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EUGENE CITY GUARD. JL I CAMPBELL, . . Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. THE FAULT-DEMOX. Roue Hawthorne Lithrop. Vth kvd whit-robed maideu With Rowing gi hair laden, Aj beary-burdeneJ body a she could bear, And then came a wild black raven, So eager aud to craven, And bid biuutclf all ailent in her fair gold bair. When he cried, "Thou tnUbohaven I" "CawT iaid the wild dark raven, And all ber tediotu life he only said "Caw I" Yet sate be on ber ahoulder, Thii heavy black bird-bowlder, And moved not, would Dot leave ber, for patience or for law. TTow, on her tomb" wag graven "The Maiden of the Raven, Wbo peered from ber long tretuoi for all to aee: Rome mid Unit it was pride Gave the bird no lonj a ride. But be left her when the church-bell rang onorouitly. LITTLE PEOPLE. thing Aboat ProTenalonal Iwarf and JIldKeta. , Cleveland Herald. 1 "I have been looking all over the world for a woman no bigger than I am," said Che Mali, the ChineBo dwarf, at the museum last evening, "and if could only find her, and then marry Iter. I would lo happy." Clie Mah in about the snialloft man of his age liV ing. He is 40 years old, and only two foot four inches high. l!ut Che Mub is rich, with a regular income of 200 a week, and is anxious for a wife with whom he can keep company during his long hours on exhibition. Che Mah is a particular friond of Chang, the Chincso giant, who is eight feet tail bnt who admires Clio Mah, not so much for size as for his nationality. Che Mali has written a little book about dwarfs, himself in particular, in which he tells of tho high social pom tion of Lis family and explains the cause of his peculiarity of form. His mother, whilo walking the stroets of Klngpo was greatly shocked and fright ened ny seeing a very smull clul crushed to death by the fulling of a treo. She was greatly affected, and when Cue Mali wo born shortly after ward he bore a most striking resom blanre in face and figure to the littlo one that was killed. The child killed was but 2 years old, and Che Mah has never grown bigger than a child of that ago. Attontion has been called to the rexomblauco of Che Mali to the baby killed by tho mother of tho dend child mooting Che Mali when he was 4 years of age, and exclaiming, as she soiod him, that her littlo one had returned to life The circumstanoos attracted wide-spread attention and led to a judiciul investigation, wherein all the peculiar facts of tho cose were brought out. "The most attractive little woman as acurioitv,n said Mr. Elliot, of the museum, "who was ever on exhibition is Lucy Zarate. IShe is the smallest of them all, being but twenty-one inches and weighing fifteen pounds, ttho can command a salary of $750 a week, and is quite wealthy. Mrs. Gen. Thumb is probably tho most intelligent dwarf living, lint the only real live doll baby Is Hop o' My lliuml), tho little .Novia Scotiit midget, who weighs scarcely more than ten pounds. Martha's Vineyurd has re eently sent out two little people, the Adams sinters, who are each scarcely three feet tall, aud who aro valuable as curiosities beeauso of their intelligence. "Thetroublo with littlo people or raiUgets, said .Mr. hlliott, is that Imt fow of them aro intelligent, and many of then) almost brainless. A largo number of the children midgets on ex hibition about the country am repulsive monstrosities. Hut when a diminutive specimen of humanity is discovered who has a well developed intclltv.-t ho is Hi' deed a rarity. Tom Thumb found him self a largo man when compared with other mites during recent years. Hut he was ouo of tho first ever exhibited, aud his prest'go gave him a lasting fame. There will never l6 another Tom Thumb, l'coplo liavo becomo so accustomed to curiosities, and have seen so many little people, that mites, midgets or dwarfs havo ceased to create the great sutisations they formerly did." The Value at Hhade Tree. Dr. Felix OitwaM In Lippinoott'i Mnn(ine. That our ancestors emanated from the Nliadoi of a tree land is one of the few points on which Moses aud Harwin agree, and it scorns hardly probable that tho descendants of a forest tdiould be damaged by a littlo tree shade, especially where that hhade is confined to the six iirmt si months in the year. After ( tolier, when siuis'.iine become preferable to shade, trees do not ob struct the rays of the sun. They merely moderate its summer glare, and at noon oiler the best possible refuge from the brooding heat. No human con trivance can rival fie anti-calorie ar rangements of a leafy canopy fre ac cess to all the win l of heaven, and a roof impervious not only to the direct light of the suu's ravs, Imt also to their warmth, which is felt through a single n of as plainly as though a Hansy sun shade. Hut a shade tree, with its hun dred strata of light-absorbing leaves, interposes an cfe tind barrier to the hotto.t sun; and, moreover, plants have a diivct lefiigiTating influence, analo gous t-J that of animal bodies in gener ating warmth. Kven under tho blading un the juice of i ranges, watermelons, apple, eta, is hom ten to fifteen de gree colder than that of stagnant ter, and n cloud v sutiin or days the a r of a treeless district is considerably warmer than the atmosphere of a bhady forest on sunny days. XHfiw'i Bit BelL Chicago Journal. The largest bell that was ever cast is the great bell of Moscow, Kusj a. It was cast in lttti, and weighed 2H,s,000 pounds. In 17:t3 it was recast, and weighed about 432,000 poun Is. 1 1 fell in 1737, and was injured, but it was subsequently raised, and now forms the dome of a chapel. SWALLOW-TAILS- Te We Cat In IMaceaaln. Leaving ltroadrlolh the U altera. New York Sun. "The best-dressed men were ,tho waiters, said a young man to a 1 J road way tailor, speaking of a dinner he had attended the night before. The tailor smiled and said : "That is all going to be changed You are not the first man who has been crushed by the swell clothing of the man who tilled your glas. "How are you going to help it?" "By changing the material of which the dress suit of gentlemen are made. Broadcloth has been the only cloth since the memory of man for gentle men and for waiters. 1 he elderly gen tlerm-n and other conservatives stick to the broadcloth, but the thing to get for your next dress suit is a diagonal or a basket pattern in black. Coat, waistcoat and trousers are all made from the same piece. These poods are lined with silk snd bound with a narrow braid. The cull's are bound around about four inches from the end of the sleeve, and underneath two imitation button-holes are worked and two but tons sewed on. lhe coats are cut closer to the figure than they used to be." "Is there any reason for this?" "lea. It is because we can do it. The diagonals are an easier, more elas tic kind of goods. They give with the motions of tho body. This enables us to fit the form better, und at the same time leaves tho wearer as easy as if he was dressed in a business suit." "What becomes of the white Marseilles waistcoats?" "They hold their own. Full evening dress where ladies are to form part of the company is not complete- w ithout white waistcoat, anil never will be. Tho cut of this garment dill'ers from the oil style a little. It exposes more of the shirt front." "How about the coming cut of trousers?" "Trousers are not quite so tight, bu they follow the shape of the legs. "Is it possiblo to revive the old silk hose and knee-breeches?" "Not here. 1'ossibly it could be done among a class in the old country,-who dovotu no time to business. The use of knickerbockers in Kcotch cheviots, with blouses, for goutlomen who aro going into the country is increasing. They are very comfortable to tramp in. The lino is drawn at the city limits." "Will there bo any change in business suits?" "No. The sack coat will have tho run. Many brokers down here will wear four-button cutaway coats in diag' onals, with stripod trousers. That is really the most elegant business suit A man is ready in such a suit to go any where except to the opera or to a ro ccption. Some prefer 1'rince Albert coats, but tho majority fancy the sack coat, and the majority hct the fashion. "I occasionally see a gent'eman with figured waistcoat of a rather loud color." "Yes. I wish a few, not many, would display a taste like that. I have a quantity of stuff that I would like to buIL It was loft from three years ago. A ( old Day t'lah Htory. Detroit Free Prons.) "So you nover heard of keeping fish alive for a month out of water I ell, it's a fact all tho same, 'causo I've done it myself. Frank, a well known fish' erman who diacs lus living out of the Mississippi not many miles above St Louis, was talking to a reporter about his cxpcr.onco on the river. Thoy wero both in a resort much froiiticntcd by men of his craft, and Frank was contentedly sucking his pipe and toasting bis shins beforo a led-hot stove. When old lt-tor told me that such a thing could bo done I laughed at him, and was just about to call him a liar, but ho looked danger ous like, and 1 did not tlo it. We were taking lunch, and 1 ottered to bet him two cans of oysters to one that he couldn't keep a tlsh alive out of water for a dav. it was very cold and he took mo up. Tho next morning he caught a good sized butVulo, and almost beforo ho had him well out of the water there was a skin of ice over him, and in a little while he was frozen hard as a rock. I was hav ing lots of fuu laughing at him, but the noxt morning he slapped him in the water. It took the tisli a littlo while to thaw, but just as soon as ho began to warm up he begun to move, and in an hour he was as lively as any of them. 1'vo koit a fish frozen for eight days this winter and thou brought him to lifo again in water, l'vo done it many a time, but it has to he Mild enough to freoo him quick, and vou must not lot him freeze hiin- self." I'riarn tllwniarrk'it Ohealtjr Cared. St. JaimV tfnxetta. Stout people w ould no doubt be glad to have further information as to tho method by which l'l'ttce Bismarck has at last got rid of his superfluous tlosh. For a dozen years the man of blood and iron has been a llicted w.th all sorts of maladies, more or less directly traceable to his excessive corpulence. He passed sleepless nights, aud could hardly walk a couple of hundred yards without fatigue. I'm-tor after doctor was called in; but "physicians were in am. Al last, How ever, no lias toiilid his savior. Count William Bismarck, the prince's second son, wss, like his father, long troubled by olwsity. One happy day a literary friend introduced to him a certain lr. Schwenniuger, a Bavarian, who claimed to have hit iion a regimen which was au infallible cure for fatness. Count William placed himself unre servedly in the hands of the herb doctor, and iu a few weks had lost his superfluous bulk. Thereupon lr. Schweninger was summonod to the chance. lor, whom he undertook to cure, as he had cured his son. At the end of seven or eight weeks 1'rince Bismarck weighed sixty pounds less, and he now looks npon himself as cured. He sleeps long and tranquilly; he is athiauVkat 7 in the morning; he takes long walks which would fatigue a young man, and after ten years' alwence from the saddle, he is now able to ride. All this is pro digious ; but w hat is Dr. Schweninger's mysterious regimen ? The Flint laaacnratlon. fBen: l'erley Poore'i IteuiiiiUcencs. William Dnnlap, the artist, graphic ally described the appearance of Washington and other dignitaries at the first inauguration. The oa'.h was administered on the balcony of Federal hall, in Wall street, New York, where a statue of Washington now marks the spot. This building had been erected for the accornmodatio.i of congress under the direction of Major L'Eufant, a French officer of engineers, who afterwards planned the city of Wash ington. In front of the balcony were the volunteer companies of militia in full uniform, with a large concourse of citizens. Gen. Washington is described as having worn that day a pla n suit of brown cloth, coat, waistcoat and breeches of home manufacture, evon to the buttons, on which ltollinson, an en graver, had portrayed the arms of the United States. White silk stockings showed the contour of a manly leg; and his shoes, according to the fashion of that day, were ornamented with buckles. His bead was uncovered aud his hair dressed and powdered, for such was the universal custom of the time. Thus was his tall, flue figure presented to our view at tho moment which forms an epoch in the history of nut. oris. John Adams, a shorter figure, in a simi larly plain dress, but w ith tho (even then) old-fashioned Massachusetts wig, stood at Washington's right hand, and opposite to the president-elect sbod Chancellor Livingston in a full suit of black, ready to administer the pse- scribed oath of oilice. Between them was placed Mr. Otis, the clerk of the senate, a small man, bearing the Bible on a cushion. In the background of this picturo and in the right and loft compartim nts formed by tho pillars stood tho warriors and sages of the revolution. When all was ready Gen. Washing ton stretched forth his right hand with that simplicity and dignity which char acterized all his actions, and placod it on the ojien book. Tho oath of oflice was read, the Bible was ra.'sod and be bowed his head upon it, reverentially kissing it. The chancellor then made proclamation, "Ocd save George Wash ington, president of the United States of America." A shout went up from the multitudo, cannon were fired near by, the musio played and every one ap peared delighted. Trial by Jury. "Oath" in Philadelphia Times. I would not be surprised if in the noxt fow years there were some re markable changes made in this city. Even trial by jury is becoming regarded as an obsolo.e institution, too cumbrous and uncertain for modern administra tion. Why should twelve men be called away from their work to decide a caso that throe judges cau understand iu a limited time and settle more justly? Here aro the courts crowded every day with jurymen waiting to pet on a case and all ardont to go home. They regard themselves in a measure as injured by having been summoned, and they often find vordicts according to the delays lawyers relatively interpose. When they go out to deliberate, if there is a disagreemeut they do not wait about it livo minutes, but one side or the other gives up or thoy compromise. Hence the principle involved in the trial is lost sight of entirely. Besides, these juries of twelve men are com posed of some exceedingly iguoraut per sons, who sleep and nod during the cose, and by tho end of the trial forget wliulj t.io beginning was. Three judges would not go to sleep and would make tho lawyers hurry up, and we should not therefore have our courts clogged with cases, boiuo oi wmcii mite a wcck or two to try, when men who understand the law would close them up in half a day to a day. The Miteaker'M avel. Washington Letter. It has bocomo customary, by courtesy, for a retiring speaker to take w ith him tho gavel he has used, to keep as a relio iu his family ; so a new one must be made for oach speaker elected. The new one made for the present speaker has a very plain, stout round hickory handle, about ten inches long. Its mallet is a stout piece of ivory, about five inches in circumference, aud on ither end aro two blue circles. The first handle made for this new gavel was a fancy one of ebony, with vanons projections and indentations; making it very weak iu certain places; so at tho last mouiont a new handle had to le made, lost the new speaker should break the elsmy one the first time he used it w ith emphasis, lie is not man, however, giving to acting on violent impulses or easily provoked to anger on any occasion, iwo oi those, however, whom he has within a few weeks called to take his place in the chair have broken the strong handle of the new gavel. Once the mallet-end Hew off the handle and just missed striking one of tho clerks at the table in front of tho speaker s desk upon the head. Such a blow from tho heavy piece of ivory would have been painful if not serious in its elici ts. Knftllah tVomea an i'lre-Uiitldera. IT. Ooodiiiau in I'levelaml l.e-alil There are no women in the world letter posted on fire-making than the daughters of England. lhey don't feci ashamed of it in auv class. Thev pride themselves with us. ng the tongs to jH-rfection. By carefuliy placiug the coals on the tiro instead of throw ing them on they leave a i opeuing to let the blaze through between the pieces, aud that is tho reason that the fires of English houses have a smoother and more cheerful appearance than elsewhere. With such coals as we have they might have the handsomest fires in the world. It is a dainty thing to make a nice fire in a polished grate. Tke "'rri'' iMjr.e. Philadelphia Call.) Jones I see it stated that private coachmen of very fashionable families are now attired in heavy furs such as gentlemen used to wear. Smith Yes, it is necessary. Jones Why should it be necessary. Smith To distinguish them from the gentlemen who are iiow attired in heavy, short-waisted, long-tailed, big buttoned coats such as coachmen used to wear. WOMEN RDMANCER3. Tke Imaainary Cennor IV he llaa Helped te Kdlt Tha lew York Ledcer. New York Cor. Indianapolis Timet. The Ledger's most popular writers, with a few exceptions, have been women. Mr. Bonner has really done a great deal toward giving women an equal chance with men, and at a time, too, when the public was unaccustomed to receiving instruction or amusement from any but male authors. Mrs. Sigourney was the first womon he ever employed as a writer. At that time there was no one of either sex who could give more dignity to a publication than she. Alice and t'hebe Cary, and many other women, whose names afterward became famous, helped make 'The Ledger. I asked Mr. Bonner if he did not think that one of the secrets of The Ledger's great success was the fact that it had so strong a corps of women writ ers; as women who had any literary skill whatever, usually possessed the faculty of their own sex, and it was an undeni able truth that where w omen arelaraely interested in a paper its destiny is favor ably fixed beyond perad venture. He thought they had been of great advantage, but said 'he had never been quite certain what the main-spring of The Ledger's luck had been, but was inclined to think it was its high moral tone. He had been continuously watchful to keep everything out of its columns w hich any one of the very highest moral sensibility could objei-t to. Iu order to make sure that the standard could not be lowered, he em ployed an imaginary censor, who sat in judgment severe but honest, upon every line printed. The person who filled this responsible and exalted position was a mythical old lady who belonged to Dr. Potts' church, then the very stronghold of the most conven tional piety. The monuscript reader was instructed to eliminate everything the imaginary censor could possibly think unfit to read to her children and grandchildren. Everything the reader passjs upon favorably Mr. Uonner alter ward reads, correcting, erasing and in terlining, in order to g.ve it all that peculiar and distinctive tone which can only be obtained bv con' formity to one mind. Frequently he finds something to expunge after the reader has done his work. He draw s his pen over it and writes on the margin : "The old lady would be sure to object to this;" or, "The old lidy does not approve of this, and returns it to the reader, that he may be guided in future by two marginal comments, which are supposed to be the direct opinion of the imaginary censor. Mr. Bonner, the reader and the good old lady make np The Ledger s editorial staff, the old lady s authority being always consul ered the highest. Public taste has changed wonderfully within twenty-five yeai s, but the old lady still holds her position as suprome censor in The Ledger olhce. and her judgmeut is just as severe as it ever was. Indeed, nothing pertaining to The Ledger has been changed since its early davs. It runs the same depart meuts, the same style of stories often jj the same writers, who, being well Tau, are also long-lived. The Jlaa with an Overcoat. Washington Republic "Why is it," asked a lady, "that gen tlomen no, men persist in weanny their overcoats to their seae in theatres and then taking them off, to the im mouse discomfort of at least four peo plethose on each side and those before and behind him? A man with a good vigorous swing to his arms usually manages to dislodge the bonnet from the head of the lady beside him, and the most careful action cannot save that of the lady in front of him. To be this lady in front is to have an experieneo unparalleled in its annoyance. A sudden blow on the back of the bonnet is the first intimation you will receive that the man behind is about to uuca.se himself Before you recover, a blow on the side of the head assures you that one sleeve has yielded up its contents in a some what sudden manner; unless you are unusually quiek-motioned you do not avoid a blow on the other side when he pulls the coat olT from the other arm ; all this, however, might bo borne, but your discomfiture is com plete when he turns snuare round tohandtae coat upon tho back of his chair, thus giving the unfortunate bonnet another blow that de-itrovs vour good-humor for the evening. Talk of large hats! Thev are bubbles of vanity beside the nuisance oi a man witn an overcoat. l a expected IHneevery In a Goblet. Hartford (Conn.) Times. At a gentleman's dinner party in this city recently, one of the guests, cater ing to w hat some consider a depraved taste for ice-water, was been to lower his goblet boforeit touched his lips and peer into its crystal depths through his eye-glasses. hat is this ? lie asked, as ho agitated the water with his fork. "A. little fish, 1 declare." And, sure enough there was a "wee bit" of a fish, too small to be seen easily with the naked eye, but plainly visible through strong eve glasses, and lively enough for drinking purposes. Stir him up aud he would dart swiftly through the water and lose himself behind the ice. The cause of temperance suffered by the incident, as trout b.-ook water was at a discount after this d.scovery. IMoTOOJGONE! San Francis o, Cai.. The Chronicle publishes in sulwtance the following mar vel: Captain W. F. Swasey, the oldest pioneer of the roast, makes a statement of the intense suffering of his friend Colonel 1). J. illiamson.. an Army ollicer of dis tinction, and an ex U. S. Consul, who was attacked in the winter of lM51-a with vio lent rheumatism. So great was his agony In after years, he became a helpless crip ple, and after trying numlierless remedies. the baths of other countries and spending a fortune oi f m,hv, tne disease seemed to assume a more virulent type. Finally, he was persuaded to try St. Jacobs Oil, the great conqueror of pain. It worked miracle of cure. In a letter to the tAron- icU he confirms Captain Swasey's state ment and adds. "I cheerfully give my un- aualifled attestation to the truthfulness of le statement, because 1 feel perfectly cer tain that a knowledge of my cure by St. Jacob Oil, will prove the means of re- ieving hundreds of sufferers." Bea-lnnloa- of the arrlerytem. Howe a Beach in New York Sun. After my father had been connected with The Sun for about a year, in charge of the business department, he bought my uncle out To give yon an idea of the rude character of the first machinery I remember that we had an old oscillating engine, used for running a single rocking cylinder, and one of the feeders happened to get his foot under the pump crank. Well, it hnrt his foot terribly, but it broke the pump. That old engine was in use afterwards over in Brooklyn used for pumping alt water for a bathing establishment on the Heights close by here. The Sun and The Courier were the first papers that used steam, and I think it was used by a 1-cent paper called The Transcript about the same time, or soon after wards. I know it was about the year 1835. , In that year there w ere not probably more than a dozen newsboys in the whole city of New York, and the first of them was started by The Sun. The boys who afterward sold the six-penny papers were paid by the week, w bile the boys who sold the penny papers were paid according to the copies sold. So, by mutual arrangement at the Albany bjat, the six-penny boys used to keep back and let the penny boys have the first chance at the passengers. This system finally developed into regular carriers' routes, each paper hoving its own carriers, and protecting them by refusing to sell any papers to newsboy on the street, until about an hour after the carriers had been supplied and had started on their routes. Some of the routes be.-ame very valuable, worth as much as 5,000. This system was broken up by old Bennett, who de termined that The Herald should be supplied to everybody, and I have been murh amused recently to tind his son endeavoring to re-establish the old carrier system, w hich w as broken up by his father. A Aeior'a "Lenlhn." An actor always speaks of his parts as being so many "lengths." A length is forty-two lines of written matter, in cluding the cues, which he has to mem orize the same as his own speeches. Leading parts, such as the male and female lead, the comedian, and the heavy man, will average in a modern play from eighteen to twenty lengths, or about 800 lii.es. The rapidity with which some actors can commit these to memory is wonderful. Instances have been known where, owing to accident or suddon sickness on the part of an other, his substitute has learned a part of 800 lines in three hours. To "Suddenly Think. Boston Star. How it startles you in a theatre. when you're stuffing the programme into the overshoes which the man just in front of you has put under his seat, so he'll have the satanio majesty's own time in getting them on, to suddenly think that the man behind you may be playing the same game on you. Harmonizes. "I see you've git a colored servant girl," said a niau to another the other day. "Yes," was the reply. "You see, my wife's sister has just lost her hus band, so, as we had to get into mourn ing, we discharged our white girl and hired a colored ouo. She harmonizes with tho mourning, as it were." A Ueorglt Levy. ' fChicaco Herald. 1 Contonts of a housa which was levied on by a bailiff of Blakeley, Ga. : One tin pau. two tin plates, one broken tray, one broken spider, one looking-glass, one pair tongs, two guns and a "yalle coon dog." SUM-JUNG UP THE RESULTS OF A YEAR'S TREATMENT. A lady patient in Lockport, V' Y., thus sums up the results of a year s Compound U.xygen Ireatment: "It is now a year since I commenced using the Oxygen, and I can readily sum up the good results of the Treatment. It lahardlu tito much to nay Hint I inn in finitely better. I am stronger in every way and rarely auger now from tlie utttr exhaustion which teas my xmual condition before. 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