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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. I.. I 'AMI'HKI.I.. froprlaMr. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL, The Queen of Slam wears one and one-hall Inch shoes. It la related of Jay Gould that hi wu very witty aa a young mau and fond of l'voly con vernation. The Shah of Perila oonalders the Ducheas of Marlborough the handaoin est woman In Kngland. A Cincinnati couple, named re poctively John Swoot and Millie Honey, were married in that city re cently. Edward Everett Hale say that when ho was in college he and hli chum took the first daguorreotype ever made in Koaton. Emperor William, of Germany, li a very hearty eater and drinker. Ha consumes an enormoua amount of meat, beer and wine every day, and ia never troubled with Indigestion. A woman who became lnaane from reltgioua excitement and waa admitted j to the aaylum at Staunton, Va., In 1828, lately died, having been an in- j mate of the Inatltutlon for sixty years, j She waa ninety-two yean old. Stanford, Crocker, Colton and Hopkins, the projectors of the Paclflo railroad, had not among thorn all ' money enough to buy a eupper when they atarted, but by the aucceaa of their mngnlflcent enterprise, thoy be came mil road kings, with a fortune of twenty millions apiece. M. Jules Simon, the eminent French statesman, has quiet dignity, j ease, a cool hoad, and the faculty to I simulate warmth and genuine emotion. ! As a speaker he steers olear of duo- ! lamation. and can draw at wilt on : veins of Irony and sarcasm which he gently Infuses and as If Inacaaual way. Noadlah M. Hill, an old gentleman who died near Albany, N. Y., recently, read and understood Hebrew, Arubic, Mogrebin Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Turkiah, Hlndooatan, Orenburg, Tar tar, Estrnngolo, Transcaucaslan Tar tar, Greek, Latin, Gorman, French, Italian. Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Anglo-Saxon and many other tongues. An old farmer on the coast of Maino, in the vicinity of Bar Harbor, watched with deep Interest the pro jects of a wealtby land owner, who had built an elegant summer cottage and was buying up real estate right and left "I declare," exclaimed he, "I don't believe but what he won't be ! satisfied till he buys up all the land that jinea him." A woman accustomed toproparing 1 food for the sick found It necessary to support herself. She tried sending MM to the women's exchange, but ' was not aucccsaful. She then thought I of delicacies and tempting tidbits for invalids, and alio has been so success- ! ful in this undertaking as to reap a rich harvest. The rich and tho poor both patroni.e her, and the comfort ' to hotel and boarding-house resident! can hardly be told. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." Many college boys can scan Latin verso who can not Scandinavian. Train robberies are becoming so frequent that when the conductor shouts "Tickets)" all the passenger bold up their hands. -Chicago News. A him oft hsis way to Batch, A ship s lulohway has to uiat h. But slillii ihn hen one agf can 1st, Tbe itilp can lay to every day. Iowa State Register. German landlord (to agent fot firm of wine-growers) "Hew is It you sell your red native wine dearer than the whiter"' Agent "Do you think we get the color for nolhlngP" Mr. Hyde (of Hyde A Tallow, Chi cago) "Walter, I want a dlnnor." Walter "Will at gentleman haf tab! d'hote, or a la carteP" Mr. Hyde "Bring me a little of both, and hav 'em put lots of gravy on It" Puck. A broken pilot whool stopped railway train in Connecticut, but tlx Yankee-born conductor replaced tin wheel with a railway reatanianl mluct pie, aud succeeded In running hla tralc into New York on Umo. Somervllli Journal. An old couple were walking down the street the other day reading signs, when they ran across one which the old man read thus: "Johnson's Shlrl Store." Well, 1 declare!" exclaimed the old lady. "I wonder how hu tor HI" Uttlt Uock Mirror. Wife (looking up from newspaper) "Astronomy must be a fascinating Study. Here's an account of an natron omer sweeping the heavens with hi telescope" Husband "Yea; that' tho latest style of telescope, with the broom attachment " Rochestei Budget Lady -What! left your situation so soon. Maria?" Marla-"Yes. mum, I couldn't stay no longer." "Why, Maria?" "Well, ye see, mum, my mis trees wouldn't let me 'ave my young gentleman to dinner, an' thev do say that the only way to a man's 'art I though his stomach. "-Plck-Me-Up. 'I hoard you kissed the prettiest girl in the room at the party last night." ob-erved an Austin youth tc bis companion "Well, I did, for a fact What of UP" "Oh. nothing; only I'd just like to know how you lelt dur ing the sweet osculation." "Kelt like a beefsteak." "Like a beefsteak? "Yea. Smothered in onion." Texat Sifting.. '-Recently an Ulster County, N. T., farmer cut an acre or two of trees oa aa elevated portion of his farm with the following result: "My first lose was the drying up of a beautiful brook which had its source In my grove, and which ran through a number of fields, furnishing water for cattle while grat ing. Five times the value of the wood I sold would have been refused for tin stream. In the vicinity of the place where the timber stood the ground be came dry during tbe summer. When rain fell It did not seem to be absorbed; tbe water ran down the hillsides, mak ing gre.it gullies and doing much dam age, while the fields through which the brook flowed did not yield aa good arc pa." EASTERN ITEMS. UNCLH BAM OAPTUBBD FIFTY' THBKB PRIZES. Out the Bleotrlc Wlres-A Congressman Deed -a Hotel Manager Bktps Blg Failure -Publicly United Bulclde of a Oude. t 'on pressman Nutting of New York, is dead. Land all over Missouri is advancing in value. The Indian Commission is at Guthrie, Oklahoma. John L. Sullivan says he is ready to fight again. The statement that Kansas is out of funds is denied. Urge numbers of deer are being killed in Eastern Maine. The Peking railway project hai been temporarily postponed. A 14 year-old boy, near Philippi, W. Va., weighs ii&U pounds. Johnstown, Pa., has over three hun dred cases of tvphoid fever. It would takes train 3,12") miles long to carry the Kansas corn crop. A piano tuner, totally deaf, has been found by a Cincinnati reporter. In New York smoking cars are to be provided on the street radways. Quail and jack-rabbits are alwut to take possession of Jefferson City. Mo. Tin. funeral of Billion Vail took place at Topeka, Kan., on the J -it 1 1 inst. The Cabinet on the 15th discussed our commercial relations with Mexico. Ex-Governor E. A. Percy, of Florida, died at Galveston, Tex., on Uie 16th. Secretary Tracy has given his consent for U s Baltimore to have another trial. Pueblo has let the contract for the foundation of itaColorado Mineral Palace. The Brotherhood of Railroad Brake men opened a session at St. Paul oil the 1Mb. One company now has control of the seventy-two miles of street railway at Omaha. The work of laying a cable between Halifax and Bermuda will commence in Novemlier. South Dakota will urge upon Legisla ture and Congress the necessity for irri gation in that State. Governor Hill and his personal staff passed through Washington last week. They called on the President. Roliert Harrier waa taken from jail at Lexington, N. C , last week, and lynched. lie niurdtred his mother in law The discovery of the white fungus, which lays out the chinch bugs, has proved a great thing for Kansas. Ex Tax Collector Lederor, at Bloom, ington, III., has confessed to forgery, larceny and falsifying the records. A fifty-year-old grapevine grows in ( iermantown, Penn., or. a trunk which meai urea two foet and a half round, H. E. Martin, manager of the Hotel DalmoakX) at Kansas Citv, has disap peared with several thousand dollars. Clark A Keen, Philadelphia manufac turers of worsteds, iiave made an assign ment. Five hundred bauds are affected. The ljuindryinen's National Assoeia ln session at Buffalo, is discussing the effect of Chinese work on American lalwr. Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Iiocoiuotive Engineers, is opposed to a lederatlon with other larlior organixa tious. Complaints have been made against certain cotton planters in Texas for im IKirling Mexican labor to liarvest their crops. A company has lawn founded at Jack son, Miss., to buy a large tract of valu able land in Arkansas owned by Jefferson Davis. The Supreme Court met last week at Washington, and afterward, according to tbe annual custom, called uion the l'resideut. There are over forty Pension OhVe employes drawing large salaries who were rerated by Commissioners Tanner ami lllack. It is estimated that I0,000,IK)0 worth of pine lands have been released to public use by treaties with Indians in Minnesota. The authoritios'of Missouri are prepar ing to put in force the Anti-Pool and Anti Trust law passed at the last session t the Legislature. Efforts are being made to secure a pur ohaMf for the Panama Canal plant one ho will obtain a renewal of the contract and finish the work. Uon. Frank Pettigrew of Sioux Falls and Judiro G. C. Moodv of Dead wood are chosen to represent South Dakota in the United States Senate. The Government, It Is Mleved, will take some steps to recover the money which has lieen paid to all those pen sioners wbe have been rerated. A special Naval Board, now in exist ence, will, it it said, recommend the ap propriation of $10,000,001) for the exten sion nd Improvement oi the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At the International Exhibition in Paris in lh78 the United States took ten grand prises. At the World's Fair this year Uncle Ram captured Ufty-three grand prises. A sensation has ten created by the discovery of a deficiency of HOUU in the amounts of William H. Stowe, quarter mast -r of Admiral Foole Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at New Haven, Conn. C. O. Wheeler, at present super men deut of the Wisconsin Central and fortn erli connected with the Michigan Cen tral, is to be made geneial superinten dent of the Santa Fe, vies D. J. Chase resigned. A bride andgroor. wsrepnblieh united at the Rulelgh, .'I C, State Fail on the 1Mb, whose clothing was nu de entirely of cotton bagging material. The groom viah.il to show his opposition to tbe Juts Traat in il... way. Bread and water diet baa driven all trauisi away from Dixon. 1 : : .i A Atkinson as been appointed Postmistress at Boles, Orange county, Cat. Work in tbe railroad shops at Sacra mento ia augmenting, and a busy winter ia expected. O. B. Taylor of Occidental, Sonoma county, a wealthy man and aa old resi lient, killed himself recently. The polios of Spokane Falls bars ar rested II. B. Strong. Assistant Engineer of the Northern Pacific, tor excavating the I . - iiiftif AMII HKN i nuii v rOKKIWa F TMt BUWSLrt rumiui. A New Steamship Uue-Oonftrence Be tween Bismarck and the Oaar Thinks of Nothing but War. A hotel to cost 11,126,000 is going up in Sydney, N. 8. W. Five hundred miners have struck at Lens Arroa, Belgium. Italy hss declared In favor of a protec torate over Abyssinia. The people of Japan are becoming beef-eaters in s'eadily increasing num bers. The Cadhury Brothers of Euuland are the largest cocoa manufacturers in the world. The Antwerp engineers and stokers of the transatlantic steamers have goae on a strike. It is again rumored In England that Lord Salisbury's health is in a very un satisfactory state. It is un lerstood that ex-Queen Natalie intends to build a mansion in Belgrade and establish a court there. De Freycinet, the French War Min uior hue derided to strengthen six army corps on the German frontier. John Madison Morton, author of Box and Cox and numerous other plays, is lying dangerously ill in Loudon. rWuin Kind lab men are still holding Oil to their Confederate lionds with the hope ... it I U that they Will some lime oe pain. Adrian Allert Tailhand, formerly a raemlier of the French Senate and Min ister of Justice, is dead, aged 7ii years. It la rannrtiwl Hint It, ill hllli'er dis patched his trusted friend. Count Dillon, from Jersey to Belgium on a secrot mis sion. An on vf twin u L a WAS c x oer ininTi I in tho region alwut Venice recently. Several houses in a neighboring village were de stroyed. The London Times ventures the predic tion that the International American Congress will not have any practical results. Vf flMHui SB. Pmanlunt ,f Ihn tcrenoli Republic, is an enthusiastic numismatist, and possesses a collection of old coins of considerable value. A mval ilm-mr hua keen nrninnh'uteil at Brussels in favor of the American mis ui. hi oHtiilihshnl in the Hon in) for the evangelization of the blacks. At tin. r...,.,it aiittimn iniinoinvrAH in Germany the fortiiying of an intrenched iKiHihon with liarlxxl wire louring was found to be very efficacious. Uumnuii ml i'h i.m ulutn tbill Mlllllllfll lull lieen elected King. Upon the landing of ailtwta werinany reiuseu uj recogu-w Mataafa and desired Malietoa. 'II.,. I .. in u-lili.li Sli-lollns WflU tmrn though located ia a remote little town on the Neckar Marhaeli was visiteu mis summer by about 700 tourists. I. ia 1. I tl... 1 u-itan sllunlav tho 11 10 1 " 1 1 - . , , 111. 11 n nun explorer, does reach the African coast, he will hiing with him enough ivory to . , I , iL. . l.t u. HiipHri nun iiuring me resi 01 ins me. Emperor William of Germany thinks of nothing hut war. He conforms his habits to those of Frederick the Groat, and his court at Berlin has liecome a camp. Ono hundred Englishmen of letters have signed a memorial petitioning for the release of Henry Vixetelly, the Lon don Iwok-seller, imprisoned for selling Zola's works. Florence Mustelier, the bandit who has long hern the terror of the Cuban coast provinces, was captured and, at tempting to escape, was shot aud killed by his guards. The Central Railroad of Guatemala is aid to lie in course of sale to a French syndicate, and a contract has lieen signed, with the option granted to the purchasers for final ratification. The Emperor William has ordered every branch of the German cavalry to be armed with tiie lance as its chief weapon, though neither the sword nor the carbine is to be discarded. "Homicide by imprudence" has been added to the list of crimes in the French Criminal Code. The offense Is descrilied as causing the death of a man by any foolish act not in itself criminal. General Maclean lately made his formal entry into Meshed as British Consul Genersl, and for tho tint t;me in the history of the Holy City I he British Hag is now displayed within its wails. Next mouth Joseph Cliainlierlaln will leave 1indon for a prolonged holiday, which will lie spent on the Continent and in Africa, lie intends to go tlrst to Venice and thence be will cross to Egypt. Intending visitors ta Venice during the coming winter will lie glad to know that 1 he tbi. nations of the ducal palace :ir.' completed, and that the glorious old building will be thrown open to sight in Novemlier. Captain McCslla of the United States corvette Enterprise was the tlrst man who ever took a foreign war-ship up the waters of Loch Fyno, Scotland. The Duke of Argyll entertained the Captain at lnverary. It is lielieved that at the recent con ference I Ht ween Bismarck and the Csar a tlnsl settlement of the threatening Balkan ipiostion waa effected. Tbe basis of the settlement wu that Bulgaria lie longs to Russia and Servia to Austria. .tamos Pretcott Joule, the 1 hat in gill shed scientist, is dead at London. He was the discoverer of the laws of the evolu tion of heal and oi the induction of magnetism by electrical currents, and also of the mechanical equivalent of heat. The Csar arrived at Kiel recently. He aud his suite left the vessel under a heavy escort of marines and at once pro ceeded to the railway station. The Csar was closely guarded and none but the marines and soldiers were aide to obtain a glimpse of him in the coarse of his trip from tlie vacht to the train. The explosion of a coal-oil stove at On tario destroyed the life of Mrs. J. A. Fays and dangerously hurued her hus band. The branch line railroad of the 1 sma ll ne system, from Santa Rosa to Selsutto pol, Is almost completed. The track layers are within three miles of Sevasto pol. There is some talk of extending the road into Green Valley. William Mayor. ex-Deputy County Clerk of San IHego, lias been indicted lor attempt to murder Bertha Johnaon, whose rain he bad acuomplislisd. S.ium ItlMrdrrw. DR. MINI'S REMEDY most be taken when excessive or continuous mus cular exertion, exciting passions, or over indulgence, stimulating food or drink, or nervous disorders have long continued. Deacnptive treaties with each bottle; or, address) Mack Drug Co , N Y. Tbe Boiling Pln-Huaklng Before Shock-Ing-The New Bugar-Frlsd Oorn -French Mustard-Notes. The less tenderness a man has in his nature, the more he requires from others. I i m ... .1 sari l,,.r,i ,r 1 1 .li- 1-) iiYmi n. I from !! If li'" iiuuviw" - 1 a high ancestry as to ascand from a low one. Benrin or naphtha will remove grease from paint without removing the latter, if used quickly and carefully. a 11, .u' on. ,-sm in shot-making does sway with tall towers. A strong current 01 air is lorceu 011 uiu iw the water. Pigs can lie reared so as to have 76 per cent of lean moat in them by feeding bran and middlings. Skim milk may also be fed. It is slated that the roadside fences are lielng rapidly removed in the vicinity of Boston, adding much to the rural beauty of tho suburbs. Let your horse stand loose if possible, without lieing tied up in tho manger. Pain and weariness from a confined posi tion induce hail habits. Half of the wear to tools, on some farms, comes from unnecessary exposure to sun snd wind and rain. A convenient shelter is far cheaper and looks less shift less. Feed the poultry' " tbey will eat a few days liefore they are marketed. This is apple-able to all kinds. Much of the poultry sent to market is not in condition to he of the best quality. They need fattening. The horse-troughs and barn-lofts are no places for the hens. If hens are al lowed to make nests in the stables they may not only create filth therein, hut also carry lice with them, as nearly all kinds of fowls are allllcted with lice at this sea- Where rag weeds have taker posses sion the crab grass has lieen kept down. The crab grass grows liest In very warm h eat In-r, and on ground that has been cultivated. It throws outlarge roots, and does more damage to young plants than weeds. A pound of saltpetre to each square rod of ground is recommended as an excellent quick-acting manure for flower-lieds, and it is also excellent for strawberry plants. As it is easily soluble in winter it is soon appropriated by plants and gives imme diate results. As a cheap home-made paiut for barn roofs, make a mixture of red oxide of iron and fish oil. It is not as durable as good paint, but serves well to give a bright color to oil roofs and buildings, and will last two or three years. It should not cost over 60 cents a gallon. The new sugar produced from coal, called sacharine, has been condemned by Paris doctors ; because it seriously im pairs digestion. They recommend that its use as an article of diet be forbidden by law, and an ordinance to that effect iu moil (a huvo iii-en enacted. Tbe mod old cane sugar seems likely to retain its place for a while yet, in spite f new in ventions aud artificially high prices. Dalmation insect powder as a remedy for the cabbage worm has lieen tried this season witli success. It is dusted over the plants occasionally with a dusting Iwx or blown from a small tiellows. A solution of a teaspoonfut of ..alt pet re in a gallon of warm water sprinkled over the cabbages once a week has also been a valuable remedy, and the wori: of apply ing it is not lalairious, as a watering-pot can be used. When chicks of different ages are run ning together and older hints are about, the food for the little ones should be thrown under slatted coops into which only such can enter. This will save tho yourgest ami tbe delicate from being trampled upon and crowded out and will give them a chance to eat their fill at their leisure. They will soon find out what it means, and more often than uot will ! found waiting in the pens for the food to be thrown to them. The Rolling lln. From the depths of the cnliuary past has lieen unearthed an oblong club of wood with a handle on en her end. The use of this article by the ancient housewives seems to have been misinterpreted by the Mill ng and frivolous of the present day. It can now lie found encased with purple or scarlet plush, witli handle engilded, and a row of small brass hooks inserted into the main Inxly of tho article, and used to hang up keys, watches, purses and other little bric-a-brac. The most thorough in vestigation fails to reveal such a use of the rolling pin among the ancients In those good old dsys it was employed in slamming and jamming and rolling dough to a state af thinness in order that it might be used as an encasement for a hetrogenoous compound known as pie. But, alas, the rolling pin has reached an ellete stage of civilization. It has grad uated from the practicabilities of the kitchen to the ornamentation of the par lor, and is henceforth of no real value. Husking Before Shocking. In some seetioas tho corn is cut and shocked in the fields, the work of husking being done after the winter seta in by handling the stalks in the shocks. It Is not only a lalsirious operation, but one that ex poses the former in winter, and the prac tice belongs to former generations rather than to this. Much of such labor may lie saved by cutting down stalks so as to make roads through the corn for the pur pose of using wagors. The corn so cut should tie carried to the barn and used, grain ami stalks, as an early supply. The corn should then he pulled from the stalks and thrown in heaps to be loaded in the wagons. It can then tie husked in the baru during rainy weather or other leisure time. The pu'ling off of the ears can Ih done so easily and quickly that a large field can be gone over in a iay. After the corn is haold off only the stalks and fodder w ill reman to be stacked or shocked, and all work in the field, ex cept hauling the fodder to the barn, will be avoided in winter, while the damage Uial usu illy happens to the grain from fallen ahnrks, dampnesr, mice, birds, etc., will also be avoided, which is a sav ing more than equivalent to the labor of securing the grain. In this manner the grain is at once removed from the stalk, and thereby kept dry and protected fiom cold. It will cure better, and be u ore palatable to stock. The Sunset Irrigation district, embrac ing a vast territory of excellent land in Tulare, Fresno and Merced counties, all Wing seat of Fresno Slough and San Joaquin river, has been voted by tbe people. Tbe attempt to com promise the troubles of the millmen and ranchers over Carson river water out oi court has failed. A transportation canal, water-works, gas-works and electric-light plant are to be nut ud in Albanv. O.. bv a n,- K in corporated company oi New York capi- WUHS. Mr. H. Huy. a Dog, aud Mr. B. Telia All About the I'tly Unite. Ever alnce ouV marriage Mr. Bow ser bus been looking after a bouse dog. und n good share of our troubles have arisen over this fact On a hun dred different occasions I have asked him what we wanted of a dog, and on a hundred different occasions he has raised his mice und replied: "What do we want of a dog? Did you ever see a family which amounted to shucks which didn't keep a dog? Nature gave us the dog to protect us to be a sort of companion. There are people who can strike terror to a dog's heart by one look, but I am not one of those, Mrs. Bowser no, thank Heaven!" "Can't you protect us, Mr. Bowser?" "Certuinly I can and do, but sup pose I um off my guard- some night and a burglar enters our house?" "And burglars tho dog?" "That's it! Sneer at the poor dumb brute because Nature made him a dog! Under tho circumstances 1 huve stated wo should probably owe our lives to the faithful guardian." He brought home a dog. It was a dog with a certificate of character from his last owner. Ho was guaran teed to bo vigilant, tru . tidy, kind, and to have a special hankering after the life-blood of house-breakers. He curriod his hoad to the left as If trying to sec his left hind foot, and there was a suspicious squint in his eyes. Ho had lieen badly knocked about from all appearances, but the boys who brought him explulnod that this was the result of tackling an elephant and coming off second best The boast growled at mo and snapped at the baby as Mr. Bowser brought him in, and when I protested against the in vasion I was answered with: "No wonder ho growls! A dog knows an enemy on sight. He feels that you'd like to murder him. and he properly resents it. Come here, Rambo." That night the dog had the run of the lower part of lh house. Wo had no sooner got to beC chan he begun to howl. Mr. Bowser threatened him from the head of the stairs, and then he barked at intervals of five minutes for an hour. Mr. Bowser silenced him after awhile, and I was just getting asleep when I heard the beast gurgling and growling and worrying some thing. I wanted Mr. Bowser to go down stairs, but ho utterly refused, saying: "He has probably got hold of a burglar, and 1 don't want to be ap pealed to to call him off. Just go to sleep and let Kambo alone. We haven't been as safe for years." Next morning the beasi bit tho cook in the leg us she went down, and the minute the door was opened he lit out for parts unknown. Wo soon dis covered what ho hod been worrying. It was Mr. Bowser's new. winter over coat, and it was reduced to a roll of strings and tatters. "You brought him home!" I ex- claimed us I pointed to tile ruins. "I did, eh?" said Mr. Bowser, as he surveyed the heap. "And you lay right there and knew what he was at and never said a word." "You said he was chewing up a burglar. "Then I was talking in my sleep, and you knew It! Mrs. Bowser, you don't get a new dud for u year!" Tho next dog was a hound. The owner told Mr. itowser Unit tie was a good deer dog, and ten dollars changed hands on this account. "But what good is a doer dog?" I asked, when Mr. Bowser explained this fact "To run deer, of course." "But where are the deer?" "That's just like you! You expect to Iook out 01 tne bock door aim see a dozen! 1 propose to go where the deer are. Did you ever see a kinder face on a dog?" "He looks very simple-minded." "Does ho! Well, ddfVt you fool yourself. You may owo your life to him yet. He's better than forty bur-glar-aliirms." Tbe canine deserved credit for one thing. He slept Boundly on the parlor sofa all night On the second after noon he got out, and a little terrier weighing eleven ounces ran him three times around tho house and finally drove him into a barrel partly filled with plaster. "Did I buy him for a fighter!" shouted Mr. Bowser, as I related the occurrence. "Ho run, of course. I bought 11 i 111 for a runner." He whistled for Archimedes, as he hiul named him, and the animal came creeping in and hid under the lounge. When routed out of that he made a dive for Mr. Bowser's feet, just in time to trip him up and lot him down with a jar that made the roof shake. The scared brute then jumped into the crib and lay down on baby's head, from which position he was lifted to be flung over the alley fence. "Is that the way they run deer?" I asked Mr. Bowser. "Whose fault is It?" ho demanded. "You had that dog terrified as soon as he struck the house. It was his mor tal fear of you which made him act so. If you don't have somjething awful hapK'n to you I'll miss my guess." 11 wnsii v a weca oeiore lie came home with another canine. The beast was under-sized, out at the elbows and down-hearted. When I asked what he was good lor, Mr. Bowser replied: "If you knew any thing about dogs you cooiu wm at a glance, tie s a rat terrier. "Does he terrify rats?" "Doob he? In one week there won't be a rat on this whola square!" "Wouldn't It be as well to stand th nil.- as the dog?" "That's you. exactly! That's a specimen of your mercy! It's a wonder to me that such murderous feelings as you carry in your heart don't meet with fitting punishment" The terrier didn't do any thing re markable for the first thrfce days ex cept to fill up and sleep. On the fourth day. as we were eating dinner, ws beard a row In the back yard, and at we got to the door we saw the terrier penned up In a corner of the yard, tall down and eras rolling, jtnd a small rat was keeping him there 'and having lots of fun. The rodent skipped at sight of us and the dog crawled under the barn. I laughed till I fell down, but Mr. Bowser was very stern and digni fied. After he had pulled the terrier out and flung him over the fence he came back to me and said: "Are you satisfied now?" "That the dog is a ratter?" "No, ma'am! Satisfied that you hava onoe more, out of pure malice toward a helpless animal, driven him from home to a life of misery! It's a wonder to me that you don't murder our ahlld!" Detroit Free Prets. THE RUSsTaN CAPITAL. M . Peterabarg-'s Kxtiraordlnary Hide-Walk and Caprleloua Climate. One of the most extraordinary things about St Petersburg la the unevenness of the sidewalks. It must surely be accounted for by a reaction against tbe prevailing flatnes-i of Russia. Even In leading thoroughfares the sidewalks. Instead of being made, as with us, as level as possible, abound in the most treacherous ups and downft. How drunken men survive u walk through the streets is to me an unsolved mystery. In Middlesboroujh It used to be profanely said that the Quakers, who had laid out the town, purposely elevated the sidewalk 11 couple of feet above the roadway In some of the streets In order to break the necks of drunkards. Possibly a similar benevolent motive prompted tho construction of the trottoirs of the Russian capital. People get used to tiny thing, und after a week in the city you become so accustomed to tho sud den shifting of gradient as hardly to notice their existence. In the same way you become accustomed to the dvornlk, who sits dozing outaide the door of every public building or tenemented house. At first nothing seems more monstrous than the pres ence of this sheep-skin clod mortal at the door of your hotel, motionless und somnolent all through the night, but after awhile you cease to notice him. He Is jiu p posed to lie a substitute for police, and, as he survives the winter, he may be supposed not to feel the frosty nights of a Ru-sian spring. Tho weather was extremely capricious during the early part of May. A bright warm sun in the morning might be followed with piercing winds, with jleet and snow in the afternoon. It was never safe to stir abroad without an overcoat Natives admonished me sol emnly, as if I had been manifestly bent on suicide, because I left mine at home whenever the sun shone. Every one wore a top-coat in St. Petersburg till well into June. The Ice in Lake La doga. I was told, was the great refrig erator of St. Petersburg. It was not till past midsummer that summer could be said to have set in on the Neva. Never in any city have I seen so many men und women with faces swollen as if from toothache as in St Petersburg. Coittempora ry He view. THE USEFUL SKUNK. Why rarmera Mak a Mlatake In Oeatroy iiiK tin. little Animal. The much despised skunk is a good entomologist, and the farmer and gardener make a great mistake in per--ecuting and destroying this humble little animal. Tho few eggs he pur loins from the farmer's hen yard very poorly compensate lor the great number of noxious insects he destroys. In May, he is sometimes seen about sundown, on some elevated spot, watching for the May beetle as he wheels his droning flight, and he saves him. too, not in the sense spoken of in the immortal elegy, but between his teeth. He will sit an hour at a time .fathering In the destructive beetles. Ho is a persistent hunter, and in his nocturnal rambles moves along with nose close to the ground ; his sense of imell Is so acute not an Insect, not a larva, above ground or below, can es cape him; his eyes now glow with un iisuul brilliancy as he scans every leaf ud bran oh for the hidden prey. About tollmen plantations his services are considered valuable. Several years ago tobacco was culti vated to some extent in the adjoining town of Brighton. The writer, wish ing to get some of the worms to rear moths from, called on a gentleman owning a plantation in the town, and made known his object. The reply was, "Take all you can find; we want to get rid of them." In going through lie rows I noticed many holes in the in the ground, live or six inches deep, but could not make out the object, as they did not seem to have any thinr to do with the tobacco. I mentioned I me tact to the gentleman, who smiled as he told me that it was done by skunks to obtain the tobacco worms that had ioft the plants and buried themselves to undergo their trans formations, but were forestalled by the keen-scented animal aud made to serve as food. f'ick't Mugazine. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. -An Ohio girl, nineteen years of age. has become haldheaded. A Callfornian named John Fess ler ha a quart! mine that has paid him 130.000 in two years He does his own work, and his only mill is a band mortar. The oldest Admiral in England is Sir Provo Wallace, aged ninety-eight He was in the fight la 1812 between the Shannon and the Chesapeake, but he never commanded a steam vessel. Colored women in New York City have organised "The Woman's Chari ty and Industrial Club" for the help of their sisters, and have leased a four-story house as a "home for friend less co rircj girls." -"1 nave a little poem here, and I want to see the editor." said the long haired stranger at the door of the sanctum. -I. that so now." said the Dftee boy. muinirlv aa k- ui. . w 1 .111 inky fimrers through his hair. -What p-a 11 is mat the editor don't feel that way. "-Somervllle Journal. The boss barber rrvuvfl w nrj toward the new man and beheld tears s big aa moserM.ppi. 111 j - v.itiu . iwn the che ksof that Teutonic Individual. oai a tne matter. Guar asked the oss. "Feller I vonat .-i 1 peen eatin limpurger. und I got me to Unking of home," was the tearful answer . "-Terre Haute Exdcms, Mow . 1... Tllnkau ,.,i Aaw3tJSSSW Among the most buTC Alaska are the India., toum ku carved posts, often thlrtv .17 high, of pine or cedar low 'rt'S four feet in diameter iT wrought out to represent crests and rude coat-ol-aja,, uuioib aim weauny men of ih These totem posts are rMoalW. lribl tribes of the Northwest something resembling them Vy among the South Sea Islander." 7 and sometimes two, of thes(j pillars are erected In front of i2 j house, over which they towera d to keep watch and ward. Uke The carving Is grote.que ling In Its savage imagery n J?' Hon todistorted human face th.k of boars, ravens, frogs, wolra, beavers are frequently win. V rampant, or engaged in combat .IT eachother. Where there are i.' before a single house, the dwInV: celebrate the lineage of both the , . and female heads of the househoij. In other words, to give the nedim.; both the chief and his squaw ft posts are thus literally genealoei trees, and are to be read from th' to downward. Thus, the crv,ui v..., p a chief at tho head of a pillar overt head of a boar, which, in turn, Uot, frog, while the frog is over an eatL would record that this chief waT scended from a family whose hertldt totem, or crest, was a beur, and that in the previous gen- ration then U been an alliance with the frog (ami. and so on down the post The setting up of the totem m was a social event of importance, h was ushered in by many tvi, (gifts), feasts, and the eereraonie, peculiar to the Indians, and it wju surprise no one to be told that the tm (chief) who thus celebrated hit gree, usually found the expen, mounting opto a largo sum. As to the origin of the cmtotn, little can be learned. Both the Tlinkat a d Chllkat tribes, as ulso the Haida. of yueen Charlotte s Islands have their totem posts, and the practice has m yet wholly ceased. At Fort Wrupu the writer was shown one raised solute as 1876. At the same village are alsoto be seen three rude log sarcophagi each of which is surmounted byalarp carved figure representing the betr, tfio whale and the otter respectively. These heraldic beasts are, no doubt, the totems of the chiefs whose bodies are interred within. Cortain student! of Indian loro have attempted 10 ei. tnbllsh an Indian mythology uponthi' evidence of these totem pouts, associated wlih religious worsh:p:but from all that can be learned, it seems more probable that the totem posts are merely u moans, of commemorating u eostry and ancestral exploits. Con sidered as an ofTort on the part of tiftvages to establish genealogical records, they are Interesting relics o( aboriginal skill. Foe-similes of these totem posts are now wrought in slate stone, on a small scale, by the Haida. and sold to Alaska tourists. Some ol these toy totems are very beautifully executed, and make pretty bric-a-brac for mantel adornment. They are -old at prices ranging from five to twenty dollars each. Ytiutli's t'omMntgR. FLOWERS FOR WINTER. Plant and Hlnatoina That Make a trj Fine Apptiarance. When one can have only a few, they should be very choice. Salvias, fuchsias and selections from the many Varieties of geraniums make a von fine appoaranee, and we do not kno of any ono plant that pays much bet ter than the rose geranium. Hogonius- are very pretty; the white, or the peaf i or the scarlet ones planted together are buauti.'ul. They do not require much water, and hardly anv sun. fal la lilies will take all tbe vjater you have the patience to give, but they pay as they go with their bright, green leaves as well as their regal and fragrant blossoms. Hya cinths may be grown by placing tbe bulbs in a slit cut in a coarse spon" lu a vase nearly filled with water. Tbe growth will lie rapid, and the vase, when the hyacinths are in oloom, will be an object of much interest Those plants which havo been in pots since spring will need nev earth, and thoy require good soil. You can not have good, rich blossoms with poor soil. Liquid manure is a good fertilizer for most plants, especially those which blossom freely and r great growers. M. Louis MagaziM. w Wallets for School-Girl. "The (ierman doctors," says the James' Ouzette, "profess to have d covered a new danger. They sssert that the custom of carrying portfolio" to school has a tendency to distort tbe figures of young girls between the ages of eleven and fourteen. Parent are exhorted to provide wallets for their young daughters, which can be carried like knapsacks on the bsc In many parts of Germany this equip ment is already in use; and to w uu accustomed eye of the stranger notb lng is more comical than suddenly come upon a crowd of Httle gi tronninir nut nt iuhnnl. each PfOV'd rl ;ded with a knaosack for the march. Tbe next funniest thing to be seen smf school-chiidren on the continent is tkt long pipe or the bilious cigarette of the diminutive Dutch boy." Ousting the Family Bible. Fond Mamma Come here, dar'.laf What have you been playing with? Darling Don't wewember. Fond Mamma Your hands are p1 fectly covered with dust Darling I dot de dust off 0' dat b book. Fond Mamma-Why. I declare th chi d has been playing with the fasW Bible. Chicago America. He Knew What It Was- In the Park. She (from Boatonl What a beautiful equestrian taW Uncle Chawles! Poduok Farmer (who ha oef beard the exclamation) Ji h' that talk. Mirandv! 'Questrian sUU It's notbin' of the kind. It a ma hogback; that's what It Is. J"4