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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1888)
"' ' ""'r' ' 1 - ,1 .1, ..r, , - -. .. ,- - - -- . - .hi ,. -i, ,,, tf-.,- i I I ! . ' -.5 CQNAL. AINU imrtnouriML, Vina Mary Garrett, of Baltimore, a twenty milium uouur es- ranee McNeill Totter, a niece of lent Franklin Tierce, draws a sl.tlllllMI tL nwinfl. OQ 01 L V ' 11 VJ ...v.. via. vy Gould receives an average of crgin? letters per day, and seven mure certain o end with: "And always pray God to bless you." mathan Chaco, the Qunkor Sen ium Rhode Island, has never had lire taken, and fifty dollars has offered for a photograph of him, iere are are no tukers. x-Governor Alger, of Michigan, ;t.ft an orphan at the age of n with a younger brother and to care for. Ho spent seven on a farm and then read lnw in kron office, supporting himself ing chores about his employer's nud bam. . J. Cromwell, of New York, who ,to bo a direct descendant of 011 romwell. has in his possession a r worn by u niece of Cromwell ;c coronation of Charles I., of n.l In Ifii'.i. The slimier show It he lady who wore it had a dainty coll shaped foot. ),'. J. W. Torter, of Kansas City, i to be be the originator of the !,ird time system. He says the was first brought to his mind ;s, when he was in the Coast Sur :y noting the variation of clocks .atciies. lie nnniiy marked oil a urd time map, and his theory was mouhly adopted. S he man who has just become the of Seaneld was hard pushed to a livelihood a few yours ago and 'ting as a bailiff in the Now Zoal ,ivn of Oamuru in lf84, when his r became Karl and he thereby the mnt Reidhaven. He was "in pos n" of a house in his official ca , when the news of his rise in life , but he refused the offer of a sub i? and stuck to his post for two longer. tlrs. Walter Q. Gresham Is a i, delicate woman, but full of i and lire. When she went to ington to live she regarded of sooiety there with mingled ns- ihment nnd amusement. "Five :t-d calls on New Year's Day," she oa friend; "I am thankful they yntlemen. Fancy having to re thut number." But she soon" i the ladles' calls nbout as numor- tnd finally exclaimed in comical .it-: "I am going into social bitnk y and shall pay only one call on ami red." An Englishwoman who married an riiim aays: "The proudest act ; life was the marrying of an rican gentleman. I never could : married one of my countrymen, women of my country I love and fire, but the men faugh! I never l tea. They aro too conceited 'jlny thing, and they are so dona ting. When I came to America I told that I should see how Amerl miido queens of their wives, and i'e found it so. A husband in l:md never tells his wife what he ng. JIo thinks she has no busi interesting herself about his af I do not see so much of that in ountry. You don't know how 1 hat" A LITTLE NONSENSE." f'mtoms chance, they'ie cbaiiRlng ever; wivs arc ciiRiit'lng all the while; ! t oiw custom chanxuth never Kiislag always 19 In style. Oil City Derrick. Lady (at Sunday school "And I do you understand by the pomps unities of this wicked world?" Mud of the class "The flowers in ' bonnet, ma'am." I'.rown "What makes you look so J. Mortley?" Mortley-"To tell rum, oia man, l ieei so wen J m 1 something's going to happen, is a tough, tough world, Brown." '1 Observer. N hat makes you jam everybody this corner?" yelled a man in a I to a policeman. "I want to pro order. milled thn nol iceman ns i'veded to pound a man into jol yZtihiiigton Critic. V Wise Youth. Big sister "Bob i"u lire wanted to do an errand." '.v "Tell ma I haven't got time to I now." Big sister "Father says iust do it at once." Bobby "Oh, r pa. is it Then I guess I had ""find time." Epoch. iiumma," said little Mamie, t Diakl' nnr !! nnnti.. hliii'lf'" ! because she is a colored in." gj,e colored, mamma?" 'vtiy. Didn't you know that?" "w ain. I thought she was born !.v. What is she colored with?" ''binl Traveler. ' (American) "Darling Ara- I loV rnn " Mho Mnir!nniiiiiii.iil . - j. y.. u, ...... f 'Ve you evaw been aw in En- He "Yes darling, I lived Wfn years." She "Aw, to be You may come a little closaw, Smith, and aw what did you -weinawk?" Town Tones. u.ith Vou take it pretty easy, : yea must have a pood salary?" ""H-m! Ye-cs! Pretty fair. I twelve hundred a year, save say unared, and run in debt seven l"d -that's Of) nnrl if a hue!-.. l) "i't live on that he ought to be "dof himself." .V. Y. Ora;,hic. " here, my friend." said a farmer "you've been lyiiT in the ' that fence for over thirteen Ain"t it 'bout time to move "J' you jay so," replied the 1 struggling to his feet, "I 'pos 1 2 only tryin' to make my, t as lean u possible. " Time AMERICAN CANDIES. They Are Said to ! Much ItetterThan the Imported Article. "Yes, there aro fashions in confec tionery just as in every thing else, and the trade is progressive." said a well known confectioner In response to a query: '"I presume there are new Btyles al ways coming up." "Oh, yes. Since I have been In the business, which Is more than thirty yoain, there have been many changes and great improvements nuulo. And some new fad Is continually taking hold of tho customers. When 1 first started In tho business there was noth ing like tho variety of goods kept on hand in the best establishments that are now seen In the ordinary retail store. We ukq to have plain stick. HUMBLE BEGINNING. iluw a ProMrmi mul Hurrrulul Amer ican t(ita II' 'n-r. I'p in Phillips nbout lift y years ago tho scholars in a Sunday school en Wed in a contest to see who could ionimil to memory the most verses ii'om the Bible. Among the pupils v. iw a thirteen-year-old boy. One Sun day a young lady school teacher beat the previous records by reciting 8."0. The next Sunday this boy had fi'.'S. School closed for the seasoa soon af ter, but on the first Sunday of the next mmmer it was rumored that a boy from another part of tho town was to urprise everybody by tho number he hud committed. The boy previously mentioned thus forewarned was fore armed. He was ready for any of them the next Sunday. He was able to re- lemon, mint, wintorgrt.cn and the like, cite the whole Book of Luke. After lemon and mint drops, nnd then the square sugar kisses with a verso of two or four lines dojjo up In the wrap per were a sort of fancy goods. Then there were birnt almonds, jujube paste, rock and cocoanut enndy. pea nut sticks and molasses taffy. It was good, too; pure and wholesome. It is a question in my mind whether the chiingo to fancy goods has been any real improvement, but the public de mand change and we have to meet their desires. All tho fancy goods used to come from France, and there was comparatively few sold. About twenty years ago butter scotch came Into the market and at once hud a great run. All the girls had to have butter scotch. Then marshmallows that no one tried to dispute the cham pionship with him. As might have been expected, this boy was not willing to stay nt the foot of tho ladder when he started out to earn his own living. He begun this tivk when but eight years old, and was oarning his living by Inking care of horses and cutting wood when he learned the Sunday school lesson above mentioned. When he was four teen years old, his father having moved from Weld to Searsmont, this boy, Joseph H. Stearns by inline, started to walk to his father's new home, a dis tance of ninety miles, with but two dol lars in his pocket. The trip cost him just two cents, that sum being spent for crackers, and the peddler of whom he put in an appearance, caramels came ! bought them carried him twelvo miles next nnd chocolate creams and other j on his cart, and gave him a sheet of chocolate goods followed in quick sue- i gingerbread. He says no ono seemed cession. Tho French combinations of I to want to take money from hi:n. sugar and flavoring that molt in tho I When seventeen years old ho again mouth have been imitated in this started off to seek his fortune, with country until there Is scarcely i all his goods tied up in a pieco of a production from tho other i cloth, which he afterward had made side that is not reproduced, and . up into a garment. He went to New l tninn 1 may safely say made an well, here. The so-called French bon bon seems to take the lead, but the American manufacturer has improved on his foreign competitor and in creased the variety of combinations. The chocolate creams are made with raspberry, lemon and a variety of flavors. Cream mints made with many flavors and walnut creams seeia to bo having a special run now. In fact, the chocolate goods appear to bo taking tho lead at present, tho sale of these goods having doubled in the past five years. Every season brings out some new chocolate combination. There is a great variety of jelly choco lates and nut chocolates. Soft creams which aro made of nuts or jellies coated with highly-flavored creams, delicious confections which molt in the mouth, are having a great run. There used to be an idea that all fine goods were French. Tho truth is that most of the fine goods sold by our con fectioners are American. Tho French are principally confined to fruits, glaces, chocolates, almonds and crys tallized goods, made more for display than to please the palate, but on real attractive goods, pleasing to the taste, tho Americans lead the world. Look at this nut bar. It has held its own for several years and is still popular, and now the new fad is nougat. It is nothing but honey, eggs and nuts, but, though comparatively now, it is Im mensely popular everywhere. Every manufacturer has his own specialties in counter goods which have t be made fresh every few days, and the styles of which are always changing, but they are not on general salo. Oh, yes, the styles of confectionery are changing every year, but it is really more in form than substance." A". Y. Mail and Express. Snake-Bite Victims in India. The returns for 18MG show that 22, 134 human beings perished fromsnako bite in India. The number of cattle killed by snakes is returned at 2.M4. It is stated that 417.5'Jfi snakes were destroyed, and that 25,300 rupees were paid by tho Government as rewards for their destruction. Tho mortality from snake bite in Bengal is much larger among women than men. They are usually bitten in the early morn ing, when they go out unseen before daylight, either to fetch wood from the fagot stack or some other domestic purpose. During the rainy season, when nearly all the rice fields aro un der water, the snakes take refuge on buryport and hired out in a cotton mill, and at the end of a year and n half had been sick eight months, nnd was so heavily in debt that it took him eight years to get out. Rather a discouraging beginning! But tho boy is now Hon. Joseph B. Stearns, the inventor of tho duplex system of telegraphy and tho owner of the beautiful villa "Norumbega," at Camden. When nineteen years old he went into a telegraph office, nnd four years later was earning three t housand dollars a nir. In W7 ho was elected president of tho Franklin Telegraph Company, with headquarters at Bos ton, and while there Invented the sys tem of telegraphy that has made him fimous. Since then he has lived much in London and has been engaged in many important works. He is a con noissieur in art, and has n library of ten thousand volumes, and his farm of five hundred acres In Camden claims much of his attention. He Is but one of many instances whero industry and perseverance have won success in this country. Lewison (Me.) Journal. BONE FoV "POULTRY. The Kcm'Urrnt KlVi-rla of (around llono nnd OjHler Slirlin. Toultry raisers should not neglect to use sufficient raw bono, either crushed or in tho form of meal. It contains lime, as do also oyster shells, but It contains animal matter which is of great value. Bono when burnt Is of comparatively flttlo valuo over oys ter shells, but when crushed or ground raw, supplies valuo peculiar to itself. All classes of poultry aro extremely fond of it. Care should bo taken to have it pure and sweet. It is good for all classes and ages' of poultry. For young chickens it should bo used in the form of meal, mixing a small quan tity two or thseo times a week with their soft food, say, ono quart to a bushel of corn meal. For young tur koys it is almost iiidisponsiblo to pro vent leg weakness. At about the timo of their "sihooting tho red," when their health becomes established and they grow npaco, tho development of their frames and legs requires a more liberal assimilation of material than can bo afforded by tho usual articles of food. It Is well to begin to mix a little bone meal with the food of young turkeys, and from the time they aro four weeks old it can bo used freely. No injurious effects will follow, for it is nutritious, nnd strengthens tho bones and legs. All raisers of young turkeys know that leg weakness Is one of tho evils to which they are ex posed, and this is a natural and excel tha hiirlmii nlnl nf irrniind on which the villages aro built, and they hide lent preventive: and here Is ono of tho themselves in the little wood-stacks ! many cases where prevention is better ...i i th ,rt. vnrds nf tho ! than cure. Brahma and other Asiatic mm i .-in, "-f ... - j houses; while, not unfrequently. they take up their abode in the house itself, where they are allowed to dwell with impunity, nnd aro somes fed with milk until, on some unlucky day. the wife chickens, for the same reason, aro greatly benefited by its use. Raw bone hao been proved by analysis to contain every part of an egg white, velk, nnd of course shell. It should treads accidentally on the snake in the h constantly kept in a special place in dark nnd it turns upon her and bites h pen or apartment of laying hens, her From the bite of a full-grown I they will consume largo quantities cobra death ensues in a ve:-y few min- ; of it. and it goes chiefly to egg pro ,. i duction. Granulated Is tlio nest form uWs. A. 1. lost. . , , t , , , in wmcn 10 pi ace u ueiore imiuiv iuis, -Some of the handsomest old man- and in this shape it keeps fresh much ! sions in the country may be seen in longer man wnen grouim Annapolis. Md.. where they have stoodj Hone is on,! of the principal Ingro I with but little alteration since the , dic-nU in the composition of most of early eo'.onial days. A few of the the "egg funis' in the market-A. 8. thouv date back to the seventeenth i """" "'"y ccntur-y. but the more impoting of ! lLilf a pound of dynamite plaeed ! them were built just prior to the Kevo-i Upn t'no top of a large "hard-head" lutton. when Annapolis was toe seaioi t r bowlder weighing anywhere rrom a refined and wealthy community. tn to one hundred tons will have a j 'rr,.t efTw t- The rock directly under The police officers at Niagara F!l j the cartridge will be as fine as meal, j have t-en instructed to arre.-t all per- nr.d the remiJnder so broken that it ' sons -ho mr.y hereafter visit there for can ui-uuily be removed with a bar, or j the purpo-e of performing daring feats, j dnr.vn out by horees. and put into a This do-m t include tne young nuin f w i ! or omerwise uipmcu m. n. n . who takes his bride to the rails, with that would cot ten dollars to remove 3n!y fifty dollars in his pocket, and j in the old way can with dynamite bo expects to have enough left to pay Lis i broken up for fifty cents. American r,.r, Y.nmr. Xnrri-itiittn Herald 4 JurUuiluruU OLD NAVAL SONGS. A Vivid I'lrtur of Mr Life on tb Khlpa ol Kiirmrr Tlllirt. I doubt whether we shall ever again have sea songs of tho old pattern. It Is not perhaps that tho sentiment of tho ago is opposed to them, though tho old Black wall and Frith tomfoolery of drinkiiii;, fiddling and the like would not perhaps bo fifund vory suit able to the tastes of tho day. The diflL'ulty lies in the dearth of nautical topics. For my part. I can not under stand what kind of opportunities the naval war of the future is to supply the nautical song-writer with. There Is nothing poetical in the ironclad, nothing inspiring. A ship swelling like a cloud upon tho sen, with eabin-w lutlows Hashing, nn Admiral In a cocked hat walking the quarter gallery, the white hammock-lines of 'he vessel's towering defenses dotted with tho red coats of marines, the blue surge breaking in sheets of silver against tho golden brightness of tho metal sheeting, pretty little midship men in lace and dirks strutting the almond-white quarter-deck, groups of bronzed and brawny sailors at work, with chunks of tobacco standing high under their cheekbones hero were materials to color tho poetaster's meekest jingles, and to put a free and windy and briny life of their own into the ni'Mt halting sing-song that over eased the ear. There were twenty different types of ships to write about; from that cloud-like pyramid, the four decker, giving tongues of Hume and voices of thunder to the meaning and the message of tho nation, down to the little cuttor that with bow and foiv-chaser only heightened the brightness of tho annals with many a little sparkling passage. There wore a thousand colors, and all were magical. l!ut marine romance is Dow ns flat ns though tho machinery with which the iron plate Is rolled out had passed over it. What can there be of seamanship fur the poet to sing of when the genius of tho chase lies in the revolutions of tho engines and in an amiilshin helm? lhere is no weiit'ier-gaugo now to maneuver for. It matters not to a steamer how tho wind sits. Jack, when ho tires his gun, will keep his shirt on, stand in side a metal tower and let fly at an enemy two leagues distant. His ship is as ugly as the dugong. It is not in poetic art to idenli.o her. A roaring old s.-a son of the typo of the "Saucy Arotliusa," or "Stand to Your Gnus, My Hearts of O.ik," would ring with but a melancholy note through the In terior of the armorclad. Indeed, tho extinction of tho naval sailing ship is of necessity tho extinction of tho naval song as we understand tho expression. LoiKjmmC Miujazine. GROWTHbV LUXURY. The Spate of Comfort Now plumed Neo rtnry Uj Kvery Mii. Trosperlty encourages luxury; lux ury is enervating nnd encourages sloth; luxury tends to produce, and in tho world's history has often produced National decay. Now, the growth of luxury for the last half-century has been very great and vory general Wo do not merely mean that tho rate of living has advanced. This of itself Is not necessarily to bo deplored In any class, and in some classes is a matter for 'serious congratulation. That an agricultural laborer, for instance, should bo able to procure more food, better clothing, better hous ing and better education for his children than he could fifty years ago Is a matter to rejoice over, Und a state of things to secure by evory proper means. What we mean Is, that the scale of comfort deoinod necessary by every class has onormously grown Tako tho upper classes. Tho great houses throughout tho country aro administered in a stylo the Increase of which is quito disproportionate to tho growth of Income of their owners. The expenditure on far-fetched foods and most rerlicrehc wines, the most costly amusements, has vastly devel oped. And tho tendency is ever up ward. Young men beginning life try to start where their fathors left off. Some quarter of a century ago there was a discussion In tho newspapers as to the prudence or otherwise of young persons In tho upper classes marrying on an income of three hundred a year. Three times that ineoino would be now considered Inadequate by the critics who conducted tho discussion. wr tcrlti Itevicw. m Attractive Dwellings. There are houses, like faces, whose exterior repels or attracts us at once, we scarce know how or why. Some look so cheery as we pass that ono is lure that bright spirits are within, al though there may be no signs of wealth about the dwelling. Others look cold, forbidding, as lr, should you enter, a tomb-li'ce chill would strike you. We Imagine one difTereneo with respect to '.hen; houses to lie tho presence or luck of the signs of ng.-eeable activity about the dwelling the Ingress and egress of occupant interested in brightening it, because it is dear to them, plain and unpretending though it be. Jn such a habitation you will not Had the chairs pinned formally against the wall, or the blinds closed, lent a sunbeam should fall on a curtain 'jr cnrs:t- or the disagreeable spectacle jt chandeliers nnd furniture In per jKduiil bag -comfort, not show, being ho presiili.ig deity of the houne. A', i". Udyrr. The Westinghouse Electric Com (iir.y has perfected an Incandescent ump which U expected to burn from .',J to 3 (A) hours without diacolora HE BEAT THEM ALL Wajrtlrte Journllt't Heiniirkitbia 8a. rr a Cltr Itrportrr. The brilliant young journalist who gave up an honored position on the Juniper Cove ll'iM Flower and became a reporter on a city dally paper, did not prove to bo a great success. When ho left tho Cove his friends predicted that he would win "golden opinions." They knew that ho would soon mount to tho "top of tho tripod," whatever that may mean, and that at no distant day ho would bo recognized as ono of tho greatest journalists of tho country. He went to work with full confidence In himself. Ho was sent out to inves tigate tho letting of a street-cleaning contract, but as he felt himself to be above such dirty work, ho disregarded tho assignment, and, as he expressed it, turned aside to pluck tho wild flow ers of thought that sprang up by the roadside. "Jackson," said tho city editor, "how do you like daily newspaper work?" "I am delighted with it, for in such noble work my pen has long sought op portunity of addressing thousands of plastic readers plastic, for can we not mold them Into higher and diviner shape?" "Yes, that's very well, but what great thought do you Intend to convey In this saloon puff?" "That Is not Intended ns a brilliant Idea," Jackson replied. "It Is a piece of well you might almost say, vulgar information, but you know that it Is sometimes necessary to give the news. That which you have designated as a puff Is a clean beat." "Or dead beat, rather," tho city editor suggested. "Oh. no: far from it- I call It a clean beat because I was tho only re porter In town who know of tho open ing of that saloon. . Search all tho pa pers to-morrow, and I warrant you that you can not find a lino regarding It." "All right; that's ono beat. Now, let mo see," tho city editor continued. ns ho began to look through ji pile of manuscript, "if you have any others. Ah, 1 see here that Hank J. Doyle has been awarded tho responsible position f section boss on tho Air Lino rail way." "Yes, sir, nnd no other reporter In town is likely to stumble upon that Information. I forgot to insert and I wish vou would do so that he Is to receive a salary of fifty dollars per month." "Yes, I'll do so, for your suggestion is bright and timely. I would like to ask a lavor of you," the city editor continued. "I would llko, when I think it necessary, to make some tri lling alterations in your copy, such as making a more pronounced dot over an 1, or drawing, with a bolder stroke, a lino ucross a t" Mr. Jackson, after a moment's re- (locti. replied: "Whllo I object to the making of nny change in tho con struction of my sentences, I will con sent to tho alterations you suggest," Oh, I thank you," tho city editor exclaimed. "Let mo see now what else you have. Oh, you say that Dan Teckels has taken a permanent posi tion In Zip's barber shop. How did you get that item?'' "By tho merest accident; and do you know that the best items are found by accident." i Uis 'nose ror news men is simply tho peculiar and innate faculty il Btumbling upon something." "Aro you sure that this information Is authentic?" Surely." "And there is no necessity of my sending out another reporter to get ad ditional information?" "None whatever, I assure you." "Oh, I thank you for relieving mo of such a world of worry. Now, let me see. Your next copy must bo in ex actly upon tho timo which I shall speo Ify." "All right," replied Jackson, glanc ing at his watch, "name the timo." "Let mo sco. It is nine five, now." "Yes, sir." "Well, have your next batch of copy In just sixteen years from this time, (lood-byo until then." ArkawuwTrav eler. Points on Cake-Baking. Do not attempt to make cako with out having complete control of the flro. Thin cakes require a hotter flro than thick ones. Tho oven should be the right heat to begin with, and not bo allowed to cool while tho cake is in it, or it will certainly' be heavy. Cake made with molasses burns more easily than any other. Thin cake should bake from fifteen to twenty minutes. Thicker loaves from thirty to forty minutes; very thick cake, one hour la an oven In which you can hold your hand to count moderately twetity-livo, and not be able to add a minute to that number. Fruit cake requires two to three hours. DIvldo tho baking into quarters.' Tho first quarter It should simply rise; second quarter, continue to riro and brown; the third quarter, grow a uniform golden Drown; lourtn, settle a little, brown in tho cracks and cleave from the pun. If a cake rises in the middle, stays up nnd cracks 0en, it is mixed too stiff. When "new process" flour Is used take on- eighth less than any recipe calls for. banijhUr nf America Of three thousand convicted criml nals examined by a French medical man, M. M.irainbct, more than half were drunkards, that in, seventy-nine percent, of the vugubonds and mendi cants, fifty per cent, of the assassins, tl.'ty-seven per ceflt. of tho Inccndi irics, and seveuty-ono per cent of the robin: rs. THE TRAVELING HOG. How It llehare Itielf When Sharing It lied with a Fellow-Traveler. The hotel register lay hospitably open, and I took up a stuttering pun with which to splutter my autograph over the list of Into arrivals. I'm afraid we're full," Interrupted the night clerk; "that Is if you want a room to yourself you can have a bed in either 27 or 52." Mv jaw foil 11 1-11 ! "What kind of fellows are they, I inquired, feebly. "Nice gentlemen tall, slim man la 27; short, fleshy man In 52." "I all. slim man," I mused; "1 11 try In No. 27." I'm rather long and slender myself, still there's nothing llko economy In space when it comes to a hotel bod stead. 1 followed tho bell-boy up to No. 27, nnd In response to his rat-tat-tat at the door, I heard emphatic guttural inter jections muflled under the bod-clothes. I didn't try to understand them; I had reason to believe they wore not at all complimentary to mo. However, the tall man opened the door, gingerly, and got back into bed, where he assumed tho shape of a gigantic let-' tor V. lie was snoring loudly by tho timo I had undressed, and I cherished serious intentions of blowing out the gas and leaving him to his fate. I crawled timidly In on tho off side, and grasped the 'overs with a death grip.' But I was tired, and soon, with a half-conscious sense of Insecurity, I folt my grasp weaken, nnd I dozed off into a gentle slumber. A movement on tho part of my bod fellow awoke mo, and horrors! The) covers were slipping away! Is there any thing to compare to tho utter help lessness with which a man, on a cold night, realizes this awful sensation? 1 caught at them, frantically, and my eyes bulged out in a mud despair an a Borean draught walled along the ser rated edge of my spinal column. Thus I lay, for hours. In a half torpid state, keenly allvo to his every movo,. yet unable to retrieve nn Inch of vantage. The clock on tho customs-house struck: twelve, and 1 was sinking Into a chilly nightmare, when the fiend rolled over ugalnst me with a rostfu! sigh born of warmth and comfort. 1 couldn't stand it I slipped out opto the floor, crept round to tho foot of the bed, and crawled in on the side next the wall. Wrapping myself in tho voluminous folds of the blankets, I lay down, sincerely hoping he'd roll on Into tho next county. But ho didn't. I hadn't boon asleep more than an hour, whon I awoke with a sense of oppression in my left side, and a sharp nlbow, at an acute angle, luy Imbedded in my complaining rlba. 1 shoved It away savagely, and he floundered over like a porpolso In shoal water, taking tho covers with him. At that momont I hoard tho bell-boy. with a bell-boy's exaggerated attempt at caution, blunder past tho door and rap at No. 2H. "It's four o clock, Blrj bus 11 bo round in forty minutes." I got up, too, lighted the gaa and glared at my persecutor. He was lying; west by nor' west of tho bed, smiling aa If lie dreamed nature had made hint in a circle. And he continued to smile, all unconsciously, as I washed in a lavish quantity of water and poured tho remainder into tho slop baslnl And I think I had tho towel as limp and wet as any towel over need bo outside the wash-tub! And whon I left tho room tho gas-meter was humping It self, the door was wide open, and I'm pretty certain that some body else than No. 2S got to seo how a hog slept! Detroit free Press. DRYING OF MOSSES. Pperli'i Th ut A wakened to llenewed Ufa After Nlnety-rlra Week. Tho power of the mosses to enduro repeated desiccation has recently boen. experimentally treated by (. Schroder, who obtained tho interesting result that many of these plants can not only resist months of dryness without any harm, but also that they do not perish oven under tho strongest desiccation carried on in a drier with tho aid of sulphuric acid. Tlants of IJarbula m ira,' which were exposed for eight een months in the drier, after a few wettings resumed growth In all their parts. Other species of Burbula be haved similarly. A curious experi ment was performed with Urimmia puleiniitu, In which a stock which had been cultivated for some time in a moist atmosphoro under a bell glass was suddenly ex posed to u wann and perfectly dry cur rent of s-lr. Jt became so dry in asnori timo tnat ll could be pulvorlzed. Then It lay in a drier for ninety-five week. But the quickening moisture was still competent to awako it to renewed life. The most rapid drying which could bo performed In the laboratory could not destroy tho plant. It even showed greater power of resistance than would correspond with Its rcul necessities, for so speedy and complete a drying out as was effected in the experiment never occurs In Natur). The fact that a property acquired by adaptation la so plainly manifested in excess Is some times otherwise demonstrable, and is a hard problem for tho theory of oloo Vum.I'opitlar frienre Monthly. A remarkable strip of the new rall ro:id from Buenos Ayres to the Andea Is probably the longest tangent in the world, extending 211 miles without a curve. It is further notable as having1 no bridge In tho entire distance, and no cut or fill exceeding about a yard la ik'pth'or height.