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EUGENE CITY GUARD. t, U CAMPHELI . . rroprletrt EUGENE CITY. OREGON. PITH AND POINT. A ra nv d iy pictiiu and a broken marrhifro cnii-nn'iit are in one re aped alike postpone I on account of the wmldcr. Jliirdi lk. Can anybody tell why everybody at a 1u.;tiiM inaniijrm to coii'li just a the lecturer is pioiioiiiiein tlio one word which or all others yon want to Lear? The Journal "f Chemitrii Rives this piece of consolation: "If von jive in a town don't cry over npilt milk. Kxatnino it cloudy, and yon may iind it U not m lk after all." "Aunty," nuid a thoughtful boy to his njjod nurse, "what coiihm of all the old moon?" "'Deed, I'm not very wire, child," shn answered. Maybe they he chipped up t maki) stars out of the bits. (iiM n Day. The wife of Dr. Tanner med to earn:i.n'j a year as a physician be fore her marriage. Now she has lost all that income. It Is never advisable for a wlf-siipporlinj; woman to marry a "fast"' ma 1. ... Citiseii. The iiieessant talker in iy be of me in the world, but there is a M on .sus picion abroad that his principal service to mankind is to illustrate the fact that it doesn't require much brains to make a noise in the world. oil. 1,'it; Ikrrii k. A proof-reader, out for a walk, was met by a Typographical Error; but tlio proof-reader did not spi ak, liordidhce.cn liu'.v in recognition, "lla, ha." chuckled l!ie Tyiior.iphieal Error, "I knew he wouldn t see me!" Louisville dourur-Juurnal. A family in Lowlston, Maine, re cently received nvisit from a prominent clergyman. In the family is a r'irl of three" years the pet and privilege! character of the household. At the table she listened attentively while grate was being said, and when the clergyman had reached his "Amen," alio exolnit I: " "1'aiu't pretty to talk ko at the table; my papa don't." Trou Time. A London chemist, in an analysisof the tea we drink, found that it con tained "nut-galls, iron lilings, filbert husks, sulphate of cop)er, hornets' ne-ts, acetii! acid, green paint, tar rope, desiccated iloor-mats, ammonia, aliibln hweeping, etc." Tliis would seem to disprove the general belief that t!ii is adulterated, unless something of the kind may lurk in that suspicious, "etc." Sorristuwn Herald. A New York dude went to a cele brated doctor to bo examined, ns Ins health wan on the wane. The physician examined the young man carefully ami said: "1 Iind your heart is nlVected." "Anything else, doctor?" "Yes, your lungs are slightly a fleeted." "Any thing else about mo that is affected?'' Yes, your manners are also alluded." -tf. 1. Sun. SNAKE AND BIRD. A Koiiiilkwlilo I'nnli'it llttwiil a PurlrlilKP unit it lllark Mini Up. Whether or not it Is selciililieally true that snakes ever charm bird 4, it is true that birds somctimt'4 attiick and kill (makes. An account, is given in the In dianapolis I'enple of an exciting contest of t!iis kind, in whVh a partridge .was the victor. It happeuel in Preston, Wayne County, Ui- A traveling sales man, whihi trnut-lijliiii;; in a creek near that place, heard a commotion in the bushes near the creek, and cries such as are made by young chicken when they arc list, lie pirn d through the hipdn'N and saw alien partridge and a large black snako engaged in a combat., Huddled together a short distance nwav was the partridge's broud, peep lug In teiro". The partridge attacked thesnake w.tii her beak and feet, and truck iiImi below with her wyigs. She moved with such rapidity about the make, tint, in spite of the quickness with which the reptile is enabled to throw its fold 4 about anything it at tacks, the siiak'i w is foiled in all its at tempts to encircle the bird, which Keemed to be sccKing t blind the ser pent by (.ti'iking at its eyes. In its eU'orts to get th bird within its coil the snake scenic .1 to glide over and miller lier liken tlasli, Inil, 110 matter what course it took, the partr'dge never fade. I to slip away from it ami deliver a telling Idow upon it. Once the stuik'i retreated several feet as if lly.ng from the bird, and this latter followed it closely. Suddenly tilt miake turned and rushed back lit the art rid go with its head raised more than a loot in the air. The b I'd dashed forward to meet the serpent, and deliv ered a blow with its beak which struck the snake siiua'o in one of its eyes, fflils was a;pa out to the witness, who n iml wuhm ten te t of t lit contestants by the Miak i's instantly dropping Its lieait 10 tne trromin unit rolling It Irom aale to side as if in threat pain. The b,n ilnl not lo e a nviuid ill fol lowing up her advantage, but pounced mi thesnake close to iMii'tid, and, Willi strokes delivered Willi Mirprisin; rapid it v. indicted wounds with her beak which seemed to dine the snake and it plNUil liist in one direction and then in another, making 110 further effort to defend itself, mid yet apparently unable to tied a wav to c-capc. The partridge k pi no ita effective Mrik'.ng on the nock ,.f the snake until the head w almnsi separate I from the bolv and the reptile cmm" I lo mow. .The man advanced at this point in the battle, but the bird continued to tear at the tlesh of the snake until he was near euoegli to touch her, when iho lcc:ime aware of his presence for the tir.t lime. Mie retreated hurried!, to the spot where her terror-stricken brood were huddled, and calling Iheiu after her with a few ellleks, led llieni away into the linderliribli. On c. lining the mi. ike, it was found that besides the fatal wounds it had ii ccived in its in ck. both of its eves had been put out by the partridge.' The anake was nearly tivo feet in length, ami had in its Momach the partially digested remain of a large rattle-auuke. MINING SHARPS. W,tTn Npiry Ti llr Tlmt Ayir If1 lo Ural wlth-Twu Wit l.lrnn. "Some big liars come to an ussnyer' ofl'ice once in n while," a down-town assayer said Incidentally in a talk about nilnlii'r nropcrtv. "but I think the two biggest liars I have ever seen came into my oiiiei! last summer, not together, thank goodness, for if they had I would have kicked them out for supposing that I might be an eternal fool. In stead, I l'stene I to each, and then gave him a piece of my mind. Tlio first wa about forty-live years of age, sharp featured, long-baire I, and with the ap pearance of a Western miner. He care lessly unwrapped a newspaper from a lump of silver ore, and asked in a biisi-ness-liko way to have it as-aved. I picked up the lump and sr.id oil-hand: Thero'a no need of having that as saved. It's seventy-live per cent, silver at' IiM glance.' And it was. It. was nbout as rich a specimen ns I had seen in some time. It was wortli at least 18,0ii) a ton. " -Hut 1 want it ussayed,' he said. I've got a drift of ore like that six feet wide, and 1 want to sell it. I don't want to lie about it, and I want to know just what it is worth.' "That's my business, and, of course, I knocked oil' a piece of the lump. I charged him more than I would any body else, bccaii-o 1 knew bo Intended to swiinllo somebody. I ground the piece of ore into dust, mid put in a bot tle. Then 1 took a little and assayed it. It turned out just wh:it I thought it would. As usual I made record of the assay, and wailed for the man to return. "About four days after the. assay four or live respectable old gentlemen came into the ollico together, and one of them unwrapped a piece of ore and 4 ii'b 'Will you please assay this for us?. We are thinking of buying a silver mine, iiml this is some of the ore. What do you think it is worth?' "I looked at It closely and discovered that it was from the lump my Western man had brought in. " 'Kxciiso me, but I have assayed this ore within live days,' I said. "'Y-c-e-s,' the spokesman of the party said, hesitatingly. 'Wo under stand that It has been assayed, but wo thought it would be safer to havo it assayed for us particularly. How much did you make it out to be worth?' "'Twelve or fifteen thousand dollars a ton.' 1 said, not wishing to be too part'cular at first. 'I'll see.' "While I was looking over my record book I noticed the gentlemen looking knowingly at one another. " 'It was lH.iHK),' 1 remarked, turn ing toward them. It didn't startle them a bit. " 'That's pretty rich. Isn't It?' 'Pecidedly so. . Where' a the mine?' I asked. "In Colorado. We have a drift there s'x feet wide.' " 'Colorado!' 1 exclaimed. 'That ore never has seen Colorado. That's from Home Mexican mine.' "I knew what I was talking about when 1 said that, because 1 can pick out Colorado ore from two thousand speci mens. 1 can pick out ore from the Coinstock lode anywhere you put it. After getting a few more particulars about the man who wanted to sell the mine, I said : '(icntleineii, 1 don't want to lime you taken in by any body, and especially by one of those West ern mining sharps. Instead of taking mv word for (his assay, goto somebody else, and I ve no doubt you'll Iind many who will be as honest with you as I in tend to be, ami have your ore assayed. Take some of this dust wiih you ami see if it lie like your ore.' " ' Hut we can buy this mine for only $,'iO,im:i,' the first speaker said. ' ' If you can Iiml a mine where the ore is nil like that,' 1 said, ' I'll Iind men who will give you fc.'iO.OOO.IM) for it. That isn't a true specimen, ami, besides, it isn't from Colorado. It's a rich ti nd from some old mine in Mex ico.' "They looked rather glum and went out. I really pitied'tlicni. The next dav the Western man came in to see me. 1 gave it to him hot. Look here,' I said, 'we have just nbout enough of such fellows as you around here. When you come on hero to sell a mine, don't try to palm off Mexican ore for Colo rado ore. lake mv advice, and don t show that lump to any miner, because he II know It 111 a minute. Now sk p. " 1 linve never seen the old gen tlemeii since. I guess they found touiib.idy who told them tluvtrutli as 1 diii. "The other chap was a short, dumpy fellow. He wauled to have eventhing very secret. He had a piece of ore that 1 knew was Mexican, and it was a I nig time before 1 could get nn thing out of h:in. At lengtli lie said: vm a coin niereiat traveler, una while 1 was in Mexico this summer I struck an oil trail over the mountains that, 1 thought, would take me bv a short cut to w here 1 wanted to go. I took it, but it was the roui'licst ground 1 ever struck About noon I was almost overcome, and 1 dropped off mv mule near a shady place to catch a imp and rest. My lnu'e. Unit was wandering about, awoke me after awhile by nearly stepping on nn In pulling my blanket oil that served as a pillow, 1 not'eed that the rock sparkled. It struck me nil at once lhat it was silver, and 1 looked around to see if there were any other rocks like that. I don't know w hether you'll be lieve It, but a short distanceoll' the trail the round was covered with them. 1 picked up about twenty pounds and packed them on my mule and stinted tor the ueare-t settlement. I didn t sav anything to anybody in that neighbor hood, ami 1 iliilut d ire to have the ore assayed until I got to Kl l'aso. lint 1 in. mired about the price of land, and found I could buy that piece of ground for about .t.',iHKi. l'o come on here to raise that and then start a mine. What do You think the ore is wortli? " I took the fellow all in and said: 'Hid ou pick this off the ground?' " Certainly,' lie replied. "Was it in this condition?' " Hlf course.' he answered, although he w us lieenininir to lie frightened. " ' Then ou are the b&est liar 1 have eT ceen,' 1 said, verv decidedly. " The fellow winced, and I con tinned: 'You don't know anything about ore, and you don t know any thing about Mexican land. This ore came from souio mine more than twenty feet umb r ground, and it isn t necessary to buy Mexican land before Marling a mine'. You tell your story well, but you'll have hard work to Iind anybody who will give you l..0A) to i.m- for'Mexican la id. lel out.' i v - . .... ,, " There s a grcni niner. nce, . 1 ,.,.. I,, tin, iiiiTi.virnneii of ore that has lain on the stiri'ace any length of time and that of oro just dug from un der ground. The latter is more erys tali.ed, for one particular. The si r face pickings are what we call the re sults of a blow-out. Two drifts, coin in" together peak-shaped, are gradu ally projected out by the washing away of tins earth. Water gets in the crev ices, and, alter awhile, the peak breaks into jvecos, which ium scanereu o' i the mirfucfl. If tiiat chap had had sur face ore he might have been believed. except that part no mt tin) land, wnxii was way o.l. -V I. TWO BRAVE WOMEN. Tiirllllliff i:iNinlu of Mfo lu t!i tlrr'l Mount iliii. Tho heroines of history are usually charact rs lil.nl.! conspicuous by the emcr-viicies of war, or revolution, or an uiiselt!'!.! state of society. The same hcro'.e iiual t'es exist in woman's nature at all times, only In a peaceful age, and a peaceful land, the situations that call them out otvur less frequently and are less likely to go upon record. The llwl'j Mountain Sews tills in the following story what a girl can do bred up in frontier life, and probably, for that reason, better litted to cope w'tli U dangers; out ca-cs of female bravery are by no means uncommon in our towns and cites. Tho.se wi.o complain li"t, h",,"mfin dei'i'tp rO'n" will do well to notice that in this in btanco it was the J.rl who proved e.,u.ii to tins occasion, w bile tlio woman was utterly hclplors. Heed's ranch did not differ mat orally from hundreds of others in Colorado. The saino straggling, one-story struct ure, perfectly innocent of paint, with outbuildings looking as if they were ready to tumble down. The family rons'!sted, at the time of this story, of Joe Itced, the proprietor, his wife and two ch hlron. KHa. the eldist. was a rather pretty girl of c'ghtecn, who for several years had relieved t lie tired 11101 ti er of much of the burden of the house work, attended, to the duties of tho dairy, and was a good horsewoman withal, often accompanying her fattier 111 rough rides of miles" when looking for stray cattle. Once n week Mr. K 'cd w ent to Den ver to sell the dairy products, and pur chase such articles of food as could not be raised on tho ranch. Willie frc (piently accompanied him, and the two women, thought nothing of being left alone in the house until long into the night, as the d'stanco to the city made the drive a long 0110. It was on one of theso evenings in the early fall, just as they had completed their supper and the mother wa ar ranging the table for tiie hungry father and son, that the younger wimian went to the b :irn, the back of which was im nicdia'ely 011 tho road, toseo a calf that was sick. Suddenly she heard the voices of men In the ro.ul near the barn. Lis.eninr and scarcely daring to breath, she heard words lhat almost froze her with terr.ir. "The old 111:111 keeps his money-box in the drawer of the. old bureau, I tK t e old woman carries the key." "How can wo get at it?" iu;kod an other voii e. "We can bind ho'h women, an 1 if they make any noise, we cm stoo tint." For a mo-iic'it tho territ'ed l'.ste ier was fairly paraScd with f ar: th.-n, she stnrte. I uo.'ind running oulek'y around to the back of the house aid crawl'ii' lhiM',1 ill 1111 oven w.ndow wen' to a closei :md took from it two icvolvcrs whicn were always kep; load ed for emergencies, concealing tl.em in Ih 1 folds of her dress. Hastily rejoining her mother in the larger room, she was just in time to see Iwo burly-looking; rulaans enter hy tne doer. Too taller of tlio two men demand d supper, "mullet it eomoipiick, too," he sa:d, in a menaeiii'r tone. The brave girl placed the food on the table, know ing tnnt the seouiulrels would satisfy their Linger before putting their pur- I, 1 1 . 1 1 pose 01 lo.utery, niiii p issioiv muioir, into exeeu'ion. She then sat d.'iUi in front of tliein, and wate cd t..cia. The moment their meal was completed. sl(t suddenly thrust tiie uui'.les of the pistols in their faces, threatening to shoot If lliey moved. Kx'postnlations and pndestat'ons were in vani; the heroic girl stand there with eyes Hashing ami determined, for w hat to tier scenic I ages. Hie poor mother, ns soon as stie comprehended the siiua. t'on. overcome by her great terror, had fainted and was lying on the iloor, At hist the sound of wagon wheels was heard coming toward the house, and in a moment the father 11ml brother entered the lums ! in company with an uncle w ho had arrived In I louver that day from their old Kastern home in rcn::s Lr.nia. and by the merest acei ileiit nict Mr. Keed on Slxtoeuih Street, in Denver. As soon as they comprehended the situaUon they compelled the ruffians with revoliors at their heads to submit to being hound with ropes, and when day-light cam they were taken to the county seat and pi. iced in jail. The brao g rl as soon as relieved from her terrible guard duly, and the horrible strain on In r nerves w as taken off, went into a succession of hysterical spasms, and it w as tor weeks that her rea-oii, if not her life, w as despaired of. She eventually recovered, however, and afterward married a wealthy I'en r r gentleman, and is now living in tlio Queen Citv. The two men were recog nized lis old offenders, in fact they were fugitives from justice from a distant county, and afterward solved a long time in the penitentiary in Canon City. F.lnura, X. Y., lm lined a milk man -'.') for putting one quart of water and three of milk together and shaking them up as a gallon of the creamy uuill. A milkman can go too far. htrntf t'nt iVv.'st. A DRY TIME. iha I)r Coming Wlirn the Earth Will Drink I p All tli Sea. Most of the planets have probably rooted down by radiation to a solid un der crust like the earth. The mm, owing to his greater mass, Is still a fiery globe not yet cooled down so as to have a sol d crust. But "ur moon being a body of hinall mass, only about one cignticth of the earth's mass, is sup- po-ed to nave nail lime 10 cooi oowu uj a solid globe all the way from its sur face to its center. Its internal heat is supposed to have been nil radiated a wav into the surrounding cold space. Xuw the hot interior mass of the earth can. of course, contain no water, and little or none of the free gasei that con st file an atmosphere. They would be l o led oil", expanded and dr.ven to the surtac ' where ar-J iounu now me greai bulk of our ocean s and our atmosphere. P..11 u-Iien llie eni-fli shall have pitrtcd with nil t.siut M-iinl heat, having thrown it into tlin surround, rig cold space as Ion ilooe. then the cold. solid but porous mass within its present crust, winch is now incapable of ab- orbiir' water or air, on account or the . . . 01 1 ... prc-cn! high temperauiro, win u-.-gui u drink up the water and air just as tl- parched soil after a summer's drough: drinks up the rain, and the ground is dry in a lew minutes after tiie shower. li.it you may well n-k. could tho solid porous mass w. thin, the pro-enl crust ot itie .eii-iii tints drink 111) the whole of ih.. uMtei-s of fie Ailautie and I'aci.'ic Oceans and cause all the waters of our done to disappear? Let us examine tilt more closely. While the interior ol the earth re j iw lint .'is it is at present it is no more possible for tho water and air of our globe to penetrate to these liery regions than it is for a drop of water to remain on 11 hot stone. lint the earth is losing its heat day by day and year bv year? radiating it" out into the sur rounding cold space. I know it has 1,,.,. n eoiniintcd that tin! earth receives from the sun annually just as much heat ns it loses 111 a year nv rauuiuou ;.,!.. tin, loo'i-oiinilimr Mince. (irant that it be so for the present and for many thousands ot years 10 come, out in.. iVoiilile is lhat the sun himself is cooling off, and. therefore, will not be always ahle to send us as niuen neat as ho .foes at nresent. The time, will, therefore, surely come when we shall lose more heat by radiation into space than the sun will bo able to return to us. Then it will be only a question of time for the earth gradually to cool iloivn. ns the moon has already done. from surface to the center. When that time comes will not the dry but solid and porous core of our globe drink up the oceans and atmosphere,-causing them to disappear, not into la rare cav ernous pockets, but into the minute pores of its suDstancc!" Tim nrooosition jinnenrs to be estab lished bv strict calculation that the in terior of the earth when cold will be nl.l,. in ,iliorh more than four times. possibly more than thirty times, the amount 01 w aier now on us sin me.-. Now, it seems certain that in the man ner first explained the earth will con tinue to lose both its superlicial water timl iu atmosphere. Tim earth, the other planets, nnd even the sun him self, are regarded as doomed ft some future day to the same fate. Mclau- holv late! some Will say. Hut way omplain of the general law of nature? Y..i'vthi!iir ill nailire has its moi'llil!!? of life, its high meridian of glory and strength, its evening decline and its midnight of blackness and death. Is the case of a world is teat the last term of a ser es? ''). OieWcy. Ui MIGRATION OF BIRDS. A MyiterlniM nml IntiTostl i? Questliiii In Zui.liiKV Wiilch I'lltll'S t:n Scl.Mi'.l.tl. Familiar as llrs m grat'on of birds is to us, there is, perhaps, no quest on in .'.oology more o'iseure. The long llighli they Like, and the unerring certainty with winch they w.ng the r way be tween the most d stau'. pl.ic's, arriving and depart ng at th s i:ne period year after yea1', are p i nts in the history of Irrd.s of passage as mysterious ns they are interesting. We know the 1110. t migrants ily after sundown, tiioii'jh many of thetn selcc a moo.d glit night to cross the Med t Tranean. Hut that their meteorological instinct is no! un erring i proved hy tie1 fact that thou s mils are every year d owned in (heir llights over the Atlantic and other oceans. Northern Africa and Western As'a are selected as winter qil irlers by in I-1 of tiieiit, a id they may often be noticed on their way thither, to hang over towns at ii'gh', pu.'ed. in spite of their cxpercnoe, hy the shifting I gllt ; of the ,! reels and houses. The swallow or the nightingale may somelinie.s lie detavnl by unexpected circumstances;. Yet it is rarely that they arrive or depart many days sooti er or later, one year from another. Font wen'hero' lair, heat or cold, the putlins rena r lo ouie of their stations punctually on a given day. as if their liloveini n's wcie regulated by clock work. Th swiftness of (light which characterizes most birds enables them to cover a vast space in a brief time. The common black swift can Ily .'7ti 111 les an hour, a speed w hich, if it could be maintained tor less than half a day. would carry the bird from its win ter to its summer quarters. The large purple ivitt of America is capable of even greater feats on the wing. The chimney swallow is slower ninety miles per hour being the limit of its I .ower: but the passenger pigeon of the 'nite.i States can accomplish n journey of 1,'V'1 miles between sunrise and siin s.L The distance traveled seems, more over, to have no relation to the size of the traveler. The Swedish blue-throat raises Its young among the Laps, and enjoys its winter holidays among the iieirroes of the Soudan, w hile the tiny ruby -throat -d humming bird proceed annually from Mexico to Newfound land and back again, though one would imagine that so delicate a little fairy would be more- at home among th' cacti and agaves of the Ticnv Caliente than among the tirs and fog of the North. hmihn S.'iin fiin. A man who brings suit again-t a young 'woman and wins her for his wife soun-f tip's r .ts heavy damages. THE " HOODOOED " CLAIM. A flee, of MInlna I'roprty that llrlng Hud Lurk ror Tho " no w or . There is a superstition prevailing among a number of the miners in that locality that a certain claim in Iowa milch Is wi unlucky one. It got started In some way that a man who worked in that claim was sure to meet with bad luck of sonic i-:...l 1I u-oolil either L'ct blown Up IVIUI1. w .,-.... - 1,1 by giant powder, or fall down 11 ladder, or tho mine would cavo in on him, or some other dpiallv undesirable occur rence would ti;ke' place. Hy degrees tho whet Uecnnie so pioaie.n ui.u ...,.,.tv 11-111 I'lmsiilered "hoodooed. to u-e a slang expression. The result s that nolody win worn u in owners are 'at a loss to "know what to do for men. . a . mlil renorler havinr heard of the superstition, for, of coune, it is nothing more or ie-s man a iMir i - . tion, accosted nn old miner last neght and asked him whether lie was one of those who believed the stories that were bein1.' circulated. "Well, to tell the truth, I must con fess I do believe some of them, strange as it may seem to you." "What foundation havo you for your belief?" asked the reporter. The old miner took a fresh chew of tobacco and said: "The fact that so many who have worked it have had bad luck of s mie kind or oilier makes 1110 think there is something in it. I .know one man who had not been at work in 1 1. at. infernal hole more than two .days I-,,-,..... I,,, iv,u hil,in down with Din U- .iv ..... - - 1 t nvnia, and lie came very near dvinz- Another went to v.oik i.vro aim ins cabin was robbed before a week. A third one tried it. and he fell from a lad d r and came ne. r being killed; that satisticd him and be quit. Besides these there havo been several other mishaps to men working the claim, and tliey fol lowed each o:1i t in such close suc cession and with such unvarying cer tainty thai the men at last came to the conclusion that tliero was bad luck in some way connected with the properly." "Is the claim wortli anything?" asked the reporter. "Yes, if it was developed I think it would turn out to be flood properly; but I, for one, would not work in it if it was given to me." "Might it not bj a job put up by some one who wants to buy it?" asked tlio news hunter. "I don't know nbout that," replied the miiicr, "but 1 do l't see how so many of the men could get to believe it if there wasn't something in it. No, sir, it's 110 job, that claim lias bad luck for any man lhat works it: You may call it 'superstition or iinytliingyou like, hut 1 don't go to work in it." Seeing there was no chance toshnke the old miner's belief that there was some supernatural agency that had cast a spell of bad luck over the ill-fated prope.ly, the reporter left him linn lu his Uhh.Leatlcillc lkrahl. NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED. The Otlier Slilo of the Young I.iicly ttie Mea Stiire.l t Thrnuuh the Winilow. Sim sat at a window on a public street, and day after day the crowd w ho'passcd 1 aw her at the sewing-machine. The old men mentally re marked that she was a perfect lady, and the young men voted tier the rival of a June rose. If she had raised her eyes to the window she might have met the pitying gaze ot various bald-her.ds, and the in. miring glances of legions ot mashers, but she never did so. Noses wi re wired and Iniinlkeichicfs wawd ' with 11 a foi.t oi the glass, bill she hemmed end ti:c;od and gatlr red nnd pi. tiled as if utterly unconscious of the existence of tip outside world. It is probable na" live hundred ineu g'aneed into th i'. v. i.ulow in the. course of tiie day, bu tne sew 11 ;-m:!c!iiiie never .-t ipped hiiiiini'ng on the r ac count. Tilings had b e 1 going on Ih's wav formout is when, only the other day. a widower wiih a heart full of pity for the uiii'oruinate got hiin-cif up regard less of expense and boldly enter 'd the place. Tiie charmer was there alone. With a niching soul he approached the sewing-machine and laid J:is heart up on it. That is, he coughed, gurgled, suuiiniercd and inquired if she wouldn't prefer to boss a tifiecn-thoii-sand-dolhtr brick house rather than make shirts for se vent; -live cents, per day. The charmer io-c up. She had a slior. leg. That .-id 1 of her face which tiie public had never c:i displayed three moles nnd a bad n'.nr. That eye which the puMie hail never gazed into contained a. squint, and he had bad front teeth. She made a grab at a yard-stick and said something about 'settling an old duffer's liasn pretty infernally quick," and the wido.vcr broke lor out doors. His sympathizing and palpitating heart was lett behind him as lie went, but the charmer picked it up' nnd followed after him and heaved it into tiie gutter with the re mark: "I've just been waiting for a chance to break some of your necks, and don't you put your hoofs in hero again if you want to see next spring's daudo lious." lKlroit Free iViva. Served Her Right. A letter from London speaks in harh terms of the Prince of Wales' .treat ment of women, and asserts that he is, in tliis regard. " simply a brute." Among the proofs of tliis is mentioned the fact that tiie celebrated, American lieauty, Miss Cliainl-erlaine, win had become notorious for moving about af ter the 1'rinee. w:ws seated in xt to him at a supper at a ball and said, "in the merest fun: 'Jumbo, ymi eat too much." That was enough. Only the moment before, on terms ot that t'anVbar intimacy w hich any man might be glad 10 be with a young and pretty g'r he turned his shoulder to her without re ply, and from that 011, as far as he w as concerned, the famous Miss Chaniber laine was incvntinenily dropped. Af.er that there wasn't anything left but for her father and mother to take her home." We should think so! nnd she had better he kept there t If .-he leania how to behave. Eixru ithtr Salur-.iy. THE DAKOEE 0? IKEOJtANUL If you are a atilTVrer from Sleeph-Kiuicsti, that warnlnn indication of ut-riim nervoim rierBnueiiienlH, which, if not arrested, may lead to moKt disastrouscoiiseipii'iices.tieBd a statement of ymir case to Or. Btarkey & I'alen, llllUGhard street, riillartolphla. Thev have successfully treaied many such cases wiih their new Vilali.lnu remedy, which acts directly on the nervous centers. 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Paul, I'.art 01 ur:nev, aunou-n nu- jeetto the l. tig of .Norway, was con stantly sending pro en's of that kind to . .'IT.. , !. ...1.. .... gra'ily tne wn in 01 u uiy, i ."" he W.I.S, desir ui 01 oemg oineims 01 friend hip. (ne especial pet was -a creature called a po.cupine, which animal is fuuul in -Africa, says a chrniider of the time i,nd "which the in abitauts call of th" urchin kind, covered with bristly hairs, which it l aturally darts agaiu'.st the dogs when pursuing it; moreover, these' are, as 1 have seen, more than a span long, sharp nt each cxt:cin:tv, like the quills of a goose where the feather ceases, but rather thicker, and speck'ed, as it were, with black and white." The liivt elephant arrived in En gland at a much'iater pericd, being sent n. jj i-i Channel ill 1 i'-j,"'. lis II present from the King of Franco to Henry 111. Crowds of people, as may be imagined. Hocked to seo tne no.oi monsiei. O'uhLn Hays. 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