WHAT THE MINES ARE DOING
THE LOWER YUKON NEWSJHE JOHN DAY VALLEY
American Mining Camps in That;
Section Are Doing Well.
Seattle, July 4. The Post-Iutelli-rencer
has the following special news
from Skagway:
The first news of the season from the
remote American mining camps of the
lower Yukon has just come out to Skag
way. Latest arrivals report a new strike
100 miles back of Circle City, on three
creeks known as Faith, Hope and Char
ity, which empty into the Tanana. A
new strike is also reported on Walker's
fork of the Forty-Mile, which was
once before staked. A stampede has
resulted, and others have rushed in and
re-staked the country.
Fine pay has been struck on a num
"ber of claims not heretofore considered
- payers. Eureka, struck last summer,
has proved a wonder so far, and has a
pay streak 80 feet wide and four ieet
deep. It is expected Eureka will this
year yield $1,500,000.
The Rampart Camp.
Col. Wigin believes the Rampart
camp is as good as the creek camp ot
Nome, and thinks many of the overflow
at Nome will push up the river to
Rampart and help make it a big pro
ducer. He has the belief there is gold
in Koyukuk, but feels that the develop
ments are scarcely enough yet to war
rant great faith in the camp. How
ever, from all sources come the report
that many are rushing into Koyukuk.
E. Gj, reiont, who has just arrived
from Forty-Mile and other promising
American-'camps, reports the clean-up
on Jack Wade this spring has been
demonstrative of a good camp. The
creek is scarcely prospected, yet No. 7
below upper discovery yielded $80,000
at this year's clean-up. Lenont pre
dicts a great future for the oreek, and
estimates the output for next season at
$2,000,000. He is going after thawing
machinery for the creek. He has a
nugget from the creek weighing six
ounces and worth $116. Gold of Jack
Wade, also of Rampart, is worth $19
an onnce. Jack Wade gold is mostly
in nuggets.
Ex-Uut. McGniw'l Rich Claim.
Of those who have been among the
most . successful is the man who is
working the claim of ex-iiovernor John
H. McGraw, of Washington, known as
No. 8, on Little Manook. It yielded
the last winter $80,000 of which $8,000
or $9,000 was nuggets picked out from
the pay dirt by hand. Last year Mc
Graw thought he had worked out the
pay streak.
No. 6, on Little Manook, this winter
yielded $60,000. No. 7, on the same
creek, gave $40,000. Nos. 21, 22 and
28, Little Manook. jr., produced $60,
000. Hoosier and Big Manook have
also proved rich. Hillside property on
Rig Manook has yielded as high as $9
to the pan.
Idaho bar, on which a rich discovery
was made in 1898, was all staked at
that time, but not much was taken out
and the dump was not washed because
of scarcity of water, but has been re
staked. RICH COPPER STRIKE.
Good Values on Old Claim la a British
Columbia Camp.
hoenix, B. C, July 9. An im
portant ore strike has been made on the
War Eagle claim in this camp. The
strike occurred in the west drift of the
100-foot level, about 175 feet from the
shaft, where a raise was being driven.
The ore body dipped a little to the
east and was followed 1 1 feet, when
the workmen went back and continued
work on the raise. Up to date the
men have gone through 25 feet of clean
chalcopyrite ore and have not reached
the further wall. The width of the
ore body, therefore, has not been deter
mined. Resident Manager Buck has
had an average test made of the new
strike, and received satisfactory re
turns, the ore running over $20 in cop
per and $1.60 gold.
COMING TO THE FRONT.
Toroda Creek Mines Again Attracting
Attention.
Republic, Wash., July 9. Toroda
creek mines are again attracting atten
tion. Seven companies are working
and some of them expect to cut their
ledges within a few days. Some of
the ledges have shown large values on
the surface, and it was this that tnrned
the attention of mining men in that
direction. Among the mines that had
fine surface showings and carried ex
ceptionally high values was the Ox
ford. As high as 255 ounces of silver
and $15 in gold per ton were obtained
from the ore near the surface. The
owners decided to run a tunnel and
now have it in 65 feet. A few days
since a stringer 12 inches in width was
cut in the tunnel, which is believed to
be an off-shoot from the ledges. The
ore carries about 200 ounces of silver
per ton and from $10 to $12 in gold.
The tunnel will have to be extended
about 40 feet to cut the ledge. There
is also a parallel ledge that can be out
by the tunnel by extending it another
100 feet. The ledges vary from 7 to 9
ieet in width.
Milling News and Gossip.
Several large nuggets have been
found on the Mary Ann placers in Che
saw camp, Wash.
. A stir is reported on West Fisher
creek, 80 miles from Libby, Mont,,
where $50 ore is reported in an old
claim.
It is reported in Ferguson, B. C,
that a rich strike has been made in the
Nettie L. A vein three to. four feet
wide of solid galena, carrying more
copper than usual, was exposed.
In the Muldoon group, near Belcher,
12 miles east of Republic, Wash., a
strike in copper is reported, made in a
240-foot tunnel.
A strike is reported on a olaim be
tween Delta and Carbon Center, Idaho.
The ore is high grade milling, and was
found near the surfaoe. No assays
have been made.
The extent of the Slocan, B. C,
camp is remarkable. Every mountain
ide for a distance of 25 miles long and
nearly as wide is dotted with mine.-?
and prospects producing in payiug
quantities gold, silver, lead and copper.
Many Locations Reported on Dixi
and Strawberry Spurs.
Portland, July 9. The Oregonian
has this news from the niiutun center
of the John Day valley in Eastern Ore
gon: I'rairie City, in the upper part of the
John Day v.tlley i attracting consider
able notice as a miuiug center.
Placer minimi has been carried on
in the valley muoe the early 's, and
the quartz ledges were known to the
old settlers 25 years ago. Many quartz
locations have been made in the past
two years, and if the 50th part of them
amount to anything, the Prairie City
country will certainly be a large pro
ducer of gold, copper and cobalt.
The mineralized belt, aside from the
placer deposits which are found in
every creek, comprises Dixie Spur of
the Bine mountains, eight miles north
of Prairie City, and Strawberry Spur,
nine miles south. Dixie Spur is about
25 mlies long, and skirts the northern
side of the valley. Its highest point
is Dixie Butte, which has an elevation
of 7,000 feet. Strawberry Spur is 40
miles long, extending from Canyon
creek along the southern bound
ary of the valley, into Malheur county.
Its highest point is Strawberry Butte,
which has an elevation of 9,000 feet.
The principal development has been on
Dixie Spur. Here along the forks of
Dixie creek, and in Quartzburg dis
trict, several properties have been
opened. Principal among them are
the Standard, the Lone Star, the Key
stone, the" Sherbondy, the Clayton, the
Present Need and a few others. The
Strawberry country has hardly been
touched. The Cleavers think they
have a Treadwell in the Oregon Won
der. Others aie of the same opinion.
J. F. Rodgers, who has examined
the country on Strawberry and Dixie
Spurs, says the formation is porphyri
tic granite, pierced by porphyry dikes.
A third rock is pure gray granite carry
ing little porphyry, but much mica.
There is also quite a bit of serpentine,
and diorite without quartz.
H. E. Stewart, one of the owners of
the Lone Star, says the Dixie Spur
country is unquestionably a copper reg
ion, although he is mindful of the fact
that gold predominates in the rock.
The copper belt, so far as known, ex
tends, he says, four miles north from
Johnson's arastra along both sides of
the east fork of Dixie creek. There is
cobalt in the rock, as has been demon
strated by the work in the Standard
group, but Mr. Stewart thinks consid
erable depth will be required to get at
the large deposits ot this metal. Cop
per is oxide and carbonate at the sur
face, but is found in the sulphide form
with depth. On the surface the cop
per is streaky and bunchy, but as depth
is attained it solidifies and increase? in
quantity. This is the experience of all
the claim owners in the Dixie creek
country.
There is considerable placer mining
in and around Canyon City. Probably
$35,000 was taken from the creeks
within two miles of town laBt year.
At Canyon City the Humboldt Com
pany is working two hydraulics on
Canyon creek, taking its water from
ditches. A number of Canyon City
men are interested, among them Ira
Sprout, Fred Yorgensen and Herbert
Hunter. No figures of the annual out
put are obtainable but it is believed to
be about $15,000.
THE ROSSL AND DISTRICT.
Group of Camps in the Summit Show
Some Activity.
Spokane, July 9. Considerable as
sessment work is being done at Sum -mit
camp, about eight miles northwest
of Ola 11a, B. C. It is described in the
Rossland Miner as rather a series of
camps at the headwaters of the six or
seven creeks which rise there. Three
of these, Keremeos, Cedar and Olalla
creeks, flow eastward to Keremeos val
ley, while Fifteen-Mile, Sixteen-Mile
and Twenty-Mile creeks flow west and
then south to the Similkameen. There
are good trails up all these creeks from
Olalla and pack horses can get up quite
easily.
The celebrated Nickle Plate mine is
situated near the head of Twenty-Mile
creek, and there are several high grade
propsrtlies within sight of it.
"Northwest Notes.
Tkspay roll of Rossland, B. C, camp,
rrms over $100,000 per month.
Boise's first ice plant will be instal
led and in operation within 15 or 20
days.
Petitions are being circulated in Lin
coln county, Or., protesting against the
proposed location of fishtraps in Ya
qulna bay.
Bids are being solicited for the erec
tion of a two-story brick hotel in Lake
view, Or. The owners will be Miller
& Lane, who paid $2,500 for a site last
week.
Professor E. H. McAlister of the de
partment of applied mathematics at
the University of Oregon has been ap
pointed by the regents as supervisor of
the drainage system to be put in at the
university this summer.
The county court of Union county.
Or., has ordered road supervisors to
prosecute all persons who damage the
highways by permitting irrigation
water to run in the roads.
A Pacific coast Indian institute is to
be organized. A conference of educa
tors interested in the training and edu
cation of Indians, will take place at
Chemawa, August 14 to 19. Washing
ton, Montana, Idaho and California,
will be represented and perhaps sev
eral other Western states.
One day last week two of H. R.
Hereford's thoroughbred yearling bulls
became involved in a fight, near the
ot springs. Lane county, Or., wh
both fell into the spring and were
scalded to death.
A proposition for the location of a
flax-fiber mill at Eugene Or. has been
submitted by E. Larimore, manager of
the Scio factory. The bonus is $2,500
in cash, 2)4 acres of land for a site,
ind 1,500 acres in flax. It is repre
sented that the plant will cost $25,000,
and will employ regularly about 30
and.
THE DULL SEASON.
Rall'A-ny Earnings Are Good, However,
and Kusiness Failures Few.
Bradtsreets' says: Business is unus
ually dull at this season, and this year
uo exception to the general rule is re
marked. A review of the past six
months, however, gives little comfort
to pessimsts. Bank clearings, it is
true, are smaller by about 11 per cent
than they were in the first half of 1899,
but railway earnings are about 10 per
cent larger, and business failures, as re
ported to Bradstreet's, are the fewest
repotted for 18 years back, with liabil
ities of failing trades the same, with
me exception, and that last year, since
1892. Winter wheat has about all
been harvested in the Southwest and
the yield there has been very large.
Copious tains in the Northwest, too,
have apparently worked some improve
ment, judging from the more cheerful
tone of advices received from thence
this week.
Wool is dull and manufacturers are
snpplyingonly actual wants.
In manufacturing lines dullness and
weakness are most marked in products
of iron and steel.
The settlement of labor troubles is
effected in the better demand for build
ing materials at affected centers, while
rains in the Northwest have allowed
white pine manufacturers to open their
works, and give employment to many
thousands of men.
Sugar has been marked up again this
week, coffee is higher, while tea holds
the full advance scored on the outbreak
of the Chinese troubles. Wheat, in
cluding flour, shipments for the aggre
gate 3,018.832 bushels, against 3,184,
144 bushels last week.
Business failures in the United States
for the week xuuntier 196, as compared
with 185 last week.
Business failures in Canada number
25 as compared with 18 last week.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Market.
Onions, new, 1 c.
Lettuce, hot house, $1 per crate.
Potatoes, new. lc.
Beets, per sack, 90c$l.
Turnips, per sack, 75c.
Carrots, per sack, $1,25
Parsnips, per sack, 50 75c.
Cauliflower, California 90c $1.
Strawberries $2 per case.
Cabbage, native and California,
$1.00 1.25 per 100 pounds.
Tomatoes $1.50 per case.
Butter Creamery, 22c; Eastern 22c;
dairy, 17 22c; ranch, 1517c pound.
Eggs 20c.
Cheese 12c.
Poultry 14c; dressed, 14 15c;
spring, $3.50.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $11.00
12.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $19.00.
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $23.
Barley Rolled ,or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.25;
blended straights, $3.00; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
flour, $3.00; rye flour, $8.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $18.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $80.00.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed bee)
9teers, price 8c; cows, 7c; mutton 8c;
pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 8
10c.
Hams Large, 13c; small, 13 1i
breakfast bacon, !2c; dry salt sides,
8c.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 5657Kci
Valley, 57 s; Bluestem,60c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.70; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 85c; choice
gray, 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $14.00 15.00;
brewing, $16.00 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $12.50 ton; mid
dlings, $19; shorts, $13; chop, $14 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $10 11; clover,$7
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $6 7 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 35 40c;
store, 25c.
Flggs 16c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 18c;
Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
3.50 per dozen; hens, $4.50; springs,
$2.003.50; geese, $4.005.00 forold;
$4.506.50; ducks, $3.004.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 14 15c per
pound.
Potatoes 40 50c per sack; sweets,
22c per pouna.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab
bage, l'2c per pound; parsnips, $1;
onions, 1 c per pound; carrots, $1.
Hops 2 8c per pound.
Wool Valley, 1516o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 10 15c; mohair, 26
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3.c; dressed mutton, 7
7Jic per pound; lambs, 5c.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
$5.006.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4.004.50;
cows, $3.50 1.00; dressed beef, 62
1o per pound.
Veal Large, 6)7c; small, 8
8)ac per pound. :
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 13 15c per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 15c; Val
ley. 1820c; Northern, 10 12c.
Hops 1899 crop, ll13o per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 18 19c;
do seconds, 17)-ac; fancy dairy,
17c; do seconds, 1516jc per pound.
Egga Store, 13c; fancy ranch,
17c.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $12.5013.50.
Hay Wheat $6.5010; wheat and
oat $6.00 9. 50; best barley $5.00
7.00; alfalfa, $5.00(36.00 per ton;
straw, 25 40c per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 60 65c; Ore
gon Burbanks, 80c 90; river Bur
banks, 8565c; new. 70c$1.25.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,
$2.763.25; Mexican limes, $4.00
5.00; California lemons 75c$1.50;
do choice $1.75 2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.50
2.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates, 663o per
pound.
LONG-LIVED PEOPLE.
A FEW CURIOUS INSTANCES OF
GREAT LONGEVITY.
East Indian Who, It la Claimed, Was
370 Years of Age at the Time of Hie
Death Authenticated Caaea of Per
aona Living; to Be Over ISO Years Old.
If Maffens, the historian of the Indies,
:uu be believed, one Niemens de Cugna,
a native of Bengal, lived to the aston
ishing age of 370 years. Although the
story is confirmed by Lopez Castegu
ods, who at the time of Cugna" s death,
iu 1556, was historiographer royal of
Portugal, and although It is altogether
the best proved instance of so great
longevity, its correctness has been
somewhat doubted. But whether or
not Cugna or his friends mistook the
time of his birth by a century or two,
tjiere is no denying him the distinction
of the greatest age of which we have
anything like reliable data. He is de
scribed as a man of great simplicity of
habit, and of very easy and quiet man
ners; though wholly illiterate, he was
possessed of a memory so remarkable
that he could recite the minutest de
tails relating to most of even the daily
events of two and a half centuries. He
is said to have had many wives during
his long life, and it is related that the
color of his hair and beard changed
several times from black to gray and
from gray to black.
The next greatest instance of longev
ity known to us is that of Peter Zoc
tron, a French peasant, whose death is
recorded on Jan. 25, 1724, at the re
markable age of 183 years. Immediate
ly succeeding Zoctron is the instance
of Louisa Truxo. This person was a
negress of Tuscomia, in South Amer
ica, who, in October, 1780, had reached
the age of 175 years, and was living in
so good a degree of health that she
promised many years in addition.
However extraordinary these facts,
a family by the name of Rovin, which
resided about 1730 in Tunlrvax, France,
furnished three particulars, each of
which is without a known parallel.
(1) The combined ages of the parents
amounted to 338 years, the father, John
Rovin, being 174, and the mother,
Sarah, being 104. -(2) They had been
married 147 years, and what is nearly
as extraordinary, "they lived through
out this long period in much peace and
contentment." (3) At the time of their
death they had three children living,
the youngest of whom was 116 years.
England next enters the list, and fur-
i nlshes three remarkable Instances of
long life in Henry Jenkins, Thomas
Parr and Lady Acton. The first, a na-
j tive of Yorkshire, lived to the age of
io years, ana once gave evidence in a
court of justice on a circumstance
which had happened 140 years before.
In his time three queens and one king
were beheaded, a Spanish and a Scot
tish king were seated on the throne of
England, and a score of revolutions had
spent their fury and wrought their
effects. Jenkins died in 1670 at Aller-
ton. Lady Acton, an Englishwoman of
quiet manners and even temper, was
the widow of John F"rancis Acton. She
was born fu 1736, and her death, as an
nounced by the London Times, was at
the very mature age of 137 years.
Fireside.
SURPASSED ALL OTHERS.
The London Girdlera Give the Cost
liest Feast on Record.
The Worshipful Company of Girdlers
estimate that the luncheon given by
them to the Secretary of State and
members of the Council of India re
cently works out at something over
2,000,000 a head.
The history of this remarkable feast
is absolutely unique. In 1634 a Mr.
Robert Bell, then master of the com
pany, ordered from the East India Com
pany a Persian carpet at a cost of 150.
For this carpet the East India Com
pany, now represented by the Council
of India, never received payment.
It was only recently that the present
master of the Girdlers, the lord mayor,
discovered that at the ordinary rate
of compound interest the sum they
now owed amounted to no less than
167,000,000!
The Girdlers consulted together and
came to the natural conclusion that
they could not meet their obligations.
Not wishing, however, to appear dis
honorable, they suggested that they
should entertain the Council of India
to a luncheon, which should wipe off
the score.
The Council agreed, and the Girdlers,
as a result, entertained them to a lunch,
over which the lord mayor presided.
There were seventy-five guests, so
that each one, so to speak, consumed
a meal costing over 2,000,000. London
Daily Mail.
DOG MAIL CARRIER.
Nep Wait for the Train and Takes
Chars e of Mailing.
Out in Kansas, where so many things
are different, there is a big St Bernard
mail carrier. He lives in one of the
little "cross roads" towns, where the
only store, which is also the postofflce,
Is thirty rods from the railroad track.
The train always goes whizzing by at
a good rate of speed, whistling as it
approaches. Nep hears the whistle and
hurries to the crossing and waits for
the coming of the mail. The mail
clerk kicks the leather bag out of the
door and it falls somewhere in the vi
cinity of the road. Nep at once goes
to the sack, and carefully taking It by
the middle, so that neither end will
drag on the ground, walks sedately to
the store, where he deposits his bur
den in a safe place.
He does this every day, in spite of
the weather, and the whole country
knows and is proud of the dog mail
carrier.
Nep is 4 years old, is 2 feet 7 inches
in height and weighs 250 pounds. He
has no difficulty in carrying the sack
though the mail is often very beav.i
with the weekly papers from the couu
ty seat, for bis teeth are strong and he
has carried over 100 pounds as a test
of his strength.
Knew His Father.
Dr. Macnamara, an ex-teacher, ap
peared recently at the Coburg Road
Board school. Old Kent road, and de
lighted an audience with anecdotes
bearing upon board school humor, eayi
a Loudon correspondent in the New
York Tribune. He began by telling a
story against himself. He was recently
at a prize distribution at Kenntngton
Road board school, and told the boys
that he would not see them again for
twelve months. He ventured to express
a hope that in the meantime they
would behave themselves and not get
into mischief. One boy, evidently re
garding him as wishing the company
the compliments of the season, repliedi
"The same to you, sir."
For precocity, however, the boy who
was being examined in mental arithme
tic in an East Lambeth school surpass
ed the Kennington scholar.
"Supposing," asked the examiner,
"there were six glasses of beer on thU
table and your father drank one, how
many would remain?"
To this the boy replied:
"None, sir."
The Inspector chided the pupil with
the remark:
"You don't know the simplest mental
arithmetic," but the retort came
promptly:
"No, and you don't know my father,
sir."
A congressman tells the story that,
being selected to deliver a eulogy on a
deceased colleague whom he had not
known, he consulted Mr. Reed, then the
speaker, upon what to say. "Say any
thing except the truth," was the reply;
"it's customary."
After a recent ecclesiastical gather
ing, as the clergymen were trooping
into luncheon, one of the most unctuous
observed: "Now to pui a bridle on our
appetites." "Now to prj.t a bit between
my teeth," retorted the Bishop of Win
chester, Dr. Randall Davidson.
A gem from the records of a Missouri
court, given in an address by Hon. Wil
liam Wallace, is the following lucid
verdict in a lunacy cese: "We, the
jury, Impaneled, sworn, and charged to
inquire into the insangulnlty of Heze
kiah Jones, do occur in the affirmative."
An autograph-hunter, who was very
anxious to obtain the signature of the
poet Campbell, adopted the familiar
strategem. Having cjme across a line
in one of his poems, the meaning of
which appeared to b obscure, he wrote
a short note to the author, asking him
to interpret the worJs in question. He
received the followir.g laconic reply:
"Sir In return to your note, I send you
my autograph. Thomas Campbell."
Sir William MacCformac, the presi
dent of the Royal College of Surgeons
of London, is at times quite absent
minded. He is an indefatigable work
er, and often to save time when study
ing in his laboratory has a light lunch
eon served there. Once his assist
ants heard him sigh heavily, and, look
ing up, saw the doctor glaring at two
glass receptacles on his table. "What
is the matter, doctor?" asked one of the
youngsters. "Nothing in particular,"
was the reply, "only I am uncertain
whether I drank the beef tea or that
compound I am working on."
A short time ago some American la
dies who were visiting Rome, wishing
to attend a Papal reception, made their
appearance In ordinary court dress,
having availed themselves to the full
est extent of the decollettage. Pope
Leo was horrified when he first noticed
them, and determined to take steps fop
its prevention in future. A certain well
known cardinal was instructed by him
to inform the ladles of their breach of
etiquette. The cardinal was a man of
the world, and realized that the matter
must be approached with the utmost
tact and delicacy; after due considera
tion he approached the ladies, and, ad
dressing them, said : "The Pope is old
fashioned and does not like decollete
dresses; but," he continued, waving his
hand lightly in the air, "for me I am
quite accustomed to them, yon know, I
have been so much among savages that
I do not mind them." It was some lit
tle time before the ladies grasped the
full significance of the cardinal's words.
Camille Saint Saens, the brilliant
French composer, is extremely near
sighted. One evening at Paris he was
at a party, when the host asked him to
play something. He for a long time re
fused to do so, but, being earnestly
pressed, he took his seat at the piano.
His hair was tossed back, his eye
gleamed with excitement. Now he
would bend over the piano, then he
would throw himself back; and all the
while his fingers would run over the
keys as he extemporized in the most
brilliant fashion. The company were
delighted. After an hour, pleasure gave
place to weariness. Two hours after
ward some of the guests began to leave;
their example quickly became contagi
ous, and by degrees nobody remained
in the room except the master of the
house (the hostess had long since gone
to bed). Saint-Saens, more inspired and
more tumultuous than ever, utterly un
conscious of the incidents around him,
played on as fast and as frenzied as
ever. At last, about 2 a. m., seeing
Saint-Saens playing with more ardor
than ever, the master of the house,
completely overcome with fatigue, beJ
came desperate, and, laying his hand
on the composer's shoulder, said: "I
beg your pardon, my dear sir, but pray
are you not a little fatigued?" Saint
Saens replied, without leaving the pia
no, "Not in the least!" and to show how,
fresb he was, struck into a new impro
visation with wilder enthusiasm than
ever. The host gave up, stole out of
the room, and went to bed. At day-i
break Saint-Saens rose, gravely bowed
to the tables and chairs, and went home
completely ignorant that the chairs and
tables had been for hours his only audi
nee. How It Came About.
Browne How did that Congressman
get his reputation as a brainy man?
Towne He was once interviewed by
a bright reporter. Brooklyn Life.
A fool spends his money in dissipa
tion and a wise man spends his for rep
reattea.
SU1TGSE WE SMILE.
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM
THE COMIC PAPERS.
Incidents Occurring the
World Over-Sajrings that Are Cheer
ful to Old or loung-Funiij Selec
tions that ttvsry body Will Enjoy.
Ups and Downs of the Game.
"Ah," said the preacher who was
staying to dinner and being entertain
ed by little Harry, "I hope you will
never learn to play cards. It is a prac
tice that drags people down. Cards
have caused the downfall of many,
many a person who would otherwise
have amounted to something in this
world."
"Is that so?" the boy tswered, "I
thought it was just the other way."
"I can't Imagine how you came to get
such an idea," the good man returned.
"Well, last night, when pa had com
pany in the parlor, every little while
I could hear them saying they were
raising one another." Chicago Times
Herald. Bat It Hadn't.
"Here's the clockmaker come to fix
our sitting room clock," said the funny
man's wife; "won't you go up and get
It for him?"
"Why, it isn't upstairs, Is it?" replied
he, lazily.
"Of course it is. Where did you think
It was?"
"O! I thought it had run down."
Philadelphia Press.
A Mean Insinuation.
Banker Now, professor, let us sit
flown in that quiet corner of the con
servatory for a pleasant exchange of
thoughts!
Professor You are Incorrigible! You
are always thinking of driving a profit
able bargain! Fliegende Blaetter.
How He Felt.
The Captain Keep the tiller down,
I tell you!
The Landlubber (at the wheel) I
can't keep anything down, Captain;
aot even my dinner! New York World.
Forced to Economic Action.
"I've discovered how these health re
sorts work."
"How is it?"
"Well, when a man gets there and
finds out what his biUs are, in a few
weeks he either -dies or gets well
enough to go home." Chicago Record.
Tnrn Tables.
Larry Th' Spar Athletic Club are
goln' to hould th' nixt foight in wan iv
1 thlm bouses phere they kape locomo
tives.
Denny Phwat for?
Larry Because It's a round house.
Chicago News.
His View.
"Do you believe In the brotherhood of
mankind?" asked the serious man.
"I do," replied the man who oper
ates on the stock exchange. "But I
must say there has been a pretty brisk
family quarrel in progress all these
centuries." Washington Star.
Bappj Under Compulsion.
"Do you live happily with your hus
band?" "Of course! I'd like to see him try to
live unhappily with jne!" Das Kletne
Witzblatt.
The Most EssentiaL
Stubb "Here is a list of the failures
since the beginning of the year."
Penn "Is the peach crop among
them?"
A Crying Evil.
Mrs. Sparenotrod "Marjorie, it was
for your own good that I punished you.
There are some things that a mother
knows best"
Marjorie (between sobs) "I don't see
I don't see why mothers couldn't all
be grandmothers!" Puck.
They Get Used to It.
Old Gentleman "Don't you think It
is cruel to shut up a bird in a little cage
like that?"
Little Girl "Oh, I don't know. I
have a pretty good time, and I live in
a flat." New York Weekly.
They Are Numerous.
Ida "I don't believe these keys are
of genuine elephant's teeth."
May "How funny that sounds."
Ida "What, dear?"
May "Why, a piano with false
teeth."
Took Him to Be an Umbrella Mender.
Ida Elmore received a terrible Insult
this morning.
May What was it?
Ida Why, an old lady saw the han
dles of his golf projecting from the bag
and asked him bow much he would
charge to mend an umbrella. Chicago
News. ' -r
Better Late than Never.
"I hope this proposal of mine hasn't
taken you completely by surprise, dear
est?"
"Well, yes, it has. I long ago aban
doned all idea of it." Life.
All Entitled to Their Opinion?.
Friend Of course, some folks object
to dogs and parrots.
Aunt Sally Yes; and some object to
folks who object to dogs and parrots.
-Puck.
Recognized a Friend.
Mack O'Rell What caused all that
commotion in the jungle section o' the
circus parade?
Luke Warme Why, some v. oman
along the route hung her tiger skin
rug out of the window. Chicago News,
Have You Heard of This Before?
Mr. Tom Cat Really, Maria, it was
not a bootjack! I I got lip in the dark
and struck against a a door knob!
A Barber's View.
Barber Did that young man take
you to the theater in a carriage?
Daughter No, he took the elevated.
"I thought he would. I knew he was
too mean to live the moment I set eyes
on him."
"How did you?"
"He wears a full beard." New York
Weekly.
A Conscious Humorist.
"Mark Twain wants to be President."
"Well, he's way ahead of nearly all
the other aspirants."
"How so?"
"Why, the others are absurd and
don't know it; he is absurd and knows
it." Indianapolis Journal.
An Ounce of Prevention.
"Billy, I want you to go with me to
call on the young lady I'm engaged to."
"No; I'd better not; I'm so dreadfully
Imitative I might catch your enthusi
asm about her." Indianapolis Journal.
A Spring; Idyl.
Mrs. Smallot Why don't you burn up
that pile of trash in the yard?
Mr. Smallot Wind's th' wrong way.
The smoke would all blow in our own
windows. New York Weekly.
In the Critical Moment.
He Let me kneel in the dust, at
your feet. Miss Maggie, and tell you
how much I adore you!
She I beg your pardon, sir, but there
Is no dust in our carpets! Fliegende
Blaetter.
Almost Human.
"O, George," tearfully exclaimed his
wife, meeting him at the door. "That
parrot you brought home the other
day!"
"What's the matter with him?" asked
Mr. Ferguson.
"I don't know. He won't tell me.
When I ask him what the trouble Is
he just swears dreadfully!" Chicago
Tribune.
A Lady's Maid.
Mistress Why did you leave your
last situation?
New Maid To tell the truth It was
too uninteresting not a dispute, not
a scandal. I am accustomed to live in
the very best families, and I could not
endure the bourgeois atmosphere.
New York World.
Giving Him a Hint.
Mr. B. It Is hard to tell a woman's
age by her looks.
Mrs. B. I should hope so. Why, this
old hat of mine makes me look like
sixty. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Hardly Pleasant.
"It vexed me horribly, I tell you."
"What was that?"
"Why, when Mabel's husband pulled
a tooth for me (he's our dentist, you
know), he gave her the dollar right be
fore my face and eyes to go off and buy
Ice cream." Indianapolis Journal.
Making His Toilet.
Citizen What are you rubbing your
head against that barbed wire fenc
for?
Tramp I am combing my hair. ,
His Ailment.
Mr. Penn Young Gaswel isn't well
to-day.
Mr. Pitt What ails him? Is It gripT
Mr. Penn No, it isn't grip this time.
It is open-car-i-tis. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
He Put Out the Fire on Her Hat.
A curious accident took place in the
Casino at Monte Carlo. A frend of
mine was standing in the Atrium a few
nights since, when she heard a scuffle
and turning round was surprised to see
a gentleman quietly but forcibly press
ing his square topped felt hat down
over the head of a lady standing be
side him. Struck by the extraordinary
action my friend approached nearer,
and then she saw smoke issuing from
under the hat. It appears that the lady
in question had been standing near the
naked gas lights, which hang unpro
tected for the convenience of smokers,
and her tulle toque caught fire. If it
had not been for the prompt, though
unconventional action of the gentle
man who extemporized an extinguish
er, she might have suffered consider
ably more than she did Paris Messen
ger. Although the stinging apparatus of a
bee is less than a quarter of an inch
in length, it leaves a red-hot impression
about a quarter of a mile long.
The joys of yesterday are dead and
those of to-morrow are not yet bora,
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