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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1881)
EUGENE CITY GUARD r,utm mrciai. LATEST NEWS SU3DIAUY. RT TKI.KOB.arH TO DATE. General Grant will not vinJt Moxioo before the middle of March. The Indiani in Dakota say that the Weather is tho coldest ever known. The average temperature lux been 14 below lcro. A further roduction ha been made in immigrant rate of fare. The total reduc tion since January 1st to competing points, III !V AM ... ft The civil appropriation bill will be re ported to the house early next week. The committed ia at work also ou the gonoral deficiency bill. During the week ending February 5th, 104,41)9 atandard silver dollars were dis tributed from the mint. For the corres ponding week 1880, the amount was 117, lUo. John Brown' Sons, i'biladelpliia, Lave failed; liabilities thrue-quarters of a mil- lion, mcts about 25 cents on the dolhir. Seven hundred Workmen are out of em . ployment. One Chicago firm ahipKjd 45..125,noo bushels of corn during the year 180. The Baine (Inn shipped about li7,iMJ,000 bush els of wheat and smaller amount ot other cereals. It is rejiorted from Fort Craig that 300 Navajoes are on tlie war path, but only a iuw nanus or renegauca Have painted. A scout from Black Jtungo says that the mountains are full of Indian. The report of Prof. iCodgera of the coast survey in favor ol Trinidad as the beat site fur the proposed Pacific coast harbor of refuge, was received by the senate to day and referred to the committee on commerce. ' Throe children of lie v. Manning Hun ter, colored, in HunUer county, were burned to death recently in a fire caused ty a kerosone lamp exploding. Tho father was away preaching and the mother was alao absent. William II. Vanderbllt lias purchased Poan.4ii, February 12, 1881. Inl tenders lo fortliud, buying, ir, and selling it par. bilver Quia in I'vruana Dense quute at I per cent, dimounl to per. uo exchange en dew lorx, l per cent, pre mium. Coin exchange on Baa Francieoo, par to per cent premium. Telegrapbie trsuileri on Hew iork, 1 percent. premium. . ! ir4ae Martec The following quotation rrpreernt (lie whole sale rim from producers or Unit hand i'LOl'K-flUindard brar.de (4 50; heat miintry brendt, fl W(J,H 40, iUperflne, $3 7S( .I 50. WO( Valley 22(?(.27& Eortern Oregon WHKAT-Oood lo choice, $1 21. HAY Timothy baled, buying at 1(j,$I8 per ton. POTATOES-QuoUble at Jc per lb market glut ted MIDDLINGS t20(a,t2i: ihorU $1; op feed tWH'H); fine iifvi-"i V ton BRAN Jobbing t per ton, $Ufa,$l. OATS Feed, r bushel lly-ij cU. IMCON-flidcs, He; liimi, Oregon 8 C 12 14cj haiU-rn, MflDcj tbouldcn, 10(jl2a. LAW) In k-g, 12) in tun, l.lo. I1UTTKR We qu U choice dairy at rOiMc good (rceli roll, ordinary, 27 3'Je, whether brine or roll. DRIKU FKl'JTS Apple, nun dried, 6a 0c; mnrhine dried, 12jo. I'eere, machine dried, llal:V, 1'lurui, machine drinl, I.'idvlic. Applet, market overstocked, at 40f'i,7.)O per box. FifiH 20e pr dos I'UULTHY-IIcni and rooU-n, IHo.31 Tur key! UalOo per pound, (inwe, $Ha Mr ii. CIIKKHE-Oregon, l.rlal! California, loo. JIiMiB Dreued, Hvl)c on foot, iaiUOc HKKK Live weight, 21 to 2jc for good to choice. M1KKI' Live weight, 2Jc irons. T LLOW-yuotable at fc. II IOKH The market it firm at loo for flrit-clai dry; 71(fi,Hjc for green; cu III, one-third olf. A Corner la Cofflai. Once, in a certain town In Nevada, a man died. It was an isolated town, and its peopls bad to procure their tup pliosfroma long distance, 'lhe man died bocanse, among other reasons he could not poatpone it. The brother of the dead man ordered a handsome coffin for the occasion. He ordered it of an undertaker by the name of llotrhkiss. The mother-in law of the deeeasod, not knowing ' this, ordered a ooflin, too a cheap one. hho ordered it of Hudbury, another undertaker. Hotchkiss came, measured the corpse, and withdrew, Niortly afterward Hud berry appcarod. lie took tho meaanre of the remains, too, the attoudauts sup posing that he w aa in somo wuy con nectcd with the other undertaker. Iu tho afternoon Hotchkiss came with his coffin. It fitted like a glove. Just aa he was giving the finishing touches and making tho corpse feel comfortable, Hudberry arrived with his coffin. They looked at each other. Uotchkiss smiled; Kudbcrry didn t. The latter auw taut the formor had got aheud of him ; but that was not all. Hotckiss' colli a w as not only a rbry bundsotuo one, but he had arranged things so that tho curpso looked like It was proud of being dead Its appearance cbeorod grief-Mriekon friends and relatives. They were elutod Budborry's collin was cheap and coarso "Ma nutber," chimed in a man dressed In bnckakin. And "me nuther" scorned to be the general feelinir. At last Hotchkiss, speaking uirongu an augur-hole, agreed to a compromise, lie was to reduce itricoa for pour ieopie, ana where s whole family dieJ to aiiow mem excursion rutos. Old 11 Stone Kot well. It was thought he wouM nut dd an oniiosition nnuer- taker's shop, to pnnish Uotchkias for his uinanncas. No; he presented Hotchkiss a f jnj gold waU'b inscribed, "lours, gratefully. I talifornian. Affecting Incident. it was empty. had words. Sudberrv blurted the Manhattan market property bounded by IJeventli and Twelfth avenues and fl'l. r At . mi . iiiiriyiourui ana iuirtylinn HtreeU, for railroad purposes, paying $37.'),0(K). Ho also purchased land in front extending to ivmii river. Suits of the Georgia Importing and Ex porting Co., known as the cotton suits, involving $.')48,(KK)iind interest, sinco 18i5, against ex-secrelury of tho treasury Mo Culloch, so long on the calendar of tho United Htates court, and which were per emptorily set down for trial Monday, were withdrawn to-day, plaintiff paying The order retiring (Jen. Ord was issued on tho 0th inst Hcholluld, commander of mo military division or the Riilf, announ ces the following HtafT olllouin; Major Thomas II. Vincent, adjutant ireneral; aides-de-camp. dipt. Win. II, Whorrv, lth infantry; Lieut. Kdward K. Wood.stli cavalry; Lieut. Charles Jl. KchollelJ,2d . o avalry. Only one of the persons eiiKaged In the Jorthamption bunk robbery is at large, and liegwslri'einconseiiuoiueof giving information which led to the arrest of the others. The amount of plunder obtained by the rohbera wus $40,lHH) in government bonds which could not be covered, and bonds of the city of Northamptlon, face value fl'oO.ooo. An attempt to blow up tho Long Islund Round steamer i!rid(ieport was made recently. Two barrels of nltro glycerine, cartridges were shipped. Tho carriers had no bill of ludinu and as thuv ni'i.-d auspiciously the clerk kuocked out the head of one of the barrels. Ho was sur prised to find it filled with cartridges and more surprised that there was not an ex plyslou, Tho cartridges woro sent down tho bay, f carcilv of water is felt iu Xow York city and munv adjoining localities. There are some actuully suOering, and many experiments are resorted to. Sickness lucreasua. Tho depth of water in reser voirs has been lessened In a abort timo from 28 to 23 foot. Crnton river is out running about forly-tlvo millions duilv, making It necessary to draw ilfiv-ono mil lions from storage reservoirs. Vator in- snectors are preventing waste, and every thing Is being done to avert whut may be a great public calamity. , Tho front of E. C. Palmer & Co.'s paper and printers' warehouse New Orleans was destroyed by an explosion on the night of rruruary oui. windows were blown en tirely aaross tho street and the building 'fired; cause of tho explosion and extent of damage unknown. Theexplosiou wub , ii'parentiy tne work of inexperienced burglars. The safe and vault doors were blown open. The concussion was sogieat mat u completely wrecked three front windows of the second floor, and opened all doors of the building, scattering glass miu epuuuiriug wouu work. At a meetlnir of the cabinet on Him 1i lust. (Jotr, secretary of tho uavy, read the statement prepared by Commodore Jel- ierw, in regard lo the importiiuue of send lug a vessel or the navy to he Arctic In search of the exnlorinu stenuier Jonno'in. It is understood thattlio secretary will at once, in aeeordan.e with the president's request comniuuicate to congress views in accord with the statement ot Commodore Jetlera, and accompanying it will be copy orthe letter of Justice Daly to the president urging prompt action by con gress In making the necessary appropria tion. " Oeorse Prolatt, a bachelor, aed 00, and his sister Mrs. Klixabeth Uoodpaster, some years older, have lived together five nines imrn uwingsviiie several years. wrs. uoodpasUr has been paralyied and bedridden for months. Ou the evening of the 3d insu Prolan had got in his wood lor me nignt and before retiring started to throw on a log and build a fire, tie lifted a log and in throwing it on the fire fell with it and being unable to rise waa ournea w uealu. Ilia sister was lying in bed but was unable to render him any assistance. At last she gut out of bed end dragged her brother's body out of the fire, niauaged lo gel back into bed and there was compelled lo lie. being completely exhausted and unable to turn, with her brother's dead body lying in full view. Nothing was known of the affair for two days when Mrs. (rood paster's son who lives about a mile off went to his mother's to help his uncle feed the stork, lie stepped to the door and a blood curdling scene was opened to view. There in bed lay his mother with eyes widely distended while on the hearth lav the body of ha uncle stiff and stark in death, badly burned, and with eyes, cheeks, ears and a portion of the neck eaten by cats, the whole presenting a gbaatly sight. Mrs. Uoodpaster bad never closed her eyes. eencral Mercbaartlee. niCE-Mnrket quoted at Chine, JJoiJ j Band wirh Jaliiml, 7Ja7). COFFEK-Ola llica, 17ol8d Java, 25a26oi Itio, IR)al7e. TEAH We quota Japan in hujurrcd boxc50a 7.Vi pnr,37)a47). Sl'GAiiH-Kandwich Inland, DJalOc; Golden C, in bl.l, Klc bf bbl, Uj (Tiinhod bbli, 11 Jc, hfbbhr, 12c Pulverised bble, 12c, hf bbls, l.l)cj (iranulaled bbls, lljc, hfbblt )2Jc BAUDIKW tr bxw,$l 7i bf boxo, $2 75. YKAHT POWUKIl Donnelly, f IS gmes; I)ool.-y,faia22tgroni I'roston 4 Merrill, WINKH Whito, per dm in cam, $3 &0o4 ; pr gnl,70cto$l 00) Koimma, )rdoi in caeuj, $3 60 to fA; r gal, Uc lo $1 50 Claret California per gal, $1 to fl 25 ; im ported ipergiil, 1 fill to'.!. Sherry C'ttla wr gal, $1 60 to $2 50; Bpnn- ieb,3 to$lt aiMortcl brand, $12 to (18; iinrtcd pur gal, ti 60 to f 7. Port Variom brand! in qr ceki, $2 60 to $5; 1 60 to $2 1 ininnrted. t3 to7. SPIRITS line old rlennmwr Ilrandv In or eki and octave, $i 60 to $7 50 per gal ; Diiu ville'i Iriuli Whisky in ram xr dos, fl'J; Jamei Htewart it ( o.'i Hootdt Whiakr in qr eke and odavra, $4; llonnomy llra'ndy iu ruse, per dm, very line 1 star $1(1, 2 star, $17 60,IUnr$l; Holland Uin, laro onues, unww, uin loiiHHii incams,$l3; llye Wliinky, irgal,$2 60 to$. Ilourbon, is-r gal, fl 60 to $5 i A Culler, $3 25 to $3 60 i O K Cutter, $t 60 tu $5 OILS Ordinary brumli of coal, 30c, high gradi-a; Downer 4 Co., 371olOc boiled linnevd, $1 raw linwvd.V.'ici pure lanl,$tnl 10; cantor, $1 60u$l 80; turHnliuu, 6Oa06c. Curlosltlc of Rew Mexico. Some very interesting curiosities are to bn soon at tho jowoliy store of Albert Call, on San Francisco stroe, ono of which is perfectly round sandstone, weighing perhaps 350 pounds, found in tho Uallstco district. It is supposed to be a water formation, and is smooth and evenly shaped, resembling an immonso uuiiuou uiui. Aneuier nruuie oi interest is a splendid specimen of alibostr, found about eighty miles from Santa Fo; but tho most peculiar of all the curiosi ties is a largo pioco of white stono, said lo havo been brokon from a continuous lining of a kiml of natural tnnucl or culvert within thirty miles of this city. Tho stoue Ih perfectly smooth on ono aide, as if worn so by wator, is rough on tho other, ami is about threo or four inohoa thick. The man who brought it iu suys mo tunuei irom wuicu it was taken is about six feet in diameter, is perfectly round, and is coated with this stone lining on all sidos, forming a kind of stouo pipo. Tho discoverer weut into the tunnel only about twenty yards, but says thut ho walked on top of it for miles, being guided by the hollow sound made by striking above tho culvert. It is thought that tho tunnel is about thirty miles in length, and that it was formod by a stream of wator, which gradually became coated, as above described, by this water formation. Thero is also on exhibition a perfect cactus, about eight niches through one way and fivo the other. It is as perfect as wheu in its original condition. Sauta Fe New Mexico. CKEFl'L RKClrKN. For a Cough. For a tight, hoarso cough, whore phlegm is not raised, or with difficulty, take hot wator often aa Hot as can bo sipped. This will give immediate and permanent relief. Don't fail to try this reined v bocauso it is siui pie. Catarrh. The lest way to deal with the disoase is not to have it to keep ciean, wmi wuoiesomn loou, to live iu clean, well veutilatod houses, to dress warmly with llannola noxt the skin, and, above all, to keep the feet warm and dry. Children sitting with damp shoes on are almost certain to oon tract catarrh. The evaporation of the moisture pro duces a constant chilliness which is dan gerous even to those in robust health. Children's feet and legs are ordiuarily not more than half clothed, and it is little wonder that catarrh is so vreralent among them. The Ear. Dr. Room, in a lecture on the ear, said that no small amount of trouble in the ear was caused by too fre quent syringing and boring ont with a twisted towel or handkerchief, not to mention hair-pins, bodkius and other nietollio instruments. In his opinion, one should never put anything in the ear smaller than the little finger, al though ono writer said put nothing smaller than the elbow. The avoidance ot many car troubles was to be assured byatkiuircarenot to duck the had in cold wator, or to syringe the deeper part without the order of a physician, or in troduce any body which ran push the wax lower down in the drum. 'No, aa I understand it these cold waves oome from the vast deserts of snow in the Siberian plains, and radiate thence oer the globe, bnt principally in this direction. "Well, whv the dickens dent they stay there?" "Why, iu too told, idiot" They ont: "i'ou've taken a mean, Bueakiu' advan tage of me "Coflin was ordered of mo in a reg'lar way," returned ilotchkiss, "I'd like to furnish a coflin to bury you in, continued Hudberry "I'd rather live forever than to be buried in ono of your old cheap cofllus." ' 1 11 cut down the price of coliins nntil you'll huvo to pack yonr blankets out of town." "Cut away lie did cut down prices so low that he got all of Hotchkiss' business. Tuon Hotchkiss cut bolow Sudherry'B prices. It was getting cheaper to die than to live. Soveral availed themselves of the chenp rates. Old Ondscy, who, as a mutter of economy, ate only one meal a nay, took tins occasion to get oil and avoid the expense of even one meal a day. budbcrry cut again. Hotchkiss met it. Then tho former begun to pay 81 for tne privuogo of undertaking a corpse, His business livened up. Teddy O'Flynn, who had a partnor in a boot black stand that he could not got along wnn, availed Himself ol tins opportunity to uissoive too partnership, and make Si His partner died very unnaturally. Tho increase of the df-ath rato of tho town was vory noticeable. A good many peoplo seized tho occasion to get rid of their enemies and turn an honest dollar. Hotchkiss, too, began to offer a roward of a dollar a corpse, and a drink of whisky thrown in. Tho next morning Ruttlesnako Bill, a desporato character of tho town, stopped before Hotchkiss' shop with four dead Chinamen in a wagon. He wonted 4 and tho drinks. The undertaker objected to taking tuo Chiuamou. Bill told him he eould take thorn or be dumped dead in with them, and go over to Sudberry's. Hotchkiss took tho four Chinamen. Bill took the four drinks. Hotchkiss had cut prices aooui as lur as no could, llo hud a large family dependent upon him. Sudberry uiui no iumny no lainuy at tuo time. Ho had previously buried tho several members of his family, as it camo right I.' 1: i if .... . iu inn nue, imu ne uia u at nrst cost. The former approached tho latter to see if thoy could not agroo to rostoro old prices. Sudberry would not entertain any such proposition, hum ho would sell. Hotchkiss bought. Then, to retrieve his losses, ho put nr. oofllns to exorbitant prices. Ho know if any one elso sot up iu tho undertaking buiu'noss, weeks would clapso before his collius arrived, lhero was a great full ing off in tho mortality that had pre vailed. None but the wealthy could af- tord to dio that is, to dio decently. more was a great deal ot dissatisfaction People expostulated with Hotchkiss. They said it was perfectly lcgitimoto to make a cornor m any othorartieloof trado. but to muko it in colli was sueriligious aud not to lio endured. Ilo answered by showing thut ho had as much right to put up tho prico of his wares as a baker or a butcher had to put up prices in his business; thut he did not cause tho death of people, and waa uuder no obli gation to bury them. Said, though, that ho would bury all ho killed. He further explained thut thero was no overwhelm ing necessity for a man to havo a cotlln. or even to bo buried, aa to that mutter; that no man would mako any oomplaiut if not buried. Such arguments did not satisfy the ooplo. Nono of thorn were needing coliins either. Old man Eli Stouo waa taken sick be fore tho undertakers had compromised matters, and was not keeping abreast with tho collin war. lie was known to le the most contrary man iu Nevada. He was old and failed rapidly. The doc tors told him to make whatever prepara tions ho desired, as the end waa not far off. A lawyer, being called in, was writ ing the old man's will. The dying man's words were scarcely audi llo, and he would have to reaao speaking, at short intervals, to get his fleeting breath. Ho could hear good. As the writing of the will progressed, he overheard some of his friends in an ad joining room talking abont the monopoly in coliins the unheard-of charges. H told the lawyer to stop right where he had got. Said he was not going to die. He didn't The feeling of hostility towards Ilotch kiss increased. There were muttcrings for a day or two. Finally a mob fathered in front of his esUblUhment The men composing the mob did not appear to be suffering for coffins, either. They were healthy looking, and some of them would weigh ISXJ pounds. One Dutchman be was very mad would have weighed 400 pounds. No one ever thought of his be ing buried in a coffin. liogabead. The men hardly knew how to proceed, their knowledge of mobbing coffin-abopa twine; qnite limited It was at first prupoaod to bnrntbe building and eonWoU. This was objected to, ae it would leave the town without eoffina, and, cotwetwutly, without inducement lo the tibuti u die. Then one infuriated Litis ma abonted: 'We caa BM his Coffee." "I don't want to use ow." tL! other. "Domed it I io,' ete!ai4 1 third. A Boston merchant dying, left among ins papers a parcel ot unsold bins against poor debtors, with a written sug gestion to his sons thut perhaps the claims might as well bo destroyed, as collecting them would undoubtedly cause distress. Tho young men mado a careful schedule of them, and placed a large proportion of the debtors' names on the "forgiven list" never intending to collect them. Ono day, shortly after wards (says ono of tho brothers; anagod man entered the olUce, saving he had come to imyon old debt, ilo was from Capo C'imI, and his bowed form and humble dress and hard hands iudicutcd that his life hail been one of struggles and sorrows. My brother (says the nar rater) turned to his desk, and found tho old man e name on the "forgiven list "lour note is outlawed, said he; "it was dated twelve years ago, payable in two years. No interest has been paid; you are not bound to pay this note. VY e can never recover the amount." "Sir, said the old mun, "I wish to pay it. It is the only heavy dobt I have in the world. It may be outlawed here, but I havo no child, and my old woman and I hone we have made our peace with uod, and wish to ilo bo with man. 1 should like to nav it." And he laid his bank notes before my brother, requesting him to count them over, "I cannot tuko the money." said mv . . - - - urotner. The old ruan became alarmed "I have cust tho simple interest for twelve years, and a little over, said ho. "1 will pay you compound interest, if you require it. Tho dobt ought to have been paid loug ago; but your father, sir, was very indulgent he knew I'd been unlucky, and told me not to worry about it." My brother then set tho wholo matter plainly before him, and taking the bank bills, ret urfled them to the old man's A Theatric Sell. Many years ago, whon I was not so well kuown in the theatrical world as I am now, I was a party, wnws air..n. Florence to the Era, to what I am afraid was a sad hoax on my good friends, the i- : v- v-.-i. ti.a tiiav.poinir iiuuiio oi flow iu. idea originatod with the late Mr. John Broughman, then manager of the Lyceum Theater, whore I wos engaged as "ireneral utility." A pieco was pro duced called "A Row at the Lyceum Theater, or Groonroom Secrots, each member of the company assuming the part of himself or herself ; Mr. Brougham playing Mr, Jirouguaui, airs, ternuu, Mrs. Yernon, and so on. iJieu appcarod in the ordinary dress of the street, and the scene was the greenroom of the theater. The performance was exceedingly re alistic, and deeply interested the audi ence. Everything proceedod smootuiy nntil the entrance of Miss Buggins, a debutante who. after greeting her friends, looked over her "part," objocted to somo of the "business, and laid claim to something "more trogio. Ihoreupon a stout, middle-aged man, clothed in a Ouakerish garb, who had hitherto qui etly listened and laughed with the rest, roso in his place in tho center of the stalls, and, to the astonishment of the house, exoloimod: "That woman looks for all the world like Clemontina. Her voice is vory like; and the form is the same. After a pauso, he added, with a great emphasis, "It is, it is my wife ! follow ing this up leaving his seat in a stato of excitement, rushing toward the foot lights, and shouting at the top of his voice: Como off the stago, thou miserable woman. , The utmost confusion quickly reigned in the theater. The audience, at nrst amused at the interruption, soon saluted the Quaker with cries of "Put him ontl" "Sit down!" and "Police!" and altogether quite a tumult arose. Up in the third tier, in a cornor noar tho stage, and visi bio to all, was a red-shirted fireman, who added greatly to the excitoment by threatening to givo "Old Broadbrim" a sound thrashing if he laid a hand on the "young oman." Saying, more over, he would go down and do it at once, be rushed down stairs to carry iiis inreat into execution. The uproar entirely stopped the nor. formauce. Ladies were endeavoring to leave the house, and gontlomen were addressing the people and vainly striv ing to restore order. All this time tho SE.1SE A5D SEJTIJIEXT. an- pocketbook, tolling him that, although our father left no formal will, ho hud roeoniniendod to his children to destroy certain notos, duo bills, and other evi dences of debt, and releaso thoso who might bo legally bound to pay them. For a moment the old man appeared to be stupefied. Aftor ho had collected himself, and wiped the tears from his eyes, he said: rroni tho time I heard of vour father's death, I havo raked and scraped, and pinched and spared, to get the monoy together for tho payment of this dobt. About ten days ago I had made np the sum within f 20. Mv wife knew how much the payment of the dobt lay upon my spirits, and advised me to sell a cow and niako up the difference, and gei mo ncavy burden oil my mind I did so; and now, what will my old woman say? I must get back to tho Cape, and tell her this good nows. She'll probably repeat tho very words she used when sho put her hand on my shouldor, as we parted 'I have never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging flirt! lr,tn.1 Ill l Ull, Giving each of us a hoarty shako of the hand and a blessing upon our dead father's memory, he went on his way re joicing. Cellars. Experiments prove that the air in a cellar rises and circulates through tho house, and that too, not only by means of tho frequently-opened doors, but even when every door is kept shut and the keyholes are stopped. It is simply impossible to keep a dwolliug free from contaminated cellar air. Yet how many sources of contamina tion are found in cellars! Rotting wood tho entire Moor often being pervadod by decay; vegetables stored there for tho winter and their refuse left the year round; musty barrels of vinegar or cider; leaky gas-fixtures; badly-constructed furnaces, from which escape various noxious gases; water-closets, foul at the best, and often fouler through defects; defective sink and sewer-drains, not infrequently saturating the soil be neath the floor with filth. Many cellars are dug directly into "made" land, and the gossos of the de- cayed matter with which the soil is more or less fillod pour directly into them. just as the water of the soil finds its way ...... ,1 it - iuif wig wen. This latter noiut is more imnnrtnnt than most think, for the air circulates freely through the soil, even when frozen. Persons have been repeatedly poisoned and killod bv caa which I.b.1 traveled for a distance in one cnn twenty feet through tho soil, and had penetrated into the cellar and thence in to the rooms above. As tho ground water rises or full. H,o air follows it. Barometric influences changes in the pressure of the atmos phereforce it down further, or lift it out of the earth. Changes of temjicra ture similarilv affect it. an.l ih;i.Iu,i. does the warmth of a house establish an upward current from the cellar to the rooms above, and from the soil inlj ll.a cellar. Hence 1. Keen everything out ,f n,. ..tu. ikely to vitiate its air. 2. Got the bent constructed fnrni possible. 3. Have the tros metor an.l frequently examined. , 4. Let the drains be of the best mste nal and construction ami ..... igbt-auiendl from the ceiling in stead of being buried under the floor. o, Have the floor aud sides mado as impervious aa poaaible. 0. Let the crllur 1m thoroughly ventilated with sun-purifled 7. If vitiaiinir sources mn.l rm.: Bos the beat duiinferUbtm nnt .i ' wonarrs.- (loath s Companion. Write of error Love letters to other man's wifo. To presorve 1 woolona from moil,. Give them to the poor. Baby aphorism Time out of min.i mislaid dates. Acids and nicklos are nsuallr Mm tents of the family jar. A goose and an elephant's trnnk lmik grow down. Make your own conundrum out of tho fact. Cast-off stove-pipe, cut in slices. ninV. very handsonie bangles for ladies' wear It just soots thorn. A man may bo a splendid markamn nnd still miss the hickory nut and knock the nail off his thumb." To reconcile the useful and agreeable beat your mother-in-law's clothes while they are on her back. The English dragoons are merciless on Ht.v uuu.oi 11 ...... .... j anaiut IfUUricr they cut them in two. ' Why do all would-be-wiae people trv to look stern? Bocauso the wisest of thorp was a Solumn'un. It was a wise and cunning Jew wLa said: "I tell you vat it isli, I buys my cxperienco fresh every day." Low is a aiove you may see tliromrh it, but you must be considerably re duced before you can got through it. 'What is fume ?" asks the PbilaJel. phia American. Fame is the result of being civil to nowspaper men. Boston Poet. The water in Newburg is so bad that a correspondent of the Journal says "it is almost cruel to squirt it on a decent fire!" Guibollard, most candid of philoso phers, remarks, "Would that I had ten thousand a year." "To Jo what?" "To do nothing. Curiosity shop "O what a lovoly vase. It's antique, is it not?" "No, ma'am. it's modern." "What a pity! it was so pretty." We trust that in his inoxperienco. Sec retary of the Navy Goff will not be so unfortunate as to sit down on the tack of a ship. Prof. Holdon has written a uiogranLr of tho great astronomer, Sir. William Ilersehel, which Cliarlos Scribner's sous are publishing. "Will you have your oysters scal loped?" asked a Galveston waiter of a green customed from tho interior. "Have tho scalped' No, but you kin scalp the butter if you want to. It needs it worst kind." "No, raarm." said the shoo dealer. "I would like to give you a smaller pair. but to soil you anything below eights would render me liable under the statute for prevention of crueltv to aui- mals." When a hoy walks with a girl as though he were afraid some one might see him, the girl is his sistor. If he walks so close to her ss to nearly crowd her against the fence, it is tho sister of some one else. Mile. X. poses as a vouDgladv. thouch fully fifty years old. Tho other day they wore telling in her presence a story of the last century. "I don't beliove it." cries Miss X. "Then I deny it," says the speaker; "Mademoiselle was there.'. Mr. J, Pembertown riokoring. of Bos ton, has mado a curious and instructive duodecimo on "The Opsn Fireplace in All Ages," out of articles contributed by him to tho American Architect and Build ing News. Several hundred cuts nnd plates illustrate the volume, which is printed at the Riverside Press, and issued by James R. Osgood & Co. A pansy gown recently worn at a Paris ball was tho success of the.evening. It was old gold silk, brocaded "with nurnle. and was made with a shirred underskirt, a coat baBuqe and a Maintenon train. A wreath of pansies in beaded ohonille ex tended across tho front breadth, pansies wore knotted at the throat and in the hair, and bands of pansies extended across tho front of the arm, fastening the sleeve, which only covered the back of the arm. Doubt has recently boon expressed whether Heine ever wrote thoso "Me moirs" which wore said to have been sold by his brother to the Austrian Govern ment. The matter has now been nnt be- .liai.frt l. llf J nr..' , do and careless host; but they ZJ quu miu oi any intention to press iif wn, ni,af T1 V" r T r i the preparation of his autobiography. In i ltwi he nad completed what would have filled three volumes. Soon after Heine's death, Moissnor visited Heine's widow at Asniores, where the manuscript was shown to him, but ho apparently knows no more than the rest of the world as to its subsequent fortunes. irate husband was struggling to reach his wife, and he ultimately climbed ovor the orchestra, followed by the red-shirted defonder of the "young man." Finally both were seized by a couple of stout policemen and dragged upon tho stage. When there they were made 10 iace tne house, and miniediotoly tho regulation semi-circle was formod. the epilogue was spoken, and the curtain dropped, almost before the audience had timo to recognize in the red-shirted fireman your humblo sorvant, W. J. F.; in ine indignant Husband. Mr. Brough am himself; in the recovered wife. Mrs. Brougham, and to realize that they have been the victims of a stupendous "sell.' About Carving. TTT1 liit . vtnonai last uie work of carving is done, tho delicato and difficult duty of "liolninir" Imm'nD Tl,n.n l. Thee ro 1.1 niftrninoa r. i 1 1 . , ; n - " t . yjt ..ne iur -..r.TiewKi eaiuutiona. The latest B"rn. "Morn.- "Horn vrar "Xehore." "Good mora.' is: this can be no peace of mind for the man who helps his family and his occasional guest to any food, except soup or oysters, both of which can be accurately and fairly di vided, iu me case oi chicken lie can never give satisfaction. Thore is no rule in this matter, beyond giving the chicken logs to the boys, which can be followed To ask people what part of the chicken they prefer is simply madness. Either everybody tells the truth, and domands the best cut, in which case all but ono will be exasperated by failing to have their wish gratified, or everybody will reply, "Any part," "It makes no differ ence," or words to the sume mendacious and aggravating effect. Of course, when tho man who says "It makes no difference" is helped to anything but the breast, ho becomes on enemy of tho carver for life, and nothing can disabuse him of the impression that he has been wantonly insulted. It is far bettor to boldly help people without makiug any pretense of consulting their wishes. I'l.n.. ...:n it , ii a.uoj nin uieu reKuru me carver as a rude ui-iiuiii uiui oi uuy intention to press upeu iuhuus on nis guest, rertiaps tho most dillloult person to deal with is the lady who says she "prefers a leg." In the presence of this trvinor unrsnn the carver is almost certain to mako a mistake. ' The chances are that sho abhors chicken legs, and for the sake of politeness an alleged preference which she confidently expects to be disregarded. To help such a one to a leg is to abuse her confidence nnd earn her undying hatred. On the other hand, if she is one of those rare women who really have an abnormal fondness for legs, she feels herself outraged if legs are withheld from her anil flpfti.laa that the carver is a selfish brnte, who has not sufficient decency to respect a lady's Wishes. We shall never knnnr hnor mar.. happy homes have been brokon up, how many friends estrangod, and how much miscellaneous misery has been suffered morely bocanse tho duty of carving has been placed in the hands of the fathers of American families. f N. Y. Times. Crisp and Satisfactory. A correspondent wishes to know if we can recall the rest of that beautiful poem commencing: . 4 Ikrmer oat In hl eay choir. SmoaiDf bit pipe of ell. ' While bit kale oi,l wlbwlth Waaclearlef tbe dinner aw.r; A tweet Unit lri win, m... Oa ber iraadfeiber't knee woe caicbiac file. It givca ns a good deal of pleasure to ay we cannot. In the first place, no men ever found an easy-cbair on a form. Secondly no farmer ever left any dinner Thirdly, there never was a child that eould catch flieswe used to try it hen you oome to analyu one of these entimental poems it never fails to turn worde li Chicago Tribune. Having traced a number of Hiber nioisms toa Oreek origin. Dr. Hopkins wittingly remarks that Irish bulla were ece calved in Greece. A rrccoutlous Youth. A boy about fourteen years of oge wo smoking a cigar on the steps of tho City Hall this morning, when a citizen halted bofore him and said: "Boy, do you realize what you are doing?" - s "Smokin' a powerful good five center, won on a bet," was the reply. "But don't you know that you are fill ing your system with poison?" "Saw." "Well, you are. That cigar contains enough nicotine to kiU a cat." "I'm no cat." "It know. It does not kill yen sud denly, bnt poisons the blood and sows the seeds of disease. You may drop on your way home." "I ain't goin' home." "It fills me with horror to see a lad of your age destroying both soul and body. Boy, I entreat you to throw away that vile cigar." I dasn't. Some one else would pick it np and be pizened." "Throw it away and IU buy you three apples." ' ' VDon'tlike'em." ' "Or a qnart of peanuts." , "?JM!dtheboyu, he fondly re garded the inch of ashes at the end of the cigar; "I bet a boy the cigars this morning that he couldn't tech his tongue to a lamp post and then sing 'Sally Waters.' He teched ; there's a crowd np there now tryin' to thaw him loose. I in t very acart about being pizened. and Idon t keer much for fatherly advice, nut if you re got any spare time vou mi ht go up there and tell that 'ere boy that a chunk of natural philosophy ia worUi a hull barnf ul of experiment