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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1891)
EARLY ENGLISH DOCTORS. They Had to Attend Three Ulawtlon at bleb a Uodjr Waa Opened I The earliest record of a school of physics at Cambridge university In in 1421, but the Urst definite provision fur anatomical teaching was made by John Caius somewhat luter in the name cent ury. He was followed by W. Ilurdy in the Sixteenth and by a brilliant galaxy of anatomists lu the Seventeenth cent ury, of whom one Instructed Newton and another tried his hand at writing plays. From the time of Cuius we were In timately connected with the corpora tion of surgeons in London, who sent us a scholar receiving Hi) a year fur his inalnteiiance aul IJ a year to provide himself with books. In order txjualify as a practitioner in those days it was necessary to have attended three dissee tions, at which a body was opened and "the physicians present discoursed at random concerning the interior." The first seiarate professorship of an atomy was founded at Cambridge hi the year 1707, but the immediate effect of the endowment apcars to have been a cessation of all interest hi the subject It was the time of the Resur rectionists, however, und we read of the watchmen being allowed to search hi Emmanuel for a missing body. This was illegal, be it remarked, and really an act of coercion, as may be seen from the following tale. A giant once died In Dublin, thereby exciting the dosirca of an anatomical professor and his stu dents, to whom he said : : "Gentlemen, I understand that your feelings are excited toward tho seizure of this body, against which I must cer tainly counsel you. Hut in case your teal should overcome your discretion, I will tell you the exact case of the law, which is that you may take the body, but that for the removal of the least rag or shred of covering there on you may Iw hanged. Therefore, if you should remove the body, lie careful that it is utterly unclothed." Needless to say that professor was given the op portunity of experimenting upon that giant. 1 A more melancholy n!"ci!oto is asso-' ciated with the in;:;n..rv of our Pro-' fessor Collignon, who once invited two friends to the dissection of a body, in which one of them recognized the feat ures of an acquaintance. It was the body of Lawrence Sterne, "whoso final return to his university formed a tragic Besides, as I told you, I had saved up ending to the sentimental Journey of 8everikl thousand dollars, when in a mo llis life " I me'it, by the frett' ' a stupid, bull : Professor Haviland made tho first heaJed' humpbacked whale, I was torn eollpctinn r.f miHfnii.ici.l unwlinnn. while the first museum was founded by his successor. Professor Clark, who raised it to be tho first in the world. We have entered uion a goodly her itage, and in tliestimulatingpresenceof of Sir Georgo Paget and Sir Goorge Humphrey may we not learn to pene- trate yet further into those regions of knowledge w here the unknown still far exceeds the known f Knowledge. The 11 ml ii of the Lunatic. If there is anything which has been taught to us by the most advanced stage of science as applied to the anat omy, the physiology and the pathology of the brain it is the fact that the ut most degree of mental aberration may exist without then being the slightest change perceptible to our senses in the ( normal structure of the central organ of the mind. Of course there is some alteration, such, for instance, as a per- 1 nicious education may effect, such as ( may be induced by indulgence in Ig noble emotions, degrading trains of thought or vicious practices; but it is so slight and jierhaps so evanescent as to be entirely beyond the reach not only of our unaided senses, but of all the instruments of precision or of ana lytical processes that are at the present day at our disposal. The brain, therefore, of the most pronounced lunatic may not differ, so fnp mi uib can liereeive. from that ol oue who during life had stood at the very summit of human mental develop ment At birth the two brains might have been identical, not only iu all the elements that entered into their compo sition, but also in their tendencies and proclivities. . .4.1:., One. however started in Uie course of hfe under aisiiuvamigeiiiis( circumstances j the other bad evt'7" I tiling in its favor. One was left to its own guidance and to the influence of circumstances detrimental to its well . beiug; the other, among beneficial sur- roundings, was carefully trained and , Wplnn.1 Would it be a matter of . . . 1 A. lenceand tho other a leader in all hon orable and virtuous purposes i Dr. W. A. Hammond In North American Re view. French Sentiment. However sewn the Frenchwoman may exchange the memory of her dear hus band for that of another still dearer she may be trusted to do the decent thing by his grave, in some 01 uie it iu the custom for the widow to put the favorite plant 1. IT. 1 Hi . hp A 1 oi ui-r "i - o - woman recently returned from France tella of seeing a grave in one cemetery , bearing a small cherry tree upon it be-, cause that bad been the favorite fruit j of the departed husband, in anouiei corner she saw a grave that was a beau tiful bed of rhubarb, and in still an other a plot of cresses and another of cabbages. Mil. ..iu,o the keeper ol , the penalon-hewelf a widow, when x. V.....a A....rinn woman com- it,, n,n,larl American woman com merited upon this to her "Ah, mad ame, you Americans, you haf no nice little sentiments. My own husband he is planted wiz onions." 2ew York Evening Sun. A Graceful Rebuke. A ehnUpjidmiiusteredirracioUsly and fat eood temper is always a pleasure to ; me. It was at an aiirniju tlie story at the club ran. that Mis Beacon Street ancient in lineage, said to the hostess as she was about leaving: "What a crudi you have today. Hard ly the 'cream,' I fancy," whereupon the hostess with delightful composure re plied. "I always feel that I have the 'cream' when' Ml Beacon Street is present" Koblesse oblige - surDrise if the possessor or the one . eu anu wuucu .,..., should bean enemy of society and a and quicker than a wink with my keen tZSrS, of acts of fraud and vio- sheath knife cut the niuscle. , on each RIDING A WHALE AT SEA a s:a otter trip off th- HUNTER'S HARD PACIFIC OOAST. A Very Lucrative limine ftpolled bjr lh IVrwrnaiHii ert stupid Hull II tided, lluiiipburked Wlulc Am Incredible Miirjr of Hard l.urk. Ill passing up Front street a reporter's, attention was attracted to a singular ap pearing man who stood iu front of a hide and fur store examining a very band some sea otter skill which hung iu the window. His hair was long, and his fact covered with a full growth of beard of a rich auburu hue, which hung down on his breast His clothing was of strange make and material, and his tout ensem ble was calculated to give one an idea that "the wild man of Borneo had just come to town." The rejiorter approached tho wit'dow, and after pausing a mo ment said: "That is a very handsome skin!" "Yes," said the stranger, "it is very fine. There is nothing that produce better fur than the sea otter. I hav shot many of them." "Might I ask where?" said the report er. "The sea otter is a rare animal uow ' "I suppose they are about all killed off by this time on this coast," said the stranger. "It was ten years ago when I was shooting them on the coast of Wash ington territory, and they were not very numerous then, but in the course of two years I bad killed over fifty, besides a good many fur seals, and had saved up over fi.OOO iu cash, when I was suddenly broke up in business and taken to a strange country by a very singular acci dent." On being pressed for an explanation the stranger told the following remarka ble story: "Ten years ago I was hunting sea otters on one of the wildest parta of the coast of Washington, several miles north of the Quillayute ludian reserva tion, betweeu Destruction Island and Caiss Flattery. It is one of the wildest and most out of the way places on the coast I had beeu shipwrecked on De struction Island, and had been rescued by the Quillayute Indians and had been living with them several years, and had married the daughter of one of the head men of the tribe. A DANUKU01S r-ERCIl. "I was happy and contented, for, after years spent in the forecastle of a ship, the life I led among the Indians was comparatively pleasant and luxurious. lru,u w uumo " ' "uu lKu. nilcss on the shores of a stranger and wilder couutry than the one I had so un ceremoniously left, among people com pared to whom my (juillayute friends were civilized and intelligent "You know, of course, how sea otters are shot by the hunter having a stand rigged np away out as far from the shore as possible, by setting up three tall poles, so that they cross a few feet from the top, and by building a kind of crow's , nest iu the top of this frail structure. 1 1 had rigged up one of these stauds away j out at low water untrK ami maue u as comfortable as possible, and sometimes speut two or three days out there, uiy wife keeping a lookout ami securing any otters or seals I shot. 1 was doing first rate, owing to being so far out, and, al though several times badly scared by rough weather and by schools of whales, whi"h caIue arouud my lookout, I could ,lot tinilj 0 Kiving it up for a placo which might be safer, but where I could not kill so many otters. "The lust tiuie 1 got into my lookout was early one morning. As the weather had been stormy I was expecting that otters and seals would be coming near the shore, so I took along a good supply of provisions and water and plenty of tobacco and ammunition, expecting to stay out two or three days. As soon as it was light and the tide was near the flood, I saw a number of otters lying asleep iu the water just beyond range, and while I was waiting for them to jft jown toward me along came a school of half a dozeu or more of the small whales common on that coast. OVV TO SEA ON A WUALK. "They came toward my lookout rolling and spouting and playing, and at length I saw one of them making right for the lookout. I was afraid he would upset me. anu yeuuu ni. uuu, uut, wucmci uj , i ...H...1 l i.:... ...u. l... ftl V lljl. II V v..-. Q .a m plu1(ed .a two of the poles on which my nest was perched, and atrik J)( tQe otler witll m noge 8hoved it awuy ju front of him, and over went niv ne8t, landing on his back, oue of the jWies sticking straight aiiead and the others straddling him as a man does a horse. When I saw I was going I jump- from going down. I then clumbered np to my nest, and there I was afloat on a whale, with provisions for three days and neither sail, oar nor compass. "The first thing I did was to cut some loops in the thick hide of the whale and secure my nest by lashing it firmly 1 1 his back. He struck out from shore an I made the best spued he could with his partially disabled tail. I hns- baude 1 my provisions and water, and aa I had ,-iw whisky and plenty of tobacco and used to living in my nest. I got alon,f very comfortably for a week, when g? t0 look Fortunately Mp fof Vltt)livo8tol.k ;mJ pjcked me np ,., w;uj s ( u.I(.omfortabloon board that as we were p iling tne nooru lsianus 1 stole a boat and got ashore, and, after unending about six years there with the jj inhabitants, succeeded in getting across to Japan and finally in a ship to South America, and arrived here a day 1 . or two since on a ship, and am now bound for Callam county, Wash., to aee what has become of my wife and the twenty dollar pieces we had when 1 went sway." Portland Oregonian. Mai EartV Faatooa Pua. Prubably some readers remember the beautiful pun that Mr. Evarts made at a dinner at Delmonico's some years ago. In all the constellation of his famous prini this is the brightest star. The din- ner taking place about Tbksgiving time Mr. Evarta when be arose to speak began in this way: "Friends, you have jatt been having a turkey stuffed full of sago; now I present von with a sage staffed full of turkey." It made no difference what he said ! after that; the best thing be could hav j aaid would have been nothing at aLL 1 Waahioeton Star. ' . Slue 01 Ills iau, wuicn iireveiueu uiw HOW GOODS ARE SOLD AT A LOSS. The Profll Come la on lb First Lot and the Iteaiaiader la t'loeed Out. We were talking with a leading up town retailer a few days since whose annual sales run up into the millions, and among other questions came up the oue of "drives" or special bargains. "How is it," we asked, "that you peo ple can every now and then advertise and sell some line of garments or fab rics or articles at prices which, on the face of them, show a heavy loss on the cost of the manufacture itself (" The merchant smilingly replied: "With the enormous outlet which a business such as ours affords we are in a position to handle quantities which would stagger the average retailer. For Instance, we closed out for wish 2, ISO silk umbrellas, all the stock of one of the smaller manufacturers, who needed cash for the time being more than he did the umbrellas. The price, as you may readily understand, was a low one or we would not have closed the bargain. "The good we placed in stock, marking them In three different grades, viz., (2.50, (3.50 and $5. We adver tised them in the daily press, and in a few days sold over 1,500 of this 'speciid drive,' every one of which waa a bar K"i. "Now, we said, 'we have made a handsome profit on those already sold. We will create a little excitement on the balance and stand a loss our selves.' So we advertised 500 silk um brellas at one dollar each. Kvery one of those we put In this special sale waa worth from (2-50 to 3 at retail. "The morning the sale took place the people Hocked in as soon as the doors were opened, and in one hour and twenty minutes the last umbrella was disxjsed of. We sold one umbrella only to each individual purchaser at this low figure, and consequently placed this bargain witli upward of 500 differ ent persona. "The actual loss to us on this aide was several hundred dollars, but on the whole lot of 2,180 umbrellas we aver aged a very handsome profit, besides making ourselves talked about and bringing 500 special customers into the store who, it is safe to say, bought more or less in the other departments of the house at a profit" Dry Goods Chronicle. A Month's Vacation. Once upon a time some years ago I made a great walk. I had a month on my hands, and I was young and eager, and I determined to go afoot from Devonshire into Scotland. Since then I have been hero, there and everywhere about the surface of our old earth by steamer, sailing ship, express train and low train, on horseback, mulcback and donkey book; but I remember nothing with so much pleasure as I remember my daily courses through the different counties of England during this 500 or 600 mile walk. Every morning I woke iu a new vil lage or a new market town. There waa a different chambermaid, with her sweet "If you please, sir, the hot water is at the door," and a different kind of boniface. I did not rusli over the ground. Twenty or flveand-twenty mile a day contented me. Thus I could dine after a ten mile spin, and arrive each evening fresh and fit at the next "lied Lion" or "White Cow" Inn, upon which I relied for a bed. All the Year Round. The Servant yueatlon. It is a curious fact that there is noth ing which is so wholly unanimous as the desire that other ieople's daughters should be cooks and chambermaids. We never think of it as a tiling desir able or perhaps supposablo for our own, and this fact seems to damage most of our arguments for others. Artcmus Ward was willing to send his wife's relatives to the war, but we are not inclined to contribute even these to the kitchen, for we should hold, rightfully, that it waa "menial service." Now if we draw the line at menial service for ourselves and our relatives, why should we speak severely of those who dray the line at just that point for themselves and their own relatives? The whole difficulty of thit much vexed question seems to lie pre clsely there. T. W. Higglnson In Harpers' Bazar. Pullteneaa the Key to III Suceeaa. There is a suave and popular gentle man In tliia town who owns two drug shops. He Is a member of several so cial organizations, and is personally ac quainted with every prominent politi cian and man about town in New York. Up to within a few years ago he wa night clerk in a down town pliarma ceutical dispensary. How did he get his feet on the upper rounds of the lad der of prosperity? Simply by being po lite. During his long term of service aa clerk he never let a customer depart without a pleasant inquiry as to the customer's health and the Inexpensive courtesy of "Won't you have a drop of perfumery on your handkerchief V New York Times, Hr4 on th Chain. Among the ancestors of Wendell Phillips were several Puritan clergy men. Perhaps it was a push of hered ity which made him at five years of age a preacher. Ilia congregation waa composed of circles of chairs arranged in his father's parlor, while a taller chair, with a Bi ble on it served him for a pulpit He would harangue these wooden auditors by the hour. "Wendell," said his father to him one day, "don't you get tired of this?" "No, papa," wittily replied the boy preacher, "I don't get tired, but it is rather hard on the chain I" Youth's Companion. SUrjr of Tenderfoot. A young man from the east was hired to plow a field near Madeira. One day be found himself surrounded by sevei: hungry coyotes. He left his ti-am and broke in a swift run for the house, and quit work right there. The team was found all right by the owner, a woman, who told the tenderfoot to go bark borne to Lia mother, while she finished jdowinf. Sao FVucico Call KNOWN BY TIIEIK TICKS. CHARACTER READING THROUGH MANY MILES OF WIRES. Telegraph eriuir4 Knttw lha DImI lull f rl.icli Oilier fr.1111 War Me, sage Ar Sent from One C'lljr lu An other Rome of the I'reak. The telegraph operators of this city are noted the world over as vxiierU Not only are they inmiters of their art as I a class, but many of them have dc I veloped the wonderful f:iculty of read ' lug character by the sharp ticks that emanate from the little bras instru 1 metits. For instance, any old time o- erator who ranks as first rate ran tell by I the tick of the machine in Philadelphia ; what manner of man is at the other end 1 of the wire, no matter whether he he iu I Chicago, New York or any other distant j city. Just as the lank cashiers rcrog I nize the signatures of old customers, so do telegraphers identify friends by their "sending or writing. The fast, jerky tender, who stojis every few minutes to tighten this screw or loosen that spriug, or to talk with his desk mate easily tells the receiver that he is a nervous, irresponsible young man of little experience and less judgment; he warns the receiver to be on constant watch for errors, for which he will shirk any responsibility. Without having def inite reason to say so, the receiver will not hesitate to assert that such a sender would lie himself out of any difficulty that might arise. The fearless, manly telegrapher is tht man who sends even, well spaced Morse fast, of course, but steady withal, and aenda "all the time." This man seldom has "cases." He impresses the receiver at once that he is invariably correct He never stops for bad copy, because he always reads a message ahead of the oue he is sending, and returns any ho cannot decipher to the clerks before startiug it This sort of man has a friend iu every office. All the students and operators in way stations know hi in. They recognize his sending and appeal to him as would a child to an older brother. This man's character is well known to every one with whom he works. SNEAKS, JOKKS AND D17PKS. The sneak is quickly discovered and promptly "roasted." He sends slowly, and with an aggravating drag. He never swears on the wire, which, by the way, is certain to be rewarded by dismissal if reported, although a majority of oer ators are more or less profane. While this man may not have been in tho business at the time of any strike, he is certain to be called a "scab" by all the out of town men, with whom he has fre quent spats. Practical jokers and witty men are generally indifferent opcrators.but usual ly have a reputation, reaching from Sau Francisco to Boston, which always se cures them work at good salaries. Their characteristics are denoted by the small amount of business they handle, not withstanding the fact that they seem to work every minute. They make all aorta of blunders and worry the receiver sick, depending upon their good humor and new stories to square matters. Dude operators, like their funny breth ren, are Hor artists, but they are not fortunate in the way of acquiring "repu tation." They never need tell the re ceiver that they love dress and think of little else. Their frequent stojn and silly chatter betweeu messages tell it for them. After six months' working with an operator of this sort the receiver could describe him almost to a positive exact ness without ever having Been him or beard him described. FEMALES AND TRAMPS, Surly, morose and tramp operators are alike as to ability. They are all fine tel egraphers. Their characters are well defined by silence, and they are distin guished one from the other by bits of in formation regarding other cities drojijied from day to day by the tramps. They tell their story when they correct errors discovered in the addresses of messages relayed from oue city to another, and by suggesting some word to take the place of oue badly written by some newspaper man whose "copy" they had "handled." Lady operators are identified by the lightness of their sending, few of them being able to work on long distance wires. On this account "Clara" is a fa vorite name for light senders of either aex, and their character as well as their sex is revealed by their constant anxiety and ever faithfulness, as well as by their disposition to talk. ' Few people understand why telegra phers use so much and such a variety of slang. This is easily accounted for. The men in New York and San Francis co communicate all the latest phrases to Chicago, from which point Galveston, Denver, New Orleans and Ogden receive the "new talk," and the forces at Phila delphia, Pittiburg, Richmond and Bos ton acquire their stock from New York. In this way a bright saying heard by an operator in New York is repeated the world over the same day, as the cable operators are quite as alangy as the rest of the craft Philadelphia Record. A Rugaeatlnn. They were friends, and how they loved each other. Scene: A publio dinner. Hrown It sated next to Smith, whose shirt front la decorated with three magnificent dia moud (?) studs. Brown Excuse tne, Smith, but 1 really can't help admiring those stud of yours. Smith Yea, I think they're prutty good. Brown Don't you run a great risk with them? I upoe you have them insured ? Smith Insured! No. I should be glad to do so; but there Isn't a com pany in existence that will take a risk of that sort Brown My dear fellow, I beg your pardon, there are several plate glass insurance offices to be found. Loudon Tit-Bita. Th Kaaler War. Edwin Booth is quoted as telling this story: "I went oue night to hear Fecb ter in a melodrama of a tragle cast In one part of the play Fechter had to count out money. He was very delib erate and said slowly, 'One, two, three, four, five,' and ao on. The in terest of the play waa hanging on the tragedian's having enough money and paying it over to the villain. He kept slowly counting and the audience grew more restlem and anxious forhim to finish. A witty son of Erin, In the top most gallery, getting tired, yelled, "Say, MJjrter FecLter, give Liui a cLckP OLD WILLIE'S QUEST. A llnwarf Character Whoa KiperUne Itenioiulrale lluwery nyniualhy, "There's a character," said the clerk of a twenty-five cent Howery hotel, indU eating a shabbily dressed old man who st is si with his lutck to the stove. "Wil lie, come over here a minute." The old mail by the stove evidently answered to the diminutive name, for he glanced up to mo who called, and then sluilll.sl quickly over to the desk. "Tell the gentleman about yourself, Willie," said the clerk. Willie took off hi dilapidated hat to the stranger, and said: "Twenty-five years ago I had a daughter. One day she went away and left me. She was mighty pretty, and uot moru'n fifteen years old. Where had she gone? No one could say. I began iliy search one night in March, twenty-live years ago. I hunted for ten years and never found her. Then 0110 night in winter 1 saw a man and a woman crossing this very Howerv. I linked closer, and there was my child. 1 called, 'Julia! Julia? . She turned her head and Kxikcd at me. I was hurrying up to take her hands, when 1 saw tinil she was leaving me. She and the man went fast through the crowd, and 1 followed, railing, 'Julia! Julia!' A H)liceiniin stopped me, and ' then they all laughed. I had lost her i again. That was fifteen vears ago. I've ' never seen her since, but I'm still look ing, and 1 11 find her yet" "Well, life has gone hard with you, hasn't it?" said tho stranger. " You look cold." "Thank you. I'm not so very cold. The trouble is my kind friends give me a thin coat to wear in tho winter and a thick one to wear in tho summer. That's the way it was with the Italian that keei tho fruit stand out on the corner here. Ho gave this little blue coat to me, and I pawned the old thick one that the cigar man gave me, because it had the most holes iu it." "Are you very poor?" "Not as long as I stay right in tins neighborhood. The cigar man lets tne sleep on the floor in his shop, and this good young man lets me have the use of the hotel office." "Where do you get your food?" "It comis to me from various direc tions. I have the saino troublo with that, though, that I do with my coats, I get a piece of sweet rico pudding for breakfast as a rule, and buckwheat cakes for dinner, when, of course, the order should bo reversed. It is left over in that way." "Well, you expect to find your daugh ter some lay?" "Yes. I'm seventy-six now, and 1 think I will live ten years longer. In that tiino I shall meet her again. I am always on tho street, except when I step iu here or at the cigar store to gut warm. 1 will bid you good day, sir, and start out again on my hunt." The old man hurried out into the Bow ery and disapeared in the crowd. "The worst of it is," remarked the ho tel clerk after he had gone, "Old Willie's daughter has been dead for ten years aud he's never beeu told of it" New York Sun. Woman' I'ower Without Ilia llallut. No earnest woman can embark iu auy humane work without having the truth borne in upon her of the helpless condi tion of a citizen without a vote. Put a single profligate qualified male voter in one scale, aud a score of conscientious, disfranchised women in the other, and we know which scale will kick the beam, So every struggle for tho uplifting of the race which enlists the support of woman is a sure preparatory school for her com prehension of equul rights. There is a fable of a company of beuv era who consoled themselves on parting because they would all meet again iu the hatter's shop. Aud the unthinking women who deride the thought of voting aud still interest themselves in social re form w ill be certain to find themselves some line morning in thecuinp of woman suffrage, but with a wholeness which the beavers lacked. William Lloyd Gar rison. Th Superior Cap Cod Poke. "What are you giviu' us?' yelled down town grocer lu an excited way to an Auburn friend who had just slam banged his hat down on his head and whirled him around so violently that he full on a potato barrel and skinned his elbow. "I'm takiu' boxiu' lessons," said his friend, "and that's the marine awing." "That's it, is it?" said tho grocer, as he grablied the Auburu man, jammed him under a meat bench, kicked the vis ible portion of his anatomy and lilt him hard with a broom. "How do you like that? That's the Cape Cod poke, other wise known as pot luck. Next time you como round with your new tricks just remember that there's a few of ns old ones left who knew a twist or two wheu we were young." Both men were flushed and both were mad and both smiled. Luwistou Jour nal. A roar KooteU lllr. There la a four footed bird, the Opisthocomua cristatus, which ha such anomalies of structure that It Is Impos sible to class It along with any other family. It is oue of those survivors which tell us of extinct groups of whose post existence we would otherwise have remained forever ignorant These, the only sccles of four footed birds, inhabit the Island of Marnjo in the Lower Amazons. It is only during In fancy that this remarkable feature of these birds is seen, the two fore feet ap pearing early in tho development of the embryo, and continuing perfectly formed for several days after hatching, when they are gradually shed. It is also known aa the hoactzln, or evil smelling bird, the flesh having an un pleasant odor, making It unpalatable to both man ami carnivorous animals, which is prolmbly one cause of its sur rival London Tit-Hits, Something About Sworda. Major Petti bono, of Cincinnati, aays that notwithstanding the profound peace which this couutry enjoys, that city alone turns out on an average 10. 000 regular army swords every year. All swords made in this country are dull ex cept at the point barbarous nations only making sharp edged swords. The idea of refined and beautiful warfare is to kill without mutilation, aud a blow from a sharp sword might make a horrible wound without causing death. The finest sword turned out in Cincinnati were a complete outfit for the late King Kalakaua and his retinue. Swords range in price from Ifi to t500. THROUGH THE FLUME KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT HISTORY HELPEO OUT MINER3. They Followed Ilia Kiampla Net by Cjrn lha Ureal M lien lie Captured Unity Ion. A rw Toua of Kilter Or Inatead of C'lljr Ma at Slake, However. There were gathered In tho lobby of the Windsor hotel a number of engi neers aud mining sucrintendcht. As is frequently tliHcnio, there win a goisl deal of talk of shop. Among the nuiii ls'r present were men who hud licen working, at one time or another, in near ly every prominent silver camp in the United States. The climax, however, was reached when one of the mining men showed how a knowledge of an cient history once came into play and paid a man exceedingly well. "Of course." he said, "you have all heard of the Pelican and the Dives mines at Georgetown, aud know that there has liecn very rich ore taken from these claims. There was a dispute between the owners of the claims. The Dives uniI to keep its ore and have it all sampled Sunday. The idea was that no civil pro cess could be served .Sunday, ami by get ting the ore down and sampled that day there was no chance for their opponents to do anything. Of course, after the ore was sampled, no one could swear to its identity when removed from the sam pler, and so it was safe the rest of the week. "The Dive people aimed to ship down alwut 1H tons each Sunday, this amount of ore being valued at alsmt fl,000. Mr. Schneider, the bunker, who was afterward shot, was the owner of the Pulican and was anxious to get even with the Dives people iu any way possi ble. "One day he told one of the miners around Georgetown that he could have all the ore that he could get from the Dives people, and that he would pur chase the samo at full value at the Peli can mill. "The bargain certainly gave no one a legal title to the ore thus to lie obtained, and as to the moral ascct of the ques tion I suppose that didn't bother any one of them. Tho law certainly would have looked uinui ore taken from the Dives people under this arrangeuieut as stolen ore. OBTAINED TIIK KKUS. ''The miner with whom the arrange ment had beeu made had for some time had some low grade ore iu sacks in oue of the bins of the Foster sampler, a mill about half a mile alsn'o the sampler where tho ore of tho Dives peoplo was sampled. One evening, after he had made arrangements with a couple of friends, ho wont to Mr. Foster, after the latter had locked up his sampler, and asked him for the key of the mill, aa he wanted to get the sacks holding the low gradu ore stacked in the mill. Mr. Fos ter, of course, had no objection and handed over tho key. "During the night there came along a wagon loaded Willi ore picked out at the Dives mine by one who knew tho grade of the ore. It was dropped 011 the hill and the two meu packed the ore in the Foster sampler. Tho ore was put in the sacks which formerly held the low grade galena ore. (t was impossible to take away the ore that night, so it was left, with the hope that Mr. Foster would not notice auythiug out of the way. But when the next night it was noticed by the two conspirators that a brand new lock was placed on the door of the mill, and that all the windows had been firm ly fastened down, they needed no one to tell them that Mr, Foster wanted an ex planation of how worthless galena ore had suddenly become ore running COO ounces in silver. I "Tho two conspirators sneaked around the mill, hunting for an unguarded place, but every polut was locked, no door opened, no window was tuisfiut To break in meant burglary, and bur glary means Canyon City for a term, if .discovered. So what to do became the question. I KNOWLEDGE Ot UlSTOItY. "Here came in the advantage of read lug. Says the one to the other. 'Have you ever read any ancient history? 'No,' was the replv, 'and what good would it oe bore' 'Well, if you bud, you would know bow to solve the problem of enter ling this mill without breaking it. Cyrus entered Babylon by turning the river that flowed beueath the walls of the city and entered by the way thus opened. We must do the samo with the water Wining through the flume entering the mill, and thus enter without breaking through tho wall or through the roof.' . "It wasn't much of a job to turn the water of the flume at the headgate, and in a fow minutes the flume was dry, Here was a good pathway leading into the mill, and nothing needed to be broken or in any way injured. "It wasn't very long before our two conspirators were in the mill ami were moving the sacks with the rich ore, alwut which Mr. Foster was so particular and anxious to learn something. I "The time at command did not allow lof carrying the ore entirely away. Not ouly that, but it was not safe to handle jjust that elate) of ore immediately, for, at the least, it meant a cutting of a good iileal of the profit of the job. Here again (the flume aud its supply of water came in handy. The sacks with the ore were (dropped over the tail flume, and aa soon aa the water was turned on there was a veil of water hiding all that wealth hid Idon behind it , "When the conspirators had moved all fhe ore they returned by the way they tad come, again turned on the water, and then nothing on the outeide showed (that the mill no longer held the ore it once did. When the doors were opened in the morning everything was found as 'usual, except that the ore, to guard 'which all tbn paddocks and nails and 'screws had beeu brought into requisi tion, was gone. : "In due time the ore waa removed from beneath its curtain of water, brought to the Pelican sampler and sold. It ran 470 ounces in silver to every ton, and as there waa a little more than five tons, it can be readily calculated that good pay waa received for the sleep lost at bight" Denver Newa A Nelihborlr Call. Mr. Tibbetta (to Mrs, Brown, who baa lately moved Into the nei(hborbood) Good afternoon, Mr. Brown. I'm your neighbor acroa tl way. Folks on this street are unsocial Tbey never call on any one oiileaa tbey happen to be just o nice; and I knew yon would bt loneeume. Harper's Baxar. Kaallr Located. Police Serjeant What ii the matter with that youugider, Patrolman He I lot, aud cant remember kit name. Bergeent Can't remember his neswl Burnt Take him around to tb, quarter. New York Weekly. GIRLS AND FLOWERS, On Olrl Who 111 Them (hrewdlr, aad One Who I'M Than Carlon!. A genial old gentleman waa baying violets from the flower girl on Broadway. "Well, I'm getting to be a pretty old customer, eh, Katie," he observed, aa be arranged the flower in the lapel of hla overcoat "You've been buyin' flowers a good many years, air, but you're not old yet," replied Katie, with the shrewd flattery of her sex. "I like to aee a gentleman wear flowers, especially a middle aged gentleman. That shows bis heart ain't growiu' old, an' it shows he likes what's sweet an' clean. I notice a lot of the gentlemen lose their grip iu that way when they get along." "How do you mean they lose their grip, Katie?" asked the gentleman. "Oh, they get over carin' for vileta when they get married and has fam ilies," replied tho flower girl "I aee lot of youug fellers dressed np fine goin along here for a few years, an' they all wear flowers in their coats. They are all bright, just like the flower, aud you can't help likin' 'em for it That's when they're mashers an' when the girls care fur 'em. "Then they get married, an' the first thing they drop is the flowers from their coats. That takes away all their bright ness, an' then it does seem aa if they go sort of dusty, an' as if their hats were old or uot brushed. Once in a while, though, a gentleman geta married an' grows a little old an' still he buys vileta. like you do, sir. Then I think be must be a nicer sort of man than the rest, an' probably is very happy at home with a good wife an' children." Tho old gentleman blushed, and hemmed and hawed. "Humph! Haw what'a the price of those roses, Katicf They look very fresh." "Two dollars a dozen air, aud they're fresh cut this morning." "Humph! Haw well, pick out two dozen nice ones and send them to my wife. Here! This la my card. Good morning, Katie." "That's a nice gentleman," said Katie to herself, aa the customer walked away. "I guess I reminded him of bia wife, thouglu That'a the way with the best of 'em. They never forget their own buttonholes, bnt they think a woman dou't need any more rosea after her hair begins to get gray." A girl who la such an extreme belle and favorito that the men she knows burden her with floral mementoes of their regard has many strange and po etic ways of disposing of her superfluous bouquets. In the first place she never gives any preference to one over another, bnt selects the one she is to carry by ad vancing with her eyes closed to a large table, upon which they have been indis criminately scattered by a servant, and selects one at random. This, she de clares, saves the trouble of thinking the question over, and gives an equal chance to all her admirers. . She then has her maid pluck all the petals from the roses that are left, and these are saved until the next morning, when, after coming out of her bath, they are poured in a shower over her, and she stands among them while her toilet is completed. All the violets are collected together each night, and after they are thoroughly mixed the dainty maiden makes np a small bunch, which she fast ens at the neck of her nightgown. Those that are left are tossed over her bed after she has retired. The orchids are made into aa large a bunch aa possible and suspended from the chandelier of box bedroom. New York Sun. Belief la Slckne. It Is a very old observation tliat a domi nant Idea is valuable in controlling the human being, and whether it be in the bearing of pain or in the devotion which leads the Turk to die contentedly before the Russian bullets, belief is a factor that may be turned to great advantage. In directly, Christian science may prove an aid to medical science. The intelligent physician of today could receive no greater aid in the scientific practice of his profession than to be emancipated by his patients from the obligation invari ably to prescribe a drug. When people are williug to employ physicians to order tholr lives so that they may live iu health, the custom which binds the phy sician to prescribe something for his pa tient will be unnecessary. Aa we have become more civilized this state of affair is gradually coming into place, but tbore still lingers the expecta tion that the doctor's visit means drugs. Christian science and faith cure, more refined than the spiritualistic- beliefs which have preceded them, form an In teresting study in mental pathology, and mark an advance from the grosser stage of table tipping and magnetic doctor to a recognition of the fact that among the weapons employed by the scion tiflo phy sician of today an appeal to a determined purpose to overcome pain la worthy of a place beside antiseptics and anodynes and tonic. Century. A Tower In the Land. Lift yonr hat reverently when you meet the teacher of the primary school. She is the good angel of the republic. She takes the little bantling, fresh from the home nest and full of his pouts and bia passions, an ungovernable little wretch, whose own mother honestly ad mits she sends him to school to get rid ot him. Thia young lady, who knows her business, takes a whole carload of these anarchists, half of whom, tingle handed and alone, are more than a match for both their parents, and at once puts them in the way of being use ful and upright citizens. At what ex pense of toil and weariness! Here la the most responsible position In the whole school, and if her salary were doubled she would receive less than she tarn. Shclbyville (Conn.) Democrat Too Plain. Jaytmith (gloomily) Larkin called me a liar today. Mrs. Jaysmlth (indignantly) Did yon tell hiin to prove it? Jaysmlth It wasn't necessary, Weil Shore, Sociability. That beggar there is a sociable fel low." "How do you know?" "Why, he extends a hand to alL" Kate Field' Washington. General Aycardi, Governor of Panama, has given permission to the World's Co lumbian Exposition to remove from the old fortre at Puerto Bello on the Isth mus of Panama some old Spanish can non, which date back very nearly to the time of Columbus,