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T ¡fe ». > 1 1 '.W, -*r A « ar* < IU«om 21 ' \ Fran ¿ -co, "I- ’’éj _r ft A r X’ '1 i 2»’ • V r*Y r>> T1 ■' / • a « ‘ ■ V ’él > r f* À K- I i 3 ----- -ä » INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ASHLAND, OREGON: FRIDAY. JANUARY 16,1880. VOL IV. —NO. 32. Askland Siding«. FAVORS. /A Sister's Devotion. If you want to be happy never ask a favor. Give as many as you can, and if any are freely offered, it is not necessary to be too proud to take them ; but never ask for, or stand waiting for any. Who ever asked a favor at the right time ? To be refused is a woful stab to one’s pride. It is even worse than to have a favor granted hesitatingly. We suppose that out of a hundred who peti tion for the least thing—if it be even an hour of time—ninety-nine wish with burning cheeks and aching hearts they had not done so. Don’t ask favors of your nearest friend. Do everything for yourself until you drop, and then if any one picks you up, let it be of his own free choice, not from any groan you utter. But while you can stand, be a soldier. Eat your own crust rather than feast on an other’s dainty meals; drink cold water rather than another’s wine. The world is full of people asking favors, and people tire of granting them. Love or tenderness should never be put aside, when its full hands are stretched towards you ; but as few love, bo few are tender ; a favor asked is apt to be a millstone around your neck, even if you gain the thing you want by the asking. As you cast your bread on the water and it re turns, so will the favor you ask, if unwilling ly granted, come back to you when you least expect or desire. Favors conoeded upon solicitation are never repaid. They are more costly in the end than overdue usurers' bills. Concerning the representatives of the Slavic race now residing in New York, a writer in the TriAinid Bays : The Bohemians, who number about 15,000, live together in large tenement houses along Avenues B and C, and be tween Stanton and Sixth Streets, and the majority are igar makers. The peculiar ity among the Bohemian immigrants here is that the women, and not the men, come first to this country and prepare the way for their families. Most of the men in Bohemia are farmers or peasants, while the women work in the tobacco factories. Whenever any number of families deter mine to emigrate, five or six of the wives come to New York together, rent a room in a tenement house, occupied by Bohemians, and seek work in the tobacco and cigar factories. The dream of the Bohemian is to possess a farm and a home in the West, and, with this object in view, he works patiently and endures many privations. The Bohemian is heavily built, with short neck and high cheek bones. He is usually of dark com plexion. He is a good father and husband, and devoted to his denomination, whether Catholic or Protestant. Another Slavic family represented in fair numbers is the Polish. Of genuine Slavic Poles there are hardly 4,000 in the city, although nearly 15.000 immigrants claim that nationality. The majority are artisans, but there are also a number of merchants, professional PLAIN TALK TO A GIRL. and literary men. The Pole, like the Bo hemian. is very fond of music and dancing. Your every-day toilet is a part of your He is, however, more slender in form, more character. A girl who looks like a “ fury ” agile in his movements, and usually has a or a sloven in the morning is not to be trust fair complexion. He is impatient, dwells ed however finely she may look in the much on the past of his nation, and is not evening. No matter bow humble your room so provident as the former. may be, there are eight things it should The Slavonic Russians in this city num contain, viz. : a mirror, washstand, soap, ber 150. The reasons attributed for this towel, comb, hair, nail and tooth brushes. are the opposition of the Russian Govern These are just as essential as your break ment to emigration, and the reluctance fast, before which you should make good of the natives to leave their country. Sev and free use of them. Parents who fail to eral Russians have visited this country provide their children with such appliances with the object of studying the industrial not only make a great mistake, but commit and agricultural institutions of America. a Bin of omission. Look tidy in the morn There are Russian artisans, clerks, and a ing, and after the dinner work is over im few business men in the city. The number prove your toilet. Make it a rule of your of Greek residents is also very small. Most daily life to “dress up" in the afternoon. of them are engaged in trade, principally in Your dress may or may not be anything o-itton exportation, and the importation of better than calico, but with a ribbon or sponges from the Grecian Archipelago. flower, or some bit of ornament, you can The Greeks here are somewhat exclusive in have an air of self-respect and satisfaction their associations not from any disinclina that invariably comes with being well tion to mingle with others, but from force dressed. of habit. They adopt, however, many American customs, and one of the princi GEORGE THE THIRD. pal features of American life which Greeks admire is the greater freedom of woman. John Adams, in a letter to Secretary Jay. states that King George III. behaved not Hence the children become almost entirely only handsomely, but even nobly, when in A mcricanized. June, 1785, he received Adams as the first ambassador frem the United States to A NEW TRIBE OF MONKEYS, England. In a few well-selected words The first live specimens of a recently dis Adams addressed the kiug, and received the following reply : “ Sir, I wish you to covered tribe of monkeys have just reached believe, and that it may be understood in Europe, and six specimens have just been America, that I have done nothing in the sent via Hamburg to England by Messrs. late contest but what I thought myself Rico and Hagcbcck, and ore at the Alexan indispensably bound to do by the duty dra Palace. These are a large male, pre which 1 owed to my people. I will be very sumably fully grown, a small male, two frank with you. I was the last to consent f< males, and two youDg. The large male to the separation ; but the separation hairing has a considerable inane, as Ruppell de been made, and having become inevitable. scribes it, anil is hairy over the whole of I have always said, as I say now, that I the body, though Iiuppcll gives the front would be the first to meet the friendship of legs free from hair. On the chest is a the United States ss an independent power.” somewhat heart - shaped pink patch free These are words of proper dignity, as well from hair, and a space around the throat of as of decorous wisdom. Mr. Adams, who the same color. When the animal become3 recorded them, impressively adds; “ The angry or excited these liecome n bright red king was indeed much affected, and I con color. The nostrils are high up from the upper jaw. and the upper lip is so mobile fess I was not less so. —Burgta' llintory. that it is often turned up so as to show trie HOW THEY TREAT ANIMALS IN JAPAN. whole upper teeth ar.d g'sne. The tail is long and large, and ends in tuft resemblirg Dr. David Murray has called my attention roughly a lion’s tail. The color cf the hail to the very important service performed by is brown, except around the breast where the crows and a kind of hawk which act as 't is gray. The bare part of the chest scavengers. We are so accustomed at home shows two male indications of teats, and to find these birds especially wild end wary, che suture seems to open into a pouch, that it is a somewhat startling sight to Bee which, however, it has not been possible to them perching on the buildings of a crowd ixamine, as the animal is still somewhat ed city like Tokio, and swooping down in savage after its journey. The female has front of you in quest of food which might not such long hair os the male, and on the otherwise decay and vitiate the atmosphere. bare space iu front are cwo well-developed The destructiveness and brutality, gener teats. The young takes one in each hand ally speaking, of the children of Christian and sucks from both at once. While these nations lead to the stoning of dogs, cats, and animal« have rejected all fruits, etc., they birds of all kinds. In Japan such a thing is eat Indian corn and grass, taking the grass, unknown, and a stone thrown at a dog (I pulling it apart and making it into little speak from experience; is generally answer balls. As Ruppell says, they sleep in ed by an inquiring look, hens hop out of the caves ; n large box was introduced into the way, and even cat« do not take the hint! cage and the whole of them soon went into In other words, the crows and hawks are it, the old male remaining near the entrance never molested, and the result is that all on guard. The group is especially inter carrion and others stuff left in the streets esting to naturalists from the fact that are pounced upon and carried off immedi these are the first ever brought to Europe. ately. —London Timet. Never have we been called upon to chron icle a more heart-rending accident nor one —B Y— which has enlisted a more general and genu LEEDS <k MERRITT. ine sympathy with the afflicted family than OFFICE—On Main Street, (in 2d story of that which occurred at Union Mills on last Friday afternoon. Misses Blackford, Misses McCall <t Beam’s new building.) Bourne, and Charlie Bourne composed a party at Mr. Claiborne Rutherford’s on that Terms of Subscription: day. In the morning some of the company 2.50 attended the protracted meeting in progress 1 six montba......................................... 1.50 at East Hickman, but they all met at the m •• thfM •• 1.00 dinner-table, when one of the young ladies *ee»^^» ••••«••••••••••••••••••• 12.50 proposed to go to the flouring mill, stating CM rates Mx oapiM for....................................... Terms, ia b A vabo ». that she had never seen one working. Con sequently the party named above, with Terms of Advertising ...............loct« Local Notice» p«r R m ......... Miss Julia and Miss Annie Rutherford, >»«f»mli—1 Geid*, per year ............. »10 m went down tv Steele & Bronaugh's mill, ................. 3 œ Twoiacbee, per quarter.... ............. 5 uo and Captain Steele, with his usual urbanity, VtoBf ** w ............. » 0> was showing them around. They had been B‘gbt •* * ............. 10 no looking at the bolting cloths, and passed Oe»-balf Column ** V« ............. 14 no Thrae-tMrU» “ “ Miss Annie Ruther ............. 17 50 over some shipetuff. OM ” “ ford shook her skirt to rid it of the dust *MA* ADTimitMNTl *150 which had adhered to it, when it caught in O m eqeare (tea U ms or lea») 1st lnnertion. LOO a miter cog wheel, about one foot from the X bc M &3dlUotuU iMSCftioo«• «•»•••«•••»••• floor, which drew it into the machinery, and Job Printing, there was a similar wheel, about three feet Of al dMcriptloo, done oo abort notice. Legal higher, in which her left arm was caught, BUcalare, Basine«» Cards, Billhead», T-etter- and was taken clean off, together with the beade, Postara, etc., gotten np In good style at living flesh and bone off her breast Clinging to pries«. the shaft, her skirt fast in the bottom Agents for the Tidings- wheels, she was whirled round at the rate of thirty-four revolutions per minute. 8.M. Pettengill a Co., - . . New York Frantic with excitement, Miss Julia Bewail a Coeesmaa, ... St. Louia L>. P. Fleber...............................................................8»n Francisco Rutherford rushed to her sister's assistance. D. H. Steam», ... Portland, Oregon Charlie Bourne did his best to keep her L. Ounael»,............................................ “ J. A. ▲pplagAte, ..... 8alem from the danger she was exposing herself M. L. Caamberlin...................................... to, and at the same time doing his utmost Mlea Grace Hanna, .... Cjrvallia. to extricate Annie; but Julia persisted Dr. N. I- I*a . . . - Junction City. that she could not stand to see her sister in Bee. J. B. N. Ball, .... Roeeburg Farit H. Burt..................... Yoncalla. such a place, and, putting her arms around J. B. Nati, . ... Jacksonville. her, 6he had her right arm cut off by the J Wlntr * Soo, ..... Waldo. same wheel. Annie’s clothes were so twist Han. W. W. Fiddler, - - - Applegate, ed that it was impossible to pull her away JUex. Watte, ..... J. M. Smith, .... Kerbyrille. until the engine was stopped by Captain Bd. R. O«en, - • Cen ril Point. Steele, which took about one minute to do. W. K. Bmkar,...................................... Big Butte. B. DimKK, ..... Grants Pa«». and Mr. Samuel Gosney, perceiving there Btcbard Barrett, - - - Galice Creek. was something wrong, instantly lowered the O. A. HUI, - ... EAge Point. stones. The scene now baffled description. J. 8. McFadden, .... Murpbv. There were the cogs filled with flesh and Ml»» Carrie Bui'-.U, . . . - Inland. A. F. Boelling,.......................................Lake View. bones. An arm lying on the floor, the C. B. Watson, ....«« glove still on the band, two lovely girls Geo. T. Bild win, . - - Llnkvllle. prostrate in their blood, and Charlie Bourne Wau H. Robert», - - - Plevna. with his 1- ft thumb cut off, from which he Dr. J. B. Dennison, .... Ktam-uh Jae. 8. Shook, .... Boamza. has suffered intensely, and was threatened C. H. Dyer, ...... Dairy. with lockjaw, buthe is now probably out of Mlse M»ry McCAbe . . . . Aahhnd danger. Mr. James Bronaugh, Jr., took g Sherman, Phceuix. ÄD. 1. Ferree General Agent for Lake and Julia home in a buggy and Mr. Steele fixed coantles. Annie on a board, and presented her to her distressed parents. Thus the company who a few minutes before, were happy and joy ous, were plunged into inexpressible grief by a shocking and deplorable accident. Drs. ranaax*. Baavavoa Gasa***, J ams * C. T olmam , ParUiod Jasper Welch and Skillman have been inde DlBTalCT JüDOB, M stthbw P. D babt , fatigable in their attendance to the suf U. B. A ttobnbt , Rere» M allost , • I ferers, and at last accounts they were im Ctsaa U. 8. Dm. C ocst , R. C. L ampson , 4« proving. U. 8. M abmal , Ai»«» W. W attbm , Dapwv M a »» bal , W. P. Bua»», Miss Annie did not rally from the effects of C bl I bt ' l R bvbnck , J. C. CABTwnioBT, the shock for forty-eight hours, but since - _ _ t 'N. B C abdwbll , uwaxias, j A H MoBOAWt reaction has takcu place fully, she bids as «arai. Amr, Uaoaaa A. S tbbi ., fair to recover as Miss Julia, whose arm btatb . was amputated on Saturday.— Jexamine Portland n a J J®«» H. M itcwbix , U. 8. Bar a to bi , ¡ L a ?AT bttb G botbb , (Ky.) Journal. Salem ----- ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY— z V OFFICIAI DIRECTORY BapaaaaBTATtva, J ohn W hitbabbb , B bvbbnob , W. W. T hatbb , Bae. ar » tatb , R P E abmabt , T bbabobbb , E d . Biseca, Tata Co Portland M PaiBTBB, w. B. C abtbb , 8 it pt . Pu». Iarr., L. J. P owkl «,, Gue illla Albany thlem Dille» Balern 4C Calculating Interest. There are several rules for calculating interest, which are used by many without understanding the principles on which they are founded; these principles being to them a mystery. We consider it very wrong ever to apply any rules for making calcula tions without being possessed of the key on which these rules are based, and there fore, will explain the fundamental principle of several of the rules for calculating in J ackson C uuntt . J umb , S ila « J. D a T, J»ck'onvlUe terest. C lbbk . K B. W atson , A rate of interest at 5 per cent, is 1-20 Suairr, W m . B ybkk , * of the capital, therefore divide the capital D btvtt SHBBivr, H B. R ktrnbyw , by 20 and you have the interest per year ; T bbacubbb , N. F i « bkk , AeeiMoa, B. C. G oddab o Phœhix. divide this again by 365. the number of J Acasos VILLK. CeMMIBSIONKBS, I ! C. g M albudkb , days iu a year. You may combine these “ .A ndkmson , Asbl-oid. two operations, and divide the capital at Jacksonville. BvavevaB. C J. -------- How a .a *D, . SeaeoL Burr., J. D. .-' ountain , once by 365 multiplied by 20, that is, by AtbUcd. A shland . 7,300, to have the interest per day in dol . H. C. H ill . lars, and if you divide the capital by 73, J T. O. AsDsrw you have the interest at 5 per cent, per day Tautrasa J. H. K ~ umkll , J G. 8 R utlkb , in cents. This you have only to multiply ’ H. F. P hillips . with the number of days to find interest Bmx»s mb ................................... A V. G illbtt for a given time ; but this multiplication M abshal ..................................... . .L. B Tvessa Juenca or tbs P xack ........ T G Winrxi may be done first—it will avoid fractions— C ohstablk ................................. ....E. W alkad hence the rule: Multiply the capital by the Fver M astkb .............. ........... ..A. D.H vlman number of days, then divide the product B cmol C lbbk .. ........................ . ...E. W albad by the constant number 73, anil you have ■ A D. H elman , Bowes D ibbctob » ' J. P. W alkkb , the interest at 5 Der cent. For 6 per cent, ' L in lie kt A pvlkoatb . add 1-5, for 7 per cent. 2 5. for 8 per cent. MiecKLLANKOl-». Geo. l»t Bite O. M., J. E. R om , Jacksoiitin» 3-5, for 9 per cent. 4-5, for 10 per cent, Indian Agvnt, J. H. R ookk . Kl«m->th Ager*1) double it. tt B I w«*- B owman , Jackniuvi, I' m This rule is the most correct, but any U. 8.0MMBl»ei«[er», j R 8 DyaB> LUkvlIte interest may be calculated thus : Multiply __ ._.r ■ m__ u-!. I N. L ani . kll , Jsckouvilie Dep y V.B.Manbal», j gjMM WonciN, Unkvllte the capital with the number of days, then Begfster Land Ofl.ce, J. H. E vano , I.<ke View for 5 per cent, divide by 73, for 6 per cent, Beeelter ••_____ “ Gru run C onn , L«ke View by 6!, for 7 per cent, by 52, for 8 per cent, i>__ I Regi-ter, W.F B enjamin Land odee, Boeebur» j j c F ullkbton by 45. for 9 per ceDt. by 40.6?, for 10 per J^cknotivilie cent, by 36 1-2. I W m . H owman . I E d . D k P bst .... .... A»bhn<l Melari» e Public, I J. W. H amakar These latter divisors arc obtained by ... I.inktli'e dividing 100 by 6, 7, 8, and 9 respectively, .Ink« View |C. B. W atson ... V. Ex*mlnln« surgeon for Penri <u claim mt*, Dr aud multiplying the quotients with 365, J. H. CHnwoou.................................................. A,hl nd which serve as units, cutting off two deci ■urveyar Mineral Lande, B. F. M tkb .......... Aiblad mals. 61. 52, 45 and 0.67. If interest is to be calculated per month BOciE rm and not for any odd number of days, it is very convenient that 6 per cent, per year Ashland Lodge No. 189,1.0. G, T. is one-half of one per cent, per month, or 1 per cent for two months; hence the handy Meets at the new Hall of McCall A B .um every rule that 6 per cent in 60 day is 1 per Friday evening a S o’clock r. m . Biothers and cent; here the year is counted 12 multi «Mere la good standing are corltally invited to at plied I y 30 or 360 dnys only, thus it is not test. Tbs Temple meets every first and third Wed absolutely absoli te’y correct, but near enough to be nesday In each montn. adopted in most banks. LtBBABiAN, J. B. B utts , »VPT. PsNITBNTtABT, B F. BUBCH, Aax. B tatb L and C om ., T. H. C ann , JUDICIABT Porthnd Bur BOMB Ju DOM. J Jas. K. Kelley, Salem R. P. Buiae, Jncksocvi le P. P. Prim, IM Diet! J’dg. H. K H anna ; A t'y, J am *» R. N bii . St “ •• J. F. W atson ; Att’y, 8. U.II azzabii M ** ** B. F. H abdinoi AU y,J J WrttrmtT e«h M ** C. B B b * lbnokii ;A ! v ,J. T. C izleh Mb •* “ L. M v A bthun ; Att’y,----- * «4 •« «« «4 n < T. O. A ndbkws , W .C. T-, W. H. L kkds , Eec’y. B Asli I h nd Lodge Mo. *23 How the Chinese make Tea. /Nr* A. F. A A. HI.. The upper classes in China, from ven- long experience in the matter, select the choicest tea w hich they can afford—gener ally the young leaves from oid trees. A few of these leaves are put into a cup. and water, a little short of the boiling point, is added. As soou as it is sufficiently cool, which docs not take many seconds, for the cups are very small, the beverage is quaffed, much after the same manner as the Turks do coffee, so hot that it is commonly assert ed they drink it boiling. By the above quick method they skim, os it were, only the superficial flavor of the leaf, which is very capable of yielding up, when required, a bitter extract, which they avoid. This is the prime source whence the ‘-used leaves,” spoken of by analysts, come from. HoMe tbeir etated commtmicatione Thur »day even tag« oe or before the full mooo. Brethren In good StaixltaB are cordially invited to attend. W. fl. ATKINSON, W. M. J. 8. KuBANxa, Sec’y. Ashlitud Lodje ÄO.-15, I. O. O. F.. Bold their regular meeting every Setorday eren- at their hall la Ashlabd. Brothers in gocl standlag are cordially invited to attend. A. D. HELMAN, N. G., la. D b P katz . Secretary. Now To-daVa ---------- F W. BASHFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CONVEYANCER, ASHLAND, I OREGON. ejections promptly made, and special attention given to tne preparation of Deeds, Mortgages, and other legal pa|»era. Office in second story front of Mc Call A Baum’s new building. I (4 31 I r] i -SJ -- A New Great Seal of the United States. Mr. Julius Baumgarten, engraver, of Phila., has completed a new great seal of the United States, for the use of the State Department at Washington. This is the only seal made for the State Department since the original Beal was made, at the foundation of the Government. The old seal, from the wear of a century, has be come unfit for use. The new seal is of the best English steel, 2| inches in diameter, and | of an inch in thickness. It has a smooth surface with the exception of the traditional eagle, etc., and the words “E Pluribus Unum ” engraved on the face. «a FOREIGN COLOKIES IM MEW YORK -I-■, NOBLE ILLUSTRATION. Í Lord Canarvon, in addressing the penplo of Birmingham, used the following illus tration : “ Travellers tell us that in some of tho Eastern seas, where those wonderful coral islands exist, the insects that form the coral within the reefs, where they are under the shelter of protecting rocks, out of the reach of wind and wave, work quick er. and their work is apparently sound and good. But on the other hand, those little workers who work outside those reefs, in the foam and dash of the waves, are forti fied and hardened, and their work is firmer and more enduring. And so I believe it is with men, ''The more their minds are braced up with conflict, by the necessity of forming opinions upon difficult subjects, the better they will be qualified to go through the hard wear and tear of the world, the better they will be able to hold their own in that conflict of opinion which after all it is man’s duty to meet. Accustom a child as soon ns he can speak to narrate his little experience, his chapter of accidents, his griefs, his fears, hishoper to communicate what he has noticed in world without, and what he feels struy gling in the world within. Anxious to have something to narrate, he will be induced to give attention to objects around him, and what is passing in the sphere of his observa tion, and to observe and note events will become one of his first pleasures ; and this is the groundwork of the thoughtful charac ter. The Black Bear in Pennsylvania. A Lackawaxen correspondent writes: In the extensive swamps of M ayne and Pike counties, Pennsylvania, and Sullivan and Delaware, New York, the black bear, even at this late day, roams and rears its young in a security almost as undisturbed as it did a century ago, and finds in the outlying areas of beech and oak forests an ample supply of food. The hunting and trapping of these animals furnishes both pleasure and profit to many of the backwoods in habitants, hundreds being captured every year. Their skins and meat command ready sale. The skins bring from $15 to $25, and the meat sells for twenty cents a pound. The hunter realises from $60 to $80 on a fvJJy grown bear. «♦« — FOLLOWING A TRAIL- Cne of the most remarkable features of uncivilized life is the power savages show of tracking men and beasts over immense distances. Many travelers have spoken of this as something almost miraculous, yet it is only the result of careful observation of certain well-known signs ; and we have here bef re us a collection of very common-sense hints on the subject. In countries like ours every trace of foot-print or wheel-track on roads and paths is soon obliterated or hope lessly confused, but it is otherwise in the wilderness, where neither man nor beast can conceal his track. In Kaffirland, when cattle are stolen, if their foot-prints are traced to a village, the headsman is held lesponsible for them, unless he can show the same track going out. A wagon-track iu a new country is practically indelible. “ More especially,” says our author, “this is tho case if a fire sweeps over the plain immedi ately after, or if a wagon passes during or after a prairie fire. We have known a fellow traveler recognize in this manner the tracks his wagon had made seven years before, the lines of charred stumps crushed short down remaining to indicate the passage of the wheels, though all other impressions had been obliterated by the rank annual growth of grass fully twelve feet high ” Sometimes the original soil being disturbed, a new vega- tation will spring up along the wagon-track, and thus mark out the road for miles. Even on hard rock a man’s bare foot will leave the dust caked together by perspira tion, so that a practiced eye will see it; and even if there is no track, a stone will be dis turbed here and there, the side of the pebble which has long lain next the ground being turned up.— Chamber»'» Journal When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form which he sets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise in shapes of mercy, charity, and love to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some rentier nature comes. A NEAR-SIGHTED PEOPLE. Are we becoming a near-sighted people ? is a question which Dr. Loring, in New York, answers affirmatively. He thinks that the long hours of study at the pupil age, from six to eighteen years, the ab sence of proper adjustment of light in school-rooms, the height and position of desks which induce a stooping habit in the scholar, are fast making the small wearer of spectacles a more and more common ob ject on our streets. The blackboard is re commended for school exercises in lieu of she use of slate and copy-book, whenever it may be conveniently substituted. It i» curious to observe that the use of mechani cal tools and fine implements does not seem to result in such contraction of vision as the service of manuscript and printed type. The seamstress, although she work» longer and with less sufficient light, usually, than the lawyer, does not incline to near-sightedness so much as he, although she may wear out her eves. After the age of eighteen, however, there is less danger of near-sightedness from prolonged use of the eye, although it may come in as an in heritance in a younger generation, as the result of long-proiracted hours of study in an older one. The tendency to this defect in vision is more marked among the Ger mans than any other nationality. The children of German parentage in the public schools of New York, examined by Drs. Loring and Duby, showed a percentage of 24 near-sighted, while the American per ccntage was 19 and the Irish 14. Tn the schools investigated the proportion was largest in the older classes, being in the same year 3.5 per cent, in the younger classes, to 26 per cent, in the older, while the proportion of natural shaped eyeB was 87 per cent, among those from six to seven years of age, and 61 per cent, in the scholars of twenty and thereabouts, which rould seem to indicate, if sustained by experiments in consecutive years, that the schools work in the interest of the specta cle makers, and that the remedy may be found in a better balance of the industrial education with the literary one, and in prolonging the season while lessening the hours given to the latter. ROW THE FRENCH WORKMAN LIVER The French laborer probably gets more for his wages than any other. His food is cheaper and more nourishing. His bouillon ia the liquid essence of beef at a penny per bowl. His bread at the restaurant is thrown ia without any charge, and ia the best bread in the world. His hot coffee and milk is peddled about the streets in the morning at a bou per cup. His half bottle of claret is thrown in at a meal costing twelve cents. For a few cents he may enjoy an evening’» wnuMment at one of the many minor thootres, with his coffee free. Sixpence paya for a nicely cushioned seat at the thea tre. No gallery god% no peanuts, pipe smoke, drunkenness, yelling or howling. The Jardín des Plantes, the vast galleries and museums of the Louvre, Hotel Cluny, palace of the Luxembourg and Versailles arc free for him to enter. Art and science hold out to him their choicest treasures at small cost, or no cost at all. French econ omy and frugality do not mean that constant retrenchment and self-denial which would deprive life of every thing which makes it worth living for. Economy in France, more than in any other country, means a utiliza ron of what America throws away, but it docs not mean a pinching process of reducing life to u barren existence of work and bread and water. 2.50 PER ANNUM. Fifty Tears of Mexican Revolution. 1821. The Independence of Mexico is de clared. 1825. First Congress assembled. 1829. Guerero being President, B us I a - mente, commanding the army, induces his soldiers to declare him President, and com pels Guerero to abdicate. Santa Anna plays the same game on Bustamente, and is himself declared President by the army. Three President« govern with but littM fighting, until 1836. State governments were abolished by revolution, and Santa Anna made Presi dent. Same year Bustamente was recalled, Santa Anna’s defeat at San Jacinto having deprived him of power. 1838. Mexico revolutionized; had an un pleasantness with the French, who block aded Vera Cruz; Santa Anna drives off th« French. 1840. Federalists, led by Urrea, revolt. 1841. Revolution of Santa Anna, who is made Dictator and banishes Bustamente. 1842. Junta of Nobles revolt against Santa Anna and form the republic. 1843. New Constitution adopted Catho lie religion and apostolic creed to exclusion of all other religions. 1844. Revolution by Peredes. Santa Anna deposed, and Herrera made President by Congress. 1845. Santa Anna banished and Herrera elected President. Same year Peredes re volts, and ordering an election is elected President. 1841». Santa Anna recalled. Peredes de- I»osed and Salos elected President. Salos sells out, and Santa Anna is made Provi sional President. War with United States is in progress. 1847. Americans victorious; Santa Anna flies, and Penas is made President pro tent. 1848. Peace made with the United States. 1851. Arista elected President. 1851-2. General revolution. 1853. Arista resigns, and Santa Anna made Dictator. 1854. Revolution, led by Alvarez; Santa Anna abdicates. 1855. Carrera, made President, resigns, and Alvarez is made Dictator. 1856. Comonfort heads a movement against the Church, is «elected President, and sequesters property of the clergy. 1857. Comonfort is deposed. 1858. Zuloaga is made President, but is obliged to abdicate. 1859. Miramon makes himBelf President, but is speedily deposed. 1860. Revolution headed by Miramon 1861. Juarez elected President and de clares himself Dictator. The French inva sion and Juarez, Lerdo, and Diaz have kept tbingB lively since 1861. — Galretton Aietct. A Tumultuous Ghost. A telegram from Barnesville, Ohio, to the Cincinnati Enquirer, tells this veracious story : “Quite a sensation has been created near Caldwell, Noble County, on the farm of William Staats by singular phenomena, which commenced tw > weeks ago and con tinued till the 18tb, during night and day, with occasional intervals. The manifesta tions commenced by the overturning of milk-pans and buckets without any visible power. Mr. Staats then communicated the strange affair to his neighbors, who availed themselves of the opportunity of witnessing these unusual anil so far unac countable demonstrations. People gathered from far end near to see the operations, and on one day an audience of 300 people were present and witnessed these demon strations. A looking ¡(lass was dashed to the floor and broken, a bootjack was thrown across the room from side to side THE BEAUTY OF THE BISMARCKS. several times before stopping, a tea-kettle full of boiling water was lifted from a stove There is a pretty legend in connection and fell to the floor, pictures were hurled with the Bismarck family which goes to from their places on the wall and dashed show how the oak leaves adorning the Bis to pieces, a box sitting in the middle of the marck shield were added to the clover and tho floor was seen to move off across the room, nettle leaves. It runs os follows: Many a glass was broken from the windows and years ago there was a lovely maiden. Gertrude fell outside of the house, one of the pic Yon Bismarck. Numbers of noble knights tures was replaced, the cord securely and courtiers sought her hand and heart, wrapped about the nail, and an additional but she was. by her own consent and her cord fastened about this and tied. The father's wish, betrothed to a cousin, a noble picture was at once thrown to the floor and princely youth. One d-^y there came again. Wednesday morning, while the to tlie castln, where the beautiful Gertrude hired girl was washing the dishes, the lived, a prince of the Wenden, with 10< knives commenced moving across the table horsemen, to try and win her. She courte and fell to the floor. The bottom fell out ously, but firmly, refused him. The prince of a glass pitcher full of water, leaving the was greatly enraged, and, incited by hci handle and upper part of the pitcher in her great loveliness, determined to gain her, hands without a sign of breakage. Mauy so he called his warriors and said he would persons not believers in the supernatural break the clover leaf (Gertrude) with his own witnessed these things, and are unable to hand. On the same day he assailed th», roffer any explanation. Mrs. Staats has castle, which war but weakly defended been obliged to leave the house on account The castellan was soon overcome, and th» of the noisy and exciting character of the Wenden entered the castle, and then the manifestations. ’’ maiden's chamber. ” I come to break you in, you golden clover-leaf. You don't A Philanthropist's eccentricities. sting like stinging nettles. Clover does not sting," he said, and with that he put hi» Howard, the philanthropist, was sir gu’ar arm around her. A moment more and h«i in many of his habits of life ; for insta nee, withdrew it, crying out, ‘‘Mercy!’’ Ger he preferred damp sheets, linen and ciotues trude held a dogger over him, then stn<-k to dry ones, and. both rising and going to it in his heart, saying, “ The nettle stings bed, swathed himself with coarse towels hard whoever will break or touch Bismarck’» dipped in the coldest water he could get. golden clover.” Bines then the Bismarck In that state he remained half on hour, and shield wears the oak leaces ax a sign ul then threw them off, refreshed and invig crown of Victory.— London Truth. orated, as he said, beyond measure. He -I '■«♦«' «■» never put on a great-coat in the coldest DISCOURAGED. countries, nor had beeu a minute under or over the time of an appointment, so for as It is bo easy to say, “ Never give up the it depended upon himself, for six-and- ship." It is so easy to hold your head up twenty years. He never continued at a and step firmly, to laugh cheerily, and have place or with a person a single day beyond a pleasant word for everybody, when safely the period prefixed for going iu his whole hedged in from sorrow and poverty by the life, and he had not for the last 10 years of love of friends and a bottomless purse. his existence eateA any fish, flesh or fowl, When sickness passes by to knock at some but Bat down to his simple fare of tea. milk other door, when home is the one “ sweet, and rusks all that time. Ilk journeys were safe corner," in all the world, when there continued from prison to prison, from one are those who would suffer that you might group of wretched beings to another, n /in go free—ah! then it is easy to feel as if and day; and where he could go wit a nothing could ever make you quite dis carriage he would ride, and where tl at couraged. This is a beautiful world, and was hazardous he would walk. Su h a there are lots of good things in it Yes, thing os obstruction was out of the ques. many a son and daughter, a few wives and tion. mothers, «nd about t he same proportion of ———*♦*----------- busbands and fathers, do live more in the A Prayer that Counted. ahine than in the shadow of life. But there A Connecticut clergyman once preached are so many, so many more, who have to buckle on their armor, and spend their on the miracle of Gadara, where the exor best heart's blood in the daily life. Such cised devils entered into the herd of swine, bitter trials aa men and women do live and after the sermon be asked a young man through! Who can doubt that heaven in the audience if he was a Christian. sends them their fortitude ? It cannot be “ No,” said he, “ but I am all right; I am of earth. Such strains of heart and brain perfectly safe now.’’ “ How so ? ” says as hearts and brains do still bear up under. Mr. F. ‘‘ Why,” said the youth, “ you Is it any wonder that weary hands some have just told us that the devils were all times fall despondingly, and weary heads drowned, so we are no longer in danger.” bow discouraged ? Oh! ye, whose paths Mr. F. knelt close by the young man and are in the pleasant places! whose faith was offered a very earnest prayer as fallows: never tried by heaven's seeming disregard “ O Lord, we read in Thy Word th^t the of your prayers aod tears! who never swine all ran down into the sea, knew the lack of tender home-love and supposed that they were all drown ed\ but protection, exult in your happiness, and it seems one hog swam ashore, and thank Providence. But while you drink here right before me. Lord, cast the from your cup of life such honey-sweet oat of him." The result was the con^c- draughts, give a thought now and then to tion of the young man, who became a ve those whose daily portions savor so strong efficient Christian worker. ly of wormwood, and remember that a kindly word and a helping hand, which H omestead N otices .—Settler* can cost so little, may make lighter the burdens have their notices of final proof pub of some one now almost discouraged. Antiquity of the Chinea« Umpire. China was one ’people and one kingdom s thousand years before that half-mythical period when the Greek heroes led their fol lowers to the siege of Troy, and it has main* tained ever Bince, unbroken, the identity of its language, its national character, and. its institutions. What changes, what over- turnings and reconstructions, has not every other part of the world had to undergo dur ing that interval of four thousand years L There alone upon the earth’s face does sta bility seem to have reigned, while revolu tion has been elsewhere the normal order of things. We say deliberately stability, not inaction. China has known during all that time os constant action, often as violent commotion, as other countries, and in many resjiects not less real progress ; had it been stagnant only, bad there not been in it a healthy vital action, it most long since havo perished in inanity and putreacence; but, far from that, China has seen, within the last two hundred years, one of the happiest and most prosjieious periods. Here is a problem for the student of history, of which the interest cannot easily be overstated. How have the Chinese succeeded in finding and maintaining the stable equilibrium which other races have vainly sought T Is it ia their character or their peculiar exter nal circumstances, or in the wisdom with which they have harmonized the two, that their strength has lain ? As we look upon this venerable structure, the sole survivor of all the fabrics of empire reared by the hands of the men of olden time, we can hardly help wishing that it might havo beeu left to stand until it should fall of itself ; that the generations to come might have seen whether it yet retained enough of the recuperative energies which bad re peatedly raised it from on estate far lower than that into which it was seeming now to have, fallen, to give it a renewed lease of its old life, a return to its ancient pros- jicrity and vigor. That is now no longei possible. — ■ ..... — Cutting out a Nerve to Cure Neuralgia For several years Judge Bay, of this cifyy has been a great sufferer from facial neu ralgia, and to avail himself of any benefit that might possibly result from a change of climate, spent most of 1873 in California, and the last part of 1874 in Colorado, without any material benefit, and on his return from Colorado. Dr. Hodgen cut out a Tittle over one-half iuch of the fifth facial nerve, and for seven or-eight mouths the Judge experi enced entire relief from the disease ; but at the expiration of that time it gradually re turned upon him with increased severity, until life was almost unbearable. Dr. Hod gen became satisfied that the separate part» cf the nerve had united, and he determined, to perform a second operation; and on the 7th in»t., at the residence of Judge Bay, 8220 Chestnut Street, and in the presence of several medical gentlemen, cut out two inches of the nerve, and removed several collateral branches. The operation lasted fifteen minutes, was exceedingly painful, and, though the Judge declined to tnko chloroform or any opiate, he stood the knife without flinching. This operation has bcei* very rarely performed in the West, and from the proximity of the nerve to the ey» requires great care and much skill. Th» judge has had no return of the neuralgia pains, and all the indications are that th» operation will prove eminently successful, though it will probably be a week before he- will be able to leave his house.— St. Loui» Republican. A Very Strange Story. Two singular incidents, which will fur nish nuts to crack to believers in- the super natural, have recently come to light in Eng land in regard to the recent loss of th» Avalanche in the British channel. A lad who was a great friend of one of the ap prentices who was lost, mode arrangement» to accompany him down the chanuel and come ashore with the pilot; but, at the last moment l»efore sailing, he was seized with such an nndcfirmble and ungovernable mis» giving that he declined to go, and thus es caped almost certain death. The appren tice who was lost had a retriever dog who was very foud of him, and whieh answered to a shrill dog-whistle which be carried. On the night of the shipwreck hie mother and aunt were in the ritting-room and tbc dog iu tiie kitchen. Between 9 and 1* o’clock the ladies were startled by hcurli^ a shrill whistle up-stairs, in sound reeM«- bling that of the dog-whistle need by the young man. The d< g heard it also, gave his usual recognizing bark, and l>ounded ep- stairs to where he supposed his master was. • The whistle was heard just about the timo- the Avalanche went down, ami it was heard by two credible witnesses, whose testimony was confiinied by the response made to it by the dog of the lost sailor. A Tarantula’s Neat. The nest of a tarantula (spider* has been found in California of the most singular con struction. It is about three inches in k’-gth by two in diameter, built in adobes, the wall being nearly half an inch thick. Inside of this is a projection which nearly divides it into two apartments, abou* an inch in diame ter. The inside is lined with a white downy substance, not unlike velvet, and present* one of the cl- aiust and most tidy litt e house holds imaginable. But the most curious part of it is a door, which fits into on aperture* and closes it hermetically. The door n* secured by u hinge, formed of a like fibrom* substance as the lining of the bonne, and upon which it swings with freedom. Th« nest is occupied by a dozen little tarantulns, which seem to subsist on a yellow secreted, substance t hat appears upon the walk of the front apartment. The arrangement of the door for the protection of the little inmate» ir licates gTeat instinctive architectural knowledge. f > Send iu your orders for job work. ? w -I T V I / )■' » A Serious Mistake. An amuring story comes from Milan. A young girl about to be married received from an acquaintance, as a wedding present, a little package, which, when she opened it, she found to contain bank-notes for several hundred francs. Fall of gratitude, sho hastened to pay a visit to so generous a friend, and overpowered her with thanks. The friend, amazed at so much gratitudo for a present which she knew to be only a. little book, began io suspect something, and, going to the drawer from which she had taken the gift, found that sb* had made A great mistake, aad hod given to the- young bride a large sum of money, which, from its being made up in a similar manner, she had mistaken fox the package contain ing the little book. She hastened to explain, and the poor bride was obliged sadly to re turn the notes, and with them aB the sxr- lished in the T idixcs at the lowest rates castlea she had been doubtless builduxr. “ What,” asked a youth timidly of an eminent philologist, “ what, sir, is the meaning «4 this phrase: ‘ Modus op erandi?” and the great languist, whose mind was saturated with the literature of i »Affla WEEK. 115 a day at borne easily made.Cuiily by simply requesting the officers of the j ancient Greece and Rome, replied : “ It is v**Lu'tìt frae. Addtea»TavsACo., Amputa, Me. Land. O:iioe to send them, to us. 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