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EUGENE CITY GUARD. a. I (iUriHU aTsprleUr, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. EASTERN ITEMS. Illinois' Corn Damaged by Black Bugs. BAD HARVARD STUDENTS. New York Company Organized for the Preservation of the Health and Comfort of Citizens. P.T.Barnum's body is to be cremated. Ex-Preaident Arthur's old home on Lexington avenue, New York, In for Bale. A street-car war li looked for in Pitts burg over a rate of 3 cento for nix mile. Pending the untangling of a legal de cision, Terrs Haute, Ind.,lias two police forces. The Hamilton Rubber Company of Trenton, N. J., had gone into the hands ol a receiver. A black bug. apparently of a new va riety, has damaged much of the new corn crop In Illinois. The Temnlar Conrres at Kdinburg, Scotland, has decided to meet at Dei Moinei, la., in 18D3. The world " do move." A colored cav alry company Is to be stationed at Fort Meyer, opposite Washington and near Arlington. Harvard student have been daubing the bronze statue of the college found ers, which is situated in the campus, with red paint. Representative Cooper announces that he will, when Congress meets next win ter, demand a thorough investigation of the pension otllce. The schooner Thomas Hume is be lieved to have gone down in I-ake Mich igan with all on board, involving the loss of seven lives. Italian laborers have Wen taken to Bismarck, N. I)., to take the place of the striken on the Northern Pacific, and trouble is anticipated in consequence. The New York customs ofllcers have seised a trunk filled with gold cups and saucers and spoons, which were in the possession of a passenger of the steamer Lahn. A company has recently been organ ized in New York city which proposes to make its principal business the preser vation of the health and comfort of cit izens. In the Illinois Senate bills providing for the periodical weighing of grain in warehouses and fur State inspection of building and loan associations liave been passed. In a Wisconsin municipal court the other day the sentence of a Salvation Army soldier was doubled because he said "amen" to wnat the Judge 11 rut gave mm, The enumeration of school children lust completed at Indianapolis shows falling off of 14,000 1,400? from the figures of two years ago. A new count is demanded. A tack trust has been formed at Bos ton. Five of the largest manufacturing concerns of the country, representing live-eighths ol the entire industry, are in me combine. Twenty-one Italian immigrants, who arrived at New York on board the steamer Maasaha, were debarred from landing last week on the ground that tliey were ex-convlct. The United States has superseded Great Britain iu the trade with Costa Rica. This has surprised the British Consul, and he thinks his government Should loo x into tne tacts. tiiriit nunurea Mines nave boneht a large tract of land twenty miles west of Little Rock, Ark., and will go there im mediately and found a new town, which is to be called New Copenhagen, The organization of the American Uni versity has been effected at Washington. An appeal will shortly he made to the American people for $5,000,000 for the early commencement of the work. On St. Paul's Island, a settlement half way between Cape Breton and New foundland, every man. woman and child on the island, with the exception of two men, are prostrated witli a disease re sembllng la grippe. It is now asserted that Attorney-Gen eral Miller thinks the appointments of tne new uircmt judges sliould he made without waiting for the meeting of Con gress, and is urging the President to make no further delay. St. Johns (N. F.) dispatches state that the French will allow no selling of bait In St. Ueorge's Bay to American vessels. The news is probably exaggerated. Noth ing ollicial in regard to the report has been received at Washington, In the South Presbyterian Assembly at Birmingham, Ala., a resolution has been adopted declaring that church fairs and festivals were not the proper means of raising money; also one calling on the World's Fair to keep the gates closed on Sunday, More homes have been broken up by the strikes in the coke region of Penn sylvania that have just closed than by all the strikes that preceded tills gigan tic failure. Reports are coming in hourly of the destitution of hundreds ol home less families. Postmaster-General Wrmmaker says he is waiting to hear from certain par ties in California who desire t; 'je heard concerning the location of the postolllee, and upon receipt of this by mail and after it has been given due consideration the postoilic matter will be settled. The new Hotel Majestic at Seventy first street and Eight h avenue, New York, will be twelve stories high above the street, with a basement and sulx-ellar. It is expected that when completed and ready for occupancy it will have cost $3, 000,000. Roliert T. Lincoln, when questioned regarding the rumor that Noble, United Sutea Secretary of the Interior, waa to resign and that he (Noble) would possi bly succeed Lincoln, who in turn would become Secretary of War, said this was the first intimation he had received on the subject. Uncoln added ttiat he knew absolutely nothing about the matter. The Uccalaureate sermon delivered by Ret. R. C. Cave of the Non-eectarisn Church of St. Louis before the jrraduat ing class of the Missouri State Univer sity at Columbia has created something of a furor, lie virtually denied the di vinity of Christ and the inspiration of the Scripture, and advised that reason and conscience should be the guidera of men. Many of his ideas were new and startling to a majority of his auditors. MISCELLANEOUS. The Ksah of Amsrloana to Europe laid lo be Never (Irrater. Work lis been resumed on the United States building at I Angeles. Illinois has appropriated ,1,000,000 fur a display in the World's Fair. The Mackav syndicate has become the owner of the Mobile and Ohio road. Mr. rarnell, it is said, will be married in July, and later may visit this country. The cable railway of the Baltimcro Traction Company is practically com pleted. The amount of gold certificates in cir culation has decreased about 113,000,000 since May 1, The bill restricting the height of build' nu-a in Massachusetts to 15 feet has become a law. Scientists of the University of Illinois claim to hare obtained photographs of la grippe germs. Ex-Kepresentative Payson of Illinois said to be a prosicctive LDiti justice of the new land court. His promised that ex-Senator Wade Hampton shall be made President ol South Carolina University. Secretary Foster snvi there will be plenty of money to meet the payment of f0,uoo,uuu lor pensions in junn. The messenger liovs of Brooklyn use bicycles, and thev make their trips in one-Iourtli tne time laaen ueiore. There arrived in New York the other duv a (ierman immigrant 10J years old. His fourth wife, ngcii 40, and his son, a youth of 70, accompanied mm. The Private Line Printing Telegraph Company baa been incorporated to op erate between New York and Buffalo and about New York city; capital, ', 000. The Postmaster-General has apjiointed Sainue Flint of San Francisco buiatrin tendeut of the eighth division of the railway service, vice James L. Wilder resigned. The exports of copper from the United States for the first four months of the year amounted to 44,012,iL'H pounds, or about no per cent, oi me uiiai amount exported in 1MJO. The Philadelphia City Council will of fer lo.OOO reward for fugitive President ... i .1. I i. : ftlursli ol tne Keystone naim, aim it is rumored the State ol rennsyivania win add 110.000 to this. On the last day of June Insector (ieneral Rathbone of the Postollice De partment will assume charge of Ins new ofllce. Fourth Assistant l'ostmastor-dcn- . i . .i... i..i f, ... enti, crcaivu ai mo lao keoiuu wi vv gress. The first attempt to care for and Americanize immigrant Hebrews in bulk will be made at Harrison, near Newark, N. J., whore the American Committee of the Baron de Hindi fund will build 200 or 300 cottages. A New York letter says the rush of American to Europe hns never been greater than this season. There are now nearly as many fashionable New Yorkers in London and Pari as at home, and more are going. Siierintciid iit Stover and his wife of the pi Kir asylum of IlurriHon county, 1 ml., have been bound over to the grand jury on the charge of cruelty to Inmates, the specification being that they beat some of the old women terribly. SPORTING NOTES. An Epitome of What la Trnlrliiir In the fliorlln( World. Jerry Penny, New York' third base man, has been given notice of his release. He will go to Cleveland. Chief Detective llayden of Rochester, N. Y., has confiscated in0 of the il.lHM) stake money of the proposed prize fight between Itiennan and Spilling. The money will le turned over to the police pension fund of Rochester. (ieneral Veazey, Commnnder-lii-chlof of the (1. A. R.. has issued ollicial gen eral order calling upon all Grand Army comrade in all partsof the United State to contribute to the .'00,000 fund re quired to erect the .National U. A. K Memorial Hall at Decatur, 111., the birth place of tho organization. An alleged Interview with General Grosvenor, Chairman of the committee to study the immigration question abroad, lis created quite a stir among the Germans, because he la reported to have said Wisconsin wag almost a for eign State." General Grosvenor denies that he made such an assertion. The English Jockey Club has refused to grant licenses to Jockey Alfred White. Thomas Ioatcs, Samuel Loate and Thomas Calder for betting and owning horses contrary to tne Jockey Club regu illations. Samuel Loatc is also excluded from the Newmarket course, which i tantamount to his banishment from the turf. James H. Faulkner, the well-known light-weight wrestler, says in answer to Hugh Leonard's challenge that he will wrestle Leonard catch-as-catch-can, best two out of three falls, for $1,000. If Leonard does not accept his proposition in two weeks, he (Faulkner) will retire from the carpet and claim the light weight championship'ul the world. President Fulda of the California Club tel cgraphed WRourke, manager and trainer of George Dixon, that if he is bested in any contest he may bo engaged in on his way out to San Francisco the club will declare the match with Abe Willis otf. O'Kourke decline to notice the message, saying the California Club ha no right to dictate to Dixon. Some trouble may also arise regarding signing the article of agreemeent. O'Rourke sajs if these are not drawn up so that In cane of a draw, or the contest being stopped, the fighter will receive the whole ol the parse, Dixon will not be allowed to sign them. Yonng George Vanderbilt is a student and thinker, and professes to care noth ing lor society and to despise the ad vantages which vat wealth is able to confer. He will find many voung men willing to take all the trouble incident to getting rid of his income otf his hand. The projected Letand Stanford, Jr., University i rei-ruitiinr its faenltv unitw strongly from Cornell University. K. H. Woodruff, 1888, is to be librarian ; A. G. Laird, 1S01, instructor in Greek, lty the way, something ingenious mu-t I got up to disioe of that "Jr." in the university cheer. Major Wilhelm von Moltke and Major Helninth von Moltke. the nephew of the dead Field Marshal, have become the object of much interest recently in Germany. Major llelmuth, who wa named lor his uncle, acted a hi per sonal Adjutant, and lived, together with hi family, in the house of the general taff. The failure of Prince Bismarck to ap pear at the funeral of the late Count von Moltke was generally supposed to be due to the desire of the ex-Chancellor to avoid meeting the F.mcror. To the stir nriaeof many people, however, the ,hm hitrjtr Saehnchitn, llismarck's organ, announced a few davs ago that the Prince received no invitation to atteud the obsequies of hi friend. FOREIGN NEWS. . I UgllW IWIIIKIUIg nmi m. Fever Ragres Among tnelLngtrtbiegnanbenoiitiitheioaiof British at Malta. KNUTSFORD COERCION BILL. All the Jewish Tailors and Sewing Women In East End, London, Soon to Strike. Parnell will come to America a soon a Parliament adjourns. Queen Victoria has presented the Sul tan of Morocco with an elephant. The Welsh census shows that there are seven centenarians in the principal ity. Influenza in the House of Commons ie charged to bad ventilation and sewer gas. Cholera has appeared among Insane pilgrim on the Island of Kamaran.off the west coast ol Arabia. A London Rabbi say the statement concerning Jewish immigration into England are exaggerate'!. Emperor William has been telling hi people that peace is assured for this year, "and even ior next year. Rilboa ha lieen declared in a stale of siege, owing to the frequency of molw of strikers creating disturbance. " Oulda " i out in a two-column tirade in the London Timet against ''the sick ening rubbish of modern novels." To England Canada is the new eat, There will lie an immense outpouring from England to Canada tin summer, A writer in the Huropean Mfurwjfr predicts that inevitable nnanciui ruin bound to overtake the Russian Empire, There are two torm centers in Europe ust now. One is financial, the other po- itical. The first Is located in rortugul the other in Rushiu. The rough cast of the census returns shows that the population of both lx)ii don and the provinces has been consid erably overestimated. Vienna, witli a population of 800,000 for the town proper ami 40 i,(MK) for the suburbs, count 1.315 and 177 doctors for these respective divisions. Crop reixrt from the southern prov inces of Russia, extending to the Volga are bad. It is estimated that the genera yield will be 40 per cent, below the aver age. The night refugeof the Salvation Army at Belleville ha been closed by thel'ari police, because It had become a render vous for all the dangerous character of the city. Lake Ilinen in the government of Nov' gorod, Russia, ha been the scene of e terrible hurricane, nineteen timber ves- el being wrecked and all their crews drowned. Fever is raging at Malta, and there is an average of forty of the officer and men of each of the vessels of the liritisli fleet prostrated with the disease. The hospitals are overcrowded. The New South Wale Assembly di vided evenly on a vote of confidence in the government and against a resolution in favor of Australian federation. Tho Speaker decided in fuvor of the govern ment. The International Peace Congrep at Milan has approved the motion that the ditllciilty arising from the New Orleans lynching ought to lie referred to the In ternational Institute at Glient for arbi tration. Expulsions continue in St. Petersburg, where groups of Jew, including well- dressed women, are seen in the street under the escort of gendarmes, going to police stations before they are started for the Irontier. A monument will lie erected shortly in Tutlingen in the Black Forest to Max Schneekenburger, the author of "The Watch on the Rhine." The fund for this purpose ia (0,000, and contributions are still solicited. Special car (or invalids will be placed on all railroad line which run to St. Petersburg. They will be fittedout with easy berths and surgical instruments that may be required in case of acci dent on the road. Tho British House of Common has withdrawn the Knutsford coercion bill, Newfoundland having promised to eup iort a measure to carry out the treaty obligation and award of the Arbitra tion Commissioner. In the New Hebrides Island in the South Pacific a state of anarchy prevails. Numerous conllict have occurred, in which 000 native were killed, and in each case the bodies of the dead were eaten by the victor. The Prince of Wale originally backed Old Boot for the Derby, and did not hedge until too late to got good term on Common, thereby diminishing hi win ning at least two-thirds. He waa at first reported to have won 5,000. The experiment in Italy with the new compound compound called "lignite" a fuel for locomotive have proved suc cessful. Experiment will be made with the fuel in war ship and merchant ves- vessels, and it is hoped by it use to lurgelv reduce the consumption of for eign- bought coal. A relief committee has secured a long railway tunnel at Charlottenbnrg, tier- many, w sneiter Kussian jew en route to Hamburg for embarkation to New ork. I lothing, tea, colfee, bread and brandy are in readiness to relieve the misery of the crowds. Heart-rending scene are enacted, and terrible tale of differing are told. The sanitary authorities of Munich have lieen investigating the manufacture of leberwurst, many complaints of the saieoi an uuerior article having been made. The result of the inquiry is a re port to the etfect that in 140 pounds of sausage examined only three pounds of liver meat mere found". The remainder of the compound wa made np of skin, feet, paring and similarly indigestible and unpatable material. 'The makers and venders of the adulterated food will be prosecuted. Secretary Lelong of the California Board of Horticulture announce that Allert Koebole of Alameda will depart con for Australia, New Zealand and ad jacent countries to search for parasitic ineecU for introduction into that State. An arrangement ha been made whereby the Department of Agriculture pavs his salary and the State Board of Horticult ure pay all hi expenaee, am he will thus be kept a!rod at least two year. The hut California Legislature passed a bill appropriating tf.OUO for the purpose of sending an expert to Australia to search for parasitic and predaceous in sect for distrihnlion thmnahnnt lh State. J A WET SADDLE. ...-.. . -a . That a fair f This I'.nU Kiortrd on a farmer Boy The great farmhouse I abhue with hi,l (uliM liii.r from every room, gooq tilings me """J been divs preparing. From the burn como merry voices, Invou laiiL'hter. Let u sUnd, unobserved, In the open door. What a happy, merry lot of young folk stalwart, handsome young men nnrl healthy muldcns! They are ranged round the walls with rnpidly diminishing pile of corn before them, which they husk and throw upon the golden heup which i growing in the center. Ah! That young mnn ha found a red car in hi pilel Ho leap to in ieei and dashes at one of the prettiest girls A short chase a struggle a resound big siuuck und it is over. He hits kissed her-muybe on the collar or her Lack hair; but that doesn't mutter; sue count it all the same. How happy they all seem. But no. Over tliero in a durk cor ner aits a tail, powerful, handsome fellow all ulone. He s)euks to nobody miles addressed, and then hi answers are short mid sullen. Ever und anon he cast a piercing glance- ut a young man of about his own ago who siU ut the end of the row opposite, chatting witli a pretty young girl. Hi face darkens. There i mur der In his eye. He is in love, perhaps, and leuloiis. Tho bell rings for supper Just as the husking is done, and the hunker Jump in nnl seiimiM r pell-mell towurd the house, but tho tall, handsome young man reinuin seated and drops hi face in lii luuid with something that sounds like a sob. For along time he sit thus alone; thou a light, hurried step is heard, und a sweet voiced girl ask: "Joe. what is the matter? Hud trou Lie with Mary 1 You haven't spoken to her tonight hardly. Sick? Better come in to supier. It will do you good, maybe." "No, sis, It uin't that" "Tell me, Joe," suid his sister kindly. "Well," ho answers, "I've got on mj thin punts I rid Dobbin over thar win! tt nail or a chafe- In tlf Middle. And the stalwart young lmyseed Adoni broko down and shed u drench ing shower of salt and bitter tears. Short Stories. Why the Doff Ilecognlitd It. I called on a certain portrait puintcr in Indianapolis. Wo hud gone to gcli(K)l together. Sinco then lie has ac quired a national reputation a mi artist. I complimented him on his life like work. "Yes," he replied, "I sup pose it is creditable now, but it was not always o. I remember tho first job I ever had. A wealthy lady caiifb to see me und wanted her full length portrait painted. I did the best I could, but that W iis nothing to brag of. When the lady came to look at the picture she gave u cry of disappointment. " 'Why, that not ut nil like me, sho said; 'I shall not tako It I' "I assured her it wiis n perfect like ness, and declared that even her little poodle would recognize it. 'I am will ing to take that ri.sk,' she said. 'I'll bring my dog this afternoon and if lie recognizes uio I'll tako the picture.' Later in tho day she brought in the canine, und the sagacious little animal, after surveying the portrait for a mo ment, ran up and licked tho painted hand. My lady took tho picture with out any further objections." 'But the likeness must have been striking," I wild, "to deceive the dog." "Not necessarily," replied the artist. "I took the precaution of rubbing a piece of bologna sausage over the hand before the dog arrived." Philadelphia Time, A Pallran' (uer AppetlU. For several years a couple of patri archal pelicans have fished for a living ust off the end of my wharf. I have repeatedly begged their live of sport ing tourists, and so accustomed them to my presence that I could row within an oar's length of them without their tak ing flight I have often watched their operation witli curious interest, and was really much attached to the solemn looking couple, who, with their smooth putos and beurd like pouches, reminded mo of 'withered caricature of Father Time. One day on going down to the beach I discovered one of my pelican pets drifting helplessly toward land. When he came within reach I found that he was dead, while in his pouch, with its head completely closing the bird's throat, was a catfish still alive and measuring fourteen Inohoa in length. Its horns stuck out through each side of the pclican'8 pouch, and thus the unfortunate bird hud been utiablo to either swallow or reject its unwelcome prey. The pelican' pouch was also torn and perforated in a number of places, showing that the struggle be tween the would be-swallower and the wouldn't-be-swullowcd had been a long and desperate one. Tho fish died a few minutes after being removed from the trap into which he bud fallen. The bird measured 7 feet 8 inches from tip to tip of hi extended wings, and, from his general appearance, was evidently a patriarch of his race. Forest and Stream. When Knowledge it Valuable. The faculty of having one's mind pigeon holed is of great value. Some people have their mental bookcases and stonrooms piled up with a mass of ma terial, all valuable, perhaps, iu its way, but Jumbled up and piled together so that when any one thing is wanted it Is not to be had without overhauling ten times as much other material, which, however valuable it may be iu Itself, has no particular use at the mo ment of aearcli. Other people con lay their mental hands on any particular fact or fuiicy at a moment's ntice, and can keep on pulling out other facts and fancies of the same general character until tney nave tola or lounJ all they know. There is such a thing as an era-! Germany, England, Belgium, Uol-barra.-tnent of riches in one' mental j?n fnJ trance, in which the new pro treasury as well as in matters materia! l It e1Ur? di?plared the old faih--Sew York cLorZr nedsundiiodfruiu West Africa and Aew orfc Continent. Australia are aU beginning to call for evaporated fruit. FARMANDGARDEN Valuable Recipes for the Farmers' Wives. AGRICULTURAL CLIPPINGS. Calbage Seed for & Late Crop May be Sown on Rioh Soil Made Into Beds and Pulverized. Dumr.llc HluH to Farmers Wive. TB.rFKI.KD CIIKKKN. Roil until tenderanicepluinpchicken When cold, remove all the wiute meat and cut into dice, l ui one iuoicbuoouiui , i , ;,, a an, nil Mince nan. When Ol uuiici ' 1 " J , . melted, add one tabiespooniui oi nour; mix until sinootn ; ami s i milk: stir continually until it bolls; add the chicken, a half teasponniui oi salt, a dash of white pepper. When hot, add the yolk of two eggs, a cup of finely chopied mushroom and four truffles cut into tinv nieces. (Jooit one minute aim serve in the small cup. HII.K TOAST. Slice some bread : toast it of a nice lithi brown on both side. Boil a pint of milk : mix together two tablespoon- fulsol Ilourm a nine coiuwaierj sur this into the boilinir milk. Let it boil about one minute ; then add a little salt and stir into it two ounces of butler. Din the toast in the milk, place it on a dish anil pour ine remainder oi wie iiiiik over it. The toast may 1 made much ,.r. . . . .1 Mi. richer by increasing the quantity ol butter. OYSTER OMKI.KTTK. Beat four eggs very, light. Cut the hard part out of eight or a dozen oysters, according to their size; wipe them dry and cut them up in small pieces; stir them into the beaten eggs anu Iry them in hot butter. When the under sido is brown. Biirinkle a little salt and pepper over the top, and fold one half over the other. HOT 8AITE. Set a bowl in a basin of hot water, re- filliiifr bo as to keep it hot. In the bowl beat one egg and one cupful of sugar; flavor. When ready to serve, beat in one-half cupful of tailing milk. Stir a it is scrveu, so it will be thick only on ton. Wine will improve the sauce in addition to vanilla. BLACK ri'PPINO. Three cup'uls of flour, one and one- half cupful of milk, one and one-half cnpfuls of raisins (stone), one egg (or without), butter the size oi an egg, tea gnoonful of cloves, cinnamon, sari, one cupful of molassc. Steam four hours. CIIKKSK WAPKKS. Hub a tablespoon of butter to a cream and stir in two tahlcspoonfuls of grated Knglirh cheese. Spread this mixture on thin w ater cracker or plain wafers. or if you cannot get thin crackers, split the thicker ones. Keep them in a hot oven till they are a delicate brown. Aa-rlcultural Notes. Every young and thrifty natural fruil apple tree standing in the pastures and lane of the farm should be grafted to some choice and salable variety of fruit. The most successful farmers are those who, while growing a variety of crops, make a specialty of porno one of them and suliordinatu everything else to that Potatoes are the best adapted to this purpose of any crop we know. A Texas stockman say the cattle ex portation from that State this year will fall far short of any previous year. The cattle are there, but are being fattened at home instead ol shipped to northern range. '1 he cattle are also being im proved by crossing with thoroughbreds. and the "longhorns" will soon disap pear irom lexas pastures and be re placed by better stock. Cabbage seed for a late crop may be sown on rich soil made into bed and finely pulverized. Keep the weed out of the cabbage by running a narrow. hoe between the rows, and if the cabbage plants crowd each other, thin and trans plant into another bed. If cabbage are transplanted two or three time before being set out in the fluid, the plant will be stocky and have enough tine root so that transplanting will scarcely check their growth. In many localities railroads have aided farmer in an unexpected way. They generally run through low, wetland, be cause this is often the only way of avoid ing heavy grades or expensive cut. But it is a necessity of the railroad that its track haveoneach side sufficient drainage to keep the soil reasonably firm. Farm ers who have never seen their way clear to underdraining their low land have had this ditllciilty suddenly cleared up when a railroad was put through it. They could then drain into the ditches on either side of the track and leave the railroad to dispose of the surplus water a best it might. " I have planted several thousand of tree during the last ten years," gays a nurseryman, "and have seldom been called upon to repluee one that lias died. The success is the result of a very sim ple but seldom failing precaution. When the tree is planted a piece of wood not less than three inches wide and high enough to reach the lowest branches should be driven into the ground juBt south of the tree. This keeps the sun oil" it during two-third of the day, and prevents the sap and bark being burned up before new roots have been formed. Any one adopting this plan will be cer tain to have success with his trees, no matter how poorly they look when firet planted out." President Dewell of the Connecticut State Board of Trade announce that the heep industry, once one of the impor tant among the farming interest of the State, ha been practically ruined by dog. It is estimated that 'the number of gheep in Connecticut at present does not exited 40,tXH). Ollicial ligures show that bet ween 2,000 and 3,000 eheep are annually killed by canines. The ohvionB remedy is a law that would guard the flock by taxing the dog out of exist ence, or at least make them such a lux ury in the taxation sense that their in crease would le held well in check. This is the sort of protection the ahecp in dustry needs not only in Connecticut, but in a number of Suites. Evaporated Fruit. Within a radius of forty miles of Rochester there tire more than 1,500 fruit evaporators. These evaporators give employment during the autumn and winter to about ao.OtK) hands, whose wages average from $5 to $13 a week. Last season tho production of these evaporators was about 80.000.000 pounds, worth nt first nKni.t- c ruu tv rruicintJ Consuming miinrriA ahmnJ A CHINESE VENDETTA. Th Trrrlbl. O.Tt. of B.es- T.k.u ly Two Mur.l.rr.l r'lr' Koirn. The vcmMU seem to be curried out in Asia n well u in Corsica, Judg ing from the following article taken from a Chinese exchange: Whether the particular which wo are now about to give are strictly cor rector not Is more than we can say. but we are content to believe that there is nothing Improbable in the gtory The recognized eccentricity of Chinese customs is in itself cxcu.se enough for giving entire credence to the singular narrative, tho details of which come to u from a relmblo source and nro a follows: On the night of Nov. 2, 1S80, a Chinese carpenter employed at Mr. Brand's sugar plantation. Shoal Buy, was murdered In hi hut. Information was at once given to tho police, who proceeded to Shoal Bay, took up what appeared to be the track of the murderer, followed them to the Junglo, coming towurd rulmerston, and there lost them. In course of time the search was entirely abandoned as fruitless, the last net be ing the offer of one hundred pounds for information that would lead to the capture of the murderer. The murder Itoelf was a most determined one. An examination of the body revealed bul let wounds and knifo gash" enough to have killed half a dozen men. At the back of the left shoulder there was a bullet wound bearing inward toward the spine; there was a sevcro stab on the back of tho right shoulder; there was a terrible incised wound behind the collur bone which severed several veins; there was an incised wound and bullet wound combined at the end of the heart on the right sido (each wound cutting the liver); there was a bullet wound tlirougii the heart, the bullet having gone through the chest, and there wits another stab wound through the heart. From the nature of the man's wounds, however, two things wore in ferred ; first, that tho murder was per petrated by more than one person, and. second, that thcro was a fiendish desire on the part of the murderers to make uro of Ah You's death. Now comet the sequel. Some years previous to the Shoal Buy crime being committed u certain Chinaman conducted a piruting enterprise on the cou-st of China. One duy while taking out a siniill boat Ing parfy under cover of respectability, this pirate foully robbed and then mur dered the unsuspecting- occupants of the bout, and then cleared from the neighborhood. The friends and rel atives of the murdered persons searched the coast high oiid low for traces oft he freebooter, but in vain. In the midst of their grief at the bereavement undei such circumstances, two who had each lost u father registered a terrible oath to be revenged on the pirato. Accord lngly they pursued inquiries with un broken diligence, and ut last learned that tho man they were in quest of had gone to Port Darwin, in Australia, Thither they followed him, and in the quiet of that night ut Shoal bay, in ISSO, the life of Ah You was taken in fulfillment of the vow of vengeance which had been recorded against him years beforo on the coast of China. The story is completed when we tell that the murderers, after leaving the plantation, returned to Pnlmerston nnd remained in Chinatown until a boat arrived from south, in which they went back to theii native land. Such is the narrative of we obtained it. Pneumonia. According to a medical contemporary, Dr. tlouvencur L Smith, of New York, has just given sonic interesting ami startling facts in regard to pneumonia. Dr. Smith points out that the disease is becoming worse every year, increasing rather than decreasing, both in the num ber of cases and the percentage of mor tality. The statistics of the rennsyi vania hospital show that the mortality from pneumonia there advanced from OJ per cent, in 1847 to 18 per cent, in 1807, and 81 per cent, in 188(1. Similarly, in the New York hospital the ratio of mortality from this disease is more than double that it was in 1878. Thirty or forty years ngo it was regarded ns seri ous, but it did not excite anything like the ulann it does today. Dr. Smith is rather inclined to believe that the medical art, instead of progressing in its treatment of pneumonia, has actually gone back, wnd holds that the method's of treating the disease at tho time it wa less deadly have lieen abandoned for me thods more tinicui, but less eUlcacious. Atlanta Constitution. Adruuro or Public! Sentiment. A an incident of the woman's suffrage movement, it is impossible to pass over the election of Lady Sandhurst, Miss June Cobden and Miss Cons as members of the London county council. A hos tile suits are now pending for heavy pen alties against the ladies to test their right to sit and vote, it would be unbe coming hero to do more than wish them succes in their brave fight. Their pres ence at the council board, their useful work on its committees, has already so justified their election that even if the law be interpreted hostilely against them there is little doubt that public opinion would compel early legislative action in favor of the right tbey claim. Charles Bradlaugh in Boston Tran script The "Drop s Nickel" Machines. In these day a man can drop a nickel in tho slot and realize almost anything. Ho can get his correct weight, test his lungs, grip nnd pushing power, ascertain his height, draw out a cigar or a package of bon bona, or he can get an insurance policy good for a certain r.siubcr of hours. Tho latest device, however, is bound to make a fortune for the men who ret llio "rnL-o nlT " Tim mnol,: ;., set up in depots, and the ear of the man iiu ui uw a unki-i in we bioi is occupied for a few moments hv a nl.n ;inr. from a music Imx inside. Those u-hn have ever Ih en ol:lirl tr sn,l V J ,V. UU IKUl nr Ivrn in n .Ir.nnt i,--iiti.. : 1 1 gladly give up a handful of nickels for lUtm.kf lid,., afliioli n.ill .1 """"s " ""i utvuijr uieir lime and attention. The projectors of this nickel movement- linn-Amp Ii-it-a be red days, as there is a moclune just put in tho field which tells a man's cor rect weight for 1 cent. Chicago Herald. Mrs. Anderson, of Portland. rm the right kind of a woman. She went out shopping the other day, and noticed thai a young man wa dogging her Ua. Finally he made an attempt to grab hei Curse. Mrs. Anderson tad down hcj undle. rolled up her sleeves, doubled hei fists, and gave the fellow a mauling thai he will remember for some time. WA3 NQWHCtt, flow sA v tawr (lot Ahead N Uerbolt. "What wa the fastest tlm mode?" asked The Talker of Juhnau one of the best known engineer In th, em country. "Well," he returned, "I reckon forty miles I mudooiithe Xorti, pj? of the di vision win the khekett, Yo was sent out from Ouiulm with light J'' to pull Iu a special director's car from V" rinttc.siid when I got within about iJ mile of tho lutter station I wH JJ ' order to run regardless of everytuin,j!L trains were sido tracked for me. "I hadn't left the tutlon moro'n jT. utes lielore a heuvy thunderstorm cam,? they do it awful quick out tuere-av) and my fireman enjoyed the fhxst dliTki firework you over sw). ' "All of a kudden Tom ycll to me: " -Holy M.wal The lightning'! roclt, trackl l'ull out, Johnnie, or we'r dotufcU "I looked back, and ure euocnh tha, came a strcnk of lightning along ttunVkl ruil beaded for us. It was a kinder whitaA Hue sort of thing, and was bumpia. ,u. like It bad a time order. "l "1 know that if it rtruck the machines wa all gono to the sweet hereafter uMi pulled her widd open. ' 1 "Well, the old machine teemed to fen something wa up, and site gave a Jumpiii! a scared antelope und off ahead of that Lk? ningstreuk. At first tho streak teemed u gaining on us, but after the engine got mod and sturted, my, you ought to sse th iZ tance play out letween us. But the lig-bu nlng didn't seem to be discouraged. It fa spit on it hands and clawed along afarm liko a promissory note after an (moke debtor. "Well, I seen something must ba don,, Ik couldn't nioko out bow to do It. it'M plain tbnt if tbi thing kept up much longa the water and coal would give out, not t, gpenk of a J hit journals. IsayitoTom: " 'Heave away, now, with the coal ind we'll fool him,' und, although he'd been hea. ing awayiluce tho start of the race, that seemed to help, for I could see the ligh'tDJnt was lugging. Then I turned the niachin, over to him and crawled back oa the tank, I bad au idea. There was a siding a ft miles ubend, and if we could tnakett-wei you'll see. There wa a broken drawbar oa the tank, and when I reckoned we'd about the right distance I dropped It J , could see it rolling along forquiteadiataact, then I got back to tho engine and slacked np. "All of a tuddeu I heard the mostoutlaoj. isb racket you ever heard of behind ui Then the uir wo full of splinter, ana when I rolled back, sure enough the drawbar bad ' fallen in tho switch I'd calculated on hitting, and had made such a connection with tin main track that tho lightning had beta switched ou and had ruu dowu on the aiding and into two c rs of powder standing there, I'm sorry I enn't give you the exact lime of that run, but under tho circumstance! jog couldn't exect a man to hold a watch, not could you!" Oinuha Herald. Hot for Intrualre Eyes, "A you can only bo a sister to me," hi said, in broken tones, "will you let me in you good ulghtr 8 bo shyly said she would. Then ho folded her in his strong anniud gently placing ber head against nil maul; breast, ho kised her passionately. "Mr. Saini 13011," sho said softly, "thii UiH bo new to me, so so different from what I thought it to be, that if you will give me a littlo tinio to to think it over, I I inay" But let ih withdraw from the sacred sewn Now York Sun. pouicthbig Serious. Guest Lightning struck our hotel tlii morning. Friend Nothing serkjus, I hopel Guest Yes, quiU) so. Friend Indeed, how was ilf Guest Routed me out an boar earlier thu usual for breakfast. Chicago Tribune Too Inventor of Volapuk. "Volnpnk, they say, is a sort of Jnrabk of all other languages." "So 1 believe.' "Who invented it, I wonderf "A restaurant waiter, probably." Lineola Journal. Careful of tho Book. Young Author (making a call)-I e T have my now book on the table, Miss Ban merslyf Miss Hammorsly Oh, yes, Sir. Pref, and we have found it so interesting. Young Author (taking tbo book)-I nob'a some of the loaves are uot cut. Hiss Hammersly Er no, Mr. Preface; are careful to keep it fresh a long MP Bible. Now York Sun. Not for Reading-. "You have plenty of reading there," rid l visitor to the literary editor, pointing to pile of book on the editorial desk. "They are uot for reading," answered tin :i:r.-.ry editor, "they ore for reviewing- -, . .! (.verier. r ::!ii't Enjojr the Trip. "How vi a enjoy your trip sbrosdr wascsked t..' Hew Yorker. u 'Beastly Kiri! time. Ididntsessitog" baseball garni- v. hilt! 1 was gone." Judg& Self Defensive Advice. Mcrheet Ilav yez a match, DiunW Corrigan Oi hovl , McPheet-Wnil, thin, light both Wj thot- igyarso'sit won't lasht so longl-Ju MM mm mi VEGETABLE PANACEA PREPARED FRtM ROOTS & HERSS, rOHTMC CURE Or mm AND ALL OTHER DISEASES BDISOramraSTATEofmSIDMACli OK AN .INACTIVE LIVER. m DRUGGISTS & GENERAL DEALD&J