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EUGENE CITY GUARD LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. T TELEO ATM TO DATE. 0. B. k N. Co.'i stock sold at HO1,' on the lOtb. Northern Belle doolores dividend of CO cents. Bed Wing, Minn., Ud 820,000 fire on the lltli. An tTerage Larvent it expeotod in Cal ifurnu this year. The fund for "Bottj and the Bab?" it now 7,000. B. B. Hayei it to be president of an Ohio bank at Fremont. It is not ret known who will succeed Toller as U. 8. senator. It it expected that the star route trials will soon be called. The nominations ofChandlerand Hunt have been favorably reported. The star route robbers will be forced to stand their trial that's about all. In the star route cases the motion to quash was overruled and the indictment stands. The frost in Ohio on the 11th, it is feared, has been disastrous to the fruit crops. Edward F. Barton has been nominated superintendent of the Han Francisco mint. The loss by burning of the Powell Tool Co.'s forge at Cleveland is $25,000; Lalf insured. The senate bat passed the bill restor ing Csptain Corbin of the nary to the active list. Parnell has been released on parole for one week to attend the funeral of bis sis ter's child. Col. Henry D. Pierce, brother of the late President Pierce, died at Contocook, N. II., on the 11th. George M. Chlllaott bos been ap pointed senator from Colorado in place of BecroUry Teller. McLane has introduced a bill to abro gate the fifth and sixth artiole of the ltnrlingame treaty. The stoamoT Ohio from Bremen to Bal timore, brought l,3.rl immigrants for the northwest on the 10th. Immigration to the United States is likolv to excoed in the next two months anything before known. OHnoral Clinton B. Finite of Missouri, bas bees arrested on a charge of obtain ing $70,000 under false pretonsos. . Mary Booth, a colored girl in Pitts burg, Va., hat confound the poisoning of Mrs. R. O. Gray and Travis Jones. It is understood the cabinet has dis posed of the Porter case and raukos a special communication to cougrcss soon. Rufugees from ths floods in Louisiana are suffering severely. Kroin the bills about York come sud stories of privation. A station master at Moscow, Bnssia, was arrostod on the 11th, for supposed implication in the conspiracy against the ciar. Mothodist preachers of Philadelphia have appointed a committee to draw up a paper expressive of the satisfaction of the l) resellers at the veto of the Chinese bill by the president. Stephen Blukey, a Mormon preacher, while walking along the Missouri railway track, reading a prayer book, was run down and horribly mangled by a pamten gor train. His death was instantaneous. A La Crosse, Wis., dispatch of the 11th says: Two of the Hello Muo explo sion victims died to night. They are Morris Litsono. fireman, and David Mo Coaiminh, clerk. An unidentified body found several miles below the wruek is supposed to bo one of the mimiing. Four people are missing and eight survivors will recover. Some time ago a resolution was Intro duced into the houso by Judgo Belford of Colorado, asking the president to re quest the czar to iutorfero. for protection of his Jewish si bjects from the persecu tion of Ilussiaa mobs. Mr. Belford is in daily reooiptof letters from Jewish citi tens of the United States, asking why nothing Las yet been done in rcferouoe to this resolution, and having made in quiry, hat learned that the state depart ment some time ago forwarded the in structions to the Amorican consuls in ltustia, directing thorn to report whether there was any truth in the stories of out rages ierx)trutod on the Jews. The bouse foreign affairs committee is wait ing to receive this information boforo acting on Mr. Belford's resolution. Judge Belford, of Colorado, wants to open up the Ute reservation in his state for settloinent. He bus some vigorous western ideas on the Indian quontion. According to Mr. Belford, the Indian bus a very good time. He says the troublo with the Indian is that whenever an In dian matter comes up for the members of the house to settle they overlook tue fact that we have in this country 250,000 Indiuns, who occupy Ki,000 square miles of territory, an area equal to England and Ireland, equal to the republic of France, and almost aa large as the Ger man empire, and of this vsst domain the Indians nave not cultivated over 600,000 acres. We allow white men to take 100 acres of land on conditions that lead to their cultivation sooner or later. When we deal with Iudians wo make no such conditions, but we give him a square nr. la where we give the Into man an acre. In my judgment the country was made lor men who aro willing to cum vate it and make its products contribute to the welfare of mankind. A white mas can so otiliio one acre as to promote the bappiuess and comfort of hundred of people. Indians rtvinire from six to ten thousand sen's over which he msy roam in sestvu of game. The problem re- 3uired to 1m solved is, nlmll this land bo e voted to the comfort sud maintemtneo of the men who sie willing to cultivate it, or to a set of savages sho will neither adopt our methods nor accept our civili sation? Looking at all phases of the question there are but two things for Indiuns to do work or starve. No man Las a right to the soil who is not: willing to cultivate it. We appropriate now $5,000,000 to snpjKirt able-bodied Indian pauera. If congress were aked to ap propriate that amount to support the same number of white men there would be a howl. What is the difference be tween an Indian and a white man? that is the only question I hsve to propound At present. James Lansing, who shot and killed Simon Paton at Baerameuto, bad a nar row esoape from being lynched by a mob. Don. W. B. C. Brown, a prominent democrat and leading citizen or Sacra mento died very suddenly at that place on the 12th of aplopiexy. Dr. Herman Sehroodor, recognized an thorify on fruit, ssvs the damage to fruit tnrougnont eentrai xiunoi it mooo greater than generally supposed. A number of saloon keepers at Soneca, Kansas, pluad guilty to selling liquor and were fined $200 and costs. They surrendered their government license. The Clarion bat received a telegram from Btuttiart. stating that King Char- let of Wurtemberjr was converted to Komau Catholioiam and baptized on the 10th by the Pope. Remarkable eold weather continues and damsge to fruit in Kentucky it very great, according to all reports, and vege tation or every sort has been lint back several weeks, except wheat, which ia in very line condition. Mcett, of Poughkeepsie, twice con victed of the murder of bis wife and rtwice sentenced to death, was granted a third trial in the same court. Hit coun sel plead guilty of murder in the second degree and the plea was accepted. Orlando B. Potter, owner of the old World building, recently destroyed by fire in New York, list been sued by the proprietors of the Turf, Field and Farm newspaper, for $50,000 damages bv losses sustained in burning of the build ing. The governing board of Harvard Col lege, voted 13 to 12 that it was not ad visable for the university to give any as surance, or hold out any encouragement that it will nndertake-medical education of women by Harvard college, in its mod- tcal school. t W. A. Horlbnt. president of the Chi cago base ball club of the National Base Ball League, died of heart disease at Chicago on the 11th. He was the moving ' i i . ii)"n l I apini in tue organization oi ioiu,aiiu uaa been president up to last year. Reports received- by the agricultural department np to the 8th shows a very hopeful prosiMct for good crops in the south. There in a general increaso of acreage of win tor and spring wheat and oats, and a slight decrease of cotton. The sawmill, salt block and drill house of Phinne, Fisher k Co. at South Sagi naw was burned on the 13th; loss, $15,- 000; insuranco, $10,000. Two hundred and fifty thousand foot of lumber owned by C. F. Moore, of St. Claire, was also burned; loss, $2500; not insured. During the illumination of Ro common iu honor of the releaso of Parnell, the windows of a house not illumined were smashod, the house of Major Warring attackod and windows broken. Serious rioting ensued, tho military was callod oat and three rioters seriously injured. Four minors from Washington connty write that they have been cast into a dun- Seon at Chihuahua, Mexico, having cn eavored to leave the mine, and say Mex icans fired on the party from ambush, killing two and fatally wounding an other. They complain that the U. S. consul refuses to aid them. After a sealed verdict finding Hawkins and Gibbons guilty of gainbliug in Chi 0 igo had beeu opened another batch of gamblers was put on trial without a jury and tostimouy began. It it the inten tion, of defendauts to let tho remaining cases go by default aud appeal the whole question to the tnprome court. Two of Ohio's membon of the legisla ture have been found guilty of conduct unbecoming members. Tucir names are Win, Block of Cleveland aud Wm. A. Wright of Hocking county. Albert Net- ter and J. D. Watson are charged with the use oi improper means to influence thoir votes. It is a modest way to say they had been bribed. Seorotary Teller enters riimn thedntict of the interior department on the 10th. Important changes are rumored. Critics say that Secretary Lincoln, the only membur of the cabinet appointed by President Gafleld will remain fort short time longer and thon be superseded by some one more in accord with the pres ent administration. Charles Morris, of Lynn, Mass., aftor raising about $70,000 by forgeries, bor rowing aud raising money for sufferers of all kinds, bas disappeared, leaving his wife and children, lho names princi pally nsed in the forgeries were James V. Pike, R. C. Judkius and George H. Harwood, He raised $12,000 for Jud kius, the principal victim of the recent boiler explosion. The senate hot conflrmod S. P. Rounds, public printer; S. C. Wright, veoeivcr of publio moneys at Carson, Nev. The nominations of Win. E. Chandler as sec retary of tho navy and Secretary Hunt, as minister to Russia, wore reported back from the naval and foreign relations com mittees with recommendation for confir mation. The following are nominations: John Robert Graham Pitkin, marshal for the east district of Louisiana, and John F. Gowey, of Ohio, register of the land office at Olyuipia.W. T. John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., bas signified his intention to create a fund of $1,000,000 to be known as tho John F. Slater fund, for the education of freed- men, the fund to be vested iu a board of trustees, which includes ex-President Hayes, Chief Justioe Waito, Wm. P. Dodge of New York, Gov. Colquitt of Georgia, J as. P. Boyce of Kentucky and Wm. A. Slater, the donor's son. Sister explains: The geueral object it urn upuiung oi uegroetaua tneir pos terity by oouferring on them the bless ings of a Christian education. The dis abilities suffered by this people and thoir singular patience aud fidelity iu the great crisis of the nation, established a just rlaini on tho sympathy and good will of humane and patriotic meu. I canuot but feel that companion in due in view of their prevailing ignorance which ex its, becaiitte of no fault of their own. If after thirty-three vears three-quarters of the trustees shall for any reason agree there is no further use for the fund in the form instituted, Slater authorizes them to apply the capital to the new es tablishment, or foundations subsidary to existing institutions of higher education, so as to make them freely accessible to colored students. I'nder the present in st ution of the fund he especially wishes that neither the principal or income be exuded in land or building for any other purpose thin that of a safe and productive in vestment far inoome. ' fUAJCB AS OOMMBJSCa, in rsASenoe, April W. Str)lng aukiaM sa Umdoa tuMl, U Ssjs, M St to, ocaMtwy, M SA Tranafera-adl"''- Dank of EoSlMtd rale of Interna, tH par MCL Maw Toa. Apl H.S!Tltn mbuit, prlaae tanker. Ion. M ehuet, U to. Ouod eomaw Mil. froaj 1H kei Sneuraanurr, V4)l H' lower. BUrer bulllua.IKO Pr suae. 114. U. B. Bod- HSi: e lJUIt. LnsDoa, April le.-Oooeule, lol 1LU uwtuj; 1S-1S account. 0,1,. kde-hji.W)t. ua ratameoo mum, Beeelpte-Wlieel. H tU( Soar, 1600 ska; OaU, 7.) ctla; poUluee. 190 aba; M.UUU dui. Wheat The null ! fiTunblj affected by Llvar paol advlrea. Selltra ara raJalnK I heir pntaoalxM Auou aalM IbU rimuooa wan 'i&U tool cbolc will ID at 11 S'JH. Tbrra wara itlea oo "call" K day. No. I ablpviuf Srm at II SO. Barley-No. iM, II St bid, tpot, tl HM sakad. Bala of M tuuaalll IK.Joly. Uata Mrtr( la atrong and qaoUl.ly blgbrr. Cb ilr, tl SIH Mil, apol, 11 On aakrd. frlvaU aalaa UU aai-ka food Urcguu at 1 M; SUM) aarka lair St 1 1frl SJ. V tUu-M.rkft la firm with s fair Inquiry. Oram b.K i'ab-ultaa. it Takad, ft) bid, July. Hr.u soul at 111 "H. aallrr, tba ;wi, llilit-rr -b-i.ia paiknl, 'Iia)'iS)tr; frAh roll, chuica lu itr cbolca, 'i" lt'i tc. Tbara la rl li l drni'U'l fr-'ai Jobbara lor packing. lu lrb Calllurula, lVllte;Ort-ou, 1T(IHC. TIj uiarkM la well Uilld IJ.ajM Ibra la lair inquiry, bnl faw talra. K ll.ra ara 0'ii diapoard lo Kraut fvrcl"D da lnaiiilxl, Mtctrnt aalra aojbrw-a ICO baUa loft-nor WaaMiiiitua at HS". Tbra la a ainall drntacd for Auairalla wllb procta of larger dauiaod f row Ibat aa lloB id tba nar lulura. prird frull'lbtra la moradamand from buyrra, moally lu applra. So aiiga to nuta In UuUtioua. lartUBd rraalaM rrlaea. fLOt:B-trdarl braixla S M; couutry. JV I MM iiprrana, 13 toiai It. OATS-Wa57)o prrbnabal. a BAMLEV tl tol par rauul. HAY Kalad UmutLy. f I'lU too. MILL I tKU Vunuliona : aliildllnrt t'i pHlli; horta. rhojrfrnl I-Hy i4: brau IIS. CI KEU MtATrt-llania. OrK"0 anifar tund U 14o; aaataru 17ilW; batsa, l<tc abuuldrra 10 tfllr. LAHO QnoUtlooa ara !4iH)ao la k'Ri; 115 In Una. anill.V,lf In palU. UHIKD AffLKS Sua dried, 7c; Plamiuar dried D111K0 PLUas Wlta pita, Sc; pitleaa 11 JIM (or eun drlad: 12H'Sl3e f.r niacbin pliuua. 110PS-iaISc. UIOKH UuotaUoaa ara 15 for Srat-claaa dry. 7)i8)io lor green; culla, H 09. Bbeep prlts S0c(e) 11 BUTTER Fancy JTH: suod to choir. M Hb) IV i fair, In bulk, 'JuuMc: lu bnua, J7H. ONIOKS Quotation II 00 jt U ell. ElXIH-lar. CUKESE-Bf. family. HlSa. AHPI.KH-Pfr l.l, ii. TIMOTHY BKKI) Pr th. 8e. CHICKENS Dm, li4 60: email and ninllam, 3Mk4 per dot. BALHON Colombia river. bbl, llDjlll; bf bbl, tS brlllea. bf bbl. 113. POTATOES Oarnet Chile, 60c, perboehel- Peer leaa or rbolca white varirtlre, ton per buebel. CEHENT-Koeendale, bbl. 14 UU, rortlaud, V bbl 1 604 75. HHUiULES Bbarea, S3 BUgl 70 par 11. AS aula. BEKKiaa Ho W IS groaa. Pi)HK-s-w7r. net7VS. Vn'TON-SHc.irroaa. VKAL-6-t7.i liters and the Ureut Question. Let nt supposi that the lady has been out dnrinu tho evening before to a party. The gentleman might tsy that she looks fatigued. On her repining that this was a foolish thought, he will get an oppor tunity of Baying: "Not foolish, Emily; I feel too much intorest in you to permit my own wishes to run counter to your welfare. Ibis Is properly callod the mnguitloent style of beginning. But very often tho young lady is considerate enough to assist bor bashful lover. For instance, there was once a timid fellow who was fond cf borrowing John Tbca nix's jokes; when she asked him how ho felt, he avenged himself according to the Phconix plan of being very definite, and said that he felt "about 88 per cent." "Indeed," he Buid, with a do mure look; "are you nover going to par?" Aud she got in her work that evening. Another young man was saying, ns bo scratched a lucifer ou tho side of the houso: "I like theso houses with sanded paint; nice whon vou want to strike a match, you know." "Is that so?" slie asked demurely; "I wish I lived in a bouse with sanded paint," and then sho looked things unutterable. If ho bad asked "What for?" she would have hated bim. But ho didn't, lie took the hint, and tho match was struck thon and there. This method of "giving a hint" has been put poetically in this way: Young Kred. a bashful yet peralatlng twain. Wet Tory much lu love with Mary Jane. One uliht ilia lold him lu her tenoVruct lone, "it la uot guod lor niau to be alouB." Raid rrviJ: "Jiulio. ynu tuy darHi g Ultleelf; 1' ? a olten thoimbt of tba,t aame thtug rnvtrK." Than aald tba Wei, while Fred all arrg; "You ought lu buy joutaoK a terrier dog. What may be callod a physiological proposal is illustrated by the ease oi Miss Mary Flynu and Mr. Budd. The young lady was studying medicine, and Mr. ltudd was courtinir her. Due evening. while they woro sitting in the parlor.Mr. liudd was thinking how he should pro poso, and Miss 1'lvnn was explaining certain physiological facts for bim. "Do you know, she said, "that thou sands of pooplo are actually ignorant that they smell with their olfactory ped uncle?" "Millions of 'om." replied Mr. Budd. "And Aunt Mary wouldn't believe me when I told ber she eouldn t wink with out a sphincter muscle I" "How unreasonable I" "Why, a person cannot kiss without a spinoter! "Indeed?" "I know it is sol" "Msy I try if I can?" "Oh, Mr. Budd, it is too bad of you to make liubt of such a subject. Then lie tried it, and while be held bor band she explained to bim about the muscles of that portion of tho human body. "Willie," whispored Mist Flynu, very iaintiv. "W'hat, darling?" "I cau hear your heart beat." "It beats only for you, my angel." "And it sounds out of order. Tho ventricular contraction is not uniform." "Small wonder for that when it's burstiug for joy." "Vou muxt put yourself under treat ment. I will give you some medicine." "It's your own property, durling; do wimt you pieoso wna it. To Per Back a Cold. So soon aa you feel that you are taking a cold- -and you will ccncrslly have notice before It amouuts to mncb place your feet into water made as warm as you can bear, and keep them there about ten minutes. Change , them, then, into a vessel con taining cold water if icewater all the bettor and bold theiu iuto it about one minute; after which wipe dry and pnt on warm stockings. This treatment will never fail to put back a cold, as I can testify from having practiced it success fully in my family for over three years. The feet seem to govern a eold, and this bathing them first in warm water and il.- l.,.. Ikm .11 . fl, effect of which is soon felt throughout tba entire system. J. Parish Stelle. Isboont. They resemble dogt in tba general form and the length of the faoa or snout, bnt they bava bands with well-develepea thumbs on both the fore and hind limbs. and this, with something in the ex pression of the face and their babit of sitting up and using their bands in a very tinman fashion, at once aaows mat they belong to the monkey tribe. Many of them are very ngly, and ia their wild state they are the fiercest and most dan gerous of monkeys. Borne bava the tail very long, others of medium length, while it ia sometimes reduced to a mere stump, and all hsve large cheek pouebee and bare seat-pads. Tbey are found all over Africa, from Egyjt to the Cape of Good Hope, while one tpeciet, called the bamodryas, extendi from Abyssinia acroM the Bed Sea into Arabia, and it the only baboon found out of Africa. Thia aptciea was known to the ancients, and it is often rep resented in Egyptian sculptures, while mummies of it have been found in the catsoombs. The largest and most re- markablo of all the baboons it the man drill of West Africa, whose swollen and hoc-like face ia ornamented with ttripet of vivid blue and scarlet. Thia animal bat a tail scarcely two inchet long, while in size and streneth it is not much in ferior to the gorilla. These largo baboons go in bsnds, and are said to be a match for any other animal in the Af rican forests, and even to attack and drive away the elephants from the dis tricts they inhabit. Turning now to Asia, we have first one of the best known of the large man-like apes the orang-outang, found only in the two large islands Borneo and Sumatra. The name is Malay, signifying "man of the woods," and it should be pronounoed orang- ootan, the accent being on the first sylla ble of both words. It is a very enrions circumstance that where as the gorilla and chimpanzee are both black, like the negroes of the same country, the orang-outang is red or reddish brown, closely resem bling tho color of the Malays and Dyaka who live in the Bornean forests. Though very larco and powerful it is a harmless creature, feeding on fruit and never at tacking any other animal except in self defense. A full-grown ourang-outang ia rather more than four foot nign, witn a body as large at that of a ttout man and with enormously long and powerful arms. Another group of true apes inhabit Asia and the larger Asiatic islands, and are in some rospectt the most remarkable of the whole family. These are the gib bons, or long-armed apes, which are generally of small size and of gentle dis position, but possessing the most won derful agility. In these creatures the arms are as long as the body and legs together, and aro so powerful that a gib bon will hang for hours suspended from a branch, or swing to and fro and then throw itself a great distance through tho air. The arms, in fact, completely take the place of the legs for traveling, instead oi jumping irom bough to bough and running on the branches, like other apes and monkeys, the gibbons move along while hanging suspended in the air, stretching their armv from bough to bough, and thus going hand over hand as a very active sailor will climb along a rope. The strength of their arms is, however, so prodigious, and their bold so suro, that they often loose one hand beforo tbey have cuught a bough with the other, thus seeming almost to fly through the sir by a series of swinging leaps; and they travel among the network of inter luuiug boughs a hundred feet above the earth with as much euse aud cer tainty us we walk or run upon level ground, and with even greater speed. These little animals scarcely ever come down to tho ground of their own ac cord, but when obliged to do so they run along almost erect, and with their Iouk arms swinging round and round, as if trying to find some tree or other object to climb upon. They are the only apes who naturally walk without using their hands as well as their feet, but this does not make them more like men, for it is evident that the attitude is not an easy ono and is only adopted because the arms aro nsnd to swing by, and are therefore naturally held upward instead of downward, as they must be when walking on them. Contemporary Review. , After Long Tears. The particulars of a case wherein fic tion is discounted have recently oomo to light. A romance in real life, in which the first act was played nearly fifty years ago, has just been brought to a happy termination by the union forever of two fond hearts, which a cruel fate had sepa rated by a disUnco of 1500 miles for half a ceutury, lacking two years. Forty eight years ago Johu Saunders, one of the wealthiest cattle kings of Montana, who was then a pjor youth, with nothing to rocouinieud him but a spotless reputa tion, a brave heart, and a love for the beautiful and pure, became enamored of a Kentucky belle, whose father was a rich man. His tenderness was recipro cated, but the parent of the young lady refused to consent to the marriage, and was iuexorable. Young Saunders was powerless to change the old man's mind, and was too honorable to press his suit in a household where his presenco was unwelcome. Ho, therefore, sought an interview with tho girl'a parent, who for the tweuty-third and last time told him to abandon all hope of marriage as fur as his daughter was concerned, as the difference in their social position was an insurmountable barrier. "How much are you worth?" asked the young lover. "I could trausfer my property into a million dollars cash," was the haughty reply. "Very well;" answered young Saun ders, "to-morrow morning I leave for the West to carve out a fortune, and when I can site up to your million dol lars I will return and cluiui tuy bride, for I know she will be true." The young man kept his promise after a long and gainful interview with his in amorata, and with a small outfit struck out bravely for the Western Territories. Since that time forty-eight years have elapsed, during which, with varying sui--cox, be has dip)xsl iuto numerous enter prises from the Brisish line to Sonera, lie came to Montana in the early aV and embarked in the cattle bnsicesjwith a firm of Helena, with such remarkable success that the firm now own nearly liW.WU head on the Teton. About a month ago, Sanndert figured up bit aaseU, concluded be was worth a cool million, and immediately left for Ken tucky. He found the love of bit young dayt waiting for bim. confident and hopeful of bit final arrival. The two were married with as little ceremony at possible, and expect to be tufflciently Lappy for the remainder of their lives to compensate tnem tor ioug j " .""c" j-. j . ..nMti'nn Thnr arrive in aeierreu uu boi'i"--. - - - - Butte this evening and take rooms at the St. Nioholas, and, after a short visit, will proceed to tteir new home in the Teton valley, where the groom it greatly re-spected.-l Butte, M. T., Inter-Moun- lain. i A Siamese Jomto.w According to the Indian Herald, the whole Siamese nation has been plungod into mourning through the untimely loss of one of the royal white elephants, whose official designation it appears, was "His Sublime Grandeur, the Court and Body Elephant of the King." "We regret," aayt this authority, "to learn that the animal departed thit life in a highly aensational manner fraught with irreparable disaster to the staff of bis household. One morning.after a hearty breakfast, he went mad quite unexpect edly, and trampled five of his attendants to death. To shoot him would have been a sacrilege. An attempt to tran quilize his pertnrbed spirit by encircling him with a huge ring of holy bamboo, specially blessed by the high priest of bis own particular temple, proved worse than ineffectual, for he broke through the ring and ail bnt terminated the high priest's career npon the spot.- He was then with great difficulty, driven into a close court of the palace, where, after several furious endeavera to batter down tho wans witu his tusks, he suddenly toppled over on hit side and uttered a last cry of rage. Naturally enough this' heavy calamity was attributed to criminal carelessness on the part of ona or other of the attend ants intrusted with the sacrod elephant's feeding. The King, therefore, interro gated the members of hit Sublime Grandeur's household in person with respect to their treatment of the illus trious deceased, and, failing to elicit any individual confossion of delinquency, agreed that tbey should one and all be punished. Having thus vindicated pro priety, hit Majesty assumed the garb of woe, and is understood to be still incon solate for bis loss." "Old M" Honteilck. Old Si was around early this morning to put oil in the lamps and empty the spring poetry out of the waste basket. Suddenly be remarked: "I go'., awful homesick dis niornin' do fust time sence I bin down hyarl" "What made you feel so?" "Only dat I run acrost de fust Georgy mule dut I'bo seed in Fluridy! He wuz er thurrerbred, too, on' hadn't got 'cli mated yit!" "What was he doing bo extraor dinary?" "He warn't doin nuffin dat wuz 'strod inary fur cr Georgy aiule.but bit 'paired like er earthquake had sot down in do eao,' n Fersyth street in front of dat f ta ble." "Did they have much trouble with' him?" "Well, dey look'd like dey warntid ter had sum 'schusshun wid him, but not eoein' no Georgy nigger in do gong be jes took do hV on his own noshun. By de time be dubbled up one darky like do letter V an flung anuddur ober a read 'spress waggin dcre didn't seem no mo' d'siro fer ter interfere wid de sy clone!" "Did he finally get away from the crowd.' "Well, dut's de mos' uselessuess quench iu what you ever axed mo! I tho't you kno'd dut er Georgy mulo wuz like er nigger pollytishun when he kant hab his own way no udder way he jees ra s up befo an kicks np behine, an foro yer kin t.ell which end ob m is in do air dere ain't nufiin lef in Bight but a cloud ob dus' way down de big rode!" Which idea so tiukled the old man that ho forgot his homesickness and west out whistling gayly. Jacksonville (Ha.) limes. Wonderful Hbads op Hair. Cor tainlv our ladv readers will be intrarsted to know something of two damsels who have heads of hair of nnparalloled length and beauty. The first is Miss Ida Terry of Chicopee rails, Mass., whoso hair is said to trail for half a yard along the floor. But the Rochester Express claims that Miss Hattio A. Miller of No. 171 North street in that city, surpassed Miss Terry. Miss Miller is five foet four inches in height, and in all respects pro possessing. Sho kindly consented to take down her hair in the presence of the newspaper man. It seemed to fairly encompass her as she stood erect, and allowed it to flow gracefully over ber shoulders and along the floor. It has grown surprisingly even in length, and from the scalp to the end of the hair measures exactly six feet,' six inches, thus allowing of a trail fourteen inches in length. Although such an abundant growth would be supposed to give its wearer more or less inconvenience, yet Miss Miller states that she neither suffers headache from it nor is she obliged to bestow unnecessary time in dressing it. Sortino Wool. Every wool grower should know enough to be his own sorter. It is no more intricate than many other things the farmer bos to do. At shearing time the tlceco can be di vided us follows: Take that from the legs, thighs aud top of the head and put in suck No. 8; from under side and neck in sack No. 2; from shoulders and neck in ck No. 1. If the lloece was an un even staple, coarse and fine, long and short, it would require more sacks, each one being marked so that the kind and qnnlity cn be shown. The writer is of the opiuion that several farmers in every viciuity could combino together anil mske some cheap structure, that would afford all the uwensary appliances for scouring and drying wool, doiug the work themselves or employing some ex pert to do it for them. Not all the ad vantages that accrue from scouring wool is the marketing thereof. It ooeta as much to pay transportation on pound of dirt and oil as on a pound of wool, and then the oil is worth something for fer tilizing purposes. Michigan Grange Visitor. THOMPSON, DeHABT & CO. Iron & Steel MERCHANTS AMD SEALERS IN Shelf and Heavy Hardware, BLACKSMITHS' TOOLS. Farmers' and Mechanics' Supplies, WAGON AND CARRIAGE WOOD HTOCK, CARRIAGE iiakd wake,. txoIicATUE TRIMMINGS AlVVITt. VIMBw, aaamaaBBaaaBamaamBBmaaBBBamaamaBamaj riles, Twist Drills, Hammers, Sledgex, TongH, Stocks and Vies, Korway and Refined Iron, Horse Shoes, and Jialls, Cumberland Coal, CIIAIWS, CORDAGE Of ALL KIXIM. 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