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EUGENE CITY GUARD. L I CAMP BUM Proprietor. euoene crry, Oregon. FLOATING A COMPANY. -' Hew Kncllth Financial AsenU Effect tha Hale of yueatlonaolo Stock. Thee exist In the city of London a somewhat numerous class of men who were formerly called promoter of companion, but who have of late year assumed the more rounding title of financial agents. Lot u suppose that to one of these gentlemen there occurs the happy thought of starting a Hji Island tramway company. He loses no time in putting his scheme into shape, and the following may be taken M fair example, of how he carries out his intentions. His first work is to get together a board of directors, and this, .apposing he has had a fair business experience, is not so difficult as might at first bo supposed. Together with the financial agent another class of men has been called into exiHtenco by the great extension of the joint stock company system. The gentlemen who holp with their names tho floating of such enterprises form a distinct class of themselves, and are termed "guinea pigs," mot probably from the fact of each ordinary director receiving a guinea for each meeting he attends. In order to be considered of any value s director of a company a guinea pig ouht to have a handle to his name. A Lord, a Baronet or even a Knight U looked upon as unoxcopt'onablo, and may almost command his own price: for it is not to be supposed that, a director is to work for nothing. His value, like most other things, varies with the qual ity of the article. A Peer who has a eat in the Upper House will probably not allow his name to appear on a prospectus under 300 to 400 a year, besides some 60 or 100 fully paid-up hares. And he is worth the money. The financial agents are well aware that when a Peer of the realm Is so rwi tiniula the lint of directors. VHISIl .......... the most difficult part of the task is ac complished. What remains will fol low as a matter of course. The next ten is to write or to get some one to M. far Hi a nromoter has cenerallv a soul above literary Composition al.. nAptUn sif tha nrnanflctna boffin- ning "The object for which this com pany Is formed." and so on. This is quickly accomplished. There are cor tola eentlemen who describe them- elves as connected with the press whose specialty Is to compose these muiuAiiAi. The chartre for such a document varies from two to five guineas, and they are cheap, even at the latter price. . There is, perhaps, no kind of writing which requires more kill than this. In the case of the "Fiji tramway oompany" the writer must It annaa,. that nn limllirtjllt inP SO purely phllanthroplcal, or to sure to cause 10 muon prosperity w r iji, nits luian nmnnud either bv Govern ment or private enterprise; while at ' . .! l. . U -WAV- .L Ue ItlUO II 1110 US lUUSb, M ncio, a. lOW to escape from his pen the fact that a tramway company in the Fiji lands la certain to be exceedingly lu crative to all ooncerned. To repeat I, iW a ha must not lie in what he writes, but he must economize the truth. The prospectus written, nil iha nlllnlnU. minh ha secretary, so licitors, bankers, eto., chosen, an ex-i f tensive stop comes next namely, very ong advertisements in tho leading . . . , n.. i . daily papers ami cisewnore. uui uero luit mmlnrn At. litrnrimi nomea to the help of the promoter and sees him over iha .lifllpiiltv. which to an outsider might seem almost insurmountable. Lkatnbers Journal. A Chicago mail wants all nogs no. 1iijruhn friim thn fuco of the I'lirlll . jlesays they only produce liens, and iIkiIi itimh Im not in Mid. even forKilllsiiirc in i. mi It la not known whether he hud been treed by a dog or bitten by a piece of bologna sausage; but we think he HBH. iiurr tfliuu rt jiiriim. lliiuiiiua Iwlio hint limn' an envrnv I nor .if Kniiii-Hiin lii tin Miiaru chamber in deference to her Boston guest) "Did jou'notiee the engraving over the man tel in your room mat nigm, airs. Waldo? I thought it would please you." Mrs. Waldo -"Oh. yes. What a lino-looking old gentleman! Is it n picture of your fathorP" Chicago Jour tiru. Shu. nn Iwmrcl thn vaeht Eai?le wlnir "Ilowdorlouslv the fresh brcc tills the sails. Mr. Do Salt!" Ho "Whs. tho sails are full." Sho- 'And how resplendent the moon is Mr. De SaltP Ho "la as the moon full." She, getting tired "Ah. do you know whore the Captain is, Mr. De Kaltr no "f.r va as, wiiow. no s full, too." Ar. T. Sun. Maurice Harlan, a New York a.tnr. whlln nuikinir hla nine was as ionlHheil hv an explosion w hich blew kis pine to pieces. At the same time a bullet struck him In the forehead and glanced off, lodging in the ceiling over head. An examination showed him the shell of a thirtv-two-calibor cartridge in the pipe, lie had tilled the pipe from a newly-opened package of tobacco, and is at a loss to know how the cartridge got there. Bovine Life in Holland. At one o'clock we leave for Amster dam, by way of the Haarlemer Meer, which, unlike seas of modern times, is provided with good macadam roads. Here we find the typical Dutch houses, and everywhere canals instead offences, tin stooping at a tine, large farm-house for a gla.a of milk, we are requested to take off our shoes before entering. In our desire U ascertain the truth of the tories -a to the bovine l fo in Holland we accede to this demand, and tind that the pomp and luxury have not been . exaggerated. The cows do have their tehee tied up with silk ribbons, Jocu easy chairs to sit in, and alio ea:her beds, all reports to the contrary ta ng slanders. Further than this I c.tn not go; can not corroborate the state ment that they are read to when weary, or tli at those which are near-sighted wear pld rimmed spectacles. Ucorye i'iJce, in Outing. ' THE ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN. Oenrral l.-.M Plan. In the Fln.t lnl. of Maryland. Tiro next day we reached thb neigh borhood of Frederick. I went atonw to General Leo. who was alone. After listening to my report ho said that as 1 had a division which would often, per haps, be ordered on detached service, an Intelligent performance oi my uuv might require a knowledge of tin ulterior purposes ana objects oi im campaign. Here," said he, tracing wun mi finger on a large map, "is the line ol our communications, m Bm.. station to Manassas, thence to Fred erick. It is too near the Potomac, and liablo to be cut any aay cy me 1 a l.AnfAaIn enemy s cavalry, i nave, un:i Sven orders to move mu nu vn e Valley of Virginia, by way of Staun ton, Harrisonburg and Winchester, en tering Marvlaml at Shepardstown. "1 wlah you W return wuniuvuui the Monoeacy and effectually destroy the aoueduot of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. By tho time that is accom plished you will receive orders to co operate in the capture of Harpers Ferry, and you will not return nore, but, after the capture of Harper's Ferry, will rejoin us at Hagerstown, where the will im concentrated. iy imui- eminary rapidly became popular, and attracted pupils from all part of tho country, and even from Central Amer ica and the West Indios. Dr. Lewis re mained in Boston until 1882, when he removed to Yonkcrs and cstitlilmhed a fnagaasino in that city.devotod to sani tary and social science, and known as IHo Lewis' Monthly. Dr. Lewis pub lished a number of books on physical culture which had a wido circulation. Dr. Lewis' last instructions were: "Although I am averse to the somewhat unpleasant notoriety which, as yet, cre mation Involves, my very strong con viction is that it is the right disposition of the dead. I leave directions that my body shall be cremated and that the ashes shall not be put into an urn, but in the earth, over which my wife may lovingly plant forgot-me-noU I direct, alBo, with my dear wife's assent, that all funeral parade and expense shall bo avoided, and that my remains be placed in a pine casket for removal to the ere. matory. I desire, also, that no flowers mav be sent by my friends." The Inoineration of the remains took place at Fresh Pond, Long Island. St. Louit Q lobe-Democrat. nrrnv in that there are between ten thousand and twelve thousand men at Harper's Ferry, and three thousanu at Martinslnirg. The latter may escape tnwnrd Cumberland, but I think the chances are that they will take refuge at Harper s Ferry and bo captured. K..ilis the men and material of war which we shall capture at Harper's Fer rv. tho position is necessary to us, not to garrison aim noiu, uui m hid of the enemy it would be a break in our new lino of communications w th Richmond. "A few days rest at Hagerstown win be of great value to our men. Hun dreds of them are bare-footed, and nearlv all of them are ragged. 1 hope to get shoes and clothing for the most needy. But the best of it will be that the short delay will enable us to get up our stragglers not stragglers from a shirking disposition, but simply from InaKilit.v to keen ud with thoir.com- TnoniU. I believe there are not less than from eight to ten thousand of them hntwecn here and Rapldan Station. Besides thse, we shall be able, .to get, a large number of recruits who havebeen accumulating at Richmond for some I have now reaueste'd that they be sent forward to join us. . Thoy ought in rp.nh us at Hairerstown. We shall then have a very good army"; and he mlllngly added: "Une that i mm win be ible to give a good account of itself." "In ten davs from now. he con- tinned, "if the military situation is then what I confidently expect It to be after the capture of Harper Jerry, i snail vnnantrat the armv at Hairerstown, effeotually destroy the Baltimore & Ohio road, and march to this point." placing his finger at Harrisb-urg. rennsyivania, That la the obioctivt point of tlie cam- nuiim. You remember, no doubt the long bridge of the Pennsylvania railroad, over the Susquehanna, a few miles west of Harrisburg. Well, I will nffpctuallv dostrov that orldeo, which will disable the Pennsylvania railroad for a long time. With the Baltimore A Ohio in our possession, and the Pcnn- sylvania railroad broken up, there win remain to the enemy but onp route of communication with tho West, and that very circuitous, by way of the lakes. After that. I can turn my attention to Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington as mav seem best for our interests. ' I was very much astonished at this announcement and I suppose ho ob served it for ho turned to me and said "You doubtless regard it hazardous to leave MeClollan practically on mv lino of communication, and to march Infn ilm Imnrf nf tlm nnnmv'n eonntrvP" 1 admitted that such a thought hud occurred to mo. "Are vou aeouainted with Oen. McClel lanP" ho Inquired. I replied that wo had served toeothor In tho Mexican war un der Gen. Scott but that I had seen but littlo of him since that time. "Ho is an able general, but a cautions ono. Hiaenemjos among his own peo ple think him too muoh so. His army Is In a very demoralized and chnotio condition, and will not be prepared for offensive operations or he will not think it so for three or four weeks. Before that time I hope to bo on the Susquehanna " Oen. John O. Jl'oWer, in Century. ANCIENT LAWS. Soma of the Moat Popular Enll.h and French Proverb. We English seem to have'selectcd the mouse as an emblem lh our "Adumb as a mouse;" the French have preferred a glass, for they say "As dumb as a glass." We say "As deaf as a post; the French "As deaf as a pot" "As dull as ditch water" Gallicized becomes As sad as a night-cap." "Don t count vour chickens before tnoy are hatched" is changed into '"Don't sell the skin of a bear before having killed it" Instead of "Hitineoff ono 8 nose to spite one's face." a similarly useless experiment Is illustrated by "Spitting in the air mat it may iuu on ono s nose." The self-evident impossibility in the words "You can't get blood out of a stone" is represented by "One could not comb a thing that has no hair." (This last also "goes without saying." whioh, as literally translated from the French, now forms a proverb in our own language.) In the proverb, "One man may lead a norse to the water, but a hundred can t make him drink," our neighbors have not inappropriatolyselected an "ass" as the illustrative animal. "When you're in Rome, yon must do as Rome does," every Englishman will tell you; though few. nerhaos. could say why Rome was chosen as an example, and whether It is more necessary, when in Rome, to fol low the ceneral lead, than anywhere else, is to us a matter of doubt To the Frenchman the Idea Is sumc entiy well expressed, however, by impressing upon you the necessity oi "nownng with the wolves." "Easy come, easy go," though terse and to the point is in Itself scarcely so intelligible as to tho somewhat longer sentenoe. ."That which comes with the flood returns with the ebb." That "a burned child dreads the fire" U perfectly true, as very one will admit; our neighbors go further than this, ana in choosing "scalded cat" as the object of considers tion, speak of it as being In foar of cold" water even, thus expressing the natural distrust of the cat after havinc once been scalded, - as extend Ing even 'to "cold" water. "Monev makes the mare to go," and "for monev. dors dance. Chambers Jour nal. DR. DIO LEWIS. Tha rata roomier of tha Movement In Favor of Phraleal Culture. Dr. Dio I'wis, who died recently at his home in Yonkers-on-tho-Hudson, was perhaps the best known author and teacher of phys'eal culture in tho United States. He was a native of Auburn, New York, and was sixty-three years old. He studied medicino in the liar vard medical school, and began the practice of his profession In Auburn, In 1843, at the age of twenty-two. Two years later he removed to Buffalo, where he practised five years, and wrote and published a number of papers on the causes and treatment of cholera, which ravaged that city in 1849 and 1851. Dr. Lewis, during those years of practice, became impressed with the necessity of phyVcal culture to prevent disease, and in IDSi he gave up the prac tice of his profis'on and began a course of lecturing and writing on the subject of public ani personal hvgione. During four year he lecture! almot every night, (.lying his days to the .. vention of his new system of gymnastics. In 1860, having perfected this sys tem, he abandoned the platform and settled in Boston, where he established his normal school for physio U training. He was as-iisted In teaching by the cele brated Dr. Walter Channing. Dr. Thos. Hoskins, and other well-known medical scholars, and within seven Years more than four hundred prrsonshsd" been graduated from his normal sch Mil, and were spreading the principles of his sys tem of physical training throughout the land. He next established a sem inary for girls at Ixington, Ma-i, his ob.'eot be ng to illustrate tho possibili ties in the physical development of girls during their school lite. This Their ARABIC CIPHERS. Origin and Introduction Weitern World. In tha Our existing ciphers, though origin ally Indian, are now universally de scribed as Arabic because thoy came to the Western world from India and Afri ca through the mercantile modium of the Spanish Arabs. From Spain they spread to the European nations, though not without considerable opposition, by the way, such as Invariably testifios to the goodness and soundness of every genu Ine human improvement Whenever you hear a loud popular clamor raised asrainst any thin? as wicked or foolish, you may oe pretty sure it will really turn out in the end a vaiuaoie mven tion. What every body says must be wrone. This simple conclusion flows as a matter of course from the familiar principle, first definitely formulated by "poor Carlyle," that there are so many billion people in the world, mostly fools. Paynim numerals met with little favor," accordingly, from the me diirval merchant The bankers of Flor ence were forbidden, on thevorge of the fifteenth century, from employing these dangerous Saracen signs in any of their account books, and the Univer sity of Padua (so very like our own Ox ford) ordained that its stationer should keep a list of books for sale with the prices marked, "not in ciphers, but in plain letters." The hapless modern purchaser rather desires, on the con trary, that prices should be marked. not in letters, but in pla'n ciphers. is noticeable that the very word cipher. here employed, is itself Arabic and its progeny Includes, not only the familiar French oA're. but tfeo, through Italian ttfiro, the much less immediately recog nizable derivative, zero. Arable nu nierals were at first confined in use to mathematical works; thev were then employed for the paging of books, and it was not till the middle of the fifteenth century that they first fonnd their way with any securitv into general commer cial society. Lornhiu Magazine. Danish Book Interests. Denmark's book production for the past year has just been tabulated. Ac cording to the "Aarsberetnmger og Meddelelser fra det Store Kgl Bibll othek," there were published last year 1.913 volumes, 891 pamphlets and 243 periodicals and journals. Of the former. 178 were translations, 107 ot which is sued in the department of belles-lettres namelv. 3' from the German. 81 from the English. 22 from the French, 13 from the Swedish and 10 from other Ian guagea During 1S85 seventeen per sons established themselves in Copen hagen and five elsewhere as printers.- A. J. JVt FOREIGN GOSSIP. rekln, China, is said to bo the most d nsty city In tho world. The streets are never sweptr-excopt by a gale Without the express consent of his wifo, no married Austrian subject can procure a passport for journeying be yond the frontier. Th othnr dav a Mock of auriferous quartaofthe estimated value of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars was tnkin out In the galleries of the Oscar gold mine, Bonnel Island, on the west coast of Norway. Fifty years ago tho sardine fishery i the coa-t of France was excellent but now It is rapidly declining. Scient ists attribute the circumstance to changes in the Gulf stream. A sum equivalent to f IZO.iaw nas been presented to the Gorman govern ment by Dr: Werner Siemens to estab lish an institute for carrying on experi ments in natural science. . Russian noblos are declared to be the daintkist and most fastidious eaters in the world, and pay greater attention to culinary and gastronomic matter! than even the Parisian epicures. I)r. Schlieman writes that In the cominar autumn he will begin unearth- ne the Btrong-noKis oi me aumw Mieona?. The work will probably last three years and will be his final undertaking. The two policcmon who were so severely injured in their efforts to pre vent tlie explosion of dynamite in the houses of Parliament nave occn re tired on a pension of four hundred dollars each. Sonii'bodv of a slatihiicul turn has figured up that during tne last sixteen years 847 duels have leen fought in ranee, and ludarinsr from the results, tho chances against being killed in a French duel are as 86 to 1. "The serious business of my life, said Verdi, the composer, while in Paris, is farminsr. and mus e is tne recrca- t on of mv leisure hours." ins visit was to arranire about selling the copy right of his opera, "Otello," and to buy farming and garden implements, plants and seeds. Dnrinir a visitation of cholera in Tendon one side of a street was rav aged, while the other side, supplied with water from a different source, es caped. An eminent hyg'enist says that the always floating products of the de composition of leaves, wood, etc., and all forms of vegetnble matter, are the most frequent causes ass gned for epi demics of typhoid fever. When the Spanish Ministers ob jected to the name Alfonso XIII. for the new King, because of the traditional ill-luck which attaches to the number thirteen, Queen Christine treated their superstition with contempt and insisted that "Alfonso" should be the name of her child notwithstanding the addition of thirteen to the title. A Chinese b'ock is engraved on hard native wood with a close grain, cut in a different direction to the boxwood nrenared for the English engravers. the Chinese printer inks the block with a brush the ink be ne a suitable com pound largely composed of India ink. To secure an 'impressio'n soft paper is laid on the block, and a dry brush is passed over the back of the paper, which is printed on one s.de only. FACTS ABOUT STORMS. RfhuIU of a Study of the Tornadoei at St Clond and Wet more. The S'gnal Office has been making special studv of the facts reported from the great tornadoes of April 14, by which the c't'es of St Cloud and Si;uk Rapids, Minn., were nearly destroyed. The farthest westerly appearance of the storm was at Jamestown. D. T. The total path of the storm was thirty-five miles long, and in its course killed sixty-nine people and. destroyed over f '.'O'), 000 worth of property. At the same time there was a storm at Benton, Mills County, Iowa, wh'ch proceeded in tho same gcnoral direct'on, ami passed through a dozon towns in the course of one hundred and ten miles. Another parallel storm was noted at Wet more, Kas., and Stella. Neb., and was traced for about thirty miles. Another was rejiorted from fonroe, Mo., about thirty miles long. All thee storms happened between five and eight o'clock in the evening. There was a uniform pro gression from west to east, tho most eastern tornadoes occurring lour or five hours later than tho western, The sig nal service people a e inclined to build theories somewhat different from those accepted with regard to tornadoes. The principal aumoriiy on lornauoes is i roi. Ferrel. He says that when, on account of greater heat, or a greater amount of aqueous vapor, the atmosphere at any place becomes more rare than the sur rounding portion, it ascends, and the surrounding heavier atmosphere Hows in below to supply its place, while a counter current is produced above. As the lower strata of atmosphere gen erally contain - a certain quantity of aqueous vapor, which " is condensed after rising to a certain height and forms clouds and rain, the caloric given out in the condensation produces a still greater rarefaction, and doubtless adds very much to the disturbance of equilib rium, and to tne motive powers of storms. The Signal Office finds the following objections to this theory: They say it demands a more sudden and complete mixing of warm and cool a;r than can ever take place in nature; that there is no such sudden uprush of air due to a possible heating by the sun. While the earth's surface may become very hot yet this intense heat never extends more than a few feet ver tically. Balloon ascents demonstrate this. The sun heats a great surface over the earth, and if Fen-el's theory was correct there would naturally be cloud formation and storms over a large region, whereas storms seem to develop along certain lines from southeast to northeast and are not general over any large region. Storms are not stationary, but have a well-defined course, and move exactly as if propelled by some force as a part of the course of the storm, rather than by successive upset- tings of equilibrium, from place to place Another fact is, that storms generally arise about half past three o'clock in the afternoon, just a little aftor the hottest part of the day, and l. ...Imanl WhnrO 11 OCCOllItu coolor. .If there wns to bo any upheaval of equilibrium, owing to the sun s heat, it would seem inni " - place under the sun and not seven or eight hours after the sun na i pu-. Furthermore, rnu. n-n ...,.. . quires a rarefaction of air Im mediately in front of the advancing storm, while tlie observation of tho Signal Ollice shows that there is no such rarefaction, but, on the contrary, a dense pressure preceding tne storm. iuo belief of the Signal Service is that a tornado Is the extreme development of thunder-storm, accompanied oy in tense electrical maniiemauoii- nu sudden increase in pressure and of wind blowing suddenly and powerfully from the direction of the tornado. It is bo lioved that these tornadoes are the re sult of peculiar electrical conditions in the upper air. ine oignai uu from time to time rco immendod that there would be a great saving of life if people would take reasonanie precau ¬ tions. A town Wltn a lores inuui-ui-ately south and west of it has protty fair protection from destruction. All towns during the tornado season should establish a look-out at the distance of a mile to the southwest, and give warn ing on the church bells. lornado cel lars are a device which are open to. everybody, and a great many lives hrtve , r .l U.. ,1 1frLf..i rttstti T el. ncen saveii uy uiuiu. iiy" v.-ter. CLEANING PARIS. An Army of Men Constantly Worklnt in the Streets of the Gay City. Paris is said to be much dirtier than in the luxurious days of the Empire, and in truth it is, but it is always won derfully well taken care of. In the small, narrow, out-of-the-way street where I reside there is scarcely an hour in the day when somebody is not doing something to dress up the sidewalk or improve the road for vehicles. Before eight in the morning the large wagon rumbles along to gather up the refuse from the houses, and although the wagon rejoices in the convenience of a mechanical ladder ana pull-up behind, the man on top, high boots and flannel shirt always prefers to stimulate his equilibrium, and lean over to catch hold oil the pails -nd boxes which a man be low hands him, while . a woman in knitted shawl, drawn snugly over her head, brushes away the fallen items, indulging . in a series of jokes or arguments which never interrupt the mechanical labor, but also never cease during this opera tion of each succeeding day. Where the wagon goes to I have never inquired, but in a few moments the party return and iweep out the gutters, letting the water run and flood, as if it cost noth ing. They pack in firmly miniature dams here and there, and thus produce a sort of waterfall, to the satisfaction of the ubiquitous small boy, and also of the concierge who does a vast amount of cleaning to his house utensils with this improvised tub and gratuitous water supply. After that a man comes to wet the street; then he runs around to some mysterious nook and gets a wheelbarrow-load of sand which he throws upon the pavement for the bitter se curity of the omnibus horses. This operation is repeated some half dozen times during the day. As the horses trot . until after midnight and at sunset this particular careceas -s, the poor, worn-out quadrupeds must then look out for themselves. I must not neglect the workmen who clean every day the glass windows of the gas lamps and the men who brush and wash their iron supports, not counting in the gas employe who sits down comfortably to scrape, rub, and o'l the funny little boxes set on the outside of each house. Where there are trees it is even worse, for there is never any cessation to the culture, training and minute care be stowed. It is no wonder the Parisian is fond and proud of his native city, al though he does grumble over the taxes and the government and woe betide the unfortunate innocent who ventures to agree with him in his short moods of rebellious dismay. Paris Cor. N. Y. Times. UUL AND CHURqJ -There are In England vst schools which are attended L'l children. a -The Presbytery of Si t has organized a PresbvtiM.N whose members oomii I.., U anese Christians, resident int" There is said to h. ... ' evangolical missionary In aM valley of the Amazon, and thw sermon una never Dcen i that territoryA-. Y. faf -Rev. Dr. W. R, Davis. Dl,w Zion Baptist (colored) ChlS villa. Ky., has resigned at tL he did not preach loud enou sufficient fervor to make tli.l Louisville Courier-Journal .Among those who ham l- Roman Catholic Church ilnVT giuuiuj ui mo viora motnv enumerated 36 lords, 25 bircZ graduates of Oxford, 149 ' Cambridge, 142 array ofUcen v yers, 48 doctors and 1,0iq Rev. N. J. Cushing. D p mah, arrived at San Franc'ict days since. It is about Ue0!( since he left this country fur i s:onary field, and nine yean ii first return. He has done i in the translation for the Shaii, the entire Word of God. A. : dependent. i ii iuuvuiuim juiiuis pin whisky into tho baptistry of it 'j church, after the water had for the immers'on of a , drunkard. But their trick w to serious account by the victin standing on the edge of the tut dripping robe, described the tho congregation and delivered, ing speech for total abstinen&i dtanapoUs Journal. The great dofect even ol r teachers, and clergy as well, living in a rut No man or vc great or good enough to diswt. the broadening and beneficent of everyday physical nature mighty university of human lift wise, and use the golden b thorough. ventilation of mind-i-J lion, sympathies, sense ud Journal of Education. In England a parent can V cuted for the non-attendua child at school, and children m the nennv school fee ever? I The father of a child who did mi his penny on two succesiiye l 'was summoned for "non-attaW and the Lord Chief Justice heldi attendance of a child without . constituted no attendance onder: laws of the School Board. The system carried ont h' for educating girls Is certainly i of notice. The v are kept at tte until they are fifteen yean ofip. then go through a course of tut: the pantry and the kitchen andei member of the family, orsomto der trained cooks for a join years. Thus they learn to del thing themselves, and to know ue otthings long before the; ecu house-keeping on their on A and though they may never bew to cook a d'nner, they becoul pendent of cooks and servants.-) bun. t WRITE PLAINLY. Sound Advlc Which Should Be Remem bered By Every Reader. In the ordinary affairs or life we dress to suit the employment of the occasion. tVere one to attire h'mself in his swallow-ta'l" suit and kids to go into the field or workshop, he would soon retire under the jokes and ridicule of his more sensible associates. Upon the. jther hand were one to present himself at church or ball or other fashionable lathering in the customary and proper rarb of the workshop or farm, he would be equally open to disparaging com ment , So in writing; we should learn to adapt its style to the purpose for which Jt is to be used; lor all the ordinary pur poses of life it should be as simple and plain as poss ble,jt should be like the good old Quaker yea and nay, no line or shade unnecessary to legibility ihoald be tolerated, but when we come to displayed or professional penman ship it may Ve done up in the true "swallow-tail" style, and yet even here legibility is not to be lost sight of. Fenman's Journal. A Nice Question for Lawyers. A gentleman -who died recently in Paris left a legacy of six thousand dol lars to his niece in Dubuque, Iowa, who, it appears, died about the same hour of the same day. The question which died first turns upon the relation of solar to true time, and must be determined by the difference of longitude. If the niece died at 4 a. m., and the uncle at 10 a. m., the instants of their death mnst have been Identical. Assuming that to be the hour of the testator's death, if the niece died at any hour between four and ten, although the legacy would apparently revertlo his estate, it would really vest in her and her heirs, since by solar time she would actually have survived her uncle. Christian at Work. ' PUNGENTiPARAGWH A new wax of value haibM In the bark of the ocotiHiu It plant of Mexico. A Nevada court held that i who had five dollars in his poA his board paid for a week aW capitalist" within the meaning law. For truly deep feeling let t your attention to a negro has to stand by while the hotei whom he is serving eats watero Utica Observer. One cause of the throat u trouble in this country is the t all of us sing so much ami ? Neither the throat nor the lunr intended to stand such strain-. Free Press. Sweet nu'sance "No; the The Mikado' is not laid in Irek isn't pronounced that way. t See here! Ain't you the F asked us if rapout was the Frc putting on your best clothes?"--' lost. Enraptured young wonm. upward (to young newsp!'1? What a wonderful thn? Do you ever contemplate i mono ttr? Vnnnir tlflWSMI' Indeed. I do. I have a columti fill everv dav. N. Y. Sun. It is reported that the Wl tifnrn a health? tree, is J I mysterious 4 disease. ThisU way of removing what is no n use, since dealers in uif" now sell a compound compof of the settling of molasses ttf ton Traveller. j Verasopht-You areloofc:, i .ii, vtiln. Estelie-1 ln to tw jwtlrt a word. i Then I'll call vou "lemons. Lemons, sir! Do you mew me? Verasopht-My darling not read the papers or you that lemons are very, very adelvhia CalL A California chap hai ; arrest of two young ladies. - loges. waylaid and roDDea is a dude who has neither brains, it is difficult to decide could steal from him. wanted to measure hn could get a pattern for P1"" i Newman Independent. "What fine evcD;"F f studying natural iiisW- ? "Last night about sunset 1 by the similarity be:wec iff old and the house-flies- 1 drive the flies out of .he b , j the boy in. They cisely the same rate ol spj ., just tho same amor.nt V , Chicago Tribune. ; . "My dear Mr.. Jones and I have ha! ; and wo have agreed li j ' j Which is entitled to th J . lenco. Keats or Shelley n "Well, weally. Mi- V(r rather not underlay question. My acquaint j tho gentlemen is v'r fact is, they don't beiO"?" ' t know. Milwaukee f