EUGENE CITY GUARD.
U L. CAMPBELL. Proprleter.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
A MIDSUMMER SONO.
0 father's iron to mvlirt town. h was up h
fur tin ilmy;
And Jamie after robin, and the oiao la Dialling
hay.
and wblatllDK down th hollow goea the boy that
mloda the mill,
VU1 mother from the kitchen door la calling
with a will:
Tolly) Polly The sow ar in th coral Oh.
wbera'a Polly r
Prom all the nilaty moraine lhr eomea a um
nieraound,
A murniiu aa of water from skir and tree and
It round.
Tb birda they tog upon th wing, lb pigeon
bill atid coo,
And orer hill and hollow ring again lb loud
halloo;
"Polly I Polly: Theeowa ar In the oorni Oh.
wherv'a Pollyt"
Abora the tree tlie honey ben awarm by with
buu and boom.
And In the field and gardeo a thousand bloaaom
bloom.
Within th farmer' meadow a brown eyed dalay
blow.
And down at tlw wig of th hollow a red and
thorny roue
But Polly I Polly' The cow ar In the corn'
Ob. where Polly?
Bow atranire at such a time of day th mill
bould atop Uaclaiterl
Th farmer' wile U Iwtiming now, and wonder
what' toe matter
01 wild the bird are alnglng In the wood and oo
the hill.
While whistling up th hollow goea the boy that
mlnda th mill.
But Polly I Polly I Th cow ar In th coral
Oh. where' Polly?
-Richard Watson Oilder.
Steam an InvUlbl Vapor.
When wutcr once begins to boil It is
impossible to raise its temperature any j
higher; oil excess of heat is absorbed by
the escaping, as so called, lutcnt heat, ;
and is given out again when it con- !
denses. We often 8eiik of seeing the
steam escaping from tlio mouth of a
kettle, but this is incorrect steam is an
invisible vapor, and we can no more see
it than we can air. What we do see are
the minute drojw of water into which the
steam condenses on coming into .the cool
air. If we bod water in a gloss flunk,
we shall notice that nothing can bo seen
in the interior, and by observing the
team escaping from a kettlo we shall
notice thnt there is quite, a distance be
tween the end of the spout and the point
where tho cloud becomes visible. This
cloud of steam is of exactly (he same na
ture as the clouds which float in the sky,
and which ore formed by the condensa
tion in cool up)ier regions of aqueous
vapor in the air. Safety Valve.
The -Yankee of the Orient.
The Armenians are the Yankees of
the orient Tlioy are the brightest,
bniinest and smartest in business of all
the eastern peoples. The Turks sny,
"Twist a Yankee and you iniike a Jew;
twist a Jew and you make un Arme
nian. "The Greeks sny that one Greek
is equal to two .lows, and that one Ar
menian is equal to two Greeks, and
another saying is: "From the Greeks
of Athens, the Jews of Salonika and 1
from the Armenians everywhere, good
Lord, deliver us!" These three races,
In fact, do the bulk of tho business of
the fur east. They own nil tho large
business establishments, run nil the
banks, and are tho clerks of the Le
vant -
I found rich Armenians in India com
peting witli tho I'ursoes, and working
side by sido with tho half starved Hen
galeae acooiintuiits. I traveled with
one coining from Singapore to Calcut
ta, and ho told mo he had been to
Hong Kong to sell pearls to Chinamen.
He showed mo a handful of beautiful
pearls, ami told me ho was gutting rich
out of liis business. On the Egyptian
railroads I found thnt the conductors
were Armenians, and one of the bright
est men I mot during my stay at Con
stantinople was one of the sultan's pri
vate secretaries, whospoko half a dozen
different languages, and who was of
Armenian birth. Frank G. Carpenter
in National Tribune.
A Fanoni Railroad Ca.
One of the most famous cases of re
sent year was that of Mnj. Harold
against the New York Elevated Bull
road company, arising out of the mom
orable catastrophe at the Forty second
struct junction. It was that accident
which led to the change In the plan of
the running of the road, and caused
the adoption of the shuttle trains now
In use. There was no question in that
ease as to the responsibility of the com
pony for the negligence of Its servants
whereby the accident occurred. The
great legal fight occurred over the
amount of damages to be recovered,
said the case went from court to court
for years.
On the part of the major It was
claimed that he was a continued and
hopeless cripple. On the part of the
company It was claimed that the major
was slinulnting ailments for the pur
pose of enlarging the damages, and
there was no end of conflicting expert
medical testimony. The major finally
secured a big verdict Hut the major
bad another legal contest before , lie
settled up with the distinguished conn
sol who won his case for him. Inter
view in New York Sun.
Woodprrkf r of California.
Curious woodeckcrs are those In Cali
fornia. They will dig out hundreds of
holt In the bark of a pine tree, as round
and smooth as if bored by an auger, and
in every holo they will hammer an acorn,
big end' out, and hammer it so tightly
you can acureely pull it out Why they
do this no one knows. The woodcker
has not given hisreaionsand man cannot
find out lrentice Mulford in New York
Btar.
Edaeatloa la America.
Americans have the good habit of go
ing to college- It is said, as to the learned
nations, that iu this country one man in
every 200 takes a college education; in
Germany one in every SI 3; in England
on in every .100, and iu Scotland one in
every 000. The grade of general intel
ligence is higher in the United Suites
than in any other country on the globe,
-Chicago Ilerald.
Well supported is said to be the theory
that many deatlis woro caused by suiTo
oation in last waiter's bluxurds iu lli
northwest
Seaweed is now made into paper which
cannot b torn and which takes Um pUce
i window srlaaa ...
THE ETHICS OP 6UICIDE.
A Hraterlona Inronslstaney Th Anlaul
Elnjom Jtorol Cowardice.
A very rjys!rrlou Inconsistency In
num.iii nature Ik in the contrast be
tween lifo which makes self preservation
Its first lore, and that utter contempt ind
intolerance of It which induoet self de-
i ruction. By all human laws, the man
who takes (mother's lifo fn defending bis
own is held guiltless of murder; his deed
Is accounted Justillnblo in recognition of
the self saving instinct with which the
creator has accompanied the gift of lifo
to all his creatures. With the earliest
consciousness of voting animals this in'
it i net appears In timidity and shrinking
from danger, real or imaginary; and
down to the lowest order of beings, a
wounded thing; will exert its lost strength
to escaiw having its existence blotted out.
As for the human sixties, we huve it on
Scripture authority Unit "all that a man
hath will he give for hi lifo.
In view of this, who that is unaware
i of the farts would expect to so con
' stantly hear of men and women, and
even children, finding life unbearable
and ending ull? What a surprising vio-
1 lution of this innate principle it seems,
when for this or that cause, and often
I for no cause that is evident, some choose
I AnntW ..I.... 1, I f.. I
Suicide is not entirely confined to the
human species. There are numerous
well authenticated instances of different
animals deliberately killing themselves
when circumstances rendered life no
' longer desirablo. A recent traveler in
the tropics tells of coming at various
, times upon the skeleton of a sfiecics of
1 poisonous seriient within a circle of
leaves of the prickly cactus, and later the
riddle was solved by his seeing s)me
monkeys engnged in surroundings slop
ing reptile with the spinous vegetunon,
Uoon awuklne and finding itself im
awaking and
,,rjoned and ull its attempts ijfesjrpe
futile, the serpent presently took refuge
in atinging ils own body anU dying at
0nce. It iscommonly reported that the
same thing hapfiens when a poisotious
snake is hemmed in by fire, in a snasm
of dcsicration at finding no chance of es
cape, it turns its means of self defense
into means of self destruction.
The animal kingdom is a law unto
itself. Not so with man. He is subject
to the higher law of duty and accounta
bility; and no environment can be called
hopeless to one who believes in a gra
cious overruling power and the better
life to come. A ortion of the alarming
numlier of current suicides, it must be
confessed, awaken only the sincerost
fiity in every susceptible and benevolent
leurt, and probably there ore very many
more coses of this kind, were tho secret
causes that have actuated the victims
brought to light Yet wherever human
law is founded on the divine law, self
destruction must necessarily be regarded
as a crimo. A man's buildings are not
his own in the sense that he can set them
on lire and burn them down with impu
nity; much less is his life a possession
which cannot be restored so exclusively
personal that he iias tho right to end it
by violence in an hour of discourage
ment Or disgust.
Tho yearly list of suicides in some of
the countries of Europe is appalling to
contemplate. The waters of the Seine
give up their dead daily, and drowning
is but one among tho common methods
for shufiling olf this mortal coil. Pas
sion, iu)otuosity and, above oil, infidel
ity, are prominent factors in recruiting
the army of suicides. Statistics of all
nations shotv that occasionally there oc
curs what lull been called an epidcniio
of suicide; though whether this? is an
illustration of. the force of example, or
the result of somo general imiclliiig
force, Buch as temisvi-aturo during the
exhausting heat of summer, remains an
unsettled question. That the month of
July has long been noted for the large
number of its suicides favors the latter
conclusion. Of direct causes among
young people, affairs of tho heart, love
matters that havo taken an unfortunate,
turn, must be reckoned the leading one.
Very often, too, the circumstances at-'
tending these cases are unspeakably pa
thetic. Next como losses of monev and
business, friends and health. Of crim
inals who havo recourse to dagger, bul
let or ro to evade just penalty, it is
unnecessary to speak.
There is a moral cowardice in fleeing
from the battle of life, which strikingly
contrasts with the patient, heroic endur
ance of multitudes of men and women
in every land and in all sorts of hard
conditions. To the tempted it might
serve aa a tonic to read history on tills
point, or lietUT, to recall events. Think,
for example, of the crow of the Jeiai
nette iu their frozen fastnesses, and of
Cunt DcLong and his men in tho Ltia
Delta, dying of slow starvation, ,wt
brave to the loot Hut what need to ro
beyond the streets of a city, with Its
views of pinched and haggard faces tod
toiling decrepitude, for heroes and hsro
ines that shall bo forever nameless.'
Laviuia S. Goodwin in Boston Globe.
Aa Old aa tli Eimlua.
A most interesting experiment culmi
nated tho other day in tho raising of tome
wheat grown from seeds as old as the
Exodus. The experimenter is David
Drew, who lust year received from a
friend ill Alexandria, Egypt, some grains
of wheat taken from a mummy exhumed
near the ruins of Memphis, and belong
ing, it is believed, to the period of tlie
Ninth Dynasty, which would make it
grown about 8,000,11. C, or bo nearly
0,000 years old. He planted the seed
early in the spring, and carefully nursed
it It grew rupidly, and at the time of
cutting measured from six and a hulf to
seven feet high. The leaves alternate on
the stalk like common wheat, but the
product of the plant is the most singular
rt of it for, instead of growing iu the
ear like modwn corn, there is a heavy
cluster of email twigs in place of the
spindle, which hangs downward from its
weight, and each twig is thickly studded
with kernels, each of which is in a sepa
rate husk. From what is threshed a
larger crop will be grown next year, as
to recti tt proves this ground to exceed
In quality anything that the modern
grain can grow. l'lyuiouth (Mass.) Cor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
tksKsrnrtauts of lh Itonntj Blutlnmr.
Tlie queen ha had yet another jubilee
present sent to her. It apears that the
inhabitants of lMcoirn island, having
seen a notice of the numerous marks of
loyalty and rcpect presented in 1887 to
Iter niujestv, were fiml with an ambition
to go and Jo likewise, and have sent her
tome straw hats of their own manufac
ture I They have also included some
oilier straw work, manipulated with con
siderable skill. The Islanders it w ill be
remembered that they are the descend
ants of the mutineers of the Bounty
now muster 114 persons, two-thirds be
ing women. Thry use neither strong
drink nor tobacco, money also being a
thing tliey dispense with. The posses.
tion of li it'll they are- most proud is
harmonium, which one of tlie women
plays remarkably welt London Fijaro,
PLAYINfi "RIP" IN THE CAT8KILL8,
Actor Jeftraon Tells of a Oellfhted Audi
ar That Saw Him Play.
There Is in the village of Catsklll
Rip Van Winkle club. This society
did me the honor to invite me to act
tlie character In their town. I ao
ceptod, and when I arrived was met by
the worthy president and other ineiu
bers of the club, among whom wo
young Nicholas Vedder, who claimed
to be a lineal descendant oi me ongi
not "Old Nick." Emulating the spirit
of evolution the citizens had turned
tlie skating rink into a theatre, and a
very respectable looking establishment
It made, though in Its transition state
the marks of rollers did "cling to it
stilL"
I was taking a cup of tea at the tA
bio in tlie hotel when I - was attracted
to tho colored waiter, who was giving
a graphic and detailed account of this
legend of the Catsklll mountains to one
of the boarders who sat nearly opposite
to ma
"Yes. sah." he continued, "Rip went
up into do mountains, step' for twenty
years, and when he come back hyar In
dis berry town Ills own folks didn't
know him.''
"Why," said bis listener, "you don't
believe-the story's trueT
"True! Ob course it Is. Why."
pointing at me, "dat's de man."
Tlie town was tilled with fanners
and their wives who had come from far
and near to see the opening of the new
theatre, and also, I think I may say, to
see for the first time the story which
Washington Irving had laid almost at
their very doors.
As I drove to the theatre the rain
came down In torrents, tile thunder
rolled and the lightning played around
the peaks of the distant mountains, tin
der the very shadow of which I was to
act the play. It gave uie a very strnnge
sensation. When I got to the theatre I
could scarcely get in, the crowd was so
great about the door countrymen try
mg to get into the ticket office Instead
of the proper entrance, and anxious
and incredulous old Indies endeavoring
to squeeze past the doorkeeper, but re
fusing to give up their tickets. The
rush over, the play began.
The audience was intent on the scene
in progress, and seemed anxious not to
lose a word. During the scene in the
lost act, where Rip inquires of the Inn
keeper, "Is this the village of Falling
Waterf I altered the text and substl
tuted the correct name, "Is this the
village of Catsklll f" The crowded house
almost held its breath. The name of
the village seemed to bring the scene
home to every man, woman and child
that was looking at It From this time
on the interest was at Its full tension
Surely I hod never seen an audience so
struck with the play before.
There was a reception held at the
club after the play, and the worthy
president in Introducing me to the com
pany was so nervous that he announced
me as "Mr. Washington Irving." -
Joseph Jefferson in Century.
Quinine Fiends.
A St Louis druggist in The Globe-
Democrat says the papers are constant
ly denouncing the cocaine, morphine
and similar habits, but It is seldom any
one comes forward with a word of
warning to the victims of the quinine
habit Of late years this has become
alarmingly common among society
ladies, especially young ones. Small
pills, about two grain strength, are
usually called for. .
At first they are taken as preventives
or curatives, but in hundreds of cases
they are swallowed just like any
noxious drug, simply as pick-me-ups
The effect is slower than arsenic or
morphine, but it is as deadly Once
get the system loaded with quinine
and life becomes a burden. It censes
to act as a malaria killer, and renders
the victim liable to take a deadly chill
from exposure which would scarcely
make an ordinary Individual's tooth
ache.
A Chinaman on a lllcycla.
A Chinaman on a bicycle created a
great dual of amusement In Fort
Wayne, Ind. The antics of the Mon
golian were ludicrous In the extreme.
A large crowd quickly gathered and
cheered the Celestial, who made frantic
efforts to keep his seat on the "bike."
The name of the Chinaman is James
Layon. He Is a well to do, thrifty
laundry keeer. and has shown his np
preclation of American customs lately
by Inserting advertisements in the
dally papers to boom his laundry es
tablishiuent He has also espoused
Christianity, and has been urged by
his Christian associates to burn his
ships behind hi m by cutting oil his
queue. It is believed that James Is the
first Chinaman who ever rode a bicy
do. Indianapolis Journal
The Fancy for Whit Pet.
There is something curious in a lady's
fancy for white pets. One tender crea
ture, who would shriek in terror if a
sleek gray mouse ran serosa the floor,
owns a pair of white mice with pink
eyes, and often carries them in her uuilT
when she is going to sail on a friend.
They are very tame, go to sleep in her
pocket caddie upon her shoulder and
nibble bits of cheese between her lips.
They have a little nest of pink cotton and
run about the room as they please.
White rats often find a fair owner and
seem to lose their repulsjvenest with
their change of color. Tliat is, a white
rat seems to create quite a different feel
ing from one of another color. They are
said to be more gentle, in a like manner
to white horses. Keepers of livery stable
will tell you that timid women always
choose a white horse to drive if there is
one in the stalls. Whether it is a siqier
stition or not tlie re ia always something
about white creatures tltat appeals tj a
woman and seems to be fitting for the
tenderness, gentleness and purity of her
sea.
If the old poets wished to convey the
picture of a pure. lovely woman, they
portrayed her accoainicd by some
white bird or beast Spencer's Una, the
heroine of the Faery Queen and the type
of truth, rode upon a "lowly ass uime
wlute than snow," and "by her in a hue
a milk white lamb she led." Chaucer
sings of tlie wedding of two lovely
women, symbolizing them as two white
swans. There b an old fairy tale wlierv
the heroine wqdera through tlie forest
aa a white fawn. Tlie white dove flut
ters above the head of a virgin, symbol
ism purity and peeve. New York Sua.
THE BROWN EYE0 JUDGE.
Teddy and III Mother la Court-AamaeU
of Larceny.
The next prisoner is a little Isiy. a very
little bov. so littlo he can hardly see over
the roiling in front of the judges' bench,
where the prisoners stand, lie has re
iponded to the name of Terence liryan,
and is accused of larceny. When he
comes up, towed by a big liceman. the
judge look over his desk, squints at him
through his glaswn ami says: "What in
the world is that little fellow here for?"
Tlie clerk reads the charge. He is ac
cused by Hczekiah Hoe, a' huge, red
faced, black haired man, with little black
eyes and a globular nose, of having wick
edly and feloniously taken and stolen
from tlie ollice of the said Hois one Jap
anese bronze pajier holder, of the vulue
of f 10.
'Are you guilty or not guilty?" asks
the clerk.
By Teddy's side stands his mother and
ids two sisters, one lurger and one smaller
than he.
"He did take it, sor," says tho old
woman, her eyes streaming with tears,
"but Oi luck it right back tcr Misthcr
Hops, un' me that luine Oi couldn't walk
without me crutch. lie idn't mune ter lie
bad, sor, an' he didn't know that it weru
vallvble"
"Never mind, mn'arn," says the brown
eyed judge. "We'll gut at the facts.
Call Mr. Hops and enter a plea of 'not
guilty.' "
Mr. Hops comes up with a resounding
step and a heavy frown. "What's the
use culling me," he says, "when she
owns up that the young scamp took it?"
The brown eyed judge looked sharply
at Hops and said quietly: "Answer the
questions I put to you and be careful not
to offer any unasked advice to tlie court,"
whereuxjn Mr. llo blinked fuster than
before.
"When .did you miss this paer
holder?"
"It was stolen on Moy 2. That young
rascal was my office boy and he took it
and I want him made on example of."
"How did you learn it was stolen?"
"His mother brought it back the next
day."
"Was that the first you knew of it hav
ing been taken?"
"Yes, and then she had the check to
ask me to keep the young thief. O, no I
Hump' I Did you ever hear the like?"
and Mr. Hops looked aluout him as much
as to say that it was quite past believing.
"What did you say to that?"
"I told her Bhe must take me for a
fool: and then I called all the other boys
and told them what the scamp had done,
sent for a , policeman and had him ar
rested." "You did. hey?" said the brown eyed
judge, putting on his glasses und looking
kat Mr. Hois over the top of them.
"that was the way you answered her,
was it? What business are you in?"
"I keep a brewery, and hire a great
many boys. I can't huve any thieves
about my place, and I'm going to make
an example of this one.
"Oil, you are, am you?" said the
brown eyed judge. "Step down, sir."
"All boys are thieves when they get
the chance, and"
"Step down, sir!"
The court officer laid hold of Mr. Hops.
"Howld yer jawr," he whispered, "on'
go set down. The jedgo is done wid ye."
Mr. Hops was startled and indignunt,
but he obeyed, and his place was taken
by Mrs. Dry an. She needed no urging to
tell her story.
"Teddy is a good bye. sor, an' mnnes
no harrem. Tho thing he brought home
wid him, savin' yer prisence, was a
sperit a v avil. Misther Hops sez it's Ja
panese. Ye'd have known it were some
thin' liaythenish, fer it were a doubled
up mummy wid hams an 'is hid, an'
arrms ull crooked, an' uuchriss'an claws,
an' legs like us if he were dhrunk, on' o
big horse fly, yer Aimer, were a bit in'
away an his back jist where he couldn't
ruche him wid Iub linn s. It were a-lyur
about in the ollis and Teddy fetched it
home, not knowin it were Japanese an
a vullyble divil at ull, at all, but thinkin'
it ud bo a divarshun fer tho childhre. an'
whin I towled him it ud be shtulin' fer
to take so much as a wis) of slitiaw from
Misthcr Hops' ollis broom he was that
scairt, yer 'Aimer, that he begun ter cry,
an' suid he darseut go back. So Oi tuck
the Japanese divil an' shprinklcd 'iu wid
howly wahter, more bethokeu that he
shouldn't do me avil, and Oi tuck the
b'ye, too, and wint to Mr. Hops, uu' I
sez, sez Oi''
"Thut will do, Mrs. Bryan," taid the
brown eyed judge; "I think we under
stand it. Perhaps you'd like to withdraw
this complaint Mr. Hops?"
"Do what?" cried Mr. Hops. "With
draw tho complaint I Wed, I guess not!
He's a young thief, and I want an ex
ample" "You're discharged, Teddy," said the
judge.
Mr. nops sprang up excitedly, but be
fore ho could open liis tuouiti tho watch
ful court officer amiably observed:
"Now, don't bo 6hootin' off no n'ise
yero, er the jedge 'II lock ye up, d'ye
mln'.n New York Tribune.
Th Western White Wild Goose.
If the editor of The riverside Press, of
California, tells the truth, the white wild
goose of the Pucillc slo( is a remarkable
bird. He says that he once killed one.
It took four bullets from a 44-cnliber
Sharp's ritle to bring the bird down at a
range of seventy -five yards. Each cort
ridgo contained ninety-two grains of
powder. All the bullets passed through
the heart of the goose and (edged in the
skin on the oposite side from where
they went in. An uttempt was made to
boil this bird. "Strungo to say, the bul
lets were cooked to a jelly before any im
pression was made on the goose," New
York Sun.
A rhyalrlan' Warning.
A physician thinks that a law should
be made t prohibit the use of galvan
ized iron lemon squeezers, tie says thnt
every time a lemon is squeezed in one of
these maclunes the acid of the lemon,
coming in contact with the zinc, dis
solves the same and forms a poisonous
salt Zinc is a metal which is easily at
tacked by the weakest acids, and no
article of food or drink should ever be
allowed to como in contact with it
Scientific American.
Symptom of lusanlty.
Wife Where were you last night
John?
Husliand At the theatre with a cus
tomer from the west.
Wife What, in all that pouring rain?
Uusband Certainly, what's a little
rain 1
Wife Y'ou are going to church with
me this morning, aren't you!
Husliand What, in all this rain? You
must be crazy ! The Epoch.
Electric lipht in cakes of ice is a
oovelty for the illumination of ballrooms
abroad.
Kothlng succeeds like another man's
lucres. New York Tost
I THE CONGRESSMAN'S DAUGHTER.
I r-1 . I (VuhlnirtnB SoelctT.
UIU . '"- - ... - - - -
taller anil Calling
Wehnve all read that "two young
ladies, admired ami esteemed in Wash-
1 ington society," have just been married.
I n.wl .Loil.tliMS n it on, I him nv vountt women
,. - - r, "
who would not object to being married
and a good many young men who would
like very much to be married, have
thought that the capital city must lie the
most favorable pluce in this country for
Cupid to work in.
But some olmcrving persons, who are
not always cynical, think differently.
They say there is too much "suicty" in
Washington to be uilminti und esteemed
in; thut the hotel Imps and the dinner
parties and the theatres ure all right in
tlieir way, but that everything nlssit
them is suierllcial und unsatisfactory to
those who have hearts and brains, that
there is, in short, in a winter In Wash
ington nothing which reveals in young
people of right tendencies tho stuff that
wives and huslsinds ure mudu of. It is
true, no doubt, that love is the same
always and everywhere, but it is equally
true, no doubt, that if love is not encour
aged somewhat it bus a hard time of it.
Tuke the case of the average congress
man's daughter the daughter, let us
sny, of the man who has little hut his
suiary of .f'l.dUO to live on. and a family
of three or four or five. Some of these,
perhaps, are at school at home, but one
of the girls, ut least. 8ends the winter in
Washington. Her father lias Urn re
elected two or three times, und she lias
spent four or five winters in the capital
She has graduated from school at 1 oi
18. and has bad her little love nffairs. bin
she forgets all almut them in the whirl ol
"society" away from her old home. She
lives with her father and mother al a
hotel or n hoarding house ond goes to the
ho)s and the theatres us much as pnssil.le
The sons of llie memlsrs. hei uiot.i
natural asstxiates. ure away at college oi
studying law or entering iHlsiness try
ing to amount to something, und so kis-p
ing out of Washington -and she doesn't
know ihe;n. The privule secretaries und
the newspaer correspondents are gen
erally married, or it they are not.
nre practical fellows who qurstioi.
wheiher ony of the girls really know
anything alxiut domestic accomplish
meats. The deiartineiil clerks she ralhci
looks down iiKin as unambitious und com
inonplace. and they, having twelve oi
fifteen or eighteen hundred a year, ami
short hours and a pretty "sure thing. '
don't eare if she dura. Still he dance
with her and takes her to the theatre,
and she is willing to dunce and go to tin
theatre; but the conversation caninil
break away from shallow nothings. The
congressman's daughter nit her likes the
young naval f.fliccr. or the young lien
tenant in the army, hut he knows if she
doesn't thut it is the gold lace simply
and lets it go al that.
Then there is the calling. It is often
no disappointment if it suffices to leave
the card. If the young lady is at home,
though, she talks uIhmM the dreary round
of "social events." ami thut too. in no
romantic corner, but in a big parlor full
of dull people. She is pretty und dresses
well, but she hasn't read much and bus
thought hardly nny und it is a Isire lo
Btay more than fifteen minutes. Them
is no chance for friendship even. If tlie
congressman keejis house of course the
congressman's daughter is a different
sort of girl; but ask any candid young
man or woman of sense, who has lived in
Washington, if the other kind is not the
rule. Ask if Cupid has half a chance in
Washington. New York I'res.
A f'aniou llt-auty' Vanity.
Elizabeth Gunning married tlie first
duke of Hamilton, und, after his death,
the duke of Argyll. She was the wife
of two and the mother of four dukes
The other sister, Maria, died at the eurly
age of 20 from the too lavish use of
poisonous cosmetics. Her husband in
vain tried to prevail ujion her to give
them up, and upon one occasion when
she descended to dinner, in the presence
of an aristocratic company, with her face
thickly plastered with the obnoxious
stuff, chased her all aliout the room,
caught her and vigorously scoured her
face with her handkerchief. When this
beauty lay dying she was in the habit of
watching tho fading of her beauty with
the uid of a handglass. When finally
she could no longer close her eyes to the
truth thnt disease had robbed her of what
she prized most, she refused to be seen
any more, and, lying among rose colored
curtains, stretched out a shriveling arm
through the aicrture to receive tlie nour
ishment or medicine ordered her. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Collection of I'ouw'k Kolk Lore.
The best bit of literary news that has
of lute come from Kus-sia is the statement
thut the government is about to make a
collection of Cossack folk lore and folk
songs. These are to lie published at gov
eminent expense. This branch of arclia
ology has been largely overlooked, but it
is now awakening intense interest Our
own folk lore journal and society, with
headquarters at Boston, should prove to
iw a center of operations for this country.
Every. European government should fol
low the example of Russia. But above
all, we need tlie most active steps to give
us me traditions or tho prehistoric tribes j
that now exist in fading relics the hill
tribes of India, the Ainos of Japan and i
tlie wild men of the Indian Arcliiix lago 1
and Australia. What little we shall ever ;
know of man on the earth, before the :
Turanian and Aryan races, wf must get
irom inese vagabonds of antiquity, now
nearly extinct-Globe-Democrat
Jew and Their Employe.
The Jews are cenenillv heliernt in
drive hard bargains, not only with their .
customers, but with those in their em- j
ploy; yet the recent official investigation '
of tho "sweating" system in vogue in I
the London clothing trade showed that I
the best prices are raid hv.lpw kh Lru.u !
and their employes get the best treat
ment One JuwUh firm offered to raise
remuneration 25 per cent if the trade'
would adopt tho principle generally, hut
the other dealers would not agree to it
New York Graphic.
A Tounz I Hk-tor's Shrewdness.
A young physician relates that, being
called upon to attend a patient who, he
knew, would exnect to see nn elilerk- ami
dignified gentleman instead of a person
oi aimow novum apjiearance, he tiwlt
with him an assistant, having given hitu
instructions always to address him ss
"Doctor," and to act toward him in the.
most deferential way. This plan to win
bis patient's trust and resjiect succeeded
admirably, and was the means of in
creasing his field of practice. New Y'ork
Sun,
Th t-at...
A Borton man prono i to exhibit a doj
valued at 11.500 at tho Unch ahow. This
must be the chap thnt ad ertiscs "three doi
Ur pant." Iifcton Culle'-.n.
A New Style of I Show.
A crazy qui it made of sausage was a
feature Id Wilmington "anow be tuu
k4. "Cincinnati Timea
The women of turkey.
Considered I'tterly W ithout lt-Minlblllty.
OuraW-AI the
Turkish women are considered utterly
Irresponsible being, which accounts for
the constant, watching they undergo
Each woman In tho palace, as well a
among the common ieople, mis her own
ayah, or nurse, who takes care of liei
and waits uxiIht with the self denying
love of a mother; for an ayah takes care
of a girl baby and remains jih her until
death. Besides tlie nurse she has othei
servants und sluves, each having her own
particular duties; and Imagination can
not depict the utter abandonment te idle
ness which churueterizMt the Turkish wo
men. They don't know kow to kill time.
They rie in the morning cross and ex
hausted from the impure uir of their
sleeping rooms. They have no incentive
to look their best during the day, and
they consider their bathsufllcieiitcleaiili
nebs, unless some ladies from other
liarems send word of u projected visji.
In this case they rousp themselves und
dress for company. No one comes un
awares, which would be the height of
lniS)liteness.
They receive guests with charming
simplicity, and net ut all times liko chil
dren, and with their unconscious grace.
When visitors arrive they ure offered
first coffee, then sweetmeuts. which ure
served in crystul glut-sen, with two
Other glasses one full of little gold
spoons, and the other empty. Each
guest takes u ssui and helps herself
from whatever kind she likes liest, taking
one spoonful und swallowing it. She
must on no account dip her spoon in u
second time, nor take more than one
kind, and then must place the sioon in
the empty glass. Water is handed
around, und then cigurcties. while they
all chut pleasantly and without reserve,
though raiher noisily. The women show
their babies, their newest jewels, or their
embroidery. Beyond this they cannot
go, for it is the limit of their intelligence.
When tho bascudine haiiuin thinks the
visit bus kisted long enough, she claps
her hands for more coffee, and, no mut
ter how littlo lime they have been there,
the guests must go us soon us they huve
taken the second cup. This is never
meant us an iniKliieness, but simply to
show that some other engagement or
potent reason makes it necessary; though
sometimes the bascudine hanuin docs it
to vex the younger wives who would
enjoy the company of the guests longer.
But it is imperative.
No Turkish woman ever goes out alone.
Either one of her children accompanies
her or a friend among the other wives,
for they often form warm attachments
among themselves, and they ure ulways
attended bv eunuchs great, horriole
looking creatures, black and repulsive:
the more repulsive iu apicnrauce, the
more valuable as a huglicar.
The balli takes up so much of a Turk
ish lady's time, and fills so iuqiortant a
place in her amusements and pleasures
that it requires esieciul mention. The
finest bath, and the otie frequented bv
the grand ladies of the highest liarems.
except those who huve their own baths.
is Buckse-lminmuut, and here the one
horse coues arrive, each filled to over
flowing with a wife, an avail, a slave und
one or two friends, and frequently little
girls over 9. At this uge girls reach their
majority, and ure considered women.
They are often married ut 10, though
usually not before, 14 or 13. At 20 a girl
would have biiiuII chances for a husband
in Turkey.
Tho bath is constructed on entirely dif
ferent principles from those iu this conn
try. The walls are made hollow, und
the heat goes between them and is not
oppressive. The uir is kept pure by nn
ingenious system of ventilation, which
still does not cool the nir. Each suc
cessive room is hotter than the other,
and marble slulis ure arranged to lie on.
Tho ayahs und slaves attend their own
ladiesi and no other attendant touches
them. In the last room thero is un im
mense fountain which sends a showery
spray of warm rose water over each mar
ble slab on which lies a lady, while her
servants wash her' with n kind of clay
called pilo, which raises a thick white
lather and makes the skin like milk.
While on this slab nil superfluous hairs
are removed by means of strings cun
ningly twisted and held by teeth and
hand. After the bath is ended the ladies
go to a great room, wliero they give
themselves into tlie hands of professional
beautillers. Olive Harper in Dcmorest's
Monthly.
America the Now World.
America is called tho new world, be
cause it was latest discovered by civilized
man, but geology teaches thnt some for
mations on tltis continent, in Canada and
in the Rocky mountain range, are prob
ably the oldest bits of dry land this planet
knew. Recent California paHTS sjieak
of discoveries indicating a race of men
Inhabiting thut stute contemporaneous
with the rhinoceros, mastodon und other
extinct animals. Many parts of this con
tinent show indications of a great flood,
ond no research throws doubt on the
theory that this may have been that iu.
which Noah and his family were tlie only
survivors. To this same direction points
tho ancient legend, fully believed by
early writers, of the sinking of a great
island or continent named Atlantis, where
ever since have rolled the billows of the
Atlantic ocean. This globe has evidently
been subjected to some strange vicissi
tudes, and tho American continent, per
hops, offers the best opportunity for
eiuu mg tneir nature and Instcry. Bos
ton Budget.
rtivorca Law In Perala.
In Persia or Turkey, if a husliand
wishe a divorce from his wife, all he has
to do is to order her out of the house
The Persians, however, huve a custom
which serves as a check un this pro
ceeding. Tho law gives nil her own
proierty toa woman who isturnedawav,
and as precaution against divorce the
husliand in the marriage contract is gen
erally required to promise a considerable
sum of money as a wedding gift to his
bride. This money is not fonaeoining
at the wedding, nor expected, hut it is
placed to tlie wife'scrcdit as a debt owed
to her by her husliand. As in case of
divorce this money would havo to be
paid over, the amount is usually made
so larire that it is rimnllu i-,.i ,i.
husband's means. Consequently divorces
are comparatively few in Persia. -Bos
ton Transcript
Vienna's Urethral Laboratory.
Vienna is to have an electrical labora
tory at which the public, for certain
fixed fees, may have tested the ower
and efficiency of dynamo, the candle
power and economical working of arc
and incandescent laui, the working of
primary and secondary batteries, the
calibration of measuring instruments,
etc. Arkansaw Traveler.
The Pine of P.vi. ni,i;k.i
, - - -. , v.. ...... v, n, me
Oenoa Indian school in Nebraska, makes I
the statement that Indians are becoming I
bald beaded as a result of the change
from feathers to hats and caps. New '
York Evening World. j
Varlou Mule of .
"Of modes of uit.i,u rx)i..i
far tho favorite." said-l,
"I looked tho subject UnlL"
and IS73. and found tliat of
suicides here In th(e ye,lr i, ft
Cidcs by Miisonilig. 'Tlle ' , Uli.
poisons was for arsenic, a
commonest form, (ttriH ' u "",
almo-t always (x.isou iheiM "
cited women using p:lrj "N.
cited women chloral or tTion!hi
frequency with which pari,E."7, H
is duo simn v tn i hu ......... nHswi
I it can lie obtained. Tho hw, 1
j tlie side of tho different kiint1'".
ni.,t l.nlr-,,.; .... "" us of n,, '
-nv enoii"
"In London hanging U iu
form of suicide, though voln, Pop"1
vation used to bo. l,
drown themselves or die fro,
tion by hihalhig charcoal fum i
singular fact that of u,e !? 11
shoot Ihomselves 73 ln T
themselves in the mouth At I
was tho case at tlio tim j '
,7 '
by jumping from a great h.?'
horrible way of killing one'. J
is often dono. And I , (' ';"
think that many cases of thi, eh to
which uro set down as such are"'
tentional suicides, hut instance, j- A
the nio, hid tendency which n.w. !J
one feels when at a great height to tl 2
one s self down, hasoverH,H-,r(, , !
and tho brain. I myself once had.!?
nbloexK-rience of dim cliaructw
ascending the mountain Corcovnk, I
tho harbor of Rio Janeiro. U W1J:
dilllculty thatIoverca.no a fearfuT
lessness and Impulse to throw
down into tlie blue sea, 2.000 feet bik.
ma A fellow physician once told,!
that he had a patient who never dared t
sleep on tho third or fourth floor of.
house because of lug fear of yicWj,.
an irresistible impulse to throw hinlh
out of tho window." New York Sin.
A Ilimlan TrUnn Klnhf.
Wo went to tho kitchen, where tls
dinner was being got ready. Tlie and
of tho soup was fragrant and appetizin?
Great bowls of boiled buckwheat bJj
ready to be served, and the reservoirol
soup was piping hot. I tasted both.
Buckwheat is an acquired taste, but the
soup was capital, it is served out in
wooden bowls, each containing a portio,
for five, who sit round the bowl jtb
wooden sjioons. hehiii.g themselves. U.
the bakery wo found the great Itarettf
rye bread all hot from tho oven. Inap.
pearance fye bread is like a dull ginger
bread, but in tasio it has an acidity not
pleasing to the unaccustomed palate.' Tin
Russians all eat it when ut large, and Uk
prison bread is quite us good as that roo
get in private houses. I nsked atiout'tlte
dietary scalo. I was assured by Mr.
Saloman am tho governor tlmt no
restriction is placed u()on the amount
of food prisoners may consume.
They hud as much bread as tlier
cured to eat at breakfast, at dinner,
and nt supper. As a rule, the daily con
sumption of bread did not exceed tiro
pounds kt man. There was no kili,
Quass. a kind of thin beer, was supplied
them, and this nguin without limit as to
quantity. Of tho soup each man could
have as much as he pleased; also buck
wheat. Tho only article which was weighed
out was meat. Every man received i
quarter of a oiind of ment a day. The;
do not weigh their prisoners in Russia
entering und leaving the jail. Tli.it is I
practice which they might introduce with
advantage. Thero is no argument to
crushing to the ussailnnts of the crudtr
of prison treatment as the evidence of
avoirdupois the statistics of the incres-e
of weight which has accompanied tlio
alleged privation and torture. And as
they do not weigh their prisoners neilh f
do they photograph them: neither do
they take impressions of their thumbs,
as is clone in somo French prisous. In
this direction something remains lobs
done. Pall Mall Gazette.
ft Japanese Oomlo Artlit
Coming to modern times a brief
glanco on tho wag of tho distant land
is in pleasant order. About luO vean
ago the most famous artist Japan has
ever known was born. His name
was Ilokusui, and of the weird, peculiar
work of tho artists of that wonderful
country his is said by his countrymen to
have excelled all others. All oilier
artists confined themselves almost a
clusively to lords and ladies of tlie court
rich dresses and gorgeous silk costumes,
with vases and palanquins.
But Ilokusui inado a new departure,
IIo gave himself up to humor. U
opened a studio in Yeddo in 1810, and
labored steadily until 1S4D. He baskft
many books of sketches, and the result
of numerous trips are left in illustrated
albums. His favorite study was tin
horse. One of his drawings represented
a liorso with his hind legs wildly w.avinjr
in tho uir, while a young woman stand
on n lariat," wh jell had been trailing be
hind him as he run.
The sceno is supposed to be laid in
Kaipzu, a littlo village on Lake Bi"
The young woman, named Kaneko,
noted for her strength In stopping tM
runavvav she sinqilv stepped ou the lariat,
nnd tho'horso's further flight was at one
checked, liokusai is .lead, but Ids pic
tures nro held among his countrymen!
examples of perfection in art i
Journalist.
Th norse and til Drlrsr.
"There's somo sort of a telegraph
communication between a horse s mw
and his driver's hands," said an w
s-lnr flntl the
place to prove it is in front of a rSrj
comotivo. I've seen a horse that
prance and rear a little when the en"
approached, but quiet down in
few moments. I ve seen tiuii same
with another driver get perfectly fran
scared to death, you might say -?
l-u-L- worrlMim lr,t L-i 11, 1 1 1 1 1 CT WOOU 0W
IVM VIl.ljVlllllQ llV O ffOfTli
exactlv similar circumstances. The saw
thing has happened too often to
mere coincidence. Why is it that r
men of equal, or nearly equal, streno
have an entirely different effect on
i,,.o ...i, i,i.iin. i.r lines? There
certainlv something in the touch oi
man that isn't in the touch of tne oti-j
Confidence is inspired in one case. 1
in the other. How is that leeuus i L,
the horse's head unless it U tej-TC
from tlie driver's hands?" cW
World.
To Cut a rtnttlcfc
A simple method of accurately com
a bottle is to place it upon some
foundation and nil U wiih linseed rf
the point at which you desire ui
separation to occur. Then take so
rod of as great a diameter as I
into the bottle, make it almost
and dip it mto the oil Alter -.
"i i
a few moments i
and the bottle is found w
cut as if with a diamond, u u
and the bottle i
be. very thick, and tlie cracli"d
Dot heard in a few aeconds. a l'lVffl.
water thrown on the outside r'u1--t
plish the desired resuIt-Fraftk w"