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THE OEEGON SCOUT. JONICS A: CIIANCHY, l'libllnlicnu UNION, OREGON. Gross Superstitions. In my grandfather's family tlio old cook was accustomed to bako cakes in largo rounds, which sho cut into four with a sharp knife, each quarter being put to bako by itself. Sho was most careful that during baking tho pointed end of each of theso quarters should not bo broken, othorwiso a death might shortly bo expected. Even tho slipping of a picco of Bonp from a person's hands when washing has been construed to mean that tho death of somo relative is imminent, as. indeed, is also tho persist ent burning of a iiro on ono sido only of tlio grate. Every ono knowB that to dream of losing teeth means that somo calnmity may bo looked for. If tho eyes of n corpso aro difficult to closo, they aro said to bo looking for a successor ; and !r t- - T i -1-1 ..lit ii 1110 iiinus uo not, uccomo qmcKjy huh, it is supposed that somo ono of tho fain ily will bo soon also among tho dead, If tho houso-door is closed upon tho corpso beforo ho friends havo como out to tako thoir places in tho carriages, Sheffield peoplo say another death will happen before many days ; and if, at a funeral whero tho mourners walked, tho procession went in a scattered or strag gling manner, this was thought in tho West of bcotland to betoken tho samo misfortune. Even if tho mourners wulkcd quickly, tlio omeiLwas bad. To walk under a ladder betokens misfort une, if not haniintr, as it does in IIol land. To meet a funeral when going to or cominpr from a marrinRo was consid ered very unluckv in Lanarkshire ; for if tlio funeral was that of a woman, tho nowly-mado wifenwould not livo long : and, if it was that of a man, tho fato of tho bridegroom was scaled. If ono heard a tingling in his cars, it was tlio "deid bells," and mows of tho death of a Inond or neighbor might soon bo ex pected. If knocks wcro heard at tho door of a patient's room, and no person was fpund thero when tho door was oponed, thero was littlo chanco of re covery ; and, if a man caught a glimpse of a person ho know, and found, on looking out, that ho was nowhero to bo seen, this was, says Mr. Napier, a sign of tho approaching death of tho person eocn. Ear and Brain. Tho Bubstanco of tho following state ments with regard to tho oar and brain is from a paper in tho Now York Medi cal Journal, by Dr. Andrews, surgeon to tho Manhattan Eyo and Ear Hospital, Now York. Ear diseases aro much worso than those of tho eyo. They aro a principal oauso of deaf mutism. Thoy aro also among tho most" frequent diseases of childhood, boing dovolopod in diphtheria, whooping-cough, scarlet fover, measles, sinnll-pox, typhoid fover, inlluonza and tubercular alleotions of tho lungs. Indeed, a simplo cold in tho head or soro throat rapidly spreads along tho mucous mombriino of tho Nostrils and pharynx to that of tho ear. Says tho into Prof. Clark, of Harvard Univorsity, "So important is proper attention to tho ear during and after acuto exanthemata (diseases attended with rash) that a physician who treats such eases, and noglooln to givo this attention, cannot bo said to perform his duty to his p.i tiotit." But tho most sorioua fact about thoso diseases grows out of tho very intimate connection between tho ear and the brain. Most of tho fumy wall which contains tho internal carlios in direct contact with tho mombriino of tho bruin. Home parts of tho wall aro so thin as to bo transparent. Thero aro also open ings through it for tho pussugo of nerves and blnod-vossols, and often parts of it nie wanting through arrest of develop ment. Hence, purulent inflammations of tho ear extend readily to tho brain the more so, tho younger tho child. These may cause similar imilanunation of the membranes, inflammation of largo veins and abscesHos of tho brain. Nearly one-lmlf of tho latter aro du." to this 'cause, chronio inllammution ol tlio ar showing itself perhaps only in n hliglTt headache being vastly more duugcrotiH than aeuto. 'fiutWn Com panion, Aversions or Appetite. Dr, Oswald calls attention, in tho Popular Sulcnco Monthly t to tho fact that an antipathy to u special dish indi cates tho presence of a constitutional re pugnance, which it is not wiso to disre gard. Ho says : I know a Belgian soldier on whom common unit, in any combination, and in any doso exceeding ten ponuy weights, acted as a drastic poison, and thousands of Hindoos cannot taato animal food without vomiting. Similar effects havo obliged individu als to abstain from onions, sago, parsnips and oven from Irish potatoes. Dr. l'oreira mentions tho case of an English boy who had an inoumblo aversion to mutton : " Ho could not oat mutton in any form. Tho peculiarity was supposed to bo owing to caprice, but tho mutton was re poutodly disguised and given to him un known ; but uniformly with the samo result of producing violent vomiting and diarrhea. " And from tho sovority of tho effects, which were in fact thoso of a virulent poison, thero can bo littlo doubt that, if tho ue of mutton had been persisted in, it would Boon havo destroyed tho boy's llfo." Wo know a lady whoso missionary work in Burmuh has attracted tho atten tion of English-speaking people, who could not eat rice. Oneo when she wan visiting in England, her hostess, think ing tho aversion a mere whim, put n taulo-MKX)nful of rico in tho soup. Though the soup was (drained bef.tre being served, and not u grain of rico was to bo soon in it, vet tho moment tho lady tasted it sho exclaimed, " Oh, thole's rico in this noup I" unit was obliged to leave tlio table. . m m Very appropriate yut during wiu the ornamental nuorljiHOM lug It letter 111 added to onui funny Hotter by u ludy lovur of Kliukeniort, which romf, "Out. vl limned kiiu:. out my " TAKING THE CENSUS. Fun on Jefferson Aventio and nmnneratlT8 In tlio Seventh Ward. "bay, old fellow, tlio n?xt lime n census of births and deaths is to bo taken, don't you fail to pet a job in ono of tho big-bug wards!" exclaimed jolly Nick Tislor to a reporter a few days ago. "Don't hclievo I'd like it. Always makes mo sick to go around mixing beer." "There's lots of fun in it." "What in drinking fifteen or twenty kinds of beer?" "No in taking tho census. You'll' novcr know how cussed lazy somo peoplo aro until you tako a big book under your your arm nnd go around asking questions. I've been nround." "Whoro did v .on iind tho laziest ono?" "Upon Jefferson avenue. Oh, I don't know as she is real lazy, but up thero they're so stuck up thoy wouldn't como to tho door if you rung tho bell all day, for fear you'd think thoy was tho servant. At ono house I rang tho bell seven times tho girl was out to tho shed, I s'poso, and tho woman was a-settin' in tho bay window about four feet from me, and looking at mo all tho time. "At another I10U80 I seen tho women up stairs at tho window as 1 went up the front steps. A fat, good-looking girl caino to tlio door nnd 1 commenced llring questions at her. "'Any children been born hero during tho last year?' says I. " 'Don't know, says she, I hain't boon horo but three weeks. I'll go and ask missis,' nnd away sho toddled up stairs. Pretty soon sho caino toddling back and says: "Missis wants to know what you want to know for?' " 'Toll her 1 am taking tho city cen sus, as required by law each year,' says I, and away scooted tho girl again. When sho trot back sho said: "Yes.' "How many?' says I. " 'Only one,' says sho. "'Hoy or girl?' says I. " 'Girl,' says sho. " 'What's nor niunoP' says I. " 'Dimple,' says sho. " 'That's her baby namo,' says I. 'What's her real, full name?' " 'I'll ask missis,' says she. and up sho wont. " 'Beatrieo Branseombo Brown.' savs she. "When was she born?' says I. "I'll ask missis,' savs sho. and I whistled 'The Watch on tho Khino' clear through boforo sho eauio back. " 'Day beforo Christmas,' says she. " 'What is her father's nnmoP' Bays " 'Mr. Brown, of course, says sho. " 'What's his lirst niunoP says I. " 'I'll ask missis.' Tho irirl was fat and slio'd begun to pull' by that timo, and she waddled as sho wont ui tho stairs. " 'Benjamin llruco Brown,' says sho. " 'What does ho do for a living?' says I. " 'Keeps a store,' says sho. " 'What's her niothor'e namo?' says " 'I'll ask her,' says sho. " 'Botholinda Borthclot Brown.' savs sho. "Just then tho woman camo to tho hend of the stairs, and says: " 'booms to 1110 you ro asking a great many impertinent questions.' " iaiw roquires it,' says J. 'Whoro were vou bornr "Butlulo.' 0 " 'How old aro you?' " 'Nono of your buslncs! Matilda, shut the door!' "Oh, it's fun! Saw wo got ten cents apiece for births and deaths and that lay I made just hfty conts. Up in Dutchtown you can mako $u" or 7 a day." Detroit Free Press. Tho Mississippi Problem. Capt. Cowdon says in a lato loiter: l'ho city of Now Orleans, goographyi- eallv, is the best located city on tlio sphere. Slio is near tho gulf, and has all the Mississippi basin at her back. bho has an area of land -',000 miles north of her by 1,500 miles wide, all of which has untold facilities for agri culture, nuinufaoturing, grazing, and conunoreo. one, iiko jnow ion;, has water lines in her rear that reach out and drain the numerous tributaries to her main ditch, tho groat Father of Waters. Porhaps you hayo noticed that Boston has deep water in front and rallwiu-s in the roar: and, practi cally, it is tho samo with Baltimore; whtlo Now lork has tho six by seventy foot Erie canal and lakes behind her Hudson river, and to tho fact of tho cheap water transportation of Now lork, slio owes iter success as a rival city to Boston and llaltlmoro; and, now, thon, should is aw Orleans have doopor ocean vessels than eithor of thoso threo cites, and with water llow ing to hor doors, why wouldn't sho iucroaso enormously In her commer cial poworP Hut there are two great problems which yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly confront tho peoplo of Louisiana, and they aro those: 1. unn Louisiana got rid of her overllowsP 2. Can Now Orleans harbor shins of fifty foot depth P Not long since I crossed the river at New Orleans a mile above Canal street, to "Harvey's Canal." Tho milo-wido, muddy, turbid stream was moving to tho gulf at about the rate of threo miles per hour, ami, when full, it has to run down n slope of about seventeen foot in going to the gulf, at tlio river a mouth, I'.'O miles distant. I lauded at Harvey's eanal-doek, which is not vet opened to tho Mississippi river on s niii'lh end, by doiiio low rods. 1 walked south for less than 100 foot, when, down there in tho canal, 1 saw gulf water Just twelve feet lower than tlio river, omy a lew runs norm 01 whero I stood. You ask why don.i they cut tho bank two Dillon wide and tif toon feet deep, straight to the gulf, only lifty-llve inllenhouth, and thereby Irani tlio noon water 01 1110 river, and ho iiioreiuo the ontllow that tho bottom of the river will deepen up to It louky loltoiii ornhoaliiP Well, now, Biieloni uliuon, you liiivu tun, vurn. Why don't tlioyf nut, now, while mi coma no done, thorn porhup it u bettor place. It U vl1 ten miles southeast of Now Or leans, on tho cast sldo of tho river, at tho Lake Borgno canal outlet. Thoro tho gulf Is six miles cast, while whero 1 stood it was miy-nvo miles away, and wero a side mouth mado there at tho Lako Burgno outlet, two miles wide and fifteen feet deep, at most, tho outflow of tho surface water of tho river would be so great that thero could not be any overllow, and, con sequently, tho problem of how to dry Louisiana is easily solved. When that is done, thon tho Uarvoy or Bara taria gulf-water ship canal could easily ho mado five hundred feet wide, fifty foot deep, and straight as a pole, duo south to the gulf, lifty five miles, and through which could pass tlio biggest ship that could bo mado. Gulf water should boused, and thus keep out tho settlings of tho Mississippi river. These settlings now drop, after meet ing tho gulf water, threo miles out from tho river's mouth, and are roaoh cd up on the sea bottom just like tlio thread in weaving cloth, and the ships can't plow through it when drawing more than, say, twcnty-livo feet, and wero it not for tho constant dredging or passing of tho screw propellers of depth, tho degth .would bo but about twenty feet; so tho nvormon told mo in Now Orleans quite recently. Flowers on the Kansas Prairies. Barbaric splendor of the scenes in Aida and 1 Ajricainc seemed repeated as tho glorious panorama of blossom ing grairio unrolled day afBir da?. Can you picture to yourself ton acres of portulaca? or wholo hillsides cur tained with what seems a superb variety of wistaria, except, that it grows on a stalk instead ot hanging from a vino? Do you know how it fools not to bo able to step without crushing a llower, so that the littlo prairie-dogs, sitting contentedly with their intimato friends the owls on tlio littlo heaps of earth thrown up around th'jir holes, havo every appearance of having plantod their own front yards with the choicest floral varieties? Think of driving into a great field of sunllowors, tho horses trampling down the tall stalks, that spring up again behind tho carriage, so that one out sido tho field would never know that a carriage-load of peoplo wero any whero in it; or riding through a "grovo" of them, tho blossoms tower ing out of rcaeli as you sit on horse back, and a tall hedgo of them grown up as a barrier between you and your companion! Not a daisy, or a butter cup, or a elovor, or a dandolion, will you see all summer; but now llowors too cxquisito for belief; tho great white prickly poppies, and the sensi tive rose, with its loaves dohcato as a maiden-hair fern, and its blossom a countless mass of crimson stamens tippod with gold, and faintly fragrant. Even familiar llowors aro unfamiliar in nizo and profusion and color. What at homo would bo a daisy, is hero tlio size of a small sunllower, with petals of dolicato rose-pink, raying from cono-sliaped centre of rich maroon shot witli gold. A had brought with her numerous packages of seeds and slips, nobly bent on having rib bon llower beds and mosaic jiarlerres about the house; but she sat on the steps and throw them broadcast, ncvot knowing, in the profusion ot llowon that would havo been there anyway, whether hers over came up or not. And how beautiful whoro tlio grasses the most useful ono tlio niostbeuuti ful of all; tho dolicato littlo "bullulo grass," for which tho prairie is fa mous, waving its "tiny curled siclo of feathery daintiness as if its beauty wero its only excuso for boing, yet bravoly "curing" itself into dry hay as It stands, when tho autumn winds begin to blow, that the happy flocks may "niblo, sharp-toothed, tho rich, thick-growing blades" all through tho winter, without their beings gath ered into barns. Alice Wellington llollins, in Ilurptr's Magazine for June. Bismarck's DreaiM. Aro Austria and Bussia working to gother for England's humiliation F Tho roport that these great powers "havo come to an understanding about tho Orient," must be classed among tho many statements of the day that aro Important if true. Austria has never been friendly to Uussia. She has always stood opposed to Kussia's ambition in the direction of Constanti nople. During the past decado a dip lomatic controversy between Vienna and St. Petersburg has gone on almost without lutormissiou. Vet it is as sorted that the most amlcahlo relations now exist between tho two govern ments. Ministerial oflicials of Austria aro claiming for Prim. Joseph till the credit ot having ell'ectcd 11 settlement of the Anglo-ltiisfJ.'in dispute. Eng land was lorced to back down, thoy say, because Austria intorposed at Constantinople to prevent the conclu sion of an Anglo-1'i.rkisli convention which would open th.i Dardanelles to English war ships. Tho British cab inet became alarmed at this hostile demonstration from an unoxpoctod quarter, If Austria's attitudo is not niisren- resented, perhaps wosuo the beginning I of a movement for ilia realization of Bismarck's dream, wlweh eliminates Turkov from tho powors of Europe, extends Austrian rule to tho Bosphor 11s, and annexes part of tho German provinces of Austria to tho Gerniau empire. For Russian consent to this grand scheme, Austria, with tho con sent and support of Bismarck, could afford to favor Uus-sta's plnu of reach ing sidt water by way of Afghanistan. Ctinximati TiUUS'Htar. The Missouri Mult'. "It's rather strange," olnorved n passenger from Pittsburg, 'ahat Eng land should send clear over to Missouri to buy mules for use iu tho Soudan, wonder what that's for?" "Tactics, mv dear sir, taotlot," re plied a military looking man; 'Eng land's policy Iu Egypt is to get up ulose to the eueiii uud tlioii turn tail an J re retreat slowly uud in good older. Hero Is where tho mule Is oxnoutod to get In hU work." CJiiongo IleraUl, t'nlo or (uudulciit Uclui; of rllwy ruitir In tlit litiaU of oouiU ihould n ultt) vlwck. Aifuy Hi. Fiormxo the tiErovs. V Survivor of t!i Indian Mutiny TolIHow lie roiicht Ills Wn Hiroush India and Wa3 Suut Up In Iloleaxaered l.ticknow. Thero Is an entry in tho books of tho nsano department at Blocklev which cads: "Feb. 20, 1884, admitted: trans crrod to insane department Sept. 6, IbSt; James E. Dockroy, aged 45 ears; nativity, Now York; occupa--ion, teacher; social state, widower; liagnosis, and hero there is a jlank, which was yesterday tilled up jy Dr. llichardson verbally by tho sia lic word "dementia." This is a spo jies of partial or temporary insanity, ivhioh. in the case of James Doekrey, akes the form of almost total oblivion regarding comparative recent events, while his memory of circumstances rt'hich occurred p'nor to his present illliction seems to be nearly if not dioroughly unimpaired. James E. Doekrey has a history which, without any hesitation and with but ono misstatement, he related renterdav afternoon as ho sat in Dr. itiohardson's ollice, on tlio Qhird tloor af tho men's wing of tho insane de partment. A short, broad-shouldered man of powerful build, somewhat fal len away from protracted confinement, t very intelligent face, covered with a Hubby iron-gray beard, straight hair 3f the same c.dor, brushed away from tho faeo and cut straight around, as if in the old-fashioned nautical manner by means of a basin, and a pair of gray 03 cs which, but for a weakness of tho lids, rendering them somewhat bloodshot, would have Ueou very mild and intelligent. "Iu 185C, when the terrible mutiny of tho Sepoys broko out in India," said he, "I was in Australia, near the town of Melbourne. Tho news camo to us of the horriblo deeds of tho brutal blacks, and my blood boiled to go and light against them. Although 1 was born in America, my father was a Scotchman from the city of Aberdeen and my mother an Irishwoman, so I not only had lighting blood in me, but could almost think thoy wero my own fellow-country people the Sepoys were mascereing. 1 had been in India sev eral times, and could speak one or two of tho dialects quite lHiontly. I there fore shipped on a trader for Bombay on tho condition that L should leavo tlio ship when I arrived. As soon as I got ashore I joined tho Volunteer iiaval brigade, under tho command of an oihcer named btowart. wo marched through tho peninsula toward Calcutta. But beforo wo got thero many a time we thought wo never should arrive. Tho volunteer naval' brigade was part of tho army underSir Henry Ilavolock, nnd it would bo no news to toll you how that army was cut to pieces and decimated long bo foro it reached tho coast. Wo literally foujrht our way through the country, leaving thousands of our men, women and children on tho road, killed by the most cruel and cunning enemy (,in the world. Tho sights 1 saw during that terrible march will never be eradicated from my memory. Dolicato women staked alive and their limbs torn from thoir bodies while still living, children tied by tlio feet to two animals and thon torn in halves tho horriblo atrocities aro still fresh in tho minds of many who wore but children thou, and it is not so long ago but that most adults remember the story. Wo camo hand to mind sovoral times with tho black devils, at Kootapoor and at Shanghai and Hodar, and then at Cawnporo, until, on tho 17th of October, 1857, wo reached Lucknow. Thoro wo wero nearly ovorpowered, for thoro wero only a few of us loft. Wo had to fight our" way through tho streets of Luck now, keeping together and holding our own as well as wo could. Yoii must remember that, although these Sepoys wero nioro than half savages, Jhoy had had tho advantage of mil itary training under European ollicers. So wo had to keep our oyes very wido opou when fighting against woll-ariii-ed, well-trained forces far outnumber ing us anil combining tho European with eastern war Tactics. Besides, they wore natives, and could stand the terrible0 climate better than wo. "Well, wo managed to fight our way through thoui till we reached tho res idency, whoro wo found a weary and horriblo rosting-placo for nearly a month. Men and women woro there already. Tho place was ill-adapted for a barricado, but thoy had mado it comparatively seeuro for so long as the ammunition held out. Day after day passed away, and watchful sentries, carefully saving their powdor nnd bullets, would only use them to pick otl' some too zealous Sopoy who seemed to bo inclined to creep too near to our barricades. At night wo would count our dead for tlio priva tion and horrible atmosphere killed somo noarly every day and burned them 111 tho yard as far from tho build ing us possible. And oach night spe cial precaution was takon to guard against the oxpoeted incendiary of tlio blacks or a possible assault on our 011- 'teobied garrison. r "i think 1 win novor lorgot tho joy with which wo poor, starviinr.besieured folk heard tho distaut sounds of tho Highland bagpipes, nor tho shout which burst upon the postilouco-thiok-cued air when the British red-coats rushed along through tho streets of l.ueknow yelling with tho rngo of avongors, and released us from our prison. I seem to havo gotten mixed up soniowhoro there, and I guess near ly all of us diil, for wo woro half mad with starvation and constant watch ing. Anyhow, I was taken to Calcut ta to recuperate my health, and as tho mutiny was supprcsod shortly aftei that, and I was only a volunteer. I thought I'd had enough of soldiering for :i time, anil gave up tho army. I wont to Bombay when my health was bettor and remained in business for some tune, but 1 had a roaming spirit ami had to take to my old calling tho sea -again tit the cud of ajoutayear." Mr. Doekrey, in answer to a quos. tlon if ho considered tho sea his pro fosiion, said: "No, tdr. I am by profession a nlor gynuiu. 1 have beoi. so much on thu boa, though, that perhaps I know more of it than anything else." "Do you remember how you camo lioitJi'" "No, sir. All I know is that it must hnve been near tho Fourth of July, for I remember to have heard tho boom ing of guns, and on inquiring what they wero firing for was told tho date. After that I remember nothing till I found myself here. I havo a wife living somewhere iu Canada, but I can not remember where." Dr. Hlchardson said that Mr. Dock rey's case was most satisfactory. Ho is very considerably improved siivo liis admission. He is a Freemason and an Odd-Fellow, and his last question to the reporter beforo saying good-by was: "Havo you over traveled cast?" Philadelphia. Ttvics. Wolseley's Administrative Powers. It has never been my good fortune to accompany a forco on campaign under tho command of Lord Wolseloy, and I write, therefore, under somo disadvantage. But the expedition which ho conducted from Malta to Cyprus when ho went to organize tlio British administration of that island was at least of a semi-military charac ter, and tho opportunity ottered of watching his methods as well as a commander as a civil orjeanizor and administrator. His leading character istic struck mo as equanimity. There wero many temptations to irritation, in tho detective commissariat arrange ment, in the characteristic obtrusivc ness of tho Turkish authority whom wo wero dispossessing, in the hazy in defiteness ot the situation generally. But Wolseloy, decisive, nay, incisive when occasion demanded, never be trayed a sign ot temper. That ho was energetic one could discern, not loss than tliat his powers of hard work and of fruitful hard work wcro ex ceptional; but there was no gustiness in tho energy, and ho slid through his hard work with apt, bright dexterity. Ho novcr fussed; and ho novcr entang led himself in tlio labyrinth of trilles. Tlio absence of all friction in his administrative methods, stood ac counted for partly by his own idiosyn crasy, partly a phrase, indeed, " of tlio othor reason becauso of the per fect organization and thorough inter working of his stall'. 1 traveled out from homo with Wolseloy and his stall. Tho latter had to be gathorcd to gether hurriedly, but its members mot, blended, and set to work in the saloon carriago between Dover and Calias, as if thoy had stepped into it out of a department in which thoy had been co-operating for years. Whilo thoy settled minor points of detail, their chief meanwhile slept serenely, easy in tho perfect assurance based on ex perience that his subordinates would deal with these as ho would desiro thoy should bo dealt with. It was clear to mo thus early, and the im pression but grow iu distinctness, that Wolsoley was the man who decided, who decreed, the centurion who, said, "Do this;" and that ho had recruited for the fulfillment of his behests a set of men on whom lie could rely as in telligent and devoted executants, and to whom, therefore, ho could ami did coufido tho functions assigned to each, reserving himself as tho chief, unham pered by a multiplicity of details, for tho big work of resolving and direct ing. In all this he was making no ex periment. Ho was sure of his "ma chine;" it was of his construction; he had selected every cog and pinion of it; and had tested its cllicieney, both in parts and as a whole. Archibald Forbes, in Tho English Illustrated Mag azine for May. Must Bo Enforced. Abraham Stockton, who, during many years, lived in tho southern part of Arkansaw, was, iu lienor to his great learning and also to thejact that ho had once killed a mad dog, elected justice of tho peace. Tho peoplo wore very anxious to seo a case taken bo foro the old man, for overy man know that Stockton's opinion would bo one which tho supremo court could not re verso. Tho opportunity camo. A man named Eukford sued Mr. Cliolsoy. The litigation grow out of a dispute concerning tho ownership of a lot of sheep. A jury was empaneled, the ovideneo was takon and the lawyers made their spooohos. Tho verdict of tho jury declared that tho sheep should bo equally divided. Beforo discharg ing tho jury, tho magistrato said : "Gentlemen, you've did your duty, but you ain't mado no provisions fur the cost in this thing. Tho constitu tion of tlio United States says that when jurymen mako sich a oversight, thu judge shall tako tho matter into his own hands. Gontlouien, I'll charge you two dollars a pieco. lhavo hoard a heap o' peoplo talk about tho judge's charge to the jury, au' I reckon some o' you will talk about this one, but if can't make tho jury pay" "Can't 1? Wall, now il's fuuny if wo don't. Thoy don't git a bito to oat till tho thing's settled. Boys, git vour pops an' keep your oyes on tlio jury. Tho laws of this stato havo got lo bo euforcod." Arkamaw 2'iavcicr. Aristocracy iuho Old South. If wealth is measuiod by net in como, thero uover was much wealth in tlio South. Tho very nature of tho property forbade it consuming its own production. But if tho number of slaves is taken as tho standard of wealth, thon whero thoro was ono man owning 500 thoro wore 50,0"P who did not own 100, and in that ratio, clear on through the negro population, still leaving thousands" owuing none. Bo that as it may, wealth was not tho staudard of tho best society'. If thoro was any undovlatiug rulo it was family lineage, oven whilo tho best old families possesed tho largo proportion of tho aggregate wealth though to no large extent individually. In other words, family lineage, when supple mented by dignity and good conduct, was always a passport into tho best society, whether with or without pro porty, whilo those without this iln oago wero never oxoludod who pos sessed other qualifications, Thoro wero but fow formalities of any sort, and social Intercourse was ut all times natural an f easy. Tins is u simplo and true staimont of faets, yet thoy have been loaded down with every ponslblo caricature. Mr. Fal coner in the Current, you say anything oulen tho way, 1 11 whalo tho whole kit and bilin' o'yor." "Vour honor," said a lawyer, "you LEECHES, The History nnd Present Condition of a Fci; liar Trade. Of tho two firms in London andl thero aro only two to whom the forn oign leeches aro consigned from Ham burg, one practices as a dental sur geon and tho other sells pipes.! louacco, anu oinor trilles. fioth are) 1 aru JM 1I001T- 1 of stillicient standing to recall beaux jours paws of tho trade. great tunes of indiscriminate bk letting, when, whether the patient suH'ered from .1 black eye, a headache, a liver, or a heart, ho lost a couple of ounces of blood and was declared to bo better. Now scarcely one is used whero a century ago a hundred flour ished, and tho sixpenny leech of oven so recent a date as 18G0 has fallen to something loss than a halfpenny at wholesale price. No completer proof of the proof of popularity of tho leech with tho early practitioner can btfallbrded than by the fact tho verb "to leech" means to treat with medi cine and to bleed, whilo the doctor himself, even so late as the days of Shakspearo, borrowed the namo of his favorite instrument of healing. Tho slender, meager, hungry leech comes from Turkey, within a radius of fifty miles of Constantinople, and from Huda-Pesth, whero tho country peo plo bring them in, like watercress, by thousands from the ditches and sell them to tho dealers. They are found there in all ditches and ponds, nnd wlierever thoro is pure running water, weeds for shelter, and muddy banks and bottoms. Thoy aro, as a rulo, netted in nets prepared with bait, though wo aro also informed that it is not rare for tho hardy peasant to walk barelegged through tho water and strp thoin oil" as fast as thoy can ad here to the calf. However thoy aro caught, by plain, honest fishing or by human artifice, from Biida-Pesth, without distinction of ago or size, thoy travel to Hamburg, where they lio iii vast ponds or reservoirs until tho timo for their selection arrives. In theso reservoirs thoy lie generally for u year? and during all that timo, if they aro properly cared for, they bhouhl receive no " food, or rather no nioro than thoy can find for them selves in tho water. But this is a rulo that is not always observed as it should bo, for thoro aro many mer chants who give them blood, and somo liver, and some, so that nil tastes may be satisfied, the entire body of a horse thrown among them: with tho result that on arrival in this country their appetites are fatigued, and they aro found to need certain stimulants to performance. From Hamburg, when their timo of probatiou is over, thoy are imported here direct in bags and boxes, and at the buck of tho surgery in Pentonville or among tho pipes and tobacco of lloundsditeh thoy lio in shallow earthen vessels tightly covered with gauzo or linon. tho halting stage on tho way to tho wholesale druggist and tho hos pital. With tho importer thoy rare ly tarry for more than four or livo days, but aro sent out almost as fast as they como in, in small Vvooden boxes similar to those used by fruiterers for honeycomb. From tho wholesale druggist thoy pass again to the chemist and apothecary, and when tho perils of travel and tho variations of climate they go through aro con sidered, tho intending purchasor must not bo surprised if ho finds himself asked sixpence for an animal that cost tho tirst dealer a shilling for a couple of hundred. Many die on tho voyago and many in the "short time thoy re main with the importer, and though in theory tho select leech will stand an extreme boat or cold, many of tho livo-and-twcnties and fifties ordered by tho chemist, carefully treated as they are, do not livo to fulfill what seems to bo tho solo oieason of their existence that of drawing blood. Tho leech should novor properly bo applied more than once, and can bo applied anywhere. It tills in about a quarter of an hour, and will absorb altogether from forty to eighty-livo grains of blood, or in all about half an ounce. There is an ingenious instru ment known as tho artificial leech, onco occasionally used, but ngw scarcely ever met with. It consists of a small, sharp steel cylinder worked ,bv a spring, with which a circular in cision is made, and with an interior glass cylinder capable of being ex hausted by a piston worked by a screw. It is not a good instrument, and is, as wo say, not used now. Thoro is a specimen to bo seen in tho museum of tho College of Surgeons among tho "Surgical Instrument Series." Iu England there is a less poworful spo cios commonly found, though now never used. It is known as tlio horso leech, from its habits of attacking tho membranes lining tlio mouth and nos trils of animals drinking at the pools, it haunts. It is in its way venomous, and, when applied 10 tho human sub ject, inflammation, leading to erysip elas, has been known to follow its bito. Thero must bo something in our wat ors unfavorable to tho growth aud culture of tho parasito, for not only is tho indigenous leech useless, and in deed harmful, but tho foroigu spoci nens which efforts have boon mado to acclimatize havo novor como to any good. Thirty years ago a prominent English firm projected and founded a farm at Norwood for tho breeding aud cultivation of tho Turkish and Hun garian leech, but, eithor from ignor ance of troatiuont or chungofulnoss of climate, thoy all sickened and died, and the schoino collapsed. Cornhil Magazine. Jay Gould's Abstemious Habits. Anv wido-awako newspaper man. whoso duty it has been to report public .....,- 0...1 ,..i,n ima in the d schariro uuiiiiuuis, aim , 0 of his duty taken tho trouble to keen an eye on Jay Gould at such of tho banj quota as tho niony king has attended, must havo noticed how sparingly ho eats. Ho loavos many of tho daintiest ditdioa untouched, and contents himself with noup, a "loco of roast or a bit of gamo, ami ft $s olarot. I am told that ho lives equally plain at homo. "Coinplox dUhes muddle tho brain, ho say s, "and I have to keop my brain clear." Thoro aro a good mauy speeu liitor who wish he atq more heartily. -Aeu Yvrk Cor. Cncago UtraliL J