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GOSSIP FOR LADIES. Hiflg-Constroction - Whalebone, paint, wder, and 80 fort0, PA wife in the house is worth two in the M whispering) : "What lovely boots ?Yes, unfortunately he shines at the Jpngena. mon are extreme in all points JL.- .r hatter or worse than men. That's why men take them better I worse. . , , . 4. Vve was the urst.anu nra iui lv woman who did not gather up her pb88 in both hands and yell at the sight on .IrAriS -.-- . analrA. fhinlrH tllftt llV rpHl'cli ing in Europe an American girl can gradually !.. .1.1 ,.f her war-whoop." American sfrls don't war-whoops now. . , ... ..nilnrin; of the nroverb "People who live in glass houses, and who want to throw their arms around the girl, BllOllia pull uun u m true it is! . n,on novpr lose their presence of .! Tn Nbw York a man threw his wife out of the window in the fifth story of burning building and carried a feather-bed down stairs in his arms. A man in Michigan swapped his horse . An nl.l Karhnlnr acnnaintancfl for a who. 1 said he'd bet there was something wrong with the norso, or i uwuh nuu. have fooled it away in that reckless man ner. There is only one object In the world which will attract a young lady's atten tion from the handsome young man whom she meets on the street j and that is an other woman with a hat two laps ahead of the style sho has yet seen. A Cincinnati woman does not cover the bare top of her head with false hair, or hy combing her own hair over it, but ap pears to be proud of the distinction that it gives her In public assemblages, for sho always removes her bonnet. The effect is striking. "Ma. has Sister Floy ever traveled any?" "No, child, no." "Then when I was a-lyin under the sofy Sunday night, and sister and Mr. John camo in from church and was a-settin' in the big rockin' cheer, how com her to say that the nicest land she ever was in was Up land?" Scene in a horse-car: a roughly dressed man, a new-made husband and his wife, are the occupants. Car goes off the track, and rough may says "Damn." t p jumps "hubby," saying, "How dare you say damn before my wife?" "How did I know vour wife wanted to say damn first? " was the reply. The following testimonial of a certain patent medicine speaks for itself : "Dear Sir- Two months ago my wife could hardly speak. She has taken two bottles of your 'Life Renewer,' and not she can't speak at all. Please send me two more bottles. I wouldn't be without it," Says Jones: "When I see Mrs. J. in the clothes yard, both arms as red as a boiled lobster, bared to the elbow and stretched high above her in their struggles with an unruly sheet, an apron over her head, her hair in her eyes and a clothes pin protruding from her mouth, it seems impossible that she is one and the same with the Miss Stebbins I used to feed on pepperment, aud about whom I used to rave so." DIETETIC. All fat Just right Wai Wa Hue Pratt, Belle Knight, Cue 'Cause She'd eat She would eat tin meat Talen and meat, You 'Tii Fat Well Hue Miss rratlt Belle! All bones Wan Jane Jonet, Cause Bhe wai hater Of potater Vain Moan Jane Jonea. GREENLAND COURTSHIP. When the Danish missionaries had se cured the confidence of the Greenlandere, marriage was made a religious ceremony. Formerly the man married the woman as the Romans did the Babine women, by force. One of the missionaries writing in his journal describes the present style of courtship as follows: The Buitor coming to the missionary said, "I should like to have a wife." "Whom?" asks the missionary. The man names the woman. "Hast thou spoken to her? Sometimes the man will answer, i'Yes; she is not unwilling, but thou knowest womankind." More frequently the answer is "No." "Why not?" , , mL "It is difficult; girlsare prudish. Thou must speak to her." . The missionary summons the girl, and, after a little conversation, says: " I think it time to have thee married. "I won't marry." "What a pittyl I had a suitor for thee." "Whom?" The missionary names the man who has sought his aid. " He is good for nothing. I won't have him." . L . . . "But," replies the missionary, "be is a good provider: he throws his harpoon with skill and lie loves thee." Though listening to his praise with evi dent pleasure the girl answers, "I won't have him." " Well, I won't force thee. I shall soon find a wife for such a clever fellow." The missionary remains silent as though he understood her ''no" to have ended the matter. At last with a sigh she whispers: "Just as thou wilt have it, missionary." " No," replies tbe clergyman, " as thou wilt; I'll not pursuade thee." Then with a deep groan, comes "yes, and the matter is settled. WOMAN'S SYMPATHY. A joke U told on a certain gentleman which is too good to be lost. Our friend, who shall be nameless, purchased a pair of panta a few days ago, which, upon be ing tried on at home, be found to be too lon That night he remarked to bis wife that he wished her to take off about an inch from each leg, which would make them the desired length. Being fond, as a good many wives are, of teasing her husband, ahe told him -flat-footed" that she shouldn't do anything of the kind, and he retired, finally, without having obtained a promise from her that she would attend to the matter. Soon after he had left for his room, however, she, as a matter of course, clipped on the superflu ous inch, aa aha had been asked to do. The family to composed of aix female member, in addition to the " good man, and it chanced that each one of the fi ve, , who were in adjoining rooms, including the mother of our friend, beard the dis pute betweea man and wife about the panta, and, after tbe latter had taken out the required inch and retired, tbe old ladr, desiring to " keep peace in the fam ily " and not knowing what her daughter-in-law had done, cautiously slipped into the roem and cut off the required inch. In this way did each of the five ladies, unknown to the other, and all with the praiseworthy object of preventing any misunderstanding between tbe married couple, clip an inch from tho legs of the gentleman's trousers. The following morning, unconscious of what had taken place during the night, he rolled up bis pants in piece of paper and took them to the tailor to be shortened to the de aired length. Upon a hasty glance the latter ventured the opinion that they were already rather short ; but tbe owner was too well posted on that score, and in sisted that they were fully an inch too long. Tbe tailor had no more to say, and our friend retired. On the following Sat urday he called for the pants and took them home, and the nest morning, when he came to put himself inside of them, he was supremely disgusted at finding that the legs reached only a trifle below the knee. In other words, they had been al tered to the fashion of a century ago, when knee-breoches were in vogue. He straightway accused the. tailor ol having ruined his pants, and his indignation was expressed in language anything but mild. His wife heard him and came to the res cue of the Knight of the Shears, explain ing that she had taken an inch from each of the legs, and her acknowledgment was followed by that of each of the other five ladies, when it was discovered that alto gether the legs had been shortened to the extent of seven inches. AUentown Cowi icle. 80 CENEItOl'S. Scene: Party of three young ludios on street-car. Conductor approaches: "Fare, if you please." Miss Pinafore slowly goes for her pocket- tirtnlr Hfiea Almiriil .Tnaolih Pnrfftr lv U'JtlBl ...lot. ...Jl. ...... V WUk . . V. B.. and Miss Captain Corcoran reluctantly follow suit. Miss Pinafore "Never mind, girls ; 1 11 pay." (Slowly opens pocketbook). Miss Porter (beginning to open pocket book) "Oh, no! let me." Miss Corcoran "Oh! 111 nay." None of them pay, and the conductor, like patience on a monument, grimly uraifa fannal fumVilitif lilf mrltl in pocketbooks filled with halves and quar ters, ior ine exact cuange. Mica n-ntoii, Pn.nn.an tl.rnn-a an in,i. ... IOO vapkCtlll VVMlASiaU klllU IT u Mil 11 . 1 . I ous side glance at her two companions. T 1 I , . . - 1 . Begins to nana a quarter iu toiiuueiur. Conductor ravenously snatches it. and proceeds to make change. Miss loner (wuo suuuemy untis mu exact change) "Oh ! that's too bad now 1 Here's the money." MShh Pinafore "Oh ! renllv now. I rlMn'r. want vnn tniln thnt " Miss Captain Corcoran (face very slightly elongated) "Oh ! never mind." Jliss Porter (putting up ner pocuet book) "Now, that's very wrong of you, iifliin Cnronran indpAii it ifl " MisB Pinafore (putting up her purse) "Now, I don't like that of you, Susan ; i t T 1 I. H ; in- aeea i uon i. Susan doesn't either. They've stuck her fur thn fures. and everybody has been 80 generous. New York Graphic. FREEDOM OP MARRIED WOMEN. Tf Iu armnira tn ma Hint anv woman . U ,0 Db.M..l. .V ..... - j . n t.n Irnnn-a thn n-nrlil slinnlil nut forth ideas like those advanced by Evadne. In the first place, I deny that a man's wife is generally held to be his property except in one respect. fidelity to the marriage vnuv Klio is railed "his wife :" his in that sense and in no other. Tbe time has long crniia hv in thiii ronntrv lut lleaHt. when boo is his chattel, servant or menial. Too often the case is reversed, lie slaves ior her and her dry-goods man and dress- "But virtue is not virtue unless tried." She must be confidentially intimate with nltiop man riila nut nlnnnl with them, and go to the theaters and other places of en tertainments, or gain " true inwardness subject to the higher law, of course, b- entertaining them alone at their homes. Evadne may have been strucK oy me ;u nf qiipIi nntnlilpa na Mm. Da Stael. etc.. who held regular soirees for male visitors alone, ixoaouot ineir uuuiiuuin were sharpened by such intercourse. It tnlorulo.l hv Inn nmlnnm of thnt t?e and nation, but'for plain American house wives in tuis age to compiain uuuiuou they cannot have more ot the company of the gentlemen, because not sanctioned by custom, is to me an anomaiy, uae me KrnminiT linn, a nprveraion of the natural order of things, and the rule that limits the private mtetcourse ot marnea women to their husbands, or near relatives of the other sex. is my iudument a eood one for the public weal. Sometimes it nappens mat me wiioiaiia ootiufu tlio hnalmml. Ha is starved for l. imiid'j - the refining "influence" of some lady inenu, anu Birigui ww u ovuoy. Should he be tree to indulge his tastes in that direction ? I say it is well that soci ety does not sustain him in this foul wrong. The interviews must oe unuer v. ...i.i nn.l utnlnn if hn anutaina the charac ter of a moral man in this community. mt Mn,n nriA l!lra sin frtanrl lucre mo inn iij nuv nao v va.,) in intornhanurA lilAflR With thoHft fjf some thought and culture, and it is true that women or tins class are rare, x naa rather talk with a man than a woman any day. But I am one of the fortunate ones who can hod good company at nome. i am never weary of the society of my own husband, who has been my best compan ion for twenty-three years. But he is a man or ideas, sad is me caseoi lueyuung mith maniratinna altore the last fash ion plate who finds herself united to a man who never reais. uui now-a-uayu, knnlra and nAwanaoers are so cheap, they may be made better company than nine-tentns me men ue auuws. The best minds in the world can. at any time we wish, enter in our homes and commune with us. Blessed are good books. , . . , Let us try and submit uncomplainingly . ih restraint im nosed bv CUStOm. if W luv ' ' -, , , such restraints are best for society as it is. to Should all shun me very appearand 01 .. .it . I... t i. ev ril, the world would oe ueucr iui iu The Raih Treb. The Consul of the United States of Columbia in the depart- mmenlOllereio, reru. um iuk Yurimagus to President rarado, iniorm i.; ih.i In tho (wta adiacent to the citv of Moyobamba, exists a tree called . ' . . . I ir.M.iA..nl fMltl ftrAAl by ine naur itutti-vri -- which possesses some remarkable quali ties. It is a tree aooui nny iee uigu when at maturity, and ot about tnreo ieei 111 uwucw-i - - - , ... property of absorbing a large quantity or humidity ;rrom the atmosphere, which it concentrate and subsequently pours l Iu anI branches in a i- j:. at thn has, ana nas me inrill liw" , - . . shower, and in such abundance that in many ca ne g rounu iu m borbood is converted into a perfect bog. : .UaAMatti this ennotu DroDertr in its CTeattstdegree in tbe summer, precisely when the rivers are at Ibeir lowest, and water most scarce: and the writer pro ooees that it should be p'anted in the more arid regions of Pern for the benefit of ancultara.i.ts. Panama Sar and Herald. CorUltl.es of French Crime, We clip the following from a rem t Paris letter to the Chicago Tribune: Crime seems terribly on the increase in France, and not a day goes by without tome new deed of savagery exciting the public The latest specimen of the story of a little monster, named Marie-Anne Gaubert, aged eleven, who, in the absence of her mother, deliberately burnt her baby-brother to death. The means adopted for accomplishing her ferocious and unnatural purpose are proofs of the moot buse ami cunning instincts. Her victim was but two vearsand four months old. She waited till the house she lived in (near Cuhors) was perfoctly quiet, and then, tyinn her brother to a stool, set fire to some straw undorneath it, and went off, first taking the diabolical precaution to lock the door behind hert to prevent all chance of the unfortunate child's escape. When the caso came on for trial, however, the jury brought in a verdict virtually acquitting the juvenile mur derer, who gets olT with a sentence of nine years free board and lodging at tho Female Reformatory. The mother, who appears to have originally suggested the murder to her daughter, has been con demned to five years' imprisonment. It was proved that on several occasions she had told Marie-Anne to strangle little Joan. "If you would only stranglo him," she said one day, "we should be all the quieter, and vou , would get praised by everyone." When theyouthful murderer, however, was cross-examined, she reso lutely denied that any suggestion of the mother's had led her to the crime. "I was sick of hearing him cry ! " was the ex traordinary and revolting explanation Marie-Anne gave ot the affair. Barbarous as the murder is, it is noth ing compared to one I read a few years ago. Here the victim was a mother, and the murderers her two children a boy and girl of sixteen or seventeen years each. The family lived somewhere in the provinces, in a lonely country house. It is supposed that the children grew im patient at having to wait for some trifling property that was to come to them on the death of then mother. Be this as it may, tho murder was determined on, and the infamous pair set tn work. First they tried to poisen the poor creature by put ting sulphurous matches in her soup, when Rho lay ill in bod. This did not succeed the first time; and they tried again, with a strongor dose. But the in valid's stomach rejected the poison. Upon that they altered their plans entirely how shall I tell you. Iu many old French country houses there are great beams running across the kitchen ceilings. Ono day, as their mother was sitting before the fire on a chair, they put their devilish and accursed scheme into execution. One whether the boy or the girl I do not re membertied her tightly to the chair. The other threw a rope over the beam, made a running nooso, and slipped it round the victim's neck. Then, both uniting their efforts, they strung her up, chair and all, to the ceilinir, and held her till the last convulsive struggle was over. Incredible and shameful to relate, the jury that tried those two fiends admitted their plea of "extenuating circumstances." They were not flogged to death nor torn to pieces by wild horses, as they deserved to be. No. A good, generous and hu mane French jury took an afternoon view of the case, and they were only sent to prison for a term of years. They are still in hopes that they may have opportuni ties of strangling, shooting or poisoning the rest of the family before they them selves quit the world for a hotter and more congenial ono, not named in polite society. What a Kernel of Wheat Will Do. Last September, in writing up tho ex- lilliitu lit nnr rnnntv fair, we noted a bun- .11.. nniiliiinini, fifov.tam Willi IiAAHai UIU v.v.1. mining . . ' - - - stalks, grown on F. Veerkamp's ranch, at Uranlte llul, loioma rownsmii, nam uny two stalks being the product of one ker- 1 .. r ... 1. . Tl.a 1 . . r u'liaut Q t n n h ft t liei Ul W1ICUI. XllO JAl&U T. llwv uivu.u w. which this was a sample were found on tiie outer edge of the field, and avercged tixico ttiri or nuailriinle the number of stalks to the stool, aud proportionately exceeded in size and weight of head, those where me seeu naa ueon sown more thickly. Acting upon the idea thus suggested, arid to demonstrate what could be produced in a given period from one kernel of wheat most judiciously handled, Mr. Veerkamp this spring planted iu rows.com fashion, the wheat from the fifty-two stalks above montioned. The kernels werf planted about four or five inches aparC in drills about twenty-one innhua nnnrt. maltini? three rows about 31 yards 93 feet -in length. Last Tues- i . r. ...... (-liw.il it i f lnunn.it.. (jay WO HaU nil upjJyilumiT ...nj'..--- ing the results thus far obtained. The patch of wheat stands from two and a half to four feet in height. The stalks are extraordinarily large and strong. We measured one head which exceeded six inches in length, and the average would fall but little, if at all, short of five inches. In one stool we counted 72 stalks, and in one of the small est we counted 42 stalks. The resultscon clusivelv demonstrate that by planting wheat in drills, as we plant Indian corn, giving the plants room to stool and spread, one-fourth of the seed usually used in sowing seed broadcast will produce more grain, and of better quality than is com monly raised by the latter method, and it is unquestionable that the drill method is much less exhaustive of the land. We are glad to learn that Mr. Veerkamp in tends to pull up by the roots and exhibit in a alack at the pavilion next fall the en tire product of this little patch of wheat, Tims our people will be brought face to face with the enormous possibilities of production from one kernel of wheat within two years, when the same is most intelligently and iudiciously handled. Even then the results will appear incred ible. El Dorado Mountain Democrat, June 2Ul. Can lay One Tell t Can any one tell why men who cannot find money to pay small bills, can always find money to buy liquor, and treat when among friends? Can any one tell why young men who are always behind-hand with their land lords, can play billiards night and day, and always be ready for a game at cards when money is at suite? A cabinet-maker can make a flower stand the hottest day in the season, but a washer-woman can t make a linen collar stand more than fifteen or twenty min ntes after the mercury crawls ont the top of the thermometer and begins to climb the liberty-pole. A Kansas man who onoe ran for Con mM fell into a well the other day, and he thought he was going down into the House restaurant. frrenta and Children. ADVICS WORTH KIADINQ. For many weeks past it has been my deire to visit The Home "by word of lien," but, when one has a large family to superintend, time tlies. 1 can remember, buck in the pant, that from one Fourth of July to the next was at least three years as they pass now. . Happy duys of child hood 1 It is on this one Bubjcct that I havo longed to write. I have so many times been grieved in taking up The Homo on seeing Hid subject of some let ters, namely, " How to Train Children." How to manaL'o hoys and girls, girls! girls! until the very word itirl ' blinded mo. Just as if our boys and girls nowa days were so in nay animals, and thoir parents were looking around for a Rurcy to tamo them. It was not so in the good old times. Girls and boys did not marry with the idea that they would try it awhile, and if not suited get a divorce Neither did our uncesters call out in de spair for a "child tamer," but had bruins enough 'to manage thoir own families without requesting tho assistance of tho wholo community. I can give advice on this subject of training children. Learn to train yourself first. Set your children a good example ; never lie to them, do not givetheiu over to the entire cure and con trol of a servant in order to rest undis turbed to be fresh for the coining ball that you may gain by your good looks the attentiou of some brainless fool or fop who makes his brags of being irresistible even to married ladies (and I have often blushed for my sex when I have seen how easily Home of them are flattered). I im agine I hearsomeonesay : "The very idea! Does she expect us to mako slaves of our selves?;' Not at all. Hire one nurse, two nurses if need be, but In doing so it is not at all necessary to give up one's responsibility as mother towards those poor little helpless darlings who do not ask to come. In The Home of April 2tith, there is a very sensible letter from Evad na. I hope I may still live to see her sug gestions fultillcd. I was asked during the winter what was best for children to read. St. Nicholat is a moRt excellent magaxine, also tho Youth'i Companion. After chil dren have passed the age for these, they will notice the older members of the household, and their taste, nine times out of ten, is governed by example and what ever is thrown in their way. I have seen boys from 12 to 14 who wero perfect mim ics of their father, even to holding the paper while reading, so anxious to be like papa, and how few papas realize that in them the responsibility rests (for the fu ture of that child equally with the wife. Husbands and wives, if your burdens are heavy, " pull together.' Lot perfect confidence exist between you. Learn to bear and forbear. Fight the battles of this world of trials and temptations side by side, hand in baud, that, when the goal is reached, you may both be there, and in truth say : " We have done the best wo could." I am drifting from my sub ject, and methinks I hear somo one say, , OIIO JO ill HOI UUtUgOt wiinni..i. A rioncer'i Big Lift. An old pioneer was hugging the historic stove in Judgo Knox's court room last evening, and, us is usual with tho old timers who visit that temple of justice, was in a rominis cent frame of mind. Though .poor noiv, ho had, as a matter of courso, been onco rich. " I was a lcadin' citizon of Muck allamy Hill in '52," ho said, "in thorn days I was in the dust-buyin' busi ness. I had my sign out, 'S. Compra Oro Aqui' upstairs you know, and all that sort o' thing. I tell ye, it takes a smart man to git along in that 'ore trade. Jenkins & Co. was the boss at it when I first wont into it at Muckallamy Hill, but it wasn't six months afore I'd took half thoir trado away. I bad to rustlo to do it You bco tho boy) was alius anxious to do well, an' tho first that offered the coin made tho rifllo. Jenkins & Co. was pretty high toned, on' usod to wait every night fur thar man to go down the hill to the express office an' bring up their money in a handcart. I saw my' chance an' usod to bo on hand when the stage came in, an' jist shouldered my own coin when tho driver throwed it off. Nick Monkins was the driver in them days. He was afterwards killed by road agents. Many's the time Nick's throwed m down my sack with a cleun 8IOO,OOu in gold coin in it, an' I'vo chucked her across my shoulder an' trotted jp that there old hill anc had every bit o' dust brought up afore Jenkins & Co.'s handcart arrived." 'How much did you say you packed up the hill on your shoul der?" asked Judge Knox's clerk. "Four hundred thousand, oftcner than less," replied the pioneer, with melancholy pride. "See hero, said the clerk, figuring rapidly, "gold's worth 818 an ounce, and thcro's twelve ounces to the pound, Troy weight; that makes a wound worth ??1C. Now 216 into 400,000 leaves Something over 1851 pounds pretty nearly a ton. How tar ap tbe hill did you carry that, did you say?" The old pioneer looked at the clerk with fixed contempt for a mo mcnt, and then merely saying: "You're a plagued Johnny-Come-Lately, that's what you are!" arose and left the court-room. Virginia Chronicle. One hundred and sixty-two authentic rases of livimr burial are put on record by the eminent French physician, Dr. Joaat. The period of unconsciousness before burial in three casea lasted from two hours to forty-two. The causes of ap parent death were these: Sydoope, hysteria, apoplexy, narcotism, concusnion of the brain, anathesis, lightning and drunkenness. A German Inventor proposes to make boot that will never wear out. He mixes with a water-proof glue a suitable quanti ty of clean quarts sand, which is spread on a thin leather sole employed as a foun dation. These quartx soles are Mid to be flexible and almost indestructible, while they enable the wearer to walk aafely over slippery roads. William E. Gray. A CHAPTER FROM REAL LIFE, Wall street bankers and brokers, generally pretornaturally sharp in tho mutter of being swindled, havo ruruly, according to all accounts, been more successfully victimized than by William E. Gray, catalogued in the list of criminals as, par excel lence, tho "Princo of Forgers." Nearly a ycur's sojourn by Gray iu tho city prison hud almost cnusod the frequently published records of his brief but brilliant career in our groat money mart to pass out of pub lie recollection. His host of unfor tunate dupes, however, no doubt still cherish painful memories of his audacious criminal exploits, and, while they ure not likely to soon for got him, the remembrance of him has been publicly rovivod by his arraign ment for trial on Thursday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judgo Jlanett. Among the multi tudinous indictments found against him he is now being tried on only one. This indictmont charges that on tho 10th of December, 18GD, bo obtained 830,000 from tho Mechanics' Bank of this city upon a deposit as collateral security of what purported to bo throe 810,000 bounty loan cer tificates of tho State of New York, bat tho numbers of which had been changed and tho amounts raised from 81000- to 810,000 each, tiray's defence is that tho bonds wero given to him in tho ordinury courso of busi ness by ti wealthy gentleman named Thomus (J. Tlatt, who wus thon stop ping at tho St. Nicholas Hotel, that ho had po knowlodge that thoy had been raisod and that ho did not raiso thorn. As ho was brought into the court room ho woro tho same air of Bcoming careless inditVeroneo that has characterized his appouranco in court in earlier proceedings in tho caso. Ho was noittly dressed in u black business suit, woro his hair parted in tho middlo and still Supports tho aino light brown mustache and f;oatoe. A scat was given him by lis counsel, ox-Judgo Fullorton and Frank A. l)upignac, and during the empanelling of tho jury and examina tion of witnesses he frequently whis pered suggestions to them. Tho nrnaeMition is conducted bv District Attorney Phelps, aidod by Mr. Chas. A. Winftold, who represents ine At torney General. Tho proceedings woro very briof, owing to the sudden illness ot Judgo Fullorton compelling an early adjournment. Tho only witness callod was Mr. W. H. Cox, cashier of tho Mechanics' Hunk, who dotailod the circumstances of tho loan of 830,000 on the prollbrod State bounty loan certificates, and Mr. William Itodding, State bond loan agont, who tostitiod to tho raising of tho certificates in tho munnor statod. It is probablo that the trial will last soverul days. Meantime, as an augur of tho interest felt in tho case, tho enm-f. room was 'TOwdod. As already intimated, the caroor of (jray has neon frequently written, and, full of tho spirit of wild and romantic adventure as it is, it is un necessary now to write the facts in detail. As is well known, ho is the son f ltov. Edward H. Gray, for merly Chaplain of tho Unitod States Senate. Through his fathor's influ ence ho obtained, whilo yet a mere youth, a position in tho Fourth Au ditor's Department, in Washington. Tiring of the dull routine ot a gov crnmout department clerk, he came at length to this city and entered a broker's office, whoro his ambition took a higher flight and he oponod a broker's offiee of bis own, undortho firm name of William E. Gray & Co. Armed with tho highest credentials bo rupidly won his way into the con fidonco and, as the result proved, into the pockets as well, of Wall street brokers and bankers. His plan of operations was to borrow money on cull loans, depositing as col lateral cither Unitod Slates regis tered five-twenties of 1807, or bounty loan certificate!, of the State of New York, tho former turning out to bo either stolen or caveatod bonds, and the latter raisod certificates. Hav ing effected all tho loans he could or dared to do, he then suddenly disap pcared.and the places that knew him knew him no more. After his disap pearance it was computed that ho had mado away with over 8310,000. His career in Europe is well known; how be flourished as a millionaire under tbe various names of U. P. Smith, James Puyno Morgan and James Pcabody Morgan, ho cluiming under tho last name to be the nephew ol George Peabody, tho great banker; bow the detectives got on bis track in London; how he fled tbe Engliah capital and went to Texas; bow in tbe Lone Star State he figured under the name of Dr. Collate; how he went back to London and multiplied vic tims into buying stock in tho "Wich ita Copper Mining Company;" how be was finally arrested in habeas corpus proceedings, but, through some technical defect in tbe papers, discharged; how the subjoct of his extradition was discussed in the British Parliament, and how he was finally again arrested in London, and on tbe 11th of July last brought to this eity and lodged in the Tombs, where be bas been kept ever since. Driving four-in-hands, living with actresses and tbe miscellaneous esca pades of a fast and rich young man fill op the interstices of the narration as furnished by bis captors, of which tba above ia but a brief epitome. He looks now to be a trifle past thirty, is said to be most respectfully con nected and to have married a daugh ter of Balfe, tho composer When tbe American Fist; First Flew In the course of his oration at Dover. N. H., on Decoration day, the Rev, A. H. Quint said : iletween e:ght and nine o clock on the morning of November 1, 1777, the conti nental ship-of wor. the V'Difwr elehteen guns, Captain John P.iul Jonos com mander, weighed anchor and failed out of Portsmouth harbor. It went out on that gallant croixe on the F.ngli.sh coast, in ...i.:..i. :. . ....i . -l . . ! l nniuiiii met uiiii cnnuireu ine r.ngiisn war vessel, the Drake, of annerior force both men and guns The Runner was iiuui in iew iiampsnire haruor hy a aew llsmpihire mechanic, and sailed from a New Hamimhire port. It was manned by a crew of tho l'iscataqua, and largely hy hardy mariners from this town. Kara Green, the surgeon who ministered to the wounded in that sharp and bloody sen fk'ht, was a citizen of Dover, whoni vou and 1 remember as he walked the streets an old man in our boyhood, who sleeps in tins hlstorio ground ; and its young commander of marines, killed in action, was Samuel Wallingfor, of the P.ollina ford part of ancient Dover. hy do 1 call vour attention to thehact that Dover men were part of the crew of tho brave Paul Jones? Because on the very day on which Jones was assigned the command of that vessel cougreas adopted the flag of the stars and stripes, and history tells us that when tXRanger went out or Portsmouth harbor, for tbe first time our national flair floated tir-on the hreeo. On the 14th of February 1778, it received a salute from a French admi ral, undoubtedly, as one of the Ranger' t wrote that day, "The first salute ever pay'd to the American flag." Men of our own town and of our own blood manned the veesel which bore for the first time in history the stars and stripes, which henceforth went on in the career of national achievements until it became honored and feared throughout the world. And never have yon or those departed neon dastards when the honor of that flag demanded your service. Tint Zulu Weapon. Thoro are two principal kinds of aswigais, the throwing and stabbing blade, the latter with a long uud straight blade. To a Kaflir this weiipmi is literally the stair of lire. Witu it he kills his enemy and his game, slaughters and cuts up his cattle, trains their horns, shaves his own tnd his neighbor's head, does his carpentry and furriery, and countlosa other jobs of various sorts. In its original form, the assngui was essentially a missile, but tho renowned Clarke, among other military reforms, converted It into a snorter, heavier stabbing snear. unfit for throw ing, and only to be used at close quarters. The shaft, with nil average length of nearly five foot, and a diameter equal to a mini's little finger, is cut from the assa gai tree (Curtinia jmjlnea), which is not unlike mahogany. The wood is brittle, yet nstio, the latter quulity giving the spear that poculiar vibratory motion on whieu its accuracy or night so mucn ap pends. ' On account of the brittleness. a novice will break many shafts before he learns to throw his assagais secundum artem. Inaptly cast, the shaft as soon as it reaches the ground is liable to wnip ior ward and break off short above- the blade. The assagai heads are generally blade shaped, some consist of a mere spike, and a few are barbed. When the first shape Is adoptod, whether with or without the barb, there is invariably a raised ridge along the center of the blade, which Is concave on one side and convex on the other. The rcasonB assigned for this pe culiarity of form are that this blade acts like the feather of an arrow, and that, as the heads are always made of soft iron, they can be more easily sharpened when blunted hy use. i'u6ic Opinion. Just Bkkore Dawn. "Ah I Heaven does Indeed temper the wind to the shorn lamb," pathetically said old Mrs. Diffen dorfer the other evening at a tea fight after putting away her twenty-eighth cup of Young Hyson. "Why, what do you mean?" "You know that young widow, Mrs. Bitten, who lives across the street from us? Well, she has had nothing but sorrow, trouble and distress for the past five years. First, her father was killod bgr by a burglar; thon her mother married a nigger minstrel ; after that she had the yellow fever and Binall-pox together; and next her husband failed, and she had to take in waxhing. It was perfectly dread ful. Tho poor woman nearly went craisy. She was lust beginning to bear up a little again, when her brother was sent up to the penitentiary for life ; and finally, last month, her husband died in a fit, and the very next day her baby choked to death on a gum-drop." "Gracious t the poor thing I" "Wasn't it just terrible?" Every body believed she'd commit suicide then; and she would have done so, too, but last week somebody providentially coaxed her to go to a church-radio and what do you all supposed happened?" "What, for Heaven's sake, what?" "Why, she won a sealskin sacque!" "You don't mean it?" "She did, though perfectly splendid, came within an inch of the floor. 'The darkest hour is just before dawn' after all. Now, isn't it?" San FrancUco riM. Chemical tests have been used for a great many purposes, but it is something new to apply them to the"verification"of a negro's skin,, as was lately done in Bromberg, Germany. A showman, who had been charged with painting a white man black, and trying to pass blm off as a ' Prince of Madagascar,'1 took the royal darkey to a professor of chemistry in or der to get a certificate that bis color was really "fast." The professor duly applied all kinds of diluted and strong acids, lyes and other chemical on the poor fellow's skin. Not succeeding in whitewashing him, he wrote a certiflcatl to the effect, upon which tbe Mayor of Bromberg per mitted tbe showman to continue his show. Chevreul prooes a new test lor Dal tonism or color blindness. One-half of a diak ia painted with a certain color and the other half is left white. The silk is then turned at a speed of from 60 to 160 revolutions per roinute,nd tbe color com plementary to that which had been paint ed on one-half appears on the white half. Tbe ability to determine tbe complimen tary color constitutes the test. A farmer near Marshalltown raised last year considerable tobacco, three hogs heads of which he recently shipped to Louisville, Ky., bringing in that market 813, 8U 60 and 810 75 respectively, and renounced by dealers there aa excel tnt quality. Preparations are being made to raise a huge amount this year.