farmers in the Platte) Valley. Soldiers Entitled to a Homestead ol 160 Acres. THE BEST LOCATIONS FOB COLONIES. FTtEE TTOMES FOR ALL! 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Ro spring to break, no cutting of sashi cheap, dura ble, very easily applied; holds 6ash at any plaen do. sired, and a self-faslcner when the sash Is d wn. Send Btnnip forcir ar. Circular and six co mer-bronaed. locks sent to any address lu the C . S., postpaid, on re ceipt of 60c. Liberal inducements to the trade. Aitenta wanted. Address Itelttnitcr bash Lock Co.. Ko. 4U Market street, llarrlsburu. Pa. Kor Illustration of this cheapest and DCPt loot, se Wnfl-r- Htiun'hfuji ViwAm A; V ai.nlut Ate 4, Children Teething. MOTIIEKS! MOTHERS!! MOTHERS!!! on'l fnll to procure MRS. WIN SYBl'P FOIt OW'S HOOTIIIXO CHILDREN TEETHING. This valuable preparation his hecn used with NFV Eli-FAlI.lSli hi : hSS IN 1 llOUSAN DSOF CaKK& It not only relieve the child from puln, hut tuvifr arnica tho stomach anil bowels, corrects acidity, and gives tone and energy to tho whole system. Xl will ulao iUbluutly relievo Griping in the Bowels and Wind Colio. Wo believe it the Bl-'ST and SUREST REMEDY I?T Till-: WOULD, 111 all casca ut bYSENTK.KY AKf DlAKlUliKA IN ClIILIUiE-S, whether ariniug from teething or any other caui-e. Depend upon It, mothers. It will give rest to your selves, aud Belief and Health to Tour Infants, Be sure and call for "MBS. WINSLOWS S00XH1NO SYEUP, ITavlnir the facsimile of "CURTIS A PERKINS" on the outside wrapper. VSold by druuzlsts throughout the world. ' Haa all the Aledieiual prop- lril twruu urvuira Spring of Ky. Haa no equal m Nausea, Headache, Dys pepsia, Costiveneas, Bilious Diseases and IDs incident to hot weather. Best laxative In tho world. Sold by all dtukkiou. Alii tn Prdiy, Axenu wanted e?- JP.IV fcU s!Cf ty where. Fartlculsrs tree. A. H. KLAIU A .. fet. LonlH. Mo. Ut I AM DELlOHTEDpanTea would not h withmt it for ten times its sub- nscrlptlill prtft. UICHAKU VAiXBS. Kearne y Junction, HulfaloCo., Nebraska. Tlii' above is a la Is sample of hundreds of let ters received by the bT. 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