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Watctaater, Jeweler and Optician,
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer la Watches, Clocks, Jewelr3
Spectacles and Ejeglasses.
AJfD A. FCLL LISE OF
Cigars, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tht only reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust
ment of spectacles ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
ItOMERUllO OREGON.
LANGENBEKG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
ItOgEBLKU. OREGON,
fa Jacksan Street, Opposit the Post Offlct,
Keps en hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and San Francisc Boots and
hoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
i
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
ts and Shoes Mads to Order, and
Fsrfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and "Warran all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOl'IM L.AXGEXBERG.
DR. M.-W. DAVIS,
m DENTIST,
ROSE B IT R G, OR E G O X,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over a. Marks & Co. s New btore.
MAHONEY'S SALOON,
' Nearest the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
JAM. MAIIOXEY, - - - Vroprietor
The Finest "Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Uouglas Count', ana
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IX TKOPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the Btoppiiig of the train at
the Oakland Depot, (.five me a call.
JAS. MAIIOXEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREGOX.
UPHOLSTERY, SFRffiS . MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the, Rest
STOCK OF FUK.VITURE
South ef Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Price to Customers.
Resident of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call belore purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Tfc Tn T r rn TT rn TC TT
U JbJrUX JdL U JL Ed JL,
Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and ha9 become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THE
Table supplied with the Best the Market affordi
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Such as required by the Fublio Count; Schools.
All kinds of Stationery, Tjs and
Faney Articles.
TO iCIT BOTH YOfNO AND OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Checks on I'ortlanu, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS! SEEDS!
SEEDS !
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL OllOERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
IIACHEXY Ot BEXO,
Portland. Oregon.
Fifty Cent' Worth.
Norristown Herald.
A youug man sent 50 cents to a New York
advertiser to learn ''How to make money
fast," and was a 1 vised in reply to glue a $5
greenback to the bottom of his trunk. Hav
ing neither greenback nor trunk, he is still
unable to make money fast
Thomas eTerson Burnham : Mildly
co nmingled. mimicry and mivthfulness
mako a good medicine for many minds'
maladies.
VOL. IX.
WE SHALL KNOW ALL.
O wen'' Mered ith.
fast love, you know,
Whom we
wed.
wo seldom
Time rules m all. And life,
The thins: we planned it cut
indeed, is not
ere hope was
dead.
And men, we women cannot cltoose ourljt.
Mneh riiust b3 borne which it is hard to bear;
Sluch given away which it were sweet tc
keep.
God help us ul I who need, indeed, His care
And yet, I kuow, the Sliepherd loves His
sheep.
My little hoy begins to babbla now
Upon my knee his earliest mtanc prayer.
He has his father's eager eyes I know.
And, they spy, too, h s mother' sunny hair.
But when he sleeps and smiles upon my knee,
And I cau feel his light breath come and go,
I tHnk of one (Heaven help and pity rne!)
V'bo loved me, and whom I loved, long
ago.
Who might have bean ah, what I
dare not th'nk!
We all are changed, God judges for us best
God help lls 'hi UI' duty, atiu nt shrink,
And tiujt in ilea vea iiumbiy lor toe rest.
But blame U3 wonu-n not, if some appear
loo cold at times, and some too gay ani
liRht,
Some griefs gnaw deep: some woes are hard
to bear.
Vfr.o knows the past? and who can judge
us right ?
Ah, v-pi-o wo judged by what we might have
b;en,
Ana not by what we are, too apt to falll
My little child he sleeps and smiles between
Jlit'se thoughts ami me. In Heaven we
idiall know ali !
THE DONKEY BOYS OF CAIRO.
The Drollest Street Gamins in the
World The Unites' Noted Nninet.
Cairo Cor. St. Paul Pioueer Pres.
Cairo would not be Cairo without its
donkeys and donkey boys. They are a
unique institution.
Thee Arab donkey boys know a smat
tering of the principal European lan
guages, and can tell instantly in what
tongue to address yon. Not only are
they thus keen., but they arc also the
drollest and most humorous street gamins
I have ever seen. They are great at
pantomime, and you cannot forbear
laughing at their good-humored antics.
The donkeys are exceedingly small, but
gentle and long-suffering. The majority
of them are much abused, and bear
around on their Indies the marks of the
merciless donkey boys. ".Mine berry
good donkey, sar," said one. "Mine
name Yankee Doodle, sar," said an
other, keener even than the rest. Then
the others took up the kevnote,
and "Gen. Grant," "Mrs. Langtry,"
and oilier similar eeieoriues were ai uiy
disposal. Had I been French, it would
have been "monsieur1' instead of
"sar" and the donkeys would have
been named "Napoleon," "Waterloo,"
etc.
J dH not make any bargain before
hand. "When 1 inquired at the hotel as
to what was the proper tariff, the
answer was: ''(live the beggars a
great word with the English a piastre
or two per hour. There is no regular
rate." Ot eour.-e the boys alwavs grum-
c and demand backsheesh, whatever
the fee bestowed, but no one minds that.
Ho on this particular morning 1 bade the
boy hold the opposite stirrup while 1
mounted the stirrups are not fastened,
but in the event of a fall the distance is
ridiculously slight. On each donkey's
forehead is a brass tablet with his
number inscribed upon it.
Pen-Picture of Osear Wilde.
Vanity Fair.
Oscar, the youngest son of the late Sir
William - Wilde, archaeologist, traveler
. - t. i i Al ¬
a:iu qi:e.ii S. mii uu in m-wuu, n.m ine
lk-rkeley medal in Trinity colh-ge, I ublin,
alia queen s surgeon in lreianu, won cue
and a scholarship. Migrating to Magda
len cobegc, Oxford, he took two "lirsts '
and the "Xewdigate." Then he went
wandering in Greece, and, full of a Neo
Hellenie spirit, came back to invade so
cial London. He invented tho .'esthetic
movement. lie preached the doctrine
of possible culture in external things.
He got brilliantly laughed at, and good
naturedly accepted. In 181 he pub
lished a somewhat startling volume of
poems, and at once went to America to
preach his gospel ot culture.
then, as an itinerant art apostle, he
wandered from New York to !San Fran-
ciseo, lectured to an sons ana condi
tions of men, produced a play and came
back to London. Suddenly lie gave up
dado worship for dandyism, cut his long
locks and accepted life. He h a gayer
of smart things, and has a rare flow of
thoroughly Irish wit, and an excellent
notion of the advantage that may accrue
to any man from drawing attention to
himself anyhow, lie has lived through
much laughter, in which he has always
joined. He has many disciples, and is
of opinion that "imitation is the sincer-
est form of insult." He is 28 years old,
comes oi a literary family, and is essen
tially mode.-n.
The "l.uek" of Coetir d'Alene.
Exchange.
The "kid's fund'' was established by
the pioneers of Eagle City, M. T., for the
endowmeit of the first native Cceur
d'Alener. The fund had jus reached
the comfortable sum of 3,000 dollars
when it was appropriated by an enter
prising son of the soil, whose mother
had "walked thirty-five miles, through
snow from three to ten feet
deep, in order to give him birth
within the coniines of Eagle. The woman
was living with her husband a freight
hand on tho Northern Faciiie road in a
cabin near the main line, when she heard
of the premium offered for babies up at
Kagle,and determined to secure it. When
the husband and father reached the camp
he was presented with the 5,000 dollars
in dust and nuggets, with which he went
prospecting, and, it is said, -struck it
rich. Romance still lingers about the
mines, and Bret Harte's "Luck of
Roaring Camp" is well nigh paralleled
in this story from Eagle City.
Avcrif.iff the Hissing.
Exe:;a::ge.
It is stated that John Porter, an
engineer on the Michigan Central road,
has been offered 47,000 dollars for his
patent on an attachment to a steam
cylinder which condenses the waste from
the steam -cock on starting the engine,
thereby averting that hissing noise which
is so disagreeable to the ear and such a
terror to horses.
Josh Billings: I think l had rather
trust mi faith than mi judgment. v
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY,
A FEW SUGGESTIONS
Throxvn Out for a Fourteen-Year-Old
Bos' to Think Over.
M. Quad's "Talk with Boys."
Ah, my lad! I just wish I was about
14 years old and had the chances you
are daily throwing awav.
What would I do?
"Why, I'd post myself. For one thing,
I'd walk clown to he depot and when a
locomotive brought in its train and went
off to the round-house I'd follow it and
find out how it was made. I'd have a
peep at eve ry lever and crank and cog
and wheel and rod. I'd know why and
how steam exerted its power. I'd satisfy
myself why that boiler mounted on
wheels was able to pull and push.
When I left the round-house I'd go to a
factory and overhaul a stationary engine
and see where the two differed. Then
I'd get hold of some railroad man and
pump him until I was posted even as to
the quantity of oil used to run a locomo
tive 100 miles.
"It may not be. money in your pocket
to know these things, but'rt will be food
for the mind. You cannot post yourself
too much. 1 he mmd is a book in which
there's alwavs room for another page.
Did you ever take a common door
lock apart? Then you do not know that a
bit of a brass spring is the hidden mystery
which works both catch and bolt. W ith
out this insignificant trine, costing less
than a penny, the lock, costing from
thirty cents to a dollar of itself, would
be only so much old iron. You
have opened and shut a pocket-knife
thousands or times, but it never occurred
to you that a spring, acting on a different
principle, holds the blade shut or open
You see a paper-hanger at work, but
you are ignorant of the fact that he
must begin his work in one corner of the
room by a plumb line, or he will not
make a good job of his papering. You
can't tell whether a horse-shoe is put on
with six or ten nans. lou never
counted the spokes in the wheel or a
wagon. You never counted the bricks
which a hod carrier can shoulder up the
ladder, i cu don t know whether a cow
has teeth in both jaws or only in one
You don't know that a blundering De
troit lad 10 years old carelessly put to
gether the pattern of ice-tongs now usee
all over the country, and let a man stea'
his idea away and make a fortune but of
it. If he had been an observing bov he
would have seen and realized the value
of his action. -t lie went about pickin
up sods and stones, and when
ten cents for his crude tongs
them go with the feeling that
offered
he let
he had
made
a good tiling.
The Election of Lincoln.
Ben: Parley Poore.
The electoral votes for president and
vice presYient were counted in the hall
of the house, on "Wednesday, the 13th
of February, 1861. The senators went
there in procession, headed by the vico
president, advanced up the middle aisle,
and took seats in the area in front of the
speaker's desk. Vice President Breckin
ridge took the chair of the speaker,
while the latter sat at his right hand.
The teller took position at the clerk's
desk. Senator Trumbull of Illinois,
Representative Phelps of Missouri, ancl
Washburne of Illinois, were the tellers;
on their right was the clerk of the senate,
Mr. Dickens, and on the left Mr. Forney,
of the house.
The vice president said that, according
to the constitution, both houses of con
gress had assembled in order that the
votes might I counted and declared for
president and vice president of the
United States, who were to take their
seats on the termination of tne present
term, the 4th of March, 1801. It was
his duty to open the electoral votes, and
he now proceeded to perioral that duty
The votes were accordingly opened by
states, and the separate vote of each
state was announced by the tellers. "When
the name of South Carolina was called a
suppressed laugh was heard from all
parts of the house. Vice President
Breckinridge then announced the whole
vote-to be: For Lincoln and Hamlin, 180
votes; for Breckinridge and Lane, 73
votes; for Bell and Everett, 39 votes; for
Douclass and Johnson, 12 votes. Ho
therefore declared Abraham Lincoln, of
Illinois, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine,
to be. duly elected president and vice
president of the United States. There
was no demonstration of any kind on
the floor of the house or in the galleries,
The senate then retired and the house
adjourned.
Wasted Wealth in Nevada.
Virginia City Enterprise.
During the bonanza days, when nearly
a dozen big mills on Six-mile and
Seven-mile canyons were rushing
through the rich ores of the Comstock,
the tailings that left the mouth of Six
mile canyon were allowed to run to
waste, and spread abroad on the desert
to the northward of the town of Sutro.
Six-mile canyon was then filled from
end to end with blanket-sluices and all
kinds of sulphuret catching traps. It was
thought that when the tailings left the
mouth of the canyon they contained so lit
tle valuable material that it would not
pay to catch them up in a reservoir, but
the blanket sluices caught only the sul
phurets and other heavy matter. They
did not get the chloride; that went out
with the slums. For some years past
men have been dehinjr for this wealth
lying scattered upon the desert sands,
and they are still gathering it in.
In
the places where they are now "minn
tor this material, it does not show on
the surface. The shifting sands of the
desert have hidden it, and it is over
grown s ith sagebrush and greasewood.
The deposits must be prospected for, but
when found pay well for the work of col
lecting. Pacific Coast Clam.
Hartford Post.
Alas for the glory of Rhode Island
clams! At a recent meeting of the
California Academy of Sciences R. E.
C. Stearns, Ph. D., spoke of the rapid
increase of the soft-shelled or long
necked clams in the Pacific bays. Some
Oregon clams weighing fifteen pounds,
with necks three feet long, require three
men to dig them. They are accessible
at extremely low tides. Their delicate
white meat, when boiled, cut into strips
and fried in batter, is exceedingly good.
Some enterprising Yankee will be intro
ducing these monster bivalves ou the
Atlantic coast: and then what will be
come of the Rhode Island clam-bakes?
- Cm If H t 1 II II II II II II il I ii II II II II I I II
A Good Short Stry.
Detioit Five Press.
It is impossible to give ''j receipt for
the manufacture of a good story.- The
chief ingredients are handsome girls and
young men of various grades of intelli-
gencc. As in the making oi a case, ine
way you mix them J tip: "has a good deal
to do with the success jof the story.
About the best thing the writer can do
is to study the stories that have been
successful. The best short story
that was ever written in Am.r.i-a,
m .-.ill m T
or anvwhere else, is urouaoiy l. u.
Aldrich's "Margery Daw." " A splendid
story of an altogether different stamp
is "A Man without a Country," by E.
E. Hale. Frank Stockton is very good
at a short story. "The Lady and the
Tiger' is an example of what he can do
in that line. Mrs. Margaret Eytmge
writes about as brisk aud breezy a short
story as an lady writer anywhere.
Charles Reade was good at short stories,
and so is Wilkie Collins. Some of James
Payn's taort stories are models.
It is a very good thing for the person
who sets out to tell a story to have a
story to tell.
Every newspaper and magazine is just
yearning for some sprightly young
writer who can tell a good story. As I
said before, give some thought to the
matter don't dash it off. Placeiyour
incidents in the best possible manner,
and don't let the interest drag if you
can help it. Don't use too rnuch
time describing gorgeous sunsets
nor beautiful scenery; get down to
your work, and when you get through
stop. It is useless to try the effect of
the story on your acquaintances. Those
who like you will consider tho story the
best ever written; those who don't will
tell their friends what nonsense it is, but
all will tell you that it is firsfc-rate.
There is too little brutal candor in this
world. Finally, my brothers, if you ; write
a really good story and it is rejected, the
loss is the paper's, not yours, for) some
other sheet will snap it up quickly
enough. j
Wonders of "UIuacle-Keadlng:."
Exchange. j
Mr. Stuart Cumberland, the muscle
reader, has had a great success im Lon
don, the "sanctum" of The Pall Mall Ga
zette being chosen as the scene of his
experiments. Muscle-reading has not,
as might be at first be supposed, a"hy
connection with pugilism, but is ft kind
of mind-reading by touch. Mr. ! Cum
berland s tneory is that any exertion of
the mind produces a muscular contrac
tion, and that by taking hold of 6. per
son's hand, the muscle-reader can tell
what he is thinking about. The crucial
experiment made in London by Mr.
Cumberland seems to amount to nothing
short of an absolute demonstration of
the truth of this theory which is
vouched for also by our old friend Col.
Olcott, of the TheosoLieal society Mr.
Grant Allen thought of an object ;not in
the sanctum at all, and Mr. Cumberland
then proceeded to find it blindfolded.
Taking Mr. Allen by the hand, he made
a bee-line for No. 7 Northumberland
street, and here the great moment; came.
Mr. Allen thought that he hail thought
of something at No. 7, whereas he had
really thought of something at
No. G. On this being called to
his attention in an inaudible whisper
by the only other person ! who
was in the secret, straightway Mr.1 Cum
berland pulls Mr. Allen off to 'No. G.
They enter the house, up-stairs they go,
Mr. Allen is led by the mu.-cle-read( r to
the drawer of a table, then round to an
ottoman, of which he litis the lid, and
from it he pulls
obj' o!;. a ' h n -i
stramro-lookinji
we s! ould say,
very hunch or
ars ago I to the
Pall Mall, Mr.
a hunk el oread the
tiunK given eighteen y
amateur casual of The
Greenwood, tor
work-house. It is
supper in Lambeth
needless to say that
it was of this very hunk
had been thinking
that Mr. Allen
The ISostoitTan' Volte. j
IKovton Cor. Philadelphia Timefi.
The very tone of a Bostonian's voice
has a gentle, dog-eared curve, j so to
speak, that suggests frequent handling,
a mellow turning of tones, a readiness
to go on or turn back until the question
is made quite clear to us. There is a
detailed touch in the voice that answers
and questions us that seems to fold
about its words in a kind of patient,
loving naturalness and to close about
the spirit of the listener in a subtile en
couragement to the ideal value he has
somewhere placed upon himself. The Bos
tonian listens as well as he talks. His
interrogation is perfectly sincere, lie
means you should bring your facts and
theories to the front. If he sounds the
"personal note" in himself ho rings your
own out with quite as beneficent j impar
tiality. Emerson is said to have been
an almost too good listener. He listened
to vour smallest fact with an expectant
attention that shriveled your conscious
uess into nothing. But one of Emerson's
mont potent charms, is the sensbf room
that he seems to offer to the humblest-
not only the.ense of room, but that he
causes us to feel that he has given us
almost of his very identity so gracious,
so impartial in his view and syjnpathy.
After Their Itetlremeitt.
Ch ca-o Herald. 1
Gen. Grant's recent difficulties have
enco iraged a newspaper correspondent
to inquire into the lives of the I various
presiuents after their retirement from
office. Washington, he finds, jvent to
Mount Vernon and raised tobacco, and
Jefferson, Madison and. Monroe followed
his example at their homes; John Adams
returned to Quiucy and raised corn and
cabbages; Jackson returned to the Her
mitage; Van Buren went to his! Kinder
hook farm; Polk died a few (months
after retu. ning to Tennessee; Fillmore re
entered his old law office at Buffalo;
Buchanan pursued agriculture at Wheat
lauds; Hayes lives on his Ohio farm.
Malicious IVIiltladcn.
"Look at that doggie with the
nose'.'' said voung Miltiades ; at
long
the
menagerie. "What's that called?"
"that, replied his mother, "13 an
ant-eater."
"An ant-eater," he repeated thought
fully. "Then I wish they'd feed him
on Uncle Jack's wife, 'cause she didn't
give me any birthday present."
Peck's Sun: Deception, my son, is the
twin brother to fraud, and the stepping
stone to theft. Be positive, firm and
honest.
AUGUST 2, 1884.
LEFT HAND WRITINQ.
Teaching Ambidextrous Penmanship
In IIuftlueftH Colleges.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
"Is ambidextrous or left hand writing
taught much nowadays?" a reporter
asked the principal of a leading business
college where the study of penmanship is
one of the great features.
"Yes," was the reply. "There is not
an institute of penmanship in this city
that does not devote almost as much
time to the development of the chiro
graphic faculties of the left hand as to
those of the right. Years ago I exploded
the then prevailing notion that the action
of the muscles that induced the forma
tion of script characters was natural to
the right hand alone. In fact there is
nothing natural in writing. Good pen
manship is the result of incessant prac
tice, in which the left hand may be
trained with as satisfactory results as
the right. And viewed from both an
educational and business standpoint, the
promulgation of ambidextrous instruc
tion is certainly desirable. In the first
place it is a well-known fact that per
sons who train their left hand always
become more proficient in penmanship
with their right. And what an aid it is
to the people who earn their living by
the use of the pen to be able to write
with both hands. Penman's paral
ysis is unknown, and if an accident
should happen to one, the other is al
ways ready for duty. A great many
clerks down town are proficient ambi
dexterists. "When they are tired of
writing with one hand, they change tho
pen and thus avoid the fatigue conse
quent upon the use of the same hand
throughout the day. Take for instance
Mr. E. C. Cockey, of the Western Union
Telegraph company. "With his right
hand he is able to send a message along
the wires, and with his left take down a
copy of the same. Very handy, is it
not? This prejudice against the use of
the left hand is dying out, as it should."
Mr. II." A. Spencer, son of the founder
of the Spencerian system of penmanship,
was seen by the reporter ambidextrously
writing in Ids study.
"Within the last four years," said he,
"the number of pupils whom I have
taught successfully to use the pen with
both hands may be counted by the thou
sands, and may be encountered in nearly
every part of the United States. Through
my efforts two of the principals of public
schools in this city have taken hold of
the matter, with extremely gratifying
results. No, there are no rules for the
development of left hand writing. All
I do is simply to instruct the pupil to
write his signature with his right hand
in pencil and then go over it in ink with
his left, this is the commencement.
Next, the signature is written without
the aid of the penciled copy, and prac
ticed until a sufficient degree of perfec
tion has been obtained. Can I give you
an estimate of the number of ambidex
terists throughout the Union? "Well,
only a few years ago I taught a class in
Washington of 50 J, one in Baltimore of
100, and one in Galveston of 200, and
instructed several thousand children in
the New- Orleans public schools, and as
I am only one of the many teachers en
gaged in the business, you may calcu
late accordingly."
An Important Service to Surgery.
Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.
Lloyd L. Majors rendered an important
service in the cause of surgery when he
undertook, a few days ago, to break out of
jail. In his fight with the jailers his arm
was broken, and he died on the scaffold
with the wounded limb in splints. Until
Majors died the surgical profession has
rarejy had an opportunity to study the
earliest processes of repair in fracture.
Tho felon's corpse was quickly carried
to the dissecting table, where the
wounded arm was amputated.
The investigation was profitable. It
exploded a false theory, one which very
likely in practice has been attended
with serious consequence to peo
ple who have suffered with
broken bones. The immediate per
fect .adjustment of fractures has not
been deemed absolutely necessary to per
fect repair. From an examination of
Major's arm the precious and practical
truth has .been evolved that it is unwise
to delay the work of perfect adjustment.
In his case a temporary union of the
broken bone had already taken place,
not by callous material but by means
of the -organisation of the blood which
had been poured out about the fracture
at the time of the injury. This dis
closure is of great scientific value. It
demonstrates not only that surgery is a
progressive science, but also that it is
not true that the worst use to which a
man may be put is the hanging of him.
A Tobacco Trick.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The field hands in Kentucky and Vir
ginia recognize the poisonous4 nature of
the weed, and when the sun is excep
tionally hot, or from any cause they
have a particular disinclination to work,
it is a common trick for them to bruise a
leaf of tobacco and place it under their j
armpits. In an hour after doing so the !
strongest among them will be seized
with a shuddering, his face will gi'ow
pale as death, his muscles refuse to act,
and after a time he falls to the srround
in the most horrible spasms. Of course
in the first stages of the illness, he is
generally excused from work by the
overseer; but it the Jeat is retained in
i f it . . i
posuion ior any lengtn ot time it is
weeks lefore the man is able to take up
his old duties.
Largest Artificial Stone.
Atlanta Constitution.
The largest artificial stone in the
world is the one just finished and which
is to form the foundation for Bartholdi's
statue of Liberty on Bedloe's island in
Xew York harbor. The stone is made
of broken trap rock, sand, American and
foreigh cement mixed, and water.
Twenty thousand barrels of cement were
"used. The mixture for tho stone was
emptied into the "jacket," or mold, and
then the surplus water was squeezed out.
The stone rapidly hardened and will now
bear 100 tons to the square foot.
A process has been discovered by
which artificial ivory can be made from
the bones of sheep and
waste of white skins.
goats and the
Longfellow: Fame comes only when !
deserved, and then is inevitable as des
tiny, for it is destiny.
NO. 17.
A Iflost Villainous Shave.
Japan Cor. Cornhill Magazina
There is no European quarter in Kioto,
the capital of the mikados. On the night
of our arrival we went into a barber
shop for a shave, and the excitement at
our appearance increased in intensity.
The crowd blocked up the narrow street,
the first line flattening their noses against
the window, and steaming it with their
breath. Inside the shop there was a re
flex of the excitement. The barber him
self, though pale, was collected in a man
ner, and gave me only one gash. But
his whole family were ranged in a group
in the kitmen, which opened into the
shop. The assistants stood around,
from time to time handing un
necessary articles to the operator.
The most ho; eless case was the small
boy, whose duty it wras to stand by and
hand paper, combs, brush, towel or what
ever might be needed by the barber. He
stood at the elbow of the chair whilst I
was being shaved, with his foot half a
foot from mine, his lips slightly parted,
and a pair of gray-brown eyes unnatu
rally distended, fixed upon my face. I
fancy he was in a condition of modified
catalepsy. At any rate, he neither
moved nor spoke whilst the barber
rasped me.
It was tho most villainous shave I ever
suffered. A dinner-knife would have
been for the purpose a luxurious article
compared with the razor. I besought
the barber to let me off, but without
avail. It was the opportunity of
a lifetime, and ho would not
limit its duration to any volun
tary act. We had brought Ito,
our guide, with us, a necessary precau
tion; otherwise before we could have
made our protests understood we might
have had a few bald places artistically
arranged on our heads, and perhaps our
eyebrows shaved off in the manner of
the Japanese. After much haranguing,
Ito induced the man to let me go, to the
manifest disappointment of the crowd,
who were only consoled by seeing the
young gentleman from Glasgow take the
chair. Finally the barber charged one
and eight-pence for his fiendish work,
which, considering wo had left the
United States, seemed dear for a shave.
The price to a native would have been
two pence half penny at most, and he
would, in addition, have had his cars
and nostrils shaved and his hair brushed
and oiled.
Washing Out the Stomach.
The Lancet.
The practice of treating patients suf
fering from chronic dyspepsia, who re
sist the influence of regulated diet and
drugs, by washing out the stomach,
which originated some years ago in
Vienna, has recently taken root in
America, and has formed the subject of
a short paper by Dr. W. B. Piatt, in The
Maryland Medical Reporter of recent
date. We are there informed that cases
most intractable to all other treatments
have quickly yielded to this means. The
principle underlying the treatment is to
keep the stomach clean, and, as far as is
possible, at rest, for a time sufficient to
allow of its complete recovery. The
operation should be performed in the
morning, before breakfast.
A soft, red rubber tube is passed gen
tly down into the stomach quite to the
pylorus; with this is connected about a
yard of common flexible tubing and a
glass funnel, which is held on a level
with the patient's breast, and tepid
water is poured, slowly into the funnel
until a sensation of fullness is experi
enced; the funnel is then depressed to
the level of the waist, and the fluid al
lowed to syphon out. The process is re
peated until the water returns quite
clear. The washing should be repeated
every day for a week or ten days, and
during that time the diet should be re
stricted to milk or a little meat ; then the
washing may be done every second or
third clay, and finally abandoned at the
end of three weeks. The advantages
claimed for this method prfa that it is
efficacious, simple and safe, and it cer
tainly is worth a trial in intractable
cases of chronic dyspepsia, a disease
which makes its victims a burden to
themselves and their friends, and
hitherto has brought but little credit to
physicians.
English Song-Writing.
The A'ht-nanini.
Without going so far as to say that no
man is a poet who cannot write a good
song, it may certainly be said that no
man can write a good song who is not a
good poet. Heartiness and melody the
two requisites of a song which never can
be dispensed with can rarely be com
passed, it seems, by one and the same in
dividual. In both these qualities the
Elizabethian poets stand pre-eminent,
though even with them the melody is not
so singable as it might be made. Among
the more prominent poets of our time,
Mr. Browning, though he has heartiness
in plenty, betrays a love of rugged con
sonantal effects such as would always pre
vent him from writing a first-rate song.
Here, indeed, is the crowning difficulty of
song-writing. An extreme simplicity of
structure and of diction must be accom
panied by an instinctive apprehension of
the melodic capabilities of verbal sounds
and of what Samuel Lover, the Irish song
writer, called "singing" words, which is
rare in this country, and which seems to
belong to the Celtic rather than to the
Saxon ear. "The song-writer," saya
Lover, "must frame his song of open
vowels, with as few guttural or hissing
sounds as possible, and he must be con
tent sometimes to sacrifice grandeur and
vigor to the necessity of selecting singing
words and not reading words."
Climatic Eccentricities.
(Boston Budget
Tho very remarkable climatic eccen
tricities, if so they may be termed, that
have latterly attracted attention the
world over, are typically exemplified in
the last winter season about Stavangov,
Norway, where in latitude 58 degrees,
58 minutes, or only 1 degree south of the
extremity of Greenland, the thermome
ter but once during'the month of Jan
uary fell to the freezing point. The
grass plots of the various gardens are
uescrioea as naving oeen practically as
green as in summer. "Daisies, snow
drops, pansies, violets and primroses had
their blossoms well set. Peonies had ap
peared aoove the ground, and. many
roses had thrown out vigorous bhoots."
Arkansaw Traveler: Money is er two
face artickle. It ken be yer bes' f rien' an
yer wust enemy.
THE INDEPENDENT
HAS THE
FINEST JOB OFFICE
IN DOUGLAS COUNTY.
cards; bill heads, legal blanks,
And other Frinting, including
Large and Heavy Posters and S&owy Hani-Bills,-
Neatly and expeditiously executed
AT PORTLAND PRICES.
A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY.
A Novel Cleans of Llvllhood In Which
Citizens or Detroit are Engaged.
Detroit Post and Tribune.
There is an enterprise carried on in
Detroit which is not generally known,
and never appears in the statement of
the city's varied prosperous industries.
Its novelty is such that it has never as
yet attained the dignity
or a name,
a majority
Those en
upon the
It is carried on when
of citizens are asleep,
gaged , in it prosper
carelessWss and misfortunes of
others. Their income defies definite pre
diction, but can be depended on for a
handsome return on the capital invested.
The few engaged in this industry might
be termed 4 'fighters." The pioneers in
the business were gas-lighters. Scarcely
one of their number, who has been en
gaged with the craft for any consider
able length of time, has faded to find
one or more articles which afforded a
handsome addition to his regular in
come. Almost eyery night there was a
valuable find or two, and as a knowl
edge of the fact came to a few men who
were waiting for something to turn up,
they saw in it a golden opportunity, and
are now laying up treasures from what
they can find.
One of these individuals lives in Close's
alley and is a negro. At the very peep
of day he may be seen abroad, traveling
at a good round space, scanning the side
walk and doorways, and swooping down
on anything of sufficient value to repay
the loss of a minute or so. There are also
three men who travel together, their
rounds generally beginning about mid
night and continuing until daylight.
They wallfc abreast, taking in the side
walk, scanning it as they go, the center
man carrying a bull's-eye lantern at
tached to the front of his coat. They
go as rapidly as is consistent with their
business, and nothing of valu escapes
their not ice. A basket is the receptacle
for many articles, money goes into
their pockets, and heavier finds some
times necessitate the sending of a detail
of one or two for assistance or a wagon.
What they pick up comprises almost
every movable commodity worn or car
ried upon tho str e s. They secure hats,
handkerchiefs without number, coats,
money, umbrellas, feathers of value,
occasionally a valuable watch dropped
by some night marauder, purses, rings,
breastpins, canes, chains, bracelets,
keys, letters, gloves, furs, skirts, and
even hose, dropped by some luckless
adventuress. An invoice of these find
ings would show an immense annual
aggregate. A plume picked np not
long since netted eight dollars to the
finder. A watch was quietly disposed
of for fifty dollars, and the purchaser
had a bargain. "Much of the jewelry is
sent to a distant market. Ready money
is tucked away and tells no tales.
Curious finds are also made. An old
lamp-lighter said to a reporter: "I have
picked up two bushels of potatoes when
they were worth a dollar and a half per
bushel, and no one even called for the
bags."
Another had found a new suit of
clothes, neatly done up, and found them
a good fit without the change of a but
ton. Some disciple of Bacchus t ucked a
twenty-dollar bill outside his vest pocket
and the eagle-eyed finder gathered it in.
Purses containing several times that
amount - have been picked up, and the
business is said by those informed to be
a lucrative one.
A peculiar case is that of an aged
negro who is found around the market
building at an early hour during the hot
weather. He gathers up the heads and
feet of chickens, declaring when ques
tioned: "Boss, dem am de quintessence
ob de fowel. De possum am de only
bird dat obberrates dese foh regalah ole
time soup." He never misses a squash,
bunch of vegetables, or some other
bit of diet.
Forrest and O'Conor.
"The true story" of how the late
Charles O'Conor came to act as counsel
in the Forrest divorce case is told by
The Syracuse Herald. Mrs. Forrest's
friends at first tried to engage him, but
he refused positively to have anything
to do with the case. But they had
spread abroad reports of their intention
to engage him, hoping thus to frighten
Mr. Forrest, and Forrest heard and be
lieved them. A few hours after his
final refusal to be Mrs. Forrest's counsel,
Mr. O'Conor took his seat in a horse-car
to go home. A moment later Forrest
entered. His eye fell upon O'Conor and
flashed fire. Believing the - lawyer to be
his wife's counsel, he strode up to him,
and in the presence of the assembled
passengers he deliberately trod on his
toes. Mr. O'Connor rose, quitted the
car, and returned to his office. There
he wrote a brief note to Mrs. Forrest, ac-.
cepting her case without a retainer; and
a more remorseless warfare was never
waged by counsel upon an adversary's
client than that which Mr. O'Conor
opened against the great actor the next
day.
The Wealth of Trinity Church.
Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette.J
"I believe," said a down-town real
estate man, "that two hundred million
dollars would about cover tho actual
wealth of the Trinity church New
York corporation. It is certainly as
rich as the Vanderbilt's, and has a
steadier line of profit. Besides the im
mense rents coming in from property in
the city, the church corporation holds
mortgages by several hundred Episcopal
church edilces all over the country, on
which there is an average of nearly 7
per cent, interest, "payable quarterly.
The fund is under the control of a board
of trustees, selected from the vestrymen
of old Trinity and St. Paul's, and if you
think they give any money away, or
handle the revenue on benevolent gospel
Principles, go and try to negotiate a
oan. They will tie you up with iron
lands and make you come to time lite a
sheriff. They keep it in the family,
because it's- too good a thing to let go.
All the trustees get rich."
Holland Afraid of Germany.
Brook yn Union.
As Alexander, prince of Orange, has
been an invalid all his life, his serious
illness is expected to result fatally, and
Holland is disturbed lest the inheritance
of the Dutch throne by the children of
the king's sister may prepare the way
for the absorption of their country ny
Germany.