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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. U VAMPBICLLu Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. AUTOMATIC AIR BRAKES. Sorosthln About tlm Prlnrlplrs Oorw lof li- Application. Under the middle of the car the or dinary pull rod of the old hHnd brake li out and two Invent are Inserted. One lever ti connected with the brake cylin der and thu other with the piston, which slides in that cylinder. When air Is admitted to the cylinder tha piston is driven out, and the brake are applied exactly aa they would be were the chains wound up by turning thu hand wheel. Air is supplied to the brake cylinder from the reservoir to It, in which the pressure 1m main tained by thu action of an air OOflV m- pump, placed on one Hide of the locomotive. The pump fills the main reservoir on thu engine, and also the car reservoirs, by BHMI of the train pipe, which oxtouds under all the oar. When the brakes are off there in full pressure of air in all of the car roeorvoirs and train pipe, it is a re duction of the pressure In the train pipes which Cannes the brakes to be applied. This fact must be borne in mind, for it is on this principle that the automatic action of the brakes de pends. If a train parts, or if thu air leaks out of the train pipe the brake joes on. This automatic principle is a vital MM in most safely appliance, and It 1 secured in the case of the air Drake by one of the most ingenious little devices that man ever contrived that Is, the triple valve which Is placed in the piping system hotMoen the brake cylinder and the car reser voir. This triple valve has passages to the brake cylinder, to the car reser voir, to the trail) pipe and to the at mosphere Which of th are open and which are closed depends upon the position of a piston inside of thu triple valve, and the position of that piston is determined by the differ ence in air pressure OB either side of IL Thus, when thu pressure In the train pipe la greater than that in the car ruservolr, thu triple valve piston is forced ovor, say to the left, u coin muuication Is opened from the train pipe to tho car reservoir, and the air pressure In the latter Is restored from the main reservoir on the locomotiw. At the MOM time a passage is opened from tho brake cylinder to lie! atmos phere, th mprcHsod air escapes, the brake piston Is driven back by a spring and the brakes arc released. II. G. Prout, in lorlboer'i Hagatlnt, A BARBARIC FASHION. ('ruil AffBlntt Mir rsgsn OatHs ul Vtsarltig Mourning OHritlnts, A number of English women o( high landing in society have begun a cru sade against the mourning garments which the customs of times com pel t hem to wear. They are mil pio nners in this undertaking. Several times before assaults have been made upon thu pagan and barbaric fii lion of loading women down with crepe and ombre robes of black when ileal li overtakes any one near or dear to them. Their proilocosors in the ad vocacy of this reform have had little success. Why should a woman make herself hideous and miserable by means of overwhelming vuils and funeral trap pings? (. nay the defenders of this relic of barbarism, women wear mourn Ing because in them the emotions of sorrow are stronger and deeper than In men, and the outward garb of woe la the symbol of grief they feel within. Here and there a woman of hysterical bunt may persuade herself that she is grieving more because hIio has on a four-ply crepe veil and a bonnet the shape, color ami weight uf a coal scut tle, but If thu rule of society that a woman must indicate her grief by the Immensity anil IbUMMOI BW clothe were abolished, we believe the great majority of women would gladly lly In healthier and less hideous attire. It Is fashion, that silly and cruel tyrant, that decrees thu weaker sex hall be tormented with reminders of their bereavements in their dress. No matter how ugly, how harmful, or how ridiculous a thing may lie, If fashion says It la to lie done It is done without question or complaint by nine-tenths of the women In the clvlli.ed world. So mourning will continue to be worn In its exaggerated form in spite of all the crusades the minority of sensible women may wage against IL If men had to share the pains and Inconven iences of mourning there would be a radical reform at once. Men escape almost scot free, however, and women alone must harvest the aftermath of death. - Pittsburgh Dispatch. A Table Made from Corpus. In the I'atti Palace at Florence li a table which, for originality in the mai ler of conception and construction, is probably w ithout a rival. It was mad. by Giuseppe Sagaltt, who passed sev eral years of bis life In lu mnnufae lure. To the casual observer It give Ihe Impression of a curious mosaic 01 marbles of different (hades and colors, forit look like polished stone. In real ity Ills continued of human muscles and viscera. No less than one hundred hu. man Itodle were used In Its construction. The table la round and about a yard in diameter, with a pedestal and four -lawed feet, the whole being formed ol petrified human remain. The orna ments of ihe pedestal are made from the intestines; the claw, from hearts, liver and lungs, the natural color ol which are preserved. The table top is constructed of muscle artistically ar ranged, and it is bordered with upward of one hundred human ey, the effect of which U said to be Urtliug. The Wile were obtained from hospitals and Detrit,.ed with mineral tail. Si. Loui ian U Heeohe. m Omaha In dian girl, graduated In 1HN6 t the ehool for her people at Hampton. Va. Since then she ha been assisted by the Connecticut Indian Aoclatlon, and last week he waa among the graduate of the Women' Medical College, of Philadelphia. She will land among her people a their Aral woman obysiclaa. EASTERN ITEMS. LAKOB DIBCOVBRIKH OK OOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA. Srllivan will not light McCaffrey. The presidcut ha lteen duck (hooting in Maryland. The National W. C. T. U. will meet next year at Atlanta. On Arltor day there were 24,(00 treet planted in Pennsylvania. Lalior union and Italian took an ac tive part in the Hrooklyti election. Chief Justice Smith, of the North Carolina mpreme court, li dead. Sensational Mermon exposures are lie ing made in the Halt I -ike courts. Thirty-three horaea, worth '.'5,00(, burned to death at Ixiunville, Ky. Nine hundred head of fat oxen will he exported from Illinois to Germany. Northwestern liimlatrmen expect a "favorable winter, with lota of now." Karniersof I,aneaBter county, Penn., stopped corn-husking to to after rabbit. A premature explosion near Butte killed ix men and two others- lOtt their eyes. The words "of America" have been dropped from the name ol the Knights of Labor, at the request of English iiiem liers. The defense has begun taking testi mony in the Cronin murder trial at Chi cago. Wanamaker is reported to have re ferred disparagingly to the civil service examination requirements for iioetal clerks. Joseph Schwartz, a 950,000 defaulter from Kansas Citv, has lieen arrested in St. Paul. A. I). Shaw, of Indiana, haa been ap i. mted deputy third auditor of the treasury. The silver convention at Denver rec ommended a silver coinage of $4,000,000 a month. Hill City is a liooming little tin town in the lllack Hills, with a population of 1000 souls. Colorado has organized a state silver association, with Hon. H, A. W. Talsjr as president. John W. Keely, the motor man, has invented a gun which he claims is suite rior to Kaliuaky's. The national baseball league has adopted rules which will do away with the sale of players. A pair of candelabra once owned by lifaietto brought fi'tO at a New York auction sale several days ago. A new syBtem of water supply has become necessary at Denver, and will lie furnished by millions of Eastern capital. The losses in the recent Trinidad. Col.. snow Htorin. flic tint, its severe rh ul tirut. supposed. Sheep men are tho heavy losers. The Farmers' Congress ia In session at Montgomery, Ala., ami are discussing tariff and industrial questions and pro posed measures. N. J. Arkell, the proprietor of "The Judge," has offered $100,000 a year for the use of the hacks of postage stumps lor advertising purMBC8. "Black Part," the noted highwayman, lias made a confession of murder and robbery at Bessemer, Michigan, cover ing a number uf his exploits. The naval authorities are conducting experiments on Chesapeake hay, to see whether the fog horn or bell it the better to be adopted for general use. The Pan-American excursionists have 000) pitted their journey ol 0000 miles, after having made the longest continu ous trip ever made by one train. The late Chicago philanthropist, John Crerar, leaves a fortune of $:!,fOO,00U) the bulk of which is bequeathed to philan thropic ami educational institutions. Colonel liigereoll's daughter Kva has married Walstou H. Brown, a Now York lawyer. The contract wiib merely a civil DM, no religious ceremonies Mug had. The proposed transfer of l".',0lK),IK)0 in HHsets and securities of the St. Paul, Minneapolis A. Manitoba to the lir eat Northern is menaced by all injunction suit. The Methodista decided to divide their appropriations for home and forcixu missions into 4S and 56 per cent., re spectively, of the total sum at their dis 1 sisal. President Ureen, ot the Western Union, says that the rates proposed by Wanamaker would cut their annual rev enue down to $4,000,000 less than their lipHMM, The national niissionarv committee of the Methodist Kpiscoiml church is in session at Kansas City, engaged in ap isirtioning $1,000,000 among the various Held of work. Mrs. Kllen J. Foster, at the head of the Isilting Iowa delegation of Ihe W. ('. T 0., says they have received much en couragement and support from the clergy, in their atop. North Carolina mining experts are re ported as saying that there is as much gold there as was found in California The opinion is fused on new discoveries in Montgomery county. Andrew Kck, a prominent farmer of B.untield, Ohio, while drunk, froze to death in a snow storm. He was trying to walk home, after hating Ida horse on the wav bv carelessness. The worry and broil of the speakership canvass is keeping congressman awav from Washington. November preceding congress never saw so few congressman out of the citv as at preeeut. Kx-Preaident Cleveland otllriated at the layiug of the democratic headquar ter building st Brooklyn. The edifice com incinerate Thomas .letters n It will be seven stories high and coat $!.,- Ml Pour voting men havs liaised a credit able exam inatlon for the Oregon West Point cadetship. The results have leen sent to Congressman Hermann, who will make an appointment from one of thrill. Receiver Silver of the Loa Angeles and Pacific K.ulwav is paying off hack sals ries due "inploves with receiver's certifi cates. Men bants are not disposed to lake thnii, although the c rlitual. s are authorised by the courts, and the em ployes are quite as bad off aa they were ttelore. Tits first two-story building ever erected in Fresno county was burned at Centerville Monday night. It was built in 1V at Sootaburg and removed to Centerville in IWH In the twsnty-four yean It waa used as a saloon, and. not ithstanding the rough pioneer day a, no one was ever killed In the budding MOMS? AMI r uin Beware of the Bull-How to Orow Blue-Ureas- Care of the Old-fashioned Hweet Ha : Small Fruit. Willows along the hunks of a stream greatly aid in protecting the soil from uu.hii.u -bout I Hoods occur. Willows are easily grown from cuttings. If other work is not pressing mow um .....I I,.. mi t our's corn, and leave it in the rough condition, so aa to permit .. , . i :.. ..-, , I , , it Vfi llie irost w aBii in r""r"'" the spring it mav ae cross-plowed. A graas plot, with no shade from the sun, and where liies are numerous and diligent, is rot the best place for calves. But 11 the calvea be kept in a dark, cool ---'- .i,,,,,, , t'i. i.i.i Ml of 11 v time. and turned out for the evenings ami nights, the protection ol tne soiuug loo, will m coui.led with the Isiiiellt of exfrcise and feel outside. "A new method of preserving butter, says !i exchange, "conslsta in adding to it a verv small portion ol salicylic acid, dissolved in two parts of lactic and and ninety-eight rU of water. How little salicylic acid is required to keep butter fresh for an indefinite It ng'h of time may lie calculated from the fact that no more thai, one grain is employed for every 100 kegs ol butter. Fruit-growers In H.iuthern New Jersey aro discussing the feasibility ol Bending -li (.nil f tha murlrvls of the nTU( BUM 0 Is' sold at auction iiiBtea'l of on com mission. They claim that by so doing ttu fmll uill l.rinir the hiuliest uriees. and that each grower can be present , ttl l A l,i,. W lien ;Kssillie, ill ororr wj ihhssi a.. If Mosnrllflisi th.. nrici-M i, t, tallied and the , - r' , ' condition of his fruit iikii arrival. 1 If Oil I UjvB, III llie nurai new Yorker, pronouuees the Brit and Iw ton blackls;rries not alike. He eonsjd- .h thu I-n, u liurdir v uriet c. While there is a similarity in habit of growth ami also in fruit, a careful comparison ,.,li !,,.. th..i t.. i,,. dlt.iii(rt. Ill season of ripBOlng the Krie is BWOil ear lier than the i.awion, me canes are more vigorous in growtli and very mucn ardier. I 1 1 u nr.. .hintrnrnilfl atlillinls and 11 . 1.U1IB U. ..ua.p,. J majority of the injuries received occur Iroin placing loo mucn commence in ...... t I.. I.i.l lu u-htcli ymhlonlv Old mm, v loctedly attack the attendant. A bull will usually prove olsslient wtien young, l.i.i it ...!.I,,M, that 11 fullv tnfklnreil bull is safe. No bull should be kept on a farm that has rot been "ringed" in llie uose. and it stimuli is' m.nle u work n training is tosBible. Uubhage iilanlH UtamM lor proc.ucing ....... I ulii.tilil ... ,.,.t'i.r.t I ,. . I . . r, tri'i.'Dli. weather. Place the cabbage head (witb the greater iortion of the stalk cut Off on the surface of the ground, the ground Biignuy raised, ami cover we 1... ,.l u',.11 u. ,,1. . 1 1 r I tr. i..,,t... I urtittiul frost. Earlv in the spring remove the covering, and with a sharp knife make two cross cuts on the head, and it will soon send up the shoota for producing seed. When sub-irrigation can lie practiced which, however, deoends on the cost of preparation and production), the farmer or gardener will, in a great measure, lie independent of the weather. The most important matter is to arrange for a sup ply of wtttar, w hich doMuids on the size ol the plot or field to Ih Irrigated, Steam pumps, Bund pumps and wind mills are resorted to on level land, but the streams, or Mowing wells and springs are used whenever such resources can Is- re sorted to. The practice of sub-irrigation is becoming extensive in portions of Florida on garden plots, and is described at length in the American Garden, the details of which will probably intereHt many who exparitnot the difficulties of too much or Insufficient rail . If a (arm is running down and the owner getting jioor, there is no rotation which will turn the tide in Imb favor than rye, clover and sheep. The land is plowed in August, and rye, at the rate of live pecks to the acre, is sown. In Sep temlier we sow' timothy seed, and in March sow a liberal supply of clover which germinates, very earlv and by August is in the height of its glory. Then the sheep are turned in and the iii.it of ground will not "run down" un less overstocked. When this sheep p.istnie is plowed up and planted to com, a womlerf.il change will lie noticed. Two Crops of corn, one of oats, then buck to rye, clover, ami sheep again, completes the rotation. Whatever inity tie said !n favor of fancy trellises tor climbing plants, it is a fact that the sweet pea really seems to do Is ttcr when given brush to clamber over than it will on any other aupport that we have ever provided for it. It seems to have a decided objection to anything formal. It will not cling to a string well. It must have something to lean upon rather than cling about . H you want late Mowers, lie sure to keep votir plants from forming unv seed, and cut the tops buck very nearly one-half in August, giving, at the same time, a good top dressing of manure. We are clad to notice that this lino old tlowcr is becoming a favorite with those who have h'titBltO thought nothing ho desirable as roses and other (lowers of that class. Waldo K. Brown, a noted Ohio fanner and prolific writer on rural topics, says the way he started bis pasture was by Hinving one bushel of blucgriiss seed to the acre, and at the same time seeding heavily with a variety of other grasses and clover. The bluegrass made no show until two yean later, but has Ih-uii improving ever since. The Inst piece of bluegrass on bis (am. was started by cutting sods by the roadside aud chop ping them into puses about two inches square, which were dropped from a !as ket iraOl two feet apart, anil stopped on to press them in the soil. This was on land just sow n to oats. These pieces grew to the size of dinner plates the first year, anil in a (ew vears crowded out all other grasses and formed a complete sward. Mr. Brown Mievee that, taking one year with another, a field of hltio graas pay bettor than any other crop, and, at tite verv least, ten acres out of every hundred i vrht to be occupied with it. A singular discovery has been made In Ansouia, Conn , by Warden Wheeler. Ue finds that the deaths of elm trees occurring in alarmingly large numlars in that loroiigh are not due to electricity, a has lieen supoacd, but to the depre dations of a white insect about one-tpiar ter of an inch long and no thicker than the ordinary brass pin. He made the discovery by accidentally knocking off the hark ol a recent victim ot tlie pest. Other tree were then visited and were found to lie similarly afflicted. It is feared that the pest w ill spread over the a ate, aa Connecticut is covered with tsuti(ul elms. The preliminary survey for the great Kio tirande irrigation canal has been he- gun. The canal will skirt the foothills of the river for -.'50 niilea. II. K. Uibbe, the colored IuMman 1orter, who killed young McDsvitt, at ortlaml. Or , several weeks ago, has been arrested at Yreka, Cel. The wire-cloth mill at Roaeville, San Piego countv, ia running twenty looms by steam, tne only power wire-cloth looms w est of Central New York. Jantea Parker, of Sacramento, haa been arrested at Marvsville, charged with an attempted aaaault on a year old girl. It ia believed the man ia not sane. THE PACIFIC COAST. FINANCIAL BBPOBT OF BBATTLB78 BBLIBF OalallTTBB. Steamboat Bnterprlse on the Sound Wtrtaell Dtvoice Bult DlemlsW Judge Terry's Estat-The Lone Highwayman. The Southern Pacific's fences will cost $10H,000. A wreatllng match ia on the tapis in Portland. An eyeless baby girl is on exhibition in Portland. Portland citiiens are after reckless hack-drivers. Several revival meetings are in pro gress in Portland. The late Judge Terry's estate is ap praised at lfti,460. A 10,000 pound mill casting was re cently made at Portland. Joseph Holladav's tine for contempt of . .. . , .imi court at roruanu was ns. Orand Armv men, of Boise, will build I I o a handsome uiemolllll nan. The new steamer H home is eom pirtod and about to la-gin work. The Barrel farm of 18ti0 acres near Colfax paid $10.H7 per acre this year. The Wetzell divorce suit at Portland has lieen withdrawn from the courts. The National (iranae of the Patrons of Husbandry is in session at Sacramento. Portland has a fund of $100,0 0 for I library edilice and will proceed to build. One hundred is the usual number of telephone wires on Portland's street poles. The old Mechanics' pavilion in Port land has lieen converted into a bicycle course. The Union Pacific is said to Is- pro jecting a railroad from Portland to Astoria. Tne San Francisco engagement of (lil mnre's band resulted in a financial failure. , Tacoina's exposition building is to trover H4,000 square feet, aud to cost 1)88,000. A lone highwayman held tip the Coos Bay stage the other day, and rilled the mail pouches Dr. Case, of Seattle, is Implicated, by the coroner's jury, in the recent diath of Joaie Hunter. The crew of the lost vessel I'ieneral Pieton have all lieen whipped at Port land on various ships. At Shoalwater Bay this season 10,000 salmon cases were packet), and at Cray's Harbor 110,000. The colored citizens of Portland will celebrate the anniversary of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. The new pine organ of the Grace M. E church at Portland is said to be a marvel of beauty and perfection. Seattle business men have raised $76,000 for a line of steamers to Is1 owned and operated by them on the Sound. Seattle ta preparing the plans for two new brick engine bouses, to accommo date their old and new tire apparatus. The new branch of the San Francisco ami North Pacific railroad, from Santa Kosa to Seliastapol, is now opened. A Pacific coast chamber of commerce is ls'ing organized in San Francisco by representatives from vurious sections. S. Herrings, of Seattle, met a horrible death by ls-ing caught in mill machin ery, Ho leaves a large family destitute. Myron Loekwood was killed while at tempting, as one of a party of masked men, to rob a Chinese camp near Albina. William H. Gray, one of Oregon's three oldest pioneers, died in Portland und was subsequently buried at Astoria. Tho United States surveyor's steamer Ilaasler left San Fran iso on Monday for a surveying trip along the southern coast. Julia Ward Howe, while in Portland, was tendered a reception, lu in inter view she chums to be a follower cf Knianiiol Kant. Mrs. I .eland Stanford has testified to her approval of the project for purchasing anil restoring Sutter's fort, by subscrib ing fiOtHI for that purpose. Chief Joaeph has Ism for several days a guest of General Giblon, at Vancou ver. They have lieen discussing the status of the Nez Perm tribe. Leather men say that the decline in prices of SO to 30 per cent, is due to over production, brought on by the large uum ber of new California tanneries. The Vanderbilt representatives, who have been visiting the Cons', area jolly set of fellows, always "guying" each other about their respective towns. A new shingle mill is to be built at Ballard, on Sihuon bav, with a daily capacity of :lOX),l)00 shingles. The build ing will cover 50,000 square feet of ground. John I,oary, of Seattle, promises to build a steamer for tlie Senttle-Tacouia route to cost 0,0ii and to eclipse in psad and elegance any now ply ing on the Sound. Opening prayers in the legislative ses sions at Olvmpia are delivered by clergy men who volunteer their services. No provision for a salaried chaplain having iecn made by either house. The length of the terms drawn by the Washington supreme court judges are: Anders, chief justice, three years; Scott, three years; Stiles ami bunbar, live years each ; Hoyt, seven yara. The 8a ramento trustees dfdare that if Sutter s Fort is not soon secured they will open streets through it. John W. l.ee, who robbed the railroad ticket office at Sacramento, has been sent to San juentin for two years. Taeom celebrated on the 4th the fourth anniversary of the banishment oi the Chinese trom ita corporate limits. Frank Cotta, a l.,e Angeles saloon keeper, haa disappeared from the view of his creditors with, it is believed, a goal eack of money. A young man plowing on a ranch near Walt recently found over $1600, ami his employ r kept all but $10 of it. and left the plowman to plod hia weary way in the held. San Bernardino citizens tendered Gov ernor Waterman a reception Momlay night, they felt so happy over hut ap proval of the asylum site selected by the committee. A eenaalion was created in the Loa An gelee city council lately bv Auditor Lopea charging that Deputy Clerk Voor lire waa guiltv of raising checks and I pocketing the difference. KOKKIU ri.MHK. Los of Life in the Klffsl Tower-Tbe London Scandal -China's Broperor In Trouble-QuUt in Samoa. Ex-King Milan is at Belgrade. Spain will increase the import duty on flour. The cholera epidemic in Persia ia de creasing. Guatemala has prohibited newa being sent abroad. Grants has liegun the export of barley to Fugland. An international gang of burglars has lieen arrested at Vienna. Artificial coffee is man ifactured on an extensive scale in Germany. The Peruvians recently celebrated the birthday of President Cacerea. RsMaai bo established a strong branch of the Knigh's of Lalmr. The workmen in the British govern ment employ are uow paid in silver. " l ui,. I'niitiu bus been all nviiui nuiiuniv - '- i pointed minister of finance at Portugal. I'eter Jacksor , the Australian colored pugilist, is the lion of the day at London. At a public meeting it Sydney. N. 8. W.. resolutions favoring federation were adopted. Ktunlnv hp PTnlorer. is exneeted to reach Zanzibar alwut the middle of January. Koine's finances are in a disordered ondition. and an official inquiry is le- ing made. it Is lurniil ih.it I'atti has been re ceiving 700 for each concert at Alliert Hall, London. Oo,r tuxntv thousand nersoiis at tended the oening of Barnum's circus at Ijondon last week. Vi r rthnrh.a nillii. is determined to re enter public life, and the litterals have promised to assist mm. Tin. reonrt of the mtlrdpr of Mission- arv Savage in New Guinea is declared at Melbourne to la' untrue. The first soil of the Nicaragua canal was sfficiallv turned on the SM of Octo ber. The services were imposing. The rise in the price of silver in the London market since October 1st has lieen from 42)d to 44d, its present quo tation. Zaldlvaf, who is said to have got rid of his political opponents in Costa Rica by secret assassination, is said to be in Madrid. China is arming her troops on Hie Rus sian frontier with repealing rifles and her soldiers are being drilled by German officers. The condition of Grand Duke Nicho las, uncle of the czar, is becoming worse. The cancerous formation in his ear is spreading. A dispatch to London from Zanzibar confi'iiiB the report of the massacre of Dr. Peters by savages near Korkora, Foist Africa. It is estimate that '.',000,000 of people witnessed the I.tttl Mayor's show at London, the 700th anniversary of the Iiondon mayoralty. The bakers assembled at Hyde Park, London, last week, and were enthusiab tically favorable for a strike lor shorter hours and Itetter pay. A rewrt from Shanghai says the em peror, who married against his will, in obedience to Ins mother, now refuses to see either his mother or his wife. The British government abandons the proceedings against the inemlicrB of the London West Ktitl Club, who were charged with abominable proceedings. The French Canadians, according to high authority, repudiate Premier .Sler cier's statement! at Baltimore that Canadian Catholic! desire to be Inde pendent of F.uglantl. The United States steamer Pensacola, with Professor Todd and the astronom ical parly to observe the solar eclipse in si.irrs Leone, arrived recently at Porto Grande, St. Vincent, Cape de Verde Island. (ircat alnrin is created at Snn Jose, Costa Rica, at rumors that the R slri gnietas are preparing to demand that President Soto relinquish his authority, mid many timid residents are leaving the city. A Samoa dispatch says the Germans have gradually withdrawn their support from Tainaseee. The report of riirhtin lietween the followers of Mataafa ami the followers of Tamasose on the island ol Savoy is denied. In the final wrestling match between Bernard anil Cannon, at Paris, the latter proved the victor. The result caused intense excitement. Tables were over turned ami chairs thrown alsiut, and lor a few moments confusion reigned supreme. Boiilanger is reported to have left the Isle of Jersey, but before leaving he is sued a manifesto, declaring that the re vision ol the French censtitut on has Only been postponed, and that the revo lutionists were never more certain of ul timate victory. Bishop O'Dwyer. at Limerick, Ireland, has issued a pastoral letter forbidding the clergy of the diocese to grant absolu tion to anv person guilty of bovcottiong or pursuing the plan of campaign The bishop retains to himself alone the right to absolve such persons. Several weeks ago an elevator to the Eiffel tower fell one hundred feet and thirty of the occupants were injured. It is said a dozen persons lost their lives iu tlie elevators since the opening of the exposition, but the facts have been sup pressed by the authorities. There are reports of a great scandal in aristocratic circles ia West Km!, Ijondon The subject is said to Iw revolting anil the privy council has it under discussion lird Author Nunerset has fled, am! Prince Alliert Victor's journey to India is said to have something to do with tlie affair. Charles Hoff and Kmanuel Campbell have returned 10 Santa Crui from a trip to the Santa LucU mountains, south 01 Montcrev. ami claim to have found the lost Indian mine, which has created much excitement in various times past for forty years. Give winter protection to the sraaL fruit. The thing to do is to select th ts st varieties, even if tender, and then go to the trouble of protecting them. Hardy varieties are often like the acrnb cow, tough, but mighty unprofitable. It is claimed tbat if a grape vineyard ia plowed to the depth of four or" live inches very late in the fall in a thorough manner, so aa to turn all the grapes and leavee that have fallen completely under, tlie rot may be prevented the next sea eon, aa the fungna does not live more thin year in the berries. PORTLAND MARKET. THE OUTLOOK OK THE LOCAL MAR KKT IS BNOOURAQINO. Coffee on the Advance-Fruit Market Firm and Active Dried Fruits In Demand -Wheat Hlgber Hay Is Steady. Nothing has occurred since our Inst reference to disturb the equanimity of commercial and industrial affairs. In our local inarketa the volume of tradt in almost every department i li'Uj' W large, and in mnnv larger than It was at the corresponding pcriisl last year, and the outlook, on the whole, is iiiginy encouraging. OBOCBKIKS. Sugars, Golden C O'sC extra U o.i drv granulated 7jrc, cube, crushed am1 powdered 8c. Ooffee: Guatamala Lit1.. ::. Java3l')a3l"mc, Costa Rica 21 ', 23c, Mocha 38c. Rio W.'a-m,.', roasted Java 30(3 31! S,'c, Arbuckle'e roasted 2&te, PROVISIONS. Oregon ham 12(313e, breakfast bacon 13iu;I3V, sidestiL.iiClttb.c, Eastern nam 12 ,t14-, breakfast bacon 12V, sidts Pjc, shoulders 9c. Lard 8c. rBOITS. Grapes $11 75 per box, quinces llCa I l.i, Sicily lemons Id 50(7. OKI K I) FRUITS. Apples 4oc, evaporated 0(8) 10c, slice' 6c, pears HMlOc, peaciies sininc, oregoi plums 34, petite prunes 6Wtic, Germat .. .. 80, prunes, Italian to, silver H'(7c Cslifomia figs 7c. Smyrna figs 14(315c ap.icoU 13"' Lie, raisins $1.76n$2.25 per box. VKO KT HI.KS. Potatoes, new, $i ai 10, sweets lJi per Q, onions 1, turnips 75cT. DAIRY PROUUCI, Butter, Oregon lancv 35c. dairy 25(27!yCi common 1012c- Hasten 25c, California 27 V. oos. Oregon eggs 35 ; Eastern POCLTRY. Chickens $8.50(83.75. old hens $4.00 $5.60, ducks $8.50 geese $10, turkeys 14c per n. WOOL. Valley 17(810c, Umpque 19820c, East em Oregon 10(14. HOPS. Hops bra 8c for Oregon, 089c for Washington. GRAIN. vTheat, 11,33 )(! 1.29 and $1 15(d) 1 17m are the inaximim bids lor Valley and ravtitim Oregoa. Oats 40(a;42l2c for choice. FLOUR. Standard $4.00, o her brands $3.7fi 3 90. KlthHH MATS. Beef, cows, 2)tfc, l.af light, 'lc, beef, prime, 3c, bogs live, 4"' l mutton, live, 2J4 (33c; calves, live, 6(sC8c. nnh Hay $15(817 per ton, bran $14.50, chop, $1820, shorts $16.50, barley $21. BATTLES OF BIRDS. Aa Early Morning; right That Dlnturbse an Entire FsRthrred Colour. Battles between birds are sometimes very fiercely fought. Dr. Abbott. In "DayB Out of Doors," descrlbea a long drawn conflict in which apair of great crestod fly-cutchers and a pair of blue birds were the actors. By chance they had chosen hollows In adjacent apple trees for their nests, and so were brought daily into more or less close association. So far as I could see, all went well. Tho fly-catchors hawked for insects among the tree tops; the bluebirds were content with worms from near tho ground. But by and by the eggs of the blue birds were hutched at least I presume that thoy were and at the time the young of tho fly-catchers were woll nigh grow n. Before sunrise one morn ing, when the bluebirds were happier than usual, there aroBo a clatter in the lane such as I have seldom heurd among birds. Kvery robin stopped singing, tho wrens forgot their brood9, orioles scroochod, and every cat-bird bawled murder! Even the poultry took It up, and for many minutes that quiot. shady lane, ordinarily the very picture of pence, was an actual pandemonium. It did not talco many minutes to futhom the mystery. While every bird present was thoroughly excited, there were four upon which my attention was at once centered. Brave aa lions, the bluebirds, little furies now, hurled themselves against the fly-catchers, which, although stronger, could not withstand them. Vainly they attempt ed to dodge their pursuers, but the bluebirds were too quick. They had acquired new powers, and with strength, courage and endurance 1 never supposed them to poBsess, thej drove the fly-catchers far a-fleld and kept them there. The bluebirds had been robbed and of course hud caught the By-cutchers in the act. His Ample Apology. The street car turned a sharp cor ner, and the man who was holding on to the strap swayed heavily against the high silk hat pertaining to a man who was sitting down. "Sir!" loudly exclaimed the Indig nant passenger, picking up his dam aged tile from the dirty floor, "do you see what you have done by your beast ly awkwardness?" "1 beg your pardon, sir," replied the offender with equal loudness and in a tone of great surprise. "I didn't know you were sitting there. I sup posed you had given your seat to thai old lady standing up In fr0ni of you Kxtreuiely sorry, sir-extremely sor ry!" Chicago Tribune. -True wisdom is a thing very exttaor dinary. Happy are they that have If and n-xt to thorn, not those many thai think they have It, but those few" that are sensible of their own defects and mperfections, and kuo that they have It nob Great excitement prevsils at Fair gTgi S3 00 Minneapolis & 1 acific Railroad, over the discovery of mi. It was found mixed with sand on the farm ol W . A. Smith. Smith has re fuse,! an offer of $ti000 for a half interest in his farm. Brigadier-Oeneral Benet. chief of ord mm .H 1 that smokeless powder ws MTered to the United States government ten years ago but was declined, only to he uken up for the inventor by foreign countries This is only one instance of many such experiences on the part of American inventors. ERRAMrT A Ludicrous IneMeal ml Pastor' KnrL,f, A Vermont BUptiBt min ' not too grave a,,u dignified u ,h good joke, even when ltl.0). narrates a ludicrous ni.j , early life. Bonn ,itu!r tt" S over a now congregation V." received a nolo asking hi,,, ,n df homo that evening t 0h,hl The writer added that he 1 Ing to bo married at th., Illll would call at the par,oa bride. b wUk, It was but a few mlnilt,, eight o'clock when the door-bVu and n moni-nt later the 8eryLr,4, nounccd th. t a young couple tho minister In tho narln. "1 Going down into Ike n.i panied by his wife, the pastor I"0 neatly-dressed. intelligenl young man and bright-lookin , " woman, who rose to receive him "I am Mr. Homer," wid ih ',. man. "and this is Miss Cross " Having another engagoment (op)k evening, tho minister said, Immed ly: "I received your note this momi and wo will proceed with the eerem at once. IW join your right hS In groat bewilderment, which th minister mistook for naturu etnh rmssmoBt tho young couple 5J clasped hands, and the ceremony about to begin when the young J! said: 1 " "I we whnt ceremony i, up "Why. tho ceremony of marriaej ot course." ' " "O-o-o h!" shrieked the v, ,.. withdrawing her hand, and eofatb her face with a hund kerchief. "I don't understand this at all'u the young man, sharply. , (JJJ! here simply as a committee from th, Young People's Society of tho Metho. dist church to ask you and your nil, to be present at a public entertainment we are about to give, and " It was now tho minister's turn to "O-o-o-h!" and ho said it In gemiin, astonishment at the very moment thu the maid ushered in the young couple who hud "matrimonial intentions." Tho mistake evidently started Be first young couple into new lines 0f thought, for, a year later, their on pastor being ill, they called uponths Baptist pastor, and did not protest that he was going too far when he asked theru to join hands. Youth's Compi ion. m THE CHIVALROUS KNIGHTS. They Were Without Uusitlnn th Worn Till In 1 lie Hoi. Tho chivalrous knights who cams over with the Conqueror, the nobles who fought at Neville's Cross, and Creey, and Agincourt, were, for the most part, the merciless tyrant of their serfs and dependents. Sordid rapacity kept pace with rockless pro fusion, and In tho arbitrary exercise of their feudal rights tboy shrank from no form of oppressive cruelty. Their brutalities would have disgraced 1 Jonuthun Wild, and thoir crimes would seem scandalous in tho Newgate calen dar. To do them justice, they were u hard on thoir oqunls as 00 their in feriors, though, from a point of perhaps egotistical punctilio, they spared thoir equals the dishonor of actual torture. The captive had neither comfort nor mercy to expect till he paid his ransom or was rescued by his friends. Whut stories of slow misery in the very shadow of death might bo told by tho dungeons tbat ma; still bo soon beneath tho foundations ot such costlos us Warkworth or Kenil worth! There the well-nurtured knight, like Damian do Lacy in "The Be trothed," shackled and ironed, al though there was no possibility of es cape, was doomed to solitary seclusion on the coarseBt and scantiest food, Fettered in the dump and the darkness among loathsome creeping things, he drew breath with difficulty in the foul est air; und it was fortunate for him that, liko tho cold-blooded toads, which were his fellow-prisonors, undeveloped sensibilities saved him from insanity. The only access to those loathsome oubliettes was, as at Warkworth, through the trap-door opening in the roof. What must have been the tone of mind of tho chivalrous lord of the castle who could feast and carouse in the banquet hall above stairs with such horrors and such Buffering beneath hut feet! But what between hard fightinjf. free feasting, and deep drinking, the nobles of tho middle agos seem to have kept conscience at arm's length, M they hod become absolutely indifferent to the Bufferings of their fellow-creatures. There woro rare exceptions to prove the rule. Some princes and wealthy nobles were piously inclined and munificent. They gave liberally in their life-times and made magnifi cent ecclesiastical foundations. Black wood's Magazine. New York's Woman Cobbler. The only woman cobbler in the Uni ted States is Mrs. Gill, who has a lit tle shop at No. 275 Mulberry street. New York, a locality that is far from being fashionable. A reporter who visited it says that it did not differ from other cobbler stalls, except that it was oxtremely tidy. She was born beside the last, her father having bees a shoemaker of Northampton. England, and when she was only fourteen yean of age sho made a pair of shoes for hei mother, and when her father came M this couutry she worked in Nc" gland factories. She, however, g tired of the slaving of the factory. ol when she had saved up a little money, opened up a little shop. Of late years she has not made, but mended shoes, and found that it could be done quicker and paid better. Chicago Shoe M Leather Record. "William," saidwshe. severely. "D0 many more times are you going to ask me to marry you?" "Clara," said he. with equal stern ness, --how much longer are you gov t to persist in refusing me?" Merchant Traveler. -When will the bucolic Inhabitant of this great country learn tbat tb man who offers a gold watch or grand piano in return for a sixty -c' subscription to a paper Is a first eousis to the man who sells bogus fruit treat or woodeu nutmega Chicago Nc