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EUGENE CITY GUARb LATEST NE1Y8 SUMMARY. Mr TI.LLOBAPII TO DATS. The cornnrBtone of Garflold Memorial church at Washington, will be laid July 2d. A Little Rock special telegram received at ChicftRO on the 20th ayn: Daring a fight between oowboyt and Indiana on the border of Indian territory, four of the former were killed. Col. Alexander Polk, of Howard Co., Lad employed aome cowboys to drive a herd of 2000 cattle to Colorado. The boys were herd ing the stock in the Nation, cn route for theii destination, and were ordered to remove the stock, but failed or refused to do bo when the fight ensued. Mrs. Dnnmire, Oaitean's divorcod wife, writes to the Leadville Eveuing Chronicle in reply to an article baited on letter alleged to have been written by her to C. II. Reed, counsel for the assas sin, authorizing the una of her name in the petition for his pardon, in which die repudiates th letter and adds: "With reference to my Booking a pardon for Uuiteau, I have never entertained the thought. As I am still in possession of n average degree of common sense and ordinary intelligence, I could not reason ably or honestly entertain such an idea." George Q. Cannon, the recently de pored delegate from Utah, passed through Omaha on the l'Jth homeward bound, lie is disgusted with the result of his season's work and will remain in Utah the rest of the summer. In regard to the Utah commission he said they knew but very little of any of them except Paddock and Ramsey, who be had known at Washington. The others were men of no particular reputation and their ao tion could not even be surmised. Mr. Cannon also mentioned the subject of the move on the part of his territory for admission as a state and said even if the request was refused it would indicate that the people of Utah were alive to their rights. The number killod by the Iowa oyolone recently is not loss than 100. In Burlington only rain and hail full, but a mile south of the city the hurricane blew down barns, houses and orchards, and destroyed a largo amount of proporty, but no one is repotted killed. The eloo trical display was remarkable. The sky was aglow constantly for two hours. At Mount 1'leusant, 28 miles west of here, the hurricane was very destructive. The two storms mot over the town at 11:110, and accompanioil by rain and hail, broke in fearful fury, demolishing entirely the Baptist church which oost 25,000; lilt ing the spire from the Presbyterian church high in the air, and inverting it; the point struck the sidewalk in front of the church and wai driven into the ground many feet. Tower and roofs of all churches in the plaoo were unroofed and otherwise damaged, and the park in the public square ililod with tiu roofing rolled into bunches liko wads of papor. The rain damaged much merchundiso, and lasted but 40 minutes. Three hun dred dwellings are unroofed and dam aged. Not a single chimney is left stand ing and thousands of trees are twistod off. In Mt. l'lvasunt the damage is about $150,000. A circular just ixsuod to the stock holders of the Northern I'aoiAu Railroad Company sets forth the desirability of extending the company's systoin of con structing brunches end the inability of the company to undertake the work. The branches, thereforo, are to bo built by the Oregon and Trans-ooutinental Com pany, under the direction of the railroad oompauy. The stock of tho branohus so constructed is to be held in trust for the Northern I'ucillo Railroad, bo that it shall exercise all the right of ownership, and they are to be operated by it uuder trutllo contracts, tho minimum guarantoo being $U,000 per mile, equal to six per cent, on a boudod iudebtodness of $2000 per mile and a siukiug fund of one. pur cent. The Northern Pacini) is not, to become liablo for this guarantee for two years after tho completion and acceptance of tho branch roads. Tlio Oregon and Trans-continental is to provide tho means for building these branches by placing in trust with tho Farmers' Loan and Trust Company the bonds of the several branch roads at tho rate of 20,000 pur uiilo aud iMHuing therefor its own forty year six per cent, gold bond. These bonds are offered to the Northern Paoitlo stockholders of record June 12 pro rata at ninety and interest. The brunches to be built aggregate about six hundred milot of road in Minnesota, Dakota and Washingtou territory. The steamer Ksoambia sailed from Ran Francisco wheat laden on the l'.tth, bound for Bt. Vincent, Portugal. Wlieu about five miles off tho heads, tho vuhscI cap sized and sank. The captain and steve dores who stores the vessel furnish tho following information: Owing to the empty condition of the water ballast tanks aud to coal carried on deck, tho ship was cranky. On getting outside sho encountered a heavy sea, one of tho journals became hoaU-d, aud the engines were stopped. The ship loaiug headway fell off into thq trough of tho sea and a wave boarded her, throwing her ou her beam ends. All hands rushed on deck and water licgan to pour in through the skylights ml hatch-M on deck. 0iug to the dangerous position of the ship no one would go below to start the engines and get her head to sea Hg tiu, and sho nlbd rapidly and sauk. The captain, engineer and seven others got into ouo boat and uino uieu took a life boat. The latter bout was full of water and had uo oars. The raptaiu supposed that tho re mainder of the crew, eleven in number, went down with the ship. The captain's boatj pulled around in durknea until about 1 A. M., wliou the attempt was made to land ou Ocean beach. The bout swamped, and only four of its occupants succeeded iu reaching land. Next morn ing search was made along the beach for the bodies of other oocu pants of the boat, but no trace of them found. The reveuue cutter Richard Rush is now out looking for the life boat. The Escambia lad on board a cargo of wheat valued at 890,000, fully insured. The ship is be lieved to be insured in Liverpool. It is stated that it is customary to empty water tanks on loading, and as coal is used np, to fill the Uuks to preserve sta bility. Tho general impression is that the disaster was due to piling coal ou deck. Fire in the Diamond mine at Wilkes barre, Pa., is now under control. Editor Cowles of the Cleveland Leader wrs found guilty of technical assault on Father Hauck, Bishop Oilmonr'a sooro tary, and paid costs. Two children of Joe Snyder, of New Albany. Ind., were fatally injured on the 21st by an explosion of wet gunpow der, which Snyder placed near the tire to dry. A dispatch from Bradford of the 21st says: Lightning struck two tanks of oil of 05,000 barrels capacity, to-day, and set them on lire; 65 others are now in danger. Politioal pressure is being brought to bear on Gov. Cornell of New York to in duce him to refrain from signing the Elevatod railroad tux bill. It is thought, however, it will become a law. Tho Hchooner St. George, which left Port Townsend with lumber and shingles for Kan Francisco on the 1st of February wus cast ashore, bottom up on Bhouf water boy on the 13th iust. All hands are supposed to be lost. The London Times says the lord lieu tenant of Ireland and his subordinates, after careful investigation, are convinced that crime in Ireland is not sporadic, but its machinery is deliberately set in mo tion through organized agencies com manding largo resources and obeying impulse of foreign origin. Tho fire at Diamond mine is confined to a large pillar of coal, 000 feet from the face of the gangway. If it can be kept bock of that it can be extinguished in ten days. On the 21st a strong explo sion occurrod snd wss felt at the surface. It is reportod a great quantity of gas has accumulated in the workings and fears are entertainod it may explode More men left the union and went to work on the 21st at Cleveland rolling mills. The number of strikers resuming placet is small, but company oflioers re port that applications are made daily and that skilled workmen from other cities, presumably strikors, aro arriving; whilo a few men from here have gone elsewhere seeking employment. The lord mayor of London has a tele gram from Dr. Mackee, consular surgoon at Alexandria, stating that a thousand poor Christian families are fleeing from Egypt. He says they are leaving all their possessions and are destitute, and asks the lord mayor to organize a fund for their reliof. Another dispatch says natives talk of quitting the country. Next year's crops are ruinod and it is difficult to soe what can prevent a fain, ine. Tho now pooling passenger arrange ments botween Chicago and southwestern points, went into effect on tho 20th. It is freely predicted the arrangement will be broken soon, because the through rates from New York to Kansas City, which have boon 25, via Chicago und via Ht. Louis 28 05, will under tho present plan be 23 GO via Chicago and ouly21 05 via tit. Louis. This is a greater discrimination in favor of St. Louis than tho Kt. Louis roads ever claimed. Chiqngo roads are likely to object. A Des Moines dispatch of tho 21st says: Probablo fifty of the wounded by tho re cent storm were fatally hurt. Over 300 families have had their houses totally destroyed, and there are at least 1300 homeless and in want. The loss in prop erty will exceed 2.000,000, and may reach 3,000,000. In Grinnoll alone over 100,000 in property was destroyed, on none of which was a eont of insur ance, as in the case of fires. It will take at least 3C0,O00 to put people there bo yond need and distress, and it will tako 100,000 at once to put wounded peoplo in a condition to be cared for. It will take 100,000,000 at the lowest to keep sufferers from want aud help them put tho humblest of roofs over their heads. Tho pooplo of Des Moiuos and Iowa aro responding generously. Citizens of this city have subscribed 8000 this morning and will make it 20,000 before night, iu money, and uro also sending provisions and clothing besides. The following appeal for aid for tho Iowa sullerors is furnished the associated press: To tho public: After two days und nights spout iu traversing the track of the tornado, aud having reports from scores of reporters sent to all parts of it, I find the uoudilioii of the stiickeu peoplo so piteous and needful of instant and generous help, that I send this appeal to tiooplo in tho United States iu their be uilf. The tornado mado a swath of de struction through a thickly settled por tion of Iowa, some 150 miles in length and about one aud a half miles in width, extending from a point south of Ames io tho center of'tbe state, and swept in the shape of a crescent to South English, in Keokuk oountv. in the southeastern part of tho state. vVo have names now of 00 dead and 500 wounded, half o' the latter pitiable aud helpless. All that tho peo ple of Iowa can do will be dono to allevi ate tho condition and repair in part the losses of sufferers, but it will take $1,000, 000. Childrcu with both paivuts killed were left maimed aud wouuded them selves. Every condition of woe exists that most tenderly appeals to the pity of hit man hearts. The wouuds inflicted by the debris that filled tho air (ike chaos, by the electric bulls of fire, that seemed to traverse every inch of space and that exploded with a fearfully fatal effect, will, many of them, defy all skill and uursiug. The storm took up in its great spiral or funnel houses a thousand feet high, aud took up and carried large llocks of cattle through tho air for thous ands of feet und dashed them down dead ii: haps. Many tliousiunls of cattle, horses, hogs and other uutuials now lie in tho track of the tornado. It will take the help of every humane city and towu in the west, aud every liberal city and town in the vast, to put comfort and safi'ty between these stricken people aud further suffering and fatality, llriunell i a town of Now England people, thrifty and intelligent, w ith the lowest rate of crime ami illiteracy iu tho state, and the highest rate of intelligence and morality. Tho moliH'h of the air has killed 50 of their people, destroyed ltk) of their housts, inamed aud mutilated -H1 moro of its eode, many cf whom will soon die and ail of whom must be cared for for mouths, and w iped out totally nearly half a million dollars of uninsured prop erty. Iowa college has had all its build ings destroyed, its four hundred student are bonieleoa, aud has suffered a loss of 75,000 in uninsured property. The condition of other towns and farming communities is fully as bad. FINANCS AND OOMMKIMC But lOAjiaaoo, June i.-mrljng nctw London haulers. WJ dsjs, M Wsj; do Oocuaiw'1?! I St. Trsuafen-Psrto JH. lluk of Kuglsnd rsu of Interest. I per eeol. tiiw Yokk. Jan 'J. HMrllug wnsugs, prim DuU', long, 4 ST; abort, U HUH. Ouud fnv niUl. (rum l&o lows? i ducuaiMitirf 'ital he lower. Mirer bullion. l'OO An, per One ounr. Mx V. 8.Bonde -SMt. 10u;ja, 114H. M Lomjon, Juno U s'oueola, Vi ll-K "'? Ill-Ill .count. Hllr.r bullion, EutflUh iUudird, S2S flo, per bo ounce, 61 . Usld nasi tak Krnorte. sis rssscisoo habiem. Ra F-usruoo, June M. Receipts-Wheat, SS.OflO clli, Including "".W0 board ship; flour, 3S0U l( tU; potatoes, I : ik. la.uio doi. W beat-There la tery Utile demand foranrpur poee; prices uualtered. Uarlry The market If trtln for futures but undertone li weak; nit of Mo. 2 feed, June, $ I 1'iH: No. 1 fffd.July.il 'J. Oats Offerings ire larger Mian lb demand; pil ra declining; No. 'I, Juno, told t II ft from wherl ; N. 1 Oregon offered ll $1 Mt, seller leu dejrs. futttofi-Eirlr lto, 7111; Utruel Clillei the iiii; nffirlnga are liberal. Oralo bags-JIsrket la Inn-tire: standard a' i quuled al fa 10" u 'ju June Mid IV Ha9 'JHH July. FrovlaiMiie The market la bardljr troutf, but ll devlili'dljr firm with a buoyant tendency. Priors would aiivauce nnder leaa sctlva competition auioaii ai'llera. Haiua, eaatero aui(ar cured, cbolre to lane, 17'olSr.. Ua.ou. Oala llKbt.loie)t!. Lard,eaMeru refined, 3 to III Iba, 15V '"". Wool-Market la dull will) next to nothing uolnu. Nn cbanse to note. KxKe Steady, unchanged. Duller Prltea aud general feature! of the market nucbeuired. Salmon The Inulewood takea 1100 caaea to Liver pool and the Australian ateaiuer takea 1WW iua. I'rlrea unchanged. illdea Drr, naual aelerfiou, l'Jui market ntifavor bly affected b eeatern advice. farllanS Prudueo Trlece. FLOUtt Standard branda S3 00: country. N 104 4 T: uperflue, 13 73. OATH-tOxprM per buabel. BAHLEY 1 aHiJ per cental. HA Y buleti timothy. Sill tIS V ton. CI ltKI) MDATH-Haroe, Oregon augar cured Mft lt: uuteru 17ilc. bacon, ildc; sbouldera IU (pile. LARD Quotations are lftSISo In kegs; H1J In Una, andlfkmlHc In palls. DIIIK1) APPLES Hun dried, 7c; Plummer dried tfaVJ'M-. OlllKD PI.tlMS-Witb pits, Sc.; pltless 9$!0; for fun dried: UdjiMo fur uisjchine plums. HOI'ri-Jllc. nUTTEIt Fanrv 3Vm27)c: good to cbolee, 30 (air, litolsc. iu bulk. 'MW'l?: tu urine, JVttTHe. O.NIIiNS Quotation 1 23 V ell. EOOS-'JOc. CIUCKE.NS-Perdos, II 30(aj3: aniul sad medium, (3 rAa,. Dl'L'KS-I'erdoj, 7fiS. POTATDKS OsrnettJblll. KftYitfiOc, per bunhel. HUINULKS-Pcr H, 12 73(i3 00. MEATltt tir.v.r-atwHe v m gmaa. l'ul(K-tlia7i-. net7S"vrf. MIITTON-'iiJHo. gruas. VEAL its.'. Dust on lour Ulusscs. I don't often put on my glasses to ex amine Katy's work; but ono morning, not long since, I did so upon entering a room she had been sweeping. ''Did you forgot to open tho windows when you swept, Katy?" I inquired; "this room is very dusty." "I thiuk there is dust on your eye glasses, mamma," she said modestly. Aud sure unough, the eye-glasses were at fault, and not Katy. I rubbed them off, and everything looked bright und eleun, tho carpet liko new, aud Katy's face said, "I am glad it was tho glasses, and not me this time." Tout taught mo a good lesson, I said to myself, upon leaving the room, and one I shull remember through life. In the evening Katy came to me with iiome kitchen trouble. Tho cook had dono so-and-so, and sho had said so and so. When her story was finished, I said, smilingly, "Thero is dust on your glasses, Katy, rub them oil', aud you will seo hotter." Sho understood me und left the room. I told the incident to tho children, and it is quito common to hear them say to each other. "Oh, there is dust mt your glasses." Sometimes I am referred to. "Mamma, Harry lias dust on his glasses; can't ho rub it off.'" When I hear a person oriticiuing an other, condemning, perhaps, a course of action he knows nothing about, drawing inferenoos prejudicial to the person or persons, I think, "Thero's dust on your glasses; rub it off." The truth is, every body wear theee very same glasses. I said to John ono day, some little matter comiug up that called forth tho remark, "There are some peoplo I wish would begin to rub, then," said ho. "There is Mr. So and So, and Mrs. So-and-So, they aro always ready to pick at some one, to slur, to hint; I don t know, I don't like them." "I think my son John has a wee bit on his glasses just now." He laughed and asked, "What is a boy to do?" "Keep your own well nibbed up, and you w ill not know whether others uoedit not." "I will," ho replied. I think, as a family, wo are all profit ing by that little incident, and through life will never forget the meaning of "Thero is dust on your glasses." Turnluif .Hcgroes YTb.t. A Cincinnati physician, ouo Pr. Quirell, has discovered a drug which turns the negro's skin white. The dis covery, according to the editor of tho Sf Louis Tost dispatch, was accidoutal. He was treating a dark mulatto woman for a tumor, aud shortly after beginning the treatment white patches appeared on her skin. As sho took more of the drug the patches increased in size, and at tho present time more than ouo half of her person is white. She has been taking tho medicine for three years. The color of tho altered epidermis i a warm whih, undistiugnishable from the ordinary Caucasian hue. It will take but a couple of years more to transform the woman ipto a pure white female. Thinking that there might be something peculiar in the wo man's case which affected the ekin, Dr. Quire!! has experimented ou a negro boy who camo to him for treatment for a disease which permitted the use of the same drug. Shortly after it was admin istered the white blotches began to ap pear on his skin. Dr. Quirell declines to tell the name of his drug as yet, as he has not completed his investigations, but he believes that he holds in his hands the sponge that will wipe out tho color hue entirely. Now that science has taken up the problem it will bo alto gether impossible to tell whether a new acquaintance is a whito man or a galvan ized darkey. French astronomers are preparing to observe the forthcoming transit of Venna and are seeking proficiency by practicing on a dummy reoresenting that planet crossing the sun's disk. The Competent Customer. 'Is the gentleman who knows every thing in?" stammered a vision of golden hair and sea-bine eyes, as she stood tim idly beside the managing editor's desk one afternoon. "Evervthing about what?" asked tho editor, clawing around under his desk for his shoes and trying to bide his stocking foet under him. "Upon which particular branch do you seek for infor mation?" "I don't exactly know what to do," pouted the strswberry lips. "Pa says I cad only have one dress this spring, snd I don't know how to make it up. I thought the gentleman who answers questions could tell me." "H'm!" muttered the managing editor, "lie has gone up in Maine to find out why cheese always walk in single file. An 'Anxiour Inquirer' wants to know. What kind of a dress had you thought of getting?" "That's what I want to know. I want something that will look well with terra cotta gloves." "Yes, yes," murmured the editor. "Then you should get one of these green things' with beads that tnrn all kinds of colors, and some fringe and fix ings of that kind." "Would you have it out princess or wear it with a polonaise?" she inquired, looking si him searchingly. "You you might have it princess around the neck and a row of polonaises t the bottom," suggested the editor. "That's snintt to be very fasbionable.and a couple of hip-pockets would set it off royal ly. "I don't know,"murmured the beauty. "I haven't seen any of that stylo. Do you know whether panniers are worn bouffant this season, or whether the skirt is light?" Oh, certainly!" replied the editor. "Tkey are made with all the bouffants you can get on Vra. Some have even sixtien button bouffants, and there was a lady in here yesterday who had a pannier that came clean up to her neck. I shou'd have it pretty bouffant if it was my tVess." "Well," stammered the blushing blos som, "would you box-plait the skirt or shirr 1.?" "Shirr it, by ail means!" exclaimed theedior. "Shirr it straight up and down, tnd fasten it with these loops of black Upe." "Yon mean frogs?" asked the beauty. "No, io. These big loops that slip over two buttons. That sots off the shirrs anl gives a sort of tout to the en semble,"and the editor leaned bock and smiled superior. "Don'tyou think revers of a lighter shade woihl look pretty?" she inquired. "They'! do to fix up the bock, but I wouldn't jut them on the front," an swered tht editor sagely. Revers are very well b trim a hat with, but they dou't set of a dress front." "How wtnld you have the corsage?" "I wouhh't have nny at all. You would look much better without one." "Sir!" slit exclaimed, rising. "Oh, if yen insist, yon might have a small one, certainly not over three inches long, for short dresses are tho style now." "You youdon't soem to understand " she comnenoed. "Oh, don'tlV'he retorted. "That's what I'm horefor. I think there is noth ing so lamontilile as to see a young lady dragging her orsago through the mud and dust. Stil, if yon want ono, you should have it io you can tako it off when you go on tho sreet, and only wear it at home. They an hard to handle, and not oue woman n a hundred can kick her corsage gracfnlly." "I I am verymnch obliged to you," she murmured. "You are very good, I'm sure. 1 "Don't mentior.it," replied the editor, politely, "I thnk when yon got it shirred and revere and polonaised and princessed, you'll like it very much. Yon might ut a sodi and some big but tons to put on bchiid.or if you'd like an other style better jm might trim the wholo front with boiffauts and wear the punier for a hat." "Oh, thank you, ur," exclaimed the blushing bud us she souttlod down the stairs. "Swipes," roared tie managing editor, with a complacent smle and a glanco of approval at himselt iuthe glass,"Swipes, you may tell the foronan to send me a iiroofof the "FushiouNotes" as soon as tl.ev come in. I liavi observed that a great many errors have crept in lately." OU on Troubled Watert. At Montrose.one day rcently.an honr before high-water, a nunber of the crew of tho lifeboat went out t try the ex periment of stilling the w.ters hy pour ing oil on them. After enssing the bar, on which there was a pre ty heavy sea running, about a gallon of.il was thrown out. The effect was instartaneons, and considered very satisfactory . The boat was afterwards pulled ronul by a bank ou which a heavy sea was lashing, aud another quantity of oil boinj discharged a like effect was produced. Other ex periments were mado farher out, in every case the waves lieinr eraoothed down round the boat. Tli fishermen expressed themselves highlj pleased with the sueeesH of the expertueuts aud have agreed that oil should bocurriod in their bouts when going to sea Onteide the north harbor it lYteriieat, an ap paratus h.vs leen laid down fotthrowiug oil on troubled waters, thereby, it is hoped, making the entrance to the har bor safe in all weathers. The paratiis will be put to tho test on the retipt of a warning from the meteorological depart ment of a storm or full pale rom the uorth or north-east. But there Is noth ing new uuder the sun. The iTiiversal Magazine of a hundred and tweii years ago contains an account r-f the eVe.-t of prx-cisely similar experiments witUiil on stormy waters. Indeed, tho stilling of waves I y hesns of oil is mentioned by I'liny. I the "Philosophical Transactions," priuM in the Universal Magazine for Janiiry, 1775, is s curious letter from Dr. I'snk lin, in which he says: "In 1757. beirt; at seam a fleet of ninety six sml, UiuA against Louitdmrg, I olered th wfces of two of the ships to be rcuiarMily smooth, while all the others were ru d by the windj which blew fresh. B.ig puzzled with the different appearuci I at last pointed it out to our c( ta n. tid asked him the meaning of it-'Te cooks,' says he, 'have, I suppose. Wo just emptying their grewsv wsterthroudi the scuppers, wlacu litis grcasea to sides of those ships a little;' and this answer be gave me with an air of some little contempt, as to a person ignorant of what everybody else knew. In my own mind I at first slight ed his solution, though I was not able to think of another. But, recollecting what I bad formerly read in Pliny, I resolved to make some experiment of the effect of oil on water when I should lave opportunity. Being again at sea in 17G2, an old sea captain told me he bad beard it was a practice with the fishermen of Lisbon when about to return into the river (if they saw before tnera too great a surf upon the bar, which they appre hended might fill their boats in passing) to empty a bottle or two of oil into the sea. which would suppress the breakers, and allow them to pass safely. All these informations I at times revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy." These circumstatces are related in tho now scarce magazine re ferred to, and have not yet, to tho writ er's knowledge, been mentioned in con nection with the recently revived use of oil. The much-desired chance presented itself to Dr. Franklin in no less a place than the classio region of Clapuam. There was probably is yet - on the com mon there a large pond, which one day being "rough with w ind," the worthy doctor marched off and fetched a cruet of oil, a little of whioh he dropped on the water. The soothing unction spread itself with "surprising swiftness" upon the surface. Though not more than a teaspoonful, it produced an instant calm over a space several yards square, which spread amazingly, and extended itself gradually till it reached the lee side, making all that quarter of the pond, per haps half an acre, as smooth as a looking-glass. After this the delightful doctor took with him whenever he went into the country a littlo oil in the upper hol low joint of his bamboo cane, with which he repeated the experiment as opportu nity offered, and found it always to suc ceed. In these trials, one circumstance, probably unnoted by recent Scottish ex perimentalists, struck Dr. Franklin with particular surprise. This was the snd den, wide ana forcible spreading of a drop of oil ou the faoe of the water. If a drop of oil is put on a polished marble table, or on a looking glass that lies horizontally, the drop re nains in its place, spreading very littlo. But, when put on water, it spreads instantly many feet round becom ing so thin as to produce the prismatic? colours for a considerable space; and be yond them so much thinner as to be in visible, except in its effect of smoothing the waves at a much greater distance. It seems as if a mutual repulsion between its particles took place as soon as it touched the water; a repulsion so strong as to act on other bodies swimming on the surface, as straws, loaves, chips, etc, forcing them to recede every way from the drop, an from a center, leaving a large clear spaco. The quantity of this force, the distance to which it will operate, and its cause, would form the subject of curious inquiry by some of our scientific readers. Little Children's Watches. Recently an old man entered a Little Rock Btore, and taking from his pocket an old buckskin pouch, he emptied two coius on tho counter, and then, after regarding the silver for a few minutes, suid: "Mister, I want to buy some goods to make a dress." "That money is mutilated, old gentle man. This twenty-five-ccnt piece has got notches filed in it, and this fifty cent piece has been punched. You seo they have been abused. I can't take them." "Abused," said the old man, "abused," and he took up tho fifty-cent piece and looked at it' tenderly. "And yon won't take it on account of the holes. Heaven graut that I did not have to offer it to yon. Years ogo when my first child was a little girl, I punched a hole in this coin and strung it around her neck. It was her constant plaything. At night when sho went to bed we'd tako it off, but early at morning she would call for her watch. When our John yon didn't know John, did you? No. Well, ho used to come to town a good deal." "Whero is he now?" notknowiug what to pay, but desiring to show apprecia tion of the old man's story. "Ho was killed in the war. I say that when John was a littlo boy I strung this quarter around his neck. One day his watch got out of fix, he said; and he filed these notches in it. He and his sister Mary that was the girl's name used to play is the yard, and compare their watches to see if they were right. Sometimes John wouldn't like it be cause Mary's watch was larger than his, but she would explain that Bhe was big ger than him, and ought to havo a big ger wajch. The children grew up, bnt as they had always lived in the woods they were not ashamed to wear thair watches. When a young man came to see Mary once she forgetfully looked at h er riftj cents. "What are you do ing?' asked the young man, and when she told him she was looking at her watch, he tnok it as a hint and went home. After this she did not wear her watch in company. A'eIl, Maiy and tho young inau married. John w'ent of in the army and got killed. Mary's husband died, and about two years ago Mary woj taken sick. When her mother and I reached her house Bhe was dying. Uilling me to her bed, she said: "Papa . lean over." I leaned over, and tukiug something from under her pillow, bhe put it around uty neck and said ; 'Papa, take care of my watch.'" The old man looked at the merchant. The eyes of brth nu-ii were moist. "Do yo see that bov out there on that wagon?" he sail. "Well, that is Mary's child. I wouldn't part with this money, but my old wife, who always loved me, died this morning, and I have come to buy her a shroud.'' When the old man vent out he carried a bundle iu oue hand and tho watch in the oilier. Little Rock Gazette. Richard King, known all over Texas and thH West as "The Cattle Kiug." is a small, swarthy Irishman, with limping gait. II a lam ness is due t. the cure less way in which a broken broken leg wss set. His flocks of sheep and goats, his herds of cattle and hi troops of horses and mules re estimated at 500, OUO 'ied io all. His ranch, the Santa Gfrtrndas. is eeventy-five miles in length and includes Dearly the whole of two counties iu soothes'ern Texas. EYE & EAR, LNFIUHAUY AMD SANITARIUM, OR HOME FOR THE SIO Jr. Pllkliurton, late Pm'eaMirnf Kye A p., r.. In the Me.tic.1 1 Pepertmei.t Wuiao'e", Vnii" has erected tine l,iill,llK, , be.,ui . "lvrr the emitli Bart of the city ...d h .red t T J!""" dme iMtlleuia auttertn tmm all dV?.f .v. '? EAHurTllHOAT. Also will Pr, ..V"vt pereoiui Uborln under fliroiV S.-nwlii, nil tu dkeaee, p ulir to women, and rw'ieT le.1 nuiiiherot cues eapeetlwi e.ii.ni2,,7 UI The Intention la to provide s lluue i r .,;.h with sll the beet hytfenk Meiiriea?cinilrtneTi.! beat medical .kill to be nt In u Bi-?mS Wlh Prof, of dhee, Tof women XHS ll.lV. IX department Willamette Vidvenui ' "d.ral Also Dr. J. M. K Ilrowne, Prof, uf Phvi.l,. - . dep t. Willamette llulveralty, 'njaiolimy an "7 auiouui oi rvierelieea and rtrrular UK. J. It- Vtlnti., nJ" for, let um4 VA ..Slectoa .., Vanim;, S1000 KEWAliD WIM.BE PAID TO ANY PKHxox VHobv.. Big more effw'tual remedy than """Lt, Dr. hock's Sure Cure for rntnrei. Which has stood the test for fourteen m claim. DriiKKlets, and sll who have ui..l d u ouKuiy vrn, , pnimiuiire II aweellSe f,.r llir ,,lr. that losihaomedlsesae. Try Iu Your drusirtai kT h, price l. "a lit. Keck thoroughly tindentandii. snd h emlnemi. succesKfu! In the tr.nliueiit of all eUr.ile hiii. sV! cult dlamaea of both srsea slid all iee bi, mule a now-lalty of t heir treatment fur foui u e'nT!? He tresta 'ameer without uhIiik the knife. Hm t7. Ite prescription Is furnished Io lady aiaaleni. iw' No lady ahould be without It. Youiik, uuudie-at old, male or female, h.unlty or s life of u(leriLi your Inevitable doom unless you apply In llmeto ih! physician who understands, und laooiiitmt toirlZ yourcase. Waste no more time nor money wiihi. competent physicians. Allcomniunli-ationiistten,iii to with dispatch. aJid are strictly confidential VoTJ lam, testimonials, snd I'st of nrlntiil quiinn. h!. Iilshed ounirpltciitlon. X'Ml'.TATIU FMi-r' Inclose a tnreeeiit atsnip fr list ami adilre. iVu JAMKH KECK, Xo. IM Ktrnt street. Portland-P, 1850. 32 Yean Practical Experience. 1 882 John A. Child DRUGGIST, resr la Fine Chemicals, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Sponges, Soaps, & Rubber l.oodj. Cor Mortlink!ditt Portiiid,Or. Kpeciii stiMulon rd to nidera by mall when accom osnlnWIth the eb. GhA.TSRISOlT'S . SEWING MACHINE STORE, 101 Third Street, PorlUad. JOHN B. GARRISON, Proprietor, ieiMT FOE THH White, Improved Singer, Crown, Howe. Ne Home, Davis, Wilson, ''0" Howe, Royal St. John, And General Agent for Orenn snd Wsshlugtoa Territory for ihe Household Sewing Machine. Dealer In all kinds ol Bewlni Hschliie Atucb, menu, Needles oils, K'C. .RewIn Machines rerjs'rod nn hnrt nM" SEYMOUR, SAWN & CO., Manufacturers of MINNESOTA CHIEF THRESHER rortable Engines & Horse Powere And Sole Agents for the following celebrated Farm and Road Macliinerj': The Randolph llender, TheNiuniliirdNeir-Kiike Kenper, Tho Miimliird Light Mnurr, 1 he Iron King tsis-r'mit-t lit Uower, The Victor NelMMimp Stinky hnke. The Ntnndurd llund-lliimp Milky Kiike, The Ituekeye Ortilu llrllle und Heedera, Thef'elebriUed Morrlann Plow. The Whltewuter A Hetclium Wnaona. We cordially Invite sll witntlnir anything Iu our line to come nnd see us.-anU If you cannot come, gt'iid for our Price List and analogue. F. W. Abl.FX, Mxnixer, m'JTwtf 8 BO nnd 801 Flr-at )t., Pnrtliuiri, Or. The Oreeon specific for Fever & Aue. H EST A I 'JUST Til E T I. TI1K IT V All Modern Improvements. Open sll day. J. II. IIRKSXFR. Proprietor HUDSON'S GUN STORE, First street, Portland, Ores. a. ttCK. PISTOL A.HI1 AMMINITIO.N Ttahtnt Tackle mt F.rerr Daaerlatla. WILLIAM C0LL1EK, MACHIUIST. Dealer In rw und SECOND IIAX1) MACIIIXERT, 6S ilndlMm St., Portland, Or. Parties dralrtng Hollers, Tnglnes or "AW MILL MAI IIIMKY raiwart by adilreaalna Mr. t oilier. Xew and Second Hand Machinery ongM nnd nM r trtvlcd to MlTrtntntr Dr. II. M. RUSH. Dentist. Kor ihe Interest of the outillc. 1 have resolved to tio nrt-cia.ts worK at meae prices : rostlnssnOsis WorU.Poirrltiln. 1.Mo 91 J? Uolrl I'lulra. At Nl of Teelh oa It nhbrr. .... I SAand HP" " S-t of Twh oa t elliilold. .. 1 and oi" I1.W Fllltnc Msdapa"ed Mlver und Hone Filling 1 H aud Ml'"" li'.i tract lunar Teeth, with tins sl u" Ot-'FICE-lW First street, over Prentice's niii' store. Dr. II. M. ni'A Beotlal. OCe koors, all horns- Teeth eatrnelsl w lthonlTSa. 2W eta. IO R AXYOSF. WHO Wlt.I. l.rXHN Kell.s A .llllmi'a Ni of li-ea and lonh nttlns. ami. wrh ainrM meas ure ami perf.-.'t riming. priHlu--e a Iwl rittms canneut teveral Inipnivementi. have jti' Wll niaile. Ak'entK to sell and leach SStlltHt ii every tn-n. t1 sxeots nr. ...it' I"01 IU topper day. KKI.Uxhi JILU'N. tlM-nv. Np-'lia"- u -T The RishoRScott Uramntar School. VBOR!IN AND PAY SCItOOt. FOR BOY and Vising Mnn. ri! krn Its fifth T-r n-dr In ptwnl managvirient ei l. V li IT.-;"- liTJ AirnillesjenrlMiwms. The leachbig h pratl.-l thoniiuto.and dlphne rrtrt. fn.1 frr lfifl" nuaJ ratai'srue. n- ing aniplrle it of f-'Htir f.upn A(t.ltvn, J. W. JUlX, M. II.. Head Master. Urte J-orind. On-fvw- (,V AND tt) tf 'X SEE ME. .8