i 7 y r i A S vol. nr. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 20, 18S2. NO. 11. CO THE TWO ROM:. I sonil two roie3 to my fair, A. redone ii!ii a white, And if she love mo, she v ill wear The pure white rose to-nigh But if my love deny me s;rav, To biit mv hope be dead. In her sweet bo.soiu she will place The fat"! one, the red one. In hope and fear the day I spend, Each moment eiowly g.Hs, For all m future doth lejontl Upon a simple rose ' Oh, that the night wotild come," I Then vrlh 'twere only noon: For me, if hope 1h-doomed "to die. The night will come too soon. igh, She corner ! and with her comes -a breath . Of roses on t lie Air; . And be it lile or be it death, I look ajHu my fair. - " I see the white ro e on her breast, The red rose on her cheek; What need of words to tell the rest, So plain the roses speak ! Chicago Tribune. Sau Francisco. ' Somebody has poked fun at San Fran cisco ly calling it "The Venice of the "West." and then qualifying the conipli liient by explaining that the only resem blance between the two cities is in the volume and variety of the disagreeable smells that prevail in them. Uut the San Franciscans take no notice of this explanation. They accept the conipar- ison in its broadest sense and positively expect you to see a resemblance between their very wonderful but very new and very ragged town and Vonice! Indeed, there is no limit to the San Franciscan's expectations from a stranger. No ex cess of admiration ever becomes flattery. They will cooly accept every word yon say, and even then will think you have not risen to the whole truth about "the Golden City,""the Queen of the Pacific," etc., etc., and perhaps go awav after all with a loftv sort of commiseration for vour rustic incapacity to grasp all at once the metropolitan splendors of San Francisco. Now, I was sitting in the hotel one day and overheard a party of San Fran ciscans bragging in an off-hand way to a poor wretch who had been brought up in New Mexico or somewhere like it, and calmly assuring him that there was no place "in ihe world" of greater beauty than San Francisco and of more delicious fruits. (They said a great deal more about fine buildings, institutions, Sic, .vc, which was sh?er nonsense, but let all that pass. I venture to attack them only at their strongest points.) Hearing the conversation, and being inwardly exasperated at the imposition that was being put upon the simple minded bar barian, I pretended to fall into the same easy credulity myself and drew them on to making such monstrous assertions as that San Francisco was a revelation of beauty to every tourist and the perfec tion of its fruit a never-ceasing delight o him. Having these grossly ignorant men thoroughly committed to what they had said, I ventured to inquire what standard of comparison they had for their self -laudation, what other countries they had visited and what fruits they cousid-. ered California produced in such per fection. Now, it is a fact that these three impostors had never been out of America; in fact, that except for short visits on business to the Eastern States they had never been out of Cali fornia and Nevada! I then proceeded to enlighten them told them that to those who liave traveled, to the cognoscenti, San Francisco does not appear at all beautiful; that on the contrary it is a groat disappointment; that in America itself there are rnany places far more beautiful, whila "in the world" there are scores of seaports with which San Francisco can no more venture to com pare itself than a mud-pie can with a meringue. As for its fruits, there was not in its market now, in its best shops and the height of the fruit season, too a single thing that deserved to be called first-class. From the watery cherrie3 to the woolly apricots, every fruit was as flavorless as it well could be, and as a whole they were so second rate that they could not find a sale in the best shops of either Paris or Lon don. This was very rude, I know, but I found to my surprise that every traveler in the room had been just as exasperated as myself by the local habit of exaggera tion and several of them corroborated me. It is a great pity that San Fran ciscans should have this weakness. They have plenty to be proud- of, for their city is a marvel. But it has all the disadvan tages of newness, and in a greater de gree, too, than any other new places, for instance Chicago or Denver. Its popu lation, moreover, is more disagreeably unsettled than in any other town I know of except perhaps those on the Levant. All the mud and dirt are still in suspen sion, and a very undesirable mixture they make, too, those half-breed and hoodlum elements. I have no doubt, of course, that improvement is making im mense and rapid strides, but to the visi tor the act of transition is of course in visible and he only sees the place at a period of repose between the last point of advance and the next. He can im agine anything he pleases. But this is not what he actually sees. For himself, then, I found San Francisco, as so many other travelers have described ii, dior derly, breathless with haste, unkempt. Here and there, where trees have been planted and there is the grace of flowers and creeping plants, the streets look as if rational people might really live in them. But. for the vast major ity of the buildings they seem merely places to lodge in dark bungalows or rest houses, perches for passing swallows anything you like ex cept houses to pass one's life in. They are not merely wooden, but they are sham too, with their imposing "fronts" nailed on to the roofs to make them look finer (just as vulgar women pin curly "bangs" on to the tops of- their heads) and their inexcusable dearth of orna ment. In many ways the Queen of the Pacific was a surprise. I had expected to fiud it "semi-tropical." It is nothiDg of the kind. Women were wearing furs every afternoon in June, because of the chill wind that springs up about ii o'clock.and men walked about with graet. coats over their arms ready for use. The architec ture of the eity'isnotso "semi-trophical" as that of suburban New York, while vegetation, instead of being rampart, is couspicuously absent. Three women out of every four wore very thick veils, but why they were so thick I could no dis cover. In hot countries they do not wear them, nor iv "semi trophical." Perhaps they were vestiges of some re cent visitation of dust, which appears to be sometimes as prodigious here as it i in Pietermaritzburg. But they might very properly have been made an armor against the flies which swarmed in some parts of the town in hideous multitudes. N. Y. Sun. A Georgia Corn Shucking. The farmer who proposes to give a corn shucking selects a jlevel spot in his lot, conveniently near: the crib, rakes away all trash and sweeps the place clean with a brush broom. The corn is then pulled aff the stalks, thrown into wagons, hauled to the lot, and thrown out on the spot selected, all in one pile. If it has beea previously, "norated" through the neighborhood that there is to be plenty to eat and drink at the corn shucking, and if the night is auspicious, therb will certainly be a crowd. Soon after dark the negroes begin to! come in, and before long the place will be alive with them men, women and children. After the crowd has gathered and been moder ately warmed up, two j "gin r Is are chosen from among the most famous corn shuckers on the ground, and these proceed to divide the shuckers into two parties, later comers reportiug alternately to one side or the other, so as to keep the forces equally divided. The next step, Which is one of great importance, is to divide the corn pile. ; This is done by laying a fence-rail across the top of the corn pile, so that the vertical plane, passing round the rail, "will divide the pile into two equal portions. Laying the rail is of great importance, since upon this depends the accuracy of the division ; it is accompanied with argument, not to say wrangling, position of the rail i being much The detei iaount work mined, the two generals the corn pile, and the begins. The necessity for the gin r Is ' to pecupy the most conspicu ous position ' accessible, from which to cheer their followers, is one reason why t liey get up on top of the corn ; but there is another, equally important, which is to keep the rail from being moved, it being no uncommon thing for one side to change the position of the rail, and thus throw an undue portion of the work upon their adversaries. The position of the "gin'rT" in a corn shucker differs from that of the soldier, in that the former is in greater danger than any of his followers; for the chances are that, should his side seem to be gaining, one of their opponents will either knock the. leader off the corn pile and thus cause a momentary panic, which is eagerly taken advantage of. This proceeding, however, is considered fair only in extreme eases, and not nu irequently leads to a general row. If it is possible, imagine a negro man stand ing upon a pile of corn, holding in his hand an ear of corn, and shouting the words of a song belowand j-ou will have pictured the "corn ginVl." It is a prime requisite that he should be ready in his improvisations and have a good voice, so that he may lead, in the corn- song. The corn-song is almost always a song with a chorus, or to use the lan guage of the com-shucKers, the gin r is give out," and the shuckers "drone." These songs are kejjt up continuously during the entire time the work is going on, and though extremely simple, yet, when sung by fifty pairs of lusty lungs, there are few things more stirring. October Century. Root Fruiting. i The London Garden prints the follow ing regarding the pruning of roots: The experiments were made on the apple and pear. " A vigorous apple tree, eight or ten years old, which had scarcely made any fruit buds, has done best when about half the roots were cut in one sea son and about half three years later, by going half way round on opposite sides in one year and finished j at the next pruning, working two feet underneath to sever downward roots, j It has always answered well also to cut from such trees all the larger and longer roots about two and a half feet from the stem, leaving the smaller and j weaker ones longer, going half way round, as already stated. The operation was' repeated three or four years later by extending the cut circle a foot or two further away from the tree. By this operation unpro ductive fruit trees become thickly stud ded with fruit spurs and afterward bore profusely. This stortening of the roots has been continued in these experiments for twenty years with much success, the circle of roots remaining greatly circum scribed. The best time for the work has been found to be in the latter part of August and beginning of September, when growth has nearly ceased, and while tho leave are yet on the trees, causing greater increase of bloom buds the following year than when performed after the leaves had fallen.: The King and the Wasp. The following is from a correspon dence entitled, "The Funeral Tent of an Esrvptiant Queen:" 1 It was desirable in the interest of science to ascertain whether the mum mv bearing the monogram of Thothmes III. was really the remains of that mon arch. It was, therefore, unrolled. The inscriptions on the bandages established beyond all uouut the fact that it wa3 in deed the most distinguished of kings of the brilliant eighteenth dynasty, and once more, after an interval of thirty-six centuries, human eyes gazed on the fea tures of the man who had conquered Syria and Cyprus and Ethiopia, and had raised Egypt to the highest pinnacle of her power, so that it was said that iu his reign she placed her frontiers where she pleased. The spectacle was of brief du ration; the remains proved to be in so fragile a state that there was only time to take a hasty photograph, and then the features crumbied to pieces like an ap parition, and so .passed away from hu man vision forever. The director told me that he felt such remorse at the re sult that he refused to allow the unroll ing of Ramses the Great, for fear of a similar catastrophe. Thothmes III. was the man who overran Palestine with his armies zvv years oetore the birth or Moses, and has left us a diary of his ad" ventures, for, like Ciesar, he was author as well as soldier. It seems strange that fr'jough the body mouldered to dust the flowers with which it had been wreathed were so wonderfully preserved that even their color could be distinguished, and they looked as if only recently dried, yet a flower is the very type of ephemeral beauty that passeth away, and is gone almost as soon as born. A. wasp, which had been attracted by the floral treasnres, and had entered the coffin at the mo ment of closing, was found dried up but still perfect, having lasted better than the king, whose em 3lom of sovereignty it had once beeu; now it was there to mock the embalmer's skill, and to add point to the sermon on the vanity of human r ride and power preached to us by the contents of that cofiiu. Inexora ble is the decree, "Unto dust shalt thou return." Running in the same line of meditation it is difficult to avoid a thought of the futility of human de vices to achieve immortality. These Egyptian monarchs, the veriest types of earthly grandeur and pride, whose rule was almost limitless, whose magnificeut tombs seem built to outlast the hills, could find no better method of insuring that their names should be held in ro membrance than the embalmment of their frail bodies. These remain, but in what a condition, and how degraded in the uses to which they are put! The spoil of an ignorant and theiving population, the pet curiosity of some wealthy Yan kee, who buys a royal mummy as he would buy the Sphinx if it were remov able; "to what base uses art thou come," oh body, so tenderly nurtured, so care fully preserved! How far better to have mingled with friendly mother earth, and served the nobler purpose of enriching other lives in nature's wondrous trans mutations! Uermaa Peasant Women and American Invalids. An American woman expresses her pain at seeing the German women car rying on their backs great baskets of earth, which men filled with their shovels; and at a Holland woman's pull ing, by means of a strap across her breast, a canal boat in which two men sat smoking, She had also seen women and dogs harnessed together dragging a cart in which sat a man, laying his whip impartially over both wom xn and dog. Being a woman," she says, "thank God I was born in America." It certainly is one of the privileges of birthright hero that women are not forced to toil, as the women do whom she describes. Yet in all probability, so far as health creates happiness, and hap piness is almost impossible without health, the hardy peasant women of Holland and Germany might not have much occasion to envy their pitying American sister. The chances are that the American woman has scarcely known since she came of age a whole year of healthful hearty life; that she has some ache, some ail, some weakness, brought on by bad habits of living, imprudent diet or fashionable clothing; that her hips are loaded down with several pounds' weight of skirts; her waist laced so tight that she can scarcely breathe; and the heels of her shoes are in the middle of her instep, and bound to pro duce, if they have already proJuced serious physical complications. The peasant woman's lot is a hard one, but she has a healthful appetite; and if sho is killed by toil too severe, it is quite as likely that her American sister will die, or live a protracted invalidism, in con sequence of a too luxuriou and fashion able existence. J Detroit Free Press. It would be hard to find a more pitia ble set of human beings anywhere than the female emigrants that arrive in this this country rrom various parts of Europe. They ae not only ignoraut of the country, but usually without money and frequently without heart, and so in too many instances are the common prey of sharks and sharpers, who seek to use them in many evil ways. Castle Garden is one of the dreariest places on this earth. Whatever, therefore, Mme. Elise de Roerber and Lady Jane Taylor or other ladies can do or conceive looking to any amelioration of the conditions of the female emigrant deserves the popular sympathy of mau aud womankind. Philadelphia Times. Venerable white-haired colored ser vants are the newest craze among fam ilies who live largely on their pedigrees. A faue of Immorality. The hardest class of shop girls to deal with are those who have seen better days. In her forthcoming report, Miss Jennie Collins, manager of Boffin's Bower an institution organized twelve years ago by that lady to ameliorate the condition of unfortunate shop girls and workwomen generally: has much to say of the eil effects of the ruinous competition in the clothing and other business. The meagre sum paid shop girls in not a few of the large and small establishments frequently results in the demoralization of the purest and best. One prepossess ing yotiug woman, some two months siL&ie, reVPted her.oase to Miss Collins as follows: "I came to make you a little present of $10. Use it to help some one else before they get where I am. I had to earn my living. I tried housework first. The family's washing was beyond my strength. I then procured a place in a shop, commencing with three dollars a week, with the promise that at the !enJ of three months my pay would be increased according to my ability. At the end of that time I was discharged, and another novice taken with the same inducement. My next place was in a office for $3 a week, and from that I went, to do up packages of groceries, with the promise that wlien 1 got used to the business I could make $G or 7 a week. It was the same old story; I was discharged and another novice put in my place. 1 next got a position to tend in a cheap variety store, with an advance of 84 a week on this .'stipulation that I was to dress as well as the other young ladies. To do this I was obliged to live upon one meal a day. Half starved, disheartened and oppressed, I drifted where I am now." These are facts; and the story of this girl is the story of hun dreds of other girls. The police here say that Boston has more "drifted'' wo men to the square acre than any other city in the country. Crowds of young women come from Maine, New Hamp shire and Vermont to get their living, and, failing it that, on account of starva tion wages, are tempted, and lead a life of immorality. The women who apply .t the Bower for aid are of all classes. The young and intelligent ones are easily disposed of. During the past 12 months Miss Collins has furnished over oOOO meals to destitute girls. She is do ing a humane work, but her labors are not half appreciated by the Boston pub lic. She saves hundred of girls from death and destruction every year. Protect the Ulrls. There is a case coming up before a Chicago court that will be of great in terest to thousands of people who have long desired a decision on some of the the points that will be developed. It seems that a young man, a member of one of tho Chicago clubs, a gentleman of wealth and refinement, is to be sued by the father of a young woman for $50,000 damages for injuries received while in his society. The young people had beeu keeping company for some years, and the carriage of the young man was often seen in front of the Michigan avenue residence of the young lady. Last De cember he ceased visitinpr her, and smee that time she has been an invalid, and has been treated for a spinal difficulty, and the father will go into the courts, it is said, against his daughter's wish, to have the matter of responsibility settled. It seems that the voung man is bow- legged, so much so that it has always been considered dangerous lor anyone to sit iu his lap, for fear they would fall through on tho floor and break some bones. It is said that the young man Knows ins rauing, and that he usually holds any person who may be in his lap with his arms, so that there is no danger of falling through, but in this case he forgot the danger and let the girl slip. The father claims that the young man, kiiowing how fearfully and how wonderfully he is made, should have adopted precautions, and in his com plaint he will swear that on several oc casions he has warned the young man that he should place a' board across his lap, or someday his parenthesis legs would let somebody through. In his answer to the complaint the young man will say that his legs are just as nature made them, and that anybody who sits in his lap takes the chances. He adds that if the girl had used all precaution that one in so dangerous a position should use, and thrown her arms around his neck, as others have done, there need have been no danger, and while he sympathizes deeply with her and her family, owing to the alleged injury, he cannot consider himself responsible. Of course thero are two sides to every ques tion, and both sides will have sym pathizers. f Burlington Hawkeye. An Omaha correspondent of ihe 19th instant gives the following, which will be of interest to tho Christian world, and particularly the denomination mentioned. He says: Almost an entire Pullman car on the Uniou Pacific west bound train to-day was occupied by some American .rresoyterian mission aries, some accompanied by their wives and families, who are enrouce to various points in Eastern and Southern Asia. Rev. D. McGilvary, Mrs. McGilvary and son are bound for Laos; Rev. E. P.Dun lap, Mrs. Dunlap and three children, on their return to the kingdom of Siam, where they have already spent several years; Rev. S. C. Peoples, J. P. Hurst and Mrs. Hurst, go to .Laos; nev. iur. McLaren and Mrs. McLaren go to Siam; and Misses Wishard, Warner and Wirt to Laos; Miss Linnell and Miss Griffin to the land of tho white elephant; Miss Hesse and Miss Garvin go to Japan, and Rev. W. W. Hayes and Mrs. Hayes to China. The party sailed on the 28th from San Franoisco. The Minister Ceased to Wonder. Appropos of the Egyptian troubles, we wish to relate a little story, the circum stances of which occured during our trip to the Holy Lard several years or more ago. He was a devout Christian, and had maue me study or tne jjidio and a proper understanding of the Big Book the high est aim in life. When he arrived at the Sea of Galilee his heart was filled with awe, and he felt enervated and cleansed by the thought that lie was : gazing on the very spot where his Savior once stood. Approaching the boatman, he address ed him in his choicest Arabic, and with Bible and commentary in hand he await ed an answer. "Ah! what 'smatter 'th yer? Why don't yer talk United States?" asked the man contemptuously. He was a real live Yankee, who was picking up a living by ferrying tourists across the sen. "So this is the Sea of Galilee?" de voutly murmured the searcher after knowledge. "Ya-a-s." "And the is where our Savior walked upon this waters?" "Ya-a-s." "How much will you charge to take me to the exact spot?" "Wa-al, you look like a clergyman an' I don't want to charge you nothin'."' The devout man boarded the boat, and at last is pointed out where the miracle is said to have occurred. After gazing at the waters and dividing his time be tween glances at his books and devout ejaculations of satisfaction, the searcher signified his willingness to return. "Charge you $20 to take you batik," said the speculative Yankee. "But you said yon would charge me nothing. "Naw, didn't. Nothing to bring you out. Twenty to get back." "And do you charge everybody to take them back?" asked the searcher. "Y-a-a-s, that's about the figure." "Well, then," said the devout one, as he went j down into his clothes, "no wonder our Savior got out and walked.' N Y. Dispatch. The Incisors of tue Horse. The down many which incisors of the horse, once worn or lost, are gone forever, but in species' a provision exists by the wear and tear of mastication is compensated by tho perpetual growth of certain members of the dental series. This very convenient arrangement exists im all the rodents or gnawers, an order of which the beaver, the rat and the rabbit are familiar examples, and also in the elephant, the walrus, wild boar, etc The incisors of the rodents are tho seat or tnis perpetual growth, ana any one who will take the trouble to examine the skull of a rabbit will at once see how admirably they are adapted to the animal wants. They are of curved shape, and occupy sockets extending to the back par- of both! jaws, the upper pair de scribing a larger part or a smaller circle, and the lower ones a smaller part of a larger circle. Lach tooth consists of a solid column of dentine, with a plate of enamel in its outer surface, and, conse quently, diminishes in hardness from front to back, j The constant wear pro duced by the continual collision of the opposing" surfaces forms an oblique chisel-iike surface, sloping from the bard enamol of the front to the softer dentine of the back part of Hie tooth. " As these are perpetually growing, they require constant exercise to keep their growth within due bounds, and the rat and others of this most mischievous family might assign, as an excuse for their rav ages, the necessity of finding constant employment for their front teeth. All th3 Year Round. Tne Title or Rall-Splltter. Mr. Seward was nominated in the. Con vention by Mr Evarts of New York. Mr. Lincoln was nominated by Mr. J udd of Illinois. The nomination of Mr. Lincoln was seconded ; by Mr. Delano of Ohio, who said: "I desire to second the nomi nation of a man who can split rails and maul Democrats Abraham Lincoln." This probably joriginated the term "rail splitter," which immediately became popular. Decorated and illuminated rails surrounded the newspaper offices, and became a leading feature of the cam paign. "Rail8plitter battalions" were formed in the different cities and minor villages of the North. At a great ratifica tion meeting at Cooper Institute, June 8th. after speeches by Messrs. Evarts, Blatchford, G.j W. Curtis, General Nye and Judge Tracey of California, the last- named said: "We wage no war upon the South, we harbor no malice against the South. We merely mean to fence them in;" (pointing significantly to a rail ex hibited on the platform) "this is all we propose to do: to stop the extension of slavery, and Abe Lincoln has split the rails to buil 1 the fence. The Century. Pekpetuaij Ice Snow. The Hon. G. W. Stapleton returned yesterday from a business trip I to Glendale, and while there was told of a lake which a hunter had seen near! the heawaters of Wise river about eighty miles south of Butte. It is situated high up in the mountains and surrounded by steep crags, and the water is frozen solid, notwithstanding the remarkably section. The it never thaws. warm weather in this hunter is convinced that and states that in the center of this great body of ice is an av alanche of snow piled up to a great height, which (has evidently slid down the crags surrounding the lake. It is de scribed as a jbeautiful spot, scenery grand, and the whole country alive with game. A glorious spot, no doubt2, for a summer excursion. f Montana Star. MISCELLANEOUS ITEM8. William Shakespeare is a booming politician in Michigan. Pennsylvania is infested with tramps, who amuse themselves by burning barns. It is said that alcohol equal to that made from grain can bo produced from acorns. The city of Ottawa has expended $15, 700 on electric lights, which, after all, have proved a ail ore. Richmond, Va., has a debt of $4,741, 707 65, on which she pays an annual in terest of $303,134 43. The insignificant youth with a very large cane looks like a two-inch sparrow -lugging an eight-inch feather. j Of 1000 ounces of healthy human blood 781.5 ounces consist of water and 318.5 ounces consist of solid matter. Twelve perpendicular feet of water are annually evaporated irom the surface of the Red Sea between Nubia and Arabia. An old Philadelphia druggist says that no soda water dealer can use genu ine syrups and charge less than ten cents glass. All solid bodies become self-luminous at about the same temperature, begin ning to show a dull light at about 1000 degrees. The greatest pressure of a steam boiler is at the bottom. The water adds one pound pressure for each twenty-seven inches depth. It is said that 14.000,000 bushels of sweet potatoes will be raised in Georgia this season, and how to dispose of the crop is a problem. Furnaces in Germany are now beincr encased in silk, which is found to be a much better non-conductor of heat than felt, and no more expensive. About twenty tons of old iron, com posed of rolls, skulls and salamanders, were recently placed in a pit at Chicago and reduced to fragments with dynamite. The United States has one medical man to every 600 inhabitants, while Canada has only one to 1200 inhabitants. Great Britain one to 1672 and Germany one to 3000. Oyer 500,000,000 feet of lumber will be out by the mills of Menominee. Mar inette and Menekaune, Wis., this season. The entire amount will be. shipped and sold in Chicago. Th brightest of stars appear the mott unsteady and tremulous in their light; not from any quality inherent in them selves, but from the imperfections of vision in the surveyor. f Plato. Giiflin, Ga., has the largest peach orchard in the South, containing 50,000 trees, and covering most C00 acres. On the same farm are 4000 grafted apple trees and 5000 pear trees. Tho trustees of Ogle th rope's Colony in Georgia legislated in 1733, and here is what they did: "Enacted that the drink of rum in Georgia shall be absolutely prohibted, and that all which shall be brought 'there shall be staved.' " The 11,071 fishermen of Maine in a year use 19,111,640 pounds of fish for bait, each pound landing ten pound of fish. How many fish worms are used and the number of times each fisherman spits on his hook, the census man ne glects to tell. In the six months ending June 30th, there were granted in the city of New York permits for 1365 new structures, es timated to cost $26,048,705; and for 1998 alterations of buildings, estimated to cost $2,747,532 in all, $28,790,237 to be ex pended on dwellings and warehouses. The building mt the New Haven break water has ruined the finest oyster plant ing beach on the coast. The swift and continuous current essential to success ful oyster culture has, the oyster men claim, been totally destroyed at many points. They are without remedy at law. Oscoda (Mich.) News: "A Bay City young lady, recently married, sent a friend here one of her stockings filled with wedding cake. The balmoral was emptied, and its contents filled a six gallon churn, and enough was left for the girls of the family to play 'keep house' for a week." Elijah Tracey, of Mount Carmel. 111.. shipped & valuable and yet vicious stall ion, and, that the animal might not be neglected in transit, he himself occupied the box-car with the horse, when the car was opened at Robinson, Tracey was found dead, having been kicked and trampled by the angry brute. The St Louis Globe says ahat Tel-el Kebir means the "City of the Tomb." The St. Louis Post says it means tho the "River Bank." The Cincinnati Commercial says it means the "Plain of Fire." And the Cetroit Free Press savs that when three distinguished Egyptolo gists differ on such a question the plight of common folks is, as regards such mat ters, pitiful in the extreme. Pennsylvania undertakers are about to organize a State association for mutnal protection. - Their grievances are based upon the allegations that undertakers are often imposed upon by impecunious customers and dealers in undertakers' goods; and that people in distress and families whose iove of display exceeds the capacity of teeir purses ore often bo extravagant in providing a good "send off that they are unable to pay the bills. It has been proved in New York that pearls are not beautiful food for cats. A gentleman's pet tabby did, one night, suddenly jump npon its master's expan sive bosom and tear from his immaculate shirt front a $40 stud. All attempts to make the cat givo up the jewel were in vain, and now ; the only consolation en joyed by the unhappy man lies in the fact that the pussy, once so rat.and so playful, is rapidly beooming thin, feeble end moroso. J ,r -