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..OREGON
A raise of salary la the sincerest
Éattery.
Het ween China's d sastrous floods
and Cuna da’s forest fires there Is not
much to choose.
While the Duma cheered the Czar
the other day. It did not attempt to
break any records.
If Peary doesn't timi the north pole,
t hr next thing anybody knows Roose-
velt wlll be going In s ‘arch of it.
A Russian grand duke has lost bls
job. It la probable, however, that Ills
income will suffer no diminution.
A mail may return from ids vacation
pretty "short,” but as a rule you can’t
get him to cut Ids yarns that way.
‘‘Chaageless Change' Is the title of
a recently published sonnet, it sounds
suspiciously like a counterfeit lo-cent
piece.
A man in Trenton, N. ,1., it is said,
sheds bis skin yearly, after the manner
of a snake, No cause Is assigned for
the rash act.
A New York woman claims that she
Is haunted by the ghost of her niother-
In-law.
Another usurpation of the
rights of man.
A Connecticut farmer tried to fly
With paper wings. The result was Just
tile same as If lie had taken a flyer in
Wall street- lie's broke.
Men who never thought much of King
Alfonso may change their minds and
regard him as u brother, since In* has
had a quarrel with Ills mother-in-law.
I
t was twenty-*!glit bushels to th« acre.
In Its«!. The highest yield in those
•even years in any State outside < f
New England was twenty-two and a
half bushels.
Merely beeause Santo Domingo lias
sold Its tuivy for $1,750 It Is not to la1
inferrisi that thè country is hard tip.
That may bave been a big prlce for thè
navy.
One of George Gould's boys Is going
to don overalls and hob-nail shoes and
go to work In a Colorado mine. We
hope he has the approval of Uncle
Helle.
A Pennsylvania man wants a divorce
because Ills wife pulled him out of bed
by his whiskers. Some husbands are
entirely too sensitive for their own hap­
piness.
"Fret not thy gizzard." There wai
once a food old grandmother who gave
this advice to everybody. She declared,
and firmly believed, that it came from
the Bible, though she did not know Just
where It could l>e found. But she in­
sisted that it was somewhere between
the covers of the Good Book, The old
woman was right. It is in tile Good
Book, not only In one place, but in
many, and though she did not have the
exact language In which the advice is
given, she had Its sense, which Is of
vastly greater Importance. The world
is full of men and women who nre can
stantly fretting their gizzards, gnd with
what result? None, except to increase
the Income of the doctor and the under-
p er and to fill the hospitals for the
Insane, ami the cemeteries. Ask any
doctor what causes the majority of the
mental breakdowns and the moot of
the cases of nervous troubles, and he
will tell you It Is fretting. Some peo­
ple blame work, but work never hurt
anybody. On the contrary, It keeps
men and women alive. Overwork,
though, claims thousands, but overwork
Is altogether another thing; and the
overworkers are generally’ fretters.
Each leads to the other. The human
gizzard was not designed by nature to
bear the strain of fretting, and the man
who frets It much is sure to break It.
The old woman’s advice does not mean
that man should refuse to' take bls
work or anything else seriously. It does
not mean that he should view with un­
concern or treat lightly any of his prob­
lems. But It does mean that he should
not fret over them when he has ap­
plied his best efforts to them. It means
that If you have something to do, do it;
mid with your whole energy. When you
have done all you can do, don’t fret
your gizzard over the result, All the
fretting In the world will have no effect
upon the outcome. Await it without
stewing and worrying, and if It Is
against you, tackle it again. Fret your
gizzard and you will lack the strength
to renew the fight with the vigor thnt
Is necessary to win. It means you are
not to fret over tilings beyond your con­
trol. It does not mean that you should
not view them in seriousness and with
proper regard of Importance and con-
sispieuces. But don't worry over them
until you fret your gizzard. We are
traveling at a fast race in this country.
The spirit of the day is one that calls
for speed. The man who can keep it up
must look after bls gizzard. Fret it
A Pittsburg man recently married the
young woman with whom he became
acquainted when he returned her lost
dog. Moral for bachelors; Be kind to
lost dogs.
Cuba Ims a surplus of $5,000,000.
How provoking I his must lie to a lot of
Spanish grandees who are compelled to
sit around botne and live on restricted
Incomes.
Congress Is expected to follow the
precedent established when a pension
was granted to the widow of President
Garfield by granting a pension to Mrs.
Cleveland. It Is fitting that those la­
dles who nave presided over the White
House when It was occupied by their
husbands should be wards of tile na­
tion.
The Pope Is credited with the re
mark that if the Roman Catholic
Church could be as highly respected In
other countries as In the United States
he would be in favor of the separation
of church and state everywhere. The
church Is respected here because com
munitles of the United States all began
with a policy of religious freedom, and
have never tolerated a state church.
In the other countries, where the su­
premacy of one church was established
by law, it Is not easy to hold respect
when the preference is withdrawn.
One of the whimsical characters In a
story by Miss Alice Brown conceived
the Idea of a “patent dog barker."
which could lie put in the front yard
by unprotected women to frighten
tramps away by mechanical Imitation
of a dog. Paris hits outdone this comic
idea In sober earnest. Some people
try to esca| > the dog tax by conceal
ing their animals, Tile police have
secured the service of professional
barkers, who "make a noise like a dog"
outside suspected houses. The dog In
slile replies, and the barker reports to
♦ lie tax-collector.
Those who are sure that the soil of
New England Is hopelessly barren m iny
be surprised to learn some facts that
nre brought out In two recent bulletins
of the Department of Agriculture
There were only eight States of tie
I ulon In I'. mh ; that had a larger acre
age planted to potatoes than Maine
Only four products! a larger crop, No'
one even approached Maine in til
number of bushels to the nere, Th<
average yield was two hundred am'
ten bushels to the acre, mid no other
State raised more than one liundrcsl
and seventy five bushels, The averug.
for the whole country was only on
hundred and two. Nor was It an ex
ceptional year, for the average cro|
of Maine has been the largest In everc
year since 1903. Buckwheat Is not »
very Important crop, but It Is raised It
twent.v;four of the states,
In tills
too, Maine stands nt the head In aver
age crop per note; New Hampshire !■
•econd. Vermont third, and Mas^apliu
setts fourth. Since 1900 the loaos
♦forage ,iteld of buskwheat In Main
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very unfortunate that
taller, speaking, generally, does
preelate the value of local advertising.
It would seem as though ambition
should dictate the enlargement of one’s
business, and to many merchants such
a result is easily attained. The way
to do it Is quite simple.
It Is well known that women are the
best buyers and, as a rule, the goods
they buy are the most profitable. To
attract them your störe must lie mag
netto—1. e„ clean, neat, stocks well ar­
ranged and the goods appealing to them
I romlnently displayed.
Doing this is properly classed as ad
vertising. but it must be backed by
intelligent, well-informed and courteous
c lerks to make the sales. After having
accomplished this reform then, by all
means, contract for a regular space in
your local papers and place your ad­
vertisement In advance. Arrange the
copy for frequent changes, make the
matter and makeup attractive, and be
>ure to refer to the seasonable goods at
(lie proper time.
If such a simple course Is followed
(lie result will lie a pleasant surprise
to any merchant who has not been a
believer in publicity. Tlie good mer­
chant realizes that lie does not have to
cut prices to make sales. There Is an
easier way to make business and keep
profits In these times. The rule is as
simple ns can be—advertise and sup­
port your announcements with an at­
tractive store and courteous treatment
if customers.—Hardware.
THE ORIGINAL SHEATH GOWN
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“Jawed”
Tommy (aged 10)—Say, |mw,
the bone of contention?
Mr. Ilenptx k—The Jawbone.
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MOONLIT MEADOWS.
On these white nights, wbsn Sver hill and
wood
The brooding mystery of midnight lies,
I.eueath the glad euehanjment of the sxies
Toe moonlit meadows spread their
quietude.
Drenched in the deluge of effulgent I light
Their dew-swept reaches, sweet with I UeW-
mown hay,
Into the hazy distance stretch away,
And lose their brightness in the folds of
night.
The far-off hills reii’de beyond the plain,
And this expanse of moonlight meadow
seems
The land we may have visited in dreams.
But may not find when day returns again.
Earth's weary train of days remoter
grows,
The voice of care sounds faint, and dies
away—
And all distress that waits upon the day
Fades from the memory like forgotten
woes.
earth when day Is
Peace on the troubled
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flown!
Silence that falls across the clash of
strife—
And fleeting glimpses of that higher life
That sjieaks in other language than our
own.
Fair moonlit meadows! Nature’s open
page
Which we with clouded vision vainly
trace,
Yet fail to read the meaning of its grace
Whose message is withheld from ago to
age.
—Y'outh's Companion.
* Jstarooned *
I accepted my Aunt Maltrevor’s in­
vitation to her river picnic, for the
simple reason that I dared not refuse.
A broken leg or a doctor's certificate
that you have something infectious are
tlie only excuses Mrs. Maltrevor recog­
nizes, and I could produce neither. Be­
sides, Dulcinea was sure to be there
and public opinion would expect me to
be in attendance.
I may, perhaps, say a few straight­
forward words about Mrs. Maltrevor
later. Dulcinea you will take for grant­
ed. I cannot describe her—she is
neither the most beautiful, tlie most
accomplished nor the cleverest of the
girls I know; but there Is that about
her which is beyond the power of ad-
Jeetlves to describe, Most men will
understand me—they all know at least
one girl of that sort.
I perhaps might mention that I have
always known Dulcinea; we grew hi
beauty, so to speak, on opposite sides
of the same road; and when she put up
her hair, I started smoking. When
she left school, I proposed and she re­
fused me. Unfortunately our friends
(a nd for the moment file definition
must Include Aunt Maltrevor) don’t
know this, and they smile on us both
in the fatuous way that the world al­
ways does reserve for matrimonal fol­
ly. And when Dulcinea gets up a prom­
ising flirtation (as she did with Jack
Guthrie in tlie spring) people only
murmur ‘‘Lovers’ quarrel,” while if I
pay ardent If somewhat spasmodic at­
tention to some other girl (Dulcinea
declares I flirted outrageously with
Daisy Gordon at the Hockey Dance) I
only hear a whisper, “Oh, those foolish
young people.” So you see my position.
Now about the picnic.
Mrs. Maltrevor’s picnics nre pretty
Important things. The country people
are always represented, and as many as
three motor cars have been garaged on
her tennis lawn at the same time ¡while
the reporter of the local paper always
spreads himself on a florid report of
the function, which I (acting under my
aunt's orders), rigorously sub-edit.
On the present occasion I rather
wanted to see Dulcinea; she had Just
had her twenty-first birthday, and 1
had sect her some red roses and a short
poem which began:
A poet, miss, would write a sonnet
Felicitating you upon it.
so naturally I wanted to see how she
would take It.
Arriving punctually at 1 :30, at the
lock* which Mrs. Maltrevor had ap-
pointed as rendezvous. I found the lady
surrounded by the youth and beauty of
Mastoti (this phrase I deleted regularly
from the local reporter's outburst) and
simply overflowing with good humor.
Tills, ns I discovered later, was partly
because niy Uncle Maltrevor had got
toothache, partly tiecause sre had roped
In a broken-down baronet for the picnic.
Dulcinea I could not see for the mo­
ment (she had gone off. I found, to look
for forget-me-nots with Jack Guthrie),
so. having lieen presented to Sir Hugo
Jones. I retired into private life ami
made myself
agreeable to Daisy
Gordon.
A small flotilla of boats lay In the
stream ready for us, and as soon ns my
aunt had introduced the baronet to
everyone except Mrs. Neville Ponsonhy
and the lion. Ethel I'onsonby (whom
she had asked specially to snub), we
♦»egan to embark.
I watched the process with admira­
tion. My Aunt Maltrevor being m.v
uncle's mistake and not my own. I do
not pretend to understand her, but
there Is little doubt thnt. excluding her
toupee, and her complexion, she is com­
posed mainly of tact. If such a thing
had been conceivable. I should have
said she winked nt me as she despatch­
ed Jack Guthrie off with Daisy Gurdon
on one of the first boats to start, and,
conceivable or not, I bellevq she qiq
wink as she waved, her hand to me In
parting, having left Dulcinea ami me to
bring up the rear in a single tMilleP.
"You cannot fight against Fate wbsn
it has Mrs. M. on its side," I observed
as 1 handed Dtl iina into the Saucy
Jane. "You know It's really rather
funny—the way people throw us at
each other—it ought to amuse you.”
"It doesn't—to any extent,” said Dul­
cinea, moodily steering into the bank.
"If you don’t want to take tlie over­
land route, perhaps I'd better row.”
“Perhaps I'd better steer, you mean,”
I retorted. "You've got tlie ropes cross-
d. Full your left—quick.” Too late—
crash ! 1 had seen, tint not soon enough
to avert a collision, that we nre head­
ing straight for a barge moored by the
towpath. We did not capsize, but wo
lost a lot of paint and woke up the
bargee. At Dulcinea's request I rowed
as fast ns I could to get out of earshot
—indeed, we should soon have over­
hauled the rest of the party had not
Dulcinea suddenly burst out with a
slight exclamation:—
“We have sprung a
tremulously.
I stopped rowing. I knew Dulcinea
well enough to be1 sure tliut the tremor
was on behalf, not of herself, but of
her elegant river gown, for she swims
a little better than a mermaid; but tlie
leak was a leak for all that, mid from
behind tlie steering-seat came a little
gushing stream of water, bubbling quite
viciously around Dulcinea's shoes. I
rowed quickly to the nearest shore—
that of a little wooded island, twenty
yards across, In the middle of the river.
Here we debarked iu good order, but
■ven as we did so Fate stcpiied in again.
Tlie boat in some inexplicable way
wrenched itself out of my h(in<l and be­
gan to drift dowu the stream.
“I believe you did that on purpose,"
said Dulcinea, ns I leaned over iu a
vain effort to reach our craft.
“Just like your beastly vanity,” I
said in n brotherly way (Dulcinea had
often offered to be a sister to me).
"Wliy, do you suppose I want to be
cooped up on a desert island witli you
in your present temper? Fortunately
I have plenty of cigarettes.”
"Oh, very well, then." said Dulcinea,
with withering scorn. "So long as you
ire happy, I don't mind starving for a
few hours.”
(She had, I know, lunched at 1; it
was now 3.)
Shortly afterwards she turned her
back upon me and began pensively nib­
bling at dandelion leaves. I commend­
ed tills step highly, anil told her they
were most nourishing, though rather
bitter.
I suppose we must have sat In silence
for quite half-un-hour after that. I
smoked and Dulcinea sulked. At tlie
end of that time site asked me in her
JI S I1EAI.I.Y RATHER FINNY.
brightest way the date of the Tennis
Tournament. (This Is a desperately
Important affair and as many as five
motor cars have been garaged in the
town at one and the same time during
its progress.)
I told Dulcinea tlie date, and slanged
I he style of all the local Indirà in a
way that went straight to her heart.
We converse r>d quite amicably.
"Guthrie Is almost sure to win the
Singles, of course,” I remarked care-
lessly.
"Is he?" said Dulcinea, apparently
neither surprised nor interested. "But
where do you come in? You used to
play some sort of a game?"
"O, I shall enter, no doubt,” I ad­
mitted. “But Gutbrie’ll win. I hear
he's come on a lot.”
"Perhaps you will have a chance In
the1 Mixed Doubles.” suggested Dul­
cinea, Inocently. "Who are you play­
ing wit li?”
"I may not enter nt all if I see any
really good couples,” I countered. "You,
for instance, if you have a strong part­
ner. I.et's see, It's Guthrie, Isn't it?”
"Possibly,” agreed Dulcinea.
"I mean. lias lie asked you to play?”
I went on.
He bad not. for Dulcinea was almost
disconcerted. and swished her gloves at
a harmless butterfly.
“Never mind," I said, "he will.”
“I didn't say lie hadn’t," said Dul­
cinea. sharply.
I lit a cigarette.
"And If he does," she declared, in a
sudden burst of graciousness, “I—I’ll
play with you. If you like.”
Dulcinea is never so dangerous ns In
her gracious mood.
“Dulcinea," I said, kneeling >n n
wasp by her side (how hard it Is to
kneel gracefully on a wasp), Dul-
clnea—oh, hang it aiy
The plush of oars fell on my ears.
and I started to my feet. What had
happened was only too clear. Our ab­
sence hail been noticed, and a relief ex­
pedition was on Its way, conducted by
Mrs. Maltrevor, whose stentorian tones
[ could already hear.
Rather sheepishly wo advanced to
the edge of the water, and as we did so
I noticed that the Sam y. Jane had mere­
ly drifted across the river, and was
resting si rviicly against tno op,s«ite
rushes. The leak was evidently not a
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serious one. for I could not deduct that
she was lower in the water.
Mrs. Maltrevor seemed to have
brought about twenty people to witness
our ridiculous plight.
“We’re awfully sorry,” 1 began. as
' the party bore down upon us.
“Awfully sorry,” echoed Dulcinea.
"But we sprang a leak------”
"The water simply rushed in," Dul­
cinea corroborated.
"And Just as I was going to see
whether I could stop up tlie hole, it
drifted away," I concluded, witli a
complete and desperate disregard for
the rules of syntax.
Mrs. Maltrevor’s smile simply fascln
ated me. I think she said she quite
understood. At any rate, she was in
an excellent temper—tills, 1 afterwards
learned. was because Matilda, her eld­
est and most hopeless, had tiiat very
afternoon brought to book the senior
curate of Ail Saints'; while the broken
down baronet, fortified with cham­
pagne. was at that very moment flirt­
ing openly and outrageously witli
Evelyn, another of Mrs. Maltrevor’s for­
lorn hopes, to the complete discomfiture
of Mrs. Neville I'unsonby and the Hon.
Ethel Ponsonby.
It is against Dulcinea's principles to
let a little tiling like Mrs. Maltrevor
disconcert her, and it is due to lier to
say that site never lost grip of tlie sit­
uation, She conversed amicably with
the Junior curate of All Saints', then
witli Mrs. Maltrevor herself, ami
kindly
inquired after
Mr. Mil
trevor's toothache. She was rapidly
disarming suspicion
when
young
Perkins, who had been
lieen landed on
the other bank witli a View
view to the
salvage of the Saucy Jane, suddenly
called the attention of tlie party to him­
self by a loud exclamation.
“What is the matter, Mr. Perkins?"
said Mrs. Maltrevor sweetly. "Is the
leak a bad one?”
Young Perkins laughed. (I detest
him.) “Very serious indeed,” he re­
plied, holding up in each hand tlie half
of a lemonade bottle, which lie had ex­
tracted from a hamper behind tlie steer­
ing seat. “As you see, tlie bottle not
only leaked, but burst. It’s quite don*
for."
“But what about the boat?” inquired
Mrs. Maltrevor. still more sweetly.
"Tlie boat? Oh, the boat’s all right,”
remarked young Perkins, as he boarded
her, and witli a vigorous shove brought
tier over to tlie Island.
For a moment there was a silence.
Then a roar of laughter in which Dul­
cinea Joined and I tried to. I think
Mrs. Maltrevor repeated that she quite
understood; at any rate, in her most
ostentatiously tactful way she gathered
tier party on board and announced her
intention of departing forthwith in
search of tea.
"You can follow at your leisure,
dear,” she remarked to Dulcinea, with
a meaning look at me. I knew the look.
It said, ” If you haven't proposed, do it
now.”
Dulcinea had gone back to her old
seat. As I joined her I noticed that my­
oid friend tlie wasp was still there, but
I carefully avoided kneeling on him.
"Dulcinea,” I said, “Dulcinea, it's no
good m.v trying to tell you all tlie nice
tilings I think about you. because you
know them already. And you know
that I shall lie waiting for you to marry
me ten years lienee—if you won't do it
before, Dulcinea.”
I felt I was doing ft very badly; 1
was convinced of it by Dulcinea's next
remark.
“I've never been so badly proposed to
before,” she said serenely. “Why, you
did it better when you were eighteen.
However, tills is the last time.”
“Tlie last time,” I queried.
“Why.
Dulcinea, you’re^not angry with me, are
you?”
A smile spread from the corners of
her mouth, dimpled in her cheeks, and
I knew my answer even before she
spoke.
“This is the last time," she said slow­
ly. "because tlie answer this time Is
‘Yes.’ ”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
Too A rKiiiiMMi tn five.
Two nre not always company In spite
of the proverb to that effect. On the
Western plains the sheepman goes out
with several thousand head and one
human companion. The natural result
Is that the pair, forced on one another
when they least want It. get to hating
each other. This, at least, Is the the­
ory that a writer in the Philadelphia
Ledger formulates. He tells this story,
which was narrated by an ex-sheep-
n’tan:
Let me tell you of a fellow I once
rode with. We had finished supper one
night, and were rolled up in our blan­
kets. Not a word had passed between
us for more than a week.
“Hear that cow heller?” he asked,
sudden 1 j’.
"Sounds to me like a bull," I said.
No answer, blit the next morning I
noticed him packing up.
“Going to leave?” I asked.
“Yes,” he replied.
"What for?”
"Too much argument.”
Aunt
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A trial week of dispatching trains by
telephone from the stat ions of the I-a<k-
• wanna system lias resulted In the adop-
tion of the phones.
The line of the Wisconsin Central road
from Ladysmith to Superior has been
completed as far as the Northern Pacific
crossing within the Superior city limits.
Several hundred thousand freight car«
may l.e standing idle, as the railroad
managers tearfully protest, but some Kan­
sas grain dealeis complain that they ar«
unable to get box cars enough.
In the Circuit Court nt Chicago Judge
Kohlsaat enjoined the issuance of trans­
portation by the Chicago, Indianapolis
• nd Louisville railway to the publishers
of Munsey’s Magazine in exchange for
advertising, lie held that the contract
under which this transportation was is­
sued is in violation of the Ilepburn rate
law. The railroad company gave notice
of an appeal to the United States Su­
preme Court.
At Helena, Mont., legal representatives
of the government began suit against ths
Northern Pacific Railway Company, tbs
Rocky Fork Coal Company and ths
Northwes ern Improvement Company to
recover title to valuable coal lands which
It is charged were procured through mis­
representation. The lands in question
contain coal mines from which the rail­
way obtains great quantities of coal
through its control of the subsidiary com­
panies.
Presumably due to the industrial de­
pression of the past year, the death rats
from accidents by rail appears to be on
the decrease. The Accident Bulletin of
the Interstate Commerce Commission for
the first quarter of 1!M i 8 shows n total
of 125 passengers and employee killed,
as compared with 220 such deaths in ths
preceding quarter, and with 346 In ths
one before that. 'Die latest record is ths
smallest since these statistics were first
collected In 1001. During the first quar­
ter of this year the number of deaths of
passengers and employes from all causes
was 728, against 1002 In the preceding
quarter. In the same period the number
of cssinlties was 13,411, the least within
three years.
The right of shippers to combine small
quantities of freight of various ownership,
either by arrangement among themselves
or by • forwarding agency, was confirmed
by the Interstate Commerce Commission
•n a derision recently rendered.
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Kspeillent.
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“These stockings are so full of holos
that they are worthless. Aunt Mahaly,”
said a indy to an old colored woman
with a large family, who was a pen­
sioner of her family.
“No'm, dey ain’t,” replied Aunt Ma
holy, calmly
appropriating
them.
"'Rnstus en' Verbena got such blnck
lalgs dat de holes won't show, nohow,
en’ dem chilluns what got yaller meat
kin wear two pairs at de same time;
The Interstats Commerce Commission
en' you knows, Mis’ Jo, dat de holes has published the final figures of the In­
in all dem stockin'« ain't gwfne hit de come of the railroads for the last fiscal
year The total net earnings amounted
same places.”
to $840,.'89,944, which Is an Increase of
One little mistake tn a drug store $54,690,8! <0. The total number of em-
may cause more trouble than tuo bulls 'ploycs on the pay roll on June 30 wig
In a china ahoy.
1.072,074, against 1,521,335 a year ago.
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VInliul>'a
Construction of the Cathedral of
Cologne begun.
1461—Ixniis XI. of France crowned at
Rheims.
1645—Peace concluded between Sweden
and Denmark.
1670—John Dryden created Poet Lau­
reate of England.
1741 — Behring, the navigator, discovered
East Cape.
1756 Fort Oswego captured by ths
French under Montcalm.
1765- Pontiac's war for the extermina­
tion of tlie English in America cams
to an end.
1775- Liberty Tree in Boston conse­
crated.
1776 -Constitution of Maryland adopted.
1780—Americans defeated British and
Tories at battle of Musgrove Mills.
1802 Bonaparte invested with power to
nominate his successor as ruler of
France.
ISO!—Work begun on tlie first public
road between Georgia and Tennes­
see.
1807 British army invested Copenhagen.
1836- British Parliament passed the Dis
«enters’ Marriage Act.
1838 The first United States exploring
expedition sailed under Commander
Wilkes.
1846—(¡en. Kearney took peaceable pos-
session of Santa Fe, Mexico.
1860 Tlie Prince of Wales (now King
Edward VII.) arrived at Quebec.
1868—(’abul recovered by Shere Ali.
1884 Mine. Patti sued for divorce from
Marquis de Caux.
1888 More than lot) lives lost in Col­
lison of the German steamers Thing­
valla and Geiser off Sable Island.
1891—Between 300 and -KtO lives lost in
earthquake in Martinique.
1803—The Behring Sea arbitration
award was delivered.
1904—Russian and Japanese warships en­
gaged in battle off Vladivostok.
1248
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