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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1887)
AN OCCULT SCIENCE. llrniarkll Ktperlenre of Mn Who llettil III 'l Irmn Ilia nanus. For many yearn punt I have been a firm believer in the truth of palmistry but I recently matin Kn experiment which Ii:ih shaken my filliu tin-art of hand-rending, in a measure. For thi) benefit of tlm public, I have kind Jy consented to relate my experience so that the mailer may be satisfactorily cxiilairnl, if Hiit-li a thing he possible, There arc a few slight contradictions in the result my experiment brought out, which 1 am somehow tumble to n coiieile. I will therefore give my render an opportunity to new what they fun (Id to restore the loot liar 111 111 v. A few day ago. after attending a lecture ilium hawl-rcnding, ' ' A. Stork -Ed ward, the famous British tmuint, at Pickering H.ili, I bought u book containing a key to all the linen of the hand, di'lining them and dcsorili- in'' their significance, for weal or fur woe. I then made an exact chart of the lin of in v hand, blowing the pre cin' I'Hiulion of each lump on my palm, and nil the other distiiiliiiishod cliaiae- lori'lic of its surface. Then I consult, ed Hut hook with the following o.xtraor dinar? result: I inn 1 1 1 ' I ' v u and sensitive. a .. f . n - , M.imftnl nd my feelings "" never he hurt. I shall live to lie nincty-scven years of ago, six months and live days. I shall din heforu I uni forty from cholera infantum. I shall marry a rich woman vyhon I Bin twenty-one. I shall he the mother of twins. My husband will have red hair and a wooden arm. lie will not lie rich, hut my eldest daughter will marry a rich Julian iiohleman. I hIihII never he a parent., hut my wife will he a widow with eight fatherless children. I Khali never marry, hut my second cousin .James will go out Went anil he a Mormon. I have no second cousin James, but if I persevere in living, I may have one liefore I die. I am licst lilted for the ministry or for bank-burgling, and will make a grout mit-ccss at either. I urn very talkative, but an I never Hay any thing of importance, I need irfii worry about this symptom. I shrill never he President of the United Stales, hut. the Czar has it ill hi t mind to make me Prince of Bulgaria. 1 had heller not accept the position, though, because the Ir'ulelil on the Mount, of Jupiter warns me that I would sillier from cold feet, if 1 ever became Prince of Bulgaria. I Nhall ill wnV't lie rich. My will will he contented by a lawyer with one glnss-ejo. and a willow com plexion. I need not worry about that, though, for he will not win the case. I Khali die in u poor-house mid in testate. I shall he drowned in the Arctic Ocean while I am traveling there to nee my daughter, who has eloped with ae Eskimo sonl-hunlcr. Thin lit nil. Poyoii lilnmc me, gentle reader, for lieing suspicious? Can jou reconcile the contradiction? If von can, you have my best wishes. lii njuiitin .VnWAnii in I'wk. AN INrANT IDEA. llHIr I'thi l'K I'.i-l.ililf lli'HiM'Ipllon um lR ill. i 4 1 .tl Siit-lt-ly l.tiily, "M inima, I t Sink I will lie fashiona ble." ipiothed die youngest daughter of H -oi id y wont in. In what w.,v. Ethel:'" "(Hi, in III,- li-u il way." "I.i you k lew wiiat constitutes a fashionable life?" "till, yes, iii. noma. I shall just go to a I"! of luncheons and receptions in the daytime and eat. a whole lot uf shift thai does not agree willi me. Then in the evening I shall dress as immodestly as iii-,silii and go to a ball and Imp around a mum until I get all tired out. Then I'll c.it a h'l more stulVlll.ll dors Hot agree with me and hop around some more. About two o'clock, whi n I'm very warm, I'll throw a litlle wrap out my shoulders and come home. In the morning I'll have, breakfast served in li.nl, and spend the day on the snf.i telling my friends w hat a lovely tim I had, ami wondering what I hive done thai should give me a headache and a bad col. I. After a year or two I will get pneumonia or consumption, mi. I wonder how got it. Oli, 1 know ho-v to be fashionable." And then the mother went otV mid thought very hard. -(Vii'e.i.ii H,im!Ur. I he Chestnut Didn't Work, A young man with an expression of oolitidenee on his face entered a Michi gan avenue clolhing-sioiv yesterday and H.ske.l: "I am straight business. 1 want a mill of clothes. Theiv are seven of u. who will buy our clo'.hes it t the satin place. I have been vent on ahead to get prnvs. "Humph!" "If I bring the other fix here to buy what will jou make this $;M suit for?" The clothier went over and sat down by I he Kioto with a disgusted look on Jus fa e. "You didn't answer mv question.'' "My frelwtt, pleasit pi udt. Yon lliitke me werrv tills!" "W!int' the matter with von? lVm'l jou waul me to bring the party here?" No, my fivndi, 1 don't All my a'c today goes to nn orphan asylum, and 1 like to keep 'cm dow n to a sum mer ooal ami a pair of i-soml-hau.l pants! Hetter Irv dor man two door Uluw."-ruaiVc4 iVuw. PERSIAN JUSTICE. How tlm NhnhM Hoo l iinrlelrrt lh Mar drrrr of a KnglUlonaii. On the side of tlm high mad to Shlraz, thirty miles Ifofore the city is rcaiied, going north, ftaiidn a bare pole. Thh marks the place where the Iwidy of Ser geant (lollins was found after his mur der. Sergeant Collins was an inspector of the telegraph line, a man of great per sonal bravery. Accompanied by his wife, two servants and two muleteers, he started on his inspection duty. Col litis was hardly convalescent from a fe ver attack when Iih started, mid he had no choice in traveling hut to lie. on a inallress Hull'' oil a loaded mule. At early ilawu one day a muleteer suddciilv cried: Salnii, limy nae blocked the road:" and, looking ahead, thp son'cant saw Home men in front who were coloring him with their guns, At the same moment these men or dered him to dismount. Now, the sit "cant was the best hhol in I'crsia. "lit oil-!" he (.limited, firing his revolver twice. The robbers rushed in, tiring as they came, and Collins was hit in two places, death being instantaneous. Aflcr heal in:: the lifeless body with itx.li- ii-,.ti.ln:ii!cil sticks, the robbers blindfolded and carried off the wife and two servants, detaining llieni in a dell until after midnight. Knglish Minister lit Teheren the Per sian authorities arrested the three prin cipal robbers. Another of them com- nulled Macule toavoitl capture; aiioluer had died from a gunshot wound, a- arontly inlllcted bv Collins. I!ut the. Persian authorities, though they had got the criminals in jail, seemed very loth to bring them to ju-tiee. lint nt length Mira Hassan Ali Khan, C. S. I, our n gen l nt Shira, hiieceedcd in goading the I'rince (inventor, II. K. H. Zil-es-Siiltan, into trying the prisoners. The proceedings were very curious. 1'hcrc wa.-'. no doubt of the guilt of the men, bill there were no w itnesses of the murder. Tim sergeant was dead; Ids wife and his two servants had been frightened out of their wits, and the muleteer declared that he could rciuclii. her nothing. The Zil-es-Sullan, finding l hut the Knglish Minister would not remain salislied, oruereil the robbers to lie brought before him. The Triliee lioveruor himself embodied the law. Half a iloeti courtiers leaned against the wall, theirurins respectfully crossed 1111011 their breasts. Seated on a silk niallress in the corner of the room, his tack supported by gold-embroidered ii-hions, the young Prince twiddled lis mustache, or played with the jewel d hilt of his saber, or toyed with the buckle of priceless brilliants which formed the central ornament of his plain outlier w aist bell. The three men were dressed ns peas ant usually are, in tall fell caps and long felt coats. When they were hustled into the hall of audience they were still heavily ironed, for these men are often desperate criminals, and would 't hes itate for a moment to murder their jail ers if they thought thev would thereby secure a chance of escape. On enter ing the royal presence they how almost o the ground. "Salaam! they shout in a kind of chorus; your villager or tradesman never sneaks -ho nlwnvs hunts. "How do you like prison?" says I In- rmiee, untitling to lliem with smile. In reply the bandits assort their innocence, culling at every sen tence upon Heaven mid the Prophet. "Are wo not harmless tradesmen, we who live in your Ibnal Highness' shallow? May we be nur sacrifice?" The I'rince slill smiles blandly. "Ah, im mentis, savs tie, "i, loo, nni a Mussulman. We are all Mussulmans icro; ami ami, in fact - an unbeliever more or less itoosii t iniich mailer, ion have truly dotio a ''.mil deed. 1 shall not re. ill v punish you, but reward you, That you killed the V'orinjrhi there is, of course, no doubt; ami so I inut pun- h yon nominally. What 1 propose to tin is to cut oil a loiut of one lui'er of each of you. liul w hal is that ? Noth ing. Your tliesM's of honor arc ready. You will put lliein on ami will be in- tmilly liberated. And now, my chil Irell." says the smiling l't'iui'e, "tell mo all about il. Ilow did you manage, it, oh?" The astonished prisoners recoiled this speech with a burst of joy. All hoiiting at onee they hastened to give the Prince full particulars. " The Ku- ropeau tired twice from one pistol may wo bo your saoriliee! - ami then we all tired together, rudiiug in on him. He yy.is but a Kuitipeau - may your shadow never bo loss! We trust in the clenit'iiiv of your Koy.il High ness! May we be your nacrilico!" The smile faded from the face of the young I'riiice-liovornor, his likeness to the Shah, his father, becoming very apparent as his countoHaiit e darkened into ferocity . lie had got at the truth, and without more a.lo nodded with ap propriate significance to his chief of police, the Karr.ishb.ishi, a burly, black-hoai-dod man who stood behind the criminals. The prisoners were re moved: they were hurried into the pulv lie square, in w hich the palace stands, and their throats wore cut. The bodies lay exposed till sunset, a terror to evil doers, A red granite tablet in one of the t- 'isti.iu i hurehes at Julia, subscrilu'd for by the engineer otlieors and non commissioned ntlicers in Persia, com memorates the death of Collins," W, Jtimrj' (f'ii.vfc. Tlii editor of the Jewish Mi .wn jrr, in an article entitled "The Modest Life," expressed (he wish that the American Jew should load in a crusade against loud, noisv tendencies, a.iinst more pomp and glitter, and take his stand for a tpiiot, modest, unassuming existence .it whatever cost. THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD." Dispa'choii from Havana to the New Orleans Timm-Democrat tato that Ihtimigar crop of Uuhs i expected to amount to ''J ','HM toon, ami exceed th largest croji hitherto raised on the island. This year' crop of broom com i estimated at L'i.DOO tons, which Is 4,1C tons greater than last year. With 1,'"C tons left over from last year's crop, the available simply is 2:).MH) tons, and we shall tat alilo to Keep ma dousu uieau at u moderate expense. During tho last few years somo at tempts have been made to cultivate cot ton in Mexico, espeuully near Montu rev. The experiments appear to have been fairly wuwssful, and a stock company has now' been organized in Monterey for the purpose, of going into the cultivation of cotton on a largo scale. Tim incorporator expect to make a fortune in a few years. It lisin-making is becoming an im portant industry in Southern Califor nia. As an instance one linn engaged in that business in Los Angeles County Ins already this fall shipp-d Kast twenty-oiin carloads, or 21.001 boxes of raisins. It is expect 'd that tlm linn will cure and shin fully 100.000 boxes of tiin delicious fruit before the season closes. A method by which the Immenso dop isits of iron sand which abound on the coast of New Zealand cail bti suc cessfully utilized has lately been dis- ovorotl nt AllCklallU. 1UI! ie.liiu.jui the new price consis'.s in unit.ng a ipiantity of scoria with the sand when put in the blast. This ha the ell'ect of ,,-.,u,.,,ti,ir tli.i Iron from oxitliaii"'. ail obstacle that has heretofore never been successfully overcome in snwlting-irou sand. ( :hill has conn nto the business of the manufacture of woolen cloth ex- itoisici-lv. with the view of drivinz im ported cloth out of the market. Large ipiantlties of wool tiro Uulllg oougiii in Peru and iiolivia, ami new factories an being erected. I ho liovornuient has given an order for 1-S.O woolen i,i!iml.,i. nn,l yi. o;):) vards of woolen cloth to be used in Hiipidying tho pulico and ih i arm v. Mr. l)od 'e. statistician to the Do- tuiriow.nt of ..Wieuliimi. iii the Octo ber report on the condition of crops, slates that the area of Indian corn in tlm I'niieil states has increased tvv.aitv per cent, within the past six years, vyitll very liltltt stimulus iroin exportation, which has been but throe percent, of tho quantity produced. Corn occupies m ore than half the area in cereals, and nroiltio -s it,. Ml.. f value I hall anV oilier crop, except grasses for hay ami past ure. Wil-mnqMH .-iw. Tlm estimate as made bv the prin cipal dinners of vegetables of the t - imito pack of eonv .ler-ey snows inai it veil I eveee.l the hcaW liaek of ..... , The number of cases packed is t.l) i.i'O I; ea 'h case contains two iiozen cans: mis makes the pack of last) represented by i l nn oil i eaus. N'evv .lorsev oaek has giMierally been e inal to tlm coui'.iine.l pack of Maryland. Virginia ami rcnu svlvaniii. but tills year it will be several thousand cases short, owing to the fa that the two former Males nave m- Teased their facilities. 1 oimitocs wore unusually plentiful this yoar.--.V. T. Herald. - PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Tli. i tin V.il.i vvorkincnien hava OS- tablishotl a lab. if lyueuui and expect to make it a feature of tho vily.HuJIMo t.'fpre.-s. Irate person ".see liare, (lut you ill me an Ml. I e .deflate' in vour p.ioer esterday;1" K lit tr ' No, 1 callell mi '.'in old reprobate.' " Irata per- !((), dial s very iliilereni. m. The name of a pueui just rueeivetl Is "Kvermoie 1 1 The i I'm Mute." If the poet vv II make an a li lavit and at- ach it t ) the p tmu we will tnon eon dor the am milt it will bj worth to ns. )Uvr Slii eoini i. It is sal I that William l. IIow.vlls colic, '!s miterial for his novels by hopping w th his wife. Few authors iee.iro sullieieut in inov tetiirns from their novels to adopt sicl) an expensive mode of eollecli.ig in it ri d. Due of tlm h irdes: taiii.'s for a man to tin lei'siand is why ihos.v wonieii ho own seal skin sa ks would not tie ithoiit them ftr ,'ii" worl I, ami why those wli i ilon t wiiuh.n l wear one of the horrid things for anything. (Vu'eii o Tnlniiii: "Yes. Mr. Ollb.iy," she simpered, "I have seen tweiit' .-seven springs. Would you think it?" "Well, yes. ma'am, I don't know but what 1 would." Mr. Ol.lboysiid, "an I I guos-t soiiuv of theni springs must have been very backward." llurin-r'i .Virnr. Mis. (ireoii -"Timothy, what h ive you done Willi the loiter that was lying 'on tho bureau?" Ti nothy - "1 put il into the lo ter-hox, ma in. .Mrs. "O, provoking! Didit t you see I here ivia no a..:-,- , on the olivolooe ' Ttiii dhy "Yes, nia'm; but I thought ver d'dn t want noboily to know w ho you was vvr.liil to. I.th'. Mis-, Klh. 1 "Yes. Indeed, we ''iris are fullv alive to tin justice of the pop ular criticis n on chattering woman. and that is Hie reason wo orga'ti.cd out Thou'thU'liib." Mr. Wank -" Thought Club?" "Yes; audit's doing us such a world of good." "I don't doubi it." "No, indeed. Why, at tae List meet ing wo talked for five whole hours on the advantages of silent meditation." .-iiV,'on Ki Vi 'iu. "Mary, suppose you sing some thing" "), it's so la'e, Chariie: I'm afraid it will wake every one." " That's too bad." exclaimed Charlie, w ill every appearand! of distress. "Itnl why'ilo you want me to sing, dear?" she ten !erlv in pi'i-t'tl. "Why. you s o,'' he replied, "a follow 1 owe live (Lilian to has Ih'.'H wailing outside nil tin cvoning for nie, an I 1 thought may be if you'd sing a lin e he'd go away." I'it,''trii .''ifcA. , Mrs. Noorieh "l'eiijsmin, wish you would in pi re into the antecedent! of young Do Twirligor, who comes her so often to see Jane." Mr. Noorielr "What's tho matter with him? U s villi to bo a gentleman." "So he is, 1 Itopj iinin; but what of tvs family !' ; Jknow Irs father was in the LegisLuuro. ' .! tli ,f I. ll I .1.. I .,., " vV..l! ' ;ioar wo might overlook thai if th young man is nouesi Ditusuii. -i ii.o ,i:. a I a. 7. HUNTING SEALS. Trlrk. nd I).llui. l'rclll T El-prrK-nrrd fccqulinsu Hunters. (seal hunting on tho lee Is another standing oourccof umuscineiit. During the entire winU-r these animals keep holes open through the shore ice, but on account of tho depth of tho snow they arcn.it seen until tlm mild weather exposes their hiding places. Tho Ks quiniau. however, has a way of finding them out before this. Ho harnesses a doc that has been trained for the work nd leads him out to tho snow-covered Held, whore the two walk backward and forward, making a zigzag course over the ice. l'robiibly before long the dog catches 'the scent, nnd then takt his master straight to the seal's house. L'nilcr tho hard, thick crust of the snow there is unite a large room, which at the time of the discovery may or may pot he occupied; but if occupied, will very soon be vacant on the arrival of the hunters. In either case, tho Es quimau ascertains tlm exact position of the hole, and then, placing a little pin nacle of snow over it awaits the arrival of his victim. Tho native becomes awaro of the soul's return by hearing a peculiar blowing noise, and as soon as this commences he thrusts his spear down vertically through the snow into tho hole and secures bis prey. Some times when tho Miow is very tleep the . 1 I - I A!.. I .1... (...!.. dogs are not ame io nun me nui.n, and then it is that the poor Esquimau has his hard times. In the spring, snow disappearing fiom the ice, the souls are exposed to view. 'Then the hunter takes another way of getting nt them. First of all ho notices the direction of the wind, and then keeping his enemy in it walks to within four or live hundred yards of him. From there ho begins to crouch down and to advance onTv when the seu'i is not looking. The wary animal is in tho habit of throwing up his head quickly every few seconds iind looking about, and so when w ithin about two hundred yards tho native lies down Hat upon the ice. It is only now that real sport com mences. Seal takes Ksiiuiiiititi, who is nhle to talk seal perfectly, to bo ono of his brothers, and indeed there is a great deal of rcscin bianco between the t-pecies, for tho genus homo is dressed in sealskin nnd, living largely upon its llesh, is similarly odorous. The two Tie on the ice for perhaps half an hour, keeping up a sort of broken conversa tion, part of which is conducted in the ordinary way nnd part by means of peculiar gestures, until tho Esquimau has crept to within about thirty yards of his outwitted companion. The ani mal's eye, then being clearly visible, is no sooner turned from the hunter than ho presents his rille and tiros. The seal, if shot thro.igh the head, is killed instantly: but if hit in any other place detents ' Ids enemy by disappearing through the ice - Toronto Mail. THE GREAT WALL. Simi'tlili About ( IiIiiii'k. Most !lnrnlMi (tioft tif Historic Intrrest. Of course we hail to go to the great wall of China. This country abounds in great walls. Her mural defenses were most extensive walled country, walled cities, walled villages, walled palaces nnd temples wall after wall ninl wall within wall. Hut the great est of all is the great wall of China, which crests the mountain range and crosses the gorge from here some forty miles nwny. squeezing through the last deep gorge and a deep rift in the solid rock cut nut by ages of rolling wheels nnd tramping feet, we reach the grout, frowning, double bastioncd gate of stone and hnrd-biirnoil brick one archway tumbled in. 'This v::s the 'object of our mission, the great wall of ( lima, limit two niiiiiiroii ami thirteen years before our era; built of great slabs of well-hewn stone, laid in regular courses some twenty feet high niul then topped out w ith large, har.l Imriied bricks, tilled in with car.h nnd closely (lived on the top with more lark tawiiv tuich - the ramparts tiign ami thick ami castellated for the use of arms. Ki";lit and left the great Willi piling far up the mountain suL- -now straight, now curved, lo meet the momiiain ridge, tiirrcted ouch three hundred feet a frowning muss of ma sonry. No need to tell von of this wall; the books will tell you bow il was built to keep the w arlike 'Tartars out tvtcnty-live feet high by forty thick, twelve hundred miics b ug, with room on top for six horses to be driven abreast. Nor need 1 tell you that for fourteen hundred years it kept those hordes at bay, nor that, in the main, the material used upon it is just as good uml I. rm and strong as when put in place. Twelve hundred miles of litis gigantic work built on the rugged, craggy mountain tops, vaulting over gorges, spanning wide .streams, netting the river nrehvvaxs with huge hard bars of copper, with double gates, w ith swinging doors and bars set thick w i t li iron ai timr - a wonder in the world before which the old time classic seven wonders, ail gone now save the groat pyramid, were toys. 'The great pyra mid has eighty-live million cubic feet, the great wall 'ti.ii.'.O.iHHI.lHK) cubic ft el. An engineer in Seward's puny here some years ngo gave it as his opinion that tiio cost of this w all, ligiiring labor at the same rate, would more than equal that of all the ono hundred thousand miles of railroad in the I'nitcd Mates. The matt T'al it contains would build a wall six feet high and two feet thick right straight around the globe. Yet this was done in only twenty years without a trace of debtor bond" It is the greatest individual labor the worlu has ever know n. Cc. Miliinj U'oilJ. Couldn't Fool Him. An Onion Creek darky visited tho establishment of an Austin jeweler. "I wish, boss, xou would regulate dis ho.ih peiijuluni." "How can I regulate the pendulum without the rest of the clock?" "l'ars nuliiii do matter w id do rest c-b do inar.ls oh do clock, so I joss lull Vm at home. Joss jou tix up de pon juiuni. F.f do peiijuluni goes all right tie rest oh do ch.ok goes all right, too. I know dat much, eli-n ef I ain't had no book iaruin'." 7Vjr.u Sijlimjt. WORK FOR WOMEN. A 'rol.lmnT..wrl Who. Solution lloui. Wlvr. Co LarKuly Contrllmle. The perennial discussion of the qncs tion how women dependent upon their own exertions can best gain a liveli hood is being argued with more ani nmtion than usual. Essays are being written on the subject, unnumbered sermons preached and interviews had with philanthropists nnd those inter ested in bettering tho condition of women. There aro two points, how ever, upon which all who discuss the question seem to agree. One of these is tho fact that the many avenues of employment opened to women in went years "have not solved tho problem. Telegraphy, type-writing ami clerking have been add'ed to sewing and factory mid domestic service, and yet there is a great army still unemployed. All the lighter a'nd more attractive em ployments are overcrowded and this fact acts as a con.,iainij ue-n.-",., weight upon the wages paid to women an.f gives opportunity for those exac tions and extortions which the public are so often called upon to condemn and commiserate. The other point of agreement is that u larger diverson of women into do mestic service would go far towards solving the dilliculty. Nineteen men. or women, out of twenty when asked what unemployed women aro to do for a living will point to the good wages paid to household servants and will cite tho fact that trustworthy servants are always in demand. Many women w ill give these facts ns tho excuse for refusing to nitl in any movement for bettering the condition of working girls, declaring their inability to sym pathize with those who refuse honest well-paid work. As the fads can not bo disputed, there must be some reason lor them. Ami, perhaps, if women w ill study carefully tho manner in which they' treat their servants a little light will daw n upon them. Let them for a moment put themselves in the servant's place and be compelled to work nnd eat in tho kitchen and sleep in poorly ventilated rooms, ami they will under stand ono of tho chief reasons why girls will work ten hours in a factory or bend over a needle half ns much more time, earning barely enough to keep body nnd soul together, befoiv thev will enter domestic service. f ho servant girl in the city is treated much ns the farm hand is in tho coun try. The one is contined to the kitchen all day, and if any other quarters are neeorded her they are most probably a garret at tho top of the house', vhile the other is banished to the field or the barn in tho day-time, nnd. is considered lucky if he is allowed to sit by the kitchen fire in the chill winter even ings. And yet housewives wonder why all the bright, quick girls go into fac tories nnd shops and fanners marvel w hy the smart boys prefer trades ami clerkships to working on the farm. If domestic service is shunned the house wives are largely responsible for it be ing so. Let some of the women who are striving over some impracticable scheme for widening woman's sphere, ask themselves if they would not bo laboring more to the purpose by de voting less space to parlors nnd guests' chambers and more lo letting some of (iotl's light nnd air into their servants' quarter. Then perhaps there would be fewer lamentations over the army of unemployed women and loss cause to regret tlm smallness of the number of trustworthy helpers in the household. I'hihuidiihia hest. SHEEP IN WINTER. I'ourso of FppiIIiik Willed Will Improve Mm Tlirirt of Hie Vm-k. There is a diiVeronei' of opinion ns to what sheep should be fed in winter. The old-time idea that sheep vvo'uld do plenty well enough on bean-stalks and buckwheat straw has been pretty gen erally abandoned in Ihese enlightened dav si w hen stock-growing and breed ing keep pace with other lines of pro gress. 'There are some who still ad here to the old traditional notion, but they are mostly in the minority an. I rapidly becoming fewer. Tube sure there are some kinds of fodder the bean-stalk for instance that sheep will readily eat, while no oilier animal will touch it, if given a c;oieo in the matter; but. that is no ,i(i;.f that a solo diet of bean-stalks, or other coarse fodder, is the Let thing in the world for sheep. Sheep do not thrive best on woody, librons fodder, nor tSoes any other farm animal. 'The slighter grinding power nnd .smaller capacity of sheep render them less capable of consuming such fodder than larger animals are. In proof of this look in the mangers of sheep and cat tle ami make a comparison, lint little oris" is loll in the cattle manger, while a large amount is left in the sheep racks. Tho woody stems of timothy hav and the clover stocks are in nrly all icf: unless indeed the poor sheep are .starved down to .such diet. Sheep nnd young calves should, we are satisfied, have the linest, tenderest hay that the place all'ords. Early cut June Lay, well cured, is very much nlished by them and will be eaten up quite clean. Sheep like the heads and leaves of oven the coarsest grasses, for there is much grain in the heads, but they should not be expected to eat the coarse stalks. Perhaps, more than any other ani mal, sheep need a little grain in win ter. Especially the ewe with lamb needs a supplementary ration of grain. The strain upon her system must bo met and supported by" good rations. 'The demands upon her vital ity and enduring powers in the midst i f a cold, hard winter must be sus tained by the proper amount of fuel. The animal machine h;.s only a cer tain lixod capacity, and hence bulk can not be made the substitute for quality. A small portion of condensed grain food is necessary to the welfare f the owe under thee conditions. A pint a day each of com and oats will work wonders in the thrift and appear ance of a llock. SVo.ViVA Agricultural 'I'.l.-l'.'.'C. A good way to sovt cabbage seed 's in a cold frame under glass. This protects the young plants from severe winter cold. VtUtvit Ti ituue. HARMLESS THIEVES. Amrrlmn l'lulorrsts Who A pproprliiu th t'oU-or-Ariu of KiikIIkIi Noltililj. It is not generally known, but it j nevertheless a fact that every Urge carriage manufacturing establishment in this country has a library. Tbs works of only two authors aro in thij, library, and these are the productions of Mr. Burke and Mr. Lodge. ISurke'i "Peerage and ISaronetage," Lodge's book of the same title, nnd Burke'j "Cienernl Armory" are all that aro needed, but they are indispensable. A nuin on whom fortune has smiled is having a carriage built. It is to he a heavy lumbering affair, nnd guaran teed to have a look of ancient respect nbilily about it before it conies out of the shop. Now he, sensible man, had intended to have his cipher on the panels, but the ladies of tho family are more ambitious nnd keep at him until, in a moment of weakness, ho consents to tleeorate his family carriage with a coat-of-urins. The next question in how to get one. Heretofore he and his nnoestors have struggled along with out armorial bearings and never espec ially felt the need of them. But now tilings aro changed. If he lived in Brazil ho would endow a hospital, ami tho Emperor would make him a barou with a coat-of-at tns of grout complexi ty. If he were nn Englishman, he might do a hundred things less expen sive and get a pedigree nnd coat-of-arms from the College of Heralds and write Sir before his name. But being an American, there is no way for him to get a coat-of-nrnis except to steul it, and so tho respect aide old gentle man is driven to the lirst theft of his life. The New York College of Her jdry being no longer in existence, he conlidcs in tho carriage manufacturer. 'The carriage man brings out his library and in tho seclusion of his pri "ate ollice the coal -of-arms of some inoro or less noblo lord is ap propriated, to bo subsequently transferred to the rich man's family coach. These people are rnther particular about their arms when they .iice get started in the selection. Say, for instance, that tho man who wants a coat-of-arms is named Smith. The carriage man opens his h oral dric record and reads: "Smith. Edward Augustus Patrick Peter, First Baronet of Mud tovvne. County Kerry. Ireland." "No, no," says the'rich man. "Our family are English by descent." A few more pages arc turned over and then under a menagerie of hornld ric animals the carriage manufacturer reads: "Billingsgate, Marquis of (Smith-Fitz Plantagenet). .lames Au gustus Douglas (ieorge, Marquis and Earl. Baron Smith, of County of York. The Marquis assumed in 1?S7() by royal license the additional surname of Kit Plantagenet for himself nnd his issue and quartered the rinntngcnct arms with his own." "All! that must lie the one," says the seeker after a cont-of-arms. "J have heard that our family came from York shire." And so tho arms of tho Marquis of Billingsgate blaze on the panels of the new carriage when it rolls along the avenue. Appropriatorsof coats-of-arms would make themselves less absurd if they would read a rudimentary book on heraldry before they made tho ap propriation. For instance. Mr. Smith, in appropriating the coat-of-arms of the "Most Honorable the Marquis of Billingsgate," takes not only tho arms of Smith, but the arms of Fit, Planta genet and likewise the supporter which can only bj used by a Peer of the Realm, lie surmounts the whole with tho cap ami coronet of a Marquis, and any one versed in such matters would suppose that a Peer was riding in the earring.' instead of plain Mr. Smith. Now, if Mr. Sniilh did really belong to tin; family of tho Marquis, as he tlid not, he would be entitled only lo the anus of Smith, without the coro net, the supporters or the motto. Y. Y. Tribune. STIES ON THE EYES. Siiugt-HllotiH for XlothtTM WIiiism Children are Allllcted Willi Tliem. I'lisunlly the child will complain ot itchiness at one portion of the lid, and will be seen to rub this part constant ly, and on examination the mother sees a small, reddish elevation, which she soon learns to recognize as nn ap proaching stye; at this stage cold ap plications for several hours will often serve to dissipate the coming evil, and no irlher annoyance will result. Should it have advanced, however, and a small yellow spot in its center shofls that matter is forming, we can not hope to prevent its progress, but must then hasten the formation of natter nnd its discharge. To do this hot applications by means of water, at as high a temperature as can be borne, should be applied for several hours. Tho child should lie down, nnd small pieces of linen, folded several times, wrung out of hot water, applie'l so ns to cover the eye, over this a layer of cotton is applied, and the whole protected by a piece of oiled silk. By these means heat will bo re gained in the compresses a long time, and they will need to be changed only every ten or live minutes. Such applications are more ctlieicnt and cleanly, than are poultices of slippery elm bark, llax-seed meal or bread. Soap nnd sugar, a popular application, should never be employed: the mix ture is irritating, uncleanly and in ctlieicnt. After the matter is formed nnd the stye distended by it, the p:tMi may be lessened and the cure hastened by picking the yellow elevation nt i' most elevated point two or three times with the point of a needle, at tho same time discontinuing the warm fomenta tions and simply applying a little puri tied cotton to absorb the discharge. The Household. A few evenings ago several Indian bucks at Truekee, Oil., made up purse for the purpose of getting sonic fire-water, and gave, the money to white man to invest for them. This he did hy buying the whisky as directed, but instead of giving it to the noble rod man be consumed it himself. Tins made the braves mad and they half killed the follow. 1?