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.
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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.