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i 1 i EUGEtiE CITY GUARD. t I CAUPHKLL, . . froprleter. EUGENE CrTY. OREGON. RELIGIOUS ANO EDUCATIONAL. Tzm py out $400,774 yearly (ur the education of colored children. The Vatican U Mid to be preparing , new catechism (ur universal use. The Christian college tt Luck now, India, baa 11,507 puplla enrolled, of whom S.0-J7 are Christian. Spirit of Mission. A popular edition of the Wide id Portuguese U t be issued lu numbers, on the fame plan that baa been bo suc cessful in Italy. The ratio of tbe gain In convert in all the Protestant mission in Chin during tbe last decade la about 140 per sent) and In Japan it la over 800 per cent Thore la a movement to make a Ger man academy, like the French aoadem of forty iramortala, whose mission it ahall be to preserve tbe purity of the German language. Tbe Kussian Government, after persecuting the adherents of tbe Luther an Church, haa decided to suppress it totally in that country. Thl edict will affect alout four millions of people. A Christian trllw, surrounded by pa gan, baa Just been discovered In the heart of Africa. They had never before aeen a white man. While their religion Idea are crudo, still they have a priest hood, the cross and other emblems of Christianity. They arc believed to have been exiled from Abyssinia about eight hundred years ago. The twenty-sixth annual report ol tho Hawaiian board of missions says that in KO0 the Evangelical chiirt hr had 17,078 members; In Ihmi, 13,41)7; in 1H79. 7.25H; In HWtt, 5.747. Tho raco Itself Is decreasing, and It Is thought the language will probably cease to be spoken within twenty-five yours. Con tact with other nations has not elevated the natives, and the Islands are now ai much a mission field as ever. Tbe Ilrahmuns of India, says the Missionary Herald, are familiar with the scriptures if for no other reason than that they may oppose their teach Ings. Jn the course of a conversation on Christianity, a missionary asked well-known Ilruhman In Calcutta whoth er be bad ever read our lilble. The man looked at him and calmly and slow ly answered! "I have read the New Testament S3 times and tin Old Testa ment 87." The one bonk that the student who wishes to do his beat in literary art must stoop bia mind in la our English Hlble. hays Leigh Hunt: "We will venture to a 111 r in that no one is master of tbe English lnnguago who Is not well read In the lilble and sensible of Its pe culiar excellencies. It Is the pure well of English. The taste which the Bible forms it not a taste for big words, but a taste for tho simplest expression or the clearest medium of presenting Ideas. Tbla opinion baa been conllrmed in out day, by such writers as Cardinal New man, I'ltf Edward Hull, J. 11. Green, and by other master and critics of the literary art. Prof. Edward S. Allon, in bt Louis Republican. WIT ANO WISDOM. The longest pule doesn't knock the persimmon till It is ripe. Lite. Tbe man who Is most ready to give ad v loo la the one who received a groat deal that be failed to use. lllnghamton Leader. It ia not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stay around where be oan hear the call. N. O. llcayuno, Dark seasons are never pleasant to oa, but are always good for us. A cloud less sky oould never produce a good liar vest Jackson. You are always aaylng that yom friend desert you at the tlmo you need them moot, but they do exactly what you have been doing all your Ufa. Atchtaon Globe, Tha one fatal mistake which Is com mitted habitually by people who have the scarcely desirable gift of half geni us, 1 "waiting for insplretlon." Hamerton'a Intellectual Life. Each man make something of a contribution to the character of 111 time, though usually, to a far greatnt extent, ha Is molded by the condition! amidst which bo Uvea, The man who is aggressive without being disagreeable, stunda the best chance of luoccedlng In business, Uul In the arts, science and professions, as surance unbacked by brains, knowledge, experience and genius 1 not a ourreul coin. Who that knows what life la can ex pect to be perfectly happy? Go, olad in an armor that will enable you to defy the assault of envy; carry your sun with you, and have your world within your self w here you are both law-giver and judge. Gossips and bock-blters belong to the same family. They are each para- eitea of aociety narrow In view, small in charity, Jealous of attention toothers, and vicious and malicious In their as . aaulta upon tbe motive and character of those who are so unfortunate a to fall beneath their displeasure. Chris Uan at Work. The most precious of all possessions la power over ourselves; power to with stand trial, to bear suffering, to front danger; power over pleasure and pain; power to follow our convictions, bow ever resisted by menanoe and acorn; the power of calm rellanoe In scenes ot darkness and storm. We have learned a good deal when we know bow to employ our time and faculties. Many of ut waste them in idlenesa and misdirection; some of us put them to overstrain. We have only arrived at the posse anion of real wisdom when we know ho to work and rest, giving to each It proper proportion of care. I, nltert Presbyterian. 'fc-MH tot content with the win ning of any goal or the doing of any work la the duty of every man who withe to get and make the most out of life. For the real Joy ot living 1 to be found, aa the greatest of teachers long ago aald, not In receiving, hut in giv ing. Tbe real Joy of life He In th putting forth continuously of one' whole strength. He In tbe ctnscioua ne that one's nature is steadily ex panding by use. Abraham Lincoln bo not many monu ment worthy th name. If the will of John Crcrar I side to pas muster in tin court without being broken, he will have one in Chicago that I worth look ing at, John Crerw left $100,000 to recta - , MONEY IN CHIrM. A Country Whin the Maxima Dollar la Mot Bslow Far. Ibe chief coin In circulation along tbe coast of China 1 tbe Mexican dollar and the copper cash. ' It takei-from 1,000 to 1,500 cash to make a dollar, and some f the coins in use are so poor that you oan break them in two between your thumb and finger. They are of the size of an old red cent, and have a square bole In tbe center, in order that they may be strung on a string. Tbey are made in different parts of China, and tbe Viceroy of Canton is now building a mint with modern American machinery, which will turn them out by the million. In tbe interior of China these cash and silver and gold in the lump form tbe money. The standard of weight for both la the tael, which weighs about an ounce, and tbe money la cast In the shape of a lady' ihoe. Ten tol of silver make a lump of about the size of a Chinese lady's foot, and if you want to pay out less than this amount you take your knife or a chisel and pound off aa much aa you want. It ia the rudest way of doing business, but the Chinese are very suspicious of coins, and they like the pure metal. Gold bricks about an inch long and half an inch wide and of the same thickness are also used, but you have to watch these, as you do every thingelse in thesbapeof money in China. In Houth China you will find a chop dol lar, out of which little chips of silver have been taken, or in wbloh holes have boen bored and these bolea filled with lead. You will find oolna under weight and chunks of metal which are coun terfeit, and the result ia that every Chinese business-house has to keep one man whose business Is to detect counter feit coin. This man is called tbe schrolf, and all the money of the establishment passes through bis bands. He gives big bond, and be is responsible for all tbe money he takes In. If be makes a mistake it is bis loss, not that of the Arm. You will find these sohroffs con nected with our Legation abroad, and thoy may be called the cashiers of the East They are alwaya Chinamen, and the foreign bank in Asia have all their figuring and tholr money calculations made by Chinamen. The Chinaman does this with bis little box of buttons strung on wires; he never makes a mis take, and he 1 the great arithmetician of the world. F. U. Carpenter, in Na tional Tribune. WOMAN'S FASCINATION. Sam of the Reaaons Thai Attract the fttrongiir Hex to th Gentler. The power of fusolnatlon Inherent in women may, moreover, be divided into two kinds. All of us have seen the old lady, generally white-haired, with kind' ly, pleasant feature, on which time has act no unfriendly mark, who still retains all her attractiveness. Note how tha boy and girls adore her; they will go to her and conllde their sorrows, their hop"", -helr ambitions, even when tip would not breathe a word to their mother. The kindly, loving Interest evinced In a lad s flu Irs by such a one has time and again first implanted the Impulses In bis heart which eventually lea mm on to an honorable career. Quickly, almost by stealth, the good is done by such, and the good seed sown which will ripen in after time Into rich and abundant crop. On the other hand, we have most of us seen, pcrhu In real life, oertalnly on tho stage, tho fascinating adventuress who, by her en' thralling beaute do dlablo, enslave men' souls and leads them (on the stage) to dare all for her sake. Much I -iHitly opposed to the sweet old lady in her old-fashioned chair, and these two form the opposite polo between which the women who fascinate vary. lype differ, and any one you may se lect oaa Rome position between these two opposite. Take, for Instance. pretty and may be witty woman who, hardly of her own free will, make every man fall in love with her to greater or less degree, Hhe may be In nocent of all evil intention, but her po sition on the scale is not vastly removed from that of the mclo-dramatlo sorceress. Or, again, take the Instance of the pret ty yonng matron who, while devoted to home, husband and children, yet has several Intimate friends ot the male per suasion. Hut her Influence is all for good. Her fascination la exerted in worthy cause, and ah has found out great truth that there Is no friendship so lasting, so true and sopleasantason between person of opposite sexes, where a true feeling of bonne camara derie exists and there is no pretense of ove-making. Much a woman, If aha Uvea long enough, bids fair to develop into a snowy-haired old lady on whose friendship th children will rely. Brooklyn Eagle, The Poetry of Katie. That marvelous story-writer Guv d Maupassant says: "A man la a gourmet a ne i a poet, er an artist, or almplv lei.rned. Taste Is a delicate organ, per- leouuie ana wormy or respect, like the eye and the ear. To be wanting in the sense or taste 1 to be deprived of an ex quisll faculty, of the faculty of discern ing the quality of ailments, Just aa one may be deprived of the faculty of dis cerning the qualities of a book or ot a work of art; tt i to be deprived of tn es sential sense, of a Part of human au perlorlty; It Is to belong to one of the innumerable classes of cripple, infirm people and tools ot which our race Is com posed; it la, In a word, to have a stupid mouth, Just aa we may have a stupid mina. a man wjio doea not distinguish between a langouate and a lobster, be tween a herring (that admirable fish that carries with It all the savors and aroma of tbe sea) and a mackerel or a whiting, tt comparable ouly to a man who oould confound llaliao with Eugene Sue and a symphony by lleethoven with a military tuarca composed by eonre regimental bud-meUr." Harper's Hilar. A St. Louts woman thinks that mar ried men ought to wear ring on their fingers, as the ladle do, Indicating their aootal atatua. hhe say If they did there would not be ao many wounded hc.ru lying around. When a gentleman ap proaches a lady h could readily de termine whether or not he I In or out of the matrimonial market, and demean herself accordingly. K truui rrlan cat living In Eat Ffty-nlnth treet. New York, was a rreat pet, and until recently tbe queen of tbe mansion. A vlaitor came, bring Ing a parrot. VashU aaw and immedi ately felt a hungering daalre for parrot flesh. She approached and prepared for a aprlag, when (he heard la amatement a sound a of a human voice Issuing from th cage, and her ear were shocked with a torrent of oath such a had never before bee beard la that well-regulated household. The horrified cat fled from the room, which she haa avr ainoe been Induced to enter. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Mrs. Leland Stanford's rin ia Ceaaee tlua with Thwt Institution, Mr. Leland (Stanford, In an Interview In tbe San Francisco Chronicle, give many fact hitherto un printed In regard to plan for the new university at Pale Alto. She say the sain attention will be given to girl as to boys, and it is ber purpose to have an art training-school, like tbe Cooper Institute, where girl who have a taste for designing may se cure Instruction that will enable tbem to earn a good living. If they then wish to study higher art tbey will have mean to support themselves. Th chief aim will be to ground the student In ele mentary studies, and then to give them some practical training by which they may easily support themselves. If then they desire higher training It will be freely given, hut the rhole spirit of the Institution will bo against merely orna mental education, To quote Mr. Stan ford s words on this point: "I think it absolutely cruel to give a young man or woman who must depend upon their own exertions for a llvell hood a classical education pure and aim pie. There is scai-coly a week that Mr ntanford Is not asked to give employ ment to graduates of Yalo and Harvard. He has six of thern as eur-conductors on tho Market street lino now. Of course it is no disgrace to then and they will not remain long, but 11 is pitiful to wife ness the helplessness of wrongly edit cated young people. When asked whether any plans had been devised for the association of the sexes she said: "Yes, indeed. Cot tages will be built which will accommo date about twenty students each and these will be in charge of a teacht.-, where the personal hubit, manners and amusements of the students may be under supervision. Every care will he taken to make these cottages homes In the best sense of the word, a place where no creed Is taught, hut where the day begin and ends with prayer and where each individual Is brought tinder refined discipline. The cottage in' tended for boy will be about a mile dis tant from those occupied by the girls. but tho evenings may be pussed together In music or social gumes In the presence of and with the consent of the teachers." "is It truo you intend to give paint ing and curios in your house to the university museum?" "Quite true, and I am determined there shall he copies ot all the old musters added to the collection of paintings. Down In my hull-room Is an exact reproduction of 'The Lord's Sup per,' painted by Itaphael, which was found during the wars of Napoleon, and wuicn nangs in the cathedral near Milun. King Humbert allowed me to havo It copied. Through Mr. Pendle ton, our recent Minister to Germany, the young Kaiser has given permission to secure a copy of the famous 'Slstlne Madonna' In Dresden, reserving only the right to name the artist I have lust given an order to have tho work begun." It Is expected that the university will l)e open next fall. The colleges will 1st provided with ample lecture-rooms, and the trustees will be required to of' for a high sulury for Instructors. Tho higher courses will bo frco to post graduates of all colleges and universi ties, and to such other deserving per sons as the trustees may elect to admit. GREAT EMERGENCIES. The Murrst Wajr of llelng Keailj fur Them Is to Meet Hmnll Our Cilmly. The knowledge of what to do Incase usuddtsi calamity does not general! come on the spur ot the moment or bj Inspiration -It 1 already In toro and walling a summons Into action. Those who keep their eyes and ears open very readily learn what Is best to he done In case of fire, or burning, or sunstroke, or a broken limb, or a fainting lit, or a se vere cut, or sudden and severe Illness, until professional assistance can be brought to their aid. A commonplac MNk In which modes of treatment lu various maladies and accidents are noted down Is very useful in helping one to remember whut to da Tho surest wuy of being ready for the great emergencies of life Is to meet all Its small ones not only with calmness, but with a masterful spirit, resolved tt turn defeat and disaster, however trifling, to good account, by learning from them the secret of victory. "To bo weak is miserable doing orsulterlng," and they who cultivate weakness, by refusing to use even the smallest mean of overcoming obstacles in their way, cultivate misery. These unhappy son lit, when called upon to confront sudden :nd terrible emergencies, cringe and faint and know not which way to turn, while those who with fearless courage and ImlomlUblo will tight the lesser buttles of life, are strengthened thereby for those mightier conflict that call out all their skill and resource, and make them saviors and benefactor to their associates In trouble. Young mothers envy the unruffled vomiHMure observed In elderly women who have reared large families of chil dren, and who have learned that broken bones will heal, that bruises get well, that there ro way of managing and preventing disease, and that it i al ways best to keep possession ot one' wits. "All things como alike to all." and as Milton sv ot tho affliction which at once darkened and brightened his life: "It U not o wretched to be blind as It is not to be capable of en during blindness. Hut why should I not endure a misfortune which It buhoove i vory one to lie prepared to endure If it should happen, which may in the com mon course of thing happen to every man, and which has been known to hap pen to the most distinguished and virt uous person In history. N. Y. Chris tian Advocate. A horticultural Journal" adrlfV, Plant an onion beside a rosebush and Increase ita odor." Hut who wants the odor of the onion increased? That escu lent I fragrant enough for culinary purpose. N. Y. l.otlgor. A Hebrew ltible in the Vatican 1 aatd to be the most valuable book In the world. It welgha more than S-.'O pounds and it weight in gold, or $l'J0Ou, has been refused for It, when gold was worth three time what It I now. Thl was In the day of Pope Julius, or in IMt The query: "Doc a lightning rod protect? ia answered from Ohio. Of tbe 79 building truck bv llrhtninir ana burned lost year. 851 were barns which bad thl .protection" and of the hole number o'nlyaixty were without roa.-ilroii Kree Press. Whalea will be more plentv than porpoise few year, now that the low price of oil make it lea profitable to destroy them. Protestor True, of the National Museum, who make whale a pocllty,ey they are fast multinlvlni? and that their number will Increase In- efinltely unlesa aom new uo for them houd be, dlovovertj. IMPENETRABLE FOG. fa It Lie the Oreatest Danger Is Oeesa Xavlgator. The source of tbe greatest peril to all hip crossing tbe Atlantic, and that most dreaded by all commander, I fog. Th speed and size of the large (team era In th hand of competent and vigi lant men are conducive In many in stance to their safety; and were It not for thl bete noire of tbe tea, ocean trav eler would bave lUtlo to fear. The Importance of a code of marine signals, simple In it arrangement for use in foggy weather, can not be too strongly advocated. A commander standing upon tbe bridge, hi ship en veloped in a dense mass of Impenetrable vapor, ba but bis sense of hearing to depend upon, and can be guided only by that. He stand at bl post, every nerve drawn to It highest tension, listening for ounda that for hour do not reach blm. At last, from a distance a faint whistle 1 borne on the ear, and be is then instantly on the alert. He strains bl ear to locate tbe sound, for the fog la so dense that he can not aee twenty yard away. Is ahe a elowev steamship tban bis own that be ia over taking, or is it one that ho Is meeting? There is nothing In that one blast to give blm any Information and he can only wait and listen. He sounds bl steamer's whistle once or twice, accord ing as be port or starboard hi helm, and await the answering signal. Noth ing reaches his ear hut the one blast at short interval. He can only rely on bis Judgment, and, reducing the speed, keep on the course he ha selected. Tbe ound become clearer. The un known (hip Is approaching, and he real ize that she 1 drawing nearerand near er; so near that bl heart is beating rap idly, and be almost bold bl breath In the intensity of bla anxiety. A dark shadowy form passes so close by to him that for a moment his blood runs cold, and every pulsation cease; but the dan ger i over. She ba disappeared in the fog, and be can breathe again, for hi ship and all on board are safe. This 1 but one of the thousands of hairbreadth escape that hare occurred on the ocean which have never been re corded and which will never be known. Captain Kennedy, In North American Review. MILLIONS OF DEVILS. On Hundred Imp to Every Person, An. cording to Mormon Doctrine. If the children of Utah believe the teachings of Wllford Woodruff, tbe suc cessor of llrigham Young and John Taylor In the presidency of the Mormon Church, life must present a gloomy outlook to their youthful eyes, with small hope of salvation at the end; for It Is the de liberate calculation of this aged teacher that each person now upon the earth Is individually beset by 100 devils, whose mission is to betray him into torment. It Is a matter of slmplo arithmetic; 100,000,000,000 devil fell to the earth , with Lucifer; there are 1,000,000,000 poo- pie on the earth, which gives 100 Imps to every man, woman and child, "Now, I want all our boys and girls," said President Woodruff recently to the Mormon children, "to reflect upon thl and to see what danger they are In and the warfare they bave to pass through." President Woodruff ba an abiding be lief that these agents ot Satan have an actual form and can appear In the body before the eyes of men, for he has seen them and battled with tbem mure than once during his eventful career. When In Liverpool in 1840, engaged in mission' ary work for the Mormon Church, he wa catted upon to labor over a woman who was in a terrible rago, tearing ber clothes and requiring the strength of three men to hold her In bed. He luld hands upon her and commanded tho devil to depart, which it did, and the woman fell into a sleep and awoke ro- stored. Hut the devil who had lost his lodging remained about the neighbor- hood and soon took up bis quarters In the body of a little child. The mission ary was again appealed to. I found It," he relates, 'In great dis tress, writhing in its mothers arms. laid hands upon it and cast the devil out of It, and the evil spirits had no power over the bousebold afterward." N. Y. Herald. Country of the tipper Nile. For the first five or six hundred miles of it course, from the Victoria Nyanza to a point somewhere north of Lado, the Nile 1 known to the Arabs a the Huhr-ol-Gobcl, the river of the moun tains. Thl 1 the most beautiful part of the river. The country la diversified with mountains and forest; green hill sides and bright brooks. For itrctchct ot many mile the river 1 broad and alow. In other part are wooded island and foaming rapids, About half way between the Victoria Nyanxa and Lado the Nile flow through the northern end of tho Albert Nyanza. About twentv- five miles above the Albert Lake are the Murchlson Falls. Ilelow the lake, for mora than one hundred miles, the stream is broad and placid, traversing a comparatively lovel country, and alwaya navigable for vessels drawing four or five feet In this part of its course. about forty miles below the Albert Lake, tt passes Wadelal, the present headquarters of the Emln's government. Col. II. G. lrout. In Scrtbner. It was Very rinse Call. "It wa an Upper Swampecott wom an," say tha Hoston Journal, "who de sired an extra safe place In which to put her pocket book and the cash it con tained. It wa quit a valuable wallet, and she chose the sitting-room stove, which bad not been in use for Rome time. The money rested aafely for a tew day until another woman at the family started a fire, Tbe stove wa heting rspidly when the owner of the poeketbook remembered ber monev. Though wxing red hot tbe stove had no fears for her. She thrust in her hand and pulled out her package, which wa curling up rapidly. The poeketbook w a beyond repair, but there was enough left of the center of the bill to make them still redeemable at th bank, and new one were obtained. It was a close alL" Pumpk.Nr we're abundant In New England that a wit seized upon them aa a symbol of the country. A chubby boy astride of a large pumpkin and blow ing the hollow sulk of tbe vine for trumpet wa an emblem ot some sign in- unce. A HtU tallow well rubbed In will heal a small cut la twelve hour. For children. ho are invariably cutting theli finger, being scratched by the cat, or having little calloused wounds it Is in valuable. A tree measuring three feet from th ground, twelve fMt j( (ache In cir cumference, I reported to exut la Ulppalaad, furtv aule trum Sale, Aus MODERN ORATORIO.- The Place It Occupies IHned by IU. II. K. llaneU. At present, standing out In tbe world.lt looks bock Into tbe church from whence It came. It Is midway between tbe con cert-room and tbe stag?. It to not se verely hymnal nor strictly devotlonaL but It abound In meditation aud praise. It 1 not theatrical, but It 1 dramatic, and at time quite scenic, a when Gou nod put hi Day of Judgment and trunv pet up in the celling. It Is not a re ligious function, yet It Is now often heard in the catbedraL It is "tbe palm branch offered bv the cburch to the ballad-singer on the one aide snd tbe sctor on the other. In the best and highest sense it ia the meeting-place and common platform of tbe cburch and the world." Hut it can not atop there. Tbe dra matic element surging within the ora torio are even now struggling for a more direct expression. The tendency of the age Is toward eclecticism, not in the bad sense of throwing together little bits of different things that can never be weld ed into a whole, but In the high-art, Wagnerian sense of welding together vast number ot artistic product wblon bave patiently been worked out apart, but are now drawn together by tbe at traction of a higher unity, The suggestion of dramatizing sacred subjects, or fitting sacred thoughts and situations with stage scenery as well as music, still seems scandalous to tome devout minds. Hut this feeling will probably subside when the antagonism between religion and the stage is seen to be accidental and not radical, while the objection has been actually over come at least In one striking instance. No one, whatever hi previou feeling gainst it may have been, ever went to the performances at Oberammergau without being converted. To play Judas Iscariot or Pontius Pilate might seem allowable at a stretch, but to personate Jesu on the cross seemed to many be yond the utmost limit of reverence and decency, lint the simple peasant who bad prepared himself by devout habit as well as by physical discipline for that strange function at once contrived to disarm criticism. Many a sincere Christian has owned that, familiar as he bad been from childhood with the divine tragedy recounted in Matthew, Mark, Luke nd John, he had never appre hended It in all its deep and terrible re ality until he visited the open-air per formance at Oberommergau. The crit ical point of dramatizing the (acred scene which form the subject of ora torio has thus been generally conceded. Tbe application alone remuins to be made. It is this: the creation of a new art form which will enable us to write, In addition to sacred drama, sacred mirtc drama. Now, It maybe laid we bave stretched a point for the drama; we admit the possibility of it conse cration. The Obcraipmergau play lin eally and uninterruptedly come from ; the miracle plays and moralities of the , sanctuary. The line of it descent is pure, lhe sacred drama has never been corrupted by secular associations, but when you como to tho mu sical drama, the case Is different. Muslo may have accompanied tbe moralities In church, but music has al ways been hopelessly secular and pro fune in connection with the drama out of thurch. You can not reunite them in any sacred music drama without call ing up the most unseemingly a;tsocta- ' tlons of bullet, prima donna, and general . love-making and pantomime. This sen tlnient Is respectable, no doubt, but It is illogical. Just as many people were , dead against tho Obermmergau play till '. they saw it, so a great many people were '. dead against agner's great semi-sacred musical drama called Parsifal till thoy . saw and heard It. The glamour of modi- wval fantasy and Catholic legend Just saved It from open docunciatlon, but we can all rcmemlHir the doubtful shudder which ran through some urt circles, as a rule not over-squeamish, and all religi ous coteries when it was proposed to put to Lord s Last Supper on the stagel rue, Parsifal does not do quite that, but it is next door to it. The associa tions "o there, the funotion Is there, the communicants are there, even the Sim nlc suggestion of our Lord himself is there, and an incident in His life finds expression In the person of Parsi fal and tbe woman Kundry, who, In the hour of her penitence, bathes his feet with team, and wipes them with the halrot her head; and yet no one who has seen Parsifal come away without the most reverent sympathy for this ideal representation', ot all that was most pure and elevating In medlwval Roman Catholicism. Rev. 11. R.Ilaweis, M. A., in Harper' Magazine. Burglaries by an Rlephant, While Messrs. Sanger' men were pre paring to leave Accrington one Monday morning, one ot the elephant got away from the confines of the circus and burst open the door ot a warehouse of a neigh boring co-operative store, and when an Accrington policeman entered he found the truant indulging in biscuit and Jam. A basket of onions stood in the elephant's way, but as these were not to his taste he hurled them in the road. The officer did not attempt to seize the animal, thinking It more prudent to ob tain the assistance of Its keeper. The elephant wa on Thursday morning dis covered in another burglary at Chorley. While the rtrcu paraphernalia were be ing loaded up, be slipped sway in the darkness snd forced open a locked-up grocer's shop in the High street Here he demolished a whole cheese, two boxe of biscuit and other groceries, and altogether did 10 worth of damage. Eastbourne (Eng.) Chronlcls. The following communication was addressed to the trustee of a certain library: I desire to make application for curator of the reading room. I am aware that there i no vacancy, but th present curator is a single lady and can support herself In various ways that I can not, having a family to educate and support; also she has had the position eight years, to my certain knowledge, and It is but fair that some one else should haves chame. If it suit your pleasure, I oaa give aufflclcnt recom mendation." T"7 so many people suffer from insomnia whea such a sim ple preventive is in reach. I have a re lief which never fall. When I find toy elf tossing 1 yet up, walk across the floor once or twice, and then get an ap ple, a bit of bread, any thing to arouse my stomach and set it to working, says a writer in the St Louis Globe-Demo-crat The moment It commence it at tract the attention of th arrvea, so to speak; th nerve for-et they are "on edge" and are soon soothed ia lumber. Commence oa the inside to cure sleep! leaane, not externally, nor with imrt. for they are be deceiver. i STRANGE JJEUCACtES. Popie vr. 50,1,, d Plrhled Klrphaats' reel. A peel of bat 1 considered good est ingbylbe natives of th island of he Indian Archipelago. Malabar. e.f It to called by naturalists the edible bat and I. aald to be white, tender and delicate, w f. .11 that It i. a bldeou. bewt like a weasel, with ton-Inch body, covered .i.u -i. ...I shining black bair, and with four-feet wing, when stretched to their full extent In some countrie. even the fox Is eon-.,a-a . A..Uwv. in the Arctic regions, where fresh me.t I sc.rce. when Judlo- Inoalr made Into pie. It 1 consium equal to any rabbit, under the same con- ditlons, ever Drea on wio u. .(. tov. the Esquimaux dogs, which will devour almost any thing else, will not touch fox. Cats snd dogs readily find purchasers and consumers In China, where they are bung up in the butchers' shops, together with badgers tikn wild boar and other oddities of food. In the South Seas, too, a dog Is favorite dish, and a puppy tew is a royal feast in Zanzibar: but It is only fair to say that where dog is eaten It to especially fattened for the table, and fed only on milk and such like cleanly diet Tho Australian native dog, or dingo, Is eaten by the blacks, but by no one else; and a South African win give cow for a good-slxed mastiff. The Amer ican panther and tbe wild cat of Louis iana are said to be excellent eating: so Is the puma, which is so like veal in flavor that one hardly knows the differ ence. Lion's flesh, too, is almost iden tical with veal in color, tasto and tex ture. Hoar's caws w ere long a German delicacy; and the flesh is held equal or superior to pork, the fat being as wniie as snow, Tbe tongue ana uaum am cured, but the bead to accounted worth less and thrown away. The badger tastes like wild boar; the Australian kangaroo is not much inferior to venison, and kangaroo-tail soup is better than half the messe which pas London under the name of ox-tuil soup. Hashed wauany is a aisn no one need disdain, and there Is a small specie of kangaroo as good as any hare ever cooked. An Australian native banquet U an odd mixture. Kangaroos and wallabies, opossums and flying squirrels, kangaroo rats, wombats and bandicoots represent the puff tit rttutnnce; while rats, mice, snakes, snails, large white maggots, worms and grubs form the little dishes and most favored tntre.'i. A nice fat marmot Is a treat and why not? They are pure feeders. The musk rat of Martinique is eaten, though indescribably loathsome to a European; but the sleek rats of tbe sugar-cane plantation make one of the most delicate fricassees imaginable; so tender, plump, cleanly and luscious are they. Tho Chinese are in a rat paradise in California, where the rat are enor mously large, highly-flavored and very abundant rat soup being considered by all right-minded Celestials to beat ox- tall or gravy soup hollow. The Indians eat the beaver, which is said to be like pork, and porcupine is a fine favorite with the Dutch and Hottentots of the Cape and with tho Hudson's Hay trap pers, and, indeed, with the inhabitants of all the countries where tbe creature is found, the flesh being good and deli cate, and, moreover, accounted exceed ingly nutritious. Elephunts' feet, pickled in strong toddy vinegar and cayenne pepper, are considered in Ceylon an Aplcian luxury. the trunk is said to resemble buffalo's hump; and the fat la no highly prized by tho bushmen that they will go almost any dlstun' e for it Hippopotamus fat is also considered a treat: when salted It is thought superior to our lost breakfast bacon; and tbe flesh is both palatable and nutritious, the fat being used for all the ordinary uses of butter. N. Y. Journal. A REMARKABLE STORY. To Obtain Mime; a Dashing Woman Mar ries a Pretty t.lrl. An extraordinary story, first published by a Vienna newspaper and then gen erally disbelieved, has since been con firmed in every particular. "A young man, calling himself Count Sandor Vay, who pretended to have fallen out with his family In Hungary, married last August a teacher at Klagenfurt, aged twenty-seven, daughter of an Inspector of Wood and Forests there. The mar riage took place on a lonely farm in Hungary, a certain Father Imre officia ting at the wedding ceremony "The newly-married couple lived to gether for some time, and afterward visited the girl' parent in Klagenfurt where the father-in-law was constantly fleeced by the alleged Count Quarrels arose, and ultimately it turned out that the young Count' tales of himself were all inven lions. The persons he referred to were imaginary, and the Inspector was convinced he was a swindler. Some thing still stranger, and indeed unpar alleled, soon came to light Ere long It was found that the so-called Count was lu reality, a woman of thirty-six. the Countess Sarolta Vay, daughter of the late toionel or Honveds, Count Ladls laus Vay, one of whose daughters, named Sarolta, had been educated as a boy. "All her life she had worn male attire, ind recently had appeared In the uni form of the Honveds. She published a collection of poems under the name liandor, and associated with young men, who were not in the ocret In manly .iinuscmcnts. From Pesth, where eccen tricities of that sort are hardly a rarity, he disappeared about a year ago, after which she was not again heard of till her arrest, on the demand of her nom inal father-in-law, at Klagenfurt It is irobahle that Father Imre was not a priest and that the girl, in going through the form of marriage, only xeouted another eccentricity In order o procure money, of which she was In real need."-Vienna Cor. London Stand ard. -The experlmenVby a Brooklyn sur rn of making a nose with a chicken'i breast bone Is said to have been success- iui. An exchange chronicles the fci that Mr. Sophia Hennlngton. of Xenia. Ohio, aged torty, has given birth to hei tweutr.Jfth child; We shall now e what woman can do with ec fence when h haa clear field ind a fair fight The meintwr of the i ollegiate Aluiuna. association are gath ering a fund for the permanent support m Europe of a woman student who dial Jow aptitude and desire for nlifif itudiee. One student will be maintained from the fund certain length of time while making original research in any branch of ecienc ah may eeiect At the end of the stated period the win rw ago the feUowahip to th ext oceno Th Qaalnt Ways of a ioeroMfj, . Knrlnnd Madiral M. " T)r. Charle Wild Dractlced In Hrookllne, Mass., in tbe days it, people Insisted upon taking larg jj of calomel, rhubarb, Julap, plcra, ij antimony and counties other fcJZ' and on being blistered and bled. . doctor was equal to the occasion, rave his patient their money' of phylc snd service when they Mu2 - kit, a tt Anft ani.n For the doctor was a difficult mw . find, snd, when found, to Impress wpt the Idea that he was actually neeiM I'nles the case wa represented u matter of II fa ami death, he was apt to delay bl vblt uutll tbe patient had r. covered or died. Those who hunted tot him, knowing his bublts of going tn oneps'lent to another, without go. home for a day or a night, used to A through the streots looking for ". Sal," his sorrel more, and his famUH, old buggy, standing before some hom door. But such was tbe public confidence ( him, that Inordinary illnesses peopi, would wait bis tardy visit rather thai send for another physician. The author of "Sketches of Brook line" describe blm as entering a nous in the breezy way. stamping off th snow or the mud, throwing off his over, coat and letting down his block leather pouch, with noise enough for three men. His salutation, uttered in a deep, gruj voice, wa likely to be, if the patient was an acquaintance: "Well! well! what kind of a kick-up have you got now?" Ho gave nicknames .to the children, and would ask: "How's Nlcodemus to day?" or: "Well! is Icbabod's tooth ready for tbe lance this morning?" A friend's child, whose name was Flor ence, he called "Rome," "Milun." or by several other Italian cities. A member ot his family, while making out the doctor's bills, was perplexed by a charge upon the books of a visit to "Don Sebastian." On Inquiry it proved to be the nickname of a child of th Cabot family. When the doctor had studied the cast and given the patient his dose of medi al ne, he would, if thore was cause for anxiety, settle himself for a social visit of two or three hours, during hlch he told droll stories, and acted tbem out to the amusement of the children, who were very fond ot hlra. If the case was serious be was grave and silent, catch ing flies, if there were any to catch, or walked the room in deep thought The doctor was more than a physician, be was tho counselor of his patients, who consulted blm upon all sorts of matters, from choosing a wife or a hus band to building a hen-coop. His opin ion was an authority that few disputed, for bis good sense was seldom at fault Ilisqualnt bumor, on leaving a sick room, would often express itself in soma such salutation as this: "Now if you can't sleep well and don't know what to do, you can amuse yourself with taking an emetic." Youth's Companion. AMONG THE PERUVIANS. Th South American Nation ImrrKted hy a Wisconsin Ulrl. When Hon. Johh Hicks was appointed United States Minister to Peru he chose as Secroturv of Locution n hrlirht. Imar. lean girl. Miss Elizabeth L. Banks. since oeing domiciled at Lima, the cap ital of Peru, Miss Banks haa kept her eyes open, and, with instinct sharpened by her connection with various North western newspapers, she has proved a good news-gatherer. Writing to a friend in this city, Miss Banks says: "Procrastination is the ruling habit of Peru. Ask afPeruvlan when he will do any i thing and he replies 'Manana." which being translated moans 'to-mor row.- coining is ever done to-day, all things take place on the 'manana,' which never comes. This 'mamma' habit is. I RUnnnAA. hrnnttiAil tn t .rh every breath of the air that one takes In Peru, and I am afraid I have drawn a good deal of it Into my system. -inisisa very interesting old city, and yet the people and the government are very much behind the times, their Ideas being those of one hundred yoars ago. ado oity or Lima has been called 'the heaven of women. .hn nnnilim nf , ... i n J men and the hell of assos;' and to the last proposition I will heartily assent The cltv is full of dnnlrevs. nnrl tho men and women who drive and ride them al ways carry a big chunk of wood with them, which thev continual! innW to the ribs of the poor animals. Some en thusiastic writer has called the women Of Lima the most beautiful In the world. There are some pretty Peruvian girls to iw met on tne streots or saying their beads in some of the mini rhnnhAiL Their dark eyes are the kind that would make a man Jump off Pizarro's bridge Into the river Rtmao If his suit hap pened to go wrong. The Peruvian men pay a great deal of attention to their personal anDearanen and nui mnv much of their time in dress suits and tooth-pick shoes. They are very gal lant, but are not half so nice as Ameri can men from any point of view. Wash ington Capital. SPEED VS. QUALITY. Never Consider Faat-Dolng or Mora Ira. portanc Than Well. Doing. Many persons seem to think that speed in work is a higher accomplish ment than quality of work. If speed is of the first importance, then it may be an apology for poor quality. If quality to of the first Importance, then it may bean apology for want of speed. One js: "I want to learn to write fast" Another says: "I write this very hurriedly; please excuse erasures." Would such wrlters-or workers rather be thought quick than accurate? Do they place the writing above the writ ten? Even a shorthand writer ought not to write faster than he can writ well. Speed follows quality; quality over follows speed. It is a good thing to do good work fast But it is a bad thing to do fast work badly-and that to the way it generally I done when the i U held ,b07e the well-doing. Had work hod better be done so slowly that it never get done at alL The only way to attain to high speed is to work for something better than speed.-& a y2 wuon: oi -electricity are r7etv'Alderinfr,ntbe,r locaMmllr; A Tnt ffir ot .rUlllT'i f0Ur-llht ndelier 22ST W 10 COnU1,, deUUve cbXof T to "P by the Sell? "r0 clreuIt- pusher or circuit closer, being placed n,dlrw:t4 Portion of the ray. ?Uto on the X I wealth T'Din 1