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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1891)
rm REGQH BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM, H Circulation 1000. 784 Subscribers OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. WITHIN COLUMBIA COUNTY. VOL. 8. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 25, 1891. NO. 30. rilS LEADING PAPER MIST 4 J THE OREGON MIST. InnuimI livery Friday Morning, J. It. JtEKOLK, - PiiMiuher. Tub Count Okpiuml Papbii, ttnaarrlntlaii Mala. Otin flip)', "ill' ir. In nilviniru, t rt On. wii- l iiiiinlli , .. ......... 7ft Hlimlu copy Ad rnrlikliiK II men. l'r.i(cliiml I'uriR oim ytwr ... ......I I'i iini- luliiniii, mm yuitr,., M Mult Culmiui. nmi t'cftJ . 7A Uitnrlar t'nliintn, win i'r,., ,,,, " (hu. Iiil'll. 'ttw iitullltl Oim Imii. Mine inmitliii. ........ ....... ,.,.,... Olio hull, lx iihiiiiIik ... N.ilhu. Illtxi'll cunt. l'r IIiiii lor llrm onliiii; li'ii ri'iii. H't lino lor oiuli .uIimIMiiI i.....t.ii..tt. I'iiul A'lvi.rll.Miii.il mi. itiillnr mnl lull! lf tin It Inr Ural lii.rilun ami mivtiil--llva rout. fir llll'll lor Wll miiwtiii'm lo-viuiiii. 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Ilcli'im, Oregon K.iiAi.i, " Physician and Surgeon, , (liilxknnie. Cnliiiiiliiu. futility, Or M rllltlOK JUtWHUK, Attorneys-at-law, T. A. M.-llrl-U", I A. H. DrtMM-r. ( Prompt nltKiitiiiii ulvvii Id l.n iki imikd uiiMiipaa. Oii'H'iii City, Orenntt. II. MTTI.K, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. I.mij HtirvryliiK, Town l'lnltiu nuil Kn (liii''rlii;5 work roiiiHy done. (t'nl'NT HUHVKVOtl.) .St. Hulaim.Or. T. Hl'HHKV. J. W. PHM'tll B I'USKY, it DHAl'KK. Attorneys-aMaw, Ort'ipiirClly, Oregon. Twi'lvo veiira csihtIi'Iipo an HckIkIit of the II. H. I.aml olllru Imre, rtn'oliiiiicuiU tlx In our H'i'-iiillv ol nil kinds of liiHmM" U1 fnre Hie Litiul (Ulco or tliu (!mrt, mnl In vulvliiK Hid ritoliru in Mib dt'iicrnl l.n ml OIIK'lt' . T. ii lutoi'KKKiinortui, Attorney-aMaw, ( l.nlu H!(ilnl Agi'iil ol (li'iiunil Land Olllco) I OllKllOM C'itv, OimnoM. "! )lonu'lo.iil, rri'-i'iinillon mid TimWr l.nml Aiilli'itllona, mnl otlii-r l.ninl (Kllce I HiiHlncai, a MiKii'iulty. Olllco, Unil Kloor Litiul unii'u inniiiiiiK. t; Wl.NGKUT. Notary Public & Real Estate Agt, iiptibcii, l'iiiinilli County, urcgnn, Thii iiiiiliinlKiii'il will iilll'ii't to, mnl rurllfy In all IminIiii'hii irtiiliili In lliu I rmiftrrltiK o( , .-.. .u, ,. vi iii'iiu, n-i.iiiiip, ration ami miIviiiiIiiiwh, lita III tliu touna of i Neer, llolilvor IIdiiIiFii, Will jiImi iillcml to I'en l kIiiii 'lot iiiu. Ih'Iiik HiillnirUcil to ly li'itul rt'coK- li It Ion from till) lcirtmiit ol Interior. e.. ni.Mir.iu. M I H C JU 1 .1 A N M O IT M . I i). J. SWITZER, ht. hklicnh. - - - - - oimioN, -AGENT FOR State Insurance Co, 0F , 8ALEM , - OREGON. " ( 00 TO JOHN A. BECK, Watchmaker.:, and Jeweler, von vont.- Elegant Jewelry. Tho Flncat AaHiirtnii'lit of Wntclion, Clocka and Jewelry of ill JK'Kcrlntloin.. OITOBITK TUB KUMOMI), 1'OUTLANU. WASHINGTON NEWS. Scattlo Iiuh ciglik'cn barikfj. Mayor Taylor, of Cntralia, has resigned. Tacolna linn a company of girl Holdiem who are being drilled. Work on the now city hall at Port Towniiond n progrooHing rapidly. Train are now running through to Kondriek on tho Mohcow branch of tho Northern Pacific A stamp mill litis been Hot up in IVhIuihUii, and will noon bo at work on tho product of tho ininen. The WcBtcrn Central'Labor Union made a profit of over $250 on thei Labor day celebration nt Henttlo. Tho NewcaHtla mine frequently turim out 10UU tn of coal daily. The Franklin mini; is flipping 350 to 4JO tons a uay. Tho park comminHioti of Seattle has between 10,000 and $12,J00on hanil with which to improve and Iwautify their park. Thoro is an averniio of 200 to .'l(X) head of tock of different kinds shipped from tho Ellensburg rail road corrals every week. Two vessels have arrived at Whnt com for lumber cargoes for Chili Three others are duo, n nil the mill has orders for two millions for Aus tralia, Now that Tekoit's water works are an itKtuircd thing, the people have turned their attention toward eleetrio lights and a telephone system. A post of the (J. A. II. has been organized at Friday Harbor and has been namol after ; Oeneral John F. Reynolds, tho hero of the battlo oi Uettysburg. President Hill of tho Great North ern road, told tho Fairhaven pco plo that tho bkagit passes through the Cascade mountains were too high for a railroad to cross. Tho Congregationalists of fymth Iicnd have liegun the erection of a church. This is tho sixth church buildinit in Houth Bend, and the fifth erected during tho year. Two of thoollioials of the.elcc- tno-motor road, hove arrived in Anacortco, and report that a party of electricians will arrive and the completion of tho load will be rap idly pushed. In excavating for tho Baptist church at Dayton, workmen found a skeleton, supposed to be that of a squaw. 1 ins is tho tin ru skeleton that has been uncovered in Dayton excavations. Tho new schoolhouso at Ellens- burgh has been finished at a cost of 50,000, and tho citizens proudly laim the llnost school building in the slate. A town clock is being placed in tho tower. Tho rccuitintr station at Seattle has not been the success expected by tho eovcrnment. - The station has been established seven weeks, and in that time nine men have been received and sent to Yancou ver barracks. Tho county commissioner of Lewis county have instructed the auditor to advertise for bids for the purchase of the bonds of the county to tho amount of $100,000 with which to redeem tho outstanding county warrants. J. H. Wairner, of Montesano, hiu) an exciting time with a moun tain lion. It came into tho yard and killed a calf. Mr. Wagner and his dog were in pursuit of tho brute, when tho dog cot too closo, and ho also was killed. The intruder then escaped to tho woods. South Bond wants to be mado a port of entry. There is reason to believe that advantage is being taken of the absence of any customs oflicer on Sholwater bay, and opium and Chinamen smugglers are oper ating quite extensively. Failure to acree on prices is likely to delay and possibly result in the Aberdeen canneries not opening this season. Tho flshermon ask flfteon and thirty cents nnd the can nerymen aro unwilling to pay more than ten and twenty-five. Fire at Ritzvillo destroyed the fur niture store of H. Kretzer, drug store and residence of Severance & King, and tho grocery storo of Charles Wells.a part of which was occupied by L. Uhlman with clothing. Loss, f 20,000; insurance, $7,000. Miss Susan L. Novin, tho girl who boars tho distinction of being the only woman that ever climbed Mount Baker, is described, as a vivacious young lady just wit of her" teens a bluo-oyed Hondo with 0 wealth of rich brown hair, of gracoful form, erect oarrlago, fSJ feet toll and weighing 118 pounds. The Paciflo Navigation Company, whioh was subsidized by the steam boat pool last April to take off its steamers betwoon Bellitigham bay and Tacoma, will, about October 10th, ba roleosed by tho expiration of the contract, and the State of Washington will then resume her run on this route. She will run on the inside, dividing the business with the Wasco, the only boat now running through Deception pass. i 0BEG0N NEWS. . ,., ,LI Cars on tho Oregonian railway havo commenced running to Spring field. Tho Fox valley mines in Grant county are attracting tho attention of capitalists. Tho long-standing swamp land suit in Lake county has been decided in favor of the state. The Oregon grand lodgo Knights Pythias will meet in Portland on Tuesday, October 13th. T. J. Cozard, living on a ranch six miles east of Burns, had a horse and a mule killed by lightning a few days ago. Portland and Astoria market- men are now on Shoal water bay contracting for their oyster supply for tho winter. As J. Wilsoy, of Camas valley. was on his way home from Kose burg his team ran off a steep grade Tho horses were crippled, the wagon demolished, and Mr. Wisley badly hurt. Tho plat of township 1 north, raiiKo 0 cast, has been received at the Oreaon City hind office, and will be filed and opened for settle menl under the homestead law on and after Octover 10, 1891. J. 1). Wilcox, of Portland, and Mr. Jeffory, from Canada, have purchased the Todd quicksilver mine, near Oakland, and are operat ing the samo with very satisfactory results both as to ore and metal. Bert Jennings, a son of Hon. A C. Jennings, aged eighteen years, met with a severe accident at the farm of his parents, near Irving Ho was riding a horse, when it stumbled and fell on him, breaking both of his arms. Work has begun on the bridge across the Willameto at Albany. Tho cantilever idea, has been abandoned, and the old plan of cir cular piers will be carried out. It is expect tho bridge will bo finished by December 1st. Fish lake, up in tho Cascade mountains, has been visited this year by more campers than ever before. Farlow and Wright, of Upper Butte creek, have made a good dugout canoe and are spear ing the lake trout at night. Tho Toledo coal mino tunnol is ninoty-four feet into tho mountain. and has just passed through a stata of large clam shells. The mon are now working through some black slate, and the indications are that they well soon strike the coal bed. . While riding from Wamic to his stock ranch, I. J. uorum was thrown from his horso, and two men fell on him whilo in an unconscious condition and robbed him of $411 in coin, a thirty-five dollar silver watch and a knife, and fled to parts unknown. His shoulder and hip are badly broken, Barbed wire on the farm is a fruitful sourco of accidents. At Jesse Porter's farm in Benton county some horses becamo frightened while grazing in tho pasture, and in their wild rush ran against the fence. One. of them was killed almost instantly and two others were badly crippled. An Indian woman, commonly known as Sally, during tho fire at t he Dalles, in watching tho progress of tho flames, fell over a bluffin the southern part of the city and broke her nock, alio died immediately, and her companions conveyed the corpso to Celilo, and laid it to roBt in tho Indian graveyard. Tho government Indian training school at Cbemawa has opened for tho school year, under auspices unusually favorable Tho school has better equipment 'this year than last, new buldings having boon erected during the summer and being now nearly completed and ready for occupanoy. . The enrollment of scholars has already reached 11)8 and more are expected within the next few weeks. Residents in the timbered dis- trists of Clatsop and. Tillamook counties say that large gray wolves are becoming more numerous, and that they are rapidly destroying the elk, as they kill the young calves in the spring, and even the old ones when they catch them alone. A bounty on wolf scalps would iu their opinion, do more to protect tho elk than the rigid enforcement of tho game law, J, P. Fau.ll and By Geer have returned to Bakor City from a two weeks' tour through Baker, Mal heur and Grant counties. They report having traveled over an Immense aroaot country, a large proportion which is worthless with out irrigation, and the arable lands have only yielded about ten per cont, this year of tho usual yield, on account of lack of seasonable rains. The gentlemen are more than onthusiastio in the cause of irrigation Bince viewing the immense area of lands which are nor worth less, but with irrigation would add millions to the wealth of the Inland Umpire. GENERAL NEWS. Mme Patti has postponed her visit to this country till December. New York City had a million dollar fire on September 15th. The legislature of Tennessee has passed a bill prohibiting prize fight ing in that state. Cardinal Manning is strongly opposed to lotteries and rallies for cnurch or charitable purposes. A train on the New York Central road ran 4.30 miles in 4 10 minutes a milo a minnto for seven hours. John Dornonis, princo consort to the queen of the candwitch Islands, is dead. Ho was an American by birth. the wifo of a clergyman in Nebraska has been arrested for purchasing lottery tickets through the mail. W. II. Eckroll, a Norwegeon, has invented a enlerchangeable sled boat and will soon start for the north pole. Tho Burveyor of customs at Omaha has been instucted to admit filtering cloth for beet-sugar machin ery free of duty. Georgo White made a balloon ascension at New York and in descending fell into the Hudson river and was drowned. The new Chilian government has sent officials to Europe to bring over tho two war ships just bought by T . l J- t ! i e uaicaineua oeioro nis uawnian. A boiler at tho plaining-mill of the bunny South Lumber Company, near Lewisvillo, Ark., exploded, kill ing the fireman and injuring twelve men. - Tho democrats of New York have nominated Roswell P. Flower for governor. The republican nominee for the same office is J. Slaot Fassett. The state department has received dispatches announcing more riots in China, and stating that the American mission at Ycliane had been destroyed. Jacob II. Schaefer and his daugh ter, while attempting to cross in front of an approaching train at Cleveland were struck by the loco motive and killed. Five more emigrants have escaped from the detention pen at the New York barge oflice. How they got away is a mystery. 1 here is little prospect of recapture. Siam has decided to make an exhibit at Chicago, which will eclipse the one it made at the Paris exposition, where it carried off the honors in the oriential section. The lady managers of the world's fair, by a voteof thirty-six to twenty- six declared in lavor of. adopting Pharisee Shepard's motion to hare the exposition closed on Sundays. An unknown voung woman threw herself over tho rapids at Niagara f alls a few days ago, and a couple of hours later a young man threw himself over near the same place. Both were drowned. At Dover, Uklaiioma, during a Grand Army reunion, the white and colored comrades quarreled, and three colored men were fatally cut, and about twenty others, black and white, more or less lujured. It is reported 3000 persons were drowned in the recent great floods of Spain. Thousands are home less, the floods extending over vast aoras of country and destroying Ljillions of dollars worth of property. Sherman Cummins, a New York printer, who was thought to have been killed in the Park place fire, and whose wife thought slio identi fied in one of the charred bodies, has turned up safe and sound at Halifax, where he went while on. a spree' Balmaceda, ex-president of Chili, has escaped, so report goes. He was in hiding at Valapraiso after tho downfall of tho city and was taken on board tho United States flagship San Francisco by Admiral Brown disguised as a drunken United States sailor. Fourteen more Jewish refugees from Russia havo arrived in Chi cago and tell heartrending tales of cruelty. Among them is Lieutenant Skomm, an oflicer in the Russian army, and the possessor of medals given him for bravery. Even he could not escape the edict of expul-. sion. President J. J. Hill, of the Groat Northern railway, has boen on the coast looking after tho interests of his company. Ho claims his com pany will soon have in operation a complete through transcontinental railway. As Hill has unlimited cash at his disposal, it is presumed he means what he says. An impostor, calling himeelf " W. Stsas6y, of 19 Ruo Louis lo Grand, Paris'," has been engaged in" soiling, in Europe, agencies for the Chicago exposition. He sold the agencies for Norway and Sweeden to a Stockholm man for $2000. The exposition authorities havo taken steps to put a stop to his operations, No one is authorized to sell agen cies for the exposition. COAST NOTES, East Portland has a Chinaman who takes delight in kissing young girls. The new bank at Junction City will be ready for business next month. " The Northern Pacific and Pacific express companies have dissolved partnership. The railroad time between Port land and San Francisco has been shortened up six and a half hours. Portland has contributed some $3000 and sent it to The Dalles for the relief of those burned out recently at that place. Apples along the Applcgate river are bigger and freer from worms tbia year than ever before, and they are also more plentiful. A Chinese woman has com menced suit for a divorco from a Chinaman to wlicm she was mar ried in Portland in 1883. The working days at the Union Pacific railway shops, Albinn, have been reduced to eight hours, with a proportionate reduction in pay. A freight ran into a passenger train near Tehachipi on the South ern Pacific in California, killing one passenger and injuring several others. It is claimed since January 1, 1891, of the 7900 Chinamen landed at Vancouver. B. C, at least 7000 have stolen across the line into the United States. Marion Harris, of Oakland. Or., who was crushed in a horse-power on the 1st mst., making amputation of the leg necessary, has since died from the effects. The forteith anniversary of -the institution of the Masonic grand lodge of Oregon was celebrated by Portland Masons on September 14th with appropriate ceremonies. A fire at the S. P. carshops, in the southern part of East Portland. September lGth totally destroyed the repair building, causing a loss to the company of about $40,000. The corner stone of the new Masonic temple has been laid at Hillsboro with imposing ceremonies. The royal craft is doing considerable building throughout the jurisdic tion this year. The quarterly saloon licenses of Portland have just been paid in. There are 424 saloons, one saloon to every 185 of the city's population. They pay a total yearly revenue to tho city in licenses of $16o,00. Judge Beatty, of the United States circuit court of California, has rendered a decision that no Chinese subject could land in this country unless he had a certificate from his government to the effect that he was or bad been a merchant in good standing in the Utiited States. . The British have taken posses sion of bign, on the lsiand of Mitylene, near the Dardanelles. All Europe is shocked at the audac ity of the British in taking posses sion ot this place and fortifying it when not a British territory. It is looked upon by other nations as preparation for an early European war. ' : Mr. J. R. Crosby who resides on Upper Crooked river,. Crook county, lost his barn and about twenty tons of hay by fire, a few days ago. The fire was set by a little child who " wanted to see it burji." Mr. Cros by's loss is a severe one to him, as it would be to any poor man. A horse escaped from the barn after being somewhat scorched. Mrs. Phoebe J. Colburn brought suit in the state circuit court against the Portland and Willametto Valley Railway Company for $5000 dam ages for the death of her husband, Conductor Colburn, whose death resulted from a smash-up on a train some two years ago. The case was tried last week and tho jury, after considering the testimony in the jurry-room twelve hours, placed the damage at $3500. John S. Gray, a leading attorney of Boise City and an old pioneer, died suddenly September 12th. He came to Idaho in 18G0, and has been prominent in publlo affairs ever since. Ho has been probate judge of Boise county, has served several terms in the legislature, was state senator last year, and was a member of the constitutional con vention. Returning from court at Idaho City, a few days ago, ho was about the city, but died in his office a few hours later. Miss Bertha Ison, daughter of the late Judge L. B. Ison, of Baker City, Oregon, was shot and instantly killed with a pistol by Dr. C. E. Ballard in Chicago September 7th. Miss Ison was about nineteen years old and waa very handsome and attractive. She had been engaged to marry young Dr. Bal lard, but her mother had broken the engagement on account of his bad habits. He came to seo her and while in the parlor alone with the girl he shot and killod her and then killed himself, FAEM AND GARDEN. KBIENDLY ANTS. Many persons view with suspicion a colony of ants going up and down a fruit tree, especially if it is infested with scale insects, and are in doubt whether to regard them as friends or foes. A correspondent of of the Philadelphia Saturday Even ing Post relates the following interesting facts bearing on the sub ject: Many of the leading orchard proprietors of northern Italy and southern Germany are cultivators of the common black ant, which insects they hold in high esteem as the fruit grower's best friend. They establish ant hills in their orchards, and leave the police service of their fruit trees entirely to their tiny j colonists which pass all their time; in climbing up the stems of the fruit trees, cleansing the boughs and leaves of malefactors, matured as well as embryotic, and descend ing laden with spoils to tho ground, where they comfortably consume ori prudently store away their booty. I Ihey never meddle with sound fruit, but only invade such apples, pears and plums as have already been penetrated by tho canker, which they remorselessly pursue to ' its fastness within the very heart of the fruit. Nowhere are apple and j pear trees few free from blight and j destructive insects as in the i named-1 iate neighborhood of a large ant hill j nvo or six vears oia. Anis nave been used in China for maiiy years to protect orange trees and other fruit trees from the depredations of insects. Dr. C. T. alacuowan, in a communication to C. V. Riley, gives a curious account of the use of ants in the vicinity of Hong Kong. In many parts of the province of Canton tho orange treea.are injured by certain worms and, to rid them selves of these pests, the inhabi tants import ants from the neighbor ing hills. Two species of ants the red and yellow, which build their nests suspended from the branches of trees are collected and sold to the owners of orange trees. The trees are colonized by placing the ants on their upper branches; bamboo rods are stretched between the trees, so as to give the ants easy access to the whole orchard. This remedy, it is said has been in constant use since 1640, and probably from a much earlier period. , - PROFITABLE BREEDS. Mr. W. J. Salter, the former sup erintendent of the large Dunbarton poultry farm and now manager of the Hill poultry yards, tells that the white Wyandottes always ranked highest as Livers at both places. The Fancier's Journal says its own experience has been very favorable with white Wvandottes as layers, but the silver lace have surpassed them in numbers and size of eggs laid. However, it is glory enougd for America to have produced two such magnificent breeders as the Plymouth Kock and Wyandottes. Both arc bread winners. The value of these two breeds does not consist alone in tho number of eggs they lay during the winter, but in the tact mat the dressed carcasses are exceedingly fine and heavy. The cost to produce six or seven pound roosters is no more than the cost to produce three or four pounds chick ens of the Spanish breeds. The light Brahnra judiciously handled is another very profitable fowl. Mr. Rankin considers it the roost profitable of all for market poultry. , hen's nests.. It is supposed that a damp nest is better than a dry one. This belief is not correct. In the summer a hen prefers a cool nest. In the winter her nest should be warm. If tho hens prefer nests on -'the ground, that are covered with brush, it is not because they seek damp locations, or perfer such, but because such secluded places are cooler and more comfortable. A closo poultry house in the summer season, if the roof is low, will often leach a tem perature almost unbearable during tho middle of the day, and, the nests are avoided by the hens for that reason. In the winter it may be noticed that the hons prefer the poultry-house, ; and seldom seek nests outside. notes. Don't try giving a horse emetic, you will be fooled. -.Cattle, like human beings, are liable to the dread disease consump tion. In storing fruits or vegetables in a cellar be sure that the collar is as pure and clean as possible. High priced oats should always bo mixed with bran or shorts to accomplish good results with less money. Sow your rye this month and you will have an excellent pasture for your milk cows until snow covers it. Screen your wheat at home and feed the screenings to poultry and stock, instead of giving it to the elevator companies. WIT AND IIUMOK. Kind words never die; nnkind words don't dio cither. Somerville Journal. A billiat-digt uso chalk ou his cue. A Doe lady ucs It on her cuticle. -New Orlearu l'icayune. , j She "You were at college, were yon not?" He "Yes." She "A. B.F" He "No. G. B." Harvard Lampoon. There are three things that beat a dram for noise one is a small boy and the other two are drumsticks. Elmira Gazette. A good many of onr so - called swells" young men have nothing about them to merit that title but their heads. St, Joseph Hews. Help a man out of a bole once and lie may forget you when he is out, but he will not fail to call on yon tho next time ho falls in. Atchison Globe. Victim "Doctor, I'm troubled with cold feet What do yon suppose causes them?" Doctor "Cold weather. One dollar, please!" Buffalo Express. Tenor "MUs Soprano, who sang la church this morning, has a very clear roice. Is it natural?" Basso "No; 'tis a choired." tfarvard Lampoon. "I thought yon told mo your father was a retired merchant?" "So he is. When the Sheriff took possession be had to retire." Indianapolis Journal. Do Mascns "Is it true that Jaily is off on a blow out?" St. Agedoro "Partly true, yes. He's dead." "How?" Blew out tho gas." St Joseph News. Tom "Come what may, I shall never marry a woman who isn't my superior intellectually." Jack "I wish I cqnld get a wife as easy as yon can." Yankee Blade. First Yale Man "Harvard has lust secured a fossil ten thousand Tears old." Second Yale Man Which" pro fessorship has it been appointed to?" Brooklyn Life. Cochran "I suppose your name on this umbrella indicates that it belongs to yon?" Gilroy "Which, the name or the umbrella?" Cochran "The name, of course." Puck. . Miss Angy New "Miss Oldnn told me that she" was tfraid ot the dark." Miss Vera Cutting "That's strange. I should think she would be more afraid of the light" Puck. Tommie "Papa, why do they call very rich men millionaires?" Papa "That refers to the number of poor re latives who rise tip to contest their wills!" N. Y. Herald. There is only one sndden death among women to every eight among men. But then it's only a minority of women who use the telephone constant ly. St. Joseph News. A flying-macbine is being exhibited in Chicago. Up to date there has been no sort of use in keeping the "f" stand ing at the beginning of its name. Shoe and Leather Ueporter. In Darkest New York: "Why do tbey always take a prisoner's money from biiu before locking him in a cell at the police station?" "So as to pre vent him ljuying his way out" Pi ok. "What became of that Samuels girl that Potterby was flirting with last summer?" "You mean the girl that Potterby thought he was flirting with. She married him." Indianapolis Jour' nal. : . - "How pleasant that lady looks! She seems perfectly happy." "Yes; she must either havo found pttro religion in her own heart or the seeds of sin iu the heart of one of her neighbors." Boston Transcript. "Why. you poor malarial mortal, you! I thought yon told me your average health was good?" "So I did. I run to chills one day and ferer tho next The average is normal." Mun scy's Weekly. The groundhog is tho most knowing weather prophet of the entire crowd. He has Reuse enough to crawl into his h"lo when he predicts an installment of bad weather. The others haven't Norristown Herald. A wealthy man was uskod not long aso to subscribe to a worthv charity. "I should like to contribute, said be, "but I have $800,000 in the bank not eurniuir n cent.nnd I really can't afford it" Boston Traveller. - ; Young Housekeeper (to butcher) "You may send a nice piece of roast beef." Butcher "Yes, ma'am." Young Housekeeper "Aud have it very rare, please; my husband prefers it that way." Harper's Bazar. Farmer Peastraw 'Well, son, what did you learn at college?" Son "I learned to fenco, for ouo thing." Farmer Peastraw "That's good; I'll get some nails tomorrow, nod we'll have a bout Munseifs Weekly. ' "Is your nephew a practicing physl cian.Mrs. McGuelley?" asked hur visit ing neighbor. "Yes.- I b'lievo be is practicing just at present, but ho has as good a show for learning us the most ot them." Washington Post. , "Now, wo will supposo that 'one cab driver goes eight miles an hour, nnd that auother one who can go only six miles an hour has three hours the start Of him. Where will they meet?" "At the ale-house." FUegende Blatter. Stokes "If wo could see into the hearts of our best friends I fear wo should bo shocked at the depravity we saw there." Styles "I don't know. Perhaps we'd feel unhappy to lind our friends not so bad as we thought they were." Boston Transcript. ' ; Agricultural Capa bilities of Alaska. Kodiah island. Alaska, is described as larger than somo of the New Kn gland states, "with a climate similar to that of Maryland," and is "capable of supporting a large agricultural population." It is claimed that a part ot tho territory can be mado a com petitor of Orcgoa and Washington in the raising of the more hardy fruits, such as apples and cherries. - "The next steamer sailing for Sitka will carry in her cargo a largo consign ment of young nuplo trees," says tha San Francisco Chronicle. - ;,. ' Tho first city directory of London was printed Iu 1U67. It contained 64 pages aud the names of 1,7'.K) persons and llriu. A copy Iu the Bi itia Miuemu alu-ueis much atteutiuu.