EUGENE CITY GUARD.
LUMnPHKLL,
PraprleUr.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The yearly export of umbrellas
from Kngland are valued at oMl,0o.
A Russian convict h wtid to have
arrived a punishment of two thousand
lashe.
It ha cost tho British Government
$3:10,000 to tiire.M the locust plague
in Cyprus.
Tho Kniperor Dom Pedro of Brazil
in planning the erection of an academy
of art, which will be the lirst of its kind
in South America.
Archer and Wood tho two noted
English jockey, according to tin; in
rome tax ussc.i-nient, made last year re
apeetively f.XI.OUO anl -4.'i.fM0.
In China and Japan girls are named
after some beautiful natural object, and
uch names are common as Cherry
flower, Peach-blossom, I'lum-blo-soiu,
I'amboo-Icaf, Fine-woods, etc.
A patent has been granted in Russia
for a lucifer match that can be used an
indefinite number of times, the wood
being impregnated with a special chem
ical solution that will allow of such ro
ute. The depression in , Scotch agricul
ture is so great that, in one recent num
ber of a paper published in the north.
forty-seven country mansions, with
245.000 aens of shoutings utlachud,
were advertised to let
In S-rvia it i the custom to build
the partition walls of house quite thick
and set stoves in the walls half wav
through, ho that they do duty in warm
ing two rooms. The stove has no open
ing in cither room, but is managi
through nn aperture in tho wall.
The liest decorated man In Prussia
Is the Crown Prince of Germany, who
has seventy-two orders and decorations
to plant on Ins breast, wiildi make mm
loots as if he wore a breastplate. Count
Fucklcr, tho Marshal of the place, conn
next with hftv-one; Bismarck follows
with a modest forty -eight.
I lie Island of Juan rernnnilc,, up
on which Alexander Selkirk, the pro
totype of ltobinson Crusoe, spent his
four solitary years, has never since been
jnhabitcU until twelve years ago, wn
the present Governor Hodt settled upon
it with a small oolonv. Hodt is a Swif
ter. In 1Mb' he fought for Austria
against tho Prussians, and in 1X70 for
France. After the defeat of tho Krone
lie emigrated to Chili, and made himself
useful to tho government, at whose in
viUition he undertook tho colonijit'on
of Kobinson Crusoe's lonely island
Here ho has resided for the last twclv
years as Governor and Judge. Most of
the settlers over whom he presides are
fjcrman and bwiss.
LIFE IN CHINA.
Oriental Customs Tliut Heetn Aniimluf
to Dweller In (lis Ori-ldent.
Who and what aro these melancholy
mortals who are meandering along coy
cred with sheepskins? They are what
when you boo them in Fleet street, you
call "sandwich men." They are ex
liibitiug tho wares purchasable at t lit:
clothier's shop on our left. Instead of
carrying advert isonient-lionrds, and
wandering up and down the street,
layer Of lean mortality between two
slices of wood, thev wear upon their
own backs the very goods which you
are respectfully invited to inspect ami
to buy. Do not imagine that a China
man s mind feels any qualms at tit
thought that these garments have licch
for weeks upon tho back tif one of tin
unwished. He is troubled by no such
Unpleasant rejections. But ho would
no doubt drive a harder bargain on the
plea that they had lieen already much
worn. Them sheepskins are-very high
ly valued in winter by tho country peo
ple. H vou were relating to an agrictil
turn! audience in tho south of Chins,
and in the north also to towns
people, the sufl'erings of the
persecuted saints of old, it would
never do to tell them that "they wan
dcrcd about in sheep-skins and goat'
Minn. 1011 would err as much as
tho Moravian missionaries did who lirst
preached of the tires of hell to the
Groenlanders. Those Arctic folk were
immensely pleased with the prospect of
going there, and the missionaries were
naturally very much shocked at the re
sult of their own preaching. Ami so,
to the Chinese mind, the wandering
about in sheep-skns ami goat -skins doc
not at all imply that thev were "desti
lute, nmictctt, tormented. jhev
would very much like to be per-xvulcd
to that degree. Tho Chinaman is a
wonderful creature for enduring end
less nuisances, regarding them as limit's
that are and have been, and therefore
still must bo. e could scarcely have
a better illustration of that last remark
. than tins stage, which has been thrown
right across tho main thoroughfare.
must cither find our way round
by a side street, or creep under tho
stage as best we can. Fancy what it
would be for a band of itinerant
actors to erect a theater in Chcapsido,
coiuHdling all the trauic to turn aside
for a whole day; and then consider that
the street we are in bears about
the same relation to the city of
Amoy as Clicapsido does to tlis
city of London! Yet the people do not
complain. It is probably that not one
in a hundred who turn aside because the
road is blocked thinks that such a nui
sance ought not to be allowed. It is
much more likely that the inhabitants
of the street are objects of envy Ixvauso
the theater is brought to their doom.
Koine shopkeeper in the street has in
vited the actors at his expense, ami his
neighbors are much obliged to him for
giving them an opxrtiinity of seeing
tlie plav, and of h curing tin1 drums licnt,
the hells ring, the cymbals clash, and
the actors howl and screech, without tho
troublo of leaving their shop-doors.
Tho entertaining sights are so numerous
that to describe all that strikes the new
comer as fantastic would take a volume.
You may see a woman deliberately
washing Iter long black hair in wooden
bowl, coiibing it out and doing it up In I
public, without so much as a thought
that any one would think she khould do
it in-door. Or. maybe, it is a man in
scanty garb, sitting on the threshold of
his shop, washing his long legs in n basin
of hot water. Sometimes you may come
scross a conjurer performing at one
of the tinv clear spaces where
the road widens for a few yards.
Close by this spot I once met a
man who seemed to have a knife
broken off short in the top of his skull,
ami the blood apparently was running
down niKin his clothes. The people
stood aside with what I thought was a
shocked aspect as ho solemnly walked
on, looking to neither right nor left,
and it proved to be only a famous con
jurer going through one of his most re
markable performances. Occasionally
you may happen upon one of the ec
centric customs of idolatry, and sec a
new house consecrat d by the presence
of the black-faced idol. 'By the way,
while we are just finishing our journey,
I will tell vou a curious fact about
Chinamen and foreign pictures. Hie,
Chinaman who sees a foreign picture for
the first time Jooks at it with the eves
of a grown-up child. When I had dis
covered this fact, 1 tested the truth of it
many times bv showing pictures to in
telligent friends. A fine sketch of the
interior of a lurk'sh man-of-war. nur
guns served by about ten men, and the
Admiral standing in the foreground
with his hand rest;ng upon his sword,
was put down ns "mount lins;" and a
larcre and claVirntc picture of tho funer
al of Mous. Thiers proceeding through
the streets of Tans was caul to be
sh'p at sea." This is nn interesting
fact for psychologists. Eary-Dtiy Life
in L hi wi.
BRITISH FAILURES.
Trmlrainrii Who Went I'mlrr In KiijcIhimI
During Knur Years.
The failures last year were distributed
among the following trades and, for
better comparison, wo give the total
number in each trade in 18H and
184:
ISM. IsSI. l'K!. 1HS-2
llHiikeri I 4 .1 '.'
ltiillillnic trade ., tKl M.1 1,I!M 1,:H7
( liriiilHtKuiiddruiodHts 37 4U Kl s7
Coid ami mlnlntf trades I I Ji'3 '11! l!i
Corn slid rattle l.Vt ):i'J '.'It ixi
Krnperv, silk anil wool
en trade '. ft!S ',.' MH 9i
Kiirtln-nwurR trades... 4j to lal s7
Kami era 110 3.'7 .MS M0
rurnitiirii Rnd upliol-
ata-ry trade 115 01 -216
(iroci'i'v and provision
trade's 975 sol 2.J110 '',S1J
llanlwiire and metitl
trades 15-1 110 1177 t.H
Iron snd steel trades.. iM 1.9 :M ,77
Jewelry and funa-y
traden 201 1S1 tit 3sj
Leather and couch
traden &H SKI MM (1H5
.Mere limits, brokers itnd
iifientit 378 I'.O 1,171 1,273
Print iik sad atittlouery
traden 121 lol 1!'7 200
Wine, spirit Hiid beer
trud 4-V t.v; l,l!i:l l.l.'iO
MlBcelliineoni Kit 7sl l,ls 1.114
Totals (or t olled Klnir-
dinn 5,703 bftm 11,413 l,tt4
The total for 188.5 shows a net in
crease of aliout twelve per cent, upon
the failures for 1884. But the ollicial
figures only tell us of tho cases that oc
curred through the Court of Bankrupt
cy. There is no way of arriving at
any relialilo statistics of the many
oilier actual failures that have
lumponcd during the year. Not
only has there Wn nn increase in
the private arrangements effected with
creditors, but also in regard to county
court adiiiinisti'iitions. l'lien then
that large class of cases where debtors
simply drop through, or run away, or
get work as journeymen, but which are
nevertheless eunlly failures, and equally
bad for their creditors. It is useless
when we renieinlier these facts merely to
coin pure Iho ligures in bankruptcy for
18.). with (hoy of 18-.' or IS-S.'I, ami say
mere is a decrease. J here litis lieen no
falling oil' in the totals of failures, and
these simply prove that many insolvent
debtors have privately arranged with
their creditors or have done without, as
the cheap system of liquidation was
taken avav, and thev could not attord
the more costly present plan. It niiK,
moreover, lie borne in mind that every
new bankruptcy act has had the appa
rent effect of cutting down the totals of
failures. The net of 18(i'.l did this, as
our comparative total shows, and th
fact that those totals rose again did not
prove an actual increase of innlvcncv,
hut rather that debtors grow more used
to the new law, as they doubt lev. will to
that of iss;t. Kemp's Mt mi utile OVi-
zette.
ITALIAN EYES.
A Country Where I'retty Itlaiiialrs
a ( oiinlaltTaule Premium.
Are at
J he Ins id the cvo ol Italians is most
commonly chestnut; according to M.
Mantega.a, the proportion of such b
t)4 per cent., the black eves number t2
percent., the blue 11, and the grav H.
l'iedinont and Lombardy have the larg
est proportion of grav eves; Aenct a of
onto, hi general, me ciicsimu color I
hair amounts ttf 71 percent.; then come
the black hair, I'ti per cent.; then the
blonde, 3 per cent, (though in Venetia
it is 8.) Black hair is rare iu Venetia.
More than three-fourths of the Italians
have abundant hair. Southern Italy
excels northern in this respect; in Tus
cany the poor heads of hair preponder
ate (58 against 4'J per cent.) As to
beard, the color docs not always coincide
with that of the locks. While chestnut
preponderates, this preponderance is
less marked; and one sometimes timls
chestnut links with blond, and more
olten brown, beards. Bushy Uards
with abundant locks are most common
in the south of Italy. In two-thirds of
Italy tho natives wear the beard shorter
are clean shaven. This practice domi
nates especially in Tuscany (.S per
ent.); tne Sardinians have most Ion r
beards (o0 per cent.). Bed hair in Italy
has lieen a subject of discussion among
anthropologist; some think red-haired
MTons are remnants of a race almost
extinct, and which extended to the
banks of the Rhine and into Kngland:
others th nk re I hair a mere physrologi-
ai acc dent, irom which no com 'IiiMon
can bo drawn. In Italy throughout one
finds a few c.vs of red hair. In one
commune, Sant Aguta di Iuglia, red
hair is predominant. No evi'lanation
:ias lieen given of the fact Baldness is
most common in Tuscany. In Italy
lerally, of 10,000 youn? men ex
amined for military service 20 were re
acted lor premature baldnca. and 5.
'or disease of the scalp. Satur.
PAINTED FANS.
A Odh Flonrlnlilnc UualnM Which !
Now on tbe lteelliir.
"Kan-painting," said a dealer in
these articles to a reporter recently,
"so fur as it is considered as a line art,
is about played out A few years ago
there were a number of artisU in this
city who mado a business of painting
fans. Tho average price paid was
thirty dollars a dozen, and, as the work
was quickly done, the artists could
realize a large sum of money by their
brushes. The demand for painted fans
steadily increa-sed until it was impossi
ble to supply it At this point inferior
work began to be introduced and
the prices ran down until at the
present time fans are painted at a cost
of two dollars a dozen, a price that no
artist can make a living at."
"Do you sell many painted fans
now""' inquired tho reporter.
"In comparison with the sales a few
years ago we. do not se'' many. The
truth is, the fans are now painted by
their fair owners."
"Is much artistic merit displayed in
thee efforts?"
"In some a great deal, but a good
many are mere daubs and tempt one to
ask 'with Artcmus Ward's inquirer:
'Which is Daniel and which is the lion?
The fair Julia takes a fan and paints on
it a landscape in which the shrubbery
seems to over-top tho trees and t be
animals seem to be of a nondescrbt
species. She shows thi oaintirig'r'
her male friends who break utiil l;
mation, 'Charming.' Magnilicent ' and
other'eqnally absurd expressions. Thus
eneouraired the young lady joes on
painting other fans, each painting worst!
than the former ono, because a more
ambitious effort"
'Have yon ever any tricks practised
in ian-paintingr
" I, yes. Some years ago I discov
ercd a very neat fraud. A wcll-cxe
cutud painting, if original, was quite
expensive, and taking advantage of
this some keen fellows adopted a new
plan. They took the silk before it was
placed on the body of the fan an ' had
a photograph in some way taken on it
Then thev skilfully painted the photo
graph and many of the best posted
dealers were taken in. One day a lady
living in this city, who is quite a col
lector, purchased one of the photo
graphed fans and discovered by acci
dent the method adopted. She return-d
the fan to the dealer and thus put him
and others on their guard. In spite of
this, however, quite a number of bogus
paintings were palmed otl. indeed, so
successfully is the work executed that
it requires an expert to determine.
"Why are not painted fans of this
description as valuable as if painted
from an original?
"Well, thev bear the same relation to
an original as a chromo docs to an oil
painting. The former may have all
the beauties of the latter, hut it is
merely a reproduction and will never
command the price of an original. .V.
Y. Mad and tipress.
TEXAN HERDERS.
The
I.If l.rd by tlard-Workud
mnrt
I'nnrly-I'Mld ( Ian of l'eople.
Wo will suppose, by way of illustra
tion, that a practical herder has been
engaged to run a Hock, and in tlnj early
morning, as the tirst grav streaks of
dawn appear in tho eastern sky, ho
sallies forth to takecharge of his wooly
flock, who are just beginning to awako
and leave their bedding-place. If lit
Is a Mexican he looks extremely pict
uresque in his bright blue jacket, with
its double row of silver buttons, w hich,
bv tho wav, are not for use but solely
for ornament, for a Mexican ncv.-r
buttons his jacket, else ho would hide
his gaudy calico shirt. On his nether
limbs arc leggings of leather or buck
skin to protect his legs from the slum
thorns through which ho will be forced
to march. These aro kept in place by
a crimson, orange or blue sash, over
which is buckled a broad sash full of
cartridges. On his head is tho inevi
table sombrero, with its ornamentation
of gold ami silver lace. If ho is a
sensible man, his scrape will bo tied
over one shoulder and under the oppo
site arm ho will carry a W inchester
rifle ami a sharp butcher knife. As the
sheep begin to move oil' he saunters
slowly along behind them, keeping
a sharp lookout lor stragglers. Sheep
tlo not travel fast, but they keep mov
ing. At about meridian they will he
gin to feed back toward the bedding
place. There the herder will eat his
hiiinlile dinner of tortillas and chili.
washed down by a draught of water, if
ho is lortunato enongii to be in the
vicinity of a spring or watcr-lmle.
About sundown the sheep will rqach
their camp ami begin to select bods for
the night. Tho herder has a rude
shelter near bv. He builds himself a
lire ami cooks his tortillas. Possibly
he may have killed a quail or a jack
rabbit during the day. If so, he makes
a savory soup. Then ho smokes his
cigaro ami walks around the flock to
see that none are missing. If all is
well ho returns to his camp and, roll
ing nimseii m nis scrape, lies down.
He may have a good night's sleep and
he may not A careful herder will be
aroused it a single sheep moves and
will immediately rise up to see what
is the matter, if a bear or cougar or
tiger-cat is lurking about he will hunt
for tho varmint and cither kill him or
frighten him away. Above all things
lie must guard against a stampede, for
if the timid .sheep once sret started
there is no stopping them tho herd
would become scattered, many would
be lost and the herder would be charged
up with tho missing sheen. Lonle-
fore daylight he is up, and by the' time
the sheep liegin to move he has cooked
and eaten his breakfast and is ready to
take up the march again. Imagine
what a picnic a man must have who
performs this dreary routine for three
hundred and sixty-hvedays in the year!
Sheep-hording ad'mits of no holidays.
Cor. Iklroit Free Press.
The Boston Tratvkr tells of bo
livingin sight of Plymouth R.K'k, Mass.",
who weighed three hundred and four
pounds at last accounts, thoue-h tie is
only fourteen years old. He has ctowii
at the rata of fifty pounds a ve.r
of
lau. ...
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Sampl hut of Orator Kic ked I'p Along
Life's lllhwy.
As it is everybody's ambition to gain
fjme and prominence as a public
nml ils it is iii lino with our
principles to foster and forward every
lainlablo ambition, wo taKe tins oppor
tunity to set before our ' reader J certain
sample lots of public speakers, pro
cured at great pains and immense ex
pense, and we trust that every one
our readers will find something in
lot that will suit his predilections and
prejudices.
Exhibit 1. and perhaps the most scrv
iceablo in the entire invoice, is war
ranted ti cive satisfaction under all
conditions anil in any kind of climate,
It is verv durable. It will wear 1iko
Iron. This sneaker is stately, rotund
deliberate and perfectly sound in wind
and action. His sentences are of un
varying length and all very long,
Th.'.c urn uttered in a tleli'rlltflllly 11 II I
form tone of voice, which moves in bil
lowy grandeur, like this. , , ,
, ,; the movement being kept up tin
til the end of the sentence is readied
when the voice is permitted to enrv ;
gracefully upward, thus: '. This
(rives an opportunity for taking breath
before recommencing tho billow Imsi
ness. This speaker is warranted t
run for nnv tune dosired. from halt nn
hour t) all day. Any person really tie
sirious of something superior will tlo
wU to snap this up before it is tak
by somebo'.y else.
Exhibit 2. 1 Ins is a rapid speaker.
It is not so much in reiiuest as exhibit
1. but it has its especial merits. Th
chief of these consists in the Inability
of tho hearer to understand what the
speaker is saving, for the former is
therefore unable to reply to the argil
ments of the rapid speaker, if the rapid
speaker think it worthwhile to indulge
in such unnecessary expedients ami if
tho hearer does make the attempt anil
apparently gets tho better of the rapid
speaker, the rapid speaker has the
power of denying that he said any
thing that tho other saitl he said and
who, pray, is to know whether he ditl
or not? The manner of working the
rapid speaker is to seize a sentence by
tho butt, as you would a horse-whip,
anil by a sudden and adroit movement
snap out tho rest ol it in ono time am
one motion. 1 his will require sonn
practice. You would better begin with
detached sentences. When vou hav
so far succeeded as to be able to utter
"ThcCommonwealth of Massachusetts'
in one syllable, you will have gon- verv
far on your way toward perfection as a
rapid speaker.
Exhibit 8 is of the mumbling variety
very useful when you cau't think of
tho words vou want to use. This will
bo disposed of at a bargain; not be
cause it is of inferior quality, but
simply because the lot is an unusually
largo ono.
Exhibit 4. Loud-mouthed; very use
ful during political campaigns. Will
be sold at a sacrifice.
Exhibit 5. This is a retailer of
chestnuts; good for all occasions; the
most serviceable variety in the whole
line. Can afford to sell low on account
of the h"avy stock wo have on hand.
Exhibit 6. This is a machine that
deals in jokes, leaving out the point.
anil gets all jumbled up trying to apply
them. Rather common, but well worth
examining.
Exhibit 7. Ah! this is something
worth looking at. It is tho true ora
tor. No discount on this lot. Itsprin
cipal features are s-ivcn-jointed wortls.
tautology, pleonasm and "damnable
iteration." Take this and you'll never
regret it. Hostuu Tranxtrt'iit.
language of stones.
Ancient Superstition Cniicrmlng
the
Oil lilt les of Various (it'ins.
The quality of turquoise imparts
prosperity in love.
Chrysolite was use! as an nmtilet
against evil passions and despondency
riie opal imparts apprehension ami
insight, and is the emblem of unrealized
hope.
Conjugal felicity was synibuli.cd bv
the sardonyx, which it was believed to
insure.
The topaz was thought to promote
fidelity and friendship and to calm in
ternal passions.
I ho diamond has the mystic symbol
ism of light and purity, faith and up
rightness of character.
The properties of the amethvst is to
calm the passions of tho body and pre
vent tiruiiKenncss.
The bloodstone was thought bv the
ancients to impart courage, prudence,
fortitude ami stability of character.
1 lie moonstone was the emblem of
the merchant prince, and signified well
directed industry and the arts of peace.
liarnet or carbuncle represents con
stancy of purpose ami fidelity to duty.
It is pre-eminently the soldier's gem."
The ruby was thought to guard
against unfriendliness, and particularly
that form so common in antiquity-
poisoning.
Ih sapphire signifies modesty and
charity of opinion, and was thought to
possess the power of breaking the
spells of magic.
1 he agate or challedonv represents
physical prosperity, and it is the stone
31 the athlete and physician, and im
parts longevity and health.
1 he emerald symbolizes truth, am:
was believed to secure g.Kid fa;th an
happiness in friendship and home. I
as also the appropriate emblem for :,
judge or lawyer. .V. )'. Urniihic.
m
"In this country a larye cvce ol
food is consumed, not only bv well-to
do people, but also by the poor. Th
excess of foot! consists mainly id m at
and sweatmeats." This con.-hu:...
is given as the result of an invest':-.'
tion into tho diet of laborers reecn"'
made by Colonel Carroll 1). Wrl ' ,
Commissioner of the United S'it
Bureau of Labor.
The most powerful king on eart
is wor king; the laziest shir-king: :
very doubtful king, smo-king; the m's
commonplace king, jo-king; the leanes
one, thin-king; the thirstiest one
drin-king; the slyest one, win-king
and the most gurruloui one, Ul-kinf
BANK OF ENGLAND.
Ilrlef Durrlptlnn of the Hytein Adopted
for It MmiMKeinrnt.
In ICO t. whilo England was at war
with France, William Peterson, a Lon
don merchant, conceived the scheme
of organizing a bank to receive de
posits and assist the Government with
money. The capital of i'l.i'OO.OOO was
raised by popular subscription, and it
was provided that the whole of this
should he permanently loaned to tho
Government at 8 per cent, per annum.
The bank immediately issued notes of
the denomination of and upwards.
As there was no legal limit to the
amount of issue, thev soon depreciated,
and in 1G!7 it was found necessary to
increase the capital stock by 1,000,
(HHI. This was paid into tho bank, and
for n short time was not loaned to the
Government, and the effect was to
cause the notes anil tho stock (which
latter had fallen to 40 per cent, dis
count) to appreciate to par. In 181-t
an act was passed dividing tho bank
into two departments tin issue and
the banking the object of which was to
prevent the issue of notes without a
sufficient reserve of specie to redeem
them. At tho time of tho division into
the two departments the aggregate of
the permanent loans made by the bank
to the Government was 11,015,000.
This debt wns now declared to be duo
from the Government to tho issue de
partment, which was authorized to is
sue notes to circulate as money to that
amount. But somo of the provincial
banks had also been authorized to is
sue notes to a limited extent on the
deposit of securities, and it was pro
vided in the act of 1844 that whenever
any of these provincial banks dimin
ished their circulation permanently
their right to issue notes on deposit of
government securities should accrue to
the Hank of England, but that the lat
ter bank should only issue two-thirds
as much as tho amount which provin
cial banks should cease to issue. Under
this arrangement tho amount of "per
manent issue" had Increased to 14,
47.").000 in 1858. For the notes issued
under tho foregoing provisions no re
serve of specie is required, but for
every'othcr note more than are issued
as above, coin or bullion must be paid
into tho bank before the issue of the
note. There is no distinction in tho
appearance of the two classes of issue;
but when gold is wanted from the bank
the notes aro presented at the issue de
partment, and, upon their redemption,
are at once destroyed, and for every
new deposit of bullion or coin, new
notes are issued to tho banking depart
ment. Toledo Blade.
ROARING PEMAQUID.
The Uld Kort at the Itongliput Point on
the Atlantic Count.
Pemaquid Point, near Damariscotta,
Me., has been said to be, in a gale
from any point of the compass between
southeast and southwest, the roughest
point on the Atlantic coast. It is liter
ally out to sea, and tho waves of the
Atlantic, rolling in from' three thou
sand miles of ocean without let cr hin
drance, break with explosive roar upon
ils bastions of stone, which are worn
into endless forms by tho attrition and
abrasion of ages. It is verv rarely that
any point of tho mainland possesses all
the conditions of an uninterrupted
breaking place for the waves of tho
ocean. Uiitlving rocks or islands or
the conformation of the adjacent coast
usually break up or check the course of
the waves long before reaching the
mainland. Nothing lies between Pema
quid Point and tho broad Atlantic, and
even in the calmest moods of sea the
roar of the surf upon its walls is re
niarkable. 'When tho southerly gale is
on, the spray is Hung hundreds of feet
into the air. I ho noiso is deafening.
Huge pieces of rock are broken from
the projecting wall and thrown upon
the hank. 1 vmaquid light-house stands
on the promontory, several hundred
feet hack from the edge, with the housi)
jf the keeper adjoining it The light
is at least three hundred feet above the
sea level. Yet in a southerly gale
few years ago a large stone was hurled
by the waves through the thick glass
jf the lantern, and the spray came
down the chimneys of the house in
such tiuantitics as to extinguish tha
lives.
History and legend also lend their at
tractions to l'eniaqtitil. No part of the
country was earlier known to voyagers,
The ships of Pring, Weymouth am
Gilbert had plowed these waters long
Liclore the settlement of Jamestown.
:ind reniaquid was the rival of Ply
mouth and Boston as a metropolis in
the infancy of New England. The old
fort at the harbor was for near a cent
ury on the disputed territory between
Massachusetts anil Acadia. Governor
Chamberlain claims for Pematiuid an
older date than Plymouth. "Few
know," he says, "that years before the
1 iigrims set foot on Plymouth sands.
there were established Englisn settle
ments at various points on tho shores
Maine that l'emaquul was a seat of
trade, and at one time the metropolis
of all the region east of New York."
Iluckland Me.) Courier-Gazette,
Some Queer Requests.
The life of Mr. Peter Cooper is about
to be published but I doubt if it con
tains any of the amusing anecdotes 6f
the many demands upon Mr. C6oper
from people who seemed to claim a
certain right to ask favors from so rich
and great a philanthropist. Ho wa so
beset with letters of the kind that a
clerk was employed to answer them.
One woman wrote that she never had
been to the opera, ami would like 'to
have him send a box so that sh biifht
go. and invito friends ah.,- a; 0:hci
wanted a sealskin sarq-.e, as the w!.
tor was severe, and thought he mi-'ht
well afford to send her one; while still
another wrote that if she hatl a r.cw set
of false teeth, costing forty dollars
which amount she asked luni to scud
her she thought she could get a bus
baud. Tuu-n Topics.
-About $3,000,000 worth of Ameri-can-made
locomotives are sent abroad
tTtry year.
RELIGIOUS ANDEDUCATl0N
The women students n th.p
sity of Michigan have organ,V'
muscular development 11 1
A conference of nicchanici i
crs and business men recentli j
Berlin condemned all work on s
-U Is stated that the Clmrehol?
grcat-irrnndsons of ctarl...
poct, brother of John. H
The colored Methodists u .
Southern conferences have, duriJ1'''
last ton years, contributed' 7-1 f'
tne support ol Methodist mission,.
An exchange, having stated .
there is a demand for competed
ers in the West, tho Boston
remarks that "it is tho same in v
England." m "
The Normal School at Tuh
Ala., for tho training of colored if".
of both sexes to bo teacher J'"'
etl from Boston friends a gift of j",,"'
Tho school has 225 pupils.0 '' '
"A hen has to feet" "He,i.
it." This was what superintend
11. Russell.of lirockton, placed up.,, s
blackboard for tho pupils to curr
This was the way one boy correct
"Ho didn't do it: Cod done it " r, ,
Journal of Education. '
Great gifts to foreign missions,,
reported in many churches. Tr;r
Church, Boston, raised i?4,400 theiii-.
Sunday, and Dr. Cuyler's Chu-i"
Sl.GOO, in the regular collection; tt"
many smaller churches have niorm
doubled their gifts to this cau.se, 4v.
Tribune. . ,
The New York Sun says thit
association which is considering i
purchase of a building situ haA,
been offered seven Protestant chunk
in t no upper part ol Aew iorkCj
the most of them costly and tny
structures, and all situated in h..-,a'
hoods of the most fashionable sort
A short time since a party of .'.;
Yorkers who came South with Mr.;
H. Innian visited tho Atlanta I'niv..
and heard the pupils sing the old plan;,
tion songs. Ono of the visitors-p.
sented President Chase a check I
$1,000. another for .150andtk-
for $s50. There is an indefinable b
pathetic quality in tho songs of m.
that opens hearts and pocket-K
alike. Atlanta Constitution.
Tho following Harvard faculty d-
cision nas occn postcu: "After a
present academic vear. soecial stmUr.
shall appear before a committee of fr
members of tho faculty at tho time
their entrance, and satisfy the corau.-
teo as to the course of study which tt-
intend to pursue, and therenfter th.
work shall be subjected to the conslt
supervision of that committee. '
WIT AND WISDOM.
The egotist who is perfectly satiA
with himself, fails to satisfy anv
else.
People who nurse feiids should
member it will make no difference it
years hence. X. Y. Mail.
A voung lady, who said she us
married a tanner, deceived her frien-
r - " .
most shamefully. Ho was only a sch
master. riiitudelvliui Cat .
First tramp Will .that doe- hit
Second tramp You must fiwA wttfc
yourself, lie may not betrtingry
ic had half of my leg. Judtjc.
Some men are born great, so?
wrestle with the parlor stove, and sot
have charge of the kitchen tire thrc
upon them. Tcxax Sitinys.
Philosophers tell us there's no nr.
for grumbling, ami we . guess thep
about right If the matter can't':
remedied, it is a folly to grumble, n
it is a worse folly to grumble if wee
remedy tJHtn.a.v Traveler.
An exchange remarks: Flying nv
chines will probably never be a
cess." What's the matter with a mi
quito? He is a living drilling mack
ami the suckingest kind of a sucet-
Mirman Jndipundi iit.
Mrs. J. has a mania for goingot
but .she insists upon taking a coupe. "
never see your wife on the street,
marked a gentleman' to her husband
"You stop the first coupe that youmi"'
and vou'll lind her," replied the bn
Cltirtiiin Tribune.
An old bachelor having fallen':
love behaved in a ridiculous nisinn,'
but a lady excused his infatuation b;
.saying: "It is with old bachelors
with oltl wood; it is hard to get thi-i
kindled, hut when thev do take hi
they burn prodigiously. A'. 1". Ledf
rjAKE-
SIMMONS
LIVER REdULATOE
For all Diseases of the
Lirer, Zldnejs, Stomach an! Spleen.
This purely Tegvtable pre-
flration, now to celebrated at a
amity Medicine, originated in
the South in 1828. It acts
rently on the Itowela and
Kidney and correct! the
action of the Lirw, and ii, there
fore, the beat preparatory
medicine, whaterer the lick
nm may prove to be. In all
common disease it will, n
Baslstedl by any other medi
cine, e fleet apeedy cure.
The Regulator is saf to administer in M
condition of the system, aod under no clrc
atancea ran It do harm. It will invito
like a glass of wine, but is no intoiicating br
age to lead to intemperance ; will promote
geHtinn, dixslpate headache, and fe"
aUy tone up the system. The dose as"
not uupleasant, and iu virtues undoubted.
No loan of time, no Inter
ruption or Htoppage of
buninens while taking the
Regulator.
Children complaining of
Colic, Headache, or Sick
Stomach, a teaspoonful or
snore wul give relict.
If taken occasionally by P-
tients exposed to MALARIA,
will expel the poison and protect
them from a tuck.
A PBTS1CIANH OPINIO.
I hare been practicing medicine for tweoryye
and have never been able to put up a
compound that would, like Smmons Liver
la tor, promptly and effectively move the y".
action, and at the same time aid (Instead of e
eningt the digestive and assimilative powers a
system. L. M. Himtoh, M. D.,WaiW-
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