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Eugene City Guard. I. L. CAMP8BLL, frrUlnr. EUGENE CITY OKKGO.V To ull women: There la no such tiling a bargalu In cigar. Id His meantime liet are Unit even to whether 1,1 Hung Chang retain til yellow Jacket or not. Inventor Kcely's air ship will fly, we feel mre, JiiMt a aihui ft lie icrfccti few trifling details In III motor. A scientific expert say tlint tw per cent, of mushroom I water. The -r M per cent., of course, In tnliool. It In not trim Unit llannl Tnylor I going to Im) Ihe first president of Culm Libre after the acknowledgment of In dependence. John Imly, tin- ex political Irish pris oner, linn lirul Die fici-dom of Boston ex tended to him. In hi ciiHu It I inoru tli ii n mere compliment. 'if, ii Astronomer Fait reiterate, roini't Hill lilt the en r tli on Nov. l.'l, iv.f.i, will Im) a striking coincidence w'tli 13 being an unlucky number. Helling Kentucky steed for f'Hi.OOu might Im used n evidence that If the lurk In oiii) horseshoe U iloulitful, tlicre' loini-lliliiK In four of them. Willi 1.1.1 competitors for polllon In lliirvanl frehiiic.i crew, tho eight flniilly selected certainly ought to rep resent t lie uthletlc lllilllty of I lie cIiihh. A fiiHt run of lo'j mile In nlnety-ser-en in I ii ii tin on Western roml, I riiIiI to lie a record lireiiker. Omt of these run will yet prove to lie a neck break er, a well. A mini ha Imimi lynched In Texn for lying. If lynching U ever inmle the recognized pemilty for vIolntloliM of the Tell ('ouiiiimiilineiit, whnt a hole It will in nke In our Atiieriean imputation. Willi one Western Inventor milking gold out of antimony nml another milk ing hiinl eoul out of garbage, sawdust ml soft eoul, the work of Improving on the priNliii-tM of mil lire eem to lie running double turn. Uncle Siin ilncHii't ii 1 1 lid having young women marry veterans of the wur of 1 HfJ for love, Init ho object strenuously to luivlng young women marry them to make themselves eligi ble to whlow' petiNlon. l.liiior I mi lil to lie scarce In the nn llouiil eiipltol JiiNt now, the sergeant- t arm having annoiinceil a "clone sea son." In onler to freeze out certnln In dividual who have lie-n accustomed to "tank up" nml make too tumii noise. It I said that In the lute luiltilclpnl election III Georgia the negroes de manded and obtained from $. to $10 piece for vole. Why hoiiM Geor gill polltlclmiH ever llilviH'iite Hie lynch ing of elllxeti vtlio are worth fill piece lit the polls? The esteemed New York Tribune re ferred to an eNteemisI contemporary, recently, In thl dcllciile way: "The Kvcnlng Sun Hint. So doe It morning degenerate. If you see anything in either of llicm about anybody or any thing they could have any motive for lying it I I . the presumption always I that they lie." When extravagance rcache the point of having silver co,-n popper, sciitl meiit cnIN a hall. I.Ike the old on ken bucket, the wire popper Iiiih ii distinct place In "fund recollection;" but while the bucket Is largely a memory, the wire medium for bringing corn to It highest term represent a condition a Hell a U theory. Long may It wave! llow Utile Home people care for money! The Provident Institution for avlug, In ItoMton, advcrtlKe ii list of deposit that have hud no attention of any kind from depositor for twenty yeaiM, nml the tlguro In the thousand column alone, disregarding hundreds, ten and null, foot up nearly ini,imm. P.vldciitty the owner of the money deposited linve had no use for It. llow uuiny o.' them have forgolteii It? lly refusing to accept the pica of In toxication advanced by an Illegal voter In extenuation of In offense, n Philadelphia Judge ha taken a stand which good eliUeii will generally sup Hirt, uild W lili-li Iiiim reiiNoli, Judgment ml common sense kick of It. In a vigorous manner tho Judge charged the Jury that If they found the prisoner had voted Illegally, a charged. It was their duty to convict him without re gard to lil condition at the time, whether he wa drunk or oler. The jury promptly convicted the man. The social ethic of the bull lighting profession seem to afford Interesting as pects. Mexico tin a light of the bull ring known lis F.I Curlla, who come before the public with the complaint that his reputation ha been Injured by report that he had liccti beaten by a woman, lie therefore submits public proof that, no far from this being true, the fact wit that he knocked the worn n down with a chair several time. Having been cnt to Jail, hi eight day sentence wa commuted Into the pay ment of a flue, lie la (hit restored to full standing In hi profession and the public esteem, and hi reputation Is vindicated. A short cut to notoriety ha bevu ef feelod by a woman of I'arl who con trlbuted and collected lii.mxi franc to wrd I lie tiny de Maupassant tiiouu uient, recently unveiled In the Pure Moueeau. on the roudltloii that her own portrait lie Introduce,!. Tlie ludlcrou reult. Ihe llgure of a fasiiionably dnsei woman r.H-llultig In a long chair t the foot of a bust of the pH I rharactcrlxcd by a writer In a Loudon nowppcr a "an advertisement in marble for omo leading dressmaker." Human Vanity take many form and ioiih jtersViix cIiikisc o ItMsk In toe world' gaxe, even at the eXM-ue of elf -nuiivt't or of life Itnelf. Thf Supreme Court of the ('lilted 8tate ha given ml lnisrtaiit divlolou 1 alutit the Frankfort tKeutuckjr lot- J tery It wa claimed In tielialf of the lottery that It charter waa a contract, and that a the t'nlted Htute Politilu lion forbid any Htate to n law Im IMilrlng coiiract, tho provision of the new Kentucky constitution revoking all charter of hrtterle wa Invalid. The Supreme Court took the ground that a lottery grunt Is In no ene a contract within the inclining of the constitution, but I lmply a license which tho Htate, for the protection of the public moral, may at any time revoke. Thl ibilslon Im a wide appllcutlou, lie cause, under the contrary view, any lottery which hnd once l-en chartered lu any Stnle would bo forever secure against a withdrawal of It privilege. Ilapldly the American bison ha di minished In number allien white men Joined with the Indian III the work of reckless destruction, yet a few of the creutiire still survive. In freedom a well a In captivity, and the day of their complete extinction may not come for decade, pet-hap not for a century. The wild or passenger pigeon ha liccn ! fortunate, or, rather, more un fortunate, than the buffalo. Within tho memory of men still young these bird existed nil over the country In literally unnumbered million. Single flock were seen so large that, even when moving lit express train shih, they covered the whole sky for hour a with a dense cloud. Lighting In a for et, their weight often worked more Iiiivix' with the tree than the severest of winter storms, and In a day they could sweep broad Held a clean n though a prairie lire had travcT-d them. Yet the Smithsonian Institution iiiinoiiiice that urgent appeal sent to many State and the active personal effort of agent spurred to Industry by the offer of a large reward have failed to bring In a single cclinoii of a bird, which, only a few year ago, could be mid unfortunately was kllhil by the wngonloinl with no Is-tter than stick. Thl result of their effort ha con vinced the Smithsonian iiaturallNt that the plgi-oii have gone to Join the great link, and they mourn the carclessm- that tin left the l ulled State without even the poor solace to lie found In u museum case full of well assorted and arranged specimens of the domrtol bird. 'The latest Instance of (ierinnny' new Imperial isdlcy afforded by Portugal. It I rcxirtcd that the (iermnii envoy lit I.IsIhiii ha presented 11 peremptory demand for npologle nml Indemnity for the III treatment of the Imperial gunlsiat Wolff, whose sailor were hooted and Insulted on the Tagun, and several of them seriously Injured. A strong protest wa made at I.IsIhiii, but without satisfaction, a rcHirted, and hence the resort to the summary meth ods of diplomacy which have proved to lc so effective at Haiti ami Kino t'hoii. Whether It be true or not that a per emptory demand ha l'cn made iihiii Portugal It I certain that It would ad mirably serve the kaiwer' purpose to seize lielagoa bay, the chief sirt on the east coast of southern Africa. Such seizure and possession wool. I afford P.mpcror William an opHirtunlty to ex lend hi proti-cllon to the Trnnsvaal. but It would also almost certainly In volve lit in In it war with F.ugland, for which, as it would have to Is- fought mainly Uhiii the ocean, the tiermnti navy It not prepared. It Is readily con. celvable that III this vigorous foreign policy Fmperor William I maneuver ing for efleet upon the relchstag a re gards hi big naval bill. Should he be a successful with Portugal a with China and Haiti It I quite likely he may carry hi point. Ill Hpularlty lu llcrlln ha been greatly Increased within the last few wi-eks, but it ha I n augmented by dangcrou meth- ihIm. If tiermany, as seem to be Indi cated by her policy in China, I about to enter iihui an Imperial scheme of colonization, she will not only do well to build a big nn x y. but will also, lu nil probability, not have to wait long fur an opHii-tiiiilty to use It. LESSON IN PALMISTRY. SlrmiK Kule l.lnr Show a Person Who XV III Ki-fi-ltc lliuh Honors. The Hue of fate begin at ihe brace let that surround the wrist and ex tends across (tie palm of the hand to the base of the middle linger. It Is e I d o m ii straight a I Indi cated by the black Hue lu the lllustra Hon, but xlgxug back and forth, iiccasloiiiilly d I a -appearing or run u I ii g Into other iicn. A good fate line show a iHr- tiik i im. in' kaxik. sou w ho xx 111 re ceive high honor In life. Accompanied by a good head Hue, It show a person w ho will inakeii llnaiiclal suecesa of life. When the Hue of life Is weak a gmwl s mu i ii ii sni mi ml fate Hue will strengthen It and prolong w,,r., fu wisdom, only we poor or life. People with great vitality ulway I, u,.i-v mortal, .'.oil, I not h..i..,-ui...i have good fate Hue. Hrcaks In the line Indicate looses - the more btvaks the more losses. Two parallel Hues In dicate double Hiiises. A branch line from the fate line to the Hue of life In dicate t has-the Individual ha been controlled by fate all hi life. St on the fate Hue Indicate ltu.se by fire. The alwence of the fate line indicate a subject who will lead a humdrum life .without either experiencing great losses or great suceesse. A HUtorlo I lnk. Charles Loetller. the veteran door keeper of the President' room, ha a new desk. The obi one ha nerved htm over twenty-eight year. It wa an old tlesk when It wa tlrst turned over to I.octller. It had Is'en an Intimate ac HUHlntauiti of President Lincoln, and In stirring times would have alworbiM many thing had It Im-cii human. At the old desk thousand of prominent men have sal to w rite card to send lutny lap Is for Helen' child ami not for to the President. Cabinet meinlier have sat at the disk and written their name for autogriph seeker, tireat men have congregated around It and talked over matter of the highest tn ptirtance, It I an old flat top desk, with single row of plg.vnholo, the lower part containing drawer. It I probable that the desk will be pre served. Loetller would like to keen It for himself a a companion which haa served him faithfully so many year. Washlngtou correHindeuc New York Trlbum MEASURING THE BABY. We mMMurd the rlflou Uby A(iut the rottage wall. A lily grew on the threshold, And the baby wa Junt a tall; The ee pink list of the baby Were never a moment Hill, Snatching at aliine and ahudow That danced on the lattice mil. Ill eye were Hide and aparkllng. Hi month like flower unblown, Two little feet, like funny white mice, r(i-d out from hi snowy gown; And we llioiiKlit with a thrill of rupture That yet hud touch of pain, When Juno come round with her rose We'd measure the boy aguin. Ah. me! In a darkened chamber, With the iiiishiiie shut away, Through leur that felt like bitter rain, We mi asured the boy to-day. And the little bare feet that were dimpled. And sweet u a budding rosu I.uy aide by siile tnetlier lu hush of lung rexjKe. I'p from the dainty pillow, White a the risen dawn. The fair little face lay Mulling, With the licht of heaven thereon: And the dear little hands, like ruse leave IlrnpjK'd from a rose, lay still, Never to viiati'h at the sunshine That crept to the shrouded ilL We measured the sleeping bnby With riblsm white a snow, For the little Niiow-wliite cotlln That wailed him below: Ami out of the darkened c-lin iiilser We wiit w ith a dreary moiin. To Ihe height of the sillies angel Our little boy had grown. -Itostou Traveler. UEFLECTIONS OK A SI'JNSTKR. Y Are I warm to night nml crack les merrily lu the open grute. My cut I curled up on her soft cush ion nml Is bliss, fully purring her self to sleep. Two iMiok He oil the .ozy little table r lii-iir me. the ' "'ff "Iteverle of n f ltacbelor" and the "Uive Affair of in Old Mnld." My knitting, with It hall of pale blue and deep wine red, rest Idly In my lap. I lean back com furl ably in my blgihulr. uud with linlf floxcd eye 1 let my wayward thoughts wander here free fancy lend them. )ho knows whnt tender feeling teal Into many a lonely heart when :he shade are drawn uud a brooding illciice settles down on a ipilet little joiiKc? 1 cannot help wondering wheth r, lifter all, my neighbor over the way a more or less happy than I, and my jilnd goes back to the time whin wo were scIiihiIiiiiiIck. I.IIIIuii nt PI was the prettiest girl In clmol. Her w ide open blue eyes, her toft, round check, nml her waving hair mad her a picture or girlish beauty. She never cared for study, but a romp, I picnic, or a dance wa her delight. Well, at IS she married one of the Ihijs" and expected to have u gay lime forever after. Her .lack wa u k'ood dancer and drove u stylish horse, 11 the girl envied her, and what more could one ask for? Hut the Hist year brought severe ills ippolntnieiil. I.llllan grew careless of her personal appearance uud wildly Jealous of Jack, lie hated sect nml preferred to spend hi time where he would not be annoyed ''' tlieni. After Rome bitter lesson Jack's wife learned to keep w ithin certain well dellued lim its. With her fresh beauty faded, and with Ihe knowledge that she ha lost ,her husband' adoration, she drag along a weary life, lu which there I neither pleasure In the' present nor hope for the future.. Suld I to myself, "1 tun fur happier In certain loneliness than lu such companionship," and I looked around my coxy room with n sense of relief to think that no scowling face and no hnrsli word marred my "Old Maid' PuradlM'." Then I took up my half llnlshed work ml knitted Industriously for awhile. I wa making some socks for little Ted, niy young nephew. Who could tell the proud Joy, the Inllulle tenderness and love which were lu the heart of Ted's little mother? There was an answer ing thrill when I thought of her, ami contrasted her life with mine. How closely she clasped the little fellow In her arms, a If she would shield him from all the world! With what eager ness she watched for the tlrst respon sive look, the tlrst plain word, and the tlrst totlellug Htcp. And there was even nn absurd fondness lu those ten der mother eyes a she gazed on the unties of her young sou nml Imagined lliein vastly superior to those exhibited by any other Infant In the wide world. Ted wa not a commonplace, evcrydnv baby, not be. HI wordless babblings the mysterious language lu w hich they were uttered. I laid down my knitting and In the red coals of the open tire grate 1 read the coming years, bringing the Inevltn ble cliHligc for Tod and hi mother. The Ihiv Is not sat Is tied to live within the clasp of those sheltering arm. He must see life, be free, go out Into the world and Judge for himself. The mother's eyes are dim with gathering tears ami she tremble with forebod ings. Her Isiy, her little Ted, Is out tin re, away from her love ami watch ful care. He may le cold, or weary, or III. The great world I pitiless, and there are many snares. She rend the paper and tremble at every sensa tional Hem. O, If she could only have kept him a he whs, a little Innocent child, when shenew Ids thoughts and lave led his actions. Her solitude I far more lonely than mine, and for the moment I am glad that the tlnv sock in mine. ' Put a the years spin on I see Ted. a man; no longer a heedless child; the comfort and uprt of his mother. He ha gone through the fires and come lurk to her, with hi Imylsh fancies, til egotism and Ignorance replaced by the tpin t division and self-reliance of the mature man. How his mother ap peal to him, defers to lit ill. and autl- 'clpati. hi wishes! In her eye lie Is the wisest and the handsomest young niau !i the town. She I proud of lil loverlike .itteatlou to her, ami with a - vj ' i . , 1. . H I I flush on her cheeks and an dded bril ll,itir in hop itark eve, she looki but aew year hi senior. These are hap py day, but In the height of their en joyment the shadow come stealing. It Im, at first, only a thought, an Imag ined preference, but It I soon deepened Into a reality. Ted' mother believe In marriage She would say so If yotl or 1 should ask her. She believe In It ns the true st and happiest condition for man and woman kind. She has dclllicrutely and firmly studied the question, and decid ed that there I not a single girl in the town who would make a good wife for her boy. There are pood girl, pretty girls, accomplished girls, but not one who combine the neces.ary gift" t'1"1 grace. Lately there has been a dif ference In Ted. He has not talked so freely at dinner, mid has been strange ly absent-minded. He surely cannot be rttrncted by frivolous little Miss Flossie, the only and pi tted darling of Ir. Kverett? Ted's mother always ad mired her son's taste until mw. but In thl most vital choice she cannot understand him. In vain she ap'al to hi reason, lie says little and li' ts much. ThoiiL-h he re-peet hi mother opinion, she I forced to see that she Is alienating him at each expression oi them. Ho she decide like II sensible woman to make the best of thing. Mis Flossie is Invited to spend II inlet afternoon with her prospective mother In law. She Is found to pos ses a shrewd little head, u warm heart mid a charming manner. After nil that ha been said and done they decide to make the mo.-t of each other, ami in the Intertwining of my ball of tleccy yarn I see the parable of their united live. The last stllcii on tlie last needle Is bound off. and tin' playful kitten Is rolling the bright rem nant on the hearth rug.-Mary Fen liody Sawyer, In Itostou lSinlgct. 'V II The sacred crocodile of L'gypt were burled with Iter proudest king. Spider have played Important parts. It I said when Mahomet tied from Mecca he hid lu a cave and a spider wove a web over the entrance. When his pursuers came tlilllier they saw Ihe web ami believed no one was there. It Is said a spider performed the same kindly act for Havld whin Saul was hunting Iii in. Australia ha been found to be such n favorite home for the apple 'hat Im mense orchards have been planted and are now in successful bearing. They ft lit 1 they call get them to Fnglaml and still successfully compete with Ameri cans lu u liii.'iuclal sense. Nearly H, IKHl cases had been received 111 Fnglaml up to June 1, the bulk of tlieni mining from Tasmania. One great advantage they have Is lu their period of ripening, a the Kngllsh markets can be supplied lifter the American upplcs have disap peared. ' Fveiythlng In nny way connected w ith Alaska and the Klondike I of spe cial Interest at present, mid aiuiing other Items the foot of the reindeer de serves particular mention. Tlie fore foot of the horse to a great extent de termines It value, as upon this orlloii of its anatomy its speed and endurance depend. The foot of the reindeer Is most peculiar In construction. It I cloven through the middle ami each half curves upward In front. Tney are slightly elongated and capable of a con siderable amount of expansion. When placed on an Irregular surface, which 1 tlllllcult to traverse, the animal con tract tlieni into a sort of claw, by which a linn hold Is secured. When moving rapidly the two portion of tlie foot, a It Is lifting, strike together, the hoot's making a continuous clattering noise, which may be heard a. a consid erable distance. It Is this pifullat'ity of the feet that makes the reindeer so sure fiHited and so valuable lu that rocky ami uneven country. itsisiiiK tlie Wind In France. The French tiovcriuncut finding It self unable to Increase the taxation, w hich I heavier per capita In France than lu any other country of the world, ha decided to resort to the conversion of It treasury bonds or rente from It per cent, to 1-J as the easiest, and. In deed, the only available mean of In creasing the revenues of the state. The ground I taken that as the national credit Is such that the liovcrnineiit has recently been able to secure temporary loan at '4 per cent., the Interest charge on treasury bonds Is far too high, and that a conversion scheme would re spond to the present state of France' national credit. That the latter should stand so high I surprising, w hen It is re mcmlx-red that, although In tlie last twenty six years France's population has only Increased by L"..x.mh Inhabit ant, or at the rate of about U.."iKi a j ear iFiigland having doubled her In the last forty years), the consolidated national debt of France ha grown from- $:!.tNi.iNt),tK) to $7,oihi,ikki,ihki, w hile the taxation, Isitli direct and In direct, has more than doubled. New York Tribune. Danger Irom I slug Moves. Cast Iron stoves for hard coal, though lu many way desirable because they make an even temperature msible, may be the source of much danger lu Ignorant hands. If tl.e drafts are not properly turned carlsmlc acid gas and sulphurous fumes may mur Into the room, and In a sleeping room may smother the slumliorers before they are aw are of their danger. Three per cent, of carlxinie add ga In tlie air of a room I fatal to animal life, and a large slued haschurncr will not take long to supply this percentage In a close rtsun. Such stoves should always l carcfullv watched and never handled save by ex. perleuovd persona. PsyinK the Policeman. Lake City. Fla., has set to make the dancer ay the tiddler In a novel way. The towii has appolnd a single night watchman, and decrctsd that he shall to ild at the rate of ?2.M for each ar rest made, the prisoner to furnish the money. The world will never get any better until children are u Improveuieui wu their parcLU. the Wonderfnl Invention of an Ana Irian Knulneer. Attempt to produce niok.toM mive hitherto been attended with 1 1 th success. F.lther the procc require was too Involved, or the expe..e to ,r,,,. and the V: unsolved. Iol. me i.nh"" ,a come nearest to success but UU mnrhliiiTjr wa very exi;nlve. ami tlie economy of coal small. Now an Auatriao engineer, Frit Maler b mime, declare tie haa discovered how to produce smokeless Are, and flt the same time to economize to the extent of RO per cent. In fuel, beside attain ing several lmKrtunt technical nil vantage. . HI method, which I an extenlon and adaptation of Dobs', la Used on the principle that a smokeles tire can only be produced: (1) When the door of the furnace remain permanently clos.nl; 12) when the fuel I added In II Miiuntltles and at one end of the lire; CM when the stoking of the fire I accomplished, without letting in air from ntsive. These requirement are attained by adding fuel by mean of an Ingenious automatic stoker, which drops the coal regularly In small quan tities on the end of the Are without letting any air In from above. The fuel I then gradually shoveled along the furnace by another automatic ar rangement., which I kept sulllclently c(s.l by water. Tho same water Is used for feeding the lsiller, and a it gener ally attains a temperature of from C0 degrees to T.I degrees Centigrade before entering tlie Imller. considerable sarins Is thus efr.'cted. Ity the ntove mean, all the smoke given off from the eud of tlie lire to which fuel I added I con sumed before It could escape nt the other end. Thl result Is obtnlned with practically nny kind of coal, wood, or coal dust. The necessary mechanism can lie lilted to any ordinary Isdlcr at a comparatively moderate cost. Th. Invention has been satisfactorily tried, and the Austrian Ministry of Marine ha asked the Inventor to fit the contrivance to ships of the Attstro Hungarlan navy. Finally, several professors of the Vienna Technical College have tested It with equally satisfactory result. It I obvious that there are Infinite IHisslbilltle lu the intrluctlon of till Invention, which 1 said to le suitable for steamships, locomotive, and fac torle alike. It use In the navy, for Instance, If approved, might, apart from giving u steamship without smoke, save a third of the sum which I n n it ii :i II y c.cndcd on coals, while a battleship which now require- up wards of one hundred stoker could be worked by twenty or thirty. It Intro duction on ocean liner would be as gissl for the HM'kets of the owner a for the comfort of the passenger. Lon don. Manchester ami other great Indus trial center can, by It mean, be transforniisl from smoky Inferno into bright place of residence. These ad vantages, It should lie noted, m.iy lie obtalmtl In combination with a great saving of money and hilsir. Apple as Medicine. The Onnnii analysts say that the tipple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or veg etable. Thl phosphorus Is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter, litlilcin, of the brain ami spinal chord. It 1 perhaps for tlie same reason the old Scandinavian tra dition represent the apple us the food of tlie gods, who, when they felt them selves growing feeble ami liitinn, re sorted to this fruit for renewing their powers of mind mid IhuI.v. Also the acids of tlie apple are of signal ser vice for men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish lu action, these acids serving to eliminate from the Isnly nox ious matters which, if retained, make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about Jaundice, skin eruptions and oth er allied troubles. Some such experi ence must have led to our custom of taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose mid like dishes. A good, ripe, raw apple 1 one of the easiest of vegetable substance for the stomach to deal with, the whole process of It digestion being completed lu eighty-live minutes. In the Hotel de Invalide of pari mi apple poultice I used commonly for Inllained eyes, the apple being rousted and Its pulp applied over the eye with out any intervening substance, A mod ern maxim teaches that "to eat au ap ple going to bed, the doctor then will beg his bread." Fruit were given us before drugs, and they were all given some medicinal virtue. Prunes, apples, pears, tig, peaches, are all aperient, ami how much better it Is to keep the liver ami bowels free from clogging by pleasant fruit laxative than by resorting every few day to drastic saline purgatives, or to calomel mid Its various compounds. Medical Suininarv. I'.ccogntied bv the lion. This story Is told of a London organ grinder's tlog. The organ grimier was blind and aged, mid the dog used to lead hint about. tine night, after a hard day's work, the old man and his faithful' compan ion lay down to sleep with the organ beside them. They slept soundly, and when they awoke the organ wa gone. Hut the dog led the old man through the street where he had been accus tomed to play, and persons who had given him alms before continued to be friend him, so that the loss of the or gan proved not so bad after all. Week went by. One day the old man heard a hand organ playing n few feet from him. It reinlndod'hlui of hi lost Instrument, but he paid no special attentlou to It. Hand organs were common In London, and he had heard them often. Not so the dog. He showed signs of great excitement, barked violently and le.l his master in the direction of the organ. He sprang at the robber'a throat, dragged him away from the stolen organ, and led hi master eager ly up to It. with expressions of rocog liltlou and delight.-People's Friend. Frequent Farthquas.ra, "There Is a place lu California where earthquake may to said to to kept on tap." said Fresno County fnlt grow-, er to a reporter. "The spot 1 at the headwater of the Keweah. at the bor der of Frv.no. Tulare and Inyo coun tie. You can't hire an Indian or a Mexican to go uear that localitv. They wy It 1 the home of the evli spirit The country 1, rugged and rocaj- ntnuntaln. Uh vail, no' pre- .,i si'ornions. tin- cipl.ou cm . " - .. . .... o 1 ' ..J to r n , e . e neighborhood their paradise, for they are there lu very palpable "'Tmuraddltlonlo these attractions, f tierpetual earthquake. lue around re mines and quake runtluimlljr. and he ock themUe u to bo grind. g and grating aHluat one another onstaiit.na .f subject to some great UHernal force. These l-heno ,. u ar. said ,o be ...ore emphatic at lK " , ,e daytime. Frequent boom g discharge, apparently deep lu earth, are heard, and men who h a e heard Ih.iI. nay they are exactly like t muttering of distant artillery. I lum never heard anyone advance nny tm ory to satisfactorily explain thl un easy and perpetually dlslurlie.l cot.dl lion of nature up among the fur Ke wenh rock am) 1.111. but It 1 there. If vou ever hnppcu to be lu that vlcln t,v ask the first lndlun you meet to guide you to the spot ami aee how quickly he will shy away and disap pear.' ZIRCONS IN TASMANIA, Gem Are Pure and Acconiiunled by Sapphires mid Ituhlc. Among the ninny vuluuble discover ies of lute In Tasmania one which ha created much Interest In mining circles ha recently been partially developed. It consist of a tare and unique de posit of Blrcon allied with other gem and rare earth. The gem found In thl deposit are chiefly xlrcotis, sapphire and cinna mon ruble. The tlrst named are found In largo quantities and lu every variety of color. Many of them have been cut and polished with very gratifying results, being hard and of good luster. The Fulled State Consul (iencnil at Mel bourne, who ha lately been making an Investigation Into the circum stances of the discovery, say that tl.e specific gravity of the alrcon Is 4.7. it being heavier than the diamond, which Is .73. Its hardnes compared with the diamond is 7, the latter be ing 10. At the same time It I purely Incan descent, N'lng unaffected by Ihe most Intense heat, thus proving It to be of high commercial value for us? In the manufacture of iniintlc for Incan descent light. It must be understood that the prod uct of the gem namely, oxide of zlr conla Is used for the above purpose, not the gem Itself. The comiKisltloti of the pure zircon Is i'4 per cent, zlrcoula and 'M per cent, silica. Analysis of two sample of alrcon from the alsive mentioned deposit gave ti.'t per cent, and M per cent, of zlr conla, thereby testifying to the purity of the gein. The rarer earths namely, Inntliiiiil urn, thorium, dldymlum, niobium, er bium, cerium and chromium are all more or less present. ltaibe In Fleetrlclty. Hathiug lu electricity Is the dally amusement of a uumlier of men lu a big otllce building ,u Kansas City, Mo. Several time a day the met. saturate themselves) with static electricity, and one of them I getting fat ou It. The others haven't lieen bathing long enough to know whether they will get fat or die. The process was discovered by a man who wu paying a doctor $1!..V three times a week for electrical treatment for nervousness. He 1 chief engineer of the building. One day he crawled Into the pit lietieath the big belt that draws the elevntor ami dyna mo machinery. YVheti he desired to come out he handed his assistant a metal lamp he was carrying. The as sistant got an electric shock that made him see violet star. After that the en gineer forstMik the doctor and saved 7.oU a week. Static electricity I that produced by friction, and Is Just what the dH-tor wa furnishing from a brush machine at SL'.oti a dose. The great belt In It swift revolutions produce and stores the electric fluid by friction. To steal the electricity the men stand close to It, holding over It a magnet made of copper wire wound on a sikioI, with both end of the wire loose. To complete the circuit a copper wire Is fastened to nn Iron water pipe nearby and a silver dollar placed In a loop In the liHise end. Thl 1 passed up and down tlie body, creating a circuit of the electricity and literally bathing- the whole system In the fluid. One of the men who take these electric baths has relieved himself of rheumatism. An other Is treating himself for a nervous disorder, while the others take It for a tonic. Traittm. a Coit, an Odo. The word tragedy, derived from the Creek tragus, a goat, an ode, a song, originally denoted the song or chorus that accompanied the saerlllce of a goat to the gotl. Comedy, the Anglicised for... of the Latin comaedln, comes from the Kreek komos, n festive pro cession, nnd neldenl, to sing, referring to the ode sung during the procession. Farce Is n modem term, founded upon the Latin verb faclre, to stuff. This was an allusion to the ni.clent buffoons padding out their clothing to abnormal dimensions. Later the padding was dispensed w ith, but the wide garments retained. Detroit Free Tress. A Itare Coin. While engaged In digging under his farm house, near South Windsor, X. Y a few day ago George Buell found a curious copper coin. The obverse side of the coin has uih.ii It a sun and a sun dial, the date of coinage, 17S7, and the Inscription. "Mind your own business " The reverse side has thirteen links nlH.ut the margin and an Inscription In the center. "Flitted States, one cent" The et.lu Is known is a "Franklin cent " aad I the first colu authorized by the Fulled States. It rare and valuable being quoted at from $o- ,0 j100 A Ijtst Resource. Kev Mr. Dullboy -uo u calllngv- rbv th8t wakeful Mrs. Weary wife-Yes, you can I reach a sermon, please. The Yellow Rook. Arranged. Mr. Newed-Uut I can't carry both the baby and the satchel. Newed-Well. let the baby c,rrT ,h4 aatehel-The Yellow Book 7 mm, H i.l A .IV II I Off t 1 I I -i -i - , Among the ninny curious Mn in which electricity play th nn." role I mentioned a pen, provide 'J IIIIIIP, llllt'lltlt-ll III 1 II 11 III 1 Mil le a. space on the paper, hnd prevent shining Into the eye of the wrltitk,' little reflector placed Just umtn In a concert hall of pnrl .l. energy nn ueen put to tlie nord of moving thp celling. Thl u , parts, which are drawn back on tn'. ing crnnc, opening ine hail 0 (),. roof by day. The opening or clll."' the celling la effected In one nilnut two electric motors. A wealthy lady who poatwsu,. Mnlteso cut found r 'I,, o . ' cat a rjeniiiui ocgmi 10 I nil, o ilin, bin. to an oculist. By mean of i, tttre of a mouse the orulUt qu learned what wa the matter, n.t . able to fit the cat with glass. r lene were set In gold frame ly maoe, ami now xne cat eyeiljit, as good a a ever. Hr. 0. K. Gilbert, of the C.J survey, sny iiiih a comparison of n, I record for a period of twenty shows that the land Kiirroumlloit ii oreat i.nkes is t.eing gradually tu;. from northeast to southwest at iik rate that, of two point bin mile, tlir tl.e northern rise live Inches with- l-l I'lHT l,J lilt-- rtiril, 1ICI 11 111 I'lO yenn. 1 Chicago the lake level rise about Inch lu ten years. Or. Gllls-rt pml that, If this movement rontlmiM ibout rt.fMMj years nil the iipK?r UU will discharge Into the Illlnoia Ri,. :he Hetroit nnd St. Clair Itlvers I low backward, currying the water . Lake F.rle Into Lake Huron, and ijl Niagara ltlver will run dry. A new fireproof paper, in.nle In J, .In, Is reported to be capable of rul ing even tl.e direct Influence of fat while It may be placed In a white be. I without ha rni. It consists tif 05 ptr- of the best asbestos fibre, wliiih washed In a solution of permnnnci. oi caieiuiii, nun iiieu ireateii nuBal phurlc acid nnd T parts of grounl wv. I pulp, tl.e entire mas being placed J the agitating box, with the addition ' some lime water nnd borax. After tb, ougli mixing, the material I pum. Into a regulating box, and allowd flow out of n gate Into nn cndli'si w cloth, where It enters the usual pael making machinery. The electric trolley ha been a sonr-l of great Injury to metallic pipes In r vicinity, causing tli Ir coi r islon by eV I trolysl. Becently It ha been ton. that the operation of the syphon r-I corder of the submarine telegr:ilm bio at Cape Town, South Africa, n Interfered with by the new trolley lb I The shore end of the submarine ca!- for tho length of a mile was nt a ow l distance of one-hnlf n mile from til trolley line. A n remedy, a seconds dummy cable, with nn earth plate, til laid as nearly as possible over the o one, and this effectually cancelled C disturbances. Observation made London have shown that the earth- mngnetlc Bold Is disturbed over t whole nelghlKirhood of the City at I South London Electric Hnllroad. In the United State the utility of tl magnetic observatory In the new nanl observatory Is threatened by the tr ley. An American company Is making eJ tlmntes of the cost of a cable road m the City of Mexico to the sulphur posits In the crater of Popocatepetl A doctor says that lu society onenn always tell the girls xvhose parec have risen from the humbler class ' wealth by the suierlor quality of tl hnlr. Some people In the South are pretlif Ing that tho current trend In cott" manufacture will flo.d the North wi: negro operatives and the South A Yankee white girls. Kuvnrnl en si s nf blootllcM I nioon.r Ho. lww,tv tnlcen bv trnillF I a freight car nt ChlUlcothe. Ohio. 4 police are puzzled to know what ttl marauders intend to do with luep'i incuts. Bicycles are used for stuiigglli K the frontier of France and llelglus The custom olllce.s nt Touivuing.tw'l to nieces the machine ridden by a ois- thev suspected ami found that all tH hollow tubing vt'ns stuffed with to!ul A quaint lnscrpltlou has lately I noted upon a tombstone, without n.wl a,,.l H-ltl...,.t .l.il.i In ii eoinetcl'V. To I dead man or woman, a the case "U! lie. had ordered the following wori should be placed over the grave: "IM on, oh. reader! Waste not thy time 11 1 reading vain prose and still less ustm words. My tomb tells thee what I u-h,il T iviia nmwnrlis thee Hot." tas vntiltatum" Was evidently In M thoughts of this philosophically re''' ed person. Who An na NnltztM r CI1 1 Nine ueonle out of tel.. If asked whom Spttzliergcn belongs, would rep', to Itusslu. As a mutter of face. It l long to nobody. Thl was the oa even w.i.m tliu lulnml u-ns the seat 01 lame nnd nrnsneroii whale fishing " dustry. The fishermen, who came tr' Norway, Sweden, France and otl countries, and remained there three four mouths every year, were the otw owners the islnnd ever bad. i mac .narka ... Drummer-How do you dlstinfU''" VOUr cilttto from IhosB of voi.r oe't lutr Itunehiiinn Shop n-nr VOU tell J"1" cigars. Drummer How's that? Ranchman By the brand. The woman who runs after I" band until she gets oue seldom hr ut catch