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THE COLUMBIAN. Published Evkbt Fkedxt, AT ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR., BY . O. AD AUS, Editor and Proprietor Advertising Ratbs : On square (10 lines) first insertion. . f2 00 Each subsequent insertion.. ... 1 00 THE COLUMBIAN. V Published Evkry Friday, AT ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR, BY X. G. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor. A A Subscription Rates: One year, in advance f 2 00 Six months, " 1 00 Tkrse months, " 50 VOL. IV. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 27, 1884. NO. 47. I ' I : ' i ' : ! ' I POET AND STAR. Owen Meredith. j A poet loved a star, And so it v LLsiere 1 nightly. "Being so fair, why ai t thou, love, so far? Or why so coldly shine, who shinest so hrijrhtiy? O beauty, woo'd and unpossessed, O might I to this beathig breast But clasp thee once, and then die blest!" That star her poet's love, So mildly warm, made human, -And leaving for his sake her heaven above His star stooped earthward, and became a woman. "Thou who hast wooi, and hast possessed My lover, answer, which was best The star's beam, or tue woman's breast!" "I miss from heaven," the man replied, . I "A light that drew my spirit to it." I And to the man tbe woman sighed, "I miss from earth a poetl" 1 WHAT FOUR CITIES DRINK. ' The Water In Cincinnati, Xw York. Boston and Chicago. Cincinnati Times-Star. "I have been nearly all over the 'ountry," remarked a gentleman this week, and I must say that I think, as a rule, Ciucinnati has the best water of any city on the continent. Of course, when tbe Ohio is high and the water is muddy I make an exception, but that is something extraordinary. The water has a tone, a sweetness, although there is not what mi;ht be called a distinctive flavor. Then its color! Why, it is like champagne! I find after haviug been in Cincinnati for two or three weeks that I grow attached to the water and it is very bard to change." "What kind of water has New York?7 "They may talk about Crotou water all they please, but it is insipid and unsatisfy ing. There is a lack of body about it, and it tastes to me like water does that has been allowed to stand for a long time in the sun." "And Boston T "The worst water in America. It looks like very, very weak cider vinegar, and I understand that its pale yellow color is im parted by decaying vegetable matter. Why it was so bai several years ago that big casks of fresh spring water used to be hauled about tbe streets, and this was sold at 2 cents a glass. I have understood that people never pretend to drink water in Boston." "How is Chicago?" "Well, they have lake water, as do the other cities on the lakes, and, while it is good, pure water, yet there is a certain hardness about it. In that respect Montreal water is the worst. It is strongly impreg nated with sulphur and very often makes those unaccustomed to it ilL I remember that when I first went to Montreal I was quite sick and my physician informed me that that was the usual experience of visitors. St. Louis has very bad water, as it comes from the Missouri river, which is a chocolate-colored stream, and the water ha" a per cwptible taste; Out west on the Pacific slope there are many places that have water which is filled with lime, which is not only un healthy, but harsh and disagreeable. Cin cinnati, I think, and I speak from experience, has tbe most satisfactory and sweetest water in America." I . . , New York World. It is quite cheering to get definite informa tion about Cceur u'Alene. As the first out come of settled civilization a newspaper called The Nugget has been started at Eagle City, which The Nugget calls the "metropo lis" of Cceur d'Alene. This metropolis, ac cording to the same authority, beautifully located, peopled with men of energy and en terprise (there is no mention of money), and offering superior inducements to capital, "has burst into a city in a day." Immediate results of this sudden explosion were a jeweler's shop, j tin shop, hardware shop, market, theatre, dance-house "and," as The Nugget vaguely yet cautiously phrases it, "the like," all of which have hastily been thrown up. Houses and tents appear where only yesterday were snowdrifts or tama racks. "A city full of people has arisen from the snow as if by enchantment." But a saw mill is badly wanted. The dashing Nugget thinks it is well to know these facts that only two routes exist by which freight can be conveyed to Eagle City, in one of which all goods are carried by pack-trains (that is on the backs of men, mules or horses) and on the other by sleds and toboggans, and from reports of the depth of the snow the sledding ought to be good till next August. Freights are from 20 to 30 cents per pound, which would be reasonable for gold carried out, but it is rather costly for coffee or coal carried in. Flour is quoted by The Nugget at $60 a barrel; potatoes, 25 cents a pound; bacon and ham, 50 cents a pound; corned beef, the same; liquors, kind aud quality not stated, $3 per gallon; stoves from 140 to $150,; shovels, axes and picks from $2 to $5 each, and clothing and other necessaries in proportion. There must ha gold there to permit the pay ment of such prices, or the prospective miner must carry money there. Undjr news from the mining camps is tbe following significant note: "The leading saloons take in from $250 to $4"0 a day each." Very little i3 said of the production of tbe mines. Intending emigrants please take notice. A Fair Offer. Detroit Free Press. A few days ago a farmer drove up to the door of a Springwells saloon and called out to several men standing around that a neighbor of his living about four miles away bad fallen into the family well and probably killed hinnelf. j "Well, what of it V asked one of the men. "Why, I want two or three of you to ride out with me and help get the body out" "For how much?" "You don't pretend to want pay for such an action as that I" grasped the farmer, but they said they did, and he entered the saloon to see if the owner was not more tender hearted. "I tells you how it vhaa " began the saloonist, but he was interrupted with: "Don't tell me that you won't lend a hand in such a case as this!" j "I can't go, my f rend, but I tells you how it vhas. I let you drink beer untU you doan' care J-cents for all der farmers und all der wells in America, und den I hire a poy for 2 shillings to drive you home. Dot vhas der pest I can do to-day." Acetate of Soda Car-Heaters. f Chicago Tribune. A new method" of warming street-cars has been on trial fr several weeks on the De Kalb avenue line in Bro idyn. About seventy cars have been fitted up with the ap pliance, which is a very simple one and does not encroach on the seating-room for passen gers. Two pipes run under the seats on each side, charged with a composition of acetate of soda, which at each trip is heated by a jet of steam sent through from a stationary boiler at tbe stable. The compound being heated is dissolved into liquid, and upon cooling throws out into the car the beat stored in it. The heat is pleasant and moist, and, without beiug intensa enough to be dis agreeable, is sufficiently strong for passengers to enjoy with ordinary out-of-door wraps, the temperature by actual record being maintained at 40 degrees higher than that outside the car. Thus, if tbe thermometer is down to 20 degrees above zero, the average temperature of the cars is kept at 60 above. A LUNCH WITH FREMCNT. A De.ixhtful Interview with the Family of the "Pathfinder" lira. Fremont Appearance. rCrofTut's Ntw York Letter. I had the pleasure the other day oJ taking a mid-day lunch with Gen. John C. Fremont, and Mi s. Fremont, at then plea ait home at New Brighton, ft taten Island. Twenty -eight ye.irs ago I made f ie acquaintance, during that n.e uora bl campaign when the young "path li der" was surrounded by the ent'iusi- ;io youth of America, and this I had owed more recently since their settle t in New York. he residence of the Fremonts is 8 lest white ho.;se, perched high on inside of the broad road that winds tu.ough trees along the New Brighton beach, and its front windows command a wide rt-ach of the New York bay and the estuary of fie Kill von Kali. It mst be an agreeable and comfortable hott-e to live in ; it is certainly a de lightful house to visit in. The genera and Mrs. Fremont are not seen in New York society as often as they were, even in those entertainments for charity's sake where thov used to take so much pleasure; probably they find the society of their chi.dreu and romping grand children ple.isanter. There are two sons and a daughter in the house of Fremont. The eldest son, John Charles, or "Jack," as he is famil iarly called at home, lives with his handsome wife and two sturdy boys up the Hudson. He is in the navy, and his duties are connected with the ar-' rival and departure of ships in this harbor. His y.mnger brother, Frank, is a lieutenant in the army, stationed up in Montana territory, whither he has taken the young wife he recently captured in New York, a daughter of John D. Townseud, the law yer. Both of the boys closely resemble their father. "When Frauk went wesf," said Mrs. Fremont, "I (suggested that he stop and call on Gen. Sibley, in Minnesota, who ha never seii him. He did it; called in citizen' dre3-, and said: 'Gen. Sibley, who am I?' 'You're a Fremont,' said the general; 'there's no mistaking you. How is your father?" The sons are bo'li tall, black-haired, black-eyed ami "bearded like a pard," and they both, like their sister, show strains of Gallic blood the influence of. their grand father, the poor, scholarly French gentleman, who came to Virginia at the beginning of the century and found their grandmother in her te?ns. Mrs. Fremont that "Jessie Benton," the mention of whose name in the nota ble campaign of 1856, always evokes a cheer holds her own remarkably well. It doesn't seem possible that she could have made her famons runaway match nearly forty-three years ago. She was a handsome blonde when she ran away from the headquarters of "Old Bullion" in "Washington and joined the fortunes of the young explorer; uqw her hair is as white as snow, but she shows few indications of aging and talks as brill iantly as ever. And how much she looks like her father, the eminent statesman of Missouri. Her face is very much like his and even her gestures and manner when animated by conversation remind me much of him as I saw him in Wash ington after he had left the senate. She possesses the lineaments of her father, somewhat softened, as she in herits his studious .and logical mind and his commanding spirit. Kealin-r Wax for letters. fNew York Sun. "Sealing wax," a stationer said, "is quietlv resuming its place for the seal ing of letters. The use of gum in the place of sealing wax was a seductive appeal to the laziness of persons, who eagerly adopted that method because it was quick and handy. It is mucli easier to run your tongue along the flap of an envelope and press the surface together than it is to heat the wax and close the letter effectually. "But it has now come to be slowly appreciated that a letter easily sealed is nearly as easily opened. It only re quires a little dampness to open any letter sealed with gum, and it may be done so skillfully that it baffles de'ec tion. It is about as much protection now to put a letter in a gum-sealed en velope as to put the contents on a postal card. Sealing wax is a protection against the prying curiosity of persons not dishonest enough to steal your let ter, out, and out, yet willing to possets themselves of your secrets by peering into your letters after steaming open a gum-sealed rla;. "A pretty feature of the use of seal ing wax is the opportunity to use seals. Seal rings are plenty enough, and if you have not a seal ring, you may use a coin, or a bangle, or any rough sur face, the break of which might be an indication that the letter had been tampered with. The express companies will not receive a valuable package for transmission unless it is carefully sealed; Seal your letters by all means with sealing wax if you wish to keep their contents free from inspection." Crippled the Engine. The Brunswick (Ga.) Herald says that some malicious fellow whom the law ought to put where he can do no harm, put five bars of soap in the water tank on the Brunswick & Waycross road, near Waycross, on Christmas day. The night express train, that came along next, filled up with the soapy water, and soapy water will not make steam. So the engine was laid up on the track without steam or the power to make it until another engine could be sent out to pull the former tra'n and engine onward. This i3 a Christmas prank that is neither funny nor smart, but as dangerous as it was malicio.is Let it not be repeated. M ild Ho. Hogs sent to the market from Cali fornia havo to be trapped in the woods in about the same manner as bears. On most of the ranches, it is said, the swim are as wild as deer through the woods, and if cornered they will place them selves on the defensive and fight like tigers. M. J. Savage : However much room there may always be "at the top," only a few caa ever get there. Society is a pyramid, broadest at the base. . Russian Jews In Dakota. Cor. St. Paul Pioneer Press. In company with one of the young Jewish farmers of the Cremie'ix col ony, your correspondent left Mitchell at daybreak for a visit to the Hebrew farming colony, situated about twenty two miles southwest of Mitchell. A commendable characteristic of these people is their patient persever ance. They have come to a strange land, where they are unac quainted with the customs and language of the people. They work hard, are practical, and look at facts as they find them. They are saving, and not a dol lar is .wasted, nor is a cent spent for drink, and very few incur debts, and then only in case of urgent necessity. Some of the colonists are getting a good start in stock, but a number by hard work have not as yet been able to lay by enough to buy the muoh-needed ox-teams. Their numbers will be largely increased the coming summer by relations and friends who will come from Russia. The colonists have a private school at the residence of Mr. Rosenthal, taught by Miss Burnes, a highly educated lady. She is paid by subscription, and the school is well attended by the Russian children, who are all learning to speak English fluently. They are, as a peo ple, fond of music, reading and society. Even the lowliet have a good educa tion, and the brawniest has a knowledge of music. In the long winter evenings, and on days when it is too cold to work, they collect together and pass away the time with music and dancing, and con sulting together on matters of practical business. Parties are frequently held, to which their American neighbors are always invited and welcomed. There are now a number of Hebrew Russian farming colonies in the Uni'ed States, but they are all new as yet. The most numerous is that of New Odessa, Ore., founded under the advice of Michael Heilprin, Dr. Julius Goldman, Edward Lauterbach, and Judge Isaacs, all of New York city. They claim that the time will soon be here when Hebrew farmers will be no novelty in the United States. The colony, young as it is, and notwith standing the fact that nearly all its members have co mmenced without a dollar, embarrassed by all the incon venience of pioneer life, is self-sustaining. ' Very Merious Case. Philadelphia Call. A New York dude was suddenly taken violently ill and a physi cian was hastily summoned. After looking at his tongue and feel ing of his pulse, the usual formula, the doctor remarked : "He has evidently been overloading his stomach. My dear sir," he con tinued, ronsing the patient, "can yon tell- me what you ate to-day for din ner?" "Nothing, doctah, but a glass of watah and part of a toothpick," re plied the sick dude, wearily. "H'm," mused the physician, "that is strange. His faintness certainly comes from a disordered stomach." Then he suddenly said : "Bring me his cane." The cane was brought him, and after a careful examination he laid it aside, with the remark : "It is as I thought. A 10-cent cane, and he has sucked the varnish off the head. Give him three drops of milk every four hours, and be careful not to exceed the dose. Ill call again to morrow." Marriage ax a Reward of Merit. Paris Figaro. A party of fifty women left Bordeaux for New Caledonia a short time ago under peculiar circumstances. They were women sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for grave offenses, who have elected to go to the French penal colony, where they will find husbands in the convicts of the first class that is, those convicts who have by their good behavior entitled themselves to a government grant of land and obtained permission to marry. The women were selected from various prisons, and are described as young and good looking. On their arrival out they will be housed in a religious establishment managed by a community: of Sisters, where bachelor convicts of the privileged class will be permitted to visit them, and, as often as a marriage is arranged, the Colonial government will provide the bride with a trousseau and set the couple up in housekeeping in a small way. Xeeded in Medical Education. Chicago Current. What is needed in the medical educa tion of this countay is rigid' preliminary examination of applicants for admission to medical colleges in all important branches taught in literary and scien tific colleges ; greater thoroughness in the medical course, and a very decided extension of the course to three or four fall years, and a searching examination before certification. This would cut down the number of students and break up some medical schools which are con ducted to make money, but it would be far better for the medical profession. Prayer Unanswered. ISfc. Louis Republican. A colored man entered the African Bethel church, and, kneeling down with the converts, indulged in an out burst of profanity. He said he was anxious to see what effect the prayers of the revivalists would have upon him. Thereupon every member of the church began to pray at" the top of his lungs. The place was a pandemonium of en treaties and exhortations, but above everything else arose the stentorian blasphemy of the sinner. After two hours the revivalists gave it up, and the sinner walked away. Oh, Cruel Mrs. Marker! London Truth. ATVa ATq pVott Vicia mvon nai'n f oil right thinking persons in Paris by ap- : -. e i jjouiitiy in a uiu3) ui nuira vol vet 4" MTVI nAsl oil W HT1 1 tllA Wlni.il rtf robin red breasts; and, to complete this barbaric toilet, her shoes of red velvet were entirely covered with the bU1,U "U . - w VJ A -3 made in the princesse shape, with a watteau back and a comet train of portentous length, and the corsage is flagrantly decollete, and is bordered with red feathers, with which all the train is edged. HE KNEW ABOUT IT. rhe "Xasker" Business and Why Seward Bought the Plaee. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. "Wha's all's talk 'bout that Texas fellah and this Lasker business!" asked one of our best young men as he stood with his friends inhaling the maddening fumes of the destroy ing cigarette. A long silence followed, which was at length broken by the best young man who makes a living by sucking the head of a cane. After pondering the question fully for a long time, be said : "What Lasker y' talkin' 'boutr Tbe first best young man was evidently an noyed by the question. He looked sadly at hiy toothpick shoes, hoping for some inspira tion from them, but none came. He sighed heavily, cast an appealing glance toward the well-informed best young man, who. re mained silent, however, and the first speaker replied: "Same Lasker fellah that got into trouble with Texas fellah Doubil tree was Texas fel lah's name, b'lieve. Some kind of er ah trouble, b'lieve." Tbe eyes of all the best young men are now turned toward the well-informed best young man. He was always looked up to in politi cal discussions because he once drew a salary in the custom house for doing something or other he had forgotten what it was he did in tbe custom house, but be did it several years. . In answer to the glances bent upon him in mute but intelligent inquiry, the well informed best young man said: "Aw yaas; I know. I said at the time ther'd be trouble. Said when Secretary Seward " " Who's he secretary of)" asked the best young man whose mother takes in washing. "Dash if I know," said the w U-informed best young man, after a painful silence; "some club or othah I've just forgotten what. Well, I said when Secretary Seward bought Alasker of the Proosians said then Bismarck make trouble 'bout it some day; 'n so be has." "Wh'd he buy it forr asked the best young man who generously allows his sister, who teaches school, nearly one-half of her salary. "Don' know," said the well-informed best young man. "Spect wanted to build on it." And the best young men wandered on to a place that sold scented cigarettes. Keely's Motor Kellpsed. Inter Ocean. The Philadelphia Times claims to make known tbe eclipser of Keely in a young man of that city who has perfected a mysterious motor and subjected it to definite tests. The inventor is James Rodney Barlow, who, after much study and the gaining secretly of some knowledge of the Keely motor, set about making a machine that should conform to the principle of Keely's motor, with such modifications as should make it practical in stead of theoretic. According to the paper mentioned, whose reporter is alleged to have, been one of the experimenting party, a trial was made on the night of March 15 that was satisfactory beyond all expectation. A hand-car was run over the West Jersey railroad between Camden and Gloucester, at first moderately, and then at the rate of speed equal to seventy five miles an hour. There were four people on the car the inventor, a friend who sup plied him the money for his work, the re porter, and an employe of the road. The success was such that Mr. Barlow was wild with enthusiasm, and will at once proceed to make a machine capable of real work. The internal structure of his apparatus ia at present bis secret. The appearance of the invention is thus described: Two cylindrical steel vessels, five inches in diameter by eigh teen in length, placed longitudinally one inch apart; above these, placed at right angles, another similar vessel, three inches in diameter by nine in length ; from the head of each of the lower cylinders projected a steel tube half an inch in diameter, converg ing four inches above, where there was a small hand lever; by the side was a vertical cylinder, with a rod and plunger, connected with the upper cylinder of the motor by a steel tube. That is all there was to it, and all that will be known until Mr. Barlow gets his right legally secured. Mr. Keely seems to have tinkered, promised, and postponed long enough to retire with the consciousness that he has played Franklin for a contem porary Morse. t. i Artificial Flowers to Let. Boston Globe. "Bless you, florists are bad enough, but they have not stooped so low as to hire out flowers for funerals. I never heard of such a thing." The reporter hied him to the largest artifi cial flower and foliage concern in the city. "A great many poor people," said a mem ber of the firm, "order potted flowers and tropical plant of us for funerals. We charge 10 per cent, for their use, and in plenty of instances the flowers might better have been bought out and out. Take our foliage bouquets, composed of dracaenas, begonias, coleus, geranium and ivy they come cheap and it is poor economy to hire them. But people of small means like tbe immediate saving, and the 'long run' is not taken into account. For funerals that take place in church we sell large quantities of chrysanthemums, roses, tiger and calla lilies, hyacinths, etc. Natural flowers are some times represented on the same altar, and it is impossible to tell which is which. The imi tation of common flowers has been reduced to a fine art. One can hardly believe how rapidly artificial plants have sprung into favor, even among the rich. They are used in ball-rooms, theatres, restaurant windows, stores, and most everywhere. We have some well-known varieties so adroitly made that they would deceive the most learned botanist at a little distance." An Inaccessible Editor. Edinburgh ' Letter to Philadelphia Press. The newspapers of Scotland are far behind us in enterprise and news; their forte is heavv leaders and long speeches. The offices are conducted in a manner which is novel to an American. Having occasion to visit the office of The Scotsman, I was met by a female dragon, who guarded the approach to the sanctum. Her brilliancy startled me from my usual composure. I have not been accustomel to see in newspaper offices women at all, but more especially one wearing dia monds in her ears and pearls around her neck, with an eye glass tipped gracefully on hw nose, ou of which the eye-glasses, not the nose she viewed me suspiciously. In a voice not sweet but strong she demanded my busi ness. "I want to see the editor," I answered. "The editor is never seen," was the rej ly. "Never seen I" I exclaimed. "Never seen except by those who know him," was the answer. "What's his name" I asked. "His name is never given to people who don't know it," she said. "How can I communicate with himl" "By letter," replied the fair Cerberus. Such was my experience in the office of The Edin burgh Scotsman. A Health Hint. Don't call a very large, strong, sinewy man a prevaricator If you are sure he is a pre varicator, hire another man to carry the news to him. Benzine for Benevolent Societies. I j St Paul Pioneer Press. i '"It will explain to you how I am a necessary adjunct to such a society. Nothing can be done for the heathen without money, something which the society is in need of. Almost every one hates to go begging for money, no mat ter what the object. Here is where I come in. I present myself to the society and agree for a certain commis sioncow, if I tell you how much, you won't give it away ? well, it's 25 per cent to raise all the money they de sire,! and no trouble to its members whatever. The society agrees, and I go to work. I first consult my list of ?hilanthropists,' as I call them, which keep in this little memorandum book. Here, just look at these names ; on the first page." I looked and read : Mr. . A good-natured duffer, pious, has great love for missionary work. Various sums. Mr. . Only good for orphan homes. Gives $100 usually. Mrs. . Cries over the sufferings of ! "forlorn and poverty-stricken widows." Fifty dollars or more. Lots of "taffy" necessary. Miss . Good for $25 or so on any particularly "sad case." Mr. . Opens his heart for the heathen, and purse as well. Mrs. . "Fair, fat and 40." Her hobby is the alleviation of the sufferings of the poor. Fifty dollars or so. Miss . Donates $10 for anything that gets her name in the papers. "This list, as you see," the gentleman continued as I 'returned it to him, "is quite long, and was compiled by me after hard work and long experience. By it I know just the person to strike for any given scheme. The 1 lazue of White Ants. A letter from St. Helena states that nearly all the storehouses and impor tant public buildings in Jamestown (the principal village) are built of iron and slate, as within the last thirty years the island has been subjected to the plague of white ants. These insatia ble little monsters, who are three or four times as large as the ordinary black ant, are able to destroy speedily any kind of woodwork. They can honeycomb a big log till it may be crushed by the pressure of a hand. And yet they do their work from the inside, leaving a thin veneer on : the surface, so that their presence is often entirely unsuspected. Large buildings have been brought to ruin by these minute pests ; and it is no uncom mon thing to see a chair or sofa sud denly collapse, and to find that the ants have eaten everything but the varnish. They demolish any kind of wood but teakr and through this they bore, with the precision and smoothness of an anger, paths to lea hard material. The ravages of these pests in St. Helena supposed to - have been originally brought there from one of the East Indan islands have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, though large rewards have been offered for the dis covery of means to exterminate them, no remedy has yet been found. Using the Anku" on an Elephant. Barras' Hunting in India. The native Hindoo, from want of thought, keeps up a constant drumming on the beast's head with the goad, or "ankus ;" I therefore hoped not to use it at all. Such an improvement all at once, however, proved more than the elephantine mind could grasp. He be gan really to enjoy himself, going his own way more than mine, till at last he marched straight into an immense forest tree of the banyan species, and com menced to browse. He seized the boughs above his head, and tugging violently at the.n, brought them down on my devoted skull. This was too much. I raised the ankus and brought it down on his head with a blow that brought blood through the skin. This had the desired effect, and he at once bundled off by the road he knew I wanted to go. He merely took with him a branch about the size of a small apple tree to discuss as he went along. From this moment we were friends, and I do not think I ever had to use the hook again so as to bring blood. The lotus or the Orient. ' Pioneer Press. The famed lotus of the Orient is al ways described as being blue in color. From the wife of an ex-consul, who spent fifty years of her life in India, and employed much time in botanizing and painting specimens. I learned that the lotus is not only blue, but yellow, orange, purple, and, indeed, decidedly variable in color. Our northern variety, which is clearly native, can claim to be a genuine lotus. The Arlsaaa Hay Market. Western Exchange. Every morning about 9 o'clock a hay train arrives at Quijotoa, Arizona, con sisting of from twenty to thirty Indian squaws with a regular mule load of straw on their heads. They go into the public square and sit by their bundles until some ona comes to buy. They then lay in a stock of tobacco and whisky, with which the bucks will re gale themselves the next day while the wives are gathering another load of nickel hay. Senator's Autograph. Chicago Times. Few are, perhaps, aware, whose at tention has not been specially called to it, how large a business is done in auto graphs in Washington. The pages of the United States senate consider the collection of those of senators one of their perquisites, and frequently receive, it is said, as much as $10 for carrying an autograph book through the chamber while the senate is in session. They Mhall Lie Bown Together. There is a museum in the "Winder building in Washington of war troph ies, in which is to be 6een one of John Brown's pikes tenderly intertwined with the carbine found on Jeff Davis when he was captured. A patent medicine manufacturer ad vertises for bald men who are willing to have advertisements painted on the tops of their heads "for a high pecuni ary recompense." Servian : When you are guest to the wolf, see that you have a hound with you. THE HASHEESH SMOKERS. A Couple or Places In New York De voted to the Kastera Irus. New York Sun. "l here is not mucli Hasheesh im ported regularly, not more than $5,000 , worth a year, but ten times the quan tity is consumed, a custom house uroKer asserted. " Where does it go to 1 can t say of my own knowledge. but there is always a large demand for it. 1 have passed it through the cus toms for doctors, actors, society men, and even ladies. In point of nation ality I think the eastern races use it more largely. That is, they formerly did. Nowadays it is pretty even all around." "I've been selling hasheesh for more than ten years now," a Bowery drug gist said. When I began I sold about two pots a month ; I now sell a nun' dred. I have all sorts of customers, Chinamen, Malays, French, Italians and Americans. Germans seldom call for it. One of my best customers is a well-known actress; she usually buys two l ots a month. What does it look bike? Here's some common stuff," displaying a small china jar which con tained a heavy blackish brown paste. "This is worth $1 a pot. This is first class," showing a pot of greenish-brown rtsin, with a slight half-pleasant odor, and of about the consistency of opium. "This is worth $3 a pot, and it is five times as strong as the other. "How is hasheesh used ?" "The same as opium. Some smoke it, others eat it in pills, while others dissolve it in strong wine and drink it like a punch. The use of it in liquid form is, however, very rare. Orientals prefer smoking it, while the western users of the drug take it solid. Hasheesh is gathered from the Indian hemp, and it contains almost always a very small percentage of cannabin, the alkaloid of the plant. I don't believe that canna bin i the sole essential principal of hasheesh. It acts similarly, but it has unpleasant consequences, which hash eesh never has. It is used a good deal by some as a substitute. Here is a prescription which I have filled a dozen times ia the past three months. The chief ingredient is cannabis, and the purchaser is in reality no patient, but a confirmed hasheesh eater, what's called hx the east a haschaschin. She is a lady living in the neighborhood." "Are there any hasheesh houses here.1' "Only two that I know of one in Lexington avenue, kept by an Ameri can, and one in Fell street, kept by a Chinaman. Both do a good business, and they enjoy the advantage of being safe from the police, which the opium joints do not." The reporter experiencedno difficulty in entering both places referred to by the druggist. At the Lexington avenue house a colored waiter answered the bell and ushered the caller into a small but neat reception-room. The proprietor, a tall, slender and emaciated man, was the manager of an opium d n some years ago. He led the way to the second story, where the windows were thoroughly closed and the day light excluded. Six small colored lamps diffused a faint light through a thick smoke that filled the two rooms. The carpets, walls, and furniture were sub due!, but warm and pleasant in color. Engravings and simple but pretty chro mos, a few articles of bric-a-brac, and a bust or two gave the interior a cosy and attractive appearance. A dozen large easy chairs and fifteen low and roomy lounges were the chief articles of furni ture, easily accommodating the twenty haschaschins present. Of these, six were women ; all were well dressed and seemingly of good.social position. Half were asleep, or dozing, a few were be ginning to come under the influence, while the rest were beginning the dissi pation. The proprietor asked in what style the reporter would take the drug, and, on being appealed to, recommended the nargile. This turned out to be a simple modi fication of the Turkish article. A hand some gla-s vase filled with water, a long light tube with an amber mouth piece, and a brazier a metallic cup of the size and shape of an egg were furnished. In the interior of the brazier were two brass grates, and from the bottom ran a tube down into the water of the ase. A piece of hasheesh as largo as an acorn was placed on the upper grate, and on it was laid a small mass of glowing charcoal. The brazier was then closed with a perforated cap, and the reporter invited to begin. The first inhalation filled the upper part of the nargile with a thick blue vapor; the second filled the mouth and lungs with a cool, uroinatio smoke that in flavor seemed half way between opium and Latakia tobacco. The smoke lasted about six minutes. The only sensation it produced was about the same as that an old smoker experiences with a Beina Victoria a feeling of mild satisfaction and content. There were none of the grotesque or beautiful visions that De Musset and Gautier have described. A second pipe pro-, duced a headache, and the scribe pro fes ed himself more than satisfied. The Tell street place is a vivid con trast to the luxurious establishment in Lexington avenue. The room is in the third story of a tumble-down tenement. Low ceiling, dirty floor and walls, win dows covered and plastered over with paper and rags, greasy bunks and grimy Chinese couches, a foul atmosphere, and all the other indications of Chinese vice and squalor were there. The room, not larger than 20x25, contained thirty one inmates. Seven were Mongols, eight women who had lost all womanhood vears before, and the rest a variegated assortment of loafers, tramps and drunkards. A s the reporter entered a haschaschin was receiving from the pro prietor his ration of the drug. It was the cheap kind shown by the drnggist, and was as large as a hickory nut. Itogus Hotter ftent. Chicago Herald. Oleomargarine is preferred to butter by yachtsman who cruise in southern waters, because it keeps sweet and fresh, while butter gets rancid. Mot. L. Saley: There are not the chances of money-making in staid old Boston that there are in rushing Chi cago ; one reason being that Boston is like an old man's frame settled. Thirteen millions from Ounpswder. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Lammot Dupont, who was killed by the explosion at Thompson's Point; is said to have been worth $13, 000,000. He had a controlling interest in the man ufacture of nearly all the high explosives that were made in the United States and Canada east of the Bocky moun tains. Ten million pounds of these materials were consumed in the country in 1882, the Bepauno company's works at Thompsons Foint producing one- third of this amount. He is credited with having organized a combination of all - the makers of high explosives. When negotiating with the Panama Canal company for the powder to be used in that work he guaranteed to sup ply twelve tons of Atlas powder daily if that amount were needed. Cle cf tho most darinar achusvemen Un recorded in the history of the present ' l V - A I . century is one oi woicu ue was iu tuu- tral figure. During the Crimean war tbe Itussian covernment ran out ox powder, and the explosive was required to continue the defense ox KeDastopoi. A cargo was purchased from the Du ponts in this country and was placed in in a steamship lying on Dammore. The British had frigates posted in wait ing outside the Chesapeake. Alter seven feints the watchers were eluded and a chase began across the Atlantic, through Gibraltar, and up the Medi terranean sea. With remarkably good fortune the vessel passed through the Bosporus and into the Black sea unchecked; but wnen near ing the place of contention the Lnglish war-ships hailed the stranger. loung Dupont was at the helm himself. and insisted that the vessel proceed, not heeding the signals from the war-ships. Two broadsides were poured into the vessel, but she was able to steam ahead and steer through the rocks, and was beached inside the Russian lines. This daring adventurer saved the cargo for which tbe Russian government paid the sum of $3,000,000. Throughout the civil war the family rendered distinguished services to the government, and at the very beginning of the rebellion Mr. Lammot Dupont was placed in a position by which, through his energy and genius, the country was supplied with the means of defense for the ensuing conflict. Stones In the Mondan. American HeLrew. The Soudan is none other than the Cush of the Bible, which the Septnagint and tbe Vulgate render Ethiopia. When Moses had arrived at man's estate Egypt was invaded by an Ethiopian army, which successfully laid waste the coun try as far as Memphis. In their de spair the Egyptians prayed to their, oracles for aid, and the advice they re ceived was that they - should offer the leadership of their armies to Moses, the Hebrew." This they did. The great difficulty of the campaign was to traverse the roads which led to the Ethiopian camp, in consequence of their being infested with dangerous ser pents. The wily Israelite provided his advance guard with a number of ibes in baskets and instructed the soldiers to let the birds loose on the serpents. By this ingenious expedient the roads were speedily cleared and Moses was enabled to surprise the Ethiopians and defeat them with great slaughter. Carrvincr the war into JUeroe itseix. Moses then laid siege to the capital,. Saba. The obstinate resistance onered by the defenders prolonged the siege for some time, but eventually the city was delivered up by Thar bis, the. daughter of the Ethiopian king, who had watched Moses from a distance, and from admiring his valor had fallen in love with him. The story ends happily wit!, the marriage of Moses and Tharbis. Signs ot the Vendetta. Paris Figaro. The vendetta still survives in Naples, bat it is curious that warning of it is never given in words. The language of signs, which every Neapolitan of the lower classes knows, is generally used, and the gesture most commonly em ployed is made by pressing the thumb and forefinger together in such a way as to leave a small narrow space be- trrxrv vIaivi wTki9 id am vtwsa 4 ify the hole the challenger hopes to make in his adversary's body. In Na ples, too, men still bite their thumbs, as they did in the days of Sampson and Gregory; and this in not an expression of contempt, but a declaration of war. Turned the Xaush. Nashville American. There was an amusing occurrence on the corner of Cherry and Church streets which was witnessed by passers by. A printer, nicnamed "Little Breeches," from his diminutive size, met a colored man. of Jack Falstaff order. The former began laughing at the latter, when the huge proportioned colored individual, Baid: "Look-a-heah, white man, don't you make fan ob de work ob de Almighty. He done finished me, but He stopped on you before He was half done." Washington Not an Angler. Philadelphia Call Jones What an enthusiastic old angler George Washington, v-as ! Smith Washington 1 Why he wai not a fisherman. Jones Indeed he was a great lover of Ihe sport. He wrote a book about it. Smith Are you not thinking ox Izaak Walton ? Jones Izaak Walton! Why that's a act; so I was. It was not Washington, of course. He was not an angler. Smith No, indeed : Washington could not tell a lie. On a Oeath-Hpree. Cor. N. O. Times-Democrat I saw a young man to-day who had $2,000 to spend, and only three months for the job. How was that ? Why, he has consumption, and tho doctors as sure him that ho will die about the 1st of next July. He is a rounder, and has figured up liis finances so as to exactly eave enough to bury lum. Ihe rest he will spend in riotous pleasures. I read of such a case, and didn't believe it ; but this one is a fact, and isn t it horri ble to think of a death-spreo ? t George William Curtis is reported to have said that there is no important iterary project afoot either in Europe or Amenca.
