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OFF rOR SLUMuERLAND. IYrpl ware cf evening l:y Willi iHlt.ti J tot k.lft n. n-ea. Over the iuuo hliiuiiKT Crv Their Utile biuU are cradl' UaUU TheaioU eru caruim (i ini uuU ablta; Tht ruiMt-m aw swart luUutii.-s; liu- auction, soft and aly l'l They're otitaarj l.mn.l f. rilnuilvrlaad, Where . lining ilnwuia lie on the unit, LWs htsp'rlng iiri tlmt iiiurnmr lu The prvtt fiUK lm llira know And there, anion? the tlrrain ah-lla bright, The hula ouva iU plar all niitht, lull) the skvpy bit,; tunu -Uuu . They'll all conieaaillng hatiieagah)! , -Carolina liniua in Hi. Nicbulaft ALICES FORTUNE. "Sister Theodosia," said u feeble voice from the bed. The Sinter of Charity, a mild faced woman of middle agp, answered the sum mons of the dying man, and approached the bedside. The dying man was Hector Moritz, a carpenter, who had fallen from a house which he was building, a few days be fore, ana so injured himself that he could not recover, lie lived just outside the village of St. Barbe, w ith his little girl, Alice, now ? years old. Ilia wife had died three years before, but Alice, child as she was, could make coffee and cook an omelet as skillfully as if siio were twice as old, and had acted us her fa ther s little housekeeper. So it happened that, being alone, an unusual affection had sprung up between Alice and tier father. The Sister of Charity approached the bedside. 1 lie sick mnu s face expressed t iixiety, and his eye turned from the i urge to his little girl, who was pale ajid rief stricken, yet had self-control enough not to betray her emotion lest it should distress her father in bis last moments. "What can I do for you, M. Moritz?" asked Sister Theodnsia, in a gentle voice, Ilia glance wandered to his little girl once more. "Alice," he gasped, "provided for." "Do you mean that you wish Alice provided for?' asked the sister, striving to Interpret his broken words. "Already provided for money there," and he pointed vaguely downwards. "Poor man! He is wandering iu mind," thought the sister for . lie was pointing to the floor; but she thought it best to appear to have understood him. , "Yes," she said gently, "have no auxi ely." He looked nt her wistfully, and then, seeming to think he was understood, he full back upon the pillow from which he had lifted his head, and a moment after expired. When Alice realized that her father was really dead she gave way to excess ive grief so excessive that it soon wore itself out, leaving her pale and sorrow ful. Sister Theodosia took her into her lap and pressed her head against her bosom in sail compassion, for little Alice was now without father or mother. In due time Hector Moritz was buried, and the next thing to be considered was, how should Alice be disposed of? Hector Moritz left two near relatives, both cousins. One of these was a thriv ing tradesman in the next town, a man who had prosiiered, partly through his selfishness, which was excessive. The other, also residing in the next town, was a poor shoemaker with a large fam ily, who found it hard enough to make both ends meet, but was, withal, kind and cheerful, beloved by his children, for whom ho could do so little, and pop ular in the village. These two cousins met at the funeral of Hector Moritz. -' "I suppose Hector died poor." said M. Ponchard, the tradesman, a little uneas- y. "This house Is all ho owned, so far as I know," said the notary, "and it is mortgaged for nearly its value." "Humph: that is bad for the child," said M. Ponchard. , v "I suppose you wilt take tier home, M. Ponchard?" said the notary, bluntly. "We all know that you are a prosperous man." " The tradesman drew back. "If I am prosperous," he said, "I have had to work for my money. It is all I can do to provide for my own family. I can't support other people's children." "Then you won't do anything for the child?" "I didn't say that. I'll give her twenty-five nay, fifty francs. That's all I ought to do." ' ' i "And how long will fifty francs sup port her?" said the notary, disdainfully, fur he detested the meanness of the rich tradesman. ' , ' "That is not my affair. She need not starve. She can go to the almshouse." "Who speaks of the almshouse?" spoko up M. Corbet, the poor shoemaker, "M. Ponchard si-gests that Alice go to the almshouse," sad the notary. "Not while I have a home to offer her," said the poor cousin warmly. "But, M. Corbet," said the notary, "you are poor. Can you afford, with your many children, to undertake an additional burden?" 'I never look on them as burdens they are my joy and comfort," said M. Corbet. "I can't give Alice a luxurious home, but such as I have she is welcome to. I am sure the good God will not let ma starve if I undertake the care of my little orphan couf in." "He's a fool!" thought M. Ponchard contemptuously. "He will always be miserably poor." But the notary grasped his hand, and said: "M. Corbet, I respect you. If you are not rich in money, you are rich in a good heart, and that is the best kindof riches." So, no opposition being made, the little Alice went home with the poor shoe maker. As for the cottage, that was left in the hands of the notary to sell. As already intimated, there was a mortgage upon it to nearly its full value, so that it was not likely to bring much over. What little there should be would, of course, go to Alice. Several months passed without any opportunity to sell the cottage. During that time Alice remained at the house of M. Corbet, treated, I was about to say, like one of the family. This, however, would not be strictly correct She was not treated like one of the family, but better than one of the family; in short, like a favored gnest. for whom nothing was too good. But unfortunately at thia juncture, M. Corbet fell sick, and having always beer, compelled to live to the limit of his small income, had nothing saved up for the rainy day which had come upon him. and so the family were aooo in a sad trait. Jhe notary heard i-f it and was iture.1 with coniaMiiiiii. "If only Alire had something," he said to Sister Theodoaia, whom he met one day at a sick bed; for the good Sla ter of Charity spent her time in tending the sick without compensation. "If only Alice had some small property she might come to the relief of her poor relation. "Aud has she not?" asked Biiter Theo dnsia. "Nothing that I know of beyond the house, and upon that there is a mortgage to nearly its full value." ' "But her father upon his deathbed told me that she was provided for." "Did he, indeed?" asked the notary, urprieed. "Did he lay anything more?" "No. he was unable to; but he pointed to the floor. I am afraid lie was out of his head and meant nothing," "Stop! I have an idea," said the no tary suddenly. "Can you leave for a few minutes and go with me to the cot tage?" "Yes, I can be spared for half an hour," said Sister Theodosia. Together they went to the cottage, which chanced to be close by. "Now," said the notary, when they were once inside, "to what part of the floor did M. Moritz point? Can you re tueuilier?" "There," said the sister. "Very well; we will soon see whether there is anything in my idea." The notary procured a hatchet, and succeeded after a time In raising a plank of the floor, Sister Theodosia looking on meanwhile, with surprise. But her surprise was increased when, on the plank being raised, a box was dis covered underneath. . . "Help me lift it," said the notary. With the aid of the hatchet he removed the cover of the box, and the two uttered an exclamation of surprise when under' neath they found a large collection of gold coins. On the top was placed a sheet of note paper, on which were writ ten these words, in the handwriting of tho deceased: The gold In this box represents th 'laving of many years. It Is fur my daughter, Alice, For her aalt I ban lived frui-ally, and I bop It way aura her from want when I am Rons. Hectoi Moam. "How much is there?" asked Sister Theodosia,, ".There are two hundred and fifty naHjleons. These make five thousand francs. Truly, M. Moritz must have been frugal to save so much." "Then little Alice is an heiress," said Sister Theodosia. "It is as you say." " "I am very glad. Now she can pay her board to that poor M. Corbet, aud lie will lose nothing by his kindness." "I will go to-uight and tell him." The poor shoemaker was still sick, and his money had wholly given out, so that the family had had no supper. - "I am sorry you are sick, my friend." aid the notary. "Yes," said the poor shoemaker, sigh ing; "It is unfortunate." . . "I think you were not wise in taking an additional burden when you had so many children already." "I am not sorry. Alice is always wel come to all that we can give her." . "Then you are not sorry you have taken her?" , "No; but I am sorry I fell sick. The poor child has had no supiwr." "Nor any of you, I suppose?" "Nor any of us." "M. Corbet, you are a good man and truly charitable. But I have good new for you." "Good news? Well, it could never come at a better time." "You thought Alice was poor." '.'And is she not?" "On the contrary, she is an heiress." "What do you mean?" "Her father left 5,000 franca for her fortune." , . -, . . "Is that true?" asked the shoemaker and his wife, bewildered. "Yes; and therefore it is only fitting that she should pay her board. How long has alio been here?" "Four months." "Seventeen weeks. Now, as her fath er's executor, I am goiug to allow you eight francs a week aud you shall under take to provide her with a home and clothing. , For seventeen weeks, then, that she has been here I owe you 126 francs. I pay it to you at once." "But it is too much," said M. Corbet, surveying the gold with stupefaction, for he had never seen as much before. "It is right." , "We are saved!" said his wife thank fully. "I will go out and buy some bread. Children, you shall have some SUpKT." At thia there was a shout of joy from thechlldren, and tears of gratitude flowed down the cheeks of the poor shoemaker, who pointed to Alice, and said: "She has brought me good fortune." Before the money was half expended the shoemaker had recovered, and went to work again. The eight francs a week he received for Alice proved a great help to him, small as it may seem to my read ers, and enabled him to afford more com forts than before. . , From that time M. Corbet prospered, and was even able to save up money, and all through his unselfish kindness to the little Alice, through whom he believes good fortune has come to him and his. Horatio Alger, Jr., in Yankee Blade. . A Wonderful Lily. . One sometimes hears of the wonderful productiveness of the golden lily Iilium Auratum. Lindley. Some years ago an instance was recorded of one stalk, un der cultivation, bearing no less than thirty-ilve flowers. This happened at Pitloui, m Fifeahire, Scotland, in 1886. The record is quite beaten by a plant in the garden of a foreign resident at Ka ruizawa. hich is now bearing no fewer than fifty-M-ven flowers on one stalk. The sulk itself is six feet high, and toward the upper end it flattens out, the buds hanging like keys on a board. The upperextreuiity iacleft Boom is thus al lowed for the remarkable luxuriance of flowering just described. In The Far East of Sept. 16, 1872. it Is stated: This summer there grew in the garden of Mr. O. C. Pearson, on the Bluff (No. Ill), Yokohama, two stems from one bulb. One was a fair specimen of the ordinary flowering of the plant, having eighteen flowers upon it; but the other, upon a broad, flat stem, about an inch and a half in width, but thin as a lath, bad no less than sixty-three buds, of which fiftv-two were in full flower at one time. Japan neemj nau. An Indian man grinds corn stalks and coarse prairie grass, moistens them with water, reduce them to a coarse pulp and then subject the mast to a heavy pressure, compressing them into block 12x14 inchea thici. The!, when thoroughly dry, furnish more heat than ordinary bituminous coat NOMINATED FOR MAYOR. THE KICKER EDITOR PREPARES TO RULE THE TOWN. Teas tVgelew aad Jim Reuahaw Tor Hank ( Manaaaah fa roalmaater Pumped Pull f Lead A lied llol Time In Arizona. "Poor SiKKHtMO. As we were com ing across the sand lots the other eve ning, after spending a couple of agree able hours at tne adolie rcaideuce of the widow Jackson, some would-1 awuiwdn, who was in hiding, fired six bullet st us from a revolver. W e think it was Tom lligelow. We think so, lie cause Tom has shot at everybody In thu town and never hit anv one. lie dldn't hit ua Being armed only with a bowie knite, we lit out as soon as the shooting begun, and the last bullet went ten feet above our head. "We did think of hunting Tom up yesterday and splitting his ear with a bullei as a great moral lesson, but on second thought we concluded not to waste the time. He'll keep on bla.lng away around this town until somebody gets vexed at the noise end then hell suddenly go hence. We don t want his funeral expenses on our hands." llr's a St nsfmnzR. Last week, as nutlced by our cotemporary In a double-leaded article witu three scare heads on it, Jim Kenshaw, who owns the cactus ranch out on the Tuscon road, refused to take his copy of the Kicker out of the postofllce. Jim not only owed us 91.50 on subscription, but refused his paper to hurt our feelings. He's been sore on us ever since we re fused to lend him our white shirt the only one in town to go on a drunk in. "We want to show an accommodat ing spirit towards all, and we have the name of being a irood-fellow, but we want to say right here and now that we believe a common wool shirt la plenty good enough for any man in this town to get drunk lu. If it isn't, he d better stay sober. "When we saw .lira's little game wa mounted onr mule and rode over to in terview him. He was expecting us. One bullet went through our hat and another raked our mule, but after that Jim lay down and we dug the bullet nut of tils shoulder and helped him into hia dug-out. He not only paid us all arreas in spot cash, but a dollar on ad vance subscription, and as soon as able to move about he will personally can vass for subscribers." "Wk Siiai.i, Ukt Tiikkk. Last Fri day evening we were nominated for mayor on the Democratic ticket by ac clamation, and this Is equivalent to an election. We dont deny that we sought the nomination. We have had our eye on it for a year past We shall also do our level best to snow our opponent under. We have been moved to this course by a desire to see the town well governed ana be.ause we believe the Mayor should be the representative mau of the town. We are that man. There' no use lu Ailing and backing and talk ing about modesty and self-conceit and all that. We lead this town. W e know more than any ten men In it rolled together. We shall make the be t Mayor the town has ever had. and we shall see that all the city printing is given to The Kicker at legal rates.'1 l ownkii Auain. When the new ad ministration came in we wanted to be nstmaster. We were eminently fitted r the place. Instead of giving it to us Mr. Wanamaker appointed a crea ture who goes by the name of Hank Scott A more unfit man could not have been fouud in Arizona. Hank knew how we felt, and he set out to make it pleasant for us. Inside of two weeks he kulfed us In the leg and we shot him in the shoulder. Since then Hank and us have bad a shooting bee at least once a month, and on two occasions we left him for deaa lie is as alow on the shoot as be la in sorting the mail Saturday afternoon we entered the postofllce with the complaints of thirty-one subscribers who had failed to get last week's paper. Hank, had no doubt taken them home to put under a carpet, which hi extravagant wife has lately got from Denver. Ifank was watching for us with his head at the general delivery window, and we have the testimony of half a dozen gentlemen that he began shooting first. Gofrva orir IbInvj. We wanted lo argne. brt he kept pnll- tniv ttta tirm.r miA If nrw-lt iflfT th hllt- tons off our new fall suit, and we finally bad to win nun -in sen-defense. He Ian t badly hurt and will be a good as new a month hence ' While we did hanker to be post moster, and while we do honestly be lieve that Hank Scott dorsn t know enough to atnng dried apples, we don't like these Incidents They de tract from a man's dignity and help give our town a hard name. We hope llank will chang-a hia tactl after be gets around again. This Is the third or fourth time we've had to pnmp lead into him, and we don t line to do it. It girea outsiders the Idea that we are a street-brawler Instead of a quiet, peaceful editor with the best interest of tb country at heart." otuvew i i FREAKS OF FASCINATION. Kaeh Maa lias Hia l.laU and. Vary Tar tanauljr. Taataa 1)1 0r. Dame Nature plays strange freak with men' minds, If one of the many en terprising newspaper of the day wa to Inaugurate a competition in which every man had to give an accurate description of the kind of woman most prone to fas cinate him, many readers would, - I think, be astonished. Noah Webster's definition of the word fascination is, "The eia rciae of a power ful or irresistible Influence on the affec tions and pardons," and he give as secondary explanation, "Uuscttn, inex plicable influence, witchcraft, enchant ment." lu the words "inexplicable in fluence" the learned doctor teem to have summed up neatly the whole ques tion. Who can explain what I fre quently the case, tliat of two men of a nearly a possible the same cast of mind, the one will And a woman Irresistibly fascinating, while on the other she might not exert the slightest attractive influence? Such a problem is as hard to solve a why the guileless rabbit, instead of putting his best leg forward and mak ing a bolt, circle round the snake, which he knows only too well intends to make a meal of him. The wise heathen Aristotle said: "No man loves but that he is first delighted with comeliness and beauty, and beauty is for the most art the bait which lure a victim into the meshes of the snare, but not always." Dr. Webster, too, seems to imply by hi definition that in the power of fascination, whether exer cised by man or woman, there lurks a certain sexual affinity. Yet one of the most fascinating women of history wa Oermaiiie Necker, afterwards Mme. de Stael, though contemporaneous record tell us that she was anything but a beauty, and that her dress was not only hideous, but sinned against every princi ple of good taste Women, however, whose name will be handed down to posterity as having founded noted salons, or having pro vided the magnetic influence to gather a brillant coterie of wit and talent, have, for the most part, been beautiful. "Beau ty is the common object of all love: as jets draw a straw, so doth beauty love." Beauty will always attract, at any rate momentarily; but most meu, if they find that a lovely face is but a mask cover ing a void cranium, will cease to flutter around the llauio. There are, however, striking exceptions to this rule on rec ord. Perhaps the best Instance Is that of the Infatuation of Prince Maurice do Talley rand, once Abbe du Perigord and bishop of Autuu, for that lovely blonde, Muie. Grant, afterward Mme. Talleyrand. Her gross stupidity was proverbial, and fur nished amusement for the aalona of Mme. de Stael and others, which her husband frequented. But in the majority of case something more Is necessary than comeliness of face to really fascinate men, especially such men as the "Prince of Diplomat," and this something is the instinctive faculty which enables a woman to adapt her mind to and enter into the spirit of her companion for the tlino being. Thus, in my own experience, I have seen a learned professor discoursing elo quently on the scupture of ancient Greece U a young lady whoso taste were in reality centered in dogs and horse. Had he ktiown her true proclivities, he would have stood aghast at such utter barbar ism; yet such was her genial, sympa thetic influence on his mind that he pro nounced her the most charming of her sex second only, of course, to his stout and learned wife. Had the intercourse been indefinitely prolonged, doubtless the potency of the spell would have van ished; for, in reality, there wa little or nothing in common between the two minds. The power of fascination Inherent in woman may, however, be divided into two kinds. All of us have seen the old lady, generally white haired, with kind ly, pleasant features, on which time ha set no unfriendly murk, who still rctaiua all her attractiveness. Note how the boys and girls adore her; they will go to her and confide their sorrows, their hopes, their ambitions, even when they would not breatho a word to their mothers. The kindly, living interest in a lad'a af fairs by such an one baa time and again first implanted the impulse in hi heart which eventually led him on to an honor able career. Quickly, almost by stealth, the good la done by such, and the good aeed sown which will rijien in after time Into a rich and abundant crop. On the other hand, we have most of ua seen, perhaps in real life, certainly on the stage, the fascinating adventures who, by her enthralling beaute de diable, enslave men' souls and leads them (on the stage) to dare all for her sake. Such is directly opposed to the sweet old lady in her old fashioned cliair, and these two form the opposite poles between which the women who fascinate vary. Francis Trevelyan In Saturday Iteview. Th riral LlfbtolDf Bod. Everybody believe that Franklin wa the inventor and constructor of the first lightning rod. In this one particular everybody is mistaken. The first light ning catcher was not invented by the great philosopher, but by a poor monk of Seuttenberg, Bohemia, who put up the first lightning rod on the palace of th curator of Preditx, Moravia, June 13, 1 754. Tho name of the inventive monk was Prohop Dilwlseh. The apparatus waa composed of a pole surmounted by an iron rod, supporting ' twolve curved branches and terminating in a many metallic boxes filled with Iron ore and inclosed by a wooden box like cover, traversed by twenty-seven iron pointed rods, the base of which found a resting place In the ore box. The entire system of wire wa united to the earth by a large chain. The enemies of Dilwiach, jealous of his success, excited peasants of the locality against him, and, nnder the pretext that hi lightning rod wa the cause of the exceasiv dry weather, had the rod taken down and the inventor imprisoned. Years afterward M. Mel sen used -the multiple pointed rod as an invention of his own. Sb Loui Re public. Ta Pravaat lUMuautisai. By the exercise of a little care and the adoption of a lew simple rule a great deal of rheumatism could be prevented. Abstemious tiring, free exercise, frequent bathing to keep the skin active, a liberal use of fruit and drinking of water in large quantities are sure preventive. Water dwaolve aud washes waste matter out of the system and il use is essential where there is anv impairment in the action of Uia kidneys, bowel or skin. By the application of this simple treat ment and ordinary rare .immunity from rheumatism can U oUaiucd.' ELECTRIC FIXTURES. THEY ARE RAPIDLY DISPLACING TH! GAS CHANDELIER. Haadrsd af Thuaaaada of Dullmn la vactad la Thslr Manufacture Tha Oraalaal Taala lUilayad la Thalr Pa Iga and Maka A drawing ladiutrr. With the progress of interior electric lighting and the gradual disappearance of gas illumination in theatre, hoteU and private dwellings has come a new industry. It ifligbt almost be called an art, or at least an ally of an art, for it ha engaged the attention of architects, and has called forth some of th best effort of artistic designers. This new industry is the manufacture of electric light fixture. Only two oi three year ago it wa in it infancy. Today It ha reached an importance al most as great as electrio lighting itself, and has attracted million in invest ment The gas chandelier is dally re ceding to give place to tho electrolier, and if the present rate of progress if maintained tin- electrolier may be seen iu the dwelling of (lersous of very mod erate means. It may be the climax In the advance which made the caudle and the oil lamp give way to gas. Uutil 1(88 all the liner class of electric light fixture were imjiorted chiefly from Frauce. American companies man ufactured a class of plain good which failed to satisfy the wealthy, and were too costly for others. All this is changed now. The American architecture and the American artist have taken up the matter of interior electric lighting, and the electric light fittings have become a part aud parcel of architecture. The fit ting are designed to suit the style of the architecture, and they cover many pe riods. AST 1M TUB Bt SINKSH. Soma of these are the -Itoinanesque, the renaissance (French and Italian), Louis XIV, Louis XV. Louie XVI, the Empire, Adam (English style). Colo nial (American) and the Nineteenth cen tury revival of the renaissance in the floral period. The materials of the fit tings are chiefly wrought Iron, brass and copper hammered. Three or four million dollar are in vested in the business. The American companies, which used to manufacture goods inferior to tho French article, are now consolidated, and many of the best French designers are employed by them. It appears just now that the Americana are a little ahead of the French aud En glish in thia new art But the American people are far from being convinced of this yet The Vandurhilts and many other of the wealthy Fifth avenue fami lies have imported electrio light fittings, bud will have no other. But it seems to bo only a matter of a few year more when American art and American enter prise will have overcome French and English ascendency. The fitting made today are aa varied In style aud far mora artistic than the gat fixtures. They are considerably more costly, too. The costliest ever made wa an electrolier, which now bangs In the drawing room of Janie Rothschild, of London, It cost (6,000. It ia 28 Inches in diameter, about 0 foot high, and is made of gilt bronze and rock crystal The design is of the Louis XVI period. Sixty-eight electrio light hang from the bronze loaves, and the mellow diffusion of light It a remarkable a th beautiful design, SOUR IUCPENSIVK ONES. The cost of nearly all the finer fittings mount high up iuto the hundreds, One of the prettiest is a wrought iron lamp with a dragon twisting itself around it and flames iu the form of electrio lights pouring from its mouth. There is one of these lamp! In the residence of Will lam C Whitney, ex-secretary of the navy. Another is a cnpld holding a lamp made of hammered copper. Ten of these are in Mr. Whituey's house. One of the prettieet of the smaller fit tings Is a bronse fly, from th mouth of which alight is iendant Those flic are placed at irregular intervals on the walls, and make a curious and pretty effect Cupids holding cut glass balls, with drooping lamps of bronxe, aud con taining tweuty-four lights, are among the finest of recent productions. One recently made for a Chicago millionaire cost 14,000. Fur small rooms the favorites ars little electroliers of gilt and white metal and oxidised silver or copper, with rose re flectors. The designs are numerous. One made of oxidized silver is a boy's face, with light shining from the mouth. An other of the same pattern has two lights coming through the eyes. Some of the three light fixtures are highly artistic. One of them, which ia teen in many Fifth avenue house, has one light on globe pendant from tha center, and the othort at the arms, with cut glass drop calculated to increase the brilliancy of the reflection. To fit up Urge private bouse in tha latest style of electrio lighting costs from (13,000 to 0,000, exclusive of the plant Uf course handsome fitting can be had for one-fourth of that amount, bat those who want the "the latest" have to pay extremely fancy price. Chicago Daily News. ' Americans Lad la Cat Ulaa. In cut glass tha American make is foremost Water glasses in the popular strawberry and fan pattern sell for from (7.60 to $9 a dozen. Flower bowls in the same design, six inches in diameter, cost $3 each. Ten dollars will buy a handsome water pitcher. Dainty dishe for bonbon cost very little, and there 1 an endless variety of small pieces for ta ble nse. Baccarat or pressed glass is much cheaper than the cut, and pretty vase cost from forty cent to (3 or (4. The design are pretty, ami the price makes them popular. New York Telegram, Of the 37,2fi9 Uojrs registered at Ber lin only 34,383 ay the dog lax, while the rest escape for tho following rea son: 1.699, because they are ulwaysou the chain ; 1054, because they are used for draught purposes; 51, because they are the guide of deaf mutes-, 21, be cause they are sheep dogs; 9, because thev belong to public watchmen; aim CI, because they are owned by members of foreign embassies. Mon treal Star. The Baadf Maa. Wife That pane of glass has been out all summer, and now a freezing cold day has come and we need it in. 1'v told you forty time to send a man hers to fix it Why In tha world haven't you done it? Husband Because I can fix it sBytelf. Good News. Taa Good is Salt In his life of Horace Greeley, James Tarton tells of an old newsdealer who could not lis iiersuaded to sell the last copy of The Tribuue remaining on hi stand until he had had time to read it A similar measure of independence ap pear to lie In the character of the Ital ian who trundles his fruit truck to the curb in front of The Sun building every night For a week or two he has been selling the California Imitation of Tokay grapes, ami his boxes are emptied very soon after dark. The other evening three customers stood at the rnrb wait ing their turn. Due asked for half a pound, and the Italian snipped a cluster in two and placed it in a brown paper horn which he rolled deftly over hit band. The second customer also took a half pound and got the second half of the luster. That cleared the cart save for one luscious, heavy cluster lying against the ttock rail. It was perfect in form, richly ripe, ami untouched by decay on even a single grape. The third customer reached over and picked it up. He was about to say "How iimchi" wheu the Italian angrily exclaimed: "What are you doing with that! Put it down!" As the customer was not edy in obeying the vender seized his arm and took the cluster away, after which he laid it gently upon a piece of brown paer. But I want to buy it," protested the customer, feeling for hi silver. "You can't do it," said the Italian bluntly. "Think I no want any graw? That's for me." Aud he pushed his truck away from the curb aud started down Park row toward Mulberry street New York Sun. Queer seed from a fraue'a Craw. A truly wonderful plant is at the Alle gheny conservatory. Ho one kuows to what chut it belongs or anything about it It is the subject of much sim ula tion among Kitauists, ami they anxiously await the development of a bud that is forniiug. Then, they say, they can place the plant The botanists have a suspidou that the plant is a tropical one. and Sueriutcndcnt Hamilton is treating it on that supposition. The history of the plant so far as known is a unique one. During the summer one of a party of gunners brought down a crane. It was a beauti ful specimen, and the taxidermist of the party set to work to mount it In the bird's craw were found several seed. With a view to learning if the seed was killed by the bird eating it they were placed in water. In a few days the seeds sprouted. They were planted in loam and kept in a warm room. Ed ward V, McCandlcsa took charge of it Hie plant was an object of interest to Mr. McCundlcMs and his botanist friends, and its development waa clcsiely watched. Last week it was transferred to the con servatory. The leaves are loug and broad and heavy, not nulike a species of palm. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Dangoruua Hug. I have noticed with some surprise the number of people who have been bitten recently by spiders, and the case of the death of a girl in Jersey City from this cause is Irusli in niiud. . Within a week I have met three acquaintances suffer ing, as they told me, from spider bites, and one of them had a hand so badly In flamed that he was afterward obliged to have it lanced. In this connection a housekeeper has shown me two speci mens of "thousand legged bugs that were found iu his house. They were each over an inch In length and had twelve lugs on a side snd two long foolers. The body aud feelers were striiifd, zebra like, in black and white. I snpixws they will be given to some en tomologist for examination, and while these particular varieties may not be closely enough related to centipedes to be poisonous they are nt least unpleasant couiiaiilons for a lady to find miming about the house, and make her think she has seen a centlpedo or tarantula. New York Star. Th Ballut Law llelpa tha Printer. - One of the most appreciable effects of the now Australian election law is the re markable boom it has given the job print ing business. Never before in the history of elections have the printers been called npon for sicli vast quantities and vari eties of campaign cards and campaign literature generally. Under the new system the personal canvass is the most likely to tell, and hence the use for cards of all dimensions. The confusion exist ing as to boundary lines of wards and districts has been of benefit to tht printer in supplying cards with map on the back, and best of all Is tha rage among the candidates to have their portraits printed on their cards. 8t Louis Globe-Democrat A Joke Rave a Life. George Bunch, of Newark, N. J., was overcome by coal gas a few nights ago while in the cellar attending to a fur nace. Two friends who called at tha house for him the next morning could not gain admittance. Thinking that he had overslept himself they concluded to get in th back way and play a joke npon him. They opened a cellar win dow and discovered Buach lying in hia night clothes on the floor. He was re suscitated with difficulty. Philadelphia Ledger. Tain ef Cigar Eada. A man called Angnste, surname un known, has just died in Paris, leaving behind him the respectable sum of 100, 000f., or 4,000, the whole of which com fortable pecullnm would appear to have been amassed from the profits earned by picking np cigar end in the streets of the French metropolis. London Tele graph. Hygienic Ite , Teacher So you can't rememW th name of the great lukea. Can't yon keep them in your bead? Johnnv No. mum. if I was to keen them lakes in my head ( might get water on the liraln eim Hirungs. Keep the back, especially between the shoulder blade, well covered; also the chest well protected. In sleeping in a cold room establish the habit of breath ing tha nose, and never with the mouth open. Louis Fagan, master of prints In the British niuaeuin, i on his way to this country on a tour of the world. Ha will lecture on tha treasure of tha British museums while on his travels. A tunnel to Prince Edward island across Northumberland straits, a dis tance of ix aud a half miles, ia the next great engineering fsat talked of in Canada. HOW MACARONI IS MADE. IT IS CONSIDERED AN EXCELLENT DISH, BUT A LITTLE QUEER. IU Appearance Is Slightly Again! It. but II la All lllgbt An Interesting Trip Through, a Factory Where It la If ana larlured Funny Things la tha Soap. Have you evor eaten macaroni, grated up with fresh Parmesan cheese and served with gravy, Italian style? If you have not you have missed a great treat In years gone by it was a favorite dish in restaurants iu this city, but it has giveu place to newer dishes, snd now Is not to l found on any bill of fare in Chicago. We havo all wondered at tha funny things we sometimes find in our eotip nt these high toiled restaurants, where everything is Judged by appear ance as well as by smell and taste. Our pinto of mock turtle has appeared like a sort of miniature ocean, in which all kinds of swimming things were to be found. There were quaint star fish, miniature, it is true, but nrfect in shape and uppeurance. There were long, strag gling things like thread worms that re quired a good deal of sound reflection on tho (art of tho novico to get them down without a qualm. Thero were tho letters forming our own Initials, and oh, wonder of wonders, tho initials of that dear fellow destined to bo our future husband! How In the woild did C. K. hapM-u to get Iuto our soup? There must be magio in 111 There wero shells of various descriptions and a strip of ribbon seaweod. There was also a hairpin, which must have been droped out of some fair one's head as she leaned over the side of a vessel. But our soup Is getting cold as we lose ourselves In the study of Its wonderful possibilities, and it is not till our mora experienced friend to tho left whispers, "Macaroni, you goose! that we realize that all tho slimy sea things we have found are only imitations of the same, madu In flour and water. How is it dono anyway? You want to know. Well, come with me to the north side, and there, at 101 Indiana street you shall find tho largest factory of the kind on tho continent, whute macaroni In thick strips and macaroni lu thin strips, and vermicelli in tme love knots, and noodles that are not human, and condensed flour and water In the shaie Of worms that do everything but crawl, and neck frills that look as if they only needed to be put round your neck and fastened with a pin, and pockethnndker chiefs half unfolded, and imitation pump kin seed and rice, and wedding rings aud nutshells and various partsof machinery, such as cogwheels and nuts, are all dis played ill neat boxes, with glass lids, so that you may see exactly what you want before you purchaso. Tho obliging proprietor, Signor Canepa, Is waiting to show us over, aud we will descend with him into tho basement whero all the machinery Is at work aud see how It Is dono. First, there is the steam flour sifter, that tif is It out so fins that hardly a grain of dust can get through with tho flour. The latter is then mixed with water to the consistency of very thick douglu This is also don by steam in a pan where two curved cytbo in crpctuul motion keep the flour and water ever moving and mix ing. The dough is then transferred to the kneading uiachlno, which consuls of a groat vat around which s hug steel wheel perpendicular to tho trough is ever moving round and round like the cycles of eternity. The material is now ready, and all that ruuiains is to put it hi shape. For this purpose there are several machines, consisting of upright steel cylinders, of which the bottom plute is a sieve con taining holes of various sizes to suit th various grades of macaroni, siwghetti aud vermicelli. Into these cylinders a stated quantity of dough is placed, when a colossal weight, representing a pres sure, of ten tons to tho square Inch, is slowly screwed down upon the moss, forcing It through the holes of the sieve bottom In tho desired shuHia, The com mon tulie shaped macaroni and vermi celli, also the hairplu and stovepipe va rieties, are forced through in endless length, as many strings ss there are holes, till the dough is exhausted. It is then cut Into the required sixes and laid out to dry. Th fancy shapes are made in a horizontal cylinder, forced through plates containing holes of th desired shape. As the dough passes through these hole it is cut otf short in quarter, half or Inch length by a revolv ing knifo. The dough ha to be of dif ferent consistency for all the various varieties. Great care I needed in this respect, for if the dough is a sliode too light or too heavy tho machinery will not work. Ones through' the cylinders, the per fected comestible falls into the metal trays provided for It, and all that is now necessary is to dry it It is now taken by young girls and laid out in ven rows upon canvas trays, which are sent up on the great elevators to the floors above. Thro stories are required for this pro cess. Great experience Is nocded in th drying, for the whole success of the "brew" depends upon whether or not this Is done successfully. Macaroni which appears drier than Saratoga chips to th novice is known by the experienced op erator to be quite dump, and if it is put away in this condition mold and destruc tion will surely follow. The thre floors hold about 8,500 trays, each three feet square. An exception to this process is the hairpin variety, wldch is hung upon poles till about half dry, and then laid on the trays. The drying process in fine weather takes about sven days. In "mean, damp weather" twice that time, The establishment was beautifully clean throughout, as Indeed a place de voted to the manufacture of food always should be. The operators are all Italians, the machine being oierated by men, the drying arrangements by young girls. The latter earn from 54 to i a week. Thia is not magnificent, but unskilled labor is rarely remunerative. The men, of course, earn mechanics' wage. Whether there is a trust among thuin or not I did not learn. They all seem very happy and satisfied with their work. Keaurgaui in Chicago Ueral Dead la th Saddle. A special from Paysou, U. T., says John Bolton accidentally killed himself while going horseback from Payson to Salem. In the middle of the forenoon be left town to visit his sister in Salem, taking with him a double barreled shot gun, with which he shot himself. Ha was found on horseback with half the right side of his bead blown off. He was sitting in the saddle leaning bis bead over the horse's neck. Apparently the horse had not moved since the gun exploded. It is believed that he had been dead in the saddle two hours, " "