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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1891)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. 1. 1 CAMreKLi Freprleter. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. CLCUCS. Day aftsr day-day efuw day Alwtys tha same gray 'kimi tad. Bobbin the ain oirire elway, Tba aae berneta then Uea, D7 after day Um wind to loud, Tbe sUnrmx raindrops tail; fbe earth lies lo nitty uroud Vm weary of aaU." "Oh. fool." mlM own heart Mid 10 "And ready toeomplainl Wilt, and the gray skies blu mut K Tha tucihiua oooit again- " oula that ere sad, lira that are gray 'Neath sorrow ' llng'tog blight, Walt only -cloud ahall paa awajr. And earta oooe more he bright. Boirley Wynne la Oou a Weak, Ittttia la Londuaw Near one of the entrance of the tnot beautiful park iu London there are four eyesores that were once, no doubt, pretty roups of statuary. It is years since noticed them Brut, but even then they were hardly recognizable as ever having been ornamental. And there they stand yet, blotched, battered, (cabbed scarce crows, such as one could not match In any town In the world. Half the statues in London look liku the victims of ery sipelas. In some the disease is more ad vanced than in others. Queen Anne's was the most distressing case. The fig ure of that sovereign lady in St Paul's churchyard was minus its none when I saw it first, and remained in that stute for about ten years. And goodness knows, a nose is useful member in England, in winter especially. Max O'lieU. Lap Dog and Footm. There U another thing about life In London that struck me as sensible. At the shop doors there are seats on one side for the footmen, and opposite a beuclt with steel chains. A carriage drives tip and a lady alights with her dog. The footman closes the carriage door and the vehicle drives off to make room for an other. Then the footman takes her lady ship s canine pet and chains it te the bench, while be seats himself on the other. I hare seen as many as five pretty little dogs fastened in this way, and so accustomed are they to the method there la no quarreling. I have an Idea thev ex change gossip as London servants do, and It would be Interesting to know what these dogs tblbk of high life in London. Marshall r. Wilder In Mew York liar' aid. Help for Harvard Stodanta, A new help to student work Is for a pro lessor to gainer out or the whole library such books (no matter how many) as he wishes his classes especially to study Theas are put In an alcovo under bis name, bis pupils baring access to tbem all dsy and take tbem over night, return ing tbem noxt morning The plan is new, but It grows In favor In IHSO thirty Ave teachers thus reserved il.lUO books. In 1HWJ fifty six touchers reserved 5. MO. All books lent out numbered in ItWO ft. 680; In IHhtf, 60.11)3. This rate of In crease greatly outruns that of the number of students. It speaks of an Increasing Industry and productiveness. And the best thing about the Intellectual life bore is that Jt Is hopeful and not timid it looks forward American Magazine. A New Portable Cooker. It Is slut cd that the French govern ment has ordered '..'0,000 of the uow port able cooker (or camp purposes. A few days ago It was shown iu Loudon to a gaatrououilo and scleutillc party of people. To prove the powers of the lnvenllun. tba lnveutor. Mr. Wauior, sorved up a dinner oi wires courses, wuich basted Itself, for thirty persons, the eutlre cost of Lent In and oookiug being less thsu two pence, an the arrangement gues by clockwork. Th Inventor claims to bars discovered potent beat In steam, and this is the baaU OI the Invention. Ouce a Week. ItosMBdants ef IterololionUaa, There lutely dJed, and woe burled humbly, In Purls, a person who de serves a line of obituary notice, if only by reason of his descent This was a young mun named Hcrnult de Sechel lot, whoee great grandfather went to the guillotine with Dunton, Camllle Dosuioulins, Fubre d'Eglantlne and fif teen otlior more obscure beings on April 0, 1701. The youthful descend ant of this Republican celebrity was Tory poor, and Ills undo, an old printer, whose eyesight is nearly gone, ato as a coinmlssloniiuJre before The Figaro of- Oce. The dosceiiduuU of juarat are luckier than these. They are really the offshoots of his youngest brother, Jean Pierre Murat. who died in 1843. Murut's nephew, who was for a long time a clerk In the land tax offloe at Geneva, still lives In a green old age, but lie has suppressed the final "t" In bis namo. It is tipjoed that he did tills in order to escape souvenir hunters, autograph demons, and the like. Another nephew of Marat lives at Sulnt Nazulro, and his son, a banker's clerk, is in Purls, together with his mar ried sister. Other relatives of Marat changed their family name and settlod In Russia, It Is said here that Lord Rosebcry possesses most of Marat's pa pers, which were for so long In the faithful keeping of his favorite sinter, Albertlne Marat, who, as well as Hi mono Kvranl, his mistress, lived sepa rated from all the members of the fam ily of tho revolutionist, A descendant of Dan ton is now an Inspector of the university, but, like the nephew of Marnt, he Is rather averse to being ill' terrognted about his notorious ancestor. It Is also to be noticed that the survi ving Murnta and the university In spector are, if anything, conservative In politics, and have never boon dis tinguished for any lively sympathy to ward the republic. Paris Cor. Lon don Telegraph, CN SCRAP B00K3. More Durable luk KwlnL President Bavlos. of tha Va Ynrk board of health, lately called attention to we subject or the use of more durable fck, and enforced bis words by saying ' " was oi importance to people all eve- the land. He says that very many f tue records of births, deaths and luar Viagea received at the otllce of the board are written in aniline iuks. tnd that tho paper upon which these fugitive fluids are ueeu ueoomes In ten years perfectly blank, the luk having entirely evaporated. uitmiian vommercial uaxette. Concerning Kyealght, The Inhabitants of mountalnnna ilia trlcts and of dry, elevated table lauds may have a better sight than dwellers In low. humid, and level regions, although Jutt the reverse may be the rase. Among "'"l"" uauoiia tue ucmiaus are goner ally supposed to hsre weak eyea, owing, some imagine, to their excessive ludul genes in tobacco, while others attribute the supposed decay to the form of tvpe Bsed in their books, wblcb requires closer loosing at l Has ours Iu reading. Long Ban's Magazine. rThat a Pb.lliT'Wr Said. There recently dlc city a well known Boatou niurctrl f convivial habits, and who wt "own as a rood liver in an epicurean Sv s. Among those who attended the Naeral were two friends, one of whom a. o Mio other: "J ought to have I. vd tp-uty years longer; he bad a constitution et,jai to It." 'Yea." replied the philosopher of the two, an ex member of the luuate. "a man inherits his constitution; but he makes Lis own bylaws."-Uo.ton Budget. Dual Building ef Old. It Is sod to think of the trouble Robin, son Crusoe nut himself td when It ti.t.l..... took to make himself a boat. Had be been up in archaxilogy he would have hollowed out a tree trunk with red hot stones. Hi awnaior appear lo have used this rude, but effective, method. A canoe found re cently in the Tunhovd flord. In Central Aorway, has proved to have bees fash ioned after this manner. It la in good condition, and will be sbowo at the ma. sewn of Cbriatiaula. Detroit Kree Preaa. A New Klekal Pla ed DutlM. A new bullet proponed for the EnglUh army la of an unusually email caliber, and is encased in an outer sheet of nickel which Uiereaaea Its power of penetration. It Is Ded with a ride of greater thick neae of barrel. In which a brevier ehanm than usual can be fired. Several LundW drawn w.u-.. Tl.- ... . Aullliitln and Ills Marhloe. Oulllotln liluiHi'lf, as well as Ills ma chine, was a good deal pictured on cheap dolf. A miniature of him bos como down with tho other Hot nam and Jetsam of the Revolution. It gives us tho idea of a correct, Judicious practitioner with the half closed eye of one who is men tally thinking out some problem. IIo was always Improving his surgical In struments In order to abridge pain by rapidity In oerat!iig, and thought to minimize It at capital executions. The principle of equality was to be demon- It rated by the guillotine, since kings, nobles and sun culottes were to lose their heads by Dr. flulllotin's process. His small model of his bead lopping machine Is near bis miniature, and "is quite eipial to cutting oil a man's fin ger" a policeman says who works It to oblige visitors. Humson, the public executioner, we find, took snuil. His snuiT box, of plain brass, Is on view also. Further on aro growsome relics. such, for Instance, as a handkerchief steeped In Marie Antoinette's blood. Instruments of torture, which fell Into disuse forever ut the Revolution, are grouped round tho guillotine, which, perhaps, was used as much as It was by tho revolutionists because It was a novelty. It killed in the twinkling of an eyo, 1' Inlsliing oil the king and queen gave It prestige and mudo It tho rage as a gratis sjMtctiu'lo. An old evil is most duiigerotis In a now form. Con temporary Review. Krilii( rroiulwe. Many failures occur bccuuNO of prora ta breaking. Confidence is broken, and without that success Is out of tho question. A man's word must be as lllll Kye Relates Ills CiiM leaos for a Hi-attar's lUtnvltt. A oorresp'jnilent writes from Pensaoola, Pla., asking what is perfection or the nearest perfection la a scrap book. aUO desiring to kuow my own experience In scrap books, If 1 ever bad any. A scrap book generally Is like a dlaryi you bei'ln to keep It with extreme exuberance, and you gradually flag and Dicker out and flummix. as on ml;ht aay. I began simply by onlwring from my con grcaaiiian an nlitlon de luxe of the report of tlie commiaiiioniir of education, bound in plain miialln and Uwrila, Taking a volume of this kind to my airy suit of hall bedroom and woodbox, with the kren blade of a butcbar knife I cut out two leaves and Ivft s third all tlw way through without marring the goneral plot of the book. This gave room for pasting excorpta and other literary grnia, most of which rernrred to mytrir, and pre vented that general fuHneiS) which would have resulted bad I not done so. Whenever a lr referred to me I bought some oopiee, and, bavins sent one to my d.-ar ooe, I carefully cut out tlie excerpt from an other copy and panted It, by means of some loud and extremely offensive pante, on the pairs. Tbnt I fllled at last a wbole volume of the reports of the commissioner of educa tion with paragraphs In which It was stilted with more or lea typographical Inaocuracy that I was "in town and quartered at Riley's hotel, or that I was "on ouritreeU," or that 1 "shook hands with friends here yesterday,1 or that 1 was "attending the quarterly con ference in town, and many other state ments which would be invaluable as refer- euoes In future years. I alio bad a much larger book in which I kept the advene crit icisms of the press, paragraphs In which 1 was alluded to as "the Intellectual wart on the editorial page of The Hassafras Commonwealth," and "the flea bitten fuirltiva from justice who edits the porous plaster across the street Whenever my feelings were wounded 1 put tlie Item in the lares book and kept It where mr children could see It when 1 should rest from my labors forever. I thought it would teach them humility and really do them good. The other book 1 used to keep on the center table for the use of visitors. If I had a visitor who hod tbe buhll of putting iu a day or two at a time conversing with me about himself I generally anked bim toglauce over this scrap book, and while be was doing so 1 would slip out and take a train for some other point; It is a good plait Just keep an egotlnUcal scrap book, using the sourest paste you can procure, and when a man insists on giving you large bales and tnowsful of Information about bimwlf when you would rather converse about yourself, band him this book to entertain himself with and then you oan gently ooze out the side door and go to tbe remotest parts of tbe earth. Finally I beard of a new patent scrap book with ready gununed pages, and I bouubt one. The price was big enough for a set of Dickens, but I bad beard that it wai a good thing, and so 1 got it Then a period of hu midity came along and that book closed for ever. It wouldn't oiwn any more than a marble slab. 1 waited till autumn and then got another one. My wife filled it full of autumn leaves. They were nut fully dry. tihe then put a heavy weight oif the top. We still have the scrap book and the leaves, but the book opens with a time lock, and the time set for it to open Is a profound secret between Gabriel and his wife. Lately I have adopted the plan of purchas ing several thuiiHand msnila envelope, put ting each nesaer clipping into one of these envelox, and then writing the title on the outside. 1 then hire a buuse and, by us ing the gummed fliiiaof the envelopes, fusteu them In rows tastefully on the inner walls of the house, marking a general beading over each row by means of red chalk. This gives the room a cheery apearance, adils to the acoustics of the boute and is certainly very convenient liy means of a step ladder I am enabled to select anything I dcxiro readily, and the space usually fouled away and cov ered by exou9lre but nou-remuuerutive pic tures is made highly useful Bon ut I mis I have to hire an amanuensis to do this work, and it is nut dune the same way I would do it myself. Lout year I weut away for a few mouths to givesouiercfuliut's In aid of a few -poor children for whom I feel myself resxinsible, and, while alisent, 1 bad a young man named Pulaski Murkley attend to this. IIo was very methodical and wrote a good hand, as I afterwards learned by coniiurlug "une of my own signatures ut MY LITTLE NEIGHBOR. Bis stood at too opea window, A picture sweet and fair; Ut neigh bur i little daughter, A bwoe with nut brawn balr. A bonnM, wlonouw buule, With a fare like s bloMom sweat he stood si Uw open wluJow Watching th Ixiny street, Bomeftk-k sod sad and lonely. At tha cIimb of the summer day, 1 stood at my open window On the other side ef the way. And I saw the hula maiden, So near ins and yet so far; In her Innocent, childish beauty, As pure ss the sn(el are Aad s unite of radiant beauty. As she m me, Huahed orer her face like a ray of golden suiuhine That lights up soma darkened place No mora was 1 sad and lonely. And gone where the shadows gray, For that mile of friendly greeting Had banished Uie gloom away. Oh. bonnle little maiden, If lh of mine could bring Iarth's cholceMt, rii-heKt hleHsfogs To thee, on fortune's wing. Bow free from care or sorrow Thy bsppy life would he. My neighbor's little daughter. The laaaie who smiled at me. I'ituburg bispstcb. Inunlty With Cunselouineas. In a discuHsion at one of the congress es held in I'uris on mental diseases Dr. runret, a uistinguisueu alienist, re marked upon the undoubted existence of certain forms of mental alienation in which putients perfectly recognize the anomalous nature of the phenomena which they experience, but without lie- ing able to diHcmbarruss themselves from them. Dr. Jjabret dwelt on these lutolloctuul obsessions us lieinir emotive or instinctive; or veritable morbid im pulsions, dominating the will, citing among other examples the obstinate search for words, the fear of a knife, of a window, the terror of open or closed spaces, the necessity for repeating cer tuin words or certain phrases, etc. These are ordinarily hereditary, peri odicul or remittent, and are accompanied by anguish und a sort of interior strug gle, hut never presenting hallucinations and never ending in dementia. The in sanity of doubt is tho most common ex pression of this psychical stute, the pa tients continually ruminating in the minds over the same ideas und the snmi acts, questioning themselves on every thing, und having senseless scruples regard to even-thing. If the patient a physician he doubts the prescriptions that he has juiit written, and frequently sends to bring them back in tlie feur of having committed some error. Anothe class consists of timorous subjects, and who are n prey to a sort of continued cerebral pruntis. New York Tribune, MARELEI2IN3 PAPER. tuttllf HllT Btlll. M-I.i.,1. l,A I....I would have ' ,.,i. ,,f,i. ,., .i,!,, n,..viu.i,..r good as his bond If ho ouiers ooiiiuio ui Illlil. Hut this is If anything, than my own, 1 must admit. pevr true of one who does not keep and the cashier at the bank agreed with me nis promises. Mr. II. a merchant, loaned a fel low tradesman fifty dollars for "two or throe days." IIo wanted it lust for days" grew Into two or three months, until tho lonner inquired of the bor rower If his days were the geological days of Genesis. "I declare I ought to have attended to that before, and I will," the latter replied. And he did when it beeume convenient, though many days more elapsed. A business man assures me that kindred looseness about keeping promises prevails In tho business world; that men promlso to pay iu two or three days, more or less, when they do not mean It; that often one business man sacrifices the oonfl donee of another for the paltry snui of twoiity-uve dollars, and even ten dol law, by breaking bis promlso. Yankee Uhtde. Cheeks fur Large Sums. Up to the present day Vanderbilt's chock for 3,300,000 was erroneously supsieil to be tho largest ever drawn. This has been eclipsed, as one drawn by the Indian and lVninsulr. Ibtilroad oomiNuiy for $11,250,000, on the Lon on and County Hank of London, has ust passed through the elonrinif house. In ltJ tlie reunsj Ivanlit railroad drew a check In fuvor of Messrs. Kid- or, IVubody Si Co. for over 81 1.000. 000, In iwynient of tho Philadelphia, Wilmington ami lialtluiore stock. This check was framed and hung up in tlie office of the Pennsylvania Ifctilrtxtd company. Ixuidon Financial News. When l.lut Mred In a riak Wrapped in his dressing gown, and with feet incased in slipiiem, Fraiix Lisxt was sitting comfortably one evening in his arm chair, ready for work and invit ing Inspirutiou. Outho floor above, iu tlie aimrtmenta of a tanker, a uoisv musical soiree was in pnigres. Polon aises had sueceed.nl waltzes, and tux--turnes had followed Polonaise, when suddenly the door of the salon opened uu uki e rtM, still v.mpned in h about It but he was very methodical, Imli-ed, and kept my scrap book carefully, according to bis own Ideas. He came from a summer re . sort called Chlsel-'eiiiHiiit-of-tlielrv tih. "pocket money." The "two or three , bursl-by-the-sca. His futtur resided at Up- six fllKhts-of-stiiirs'Oii-the-lluiltiou, and usu ally s'iit his summers at Ahout-two-mili-behlud llurdiek's- lath - lumber-and -shiugle-mill - cash - paid -for -hides -undcrtukiiig-em-balmlug-aud-icc-c ream-by -tko-sea. l'eoplo who ceuie from there always thtnk they know all about everything, and so I allowed bim to run my scrap book. Last full I hod occasion to look for an arti cle on the Fairish colliery. For a week or two I could uot find it and probably would never have run across it if I hadn't happened to look one duy under the heading ot epi demics. llow few people, even if well paid, can do a thing Just exactlv as we would do it our-sslves.-liill Nye In'Now York World. Utll Try It I-aler. A scientific journal tells "how to light a lamp with a snowball." We would like to try tha experiment, but somehow snowballs are scarce at i'ltuburg now. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. It Had the Strength. A Virginia Girl's Project. Miss Siillio Holler, a Virginia girl, has undertaken the educution of tho co bred girls of her state. The work is pure! philanthropic. Miss Utility has sent let ters to nearly all the women's clulis in Union asking for a cosh contribution or a year's sen-ice from a member as tenehe In the south. Her method is the estal lishment of small schools throughout the state, where the colored girl can learn enough in a couple of years to make her way in the world. Instead of the torn foolery with which the graded course of public school training is padded iliss llolley aims to teach the children how to read, write and make accurate change in one year. The fundamentals of arithmetic will be mastered according to tne quickest methods and without taxing the child with a single role. The newspaper is the preferred book, from which it is thought sufficient Keoirranhv, spelling, history and tho arts can be ob tained, and together with this mental training the colored girls will receive practical lessons in industrial work bv darning their own stockings, mending tne noies in their dresses, retnmmiug their hats, altering old and making new garments and cooking as many meals as It la possible to provide. Miss Hoi ley nas unuortuKen a most important mis sion and stands a good chance of making ner name famous. Exchange. At a Maine Funeral. A Maine clergyman, who evidently is somewhat interested iu the matter of funeral reform, writes; "Some time ago 1 attended a tuiierul which took place on the 'outskirts of civilization.' At the close of the services, us usual iu the country, an invitation was given to the audience to 'view tlie remains.' After they had done so tho relatives of tho do ceased went forward to take their last look at tlie familiar features, and natur ally were much iifTccted, some of them sobbing und crying iuun audible manner. Wheu ull were again seated the person who had charge of tho fuuerid arose and remarked, 'We will now allow tho friends a few minutes to git control of their feeliuV alien resumed his sent, while the silence was only broken by tho sound oi signs and weeping, which gradually died away. It struck me as an innova tion upon tho usual funeral customs, but no one there seemed at all surprised." Lewiston Journal. awllv -.' f r of the ritles bar bran mads for aipwi mtal use, New York bun. . e Kw the Lain Ouatatloaa. Pentameter Dribb'.ets Say, see hero! The paper says that Edwin Arnold has been offered 1 100,000 for his new poem. Kow, that's all rot Jinks That's a good deal of money, but it may be so. Pentameter Dribblets I know better. Tve written a good deal of poetry my ecu, ana 1 anow just what It brings. iioston Times. comjiany may lie imagined. With slow stops Liszt walked toward the piano, and the young key pounder who was sittiug . iprn aiy un ms place. Liszt sat oown at the instrument, carelessly swept his fingers over the kevs ss if to m.l,i.i and theu suddenly he shut down the over and pnt the key in his pocket And immediately, with the um. trn. ami air with which be had entered, be , weut out and returned to his room, j where he could work at his ease. San Francisco Argonaut. Capt Saltborse (to lauJUJvi-Akx ILuhet. ter, tail you tell me whore I caa nutvliau- larse quantity of tun buttcrl airs, llasbetter Ojushiiub-l-i-Xow. my dcar captalul What cau you aut of a auaii-rr ef that excellent butter! Capt S. I iuteudod armlns niv marines with it in place of cu:huaea, asm-experience with it hire couviucve um it's a imsa't thim? te repel boarJera Jiklje, A l-ai-ft-e llydraulle Itlvetlng riant, An immense hydraulic riveting plant the largest erer made has been built In London for an eiigineeriiur comnunr iu Holland, and is to be employed on marine boilers. The riveter has a gap 13 feet deep, closes its jaws with a power of .-ou tons, aim is cumilo of closing rivets up to l lliclie8 in diameter. . A travel tng crane, 50 feet high, is designed to raise sun manipulate a boiler weighing anything up to 60 tons. The crime is operate! by two engines, steam for which und the powerful pumps giving hydraulic power for the riveter's irreat Bcytnuuiuior is supplied by two steel boilers, each capable of doing duty eqnal w auuui i.hj indicated horse power. new ior lelegrani. The laaalua for Know big, knowledge is valuable as 4 lever to the Popularity of pictures, What will be the result of the popular ization of the picture? Will barm or food follow, from au artistlo standpoint? t seems reasonable to assume that good must come. The newspaper cut Is laid before the eyes of thousands daily, who would otherwise take no Interest In pict ures of any klud. In the eolumus of their dally paper or their weekly journal tuest thousands must In time grow to look upon a picture with Increased Interest Itaxtcroas Manipulation ef Cum Senegal Docs the Work. Oue of the funniest things that any body ever imugined in this world was the notion of marbling paper. That is the name applied to the sort of red and varicolored ornamentation on tbe edges of nicely bound books, and on their bindings, too, sometimes. Every one has observed such murkings, but it is safe to say that not one person out of 10,000 has ever taken the trouble to spec ulate as to how the effect is produced. There is nothing commonpluce about tbe process. On the contrary it is a marvel worthy of contemplation by tbe j E-sthete and the sage. You can see the thing done any time you please at the government printing office if you care to ask the privilege. There is a tree in Senegal, Africa, from which exudes a gum, just as any other sort of giim exudes from a cherry or other kind of tree. The natives of Sene gal collect the gum from this peculiar tree and sell it to contractors, who send it all over the world iu the shape of lit tle hurd lumps. It is commercially known as "gum Senegul." The most important nse for it is this one of mar bling paper. For this purpose a solution is made of the gum in water. A tank, say four feet long and two feet wide, is filled with the solution, and then the operution is ready to be performed. At the government printing office yon can see it done any day; tlie courteous attendant in charge will show you how he does it To begin with, you will see nothing but a tank of a foot or so in depth filled with a liquid not especially describable. On a shelf close by are half a dozen paint pots filled with most brilliant water colors. The operator takes the blue brush and sprinkles the surface of the liquid in the tank with drops of that color. Then be seizes the brush from the vermilion pot aud sprinkles a spat ter of bright red also. Next he reaches for the green and distributes that. Final ly a sprinkling of yellow is employed to wind up with. . Now the expert takes a long stick armed with fine teeth like a comb, and with it combs the surface of the liquid in the tank just once from one end to the other. Then he gives it a single comb crosswise. The result of this is a most curious midgling of the blue, ver milion, green and yellow. Next, on the surface of the fluid he carefully lays a sheet of white paper, and lifts it off again by one corner. Lo, the sheet has received a reproduction of the water color pattern from the liquid moat elab orate and most beautiful. To reproduce it, even imperfectly, by hand would take msnths of labor. Each color in the pat tern is as distinct and brilliant as water colors can possibly be. This, however, is but a simple pattern. The expert tukes a small comb with wire teeth aim mukes a wiggle waggle over the surface of the mixture. He lays down another white sheet upon it, and behold, a lovely design resembling a col lection of conventionalized peacock's feathers appears. Another wiggle wag gle of the wire comb and a sheet simi larly treated exhibits a series of gor geous arabesques altogether beyond de scription as to their brilliance and in tncacy. But this is not all. The otierutor stirs up the liquid in the tank again, so that all the colors disap pear. Then he chooses other paints, making green the predominant one, and sprinkles them ovej the surface. As a magician might exercise his wand over a reflecting pool he disturbs the smooth solution with the wires, und weird and funtastic designs spring into view upon tne wnite sheets thut he floats for an in stant and then lifts from the fluid Giants, hobgoblins and monsters of all degrees pursue each other across the pnjierwith glaring eyes and contorted annuo, es. When you were a little boy or girl per haps you have rubbed with your slate pencil npon your school slate, and then with a moistened finger spread the whitey substance over the wooden bonnd stratum of plutouic miueral. You have wondered then to see what astonishing demons and creatures inconceivable started out upon the slate, caught by the eye of your imagination. It is the some way with the work of the artist in marbling for books, though he does not dare to produce such funtastio things to please the isjpulur taste. Only the com monplace sort oi manning does one find on books and such things; whatever extraordinary the expert produces he Keeps for himself, perhaps, to show what wonderful result the accidental mingling or random tints on a solution of gum Senegid will bring forth. Washington oiar. MA BELLS CREOLE. Vs belle Creole, thy dusky eyes a lo HI tea uuthes bide their light tike aura, tl u Id deep summar aklaa, Uood railed, are scarce rerealed lo wghi. Pol shy are (bay. nor orerhold. But soft and languid, with the light Of nlddao meaning, wblcb they bold That lore alons can read aright. Though like a dove with folded wings, Thy bean sleeps on. uowskened yea, Till gently on lu silent strings The bands of lore at last are set. To make such musle as be will, Of Joy or ladneaa, little one, for thou an hia own ounhng still. Sweet, dusk eyed daughter of the sua Barry Unpemore la New Orleans Times Demo- VISIT TO KANAKA PEAK. The town of Ortvllle was In gala attire, for spring bad come to make an early call. as usual. March winds don't whistle through the valleys, nor snowtlakes come and linger, as they nave a habit ot doing Tree Wool, or Wool Produced In Nuts." The hermits of India, in the oldest mention of them, are required to wear clothes of yellow oclier color, all others being free to wear any color of vesture they please. Whon the Greeks with Alexander arrived in India they noticed that the garment worn by the people was made of "tree wool," or "wool pro duced in nuts." Megathenes says their robes were worked in gold and orna mented with various stones, and that they also woro flowered garni6ats of the Buret muslins. Dry Goods Chronicle. A Fetching Coitume. Cousin Tom Yes, she's a darling irirl. I ana sue s going to be my wife. Cousin llelle hat a sudden inf.ifna. tioni U 1. ies, I fell in love with her rroni the moment I saw her in her rid ing dress. U. B. Then you will marrv her from sneer lorce of habit. Pittsburg Bulle- 11U. . uit men and women to a hishrr nlanenf . ., " " " pressing an idea, a k...-..- w... i. i- .. . , ,. V. .. . .: , euil being, but it is not in itself the be-all 1 i:y. ment. more clearly and f.ireil.U i..n Ifn... .... .1.. m and the end-all f Twt..... Tl.- I il . j . r""d. familiar- t.iaH,.u; r.Vw.a'"'T". "rt . '! u ,urM-t0 1 ... ....... .,.,.., .owicauowieuge au auuii to wuom a picture 1 a Invest ..u, out uuiii lOKritieraretioisuniclent to Insure the welfare of a nation. There must also 1 the desire, the tffort and the wisdom so to nse the kuowVJue aa t. improve and exalt tha rh MI1tjfii Stn.l avx ' to cultivate the whole nature of those we teact as to make them not on'w httr scholars, but better and nobler men and women. ew Vork Ledger. A. . ' . ..i,..ci a. a resequence ue becomes a Judge of pictures aud a patron of art. though It inav be an humble way Iu time real trt Is the beuehciary Tbe entering weJn0 to thla state of affairs la the uewgpaper cut -Pittsburg Ilullctin. " London now has several lines of half penny "buses," which connect with tha J various borse car hues. Ue Forgot. tipecuiator-Why. the boom In this town is abont over, sir. In you letter to me yon said tne place was on the edceof a great Doom, Real Estate Agent That's all verv true, sir. I forget to toll von which sdge. Detroit Free Press. Curloaiiiea of the Talent Ofilca. The records of the patent office show some most remarkable devices. Among tne instances or this lately quoted U an automatic bath tub, which starts the hot aud cold water at a given time in th morning, maintains exactly the right temperature by a thermostatic arrange ment, rings a bell when the bath is ready, and two minutes later suddenly drops the sleeper's pillow and turns him out. On the principle that prevention is better than cure another genius has de vised an "illuminated cat" This animal is built of pasteboard and made lumi nous with phosphorous, and her steadr glare through the livelong night fills the souls of the rats and mice with dismay. Ntw York Commercial Advertiser. east. So the roses were not afraid of "Jack Frost's" cool touch, and were pro fuse to their blushing beauty Theorange trees were white with sweet scented buds, and purple and white violets were per fuming the air We. that is, Bells Cores, Mabel Black and I. were visiting an old school friend lately married, and living In a lovely borne In tbe "Oem of the Foothills." ss Oriville is called ' We wero a merry party, for Clara Agnew, our hostess, was of our own age. and ber "hubby." "a prince of good fellows." just devoted to her For our pleasure they planned dally ex cursions, on horseback or by carriage, to various places of Interest. We bad already visited Fall Kiver fulls, the miniature Yosemite of northern California; we bad been on the north fork of the Feather river, where camping ont over night was not the least of our pleasures. when the moon came over the tall, dark pines it sent brilliant shafts of light across the snowy mountain peaks above us, and trie warm night air was fragrant with mingled pine aud apple blossoms from the vxlley far below. we bad lust returned from a carriage r!le. and Clara was planning a trip to Kanaka peak She bad beard the Digger Indians were later this year In having tlieir "burn." and were now mustering to the peak from their various camos In American Valley, Dog Town and-San Juan. Vie had beard of their strange custom of burning clothing, baskets and all their valuables in fact, thinking that the smoke would arise and form Into those same articles for the use of their friends In tbe "land of spirits." I hey don t like white people to come. Clara said. But as we were anxious to see a burn. and had all promised not to "speak in meet ing, "she thought we might go that Is, If she could get sufficient male escort, sav about three beside her own husband, and then we each would have a protector. oo eany one bright morning we started, with a span of horses, a Chinaman cook, and a pack mule called a "jack." On this beast of burden we put our tents and the necessary provisions Sometimes the cook towed the jack, sometimes he mounted it. Our horses were fresh and tbe buck board light, so we soon left the valley behind and ascended the foothills snd climbed the Sierras by a well graded road, that seemed to us rather dangerously near .the steep canyons ana aeep rsvlues. we passed "string Town, formerly mining claim, and rode on up tbe stecn nuts tui we came to a valley surrounde by tall, sentinel like pines. Then, as it was o o clock, we stopped near Eagli auicn lor breakfast. And, oh, the food did taste so delicious! for our ride in the fresh air bad given us an gooa appetites tor bot steak and coffee After breakfast we went on our way, meeting and passing several bands of dig gers en route tor tne "burn. The snuaw usually bad large baskets. Inverted cone shape, fastened across their foreheads by straps; in these, with round heads sticking eut, were utile Drown pappooses Uther squaws were riding rough little jacks that sore patiently tne com blued load of bouse hold goods aud children of various sizes. These native children of the golden west were barefooted, and those that walked left footprints on the dusty road, and shapely feet, if they were flat, with never a trace or a corn or a disfiguring bunion. which mar the feet of many a belle of the east ana west. After crossing the middle fork nf Feather river we made the ascent on the other side, and as the sun was setting we n.. ,1,. M,. 1'., ..... J I 1 1 ) . 1 W.B ."UU LI . T. 11 nuvo BUBTUIV UUUUHi against tue cicar, Diue sky Another half hours ride, and then we baited, and the men pegged our tents and made a fire, for the air was chilly. iue coos was soon preparing our su per. The men. finlnhiug their wor walked downed to the river to fish. In the luterval we walked up the trail to tbe reaa, to see ir we could catch a cliiuDse of the "Campodie." about half a mile away After walking a quarter of a mile we saw me smoke of the camn fires, and as our supper born resounded through the urns we returned. After supper the men thought, as we un all night without sleep a nap before thaj moon arose would be advisable So we wrapped ourselves up like tbe Arabs, and stole away silentlv. one by one. to the Land of Nod, the men returning to the river to woo the "speckled beauties' from the river bed. So silence fell on our tents, broken oc casionally by a quail's whistle or an owl hooting mournfully. We dozed off, for we were tired after our long ride, and were loath to awaken when Mr. Ac-net and the rest returned to arouse us to get ready for our walk to tbe Indian camps A light . breeze was swaying the tall trees, and a few light clouds were obscur ing the rays of the rising moon. Still it was light enough to see tbe trail we girls were walking ahead with Clara, aud the men walking behind, the scent of their cigars mingling with Dinv odors. We were taking a Bhort cut over tbe ridge, and our way was obstructed by brush, but we bravely pushed on We bad been discussing, in low tones, one of the men of our party, Bart Birmingham, a lively young fellow Clara said leas locking Indian arose, snd. standing wli'u arms across bis chest, broke the intense silence with a low. deep toned etclaioa tlon. From tbe dit-p shadow came a response in a low voice, flying away in t moan, as of one grief stricken This wn repeated several times Then they drew near tbe center fire, and all the squaws joined bands, walking around and cbunt Ing in a minor key. the men atanding like statues Then the clothing was thrown on, the chant, low at first in tone, rising higher and higher, till the weird wailing echoed from peak to peak, and every raven caught the mournful cry and re sponded This was kept up till the moon sank be hind tbe pines The fires died down, and all prostrated themselves We left them reefing more respect Tor these uututiTTc savages because of their memory for thl-lr dead The whole scene was oue never to be forgotten Aa wa returned to our camn. tnlklnn over tbe strange rites, we hardly noticed bow dark the trails bad become I wo of tbe men walked ahead and two behind as body guards As we came over the ridge Belle, who was abend of me. was startled by an owl, which tlilted from a bush close to ber Stepping hastily on one side, her foot slipped on tho fallen pine needles, aud with a startled cry of "Oh. save me!" she fell over the edge of a deep ravine. To light a match aud Ignite a piece of dry brush was the work of an instant, and then, too horrified to speak. Dart I'.ir niingham threw birr self down, fucing tho edge, ami peered over The light revealed Utile. In a fuluting condition, caug'it by the braid of ber dress on a proectiii.reo tlutt was already creukiug with the strain Ciutiously. with help, hurt unfastened tlie braid and drew her up carefully from t.'io jaws of a most horrible death, and a lhunkUod! aroso from relieved hearts si tbe thought of her miraculous escape J It was a silent party Unit returned to epj) on that tlawniu'f of nnot her day All laughter and jesting died lo silence on oi ir lips in tho pi-ceme of an escaped danger to our bouuiu Ikllu. Well, our pleasant trm over, we re. turned homo A lutter fioiu Belle reached me lately, telling me of her engagement to Bart Biruiinghum, and cnutaiulug an inrituiion 10 t no weuuing lu the same letter she said "Do you remcmbcrClara's speech, which we thought Bart overheard when he said that he did not want to heur it agalnf Well,, it was a rattlesnakes rattle he beard that night, close to the trail, the nien thought we would be frightened, so never spoke of It tSo Clara's mind is at rest, and and so Is mine, for Bart is perfection!" Wavcrly Magazine. Tlie Death Penalty In Cnralra. One might have imagined that In Cor slca, the land of the vendetta, where brigands seem to be almost as plentiful as blossoms iu the month of May, the guillo tine would not bo suffered to rust for want of use. At Bastia, however, juries have been proverbially merciful, perhaps on the "spare the rod and spoil tlie child" prin ciple. Be this as it may, the condemna tion to death of a rulliun of 24 vears of sge, named Itocchiul. who not only mur dered a man and a girl of IS, but en deavored on various occasions to make a veritable holocaust of the island gen darmerie. Is regarded as an extraordinary phenomenon in the criminal annuls of the town It appears that lor upward of forty years no Bastia jury had returned a verdict Justifying the death penalty. Incidentally it may be added that Itoo chini's father on the day of the trial was arrested as be yos taking a constitutional In the lobbies of the court, a revolver, with Its six chambers loaded, being as a matter of course found on his person. It is possibly owing to the arrest of his parent that the jury "niado so bold" as to pronounce the culprit guilty of all the charges laid at his door The vendetta, after all, sometimes forestalls the guillo tine, and Itocchiul the elder might have "prevailed" on some of tho Jury to stop long ere his son laid his hend on tha hlnek Paris Cor. London Telegraph. Sureeaa and llerolnin. There are no Qualities which mrmii ca Well In this world as selfishness and Uriel honesty It pays to be honest. There is nothing heroic about it And nothing heroic about the success of the self made man who takes all his chances and leaves his voumrer brother nn,l sisters to shift forthemselves. The young man who stays at home In order to help those near bim to rise from tho slough of poverty is the hero. He is unselfish We jannoj gauge success by what appears to be success If money nn;klng were the real test of success we would have no heroes. We should have no priests, no religions, no philanthro pists, no poets, no orators Tlmt nun l truly successful and truly heroic who strictly performs his duty The strains every nerve and sinew to make money is luying up for himself an old ago Of regrets How mnnvnhl tinman u lisim.a and libraries, fouuded with bin n-onlth when It becomes a burden to him. enn compensate for the remembrance of tha gray heads and worn fingers nearest and nearest, who. unconsoled by him, went to their rest? Christian Union. Ue, he would be a good match for yon; he has lots of money." She had hardly spoken tbe words when we were startled by tbe young man re marking In a clear voice: "I don't waut to bear that again." Clara, fortunately, was toodumfounded to replv. and we plodded on In silence till over the peak, and before as burned brightly the camp fires There was a large fire In the center, and around it were poles hung with calico clothing, baskets and eatables Smaller fires were around tbe cLncIa Tha elit,u obscured the moon, and the flashing flames brought into relief the dark farm, of the silent Indians The wind, rising, sighed through th Sines and whistled drearily through tbe eep. dark ravines and passes surround tng tbe valley, aa if the atnrita of in- ,U paneo were returning unwillingly As we stopped In tbe shade of a ui. oak and spread our rugs and wraps we noticed Uu-jre waterproof baskets thai held some kind of broth, this was kepi hot by red bot stones thrown lu at bjier vols The Indians were standing or alttlno around in groups, and now and ainm . dark, silent shape would steal quietly down some trail and join them More pine was thrown on tbe fire, and as the flame leaped higher tbe weird cer monies commenced. A tail, muscular Lesaon of the learned PI?. At a country station on ouo o? our rail. ways a pig used to be a constant visitor. d drove a thriving business in nickinir p stray grains of corn which imniwd from tho bags as they were loaded on the cars One day the pig's greed so fur overmastered his discretion that bis tail got nipped between the brake shoo and the car wheel, and when the train started the tail was jerked out by the root The victim of tills sudden catastrophe was now confronted with tbe dismal nmatuv't of baying to navigate through the rest of uis tue wuo nis steering apparatus a total wreck He continued rominir tn th station after that, but whenever he hoard the clatter of an approaching train be hurried off to a safo distance and backed up against a brick wall till the cars had assed; be was never c-olnu tn nomi it himself to be subject to the risk of such an ludignlty again, even though t here was no longer any tail left to be pulled out. He bad acquired sufficient railroad expert ence to appreciate the magnitude of the loss of terminal facilities. Gen, Horace Porter In The Century A Mouvrrh'i Powder Box. . A curiouhistorical relic on view at this same house was the powder box once belonging to the king of Portugal, and manufactured for his majesty in Paris in 1760 by Germain, goldsmith to the king of France. It is a large round box in silver gilt, and was not intended to hold either gnnpowder or face pow der, but the aristocratic and at that time universally worn hair powder. Ac companying it is a large clothes brnsh mounted to match the box, and in the same precious metal, und made for the purpose of brushing off the coat of the royal owner after the powdering process had been completed. Puris Letter. , Charles II. Fairbanks, a nhotoora- pher of Adrian, Mich., is aMo to con verse fluently in twenty lungtmes, nnd yet ho has difficulty nt times in making it clear to tho infant that he is not -o-ing to shoot its bead off when about to hike its picture. A Slim rtaxla, Jones I want to have you nndcrstand, gentlemen, that I stand on my merits. Smith I should tiiinlt you "would loso your balance pretty often. Burlingtoa free rasa, .