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Newspaper Page Text1 MEDFORD THE VOL. IV. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1802 NO. MAIL 0 9 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. K. B. PICKER X. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: Booms 3 S, I. O. O. E. Building FRANCIS FITCH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. Medford, Oregon. J. B. WAIT, X. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office: In Childers' Block. H. P. GEABY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Medford, Oregon. Office on C street. KOBT. A. MILLER. Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Jacksonville, Oregon. Will practice in all Courts of the State. J. H. WHITMAN. "Abstracter and Attorney-at-Law MEDFORD. OBEOOS. Office In Bank hulluine. Have the most com plete and reliable abstracts of title In Jackson county. W. S. JONES. M. D. Pliy sician and Surgeon. He,lfonl. Oregon. om.-e Hamlin Block, up-stalra. DR. O. F. DEMOREST, RESII3EXT DENTIST, 3jRk a sperfaity of first-lass work at reaivm- Offline In Opera House, Me I f.nt. Oregon R. P&YCE M. D. Physician and Surgeon. M edford. Oregon. Offl.-e ChUders Block: rtrililrnce. Residence. Kalloway WILLAKD CRAWFORD, Atitirnev and ttoun.sdor at Law MEDFORD. ORBiOli. OJlce In Opera Block WK. M COLViG. ATTORNEY-AT - LAW. Jacksonville. Oreron. MORRIS X. HARKNESS. Attorney and Counsellor eraata Pass, Oregon. DRUGSTORE Th le-nllni Jru store of Vedford la GEO. H. HASKINS, i Successor tn Baklna a I-awton.) He has anything in the line of Pare Drugs, Patent Medicines, Books, Stationery, Paints and Oils Tobacco, Cigars, Perfumery, Toilet Articles. and everything that Is carried la a aravauua Drug - Store. Prescriptions Carefully Com pounaea. lain 8tra4t. Hadford, Omgoa- EAST AN i SOUTH -VIA- Southern Pacific Ronte THK MOUNT SHASTA ItOIITK. EXPBF51S TRAINS LEiVE PORTLAND DAILY : I North "an p. m. Lv 8 ia r. M . Lv 8:15 A. M. Ar Portland Ar7:S. A. Me.ir.T.1 Lv I 5:06 P. San Francisco Lv 1 1 t P. M ANve trains stop only at the following stations nortn 01 ttosemirg: Koat rortianu, uregon laiy. Woouburn. Salem. Albany. 'faineant. Hheilcis. Halsey, Harrlsliiirg. Junction 01 y, Irving and Eugene. Kom-hurg Mail Daily. 8 .115 A. U. I 5 :40 P. M. Lv Ar Portlaml Roaetiiirg Ar Lv! tito P. 6 ft) A. M Albany Local Dally (Krept Sunday.) 5 mt P. M. .-0U V. U. Portlaml Albany ArH;S6 A. M. Ar I. 6jU A. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS Tourist Sleeping Cara Fqr accommodation of flenond-Claa Passengers. alloc eil to Express traliis. WKST SIDE DIVISION. - BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS. Mall Train Daily (Kxcept auuday.) 7SW A. H. j 12:10 P.M. Lv Ar Ponland Corvallls . Arl 5 -30 P.M. Lv 32:55 P. At Albany and Corvallls connect with trains Oregon Politic Railroad. - (Express Train Dally Except Sunday.) 4 :40 P. at. 7 S P. K. Lv j Ar Portland McMlnnvllle Arl Lv 840 A. M, 6:45 A. M, 9-Througn tickets to all points East and South ForlWkoui and lull information regarding rates, main, w ., unn uu d ngrui ai aeuioru. K. aOKHLKK, K. f. HOUKKA. Manager. AasLO P. a p. Agt DKIKlINO. Drifting out lmo the inoonllgti Hei ding no lon-e the oar. Benrlng no I nger the ripples That break on .lietnai failing shores. Out from the land shade, to brightness. Out from the land cares to peace. Till we glide from .lie world Into glory. And noa o'er a broad goMeu nceco. e how the lily leaves spa-kin Jewels tbey eeem in " l n en See (he tirlght tns 1 setting laa ir m beiow auo Ik.;w en. Sometimes tills rnptuie of nuHiultght BrtuFS n-e a long yearning pnlu. But to-nlgii', llh Its glory, a in alia Of iara o'er my spirit Is lalu. Ahl I- float on thus forever. Or In that group In the West, Mooring my bark by the moonlight, Flud tuem the Isles of the Blest. Henry Clay a. n Pok-r Player. " Henry Clay used to lose the greater part of bis Congressional salary," t-a au old Washington gambler to a repoiter of the Pittsburg Press. 1 lie fume he used to play was one in which the blind was fifty cents and $1 to come in. There as no limit in those days, as there gen -1 ally is to-day. A nian could how ever, demand a sight for his money. Clay's a-itagonlst was generally a man named Bright, and both pro rer red to play a two-handed game. The cards were cut one day and Clay gut first deal. He was a better card shuffler than lives to-day. He could hold his hands four feet apart and 11 y the cards from one to he other without a card falling. Generally he dealt with one hand, and without a pereeptable movement of the arm, throwing each card to its proper place with his Ionic muscular fingers. Clay was a poor poker player, how ever. He played for the excitement and not for the gain, and as he was careless about lils bets be generally came out a loser. He almost always straddled tlie blind, and whatever hand be held would raise the bet of his antagonist. He used to bluff a good deal, and as this would soon be found out he nou d come out a loser. "For nearly two hours the night I e per. of Clay ha I been having his own way with Bright. He held h king full four times running, ami then had a jack full. Bright did his lust to catch Clay in a b uff, but it was no use. Clay bad a band t;iat could be beateu only by fours. The play began at three o'c ock, and by half-past ten Bright had lost $1.50. and had borrowed $500 from John Hancock. After that Clay's luck vanished, and by midnight he had lost all his wiunings and $1.10U beside, all the cash he had with him. 'It was Saturday night, and Bright proposed that they quit so they could go to church in the morning, but Clay wouldn't have it. So he borrowed f.V-0 from Bright, and let the game go on. The game was continue I. and by daylight he owed Bright 1.5tl). He l.quidated the debt by giving Bright a deed for 330 acres of Kentucky land and six shares of stock in a Louisville bank. "Clay went tochurcb all the same that morning. While he was talking to the rector after it was over, he put bis band in his pocket and drew out a pack of cards along with his handkerchief. They fluttered to the ground, but Clay was not abashed, and, replacing them, sa d that they must have been placed there as a practical joke." MEERSCHAUM. (Copyright, 1991, by The United Press.) That's a daisy," he crie I. as slie landed a large bliie-ush into the but. Tlieu be kissed her. And that's a fishing smack," she re marked demurely". She sat upon the gleaming sands. Preparod to dare tbe surf. But when she rose and took the diva Tbe crowd gave way to mirth. Just why tbey laughed. 1 cannot say. But this I know full well. They thought she looked most queerly As she struck a heavy swelL See Is Brouson an anibi ions man? He Well, I should say be was. Ho has sworn to raise a moustache before he is twenty-five." Guest You're sure this bill is all right? Clebk Certainly, sir. Guest But you haven't charged me for very clever idea I had last night. "What a nicely dressed little boy." "Yes; a thorough dudette." 'Who's that pompous man over there? He looks like a notoriety. 'He Is. He a the man who bad p tins In his back and was cured by Dr. Ketc.ium's Elixir. You've seen bis picture in the papers." Is he. Indeed: lutrouuee me. I want his autograpu." Smith "They tell mo Jones is in a bod wav from tobacco. SM1THKIN tea; ne s going to vteeu very last." Precocious Bor "What's the meaning of 'going to the deuiuitiou bowwows, papa?" Japa It means going to me uogs, my boy." 'You say that old gentleman is an au thor?" "Xes. he's ray lather. "You look very pale, old man, what's the matter?" "I hail a straight tip on a horsa to-uay. "Oh, I see, you didn't play it." "You're wrong. The troul.le is, I did." . Wife "What kind of ty.ie-wrlter Is your new one dear? A ltemiutftou?" HuHiA.-i-Absently) "No; she's a blonde viith brown eyes." First Hoy you, Teddy. 'I've got a conundrum for Why is a slipper like a yachtr Second Boy "That's easy. Billy, moves fat In a fpunkinjr breeze." It "What will you have for an entree, niaduine?" asked tbe v alter. "Society," returned Mrs. Nil Vo Keaotie. . "Really, he looks like a genius." "He is. He leceully umpired an ama teur baseball Knine without being stoned. When the enterprising burglar's net a burg ling. And the cutthroat Is not occnplod with crime. It seems that they are writing uousense. And taking up the editor's spare time. This epic is respectfully submitted t the countless producers of unavailable manuscript In all parts of the country by one who is tired or reading their produc tions, in spit of the fact that they send return stamps. Last nlgbt I told her of my love. Ah I Heaven bless the girl ! I told her bow she kept my soul In an ecstatic wMrl ; ' I know 1 did It pretty well. Although I am no talker. And sue, sweet creature that she la, Hue murmured. Vou're a corker I" , . ' Joe Kosb. 1 'TWAS SUCH A NIGHT. 'Twns such a night as this; The grasses lowly Iieut ' Ta winds that stopjied to kiss Their spirals as they went. And bear the mingling sceut Of lilac and of rose , No frnxrnnce do I miss. The moon as brightly glows Across the deep abyss Vh.il holds that night from this. Oh! linger, balmy eve. While t the past retrace. And radiant visions weave With memory's tender grsoe Around n vanished face. Nor day. loo soon destroy The dreams that might deceive. Such pain aklu to Joy My heart doth glad and grieve; Oh! slay, recall that eve! Twas such a night oh. past! How close your memories cling When time, that o'er you cast Ills dark and brooding wing. Sweet summer days doth bring, Tou sleep, tho' dreams arise. lhro' winter storm and blast. But neath fulrstlinuier skies. You bind remembrance fast Vuto that night, oh. vast! May Spencer Parraud lu Chicago Inter-Ocean. A FATAL LOVE. Bt Lew Yasdkii pools. Copyright 1KM. by The United Press.) Marvin Porno was greatly perplexed. He was on shipboard, lu the Java Sea, and with him was his sweetheart and her father. The latter had been taken ill, off Sama rang so seri3usly ill that he had insisted on going iuto port, so that his nerves might no longer suffer the shock of the motion of the bont. It was not his f.il tiro father-in-law's ill ness, but tho putting lu to that particular port, which constituted Dome's perplex- There was a woman lu Samarang he did not wish to see only a little brown woman, such ns most of his aristocratic English friends would have scorned; but he feared her. for all that. But the sick man's will prevailed. Lord Crelghtou was taken ashore, his daughter Alice, and young JJorne, her nance, ac companying him. with their servants. This was bad enough, thought Dome but what was worse. Lord Creighton in sisted on being taken to the palace of a former friend of his, a native pnnce a man of great culture and refinement, and no stranger to the Loudon social world. And since this prince was uncle to the very dark-skinned maiden Dome most dreaded seeing, his cup of misery was filled so near to overflowing that even the presence of his charming sweetheart failed to cousole him. His fears notwithstanding, Dornn was Boon domiciled with the Creigbtons, in the establishment of Prince Djeuga, Which was also tne home of the orphaned Princess Tautha, the maiden of dire por tent. But a week passed by without her ap pearing, and so through all of that time Dome's heart gradually lightened, though the life of his prospective marital parent was as gradually ebbing away. May be the princess was absent, or may be she had forgiven him. thought Dome. The prince, strangely enough, had not mentioned her to him, though aware of their former relations. Ten days after the arrival of his party In Samaratig, Lord Creighton suddenly summoned his daughter and her betrothed bus baud. " The doctor," said the sick man, calmly, " tells me I have less than three days to live; 60 to-morrow I want you two to marry. It is tbe only way in which you can properly return to Kngland, and be sides. 1 naturally wish to attend my daughter's wedding. There were the usual tears and smiles and sighs, and then there was a general resuscitation of common sense, and every one engaged in such preparations as were necessary for the uoxi day s nuptials. It was nearly midnight before Dome and bis sweetheart parted, and when they did so, the former was so full of his unex. pectedly-hateued happiness that he went out for a turn through the prince's gar den, to steady himself. When he had walked up and down the terrace which was most embowered, fur half an hour, a soft hand suddenly touched Ins. Greatly startled, bo with difficulty sup pressed an outcry of alarm. There was a ripple of light laughter be side him. "My touch did not use to terrify you so," said a musiuul, liquid voice. "Tantha! ' be gasped, in an exclamatory whisper. " Yes." she answered, putting out both her bauds to him. " Your white love, that is, has sought her bed; and so, lest you get lonely, your brown love, that was, bos come to keep you company, for a little while." She laughed again, as musically as be fore, and v tuotit betraying any more emotion th.. la the proper accompaniment of a Joke. Dome's mouth felt like the interior of an oven, and was fast parching bis tongue boyond the power of speech. " Why don't you say something to me?" she said. "You were not so silent when at Samarang, before. And surely I am entitled to your thanks for leaving you so entirely to your alllanced wtfo, not once taking up a moment of your time, since your return. Am I not?" Finally, tbe perspiration streaming from his every pore. Dome found his voice. "O Tantha," he whispered, hoarsely; I am embarrassed beeauso I have a con science becauso I feel that that you have every right to vengeance." " Vengeance 1" she retieated, as If she did not at all understand him; "and for what? For helping me while away a third of a year pleasantly I How absurd. What a silly boy you are." " But I you thought I meant to marry you and it was all a lie a villainous lie and you are entitled tomy life for for the wrong I did you." "Stop do stop," she said, or I shall scream out with laughter, and we snail be botrayed. And so, you have boon tortur ing your heart with such foolish fears as these? Poor Dome how sorry I am you have suffered so. Put it all by, forever, to-night. You have done me no harm. You simply do not understand Japanese women. Love is a different thing with us than it is with those who are fair-skinned. We give no deep-seated sentiment to any man. Our love Is an inherent personal appetite a mere hunger. Our other hun ger we satisfy with fruit, to-day; with llosh. to-morrow: and when we are enjoy ing tbe one kind of food we never think of sighing for the other. Ho with our love. We have blissful happiness one week from one man's love, truly enough, but the same Joy. eomos to us from nnothor man's devotion. In the week which fol lows: and neither, in going, leavos bitter memories behind. Two years ago you loved me, for a time; but others bad made love vows to mo before you came, and others have been my slaves since your de parture. So it is with all Japanese women. We are butterllies in the sunshine, caring only for whatever joy is present, needing nothing which is not straight before us. You men of the western world take lid much too seriously, put. away your fool ish contrition. No. thought of vengeance ever entered my head. Why should It?" "But, Tantha think of Bara-Budur, the great temple, and how, whispering passionate love-pledges, as we walked on, we solemnly climbed its seven terraces, ever bending lower with Increased rever ence, and went and stood under tbe great cupola where the hewn Buddha sits in sil ence on the lotos-throne" Aguin she laughed. Amrknelt there," sho continued, "and wore eternal fidelity to each other. 0 Dorno, poor Porno did you really nieiiu those burning words did you think I be lieved your vows and meant mine? Then mine was tho sin, not yours, if sin there was. Is love a cup, in your Tvestern world, to be drained but once and then loft dry ever after? Here we ro-llll it every time It is emptied, holding that each succeed ing draught Is as sweet as tho one before, it. Listen, Dome: since that day In the temple 1 have ro-plodgod tlioso words you thought so binding a score of times; and you hava beon most loyal of all my lovers, for you mntlo me happy for four whole months, while some of the others tired of me in n day !" He took her face in Ids hnnds nnd for n long time gazed searchingly into her eyes deep glorious brown eyes, out of which the truth alone seemed to shine. Sho did not tremble at his touch, nor did her breath come quicker for it. ill you not lielieve me. Dome? s'ie queried, after a little time. lie released his hold upon her with a sigh. He could not boar to think her what she had called hers-df, and yet what rea son could she have for lying to him? " Women differ, I suppose, lie thought. What Is vice in one part of earth Is prob- bably virtue in another. Who can tell what Is really best and truest, after all? May be what we call right aud wrong are only matters of custom or accident. She put her baud upon his. eiitrcaMngly lHirne, do you doubt mer " No. Tantha; I believe you. Hut it all seems so at rage to me." That is lieeause you do not understand our ways. It Is well you believe tun. Else you havo severe punishment not even a glance nt the wedding gift I have prepared for you. Enter the room next to your ow n. on to your way to bed. There you will find my gift, the rarest plant In Java, 11 in full bloom. It Is late, now, and vou must go at omv; for In Java wo hold it Ill-bred to over-sleep on one's wedding j morning. And, Dome It Is only a fool- j Isli littlle fancy of mine but will it harm j her If you kiss me good-night? You will be all her's. after to-morrow." Stooping, he pressed Ms lips full up n hers. She yoked her plump arms about his neck and for a second held him close. Then she darted away, with another rip ple of her light musical laughter. " His last kiss." sho said. " His very last kiss." Aud then pressed both hands close down upon her bosom and held them there, tightly. Dome moved on toward his room like one in a dream. Tantha was strange, but sho was also magnificent. May be. if solely a love-lifo was best, he had erred in leaving Java, two years before. Pausing on the way. he stepped into the little room she had mentioned, to inspevt her gtft- A heavy perfume hung In the air. so dense aud pungent that all his sense were encompassed by its overpowering sway. Still, such a wondrous spectacle there awaited him that he continued on Into the room. There were several 6lenier. yard-long stems to the plant before him, each thick ly thorn-studded and also closely set with heart-shotd leaves, of satiny gloss and smoothness. The top of every leaf was a delicate shade of green, but underneath, each was irregularly streaked with blood red, alternating with cream. Crowning each of these leaf and thorn garnished stems was a cup-like Mower, broad, mllky whlte and deep, of the shape and size of tbe bowl of a goblet. Its rim guarded with needle-like rows of dainty briers. From out these pearly cups came the stilling perfume which Dome, now fascinated and unmanned. 1-ent over and Inhaled. Tbe next morning there was a sickening odor, as of chloroform, throughout the palace; and it was traced, by Uie alarmed household, to the room where Dome lay upon the floor, beside Tantha's wonderful gi ft. dead. " The kali mujak the death plant! " ex claimed the prince, at sU-ht of tho floral marvel. "How came the awful tiling here ? " Tantha held her peace and no one else could tell. The prince may have guessed why that deadliest of all plants, which ever distills fatal fumes, was in ills palace; but if so be kept his surmise to himself. The shock of Dome's death was fatal to Lord Creighton. who also expired, during the day. Poor Lady Alice! Her wild agony and despair were not at all tho source of tierce delight to Tantha sho bad thought they would be. "The girl will die!" she finally mut tered mournfully; "just as the others have died. I did not think a whlte.sklnned woman could care so much. I only sought to kill one of them; but the three will die the three will die." Out of the palace sho went, slowly, along tbe winding streets of Samarang. and past the plantations beyond. She did not hood tho birds which flitted and twittered in the banyiin-trees, nor the grinniug. chattering monkeys, press ing in and out through the thickets of bamboo. On sho went, on aud on, never pausing to admire tho gold-hearted lotos- flownrsinthe pools and lakelets, nor to pluck and smell of tho fragrant tufts of alang-alang grass. She only saw two cold, dead faces; she only heard a stricken girl, moaning and sobbing out her ever-increasing anguish. " I thought I was lyng to him, nil the while; but I was telling him tho truth. 1 did not love him. 1 loved only myself, cured only for tho pleasure ho gave me. Else I could no), have sent him to breathe that destroying pcrfumo. And I made him think me wanton, when I was as true to him as the angels nre to Allah! O, Dome, my slain love, can you not jilend with Allah to forgive my crini sellU And yot how cau you, with her v - i ! her dying face ever meeting your ...I eyes anil enrs and I the cause of nil." By midday she reached a secluded lilt arm of the sea. a leaf and a vine I i.lil - nook, where Dome had first kissed her. Here, with eyes bent upon the gre: ! she sat for hours in silence, her booi.;i heaving laboredly, us if heavy with crush ing puln. Just before night full she bared her right arm. cutting Into the great vein below the shoulder, with a sharp little knife. "I must die," she said, calmly; "but death must come slowly mid hurt mo all It cun else Allah run never forgive my wnys have been so evil." It was quite dark, nnd the calm sea of Java was mirror to countless stars, whou her troubled soul passed away. Will l'e ItabltltV David 11. McCormick. a Kye. man who line win kill in the mines at l.'-.ul villi", (Jol., for twenty years, is suing niii Ives nt Sid nny, Ohio. With him are two large Jack rabiiits. He Is laing l.ieiu to his home, Huntington, W. Vu.. t.i use t heir eyes us nil experiment to restore the sight of his cousin, a young man named George Hund ley, aged thirty-seven, who has boon lol ally blind for seven-eon years. He lost his sight by a bursting jran-cap. but tho optic nerve is believed lo !' iistact. Unless it. is tho oMtrulioii will surely be a. failure, but if not destroyed there Is n chance foi success. Wirmlck says ho knows ol twelve successful eases. The young rab bits will not boused until Septo uiber, a I hey will thon have their full growth. Their eyes now are almost as large as the hiiinah eye, and of a iMMutiful browncolor. Hundley doos not know of the proposed experiment, but, as iii cannot loso any thing, he will doubtless try It. He will be takou to Philadelphia, au.l after the ex periment will bocoulliied iii a dark room several months, providing success seems probable. Tho crt of th experiment will be $1,000, and Hundley's friends have raised the money tor the pin poso. (Jinoln nati Enquirer. JSATISU HOUSES IN LONDON THE MOST NOTED AND CHARACTERISTICS. THEIR Her Chop llcu-rs Are a ircater Glory ta Athlon llian Her More rrit ntlous It". taiir-int. old and N w I'lacea to ITeed In Fhui:iim Chop llousi s. The eating bouses of London, except ing the fashi na de purl of the town, ex Bt principally for the purpose of sup plying men with luncheon, or whatever the midday meal luuy be called. This alone won d le em ugh to make them very different from N.-w York restaur ants, which in most cases, whether they arc uptown or downtown, expect to en tertain a considerable proportion ot their customers a, other times than mid '.ny. Before making any further oompni isous it is well to say fiul men win. Law eaten in various parts of the world, including Engl sliruen. consider New York to be far ahead of the British metropolis in a gastronomic way. The excellence of the English chop house cannot be expected to counterbalance, in th estimation of a fon rirunf. the super ior tv of lh" re-taor nits pioper In New York. Going westward from the city of Londou which is the financial metropolis or England, the restaurants grud.ially change in character. Eist. north and south of the city there is none worth speaking of. In the ity, w here men are marly as hurried as in the liveliest pa:ts of New York, luncheon bars alumni. There are different kinds of the-"', which are patronized according to their quality by bankers, stock brokers, men In bus ne- ami clerks. Tie n a ters m the better ones are malo and i-t ;o cheaper female, aud are usu ally I. .lish. The foreigner is not equal to the physical strain necessitated by this kind of work, and moreover, has no opMit tunity to indulge bis conversa tional powers. With a few notable ex ceptions, the restaurants in th city where one sits down at a regular table and waits for the waiter are not good. They are out of sympathy with the hur ried life f the place. And there is noth ing for tbem to do but shut up in the evening, when this part of the town is deserted. In addition to luncheon t ars, the res taurants which supply entirely fish food, particularly oysters and lobsters, are very characteristic of tho city. Sweet Inus and Prim's are famous among these. They have perfect nrrangments for ob ta'ning lis-i from Hi lin-sate.t hat Insti tution or immemorial antiquity, which has an outrageous monoply in supplying London wi' h its fish. When one gets iuto the Fleet street region, occupied by newspapers and pub lishers, one lierames aware of a great change trtm the city. Men here are not 8 much devoted to tbe cultivation of indigestion. Toe cafes kept by Swiss Italiuns. who have also enetrated into every corner of the United Kingdom, are numerous he; e. Thetiatti Brothers, the pioneers o this race, began life in Lon don a gene, at ion ago with an ice-cream ! .arrow, and now their family own theatres and cafes innumerable. In tde-e caf.'S you-a-.i get all kinds of dishes, rooked in the Italian way. and usually cocked well. Wines are to be had there. t.w. which the cheap British restajrants do not usuiily keeD. A feature of the SwIm Italian system is the payment of waiP-rs. The customer Is supposed to give bis waiter a penny for every shilling he sjionds. and not lesa tt.an two pence incase he feeds upon the roodet chop. In and about Fleet street the best chop houses are to be found ; the most perfect in the kingdom, in fact. They have been celebrated in prose and verse, end in several cases were the resorts of the literary lights of theeighteentb century. Of these, the Cheshire Cheese. Dr. John son's favorite, still retains its ancient material structure, but the Cock, sung of by Tennyson, and also not unknown to J..mon. is in new quarters, but tbe spirit of it and the chops, st- as and ale remain unchanged. Here for the very moderate sum of one shilling and sU pence can be oM lined a lunch such as is said tbe whole North American coutinent cannot furnish. At any rate t cannot furjish the pint of bitter tW. Tbe literary lights of the present time have pa-sed into more luxur ous quarters, and the custom of the hop houses is divided between lawvors and newspaper men. These tip p l ouses ate famous for their Wiit,h-tal' its. aid particularly for a small variety which it is customary to take a tcr luuch. Most of the men who ftequeut tbem drink ale or stout. which could not be better. Hidden away iu the cellar, however, there are tous of the frui.ie. t and ge tlest kinds of port, which Is imbibed by crusty aud parchment-faced tdd solicitors. The drinking of port wine in certain of thechop houses is confined to this branch of the legal prof ssioii. Leaving Fleet stieet and entering the Strand another distinct change is ap parent. The restaurants have more of a West End or n.diionable character, mod fled by the fact that the customers are p ;i Ipally ei ond-rat-actors, music hull ai : n I other persons not ex actly i .B a . Simpson's, where you cut your own iM'ef lioin the joiut, is a Strand inst lution. Host-dries having a high reputation for the hi cwing of punch are quite fre quent here. At Komano's, in the Strand, Miss Bessie Bellwood was of ea wont to satisfy her internal cravings in company with her friend who is now Dill; of Mau i hesler, ami it w as customary lor her to liquidate the cheeks. About the nationality of wailers In London it may be s iid that the majority are foreigners. Waiters are born and not made, except to a limited extent, and Englishmen are not boru waiters, while a great m-tny waiters of tho continent -oem to be so. Tho English waiters are i: her very bad or very good. Iu the o.iop houses they aro good, but else where they nre seldom tolerable. Some of them have or'ii'.al ideas, such as ruuning around iue restaurant aud de manding in a voice to bo heard every where, "Oo bordered "roast beef bunder done, with cullillower; potatoes and a pot of stout !" When one has passed out of the Strand in a westerly direction eyerything. In cluding streets, houses, buildings and restatiiants seem to be larger and airier. The restaurants of Piccadilly, Begent street aud the neighboi hood are proba bly very much like the best restaurants in other cit es, aud are therefore less obaracterlstlcof London than those men tioned before. N. Y. Sun. l'ouy latlgmtion. A case Involving seventy-five cents claimed by a man in Toledo to be duo him from another Toledoim for cow feed has just Ihhmi appealed from a justice's court In that city to tho Lucas Common Pleas. Th plaliitilT says ho will spend his lost dollar to collect tho money by process of taw, and the defendant says he will sacri fice every cent he has in tho figVit to resist payuiout. The result will probably be that the litigants will spend several hundreds, perhaps thousands, of their own money and involve the county in their expendi ture of a large sum. all to gratify their personal ill-reoling. There ought to be a provision of law covering such petty cases us this, making tho decisions of justices final. It is an outrage on tho taxpayers to poriuit the, iippi-ul of such iiisigultlcaut cases to a higher court., wnero vuiuauie time is consumed by them that should be devoied to mora iinportuut matters, aud the county is Involved In a great expense simply to gratify tho personal spite of ob stinate litiguuts.-isainiusKv neirisier. THE CITY OF MOROCCO. Iilvgy Placo Wllt Crooked Streets, bat at Fine Climate. A writer In Blackwood's Magazine says: rtio streets of the city of Morocco ure anrrow, without names and crooked, and he houses without numbers, like all those 3f Morocco towns. The population Is es timated at 60,000. The city Is divided in to two parts, each with Its walls and rates. Ono quarter is exclusively for Jews and the other for tho Mohammed ans. I he Jews are Kept t-trictly within their own division at night, aud none of mom can walk by their gates into tho Mohammedan quarter without taking oil tlioir slippers, and some of tho raoro fan tical of the people place hot coals in their path, so as to bum their feet as they walk Along. There is no regular police to keep order, yet we have never seen brawls in the streets, nor have we heard that the people do much serious damage to one au ulhor. The climate of Morocco is considered particularly salubrious. The summer heat is tempered by the snow-capped Atlas, which raises its high summits just be hind, while the abundant supply of exoel- lei.t water which passes through the city contributes much to tbe health of the peo ple. As it rained nearly every day during our sojourn In thiscouutry, we found Mo rocco nt this time of the year particularly dirty, the rains having made the streets so muddy that they all seemed like run ning sewers. However, during our stay we visited the principal bazaars and shops, which we found well 6tocked with Manchester and native products. Some of the people were gathering up tbe mud and 6toriiig 11 in their slnis to mend their houses with. Wo passed through several markets full of iH-ople, aud we examined every kind of work which they were pleased to show us. Here there are markets for all sorts or in dustry. There is the slave market, which Is held every Friday; also the skin, oil, grain, and other markets. Here we have a street where old shoes are mended and new ones made and ex posed for sale, there a street for old clothes, and others for saddlery. Iron mongery, grinding mills, gunsmiths, dig gers, and swords. The pottery is truly Moorish in character. Fruit, charcoal, coofceoso have markets of their own. bread and meat have their peculiar quar ters. Carriers go about withskius supply- lug the thirsty with drink. Tne Talking Woman. lienareofthewom.nt who talks rap idly." said an old French writer, "for w hen she has spoken of every one else she will talk of thee." Of course, that was very cynical, and perhaps not altogether true; but every one must admit that there was a little spice of truth in it Where there is talk, there must always be a subject of conversation; and when one has talked very rapidlv, and for a long time, even with tho best intentions in the world the subjects have a tendency to become mere personal ones. And per- , sonal sub jects are always so interest tug! How far superior to glittering generali ties, such as those afforded by books and politics and the weather. Let the talking woman be never so personal, she always has a delighted audience, and it is impos sible to estimate the amount of family history and sins of omission and com mission with which they become ac quainted in the course of one sitting. Is she in society? Every smallest incident that she has seen or heard is detailed in that gay, well-meaning chatter, a perfect crazy patch-work of odds and ends of nothing; but odds and ends skillfully patched together sometimes make a first rate scandal, and after a scandal is once started anybody can keep it going. That requires no talent at all. Is the talking woman a trusted employe of some business firm? It shall go hard with her but she will tell the exact condi tion of the books and all tne plans and bocs and fears of the firm to all her inti mate friends, and virtually lay bare every secret of the business every timeshe talks. Everybody knows all about tbe threatened failure long before it happens, and the fact that everybody knows it precipitates the failure, and the firm goes to the wall merely because one of its employes was good at talking and must have something to talk about. Is the talking woman one of your friends? Then sit and listen to her by all means. Absorb everything she says and even take a delight in it. but lock your own family skeleton up in the closet and throw tho key into the well when you see her coming, for otherwise she will hold it up ami rattle its bones for tho amusement of s me other audience. It is not that she I thinks of harming you in the least, but she must talk, and other subiects bein exhausted, the inhabitant ot your closet Is always opportune and always iuterestiniT. An Anecdote at Von Molttse. One day Moltke stopped at a boarding school kept by a person in a village near his Silcsiaii country scat, and sat down to hear the teacher instruct the scholars mostly young noUes preparing for the nrray-on the wars of r ranee and Prussia. The clergyman being called away for a mo ment, Moltke asked to be allowed to take his place. Before loug he asked one of the pupils: ho do you think was Napoleon s best general.' .My gramtuucle, lour Excel lency, Marshal Ney, Prince ot tho Mosk- wa." was tho answer. Turning to an other boy, he asked: "Aud who was tho bravest of Prussia's generals iu tho same war?" "My gramluiicle. Marshal Prince Hlticher," lie said. There was also a de scendant ot Gen. Zteteu among t hem. When the clergyniau returned. Yon Moltke said, w it h a humorous glance nt his ow n plain civilian dress. "Oh. my dear llerr Pastor, you should have told me before that 1 was to find such" famous generals represented here." Ho invited all tho boys to visit him nt Kreisau. aud gave them a most hospituble reception. . Mile of Royalty. "All tho monarchs and rulers of tho world." said a Chicago Combilator, "are to be. invited to visit Chicago at the time of the Columbiaii Klositiou, and we ex pect to got a squad of them. Half of the picssdouts and dictators of South and Ceiilial America will be on hand, if they keep their promises. We are looking for the young Kaiser of Germany, who is a mail i.f the Chicago style. We e.ect tho King of Italy beeauso the exhibition is to be iu honor "of he Italian, Christopher Colum bus, and becauso lie can get out of his tumbles with this country when he comes to Cuicago. Wo will try to draw over tho Uussiau Czar it the Niuilists cau bo kept quiet, and Queen Victoria or tho Priuce ot Wales would like tosH Chicago, that lias a imputation of a million. All tho oriental eiueror3 and sovereigns are yet to getau invitation, and 1 guess Chicago will have a procession of royalli-s and princes nnd sultans and khans and Governors and In dian chiefs that will make New York turn given with envy. We are to havo the big gest show In Chicago since tho dawn ot creation !" N. Y. Sun. Write snort Miters. A young woman In Pennsylvania took a novel way ot selecting a husband from her choice of six admirers. She bade each one to write her a letter setting forth hla pro nosal In due form. When tbe letters came they ranged in length from six lines to six Daces. Tho young woman neiieving orev- lty to be the soul ot wit, chose the shortest enistle. which ran thus: " I will always try to do my duty as a faithful husband. . . The directness ot this epistle won her heart and she married the writer. Detroit lfreaVrees. RALEIGH'S ROMANCE. A Sixteenth Century Story Whirl Fooled tile Old World. Mining prospectors have recently beet hunting for th:-lost Adams mine and for otherdiggings of reputed wealth and un ceitain location. Most practical miner lielieve these diggings never existed save in the imagination of gifted story tellers, but the romances about them jmle iuto in significance when compared with the re maikable lictions concerning the discov ery of precious metals which deluded th old world in the sixtwntn century, when crowds of adventurers were swarming westward. The strangest of these stories related tx enormous treasures existing somewherf in equatorial South America. In the lat ter part of that century the old world had not a particle of doubt that there was an area in eastern South America where gold was as common osironand copper were in Europe. Walter Ilaleigb was among the victims of this delusion and he was one ol the throng that descended upon that part of the new world in the expectation oi finding the golden paradise. It was in l.V.w that Baleigh published the highly colored story of his " Discovery ot the large, rich and beautiful empire ol Jiiiana." Most writers of the day were led by Indian rejwrts to affirm that th golden eity of Manoa, upon the banks ol I-ake Pari me was to be found near the Maroni river in what is now known as French (iuiana. Wherever it was. Kaieigb did not hesitate to inform Queen Elizabeth that these reports were true. Finally the Stiiard Martinez, who had a most bril liant imagination, declared that he had spent nearly a y.-ar in Manoa. of which he gave an elaborate description. He said the city was of enormous size, and iis population almost innumerable Not less than S.ijuft workmen cou!d be seen at their daily toil in the principal street Tlie emperor's palace, built of white marble, ornamented with gold, occupied a beautiful island. Three artificial moun tains environed the palace. One of them was of solid gold, another of silver, and the third of sait, which was protected in some mysterious manner from dissolu tion. The iilace was supported ujxn columns of alabaster and porphyry. Around it were galienes of e'oony and cedar, the wood work lavishly inlaid with gold and precious stones. Two towers guarded the entrance, each twenty-five feel in height, and surmount ed by immense moons of silver. Two liv ing lions were attached to tae f.l of the columns by chains of gold. In tne palace was a large square, adorned with slivei fountains and vases, into which water ran threugh four gold pip. The king was called El Dorado, on account of the splen dor of his costume. Among the mountains ail around weie iuhatistibie mines, the SJHiroeof this splendor. European credul ity wasstror.genouh to give ii'efor years to such nonsensical yarns; and pruLably no traveler in the Maroni valley from Crevaux tollrunetti had failed to contrast the actual poverty cf the region with the glittering descriptions of Ilaleiga and Martinez. S. Y. Sun. A Snow-Storm In Ills Hat. The same causes which produce a fall of snow in ts.e open air namely, a subjection of a moist atmosphere to a temperature cold enough to crystaiize the drops of moisture which are formed may, of course, take place under artificial condi tions. La Nature, a French journal of science, relates that a gontieaiaa who wa walking rapidly along the street on a cold, fair day, and had, by violent exercise, brought himself iuto a condition of profuse per spiration, took on his tail hat in saluting a friend. As he did so he was astonished to feel what was apparently a slight fail of snow upon his head. Cpon passing his band over his head he zouna several unmis takable Bakes of snow there. It is supposed that the freezing, outer air coudecsed the moist warm air within the gentleman's tall hat so suddeniv that a vertable snow-storm, of miniature pro portions, was produced upon his head. A similar incident is related by the same journal. During the past winter, on a very cold, clear night, an evening partv was given in a salon in Stockholm, Swed en. Many peoole were gathered together in a single room and it became so warm in the course of the evening that several ladies complained of feeling ill. An attempt was then made to raise a window, but the sashes had been frozen in their places ami it was impossible to move them. In this situation, as it was absolutely necessary that the air should be admitted, a pane of giass was smashed out. A cold current at orce rushed in. ami at the same Instant flakes of snow were seen to fall tc the floor in all rts of the room. The entrauce of a frosty eurreut into an atmosphere which was saturated with moisture had produced asnowfall indoors. Youth's Com;anion. M nsiral s not. The phenomenon of musical sands, which has attracted scientific attention only during during the iast few-years, is found to be very common. Prs. II. G- Bol ton and A. A. Julian, who have given especial attention to the subject, have col lected 010 samples of such sauds from dif ferent parts of the w-orld. while reports from eighty-live beaches iu the Uuited States have shown them that sixty-five are famous for musical sands. To the eye a patch of this sand is like auy other, yet a blind man who is deaf and dumb can easily distinguish it by a distinct vibration or tickling sensation communicated by it to hands or feet. From about 5A samples ex.-unitied it appears that tho sounds, which are produced by friction are vary in pitch with the amouut of sand acted UHn. do not depend upou a particular variety of sand, but uxn a condition iuto which the saud gets. Boiled in a bay, one specimen of musical sand gave a whoop ing sound audible for about 420 feet. Yet this sand unless bottled lost its power in a few hours after being token from the beach, aud also became soundless on the slightest admixture of line powder or oi moisture. Seelim by Touch. A Russian physician is credited with the invention of an instrument by which per sons totally blind are enabled to preeoive light through the sense of touch. The instrument converts light rays into a thernuM-lectro current, which is per ceived by the nerves of the skin covering the forehead when the appara tus is placed upon t!ut part of the body. The sensation produced, by the Instru ment are thus described by tho inventor: " The presence of an illumiuated object is manifest In the peiveptive field as a sensa tion of warmth. The degree of sensation of warmth increases with the approach of illuminating object, and vice versa. A movement of the feelitigof warmth toward the right shuws that the light has moved to the left, and vice versa. -If the warm urea movesdowuward the illuminating ob iect is moving iipwnrd. mid vice versa. Tho Cttaruts or Family La to. Home Is sometimes thought flat and dull, and too often made so, just from the want of recognizing what it stands for. The love, the fidelity, the forbeir ance, the seir sacrifices teat are nour ished by family life are among the rloh. e possessions of humanity. Awollknowu cultivator says that the greatest mistake made in setting out or chards is to suppose the trees will grow and bear good crojis without care, attention and sultivation ; and auother mistake is to plant apple trees on wet laud without un derdraining. which causes the apples to J grow knotty and rot on the tree CAME OVER WITH COLUMBUS. ' ne srs irnnlc or Captain Perm, th Dlacsvcrer! Companion. James 31. Seymour. Supervisor of tM 1 rent on State Prison, whose residence in Newark, proposes to put on exhibition at the World s lair In Chicairo a box thai is in the attic of his residence, and haa been there lor years. In general appear ance it resemoies tne old-fashioned wood. en trunks brought here from Europe. The! oniy Listening apparent is a hasn. which! may have been secured by a padlock. The! box is oi Spanish pine, and the moths hav-r made many a lunch on it. This trunk, so Mr. Seymour says, beJ longer u rerez, wno came to America! with Columbus. Perez was a sailor on thej Pinta. the vessel that contained the irreat voyager and his crew when they discov-l ered the Western Hemisphere, and he car-l ried the trunk here and back to SpaiaJ ine irunK was Kept tn the Perez family and was handed down from one genera-i uon to another until it was finally given to the Seymours by one of the direct de scendants of Perez. Mr. Seymour lived some years in Snaln. and during that time he gathered a lot of curiosities. His son and namesake went to Spain a few years ago as United States Commissioner to the National Exposition at liarceloiia. and he brought back with him a wagon load of curiosities. Spanish swords and daggers and ail the imple ments oi KMgnuy wanare are repre sented. At his home you can see the cruel. sharp fishhook irons with which the bulla are prodded to make them savage, and on the other side of the wall is a little holy- water font, supposed to be hundreds of years old. Ancient books by the score are there. They are in parchment and bound in rough, untacned skin, but the moths have riddled them so as to give one th idea that a b undred sparrow-shot had been fired through every pa.-e. The books are in Latin. One of them is dated 15-9. It is a manuscript Bible, and its appearance indi cates that the work on it probably occu pied some years. Some of the books ever two hundred years old are in a pretty fair state of preservation. The relic that Mr. Seymour values most and preserves with the gr-itest sacred nes is one containing particles of the bones of saints who died, some ot tbem. over a thousand years ago. The frame la which these are is not unlike the mons trance in which the Eucharist is kept la Catholic churches. At the end of each branch is a small giass case containing tiny piece of bone of one or more sainta, and on the reverse side ot the case is tae picture of the original owner. There are. in ail. relics cf about half a hundred satata. The names are printed in type something like what was used in the latter end of the fifteenth century, shortly after printing was invented, and tbe giass on the little caees looks strong enough and odd enough to have belonged to the same period. The woodwork is dark and heavy, resembling ebonv. N. l. Advertiser. A Story of m Lovis Cnp. A Bfttocian who had been in London good deal relates that not long etnee he had the honor of dining with one of tbe oldest of the companies in that city, wban he was scows the loving- cnp which passed at the conclusion of the dinner the date K42. He had been told earlier in the evening that tbe bail of the company had been burned to the ground ia the great fire ot London, and that evemhing which tbe company bad had been consumed, so that he remarked that of course this cap was a reproduction of an older one. "O.co." was the answer, "this is the tie original." "But how was this preserved in the great nre It was then explained that the company was so heavily assessed at the time of the establishment of the commonwealth when, as everybody- knows, levies made on most of the city companies that it had hard work to raise the necefesaryM lunds. It managed to scrape along-, however, until the restoration when fresh demands, were made by tbe government of Chaxiea H on the ground that the company had contributed funds to the support of Crom welL The company had alreadv mortgaged its land and now there was nothing left 1 wr " 1X11 uiepiwniDgoi its piat. vrmca I wa tWr,llnSly Neded to the Lombards. who carried it to France. It was owing to tills state of things that the plate escaped the great fire, and although it was a long time after that event before the company was in a position to redeem the silver, ultimately the whole came back to the original owners in London -B-sioa Courier. Prwerrs tbe Tn o. There are always some cranks who are afraid of trees. They want to eat down trees and think it their mission to do so. The idea seems to be that one can not have too much sunlight. . Now sunlight is very good in its way but trees serve mankind in many ways more than most people know of. It has been discovered that while the air in the center of Paris contains on an average S.CK0 bacteria to the cubic yard the air in the parks of that city contain only 423 in the same space. Trees along the highways have also their uses In in tercepting in their foliage the particles of " soot and street dust which till the air. In many parts of this country local improve ment societies are plantiug trees on tbe streets, decorating church and school house grounds and supplementing the work of children on Arbor Days. The Philadelphia Kecord reports that during the last seven years the pupils ot the pub- f uc sellouts in i entity: vania uavw pianieu more than three hundred thousand trees, while in New York Slate the total number of trees planted by the schools on two Ar bor Days was 51AXL The hygienic value of such work cannot be overestimated. We sincerely hope that Arbor Day will come to be recognised as one of the most popular days of the year. Buffalo Com inetvioL o This ts tJke Golden, Are. m As far as fashion is concerned, says a London correspondent, the present may, without any exaggeration, be described as the " Golden Age." Not only does gold ap pear in some shape or form in bonnets, hats, mantles and gowns, but it is now . considered in the best taste for table de corations. At one of the most perfectly appointed dinner tables seen last week all the glasses were edired with gold, and had the host's fe-est en craved in gold. The finger-gtasses were especially beautiful, being of Venetian design, and the gilding looking like a fine inlaying of the real metal. Tho ilower troughs, lamp, candle sticks and large centre-piece for fern were all of hand-cut crvstal, mounted in silver gilt. The flowers used were yellow and white; no green appeared, exoept in the fern. In charming harmony with all the other appointments were the' new "tassel" shades, used for candles and lamps. These wore composed: of ivory silk gauze, fluted on the usual-shaped fountain, with a drapery of the material failing tn graceful festoons at the sides, and caught up at the comers by a gold oord and tassel. The small upper part of the shades were alaa encircled by tbe gold cord. The ereateat Divine Teat. The greatest diving feat ever achieved was in moving the cargo of the ship Cape Horn, wrecked off the coast of . South Arheriea, when a diver, named Hooper, 'made seven desoents to depth of SD1 feet, remaining at one time- forty two minutes under the water. Siebe states that the greatest depth to which a man has been known to descend will not exceed 210 feet, which should be equivalent to a pressure of 8B pound per square inch. Y .