EUGENE CITY GUARD
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
HT TKI.EORAfll TO HATE.
O'Donnoll, tin raurdorer of Cdrey.will
bo banged Deo. 17th.
The London Post say it it probable
that Teunyson will shortly be rained to
peerage.
Tbo -18 th congress opened at Washing
ton Doc, 8d. Carlisle of Kentucky was
elected speaker of tlio house.
The Welland county council baa re-'
nolved to nieuioriali; the Ontario login
lature to grant woman suffrage.
A fire at Lynchburg. Va., recently do-
atroyed twenty -three bouses, including
tlio Sentinel office and sevoral stores.
A Milwaukee special say that William
Ne ws II of Eau Claire, Wis .has d iscovered
silver wine thirty Ave miles from that
oity.
Eldridge F. Johnson, a farmer of Mad
isun, Conn., a found dead near a coal
iit with hi skull crushed, and one leg
lurtted nearly olf.
Captain Drown and seven seamen of
the government steamer Newfoundland
weio lost while trying to save another
vessel near Halifax.
Now senator t for the present congress
aro Tike, Kenna, Gibson, Colquit, Wil
on, Itiddleberger, Sabino, Polmer, Col
lorn, Munderaoii, Dolph and Bowon..
Tl.o adjutaut general of tho army lias
reocived information of the surrondcr at
Cauip Poplar river of flvo lodgos of Bit
ting Lull's forces from the British prov
inces. '
The total oatoh of tho Arolio whaling
fleet for tho season is 11,2'JO barrels of
oil, 162,241 pounds of bone, and 81,120
ponods of ivory. Tho whola is valued
t 800,000.
A Lynchburg, Va., dispatch of Dec,
5th, says : A tramp was killed, engineer
Richard Pond was probably fatally in
jnrod, and two others were slightly in
jured, by a collision on the Norfolk and
Western railway.
. There .was a big explosion of gas in the
mines of tho Youngtown Coko Company,
at Statu burg, Pa. A man named Thom
as was burned to death and six others
whoKo namea could not be lwoed wore
seriously iujurod.
It has been ascertained that the skele
tons of twenty-three soldiers fonnd in
, Dickey county! Dak., some time a;o, are
' those of soldiers killed in a fight with
Ioniaus during Sully's expedition, ntd
there is no mystery connected with it.
slilo N. Poud, au old resident of Fari
bault, Minu., was futally shot recontly
by Mrs. George Swurtz, a womau who
bad been divorced from her husband,
although continuing to live together.
She alleges that Pond ciraulutod damag
ing reports regarding bor.
The commissioner of internal revenue
roocivod a dispatoh from Deputy Collec
tor Betts of lluleigh, N. C, stating that
while destroying au illicit distillery in
Durham county, ho was shot in tho head
from ambush, was compelled to leave,
and was chased by five men.
From tho Boston Post a Ublo is com
piled from dispatches from tho twenty
twveii IraJiug clearing houses in tho
United States, which gives clearances
for tho week ending Deoembor 1, with
tho pervenliige comparisons. Total,
,$750,467,881; decrease, 45 4.
llutilun and Lee, champion -scullers,
are unxious to givo an exhibition in
northern watorc, nud are particularly de
sirous of tuentjng Cotsford of British
Columbia. Haitian's latest offer is to
match himself against all ooinors, and to
row wherever smooth water can be
found.
A Wexford dispatch of Deo. M says:
A mob last evening uttucked a theater
in which evangelic sorvico was being
held, and attempted to burn the build
ing. The mob took possession of the.
town, broke tho windows iu the l'rotest
aut churches, and of pearly all tho
Louhos occupied by Protestants. The
drosses, of the ladies who attended ser
vices in tho church and theater were
torn off, and the goutloroon accompany
in1? thorn were stoned. Sevoral wore in
jured severely. The mob paraded the
atroets sovoral hours singing "Ood Save
Ireland."
A Chicago dispatoh of December 3d
ssys : The coroner this nftoruoou held au
inquest to inquire into tbo cause of the
death of Mrs. Mary 11 do, aged GO years,
who lived as a recluse for years and died
alone. A verdict was reudored that
leuth reunited from a combination of
asthma nud a waut of nourishment ami
drink. She claimed to be a nieco of the
DuUo of Afgjle and cousin to tho Mar
quis of Lome. A soparutiou from olan
Oumpbell, to which she belonged, was
auted by her murryiug below her station
Her husband was murdered by Indians
ou tho ovorlsud route to California thir
ty live years ago. Upturning to Chicago,
Mho amassed considerable property as a
muhio teacher, but took to drinking nud
dissipation.
A PitUburg dispatoh of December 5th
nays: ltoss grove, on tho West Pennsyl
vania railroad line, nine miles from Alle
gheny City, was the acuue this afternoon
of ou of the most brutal and holly oou
touted hard glove prize tights that ever
took place in western Pennsylvania. Tho
JriuoipsU were Patrick Moruu and
amos McCoy, and lit round were
fought in one hour and tbirty-six min
utes. The right bad been on the tapis
for everl mouths, and was for a purse
of 300. McCoy is 27 years old and
Moran 51. Owing to tbe great difference
in ago, it was thought the former would
Lave an easy victory, and betting was
two to oue io favor of McCoy. The en
oountar was to have taken place on
Thanksgiving day, but was postponed
for some reason, and it wa generally be
lieved it wa off. This afternoon 100
porting men left this city aud arrived
at ltoss grove at 3 o'clock. A ring was
marked out, but no ropes were put up.
At 3:42 time wa oillrd. At the begin
ning McCoy broks his right wrist, and
for the rest of the time the battle was
fought with his loft hand. Both men ap-
reared determined to win. and were soon
covered with blood. After McCoy broke
his wrist be foueht detDoratelv. ami ana.
cded In knocking down bis antagonist
UOtimos. In the llltu round Moran
got in a torriQo blow on McCoy's neck,
foiling Lim like an ox. He was picked
J op aud carrio-1 to a come , but wa eom-
pleti If 'azod, and wanted to stop fight
lug. but fronds prevailed on him to con
tinuo, and be fought three more rounds,
Morsn knocking aim out in the 114th
round. Both won wore terribly pun
irihed, and. McCoy bud to be carried to
the tram.
T lie lufloeure
of Forests
Nipply.
upon Water
There has been In tbe post years a con
sidorable amount of discussion, espooi
ally among those using water aa a motive
power for manufacturing purposes, of
the effect upon our annual rain fall die
to clearing up large tracts of onr forest
Vcta, 8mo maintain that the effoot is
to dircroywimmish the amount of rain
which fulls annually Ttpon any givon
area uf land which has been cleared np,
thus causing sovoro drought and an in
sufliciuncy of water for motive power
where there formerly was an abundance.
Wit'i respect to this latter state of affairs,
think it would bo much easier to show
that it is brought about by an increase
in the amouut of power required,, rather
than by a diminished water enpply. But
Ibis is not the qtlobtiou. Does the clear
ing np of our forests diminish the annual
rain full? Wo do not think it docs. At
any rate, it baa not sensibly affected the
mount fulling in the custom states dur
ing the last sixty years, as ia absolutely
proved by tho records kept by tho vari
ous water power companies during that
time. At Lowell, Mass., the propriotors
of tho locks and canals bavo kept a teoord
of the annual rain fall since the year
1820, und no material change has been
shown. According to those records, the
average for the whole period baa boon
41.111 inches yearly. In the year 1882 it
amounted to 40.1)1 inohos. In 1870, '78,
'7l and 1881 it exceeded thla amount,
being 50 03 inches in 1878; and the
average for the ten years from 1820 to
1830 ia almost precisely tho samo as the
average for tho last ten years, although
very large tracts of forest have beon
cleared away in the Merimao valley dur
ing that timo.
The real effort produced by cutting
down and clearing air ay tho forests would
soem to be this r It allows the water
which fulls to ran off mora rapidly to
tho ocean. In a haavily timbered re
gion, it will readily bo seen that the
uresonoe of the trees will tend to equal
ize and prolong tho flow and evaporation
of the surface water, while in a region
bare of trees it will qnickly find its way
to the various streams, and thonce to
the ocean, and the evaporation will also
be more rapid, owing to the absenoe of
the shade, etc. Thus it may reasonably be
inferred that land whioh was reasonably
moist whilo covered with trees may, after
being cleared up. be subjoct to periods
of drought. The writer personally
knows of sevoral cases whore "living"
springs of water existed on land whioh
was covered with trees, and the dryest
seasons did not porcoptibly diminish the
amonnt of their flow. After the treej
wero cnt away, thoso springs wholly
dried np in a ycur or two, and the hard
est rains would mako them flow but a
day or two.
The piosenoo of forests soems not to
increase the rain full, but to temper and
equalizo its effects after it has fallen.
If. F. 8, in the Locomotive.
The Subject of Education.
Tho subject of education receives crit
ical and exhaustivo attention in the in
augural messngo of Gov. Butler, of Mass
achusetts. The governor claims that the
fund is not exponded for tho benetit of
ull in tho state; tho percentage of illiter
acy shows this if nothing else. High
grades of study are cultivated, but the
spoiling book is abolished; subjects that
cught not to bo included in a commou
school education exhaust tho fund until
Massachusetts is tho nineteenth state in
the illiteracy of her popule.tron of the
tbirty-oight. The salaries in tho higher
sohools ure too high and in the lower
grades too low. It is necessary, to pro-
vent cniuo and pauperism, to educate
tho mussos up to a certain necessary
point and to tit them for the suffrage.
The classes abovo will and ought to odu-
oate themselves np to a still higher
potut. In order that he cannot be mis
understood, be says that tho robool fuud
money is diverted extravagantly from the
many to whom it does belong, to tho use
of tho fow to whom it docs not belong,
and be illustrates it by citing tho Normal
and the Art schools, and closes by advo
cating the following moasurcs: Restrict
tho branches taught in the primary
schools by law specifically to spelling,
readiug, writiug, grammar, arithmetic,
geography, history proforably of the
Umtod states and require that those
shall bo taught upon tho same system, to
tho same grade of scholars, in every com
mou schnol iu tho commonwealth. VY beu
tho scholar cau show by an examination
that be is well grounded in tho elemeu-
tary English branches, theu let him be
admitted to ft school of higher cade,
where lino drafting for industrial pur
poses shall bo taught, bookkeeping, nl
cebra, goomotry, tho rudiments of the
Latin aud Freuch lauguugos, chemistry,
rhysics, with uatural philosophy iu a
rudiimntal degree; aud there a common
school education should stop.
Miss Ada Merrcll, of Michigan, cornea
to the froiit with the following record of
her an miner's work: "Pioking up meadow
seven days, buildiug fence four days, on
potatoes iu basement eight days, plant
ing among tho logs 211 days, planting in
cleared Held a 12 days, planting seed
potatoes 40 bnshel, hoeing in cleared
field 15 days, removing bugs from
potato viue seven days, digging potatoes
10 days, picking whortleberries, two
bushels, two days, raking and biuding
oats, four days, help placo straw in barn
two days, carrying lumber one day, on
strawberries four days, blackberrying
one day, hoeing strawberries two days,
digging poUtnea 11 days, splitting wood
one day in all 120 days. Dug and sold
300 bushels potatoes up to September
25th, 1883. Estimate 800 bushels
potatoes more to dig; 000 bushels in all.
An illustration of the ridiculous and
aunoying way in which a church choir
will sometimes rnn together the words
of a hvran, is afforded by the remark of
a small boy in one of the front pew of a
a church in Boston. The hymn begin
uing "The consecrated cross I'd bear,"
has just been sung, and in tb momentary
qrtitt which followed, tho perplexel
voiitli tut nod to his father and asked
iu an earnest whisper, "Say, pa, where
to tlev keep tho consecrated cro: a eyed
bear?
WHAT (LOCK J0NLS DID.
That winter we were in oamp on Pun
ther Creek was one never to be forgotten,
even by a miner who had blasted rocks
in tbe hills and worked knee doep in the
cold waters of the valleys. No one was
making a fair living,-to siy nothing ot
adding to the store which was to some
day carry the possessor back to the states
and to wife and children.
It was not enough that; times were
hard, the woathor bo I and a good share
of tbe men sick, bnt the blacklegs came
down from Thunder Bend and np from
Aunt Sally's Town and made themselves
quite at homo among us. They were
well stocked with whisky and - gambling
devices, and more than one of our men
who had dug and delved for months to
get a few dollars ahead saw it pass into
the hands of those hyenas.' r i '',
When Richard Smith lost his dant and
raised a kick, one of the gamblers put a
knifo into him to settlo tbe argument.
That action' stirrod up the town, and in
the row that followed four or rive men
were killed and as many rooro wonnded.
After this affair the town was pretty
l mot for a lortnight, ana men occurred
the iucidont I set out to rotate.
One of the best-natured men in camp
was a man from Connocticnt, generally
known by the name of Clock Jones.
When be loft 'Frisco for the digging? he
carried with him an old fashioned family
clock, and for a year or two he and the
clock were "pards," and traveled in com
pany and were never out of sight ot eaou
other. In this way he came to be known
by the front name of "Clock," and if the
title did not please him, no one ever
heard him object to it.
I repoat that lie was one of tho best-
natured men in camp. He was never
disconraged, never ont of sorts, and had
never been known to have a row with
any one. He had money saved up to re
turn home to his dear ones, and was only
waiting for spring to open to take his
departure.
At some time in the past Clock Jones
bud been a drunkard. Perhapa tbe tears
and prayers of a loving wife bad wrought
his rescue. He had braced against the
awfnl vice, and none of us nod ever
known him to tasto the stuff. '
Well, it might have been curiosity that
one day led the man to enter the shanty
of the worst blackleg of all. If not that,
then he was drawn there, as fate has
drawn her victims here and there before.
He was a man who would not touch
cards, and, as I said before we had never
seen him taste liquor. And yet within
half an hour after ho bod entered that
den he was whooping drunk and being
plucked of his money. Several of bis
friends mado efforts to get him out of the
clutches of the blacklegs, but their kind
words were answered by threats and
curses. Xhe man hail changed from a
quiet, Ood-foaring miner to a bowling,
reckless, brawling demon in thirty min
utes. One sip of whisky had oreuted a
craving for a drink, and dram hud fol
lowed dram with frightful avidity.
We couldn t lot him go on that wav,
and flnallv a miner nnmed Williams wus
prevailed upon to make another effort.
Wo selected this man because at home
be was a neighbor of Jones, and because
he, too, had saved up a snug littlo sum
and would go homo in tho spriDg. The
two men, after a hard day's work, had
sat together by the cheerful fire of even
ing and anticipated their return home.
They bad planned bow they would reach
homo iu the evening, still wearing their
old clothes and long beards and rough
looks, and after nn absence of soven
years no one would know them as they
walked the streets of tho village. They
would quietly approach their own
homeH, and "their kuock would be
answered by tho wife who had waited
and hoped and lived by hoping. He
would speak to her as a stranger, and he
would bo on tho point of turniug away
when something in voice or gesture
would toll her that tho long gone hus
band was home at last.
So they bad planned, aud neither had
bocu ashamed of the tears that welled
up to his eyes at tbe recollections of
home.
Wo sought out Williams and entreated
him to interforo to save bis friend, and
ho walked straight to the gambler's cabin.
Jones had lost every dollar of his money
and was lighting drunk.
"Come, Clock, come away," coaxed
Williams.
"I won'tl I want more whisky aud a
chance to win my money back!-' shouted
Jones.
"For your wife's sake, come away,"
entreated Williams.
"I tell you I won't, and if you don't
go away I'll kill you!" yelled Jones, as
he flourished his shooter around.
Williams walked over and laid his
hand on his friend's shoulder and whis
pered i
"Come, old neighbor, remember wife
and children!'' '
"Hang wife and children, and you,
too!" was the fierce exclamation from the
inaldoucd man, and with that be fired to
kill.
Tho bullet did not kill. ' Indeed, it
did not bit Williams at all, but the flame
of the powder blinded Liai in a flash
and forever. He carriod his hands to
hi face, stepped back a pace or two, and
I cau never forget how his voice went to
every heart as he cried out:
"Ob! man, yoa havo blinded me, and
I shall never see wife and children
again !" '
Tbe domon fled from ' Clock Joues'
heirt as that wail reached it. In a mo
ment be was pal aa death and as sober
as at any hour in his life. Slowly, aa
tl.o darkness of his brain was lighted np
by the return of reason, he comprehended
w hat he had done. He looked front face
to face and saw the horror resting on
each countenance. Then he took poor
Williams' bands down from his face,
kissed bira on his check, and stepped
back and blew his own brains out before
a band could be raised to prevent M.
yuad. '
Ai 01d-Fsuloned Candy Pall.
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AHU V.w ..j
the evening, and all sat down together to
a generous, home like supper, to ionny
themselves for tho labor that is to come.
Thar i no mipeincf of dunties with al
ternate prongs of ipsthotio forks, and
Hiimina from cut class thimbles, and
dipping of flogera in perfumed finger
bowls, but each sturdy lad and lass lays
hold with aa honest appetite ana eais
what is set before them with aitst which
cidmi tho rood housewife' face to shine
lik a winter night' moon, fter
dinner thev all so ont into the lis kitcb
n. Hera the "heln." with cheeks ail
afire, is stirring a kottlo of golden mo
lasses which stands on the stove.
Already it has become so thick aud
rich that the iron spoon loaves a slowly
oloslug farrow bohjnd it at every revolu
tion, and the help avows that "her arm
is broke." and urououncos the mixture
done to a turn and "ready for the
coolfn'."
, Off comes tho big kettle and goes
steaming ont the door for a bath in the
snow. Now, with much laughter on tbe
part of tbe girls, and bashful blushing
on the part of tho boys, an nstounding
number of antiquated aprons make their
appearance, and prosently every lad ia
transformed into an auomalus creature
whose sex you are at liberty to question.
Then the girls tio on their own dainty
ittle protectors, and proceed to roll up
their aloeves.
Plates of melted lard and butter are
then broncbt out. each person taking a
littlo of the unguent to smear his or her
hands, so that the strands of molasses
will not stick to them. Now, from
vuriout parts of tho room may bo heard
the low-voiced qnery: "May I pull with
you, Miss 1 or "lias anyone asuou
you to pnll with bim?" Gradually all
pair off, except ,uere and there an over
bashful lad and retiring maiden, who,
after many deprecating glauces, are fin
ally bronght together and made inex
pressibly happv in saccharine partner
ship. Tho ladle, deep plungod in tbe
golden mass and brought np with visoid
streams trickling slowly from point and
sides, furnishes eaoh pair of candy-
Callers with a "ropo" to tie and untie
otween them with all the curious fig
ures of the Gordinn knot of youthful
fancy.
To and iro they sway, drawing out the
golden strand, and doubling it again,
hand to band, oje to eye, drawing and
doubling, twisting anil folding, winding
and breaking, till at last the amber-ool-orod
rope grows white and hard, and
taxes theii united strength to draw it
out. Then it is carefully pulled into a
long, slendor rod and laid upo n the table,
broke in to sticks of tho proper length,
and all the buttered plates filled with
tbe crisp bits. The candy-pullers then
wash their hands, resume their company
garb and demeanor, und return to the
parlor or sitting room, whore they regale
themselves with the frnit of their labors
till fairly surfeited with sweets. Then
come the games of the evening blind-man's-buff,
drop tho h'jndkerchlef.throvr
the cushion, button, button, who's got
the button? forfeits, quits, and half a
dozen other extremely transparent
methods of getting the opposite poles o'
tho human "buttery togotherand effecting
an exchange of electricity.
Alter linn ainu oi ining uas lusieu uu
noarly midnight, the sudden appearance
of the good lady of the house, with a cer
tain unmistakable restraint in her man
ner, announces that tho festivities are.or
ought to be at an end. The game grows
very uninteresting all of a sudden, aud a
goneral leave taking begins. In ten min
utes the bouse is deserted, aud nothing
remains to tell of tho recent festivities.
except some empty, buttered plates, and
five or six half-molted bucks of candy
clingiug to the tablo eproad or trodden
into the carpet. Dreams, may bo, not
as sweet as tho mutually divided rope of
mok'sses candy, will visit the pillows of
the candy-pullers at night; but if so,
that for thioh mankiud has always
sighed, and failed to rcalizo, m.ty at last
come true, and the reality prove sweeter
than the dream.
' Racing F1.n!i Iu Arte inn Wells.
Beth Green, the eminent pisciculturist,
writes to the Chicago Times' about tho
new way of supplying families with
fish:
"There arc many artesian wells scat
tered all over the western country, most
of them many miles from any lakes or
streams or fish market. It is my opinion
that nearly every flowing well would
furnish enough surplus water to supply
a pond which will keep a family in hah.
A very small stream will furnish enough
water for some kiuds. I would recom
mend carp as being the fish most likely
to be a snccess, as they require loss care
than any other kind. I do not consider
thorn the very best fish there is, because
of lato years I have been used to eating
the best kind our country affords.
But I remember when my mother cooked
the suokers and shiners I caught with a
pin hook. They were the best fish there
was. It would undoubtedly bo the same
with families raised ou carp. My opin
ion has often been asked how a carp pond
should be constructed for family use.
Tbe poud can be made in any shape to
suit the locality, but I would prefer egg
shape if the locality wus just as suitable
for it. The pond would breed flies of a
great many kinds, one of tbe kinds
being mosquitoes. Tho larva of all tlies
is the best food for young fish. I have
bred them by the bushel, but some of
tho mosquitoes would bo apt to take
wing twfore the uond got
well stocked with young fish,
and to protect the family iu a measure 1
would advise . building the pond
to tbe leeward ot ihe house in the
prevailing wiuda of the locality. If, for
instance, the prevailing wind was from
tbe west, the poni would be built to tbe
east, northeast or southeast of the houso.
I woul I prefer the pond to the northeast
or southeast, because if placed directly
to the eat the house would make a lee
under which the mosquitoes could easily
reach it. The mosquito can beat any
sailing craft before the wind, but on the
wind they are nowhere in (be race be
es u so tlier have no keel. Tbe whole hu
man family should be thankful to the
Creator for not putting a keel on them,
and if their bowsprit had not been quite
so sharp they might uo receive so many
handkerchief salutes from the Long
Inland hotels, bnt would be just aa use
ful and ornamental. Tho pond can be
built with plow aud teraper. It
should have a deep place in Ihe
centre and be shallow on the
edges. If you have square sides
tbe voung fish will bavo no protec'iou
from the old ones. When tcraping is
commenced, carry the dirt as far back as
you intend making the lower outride of
your embankment, and keep scraping
until tbe pond to four or six feet deep iu
the center. It tbe locality is such tbit
the ice freezes very thick, the pond
should be made deeper and boles kept
open through tbe ice during the winter
to keep the fih from suffocating. If the
embankment is to be raised three feet
and pounded down and sodded or sown
to gross, the water could be raised so
that bnt threo feet in the center would
have to be excavated io order to have a
pond six feet d iop. Tbe wholo pond
should be sown with some kind o' grass
or water plant, with tho exception of
about fifty or seventy-five foot square in
the center. The grass and water plants
make the spawning ground broed food
and protect the young. The pond should
not contain any other kind of fish, aud
if the grass gets too thick it can bo raked
out."
Efjrs In Winter.
While plenty of eggs are valuable at
all times, they are doubly so in winter,
and those who soon re a good snpply for
home use on sale during the next throe
months are to be congratulated on tbe
good management of their fowls. Some
who are not very well np iu poultry
matters think that there are breeds spe
cially aduptod for laying in winter, and
their want of eggs at that seasou is at
tributed to not having the right sort; but
wo cannot go this length as we have
always found good summer layers to pro
dnco plenty of eggs in winter, too, pro
viding they are only properly treated.
It is the fault of the owners, and not the
stock, when eggs oro scarce in winter, and
those who have to complain of this
would do well to give the mattor more
attention. The very earliest hatched
birds are not generally the best winter
layers; those hutched iu Match will begin
laying in July and Augiird, and after
going on for a timo they moult in Octo
ber whioh makes them stop laying, and
they do not begin aguiu until spring.
Thoso hatched in ilay and June seldom
lay until October or November, aud it
is this class which proves the best win
tor layers among the young fowls. With
the old ones the samo thing is liablo to
occur. Last year somo of our bens
moulted in June, laid well in August
and Septomber.aud now they are moult
ing again, which spoils them for winter
laying; but we have others which aro
only fairly over the fault .their combs
have become big and red, and they will
lay from n nv ou for months. Apart
from considerations of these kinds, good
feeding i the grand secret of v. inter lay
ing. Half ctarved fowls never lay well
at any season, but such are absolutely
sterile in winter. Birley mnal mixed in
a dongh wiih hot water or alu, und given
the first thing In tbo morning, wheat at
midday, aud ludiau com the last foed
in the afternoon, is a sort of fare we have
never f.aiud to fail iu giving an aimed-
ance of egijs iu winter, and we would
strongly uiivi.se those who tleyire ti have
pleutv ul I'ggi io wiuter to take this bill
of fare once, d.lbere to it all tiitt win
ter, aud note the result.
A Remarkable Cve in Dcvoishlre.
The opening illustratod articlo in the
Decomber Century is a description of
Devonshire, entitled "The Fairect Coun
ty in Lngland, by rrancis George
Heath. Of Kent's cavern, in tbe vicin
ity of Torquay, a remarkable cave con
sisting of a great excavation in tho De
vonian limostone, the writer says: "It
is euterad by a narrow passage some
soven feet wide and only nva feet in
bight. Tho central cavern, whioh is al
most GOO foot.loqg, baa a number of
smuller caverns or corridors leading out
from it. Its farthest extremity is tor-
minuted by a doep pool of water. In the
bed of this cavern modoni research has
beon rewarded by some deeply interest
ing discoveries. Over the original earth
bottom of the cave is a bed or layer of
considerable thickness, in which are
contained strange mixtures of human
with the bones of the olephant aud the
rhinoceros, the hyena, the bear and tbe
olf, intermingled with stono and flint
tools, arrow and spear heads and frag
ments of coarso pottery. The animal
remains testify to the presence iu the an
cient forests ot Britain of beasts of prey
which have loug since become extinot.
Speculation may be exhausted in the en
deavor to acoount for the curious inter
mingling in this o.ivern of the remains of
human beings and wild animals. The
place may havo been used for shelter
successively by man and by the lords of
tho forest; or, as the presence of the rude
weapons of man might seem to indicate,
the beasts of the field may have been
brought into this natural recess as
trophies of tbe chase, and their flesh and
skins used for purposes of food and cloth
ing Nothing less than tho most perse
vering and enthusiastic search could
have discovered the interesting remains
which, for a vast period of timo, hod
been buried in this retreat; for the fos
sils were covered by a thick floor of stal
agmite which had been formed, there
can be no doubt, by great blocks of lima
stone which had fallen from time to
time, extending over a very lengthened
period, from the roof of the cavern, and
l ad beoome cemented into one mass by
the perpetual percolations ot lime water
from above."
Works of Human Labor,
Ninaveh was 14. miles long. 8 miles
wide and 40 miles round, with a wall
,100 feet high and thick enough for three
chariots abreast. Babylon was 50 miles
inside of walls, tbe latter being 75 feet
thick aud 100 f-ot high, haviug 100
brazen gates. Tbe temple of Diana, at
Ephesus, was 420 feet to the suppoit of the
roof; it was 100 years in tho building.
Tbe largest of the pyramids measured
481 feet in bight and 953 on tbe sides;
the base cover 11 aores, and tbe stonea
are about 60 feet in length, and the
layers are 208; it employed 32), 000 men
in building. The .Labyrinth, in Egypt,
contained 300 chamber and 12 halls.
Thebes, in Ezypt.prescnts ruins 27 miles
round, and 10J gates. Carthage was 20
miles round. Athens was 25 miles
round and contained 350,000 citizens and
400.000 slaves. The temple of Dalphoa
was so rich in donation that it wasplun
d red of 10,000,000,and Nero took from
it 200 statues. The wall of Rome were
13 mile round.'
8H0KT BITS.
The Panama Star says: Passengers on
the peninsula and oriental steamer Mal
wa were placed in a strange predica
ment recently. An Indian knife cleaner
on board got drnnk, tied all the table
knives about 600 in number ronr.d
bii waist and jumped overboard. Tbe
ship was (topped and turned round, but
all efforts to rescue tbe nnfortunato man
with the much needed and usfvl table
knives proved unavailing, and the pas
sen gars were compelled to nse penknives
and other substitute until tbe vessel
reached Alexandria.
t At the roadmastor's ofric , . ,
since a report of material n J,t
coved with this indorMmetd- .J?
ta Mrs. Lane' account." In'.(-tw
proved that miscellaneous
intended. , llunut tM
"lonr husband i a staid man .
he not?" asked a forme,
her friend, who had marffd .
rather noted for hi. fMt L.biu "'S
(limb " ... . """in "I
:v.," r '...."... iuo "w. "he.uij
I
all last night."
Little Susie went out to nlsv n i
came
God
, -
doing, she replied,-"I
foitd m-.
bloss.omed, Mo-
blossoms almost
blossomod them."
When a ton of whct i. mwkcW
loaves nothing bohind but fiva ut
worth of straw. When a ton d n
is isold, it has left behind ninei
of the material r.luo of the 'oft
snmed in making it. Feed lh f..I
ducts and sell the animals pf-
Rhode Island savings banks, e.peCi,lir
inthooonatry make it a rale R
every person who has money enough to
buy the land to build a Use. Tli.
prac ice has enoonrsgod hundreds o!
families m moderrle circumstance"
acquire homo of their own.
The democrats of Baltimore ,
nominated for sheria Colonel Eoaen.
Joyca a saloon keeper, at present under
several indictments for violation th.
Sunday law. The better class of voWi
in bis own party loudly denounce ths
nomination, and will fight him at th.
polls. ,
There is a woman undertaker fn VhiU.
dolphia, and somebody has given her an
Bdvertisement by haviug her arrested on
the charge of maintaining a nuisance io
the shape of a couple of big Siberian
blood hounds who keep the wholo neigh
borhood awake niorhtx. Ti
of evidonoo at the trial, and the lawyer
argued tor five mortal hours, but the
voman was acquitted.
There were 8521 marriages in Phila-
iidiphia last year, an increase of 952 over
the previous vear. Ot Mm woman m..
ried the ages of fifty-two were under
iweuiy; zsyy were between twenty
and twenty-five; 2746 between twenty
five and thirty; 1703 between thirty and
forty; 401 between forty and fifty; 108
ueiwoen nuy anu sixty; suty-flve be
tween sixty and seventy; eight botwecn
seventy and eighty, and one botween
eighty aud ninety.
One of Edward Everett Ilals's nuU
improbable stories, that of 44TIia Mn
That Stole a Meeting House." has been
paralleled in real life by J. C. Smith, of
McComb, Ohio. lie sold a'trsct of land
on which was an old nlmroli In TV ft.
Wells, but afterward, claiming that the
church was not sold to Wells, lio sold it
to a relative, who moved it off Wells'
land one dark nicht. Wells hrniifflit
Buit, and Smith had to pay the value of
me uuurcu, me costs oi suit, una iuu
fine.
Miss Kite Chase's fine .cstatn neir
Washington, callod EJgewood.is tenant
less, while its owner roams ia Europe.
She left a little over n month ago, with
her children, for a five veurs' tohr
abroad. Tbo grounds aro kept iu toler
able order by tl o servant in whose
charge they were put by her, but the
rrrpnt liminn with its rich f nrniab inca
stands precisely as she left it, and the
acres around it lie nncumvaieu. uio
neighbors do not understand why no one
keeps them under cultivation.-
The stoade growth cf teiuptiMue-t in
this country is illustrut-'d bjUn f.ict
that one of the largest steawtrs on th
rioaiuuiiini w).i;-li hn4 lilnr hkl-11 nnder-
going repairs, is hereafter to havo po
nar. a geueruuou ago me wmiem uiim
wero common on tlies) bout, and the
u.n ll.l Ikiivn ii'-nirised to
ruu without a "saloon" would Imv 1 een
uoemou crazy. i; i.ua y:,
tlm otonmhnut ti,'iiri.l,rs '.i'.l.l that bv
abolishing this attachment tu-y attract a
passonger trafilo ouougli larger an 1 more
ucsiraoie wj iuiij cuiujibubuki "
money formerly rooeivea ior mo u
privilege. More than one line on the
Mississippi aud its tributary streams has
already mado tbe change, and it prom
ises to" be not long beforo a bar on o first
class river boat will be unknown.
Weather rredlctlous.
How little relianoe there" U to ba
placed in thote who pretend to he able to
foretell the weather of a season appears
from the following letter of the chief
signal cfHce'r of Ibo United Stales to the
New York Tribnuq. He ssysL sJ.t is ab
solutely impossible to predict 8trm.-'
for more than a few days in advance
The information cannot bo too widely
distributed, that no oue can foretell eveu
the general character of a coming season,
much less tho occurrence of a particular
storm iu that season. It ia possible that
the advance of our knowledge may at
some time enablo ns to predict the
weather for many daya in. advance, but
this is not possible at tho present time.
Meteorology is yet in its infancy, and no
one is yet able to anticipate tbe oooiir
ronce of a meteorologioal phenomenon
for more than a fow days a week at tie
most. If any ono will take tbe trouble
to verify the woather predictions which,
in these day, are so frequently made,
by tho actual weather experienced, be
will find that about half of them are
fulfilled and half fail. Wheu a gin ,
prediction is fulfillei, if is often mauo a
matter of marked oomment, while tta
nnfulflllment of a similar prediction at
another time is passed over in lc8j
Tbe impression therefore prevails tm I
rtdisnoe ahonld be placed opon the tors
casting of weaiher prophet, bnt tn
impression will be removed by an or.
who will give attention to the subject.
A series of simple guesses, based upon
no reasoning whatever, will como true
in the lo!)g rnn a many .time a tbey
will fail. ,Uatil then, weather predic
tions are fi'tilled more time thau tbey
fail, they must bo regarded aa f quia
lent to guess- and as having no T'na
whatever. All prediction of the weather
to be cxjttcted a month or more in
vano , whether based on the position fI
the planets, or of tbe moon, or rpon tn
unmher of sun spots, or upon ny op
posed law of periodiciy of liutcral pb
uomeoa, or upoo any hypothesis what
ever which to day bas its ndvocate, are
as reliable as piedieiioo f tbe time
wbn tbe end cf the world will come.