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EUGENE CITY GUARD. 1. 1 CAMPBELL. . Freprleter, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. THE PACIFIC COAST. Chinese Being Smuggled In from Lower California. Crops In Central Washington - The Olympian Beats the Kingston In a Race. A!buqnerqtie, N. M., has voted to put in sewerage system. Crop In Central Washington promise to be the largest ever mown. At Alama, Lower California, potatoes cannot be had short ol 10 cents a pounu. Work li to begin on the Stanford uni versity at once, aaya a Mayileld dispatch. The sawmill men of Portland and Vancouver have effected a combination. A. A. Cushman baa been appointed postmaster at Woodinvillo, King county, Wall. The first synairogue erected in the State of Washington la to be built at Bcattle Uiii year. Salmon flaberi are making from 25 to 40 a day on therraeer river, aaya uie Victoria'Times. Ivan PetrolT; who took the cenana of Alaska in 1KK0, has loen splinted to do the iiime work thin year. It is rumored at Sun Piego that the Cnyamaca will soon constitute a part of the Southern Pacific system. The Ptiifet sound boat companiea have combined on an advance of alwut 30 per cent, on freight and passenger rates. Sheriff Gray and posae of I'Iki-iiIs, A. T., overtook two hne thieves neBr Ca rina, killed one and captured the other, and recovered the stolen animala. Governor Waterman of California rec ommends that Governor Ferry of Wash ington apoint W. D. Mansfield of Ban Francisco C'omniiasioner of Ik-ode. W. F. Hotirno, a Southern Pacific brakeman, was rim over and killed by an enKlno at AlhamliH, Cal. Ho leaves a wife and two children In Los Angeles. The United States survey steamer Hunger, which Is in rickety a condition, will probably be ordered from the South ern California coast to Mare Island for repairs. All the Cottonwood treea at Pho-iilx, A. T., are swarming with caterpillars, and the jieople are ihrratenlnK to destroy every tree if the town authorities do not take some action. Well-known capitalists at Portland have Incorporated a company to secure the right of way for and to construct a ship canal hetwe n tht Straits of J unit de F'uca and Puget sound. A ntimW of children of Qeronimo's trilie have Ik en placed In the school at Santa Fe, and Apache chiefs who went with them to see how they wera treated Lave gone homo well pleased. The Prescott Courier aays: W. K. Meade is, we believe, the first United Hlati'S Marshal of Arizona who has gine forth from ollice without barges of any kind being loaned against him. II. J. C. Wall A Co., a perambulating firm, now said to be at Sjiokane Falls, sdvertisea in the Kaat to furnish equa tions for $1, the applicant to receive one mouth's wages n')Iu advance. A race lictween the last e'eumer Olym pian of the Union Pacific line and the new 1 1 mlson river steamer. City of Kings ton, of the Northern I'acille (lotupany to Seattle from Tatoma resulted in the de tent of the City of Kingston, The Mexican General Fenochlo, fight ing Apaches, is waiting at Tomlisloiie for the San Carlos agency to get permission from Iie Angeles to tell him how many mlklns are absent from the agency be fore he crosses the line end resumes bis campaign. Captain R. R. Thompson, formerlv of Portland, proprietor of the Artesian Wa ter Works, is dirsatlsrlu l with rates fixed by the Trustees of Alameda, and refuses to allow any more service pipes to be eoiiiiectsd with his mains. This Is creat ing much feeling. John Cullttlian, formerly an employe of the Oregon snd California Railroad Compcny, has entered a suit in San Francisco against that cororation for f'.M.iKK). He alleges that he was perma nently Injure I by a blast while working at Cow Creek canyon. Frank Rnrxe snd George Davis tried to rrosa the (iila ilver In a ekitr. Thev had f ln.OUt) in bullion from the llanpia lisla mines. When half way over, the txwt catmiied. Davis held to the bullion until lie struck hotumi and lodged the treasure behind a big lowlder. The lt wasiom righted and the treasure safely recovered. William Walker, proprietor of a small hotel at Rcdoiulo Reach, bus lieen ar rested on a cIikiy of u'temi ted black mail. Mrs. F. (I. Ryan of Anaheim, he claims, owed him a bill for I (Mini, and it Is charged that Walker in an anonymous letter made threats that he would pub lish the Udv'e private character if she didn't pay tlie bill. A rejiort comes from San Diego that Chinese, are transferred from China steamers at San Francisco, taken to Lower California and landed at F.nse m la, whence they can easily reach the Ixmler; and for i'-'O to :o a head they are aafcly crossed by white men who are engaged In the business. Steps are now being tsken to orgsnlae baseball Icaxoe, to 1st composed of teams at Raker City, Walla Walla, Pen dleton and 1-a Urando. All the points are favnraVIe to it and working for It ex cept Pend'eton. At meeting at I Grande it was determined to incorporate and prepare and inclose grounds, and steps are now being taken to raise the money necessary, w hi h is estimated at 11,000. The Northern California Press Associa tion is endeavoring to secure some ani formitv in adveitis iig rates. The report of the Committee on Revision of Ry-laa was adopted by the convention at 'Sat ra mento, A provision reonln s a knowledge by the association of tlie individual cir culation of newspapers represented and an agreement bv publishers to stand by schedule advertising raU-e fixed by the association. Tlie e'ectrc light plant lias arrive I at North Yakima, Wash., and it will not 1 long before that city mill be brilliantly Illuminated. The compan la meeting with considerable trouble In getting the rglit of way for the water-worts main. The works when completed will give the city plenty of aster (or all puri oes. To make surety doubly sure that the city shall be amply supplied, there will be two double pemps witu capacity of 1,O0,UOO gallons each. I EASTERN ITEMS. Dredging Contracts for the Nlc- aragua Canal to Be Let. Canadian Farmers Mortgaging Their Farms and Leaving for the United State. A war has been oponed on the Mem phis gamblers. Tlie New York Chamber of Commerce favors a tunnel nnder bast river. Central Vermont has thus far made v ry little maple sugar this season. Jnhn I. Sullivan la anxious to meet James Corbett in a sparring contest. Cnarlra. D.J'l mCoWIS IM SllOmVed I71JvB.C w . " " I I by Democrats as well as Republicans. Tl.a f l,.t,lin fVnfrat ruilwavis fOUlo- plng its coaches with a new quick-acting air brake. In the Massachusetts Legislature the House rejected the resolution against a duty on hides. Tn In tha financial ae-tlnn of Broad- wav. New York, recently sold at the rate of 17,000,000 per sere. Tt ( yMuvaA Dial, a new hnlldinff will te re-erected In Philadelphia for the use of the United Htates mint. ila t,iin1nut ami flftv-anvan persons were killed on Illinois railroad daring 18, ana J,7(W were injured. K.mnet Plilltlns A Co.. irraln mer chants, Baltimore, have fai'eJ. Liabil ities, 70,000; assets, 36,0U0. Tl.. mnnrt ,.l tlia Pmaiilnnt rif the com nanv allows that the Brazos (Tex.) bar jetty works will be successful. nanh.l Hoi-hoster of New York has filed suit in Chicago to collect a judg ment of 7U,0I)0 against Joseph Frank. Boi-mlarv Tracv has annrnved the OTO- tuiaoit ill on for a review ol the navies of the world in New York harbor in 181.. Ti.orA in n7fi rvxvnnn bushels of corn and 100,000,000 bushels of wheat now in the hands of the (armors of this country. Tl.a TTnlixl Htulea RiinrsniB Court has decided that a witness in a Congressional contest esse Is not amenable to Stato laws. The tobacco Irado of Richmond has ndorsed the scheme to secure the Jeff Davis mansion as a Confederate memorial hall. Asa result of the recent rise In Stand ard oil prices a new refinery will be erected at Toledo, O., by Independent re luers. Tha m nl William W. Merrlan. River Head, L. I Who left 11)0,000 to the United States government, is being, con- toatod. Tl.a Tlllnnia Rl.ta Prohibition Conven- tloa will be held In Illoomington May l!7 ml M ITnilnr tlia new nniiorllonineiit there will lie alwut 000 delegates. Tliu.nnlv mouest niadahvex-Presldent 1 laves Is shout to be uranteil bv Presi dent Harrison in the apiointment of (ieneral Mitciuii pension ageui ui u- iitiumis, Tlmra la a nnsslbllitv that Atlantic steamship owners will form a trust to ad vance passenger rates. There is too miieli niiiwwiilon In tramn steamers'to advance freights. The largest vessel ever built in Franc . La Tonralne. of 12,000-horse power ami mnm flian ..'III leet Innir. will be adibd to the tleet plying between Havre and New York this ssason. It Is reiKtrted that many farmers In Iih nHlirliluirliml nf Klnimton. Canada. owing to their heavy Indebtedness, are mnrtiiaging their farms and leaving for Uie United States. Tl. a Pan. AiiiArlea.fi Conirresa rei'om- mends an international monetary union and silver coins uniform in weight and nneness lor use in an ua voiuiuius rep resented in the conference. Senator Sherman's bill to regulate trusts is meeting with unexpected oppo sition from the labor unions and Farm era' Alliance, which ho lies It was sup posed to be designed to benefit. Many German Jesuits In the United States are to return to their native coun try, believing that Rismsrck's reaigtia tlon will restore the Herman church to its former prestige and preferment. In anticliatlon of the passage of the Republican tariff bill tin-plate mills are Iveing erected at Pittsburgh and in the West, so as to be ready to begin manu facturing as soon ss the bill becomes a law. Kx-Senator Warner Miller says dredg ing contracts for the Nicaragua canal will soon lie let. Practical men who have been over the route s iy there is no ques tion as to the feasibility of the under taking. Reports are current that Western r 1 waya have decided to fight tlie Interstate law, having secured legal opinion that the prohibition of pooling and the at tempt to regulate long and short haul rates are unconstitutional. Vpon recommendation' of Oovernor Hill a resolution has been Introduced in the New York Lcgialatme, asking the Court of Appeals to reconvene and give an opinion as to the constitutionality of the Saxton reform ballot bill. Rev. Sam Jones w ill be In Richmond, Ya., some time early in June. The com mittee having charge of building the tab ernaele is perfecting its plans, and all will be rdy at the appointed time. This talwrnacle will seat 11,000 people, ami will le merely built for the benefit of Sam Jones; and alter he haa finished his series of meetings it will be pulled down. It is understood that the Democratic members of the Wsvs snd Means Com mittee will reHirt tlie Mills bill, though modified, as a sulatitute (or the McKin ey bill, the moititlcations will tie chiefly by additions to the free list. Hides, wool and perhaps coal aud pig iron, all of which New F.ngland manufacturers want free, will be on the free list. The following is a synopsis of the pnh-llc-deht statement : latertst-bearing debt principal. sn:,12-.',&ti; interest, A 9O4,0:'J ; total, IHIl.C.U W7; total debt on w hich Interest haa ceased principal and interest, tl.tlSt.MI; tofal debt her ing no interest, $7H7,S.M.H4.' ; total debt prmclinU, I,MH,HK,4Stij interest, 004,004 , total, l,5 t,ta M4 ; total debt, less avai table cash items, i 1 OAV773.M 4 ; net cash In the Treat-try, r,15,K-t.'; debt, lees cash in the Treasury April 1, 1.0.'3,167,7i; debt, less cah In the Treasurv March J, 1.034.647.5:1; de crease ( the del since June SO, list), i3,4S8.tt4U ; total cash in the Treasury, ss shown by the Treasurer's general a count, tt&i,7&l,?l. There are at present In France X10, 000,000 of Russian securities, aud people are asking what would be otue of the French market if anything happened to aff.ct Russian credit. FOREIGN NEWS. Queen Victoria Reported to Be Thinking of Abdicating. No German ' Newspaper Dares to Publish the Story or Prince Bismarck's Retirement. Jovellar, President of the Spanish Council, has remgneU. The French Senate and Chamber o( Deputies have adjourned to May 0. A branch of -the Ranuue de F ance has been established in Warsaw, JtUHHian Poland. Queen Victoria is reported to l seri ously considering the steps of abdicating the throne. Tlie recent mill'arv operations at Rom- bay are aaid to have clearly demonstrated the need for Improving the defense. Tlie table upon which Oliver Cromwell signed the death warrant of Charles I. waa sold recently to a London antiquary for 1710. Letters from St. Petersburg declare that the orig;nal cause of the student outbreaks in Russia was Indignation over Siberian outrages. A revolution has broken out near Ig nala, in the State of (Juerrero, Mexico, the government of which is unpopular. The troops are out. Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro haa refused to accept the proceeds of the sale of his Brazilian property oruureu ry uie provi sional government. Lieutenant Stoll and Captain Balm of the Cologne garrison quarreled about a woman, when the Lieutenant futallyshot the Captain and then blew out his own rains. The populat'on of Rome increases ateadilv at the rate of 1,000 per month. In the last four years the increase has been 70,000, and in the last year nearly J 0,000. Two officers and a private made an ex perimental ascension in a balloon at I'o- sen, Uermany. Ihe iialloon ooliapswi, The private was killed and the ollicera badly hart. It is stated that an agreement has been concluded betwee n Germany and Franc establishing a uniform customs taritr In their respective territories on the Afr can slave coast. It is rumored that the Emperor of Aus tria has offered the Province of Trent, in the Tvrol. to the Pone for a residence. and that the Pope has the offer under consideration. Catholic Rishopa of Brazil are prepar ing (or the Immediate issuance of a pas toral letter declaring their refusal to ac cept the government's separation of Church and mate. Dispatches from Zanzibar report that Major Wiseman haa declared a state nf war on the east coast of Africa and pro claimed martial law within the sphere of (Jerman influence. The Chinese Einjieror, acorn nanlo I by LI Hung Chang, the Clilneso U a id Chancellor, and a retinue n'l-ei or n r 10, 000 persons, has started on a vis t to t e eastern mausoleum. The responsibilities of journalism in Austria are somewhat seiio 's. Tue wri ter of a recent article has hl to fight three duels, the edi'nr of the paper (our and the sub-editor six. l.e Temps of Paris aavs Colonel Ter',1- Ion atttcked the native forces in Da homey and dislodged them from, their liositions on the River Quemo. The na tive losses were heavy. The Rulgarian government proposes to adopt the Gregorian calendar, instead of the old-style Greek calendar still used in Russia and some two weeks out ol agree ment with the rest of the world. Dr. Ixiring. the American Minister, has returned to List on from Rome, and la taking active measures to bring the nego tiations relative to tlie Delagoa Kay rail way to a satisfactory settlement. The Prince Regent of Ravaria, lieing straitened In his circumstances, has re ceived a pension of o,0W) Oorins or 1!0, 000 francs from the Emtiernr ol Germany by way ol keeping up Ins dignity. Of '2W member of the Citizens' Asso ciation Ml have declared against increas ing the Rostou tax limit. IheKoston limit now ia !) tax on each assessment of l,lki something less than the " dol lar limit ' of San rrancisco. A beer riot is expected at Munich. The brewers have raised the price of ls?er ' pfennigs per glass, on the ground that they could uot make money at the old prices, aithoiign beer made lor export pays. Ten thousand shoemakers in London have struck. Their object is to compel the masters to have their work done in factories, Instead of at the houses of the workmen, and thus uo away with the " sweating " system. The French detectives who have been searching for Kyraud, the at rangier, have returned to rrance without tlio r mau. They were unable to obtain a trace of the mnruerer alter renruary r. l et two voting ladies claim they saw hliu In New York within two or three weeks. A Rerlln dispatch says that no Gentian niiainr (Lire to urint the atorv of Chancellor Rismarck's retirement. Only foreign papers dare do it. Kiaiuarck has not gone willing'y, but has been forced against Ids will to reelgn the Chancellor ship of State which he haa served so weU. A gang of forgers of Spanish and Ital ian bonds have been caught at Trieste. The forgeries amount to 2),tHX) francs. It is stated that many well-known men of London aud raria helped to dispose ol lie bonds. Severe gales on the Paviflc during March caused many disasters on the Count of the New Hebrides. Scver.d ships were wrecked at labour. A vessel grounded at McKlcollo, and five whites and thirty natives were drowned, while thirty others who reached shore were mssa rod by the natives. The City of Paris Is In Qucnstown harbor, where she will he beached and temporary repairs made to enable her to be towed to Liverpool. Her r nt sink ing condition givs no p o is th.t she could be moved with anysifeiy. The breaking of the niaehiiu ry oJ the v-s el is the result of the nnniee.e strain put npon it In a desire to brat tue rwxjrd I r crossing the Atlantic. The cheapest and bet prepiion for dipping Ihe bottorcs of wucdn fence, posts in to preserve them is oil of tar or creosote oil heated to ?12 decrees, dis pinc tlie poet long enough for thorough surface aaturailou. Coal tax or petroleum is the cheapest. Thsre is much In the breed, there is much In the feed, and there is more in the feeder than in either. A good feeder will do fairly well with a good breed and poor feed, or w lib good fevd and a port breed. But a rood feeder potting good (red lute a rod breed Is the acme of per faction In daiiyiiif;. PORTLAND MARKET. Business In all lines Is represented as being pretty good, orders coming In by Uis hundred from ths Inland towns. The appearance of wheat buye-s from Seattle In Eastern Oregon to share In the exports next fall will have the effect ot stimulate Ing farmers to larger fields of grain, and will enable agricultural laud to meet with ready aale to newly arrived settler-. The weather Is gradually, but very graiuauy, becoming more what it usually is at thla season of the year, and when aprlng baa fairly set In upon us, we may confidently predict that times will be lively. AOHICDLTOKAL IMPLKUSNTS. Breaking Plow Broadcast Seeders 9 s40 BludlngTwIne lOperctdls lHc Binding Wire 'r " Kj. (iraln Drills. HO 00 Gang Plow ....1'.KII5 Osborne's Mowers . . . 80 ct dU 8 Heapem , 1 " Combined Mowers and Reapers .. Hit ctdls '0 " Droppers . . " 1J " Steel-fraine self binding Harvesters, 10 t ct dls 180 Rolroad Barrows, iron whiela, dozen r4 Railroad Barrows, wood wheels, dozen Road Plow 30T: bolld Sleel Scrapers 1-Yi1 Hieel Disk Harrows. N9I Spring Wagons 1&5's170 Sulky Plows 7v95 Walking lows B' WaK0us,all makes HOfeloO BAOS. Burlaps, 40 In Burlai, 45 in Burlaps, 00 In (ju nines, 28x4') I'olulo Ksgs, net cash Wool, 4 111, " Wool, 34 tl.. Wheat Sacks, spot, net cash Wheat Sacks, extra, second-hand COPKKK.1. Green Guatemala, tb . 7 : .11 . 1 . 40 . 8H : H .22 szn .W CaXl n (t-a 2(l27 Htlj-alitli .itf (62M .35 g,S Java, V n Mocha, tt) lb No. 1 1'osta Rlca.STb Itlo, Salvador, If It) Roasted, in baits Arbuckle's rlosa, f th ('lossel & D.'a Columbia 1 lb pre Costa Kiea Guatemala, (toasted .lava Iloaited Mocha VKOKTAHLK8 rllEHII). I'abhage, f It) Currots, It sk Carrots, young, If dos .. Celery, tf d. S Green Peas. Ultuce, doz Onions, V 100 It" 1'otaUies, If lOtl tls I'otatoes, sweets, S It . . Kadihhes, If dux HpliMch Turnips, persk 21 1 2o IS fio 1 no 12 l-'i 4 00 1 50 2 i 25 POCLTRT, Chickens, large young, dox 6 009 6 t" Chickens, brodi-rs. hickens, old ft 00e 5 ,V) Ducks, If dos 7 On 8 N) Geese, young, If dox 9 00 J 10 (JO Turkeys, young, l lb ltl Grouse aud Pheasants 3 00 rilK.Mll FKI7ITH. Apples 1 SOS 2 on Hunanas, hunch ."I 5Uf4 0 Lemons, California, If box .... 3 7ug4 (10 I unions, Sicily, V box, new .... 6 25 Mines, it cwt 1 f0 Oranges, Itlversldes 3 (10 Orangea. Seedlea 4 50 4 75 OHAIN. Barley, whole, If ctl SO 90 Corn, U UNI It-s 150 () ta, good, old, bushel OaU, Dew, " 40 ffl 44 live, UK) Ihs, nominal 1 tO Cct 224 Wheat, Valley, l'SJ tt 1 15 M 17 Wheat, Eastern Oregon 1 1211 15 DAIKT l'RODDCB. Butter Oregon fancy creamery- 25 Choice dairy 20 Commou RfirlO Pickled, California lo.20 Eastern fancy creamery California fresh roll 18320 New California Oregon skims and old 12(g)t4 Swiss Cheese. domesLiu . lSIti Young America, Or 14 Eggs Oregon, If dos 18 Eastern, if dos FLOOR. Pn..,!...! ......... .n. ia i.i.l 3 75 3 75 3 (tt 3 6 3 Ml 3 75 2 50 3 75 3 25 4 50 Kalein naUiut roller Dayton patent roller Cascadla patent roller Country brands. McMlnnvllUj. .-viih rune White Mlv Graham Rye (tour SKK1HJ. Grasa Seeds Timothy Orchard Grass Red Top Blue Grass. Knelish Kye Grass, Italian Kye Grass Australian bye Grasa. Mcsqulte Millet Hungarisn Millet Mixed Lawn Grass Clover Seeds Red Clover. White Clover Alsvke Clover .. . .. Alfalfa ;. Miscellaneous Canary Klax Hemp Rape, California rKKD, Bran, If ton Hay, ton, baled .... Greund Harley, If ton Mill Chop, tfton Oil Cake Meal, ftou Shorts, If ton (V, 11 (a 12 7 9 12 (Bit 7M1 9 t"VU li(6 9 7 ('10 5 6 6 to A 1215 i(Hin IA ( 17 15 917 91 10t 419 5 4i 5 5 (41 5 s a 4 . 17 0018 01 .. U 00 00 .. 22 50'i24 (JO .. is im.$) (o . . 27 50-a :J (K) .. 20 00 21 00 l.l'MIIKR ROUOH AND IlRKSSKD. Rough Per M. 10 00 Kd-d 12 00 T. & G. sheatklng 13 0U No. i tbwring 1H Ul No.2ceilln4 18(10 No. i rustic 18 (Ki Clear rouuh. SO fti Clear P. 4S. 22 50 No. 1 flooring 22 .V) No. 1 celling 22 50 No, 1 mstlo Mi Steppiug. 2j00 a alt. Coarse - Fine lSUIbhags, ton 17 00 UW-mUi. If ton 17 on Grunud Itock, 50-lb baits. If ton 12 W woou F.iatem Oreiron Ammling to ahriukage 10tgl4 Valley- sprngrllp, lo18 I tnpo,ua U i in L'mpqua, lambs and fall IOvcU aiDDKN IATII. Heart disease Is developed by modern civilisation, and ia increasing to an alarming extent. Let him who suspects the existence of this cause of sudden 4 th take Da. Flint's Rsmiot, and let all persons read his treatise on " Heart Dssease," which will be sent on applica tion by Mack Prog Co., N. Y. The garrison of Rio Janeiro recently became disaffected, and was ordered south. Ti e troops refused to go, and the government canceled the order. There ia much discontent throughout the city. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A color test for rallwsy employee has been Introduced In the shape of a device consisting of a revolving series of colored glasses lighted from behind by a fJarne and tinted like the lamps of the signal boxes. Chinamen are making money In California by going over atacks of straw abandoned by farmers and clearing out the mustard seed in It One Chinaman will save one hundred pound or more a day, and make better wages from, what the white man throws away than farmers have made from tbclr grain crops. The spread of cancer in a small commune of Normandy (St Sylveatre de Courselles) attracted the attention of Dr. Arnaudet as the disease bad at tained to fifteen per nt of the total mortality. Tbe cases were principally males, and as a rule the cancer was lo cated In the stomach: hence Dr. Arnau dct thinks that cancer is contagious, and Is propagated by water. The fast fishes, according to Prof. O. B. Goode, are of pointed build with close-lying fins, and are frequently pre dacious. Food fishes, on the other hand, are often slow, and easily caught, but are correspondingly prolific The actual speed of fishes Is not as yet well known; but as dolphins have been observed to swim round and round a steamer going at full speed, their pace la estimated at twenty miles an hour or more. Quicksilver ore In layers wasdlscov ered in the year 1879 at a place called Nikltowka, in Russia. It is a station on the Kursk-Charkow-Asow railway. In 1885 a company was formed for work ing this ore, and work commenced in tbe following year. Thus, since April, 1888, or thereabouts, the production of quicksilver has become a new branch of mining industry in that country, which promises to give fairly satisfactory re sults. Every one knows that daltonism consists in color blindness in regard to certain hues, says tbe Transatlantic. According to the researches of Dr. Al bertlni, this daltonism Is accompanied by a corresponding deafness toward cer tain musical notes. Those pontons who have not the sensation of red can not distinguish the note sol; those blind to green can not recognise re; and to this lack of perception in hearing is added the incapaolty to produce the notes men tioned by means of tbe vocal apparatus. In Chemnitz, Germany, weavers of ticking got $1.50 per week, fustian weav ers S3, sowers $1.25, corsetmakers twenty to twenty-five cents per day. At Bremen male weavers earn from $3 to $3.73 a week, women at $1.25 to $2. In Silecia the average falls to twenty-nine cents per day. Berlin engineers make from seventy-five cents to $1 per uy. Work ers in glassware and porcelain make less than seventy cents per day. These figures are from a report of the Cbem nitx Chamber of Commerce. Inquiries have been made as to the nature of the natural concrete called "topeteta," which has been referred to in our Mexican correspondence as being used extensively for station and other railway buildings on the Mexican lines. It Is a mixture of broken pumice stone and fine ash, that in process of time has by the action of waterand paeasurebeen comented Into beds of wide area. It ia quite soft, being readily cut with saws into any shape desired, thus making it a cheap building material. Railway Re view! Prof, von Bergmann, of Berlin, is reported to have performed a remarks ble surgical operation. Two patients were simultaneously brought to blm for operations, one requiring amputation of tbe thigh at the hip joint, the other needing a portion of the humerus re moved on account of the bone being ex tensively diseased. Tne first operation was the amputation, and then the sur geon proceeded to excise the diseased portion of the humerus. This made a gap In the bone, but a piece of the thigh bone was taken from the limb which had just been amputated and fixed in the gap, by which the continuity of the'hu merus was completely restored. Perfect union took place, and the patient re covered with a useful arm. MODEST DR. PARR. The Extraordinary Relf-Conrelt of an En glish Author. Authors are not as a rule, excessively modest when the merits of their own works are concerned; hut for pure, un adulterated conceit Dr. Samuel Parr, who was born January 15, 1747, has no equal In history. He was a learned man, and wrote some things which gained for him considerable fame, and he appre ciated the fact only too well. It Is said that those passages In his letters which refer to himself in terms of high praise would, if collected, form a good-sized book. In 188 Parr and Rev Henry Homer published a new edition of "Bel lendenus de Statu" in three volumes, Afdi"!) respectively to Burke. Lord North and Voi. The Latin preface was written by Parr, who in this connection addressed the following extraordinary letter to Mr. Homer: "What will you say, or, rather, what shall I gay myself of myself? It is now ten o'clock at night, and I am smoking a quiet pipe after a most vehement, and, I think, a most splendid effort of composition an effort it was, Indeed; a mighty and glorious effort for the ohjectof it was to lift up Burke to the pinnacle where he ought to have been placed before, and to drag down Lord Chatham from that em inence to which the cowardice of his hearers and the credulity of the public had most weakly exalted the Impostor and father of impostors. Read it dear llarry; read it I say, aloud; read It again and again; and when your tongue has turned Its edge from me to the father of Mr. Pitt; when your ears tingle and ring with my sonorous periods; when your heart glows and beau with the food and triumphant remembrance of Ed mund Burke-then, dear Homer, you will forgive me; you will love me; you will congratulate rue, and readily will you Uke upon yourself the trouble of printing what in writing haa coat me much greater, though not longer, trouble. Old boy, I tell yon that no part of the preface la better conceived or bet ter written; none will be read more eagerly or felt by those whom you wish to feel it more severely. Old boy, old boy, It is a stinger." Comment is super- buuiu. vuicagu aews. A queer ornlnanoe was passed by tbe McConnelsville (0.) Council recently. The substance of the ordinance was to provide for building a high fence around a certain saloon in town kaown aa the "Blue Gooee," which ap pellation U suggested by the peculiarly bright color of iu front Hie fenos will be placed there toss to prohibit entrance from any other than the front door, which faces the public square, the moat prominent portion of the city. CURIOUS WINTER RESORT. lanllda la Alplna Snows Hit Thousand Fi Above the Every winter lncreasea the number ol Tlsitora who flock to this Alpino eyrie for health and enjoyment Here, at 8,000 feet above the sea. surrounded by wilderness of snow and ice, sufferers from nerve exhaustion unite with con sumptive patients in skating, dancing, flirting, acting and shooting headfore most down the famous toboggan runs. Any thing more unlike a Mediterranean health resort it would be difficult to Imagine. Tbe sun may be, and probably will be, shlnlug at midday through the thin atmosphere with a power so g.-nla that one can sit and bask In it grateful for the shade afforded by a straw hat, while the breath freezes on one's mus tache into lumps of Ice. No one should attempt a visit to St MoriU in the winter months without some knowledge of the conditions of existence in so anomalous a climate. The more journey thither, after tbe snow has fallen, requires consideration and precaution. The twenty-six hours of rail from London to Colre can be ac complished with ease, changing at Bale. AtColre, where two good hotels are open in winter, sleighs await the train, and the difficulties of the journey then be gin. It is possible to drive on to Thusls or Tlefonkaatcn for the night; In which case the diligence need not be joined till 7:30 or ten o'clock respectively, the next morning. If. however, the night be spent at Colre, a start must be effected in the diligence at 5:30 o'clock a. m. With all its discomforts the early start has Its picturesque aspect; the brilliant moonlight on the snow, and the faint chorus of sleigh-bells in the dlstanco, electrlo lights at the Kulra Hotel, toward which It totters as if Btartledout of equilibrium by all these modern in trusions. Accommodating some three hundred guests the Kulm maintains, un der unique difficulties, its reputation as one of the finest hotels in Europe. Some idea of the difficulties of its commissariat may be formed from the fact that It Is separated by a long day's tourney over a snow-clad paB? from Its t)aut nf snnnlles. What vvlfh two con certs a day by a chamber orchestra from Milan, and continual dances and enter tainments, the winter days pass Bwiftly enough, though the ''outdoors" hours ten to three ore short, the sun being hidden morning and evening by the combine to give a strange, theatrical look to the old cathedral town. It would be difficult toexaggerate the precautions needed for the thirteen hours that are occupied In passing the Juller Pass from Colre to St Moritz. To find oneself- at a height of some 6,000 feet in a small open sleigh, lalioriously drawn by a toll ing steed at a foot pace is an experience, if the wind be blowing or the snow fall ing, that no one is likely to forgot. But, forewarned of the exposure, the Invalid can and does escape harm in almost every case. Ono is thankful, however, when the lights of St Moritz proclrlm that an oasis of civilization is at hand. The old church tower, built in 1573, stands ghostlike in the full glare of the mountains. For patients not too far advanced In disease to enter into St Moritz life the enjoyment it affords should be infinitely superior to existence in the enervating climate of Meditarranean resorts, while the grand beauty of the snowy peaks seen against the blue of a cloudless sky, and the vistas of pines feathery with snow, invests an Engndine landscape with a strange and exquisite charm. St James Gazette. SPANISH POTTERY. Prstty Thlnirs for Decorative Purposes' Moorlah Water Jars, There are few styles of pottery more effective for decorative purposes than some of tbe rude wares made by the Spanish and Portuguese peasantry and imported by a few housos in this city, Tbe blue and white Spanish ware ia found in water-bottles with cups; huge, unwieldy cups and saucers; plates, vasei in old Moorish shapes, water jars and other pieces. Tho color of this ware is nearer to tho blue of old Holland Delft than anything now made. The decora tion on some of the vases and on the hanging water bottles, which come in flat, round canteen shapes, when in fine arabesquo patterns of lilies is especially effective. Such hanging bottles nay be made the receptacles of a bunch of graceful drlod grasses, or may hold in water a growing ivy. Small pitchers of this ware, charming vases for a cluster of crimson roses, aro only fifteen cents; wash-bowls and pitchers are $3, and the hanging bottles and vases aro $1.50 up ward. The red glazed Spanish wares, decorated. in slight conventional style, have boon readily sold to people, of refined taste, because of their odd and quaint appearance. The pretty porridge bowls and saucers which soil at 25 and 20 cents each were used last summer on elegant breakfast tables at Newport for oatmeal and other grains. The wash-bowls and pitchers which come in this ware and sell at $1.50 are used In summercottages and are strong, as well as effoctive, and are not as apt to chip as the blue and white ware. Spaulards also make a ware with a decoration in greens and blue with neutral oolors which is distinctively different from any other ware. Moorish water bottles in globular shape, with the curving handle on top and two spouts, one to fill and one to pour, are shown in this ware and are decorated In various ways, often with fence bars and a leaping bull, which may have escaped from some unseen toreador's sword. The landscape Is drawn with that de lightful oblivion to perspective. The unglazed Portuguese ware of fine red clay is decorated artistically with geometrie figures outlined on the sur face, though done by the hand of poas- ii a usca cnieny lor water bot tlea and quaint Moorish water jars. This ware possesses the power of evapo rating any water from its surface. A drop spilled on itseemstodisappearby magic Ice water decanted into one of these Jars may be kept cool all night by the continued evaporation of the moisture collecting on the jar. Even lukewarm water may be reduced to a low tempera ture in this way, The Orientals who use this method of cooling water some times moisten the outside of these water jars. This method of cooling water was, no doubt introduced into Spain by the Moor. To obtain the best effect we cooler anoum stand on a balcony in the night air. Quaint brackets, cabi nets and other pieces are shown In the Moorish woodwork decorated all over In hrijht colors, and are exceedingly ef fective and pretty. Such brackets begin -u price, at $i.W; cabinets cost $15 and nor, but it should be remembered that they are pain U-d by hand quite elabo rately, tbousrh rudely, and generally with true feeling for color. Spanish tans painted with toreadors and bulls are also lnexpenaive items useful for decorative turDoes.-X. Y. Tribune. FLIGHTS OF PIGEONS. At tlia. Present Time They Occur On, t, Itrltiab Columbia, It is not so many years since that flights of wild pigeons occurred during the autumn over the Eastern hnd Middl States. The younger generation 0f sportsmen, however, has probably neu-r seen a living specimen of that bird, It acquaintance with it being entirely con. fined to the plucked specimens on the stands of dealers in the market. Mr. W. Brewster, who has made a thorough and exhaustive study of tho causes of the disappearance of the sry pigeon from Its former haunts, has established the fact that its flight In t vast body Is now entirely confined to the great uninhabited wilds of l!ritlh North America. Mr. Brewster, in ths course of his Investigations, followed tbe route of the flight which occurred in the southern peninsula of Michigan In the spring of 18S8. The main budr of birds disappeared across the StralU) of Mackinac, much to tho distress of the netters, who were making preparation! for an old-time harvest At Cardillao Mr. Brewster learned from Mr. S. 8. Stevens, an experienced observer, that in 1888, near thero, the pigeons appeared In a considerable number; but that not more than a few hundred were seen in one body. In speaking of tho great nesting of 1870-7 Mr. Stevens said that It began near Potosky and extended to Crooked Lake, for about twenty-eijjht miles, averaging three or four milei wide. The birds arrived in two separ ate bodies, one directly from the south by land, tho other following tho east coast of Wisconsin and crossing at Mun Itou Island. The luttor body came in from the lake at about three o'clock In tho afternoon. It was a compact mass of pigeons at least five miles long by one mllo wide. In the nesting season of 1881 Mr. Stevens estimates that 50) men were engaged in netting pigeons and that they secured on an average 50.000 birds each during the season. What has contributed more than any thing else to the annihilation of the wild pigeon is the reckless netting of that bird. Mr. John Mortimer Murphy, In describing the taking of pigeons in nets, speaks of them as seines which are so rigged that upon being sprung they fall upon the birds which at the moment may be upon tho ground. There are two methods by which tho pigeons aw decoyed; the one by baiting, whereby a single pigeon, attracted by the food scntioi-ed about calls a great number of his fellows, upon whom, when collected in sufficient number, the net is sprung. It is not an uncommon thing to trap from two to t.hroo hundred pigeons at every cast and as tlie casts are nuwr ous. the number taken throughout the day is very largo. Another method con sists in trapping tho pigeons as they By over the net This requires the use of decoy birds, whoso eyes aro sewn up, and a light weight attached to their leps to prevent them from flying away. Theso are thrown into the air wheat flock is passing by to attract its atten tion, while trained decoys that is. pigeons trained to act as if allghtinj aro worked industriously at tho same time. If theso bring down the flifbt, the net is sprung and fastened at the four corners. The captives aro taken out and disposed of according to the purpose of tho notters. Some are kept alive in coops, while others are killed and packed immediately for market From 500 to 1,000 men were sometimes onjjnged at one time in net ting, and each averaged 1,000 birds a day. This ac count applies to a period when flight3o( pigeons were largo and numerous all throughout tho Middlo and Western States. As stated above, tho last occa sion when nets were profitably employed was at the gn at nesting In 1870-7 in the Northwest. N. VSun. THE PRECIOUS METALS. limul Prndurtion of Cold and Silver From 1851 to 1HHH. Statement of tho annual production of old and silver In the world from Sol to 1 888, inclusive: 81'ver. in.uii are lu.iiom io.tti .mo 4ii,' mi wo 4IVMJ.W 4 ,tv o.ooo 40,6,V),u 411,6 O.W 40.75IMOJ 40.Sll.IBI 44,70)000 4'i, (OID0 i'J.'W. l tumult 51,lt.'W Bo, SO.Irt) M.iK.'M) 50, .5, W 47.WUM MS !. Cl,ii. .',S9H.nu 51, OU.WO 71.5 0 -ii..vm.il 87,'i ii M ii.'0i H5,il. ,,, ;,;0'.o lo.vw'.av UlHuOil lOrWIfl l(ti.MWW lS0.iilM.iei l'i-.:.U OF GENERAL INTEREST. It Is estimated that if the Atlantic ocean could be drained off the wealth IvlniT arnnnit lu,un nn tliA tmt.tnm WOUid a ' ' 'VWMBXJ VU V WW.. figure up a billion of dollars and more- At Aiifittrn Tnl a (rnman watching her hens which were scratch ing in the garden, when she saw then unearth a bright object and try their bills upon It She took it into the hous anil tl r.nn.f! m nl. 11 ri L" nf ITO'd " " ' " w f" V - V V W LIU."" ' worth fifty-seven dollars. A Itrooklyn lawver invited son clients who called upon him out toluncn When they got their bill for legal ser vices they found four dollars added toil for the meal, but they took good car not to pay it and the over-shrewd ii clple of Itlackstone has not "P w present sued. A freak in thn war of hanilwritin? has just come under notice. A little fin of four years writes with her left bw and writes her words backward, a tk'7 are reflected in a mirror from ordinsrf writing. Her friends have to read the by means of a lookin elass. Tbe cbi 1 was taeifht vrlHnfl K'i.l, a atster. -r, " - --"ft - . . would do thlnira In her own war. W' the result that ahe writes fluently n this fantastic style. Whl Ha Tkoavht So. Landlord (to tenant who is very 4 llnnunt in n..in Mnti T am very sure you played foot-Ull while at lera. Mr. Owehim Wlat makes yos tn that sir? . Landlord Siixn'i lrau too ar ways a o,uarUr-bac. Harvard j pooa. Year. O Id. ISM t 67.fl0U.O0 lira. 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