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aid OREGON COURIER. VOL. VIII. OREGON CITY; CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAHCII 20, 180L NO. 45. ! off NEWS OF THE WEEK. An Epitome of the Happenings of ' Two Hemispheres. What Is Transpiring at the Capital of the United States Other Very Interesting News. The fund for Mrs. Window will be ln . ore.mi'd to fit 0,000. The Texas House hai passed the rail road commission bi). The population of Texas Is 2,230,000. ,In 18S0 it wnn 1,61U,74U. A group of silver mines in Ontario has been sold for $10,000,000. The populntion of Illinois as given by liio last census is 3,tKU,3tl. The populntion of Colorado In 1880 was iim,X!7, and in J8W, 412,11)8. Congress killed the appropriation for a zoological garden in Washington. Connecticut fnriners are organizing leagueii, ana propose to go into politic Mmo. I'ntti will give twenty operntii performances in Kio ae Juneiro lor f loo. uuu. Pennsvlvanin'R share in the direct tax refund from the Federal treusury is about s i, mm. Favorable reports of the outlook for the wheat crops come from Indiana and Illinois. 1 lie Mississippi river gets an appro- inimoii oi ai,wJ,ouu lo Keep H wiuu us D1II1K8, President Harrison has decided to start on his trip to the Coast within few days after April 1. Secretary Proctor is Boinir to California the viwit being in the lineof his proposed inspection oi military posts. Settlers along tho Red river In Minne sota and North Dukota are in danger of losing their property because of railroad claims. The Pennsylvania Legislature has be fore it a lull providing for the equestrian stutues of Meade ana Hancock at Uet tysbnrg. Tho cotton crop this season, it is esti nutted, will be 500,000 hales short of that of ItiHt vear. Farm work is a month be hindhand. Virginia ha" a population of 1,011,080 whites, rl40,fifi7 colored, 370 Indians, 60 ( luneee and 13 Japanese, making a total of 1,055,070. . A bill has been introduces into the Minnesota Legislature to runish ac- (ww&jho ear tights at theaters or concert halls. - The Edwin ForeBt Home in a Phila- (lelphia suburb now contain, thirteen beneHeinries, eiglit of whom are women and live are men. The shnd-fishintr industry in Connect icut in threatened with destruction, and the General Assembly will be asked to enact tho most stringent laws to protect unit uusinees. The work of repairing the Chesapeake and Ohio canal is soon to be begun, and the restoration will, it is said, be fought ny the Washington and Cumberland Railroad Company. President Harrison signed the bill for a new mint buildup in Philadelphia ex actly 100 years after President Washing ton 'signed the bill for the establishment of the original mint. Tho truth about the Indian situation appears to be that while the chiefs who ..!:. ...1 nr..,.t.! . . i .1- vinueu m imiiiiiiuii imvtt ue iioierc uis satisfied they will not fight again in the - spring, aB was rumored. A new feature of the postal service will go into operation April 1 next, when s-a postollices will be established on the Ciernian steamers plying between New York and Hamburg and iiremen. The new census demonstrates the fact that out of 3),0(I0,000 acres in the farms 'n, of Iowa only 3,240,4:!2 are mortgaged, and it is said that this not unfairly rep resents the condition of the Western States. The total population of Louisiana is 1,118,587. Of this number 654,712 are white, 562,803 colored, 028 Indians, 315 Chinese and 3!) Japanese, fn the parish of Orleons there are 170,285 whites and 65,003 colored. It is said Anna Dick inBon is not in sane, but 'hat she is suffering from nerv ous prostration occasioned by literary work forced by the necessities of provid ing for a livelihood, and is in need of pecuniary assistance. The Delaware, Lackawanna and AV'est ern Railroad Company has directed that trainmen employed on that road shall not sign petitions that have been put in circulation in towns along the line for signatures to secure licenses for saloons. The census figures show that the pop ulation of Massachusetts between 1H80 and 1890 had a larger absolute increase than during any previous decade and a relatively greater increase than during any decade since that between 1840 and 1850. A patient at Portland has been Inocu lated with kochlne. It is the first appli cation of the remedy there, and is ex citing the same-interest which attended its introduction elsewhere. Senator Hhlppee and his partners have commenced a suit against the old Spring Valley Mining and Irrigating Company to recover about $7,000 damages lor al lowingitscunal logo topiecesand sendirg the mining debris out over the Senator's land In liutte county, (Jul. A large block of wooden buildings in Chinatown at Victoria, It. C, was burned by order of the City Council to make room for a new public market. The city got rid of the old rookeries in this way, instead of removal, so as to avoid all danger of sickness from the filth-reeking wood. A large two-story dwelling and the Chinese theater were among the buildings burned. The Grand Council of the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society has accepted the of fer of a summer resort in Santa Cruz, Cal The liberal offer of the Santa Cruzans was land worth $28,000. The proerty is near Twin Lnkai, tho resort of the Bantists, and on the Southern Pacific railroad. The railroad has promised to Mi i Id a station there. Twenty acres of land were donated, and each acre will be divided into seven lots, which will sell for about $200. PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. John Elliott, better known to the Mterary world as Maude Howe, is writ ing a play for Richard Manstleld. Mrs. McKee, the President's daughter, is preparing an article for a literary club in Indianapolis on the Pan-American Congress. Prof. Koch's portrait has been printed on cotton handkerchiefs, wh'ch are ad vertised to tie "irood for nasal caturrh." and sell rapidly in Berlin. A St. Paul dispatch says: W.J. Mur phy of Grand Forks has bought the Min neapolis Tribune. Gilbert A. Pierce ex-Senator, will be the editor. Grace Greenwood's name is now more closely allied to works of charity than to literary labors. She still writes a little, but caii usually be found where sorrow and Buttering hold sway. The new Senator from Kansas used years airo to snell his name rteitter When he became an editor he dropped the " i," and on his election to the Sen ate he cut out the first " I." that few, If any, will lie willing to enlist in cither unless they are sure of a sta tion near the trines. Acting Secretary Nettleton of the Treasury Department has mado the fol lowing statement in regard to the report that the department had decided to call in government deposits in the national hanks: "The government has no pres ent or immediate need to use any part of the funds now in the depositary hanks. Doubtless during the next eight months parts of such deposits will lie required, nut they will in such case be called in in installments and only on reasonable no tice as heretofore. Inasmuch as these deposits, when so called, will doubtless be disbursed to meet the current require ments of the government, the fund so used will lie nhnost immediately re turned to the channels of business." DcLeseens is now 80 vears old. At 80 he was a rugged, enthusiastic and vigor orous octogenarian, but since the col lapse of his great Panama canal scheme he has aged and broken very perceptibly Senator Manderson, the successor of Air. Ingalls as President pro tern, of the Senate, is a I'hiladelphian, and was hre vetted as a Briuadier-General for gallant, long-continued and meritorious service during the war. He has lived in Omaha for twenty years. .. King Kalakaua's colli n is made of koa and kou wood of about 000 pieces; even the bandies are made of wood. No metal of nnyjjnl is4 he-geej,"except the in scription plate, npon which the crown and the Hawaiian cont-of-arms are en graved, with other suitable inscriptions. The rrincess of Wales is reported to be assiduous in the attention slie pavi to the Shetland-Balfour fund for the re lief of the stillering poor of Ireland. The Princess and her daughters have Bent contributions of clothing to the fund. and have also solicited subscriptions for the same charitable cause. Most of the Astor family have been college-bred men. The elder, John Ja cob, graduated nt Columbia in 1839; William received his degree from the same institution in 1840; W illiam W ol- dorf is also a Columbia man of the class of 1875; John Jacob, Jr., was at Har vard as a special Btudcnt for three years. But none of the Astor money has ever gone lor educational endowments. Robert Burdette savs he gave his first lecture in Dubuque at the suggestion of his wile, Dubuque was at that time criticising pretty Bharply everything from Burlington, and he believed if he got out of the town alive he could make money elsewhere. The people of Uu buque not only permitted hiin to live, but invited him to return, so Mr. Bur ette knew at once the people of New York and Boston were waiting for him. Prince Hatzfeldt, the interesting sprig of German nobility who married the daughter of C. P. Huntington, was at an early period in his Parisian career des perately in love with JMiniie ix)iB?et, the charming circus rider, who returned his affection. A time was set for the marriage, but before the happy day arrived poor Emiiie was crushed to death by the fall of her horse in the ring. Hatzfeldt was prostrated with grief, but as an act of vicarious sacrifice he bought the horse, led it to her grave and shok-biin. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The President has refii'ed to pardon ohn C. Eno of New York, convicted of bank wrecking and who escaped to Can ada, where he now resides. The Treasury Department is fitting out le revenue cutter Bear at an Francisco for a summer cruise in Alaskan waters. Captain Ilealy will again command her. Major McGregor has resigned his po sition as chief of the customs division of A number of prominent ladies of Phil adelphia have Bent a protest to the Di rectors of the Academy of Fine Arts against the flagrant indelicacyof many pictures now on exhibition. It is the general sentiment." they say, "that never before in Philadelphia has modesty been so ruthlessly assailed." A religions fight is anticipated in St. Louis. The trouble is of political origin. Frotestant ministers profesf to be alarmed heause the Mayor is Catholic and the Board of Public Improvement, the Local Assembly and the School Board have a lrge number of Catholic mem bers. Several Protestant ministers re fused to attend a conference looking to n organization which proposed to "coun teract Catholic influence." ALI1XO TBI COAST, Idaho has appropriated $20,000 for tLe World's Fair exhibit. The straits and waters of Cape Flat terj nt reported to b alive with teals, and several Kboonert r bur bnotiog, the Treasury Department, and has been appointed immigrant inspector for temporary duty at Puget Sound, Wash ington. The United States Consul at the Phil ippine Islands has informed the Secretary of State of recent changes in the cus toms tariff of those islands. The in crease of 50 per cent, in discharging and and consumption duties and the naviga tion tax are arjousneci as is also the ex port rinty on tobacco, for the special pur pose of protecting the Barcelona niann lecturers. Duties are increased on white cotton goods, prints, socks and stockings, underclothing and silk goods and woolen goods. Private advices from the Pine Ridge agency indicate that the plan of the War Department to enlist 2,000 Indians is a failure. It was the intention to re cruit two companies of the First Infan try with young bucks of the "ioai tr;be before the departure of the regiment for its regular station at California, but after a months canvassing the regiment finally departed without the Indians They objected to going so far away from their native soil. Besides they did not fanrv the da! rot infantry soldiers. Jhev all want to be cavalrymen if tier enlist tU, a( H bai bees demonstrated CHIME AND CRIMINALS. E. S. Huinmason, one of the wealth iest cattlemen in the Northwest, has been found guilty at Seattle of stealing cattlo. Arrests continue to be made of the supposed Greenwood murderers, hut so far the right men have escaped the vigi lance of otlicialB, who have a largo re ward in prospect. Dr A. J. Lawrence has been found guilty of manslaughter at Santa Barbara, Cal., alter a three weeks' trial. .Law rence was charged with murdering his wife at Los Ulivos. Miguel, the chief, and Pedro, a sub- chief of the Yuma tribe, with three other Indians, have been arrested at Yuma and taken to Los Angeles. The Indians ore charged wiih murdering He- kow, a mjdicine man of the tribe, in October last. Chief Miguel has alwav been a friend of the whites, and Yuma citizens were indignant when they saw irons on his arms. Frank Cota and William Trimmer fought a duel without seconds at El Onion San Diego county, Cal., a few days ago, Primmer was culling on Cota's sister. and the two young men met while horse back ruling, when Cota forhado Trim mer's visits. After an angry talk they both dismounted, lustened their horses, stepped off twenty paces, turned and be gan emptying their revolvers at each other. Trimmer was killed, and Cota had a bullet in his bark, but he will re cover from his wound. PORTLAND MARKET Wiikat The demand continues good but there is very little business, owing to small ollerlngs and nigh prices itBki d Ouote nominally : Valley, fl.85; Wall Walla 11.27(8 1.30. Flouk quote: Standard, $4 25; Walla Walla, f4 00 per barrel. Oats Quote: fiHivrOOc per bushel, Hay Ouote : 118(3 17 per ton. Mn.urUKKS Quote : Bran, $18(31!) Shorts .$10(rf20; Ground Barley, $20 Chop Feed, $25 per fon ; Barley, $1.25 i.o per cental. Vkoktablkh Ouote : Cabbage. $1.8 (31.75 per cental; Cauliflower, $1(1 25 THE OLD WORLD. The new gold fields in Western Aus tralia are said to be overcrowded. French statesmen have offered $1,000 reward for the best athletic game. The French army maneuvers this year will be on a greatly extended scale It is reported .that $40,000,000 of Brit ish capital is invested in Paraguay. A Russian scientific expedition will shortly leave bt. fetersuurg lor Abys sinia. . "" Austria now requires Russian Jews to hold a special concession to trade in tho Bismarck's candidature for Geesete- munde, it is ssid, is embarrassing to the German government. It is stated the French government will reconsider the whole question of betting on horse races. In the Argentine Republic the Presi dent has recomhiended en export duty and higher import duties. Russia will check German immigra tion at the south, and will curtail privi leges of Germans now there. The financial panic at Buenos AyreB 18 about, over. Kadical changes in bank governments are to be made. The Khedive's proclamation of general amnesty to the Soudanese was hailed with much rejoicing at feuamin. The question of paying members of Parliament for their services is now be ing widely agitated in Great Britain. The heirs of Charlotte von Stein in tend to offer for sale by auction the let ters addressed by Goethe to that ludy. The geysers of Iceland, which have been among the greatest attra -tions of the island, are gradually losing their force. The Spanish government is about to send a large force of troops to Cuba on account of the increasing political agita tion there. No less than 17,000 yonng girls and women, houseless, friendless, helpless and foodless, sleep in tho open-all-night slielterBof Stepney Green, London, in a year. The Bank of France has In its vaults $500,000,000, of which $242,000,000 is gold and $24S,O00,C0O silver. Its author- zed paper circulation of fegal-tender notes is over $ii33,00,O0O- Sir Charles Dilke says that he is con- dent that he will be able to clear his character and icturn once more to polit ical life. He could not definitely decide at present to contest a seat. Captain Algernon Sartoris, who mar ried Nellie Grant a number of years ago. is reported to be dying in the south of France. Mrs. bartons has two daugh ters and a son aged 13 years. The Mikado of Japan is to visit Wies baden next summer, partly for the w ters and partly for the spectacle ' of in nocent merriment." Six villas have been engaged for the Emperor and his suite. The hard winter has told heavily on M. de Lerseps. His strength, it is said. declines so rapidly that a doctor never leaves his side and administers caffeine and other stimulants whenever he thinks them needed. per dozen ; Celery, UJc por dozen ; On ions. 44'c per" pound; Carrots, $1.00 per sack ; Jieets, $1.6U per sack ; l urnips, f 1 per sack : Potatoes, vuMhOe per cental Tomatoes, $2.25 per box; Sweet Potatoes 4(?t)c per pound; Asparagus, 20c per pound; rat-snips, fl per suck; lettuce 30c per doz n ; Squash, S'-c per pound Fruits Quote: Los A ivHes Oranges $2(02.25; Riverside, $2.25(i2,fi'; Nnvolf., $4.50 per box ; Sicily Lemons.$o.50(2G.OO California, $4(ijj por lxix; Pears, l'uc per pound; Apples, $l((fl.0O; per box Bananas. $3(34 ner bunch : Pineapples fo(f s per dozen. Nuts Quote: California Walnuts, 114ic; Hickory, 8,'ac; Brazils, 18c Almonds, 10 17c; Fillierts, l:i14c Pine Nuts. 17(flH8c: PecanB. 17(18c Cocoanuts, 8c; Hazel, 8c; Peanuts, 8c per pound. Buttkh Quote : Oregon fancy cream ery, 37 ,'c; lancy dairy, 30(32'c; fair to good. 2527iic; common, 20c; Cali fornia, 22iu 25c per pound. Ciikksk Quote: Oregon, 1415ej Cal- liornia, lOiiS loo per pound. Eons Quote: Oregon, 20c per dozen. rouMnv Quote: Chickens. 4.60( 0.00; Ducks, 8(dl0; Geese, $0(u9U per dozen; Turkeys, hwioc per pound. Hors Quote: Nominally, 25c per pound. Wooiy Quote: Willamette Valley, 10 L'Oc; Walla Walla, I4igl7cper pound, Minus Quote: Dry Hides, selected prime, HwS'iJc. Ko less (or culls; green. selected, over 55 pounds, 4c; under 65 pounds, 3c: Sheep Pelts, short wool. 3i ?50c; medium, 0(880c: long,!HJc(1.25; shearlings, 10i20e; Tallow, good ti choice, 3iop3)c per pound. The Merohundliia Market. Coal Oil Quote: U 05 per cana. Riok Quote : $5.750.00 per cental. Honev Q.iote: One-pound frames. ivc. Pickuss Quote: $1.5!) 5s; $1.3J3s. Chasiiekkiks Quote : Cane Cod. 1I per barrel. Salt Quote : Liverpool, $16, $10.50. 17. stoek, $10.50 per ten in carload lots. Coii!K Quote: Costa Kica, l'lgc; Rio, 23c; Mocha, 30c: Java. 25!tc: Ar- I tickle's, roastwl, 27Ja per pound. Bkans Juote: Small Whites. 8Vc: Pink, 3c; Bayos, 4ic; Butter, 4,'4c; l.inias. 5'j,c per pound. Sugars Quote: Golden Q,4Xv: extra C, Bo; dry granulated, ti;'f(c; cube crushed and powdered, 0,5jC per pound. Dimkd Faurrs The markes is ilrm. tlnoiu: iiul--".w 191-.. i p. titi' and German Prune, 10c per pound, I Raisins, $2.25 per box: Plumi.ier-dried fears, 10llc; sun-dried and factorv Plums, ll(ifl2c; evaporated PeAches.l8( 20c; Smyrna Figs, 20c; California Figs, c per pound. , i CanneoUoops Marketatcodv. Quote Table fruits. $2.00, 29 ; Peaches, $2.50 liartlett Pears, $1.00; Plums 15 Strawberries, $2.60; Cherries, 22.50 mack berries, K.w: Haspberries, 2.50 Pineapples, $2.75; Apricots. $2 00. Pie fruit: A8Horted,$1.60 per dozen: Peaches, $1.50; Plums, $1.25; Blackberries, 185 per dozen. Vegetables: Corn, $1.25 (fl)f.i, according to quality; Tomatoes, $1.153.60; Sugar Peas, $1.40($1.H0 String Beans, $l.l0perdozen. Fish : Snl mon, $1.25(gl.50: sardines, 80c(S$l.(iO lobsters, $-'W3; oysters. $l.50i3.25 ner lo.en. vxmucnseu milk : liagle brand, W.io: crown. 7: Highland. M1.75 Champion, w per case. JN ails Base quotations: Iron, fn.OJ Steel, $3.10; Wire, $3.90 per keg. shot yuote: si. 7.) per sack. DEACON BURDETTE'3 PHIL030PHY. IT WAS A COLD DAT. Groat surprise is canned by the announco mont that but montu a mnii was frozen to du-ttb near Austin, Tex. It iau't the fact of tho cold weather that creates the surprise but ratkor that tho man should have time to (roczo to death before ho got shot, THAT WAS SOLVED LOXO AOO. Mr. Tuliafero, of Atluutn, Go., claims that ho has solved the problem of fiuriotuul motion, lio, ho; tho conceit of some mon. As though ho was tho only nun lu America with a lu-year-old boy, COMINd CLOHKR TO WTlfANlTT. This must be tho missing lluk. A goat In Berlin has rod whiskers. How lot tho scien tists observe closely to seo what effect he has upon tho white bono, and evolution may strido ahead, not quitu a century, perhaps, but as much as firteen minutes. FABT AND SLOW, All the trains in tho west have fast names and slow wires. Possibly this makes the telegraph seem slowor than it really is. And do you know it is much harder to wait for root tram man ic is lor a slow one. nisirri- iius experiment wus more satisfactory tatmgto wasto onoTlif at a -Stotioa-aWrfhl tti BWEfew- cktttjn its results, which The German colony of Moscow has procured permission from the govern ment to raise a monument to Alexander II. in the park of theirchildren'sasvlum. The statue will be made in Berlin of German marble. The French Senegal expedition has won another victory on the Niger with native troops and French officers. The natives 01 jnena were beaten, with a Ions of COO killed and wounded, includ ing their chief. The French lost eleven killed and many wounded. All the American Consuls in Italy have joined in a report to the government on the condition of trade between Italy and the I'nited S'ates, with the view of call ing the attention of American merchants to the oipening affordd there for an ex tension of their foreiga commerce. The pecp'e of Italy, the report says, are fa vorably disposed toward American prod' nets, The Meat Murkefc. Beef Live, 4c; dres-wl, 78j. Mutton Live, 4i-4'4jc; Ureasnd, 9c, Hogs Live, 4,l44?4c; dresse i, 78c Veal d(cbc por pound. SMOKEU MKAT8 AND LAUD. Quo:e: Ka-tein Hams, lO'Ollc: uregon, ioc; irenKia-a rtacon, toisllc; ll.er var.eties, 74.ia: l-Jird, iu.'-ac per pound. f-'rauli Air for Onr Room. The following cheap and simple method has been found very satisfactory in solv ing the troublesome problem how to secure fresh air in a room without ex posing the inmates to draughts. Nail or screw a neat strip of wood from one to two inches wide Uon the window sill just inside the sash and extending across the window. Upon the top of the strip lasten a piece 01 "wcatner strip, 30 that there will lie formed an air tight joint between the weather strip mil the lower sash of the window, whether the latter is closed or raised an inch or two. the lower eross piece of the wish sliding on the rubber of the weather strip as the sush rises. With this fixture the lower sash may tie raised enough to jdmit nir between the lower and uper taahes without admitting the least air at the liottom of the w imlow. The air thus entering is thrown upward and has it "chili taken oil"' before descending upon the le ads of the occupants o tho room. -Christian L'nion. Cactai Jul a Oood HeilJelne. Am a New Yorker, whose very red nose is not unknown on Broadway, turned into the Fifth Avenue hotel one afternoon he parsed William Coop er, the Mexican business man. "If he only knew it," said Cooper of the gen tleman with the none, "a diet of cactus juice, fresh from the plant night and morning, would bleach hut complexion to a beautiful purity. Americans do not appreciate the value of the cactus until they have lived in Mexico for noiue time. The fruit, tunas, is deli cioui, and the juice the bet blood puri fier, I believe, to be found In the vege table kingdom. People who live where the cactus grows do not need any med icine. New Vork Letter. 'rirof.1ian " i 1 a Herman r.rif "do have that cat put out of the room; I can't work while it is making such a iwir. Where 1 411 it I" "Why, profe.ur.ManwrdGrttfUn. "jvu ar Mi'm eu lb" bear an impatient freight conductor extract information from the station agout, "How's the Cannon Ballf" "Four hours bito." "How's tho Flyorr "Throo hours luto out of Donver." "How's tho Thunderboltf "Abandoned." "How's tho Bleeping Crabf "Shu's running on the Iiicandoscent Thun derbolt's time today; wont by without stop ping, tv.-o hours ago." nmsuMATia uonTHwo, In all the groat, throbbing, puliing, grow ing, booming west there is one slow thing lightning. Jly expencuco with the telegraph lines was slow, and, to me, very expensive. About 4 o'clock 0110 day, at Toiwka, I con fided to tho Banta Fo, Colorow and Solar Kystan Telegraph conqiaiiy a telegram to Chicago, 0110 to rat-sons, Kiin.,aud one to tho Coates house, sixty-nix miles away, tell ing the landlord to have my rooms ready at 0: 15. The telegram reached the Coates after I had eatea and digested my supper and bad gone to bod. Tho othor 0110 reached Chicago some time that same night, and I don't know wbut became of the 0110 to Parsons. And sovoral other times I tried tho telegraph, but only to bo convinced that I could have tho message delivered a fow hours earlier by sticking a special delivery stump on it and taking it along with me. IT WAS VOLAPUK TO ThH NATIVE, "That foreman of yours is a queer fellow," said Mr. Peawiper. "Yes," replied the man ufacturer, "but ho is very bright and intelli gent. Ho is a native, however; was born here in North Carolina forty-six years ago, and has uevcr been outside of the shite. Why do you speak of hint!" "Why, I gave him a littlo volume of North Carolina skotcbes, written by a talented young friend of mine, in tho genuine turhcel diulcct, and he bas 11st brought it back to mo, saying that be can't understand a word of it." And as Si- louco entered the room with hor finger on hor lips, a long lost grammar in tho bookcase could bo distinctly ird, parting its speech in tue nuuuie, , AN BXTnVAOANZA. Publisher (on the coldest, windiest corner In all thecity) Pleaae,- str, can't yon give uiuuiiuwuiiuioiur a mollis luuglllgl l hain't had anything to eat ull day, Author (bursting in tears and emptying a handful of gold into tho outstretched palmj Ood bless you, poor maul Hero, go to tho best hotel in town and board thero all winter. P. S. This is not funny as it stands, but smiles of Uomusl llow funny it would be if It wore true! Burdetto in Brooklyn Eagle. A Restless Nlclit. (to mvs mm wmmw Countryman bote clerk)- reckon you'll have to givo me an other room, mis ter. Clork-Whnt's tho matter with tho one you have? rt i T countryman Tho sign says: "Don't blow out tho ms." an' bVosh. I c an rleop with all that light in the room. tfew York Hun, An Ample Anoloity. When a Cano Dutchman undertone admit that ho was in the wrong he do . thoroughly. Here is a really ample apology translated from Di Afrikaanse, a patriot Transvaal newspaper: ine undersigned, A. C. Du Plessis. re tract hereby overythinir I bavo said asrainst tho innocent Mr. O. P. Bczuidcnhout, calling myself an infamous liar and striking my mouth with tho exclamation: 'You menda cious mouthl why do you lie sof I declare further that I know nothing against the character of Mr. O. P. Bozuidenhout. I call myself besides a genuine, liar of the flrst, claa. "A. C. Du Plsssis." Witnesses: J. Du I'LESSIS, J. C. Holmes. European Cor. New York Sun. TTundort ul ma tMad . Ono of the moil. Inti-nntlng lakes 01 Inland sous in the world is the Dead sen, which has no visible outlet. It is not mure fancy that lias clothed the dead sea in gloom. The desolate shon. with scarccy a green thing in sight, ami scut, tered over w ith black stones and nigged driftwood, form a lilting frame for the durk, sluggish waters, covered with a perpetual mist, nnd breaking in slow, heavy, sepulchral toned wuves u)ti the bench. It seems as if the smoke of the wicked citii-a was yet ascending up to heaven, and as if the moan of their fear ful sorrow would never leuve Hint (Jod smitten valley. It is a strange thing to see those waves, not dancing along and spark ling In the sun as other waves do, but moving with measured mclnncholy. nnd sending to the car. as they break languidly upon the rock, only doleful sounds. This is, no doubt, owing to the great heaviness ot the water, a fact well known, and which we amply verllled In tho usual way, for, on attempting to swim, we went (looting about like empty casks. were a very unctuous skin nnd a most pestiferous stinging of every nerve, as it we mid oeen beaten with nettles. Nor was the wuter wo took into our mouth whit less vilo thun the mont nausunua drug? of the apothecary. That fish cannot live in thia strong solution of bitumen and suit is too obvi ous to need proof; but to snv that birds cannot lly over it and live is one of the exaggerations of travelers, who perhaps 1101, one ourselves, so lortunuteas to eee a Hock of ducks reposing on the nter 111 nppnrentlv eood hen 1 1. And yet this wiih all tho life we did see. The whole valley was one seething caldron, under a more than ironical sun. Clod forsaken and man forsaken, no green thing grows within it, and it remains to this duy ns striking a monument of (lod's icnrtui luugmeiilH as when the I re from heaven devoured tint once mhrhtv citiea !' f... it 1 1 w iug fiium. iuisaiuiiury iicraiu, W hav ihs Enoluiht Control oi o n so And don't Man to tfftr a prln o Nff ' 0Mrt,orU BiSlMADt. tuuyOvilnM : ONE AND ONE HALF POUNDS. Thos. Fields & Sons, OREGON CITY. A Prac-tloul Olirercuoe. 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When I? monthe old Ittmpappeared on ner hoel, which slowly grew laraxr. The fumll j p,jraiclw lb ghl It was mum-d by a pli-J of broken gbua or needle, but failed to bring-anything to light. The child became feebler all loo time, euemlng to luee the uee of hor leg, and flualljr quit walk. Ing entirely. Tlie middle anger and thumb or either hand beoamo enlarged, the flesh be coming bard. The hip joinU became InTolT. ed, eo that when aerenteen monthe old abe could nut etuad, harlng lost tbe Ota of leg and arm. Partial currature of the spine alk followed. The nerroua yitetn waa wrecked, muwles contracted, and there was general waiting of flesh and imucle. At eighteen mouthe . f age abe waa placed under tbe treatment of a prominent physician of Bos ton, Man., but at the end of ten monthe ah had, declined to such a degroe that abe waa la a dying condition. This was In April, ISM. Wo took the child away not knowing what to do. In this droodful dilemma we were over-persuaded by friends to try "one hot tlo" of swift's St-Ectric, which we did, and before It had all been taken we saw a ohange for the better In hor symptoms. We kept II up, and bare done so to this day, and wlU keep It up, It the Lord Willi, for many days to come, for It boa brought our dying Hanoi to life, to rigor, to strength and health again. The ashen hue of her oheoks has ohangod to a rosy tint. Shu la able to walk anywhere, her languor and melancholy have passed away, and sbe Is now a blithe, cheerful, hap py romping child. Should yon wish to In crease your testimonials of proof of tho virtue ot a a a, our names and what wo hare said Is but a portion of what we owe to you, should you wlsb to use them. Kindly yours, Bun. F. Swift. Oibiucdi E. Bvrrn. P. 0. Box M. Treatise on Blood and Skin Dlsoasea mafloi. . fn-e, TuaawirrSracirwOo..Dinver a,Allanta,aoj -. E. E. 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Trillrr t pntro book, dwrrtpt. v of f?y dni-(i!; JM'r.iUoui.ii Lia uihtr Ktiuud.ca, cut irt-o b lAiUiL KILLER DRUG CO., San Francisco, CaL rou a alk bx J i0r.KATe 8 LITTLI tlVEw .ILl 1 ( j.n.(..-.ii an., IHaaylaa 'iaf V a n.4 tm m.i4 rasaib af tva cau la aoatMa. tf. NAJITM MWICIIil CO., fc-Usla, g ) Tlus uridamiiKKl liavlnir beea we io h-ultli by simple mean, aftor irlr.g lor several years with a seres ,r,j-alTeotloii, and that dread disnaaa c.-uriii)t!i!i, is anxious to maka ciown to his fellow sufferers tba means J euro. To tittle wk desire it, he will sbwrfnllf sen J (free of charge) a oopr jf the jirnarrlption nsed, which thajr fil 1 flncl a su rpcnre for 'onsu m Dtlon. Asthma, Catarrh, Jtronchltia and til throat and lima: 3Ialadles. Ha k"i all sufferpra will try his Uetnadr, as it is inraiual in. Those drelring tba j-nn r;pt ion, wliir-h will ooxt thotn notb .i;r, a rxl majr prove a bleaainK, irilL :iS nil'liw-s. UK V. JipWAaUT L. Wlif toy, U'lilittJUjijujrg, tJf vwafar. Kmrlwi. 7