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EUGENE CITY GUARD. Pvwfiritvta EUGENE CITY, OREGON. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL , It Is lilting Unit tliono who k mode to sull'cr should tujj'er well. Jiurlce. Thero is something wronjj within all Qioso who aro ufraid to look within, Becker. Nineteen million of the sixty mil lion nooplo in tliU lund are rooinlicrs f churches. The HostonSchool Hoard has yot" to reduce tlio time devoted to arithme tic In tlio public school and to simplify the process of Instruction. Mr. A. S. llarnos, of Knw York, has given $10,000 to Cornell Univcrsi lor the election of a building for tlie ollvo Christian Association. If I can nt ono touch of a rosy minuet into tlio lifo of any man woman, I shall fool tluit I have worked with God. Ocorge Mac Donald. Over 170,000 of tlio communicant members In regular connection witl tlie Lutheran Church in the United States aro found in the State of l'enu ylvanin. In Ktissla there are 82,000 schools, fcaidug each an average of 36 scholars. This in ono school for 2,300 inhabitants, at a cost of loss than u half-penny kesd of the opulution. Tho John Hopkins University of Jtaltinioru hm an income of 1 220,002 from tho endowment funds, and $10, 00 to f.lO.OOO from tuition. The stu dunta, therefore, pay only about ono- trtli of tho cost of thuir oduoatioa. Dr. Hoiutiiw I'onar, of Edinbnrjrh Scotland, an al lo preacher, author and fcjrnin-wntcr, but double best known hi tlie latter capacity, is making ar rangements to rctiro from active miu fatoriul lifo, after fifty yours' service. Tlio surprsing fact is noted that while tho Wesleyan Church In Croat Britain had 1,970 ministers. It had 21. 479 lay class leaders, and 15,009 local preachers last year, so that tho greater art of its pastoral nnd proachinjt work is done by laymon and none the less Uectire work for that, A". Y. Witness. Unaided by revolution the human Blind thinks itself out into an eternity i gloom, it Is awful to think when the thought can not strike God. 15ut, h, what a being It is that can think! Do you nolico that man always reasons pwarsr I hoy aro aspirations and though veiled at tho top, thoy are al ways towards thosii high and hidden thinjrs. Item. Dr. Magee. ti. ... . I. , . I, tusior ncunniiur, wno lor more tlian twcnty-livo years has boon at tho head of the Syrian Orphan's Ilomo in Jerusalem, reports that d uring the sea son just closed thero havo bcon mora tourwts and pilgrims In Jerusalem than to any slnglo year In his lifo in tho holy city. Thero wcro nearly 30,000 pit- prima, uussia is erecting a tower on 111 Olivet a hundred metres high. It will be tlie highest building In the JaM. t WIT AND WISDOM. Sloth is tho key of poverty. With tho generality of men, poliey m mam nioro powerful than prlneiplo. Thero aro fow who eonooive how HnstramonUl the tonguo Is t salvation r ondemnation. Quesnd. Jenuio Why, Annio, yaur hair is all masncd, your collar Is torn and you are as rod as a boot Anulo ChuVlio tmlloel Now Is tho time of yoar when love's young dream gets jolted all out of ahape becsuso tho hammock lots go, tiercAaui irarcicr. It wo strivo to bocome what wo strive to appear, manner may often be rendered useful guidos to the por- -aormanco oi our initios. Siilneif Smith. Thero is n woman In Connecticut who wears a number ntno shoa When ahe sets her shoo down her husband walks around It and says: "Yessuui, I will" ti. Journal. 'Men and women make sad mis- -takes about their own symptoms tak ing their vague, uneasy longings, soma wines for genius, somo times for relig ion, and, oftener still, for a niMitv love." " 7 lloircss-I am afraid It Is not for sne that you come hero so often, but lor my money. Ardont Wooer You re cruel to say so. How can I got Jour money without getting you. - Jioiton Courier. Father "Well, young man, you anust either marry my daughter or pay lor the gas you burned nil last winter." eorge "Kr I say you don't happen to have an engagement ring about )nour-7j Hit. Farmer WuybacV "I "want to seo your boss." Ollice-boy ' Havo you n wrd. sir?" Fanner Waybaek "Now you go 'long, ye pert little upstart, an' tell )'r boss I wanter see him. Ye n't come no threo-card-moute games n mej I've read tho papers, an' I'm posted." A German was passing along 'Rroadway the other day whon ono end f an overhanging sign camo looso and truck him on the head. "Oh, I'm dead." exclaimed tho man; but whor fce found he was stag alive he added "If dot hat kilt me I would heff sued the wner." AyorJt Journal. Some people spoaV as if hypocrites were confined to religion; mil they arc everywhere; people pretending to wealth ul.cn they have not a sixpence, waumlnjj knowledge of which they are Ignorant, shamming a culture they are tar removed from, adopting opinions they do not hold.-JIro. Albert Good-rUA. AMAZING ADVENTURES. Two TrBtb-Hntlns taire-Irliri UhI and r.fht m HlKlily Duel. Just how it happoned tluit tlie two stago drivers got ftito conversation to gether will probably never bo known; but the fact remains that they did. After some preliminary sparring lo establish the fact that each was a pro fessional liar as well as a driver, and a worthy opponent for tho other, tho Western man said: "I've done some porty remark'ble things In tho West, which I s'pose would s'prise you somo if I was to tell you 'bout 'cm. I was driving stage once an' at Fort Steclo somelxidy stole all the wheels o(Tn tho stage. I put the six bosses on a run an' went to Rawlins, eighteen mile, lickcty-brindle, with the stage flyin' in the air behind 'bout four feet from tho ground." "I hsve'druv stago somo, myself," mused the Eastern liar, ns he closed his eyes as if lost In thought, "but always in tlio East, so of course I never met with no such s'prlsin' adventures as you have. I remember one littlo inci dent, though, as might pos'bly be wuth tellin'. I was drivin' a four-boss stage 'tween Sonibblovillo and Bone Corners, twclvo miles. One day jes's I got ready to start I discovered that somebody had stole tho road between the two places. Plenty o' whooU on my stage, unner staiul, but no road to run 'cm on. I Jcs' wont down to Iiuttorworth creek an' got a couple o' bridgos an' stuck one of 'em out towards the Corners, driiv out on it, d rawed the other out and shoved it ahead, druv on it, an kep' ivpeatln'. I made tlio drive in something over four hours." les, saiit tlio Western liar, ap provingly, "that was tho best you could do if you didn't have no extra roads along. Wo gen'ly carried 'long ono or two to use in ewe of 'mergen cies. Ever have any trouble with road agent?" "You moan robbers, I guess?" "Yes." "A couple of 'em tackled me one day but I chmod m two milo an' finely run over urn with the stage." "All tho road agents in tho West com bined once near Julesburg to down me, Twenty-tiro of 'om opened fire on my coach at once. It made me mad, an' I got off with my Winchostor an' wont for em. I Wt my bosses' an' passon gers an' boat 'round in tho sage-brush for throe days shootin' road agents, One would jump up 'bout or'ry fire minutes an' I would crack him orer. Lots o fun, though I neodc 1 a good bird dog. Stage company lined me two hundred dollars for dolavin bus'ness. in was luriimr aown tno river near North Platte that tho m'skeeturs tried to hold me up noxt summer. They swarmed all ever. One hoss died from loss o' blood good hoss, too. I be lievo a couple o' English tourists who were riding outside got killod by em, too. I wont to smoking some dog-tail terbacker a man from Missoury give me an that Uxed em. "Ye ean't skeor Jersey skeeters wi:h smoke," said the Eastern driver, calm ly. " Pre drur there and tried it One evening they were coming up out of bwlgwick s mnrsh powerful thick. I lit my pipe an lowed to driro 'era 'war. I was puffin' 'long whon suddenly one of 'em come up an' asked me for a light, an' I looked 'round an' seen nothor one soratchin' a match on his log an' lightin' a cigar. They were bad that trip. They would come up out of that marsh an' stand 'long the road an' sort o' lean over an' look at me liko a turkey lookiii' at a ETasshonr,or. I guess they thought I was too small game. Somo o the young ones picked at mo, though, an' made it sort o' dis- groo ble," "Ever have any sporionce with raw hide traces ? " askod tlio Western mail, No, ' answered tho other, doubt fully, "I guess not mobby I havo under some other namo, though prob- biy 1 have, lio 'head." I tried 'om out in tho Green river ountry thought they would be very ur'blo. you know. Didn't think 'bout heir li'bil'ty to stretch. I was iroin' om Point of IU'ks to Green Hivor. ordud Alkali creek an' them tugs bo- gun to streteh. I was ridin' tho near wheel hoss fur a ehango at the time, an' lino i anowoa it tlio coach was two nulo behind. I thought o' froin' back ilk mini u woiiiuu I no no irood enusn i i. 1 1..,. , . . ther wcro tho onlv traces ep' goin'. When I got to Rock Siirinsr. ten milo from tlio creek, I stopped. I .!:.!.. i . . iuu t miiiw wuai w oo at nrst, mil jes appened to think of a scheme and tied it. I tiod all them tujrs together and fastened 'em to a tree, an' jes' set own an waiteil. 1 ho sun shone warm. ami by- n -bv them traces Vim to brink an' In 'bout two hours the coach o:no rattlin' 'long 'sif thero was forty tosses to it" I don't b'lieve I erer had a sperienee r.arkly like that" said the intern driver, "but I had ono most as :ul when 1 druv over the mount'ins in i rennsylvanv. Thero como no a rain an' my whip lash cot wet I was crackin it 'round an' tho end of it got caught some way on a small tree. I kep' holt of the handlo au' went on our or five mile, where we stopped for inner, l mrowca the wh n il.nvi. caught on tho fence, After I got irongn eatm' I went out an' I'm a ar if that lash wasn't shrinkin' n,l towin' in that tree, which it had pulled P oy uio root. I al avs 'lowed there us powerful good stuff in that lash!" "Must ha' been some raw-hide in it raps some o' tho same that was In my traces. I reckon 'bout the most r. mark'ble thing I ever done was when I rought the string o' coaches into Atchison. Some disease struck into the hosses aa' killed 'em off all 'Lm B the lino. There was a deserted eoai-l at pretty near er'ry station. I drov. through from the Slope, an' hod i rattlin' good team. Ev'ry timo I conn to a coach I'd have 'cm tie it bchim an' I'd take it 'long. I got tho biggesi string of 'cm you ever seed. I nn' tin passengers on the front end would tukr dinner at one meal station, an' tin onus on the hind 'end at mobby the second station back. I drove 'bout the 3 1 reels o' Atchison gittin' that string o' coaches coiled up 'round tho towp fcr two days. Como to find out a whole lot o' movers an' em'grant trains comin' back had hitched on, an' I had lioen haulin' the wholo outfit You bet my hosses got thin on that trip.'.' "Durned if it aint funny that we should have bud so many sperienccs 'bout the samo. In an early day I was ilrivin' in Maino long the coast, an picked up coaches all 'long, jos' like you did. The string got so long that I t'ouldn t tell what did hitch on, an when I got to Squaghavcn I found had been snakin' 'long several hundred farmers' wagons, four freight trains that went on n railroad that run by the ldn o' tlio wason rond an' two large fishin' vessels, that were goin' to Squag- haven an' had hitched on tho hind end an' b?en towed right 'long into port" Thon the two drivers drifted apart Dakota Bell. UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS. Many of the TrMent Omrani Said to b Too OM for Actlre Service. lhe lormation of a committee com posed of officers of the regular army and tho militia of the several States to agitato the question of having annual encampments and maneuvers in which tho Natrnul nnd State forces shall par ticipale is well received by army men particularly by tho younger officers. Tho establishment of snch a practical school of instruction would bo of great value to the National Guard, and equal ly as valuable to tho rank and filo of the regular army. In conversation. young oiileer who has scrvoa many years on the frontier, said: "I heartily wish the autumn-man euvcr project may succeed. What t Shaking up it would create among the old officers, both fiold and line! Why, ir tue regular army was callif upon next week for activo service coin para tivoly fow of the field officers could ac company their rcgimouts by reason of physical disability. You may notice 'hat occasionally orders are issued from tho war Department for regiments to exchange stations, and frequently these orders provido that tho exchange shall e made by marching. Tho actual marching is done by tlio enlisted moil and subaltern officers, whilo tlio field aim stun uu tneir marching in spring wagons and Pullman cars, not because thoy prefer these vehicles, but because physical disabilities prevent them from accompanying their regiments. "We have cavalry officers in the act ive Borneo who have not mounted horsafor years, and nany others who are unable to ride for five consecutive hours. The same is true of tho artil lery and infantry. In the latter corps mere are a lew one-ieggod company offioors. Think of a one-iesjred Captain or Lieutenant in a marching regiment! The army is now in tlie condition it was whon the war began in 1861. It was thon officered by old men, who were at once shaken out whon hostilities began, and the young men had to take thoir places. Why not retire these old and lisablod officers and promote the yoiuns men, that they may by exercise of com mand, be prepared for tho emergency that is liable to arise at any timoP The seniors hare done good service and do serve grateful consideration, but they should not be continued from a feeling of mere sentiment when their continu ance is at tho exponso of tho efficiency of tho army. Let mo show vou somo Azures 1 havo eollectod bearing upon this ques tion. Wo have ten reirimentsof cavulrv. This is hard service and requires activo young men. I he youngest cavalry Colonel is fifty-four. Of the other nine. four nre over sixry and eight are over litty-seven. Of the Lieuten. ant-Colonels eight are over fifty and throo are over fifty-seven. Of tho Majors eight are over fifty-live. and eighteen over fifty. Of the 120 Captains of cavalry, twenty-four are over lifry, and fifty-six have passed their rorty-ufth birthday. Look at tho artil lery. Al its Colonels have passed sixty, and all its Lieutenant-Colonels fifty-live. The oldest Major is fifty -seven and the youngest forty-five, while fifty-one Captains have passed forty-five and five r Iwi Lieutenants havo passed fifty. Of the twenty-five infantry Colonels twenty-three are upward of fiftv. and the other two are forty-nine. Twentv-one Jeutcnaut-Colonclsand thirteen Maiors have passed fifty, while ninety Captains have passed that age and 193 are over forty-live. Among the First Lieuten ants of infantry 1 find thirty-two who are over forty-five, and twenty who are ver lirty. if Congress would do some- thin::, even to retire from th.i blind, the lame and the halt officers the efficiency of the military service would be inereivscd and tho esprit de corps materially advanced. The estab lishment of full maneuvers' provided all officers were required to exercise their proper command, would make plain tho absolute necessity for a closer nspeetion of t':e recrular arniv and th weeding out of the inefficient" H'osA ington Cor. Chicago AVirs. m i Aeeordinff to a London bean is the national herb of America and beans ami bacon form the national ish or tlie Eastern States. whil fri,l chickens and the clam are the dishes of the South. The staple of tha V.r u ash, according to the same authority. Cuod iloustkttping. DECAYING ROYALTY. The King of Earth ail ltrokan Up and (lotng to I'leeim. What is the matter with the royalty of tho world? It is nil broken up and iroinz to pieces. Dom Pedro of linizil has become almost a chattering in becilo and a regent is talked of. Queen Victoria is passing into decrepitudo and second childhood, and it is no se cret that the Prince of Wales does not expect to ascend the throne, believing that ero it shall be vacant Ureal isritain will have become a republic. Emperor William has one foot in tho gravo. and the'Kronprinr is battling with what may prove nn incurable disease Iho Czar of all the Russian has faced three successive attempts at assassination in tlie lust six months, and contemplates the probability nay, almost certainty that somo one of the scries still awaitinz bim will prove fatal. His eldest son and heir, apparent Is in com petent Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria nnd Hungary, is beloved and honorod by bis subjects. But be is a fcoblo old man, anil whon he dies the bonds which unite Austria and Hungary are likely to snap asunder. Tho Ctown Prince is very unpopular, and his mother, the fearless horsewoman, Em press Elizabeth, is almost hated. Spain has no sovereign. It is waiting for a clouted baby to grow np into a Queen. Servia does not know whether it has a King or Queen or not Queen Natalie, a Russian officer's daughter, is in exile with the heir apparent King Milan has ordered that she be never allowed to return. He himself is in Vienna, and Ristics, the Prime Minister, is lying awnko nights pondering whether he shall not order both King and Queen to stay 'out of the country, and he himself run the Government There is our friend ex-King Thre baw of Burmah knocked out of his job at Mandalay by General Pcndorgast and some English soldiers. Then theie is Abdurrahman, poor vexed soul, who can't for the life of him tell you to-day whether he is Ameer of Afghanistan or a nyre English figure-head. Then, too, there is the fat economical eld Quoen of the Netherlands, who has just scandalized Amsterdam by revoking her order for her gay dresses, lest the sick King should die and she have to wear black. The King of Corea has asked to bo allowed to quit The royalty of earth is sick, and the sick ness is unto death. Cincinnati Vost. HAPPINESS OF FLIGHT. Tlie Pure Enjoymrnl Which Bird Take In Tliolr Aerial Exrnniloo.i. May we not infer that all animals whose muscular development is great er in proportion to their bulk than that oi man should derive from its exercise a greater intensity of pleasure, greater absolutely in proportion to the attainments and Jess interfered with by the greater muscular ease with which they are accomplished. If tbi is so the majority of tlie mammalia and almost all birds should in their powers of speeuy movements on earth or lofty night ia the air possess resources of mental pleasure intense beyond ours and Ions subjoot to be dimmed by the pain f overstrained muscles. The power of flight is without doubt asso ciated with pleasures which we can not directly gauge or estimate, but of the value of which our desires can give us some idea, lhat birds distinctly enjoy the exercise of their powers there can be no manner of doubt Having once acquired the power of flight or inherited it from their snuiopsidan an cestor, they hnve developed it far be yond all tho requirements of their in iiivHiuai or spcciuc ine. II it were not pleasurable, then flight would bo discontinued when it was no lonsrer necessary. But as fact bird lifo presents innumerable instances of the maintenance of the powers of flight in lecies 10 wnose existence it is oy no means essential. Tho skylark docs not soar from mercenary motives; pigeons. domesticated for generations, fly about all day long, though they need to seek neither food nor shelter. It is not nec essary to watch birds on tho wing for very long to convince one's self that the act of flight is one of pure enjoy ment, that it is cultivated and adorned with the refinements which character ize an "accomplishment" Such is tlie evolution of the tumbler piceon. such the more refined and masterly hoveriii" of some birds who possess the power of so balancing themselves on a slantin breeze as to remain motionless with re spect to the earth, without apparently moving a wing or a feather, lloatinir nu me ume, sun ana calm. Mmttcnth Ctntury. A stout red-nosed man offered to wager a ten dollar bill that he could closo bis eyes and, simply by taste, nameanv kind of liquor in the house. The bet was taken. "This is genuine port" said the fat man, tasting from a wine glass; "and this is whisky," and soon. A wag then poured a few drops of water into a gloss and handed it to the tauter. "This is ah ah this is (tasting it several times) by Jupitor! gentlemen, I lose the bet I never tasted this liquor before." V. T. Ltdgcr. The volcanoes Popocatepetl and Ixtaecihntl, says a Mexican exchange, present a grand spectacle on clear morning They are covered with ice and snow from their tops to within a few hundred feet of their bases. This is a regular phenomenon of tho sum mer months. Colonel William T. Shaw, a well known Iowa volunteer officer of the war. is writing a history of tlm bnttle of Shiloh, which will be published iu U o' form. 1 READING FOR BOYS. Dob Iturdette DUoonne the Funny Hide of a I'Mthetlo l.lltla tolarj. No, oh no; we nre not going to pitch Into the five cent blood and thunder novelette; not right directly at anj rate. We were just looking over n story in n most excellent and highly respectable juvenile maguzine; a good magazine, that doubtless views with alarm, as do till the rest of us, the poisonous liternturo of the news stand This story is about a boy, fifteen years old, who, wliilu standing alono on his father s engine on a lonely siding, saw a runaway train of cars, started by the wind, sweep past him down the grade, Usual thing the lightning express nearly duo; tho train dispatcher always manages to have a lightning express about duo when any thing of tins kind happons. Thero is "no telegraph wire either;" this Is also usual; n road with out a wiro is apt to run lightning ex presses and limited expresses every fifteen minutes. Tho boy thinks quickly; boys of fifteon are always quick thiukors; ho runs his ongino out on tho main line, setting tho switches for himself, for his father has gone to supper, miles away in the country, presumably, as it is quito customary for railway engineers to take nil thoir meals on distant ranches, leaving their engines in charge of chil dren. Tho runaway cars "aro miles away;" and ho has "less than an hour" to catch them. Ho caught tho runaways, which were flying like tlio wind; ho slowed up "with ex cellcnt judgment" we should think so crept along the sido of his flying en gine, got on tho pilot liftod the "coup ling bar with ono hand" and reached over as ho "made the coupling and dropped the pin in with tho other;" had a struggle with tho flying cars but at last chocked them; got them started back, he making thirty-five miles an hour and the "Lightning" in sight making sixty on a road without a wiro- ho had ton miles to run in this Bhape, but ho made it, got in on the siding, time to turn tho switch.and the "Lightning" thundered by. Then "the boy fainted dead away." No wonder; it was enough to ninko a man faint to read it; it was high time some body fainted. Now the question is just this: does tho boy get any thing better out of such nonsense than he does out of "Kid, tho Sleuth Hound, or The Boy Terror of Gory Canyon." Between ourselves nnd the comma we reallv find "Tho Boy Terror" quite as easy to believe and much more interesting reading. We haven't tho least objec- .tion. t?Se&tirrwe- T.UlTe'r'1iko Tt. but great Scott, even fiction for boys should have somo senso in it Not much, per haps, but just some. llurcktte, in Brooklyn Eagle. . COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. The Suprrrae Court Decide Thot They Can bell Good Without Llnv. The "gentlemen of the road" hnve become a numerous and important class of late years. A decade or two agi they were few and far between. Mer chants visited the cities nnd made their own selections.. The drummer would often meet them nt their respective hotels, show them the town, and attend to their wants at the store or ware house; but in latter times country mer chants need not leave their stores; the commercial traveler will fill his order for every thing to be wanted. For a few years back many States have en deavored to increase their revenues and at the same timo to protect their manu facturers and wholesale merchants by imposing a tax on travelers offering to sell by sample or on delivery, who como from other States. The amount of the tax was very considerable, in the form of a license, in some cases fifty dollars and in others less. This tax al most precluded the traveling drummer. Tho Supreme Court of tho United States has recently made a decision that "leg islation by States or municipalities im posing tixos on commercial traveler engaged in Inter-State commerce was not warranted by tlio Constitution." Tho legislation acted on in this case was that of Tennessee, entitled tho "Robbins Case." Another case arose in Maryland with similar results. While some of tho States continue to impose penalties for selling without license hs provided by the local stat utes, the drummer will thus be reqnircd either to pay or appeal to the United Stites Court It is not likely that they will continue to impose it after there has been a decision of the matter in each respective State. It would seem a most unjust discrimination to make be causo of a drummer representing goods grown or made in another State. If the States can restrict tho pnssarro nnd business of residents of other States through their respective territories it would be tho most emphatic phase of tho principle of "state's rights" that has yet been promulgated. Every resi dent of the United States must be glad uiai tne Mipreme Court has taken that very sound view of tlie case. Let us be a united people, and as far us possible destroy every barrier to our unity let self-interest yield to the public good. - m e An extraordinary sight at the sea; shore is presented by tho girls dressed in one of the largest most stirtling plaids in fashion, and driving on a high scat while the young man sits humbly dciow ner in moitcst demureiiess. As she floirishes the whip ho is probably blushing with timidity lest the horse should start suddenly. Boston Journal r.ural Item New Yorker "What fresh, air you have out here. It's so mo.h fresher than in New York." FuTiicr "Jess so! That's jest wl.at I was saying to mv old woman. Whv ain't all these big cities built out in the ountryr Tcscu Stflini. ClriklrM - There are 2.003 ton.. n tho bulldin i c. States. "UU1,j The cost of th . to tlio men and JS, t 12,000.000. lucre am ViQ .... South. Ge6rgiHlie;( Tennessee come. ....' .? h, Tennessee come, uJxtV V bnma'JO. " -A physician livin ftM says that during ), " V has noted the hour and mlm! h in ninety-three patie has gone out with the ti,n who died suddenly by aeV --It is reported that rid, is about to establish a Da J . San Luis Potosi, Mexico of at least $.500,000. Thsnrt tcrial used will be fibrous plant which grovn .!T'4 iu that section. 6 H -About midway bntwetn, burg and Moscow, PriCe p; made the important arch coveryof animagooftheco of Ursa Ma orcii'ri-ivo,) . . of the Stone Age. A similar in Germany. -What is termed flexible H useful product in. int,j... V , ----- j 'uuucefl, u of propor thickness is ren i j u.is mi copal vimiii whon dry. is polished, rub punpee stone, and a layer of class is annlieil ami r,,u..j ,.' Tho surfaco is as perfect utJ Though electrical stnn v.. have attracted attention onJr uiu p.ii-1, buvuii j ears, tlie dis the principle is as old as the p uausneroi navmg first noticed it that platinum or silver wires n, a current after bein" from a voltaic battery with had boon used for decoi.iposin.n water. The first secomlarj . Plante was made in 1850,-jf Traveler. A universal eomnetitivn w. of science and industry will. Brussels, Belgium. Mav L M continuo six month. Fiftr-ci mittecs representing all inilurii various specialties, have framed r. tions whoso solution forms the it. competition. Medals, diplomwi 9100,000 in cash will be swanWi hibitors, who aro given special ail ments by the Belgian goveratw the way of transportation, mani and duties. In nearly every denartraentrfir imnto industry greater or lessupn mont is observed in comparison the like numbor of many prm. vears. Lumber, coal, netrolean. cotton fabrics are conspicuous bill steadiness through tho usual mid -summer dullness. Railroad nl ings gained fifteen per cent is J and fifty roads show an increase ,' per eent for tno nrsi woes oi 4 -. . .. - . , . , ifoncv has Iiimkiiiih mme uWi. the metrovioliH. but tho dailrdo in Wall street are small antique sag upon the slightest provociw Chicago InUr Vocan. Those who have acnnwiiK put it into their wonk and never w from tho plain path of duty & certain triumph. Chrisli'in ito a lie communistic colony aft Angeles, on Puget Sound, nownnrV 150 persons. They own two thw acres of land, and expect to build' operate a saw-mill soon. Unlike successful colonies, they prufes H h'gions basis, and east aside cmi The Amateurs : Suburban R "Ah, I saw you were at our T ricals' the other nklit Howdil'' like my assuuiptio'i of Hamlet?" C did Friend "My dear filar, p- pieee of assumption I ever si"11; life!" TWA. "I don't know what you tm$ not Wing an Irishman." said H man who was about hirinj a wy, you were born in Ireland." "OA!1 honor, if that's nil." said tlio boy.' blame to that. Suppose your ti n fy hntra l-iltnna in llin flVl'O. WOW"" f I,,.,., 19" T1KE- SIHM0NS LIVER REGULHf Far U Ducasct of It Llrer, Sidneys, Stomach d Sr Thfci purely vnftabl f paration, now w celeb"1!" Family Medicine, engirutrt" the South in 1B2S. ' "J Srntly en th. BowH ldueyi. nnd eorrfcU flion of the Lier, mxi i. fere, the bent prPf"7 medicln. whaterer tne neu may prow lo be. ! " common dlirasej it wiH, minted by wy mbo cine, cneci a npew- An Efflraclonn Remedy.-. 'Z.,r a. I M. , mend an n cmcaooua remedy tot an v Liver, Headache and lWl lZu' regulator. Lxwin v. 1 Mater, Philadelphia. No lomofrlme.no to ruption or nUnip " btuineu, while aiv " Regulator. , Chadrea tmplaiil CoUe. Headache, Kto ranch, a teaspoon " nor will (it relief. V taken accaaionatlT f tf fents txpontd M MALARWj will expel the pobon and pre"" them from attack. I haw been practicing medienie and hare amr been able to pat f' If compound that would, like Simmo i latnr mmm), and rSWlTTCrr n0 , J adioa, aod at the name ome aid tningi the directive and lycm. i M. MtKroa, at. 1 UK THAT TOC GET THE sl rarAH9 at u J.H.Ze;iml.Co..PhihlW't' razes, ei-ow-