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EUGENE CITY GUARD. LlhCAMMIfXL. Proprietor. EUGENE CITY, OREGON. FASHIONS IN FURNITURE. Tkej Change with as Murh Frequency as the Myles In Hut and HoiinrU. ' It id probable tliut if it wore as easy to discard nn old unit of f iirnitiiro una nrocure a new one, as it is for those who lmvo tlio means to order n new dress, our homes would never wear a homelike or familiar look, for no sooner would wc become acquainted with tho vagaries of the chairs, bureaus and other article of .furniture, and each angle and protuberance bo so well known that they could ho . avoided in tho dark, than we would have to uo custom ourselves to a new arrange ment and man out a new chart. As it Is, a Huit of furniture which iivo or nix yearn ago held a leading position in faidiionablo circles is to-day looked upon as out of date. It requires about live years for the accomplishment of a complete evolution in Hlyle. Thin, perhaps, is a veiy judicious arrange ment, for this young couple that have their house newly furnished when they set out together may have their homo refurnished in tho latest stylo when tho lifth anniversary, known as tho wooden wedding, is cele brated. What will they do when tho tenth anniversary arrives? By that thne they should have money enough to refurnish their house if they wisli to do so, or Dense enough to care nothing for tho rules of fashion. Five years aga about tho only wood used in 1)ie manufacture of furniture was black walnut. Occassionally a liedroom suit in a-h or white wood was discovered, hut such an object at tracted as much attention as tho wear er of an India helmet would In a walk down Broadway. To-day black wal nut still holds a place in kociety, but t has been outranked by mahogany, oak and cherry, liedroom suits made of dark cross-grained mahogany are tho chief attraction in furniture salesrooms to-day, and articles of furniture made of this wood command a higher price than tho same designs made up in other fashionable woods. Thero are many purchasers, however, who prefer the honest, sturdy-looking oak, or tho bright and warm looking cherry. Mahogany was tho most fashionablo dull woods about a half century ago, and no doubt thero are stowed away in cellars or attics, or still doing service in the second or third generation, many bedstead, bureau or parlor suit which is just sulllclently antique to meet the prevailing demand. Mahogany will tako n high polish and will wear "for ever." as the dealers say, as it is very tough. Wo know of ono suit of furni ture made of this wood which has sue mwsfully withstood the wear and tear of two generations of boys and has not as many gears to-day as tho boys thoni Kelves. Oak furniture does not take as brilliant a polish as mahogany, black walnut or cherry, but it has a business like look and is preferred by many be. cause it has a more genuine antique !ipcaranco. This wood is but little used In tho manufacture of bedroom mils, but for dinner chairs, desks, hat trees and ehiiVouicrs it is preferred. Thero are marked shades in oak, and in tho manufacture of desks especially very pretty effect is produced by tho judicious combination of these shades. Cherry Is used for almost every pur pose and Is selected generally in tho manufacture of Sleepy Hollow and other moro or less comfortable work ing chairs and easy chairs. .V. Y, Mail end, Express. J r A Pickwickian Inn. ! Tho Saracen's Head Inn at Toweos. tor, described in "Pickwick," still ex ists iu good order, though Its name has been changed. Internally, the kitchen, tho (scene of tho contlict between tho rival editors of tho Katansw ill (iautte and Katauswill Independent, has now beoomo the "smoking-room," tho only change being that tho broad Urcplaco and open chimney, with scats in each corner, has disappeared and n modern crate ha been substituted. One who has lately visited the place says: "Tho two half-life-size statues of Venus and Apollo still till their niches over tho prat doors, as they have done for moro than a century past, and were tho sub ject, within my memory, of a eouvor. Mtiou between a new hostess and tho 'hereditary postboy,' which was worthy tii Sam Weller, and would probably have amused Dickens had it occurred lM'fore his visit. 'Whoso likenesses arc those?' was the lady's question. Well, ma'am, they call 'em Junus and We mis; I don't know who they were, but you in ay read altout 'em In tho Bible.' " J'hiiadelphitt iVcorif. ' Contagion of Anthrax. Animals dying of anthrax splenlo fever are liable to communicate tho liM.so to men who handle their ear rase, even though it bo for immediate burial. Tho privy council of (Jroat Uritian have, therefore, sent notice to local authorities throughout tho king bm, and caused it to lie widely pub lished, that this danger exists, and1 that uch carcasses should not bo skinned, but covered with quicklime and buried at least ix feet deep. Prisons who hae any abrasions of tho skill upon their hands or arm should not touch them or any part of them. The blood, stable litter, fodder, ma nure, ete., should lie carefully removed ml burned, and tho Malls, of course, thoroughly disiufected. American jMunman. " LIMEKILN CLUB. Brother Gardner runUhet a tVrele-li Kouin Uullty of Stealing an I'nilirnlla. Previous to thj opening of the meet Ing Brother (Jardner, Sir Isaac Wal polo and Wydown Bebeo were seen in earnest conversation around tno pre-i dent's desk, and when tho triangh sounded it was pretty well understood throughout tho room that Home mat ter of gravest importance was on the tapis. One individual seemed to fee even moro than a lively curiosity. This was Brother Process Davis, a member of about six months' standing. Ifo jammed himself Into a corner and tried to appear as small as possibl and when inquiries were made about his soro held he let on that in- had an awful toothacho ami didn't want to talk. Scarcely had tho meeting open ed when he was culled to appear at the president s desk. Iho look of terror which came to his face as he rose up moved that ho regarded tho matter in a very serious light, and he shullled up the long aislo like one going to an exe cution. "Bruddcr Process Davis," said the president in very solemn tones, "atone of our weekly nieetin's last fall, an' as wo war' about to disperse to our homes. Sir Isaac Walpolo diskibered ilat his umbreller was inisMii'. It was an uni breller wid a white bono handle, an' it was an heirloom in his fam'ly. His gran'fadder had walked under dat iim- breller, an it had kept do rain oil Ins fadder, an' he himself had owned it fur nigh upou thirty y'ars. It had been left in kyurs an' on steamboats nu' on dc front doah steps, an' nobody had took it He had bruug it down heah two hundred times, an' it war' alius waitiu' fur him when ho got ready to go home. At las' some one stole it some human hyena laid hu desecrated paws on dat sacred rclick an' bore it oil'. We made ebj,ry effort to lind it, hut do hunt was in vain. Den we settled down to wail for Justice. She nebber sleeps. She sometimes does a good deal of fooliu' around, an' daram sometimes a mighty long wait between do aekts, but she nobbcr sleeps. She didn't go to sleep dis time. Slio war' lookin' fur you, an' yesterday sho oberhaulcd you. You had Sir Isaac's umbreller under yer arm. Heah am de libin' proof to con vict you! You aro do hyena who stele it, an' you aro now befo' do bar of Justice! Prisoner, how do you plead?" Process stood thero with his mouth open and could not reply. The sudden shock seemed v havo paralyzed him. His guilt was us plain as tho hind but tons on a coat "De pusson who will steal nn um breller under any circumstances," con tinued the president, "desarveseondiue punishment Iu dis easo you stole it from a fellow-member of a society, an' you added do sin of lyin' to your crime. Your namo will bo crossed off our books, an' you will enter dis hall no mo' foreber. Do carryin' out of de rest of de sentence am left to (iiveadam Jones an' Hercules Johnson." The prisoner was removed to the ante-room, and about a minute later Paradise Hall was shaken from roof to cellar. This was followed by a bump ing sound on the stairs leading to the alley, and this again by the sound of fee' making a lush for life. Brother Process Davis will doubtless remain in Canada during tho rest of his life. Detroit Fixe Press. HIGH-LIFE NUPTIALS. A rn-tty Killtorliil Nenil.onr t'omtenxed from thu .Muddy Forks tingle. Bill Shanks and Lib Kipper walt.cd Into tho ollleo of our genial justice of the peace yesterday, and were mail ono man iu about three shakes of a dead sheep's tail. Lib and Bill are leading society people here, and they have scads of friends who join us in wishing that their married life may be all love and molasses. Bill is a royal good boy, and them that knows Lib knows that they ain't no discount on her. Sho is tho most accomplished young lady in Muddy Forks, and one that any man could bo proud of. She killed two bears with a club, one day last spring, and can slap over three acres of prairie-sod witli a yoke of oxen any day. She can split more rails in a day than any other young lady in these parts, and there ain't many men that beat her on cord-wood. Lib is a dandy when it comes to fancy work of this kind. The blooming young couple left yes terday on foot for Kansas City, on a lit tle wedding-tour and honeymoon-speculation. They will bo at home in their own dug-out after the 10th. Tid-llits. Answers to Correspondents. Mttijiie.. No; a yellow satin is not suitable for street wear unless j on have it dyed. 2. You should always ring the door-bell when visiting, and not use a pass-key. A. 11. ('.Trim yon- vol vet skirt with flounces of white Hamburg edg ing, and slit the waUt up tho back, so It can be buttoned in front. Ikihy White chalk Is good for red cIIhiws; also stove polish. If we were yon, wo would havo tho graduating dress made with sleeves to come to the wrist This will prevent rod elbows attracting attention. Clara 11. 1. No; seal-skin cirques will not bo worn all summer. 2. Sash rihlion should be a yard w ide, and all wool. 3. Wo do not answer imperti nent questions by mail. Lift. Tho farmers of South Carolina have concluded that they can no longer raise rice with profit. It is very diffi cult to obtaiu reliable labor for the rice ricld. During tho last few years several other cereals havo come" into use in the id ace of rice, and the de mand for It has iurrcajctt. Cineinmiti limes. AN ENORMOUS GRANT. Ovir Keveii Million Acres or Northwestern iMud Our Owned by One .Man. Searching for other records in tho ollico of tho Register of Deeds of Craw ford County, Wisconsin, I camo across tho following entries, which may be of interest to many of your readers. Transcript of a deed given to Jonathan Carver iu 17G7: "To Jonathan Carver, chief of the most mighty and potent (ieorge the Third, King of tho English and oilier nations; the fame of whose courageous warrioiirs has reached our ears and has been more fully told us by our good brother, Jonathan, aforesaid, whom we rejoice to see among us and bring us good news from his country; we, the Chiefs of tho Naudowissies, who have hereunto set our hands and seals, and by these pi'i.-M-uU for ourselves and heirs forever, in return for tho many presents and good services done by the said Jonathan to ourselves mid allies, give, grant and convey to him, the said Jonathan, and his heirs and assigns forever, the wholo of a certain tract or territory of land, bounded as follows to-wit: From tho Falls of St. Anthony running on tho east bank of the Missis sippi, nearly southeast as far as the south end of Lako Pepin, where the Chippeway Kiver joins the Mississippi, and from thence eastward Iivo days' travel, accounting twenty English miles per day, and thence north six days' travel at twenty English miles per day, and from thence to tho Falls of St. Anthony in a straight line. We do, for ourselves, our heirs and assigns for ever, give unto the said Jonathan, his heirs and assigns forever, all the said laud, with all the trees, rocks and rivers therein, reserv ing to ourselves and heirs tho sole liberty of hunting and li-diing on the land not planted or improved by said Jonathan, his heirs or assigns; to w hich we havo affixed our respective seals at the OreatCave, May tho 1st, One Thou sand Seven Hundred and Sixty-seven. "Ilawnopawjatin Turtle his X mark. "Otehtongoonilislieaw-Snako his X mark. "Said deed is In the records of the Plantation-Oflice, White Hall. Lou don." Leavens Carver, one of tho descend ants of Jonathan Carver, purchased tho right, title and interest of some of tho other heirs prior to 18JJ7. Tho 10th of July, 117, a deed was recorded in Crawford Count', whereby the said Leavens Carver sold the one-half of all his right, title and interest "to James Baxter, of Staiistead, in tho Province of Lower Canada, Member of his Britannic Majesty's Legislative Council for tho Province of Lower Canada, in British North America, and Wright Chamberlain, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel of Stansted County, militia." Consideration for the deed was live hundred thousand dollars. By act i,f Congress, approved the 17th day of April, lH'.'S, the Carver claim was ac knowledged and continued. It seems almost incredible that less than ono hundred and twenty years ago the vast area covered by the Carver deed was transferred for such paltry considerations. Three large cities are now in tliis territory. How many of the inhabitants of St. Paul, Chippewa Falls and Eau Clairo know in whom was vested tho first title to all their real estate after the Indian title was ex tinguished. Even the Pillsbnry mills at Minne apolis must stand upon this grant. In Wisconsin the counties of Pierce,, Pepin, Clark, Eau Clairo and Taylor, and parts of the counties of Buffalo, Trem pealeau, Jackson, Wood, Marathon. Lincoln, Chippewa, Barron, Dunn and St. Croix are within the bounds of the grant. In Minnesota the valuable part of this grant is to-day tho city of St. Paul. It would be an item of interest to know what Jonathan Carver's heirs recieved for this enormous domain over 7,OtM),tX0 acres of land. for. Chicago Tribune. SKATING IN AMSTERDAM. Winter Nrene of In tores t nn the I'roirn Canal or the Dutch. MrlropollH. As Amsterdam is made up of one hundred little islands, formed by tho intersection of numerous canals, the click of steel-clad feet is heard all around me tourist. im grainiest view of humanity on wings can be had in the environs of Amsterdam on a Sun day afternoon. Upon an ice-covered space of more than six miles square, created by the union of the Amstel and the Y, the inhabitants of Amsterdam and vicinity are out in force, and to see a gang of -'0,000 skaters is nothing wonderful. Rows of tents, ued as res taurants, billiard saloons, theaters, etc., meet the eye everywhere, and the tired skater has always a place on hand where rest and a supply for the inner man can be obtained, (iazing upon the living assembly, the eye is drawn to a couple w ho, hand iu hand, execute the most difficult feat of scientitic skat ing, or who, in company with others, go through the peculiarly intricate movement of the quadrille. Farther on, a space of two hundred yards long by fifty broad is lined on Kith sides with spectators to view the swiftness of competitive racing. Both ladies and gentl emeu indulge in these races, and every season prizes are offered by the city authorities for the swiftest skater. Crossing this bating place, you are nearly overrun byajovful baud" of rosy cheeked lads and lasses, w ho, believ'ui" thero is speed in union, have supplied themselves with a gaily colored pole twenty feet long, and placing it under the right aims of tho skaters, ranged one after the other, annihilate space with the velocity of a race-horse. RUSSIA'S PEASANTRY. The I'ttrrly 1IohI-m Condition of tha tireat Majority of I"' Csar's KuliJieU. The condition of tho P.ussian peas antry, which has been long and steadi ly deteriorating, has now become so utterly hopeless that only some special extra pre -sure is required to make their deep discontent break out in rebellion. The "motijik" knows nothing of "con stitutions" or "political freedom." He sighs for none of these things. He hates the Nihililts, for they aro innova tors and the declared enemies of the Czar. Ho has a great patriotic and su perstitious regard for tho Emperor, as the head of his Church, the fountain of all good gifts, and the representa tive of au ancient national institution. But when lirnily established in Ids po sition, one Czar satisfies tiie Russian peasant quite as well as another. The Emperor Nicholas was quite as good to him as would have been his elder brother Constantino, had the latter not been put out of the way, and tho Em press Catherine, a foreigner and a woman, was quite as good as the hus band whom she disposed of. If his grievances become too great the peasant will not hesitate to attack the Czar's officers, tax collectors and others, and ho will maintain a comfortable theory that the autocrat is unaware of his sufferings, and that he is the victim of wicked nobles anil officials who have combined to persecute him and to deceive tho Czar. Before the peasant was emancipated lie worked under his master's directions, he paid no taxes, he seldom had any money, and he got but little "vodky." His master guaranteed his subsistence, and he had no particular cares or anx ieties. When emancipated he was made a present of .some land, but he also became responsible for his own subsistence, and he became subject to a laud tax. Ho remained, however, thoroughly careless, and his only so licitude was to do as little work as possible. Circumstances for a time favored him. (iood land was. abun dant, the price of corn in Europe rose, railways were made to transport his grain, the money rolled pleasantly into his pockets, and, the (iovornnienl kindly abolished the spirit monopolies, and brought "vodkv," plentiful and cheap, to his door. Times have, how ever, changed now; his land, which he never troubled tomunure, is exhausted; the price of f rain has fallen; America and India an; competing with him; his sons, his laborers, aro taken away by the conscription, and the land tax alone remains as before. Remissions of the tax are made from timo to time, but only where tho arrears have become so heavy that their collection is per fectly hopeless. Naturally the peasant is on his last legs and any thing but cheerful. He is slow to move, but with a little extra pressure, a cry against any of his recognized enemies, the Jews, the "tchinovniks," ortlie nobles, will start him on a career of violence which nothing but grape-shot will stop. And this is the great danger w hich w ill assail Russia from within under the in fluence of the stress of a prolonged war. Qiutrtcrly ltevicw. ALASKA TERRITORY. Its DlHcovrry ami Area nml Acquisition by the I lilted States. When Secretary Seward bought Alaska from Russia lie added to tin; United States a territory of much larger area than tho States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri to gether, and nearly nine times larger than England and Wales. The terri tory stretches out so far to the west ward that Sitka, its capital, is only half way from New York City to the most western Alaskan island. Many of tiie details of the formation of Alaska read like quotations from fairy tales. It has a volcano 8,000 feet high. The Yukon river is at some points from fifteen to twenty miles wide, its entire length is -000 miles and it empties with such volume into the sea that the ocean is said to be fresh water for ten miles out. Tho temperature does at times fall as low as lifty-eight degrees below zero, but as a rule it is mild, on account of a sort of gulf stream known as the Jap anese current. It was Peter the Great who set on foot the expedition which filially discovered Alaska. It was in 17l" that the explorers set out to cross Siberia, toward tho east, and one of their leaders was Behring, a Dane, who had been long iu the Russian service. He did not land in Alaska till seventeen years later, and died on one of the islands off the shore, which hoars his name and where his body now lies. Spain, Eng land and France also scut out explor ing expeditions, and Russia established a trading company, which sold the furs of the region. But, iu 1SG7 Secretary Seward effected a purchase of Alaska for the United States, which paid Rus sia If'.-W.IKH), and a little more than two year ago it was organized as a irivil and judicial district, of which A. P. Sw ineford is Governor. At present the chief industries are carried on by the tMiory and seal fur companies. In 18H0 tho catch of salmon was 8,000 ,-ases, in 1883, !)ti,000 cases, and in ISSo, 65,000 cases, at about $5 a case. The magnitude of the fur operations nay be seen from tho fact that between 1871 and 1883 aliont $5,000,000 was paid by the company to the United States Government as rent and tax. There aro also mines of coal, lead, cop per, silver and gold, nu I a vast growth jf fine spruce and cedar, which will fcimeday prove of groat value to the people of the United States. It appears be clear now that Secretary Seward icted wisely when he negotiate the purchase from Russia. Sua Franco LExa miner. Traits, Slanners anU Dress of the Various (Inters or Ilrahdilns. To study Bralimiiiisni, its mysticism, its almost fatal influence either on its devotees or upon those wretched people who are not of that faith, and who from that unforlunato circumstance are ac cording to tho Braliininlcal theory no better than dogs, one must go to South India. There ono will learn that the Brahmin is an autocratic aristocrat ami that neither merit, nor wealth, nor bravery, nor talent can place any man not a 'Brahmin on the sumo pedestal on which crouches the meanest natured man of Ids divine origin. And whether he bo Vishnu or Shiva the Brahmin is an aristocrat. Ono recognizes that whatever may be his other qualities the Brahmin is a gentleman a cultured ami intellectual man of the world, who recognizes none as his superior and a great many as his inferior. The Brah min is a striking example of tho supe riority supposed to be duo to tho acci dent of birth, and the further south one travels in India tho more marked is this. In Tanja.o, which is termed thu garden of India, Maddtira iindTinncvclly, docs the Brahmin most repay study. Hero under their vast groves tho Brahmin seems not to havo heard through the dense forests the bustle of an enterpris ing world. His world is yet the tiny hand-swept village, with tho school house where tho pupil learns by rote Braliininieal nonsense and peculiar Eng lish phraseology, for tho Brahmin knows that unless he learns English there is no chance for him to wear the Government livery, wliich alike to Eu ropean and native is tho highest aspira tion. Tho way in which to distinguish the devotees of Vishnu alid Shiva is not difficult, for men of Vishnu wear on their foreheads a mark similar to this , while those of Shiva carry iu the center of their foreheads a round sandal-wood dot, which is used by Hindus tani women for the same purpose us are the tiny black sticking-plaster dots upon tiio fair faces of our ladies, called "beauty spots." The Vishnuites and hivites also carry a distinction in their names. The former take the af fix "Iengar" to their names, while the latter havo "Iyer." Not alone this, the characters of tho two are also dif ferent. Tiie Iengars, it is declared, area self-sullicient race, and are noted for their cunning, while the Iyers are said to be humbler, more ingenuous and more scholarly inclined. As the women's names are never known to the outside world, and as they carry no distinguishing marks on their faces, they are known bv their dress. A woman of the Vishnu caste wears the folds of her paijama tight across her knees and thus displays a shapely call which mav be envied by any woman, though it be hidden by tho petticoat. Tho Shiva woman, on the contrary, has a loose fold hanging on the side of her right leg, below tho knee. Tho mate rial from which her garment is made is of a .silky texture, yellowish and red; it is but a single sheet, and forms the entire wardrobe of a noble Brah min lady, though her possessions mav be vast, her jewels the envy of many an European royal faniilv, and her descent more illustrious and moro ancient than that of any of the crowned heads of Europe. Many a Brahmin can trace his ancestry for a thousand years, while the family of Udaipur have records showing them to bo over two thousand years old. A Teluiru woman wears her dress differently from either oi ncr ianul sisters, for sue wears a close fold in front. Tamil "iris who havo not attained the ago of puberty wear a single petticoat, and as the Brahminical law ordains that a woman has to marry when she arrives at puber ty, it goes without saying that with marriage the single petticoat has to be exchanged with tho ilhoh, or man-form of dress, and that sho also has to wear underneath garments. So rigid are the Brahmins in their sumptuary laws that they compel all other castes men and women to wear tho petticoat, so that the most casual observer may be en abled to distinguish at a single glauce a Brahmin. Tiie Shivite and the Visli nuite alone wear the. dhoti kind of dress, being equal iu all respects, both having sprung from tho face of Biuma, the creator. 1 here is alo another sect of Brahmins called Rangi, who live on tiie Canarese coast, and aro declared by both Tamil and Telugii to be lament ably superstitious and ignorant. It is among the Canarese Brahmins that the English havo made less headway than among any other Brahmins. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. A Deserted French Village. There is a charming Arcadian village called La Tour, situated near Privas. iu tho southern department of Ardeehe, which lias become uninhabitable owing to the number of crimes which have keen committed therein of late. A short time ago a widow named Roche was murdered there by her nephew and niece after she had made her will in their favor, and on Weduesdav two small farmers quarreled with each other over a small strip of ground which each claimed as his own. The dispute was adjusted by one of the improvised liti- gants kiekinjr the viscera out of his nn. tngonist and leaving him for dead on toe field. The inhabitants of La Tour. justly terrified at the epidemicof crime which has swept over their once-peaee-fui hamlet, have left their homes in a body and migrated to less bloodstained regions. One mav well ask where the gardes ehampetrcs, or the gen darmes, while these crimes were being poriM-iraieti. Kural France has of ate had an unenviable notoriety for crime, and all its villages have hardly been like those blissful abodes denicted l.v Florian. raris Cor. London Tdcarauh. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATION Tho Mohammedans have tf, names for God; bi among ' they havo not "Our Father.'' ' Trinity Church, Boston, (Dr lips Brooks'), has given' missions iu tho last ten years. ' The Sisters of St Joseph giistine, Flo., havo assumed contr, tho education of tho Indian cbj'j now at tho fort there. Tho Presbyterian Church in tecas is tho largest evangelical th, in tho Republic of Mexico. It nine hundred members. It is calculated that at least f hundred Jews leavo the syiiai,', tho Christian .church every Europe and America. A", y. jj -Nearly seven thousand aeon..: to tho Methodist Church in the U lire reported oy tlio Western Chruit Advoia'c as tho result of recent , vi Villus Tlio cataloguo of Hartford T ologieal Seminary shows a Viljj Thompson Fellowship, established i ing tho year, forty-four studchts, f bracing sixteen seniors, twelve hi middle class, fourteen juniors and ft in the advanced class. There was contributed last jp1; tho Church of England tlio nn f 8, 908,850 in voluntary offering i tiie building and restoration of ehun1. and parsonages and tho eiulownien;. benefices, which was about 12,(105,. more than in tho year before. At fu'ellcsloy College eighty women have expressed n desire to,.-! as foreign missionaries; at 01: j about 100 signilicd tho same piny,! and, including all these and other c. leges, tin re are about 400 young won, willing to work in the foreign tielA At tlio close of 1885 the missionj work of the world stood as folk Ordained missionaries, 2,975; laj sionarics, 732; women, 2, -120; ordain native preachers, 3,008; iinordait native helpers, 28,642; nativo corns, nieaiits, 802,028; gain in 1885, S9.ST Income of missionary societies, : . 371,702. The Cornell University School ; History and Political Science has be enriched by the gift of ex-Prcsid-Andrew D. White's historical librart- a collection of about 30,000 volunih 10,000 pamphlets and many nui scripts. The making of this iuviL bio collection lias been Dr. W'bik life-work, and is said to have cost me than $100,000. Chicago Advance It is significant that, altlm Greek is not hereafter to be a rcip! study at Harvard University, theGis, department there is to be strengfc by the creation of a new professori Idled by calling Prof. John II. Unr lately of Dartmouth,, from Johns II kins University. Prof. Alcxan Aaassiz, curator of tho Museum Comparative Zoology, has received honorary degree of doctor in scii from Cambridge University, Engl; CoMjrcgationalid. WIT AND WISDOM. Great works tire nccoinplit slowly. Wise men make more opportune I than they lnnl. Beware of poison in book, wA papers or conversation. A youth is conscious how little i elders know until he gets to be: rider himself. Then he recognizes -I deficiencies of youth. Puck. Avoid debt, and lest the exam; be dangerous, avoid a debtor. This. a bit of philosophy which is rej:- fur,y submitted to our creditor Pen, ink and paper, and braia'j tlio only things requisite to lunrl success; and almost anybody jet the pen, .ink and paper.- "" 'ailnnro enterprise, but trel spiso the man who would try to w; four times in tho one subdivision wit ; out changing his overcoat Lod (Can.) Advertiser. An old negro prenehef divided I sermon into two parts. "tusts thinjrs in do text, and second, idl things not in do t?xt; and, bwlw we'll wrastlc why do second part f Try Gekmea for breakfast. THINGS WORTH KSOWI50. That dyspepsia comes from torpid and costivene8S. That you cannot digest your food ! unless your bowels and liver act props That vour bowels reouire thorwl cleansing when they do not do theii dt I Ytv Tmip rlirroutinn I That vour torniH Hver needs stimuli in order that it may act as nature into! 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