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EUGENE CITY GUARD LATEST NEWS SU3DIAUY. BY ULKOKirU TO DATE. Robert E. TattarsoD aooopU tbo dome cratio nomination for governor of l'oon byWmiUs. Sullivan and Tug WIImoq have signod articles for another prize fight on the same toriui ai the Brut, to take place Aug. lttli. , ArrangomcnU hare been eomploted for (tending about fifty of the Itunsian ri'f ugooa rocontly arrived at Cincinnati to form a farming colony in Kansas. On the night of the 23J Win. II. Reid, a . farmer in Uage county, Nub., nhot and iuHtanUy killed hit wile, who had sought refuge from bis brutality with ber Hon-in-law. The murderer in in jail at Boa trice. The tobaoco board of trade at Louis ville Iiim aont a letter to Congressman black protecting against the amondmont to the revonne bill allowing grower to toll tobacoo to the value of one hundred dollarit free of tax. All cases against St. Lou in gamblers, lotteryaion and kindred frauds, aro either nolle prosequiod or dufurred till the Hoptombor term, when thoy will be dropped. Thia ends the fight against that hpecios of crime there. A inorober of a notorious gang of thieves and blackings in Howard county, Mo. was shot dead on the 2Ttb by a posse trying to arrost him and whom be resisted. It is feared his comrades will avenge his death and that a soeno of bloody tragodies 7ill follow. The Republican's Walsonbnrg (Colo rado) spocial says. Two miners, Wm. Ilolmos and James Watchman, returning homo in an intoxicated condition, were run over by a train. Holmes was instantly killed and Watchman badly injured. Tho men were laying down on the track. Iron ore nnloadors at South Chicago 'have struck, and scones of the Jolict atriko, which was long and brutal, aro likely to bo ropcutnd unions a compromise is effected. Tho necessity for men is more pressiug now than last spring. A nnmbor of stevedores of several lake lines are striking and dock troubles multiply. The ship Charmer, from Now York for Hau Fraucisoo May 28th, and which returned having been on tiro, baa been completely repairod and is now receiving ber cargo and will again suil on tho !Wlli in.it., on which date tho North American will sail from Boston. It is understood that several wagers lave boon niado on the result of the passugo. Officials of tho Chicago and Alton railroad having investigated tho accidont near liloomington, state the loss by tlio aocioent will bo inHido of 805,0(10. En gines wore not much injured, and the chiof dauinge was by fire. One cur of tallow, one of wool, two of wheat, and ono of canned salmon were destroyed. No ono was iujurvd exoept brakeman Foster, who was found dead under tho ibooBO, terribly mangled. On the 2.th two miles south of Desoto, Miss., on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, the mangled remains of mx negroes wero found on the track, having beon run over by a train. They were employed by tho Now Orleans and Northnantoru railroad, and had just been paid (iff and wore bound home. Ono negro lias been arrested and another is beitg hunted upon strong suspicion of having murdered and robbed the mon ami placed their bodios on tho track. A Rordentown, N..T. spooinl says: Tho funeral of Miss I'annio l'arnell was largely attended by residents of tho city and vicinity, and trains from New York aud Philadelphia brought members from different hunt loaguo organizations. A harp at tho head of tho casket bore tho following inscription: "Cede Doo." A whito satin pillow with a harp at tho bead bad in it a quotation from lior last Iioem "Tho utterance of tho Irish loart." Services wore very impressive. A spocial says, Willurd's failure and flight from bis bank in Jonesboro, III., ?;rows hourly a more desperate affair. It ooks now us though shortage would bo $'200,000, and asseta practically nothing. Willard's whereabouts nro kept very secret. The general opinion is that ho lost nothing by speoulatiou, but that it's an out and out robbery, Home suspicion is directed against his family on account of sets of doubtful propriety done since the disappearance. The nowly arrived Chinese embassador, when asked for an opinion us totho right of Chinese to go through this country on their way to China, replied that ho feared a strict interpretation of the set would not give them this privilege Ho bad called tho attention of President Arthur to the mutter when the twenty years' act was tinder consideration by congress, and hud entered. a protest agaiust it. Tho most friendly feeling toward the United Stutoa existed in Chiua, which he believed was reciprocated here, and he did not thing that we would per in it this injustice to prevail, lie hoped that congress would find tho way out of tho difficulty. The matter was serious and demanded careful attention. The nmbasMiulor will leave for Washington soon. A Christiansburg, Ya. dispatch of tho 'J5tli says: Opt. Joliu N. Wise, rend j as ter candidate for congressman at large, and Johu 8. Crockett, commonwealth s uttorncy of Wythe county, came to this place on au early train this norning and fought a duel near hero with pistols. At the first round both tired at the word without effect; at tbo socoud round Crockett's pistol weut off pieinatuiely, aud after reloading the weapon, both combatants placed themselves in position for another round. Wiso's pistol missed fire and Crockett's tire was harmless. Crockett, tho challenging party then expressed himself latUMcd and the fight teruiinsUxl. TIm? ronting fcaj js origin in a personal encounter which took place Mouday, tho 17th inst., when Captain Wise met Crockett and iuterrogat! him about certain language which Crockett attributed to Wise. Crockett acknowl edged he made the statement, and said it was true. Wise denounced it as false and struck Crockett, llcfore the latter could resent the blow outsiders inter vened and both were arrested and fined for breach of the oaoe. This caused the subsequent correspondence, which re sulted in the dud. The president has the most gorgeous turnout ever seen here. The death is'announoed of Edward Arthur Wellington, second baron of Kean, aged C8. The New York stock market is now being daily driven up by purchases by the outside public Tho alarming spread of smallpox in Raltimore is reported, and an epidemio is expocted next winter. The British government has chartered 13 steamers plying to American porta to carry troops to Alexandria. The khodive believes by liberal pay ment for their services, Bedouins might be secured to insure safety of the Buez canal. Kx-A Merman James Dunn, of Brook lyn, and Tug Wilson are matched for a fight in Louisiana or Mississippi for $2000 a aide and championship of tho world, $1000 forfeit deposited. Journal's Washington: There is a pri vate claimant named Kid well to the Potomac flats, and the president ia likely to veto the river and harbor bill on ac count of the large appropriation for thorn, for that reason, if no other. The managers of the American iron and steel operations at Crossen Springs adopted a call for a general convention of all iron ore producers and iron aud steel manufacturers in the United Htates, to meet in September to consider the duties on iron, steel und iron ore, and prepare a report for the tariff commission. A steamer started for St. Petersburg on 'the 27th with Engineer Melvillo and two sailors lost on the Jeanetto. Lieut. Berry, Mr. Gilder, and anothor officer of tho burned steumer Itodgers, will re turn from Irkutsk to tho Loua DqjU, in order to follow during tho winter tho coast line as far as tho trontier of Euro pean Russia, thereby comploting En gineer Melville's search to Olonsk. The Chinese minister with his suite, took tho 0 o'clock traiu on the 20th for Washington. Ho was much pleased with his visit to Now York and intends to visit some of tho principal watering places. His secretory domed tho rumor alleging that 00,000 of his countrymen, residents of Cuba, aro desirous of passing through our country on thoir woy to Chinu. Ho addod, they nro bsrd workers and bad mado a considerable amount of money. Tho Amorican steamship Illinois has arrived from Liverpool. Among tbo pissengers is Rev. J. Griffin, from Alex andria. Mr. Griffin was sent as mission ary to Egypt in 1874. Ho left Alex andria June 2:id, aud said everything then seemed quiet enough. His homl quartors were at Asyoot, tho capital of Upper Egypt. Natives in that section of tho country, ho said, wero not able to find out yet what was the cause of tho disturbance, whilo Christians feared nothing but a religious war. Mr. (Iriffln had no idea of danger nutil Juno 18, when no recoived a letter from Cairo advising bira to leave the country. Within an hour ho was on tho express train on his way to Alexandria. Tho Times' Washington special says: It is certain from a canvas of the bouse mado by a Times' corresiondcntrtliat tho revenue bill must fail to become a law this session. Democrats iu tho house intend to oppose it, and without the aid of somo democratic votes it cannot be passed. A quorum of republicans cannot lie got together again this session. The lssi quorum was obtained with u good deal of difficulty and after pledges that there would be no second call for mem bers. When theso facts are reported to the senate, as they probably will bo soon, it is possible the re ven so bill will be dropped l ight there. If Senator Morrill, however, wishes to push it to a vote, this point may be coueodud ; but tho fact that tho house will not act upon it this session is unquestioned. The Tribune's Ogdcn special says: A wholesale persecution of gentiles has been inaugurated and arraugemeuts made for testing the constitutionality of the Edmunds' bill iu tho supremo court of tho United Htates. If adverse the Mor mons havo nevertheless determined not to submitut any cost. Every pnlygumist, from President John Taylor down to the distant apostle -, bishops and elders in the most extreme part of their domain have separated from their wives and aro living openly with ono only. All polyg amists have, under orders, resigued from ull official office) and monogamists as strongly disposed iu the faith have been selected and commissioned in their places. Every effort will be mado to beat tho government iu all sections of the Edmuuds' bill. Tho Biibsbtnce of the attorney-general'! opinion on political assessments, as pre sented to tho cabinet on the 20th, is that officers of a government are prohibited from soliciting or serving such assess ments, and that members of congress, in the broad sense of this term, are officers of government, but that in a strict con stitutional sense, under former rulings of congress, they are uot officers. He quotes from tho constitution of the Uuiled States and from the statutes in various places, showing that the distinc tion between the terms "olll ' and "members of congress" are clearly made. He holds the section forbidding receipt of political assessment was intended to apply only to inferior officers of the gov ernment, and concludes: "I am of opin ion a member of congress is uot an officer of government withiu tho meaning of that soo ion." Ueu. Powell Clayton, formerly senator from , Arkansas, think there is a fair prospect for a break up of tho Bourbon party iu his state. He says there are no factious iu' the republican pti ty in Ar kansas. A full state ticket has Won uom inutcd in almost every case by accluiua lion, with no questions us to whore a man was born or what his color is, the only inquiries being. "Is he a republi can? Is lie honest? Is he capable?' The result is an unexceptional ticket, on which an; the names ot union and con federate soldiers, white anil colored men. all of good character and tt:indag, and united party bohiud tlioiu d.-tonu n-d to poll every vote in the party. Tim platform ignores all old issue, ind looks ouly to the future. Then there is a bitter war in the democratic party, thinly veiled by seeming unanimity on the dent question, with a platform hich is capa ble ot being construed either in tuvur of repudation or bomsiy. Tje rt ii -tie and Democrat, leading deiuocr.tlie papers of the state, will not publish tit- pU:f.r n and denounce it iu every ivsue as a sham and a fraud. This produces at athy, anJ in some oases downright d feeliou. riiUBCB AD tOMMBBCC. nuuranoo, July M.-tdarUa txebu oa Londoo bun. dara, MM; do docniBM.1 ary, H a. Tranaiers to1H, Bank of tngUoil Ml Of UtM-MI. Pr MOt. hi . July IS. Hurling eicbanse, Pr,m buiks, kiu. M , short, M St. Good couimw. eul. from lrttti lowerr ducauMitary ls loer. HiIttt bullion, UOl Ant, m Busouuie, US i. U.H.Bonds-eHs, 101V,4H,1UV is . Londos. July W.-HIWer bullion, binllut sUnd int. M Hue, per Bne ounce, M. l .H. boodsHs, 10. Consols W 1H4 money 100 11 account. tlold m! tMk KcdotU. sam rnaacuoo luum . BasraAiicwo.JiilT JH. KtrtlpU-WliMt, MOO etls.j flour, H.OOU bbli.j osta, SO din: potatoes, 4000 sis; ll.tuO doi. Wheat The inquiry li good, but buyers Dd " or ra apart In tlirlr view!. No. I wtiile, l 10 I, IWfcMkrd Hell choice milling old, fl Ti. liarky feed Tbo spot markrt Is attady with pricro In Itujtr faror. yuot, II jflH II 31. Oala-Uriirral ffalurra of tho market aro un. changed. Old, quotable, f I 7 I S3, Ne,l ... Oralu Bane The market li Armor, canned by leaa arllliiK ureaanre. No change to note In prlcea. pi.latoea Early llooo, OkftHac. llecetptl ro aniellm from all qnartera, but the market I well uppllrd. Heme Et'-rn choice to fancy, 17 H Hlc. liatiiu and l.ard No change. Wo.il -An Inactive market at tut quoted ratea. liope Choire Huaalan river market la vny atrong for forward delivery, rtalra reported at 31 He Kkko Kreeh California, 'iU (.Ue. Ijulter-Uarket la ateady at (ull yricei. Wo quota aa before. 1'lK Tin Sydney Tba market la Ann. Halea ro porlrd al 'J.tStc Portlunal froduc lrlcee. rLOl'B-Htandard branda 15 00: country, I H: aupernuo, 3 6UM 76. 0ATS-64(tXJc per bllahel. JIAI'.I.KV l 2.V1 60 er rental. 1IAV baled tliuothy. IH'ilO t Ion. Cl'ltKD MKATS llama, OreKou augar cured 14 Km: eaatrru 17(WlSc; bacon, liiloc; ahouldera 10 Ullc. LAUD-Quotations aro 14lilu kegi; ISiilflc Iu tin, unit irxM.lier in ialla. Al'I'I.trtl'er box, $1 60 toll 73. HOI'S Mc, BUTrKK Faui-y 1W21 itc; (fwd to choice, MV l.Vi fair, lsjoc. Iu bulk, 'JuuiiSc: In brlue, 7'4:iii". O.MONrtUuoUtlona I If II 35 r ctl. KHUS-'J.V. CIIICKENH-Perdot.lValft 50: small and medium, l.'Ua 60. bl'CKS-I'erdos. 14 k5. lMTATOhOld, ctl., 1 Ml; new, V cll II 00 (4,1 V.I. HHISOI.KS-Per M. VI '? 75. DllIIJLI HA'MS With pile, So; pltlesa 9 (410c for aim ilrled; llial'.'o for uiarhine plunia. iltll-:i Al'tLtS Bun uritd, 0 7cj flummer dried SIKATS. HKV:K-3,t:i)4c lt nm, PotlK-iiu'c. I'et7!(8. VliTTON-'J'.vJHc, uroan. Vt.M6!,H: Kr Willing Believer. An alligator killed the horse which Ooorgo Jones, of Dublin, Oa., was riding. Jones killed tho alligator with a revolver and a fence rail. The Duko of Edinburgh, while fishing, recently, on the Hpanish coast, hooked a tisli thut dragged bim overboard. Ho succeeded in reaching land and savod the llsh. A dog at Sumter, (la., moots guests at tho gate of bis nufctcr'a residence, escorts them to tho bouse and then goes to tho yard aud catches chickens for the day's dinner, holding them till the mistress comes and kills thein. In Smith county, Virginia, a well dig ger dug iNid feet into the earth liefore striking water, und then went through with a (dungo iuto a subterranean luko. IScing hauled to terra firma again, ho and his assistant let down a small boat, and, ns the distance between tho top of tho wator and the earth was several foot, rodo over fivo miles before rinding tho outlet of tho lake, a spring iu tho sido of a hill. Tho lake is a great wonder. A Maine piper tells of a hen thut.after raising a brood of ducks, "was set upon eggs of her own kind. Wheu the chicks wero hatched sho had not forgotten wbut appeared to bo maternal duty. Sho led her Hock to tho wator, but, to ber sur prise, not ono enterod. After somo time spent in talking to" them in hen lan guage, trying to convince them that it was their duty to go iuto tho water, sue became exasperated tit what looked liko disobedience on tho part of her children, seized them ono by ono and threw them in, drowniug tho whole Hock." "Sun Francisco is clamoring for brass bands in churches." Extreme measures niit;t be taken to keep San l-'raucisco people awake. Lowell Citizen. A Dighton dog went bunting tho other day, and was gone two or three days. Ho brought home a bird with him, but evidently not for his own use. Ho vent all over tho house to find the cut, laid tho bird down beforo her on. the lloor and walked oft". It is said that bunches of violets laid awty when fresh iu the pockets or sleeves of dresses, impart a more pleasant per fnmo than auy liquid preparation from the (lowers. They need to bo gathered when extremely dry, nnd removed when themselves sceutless. Josephine's bou doir is impregnated to this day with tho odor from the quantities of these favorite blossoms Niipplied constantly whilo she occupied it. have. Children who havo a little money ought to practice saving something. M.mv luiva li. t uirlM of to-dnv lull-il 1 V know a higher nsc for any money that comes into liieir lianas in an speun ir. lor some foolish thirg as quickly as pos sible. To such, a lesson of self-denial and economy is imporiant. As go the boy's pennies and dimes, so very, very likely, will go the man's dollars and huuilrode, by and by. Without having the spirit of a miser, tho person ncctis touted to save bus more pleasure in lay inar mi lluiTi Ilia ftiien.ltliritt pver knows. The way to keep money is to earn it fairly unit lioneetly. .Money so otitameil ia lirt.ttv fWrtilitl to ilbiile nitll 1 1 H lOS- sessor. llui money thut is inherited, or that in any way comes iu witnout a :air and just equivalent, is almost certain togo is it came The youne; man who begius by saving a few dollars a month, und thriftily increases ins itore every coin being a representative of solid work, honestly unit manfully done stands a belter chance to spend the lust days of his life in ullbieiiee than he who, in bis haste to become rich, ohtuius money by dashing HKviilation,s by tho devious means which abound in the foggy re m.m wlii.'li lk.t u-.(.til f tir.tl.vill nir Hlltl fraud. Let the young man make a note 01 mis. Minneapolis na ground about fonr houndred car loads of rociuo coast wheat into flour in the last two or three months, und there is more coming. It is said that Orcgousnd Washington Ter ritory can produce grain equal to the best Minnesota grade, aud illanl prom iocs to bring it through on his Northern Pacific road for forty cents a bushel about what is now paid for freight to Man Frauoisco. Springfield Republican. Btrnba'.vlt Gossip. Mma TWnbardt-Damala looks verv much as Mile. Bernhardt did when we all went mad over ber in Chicago. I tried at the ploy of "Hernani," the other nigQt, to imagine tuai mere was is uiuur ent tort of expression in ber genius stamped lineaments since she has addod the byphen and the "big, big, D" to her name, uui narau ius uuuifuiiio u very much as before. As Dona Bol she is herself in perfection. Have you heard the story of tbo first actings of this part when Mile. Mara was playing it undor tho personal supervi sion of Victor lingo? The author had written those words in that third act whore Dona Sol throws her arms about Hernani's neck and proclaims her death less devotion to bim; "You are my lion, superb, generous, I love you." The actress did not like that word "lion." She insisted upon saying, "You are my lord," eto. Hugo argued with ber, expluined bow this word would weaken the meaning, but to no effect. Mile Mars persisted in ber way at reber sals, and even on the occasion of ths first performance substituted her own word for that of tho poof Bernhardt, making love to her new husband in this play, "draws," of course, but we forgot all that, when seated before the footlights, and watch ing the ttugic tenderness of Dona Sol to ber faithful Hernani. Onething is very funny in this M. Damala, whose stage name is Jacques Darall. Ho does not "make np" for the stage at all. Is this part of the clever Sarah's tactics, to give us all a chonco to see as bo is, sans wig or fulso mustaches, tho youth whom sho has married? It is said that she says she loves bim. At all events, ho manages bor just as men of 3trong teuiperauiont often got control of all the forces of the nature of a woman liko Bernhardt, rest less, imaginative, restlessly seeking al ways for something outside of herself. That was the secret of the marriage of George Eliot with the young Mr. Cross, about which we all puzzled oursolves so much whon the strange news flashed over to America. I heard a good deal about that wed ding, not long ago, from an old gentle man who knew them all well George Eliot nnd Mr. Lewos, and Herbert Spencer and this young lover who won 'Marian Evans, spinster," for his wife such a short time before hor death. Whon, as a young girl, she first cume up to London to seek bor literary for tuu, she lived in tho family of this kindly old man. He introduced ber to, Lewes and to Sponcer, and he know for years' of Cross' affoction for ber beforo the death of Lowes. "Hut what in the world did she mam- Cross in the end for?" I asked. "For tho simple reason that sho loved him, my child," said tho old gentleman, looking at me over his epcotacles. I Smiled incredulously. "That would sound very well iu a novel, but G sorgo Eliot was (i;) years old, and all tho world knows that sno iiud been iu love with Herbert Sponcer all her life. Or nt leust people believed that who don't think that she cared about Mr. Lewes." "Stuff anil nonsense I Georrre Eliot was in lovo with Cross iu just the same way that any yonna; wonmu is in lovo at eighteeu. Ib;i'iyouth came lato iu life. Sho was all intellect in her girlhood, and when she married Lnwes it was in tbo belief that their intellectual congeniality was that which tbo poets writo about. Certainly later oa sho did care deeply for Herbert. Soeneer. but it was oulv an ex- . - - - -1 , alted spsoius of the same sort of feeling sho had entertained for Lewos. The idolatry of vonnir Cross awakened new and richer omotions. Ho is a man of much liner temperament, more likely to win real nffection." "Well, it is all vorv strange. I have always wondered," said 1, "why sho signed her liumo as 'spinster' in tho church register when sho was married." "The sunniest tinner in tho world! crind ("inor Elliot's old friend. "The law requires it. That was merely a legul lorm. un you Know, young uross is writing her biography? Tho book is sura to have a creat sale, comintr from him, but I think it a very ill-advised net. The very fact ot Ins attachment to nor will make it more a panegyrio than an impartial biography." Corr. Inter- Ocean. Fashions in Mrs. "What is the.stylo of spring lie this season ?" asked a one-eyed man, a be dropped down by the exchango (editor's side. "Havo they retrimmed tho inter convertible sutiko, that breaks up inU precincts and comes together at the call of tho presiding link ?" "Haven't seen anything of it," replied the exchange editor, plunging his shears into the account of a tornado that shifted a State line 100 feet, and landed a river in a cottonood grove without disturb ing a ripple. "I'm glad of that," said the one eyed man, rubbing his bands slowly. "I never liked that lie. It always seemed far-fo'.ched and unwholesome; besides, you couldn't help thinkiii) that a frog might swallow a quorum of tho snake and not leave enough to transict busi ness. Do you see anything of that lie about the dragou out in Illinois, witli wings like a corn patch and smell of brimstone? Is the dragon current this year?" "Haven't struck bim yet," answered the editor, eliminating the profanity from a far Western accouut of a mine explo sion, in which forty men wore blown through tho side of a mountain seven miles thick. "If he's around he's tlying verv low. "That pleases m?, too," smiled the ono eyed man, stroking his chin. "The only objection I had to that dragon was the smell. It never sounded reasonable If they bad said hosmelled of brimstone au l molasses it might have worked in a girls' boarding bouse as a fairspring lie, but thev could not fix it to do for men unless they perfumed bim with bine pills. It was a great mistake. Have you strnek any fresh particulars abont the sea serpent since the thaw.' "Too rarlv for bim," returned the edi tor, writing a new headline to an account of a baby who fell out of a window sixty feet, and bounced bjck without split, bruise, or chip off. "Ha'U be around by the 14th of July." "The 11th of July," murmured the ore eyed man. "I reckon you're right. Yes, you're right; 'w tu a bead like a barrel and eve like coffee cups, estimat ed by Mr, Wm. Jenning, of Tobacco Township, to be at least two-thirds of a mile long.' Yos, that'a bis date. July 14th. I like to read about bim. There's always something breezy and fresh about that serpent, though be must bo getting long in years now. W list s become oi the tDO Old people iuu wuro uoru bi, mu same moment anu uiouwimm ten mm f a,.ti nthflr at the same advanced age of 104? Ain't they uymg this sea- Bon? "Knt. Hint T've hoard of. reioined the ovni. .nra o.litor. nmnino? down a louz """""d" " is, " . . , .; article on a boy who was cut in half lengthwise by a attain gnnustone, ami wtinaA vannvnrv Waft confidently autici- FT UVDV WW T V j ay patod by the eminent local physioiaos. "I hone they liaven i quit mo uusi ness," observed the one eyed man with( anxiufv. "I've kind o' warmed up to those two old chumps. Thore was something unanimous auout em tuat caught me, and I connt on getting up to 'em regulurly if I am going to keep my health. Maybe the backward season bus beon against 'em. What's the news about tbo skeleton found in the tree with a bag of money tied to his spine? Lot's see, he's a Bpring product, isn't ho?" "No, fall," ropbod the editor, glancing nvar a ruiinrl. nf a man wlin bad lust been relieved of a live lizard that bad fed on his kidneys for forty years. "He 11 come around about the 3d of October. "Just so, just so. I was misled on him. lie's uu old friend of mine; seems like ono of the family, and if they should era over this season without fiudinur him. appears as though I should commcuce to pine. Is there aoytUing new this spring; any servant girls making Greek poetry in their sleep, any live frogs concealed in a Philadelphia brick, and springing eight feet in tho air ufu-r an imprison ment of 18.000 years? Anything of that sort?" "WntliJnnr " aiulio.l tllfl PTehanan r. . -n - - - " o editor, putting sub-brads into an ac count of a whale climbing to the top of Absocom iiigtitliouso to borrow a niutcn. "Nothing fresh, except this one abont Mm nnvmnnr of a (1inrc!i mortfrno-M nnt in Wisconsin, but that won't be popular among tue utiristians. I suppose not; 1 suppose not, mur mured tho one eyed man.- "Well, I'm much obliged. So long! It warms me up to seo the old ones come around. A man nf mv atrn wnnld mifia 'pill if tllPV let up, and Ibeguu to bo a little ticklish about the serpent, and the skeleton, uutil you explained tho dates. And as be went out the exchange edi tor turned over on orticlo on an old wo mun of ninety, who was cutting her eiffhtli set of falsa teeth and fourth head of hair. Brooklyn Eugle. A lartar's Courtship. "What do you pay in your country for a wife?" oskod a Tartar of an English man. "We pay nothing. We ask the girl, and if sho says yes, and her parents do not refiDV, we marry hor." "But if the girl dles not like you? If sho hits you on tbo head with her whip, or gallops away when you ride up to hor side," replied t'lui Tartar, referring to bis nation's method of courtship by running after a gi'l on horseback, "whutdoyou do ill that case? "Why, wo do not marry hor." "But if you want to marry her very much; if j'ou lovo her more than your bebt horse und nil your sheep and camels put together?" the Tartar persisted .put ting an extreme case for tho sake of argu ment. "Wo cannot marry her without her conseut." "Aud nro tlio girls moon-faced?" he continued, setting forth a Tartar's per fection of femalo beauty. "Some are," said tho Englishman. Eor a few moments tho Tartar seemed lost in m ditution. Presently, removing his sheepskin hut and rubbing his shaven head, he asked: "Will you take me to your country? It would be so nice if I should get a moon faced wife, and all for nothiug. Why, sho would not cost so much as a sheep!" "Bu; suppose she would not have you?" "Not have rue!" aud tho Tartar looked astonished. "Not havo me! Well, I should give her a white wrapper or u ring for hor ears or hor nose." "Aud if she still refused you?" "Why, I should givo ber a gold orna ment for her head, and what girl could resist such a present?" 1 Lore Aflalr Wound I p. "I should smile." As Bertha Bedingote spoke those words she lay coquettishly iu a hammock that had been swung between two giant oaks that reared their bill heads aloft in the broad lawn, at the edgo of which stood her father's stately residence. A little foot, enmeshed in a BilKcn stocking whose delicate texture displayed to ad vantage tho trim ankle within, peeped out from beneath the fieecy-white dress, whilo tho laughiug eyes and fair fore head of tho girl wero surmounted by a coronal of sunnily-gold tresses of which any hair store might have been proud. "So you like ice-sream ?" said Harold Mclntyre, beuding over tho hammock and looking tenderly into Bertha's blue eyes. 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