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WHAT PEOPLE EAT AM) DRINK. >ome Very Cheerful Revelations Before the American Social Science Assoela lion. .Mr. George T. Angell read a p iper before the American Social Science as sociation at Boston, recently on “ I’tH'- lic Health Associations.” m which he made some startling assertions about the adulteration of food. He said: "Cayenne pepper is adulterated with red lead, mustard with chromate of lead, curry powder with red lead, vine gar with sulphuric acid, arsenic and corrosive sublimate. It is stated that probably half the vinegar now sold in our larger cities is rank poison. One of our Boston chemists analyzed twelve packages of pickles, put up by twelve different wholesale dealers, and found copper in ten of them. Many of our tiavoring oils, syrups, jellies and pre served fruits contain poisons. The adulterations of tea are too numerous to mention. Coffee is not only adulter ated, but a patent ha* been taken out for molding chiecory inti' the lorm of coffee berries, and 1 am told that clay is now molded, and perhaps flavored with an essence, to represent eollee. Cocoa and chocolate are adulterated with various mineral substances. “Several mills in Now England, and probably many elsewhere, are now en gaged in grinding white stone into a line powder, for the purposes of adultera tion. At some of these mills they grind three grades—soda grade, sugar grade and Hour grade. It sells for about half a cent a pound. Flour has been adul terated in England, and probably here, with plaster of paris, bone-dust, sand, clay, chalk, and other at tides. 1 am told that large quantities of damaged and unwholesome grain are ground in with Hour, particularly' with that kind called Graham Hour. Certainly hun dreds, and probably thousands, of bar rels of ‘ terra alba,’ or white earth, are sold in our cities every year to bo mixed with sag irs in confectionery and other white substances, Lam told by an em inent physician that this tends to pro duce stone, kidney complaints and va rious diseases of the stomach. A Bos ton chemist it'll* me that he has found To per cent, of‘terra alba’m what was sold as cream of tartar, used for cook ing. A large New York House sells three grades of cream of tartar. A Boston chemist recently analyzed a sample of the host grade, and found f>o per cent of‘term alba’ in that. Much of our confectionery contains per cent, or more of 4 terra alba.’ The col oring matter of confectionary frequent ly contains lead, mercury, arsenic and copper. Baking powders are widely sold which contain a large percentage of 4 terra alba’ and alum. “It is not water alone that is mixed with milk. Thousands of gallons and probably hundreds of thousands are soli! in our cities which have passed through large tins or vats, in which it has been mixed with various sub stances. Recipes for the mixture can bo bought by new milkmen from old on payment of the required sum. 1 am assured, upon what I believe to he reli able authority that thousands of gallons of so-called milk have been, and prob ably are, sold in this city, which do not contain one drop of the genuine article. Large quantities of the meals of ani mals more or less diseased are sold in our markets. Cows in the neighbor hood of our large cities are fed upon material which produces a large How of unwholesome milk. Poultry are fed upon material which produces unwhole some eggs. Meats and fish are made unwholesome, frequently poisonous, by careless and cruel methods of killing. A California chemist recently analized many samples of whisky, purchased at different places in Sun Francisco. lie found them adulterated with creosote, salts of copper, alum, and other injuri ous substances. He slates it. in his published report, as his opinion that there is hardly any pure whisky sold in that city. A gentleman recently pur chased from a prominent Boston firm a cask of pure slurry wine f<>r his sick wife. His wife grew worse. He had the wine analyzed, and found there was not a drop of the juice of the grape in it. An eminent medical gentleman of Boston said to me; 4 The adulteration of drugs in this country is peifeclly abominable. I say that laws should he enacted and enforced prohibiting the manufacture and sale of these poisonous and dangerous articles under severe penalties, and compelling the maaufac turers and sellers of adulterated articles to tell buyers the precise character of the adulterations.’” Mac.Malnm's Resignation. A Versailles cablegram of January 30th says that the following is a text ol President MacMahon’s letter announcing his resignation: At the opening of this session of chambers the ministry presented to you a programme which, while affording satisfaction to public opinion, appeared to the cabinet such as might be voted without danger to the security or good administration of the country. Putting asiue all per sonal views, 1 had given the programme my approbation, for 1 was sacrificing no princi; le to which conscience com manded me to remain faithful. To-day, the ministry, thinking to respond to the opinion of the majority in me two chambers, proposes to me in regard to the military commands some general measures which I consid er contrary to the interests of the army, and consequently to those of the coun try. I cannot subscribe to them. Any ?ther ministry taken from the majority would impose upon me the same con ditions. 1 consider myself therefore bound to shorten the duration of the mandate wmch the national assembly confided to me, and I therefore tender my resignation. In quitting the power, 1 have the consolation of thinking that during the 85 years 1 have devoted to the service of my country as a soldier or a citizen. I have never been guided by sentiments other than an absolute devotion to my country. I request you to communicate niy decision to the chain btrs. [Signed | MacMahok, Duke of Magenta. Upon receiving this letter the con gress proceeded to elect anew president. Proceedings in the con gress of the two chambers were opened by M. Martel, who again road President MacMahon’s letter of resig nation and articles of the constitution. M. HcGav.irdie, senator, amid shouts of disapprobation, asked whether congress accented the resignat on of President MacMahon. The congress set this inquiry aside by voting too previous question by a large majority. Congress, after appointing tellers, proceeded to vote for a presi dent of the republic; "lo senators and deputies present,H7o voted: the absolute majority required was .”>.”t>, M. Jules Grew obtained o.T> votes and Gen. Ho Chanzy P.b M. Grovy was accordingly declareu elected, and was proclaimed president of the republic lor the term of two years. Forty-three blank voting papers were deposited. M. i'efauer was loudly cheered when ho cast his vote. The senate and the chamber of deputies re sumed their separate sittings. Public Debt Statement. The following debt statement was is sued from the E. S. treasury Feb. Ist: Six percent bands SimK.SW.OOO FivopiT coal, bonds 70S,SStl, IgVO four Hint a half percent bonds . ’.V.iouw Four percent, bonds BSO,too,MM Total coin bonds ... I.'AM.SI bad Matured debt tl.BoS.oso l.egal tenders :u0.7 l S.OSI ferullones of deposits UMMO.OOO Fraction 1 inrienet > 1K,0.7, I .V Hold mid stiver certllleales vM, 107.550 Tout without Interest.. fto.'l.oos.-tOK Total debt .. SS.V.StM l:W Total Interest v’S.OvM.KsO Fiif.il In treasury- - SSt.-JM'.KO.V Currency In Id for redemption of true ttonal currency #S,,’siO,BSI Special deposits held I >r redemption of ceitiUeales of deposit sO.iMO.OOO Total cash in treasury -i.xo. itti.v Debt less cash 111 treasury Feb t. '7O. -J.OiV.S!Ni. VIO Decrease dm lug lanuary g.'.M.IWO Decrease since June do 0.500.711 Bonds is-ued to Paeitle ’ alwny Cos . interest payable in lawful money. principal outstanding tU.ibld.Mi Inii-reel aeernod and not > et paid.... d-’d, 11 interest paid by 1 ailed Stales . 11,77d,?1a interest repaid Jo transportation of mails, ,ye lo,tir>7,o-,’S Ualaiieo of interest paid by Initial States Ml. 1 it). 717 Subscriptions to the -I per runt. loan since yesterday's report 1,Kill,so;) Nearly all applying at the treasury for interest have taken greenbacks in pre ference to gold. The secretary of the treasury has matlo another call for redemption of twenty million o.'JO bonds, consuls of 'c!7 in equal proportion. Registered ami coupon bonds’ interest will cense May Ist. Charming Birds—The Wonderful Mag netic rower of a Lltfle Western Girl, Forest Uevlow. We learn from i correspondent that there resides in the vicinity of Harris burg, an out-of-the-way place in Han cock county, about three miles west of Mount Blanchard, a very remarkable child only o years old, who seems to have tin* power to charm birds til will. Her mother I irs I- noticed this strange fascination that, the child possesses about si year ago. The little girl was out playing in the door yard among a bevy of snow birds, and when she would speak to them they would come ami light upon her, twittering with the utmost glee. On taking them in her hands and stroking them, the hints, in stead of trying to get away from their fair captive, seemed to be highly pleas ed, and when let loose would Hy away a short distance and immediately return to the chili! again. She then took sev eral of them into the house to show her mother, who thinking that she might hurt them, took the birds and put them out doors, but no sooner was the door opened the birds Hew back into the room and lit upon the girl’s head and began to chirp. Tin* birds remained about the premises all winter, Hying to the little girl whenever the door was opened. The parents <,f this remark able child became alarmed, believing that this strange power was an ill omen, and that that much dreaded visitor, death, was about to visit their home. But death did not come, and during last summer the child had numerous nets from the birds. The child handies the birds so gently that a humming-bird once in her band does not fail lore turn. This winter ;i bevy of birds have kept her corn iaiiy, and she plays with them fur hours at a time. Every morning the birds fly to her w indow, and leave only when the sun sinks in the west. There is nothing peculiar about the child's personal appearance, except her wonderful magnetic eyes, which sparkle like diamonds. The parents of this little girl are poor, superstitious people, and have been reticent about the mattei until lately, fearing that some great calamity was about to befall them. Beys—Hew to Keep a Place. Lay it down as a rule that you will be faithful in the least things. Pick up a loose nail, bit of twine, clean wrapping paper, ami put them in their places; be ready to throw in an odd half hour or hour’s time when it will be an accomo dation, and don’t seem to make a merit i of it. Do it heartily; though not a word | lie said, be sure your employer will make a note of it. Make ymir-i ll indis pensable to him. and iie will lose many of tin; opposite kind before be will part w ith you. Those young men who watch the time to see ttie very second their time is up; who leave, no matter what state their work may be in .precisely the instant —who calculate the extra amount they can slight their work and yet not get reproved, who are lavish of their employer’s goods, will always be the first to receive notice that times are dull and their services are no loucer requir ed. When u Hartford woman patted her friend's seven-year-old youngster on the head and said: “I should like to have such a little boy as you are,” he looked up into her face and replied; “Well, f guess you can; I don’t b’lieve God’s lost the pattern of me." Jim Porter, a remarkable negro* dwaif, died at Evansville, Indiana, re cently, leaving his body to the doctors lor dissection. His bead was found to measure twenty-five and one-half inches In circumference, and his liver was twice the usual size ('HEAP FI Kl,. looking ly Solar Heat —Win not use Hie (treat llml (fixer. r#st'i ■< MHjmtim'. One of the most interest ini; exhibits at the Paris Exposition was the solar rooking apparatus of Professor Mouehot to whom ;v oross of tho legion of honor has been awarded. Archimedes of old is said to have won himself great renown by setting lire to the ships of a hostile licet with the concentrated rays of the sun; but M. Mouehot has achieved an humbler triumph in turning them to tho peaceful use of the kitehen. The sun is known to he a great tire in whose rays the world perpetually turns round and warms itself. Why not use this lire foreookiug, although it is so far oil?! Its heat at the earth’s surface is too dif fused to cook directly, but it may be concentrated either by lenses or by mir rors w hich focus the rays while they ro lled them. It is with mirrors that M. Mouehot works. Concave mirrors are employed to catch the sunlight and to ons them bv reflection on a glass tube inclosing a tubular still if spirits are to he distilled, a kettle of water if eggs to he boiled, a gridiron if a chop is to be cooked, and so on. It is a simple appar atus, but M. Mouehot works wonders with it even in our cloudy latitudes, lie makes coffee, boils eggs, distills wine in to brandy, works a steam engine, and roasts beef w ith it. There is something of the magician in M. Mouehot tints mak ing a hearth of the world and cooking by the heat of the sun. With a mirror two square feet in surface area, he roast ed two pounds of beef in twenty-two minutes at Pans, in one hour and a halt he cooked stews w hich on an ordinary wood tire would have required about four hems to prepare. In half an hour he boiled nearly a pint and a half of cold water. If these feats mav be done at Paris, w hat may not he done in the clear dry air and under the burning sun of Algeria. Kygpt and India, or on those sandy deserts where there is no fuel to he had for the burning, while the fierce mys of the sun stream down on every side? The Russians, who are not slow to profit by any novelty which comes under tin ir notice, have been taken with M. Monehopsapparatus, and the (baud Duke Michael, while at the exhibition, ordered several of the port able solar cooking apparatus for the use of the Russian army now under(Jeneral Kauffman, at Tashkend, on the plains of Turkestan. The working of station ary engines by M. Mouehol's plan is not the least interesting of its applications, and if these engines were employed to produce artificial cold and freeze water, we should have the curious anumalv of the sun's rays creating, insterd of dis solving, ice and frost. Of couse such an invention could scarcely he of much use in a country whose skies are fre quently clouded. yellow fever berms. Latest Cases on Record in Memphis Alter the (.'rent Epidemic—The Fever Spores or Berms Alive in BeeemhiT. Memphis Appeul Yesterday, ami for several days past, it was rumored on the streets that a ease of yellow fever existed and a death had occurred within a day or two at Leatli Orphan Asylum, which institu tion is located out on the Raleigh road half a mile from the city limits. An .Ippmf investigator was delegated to hunt up the facts. From his investiga tions the following may he relied nnun as correct: In November last a young woman aged ahont IS years, a cripple and invalid, and a former inmate of the asylum, took the fever, and, after lin gering for some weeks with a very had type of yellow fever, recovered in De cember. Within a week or so a little orphan hoy of weak constitution and in had health contracted the yellow fever, he having been, no doubt, exposed to it in the ease tir.-t mentioned. Me got along very well fora couple of weeks, it lacing aver.. light attack, and at last was able to he up and run about. Ahont ('1 ristmas he had a re lapse, and this time a had and malig nant ease of yellow fever if pure type. Dr. Ess, the attending nhysician, be lieved that the hoy would die, his con stitution being weak. hut lie recovered from the attack, only, however, to lie again prostrated with meningitis, which was a consequence of the yellow-fever relapse. The hoy ; s now sitting up, is out of danger, and is in a fair way of re covery. Our commissioner nuked Dr. Ess for an opinion as to the probability of the appearance of yellow fever next j summer. The doctor said that he be lieved the late freezing snap of weather had destroyed all the germs of the yel-J low fever. Hot, he added, it might he) that such germs may yet exist, not ac-t tiially hut passively, in buildings where- 1 in yellow-fever patients had died, and: which buildings had not been properly I fumigated and ventilated. Hboiilu tbu he so, it might break out again nex; l summer in such, buildings, lie la lieved that tin only true preventive was a rig id system of quarantine, be not believ ing that yellow lever was indigenous to any portion of the United Stales, and most certainly it could not originate in this latitude. Congressional Deailheadisiii. Washington I.vtler in Brookh n l.'iilon-Aign. “1 cannot save any of my salary,” said I Senator Lamar to your correspondent j to-day. “it is impossible. I never paid a ! c ent beyond livery hire and a few little kindred items of election expenses, in my life, and I have been m politics a long time, i could save a thousand dollars a year if 1 would do certain things but 1 do not think my conciencc would be satisfied if I did. For instance I pay S3OO a year for newspapers. I like to read them. 1 have passed over rail | roads. 1 could travel all over the United States free. But I pay my fare. It co-v me $-“7 apiece fare for rny fatn* i ily every lime 1 come and go between | here and home. 1 have telegraph pas -e-*. I never use them. Ido not think :it would be right, I can send anything I please over the express lines, yet I pay my express bills. I spend my sal ary and never have any money, Some i Henators use all their privileges of lead -1 heading, and they say it is right. I ! think otherwise. But there is orn Wring I that I mink should be done and/ shall , propose it as soon as I get a chance. ; Every Senator should have a private 1 secretary. He has more correspon dence, committee work, etc., than ho can do. Vnd each senator should he allowed a private secretary. The sen ator gets v.HH> a year, and cannot sup port his family in keeping w ith ins po sition and employ a private secretary on that Mini." Tho conscience of this senator should he embalmed. If you were here and saw a car-load of dead heads and the street-ears when congress aljourns, you would be disgusted. They haul out cards ami give their tunics each time to save five cents. 1 paid tnv fare one day, and the coniine t< r toll! me it was ’lie only fare he got. Hough the ear was crowded, and 1 was si puling tin the rear platform. The ear wis full of congressmen. I'his incident is a tact that the people should know. HOV PR's II iIIv. Vivl Hi- Weary Tramp to Find it a Home. Kivimi- lily Jourtiii Vesterday there arrived in the city a nun whose story is well worthy of rec oil. He gives ins name as Hoyle, and stales that lit' has been a resilient of St. Jvueph for some time. About two months ago, his wife died, altera linger in' illness, leaving to his care one child, a lahe of lo months. Heing out ol nuney, having no work, ami unable to gel any ono to lake can* of the child mul such time as he could pay for its keeping. Hoyle stab's that lie struggled along as host he could, selling his funii tme, piece hy piece, until finally every ni'sns of support failed, when‘he do teniiined to go to Sedalia, where he had an aunt. He has not seen her for sev en! years, hut presumed upon their re lationslno to secure a home for the ha'e. dSot having means topayra.il roul fare, he settled upon the herculean task of carrying the child, relying upon lh roadside to give himself and little oio food and shelter during the night. Joyle left St. Joseph on the Rhh nisi. Nttwilhatanding the baht' was wrapped m i number of garments, it sutlered severely from the intense cold prevail ing last week. At times the father found if extremely ditfienlt to obtain shelter, and states that on one ov easion he vftlked until niidnglit, and at last found a poor colored family willing to iaki him in, 'At place.’, there were thus' wlio refused to even give the ehiltl ii drink ul milk or allow it to be wan ltd. F>r fifty miles the father carried (he heavvj burden in hi- arms, hut on ar riving at I’ark vi He, kind-hearted per sons interested themselves in his he half, ind a rude sled was constructed, and (in this a shoe-box was las!ened, I’his,while a great relief to the man, did ml prove so advantageous to the child, which, removed from its father, j mi flea and from the cold even more than | ever, i'arkville is about twenty miles distajt from Kansas (.lily, which, added to tlie fifty hiiles which the child was carried, is in all seventy miles. 1 Hoyle is about 10 years id age, of low stature and rather illiterate. He ha* however, to judge from his c.ondnet, a warm heart. His visit luthe mayor’s office was in the hope that he inighi he aide to procure a ticket from (his place to Sedalia, Iml, as his honor was absent, was forced to remain over in the city Ihsl night, availing himself of the charily of a kind-hearted family to whom lu had related his misfortunes. The Man Mho Hail Dyspepsia. Atirlnn | Midi | Tune". “Tlurecanie to the dinner-table at the Lttvrence House, the other day, two stringers, one a lean and hungry looking customer, the other a decent appeartig young fellow. As they readier the table the older man clutch ml fraitically at the hill of fare, and remark'd as follows: “ Lets see what they got. You know I can’teat anything. Been nearly dead for ter weeks with the dyspepsia. Ah! *oystrf-soup’- guess that won’t hurl me,” To waiter: “ Bring me some oyster-son n; and, let’s see, boiled white fish; f es, I’ll have Home o’ that.” Tin soup and fish were rapidly eaten. “ N)w, let’s see what else they’ve gut; am know 1 can’t eat everything. ‘ Uoiut turkey,’ that ought not to hurt me. I’ll have some o’ that. ‘ Roast heel, yes, I’ll have some o’ that. ‘Clmkeii pot-pie,’- yes, that’s easily digested, I’ll have some. Let’s see, I can’t eat everything, I’ll lake a hit ol the baled hum, some macaroni, and Inti I some eliieken-livers and vege -1 tablo!.” The waiter had been taking the order, and the man with the weak stomach reached this way lor crackers, that way (or blitter, here to ik a piece of bread, there a pickle and a stalk of celery, unu frequently remarking that he couldn’t eat everything, stayed his stomach until dinner was brought. He looked it over, sent the wait-r hack lor some roast veal and another onion, re marking that his stomach was weak, he pud been Hollering terribly from dys pepsia, and couldn’t eat everything, but st last got to work and cleared the I | 11 shell. | The matter of dessert troubled him some because Ins stomach was so weak, but he finally ordered mince pie, plum pudding, and ice-cream, with a cup of coffee. They were brought and de voured, and then he called the waiter and made her a confidential communi cation to the effect that he had been sick with dyspepsia, that bis stomach was weak, he couldn’t eat everything, and would she bring him a bowl of I milk ? The milk was brought, he crumbled I some bread therein, and as his young companion bad departed, the man with the weak stomach remarked to the gentleman across the table from him that it was darned rough to have to come down to bread and milk, but he I had been sick, he couldn’t eat every ! thing, and he had to be careful. ! And now the landlord is anxious for j that man to come around when he is 1 well. He needn’t come but once. The Irish are emigrating in vast num bers to South Australia. The yellow fever has completely dis appeared from Tampico, Mexico. WISFONSIN I.EIiISI.ATI'UK. I ____ Tcbspay, .lan. *JS— Semite.— Hills were introduced: To amend statutes rela ting tv> normal schools; relating to pub lic notices; providing for tiling and pav ing county orders. The senate con firmed the nominations for normal school regents recently made by the governor, as follows John Phillips, of Portage county; S. M, Hay, of Winne bago county; .tames MaeAllisler, of Milwaukee, Adjourned. Tiksovv, Jan. _S .hss nnNy.- Peti tions and memorials upon various sul*. jeets were presented, among them be ing remonstrances against letting penal labor by contract, and praying for ex emption of benevolent societies from the laws; relating to tire insurance com panies. The resolution accepting ex-. tiov. \\ ash hum’s residence a.' a home for homeless children, was adopted. Another grist of hills poured in Relal mg to qualifications of county superin tendents; relating I.' county courts; to abolish the office of county snporinteu dent of schools; relating to nets of no taries public. The hill authorizing Sho- 1 wano county to borrow money was passed. A number of bills were in definitely postponed, among them he-j ing one introduced hy Mr. Mills mak-1 mg the law exempting “a team" apply to a coll in ease a man has only one horse to exempt, hut also owns a coll not properly a part of a team. This was debated at length but kilted by a vote of A7 to hi. Adjourned. Wki*nksiv\v , Jam kt' .Vnn/c. Peti tions repsesenting tI.OOO citizens of the state were presented asking the leg islature to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution prohibit ing the traffic in intoxicating liquors A large number o' - hills were introduced, the most important of which were; To suppress vagrancy; also,making ex tiov ernor Washburn an honorary life member of (he hoard of university re-1 gents, m recognition of his mmol.cent donation to the stall' university; relat ing to county printing in Waupaca comity; to amend statutes relating to taxation of railroad, life and lire in-mr anee companies. Dr. J. T. Reeve’s ap poinlmenl as a member ot tin' stale hoard of health was continued. The assembly resolution cutting utV new business after Keh’y. Ist came np and was amended hy making the lime I'Vh’y. hh. Adjourned. Wkpnksp.w, Jan. -'J .hisemM/. This was another field day for Dills' of a pn vale nature. Those of a general nature were: To distribute more equally tax ation in certain counties; to amend (he shi lit tea relating to insurance com panies; relating to publication and sale of geological reports; relative to assess meets oi premiums of lire insurance eampames. Tpon tin* announcement of the sudden death oi l lon. John Pot ter, jr, a member from Winnebago county, the assembly adjourned, Tnrnsp.w, Jan. lid Snuilr. Several petitions m favor of a prohibitory amendment were presented. The stale text-hook commission presented > its reports. The following joint resolu tion was olfered: /iVso/iv and hi/chi' unin/r, llw am mlili/ eon ciirrhi'i, that the constitution be amend ed ny adding an additional article, numbered I ft, in read as follows: ait net,to \v. .Section 1. The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in tins state except strictly for use in the aits and as a medicine, are forever prohibited, Section 2, The legislature shall nt its first session alter the adoption of this article, provide for its enforcement by appropriate legislation. Among the bills introduced were To appropriate SI,OOO to the slate horti cultural society; regulating charges of railroads, telegraph and express com panies; to appropriate SI,OOO for the governor’s contingent fund. Senators Richmond and Van Schuiek were ap pointed on the joint committee to eon duet funeral services of (he late lion, .lohn I'otler, Jr,, mid the senate then ad journed. Thrush av, .lan. IK) Amrmhh/. A nienmi ial against contracting orison labor and a uetitiou for a prohibitory amendment were presented. A joint resolution to provide a committee to conduct the funeral services of the late Mon. John I’otter, Jr., was adopted. Messrs. Ford, Webster, and I’nfeiier were appointed on aid committee on part ol the house. Mills were introduc ed: to regulate the size of mesh nets used on Lake Michigan; Inappropriate lsn<) to the Waupaca agricultural sis euty; to divide the comities of (Hark and Marati.on and erect the county of Webster; relating to assessment of pro perly. The assembly then adjourned as a mark of respect to the memory of John I’otler, Jr. Km hay, Jan. 11l .Sl niiih'. More pe titions in favor of an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the liquor Iraf lic. Bills were introduced: to establish a board of immigration; to appropriate to Henry Baelz, late stale treasurer, $1,117.57 us costs of the state suit against bitnun his official bond; relating to li cense ft e paid by railroads. The talk to encourage tin- artificial propagation of firs)i passed. Adjourned. Km HAY, Jan. HI Awnhly, — I’etilions in favor of a prohibitory amendment were presented. The contested election of Egan vs, Johnson, in the lllh Mil waukee district, was brought before the assembly and a long debate followed. The matter was finally postponed for one week. Bills were introduced: to appropriate $203 50 to James Davison to reimburse him for mom y spent in contested election ease, and $260 for same purnose to 11. W. Hildebrand; to appropriate a sum of money to (ieo. I’erry for attorney services in the case of the stale of Wisconsin vs. Duluth; to authorize county of Trempealeau to borrow money; to lease convict labor to the U. H. government. The joint resolution to cut oil new business after Feb. -lib was adopted. The tail for the | improvement of stock passed. A large number of hills were indefinitely post poned. In the evening another batch of bills was introduced. Adjourned until U:3O a, M. Hatunlay. Katcuuay, Feb. \-~Sn\uU. —A petition for art amendment prohibiting the liquor traffic from the Methodist con ference representing 32,000 members was presented. A petition in reference to grading wheat was abo presented. A resolution was introduced asking the appointment of a committee to inves tigate the subject of grading wheat. Hills were introduced: to secure a more equitable Assessment of property for taxation; to promote good order and i suppress oi l me. Hills were passed: to authorise Shawano county and tho city j of Km im to borrow money; to provide 1 for special terms of the circuit court in the 7th judicial district. Adjourned till 7.!U' p. m. Monday, Svitrpay, Keh. I — it.wiaWy.-—Several hills were introduced? to presetvo tish in the lakes and rivers in Wisconsin; to appropriate to Frank Simmer, E. K. tin I lather, ,1, K. Moore, M, T. Hattie and A. W. Far rand the sum of SH),(KH) in payment for the invention of a steam road wagon and its successful operation. A hill was passed to authorise the coun ty of Harron to borrow money. Ad journed till 7.80 p. m. Monday. - - , Migration (0 (he West. New York Tribune. raking the land sales of the whole period since 1878, the year of the panic, when the tail of prices and the scarcity of work in the east set people to think ing about going west, it would apnear that more than ‘-’,otH),ot)o people nave taken up homes m the west and south in the past live years. Of this number, not over (100,(H*0 can possibly have been supplied by foreign immigration, the rest of the total of 030,000 immigrants in those years remaining in the east or in the towns and cities of the Pacific t’oast. At least 1,800 (HH) people have, therefore, gone from the east and from Virginia and Kentucky, in tire last live years; over AOO.OOO of them during 1878, This remarkable fact is regarded as part of (he explanation why times have grown perceptibly easier in this country during 1878. 'Hrere is no mistake about the fact that times have grown easier. Tin re is hss labor un employed, and there is larger consump tion of ntaiuil'aelured goods. This mi gration to the new states would alone have been the means of producing this result even if it had had no material aid from any other source. Tho regions to which the migrators principally w ent in 1878 are Texas, Kan sas, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and California, in the order named; hut some have gone to Florida, Arkansas, Colorado, lowa, New Mexico, and the regions beyond the Rocky Mountains. Nebraska gained 11)0,000 of these new settlers during 1878. (lov. Pillsbury of Minnesota, writes that Ins slate gamed 7)0,01)0. Kansas gained probably 13ft,- 000. The Arkansas Valley in Kansas alone gained fifi.OOO settlers in 1878. I’he eminence ol Kansas in wheat pro duction in 1878 is due to tho immigra tion of previous years, and such has lieeii the rush this year that the position of Kansas as the banner slate in wheat seems guaranteed for some lime to come. While Kansas gained 1*25,1KK) of now settlers in 1878, it is estimated that Dakota did the same, the rush to flint region being, of course, due largely to the milling excitement, although not exclusively. Texas claims to have gain ed half a million during 1878, hut there 1 . no proof that the influx to the state was more than 200,0011 at the very out side. The movement to Florida and other regions was small. A UKMAIiKAin.i: ease, as showing the amount of superstition still prevalent among the lower orders in England, came before the borough magistrates of Ludlow, Shropshire, recently. A wo man named Collier was summoned un der the local by-laws for using abusive language toward another, named Oliver. The parlies, it appeared, were neigh bors, and, a sheet having been lost oil’ll garden line, the practice of ‘'turning tho key and the hillin'* was resorted to, with a view to the discovery of the thief. The complainant said Oliver met her m tho street and told her the hihle had been “turned down” to several houses where suspected persons I'veil, and that when Mrs, Collier’s name was mention ed “the hihle lied out of their hands.” The hihle was then turned (o see if the sheet was stolen during the day or night, and, as the latter was indicated, Mis. Collier called her “11 day light thief." The bench dismissed the ease, remark ing that the superstition was "more like a. relic of the past” than a belief of this “advanced age." It is curious lo re mark how this method of divination, very commonly practiced in the middle ages, has survived almost without modi- Mention. The hihie is opened at (he hook of Ruth, and, balancing the key on the lloreflnger of each hand, which are formed in the simp* of a cross, the verso is repeated commencing, “Whith er thou guest I will go.” Where it turns the guilty parly is lo he found. The l.iquor Traflle. The committee having In charge the work of collecting and presenting peti tions lo the Wisconsin legislature for the adoption of a constitutional amend ment prohibiting the liquor traflle, du* sires to say that petitions may be sent in until the whole matter is finally dis posed of. There is an impression abroad that petitions cannot now ho presented. This is wrong. Any time before the measure is finally acted up on by the legislature, will do. Petitions sent in any lime tip to March Ist will he presented. Hon. B. 1). Hastings, Madison, Wis„ will receive and present petitions through the members. — lit wan/ft. See turn a I Pride. They tell of a New Hampshire school teacher near Fitchburg, who had a class in geography on the floor tho other day, and she asked one of them what the soil was in New Hampshire. Tho answer was "sterile." The teacher, highly in dignant, said tho soil was as good in New Hampshire as in Massachusetts. The scholar spunkily denied it, and ad ded, “Father had a bull in a pasture in New Hampshire, and tho soil was so poor that the bull starved to death. They could not gel earth enough to bury him, and had to collect pieces of wood i and burn him." The teacher found the boy was posted and did not continue the argument. A Connecticut farmer and his son have been badly poisoned in the bands by buckskin gloves purchased in Bridge port. Bumac is supposed to have been used in the tanning.