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THE niDEPENDENT 13 ISSUED SATURDAY MORNINGS, . BY THE Douglas County Publishing Company. Til til HAS THE ! u u u FINEST JOB OFFICE 1 fk ' i 1 IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS, One Year..- - -Six Months -Three Months - $2 50 - 1 50 1 00 And other Printing, including Largs ant Heavy Posters anl Slnwr Haul-Bills, Thefw are the term of those paying In advance. The Independent offer line inducements to advertiser, lurois reasonable. . innnnr nl h n-RUL. - ivor. viii. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1883. . NO. 38. Neatly and expeditiously executed AT PORTLAND PRICES. THE POOR CONGRESSMAN. JASKULEK, PUACTICAL.f Mdaater, TpwpIpt crnd flntiMan i UUIIU1U1 UilU iqiUUlUUi ALL WORK WAEEANTED. Iealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles and Eyeglasses. Cigars, Tobacco & Fancy Goods. Th ouly reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust ment of Spectacle ; always on hand. Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec- - . tacles and. Eyeglasses. Office First Door South of Postoffice, ROSEHIRW, OREUOX. LAITGENBERG'S Boot and Shoe Store roheruru, On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office, Kecis on hand the largest and beet assortment of HaMtcrn and Man Francisco Roots and ' . Hhoew, Ciaiters, Slippers, And everything iu the Jloot and Shoe line, and SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. Root and Hhoes Made to Order, and Perfect Fit Guaranteed. I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all my work. Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice. I keep always on hand TOYS AND NOTIONS. 'Musical! Instruments and Violin Strings t a specialty. Loris laekim;. DR. m. W. DAVIS. 38 DENTIST, It OSK BUlt ii, O R F. U X, Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs, Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store. ItlAHONEYS SALOON, Nearest the Bail road Depot, Oakland. JAS. WAIIO EY, - - - Proprietor The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in llouglas County, and THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE. KEIT IX PROPER REPAIR. Parties traveling cm the railroad will find this place very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at the Oakland Uopot. uive me a call. JAS. M All ONE Y. , JOHN FRASER, Home Made Furniture WILRUR, 0KEG03!. . , UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC., Constantly on band. FURNITURE. I have the Rest STOCK OF FURNITURE South of Portland. And all of my own manufacture. o Two Prices to Customers. Residents of Douglas) County are requested to give mo a call before purchasing elsewhere. ALL WORK WARRANTED. DEPOT HOTEL, Oakland, Oregon. RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor. This Hotel has been established for a num ber of years, and has become very pop ular with the traveling public. - FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS AND T11E Table supplied with the Best the Market affords, j r Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad. H. C. STANTON, DEALER IN Staple Dry Goods, Kuei constantly on hand a general assortment of Extra Fine Groceries, - WOOD, WILLOW AM GLASSWARE, rnnPiCDV nun rnon A OC unuurttni miu uununuu, A fiUl stock of SCHOOL BOOKS, ' Such an rcunired by the Public County Schools. All kinds of Ktatlonerj, Toy and Fancy Articles, " TO Si: IT BOTn YOUSO AND OLD. Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures Drafts on San Prancisco. SEEDS! ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY. Aiji ohders ''Promptly attended to and goods shipped with care. Addrctu, IIAI'IIEXY & BEXO, Portland, Oregon. careful o' Ills Character. . The Worcester.'Mass., town records how that, in 1779, a G-year-old boy had his ear bitten off by a horse, and the selectmen drew up a certificate showing the manner of the injury and recorded it on the town books, so that the los3 should not be prejudicial to the boy when he grew up. The total outflow of all thn mineral waters of France is estimated at 10,334 sma on. Sin?, sing on. E'en though no listener Softly doth chide thee, Sweetly doth praise. Sin?, sing on, For thy )s lad music Thrills through the azure, Brightens the days. Some heart o'er weary, Some soul benighted, - Mayhap the singing Gently hath drawn Out of the darkness, . Into the sunlight; Sweetly to cheer her Sing, sing on. Can Stan Hibernate f "Is it possible for jaan to hibernate V inquired, the reporter. "I think so.was the reply. "We of ten hear of Demons faliinrr into a coma, all Iho faculties being -.fiuspend3aad the patient looking . perfectly healthy after days and week9 withont food. There is no reason why the highest of mammals should not be open to similar possibilities as the lower. In fact there is a case on record of nndoubted hibernation. It occurred some years ago in India. A native fakir boasted that he had this happy faculty that only certain lower animals possessed, and offered for a consid erable sum to make the experi ment. A number of omcers and sci entific men undertook to take charge of the experiment. The man prepared himself by placing something in his throat, and was , actually buried alive, and kept there nnder guard fc-x 83veral months. At the end of the time the ex perimenters dug up the body, expecting to find it dead, but found it periectiy fresh, and when the object wa3 taken from bis throat the native recovered and in a few hours was as well as ever. He merely claimed that he was enabled by force of will to cause an almost total suspension oi au iue iacuiues, su wutu so at least that there was no waste, no drawing upon the system, and conse- cmentlv no need of fuel or food. What is the secret? Well, that's hard to an swer. It is like a great many prob lems we know it and there our knowl edge ends." Monopolies in Spain. There were recently three or four creat trade monopolies held by the a . . "... Spanish government touacco, gun Dowder. Quicksilver and salt. The last- tiamed and most onerous of these the salt monopoly is now repealed, and in it3 place and with its name is levied a sort of income tax, graduated, not ac cording to the consumption of salt, but the mean3 5f the taxpayer. The old eabelle has, however, left its survivals. Abandoned deposits of salt are to oe seen in many of the small towns. Away from the large towns salt is never seen the table, nncleanea rock salt is used in cookery, and if yon should call for salt a little of this will be brought to vou in a piece of dirty paper. Pepper, mustard or other condiments known to the civilized world are not to be ob tained. For a wonder the monopolized cigars are good better than in any part of Europe or America at the same price. One can smoke a very fragrant regalia for a real f5 cents). The money of this province is entirely meiauic ciueny - 1 i .11 zi gold, 100 real pieces; saver, iu, o, 4, z and 1 real pieces, and coppers of van ons sorts, mosuv. uut not an ou iuo n r i. t. H il.. decimal system. In some provinces, Catalonia, for example, the duodecimal coppers are pref erred to the decimal, and the latter, aitnougn legal tenaer, e refused. Bank notes circulate m Madrid, but not far beyond it. Paper monev has had its day in Spain, and that day, at least for a long time yet, is over. The Percentage of Active Old Men on the Increase. In a young country like this, where life is continually at fever heat, and where action rather than reflection car ries the day, old age seems out of place. In the staid oia towns ana ciiies oi England, Hawthorne tells us in his "Old llome, that ne ooservea tnac old age came forth more cheerfully and generally into the sunshine than among ourselves, where tne rusn, sur, uubiio and irreverent enererv of youth are so preponderant that the poor forlorn grandsires begin to uouot, wueiuer iney - . t 11 at ii LTioVgfr aut "X" heads in solitude. Hut "fast" as this country and this period both nroverbiallv are, it is a fact that the percentage of old men who continue in ,.. lif" -fln(lwllodo not show their years except to a close scrutiny, is on the increase, krect and active octo genarians, even, are not unknowu on our streets, whose appearance still makes them pass current as being in the executive period of life. The con stant improvement in the average style of living in the matter of dwelling, looa and raiment, perceptibly promotes lonrevitv and increases the number of cases of it. --n A Ton of Gold In Teeth. "Did you ever think that all the gold that the delvors in the earth are work ing so hard to get out of it is being cradually put back again i asked a Cleveland dentist. "It s a fact. There are about 17,000 dentists in the United States, and they pack into the teeth of the American people a ton of pure gold every year. I guess about five times that weight of less precious metal, such as tin, silver and platinum, go the same wav. Now, these metals are worth $1,000,000, and, in the twenty-first cen turv. all the coin in the United States will be buried in the graveyards." "Is the decay of teeth increasing or diminishing among the people of thi country?" "Oh, increasing. Two hundred years ago one person in five had sound teeth. A hundred years ago, but one person in twenty-five had perfect teeth, and in the nineteenth century, age of reform, our verj laest statistics show that but one person in eighty has perfectly sound teeth." . -. : The inhabitants of Massachusetts are worth an average of $1,500 apiece. UP IN A BALLOON. An Aeronaut's Account of His Voy age Across the JhngUsh Channel. 4 "We started from Hastings," says somewTiat unfa Mr. Simmons, "under vorable auspices, the wind being north easterly at the time. A crowd of some 40.000 persons had fathered to willies our departure, and as we jhdoKded Jhey gave us a tremenducheeMy fel low pass1g1er, r? Small, a photog rapher, was so lost in admiration of the magnificent panorama of Hastings lying below us that, I had to r warn him that he mnst-,fe quick if ho wished to obtain a photograph, and we just got the appa ratns ready as we passed over the beach, the balloon being at that mo ment (3:25) to an altitude of 3,000 feet. At 3 :30 we had a long range of coas.t line. Eastbourne pier being exceedingly distinct. I thought we were a trifle too iamt, eaxSead j eyero, rnake any point of land on this side of the Atlan tic, but when we attained an altitude of 7,500 feet we southed a trine more. Ap pearances were, however, much against our ever reaching land, and 1 must ac knowledge that I was sorely tempted to comedown off Beacliy Head and get picked up. But this would have been rather too ignominious, and I decided to keep on our course. We had the satisfaction, a few minutes later, to find Beach Head receding north of us, and we quickly settled our minds to 'make a night of it if necessary. "At 4 :30 we were over a magnificent cloud scene; here and there patches of the coast line could be descried far away to the west, while at a vast dis tance there was a gap through which we got a patch of sea, with, three or four ships very distinct. A moment later and the great curtain of clouds had shut out our last land-mark. Mr. Small got his apparatus ready to se cure a cloud enect, but his shutter missed fire two or three times, and this suggested some little improvements for Buch experiments m future. Ironi 4:30 to nearly sunset (to the people on earth) our altitude ranged between 8,000 and 9,000 feet. During this intervalwe got peeps at the sea mauv times, but no land was seen. We could see the sun's rays two hours after he had with drawn from earth and sea. The shadow of the balloon on a cloud looked very much like a shuttlecock, the car forming the butt end, and the balloon and cords forming the feathers. l he transition from day to night was very slow and gradual, and as daylight departed the moon's rays from dead gold gradually changed to bright sil ver. JUr. bmaii said, 'XJia you see that shooting star ?' I said, 'Wait a min ute, and I will show you another.' .The balloon had commenced to revolve, and this motion made it appear as though a bright star was darting through the air. It was, of course, an optical illusion. . "A remarkable appearance was caused by the reflection of the balloon in the focussing screen of the camera. When we surrounded with a black cloth the frame round the glass we could see the sky, sun, moon and stars inverted, and the balloon cleaving its headlong down ward course through illimitable space, the effect being moro extraordinary. Soon after 7 o'clock wo began to get cold, and set to work to don our nan nels, etc. Our large wrapper got tightly jammed in the rigging, but the hard pulling necessary to get it loose soon made us feel warm, and, having once got up a good circulation, we did not during the entire vovage again feel cold. The cork jackets, which were supplied by Mr. Cornish, contributed greatly to warmth. During the night, for more than an hour our altitude did not vary twenty feet. This was exceedingly en couragmg, for upon our power of pois ing so nicely depended our chance of floating aloft all night. When the balloon did take a slight downward turn I carefully noted how much ballast it would take to 'stop her.' The temperature of the air was very regit lar, and 1 found that seven pounds or eight pounds was sufficient. At 10 :15 we saw a vessel almo st un der us, and came -down low onough to hail her. This m e did as lustily as we could, but at first got no response, only a remarkably distinct echo from our own voices. At last a voice was heard on deck. 'Voila, balloon, balloon 'Are you English?' No reply. 'Par- lez vous Francaise ?' 'Oui, oui,' we re plied, but with all our French we could not ascertain our whereabouts, and whether we were over the English channel or the Atlantic. "At 10 :25 something slightly darker than the normal horizon could be faintly discerned. We kept ourselves absolutely motionless, and, listening in tently, we seemed to hear in the same direction a sound as of a far-distant rolling surf. I looked long and eagerly, until I exclaimed. 'It's nothing but a mist,' for it seemed to change its form, and at last to vanish into 'thin air.' I passed nearly another hour intently watching for lights until a similar dark portion of horizon was brought under our view. We could not possibly bring ourselves to believe it was land, because no lights could be seen up to this time, but at last there was an un mistakable flicker in the exact direction where I was gazing. 'Look along my finger as a telescope. What do you call that?' A lighthouse,' exclaimed Mr. Small. I said, 'I believe that dark strip before us is land, with sea just beyond it again. If it turns out to be so, be prompt in doing everything I tell you, for it will bo sharp work to land on that strip. ' The sound of surf was now unmis takable, and in about the same time as I am taking to tell this, the line of coast was presented distinctly to our view, every minute getting more distinct. The sea now began to ripple up sharply. Ten minutes and we were passing the coast line, and sharply darting toward the other sea beyond. 'What sort of ground are we coming down on ?' said Mr. Small. 'Rugged rocks and stone walls, I believe,' I said. 'Hold on firm. Out goes the grappling irons.' At first it would not hold, but soon it got wedged into a crevice in the rocks, giving us just tether enough to pass over the precipice and down on to the beach. There was just room for us between the receding tide and the rocks, and none to spare. Had we gone ten yards fur ther and half a second long9rwe should have been in the sea. "We heard whispering near us. In a few moments a man ana a woman appeared, but would not; at first ap proach Us, fearing, I suppose, we were some monsters. By and by they gained confidence, andlren they told us we were onapHSoia HocK&e, the extreme luovtlrwect point of - F: uhce. ' We then rfound that our inTortaants were M. Anguste Lavem, of . Ciaton de Beau mont. Arrondissement . Manche and hb wife. They most kindly helped us to empty the balloon "of its contents, and gave us supper and shelter for the night. Next morning, at 7 o'clock, we went to view the scene of .our descent, and Mr. Small photographed it.: We afterward proceeded to Cherbourg, and thence home. , . ; Some Facta In the Fur Trade. "I know a" sporting Bt-xiLat - bought a coat, the ornamental skin oi. which came from Maine. He wanted some thing striking and cheap, and what do jou suppose he got? Give it up? Well, he calls and thinks it Australian mink, but it is good, honest American skunk a good fur, too, and sells well, only the name would kill it if we retained it. Over 350,000 skunk skins are handled by the trade every year. New York and Ohio furnish the majority. They bring from the trapper 50 cents, to a $1. They are deodorized by a new and satis factory process, and are very popular under fancy names. . What we call fur m the trade, said the expert, taking up a skin, "is this. You see, by spreading open the hair of this seal there are two kinds of hair; one, the fur that is short and lies close to the skin, and another the over hair that is long and what we see at a first glance of the animal. The difference between the two is verv great, the fur being soft, downy, silky, aud sometimes curly, while the over hair is coarse and rigid. Each has a peculiar value for many purposes, but particularly in felting; the fine, upon treatment to hot water, readily joins in a solid mass, while the long hair can bo woven and spun. When the animal is alive the uses of the two hairs are seen. The fine underhair .keeps out water and cold, while the overhair prevents felting and entangling. In some cases one is extremely valuable alone, and in others the combination is equally so. The house cat is one of the most valuable of the fur-bearing animals, and when they mysteriously disappear from the back fence thev often nnd their way to the furrier. It is an actual fact that in 1882 over 1,200,000 house cats were used in the fur trade. Black, white, Maltese, and tortoipe-shell skins are most in demand. They are made into linings, and used in philosophical apparatus. Mormon Wives. I The Mormon priests tell the Mormon woman that plural marriage is the or dinance of God ! That all it brings her of anguish is necessary self-denial to win God s love, and that to submit to it is her duty. A ghastly burial cere mony that is practiced by the Mormons rivets the hold polygamy has on the su perstition of these creatures. Every wife that is buried has a black cloth laid on her face, and the Mormon women are taught to beheve that on the resur rection day, when the righteous are called into the joys of their Lord, no hand but that of a husband can remove the cloth, and that unless the cloth is J lifted by his hand she must remain in ' outer darkness forever. A woman who believes that and the Mormon women believe it can't help behaving herself, no matter how many wives her husband takes. She has to keep on the right side of the only man who can take off that cloth. . Ueart-Rroken but Level Headed. A lawyer for a husband who is being sued for divorce had a visit yesterday from the client. .The client is madly in love with his wife and believes that she wishes to be rid of him only to le free to marry another. "I can't live without her," he said to his legal ad viser, "and I am sure that away dow n in her heart she has a little feeling for me. I am going to test her." Ho pulled out a pistol and said : "I am going to her with this and say : Here, shoot me down ; I don't care to live any more. " "You had better not," said the cautious legal man; "she might pull the trigger. "I don t care for that, replied the heart-broken husband. l don t care for that ; I have filled the weapon with blank cartridges." A Special Vessel for Htanley. A vessel of special and ingenious de sign is being prepared for Stanley's use m Africa, it will be propelled by a stern paddle-wheel, and the hull will will be arranged in such a manner that it can be readily subdivided into a num ber of sections, each fceing floatable and provided with fittings for receiving four large wheels. These wheels can be at tached to each section while afloat, so that it can be drawn out of tho water for transport overland without difficulty. Each of the subdivision : of the hull forms, when fitted with the wheels, a complete wacron of itself, capable of carrying the machinery of the steamer, merchandise, stores, etc.; It is to be completed by the end of tliis year, and will be tested afloat under steam on the Thames. " .' : :- . ' : The Climate for Good Voices. An English newspaper says Ameri can singers have made a much greater mark in Great Britain than American actors, notwithstanding the conspicu ous absence in America of long-estab lished academies and colleges of music. "The climate," it adds, "clear and dry as it is. will scarcely account for the number of good voices . produced ia America, for one effect of the Ameri can climate is apparently to pinch the throat and cause the high-pitched tones and the usual twang by which the enunciation of so many Americans is marked." WHAT BROKERS DRINK. Financiers Who Find Forty Whiskies a Day an Easy Load. One of our reporters has been inter viewing saloon-keepers on the subject of what brokers drink. "How many drinks do brokers take in a day V replied a well-known New street saloon man. "Let me see. Well, I should say they will average up fifteen apiece between 10 in the morning and 3 or half-past 3 in the afternoon." What do they most drink?" -'Straight whisky; almost entirely: generally a little seltzer with it. A drink called 'whisky daisy was intro duced down hera a few years ago, and became quite popular. Somehow it fell out of sight; but this summer it was re vived and has become very popula? again. It is made something like a whisky-sour, with the addition of seltzer. But plain whisky is the handiest for brokers. When they do come out for a drink they only have-fi ga-mqteio spare, and few care to wait to have a fancy drink made up." "Do they drink just the same whether business is good or bad?" "Well, I think they drink moro when they are not doing their best. The work and excitement, you see, is just the same in unprofitable times, sometimes more, and then there is the additional want of something to cheer the drooping spirit. Brokers are not drinkers in the sense of drunkards. You will, in fact, never see them under the influence, or very rarely. They require above all things a level head, and when they get down in the morning you will find them as clear as a whistle. I know several brokers who take during business hours in Wall street twenty and twenty-five drinks of whisky, and there are some who can and do drink as much as forty drinks, and are never what is commonly called 'full.' " ''What is the size of a broker's drink?" was asked. "Well, that has a great deal to do with it ; they take what I should call small drinks, not a finger 'deep with the finger held sidewaya alongside the glas3, mind you." It is well known to all who are ob servers of Wall street men that it is sel dom one is found under the influence of liquor. When the stock exchange closes there is a rush for home, and by half -past 6 fqw brokers can be found in the vicinity of Wall street. Thev are great homo people and are much de voted to. their iamiiies. 1 hey live in such a whirl that the quiet of the fire side is a great boon to tliem. They dif fer as much in their choice of brand in whisky as they do in their opinions on the workings of the market, and certain brokers go to this re3ort and none other because their peculiar flavor is there, and others to that for the same reason. One reason why brokers are given to the occasional stimulant is that they seldom find time to lunch, and tho drink is made to answer. -v. fSnffliah Opinion of the "Hub." It is obvious that what Americans in modern times have learnel to call, and sometimes to sneer at as "Bo ;ton cul ture," was based on the most rigorous Puritanism ; aud it mav be that a good deal of puritanical gall and wormwood entered into the concrete of their foun dation of learning. The sages who, in the midst of a half-cleared wilderness. were so sternly resolved that their young men snouia forthwith enter upon the study of Aristotle and Thu- cydides, of Horace and Tacitus, and the Hebrew bible," used their own Intel letual gifts and their own scholastic attainments in a certainly eccentric and not altogether beneficent fashion. Thev were very earnest and verv conscien tious, but the Spanish inquisition was not fuller of intolerance and of the rage for persecution than were these exiles for conscience' sake. The rind of Bos ton culture was very harsh, but the fruit within, when it ripened - and it took a long time to ripen r-proved very sweet and of a most excellent savor. The uoston oi tno present aav is as joyous a city as any other in tho United States. Opera and drama, concerts and lectures, flourish there abundantly. Fine art is extensivelv and apprecia tively patronized, and, as for science. an average Bostonian young ladv pos sibly knows much more about organic remains, tho old red sand touc and vertebrates fofiled in blue lias than a dozen average English girls fresh from a finishing school. A great many mora publishing firms, with their book, and magazines, and. reviews, must migrate from a city full of aroablo places of meeting and refined society ere Boston ceases to be "the hub of the universe" from tho Bostonian point of view. A Thirty-Three YewV Wleep. In the verv heai't of the Adirondack wilderness is located what is Known as "the d-serted village." Fifty years ago 90,000 acres of land were purchased by a man named Henderson, and other capitalists, a St. Francis Indian having disclosed to the party that the region was rich in ore. . A blast furnace, a forge, a saw mill, tenement houses, a store, a school-house and a bank were erected, and hundreds of thousands of dollars expended in cutting roads and other improvement. Operations were carried on twenty vears. In 1849 Hen derson was accidentally shot dead, and five years later business was suddenly suspended. The ponderous water- wheel and machinery are just where they stopped thirty-three year3 ago. Wheelbarrows and tools lie around as though operations had been discon tinued only yesterday. Tho village is now the headquarters of a Ne-v lork sportiner club, and the greater part of the year Myron Buttles, agent of the club, and his family, aro the only in habitants of this once busy spot. Ready to Swear Any Way. A Chinaman had to give his evidence, and was asked how ho wo lid be s;vorn. rlis reply was: "Ale no care; clacic lm saucer, kill 'im cock, blow out 'im He was allowed to 'vmell 'im b!ok." French Writer: Do you complain that the roses have thorns I Let us re joice that the thorns have roses. uookKeepIng and Ras-Picklng Com pared. Something light and genteel is what most of the young women who have to work want. I don't blame them for it, but as a rule it don't pay. . Ninety-nine in 100 would rather be "salesladies" at S3 or $G a week than take hold of a trade that would give them $8 or $10. (Speaking of salesladies, you may have heard that the superlative idiot who invented that word died lately of softening of the brain, but I am sorry to say it is not true; he didn't have enough brain to soften.) A great many young women now take to bookkeeping. They would do much better by taking to millinery or dress-making, but these look more like real work than bookkeeping. The bookkeeping ranks are terribly over crowded already. ..VI AU item now going the rounds says a New York business man who lately ad vertised fox, a bookkeeper at flu a "week; received 700 applications for the place", and that there are 500 bookkeep ers out of work m this city. It seems to be the same old item that has done service the same way any number of years, but though an exaggeration, it contams enough truth for a moral any way. .New York certainly has an enor mous number of bookkeepers and mis cellaneous clerks out of work. The kind of work they have to sell is not in demand at least, there is an immense deal more of it than the demand calls for. All the Italian rag-pickers can find plenty to do. The Chinese washee washee men are busy all the year round. Most men who know how to sweep the streets can find employment. Nine tenths of the hod-carriers are always at work. Blacksmiths, carpentersmasons, bricklayers, cabinet makers and so on, who know their trade, need not be pinched except in very bad times. But the bookkeepers and miscella neous clerks are all the time walking the streets looking for something to do. A great many of the poor fellows may be found every night in the cheap lodging houses along the Bowery and Chatham square. Ihe rag-pickers, street- sweepers, hod-carriers, etc., don't have to go to those wretched places. I don't mean to say that it is better to be a rag-picker, street-sweeper, or hod-car rier than a bookkeeper, but what I do say about plenty of work for the, former and very little for the latter is a fact oome DooK&eepers in JNew lorK are -a w - paid as high as $10,000 a year, and many get from $3,000 to $5,000; but two-thirds of the whole number regu larly employed are glad to get $10 to $io a weet. lhave myself had men offer themselves at $7 and $8 a week. Spain's "Iark-ilanclns" Slaidens. We in America are apt to judge of the Spaniard by the Mexican and the Cuban. Nothing can be more different. Whatever their faults or virtue, the Hispano-Americans seem to have taken nothing but the language from what of the conquerer's blood they may have. All else has come from the native. Un broken in pride, undebased 'by evil habits, self-respecting, sober in speech as in food, the l"berian needs only a leader to again take his rightful place in the family of nations. And the woman ? Is Bhe beautiful ? I hardly know; but she, is the most bewilder ing, bewitching, fascinating of all Eve's daughters. There is a magic in her step, a poise of foot, a grace of rhythmic motion, a proud tenderness in her dark eye ; a something voluptuous which is yet chaste ; a magic in her smile, such as no other race or clime can show. Beautiful? A man whose blood runs red within his veins may see beauty elsewhere, but he has never felt the perfect charm of woman's womanli ness until he has met love looking from the melting brightness .of those matchless orbs which none but Spain's 'dark-glancing" maidens bear. There is no neglect hero. The dress may not be rich, but there is not a fold ill placed. To her is paid the reverence of passionate devotion. Still is Spam the land of romance and of song, be cause her men are brave, her women worthy to be loved. A Chinese Restanrant in France, While the French are marching into China, a Chinese restaurant has in vaded Pans. Among the debcacieg of its bill of fare aro desiccated eggs. Fresh duck eggs are covered with a mixture of cinders, lye soda, powdered licorice, lie in oil and are left for several months until their yolks become first green and finally black. The darker the yolk the greater the delicacy. The birds nests from which the far-famed soup is made are built by a species of swallow which abounds on the coasts of Java, Ceylon and Borneo, and practically consists of a gelatinous substance ob tained from marine plants. The nesta are boiled either in chicken broth or in milk with almonds. The result very much resembles vermicelli soup, but is more costly. The Chinese restauranter also offers his customers smoked sharks fins, dried cuttle and salted rats. Utiiixins the Water Power of Falls. It is proposed to utilize the water power at the xaiis oi tne 'otomac, a few miles above Washington, for the purpose of lighting that city by elec tricity. The plan is to put a cluster of powerful lights upon the top of the Washington monument, which is 400 feet high, and this will give the city a condition of perpetual moonlight. The experiment will be interesting and valu able, and ought to be encouraged. The idea of supplying motive power for all New York by wire from Niagara falls i has often been talked about, and the Potomac scheme, if successful, will demonstrate its practicability. Stopped the Foolishness.; A Wfllimantic factory girl wrote her name and address and a desire to be married in a nice little note, which she placed inside the band of the hat she had just finished. Her father bought the hat. On his way home that even ing he paused at a house which they were plastering and obtained a slender and supple lath. The girl will here after make hats plain. FIow He SXust Economise to 8ave Money While Livlnc in Washing- ton. ., " Judge Ramsdell in Philadelphia Press. I ran across a congressman the other day, who was lookingfor quarters for : himself and family for the coming ses sion. He is a poor man, who is obliged . to live on his salarfj, and who is, there fore, compelled to count the cost of everything and cut his cloth close. A congressman' salary is $5,000 a year and mileage, and an allowance of $100, 1 believe, for postage. I cannot mention the name of the one I allude to, but he has a wife and three children. His mileage amounts to about $200 or $300 a year; so his whole income is less than $5,500 a year.' Out of this sum he must pay three or. four or a half dozen coun try newspapers for printing tickets " (a mere nominal service for a good deal of money); he; must pay for banners, transparencies, flags, brass bands, hand bills and I don't know how many other ' things, to lay nothing bf his own " ex penses m the campaign. Added to all this, ten chances to one he has to pay pretty dearly for his nomination not. perhaps, in buying delegates, though that is often done, I am told, but in pay ing car fares, hotel bills, etc. bo you see that when a congressman comes to Washington he does not have $5,000 a year to his credit. My friend, as 1 have said, is a poor man, although he is one of the ablest men in tho house. He never made a dollar improperly, and does not know how to be dishonest. He stands as high as any member of the house. Said he, "I don t know what to do. I have lived in every way. ' When I first came to Washington I went to a hotel, with my wife, leaving my ohildren at home and at school. I kept up my house at home, and my expenses there were little less than if I had been there. My hotel expenses, including washing and the outrageous extras one always finds on his bills, were never less than $300 'a month. My expenses at home were about half as much ; so, you see, I could not stand that. The neit win ter I went to a boarding-house and left my family at home. Of course I had to have a parlor and bed-room 1 paid $100 a month at the boarding-house. But I did not live ; it was simply a mis erable existence. A boarding-house table may give good, well-cooked food, but you are obliged to meet and be po lite to people whom you do not care for, whom you detest, in fact. Then I was deprived of my wife's company, which, strange as it may seem, I still appreciate. Well, that year, by close economy and many deprivations, I came out about even. The next year I hired rooms and had t my meals sent in from a neighboring restaurant. But this life was very unsatis factory. I had to take my break fast at a certain hour, whether I wanted to or not, and my dinners were served at the same time every day, and they were nearly always cold when brought. But a member of congreso cannot always be at his dinner at the exact minute. The house may sit late. or there may be a caucus or a commit tee meeting, or you may be detained by constituents, or a dozen things may happen to detain you. Well, last win ter, as you know, I took a furnished house and brought my entire family here. I shut up my house at homo, but. Great Caesar ! my expenses drove me wild, though I tried to live very quietly and cheaply. What I shall do this winter heaven only knows. I suppose I must go back to the boarding-house. A congressman's life is but a dog's life, after all." Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Amsterdam and Rotterdam look like no other cities in . the world. They have hydrocephalus, like Venice oceans of water everywhere. Amster dam is built on : eighty islands, con- . nected by 300 bridges across the muddy ditches they call canals. 'Ihe buildings mainly are of unpainted brick, with gabie-ends to the streets, and they are erected, like those of Venice, on mill ions of piles driven into the mud. But this alluvial deposit is not so firm as the sandy sediment in the Adriatic la goons, and so it happens that almost all of the houses here and m Rotterdam are out of plumb. Yon cross a bridge and instinctively hesitate to advance. for it seems as if tho buildings ahead were about to tumble down and crush you. On both sides of the street they bend forward toward each other, so that their cornices are two or three feet nearer than their bases. You gather courage and pro ceed, and further on you see other houses bowing. Here is a tall, toppling chimney, and around it in a circle are various houses gravely saluting it. None of the buildings seem to fall down at least I did not detect any in the act but they rise and engage in their bricky salaani3 at almost every angle from the perpendicular, and in utter disregard of the feelings of way farers. Crazy little steamboats tra verse the dirty little canals ; great brick warehouses boldly '.bend over and look down into their turbid mirrors; mer chantmen from , J ava stick their yards up through the ; branches of sycamore trees upon the banks; here and there ships climb up the ladder-locks ; here and there windmills churn the air and pour the water out into the sea. This is a queer old . town. But I should think the Hollanders would wash their canals. . : . .v Ireland's Reformatories. Ireland has ten reformatory schools five for girls, five for Imdys. There were at the close of last year 956 boys and 186 girls in reformatory schools. The yearly decrease since 1877 in the number of young female offendei s in the schools is very remarkable, but oppo site results have been obtained in the boys' schools, the inmates numbering more last year than ever before ; 984 are Roman Catholics and 156 Protestants. There are sixty-one industrial schools, in which ihere are 2,418 boys, and 3,G60 girls, being an increase of four boys and 174 girls. v Don't hope to squelch a courtship by abuse; When hearts are trumps clubs are of little use. Taunton Republican. gallons per minute.