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Newspaper Page TextOCHOCO REVIEW PCIMSHID KVBBV 8ATTJEDAT ST ..'.' J. A. DOUTHIT. Term of Snbaarlptloa. Oneree-, BTSO (FaraMe in adrasee.) OmCK-lH MABOlllO BUILDIIfO. State Official Directory. Governor, Secretarr of St.U, -Slate Treasurer, Slate P.iutrr. Bupc Fab. Instruction, Judges Supreme Court, Uolfcd Bute Senalois, ConmMmmn. Judge 8 vents District, Pnieeeutlng AtloriMij, Joint senator, BtLvewtes Fexeotee OEOBOI W. Mi'BEIDE 6 w. win lun Baeee C. B. McElboT f WILLIAM P. UiES ( w. W. Thayer I E. 8. Bteaba I J. H Mitchell I J. H. Doleh Bisuns Hkemae J. H. KlEB W. H. WlUOK C. A. OownrELt County Official Directory. Renresentatlve, Coun f Judge, Commujetoaera, County Clerk, Sheriff, Trraaurer, - ' ftehool superintendent. Assessor, Purveyor. . Coroner, J. P Prineville Precinct, Constable. T. J. Ktefhbshou J. C. SunnEB fO Bpbinocr IB B. Blaytos Aethi-k Houon W A Boots Kd H. White C. M HBIKiFETO W. A. QxHOW - H K HuirroE Ll W Wooim M. H Bell 8. Black Arrival and Departure of Malls. Dalles and Prineville Leaves Prinerille every day eicept Sunday at 5 A. a.; arrive erery day except Mona.y at urn. Prieeville axd Buens -Leaves Prinevl le Monday USA M ; arrives at rrlnevUle aetnraay at3u r. m. PRf-erii.t.K in Omp Pole Leave Prinerille Moudaj at 6 A. a.; arrive, at PrineTilie Tuesday at p. a. Mitchell akd PrinetilleT eaves Mitchell on Monday and Friday a' 6 A. M.; arriTea at PriueviUe at 6 P. H. of same day; return to Mitchell on Tuesday and Baturday. Prineville Ann Hardin - Leaves Prinerille Wedne day At 6 a. m.; returna to PrtnevUle on Haturday tttr.E. a. v. rALMtrt, r. . MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. TJRINKVILLE LODOR. No. 76, A. F. A. M., A- meets on the second and fourth Saturday of each month. T. M. BALDWIN, W. M. P. B. Iiavm, Secretary. o .CHOW) LODGE. No. 46, L O. O. P.. MKET6 every osturuay night o CH' OO LODOK, No. 101, A. O. U. W., MEETS on tbe wcodu and uutt Monday oi eacn montn. 1RINKVIl.LK FfRK COMPANY. No, x tlie ftrrt Monday evuniug uf every mon 1 MEKT8 month. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Dr. Henry E. Center. Physician and Surgeon, Mitchell, Or. ft All calls attended promptly, hotel. Offloe New Central C. A. CLINE, Dentist, ' Dentist, Prineville. Or. AH dent, work dona in the most approved style. cal anaesthetic applied for the painleM itracUon of taeth. Ail wort aone at fortlanu price. H. P. BELKNAP, H. D., Phy sician and Surgeon, Prineville, Or. Office in Belknap's drug store. GEORGE W. ATTORNEY BARNES, AT LAW, Prineville, Or. Office on Third street. J. F. MOORE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Prineville Or. Office on street leading to Courthouse, near planer ditch. . D. L. PATEE, Contractop 7 and V Builder, Prineville, Oregon. KNOX HUSTON, County Surveyor, REAL '.' ESTATE AND Employment Agent. Those wUbing to sell, bay or rent will receive prompt att-ntion- A U who want hired help will save time and expense by VUIIBUIblUg U1V. School Teachers, Farm Hands and Sheep Herders, ' In fact all manner of help furnished on short notice. Auttlicfttions bv mail nromuti. at. ended to. Otnce First door north of Dew Drop saloon, Prine Tiiie. Charges reasonable. HEW SADDLE SHOP, PKINSVILLK, OR. i M. H. Bell, Proprietor, A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF Saddles,. Harness, Sups, Spirs, Bits, gorse Blankets, AM everything .Ue pertaining to tb trade tpd aWt is atiirU),S os PMOMti tsripi ,n4 iM THE PACIFIC COAST. An Opal Mine Discovered on Farm Near Pullman. Colony of Forty Wealthy Nationalists Formed in San Bernardino County, Cal. The George W. Elder is to be repaired and put on the line between Portland and San Francisco as a freight boat. A colon v of Nationalists, with forty members, has been formed at Highlands, San Bernardino county. Cal. Their in- lividual bank accounts are worm azuu,- 000. Another Pete Olsen has been arrested at Stockton, Cal. It is not believed that he answers fully the description of the murderer of Mrs. Lyons in Napa a lew years ago. Til RruHatroAt. M prcfl.nt.ile Arancv re ports fifteen failures in Pacific Coast States and Territories for last week, as against nine for the previous week and hve for the corresponding week ot 18a, The Riverside Press says : It is ru mored that " Lucky " Balwin is talking of building a big hotel at Bear Valley. If he should, the narrow-gauge road will have to be built to insure the success of the hotel project. The State Viticultural Commission re ports the vintage of California at 12, 000.000 ga'lons, or 4,000,000 gallons less than last year .which was about 16,000,000. The falling off is owing to the great amount of grape drying in progress. The first train of Washington hops has just left Puyallup for Baltimore, to be shipped thence to London. The train consists of twenty-five cars, and carries about 180 tons of hops. At an average of '20 cents a pound the train is worth about 1 72,000. The gross taxable property in Wa'lowa county, Oregon, is $1,3 4.626; indebted ness; $452,751 ; exemptions, '137,700, leaving net taxable property amounting to $724,175. The county is In a prosper ous condition, and with an abundant harvest has good prospects for the future. The steamer Rio de Janeiro has sailed from San Francisco for China and Japan, carrying back forty Chinese, who arrived on her a week ago, and who were unable to land on writs of habeas corpus. Four other Chinese, who were intercepted on the Mexican border in Arizona recently while endeavoring to enter the United States, were also returned on the same steamer. A Truckee genius has invented a di vining rod which he claims will determine the locality f gold or silver, and the firm of A. V. Chillis & G) of Truckee has shipped one of the instruments, to which the manufacture has given the name of " King Solomon's magnet," to Anderson, Tex., in the registered mail. and while the mail clerks were at break fast it exp'oded. An opal mine has been discovered on the farm of William Leasure, five miles from Pullman, on Missouri Flat, and 200 mining claims have been staked out. The opals are found twenty-six feet be low the surface of the ground in rock and gravel, and were first discovered while digging a well. As Leasure has made final proof on the farm, it is not thought that the locators can hold claims on his land. Napa, Cal., is rudely disturbed by by the news that the order of the Royal Argosy, a popular endowment insurance lodge, will dissolve. The membership in that city is 400, many of whom are poor people who have mortgaged their homes to raise the money wherewith to Say assessments in this and similar or ers. There is a possibility that invest ors will get 75 cents on every dollar that they paid in. The First National bank of Snohomish has been victimized by a smooth forger, who succeeded in obtaining 45 on a check drawn on the order of G E Mil ler & Co.. bankers of Seattle. There was little excuse for the Snohomish bank to have been swindl d, as the officers must have known that the firm of G E. Mil ler & Co. was no longer in existence as a firm, it having been superseded by the King uonnty Hank. President Woodruff of the Mormon Church denies the statement made in the report of the Utah Coraruipsion that plural marriages have been solemn' zed during the past yt ar in Utah, and adds that there has been nothing in the teach ings of himself or his associates the past year that can be construed to inculcate - TI. ! or encourage polygamy, ne puouciy advises his following to abstain from any marriage iorbidden by the laws ot the land. The new United States cruiser San Francisco, which rande a record of 19.719 knots in tier omciai triai trip in canta Barbara channel a few weeks ago, left the Union Iron Works and was towed to Mare Island navv yeard, where she will be formally turned over to the govern ment. The cruiser has been thoroughly cleaned and painted since her trial run, and it is understood that the work of placing her armament aboard and other wise fitting her for sea will be com menced at once. , The Postoffice Department has let the contract for the steamboat semi-monthly man service ueiween rort lownsend. Wash., and Sitka. Alaska, and the fol lowing intermediate points: Lorinsr. Fort W'rangel, Douglas, Juneau and Kil lismoo, Alaska. The tiis'ance between the extreme noints is 1.C50 miles, and during the months of November, Decem ber, Janu ry snd February it is not to x eed ten days for the trip each way, nine days eacn way to be-allowed during the rest of the year. The British ship Gretna sailed from London for San Francisco 2J2 davs ago. Nothing was heard of her during that time, and forty days ago she was given up for ost, and 95 er cent, was offered and refused for reinsurance. The other evening the Gretna arrived at her desti nation. The captain reports encounter ing heavy seas in the South Atlantic. The ship was thrown on her beam ends and much damaged. She was blown so far out of her course that the cantain decided to finish the voyage by way of the CaP Hop tbe Pacific EASTERN ITEMS. House Committee Favors Selling Mormon Church Property. Minister Mizner's Conduct in the Barrundia Affair Upheld by the State Department Detroit is building a boulevard. The World's Fair tower is to be feet. 1,500 Fall River's new City Hall will prob- aoiy cost 3W,uw. Total cash in the United States Treas ury is $694,557,461.07. The wheat acreage in Kansas this fall will be about 2,000,00.) acres. The late census shows Boston to be entitled to 113 more saloons. There are are thirty-nine theosophical societies in the United States. Brooklyn druggists in meeting con demned the adulteration of drugs. Msine spe'ulitors are offering $5 barrel for winter apples on the treea. Knuli? hmen are planning to open np 1.0U0.000 acres of land in We t Virginia. Farmers are at the head of theGuber- natonal tickets of both parties in In- diana. The Prohibition candidate for Gov ernor of Pennsylvania has withdrawn from the contest. A remarkably rich gold mine is re ported to have been discovered near Rapid City, S. D. The death roll of the Grand Army of the Republic last year was 5,476 out of a membership of 464,652. Physicians have condemned the water in East Lake, from which Bridgeton, N. , gets its water supply. It is estimated that fully 4,000 Pen n- sylvanians are in the employ of the United States Government. Over fifty thousand American tourists are said to have amvd home Irom Europe since the 1st of August. The postoffice force at New Orleans has been reduced on account of the de crease in mails, owing to the anti-lottery law. The bill appropria'ing $100,000 to sur vey Alaska bits been favorably report' d by the Hoase Committee on Foreign Af fairs. Secretary Windom accounts for the stringent money market on the ground j crops. ' i New York City is kicking against the Federal census because it will reduce its representation in Congress and in the State Legislature. The Canadian uovernment, it is understood, will shortly abolish the ex port duty on Canadian logs shipped to ine united states. 1 A number of Jews recentlv arrived from Russia are negotiating for 70J acres of land near Centre Grove, N. J. on which to start a colony. The Southern Illinois Immigration and Improvement Association has decided lo spend $700 in advertising the a Ivan- tages of Lgypt. They want a boom. .Late heavy rains nave caused over $100,000 loss by the damage to crops along the Genesee river and its trib- utanes in Western New York State. The United States Treasury, as tbe result of the measures adopted bv Mr. Windom, has been paving out $2,000,000 per day since the middle of August. a. mine cuiikiauuii ui ueKruea iruui i,iicoiooijpi W wamuuuin id nuuciputeu. land" have returned with a favorably Rnnrirftiilt'H entate will ha enntrated for hy both bis widows, Agnes Robert- s n ana ixjinse lnornavxe. rne Ola scanaai is iiReiy to be aisned np again. The American Foreetry Congress, at ita rorwnr meeting in fliiU .,.1.1 resflnt:ons recomm-n.ling the seeding of young men to Europe to study for estry Friends of the late General Fremont in New York are manifesting consider ab'e interest in the ondi'i n of Mrs. Fremont,' and doing so in a substantial manner. The subscriptions to the fund for the erection of a monument to the memory A. D. Bryce Douglass, managing di of the late Henry W. Grady at Atlanta, rector of the Naval Construction Com Ga., are being rapidly collected. About nanv of Rarrow-in-Furnees. has sailed $20,000 were subscribed. It is reported in Washington that General RuBSel A. Alger wishes to pur chase a newspaper in New York City ana to put ex-Assistant Postmaster uen- eral Ularkson at the head of it. By a vote of 5 te 4 the Honse Com mittee on Judiciary has ordered a fav orable report on the Sena'e bill provid ing for the disposition of the personal property of the Uhurch ot JUttter Day isaints in utan. Canadian estimates are to the effect that the McKinley bill will reduce Canadian exports to the United States bv at least $10,000,000. It will shut out Canadian barley and enlarge the mar ket for California barley. Mizner's conduct in the Barrundia af- fair is upheld by the State Department, to the National Assemb'y, whi- h says but the conduct of Captain Pitt, the the revolution was not made by the ca Department says, demands investiga- naille, but by responsible, rich and intel tion. The argument is used that the ligent citizen, who risked their lives Captain either should not have accepted and fortune. This is tken as a national barrundia as a passenger, or, having mwntiJ l.M Lnnn't.M rf nia i,r v, i a v,n..o , ried him within the territorial limits of Guatemala : . ', , There is hardly a donbt but that the provision relating to the fortification ot sweet wines for dotaestic use will be - taineu in me utnu um, tnougn ll seems likelv that California will hive to uv r fice that part of it relating to the for- A London dispatch says the McAnliffe tification of sweet wines for foreign Slavin tight will come off at the Or el portation, thereby imposing a duty mende Club', as arranged, and for the on fortified wines which have been same s'akes. bat it will be for fifteen shipped abroad and imported into this country again, heavier than the present internal revenue tel. Of 60 cents per gI- ion, ; - FOREIGN NEWS. The Sultan of Sokoto Sends Queen Victoria a Lion. Experiments Being Made in the English Channel with a View of Building a Bridge Across It, The Anti-Slavery Conference has opened at Pails. Genoa is preparing for a' Columbus anniversary in 1892. , The Porte has authorized the founding of a Russian school is Constantinople. Ve-nois has positively decided to re sign as Prussian M nistt-r of War. Parnell's health will not permit him to make a personal visit to this country. Typhoid, in -an epidemic fom, has broken out at several poin's along the coast of Normandy. . On the Riviera this season the heat has been greater, than at any time for the past twenty years. A commercial panic prevails in Lis bon, where the leading banks are trem- bung. A crisis is imminent. . 8tenolIraDic instrument in use bv the Italian Parliament is capable of re- cording 250 words per minute. The natives of Vitu, Africa, have mas- acred a German merchant named Ruen zel and sveu German employes. Portugal has ordered the suppression of all cablegrams referring to political disorders in the country. McMillan, the Colonial Treasurer. has withdrawn his resignation at the request of the Governor of New South Wales. Newfoundland fishermen a-e again complaining of the Fr. nch, who, it is claimed, are tarrying things with a high hand. The actress Marie' Hock, who made her debut in New York, is dead at Ber lin. Her death is due to a mistake in a prescription. Mr. Gladstone savs he is confident that England will refuse to renew her costly support of the Turkish system of government. ? It is claimed that the reason the Ger man authorities in Africa countenance the traffic in slaves is to attract wealthy Arabs to the German coast line. The reeent ' duels in France have brought out an appeal from Jules Simon, who calls upon his countrymen to abandon the absurd custom of dueling. Michtwl Davitt's new paper will make some startling disclosures and be sensa tional. The origin of the dynamite plots will be given and conspirators shown up. The wire to be used for the telephone between Paris and London is made of bronze. Enthusiasts believe that all the telegraphic communication will be super- seded. The Brazilian Episcopacy has nub- lished an energetic r rotest against the measures which the Republican Govern ment proposes to aim at the Ca'holic Church. The German wine-growers ask Chan cellor von Capri vi to use diplomatic m ans to prevent the exporting tr.ide with America from being injured bv the McKinley bill. John Morley has visited Dublin to make a personal survey of the agricul- turHi DHUHuou, hiiu tu corner witu JM.es srs. Dillon and O'Brien prior to their de- parture for America. The Comte de Paris is advisine his friends to waste no time in recrimination. htlf. t affirm r'lAdl.lvr.rioiv' faith in mindv. I chin I nrmrinlwi onrl nmto fn. g i.t nn ance oi the struggle in t ranee Tnfi stream of lava flowing down the southeastern side of Vesuvius advances slowlv and majestically, and is said to be a beautiful spectacle from the observ- aiury ai roinpeu Arrangements are being made for sending out to Australia from London toward uie ena oi wovemDer. a protected P,arty. principally of single girls, under the care of the Church Emigration So ciety's matron. Experiments are being conducted in the English channel near Folkestone with a view to the construction of a bridge across the channel. A good foun dation is being sought. The bottom is t 1 . 1 1 1 . for America, where he will select a site on which to establish extensive Bhip yards. The Sultan of Sokoto, who rules over 12,000,000 people in West Africa, has presented his fellow sovereign, Queen Victoria, with a magnificent lion. The animal has arrived in Liverpool, and will probably be taken care of at the Zoo." The dredging of the bar at the month of the Mersey, that has proven so seri ous an impediment to navigation, and whereon more than one of the great iraneauantic liners have received serious injury, has commenced. There is great rejoicing among the revolutionists in Ticini. Switzerland. over the rerort of the Federal Council sanction of the revolution. I The postal savings banks in Jatmn. which for several yeaw received but little attention from the people, have become a great success. They were established ine187s at end 0 the vear had on,T 15 0 on deposit. In 1882, however, it Umounted to $1,058,000, and in 1889 to ton Kl) fiYl owuuu- rounds instead of thirty, and the gloves brought from America will be made two ounces hesvier, to comply with tha law. Tbf 4rili,frtjlif4. ' ' EATING YELLOW MUD. Tr.EB.adoa. Growth of ta Aaalt.ratla. of rood ay the I'm of Barytas. A St Louis gentleman was met at one of the hotels yesterday who I tales that In ever! counties of Missouri a wholesale ; business in an adulterant known as barytes is carried on to an ex- tent which has become almost alarm- by it Insecta over which spider polarm ing. The name of the informant is In has but little Influence are usually left possession ot the News, but tor reasons 'meshed in the web to struggle until ex given by himself is not given at pre- hausted, before the spider attempt! to ent In speaking of the unlawful traf- devour them. When a fly la bitten by fie he said; "Barytes is a cheap, white ' a spider. Its whole body seems atesed mineral substance, which Is found prin- by violent convulsive twitching, and cipally in the counties of Jeffer- death generally occurs after a tew ml son, Washington, Franklin, Cooper J utea. and Osage, and Is mined and shipped I j The spider's poison issues from a sac broadcast aU over the country at the I and duct at the base of its mandibles. rate of thousands of tons a year. Al- ! It closely resembles the venomous mat though there are hundreds of mines In ter secreted by scorpions, and is a trans operation the supply Is always less 1 parent fluid, containing traces of fonnio than the demand. Several large firms ' acid and albumen. There seems to be In St Louis handle nothing else, and aothing characteristic in its microscopic have become immensely wealthy with- j in the past few years. A strange feat- j ure about the nefarious business is that i very few of the miners know the real ' use to which the mineral is put It passes through several hands before it reaches the consumer, which is the peo ple themselves. After being taken out of the earth It Is broken up and pul verized Into a fine powder so as to re semble flour or white lead. It is mixed with many articles of food, Svch as granulated sugar, powdered sugar, and is also extensively used in adulterating white lead, which is tbe basis of mineral paints. That Is the principal reason the paints turn yellow much sooner now-a-days than in former years. It is shipped in barrels, and the people where it is mined are told that it is gypsum or Is Intended for use In packing-houses for painting the canvas with which cured meats are covered in summer. "The miners receive only 50 or SO cents a day, and many women are em ployed who receive 25 and 30 cents a day. The ownors of the land are paid a royalty of 20 cents a ton. It Is found within three or four feet of the surface,' and Is sold in the market at 86 a ton. The retailers receive a'rout 6 cents a pound. I do not exaggerate when I say that hundreds of thousands of tons of this mineral have been shipped out of Missouri, and the industry is grow ing every day. It is no secret that many of the leading men of the State are In terested in the work, and have made investments In lands and crushing ma chinery. For many years Germany has been sending barytes to this country as ballast in the holds of ocean steamers, and these Missouri men have become so bold in their operations as to ask that a duty of four dollars a ton be placed on the imported article. The mineral is tasteless and actually dissolves on the tongue, but the extent to which it is used demands that the public should be informed concerning its presence in the market" The gentleman stated that he had visited the mines and knew from per sonal observation whereof he s poke. Denver (CoL) News 91 CALIFORNIA INDIANS. They were RxceedlnKlr Indolent, glah and Stupid. Slug. At first this fact seems totally at vari ance with the fitness of things; for, if California was not literally a land flow ing with milk and honey, it possessed every attribute to be desired by a bar barous people. Its climate was mild and equable; its coast and inland waters teemed with fish and mullusks; while the land abounded with game and with nuts, roots and seeds which were both nutritious and easily procured. With such advantages as these it might be supposed that the natives would have far outstripped the dwellers of less fa vored sections. Human progress, how ever, does not always follow the lines of least resistance, and it is probable that in their struggle toward civiliza tion the races of the world owe less to their advantages than to their dis advantages. To put this seem ing paradox in other words, man's improvement bas been largely compulsory, and, when he Is not too heavily handicapped, adverse sur roundings stimulate instead of check ing his progress. Certain is it that the fine climate and abundant natural products of California had their full ef fect in developing, or rather is retard ing the development, of the natives. Though not deficient physically, the Indians, especially of the warmer por tion of the State, were exceedingly in dolent and stupid. As a rule they were not hunters hut fishers, and hence their blood was not quickened and their muscles hardened by the excitement and toil of the chase; nor were their wits sharpened to the same extent as those of the hunting tribes by the manifold and varied necessities of their calling, nor by the sterner duties of war: for the hunting tribes are in- variably warlike. H. W. Henshaw, in Popular Science Monthly. Almost Dined with Tennyson. Horace E. Scudder, the new editor of the Atlantic, used to describe with glee the nearest he came while in London to dining with Tennyson. "I had been in vited by one of tbe young English writers," Scudder would explain, "to meet a few persons at dinner. As I was chatting with him a ( minutes before we went to table he turned to his brother and said as I understood him 'I wonder if we are not going to have Tennyson?1 Of course I was gratified at the prospect of meeting the great poet But we dined without him. And as I sat at the table It occurred to me that what my host really said to his brother was: "I wonder if we are not going to have dinner soon? That's the nearest I came to dining with Tenny son. " Boston Journal A Baal Theatrical Diamond. Hiss De Simper I want to buy a diamond necklace. Jeweler Something worth about H.S00? Miss De Simper Oh my! I am an actress and want something positively stunning. Jeweler I see. Here is one with fifteen t-carst stones, I esq se, you fet for 1& -Jiirfltri' WMkly, , VENOMOUS SPIDERS. Tfc.T Ban a Mast Klaetlva Aaparatas far IaJeeUac That False. Mr. A. J. Field, In an article la Knowledge on"Yenomons Spiders, "says aplder poison appear to have special effects on certain insects, and the largest flies are not always the least affected appearance. When it la collected from the poison glands of several spiders and dried, it will retain its physiological properties for many years, and even after it bas been subjected to a boiling temperature its properties are not de stroyed. The spider is provided with a most effective apparatus for injecting its poison, consisting of modified mandi bles, called "falces," the last joint ot which has a hard curved fang, with a fissure near the point The muscles used in closing the mandibles also press upon tbe poison gland, causing the poison to be expeled through the fissure Into the wound, and thence Into the circulation of the victim. The reader should watch a common house-spider spin its web. It seems to take pains, before beginning, to select a pot where there are chances ot obtain ing plunder, and where it will be se cure. It then discharges a little drop of glutinous fluid, and creeps up tbe wall, joining the thread from one wall to the other. The first thread thus formed is drawn tight, and fixed at each end with other threads. It Is upon this outer threvl that the durability of the whole fabric depends. The web's foun dation completed, the spider next makes a number of threads parallel to the i first and then crosses them with other threads, the sticky substance of which they are formed serving to hind them, when newly made, to each other. It now commences to double and treble the threads that border its web, secur ing the edges as it does so. Lastly, it formB a kind of tunnel with webbing; this is to serve as a retreat where it can conceal itself from its enemies and also from Its prey, and Is generally placed in the angle of the walls. - When tbe spider's work is done, it often: happens that the approach of some large animal or the approach of the housemaid's broom will destroy in a minute the labor of days. In this case, as soon as tbe danger is passed away the spider patiently begins to re pair the wob. Old spiders, which have neither web nor the materials to make one, often hunt about to find out the webs of other spiders, younger and weaker than themselves, with which they venture battle. The invader generally succeeds. and the younger spider is driven out to make a new web, and the old spider re mains in possession until a stronger spider invades the web and drives jt out When thus dispossessed the spider seldom i ventures another attack, but tries to subsist upon tbe few Insects that may fall accidentally into its clutches, and eventually dies of hunger. MICE IN HER HAIR. A Barlln Ball. Who Ma hew Sura to Wear a Night Cap. Fraulein Elizabeth Meyer, belle of Berlin, has had an exciting, a marvel ous experience one that will shock (and therefore cbarm) all tbe fair sex. Upon rising betimes the other morning from her : pillowy couch, and upon un loosing the coils of her splendid hair, preparatory to combing those golden tressed lo! there fell from her am brosial ringlets a shower of mice! It seems that during the night a saga cious old dame mouse, hunting about for a habitation, came upon Fraulein Elizabeth's inviting wealth of soft hair spread over the downy pillow. "Here." thought this wise rodent "i a comfortable shelter for me and mine.'' "So in crept Mrs. Mouse and cud dled herself up among tbe silky strands of hair. There were seven of them the next morning- when, standing before her mirror, Fraulein Elizabeth rudely uncoiled her tresses, thus precipitating the blue-coated mother and her pink- skin progeny to the floor. The parent mouse fled under a bureau and the six helpless babies lay rolling and squirming pathetically upon the floor. In this supreme crisis Fraulein Elizabeth's presence of mind did not desert her, . Leaping into a chair she screamed lustily for help, and presently every chair in the room had a woman on it each in hysterics. The dignified pater familias finally made his appearance and removed tbe frightful creatures that had caused all the hubbub, but Fraulein Elizabeth was sick abed for a week in consequence of this awful experience. The local journals got hold ot this story and told it eloquently, ssd now a panic has come upon all tha women folk in Germany. Night-caps have sud denly come Into fashion again not tha picturesque, trilled affair we have seen in prints, but a grotesque fabrication of oiled silk, which it said to be properly cool for the head, and at the same time proof against depredatory rodents. Cor. Chicago News. Terra alba, or white earth. Is used exclusively for adulterating candies yet no less than 1.000 tons of this sub stance were recently imported through New York. Lozenges made entirely of thia earth are dipped In sirups flavored with Tjennermrot and other essences. I and then sold as genuine sugar lozen ' tea, When it Is known that terra alba is a mineral insoluble by the gastric ) juioas, the extent of tbe evil of this adulteration may be understood. It meni ftvn danger of tncursble di Mtt M .wm4 ft rt'Mffa GABRIEL'S TRUMPET. - Its Hla.Ootdw.r Eh.Saarlacaf aCKU eat Haaa.ad. Tha flitting clouds obscured at la tervala the face ot the gibbous moon. Tha winds sighed fitfully through tha treea like the tag end ot a worn out simoon from the desert land ot oblivion, ' agitating with its last expiring gasp tbe long, thia whiskers ot the city admin iatrstlon. The, flaring electric lampa lit np street corners where no signs in dicated to the lost or belated wanderer what quarter ot tbe city "fief was travers ing, and a weird unearthly aroma from Bridgeport stole gently over the mighty metropolis with a presence almost visi ble, and lulled the senses of Its 1,101,309 .- Inhabitants to repose In the iH-isliliorliood of Van Burp n and Lincoln streets ike ttocdnjr shftdu" paled and darkened on the roof nt a ban inhabited by a recent, importation grayish fmir-hoofeu sairnal of sic all Bite, much ear: and incurable -littimm but posses-Hul of an iron will and un conquerable ;i".mititm to sin;, h mani. tested nigtc after night piaciseiy at the -hour ot twelve o'clock by a mad, dtliri- ous frantic aw-)iu-haw-he-baw-he that permeated the aieupina' chambers for bait a mile around and kept the record ing angel busy. It was very near the witching hour of night, but this animal had not yet lift- ed its deadly voice and struck with pal sying effect the innocent hour. In the spacious upper back bed-cham ber of a prominent citizen's dwelling house In that locality no sound was heard save the deep, regular breathing that denotes healthful sleep. The wife had returned that day from a visit to the country. For the first time in many weeks the reunited family slept under the same roof, and the smiling angels of domestic joy and peace looked not down on the dreamless repose of a hap pier household: Suddenly, through the open windows that overlooked that barn halt a block away, there came that wild, frenzied aw-he-haw-he-haw-he that denoted tbe hour of midnight The sleepers stirred uneasily. The long-eared animal in the barn, with an other agonizing shriek, persisted in Its original statement Then the lips of the slumbering wife moved. 'Frank," she murmured, "for the love ot Heaven turn over on your side. You are snoring , awfully!" Chicago Tribune. ; , OPIUM IN LETTUCE. ! Tha Dangerous Friend of Kleap Licit In Walt Everywhere -Opium may be grown in almost any temperate or tropical clime. IV.rsm produces a great deal, so do Arabia and Egypt Large quantities aro raised in Germany, some Is grown in Franco, and even Italy and Spain contribute a share to the annual production. Attempts have been made to raise it in the United States, and although only in part suc cessful, the failure was due not to any deficiency in soil or unfavorable ten dency in climate, but rather to the fact that hand labor is almost indispensable for its production, and, in this country, hand labor is -so ex-pensive that tlie United States opium can not com pott, in the markets of the world with t!iat' raised in Oriental countries. - The largest portion of the world's- crop is grown in Tu-W-. '".ina and In dia, the last-named producing morrj opium than any otbor two countries. Along the Rivor Ganges there is a strip of territory 200 miles wide by 00 in length, which aeeusjparticuiarly suited to the production of 1 the opium poppy. and in this district opium Is grown al most to the exclusion of other crops. So far in advance Is India, whr a com pared with other opium-producing coun tries, that while the crop of Turkey, the next most productive, has not been known to exceed 10,000 baskets of three or four pounds' weight, that of India is more than 100,000 chests, each contain ing 160 pounds of the product Opium is made from several varieties of the poppy, even the common lettuce of our gardens containing a proportion of the deadly drug, a proportion which, although small, ia sufficient to Impart to this esculent its sleep-giving quality. There are several kinds ot the nonor which produce opium in abundance, and opium-growers in different countries have their preferences, the exoelence of the plant for the purpose intended being probably due to qualities of soil, for tbe best opium poppies ot India, when sown in China, produce an opium by no means, equal to that of their na tive soiL The plant is known in mythology and history, and even the ancients knew the sleep-giving poppy, the emblem at once of forgetfulness and death. Formerly all portions ot the plant save the root were used In the manufacture of opium, the plants being cut dried and pow dered. But the opium so obtained was weak, and ingenuity soon set to work to devise ways and means for obtaining a stronger and better article of the product N. Y. Journal. ' Pledged to Kill Bis Wife. I saw a girlish looking woman hold ing her husband's arm as both stood en joying the gorgeous spectacle on the platform ic the Madison Square Garden the other night . I could not help conject uring what a flood of memories would have risen to her mind had some one rushed Into the amphitheater and shouted the single word, "Injuns" The couple were an army officer and his wife, though yon may not all know it that means that more than once he baa been pledged to shoot her at an instant's notice. It is the rale the human law on our plains, that when the savages are on the warpath and a husband and wife are traveling in their country the husband shall kill the wife tbe moment it becomes evident that she must fall J to the bands ot the redskins, Ter Vible as It is to think of slaying your wife (and only fancy what noble women those wives ont there must be), no man would hesitate if be knew that by do ing so he could save her from indigni ties that make death at once a trifle and a Joy. Chatter. ' -And so yon slept on a bed of roses" Was it all that fanoy painted it? Not axaotlv. Fanar didn't Mint ssMltttrfll.