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, iNi O ID o 3 I I o '1 YOli. V 3ff. 418. J o tj O 1 1 i 1 X i 1 1 1 i l 1 M t O V The Weekly Enterprise. O A DEMOCRATIC PAPER, FOIt THE Businessman, the Farmer the FAMILY CIRCLE. PUBI-ISIIKD EVERY SA1TKDAY AT THE OFFIC E -Corner of Fifth and Main streets Oregon City, Oregon. o o o TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION: Single Copy one year, in advance, $2 00 TERMS of AI) VERTISING ; Transient advertisements, including all lesal notices, A sq. of 12 line, 1 w.$ 2 50 . or each subsequent insertion 1 OC Tnc Column, one year 12o 00 Half " " GO (tarter " " 40 Business Card, 1 square one year 12 t.sr Remittance to he made at tie risk of Subscribers, ami at the espenxe of Agents. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING. The Enterprise office i.s supplied with Ifaulifu!, approved stylos of type, arid rood em MACHINE- 1'RESSES, which will enable the Proprietor to do Job Printing at all times Neat, Quick and Cheap ! i; if Work solicited. All JiuahtKU tranxucllMia upon a Specie baxis. JOHN MYERS, Financial Agent. BUSINESS CARDS. jJLl.F. BARCLAY, (Formerly burgeon to the Hon. II. 13. Co.) OFFICE At Residence, Main street Ore pon City, Oregon. "YH- W ATKINS, M. D., O SURGEON, rouxLAXD, OitEoc n. OFFICEM Front street Residence cor ner of Main and Seventh streets. J. VSLiCIIj I' inua neatly Located at Oregon City, Oregon ROOMS With "Dr. Saffarrans, on Main st. W. C. JollNSOX F. O. M'COW.V, Notarj' Public. JOHNSON & McCOWN, Oregon City, Oregon. a Will attend to all business entrusted to O our care in any of the Courts of the State, 0 Collect qgonej'.'NVgotiate loans, sell real estate etc. Particular attention given to contested Land case-'. A. 0. GIEUS. C. V. IWltRtSU, N if 'try Public and Com. tf l)ced. GIEB3 & PAEEISII, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Portland, Oregon-. OFFICE Oa Alder street, in Carter's brick block. J.H.MITCHELL. J. X. DOLril. A. SMITH Mitchell, Dolpli & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty . ? Office oer the old Toft Office, Front street, PortlaT.d, Oregon. Logan, Shattuck & Eiliin, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, No. KM) Front Street, IT; Stairs, PORTLAND, OREC.OX. pAGE & THAYER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE In Cree's Building, corner of Front and Stark streets, Portland. :tt J. F. CAPLE3. J. C. MOKELAND. CAPLES & MORE LAND, ATT0KKE'S AT LAW, Cor. FRONT and IVASIIINll TON Sis., PORTLAND, OREG()N. 1 aw rTurrxEEsinr. J AS. K. Kl-.LTA, Residenci!, Colmubia st bet. StVand 3d strf. j. u. rj:t-:d, Residfiico t onier of Columbia and 7th sts. Jas. K. Kelly and J. Jl. Reed, under the tirn-i name ot q KELLY tt REED, Will practice law in the Courts of Oregon. Oilice on First street, near Alder, over the new Post office room, Portland. O'tf jTVN SING STO LT. Attorney and Counselor at Law, PORTLAND, OREGON. Office Under the United States District Court RoomPFront street. 40 tf ATTORNEY AT LAW, OREGON CITY, OREGON. JOHN II. SCIIRAM. Manufacturer and Dealer in SADDLE'S, HARNESS, etc., etc., M.tin Sl'rd, Oregon City, RWi-hes to represent that he i.s now as tvcU prepared to furnish any article in his line as the largest establishment in the State. He particularly request that an examination of his stock be made before buying elsewhere. F. S. 0 ST HEIST, O IMPORTER A XI) DEALER IX Ssgars, Tobacco. Pipes, Stationery CUTLERY, YANKEE NOTIONS, ie. G o T-.L No. S3, corner of Front and Washing ton Greets, fire proof brick store, called the );d Corner, opposite American Exchange, Portland, Oregon. UT.Um -5 . A- U. HELL. E. A. TAUKEK. B 3 Li L &, PARKER. AND DEALERS IX Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. Main o'wet, Oregon City. UETTKIt LATE THA.V AEVKU. Life is o. race where some Eneceed AMiile otliei-s are beg-irming, Tjs luck in some i:i ethers speed, That gives an early -winning; Rat if you chance to fall behind, ICe'er slacken your endeavor ; Just keep this! wholesome truth in mind " Ti-i better late than never I" And if you kep ahead rU-3 well, Hut never trip your neighbor; Tia noble when you con excel, liy honest, patient, labor ; 13ut if you are outstripped at last, Press on, as bold as ever ; Remember, though you are surpassed, " 'Tis better late than never 1" Ne'er lalKir for an idle boast, Or v iotory o'er another ; Put while you strive the uttermost, Peal fairly -with a hrolher ; What e'er your station do your best, And hold your purpose ever ; And if you f -til to do the rest, " 'Tis better late than never " Choose well the path in wluch you run Succeed by double daring-, Then, though the last, when once 'tis won, Your crown is worth the wearing-. Then fret not if you are lett In-hind, Nor ever slacken your endeavor, Put ever keep this truth in mind " 'Tis better late than never I" Vo-il in Ecteiisc of tlic JIarried Mstit. Mit. Editor : Having noticed in the Enterprise of Sept. IS, an article in de fence of the bachelor, including a few sarcastic comments upon the servile con dition of the married man, I wish to write a few words in defence of the latter. It is true that every situation in life is attended with innumerable trials and per plexities ; but to insinuate that the mar ried man suffers the greater annoyance, thereby manifesting a feeling of deprecia tion for the sex, from whom the bachelor claims to Lave received so many flatter ing attentions, is extremely unjust. The author of that article perchance be longs to that rare class of bachelors whose lot has been happily cast in the lap of fortune; on whom woman seldom frowns ; for the love of money being a predomin ant weakness, his wealth doubtless se cures for him those applausive commen dations that seem to have been exceed ingly gratifying to his vanity. We doubt not his sincerity, though we think his log- I Ic unsound ; for. if the caresses of wo- I man are so indispensable to the happiness of life, and he neglects, from among the ; myriads who solicit his favor, to sslect one as a -boon companion, who might im part a brighter charm to every joy, and diminish the sorrows by which even the most fortunate are assailed, the evidence is conclusive, that in his opinion, it is the weight of the purse, and not the man, by which they estimate him. Who courts the favor of matrons with marriageabls daughters, in the hope of receiving an invitation to "tea, to evening parties, and to drop in wheu it is conven ient?" The bachelor! Yi'hose fcociety is often avoided by gen teel mothers, lest little acts of civility and politeness should be construed into a solicitation to marry one of her daugh ters? The bachelor's! Who is the continual favorite of both maid and matron? The married man ! Who Hatters the girls with a syren tongue and lures them only to disappoint ment? The bachelor! Wlio, after the engagements of the day, remrning to his lonely, cheerless home, to find it cold and dark, would fain light a lamp, but in attempting to secure the de sired article from among the sundries ev er occupying tho table, it falls, crash. smash upon the floor ; when he gives his angered feelings vent, in a few unmean ing sentences, uttered all alone in the, dark, to the offensive oil, in which lie finds his feet suddenly submerged ; then hastily withdrawing his greasy boots, retires to an unmade bed, feeling much as though lie was a curse to himself, and a blessing to nobody ? The bachelor ! Yi'ho returns to his cheerful home, wea ried with the labors of the day, to find a large arm chair before a blazing fire, a nice, warm, dressing gown and a pair of neatly embroidered slippers, placed there by some one. for his own especial use. while before him stands an inviting table, laden with smoking viands, and the choi cest tea. around which are smiling faces and merry voices, that drive away all thought of care ? The married man ! Who, in sickness, suffers in silence and alone, sighing for sympathy such as none but tho gentle heart of woman can im part, dies in obscurity, having but a soli tary kitten to mourn his departure from earth ? The bachelor ! Who, when fortune frowns and the chil ling blasts of adversity sweep over him, finds sympathy, and a true confiding friend at homo ? Tbe married man ! Who often sighs for the sweet tones of a loving voice, to sing when he is weary, and lull him into peaceful slumbers like a child? The bachelor! Who is generally dependent upon his neighbors for comforts, pleasures and cheerful amusements? The bachelor! Who leaves, at his decease, the noble intellect, to guide the gallant ship that plows the mighty oeeaa from pole to pole, that sends the lightning rouud the worM, r.n.I the iron Lcrse across the continent Thess aro tbe unfading flowers that bloom over the grave of the married man ! Who ought to lead a single life? The brutal man that yrould whip his wife! Poor bachelors I No wonder the hearts of hon est women ache as they behold your weakness. LENA. Tleasant Hillside, Oct. 2. SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF DEATH. From Anpleton's Journal. It is a law of nature that whatever has a beginning must also have an ending, the idea of death itself being associated with birta. But this term of life, the moment that reduces to inert matter the body which life had animated, may arrive sooner or later, accidentally or naturally. Accidental death happens when one of the essential organs ef life, from some cause or other ceases to act ; these princi pal organs being the brain, lungs and heart. The action of the brain, however, mav be almost wholly suppressed, and yet life continue : breathing may be for some time suspended, and yet life linger within ; but when the beating of the heart ceases, then life is extinct. Accidental death, therefore, is all the more rapid from its cause acting more immediately on the circulating centre ; it may happen at all ages, although it is much more frequent in the earlier than in later stages of existence. Natural death is much rarer ; accidents or disease always consuming life before the period primitively fixed upon by na hire. It may also happen at a mote or less advanced ago. according to the peculiari ties of constitution, sex, race, climate, etc. When tho work of destruction follows its usual course, life departs in an opposite sense from the one in which it had been developed ; in the embryo state life seems to march from the heart to the remoter organs, but in the old man it gradually forsakes his body from the circumference to the centre. Then the members becom ing motionless, and obeying the law of heaviness, lose their sensibility and heat ; and the nmscels no longer obey the will, even if the will exist ; tho skin becomes cold and dry, or is covered with a viscous sweat ; the face assumes a characteristic aspect, a-id appears emaciated ; the eyes withdraw deep into their orbits, the cornea is unsettled, the eyelids are half closed by the lowering of the upper one, the cheek bones become prominent, the nose droops, and the discolored lips are parted and puckered. The voice, like thought, be comes incoherent ; the eyes lose their powers of vison, and the olfactory nerves are indensiblo to odoi'3 ; but hearing is among tho last of the faculties to leave him. The abdominal and pectoral vicera cease to fulfill thier functions, drinks fall into the a-sophagus into an inert tube; breathing becomes short, slow, and irreg ular, now suspended, now renewed, ter minating finally in the last grasp. The pulse beats rapi l!yr but fainter and fainter, offering numerous remittances until it ceases to be appreciable. The heart still continues beating feebly and irregularly, and its last contraction marks the moment that separates life from death. No vestige now remain--, except in certain tissues, which even for some time after death, re tain organic properties : the capillaries are contracted, so as to drive into the vein all the blood they contain ; the mitabilily of the muscles is demonstrated when placed under the influence of the voltaic pile. These last phenomena of life soon disappear, then the blood decomposes, its liquid parts infiltrating the tissues, and its solid elements being deposited either on the heart or on the sides of the vessels. Then follows decomposition, which slowly and mysteriously reduces the whole to Avaier, carbonic acid gass and ammonia be ing the products into which are resolved all animal matters in a slate of putrefaction. These matters of complex composition re turn to the organic combinations which enabled tho plants to elaborate them ; thus the study of putrefaction, at first so revolting, acquires a special philosophical interest, while revealing to us a chain work of phenomena admirable on account of its beautiful simplicity. jpS'An illiterate negro preacher said to his congregation : " My hredren, when de fust man Adam was made, he was ob wet clay? an' set up agin de palins to dry '?'' " Do you say," sai l one of tho congre gation " dat Adam was made ob wet clay an' set up agin de palins to dry V " Yes, sar, I do,"' ' Who made do palins?'' " Set down, par," said the preacher sternly ; " such questions as dat would up set anv system ob teology." A party Chinese going to Truckee to settle, passed through Sacramento, and among other traps had a household god a wooden Joss. Tne Union congratulates, the godless Truckceans ; suggesting that a wooden god will be a great improvement on the former condition of the town. BY F-ZV. I-.OWI.AXD II. AI-EX-. Nature constructed this man, it seems, purely in the interests of science, Per ceiving that the breastwork which hereto fore she had always built in front of the human heart, bothered every party that sought to reconnoiter this citadel of life, she consented to finish off one man wholly vrithout such a defense. Engene Gronx ha3 no skrnwn at all. Tho firm plUi of bone which usually occupies the front of the chest, in Ids case h entirely wanting. Its place is filled by frail and flexible In teguments. The Doctor is a native of Hamburg. He could not be a Frenchman, possibly, for, said a sage examiner, he has no JJon aparte nar his heart ! liis anatomy is en tirely unique. A few cases of partial absence of the sternum have been noted before, but this is the first one in which it is congenital and complete. It promises to afford as much aid in studying the cir culation of the blood, as that of Alexis St. Ifartin did in the study of digestion. The patient is a healthy man, in the midst of active pursuits. lie has brothers and sisters with the usual organ here, and his own children are all perfectly formed, lie has been aware for many years of the scientific importance of his peculiarity, and has been himself its most enthusiastic investigator. He is determined that the world shall have the full benefit of this his malformation. In 1851, when twenty years of age, he journeyed through the whole of Europe exhibiting himself to the medical faculty of every prominent school. He obtained an album-full of admiring certificates testi fying to the marvel of this strange physi que. In 185C they caged him in the north, and carried him about on exhibi tion until lie was " examined" almost to death. " They pommeled me, to their sat isfaction" he remarks, "detaining me there against my will." This was done by authority of the Czar of I!uai-ia. When he escaped such treatment, it was natural for him to think of the free republic. He first visited America in 1858. Re turning soon to his native land, he be came a student in the university of Got tingen. He graduated there in 1SG2 with the title of M. I). After receiving numer ous attentions and dhplonias from the seats of learning in the old world, he came again to this country with the determina tion to remain. He settled in Williams burgh, N. Y. , and is living there now, an accomplished scholar and a successful physician. That science might not fail to know whatever his case was able to teach. he has caused a number of photographs to be made showing the various postures of the heart, as they appear through the swelling of his almost transparent breast. Five of them were taken out without dan ger. Dr. Upham Lad told Air. Whipple that it was not sale for Mr. Groux to hold hiniseh in the attitude in which the sixth view could be seen, long enough for a photograph, lie advised him not to take it at all. But the intrepid subject stop ped up to the perilous work. Notwith standing every warning, he insisted that the views should be completed by the ad dition of this important one. On another occasion he was about to ret out ou a hazardous tour through the U. 3. Should lie die among strangers, in a few days his matchless body might be hid forever be neath the ground. To prevent tills, he made his will. It was drawn up by Uufus Choate. The original paper, we comruca men could not read, of course. Bat he always carried a copy of it in Lis breast pocket. By its provisions an eminent physician ia every large city of the coun try was appointed a.:, one of his executors. The one nearest to whom he might by any sad chance be overtaken by death, was to take possession at once (if the remains, see that they were most carefully dissected ; and place the abnormal portions in a museum of natural histor'. Upon this singular document I could trace these earnest words. " The great peculiarity of the case constitutes me the trustee of great and sacred trusts." . As th's wonderful nlan stood before the Scientific Association in Salem, on the li)th of August, and tjiere bared his bosom once again before the eyes of strangers, we regarded him with profoundor feelings than any that curiosity could prompt. There was the spirit of a hero behind that slender, trembling wall of flesh. He pro ceeded with his lecture calmly and beauti fully. He showed to us by means of feathers fixed on slight adhesive supports, and placed upon different portions of his breast, every throb of the vital pulse be neath. Then attaching electric wires to the same places, and connecting them with little bells, every beat became as plainly audible. Then by means of color ed liquids in thin glass tubes, which Ire caused to flow up and down by the im pulse of his heart, Le seemed to lay open to our sight the purple currents of his own living veins. By the use of the chronograph Dr. Groux has found that there is an appreci ble difference of time between the throb at the heart and the pulse at the extremi ties, "he two motions have before tins been regarded as simultaneous. It Las now been determined that it takes the blood 235-1000 of a second to go on its 'longest errand. This 1'act furnishes a standard by which to test the presence of obstructions in the vital channels. Dr. Groux's case decides also the exact posi tion of the heart in a living person. The tissues tall away at the moment of death, and this has led anatomists to locate its acting attitude incorrectly. But the cui bono of all this strange phe nomenon cannot yet be fully given. Dr. J. Baxter Upham. the graceful friend ard mentor of Dr. Groux, is pursuing experi ments suggested by his ease-. Into the lecture room at Salem, he caused to be brought the telegraph wire that connects JSM-JlL J 'g4 with Boston. At that end it was arranged to touch a lever which rested ou the wrist of a patient in the city hospital. The Salem end was attached to a bell and a magnesium light. When the connection was closed, each throb of the pulse in that sick ward sixteen miles away could be distinctly heard and seen by all the eager auditory! The effect was thrilling. We counted the regular pulses of a convales cent there. Then a man with organic disease of the heart put his baud upon that distant cushioned rest beneath the ;r.agical wire. We timed with our watch the strange wild race of a life that had broken from its normal pace. The sensitive lady felt so near to tbe hospital that she tolemn ly averred shs was afraid of the small pox ! Prof. Siiliman Bald that such inter communication made the whole earth but one hospital of a slngle ward. Hereafter instead of sending for our physician by telegraph, our physician will send lor our symptoms. These are a few of the results of a lusus naturcr. How much of our knowledge both in spiritual and physical matters is derived from abnormal examples! Curious l&cpt-ii lions of History. The Courrier les Etals-Un's seis forth in a striking manner the similUude of the leading events in the downfall of Chailes X. and Louis Phillip pc ; both kings were dethroned at the age of 7-1; both abdica ted in favor cf grandsons each 10 years old. The previous combat with the peo ple lasted in each case three days. Dur ing the year preceding each fall, bread rose to an exorbitant price, and, as if na ture sympathized with portentous events, terrific storms arose immediately after each downfall. Indeed the similarity will surprise any one not accustomed to the perpetual parallels of history. "For, very mysterious as the government of God is, yet we may observe throughout that His providences have a tendency to un fold themselves again and again under analagcus circumstances and in similar results, and all these gou:g on to further developments in that which Is infinite.'- And this rcmarl: cf Dr. Isaac Williams li illustrated by the fact that the Israelites went out of Tgypt and. Christ was put to death on the fifteenth day cf tho month Nisan a coincidence not intended by j man. (Malt. xxi. 5.) And the conquest j of Judea by Poinpey, c. c. G3, was on tne very day when the Jews were commemo rating its previous capture by Nebuchad nezzar. Nor is our brief American history want ing in such parallels. The Fourth of Ju ly, 17 7G, was the birth-day of our Nation al Independence. The two mct distin guished men in the framing of the Decla ration were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams the only two of the fifty-five that sustained It who were elected Presidents of the United States. Precisely fifty years after they signed the paper they were ta ken from the world, This was indeed an extraordinary event in our history : but five years after, another President died cn the same day and month of the year ; and again on the -lt-i of July, 1S03, a large army, with its fortifications, surrendered, and another army retreated after a three davs' battle. Let any one count the number of our Presidents, estimate their average age, their probable duration of life from that age, and then calculate the probabilities of two dying on the same day of the year, and another on the same day of the year, and he will find thousands of probabilities against one. and he must conclude tiiat historic days reproduce themselves in their offspring. Jice. Gto. A. Lcakin, in Hours at Home foi her. Oclo- John Allen, th wicked is t man in New York, has forbidden any of JI or S to wes works in his shclauj. He says she is too wicked for him. Harriet is a jolly old dame, but in hard luck just now. The Honolulu Gazelle reports the dis covery of what is described as a valuable fire-proof, hydraulic cement. . It is formed of volcanic ash from the volcanoes of Moloki, and tho Hawaiians expect to find in it a new and impoatant source of com merce. Trobably a puzzolano, as obtain ed from volcanic remains in Italy, and used by the ancients as a hydraulic ce ment, also by Smeaton. The California Fanner says : The Chinese Empire contains 500,000 temples, containing 3,000,000 idols. The temples are valued at $1,000,000,000. " Tapa, do horses ever kick with their fore feet ?" " No, Child, they never do." " Well, if a horse should kick with one of his hind feet, would not that be one of his four?" The Columbia, Pa., Spray says that two or three miles up the country, during tbe wheat harvest, the cook made a mistake which resulted in a good joke on the har vest hands. She wa cooking onions, and through mistake ponied whiskey over them instead of vinegar. The harvesters at the dinner table relished them very much, and were not aware that the cnlons had been cooked in whlskev : but they found it out in a short time after they were through eating, and we understand that one sturdy old member of the church was so drunk from eating the onions that he was unable to work till late In the af ternoon. ubscribe for the "Jxxiira'iiisz." A'.. -'-- ' ' AKat'dcalPrfPchr on Hie Chinese, aiv.I comments Iy a UcJ:?ciatie pu. por. Frcm the San Francisco Herald. Bev. Horatio Stebblns took occasion, at the Chamber of Commerce, to let the people of California know what they have to expect if they continue to oppose the immigration cf Chinese : He caid : "We front on one of the most remarkable civilizations of the earth the cradle of mankind. That civiliza tions has stood there sullen as the pyra mids but now begins to be stirred by the emotions of the common mind. The dis orders in California are the fruits of a vul gar prejndice against the peopio -who came here simply to make a living in the marts of the world. Humboldt foretold that, in the future ages of this planet, the centre of the world would be within five hundred miles of where we stand. Now, the populations of tho East are not com ing here to make this tho common centre; but the populations cf tho Occident are coming here and I charge you, all ye liitle-mlnded, small souled politicians I charge you; stand out of the way of this immigration, or you are dead men. I can not tell what you are, or what your re ligious faith may be, but get up, all ye village moralists who think the Kingdom of God enhanced by breaking tobacco pipes." Mr. Stebblns speaks as one who speaks by authority. He hurls this boastful threat into the teeth of the people as though It was a light and pleasent duty to send two-thirds of the citizens of the State to the infernal regions. "Stand cut cf tho way, or you are dead men!" It is tho highwayman's old demand: 'Stand and deliver !" Stand while this fair and prosperous country is covered all over with the scum of the bottomless pits of China ! Stand, while these Asiatic hordes sweep over the country with as deadly an effect to the interests of the comunity as when they came under the leadership of a Tame-lane! Stand, while they des troy a'd demand for remunerative labor;" discourage the coining of free, active Chris tiiTti irnmivj rants of our own race and blood, and compel thoue that are here to look for another country to find bread for tfcoir children! Stand, and deliver up the gold coin which ought to be kept in active cir culation, invested in your real estate, should build your dwellings, cultivate your farms purchase your produce, buy your groceries, construct your railroads and telegraphs support your churches and schools deliver it up fur shipment to Asia, never again to return. Deliver up your coin and ship it out of the country i ,iro.- p.,iifpmU rf iw. tviii.-7i cnndifniM its life blood, which creates its business, stimulates all its activities, or offers the in ducements v. hich brought us here. Make money scarce as possible. The less there Is, the better for tho country. This is the philosophy cf the Chinese advocates. "Get out of the way of these Chinamen, or you are dead men !" You white men, who settled this country, who developed its capacities, founded its cities, and made It what it is -the pride of the nation you are told to get out of the way of these Chinamen, under the penalty of destruc tion. Who is this High Priest who thus lays his lordly hands upon the sinews of Free Labor? who undertakes to crush cut an American and Chrstian civ ilization for the benefit of that barbarism "sullen as tiie pyramids?" A Street in r.io. Rosarip is an old Moorish street fall of balconies which pro ject over the roadway, so that lovers liv ing on opposite sides cf the street could almost hand their amorous missives across to each other, or if very long-wasted steal a furtive and illicit kiss across the inter vening space. The houses are generally of two stories, though some have a third, and others send their long slopping con cave roofs almost to the ground. Scarce ly any two alike, though a'similar charac ter pervades all. All are roofed with the red tiles which seem to be exclusively employed for that purpose in Brazil, and and the roofs usually proiect lor some dis tance beyond the walls as an additional protection from the sun and rain. The material employed in these structures 13 generally granite, but the walls are cov ered with a kind of coarse plaster or stuc co, and in many case3 painted in variegated colors. The prevalence of bright tints Impart a cheerful aspect to the street, which otherwise, from its nar rowness and the deep shade in which it is involved during the greater part of the day, would wear a gloomy and dismal ap pearance. In the evening these narrow causeways are lighted by lanps suspended from brackets which are fixed against the walls of the houses, and it is then that they take on their most attractive and anima ted aspect. They swarm with life, and the pavements murmur with innumerable feet. Troops of blacks, released from the toil of the day, gather about the shop doors, and the lamp-light burns upon their dusky faces and kindles in their melan choly lustrou3 eyes. They doa their brightest attire for this harmless evening recreation, and some are as gorgeous as tiger-liliw3. Tutban3 and ear-rings and strings of golden beads, armlets ofcuriou3 Icrm and device, decorate tho women ; while such cf the men cs have achieved a stove-pipe hat and a pair of shoes appear to have realized their ultimate idea of personal splendor, and to feel that be yond these achievements there are no sar torial worlds to conquer. The shoo in Brazil i3 the symbol of freedom, as tho bare foot is the sign-pedal of bondage. The socia! gulf which yawns between the shod and the unshod black i3 Eora eihing Tartarean aud unfathomable. Tho con quest of the shoe entitles its connierer to wear a beard, and if nature indones this arbritary privilehge he is certain of much consideration from his less fortunate fel lows. They reverence tho tuft of wool upon his chin r.s other races reverence the coronet, tho mitre, or tho ribbon of the garter. Thomas C. Evaxs, in Harper's Magazine for Octopcr. IMPROVEMENTS. The earth transformed, should be tho title of our new geographies. Truly man is working changes almost as mar vellous as those which geological book3 now teach us to believe took place in tho stnpendous youth of the world. Tho Dutch pump an ocean dry. If we can not make use of the Northwest passage to India, wo sever continents and unite oceans. We cannot level the Alps, but we cut through them. And now M. Les seps, reversing the example of the Dutch, proposes to transform the great desert of Zahara into a vast lake or ocean, by let ting the waters of the Red Sea into that immense basin. This was. doubtless, only a humorous suggestion, but as many a true word is spoken in jest, soma of us may live to see the jest carried out. It is not easy to see how M. Lesseps is to get the Red Sea waters across the Nile, which flows between them and the great desert; but as an English epic poet says ; "When energizing projects men pursue, What are the miracles they cannot do?" Surely tho eminent Frenchman, who has performed what the greatest English en gineers pronounced to be impossible, will never permit so trivial an obstacle as a mere river to stand between him and the accomplishment of this stupendous pro ject. But what would be the effect of such a transformation cn the climate of Europe ? From that burning furnace of Africa comes the hot breath that melts the Alpine sncwa in Hay, and clothes the mountain sides with verdure, and givs Spain and Italy and the south of France their delightful climates. Without this, the glaziers would creep further down ward into the Swiss valley3, the crags woma remain snow-coverea untu iaie la Summer, and the countries North of tho Alps would suffer the rigors of an Arctic winter. On the whole, M. Lesseps would better let the desert alone. It won't pay to change it inco a second Mediterranean. Piuiovn's Magazine for October. Tattlixg. " Children, (and older peo ple ), don"t.lalk againsteach other, calling one ugly, another stingy, another cross behind their backs. It Is the meanest sort of talk. Even if they arc ugly, stingy, or cross, it does you no good to repeat it. It makes you love to tell of faults It makes you uncharitable. Your soul grows smal ler. Your heart loses it3 generous blood when you tattle about your friends Tell all the good you know about them, and carry the sins to your heart, or else tell them to God, and ask Him to pardon them. That would be, Christ-like. If anybody tells about Mary doing or saying a mean, or wiekkd thing, call to mind some virtue that "Mary possesses, and hold it up to her praise. For your own sake learn to make this a habit." A steamboat captain on ono of the lakes was recently feeling his way along in the dark, when the look-out ahead cried out, " Schooner without a light It was a narrow escape, and as the steamer pass ed the schooner, the captain demanded : " What are you doing with your infernal schooner, here in the dark without a light? To his dismay, the skipper, who was a Frenchman, answered, " Yat ze diable you do here viz your ole steamboat in threo feet of water, eh?" and just then tho steamer landed high and dry on a 6anl bank. Spooxs! Tbe Stockton Gazelle says: 44 The telegraph states that B. F. Butler 13 certainly on his way to California. This cry of warning has been so often heard, and the people of this coast have so often Lidden their silver ware, without the Beast really coming, that the probmbility i3 that the public will not credit the re port this time, and will be mad enough to leave their valuables exposed. It is likely enough that B. F. B. has hitherto caused the cry of "Wolf7 to be made for the express purpose of eventually pounc ing down upon us in an ungarded, mo ment." "3Iy son," said an old man "be ware of prejudices. They are like rat?, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, lut it i.s exceedingly doubtful if they ever get out The price of passage has been reduced on the Columbia river. O o 0 o 00 G 0 O G o O - 0 I o 1 I