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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1888)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. LlfcCAHPIICLX, Proprietor. TELEGRAPHIC. An Eittoni or thb Principal Evkht Nkw Attracting Public I.stcihwt. euoene crry. Oregon. It is estimated that 11W tons can now be carried thirteen miles an hour by iteamphip at a mile cot, includin Juel, inirance, Ac, of one-eighth of penny. Th decay of organic matter lis tieen found by Schloesing to begin un der the influence of living organisms. Between 100 and 120 degrees, Fahren lieit, this action ceases, and is sue ceded by a purely chemical process -of slow combustion, which increases rapidly with the temperature. A hkw method of weather predic tion has been discovered by Ch. Mon tigny, a French physicist, lie has ob served that the scintillations of stars increase before many storms, indicate ing disturbance of the upper atmos phere hours before the meteorological instruments show any change. The fiercer the storm the more is the atrenstn of the scintillations in teased. Im the year which ended on tli9 31st J last December the population of Australia increased to the extent of 100,011 souls, while Tasmania an New Zealand showed increases of .267 and 13,975 respectively. The ' total population of all Australia is now 3.516.725. The rate of increase . for the past year was about 3 per oent A wkitkk tells of a piece of good -fortune coming from the sonambulis- lio habit. A young woman, troubled and anxious about a prize foi which alia wsa going to compete, involving the writing of an essay, arose from ler bed in sleep and wrote a paper up on a subject upon which she had not intended to write when awake, and this essay secured for her the prlie. IIhb. Bciiakfku, of Chicago, has lately invented a garbage crematory built on the plan of a Wee oven. It fa fed from the top, the ashes lifting through iron grates into four-wheel arta so that they may be conveniently liauled away. It is so constructed that all the smoke and smell is carried by pipe into a large smokestack. She has also constructed a machine for washing windows. Thb intorinfection of diphtheria between man and various lower ani mals, from pigeons and fowls to cats, horses and shoe p, has been pretty well established by Dr. Goorge Turner, who reports the results of his investiga tions to the British Local Govern went Board. He found that the "Xapee" in chickens was frequently complicated with diphtheroid nieuv hraneous growth. TaUtORArH poles are preserved in Sorway by making an auger-hole about two foot from the ground, in which four or five ounces of sulphate of copper in coarse crystals are placed and plugged in. The chemical is gradually absorbed by the wood until ita whole outer surface turns of gxeeuish hue. The sulphate requires an occasional renewal, and is said to be a perfect preservative. A wild girl, some twelve or four teen years old, has beon discovered in QaUhoula Parish, La., and (he people thore are anxious to capture without harming her, and see if it is not pos ible to civilize her. She is thought to be one of two children brought thither by a gypsy tramp woman some years ago, and to have been abandoned on accouut of a club foot that prevented her walking fast. Theki is no city in the world in which so much black is worn as Taris, writes a correspondent. It is a rule in all large establishments that the salos' women should be clad in black. Dark colors are made the badge of respecta bility, so that the mother of a family hesitates to engage a teacher or gov erness who makes her appearance in anything that is not drab, black or brown. Theri is a woman in Minneapolis -who possesses some handsome dia monds. She puts them in a box, puts the box in a rag-bag, puts the rag bag on the closet floor, and at night puts the watch dog in the closet on top of the rag-bag, locks him in there and every night hides the key in a differ nt place. Her husband says that if he had her way she would arm him to the teeth and put him In the closet -with (he dog. -It Is ihs imie thln dono with. ratelT.rt, atloast without disturblne ur plans Iif. that ofien produce tlie linppl 9t ro.ulu Beautiful flow rs grow from an,li dropped nut of band, that ,- fllU , oUlor carul j ,4. i ieiinjlena. Four of the lineal buildings in Macon, Mo., were destroyed by fire. The loss is over f 100.000; insurance, $50,000. The loss by fire at Chattanooga. Tenn., on Ang. 10, was 1400,000, and the loss of life is estimated at ten peo ple, and four badly wounded. Lee's planing mill and adjoining structures at East Saginaw, Mich., burned, it Loss, $110,000: insurance light. Yellow fever ba been declared an epidemic at Jacksonville, Fla., and the people are fleeing. The weather is hot and very favorable for a spread of the disease. Duriug a thunder storm Martin Olsen. living on a farm three miles west of Lonsboro, Minn., was killed by lightning, together with two of his children. The colored porter of a sleeping-car attached to the Union Pacific west bound flyer was shot and instantly killed by an insane passenger named Hutchinson Arnold, of Nicholasville, Ky. Mrs. D, Ma zee, toll-gato keeper on the turnpike at Columbus, Ind., was shot and killed in cold blood by a man who rode up to her lodge at midnight Henry Keller, a deputy sheriff, is held for the crime. Trappers encamped on the Red River near Denieon, Texas, report the killing by Indians of a trapper named Meyers, with bis wife and two chil dren July 16, while in camp on the Territory side of the river. Meyers was from Michigan. Beardon, the negro who shot and fatally wounded Officer Palmer at Springfield, Mo., was captured, but not until his body was filled with lead. He was placed in the Springfield j til, which is now surrounded by a mob of 300 armed men, who threaten to lynch the despersdo. Mrs. George Allen was burned to death at Cleveland, Ohio, by the ex plosion of a gasoline stove. She rushed from the house and fell upon the pavement, shrieking horribly. Every particle of clothing was burned oil but her shoes. Her husband is now a maniac from the shock. Charles Henry Riedel was hanged at New Castle, Del., for the murder of his wife and child, on the night of September 16 last. Riedel then tnrned the weapon on himself and firod two bullets into his head, but they did not penetrate the brain, and he recovered. Poverty and despond ency caused the act. W. G. Lnms, a blacksmith, was shot and killed at Danville, HI., by O, Allen, a notorious character, who had been hired by Dectective Hall to ar rest Lams on a charge of assaulting a woman Allen claims was hi wife. The murder was most deliberate, Lams of fering no resistance to arrest. The in dignation against Allen may end in lynching. A car of stone left the rails near Mapleton, Pa., where a gang of men were building a bridge, and crashed through a light trestle, crushing the workmen into the Juniata river, fifty feet below. Two men were fatally in ured, and three are in a dangerous condition. They probably will be crippled for life. Several others were more or less injured. At the Ohio A, Wisconsin coal mines, two miles west of Alma, Iowa, Michael Dial, an old miner, killed his son Dick with a shotgun. The ton was about 27 years old. The old man is in custody of the sheriff and nearly crazed with grief. It seems Ihat there was a family row, and the father claims he shot his son in self defense james r. mclrwb, civil engineer, was killed on the line of the coal road of the Southern Pacifio Company, be tween Urooker tud Carbonado, Cal. Mr. McLaws came up on the grade Just as ajieavy blast was being ex pioueu. lie was crurneu oy a tailing rock. He was buried in Carbonado. He leaves a wife in Memphis, Tenn. He was aged about 3D. A mixed train on the Fairland bunch of the Cincinnati, Indian apolis, St. Louis A Chicago road, whs thrown from the track near Morgan- town, Ind., by a broken rail. The baggage car and single passenger coach rolled down a thirty-foot em bankmenl, and every person in the car, with'Mijjxjip tion, received in uries. Ko one was killed outright, but one or two may die. COAST CULLINGS. DKVOTED PRINCIPALLY TO WaSWNOTON Territory and California. IWehor said the impulse to the wrong use of the tongue Is so great that if a man has the power to control that, there is nothing elsu so strong that he can not control It. nnd in (hat sense ho is a perfect man that can com mand his tongue. Daily ought we to renew our pur poses, and to stir ourselves up to great er fervor, and to say: "Help me. my God, In this my good pnrpoio and in Thy holy service, and grant that I may now this day begin perfootly. Thomas Aempu. What more passing than words? A breath! What very, very fow words ours rest with us! We forgot them ns soon as spoken. God does not for get them. They do God s work or atm s work on others; they pass in act, they abide in effect I'usey. God lades the wings of private prayer with the sweetest clioicot and ch'efet blesing. Ah! how often hath God kiMod the poor Christian at the beginning of private prayer, spoken p-ace to Iilm in the midst of prayer, ml fil ed him with light joy and as surance upon in close! Jacob Penner was killed by falling out of a wagon at Redding, Cal., when it overturned, breaking his neck. Frank Taylor, aged 14, son of G. B, Taylor, was drowned while swimming in the Ventnr river, near San Buena Ventura, Cal. Fire in the .snow sheds at Cisco, Cal., destroyed 2,000 feet of sheds. By great efforts the station and other property were saved. A young man named Kyan, a resident of Han Francisco, was drowned in the Sacramento river, near Sacramento, Cal. Jack Sheridan, a bod-carrier, fell from a horse car at Los Angeles, Cal. The wheels passed over bis chest, and he died in a few moments. He leaves a widow and several children. ' Corry L. Young, sged 19 years, son of J. 8. Young, of San Francisco, was accidently shot and killed while hunt ing. He was alone at the time. The cause ol the accident is unknown. A boy named Willie Kearney, 7 years old, started across a street in San Francisco, when an ice wagon be ing driven at a rapid rate, suddenly turned the corner, rnnning over the boy and crushing him to death. William Tatum, an inmate of the German hoc pi Lai at San Francisco be came violently delirious, and jumped from tbo third-story window of the hospital, a distance of fifty feet, light ing on his bead. Death resnlted al most instantly. Fire broke out in L. Voss's lumber yard at Hunt's hill, six miles from Nevada City, Nev., and 300,000 feet of choice lumber was burned, causing a loss of from $0,000 to $10,000. There was email insurance. The fire is thought to be inccn diary. Frank Jacobs and Harvey Nesbitt, boys 11 years old, went hunting rquir rels near Sto'ekton, Cal., with dogs. While walking over the field.-', Jacobs was shot in the right side, the ball entering the stomach. The wound msy prove fatal.- Fire, believed to have been incen diary, at Los Angeles, Cal., destroyed the residence and a barn containing six horsea of John Ryan, a saloon keeper, and a building occupied by A'tta s Isaacs, second-hand dealers lotal lots, $4,500; partly insured. The charred remains of Patrick. Mc CHrthy, a laborer, were found after the nre was extinguished, lie is sup posed to nave been intoxicated. A lb-year-old boy named Bartholo mew Nyham,' employed in the rope works at the Potrero, in San Francis co, was instantly killed. He was en gaged in the works when one of the rapidly revolving bobbins was re leased from its socket and flew through the air with terrific force. It struck the boy upon the back of the neck, dislocating the spinal column and causing instant death. Odcar Legault killed a negro named Samuel Morris with a blow of his fist, at Truckee, Cal. The killing occurred in a saloon. Morris struck Legault, who had not molested him. Legault struck him with his hsl squarely on the bridge of the nose. Pieces of bone were driven into the head, caus ing deash in one hour. The coroner's jury completely exonerated Legault. Morris had served a term in San Quentin. Fire at Fulton, Cal., destroyed about $14,WW worth ol property, con sisting of a brick wine cellar, and its contents, 35,000 gallons of wine, valued at $12,000, owned by W. Chis holm, of Petal urn a. ' The building was valued at $1,000, and outbuildings were valued at $400. There being no available water with which to quench the flames wine was substituted. The loss is partially covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is not known. Manuel J. Silva committed suicide at San Francisco, by cutting his throat with a razor. For some time past he had been 8 uttering from severe illness, and was const quently in a very despondent mood. He arose from his bed and told his wife he was going to the kitchen to get a drink of water. She followed him, drew the water, and while waiting for him to finish drinking, noticed him suddenly loiter ana iau. hen a light was brought she discovered ber husband had cut his throat and was dead. Fritz Anschlag, the condemned f I "t l uarucii uruve muraerer, was over heard in the county jail at Los An geles, Cal., trying to bargain with the other prisoners to procure him strych nine. The officials of the j til became suspicious that Anschlag knew of the presence of poison within the prison and instituted a search, which resulted in the discovery of a quantity of strychnine in the empty shell of a cartridge in the cell of Frank Fray, awaiting trial for arson. Hew poison got into the jail is not known ; but it is thought Auschlsg was aware where it was and would have used it Co cheat the gallows had it not been discov ered. AGRICULTURAL Devoted to tub Interests ok Farmers and Stockmkx, John Rmkin has riven his great ilnmond and superb ruby to the British Natural History Museum on condition that the labels that accom pany them be always retained. The Inscription for the diamond is thist "Tho Colenso Diamond, presented by John Raskin in honor of his friond. the loyally nnd patiently adraantlne F rst Bishop of Natal." Themby is thus described: "Thi E IwardesRuby, presented br John Ruskin iu honor of Jio InvituiUe soldiership and loving rquiiy of S r IL-rbcrt Edwardes' rule btr tho s'.iores of tho Iudua" Suiting Uomm, Some man has simplified the busi ness of salting stock by an ingenious conttivance that is already finding i's way to the stalls of livery stables. It consists of a metal roller bracket that is put up over the manger and a roll of hard rock salt is cast in shape to fit it. These salt rolls are where horses can lick them whenever they feel inclined, and livery stable men who have been using them say they completely answer the purpose in tended, and do it very economically. Loose salt wastes a great deal in or dinary feeding, but this hard toll never gives way or disappears until it has been used by the stock. The idea that salt is specially health ful to aparagus is now denied. But potash is an important constituent of this plant, and much of the lighter soil devoted to its growth is deficient in this mineral. Ashes or some of the German potash salts are indicated as manures for asparagus rather than salt. There is little nutritive-value in the first potatoes that come to maiket. This tuber at ita best is mainly starch, but the unripe potato has not even that The potatoes whose skin can be rubbed off by the hand i-how by that fact that they are full of raw juices that need time to be developed in large part into layers of starch. The choice quality of most of the European potatoes has given them an excellent reputation in this country, especially the variety culled the Mag num, and the wide outlet and eager demand have made them salable at profitable prices the entire season, ex cept once or twice when the market staggered under enormous receipts. The tomato is commonly grown in gardens on soils made much too rich. The vine attains remarkable vigor, but the fruit ripens slowly. If only mod erately fertile soil were used for grow ing tomatoes the crop would ripen earlier and be less subject to the rot, though this disease is apt to take the first ripening fruit of some kinds of tomatoes on any soil. There is only a profit realized from the orchard when there is a full yield of flue marketable fruit. The markets are over-slocked with common fruit, while there is a large class of dealer whose customers want fine fruit and who are willing to pay good prices for it The apple grower must attempt to meet this demand lor hne fruit u he would make hia orchards pay. in ew xoric Mate the grape crop gives promise ol being unusually large. livery year the vineyards are receiv ing better attention from the growers, and what has for years been known at- the Hudson River peach district, is last giving away to the cvltivation ol grapes. Growers say there is much more money in them, and they re quire, as a whole, less attention. Peter Henderson states that a patch ot aitaita about twenty-hve feet by one hundred, or only about one-six teenth part of an acre, used as a Boil ing crop, near St. Augustine, Fla., fur nished feed through the summei months for a cow ; and that twice that amount, or about one-eighth of an acre, would be ample to supply a cow with lood during the entire season, It is stated that since the sunflower has been cultivated on certain swamps of the Potomac malaria fever has de creased. At the mouth of the Scheldt in Holland, it is stated that similar re sults have obtained. The sunflower emits large volumes of water in the form of vapor, and its aromatic odor, as well as the oxygen it exhales, may have to do with the sanitary influence in question. The warmer the milk when set, the more complete will be the separation of the cream from the milk at any given lower temperature; and the more rapidly the temperature falls. (he mon rapidly will be the separation of the cream from the milk. Cream rises best when the temperature is fall ing; very slowly wheu the tempera ture is stationary, and little or not at all when the temperature is rising. In germination, heat and moisture are the powers which awaken the germ to action, and no plant food is needed at this stage of the plant's hie, except what the seed in itstdf con tains ; but as soon as the plant begins to send out its little rootlets it must have food In abundance, of suitable kind and in suitable shape for ita as- Biniuauun, or it win starve, the same as an animal would if deprived of food. The folly of pasturing the meadows soon becomes apparent when we com pare the difference in yield with those that have not been pastured. The graf s on the pastured meadows gets a late start, and the dry weather catches it before it lias made near its growth. The soil is packed and robbed of its rightful and natural mulching and fertilizer; and consequently the meadow is impoverished and the grass only makes a hall crop. A four-story tenement house in avenue A, New York, caught fire. The family of Gustave Beg, consisting of himself, wife, daughter and mother-in-law, living on the top floor, were burned to death. The olher occu pants escaped. The financial loss is insignificant Wflliam Bowan was arraiirned at Rockawsy, N. Y., charged with hav ing plucked his wife's eyes out. Two years alio he plucked her right eye out, but since then has threatened to have the other one, and on July 13 he succeided in gouging out her re maining eye. MARKET REPORT. ItiaiAiiLB Quotations Carefully Re vised Every Week. WHEAT Valley, $1 22Jfl 23 Walla Walla, 1 1 1D1 18. , BARLEY Whole, $1 109l 12 ground, per ton, ft25 0027 50. OATS Milling, 3038o. ; feed, 4-1 45c. HAY Baled, $10$12. SEED Blue Grass, 14J16c; Tim othy, yj10o.; Red Clover, 14lSc. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 25c BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound, 25o. ; pickled, 20 25c; inferior grade, 15 25:. CHEESE Eastern, 1620o.; Ore gon, 14 16c; California, 14 Jc. VEGETABLES Beets, per sack, $1 W) ; cabbige, per lb., 2Jc. ; carrots, persk.,$l 25; lettuce, per doz. 20c; onions, $1 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 90c.$l; radishes, per doz., 1520c.; rhubarb, per lb., 6o. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained, 6 gal. tins, per lb. o jc. POULTRY Chickens, per doz., $3 UUb UU; ducks, per doz., $5 00 7 00; geese, $6 008 00; turkeys, per lb., Izjc. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12Jc per lb.; eastern, ldl3jc.; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12ic. per lb.; Oregon 1012c. ; Eastern lard, 10llc. per id.; uregon, iujo. GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00 2 50; Sicily lemons, $6 006 50 California, $3 605 00; Naval oranges ifb W; Kiverside, $4 00; Mediterra nean, $4 25. imicu rttuiia aim dried ap ples, jc per lb. ; machine dried, 10 11c; pitiess plums, 13c; Italian prunes, 1014c. ; peaches, 12 j 14c.; raisins, $2 4U2 W. WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon. 9 15c tirnco n.,. kf vi,i... oin culls, 67c; kip and calf, 8 10c; Murrain, 1U izo. ; tallow, 33c. LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00; edged, per Jtt, 12 00; T. and G, sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per Ai.fia w; JNo. Z rustic, per M, $18 00; clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear P. 4 8, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per M, $22 60; No. 1 ceiling, per M, 122 bO; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50; stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12 inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, extra, $4 00; If lath, per M, $2 25; l J lath, per M, 2 do. BEANS Quote email whites, $4 50; pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; Lamas, $4 ou per cental. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17c; Costa Rica, 1820c. ; Rio, ' 1820c. ; Java, 27Jc. ; Arbuckle's's rasted,22c MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33k.; A A fl . 1 0 . A A i - : hogs, dressed, 89c ; veal, 78o. SALT Liverpool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three sizes ; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at $1 60. 8UGA"R Prices for barrels: Golden C, 6o. ; extra C, 6c. ; dry granulated, 7gc; crushed, hne crushed, cube and powdered, 8c ; extra C, 5$c. ; halves and boxes, c. higher. . MISCELLANEOUS. A French writer chiMtes ull women br the size of their thumbs. Thotm with large thumbs are guid to be moi'e likely to possum native intelligence while the small thumbs indicate fooling. Mr. R. (furnisher and decorator) "Now, sir, your house has the mag nificence of an oriental potentate, ex cept, of course, the er seraglio." Mr. Michuul Van Flunigan (proudly to her husband) "Miko, dour, spare no expense, let us have one." Life. What irregularities there muwt have boon to cause this! In the room of a railway depot in Iowa is the fol lowing phu-iird over the clock: "This is a clock; it is running; it is Chicago time; it is right; it is set every day at ton o'eloek. Now keop your mouth shut." Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, is buried on the outskirts of Lincoln City, Ind. A plain Bhib of marble about four feet high, al most covered with grass and dogweed, marks her grave. On the stone is the inscription: "Erected by a friend of hor martyred son, 1879." A Maltese cat and a large rattle snake had a fight in a yard at Albany, Ga. Every time the snuke would at tempt to strike with its wicked looking fanes, the cat would trlve it a vio-orous slap on the side of the head and it would bo withdrawn. This, lasted for fully an hour, when at last the cat pouncd upon the snake and killed it Friend "Was your uncle's will satisfactory to you. Brown?" Brown "Perfectly so; I'm a lucky dog! He left his entire fortune to an insane asylum." Friend "You mean that you are the dnlueky dog." Brown "No, I don't: the other relations are going to contest the will and I'm to be the attorney. ' Lite. t The health of New York mm napes very unfavorably with that of London. The annual mortality In tho British metropolis is about 20 In 1.000. while in New York it is 26 in 1,030. The popu lation of New York is also much more cr-owdod. there bt;inu an avenge of 16 persons to a dwelling, while in London 9- f THAMES RIVER BRIDq' On of the Hoit Dlffoalt KmlnH, Kr AeeompUUihi. "'' The building of tho new briU the Shore Line across the t river at New London, Conn, u' terprlso which will Interest ', and tho publlo goucrully, a It L"" one of the largest dra in the V and remtirkablo for the appli,, original devices to overcome ,. eultiin. The project is not a and It has cost a genmition0(. planning, nnd the, oven-omit,,, S olwtncles of both iwture and ' bring it to the point of br-gnI' T a few weeks ago, and the work probably be completed inUor,' Iho Shorn Line road from bJ2 New York by tho way of !,.;., has been objectionable from the bT 1 1 ning on awouut of tho number off nun, nuu mo one ac-roKH thy the worst Bnd last to be aboli, "'""j iKH-n (lunger hm,J k-u",' "i upi-injf, w nen the, ferry-lioat has frequently hud t- ' gle to avoid being swept into the W A.Rolle,sofNWYork.wT2; to make tho plans for the new dr, bridge several years ago. and thee tails were arranged for the h.rihl. of tho work in 1KH3; tho proi: the approval of the coraralsslonew, y just as building was to begin, inters persons failed to ngross. Xothlno- done till 1887, when the road dwi on a double-tracked bridge, which! anotner advance, as only a single tr had been previously proposed. Wlnthrop's Point, hulfa mile A, tho present Now lmdon station, wU the Thames is the narrowest hL w J chosen as the location. The p! familiar to nil who have seen the Ti Harvard regattas, for the finishing L Is only a few feet away. The Gore- monl navy-ynrd, which wits ertablli a fow yoiu-s ago above the site ol bridge, hiis required modiflcutionsint fl iu U'htwl i .wl.iiU .1... V. ... .... . w ii'tiuib un; uue wht r4 sels through. I'o allow this tho irl spans of tho draw will bo 502 feet ler and ulTord two clear passageways! ships of 225 feet each. The dinw'it is reversible, which saves much fr and is of itself a difficult method on i count of the double track, and i i plied here for the first time. The f . length of tho sujierstnielure is 1,1.. feet, and it will be of steel throujic-: of a quality admitted to be the best V engineers who have made a iperS study or the composition. Tho depth oMhe water along tho!; of the foundations ranges from 5 to ' foot, while tho depth of the soft mitf . from 10 to 80 feet Tho usual nwtt of foundation can no bo followed in t ca.so of each pier. The pneumatic p cesa or "putting down by air," at it ; called, could not bo used without I! enormous outluy that is demanded al a certain depth has been reached. IV engineer has succeeded in removes ft- local ditllculties by tho application original plans. The method In brief to sink an immense timber curb Into I' mud at the bottom of the river, 11 full of piles, which are to be cut off I tho surface of tho mud, and upon t! heads of these found the masonry. T, mud within tho curbs having been e. cavated, the spaces around the headi the piles wilr be filled with concr-; which will bind the whole togetherti form a substantial base upon which ' found the masonry. The timber cur alone are immense structures, the e for the central pier being seventy-el feet square, and higher than mos the buildings in New England cit The work of locating them in t- proper position at the bed of the n' is a matter of great exactness, av slightest deviation would be the of much trouble and expense. 1 work of the sub-structure, in short, (he most important and mostexpens: Special machinery has been made, i! the number of engineering principle! volved is greater than for any sin-' enterprise yet constructed. af111 field Hqrublicarti nn Almost a Monologue. "How do you like mynewdres' Inquired Mrs. Do Jaison of her i-band. "Isn't it a little " "No it isn't. Now, Alfred, I you're just horrid. "It's the newc emerald green." "Yes, dear, but I was only gu"V suy "Oh, I know! That isn t the cow ought to wear. If it was that nw Miss you would think it lovely- "Hut I didn't mean " "Yes. you did, too. You're B" enough for any thing. And ) never noticed my new chip t either." "Why, my love, I thought "You thouirht! Of course y" that it makes me look frightful. -sob, sob -declare it's to-o-ob- "If you'd only let me speaK "Sneak! Whv. what else have; done for the lost half hour-just to - fault, too. with every thing I h What's that? A diamond for my bL day present? Oh. you dear, pr1 old sweet! Why didn't you say c not tease me so? I could not what you wanted to say." Detroit m m Unexpected Gratitude. "I adopted that boy." he saii the tears t running down his fai he was a lad and I kept biraandW yb for nine years, and he paul me w running off with my wife, men," he continued, wiping hiS" I'll stand you a bottie of wine, don't often meet with gratit-st'-e in -wcrld. but a kir.d ad is sure V i; its own reward. Ive ont h;m -for $:u0." Curay Soti'J X'm tao average is only 7.