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EUGENE CITY GUARD. i, 1 CAMPBELL. ProurteUr, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. PENNIES AT THE FERRY HOUSE. Cm Would Tlilna There Would Be Plenty, but Tlial la Not So. "Gimme (2 worth of pennies. The grocery mun upon ilia next cor nor tout mc" shouted a boy as lie put up a crumbled bill at tho box in the forry house at the fool of ltoosevell Streot yesterday. . "Can't do iU"tald the forry muster "haven't cot 'em to Suro." "Wbctre you givin' usJ" returned (he boy as ho again closed his dirty fingers around the bilL "You'vo pot dead loads of 'em over there, only you're too mean to give 'em to a fel low." With this the boy made a gri mace and darted iuto the street. "Nearly every ono imagines that we have pennies by the thousand," said the forry master to a Bun reporter, "but the fuel is we're nearly always short of pennies." "And doing a penny business, toot It doesn't scorn possible." "I know it doesn't, but I can mnko you undorstand it very easily. Just stand here for ten minutes and keep track of the money I take in, and you can figure it out" i The reporter kept tally as directed. In ten minutes forty-six norsons passed the box. The lurgtU bill that was of fend was a f '.' bill. Two fares were taken out. and four ponnics had to go with the fl.Ds chnnjro. Onefurewo taken out of a $1 bill, and two pen nice went with the 07 cents chango. Four fifty-cent pieces for four fares en tailed a outgo of two pennies in the forty-seven cents change to each pas senger. Three single fares were taken from three quarters, and the change in each insUinco contained two pen nies. Two other quarters w ere offered and two fares were takon from each, making necessary the return in the change of eight pennies. Four dimes were offered for four single fures, and eight pennies went in the chuugo, ami two dunes for two fures each required the return of eight pennies mora. Single fures were taken from eleven five cent pieces, and twenty-two pen nics went in chango. Thirtco . passen ger laid down three pennies each us they passed. Tins business occupied just ten minutes, and a single examination shows how italfected tho stock of pen nies. Sixty-ono pennies wore paid out to make proper chango, and only thirty-pine were received, showing a decrease of Iwonty-aeven ciinic8. When the furry master hud a min ute of leisure ho looked at tho figures. "That is a little above our average," he said. "Wo usuully pay out from 100 to ISO more oiiiiies an hour thun are received. Our biggest outgo is on Sundnysand holidays. Tlion wo start olf with 30 in pennies, and before the dav is done we frequently run short" New York Bun. On Uuuilrrd and een Tears Old. In a small cottngo way out in tho tuburbs of New Orleans, whero the air is pure and the residences aro scarce, there departed this lifo recently at tho wonderful old ago of 107 years Clem entine Landry, for over 100 yean a resident of New Orleans. This aged colored woman was born in Ht James parish during the year 1782, and strange to say hus never left her native State since that timo. Her many chil dren and grandchildren remember hearing tho old ludy speak of Gen. An drew Jackson's great victory at Chul motto and tho enthusiastic manner in which he was received by tho Hpu lace, and the many other inciduuU of the long ago thut arc only remembered by a few. During tho days of slavery Clementine l-amlry was owned by Mr. Valloriu (Juudet at that timo a prenii nent citizen of Now Orleans. At the time of death the members of her fam ily amounted to about fifty persons, among whom thero aro at present liv ing four of her children, the oldest of whom is 70, eleven grandchildren ranging between tho years of K0 and 85, and twenty four greatgrandehil dren between the ages of 1'4 uud 17. Herald of Health. Inspiration fratn Dreamt, Einco Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "A Chapter on Dreams," and gave the little Brownies of his sleeping brain the credit of many of the fanciful cre ations of his wukiug hours, several well known novelists havo aoknou l edged to the dreaming of plots. The Duchess, in a recent newspaper ar ticle, wrote that at least two-thirds of the innumcrablochuractort who figure in her innumerable novels havo been pun from thestulf which dreams are made of, and if she meets an interest tag man or woman, who is in tho least suggestive of material, and goes !3 sleep Willi tins new personality IresUly photographed in her menial camera. aha is pretty sure to dream il up into shape beloro inouawuoi uuy. cur rent Literature. The Norwegian Peasant. The Norwegian peasant has a do eided aptitude for trading and for travel, aim is consequently naturally Inclined to knowledge, hdueation is making steady progress in the coun try; every one can read and write, and on every farmstead one or more news paper are regularly taken. The hus ma-nd (tenants or cotters) even aro be ginning to subscribe to newspaper. Books they can get from the parish li brary, or very often they buy them for themselves. Tho modern literature of tho country I his penetrated into every ralley, anil is uow generally bought by the well to do among tho peasantry. Harper' Maguiiue. i The Natural Result. Peddler I am liitrwiueluj a hi kind of air brush which B'uIihm llan (Impatiently) I've no net for a balr brush. Cau't you -a I'm baldf Poddler Yes, sir. Your lady, perhaps Business Mao Sue's bald, too, except when Sb goes out. Peddler Yea, sir. Child at boms, proba bly Buiioe llan Only a month old. Bald too. Peddler Yea, sir. You keep pet dug, BJayba BiuiooB Man We do; but It's a hairless oof. i'eddler (.lesiiei-nti-ly) Cant I Sell yon. a fly trap, sirt Chicago Tribune. ' Sentimentalists like Dvron and Shel ley might have a horror of a woman who confessed to a hearty appetite; but the women h till homes with sunshine are thoso who can both cook good dinner and help to eat it. Christian World. ' THE WOMEN OF FRANCE. Itenlnl of III Claim Thai There o Man Sla.l'HM Among Them. Do not trust our nowspapers. Above all shun those journuls which pretend to describe society. Tlie society thut they know, tho only society thut they cun descrilst. is not society ul all; it is ISohemiu. They Uilk, it is truo, of a live duchess, but they have only seen their duchess from a distance. She was in her box, they were all away below in the stulls. Tho woman whom they really know is Marguerite Oautier, and and it is Marguerite to whom they as sign the ducal namo. Most frequently they do not even take the troublo to find a fictitious trademark for their wares; they fur nish you without disguise, with the scandal of the world of pleasure, a per fect scries of orgies, a Bacchanalia of courtesans. Thereupon you say to your self. This is a great Babylon I Indeed it is not; it is only a tiny corner of Babylon, no bigger than a nuOtholl a tiny corner, such as may be found in London, in Home or in Vienna. This corner is a trifle lurger in proor tion as the town is more famous and attracts more foreigners. But this is not the immorality of Paris, it is the immorality of the world; nay, it is not Paris nor is it tho Parisian woman. There is no more amusing madcap than tho Purisian courtesan, and no more sensible and charming person than the Parisian woman. The two exist in two dis tinct worlds, and huve nothing in com mon except their ImU. We have, at the outsido, 2,000 or 8.000 of the madcaps, reckoning in that number those who are on the border lino and who huve one foot in each of the two worlds. It is a large number, uui omy unna what a host of foreigners como to us. And yet tho madcaps attract more attention than our C00, 000 virtuous Purisiun women and our 20,000,000 virtuous French women. Foreigners aro not tlie only crsoiis who make a mistake about this mutter. In Franco itself tho novel mukes such a fuss thut muny Frenchmen fancy that the one class of womcu is tno othor. Our excellent littlo middle cluss women are judged by tho standard of "Indiuna." Fifty years ago they were all reading "Indiana" with fervor, forcing themselves to find their own imago in it just as at tho present day we forco ourselves for an hour or so to bolievo thul Francois le C'hampi's peasants uro men of tlcsh and blood. Nay, my di-ur ladies, you aro not such Inuianus nor such l'runcillons asull thut When you go to seo Fiuncillon on tho stugo you aro so charmed with tho happy ending of the third act that you forgivo the improbabilities of the other two, Meilhuo maintains that your French virtuo is a steadily di minishing quantity ; but at all events you cling to w hat remains of it Btill, I am only now uxmkingof fashionable Parisian ladies, for tlie others keep simply to tho old standard. Vico re quires littlo time to blossom, but it takes long to sprcud its roots. Fort nightly Kuview. rtulldliig ship. Tho business of building ships has proscred in Great Britain during tho past year. Il is a noblo trade, and em ploys a largo numicror me mosi skin ful mechanics. On tho little river Clydo. in Scotland, 302 vessels were launched in 16ls8, of which 173 were steamers and 127 were sailing ships. Most of tho steamers were built of steel, which has now becomo the fuvor ite metal among ship owners. On tho Tyno, li'i vessels were built during the year, and on the Wear 75, making a total of f09. , These vessels alono would form a very imiHising fleet mid nearly all of tliom were designed for commercial purposes. Grout as tho number of now vessels was, it docs little more than muko good the losses in the Brit ish shipping list by wreck and decay. Moreover, a considerable number of theso vessels were built for foreign firms and governments. In any art of tho world, if any one wants a good steamer built ho thinks first of tho great ship building firms in tho north of Britain, and one of tlieiu is pretty sure to get tho contract Thero wus a time when the United States took tho lend in this magnificent kind of manufacture, and coplu in England went down to tho docks in Liverpool and Ixmdon just to see the beautiful rlipiiers built on the Merri moo, tho Hudson and tho Kennebec It should bo so, and will bo so again, wo trust, before many year have passed. Youth's Compuniou. Seals Not Signatures. When Ihilnh Rod bought his father's freedom of William le Butler, William gave him an acknowledgment for the money and a written cerlillcate of the transaction, but he did not sign his namo. in thoso days nobody signed their names, not because they could not write, for 1 susect that just us largo a pnortion of peoplo in Kng land could write well COO years ugo us could havo douo so forty yeare ago, but because il wus not the fashion to sign one's name, instead of doing that everybody who wus a freeniwi and a luau of substance, in executing any legal document affixed to il his seal, and that stood for his signature. Peoplo alwuys curried their souls about with them in a purse or small bug, and it was 110 uncommon thing for a pickpocket to cut otf this bug uud run away with the seal, and thus put the owner to very serious inconvenience. Tli is was what actually did linpMn once to William lo Butler's father-in law. Ho wus a certain Sir Kichard Bollhouse, and he lived at North Tud denham, near Dereham. Sir Hichnrd was high sherilf for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk in 12U1, and his duties brought him into court on Jan. S3 of thai venr before one of the judge at Westminster. I suppose the court was crowded, and in the crowd some rogue cutolT Sir Richard's purse and made olf with his seal. I never heard that he got il back again. Ilistorio Essays, Rev. Augustus Jes opp. IxmRVTllj l laaorta. It Is well known that Sir John Lub bock has shown how long insects may lire when kept out of harm' way. The greatest age attained by any in sect so fur as is known, is that reached by the queen of an ant (Formica fusca), which lived in his care until Aug. 8, 1863, when she must have been nearly IS years old. Another queen of the unit specie died at the advanced age of over 13 year. lie has now a queen of another kind of ant (Losiu niger), which is more than 9 years old, "and still lays fertile egg which produce fouiaJssuts." New Or-: lean Picayune. ! John T. Rayaaond'e Hotel Joke. I heard a funny story the other daj about Jimmy Pigolt, that clever actor, who first came to this country I think with Mrs. Langtry and afterward act ' ed with young Hothern. Jimmy Pi gott was at one lime very well known In the gay set about I-oudon. and like many another good fellow lost his money and had to turn round and make his bread and butter. Just be fore became to this country lie met John T. itnymond, whoso advico h asked about the hotels and other mat tors. This is the result! When Mr. Pigott got here he stepped into a cab and requested to be taken to the "Hotel Tombs!" The cubby assert!! that he did not know of any such place. "Then," said Piuotl "to thr Hotel Ludlow." Again cabby insisted on his ignorance. "Well, of all stupid cabman 1 ever came across, this is thr stupidest! What hotel would you recommend?" "Hotel Dam, sir.' "Dam yourself," said Pigott, getting out of the cab and posing himself foi a fight The cubby was quickly oil the box, only too ready tubulin, and it wo only after tho surrounding cab men had explained Hint Pigott realized that he had been sold by his friend Mr. Raymond, and that tlie cabby'i intention wore quite honorable Thai same afternoon the genial English man went to tho ticket office to in' quire the price of a ticket to Salt Lako, as he had a brother there, and he thought he would like to spend the afternoon with him I 11 is astonish merit when he discovered that the ticket would bo in the neighborhood of $300, and thut he could scarcely Lk there in time for dinner, cau be bcttei imagined than described. New Voii Cor. Chicago Herald. Crime and Its Treatment. Time was when folks afflicted will disease were put out of the way, nol as Bergh'a men kindly kill a dis ablcd animal lo mercifully end its dis tress, but because deemed unlit U live. Now tho crowning glory of 011 1 century is it mngnificeut hospitals Time will bo when our prisons, tnodis grace of this grand age, will U changed to humunituriau institution. for the control and euro of crime, in stead of pest pluces for its punishment and propagation. Statesmen and reformers are begin ning to consider that our system of so ciety is really accountable for mon crime than it prevents. Judges and juries are frequently called upon t( condemn uufortuuate creatures of cir cumsuincc less guilty of otfcnsi against their fellows than thoso befon whom they are arraigned. Did all wrong doers escape detection, af doubtless tho majority do, there would be no criminals Icnown; whiloif tin consciences of men were incased in flass all would bo criminals alike here would bo no honest men to brine tlie guilty to justice. Let all who read reflect unou this. He who robs you wrongs himself worso than you. You may recover your proicrty or purehuso more, but lit do corrupted Ins conscience, ruined hi 'reputation, assassinated his mini hood. Ho bus indicted upon himsell a misfortuno, whilo you havo but sus tained a ocuniury and perchance a trifling loss. S. IL Preston in Jour nal of Health. - . That Talkatlre Berber. Clothes may not mako tho man, but they have everything to do with his general amieumnce. Enter a barber shop any day when tho chairs aro full, scan tho heads of tho customers as thov lay back in tho chairs, with the towel aiiddustercloseup to their chins, form your idea of thoappearancoof tho man when ho shall have stepped outou the floor, and iu nineteen cases out of twonty you will bo surprised. In the ursi place uu iucu ui urn sizu is iiiuuuu under tho duster. In recognizing n friend you do so as much by his size 1 . 1 anu manner as you uo ins leaiures You rcudilv recocrnizean acquaintance from a reur view us ho walks on ahead of you. In the barber shon you will see a man with a massive No, 8 head and when ho steps down you aro n much shocked to find that it is placed on a B foot 0 inch body as to learn thai the boyish (!) head in the next chair i on ton of a 0 foot body. You will set noble, high browed head thut you are sure musl belong to some distin guished lawyer, and you are knocked oui wnon a policeman or me enifiiieei from next door in hi blue flannel shirt emerges from under the covers Another thing that amuses mo is tin fail uro of friends lo rocognizo euch othor while in the barber chairs, anil that hunnona twenty times a day. the recognition only following when our or the other comes oil me chair. bi Louis Globe Democrat Marriage for Quarter. A story is told about a minister' marriage fee thut causes amusemeni among tlie clorgy. He was paid ft foi marrying a couple. After they de norted he wusubout to hand the monct to hi wife when the door bell wa rung. The nowlr married wife said tlie wanted a certificate. No marri.igt was rood without one. It cost tv.en ty-five cents for a blunk that won lo lull her. 1110 revcrenu geuiiemui filled the blank out in the usual form and" she wont away seemingly salis fled. . A few days later she again apncartx1 at the door. "Mister," said the wo man, in an aggrieved tone, "I looked through the papers and can't finds notice of our wedding. You oughi not to treat us different from otliei folia," go the dominio went to a news paper oUice and paid fifty couts to Lave a notico inserted. Wbon ht reached home he bunded tho remain ing twenty-five rent to hi wife with the remark 1 "Hero, my dear, hurry np and tako this before that woman majccs anouier can.'- Ko Wcvaaloa lor Thaaaa. One occasion when Tom Ochiltree returned home from congress there was very little travel upon the rail road, and ho was the only person of consequence on tho train. When il topped at hi town there was an uir usual crowd around the depot, and naturally enough he thought it hul assembled lo welcome him. So he stepped out on the platform and be gan: "Gentlemen, I thank you for this hearty demonstration" "Demonstration t thunder 1" said one of tlie crowd. "John Dill ha just commiuea suicme la ui acpok Waahin gton (Vitio. A French ballet girl ha recent h been proven the daughter of adr-ccam marquis and the heir to a fortune of several millions. America says that aha i now enriched by her fat hoi after having long been supported by her grand pa. Baa Mario There are In Europe several state, not larger than ordinary townships in Englundor America, yet permitted to enjoy perfect indeendence of the powenul governments which !"'" them. Thut which has least escaped notico is the ancient republic of ban Murino, so culled, as somo say, after an old monk who was it founder, though another account i honor is due to a pious Mason of Dal mutia in tho Fourth century. It is a craggy tract of country in tho hills near Rimini, on tho Adriatic, and in eludes about 33 squuro miles, with a population of ubout 8,000, and an army of 40 men. commanded by scv era! "rronerals." for it is said that of floes and titles and decorations are to be had for a suitable consideration, in dependent of meritorious service. Though inclosed on all sides by what were the dominions of the pope, and though it wus severely menaced by Napoleon I in his conquering career, yot he wu induced lo respeel its ven erable autocracy, and so have all the powers iuto whoso hands the sur rounding purts of Italy have fullen, both before and since; so thut this lit tle republic has continued independent for at least fourteen centuries, a longer period thun any other government jn Europe can boast of. Austria, Prussia and France have each had 1,100 years of united indo pondonce, Englund 800, and Russia 830 years only. It has an unwritten constitution, according to which the ' ''islati ve power is vested in a council . 60, elected by the people. Of these 20 are nobles. 20 aro townspeople and 20 are from the rural populution. The executive lies with two of the council ors. who are chosen every six months and act jointly as regent. The judicial power is exercised by a doctor of laws, who must be a stranger and cannot hold ollice longer thun three years. The village of 1,500 peo plo, which forms Iho capital of tho re public, is situated high up on Mount Titan. It bus a castlo, which was for tided by King Bercnger, of Lombardy, and as its principal object of intereal a splendid collection of mcduls num boring ubout 40,000. Tho principal inhabitants resido in a more sheltered locality. The people generally aro in a very backward condition. They have no printing press, but rejoice in four convents, live churches and a theatre. Journal of Health. Killing Cattle Merclfullj. Any one acquainted with the man agemcntof slaughter houses, and who has previously witnessed the manner in which tho animal are stunned, must have been shocked by tho hor rors attendant on the proceedings fre quently involved iu the admission of novices to tho trade, by using the liv ing animal us a block on which to Dractico. The amount of torture caused in this way by unskilled hands 1 bullies description. 1 oung men come forward each in turn to strike a bloW at the same ox. Tho ax may some times fall ten times upon the same uu fortunuto animal, whoso eyes areoften put out and his whole skull battered in a pitiahlo way before the practiced blow of tho master butcher puts un end to his sufferings and luyshnn low. In onler lo end theso cruelties the directors of the Berlin slaughter house havo provided a practicing apparatus, upon which apprentices are bound lo learn their trudo. They are obliged to practice upon it till they hnvo ac quired sufficient strength and dexter ity lo hit a button 111 the machine with tho same forco as is required to mako a strong ox insensiblo; and they are only iiermittcd to touch the liv ing animul when they havo proved their competence with tho machine Tho apparatus consists of two cast iron cylinders lilting into 0110 another and pressed bv mcuiis of two power ful springs. When tho button upon the apparatus is struck the springs ure pressed, and tho cylinders slip to- S other, while tho exact strength of io blow given is indicated upon the dial. Tho apparatus hangs in a strong wooden frame, and is movable, so thul the button can bo raised or lowered according us the practice is intended for largo or small rattle. A mallet of forged iron about 7 inches long is used with this apparatus. Il has on both sides a rounded surface of about 2 inches in diameter.. The handlo, which measures 2? i inches long, nuiht not be used too short 1 avoid risk of breaking. Frciburgcr Tagblatt Tlie llare luipruTlng An English nowspapcr has been making a collective investigation re garding tho questions given below: "1. Does vour ex H-rience suggest to you that tlio race of Kuglishmcu is degene rating physically! 2. Do you think that tho great advance in tho healing, art is resiKinsioio lor Keeping alive much weak lifo that will in time a tree t the whole race injuriously t 3. Do you think that tho increased indulgence in physical siorts has. on the whnlo, a good influence on health! 4. Hus il ever struck you that probably the great attention paid to health in these days may bo producing an anxiety about bodily ailments which is a disease in itself " Answers have been received from a long array of practitioners, among whom are the names of emi nent London physicians. The general view taken, according to The Medical Record, is that Englishmen are nol de generating, but thut on the m holo, the race is improving iu vigor. New Or leans Picayune, Rapid Rulldlng. The Dayton Democrat relates the following, which illustrates pretty well tho ranidity a well as extent lo which building is carried on these days: Citizen (to builder)-What are you going to put up there? Builder We're just beginning the finest row of flat ever built iu New York city. Citizen -I'd like a nice flat in this Qoighborhootl Builder-Well, you stop on your way home from down towu this even ing and I'll show you through; but get here as early a possible or they may be gone. FoUowlDg the Line of Doty. Fottmaster (pointing triumphantly at ral boW) Do jrou we that nolo! That where to much of Uie miasing mail matter has gone. The cat caught toe rat a little while ago and dragged out a per of letters, all torn and' Chewed into little bits. That vindicates me completely. It was th rat, sir it was the rat Citisra (dubiously) But dldnt you know mail matter was mialng all the timet PoetnuuW Of coup Citiaeo Then why cUdnt yoa catch the rat rooneu! f oeunacter (with dlnltD-Pra not paid to catch rata, air. sly buainea la to attend to the peatoflka. Chicago Tribune. At targ !epol. Did you ever Hunk what a place a depot in a city like Minneapoli is for the study of human nature, and what a world of interesting sight and scenes are to be had there? If onecould become ubiquitous for an hour or two and stand a disinterested observcrat all Ihe railroad stations and becomo oblivious to everything else for the timo being, what would bo the impression? hy, if you look at the incoming trains as they slop, you would bo tempted lo think thut everybody had run away from everywhere else ami come to Minneapolis and brought his wife and daughter, or somebody else's wifo or daughter, ami all were hurrying with all their mighUand mains to gt tuway from the deol before they got arrest ed. And tliis impression would not be lessened by tho rush and soufllo bo twecn them and the hackmen and cab men and draymen and hotel and boarding house drummer, as tho hit ter grab and nub, and rush and push and yell and scramble to get baggage and passengers into their various cou vcyances, and the former dodging and hoving and rushing and tugging and pulling at goods and grips and other luggage; dogs, cunury birds and ba bies. , . , But then your attention 1 drawn from all theso before they are out of sight by another such a crowd rushing and hurrying the other way, just as if everybody wus running away from Minneapolis und going to other part unknown, taking with them all the money, all the portable property, ul the wives, duughlers, dogs und and babies of themselves and their neigh bors, and were all doing their very best to get out of the city before they were arrested. At tho gate tho kocpci seems to think so too, us he gives each of them a punch as they pass out This hurry und scufllo, bustloaud rus tie and hustle, is being repeated every hour in the day and many hours in the night This is too wearying, almost bewildering to tho brain. No doubt 0 good many of these crowds, both ways, contain somo runuway thieves, bur glare, bank defaulters, elopers, etc., lor the next thing that attracts the at tcntion is tho crowds of ever dreaded, ever welcome, uover appreciated, never feared and never half rosiectcd ubiquitous newsboys, crying, iu every imaginablo key and tono of voice: "Here's your Jour 'imway I All ubout tho lutes' scundull" St Paul Pioneer Press. Continental Striken. Early in 17S3 tho Continental cou gross was discussing financial ques tions. Alexander Hamilton proposed to iund tho public debt and issue ccr tiflcates for olllccrs' pay which were to bear interest, and in this position he was supported by Mudison. The op ponents of a strongly centralized gov eminent insisted that tho whole, mat ter should bo left to the states, even the mutter of olliccrs' pay. On March 10, 1783, an anonymous call appeared in Washington's camp at Newhurg. on tho Hudson, for a meeting of the general and held olliccrs of tno army, including ono officer for each com pnny, to discuss tho aspect of uffairs. The call wus uccompunicd by an np peal, written in violent language by Ctipt Armstrong, son of Gen. Arm strong. In u general order, issued 011 March 11, Washington denounced this call as irregular und subversive of discipline, and named a day subso- ?Uont to that mentioned in tho call or a meeting in which to hear tho re nort of tho committee sent to congress. By personal appeals to each ollicer he sought to calm their passions and pro vent hasty action. On tho 15th tho meeting was held according to the coll. and Gen. Horatio Gutes, who was susccted of being iu symputhy with tho authors or tho appeal, was made chairman to prevent his taking any part 111 tho discussion. A com mitteo was appointed to draw un reso lutions, of which Gen. Knox, a close friend of Washington, was made chairman. Theso resolutions were Bossed in spilo of the opposition of le authors of tho mcctiug. Goti. Washington in un address urged the m . 1 ; 1 : n I OUicors 10 piuco implicit couuuenco in the wisdom and justice of cougress. Philadelphiu Times. Not TTorth Taking. The August sun had gone down In a blase of golden glory, luerestlosa katydid war bled Its pensive lay from Its retreat among the honeysuckle, the Lake Michigan tephyr stirred the leave of the consumptive shade treos, and the giddy cockroach meandered merrily about the premises. A young mail and a young woman tat iu the arbor and fought musquitoe. "Angle," be tnid, and hit voice had the paviouate intonation of a Si. Louis drum mer trying to sell a bill of goods to a Texas merchant, "am 1 too later' "You am, Mr. Uankinson. I have prom ised to marry Sir. thugg." "Then why, Miss Millsap," he demanded, "did rou not answer the letter 1 wrote to you last month I It would have saved meatrip over me florin MUe cable r be added bit terly. "1 did not get your letter, Mr. nanklnson." "Did not get it f Hal Tben it was taken by that letter thief, Uberkamol I see it alL If you had gut that letter you might never nave accepted the chucklehead whom you nave promised to marry." "Mr. Hankiusou," said the younz ladv. freeilngly, "in that letter did you make me an oiler of your band and heartf "I did, ilise Millsap." "1 hen the letter thief never took It There was nothing in it worth taking, Mr. Ilankin eon." The lake breese sobbed mournfully and then stopped, the katydid let go for a mo ment to take a fresh hold, and nothing was neani except me savage crunching of gravel under the young man's heels as he walked away with his bat pulled down over his eye Chicago Tribuue. , The Minister Thanked Hrano. n old sea captain sat In the lobby of the o- -om nou yesieruiy anornoon. lie was In a talkative mood, and related a number of funny experiences he had had with minis ters. There was one In particular which amused him very much as he recalled it, "Once, wben we left London," he began, "to make a trip to Baltimore, among the pas sengers on board was a preacher. We had hardly got out of the river before the good man became awfully sick, and he felt sure something was wrong with the ship. He re lated his fears to me, and to allay them I took him to the fore part of the vessel, where a number of tailors were at work. " 'Do you hear those men twearr I asked "'Yes, he replied. 'Isn't it shocking What will become of them T " 'Well, I dout know,' I answered, but it most be plain they are not worried about the condition of the ship.' The reverend gentle man saw the point and felt much easier. "The next day a terrible storm arose. The vessel plunged in the trough of the waves, and the passengers were greatly frightened. -I noticed the preacher going to the same lr in uj snip, aua i tallowed him. Sud denly be stopped and listened attentirelr Then he exclaimed: 'Thank heaven, they are till swearing.' I need not add that tha boat souas iv qow.-w aiaiumors Sews, the barrino of the DOOR." The Eawr Incident Which rurnlahea the Thease of a tooltU Sooc It U not generally known that the in cident which forms the suhicct of the droll Scottish song, "The Burring of the Door," which also occurs in the Night" of Btraparola, of eastern origin. In an Arabian tale a block head having married his prcttycousin, gave the customary feast to their re lations and friend. When the festivi ties were over he conducted his guest to the door, and, from absence or mind, neglected to shut it before re turning to his wife. . '!,.. rnnsin ." Sttld 1) IS Wife to film when they were alone, "go and hut the street door." "It would be strange, indeed," he replied, "ir I uia sucn a thinir. Am I just made a bridegroom. wan ii ntr a snawl and C1UII1UU IU Dili, . ."o - . a duircor set with diumouds, and ani 1 tOgO ttlia SUUl 1110 uoori "V dour, you are crazy. Go and shut it yourself." "Oh, indeed!" exclaimed the wife. "Am I, young, robed in a dress of lace aud precious stones, am 1 . ...i ,!,,, i ii.o stro.pt dnorl No. in deed I It is .you who have become crazy, and not L "jome, iei ua ium a bargain." she continued, "and lot i il-. . .,L .,unin tmuiui fasten the door." "Agreed," ad the husband. and immediately no oecame , the wife, too, was sueni, wnno mey both sut down, dressed as they were 111 their nuptial attire, looking at each other and seated on opposite sofas. TV.mo tliav mmnincd for tWO tlOUrS. Some thieves happened to puss by. and, seeing tiiouooropeu, enu.-n.-u mm laid hold of whatever came to theii i i . Tl.n oiloni viiinln heard foot uuuus. iiw wivii. - r - steps in the bouse, but opened not vueir niouina. mo uim... room and saw them seated motionless, and apparently indifferent to all thai light take "'place. They continued tlicir pillage, therefore, collecting to gotlier every valuable, and even drag ging away the .carpet from beneath them; they laid their hands on the noodle and his wife, taking front theii person every article of jewelry, while they, in feur of losing the wager, said not a word. Having thus cleared the houso the thieves departed quietly, but the paii continued to sit, uttering not a svllu bio. Toward morning a police ollicei came past on his tour of inspection, and seeing the door open walked in After searching all the roomsand find ing no persons, he entered their apart ment aud inquired the meaning oi what he saw. Neither of them would condescend to reply. The ollicer bo came angry and ordered their heads U be cut off. The executioner's sword was about lo perform its ollice whei the wife cried out, "Sir, he is my hus band. Do not kill him!" "Oh I oh I' exclaimed tho husband, overjoyed, am clapping his hands, "you have lost tin wager; go and shut the door." lb then explained the whole affair to tlx police ollicer, who shrugged hisshoul ders and went away. St. Louis lie public. Tlie Fair Sri In France. Place aux dames. The fair sex o all classes of society are just now dis inguishing themselves iu the Freud capital. What with ludy doctoi lady artists, ludy politicians, and lad; agitators of, all colors, they are mult ing remarkable progress. Should the; continue to advance ul the prescn rate, their mule rivals will have b look to their luurels. Hie l'arisienn is evidently determined to6how thu she is ill and uble to become a puhli character. Too long has she been kep in the background lo tend tho t in dren and mend the stockings. Tli time basarrived to prove to the world and particularly to their masc-ulni tyrants, that women are really stipun or beings, and capable of taking car of themselves in the struggle for lifi They have not jet obtained the rigl of political voting, and consequent! cannot bo deputies, but they look fm ward to that victory at an earjy m riod. and suy they will not be satislie. until they get it. They hold that, U ing forced to pay taxes, they are ci. titled to have a voice in the affairs o tlie nation. In any case, they cut tend, with some reason, that thing could not possibly be worse than the, are, and in all probability would h infinitely better. Loudon Globe. ' Be Clung to Bis Tormentor. A friend relates the following ratlu jocose incident: Proceeding dowu Jo street not long since, his attention w: called to a little i.egro boy who w; crying pitcously, aud alternating In outbursts by munching a glow in hued red pepper. The tears wei streaming down his ebony cheeks un he was bellowing loudly about ll, burning sensutiou in his mouth an tliroul, totally oblivious of tho fat that the pepier was the cause of h trouble, and that he was continuull aggravating the pain by endeavoriuj to masticate the pungent article. The narrator, noticing his t rou LI and its cause, stepped forward an snatched the pepper from his hand and threw it into the street, when upon the black urchin set up a ma vociferous howl aud dashed after hi treasure, while a burly negressrushe out of a doorway, evidently thinkin her child had been abused. The we. meaning pedestrian did not linger i explain. As he departed he caught j glimpse of the ebonized gamin cgui in possession of the pepper aud yelliu" and munching as before. Adapting '. fragment of a common quotation, i was a case where iguorauce is bliss. -Boston Budget A Godsend to English Farmers. Wire barbed fencing has proved to be a godsend to English farmers. They are using it around their fields quietly to annoy and prevent fox hunters from trampling their crops. Thcysay nothing of the sort, of course, only keep on putting up the barbs as a con vcnient and cheap fence. The horses and bounds are often injured by these fences. There is no law to prevent the use of the wire, and not likely to be. So a revolution is wrought in the manners of English barristers and par sons and gentlemen by the bits of twisted wire invented for us on our western prairies, where timber is scarce. San Francisco Chronicle. Mrs. Potter's Got ! Mrs. PottPr'a and ono on which she spends not a I 'na11 portion of the tfOO a week that jshe receives, is new gowns. She doesn t seem to care much how or where she lives or what she eats or i whftl she drinks or about furniture bric-a-brac or jewelry, but a Bne dress or a new shade so captures her fancy that if she had to pledge all her other j dresses to get it she would do so. Her yn.uio gowns, a well as her stage iwrns, nearly all come from Europe, NW York Journal 1 A CHINESE MILLIONAIRE. The Residence and Manner of Ufe af ih Celeatlal Vaud.rbllt I visited this afternoon the Vander bilt of China. He is a relative of the Chinese minister at Washington, and his grandfather died less thun u gen. oration ago leaving an estate worth 60 000,000 hard gold dollars, I lis num. is Uow (jua ; and he has acres of houses in the busiest part of Canton, his own residence occupies the site of a good sized farm, and ho hus diamonds and pearls by the cupful. One of hit diu mouds, a ring which cost $00,000, was sent to England lo be sold not Umg ago, and il is probably uow in the jewel casket of one of the monarchsof Europe. lie haa plantations of rice Holds and many acres of the choicest ta gardens, tin money is well in. Tested aud he would approach the wealth of Jay Gould were it not that the oQlcials every now and then come down upon him for a gift of from fit). 000 to $100,000 and be dure not refuse. This rich man is now 49 years old, though he doe not look over 35. Hw is a typical Chinaman of the literary dass, has a broad, high forehead, ihio yollow cheeks and eyes thut shine as brightly as his choicest diumond. His hair is like let and his cue reaches to his ankles, lie was dressed in silks and furs when he received me. aud he bad a tight, round block silk skull cup on the ton of his head. He shook his own hands before his breast in Chinese salutation when our American consul, Mr. Seymour, introduced me to him, and then he reached out his long nailed fingers and grasped my hand a la Americaine. It was in his grand residence on the banks ot the Pearl river in the heart of Canton. We walked through a wilderness of buildings devoted to the servants and relatives of the family be fore we came to the reception room. How Qua supports about 400 of hit poorer relatives, and when a man makes a fortune in China his whole clan settles down upon him. In the various courts all kinds of work seemed to be going on. Hcreservants were cleaning the fish for the family. There rice was being ground into flour and dried in great baskets, and just uext the reception room we heard the buzzing of Babel. It was How (jua's children being taught by their tutor, and like all Chinese children, they studied out loud, singing their lessons out at the tops of their voices. Now and then the sharp clutter of the ruler could be heard when one of the boys made a mistake, and the father told me that he intended to have hit boys educated at the Hong Kong for eign college and to finish them off io America and England. He talked English himself and he is among the progressive of the Chinese. As we sat and chatted the choicest of Formosa tea was brought in, ths leaves of which were, I judge, worth about $20 a pound, and we seated our selves in black ebony chafrs, which iu couples were ranged on the sides of small tables, and sipped the tea from covered China cups without saucers. There are no easy chairs in the Chi eso gentleman's house, and this pal ace in China had uncarpeted Boors of stone, and its walls between the rooms were of colored glass framed in ebony. Some of the curious shaped panels had pictures painted on them by Chinese artists, and the effect of the whole was tlie finish of a fancy store room yet unoccupied, rather than that of a com fortable homo. Some of the finest rooms looked out upon a little lake of lotus plants of perhaps an acre in extent, and there were glass covered corridors which ran around this. Tlie chairs sut against the wall, and their unbending backs were straight up and down. There were no cozy nooks such as you find in our American homes and the soft tints of our family life were not found in the picture. Nearly every room contained an American clock, and some were hung with glass chan deliers. I went into his mother's bed room, the best in the house, 1 doubt not, and where Uow Qua pointed ss he said, "Thero my mamma sleeps," was a platform between four posts, which was covered with straw mat ting and upon which was a piece of porcelain of about the shape and size of a five-cent loaf of bread, and tliis was the pillow of this rich Chinese lady, Frank Q. Carpenter. The London Thirteen Club. The London Thirteen club, which has just inaugurated itself after the example- of a similar institution io New York," is, I believe, exclusively for the male sex, and I am sure they are wise, for I fancy very few ladies would join, even if invited. Women are naturally much more superstitious than men, and I would not systematic ally do all the unlucky things they do for worlds, and 1 expect I should not even be eligible, for I am a firm be liever in charms and crooked six pences. These luckless people under take whenever practicable to sit down thirteen to dinner, to walk under lad ders, to spill salt at dinner (untidy creatures 1), initiate any new enterprise on Fridays, and generally to do all the things which other folks don't like U do, I suppose to give them a wisa after their own heart I had better say, "May bad luck go with thein."-ho-don Figaro. A Decoration Occurrence. Honceforth we must no longer tali of "arranging" our furniture, for IM great apostle of art Mr. Oscar W iW has provided us with a new expression for the negligent way in which U the fashion to scatter tbenumeroui little chairs, cabinets and screen which o gladden the heart of the mod ern housewife, A lady, well ki in society, having bought a number of Japanese screens, waa found on afternoon by the great aesthete mus" on suitable positions for her purcbss "Oh, Mr. Wilde "exclaimed she. 1 sorry you hould have been brougnj into such a confusion. But a J" are here, do be kind and help m. arrange them," A pained express0" passed over the poet' fat. -VkPl' cried he, "don't arrange them. themoccue PhilalelDhiaTelegrapa- Speaking la aha Singular. That worthy chip of an old bloA Dumas the younger, inherited nosn share of the paternal gift of P"" claimed Duma the son, "to forgV pistols!" "You might as well F in the singular number," V"?u"i. gested Dumas the father, ""y plied the son, with a smile, ;i corrected. 1 ought to have sai an idiot you were to forget to01' Saa Francisco Argonaut Elnnsi Mxsiosa ma ssrSnkM inn I1UJJ traveling in Spain, they came to JTZ of the countrv said io b infest; w