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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1889)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. . bVAHPHKIJ.. Proprietor. EUGENE CITY, OREGON. DISPER3INO A TRAM ft Wii Min- """M aula Who TrM I was outing dinner at a house In Indiana when one of the children came In and announced thai a highway tramp had called at the kitchen door and asked for a bite to eat. The farmer wa a very short, very (at, and very Imld-headed man, and he wan post master at Hie corner and justice of the ieuce In and for the county. He had a ton eallod .lame, another called Moses, and a hired man who was addressed as Towner. H aent out word for the trump to .li Houn and rust, linu an a laiiL'h went round the table he ox- plained: "After dinner I hall be pleased to how you how we encourage tramp In tiiia auction. Thl Is evidently a new BUM to thiH part of the State, or he would novel1 have called here. After dinner we went out The tramp who sitting under a cherry tiee, looking a comfortable a you please, and evldnntly unuplclou tint any thing oxcept dinner was In store for him. He looked to me like a bad man to fool with, but the farmer didn't oem to read him that way. -Now. than," be Mid, a he rubbed hi fat hand together, "you will tand up." Wlmt fur?" aked the tramp. To bo kicked! I am going to boot yOU front tbi spot down to that sllver ed telephone pola" "Hut I objeot" "I'im't help that As a fourth-class post-master of the United State of America I cominand you to arise.'' If I am kicked omebody elte will get hurt!" cautioned the tramp a he got up. "A one of the Justlocs of the peace In and for title county I command you to disperse, " ald the firmer a he turn ed the trump toward the gate and ad minlHtered a kick. Next lntant he received a left-hander on the noo which knocked him Into u confused heap on the gra, and the trtmp got out of hi old coal and pre pared for hmlnosa -Towner, pulverise him!" shouted the farmer. If he struggled to his kncos In the namu ol the United Suite I OOmmand you to knock him down." flewser advanced, hi big Hits doubled up, but the tramp danced to the right and the tuft, and then lent In one on the hired mun' commlMury depart ment whleh doubled him up, and laid him iimniig thu hollyhocka "Junius, Moses, muku lilm prisoner!" yelled ll Id man, a ho plucked n handful of gruss. and held It to h In bleeding none. The trump chuckled. There wa fun ahead. The two hoys were strapping young fellown. strong enough to knock down an ox. and they were willing to go In. At they stripped off the tramp backed up bat i two OUrTant bunho, where they could not Hank Mm. and a thoy advafiOad upon him he grinned all ever. Hu played wiin mom lor a min ute or two, and theu drew a long breath, mada three or four feints, and piled them uu the grai together. Neither moved to get up for full two minutes. Meanwhile the trump rested ami li allied over to me and queried: "You ain't one of tba crowdf" "No." "And don't wnnt ma to disperse?" "Not particularly." "All right l don't think the United States and 111 gang want any thing mure of me Junt now, and a I have an engagement down the road, I'll move uu. When they get washed up and the bandages on, lull 'em l used to scrap with thu hoys In Chicago In day gone by, and that I held myself In and let 'em oil very mild, (ioisl-bye, stranger Ta, ta, old fatly! " And he hud lieeu gone ten minutes before the ponlinanter came over to me and whispered: "Did you over!"-N. Y. 8un. Alfred in a Tight Place. "Alfred, baton Wa wore married you told uu' yen tun or swore, and yet In your sleep last night you used the most awful profane language l ever heard In my life." (Cutlou!y) "What did l seem to be talking ulMiut, my doarf" "You kept muttering something about jack pots, royal Hushes, red hackles, gaffs, putting wp duke, pasting somo liody on the nob, and a lot of other things I couldn't understand." "Those, my love, are aw mili tary lenna I dreamed l was In a bat tle." "If nt why should you swear o dread fully. Alfred?'' t Seeing his way out) "I thought I us with the army In Klandars. my lmu.' Chicago Tribune. . ou Uke the right side, the just id v ullimituly men. however much they oppiiaa you and revile you at first, U come to your IHJBMt Karth, Mi njl lis .wer. will work with you and fo. you. and Heaven l pledged to conduct ym to complete success, be ward. There are, In the truest sense, no freat things mid no little things In the aphere of duly Whatever Is to be done is the one thing in the world tuba done by i.lm who ought to do It; and boweier iinlluportant that thing may seem in iinolf, It ha its relation la eiei i tjtm thing done by evsry other luroii S H 1 . Ul,, -In the ipiaiiA ifld'Anglican church of fuad le-Kerne, near Dover, there I no provl.lon forllf tiling ll at night aud at the evening service those who attond are In the habit of bringing ' ...uu. aim inmps along with them - MIm Kl-aa-'Ob, calvari! Thii Her Maid r.xeu- n, Mim M . k... - - uo n t tll yt that sooui lliut ,ntUsr ,he or Ulklug over jn in 1. morula' for ssaaaa t -lea Mj piiat she SSMM " youta ,:... j EASTERN ITEMS. A BIO UK A I. B8TATB BWINDLE IN BT. PAUL. OeroDlmo Will Not be Hent Back to Arizona Will T at the Meat In apectlon Law-Local Option -Cigarette Smoking. New York wholesale grocers have a trust. IndianajNilil men will teat the Meat Inspection law. Yale defeated Harvard in the college regatta on the 28th, A lalior lyciMim for women Iiuh liecn or ganized in Ht. Paul. Denver' Fourth of Jul celebration ex tended over three day. Missouri ha act apart fLiXX) for wolf walpufor U80 and UwO. Some Chicago cable car make; from 10. to 11 mile an hour. The Hudson Huv Company rfjiort how a net profit o! ltl,000. Philadelphia will presently have two now cold-Htorage warehouses. The electric cars continue to scare horses in lloston and vicinity. Fourth of July waa turned over to the small Isjy in all towns und cities. Two WD of land at Btockbridge, Mass., huve Ixs'n sold for I(),KK. Mrs. M. L, Kvans ha ben appointed postmistress at 1-uke View, Oregon. A Chicago enthusiast talks of erecting a tower in that city -'000 feet in height. Pupa growing pmmlioi to 1m a iwollt- able business in some part of Florida. The Standard Oil Company has nor chased the great Derrick well at Oil City. The Pittsburg polio n have sent their old uniforms to the Johnstown police, 8. C. Morgan, cashier of the bank of Sidney, Neb., committed suicidi on the 28th inst. About one-hall the adult males at the Bottle agency have signed the proposed treaty. Crop roxrts from abroad are worse than last month in the Atlantic Males ami Europe, ltichard llrocchk, who challenged Vil lard to I duel, bus been sent to the in sane asylum. Colonel A. M. Kaxton, a St. Joseph banker, and a prominent Missourian, died on the 87th. According to the new city directory, Chicago has a population 01 over nine hundred thousand . A Cincinnati jury onuitted a snlixin keeper WHO sold on Sunday "just to give the spies a lesson." Brie Canal is reducing rates on grain from BttflklO to New York to Compete with the Lehigh Valley road. Indiana's Supreme Court lias decided that shaving on Sunday is not a neces sity. Abraham never shaved. The Kniuhts anil the Farmers' Alliance of Alabama will work together in the next Motion for the legislature. The locol Option bill in Michigan has become a law. This means prohibition in halt the counties of the State. The liguri'Hof just completed directories make the population of St. Paul and Min neas.ls close on to half a million. A new Connecticut law prohibits cigar ette s king by minors under Hi aud the sale of tobacco in any lorm to such 'r sous. The standard oil Company are prepar ing to huld an H indi oil-pipe linu from Cygnet, Ohio, to Detroit, tor handling luel oil. A New York estimate is that 40,000 tourists more than the number who go every summer will cross to Europe this season. John P. Hudson of Smyrna, Dol., a leading peach-grower, places this sea son's yield of the Peninsula at 1,000,000 baskets. It is denied in Washington that any such proposition as that ol sending liero nimo lck to Arizona has ever been con templated. Michigan has assed a law by which one tilth of the voter in any I! it y may demand and secure a vote on a local option law for that catinty. Knoxville has already raised fl'000 of a fund to Ked a monument to the mem ory of John Sevier, it is proponed to erect a $'.11,000 monument. The Chicago Tribune is receiving and forwarding to the proper authorities eon tribut ions fur the rebel of the starving coal miners of Northern Illinois. The slaves of the GbcOepeeke Hay arc still strewn with timber and w reckage carried into it by the great lloods on the Sumpicliiuinii and its tributaries. lleorge W. McCann, a brother of Coni aiodore McCann, killed himself at Meri dian, Miss., by cutting his throat, l'ov eity and drinking was the muse. The British steamer I lay I ian, supposed to lutve Is-en in collision with the steam er Victoria, otr Nantucket, is at QuanUV line Station, belou New Orleans. A. s. Dunbar, living near McDonald . I'enn., has a man' thirty-one years old with a colt four weeks old. The mare is grav-hoaded and as sound as ever. The light Is'tween John I,. Sullivan aud Jake Kilraiu, oil the Mb. for $10,000 a side and the chauipiniisliipof the world, I l-ii Prite King Utiles to govern, was wan by the former in seveuty-tlve rounds The lis'al phvsicians of Johnstown, af ter cait'fully going over the returns of the people rescued from the Hood, still plaiv the estimateil loss of life at 10,000. Judgt Bradlev of the Suprimie Court of the district of Columbia, has decided that there is no cruelly in dis king a horao't tail. Thisis iinsrtan, if true. It is again publiclv annoiinVe that Pres ident Harrison will appoint Attorney Oeueral Miller, his old law partner, to the Supreme llench in the lute Stanley Mathews' pirn e. A big real entatc swindle has Iss'ti 11 n earth. si at St. Ianl. The lieuie con sisted in sales made by ermiiis erson aliug the owners. Seven ,n est have la" ,dc so far. (ieiieral Butler, st the class exen-ises at Colby I'niversitv .lebvensl .111 address ui the annexstioii of Canada, and gave his views oi how the two countries could ha peacefully united. reralrUa KVerla ml Takarr. Da FLINTS UKMKDY te the only an UUoU atialust thr Influruce of tobacco whleh the mnokrr or chtwrr at lbs wesd has, and ll should bs lakeu regularly to Urr.rnl Ihr lira I (nun bnxmiiuir iIimviI Ilrwrtpllrr trssllar with esch bottle, ur, (sddm MarkCa. N. Y. Labor Organizations- Up In Ballon Tha Fast steamship Line- Beg gary as a Prof.sslon-Notee. Bishop lawibrecht of Ghent is deed. Wilkie C'olliua has had a stroke of par u) yseH. Copious rainfall in Cule has rejoiced the planters. Uilsir organizations are making rapid progress ull over Gennany. ltussia conb'inplates a new loan fur straU-gic railways and forts. lean in Russia of bad crops have Is-en dissipateil by favorable weather. Qpten Chrietana went Dp in an army balloon KHW ttet at Madrid, last week. The railroad to be built from Jonpa to Jerusalem will have American couches. Ilerr llasenclevcr, formerly a leading socialist BMaobar ol thoreichslag, 1 dead. The three missing steamers belonging to the Wissmann expedition nave arrived at Zanzibar. Carter won the Midland Breeders' stake at Fair Oaks, Birmingham, En gland, on the ltd. The Shah was received by Queen Vic toria at the suite entrance at Windsor castle, on the M. It is predicted that the number of Americans visiting Paris Hub summer will exceed 100.000. There are eight la-lies of title In En gland who carry on the business ol litem ami mantle making, Paris has no flies. Tito Parisians sav that it is on account of the thorough cleanliness of the city. The American team did the litst shoot ing at the 900, GOO and 000-yurds shoot ing at London on the L'd. Sir Lenel Griffin proposal to eolonuse Cashmere with :i,000,000 Imglishnieii as a bulwark to the Indian empire. The Russian army is to lie equipped with new rilles of small Caliber. The weaKiiiH will be manufactured in France. The British Inira Keiiado, Captain Hughes, from Buenos Ayres, April -Id. for Barliailm-s, has been lost with all her crew. The French Chamlier of Deputies has voted the Urgency Panama Canal Rellel hill, and later passed it by a vote of 888 toijK. A Nindon pa-r savs SCO Cornwall families are retried to is- wearing crape for relatives lost in tho (Jonemaogn Valley. The new Dm hess of Portland ranks eighteen in the list of is'i-iesses, and the American Duchess of Marlboro takes pre cedence. Ust year the number oi visitors to Sliake8K'iir's birthplace was 10.800, Americans constituting one-fourlli of the number. The National Amalgamated Sailors and Firemen's Union of Great Britain and Ireland is now reported to have W,000 meuiban A subscription bar is 8001 to Is' opened at Berlin, where for 1180, paid in ad vance, a man can dilnk all be chooses as often as he chooses. Porto Pernio, Napoleon h landing place at the Island oi Elba, ll now uaed bf the Heet of steamships which bring iron ore to American. Princess Utilise Victoria Alexander Dagniar of Wales, eldest daughter ol the Prince and Princess in Wales, has been betrothed to Karl Fife. ltussia has readoptcd the law Whicll forbids heirs to the throne contracting marriage with persons not member., ol the orthonlox Greek Church. London il lO Crowded with Americans that those who have not engaged their rooms ill hotels beforehand stand chance of having to sleep in Trafalgar Bquaro. The (iossipsof Europe tell great yarns alsiut the Shah of Persia's grandeur. It is saiil that the prcaoioni stones Im bedded In histhri are worth 130,000,- 000. Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian patriot, complains that his incarceriitioii at t'ey- I011 is killing him. mo climate is usi damp and he is tortured with rheuma tism. M. Meyer, a Perla financier, has been sentenced to imprisonment tor one ycai and to pav a tine of .'akKI francs for being connected with the Society Mobiliere frauds. M. Kifiel, whose name has been ex alted bv his great tower, is f7 years old. His real name is said to be ItoniokhaU- sen, anil his reasons lor cnuiigiug 11 are unknown. The watclunakersof PreaOOtt, Fnglaml, who have long lieen famous, tiuding that their trade is declining, have decided to build .1 factory and work on the Ameri can plan. The height of snobbishness is reached at F.nglish battM, when' money is taken as 1 he price ol an introduction to this and that baaOty or titled ludy presiding over tables. Beggarv has Is'en rislucisl to an art as well as a profession in Koine In a re cent case U-fore the imlice an old man admitted that lie had as many as tilt lies in daily use. An American has set up a school in Paris and advertises that he "will teach anv Frenchman to scak the only .sensi ble language in the world in sis weeks at a cost of only tSft," The large steam hammers 111 use in F.nglaud and on the Continent lor iiiuk iug the forging required for artillery and iiiacluuery are to is' quia geueraiiv n placed by hydraulic presses. Tho ship railwuv, which istotriins lrt loudisl vessels across the Isthmus of Chktnacto, Ni B., is prograaaing raoidlv. Novell hundrtsl mn and I:: .r aie at work uun it. tiovornor Hill of New York, is said to have signeil his name to some bills passed bv the legislative assembly an 1 then erased his signature with mid Vulgarly speaking, he soured on them. Tbe now treaty Utwi-eu J.imn and Mexico nss not lieen ratititsl. The trvaty Indween the I'uilisl States and Jauin. which was k)Ma February JOth, will go into lorce February ll, 1S;I0. Tlie MHM .laughter of lien. Boulangvr is to marry the son of the sister-in-law of tbe ex King of N.igles. Her title Is a long way off from royal, however, an she willonly 1 a plain utile Couni. A novel fuiictionarv in Persia is the OkMaf aha Fraaa, lleeilits four new MM and has other duties. This not sble journalistic luminary is named Mali med-ilassah-khan-hklu us-Sal lane. The negotiations N'tween th Britsh (Kivernmenl and Mr. Anderson, ol Um- i ilon, tor the establishment and niainten an' oi a fast snsamslup line from Que bec to Hi in. nilh, have cmUs! sins ess fully. THE PACIFIC THE BOY CONVICT DIES IN THE OIIEOON PENITENTIARY. Calfornla Krult Shipment Killed by the Cirs A Olrl In Mule Costume Klist Keglraunt Encamp ment ' Blade Bart." Halt IJike City has a building lawm. , Han Laandro is now iit?husl with gas. Tacoma is to have a I'roiluce Kxchange. st. Helena li putting down stone side walk. lm (iatos has repealed its fin-cracker ordinance. Tbe upper Ban Joaquin rivet is almost too low for navigation. A. French. I wealthy land owner at m Diego, lias become insane. "Black Bart," the fatuous I :.'ifornia stage robber, is said to be In Uhh a. Hon. M. 0. George tlellvrnd the Fourth of J illy oration at A bun, W. m Angeles has twenty one aihool lioum-s, but they arc all oierco.w.lisl. About three hundred bal-s oi wool were I.I ml itlnw rdale on the L'Slb ill 2- edit. solil at Cloverdale m the The total value of the iissessmelit San Joaquin county property (Stl, W7,000. The honey crop of Southern tall"oi nia Will be loss than oiu-sevoiilb Ol an average. BiJndgeJameaW. Blcknell o. Kan Mateo has Juat died near Modealo, aged 7ti years. mi.. 11....,..,...,.. l.'vl,tiuioll Sioi'i.flV Oi .. .:' 7u .. ;mi i U isa 1 l ie 1 aciuc v.ouu-ieo. , i,.... ... - on the 28th. peter Burger killed his lute inislress, and bit off the car of his rival, at Taco ma, but week. United StatM Marshal Hayes of I. is Angeles, baa been arreated for overdriv ing a Fresno team. Napa is pleased with having secured tie' First Kegi nt encampment it will last eight days. San Francisco, it la UnowlWOU, is soon to be the terminus of the Atchiaon, To peka .v. Santa Fe road. The tirst car for tho F.ust from Genual indwell's Ranch Ghlco, was loaded with Bartletl peara and plums. The Sonoma County Agricultural Park Aaaociation Will not hold a fair in con nection with the fail races. I movement is on foot at Fresno, Cal., to get the Hoard of Trade of that city to establish a free labor agency. William Dolan, serving a life sentence In the Ban Quentin prison (or Murder, made his escape 00 the 3d inst. The Yamhill County Herald says a Roating island 800 yards in diameter has been found In Honey Lake, Idaho. David Council, oi Bockferd, W. T., was struck in the throat by a rocket on the night of the 4th. He cannot live. One man a day ie now the UlHngno ord of the Oregon Railway A Navigation Company when passing Pelidledon, Or. The whareabonta oi 0. A. Roberts of Huron, Fresno county, is sought for bv his wife. He left Huron about a month ago. George Brown, a brakeman. caught his loot iii 11 railroad frog at Carson, last week, and was run over and fatally in jured. Helena, M. T., capitalists, disgusted at the water supply, have formed a new water c uupany ami exleiisive works will I erected. Almost the entire business portion of BUenaourg, W, T., was deatroyed by tire on the 4th. The loss will not full short of 11,000,000, Sarah llallctt, killed herself w ith 27th, and Ohariea formerly of Oakland, INiisou at Tucson on kenvon shot himself at St. Helena. A non partisan oonvention has put a strong ticket in the field to bo voted for iii the choice 1,1 officen for the now county of Orange. Stockton's propoaal toaaeure the spri ng race ineetitigs under the State Agricultu ral Bociel v. has aroused Sacnunenlo to increasing the premium lists. The prise of B0Q offered by Clans Spieckies 10 lannera producing tne larg est per cent oi sugar per acre ol sugar eels, has Invn awarded to ,1. It. Hudson. Geonn N- Miller, an electric in'ltiKs'- tor, well known ail over the l acilict oast, was arrested at Port lownsetiil on the 8d, charged with einbeailemeni M Mer ced. Cal. The trial of Calvin T. U'wis, the (am bler who shot and killed John Harring ton, near the Baldw in Hotel, San Fran cisco, ended on the Sd, the jury returning 11 vardict of not guilty. Charles E. MervUle, a brakeman on the Columbia v. Paget Sound railroad, was run over by a car at Kent, W. T., horribly crushing both legs, from which ho died on the Ith inst. Charles Schmidt was OtOlhed to death at Seattle on thr 'j;th by the falling walls of a building h it standing in the recent tin'. John Brewster was seriously in jured at the same time. John McAllister, tho ltl-yearold crimi nal, who poiaoned his father at Wisnl ville, Jackson countv, Or., about one year ago, has just dnsl in the Oregon penitentiary from consumption. Nancy Howard, the girl who recently worktsl at l.eoch's saw-mill in Yuba county , in the garb of a man, says she is the sister of of the wifeol Forepaugh, the circus man. and be IH-treated her. No less than :!iKl fishermen lost their lives on the coasts of Kngland and Wales last year. The fisherman is so heavilv i dad that, OOCO OTafhoard, there issmail hopeitw him. He nanaiiy sinks like a stone. A yacht has recently bm launched on the Thames bv electrical appliaiues, which enabled all tha supports to be re moved on the messing of a button, and the vessel glided into the water without the slightuet hitch. The remains of J. C. FIohI, the San! Francisco millionaire, who dnsl in tier-1 tnauyNcvor.il mollis ago, has arrived 111 New York, the remains will In' interred hi Oahare Natatory, s.m Francisco. ProOMeer Qayton, the mining exiiert who was Inyarad atWaidav Junction,! Idaho, in the stage accident, June PHh, dn-d at Sp.ikane Falls on the 4th inst The remains will be taken to Portland for interment. V. II. Hoiahumakar, a teamster at Seattle, V. T., was run over by a Seattle, ljtke Shore .v Fjistern train on the ;kl. ; 1 utting off tun right log alwvo the knee and his left foot was horribly crushed. Recovery is ikuibtful. Miss Addis, a literary woman of Cal ifornia, claims to have ditivered the pnai-ss of making the famous "luster pet lenr" Aiat was practcsl by the Mexicans 11 former years. She wiU tell the storv u an Kaatrrn magatina. Tha Wild Hursa Krult Stanes Dlstn fectans -IB Clod-Crusher Salt as a Check for Chinch Bugs. Kvcrylliing is useful to a goisl housc- keepeTi Oil of wintorgreen mixisl with an eojaal Quantity Oi olive oil is recommended as a rheumatic paiu-killer. cook of some note says that if paaoh ,. .rl.sl and pill into cold water for half an hour they will retain their color. The wild horse, it is aaid, is not ex clusively of Asiatic origin, but llMJ isted In America as far law k as the ter tiary age. Cold Isiiled turnips make a nice gar nish for roast lieef or lamb. Cut them into thin slices, and brown ill butter, pouring hot gravy over them. VUM them on the platter around the meat. A hot salad, which is a well known Penniylrania diah. is made by ihcng green tomatoes aud small onions, ami a few potatOM and frying them together! salt them well and send them to the table smoking. Instead of ''sticking ikmis" in the usual manner, the American Agriculturist sug gests setting stakes alsiut I rod aiiart and om, fout frolll ,. ground and the others . , :!,. ,.,ulrt. stretching wires oeivtceu men., .... t llMl .... .'vu .., After each ruin the ground siioum no cultivated lightly in onlor to prevent evaporation of moisture. The loose dirt ..... .... coveriiiL' ami shieldstho eartli (.,.. ,1... direct ell'ect of drvillg winds uou. ii and heat of the sun. m. ruk' line em, of dark sugar two-thirds of a cup oi butter, one-half cup of sweet cream, two cups of Hour, one . ... ..( poioiny two PL'L'H. Olie till ilcHPOOII- 'I - nr.-, , , , lid (II c loves, one-nan iaoicNpunoo ... 1 cl'. two teas KHiniuis 01 oamuR powder. One of the liest disinfo ' hints to use el out the K,ullrv house is a half pint of inaleiarbolle acid, two and n half gallons Ol wnti 4 and one und 11 half pounds of c, pi ei in dissolved and mixed thoroughly nii'l ap 1 the same as a whitewash into .in Cl lick and corner. Plant a small patch of sweet corn, beani, peu and potatoea very early. If the frost kills some of them the loss will iK'small, and if they escaiH' you will have B change, of rations a month earlier than people who noglesct the garden till all the farm crops are in. Fruit stains may In? lemoved from linen bv rubbing the snjt on each side with soap, then laying on a mixture ol starch In cold water, very tuick ; rub it well In find expose the linen to the sun and air till tho stain comes out. If not removed In throe days renew the process. Hardy shrubs and flowers should be selected with the view of having a sup ply of flowera from spring until fall, as some llowers bloom early ami others late, selections of varieties liest suited to the soil and for each month will assist in or namenting the yard until frost appeara. In a majority Of eases it rarely pays to attempt to cure a hen that has fallen into the habit oi eating eggs and for the rea son that she is almost certain to learn others the same trick often almost More youare aware of It, the host plan is to kill as soon as the trick is discovered. It hardly pays to run the risk. A Roly Poly : Boat together two cup f ills of sugar, one cuplul of butter, one egg, two cnpfuli of cream, half a glass of wine, three CUpfull of Hour, a heaping Iflsanoonfnl of baking powder, half a Kiiind of seeded raisins. Pour into a pudding hag and Injil for three hours. When done serve hot with a cream sauce. The statement that the dropping of one hen per year are worth 50 cents is going its annual round. We have kept alsiut 100 hens on that average but fine them credited with only $0 on our Ixiok for manure, or !) cents each. Ton cents is the very bight! that we would be will ing to allow for the annual manure crop from each hen. An effective table scarf is made of scrim. An eight inch border of old gold satin sorgo, on which has boon worked in arrasene embroidery a spray of eglan tine, applied at either end by meant of fancy stitches in silk, corresponding to tho tones in the embroidery. A hem stitched border edges the entire scarf, ami the edges are fringed with silk in all the colors of the embroidery and old gold. Ingenious ladies are using summer jackets of light cloth for houso wear. The jackets are without lining, and are ex ceptionally pretty, useful and becoming, Draped veata of crepe de chine or surah may be added, and a fancy rovers and cutis, according to the taste. A very wide, strong belt should besot inside the jacket, and so arranged as tofit the ligtire ipiite closely outside of the garment. Hot Lobcteri Pull about three pounds of boiled lobster to pieces with two silver forks, make a sauce ot mustard, vinegar, tomato catsup and plenty of caynne pei per and salt. Put uie looeter, the sauce and half a (siti'id of good fresh butter Into a eluding dish, cover the dish tightly and when tho lobster begins tOOOOk os'n and stir with either a silver or a WOOOen spun n. Cook aUiut twenty minutes in all, and alsiut two minutes before blow ing out the lights ohmi for a minute and throw in a glass of good sherry, stirring quickly and coveting again st once. Salt as a Check to the Chinch Bug: Professor Forties, the Illinois State F.n- tomologist, is credited w ith having said : "I have no n'rsoiial experience with the use of salt as a check Unin chinch bug increase, but Irom what 1 know of th habits of that insect 'and the effect of other fertilizers, 1 should not expect any itninirtant advantage, except in soil whore salt will specially stimulate the growth ot the gram. Some exiH rimeiits will salt, made within my knowledge hy in telligent tanners ol southern lllinoise, were w ituout noticeable etleot. A Log CkM-Crnaheri A ol, preferably of oak or other coinsict, hard wood, eight feet long and from eight to ton in- inchos in dismeter, is prepared by n moving the Kirk, and tapering slightlv toward the ends. A Unit one foot froiii the end a notch is cut ilinp enough to aiinui 11 ciiain which is securely wrapped around the log. The double-tree is at tached to this chain atiout three feet from one end ol the log and five feet from the other. The log is thus drawn diagouallv If the weight of the log is not sufficient an additional one can be laid in front of it, resting on the chain, which is made a little longer for this purpose. One ot the liest of the new inventions is a horseshoe without nails. It is made to fit on the edges of the hoof, as you wauld tit the cover over the rim of a tea cup. It can lie put on or taken off by any one of ordinarv intelligence in one or two minutes. By its ubo all danger of injuring s horse by pricking or wounding Hie foot with nails is averted. As about nve nurses in a nunire.i are lamed or mined by careless driving of sails, and at least 10 per cent are ruined by carelea snociug oy lncompcieni iron iouniers, who st vie themselves horse shoers, this invention, aside from .'heaiiening the proceas, will add to Oh- value of the Isirar. MArtK.AUE MADE casY. a New Idsa Thai UasTaasa ." ' '" aaipniai One of the developments of nine- tec... ntury civilization whlcUm. recently come Into vogue. In lhi m e - nhlaUamanafurlal Pf nated .ma "wedding superintendent. The ,wonage is. of course, of the feminine gender, and her function U to remove from tho shoulders of ho prospective niother-in-hiw IHMl her ;illllef every burden and rc-poiish bilitv. She nut only contracts to furnish the brlda'itrouaaaau. providing arery detail oflt from travel inn bon not to the orange blossoms, but Ibl undertakes entire charge of tho culm- ... ( 1 t r-r 1 i - t 1 1 - silver. ary arangwmo , , glass and table linen. lUperlntendl the floral decoration of the house and church, provides tho ciirrlagen, and in fnct, holds as thoroughly impoitiint relation to the fostivo OOOMiOO us doos an undertaker 10 tho funeral. Tne, luperintendent is not of necessity a j dreasmaker, a oaterer, a fiorloulturtit nor a hack driver, but is supposed to be a woman of fact und business, who will detail the management of tho var ious accompaniments of a marriage festival to responsible persons, sho herself having the general luperviliM of every thing. This plan of wedding superintend ence is not yet widely recognized, but a number Ol largo parties given in Philadelphia during lust winter wen; conducted upon a similar principle. The ideals merely an expansion of the functions of the so-called commission aires who have recently been plying such a thriving business. "Profes uio.oil shooners" is their more com prehensible title. Their prime aim is to lend their taste, time und experi ence to supplying the wants of Indies who uro, by reason of distunce from the city or other causes, Incapaoitated for making their own purchases. But the commissionaire is no longer con lining heraell to the purchase of pur ple and lino linen for domestic uso. She now holds herself in readiness for any tusk. With equal alaority she will accept the commission to buy a car riage or an elephant, a barrel of Hour or a dlreetoire dross, a diamond nock luce or a ton of coal. "I inn engaged in the selection of a span of horses for 11 country gentle man just now," said one of those bus iness women y esterday. "1 bought n Oarriage yesterday for another, und expect togo house hunting next week. An order for the purchase of 11 ship would not in tho least appal ma I would set about it Immediately as I would die purchase of a yard of cash mere. "Philadelphia Record. NUT-BEARING TREES. Atliiilraiily Halted in tha Boll and Climate f tin- Pratrte States. Three nut-bearing trees sot out by myself as yearling! in lKotf, have borne heavy crops every other year for fifteen years, and light crops be tween. They could not be bought for f0 each, and I know a dozen places within half a milo where, wero trans planting possible, J100 apiece would be considered not too much to secure them. Whatever may be said of forest ; trees for shade, shelter and ornament, I confess to a special regard for the nut-hoarera, and next to thorn the fruit-bearers, like the mulberry and tho wild cherry nil admirably suited to the soil and climate of tho middle, region prairie. As for tho soft-wooded trees, few Eastern or Southern people can bo made to understand to what considerable dimensions tho white maple, elm, poplar in variety, willow, linn or basswuod and several others grow In n generation, whoro the soil is deep and climate high-tomporatiirod for four or live months in the year. I could select within a circle of a mile in diameter samples of these varieties sot in I lie yards and along the streets of n Cen tral Illinois town, between tho year? '54 nnd '60, of a size of n 1 rutiit. height and spread that would be considered approaching tho colossal in the New York City parks, and got tho respect accorded to size aud ago every whoro. Their diameter of trunk six feet from tho ground range! from twenty to thirty inches, with corresponding stretch ol branches and shade afforded. Perhaps the best, thought .he slowest grown, is tho linn, a very hardy tree, that doof not resent tho peculiarities of closer communication with the world's activ ity, and in addition to furnishing shade early und Into in tho season, warms all hearts to it by bursting into bloom of surprising fragrance in July, and becoming tho haunt for wooks of in numerable boos. The willow and the Cottonwood, representing the poplar, do not shrink from the close commun ion of slock, and this is a chief reason why the three should be selected in preference to others when they are planted about the homestead for shado. shelter and ornament, or put into plantations for future use.-B. F. Johnson, in N. Y. Tribune. Self Freezing Ice Cream. Two quarts of rich milk, four eggs, whites and yolks beat in separately, throe oups of sugar, 0110 pint of rich cream, four tcaepooofull of any flavoring do sired. Heat the milk almost ,to boil ing, boat the yolks to a stiff froth, add the sugar and stir it thoroughly, then add the whites, which have Iwon beaten to a froth, and stir again, then add this little by little to tho hot milk, boating it all the time, stir the mix tures steadily about fifteen minutes, when quite cold beat in the 'ream and tho flavoring. You can not always believe what the English language tells you. For instance stratagems are not gems fi und In strata. We find that if we com pel our selves to put things away the moment se get done us ng them, the better we are off. Western Kural. - In washing and hulling them much of the pitpiunt flavor which distin guishes the strawberries may lie lost, if Ihey are not carefully handled. -Don t neglect to wash the teeth 00 rising and retiring, even if they are un touched during the day. it does pay; Well-kept, natural teeth bent any a. ti. tlcial ones. HE GOT OISCOURaqE0 tee-Wataf a Paor nwr . Wall r u Tll;or U, "Pretty rough, this Oklahoma, nnss, but no rougher tin,, when I first went out theta,"!!1 man with tho sandy (oaten aside his paper. u papet W. ere you r.inc hiierJ" ... . the group. ' tug "Io, sir; 1 was anent." ""n,"a railroad I JfT nm de, on, Ooenni of it, sir; o.'C1,. , ,. had to kill live nion in the year inr "You did!" rm "Yes, sir. and wound ttaatts Didn't want to do it. ,,, Jj was kill or be killed. The crow ' houso and. mu "'oneaiier awtitle, but ,he were 11 great nuisane.. I cooioiog op now iiiiinv I UinJ m twenty-eight months, and I Wa.. ! ly disuppointcd." fr How many did you makeout "Oniy thirty-four, but I am that 1 have left out seven or omebOW. When such a thing aS Is once off your mind it ,, hard to cull exact figures." "You have had ome narrots. capes." "Over a hundred, sir. ..j 1 111 ' "UU wounded sixteen different thaw 1 1 . . ... 1-t ooys once put up a lulllesiiuk e job fc mo to try my nerve." "HiTiv wus it?" "Thoy caught five big fellow,, ; ioiik-u cm imiw in my onice lut was at supper. When I returned J very busy thinking, and w w,hj right In on their, without larakwt - luercy on mo: Atiu tben? . .... - ' "I got seated at my desk, and si snenonts beir,,,, to iftt.la r - ..... .!., g ma 'I'll, .,,11 . .f I I... I.... . . . j.... v. vuu uuta were iuhj 111 at tho window, and I was de' nnnou not 10 snow a sign of 1. ness. "Hut you might have been UaJ "I U.MIW lit ell ii-.... nt tl .. ,u v.vw.l. ' MII.I. Ill LIIH I struck mo 111 the left leg." "And you didn't die?" 'As you see." "But you you " "I bad a q uart of whisky, and ! due u tinu coiinu rncieu me dunm i Wain t quite enough, however, there tiro days now and then h feol very queer." "What is the exact sensation." V..,. ilnn in . ll. ....... .-II .v.,, ..,.UUv 1. . mulM I ... I . I n .,-L- ...... - ' ,.i in., if lin . - . , , 1 . n fl.iul, II 1 ' .11 .. . . v. v.... . a u ..i-n ,1 ...... .v.,. l...n.,l.a ... L ll Ul TVU liV-Ht, UU 1 " in LU Hint' ,1". ....i;.,i., ,, . I al,U k. ill 111 .' ,, il.,. juu , oiiuii uv clfT .f..l I .1.I..1. 1 t 1 .1 tory symptoms. ..II... ..... I. ..,..,', 1,011 ,,0 11. i.. 'i u lie .1 Dubuque." ..V ll- M T . 1. -IL. . , . m...i. ,1 1 . ,i that lie unless I see the bulge' fltisk in some one's pocket W 1 1 l l...r. tl... .1. ,. I limdi thing but ice water." N. Y. Sua Marvelous Feat of Memorj. MaretUI tolls us, and hud the ment solemnly attested by loir iihv 111 .'Ml oa he me a VI lMi who had gono thither to purine . J : . ... si. a 1, m 1 noMci I . ... t mi 1 1.1 ff-iiiinr 111-11 1 with an extraordinary memory, H he could retain and repeat u w 30,000 words, read over by bin only, MaretUI and some distinfui a a n 11 1. . ..U )Ua- lllVIIUo lionv-u .. . f 1. 1 . 1 I 1 . I '1 U f 1 ll 1 II MM lV I J I J Ml ill. to test tho accuracy of whatrepoi stated. Ho willingly consenM. tliere was read over an almost miuaoie USI, Ul noma, o,.u..6.s without anv consecutive meaniif everv variety of language, even O Ullllil IIIU tiiyi. . Corsicau stood all tbe while attention do iply fixed and hise.M down upon tho ground. Whea l time he looked up cheerfully pouted the whole uainteNN". ntriw, o f words without a singlt Then to show how carefullj I tamei everv woru, uu . . , ... , I... mtm m t.hfi list, backward, then takin.' nltnrniito word, first, third. till I10 nuire tired Out satisfied MaretUI that he was ll extraordinary man he had nw histravels.-London Public OP lam sorry the character of H la bo lccelrll'VllUIV u"u' "" much that is interesting l" In somo respects ho is eveo U' I ' VtJ uuiiiw mm 1 -m ,.olis In the me;" Ctllfl oV Itn h1 - 1. la amid tD N V I 1 1 1 l ill n, (iiiu w w - maud occaionallv tor iurn" - the tables of disappoin ted politicians. His f" uiai'K coior is 1010 certain beauty to Ins rs mnniv form. But the chief interest about him is his V01- 011 certain occasions is " ot .ml buinaii. B P suddenly upon the place wner puny of marauding crowjsi ting their depredations 1 u r.i,.o,l ss sentin' lias uri-n p'w1- ....l nn diC0"Bt crying ha! hal ha! with uia. IMuin W- prossion wiino r ... 1 11 ?iv scurceij oM...w. -- - sound with a sirens -r j 1 .. i-oire .nun- . . .1 .....nil W V full for,-... "Halhalhsrw ... coin a novo me effect, just as some villainy. ,.nn illSt m IT . ., ..AM HP. 1 1 I ie . iiiiii woru 11 . - some one else in a I illainy. s- hlnak l. will raaKO V0U yourself were the cillP"1 Kll l..otinil COUSl nMliti.tn' ere IS the ssmr jieaiea more rnpi"-.. VOI OP. forcible l,,t viithe ii "' AiM..,iiiiinrv SIP iumis'timpx varies the or addimr a sy liable msk tit. 11 t i.u mute III rail w mm aaT couk. couk. eous. bs-j .1 ....i Bit B u w'-- . he lirjls-l sounds aw and 0U "d - k U and r 1" " Is by no means eu.usi I re ..! k - lord US one o "it." . I. ... r,,.iU tl.-. '.-11, l in iusrtufs all J-"0'