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Corvsjjlis Gazette. PUB1 EVERY FRIOfr MORNING BY W. 3B. CARTER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: (coin.) rer Tear, lx Month, Ynree Months, 3 BO 1 8 1 O INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS, IWI. . WOODCOCK, Aliorney and Counselor at Law, t OHVA I.t.lM oKEeoir. OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK 4 BALDWIN'S Hardware store. Sjiecial Rtlention given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate a. id Road matters. Will also buy ami sell City Property and Farm Lands, on reasonable terms. March L'0, 1ST". 16-I2yl J. K. WEBBER, Main St., Corvaliis. Oregon, DEALER IN Stoves, Ranges, FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS. HOUSE FURNISHING HARDWARE, Constantly on band, the NEW PICH MONO RANGE, x Best in Market. The BONANZA.COOK STOVE, HomethinrqJw. And the New VECTA 'PARLOR STOVE. Jan. 1,1880. 17:1 tf J. R. BRYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. Corvaliis, July 14, 1879. I6:29tf J. W. RAYBURN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, tOKVALLM, t OBEGOX. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second end 'ihird. "Special attention given to the Collection of Notes and Accounts. 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, UKVAi.M.H. ... OIBOOR. ty ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to piatters in Probate. Collections will receive tmnipt and careful attention. Office iu the Court 'use. 16:ltf. dr f. a. Vincent, DENTIST. COHVALL18 - (iBEGON. rkFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER " Max. Friendley's New Store. All thejatest improvements. Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Pleae give me a call. 15:3tf C. R. FARRA, M. D. FUYMCIAN AMD SURGEON, 0FFICE-OVER GRAHAM A HAMILTON'S v Drug Stoic, Corvaliis, Oregon. 14-26tf W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCriES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc. Also, Musloal I n -1 rum puts feo. ;JBBllepairiiig done at the most reasonable rales, and all work warranted. Corvaliis, Dee. 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAtl, HAMILTON & CO., OOKVALLM ... OBEDOII. DEALERS IN Ifiig-s, Paints, m EDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STUFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE WINE8 AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Paper ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERIU CHcRMCU PAINT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER ear IM.y.lcinas' f. e.crlptious ISM f 1 1 i iuipiuadd, mm Corvaliis Gazette. amtttt RATES OF ADVERTISING. I 1W. 1 M. 8 M. 6 M. 1 TbZ 1 Inch 1001 300 S 00 8 00112 00 2 " 20060070012 0018 00 8 " I 3 00 6 00 I 10 00 I 16 00 22 Ot 4 " 400 7 00 13 00 I 18 00 20 00 H Col. I 6 00 1 9001SOO2000I3500 X " I 7 .'0 12 00 18 00 85 00 48 00 " I 10 00 16 00 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 " I 15 00 20 00 1 40 00 60 00 ICO Of VOL. XVII. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY 28, 1880. NO. 22. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Corvaliis Lodire Ko 14. r. . a. m Holds stnteil fin ..j.uuivoiniia uu TTCUUtSUHY OH or preceding each full moon. Brethren in euad -,u6 wiuiaiir luvueu to aiienu. uy order w. m.. Bsranm LodEe Wo. 7. 1. o n. k- Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Pishor'a " iva, OtWUU OWI y. ATJCIli- bers of the order in good standing invited to at- F. Am CHEKOWETH. F. M. JOHNSON. CHENOWETH & JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW C'OK.ALLI8 .... oBieOH September 4, 1879. 16:36tf 4LLE1 & WOODWARD, Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRCGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, ETC., ETC. School Pooks - tationeny, fee. We buy for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medic nes the market affords. Prescriptions accurately nreDared at half ine usual rates. ZAiayifristt FRESH GOODS- AT THE BAZAR or FASHIONS Mrs. E. A.. KNIGHT. COBTAUISi ... OBieOH. Has just received from San Francisco, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery Goods, Dress Trimmings, Etc., Ever brought to Corvaliis, which I will sell at prices that defy competition. Atrem-T for BBrno. eemoml's reliable Patterns). 26aprl6:17tf Woodcock & Baldwin (Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,) XTEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE old stand a large and complete stock of Heavy and Midi Hardware, IRON, STEEL, TOOLS, STOVES, RANG 8, ETC Manufactured and Home Made Tin and Cipper Ware, Pumps, Pipe, Et. A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all Job Work neatly and quickly done. Also agents for Knapp, Burrell & Co., for the sale of the best and latest im proved FARM MACHINERY, of all kinds, together with a full assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST. LOUIS CHART! R 0K S'OVES the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the Norman Range, and many other patterns, in all sizes ami styles. Waff" Particular attention paid to Farmers' wants, and the supplying extras for Farm Machinery, and all information as to such articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our customers with the best goods in market, in our line, and at the lowest prices. Our motto shall be, prompt and fair dealing with all. Call and examine our tock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac tion guaranteed. WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN. Corvaliis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf - Bees Hamlin. Ehmxtt F. Wrknn. DRAYAGE ! DRAYAGE! CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Hamlin & Wrenn. Propr's. AVING JUST RETURNED FROM Sulem with a new truck, and having leased the bam formerly occupied by James Eg lin, we are now preja:ed to do all kinds of C H A Y INC A D HAULING. either in the city or country, at the lowest living rates. Can be found at the old truck stand. A share of the public patronage respectfully solic ited. Corvaliis, Dec. 27. 1878. 15:52tf J C. MORELANO, (city attorney.) ATTOREY A.rJC JL.A.W, ruKTLANU, OBKUOS. OFFICEMonastes' Brick, First afreet, between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf THE STAR BAKERY, MhIu Si root, or v alii. HENRY WARRIOR, PROPRIETOR. Family Supply Store ! Groceries, Bread Cakes, . Candies, - Toys, . . fctc., Always on Hand. Corvaliis, Jan. 1, 1877. I2tf LANDS I FARMS! HOMES! 1HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY, very desirable," FOR SALE. These lands are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof oh less than 160 acres, can dispose of the balance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. lS:2tf H. 132. HARRIS, One door South of Graham A Hamilton's, (OKVALI.IH, UBEUON. GROCERIES. PRO VISIONS, AND Dry Goods. Corvaliis, Jan. 3, 1878. I8:lvl DRAKE & GRANT, MERCHANT TAILORS, C'MVAI.LlN, - . OEGUUK. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE and well selected stock of Cloth, viz: Wiei or rtislancl Broad lot lit. reneh t asslmeres, eotch Tweeds, and .4 merican i ultirB-, Which we will make up to order in the most approved and lash onable styles. No pains will be s. ii red u producing good fitting garments. Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have them cut out, will do well to call and examine our stock. DRAKE A GRANT. Corvaliis, April 17, 1879. I6:16tf Boarding- and Lodg ing. Pullomath, Be n to u Co , Urccois. GEORGE K1SOR, "RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAV eling public that he is now prepared and in readiness to keep such boarders as may choose to give him a call, either by the SINC E Mt-. DAY. OR WEEK. Is also prepared to fu-n sh horse feed. Liberal share ot public patronage solicited. Give s a call. GEORGE KISOR. Philomath, -April 28, 1879. I0:18tf CORVALLIS Livery, Feed ...AND... SALE STABLE, Muln St., Corval la, Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpr. QWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED v to oiler superior accommodations in the liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, GOOD TEAMS -Att Low Rates. My stable? are first-class in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public. SEASONABLE CHARGES FOB HIRE. Farileglar attention Paid t. Beardlaf M oraea. ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS Corvaliis, Jan. 3, 1879. l:lyl H AAA A MONTH guaranteed. Twelve all 11 1 dollars a day made at home by til 111 I I the industrious. Capital not re 1 """quhed; we will start you. Men, women, boys and girls make- money faster at work for us than at anything else. The work is light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go right at. Those who are wise who see this notice will send us their addresses at once and see for themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now is the time, Those already at work are laying up large sums of money. Address TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine $66 A WEEK in vour own town and no capital risked. You can give the business a trial without expense. The best opportunity ever ofiered for those willing to work. You should try nothing else until you see for yourself what you can do at the business we otter. No room to explain here. You can devote all your time or only your spare time to the business, and make great pay for every hour you work. Women make as much as men. Send for special private terms and par ticulars, which we raafl free $6 outfit tree. Don't complain of hard times while vou have such a chance. Address H. HALLETT A CO,. Portland, Maine. 16:31y 1 FRANKLIN CAUTH0RN, M. D., PHYSICIAN ANx SUBGEON, orvallla, Oregon, j Special attention given to surgery ai)d diseases of the Eye. Can be found at his office l in rear of Graham, Hamilton A Co.'s Drug Store, up stairs, day or night. f June 3, 1879. jr lff-zst Won by Kindness. Clara arose bright and early that morn ine, even before the sun, and it was sum mer time. Her father had entrusted her with a wonderful task the previous day. It was nothing less than to milk Lady Beauty, a voung, high-brpd cow whom no one but himself had ever milked. Lady Beauty was a dainty, nervous animal, very valu able, but shy as a swallow, not at all ugly in disposition, but to strangers quite un approachable; and, as some one said, "manageable as a baloon." Many bad tried to make her acquaintance, but all had failed except Clara; and she had gone so far as to strip" the last 01 the milk from her udder two or three times. This was when her master was by, however, to soothe and pet her. But now Clara's father was to go away from home for a day or two, and in sheer despair he bad said: "Clara, if you think you can milk Beau ty, vou mav: but he was going to add, "don't go near her heels;" he said instead, "be verv careful." How the little girl's eyes and cheeks glowed ! Of all things she had most wanted to do. it was to milk that cow. She did not like milking excessively, because, for a girl of ten, that is very hard work; but to milk Lady Beauty! To do something no one but her father had ever done! And to have her father praise her for it ! The last was the crown Clara was to get when her wonderful task was accomplished She would have gone through fire if nec essary to win her lathers approval. Lady Beauty opened wide her great, brown, intelligent eyes when she saw tne little girl with bright tin pail come to ward her in the early morning. Back and forth went Beauty's ears, and her wide trembling nostrils snined the air question ingly. She looked ready to take to her hoofs and vanish. "Good morning, Lady Beauty; will you have some salt ?" asked Clara, softly, as sbe opened her hand and showed the cow that coveted luxury. Timidly, but with a sniff of pleasure, Beauty came near, and licked the salt from Clara s hand, Clara all the tme talk ing coaxingly and looking kindly into the half-human eyes. "Now, Lady, dear, you must be a good cow and let me have some milk." Thus talking and patting the animal, Clara knelt close to the cow on the side sbe then was, and placed her paiJLin prop- CI UOlllUll uooiu uvaiu o iii. uiuu iuui The cow's feet were still, but it seemed that all the rest of her velvet body was ready to fly awa3'. So, Lady Beauty, I would not hurt you for anything:. Give me your milk Bossie, and I'll give you some nice warm bran mush. So, .Beauty, and the cfulU's soil bands stroked the cow's clean flanks very gently. Heauty grew more quiet, but she stood, as it were, on tip-toe till the wonderful task Clara had undertaken was completed, then she danced away a short distance, faced about and stood blinking and nod ding at her small mistress, as much as to say, "There, you won't catch me doing that for anyone else. How Clara's arms ached! And how happy she was! With more caresses and repeated promises of a warm breakfast, the cow was left standing at the gate watching expectantly. In a little while Clara came running back with the steam ing "mush." and all the time .Beauty was eating Clara patted and stroked and talked. At night there were several who wanted to see Clara milk Lady Beauty. Directing them to a respectful distance, Clara bade them take a seat on the fence and watch. Beauty was not so shy as she baa been in the morning, but Clara petted her none the less. When the milking was about half done a farmer's, boy came along, and seeing Clara at her work, he drew nearer, and with a shout that electrified Beauty from ears to hoof, calied: "Oh. ho! Wnat a little goose! Who ever heard of anybody milking a cow on the left side ! 1 should think she'd kick you over ! Most any cow would that knew anything," "so, .Beauty ! I don't believe you, Josy Tanner. I milked her so this morning, and she never budged an inch. She wouldn t now if you hadn t come here and veiled so." "Well, go as you please, retorted Josy. "Ask your father or anybody else that knows anything about it, That cow must be awful gentle." "No, the cow isn't gentle, Josey, out Clara is," said the teacher, jtbo was one of the lookers on. "When one is gentle and determined, too, something has to give in, you see. Upon inquiring, Clara found that Josy was right, and that she had indeed ac complished a feat which is a marvel yet to those who know it. Her father declared that he will never cease wondering why Clara was not kicked over and badly hurt if not killed. For this victory won by faithful kindness, his daughter received praise enough to keep her heart glad for many days. Pneumonia. Pneumonia is an infla mation of the tissue the fleshy sub stance of the lungs and is accompanied by fever, pain in some part of the lungs, and usually a bloody expectoration, and a great difficulty of breathing. The in flamed tissue swells and crowds upon the smaller air tubes, and thus.more or less, cuts off the ah- from the air cells. Death may thus result instantly. But, gener ally this shutting off of the air is only partial, though even this may be suffi cient to prevent the necessary oxidization of the blood, and the patient may die of blood-poison. That is, the effete matter of the system, instead of bejne thrown off by the lungs, is retained and accumulates within, the circulation, so that the vital fluid ceases to nourish and, stimulate the nervous centres. A common cold may run into pneumonia, especially if the system has been debiliated by bad air, insufficient food, or anything which has weakened its average recuperative power. But in the aged there is gener ally a weakened physical condition, and with them a cold is always dangerous. It should be immediately attended to, and if it is severe a physician should be called. This would save many a life. The variable weather of the last two months has been especially prolific of pneumonia. "I say, stranger can you tell me how far it is" to the insane asylum?" "Just fifteen blocks, sir!" Growing a Variety of Crops. The leading staples which experience has shown to be well adapted to various sections will probably never be entirely abandoned. The time will never come when the Central Westery States will not grow immense amount of Indian corn, or whencotton will not be the leading staple of the South. Whatever changes are made will be in addition and supplemen tary -to the staples now grown. Forty years ago wheat was not only the chief but almost the exclusive staple of this part of Western New York. Monroe County produced more wheat in 1838 than any other county in the United Stales, as shown by the census of 1840. Other crops were grown even then; but they were pro duced on a limited scale, and mainly for home consumption. Now apples and other fruits, potatoes, corn and coarse grains, and dairy products, from a large share of the sales of Monroe County far mers. This county is still as eminent in agriucltural products as it was forty years ago. Its aggregate production is certainly much more valuable now than then; but no single crop attracts attention as wheat formerly did. The tendency to diversified arming is a good one. It Dot only pays better, but it requires more skill and forethought. The culture of a single staple is apt to be come a matter of routine, and tends to repress activity of thought. Plowing, sowing or planting, and harvesting become merely mechanical. In a regular, un changing rotation of one or two crops there is little chance for skill or fore thought. But the farmer who grows a variety of crops, who adapts his rotation to the changed necessities of each vear. must keep his wits about him and his hands and brain busy if he would succeed. I think it also requires harder work. The operations of haying and harvesting in former days occupied only a small pro portion of the year. During this busy season extra help was hired, and the work was done by a larger number of men, but at little greater expenditure of labor for each one than now. Men work as hard as they can in the hay and harvest-field" at the present, while for all the rest of the year the farmer of to-day works harder with body as well as brain than did the farmer of forty or fifty years ago. There is do time from early spring uutil late in the fall which farmers can take for rest and recreation without interfering with the regular programme of farm work. I am not sure that winters, even in our northern latitudes, will long be left for rest. Some of our best farmers find wiu ter fattening of sheep and cattle full as profitable as any thing they can do in the summer, and those who succeed best say that it is work which more than any thing else demands their personal care and attention. The ordinary farm help can not be trusted, where so much depends on regularity and close attention, as well as good judgment. Hut it is not to be interred that because modern farm work is a constant hurry, it is therefore a constant drudgery. The variety of employment, which keeps far mers always busy, furnishes also a neces- tity for incessant activity of thought and brain. Work needs more thought, partly because it is not so much in ruts, and partly because it is done so largely by complicated machinery, which requires careful and constant supervision. The greater variety of crops a farmer grows the more need he has to plan and contrive so as to bring his work around at the proper time. Thia thinking promotes intellectual activity; and it is by this pro cess that the farmers of the present dav are becoming yearly more observant and thoughtful, while those who try to farm in the old ruts are falling to the rear. Wm. J. Howler, in Js,xaminer ana Vnromcle. Chemical Discovery. Did you know that bread is not only eaten, but eats? Darwin has told us that some flowers enjoy a porter-house steak. Now M. Scheurer Kestner assures us bread has a partiality for hogs and hom iny. The discovery is interesting to dys peptics, for bread can be made to do the work of the alimentary canal and relieve dyspeptics of all bother except mere deglutition and, of course, paying the baker's bill, which is harder work than digestion. Science has since found that several vegetable juices, or saps, dis solve meat, but M. Scheurer Kestner is the first person who observed that in the process of bread making a peculiar fer mentation takes place which produces complete digestion of meat. A beefsteak hashed nne and mixed with dough containing yeast disappears entirely by the time the bread is taken from the oven. The steak's nutritive principles are dissolved and incorporated into the bread. Not the least curious phenomenon noticed in these circum stances is that meat, which so rapidly be comes putrid, when once incorporated into bread may be kept longer than ordi nary bread. Bread made in 1873 has been shown the Academy of Science; it was as sweet and free from mold as when it came out of the oven. At first M. Scheurer Kestner used raw meat; he mixed one and one-tenth pounds of flour, one pound of leaven and three- fourths of a pound of raw beef minced fine; water in sufficient quantity was added, and the dough was left to ferment. In two or three hours the meat had dis appeared. The bread was then baked as usual. This meat bread had a disagreea ble, sour taste. To remove it M. Scheurer Kestner first boiled the meat in just the quantity of water necessary to wet the flour, and used this water in kneeding. The meat should be rid of all. fat, and only salt enough to season the bread added.; for if too much salt be added the bread will become humid (salt being a greater absorber of water) and spoil. The objection to this bread is that it is. insipid. If bacon be used instead of beef the objection is removed. Veal, too, makes a delicious meat-bread. All these breads may be used to make soup. When you find a sun-bonnet floating around on the surface of a pond, it is not always safe to conclude that there is a woman at the bottom of it. Sbe may have eloped with the hired man and thrown the bonnet in there so as to get a good start, while the neighbors are drag ing the pond and the husband is trying to beat down the undertaker on the price of a rosewood coffin. Dress Mad. Behold her at eleven. Her limbs unfettered by the long skirts of conventionality, she runs, sbe jumps, she slides on the ice ponds, she rolls hoop, she climbs feuces, she leaps, she kicks, she runs races and is as fleet on foot as the boys. Her appetite is jrood, her cheeks rosy, and her movements unconsciously grace ful. But all this must cease. Behold her again at twenty. No more does she run or jump or roll hoop, run races or slide on the ice. It is not "proper" now nor ladylike, and she couldn't if she would, for she is fettered by long skirts, tight shoes and tighter stays. Her move ment has no longer the freedom and unconscious grace of childhood, for now when she walks abroad she walks to be looked at, which now in her estimation is the main object of walking. She is already in delicate health, and has a doctor who pre scribes expensive advice and pre scriptions for her, and ascribes her complaints to everything but the real cause. That simply the fettering ot her body with fashionable clothes. Physically she is now a prisoner. At eleven she was free. The doctor ad vises travel, but he doesn't advise her to take off and keep off her fashion able fetters. She wouldn't do so if he did, and he wouldn't advise her if he knew it would bring relief, for she would no longer believe in a doctor who would mako her dress liko a guy; and being dressed like a "guy" is dressing differently from the style prescribed by a Paris modiste. Diana never could hunt in a trailing skirt, narrow, tight, high-heoled gaiters, and a pinched, corseted waist, but Diana with a belted tunic and unfet tered limbs would be bounced off Broadway by the nearest policeman. Dressing for health and freedom of limb and body is one thing, and dressing for fashion quite another. A man couldn't endure the pinching and encumbrances peculiar to femin ine attire for an hour, and a pretty spectacle he'd make rushing about in such during business hours. Yet the' "weaker sex ' wear double the en cumbrances of the so called stronger. To "dress" at all after the style uses up half of a woman's time and two thirds of her strength. Gushing Clara. The London correspondent of the New York Mirror tells the following new story about Clara Morris: I was sitting in the shadow of the Poet's Corner some years ago when a party made up of Americans grouped themselves about the slab above Charles Dickens. One of them, a youDg woman of much emotional action, whom I afterwards learned to be Clara Morris, the New York actress, wept great tears and be trayed unusual grief. In her hands she carried a huge bunch of violets, which, with tragic gesture, she strewed broadcast over the pave ment; then turning aside, quite over come, she leaned her head on a friend's shoulder. In that moment a tidy verger, with a rush broom, swiftly and deftly gathered the whole tributo into a pan. I cannot readily depict the anger and aston ishment depicted on the actress' face. "Why, hang the man," she exclaim ed. "That beats the transformation scene in a pantomine but here wc are again, Mr. Merryman." And again she produced a supply of vio lets from a basket and scattered them about. "Go on!" she cried to her party; go and see the tombs of JNoah and John the Baptist. Charles shall be decorated if I have to sit here and hold the flowers on top of him." And there she remained, keeping off the officious vergers nearly an hour. Warning to Children who "Jump Rope." Dr. Peck of the Surgical Institute re cently performed a -surgical operation on the leg of a young girl by the name of Jordan, from Illinois, sent here for treat ment. The bones of both her legs will have to be partially removed, and the lit tle suffeier will have to submit to two painful operations. The cause of her affliction is from "jumping the rope," a pastime engaged in generally by young girls, resulting in necrosis,' or death ot the bone. The doctor stated to a reporter in this connection, that similar cases were constantly occurring from this same cause, but more frequently resulting in necrosis of the spine, and there has not been a month pass but more or less cases of this character come to the institute for treatment. He says that rope-jumping produces continuous concussions on the joints which impinge upon the bone, causing at the first stage periostetis, and finally resulting in the death of the bone He thinks that parents and teachers should be warned of this dangerous sport and eradicate it entirely from the play grounds of children, as it is ruinous in its effect 3, and is the prime cause of more cripples among the female portion of the community than probably any one cause. He also added that, during the practice of his profession deaths had been oc curring, coming under his observation, which were the result of this pernicious pastime. Jsx conclusion he said: "I would warn children against rope-jumping, and would advise parents and teach ers to prohibit it under all circum stances." Indianapolis Sentinel. Notices in Local Column, 20 cents per line, each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 lines, Nonpareil measure, $2 60 for first, and SI for each subsequent Insertion in ADVANCE! Legal advertisements charged as transient, and must be paid for upon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit of publication. Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (1. square) $12 per annum. All notices and advertisements Intended for publication should be handed In by noon on Wednesday. Reappearance of an Old Order. But now and then an incident oc curs which reminds us that antiquity is not quite dead and buried. I have just learned that Sir Edmund Lech mere, the owner of St John's Gate in Clei-kenwell, has leased it to the English Order of St. John of Jerusa lem. This Order, which many peo ple supposed passed away with the era of Crusades, occasionally re visits the glimpses of the nineteenth century like a ghost. St. John's Gate is not only an archway, but has a tavern in -part of it and rooms over it. The Urban Club has long met there, paying homage to the por traits of Goldsmith, Johnson and Garrick, who first met there, where I the Gentleman's Magazine was be gun and also worshipping a few relics, such as Dr. Johnson's edito rial chair. In this chair the Urbans sometimes persuade a visitor to sit, the ancient rule, as written down in verse, being that he Who audaciously ventures into the seat of Johnson shall treat all round. The TJrbans had just begun to fancy thoir club a bit of antiquity, fitly framed in St. John's Gate, when lo! up starts a club that was established just 813 years ago in this very place, and which, in superseding them at St. John's Gate, is only buying back its own property, confiscated centuries ago. The Order was established to support a hospital in Jerusalem, and to guard pilgrims on the way to the Holy Land; the English branch of it now does benevolent work, and sends out an ambulance in time of war. I have heard that they also do some thing in the way of religion still, but just what that is I know not; nor can I learn just why they desire to have their gate again, except that there sooms to be a general effort just now for everything old, whether china, Chippendale or church sym bols, to assert itself against the fer tilizing tendency. Cincinnati Com mercial. Waltzing and Marrying. "A mother of girls" writes as follows to a London newspaper. "In connection with the modern rage for waltzing, there is a question which is agitating the minds of many mothers with .daughters to bring out, and yon, sir, will allow me a space la 'Entre Noiis' to air our grievances. The question in 'what is to become of the girls who are not (and perhaps never will be) perfect in the trois temps? Nowadays a giri is 'nowhere' who does early acquire the reputation for profi ciency in every variety nay, each parti cular shade of eccentricity of this popu lar craze of society. A pretty face, a charming figure, an accomplished man ner go for nothing if their possessors, unluckily, should fall short of the re quired standard of excellence in this one essential qualification to 'score' in a ball room. She will find herself a neglected 'wallflower,' while the accomplished valser, though plain, and 'without a word to say,' will always have a crowd of men to choose from. Is the age of chivalry quite departed, or is it that we are mak ing something too much of this demon trois temps ? No doubt undue promin ence has been given to valsing by ban ishing every other other dance, .but might we not with advantage revive the mazurka, the schottische, or the redowa, and at least insist upon one or two 'square dances in every programme, so as to give the less talented a chance ?" Royal Gems. The pearl is the only gem that is reckoned worthy of compan ionship with the diamond, sapphire, ruby and emerald. The opal and catseye, cost ly and beautiful as they are, are but as Duke and Marquis to the royalty of these others. As for amethyst and onyx, jaspar and chrysolite, turquoise and topaz, hyacinth and agate and selenito all these and their like have come to be of scant account. As a diamond, the famous "Braganza" gem, brand new from Brazil as it is, is worth 52,350,000; white to pax, which it is shrewdly thought to be, it is of no interest at all. It weighs 1,685 carats, and is as large as an egg; but what is it in comparison with the blue Hope Diamond, which only weighs 4A carats, is absolutely unique, and has a legend of its own, like any knight-er-erant? The peridot, once more valuable than the imperial diamond, is now a mere sectarian jewel, affected by the members of the Society of Friends. As the dia mond is superior to all the fashions of the world and still retains its place at the head of the mineral kingdom, it is not unpleasant to find that diamond cutting invented for .Europe by .Louis de Jiar quem, and perfected by the great Vene tian, Vincent Peruzzi, who invented the brilliant was better done in London once upon a time than anywhere; and that, though there are 22,000 Jews at work in Amsterdam cutting, polishing and setting the craftsmanship of the old London lapidanes has never. been surpassed. Pall Mall Gazette. A Bridgeport attorney recently took strong exception to a ruling of the court that certain evidence was inadmissible. "I know, your honor," said he, warmly, "that it is proper evidence. Here I have been practicing at the bar for forty years and now I want to know if I am a fool?" "That." quietly replied the court, "is a question of fact and not of law, and so I shall not pass upon it, but let the jury decide." Tho manufacture of sins is so easy a manufacture that man could easily be persuaded that it was wicked to use the the left leg as much as the right; whole congregations could only permit them selves to hop, and would consider that when they walked in the ordinary fashion they were committing a deadly sin.