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EUGENE CITY GUARD. L U CASrBELU . . Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. GENTLE NIGHT EYES. Node mght eye of mine, neat thoee far away akl Whir the tropioel tun ahedittaifloryof fold. Bow the pUftrlio, ono charmed with UiJ Iwif blo( light, slfba for th weloomlnf flenoe he bo more our be hold. Kuif charm mj th Pearl of th Antra claim, Wbar luzurlut iprlac bold unwlthrliif (war. But iu Tordur and Sowers, though o gaud, are tam To the Uljr and roes, which upon th; aheeks play. lUtir mlrrorlnc pool fleck It Taller of rraas, Many oool laiit fountain In marble bed danoa, Tt bow lifeless and languid I erery such scan, TVhen compared with th bright and enraptur ing; glance. Though th moonlight a oft on th balcony fall, And th bird ling a gay I, th flowers bloom a (went, E wboonoeanared them with the now vainly reoalla. League away, th enchantment of eaoh dear retreat Sen tie Night eye, adieu I In aom myttlo beyond . Whan th atari are mora kind, I may meet the again, tuttf then thl poor heart, rr eonatan and fond, Shall recall the with pleaiur where pleaaure to pain. AtlanU OotutituUon, I Btreaklt Sam. In a town of the Old Colony, In Massachusetts, there formerly lived a man who wm In hi own way some thing of a character. When a boy, ao cording to the tradition, he was running to head off a doer, of which he and hie father were In pursuit, when the old man shouted after hhn, "Streak It, Bam!" Sam "streaked It" whether or not he headed off the door wo are not informed and was known thenoe forth as "Streaklt Sam." Btreaklt Sam lived on the banks of one of the beautiful ponds with whloh the town Is abundantly supplied; but while he was a lover of sport he was also a strict observer of Sunday, and would never allow any fishing on that day. Loss scrupulous persons had more than once tried to hire his boat for that purpose, but always In vain, and one Sunday some sportsmen determined to steal what they oould not got by honest means. The boat was found near the shore, out of sight of the house, but almost half full of water from a heavy rain of the night before. The men worked with true fisherman's patience to ball It out, laugliing and joking softly all the while, though it took a long time to empty so large a boat with so small a balling dish. "There, boys," said the leader, as he threw the last dishful overboard, "she's ready at lost Now for some sport" "las," said a drawling voloe behind them, as Streaklt Sam walked out of the bushes, "but I'm the man that's goin' to have the sport I seen you chaps sneakln' over here, an' I ooine over to say yer can't have no boat of mine to go a-Ushln' In Sunday." "Why In time couldn't you say so be fore we bailed all this water outT growled one of the men, angrily. "Wal," the owner drawled, with a twinkle In his eye, "I thought It 'ud be a kind of a sermon to yer to ball her out, an' I never like to break In on a sermon. "Youth's Componloa Bom Queer Pet. Queer pots are a foshlonablo fad with women whose time hongs heavily on their fair hands. The talkative old parrot and dainty canary have reason for genuine Jealousy whon tholrplaoes are usurped by owls, or chameleons, or Brazilian fire beetles In Jeweled har nesses. Little white owls are exceed ingly Interesting birds, and quite Intelli gent They show In many ways that they deserve their reputation as birds of wisdom. The Indignation and con tempt which they exhibit toward teas ing boys, and the sly, decisive way they punish such offenders with a blow of the beak, not 1ms than their bland, patronizing manner toward older per sons hi authority are Intensely amus ing. The usual way to keep a chame leon Is a box with a gloss top and squares of different colors on the bot tom. The gradual change of the creature's color after he crawls on a different square Is not less Interesting than the dignity and avidity with which he opens his pale pink Jaws to receive a fly. New York Tribune. minded by Froat. In Capt Nares' "Voyage to the Polar Seas" Instances are mentioned In which the loo has collected round the beards and moustaches of the explorers so thickly that they could not drink with out the greatest difficulty. 80 It was with the eyelashes. If not removed, ths loe gradually unites at the comers of the eyes and eventually seals up the eyelids. Cases have occurred of trav elers being temporarily blinded and un able to see their way. Taut MEvr been on a school shipf "No," "They have a great system of educa tion." "How sof "They teach the boys, th cooks, th sailors, the ropes" "Whatl the ropes r "Yes; even th ropes are taut I" Chloago Ledger. Theaght the Feed Both reek Thump-rattlety-bang went the plana "What are you trying to play, Jane P ailed out her father from the next room. "It's an exercise: 'First steps In mo tto,' " she answered. "Well, is there notldng you can play with your hands P he asked. Chatter. A Slack Baeluee. "Bow's your business P "Always slack." "What 11ns are you InP Utah," Chloam Tunoa Prince P.ismafok threatened aims time go to publish list of writers whom lie formerly kept in his pay, with the amounts he had given them, etc., nd it is to be noted that many lierman papers that Uftti to have a great deal of fun with the ex-Chancellor have stepped discussing him. THE PACIFIC COASTi A Young Woman Swindles a kane Falls Bank. Spo- Condensed News From All Parts of the Country West of the Rocky Mountains. Idaho's population Is M,22fr-n In crease of 61,319 in Km years. Tristan Burges, Past Grand Command er of the Knights Templar of California, is dead. The total valuation of the property of Pan Jose, Cat., Is s)19,127,4.9t an increse ol fH5,787. No. 3 shaft of the Wellington mine at Nanaimo, B. C, Is on lire, and will have to be flooded. ti. .imQ. U'ulllniftnn ran Into the sand on the shore of Coronatlo beach, but no damage is thought 10 nave ueen sustained. The grand jury in Santa Fe, N. M., 1..,.. ...,. I Inlw.iniPiila airnlnst sixteen citizens for the murder of ranstin Ortiz in March last. in...,lunra with an act of 1880 Gov ernor Prince of New Mexico has Issued s proclamation calling a constitutions! convention iKtouer 4. The works at Kelly In the Magdalena .i:..t.l.. M M irnn, flrml liv all incendiary, and all hopes of saving them have been awincioneo. n w VnuMiinn of flnokane Falls and Ti' I V U.v.nl anil J. H. l'ott of Fail Jose have been spiwinted special medi cal examiners 111 me jciibikh bvi u. isium.h Parromu the Mexican on trial 1... ii... nmivli.r nf another Mexican IUI ...V - " - - named Soto at Indio on the desert about a month ago, was acquitted by a jury at San Diego on the ground of self-defense. Tl.a Xfurina FlrimiAn'a Association of San Francisco has received a letter from Naniiimo, asking it to Instruct Its mem i,. ..( Am with Wellington coal. The association will probably issue the orders. Tko rniili Tnillnn have sent S dele- i liv y 1 j 'i.i a..u Mlntn i 1itriirniir KCtllVll W vjiav - ifornia to protest against the encroach ment of Mexican ana American miners nnoii their ulacer mines and agricultural domain. Tl. nf tha. eatnta nf Miitthow A. IIIIID Ul -" - - U'i1fi....i u-hn man Itillwi hv thfl HCCl- dent at the Wtbst-r-street bridge, Oak land, on Decoration aay. nave cuiuprv mised with the Southern Pacific company fort5,(X0. i,l,lrol Tlmum nf thn Charleston Wis dined by the St-attle Chamlier of Com- mere me otner evening, me nuiiii In aiuuwli nrnlunl the work bemin bv ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney and conunuea oy oecreiary inwjr. The bail of Frank Larue, who was boxing with MclSride at the Golden (iute Athletic Club, San Francisco, when Mcllride died, has been reduced from 10.(XX) to $6,000. The bond was origi nally Xij.UW. IJirue was ineu iwiwrm, and the jury did not agree. FitWn rhlnamen. who were refused landing at San Francisco, have arrived . ltrt..a Thau MV ttiUV wl WHrk their way across the Sound Into Wssh- ington and then go soutn 10 han r ran cisco, their original destination. The last month a large number of Chinese 1 ilr ' j 1 imve arrivea ai victona. irum iun they lay plans for smuggling themselves Into the United states. 11ui.ii.mmon amnlnvpft nn the flouth- em l'acillc whose train route ends at f.ii.i.iri, 1 ua,,i mix nnw In force, re quiring them to accompany all baggage ...M..AH ilia t.iamnr tsi Run VrflncisCo. ii.lv.na v 1 . ...w ........ 1 revoked. The matter will be laid before the otlicials through the grievance com- niliiee 01 trainmen. Adam will he built across the North ITiiinoua at Winchester to cost $20,000, The river will furnish power to drive the spindles and other machinery 01 the oig woolen factory and other manufactories alwut to be erected there. This manu- fm-turlnir nlant will furnish employment for hundred of hands, and will be a grand alluir. The Kxchanue National bank of Upo- knne balls has been swindled out ol U. 475 by a handsome young woman giving the name ot itosa uiitun. one was men till. si hv Mrs. A. C. Edwards, wife of a prominent citinenof Spokane Falls. Into whose commence sne una ingnuinmi herstdf. The swindle was accomplished bv iiicans of a draft rniscd from $25 to (2,600. It la nniv ilnllnllelv known that D. C. Jordan, the forger who is wanted lu Ar- kaiiuiia fiiraiMMiriiiirsi-veral thousanduol- lurs on fraudulent drafts, and who was ira.vxl tit Kent tin. has inanuiriHi to make ittHKl his escape. The Arkansas author- 11 ICS are alter liuu. nmi imn uvc in un Kl. uu Ia tiiwltln In eiinh nf tltn fiiirl. iiv Innlnn leumml of this evidently. for he has again mysteriously disap peared. The lnret Sound and Alask Steam ship Company's new steamer City of Se attle, which w as to have left Philadelphia for Tacoma early in August, has not vet started. Captain l B. Johnson, the general manager of the company, who is now in Philadelphia, will not let the contract for the new steamer City of Ta coma until the City ot Seattle la thor oughly tested and her sea -going qualities fully ascertained. If she proves all right, the'eontract for the City of Tacoui will be let to lite same company. Pmm alatlatica mtlteretl hv the Roanl of Trade it is teamed that Aberdeen has shipped luiuWr as follows since April last i A. J. West A Co., 3,152,000 feet ; the Weatherwsx Lumtier Company, 4,125,000 feet; Wilson Pros., 4,0(10.000, inakins a total ol ll.7r7.lKio leet ol mm ber in five months. The local trade has lined alxut 2,500,000 feet in the same time. The Cosmopolia mill has also shipped considerable, and the Hoquism mill has shlpMd some 3.000,000. The vessels carrying this lumber have all crossed the Oray s Harbor bar, but not an atvident has occurred. In.nuinlnnnt. nalula! U 1 1 tf rl Mllpi-lM.l IIIIJ'IV, viuvilia, .w.V v. . ..... constniction, In Colorado sre greatly re- tardtnl through the Inability 01 the com panies to secure labor. The Itonver end Kio Grande are the greatest sntferers. Tkev have at present under construction the 'Grand Junction branch, 65 miles long; the Rio Grande Southern, 1K5 miles; the Vilisgecove branch, 0 mile; the great tunnel through the Tennessee Cass, beside a very great amount of road-wutrinii. all of which is almost at a standstill on this account. The officials of the road say they can give employ ment to 6.MV to 8.UJU men on these new wurk at $2 per dsy, and the work I so Incited a to sd mil ot workint all w in ter. Several diU'h companies and smelter corporation are equally if not greater lUUcrers. EASTERN ITEMS. The Tunnel Under the St. Clair River About Completed. An Immigrant on His Arrival at New York Confesses to a Murder In Denmark. Texss will call In her frontier defense bonds. Silver is the most active feature of Wall-street speculation. It is said that Edison has perfected a noiseless electric motor. Cspe May proposes henceforth to be a winter as well as a summer resort. It is said that several more Baltimore breweries will be bought up by English capitalists. The Chicago gas trust is reported to have cleared over $1,000,000 in the last six months. Counterfeit silver dollars have been discovered In the vaults of the sub-treasury at Philadelphia. Much alarm is felt at the spread of diphtheria in the mining towns of Lu seme county, Pennsylvania. The Atlanta Constitution thinks that more than two-thirds of the next Geor gia legislature will be farmers. f'l.l..f.limtli.B Mnrtan nf the Massa chusetts Supreme Court has tendered his resignation prompted oy tuning iieaitu. .lainr. tlnnlnn TVnnett has leased for tift fULl a unur a Int at. HrnmlwRV Bllll Thirty-fifth street for a new Herald of- tiie. Property along the Hudson river for residential purposes Is held at figures to sell higher than have prevailed for sev eral years. A large butter and cheese firm at Mon treal has been seized for Importing the best American butter and entering it as an inferior article. The New York health authorities fear that there Is a slight return of la grippe in that city, and it Is said Southern vis itors sre especially susceptible to it. In 1880 there were nineteen out of thirty-eight States each with a popula tion of less than a million. There are now only seventeen out of forty-four. Under the new law men who have en listed in the regular army of the United States and served one year may obtain their discharge by the payment of $120. Miss Francis E. Willard says there is a movement on foot looking to a union (or work of the Women's Christian Tem perance Union snd the Salvation Army, White caps are threatening the "stay out-lates" at Arlington, N, J., with con dign punishment. Some have already been pelted with rocks while returning home late. The elevated railways In Brooklyn are all resisting taxation. Some of their of ficers say openly that the roods should not be taxed until they are on a paying basis; others complain 01 overassess ment. filling Woon, the Chinese Consul at New York, says he was requested by the Chinese Minister at Washington to no tify the public that China had not agreed to Corea's plan to negotiate a loan of $1, 600,000. The latest site offered to the World's Fair directory is in the northern part of the city, and borders on uixe Micnigan, It is Ave and s half miles from the ren terof the city. An oil well has been opened at Find lay, O., which flowed over 1,000 barrels the first hour, and in seven hours filled 0,340 barrels. This breaks the record of oil wells in Ohio, if not in the world. Hon. Charles Fltzpatrick, who Is about to be sworn in as a member of the One bee Cabinet, Is believed to be the first Irish Land Iiaguer to become a Minis ter of the Crown in the Queen's domin ions. , The partial, failure of the North J)a kata wheat crop is said to threaten thou sands of farmers with bankruptcy. Sctt'ers will have to be aided with food during the next twelve months and sup plied wiin seed 111 ine spring. The man who is believed to be the chief conspirator In the Minneapolis census frauds Is in Canada, and he pro poses to resist extradition on the ground that his offense was not a common for gery, but rather a political crime. A convention of Governors ot all the cotton States has been called to meet at Atlanta. The convention will consider the matter ot direct trade w ith Liver pool ; also questions relating to woights, freights and the handling of cotton. All the brick in New York have been used. Six million bricks are daily nsed in New Y'ork, Brooklyn and Jersey City, and brickmakers along the Hudson and about Philadelphia have cut off the sup ply. The union workmen of the three cities boycotted the Hudson-river man Hirers, and this is the result. One hun dred thousand men will be compelled to quil w ora. Itll'AIMIl.VI (lU OTVII, 1. Ill flMII.VTll A, New Y'ork with his wife and two chil dren in the steerage ot the Hamburg steamship Normandie, has confessed to the murxtcr of the man whose body was discovered in a barrel of lime that was brought to this country on a steamship from itenmarx and seised lor duties by he customs otlicials a few months ago. There are some very much disgusctd real-estate investors in Chicago. There are those who bought land near Jackson park at fancy prices, thinking it settled that the World's Fair would be located there. Some of them paid $300 to $400 per front foot lor property that live months ago would not have Drought one sixth of that, and unless the fair should after all go to Jackson park, not a few of them will be ruined. A scheme is to build railway east ward from Quebec some eighty mile to St. Charlea bay en the I-abralor Coast, from which point large steamers are expected to make the voyage to Miiford haven, Wales, in three and a half days, is pro jected in Canada. By this route it is expected that passengers and perishable freight can be carried from Chicago to London inside ot seven day. The pro visional directory I composed ot wealthy men. The workmen engaged upon the two end of the St. -cW-river tunnel be tween Port Huron and Sam la, Ontario, hook hand with each other on August 24 under the St. Clair river, and made the great subterranean highway echo with their cheers. This marks the com pletion of the greatest river tunnel in the world and probably the sreatest niece of engineering iu this country. It is eleven feet longer than th Brooklyn, bridge. FOREIGN NEWS. Prince Bismarck Muzzles the Ger man Press by a Threat. The Provincial Treasurer of Soochow, China, Becomes a Great Moral Reformer of the Drama. The Russian Import duty on sugar has been Increased. The British have assumed possession ot the Shire highlands. Several steamers have taken military supplies up the Danube to Bervia. Several earthquake shocks have re cently been felt in the Danube valley. A New York dentist has the pleasure of operating upon the Czar of Russia. Prince Bismarck is closelv watched, so that he is unable to talk with newspaper men. There Is said to be an alarming increase in the death rate at Naples the last few months. Englishmen rejoice that the proposed restoration of Westminster has been postponed. Experiments with steam life-boats have recenty been made at Liverpool and Havre. Fires have swept the Soukaras forest in Algiers. Two villages were destroyed by the conflagration. Surgeons in the French army by a re cent military order have been forbidden to practice hypnotism. Armv men, who profess to know all about it, assert that the much-talked-of smokeless powder is not a success. Of late there has been an increase of the bitter feeling in Paris toward Ger mans, especially in public places. And now comes news of a phosphate trust headed by the Duke of Westmin ster and others of the English nobility. Resident Hebrews In London are to build in that city the largest and finest synagogue in the world, to cost X100, 000. Great Britain Intends to use a part of the revenue to be derived from the new duty on spirits to promote technical ed ucation. The returns from the excise revenue In England are this year so good that Mr. UoBchen will have a very large stir plus to devote to free education. The Corn Millers' Association of Leeds, England, has advanced the price of flour Is tid per sack. This makes an advance of 4s tkl within a month. Herr Krupp, the great gun manufact urer, has a plan for connecting the city of Vienna with the Danube by canal. The Austrian government is considering It. Emperor William is not, It is reported, at all generous in the matter of " vails," as gratuities left bv royal personages are called. The English flunkies at the pal ace are dlsgused with him. Count Vllianova, accompanied by a guide and porters, recently started to make the ascent of Mount Blanc. Noth ing has been heard of the party since, and it is feared that all have perished. Reports from twenty-live centers of population in County Donegal, Ireland, show that the potato blight is gravest in congested districts like Falcarragh and Gwodore, where the crop is a total fail ure. It is stated that the Sultan has agreed in principle to a number of reforms in Armenia involving communal autonomy and the admission of Armenians to a share in the administration of the vil ayets. A dispatch from Rome says that a big Socialistic intricacy has been unearthed in that city, A large number of bomb shells were found in the houses of work logmen belonging to secret societies, to be used In case of an outbreak, The French government has accepted the Italian government's proposal for a convention to establish an international maritime service on the Red sea. The object is the suppression ot cholera. England's adhesion is doubtful. Terrible stories of distress are reported from Tokay, where the tire Is not yet en tirely extinguished. Men, women and children are constantly running about the desolated streets wringing their hands and calling on heaven tor help. A bombshell was thrown into the of fice of the Chief of Police at Trieste, and exploded, severely wounding the Secre tary. It is supposed to have been the work of Italian Republicans, who advo cate the annexation of Trieste to Italy. Chinese supremacy in the tea trade bids fair to find a rival in a few vears in Asiatic Russia. Already large shipments Iron) the tea plantations in Kussian Cen tral Asia are made to Enxland annually. and a considerable proportion of the product nnus its way. to the I'm ted States. The Bismarck monument fund, which is being collected despite the ex-Chan cellor's prejudice against monuments of himseii, now amounts to some $10.000. The members of the reading room of the Society of German Students in Prague recently resolved to subscribe $250 to the fund, but were prevented by the Chief 01 rouce, wno threatened to dissolve their organization in case the contribu tion should he made. The moral reformer of China is the " Provincial Treasurer of Soochow." lie has issued a proclamation commanding managers of theaters in Shanghai to de sist from the representation of immoral plays. Restaurants and other places of public interest must discontinue employ ing female performers. " Immoral playSj" the Provincial Treasurer says, " excite the female mind, and sometimes lead women to imitate the wicked ac tions portrayed on the stape." Because theater have " been established so long that it would be Impossible to wean the public mind from them so far as to per mit of abolishing them," all that can be done is to purge them from their "sen sational, degrading and licentious" dramas. The organization ot the Coos Bay, Rose burg and Eastern Railroad arid Navigation Company has been completed at Rosebnrg, Or. rtRMinoi s irrttCTS or tobacco. Da. Fuxr' Rchkdv Is the onlv anti dote against the influence of tobacco which the smoker or chewer of the weed has, and it should be taken regularly to prevent the heart from becoming dis eased. Descriptive treatise with each bottle, or address Mack Drug Co., S. Y. PORTLAND MARKET Whkat The export demand Is good and trading fairly active. Receipts are increasing and offerings more lllieral. Shippers quote: Valley, $1.27 J Walla Walla, nominally, $U0. Floub Quote: Standard, $3.90 ; Walla Walla, $3.00(23.80 per barrel. OATSQuote : 47 50c per bushel. MnxsTUKrs The market is firm. Quote: Bran, $17019; Shorts, $2326; Ground Barley, $32.60; Chop Feed, $25; Middlings. $25 per ton. Hay The market is firm. Quote: $10(317 per ton. Veoetablbs The market is firm. Quote: Cabbage, $1.75(a2 per cental; Peas, 3c per pound ; Onions and Lettuce, 15c per dozen bunches; California Onions, 2(8 3c ; Oregon, 2!,cper pound ; String Beans, 3c per pound ; Cucumbers, 10c per dozen; Carrots, 1015c per bunch ; Asparagus, 10c per pound ; Beets, $1.60 per sack; Turnips, $1.25 per sack; Corn, 10c per dozen; California Tomatoes, $1(81.25 per box; Potatoes, 75(8$1 per cental; Sweet Potatoes, 4(2; 60 per pound. Fkuits Quote: Tahiti Oranges, $4.25 per box; California Lemons, $6 per box: fancy Sicil v, $!K2 10 per case ; Peach and Bradshaw Plums, 75(8 80c per box ; Mad eline Pears, 90c(rf$l; Oregon Bartletts, $1.25(31.60 per box; Pineapples, $3.50( 4 per dozen ; Bananas, $3.75 per bunch ; double, $6; Oregon Astrachan Apples, 75c$l; Gravenstein, $1(31.15 per box; Crawford Peacnes, $125(al.40; other va rieties, $1.15(31.25 per box; Nectarines, $1.60(31.76 per box; Black-berries, 8,'c perpound, $1.90(a2 per 24-pound crate; California Watermelons, $2.60(83 per dozen ; Cantaloupe, $1.50(32 per dozen ; Crabapples, $1 pVr box. Receipts the past week were 2,010 boxes and 8 car loads. Cheesb Quote: Oregon, lK12'c; California, )$(8l0c; Young America, 14 (316c per pound. Butter The market is firm. Quote : Oregon fancy dairy, 3i)c; fancy creamery, 32!c; good to fair, 25(8 27 c; common, 20(tt22c; choice California, 28c per pound. PotiLTBY The market is firm. Quote : Old Chickens, $5; large Spring, $3 rgA; small Spring, $2(8.2.60; old Ducks, $4.50(35; young, $6(36; old Geese, $5; young, $8(39 per dozen; Turkeys, 15c per pound. . Euas The market is firm. Quote: 26c per dozen for Oregon. Nuts Quote: Walnuts, 13c; Peanuts, green, 11c; Almonds, 17c; Fillwts, 13 14c; Brazils, 13(8 14c per pound; Cocoa nuts, $1 per dozen. Honey Fancy White, 1-pound car toons, 13c. Potatoes Quote : 75(8 85c percental. Naii. Base quotations: Iron, $3.20; Steel, $3.30; Wire, 3.90 per keg. The Merchandise Market. Sugars The market is firm. Quote : Golden C, 4J,c ; extra C, 6lgc ; dry gianu lated, 6l4c; cube crushed and powdered, 6c per pound. Beans The market is firm. Quote: Small Whites, $3.26; Pink, $4; Bavoe, $4.50; Butter, $3; Lima, $5.60 per cental. Dried Fruits The ' market is steady. Quote: Plummer dried Pears, 10(8 11c; undried and factory Plums, 6(8.1;: Peaches, suh-dried, 10)c; evaporated Peaches, 1017c; Smyrna Figs, 14(3 16c; California F'igs, ()c per pound. Canned Goons Market is nrm. Quote : Table fruits, $2.25, 28 ; Peaches, $2.5;); Bartiett Pears, $2.25; Plums, $1.65; Strawberries, $2.25; Cherries, $2; Black berries, $1.85(81.95; Raspierrie8, $2.25( 2.50. Pie fruit: Assorted, $3.50 per dozen; Peaches, $1.25(31.30; Plums, $1.25; Blackberries, $1.66; Tomatoes, $1.10(83.50; Sugar Peas, $1.40(31.60; String Beans, $1. Hides The market is weak. Quota tions: Dry Hides, selected prime, 8(3 9c, i'c less for culls; green, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c ; under 55 pounds, 3c ; Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30(350c; me dium, 60(880c; long, 90c(3$1.26: shear lings, 10(320c ; Tallow, good to choice, 3 03,'aC. Receipts the past week were 48,276 pounds. Wool The market is dull. Quota tions: Eastern Oregon, 10(810c; Valley, 1618c per pound. Receipts the past wees, were 100,743 pounds. Pickles Quote : 85c 3s ; 90c 5s. Salt Quote: Liverpool, $17.50, $18.50, $19.50; stock, $11(312 per ton in carload lots, Coai. Oil Quote : $2.20 per case. Rice Quote : 6,4C per pound. The Meat Market. The meat market is firm. Quote : Beef Live, 3((i3l4'c ; dressed, 7c. Mutton Lave, 3(33c: dressed, 7c. Hogs Live, btfibc; dressed, 7c. Veal 5(38c per pound. Spring Lambs $2 each. smoked heats and lard. The market is firm. Quotations : East ern Hams, 13(314c; Breakfast Ba con, 13(8;14c; Sides, 10(sll,Sic; Lard, 10(311c per pound. A PolypUonlo Organ. A grand fan is being built at Crema for the sanctuary ofValledi Pompei. It is called a polyphonic or gan. The chief characteristic of the instrument is the perfect imitation which it can produce of almost the whole orchestra, especially of the Strings and wood wind. It has three keyboards, each with 61 notes, 34 ped als and 2,000 pipes, divided into 40 registers. Philadelphia Ledger. Th Largeet EnflUhmaa. Thomas Congley, of Dover, England, la said to be the heaviest of her majesty's many subjects. He is an intelligent and respectable citixen, 43 years old, having been born (of parents not above the nor mal size) in 1348. As a baby he was con lidered small and not over healthy. His present weight is 40 stone (500 pounds); height, 8 feet 8-4 inch; measurement of waist, 80 inches, and of legs, 25. St Lotus Republic. tacipected. "To marry your daughter is the sole bjectof my life, sir." "Rat! Young man, any one can do that Get an object in life that you will have to struggle for."-Munsej's Weekly. ' ah. Tea) "I see no good in his books." "I read them with considerable profit to myself." "You didT "Yea 1 was paid $23 for correcting th proof aheata." Earper'a Complaint have been made that the treasury agents and customs suthorities at Kan Francisco were careless in the work of inspecting such dutiable pan-els a came by Asiatic and other mails w hich are landed in this country on the Pacific Coast, and an investiga tion is to be made by a special officer Iutible articles, it i aai.t I...-. i through the mails. The gas well jt Summerland, near hanta Barbara, is down sixty-two feet and the pressure continues. ' THE ROSE AND THE FERN. lady, Ufa's twwtrat Inaon would'it thou leem. Com thou wiin mm ui wt, - High overhead th treulnxl rosea burn, Beneath thy fort behold th feather? fern A leaf without a flower. What thoufh th roaa leave fail! Tbej still are sweet, And have been lovely la their beauteous prima, While th bare frond enema ever to Moral, "For u no bud, do blown in, wake to Kreat The joyous lowering tlwe I" Heed thou the Inaoo. life has leaves to trrad Aod flowers to cberUb; summer round them glows; Walt not till autumn's fadlog robe are bed, But while Its petals still are burning red (iatber life's full blown row I -Oliver Wendell Uolinee in Atlantic. Coet of Klectrle Llghta. From the list of cities In which lights are supplied by private companies we take the following statement of the num ber of lamps and annual charge per lamp, where the lighting continues all night and the lamps ore of (nominJ) 2,000 candle power: Alliance, O., 8 lights at f 144; Chattanooga. Ten ... 80 lights at $121.60; Fall River. 50 lights at $180; Portsmouth, N. H., 60 lights at $100; Petersburg. Va., 82 lights at $96; Bin. hamton, 99 lights at $140: Indianapolis, 100 at $80; Atlanta, Oa., 100 at $120; Boston, 105 at $180; Milwaukee. 130 at $150; Reading, 156 at $148.75; Dayton, O., $200 at $150; Ponghkeepsle, 213 at $123; Harrisburg, 270 at $1)0; Philadel phia, 800 at $177; New Orleans, 11,010 at $130; New York city, 1.357 at $90. ' In some of these cities the contract ha been made with two or three different companies, but in no such case is there any difference in the charge in other words, competition does not give lowor rates. Let us now give the figure ob tained from those cities which own their own electric lighting plants. Hunting don has 60 lights, $18.64; Decatur, 111., 52 at $00; Dunkirk, N. Y 65 at $10.50; Madison, Ind., 85 at $48; Lewiston, Me., 96 at $42; Hannibal, Mo.. 96 at $2; Chi cago, 292 at $05. Taking an average of the whole of the two tables, from which we have only quoted a portion, we find that the average price paid to private companies is $105.13, and that the some article furnished by the city itself costs $'32.13 1-2 per light per year. Engineer ing and Building Record. Praia of th French Peaaant The common notion of the French peasant as a narrow minded, penurious and not too moral person receives no support from Mr. Frederic Harrison, whose personal study of French rural life has nevertheless been very consider able. The indomitable endurance of the French race has, he reminds us, enabled France to surmount crushing disasters, losses and disappointments under which another race would have sunk. She bears with ease a national debt, the an nual charge of which is more than dou ble that of wealthy England, and a taxa tion nearly double that of England, with almost the some population a permanent taxation that exceeds 100 francs per head, and is greater than has ever before been borne by any other people. She lost over one war a sum not much short of the whole national debt of England, and she has written off without a mur mur a loss of 48,000,000, thrown into the Panama canoL If France is thus strong, the backbone of her strength is, in Mr. Harrison's opinion, found in the marvelous industry and thrift of her peasantry. London Newa A Canning Dog. A good dog story is always appreciated, because canine sagacity seems inexhaust ible in its resources. A Glasgow gentle man owned a very intelligent Newfound land dog, who accompanied his master wherever he went, and was his insepar able companion in his visits and to church. One evening the gentleman went to viiit a neighbor. The dog at tended him. It was quite lute when the gentleman started -for home and, to his surprise, the dog could not be found. After the family hod retired there was a great noise in the kitchen. It was supposed that burglars were robbing the house. Boon there was a crash and a smash like the breaking of a window, and then all was still. The morning revealed the mystery. The dog had fallen asleep under the table. He had realized that his master had gone home, and the noise heard was the attempt of the dog to make bis escape. As there was no other way to get out the sagacious animal went through the window, taking the gloss and frame with him. v It was a long time before his master visited that house again. When he did, his dog accompanied him, and the ani mal found his way through the open door of the kitchen to his old hiding place under the table. When the mas ter was about to start for home neither his hat nor cane could be found. After a long search the dog was discovered fast asleep under the table; one paw was on his master's hat, the other resting on his stick. How the dog obtained possession of those articles no one could tell. He remembered his last visit to the place, and how scurvily he had been treated. The sagacious creature resolved not to be left behind next time. He knew that his master could not go home without the hat and stick, and that he would be awakened when the owner got ready to start His plans were acutely laid, and if he hod been human he could not have done better. Boston Budget Buildings In Berlin. Speaking of symmetry in the building of cities, the people of Berlin, Germany, are quite logical and successful in their methods. In that city uniformity in building is preserved by a municipal law that dictates the height of edifices ac cording to the width of the street. For instance, on a street sixty feet wide the law provides, 1 think, that houses over four stories in heiirht A)lAll tint rwh r.Kv.in1 -a .uwcicvtw thereon. On streets eighty feet wide the height is six stories, and on other streets in proportion, thus giving tall houses to wide streets and less altitudinous build ings to narrow streets. I may not have mentioned the exact dimensions of stroete and houses, but that is the gen eral plan of the system. By this means peat and, I think, attractive uniformity U secured. Again in Berlin the people cannot build residence or business houses anywhere they please. Te city has been built np olidly and compactly simply because the law compelled buildings to be erected adjoining each other either on the south, north, east or west extensions. A can not Duila a tall minaret on some isolated lot away from B. Vint ha m,.o 1. - ' - - v wim, ..1 uiurr to build at alL secure the land adjoining ! - uuui, in eimer airecuon, and when C mrrvM tn Knil.l 1A ..a m . 1 w init These two provisions of th un mxuucipaatj Uw tend to make it t-M most tin if nrm mt fn tk. 1 r 1. FaArchUd la St Paul Pioneer Pre. ' 8T0CKJ, Millionaire Jay Gould Telle Ak. of Their l' !W N.w It was not till 1790 JU0 or t?( church was erected in Hart V. was built from contributions 12u the inhabitants, each one furniKhT. torial of some kind, such as hewn hC- Writa aliinirlfl. f l..- cwn WOW "main. at the time that few could fumUh monoy. The same yeur a place wuh!!? called stocks, and a whipping tZT pared by Isaac Pierce for the parrxi Inflicting punishment 00 any whofc been. charged with crinm and ,! guiii-v ui wo eaiuo uy Jury J deal of curiosity was exhibited. ciallv anions: the fVie 7 glimpse of the ordeal, and ' after were completed Alexander Harper Z was fond of an Innocent Joke, inVitJ his wife to accompany him and exasZ the stocks, which were so arrange thy by placing the criminal's foot in n5 making it fast he could not escape B therefore requested his wife to put K foot in, telling her that "that fool of Pierce had made them, and they wonlJ not hold any one." m 01 i. 1 1 . . . . uo puv in uer 1001 ana ne let down tin block, locked the same fast and walked off amid the hearty htugh of the tpedS tors and her own earnest entreaties, but soon returned and released her. It Wu however, regarded as a rich joke f many yeitrs afterward. But one ' was ever whipped at the post, and U soon left the county. It may be remark ed in this place that three whipping posts were erected in Delaware couatr at about the same period the on J. ready mentioned, in Harpersfield, ontos the place now owned by ex-Sheriff, Thomas, but then in possession of 8Uw Knnpp, who kept a grocery ther fw several years, and the other near Col Dimmick's in Middletown. There was but one person whipped, h I have been able to learn, at either of th last named whipping posts. This peno was one Turner, a carpenter by trsda The charge which was brought sgium him, and which he finally confessed, wu stealing some fifty pounds of flour be longing to Ezra Unit, from Squire Roas'i milL After sentence was passed be wh fastened in the stocks, which were con structed of heavy plank, hollowed oat above and below sufficiently to contain 1 man's legs when the planks were that together. Thoy were secured by a lock He was left in the stocks for a day, fur nishing a good mark for the boys, who showered him with rotten eggs. Th next day he was taken out and fastened to the whipping poet, when the remainder of his sentence, fifty lashes, was inflicted, when he was allowed to leave the count;, which he was not long in doing. Jij Gould's History of Delaware County. A Veteran Now a Tramp, The queerest pair of tramps that Phil adelphia people ever looked upon stood at the corner of Ninth and Walnut streeU and begged alms from the passing throng. Both men supported themselves on crutches. One had only a stump of s leg, and the other mendicant's right limb was minus the foot and ankle. Their clothes were desperately shabby, and they seemed so utterly woe begone that the Italian bootblack offered them dime, which was promptly accepted, Little else money came their way until the closing of the matinee at the Walnut street theatre. Presently there came along a tall and well dressed man, who put a silver quar ter into the palm of the one whose leg was closely shorn off. He had hardly made the gift before he wheeled around and kwked the recipient of it squarely in the face. "I ought to know yon, my man," he said. "And I know you, colonel," was ths answer. "Were you not wounded at the battle of Charles City Cross RoadsT "I was shot there, but I fought it through and got my serious wound un der your command on the morning that Gen. Lee surrendered." "Today is the anniversary of the sur render," said the colonel. He plunged his hand into his pocket and drew out a pile of silver and some paper money. Selecting from the lot a $5 note, be pressed it into the hand of the veteran, who had turned mendicant, and wended, his way up Walnut street Philadel phia Inquirer. He Was Beady to Be Baptised. "When I first arrived in New Zea land," said an Anglican bishop, "a Maori chief came to me and said that he wish ed to be baptized. 1 knew that he bad two wives, so I told him that be mart first persuade one of them to return to her family. He said he feared that would be difficult; but that he would see what could be done and come back to me io two months. When he returned he ex claimed: 'Now, missionary, yon way baptize me, for I have only one wife-' I asked: 'What have you done with our dear sister, your first wife? He replied, smacking his hps: 'I have eaten her.' San Francisco Argonaut Not "Well Instructed" la French. City Daughter (entertaining Father Hazeed at dinner) Papa, dear, yo oughtn't to eat pastry with your knifa If any of my city friends should be din ing with me they would think you wer not quite an fait. Papa Hazeed 1 don't care whether they think I'm off A or nigh A, or ges haw buck A; when I eat pie Tm going to eat it my way. and don't you forget kt Chatter. pirns. VEGETABLE PANACEA PRERA.REO FROM ROOTS& HERDS, rostTHt; curc or ':n.i)fViia 1 AND ALL OTHER DISEASES - ARISING) FROM A DISORDERED STATE or the STOMACH OR AN INACTIVE LIVER. rna tai tr ms mi l DRUGGISTS & GENERAL DEALERS SOME OLD FASHIONED