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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1886)
OF GENERAL INTEREST. A minor who died of starvation In Carroll County, ('eorgin, recently, l.nd eighteen thouNAiid dollars secreted in the crack of hit) log cabin. Meloeipedo is tlio new nnnio of a musical bicycle mo fashioned that the rider can kick out melodic, waiten, and reel as he, travels along the road. Vhiraijo Tiwet. Iturglais struggled for an hour to gain admission into a Nashville (Tetm.) house one night recently, and finally succeeded. They eiirrictf oil a bar of soap for their labors. According to the Wilmington (X. C.) Star there is no word more col l ect than "tote." It quotes Chaucer as an authority, mid says he used the nvrd as Southerner do now. A deed covering thirty-three page of legal cap paper, averaging eleven words to the line and thirty-two lines to the page, thus containing eleven thousand, six .hundred and sixteen words, was recently recorded in Mcin tosh County, (in. Reporter use and misuse the word "ovation," say the New Orleans I'irn yuur, because they think it is a big thing. Throwing eggs at an unpopu lar speaker would be an ovation. Cheering a hood I mn orator by a crowd of bummers would not be. A gentleman in Plymouth last year sent out to a friend in England a present of a barrel of the best Cape cranberries. The Englishman returned his thanks, but was sorry that the berries when they arrived were all sour.-- Iliixlon Tranript. A Toronto cat is credited with re markable intelligence. She saw a rat about to go through a small knothole inn tight board fence, and. knowing that she could not reach the rat before he reached the hole, she went over the fence like a shot and captured hint on the other aide. . A' wid Was probated nt Philadel phia recently that wa made by a per son who died over twenty-five years ago. Its provision were long since, rarrieil out, but it became necessary to have it probated in order to make good a title to real estate about to be sold. rhiladi ljihia I'resn. A California stage conch, running through the Morag valley, and the seven outside passenger " wore shot down n precipice. One young lady, after falling lifty feet, fetched up in the top of a tree unite unhurt, and also finite destitute of clothing. None ol the passengers were seriously dam aged. Science has shattered one of our most familiar and pet illustrations. It seems that the alleged power of the kernels of wheat buried with the mum mies to sprout i unalloyed moonshine. It is claimed, on the contrarv, that the wheat kernels lose their power of sprouting after three years. Christian I'u ion. 'The late A. T. Stewart," says lhniitr' Weekly, "found it to Ins ad vantage tj give to each head of a de partment of his busines a percentage of the profit made in that department, in addition to a guaranteed salary. One year the head of the lace depart ment earned ir-'7,0l)u and the head of another department tl'lUKK). the per centage being about one percent, of the prolit of the department." Lawn-planting is a new craze, and 1 known a Vcarpet bedding." The ornamentation U accomplished bv the use of a low.growinir class of plants, which, when planted, grow no higher than the lawn, Hcsigns arc made in every conceivable pattern. There is great variety in shading, many possess ing u rich metallic luster, so that there Is no diilicully in forming beds rcscmlt ling eai'iet spread on the green lawn and having tints more beautiful than art can give. .V. I'. TiUmne. A Swede coolly rode oh with a horse belonging to a man named Mar tine, near the town of l.ajoya, N. M. Martinc. antl a friend named McCill followed and overtook the Swede, who refused to give up the horse. Mctiill drew a revolver, but the Swede snatched it and shot him through the neck. Martinez knocked the Swede from the horse with a club and he fell beside Miliill, who raised himself up, regained possession of the pistol, shot the Swede through the heart and fell back dead. Somebody will have to get out a dictionary of Initials before Jong if this thing is allowed to goon. We have long been familiar with Y. M. C. A., A. B. C. F. M.. M. S.P. C. A., I. O. O. I'.. . A. R., etc.', and we have tried hard to remember what A. O. II., C. Y. 15. V. I'.. C. L. S. C. and W. C. T. V. mean, but here conies the Young People- Society of Christian Endeavor and wants to be known a the Y. P. S. C. E., and goodnes know how many more are to follow, llrcthren, let us kick.- Springfield (.1ti-t.s.) I'tihn. A tarantula' nest I owned bv oitizeii of Rome, (in., who found it while traveling through Nevada. Its exterior is earth, und at the first glance it has the appearance on the outside of a potato, being about four inche long and an inch in diameter. Tiie taran tula, whjch I a specie of spider, makes this nest, by scooping a pit in some dry, uncultivated toil, ami spin ning a sort of web around the inside. This web is very closely spun and forms a coating perhaps an eighth if an inch in thickness. The entrance to the pit is protected by a round corner or door, which i fastened, to one side by a hinge or spider-web. The taran tula sit near the entrance to hi nest watching for prey, which he carries, when captured, into the pit to be de Toured. The Syracuse (Nr. Y.) Simulant object to the prevailing indiscriminate use of the word "alleged," which, it says, U wrongly used in nine cases out often. Alleged mean to assort with positiveness, but most people have formed the bad habit of emptying the word as if it meant that a charge had Wen made which had not been proved. Reporter speak of an alleged theft, and an alleged biggest siiuash, mean ing that the reader shall have muiii doubt on the subject. It would In better to "write Bupjxxsed for alleged ii most case where the latter word i preferred nowadays. It ii diilienlt t. say wbai an "alleged charge" de mean. wOBLU LJUMai Urtn. I Its Founilstloiis I.rIiI by Ancient VgyptUnt ' Wlio M rote fur III Future. Let u look llrt of all at the Etryp tians, who seem to 1111 to potest tlio conseiousn 's of tlio most 'lis ant. and alnn.it iinin insurable past Tli -y did not adorn their Unpin wit i ins rip lion for the'r own pleasure only. They hail a clear I. lea of tin pa t and of the future of tii't world in wli cii they lived; and sou they cherished tut re -oil in tior, of Ilia pa;t, fiey "islin I tlion solves to be rem tmb.Ted by u.ik.iown gcnernt;ons in tini' to come. The biographical inscriptions of Aalun s, a Captain of marines of tlio eighteenth dynasty, is addressed, Chanipollian say, "to the whole hum in race," (t'ct-a-en ten ret neb, loipior vob.s li'iiuin mm oain bus.) A monument in the Louvre (A. XI) says: "I spe.ik to y m who shall come' a million of years after my il.ath." These an tho inscriptions i f private persons. Kings, nat trally, are till more anxious that n- 4-rity and the world at large should he informed of their deed. Thus Sishn' 1., the coiiipier r of.Judah, prays in one of Ii inscription at Niisillis: "My gracious Lord, Anion, grant that my word may live for hundreds of thou sands of years." Tho great Harris Papyrus, which re cords the donation of Raui 'se HI. to th.i temples of Egypt, togo.her, with some important political events, was written to exhibit to "the gods, to men now living and to unborn generation liit'iiemct, th.i many good works and valorous deeds which ho did upo.i earth, as great King of Eypt." Whatever other motive, high or low, m iy have Inllueuccd the authors of these hierogly phic inscriptions, one of tin-in was cer tainly their love or fear of human'tv, heir dim convict'on that they b (longc.l to a raeo which would go on forever tilling tho earth, anil to which they were bound by some kind of moral respon sibility. They wrote for the world, and it is in that sense that I call their writings the lirst germ of a world literature. And a in Egypt, so it was in Babylon. Nineveh and Persia. When the dwellers on the Euphrates and Tigris had learned that nothing seemed toendure, that tire anil water would des troy wood and stone, even silver and gold, they took clay and baked it, and hid the cylinders, covered with cunei form writing, in tlio foundations of th -ir t Miiples, so that even after the d 'struetion of those t 'inples and palaces future generations might read the story of the oast. And there in their salo hiding places these cylinders have been found again nfte"r throothousand years, unharmed by water, unscathed by lire, and fiillillingthc very purpose for which they were intended, carrying tons the living mo-sag;) which the ancient ruler of Chahbea Wisho I that we, their dis tant dec. -n hints, should receive. Often theso iilscrintions end with impreca tions against tho-e who should dare to injure or cfl'ace them. At Khorsabad, at the very interior of the construction, was found a large stone chest, which inclosed several Inscribed plates in various materials ono tablet of gold, out! of silver, others of copper, le id and tin; a sixth toxt was engraved on alabaster, and the seventh document was written on tlio chest itself. They all commemorate the foundation of a city by a famous King, commonly called Sargon, and they end with an impreca tion: "Whoever alt ts the work of my hand, destroys my constructions, pulls down the wills which I have raised may Asshur, Kinib Raman and tint great gods who dwell there, pluck hi nam ' mid seed fi'.iiu I lit land and It him sit IioiiiiJ at the feet of hi fie." ALi.r Mul'c; in C''H'imi ovtry Ikricw. AGRICULTURE A FRAUD. OliM'i vullnllit of ii timid Man Wli-i Intviiitr 1 io,riitv Itirli Iij- I'liriulnu;. The bisest fraud on o.irth is ngri.'ul lure. The deadliest ignis fatuu that ever glittered t beguile an. I daz.le I ti betray is agriculture. I speak with feeling on this subject, for l'v been glittered and beguiled and dazzled and destroyed by this same arch deceiver. She has iiiadeiueatlioiisaiiilproiiii.se and br iken every one of them. She has promised me early potatoes and the rain has drowned them, laui potatoes and the drought ha with. -red them. She has promised cherries and the ctuvulio has stung then), and they con tain living things uncomely to tho ova and unsavory t the taste.' She ha promised strawberries and the young chickens have devoured them ami the eye cannot see them. No wonder" that Cain killed his brother. He was a tiller of tho ground. The wonder is that he didn't kill Ins father, and then weep because he hadii t a grandfather to kill. No doubt his Early Rose potatoes, for which he paid Ail tin S'ven dollars a barrel, had leit cut down by bugs from the h.-.idwai Vi of the Euphrates; his Pennsylvania wheat had been winter killed, and wasn't worth cutting; his Norway oat had gone to straw, and would not yield livo peek per acre, and his Black Spanish watermelons had baeu stolen by boy who had pulled up the vines, broken down the patent picket fenee, and written scurrilous doggerel all over his back gate. No wonder he felt ma I when he saw Abe! whistling along with his French merinos worth eight dollar a head an I wool going ui every day. No wonder he wanted to kill s-michod'y, and thought he would practice on Abel. The fact is agriculture would demor alize a saint. I was almost a saint when I went into it; I'm ademon now. I'm at war with every thing. 1 light in self out of bed at foiiro'cloek. when all my better nature tells nie to lie still till seven. I light myseif into tho garden to work like a brulo when rea son and instinct tell me to stay in the house and enjoy myself like a man. I ft:: lit the pigs, the chicken, the mole, the birds, the bugs, the worms every thing in which is the breath of life. I tight the d.K'ks. tlio burdocks, mulleins, the thistle, the grapes, the weed, the roots, the whole vegetable kingdom. I tight the heat, the frost, the rains, the bail -in short, I tight the universe, and get whipped 'in every battle. Vinst'iiitt i Timt. StCONd-HAND SHOES. A Curlnn Intluntrr Which Flourishes la Chicago and Other CI t lee. "You wanta buya?" The old Ital ian's faco expressed some surprise and Incredulity as ho rose from his cobbler's bench ami looked the newspaper man over from heal to foot through a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles. The scene was in a dirty basement on South Clark street, the entrance to which wa hung with an miliin t -number of boots and shoes, all mor.t or less patched, but in a high statj of polish, ami over which was a sign in scribed: "New & 2nd hand bots & Shooes." "Yes," answered the scribe, "if you have anything to tit mo." "O, plenta, plenta. You wanta low shoe? One dolla." A pair of shoes neatly covered with "in visible" patches were brought out for inspection, hut proved to be too small, and during th s 'arch for a pair that would tit the old Italian spoke freely of hi business. "The rag-picka bring in tie shoes. May bo 1 giva him tenna cent, may be a quart;!, and I lixahiin. Then a second hand i clot ha man hava some, but he wanta too much inon. You sen a shoe lika this picking up a dilapidated look ing specimen from beside the bench. You tliinka ho not wortha mucha. I fix him tin and brusha him and he is a vera good shoe, handa-sewed. see? He wear a vera long time." A door leading int.) a back room opened and out rushed a smell of gar lic and other unknown things that well nigh knocked the reporter down; but hi curios ty was arouse I by the entrance through tho door of a tiny Italian girl. It would bo hard to judge her agj. Her size and undeveloped liguro would proclaim her to be about nine or ton year old, but the littlj sharp, pinched faco and black eyes would seem to bo those of a woman. She was wiping her face with one corner of her ragged red-flannel petti coat a she entered and immediately seated herself on another bench and began to polish a newly mended pair of shoes. That was evidently her part of the business and she was an adept at it and brought a shino that would be tho envy of any bootblack around town. "W'h) are your customers?" askod the r 'porter. "O. a grcata mana people. Evera bo ly that live around u ire. Too muclia? Hera pair n.ce shoes, choap. Seventa-live c.int." The old man made frantic efforts to effect a sale, but the reportor was a hard customer to in t ami finally managed to escape without buying, but not without arous ing the suspicions of tho old man, for as he looked back from a distance of half a block he saw a dozen Italians of nil ages standing at the entrance of tho shoe-shop, holding an animated (lis fttssion of whi.'h ho was evidently the object. The second-hand shoe business is quite an industry in this city. Along all the princ pal thoroughfares in tlio poorer quarters may be seen the signs of the dealers. The prices rang.i from lilty cents to two dollars a pair, and the second-hand shoes seem to be in great demand, as, with the exception of the ol I Italian, every dealer visited was engaged in waiting on some cus tomer. Cltintfjo A'e''s. ANTIQUITY OF MASSAGE. A Treatment Which V Known In China . Five TlioiiKK'iil Yi-nr Aif.i. , At the recent festive gatnerlng of the club called "Old Volumes,'- one of the members gave a curious account of massage as a mode of trcatm -nt. It is ccrta nly very popular at the present momt!iK anil people want to hear soni thii g clear ami d -Unite uhmit it. The pcaticinan assured his listeners that there was reason to think that massage hail been known to the Chinese fro n time immemorial ami it was st.itcd that the process w as fully described i;i a MS. called "Kong Foil, ,! the date of which w as ;l!00 ii. c. The word itself was de rived, according to some authorities, from the (JreeK "mussein," to rub: while others referred it to tho Arabic word "mass," to press softly. In a primitive form it was known' both to the Creeks ami the Romans, who re sorted to it after the bath -a custom which prevails among the Orientals to the present day. After tho struggle of the circus it wa employed to dissipate the resulting contusion's and extrava sations and to restore pliability to the bru:sed and stiffened joints. Among the Sandwich Islanders it was frequent ly practice 1 under the name of "lomi loini," and tho process was fully de scribed in the works of Emerson" antl Nordhoff. This, however, was a crude and primitive form, having very little in common with theelaboiato scientific system now resorted to in this country. There was reason to think that tlie true massage was ese-l in France in th early u i of this cent uv an opinion w'i'c i was to so no e:.nt co i fir ii- I l y ihe fact that all tin t r is employed to designate the various branches of the art were French in origin. An impetus was given to the Study of the subject by the publication in lt'iHS of an essay in Dutch by Metz ger of Amsterdam. It was, however, owing to the researches of Prof. Von Mosengeit, of U.mn, that it had been placed on a linn, aeientilie basis. The i.t-rature of massage was now very extensive, and during the last ten years over a hundred works bad appeared on the subject. Court Journal. Tlio story is related by Ihe Chris tian Aitroc.ile ot a minister who recently purchased a piece of property and was suhsciiticntlv sued by the agent whom lie had employed to purchase it When the case came to trial the minister tes tified that he asked the agent what he would charge for hi service, and he replied: Nothing. All I ask is that you prav for me."" The minister swore that from that time till the trial he had daily prated for tho agent. The court decided that this was an equivalent. In point of fact, if the agent said he would make no chargo he had no right to do sosubsetjucntiy. The plenisphont, an instrument that unites the tones of the violin, viola, 'cello and double bass, is a recent invention of a Buffalo musician. liuf fn'o Eiunsi. MICROSCOPE FRAUDS. A tute Trl'clc ly Which F.ven Intellli YII Are TnKcn In. Dr. James, president of the St. Louis Sooiety of Microscopies, thus explains I trick adopted by the venders of cheap microscope. They use a small particle of sour paste, prctonding it Is a drop of walor and tho obccU shown are snguiliilic, or pas:e eels. The follow ing is tlio method of working the trick: 'J In vender has standing before him on ths stand with his instruments a glass of clear water, usually contain nr a bit of ice. On a little bench uin'er tho table, and cone, aled from public vL-w, there is a small box of sour paste, plentifully supplied with anguiluhc. When a customer steps up, the chances are a hundred to one, a every niicroscop st knows, that It's first ques tion will bo: "Does th s here show the animalcules in water?" Tho ready an swer is: Show 'em? Certainly! Fact is, I don't dare to look at the water. I keep molted ico-water for my use. That generally a n't got many." "Has that water got any in it?" con tinues tho queerist. "Wo can B'e," gays the vender, and he p'eks up a clean too h-pick, d ps it into "the glass, and prepares to put a drop on the front lens. His hand, howi.ver, is shaky, anil tho toothpick drops, falling generally on the little shelf which projects slightly from under tho table. Ho picks it up aga'n, and under pretence of wiping it sticks it into tho paste; g'ts a very minute particle to adhere, again touches it to tho water, and smears tiie front of the field or objective I ns. The victim then looks, and is amazed nd delighted, ami straightway invests in a 'scope, paying from ono to two dol lars for what costs the vender less than fifteen cents ($1.75 per dozen). This ingenious piece of rr.siality was tho invention of a man who formerly mado Irs headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa , and who for years has derived a large revenue from this and similar "fakes" got up for tho uso of street venders, who either pay him a royally on their uso or buy outright the privi lege of using them. I was told by three clil.erent individuals that they pa d this man fifty dollars each for the secret of ill's "fako," but that, not being ab!o always to find pusio which containo I ie's, they were also compelled to pur ?ha e from him at a largo price some "tart'iig" or cultivating tluid. All sour paste t!ocs not contain the anguilulie; vinegar eels tro soino imes used, but only when the cultivated, paste eels can not be got, as they are too large one of lliom frepu-iitly stretching cntiro'y vross the licll of vision. Tho o Is raised in paste without the uso of this fertilizing Hunt are much larger than those obtained by its aid. The number of educated peoplo who are t aught by th's trick is really aston ish ng to ono who habitually uses the m'croscope. A street vender here tells mo that ho has repeatedly sold 'scones to physic'ans whom ho had fooletl into believing that tho instruments possessed amplifying power sufficient to enable them to d stinguish blood and pus cor puscles, and even bacteria. Scieiilijie American. STYLISH SHOES. New Shapes mid DeHigiiii for Mid-Summer hiiiI Knrlv Knit Wer. There is more play of fancy in the new shoes than wo have had for some time, though fashion has been tending in that direction. There is considerable variety ofcoloring and materia', more Ihan fashion has bo n accustomed to for perhaps scventy-tive years. I.aiJ es save returned to the pretty and poet c modi's of ihe'r great-grandmothers and have flowered sat n ami other slippers to match their ball tire sos, a pair w th i-voi-y sown. The Oxford t'e, of coffee colored goat skin, with common-sense heel, lilack Oxford ties are popular for the street this season, with black silk or lisle thread stockings. A foot looks very neat encased in an Oxford tie with a neat Low of ribbon t'e, one must say. The li gh boot is, however, more oi ten seen upon the street. It is of the shape cailed half common-sense. It has the broad, flat heel, but rather a rounded to.', with a pretty tip stitched over it. Til's boot is not so c mifort.ible or healthful as the full common sense shape, but half sense is as much as one can expect of fashion, and, indeed, it does well if it even comes up to that. A novel and pretty tie is seen in the straw shoe. It is of black ami whiie straw braid, or of other mixed colors. Mary Anderson issa'd to have recently ordered a dozen pairs of these unique straw ties. They are a house shoe, and come in colors to match costumes. For children, even up to the ago of twelve years, tho pretty antl comforta ble flat, no-heeled, or spring-heeled Irgh shoe is still the only thing wo.n. It is particularly appro riato. Ladies -. Il we r the h.ng l oots, look'ng 1 ke a caw r hoi t, for horseback ruling. For walk.ng always select the common sense shape, and you will thereby show your own common sense. Another popular tie is called tin "plug Oxford." A "plug" Oxford is ono in which a pluj-shapcd piece is set in over the instep, thusdoing away with the seam over the foot between the vamps and quarters, which is often so troublesome to tender joints. The Lttle buckled foot-covering shows a popular style of dress slipper. The toe has several: slits across it, the narrow str'ps of kitl I etween being bound and einbro'tl red in jet. Over tho instep a Lttle siran bullous from side to s'dc, on which is a large bow of ribbon w th a siiuare jet buckle. This same shane is a!s made up in black F'nglish sealskin of soft fine grain, embroidered in silver, and in bronze kid emlroidcred in bronze. For the s aside and country, front laeed canvas Mines in all colors' anpear. Tiie ait water rots leather rapidly. A p pular country walk'ng bint .s also uia leTf ru-s.-t-t'o'orotl Kcalsk.n, fro.it-'a-f t I'.ronz ' Oxford ties and slippers gi with b.o:ie f.tock'ngs. (it'-viTo I- c 'nnl I.r.r'1 er Ut'ckw. -('in -mat; will bo ono hundre' ve.'.rs ! I ,n 1'R , and sbo wants b t!i 'a.' na! to.iveutvr.s t colelthtj het - , c::n -. GERMAN RAILROADS. Flv- Separate Operation Neoexary to Start an Ordinary I'aaaenger Train. I fear there would be a srrike on every road in America if the employes saw the working of railroads in tier many. It seems as if the end in view were te seo how many officials could bo usotl, instead of how few; intlecd I always feel as if the aim of German rule fa to find sinecures for all tho men. It has been a never-failing aniusoment to soo our train arrive and depart from a station. The first Impression ono has is what gorgeous uniforms! Chief in plumage and importance Is the station master. With his bright rod military cap, dark blue coat with brass buttons everywhere that a button can stick, velvet cuffs half up his arm, and panta loons to match coat, he carries the dignity of tho Government and does nothing but oversee. A train carrying ono hundred and fifiy passengers is a heavy one; there wilr be at least four conductors, all in green and gold mili tary uniform. Then there is the porter, almost us brilliant as the station master: he does no manual work except taking passengers' light traps and caring for them (for a feu.) Then on every train is a resplendent official, tho starter, distinguished by a brilliant red sachel carrying his tinio book; ho has his timo 3f arrival written in by every station-master and starts tho train. Then the ost-clliee official at every sta tion has his scarlet plumitL'ti und rarely less than three uniformed men to run tae little go-cart carrying the mail from his office to the train. With us, 3iio good-sized boy would do the work if all four. The chief does nothing but strike attitudes antl look as ronsc picntial as passible, alter the station master. Then there is a man specially jtnploycd to stick a little stamp on yourt cket, if on stop over at a station (anil woo to you if you omit this form ality). Put perhaps tho funniest sight uf all to one used to the baggage on a Long liranch or Saratoga train is to seo the handling of baggage; it looked ns if jix men licked stamps for every pack age; and with ton pieces, there wero red. blue antl white papers checked .tnd handed around as if it wore a State itl'air.1 Tlio truck was in itself a load; so there were four men to lift theso ten pieces on, on.i nt the handle antl in extra one to shove --ix full grown ((') struggling wi h this load to the baggage car! end even then a grey headed fellow I hail not seen beforo trotted nlongMio to seo if tho count was right. At every station is nls ) a telegraph operator, not one of whom have 1 seen take a m ss ige during the time 1 have been-in Oermany. I inagine this troup of ouT'ials runnin g 3r standing about every train! You would thin'-;, when it was time to start, me man could do it: but no. there are livo separate operations. First, the starter blows or whistles as a signal :o the station-master: the latter makes t dignified wave of the hand to an jllicial 1 have not noted before, the hell-tapper; the tapper gives thro-.! tips, never more or loss or off goes iiis oilieiul lead: then the start T blows a whis'le for the eiiL'in 'er, who blows ' whistle, tnd we g in solemn deeorousnoss. Urcitltin Cor. Country (Je ttenian. ON A BEAR HUNT. !IoT tirlziillc Snize Kieh Other When Sll-ilf-k Itr a Mullet. Several days ago Hendriek, tho inn er, was camped on Rear river, in .'oloratlo. With hiin was a young tenderfoot jmt from the lvist. Tr ipping was pretty goo I and the two men let the meat supi.lv of the cam) run down ti.it 1 there was uothin-r left but. ;,(in trappers i hrase coined f rcity society) sow abiloiu 'ii." S i one even ng the hunter an I the t 'tidi-rfoot started out Laid r fresh meat. - They soon found it, for scarcely a mile fiom camp they rin on to a whole famt'y of 'jrilies, half a doen in all. As the be r fain ly sh wed a deeided inclination tor a closer acq iaiiitance, the iiitroihieti n at once took plau , the ritles of the J un'ers sening as masters of ceremonies. Tuo igh the men bred as fast as tin y could and , bear alter bear w. is knocked down, the brutes rose to th 'it feet again, and the bruin family still came on. The riilcs kept up their incessant crack, however, am! at a distance of twenty yards the old she-bear, the leader oi the family, fell lo rise no more. Forty shots had now been fired, and with only three cart ridges left between them the hunters were gbid indeed to see the remainder of thi! savage family party turn tail and disappear among thesurrountling rocks and hushes. On examination eight bullet holes were found in the old she-bear, live of the eight having lodged in vital parts. The next morning the hunters took the bloody trails leading in various direc tions, ami in an hour's time all the re maining bears were found dead, making six bears bagged in a bunch. During the tight tho wounded brutes indulged frequently in their singular custom, called in hunter ami trapper parlance "shaking up." Whenever a bear was struck by a bullet it would at once seize one of its companions and a rough and tumble tight would ensue. The old she-bear on several different occasions grabbed her cubs and tossed them high in the air, catching them as they fell, and unmercifully "chaw ing " them. It was to this singular custom that tho Inmtor probably owed their lives, as it delayed the progress of the fcroeit us family until the tleaillv rilles were able to check it entirely. - C-ey. tnne Lender. Peter Roux, of Mono Lake ins ntmiiv to noiiie, i for a His six-yeiir-old dan -liter wanti home and started on foot to have gone south, but Wt among the mountains ant When the moon went ibm-n under a sage bush and slept at iiaytignt ami went on. time R . li,. had off. red dollars for her rescue, an paitv w th In bans stun fo.md her next day try hun-rry. but mi Tsi.iav w.i:k tl t Aelitv six miles,' wasn't afraid." t'n --A wart on tin tios,. , i y t V - f C::!!c i -n -us. ilme u-in to stiii-;.'. scunni . .. ""nUKCi, Vanderbilt l'nii.. . ?Hle.T-nn. . from Mrs. K nsnr V? 1 i. J0,00l)for its Ribllcal !nf'J?PV -Kev. Dr. J08S11 ports tlnitantim.-rousboa"6 metians in a Syrian city 1, 'H Pible, avo rejected tbTJ profess belief in Christ KorA Ilea 1 1 the corn'reine tho first line of every,vZ, bo sung. There l-Vo severe as this in nrnkin Z, has the right placeA'?? f"- -Church revenues 11J1V1 very greatly in Knghm,,, WJ London reports. A tleerlT 150.000 is reported in ,!V' DET 'T.mc . Xl the i 1.0()0 in another. withitt h sp"Cifiod. lui !)!; --Four Chinamen wnr i. , tizodby the pastor of tlieFir .Vr terian Church, Kansas Citv p br' hives T. Schley Schaff. They 8ou', ' Al'l of their own accord ami i -, ytn good understanding of t,e ri M Wt the doctrines of Christianity. 'pVc-t In his address to the er.i..,, tuck: the Eastern female high ehoo t 'jf ml timnre M.lvor II.i .."id Tl, that you may make tlio n X' t) proach to a happy lit,) by ijt- Inayi corning 10 iiieso rules- 1,,,..! thing to love, something to L hat ! something to believe." 'til ,.r With a taxable valuation oft 000,000 Arkansas cxpemleil J $7-.'!),lG8 for the salaries oft,, ami other current expenses of it public schools, built more than , new school houses at a cost d $3,000 to $'.'0,000 each, and th $th".),817 loft in the sell 10I fnn Tho London Raggjd Sclm-iir Mt t ill I svhi If CI Tin I' is doing a gnat worn among thtj' children of London. Last"!' port shows that in tho 215 s . afternoon and evening sehooli ncctod with t,ho union, there averagj attendance of 4,301; j, 173 day and week night mhoo. average of 3,538. Archdeacon Farrar maif dress beforo a Presbyterian bo I London not long ago, in which h. "I am a sincere anil convinced E: palian. You are sincere andcoai; Presbyterians. For my part, 14 believe that citner tlio hpiscopaLaj tho Presbyterian organization it (, tial to a church." The President of the provi. West Prussia has issued nnonte: posing a line on parents and jnti. of school children for each day of hitter's unjustifiable absence t school. If th'i tine of ten .fennir one mark is not paid, imprisonnu from six hours to three days is tho ishment. Employers of cliildrenij school ago during the hours of ti.. are subject to heavier penalties, From mountain to seatoard.fr.. the Savannah to the ChattnU! (Jeorgia is overrun with a nuiliiui raw young men and immature rw. women who are blindly laboriif nit part knowledge to which Aii strangers. Ihe average tw-lwH sesses a smattering of ".spellin'.rtvt: ritiu , rithmetie and jngrnphi ' the rest ho is the humbug of hwbzia To him thoroughness is an imli'oi word, In tho fanguagij of snu-t r - p-.. lucation ol S'.f. ity: 'Uos' t (.!( . v," but tiu-y b'utsV, , oi tut; i)o;ipi oi r.tiiieauun ui s. west (ieoria county: is pow'ful on show, thrashin' Parnin' into their who!: Let him who doubts the aeiw tli ! estimate here plaoed upon Mint age teacher investigate for liins'i Ai Inula Constitution. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. - Ike, Id -Lntlv "My dear doctor, win fell, you candid op ni in of the stat-ol'- res ool healthr" Doctor-"! will aw husband to buy you a new tires: u will culm your nerves.'1 .V. Y. U" 'My dear Adolf, I was yesti-r: introduced to a gentleman who is to res. hiiu very imiere! ' "I can hardly b; P. that! -Ho is so much like you I ho even asked mo to lend him t florins.1' 1 Disappoints the audience: "U-l discharge that man," said the in. ' manager ono day; he is ronsbr. disappointing the audience." "i1 1 tn none.ir?" "N'nt at all. Wolll'lt- Y I... ir 'Html .S'l'llu:11'- iio tlio. iio jjt:ui iw--.-. A writer has just published entitled "The Habits of the W We have not rem! if. but trust hem' len- tions thnt, verv common habit of " 'INC cupying two s'eats in a railroad ctr j Si' II Aei Haven Aces. "Papa, why do women use J: i making bread?" "To make rrp th my son." "But why do they wm ?i -'So that It i v lni be high bread, my son." -Bosto to Hi, ret 9eThe Illinois editors consider subiect of "Truth in Journals" , 1: their recent meeting, vie it" too the secretary of the association Ae, copies of the Herald, so tuaum-r , could see what the genuine aria..'" like. Norrintown Ilcrahl. -At the club: Breakfast tf "Waitaw." "Yessir. "liive roe.J some oatmeal, a tomataw S:1'J'1 , ? and a pint of St" Julien." "''' And a nice little steak or chop. i.) 'l,t Viwoit! DoVOU" lai inn C ue. Wo t I am a twuck dwlvar?"-' I ... ... wft ! V ite--"V loior, my near, i----mas voti were so kind as to iiiiikt present of Menzel's History ot ' manv that you wanted to n. badfv. I have ever since been my brain to find out what I vouforvour birthday. What': cit f,-k a now rxirrtot fil Ll'nr. U'nmfr. H,.rtin "It"' J . p;. . , i .1 sn t wrong, ma, totetiaiaiseiiou -- Mater "Of course it is.dear. ' 11 3 WUTIV'Hl V.I USIV i IIIWU - - y.- ...:..l. . I. i. . llttla hnvtott"" M...Vhv, yes." B.-"c"; i, ,vhat niv teaehisr made nie no i M. "Cracious mo! made you"" Bertie:-"' B. "Yes, mamma mo promise to be always a g shem1 cod W future. li'tmis. . ! -A little girl, who is just at tw ...i i... .Si.. .no .ire be.!?" to bo looked after, called out at su t ono night recently: "t'ivo f, VT1 ..t- i' ..it., Ax mil ak? ..V mamma, correctively. "'''e:'?e,r' sonn cake," returned the in ' . and ad.letl, unabashed: ",-lt zet; I was saving it up. 0-'J r tur. i