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1 FROST. CIURLCI L. BILDIETH. 1A..I vltltwrnidmillLmMrff' ta'erlaeed witn rurTe ,nd liM witU line' 4 '?., .nro nfawMt harmony termed to shapst ol beauty crystalline. rueful vines and tendrils of uch aorl IZiet ure aTe ln '""7 wor,a i"" ?- r.f niiauvl ulver wrought ' J,ugh tulip Bowers and lilies half unfurled. fin and hemlocks blend with plumy palms cacti spring from feathery furna and bloom! such aa rock in Southern calnos . 1- r. . m it fM.njU with anliTAKnii rnfldl. J,,!etnmri""'7 a . . . Mit-litji nf hir !b with iris wines ? t ihed in mid-air many a brilliant plume, n .intlllating ihoali of swimming things ljt SOe,n 10 1 6,vv" " a there are diamond-orustol diadems, a Arbf of pearl and leeptroa of pale gold. ladpved with emoralds of price uutold. , J marvellous architecture of no name, ZM 1 and shafts of loveliest form aud hue, '!T wnnacles and turrets tippod with flame, l5 frettel domes of purest f appbira blue. . J these the Genii of the Frost last nicU fraught through the still cold hours by charm I. - like dreams dispelled before the light, aa . . In vnnnr on the noon. UIFE'S LOVER. Men who love their wives are so likely . .nma that they are loved in return rterald Brvce was almost the last ao- naintance 01 ju. ery foni of a man who was not her hus m& The fortunate man, os his friends tirar'ded him, was Mr. Jasper Hasten, nd as he had neither good looks, wit or fnoney, qualities which Mrs. Bryce held j the highest regard, Bryce was very !low to imagine that ho eould be at all llangcrous. Perhaps Mr. Bryce had been equally unsuspecting when Mas- en began to seen uer out ud pnruus nd drop into uer pnrior onoe a ion u'gbt. Mr. Masten seemed constitution Uy s dawdler, and Mrs. Bryce detested ilivdlers. f Bat as Mrs. Bryce was not particularly ipretty.and her husband was not rich, there were not many man wuu ymu um neeiol attention, so she soon came to an- . r 1 1 -1 l joyih'eai, and do her best to increase their nurooer. Although she did not know it, she was quite tired of her husband, for, while he had no great faults, he was only one man; all of him that her rather small mind could comprehend, she had learned and wearied of in the first of the tliree years she had been married. Mas- hiistslked of things neither good nor Bbid.tbat never interested Lryoe, his com nlimpntij were formal and elaborate in stead of familiar, and he so carefully avoided rising above the level of Mrs. Bryce's intellect and tastes that he soon seemed to the silly little woman a man ifter her own heart. He never talked of unsuccessful business ventures, or the prices of provisions or the necessity of jconomv. He was always, when Mrs. Bryce saw him, in full dress, whereas Bryce sometimes lounged, unshaven and id over-large slippers, in a rattier shabby Iressmg- gown. And he had such a way of looking at her, as if he wished he might say some thing very tender, and she did so won' der what it was, ana now be would say it if hfi dared! Brvce often said tflniin f things; said them so often that frequently rf mey were tiresome; besides, Airs. JJryce, oefore she was married, had enjoyed a variety of pretty speeches, while mar' nage bad reauceu tuem to a sameness that at times became almost unendur able. When Bryce was compelled to see what everyone else had seen he became by turns puzzled, angry and heart-sick, and anally he was all three at once. He be gan in a manly way to make love anew to his wife, but the result only added to lusdisoomfort; bis wife would yawn through an evening of his devotions, telling him not to be silly, and that if he loved her he might prove it by giving her new dresses like some of her ac quaintances wore. Occasionally such nenings would be suddenly changed in character by the unwelcome appearance of Masten, when Mrs. Bryce would brighten with great rapidity, even in her manner to her husband although what he said to him had generally enough eidolons raillery in it to drive nim to a room and a brandy bottle in search of an ntidote. After finding love-making unsuccess ful and caning his brother for officiously roggesting a quiet divorce, Bryce Bet himself to work to devise some new method. He thought of retaliation, but between unwillingness to subject good women to scandal,and reluctance to have ha own name coupled with that of any ooan more pretty than particular, he n found himself in a quandary. As he discussed the subject with himself one evening at a musicole, in his inter- of feeling uncomfortable at the Harked attention that Masten was pay ing Airs. Bryce, right before his eyes, a lo voice, almost at his ear, said: 'Why don't you teach her that two Play at that game?". He turned quickly and saw Miss ion Albrongh, with whom he had Wed whed they were both children. ? Albrongh was old enough to be an old maid, but handsome ongh to attract much attent'on. As IQS had been OiLlraaco1 hrr min i snitnra nd rejected them all, she acquired m0ch reputation as a flirt, particularly she was very vivacious. With Bryce e ""d always maintained her early ndship in ways that were hearty and surely honorable, so the troubled hus od instead of resenting her suggestion, ly answered: ennii Lknow welI Marion, that I !?nian be mean enough to mike a tool ofny woman.- j'm've to occasion to do so; all you J? I80 pretend a sudden and violent Srd for me M !iVour "Certainly With whom could, you tonnif'-.00 kno I'd box your ears X Jou wero 10 My 8iDsla Word itSl,illPMp8J?" 'piufai enongh 10 My 2e-5 ?iDd'bat they say about me; I ?f U1 they say of you?" wave that t j ti.h f ' begin at onoe. If tou can't sar anything, try to look something, and see how jealous I will make your wife be fore the evening is over." Bryce laughed and made some careless remark, Miss Albrougu lis ened with au expression of adoring interest. Tlify oonversed about music, but the lady manner would have persuaded any one that tender confidences were being ex changed. Hor example was contagious, and Bryco soon found himself exchang ing eloquont glances with hor during an interminable four-hand piece for the pi ano. The actions of the couple did not long escape Mrs. Bryce's notice, for sev eral ladies who had no cavaliers took pains to whisper to her from time to time. But Mrs. Bryce, though aston ished, was merely amused, in a stupid way, although she took occasion to whis per to her husband later in the evening, that it did not seem to her entirely noc essary that so healthy a woman as Marion Albrougu should have loanoVl so heavily on him during the promenade Before the entertainment ended, Miss Albrougu had made Bryce promise that any notes she might write him should be left where his wife could see them. Bryce kept his promise, though some of the notes, harmless enough in their pur port, were somewhat startling in their familiarity. In spite of all, however, Bryce informed Miss Albrongh, when they next met, that hia wife was not in the least jealous. "You must givo her time, Gerald," was the reply; "don't be impatient, aud do be persistent. You've no idea what fun it is to mo." Bryce wan right in saying that his wife had not begun to be jealous, but he did not know that she was pretending jealousy, in a sentimental way, to Mas ton, and was hearing many expressions of indignation in return. What troubled Mr. Bryce most, however, was that Mas ton did not improve an opportunity tbat was almost an invitation to make love; his entire mind seemed occupied by dis approval of Bryce's conduct and Miss Al brough's notes, all of which Mrs. Bryce showed him. When the pretended flirtation was again visible publicly, Mrs. Bryop began to be annoved by whispering intended for her ear, which she could not wonder at. for the couple did seem totally ab sorbod in one another; they even sought the semi-seclusion 01 a deep window with heavy curtains. "Isn't it dreadful?" whispered Mrs. Brvce to Masten. "Infernal!" exolaimed Masten with so much vehomence that Mrs. Bryce won dered whether, after all, her admirer was only tho gentleman he pretended ti bo, instead of the lover she had fondly im agined him. For several weeks Bryce did not miss a single opportunity to meet Miss Al brough in society, and although he warned her that people were already talking, he was told that people had talked before, yet never in jured her reputation in the least. Be fore long Bryce had the pleasure of in' forming his fellow-plotter that her plan was succeeding, for Masten did not call as frequently as before, and be did , not restrict his attentions in company to Mrs. Brvce. He said that evidently his wife was feeling frightened, and Miss Albrougu agreod with him; lie also said it was strange that his wife did not call him to account, and again Miss Marion admitted he was right. At the end of a month he said: "I've an important announcement to make; my wife bos fallen in love with me again. I suspect that pique at Mas ten's entire desertion of her has brought her to her senses." "Are you sure he has entirely discon tinued bis attentions?" asked Miss Albrougu, with unusual earnestness. "Quite sure," said Bryce. "Then I, too, have an important an nouncement to make; Mr. Masten will never renew them." "Are you sure of this?" "Entirely." "May I ask your reasons?" "I'm willing to tell yon one of them," said Miss Marion, with a smile that Bryce first thought quizzical and then puzzling, "but mind that you tell it to no one else without my permission. Mr. Masten is soon to become my husband." "Your husband! Masten? Why, when where how Upon my word, Marion, this is extraordinary, though I can't imagine any bachelor observing your de portment toward me in the past few weeks without falling dead in love with yon. May I ask when he proposed?" "About two years ago." "What! And during all the time he has been flirting with my wife he" "He has been engaged to me all the while; at least, he refuted to consider our engagement broken, although I re fused from the first to let it be made publio until he ceased flirting with mar- jiod ladies." "And all the time in whioh Ive imagined you playing a part to save an old friend from trouble, you've really 1, " Been doing my best to save my own silly heart from any further tor ments. Dreadfully selfish and deceitful, am I not? Really, Oerald, Masten is not a bad fellow, except when he flirts, bnt he has done that so long, that I had al most despaired of him when your trou ble gave me a good excuse to dispose of mine." "Marion, you're a sly witch !" "Oh! no; only a determined woman." Never omit service on account of the fewness of those present. The late Bish op Randall was announced to preach in an Ewtern church in behalf of his mis sionary work in Colorado. Only six per sons appeared. For a moment the good Bishop hesitated. Finally he concluded that it was his duty to carry out his ap pointment. The question of congrega tion was none of his business. Accord ingly the service went on and he preached his sermon to the six people. In the col lection which followed was a single of fering of 3200. This amazed him. The next day he received a note from a gen tleman asking him to call at such an office. The Bishop responded. "Iam the one," said the gentleman, "who gave you the $200 last night. But after get ting home, I did not feel quite satisfied with doing that. I propose to make np the sum to $1000, and here is my check for the balance." A co-operative Btore in Philadelphia, began eight years ago by a few workmen, now does business of $255,000 a year and pays the stockholders 6 per cent, dividends. The Old minstrel. The Opera Hall was crowded, for the famous minstrels were giving a benefit periormanoe. They bad jutt concluded the ret refrain of the "Swain Uiver." The tumult of applause was bushed by , uie appearance of rairgod old wreck crowding to the front. Lifting his baujo as sipn of brother hood, he criod, with a choking voioe, "Boys, sing that song once more once more for a poor old minstrel's sake. It brings baok the lost and dead; my old home rises before me. where I was once good and happy all the day. I learned tue song there 01 my mother. 1 he vis ion of her smiling face praising bor boy conies back with the ringing notes of the banjo and the memories of lona ago, I wandered away to sing and play for the world. It listened and applauded. I was flattered, feasted, intoxicated with fame and the whirl of pleasures. But I wrenched it all. Now, old and broken in heart and strength, I am left with but one friend my banjo. No one listens to it, for the world has found new favor itcs, and the old minstrel is turned away. She who first praiaod me died while I was playing for the world diod without seeing me for years. The song she taught her boy led him from her side. He left her for the world. The world has forsaken him as he did her. Boys, sing my mother's song again, and let my old heart thrill with a better life once more." The house signaled its assent. The old minstrel sat down in the front row. When the solo reached the concluding lines of tho second stanza, the singer's eyes turned pityingly upon the wan derer, and with yoice trembling with emotion came the words: "All ap and down this world I wandered, Wbrn I wu jrouug: Oh, mDT were the days I squandered. Many were Uie sougt I sung." The stranger sat bending forward, the tears coursing down tho (furrows of care, bis fingers anoonsciously caressing the strings of his battered banjo. All the summer of his life came book to his heart again mother, home, love, and all his boyhood dreams. The chorus began, and the shrivelled fingers sought the chords, and with a strange, weird harmony nnheard before, the strains floated along the tide of song. The house was spell-bound. The time worn instrument seemed to catch its master's spirit, and high above the orchestra accompaniment rang the soul like chords from its quivering strings. When the interlude came, the minstrel leaned over his banjo with all the fond ness of a mother over her babe. Not a sound from either was heard. The solo rose again, and the almost supernatural harmonies drifted with it. Bnt he bowed like a mourner ovei the dead. Every)heart in the audience was touched, and tears of sympathy were brushed away by many a jeweled hand. The singer's eyes were mist, and with plain tive sadness the last lines were Bung: "When ihall I hear the bees a bumming All 'round tbe comb. When tball I hear tbe banjo dimming, Down ln my good old borne." The last chorus followed. The hoary head of the minstrel was lifted, and his face shone with the light of a new dawn ing. His voice joined with a peculiar blending, perfect in harmony, yot keep ing with his banjo high abovo the singers, ringing like a rich harp string long overstrained. The memory of better days,'.the way wardness, sorrow, reemorse, nope and despair of all his wasted life seemed pent np in those marvellous tones. The chorus closed and his head sank down, the long white locks shroud ing the banjo. The manager came before the curtain and said: "The minstrels give one-half the benefit proceeds to the wandering brother." The bonse approved with loud' demonstrations. A collection started in the galleries and swept over the hall like a golden shower. The two sums were heaped together on the stage. Such a contribution never graced the footlights bofore. Again the audience broke forth in round after round of hearty good cheer. But the banjo was still hushed under the shroud of snow white hair, and no word of thanks or token of gratitude came from the silent figure toward whioh all eyes were turned. They called him to the stage and the manager went to es cort him there. He laid his band on his bowed bead the bouI of the old min strel had wandered away onoe more. He was dead. His heart had sung the last song on tbe borders of the spirit land sung it as the, bird sings when it escapes the prison bars which make life "sad and dreary," and flies away from the scene where "the heart grows weary longing." ' luoruioug Katert. The eating wager two quails a day for thirty successive days now under way at Oabe Case's, has induced a correspon dent to send the following printed item to the New York Sun. The sender says it was first published in the Schoharie Republican, October, 1880: For many years there lived in Albany or Wateford a man named Peter Ellis, or Ellison. He died about three years ago. At the time of his death he must have been nearly sevanty years of age. The writer saw him at Saratoga Springs in the summer of 1876. He was then a large, loose-made, big-boned man, not much under six feet in height. He was known as an enormous eater. A dressed turkey, weighing twenty-one pounds, was roasted, and on a wager Ellison ate the whole of it at one sitting, or within about the nsual time occupied at dinner, together with bread and some kind of wine. A dozen years ago a New York sporting man made an offer in tbe way of a bet to the lato John Morrissey that he could produce a man who coald eat a twenty-three pound turkey, roosted, and when he named Peter Ellison as the man, Mr. Morrissey said, "I know the man," and tho proffered bet was not ac cepted. At the time alluded to, when the writer met Peter Ellison, the old man related the particulars of an eating match between another and himself which took place many yeara before at Snediker's, on Long Island, then a well-known roadside inn much frequented by lovers of the horse. The dinner was to consist of broiled spring chickens, bread and wine. The chickens were to be split open at the back and broiled whole, or aa Peter termed it "in spread eagle style," and each man to take the half given him by the carver and referee. Ellison ate thirty-two halves, being nix teen chickens and won the bet. In the spring uf 1M3, at the season of making ample ni;ar. a student of the wuiinaiy at Manchester, Vt., Albert ivttiuoue, tuon 13 years old, after eating what he wantod of hot maple sugar at the house of his father, in that town, nnisnou up by eating twenty-four hand boiled eggs. This was witueasod by a number of Pettibono's follow students, wnom no naa invited to tho bouse to eat maple sugar, and see tho procoss of "sugaring off." During the first cholera season in this country, that of 18.T2, two women living in m Aiaroiey orKmskondor: neighbor hood, now in the town of Esperauce. Soboharie county, sat down by them selves to a dinner of boilod green corn. After eating awhile they bantered one anothor as to which could eat the most of the succulent dish whon groen and properly boiled. One of the women ate twenty -six ears of corn and the other twenty-nine. The latter folt no ill effects from her extraordinary meal. The other was almost immediately taken sick and died within thirty-six hours. The doctor Said she died of Asiatic cholora. flows. The bow, that "touohstone of good breeding," says a Fronch writer, has undergone strange mutation since the obsequious days of tho Georges. Now the body must not bo bent, only the head inclined, cordially or otherwise, ac cording to circumstances; genuflexions are relegated to dancing and posture masters, whoso palmy days are now a reoord of the past. In tbe time of the Morrie Monarch the plumed and jowelod bat was doffed with a sweeping grace to the very gronnd.and there held nntil the lady so saluted hod passed or retired. Now the hat is simply raised in recognition of a fair acquain tance, who must give the initiative by a slight inclination of the hoad, and we are informed by an aristocratic authority on matters of etiquette that "a gentle man returning the bow of a lady with whom he was but slightly acquainted, would do so with a deferential air," but if there was an intimacy he would raise his bat with greater freedom of action, "and considerably higher." In France it is the gentleman who bows first, and, there, too, the bow is the signal of recognition between members of the sterner sex. In England a nod is quito sufficient. The two most polite in the old fash ioned sense of the word of our Kings, Charlos II and George IV, took off their hats to the meanest of their subjects. A lady's obeisance to royalty fifty years ago was an acrobatic- feat, The knees were bent and the body slowly brought for ward in graceful and reverent gnise, the equilibrium being recovered by a back ward movement very difficult to perforin with ease. But our monarchy waxes old, and republican manners, assertive of in dependence, make high-flown courtesy ri diculous. Now a courtesy to royalty is merely a doep dip, a sudden collapse, as if on springs, and as sudden a reattuin ment of the perpendicular. All the Year Round. King Theebaw, of Burmah, has been celebrating the birth cf adaughter. Dur ing the first year of thoir wedded life his favorite spouse presented him with a daughter, and His Majesty, ifcsgusted with the gift, forsook his wife and took up with several of hor rivals. The Queen, however, coaxed him back, and as a pledge of reconciliation the fond husband caused the rivals to be strangled. In due tithe the Queen bore unto Thoebaw an other daughter. This was too much. The King went upon a tremendous and protracted spree, wagering a wilderness of pea-green monkeys against a jungle of scarlet anacondas upon his ability to drink thirty gallons of gin which is the Burmese equivalent of our rum in thir ty consecutive days, during whioh per iod bis loyal subjoots waited with patient perturbation for further developments. At the end of this time the King came to what are regarded in Burmah as bis senses and immediately killed his mother-in-law. He followed np this proof of returning reason, however, by opening all the prisons in the country and turning their ocoupants loose. His act has complicated a situation whioh for one brief moment seemed compara tively clear, and Burmah is now in doubt whether tbe letting loose of the convicts or the stranging of her grandmother is to be regarded as the especial compliment the King meant to pay to his child. another Swindle. The January swindle now being worked upon the honest grangers is as follows: An agent will visit a bouseand exhibit a wonderful powder, ask for tho loan of a lamp, and placing a pinch of tbe stun in the oil, he will dip a Iignted match into the fluid. The lamp will be extinguished as if dipped into water. This wonderful stuff is nothing but com mon salt, colored blue with ultramarine, and, of course, utterly worthless in pre venting lamp explosions or insuring against the breaking of chimneys. As the vapor of the oil, and not the oil, is what burns, the agent experiences no difficulty in playing bis artful trick. The swindler claims that this powder is espec ially adapted for the prevention of lamp explosions and insures against the break ago of lamp chimneys, Drlde, Mules ana Coat at One Sweep. The Tallodga Reporter publishes the following: One Snnday, not many weeks since, Thomas Hayes was married at 2 p. m., to Miss Fike, and spent a happy afternoon. At 9 o'clock the bride threw her hus band's1 overcoat around ber shoulders and stepped out of tho back door, and has not yet returned. It is said that a Mr. Ruggs, of St. Clair county, was very devoted to tbe young lady, and 1 is rumored that he wrote ber a note the day she was married. A pair of Mr. Hayes' mules are also said to be missing. It is thought that tne eloping couple have left for Alabama or Texas. It is rather bard for Mr. Hayes to lose his bride, a pair of mules and an overcoat at one full swoop. ' Only 2 per cent dividends are declared by the savings banks on tbe last six months' busioeas, which looks ts though the Saving Fund and Loan Association or good times were making it difhcnlt for the bank to invest their deposits. Springfield Republican. 1 Lady Tooth-Puller. Miss Jesiie F. Detohon of Philadel phia, a youncrer sixtor of Miss Adelaide Detohon, tho well known reader, having taken the full two yours' conrso it the Philadelphia Dental Collogo, and passed her examination with flying colors, has established herself in practice Miss Detohon being the first lady who ever received a degroe from the institution, a Record reporter called at ber ollico in Girard street recently, in order to ascer tain what sort of au opening the profes sion of dontistry offered to tho gentler sex. The young lady was found in very comfortable and artistic quarters. In reply to a question, she saui: -o. 1 am not the only lady dentist in Philadelphia, there boiug one otlior; but I do not thiuk that any are to bo found outside of this city. In Europe there is one, a Gorman lady, who came to this city to study, and who ufter graduating at the Pennsylvania Dental Collogo, re turned to her uwn nnnntrv wlinrn aha 1 now holds the position of private dontist to Uie Empress Augusta. I am sur prised," she continued, "that many moro women do not enter tbo profession, for it offers them a wonderfully good Hold, and there is no reason why they should not do successrui, since tue other lady dentist in Philadelphia and my self have large and constantly in creasing practices. When I made up my miud to study dentistry, and the students of the college were told that they w.re to have a lady student come among them, they were very indignant and threatened to make it too hot for any woman who ossajed to take the course, and so I started in with some little nervousness, From tho outaet down I was treated with the greatest oourtesy. Why," said the young lady, enthusiastically, "they were so nice to mo that when I graduated I folt as though many of them were as dear to mo as real brothers would have been." "Have you many gentleman patients?" asked tho reporter, who was sorry ho had no aching molar. "No ; a great majority of my patients are ladies. I also attend to the teeth of a great many ohildren, as thoy are not so nervous with a lady as with a gentle man." Miss Detohon said that she thought the profession of dentistry a much better one for womon than of medicine, which she had also studied, as the formor was one in which regular ofiloe hours should be observed, while to be successful in tho praotiae of medicine a lady must bo ready to sally forth at all hours of tho day and night, and must undergo no small amount of exposure. Alarmlug Extravagance. A writer on sooial topics in New York who has Been the world and knows what he is talking about, says the rich men of Europe do not spend anywhere uear the amount of monoy that is considered ne cessnry for "keeping up appearances' among the capitalists of New York ; and declares that within the last two or three years the extravaganoe in the latter city has become simply appalling. There are a thousand men there who annually spend an income of $100,000, most of whioh is wasted, and as many moro who manage to get away with from $25,000 to $75,000 annually, whon they could get just as muoh comfort and enjoyment out of one-fourth of that amount. The ladies of wealthy families encourage and share the extravagance, indulging in expensive whims and fancios whioh a few years ago would have been considered not only wickedly wasteful, but indica tive of lunaoy. It is not an nnoommon thing for $400 or $500 to bo expended for flowers at a reception, and dinnor parties costing as many thousand are given every weok. A recent ball given by one of the loading society, ladies is known to have cost $30,00 and wbon the lights were turned out there was noth ing in the hands of the hostess or the guests of permanent value. It was all exponded for flowers and wine and food and clap-trap. Delmonica is said to do an annual business reaching over a million dollars, with an enormous per centage of profit, and Pinard, the Bruns wick, and other fashionable caterers do a proportionate amount of entertaining. Tub Ancestral Homk of the Hamil tons. I am glad to learn that, with the proceeds of the reoent sale of the Ham ilton Palace collection, the duke has been enabled to beoome a free agont again. He has rid himself of the trustees in whom, five years ago, the manage ment of his estates was vostod, and has appointed Auldjo Jamieson, Writer to the Signet, as bis estate commissioner. The interior of the palace, I gathor, is by no means in such a denuded state as one might imagine, the blanks having been fillod up with valuable pictures whioh bad been stowed away, and the furniture rearranged. Altogether the ancestral homo of the ducal family of Hamilton is yot a place of which not only its owner, but Scotsmen generally, might be pardonably proud. London Society. Here is a sample of the way a column of society news reads in a Tombstone, Arizona paper: "Pools on to morrow's races will be sold at Joyce's to-night. Miss Jessie Peel returned yesterday from her visit to Los Angeles. For hot Tom and Jerry call on Andy Mehan, at the Capital saloon, corner cf r if tu and Fremont streets. Mr. M. McDonnoll, accompanied by his amiable and accom plished wife, arrived in the city to-day. There will be lota of fun at the Cockpit saloon, on Allen street, between Sixth and Seventh, to-morrow evening. All lovers of sport should be in attendance." North Carolina Forests. There are 40,000 square miles of almost unbroken forest in North Carolina, comprising pine, chesnut, oak, maple, beech and hickory timber in their finest growth. It is estimated that in ten years the tim ber alone in North Carolina will exceed in value tbe present total valuation of all the property in the State, including land. Ihe Slate grows nineteen vari eties of oak, and iU pine forest are of the heaviest. The building of new railroads will rapidly open this region to the northern and iastern lnmbwr markets. The blood hound of "Uncle Tom'a Cabin" Company broke loons and killed the donkey. The manager, in dire dis tress, bad the donkeys akin removed, and sent an actor on in it to personate the part, but the fellow, for the first time in bis life, failed to make an ass of himself. ! BlIORT BITS. "Yes," says the boy, with a vaoant look ; "I take no interest in the pleasure Figures worth reflecting upon: In the last five years 20,703 persons have per ished at sea. Chicago Tribune: The Ropubhoan party is being botrayo l by its leadors into a corral. R. McKinstry of Hudson, N. Y., owns the largost applo orchard in tho world 30,000 trees on 300 aroos. The manufacture of flue porcelain pottery is among the now industries whioh have rooentiy sprung up in Ionia, Mich. The total number of manufacturing establishments in tho United States is 253,852, according to tho last census bulletin. American furniture is coming into nse in Scotland "because it is so comfortablo and oasily kept clean. "says Consul Wells 01 uiasgow. A falling off in the trado of RalmVli. N. C, the past year is uroditud to hos tilo discrimination in the ninttnr of freight charges by the railroads. The first order evpr rnrriv1 in fh United States for worwl-wnrkinir ma. cbinery for China bos boon givon to a manuiacturing concern ln Concord. N.U. An odd thing in toys if a savincs bank with a monkey, which enters euou de posit in a dook. Tho inventor caught the idea from 'seoing human cashiers monkey around deposits before soooping dioni iu, A Pittsburg man 84 years of bca ban just been married. He felt that it was an awful undertakiug, but be know it would not be for long and he iruesoid lin could worry through till death came to nis reiiei. Gormantown. Pa., baa a man who ran eat a pound of aoan. a half nonnd nf nan. dies, aud drink a pint of lard oil at a single meal. Ho should bo sent to Rus sia as an Embassador Extraordinary. I it. x, uom. Adv. A Clevoland dentist sava that thn bier men ffivn him the mnat trnnhln. Nntn. rally a largo man is the most liknlrtn give a roaring pounding to the abomin- "wtu nut nuv ,wu llliu bllllb lit WIUIU V going to hurt a bit. Boston Post, Rockland Courier: "Thn Pnn.llntnn Civil Sorviae bill has nnssnd " rmnnrlrn,! Mr. Wigglesworth from tho interior of ms paper, "wen, im glad 01 that, said his wife, "and now I hope our hirod girl will have a little more manners." In New York the whnlnnaln mtna nf boer are to be incroased, but the prioe per glass will not be affected. The talented bar-keopor will learn to draw a glass of boer with an inch more of head on it than usual, that's all. rNorr. Herald. Did it ever occur to you that the band usually stops playing just after you have opened the window, kuooked down a shutter and destroyed a lace curtain or two in endeavoring to hear it more plainly? f Chicago Woild. Nothing is bettor calculated to dostroy a man's equanimity than to have a lady walk np to him while he is llngoring near a fruitjstand and offer him two cents for an apple, when he is in roality only waiting for a horeo oar to come along, Puok. A Western preaoher whose congrega tion bad begun to fall off somewhat had it intimated that he would discuss a fumily scandal the following Sunday. As a consequence the church was orowded. The minister's subject was "Adam and Eve." Chicago girls nover go to the theater with a young man without taking along enough money to buy tiokots for both. Then, if the chap discovers that he has been "robbed," thoy don't have to walk, around nntil the play is over. Dotroit Free Press. Things one would rather have left un said Hostess: "What, must you go already, Professor?" The Professor: "My dear madam, there is a limit to even my. capacity or inflicting myself on my friends!" Hostess: "Oh, no not at all I assure yon!" St. Louis has a horse whioh chews tobacco, and the Detroit Free Proas man, who has interviewed the animal, says when it comes to spitting ten feet and striking a freshly-polished boot, it has to take a back seat. Its mouth is too long to got the right pucker. It is a somewhat bignifioant faot that a larger number of rich men's houses on on Fifth avenue are guarded at night by private watchmen than ever before. On one block alono there are 110 less than throe watchmen, and so much snoring is getting to bo a nuisance. At a dance given in South Carolina the otlior night, one man was stabbed, one shot, two clubbed, two had bones broken, one woman had an eye put out, and the house burnod np. A hdy who attended said the affair was ridiculously recherche. Boston Pout. A Cincinnati butcher found tho thumb of on adult on his chopping block. As subsequent search failed to develop tbe rest of the person, be thinks the owner of tbo docapituted member must have got away with more meat than he left behind him. N. Y. Com. Adv. "Is it better to feed horses with oata whole or crushed?" bas been answered by a French experimenter, who has dis covered that oats eaton whole produoe more excitant power per hour than crushed oats, but that the latter produce a moro immediate effect. Au amateur performance of "Cumillo" by a oolored dramalio club in Maryland was broken np at the scene where Amand hurls the monoy at Cumille, real money being used, and every member of the company making a grand plunge to grab the coin as it scattered on the floor. Herbert Spencer says the coming American will be a more powerful man than has heretofore existed. This must imply that he will be more wealthy than Vanderbilt, for the richest man ia the most powerful. We have a vague notion that we are not the "ooming American." -Nor. Her. "Indeed, I shall not buy my wife a sealskin sacque," remarked a Phila delphia man. "They are bo hard to get off that the fair owners keep, them on when making calls, and are sure to take cold when they go out again in the open air. I love my wife too much to expose) her to such dangers.." J PhiL News. 0