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WK SHALL KNOW ALL, (Owen Meredith. Whom we flnit love, you know, wa eeiaotn wed. Time rulea u all. And Ufa, indeed, U not The thinic we planned it out ere Dope M dead. And then, we women cannot cbooe our lot Much tnuit be borne which it i bard to bear; Much Riven away which it were tweet tc keep. ' God help ue all I who need. Indeed, Hli care And ret, I know, the Sbopherd lovtx beep. My little boy begine to babble now Upon my knee bii earliest infant prayer. Be bai bli father1! eager eyee I know. And, tbey aay, too, b i roother'a aunny bair. But wben be tleepi and imilea upon my knee, And I can feel his light breath come and go, I think of one (Heaven help and pity mel) Who loved me, and whom I loved, long ago. Who might have been ab, what I . dare not think I We all are changed, God Judgoi for uibeet Ood belp ui do our duty, and not (brink, And truat In Heaven humbly lor the rest But blame ut women not, if tome appear Too cold at timet, and tome too gay and lilfbt Borne grief t gnaw dbep; toma woe are bard to bear. Wbo knowt tb put! and who can judge ut right? Ab, were we judged by what we might have bsen, And not by what we are, too apt to fall I My little child be tloepa and tmilet between Tbete thougbta and me. In Heaven we thai! know all I THE DONKEY BOYS OF CAIRO. The Drolleal Street Gamine In the World The Brute' Noted Name. Cairo Cor. BU Paul Pioneer Prow.) Cairo would not bo Cairo without its donkeys and donkey boys. Tbey are a unique institution. The Arab donkey toys know a smat tering of the principal European lan guages, and can tell instantly in what tongue to address you. Not only are they thus keen, but they are also the drollest and most humorous street gamins I have ever seen. They are great at pantomime, and you cannot forbear , laughing at their good-humored antics. The donkeys are exceedingly small, but gentle and long-suffering. The majority of them are much abused, and bear around on their bodies the marks of the merciless donkey boys. "Mino lxsrry good donkey, Bar," said one. "Mine name Yankee Doodlo, sar," said an other, keener even than the rest. Then the others took up the keynote, and "Ucn. Grant," "Mrs. Langtry," and other similar celebrities wore at my disposal. Had I been French, it would have been "monsieur" instead of "sar" and the donkeys would have been named "Napoleon," "Waterloo," etc. I did not make any bargain before hand. When I inquired at the hotel as to what was the proper tariff, the answer was: "(Jive tho beggars a orrmit word with tho English a piastre or two per hour. There is no regular rate." vi courso mo coys always grum ble and demand backsheesh, whatever the fee bestowed, but no one minds that. 80 on this particular morning I bado the boy hold the opjiosite stirrup while I mounted the stirrups are not fastened, but in the went of a fall the distance is iliuiliiiiilv uliirlit On mu'h ilonki'V's forehead is a brass tablet with his number inscribed upon it. Pen-Picture ofOecar Wilde. IVanitv Fair. I Oscar, the youngest son of the late Sir William Wilde, archieologist. traveler and queen's surgeon in Ireland, won the 1. .11 ! i..:..:.. ...n. .. it.. 1.1:.. UerKOiey llltiuti 01 iiiiiiijnimxii, I'liumi, and a scholarship. Migrating to Magda Inn mlli-im. Oxford, hn took two "firsts" and the "Newdigato." Then ho went wandering in (Jrcecc, and, lull of a JNeo Hellenio spirit, came batik to invade so iinl I union Hn invented the aisthctio movement. Ilo preached the doctrine of possible culture in external tamgs, Ho got brilliantly lauglunl at, and good .,.(, ,h.-Mv annnntiul In 1HH1 hn null llf.lUlVt.lJ I.V. V. I V . 1 . . . . . J" lished a somewhat startling volume of poems, and at onco went to America to preach his gospel of culture. 1 Then, as an itinerant art apostlo, he wandered from Now York to San Fran cisco, lectured to all sorts and condi tions of men. produced a play and came Wk tn Iiniliin. Suddenly he crave un dado worship for dandyism, cut his long locks and accepted life. Ho ii a sayer of smart things, and haa a rare flow of thoroughly Irish wit, and an excellent notion of the advantage that may accrue to any man from drawing ai tent ion 10 himself anyhow. He has lived through mni'li luni'Mor. in which bo has always joined. Ho has many disciples, and is of opinion mat "imitation is mo sincer est form of insult." Hois 28 years old, comes of a literary family, and is essou tiidly modern. The "Luck" orCornr d'Alene, Exchange. Tho "kid's fund" was established by the pioneers of Eagle City, M. T., for the 1 t .1,- tt-ut 11 n i -t rViinp I'lHlUWIIIUIIb Ul IU17 mow iiitniu uu. d'Alener. The fund had just reached tho comfortable sura of 6,000 dollars when it wan appropriate! by an enter prising son of tho soil, whose mother had walked thirty-live miles, through snow from three to ten feet deep, in order to give hitn birth within the confines of Eagle. The woman was livinir with her huslvund a freight' hand on tho Northern Pacitlo road in a cabin near the main line, w hen she heard of the premium offered for babies np at Eagle.and determined to Beeure it. When the husband and father reached tho camp he was "resented with tho 8,000 dollars in dust and nuggets, with which ho went prospecting, and, it is said, struck it rich, liotnanee still lingers about tho mines, and Bret Harto's "Luck of ltoaring Camp" is well nigh paralleled iu this, story lrom Jutgie uty. Averting the IlUalng. Exchange. It is stated that John Porter, an rnennccron the Michigan Central road, has been offered 47,000 dollars for his patent on an attachment to a steam x cylinder which condenses the wasto from the steam cock on starting the engine, thcrobv averting that hissing noise which is so disagreeable to the ear and such a terror to horses. Josh Billings: I think 1 had rather trust mi faith than mi judgment. A FEW SUGGESTIONS Thrown Out for Fourteen-Year-Old Boy lo Thluk Over. (M. Quad's "Talk with Boys." Ah, my hull I just wish I was about I llviwrs old and had the chances you are daily throwing away. What would 1 clot wiiv I'll nost tnvself. For one thine I'd walk dowtt to the depot and v.hcti a locomotive brought in its train mid went off to the round-houso I'd follow it and And out how it was 111 ado. I'd have a peep at every lover and crank and cog and wheel and rod. I'd know why and how steam exerted its power. I'd satisfy myself why that boiler mounted on wheels was able to pull anu pusn. U'l.on T l..ft tint round-house I'd CO to a factory ami overhaul a stationary engine and see where the two differed. Then I'd get hold of soino railroad man and pump him until I was posted even as to me quantity 01 uu uiwu w run a wwiuit tive 100 miles. It may not be money in your pocket to know these things, but it will bo food for the mind. You cannot post yourself too much. The mind is a book in which there's always room for another pago. . Did von ever take a common door lock apart? Then you do not know that a bit of a brass siting is tne niuucn myswry which works both catch nnd bolt. With out this insignificant trifle, costing less than a penny, the lock, costing from thirty cents to a dollar of itself, would be only so much old iron. You have ojienod and shut a pocket-knife thousands of times, but it never occurred to you that a spring, acting on a different principle, holds the blado shut or open. You see a paper-hanger at work, but you are ignorant of the fact that he must begin his work in one corner of the room by a plumb line, or hn will not mako a good job of his papering. You can't tell whether a horse-shoo is put on with six or ten nails. You ncvor f.nimti'd the snokes in tho wheel of a wagon. You never counted the bricks which a hod-earricr can shoulder up the ladder. You tlon't know whether a cow has teeth in both jaws or only in one. You don't know that a blundering Do tmit. bid 10 veiirs old curelesslv nut to gether the pattern of ice-tongs now used all over the country, nnd let a mnn steal his idea away and make a fortune out of it. If ho had been an observing boy he ... I ! 1 . 1 - 1 would nave seen auti reaiiztu me vuiue f din iwHim Hn went about nicking up sods and stones, and when offered ten cents for lus emtio tongs no 101 them go with the feeling that he had made a good thing. The Modioli of Lincoln. Ben: Perley Poore. Tim idiftond votes for nrcsidnnt and vice president were counted in tho hall of tho house, on w eunesuay, tne i.nu f Vxlirmirv. 1HII1. The senators wont there in procession, headed by the vice president, advanced up tne minute aisie, and took seats in the area in front of the speaker's desk. Vice President Breckin ridge took the chair of the seakor, u-iiiin tlm latter sat at his richt hand. Tho teller took jxmition at tho clerk's desk. Senator Trumbull of Illinois, Representative Phelps of Missouri, and Washburno of Illinois, were the tellers; on their right was the clerk or inesenaio, Mr. Dickens, and on the left Mr. Forney, nf thn ImiiHU. The vice president said that, according to tho constitution, uotu nouses 01 con gress had assembled in order that the vtM miirht lie counted autl declared for president nnd vice president of the United Mates, wno were to inse umir seats on the termination of tho present tiirm. tlm 4th of March. 1861. It was his duty to open the electoral votes, and im nnw uroriiHltd to terform that duty. Tho votes were accordingly opened by states, anu me separate vote ui i-ncu state was announced by tho tellers. When tlm niimn of South Carolina was called a suppressed laugh was heard from all parts of tho house. vico rrwmeui ltnw.L-mriilini then Announced the whole vote to be: For Lincoln and Hamlin, 180 . . i . it mck votes; ior ureckinricigo and wine, i.j v,t.iu. tnr ltiillnnil Evirett. HO votes: for Douglass and Johnson, 13 votes. Ho therefore declared Anranam Lincoln, ot llliiiiiin nml Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. tn lut duly elected president and vico president of tho United States. There was no demonstration oi any mhu ou tlm lliinr of tlm house or ill the mtllcms. The senate then retired nnd tho house adjourned. Waaled Wealth lu Nevada. Virginia City Etiterpi-im. During tho bonanza days, when nearly a dozen bii? mills on Six-milo and Sovon-niilo canyons were rushing through the rich ores of tho Conistoek, tlm tnilinirs that left tho mouth of Six- mile canyon were allowed to run to wasto, and spread abroad on the tlesert to tho northward of tho town of Sutro. Six-mile canvon was then filled from iu1 to iml with blanket-sluices and all kinds of sulphuret catching traps. It was thought that wnen tno tattings icit me mouth of the canyon they contained so lit tl. vulnnhln material that it would not pay to catch them up in a reservoir, but the blanket sluices caugnt oniymesui nlniivt and other heavv matter. They did not get the chloride; that went out with the slums, i or somo years past men have been delving for this wealth lying scattered upon tho desert sands, and they are stilt gathering it in. In the places where they are now "mining" tnr thin material, it does not show on the surface, Tho shifting sands of tho desert have hidden it, and it is over mviun with miLihrtish and irreasewood. Tho deposits must be prospected for, but when found pay well lor tno woric oi cot' lecting. Parlae ot ( lams. IHai-lford Port.1 Alas for tho glory of lihodo Island clams! At a recent meeting of the California Academy of Sciences II. E. C. Stoarus, Ph. D., spoke of tho rapid increase of tho soft-shelled or long necked clams in the Pncilio bays. Some Oregon clams weighing fifteen pounds, with necks three feet long, require three nun to d ii? them. The? are accessible at extremely low tides. Their delicate white meat, when boiled, cut into strips and fried iu batter, is exceedingly good. Some enterprising Yankee will be intro ducing these monster bivalves on the Atlantio coast; and then what will be come ot the Khode LUand clam bakes? A Good Short Story. Detiort Kree Preae. T la Imtuumililn tn irivft a receint for tho manufacture of a good story. The .hi.f inirrnrliint ai-a hniwlxomfl urirls and young men of various rads of intelli gence. As in the making oi a case, me wav vnn mlt thim ii n has a 'trood deal to do with the success of the story. About the best thing the writer can do is to study tho stories that have been successful. The Wst short story that was ever written in Ameii-, or anywhere else, is probably T. B. Alrlrii.h'u "MHrin-rv Daw " A stilendid story of an altogether different stamp is "A Alan without a tjouniry, uy r.. E. Hale. Frank Stockton is very good at a short story. "The Lady and the Tiger" is an example ot what ne can ao in that lino. Mrs. Margaret tyunge writes alxjut as brisk and breezy a short story as an lady writer anywhere. Charles Reade was good at short storios, and so is Wilkio Collins. Some of James Payn'i hort stories are models. It is a very good thing for the person who sets out to tell a story to have a story to tell. Every newspaper and magazine is just yearning for some sprightly young writer wno can wit a gou story. iv i said before, give some thought to the matter don't dash it off. Place your innilmitii in thn liest nossibla manner. and don't let tho interest drag if you can help it. voni use 100 mucn time describing gorgeous sunsets nor beautiful scenery; get down to your work, and when you get mrougn Kton. It is useless to try the cffisctof tho story on your acquaintances. Those who like you win consider mo story inn best ever written; those who don't will toll tlwir friinds what nonsense it is. but all will tell you that it is first-rate. n't . lf.il.. t.-..n1 n..lnH it. hia 1 IlCrO IS MX) 1HUO Ul uim VMlliliu lit "" wnrl.l Vinnllv. mv brothers, if votl write a really good story and it is rejected, the loss is the paper s, not yours, ior some other sheet will snap it up quickly enough. Wondera of ".H uncle-lleadlus." Exchange. Mr. Stuart Cumberland, tho muscle render, has had a irroat success in Lou don, the "sanctum" of Tito Pull Mall Ga zette being chosen as the scene or nts experiments. Muscle-reading has not, as might De at nrst oe supposou, any connection with pugilism, but is a kind of mind-reading by touch. Mr. Cum berland s theory is that any exertion oi the mind produces a muscular contrac tion nnd that hv t akin ir hold of a Per son's hand, tho muscle-reader can tell what he is thinking about, l ho crucial experiment made in London by Mr. Cumberland seems to amount to nothing short of an absolute demonstration of the truth of this theory winch is vimphivl for also hv our bid friend Col. Olcott, of the Theosophioal society. Mr. Grant Allon tnongni oi an oojeci not, m tho sanctum at all, and Mr. Cumtorland Hum nnwwded to find it blindfolded. Taking Mr. Allon by the hand, he mado a bee-line for iNo. 7 JNortnumnertana street, and here the great moment camo. Mr. Allen thought that he had thought of something at No. 7, whereas ho had really thought of something at Kr. A tin this hcinir called to his attention in an inaudible whisper by tho only other person wno was in the secret, straightway Mr. Cum berland pulls Mr. Allen off to No. 6. They enjer the house, tip-stairs they go, Mr. Allen is led by the muscle-reader to tho drawer of a table, then round to an ottoman, of which he lifts the lid, and from it lie pulls out a strange-looking obji ot, a "lit n 'h' or, as we should say, a hunk of uivad the very hunch or hunk given eighteen years ago to the amateur casual of The Pall Mall, Mr. Greenwood, for supper in Lambeth work-house. It is needless to say that it was of this very hunk that Mr. Allen had been thinkinuj. The Iloetonlan'a Voice. Boston Cor. Philadelphia Timet. The very tono of a Bostonian's voico haa a gentle, dog-eared curve, so to sneak, that suirirests frequent handling, a mellow turning of toues, a readiness to tro on or turn back until the question is made quite clear to us. There is a detailed touch in the voico that answers and questions us that seems to fold about its words in a kind of patient, loving naturalness and to close about tho stunt of the listener iu a suntuo en couragemont to tho ideal value ho has somewhere placed uihmi himself. 1 he lioS' tonian listens as well as ho talks. His interrogation is perfectly sincere. Ho means vou should bring your facts nnd theories to the front. If ho sounds the "personal note" in himself ho rings your own out witn quite as ooneiieeni, impar tiality. Emerson is said to have been an almost too good listener. He listened to your smallest fact with an expectant attention that shriveled your conscious ness into nothing. But ono of Emerson's tnoft potent charms, is the sense of room that ho seems to otter to tno numuiest not only tho .euse of room, but that he causes us to feel that he has given us almost of his very identity so gracious. so impartial in his viow and sympathy. After Their HetlremenU rchlcairo Herald. 1 Gen. Grant's recent difficulties have encouraged a newspaper correspondent to inquit) into tho lives of the various presiuents after their retirement from office. Washington, ho finds, went to Mount Vernon and rnisod tobacco, and Jefferson. Madison and Monroo followed his example at their homes; John Adams returned to Quincy and raised corn and cablmges; Juckson returned to the Her mitage; Van Buren went to his Kinder hook farm; Polk died a few months after retu "aing to Tennessee; Fillmore re nntAnvt hi old law office at Buffalo: Buchanan pursued agriculture at Wheat- lands; Hayes lives on nis unio iarm. Ittallcloua Kllltladca. "Look at that doggie with the long nose!" said young Miltindes at the menagerie. " hat s that caiiedf "That," replied his mother, "is an ant-eater. ' "An ant-eater," he related thought fully. "Then I wish they'd feed him on Uncle Jack's wife, 'cause she didn't give mo any birthday present. Peck's Sun: Deception, my son, is the twin brother to fraud, and the stepping stono to theft. Be positive,' firm and honest. LEFT HAND WRITING. Teaching Ambldextroua Penmanehlp In Bualneaa College. Pittsburg Dispatch. "Is ambidextrous or left hand writing tautrht much nowadays?" a reporter asked the principal of a leading business college where the study of penmanship is one of the great features. "Yes." was the reply, "inereisnoi an institute of penmanship in this city that does not devote almost as much time to the development of the chiro graphic faculties of the left hand as to those of tno ngnt. x ears ago i expioueu tho then prevailing notion that the action of the muscles that induced the forma tion of script characters was natural to the right hand alone. In fact there is nothing natural in writing, uoou pen manship is the result of incessant prac tice, in which tho left hand may be trained with as satisfactory results as the right. And viewed from both an educational and business standpoint, the promulgation of ambidextrous instruc tion is certainly desirable. In the first place it is a well-known fact that per sons who train their left hand always become more proficient in penmanship with their right. And what an aid it is to the people who earn their living by the use of the pen to be able to write with both hands. 1'enmans paral ysis is unknown, and if an accident should happen to ono, the other is al ways ready for duty. A great many clerks down town are proficient anibi dexterists. Whon they are tired of writing with one hand, they change tho pen and thus avoid tho fatigue conse quent upon the uso of tho saino hand throughout tho dav. lake ior instance Mr. E. C. Cockey, of tho Western Union Telegraph company. With his right hand lie is able lo send a message aiong the wires, and with his left take down a copy of the same. Very handy, is it not? This prejudice against the use of tho left hand is dying out, as it should." Mr. H. A. SiH!iicer, sou oi the founder of tho Spenecrian system of penmanship, was seen by the retiorter amuidexirousiy writing in his study. " ithiu tho last lour years," said he, 'the number of pupils whom I have taught successfully to uso tho pen with both hands may bo counted by tho thou sands, and may be encountered in nearly every part of the United States. Through mv eltorw two of the principals ot pubiio schools in this city have taken hold of the matter, with extremely gratifying results. o, there are no rules lor the development of left handwriting. All I do is simply to instruct the pupil to write his signature with his right hand in pencil and then go over it in ink with his loft, inis is tne commencement Next, the signature is written without the aid of tho penciled copy, ana prac ticed until a sufficient degree of perfec tion has been obtained. Can I give you an estimate of the number of ambtdex terists throughout the Union? Well, only a few years ngo I taught a class in Washington of 500, ono in Baltimore of 100. and one in Galveston of auo, and instructed several thousand children in tho New Orleans public schools, and as I am only one of tho many teachers en gaged in tho business, you may calcu late accoruingiy. An Important Service lo Suricory, Virginia (Nev.) Enterpr.se. Lloyd L. Miijors rendered an important servico in the cause of surgery when he undortook, a few days ago, to break out of jail. In his fight with the jailers his arm was broken, and be died on the scattoid with the wounded limb in splints. Until Majors died the surgical profession lias rarely had an opportunity to study the earliest processes oi repair in iracturo. The felon s corpso was quickly carried to tho dissecting tablo, where the wounded arm was amputated. The investigation was profitablo. It exploded a false theory, one which very likely in practico has been attended with serious consequence to peo olo who have suffered with broken bones. Tho immediate per fect adjustment of fractures has not been deemed absolutely necessary to per feet repair. From an examination of Major's arm the precious and practical truth has been evolved that it is unwise to delay tho work of perfect adjustment, In his ease a temporary union of the broken bono had already taken place, not by callous material but by means of the organisation of tho blood which had been poured out about tho fracture at tho time of tho injury. This dis closure is of great scientific value. It Semonst rates not only that surgery is a progressive science, but also that it is not truo that the worst use to which a man may be put is tho hanging of him A Tobacco Trick. Cincinnati Enquirer. The field hands in Kentucky nnd Vir ginia recognize tho poisonous nature of tho weed, and when the sun is excep tionally hot, or from any cause they have a particular disinclination to wortc, it is a common trick for them to bruise a leaf of tobacco and place it under their armpits. In an hour after doing so the strongest among them will be seized with a shuddering, his face will grow pale as death, his muscles refuse to act, and after a time ho falls to the ground in the most horrible spasms. Of course in tho first stages of the illness, he is generally excused from work by the overseer; but if the leaf is retained in position for any length of time it is weeks before tho man is able to take up his old duties. Largest Artificial Stono. Atlanta Constitution. The largest artificial stone in the world is the ono just finished and which is to form the foundation for Bartholdi's statuo of Liberty on Bedloe's island in New York harbor. The stone is made of broken trap rock, sand, American and foreign cement mixed, and water. Twenty thousand barrels of cement were used. " The mixture for tho stono was emptied into tho "jacket," or mold, and then the surplus water was squeezed out. The stone rapidly hardened and will now bear 100 tons to the square itxu. A process has been discovered by whiidi nrtitli-ial ivorv can be made from tho bones of sheep and goats and the waste oi wnite suns. Longfellow: Fame cornea only when deserved, and then is inevitable as aos tiny, for it is destiny. A Moat Villainous Shave. Japan Cor. Cornhill Magazine. Thnrw la nnPiirnrwAn nilftrter in Kioto. the capital of tho mikados. On the night of our arrival we went into a oaroer shop for a shave, and the excitement at inernnsnd in intensity. The crowd blocked up the narrow street, the first line flattening meir noses agaiusi the window, and steaming it with their breath. Inside the shop there was a re flex of the excitement. The barber him self, though palo, was collected in a man ner, and gave me only one gasn. uui, liw uhiiln funiilv witrn ranired in a group in tho kitchen, which opened into the shop, jne assistants stoou annum, from time to time handing un necessary articles to the oerator. The most hot eless case was the small boy, whose duty it was to stand by and hnd nnroT. combs, brush, towel or what ever might be needed by the barber. He stood at the elbow or tne cnair wnnsi i was being shaved, with his foot half a frmt. from min. bis lins slicrhtlv Darted. and a pair of gray-brown eyes unnatu rally disteiuaeu, nxeo upon my iace. i fancy he was in a condition of modified oatAiinnv. At, anv rate, ho neither moved nor spoke whilst the barber rasped me. It was the most villainous snave i ever suffered. A dinner-knife would have been for tho purpose a luxurious article compared with the razor. I besought tho WW t int. mfl off. but Without avail. It was the opportunity of a tueiime, auu ue wouiu uui limit its duration to any volun tary art. We had brought Ito. our guide, with us, a necessary precau- . : .. I... f . ......1.1 Inni-a uuu; wiicrnirw ui-iuiu no uumu nu made our protests understood we might novo hn1 ft fnw hald nlaces Artistically arranged on our heads, and perhaps our eyeDrows snavea on in me manner oi the Japanese. After much haranguing, Ito induced the man to let mo go, to the manifest disappointment of the crowd, who were oniy oonsoieu uy seeing mo vnnnir irnntleman from GlaSL'OW take the chair. Finally the barber charged one and eight-penco ior his nentusn work, which, considering we had left the United. State. siemod dear for a shave. Tho price to a native would have been twopence halt penny at most, anune would, in addition, have had his ears and nostrils shaved and his mur brushed and oiled. Waahlng Out the Stomach. The Lancet The practice of treating patients suf fering from chronic dyspepsia, who re sist the influence of regulated diet and drugs, by washing out the stomach, which originated some years ago in Vienna, has recently taken root in America, and has formed tho subject of a short paper by Dr. W. B. Piatt, in lhe Maryland Medical Reporter of recent date. We are there informed that cases most intractable to all other treatments have quickly yielded to this means. The principle underlying the treatment is to Keep the stomach clean, and, as far as is possible, at rest, for a time sufficient to allow of its complete recovery. The operation should be performed in the morning, betore breakiast. A soft, red rubier tube is passed gen tly down into the stomach quite to the pylorus; with this is connected about a yard of common flexible tubing and a glass funnel, which is held on a level with the patients breast, and tepid water is poured slowly into the funnel until a sensation of fullness is experi enced; the funnel is then depressed to the level of the waist, and the fluid al lowed to syphon out. Tho process is re peated until the water returns quite . n.i . 1 ' 1 l.i 1 . a.J Clear, ine wasning snouiu. ue repeuieu every day for a week or ten days, and during that time the diet should be re stricted, to milk or a little meat; then tho washing may be done every second or third day, and finally abandoned at the end of three weeks. The advantages claimed for this method are that it is efficacious, simple and safe, and it cer tainly is worth a trial in intractablo cases of chronic dyspepsia, a disease which makes its victims a burden to themselves and their friends, and hitherto has brought but little credit to physicians. Encllah Sons-Writing. The Athenreuni. Without going so far as to say that no man is a poet who cannot write a good song, it may certainly be said that no man can write a good song who is not a good poet. Heartiness and melody the two requisites of a song which never can bo dispensed with can rarely be com passed, it seems, by one and the same in dividual. In both these qualities the Elizabuthian poets stand pre-eminent, though even with them the melody is not so singable as it might be mado. Among tho more prominent poets of our time, Mr. Browning, though he has heartiness in plenty, betrays a love of rugged con sonantal effects such as would always pre vent him from writing a first-rate song. Here, indeed, is the crowning difficulty ot song-writing. An extreme simplicity of structure and of diction must be accom panied by an instinctive apprehension of tho melodio capabilities of verbal sounds and of what Samuel Lover, the Irish song writer, called "singing" words, which is rare in this country, and which seems to belong to the Celtio rather than to the Saxon car. "The song-writer," says Lover, "must frame his song of open vowels, with as few guttural or hissing sounds as possible, and he must be con tent sometimes to sacrifice grandeur and vigor to the necessity of selecting singing words and not reading words." Cllmatle Ecrentrlcltlea. Boston Budget The very remarkable climatic eccen tricities, if so they may be termed, that have latterly attracted attention the world over, are typically exemplified in tho last winter seiison about Mavangor, Norway, where in latitudo 58 degrees, 53 minutes, or only 1 degree south of the extremity of Greenland, the thermome ter but once during'the month of Jan uary fell to the freezing point The gnws plots of the various gardens are described as having been practically as green as in summer. "Daisies, snow drops, pansies, violets and primroses had their blossoms well set Peonies had ap peared above the ground, and many roses had thrown out vigorous bhoou." Arkansaw Traveler: Money is er two- face artickle. It ken be yer bes men an yer wust enemy. A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY. A Novel Neane of Ltvllbood In Whleh Cltlxene of Detroit are Engaged Detroit Port and Tribune. There is an enterprise carried on in Detroit which is not generally known, and never appears in the statement of the city's varied prosptwous industries. Its novelty is such that it has never as yet attained the dignity of a name. It is carried on when a majority of citizens are asleep. Those en gaged in it prosper upon the carelessnt'RS and misfortunes of others. Their income defies definite pre diction, but can be depended on for a handsome return on the capital invested. The few engaged in this industry might be termed "fighters." The pioneers in the business were gas-lighters. Searooly one of their number, who has been en gaged with the craft for any consider able length of time, has failed to find one or more articles which affordod a handsome addition to his regular in come. Almost every night there was a valuable find or two, and as a knowl edge of the fact came to a few men who were waiting for something to turn up, they saw in it a golden opjHjrtunity, and are now laying up treasures from what they can find. One of these individuals lives in Close's alley and is a negro. At the very poop or day he may be seen abroad, traveling at a good round space, scanningthe side walk and doorways, and swooping down on anything of sufficient value to repay the loss of a minute or so. There are also throe men who travel together, their rounds generally beginning about mid night and continuing until daylight. They walk abreast, taking in the Bide walk, scanning it as they go, the center man carrying a bull's-eye lantern at tached to the front of his coat. They go as rapidly as is consistent with their . business, and nothing of vidue escape their not ice. A basket is the receptacle for many articles, money goes into their pockets, and heavier finds some- times necessitate the sending of a detail of one or two for assistance or a wagon. What they pickup comprises almost evry movable commodity worn or car ried upon the stn e s. They secure hata, handkerchiefs without number, coats, money, umbrellas, feathers of value, occasionally a valuable watch dropped by some night marauder, .purses, rings, breastpins, canes, chains, bracelets, keys, letters, gloves, furs, skirts, and even hose, dropped by some luckless adventuress. An invoice of those find ings would show an immense annual aggregate. A plume picked up not long since netted eight dollars to the finder. A watch was quietly disposed of for fifty dollars, and the purchaser had a bargain. Much of the jewelry is sent to a distant market. Ready money is tucked away and tells no talcs. Curious finds are also made. An old lamp-lighter said to a reporter: "I hare picked up two bushels of potatoes when they were worth a dollar and a half per bushel, and no one even called for the bags." Another had round a new suit ot clothes, neatly done up, and found them a good fit without the change of a but ton. Some disciple of Bacchus tucked a twenty-dollar bill outaido his vest pooket and the eagle-eyed finder gathered it in. Purses containing several times tnat amount have been picked up, and the business is satti by those informed to De a lucrative one. A peculiar case is that of an aged negro who is found around the market building at an early hour during the hot weather. He gathers up the heads and feet of chickens, declaring when ques tioned: "Boss, dem am de quintessence ob de fowel. De possum am de only bird dat obberrates dose foh regalah ole time soup." He never misses a squash, bunch of vegetables, or some other bit of diet. Forreet and O'Conor, "The true story" of how tho late Charles O'Conor came to act as counsel In the Forrest divorce case is told by The Syracuse Herald. Mrs. Forrest's friends at first tried to engage him, but he refused positively to have anything to do with tho case. But they had spread abroad reports of their intention to engage him, hoping thus to frighten Mr. Forrest, and Forrest heard and be lieved them. A few hours after his final refusal to be Mrs. Forrest's counsel, Mr. O'Conor took his seat in a horse-car to go home. . A moment later Forrest entered. His eye fell upon O'Conor and flashed fire. Believing the lawyer to be his wife's counsel, ho strodo up to him, and in the presence of the assembled passengers he deliberately trod on his toes. Mr. O'Connor rose, quitted the car, and returned to his office. There he wrote a brief note to Mrs. Forrest, ac cepting her case without a retainer; and a more remorseless warfare was never waged by counsel upon an adversary's client than that which Mr. O'Conor opened against the great actor the next day. The Wealth of Trinity Chnreb. Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. "I believe," said a down-town real estate man, "that two hundred miUion dollars would about cover the actual wealth of the Trinity church New York corporation. It is certainly as rich as the Vanderbilt's, and has a steadier line of profit. Besides the im mense rents coming in from property in the city, the church corporation holds mortgages by several hundred Episcopal church edilces all over tho country, on which there is an average of nearly 7 per cent, interest, payable quarterly. The fund is under the control of a board of trustees, selected from the vestrymen of old Trinity and St. Paul's, and if you think they give any money away, or handle the revenue on benevolent gospel principles, go and try to negotiate a loan. They will tie you up with iron bands and make you come to time like a sheriff. They keep it in tho family, because it's too good a thing to let go. All the trustees get rich." Holland Afraid of Germany. Brook yn Union. As Alexander, prince of Orange, has been an invalid all his life, his serious illness is expected to result fatally, and Holland is disturbed lest the inheritance of the Dutch throne by the children of the king's sister may prepare the way for the absorption of their country by Germany.