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EUGENE CITY GUARD LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. ' BY TfXKSBAril TO BATE, . The Catholic bishop of Montreal La served notice te qait oa all tensnte on cnurcu property selling nnuer. Senator Millar gave notice tint be will inovo to take op tbe CbioeM bill for ao tioa at rood aa tbe ponding polygamy bill la disposed of. Kelly's morroceo man a factor, several tore in tbe aanio building, anil adjoin ing dwellings, were burned on tbe 10th. Loss, $50,000; parti insured. Tbe postmaster genoral Law revoked tbe regulation requiring flour to be en cased in sealed envelopes before being put in metal bozea for transmission Tie Catbolio diocese of Meatb baa reo ommended I'atrick Eagan as a candidate of tbe Irish party for the vacancy in the cam mons caused by tbe resignation of Sullivan. Near all the bueinoa portion of Rob- inaon. Kansas, including hotel and fourteen buildings, waa burned to tbe ground on the Kith. No partioulari aa to Josses and insurance. The house committoo hare agreed to report favorably the bill fer the erection of publio buildinga at Boise City, Idaho, to coat Sj0,000. and at Leavenworth, Kansas, to eoat 1100,000. Tbe eighth annual pageant of the Knights of Momus occurred oo the ICth. There were sixteen magnificent tableaux mounted on cari. Monday the king of carnival made bit triumphal entr into tbe city. Arturo TJbico, formal minister plen ipotentiary to the United States from Guatemala Laving been transferred b nil government to ltorae, bad an au dience with tbe president and preaented bia letter el recall. Tbe ripple of exoitement at tbe roll- man shops baa aubaided. Two hundred of tbe moa qnit work, and tbe com pan paid them off, and then arranged for sup- pling their places. Business will not be interrupted. Joaeph E. Sheffield, founder of tbe Sheffield scientific school, connected with Yale college, died on Feb. ICth. He was connected with several railroad and mil ing enterprises, and waa a man of great wealth and fer liberal in its use. A boiler exploaion at Jewell's ferry, .Brooklyn, killed Uilbert Stephens, en gineer. Gideon G. Baldwin, pilot of the niton ferry boat, bad a leg broken by a living piece of timber, and a miller named Kohn bad bia scalp taken entirely off. ioss unknown. Ex-U. H. Minister Pierrepont. John S. Btokea, W. U. Stokes and W. H. Holme, solicitors for the Aortbern raoifio rail road, have arrived at Montreal to inter view the government on the subject o' obtaining connection for the Northern Peoifle on the Manitoba lines. Wm. Mo- Do u gal I has been retained as their coun sel in Canada. A letter te tbe New York World from Aspmwall, dated the 4th inat., aava: Of thirty Belgian mechanics, who arrived here some months ago to work on the Panama canal, eight nave died of isthmus fevor. Those who have escaped are leaving as rapidly as possible. It is aaiJ that thus far, since the commencement of tbe work, 100 have did. The star route cases on trial in Ne braska exploded. Judge Dundy ruled that Clary could not be onmpelled to tes tify, being one of the parties to the joint inuicuncut tor conspnacy. ine prosecu tion immediately deolined to go further, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilt. Clary had made a olean breast twice before the -trial, and his refusal to testify completely broke down the cases. (Stevens A Lynch, of Ban Francisco, nave secure! a contract (or tbe excava tion of 6,000,000 eubio meters of the Pan ama canal at SO cents (gold) per meter. ibis is considered a remarkable loi price. They will have to oat through swamp and alluvial soil, and it is the worst section in the whole surface of the canal. It was here that Uie dreadful mortality took place when the panama railroad was Wing built; 1500 lives were then lost and man deaths were unchroa- tried. A New York dispatch of Feb. Kith aavs: In rotation totbe wheat panic, one of the nrm oi r ranaun r.iison, ex-preaiiiout and a prominent niomoer of tbe 1'roduce Ex change, said: "Our letters from London nay there is ten tinios as much wheat on its way from California, ('bill. India, etc., aa ever ueiore, nut mey warn us that the market is closed to as unless we come down in price. We bsve come down and perhaps may Lave to come down still further before getting our En glish trade lack Again." The bouse committee on commerce Lss reported favorably on PecHeco's bill to create a new collection district in Cali fornia, with Wilmington aa its port ef entry and San Luis Obispo a port of en try. The same committee bus also re ported favorably on Berry's bill provid ing for construction of a first-class light house and fog signals on a reef near Point Saint George in the vicinity of Crescent City, where the steamer Brother Jona than and many other vessels bave been wrecked tor want of such warninga. The lighthouse board informed the committee that not more than 1 00,000 can be advan tageously expended during the first years work in preparing a foundation, sua consequently uie amount to be ap propriate.! by thia bill ia fixed at that figure. Tbe entire cost of the work will Iw about $:X),000. The president Laa transmitted to the senate the report of the commission ou lung plague in cattle. The commisnon conclude that the unvarying absence of lung plague, apart from coutagion, ia a erfect guarantee that it can be perma nently eradicated, and maintain that in every instance where a nation Laa atauped out infection no new cases ap pear until there bad been another impor tation of infected stock. Long delay in atamping out the disease in the United States means extension of it to our open rattle ranges and the impossibility of stamping it out, with a near prospect of general extension oi uie plague and yearly sacriflo of scores of millions of dollars, to say nothing of the continued iscubns on oax foreign market To delay the work of extinction, which ia now in our power, savors of criminality. Tbe private counsellor of Russia baa been dismissed . Tbe Austrian insurrection Las come to a sort ef standstill. Tbe Riddleberger debt bill has passed tbe Virginia legislature. Col. I). H. Kucker lias been confirmed quartermaster general. General Skobeloff, it is said, intends to join the lleraegovinians. Louis Joseph Martel, ex-president of the French senate, is dead. The National Starch Aaaociation met in seaaien at Chicago en the 14th. Henri Augusta Barbior, the French poet died in peris on the ltih inat. The trial ef Sergeant Mason who shot atOuitcau will begin on the 20th. It is now rumored that Fille of St. Louis will be provided with a good place. A second large ironolad baa arrived at Port Said and will be stationed at Isuiai lift. Tbe president has nominated Abraham H. Patterson postmaster of Eugene City, Oregon. Senator Vorheea, of Indiana, made a speech on the tariff question in congress on tbe Utb. Mix children of John Van Devan died in four days of diphtheria in Cleveland last week. The grain commission bouse of Georg II. Small A Co., of St. Louis, suspended on the ltth. It is said in Berlin that tbe coronation of tbe czar will be postponed until Sept next. Tbe president will not do anything with the Fits John Porter case but leave all with eengreia. Tamm t Co. 'a glue factory at Rock Seringa, Mo., waa burned on the Htn Loss liO,000. The New York Commercial Advertiser says both Sargent and Chandler will go into the cabinet aeon. The trial of Samuel Green for murder was called on tbe i:ith in the superior court of San Franoieco. The chamber of deputies at Rome adapted the acrutin de liate by a vote of 'JOOto J4.f en tbe 14th. Tbe international billiard match spoken f last week will probably not be played as a difficulty bas arisen. The Mississippi levee is broken in aev eral places at Helena, Ark., and railroad traffic is seriously impeded. A disease closely resembling the plague has appeared in Peraia and 40 deaths Lave ocourred since Feb. Kth. Daniel O'Leary waa run over and killed at the corner of Howard and Stewart streets, San Francisco on the l-Hh. James Noonan, an employe of the Ris- don iron works, Han Francisco, fell dead in a fit on the Utb. In the New York assembly tbe speaker bas announced oonimittees. Urganiza tion baa not yet been completed. The National ZietungoQloe at Nenstadt, Ontario, and the residence of the pub lisher was burned on tbe l4tu. The cur of Russia and Giers. secretary of foreign affairs, are inclined to peace. but tbose Immediately around the czar want war. General Kryahanofaky, governor of Orenburg, and Private Councilor Dekli no IT, of the ministry of domains, bave been diamiased. The recent report that a committee of Dakota delegates bad asked the removal of Gov. Ordway is declared by the gen tlemon to be false. The nomination of Major Rochester as paymaster general was recommitted to the committee on military affairs for fur ther examination on the 14th. Returns of the area in cotton make the increase over the common average in ISM about five per cent., and the total acre age about io,ruu,uiiu. Loaaea by the cottou caterpillar aggregate IKK), 000 bales. Hostile correspondence passed between itultiieberger and Smith, at Uichmond. on the 14th, over tome reflections made in the senate chamber. Tbe difficulty was subsequently arranged satisfactorily to an parties. At a meeting of house committee on Indians affairs Representative Ainalie made a favorable report upon the bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to dispose of certain lands adjacent to the town of Pendleton, Oregon, belong ing to tne tmauiia Indians The president has sont the following nominations to uie senaie; u. a. con sulsBruno Tzschuek, of Nebraska, at Vera Cruz. Mexico; Tboa. Wilson, of the District of Columbia, at Nan tea, France, and George Gifford, of Maine, at LaRo chelle, France. The Tribune'a Washington special: The fact that John C. New has already held the office of treasurer, which is better paid and more diguified than that of the assistant at cret iry, though not so influential in polit'cs, haa given rise to gossip to the effect that bis appointment ia only temporary, and that he is to be given a more conspicuous place hereaf ter. Oo the other band it is charged that his selection weaua the systematic use of the treasury patronage for Grant repub licans. It is siad that the senate military com mittee will reort the nomination of Major Ro;hester for paymaster general favorably again. A strong fight will be made against the confirmation of Roch ester in the senate. It will be insisted that be haa not the right to the paymas ter generalship because he waa promoted over the heads of nine senior oftioera in the corpa. President Garfield decided te appoint McClure of the paymasters corns to the paymaster generalship and probably would have scot bin name to Uie senate had he lived. Ko Kun Hua. profeaaorof Chineso at Harvard rnivcraity, died at Cambridge on the 14th of pneumonia. Deceased was the author of two volumes of poems in his own country and waa admitted to the rank of mandarin and held eoveral im portant ositioos under the native gov ernment, Laving been foreign secretary during the rebellion. He was accom panied to this country by a wife and five children. Twoof his boys. aged 14 and 10, were elevated to the rank of mandarins before leaving China. Another child waa born in Cambridge last year. "Profes sor no," as be waa called at Collet. 1 taught the maadaru or court language I China. nnastn id ton uaac. tut raaaenoo. Fab. IT. Star 11 n ncliuit se Loo ami buim. au dat,4 Mt S4; do, 4e- Bionlsrr, M x ttsw Yuu, fab. IT. Rlarllna; irbun, prims babkar', WW. M tt; short, 14 to. Uuud sum. uardal, Iroiu JV lowati dycuiuanUrr, 1H luwar. rlilrar bullion, 1000 An, pt Do otuies.lWV D. S. Bui4 luuV: a, 114'.; . HI'.. Losuon. K'b. 14. CoimoU, luu S-loWlUU in.c ItuS-lfr&lUI 4-14 Scttllltll. Milnr bullion, tuifllab UiuUriJ, tti An, ftt Sua ounc, Mi-is. V. 8. V'Site-Dtfellts i 4a, 19 V Krtr Ysrh atack QaMtallos. V,r Voss. Fab. IT HllTr bars 114. mou'T, SS; guvoruniruta, strong-; atorka, Br in: Wt-ro luloa. Ti; (juiriiiivrr, Ul'4; farinc. J MarliHiaa.4: Walla. FarKU k Co,, lvl: N. V. U li.: Krla, S: Panama, luO- I'. P., 117 'i ; bunda. US; t). K.W'a; bonda, llaij; Hiilro, ,. ta)M aa SHMS1 ataSNMl. sis raiSCisne waua-rs. Haa rsAKCucn. lb. 17. lrlbU-Wbrat. 11,000 clla; flour, M.MUqr aki Ini'luillbU 4'.' axj aboard abli; potatoes, 'ft) aaria ririia, 17.4U) dot. Mbrat Tlia niarkel la van quirt. Ko. 1 shipping, SI fUkrn.1 Ilarl-TUa market la quia! wltn prlrra SRiinai aallara. Haifa of good rnaat fead at II tfiH. t'Solcs Lrasllin. 41 J W aakrd. 41 S7 M bid. Oala Uirt't la au-auj and quiet. We quota lbs same aa blore. Corn Market la not so Arm. Small TelloW solo tn.rf at II 'JO- larva white at I'J lb. llutlrr rrrab roll: Martel nrm si niu'mnKea quotations. Pickled, 3.V'il H ; parked, cbolua new, ll M'o..iul'! eaNleru. itfiliJoc. tKKa Market ia atiaJ si the decline. Wa quota sa belors. ProTlalosa-Uarket la steadrst Ibasdranra of H prarloualy rebortrd for Callforuls. t'ur esatern urlcaa are nnrbanired. Halnioo Columbia river: Una nrm atales tber have eoutracted for 14O.0UO to 3OU,0iiu raaea. A sal la ranorted mada at II 32 on river: nolblna au. thenurated over fl 17 H on ner. Rumora of II 34 on titer saked. The market la aa uuattled that an-urala quotallona are linpoaalblr. (1 'i't la prob- sbl s full quotation. PnrllMarf Pradaea Sflarhel. rLOl'K WautUrd branda i; couulrr, II Ji 90. luiwrflne, U M3 71. OATH-6i14.M11 per buabel. BAKLEV 41 tui par ranUI. HAY Baled Umothr. I14l ton. ILL. rWJ) VHaUona t Mlddllujra ill 3015; ahorai. tltarJH- ehoD lead IJutSW: Draa sis. CUKRI) MKATH llama. Urroa ausar cured 1K4 19c: saatera 17sslH; bscuB, lijloc; shoulders 11 )1 r. LABI QunUUons sr 14.011 He la lf; laIlla Una. endliolV In tlla. DHIU) AfPLta Sua dried, t't'e; Plummar dried 11H1ED PLUM ft-With plU. Sc; pltleas 11913s for ana dried: IVHlJc for machine plums. IIIIPll IMAJOC. HIDES uuoUUons are 15c for firat-claaa dry; T)xso tor reen; rolls, H off. Sheep pelts SOcJ ll as. BUTT EH Fancy Mc: gnoi to choir. J"Hi30Cj (air. t. In bulk. JfkiAo: in brtne.JK. ho. o.SIONs-OuoUUon 1 ldl W ctl. CHKErtK Bra, family, 1T,1SC. APPLI-Per boi. II. PEA Hit e7Sc per bos. TIMOTHY HEED Per lb. CHICKEMt-Dos, 14 ttS; small and medium, 1 Uual ner dot. BALMU.t uiiumoia nrer. out, siuan; ui ddu U 4nrS; belllea. bf bbl. 111. POTATOES Oarnet fbiie, sac, per nnanet: reer. a or choice white varieties, euc per buahrl. t'EMEN T-Hoacudale, W bbl. U 110. Ponlaiid, bbl. It 7S. HHI.SOLES-Hhsved. 11 7.V1 pr 11. Mrata. BF.F.P-MO lbs-roe.. POHK-.7c, tttl'v1 MT'.'ITON UHc, KToaa. VEAL-I.7- llanil Orgaii Tnues f r ISH'2 "Tina is the season when orgnn-grind ern order tunes lor the coming year, said a maker of bund-organ, at hm fitc torv on Chatham Square veKterdav. "In fact, the time of supply and demand is so regular and nnfailing tuitt ulmanno makers might put along with other weather predictions, all the way from the middle of January to tbe middle of April, 'now put now tunes in hind-organs.' And in summer, of course, ' now look out for new tiincn in htud- organs.' 'What are tbe new tunes called for this year?" 'Well, the returns are not all in ret. Of course you know that the orgnn- grinders themselves do not have much to say about what tunes shall be put into their organs; they rely alniont entirely on what the people ask for. No; I don't believe it is true, as many assert that the organ-grinders pick out uninteresting tunes and creaking organs, in order that pennies may be given them to go away quickly. I think they report to me hon estly what tunes the people ask for. On the whole, Harrigan & Hart's songs are the mot popular in the country. Just now their 'Major Oilfeather', a waltz song, is the rage. They all ask for it. Then there is Tonv Paator's 'Whist. Whist,' which is going to be very popu lar on the hand-organ only the whist will be anything but whist." ' "Anything from the Gillert and Sulli van comic operas, The rirste, or ratience?'" "Not a note; no demand for them. Nothing from the 'Mascotte.' We take the 'Charity Bob' song and 'All on Ac count of Eliza from 'Billee Taylor,' and the grand marches from 'Fatinitza' and Boccaccio. From New Orleans and Savannah come loud calls for times from Olivette."- 'Is the hand organ played much through the Southern States?" Just now New Orleans is my best market. The negroes have taken to playing hand organs, while the Italians have dropped off all over the conntry. There are not one-fourth as many Italian players as wandered about the States a years sgo. lb Italians are at work on rail road i and as laborers in every capacity. They are willing to work if they can be satisfied that they will get pay for their labor." 'Well, what new tunes are von pitt ing into organs played in the Western States?" " 'Grandfather's Clock." "Is that tune new anywhere?" "You would tliiuk so from the num ber of requests I bave for it. Here is a new organ, in which I have just put 'The Sweet By and By.' It is going into Massachusetts with ' On'v an Armor Bearer' and 'I'll Stand by Until the Morning,' and other of the late Mr. Blisa' writings. They are in great de mand in little towns where a strong reli gious bias runs." "Any other popular tunes which bang out?" '"The Devil's March,' from von Snppe's operetta. ' The Devil on Earth' and ' Cradle's Empty. Baby's Gone.' I on't make a tragio opera selection for a and-organ once in five years. Everv- thing must be either funny or senti mental.'" A few davs atro there was buried at Welshpool, in England, a lady tearing a great historic name,' Miss Charlotte live, daughtev of Mr. illiam ('live. the only brother of the grvat Lord Clive. Her father was TJ yeara old when Lord Clivedied, in 1774. A brother of Miss Clive, the Rev. George Arthur Clive, ied in November last, aged 18. Amotg other relatives who followed this lady to her srrave was her last surviving brother. the venerable Archdeacon Clive, now in his 87th year. Talmage oo Gambling. ttenentlv. at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, air. xalmsge resumed me aeries oi ner tannage reaumou mo norii-s oi nor- on the plagnes of New York and klyn, which was interrupted by the itmossnd New Year's celebrations, ..v . ..ui i, n.i.i. i mons Brooklyi Christmas Hia aubject was "Stock Gambling," and bis remarks were batwd on Amos m, 12 As the shenherd taketu out of tbe mouth of tho lion two legs era piece of sa car, so shall tbe children oi Israel be taken out that dwells in hamaria. The lion of stock gambling, said Mr. TalniAgo, is abroad to-day devouring the lorU s sheep. itukesHiiuerDouy.mina or houI, and iu sny case there are only fragments left. It is the business of the shepherds to eruite back tbe blow, and if there be nothing but an ear oi tne vic tim left, to ad.lress that. There bas been not during my memory, any time when more morals and money were devoured bv stock csmblinar than now soever were there so many who would take trunt were there so many who wouia tane trunt funds and swamp them in Wall street, Widows and orphanB.aeaiustresHes.oierits on small salaries, and even clergymen ..a ne. a.e laf.l put their all into speculation anu utao nnt nntliinir. KeiinntivA irmiiarB are drawn.'warning people against infamous BiiliamAu anil aii'nm nnniail hv A fltAtA a state' mont of a practical enterpriee.condnoted on righteous) principles, witu a combination by which you can never tret swindled. Dopes are sent beautiful certificates of stock, so ornate in themselves that they look like mar riage certificates. When a man Hees one he thinks that be is married to good for tune. Statements of the result of the combination are promised in one month. The dupe waits for tbe coming of the first letter which is to announce his suc cess. Meanwhile he looks at expensive furniture and fine houses. He dreams of f or tunes like Vanderbilt's, and resolves that bo will not be. wrecked by success, A letter comes informing him that his investment has yielded one per cent, per month, and he again looks at expensive . ..." ;! T -li: mrniiure ana a oig noue. loguuu umu cornea another letter, whioh says that by an unfortunate turn in tho money market the whole of his investment is swept away as well as the profits. That's what they call in New xork "the royal bounce. Lonu lungmer. j i can u an infamous swindle. Every day thousands are swallowed np in the money market, i cry, a piague, a pingue. What ia tne matter witu tne prico oi grain; urops were pientuui ana tne price ought to be cheap. But it is not the grain gambler who controls the mar- ket? They do not can it gambling; tliev call it "ontion." An ooerator Davs $500 for the option of 10,000 bushels of grain for rebruary or March, bo grain is delivered on this bargaiu. Certain sums of money are paid if the price goos np or down. I say that gambling with greasy cards in a rum shop is not worse than that. bat right has a man to sell that which he has not? Let me not be misunderstood. I condemn the indis criminate condemnation of all stock operations. A Btock broker maybe a good Christian. He ban as much right to hie commission as a merchant has to his profits. There are men on the Stock Exchange who are examples of conscien tiousnesH and integrity. But no un evenly-balanced man, or nervous man should enter into that business any moro than he tdiould become an engineer, lliero are transactions every day in the stock markets into which members of churches are going, or which, at tho east, God's judgment will thunder their promoters into the everlasting com panionship of the lowest gamblers who ever pitched pennies for the drinks. Tho man who is guilty of ' cornering the market knows that he ia sinning against God. lie sees a man who wants to put np the price of a certain stock. He goes arouud and "bears" it and savs it is not worth much. When others sell he buys nd pockets the profits, and then he kneels down and thanks the Lord for his prosperity in business. You call it "cor nering; I call it rambling, highway robbery, felony accursed ' Dixgorge. Come out in a circular and call upon your victims to come and got restitution. Y'onug men, beware of stock gambling; beware of all doubtful speculation. If you cannot earn a live ihood in a healthful way, die; death affords a health, sepulchre. Sie the dv ing gambler in lim.deliriura. He talks of options, percentages, buyer sixty days, stocks up and down. Ho rises at mid- ight, crying: "One thousand shares of Illinois Central at 128.'; 1" Take it! He falls back dead. No more dividends; swaddled out of heaven. Stocks downl Lot us pray. Sugar Culture In Mfxlco. It is generally taken for granted that sugar cane was growing in C hina long before our era. The famous traveler, Marco rolo, brought the plant to Europe in ths middle of the thirteenth pnntnrr and in the fifteenth centnrv it was already cultivated all over Sicily, in the south of Spain and in the Canarv Is- Unas. Shortly altor tbe diacoverj of . . a- I fa inn iui- i auu wt aa iu iruuureti luiu I Hayti, whence it spread all over the American Continent. Humboldt has calculated that sugar cane may be suc cessfully cultivated in Mexico in dis- nets situated more than 2IKXJ feet above the level of tbe sea, and that the plant at this height is little inferior in quality to that grown in the torrid zone. Yet e find sugar can be cultivated in shel tered valleys st the height of five thouv na feet above the sea level. Owine to the want of proper roads in Mexico, the cultivation of the sucar cane has been limited to the districts shunted near the seaporU, and to the iuland provinces for local consumption. The exports of sugar from the flourishing: plantations around OrizAba and Cordova to Spain and Peru, produced in the year ltvM more than ti.OOO.OW. The continuous revolutions had a rninoosfffdct upon this iuirtant industry, and it i onl within a few yeara that the plantations ia Vera Cruz State have produced again sugar for ex portation to Europe. Tbe cultivation of sugar-cane, properly developed and wisely encouraged by the government, might furnish all tbe United States and also tbe greater part ot Europe with its surplus. Mavbe you can bat over tha pyramids I ith a tallow candle, but you can't con- Tinnsvomu mat wia nuirumu men art t not brutal because they won't keep a train waiting for her to lias her friends I auu wt kvuu-ujv tvi aua inuucu I time. ' Decline ef Iullan Opere. Tbe Saturday Iteview takes the follow- incr Kloomy view of the conmuon oi iuo ingKiwu , j.i, Italian ojra in England, wh ch, wim the exception of tbe chne out tne most efilcient vooalizors on tbegioue, i.. in this country, ana .ni;. omii.ll; to this country which may be especially commended to tbe attention of severol of our esteemed local contemporaries: , 'The condition ot tue opera iu o- lurid linn for some time been one oi we of modern so. ciety. riotooracism has obtuiuod almont lUbT. A ll' I,..., compIctoposseRsion oi tua roiun, aim result is a species of entertainment which cannot be called either genuinely artistic, dramatic or musical. The repertory con- Diets chiefly of a dull round of recurring amr.1. a ti..t tinn in which the fusiness of conventional finales takes the place of miina .lnmniin olimaz. and the com- I KWIIISHIU UIHIMHVIV V . , . I a i i . -f ILaaImadI monpiiice pompons ainpinj oi pageantry that of genuine dramatio ef- pageantry that 01 genuine urema.uu m feet, in which the chorus singing is most abominable, the acting uncertain auu too often bad, the instrumentation gen- . Hf tlir. eraiiy poor ana quite- nnwonujr u mo iiiiwrh linn1 wlnnli m enlleil TiDOn tOPCr- form it, and the language one which I anmAlimaa tinnatnral In tllA niAV. Often I superfluous to the singer, ana always in comprehensive to 90 per cent, of tbe mi. . . inr ..:o iu liu- uudloilLD. xiio ooiou a(jamo Lnd the singing of the most efficient auvantages is a string oi seductive mue vocalizers to be found in the circumfer ence of the globe. ior these advantages people con tmue. not only year alter vear, oui ub cade after decade, to pay simply propos- terous prices. Many do so just because the prices are ereDORterous: some be- cause they would not be in complote eomiort in tne circle oi tueir acanaiut- snces if tbe source of chitchat based on a common apparent interest was to fall short; and some because it is a polite entertainment, and where the npper ten have gone before, the next fifty will I . . .. .. ' a t g'aaiy ionow aiier. oo me lorces t habit", levity, and, vanity all conspire to support the rottenness of this branch of theatrical development, and to suppress any earnest attempt at improvement, in fact, the deterioration of substance nas gone on so long that it is oeyona tne power of the most astute caterer for pub- ho improvement to patch it. The whole raiment nas got too oia anu worn, anu the ostensibly now pieces of iiouongrin, The Hying Dutchman, Carmen, Mens tofele. II Demonio and other loss valu able fabrics, which are let in, have only a tendency to make the wnoie uy to pieces. Most publics do by degrees get tired of the fruits of their own foolish- ness; and. as this form of edification has had a very long spell, it seems likely that its day is not far from ending, and that an entirely new departure will be adopted. About a Walking Celebrity. A walking colebrity from Europe, who had an eye brimful of confidence in him self, entered a Detroit restaurant kept by a man who takes an interest in manly sports, reports a Transatlantic news paper, and thus began: "My name is Shaw. 1 have just ar rived. In case I can work tp nulhcient interest in this city I propose to walk one thousand miles iu " "Call again very busy see you later got to go right over tho river," said the restaurant man as he got away out of sigut. lue man named bimw dutnt seem greatly surprised at his reception, and his chin was still high as he walked into a billposter and asked, Can you do Rome pasting for me? "Oh, yes I There's scarcely a month in the whole year that wo don't post up at least one dodger for some one or other," was the reply. '1 may want yon to pnt out ten thousand three-sheet bills next week," observed Mr. Shaw; "I propose to begin here an a'tempt to walk one thousand miles m "All our boards are- secured for two months ahead," interrupted the poster wim terrioie earnestness; ana he at once began to sweep the dusty floor with a dry broom. Mr. Shaw coughed and went put. The store of confidence in hia eve had been reduced about one-half, but he had a good card left. Making, his way to a tobacconist's store, whose shop is the S .a . oeauquariers oi lovers ot dogs, horses. 3 I I l l ..... . . ' aumo-ocns ana atuietio sports, be pur- uuaseu a i-ueap cigar anu casually ob served to the crowd: "Gentlemen, my name is Shaw. I was thinking that if a hall could be secured on favorable terms I would make the at tempt to walk ttait! shouted every man in tha room in chorus, and in less than fifty seconds all had filed out and gone their wavs. mi . l ii luereupua me looacconist at onna reached down his shotgun, crying out lustily that Mr. Shaw had driven away seventeen of his best and Tdeajmnrost .... . r , customers, but before he could use it uiwug bu curicuu a L 1.4 'm ml iq i walk past one street corner in one min- uie, ani- ue acuievea a grand success. now to Sleep Well. No healthful sleep comes excent thai which follows voluntary or involuntarv acuuu ui iu wuscies 01 me Dotly. I e destrians fall into sound, deep sleep as . : 1 . 1 1 . . 1 . won as put to uea, at uie appointed time for rest. This is the sleep from voluntary niuiciilar exercise. A person in good health sits around the house all day; an invalid may all day sit and lounge and lie down from morning until night without sleepins: and both tha healthy man and the invalid, in the course of the eveuiag, will become sleeiiy. and fall into sound rennu th result of the weariness which involnn. tary motion brings about; for the vari ous organs of the body, the heart, the liver, the stomach, the evelids. work sieatiuy every dv. Th in. leatinea are aa eea1. ? .C;. M1CII UiUiltJU tue waves of the o.n- .1. , yvu, Kr.CrrJ..;y'J the shore, so is the great visceral ma cninery. worxug. workini?.- wnrHn 1.:- .1 r." .. .' - -e .-.1 tJ.j rr pody down- ward and out war. from tha fir. v..iu of existence to the last tr&fln i;r There is not a movement of the svstem voluntary or involuntary, external or in. ternal. which doei not re.u " ?; cause it When that power is to a cer- uio ukm uuanaa, insunct brinn na I the sensation of aleenineaa Wk .1. I result of exhausted power, inu.i... nature to secure cessation from acti.,.' which gives time for reenru,r:n. T"J Diuuu aa a man who runs fn. ' YV stops and rrsU, ao asto get strong?", rnn a train. Wa (rnnfn a. crw - : - o buu m.Pvt with a certain i i amount of reserve cauiumwju niroii(jni; in I11Q course of tk day that strength becomes expend i the point necesHarr for thecVomiencl! mont of a new supply which comei hZ teht, the rest from sleep. Opinm n cotios, all forms of anodynes, cause sl artificially by compelling rost. A Lo2! may be tied so that he cannot m , I . I L . 1 . 1 ur ag. , .. . , rjj. - "i h u not th. rest of tiredness, hence it is unnatural Anodynes, in a aonse, tie a man down' they take away bis powor of motion the. compel a rest, out n is not the rest which is the reHult of used-up strenrth it is nn artificial resS causing artiflcua sloep, not natural; and sleen uhi... , . . . . J" "SS1III I tiAr nnrHfol Ann rt hn " -"v w ucuaim; hen(Nri - io the truth of the first utterances of thi. chapter healthful sleep comes from th e.i.cuuiiurt y iue nireugm or the bo,I in various torms of exercise.l Haliv I lunsrtrl (if liAiilth ' is There Is ft Royal Ttond to Learalnr. - a . uuuiuur oi me continental i lines, pnuiisuea at uoneva, Switzer. land, is an article nn thAPeinn. .im . i z T.. ui nalet j vi4cmu uiurray, donth waa announced a short time am - In it he says: "The Prinoe is thoroughly enlightened in bis views on the leadinJ - iumuwu uim uay. xneson oiQMi - i wwim auu x unco aiucn coma buAW bo otherwise, whether one consider! the the remarkable abilities of Lis psreoti or the excellent education they bestowal their children. While on this topic one rouauia au u st euuon to a r- ular fancy expressed in the sentence that 'there is no royal road to learning.' The path of knowledge is made exceedingly smooth for a Prince of vVales. That n . best books, the ablest of professors ths I . - I 1 t ..lit. . . . !UB uuurs ouumu uu tie at tin di- posal this may be a small thing; he bis access to stores of information which other students could not obtain for ln pr money. Prom his earliest youth he is piacea in ireqnent and familiar inter- coarse wna me men wno make history, Even in these days of Mayors of th p.il ace, he ma be said, in some sense to uiuisen. ine education which mauy Bcnoiars oniy uecrin to reee v at thirty, and many others never receive at all the education which consist! ia knowledge of the world, lie aonniHia easuy anu pieasantiy without leaving hit home." a The Motor of the Future. In the opinion of most of the scinntuia of Great Britain, electricity is to take the place of steam in driving machinery and moving cars, and is to be generated bj the action of tides, winds and fulling water. They predict that wind power will be utilized to a greater extent thin any person in a previous age ever be lieved it would. Wind will eenerata electriety for moving machinery, for ligntmg streets, and warming dwellings in Ireland, Belgium, Denmark and other conntries where there are few streams that afford water power. The movement of tides will produce the same effects in most countries that have an extensive sea coast, while the fall of water in rivers and streams will generate elec tricity in all lnonntaiu regions. The great electrical exhibition at Paris did much to draw attention to what is called the motor power of the future. A pic ture called "Queen of the Nineteenth Century" hangs in many of the shop win dows. It is a female figure surrounded with a halo, and emitting ravs of light from the hands, which are raised as if to enable the being to fly. The light gives tne arms the appearance of wine's. The artist is an enthusiast, and is regarded oy many as a prophet. We all hope that his fair predictions will be realized. The steam engine is a good thing, but we ire ready for something better. It has done so well that till recently scientific men and inventors have not troubled them selves to make something better. Translations. Translation, perhaps, is tbehaidestof literary problems. It, is, indeed, a prob lem which is properly insoluble. All that can be done, even in prose, is to approximate, more or less closely, to i solution of it. The body of the author's thought may of course be preserved, but the garment with which it is clothed by the translator is of necessity new. Vol taire somewhere remarks, with his usual clear insight, "Poets cannot be translat ed. Who can translate music?" The grace, the sweetness and much of tbe power are bound np inseparably with the poetio form. When the translator begins his operations and "the ordered words fly assunder." well nich all that makes the verse what it is disappears, Tl18 which then lies before him is to Pn' together again, as best he can the ai8Jecw membra poeUe, una to renw , . . . - kuvuu nuvui, x c w w ur - attemPW this task can symjathize who the despairing lament wherewith Shelley accompanies his English version of grand chorus in "Faust." "It is impossi ble to represent in another lanKuacethe melody of versification. Even the volut le strength anddelicacy of the ideas escape in the crucible of translation, and the reader is surprised to find a 'caput mor-. tuum.' " f St. James Gazette. Sod tbe Cheapest Manure. In no wav can mannra ha fnrnisbed SO cheaply as in sod; it simply costs noth ing. With green manuring there is tbe cost of the seed and tho expense of put ting it in. If the entire season is given to it, there is the further loss of a crop, though this is usually overrated, as land that needs green manuring is not in condition to produce a very profitable crop; generally there is loss. Sod not only enriches the land, but improves it n,a;i...iii. T. "' 7: . ' ecn7 i-rniaoii.- " cellent material for, further improve- went, maiunir new soil of it. auoenor w Mta original condition if of inferior qual- ity. As to adaptability of manure to the oil, sod comes as near to perfection u auu comes as any manure that can be applied. IU presence ia the soil hi-h trrnw it is evi dence of this. No testinir is needed ai 1th commercial minnrm where at the lw..t .1 ,, ltti Pnt, though tbirj " - - " a I. WO LjiVUS, UiUUgat By be considerable growth, while sod is all gaiD both In its mechanical ana ;i.-n ' . . -- 'a. eneB. lL commercial, aruc- . I VI J1Mit penent mecbanicaxiy