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A COY COQUETTE. Zeokcl Mono, Iran, mo ah! Don't lo crowiliu' t"lt o clu: Luff dat lump alone, loo, pleniio, sab, KIo doy'i ifwinu to bo a fu. Took dHt hn" from off my shoulder P'rap ye tlnk I'm no miiiiI trash; Elwry nitdit e if11 u,,iro loli!or Tins yer iiuart to be so brush. What d'ye nrnian dat Tallinn foahf If dat iral o mltrlity dear, Lrnb ill kllohiml dar n do doah: Court dat t'allino. What do I kecr? Courno I kcor I don't Iw lonbln"; Hut yer miff to rile a oalnt! Ain't yer shamed yoelt for bloabln I'alllim's Imu itomo when f he hain't? Ploaso, now, don't srlt wim'o eubor Keep dar now ih. well, If yer 'tannlncd ki'mc'? Nether! 8up (1. luittep or I'll yell I Well, If yon ain't turned hasnfun Hshawl who'd hub a man wid nkecrs? Dar, now. don't irit ober ruahful, 'o' dt fuck I'll box your cars. Blem me! what' do ueoh ltln'? 'CaiiKO yer boon' to hab yer way. Not afore one week now. listen 8uy Jess one week from di day? Marry now! and what' de harm In't? Zcckel Mow! why, fo' ahame! How I bluh! Well, If yer tarmined, (Dat beats Culline jes do suine.l -C. II. Turntr, in X. 1". Matt au i Exprtts. THE HUMAN MOSQUITO. A Creature Which Exists But to Torment How He Wound and Torture hi Itap leu Victim The Different Varletle of the Kperle A I'oaslble Ilea, on for hi Kxlatence. He Is ubiquitous; and, taking him morally, ho has solved the problem of perpetual motion; (or he is never quiet, nover tranquil, and as for letting well or his fellow-creatures alone, ho docs that as littlo as ho pays the national debt. Like his entomological proto type, the human mosquito has various methods of attack. Now ho comes on you slily, without note of warning pro facing attack, and tho first proof of his presence a sting: now tho shrill dis cordance of his challengo rouses you to attention and the vain attempt at do fonso and retaliation. For you can not defend yourself nor yet retaliate. Tho human mosquito is too sum io in ins at tack to bo evaded, too quick in his ro treat to bo caught: and vour bauds only light tho air, when they do not fall, like boomerangs, Willi a soumimg wow on vour own pate. Tho life's business of tho human mosquito is to wound, and his mildest pleasure is to annoy. Woo to you, poor hapless wight if, In a weak moment, you have allowed tho tormentor to find out your soro places or discover the secret ol tint weaK joint in vour armor. Henceforth you may bid ailieu to peace for so long as thU creature is within hail. He never lets drops subject which ho knows is painful; and when he has once iuH'ii aolo to make you wince, he nover wearies or repeating tlio experi ment It is such fun to him to seeyour lip quiver, your check blanch, your eyes Hash with ill-suppressed fury, if you are a man with voiceless scorn or darken ing tears, if you aro a woman such fun! He would not forego that pleasure (or worlds, life, indeed, having no greater to bestow. iviseetion? Arc there not mon who would vivisect for the mere love of torturing, and tho brutal curiosity of seeing the victim's behavior under pain? So in like man ner does tho human mosquito torment and torture you for the mere love ol tho sport ; and to make you dance to his piping, shod in the red-i ot shoes of tho dcrman fairy tale, is as exquisite a delight to him as were the cries of tho racked heretic to Torque in ad a, as are the fluttering agonies of the woulided bird to the snake. Ha-) your favorite son proved failure, with passages In his history vou would rather not remember, stilt less have remembered by others? The human mosquito never meet you without ask ing carefully after young (iraeeless where is ho what is he doing and has he paid his debts yet? and is that sen tence of outlawry' rescinded? and what a grief it must be to you that one who promised so well when he was a lad should have kicked over the traces to such an extent as ho has done! Hid vour daughter run off with the penniles, Lieutenant, and aro you notoriously un reconciled to the marriage hopeless as is your displeasure? The human mosquito lakes every opportunity of speaking in your presence of the regi ment to which your unwelcome son-in-luw belongs: and though he can not tell vou personally, does tell your neighbor in vour hearing, where it is, what it fs doing, ami how this ollicer and that have distinguished themselves and been rewarded, your undesirable connection being conspicuously absent from the mil-call of merit. If your old aunt has died and left you nothing, while she favored your cousin and made him her heir, to your not unnatural dis appointment, the huiiiau mosquito de velops tho most extraordinary interest in that cousin's doings, and either asks Ton of his well-being under his new honors, or gives you anecdotes of the splendor of bis surroundings and the astounding luxury of his home anec dotes which set your teeth on edge, hampered as you are in all your goings and comings Or, if it be the other wav, and vou have been the favored and the rightful heir has been dispos sessed, then does the tormentor resale you with harrowing accounts of the d s gracod one's trials and penury, and the bitterness of his disappointment, which clings to him bke a Nessns shirt, poison ing the very current of his blood. Not to be successfully fought, not to be captured, not to be barred out, this tormentor of men's lives is as ter rible as are thoe germ which float in the air and bring woe illimitable to all who breathe them. Your only chance with him is inienctrable reserve; wrap ping yourself up in silence which noth ing can cause to break into confidence or self-betrayal; showing a demeanor as stolid as a triple wall uf brass; suffo cating your feelings, your very thoughts as though they were crimes which would land vou In the county jail if repealed aloud. This is your only chance -the o:e kind of mosquito-net which will pro tect vou. No appeal to reason will b successful; still less will have a chanet of an apieal to feeling, humanity, plat itude. Of gratitude, indeed, he has no more knowledge than he has of tho ori gin of life or tho cause of crystallization; for ingratitude is his characteristic, as with some kinds insolence is the method. Like the brute which turns and rends the hand that has fed him, this kind of creature, this human mos quito, turns against you, when you have done all for him that he de sired and when he has no more hope of vour help. Then you learn the truo quality of his nature, and find out for yourself of what base material it is made. It is only after repeated trials, however, that he is convinced of your finality in tho way of help: for he is of tho same cms as the daughter of the horseleech, and cries ever "(live! give!" When you have once allowed a man or woman of this kind to prove that you are puncturable, that you are so much nutriment for bold suckers, you are done for; and noihing short of a lawyer will free you from attacks which, made at first insidiously may bo with flatteries, mute appeals, humble repre sentations, gentle pravers grow by time and success into Bold and burglar ious assaults, accompanied with threats and enforced by moral bludgeons. Then you must address yourself to tho law, which is to the human mosquito of de termined attack what petroleum is said to lie to his winged prototype, the only efl'cetual defense known. To do good to a man or woman of this kind is to Illustrate tho truth of tho hard old Cornish saying: "Save a man from the sea, and ho becomes your enemy. To sow golden grain on the barren fields of such a one is to reap sorrow for yourself; and to give your coat is but 'the preface to the demand for your cloak. Your inch ever becomes his ell; and when vou do not concede all that is demanded, then nre you stung, as a kind of waymark between what you have dono and what you have not. At home tho numan mosquito Is rest less and exacting. Ho interferes in cvervthinz alloat, and always adds a drop of bitterness to such honev as tho . . , , t. '. lamiiy may nave garnereu in us nivc. Is there a fete-day on hand? Ho takes out the sweetness, rubs off the gloss, by restrictions if ho be in the place of com mand; by temper if he he a subordinate who can only unniage ami not uestroy. As the former, ho harrasses his wifo by finding fault with her arrangements, substituting his own; ho ajinoys tho servants by contradictory commands; irritates tho governess by doubting her capacity for taking caro of her charge; and causes the children to weep or lo sulk, according to their natures, bv scolding them impartially all rouml, with reason or without. Then, when he has made every one thoroughly miserable or uncomfortable, and more inclined to perform penance than to undertake pleasure, he puts on a hilarious manner, and, when this is not responded to, rates the wretched little Hock for their gloominess on a iioimav, and says, if this is to be tho manner in which they thank him for the treat he has given them, ho will take good care how lie allows them to have anotaer. As a subordinate, ho is just as worry Ing if not so domineering. As tho servant whoso functions are vital to tho thing on hand say the cook on the dav of a dinner party tlio human mosquito makes every ono suffer. For lust as "l-.tiglaiuls extremity is ire- land's opportunity," so is tho day of social consideration in the household that wherein the cook, who is also a mosquito, is most troublesome and most annoying. To believe her, there will not be a dish lit to eat, mid (here is not enough of anything. Something has gone wrong with the stock for soup; tho fishmonger has skimpe I the weight, which was already too closely calcu lated; and the butcher has not sent the proper joint for the roast; the chickens are skinny and the "birds" are tough; the cream is deficient and the milk is turned; and tho veget ables aro not fresh nor is the fruit ripe, l'erhaps she shams the siillenness of despair, ami will not give nn answer, or one only of pessimistic forebodings, when her mistress tries to put the best face on the matter; or she may assume a falsely heartsome air, and, after she has plunged her poor lady into the depths of despair and nervous appre hension, says she will do what she can to remedy the long tale of disasters re counted, but the dinner will not he up to the mark, let her do the best she can. It all depends on the proportion of her cruelty to her love of annoying, whether sho sends in) a dinner really damaged, orotic In iier best styl and perfect throughout. In either cue she has had her pleasure in seriou ; hurt or in simple teasing. We need not go through the whole list of domestic mosquitoes. From the lady's-maid who pulls her m'-.ress' hair when brushing it, and lets her go lo a state ball w ith a siring unfastened and a tape showing below her tran. to the page-boy who breaks in a month, the worth of his year's wages, they all make their service tho cause of annoy ance to their employers; and some add to annoyance, graver disaster. Hut what can you do with them? Accidents will happen, you know, and an unfor tunate servant is not necessarily a bad person. Your page-boy. for instance, is smart in taking messages, and quick to learn the niceties of his office; he is clean in his person and reseetfiil in bis manners. How can vou say that his unlucky fin gers are tlio result of malice prepense? audit is not worth while to keep him ou,. vou hoping that he will learti more deftness in handling china and gl.is his past clumsiness condoned bv his future improvement? Just so; an I yet we may be very certain ol one thin.; oniH a mosquito, aiways a niosqii to : once the love of annoying or hurling gets hold of the moral system, and there it stays rHteil, like couch-grass, or trial Australian enemv the thorn-grass, a source of damage to even thing that lives near it. As a child, the human mosquito is the limb-' of the nursery, according to the vernacular of the niirse. As a boy, he i the bully over his little brothers and the incarnate plague of his sisters. As a man, he is the tyrant and tormentor of bis household, "if he runs to prig gUhness, he makes his children's lives a burden to them because of fractions and declensions ; if he is an athlete, he maybe ruins them for all time by the brutal vigor of his training ; if he is ef feminate, he interferes with the maid, j takes the reins of domestic government out of bis wife's hands, orders the din ners, and looks after the children '-ke an Indian bearer or a supernumerary Durse, Ho is at all times the mosquito of the establishment buzzing here, stinging there, creating fever and irri tation everywhere ; making one wonder for what purposo such as he are sent into the world at all, and what good end they subserve. , In politics, the restless obi'.roctive and the pert querist, the oppositionist for the sake of opposition, and insolent to the extremcst point, ho keeps things alive in the sense in which a fire of thorns can make the water boil. But suppose you want the water to be cool and fresh and still, what good then does your crackling fir of thorns? Is it not a hindrance rather tkan a help? and a bane instead of a blessing? No! view him how we may, we are forced back to the name position the human mosrjuito is a mistake in anthro pology, and in no sense a creature to he preserved for its uses in the general economy. Whon we shall have mended all tho moral fractures and put society straight and square, then will there be no room for the human mosquito; and the force expressed in his ugly energies now, will have merged into nobler and better forms. Meanwhile, seeing that fighting is useless and all defence-work illusory, we must bear him with what patience we can command no other moral catholicon having yet been dis covered able to heal the hurts made by the creature in its attacks. And per hapswho knows? patience being in itself one of the sweeter virtues it Is in the teaching and the exercise of this to his fellow-men that tho human mosquito has his raison d'etre Chambers' Jour nal. GENERAL GRANT. Ill Connection With the Wall Street Af. fair Mot Generally Understood. Thero has always been a matter of wonder that so intimate afriend of Gen eral Grant's as Anthony J. Drexel, tho keen and wealthy banker, of this city, did not steer him away from the whirlpool of Wall Street. As a matter of fact tho General thought that he was simply a special partner to tho extent of $50,0X1 with Ward, and that the operation was an ordinary business one, and he did not discuss it with Mr. Drexel. There are a good many things indeed about this Wall Strect'horror that are not gener ally known. To a friend who warned tho General that Ward's scheme was visionary, and that no business could yield such profits as were promised, Grant repeated that in anv event he was liable only to tho extent of $50,000, and added, "i'here are able and experienced business men who are engaged with Ward. They would not be likely to take part in any foolish scheme. Ward has a smelting machine in Colorado, too, that yields very largo profits." The General, at Ward's suggestion, put some capital in the Colorado enterprise. Ac counts were presented monthly and sub mitted to Senator Chaffee. The Senator did not knowanything about this particu lar machine, but he knew that there were a few concerns of a similar sort in Col orado reputed to be making money, and tho accounts presented by Ward were cheering. General Grant, however, withdrew his capital from tho smelting enterprise and put it with tho rest into the N all Street business. Long after wards a relative of Ward called on him and said: "General, I want to tell you that Ward is a rascal. He never had a snieltitig-inaehinc of any kind in Colo rado. His representation that ho had was fraud, and tho monthly accounts that ho submitted to vou were all cooked ii)." The hold that Ward got upon General Grant was so absolute as to seem almost incredible. He robbed not only the General but the General's family and relatives as well. For example, here are sotno facts and figures that have never before been made public: The house on Sixty-sixth Street in New York that was bought for General ("rant chiefly by gentlemen of Philadelphia was valued at $75,K)0. It was ascer tained that there was a mortgago upon it for $-t."i,iHMi. The mortgage for some reason could not lie removed at once, and a check for the amount was placed' in the General's hands. Ward by skill ful maneuvering soon managed to get hold of the check. Before the failure General Grant made over to his wife a quarter of the $10,00 which he derives, after certain payments, from the trust fund of jfe'.IO.OOt) raised for his benelit Ward got that. too. He also succeeded in gettiug $12,000" that Nellie Grant had saved up from her pin-money; $:'.").IHKI from Mrs. llonore. of Chicago. Fred Grant's mother-in-law; $ti,000 of the savings of Mrs. llonore' s daughter Ida, Fred's wife; and $2o,000 from Mrs. Kractner, the General's sister, besides the thousands that he got from General Grant, Ruck, and the rest of his victims. When the crash came the Grants had been so completely bled that they had less than $loo in 'cash, among them. Philadelphia Cor. Chicago Tribune. A correspondent sends the follow ing ace Mint of a mistake made bv a littlo girl in his vicinitv. She always joins I lie ianiuy in renting ine wnpi ures during the family devotions, taking her verse in turn. She easily reads the shorter words, but needs some ! elp on the longer, but is alwavs eager to pro nounce all the words herself and some times guesses. Recently it came her turn to read the verse: "Xo man can serve two masters, for cither ho will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God ani Mam mon." She made a slight variation at the end and finished the verse: "Ye cannot serve God and women." CAi eajo Tribune. A young man in Abbeville, S. C. suffering from pneumonia, called in a physician, who left him a small vial of veratrum. to be taken internally, and a liniment composed of hartshorn, tur pentine and chloroform for external ap plication. The patient reversed the directions, swallowing the liniment and the next day was well. Louisville Courier-Journal. m Vr Ynrk harher nut mintaehes In curl papers in order to give them a linn rnrl bv the time their owners have been shaved or had their hair cut CANCER. The Life HUlory or Epithelioma or the Tongue. Although scirrhous carcinoma of the tongue is occasionally met with, the most Important of the neoplasms of that organ is epithelioma, the natural history of which has a special iuf t at this time, In connection with the case of a distinguished citizen, in which minute examination has dis closed that tho disease is a cancer of that type. Lingual epithelioma, as a rule, rap idly progresses toward a fatal termina tion. When left to itself, tho life of the patient from tho first appearance of the disease varies, in accordance with the estiraatesof different observers, from 10.5 to thirteen months, tho av erage being 11.7 months. Ih-ath en sues, first from the generalization of the disease; secondly, fronisentie pneu monia, from the inhalation of the pu trid emanations which result from tho decomposition of the products of the ulcerated surtace; th r lly, from starva tion, through the pressure of tho in fected lymphatic glind i and surround ing parts upon the ces eihagus, there by interfering with deglutition, and lastly, from hemorrhage proceeding from the ulcerated lingual arteries, or the vessels of tho neck. Tho duration of life of those who survive an operation averages nineteen months. Not only !o 's operative in terference prolong life and relieve suf fering, but it effects a final cure in four teen per cent, of all cases. In attain ing those results it must, however, be. remembered that excision of the tongue is attended with a mortality of twenty three per cent., tho principal dangers being shock, hemorrhage, o dema of the glottis, septic lung affections, pvicniia and erysipelas, some of which risks can be avoided by taking careful precautions during tho operation, and by the perfecting of antiseptic meas ures during and after the procedure. When, in nddition to disease of the tongue itself, the palate and the tonsil are involved, the prognosis is far more grave, whether tho disease be permitted to pursue an unaided course, or whether it be subjected to the knife. In the lat ter event, not only will the tongue have to be extirpated, but the disease of the palate and tonsil will have to be reached cither by Langenbeck's or Mikulicz's method of operation. In the former, the jaw-bono is divided just in front of tho masseter muscle, while, in the latter, tho ramus of the jaw is resected. For carcinoma of the tons'd alone temporary seecion of the inferior maxilla has been practiced by Cheever, Gensmer and Von Hergmann. InCheever's case tho disease continue 1 to progress; in Gensmcr's t icre was freedom from recurrence for thirty three months, wh le we nre not aware of the fate of Von Hergmann' s patient. In Mikulicz's case of resection of the ramus tho patient was well at tho ex piration of six months. So far as we can learn there is no ex ample of the performance of tho double operation on record, and it is, in our opinion, not justifiable. Tho only ava lablo measures arc those directed toward tho relief of suffering, the pre vention of septio complications and supporting the powers of the system. Should dcglut;t'o:i be greatly interfered with gastrostomy might be resorted to, but this procedure, under the circum stances, is of such a quest'onable na ture that the prudent surgeon would doubtless not take it into cons'dera tion.I'hilnlelphia Medical Journal. GRANT'S SELF-CONTROL. Mow He Kestrmlneil II Appetite tor Smok ing at the IleRlniiliiK of Hi Dlsritae. His extraordinary power of self-control has not been lessened by his dread ful malady, death, from which, as Dr. Da Costa of this city, who first attend ed him, said the other day, "was the most terrible in the world." Tho dis ease first made itself apparent last Juno while the General wits at his villa at Long Branch. Whileeating fruit at lunch ho felt a lump in the roof of h s month. Ho mentioned the fact to Mr. George W. Chihls, whose cottage adjoins his, t io lawns being in common. Dr. Da Costa, whose brother-in-law was chief of Grant's medical staff, was visiting Mr. Chllds. and at the hitter's sugges tion he tidied on the General. Having examined the throat he advised Gen eral Grant to consult Dr. Fordyce Mar ker, his family physician, at one;-. The General made littlo complaint about the matter after that untl autumn. Your correspondent, who was then correspondent for the Tribune at Long Hraneh, was at the General's house and met him fre quently dining out, but the old soldier did not for weeks again refer to the malady, which all the while was in creasing its burning, choking forces, due afternoon in early September, however, the General quietly inqu red of Mr. a'hilds: "What did Dr. Da Costa say about my throat?" Then, for the first t me, Mr. Childs, who, like all of the other fr ends of the General at Long Branch, thought that the adinent had disappeared, had his suspicions aroused. Dr. Da Costa was seen ag;vn by Mr. Childs and tsked whether the disease could be incipient cancer. The physician avoided a direct answer, but repeated that the General should sec his family phys cian immediately. It was not until almost the bust week in IVtober that the old soldier thought it necessary to consult Dr. Harker. What he suffered in tho intervening mouths only he can tell. In addition to his other troubles, he ha I a severe attack of neuralgia, and upon the advice f his dentist had four teeth extracted, so that now nearly all his teeth are cone, li s physicians r-conimcn I th.it He sdiould limit his smo' ing U the first half of three cigars a day. Hav ing followed this advice for a few days he gave up smoking, the habit and so lace of a lifetime, altogether. His control over his appetite was such that he showed none of the craving that might be looked for in an inveterate smoker abruptly giving up the indulgence of years. Before be fell upon a New Vork sidewalk, an accident that was the l-cginning of his physical troubles, he was broad, robust and we ghed nearly 200 pounds. tor. Chi aj1) Inhune. SHE MEANT BUSINESS. 4 Woman Who Wouldn't Stmnd Anjr Non ene from Her Untighter1 Lover. "You see," she was explaining to a lowyer, after beating his counsel fee down to three dollars, "I have a daugh ter Maria," "Yes'm." "Maria has a beau." "Exactly." "Has been waitin' on her for six years. "I see." "And I've been waitin1 on him for tho same length of time waitin' for bim to marry her." "Just so, ma am. 'How long should a couple spark?' "Well, that deuends. It takes some folks a long time to make up their minds." "Isn't three years long enough?"' "I should think so." "Ami I irnvfl bim six. I've been tret- ting madder hud madder for tho last threo months, and finally last night I could not hold in any longer. I went into the parlor and thero he was, giggling and winking and loving around same as five years ago. There was Maria, simpering and cackling and act ing like the same fool she a lus was. Don't talk to mo! A gal can bring a beau to time inside of two years if she's got any marry in her. You didn't fool away six years?'1 "No m. "Nor I, either. Well, I stood it as loner as 1 could, and when 1 went into the room says 1 to WilJiam, says I: " 'William, you ve sot anu sot, ana it's mv duty as a mother to know if you intend to marry Maria.' "Maria she give a screech, and Will iam he turned liery red, but says I: "If you love why don't you marry? If you are hanging around here to pass aw'av time vou'd better skip!" "Well, William coughed and gasped and stuttered around, and said he wanted to write to his ma, in Iowa." "Your ma in Iowa!" says I, feeling my dander climbing up. "Mebbe you uiu't weaned yet!" . "Then he soys ho couldn't be bull dozed, and that "one objection to marry ing Maria was having me for a mother-in-law. Then the cyclone broke loose. Al-o, the whirlwind. Also, two or three earthquakes. Inside of four minutes Maria had fainted, William was a wreck, and we had upsot the stove and broke throe chairs. He como to and slipped out while I was holding camphor tc Maria's nose, and I've heard to-day thai ho is after a warrant for me for assault with intent to kill. Can he get one?" "Yes'm." "Can ho do anything?" "Well, you want a jury." "Sarlin sartin. I'll go before a jury and tell 'em how he and Maria have sot and sot for seventeen hundred nights how I've had to be soft on him how I've poked up Maria to bring him to time how I stood it and stocd it until sunthin' had to break how it cost me, $200 for fuel and oil how, but that's all. If they are men they can't find no ver dict ngin me." "Xo m." "Well, I'll go home and wait Maria lies there sighing and weeping, and there's tho stove to put up and the cha;rs to mend, and if William gets the warrant I'll let you know. His nit iu Iowa! I'll let him know that some body's ma in Detroit is alive and kick ing "and alius on deck!" Detroit free i m 1 A CUBAN CITY. The Ynl:ie' Opinion of Santiago de Cuba. Santiago do Cuba is a very strange city. The houses and stores are so built that the walls can be almost en tirely thrown open, while the interior have courts that are unroofed aud un obstructed to the sky. The money of the coun'ry is strange, and nothing about the city is familiar to an Amer ican. A real Yankee just lauded spoke as follows: "Somehaow I can't tell when I'm in doors and when I'm aout I've got a room, or sonicthin', in a hotel here, and I've b.en into it, quandarying araound, but I could not tell when I was iu tho parlor or when I was in the kitchen or back yard, so I'm standin' aout here in tho park not to make any mistake. 1 started daown the street a minute ago, but I got afraid I m;ght make a mistake ami git arrested for bciu' found insonie bodv's back parlor. I've got a lot of the money of the place, but I can't make heads nor tails M it. I took some of it back whar I got it, and passed it over the same couuter -so I reckon its genuine. "I could write the history of the place already. All I need is the dates. It was evidently built the year after the flood; it's been shook down by auearth iiiake, burned up by a volcano, reset tled, and left just as 'twas found. The uholo countrv is best where's it's been let alone. Wherever the people hev touched it they hov made a mess of it" Portland Transcript. Bay Windows in Railway Cars. The bay window parlor cars differ from the old style parlor car in many Important detals. The bay window feature is tho most striking point of ii:i'erence to the casual observer. In stead of the ordinary flat wiudows, ;hese cars are fitted with a series of five bay wiudows, each about seven feet w.de and a trille higher than usual. They are composed of a central light ibout three feet wide, from which two less lights dctlect in contrary directions. There is no projection beyond the outer line of the car, bin the central light (alls within the in'erior line of the car's side, and the dellection of the wings be ing inward there is no extension beyond the limit of safety. The full effect of this novel arrangement can only be gained from tho interior, where in creased lighting surface, unusual facili ties for observation and other marked advantages readily appear as the re Milts of the improvement Thiladclphia Tines. m "Derailed bv a Sun Kink" is the picturesque heading which an enterpris ing newspaper uses for an account of lars being thrown oft the track by the xpansion of the rails from the sun's beat The Irish Poet. JOUlf BOTXB O'BEILLT. Few men have had a mora romantic career than John Boyle O'Reilly, the poet editor of the Boston Pilot Born in Ireland in 1844, he was from early youth a revolu tionist, and his restless disposition caused him to leave home early. lie went to Eng land, became a printer and reporter on papers in the manufacturing districts; here he acquired that sympathy for the workman that still clings to bim, At the age of 19 be enlisted in the British army, not to fight for England, but to learn to fight for Irelani For three years he drilled and plotted, till at last be was suspected, tried and con demned to imprisonment for life. This sen tence was afterward commuted to twenty years. The prisons in England being full, be was transported to Australia, that land, as Mr. O'Reilly ay, "Blessed by God and blighted by man." Here he planned es cape, attempted it and was caught several times. Finally be succeeded in getting to sea in an open boat After days of privation he was picked up by an American whaler and devrted himself heartily for the next six months to the pur suit of whale catching. He had made such! warm friends of every one on boat . that the captain to further his plans transferred bim to a ship bound for Liverpool, giving bim papers of a shipwrecked sailor and twenty one guineas f r pocket money. Finding it dangore remain in Liverpool he came to America, wrote a few magazine article and drifted to Boston without knowing a friend in the New England states. His poems, which were e: gcrly purchased by the maga tines, soon brought him friends and made him famous. This was in :70. He secured a position on the Pilot of which be now owns a quarter interest and Is -ts sole editor. As president of the Papyrus and Press clubs, of Boston, he has drawn around him many of the most brilliant young writers of the time, a favorite resort of theirs being his home in Charlestown, which, owing to his wife, is a model of good taste and comfort Mr. Reilly is a lover of manly sports and through his magnificent physique is able to excel in many ot them. "Old Uoey. WILLIAM 8. BOSECRA.NS. Gen. William 8. Rosecrans is probably the leading Democrat in congress from the Pacific slope. He was born in 1819, at Kingston, O. ; began life as a civil engineer, was a professor at Wost Point prior ti the rebellion, when he joined M.C'lellan as a major-general of volunteers; took part in the operations in western Virginia; army of the Mississippi, Juna and Corinth; Murfrees boro; Chlckaniauga; department of the Missouri in 1S04; mustered out of volunteer service ISliC, and resigned his position of brigadier-general in the regular army in 1807; minister to Mexico in 165-69. His name was mentioned for the vice-presidency at the lu.. Democratic convention. At the recent conference of tho Jewish ministers in New York City, it was reported that the Jewish syna gogues are increasing every year. Rhode Island occupies only one thousand square miles of territory, but it has about nine hundred schools, with about eighty per cent of the children of school age iu them. Fifty-six new Baptist Sunday schools were organized in North Caro lina during the year 18S4. many of them in communities where no other religious services whatsoever are held. .V. 1. Examiner. A clergyman in Boston a man well versed in the Bible, devout earnest, a good worker and a fair preacher is a settled pastor over a church which pays him only $12 a week, and that is his whole salary. Bonton Traveller. Mortimer F. Reynolds, of Roches ter. N. Y.. has given' $-25,000 to the Uni versity of Rochester for a chemical lab oratory, as a memorial of his brother, William A. Reynolds, who was a mem ber of the Board of Trustees. The University ot Virginia recently dedicated an observatory and telescope presented by Leander J. McCormick, of Chicago, at a cost of $75,000. The ob servatory has an endowment of $'); 000. one-half of which was given by W II. Vanderbilt. Chicago Times. A few weeks ago Solemn High Mass was celebrated in Copenhagen for the first time since the Reformation. The occasion was the twentv-fifth anni versary of the priesthood of Rev. John Euch. 'Apostolic Prefect in Copenhagen. Complete religious toleration now exts in Denmark. Dr. Moorehouse, Bishop of Mel bourne, has refuses to order prayers for rain in his diocese. His lordship gves as his reason that, before complaining, people should do something themselves towards storing up the superfluity in the wet season against the drouth. An Illinois doctor thinks he has found a sure cure for rheumatism in geranium leaves. Perhaps he argues on the principle that like cures like; for spooning over geraniums in the garden after dark during the summer is s favorite way of catching the disease with many susceptible young persons. l.o'idl Citizen.