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EUGENE CITY GUARD LATEST NEWS SIDDIA11Y. Ml TEI.KO A PH TO DAT Tbewool market at Cowton it good, prioea auTaudug. The Georgia Paciflo railroad is com uloted to Anciston. Alabama. The village of Ilallestad, Swodon, waa totally dOMrojeil bj an reoenur. The Arkanaai river ia on tbo rise at Little Rock, and dancer anticipated. OliTer Moffat was elootcd premier in the jirorinoe of Ontario on the 28th nit. Ex Treaidont Diaz and party, of Mex ico, arrived at New Orleans on the 28th nit. ChriHtine Nilwwn visited the tomb of Garfield on tie 27th ult., and was great) alloc tod. The United States government intends . . to esUUlisn a oonaniar agency at camin Gormany. The silver wedding feHtivities of the crown prinoe and pnuceas toon place on tne zsin nit. Ttailmntul Inline nf Uia Dominion bank Toronto, docamped on the 27th nit., be ing uion ii,uw. TIia annafit rial ratiflm! (Via anrmln mental extradition treaty between the United States and Spain. Bridget Ballon, of Ontario, Can., agod MM A , . 1 111 1 vu, cut tne uiroai oi ner nasuanu, aet 10. and sot fire to the dwelling recently The cotton exposition buildings at 1 1 1 1 n it J AXraiSTllie win cover uiwuu acre" oi pound, and are expected to be completed In July. A paper bomb, oharged with powder, was thrown into the court yard of the Austrian embassy at Rome rocently. No one hurt. Cbargos are about to be made against Die public printer at Washington, a do ficiency of (50,000 in Lis accounts are reported. In Now York city, Fob. 27th, Caroline Bornheimor fell from a skylight direotly npon a rapidly running rip saw, and was cut in two. The national tomjwanoe society auks the legislature of New York to submit tbo people a prohibitory constitutional amendment. The Mark Lana Express (London) of the 27th nit. says: The wheat markot is slack and prices falling; flour cheapor; barloy, steady. A trne bill has been found against A. B. Williams, counsel for Dorsey in the star route trial, on the chargo of receiv ing stolon goods. An earthquake shock was felt in parts of Rhode Inland and Connecticut on the 28th ult. At the time of the shock a bright meteor was soon to Hash across tho aky. Five hundred and ninoty-two bills are roported by the house committee on military affairs, the most notable is the Grant retirement bill and thoFltz John Torter bill. In a sloighing party recently at flaw ley, Pa., the aloigh slid off tho icy road down an embankment of forty fuet and into a canal. Kit of tho party were in jured soriously. Receivers of tho rhiladnlphia and Heading railroad and coal and iron com pany recently surrendered to the oflleers of the oompanios ooutiol of tho property of those corporations, Lawrence Barrott was rooently ac corded a fluttering reception at Washing ton, the theater being densely crowded, tho l'rusidont, cabinet ollloors and many other hiiju olUuials were present. Bed Cloud is on Lis way homo from Washington. lie seems satisfied with Lis visit to the capital, and expects to get $11,000 to compensate his tribe for tho ponies taken from thorn by the military in 1870. A Boston dispatoh of Fob. 28th says: The house defeated, 127 to (10, the bill Riving funialo citizens tho right to vote for oity and town olllcora, to hold city and town ofllooB, and to voto in town meetings. (Strikers and rioters are causing con siderable trouble to tho Chicago & Evans ton railroad iu Chicago. Threo huu dred o the men on the 2ttth ult. tore ui 500 feet of track, twisting tho rails out of shape. Langtry, on being asked how she liked this oouutry, said: "Very much. I think it a great country, Chicago I liked best of tho oiticd. It is a greut town, full of life and thrift. I found western aooiotv ablo aud well informed in regard to dramatio matters better than those of the south. I liked New Orleans, but think it a stagnant, sleepy oity. The weather was so hot. A Milwaukee dispatch of Feb. 28th aoyB: The Investigating committee in the Newbull llouse catastrophe came in with a final report to-day. The finding is lenguiy, ana is avnoMiu4 as follows: Firo luceudiurv; coiubustiou rapid; all liveliest withiu UO minutes after dis covery ; hotel ceustrueted as any other at the time of its erection; John F. Autis del did not employ suthYieut help; was careless iu not guarding tho hotel more carefully after so mouy attempts had been made to burn the house; of all tho employes only Engineer Win. Liuelmm exerted himself properly to suve life; toroner Jvuepper was brutul, harsh aud inucoont. A WaLiuRton dispatch of Fob. 27th says: Nominations: Register of land otlices-Jos. Ferguson, Walla Walla; E. L. Smith. The Duties. Receiver of public moneys A. O. Marsh, Vancouver; jonn u. ruuimry, Oregon City; Caleb ft. iuornuurg, Tiie Dalles; George L. Davenport, Indian agent of the Sa and Fox agency. Confirmations Smnel C. Wingard, associate justice of the supreme court, Washington Territory; John W. ioswr, ot ludiana, envoy extraordinary and ministr plenipotentiary to Spaiu; Wickbum Hoffman, tuiuister resident and eousul general to Deumsrk; Dwight T Itied, secretary of legation aud cousul general to Madrid; 8. O. W. Benjamin. minister resident and oonsnl general to Teheran, l'ersia; W. F. Sutton, consul general, iuautmoras; Li. II. Took, envoy extraordinary ana minuter plcnipoten tisry to Corea. Indian sgenU: i B. Uont of Kentucky, Kiowa, Comauche and Wichita agencr, Indian territory. Army postmsstcr: Vm. E. Dorgie, of Oaklaad, Cal. John N. Irwin, of Iowa, is the sew governor for Idaho, It is thought that the tariff bill is dead in tne house for this session. By a runaway at Bennington, Vermont, one man was killed and eigut injured, Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is seriously ill at bis residenoe in Wanning' ton. On Feb. 20th 200foet of Mnllntt a tun nel, on the Northern Pociflc, Moutana, caved in. Byrne has been aarested on a direct charge of assassination in the Ireland troubles. Throe bodies were stolen from the desd honse in one of the cemeteries at Mon treal on the 1st. A fire at Paris, Ky.. recently, de stroyed Dronertv to the amount of 87D. 000 to $100,000. 1 1 The London Times says: Parnell is on the deoline, many of his leading fol lowers deserting him. Senator Davis, presidont of the senate, resigned March ad. It is supposed bd mnnds will be bis successor. It is contemplated to introduce cable cars in New York the same as thote in Bun Francisco and Chicago. Exports of wheat for the cereal year from Ban Francisco aggregate 12,000,000 centals, valued at $21,000,000. A freight train on the Oregon Short Line at Shoshone jumped the track on the 27th nit., killing threo men. There are now but thirty miles to com plete on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad butwoen Salt Lsko and Donvor. On March 1st the gas was turned off tho street lumps of Buti Franoisoo, the city treasurer unable to pay provions bills. A party of ranchmen attacked an Ind iun camp in Chihuahua, Mexioo, a few days ago, capturing 25 squaws and killing 10 bucks. The Cleveland Furnace oouipany, oper ating shops at Stdubensville, Ohio, failed on the 1st. Liabilities, $00,000; assets, $40,000. Sufferers of tho recent floods along the Ohio are still in great distress, and earn est appoals are made to all parts of the eountry in their behalf. At Oakland, Cal., on the 28th ult.. Dan Cook's large and fine stablo of horses were sold sixty in number, and amount ing to $50,000, At Frosno, Cal., on the 28th ult., a dead man was found on the traok, his heud severed from his body. It is sup posed to be a suicide. Papers in tho suit of John Gilbert against the owners of the Newhall house have been tiled. 1 be amount of damnges asked is $20,000 for the loss of his life. In tho house on the 1st Van Yoorhecs. of New York, fiercely attacked I'm go, of California, using abusive languugo to wards the racitlo coast representative. Senators Bayard and Bock retired from the conference committco on the tariff bill on the 1st, and Senators Mahone and MoQill appointed to fill the vacancy. John Hoigle, morchant, living in North Leavenworth, Kansas, was found (load in his bed reoontly. His throat was cut and the monoy drawer robbod of its con tents. The appropriation bill for tho building of dry docks on Mare's island, Han Frau cisco, was raised from $200,000 to $350,- 000, through tho efforts of Senator Mil ler. Confirmations at Washington announ ced C, Wado chief justice of the supremo court of Montana and John 11. Allen United Status attorney for Washington territory. Janios MoVoy, a blacksmith, living iu Omaha, was arrosted for counterfeiting aud "shoving" silver coin. A large quantity of tho bogus coin was found iu Lis possession. Gouverneur Morris, collector of cus toms at Sitka, is given two months to close np bis accounts aud atepont. Ex-Colloo-tor Shanuon, of Sun Franoisoo, is recom mended to till tho vacancy. The work of pumping tho Diamond mluos at Braidville, 111., progresses slowly. Twouty-four feet of water still remain iu mo imuu. xue reiiei lunu for tho Btifforers amount to $11,000. In a (lttarrol iu a saloon at Chicago on tho 1st between Jas. Elliott, pugilist, and Jere Dunn, a well known sporting man, resulted in Duun killing Elliott. Both men fired several shots at each other. Parnell cabled to friends in Now York that if ho fails to get a second reading of Ills land bill for Ireland, he will come to America to attend a proposed convention iu Philadelphia in behalf of Iroland. Tho govoruor of Virgiuia with a com pany of the state militia uiudo an attuek on Maryland fishormon in Virginia oyBter bods, capturing six negroes hs prisoners, aud ouo vessel out of tho 2u vessels in the forbidden waters. The Ore go Id mining company at Ben son, Fulton county, N. Y., "cleaned tip" about 200 tous of gravel recently. Tho amalgam from this clean up gives about $150 iu gold. The metal is a bright yel low, and more closely resomblos Aus tralia than California gold. Frederick Lunger, aged 75. one of the pioneer railroad men of the country, and one of the oldest and most experienced engineers in the wivtt, diodatDaveuport, lows, on tne 1st. lie ran one of tho first locomotives built by George Stephenson, and tho first passenger train out of Phil adelphia, and tho first train that ran into Georgia, and the first train that rau into Indianapolis, iu 1870 he visited the ceutenuial exposition as the guest of Tom Scott and other railroad magnates in tho east, and, though a man of considerable means, worked bis way going and coming among tho engineers aud on tha foot board. A St. Paul. Minn., dispatch of March 1st ssvs: Advices from the front, on the line of the Northern Pacific, show that the end of tho track running west is now within 10 milea of Bore man. The end of the track coming east ia at the month of the Missoula river, leaving a gap of about 2W miles to be laid, all of which is in Montana territory. Work is proKreasiuir at both ends, there having been no cessa tion of labor during the entire winter. The grading of thia 200 miles is nearly completed. Work on the tunnels is being pushed at the rate of 12 feet per day, that is, six feet from each end of each tunnel tha Boleman and the Mullen. The latter will be finished by July, at which lima the two ends will be joined. la OM-Fathloned Lyceum Lecture. Header, didst ever deliver a lecture at a country "lyceum?" If so, read the fol lowing. It is good. "We Lava been there' Mrs. Brown having a lecture npon the Parthenon, was invited to deliver it be for the Ivcenm of Walnutville. Know ing of Walnntville only that it waa fif teen miles from a railroad. Mrs. Brown suggested a more popular subject. No; Walnntville wanted the Parthenon. At the station named in the letter of direo tion Mrs. Brown saw a stage, and soon its driver said: "Be you the lecturer for Walnntville?" "les." "Wa'al, git right in; and you hain't no need to pay no lore neitner, for l m tne committee tuat wrote you. Mrs. lirna-n was the onlv nassencrer. and the driver cheered the long and lonely way by tolling her, "Folks was thinkin' a sight about seem on her, lots on 'em rememberin' her grandflir." They were fonr hours on the road, and when the time for the lecture came Mrs. Brown was escorted to the ball by the same gen tleman. On the way be exhorted her to speak np, and not be like "them Method ist wimmen. who mumbled so folks did not know when to say "Hallelujah." I be ball, an unpainted building, con sisted of a great room with an enormous outside door opening directly into il. There were seats against the wall npon two sides, which the stago-driver ex plained as being the place where "the old men sot town-meotin' day." The people who were in thoir seats turned round and guzod at Mrs. Brown while ahe took off her wraps and put on her gloves. Telling her escort she was ready, be said be "wam't a-goin' npon that roostrum to make a fool of himself; the minister had got to do that." While waiting for the minister and en during the stare of the audience, Mrs. Brown diverted her mind by wondering why a row of men were seated at the back of the platform. Finally curiosity conquered. "What are those mon np there for?" "Tbera? Why, thoy're the Walnutville Brass Band, and they're goin' to play. Don't thoy have no bands where yon came from? Fortunately Mr. Snow, tho minister, appeared then, and Mrs. Brown trailed meekly up the aisle after him. Obedient to his gesture, she sat down.and be said, 'We will unite in prayer. That exeroise disposed of, Mr. bnow prooeedod: "The Walnutville Brass Band will favor us with 'Columbia, the gem of the ocean. The performance was stunning, deaf ening; but before breath or bearing could be regained the agile clergyman was again on nis feet: "Tho chorister of tho Baptist church will now delight the audience with a song '1 here s a good time coming.boys; wait a little longer.' " The chorister walkod slowly to tho stops of the plutform, and waited, look ing severely at Mr. Snow. "I forgot to ssy, shouted that much- a 111 ic ted ninu, "that he will be accom- tallied by his daughter on a Mason and liuni'in instrument." Then the father and daughter mountod the stage, the organ wrs wheeled into its place, aud tho performers had a good time, if nobody clso did. Tim audience was lmliuVrcnt to an alarming degree, looking to Mrs. Brown like scores of duplicates of the goddess Paslit who sits uud glurcs at people iu tlio Lint lull JUuseuni. Again Mr. Snow: "Mrs. Brown will now read us a pieco on tho Parthenon." Mrs. jtrown Btcpped to the front, and, amid stillness so profound that she could hear tho breathing of persons uear her, read her piece. It took nu hour, and during all that tiuio tho death-like quiet waa broken but once; and thou a boy who had climbed tip on the outside, and peeped in at a window, informed his companion iu a hoarse whisper that "she waru't no great to look at, anyhow." Not a baud stirred nor oven an eyelid moved when tho Parthouon was ended; but Mr. Snow allowed no time for em barroBsmont, for he was at o uce on his feet: "The chorister of the Methodist church will sing 'Rocked iu tho cradle of the deep.' lie will accompany himself." Tho satuo masterly indifference while tho Methodist chorister rocked himself violently backward and forward, and wliilo he was wiping his heated brow after he had returned to his Beat. But indefatigable Mr. Snow knew no weari ness: "Tho band will again delight us with 'Marching through Georgia.'" "IJurk! from the tomba," would havo suitod the temper of the audience equally as well to all appearance, better. Fiu ally, tho minister concluded: "Those exorcises will dose with a ben- ediotiou." lie had hardly spoken its last words when the stago-driver shouted: "Hero, marui, is the mouey we've took. Yon can tsko your pav out o'n't." Mrs. Brown, not accustomed to ap proving uerseit, declares slio roso to that occasion, for sho turned all tho money into her pocket handkerchief, aud told him sho would settle on her way to tho train. Ouo or two people walked sol emnly up to hor, limply shook! her hand. and said, plaintively, "Wo have enjoyed your lecture," but with these exceptions the awful silence was not disturbed. To this day Mrs. Brown is in doubt if they think the Partheuon an improved sewing uiaciuuo or a now aina oi nay-spreader. Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Mags tine for Mtrch. (Jutcu Antic's Nose. A bust without a none gives the coun terfeit presentment a ruther ghastly ap pearance. A statue of Queco Anne was sometime avo ldactsl in fmut nf St P.niv cathedral in London. As a work of art it uevor gave credit to its sculptor. The figure was not one to be admired, and has been an eyesore to passers by. Some body not long since, for some reason best known to himself but that can be suspected by others, knocked the nooe ont of the etligy. Since thea the effigy, with in whitish blotch, has exhibited 'a decidedly ghastly appearance, much to the distress of everybody who passes the adjoining churchyard. A momentous question baa arisen in England. Who is to replace that lost nose for anew one? The face of "Queen Anne" ia diwtroyed. "Her Majesty" is dailv insulted by the publio appearance of her mutilated statue. It would seem to be an easy matter to patch a new nose npon the face; or, for that matter, to contract for another and more acceptable piece of sculpture. The matter wan brought to tha notice of the Common Council of London, but that thrifty body consider ed that no authority except that of Parli ament was efficient in the premises. The Dean of St. Pan Is, too, say that the nonument was erected at publio cost under the act of Parliament, and there fore that the Chapter Las no businosi to interfere in the matter. The Department of Works will not step in to the relief of the donbt, because it is especially for bidden to touch any statuary within the city boundaries. The Treasury, there fore, refuses all applications for money for the restoration. An effort has also been made to throw the great work npon the broad shoulders of the Cor poration, which, however, is determinedly turned against any endeavor to further burden it, being already over-bnrdened. And so the disfigured statue of Queen Anne, without a nose, remains a sepul chral hideousness in front of St. Paul's Cathodral, an object of abhorrence to all who look upon it, and no power in Eng land can be found to replaoe it, or to mend it so that it may, to an extent, be publicly presentable. To remove it is out of the question, and no publio body is willing to undertake the task of re pairing it. In this country it is likely that private intorest in such a matter would step forward to furnish relief; bnt in England it might not be considered quite the thing, oonsidoring that the statue what remains of it is that of royalty. Tanning Skins. A correspondent wishes to be in formed "how to tan skins with the wool or fur on so as to serve for buggy rngs. If the skins are not freshly taken off, soak thorn in wator with a little salt until they are as soft as when green. Then scrape the flosh off with a fleshing knife, or with a butchor's knife with a smooth round edge, and with sheepskins the wool should be washed cloan 'with soft soap and water, and the suds be thoroughly rinsed out. tot each ordinary sized skin take 4 ounces of salt, 4 ounces of alum and V, onnce of borax. Dis solve these in one quart of hot water, and when crol enough to bear the band, stir in sufficient ryo meal to make a thick paste with half an ounce of Spanish whiting. This paste is to be thoroughly spread over every part of the flesh side of the skin, which should be spread lengthwise, wool side out, and left for two weeks in an airy placo. Then remove the pasto, wash and dry the skin; when not quite dry it must be worked and pulled and scraped with a knife made for the pupose, shaped like a chopping knife, or a piece of hard wood made with a sharp edge. The more the skin is worked and scraped as it dries, the more pliable it will be. Selecting a Wire. Who marries for love takes a wife : who marries for fortune takes a mistress ; who marries for position takes a lady. You are loved by your wife, regarded by your mistress, tolerated by your lady. Yon have a wifo for yourself, a mistress for yonr bouse and friend, a lady for the world and society. Your wife will agree with you, your mistress will rule you. your lady will manage you. Your wife will take caro of your household, your mistress of your house, your lady of ap pearance. If you are sick your wife will nurse yon, your mistress will visit you, vour ladv will innnirfi after vour VienlUi You take a walk with your wifo, a rido with your mistress, aud go to a party with your ludy. Your wife will share your grief, yonr mistress your money, your lady your debts. If you are dead, your wife will weep, your mistress will lamont, and your lady wear mourning. V Inch will you have? A Russian grain merchant is reported assaying: "Ihe American cheap grain has completely undermined us. It is oloar that we cannot compete with our trans-Atlantio friends. Do you think that a man with a hoe can compoto with a man with a steam plow? That repre sents our respective conditions. Our agriculture is in a primitive state, and our transportation in its infancy, In spite of dear labor, American grain costs tho producer one-half as much as Rus sian grain; and besides in America one aero of cultivated soil yields three times as mucu as we can get from our soil, which as yet knows no mature. The PoorCi'Hate's Family. "I dinod at Montague House last night, and had the pleasure of meeting tho Bishop of Oxford (Samuel Wilberforce). I was told a funny story about him the other day, viz., that whon ho was dining with a large party a poor curate, who was de ploring the large family he had to edu cate with a vory small income, said: 'Do you know, my lord, I have nineteen children?" Upon whioh a very red faced woman with a squeaky voice, exclaimed, 'Only fourteen by mo, Mr. Jones!'" I Ivemiuisecnce3, etc., Baroness Bloom field. What is Called Fi n is Maryland. A gentleman in town having caught a very plump rat, a few days si nee, con ceived the idea of playing a joke on a mend who is somewhat of an epicure. He according skinned and nicely dressed tho rat and presented it to his friend. telling him that it was a squirrel. The friend carried it home, had it cooked.and partook oi Ins delicate dish with much gusto, declaring it elegant. When told that be had eaten a rat, he refused to be lieve it. bt. Michael s Comet. A Modern Sin Walter Raleigh. A lady pulled the strap of a street car at a corner where there waa a huge mud pun die. She looked at it appalled. She was not very young, nor especially beau tifnl, but out stepped a man from the car wearing No. 10 shoes, and planted one of them squire in the mud, and said: "There, ma'am, step on that." After all, there will be a heaven for men some men. a uRADrATE. An Indiana avenne lady dropped in on one of her neighbors for an afternoon call. "How is your daughter?" she inquired. "Splendid. She has just got back from the State Normal school where she cyphered clear through from ambition to chemical fraelairs, and theu she took np pottery and jobbery, and says she can speculate tha internal calculations.' . FKBS03AL AVD GI.UR1L. Cincinnati expocta to Lave cheap ioe next summer. More paper was sold in Cincinnati last year than ever before. Five millions a year are collected for Chicago city and county purposes. It costs $2,635,150 a yer to ran the Publio Printing Office at Washington. Miss Anna Dickinson ia living in Ilonesdale, Pa., endeavoring to recover ber health. A tiny bnt mnch deoorated bonnet is to be the spring headgear for the girl of the period. The first twenty dollar gold coin of the United States was ooined in 1819 at Philadelphia. The divoroe decrees in Maine last year numbered 029 against 612 in 1881, and 479 in 1878. Lebanon, 111., brags of the fact that eighteen pair of twins wore born in that town last year. The whole amount of property tax paid by the 4000 saloons in Chicago is only $12,000 a year. A Boston man has seen sixty-five species of birds in Boston Common with in the last five years. An orange eaten before breakfast cures the craving for liqnor and improves a disordered stomach. The aggregate valuation of real estate in Missouri is $442,820,742, and of per sonal property $170,813,976. Only three firms in the United States manufacture quinine, and they have all accumulated great wealth. Illinois Las 10,463 miles of railway track, leading all the States. Four roads are in the bands of receivers. During sixteen years of congressional service, the late ex-Senator Lot M. Mor rill never rode on a railroad pass. There is in Davenport, Iowa, an active "Taxpayers' Association," whose object is to "muzzle the ravenous taxeaters." The fact that the new nickel conld be passed without mnch difficulty for $5 is considered by many people as its chief merit. English capital is seeking investment in New York real estate, and the Ger mans, it is said, are feeling their way in the same direction. Missouri still has a trifle of 1.398.000 sores of publio land undisposed of, sub ject to homestead entry, and much is covered with timber. Over $25,000 has been expended on the crypt under the cathodral at Garden Uity, liong Island, but the corpse of A. T. Stewart is still missing. The boll used at Wellesley College. Massachusetts, is from an anciont Budd hist temple iu Japan, and was presented by Li. Jj. Uraves of ttoston. Lowell Courier : There are two charm ing lady dentists in Philadelphia, and young men are finding lota of cavities in their teeth and pocket books. The statement reoently published that Harvard college Lad received $250,000 for tho erection of a "low rent dormi tory is authoritatively denied. Frankfort can boast of having the first water works in Kentucky. They were built in loU4 of wooden pipe, and laid from Cedar Cove Springs to the city. Prairie fires are are doing great dam age in western and northwestern Texas. Stock and slaughter ranges are especially suffering. Some fires aro incendiary. In Portland, Me., where they Lave a stringent liquor law, the percentage of arrests for drunkenness to the popula tion was in I88U a.ot; in JNew Xork it "was 2.44. Miss Sargont, daughter of the Ameri can minister in Berlin, is reported en gaged to an officer attached to the troops that do eervice at the emperor's pal aoe. Count von Moltke said of the late Gen. Chanzy that he was "one of the few gen erals of tho day capable of commanding an army of 200,000 men without losing thoir heads. John Richard Green, the historian.has been known for some time to be seriously ill, and now he is privately reported as unlikely to live many duys. His phy sicians say that he has a complication of incnrable maladies. Men in the India cotton mills get as much as soven shillings a week. Women con earn about two-thirds as much, while children do not make more than about fifty cents a week, and yet these wages are about twice those paid to larm labor. The prices nf labor have materially ad vanced in Taris during tho past few yoars. Laborers' wages have risen from forty to sixty centimes, and nearly all mechanics get 40 to 60 per cent more now than in 1877. The average is fully 40 per cont highor. Home, from the seaside: "I suppose you have settled down to quite your old home life again, hey?" suggested Fitzjoy to his neighbor. "Yes, pretty much; but the family brought back a little too much Seabreeze with them. They are blowing about something all the time." "What's the crowd about?" queried a stranger, as he noticed a Btream of visi tors going into a fashionable residence. "It's a silver weddin'," obligingly re plied bis informant. "What's a silyer weddin'?" "Why, achap'sbeon morried twenty-five times, and he's a celebratin' of it A number of young women in noper East Tennesese have announced as their motto, through the Blonntevillo Star: "Total abstinence or no husbands." It is soil to think that theso young women have looked so much into tho wine when it is red in the cup that their matrimo nial prospects are marred. An exchange announces in a tone of surprise: "The Czar and Czarina have been dancing at a ball." There doesn't seem to be anything out of the way in such conduct. That is what balls are for. Now, if they had danced at a prayer-meeting comment would have been iu order. There are 1943 establishments in the United States engaged in the manufac ture of agricultural implements. The capital invested amounts in round numbers to $63,000,000, and 40 000 hands draw in wages $15,350,000, while $31, 530,000 is paid annually for lumber, iron, steel and unspecified materials. The total value of the annual product ia placed at $68,090,486. BETfKB THAI GOLD. CALIFORNIA FRUIT SALf A Plenum! and Efflradou Remedy, IF YOU HAVE ABUSED YOURSELF By over Indulrence In entln oi drlnklnr! h... j. or nervoun headache; tlryiiPM of the nkln, wit? fcvprbih ttndeiu!v: ubrht vweaLB and Aleenli.iu.na. . all oieaua use Slaves.' California Fruit Salt, And feel Toun once more. It lit the woman', hu.. Try It; al per bottle; bottle for V For wle t... drumrWa. HOIKIK.DAVIS CO., Whol-nah. a, S FARMS WANTED. We now bar and are constantly receiving am catloos from parti et desiring TO BUY FARMS. In the wvernl year we have heen engaged n o. RK.AL ESTATE 111'KlXfc.SH In Portlnnri k. old a (treat many farms In Oregon. We are now ranging to make the SALF. OF FARMS iuifiu in r-I'vi mil t mill mtr-IHJ tUUt DiriIIK IU IW pff partnl u near tw powtlble to supply all customer wD rluailrsi f n twiv a furiti IfnM nt m ejrvnsiln 1 n anil lnt...l l WI I.N VITB All nernona who Winn to Hell their lands or farm in tne btate of Oregon, either improved or n,;1 ..lu.ra, Siwu. nui.. vt-KCUtuie ur MUl'K IKnilB lO 1Kb fyun personally or by mad, In order that we may Ik the name. Please be artlcular to Rive us the nunilwni acrea, eeciion, range, uwn.ni ami county, lay of Ian. auto watered, nature nf will, bow much fvnnwl u, cultivated condition of balance. What Improvement! such as bullillints, orchards, Ac. distance in achi.. postomVeor market, railway, or river; what la U. veal roan to reacn tne tarm iroiu roruaua, Ac. FBICEfl. We want yonr lowest PMCE AND BEST TERM Write in full; we want now a large number of So i farms to till orders. All communications private m wiU receive prompt attention. Addreaa E.J.HAIGHT&CO., Real Estate Agent, 58 Morrlaoa atreet. Portland. Orefoa, DR. SPINNEY, X. 11 Ktwraj atreet, a. F., TreaU all Chronic and Special Dleeaec. YOUNG MEN WHO MAY BE SUFFERING FROM THE KP fecta of vouihful follies or Indiscretion, will k well to avaU themselves of this, the greatest tmt ever laid at the altar of suffering humanity. LR. KPINNEY will guarantee to forfeit J0 for eiert case of gemlnal Weakness or private diseases of uij kind or character which be undertakes and fails to cure. MIODLK-AGED kf F.fi. There are many at the age of thirty to sixty who in troubled with too frequent evacuations of thebladdn, often accompanied by a illlil smarting or burning sensation and a weakening of the system in a ninn the patient cannot account for. On examluiag tbt urinary deposits a ropy sediment will often be found, and sometimes small particles of albnmer will apw, or the color will be of a thin milklsh hue. un changing to a dark anil torpid appearance. Thprc rt many men who die of this rillllculty, ignorant M U cause, which is the secoud stage of Seminal Weakwts Dr. 8. will guarantee a perfect cure In all such ca and a healthy restoration of the genitor unluary or 'omceHonrs-lOtoanrtOtoS. Sundays from ti II A.M. Consultation free. Thorough eiumlnalai Wjfa.fe-. R- PIKY CO.. i No. 11 Kearny atreet, isun Francisco, UsL I ' "V! .p ' i ii.ii. m IU" -ia Mil.' iFI-;. ::, BAX FRAXCISCO GALI.fcltY. Photographer, Corner First and Morrison Streets, POKTLAND OKKGON. NEW YORK JEWELRY MANUF'G CO., !? Flrat (., het. Wnahlnrtwa Hdltark. I atlan.l Amenta fnr tht K(M-kfan! Kailnd Watrhw, dealer In all kind of Jewelry. Country order 111' with diMpaU'h. Ooodnnent C. O. D. with privlleC01 examining wiore Diiying. ii REyTAl KAXT THE UKVr J TUE rfl AU Modern Improvements. Open all day. J. II. KKF.WF.K. Proprietor iiTIGELL 10 000 Pianos 1.00C Organs. ft Hail. U, j f atauaUct.ir, FrriBt?3t..I.WR) WauJ' JiQrrn or dry, price ii on; atmosithf'!!c J Insufflator." prire tan Lrr ture and In" Iota niaji-d on rwelnt af nrt-, with fr.ll direct! ooxc (.. 8KII1MORK Co., Umcgta JSI FW street. Ponlana. Of. Siriui nr Uw Ftrjj 'iniiPH I'i! , 4. I U ill . -, . 77 ",! il jii v ri I mm & 1 1 I I It 1 H I 1-1 ?f- fcgTtai-iiii.'," n id USE ROSE PILLS.