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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1885)
a V V V RANDOM CUPPINGS. Jefpkksox Davis seveutY-sevcn ronrs old la3t week. MlLLION'AIUK MACKKV 13 SOOn to join his wifo in London, where tlio latter has rented a house. Mb. John Lucas Walker lias loft 10,000 to the National gallery, Lon don, to bo spent in buying a picturo or pictures, which aro to bo labeled with the donor's name. Cait. Cykus Stuktevant, tho tem perance advocato who was tho instru ment of Francis Murphy's conversa tion, will bo GG years old on Sept. 4, ind his friends aro gomg to give him i grxjul reception. Mu. Musuuus, the Turkish ambassa dor in Londou, has occupied that post tor over forty years. Tho lato Mr. Van tie Wcyor was Belgian minister at London for over thirty years, and Baron Brunnow represented Russia ihero almost as long. Mu, Jonas, tho recently appointed :ousul to prague, has published a Id ler to the efl'eot that a cablegram from Henna, which appeared in a Now fork paper, concerning his person ind his relations to tho Austrian Government is false in ovory partic ular from beginning to end. Bakon Hkutkic, whoso stupidly slow igency for gathering foreign news is it last arousing the iro of the English oapers, started on a small ecalo in kix-la-Chapollo in 1819. Not only has ;ho agency yielded him millions, but lis prolits in .speculation through his sarly knowledge of important events havo boon enormous. A cokkesi'ONOENT of tho Now York Morning Juurnul gives this hint: Should cholera givo us a call this sum mer 1 beg to repeat tho advico given oy a medical man to his patients dur aig tho cholera year of '18 in Great Britain: Wear a band of rod Hannel round tho abdominal regions and prao iico temperance in all things, with an ccasional nip of whisky and red pop cr. Tin: king of Italy has ordered, at his own expense, eight life-sized mar olo statues to bo plauod in tho exist ing niches in tho facade, of tho palaeo. 1'ho uersonages to bo remembered aro io be eight kings of Naples, viz: Rog jr, Frederick II., Charles I. of Anjou, Alfonso of Aragon, Charles V., Char les 1IL of ISourbon,Joaohim Murat, ind Victor Emmanuel. Tho sculptors soiccted aro all Neapolitans. An electrical tooth-pulling machine, which is quick and almost painless in Its operations, is said to pull seven tooth m live seconds. A pair of for jeps protrudo from a niokol tube svhich is connected witii a wire. Tho torccps aro applied to tho tooth, tho Dperatur touches a spring, a spiral ar rangement within the lube winds up In a wink, draws down the forceps like i Hash, and in an instant the tooth is jerked from tho jaw and cast on tho floor. JULIANO DE SotJZA, tllO chief Of lllO jcmi-royal state of Wydah, who pos sessess a fully-equipped battalion of women warriors, is a tall, broad-ohest-sd,.nian, witli a brownish complexion and striking face, llo wears at cere monies a lonsr, shirt like cotton garment coaching to his foot, high European boots'? an embroidered smoking cap and i black jnotal cross on his chest. Sou sa's son was odueatod in an English boarding school, and was married by i French priest, although tho king is a feticli worshiper. His six huudrcd amazons are nominally his wives, and thoy form a bodyguard which is said to bo suporior to tho regular soldiers in courago, discipline, and royalty. In viow of the rumored dissensions in tho Gladstone cabinet provious to its fall tho following passago from a 3peech f Sir Charles Dilko, dolivorod just aftor that event, is of groat sig nificance: "Mr. Gladstono is a man who difl'ors from otlior men who aro growing old, and ho di flora from thorn in this that while other men as thoy grow old havo too often their minds cramped or warped with time and ago, his political principles grow and expand with those of tho country and tho times, until now, when ho has bo conio an old man for tho groat leader of a great party, ho has bocomo in moro comploto sympathy with tho nioro advanced section of tho party which ho leads than ho over was at any timo before " John H. Stallo, who was last week appointed to tho Italion mission, is ono of Cincinnati's bost-known Gor man citizens. Ho sorved a term as judgo of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, and has for a long timo stood among tho leaders of tho Ohio bar. Ho is a man of studious habits and tho most varied acquire ments, not only capablo but fond of drifting from law into metaphysics, languages, or chemistry, and in thoso deparmonts of learning maintaining himself against all comers. In his j youngor years ho used to writo ooino what liorcely against religious orcods, but about throe years ago ho publish ed a book against what he considered tho unwarranted assumption of sci ence, ami, as Mr. Dana oxprassod it at tho time," caiuo out ou the Lurd's aide," rouM)f:n ov man pills. A (ilimpsp of the Drue Clerk Sflxlnc Op Poi sons In Little White Pellets. Thcro is little doubt that tho youthful mind of Theophilus, John or Dicky is often lired when reaching up after a glass of soda-water, witli a wild desire to becotno a drug clerk. Tho aspect of the gorgeous person who stands be hind tho marble-topped counter and ever beams on the army of the heated who besiege him tor a draft of the tizzy fluid minds tho boy to imaginu that a whole summer long with free soda water constantly within rcacli would bo quite an ideal state of existence. Yet the urchin would lind tho reality which lurks behind this romantic vision quito a diil'erent sort of thing. It may bo that somo persons can see, as it is claimed, a certain distinction of bearing in the manner of the clerk according to whether ho is selPng a tooth-brush or wrapping up a chest protector. But such a fanciful halo transcendent spirituality invests him only in tho eyes of a few hero-worshipers. To ordinary people he is only a hard-worked mortal particularly interesting when he is recommending some new patent nostrum, or pounding pills himself in tho little shop back of the store. For him, to be sure, quart measure, yard-stick and rough scales became graduated glasses, horn spoons and spatulas and linely adjusted scales on which a hair is a large quantity. I lis hours are long, for he appears among his perfumes and his poisons at 7 o clock, nor does he crawl away from them much beforo 10 at night. When he does retire to dreams of mix ing Epsom salts with castor oil to re move tho glanders he has a bell within an inch oFliis elbow and a speaking tubo as near his mouth. Ity these ho is often summoned at the" dead of night to dolo out medicines. llo is prolioont at washing bottles, fpr when he entered tho store as a small boy ho was sot to doing that, with many a warning not to leave any straw in tliom. Hut ho renieuiberes his "David Copporlield," and with tho knowledge that Charles Dickens was his partner in tho trado, cheerfully learns long Latin names for herbs and drugs witli their common English equivalents. Ho is rather an interest ing figuro when ho takes up one of Dr. Phussyman's prescriptions, written in that barbarous hand in which tho physician always indulges. The pa tient or tho patieut's relative who conies in with tho important bit of paper usually is very curious to know "what that medicine is for." But the young druggist is an adept at talking a good deal without say ing anything and tells his inquisitor something that satislies the mind without disclosing the doetot's secret. For tho physician often does not want the patient to know for what the treatment is being administered, and your keen druggist always keeps on tho sunny side of as many doctors as ho knows how. But it is "especially when lie retires into tho seclusion of his pill-pounding don to polish up tho knob of It is pestle against drugs of all sorts that the young man really holds our interest. Here it is that ho most nearlv approaches tho old alchemist witli which he is inevita bly more or less associated, and with hundreds of poisons, aromatic or malodorous herbs all about him with a potion of some sort in a pot at his side lie becomes almost uncanny. Tidied up for visitors to inspect, the pharma cist's don is a neat" and business-like room in appearance, but lake it when tinctures, pills, face-wash, bitters or powders aro in preparation and tho very confusion ploasjs one as much as "a sweet disorder in the dress" did old Robert Derrick. Behind his table, with glass funnels, graduated glasses, spatulas, scales, jars, a hand-press ami a grinding-itia-ciiino, whose very arrayproinisus tho brewing of somo sanatives, stands the apothecary. Poisons in such quality and number that Medea's eyes would havo fairly glistened are about. But the sceno is hanilv a peaceful ono. Tho modern combination of a witch, herb doctor, and seokors for tho philosopher's stone putters briskly about. Now ho cuts up those herbs and pressing thorn in a solution, strains oil' ins desired fluid, llo grinds chunks of solids in his coltee-mill to powder. Near by haus his metric weight tables. Thoro is a little, mortar for plasters, another for pills and a third for emul sions. Ho rubs the ingredients rapid ly together and then runs in gum arabio to make tho mass plastic. Got ting it of the required consistency, lie places it on a wooden board, on ono end of which is a grooved brass plate. Flattening tho compound out on this, he takes another board made to lit down on this and with alternate grooves. Pressing this down and rub bing it along on the other, the mass is nut into long, slender pencil-like bodies. Tho pills are picked oil' from this and rolled to a sphorical form be tween the palm and the smooth board in tho rear. Tho young druggist is often patronized by several physicians, and inasmuch as they aro accustomed to prcscribo the same pill for certain diseases, ho can make up 300 or moro of theso at ono time. He makes all tho syrups for tho soda-water fountain. He makes a standard ha'r-oil, bottle of bitters, common or rare pill regu larly and lias to keep his stock of bot tles tilled. Like all moil dealing in tho dangerous things ot life ho meets many a cranky customer. Ho learns that it is well often to inquire into the antecedents of a cat to whom arsenic must bo given. Ho becomes acquaint ed too with tho poculinritios of that frightful habit, morphino eating, and though no words pass betwoon thorn ho comes to loarn the secret of victims perhaps that conio to him for tho drug only too well. When ho makes a mis take ho receives tho universal oursoj but for the many helpful doses put up in a long day or whon waked from sleep his thanks are as meager as ono might expect. Sprmtjwd JkjiuOlican. Iu Cuba, vhfii the government want to dltclpJlne an editor It auapend liU paper for forty day. Thlt ia great fun fur I lie odltor. He geta a reat, (coea flailing, baa a good lllll,J generally, and hit aubu-rlber eau'l reoorer a tuu t for the paper, the; didn't KuLiiuriinyUiu Frtt J'rti. The way of Ilia wli-lcd-Tue roJ to C'aua i". OH lily DtrricU. Tho Ministers of To-Day. Every year ministers aro becoming moro liberal, and if thev keep on in creasing in liberality the timo is not far distant when the majority of them will look as pleasant as anybody, and tho long faces that people have Ih'oii accustomed to seeing on their minis ters will givo place to sniilos, and there will bo n hearty friendship bo tV'fon pastor and people instead of coldness. Ministers that aro coming onto tho stage now seem to be endow ed with the same propensities as other healthy men. The colleges where thoy got their education for the minis try aro not tho hide bound n flairs they usod to be, and when they turn out a preacher, lie can not only preach right from tho shoulder, but ho can do lots of other things that the congregation does not take into account. Nowduys when wo see a bright young man in the malpit, using splendid tactics to bring the sinner to repentance, wo know that he can also land a black bass as well as the best of us. When wo see his gestures in the pulpit, as ho sends theological blow after blow into the ranks of sinners, wo feel that if wor.-o comes to woro ho would be no slouch in a boxing match, and that ho could knock, out a bad man in three rounds, Marquis ot Queonsburv rules, ( if such a man attempted to put any scallops around him, and wo rejoice that the good man would not bo as helpless as the old-fashioned ministers who preached turning the other oheek also, which the now minister does not believe in. When the new minister exhorts his congregation to flee from the wrath to come, we know that if there should bo a general flee ing match, the good man could outrun the whole crowd, at a thousand yards, because ho has practised fleeing in many a footrace at college. It is not exactly right, pftrhaps, to think of it in church, but it is human to prido ourselves that the innocent looking man who is telling us of the glories ot the beautiful beyond, can kick a foot ball higher than any deacon that is listening to Ins eloquent words. When he tells the sinner to'stop short in his career, and strike home the now resolu tion to turn from the evil of his ways, one cannot help thinking that as a short stop in a base ball nine the minister has few equals, while ho can bat a ball from a cross-eyed, left handed pitcher clear over tlio fence, make a homo run, and bring inthr.ee men that are loafing on tho bases trying to steal in. When he tells us of the fishermen of Gallileo going out in their boats lo catch lish wo feel that he can cast a fly farther with his live ounce rod, and nearer where the lish is located, than the best fishermen Gallileo over turned out, and that, lie could take a pair of oars and pull the everlasting socks oil' of any olfl-litno boatman that we ever read about. The minister of the pro sent day takes an interest in manly sports, and is often seen at tlio base ball matches, and if ho can't go on Saturday afternoons, on account of having to wruo his sermon, lie has a neighbor drop iu on the way back from the ball match to tell nim'tho result, and he lets up on his sermon for a tow minutes to listen to a disoription of some of the good playing, and resumes the writing of his sermon rofrojhod by tlio caller, and the bettor for the call. If you call upon him at his study or his residence of an evening, and want to talk about religion, ho is loaded for bear, and will give you good advico enough to make you a happy Christian if you follow it, but if you want toseo his Ashing rod am! his flies, lie will put his rod together anil show you how the tip will bend clear to tho butt and not break, and lie will show you tho most killing flies and toll you where he caught tlio largest trout, and how miieli his health was improved by his vacation hist year, llo will tell you that a vacation, to him, means going away to the woods and streams, to commune with nature, and broatho tho pure air, instead of exchanging pulpits with some other worn out brother, preaching old back-number sermons for "rest," to bonches made vacant by tho congregation taking a vacation and going to tho woods. If you casually allude to shooting, in connection with lishiiig, ho will pull an old gun case out from under the lounge and show you an old Parker gun that ho lias "shot ton thousand times, and make tho casual remark that it gets thoro Eli, and ho will toll you of an old bob-tailed setter dog that ho has shot over for sovoral sea sons that has got moro sense and is truer and moro friendly than many church members ho has come in con tact witli, and you will imagine that ho has hopes that there is a small heaven somewhere for good dogs that never make a mistake on a point, and never chaso rabbits. Tho minister of tlio present day, with rare excep tions, is a thoroughbred, who will sit up nights if necessary, to steor you towards St. Peter's gato, and will givo you all tho points ho knows of about learning the combination, and ho will sincerely liopo you willmako thoriillo, but aftor ho'hns done his duty by you and all nion, he is not going around groaning and sighing, and crying for fear you will rioc catch on, but on tho contrary ho believes in having a little fun himself as he goes along, and ho will smile and act hearty, as though thoro was nothing catiru? him. A Wis consin man was completely broken of swearing, ton years ago, by going out fishing with a yaung minister, who is ono of tho host known iu this country. Tho profane man got a bass, and after playing witli it for twenty minutos, got it near the boat, whon it slapped us tall against tho boat, said good bye John, and got away. John looked mad, and ho swallowed a good doal of something that seemed to stick in his throat, when tho reverend gentleman, was reeling in a four pounder, said, "Spit it out Johh! I know what you want to say, and it is better out than in you. But hand that landing not this way first." John helped laud the bass, nnd thou said, "Myron, swearing is all d d foolishness, and I will nev er swear again," ho never has, to this day. 'eofc'j Suit, Railroad i'reldeiit "Don'l you think that rulher exorbitant, Mr. Iladuer, 1 11,0 JO for tlio loaa of your wife and her diamond In the mcldeuti" Mr. badger (liidlguutly-Kx-brilliant I Well, J abould ay not. i value the dluioudat f Uyxw alone. Diily UrajU. The Poof nnd the Noble. A young poet had written a mosl scurrilous poem, m which ho had tic scribed and lineled not only the em press, but also the grand dukes and duchesses. Some one, the censor of tlio press, went and told tho empress. "The man had better bo sent oil' to Siberia at once." he said; "it is not a case of delay." "Ono," .said the em press; "w.ii't a little, but tell the man 1 desire to.see him at (5 o'clock lo-nior-row evening. When the poor man was told this, he felt as if tho last hour was come, aud tho emperor Alexander II.) must intend himself to pronounce a sentence of eternal exile. Ho went to the palace, and was shown through all ihe graud staterooms, one after yv other, without seeing am one. till at hvst he arrived at a Miiall common place room at the end of them all, where there was a single table with a lamp upon it, and here he saw the air.prcss, the emperor, and all tho grand dukes ami duchesses whom lie had mentioned in his poem. "How do you do, .sir?" said the emperor. "I hear you have written a most beauti ful poem, and l have sent for yon that ) on may read it aloud to us yourself, and l havo invited all the grand dukes ami duchesses to come, that they may h.ive the pleasure of hearing j ou. Then tho poor man prostrated himself at the einneror's feet. "Send me to Siberia, sire," lie said; "force me to oeconui a soldier, only do not compel me to read that poem." "Oh, sir, you are cruel to refuse mo the pleas ure, but you will not bo so ungallant as to refuse the empiess tho pleasure of hearing your verses, and she will isk you herself." And the empress asked him. When he had finished she said: " 1 do not think ho will writo any more verses about us again, llo need not go to Siberia just yet." A nobleman hud entered into a con spiracy against tho emperor, and was sentenced to Siberia. His yos were bandaged and ho was put into a dark sarriage, and for seven days and nights they traveled on and on, only stopping to take food. At last ho felt they must have reached Siberia, and in tlio utm ost anguish ho perceived that the carriage stopped, and tlio bandage was taken oil' his eyes, and ho was in his own homo! He had been driven round and round St. Peters burg tho whole timo; but tho fright V.iite cured him. Studies in lltmit. A Mongolian Legend. Those interested in folk-lore may perhaps bo glad to read the following legend as to the origin of tlio Russians found by Col. Prjovalsky to bo current among the Mongol inhabitants of (Caidau, and published iu the Jliisski Invutidc: "In former times thoro lived iu a ;ave, far away from all people, a good icrniit lama, or priest, who passed his ife in praying. A pair of nomads, consisting of an aged mother and her daughter, happened to go that way, ind the daughter, while tending cat tle, came upon tlio cave of tho holy lama, who "was at that timo ill. Tho .'ompassionnlo maiden ollered him some sour milk, but ho did not like to taste it. At last ho gave way to her sntreaties, and took tlio sour milk evorv day until he got well. Eventu ally, out of gratitude for tlio euro, tho l:i ma married tho maiden. "As soon aa tho czar of that country heard of this ho sent his troops to kill tho priest who had so flagrantly broken his vows and committed the sin of marriage. When the troops ap proached the lama gathered a bunch jf reeds and stuck them in the ground found his tout, and then by force of prayer caused them to bo all turned into soldiers, who defeated I ho troops of the czar. The latter sent a second and a th'rd army, but both were beat 3ii, as the lama continued to pray and turn into moro lighting nion the reeds broken oil' by his first created defond srs, so that tho holy lama soon had a prosit number of troops. After the de tent of his third army the czar loft tho lama alone in peace," but tho latter did not wish to hvo any longer on tho Dartli. Tho lama left his wife to rule the people created from tho reeds, and from those aroso tlio Russians. Thoy liavo white bodies and their hair is af ton fair, because the steins of tho reeds wore of a yellowish color, and ihe tons somowhat darker." London Times SI, I'dcrsbunj Correspondence. MM.ll.il I. P. II l.ll.ll -- Family OmuTolfl in Spain. The Madrid correspondent of tho I'ctit Maricillais relates a striking in stance of tlio intensity of family quar rels in Spain. About a year ago a vypay named Moralis was assassinated at Zorza, in tho Provinco of Cacoros, by one of his comrades namod Silru. Tho lattot was iu duo course tried and condemned to death, but his execution did not satisfy tlio vongoanco of tho victim's family. Thcro had been ill feeling between tho two families for three years, but thoro had been no open quarrel until tho murder of Moralis. Soon after tlio oxoctition of tlio murdcror, which took place last moiitn, the two families mot on their return from a fair noar tho town of Caceres. Thoy had thoir mules and cattle with them. There wore about lifly on each side, including women and children. A regular pitched bat tle ensued, revolvers, knives and sticks being freely used by tlio men, whilo tho women employed thoir nails with considerable efl'ect, and the chil dren thtew stones indiscriminately. Tho rosult of tho struggle was that tho heads of the two families woro both killud, two of tlie womon and sovoral of tho children. Thoro were ton or twelve wounded, and tho bodies of tho doad woro horribly mutilated. If tho mounted police had not interrupted tho light thoro would havo been many more lives lost. Several mules wero killed, and tho buggago of tho two faiuAlos wore strewn about in such disorder that tho road for noarly half a mile lookod as if a largo army had beaten a retreat along tt. London Times. The only couutrlua upon the n'obo lo which cholera liai not been carried are the Ulaoda of the aoutli iVifle Auttralania, tlm Cpe of (iood liopo, tho UlaiiUi of Ihe North Atlantic, ami the weitoru coait of fcoulh America. Thr.f couutiiea ere all ae pa rated from India by a wide expaiiae of ocean, and hare no con. wcrclal luttrtour.o with ttiat couutry, FACT AND FANCY. Tho most elegant summer cottages havo exteriors of polished, unpaiiited woods. A Genoral Hospital association has been incorporated at Seattle, W. T.r with $50,000 capital. Happonsborger's statue of Garfield will bo unveiled in Golden Gflto park, San Francisco, July I. Monroe H. Corbin, census taker in Webster, Mass., has found ono woman, 40 years old, who is tho mother of nineteen children. An Arizona man has stopped taking an agricultural paper, lie wrote to the editor asking how to get rid of gnats. Tlio answer canio in the noxt issue of the paper, "lvill them." A druggist .it Quinoy, III., advertis o d knufl'-dropti to those sufl'ering witli colds. Abraham KaulV, a citizen of the town, called on the druggist, and put out his loft eye as a reward for being funny. A largo painting representing Cus ter's last light with the Indians, tho work of a Virginia artist, was tlio jhief work of art contributed by tlio south to the New Orleans exhibition. U drew well. In Siualoa. Mexico, a woman is be ing exhibited who is seven feet high and weighs live hundred pounds. She is as young as she is charming, hv ing only 'J(5 years of ago. Sho was born iu Paohuea. An experienced educator says that the ideal commencement programme should always contain three features a production by a member of tho class, alio by an alumnus, and another by a well-known speaker. "A curious negro superstition is that a man who has been struck by lightning can not swim," says an ox chango. Wo havo noticed tlio same thing, loo, about negroes who havo died from yellow fever. Tho cash ier of the East Saginaw Savings bank, who recently skippcdjto Canada with $:io0,000 has just sent back a check tor 10,000, to bo used in Qiilargiug tlio almshouse at that town. He says that no one shall aeciise him af not feeling for the poor depositors. "John, did you go around and ask how old Mrs. Jones was this morn ing, is I told you to do last night'" "Yes, sir." "Well, what was tho result?" "Sho said that seeing as how you had the impudence to ask how old she was, iho'd no objection to tolling you she was 71." Tlio huge group of sun spots which was seen coining around tho eastern edge of tho sun several days ago has now nearly advanced to the center of tho disk. It is largo enough to be joon without teleseopio aid In pro tecting the eye with a dark glass. In tho telescope it is a wonderful phe nomenon, and a rough measurement shows that its length exceeds a hun dred thousand miles, and its breadth thirty thousand. "1 havo sold hundreds, I might al most say thousands, of lots to Ger mans," said a Ibill'.ilo real-estate man, "and havo noted ono significant fact. Tho momenta Gorman takes to whisky he's gone. Ho may swallow boor, ale, wine, aud cider enough lo float a ship. and vet pull through and pay for his lot, but old ryo will lay him out. When a whisky-drinking German wants to doal with me I say 'no' with an emphasis that makes his teeth rat tle." "Yo' wan' tor know what fust ' Harted mo for to preach do gospil, 'nhi"' repeated an old darkey minis ter. "Yes, Undo .lake." ' "1 will tolo you 'zaetly all 'bout it, eah. Ono day I war workiu' out in do oo'nliold, ni do sun war hurry hot, an' do 1 grotin' war stony, an' it's mighty pow'ful work liouiu' co'n in du hot sun on stony groun', boss, an' I war berry tired', an' I loaned back on do hoo an' got tor thiukiu', an' all ob a sudden, like, I feel dat do good Lord called 'pon mo for tor nroaoh do gos pil, sab.", Some persons aro apt to look upon Mexico as a half-civilized nation. Journalism iu that section varies from tho sensational work put into somo American papers. A niiirdor is briefly aiinouiiood, with only the loading facts ami names, and with no artistic elab oration of details. Tho taste of tho Mexican reader does not inclino to ward crimes. Still less does ho do light in the miseries of unfortunate families. The family circle is the last pltico the reporter invades. Tho rattle of tho family skeleton is rarely heard, and when it is, truth is rarely lost sight of in an unseemly scramble to bo the first to exhibit it. Why do tho revisors of tho Old and Now Testament, asks The London i Lino Times, insist on using the spoil ing "Judgement" instead of judg ment? Tho word being ono of special ly legal use, it says: Wo should have thought the universal practice of law yers in modern times, supported as it is by all contoinporary English litera ture, ought to havo boon followed. Wo can only answer our own question by supposing that the revisers havo gone back to the spelling of 1011; but this is n totally nisiiiiicieiii reason tor adopting a mode of spelling which must bo an oyosoro to ovory hWyor, not to speak of literary men iu genoral, and which gratuitously adds to tho confusion through which ovory school boy has to struggle his way to a mas tery of English orthography." The Ynquls hold thoir title from tho king of Spain and do not recognizo the republic of Mexico. No taxes or im ports are levied on them, or if lovled they have not been oollootod. They are a hard)', agricultural race, living ou small patches of fertilo soil on the Yaqul river. Thoy steal stock when an opportunity oilers, but have rarely iu the last few years committed any murders. Cajemo, their chief, is ol fair education for Mexico, and Is a stern ruler. He has absolute control over them. Tho nations combined number over lifteen thousand, of which at least live thousand are adult iiialos. Thojr principal arms aro bows, arrows, spears, aud a throe-cornered bludgeon iiitule of iron wood. Some of the arrow am poisonous. Thoy also carry powdered stono in small sucks, usod by tlioin to throw iu the oyos of thuli udrurmle. Buckwheat Cakes in Summer. Wliile a down-town flour merchant watched an employe load a truck with buckwheat flour," the other day, ho .laid: "You would hardiv expect to see such a large sale of buckwheat as that at this timo of the year, would you? The fact Is. the use of buckwheat is increasing. The restaurants hero serve buck wheat cakes the year around, though it strikes a countryman as rather odil to seo buckwheat "in warm weather. The increased use of this flour is duoo the great improvements iu its mnhufaqtjuro within the last three or four vears, Whon 1 was a boy the straw witli tlio grain in tlio head was piled on thearn floor and pounded with a flail. The straw was then forked oil' and tlio grain swept into piles. When the wind was blow ing briskly tho grain w thrown into the air with shovels, so that the chart' could bo blown away, and then the grain was ground between tho old iashioncd millstones. The bran was separated from the meal by sifting witli a wire-bottomed sieve. The first Improvement was made when a silk bolting reel was substituted torn wire cloth sieve. After a great many years an old York state inilieV concluded that tho meal would havo less shuck or bran in it if the shuck could bo re moved from tlie berry beforo it was ground. To do that he run the grain through a series of corrugated rollers which simply cracked open tho shuck ami allowed the kernals to drop out. Tlio broken shucks and kernals wero separated by screens, and thereafter buckwheat Ilour was about as white as any oilier. Tho demand for it in creased rapidly, but it was not quite perfect, because the line fuzz and dirt adhering to the outside of tho berry foil through tho screen with tho kernels alter the shuck had been lm ken open by tho rollers of thoshucker. To get rid of this it was necessary to polish each berry of tho grain sep arately before it was shucked. Tho machine for doing this has just been put on tho market. It consists of a cast-iron cylinder, say throe feet long and ono foot in diameter, which re volves within a jacket made of 6teol wire-cloth, '"'he cylinder is eoverod witli square knobs a half inch large, which project to within a fraction of an inch of tho jaekot. Tho cylinder is set a whirling at the rate of 750 rev olutions a minute, and tlio grain aftor passing over tlio screen to get tho straw out falls down betwoen tho jacket and the cylinder. There it goes around and around, knocking against tho knobs and jacket, an upward cur rent of air carrying oil' the dust until it falls out below as clean as a hound's tooth, then it slides over a magnetized plato to remove any trace of metal be fore going to tlio shueker. Thatinako.s what wo call perfect buckwheat flour. Most millers havo had to reloarn their trado within tho last live years on ac count of the improvements introduced in the process of manufacture, but in no branch of the business lias tho progress of improvement been more marked than in tlio handling of buck wheat." AW Vork Sun. Service of Premiers. Tho limit of Mr. Gladstone's pres ent premiership will be the date ou which his successor takes olliee. Cal culating merely to tho Dili inst., when the ministry determined to tender its resignation, Mr. Gladstone's premier ship is sixth in length of service sinco the accession of tlio house of Hanover, iu 17 M. Tno duke of Newcastle, Vis count Melbourne, Viscount Piilmors tou, and Mr. Disraeli held tho reins of government longer for a single torni than has Gladstone in either of his terms. Tlio hitter's first premiership lasted o years '1 months and 12 days; his second, to Juno !), years 1 month and 11 days. Newcastle sorved 8 years 6 months 8 days, from April 21, 17M, till May 2'J, 17u'L Melbourne's first government iu 18:11, lasted less than live months, his second, from April 18, 18:tf, to September 1, 1841, ti years 4 months 1!1 days. Palmors ton's first premiership lasted ti years 18 days. His second 0' years, t) months 18 days. Benjamin Disraeli's first government began and ended in 1858, covering a period of I) months 12 days; his second extended from Fob. 21, 1874, to April 28, 1880 0 years 2 months 7 days. Mr. Gladstone's two lonsoscof power aggregated 10 years ii mouths 2;i days. Flvo premiers of tho forty-two bo tween 1711 and 188,0 havo held tho reins of government longer tliiiu the "grand old man." Hubert Walpole, the first oabinoLohiof undor tho Ilan ovors, was in ilflieo 2 years and six months, from Oct. 10, 1714, until April 10, 1717, and ngatn from Anrif 20, 1720, until Fob. if, 1742 a single continuous leaso of 21 years 9 months and 21 days, and an aggregate of 21 years ii mouths nnd 21 days. Henry Polham was premier from July 26, 1743, until April 21, 1751-10 yoars 8 months aud 2o. days. Lord North took oflice Jan. 28, 1770, and held it 12 years 2 months and 2 days. Wil liam Pitt's sorvlcoof 17 voars 2 months and 10 days, from Doo. 27, 1783, till March 7, 1801, and of 1 year 7 months and 20 days, from May 12, 1801, till Jan. 8, 1800', ranks second iu length ID years 10 months ami G days. The fifth long-timer, the third in length of consoouiivo service, was Lord Liver pool, who took ollico Juno 8, 1812, aud gave way to Canning April 11, 1827, after 14 yoars 10 mouths and 3 days of power. Tho prime minister whoso single lease of power was briefest, since 1714, was the marquis of Rock ingham. Ho succeeded Lord North March 30, 1782, and 3 mouths and 3 days later gave way to Shelborno. On an earlier occasion 1705-CC Rock ingham was premier for little moro than a your. Tho avorago duration of tho 42 ministers that havo conducted the government of lltltain sinco 1714 lias boon 4 yoars 25 days. Mr. Glad stone is tho only premlor of all thoso called a second time to form a cabinet whoso loaso of power each timo ex ceeded tills average. Utiea Herald. It tho Illuming had struck tbe otllco seeker luaU-ad of the Wiuhlngtou Mouutmut It would hare ahown gome aenie, There are aald to be Ueuty-nre thoutaud lawutcuiiU player within radius of tw uillea of New York,