VOLUME XII
ALBANY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 13, 1880.
NO. 20
BirSTXZSS CARDS.
dn tHs Space Pout "Weeks.
Soirxetliirigr
3N" E"VV
N. B. HCMPHRBT, Agent.
JOHN BRIGGS
rtliVK4 THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ISFOKM
A ;wlsfritd and the public generally, that
is now settled in his
NEW BUSINESS HOUSE,
en the old stand next doM-to I. C. Harper A Co ,
-where can be found as grout an assortment :iu
. lai-ge a stot'K ot ;
Stoves and Ranges
s can he fonnd in anyone house this side of
,'oruana,aniiaiu
Low A. rifciols.
U.LU.IJ WW JC-J.-iJ,
Caatironj Brass & Enameled
KETTLES,
in great variety. Also,
Tin, j
Sheet Iron,
C!ulvnizcl Iron,
uul
Coppmrarc,
twav on 'hand, and made to order, AT LIV
ING KATES .
Call on XXl-m
-Albanfr.OctolwM, 187.V5V5
CITY DBtJG STORE.
Coraor First and Ells'wortk ets.,
ALBAXY, ORECOS."
fc. SALT31ARSH,
4 W Hits agtiln talrtn charge of thh
. City Drug Store,
bavin? pnrchaed the entire itcrest of C. W
Shaw, sdceessor to A. CxiotUers & Co., and is
now receiving a
Spieadid STs-w Stock,
which, added to- tile Xoriner. renders it very
coutplel la H the different depart tbents.
Jfeling assured that ail can be sailed iu both
Qality aad Price,
ie oordially invites his old friends arid c-Hdom---
give him a call.
i t . . .
-' PP.S33P.IPTI01T3,
u - .
Kf 111 recet-tl Imife liate and -careful attention
ft all laour, day auJ night.
--HT PufO Wines and Liquors for modiclna
purpose.. K.;sai-TMAKSII.
Oct. X. T7-5T10
CITY MARKKT !
First atreet, S Xcoes st of Ferry,
ALBASf, I OKEOX.
n 01. ACHES, Ss GC3TS, Prop's.
H AVISO pnrch.te 1 the Clry Marttet.T will
irn Ronstxiillv- on band all kinds of. Meats
- very best to be obtained in the market.
I.wlll strive at all times to meet tlto wishes of
fdi who may ravor me win ineir iruuaso.
TU ptfnieene alivara inviled tn cull at my
Uiop when in want ofmeit. fcTTlKi highest
MtaT price paid lor POR VL. SIvI0sl3
New Goods I Xew Departure I
Millinery aiip dressmaking.
. MRS., O. L. PARKS,
if AVINti PCHCHA9KD THE MILLINEUY
AA Store latelV owned bv Mrs.-C. P. liavis. and
having lust added thereto rtew invoice of late
Choice Killiaexy'i' "Tsimaiags
Bonncift, Hats. Ac.takes pleasure In-lm ltlng
ladies of Albany and -a-icinity tra-call
inspect tor lhem-elves Jllljfoods will be sold
at prices Ibatiflefy coin?TetJitni
Having socui-ed the services of a first class
t Dressmaker !
lam prepared to cut, (it. and make dresses-In
why style defired, at short notice and In a satis
factory manner. - . . .. ' "" '' i
ti..kin,iMii(n7 frtr children acneclalty
. Store on north side of Flrt. east of Eilswortlr
itreeu You are .n viteu g
17. 1879' -.
lafallitle ladi&a Eeaeflies
A Sure Shot For a
TY'RV A RKinBSCK-tAMOXG
U the Indian -tribes of the coast andttie inte
rior, I have S;v l t he ifoo-t fort one to discover,
from the "Mdkdne" men of ttso several tribes,
n4 from otlior sou ree a jjti m bCr if remedies
for diseases iricldenr tft ,this eonntry, conslst
iof roots, Jierbs and bark, and having been
solicited bv wif peorile Dt. thU Valley, who
bave tricd'and proved tlie'erlicacyo them in
disease, to proenre and ffer the sanM mr sale,
I take this raezn of an n Mincing vto.all tliat,
dnrinv the past season, have male an extend
ed tour tlironsfh the monntains antTyalleys;
lend have snenrel certain of thee remedies
which are stire cure for T
. .,.' - t ' ' r . - j. :
. AT'-crver' ft-tid -A.g'W.e r
.- . ... r.' - ' "' ' --
TBOse snffcrtas irorttAirue Who desire to- be
hrw.-i,cai leave order at Mr. StrongVatore On
yirst street, when l-wlil fnrnlsh tliO'Temedles.
warranting a radical cure or I wtll demand io
pav. . " t - ,- .','-- -';W. viOHSu .
feKeniedles done up in ti packages.: 12-1
: 1 7 tMoat uand expenses guaranteed to hKtm
til f Outfltfree- SaAW Ca, Anjrusfa. "Maine
vUnaajl
LEGAL.
I.. FX.INK.
E, I II AMBEBLAl.N.
lxi.vx &. chamberlaix,
Attorneys nt Law,
ALJiAXT, - OATOO.V.
OFFICE- In Foster's new brick block, first
door to the lott, up i-tairs. vllnli
J. C. POWELL,
W. K. BH.YEU.
I'O WALL dt BIL YEU,
Attorneys t Law und Solicitors
iii Clianccr).
ALBAXY. - OHKfiUS.
c
OLLKCTIONS promntlvmade onall points.
1 .0:111 negotiated oh rcasonublo terms.
Oliiec in X ostev's new block. nbsvll
J. K. WEATIIEItrOBD,
(XOTABY PUBLIC)
Attorney at - Jcfsv.
ALBAXY,
OKKtiOS.
ILL PRACTICE IS THCrAFKKRKNT
courts of 1 be Slate. isiwcUU attention ji v-
en to collections and proliute wmtteri. Opfick
In Odd fellows' xvmpie. imviu
I. II. X. IL(Hiaii5,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AI.1UXY,
ori:uom.
PROSIJT A'lTKMIOSi UIVFJI TO AI.I.
business. - 22vi
X. B. lit" Midi RET. C. E. WOLVERTOX.
liuiaipliro)' .V Welverlun,
Attorneys and touiiKelors nt Ijiw.
WTl L I- PRAOTH.'E IN' ALL THE COURTS
or tliisstate. o,kki'k in rroina.n' brick
(upstairs) Albany, Oregon. Iln4
L. 13. JIOXTAXYE,
Attorney at Tsiav,
altiaxi-, oitxaoir.
OFFICE
0:1 Fi
FF'K'E Up'srairs, over John ISriggw" slore,
reel. vnnin
C. II. HEWITT,
Attorney mid Counselor nt Law,
Office, Old JW OJjly titling, Albany, Orrgrm.
WILL pi;
JILL PRACTICE in the different Coiirts of
vlin.ii
I). 31. COX LEV,
ATTOKNEY AT LAW.
o
FKICE In Parrlsh block, north side 1'lrst
.tri-iT. Ailuinv. l)r-L-(in. -.'
Ail buyines piun;pi ly and i-jirefuily n?cnded
vlinfii
to.
MEDICAL.
B; at: savags, 11.
Physician ami Surgeon,
Fruniaim's Itrick, up ctairs,
First street, s Albany, Oregon.
vlinlK
C. C. liELLY, M. I.,
PHYSIC1A1T 5 SUH&E02T.
AI.HAST,
oit::u?.
OFFICE .IN MilLWAINf BKICR.. BLOCK.
Kei-i-'.'-'i-e one door north of brooui faeto-i-v,
Lvon street. Ilvl3
I. W. BALtABn, M. D. J- M. POWELL, M. I.
BALLARD & POWELL,
Physicians & Surgeons,
1.EIJAX0S, oni;uos.
OKKirF.- At Lebanon Irng Store. 12n2
Jl Xll S F. W!IIT1., ARTIST,
Fresco, Sign, Scene.
A.L
Iictoi-itil I ii intiiig".
DEMOMVft A PPKCIALTY.
Iter. in K an l 7. 1iirrih blwk.corner First
an-1 Ferry nreet. Albany, Oregon.
CLARK,
SUH ESViIt .lO J. IS. V1ATT,
oenler in
HeaYj and Shelf Hardware,
Iron, Steel ami Ieeiqies". Tools,
First door east of S.' E. Yo'Jng,
f-n.LVy, (vllntOj OJiEGOX.
ST. CHARLES HOTEL,
ALMAS Y, : . OKEtioN,
l?rs. C. Ilouk, Proprietor.
THIS HOI.'SE -1ms been thoroitjrTily overhnul
e'i and renovated. -and placed in first class
conditioner the uccoiuinodiition of its guests,
tiood Siinlbie lloom tor Cotiiuiereial Traveler.
General Staro Oflice. foi- Cor vail is. Independ
ence and 1 x-banou. t'ree t'oaeli to anil fioiu
the lioiise. vlln4
WILLEBT & BLT MCTI,
Manufacturers of
Carriages and Wagons.
LATSTiE stock CarriBges and TVasonsconstant
ly on band. e-T K'-mii ing and job work
done at short notice and in the n.ost skilfull
manner. .- 5ft-l
fjH ferry Street, Albany, Or.
JAMES DANNAL3,
Dealer and Manufacturer of
SOLID WALNUT BEDROOM SETS
Kn Voneering No Sham. AfooOrhenn Ash,
Manle and Pine Sitit-. Spring lUvis, Pure
Hair -Matrasses. Also Moss, Wool, Ptilu and
St raw lied on hand an '1 made nt Lowest lbites.
Work and g.ods warranted as represent i.
Corner fiveeod anil Ferry St., VI ban y.
1.0
TITUS X5XtO.,
tewelrs,
REGVLATFSG TIMK-IECf &
Ins Jewelry a sixscialty. Call. A uni
Atfealts for "fSew.K mc" SewIoK M-
pnvailinv ii3 awi nit? "".r j- M
hcti)"" il. UAbtrr ft Co., Portland, .
Pen Brndsliawc.
"Yep, sir ye. Mr. Clive Soulard,
I've made np my mind. If you are
bent on marrying a woman who doesn't
care one fig tor yon, you're at liberty to
do so."
"Very well, Pen."
Mr. Clive Soulard spoke very quietly,
and bent his handsome eyes on the girl
with an expression of mingled noncha
lance and atmiFcment. 1
"I don't' coiirider :t very well, Mr
Soulard," she went on, nettled by his
quietude. "It may he well tor you, who
marry metor,my money, and eo et all
you want, it's bad, and wicked, and
cruel, and you know it."
"Ah? Indeed, Peo, I was r.ot aware
that the advantage of this arrange
ment were not mutual. I am sure I
supposed it a purely business matter on
both cides."
"To be sure ; but yon have every
thing to gain, and I everything to lose."
The shadow ot a rlusdi arose in Ci.ive
So-.ilard'n cheek, but it was gone before
Penelope Bradsl.awe saw it, and he
answered, in the light,. careless tone he
had used all along :
"If you mean by gain that T give np
poverty tor wealth, the miseries of bach
elorhood for married blessedness, I don't
know but you'ie right as !o tl at, but
even then what do I gain that you
don't ? You can have the money
without me more than I can have the
money without you : and really, Pen,
if you arc lovely as a Peri, I think I
lay some claim to the good looks ut
Antonio eh, Pen?" runniiig his
slender white fingers through die halo
ut bronse-brown curls that covered his
handsome head, and e::ding a laughing
glance into the mirror o.pp"site, that
reflected a tace beautiful almost as a
woman's. .
"Tut-h, fraid .Pen, co'oring wiih im
patierce, "I don't think that this is any
lime to talk nonsense and make fun."
"Perhaps not," he replied, with a
hopelessly comical sigh, "but I can't
help being jolly, dear; it in't every
day one gets a fortune and a wife m a
breatii, and without the trouble of ask
ing for c ilher."
"You haven't g'ot the wife yet, Clive
Soulard, and it you were a man you
wouldn't take her on such conditions."
"Conditions? I didn't know there
were any. It's the moi.ey is condition
al, not the wife." 1
Poor Pen was ready to cry with vex
ation. The handsome, provoking fel
low only laughed at her, whatever the
said. ,
She might protest a much as she
liked against the match which her uncle
had planned so arbitrarily, making the
inheritance ot his money conditiotial on
these iwo marrying. Cfiye Soulard
only, laughed at her and made jesting
responses to all her appeals.
Penelope Uradshawe had been
brought up as the adopted child and
heiress of her ir.icle, Reese Prad.bawe.
A year before this uncle had died, leav
ing a will which was not to bo optned
till he had been dead twelve months.
That will, beine read at the appoint
ed time, proved to contain the some
what arbitrary dictum that his beloved
neiro should not have his money with
out she married his beloved cousin.
Olive Soulard, 'the said'CPve being
still single at the opening of the will.
Pen Urad-liawe was an exceedingly
pretty girl, but contrary, captions and
self-willed, as pretty girls are apt to be,
and she trowned in the most decided
manner upon the unexjiected tenor ot
her uncle's will. It he had given Clive
halt the property she 'wouldn't have
minded, but to force her to malce her
choice lietween proverty and. Clive to
oblige a saucy little flirt like her to
marry nybody was abominable.
She forgot, even in her own mind, to
add to the sum ot her grievances on the
subject the tact that the provofciiig will
cut short the most delightful fitlle flir
tation Miss Pen had ever indulged in.
She had known Clive all her life
indeed, they were distant cousins, and
Clive had spent a good share of his boy
hood and inort of hit vacations during
school and college day?, it Uncle Bad
shawe's house, where pretty Pen alter
nately; petted and plagued the life out
ot him. - - ;- ". "'- 'v ; .
It was bad enough to be snubbed and
coaxed by so pretty a girl as Pen .while
he was in jackets and she ui pinafores,
but to have such a state of things con
linne-y well jtc was highly . Unpleasant
to CHve Soulard that he could not con
ceal his exultation at the1 turn which,
was .necessarily given to affairs by the
terras of Uncle Reese's will! : T
tie at once dropped the suppliant
air, and became nonchalant, carele-s
and at his eae provoitingly so, one
must allow, under the circumstance.
Pen Bralshawe could scarcely be Ulan,"
ed for not liking the tables turned upon
her iu this summary maimer.
She persisted that she didn't like
Clive one bit, not that way, but she
couldn't give up her heiress-ship and be
a poor 6ewing-girl like Kitty Bryce, or
a music-teacher like Ellen Steele, or, in
short, be poor at all, and so she told
Clive she'd marry h:m just for that one
reason, and no other. If he had a mind
to take her, knowing .she didn't love
him, and never' expected to, and that
she thought it a shameful piece ot busi
ness altogether a cruel conspiracy
against a poor girl who. couldn't help
herself "vhy, he could.
.For her part, she should be afraid to
marry anybody that felt toward her as
she did toward CI ive Soulard, etc,
studying to say whatever she judged
was best calculated to provoke her pros
pective spouse outot that sorry noncha
lance lie tiad only so lately assumed.
But C'liye was not to be provoked.
He assured Pen that it made no sort of
difference her not loving him the mon
ey was the main .object which assur-
ance, strangely enough, did not comfort
Pen a particle, or make her one whit
m re resigned to her fate. lie utterly
declined withdrawing his claim, either
to the money 01 Pen.
The possession 'ot the former being
conditional upon the latter. How could
he? he gravely questioned. Pen
thought, if he were not utterly selfish
instead of forcing her into marrying a
man she didn't like, he would refuse to
fulfill the condition ot the will himself,
and so generously bestow upon her the
property and freedom at the same time
But Clive disclaimed all pretensions
to unselfishness, and candidly told he,r
it she had stich an invincible rcpng'ir.nce
to him she had better give up the prop
erly and secure her freedom at the
i
sime time.
lie thought it would be a rity to mar
ry a man she disliked so much as she
seemed to do.' Xow with him it was
different. lie diuii't dislike Pen by any
means ; he was rather thankful, on the
whole, that der old tJiule Krese
hadn't thrown Ann Thompson in his
way instead of Pen Bradshawe ; he
eould think of plenty ot worse incum
brances to a flue property like that than
Pen.
Yai-tly consoling this style of ta-;k,
was it not? Was he laughing at her,
or was he " in earnest ? Had he only
lieen playing wiih her all that past
time, when he seemed to live on her
smiles when a frown or & petulant
word would1 make him apparently the
most wretched of men 1 or had he. (oh J
most heart-rending supposition) the
money, in view all the time, and only
sought her to secure that?
Il looked like it, certainly this sud
den assumption of indifference to her
pleasure ; this open exultation at the
terms of her Uncle's, will. Pen, the
beautiful, the bewitching, the tantaliz
ing, was quite nonplused. If she really
thought, if she were positively certain,
that he wasnjt doing this to plague her,
that he didn't care for anything but the
money, she wouldn't have- him to save
his life ; shed go off and be a gover
ness, or take in sewing for a living be
fore she would marry him.
No, she would n't either ; in that case
she'd have him out of spite.
In short, beside having a natural
shrinking from sewing tor a living, Pen,'
consciously or otherwise, did not dislike
her, future spouse quite to trie extent
she pretended.
Somewhere in - her capricious heart
there wss a soft place for Clive Soulard
all the time. f
He was so handsome, so graceful, all
the ether girls were in love with him if
she were not.
' And so the weeks wore away. till the
wedding-rlay ; Clive, light-hearted,
careless, laughing, banteringly sympa
thetic, ten tjmes as handsome and
agreeable as he had ever been, but not
in the least lover-like anything but
that ; Pen, sulky and saucy by turns,
but really ra.iserable, and secretly, for
a reason she could hot confess to herself,
but much less so to Clive Soulard.
Pen, the invincible, was in love at
last, and' pt all men, with Clive Sou.
lard. If Clive suspectetf it he kept his
suspicion's to himself, and. never by any
chsnce dropped word or look that could
be conf-trued as symptomatic of the
tender passion.
The change in Pen Bradshawe since
the reading of her uncle's will was too
marked not to be apparent. People
commented variously upon it. Some
pitied her for being compelled to a mar
riage so distasteful ; others thought,
with Clive Soulard, that, if-it was dis.
tasteful, she alone, was to blame it she
did not choose the uiterest proverty in
preference to it.
Pen, meanwhile meditating-and spe
culating constantly upon Clive's chang
ed demeanor, concluded at last that he
was as indifferent to her as he pretended
to be ; and she resolved, if nothing oc
curred before the wedding day, to refuse
then to marry . him, .whether or no.
She had. ma,de all the usual prepara
tions. Her dressing-room was s'.rewn
with snowy lace, silks, and muslins;
the bridesmaids fur tlie occasion were
being duly drilled and otherwise got
ready for their part in the approaching
c -remony.
The wedding morning came.
Forth from her chamber floated the
bride, clad in flowing snow, and sur
rounded by her bridesmaids, like the
queen-rose In a garden ot blossoms;
forth stepped the bridegroom, handsome,
graceful, light of heart and exultant
Penelope let him take her hand and
lead her forward, without lifting her
e-es till they stood at the very altar
steps. Then, suddenly, she looked np,
first at him, then at the assembled
guests, and, drawing her hand from
him, she said with slow, deliberate
enunciation :
"I cannot do it. Better proverty,
better wretchedness, better anything
than such a marriage as this. I have
changed my mind. Good friends, it U
a pity to disappoint yon, but thert will
be no wedding to-day."
So saying, sho glided through the as
tonished groups, and left them staring
breathlessly alter her.
The luckless bridgroom knew not
what to say or to do or where to look.
He was taken at a disadvantage; wound,
ed full sore at a point r here, being ten
der, but unsuspicious, he had not Buffi-
cier.tly guarded himself.
Was it the mortification, the slight,
the being so pub'icly rejected by &o
lovely a girl as Pen Bradshawe?
Or did his very inmost heart quail
with tear at the thought of losing her
after all, a woman who, with all her
coquettish . fiivolousness, was worth
more to him than all other women to
gether than twenty fortunes like the
one she forfeited to him by refusing to
become 1. is wife ? .
Certainly CHve Soulard's handsome
face, had suddenly taken the line of
death, and his yoicq was unsteady, as
he tried to murraer something that
sounded like a contused apology or
explanation of this strange coutrelemps.
The guests fell into little whispering
knots, tiie clergyman who was to have
officiated looked confounded, and the
bridal attendants stole half-frightened,
curious glances at Clive Soulard, who,
with his eyes do vneast, his whole ap
pearance expressive ot the agitated con
flict going on within him, stood Strug,
gling vainly to recall his self-possession.
Presently he drew uearer the clergy
man, said something inaudible to others
and with a half-deprecatory glance left
the room.
In a stupefaction scarcely less than
Ins, Penelope had managed somehow
to reach her own chamber again, and
was silting amid the chaotic array of
bridal gear that strewed the room, when
a timid, kuock sounded at her door.
All her energies rallied at the sound;.
Pausing deliberately to rouge her
white cheefis, she waited for a second
knock, and opene'I the door.
It was Soulard himself ' who stood
there, palid yet resolute, agitated but
d e term i bed.
Fire seemed to flash from hi hand
some eyes as they met hers ; his nostrils
quivered and dilated.
He-looked his true self manly, not
easily baffled this time.
It was on Pen's lips to say, in the as
surance ot the triumph she fell to be
hers:' "Oh, it is yon wit?" but in
stead she caught at the door unsteadily
and said :
"Oh, Clive, Clive ?" ,.
"Do you love me, Pen?. That is
what I came lor what I will Vuow." j
"You haven't any right td ash me,
CHve, atter after all , you've said, and
done to make me think you didn't care
a straw. lor me or anyinuig dui me
money ," aid I'erf, falteringly. - r -....
VI was foolish,' trying to pay off old
scores, that's all. I love , you better
than my life, Pea. If you're not going
o share it with me I'll make a bonfire
of Uncle Reese's fortune and shoot my
self afterward. ; Will yon come now ?"
Perhaps that particular bevy of wed
ding guests wailing below never expe
rienced a profound er sensation than
when the drawing-room door opened
again and Clive Soulard marched in
with the look ot a conquering hero,
conducting Pen Bradshawe, blushing,
smiling and tearful, but evidently glad
and willing.
They walked straight to the old place
the minister managed to keep his senses
under the mo-t trying circumstance,
the words were said the twain made
one ; and if one might Judge frora.tfie
expression ot the .eye. and countenance
two happier people than these never
wore matrimonial chains.
Why It Mdn't o.
A Brooklyn parent gave his daughter
on her eighteenth birthday, a handsome
wa'ch, which he had purchased from a
jeweler with whom he was on friendly
terms. One night ..the girl toreot to
wind it, and in the morning the hands
and wheels were motionless. Sho took
it for granted that she had used the
watch carelessly, and that something
was broken inside. She did not like to
say any thnig to her father about it, but,
going to a Fulton-street jeweler the
next day, asked him tolook at the watch
and see what was the matter with it
The jeweler took it, put a magnifying
glass before his ; eye, opened the case,
touched the wheels with a pick, and re.
marked that it needed cleaning, as it
was very dirty. On inqiiriug the cost
ot such an operation, she was told that
it would be $2.50. The young lady
was amazed, tor she had had the watel
only three days, and was reluctant to
believe that it required so extensive a
renovation. She passed on to the best
known jeweler's store in Brooklyn and,
handing the watch to the .man at the
counter, preferred the same . request
as before.. He went through the same
process of inspection, and said the hair.
spring was broken and the watch needed
cleaning. Inquiring the cost again, she
was fold it would be $4. She said she
would see her father bon, it, ai d at
night when he came bome she told him
of her day's doings, and said his friend
must have cheated him. Her father
took the watcli to Xew York iu 4.he
morning, and in the course ot the day
stepped into his friend's store where he
bought it, and asked him to look at it
and see why it had stopped. His friend
after looking at it a moment, .took op
the key, and winding it np handed it
back with the remark: "No watch will
run un'ess it is kept wund up."
-. -
Stomp.
The popular idea that mushrooms
grow only iu the night is not correct;
their growth is nearly equal day and
night.
Gold is entirely unaffected by atmos
pheric action or influences. Silver be
comes dull, but gold retains its native
luster.
". r- - . - i
Clonet and Ritter, working separated
ly, have each discovered that all com
mercial grape sugar contains arsenic in
small quantities.
The. Portuguese are about to send a
new and well organized expedition
through Africa, especially to survey the
Zambeze River, j i
, Half the cases of sickness are brought
On by the morbid and excited: imagin
ation ot the victim. Intense fear of a
disease will produce it.
The gas consumed annally in Paris
amounts to p.500,0p0,000 cubic feel,
and costs. $10,000,000, or nearly $5 a
year for each inhabitant.
Shoemakeis' wax has been used with
success in Glasgow to illustrate to the
students of . natural philosophy,' in a
model, tlie flow ot glaciers.
, A work published by Dr. Bateman,
In opposition to the doctrines of Darwin,
was recently, brought to the. attention
of the French Academy of Sciences.
The improved French method of pre
serving wood by the application of lime
is found to work well. The plan is to
pile the planks in a tank, and to put
over all a layer of quick lime, which is
gradually slacked with water. Timber
tor mines requires about a week to be
thoroughly imrreonated . .
James Maclear. the chemist, whose
alleged discovery of the art of making
diamonds has caused some commotion
in Great Britain, recently .delivered an
address on the antiquity of chemical
science before the. Philanthropic Society
ot Glasgow. He believed that cl.emisi
try was known and practiced -in India
at least two thouband years before the
Christian era. '
KelasbrlnktaiMS.
Ironing a shirt is a pressing necessity. '
The life of a gambler is all play anl 7
no work.
Trade dollars make a, big noise oa aV -
church plate. .
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An honest count is the noblest trerSt
of politicians.
Some folks in Boston put two 'gV i
in tragedy. i; .
Walking-matches ought to be prehib.
jted during leap year.
The organ greatly relieves the MT
Deum'o church service.
Maine is full of law. AH it wmnta
now is a little better order.
When a wedding is put off, did yerf
ever notice how the gossips go oiT :
The avemge church cboir is . raorf, la
need ot an organizer than tn organist.: " ;
The pilgrim'j progress in thin world -
is not helped by a bunion. . . i. .;f i, .
It is a dull day when a railroad is
not projected from Kansas City 4... tJVr
It is now demonstrated, that thereir'
styx rises somewhere up in the Michii
gan pineries. . . . .ri;, .1,
Tbey can raise almost anything in Cat.
ifornia exceptthe standard of morality, j.;
Greece has lost her -most avctenfc
Athenian, at the age pt 130. He neve!'
took medicine Until he was 129.
"It is notour pnrpose to discuss tide
matter'' says ,the Boston Times after it
has discussed a whole column of It.
Aberden, Ohio, is the Gretna Green
of America, and old Squire Beasly fa
the chap wl o acts as chaplain.
A celebrated Chinese engineer has iav
ventcd a new style of engine. We prr
sume it must go. ( .. .. .,
A pet cow belonging to ti lady., in
vannah (Ga.) recently died of old. ,g
The owner mourns for the lost caws. ,,.
Japan has iron coins worth about
100th of one cent. They are alleged V
be chiefly used for alms and offerings ta
god . , . . . ,. j-i-j -if
A sunday-sch,ool , boy. ..was. asked if
his father was a Christian., He replied
"Yes, but he is not working at it much
now." - , . ; .
A boot maker has this extraordinary '
announcement in he wjjw,: "Ladieer
will be sohl as IdwVs i $ibeut a pair. '
An oil maid, speaking of marriage,
says it's like ,any other disease-- while
there is life there is hope. ,
Alfonso borrowed 2,000,Q00',.tp...gi
married on, and he doesn't consider it
throne away. , : . . " lfl
The present -w'nter promises to be en
unusually hard one-.00 ministers, as do
nation parties are more fashionable than
ever.
The editor, ot the Atchison, XEjts.),
Champion has a black eve. , He explains
it by saying:'." A tel'owcaue in and set
tled today.' ... . . ...
A man arrested for firing a bars),
whereby its contents- were - destroyed,
said he didn't know it was loaded.
The Philadelphia Vtem baa a depart
ment tor lovers, and says: "A lady
thoroughly competent to decide lovw
questions is in charge."
There is a rumor that Keely, the
motor man, has turned bis attention to
a machine for.sticking pins through si '
starched collar. ...i , t
Jack, the Ute chief, is a Mormotl
priest. . . - . , 1 - '- . ;1V'-
Parnell has been in America twice
before. - :
Gambetta is growing thin and bil
hair is getting white. , .- :
Yanderbilt gave about $25,000 i
Christmas presents. ; r ... --
Secretary Thompson smokes from tea
to fifteen cigars a day. ...... ,: . .. .
Charles Francis Adams pays ft tax oa
$747,000 in Boston. .
Don Carlos drives, daijy in Paris in
phaeton drawn by four nl'uleL. . , r
Thurlow Weed awJLhe .firsj ftean.,
boat and rode on the first railway carVi(
Washington counts Gen. Sherman sg
a most indefatigable man of society. . .
Robert Clinton, Wright,,, the .old
and best .known American merchant La
Brazil, is dead, ... ; . . ' .
Robert Mitchell of Cincinnati pre
sented ten members of bis., family witll
$50,000 each for christtnas. .. .', ',' i t
Ex-Senator Pomeroy of.Kasas bsj.ft,
gold mine in. North Carolina whbK
pays him $1,000 i .week.,-y ' r ).:ti
Colonel Tom Scott began his . eireei
as a railroad man in ;lhe ,ca,paioity - s4
station agent at HollidaysburgPft. , ; ;
Charles H. S. Williams, the Bostoa
lawyer who was recently drowned ,
Coucpfd, Mass., while skating, bad
$51,000 Insurance on bis life.
It having been stated that 'canned?
persimmons were among the stores of
the Bennett arctic expedition as a pr-.
Tentative of scurry, ibe Cincinnati Sat
prday Night asks if the longest persica
mon will reach the pole? - - - - '
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