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- vt rr COIiL. VAN CLEVi:. ALBANY. OREGON. FRESH TOPICS. " Come, gentle spring ; ethereal mild ness come. I. It Locks ("Petroleum' V. Nas by ") han disposed of Lis interest in tile Toledo IHade to his former partner, . and gone the way of all rich people to ! Europe. I li is now cheaper to travel than it is to i dren. Fifteen years' imprisonment and stay at homo. The railroad war has j $10,000 fine is the punishment to be im ma.le it an object to follow Lord Bate- j posed upon each and every person- who man's example, and " go abroad strange ; assists in the concealment of a kidnapped -countries tor to see. After receiving 20,000 for their serv ices, spending $8,000 for telegrams, and large sums for the distribution of 700,000 circulars, the detectives engaged to dis- -r. . . -. , cover Charlie Ross have found a clew a s straw hat worth 50 cent3. Gov. Hendricks recently vetoed a bill passed by the Indiana Legislature providing for the incorporation of camp meeting associations, on the ground that the creation of religious incorporations is not in harmony with the spirit of the : government. Depbfxiatiox of values of real estate, stocks, bonds, and other property held in and about New York alone, since the September pauie, is set down as high as Sl.000,000,000. The estimate is care fully made upon present prices and those of thirty months ago. Taa anti-lottery law is being vigorous ly enforced in Chicago. The proprie tors of ail the daily papers have been in dicted by the grand jury, hauled up be fore the courts, and fined for printing lottery advertisements. In nearly every instance a 50 fine, the lowest penalty prescribed by the statute, was imposed. According to Paul B. Sodders of La fayette, Ind., Beecher commenced busi ness as a revivalist in that town thirty two years ago. Elder Knapp was doing so much damage to the Presbyterian -cause by converting its people to Bap tist theology, that Beecher was put up in -competition, and soon recalled the stray ing sheep. Congress has now taken three long strides toward a revival ef the franking privilege. The sending free of public -documents and of Congressional liec ord by Congressmen, and of garden seeds by the Commissioner of Agricult ure, was authorized. Only one more step remains to be taken, namely, apply ing deadheadism to letters. The express companies have won a victory that will have very substantial results to them. After several years of hard work they have succeeded in having the postage on all packages weighing fyar ifour pounds considerably increased. jJhe effect of , this will be to compel peo ple to send all such packages by express instead of by mail as heretofore. PrscHBACK, Collector Casey, and Con gressman Sheldon, recently indulged in .a quiet little game of draw at the national capital. "When the sitting was over, the coffee-colored statesman was richer by nine thousand dollars than when he sat down. After this, who will deny that Pinchback possesses the qualifications necessary to a seat in the national Con gress ? The Force bill, which passed the lower house of Congress, but failed in the Sen ate, probably excited more bitter oppo sition than any measure that has been before Congress' for years, the Democrats 1 laving used every appliance known to parliamentary tacticians to defeat it. On its final passage thirty-seven Repub licans voted with the Democrats against it. A BisTTNcnoN which has long been an eye-sore to Western dairymen and deal ers is wiped out by the action of the National Butter and Egg Association, recently in session in Chicago. There will be no longer a grade known as "Western" butter, a. term heretofore implying inferior quality, and the ship ments from the West will go upon the market on their merits. A stock company is being organized ;at Sioux City for the purpose of estab lishing a regular stage and freight line -of accommodation between that point and the. Black Hills through Northern Nebraska. It is intended to commence running April 15. CoL ; Sawyer, who ; surveyed for the government a wagon .road from Sionx City. to Montana in 1867, will have the management of the company. ; j ' i . ; , ;':,, i j ..'- The House of Representatives "Washington, on the last day of the at tsioa, seated 0eorge A. Sheridan as Con- - gressman-at-large from Ixniisiana, his contestant being Pinchback. It also at the same time unseated J. Hale Sypher, -of the same State, and gave the seat to -Effingham Lawrence. Though the Congressional career of these was very brief only about six hours it was suf ficiently long to entiflet "Oiem to draw their salary for two years, amounting, with mileage, to some $12,000 a piece. Chesa newspapers inform us that the - late Emperor died of small-pox. It was : at one time thought that he was recover- ing.and anangements had been made for a grand festival injhonor of the God dess of Small-pox, when a quantity of pa per offerings were to be burned in front of the palace. As thedisease appeared -on the very1 day of the transit of Venus, -the Chinese attribute it to that event saying that a small-pox scar, not a star, passed over the face of the sun. THBBB - were printed during the year, .1874, over 28,000,000 copies of the Phil- adelihia Ledger, or an average of more than 90,000 a day, and yet you will see people -who don't think the Ledger much of a paper after all. The secret of its suecesM consists in the -wonderful completness of its local news, of which it mi sees nothing. The appearance of the paper is not attractive ; its editorials are for the most part prosy and dull, but in the condensation of city news, and the marked conservatism of its commercial reports, it lias no superior anywhere. Ax extreme penalty has been fixed, as the result of the Boss abduction case, in Pennsylvania, against the crime of ab dnction or concealment of stolen chil ; cluld. There is a nnem.il clause in the bill which is meant directly to effect the restoration of Charley Ross, if possible, providing for the freedom from penalty I t party wL m:ly give formau oSL or restore the stolen bov. within oi or restore ! thiity days. i That the farmers of the Great West i are deeply interested in the subject of transportation was clearly shown in the ! United States Senate, just before the i close of the session, when Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, presented a monster peti tion containing the autograph signatures of 48,853 horny-handed tillers of the soil, praying for better and cheaper means of transporting their products to market. Of this number, 13,182 reside in Minne sota, 12,154 in Wisconsin, 17,154 in Iowa, 5,838 in Nebraska, and 1,025 in Dakota with Illinois and Kansas to be heard from. In presenting it, Mr. Win dom very pertinently said that it was but a faint expression of the sentiments and demands of the people of the North west. This petition, says the Intcr Oecan, is probably the largest ever pre sented in Congress. Many years ago Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, pre sented the petition of 3,000 New England clergymen, praying tor the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, and that, from its great size, attracted much attention. But this monster appeal for some better means of transportation outweighs any thing of the kind ever presented to Con gress, and happily illustrates the mag nificent manner in which they do things "out West." The reports that have recently come from the Black Hills will undoubtedly have an important influence upon the col onization of that country in the spring. The Chicago Tribune expresses the be lief that as soon as the weather becomes fit for travel there will be such a rush to the new Eldorado as took place years ago to Pike's Peak that the swarm of settlers, adventurers, and gold-hunters will spread themselves over that region like ants, and will go there in such clouds that the whole army of the United States will not be able to stop them, nor all the Indians west of the Mississippi If the Black Hills country is half that it is de scribed a region abounding in gold, sil ver and other minerals, having magnifi cent and well-watered valleys, a fertile soil, limitless forests of pine, filled with every description of game, etc., there is no good reason why it should not be pop ulated and improved as soon as possible. The Indians are doing nothing for it, and never wilL The Tribune, however, adds a timely word of caution to those who may be attacked with the Black Hills fever, and recalls the fate of the Pike's Peak victims as a warning against a repetition of such infatuation and headlong haste to get rich. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. Chicago thinks it is her turn to have the Republican National Convention. A jotniNAii called the Hake has been started by the Grangers of Louisville, Ky. ., .j . Op two hundred and four members of the Illinois Legislature, less than one seventh were born in the State, j The Delaware papers are comment ing on the fact that the present Legisla ture of that State, by some strange acci dent, contains not a single lawyer. Gen. Frank Blair's health is not im proving. His friends say that, unless a change for the better occurs very soon, they are prepared for the worst. The " Independents " propose this Presidential ticket : David Davis, of Illinois, for President ; Newton j Booth, of California., for Vice-President ..Five men of the name of John Smith are members of the Arkansas Legislature, and the coincidence is said , at times to be a serious impediment to the routine of legislation. ' " . j Ex-Gov. Derkison has declined to be a candidate for the Republican nomina tion for Governor of Ohio. The pro posal to run Hon. B. F. Wade; against Gov. Allen, since old men seem so popu lar, is gaining favor, '. s j The Hon. Thomas C. McCreery, of Kentucky.is how the only member of the United States Senate -who voted against Johnson's impeachment. He i entered the Senate on the 27th of February, 1868, and the vote was taken on the! 16th of May following. t , - j ' A curious error has occur ed in the re vision of the Illinois statutes by which a man stealing exactly $15 can go unpun ished, while, should he steal less, he would suffer imprisonment in the county jail, and, if more, in the State peniten tiary., -ft- T-i ;-,,4 It seems a little paradoxical that West Virginia, which, on account of its loyal ity to the government, was separated from Virginia and made a State, should now, elect as United States Senator a man who during the war served in the rebel Senate i The 4th of March, 1876, comes on Sunday, and as Grant's term expires on the 4th, and the inaugural of his succes sor will not take place until Monday, the 5th, the presiding officer pro tern, of the Senate will be President for twenty-four hours. The precedent was established in the case of James K. Polk, and David Atchison, of Missouri, the then Presi dent of the Senate pro tern. , became that day President of the United States. CHIT-CHAT FOR LITTLE FOLKS.5 Kefore and After School. j BEFORE, j -' Quart, r to nino ! Boyn and girl, do yon hoar?" "Uned"B"r" l",ckwUet' U"n quick, mother " wiinre is my luncheon boxT" Under the ahtlf .lust iu tne place where you lft it yourself ' " I can t iay my table ; o, find me my can '' "One kim for mamma, and sweet i. in her Up "BkooO, dear!" i'u try 9 time 9'a 81 And tut- mother draws breath in the lull of the r noise. - A FT UK. j ""deaT"6 "p 0x0 bab'! Come sy, my "O, mother! I've torn my new dreae, jnst look I'm sorry. I only was climbing the waU " o, mother ! my map was the nicest of 'all ... wenI nptotne Head I " I ve Kot auch a toothache ;" " The teacher's un fair. " " Is .linn- r most ready T I'm just Hke a bear !" ; l!e patiect, worn mother, th. yrn growinR up fi et. 1'a. e inirwry whirlwind, not lot g do th.ry last : A mil lonely 1 ouse would be far worse than noie lt.yincc ami be glad in your brave girls and boys ! liltutla Mund Ochooluuiuter. Uo.Ueaf to Kvil Coutpel I Pinkie and Bossy Barney stood almost up to tiieir knees in fragrant clover, i "Isn't this perfectly delicious?" in quired Bossy Barney enthusiiistieally of her neighbor. " It is nice," replied Pinkie ; "but just look there !" Bossy Barney looked in the direction which Pinkie's eyes had taken, and there was a large field of corn. It did look very tempting, with its lovely green stalks and waving tassels. i , " Do you see that t" asked Pinkie. ' " Yes, I see it," replied Bossy Barney; "it's corn." j " Of course, it is," said Pinkie, "and a ne corn Deuer tiian clover. i "Do you," remarked Bossy Barney, carelessly. She was a very well-behaved little heifer, and had never thought of jumping a fence in all her life. " We could get over there very easily," said naughty Pinkie. "IU show you how if you'll come." " No indeed !" cried Bossy Barney, in indignant amazement. "I wouldn't do such a tiling for the world ! We're very well off where we are. We don't get sweet clover every day." j Thus repulsed, Pinkie thought best to cliange the subject of conversation. She said no more about the corn, but dis coursed eloquently of the beautiful farm upon which she used to live, where the grass was greener than any she had ever seen since, and more delicious even than the clover which they were then eating. It had been to her the scene of many joys and sorrows. There she was always allowed to roam about the cornfield at her own sweet will, and there, alas, three lovely little ones had been basely stolen from her when they most needed a mother's care. y That must have been very hard!' said Bossy Barney, sympathetically. M "It was dreadful," sighed Pinkie; " I shall never get over it never.'" Bossy Barney lapped Pinkie's face and neck with her rough tongue. It ;was her way of saying, " I am very sorry for you." i Cunning Pinkie walked slowly along until she reached the fence, knowing well that her companion would follow. 1 " That's a very tine field of corn," said she, artfully. - 1 Bossy Barney looked, and looking, longed. It was indeed a very tine field of corn. i " This is not a strong fence," 'con tinued artful Pinkie. "I can just put my horn in, so, and lift tliis bar off, so ; and we can walk in without any trouble ;" and suiting the action to the word, she was soon crunching the delicate kernels. " You'd better come," she cried ; " you never tested anything nicer in all your life." j At first Bossy Barney resolved that she would not go ; but it was very hard to stand there and see Pinkie devouring ear after ear, and to feel that, but for a few troublesome scruples of conscience she might be en joying their sweetness; too. She was a very good cow, but she;, felt that she was tried beyond her strength. Well would it have been for .Bossy Barney had she placed the length of the clover-field between herself and tempta tion ; but she didn't. ! She walked nearer and nearer to the bars, and at last thought she would ! just jump over and taste. There was no harm in that, surely. She could come back at any time, i Alas ! alas ! once over, she could not persuade herself to return. Indeed, she did not try very hard. The com was so very luscious, she really culd not bear to leave it. About an hour afterward, as tlies cows still stood in the midst of the cornj-field, they heard an awful voice close behind them. It was the voice of their master, but they didn't know it, it was so changed. ) Pinkie made for the bars, as fast as she could go; but Bossy Barney was so frightened she could not tell which way to turn. :-.. 1 ,- "Here! What are vou about 8 Get out of that !" and whack, whack, Vhack came a heavy stick upon her backj She ran hither and thither, but the j blows came thicker and faster. At last she spied the bars, and over them shei went, and found herself in the clover-field'again. Here she paused to take breath. It was very hard to run, after such a jhearty meal. 1 . ' j But her troubles were not yet over. The farmer drove them up to th barn yard, where was neither corn nor fclover, and there thev stayed until it 'was time for them to be milked and put to bed. And the next, day, when they appeared in the field, each wore a small square board,- which' nearly covered her face, entirely concealing her eyes. . " Dear me l"i exclaimed Bossy ijarney, "this is awful I One might as Well be blind and done with it. I can't tell whether the sun! shines or not. - All that I can do is to eat what grows just under my nose. How I wish we'd let the corn alone ; don't you, Pinkie ?" .But Pinkie was sullen, and nade no rPly- .; -.v.". ' . i . r-i W , " I should never have done it in the world if it hadn been for her," thought Bossy Barney to herself. " I j should think she might answer a civil question.'' She had yet to learn that those whb tempt their fellow-creatures to do wrong car very little for their discomforts after ward. . j . ; j - It was nearly a week before the farmer felt that his cows 1 were sufficiently punished.- Oh, what a long, dreary week that was, arid how Bossy Barney Rejoiced when the horrid blind board was removed, and she could look about her once more. How blue the sky; was, and how tall the grass had grown and the clover ! j As for the corn,- she never even dared! to look toward the field, "! ' --" . j " Well, BossyI said the farmer, " will you behave yourself now?" - s ; . " Moo I" replied Bossy Barney. ' "And let my corn alone?" - ..; J " Ooo-oo-oo I" I which, being S inter prated, means, ',Yes, indeed, indeed I Will." '- ;:.--: '-: 1 (" v The farmer was a kind-hearted man. He patted Bossy Barney's red back, and gave her a handful of salt. Then he went over to Pinkie, and asked her the same question, which she answered in the affirmative, with great gusto. I feel sure that Bossy Barny will keep her promise, but I " have not as much faith in Pinkie. Neither, apparently, had her master, for he did not attempt to caress her, nor did he offer her even as much as a pinch of salt. The truth is, Pinkie had jumped fences before, and very likely the favm-.ar knew it. j Cows axe very much like hinoan beings, I after alL They cannot keep their evil deeds hidden from the eyes of a curious world. Let us hope that Pinkie will learn wis dom from experience, and do better in future. Blind boards and "pokes " are neither comfortable nor becoming, Pinkie. ' ' Be good, and you will be hap py." Congregaiionalist. The Whistling Compositor. He come into the office about three months ago, with his month puckered, and the " Arkansas Traveler " issuing therefrom. It was not a loud or shrill whistle it was not that lively and joy ous whistle that ! betokens the heart light and the mind, free from care. On the contrary, he ' sawed up and down through the staves hke a buzz-saw rip ping through a pine log, and verse fol lowed verse without the least variation. This showed that he was thoroughly used to that whistle, and its constant repetition was the principal object of his life. So he came in whistling. He looked around the office com placently, never losing a note, and rmaily sidling up to the foreman, he stopped whistling for an instant to in quire : - ; "How's work?" But before the replv1 could be oiven' he had picked up that whistle right where he had left off, and was rolling it OUt ; Tilly turn, tally, tally turn tflly, O ! with his mouth puckered, but his ears wide open. Well, that fellow was put to work, and he whistled over to his case, whistled around for a stick and rule, whistled up to the copy-hook, whistled off to his case again, and, picking up an em quad, drew a fresh breath and whistled all through the "take" till he whistled over to the galley to empty it But it was the same old whistle the "Arkansas Traveler," over and over again, until it would seem that the traveler had worn bis shoes out and was hunting a place to rest. Still he kept on. i This thing at first was a novelty, and amused " the boys ;" but finally it be came monotonous, unii a wrnfov ally dripping on a rock will wear its sur- the : ArkaiiHAfi TYm-aW " - nun lacerate the sensitive nerves of hi i brother compositors. Low, angry mur- I murs betokened the rising storm, and ! broad hints uncomplimentary to his musical abilities were thrown out. But he Uaid HO nttentinTl trt thorrt arA mat- i kept right along whistling and setting He is an easy whistler.; All he has to do is to just pucker up his mouth, and that blasted old " Arkansas Traveler" rolls nVlifc stream, just as if his mouth was a music- ! aes to one tune, ana wound up every i Presidential" election, or once in four years. Finally, human nature could endure no more. Loud cries of : " Give us a rest !" "Oh, letup!" " Hire a hall !" "Go West!" "Cheese it!" "Shet up!" mingled with o-mnna lufmllo . f - o -' ,J v. i. u v i j nuu losses filled the office, and made the composing-room resemble a large and thriving lunatic-asylum. But it was no use. That fellow never paid the least attention to them, but lust went richt &linn with v.; km. whistle, and never missed a note except ueu iie came to a Hard word in his COPV. when ho wnnlri Enroll sin 1ia loot note until he found out what it was, and men went ahead again. He took t.1m ibimi sf olmxi pers and boots that was showered upon ixmi wiLu me utmost sang froid, and we believe the enns utna.llw hnrtrlt it . j - intended for applause. a ne rest ot the men became mdignant, and held a "chanel the propriety of a strike. " i cuiuu we uo f ine tjonstl- tntion as it was contained nothing that would warrant us in discharging a man for whistling, nor neither would he stop his whistle. So the only plan for us to adopt was to let things and the " Arkan sas Traveler" hajre their own way. Even the landlord came down and made complaint. He said this man would wake up in the middle of the night, sit bolt upright in bed, and whistle the " Trav eler" for half an hour in his sleep, until he had awoke the whole house, when he would he down and go to sleep until he would whistle himself down to breakfast. At last the hands in the office hit upon a plan to stop this everlasting whistle. One night, when he was asleep, they went up to his room and clapped a tremendous strong sticking-plaster right over his mouth, and then retired, thanking God that the unendurable nuisance was for ever abated. The next morning that mis guided young man went over to a carpen ter shop, borrowed a gimlet, bored a hole through the plaster, and waltzed into the office, where he horrified the establish ment by that same old tone in a new dress. . -, ; So now he does nothing but suck somp through that hole, and blow the "Arkan sas Traveler" out of it. Does any body want a whistling com positor Sedalia Mb. Democrat. Billingslana. i If we expekt to enjoy life we must not ouj-yimnx be guou iun or Daa lUK, Dut treat them both az we would a good of a bad penny, --- It iz not possible to offer any excuse for ingratitude. -; Exaggeration iz the effekt ov vanity, not malice; how menny people there iz who couldn't see a white rat run into a hole without offering . to swear " tha j was twenty white rats run into that hole, all at oust." : i , When a woman gits to going down bill, she don't try to hold bak, and never stops until she gits to the very bottum. ; : ' He alone iz a wize man who is certain that he kan learn something nu every day. The man who won't promt bi the ex perience of others certainly wont bi hiz own.-.,.,..-.- . v i Yu may make a servant ov a friend, but yu kant make a friend ov a servant ; it ain't natraL ... . : The instinks of wiaunin are more kor reet than their judgments. , ' Did yu ever see a bizzy boddy that was hunting for sumthing good? ! . Fault-finders never suspekt themselfa. ' One hour of old-fashioned . jumping toothake iz mors than a match for one year ov enny kind of plezzure. i j Precoshus children, iz another name for precoshus f ols. . ;' FARM ASD DOMESTIC ECONOMY Farm Notes. Neveb move fruit trees far north in transplanting. A ecxce will do as much damage on a farm as anywhere. . It is said that apples can be kept free from insects by allowing fowls to run under the trees. A piece of paraffine candle about the size of a nut, dissolved in lard oil at 140 deg. Fall., the mixture applied once a month, will keep boots waterproof. Manx .Ohio farmers claim that seed orn and wheat for sowing, brought from a colder to a warmer country, yields the best returns. Sam should be fnrnisherl to all nni. mala regularly. A cow, or an ox, or a horse niwk fw t-, Salts increases thebutter in milk, helps the digestive and nutritive processes, and gives a good appetite. The people of interior Europe have a saying that a pound of salt makes ten pounds of flesh. Of course salt only assists in assimilat ing the food ; it does not make flesh nor muscle. ...... I Sewerage water that has had the cruder portion of its impurities removed by imperfect filtration is not . only clear uu spanuing, out peculiarly pleasant to wie taste, irom tne gases and salts which it contains, but it is, nevertheless, the source of some of our most fatal dis eases. The only way to remove this poisonous quality is to filter the water eiuier tnrougii a thick and dense bed of soil or a thick layer of charcoal ; and, as it very rarely happens that it is conven ient to do this after the water has been drawn from the wells, we ought to use every means to keep impure water out. CiiippiNo Horses. Some persons con demn the practice of clipping horses as cruel and injurious, and call upon Mr. Bergh to protect them against it ; while others contend that it is humane and highly beneficial, Both are right and both are wrong. It depends on the kind of work to which the horse is put, and on the natural coat of the horse whether the hair is short, fine and thin, or long, coarse and thick. H the former, clip ping may be hurtful, and there is no necessity for it, for the horse, unless put to unusually fast work, sweats so .little that he dries quickly when returned to his stable, and if properly rubbed then and blanketed, receives no injury. But in the latter case, if the horse be moved out of a walk, he generally i sweats so profusely as to completely saturate his coat, and when put back into his stall, he is in the same condition that a man would be in who, after being thoroughly ' drenched in water, should happen to be: left to dry himself standing' in a cold room, with his wet clothes still upon him.' We all know that nothing can be more likely to give a man a severe rheumatism or a dangerous cold than this. We would therefore say, clip a horse late in the autumn, or let him wear his summer growth of hair, according to these facts. Profuse perspiration in the case of a horse is lessened somewhat by giving his food to him dry, and as little water to drink as is consistent with his comfort. Some persons feed their horses with steamed food, or with hay cut short in a straw-cutter, and . then saturated either alone or mixed with bran and meaL This is good feed in summer, but not in winter. Dry oats and hay alone are then the best feed for a profusely sweat ing horse, or one that is called upon daily for fast work. New York Evening Post. . j Household Hints.' See that nothing is thrown away which might have served to nourish your own family or a poorer one. Boast Leo of Lamb. Let the fire be moderate, and roast the joint Blowly, basting it frequently until done, when it should be sprinkled with salt, and the gravy freed from all fat before serving. To Remove Mudew. Soak the parts of the cloth that have been mildewed in two parts of chloride of lime to four parts of water, for about two hours, or till the mildew has disappeared ; then thoroughly rinse it in clean water. Lamb Stew. -Take half a shoulder of lamb and boil it in two quarts of water for two hours. Then put in potatoes, onions, turnips cut in quarters, salt and pepper to taste. Ten minutes 'before serving put in the dumplings. To Cuban old combs, place them in some vessel that will hold water, laying them fiat, one on the other, until the ves sel is full, lay on a board and a stone to keep them from floating. Now fill the vessel with water and Blacked lime. Let them soak twenty-four hours, then take out one at a time, and with a fine broom brush lightly but thoroughly on each side. Next put them into the extractor, and throw out the water. Rinse them in clean water, and use the extractor each time. . Then stand them up singly in the shade to dry. Two or three days will not be too long to dry them. Then cut out all the drone comb, and they are: ready for the bees. A Hot Bath. A couple of gentlemen, John Smith and James Brown, were seated in the ante room of a bath house, awaiting their " turns " for a bath. ! After they had got tired of twirling their thumbs, Smith asked Brown whether he preferred a hot or cold bath. Brown, who was remarkably fond of running a rig ou any one said he was partial to hot baths, and enjoyed them so frequently that he didn't think there was any other man in creation that could remain in water at the temperature he ordinarily used. Smith was one of that kind of men who never permit them selves to be outdone in anything, and one word led on to another until at length Smith proposed the following wager, to which Brown : agreed to at once : . . ' : ' :-. . ; ' s Two baths in rooms adjoining were to be prepared, and cold water to the depth of six inches to be let in. ! They were to enter at the same instant the hot water tap then to be turned, and the one that first cried " enough " was to pay for a supper and " fixings." ; Smith went hnestly to work, entered the bath, and turned on the hot water, taking special good care to draw up his legs as far as possible. Brown turned the hot water tap, but instead .of permitting the hot water to remain in the bath, he let it out by means of a contrivance he managed, to rig up. The tap was to be " turned," but there was nothing said about where the water should go to. Brown , said to himself: . " If I don't boil that Smith it will not be my fault." Presently Smith found the water too hot for comfort, and said, "How is it with yon, Brown t" ; i. ' Hot enough," was the reply. "I shall have to give up right off, if you don't," he continued, - as he lay there cool enough at the bottom of the bath. Smith was thinking about giving ; in beat, but Brown's words . encouraged him to hold out a little longer. . " I m perfectly cool yet," said Smith, as he writhed and twisted about, " and can stand out two minutes longer, so you'd better give up, Brown." " The water is 'tarnal hot, you know, put I shall hold out a few seconds longer," said Brown. v Smith could not! With a half sup pressed cry of pain, he sprang from the water, literally parboiled. Hastily draw ing on some of his clothing, he entered Brown's room, and saw him lying very comfortably at the bottom of the empty bath, smoking a cigar. He found that he had been done Brown as well as lxjiled, when Brown insisted that his tap was turned fairly, but as not a word was said about where the water should go, he preferred passing it out through the plug-hole. Smith promises to pay for the supper as soon as he congeals, which will not be just yet. Hints on Health. The f oUowing valuable suggestions are cuuea rroin . Ur. Hall's Journal of TVHnrRlft Tnoana a rl.'ffill 1 paring the food eaten so that the nutri- iLicuu uui do extracted irom It to supply the wants of the system. Eating too fast and too mnrfi ar t-it-i1; . the first because the food, being swal lowed in too large pieces, begins to fer ment before it can digest, and the second because the stomach cannot cope with the quantity forced upon it. A limited supply of gastric juice is another cause, and this implies bad blood. Out-of-door life, moderate exercise until hun gry, and simple food, are the best remedies. ' ' i Bitters, the names of the multitudi nous varieties of which disfigure the fences and scenery of the country, come ill for severe Viandlino' on Unnnnnt r.f their alcoholic composition. In brief, while persons are using bitters as a med icine, they are often drinking, three times a day, a more concentrated form , alcouo1 than is found in the purest whiskies and hraTK-Ueu Tf. dinnVl K V Uf3 U down as a nettleI mlo fViot KfftoM - , uumo 1 1 1 axjv form is alcohol in disguise. j-iocauties oi life hmiM Vu i;-r. tm vated stationn nra inanimilW ,.n. the ravages of consumptive disease. The lu is. ugnier and contains less oxygen ; but as the lungs live on oxygen, as it is the oxveen whinli their tnn with the blood at every breath, it is that wxuuu purines and gives it its life-giving power. If each breath of air dnea not give a sufficient amount of oxygen, in stinct prompts a fuller breath ; this dis tends the lungs more fully, and thus de velops and ntrencrMiona tlum A ment is given of the elevation of several American cities : New Orleans is rela tively given as 10, New York and Phila delphia, 35 ; Boston, 40 ; Chicago, 585 : Nebraska City, 1,000, and Winona, Mum,, 1,500. Many a famiW manmnn T.nn 1 i m . J uao r 1A uuilfc with the accumulations of the savings of -.nli? k 1A," A "I ,1 0 uau a uieiune to mane tne graves of half the household in a few months, from neg lect of the precautions for thorough drainage and proper water supply for drinking and cooking. Never select a house over a fillinc ? or the top of a hilL j witn reierence to winter garments, Sufficient clotliinir nhrvnl1 Vt a keep off a feeling of chilliness when about usual avocations. Less than that subjects one to an attack of dangerous pneumonia at any day or hour. More than that oppresses. Steadily aim, by all possible ways and means, to keep off a feeling of chilliness, which always in dicates that cold has been taken. i Instinct teaches that less exertive power is required to keep moving than, after coming to a standing, to set the body in motion again. The frequent stoppages of stages and street cars kill off the horses. Instinct also teaches the requisite-expenditure of strength accord ing to the circumstances of the season. No one walks as fast in summer as in winter. We tret nr in tli mnnitui ni. a certain amount of strength, and much may ue gained Dy economizing during the day. Spectacles become necessary wheny ou first notice yourself eroinar to the window instinctively for a better light, or when your eye Rets tired bv lookinor at small thing near at hand, so as to cause luurauncmess. xxrst purchase No. 20 and as you observe the symptoms above named, cet No. IS. and glasses should be near enough to the eye UUllUSt WJ TOUCH lllfl JAR n An thoir ahAnLl be washed evfirv mnminor -in aii - . - vvw vwnvtsi. UM vwixvva A iwilci) uy uiemseives. T "1 ; t. 1 1 . 1 .-a . juuiui peDoie mases the best lenses. Avoid reading before sunrise and after sunset. Bead as littla tut rvnaaiKio wn breakfast, or by artificial hVht ; do not sew on dark material at m')i onI , , " e"j no other eyewash than nnie. torrid, noft water. Babies eves are nffan inimWl I lj aiiuwiug uie glaring sunlight to tail . Exercise is worth nn ttmn ail i medicines in mainfaMT,Tig health. - If it 7.7 auu acsii null vlx, U it is Cold, walk or work fantor if it in windy, turn around and go the other way; if it rains, hails, snows and blows, all at once, bo that you have to stay in doors, then five on bread and water that day, not an atom else, and you will need no exercise to work it up. ! It should always be borne in mind that a large share of our little aches and pains would pass off about as soon by letting them alone as by doing or taking some thing; and the more we "take,? the greater is the necessity for " taking.". The best way to enjoy things is to use them, and thus get the worth of our money out of them. There is no use of gorgeous parlors kept in darkness, i Sometimes the reading of a single sen timent in a newspaper makes an impres sion on the mind which tinges the whole subsequent life for good. The Temperature at Great Height. Prof. Wahl, who accompanied Prof. Wise in a recent balloon ascent,, gives the following account of the temperature experienced : " The unarimnm tempera ture observed ' was 97 deg. at starting, and this continued 1,300 feet At 2,000 feet it was 96 deg. ; at 8,000 feet, 85 deg. The fall : went on until, at the greatest altitude attained viz., - 8,748 feet the temperature was but 68 deg". , It fell gradually as we descended, but was low er than in the ascent, owing, doubtless, to approaching twilight and the attend ant lessening of the sun's power." Ob servations were also made with a view to estimate the quantity and quality of any mechanical or other impurities of the at mosphere, but it will require some little time aad careful work before anyiinfor matiou on that point can be made public. Thk Patron' a Helper thinks the value of narrow . gauge railroads has been greatly over-estimated, and as one ob jection that the little engines , cannot keep the track free from snow iu winter. It instances the road running from Des Moines to Ames, Iowa, which, it says, has been pretty effectually blocked for three wees. It pays to hire good farm help ; who understand their business. men The Latest Fashions. "' 4i SPRING OOBTUifES. ;; ' ;-t " The first indications of spring styles ara found in suits of plaid and striped wool goods, and in the new lace-figured per cale costumes. There is nothing yet very new in the manner of makim? th Most of the early imported dresses havo a basque and tablier, with sometimes a jacket; the skirt is, as usual, trimmed with flounces, both plated and shirred, headed by puffs. Great variety,' how ever is given to costumes by emnlovinsr two materials, one of plaid, and the other striped in the colors of the plaid, and the object seems to be to have no two dresses alike. Thus in one costume the sleeves,' skirt and flounces are striped, with a basque and apron of plaids, while per haps the dress hanging beside it entirely : reverses this plan, and a third costume 1 is a mixture of both thn nftmn rrv. apron promises to supersede the regular over-skirt, and it is also the objective rOint for frimfninr hawtriff 4-.'1 l T laid on to imitate or outline these aprons. . - -r ...v.rjwMiiWUIijjluiui trimmed separately; . at the back are straight wide breadths, hanging in sash loops or else plain, and these are suffi ciently ample to dispense with puffs, ruffles, or other elaborate trimming on the back of the underskutr PULED SUITS FOB SPRING. There is no doubt that we are to have a quadrille season, not of high-colored ' tartans, but of dark brown plaid and soft gray tints well blended. These UIU irregular plaids, even cross-bars, pin-head checks, large blocks, 1 and every possible arrangement of1 squares. They are usually shades of r some color, but the newest are " illumi nated,; as dealers say, by lines and bars of vivid scarlet, blue, or ecru. Some thing of the illuminated lines appears in the trimmings, as pipings, facings and ' lining of bows, collar and sash ends. ; De bege will be the popular material in these designs, and a large per centage of IjACE-FIQURED percales. The novelty in soft-finished Frenchr percales is a lace-like design of white upon a color, blue, brown, ecru, gray or black. This lace ficure is in mn vnla and iu star and compass patterns bike those found in Hamburg work and English embroidery. Sometimes the ucxu&u a buijwb, ugtua is covers tne enttrA xrmnnrl. in mnnw i. - forms side bands near the selvage for trimming the tablier, sash and cuirass. PLAIW-BORDERED PERCALKS. Small checks and rlnJn m- bMtWI grounds form the foundation of many 1 percale suits that are trimmed with flounces bordered with . plaids of the , shades used in the dress. These are in quaint grayish-blue with dark blue, brown with ecru. Ttink with crra-w. riTTiTM, with blue, etc The material sells for uiirty-nve cents a yard. - MADRAS COLORS. Madras colors are the prevaflinpr Paris ian caprice for all kinds of fabrics cottons, linens, batistes, woolens, ' twilled silks, and cnintulinni T1ioau am chosen for their oddness and quaintness, aw ui many instances tneir ugliness is commended as their chief beauty. The Oxford linens represent the colors shown in bright Madras handkerchiefs, and these will u3 the fashionable materials for summer dresses. ecbu uxraexs. Ecru linens are wroncht -in lTumWni patterns of very open figures, and have lace to match imported with them. y Some of these ecru fabrics are in striped guipure designs, and these also have lace to correspond for garniture. BliACK OKKNADINES. The checks and plaids of black grenadines have grown to great size, the inches, though the pin-head canvas meshes oi last year will remain popular. These checks are placed in stripes alter nating with gros grain stripe, moire, or brocaded stripes. Perhaps the richest oi au are the velvet plaid grenadines, having large bars of black velvet passing each way on the sheer grenadine ground. iJXENiAwsra.' The cool, fresh-looking, linen lawns are the lowest priced, most durable, and uusbeim oi an cneap laorics. These cost from twenty-five cents to forty cents a yard. The designs are waved stripes of coral, brae or black. There are also . many plaids in color, and the usual dots, dashes, stars, and lozenges. CHECKED BORDERS. ' Pin-head checks cut to form bias bands will be much used for trimming goods of solid color. This will be especially popular for blue and white summer silks, brown and white, and black with white. When the dress is made of these small checks, large blocks are used for borders. Brown and white check silks. tranmeu wiin larger cnecKS, will i; ,? i i trimmed with larger checks, will maker J sPBrsa shawls. New square shawls for early spring days have plain centers, with Lighter band for borders, and are reversible. Thus a light gray shawl with dark gray border on one side will leave the other center of dark crav with lia-lit hordnr. Ihe fringe is richly tasseled. Harper' m nazar. The Cry r a Cougar. A gentleman living on the mountain about a mile and a half southwest of this citv. was awakened from hin alnnriHara on Thursday night by a strange noise, re-' sembiing the wail of a man in great dis tress. He turned out of bed, intent on , playing the part of the Good Samaritan, ' but, strange to say, the direction from which the noise came seemed to have changed, and it became apparent that the incognito from which emanated the melancholy refrain was traveling on' the main road. He went to the house of a neighbor, who, by the way, is an old o 1 --' V uvi ' question. The Oregonian smiled, a dis dainful smile, and remarked: "Well, John, you are badly fooled this timer that is the cry of the oougar or Oregon , lion." It is needless to say that John did not wish to pursue the subject any longer, but wended his way back to bed again, trembling at the idea of what the consequences might have been if he had obeyed his first impulae and ran down the road to interview the night walker. JPortland Oregon) Bulletin. slept so soundly on the occasion of the reoent railroad accident at Kennebunk, when seven cars were thrown from the track, that he did not awake, and when the train came out to bring the passen gers into this city he had to.be aroused, 1 1 in v i w v i. ..... ...... , v.Htnti , . Ix Illinois the highest salary paid tot male teachers is $330 a month; the highest naiil to femitA teanhAi-a. 9.n. TK. m snective averages of the sexes are Sift. 1ft and $33.46; in Massachusetts, 534.33 and $34.34. In Massachusetts one teacher in eisrht is a nun: in Til insist three teachers in seven are men. One of the healthiest provisions of the French code is that forbidding & v 9 '. doctor to inherit property left him by a . deceased patient. , '