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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. L. CAHMIKLU rprietr. EUGENE CITY, OREGON. A Cockroarb Mid fly right. Old tou ever ee cockroach ud fly Iglitf Nor Well, I ww one In which the roach nun out victorious after six round. Whether It km Marquis of Queen borry rule or Dot I could not say. 1'b ring wai on the oiled counter of au aptowo office. A festive Hyaliglited liion the counter and disported Itself hi any srell rcgiiluted fly usually dot. An active young roach m bis flysblp and Immediately gave battle. The fly threw out bis left duke and caught the bug tuiiarely on tbe bead, daz ing the bag for a moment, but he returned to the attack nulling, and with a light hand upper cut landed on the left eye of tbe fly, eaualng the latter to whirl com pletely around dozen times. A clerk present thought It knock out blow, but the fly recovered bta equilibrium at the call of "time" aud ruabed fiercely at bis opponent, with an evident determination to "do him p" Inntanter. But tbe roach's superior ducking tactics gave him an ad vantage, and be vlgoroualy shot out bis right, knocking tbe fly clean off his pins and setting him Into another revolving act. , Tbe fly returned gamely to tbe attack four times more, and was finally put to sleep In tbe sixth buuL Tbe roach then walked off triumphantly to bis den, rear ing up on his hind feet, as much as to say, "Oh, didn't I do ulnr .ew xors 'tele gram. . A Brave Chinaman. K. D. Cahota ta a native born Chinaman. Be has lived In this country nearly forty years, having left the land of bis birth when bat years old. Long before the Chinese exclusion law was dreamt of be bad proved bis fltneM for the duties of American citizenship by taking up arms In defense of bis adopted country and marching to the front. Although but IS years old when the war broke out be declared that be was over age, and enlisted In the Twenty-third liaa- srtthuBetl volunteers, under commaud of Col. Andrew Kllwood-tbe only represent ative among the Mongolian raceamong the million of men thus facing earn other In struggle for life and death. Cabota waa n unique character. Under Are Cahota proved that be was made of tbe stern stuff, for bis bravery was commented on during various engagements, notably at Cold Har bor and In tbe building of Gen. Butler's signal station In front of Petersburg. At the close of the war Cahota was mus tered out along with tbe survivors of bis regiment, then under command of Col. Raymond, of Marblehead. Since that time Mr. Cahota has devoted himself to business, there being little In common be tween blui and tbe ordinary Chinaman be yond certain racecharacUtrUtica of feature. In speech aud dress be is an ordinary cltl sen. Chicago Herald. Faet About the 'Ills Indiutrjr. Tbe silk Industry of America hna grown Into considerable proportions. Begun as an experiment twenty-five years ago, it now occupies 700 establishments, gives em ployment to M.OUO persons and yields a yearly product of tbe value of H,O00,0oa Our silk making is conllned almost ex clusively to staple goods. The high grade : fabrics will probably continue to be made abroad on account of the special aptitude of tbe Lyons, France, oheap skilled band labor, hut for the production of staples the American manufacturer baa the beat ma chinery in tbe world. The growth of tbe Industry In recent years Is shown by the following figures! In IStl donatio silks were prod need to the value of t&MOS.O'JO, as against ft7,B5?,0M in Imported silks. In 1888 domestics were $.V,!XiS,7xO, as aguiiiHt 134,000.000 in foreign Milks Imported. -Chicago Tribune. 1 t How tbe Oeeaa Is Bounded. It bas been found difficult to get the cor red sounding of the Atlantic. A mid shlpman of the navy overcame the dim culty, aud shot weighing thirty pound carries down the line. A bole ta bored through tbe sinker, through which a rod of Iron is paused, moving easily back and forth. In the end of the bar a cup Is dug out aod the Inside coated with lard. Tbe bar la made fast to the line and a sling hold tbe shot on. When the bar, which extends below tbe ball, touches the earth tbe sling unhooks and the shot slides off. Tbe lard in the end of tbe bar holds some of tbe sand, or whatever may be on the bottom, and a drop abuts over tbe cup to keep ibe saud In. When the ground is reached a shock Is felt, as If an electric current bad passed through tbe line. Oceau. , He Via No Idiot. Cheery John Maclean made hi first ap pearaucein London at the Surrey some where about Itkil as Peter Pureed in "The Idiot of the Mountain." Shepherd and Creawick were the malingers of tbe theatre then, aud Maclean was standing one day at Hockley's, when a kind friend pointed out the newly engaged actor to 8hepherd, who, having been ill, bad uot yet seen htm. . "You're playing In my theatre, Mr. Maclean t" Shepherd bawled. . "I'm play ing In 'The Idiot of the Mountain,' sir," Maclean replied half timidly. "Glad to hear It, sir, glad to hear Itl" Shepherd ex claimed) "you're not tbe idiot, surely I" "No, sir," Maclean answered with a seri ous face, "tbe manager who engaged me ta tbe Idiot." San Francisco Argonaut, Dellclou ladlaa Ta. - As you near Darjeeling you find many of tbe bard woods of our Americau mount sins, the rose begins to bloom, aud there are tea plantatioua by the hundreds of acres. The tea of the Himalayas Is the best In tbe world, and I would advise American housekeeiers to try the Indian tea. There I a It In Thibet which has tbe flavor of milk to such degree that when used It has all the proertiua of good tea mixed with the moat delicious of Jer sey cream. This Himalayan tea haa the flavor of flowers. It Is pure aud clear, aud It la supplanting tbe Chinese tea In the Kngltah markets. Frauk U, Carpenter's Letter. - lla Monty, , rv heard a good many explanations of tbe term "pin money," as applied to the pe riodical dole given by husbands to their wives, but nobody yet haa bit on theory I have long cherished. What U that The place where woman's pins are al ways put for safe keeping while he la get ting ready to one them is her mouth. Do yon see the logic? ' The more pins the less talk. So an ancient trick ha paused, aa It were. Into a proverb Kate Field's Wsb Ington. Ths Coming VToataa. Mrs. Oe StyleWhat la the matter with that poor girl f Bystander We don't know, mum. She yost lays there helpless, and can't stand up at ail, mum. Mr. Oe Style Poor thing! I presume her corset are too loo.-Nw York Weakly. There are three surviving sons of the author ol " Pickwick "-Charles Dick en, editor ol All tht Ytar Round: Al fred Tennyson Dickens, a merchant in Meltwurne, and Edward Rulwer-Lvtton Dickens, a member of the New South Wale Parliament. EDUCATIONAL Western University Student! In Alle ghany Abandon the Cane Rush, ' ' and Substitute Boxing. . New York Lai sixteen night scliools. ' Missouri bas 10,000 country school teacher. Only l4 per cent, of the population ol India can read and write. The Imperial University of Toklo, Ja pan, lias 2,000 scholar enrolled. An eleven-year-old Kansas boy was granted a teaciier s ceriincaio iaev . Members of the Mine family seem to have a tendency for the same kinu oi work. Of the 44,000 lady teachers 11,- 000 are sinters. Western University students in Alle ghany abandoned their cane ruth and substituted boxing maU.h for points between leading freshmen an? sop no mores. It is now announced that the unknown giver of 150.000 to found a scholarship at Clark University. Worcester, in i.e- cember, 1880, was the late Hon. George 8. Barton. Thedlreclori of the Lutheran Theo logical Seminary, now located at Get tysburg, have been considering for some time the plan of removing tuai iiibhiu tion to Washington. At the Northwestern University (co educational) at bvaiuton. III., this vRar. the voumr women are not permu ted to receive callers except clurinn the hour from 7 to 8 p. in. On Fridays the young men stay until 9:30 p. in. October 8 Colonel Amos A. Parker of Fitiwilllam, N. II., celebrated hisone hundredth birthday, ho lar aa is known he is the oldest college graduate in America, having finished' the course at the University of Vermont in 1813. The Fayerweather bequest will go far toward meeting the expense oi many necessary improvements in Dartmouth College. More apparatus, name aim lockers will soon be added to the gym nasium, and improvements in heed Hall will also be made. The Methodist University of Wash ington is ranidlv taking shape, and in a short time the fine site, which bas been purchased by means of the contritm- IIUI1B OI lllo reawcill Ul vn'im .1 .1.. I. l , '....Itnl City, will present an active scene as the various buildings are erecteu. In 1042 Harvard graduated a clans of nine members. A hundred years later the graduating class numbered twenty- four. A century later yei me numoer had doubled again, and in 1800 Har vard graduated her first class of 100 members. Twenty years later the clauses had more than doubled again, and now the entering class of this year more than quadruples that number. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The Lady Managers Decide to Establish a Model Sanitary Kitchen in the Woman' Building. Florida's World's Fair building will reproduce old Fort Marion. Nicarauea wants half an acre for the site of its building at the exposition. The government building for the World's Fair is making satisfactory progress. A bill to appropriate $553,000 for the World's Fair exhibit has been intro duced in the Brazilian Congress. The old ciirlnHity shop which Dick ens iimuortalii!d will lie one of the in teresting exhibits at the World's Fair. The World's Fair at Chicago will con tain a pumping plant of 40,000,000 gal lons per day, and its cost will be f 15 , GOO. The Hamburg-American Packet Com pany, of which Carl Schiirx is the New ork director, baa subscribed $5,000 to the exposition stock. Quartish. the noted London book dealer, intends to send to the exposii tion an autograph letter of Christopher Columbus, for which he paid $5,000. Commissioner Sluifeldt has cabled from Cane Town, South Africa, that an exhibit of diamonds and feather!) worth $.100,000 will be scut from Cape Town. Virginia's building at the exposition will lie of the old colonial type, meas uring 83x70 feet, two stories high and surrounded by a plasa fifteen feet wide. Its cost will be $L'0,0il0. The great imitation coast-line battle hip, which is to constitute and contain the government's naval exhibit, is in an advanced state of construction. It will all lie inclosed before winter weather sets in, ami all the interior work will be completed by spring. The little old building on Arch street, Philadelphia, where lletsv Uos made the first (lag for the United States army, likely to ho removed tiodily ami iiken to Chicago tor exhibition at the World's Fair. The nine lady malingers resident in Chicugo, called together by Mrs, Potter Palmer, have divided to establish a model sanitary kitchen in the woman's building at the exposition. An effort will be made by a special entertainment or otherwise to raise the $4,000 neces sary for the purpose. The women of Illinois, who have the spending of $80,000 of the $8(10,000 which the State appropriated for its represen tation at the exposition, have been granted, for their exclusive use, one tenth of the space in the Illinois build ing, which, altogether, is something more than an acre and a half. One of the unique features of the Mexican exhibit at the fair will be the celebrated Panduxa famly, consisting of five perrons, who are prolably the most expert workers in clay and modelers of figures in the World. The family will be sent to Chicago by the State of Uuadala- Jara. It is the intention to provide a dexican house for them to live in dur ing the fair and a work shop, where their work may be inspected. Dr. John E. Owens, the medical di rlctor of the exposition, has promised Mrs. Potter Palmer that women shah receive official recognition upon the med ical stalT. The immler to be appointed has not yet been announced, but assur ance has lieen given that women phy sicians will professionally rank equal with men and share the duties of the exposition hospital. The art palace on the lake front, which will be built by the art Institute, assist ed to the extent of f.'OO.iXX) by the etpo sltion conmanv, will cost a Wit $700, 000,000. The' dtxiirue and plans of Shepley, Kutan & CoolMge of ltoston, have lieen adopted, louring the expo sition the building will he used by the World's Congress auxiliary for some of its natnerous meetings. California is the first State to respond to Chief lUirhanan'e request that each State contribute the truuka of three of its most characterictic trees, to be used in constructing a rustic eolonade for the forestry building. California's contri bution include a sugar pine furnished by the Towle Bros. Company of Alta; a redwood by J. F. Cunningham of Santa Cms, and a sequoia, by Smith Comatock of Tulare. AGRICULTURAL Hints That Will Bring Good, Returns. THE ANIMALS OF THE FARM Cattle and Young Stook Should be Put in the Barn Before Cold Nights Come On. Get cattle and young stock to the barn before very cold nights come on, and do not allow them to remain oui in com fall s ormi. After the grass has been Irost-bitten it is of not much value, and stock will do enough better in the barns and vards Ui nav the cost of th" fodder there. Try to feed them so that ths cows will not shrink in their milk, or the others lose flesu before winter. It mats more to tret back a pound of flesh or a quart of milk after a shrinkage than it would to leeu so as w Keep it aim auu two nonnda to it. The down-hill Mad ium to lie easv after thev t-tart on it, and it is not so easy to turn them about and make them ifuin agair. Fattening stock cattle, swine or sneep will now eat more heartily tkan tlyy would in hot weather and gain more rapidly than they will in December. Increase the feed gradually, and watch carefully, particularly if a hot day comes, as too much rich food then may cause a feverish condition, which w ill check fat tening, if it does not cause a total loss of annetite. Try to nave mem in a condi tion to bring a lirst-class price when sold. Some cattle are so unthrifty that thev will scarcely pay for good feeding, and it may lie better to let them go for what thev will bring man waste good corn on them, but usually a few weeks of preparation upon soft corn, pumpkins and other waste vegetables oi tne larra will mit them in a condition to digest more fattening food, and then they will gain last enougn to pay lor ii. ine eaves of the beets, carrots, turnips and cabbages are very good if fed out before thev are too much wilted.' They can be packed solidly in a bay or stable in the tarn, as corn is pacKeu in tne siio, and if covered up with straw they can he kept much longer than they can in heaps npon the ground. Garden Work. Something should be done in the garden ns early as it can be got at. The asparagus stalks should be cntandtaken oil the bed. The old wood should be cut out of the currants, blackberries and rasplierries, and they should all be lib erally manured. It is also a good time to get cuttings from the nest kinds to heel in this winter and set out next spring. Even if there are already enough of them it may pay to make new plantations and root out some of the older ones when .these come to bear ing. The rhubarb nleo wants manur- ng this fall, and where it has grown so thick as to make hut small stalks split the crown of the old root am take a part of it away to start new beds. This is a profitable crop, especially in a spring when there have not been many apples carried through the winter. The straw berries need to have the weeds and su perfluous plants taken out in prepa ration for the mulching which will need be done Inter. The material for mulching should lie gathered together and made leady againut the time of neei. Wherever possible plow up the garden as fast as the crops are taken oil', nnd bury all the small weeds as deeply as possible; larger ones should lie cut and burned before the plowing. There ought not to be any weeds going to seed there, but there usually are some, and they are more apt to be there this year, as the farmer has been kept very busy getting his crops harvested and mark- ted. Permanent Improvement. Such work as ditching and draining low land, digging out rocks and stumpB, building walls and fences where needed. or removing them where not needed, is always in order if'tlie farmer lias time to spare for it, and so are the repairs of buildings and their alterations as neceB eary to add to the comfort of the people or the animals who occupy them, or the ease of doing the work that must lie dune in them. If dry weather contin ues, muck mav lie dug from the Bwatups and put out where it will drain out and treezu and thaw a tew times this winter. the muck from some swamps has a grent deal of decayed vegetable matter, and Las some value for spreading upon sandy or gravelly laud, or for using as an aheoriieiit in barnyards and barn cellars. It should, however, be dry and exposed to weather at least a year before it is used lor either puriiose. in order to get the acid out of it which has teveloped when in the stagnant water. l'n lens it is thus seasoned it is injurious U) vegetation. Making Cider. If cider is made, even though it is In tended to tie made into vinegar instead of being used as a beverage, it should tie made from sound truit. Leaves, dirt and other substances liable to give an unpleasant flavor should not be allowed to go into it, and it should be put into clean casks. If made early, it becomes vinegar much quicker than late-made cider. Tho process of vinegar-niiiking may be hasteued by allowing it to drip or run in a small stream from one cask to another after it has passed tho tint or alcoholic fermentation. The exposure to the air. produces the acid fermenta tion. Fruit rnttilliia. One cupful of milk, one-third of a cupful of butter, two-thirds of a cupful of raisins, one-third of a cupful of cu rants, two cnpfuls of flour, one-h i a teasoonfu! each of soda, cinn t.-. u and nutmeg. Steam IS hours. A.nl Fritter. . apples Into a batter mnde of one Hint of miik, two teacnpfuls of flour, three eggs beaten still", two teasnoonfuls of baking powder, and one-half a tea spoonful of salt. Drop in deep lard. F.at with maple syrup. Frank L. Ktihn, attorney for the rela tives of llaseliall Umpire Ben F. S'oung, has been oidered by Judge Beverly of the Superior Court to refund to the mother of the deceased $l,,.a 4), which he claimed in accordance with an al leged agreement with a relative of the ,lcceaed, hy which he .was to receive one-third of the damages recovered from the Northern Pacific railroad, Young having been killed in a wreck at Fagle Gorge near the close ol the base ball season for 1). Kuhn sued the company for $:'5,00o, but settled for $4,3UU. Young's relatives objected to mors than the legal percentage on the amount recovered being allowed Kuhn. BLUBBER A3 A DIET. Th rallug Kabila f the Kqttlai Ar nl Very lISrM from Our. hud read about Ksqtiluiaui eating habits how. once upon a time, for in stunce. an an tic explorer offered some Ksqulinaiu some swectnieuts, which were rcj.-cted, while tallow candles were eagerly accepted and eaten. Now I whs to see nu riuimaui eoL With mmiy smiles IVter entered the cabin ami sat down at the table. I should linveaKili;i'l ,0 lllm 011 nccountt" the scantiness of our fare, Jot we bad no candles, nnd there wasn't a bit of tallow on dock even, let alone In the cabin, but I noticed that the butter plate was heaping full, tbe sight of which iiiude me wish for some of my friends, so that we could make a pool on the number of bites he would take in swallowing the roll Then Peter snt down, and without ceremony lielcd himself to a lot of baked beans, a piece of dry bread and a large piece of very lean salt beef, all of which lie bit Into and swallowed as . I . I .1 ..... fltan a hungry man luigui mive uuo. lie took more beans and more bread and more lean beef, and with them several cups of coffee, with a great deal of sugar to each cup. He waa a long time getting to it, but he finally began on the butter. He had poured his last cup of coffee, and was looking about for something to eat with It, when his eye full on a plate of cake. Taking a small piece lie put a small lump of but ter on It, and slowly ate the combina tion with the coffee. To the reader it may seem strange, but tue met is, un til I saw this man at the tuble I had really expected to find the Esquimuux of South Greenland showing the habits and tastes of those living a thousand miles farther up the coast. I had not quite expected to And them living in snow houses, but I had a misty idea that an Esquimau was a lit tle black Indian, whose chief delight among the things brought from a civil ized country was the tallow candle. The staple food is seal meat and blub ber. Next to that is the little Ikh taken in tbe fiord and dried for winter use, known to them as the augmutfat, and to the learned as salmo villosus. A favorite way of eating the dried aug matfat is to take it by the tail, poke it into the oily blubber for a while, and then chew it down. Awful, isn't it? It is almost as bad as eating sardines. There is a deal in a nama Blubber is disgusting; oil, if for use on a salad,' is delicious and Indispensable. I have eaten seal oil and found it (very unex pectedly) good. I bad supposed it would have a flavor of fish oil. There is no such flavor about it It is equal to the best extract of cotton seed -that quality sold ns olive oil in all American groceries. Augmutfat and blubber, un der a French label, would be esteemed a luxury in New York as in Arsuk. For the rest the Esquimaux trade seal oil and skins to their governor for three kinds of hard tnck, for coffee, sugar and tea. They catch arctic cod fish (misarkornuk in Esquimaux and gadus navaga in tho books) and salmon in the seasons. They shoot no end of gulls, ducks, ptarmigans and the arctic haro. They have eggs in endless quan tity in the season, and very many foxes are trapped. Tho fox is to the Esqui maux what the opossum is to the plantation darky. He likes to smoka Ooldthwaite's Geographical Maga zine. Wild Geee and Klectrle Light. The night was still and dark, aud as the birds flew over the city some of the geese would got bewildered by the bright light of the electric lamps and circle round and round the light, squawking as if lost The ducks do not seem tq care for the excitement of city life and go quietly on their way, but a goose is so supremely curious that he can hardly pass an electric light without flying round aud examining it About two years ago there was a ter riflo thunder storm, during which a flock of geese, numbering probably 200, entered the city and soon became be wildered by the storm. Some of them, it Is said, even lit on the roofs of houses, but certain it is that at half past 4 or 5 la the morning there was a great flock of geese sitting hi the light of the arc lamp, on the corner of Main and First streets, in the center of the town. This, of course, is an exceptional case, and would probably never have happened if it had uot been for the storm, but why they should be so irre sistibly attracted toward a light as to lose all fear of man's habitations, and to alight in the middle of the street has always been a wonder to me. Forest and Stream. JuitlfUbl Uomlclil. Perhaps the queerest lawsuit on record one that deserves a place in the legal records of Georgia was that which was recently decided in Morgan county. A drummer hired a mule and bnggy to go into the country. The mule became con trary and backed the buggy in the fence jam. The drummer plisd whip and the mule kicked back. The mud flew, but the drummer held his own. When patience ceased to be a firtue the commercial gentleman drew from 'n pocket a Smith & Wesson howitzer and killed the long eared source of danger. The owner of the male brought suit against the drummer for the value of his quadruped, whereupon the jury brought in the following verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty, and the killing a case of justifiable homicide." Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Clgarstta Heart Not Tsrj Vaaful. An autopsy on the body of young Pot ter, who was drowned in the bay at San Diego, developed the fact that be for feited his life to the cigarette habit It was found that he had a very pronounced case of "cigarette heart" The smoke causes the valves of the heart to harden, and extra effort of any kind results in the death of the victim. Cor. San Fran cisco Chronicle. Quaint Device. Of Michael Angelo it is recorded that he preserved his wonderful creative genius even to extreme old age. A de vie stud to have been invented by bun represents au old man in a gocart, with an hourglass, upon it the inscrip tion, "Anoura impora" (Yet I am learn ing). -Harper's Baiar. "foreign lands. .TorncolAm Becomes a V V 1 v Jewish Cityl BRAZILT0 FOSTER THE VINE. The Frenoh Senate Passes the Bill . to Admit American Pork ' by 179 to 64. The French Semite lies passed a bill to admit American pork by 17H to 64. The epidemic of smallpox, which re cently prevailed in Honduras, is over. A split lias leen discovered in another big British gun a sixty-seven-ton gun. The Canadian Cabinet crisis is over. Chapleaa will retain the Secretaryship of State. Russia is establishing new ports of commerce and naval stations on the Black Sea. An epidemic resembling la grippe has attacked many peruons at ait Jose, Costa Rica. There are fears of a famine In North ern Hungary, owing to failures of the potato crop. Prince Ciartoryski, Vice-President of the Upper House of the Austrian Parlia ment, is dead. Advices from Africa renort that Car dinal Lavigerie is seriously ill at Algiers. The Pope has sent his blessings to the Cardinal. Natives of South Africa are building a telegraph line across Mashonalaud at the rate of three miles a day: The Russian government has placed an order for S hi.O-iO small-bore repeat ing rifles with a French linn. Orders have been issued by the Porte for the construction of eighteen new cruisers for the Turkish navy. The extraordinary rainfull of the past month all over Knglsnd has produced the heaviest floods since 1875. Negotiations have reached an advanced stage with the Rothschilds in Paris for a Spanish gold loan of $15,000,0ii(. Melbourne, Australia, bus just com pleted a splendid system, of cable roads about eighty-five miles in extent. (ireat Britain still pushes her claims to the ownership of the valuable mines in the eastern portion of Venezuela. The Italian railroads have prepared a zone tariff project for the carriage nl parcels not exceeding twenty-two pounds in weight. Jerusalem has liecome a Jewish city, since 30,0X1 of the 5J,0.;0 inhabitants s're Israelites. Jewish agricultural colonies are on the increase. Rumors from Nicaragua are to the ef, feet that number of persons will be exiled in addition to those already driven from the to intry before long. The Dreyfus motion relative to the prosecution of the Archbishop of Aix was withdrawn after an exciting debate in the French Chamber of Deputies. . Grand Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, chief military expert of Russia, is tak ing part in a stra'ecic conference now proceeding between French and Russian officers. As there is a popular superstition in China that telegraph p iles cast baleful shadows on the graves of decensed an cestor", the wires are being buried to sa ve trouble. . Fifty huge chests were required to transport from Greece to Berlin the su perb collection of the relics of Troy left bv the late Dr. Scliliemann to the Berlin Museum of Art. A new naphtha spring of immense ca pacity was recently opened in Bukoo on the Tagdetl' grant. If it continues wit h the same power ns at present, it w ill lie the richest naphtha fountain in the world. A Portuguese mail boat from East Africa has arrived from Marseilles, and reports a recent encounter between British and Portuguese soldiers at Lo renzo Marqupj!, in which two were killed and fifteen injured. France is supposed to be preparing to sweep all Russian refugees over the border, their absence from French Boil being one of the conditions the Csar ex acts before he will visit the Republic. The Inmnn line steamer City of Rich mond, which cost 125,000 sterling to build, was offered at aucti m at Liver pool, and the highest bid was $(5,000. The vessel was withdrawn. When Kicking Bear of Buffalo Bill's Indians wont through St Paul's Ca thedral the other day he examim d the muskets on Wellington's funeral car and grunted, "Gun no good!" The total tonnage of the port of Liver pool during the last fiscal vear was I),-77-W5 tons. The Mesey l)ock Board received from duties on vessels and mer chandise the sum of $5,G70,0O0. , In the last annual report of the British pOBtofflce it appears that of the $7,060, 000 received in the money-order depart ment from foreign countries there came from the United States $5,580,000. The Theosophical Society people in London are chagrined at Sir Edward Arnold's departure for America. They had been making preparations to ex ploit him as one of their own sort in order to gain lnter from his reflected light. It had been announced that he I was to preside at the next meeting of the iciety. A conflict between Turkish troops and an armed band under the command of Chiefs Zanlus and Mauris, champions of the Cretan Christians, has occurred near Melopotamos. Thirty of those en gaged in the fight, including Chiefs Zaulus and Mauris, were killed. Thirteen military officers who served under Balir.aceda, but who are now ex pelled from the Chilian aruiv, intend crossing into tbe Argentine Republic to join their troops. Tiieir loss will tie felt by Chile, as they are all experienced officers. The Ameer of Afghanistan has issued a nrnclfttnatinn mrnnnninn tlm. i.n i.. tends to vb it England. He has heard oi me j ny times ins great friend, the - .... . n., .mniUJ Hie Queen and the British nobility. The upaiquiie a surprise to England, aa the Ameer has not been invited to come. Bir;heriya Vitdimonti of St Peters burg Dredirt iml.l nanio in Vionu i- - I - t j -v I ti conseonence of the bad crops this year. amiruiug to us calculations the Ku ronean countries will har. in m, ...),.,. grain and other products in America to the value l $'.'10,1100,000. BriTxil has tnkn it.n. in r.A. .u- ule culture of the vine by granting for two years free transportation for the prod ucts over State railwava. and has pro vided for the eatuhlialii, m it f . logical and phylloxera nation, with a vineyara aiiacned, tor the diffusion of information as to the vine culture. -1. M.i..a Wuiuaii awl Tlirse hears. The Parkenions and Ackluys pasture their cows in the same lot Saturday night these cows did not come, up to the bant as usual, and after waiting a reason able time Mrs. Tlioums Parkerson and Mrs. Elhridge Ackicy started out to find them. It was almost sundown when the women began their quest They prwhed on, however, and having climbed the hill had entered a belt of old growth woods on the edge of the swamp when Mrs. Parkerson caught Mrs. Ackley by the arm, crying: "Oh. myl look!" pointing to the right. Mrs. Ai klcy followed her advice anddid look. "What she saw would make an ordinary woman faint away, but downcast women are made of sterner stuff, so when she saw three bears, a female and two cubs, she said "Oh. my," too, and both women went to a pile of cord wood close by and procured two stout round birch sticks about four feet long. The subsequent buttle was short, but very exciting. The old bear waa lean and weak. She made a deal of noise, but when it came to fighting she "wasn't in it" Two times she moved up and showed fight, but failing to break through the waving wall of cluba got down on all fours and beat a hasty re treat followed by hor two young cubs. One of these little bearlets waa very weak and could not run nearly so fast as the jDther, so in the course of ten or fif teen minutes the old mother bear and the stronger cub were out of sight, leav ing the poor weak one to the tender mercies of two wideawake women. The little fellow waa soon dispatched, the cows were fonnd, and the tired vic tors went home to get supper, proud of their work. Trescott Cor. Bangor News. Few Organised Working Girl. The number of working girls and women gathered into any sort of organ ization in New York city is, at the widest calculation, fewer than 6,000. In the factories which the inspectors visited during the past year there are 80,000 women employed, and counting those wiio work at various trades, aa well as servant girls, the total will not fall far short of 130,000. This wonld seem to leave a wide field for the expenditure of the energies of the Knights of Labor, trades unions, working women's societies and working girls' clubs, without dan ger of knocking elbows. There is, at any rate, no !car of a dearth of raw ma terial . There are various rumors afloat of pro posed new ceutrul bodies of. women's organizations. One of these, which will be composed of delegates from the vari ous women's unions, . will be affiliated with the Central Labor federation. The rumor, however, touches delicately upon the number of delegates. Then it is said the K. of L. will try to organize a work ing women's district assembly. This will be simply the resurrecting of an at tempt made by Charles Guy Brown. who died recently, when he was editor of The Uuion Printer. It was a flat failure then, and why it should be more successful now is not apparent There is plenty of room, however, for all new comers who wish to inako experiments. New York Recorder. Worm lo Dried Fruit. Sometimes after exercising the great est care iu putting away dried berries, apples and corn the housewife will in a few weeks find them infested with worms. Many methods are suggested to prevent this heating in the oven just before tying up in a thick paper bag: mixing with the fruit a quantity of sas safras root bark; sprinkling the outside of the bag with pepper; enveloping the bag containing the fruit in another of thick paper, etc All these will some times fail, and it is therefore necessary to examine tbe fruit frequently, and if any traces of the little pests are found to remove them at once. The most satisfactory way of doing this I have ever found is to pour the fruit into a large pan and place it over a kettle of boiling water. If there are ten or fifteen quarts of fruit it will take nearly two hours before the worms will come to the surface; then lay over a handful of strips of paper, and Cover with a large piece to shnt out the light As tho heat increases they crawl up on the strips of paper, which can readily be dropped Into the fire. If the fruit is bad ly infested, the paper will need chang ing several times. The whole process will occupy three or four hours, Good Housekeeping. Just Think of It. Some of these mannish girls will never feel just right until they have their boots blacked, man fashion, on the street cor ner. And even then they will want to recline before the window of a liarhor shop, with a towel pinned about their neck, to take a bay rum shampoo. Con sidering how much prettier woman's garments are than those with which poor man is forced to take up, it must be an unreasonable girl whose vanity cannot find vent in her own domain. It Is hard to be patient with the women wno cnoose to habilitate themselves as much like men as the law allows, and what is worse, boast of it Do grace your sex, dear sisters, and the garments that adorn it lwt twk . " wwvM WUUUUU' wealth. Pleasant Work for Summer. A new employment for women i nw. gested by a paragraph to the effect that a number of women in London ndvnrtiaa that they will, for suitable remuneration, care for city conservatories, window boxes, balconies and little gardens. They will personally superintend and carry eut orders, aud employ men only to do the necessary digging. When city houses are to be closed for the season, valuable plants may be left in charge of these WOmea Owinsr ta the nnnnlnritir r,f this Work Swatilev HnrHnnltm-nl ..nlU. has opened a special department fori women, where thev mav W hnth th. 1 theory and practice of plant culture, Exchange. Mrs. Charlotte B. Richardson has left $30,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the income to go to the de partmentof industrial chemistry. i rsi .-Ai;, I .1 g-vg Kr-zAfs'er-xt'-p;..-ii 11 & Pnriflea the ELOOD, Cnres 11I KM'.-. Hi-., Itvnn . PUl'LES, all SK1X AFFtCTlOXS, aad DISEASES AKiwbUV a DISORDERED STOSACII. 27k Oenuiru HAMBURG TLA it put vp in YELLOW V k " ril FoctimiU Htgnai ur of E311L FRKSL. t REDIrlQTON CO. AotNTs. San Framosoo. BOLD BY AU DBC(Jim AXI 4KOCER. A Lon uou.nmiertl,, tliu The theuiHel i. . .. "win. "-' were iv,...".. "c man ,. . -. u. ""Hill . ' ! pessibl of the i .... w.timut ..." ura Wits "Tl. 'It "yimiiti,illk1 lllUIUllllll...., ,H. ll ac am: On i vri( u s.t Dlied fur !.,, . Mj.. I were limited and " '"a meeting was culled, tb". J U'l announce his d.vii,m v!'K tleman entered the ,., , 1 all bis friend, wlW ed as he that he Wltt J he approached the pru Bilcntly handed liln fullthiUasigM0opy It overflow. v m S. The applicant per, What thepresident '...Zr'Ne. courageous and uni,-k peaking, he took f run, Zt tingle rose and laid it the wah.r IU i..: . i '1 : mm it on tak, '; not a drop was displaced, back to the president 2 . With one consent th7J,T plauded. They resolved aside, and to admit ,1()ffi them that he could omal, ' cietv without ,.,.... St- Then the man thanked il, niiu!li'i.iiriMiia - .... "I; whs hundw,! 1,1... . V ""'klt:? below his num. ""if ,u uumoerrfiL s membcrs-100. He added befit'! making it 0100. Undernw,?'1; "Their value will be thC-' The man wussoniodtthtttwi dent complimented him m rubbing out the 0 aud stiUw"; figure 1. This made the Jfri Underneath he wrote, "Their l be increased eleven times." . S These ingenious lwoiileniMW YOtedagreat deal of time kaTTi to avoid using their ton- ni Young People. Pay of School lewk, The question of teachert' njj one that is always more or lea Jt' In Scotland it becomes of putZ aa settling the question whrths, possible or proper fur a man tuci, marry. The majority of opinion, t settled that 100 is the minim, .. this question was started by i! thought that (iO0 was tlis U-t lu which marriage was rai,!. l I meanwhile in New York city tie & t board has recently decided tbtiiit just to the teachers and a disgrace! city to allow women who bnw lourwen consecutive yean to mil less than $750, and that after at'f next tuey snail receive this ut l ins applies to 'J.i women. In Massachusetts a short timer (iu h uu nana iiui will gTaUuAwlaj charge for a year of one of thosecm schools, purt intermediate, tun rv mar, with the primary brancbnn lower floor, and had riven rati . faction to parents and committee, b erything was running sraoottdy vk ti... -. :n oi -, ! Miog1' n an miir-ii in. oiie IKnTKi the time ten dollars per week. iVa woman substitute being found kt charge during her absence, the we tee engaged a man at fifteen t per week. The man was not i& narian. The boys had a picnic, io called it, yet when the girl retorneJi asked for the same pay the ntttb had received she was refused, for. avowed reason that she was notim This may be the woman's jentnr,tj tidings of their progress and doiujii be rife in the land, bot there utt sections where as yet these hue made much iumression. Fortnit- soon after she received a good postal' a good salary in the normal schodfct; which she had graduatei-Mr Eagle. He Will Not "Mnk Her Ok;.' In a Sheffield church the othertoi! marriage ceremony came to u ite and altogether unlooked for temm It was the fault of the would tebon , groom, and most people will ny ing his bride he met his deseru. t The ceremony went on right ewp till the clergyman, addressing himsi's the woman, put the question ths. she would have the man to be b band, "to love, honor and obej." t At the mention of the word "ofy , the bridegroom ejaculated, "111 sa, thee." - f "Are we married yet?" asked the r an of the clergyman. f "No, you are not," he replied. "Then we shall not be." she mil thereupon she left the church. The man protested that it was tool I but she heeded him not, and his to fitnrewas made none the lesswW parson told him that hethougbtiKi actdd very sensibly. Lonaon n.miant r..l.iril (track iel Miss Mollis E. Church, who bj. at the head of the German diw; of the colored high school of WW ton for soveral years, has been ow, the position of registrar of 0berag lege. Miss Church graduated lin in 1884 with distinguished H; being specially mentioned for ber lent record in Greek. She trw i studied abroad for three year , P much of her time in Paris, mi Florence. If she accepts the off Oberlin she will be the &!SrZ graduate, it is said, of the oiw ! versities to btemie a member" faculty of her college. -Boston WM j Journal. , , Lillian Abdueted sy a A most remarkable circumsUW curred near EJgewater Miss Lillian Young, a fair and t girl of twenty, daughter of Young, of this place, irMj brown bear, which had "Lt around the neighborhood for a t and carried away to tu Traces of her have been found Rip Shin creek, but JnJ n be heard. The animal bW", , as can been in some show, aud bad t times been seen by persons erossw mnnntain.-Lvnchborg Aay ('( rOJSTIPlTIOX. IXPIfiE'nV . . . . . ., ..w. Hi r!IV. I Ut" ?