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The Oregon Scout Jones & Cmanoey.... Publishers. UNION, OREGON. DU4 In the Saddle. At thft ranch of William Dixon, tlx Well known Cosumnoa fannor, a singular Instance of suddon death occurred. Mr. Dixon's brother, Michaol S. Dixon, sot t on horseback to drive up somo cat tle. He had been a sufforor from heart dUsoase, and I is brother tried to dissuado him from going, but as ho insisted on going it was deemed best to havo his fcsphow accompany him. Alvin Plumrner, overseer of tho road district that embraces that locality, was oming to tho city to transact somo busi ness with tho board of supervisors, and aw tho men driving cattle in tho field near tho road. Presently ho noticed tho aider Dixon rein up his horse, lean for irard over tho pommel of his saddle and remain in that position, tho horso mean while standing qui to still. Mr. Plumrner thought that something was wrong with the man, but concluded that he had attack of bleeding at tho noro. Young Dixon rodo up and spoke to hii uncle, who did not move, and then rodo hurriedly to the lano and in - formed Mr. Plumrner that u u iwuuruu Iris undo was dead, Mr. Plumrner drove into tho field and ver to where tho horse and his immov able rider were, and found that Mr. Dixon was really dead. He assisted the young man in lifting the body from tho one and placing it in tho buggy, and then drove back with it to tho Dixon ranch. Sacramento Record-Union. Charged with Painting n Man Red. Frank Gratton, a painter, was charged before Justice Kavanagh at Long Island City, L. I., with throwing a pot of paint over tho head and face of Nicholas Red line, completely spoiling tho lattor'a per sonal appearance for tho timo being. Gratton was employed painting a houso In Dutch Kills. Ho had placed a twenty-five foot ladder against Rodlino'a house, which stood within three foot of the building which ho was working on. Rodlino ordored him down, and to hasten tho painter's movements ho pulled at the foot of tho ladder with a hoo. Gratton is noarsighted, and, fearing that Redline would upset tho ladder,- ho up aet his bnckot of rod paint. Tho paint truck Rcdlino on tho head and mude him look like an Indian. Ho ran shout ting down the street, followed by a rowd which quickly gathered. Ho ran Into a barber shop, where his appearance caused a panic among tho patrons of tho place. Somo took the paint for blood and shouted for tho police. Redline's hair had to be shaved off to tho scalp. Philadelphia Ledger. Germans Leaving Ilnssl. According to our Odessa correspond ent upwards of ton thousand Gorman familioa of tho colonial agriculturist class have, during tho last two years, migrated from southern Russia to America. Tho facility with which theso migrants obtain foreign passports from tho provincial authorities appoara in it olf to manifest n desiro on tho part of tho government to bo rid of tho German olonists. The comparatively fow Gor tnanB who of lato years have sought Russian naturalization have been re fused legitimation. Tho power and in fluence of tho landod nobility, which have rovivod under tho Tolstoi reforms, promise anything but an encouraging future for tho German agricultural col onies of southern Russia. A nioro gon ml emigration of tho Gorman colonists la at present only retarded by tho utterly ruinous prices just now obtainable for their holdings. Loudon News. Novel Application of tha Camera, A graphic history of tho now library building at Washington is boing pre pared. At regular intervals, from the top of the building, occupiod by tho nperintunding architect and his force of draftsmen, a camoru is turned upon tho work-, winch at present consists only of great hole dug out in the square east of the Capitol grounds. Tho resulting picture shows ovory de tail of the condition of tho work, the height of tho foundation wall, the piles f material on hand, etc. It is proposed to tile theso photographs away, pro'wrly labeled in such form that they can be produced if any question arise as to what Was dono or was not douo at any stage of tag MroricCarpontry and Building. Heated Mausoleums. An innovation which will doubtless give rise to a considerable amount of dis cussion is that of heating mausoleums. Those of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany at Potsdam, and of Ids father-tn-law, tho lato prince consort, at Wind or, ore both being fitted with an olab rnto Hystotu of radiators and stoampipos. This, however, is a fashion which is not likely to becomo jHipular. For the num bor of persons who can afford to main tain steam engines and boilers for the purposo of keeping thoir family tomb warm is necessarily limited. Now York Tolegrum. Tho monoy Biont for fetoa, carriage hire, printing nnd "indemnities," at tho Hotel de Villa in Puris is said to bo just fivo times that of tho days of tho em pire. Tho number of sinecures has been nearly trebled to llud places for friendH of the higher officers. Tho lost bull of tho Hotel do Villa was to cost 140,000 francs, and the oxiondituros being really 10,000 francs less thosurplus was divided p among tho employes. An investiga-1 uuu may soon ue oxpeciou. Tho oddest proposition made for a long timo is that of n iiiuu at Big Bandy Gup, in the widest jwirt of Koutucky. A railroad is building In that country and ono Peter Kidd offers (300 cosh for tho jirivllego of covering the first engine and ears that got into that place with a can Yaa for twenty-four hours and of charg ing twenty-fivo cents admission to Uie mountaineers aud their fomilios for en trimr the tout. THE NEWLY WED. A Pullman rorter Tells flow Ha Spot Them EtIL of the Wee Habit. It is a Pullman porter, who is talking to an attcntivo scribe, "Hardly a week roes by," says the porter, "that 1 don't see a bridal couple , just starting out on their honeymoon. I I don't exactly know bow lean tell them, I but they aro as plainly marked to my eyes as if they had tho words 'brido' and groom' stamped in big letters on their foreheads. There is something about ; them that gives tho wholo situation away; a kind of acling-right-next-tc-mo- , darling air. Of course, I' havo made a mistako now nnd then, but it is very sel dom I do, and I'vo often found out, nfter j I changing my mind two or threo times, 1 that I was right after all, though certain ! appearances wero against it. Wo gen- i erally havo n test which never fails, and when n doubtful party comes along wo spring it on them, just to bo sure, you know. i I "What's tho test? Well, I'll tell you. ; ' Not many weeks ago a couple got into I my car and sat down very quietly in I their arm chairs as if thoy bad been used to it all their lives. Theso didn'tsccm to havo tho brido and groom air about them at all, and from external appearances thoy might havo been brother and sister or married for years, but still thero 1 waa a something thero that mado mo suspicious, so when 1 saw them together I I went to tho news company's boy and I says: 'Bill, hero a a doubtful party; get out tho Bamplo copies.' "So Bill got his tests and started through tho car. IIo handed books to everybody, and when he camo to tho sus pected party bo took out of his pilo two littlo books, and said, so nearly every body could hear him: 'Very UBeful books, air;. hints on housekeeping and hints to newly married people. Only 25 cents.' "That did it, Tho girl got as red as a roso and tho man blushed and said a weak sort of 'N-n-n-no.' Then thoy looked at each other nnd sort of snick ered, and I caught him full in tho eyes and smiled a sweet smile, giving him a respectful wink at tho samo time. It was all settled in u minute, and thero was no doubt about it. Well, ho took it very good naturedly, und asked mo after ward how in tho world ho had civen himself away ho couldn't imagine. I bcliovo wo could ulways tell, and talked so nicely ho gave mo a dollar when I got . through with him. "Thero aro plenty of other giveaways by which I can spot a brido and a groom, and they aro safo generally as tho test. Ono day a couplo camo in tho car which, by tho way was jam full and tho moment they entered it was plain as day that they wero newly wedded. I passed by them onco or twice, and then went in my closet and got tho dust pan and brusli. I walked right up to whero tho brido was sitting und dusted up a panful of nco that lay on tho tloor around her in n completo circle. - Well, if tho pcoplo in that car didn't laugl another. "Tho custom of throwing rlco nfter a bridal couple always makes it unpleasant for tho party, as lots of rico is almost suro to stick to their clothes, hats and in their hair. About tho funniest rico thing I over saw was that which hap pened in my car just two or three weeks ago. A couplo camo in, and tho test re vealed to mo that they wero brido aud groom. Thoy didn't seem to tako kindly to it, howover, and wo couldn't get any satisfaction out of them at nil. By and by tho man said to his wife: "Seems to mo this umbrella is not rolled up very nice" "Then ho carefully unrolled it, and, bczingl out camo threo or four pocket fuls of rico all over tho seats and floor. Their friends had rolled up a lot insido tho folds of tho umbrella, and, next to tho young man I heard tell about who, when ho went to sign his immo in n hotel register, dropped a lot of rico on tho book when ho took off his hat, it was tho most binding thing 1 over know." Philadelphia Record. Correct Pronunciation. I heard tho other day that a prominent clergyman recently lost n call to a lead ing church becauso when preaching a sermon as a caudidato ho pronounced n einglo word incorrectly. "Oh, doctor, that was a lovely sermon you preached tills morning," said a lady recently to her pastor in a largo Now England town, "but if you will )ardon mo for men tioning it, its effect was very much im paired by a littlo slip in pronunciation; oil placed the accent on tho second syl ablo of the word 'obligatory' instead of on tho first." Tho lady in question was ono of thoso dangerously intelligent women to bo found everywhere in New England, and was n meinler of u ladies' orthoepy society which mado lifo n bur den to overybody in tho town. Know ing this, tho clergyman tried to keep up with all tho recondite pronunciations in TOguo, but onco in n while ho made a slip, as in tho nbovu Instnnco, and at onco heard from somo of tho good ladies. Correct pronunciation is of courso desir able, but it is a littlo absurd to mako a fetich of it. Now York Tribune. Nut latjiiltltlvo, Thero was dust on his lack and grlmo of two weeks' standing behind his ears, and as he Ktood on a comer, yesterday, ho was heard to remark that he was from Lansing. "What is tho faro from Lansing to Detroit?" queried a dudish looking by stander, looking wuggishly an an ac quaintance. "I duiiuo," was the reply. "Don't know!" echoed his questioner, Incredulously. "Young man,'' returned tho tramn. ' impressively, "when I want to go to a pluco by rnll I get quietly on the train, und when it gets thero I step oir again, without asking any blooming fool ques tions." Detroit Freo Pma, Slelhml In Ills Kllriira. "Bolton told mo ho had Uirrowcd soma money from you. I was surprised, be causo 1 never heard you say anything about It," "No: 1 still hone to cet it back." i Tils Colt or New York's HomM. New York is not a city of homes ex cept for the favored few. These must be able to invest from $30,000 to $100,000 in that "home" and spend from $10,000 to $25,000 a year to keep up tho establish ment. I live in a modest flat on Sixty ninth street, west side, about midwoy between the Hudson and Central Park, paying $ 10 a month rent for that privi lege. The sfimo flat threo squares nearer the elevated railway station would bring $00 ier month. There aro solid rows of residences about and being built near me, not one of which can bo purchased for less than $30,000, and thoy run all the way up to $100,000. It costs from $7,000 to $25,000 to furnish one of theso appro priately. Strolling up Ninth avenue tho other day, 1 noted a sign board on a va cant lot between two residences on a sido Street Eighty-first Street: "This lot and party walls, $.'55,000." It was only the regulation twenty-four foot lot, but the cellar had been excavated. Fancy a man in Philadelphia or Pitts burg investing such a sum in such n lot five or six miles from his business. 1 asked a contractor about tho matter. Ho tells me that almost any lot on tho west side of Central park will cost $10,000 ex cavatod, and desirablo ones from $15,000 up. Tho cost of excavating a shallow cellar for a high stoop residence is con siderable, as tho solid rock must be quar riod. The steam drills are at 4t in every direction. There aro six of them hustling away within pistol shot of me, and tho dynamite explosions of tho blaster rattle you up in almost any block north of Fifty-ninth street. At tho present rato of building, within the next five years thero will not be an acre of vacant ground the whole length of tho great park. Each succeeding year makes all this still more and more expensive. Whero will tho Now Yorker of tho future live? Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. An Innocent Mnn Twelve Years In Prison. The governor has granted a pardon to A. P. Gipson, who was sent from Shasta county in May, 1878, to San Quentin prison to servo a lifo sentence. Tho crime of which he was convicted was the murder of a stockman named Schroo dor, who bore an unenviable reputation in the community. Convicted with Gipson for complicity in tho same crime were men named Hil brant and Tom Gipson. Tho latter was pardoned by Governor Perkins in 1882, and Hilbrant by Governor Stoneman in 1885. Both those Koveniors received no- titions on behalf ' of A. P. Gipson, but never paid any attention to them. Hil- orant maue an amuavit tnat no swore falsely when ho stated that A. P. Gipson was implicated in tho crimo. Tom Gip son also sworo afterward that A. P. had nothing to do with tho murder. The man whom Governor Waterman pardoned was evidently tho victim of a ..nr.l . . i. . deep conspiracy. Tho petition for his I , - - , ., , I Pardon was one of the strongest over .EJ l " executive Oyer ii r. ii o .i Judge Aaron Bell, of tho superior court, . Q , , , ' who passod sentence, and other county m : i i ,. V i x . officials, signed it. Judge Bell wrote in .'. . , connection that ho believed Gipson was an innocent man. is ubout 70 years Chronicle. Tho paruonou man -San Francisco old.- Let Well A loin-. An odd story comes from Indiana. In boring for natural gas tho drillers, at a depth of 250 feot, are said to havo struck an immense vein of water, which waa cased off. At a depth of 000 feet a tre mendous flow of gas was dovelopod, tho pressure of which lifted the casing and lot in tho water above, producing a veri table goyser. After somo days tho well had been nearly controlled, when a work man at the mouth of tho well struck a match to light his nw. An explosion followed, and tho workman narrowly es caped being roasted alive. All efforts to restrain the well or oven put out tho firo havo since proved futile, and tho strango spectacle is witnessed of a resistless vol ume of fire and water issuing from tho samo pipe, Tho column is described as shooting with an appalling roar to a height of 100 feet. Now York Com mercial Advertiser. Tho Mettiiest of Ini'eiullitrles. "1 cannot understand," said a well known Phihidolphian, "what would in duco a man, however depraved, to sot firo to nny property belonging to Mr. Goorgo W. Chihls, whoso reputation for generosity is world wide. When Mr. Childswas building Wootton ho gavo or ders that ever' man who camo along and wanted work should bo given somothing to do. In consequence hundreds of por sons wero set to work grading and dig ging, and they wore paid good wages in cash ovory night. To burn tho property of such u man is simply abominable." Philadelphia Inquirer. At tho nomestead steel works, Pitts- bunr. there is about to bo nlacod nn nf the largtwt Corliss engines in tho world, with n horizontal cylinder 61 by 73 inch es, Tho lly wheel will weigh 200,000 jKMinds. Tho whole weight of tho en gine will bo over 600,000 pounds, and it is expected to develop 11,500 horso power?! Tho Corliss engine was built at tho Solio iron works, Bolton, England. It is of 6,000 horso power, of tho vertical type, and stands 48 foot high. A fow days ago a dog rushing into a Boston restaurant stirred up a terrible oxcitoinuut, some of the kitchen em ployes jumping from tho Windows, while all the guests mounted the tablos and tho proprietor chased tho aninud with a chair. After quiet had been re- stored it waa learned that the poor beast wasn't mad at all, as had been supposed, but only frightened through having been chased by a crowd ot boys and men. 1 - Tho royal burg museum, which is in tho Nuremburg castle, built, it is claim- ed, nearly 000 years ago by the Emperor Conrad II, is to be sold at auction. One of tho most remarkable, as well as one of tho smallest curios tu tho collection, is liepuer's famous uluirryatono, on which aro carved 113 various and distinct heads. THE FIRST PARTING. "Corns, Era, kiss mamma good night, and go with nurse to bed. What, tears? for tharael a moment since you would bo Rood, you said; you're quite too big a girlie now to sleep in baby'a place. Why soon you will be tall enough to go to school with Grace; So kneel beside me. darling, here, and say your prayers, and I Will sing that little hymn you lore, of guarding angels nlgb; And when the birdies wake you up, tell Mary you may run To have a romp In mamma's bed; Just think, what lota of fun!" The mother In tho morning came. In longing, atuc lous mood: With throbbing heart and dewy eyes beside the bed she stood. Where Eva still sleptsoundly, herarms embracing tight ! Th8K?.lDbr nf her wore when she had kissed ' Ita ribbons with her sUent tears were stained and 1 limp and wet. 1 Ground the wlilta and dimpled neck an empty 6leovo was set: While Mary slept she stole away, ere dawn had Ut the sky. That Romcthing of her Idol near her sinless breast might He; Unheeded, save by Him who marks each grief en dured alone, Bhe sought and found her solace for tho first that she had known. -Philadelphia Times. He Couldn't Eat the Soup, An elderly gentleman in a restaurant having been served with a plato of soup ho had ordered, said to tho waiter: "Look hero, I can't eat this soup." "All right: I'll get you another nlato." On receiving tho second plato tho guest onco more remarked "It's no use, I can't eat this soup." Then tho waiter went to tho proprietor and said: "Tho old gentleman over there Is com plaining about tho 60up. Ho says ho can't eat it." "You don't know how to wait on peo ple. I'll attend to him." Tho proprietor went to tho kicking guest and said, blandly: "I understand you say thero is some thing tho matter with tho soup?" "I didn't say anything of tho kind." "You said you couldn't eat it." "Yes, I said 1 couldn't eat it." "Will you tell mo why you can't cat that soup?" "Certainly. I haven't got any spoon." Texas Siftings. A Perfect Man. Several years ago an artist of Dresden persuaded a locksmith thero to give up it was a good thing for tho locksmUh! who ,. now tho ..,C!n, , A nis trnuo anu become an artists model. w DroRflon udir.cn rn.r!fin.,ti ,1 i .i body makes him probably tho most re nowned model in tho world. In order tn nrnnrrrt f nr fittitra nrti'cta dtinllVntn of Ilia nrtrnnnlinnro fl, tlm ,i!mntr f i?i c . n.ii' anfabrik at Meissen, recentlv invited him thero that a cast from lifo micht bo i"iu mum in, il. ll lAiat IIUII1 mo IIULTIll DQ takcn of tho of , , ,8 saiJ that "his muscular development !, r n, o... f i.i i.j t. is so complete nnu dotal ed that oven the 1 i, nn,i' ii,,, ,i e least anu slightest cord of every muscle ctn,i f,.ti, :n,i i i i ! stands lorth prominently, nnd his wholo i,,i ii.. ' J ' i body looks as if it wero woven together. nr itol, . , . ot . . havo such a hardness that they feel to tho touch as if thoy wero carved in -wood." Brooklyn Eagle. I Sliver Dciidhrnil Ticket, Probably tho most unique railroad pass issued this year is that of tho Silverton Railroad company of Colorado. It is a thin silver plato, about tho size nnd shape of passes in general uso. On the upper left hand corner of tho faco of the plato is a vignette showing a curve of the road between Silverton nnd Ouray Tho pass is rolled from silver bars and stamped, tho vignetto and lettering, with tho ex ception of tho president's namo, being in relief. Tho name is intaglio, and is gild ed, as aro tho vignette and scroll. The number of tho pass and the namo of the person to whom it is issued aro engraved j by band. Brooklyn Eagle. i Floating Hospitals. A novel idea is tho fitting up of a steamer in England as a "sea going bos I piUiL" This is for tho benefit of the , l doep sea fishermen, who aro subject to sickness aud accidents, and often havo to enduro great suffering beforo thoy can bo taken nshoro for treatment. One steamer has already been prepared and dispatched on this mission and another will bo sent out as soon as it can be got ready. San Ernncisco Chronicle. ' The I run Crown. Tho Iron crown of Lotnbardy consists of a broad circle composed of six equal plates of beaten gold, joined together by closo hinges of tho 6amo metal. Within is tho iron baud which gives it n name. It is about threo-eighthsof an Inch broad and n tenth of nn inch thick, and is said to havo been mado out of tho nails used B,1 th, Crucifixion, and given to Constan- UHO 1,13 ". impress lioiena, to protect him in battle, Now York Tel egram. A Clincher. A lettor was dropped Into tho letter box at tho Auburn nostoffico recentlr. bound for Boston, with the stamt cnod on with a pin. It was m :j fast- pushed through tho 6tamp near tho right side, tlicnco through tho envolopo and its con tents to tho kick sido, nnd back again to tho front. It was stronger than the com mon lot of pins or it would novor haro stood tho pressure Ikwton Herald. They Were Little Girls, Master Burrill was nn old time teacher in tho town of Fairfield. A writer In The Somerset Reporter says that ho used to punish naughty whispering girls by "bearding them" that is rubbing hit uushaven chin with a week's stubble on t down their pretty cheeks. It almost took the skin oIL Lcwiston Journal Drayton Ives, the well known finon- clcr and society man, U a bibliophile, This may not seem to bo nn expensive pursuit, but Mr. Ives manages to spoiid a good deal of money upon It, Only tho other day ho sont somo $1,200 upou a rare copy of an early edition of the Holy Writ, The Smallest of Twlas. Mr. Charles Orton, wife of the cough drop man, who is known by nearly every person in tho two cities, gave birth a few days ago to two of tho smallest babies that there is any authentic record of. The babies weigh three-quarters of a pound and one pound respectively, and are well developed and apparently in perfect health. The news soon spread over the neighborhood of tho arrival of the tinv stramrers. and the houso waa thronged with curious women until at last it was necessary for Mrs. Orion's health to exclude visitors from the house, and scales wero procured from a grocery store near by. The babies wero weighed, and tho boy tipped the beam at one pound, while tho girl's weight was one quarter of a pound short of this. Mrs. Sadio Gray, tho nurso in charge of tho midgets, was present at the weigh ing, nnd she said that both babies had gained nt least three ounces since their birth. She was sure that Wednesday the weight of tho two was not more than three-fourths of a pound and a half pound respectively. Either child could be hidden under n quart measure, or both could bo stowed away comfortably in an ordinary overcoat pocket. Both have black hair and havo very pretty faces. Mrs. Gray told the reporter that both children were remarka bly healthy, and she thought there was no danger of their death. They are very lively, and are not as "cross" as the average child, she said. Mr. Orton is tho father of six children. Tho other i four are of ordinary size, He is thirty- nine years of age, and is the son of tho late Chief of Police Orton. His wife is also thirty-nine years of age, and is a , very pleasant nnd attractive woman. Both Mr. and Mrs. Orton aro ordinary sized people. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. The Slwih's Principal Wife. The principal wife of tho shah of Per sia, who is suffering from cataract in one of her eyes, has reached Vienna and submitted to an operation, whereby it is hoped she will bo able to view all the more clearly, on her return to Teheran, iu uimrms aim graces oi ner wormy TV hySnnJt the k,"f f klnf' 88 ? T" Wh linvnrnn nrmirm rim rinlwnv Hf-nf-inti rm railway station on Wednesday in tho hope of catching a Bight of hor, havo received a rudo shock. Instead of a young and lovely houri. ui ( , wi4iK (Will lutui) ilulUl, ... ' . , .? they saw from the distance a decrepit o d nilv. nnr. fnr nlinrr nf fin 1ifl frnm I a carriage by a number of elderly ne- j nssis,tcd her into the waiting room, whero she was received by the , ui uio rersuiu emoassy. tier i r, . , majesty, besides being blind, was muffled . - ' - m a tinck, black veil, and all that tho gilded youths obtained for their trouble i WIW IOT na a iui ivwii) oiyni. oi ino lauies oiore- 1 s'1 md the scowls of tho eunuchs de puted by tho shah to follow his wife, by 1 n'.5 11 5P,lye?s," to the Persian equiv- iorjurs. brandy. Professor Fuchs has already operated upon tho royal eyes nnd has little doubt ho will bo able to effect a permanent cure.- -Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. Insulating Compounds. Tho question of tho future of tho over head wire system depends so much on tho possibility of perfect insulating that tho discovery of a material possessing high insulating properties will bo ono of tho utmost value. To tho largo variety of insulating compounds already in exist ence has been added ono which consists of a mixture of carbolic acid and shellac. The two substances aro combined by heating carbolic acid until it boils slow ly, and then adding tho shellac, or other insulating materials, such as vegetable drying oils, asphalt, rosin, etc. The product is a semi-plastic mass, remark ably tough and tenacious, which is but littlo sensitive to extremo changes of temperature, and presents a hard, smooth surface. Tho results obtained with this now compound aro said to bo excellent. New York Sun. A Plve Pound Motintuln Trout. I Somo years ago tho Cold Spring brook, that flows from tho Pleasant Valley hills between liatli anu Ilnmmondsport and t empties into Lake Keuka at this place, I was stocked with California mountain , trout. Tho stream was a natural trout brook, and tho California trout thrived in its waters. Specimens have been caught, with hook and line, weighing threo pounds. Ono day recently Harry Champliu, who runs a grist mill along tho creek, two miles from Hammonds- i port, saw a splashing in tho tail raco of his mill. He discovered that a very I largo nsn or some kind had got into closo quarters there, and ho succeeded in cap turing with his hands what proved to be a trout that weighed over five pounds. Exchange. l Somo timo ago tho teacher of a River side (Cal.) school instructed her class how to act iu ciise of emergencies, such as drowning, gunshot accidents, etc. A day or so after tho lesssn n lad named i Haight went homo nnd found his baby I sister giveu up for dead, after being 1 picked out of a canal. Thero was no doctor to bo had, and young Haight went to work to apply his lesson, nnd in u lit tle while the baby was all right 1 Harvard university is to have a beau tiful and exclusive jossession in a very valuable collection of glass flowers made by secret process by a Dresden firm named Blatcka. Threo lumdrod or four hundred specimens liave already been re ceived. Tho collection, when complete, will illustrate all tho families of plants in North America, j Ferdinand J. Dreer, of Philaaelphia, has presented to the Historical Society of Pouusylvauia n collection of 0,000 auto graph letters ntid reliquary curios. The collection embraces letters of Revolution ary interest, and signatures of distin guished mou and women of tho last 100 years. ' Flocks of wild pigeons havo reappeared at Kingston, Out, aftor many years' ab sence. Good crops and a sickly 6ummer ore thought in Canada to mark the years when wild pigeons are pleuty. Wedding Fees. Said a well known clergyman the other day: "I think tho clergy havo too much to say about tho smallness of somo of their wedding fees. Thero is no earthly reason, in tho first placo, why a clergyman should receivo any feo for his services on such an occasion. If fees aro to bo given at all, they would be much moro appropriate when a clergx man is asked to officiate at a funerS, which in somo cases may consumo sov cral hours of his time. But, granting that n wedding feo is allowablo, my ex perience is that such fees aro as a rule too largo rather than too small. I havo officiated at tho weddings of a great many mechanics and workingmen, and and in a largo majority of instances tho grooms havo given mo $10. Somo of them have given $15 and even $20. Now, tho lowest of theso sums is out of all proportion to tho average incomo of n mechanic. It is much moro than they can afford for a servico which a Christian minister should bo glad to ren der for nothing. And in my own prac tice I have always returned tho feo in such cases, unless tho groom was so fool ishly proud as to refuse it. But in doing so I admit that 1 am running counter to tho almost universal custom of tho clergy. My own personal opinion is that in an ago like this, when the world is 6o ready to find fault with tho clergy, it would bo wiso to abolish wedding fees entirely. At tho same timo I do not as sumo to decide tho matter for any one but myself." Now York Tribune. Uso Uotli Hands. Recently, from my closo attention in many years' capacity at tho circuit court, I havo been suffering from partial or in- cipient paralysis of tho right hand, or what is otherwise known as pen paraly ! sis, tho result, of course, of constant I writing with that hand. With 60 littlo uso of that member, I am beginning to j mako my left hand very useful, and I 1 find it is a much moro important featuro than wo usually imagine. I think tho habit of cultivating tho servico of tho i left hand should bo moro general and . I. t ..!.. i . : i . 1 1 1. fln,iiit 1,1 i ,ti,i.M..i and the right hand saved from tho great rain upon it. It is not at all necessary ' .... .... . to bo what is termed "left handed" to bo enabled to use that hand. I know ono young lauy artist who is not at all so, . , .1 rA I 1 i vet who can uso tho left band as well as . , ., . :r D1 cultivation. Sho j can draw with tho left hand as easily as sho can with the right one, turned to ward tho right. My caso should bo a warning to writers especially, not to 1 ?avo 8train. t0 fno, han.d' but tof ,cul tivntn Inn enrirmn rF rim nrltnr rr nr. Inocl tivato tho servico of tho other, or at least its assistance. I now havo to do much of my writing with my left, and accom plish it quite as well as with tho right, and I am by no means "left handed." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Gladstone's Predictions. Ths most remarkable man of our time is tho non. W. E. Gladstone great in statesmanship, great in financo (ho won his spurs of political knighthood as chancellor of exchequer), great in ora tory, greatest of all in literature How this octogenarian finds timo to do so much, and to do everything so well, is a mystery. Ho has recently published an articlo on "Tho Futuro of tho English Speaking Races." It reads liko a chapter in tho "Arabian Nights." Ono hundred years ago tho English speaking peoples of tho world numbered 15,000.000. Theso were distributed thus: In Great Britain. 12,000,000; in American and other foreign lands, 3,000,000. Today tho number has multiplied seven fold and stands at 105.000,000. Mr. Gladstone quotes tho eminent statistician, Barbara Zincke, as authority for tho statement that a century hence tho English speakers of tho globe will number 1,000,000,000, distributed as follows, viz.: In the Brit ish Islands, 70,000,000; in Canada, 140. 000,000; in the United States, 800,000, 000. St, Louis Republic, Japanese Oranges. Japaneso oranges aro different from our ideal of an orango as they can well be, separating from tho jeel almost us easily as a grajte, dividing into sections at tho slightest pull, each section like u eeparato fruit, dissolving its piece into your mouth with flavor of cherries, leaving no pulp behind. Very good, ex cellently good, they aro. They, tho latest of her fruits, add tho crown of ex cellency to tho already overflowing cor nucopia of this "Beautiful Land of tlift Sunrise," True Flag. In a blacksmith's shop at Audlom, England, a robin has luilt a nest on a ledgo closo to whero tho horses are shod, and is now sitting upon its eggs. Neither tha din of the hammer not tho flying; 6parks from tho anvil appear to disturb the bird. VEGETABLE PANAGEA PREPARED FROM ROOTS& HERBS. FORTHE CURE Of AND ALL OTHER DISEASES ARISINO FROM A DISORDERED STATE oriHE STOMACH OR AN inactive: liver. rOR SALE BY ALU DRUGGISTS & dtJERAL DEALERS.