3i RIATI FOR ALL Thu Chiiago Civic Federation declares that there are 60,000 vic tims of the opium habit in that city. Ferdinand Ward, who robbed and ruined General Grant, is now working in Genessee, N. Y., at a salary of $6 a week. ""The Louisville Courier-Journal writes an editorial to prove that Kentucky is gradually being edu cated up to drinking water. A Bucksport (Me.) man spat on the floor of the postoffice, and was sentenced to get a scrubbing brush and scrub the floor or go to jail. It was said of both Athens and Rome that so numerous were the temples and statues of gods it was easier to nna a goa man a man. The caterpillar in the course of a month will devour 6,000 times its own weight in food. It will take a man three months to eat an amount of food equaj to his own weight. South Carolina believes in new blood. Her new governor is only 31 years old, the attorney general is 25 and the adjutant general 24, New York has a surprising num ber of poor rich men. Last week 1200 supposedly wealthy persons swore that thev had no taxable property. , The supreme court of Idaho has decided that a drummer selling liquors through the state makes the sales at the domicile of his firm and does not violate the Iowa laws, Squibnocket is a village on Mar tha's Vineyard island, where one out of every four of the inhabitants were REARERS y born deaf-mutes. In five oft the families there are twenty-eight children, of whom fifteen are deaf mutes and five are feeble-minded. I Many people think that Harvard i university is the biggest institution V of learning in the country. This is a a mistake. The University of . Michigan, with its 4000 students, i'ff heads the procession. Harvard is second, Pennsylvania third, and y Yale fourth. V A war correspondent, writing, i after familiar association with Japan's leading soldiers, says: "The Japanese officers are a niix- ?ure of the French officers and the erman sous officers. They live rieht among their men, sleep near them, eat the same food in sight of all, expose themselves to all kinds of danger and hardship. No won der the soldiers have the greatest confidence in them! I found every Japanese general I met to be brave, generous, kind, polite, ready to eive his life for his men and for his flas. When the detailed his torv of the life of some of these men is written it will undoubtedly call forth the admiration of the world." Gilbertian humor has been exem plified by an itfcident at Southport, England. Last week birth tooK j Tlace in two families living in the i same house. In one case twins ar rived, and one baby in the other. As a joke the three infants were placed in one bed , to make the father of the twins believe that his wife had given birth to triplets. Everything passed off pleasantly and satisfactory until the ''lark" was exploin-.-d and the business of restoring the infants to their re spective mothers began. Here a serious difficulty presented itself, for the attendants were unable to sav which was which. The inden tification has not yet been satisfac torily established. Sayings Having a Holy Writ Flavor. Job was .never Ueard 'after the bail." A pie-eater is not necessarily pious. It i? a Ion time since the Dead sea died. Shekels ivere not made to fit a slot machine, r A crimson stain may consist of blackberry juice. Dudes who imbibe Angelica are not always angelic. The Gospel provides no salvation for spirits frumenti. Solomon was not wise enough to pick the winner at long odds. Mules and Mulattoes were not on Noah's bill of lading when he went into the ark. Water cannot be made holy by throwing stones into it and looking for the holes. It Would Be Nice, If servant girls hadn't such a tendency "to quit." If our old maids and old bache lors would get together. If peopla who work were as much respected as people who don't. If the cigarette were a thousand fold more deadly to the smoker. PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. NEWS NUGGETS PICKED UP WEST OF THE SIERRAS. Troubles of a Wealthy Fresno Man A Coat.t Uoud Tram San Francisco tc Santa Cruz Crap Games Closed at ViU lejo Irrigation Suit at Bttkersfleld. Perrv Gibson of Seattle is tiniler ar rest at Portland for smuggling opium. lie could not give bonus. Professor Sanders has written a letter to a Fresno paper declaring that the press is hounding him, and says that when Wootton comas back there will be a settlement to make with the papers which have charged him with crime. He has over 80 papers on his list. A bill has been introduced in the Ne vada legislature which provides that sleeping car companies shall not charge more than one-half a cent a mile for the use of sleeping cars. August B. Hansen of Petaluma, ChI., kidnaped his own child recently at San Jose. Hansen's wife left him to go with F. W. Fox. Hansen learned the couple were at San Jose and went there and took his child. Mrs. Hansen is under 20 years of age and very pretty. Fox, her paramour, is over 40. Sheriff Jay Scott of Fresno county, ex-Jailor Brown and Turnkey Tabor of San Bernardino, charged with allowing prisoners to go free without legal pro cess, were discharged by Judge Koss at Los Angeles. Thirteen canal companies have com menced suit in Bakersneld for the pur pose of obtaining a perpetual injunction against the South Park or Panama Slough Canal company. It is claimed that the defendant concern is not incor porated, and being a very valuable water right it is proposed to prevent the company frcm taking water out of the Kern river. Henry S. Foote of San Francisco has been appointed Cuited States district attorney for the northern district of California. Washimrton's birthday will be cele brated on a grand scale"by the X.itive Sons of the Golden West at Shu Fran cisco. Governor Bndd will review the parade, which will be participated in by the militia, the regular army troojw of the presidio and the parlors about the bay. The corner-stone of the Native Sons' building is to be laid. The second chapter in the Denieke family trouble at Fresno has begun. I Major Deuicke bas filed an action for divorce against his wife. She brought suit & short time ago against him for divorce, but the i-apers were not legally served, and now he has reversed mat ters and made her the defendant. He is a wealthy fig raiser, 60 years of age. She is 20 years old. He charges her with cruelty and alleges that she has de clared in the presence of various per sons that she married him for his money and cared nothing for him. He says that on one occasion she threw articles of crockery at him and cut his head se verely. He also charges her with infi delity, which he alleges occurred in San Francisco soon after their marriage seven months ago. Mrs. Denicke is charged with locking her hnsband out of their room, compelling him to sleep in the hall, and take his meals at res taurants or go without food. For years the project of a coast road, from Santa Cruz to San Francisco via Pescadero and Hiilf Moon bay, has been bilked of. The route was surveyed sev eral years ago and then the matter rested. Interest has been revived at Santa Cruz by a gentleman interview ing citizens as to what that city would do toward a coast road. He said that a capitalist ana railroad builder was anxious to construct the road. The citi zens interviewed are enthusiastic over the project and will soon hold a meet ing to consider it. They are now wait ing to hear what plan the capitalist has to submit. Sheriff Rush of Solano connty has or dered all "crap" games in Valleio to close. For over a year Vallejo has been apparently the headquarters of "crap" plHyers. Small boys frequented the re-1 sorts in large numliers, and nightly ! hundreds of dollars changed hands. The ! ministers of the city ami others have j organized a purity committee and .nc- , ceeded in persuading the sheriS to en-1 force the law. - ' j Joseph P. Marks of Eureka, Cal., u ! totally biind from the effects of a beat ing received from a footpad in Kan Francisco. John McShnne is charged with the crime and Marks has gone to San Francisco to testify in the case. A question is puzzling the officers of Fresno county and an act of the legis lature may lx? necessary to settle it. V. B. Cobb's property was ordered under ! attachment and the sheriff has theitodoit- Tho market for fins, or nva- papers to serve, but the property is on j an island in the San Joaquin river, and it cannot be determined whether it is in ! Madera or Fresno county. The river is the boundary linev The officers refuse to serve the papers till jurisdiction is determined. The act creating Madera county omitted the island and there ceeuis to be no way to settle the matter. Mrs. Claribel Langley of Riverside is suing her husband, Thomas E. Lang ley, for divorce. Langley is a well known fruit packer. The complaint charges failure to provide and infidel ity. A Mrs. Webber is made core spondent. ' Frank B. Woodruff, president of the Pacific Commercial company of Tacoma, who has returned from a business trip to Japan, says that the country is des tined to become the greatest manufac turing and exporting country in the world, on account of the Japanese in genuity and cheap lalxir. They are tak ing apart, scrutinizing and learning how to make all kinds of machinery, from electrical apparatus down, and are also developing great marble and onyx mines. A large trade can be built up between the Pacific Coast and Japan, he says, but the exports to the Orient most be chiefly of raw materials. WASHINGTON NOTES. Interesting Iteni Picked Out from the I:iily Dispatches. The house of representatives has voted down President Cleveland's scheme to issue bonds. It is possible the Nicaragua caniil bill may not be reached by the house before adjournment. Congressman Geary h:is presented a petition signed by 110 Demo crats and 70 Republicans to the commit tee on rules asking for a day to be fixed to debate the bill. The court of appeals has affirmed the judgment of the lower court refusing to grant John G. Moore of Now York an injunction restraining Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller from proceeding to collect the income tax from the com plainant. Counsel for Moore immedi ately noted an appeal to the United States supreme court, and the matter will probably be brought to the atten tion of the court of last resort book after it reconvenes next month. Collectors of internal revenue through out the country have already begun to receive returns under the income tax law. In a number of instances the cash has accompanied the returns. Inasmuch as the tax is not required to be paid be fore July 1 next, several collectors have asked to be instructed as to whether they could accept payment at this time. To these inquiries Commissioner Miller has replied that the tax might be re ceived at any timo provided the col lector is satisfied that the return is correct Senator Perkins, from the committee on education and labor, has reported his uill for the creation of au industrial commission of 21 persons which is in tended to arbitrate labor difficulties. The committee presented a writteu re port in which it estimates the aggregate loss to all concerned on account of strikes during the past six years at $DS, 5oO,So9. Surgeon General Wyman of the ma rine hospital service, as requested bv Senator Perkins and Representative Loud, has sent a letter to the senate ! urging the appropriation of $12,000 to ! enable the government to take charge j of the quarantine station at Sua Fran- ' cisco. The civil service commission has com- j pleted a schedule of examinations of the ; first six months of the present year. On j the Pacific Coast they will occur as fol- j lows: Tucson. A. T.. April lo; Los Au- jreles, April 1U; San Francisco. April 2: ' Ueuii, Nev., April 20; Koseburjr, Or., April 29: Portland. May 1; Seattle. May j 4; jx)kane, iiay . The examinations will be for applicants for the depart mental railway mail and Indian service. A White Riblmn petition containing over 00,000,000 names has bern seut to congress by the W. C. T. U. The peti tion has been around the world and is signed in 50 different languages. They were of all sorts and sizes and were to be trimmed ami prepared for mounting as compactly as o6sible on interminate webs of muslin half a yard in width, one edge of which was bound with red and the other with blue ribbon red, white and blue being the prevalent colors of the flags of all nations and the symbolic badges of the great temper ance movement of modern times. Mrs. Schnman. who has had charire of this branch of the work, has mounted 1.203 ' yards, or over one mile of canvas, mak ing five miles of names written solidly, one underneath the other. This is ex clusive of about a.V),000 names that came from Great Britain mounted. Be sides these there are hundreds of thou sands of names yet waiting to be added to the long roll. 1 The general conference of the Seventh Day AdventUts inet at Detroit last week. It is announced that Congressman Wilson of West Virginia has been ten dered by the regents the position of president of the University of Texas, which offer he has under consideration. A bill is now pending in the Texas legis lature creating the office and it has no opposition. . The Chicago Jewish Courier pub lishes the following editorial: A young Jew living on Maxwell street undertook to take Un)U himself and atone for the sins of his lieighlxir. Being quite poor he made a bargain to assume the Sab bath sins of one of them for 5'J cents. Another neighlxir wished to le rid of his sins and con- id ring tlm hard tims the young man ngre;--l to take his sin of the Si'.bbat'.i and u!."i the sin he to;n:?iit t.d by eai::g meat which was t.i t Uillvd bv the Jewish maftfr fir -1" .:. !s. I When the first neighl r i!i;inrr.-d thai j the other had J aid vv.ly 1 ' c nts inr 1 ' ing rid ot the s-ius of the S.iMi.s;!; nudoi eating uncleim lii'-a:, woilf li... paw .v,i cents for the taking awy o; only hi. sins of the Sabbath, he K"t mud. lie was going to have the young iimu ar rested had not roine people told him not ras, is now slacken Maxwell street." YOU WANT A FROM THE METROPOLIS The San Francisco Weekly Examiner IS THE ONE GREAT WEEKLY OF TlTk C0A3T. IS TUB FIRST PLACE, IT GIVKS KVKItV Srnscniny.il OXK OK TliK K !"; M. US IKICKNT ETCHINGS, OH I'AISTISOS. MKsCltlBSlI BELOW. ASK fc-CUVKU IT s-.-.Kr.l.V AT 11IS AODUSSS. POSTAGE PAIO: "THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG." in Co'ors, by Thjrlsirui thi CrcA Car Artlit "THE SIRENS," h Colo's a Painting Famous lha World Cvjr. "CHRIST OR DIANA." Illustrating an Historical vcnl ol !atly Christ s:ii'.y. "PEEK-A-E00!" a First-Prize Winner at the Paris Sa'on. Each of thesa Pictures I Jlx'.M Inches, and they nro ek'iMntty ivrruluc. d in fa feature of tbe great 01 lylnals. either one of wlilcli could Lot no irhea f .r Besides, There RANGING IN VALUE FftOU 2S Cf.VIS TO f:3,y0 TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG EXAM1NEH SUS'-C !D;.R5. Th prloe of th Wkeklt Exaxixib Is H BO por year, lncl.idli.si tii frtvulu-ii l'l-u,-- til r. tbara of tho H5,000 list of Promlumt. which r fulu doiurllrad la iho iwo.vo-.f i-rmiiiu:u :?pi. meat, which will be teat free om application to W. R. HEAHST, Publlohor. 'an fr.- j. ...i. THE PARIS FUND. Ilonr the Irish Money Was Brought from Franco to Kncland. An interesting account of the trans mission of the released I'arisfundsfrom Paris to London has been furnished by the London correspondent of the Free man. With the exception of a very small proportion, the funds, it should be explained, are in the form of Amer ican bonds of various kinds, payable to bearer. When the order for their surrender to Mr. McCarthy was delivered by the French courts to the Paris bankers, Messrs. Monroe, the question arose as to the best means of transporting them across the channel. The junior part ner of the firm of Messrs. Longmans & Co.. who acted as Mr. McCarthy's solic licitors, considered it undesirable to travel with so large a sum of negotiable bonds in hit! possession without insur ing them. However, on inquiring of several leading insurance companies he found that none of them would un dertake the risk'. The result was that Mr. Longmans decided not to hazard the chances of the road with the securi ties. Inquiry was instituted among per sons accustomed to sending valuables of various kinds from the French to the English capital, in order to discover the plan usually adopted. To the sur prise of those concerned, they learned that the only really safe method in the case of such valuable parcels was to tend them by registered letter, and this method was ultimately successful ly adopted. THE CHIFFONIER. A Ruined Institution In the Great City of I'aris. The chiffoniers of Paris have lost their trade at least it has become so totally modified that they no longer pursue it in its ancient form. The waste and dirt from every house used to be poured out into the street before the front door ouch evening at nine or ten o'clock, and the chiff'-nier. with Ir.s lantern aud.his hook in his hands and his liasket on his hack, arrived at once and raked the heaps over, to see what he could find in them. Hut it be came forbidden, says lilack wood's Magazine, either to throw the refuse into the street or to bring it out at -night. It was prescriU'd that it should be carried down in the early morning, in a box. wnieh is placed, full, at the door, and is emptied In-fore nine o'clock in the dust carts, which go round each Jay. The chiffoniers, therefore, have no longer the opportunity of picking aver the dirt, for it bas ceased to offi-r itself in an accessible form: they have, for the most part, to carry on their trade after the rvfuse is discharged from the carts at the depots, and. con sequently, have almost disappeared from the streets. They cannot be re irartled as a loss, for they were, of necessity, dirty and bad smelling, and looked, as they prowled about with their dull lanterns in the dark, like siircivta ui uiiseraoie evuness. iut, all the ame. they were thoroughly typical of old Paris. An A;loc-'l Mlrarlr. At Itadiccna. in Calabria, a statue of the virpin which bad blood quietly for one hundred years in the village church, suddenly Iviran to move its eyes on the Sth of September last. The miracle was seen bv ell the inhabitants, who took the statue out that nig-ht and car- j ried it about in procession, when a stranpe halo in the shape of the cross, j was seen around the moon. From that j day the Church of the Mauonna of the j Mountain has been crowded cioy and ! night, pilgrimages to her are Wing or- J panized. jrifts are pouring in. and al ready fifty thousand francs in money have lcen recrived. The syndic of the town asserts that the miracle rvaliy happened, and a dep station has started for i.oine to lay the facts before the POP- it. A Sovereign Remedy IsrGsyghs CoIdsXaGrippe ad all Afiection.s o'lheThroat. Chest ad Lvngs. ABiETiNEto.Co.OrOi'liie.CGL NEWSPAPER OF THE PACIFIC COAST. !' h tnc every 4-100 IKItl. Are 9,009 Premiums OTEL MEDFORD, i if i HAMILTON & LEGATE. Proprietors. NEW MANAQEA1ENT, i STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS, The Medford has been me yery best. II you try us once you will surely come again. RATES FRO1 $1.00 TO $a.oo PER DAY. . . . 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