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EUGENE CITY GUARD. 1. L. CAMPBELL, EUGENE CITY. OREGON, LOVE'S TOKENS. If you take an apple ami parHt thin, Wltliout a bn-iik In the rililwncd klu. You may twirl the perfect pai-liitf aruund, And note bow It full on the Dour or ground. It might to full, If the tlga Ii true, Ho thuta Inttiir utmll ibuiie for you; And the lotlur It forma will be te inme At that which Hand for the loved one name, Or, If you look for another door To the tender osoret tuke the core, Ani count the ecd tbut are hlddnn there: Thoy will ipoll thoiame, with none to spare. Or, pick a doUy. Who baa foruot The teitt: "Ho luve me he luvoame notH And, when lti dlalc U Rone around, The lover or iwuothourt In loat or found. There were many more In our early day, Mingled with childhood'! artlea nlaya; Two pleatuut to think with what wt-et atrlfo We could fottlo the problem of buuand and WHO. Rut when to older year we grow, W be no royal way to know. We doubt nnd ponder, we hope and gun, ' Then put the quontlon for "No" or " Vo." Joel Btnlon, in Demorut'i Monthly. A SIXTT-DAYS' FAST. The Champion Food.Abstalnor Of the World. The Man Who 1'uU Hanoi, Tanner and Merlattl to the Illuh-KatT From Keceaaltj and Krom Choice. Some little regret having been occa sioned among tho physicians who watched Merlattl tlint ho should not be dying ut tlie end of liin long fiiHt, and have given them nil oiiortuniIy of do tormlning by direction the cU'ects of fifty days' total abstinence from all Holid food, it may be worth whilo to recall the fart that In other canes nn even longer abstinence from food has been recorded, with nbnndant opportunity for examining the condition of the un fortunate victim's interior. Tho llrstcaso of tho kind which, bo far an I know. Is on record, is that of a patient of Dr. Currio, a well-known physician of a generation or ho ugo. In August, 17'A a Yorkshiieman of property applied to Currie for assist ance on account of nn obstruction in Ilia throat, which threatened soon to deprive him of the power of swallow ing. When llrst seen by Currie, tho patient had already lost the power of wallowing solids of any kind, nnd tho quantity of liquid matter ho was nblo to swallow was not sufflcient for his nutrition. Ho was ulready consider ably reduced. Tho operation of trach otoiny naturally suggested itself to Dr. Currio as appropriate under tlteso con ditions. Huton passing a bougio Into tho patient's gullet it win found that, although there was an obstruction some two inches down, the real obstruction laid seven or eight Inches deep a hard minor iiaving iormed m tlio passage wnoao steady growth threatened to closo It wholly. On October 17 the obstruction rather suddenly increased, insomuch that from that day tho pntient could not wallow more than seven or eight spooiuuis or broth. Lven that quantity diminished until, on October 80. tho passage was wholly closed, nnd from that day the patient took no more food f any sort Bathing in milk and water and other external applications of food cau hardly bo suppose.! to have aan much nllmentative value, so tint the subsequent pioirross if the en forced fast may reasonably bo com pared wun inn eases of Sueel, Merlattl, tanner ami the rest of tho f reel v-fast- wig fraternity. On October 30, then, after thirteen days of almost total abstinence from ...wl I.. I l. ... """'i I" ci i ueu uy two IllolltllS or VeiT .1 ft .1 m ' mi, mm, uie umortiiiinto gentleman entered on tho fasting path, which In his case could end In but ono way. llef.iroho hint begun to suffer from the obstruction to his swallowing he was rather corpulent, weighing if 10 pounds (he was a tall and finuly-biiilt man). By tetobcr.'5Uhis weight had been reduced to 179 pounds. In the llrst twenty days from the period of the sudden increase f the obstruction, his weight was re duced to 154 pounds. In tho next four days he lost live pounds more. On the thirty-second day from tho time he eased to swallow ho became delirious. At this time he weighed only 13H pounds, having lost upwards of 100 pounds of his original weight Ho died n tho thirty-sixth day from the time of absolute abslineiico from food. This, with the thirteen days of almost total abstinence, and tho preceding two months, during which the loss of more than a quarter of his weight showed that he was receiving much less than tho proper amouutot nutrition, may be regarded as a fast considerably more taxing than that which Merlatti'haa re cently completed, and altogether more remarkable thau cither Tanner's or Kneel' fast, seeing that neither of these either fasunl so completely or so long. Apart fmm this Dr. Clinic's patient sutVerinu' fmm a liiit i,;..i, ternal applications, which" naturally tended to allay thirst, to some degree quieted such pains as tho sense of nun rroprletar, gor might have been expected to pro duce, for they Included strong infiis- icos of laudanum. During this month of absolute fasting the temperature and the pulse were natural. His mind seemed to retain its full strength "He occupied himself a good deal in his private concerns," says the account from which I have obtained those par ticulars, the "renny Liyclopedia," "and, as usual, interested himself in publio affairs. To husband his strength oh much as possible, he was advised to be much in bed; but, until the last few days of his life, he dressed and redressed daily, and not only walked about his room, but through the house. "His nights were quiet, his sleep sound and apparently refresh ing." Before the delirium set in which ushered in the final stages of his fast, the patient had very pleasant droams, a peculiarity of which was that they affected him as realities, insomuch that though told by his friends that the were but dreams he could not for more than a moment or two remain suro that this was tho case. Ho laughed heartily at tho recollection of the merry jokes which bad passed during a gay meet ing ho had had as ho supposed, with two Yorkshire Baronets whom he dined, nnd told with glee (which, considering his approaching end, seems almost to morit the peculiar descriptive term ghoulish, recently applied to the Fresi dent) how they had pushed about the bottle, The mental incoherence indicated by the inability to distinguish drca.iiafrora realities passed rapidly into delirium. during which hoVas perpetually mut tering in indistinct tones, with great restlessness nnd agitation. There were now marked signs of fever, the skin WHS ruiiKi to fcouio degrco have taxed his physical strength. Thus, whatever Tanner's, Sucei'a nnd Merlntti'a fast may have shown, this Yorkslnreman's Miforeed fast had taught much more affectively ninniy-one years ago. For one month from tho time of tot.il abstinence from fixnl the unfortunate man retainml a calm and even cheerful demeanor. Occasionally ho express,! a Wish that ho could swallow, but not often nor anxiously. When questioned as ti his nppelite, he always said that he felt no wuse of hunger sufficient to cause him any uneasiness. Nor was he lii,lurbd hy Curat Probably the ex- and extremities being sometimes of burning heat and sometimes cold and clammy. His pulse beenmo feeble and Irregular, and his respiration was for the first time during the progress of his illness laborious and painful. He bo- came cross-eyed on tho thirty-third day of total abstinence from food, and com plained that he saw double, but the sensitiveness of tho retina was in creased, not, as ono might have ex pected would be the caso, diminished, insomuch that, though till this stage of is illness ho had borne well tho light which came through tho window of his wlroom, ho shrieked now when tho ludow-blind was drawn. In this case, as I havo said, we have stronger evidence of the power which the human frame possesses to endure eprivation of food than any of the fool ish fasting men of recent times havo nfl'orded, because they have nil taken liquid food, whereas, except from his bath (which, as ho said, produced in him the most delightful sensations), our patient had no relief from either hunger or thirst , Tho othei case I shall cite, while re sombllng the fastings of Sued, Tanner nnd Merlatti in being a fast from solid food only as also in being voluntary was more remarkable than theirs in be ing of much longer duration. A young man of studious and melancholy na tnro began a somewhat severe course of abstinence to euro cortaln painful symptoms of indigestion by which he was troubled. His plan was to abstain from solid food for a time, taking only alittlowater daily, into which some orango juice had been squeezed. From tho amount given by Dr. Willan, super- stition as well as indigestion .would seem to have had something to do with the form of folly into which this plan presently developed. The vounir man withdrew from business and tho so ciety of his friends, took lodgings in an obscure streot, and entered on a system of continued fasting, enlivened by shorthand writing. Ho began to write out the Bible in shorthand, and had proceeded as far as the socond book of Kings when circumstances over which, by that time, ho had no control induced him to desist. Ho persisted in his plan for lifty-ono days without fail ing in firmness of purpose. But about this time, .hiding his stronrth failing him, and that ho was no longer nblo to rise from his bed, he began to suspect that he might bo mistaken in Imagin ingas' until now he had done that ho was preternaturally supported and wfts presently to bo made tho object of sonto marvelous manifestations follow ing an abstinence so extraordinary. His friends fonnd out his retreat about ten days after he thus began to lose faith in the virtue of fating. They persuaucu nun to accept the ministry tions of a medical man. It was on the sixty-tirst day of his fast tha ho was tirst soon by Dr. Willan, whoso report of tho caso I have followed. Ho was then singularly (and yet perhaps not m siuuiariyi emaciated, li s abdomen was concave, his limbs so at tenuate.! that the shaps of tho bones could bo clearly distinguished. His cheek-lxines stood out giving his face ghastly appearance. Ho looked, in. fact, "like a skeleton preicued bt drr. ng tho muscles upon it in their natural situation." Hi mind wa inih....n.. that is to say, it wis mora obviously imlieeilo than It had been before ho entered upon his fast or had made much progress with it 5o f ir as can be judged, this younjr man might have been saved if Dr. Wil lan had followed a suitable method of treatment Hut he allowed his patient to take much more food than was iudi- cious at suck a time. Three i.lt. food were administered daily namely, a pint of milk for breakfast, a pint of mutton broth boiled with Wl.. f. dinner, and as much rice milk for sup- i.. nvm in intra uay after Dr. Wil lan had seen the starred man. After total abstinence from solid food for tlxtydays, this allowance wasnltogeth er too great One-third of it would have been too much. Milk was also quite unsuitable, being more dillleiilt of digostion by nn enfeebled stomach than even solid food Yet for the first few days it seemed as though the unfortunate man was recovering. He regained flesh and strength, becoming also cheerful, nnd his mind recovering Millie degrco of steadiness. Ou the fifth day ho showed signs of restless ness. On the morning of tho sixth he lost nil recollection, ami before mid night ho was delirious and unmanage able. His pulse Increased in frequency, his skin became hot and diy, and his whole frame was shaken by constant tremors. Ho remained in this state till the eleventh day, emaciation Incrcas- ng ami his pulse growing constantly weaker and morn rapid, until at last it had been to one hundrod nnd twenty i Oeats in tho minute, Un the eleventh day, the seventy-second from tho com mencement of his self-imposed fast the poor fellow died, having by this time illen Into a state of utter prostration .Nothing that Janncr, buoel or Mor- itti has done in tho way of fastins has thrown so much light on the power of the human frame to resist the effects of total abstinence from food as these two eases. I Ret on ono side for the mo. ment tho question whether Sucei's herb whatever it may be, is ablo to help tho Dotty to resist tho effects of fasting in luch degree that not only lifo but tiealth, strength and capacity for work may remain. Considering only the re- listanoe opposed by simple vitility to the effects of abstinenco from food, we jave nothing to learn from fasts of forty days or fifty days, or evon from fasts, If evorsuch should be undertaken, or sixty days, or longer. Tho youn man who fasted sixty-one days nnd re mained alive, with fair chance of being sven restored to, strength, if properly ircawm, was simply tlio first as ho had been thus far the only man who has 3ver tried the experiment offasting uxty days. Richard A. Proctor, in Chi- ytgo Times. A HUNTER'S WHOPPER. OrlRln of the Phrase "And It Wann't a Good Iuy for Duck Klllior." In 18G0, the year before the war, ' party of Northern Illinois hunt is hied themselves to the lakes of Minnesota for an annual duck hunt of i few weeks, making the journey to St Paul, which was at that time but little not e than a frontier village, by steam er irom JJuhuque, Iowa. Among tho party was a chap named Truax, a pro verbial .liar, but a jolly, good-natured !ellow withal, whose predominant weakness was readily excused, if not mtirely overlooked, by those who knew urn well. . Abo, that being his first lame, seemed to struggle more reck- essly and naturally with the truth when diking about his prowess as a hunter )f game than on any other subject Jne afternoon as the steamer was plow- Jig us way through Lake Pepin, a Jiimoer oi me male passengers were. leaieu forward on the boiler deck, in ittlo knot, passing tho time away in jonvcrsation. Abo was a prominent igure in one of tlio groups, and had ilready astonished himself fairly by tho wiioppers no nau successfully gotten )ff, when the subject of duck-hunting, Jie mission which himself and frionds were out on, was adverted to. "I've mot a few ducks in my time." broke in Abe, during a momontary lull in the jillr f moM J :,1 1 'It t "i uiaur uiu viiu hvhf iciii in LIMEKILN CLOJ. BrorW Oardnrr 0n the Meeting; Will Mormon on llnmtn Nature. 'Human natur am a worry onsartli tding," said Nrothor Gardner as Eldei Toots quit shullllng his feet and laid back for a nap. "It am so full of streaks an' froak an' noshuns dat it am a wun ler da I.awd (loan' git discourage I wid ui sometimes." "A statesman will rlz up In do eave nln' an' d -clar' dat wo hov do greatest kentry on airth. Ne' mawniif, if his coffee am not up to par, or steak am a leetlo off, ho am walk out an' announce to do public dat our system of gov'ment am ono which will uvoiitooiy bring uo kentry to a stale of poverty an tlegradashun. "Uar am a largo class of people who, hen (ley hov honey fur supper, bless da Lawd fur his goodness an am ready to subscribe one hundred dollars to wards do eroiikshtin of a new church. N'tx' mawnin', when applo sass takes do plaoi ol honey, (ley einngiuo d it olo Satan has got a fust mortgage on ebory tiling, an Uey would ir I put up a nickel fur a church if diiy hud money to throw away, "Dar' am pooplo who go about wld broad sui'lo on deir faces an' tell you dat uis world am nil right. If daily growin' bettor an' It's plenty good 'nutr for anybody. An hour later. when do grocer or do butcher h ts called doir ntreiishun to a leetlo bill wiiion has runix months, de so mo changes. Do grin am gone, an' (lis world am all wrong. "We plan for a huckloborrv oxour shun widio foelin' dat our fellow man am all right. We wake up to find Hat exmirshun spoilt by a rainy day, nn we at once djciar our lollowmen a sot thieves an' conspirators. Dar am no necountln f ir what poo, weak, vusoillatm human natur will do. Weoxpook men t t;( wicked an' don hold up our hands o!r doir deeds. We know dat all marrngns can't bo happy, but am scandalised obor divorcos. We ohide d i se'lisli- nessof do world, but hanx to all wo git We . denounce an' rovi'e a man while ho libs, an turn about nn mako a hero an' martyr of him as soon as do bref loavos his body. Wo preach char ity to nu, uiu who oi us forgives our follow-man for his sbortcomin's? "I tell you, my frionds. wo am a poo'. miserable lot, no matter what 1) color or previous condishun, an' do ptisson who has do cheek to stan' up nn criu oizo his navburs am perhaps do wust siii'ep lu do lot Wo vo g t to show do streaks in our natur , an' do fa'k dat do man who will lend you money wi I out socurity will also run away wid your wife must not bo looked upon as any thing oat of the rog lar track of human natur'. Let us now pureed wid de r?g lar purcoodln's." Detroi tret rrcn. AMUSE THE CHILDREN. WHITE HOUSE LUNCHES. me dayP" queried a cross-eyed passes ?erirom down about Burlington. "You may not behove mo, sir," replied Truax, "but in the late fall of '57, I went mit ilono, one morning, about soven miles, (van my dog and gun, nnd brought homo two hundred and sixty ducks by ictual count and it wasn't a very good iay for ducks, either." "You did that ill alono, and in one trip P" asked the jross-eyed man, as ho put down some figures on an envelope with a pencil ho had carelessly taken from bis test pocket "Yes, sir, I did," said Truax, with a tinge of ill-humor to bis tnna "Those ducks would weigh about two i.u n nau pounds apteee, wouldn't theyp casually remarked tho Bur ton man, ns he kept on makinir char- scters with his pencil, "I should Bay they would," replied the unsuspecting Abe. "Well, then," said tho persistent ipiensi, -you Killed just six hundred nd fifty pounds of ducks, and if you 3an tell me how one man is able to lug that weight seven miles, and carry gun at the same time, yon will do xmicming mat no other liar in the Northwest can match." Abo reflected minute, and with, "That w a whopper, isn t it gentlemonP" he invited the whole party into tho bar to tako some thing at his expense. The remark, "And it wasn't a very goml day for ducks, either," was used banteringly on Truax hiring the remainder of. the trip, and in time became common on the Missis sippi, whence it spread until it beenmo ne of the proverbial Americanisms of tho time. St Louis aiotv-Donocrat. r -The fashion in pet dogs used to hang from year 'to year, nnd thi nade good business for tho do" fn. rfora. King Charles. Spit, ' pdles, Sull terriers, blaek-sud-tan. p. St Bernards and collies all had their day Extravagant prices were paid for choice pee.mons, and no woman of fashion happy unless alio had her dog. things have changed, and th f..i,i.? now is no doc. A ii.l . ... .t is, too.-CAiVi?o Herald, Tha Larlah Honpltallty fructirnl Under the Jaoknon mid Van Ituren ItrgliuM, Androw Jackson entertained lavishly on the night of his first inauguration. ItM. . . . m . t jtiia carpets oi mo eitst room were ruined by the orange punoh and lem onado which wore served tj the crowd which came to his reoeption. Barrols Al. ! I- ' t .. oi tins puncn were mano. ana it was brought into the room In buckets. At last tho pooplo began to rush for the waiters as soon as thoy entered the room. Glasses wore broken and ladies' dresses ruined. Tubs of pinion were finally taken into tho gardon, and in this way the throng was drawn oil and it was possiblo to serve eaka and winn to the ladies. 4 ft. Y-..I , - iuksoii tare wen roccption a monster choose, as big as a hogshead In circumference and nearly a yard thick, was cut with saw-blades mndu Into knives and served out to the o-iihsU. Each guost rocelved throo pounds of oheoso. The event was the talk of the nation, and wh.sn Van Buren became President his Now York fr'ends, omit- lative of Jackson, sent hi m a bir cheeso. It was cut nu in tin oast room. Tho greasy crumbs falling upon uiu earpui; woro irampiod i,it it, and the ruination of tho furniture dnrinv . ... . tnoso two administrations lod the later l'rosidnnts to dis'ontinuo tho practice of serving eatables at srener.il receptions. Now no sniest comes to a dinner at the White IIoiwo unless in vited. In Van Buren s day. IWo-irt. In his "Souvenirs d'un Diolomat" ara that tho President's cook told h is Viiltr that for soveral months uroen.llncr th eloction of 1810 many persons arrived at the White House for broakfast or dinner, and threatened to vote against van ijuron if thoy wore not enter tained. 1 ho cook stated thnt hn h,,A all tho trouble possible in satisfying thorn, and they often returned what ho sont up, doing so on the protoxt that it was unoatablo, and ordorod somo- imng eiso. lApinnojtCs Mtjaune. Some KHent War nf Kriln; th Lit tle One Quiet and Cueerrul, Givo tho children something to do and they will not torment yon by med dling with things with which they have no right It is only wlion most, chil dren are tired of their playthings and nro restless and unquiet that they aro apt to transjross the laws of obndinnce. A healthy child will very raroly Hit still for any length of timo. It isn't natural that he should, and it should not bo ex- I poctcd of him. It Is cruel and unnat- his beef-, ural to sav to a child whose principal ready to I f,,iL if tM,t t can be called, is rest lessness, "Go nnd sit down on that chair, and don't movo until I tell you." Yet often mothers say this and persist in having it strictly obeyed. I have eon little children so treated, with grave faces, go slowly to tho chair, take their places on It fold their hands, and like littlo martyrs sit quietly, with the exception of a long-drawn sigh that would escape from them now and thon, no matter how hard they tried to suppress it 1 his must surely be wrons to punish a child for no offenso what ever but his natural activity.' Had he wilfully disobeyed, he might have beer- t sr . . punisneu in a miiercni way, nut cer tainly no chastisement that could be given would be more trying to his dis position and uerves thau that of sitting st 1(1. How much better it -would be to pro vide something for the restless littlo hands and brains to do. Have some toys placed away to be brought out at just such a tune. When they are tired of their evety-day playthings, a sur prise at getting something new will cheer them wonderfully, and their de light and interest in their fresh posses sions will allay for a time, at least. their fever of restlessness. Let them have some harmless liquid glue and teach them to repair their broken toys. lhey will bedolighted to do this, for all healthy, active children love to work. and you will be astonished to watch tho puzzling and planning the little heads will do ere they complete their work to their own satisfaction. The articles may not bo put together just rizht: a dilapidated horse, that had both head ;tnd tail broken off. may bo fixed with head where the tail ought to "bo and vice versa, and a doll with broken feet may have the appearance of walking both waysatonco. But what of that? tho littlo mechanics are satisfied with their work, and who else has a riirht to complain? Not wo older people, snrelv. for we mako graver mistakes every dav iu our laoor. A scrap book is an excellent thin? for the lilllo ones to puzzle their brains over, uivo them a pair of scissors with out any points, such as aro usually used ai ttry goods stores, an old book with brown paper leaves, some paste and any Kim, of picture cards, papers, etc., and let them cut and paste to their heart's content They will occupy hours in this kind of work. "O," some of you may say, "they win make - such a mess with the little scraps of paper that they cut in trimming tho pictures." Very likely they will, but they can bo easily taught to pick them all 'up when they are through. If there is a baby in the family the mother can make a nice, stout picture book of silesia by covering two pfeeos of paste board of the sizo desired for covers, and sewing or gluing between, tiirhtlv. leaves of silesia of any eolor liked. Let the children fill it by pasliii? on-the leaves any kinds of pictures they wish, This will furnish a great deal of amuse ment for them, nnd be a serviceable, never-ending book of wonders to baby, ;.,.,.. n...i t J Klv Tha Ileaiitr, Purltr . Tl... Norths W.CC.S I A mora neck of earth Russian capital from the sea of Ladoga, and through 1,1 forty intervening verofo green and wavy with the tren.n "; pen. tie birch, the aider and J '' pme. the Neva moves ,.e,!-' down its deep channel, bjm clearings, past scattered. and straggling huts, between wood-yards and busy filcturJ, last, gliding along the famed 1 quays of tho imperial city, it '" ! live broad mouths and nr.. inntim timerable into tho Gulf 0f p , fcoU.tssian river has tho beam, nty, the picturesqueness, hi,V J attributes of this norths ?1' :yet to fully appreclat, i of its aspect In thaw, J1 pu tho course bleness r 1 iu mo W9J. . sen, one must bo familiar w th it try appoarance. and . abova ii ' its vernal emannin..;. ' frn.it k.. 1 " UV ii. ness the fetters of of the "father of nearly six months a llier Of W:irml. i, Slav Apollo, D,uh-Bog hi.ulf 1 ntrw n :.i: . . ' ft' rilicinap I.:.. , 1 1 for man and beast, the Neva ro. '! safe for travel late In tlio rnZ Atiril. and has usnnllv .-,.,..,. , . 1 dom by the beginning of May; tet opun;ng of tho attack on tlio cr,,, ' 1 no mass profiles tho ra;inient of melting by weeks. A month om 'fa elapses before the solar ravs havei, to sensibly thin the ice crust and f month of seeming defianco of thefo'L' of renaissance droskles pursue tk. chosen paths over tho congealed rim pedestrians continue to traverse it ' chair slides or on foot, the heavy wa J' of merchant and trader go runbiij" over in the same endless procM.J nnd the Samoyods. those t;viisioi.r n.ft. li ,;u .u: ii! ftiim, umi mull llioir rOIIHlUOrS tO tkft camping ground of their wintor ?. on tho frozon stream, which is torn i. homes ia bear them back to their Arctic circle. Tho metamorphosis then Ml,,.. with a swiftness truly llu-sun t. last 'screws and clasps of inoVni.. cohesion are drawn in a sinclo niAi. the thickest ino-plate then od;m solar enemy a thousand lines of march. In the morning, with lirm. quick st you may safely travorso tho Neva. 8jj ico-coverou; at noon, your return a barred by a clear, swcllinc whose whilom bonds have tiirncd dancing liquid facets, from which tba sun laiighs back its light and iu tri umph. J. rue, the lee is not yet whollr gone, but it m .-els "the eye lioneeforti purely as a spoct vole tlio offernnot of a river, but of a lako. ThisV ico is tho product of moro nortlien waters, the snowy blocks and bergs of Ladoga. gl:ttering d-'hrisi of an iinwuul combat that every spring renews, fa some days uftor tlio breakin-up aW tho Neva, in tlio interval betwet! the beginning of open and tht of safe navigation, the river channel ii thronged with broken strata, cleft blocks, truncated pillars, shivered cal limns; with spires and spunrs aa shafts; nay, with all shapcful mi shapoless masses, that half undergo and halt escape desolation In the an nual return of heat to the tar north. Slowly tho rank and file of this shining host glide past driving back to shelter a floet of venturesome forrv-boaU, bat tering the bridgo piers with dangcrom force nnd frequoncy, scraping tin quays with a sonorous attrition, and emitting throughout the duration ol their passao a stransre rustlinj, crunching sound. By day striking, by night solemn and woird, this scent passes in its turn, nnd for six monthi tho Neva presents the iispect which I havo described in tho opening pari- graph. Edmund Xob'e, in Atlantic AN INSULTED LADY. The Cincinnati CommcrcLil (hi-u prints a sketch of Mrs. Fancy Frost Me oldest livinir Inhabitant r,t th. al Northwest Territory. She w"as orn en October . 1784. IIr mind is ictivs and she is full f lifs In tha West la th tarty i.ya. THE HELIOTROPE. JiiMlaa'a Dlioovery ol tha Sweet, But Cn. pretention, l.lttle Hewer. Ono day the botanist Jussieu was herborizing on the Cordilloras. whn he suddenly found himself Inebriated t i . . oy die most aoitoious perfumo. Ho looked around, expocting to discovor some splendid llower, but norcoivod nothing but some protty oluraps of a gouuo green, from tho bottom of which littlo capsules of a fadod blue color were detachiiis themselves ll iw.....i -- ., V'lUt H-t mat me (lowers turned toward tl o,. ! uo taereioro gave It the name of uoiioiropo. t.:itanued with his acquisi tion, ho collected somo of the sent them to the Jar lin du Koi. Ti, French ladios wore charmed with i and made of it a lloral pot Thoy placed it in costly vases and christened it the flower of hve. From thenen it soon spread toother parts of the world and has everywhere beon greatly ad mired. On day a very charmin woman, who doted passionately on tho heliotrope, was asked what she oould see In this dull and sombor-lookinc plant to justify so much admiration! "tit cause, " she replied, "the helio trope's perfumo is to my parterre what tha soul is to beauty, refinement t love, and love to voath."riiVt u.,.,. Hn. ' " Appetizing Flavors. Some odil combinations in flavor have been the result of experiment Nearly every paid housekeeper knows that tomato, catsup is creallv iinnrovod bv uirowing into tho boiling pulp a good naiKitui of peach leaves. A leaf of lemon-scented verbena is euu il to necoo blossoms if pnt into a cuo of friurrant uoion teiu Ihe flavor nf Mt.l- birch Is very ngreoable in chocolate with which it harmonizes more finely tl,.,M .....,:ll 1 ...i.: '.!. J ...ii.. xiiiiiiii, aim which any ono can try by dipping a checkorberry lozenge or two into nor morning cup for sweetening. The old Virginia epicure never thinks his gumbo soup comoleto ....i ... . . . . uuiess sassairas leaves are added. The muscat ino or frost grape, gives the Unest bouquet to all sorts of cronms. jellies and sauces, and the sharn cider i. .ii i. i. , . en,), nicn is comparatively a new Jelly, is being preferred by many to either tranberry or currant jelly for t oast, uii Kcy and ven son n, m, Irtoune. It is difficult to sav hist what nil mo editor of the Reporter, of Abilnn Tex., but this is the way he takes on: "We have learned to bow and dance to the music with nimblo and elastio step. It's wonderful how magical one feels ns the m jsic floods the heart with sunshine, breaking up nil gathering oi imsi mat environ the soul, and im bibing in our nature hlHi asniration that spring into stranirth and beaut. 'Tis now the midnight hour that broods o'er all the sleeping land, and reigns triumphant over the world; 'tis the listless, still and pulseless part of the night when mnn most feels his imth. Ingness, and solemnity gains posses lion of the soul." Owing to the Increased electrieal tensity of the atmosphere, which is in duced by the continual evolution of itearn and smoke. Dr. Andrics, esti mates that the danger from lightning is from three to five times greater than it as fifty years ago y. y. Independent. He travels safo and not mnu.L tntly. who is guarded by poverty and fulded by lov.-5.r J Sidney, Complain' of a Woman Who, Theu Sot All Wind, It Certa nly a Yard Wlile. A woman weighing three ImnJreJ and sixty-nine pounds, wearing hiirhtir cut short, entered tho ollicoof tha pr identof the San Antonio Street Kailroal Company, aud in a voice that was i cross botween,a bass violin and I twilor slioDsaid: "I came hero to complain of the driver of one of your cars." - "What's ho been doinj?" asked th official. "In crossinz tho car track I had the misfortune to slip and fall, and 1 couM not get up right away, for asyoii sea I am not barah Bernhardt I m fat over." "Well, what next?" "The driver of tlio street car stopped his mule and insulted me." "What did he say?" "He said if I would trot np and H him drive on that I oould sit down again on the car track as soon as ui car had passed."- "1 shall have him reprimanded, s.u the ollicuil. "Thank you sir; thank yon. rn Psl" ronize your street car line hereaiier. that is, if the dopr is wide enough Good morning, sir." As she passod out, the ofliciai re marked to a olerk: "SIia mv not. h 'all wool ' but sn certainly is a yard wide." Tum S'f1' ing.i. The Ignorant Hindoo. Omaha Man "Coins to put up some fences, ch? By the wav, I noticed the other day that in Hindostan a farmer won't even build a fence without con- Julting a priest." Nebraska Farmer "What s for?" They want him to fix an ampiciou Jay, vou know." "Wvhat fools these heathens aro! T" time to plant fenceposts Is when tn horns of the moon are down. vmw World. . General Horace Porter says Mi Liberty can hold thirty-six men in her dead. That brings her about up to the average girl of the period. Boto Herald. It makes very little difference ho I hotel napkin is folded. The qo7 with the guest is who used it last--" Chicajo Journal.