The Grant Coanty News.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT
CANYON CITY, OREGON.
H. Shepherd Editor.
TELEGRAPHIC.
A TraRlc Affair.
Xkw Orleans, Aug. 21. Edwin C
Mix. Jr., aged thirty-two, was killed to
day by t he three iterance oroiuers, rer
dinand, Arraand and Henry, aged twen
tv-five. twenty and eighteen, respect
ively. The Derances were imprisoned.
Thev declare that Mix had flirted with
their young.sister. Although warned, were horrified to find yesterday morning
Prize Fight Stopped by Po ice
New Iork, Aug. 22. Thos. Holmes
and Patrick Dcnun, pugilists, of South
Brooklyn, were arrestell this morning
while engaged in a prize fight at Wood
side, L. I. Twenty-eight rounds had
been fought in an hour and both men
were terribly punished. Their eyes
were nearly rinsed aud their faces hU
most swollen out of shape.
Pacific Coast Postal Change.
Washington, August 23. Postal
changes: LMfrntinued Silver Wells,
Wasco county, Oregon. Postmasters
appointed Ms. Clara Alingham, Pine,
Linn county, Otegon; Wm. M. Urqu
hart, Chehalis, Lewis county, Washing
ton Territory.
A Horrible Charge.
"Lowell. Mass , Aug. 23. People ten
miles distant on the Alisirinuni river.
he had not desisted, but continued to fol
low the young lady. Mix, with his
brother. Franklin Mix. went to the
residehce of the Derances to explain
the matter, both unarmed. They failed,
however, to convince the Derances, aud
when leaving were followed to the
street, where two of the brothers opeued
fire upou Edwin C. Mix. He attenipt-
ed to nee, but was shot down, when
Henry, the youngest of the Derauce
brothers, lan up aud stabbed him sev
eral times with a dirk. Mix leaves a
wife aiM widowed mother. His brother
Franklin, who was present at the kill
ing, was on the 12th inst., married to a
daughter of the late Gen. H. L. Hayes.
The Derauces are the sons of the late
Dr. Henry Derance. one of the promi
nent physicians of this city.
Penrn "Win.
Atlantic City, xn. J.. Aug. 21.
J3oy n ton and Fearn began a swimming
match to day, the former to swim two
and a half miles aud tho hitter two
miles. The sea is heavy.
Later Captain Boynton was defeat
ed in his swimming match with George
Fearn. Fearn "won by a long distance.
Disaster in San Francisco Bay.
Sax Francisco, Aug. 21. The scow
schooner Energetic, 17 tons, Captain 01
lig Kordes, was capsized between Angel
and Goat Islands in 6 fathoms of water.
The captain was drow ned. The vesBel
is keel up. and in line of river travel.
The seamen were saved.
Death of Mrs. CIih. Ivcan.
London, Aug. 21. The celebrated
actres-s, Mrs. Chas. Kean (Elleu Tree),
who retired from the stage on the death
of her husband, is dead.
The Humbled Sioux.
Washington, Aug. 21. 1 he dispatch
which was received at the war depart
ment from Gen. Miles, relative to the
surrender of Situix Indians, was read in
the cabinet, but excited no unusual
comment. The general expression of
opinion, however, so tar as n went,
that twin children of John Farley had
been drowned in a tub of water during
the night. The father and mother wer
arrested. The children were only a
month old. The parents are very poor,
and Farley is given to drink. They
both deny the crime, but Farley says
that he belii-ves that his wife drowned
the babies. '1 iuv have three other
children.
Grant Going1 Home.
Denver, Aug. 23. (-Jen. Grant and
party, after veiling the principal citis
and points of interest in this state, left
for the east via the Denver Pacific to
day. Hewii' proceed direct to Galena.
Mexican Affair.
h:xico, Aug. 14. Gonzales
has an absolute majority in congress,
and has notiM g to do but declare the
result. It is v. peeled that Governor
Cadera will j ronoitnce against the re
sult upon the ground of fraud. He is
governor of Z mt ens, and has a well
armed ami ur.aniz-d body of state
troops. '1 he government is watching
him with eonsi ierable forces at San
Luis and other c mvenioiit points, with
Gen. Gonzalt-s in command.
President Diaz gave, a dinner t Min
ister Morgan. All foreign mini ters and
consuls, with their wives, attended;
also cabinet ministers.
The American companies seeking
railway concessions are the Southern
Pacific, 0. P. Huntington at its head,
the Mexican Conduction, headed by
Gen. Palmer and Jay Gould, and the
Boston.
Miss -Wilson'. Will
London, Auj. 23. The greater part
of Miss Neils mi'm property, valued at
.40,000 sterling, is left by will to Real
Admiral Hmry Carr Giyn, C. B. Ed
ward Compiou teceives a legacy o
1000.
Tiie Lniwlon Wool Mnrftet.
Lo.vdox, Aug. 2.. At to-day's wool
sales the spirit was fully sustained and
vn AS 1 -
j uitr were nnu. .Merino was rauier
against buwrs. Sixty-four hundred
Suicides In Paris.
The last eight days have been prolific
ot horrors, anir.ng which murder and sui
1 .1 rrti
cmes are most conspicuous. The sui
cidally inclined have been more than usu
ally ingenious even for Parisians. In
the first place we have the tragic story of
a corset-maker m the line Geneta. The
monotony of artificial corsets weighed
heavily upon his brain. Whalebones ap
peared to him of vanities and stav laces
as vexations of the spirit. He therefore
purchased a fire-cracker of formidable di
mensions, and with an amount of coolness
worthy a better cause placed it in his
mouth and endeavored tc blow his head
off. But he only succeeded in depriv
ing himself of a portion of his skull,
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unci ne now lies in the notei ihcu. re
flecting on his probable return to trade
in the detested corsets. On Friday last
a woman, also weary of life, mounted
into the gallery which encircles the in
terior of the cupola in the Pantheon
aud from this dizy height plunged head
ioremost down among the worshiping
throng before the altar. A woman
kneeling near where tho poor creature
fell and died was severely bruised.
On the same day a painter and gilder.
after a discussion with his wife in
their domicile on the Qu.ii Jemmapes,
lost Ins temper, because he could no
bring her to his way of thinking con
cerning their money matters, and left
her, saving. "I nm going to take a bath."
beiug iu favor of carrying out the policy bales were sold, comprising Port, Phillip,
already adopted in dealing with these
unruly Indians.
The Chlcngo Conclave.
Chicago, Aug. 21. The following of
ficers of Knights Templar were appoint
ed to-day: Sir tfev. Clinton Lock, of Jl
liuois, V. E. G. Pre.-, Sir H. P. Graves,
of California, V. E G. Sir B- lr H
B Stoddard, of Texas, V. E. G. Sir B :
Sir J. B. Boyden, of New Jersey, V. E.
G. W.: Sir S. E. Sheldon, of Kansas,
V. E. G. C G. The decision to hold the
next triennial conclave tu San Francis
co was reached without much dissent.
St. Louis, Cincinnati and New York
were candidate- for the honor, but when
the report of the committee on location
was made, the only objection was made
by a New xork knight, who moved to
substitute New York for bau Francisco.
This beiug promptly voted down, the
report was accepted wiih special unan
imity, making San Francisco the place
lor the next conclave.
It is stated that the Californians made
two propositions to the knights. The
first was that California commanderies
would make Such arrangements that
round trip tickets should cost every
knight not over $20. The second propo
sition was that the Californians would
pay all the fares between Omaha and
San Francisco, both coming and iroimr.
Jft is stated by the coast d legation that
no positive agreement has been made,
but the arrangements will be private
and satisfactory to all narties. Col. W.
Harneyjof Sah Francisco, says that the
chief difHculty was to combat a growing
inclination to make Washington Citv
the headquarters and meeting for all fu
ture conclaves.
New Zealand. Sydney and Cape iu
about equal portions.
Jlooily and Sankey to lie Invltctl to the
I'uciile Coast.
Sax Francisco, Aug. 24. The min
isterial union at a meeting to-day re
solved to invite Moody and Sankey to
visit California.
Chief Om ty at the Point of Death.
Los Pinos Auencv, Aug. 20. In
dian runners from the souihern Ute
agency, arrived this morning and re
port Chief Our.iy dangerously ill and
not expected to live. They came with
a message from Ouray to the agency
physician here, Dr. Tracy, in whom he
has the utmost confidence, requesting
him to come hum diatelv. The doctor
and his escort left immediately. The
Indians will furnish relays of horses,
and intend making the distance, 13d
miles, in 15 hours. Ouray went to that
point to assist the commission in pre
vailing upon the Ltes to sign the treaty.
If Ourav dies the treaty will not be
signed by the White river and southern
Utes.
A (iooil Itlcker.
On one of tho excursion steamboats
running from Boston a young man made
himself objectionably familiar to a lady
whom he supposed to be alone. For a
little while the lady tolerated his atten
tions and he was deluded into the idea
that he had made a conquest. But his
inward sense of victory was of short du
ration. She was only waiting for her
husband to come. On his arrival slm ir-
Thatthe California peo- naled him to inform him of what was0-
He ran and plunged into the canal St.
Martin, and striking his head against a
projecting beam on one of the locks,
speedily found that death which he
seemed to desire so earnestly. But the
cares of these unfortunate people do not
present such interest to the student' of
pathology as that of Emile Dumoustier,
who on Friday killed a sub-brigadier of
police, named Koxin, in the line Mont
marte, near tho corner of the Hue Abou-
kir, one of the most crowded sections of
the commercial quarters of Paris. Du
moustier, when first remarked on the day
in question, was walking wildly to and fro,
swinging his arms and muttering men
aces between his teeth. He was in rags
and covered with dirt, aud his feet were
bare. Koxin. the police agent, came up
to him and was about to order him to
move on when Dumouster sprang upon
him and buried a long knife iu his breast.
The unfortunate agent tried to draw his
sword, but staggered back and died short
ly afterwards. The knife of the assassin
had pierced the ribbon of the military
medal with which Boxin was decorated.
Dumoustier was arrested after some re
sistance. He gave no reason for his
crime except that ho wished to kill a
policeman; he had a vengeance to ex
ecute. He is a ragpicker, and a Pyrin-
tan. nc jj(ti itjnoii.es. The miserable man
appears to be brutalized by a long and
constant use of strong drink, and will
probably be declared irresponsible,
He was a hideous and repulsive object
when taken to the depot, after his
struggle with the oilicers who arrested
hi in. It is curious to not that the reac
tionist journals with their usual ingenu
ity, endeavor to prove that the Republic
is responsible for Dumoustier's conduct
in creating the festival, at the close of
which he signalized himself by so terri
ble and unprovoked a deed.. The funeral
of the unfortunate agent of police on
Mondav at the Eglise Saint Eustache was
celebrated with much ceremoney in the
presence of a large attendance. A young
man who appears to have occupied a re
spectable social position was found hang
ing to a tree m the Bois de Boulogne on'
Thursday. On the grass at the foot of
the tree lay a letter, stating that since the
lady whom he loved had died, life had no
turther charms for him. and he had de-
ennined to rejoin her in the spirit
world. Parisian .
Sagacious Horses.
!
Street car horses have apparently a
very monotonous sort of life. One day
is so much like another, that like the hu
man unimal under the same conditions,
it would seem that the faculties would
become deadened, and tho slightest evi
dence of intelligence impossible. There
is not much stimulus to mental activity
in a life of plodding on a street car
track, and yet instances are known
where horses'have taken a lively interest
in the road, the methods of carrying on
the business, and especially that portion
of it which involves their time and labor.
They have thought it all out and have
actually been able to tell the number of
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trips assigned lor nieir uu.y juuur, unci
when it ends. "When a horse is able to
tell how much work is required of him
each day, and when his-day ends the
achievement passes beyond the range o
of mere animal instinct and attains th
plane of reason and intelligence. Horsi
car drivers tell marvelous stories of the
intelligence displayed by the animals
under'their charge. A driver on one of
the Fourteenth street cars is strongly of
the opinion that horses know how to
count. If this rather unusual statement
is ouestioned : " Well, if they don't,
how are von going to explain this?" and
then he goes on to say that each car
makes nineteen trips per day. There are
four horses used, three making live trips
and one four trips. At the end ot each
trip the car is driven into the stables and
then turned upon the turning table. Ai
tor the car is turned tlie horses are
changed, if it is the proper time, before
the car starts back on the trip. At the
end of the fifth trip, if for any reason
it is necessary to send the car back, it is
ilmost impossible to .get the horse out of
he stable. He holds bacic, resists, and
it requires tho united exertions oi sev
eral men before the animal can be in
duced to more. The horse has kept a
strict count of the trips, and knows that
he has finished his day's work and ought
to go to his stall. The same thing occurs
if the attempt is made to make the horse
that has only four trips take an additional
one.
With the drivers aud stablemen, who
frequently witness such exhibitions,
there is a firm belief in the mathematical
ability of horses. The street car men
also tell an interesting yarn about the
hill horse that works on the hill between
New York avenue and H street. His
time for stopping work is very irregular,
and he is sometimes taken to the stables
with one car and sometimes with another.
But the horse knows perfectly well when
it is the intention to tale him to thh sta
ble, and when he comes to the top of the
hill, instead of stopping he starts on a
run. If the time for his going home wast
at all regular this singular intelligence
might be explained, but whether it is
early or late, the horse knows when he is
going home. Until that time ho plods
Genoese Boatmen.
pie were able to overcome this plan was
creditable alike to their diplomatic skill
and geuerosity One gentleman alone
is said to have agreed to raise a million
dollars in Ca'ifornia if the conclave
would hold its session in San Francisco.
me iveniucKv commanderies in ac
knowledgement, of the profuse hospi
tality of the knights from San Francisco
during their stay here, presented them
with a silver cask of choice old bourbon
whisky.
The Drown ami Johnson Case Paralleled.
New Youk, Aug. 21. .Max Sevilger,
a collector, while wanting along inrst
avenue this evening, near Forty-ninth
street, was seized upon by two men, one
of whom seized his arms and the other
rifled his pocket-book and seized his
watch aud chain. They then threw
him into a gutter and fled. Sevilger,
who was uninjured, gave chase, when
one of the thieves discharged a revolver
at him. The ball missed the objeot in
tended and buried itself in the neck of
Otto Schwenger, 18 years old a butcher brow will be a jagged, irregular, hiero
- toll
0, ' UIH,
'Served
ing on. He calmly surveyed the situa
tion for a few moments, then made up
his mind what to do. Being a somewhs t
muscular shoe dealer, wearing a No. 11
boot, he quietly slipped in behind the
unsuspecting youth and administered to
him a powerful kick. This sent the
youth bodily upwards to the roof of the
cabin m which the ceremony took place
and brought his forehead in contact with
a piece of timber. The young man had
never "before dreamed of having such a
high forehead. When he descended it
was amid tho mirth of his fellows and
with a conspicuous wound which he will
probably wear for life. This fellow has
no recourse against the large-footed man
who had uamaged luni. He was playing t
the iool and de .vrved the punishment he
bylaw, yet under the circumstances in
which the Bostonian husband found him
sell nobody would say that it was ille
gal. The mark on the voting gallant's
How ENGTrsii Women- Duess. It can
not be denied that an Englishwoman is
he most peculiarly dressed women of the
civilized world. One does not need to
come, as I did, with only two days' in-
enm between the Pans salon, where
actresses and grandes dames exhibit dai
ly their extravagant toilets, to the Lon
don Academy, where British fashion
holds carnival, to see this and note the
extraordinary difference between the
reigning styles of the two capitals. In
Paris an Englishwoman is recognized in
the twinkling of an eye, as far away as
she can be seen, by her radical and es
sential difference in dress, not only from
the Parisienne, but bv reason of her
thorough unlikeness, in that respect, to
the woman of all other nations. A fer
tile source of amusement to Parisiennes
is tne extraordinary confused and form
less bunch of draperv that an English
woman wears in the region of her heels,
and that her peculiarly rolling aud ener
getic gad; so diilerent from tho walk ot
Continental ladies causes toss and wob
ble behind her in the most ungraceful
and eccentric manner. Cor.
Inter-Ocean.
along steadily, and has never been known
to make a mistake. One oi the drivers
explains it by the fact that the boy who
has the horse in charge usually sits on
the dash board, with feet on the outside,
while gom up hill. But when the boy
is going all the way to the stables he gets
all the way in from the front platform.
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xuu iiuiMU auus uuib iiiu uuj mis uiu-wn
his legs in, instead of dangling them on
the outside, and, by the inductive process
of reasoning, he concludes that it l
to go home. He accordingly goes. An
other horse always shies when he passes
a certain corner after dark, because some
four or five years ago he was frightened
at that place. Washington Post.
When we went to Tivoli last week we
returned in a special train with several
hundred Genoese canotteri, who were
invited to Borne for a boat race by the
society here. They had been to the cas
cades, the baths and the Temple of
Sybil, but I overheard a young woman
telling them, "Oh! you havo seen noth
ing if you have not s'een the Villa d'Este,
but it is impossible to see all in one day."
The poor fellows, who were worn out
with the fatigue 'of climbing the hills,
looked rather crestfallen at this, but
many of them had brought away large
pieces of the petrified leaves and twigs
found near the waterfall.
Those Genoese, though no doubt
strong and lithe boat rowers, are not
types of manly beauty. The' are posi
tively ugly, and formed a striking con
trast to the Apollo-like forms of the Bo
nians at the regatta on the Tiber. This
regatta was organized for the benefit of
the marine hospital for children, and
was, as usual, on Sunday afternoon.
The border of the river was covered with
people, who manifested great enthu
siasm, and a prize was awarded. to the
successful canoe bv the Minister of Ma
rine. The king and tho aristocracy
and the diplomatists and many
lovely ladies were there, and, not
withstanding the beauty of the .Romans I
am afraid that tho ugly Genoese won the
race. From my green terrace, near the
Tiber, I heard but did uot see the re
gatta. Tho music of the bands, the
booming of the cannon and theshonts of
the people came floating up in the air
and mingled with the shrieks of the
swallows that circled above the flocks.
The demonstrations of friendliness be
tween tho Genoese and Bomans on this
occasion were remarkable. They dined
each other, and they made speeches in
praise of each other, and never tired of
shouting from the windows and oars,
"Viva Genova!" or "Viva Borne!" -Even
the harvesters on the Canipagna, reap
ing in long lines in the hot June
sun, stopped their work a moment as
their train passed to give them a friendly
shout. This is a good sign, and it is
well for Italy that the days when one
citv made war upon another, and cap
tured the chains that protected its gates
and hung them up in their own public
places, have gone by. The watch-word
now is brotherly -love. Liberty, union,
equality, industry, putting money awa-
for rainy days, draining and cultivating
waste lands, plauting forests and binding
the poor emigrant to his native soil
these are the ideals of Italy. The
Genoese are among the first to follow
this programme, in which lies all of
Italy's future greatness. X. Y. Evening
Post.
The Wooden Hat.
Heel Sugar Culture.
Chicago
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mvimicui-iouiuiiir sorL oi a iiin
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interpreted, will read:
this fellow right."
boy. The young man was taken to the
hospital, where his injury was pro
nounced fatal. The thieves escaped-
Weaver's Movement.
St. Louis, Aug. 20. Gen. G. B
Weaver arrived here this evening from
Arkansas, where he made ten speeches.
He will speak at Terra Jtjaute to mor
row, and co thence to Washington,
where be wilhconsuit with members of
ihp nniinnal p.nmAlittee. He will gO to I
Boston, where le will speak, and then into your head, child? You can't color
stump tne enure siuie 01 wuie. -tvitei i uwi, jlco, j. iju- uecause
that he will return to the south, going ma said it was beer that colored your
as far as Texas. ' nose so reu.
A gentleman the other day saw his lit
tle daughter dipping her doll's dress into
a tin cup, and inquired: "What are von
doing, my daughter?" "I'm coloring my
dolls dress red!" "What with?" "With
What put such a foolish notion
beer."
Tun Human Fiocim. The proportions
of the human figure are six times the
length ot the feet, whether theioini is
slender or plump, tho rule holds good,
and deviation from it is a departure from
the highest beauty in proportion. The
Greeks make all their statues from this
rule. The face, from the highest point
ol the forehead, where the hair begins
to tho chin is one-tenth of the whole stat
ure. The hand, from the wrist to the
middle finger, is the same. From the top
of the chest to the highest point of the
forehead is a seventh. If the face, from
the roots of the chin, be divided into
three equal parts, the first division de
termines the place where the eyebrows
meet, and the second the nostrils. The
hight from the feet to the top of the
head is the distance from the extremity
of the fingers when the arms are ex
tended. Doctors, cheer up! The peach crop is
not a failure.
A number of experiments have been
made in this country from time to time
in raising beet-root sugar, but generally
on a small scale, and without any con
tinuous energy. There seems to be no
reason why we cannot make any quanti
ty of sugar of this kind, and it is not
unlikely that we shall yet make it as well
and as abundantly as they do in France.
The sugar got from beets is similar to
that from cane; but it contains much
less saccharine matter, the proportion
between the two being usually as 10 to
18. About the middle of the last cen
tury, Marggraf, a Berlin apothecary,
called attention to the sugar contained in
the beet; but Achard, the Prussian chem
ist, was the first person really successful
in extracting it. But as only two or
three per cent, of sugar could be ob
tained, the jn-ocess did not pay, until
Napoleon I. raised the price and intro
duced improved methods. After the
downfall of the Emperor protective du
ties kept the manufacture alive in France.
hen manufacturers were enabled to !
get live pounds of sugar from 100 pounds
of beet, the industry revived this was
about 1820 in Frauce and Belgium, and
extended as far as linssia. It is now
largely imported from the Continent, and
is mixed by refiners with cane sugar,
without which the best loaf sugar cannot
be produced. Tho imports into Great
Britain from the Continent in 1S75
amounted to 24:0,000 tons. In France
the increase has been so rapid that in
1872-3 the product reached 418,000 tons.
It is estimated that there are now in all
countries some 1500 beet-sugar factories.
A good yield is 20 tons of root per acre,
ami one ton of sugar from 12 tons of
root. The civil war interrupted our
manufacturing (begun in 1862) , which
now promises to be revived. Experi
ments of a very promising kind have
been making in Maine, and in California
the business is carried on with encour
aging success.
"You see," said a lively old Aberdeen
bachelor, on being advised to get mar
ried, "you see, I can't do it, because I
could not marry a woman I did'nt. re
spect, and it would be impossible for me
to respect a woman that would conqpnt
to marry me." j
Somewhere about the year 1780 a
traveling millwright, footsore with the
broadest Northern Doric accent, stopped
at Soho, at the engine factory of Boulton
Sc Watt, and asked for work. His aspect
was little better than one of beggary
and poor looks, and Boulton had bidden
him God speed to some other shop.
when, as he was turning away sorrow
fully, Boulton suddenly called him back.
"What kind of a hat's yon ye have on
your head, me mon?"
"It's just timiner, sir."
"Thinner, me mon: let's look at it.
Where did you get it?"
"I just turned it in the lathie "
"But it's oval, mon, and tho lathie
turns things round."
"Aweel! I just gar'd the lathie gang
anither gait, to please me. I'd a lang
journey afore me, and I thocht to have a
hat to keep out water, and I hadna'
muckle siller to spare, and I made me
ano."
By his inborn mechanism the man had
invented an oval lathe and made his hat,
and the hat made his fortune. Boulton
was not the man to lose so valuable a
help, thus the after famous William Mur
dock the originator of locomotives and
lighting by gas took suit and service
under Boulton & Watt, and 1784- made
the first vehicle impelled by steam in
England, and with the very 'hands and
brain-cunning that had produced the
"timmer hat." American Machinist.
The Dollar Mark.
There are a number of theories for the
origin of the dollar mark. One is, that
it is a combination of the XI. S.. tho ini
tials for the United States: another, that
it is a modification of the figure 8, the
dollar being formerly called "a niece of
eight," and designated bv the character
Hie third theory is that it is a com
bination of H. S., the mark of a Boman
unit: while the fourth is that it is a com
bination of P. and S., from the Spanish
peso dnro, which signifies "hard dollar."
In Spanish accounts, peso is contracted
by writing the S. over the P. and placing
it after the sum, The last theory of the
origin of the sign is offered by the editor
of the London Whitehall Review, who re
cently propounded the question at a din
ner party in that city, at which the Amer
ican Consul was present. An no one could
tell, the editor gave the following ex
planation: "It is taken from the Spanish
dollar, and the sign is to be found of
course in the associations of the Spanish
dollar. We littered the table with books
in the course of our researches, but I
proved my point in the end. On the re
verse of the Spanish dollar is a repre
sentation of the Pillar of Hercules, and
round each pillar is a scroll, with the in
scription, 'Pius ultra.' This device, in
the course of time, has degenerated into
the sign which stands at present for
American, as well as Spanish dollars.
The scroll around the pillars, I take it,
represent the two serpents sent by Juno
to destroy Hercules in his cradle."