Image provided by: Oregon City Public Library; Oregon City, OR
About Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Clackamas County, Or.) 1883-188? | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1884)
OREGON OREGON CITY, CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1884. NO. A. VOL. II. CITY COURIER. OREGON CITY-COURIER. A PLEA FOR THE MULE. -. PUB1JSUED KVEBY FRIDAY IT ; I. LI M1H1CT, Idlter aid ProprisUr. DON'T YOU TELL. Illawatha Herald. If you have a cherished secret, Don't you toll. Not your f rinl (or nil tympanum - In u boll, With ibt njuoee, wide rebounding, Multip.ied und far rMoundlug; Don't you tell. If yourself, you rnunot keep it, Then, wtio caul Could yon more expect cf any Other maul Tot you put biin if he telle It If he givi-e away or will it, Uuder ban. Bell your genu to any buyer . In the mart; Of your wealth to fued the hungry . Bra apart. Wearing on the oien pocket, 4 But your K-eret keep it, lock It In your heart. DOGS AND STARS. Mat Incidental In the Lire or Theat rical Mtars and Their Canines, Philadelphia Times. Madame' Christine Nilsson's horolo roncuo of a dog from the clutchei of parcel of bijs caused a great doal of favorable eommont among the mem bers of the Society for the Prevention of Crnolty to Animals, of Philadelphia, and the recurrence has also revived in fieatrioal circles many touching stories about actressos and do.a, most of which are comparatively new: "Loag before Mr. Abbey I mean Madame Nilsson rescued the dog," said John Btotson's representative at the Walnut Street theatre, "Miss Sara Jewatt's dog fell out of thd- fourth story window of the Continental hotel, This was last week during the engage ment of thn Fifth Avenue company here. Two legs and a rib were broken. Dr. Agnew was Bent for and repaired the damages. Miss Jewett bore the shock with great fortitude. She took it as one of the trials of star's life. When she was in a stock company her docs never fell out of the window, Where the Hula la Mesa at flit Beat A Noble Animal. (Turf, Field and Farm. It is only among some of the Latin rsoe, as in Spain and Portugal and in the east, that the mule and his sire, the ass, are appreciated at their true value. With the nations or Uermanio descent, and more particularly the Anglo-Saxon, a prejudice as deeply rooted as it is ill-founded, pre sents that familiar, af fectionate association with tne ass ana the mule which does so much to develop the finest instincts, aud humanize, as it were, the horse and the dog. With us horses are bre'd for pleasure as well as profit. There is some sentiment in the thing, and one rarely parts with a fine colt, at whatever price, without more or leu leret. There wan a time, howdver, a few centuries since, when even in England the mule was the peor of his arietooratio half brother the. horse; wheu clod in magnificent, housings he proudly bore upon his back tbe abbots, tne Disnops and the prinoes of the all-powerful itoniaa church, nor would this have been tho case had he not been deemed by the luxurious and self-indulgent prelates of that day as far superior to the horae for the purposes of the saddle. Even as late as 1830 the mule was held to be an indispensable part of the appendage of the Bourbon dynasty of I ranee, and whenever the court of Charles X moved from the palace of the Tuileries to Compiegne or Fontaine- bleau it was in coaches drawn at a gallop of ten miles an hour by superb tuumu of Spanish mules, and such mules I Kear sixteen hands high, matched to a hair, glossy black in color, "mealy mouthed," with legs and eyes like antelopes, ana snowing in spirit, action and endurance the generous Barb blood of their maternal ancestry. But to see the mule at his best we should go to the sunny shores of the Mediterranean to Spain and Portugal. The Arabian domination of BUO years on that great peninsula filled it with horses of Arabian and Barb blood, and this blood, to which we attribute ' the best qualities of the modern race horse, and, paradoxical as it may seem, the tweet temper, tne Droaa loreneaa, tne Speaking of dogs, have you seen our expressive eye and beautiful ear of the dub?" - massive Percheron, flows, and freely, - .... ... ..... . I . ... - -. , i. Miss jewett a dog is just a nine too too, in tue veins oi me opauiau uiuiu, previous, said Manager Jtt09 at tne and imparts to mm an appearance uo Arch streat one n uouse. iuiss inane superior 10 Aiuuncau uiun-a ureu for Conron lost her dog, a beautiful skye, when the Duff company first came here. It was one of the Unit things that Mr. Duff did I mean it was one of the first misfortunes that happened to the com-panv." "One of the saddest incidents that I ever beheld," said Mr. GUmore, at the t i - .1 r.nti.,:f lieetle "will IvllAII TWisa Lvildv Denier s dog. a toy torrier, hardly larger than a mouse, leaped from its mistress' arms as she was leav ing this theatre, and was positively oriwliml to death bv a passing coupe. Miss Denier was the leading ladyoi the Buffaio Bill combination, .whioh I the drudcerv of our southern planta- r i il. 1.: .....4 lions as is mat ui me muga ui mj tun to the ooarsest Conestoga. Whoever has had the good fortune to hare seen the high-strung and highly- bred mules harnessed to tbe traveling equipages of the Spanish king dashing thiough the Puerto-del-Sol at a ten tnila D-ait. or has encountered the in terminable nrocessions of gaily-capari. untied tniilpa bearing the names of all the saints m the calendar, threading with unerring feet the dangerous de files of the Pyrenees and the Sierra Morena, to the sound of innumerable tinkling of bells, will cease at once Presidential Wealth. Utica Herald. Gen. Grant is estimated at $200,000, which makes him the richest ex-president since Buchanan. Hayes is not rich, though in a well-to-do condition. Andy Johnson and Abraham Lincoln each left $50,000. Millard Fillmore made a snug fortune out of the law, and was comparatively rioh when he became president. Gen. Taylor saved his army salary, and was in independ ent circumstances when eleoted to the presidency. He held the office hardly a year and a half, and left a property worth $00,000. Tyler was a bankrupt when the death of Harrison made him president, and be married a fortune in Miss Gardner. He went out of office a rioh man, but he became a leader in the Confederacy, and hiB property was sunk in the general ruin occasioned by the war. - James K. Folk had good opportunity to make money before his election, and he was an economist py nature, ne left $150,000. Martin "Van Bui en was' the richest of all our presidents,. his estate being estimated at $800, 000. He made money as a law yer and also as a politician, and his real-estate purchases became immensely profitable, but his money has been almost entirely waiteu oy ms heirs. Andrew Jackson was not a mnnev-makintr man. He lived nine years after the expiration of his term of office, and left only a large landed e it ate commonly known as tue Hermitage. John (juiucy Adams was a methodical business man and an economist. He left about 1(50,000, which at that time was a large sum. James Monroe was so poor in his old age that he became the guest of his son-in-law, Samuel L. Gouveneur, in this city, where he died. Madison was mere successful in taking care of his money, and left his widow a property which enabled her to live handsomely in Washington till the end of her days. Jenerson passed his last uava w much distress, and was really afraid that his place would be sold by the sheriff. Ill was an object of public charity aud a subscription was opened in hia behau in this city, out ui u" occurred so soon that the benevolent effort was not required. Old John Adams left an estate worth $30,000. Washing ton was a rich man for" hia day, his wealth being solely due to marriage. Mount Vernon was not a productive property, but Mrs. Curtis brought hinr a large fortune wniou sue iuuoiim from her first husband, viewing our nresidents in a nierelv pecuniary esti mate, there are a hundred men in this oity each of whom could buy out the who a ol them. wuen one oouww- plates their true worth, however, one sees how utterly poor mere wealth be- oomes in. compariaon. , a ..... l 1L ' need hardly say was here before the sad forever to oujeci to tue mme neea naruijr w L...r K annearanoe: and whoever Duff company. I hardly like to acotiBe think that speak?;.; has seen the large, dark-eyed, bi own, . 1 . . I ' T Miss Uonrous aog oi piagiar.su,, . - -1Wntif. nhilriren 0f skveia a trine loit, so to u"yt " r -:. " ;r , "All these people forget," said Stage nimntnr Frank H. Wade, at the Arch Ktronl theatre, "that Miss Rose Eytinge's bull-dog which appeared in "Oliver TWMV leapeu jruiu iuo A ROMAN CIRCUS I An,ln.liima cambolins as fearlessly and with an much impunity under the heels of the mules with whicu tuey were brought up as do tho children in the tents of the Arab among tne mares, will be compelled to adm.t that with the same kind treatment the mule, too, since, a litt'e ninpf express train wuua on a y o- vin tn lm. this city to New York, at the vervbe- -' -Xdrnditahlri. gmnmg oi tne We are inclined to beheve that well- undeveloped quali- Kate uiaxton loss uei . Aranay,t ftnd the while ao. The bull-dog ,,, , r. 1.1.1... .i ni,i;.i. recognised the crisis and leaped." SHffidT gcredl -uut,- saw iur. - wa nonvinced from actual observa- original canine calamity oeiou a mem- - HKht, quick draught over her of Mr. Abbey's company nearly S""Jn i -oBtoJi, from two years ago. 1 have just iieen given - 1 for sfld(11e.gaits, mules by fil. Maurice una too rei - c ' fuUy ' brod are eouJ and . per- Bignor tampanmie u"" Uapg BUperior to our average light- country last year. Most people who ""P . . uhorses. witnessed his farewell pertormance a - TntnnmbBr . 0f mules, bred the New iork Acadomy 01 musio nearly two years ago will remember that. iimnnT tne eviuouuod u uwm favor which followed his Buperb rendi tion of Manrico in Troyatoro' was a small dog collar. IM singer - t . ;th , ease and tha breaking heart with which he aocepted " 1 lur nnA nf the Fhelbv's. in Kentucky, thnf. draw a carriace containing five hfiftw men fortv miles over an ordinary rnn1 in 4tTA hours, without turning a hair or crack of the whip, and returnee. the gift under ft smile. IU in ended recipient was no more. Un that very m mule that could daytheEngishpugmwhose of ten miles an hour r H Wk 'Sis neck Fn strivinrto ior hours tcgether, Vain at Bio Uniform. Bow Belli Napoleon Bonaparte (according to the new memoir of him by Mme. Junot, who knew him from his youth up,) was one of the men who "cannot take a joko." Ths doy on which he first wore a soldier's uniform he wao as vain of bis clothes as a west end carpet war rior. Mme. Junot adds: "There was one part of his dress whioh had a very droll appearance that was his boots. They were so high and wide that his thin little legs seemed buried in their amplitude. Young people are always ready to observe anyimng nuiuuiuun, and as soon as my sister and I saw Napoleon enter the drawing-room we burst into a loud fit of laughter. Bona parte oould not rolish a joke, and when he found himself the object of merri ment he grew angry. "My sister, who was some yeara uium than I, told him that since he wore a Bword he ought to be gallant to ladies, and, instead of being angry, should be that thev ioked with him. 'lou are nothing but a child, a little Bchool ffirL' said Napoleon in a tone of con- P , M u 10 m t'A vann tempt, cecue, u j -of age, wos highly indignant at being called a chUd, and she hastily resented the affront by re plying to Bonaparte, 'And you are nothing out a puss m uuuis. . cited a general laugh among all present nt Nnnoleon. whose raze I will not attempt to describe." He was then 16 vears of age, and his professor of his- . 1 1 " 1 1 I 1. J ... 1 1. h.a tory haa aireaay wriiieu 01 mux u. notes, "Corsican by nature and by oharaoter.he wdl go far if circum stances favor him." let ne oouiu u vain of his uniform. Kot Greatly DIBTrront frais the Clreoo of To-oar. 1 . rst- NicboUu. ' liorao is astir, early; titizens and strangers, slaves and soldiers are all hurrying toward the grett pleasure- ground of Home, tne vircus mnximus. With fljites playing merrily, with sway ing standards and gleaming statues, with proud young cadets, with priests and guards with crested helms, skilled nnrformera. restless horses and clittor- Ing chariots, down that-' red street winds a loue procession, h 1 by the boy magistrate, Marcus of Jtorae, the favorite of the emperor It passes into the - trreat circus ; and files into the arena. Two Lundred thou sand neonle think, boys, of a circus tent that holds 200,000 peoule ! riss to their feet and welcome lt.with hearty hand-clapping. ' The trutapets sound nrnln.lB the vonns masristrctr (standmz m his suggestns, or. -statu tiox), flingo tne mappa. or white mis;, jr.to.tneooorao as the signal for the stwt; and, as a ringing shout goes up, four guttering chariots, rioh in their decorations 01 gold and polished ivory, and drawn by four plunging horses, burst from their arched stalls and dash around the track. Green, blue, red, white the colors of the drivers stream from their tunics. Around and around ftey go. Now one and now another is ahead, f The people strain and cheer, aud maity a wager is laid as to the victor. - c Another shout 1 . The red chariot turning too eharply, grates against the meta, or short pillar that stands at the upper end of the track, guarding the low central wall; the horses rear and plunge, the driver struggles manfully to oontrol them, but U in vain; over goes the chariot, while the now mad dened horses dashed wildly on until oheoked by mounted attendants and led off to their stalls. !Blne! bluel "GreenI green 1" rise theyarying shouts, as the contending oharotsstui Biiuggie for the lead. White is far boluad. Now comes the seventh ot final round. Blue leads I No, green is ahead 1 Neck and neck down the homestretch they go magnificently-; and then the cheer of victory is heard, as, with a final dash, the green rider strikes ths white -cord first and the race is won! i Now. in the interval Jjetween the races, come the athletic!f?ttsMaot' racing and wrestling; roptfdancihg and high leaping, quoit-tnrcwing, ana ju venile matches. One man runs a raoe with a fleet Cappadocian horse; another expert rider drives two bare-backed hordes twico around th track, leaping from baok to book as the .horses dash around. Can you see. aiiy very great difference btweun tha o'-cus porforni- ui ,'!. iwOmH bw or a. 1 1884? vliil- - A Woman's neady Wit. (Mew York Letter. fc'Deakinor of Washington reminds ma of a story X heard the other day about a lady, the wife of anr ex-United States minister, who is mode the heroine of most of the stories of eccentricity that amuse society... The lady was in Lon don last year, and we heard much of her from the other side. Of course she wished to attend one of her majesty's drawing rooms, and she found little difficulty in, obtaining an invitation. une ox the peculiarities 01 this loay is her manner ot dressing. Hue wears what she likes, and never seems to think whether it is appropriate or not, As every one knows, no one in allowed to appear before tho queen except in a dress with a train. It used to be that a low neck was required, but that is not absolutely necessary now. To the surprise of every one Mrs. ar rived at court in a short dress, with a red shawl thrown carelessly over her arm. The eyeglasses of the aristocracy were at once leveled" njd:llier: 'that sort of attention, however, never gives her any discomfiture. But she was flying iu tbe face of court etiquette, and the American minister was oallod upon. . He im mediately sent one of his secretaries to expostulate with Mrs. , and urged her to return to her lodgings. Not she. There was no social bull that she could not take by the horns. No little thing such ai the waii t of a train was going to drive her out after she once got to court. In the twinkling of an eye, aud before the whole drawing room, she took the shawl from hor arm, shook it out at full length nnd pinned the ends to her shoulders ; and then, with a careless glance at her impro vised train, she took the arm of the secretary and sailed iuto the royal presence, not the slightest bit disturbed by the peculiarity of her drapery. rosBibly the queen did not notice it, for one's back is never turned to royalty. If she had, I think her sense of humor would have overcome her annoyance. NEW YORK LEDGER WRITERS. touch the high C of the final 'Addio, which his master reaches with such ease in the totfer scene. Signor vowed never to revisit the scene of his anguish. Col. Mapleson wan nimble to cause him to change his determination, but he yielded to Mr. Abbey s arguments." : ' l hancee In the Name Nlaa-ara. fChlcaco Tlmea.1 Tho name Niaara has passed through many orthographical cnaugesin ne iav v, iinvn a friend in Eappahannock, v. Tnm Hntrhes. a reoiular son of Analr in BIZ A. SIX 1601 UVB III 111B abulia- ings, big in proportion and tipping the heani at. over -zuu TJOUnus. WUU IUI "- eral seasons rode in the first flight to hounds hunting a country that was nearly all mountain on a mule that never made a misstep or refused a leap over fence or wall. Yonna; Men of tho South. M. Quad's Selma Letter.! Tho destinv of the south is in the 200 years. In loB7 it was written unia- --- - ' " j.. 45 rears of age. 2ga7gh. In 1686 Gov ongan appeared Uncertain about it and. palled it Ohm- looking mo The young men are the first point Vvenpll in 1688 to irnro, Onvagare, Onyagra, ana uney agero, uayagara, a -j-b. COMidMe(i. WitUin ten years they will n.a Philin Livincrston wroto in 17.SU to 1730 Octjagra. Jagera, and Yagerah; and Schuvler and Livingston, commis sioners otlndian affairs, wrote it in 720 Onjaverae, Ochiagara, etc. In 1721 it was wnimii uw -i J nn 0f enteruruie. Here in C accidentally, probably, be an earnest, i ?If.!t,fKrZXrrta,Lan: -Tsnd are advancing tow, cey (son of Gov. Do Lancey), who was n nffirvr in the Enclish army that cap tured Fort Niagara from the French in 1759. These pioneers may, however, beexcusedinviewof the fact-as will be attested by postmasters that some letter-writers of to-day seem quite as un decided about the orthography of this world-wide familiar name. r,imh it to the front or abandon it. Here in Selma four-fifths of the business is in the hands of men under o, ana a irrent. abara of it m st.U younger nanus-. The tvir who wera 8. 10 and 12 years old when the war closed are now the business men of the south, and they are Here in seima tiiey st, industrious towards -wos- Ynn nnd tnem cueenui vuei the older men era gloomy; you find . . , 1 1 i.i i n lr them hnr.nllll WUen IUB Oiucr uicu v of hard times; you find them ready to encourage all legitimate enterprises whea their fathero are content with what they have, Tricks of Lobbyloto at the Capital. I Ben: Ferley Poore.1 One of tbe lobbyists hat an attractive daughter who goes into society and ex ' tor. A. niTi'lit-fij to the wives and daugh ters of members, while he gives them lunches and good liquor. Another lnhhtist is renownea as a Cause for Reform. tPhiladeliihia Call. Mr. B. (to his new wife) Do you ,it I the n.lnr Of tobooCO. deir? Mm. B. rwho had been a widow) fth Tin tint nt all! X r RAra von sure dear? Don say yes if a c'gar" is distaa'eful. Mrs. B. -Oh, I love it! 1, P. Tnn ilo? Mrs. B. Yes, it reminds me so much liMtj.l.ai lnhhTiat IS uivw . . ... 1 . 1 m-4 k 1 rn it rpraiiius ujd bo "jj,u T Poor dear first husband. H. desis to ingratiate himself with the al way The Clot boo-Pin -. Ilndlananolii Jouioal.l 1 Tho latest cainpaicn lio is t the ef fect that the Amerii-an rtniiblii gets away with a.ooo.o.m.u' ?prr annually. . Knr, fl i evident that sixty clothes-pins por head pet annum is cer tainly a very liberal estimate. Take a family of ten persons their allowance in the reonlar war would be 600 pins a year. It is a well known fact that there are certain classes of people, ag gregating thousands, that have no use for clothes-pins. Take a bachelor. The only possible enployment he can devise for buch a thing is to fasten his sub nenders to his trousers. But a dozen pins per year would be a very generous allowance ior nun. , 'I linn there are babies. Babies don t use clothes-pins excessively, and per haps on an average an ordinary baby doesn't swallow more than six or seven in a twelve-month, ana most 01 tnem are recovered by anxious mothers un willing to encourage such expensive habits of diet. Business men use clothes-pins very spar.ngly, while the majority of preachers oould not tell a clothes-pin from a meat skewer. We are then driven to the hired girl upon whom depends the responsibi (ty of account ing for 600 lothes-pi!i a year. That she does not use then- or fuel is plain enniiu-h. since nob' .ly ever saw a clothes-pin that weighed less than a pound and a half on account 01 the wa- ter it has assimuaieu, tuu uj uu yuoo. ble process could it be made to burn. The Becret of this mystery as great as the one concerning the d'sappearonce of ordinory pins is that the giri must swallow them. - A Snowball Bomerana. . Novala Letter. Two miners living on Alum creek went np to the mountain above tneir oabin last week to set some stakes. After their work was done one 01 tnem made a snowball and threw it at the other, who returned the fire. One of the balls lodged on a Blope more than a mile long directly above tneircaom. The sun was sh n ng brightly and the snow was to't. i't r a second the ball rested where it fell, and then it began to roll, increasing in bulk as it went. Presently the ball, or.ee held in a man s hand, grew to the size of a hogs head, end when a furious momen tum had been goinea it uur mm several pieces, each of which continned rolling until a strip of ground 100 feet wide was cleared of snow. In the.r descent these huge snowballs picked op rocks and earth untd, merging in immenu mass, the avalanche, bear ing down giant trees and stumps, siruc the cabin of the men who started it and -carried it away as easily as if it had Keen inula nf rmner. .verytuuiK the path of the slide was swept to the bed of the strea n and bnried fifty feet deep in snow. . The mineH. watched ikAiTiui thev had wrought, and, after examining the spot where once vueir cabin stood, they started for Hawthorne for a tent and b. unlets. Believes la a Doao. IPbiladelDnia Record. Never was there a worse swindle per petrated on humanity than that which ..urn that hen a man wakes from his first sleep he onght to s-et up. If he wakes thoroughly refreshed after seven hours' slnep it is certainly ime in tnm anl t retch, and. after about fifteen minutes grace, to dress; but be .hn wakna at earlv morn, after a rest of four or five hours, will do well to turn over and go to sleep again. No Partnership. Wa'l Street News. A bull who bad been roaming around the country for several years, tossing up every object he couiu get nu noru uuuor, uuo uj met a bear and said : "See here stranger, way can t you ana 1 live on better terms?" "Why, let ns travel together and whack np the profits. Yon don't seem to oe sucu a una fellow, and I know there's nothing mean M riear ilr." softly replied the bear, as he brushed a fly off hli noso, "did we outer Into partnership there wouia oe no pronu. as h is, a toss is followed by a squeese, and vice vera. Did we both attack tne same victim at once w. should certainly quarrel and give him a chance to escape." That's 00 that's so," mnosd the bull, and he lifted Wabash a point and bellowed to the bear to look out for a tumble. All n the Kaaally. fTexasSiftinrt. r Your lather was nothing but a simple tmAnnunD.'' "I know where yon got that inronnauon,- quletly remarked the other. From wnom 01a 1 ges r From your father." . How do vou know thatl" Because your father was my father's noi- earrier." ma firat Knbjrcr. , ; Wh.t .hall I write about? ' asked a young reporter of the managing editor. SOh. write about the first thing that . . liend " was the brief order. The scr.be drew h.s pay that mg'.t Ior an article oa "d or know. Pray era and Piotoln. . - (Fannie B. Ward's Zicatecas Letter. It was a queer experience. This evening we attended Presbyterian services in ine old Ban Augustine, "Better-taku your pistols," said Dr, JeBi ; bo Betsey and I put our shining little weapons in the small saohels we always wear at our bells.' Behind the pulpit stood the usnal guns, ready for .. .... .- 1. :i iu. ineLttUb aerviue, wuun ovoij iuuu iu biio house aud probably most ot the women wera conspicuously armed. But it was a very attentive audience, mostly Mexican converts, with thought ful faces and evident earnest purpose to abide by the faith within them. It seemed strauae enough to hear familiar Hymns in tins far-oway-'iaaa "utMiu, lover of mr soul, let me to Thy bosom flv." "From Greenland's ioy mount ains," and "Hook of ages, cleft for ma! dear old'tunes, which brought tears to our eye3, though the words were those of an nlian !aml !.... J, ing ot the sacred word in Spanish, the prayers, with "Das.nos esto dia nuestra pana," (give us this day our daily bread), and the stirring sermon which followed, were all a study worthy of attention. In the midst of the services a suad of soldiers filed in and ranged them selves on each side of the doorway, so that none could escape. Instantly every man's hand sought his weapon, and women's faces paled with terror, but the services went oalmly on without interruption. It provod that these minions of the law had come to arrest an aged rascal who Lad been per sistently attempting to assassinate his own son. The young man, who is a membfir of this ohurch. is about to wed a Protestant girl, whioh so enraged his sire that he determined to destroy his own flesh and blood. The long, thin blade with which the old man meant to do the murderous deed flashed sharply for an instant in his trembling hands, but he was quickly disarmed and led away. Another Lincoln Story. fNew York Times. Here is a new Lincoln story, properly authenticated, suitable for publication about this time, aa the old almanaoi used to h .ve it: Just after the publi cation of Secretory Chase's exceedingly able treasury report in 1863, and when the secretary was Known to novo me presidential bee buzzing in his bonnet, a zealous friend of the president went to him (Lincoln) with a suggestion that Mr. Chase should be looneu aueri 110 was using his power as seoretary of the treasury to further his own smumuw enkemea. Lincoln laairhed shrewdly. and brought out the inevitable story of which he was reminded. An Illinois farmer, tilling a lew acres nf Innil and emnlovinor only one poor old horse, was plowing one day, while hia non regarded theoueration from the neereot. fenpA. HllddeMV U1S OIU. BPint- leaa tinne Bricked up his ears ana tjirtfid brisklv onward in the furrow, almost dragging the old man at tha plow-tail around the land. The lad surveyed the unusual sight from the fence, the old man having hard work to keep up as the horse went flying around, and then he cried out: Say, AnA. hv don't vou brush off that gad- flv on old Dobbin's back?" As he Hew past the old man replied : "I never saw Dobbin doing so well before. Let the gad-fly be." How Lincoln made the ;,.nHnn on v man can tell. And if "I'l"'- .i : , , there are any nign omciais ao irou with the presidential gad-fly that they are doing unusually ell, it were a pity to disturb them now,,. , . Kerve and Coolness. fplttibur Dispatch. k T.oneiuilxr woman was bragging the other evening of her nerve and cool ness. Tbe next day as she was looking ... . a(er window at a choice thing in Hamburg, a strange dog mcidentally poked his n se aga nst her bare hand, and she jumped and yelled so loud that she shook off a pound ana a a" u eellent back hair. . What They Are Pald-.Mylvanna Cobb, Jr., and slow He Grow famous. New York Letter In Indianapolis Times. ' I asked Mr. Bonner if "The Gun- maker of Moscow," written by Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., as we all know, did not make The Ledger its early fame. Ho." be said, "The Ledger had 1W),- 000 subscribers before I ever publLshed that: thoUKh I hold that 'The Gun- maker of Moscow.' 'Unole Torn Cabin.' and 'The Hidden Hand.' are the three greatest stories this country has ever produced." "The Hidden Hand," as everybody knows, is Mra. Southworth's work, and ii how running in The Ledger the third time. "The Gunmaker" has also had a third term before the public Every few years a new generation of readers arises that devours these stories as eagerly as did their e!djrs a quarter of a century ago. Bothhava been drama tized, with, susoe&j. 8vlvauu Cobb, Jr., haa written ior The Ltidtfoi' Al most ever since Mr. Bonner, has owned it. He lives in Boston, and is the son of a distinguished preacher of the same name who died a few years since. When Mr. Bonner first employed him he was a proof-reader, and in odd hours wrote stories for Gleason's Pictorial, a literary pictorial which has been succeeded byBallou's Magazine, 1 think, lie was the great card of that journal, and received higher pay than any other contributor $100 for a story running through six numbers; not a princely sum for a serial now surely, but considered quite ample then. The publishers of Uleason s notorial offended Mr. Bonner by printing a I)aragraph to the effect that the prices is claimed to pay to some of his con tributors were fictitious. The same number of The Pictorial contained an advertisement of The Ledger which had been solicited. Mr. Bonner wrote the publisher, asking him if he thought it either courteo is or honest to solicit a favor and g3t it and then do his best to damage the" man who had favored him. lie replied he did not, and was very sorry bis paper had made such an erroneous statement; it had been done in his absence, etc., had "orept" in, probably, as errors always make their entree'' into newspapers if the editors' assertion is to be taken as fact nobody ever heard ot one walk ing, or lumpmcr or riding in. Htm he oouldn t pubuoly take baok what his journal had said, although "very sorry, very sorry," etc. Mr. Bonner replied that he never took a private anolozv ior a publio wronz. Meantime he cast abont for some means of reminding his adversary that he could pot be openly -1 J "ll L 1 HI ' Sylvanus Uobo he was under only for The Mr. Bonner had something The Nalrittal Heorploa. - New York Bun. There is ono animal whioh unques tionably does kill itself the scorpion. I hod often read that that little beast will stab himself to death with tbe poison dagger in his tail when surrounded with a oiroie 01 nre. .1 doubted the story, but it is true. Once Uat Havana, I saw a little black, plump, n.Hl-HM.,.i;u i..i.4a.,,11,m. ;tr twoifor nntnlr waV iiHVuue tuutj uiuaiug yi vvj iwiwn wj U across the tiled floor of a large parlor. "A scorpion 1" was the cry el some rela- I uvea Who were to tbe manner Dorn, ana he was soon imprisoned under the glass f dome of a goblet. It was cur ous then ! to witness the little creature's rage. Ha twas evidently in a fury, dash ng him self aga nst h a transparent glass wa is, and soniotimes curling up h s ta 1 1 11 the end touched his head, form ng a vertical ring. But he did not stab nor strike himself, and at last lay down, -seemingly exhausted. We did not try Ltlia lira exoeriment unon him. and ha pwas oarriejoir to be kJied hy thi black. servants. Uut 1 kaow from two n.eoes that on a subsequent occasion, when 4 scorpion was caught in a similar man ner, their brother, to conr nee them of the truth of tue creature's suicide when confined within an enclosure of Are, surrounded it with a ring of cotton wool saturated with alcohol, and fired tbe ring. The scorpion dash d about the fiery pr.son from place to place, evidently in mingled fright and fury, and in search of an opening, tiu at last, despairing of escape, he went to the center of the cii ole, coiled h a tail over to his head, and they saw him stab himself several times viciously with his sting, and he speed ly sank down dead. As they described it to me, his fas little body was gasnea in many places with his seu-inn.cted stabs. There is no real reason to be lieve that the animal knew that it was putting an end to its owrife, or that it had any idea of ' ceasing to be, or of what death is. It was more probably from an instinctive impulse,' in blind rage and fury, to strike, strike, Btrike at the only object in reach of its natural weapon. In the case in which 1 saw one imrr.sonea under a goblet, no aia not strike at the transparent crystal, whioh he probably did not see, seeing only the external objects around, ine nre seemed to madden the lurious liiue beast. Indianapolis Herald: The trath is that in these davsof eagerness for o1 too many men think to use m oner-lag as floaters, in time tne pags coiiapho and the oa riero nnd.-r. . Twelve million clocks last year. manufactured a note asking ii contract t5 work Pictorial. If not, intimated that he to say to him. He nnt. rnntricted in anv way, and, as TtjrenW.ie tout what Be received for his stories; Mr. uonner at onoo -fered him double the amount for a story and contracted with him for five more before he announced him in The Ledger. The publisher of The Pictorial was away from home when he heard the news, and at once telegraphed Mr. Cobb to make no permanent arrange ments with anybody else nntil he re turned. But the misohief had already been done, and Mr. Cobb was on the high road to fortune. Although Mr. Bonner only paid him $200 for his first story, he has since paid him as high as $10,000 for some of his work. Just before employing Sylvanus Cobb Mr. Bonner paid Fanny Fern, then at the height of her fame as the author of "Kuth Hall," $1,000 for a ten-column story. For fourteen years afterward, or until she died, she never failed to write every wek for The Ledger, her crisp and dashing comments on men and manners oooupy ing a noticeable po sition on the fourth page. They were eagerly read, too, by all olasses of read rs. "Indeed." said Mr. Bonner, "Fanny Fern never could have written anything dull, even if she had tried; neither can Henry Ward lieeencrr One .Egg Enough T Anaheim Gazette. Dnn oatrich egg for ten guests is the pattern at the California ostrich farm. Ono, two, turee, lour, uve, six., euveu, licrht. nino. ten." said Dwight Whiting, counting the guests he had invited to soeni the day at the ostrich farm with l. -i, 1. - i n him; "1 gues one egg wm ue enougu. And having giving uiwrnuuo w mie amresRion. he wended his way to the paddock and soon brought to the house . ... mi a 1. . IL. an ostrich egg. ine wiuiupu ui mo foMi on t' j egg. For a whole hour it was boiled, and though there was then some misgiving as to its being oooked, the shell was broken, lor can nuitv conld no longer be restrained, j .. . , i:.i and a turee-pouna naru-uoueu bkk u upon the plate. But aside irom its size there was nothing peculiar about it. Tha white hod the bluish tinge seen iu duck eggs, and the yolk was of the usual color. It tasted as it looked like a duck egg and had no flavor pecu 1,0 r in ila ilf. But it was immense 1 As it takes twenty-eight hen eggs to equal in weight the ostrich e?g which was cooked, it is evidont that the host knew what he was aoout in couauig uu uuo. There was enough and to spare; and before leaving the table the party unanimously agreed that ostrich egg was good. . Hlan-Prleea Book. izchanee.l There are only two American book which have a market value approximates- e.inoo: thev are the "Bay Psalm KarA" wh ch has been sold a high as fl.200, and El.ot's Ind an Bible "Up- Biblum Uod, in the aooriginai tongue. The Lot of the rhyolelaa. fBurllnirton Pmn.1 A leading ohvsioian tells the Idler a funny story in illustration 01 this point, A prominent citizen, meeting the disci nle of Esculapius one day, began com- . . , ., . 1 1 .1 .-..v.. ) maininir tnat ne was sick sue uui" "- fnro dreadfullr sick: "and 1 would have sent for you, doctor, oniy hated to have my old mare go out on n,.h a atormv night 1" Tbe evicted eitizen had a world of sympathy for his horse, but not a particle for bis long-suffering physician, and the public in general is apt to take a similar view of the matter. r.ev. Jowph Cook declares that there tr "not over five newspapers in the iTniil States that a self-respecting Ainer.can would lecommecd a foreign visitor to. read. Amerleanlalna Parisian Journalises, New York World. The two young newspaper men who are making a tilt just at present In tho way of Americanizing Parisian journalism are named Chamberlain and Ives. The former is a son ot the late Ivory Chamberlain, and for a number ot years ho acted as tne private uscretArv ot James Gordon Bennatt. Tbe journalist, ieoausti fioiiueii Uuw to l"-" himself an editorial writer, and is forever suggesting subjects which his secretary has to write out. Chamberlain got $10,000 a yoar and ail nia expenw iw m..jiib f .m. it 1. mm that soma of his former JJWUJDW. - n employer money-la Invested In The Paris Morning newe. Ives, who has a slice of tho property, used to be in Mew York journalism. He went to that city from Buffalo, where bis parents reside still He is a tall, slim young man, with an olive complexion and a big black eyebrow that runs straight aoross bis fore head. There is a strain of Indian blood in his viiini. Some vears ago he married the lovely and accomplished daughter of Mr. Frank B. Carpenter, tho artist. Be went aDrow to work in London for the Associated Press, and distinguished himself by hunting Oakey Hall to his London hiding-place when that erratic individual ran away to England some years ago. Ives was then snapped up by The Her ald, whose work -he did in Loudon for two or three years. Finally Air. uennett oruerea 01m to rani. Dublin, Ban Francisco and New York In quick succession, countermanding each order just as Ives got under way. That was too much for the young man's Indian temper, and he sent in a bot letter of resignation, to which Bennett replied: "I have received vour impndent communication, and Its contents are quite satisfactory to me." Then Ives wrote back: "Glad to know you think me impudent I have been told that all 1 needed to make a first-class Herald man was a complete stock of that article." On ths whole, (Jbamoonain ana ivee are we ainu ui young men who seem likely to make journal ism bum in rans. Into Outer Darkness. Eastern Exchange. When the audience of a Boston thea tre was being dismissed during a rain storm a man in trying to open an um brella in the lobby, lifted the point so that it :nught a lady beneath the ooil of her hair on the back of her ueao. 10 the horror ' the gentleman he saw the lady's bonnet and her ent;re neaa 01 hair mouat upward on the point of his umbrella. There was agony ana re morse on both sides. Apologies were of no avail. The unhappy man darted forth into the stormy night. The lady did not wait to replace her head gear, but disoppeared with it in her band into tbe gloomy recesses 01 u a. mut ant hack. What Vou Hunt Take te Washington. Lady Correspondent. The rentleman coming to Washington, un less bo wishes to miss a most instructive por ttnnofhlistav here, must bring an evening drees suit (swallow tail and white m black necktie.) This warning is not so unnecessary might be supposed, ino sun may do forgotten or purposely left at borne, too gentleman not intending to visit, and then on arrival he is embarrassed that be cannot go properly dressed exactly where be ougot toga The lady should bring a good plain black silk dress, with illusion or pretty lacs for neck and sleeves. This, with long light or tan-colored gloves and a few natural flowers, will pasa for a stranger on any occa sion that may offer. Here tbe unexpected is the inevitable, and it is well to bo prepared. A srrenc py. Chicago Tribune. Yves Guvot, the Parii journalist, tells how King Louis XVIII, when he returned from exile, asked Fonche if his movements had been watchea oy spiei. Fonche admitted thai tbe Duo de Blacas had been so employed. "And how much did you give him?" asked Louis. "Two hundred thousand livres, was the reply. "Good," said the mon arch, "I find he did not cheat me. We went halves." Christian Advooata: Iieither wealth, nor intel.igence, nor culture, nor tociely c in purchase exemption from I .he grwt law of self-denial. , "1.1 ,-v-j,-f i 1 1 1 ,1 f, 1 I 1 v 1 v..-' - ;-.s 1. i 4 Li 1 - ll - - 1 .