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THE INDEPENDENT Advertising Bates. LBGAl ADVHKTiaKXEXT (rain.) adeDendeiit On aquar or Iraa, on Inanition ...ft M hi u juar esc u uDaeqiiKiit interuon ov nvnmvMm aotbhtibkhexta from.) TIMS. I J. I J M. 4. H col X coll eol. I month ., $ I 00 4 00 1 OOf 00,1 7 OOfia S0W-J0 00 WJ0U0 tT M r afcrlptln ! rata.) Single copy pr jear S 30 Stasia copy ils month IN Mac) aumbr 10 VOL. 4. HILLSBOllO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1876. NO. 39. THE INDEPENDENT. rviLiiiio Everjr Thursday Evening, BT H. B. LUCE, Office, . - - - Old Court House, HIIXSBOKO, OREGON. Was HgtOB II . t month... I 4U ISd 7 OUl I KX 10 0311 4 Imonthi... (00 700 00 HOC U0U JIBil H00 moot!... TSO MOO HVI MOO 17 10 M flu 90 00 iyor io(X)uoj'JOOumiwoumou(ooo Bulgarian Poetry: The Slave-Gang. "O thou bill, thou high green hill ; Why, green hill, art thou so withered? ' Did the winter's frost so wilt thee? Did the summer's heat eo parch thee? Not the winter's frost did wilt me, Nor the summer' heat did parch me, But my glowing heart is smothered. Yesterday three slave-gangs crossed me; Grecian maids were in the first row, Weeping, crying bitterly: O our wealth art lost forever! Black-eyed maidens from Wallachia Weeping, crying in the second: O ye ducats of Wallachia!" Bulgar women in the third row. Weeping, crying, 'O sweet home! O sweet home! beloved children! Fare ye well, farewell forever!' " "Never Mind." What's the use of always fretting At the trials we shall find Ever strewn along our pathway? Travel on, and Mnever mind." Travel onward; working, hoping. Cast no lingering glance behind At the trials onee encountered Look ahead, and "never mind." What is past is past forever; Let all fretting be resigned; It will never help the matter Do your best, and "never mind." And if those who might befriend you, Whom the ties of nature bind, Should refuse to do their duty. Look to heaven, and "never mind." Friendly words are often spoken When the feelings are unkind; Take them for their real value. Pass them by, and "never mind." Fate may threaten, clouds may lower, Enemies may be combined; IX your trust in Ood is steadfast, He will help you, "never mind." The Slavs. The Serb-Turkish war is bringing into common use names heretofore somewhat unfamiliar. The Slavs now find frequent mention in the English journals, and I perceive that the name of the race, with the queer-sounding surnames and appel lations of its tongue, have crossed the Atlantic, and appear not unfrequently in your columns. Perhaps a few words concerning them may prove of some in terest to jour readers. "When the great central Asiatic hive was swarming off into Europe at the time of the overthrow of the Roman Empire, the Slavs were one of the tribes that fol lowed in the track of the Huns, Avars, Goth, and Vandals, but, failing to pene trate so far to the westward as their pre decessors, were contented to conquer and overrun and to settle in what is now gen erally known as Russia in Europe, South ern Austria and Hungary, and the north ern part of European Turkey. Thus the inhabitants of Russia proper, or old Rus sia, are almost entirely of the Slavic race, as are those of Croatia, the Ban at and the "Military Frontier" in Austro-Hun-gary, and of Servia, Bulgaria, Herzego vina and Montenegro in the territory described in the maps as "Turkey in Europe." Servia has for many years enjoyed an autonomy under the rule of the House of Obrenovitch, subject only to the payment of a small annual subsidy in recognition of the Porte's suzerainty, and Montene gro has never been conquered by the Moslem, even when his crescent flag and Pasha's horsetails swept over Europe to Malta and Vienna, but, secure in the re cesses of her impregnable "Black Mount ain," in the courage of her sons, and in her poverty, has preserved a ferocious in dependence. I saw Nikita, the Wai wode or Prince Bishop of Montenegro, who has recently been gaining such sig nal victories over the Turks, at the Vi enna Exposition in 1873. He was above six feet in height, thin, broad-shouldered, narrow-flanked, with acquiline features and a very large eye, and was dressed in a pointed full-sleeved jacket and loose, bagging trousers, both of white, profusely braided in black, and secured around the waist with a broad crimson sash, iu which waa stuck a curved sword with hilt richly jeweled, a long-handled dagger and a small armory of pistols. Diagon ally across his breast was slung a gaily embroidered red leather cartridge case, with the ends of the cartridges protruding haudily and ominously theretrom, and he wore on his head a high, circular, visor less cap, shaped like a fez, but of pure white, with bullion tassel. He was ac companied by his wife, almost as, tall as himself, dressed also in pure white, with short skirts and Turkish trousers, and with a profusion of jet black hair, twisted in masses on the back of her neck and thrust through with golden arrows almost loug enough to serve for the chase or for warfare. The pair were gazing eagerly at the glittering contents of a splendid show case of English jewelry, and per haps wishing that the owner with his wares would have to pass in his return through the defiles of the Black Mount ains. XHikitas' late lamented father had a cheerful way of ornamenting the walls of his palace courtyard at Cettinge with a . row of spikes, each bearing the ehastlv head of a Turkish foeman, and I suppose his loyal followers took good care to keen them well supplied "fresh and fresh." These followers, the famous Montenegrin mountaineers, in their reckless courage and hardihood, their repugnance to drill and discipline, their habit in action of firing one volley and then rushing to close quarters with the yataghan, their resolution to follow their hereditary chiefs and none others, and their custom of dispersing after each victory to secure the plunder of the field in their mountain fastnesses, remind one of the Scottish Highlanders who fought so gallantly for the Stuarts in 1715 and '45; and their recent victories " over the Turks near Trebinje and at Vucidol resemble greatly in their details the action of Sheritfmuir, Preston pans and Falkirk. Prince Nikita is a regular pensioner of the Court at St. Petersburg, as waa his father and grand father Uxors him. Milan, the ruling Prince of Servia, of the house of Obrenovitch, is a young man of twenty-five year?, of French an cestors, very recently married, and of strong pacific tendencies. His wile, the Princess Nathalie, a Russian lady of high birth, has just presented him with a son and heir, for whom the Czar has stood godfather by proxy, but the mother is ly ing in a dying condition at the capital of Belgrade, which is being hastily forti fied to resist a possible Turkish attack. Does not the name of the old city recall to you the congests of the early part of last century, wherein rrince of Jiaden and Prince Eugene of Savoy combatted with the fierce Janizaries for its mystery? Or is it associated with those alliterative verses, wherein "An Austrian army, awfully arrayed. Boldly by battery beaeiged Belgrade! "Cossack commanders cannonading come. Dealing destruction's devastating doom." Milan's father fell by the hands of assas sins, as have many of the Servian rulers who preceded him, both of his family and that of his rival, Kara George. The Prince is said to have been strongly opposed to commencing the war into which he was forced by the influence of bis Prime Min ister, Ristics, and by the powerful control of the secret society Omladina. This body, the ramifications of whose extended intrigues, conspiracies and in fluence have but recently come practi cally to light, in a secret, oath-bound Pan Slavist propaganda, organized to advance the interest and consolidate the power of the Slavic race, and extending wherever there is a Slavonic population to work upon. They hold that identity of race and language is the only true and legal basis for the formation of States. And it must be remembered that the millions of the Slavic race, whether dominant as they are in the colossus of Russian power; subordinate to another and a hostile peo ple as in Austro-Hungary ; warring for the rights of their brethren as in Servia and Montenegro; or crushed under an intolerable tyranny as in Bosnia and Bul garia all speak the same tongue, al though in different dialects; all belong to that branch of the Greek Church which, rejecting the supremacy of the Patriarch of Constantinople, looks to Rusja and its Czar for spiritual leadership and guidance; and all cherish the community of origin and blood which unites them in sympathy with each other, both to aid and protect a weak and suffering branch, or to aim at a future union and consoli- lation which would, if successful, chauge the map of the world. This Omladina is charged with having originated ttie uuiganan insurrection which made such a feeble beginning and was then stamped out with such terrible atrocity; although the origin of the in effectual struggle was probably the joint agency of almost unbearable internal grievances and external incentives; they are also charged and with more foundation with having stimulated the passions and smouldering hatred of the Servian masses against their hereditary foes and former oppressors, to fighting pitch, and with thus controlling and forcing their reluct ant sovereigns to inaugurate hostilities. And without disguise or concealment, they are making most vigorous efforts, not only over the length and breadth of the immense Russian Empire, but where- ever a Russian colony exists in Germany, France or Italy, to collect funds and pur chase and forward supplies, military stores and other material aid to their brothers warring in the field. In every large town in Russia they have been holding fairs and bazaars in further ance of this object, and aid-de-camps of the Emperor in full uniform, and ladies of the court of the highest rank have gone from house to house soliciting sub scriptions to the treasury of the common cause. All this is in opposition to the declared wishes of the Czar, who is known to be a most earnest advocate of peace, and who is said to be resolved to abdicate if he cannot prevent hostilities. Like his brother, Emperor of Austria, he is a man of melancholy temperament, which both express in their features; both have been sorely tried in the crucible of af fliction, and each has seen enougli of the horrors of war, without any of its tri umphs, to impart a hearty detestation of it. Hut the temper ot the people is be coming too strong, their most deeply seated passions of race and religion are growing too excited to be kept in check by governmental control. The Czaro witch is known to be an ardent Pan- Slavist and is reported to be at the head of the Omladina, and the propaganda ex tends through the highest court, military and executive circles of Russia, inspires the burghers of the cities to contribu tions of heretofore unheard of liberality, and absolutely honeycombs the rank and file of the army. Among their other continental branch associations, a fection of the Omaladina has been organized in Dresden, where there is a large Russian colony, many of its members being of great wealth, their handsome residences ornamenting the principal quarters, and their showy equi pages and fiery horses forming a conspicu ous feature in the afternoon drives in the Grosser Garten and along the other ave nues. They are a very companionable, accessible people, and nearly all speak English well, and it has been my fortune to become acquainted with several of them, who have conversed without re serve upon the plans of their society, its aspirations, resources and present in ten tions. For the Russians regard all Amer icans as their natural allies; and the feelings of pique and offended pride, caused by the strange conduct of Cata cazy, their late Ambassador at Washing ton, and the complications which fol lowed ; by the treatment of the Grand T..l - - . iune on ins visit to America by our President, and by the publication in our papers ot 3Ir. Jewell's iniudicious. indis creet and non-diplomatic letters from St. I'etersburg, seemed to be confined en tirely to governmental circles. Among tne itussians nere, tne lectin" of sympa thy with our nation, which manifested itself so strongly during onr civil war, wnen liussia was our only European friend, seems as strong as ever. Perhaps you will account, from this circumstance. for the Pan-Slavic tone of my corres pondence; but I do assure you I but ex press the almost universal feeling on the subject existing among my German civil ian friends, and as to that prevailing among the German soIdiers,I have already spoken in other letters. One of my Muscovite friends, until recently a mem ber of the Emperor's household, in a re cent conversation, expressed to me the belief ".that America and Russia must eventually divide the empire of the civ ilized world between them;" and his hearers, of the same nation, warmly ap plauded the sentiment. They are ac tively engaged in forwarding Russian officers and sergeants, and others of pre vious military experience to the Servian army ; and several German officers of the reserve have, as they tell me, gone there also, under their auspices. Per contra, many German officers of rank have taken service with the Turk, Oiiuan Pasha; commanding a Turkish army corps on the Simox, is the Prussian Gen. Blum; and the superior excellence of the Otto man artillery is accounted for by the fact that most of their field batteries are un der command of German officers. By the way, Col. Valentine Baker, lately colonel of a crack regiment of British cavalry, who was some time since con victed of an assault upon a young lady while traveling in a railway coach, and sentenced to a considerable term of im prisonment, and also cashiered from the service, has just been released from prison by expiration of sentence, anil has taken service under the horse-tail banners of the Moslem cavalry, whether under his own name or under a nomine de guerre, as it is usual in such cases, I have been unable to learn. For the hostility to the Servian and Montenegrin cause, manifested since the commencement of hostilities by the Aus-tro-Hungarian Government, and which is believed by many to be the barrier against prompt and effective Russian intervention, it is not difficult to account. The Magyars are of an entirely differ ent stock from the Slavs, and because they are so different and are yet in close neighborhood to each other, a feeling of rivalry of race has grown up which has not lacked opportunities of mutual injury to develop into deep and bitter hatred. V ben the Magyars, in 185 and 4U, under Kossuth, Gorgey and Bern, made their gal lant struggle for independence from Aus trian dominion, it was the Slavic uroats, under the Baa Jellachich, who first crushed out the sympathizing element in Vienna, and then aided in placing the arms of the empire in triumph over Buda- Festh. let these arms would never have reached there, nor would the gallant Hun garian armies, under their splendid lead ers, have been overthrown, their cause ruined, and their chiefs executed or ex iled, had not Slavic Russia sent her irre sistible armies into Hungary, and forced the patriots to surrender to overwhelm ing odds. Since then, time has brought about strange changes. The reconstruction of the Austrian Empire into the Austro- Hungarian realm, which followed the dis astrous campaign of I860, and the crush ing defeat of Sadowa, and a most skill ful use of opportunities, has given Hun gary not only independence for herself, but control tor her policy in Austrian councils; her compact, enthusiastic peo ple, guided by consummate statesman ship, exercises preponderating influence among the heterogeneous elements which compose the rest of the empire. And so the Magyar has the opportunity, and does not lack the will to repay the Slav, in 1876, for the fatal interference thirty years ago. And the opportunity is availed oi to its utmost extent, all along the S uth- ern Austrian frontier, and in all the dip lomatic conferences of the great powers. And from this feeling of race hostility, yet graver results are to follow. Are we, on this side of the ocean, never to have done with writing and talking and preparing for and paying for wars and rumors of wars? I am not a pensionist, but I think it must be postponed until that blessed period, when "Down the dark future through long gener ations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease. And, like a hell, with solemn, sweet vibra tions, We hear, at last, the voice of Chkist say 'Peace!" W. D. W. Cor. of Detroit Free Pre. Mrs. McGrudkk's Pie. They say that a workman is known by his chips, and why Bhouidn t a housewife be known by certain ear-marks on her pie-crust and biscuit! Just before noon yesterday Mrs. McGruder, of Sixth Street, took an apple pie from the oven, and set it on a bench in the back yard to cool off. Then she put on her hat and ran down to the gro cery for milk, and was returning, when she met a boy with a pie iu his hand. Bakers have pies to sell, and boys often buy, and some women would have passed this boy by. Not so with Mrs. McGruder. After one swift glimpse at the pie, she called out: "You have stolen my pie, you young thief hand it right over!" 'I just bought it on the avenue," he coolly replied. "Bought it, you awful liar! Why, look at my marks in the centre of the crust and here around the edges! I'd swear I made that crust, if I met it in Japan I" lie tried to get away, but she nabbed him, and recovered the pie, which, sure enough, had been stolen from the back yard. An orange tree over four hundred years old, standing in the gardens of Versailles, France, died recently, and nad a most re markable history for a tree. The Queen of Navarre gave the orange pip to her rrardener, who planted it at 1'ampeluna When a small tree it was moved to Chan- tiller. From thence it went to the gar dens of Fontainebleau, after which it was moved for the last time to Versailles, where it remained some two hundred winters, surviving meanwhile some half dozen revolutions, ana two or mree inva sions, and died at last full of years if not of fruit. What variety of plum does Cain rep resent I A Damson. A Sick Man. When a man is ailing he ought to know two things; what caused his ailment and what will remove it; for it is folly to ex pect relief until the cause is removed. Therefore when a man is sick he should at once go home, cover up warm in bed, in a cool, pure room, and wait for better times, eating nothing meanwhile, unless he feels really hungry; if thirsty he can eat and swallow all the ice possible. The most stupid animal, when ailing, seeks quiet, rest and warmth, and cannot be in duced to eat anything. The philosophy" of the course is that eolaaeas is death; hence even the pig, when ailing, seeks some sunny spot at the side of a house or fence, which is twice as warm as any other place from the rebound of the sun's rays. Rest sought by quietude; all sickness is debility; every motion of a limb, the very crook of a finger requires the ex penditure of strength, every atom of which is needed to bring up the body from its weakened condition; for in default of strength for this purpose typhoid comes on and all is over. The animal does not eat; nature takes away the appetite, be cause the body, already clogged with a load of matters which are better out than in, would but have the weight increased by every mouthful swallowed. And yet man, with his higher intelligence, eats when he has no appetite, fights against nature, his best physician, who, in kind ness and wisdom has taken the appetite away, and eats "to keep up his strength !" This patient waiting in warmth and quiet and abstinence from food will cure a large majority of all common ailments. Dr. JLiU's lat article. 1 Sunlight. Mrs. Beecher says in the Chrittian Union: We wish the importance of admit ting the light of the sun, freely, as well as building those early and late fires, could be properly impressed upon our housekeepers. 2io article of furniture should ever be brought to our homes too delicate for the sun to see all day long. His presence should never be excluded, except when so bright as to be uncom fortable to the eyes. And walks should be in bright sunlight, so that the eyes are protected by veil or parasol, when incon veniently intense. A sun bath is of far more importance in preserving a healthful condition of the body than is generally understood. A sun bath costs nothing, and that is a mis fortune, for people are deluded with the idea that those things can only be good or useful which cost money. But remem ber that pure water, fresh air, sunlight, and homes kept free from all dampness, will secure you from many heavy bills of the doctors and give you health and vigor which no money can procure. It is a well established fact, that people who live much iu the sun are usually stronger and more healthy than those whose occu pation deprives them of sunlight. Graham Gems. I wish togiveyoumy recipe for Graham Gems. I saw a recipe in the Rural for "nice" Graham Gems, which contained buttermilk, cream, mo lasses, soda, and I don't remember what else, and I said to myself: "Why will people take the most healthful article of food and fix it up iu that way. making it very unwholesome, when it can be made so simply." I make mine simply of sweet milk and Graham flour; one cup of milk to one even cup of flour; if made thicker they will not be light. But if this rule is followed, and the oven and gem-pans are hot, they will be like mine, light as a feather, and much more de licious than when made with saleratus. They do not need salt. Jr. E. J. F., Warren, Maine. Apple Snow. One pint bowl of the pulp of roasted apples, strained; one-half pint of pulverized bugar; whites of three eggs; beat the eggs to a stiff froth, then add the apple and sugar alternately, a spoonful of each, and beat all together until it stands perfectly stiff on the spoon; it will swell immensely; serve this in saucers on a custard made of the yolks of eggs, one pint of milk, two ta blespoon! uls sugar, and flavored with va nilla. Chicken a la Creole: Cut up two large chickens; put the pieces in a saucepan with butter; fry them. When brown, take most of the butter off; add two chopped onions: frv uirain to cook the onions; take the skins and seeds out of eight tomatoes;' cut and put them with the chicken, together with half a green pepper chopped fine, a teacupful of thick brown gravy and the same quantity of beef broth; season well; cover; let the whole boil slowly for half an hour, and serve with plain boiled rice in a separate dish. Chocolate ProDixa. One and one half ounces of grated chocolate mixed with a little cold milk; stir it into one quart of boiling milk; when nearly cool add the yolks of six eggs beaten with sugar to taste, flavor with vanilla, and bake until thick as custard. Beat the whites of the eggs to a froth with six spoonfuls of powdered sugar, pile lightly on the pudding and brown in the oven. Serve cold. Filling for Lemon Pies. I have dis covered a nice way of making a filling for lemon pies. It is to slice the-lemon, boil till tender and strain, add corn starch dissolved with water to thicken, sugar, and wben cool add one egg and a piece of butter. Com. An excellent, well recommended pickle for curing hams is made of one and one- half pounds of salt, one-half pound of sugar, one-half ounce of saltpeter and one-naft ounce of potash. Boil all to gether till the dirt from the sugar has risen to the top and is skimmed. Pour it over the meat and leave the latter in the solution four or five weeks. Cream Muffins An excellent and well tried recipe. One quart of sweet milk (half cream if you can get it), one heaping quart of Graham flour, six eggs and salt to taste. Bake immediately in hot iron muffin rings. Your oven should be hot, and the muffins sent to the table i ss soon as they are taken up. High Prices for a Songstress. One of the mot extraordinary affairs on record, in the annals of dramatic and musical history, has been the Patti-Russo question. Mine. Patti signed last year an engagement for St. I'etersburg, the terms of which were the enormous sum of 800,000 francs and two benefits, for forty nights. No sooner was this fact known than a subscription was opened, and within a few days boxes and seats were sold to the amount of 2,000,000 francs. But within the past few months Mme. Patti has been suffering from a severe cold and hoarseness. Her medical man refused to allow her to go to Russia, as he considered it not safe for her to ven ture another winter in the Russian capital. A medical consultation was summoned, and resulted in confirming the opinion and advice of the chief physician in at tendance on the Diva. Their advice was still further strengthened by the fact that M. do Caux, Mme. Patti's husband, when last in Russia was so seriously ill with inflammation of the lungs that the lady had to cease singing in order to nurse him, and her companion, Mme. Louise, was also much imconvenienced by the climate of St. Petersburg. Now without M. de Caux and her dame de eompagnie the Marquise goes nowhere, so of course, since her health as well as theirs was en dangered by the expedition, she conclud ed not to undertake it and to endeavor to break her contract. Now comes the sin gular part of the story. The Russian im pressario, Mr. Franchi, refused to grant her any compromise, and she is now obliged bon gre tnal gre to go to St. Peters burg, or else forfeit the enormous sum of 2,000,000 francs, the price of boxes and seats already sotd to persons anxious to hear her. Imagine any human voice biinging in 2,000,000 francs in forty nights. Is it not worth one's while being a singer? Since the above was written a special diplomatic agent from the Czar has visited Patti, and mutual concessions having leen made she has consented to go to Russia and sing for a limited time. Wedding Anniversaries. Fashion has established a custom, of ate years, of celebrating certain anniver saries of the marriage, these being named as follows: The celebration at the expiration of the first year is called the cotton wedding; at two years comes the paper; at three the eather; at the close of hve years comes the wooden; at the seventh anniversary the friends assemble at the woolen, and at ten comes the tin. At twelve years the silk and fine linen; at fifteen the crys tal wedding. At twenty the friends gather with their china, and at twenty-hve the married couple that have been true to their vows for a quarter of a century are rewarded with silver gifts. From this time forward the tokens of esteem become rapidly more valuable. When the thirti eth anniversary is reached they are pre sented with pearls; at the fortieth comes the rubies; and at the fiftieth occurs the lorious golden wedding. Beyond that time the aged couple are allowed to en joy their many gif ts in peace. If, how ever, by any possibility, they reach the scventy-fitth anniversary, they are pre sented with the rarest gifts to be ob tained, at the celebration ot their diamond wedding. In issuing the invitations for cele brating these anniversaries, it is custom ary to print them on a material emblem atic of the occasion. Thus thin wood. leather, cloth, tin foil, silk, silver and gold paper and other materials are brought into use. Of course, those who accept such invi tations, and partake of the hospitalities of the host and hostess, are expected to contribute to the collection of gifts that will grace the occasion. Scott's Fly i no Machine. The in ventor of the flying machine, 3Ir. Ralph Scott, who didn't fly from Dover to Calais, as he said he would, is in Berlin showing his invention to Bismarck and Von Moltke. The whole arrangemeut con sists of a small, rather deep wooden gon dola, in the middle of which the machin ery is fixed, which is to be put iu motion by means of a wheel, similar to a ship a steering-wheel. The pressure of the spring, when the wheel is in motion, is to be like three thousand pounds in an up ward, and equal to fifteen hundred pounds in a downward direction. At each end of the gondola is a seat for a passenger, and at one end a second wheel I or steering me apparatus, wuicu auu- rether weighs three hundred pounds. Mr. Scott asserts that with this machine he will travel through the air at the rate of seventy miles an hour in clear weather, and in a storm and against a head wind, forty miles. He says that he has him self already made trial trips on a small scale with it, and that for upward, down ward and forward motion, as well as standing still in mid air, and in all weather, he has found the machine a thor ough success. The principal may be ap plied, he says, with the same effect to machines of any size or strength. A Bio Pair of Shoes. Memphis (Tennessee) Aealanchs says: ,Gjo. W, App, shoemaker of this city, exhibited at the Aealanehe office, recently, a monster pair of brogans, made by lam, on order, for a negro preacher in Marvell, Arkan sas. The length of each shoe is seventeen and three-quarters inches. Ihe meas urement around the instep is eighteen inches, and around the ball fourteen inches. The price of the shoes and the last (which latter was made to order) was 1 10. Tbe man who can make such a pair of shoes, and survive the effort, must surelv be a nrst-ciass snoemaker. ine height of the negro is seven feet full, and his weight 400 pound. Most of the temporary hotels have closed their doors, and the proprietors are now counting up their profits. la some instances they won't be large. Quite a large number of boarding-house keepers made money, ana wouiu hub anotner Centennial uext summer, and Just such a rush of hungry visitors, who would not dare to dispute the prices askea. rnua ddphia Paper. . Shoeing Horses. Half of the lameness among horses Is caused by bad shoeing. There must be s level bearing of the hoof for the shoe, so that the horse's hoof can stand upon the ground naturally and evenly, or the horse will be In pain, and somcthing.somewhere in the foot or leg, will finally give way, and the horse become permanently lamed. If the heels are cut down too much, as is frequently the case, the joints of the hoof are on a constant strain, and some of them will suffer and succumb sooner or later. If the heels are left too high, and the toe is cut dowu too tnuch.the strain will come in a different way, and will be injurious. If one side of the hoof is lower than the other, the foot must suffer. The constant study of the shoer should be to get a nat ural bearing. He must have an eye and a taste for the business. The horse can not talk or complain even; and he must study the horse's foot, read authors in re gard to it, understand its anatomy, and notice how horses stand without shoes. All that is wanted of the shoe is, to pro tect the hoof from the ground. It don't want to be cut and burnt, and opened and slashed away at as though it was a piece of wood, it is most delicately organized, and it requires a delicate band to adjust the shoe so that the horse shall stand easi ly and naturally upon it. Hot one blacksmith in twenty is fit to shoe a horse. He is rough, unlearned. has never studied the anatomy of the horse's hoof, with its complex joints; cuts away the frog, slashes out the bars, puts. a red-not snog on the toot, and seems not to care whether it will give the horse case or pain, so he nails on the shoe and gets rid of the Job. Any farmer, with a little observation, could put a shoe on his horse much better. He could have a portable forge, and do his own shoeing in rainy weather. There is no mystery about the job. Has he not as much brains as the smith? Has he not seen shoeing done all his life? What has he eyes for but to see how that and everything else Is done? It I strange, however, how some people pass through life. Having eyes they see not. Farmers must use their eyes, and be more self-reliant and self-sustaiuing. With a portable forge, enough could be saved in a year to pay for it; and the boys and hired men could learn to repair scores of jobs that have to be sent off miles, perhaps, to be repaired. If anything is too complicated, take it off and see how it is repaired, and then you can attend to it next time. See how horses are shod, and you can shoo them as well as anybody. Jiural World. Been to the CentenniaL A bashful appearing man stepped Into the Enquirer editorial room the other evening, and edging up .to tne taoie oi the managing editor, hat in hand, said, In a hesitating way: "iou like little items for your paper, 1 suppose?" "Certainly," replied 3lr. Cockenii; "a newspaper, like life, is made up of little items. What have you to offer?" "Well," said the bashful man, playing with his hat-band, "my name is Smith, John Smith, and I've Just got home." "Ulad to see you back again, jur. Smith," said Cockerill;"been gone long?" "I have been," said Mr. Smith, with a tremor of pride in his voice, "to the Cen tennial, and if you want to make a little notice " "What!" cried Cockerill, springing to his feet, "you've been to the Centennial? And you've got back? Give us -your hand, I'm delighted to see you. Spear, let me introduce you to John Smith. John has been to the Centennial!" Spear shook hands very warmly with Mr. Smith, and then ran to the aperture communicating with the reporter's room and shouted, "Oh Shaunnessey, come tn here, quick here s a man that been to the Centennial!" Then O'Shaunnessey bounced in, fol lowed by his assistants, all of whom em braced the bewildered Smith warmly, and expressed the gratification it atlorded them to meet a man who had been to the great National Exhibition. Word got down stairs, somehow, and Joe McDowell, Bill Small and Uncle Joe Sbadenger came upstairs at a tearing rate, to gaze upon the individual who had been to the Ek po sition. It was too much for the modest man to bear, and murmuring something about making an item on hi return if they wanted to, he hurried out just in time to meet on tbe stairs the foreman and thirty-two compositors, all eager to get a glimpse of the man who had "been to the Centennial." Cincinnati aalurday Night. Monet-Making Princes. A letter. from Perugia, Italy, says: "There is a Count of Perugia, married to a Bonaparte Princess, who is a type of the rich and un popular aristocracy. He sows and reaps and sells his grain; works his land to the best advantage; is a bourgeois in money making, but not a bourgeois in liberality. He never builds, never gives to the joor, never contributes to public improvements ; so when his carriage drives by the labor ers look sullen. His brother, who led the same self-interested ife,was murdered on tbe highway a year or so ago, as he was returning from some market town, where he had been making advantageous business sales for this class of people do not scorn trade when it brings money, al though they are high nobility. Tbe Prince del Drago, of Rxne, whose wife is aunt to the King of Spain, sells his oil and wine as any other trader, not with bis own hands, to be sure, but he has bis shops In Rome, and hi shop-keepers ; be rents apartments also, and Is quite a money-making man, very close aud par simonious." Between 17,000 and 20,000 alligator skins are tanned yearly, which are con sumed by boot and shoe manufacturers in every portion of the United States, as well as exported to London and Hamburg. The alligators formerly came almost en tirely from Louisiana, and New Orleans was the great ceuter of business. Tbe Florida swamps and morasses are now the harvest fields, and Jacksonville, in tost otate, tne great depot. A Close Shave. On Saturday last, says the Well and Telegraph of Nov. 13, four men, whoso names it is not necessary for us to give, were comintr from Hoi? Island, a little out of the Chippewa river, in the mighty Ni agara, but a very short distance above me rapids, when owing, report has it, to hav ing on board too much of Gilchrist's'Cal ifornia bug juice, they capsized their lit tle bark, and were at once hurried on by the rushing tide to the verge of that far famed cataract. Three of tlio men suc ceeded in grasping with a dead -like grip the hull of the boat, seizing the fourth man and vainly endeavoring to get him to hold on to some of the ropes attached to the sails, but he was too heavy by too jK)tent doses of the California nicotine, and failed to comprehend bis danger. His companions, every time he broke loose from their grasp, managed to get a fresh hold. Time was getting very short, and the mad waters ruuning at perhaps twelve miles an hour, waited not lor their prey, but rather seemed anxious to get them into the fatal rapids, which they were fast approaching. At this critical moment one of the steam tugs employed in towing mud scows in the Chippewa river, was headed by its captain, who had just observed the position of affairs, to ward the drowning men, with all the head of steam on it could carry. Head ing off the wreck the tug hovo to in tho hope of catching them in their mad night, and ropes, buoys, etc., were hastily got hold of to throw to the poor fellows, llcre comes the most wonderful part of it. Just as the yawl struck the tug and was secured, the four men vigorously struck out for the shore, swimming In good style for dear life, their cold bath evidently just commencing to awaken them to a sense of their peril. Tho one of the four who had been the most troublesome reached land first, and straightway re paired to the nearest hotel tocomplcto the ducking inside that he had got out side. In this he was quickly followed by his chums and when safely ensconced by the cheerful" stove, Jokes passed freely round on their narrow escape. Tho cap tain of the tug succeeded iu saving the boat, sails, etc., from certain destruction, and he deserves great credit for his prompt action on tho scene of such apparent peril. Pompeii. The annals of the world supply, in tho way of antiquarian research, nothing more wonderful and strikingly affecting than tho discovery of this long-buried city, abovo which, year by year and cen tury after century, tho yellow corn has waved in tho soft southern winds, and tho vine put forth the purple grape. And in speaking of Pompeii the neighboring cities of Herculancum and Stabu) must not bo forgotten, though originally places of far less importance, aud, from tho dis coveries which have been made, present ing few features of interest compared, with the first mentioued. Older places than either of these have been traced out aud made tolerably familiar to us by the traveler and artist, but very partially and chiefly by their architectural remains only; wben, however, the superincum bent weight which had so long pressed down the cities of the Italian plain was by slow degrees lifted, thero was revealed to the living the life of a world which had existed nearly 1,700 years earlier, in its public and domestic aspects re vealed, too, with a vividness sometimes as appalling in its reality as it was inter esting for its historic value. A marvelous chapter, in tho annals of Roman life la tho first century of the Christian era, is that wo read in the storv of tho exhuma tion of Pompeii, and of which so much is to bo teen in the museum of Naples. Tho subject has filled a conspicuous place In the litcraturo of Europe during tho century or longer, as fresh discoveries have been made from time to timo. The Dome of the United States Capitol. A curious fact concerning tho domo of tho Capitol building, Washing. ton, 1 rarely referred to. it Is iu rela tion to the expansion and contraction of the irou produced by tho heat of tho sun. This causes tho colossal sphere to swerve from Us perpendicular and to bend to tho influence of the day-god as faithfully as the lovely Clytie turned her sweet laco toward Apollo; so that in the morning the inclination, although so trifling as to bo imperceptible, is westwardly, and in the evening in an easterly direction. The altitude of the dome of tho Capitol makes that building the highest in America, it being 287 feet from the floor of tlie basement story to tho crest of tho statuo. There are only four edifices in tho world which tower higher toward tho clouds: St. Peter's, at R me, is 458 feet from the pavement to tho top of tho cross outside; St. Paul's, at London, 404 feet; tho Ca dral of St. Iaac, at St. Peteisburg, 3GG feet; the Hotel de Invalidcs, at Paris, in which is the tomb of the great Napoleon, la 323 feet high. In tho United States tho steeple of Trinity church iu New York is next in height to the Capitol, Bunker Hill Monument second, Washington Monument, in Baltimore, third. Fisuino rou Rat. Recently several lad were seen to euter the main aeweron the left bank of the Seine at Paris, by one of the barred outlets to the river. A po liceman, curious to know what they were about to do, followed them, and found them seated by the edge of the turbid current fishing for rat with a strong line and itook, tbe latter baited with a morsel of bacon partially fried. When taken to the Commissary of tho Police they ex plained that they sold the skins of the water rats at from twenty to thirty cents each, according to size.for manufacturing into "kid" gloves for ladies. Ono of tbem who was not fishing, when ques tioned as to his means of earning a live lihood, stated that he was 'un Hot" (a wave) that is to sayin the evening atone of the theatres, be passed back and for ward beneath canvas painted In shades of blue to imitate the motion of waves at sea; but the official detained him for rag sboudage, considering the calling in question too vagus to giro a living.