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VOL. VI.
ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 22, 1885.
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SoMEof Ihecodfish caught in Alaska
weigh 400 pounds.
The first session of the Forty-ninth
Congress will meet on Monday, De
cember 7th.
Ixdiaxa's corn crop is estimated by
the State. Board of Agriculture at 150,
000.000 bushels.
Bctte (M. T.) already has seven
newspapers and three more are to be
started there shortly.
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The Savannah (Ga.) Xeus estimates
the damage to the cotton crop byre
cent rains at $15,000,000.
The Postmaster-General has made a
.decision that the salaries of postal em
ployes cannot be attached for debt.
The egg crop of Maine is said to be
more valuable than her apple crop.
There ' are 10,000,000 hens in that
State.
A stage line established 100 years
ago between Skowliegan, Me., and
Quebec, a distance of 200 miles, is still
maintained.
The Philadelphia and Reading shops
have turned out a ninety-ton engine
to Climb a 200-feet-to-the-mile grade
on the Rockies.
A Justice of the Peace of Bowdon,
Ga"., has served thirty years and never
had a judgment reversed or sent back
for a new trial.
The value of one vote was shown at
a recent election in McDuffie county.
Georgia, when a law was passed by
exactly that majority. -
Fifteen hundred telephone instru
ments in Buffalo, New York, are sup
plied with electricity made by the
water power of Niagara Falls.
Buffaloes are now bred at Good
night, Kansas, and buffalo calves sell
at $50 a head where once the earth
shook; beneath the onward tramp of
100,000 hoofs.
Upward of 1,000,000,000 bushels of
wh.cat in. Europe,-anostly- harvested in
good order, makes the people content
for the present with small purchases
of foreign wheat.
Forty Nihilists, including a num
ber of professors and well-known per
sons, have been arrested at Warsaw,
Russia, on a charge of conspiring to
murder, the Czar. The arrests have
caused a great sensation.
The manufacturers of woolen goods
in this country have to go abroad for
80,000,000 iounds of wool, because
enough is not grown in this country.
There ought to be a good future for the
sheep husbandry in the United States.
A balloox railroad is to be con
structed in the Austrian Tyrol.. The
balloon will have erooved wheels on
its care, and these will run on nearly
perpendicular rails, the gas provining
the lifting power. Gravitation will be
utilized on the down trips.
Spain, with a population of 16,333,
293, has an army of 90,000 men and a
navy of 139 vessels, carrying 552 guns.
Germany, with a population of 42,000,
000, has an army of 445,000, and a
navy of 80 vessels, with 955 officers
and 15,000 men. In the war with
France Germany mustered 640,000,
France about 300,000.
The Selby Smelting and Lead Re
fining Company, of San Francisco, is
offering one cent per ounce above
New York quotations for silver. In
consequence of this offer, the Germa
nia Works of Salt Lake City send all
their silver to the Selby works, and
the Omaha and Grant works of Oma
ha and Denver are about to do like
wise. A Gekmax test for watered milk
consists in dipping a well-polished
knitting needle into a deep vessel of
milk, and then immediately with
drawing it in an upright position. If
the milk is pure, a drop of the fluid
will hang to the needle ; but the addi
tion of even a small proportion of
water will prevent the adhesion of the
drop.
The pearl shell shipped from
Australia to the United States and
Europe is used principally for the
manufacture of knife handles, . shirt
buttons, studs, etc. Considerable
quantities of the shell are also used
for paper mache and ornamental work.
The pearl buttons, shirt studs, etc.,
now made in the United States are
said to be the best and cheapest in the
world, a fact due in a great measure
to the care used ( in selecting the
material and to the improved method
of cutting it.
A SHOWERY MORNING.
Mary Rowles in Sunday Magazine.
All my Heaven was dark with rain.
As I mused of loss and pain,
Going down a Devon lane
On a showery morning; ' ?
Joy had vanisheJ, frail and fleet,
How could rose and woodbine sweet
Lift their heads, and tempests meet
With such merry scorning? i
"Such great drops wero never known,"
Said the speedwells sbrinkia; down;
"They have spt led my only gown,"
Sighed a crui pied cistu-.;
Quoth the roses in surprise, ,
Answering in sclema wis , .' ,
Though a smile was in their eyes
"Nay, they only kUsed usl"
Ragged robins shook with glee,
Foxgloves laughed in company;
Till the sun peeped out to see
Through a cloud embrasure;
Lot ths rain was past an 1 gone,
And stellarias clustering shone
Like a MUky Way upon
Speedwell depths of azure.
Every blossom on its stsm
Wore a shining diadem.
And my heart rejoiced with them
In their fre-h adorning:
Fiowers are sweetest after rain,
Joys completest after pain,
Life is but a Devon lane
On a showery morning 1 '
WASHINGTON'S RELIGION.
The Father of His Country as a Church
Goer A Probable Myth.
lOor. Episcopal Recorder.
As 1 read, a few days ago, of the
death or Kev. Richard M. Abercromoie,
rector of St. Matthew's Protestant Epis
copal church in Jersey City, memories
of my boyhood arose. . lie was born
not far from ray father's house, in Phila
delphia, and was the son ot the Kev.
Dr. James Abercrombie, a fine scholar
and preacher, who had, in early life,
corresponded with the great lexicog
rapher. Samuel Johnson, and in later
vears was the assistant minister of
Christ's and St. Peter's churches in
Philadelphia, where my maternal an
cestors had worshiped for more than
one generation. One day after the
father had reached four-score years, the
lately deceased son took me into the
study of the aged man and showed me
a letter which President George Wash
ington had written to his father, thank
ing him for the loan of one of his man
uscript sermons. Washington and his
wife were regular attendants upon his
ministry while residing in Philadelphia.
The president was not a communicant,
notwithstanding all the pretty stories to
the contrary, and after the close of the
sermon on sacramental Sundays had fal
len into the habit of retiring from the
church while his' wife remained and
communed. : Upon one occasion Dr.
Abercrombie alluded to the unhappy
tendency of the example of those digni
fied by age and position turning their
backs upon the celebration of the Lord's
supper, the discourse arrested the at
tention of Washington, and after that
be never came to church, with his wife
on communion Sunday. . Dr. Aber
crombie, in a letter which appears in
the fifth volume of Sprague s "Annals
of the American Pulpit," mentions that
he did not find fault with the sermon,
but respected the preacher for his moral
courage.
There is a story about Washington be
ing found in the woods in the winter
time in prayer by the owner of the house
which he used as his quarters at v alley
Forge which I would like to believe if it
were not so improbable, and if it had
not been first put in print by the eccen
tric and not very accurate Episcopal
minister, Morgan L. Weems. John
Potts, of Pottsgrove, had several sons and
daughters. One, James, studied law at
the Temple, London, and was a judge of
the court of common pleas in Philadel
phia at the beginning of the war of the
revolution, and, being a tory,
eventually went to Halifax; Jon
athan, another son, studied med
icine at Endinburgh, and espoused
the cause of the colonies, and
was the medical director general of the
middle department; another son was a
Quaker and a neutral, and owned the
house at Valley Forge which is still
known as Washington's headquarters,
and the three were brothers- of the
grandmother of the writer of this arti
cle. With a capacious and comfortable
house at his disposal, it is hardly possi
ble that the shy, silent, cautious Wash
ington sh mid leave such retirement and
enter into the leafless woods in the vi
cinity of the winter encampment of an
army and engage in audib1 prayer.
The alleged scene has teen often pro
duced by the painter and engraver, but
I fear it is only a myth.
A Uig "Blte.'
Boston Global
A soldier went bobbing for eels near
Marseilles, and received a "bite" he will
never forget, lie drew up an eel of the
Murcena species, whose ponderous jaws
and rows of teeth nearly snapped off his
arm. He is in the hospital. The
Murcena was a delicacy in ancient
Pome; it is as voracious as a shark, and
Va dius Pollio, when a slave was dis
obedient, threw him into the . reservoir
to fatten the eels.
A Singular Fact.
The building of the Georgia state cap
itol, at Atlanta, develops the fact that
granite can bo quarried in Maine,
brought to Savannah, and thence by
rail to Atlanta at a less cost than it
can be had at a quarry only sixteen
miles away.
Cabled to Punch.
Albany Express.
At a dinner party the other evening
the hostess let fall and broke a plate.
"Alas!" she said, "war on China has
been carried to America. " The next
day the joke was cabled to The London
Punch.
Dangerous.
Boston Globe.
The manner of Schuyler Colfax's death
shows the danger of going suddenly
from a temperature be!ow zero into an
overheated room. It is a wonder that
more men do not get their death in this
way.
Arizona.
The name of Arizona, The Sentinel of
that territory says, was not bestowed
through any poetic arrangements of In
dian or Spanish names, but is derived
from aridus, dry, and zona, i girdle of
lelt.
Instincts are implacable. 1 we dia
obev then are punished. .
WHY BUSINESS MEN FAIL.
Tlie Reason a Given by Lending
Men of Our C ountry.
Cor. United States Economist.
Let me give your readers tho benefit
of t!o x .plies I have received f -ora load
ing men of our country to 1!- ration,
"What, in your observation :i b.;en
the chief causes of the nume tilures
in life of business and .--sional
men?'?
Governor St. John answers: "Idleness,
intemperance." Alexander II. Mtcphcns
r.nswera: "Want of punctuality, honesty,
l.nd truth." lion. Darwin K. James
enswerc: "Incorrect views of tho great
cud and aim of life. Men" are
tot contented to lives of integrity
and uprightness. They want to
get ahead too fast, and are led into
temptation. President Barxlett, of
Dartmouth college, names as causes of
failure: "Lack of principle, of fixed
purpose, of perseverance." President
Eliot, of Harvard, replies : "Stupidity,
laziness, rashness, and .dishonesty."
Dr. 11. M. Dexter, of The Congregation-
alist, anfwers: "1. antof thorough
ness of preparation. 2. Want of fixed
ness of purpose. 3. Want of faith in
tho inevitable triumph of right and
truth."
Anthony Comstoc'v's answers are:
"Unholy living and dishonest practices,
lust and intemiierancc, living beyond
one's means." Mr. H. E. Simmons, of
the American Tract society, rf pliesr
"Fast hvmsr, mental, spiritual and bod
ily; lack of attention to the details of
business. Gen. O Howard answers m
substance: "Breaking the divino laws
of the tody by vice, tl03e of the mind
by overwork and idleness, and those of
the heart by making an idol ot sen.
Profetsor Homer B. Sprague, of Boston,
answers: "1. Ill health. 2. Mistakes
in the choice of employment. 3. Lack
of persistent and protracted effort. 4.
A low ideal, making success to consist
in j ersonal aggrandisement, rather than
in the training and developemo- ' of a
true and noble character."
Dr. Lyman Abbott answers: "The
combine I spirit of laziness and self-con-oeit
that makes a man unwilling to do
anything unless ho can choose just what
he will do." Mr. A. W. Tenney, of
Brooklyn, replies: "Outside of in
temperance, failure 4o grasp hold, scat
tering too much, want of integrity and
promptness, unwillingness to achieve
success by earning it in the old-fashioned
way." The attorney-general of a neigh
boring state replies: "Giving beyond in
come, and speculating with borrowed
funds; unwillingness to begin at the
foot of the ladder and work up. Young
men want to be masters at tho start,
and assume to know before they have
learned," And another reason in the
fame line:" "Desiring the success that
am ther has, without being willing to
work as that mau does. Giving money
making a first place and right-doing a
second place." - ........
Ju.?ge Tourgee; author of "A Fool's
Errand," considers the frequent cause
cf business collapse to be: "Trying to
arry too big a load." As to others,
l.e says; "I don't know about a profes
sional man's failing, if he works, keeps
soler, and sleep at home. Lawyers,
ministers, and doctors live on the sins
of the people, and of course, grow fat
under reasonable exertion, unless the
competition is too great. It requires
real genius to fail in either of Ciese
walks of life." Hon. Joseph Medill, ex
mayor of Chicago, answers: "Liquor
drinking, g.nnhling, reckless speculation,
dishonesty,, tricky conduct, cheating,
Mleneis. shirking hard work, frivolous
reading, lack of manhood in the battle
of life, failure to improve opportunities."
Among the caiue.s of failure given by
my correspondents many may be classi
fied under the general fault of wavering,
eue'i as "wavering purpose," "non-stick-to-it
nc;-s," "failure to grasp and hold,"
"scattering too much," "trying to do too
many things, rather than stick to the
one thing one knows most about." A
your.?; mr.n fpends seven years in a gro
cery n.ve, aiui when he has just loarned
the business he concludes to go into dry
goods. By failing to choose that first
he has thrown away seven years' experi
ence. Probably, after learning the dry
goods business, he will conclude to be
come watchmaker, and at last become
a "jrck-at-all-trads-s," good a. none.
A jrominent merchant. says :
"Nearly all failures in legitimate busi
ng s come from not serving an appren
ticeship to it," that is, from leaving a
lus'ne.;s one knows for another which he
does not understand.
Another cause of failure is ihe dispo
sition to escape hard work, and get rich
in haste "desiring the success another
man has, without being willing to work
as that n:aa docs, ay.d begin as he did,
at the foot of the ladder." How many
wh i weie in haste to et rich, to reap
without patient industry in sowing, have
learned tho truth of the old proverb:
'The more haste, the worse speed."
JKiecinc r:aiinei.
The Continent
A French scientific journal describes
an electric curiosity which its editor has
received from Dr. Claudet. The nov
elty is a specimen of electric flannel,
which is claimed to be valuable in cases
of rheumatism. The oxides of tin, cop
per, zinc and iron form nearly one
eighth of the weight of the flannel. A
series of threads of the fabric is im
pregnated with these metallic oxides,
and each series is alternately separated
by untreated threads. The llannel thus
prepared constitutes a dry pile, which
has been shown by independent experi
ments of Messrs. Driacourt and Por
terin, both reputable physicists, to dis
engage electricity when in contact with
the body, the current becoming more
marked as the flannel ab ?orbi the moist
products of perspiration.
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The Uses of Adversity.
Detroit Free Press.
"That's a very unfortunate town of yours"
said a man the other day to a citizen of the
town referrei to. "I see you have had three
blocks desti oyed by fire within the past two
years."
"On the contrary," remartea tne . citizen
from the burnt district, "ours is a very lucky
town. When the fire burns out an old block,
we take the insurance money and build a
finer block and still have a nice balance left
in the bank. '
Oil Ci .v Eerrie'.:: The revise 1 OU Tes a.
m it has been irsued, but as the ten ccm
naadmanti rre still there no great boom la
sxpected in it3 sate.
THE FAMOUS "SACRIFICIAL STONE."
Th Aztecs'
"Messenger of' the Sun" The
Kello Rescued
Clara Bridgman In N. O. Tunes-Democrat
You see before you a large circular
piece of porphyry, some xiine feet in di
ameter and three feet in height, richly
carved on all sides with bas reliefs of
human figures; the top is adorned with
marking somewhat similar to those upon
the celebrated Calendar stone, while the
center is hollowed out into a deep bowl
with a narrow channel or gutter leading
from it down one side of the monument.
This is no other than the famous "Sac
rificial Stone," known among the Aztecs
as the Cuauhxicalli de Tizoc The stone
was religious as well as historical in its
nature, being dedicated to the sun,
whose image is carved upon the upper
surface.
In Mexico there existed an order of
nobles whose patron was the sun and
who were called "Cabelleras Aquilas,"
or Eagle Knights; and at certain feasts
they would sacrifice a human victim, to
whom they gave the name of "messen
ger of the sun." The ceremonies at
tending the sacrifice were quite peculiar,
and were somewhat as follows: An In
dian was selected from among the pris
oners of war and gaudily decorated with
paint and feathers; in one hand was
placed a staff richly ornamented; in the
other a shield with five small bundles of
coiton, while on hia shoiflders he car
ried a package containing, among other
things, some eagles' feathers, pieces of
chalk, red ochre, etc. The bundle was
delivered to him by some of the chief
nobles at the foot of the temple, to
gether with an oration in whi?h he was
requested to carry this offering to their
god, the sun, and at the same time im
plore the protection and favor of the
latter throughout the year.
The messenger after having expressed
his acquiescence, commenced to mount
slowly the long windingstairway of the
teocali and having reached the broad
platform at the summit, he ascended
the stone of sacrifice ind, addressing
himself now to the glowing orb of the
sun suspended in the heavens, and now
to its image carved upon the Cuauhxi
calli, he delivered his message. While
thus engaged four priests, who had fol
lowed him at a distance, approached
and seizing the intended victim, they
bound him hand and foot. In this con
dition, and extended upon the grisly
monument described above, he was
ready for the horrible rite of sacrifice
which was performed by the high priest,
who, dexterously inserting his sharp
knife of iztli into thebody of the un
fortunate, tore out the aeart and held it
up, a bleeding, palpitating offering to
the luminary which wt s regarded with
so much awe by the natir. es of Anahuac
The sacrificial stone, after having
served so long for its sanguinary mis
sion, was consigned to oblivion, being
buried, together with countless idols
and relics of the Aztec .temple3, in the
square on which the ibiaguiticent cathe
dral of Mexico is built. There it re
mained for many years, until its very
existence was forgotten, when in 1791,
it was discovered by some workmen
while digging a ditch in what then
formed the cemetery of the church.
Unconscious of the value of their dis
covery, they were about to treat it in
the same way they had so many other
antiquities found in that spot break up
tho stone fragments to be used in pav
ing the streets when fortunately one
of the canons belonging to the cathedral
chanced to pass by and succeeded in
preventing this lamentable act of van
dalism. The great stone was, with
difficulty, transferred to the yard of the
university, where it remained until
1873, wv.en, after its numerous vicissi
tudes, it found a final resting place in
the patio of the National museum.
An Odd Ecff with a History.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Of an iron egg in the Berlin museum
the following story is told: Many years
ago a prince became affianced to a
lovely princess, to whom he promised
to send a magnificent gift as a testi
monial of his affection. In due time
the messenger arrived, bringing the
promised gift, which proved to be an
iron egg. The princess was so angry
to think that the prince should send
her so valueless a present that she threw
it upon the floor, when the iron egg
opened, disclosing a silver lining. Sur
prised at such a discovery, she took the
egg in her hand, and while examining
it closely discovered a secret spring,
which she touched, and the silver lining
opened, disclosing a golden yolk. Ex
amining it closely, she found another
spring, which opened, disclosing within
the golden yolk -a ruby crowii. Sub-
lecttng that to an examination, she
touched a spring, and forth came the
diamond ring with which he affianced
her to himself. '
A Very Unpocttcal Explanation.
Chicago Journal.
Taking all the facts into consideration.
it appears clear to Mr. H. C. Sorby that
all the bright and beautiful tints of
leaves jn Autumn are merely the earlier
stages of decomposition, and are due to
the more or less considerable triumph of
chemical forces over the weakened or
destroyed vitality of the living plant.
lie adds that one can but feel that this
is a very unpoetical way in which to re
gard the magnificent tints of a fine
autumnal landscape, but it is not less
true than that the colored clouds ot
evening mark the departing day.
Ughtinjc Ovens.
Chicago Tribune.
A great difficulty has always existed
among the bakers to get light into their
dark ovens, so that the progress of bak
ing might be observed; but a recent
trial of the electric light in an oven,
where the temperature ranged from 400
degrees to 600 degrees, proved entirely
successful. A plate-glass door is put in
the oven, through which the bread or
pastry may be seen. v
A Microbe on the Screen.
Chicago Herald.
recently in London an electro-micro
scopical apparatus threw upon a screen
the image of a cholera germ, magnified
2,000,000 times, in which these minute
organisms appoared the size of the hu
man nand.
George Eliot : There are various or
ders of beauty, causing men to make
fools of themselves in various styles.
from the defocrate to the sheepish.
HANDLING THE REINS.
A Horeman'M Views of What
Women Xeed to Learn About Driv
ins Ilornes.
Inter Ocean.1
"Well, when vou have handled horses
as long as I have, and watched other
people do the name, I think you'll agree
with me when I say that no other ac
complishment among ladies needs to be
taught nioro than tho proper use of
reins. If the ladies knew woie about
the 'ribbous' of a horse's harness than
the ribbons of their bonnets it wonld
be better for them. A woman has to
use such knowledge twice where a man
does once, for she must make up m
skill what she lacks in strength and
agility. Now, in the case we just now
saw a man would have been out of that
carriage and had the horse pushed
from the track in a moment almost;
but with the woman it was a different
thing altogether, for she was so incum
bered with her heavv skirts that if she
had tried to leave the buggy she would
probably have been caught and crushed,
while if she had escaped the horse and
vehicle would surelv have been lost.
"Can you tell at a glance whether a
lady is a good driver i
"Yes, almost at a glance. Now, there
comes a lady driving that big bay. See ?
Did you notice the way she held tho
lines ? Well , that isn't proper, al tough
nearlv every lady we ve met this after
noon held them that way. You will
notice a man or a good ladv driver al
ways grasps the rein so that it passes
into the hand under the little finger first,
the ends of the fingers, after the hand is
closed upon the rem, bemg in a per
pondicular line. This gives a vise-like
grip which it is almost impossible for
the leather to slip through. But the
wrong habit ladies fall into is to catch
the rein m such ft w-ay that when it en
ters the hand it passes over the fore
finger ; when held in that way it is very
hard to keep it from slipping, and so it
happens that when an excited horse
gives a quick jerk and the lady feels the
line slip she thinks her strength is in
adequate, loses her presence of mind,
and in a few minutes somebody's hurt.
"An incident that early in life im
pressed me with the importance of
knowing how to act when other lives
than one's own are consigned to his
keeping: A lady friend of ours from
the city came out to visit our family on
the farm when I was just growing into
manhood, and on her arrival she wanted
to have it understood that she was an
old driver and knew all about horses.
Yielding to her request, I hitched up
one of our finest teams one day, and
she invited several of the women folks
to go out with her. As soon as she
took her seat and picked up the lines I
knew she was unfit to drive the bays,
and frankly told her bo, offering to act
as coachman; but she gave her head a
shake an! said she "guessed she knew,"
and the four started gayly off. About
dusk the horses came to the barn all
wounded and bleeding, and, following
their tracks back, we found two of tho
party dead and .the third crippled for
life, the city driver escaping with a
slight bruise. But she might as well
have been dead, though, for she always
thought herself a murderess, and two
vears after was in a lunatic asylum.
!That is one reason why I consider this
an important subject."
The Parliamentary Whip.
Croffu Lon :o:i 1 1 tt r.
"We are five members of parliament
here to-night," said handsome young
Blennerhassett, from across the table,
"and every one of us has a 'whip' in his
pocket commanding him to be present
in his seat at this very hour."
Five members laughed. Gen. Haw
ley asked what a "whip" looked like ; he
had never seen one. Whereupon Mr.
Puelston drew out an envelope and
passed it over the table with "I'll pre
sent mine to you." The recipient
thanked him, examined the instrument
of castigation and passed it around
among the curious Americans who had
never seen one. A "whip" is sim
ply a short note from a mem
ber of his party to whom the
business is ' assigned, announcing
that a "most important measure" will
be before the house at a specified time,
and it is "absolutely necessary that yon
be present in your place." All this is
underscored with four parallel lines,
making it look like a sheet of music all
ready for the notes to be written in.
That's a whip. Mr. Courtney pre
sented his to Senator Windom, and
Mr. Gilling silenced my clamors . by
obtaining one for me the next day. Ho
I am not altogether whipless. Mr.
Courtney explained that the whip was
only for party uses ; when the house wr.s
without a quorum, they rang a bell
which summoned members of all par
ties far and near.
Safety Wall in Cae of Fire.
The Continent
The latest invention for tho protec
tion of audiences is a "penetrable safety
wall," which has just been patented by
an engineer at Kottbue, Germany. The
plan is to make the interior walls in all
parts of the theatre of papier mache,
made after a cei tain method. Such a
wall will have the appearance of
massive stone, bu by pressure upon
certain parts, where the words are to
be painted in luminous letters, "To be
broken open in case of fire," access to
the exterior corridors is to be obtained,
whence escape can be made to tho outer
air. '"
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Ilicycl Ileforin.
IThe Continent
Here, then, is the bicyclist's oppor
tunity. Should the tariff or the civil
service fail to serve as nuclei for the
new political party, let the bicyclists
combine on a basis of reforming the
roads, and success will await them.
States have been made and unmade for
less worthy motives.
Shenstone : Nothing impairs author
ity more than a too frequent or indis
creet use of it. If thunder itself wero
to be continual it would excite no more
terror than the noise of amill.
Jerry Greening: "Th' financial pros
per'ty o' Ameriky to-day is as bright
as a cat's eyes ashinin' out o' a barrel
on a dark night." i
Milwaukee Sentinel : A lady, joking
about her nose, said : "I had nothing
to do in shaping it. It was a birthday
present." m
LATE NEWS SUiniABY.
Pacific Coast, Eastern and Foreign.
The Earl of Shaf tsbury Is dead.
Belgium has withdrawn from the Mon
etary Union. .
Mrs. Bartosch -was burned to death in
her house at tan Jese, Cal.
At Reno, Nevada, a druggist named
J. Jc. Aleyers committed suicide.
It Is rumored that Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris will soon apply for a divorce.
John Grum. a saloon keeper near Frank
lin, W. T.. was kf a tally shot by masked
men.
The Chicago baseball club now holds the
championship of th National League for
lots 3.
Advices from False Point. India, say
that the recent cyclones destroyed. .600
villages.
. Rochester, New York, is endeavoring to
get up a scandal similar to the London
sensation.
Extensive iron works at Reading, Fa.,
have resumed operations after a suspen
sion of two years.
The New Zealand Government has re
newed the maiL service between that coun
try and San Francisco. :
One white man and five Chinese were
killed in a railway accident near Kam
loops, British Columbia.
The crops of a hundred farms InJDakota,
between Bismarck and Fargo, have been
destroyed by prairie tires.
H. W. Shaw, the well-known humorist,
better known as Josh Billings, died In
Menterey, Cal., of appoplexy.
Richard S. Dement of Illinois has been
appointed by the President to be Surveyor
General of the Territory of Utah.
The President has appointed Wm. B.
Webb cf Billings, Montana, to be Secre
tary of the Territory ol Montana.
A fatal railroad accident occurred on the
Corinth Railway, near Atheas, Greece.
The killed and injured number 50.
The President has appointed C. Meyer
SeBlick, of Arizona, to be Governor of
Arifbna, vice F. A. Tritle, reaicrned.
The U. S. revenue cutter Corwin has
arrived at San Francisco Irom the Arctic
with the crews of several shipwrecked
whalers.
The boiler in. Bennett's mill at Fresno,
Cal., exploded, wrecking the buildiBg.
Parson Bennett, brother of the proprietor,
was killed.
Near Sonoma. Cal., Antone Secardo. a
stock driver, was struck in the pit of the
stomach by a sheep, from the effects of
which he died.
Kitty Bryant, aged 18, an actress, sui
cided in her room at San Francisco by
placing a towel across her face saturated
with chloroform.
J. E. Edson, a San Jose (Cal.) policeman,
ha vbeen sentenced to two years in the
State prison for receiving a bribe from a
prisoner in his custody.
Geo. H. Ileisch. an employee in the rail
road shops at Sacramento, Cal., was caught
in a machine used in ' cutting railroad
rails and hacked to pieces.
A mob in Spartansburg 'county, Ohio,
recently seized a Mormon elder who had
been preaching in that county and gave
him sixty lashes on the bare back. -
At Atlanta. Ga.. the larce stables of C.
L. Johnson "were destroyed by fire, and
1.8 nead ol c-ttle perished la the names.
Aiost of these were fine-bred cows.
The Grand Jury at Green River, Wyo
ming, alter an investigation of the anti
Chinese riots at Rock Springs, adjourned
witnout returning any indictments.
In the town of Campton, Illinois, Albert
Uook snot nts wile and mother-in-law,
killincr the latter, who was 74 years old.
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luaumuj. auu ittuuijr injuring his w lie.
During a heavy earthquake at Palermo.
Mexico, a tnree-utory house ielt, and tne
occupants were buried in the debris
bight corpses were recovered from the
ruins.
Prominent cattlemen of Elko county.
Nevada, have received orders from the
Interior Department at Washington to
immediately remove their fences from
public lands.
One of the buildings of the Insane Asy
lum at Warm Springs. Montana, was
burned and three of the inmates perished
in the flames. It is not known now the
fire originated.
A row of thirteen eieht-storv ware
houses in Aldergate street, London, was
almost totally destroyed by nre recently,
with the content. Th loss aeereeated
about $! 5.000,000.
At Rochester. New York, the marriaee
is announced of Miss Anna McFarland
and John Banks, her coachman. She is
the daughter of wealthy parents and has
$70,000 in her own right.
Admiral Molt, commander of the French
forces in Madagascar, telegraphs that the
French and Ilovas troops have fought a
battle at Passandova Bay. The French
loss was 21 and the Ilovas 00.
Robert White, a red 53. an emnlove of
Forepaugh's circus, was killed by the
elephant Em press. The same animal killed
a young man at O'Brien's circus grounds,
.rmiadtipma, a lew weeas ago.
The London underwriters have exnressed
their belief that the bark Staghound, which
sailed irom Portland, Oregon, on March
luth, loaded with nonr and salmon for
Queenstown, has foundered off Cape Horn.
Five Chinamen were killed in a shaft of
the Wellington, B. C, colliery. They were
descending in a cage when a car on top of
shaft rolled down the shaft and crushed
them to death. Three others on the case
escaped.
Four men armed with revolvers took
possession of a Pennsylvania express train
near Allegheny Furnace, and while three
of them stood guard over the passengers
the fourth relieved them of their valuables.
The conductor was badly beaten and one
of the passengers was stabbed in the hand.
A sensational storv is nublished in New
York of the matrimonial experience of
Mrs. Samantha Goodie, who recently mar
ried her son without knowing it. Upon
discovering their mistake they fled in dif
ferent directions. The bridegroom is Har
rison Turner, who amassed a fortune in
Califfornia.
At New Britain. Conn., an omnibus
crowded with school children was struck
by a train, the son and two daughters of
the owner of the vehicle being fatally in
jured. On the same day a similar accident
at Chambersburg, i'a., resulted in the
death of two brothers, aged respectively
seven and four. j
A gipsy band has been reported at the
police office at San Jose, Cal., as having
stolen 81.820 from a fruit grower named
Joseph Walters. They induced him to
bury the money and sent him on on a wild
goose chase to Oregon, promising him a
large sum ot buried treasure, un nis re
turn from Oregon he found neither gipsies
uor the money.
At Bully Creek, near Ontario, Oregon, a
man named Jackson and his hired man
were murdered by some uskHOwn person
who split their heads open with an ax.
Mrs. Jackson was also cut in the head
with an ax. and when she arose from her
bed the murderer shot her. A hired man
and Jaekson's son. aged 7, were sleeping
in a hay stack about fifty feet from the
house. The stack was fired, but the boy
crawled out and escaped. The man's body
was burned to a crisp. Two children
asleen in the house were not molested.
The perpetrator of the deed is supposed to
beanelgnbor.
THE RIVAL RESTAURANTS.
How the Proprietor of One was Brought
to It a n.
"Leonldas Baxter P queried' the Justice,
looking over his glasses at the prisoner in the
box.
"Yes, sir," humbly replied that individual
"Is that your right namer
"Yes, sir," responded the prisoner, with
dignity. "You don't think I would play any
tricks on the court, I hope."
"You are accused of being in a state of in
toxication yesterday afternoon. What have
you to gay for yourself V
,lTnie, your honor. I was Intoxicated ; hut
I had an excuse. Listen, before you send me
np. I am a restaurateur by profession.
Across the street from my place is an eating
den kept by a shock-haired, red-eyed man by
the name of Lobster, who has been my bane,
my curse." '
"Well," interrupted the Justice, "I am In a
hurry, Mr. Baxter."
"One moment longer, your honor," replied
the prisoner, "and I am through. . Last
week I found that my expenses were seventy-
five dollars and my receipts seventeen dollars
and thirteen cents, I had only a hundred
dollars left. I had to make a rlr some way.
so I hired a young man, bought him a neat
suit of clothes and started him out with a big
placard fastened to his coat which read:
" I eat my lunch at Baxter's I'alace ltes-
taurant.'
"As he walked up the street he attracted
universal attention, and business began to
pour in. 'About noon I noticed that it sud
denly stopped. On going out I discovered
the cause of the trouble. Lobster had seduced
my sign, filled it up with rum, and stationed
it in front of my door. Its clothes wre cov
ered with mud, and Its hat was jammed over
its head down to the chin. Of course, no one
would come In a place with such a sign.
That experiment cost me $40. Tho next day
a. brilliant idea came to me, and I hastened
to seize upon It. I went to a dime museum.
and engaged the fat man and tho living
skeleton. I paid them f30 apiece, my last
cent. I put a huce card on the fat man a
back, which read:
" 'I eat at Leonidas Baxter's.'
"And on the thin man I put another sign:
" 'I don't.'
TOT CHANGED SIG-S.
"Then I started them down the street arm
In arm. The effect was prodijrion Crowd
followed in their wake. And the populace at
once began to Inquire: 'Where Is Baxter's V
'Let us go to this wonderful restaurant.' I
was in ecstasies of joy. I contemplated rent
in? the next room and hiring ten new waiters.
When I was in the midt of this delirium of
delight I was again brought face to face with
despair. From tbe summit of my prosperity
I was burled into the depths of ruin. It was
the work of Lobster. I waited all morning,
with my room full of waiters and my kitchen
crowded with toothsome viands, but no ono
came. I say no one I should make an ex
ception. A deputy sheriff came in and closed
my doors. Then, your honor, I took to drink .
to drown my sorrow. But I shall bo re
venged on Lobster."
"What did he do to Injure you this timer'
inquired the justice.
"What did he do" repeated the prisoner;
"he changed the signs 1"
.Wanted tbe Other Covington.
Mr. S. F. Covington is a student of ethnol
ogy, and takes a great interest in Indian
relics and old pottery of all kinds. Hia son,
Mr. John L Covington, is Just the pposite,
and pays much more attention to the inven
tions of the present than he does to those of
the past. Not long ago a stranger came into
the office where the two gentlemen were sit-;
ting, and, addressing the younger, asked if
he was Air. Covington. Being told that he
was, the stranger stated that he was the
owner of some very fine specimens of Indian
pottery, and had come to Mr. Lovington to'
dispose of them.
"I wouldn't give you a dime for 17 cart
loads of the rubbish," said the matter of fact
young man.
"You wouldn'tr said the stranger.
"No, sir, I would not," emphatically re
plied Mr. Covington.
"Why, a friend told me that you would be
d d fool enough to buy the whole lot If I
would call upon you.''
"You have got hold of the wrong Coving
ton. My father there is the man you want
to see."
She Would Not Acknowledge It.
l-M TtHii!im
Grandmother: "I'd like to go to the rink
with you, Johnny."
Johnny, who don't want to be bothered
with .the old lady: "Certainly, grandmother,
I'll be glad to have you go with me, but yon
jrill have to own up to the doorkeeper that
you are over 15 years of age." . i
Uranumotner: "men x guess iu wait
awhile yet, Johnny."
When the Sqaaller Rules the Roost. :
Chicago Ledger.1 I
Volumes have been written, giving diagrams
and specifications, as to how children bhould
be trained up, and yet as soon as a man be
comes a daddy he throws his judgment over
board, shuts his eyes to reason, and lets the
squaller rule tho roost.
Puck: The ten-penny nail falleth in the
highway and maketh a loud nolso, and is
known among men: but the carpet tack
standeth upon its head in the silent siaces of
the night, and getteth fa his fine work upon
the soles of the just and tho unjust. Selahl