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EUGENE CITY GUARD LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. BY TKLKUBAFII TO 0ATF. A fire in Wcllman'e warehouse at Ha- vanab, Oa., damaged 800 bides of cotton about DO per cent. Hnllivun. the Dusrilist. says lie will Cuht no man with bare knuckles for low than f 10,000 a auto, lie tuiosa oi w thng in California. nn Hliprman denounces at an inton tiooal falsehood the statement of the Now York Ban that he bod been received into the lloman Cathoho caurcli. AlPiiUlnirff. Pa., on the morning of Doj. 27th John Clark shot and killed bis wife in a lixth avenue bagnio. Uar u a member of a well known family, and bis wife bad borne a bad reputation for yeirs. A three-story brick building on west Canton street, lioston, occupied uy win. 1). flloason aa a wood ornament estab lishment, wum partially burned with its contents; loss probably ew.uw; poruauy insured. Tbo district court of Ciuoiiiuuti bus decided that the word "damn" ia profuue and vulgar, and Retained the action of the telephone company in cutting off the connection of A. 11, l'ugb, who used that word in talking over the wire. A Littlo Bock, Ark., apodal from Hope reports considerable alarm prevailing over reported uprising of blacks, who ilirnntnn to burn the town. The Htreets are patrolled by a sheriffs posse. The acting governor of Iceland, the bishop and other jierson of note, in a communication to the London Timea say that notwithstanding the largo donations rscolvod there must be groat distresi from want of food in Iceland during the winter. The main building of the Horaorsot Fiber Company of Fairfield, Maine, was burned on the 27th ult. A liugo digestor, he. ted by the flames, exploded, throwing the machine in all directions. John Pooler wa killed by falling iron pipe Loss, 155,000; insured. A very protty wodding took place on Deo. IHith at 'Bwanhurst, on Webster street, the summer residence of Mrs. Angnstua Whiting, of Now York, whose daughtor.MIss Sarah Swan Whiting, was married to Mr. Oliver Hazard Terry Bel ruont, son of August Belmont. Chicago has becoma the fifth largest port o' entry in thia country, Laving passed New Orloanaaod Baltimore, rank ing after New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Han Franoisco. The collections of tho latter port are double thoso of Chi cago, and she employs three times as muny men in custom collections. On Bunduy morning. Deo. 2lth, tho mangled body of B. F. Warren was pickod up on the railroad traok near Httlem, 111. Tho coroiior'a jury decided that he wa robbed by Samuel White and II. Tucker, bcoten and loft insonsiblo on tho traok, where the truiu struck and killed hira. White and Tucker have been arrested. They will say nothing yet. A Tucson, Ari ,oim, dispatch says that Horgcant Bofus Somcrby of tho Gth cav alry committed suioido at Fort Lowell on Deo. '27th, shooting himself with a oar bine in the presouoo of his company, lie was a graduate of West Toiut, and . formerly lieutenant of the (ith cavalry, but was compelled to resign on account of druukounsss and -misconduct. Tho suicido is attributed to drink. Tho Ban Franoisco Bulletin has tho following, favoring the admission of Washington Territory as a state. "Tho development of its resources has only just began. Tho grout lumber establish ments have hardly uiado an impression upon the magnificent forests, and coal, iron ore and other iniiieruls havo not been discovered to any extent. Tho re sources of the great northwest territory aro only partially known. It has the most valuable forests of any state or ter ritory in tho whole country ; has a hurdy. intelligent population, extensivo roaf fields, inexhaustible fisheries, a large body of good agricultural lund, is a ter minus of a continental railroad, the most famous iuland water on the northwestern ooust, a climate good, and the people resolute and hopeful. '' It concludes by saying that it is an interesting fact that it is to day able to meet all tho conditions of an admission into tho union. A New York dispatch of Doc. 27 th says: Two regularly trained heavy weight col ored female pugilists last evening toed tho mark and battered each other around the historic ring to Quoeusbury rules. Bessie Williams, wlmu down to her fight ing weight, turns tho bourn at 270 pounds, while Josephiuo Green, ia her clothes, weighs 2W) pounds. Tho husbands of both ladies are exneits at the niunly art and have taught their housewives how to defeud tliouifelvcs otherwise thau by their tongues. For some time past every effort to bring the amnions together and settle tho question of superiority has beou tried w ithout success, but eventu ally a nnmher of sporting men with Billy Mod lory at their head snoo.odod, tho match being for twenty dollars a aido and the colored lady championship. They had a bloody, brutal and vicious fight, and during its progress both looked like spotted tigrtMscs. Finally Bosit got in a right bander on Josephine's nose and knocked her out. A largo crowd l l. li . . . . i' . wnavhsiHi mo u-smiaious proceedings. A conference of tho sugar refiners and importers of Boston and vicinity was called on Deo. 27lh to present the views of the trado to congress. The following resolution was adopted: That the renti ers and importer of sugar of Boston favor a largo reduction in the duty on sugar, aud that to accomplish thia pur pose wo request our memier in congress to favor a schedule as follows: Ou all augurs, molado, etc., not above 75 de grees of the poUrinOope test aud not above duties, standard in coior, is to bo 75 cts. per 100 pounds, with pro rata addition for each degree of polarization above 75 degrees, which, upon this basis, ia throe cents per degree per 100 Kunds. In approving the giadnation of duty accord ing to the poUriBOopo test they wean that test which ia now uvd in commercial transactions. It was intimated by con gressmen present that the differences among sngar importer and refiners bad hitherto prevented action and if a plan could I united noon there was hop of securing a material reduction in the UnS. On tha morning of the 28th ult., Mary Hewett, aged 41 and unmarried, waa atruck and instantly killed by an express train near Ban Jose, Cal. She was walk ing on the track and did not hosd the alarm of the engineer until it was too late to stop the train to aave lier me. DailQB urUi, - mubuiw, i" .. --- sorted, owing to cholera being epidemic Tlinni,nMi has 25 deaths daily. Bail- wsy laborers havo abandoned the works at Uaxaca. immunieauou wu wivuwu towns is stopped. Bcaroity of water and impure quality is the sapposod cause. The dwelling bouse of M. Gonzales, nnar flnlcanda. was burned Deo. 27th. It was occupied by Gonzales, bis wife and child, and was four railos from the nearest neighbor. The family were loft in the open plain, with the mercury at zero, all night. They kept themsolyos from freezing by the beat of the burning dwelling, and in the morning walked against biting northern wind to their nearest neighbor. The ship Charger recently arrived at Han Franoisco from New York with an assorted cargo and large quantity of cartridges, caught fire between decks ton days out. As the lire progressed, en deavors were made to rcocn iuo cor tridges. when suddenly the bullets com' 1 rlvinar in all directions, com' Dletelv riddlintr tho sidos of the hold and making it lively for tho sailors, who scampered up the hatchway. Tho vessel was Obliged to put uaCK 10 port iu. ru- pairs. HerrJohann Most dolivored a most outspoken and socialistic speeou in Chi cago on Dec. 2Hth. Tho only thing to be douo, ho said, was to kill. The troublo in the Fronch rovolution was when tho people got the upjier hand they stopped killing. They should have kopt on. People here must kill. They muBt open banks and stores and holp themselves to whatever they wanted. Bunkers and capitalists must be sot to work on the streets. This talk was received with up roarons applause. Mrs. McKewon. widow ot tho lata Col. E. J. C. McKewon, died at San Francisco on Deo. 25tb of heart diseaso. The -do-encscd was a oioneor. having come' to California with her fathor, Dr. J. T. White, in 18!. He was snoaker of tha assombly in the first state legislature. Mrs. McKewon waa ono of the small number of ladiea who organized society iu Sacramento, and old Culifornians re call with ploasuro many agreeable inci dents of her social' lifo at the capital during early days. A Los Angeles, Cal., dispatch of Deo. 27tu says: The second trial of Jos. Smith, who murdered his 13-year old son some weeks ago, at tho alleged "com mand of the Lord," on the question of insanity, was commonced in tho supreme oourt. A large number of physicians were examined as exports, some of whom hold that Smith waa insane at the time he committed tho murder, wbilo others are ooutldont bo was novcr insane. Jailor Thomson suid ho had watchod Smith closely evor sineo bis incarceration and bad seen no evidences of insanity. Tho Now York Tribune bos the follow ing: John lloacu & sons, snip uuiuicra, havo closed enntructs for tho building of tiro iron sailing ships for an Amuricun corporation, of which William 11. Star buck of tho Oregon ltailway & Naviga tion Co., and John Bouub are stockhold ers. Thoso vossols are to be from 1000 to 2000 tons capacity and will be ship rigged, with three masts. The koel of the first vosaol is new being laid and the others will bo beguu in quick succession so as to havo them ready for servico iu May. They will run from New York to any part of tho globe. A Washington dispatch of Deo. 27 tU says: Tho Dickson easo was rcsumod. Wit liens Drivor stated that the eutire con versation desoribod by Bowen .as occur ring botwoec himself and Dickson really occurred between witness and Bowen. Witness was not allowed to relate the conversation with Bowen on Monday last, but Dickson's counsel positively stated Bowen bad confessed to Driver that his entire testimony was a perjury and ho had been tho tool of Cameron and Hooper. Thoro was nation oxeitomont aud tho oourt recommended that tho defense ar rest Bowen for perjury. . A fatal shooting affray occurred in Stunn's Best, a Lead vi lie gambling house, on tho 27th ult. Mutt W ells, a gambler, had previously had a difficulty with John Kerr, a faro dealer, which was augmented by ono Follory, another faro dealer, with whom Wells bad au old feud aud who carried the talk of each to tho other. Iu tho morning at 10 o'clock Wells went into Stunn's Best and culled for a drink. Seeing Fellory be throw a glass and its contents in his face. Subsequently Fel lory met Wells ou tho street aud knocked him down. Smarting uudcr tho inflic tion, and half crazed with liquor, Wells produced a revolver and returned to Stunn's Best, and seeing Kerr commenced tiring. Kerr returned tho Are, but shot wild. Both emptied their revolvers, and Kerr was mortally wounded. Wells was immediately arrested. Two bystanders, Hunt, another gambler, and Coulon, GO years of ago, received severe wounds. Kerr died the following dav. A San Francisco dispatch of Deo. 2Sth sitys: Tho feminiue portion of tho com munity is considerably excited at tbo singular freak of a mau who mauifests a dislike for the weaker sex by slashing their clothes with a knife. During the crush incident to tie holiday season, ele gantly dressed ladies returned homo to tlnd their seal skins cut from top to bot tom, silk dresses similarly backed, and up to this time (he porn.trutor of the outrage is not appreheuded. Miss Car rie Kerr aud hercousiu, Miss Lottio Dow, visiting tho ooast from the cast, are the more reeout victims. They bad been out buying presents and noticed the same mau several time and invariably after being ioled. Thev entered a store on Post street and felt some one pushing mem ami snowy alter touching tliem on the shoulder. On goiucr nn stairs thev were roughly pushed aside and saw a face rapiilly disappear. Beaching home Miss Dow was met by her mother, who called attention to the condition of her clotning. Her seal skin was cut in aev era' places and a ribbon similarlv treated While ulkiug the matter over, Miu Kerr returned, asving the elevator boy in the uoiei surieu at tier rmlely, ami when looking iu the mirror she aaw that her seal skin had been cut in two placea on the shoulder. Tue man ia described as pale looking with red mustache and wearing gloves. now iib woi ins Tfirt. i. "O younf Locblsvar U corns oat ot Uis Wert. ' August is nearlng Us close and going ont in tears. Suoh mists and watery- looking clouds! Such drippings and droppin gs and miserable, forlorn little ahowers! It requires cneery spirit to bear up undor the wholesale doom, but rain never depresses vi, John Miles; it rather exhilarates Lira, like fine wine. To-dsy as be rides along through tho . . . . , j ,,- i t...:1. black mud, lie is wuishidk iu wyinu fashion some endless tune that falls in musically with the slush, slush of bis horse's foot. Now and then it is tem porarily stopped by an intrusive drop of rain, or violently interrupt vj dab of nativo soil; but even tbeeo seal bis lips only for a time, for with a laugh bo wipes tnem ou, auu resumes m rrv nnta Affftln. Hii is a joyous naturo. Justashe brushed away that last drop of rain docs be throw off all the lighter worries of life. Borne who know him tuinK uis bcart is onlv a surface allTnrrent and no depth. We wmotimes And that the deepest, most dangerous pools lio just below the lightest, swiftest-currents. But whutis all this expanse of water just ahead of him? lift has bedn in Texas only flvo yeorfl, but he knows what it means. The Blanco river is upl The continued raius, gathering slowly day by day, in the main springs that feed its bead, have suddenly rush:d together in one mad, bounding torrent, and pouring through the river bed have widened and deopened it a along its oourse, tearing ud trees and rocks in us way uuui wum . .. i t - i. i jq tho morniug iiau ubbuuiuii, fordable littlo stream is now a dungorons, roaring river. Dr. Miles Is a brave man light hearts 1 men generally aro but ' looking across the swift, foaming waters, where swimming is well nigh impossible, he admits that his prospects for reaching the further shore are very, very uncer tain. He looks down at ins norso. Brown Dick has good bbod in bis veins, and the Dootor always trusts good blood in man or beast, ne pats him on the neok. "Old follow, can yon do it?" The horse whinnies bock, and his master takes courago. He and Dick have been through many dangers together and have always come out safe on the "othor side," so why not this time? To retrace his steps ana una Biioiwr iu . . t. some Irionaiy lurin uouse is to ua como weathor-bonnd perhaps for days, and imperative duties call him homo. Pationtsaro waiting for lnm;an appoint ment with anothor physician hits boen made for the following morning; and then and then, too w hon Jennie Cum erou lookod up at him lust evening and asked him to come to her "little musi calo to morrow night," ho had promised that ho would, and ho hud never yet failed to keep his word. lie remembers just now sou ana lumi nous her brown eves were when, with that littlo touch of imperiousnoss in her voieo, she had ndrtod: "Now dont laii to como, sir." ner eyes would always plead oven whon bor voice commanded, uud how he bad answered back in bis jesting way: "Foul or fair, I will bo there. Ho wonders why bo did not toll her then how dear those brown eyes wore to him; why ho did not take heart "to speak out what was in him, dear and strong." Ho has loved her faithfully all thoso years, and yet in bis humility bus nover dared to tell her so. But then, he thinks sho must have guessed it over and over again must have felt the tenderness aud passion that lap always just back ot bis light word. Well, ho will toll ber to night. This decides him. IIo will try tho river. Ho promised her to be thoro, and onco told her that to bo false to your word wus to bo cowardly. Ho romembcrod, too, last but bitter thought, that bis rival, hand some Joe Dudley, will bo thore, and with tho thought there springs into his eyes such a uory gteam of passionate resentment that tho luughing gray orbs become in thoir fierce displeasure al most unrecognizable. It is a glimpse of the still lifo of tho soul. "Foul or fair, ho must bo thoro" iu temblo earnest now. Commending him self to a Higher Power ho cheers his anxious stood and boldly plunges in. Tho strong current beats them back like hugo powerful arms; .the uprooted trees and brokou branches null past them iu mud baste; tbo "other side'' seems to re cede as they near it. Oli.it is a fieeo strucglo, but atMast they are almost there! But a yard's length and they will reach it! Just boro, obeying a boyish impulse, ho stoops anil kisses Brown Dick ou tho neck. Brave horso and braver rider! They well do- servo to triumph over wind nnd rain. liut that moment of inattention is for tho rider a fatal one. As ho raises his head he (cooivesa severe blow, which sends him entirely oil his horse, dashing him almost ecnsolcs into tho bank. A loos ened stump just above him has been wreuehed suddenly away and whirled violently against him. With tho dospertlo clutch of expir;pg vitality bo graspi tho roots of tin old tree aaiust w hich ho has been throwu and drags himself round to ita further side. Tnere ho flghta uiaufully with the terviblo faintuess that is rani tly over powering him. In hi forehead ia a deep gosh. Tho horso struggles to tho shore, sees bis master's unconscious fuco uud whinnies long and pitifully. II. Cuuoron Hill look Ktvung-dy beauti ful iu tho pale, placid moonlight. Tho rain has atopped, but th air is heavy with tho promise of moro. Just outside the p trior door, ou tho southern gallary, Jeannie is listening iu a happy, absorbed way, to Joe Dudley. This man, with his handsome fuco and smooth tonguo, has never attracted her. There is aliout him a certain half developed tendeuey to decep'ion, from which sho instinctively withdraws. A womau weakly accessible to the least touch of the reul, tha earnest, the true, flattery puts her on tb defeusive, and hardens her into a Matoe of contempt. So these two souls, whilo.often meeting, have never touched. Buftto night he is, for the moment, carried ot of himself by the force of a real passioh, and ia woo ing with all the teuder simplicity of hum blest, trnest love, . i She is following him sai t ly, surely, across the borders of tlut n"y, dieam- enshrondod Isnd of unreality and deln ion, led on by the magio of his yoioe. Across the borders into the heart of the beautiful, mystical country, when she is called back by the sound of a name-j0,,t der cmm0DP,ft0f Dam8! uttered ia tonos of careless inquiry, but it startles ber gpell bonnd soul from its trange enchautment, and wakos bor boart into a very rapture of life. Joe Dudley can win ber mind; he can al most absorb ber intellectual being into bis own, but tho mere syllables of John Miles' homely, old-fashioned name sent every pulse a throbbing. She starta up and goes into the parlor. "What ore yon all saying? Itbe Blanco up? Where is Dr. Milos? Why don't you tell me what you all wore saying?" Borne one answers her that it is proba ble that the Dootor bos attempted to cross-he is so reckless of danger and as be has not roturned yet, anxiety is felt for his safety. wiih tim iinmssrve of a great foar and great love she excitedly demands, "Why did you not tell me tuis Deiorer Whv don't some of you go and see ? Do you intend to lot him die? He may be drowning now, tn, won i sumo oi jyu nn unit hftln him?" The pretty voice grow so pitiif ul bore, and the dark eyes lipuiin o full of intreaty. that every man feels roady to serve Ler, even to the death of his own hopes. "I will go and find him, and save his lifo too. if von will give me my reward." joe Dudley whispers in bor ear, and she thinking ouiy ot tue kindly laoetuat may bo already set in tuo rigid outlines oi death, impulsively answers: "Yes, yos I will give you anything everything, if yon will only go now and quickly, and save the Hie oi mat Drave man!" Ut nnnr ni-fttlv .Ti-antiio! You do not know that you have unthinkingly bound yourself by a futul promise, which only a generous wooer will let you take back again 1 ill. T.vinor sirainst the rough side of the il.l trn nrnfnctil from tho water bv the spreading roots, they find John Miles. The horse is pathetically licking his mas ter's face. Thev carry hira home, and through the long fover that follows, Joe Dudley nur ses him with all the faithful devotion of a friend. With returning consciousness Dr. Miles notices this, and puzzles his mind over it. One day, when he was almost well, he gratefully acknowledges the kindness. Joe Dudley laughs as ho makes this answer: "You noed not thank mo; I am only laying off a debt. I promised to save your life if it could bo done, ana i nave been successful; tint is all except that in six months Jeannie Cameron will be my wifo. Tho Bick man starts up, flushing pain full v: "Who says so? Does Jeannie Camer on say so?" "1 say so, the other answers tri umphantly, "and that is snttioiont for nil purposes. In six months that lady will o mv wifo or wrovo falso to her word and you- know as well as I that Bho will nover do that." John Miles risos to his foot and ex claims: "Joo Dudley, I bolievo yon are play ing mo false! I will see Jeannie Cam eron to night and ask her to be my wife; and if sho loves mo, as I. have reason to believe she does, no power on earth shall keep hor from my arms. You are deceitful to the heart's core, and my puro, proud girl never promised to bo your wife unless vr ti tw ililnn a.1 ltnv infra T.nova i t tun UKauuuiiuii iivi tutu av ahvu luci I am weak, but if you wore to tell me any moro falsehoods I might bo tomptod to strike you!" Dudley is, physically, no coward, but his pury, moral nature falters before the grand, heroio soul shining out of the sick man's eyes. Ho laughs uneasily, and goes put of tho room. IIo has so falsified everything to Jeannie and so workod upon her exaggerated, struinad sense of honor, that the careless, heed-lass-Bpokcn words "Yes, yes, I will give you unytliing, everything" have beon construed into a solemn, plighted troth, lrom wuicn moro is no wittutruwai. Al though wickedly falso himself, ho es timates at its full value tho tine, sensi tive nature of the girl and feols secure accordingly. That night Jeannie, iu a big chair by the window, is startled out of a troubled reverio by what she thiuks is a ghostly visitant. "Don't bo frightened; it is only I," a famiiiar. wnll lovpil voien eulla out. nti.l she goes forward gladly, to meet and welcome vr. Milos. Ho notes that these few weeks have changod bor too. Sho is thinner and paler, and has a restless, uneasy manner, as if sho were always, montally, warding off a blow. Ho watches her with anxiety, nud feols that sho is troubled nnd un happy. Iu a liUle while ho tells hor what ho has como to say. Sua listens to him nervously, and tho troubled look deepens. When he finishes sho struggles feebly with herself, and then, looking at him through teur-diniuied eyes.opens her poor, depressed, heavy-ladon heart, and tells him all. How bo loves her! She was dear to him before, but never so madly loved, so fondly worshiped as now, when he sees for the first time into the very depths of her pure soul. So spotless it is, and so free from guile, that he al most hesitates to take it uuto his un worthy felf. But when he tries to prove to her that her promise to Joo Dudley is no protniso at ril, but only tho mean advantage of a base, uogojerons man, ho finds her im movable. She loves him, but Bhe can not marry him. His own words, "To bo falso to your word is to be cowardly." have haunted her of late, and now rise up to kot-p them apart. She knows he loves ber dearly, but will ho respect her as uiguiy u sue ureas uer wora, even though it be for him? He is still vainly pleading, when Dud ley s dark lace appears kt the door, With a malignant ?cowl, as be looks at John Miles, ho says in a threatening voice: "Jeannie Cameron, you lieloDg to me Ton ean'i tn&rri tint man Bhe rises at sight of him, and stands looking helplessly from oue to the other. Was ever a woman so tprrililv riH Love, hsppinoss, rest on one side; on the oiuer uer sacreu, pngiited word, and miserv. dull. lioiwiriM niimi- "Jeannie," Dr. Miles' voice is husky from emotion, "will you be my wifa ?'" He holds out his hand to her. She turns despairingly to Joe Dndloy. "Won't you give me back my promise,? I cannot love you. You would not have an unwilling bride?" The obstiuate gloam only deepens in Dndley'a eyes as be crosses over and takes her rudely by the band. "I would have you now if I bad to drag you to the altar. You have promised to marry me, and by all the powers above, you shall V There flashes into John Miles' face look that comes into gray eyes only when there is something desjierato to be done. Going toward the trembling girl, who is mutely accepting him with her beauti ful, soft eyes, he says, firmly, but ten derly too: "Jeannie, darling, you are mine whether you will or no; so thore is nothing else for me to do but to steal you from yourself. I don't like to do it, but I see I will have to run awuy with my wife and get her consent afterward." Before either can guess what he is go ing to do. be takes her lovingly in his arms and carries her, weak as he is, to the corriuge that is iu waiting, and whioh he had brought in anticipation of this very scene. A few minutes' drive brings them to the old parsonage, where she is absolvod from all the promises and re sponsibilities of Jeannie Cameron, by becoming Mrs. John Miles. Joe Dudley, helpless with rage, re mains standing whore they left him. As ho realizes the whole truth he mutters a curse aud rushes from the house. Years afterward somo one meets him in Eastern Texas, leading a religious meeting u deludcr of souls to the Inst. It is hard to tell which gets the most petting Brown Dick or his master but it remains an unanswerable fact, that they arosboth terribly spoiled. Two bides of It. Soma unknown genius Las discovered the following "Rules for Spoiling a Husband:" Snarl at him. Find fault with him. Koep an untidy house. ' Boss him out of his boots. Always have the last word. Be extra cross on wash day. Quarrel with him for trifles. Never have his meals on time. Let him sew the buttons on his shirts Pay no attention to household ex penses. Qive as much as he can earn in a month for a new bonnet. Tell him plainly you married him for a living. Got everything the woman next door gots no matter whether you can afford it or not. Provide any kind of a pick-up dinner for him when you do not expect stran gers. Let it out some time when you are good and mad that you are sorry yon didn't marry somo other follow you used to go with. If he has an extra amount of brain work and comes homo with his nervous system all on an edge don't try to keep tho children quiet. Tell them their father is nothing but a cross-patch anyway. HOW TO SPOIL A WIFE. How will this do: Snarl at her. Find fault with ber. Boss her out of her shoes, Always have tho last word. Quarrel with her for trillas. Never be on time for your meals. Make hor clean houso untidy by your slovenly habits. lie extra cross when she is harrassed by the work and worry of wash day. (irowl when she forgets through a mulplicity of duties to sow buttons on your shirts. Spend the price of several new bon nets for cigars and then skip tho bon nets. Tell hor plainly you marriod hor to do your work. ltaise a row if sho bows pleasantly to an old time gentleman friend. r ind never-ending fault if sho happons to want anything she sees tho woman next door having. Orumule when sho provides a pick-up dinner. Lot it out Bomotimo when you are good and mud that you wish you bal marriod some girl you used to run with. If you have hud a hard day's work in the store or oflico, go home and let out your gall on this poor woman who has baked and ironed and mended all day. Dont try to hold your peevish disposi tion in check. Growl and fuss and fume and find fault with the little patient woman whoso rosy cheek you onco kissed, and sworo by all that "was good you'd love aud cherish her till death. lhe thing is just about as broad us it is long, brethron. The Dyiso Hkndkicks. Thore is a quiet laugh at the expense of big doc tory in Indianapolis. Ex-seuator Hen dricks was recoutly reported critically ill of erysipelas, with gangrenous symp toms, certain, tho great doctors of In dianapolis and Louisville said, to carry hira to a speedy death. The senator prepared for his fate calmly, and resign edly waited for tho grim messenger. But he did not proceed to dio. Tho day to which the scientific doctors limited his life, a blunt old Democratic friend, who was a couutry practitioner, came to pay his distinguished friend a farewell visit. Ho looked at the erysipelas of the dying statesman, and suddenly said, with an expressive gruut. "Nothing but bile, by G -d!" Tho next day the statesman was at the polls voting the Democratic ticket. Tho distinguished scieutifio physicians are very quiet on the subject. Y have the docTumonts for this story. L'.iytou Journal. As to tho rapid formation of mineral veins, Dr. Cloitman, of Iserlohn, makes the following record: Two yeas ago the bottom of a stuble pit was rammed hard with common clay containing iron. It had since served for storinn dung, water being thrown in occasionally to prevent overheating. It haviug become neces sary to have the pit somii where else, it was found that the clay had lost all color and was divided into numerous fissures, from 1-23 to 18 Inch in width, filled irou ryrites. The iron oxide of the cloy was changed0 by the organic matter placed upon it, and the water containing J sulphate ot ammonia, into sulphate ot I irou. which deposited itself in the fissures. A 8na Spot. "Sinoe the great magnetic storm 6 Friday, and the brilliant auroral l playa last night," laid the astronoraeh the reporter on Monday, "porbajn would like to look at the suu spot t , was probably at the bottom of all t i disturbance?" ', "To be sure i would," tho repo, ( replied; "but do you moan to uj u ; a sun spot caused the magnetic atorr' "Weil, to be more accurate, pert I should say that the causes which to the formation of the snn spot aliop duced the storm. It is impossible' ' particularize very olosoly in this mnA What we do know is that whensno are most numerous and largest, u auroras and magnot storms are nioit ( qnont and most violent. This has by'1'1 strikingly exemplified during tha pJJ'-h ent year; we have had two or three gr, magnetic storms, and simulUneotuY with each ot the storms aun spots oft (: traordinary magnitude have beon viii I caught sight of the present great just coming around the edgo of lu j-p on November 13, and sinco then tlAU has beon more or less olectrio an on i netio disturbance, culminating in f marvelous auroral outburst of Uitfm day. I think this spot is identical H the one which made its appearance i n ing the perihelion of tho great con j but it has changed greatly in appff ance. t "Thon it is visible without a t.f i "Easily. Smoke a piece of wind; glass to protect the eyo, and you can1" the great spot as a conspicuous black on the sun." P. "It must be very largo." t "Largel Enormous doesn't begi; , express itl Counting the whole inrlT1, covered by the various nuolosanj' V penumbra not in which they appn- bo entangled, is not less than tinj milos long by 40,000 miles wide. I, . all the continents and islands o! earth together, add to them all k . oceans, and sproad tho whole oat it . and they would not cover one-twenty, the area included in that tromemi, j congeries of sun chasms." "Let me see it," said the reporj "Don't keep me waiting." The astronomer laughed audpoia,. the telescope at tho sun. After the-, porter had somewhat recovered from wy astonishment, he began to ask question "So these aucorlv-shaped black nm are holes in tho sun, are they?" -' -a,. in- 1 . 11 . ? xes, ropiica iuo astronomer. gi, "And what is tne snauowv reu t ..1. v,,o" ltT1.4 n .1n,.Auoi..n in 11. a lUHb ia niOU 1ft MLIUPnaiWU IU Mid 9i,p surface, but not so dep as the bl, holes." k "Wuat are the whito ridges srou the spot?" "Mountains of fire.or perhaps Ishovj rather say billows in comparison w the siz9 of which the Himalayas art Andes are rows of mere ant hills." fa "What are those whito, feathery-lcr, i ing points projecting bore and there or "i tho chasms?" 0 I "Clouds in which iron and other me9' e are floating iuthe form of metallic vajn t What do you suppose you would i '3 you could stand upon one of tbo l projecting points suspended over a i1 1 chasm." L' The reporter couldn't tell,.. "Let us make the absurd auppW8 that your body would not, in the m. ionth part of a second, be turned M1 vapor," said the ostronomer, "andletj fwJ also suppose that you could for tn J'-S . stant retain consciousness amid thecal and roar of the solar notion, where ?' noise of the bursting of a woria i f.airmaiila wMil.l lta inrl wf. infftl i-iKi' from the universal clangor, and I try to give you a notion of what would tee. Your horizon, suppoia that immediately around you compj101 tive quiet could prevail, would bei clo of fire, heaving, tossing, casting'!8 showers of hot motallic s-iray .while !j and there fiory geysers shot up witb1.'.' conceivable velocity, would rise a $ sand, ton thousand, twenty thoc!a milos and condensing, fall Ihick t. blazing rain. The sides' of tho cb V . over .which you hung, gaping enough to swallow this whole a. j j would appear as cataracts of f1("J0Jjl vapors, partially condensed ' tumbling downward to an awful df ' . Some students of tho sun have atterij ; to measure, or rather to approxiou w estimate the depth of sun spots, and. , put it at from 2000 toGOOO miles.. the case of so large a spot as this 'ey we may safely assume that its dep', equal to the maximum estimate. , wouiu ucuoiu icyciuue moiions iu . - a V" i.-l.IOl sea oi mo prouuciug luariiu wo inl and the rushing and tho clusbii. vaporized elements.driven hy hurrif V ni' e mat would inaae piaytnings oi t tains. The fiory cloud bridge t, 1U1 which you stood would bo likely tc jno ton: suattereu to imgmenis ut any wuuj have seen such briilges di?app''r(i few minutes. Then if you fell into " -chasm, still assuming that you wonU0 J instantly be turned into vapor.ijj; would, after your turablo of C000 0J strike no bottom on which n fo;t f0jt bo placed, but would Bink into a fiery gases, in which, probably, U ""( elements that composo the solid would be represented. Ah yon lower and lower, the gases, while Ji;'0Rn tuining their other properties, "6l resist your descent like an ocean 'ove the) effect of the tremendous terigh ture and pressure to which they ar.,-, jected." . . "Ex "But would I find nothing but ?farni the sun?" the reporter asked. to-ni "Probably not," the nstronot-t'. plied, "but you mnst renietabe'io, e this is a matter of theory. AtroE Well are only trying to account for w!) liun see in ways that appear most con-horn and reasonable. It is a long atersnd the gaseous theory of the sun wb Prer now widely accepted, though in "A what varied forms, to the theorj Wivi William Herschel, that the body K-atn sun is a coil, inhabitablo world, . sai rated from the glowing snrf.ee wb?r th see by a protecting atmosphere -Eg t nobody holds that theory no 1 It fabled salamander would find tbjr ei too hot for a place of residence, aflngi deeper he got the worse it would i;r;v N. Y. Herald. U I 2.-i4 A New York hotel-beeper h 810,000 invested in horseflesh, and j people are wishing he would sell f' , the horses and buy a few tow-' upf er bedrooms. "