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CROSS-EYED PEOPLE. The Fseellar Sensitiveness Which Usually Accompanies the Inflrmlty. "Too would think that a cross-eyed person would overoomo his sensitive ness," but he seldom does. He broods orer it.' It grows on him. He imagines that every one he meets thinks as much about it as he does, and life loses all at traction for him. 1 Did you ever notice across-eyed man walkP No? I can tell cne as far as I can see him. It im parts to his gait a certain movement peculiar to the whole class of cross eyed people. But it is not altogether bashfulness which causes him to avoid looking a person squarely in the face. If he retains the power of sight in each of his crooked eyes, as is often the case, it would do him no good to look the ordinary way. He would be vory likely to miss the object altogether. The lines of his vision would probably cross a foot or so before tho object was fully comprehended, and all he would see would be the faint and shadowy outlines of a pair of ears or the rim of a bat The place where the face ought to be would be a dismal blank. Many bright features are ruined by this fear ful misfortune. Some sensitive victims nevernluck up courage enough to mar ry. They often become scllish misan thropes, grow stingy, and leave a fort une for a horde of straight-eyed rela tives who totally ignored them while they were alive to light over. Others, with that natural yearning for the love and sympathy which are almost uni versally . doniod cross-eyed men, take what they can get in the matrimonial market They spring at the very first chance which offers. Thus often a soulful, but cross-eyed, esthctie finds himself joined to a loving, but unsym pathetic, helpmeet, whose ambition rises above the kitchen and the laundry, lie loses his hopes, descends to the level of his mate, and what might havo been a talented career is ended on a large box In front of the corner grocery in re tailing neighborhood gossip. Occasion ally you find a man with sufficient strength of mind to live down the ma lign effects of strabismus and come out a victor. When once a man has over come his diilldence he becomes as bold as a sewing-machine agent When he is courageous enough tolools a woman obliquely in the face without stammer ing an apology for having b:en born he can fairly tie said to be superior to his misfortune. Such a man would make a heroic soldier. Unfortunately, there are few who can do this. The ordinary man melts under the affliction like a cake of ice in a July sun." AT. Y. Commercial Advertiser. AN OLD TRICK REVIVED. The Way Somo I'eoplo Alitke Six Rank Notes Out of Fire. There is an old swindling device which consists in cutting bank notes into strips and then, in putting them together.save enough from each to make an additional not8. This ingenious pro cess, technically known as "sweating," has been applied to the United States silver certificates. The discovery was made yesterday at the Sub-Treasury by Mr. Marlor, who has charge of that department, A batch of ten-dollar certificates was received from a Wall street bank Friday and was redeemed. Ycs'.erday it was found that , several of the notes which, on a cursory handling, appeared to have been nccidonjally toru aud afterward pasted together, had iu reality been subjected to" the "sweating"' process abavo al luded to. The law permits tho Treasury Depart ment to redeem a mutilated bill at its face value if three-fifths of it remain. The sharpers havo taken advantage of this law. The cerlirieatcs weris first cut to five' pieces, and then, by taking one piece from five different certificates, a sixth certificate was made. Thus the five genuine certificates would each lack one-fifth, but the sixth or bogus certificate would apparently have euough pieces pasted together to make it com plete. All tho certificates were there fore, until tha trick was discovered, re deemable at their faeo valtMk Unfortu nately for tho swindler tho ten dollar certificates have the numbers of each engraved in various places on the note in "vcrv small figures. Of course the doctored notes were made of fragments containing numbers which did not cor respond. It was this discovery which exposed the fraud. -V. Y. llcruld. DOCTORED HIM. The rinnilo Physicians Who Were Mis ' taken In Their Diagnoses. ''Were you ever taken sick out in the country?" inquired a well-known at torney on Saturday afternoon while himself and three or four friends were indulging in tho wild recreation of tell ing stories. ' They all frankly admitted that they had never become so reckless as would be indicated by an affirmative answer. "Well, I've been there. .Not long after I was admitted to the bar, a client of mine about the only one I had at the time employed me to go up into the country to look up the t.tle to some land about which there was some dis pute. I was stopping at a country ho tel, and one day I was taken sick ?nins in the head and high fever, here was no doctor in the place, and tho landlord brought in three or four old woraiT whom he declared knew more about sickness than any doctor did. "One of them said I had taken cold, and she stuck my feet in a tub of hot water, and kept pouring in moro from a teakettle until my leet were par boiled. Then -she slapped a big mnstard poultice on my chest, filled me up with catnip tea, and put me to bod, with a hot llatiron at my feet and a bottlo Of hot water on each side of me. Then sho smothered me with blankets and went away. "After she had gone another one went for me. She said I had got the . fever and ague, and chucked a lot of quinine down my throat "A ' third sa;d I had typhoid fever, and she swaddled my head up in cloths soaked with cold water, and gave me a ho. whisky sling. The next morning I was as red as a beef-steak." "What caused that?" "Scarlet fever." Detroit Free Yfc. DYNAMITE. Bow til Destructive Kxploslv U Mans factored. Mr. M. Bennett, a man who hai probably handled more dynamite than any other man in the country, tells a reporter some interesting facts con cerning the manufacture and ujo of this destructive compound : "Dynamite is made of glycerine-oil and nitric acid mixed in sawdust' A boy can make it and there is no law to prevent it, nor is there a law restrict ing the sale of it You may send your office-boy or servant-girl for a few 5ounds and no questions will be asked, 'he salo of opium and poisons are re stricted, but dynamite, the greatest and most terrible destructive engine of the nineteenth century, may be bought by any one at thirty-six cents per pound. The wet sawdust on a saloon iloor is so precisely like dynamite that even I could not tell the difference un til I tasted itthe glycerine imparts a sweet flavor to it Dynamite may be made out of a hundred and one differ ent things, such as sulphur, saltpeter and brimstone. Generally, however, glycerine and nitrio acid, which we call nilro-glycerine, are mixed with such an absorbent as wood-pulp or sawdust; this is done to enable its safe handling and transportation; The color of dy namite is the color of sawdust and that of course depends upon the color and nature of the wood. . . . ' "The word dynamite covers the whole category of explosives, such as giant-powder and nitro glycerine. Gun cotton is similar, except that cotton is used as the absorbent instead of saw dust or pulp. "If placed in water it will sink al most as rapidly as lead. , I should say, however, that giant-powder is much darker than the other dynamites for the reason that instead of saw-dust we jse pulverized 'candle-coal' dust im ported from France and very gassy. Dynamite is worth from thirty-six cents to seventy-five cents a poHnd. That which is very destructive is worth' sixty cents to seventy-five cents, and is used lor sub-marine blasting and heading tunnels. For what we call a fifty per cent powder, we take fifty pounds of sawdust and add fifty pounds of nitro glycerine oil; and for what we call gela tine, which is very destructive, we take ninety pounds of oil to ten pounds of absorbent, generally sawdust There is very little, if any, dynamite imported from or exported to Europe for tho reason that an idiot can compound it. We do send a few schooners to old Mexico and to the Republics of South America, but none is sent from here to England, as a man can make.it in his bedroom in a few m nutcs. For ordi nary purposes dynamite is put up in cartridges eight inches long and from three-quarters of an inch to four inches in diameter. These cartridges art made of heavy brown paper, and when filled the ends are folded and the car tridge dipped in paratline oil to keep it air and water tight. You may place a 'ew gra ns upon an anvil and exploded t by a blow from a hammer. 1 have known premature blasts . to occur whore a pick-or sledge has struck it inadvertently. It is not used in col lieries, because it would shatter the coal and pulverize it. In stone quar ries, iron mines, and in tunneling it is used daily, and there are thousands of men manufacturing it and tons of ihousands hourly handling it. I tried to get my life insured two years ago. lut no company would take tho risk, knd 1 don't know a single man in my ine who is insured. Less than half an ortnee will throw a sixty-pound bomb shell over 1,000 feet and two pounds will fc!ow a ten-ton ro:k to atoms. The heaviest blast I ever saw was in a limestone quarry in Glendon, Pa., when 20,000 pound;) were touched off. A lriend of mine experimented with sev eral things verv successfully. On kls job of work he "had a very refractory mulo which was so stupid that ho was about to give it away, when he thought he would try a few grains of dynamite on the animal. Ho must havo used too much, for nothing moro was ever seen of tho mule. . He used a threo-quarter-pound cartridge, which retails at about -sixty-five cents. A 4x8 cartridge con- tarns about live and, ( one-quarter pounds, but tho medium size is 1 1-4x8, and tout a ns about eijrht ounces. "I miht place n pound of common gunpowder oa thus carpet, apply a fuse, and there would only be a llash ai d null", but if 1 placed the same quantity of dynamite th.'re and touched it off it would shatter th:s room and the entire basement and.foiir.d itioii, for dynamite strikes downward. Inlike gunpowder, which to fore bly explode niu-a Le con- Vied, dynamite m.iy lie placed on the Mirfnce of the sidew ilk or in any un- conhnol place, and ;t is re.uly for work There is one compound, however, tiutt is more terrible than dviiumite, b cause you can imprison moro explosive force n given quantities. This is tulminato of mercury, and I th'nk that it was this agent that was used to blow up tho English Houses of l'url, anient, lllooki verv much like fine, wh;to Hour, and is worth one dollar an ounce. So explo sive is it that atlip of thehngcror a tap of vour pencil will do the business. "Have you ever been approached pro fessionally by professed dynamiters?" "No, and it wouldn't do them any good if Lwere. I don't believe that i Donovan Ko-sa himsolf had anything to do with tho recent explosions. He is a blowhard scekin notoriety. I was onco shown an internal machine that was made hero in Chicago, and a dread ful contrivuncs it was. for these ma rhines thev use corrosive acids instead of fuses, as the latter make a tell-tale smoke while this former do not. I saw the machine that the Public Library thief Talbutor i link, constructed, and I am satisfied that he is a novice in the line, because he had removed the pow der and ball from the cartridge, which Kimnlv contained a little cap. This was not of sufficient force to explode thA dvnaniite. Doubtless his idea was that when in search of the stolen books any one who would force open the box th nail would let down the cock and cause an explosion which would have tillnd evcrvbodv near iu lie naa mca urr the notch of the tnirzer to facili. tate the explosion. If the powder ard hnil hd not been removed from the cartridge the man who opened the box would now be in his grave. Chicagt Tribune. .. . LATE NEWS SUMMARY. Far I (a ad lomeatie. Then- are about 10.000 one-leered tueu In the United States. There are fifty farms in Switzerland de voted to snail culture. Peanut flour Is becoming an important product of the South. Chinese forces in Tonnuin have received orders toeese hostilities. ; The loss by the destruction of Asplnwall Is put at from flO.OuU.OUO to $12,000,000. The value of the shlobulldlnK industry of New England (or 1&4 reached $0,000,000. It is now thought that no f urthertrouble need a expected on the Isthmus of Panama. The Unrest quantity of maple sugar made in any one State la made in Vermont The President of Bolivia has been fined $50 for careless riding through the streets. Five steamers have been, purchased in America for cruisers ia the Russian ser vice. A flve-vear-old child was choked to death in Cincinnati a few. days ago on a peanut The Mormon Church has more mission- tries than the American Board of Foreign Missions. A little acare has been occasioned in Boston over the presence of a few cases of smallpex. Eleven miners perished in a snow-slide at the Homestake mine, near Leadville April mth. The Panama country is prolific of Presi dents. Within the past three months it has had four. The floods in Arkansas are unusually destructive this spring. The loss of stock is very neavy. Five hundred and thirty enumerators began taking the census of Massachusetts on the 1st of May. Berlin has but one church to 60,000 of its population, but it has 11,000 drinking sa loons in the city. Thirtv-seven bodies have been taken from the ruins of the fallen walls at the recent Vlcksbnrg fire. The Custom House at El Paso. Tex., hu been robbed of a $50,000 package and $00,- 000 of unsigned notes. Madame Barrios and party, consisting of twenty persons, left San Francises for the baBt a lew days ago. i There is a great scarcity of coal In St Petersburg and at Cronstadt and prices have risen to fabulous prices. A cestilence Is raging among the Hun garians and Poles at Plymouth, Pa., oc casioned by want of cleanliness. At a Fair in Boston In aid of the Soldiers' Home a photograph of President Cleve land, with his autograph, sold for $180. The Klmberlv Diamond district. South Africa, exported more than 200.100 worth of cut aud uncut stones during January. The striking shoemakers in a factory In Williamsburg. N. Y.. resolved when they struck neither to drink nor enter a saloon. The President has refused to exercise the power of executive clemency in regard to General Swaim, Judge Advocate Gen era). Russia has ordered the mobilization of her southern army. It is rumored that 200,000 troops will be available in forty days. Temesvar. in Eastern Austria, a city of 33,000 people. Is said to be the only town in the ona Hunted exclusively dv elec tricity. . A bell on the roof of a Brldgeton, Conn., beer saloon, is struck three times every time the proprietor has a fresh keg of beer tappeu. Within the past two years nearly 2000 Pittsburgh puddlers have been thrown out of employment by the substitution of steel lor iron. Arbor Day was spoiled in many parts of Pennsylvania by the fact that from one to two feet in depth of snow was still on the ground. In Moscow there is said to be over 100,. 000 children of school age. vet the municl pal schools have accommodations lor 7,000 pupiisoniy. The Greely expedition steamer Alert Is to be lent to the Dominion Government by Great Britain, to be used in the survey of Hudson Jiav. The recent storm at Fointe do Monte, cast up a number of cannons supposed to be reiiccs oi the a.ngiisii neet wrccaea there 200 years ago. F. C. Cross, a Chicago and Alton brake- man, whe leaves a wife and child in Chi cago, fell from bis train aud was cut in two at Chenoa, 111., recently. April 23d. Martin Mitchell went to Mem fihis, Tenn., to deliver himself up to the egal authorities for having shotand killed three men who attacked mm. A party of twenty-two Canadian sur geons and students passed through Chi cago recently, on their way to the scene of toe rebellion in the JNorthwesu - The United States war steamer Florida, which cost the Government $l,H00,t)U0, was recently sold for $50,010, It was bought by a junk dealer in xsew xorK. There is said to be a lady in ' Jackson ville, Fla., who has been a wife, a mother, a widow and a wire again an in one year, The season in Florida is usually a short one. Panama is in danger of being destroyed by a tight between the National troops and the forces under Alzpuru. The United States will prolbly be compelled to inter fere. , Seven men were buried beneath a mass of fifty tons of brick in a slab-burner at Os coda, Mich. It was five hours before the bodies were reached. Finally two were taken out alive. a At Waterloo. S. C. the citizens held meeting and warned an immigration agent out of the country. He has been in ducing colored people to leave by hundreds tor the West ana boumwest. There are twenty-three persons whose gifts to colleges in this (country aggregate over $23,000,000. Three ef these rich men Stephen Girard, John Hopkins and Asa rocker, gave ever f ii,ouu,wu. As a high compliment to his character, Gen. Grant a testimony in tne orant & Ward case was taken without administer Ing the oath. Such a thing is almost un precedented in criminal proceedings. The smallest human being living is pos sibly a dwarf living in Shingaken, Osaka. He is 3(1 years old and is only it inches high. He is reported to have received good education and can write remarkably well Lieut Schultze, who is going to Russia to distribute rewards- to the people who succored the Jeannette survivors, will carry a gold medal from the President to . . i . u i . i ins man who uincuvercu wie party charge of Melville. The immense stone bridge constructed by Chinese enginrersover the amitof the uulllcilB oca my AjaKauji is uujniicu. auw bridge is five miles long, entirely of stone, and has auuarenes, eacn seventy leet nigo The bridge is seventyfeet wide. Prairie Grove. Texas, was recently vlsl ted by a severe cyclone, causing serious re sults to life and property. A two-story acboolbouse. in which were about twenty' five children, was blown down and torn to pieces, killing ob and wounding several others. MARKET REPORTS. Portland. WHEAT Per etl. vallev. Il.a031.35 Walla Walla, $1.2581.274. r LUUlt-fer bhl. standard brands. 11(9 1.2ft: superflne,$3.7u(4.00t country brands, $3.7.Vtt4. BEANSFer ctl. small wh tea. S2.25: bayou, $150; pinks. $2.00; butter. $2.25. uunnwer IN choice dairy. ftJc: country store, 10S15c; Eastern, 22lo. CHEESK-Per choice docaL I214c; Imported, 12ai5c AJKIEU FKUlTS-rer lb. ann es. 6Hc: plums, tkifHc; prunes, fcXstc; peaches, 13c: retains, $2.25 y bx. JfcUUS-l'er dos, 12J, LAKD-Perlb. pails. 11c: tins. Eastern. 11c; tins, Oregon, 11JC (JAT Mfc.AL Common, 13.50 f ctl. CORN MEAL Per ctl. $3. HOMINY-Perctl,$3.75. CRACKED WHKAT-Ferctl,$3. BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Per ctl, $3.75. RYE FLOUR-Perctl,$4. RICE-Per lb. China No. 1. 51c: mixed. 4jc; Hawaiian Islands, 6Ja V EG ETA B LES Cabbage. U: onions. 4e V tb; carrots. 50 e It sack; turnips. 50c; beets, 50c CANNED GOODS-Tomatoes. 2i-lb cans dos. 85c(3,$l. gallons. $2.75; pie fruits. assorted, $1.50. galloua, $3.75; green corn, COFFEE- lb. Guatemala, green. 111(1 124c: Costa Rica. 124c: old Government Java, 20c. POTATOES-Quote In bushels : Garnet chilis, 12c; early rose, 12c; Burbank seed lings, auc; peerless, wc POULTRY-Chlekena. at do. $1(315; ducks, $50; geese, $010; turkeys, f D, IWflllc- PROVISIONS-Uama, tf lb. ll13c; b. con, lOiiR'ic, riCKLKS-Per keg. Il.10ai.25. SALT-Llvernool. $1020 ton. SUGARS Quote bbls: ( Al oatent cube: 7jc; (A) crushed, 74c; dry granulated, 7jo; golden t, Cjc; extra powdered, Yjc. SEEDS Wholesale to farmers tf ctl. red clover, $15; alfalfa. $18; white clover, $35; alsike, $32; timothy, piirae, 7.ou; Ken tucky blue grass, extra clean, $15; peren- r.i.1 wwa iw... till. A .rtn al'. grass, $18; rye black, $2; bone meal, ton, boo; none pnospnates. f 10. SF ices v 16, pepper, lswrzac: mustard. 18c; ginger, 18c; cinnamon, 274c; nutmeg, 80c; sage, 30c TROPICAL FRUIT Lemons, $60.50 I? case: bananas. $1.00: cocoanats. ; or anges, $2.2K3.iO If IOO. j . BRAN rer ton, $1214. MIDDLINGS Per ton. $20ffl25. GROUND BARLEY Per ton $21&23. OATS-Choice milling, 30c; choice feed, 3234c. HAY-Per ton. $8 10. HOPS-Perlb, 5g0c WOOL-Valley, 1018c; eastern Ore con. lUMUc. GRAIN 1JAUS 1'er Tb, Calcutta, Ojc. HIDES Dry, lt)c; salted, t)(7. BROOMS-Perdox. $2.25&ti.50. Naa Francisco. BAGS Calcutta wheat bags. 52c FLOUR-UoHt city extra, $I.254.U0; medium, $3.504.00; shipping su perdue, 8i7.Va3.30. WIHSAT-N0. 1 grades, $1.13; choice milling parcels, $1.50 f ctl. BARLEY No. 1 quality. $1.2t1.25; brewing, $l.3Ufll.3o. UA la surprise and mining, si.ou(n 1.00; No. 1, $1.35(?)1.45: No. 2, $1.2$1.25 black. $1.10(gl,20 V cU. CORN-Large vellow. $1.30 1? ctl: small yellow. ?1.4-i; white, $1.42)(ajl.4o f ctl. CRACKED CORN Per ton. $282D.J COKNMEAL Feed, $:'820 fr ton; fine k nds for table. UMZle V IT). SEEDS Mustard. 833.50 for brown, and $2.50fa3 for yellow; canary, SJfttc; hemp, HKttMc: rape, Hkmie: timothy, 64 0c; altalta, 18c V lb; llax, ?J.to(2,a.w f ci MIDDLINGS Per ton. $20(5;22. HAY-Alfalfa, $8.0U(?;12.00: wheat $10 . ..., .... 1 , ... ..ji , . t 1 (alio; oat, jrxaii; uuney, $tu,ii, iiiibu, $7(0.0. STRAW Per bale, 5505c HOl'S-Per ft. 8c. BRAN Per ton, 2.50113.50. RYE Per ctl, $1.10(31.15. BUCKWHEAT Per ctl, $1.251.50. GROUND BARLEY Per ton, $22.50 23.00. POTATOES Early rose, (Wc; river reds, b"c'75c; Petalumas. 00c80c; garnet chile, 0070c; peerless. 65(tfi80c; new, l(a)2c $ lt; Oregon Burbank Seedlings, $1&1.20 Iff ctl. ONIONS-Perctl, $2.50g3.00. DRIED PEAS Ureen, $3.50; Nllos, $1.5H; blackcye, $2.23 ctl. BEANS Biiyos, $2.7o(ft3; butter, $1.00 1.33; pink. $1.50gl.G5; lima, $1.85;Binall white. $1.50(o;2.l24; pea, $2(2.25 ctl. POULTRY Turkeys, gobblers, 15(a!l7c; hens, 17(a 10c; dressed do. ln(a.20 t' lt; roosters, $50.00 for old and $8(9.50 for young; hens, ,$5.50(0,7.00; broilers, flgO-ftl. as to size; ducks, $5.00(0,0.50 V doz; geose, $1.50.'a3fpalr. VEGETABLES Green peas. 2(33o $ ll; carrots, 60feU0c; turnips, 60gti0c; beets, 40 (aOtic; parsnips, $1; cabbage, 75c tf' ctl. ' FRL IT Apples, floc(g$l for cemmon; lemons, California, 7jc(&$l: limes, Mex ican, $10.50(Ojll; oranges, California, l.OOial $1.13 t box; Cherries, $l(sl J3 box for good to choice; Strawberries, $8i l0 per chest for good; Raspberries, 15(,20c DRIED FRUIT Sun-dried apples, 2 2Jc; apricots, 8c; blackberries, 10c; figs, 4c, pressed; peaches, 13c; pears, 4c; plums, 7jc; prunes, German, 4c; do, French, fic tf lb; raitdns, new crop Layers, $1.50$ 1.75 tf box. HIDES Drv. tf lb. usual selection. 17 18; dry kip. 17!I8: dry calf, 20c; .salted steers. 50 to 55IIs. 7(7ic WOOL Mendocino. 1820c. tf lb.; Humboldt 1820c; SanJ Joaquin, 11 14c; eastern Oregon, 14(a) 10c IIONEY-Comb, 7(s8c; extracted, 45c tfn. BUTTER Fancy. 20c: choice. ISffilOc; fair to good, 15(g;16c; ordinary, 12(alic; mixed store shipments, dull at ll(.llc; Eastern. 12)(10c tf lb. LARD Eastern, ll(3illi for tierces, and HVmlUc for palls; California, 10-Ib,8i.0c. EGGS tf dozen, 10&17c. TALLOW Grease, 34; rendered, 5 6i: refined. 71(a74.c tf tb. CHEKSK-Calitornla. 10llc. 1 SALT-Per ton. $1022. SUGAR Dry granulated, 6Jc: extra fine cubes, 7o; fine crushed, 7c; powder ed, 71c; extra fine powdered, 8c; extra goHen C. 52; golden C, 51c SYRUP American rellnery is quoted at 30c In bbls. 324o in hf bbls, 374c in C-gal kegs, and 50c in 1-gal tins. An old man in Allegheny county, Ta., received $., 00 from hi- children on agree in(? not to marry a lancinating girl of aev enteen. Then lie married her and gave her the money and ahe haa disappeared witn iu April 221, there wm a heavy snow storm in Colorado. Full twenty Inches full, aa much as the aggregate of previous fulls of the whole winter. The snovr was very heavy and numterless roofs fell. The storm was of incalculable benefit to cattle intereate. In the last nlna monts for which tne re ports of immigration have been collated, as comnared with the corre ponding period last year, the total number of Immigrant has decreased 8U,)0 '. There was a falling on" of m.uuOfrom Germany, while the only Increase was from Ireland 300. Dr. Olive, an elderly physician at Sta un ton, M , was burned to death in bis bed-recently. The Ostrich as a Kicker. Dr. Skotchly, who has charge of the ostrich farm at Anahlem, was plucking one of the things one day. Whon they pluck them a stocking is kept on tho head to bliud tho bird. While he can not see be is quiet, but if his blinkers get uncovered then he "goes for" the plnckcr. The doctor moved his arm so as to disturb the stocking, and instantly he saw what was done and went head lirst out of the pen, not caring for any moro plumes just then. As he tumbled head first over the fence the bird let fly a kick, which, striking a fence-board, mado toothpicks of a whole panel length. The mule's occupation as a kicker is zone in this country since the ostrich came. Lo Anqelti Express. A stupid young man, supposed to be crack-brained, who was slighted by the girls, very modestly asked a young ladv "if she would let him spend the evening with her." "No," sho angrily replied, "that what l won t" "wiry, replied ho, "you needn't be to fussy. I didn't mean this evening, but some stormy one, when I can't go anywhere else.'V-y. Y. A Texas editor ran lor a county ofllee at the last election. He got only 2ilG votes. Referring to this he says: "We have 759 subscribers in the coun ty, and the only way we can explain is that the 523 who didn't vote for us were afraid we would leave the newspaper it we were elected." There's conceit for von. Chirno lftrnld. Eugeni City Business Directory BETTMAN. O.-Drr roods, clolhlnsr, BToeerlfe nit (eners.1 merohaniltue, southweiil corner wuiunelle ana aiKiua iireew. BOOK. 8T0RR-One door south of the Astor House. A full stock of nnoruxl box papers, plstu and fancy, , CHAIN BR03.-I)ealeri in Jewelry, wstchfs, elooks and muslosl InntrumCnU, Willamette street, between tioventh and Kightb. DOTtRIS, B. F.-Dealer In stoves and tinware. Willamette streoL between eevenui ana ICighlh. FRIENDLY. 8. H.-Deslor In drv iroodii, cloth. lnir and goner! nierohanrilno. Willamette street, between fclifhth and Ninth. GILL. J. P. Phvslelan. itinrcon and drumrlat. puetoHloe, Wlllaiucte street, between tioventh and Kitcluh. HENDRICKS, T. O.-Dealer In general mer- cliamliite. northwest corner Willamette and Ninth streets. HODES, C.-Keens on hand fine wines, liquors, .1 l ., ,.ll: I ...I. I., citfani ami a puomim wninni inmu, iiiaiii' cite street, between Kltflith and Ninth. HORN, CIIAS. M.-Ounnmllh, rlllesand shot- f uns, hreei'h and inuulo loaders, for sale. lepnlrliiK done in the neatest style aud war ranted, biiop on Minn street.. LUCKKY, J. 8.-WaUhmaker and Jewelor, kcepsa fine stork or k'xk'" In nil line, Vt Ulum ctte streot, In Kllswortu s drug store. McCLAREN, JAMES-Chotce wines, liquors and clmm, Wlllaniettestroet, between httflitli and Ninth. PATTKRHON. A. 8.-A fine stock of plain and fancy visiting cards. PRESTON, WSI.-Dealery In saddlery, har ness, carriage trimmings, eto,, Willamette street, between Seventh and Kighth, POHT OFTICE-A new stock of standard school books just reeelyod at 'the post olllue, RENS1IAW, WM.-Wlnes, liquors and cigars of the beet quality kept oonsutnuy on uanu. Toe best bllllara table in town, W. MATLOOK. J, I). MATLOCK MATLOCK BROS. BUCCfcfWOIW TO T. IleiulrlckH. Ilavlng purchased tho store formerly owned by T. U. JleiKincKS, we lane pleasure in iu forming the puliliu that we will keep a well selected stock ot CONfllHTINO OF Dry Goods, Doots, Shoes, EATS, GROCERIES, NAILS, Crockery sTobnccori in fact our stock will be found to be oomplote. By honest and fair dealing we hope to be able 10 sec u re a uuerui.enaru ui ujq publid putionage. and eiamlne our stock and prices befor purchasing euewnere. We can always be found at the OLD HENDRICKS CORNER, Where we will take all kinds of Produce in exchange for goods. MATLOCK BROS. Feb. 29. 1881. McClung & Johnson SUCCESSORS T rut LAKE COUNTY MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION We would announce to the citizens of this county that having purchased the entire stork of merchandise ot the l.mie ttounty Mercantile considerably below the original oust, an I having added largely thereto by re cent purchases for cash, Our Stock is now Complete And second to none In this county. We cor iiuilir Invite a careful oainluatlon of our stock, as we know we can givo you satisfaction 7 i ... i both in goous ana uncos As, Aim Is to Hell the Bent Woods for the Least Money. rii nd Mimlnt our soods and be con , n if inn rfn not wish to nurchase. We always tuke pleasure in showing goods and giving prices. All kinds of Proflaa titei at Hleltest MarietRates Liberal Dlsroamts for Cash. Boot and Shoo Store. A. HUNT, Proprietor. Will haraaftar kMp a Kaplrt itoek ot ate', Misses' ani Children's Mil Bl'TTOX BOOTS, Slippers, White and Blaok, Sandals, nn ed $hoes, ; MEN'S AND BOY'S . BOOTS AND SHOES! And In fact everything in the Boot aid Hlioe .line, to wlilc h 1 Intond to devote uijr especial attention. MY COODS ARE FIRST-CLA8SI And guaranteed si represented, and will be sold (or the lowrat prices that a good art icle can be atrorded. .A.. Hunt. OPPOHITION v n n m 1 t is tne JLtiio 01 JLTaaoi SLOAN BROTHERS Wld do work cheaper than any other shop In town. - Horses Shod for $2 Cash With new material all around. Resetting old shoes f 1. All warranted to jive satUfaoUon. Shop on the Corner of 8th and Olive SU SPORTSMAN'S EMPORIUM C. 31. IlOIllNy Practical Gunsmith ' BSALSa IS ' ' GUNS, RIFLES, Fishing Tacklea and Materiala Sewing Marines ail KeedLles or All Kinds for Salt Ho pal ring dono in the neatest style and warranted. Guns Loaned and Ammunition Furnished Shop on Willamette St., opposite FostofQoe. Book and Stationery Store, Foitofflce Building, Eugene City. I have on hand and am constantly reoelvtnf an assortment of the best SCHOOL & MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS STATIONERY. Blank Books, Portolios, Cards, Wallets, BLANKS, ETO. A. 8. PATTERSON. D. T. PRITCHARD, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, Repairing ot Watches and Clocks executed with punctuality and at a reasonable cost. , , Willamette Htreet. Eugene City, Or. B. F. DORRIS, DEALER IX ' STOVES, RANGES, Pumps, Pipes, Metals, TINWAltE AND . . House FDnisMnK Goods Generally, WELLS DRIVEN PROMPTLY, And Satisfaction Guaranteed. WILLAMETTE STREET, Eugene City, - - - Oregon. Central Market, lTiliorScWjitkin PROPRIETORS. Will keep constantly on hand a full supply el BEEF, MUTTON. PORK AND VEAL, , Which they will sell at the lowest market prices. A fair share ot the publlo patronage sollolted. TO THE FARMERS! We will pay the hlirlicnt market prloe for fal . cattle, hogs and sheep. Shop on "Willamette Street, EUCENE CITY, ORECON. Meats delivered to any part of , the city free of cliarge. Junlt F. M. WILKI1IS. Practical Drngeist I GMniist DRUGS, MEDICIXE3. Drushea. l'alnts, iilaaa. Oils, Leads. TOILET ARTICLES, Eto. Physicians' Prescriptions Compounded.