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Saturday Morningaf
BY THE
' DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
THE INDEPENDENT
HAS THK
FIFJSQT JOD OFFICE
, IH DOUGLAS COUNTY.
CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
And other printing, including
Lsrge and Heavy Posters and Showy
Hand-Bills. '
Neatly and exptdltlously executed
AT I?OIlT3L.4.JNI PRICEQ.
Ob Yent..
Him. Hvnttai..
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Tbene are tbe tens for those paytn? la advance.
The Ihdefrspkxt offer fine inducement to ad
vertisers. Terms reasonable.
VOL. 7.
ROSEBURG. OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. 1883.
NO. 52.
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PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer la Watchta, Cloebe, Jewelry,
Speetael ad Ej-a-la,
v "r . And Fall Llae of
Clarsi Tcbaecos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper adjuument of spectacle ; always on band.
Depot fifths Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec-
- ; - taeles and Eyeglasses.
t OFFICE First door south- of post offiee, Koe
boi?. Oregon
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"DE. H. W. DAVIS,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
OFFICE Oil JACKirOS STREET,
Up 8 aire, ovtr 8. Marks & Co.'s New Store. -
M AHOFJEY ' S SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland -Jtxm.
JIahoney, Prop'r.
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The finest of wines, liqnora and cigars in Doatt;
Iaa county, and the beat
ii i jL.LiA.it r rrjkjaxm
in the BUta kepi la proper repair: .
Parties traveling oa the railroad wilt find tUs
place very handy to visit daring the ftop
. ping of the train at the Oak
. f land Depot. Give me a call.
. Jao. HAnOKSY. .
JOHN FRASER, '
Home'' Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring. Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURES
Have the best stock of
lu rn i tu re sou Uj of fortius J
And all of nay own manufacture.
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No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call beiore purchasing elsewhere.
jeer- all wokk WAKRANTED.-a
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND, - - OREGON.
Hiobard . Thomaa, Prop'r.
THIS HOTEL IIAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
A for a number ot years, and haa become very
popularwitn the trayeling public lrstclaaa
' SLEtPINC ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel at the d?pot of the Railroad.
AVINQ ON HAND A LARGE LOT OF FINE
Spanish Merino
t offer the umo for sale, Cbea for Cash, at my
Farm la Douglas county, six miles from Rosebur
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. '-STANTON,
., Dealer in '
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand
loent of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
W00D,
WILLOW
AND ULASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
SCHOOL
J3 O O Kg
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kind, of STATIONERY, TOYS and
KAKQY ARTICLES,
To Buit both Young and OlVi.
irmxrrs asp sells legal tenders,
- furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on Ban Francisco.
orrrrrve T-?aa a-J Pirn ft ?
ALL OF BlfiST QUALITY
A II- Oil T3I3K.S
rromptly attended to and Goods shipoed
5 I fin rtx
Adtlress, Ilttcheney & Beno,
- . ; Portland. Oreeon.
Rotlcc.
Notice is herel v eiven. to hfm It .nay concern, that
Vb umlersitf ;d ha boen awarded lha tontr;t for
it.ninv the Douglas connt VauiM-r tor tiie ptriol ol
ttvii vein All iiernis In need ol aiistince irom - aid
county must first procure a. 'certificate tq that effect
lrm atT nit-mir of theonmy Brd, and pre-ent it
tn. nna of the followintf named person, who are author-
taod to, and a ill care for those prcsentint? such certificate
W. U. Butten, Bosehurg ; L. L. Kelloirg, Oaklawl ; Jr
Hron, Looking OtaM. Dr. Jfcrotrgs is authorized to
tarnish medical iJ to all persons in need ot the Mine
who have beeu declared supers 01 noufias county.
Wil. B. CLARKE, Supt. ot Poor. 1
Rrwasoaa. Or. Feb. 16. 1380
"'Among the passengers by the Servia is
Dr. Otto Wil helm Struve, director of
the imperil observatory at Puetowa,
Russia, whose object in visiting this
country is to test the object glass lately
completed by Alvin Clark & Sons, of
Cambridgeport, Mass., on order of the
Russian government. The glass is the
largest ever constructed, being thirty
inches .in diameter, for ; the nse of the
Lick observatory in California. As was
the case with Russian glass, however, it
yriW require several years to complete it.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TEIXQOAPU TO DATS.
Col. Corley
March 29th.
died
at Norfolk, Va., on
A fire destroyed much timber in the
forests near Allentown, Pa., recently.
It is estimated that the reduction of the
public debt for March was $9,500,000.
The old Augusta, Ga., opera house
was destroyed byj fire April 1st. toss,
825,000. - j
A movement is on the tapis to hold an
Irish convention . at Montreal on domin
ion day. ; . ' l j
Five sharp earthquake shocks were
felt in San Francisco on the morning of
March 30ih. J
Journeymen cigar makers of Philadel
phia, ask an increase of wages from $1
to $2 per 1000. j .,.
The Chicago Young Men's Christian
Association celebrated its 25th anniver
sary on April 1st. j
The Scran ton, ( Pennsylvania steel
company has started new mills, employ
ing over 1000 men
Coinage at the; Philadelphia mint in
March aggregates , 6,687,752 pieces,
valued at $1,114,073.
Two hundred Mormon converts left
St. Louis recently for Utah, They are
mostly from the South.
v Serious floods are reported from
Charkoff and vicinity, in Russia. Several
persons were drowned.
Cold weather reported in Virginia,
Tennessee and other Southern states, in
juring fruits and crops.
A Lordsbury, N. MA dispatch says
that several more whites are reported
murdered by the Apaches.
The geographical society of Frankfort,
Germany .recently advocated the resump
tion ot tne iroiar expedition.
The estimated cost of the grand ball
given by Mrs. vanderbilt at JNew xor&
recently, aggregates $250,000.
, The bodies of two colored men were
found at Rocky Fork, Mo., recently, sup
posed to have been murdered? .-
The annual - meeting of the society of
the Army of the Potomac will meet in
Washington May 16th and 17th.
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During the recent terrific gale off Yar
mouth, England, six fishing smacks went
down and founteen sailors were lost.
A fire that occurred in Cape street.
Montreal, on April 1st, destroyed several
buildings. Loss, $60,000 to $80,000. -
Perry H. Smith the well-known Chi-
cago millionaire, was placed in the insane
asylum at Madison, Wis., on the 31st
nit.
Ine craters of Mount Hitna are again
active. liumDiings ot tne volcano are
frequent, and signs of earthquake are ap
parent. " j
A large number; of French Canadians
have left their eastern homes to work on
the Canadian Pacific railroad in Biitish
Columbia.
Forty armed men entered Lexington,
(fa , recently, to lynch Jones, the wife-
murderer, but left, as the jail was heav-
iiy guarded.
r
The acting secretary of the treasury
has appointed Captain T. N. Burrill, of
Ne York, chief of the bureau of engrav
ing and printing.
Secretary Unandler will accompany
the President on his trip to Florida next
week, and will make an inspection of the
fensacoia navy yard.
Inquiry at Staunton, Virginia, into the
fatal poisoning of six lunatics in the asy
lum, has not developed who put the poi
bop into the medicine.
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A Heavy snow storm in JNew xork on
the 31st nit. At the same time Philadel
phia was visited by a sleet storm, break
ing down many wires.
It is rumored that President Arthur
intends appointing, a southern man to
succeed the late Postmaster-General
Howe in that department.
Mrs. Meaker, ot YYiudsor. v t., con
victed of killing her daughter some time
ago, was hanged Marcn outu. one per
sisted in her innocence to the last,
In a railroad collision on the Vandalia
road, near Brazil J Ind. , on the 21st nit.,
Wm. btewart, nreman, was killed, and
Wm. Brannon, engineer, fatally hurt.
Gen. W. Conkling, who shot and
killed Wilbur H.
Haverstick recently at
New York, and
who was acquitted of
the crime byPo,
ice Justice omith, will
be re-arrested
British Columbia is considerably ex
cited over the wholesale importation of
Chinese in that province, and a move
nient is on loot to get a jaw passed pro
hibiting further importations.
Mary Ann Dooley, of Chicago, was ar
rested in New York on March 30th, on
the charge of poisoning her mother, the
latter Having died about a montn ago
under suspicious: circumstances.
The outbreak of the inhabitants of
Cordova and neighboring town of Rou-
melia, who rebelled against the im porta
tion of foreign woolen thread, have been
suppressed. Auere were jk arrests.
A Cincinnati dispatch of March 30th
says: A land slide near H Mason, on the
Cincinnati & Southern railroad, threw
the north bound passenger traiu from the
track. Sixty persons are reported in-
jared, but none killed.
The ' acting secretary of the treasury
nas .appointed a commissioner to ex
amine the books; money and accounts of
the treasurer 01 tne united mates, pre-
paratory to the
transfer of that omce to
the recently appointed
A. M. Wyraan,
treasurer.
A number of insmance companies of
.New York, through their attorneys, filed
a petition in
the court of claims
against the United States for the recov
ery of upwards of $50,000, the amount of
their claim against the Geneva award,
with interest. j
The mercantile agency of R. G. Dun
& Co., in thei quarterly report, show
the number of failures for three months,
ending
March
BOth, to be 2806, against
2127 in
the
same penou . last . year.
Liabilities are. proportionately increased.
In Canada the figures show failures of
UiH : JitSK IUB1 KI ' SMUOII - AU IU7 UlOb
quarter in 1882
Liabilities, $5,000,000,
against $2,000,000 in 18S2.
A seizure has been ordered of the Dub
lin United Irishmen.
Minister Lowell has refused to inter
cede inberialf of Michael Boyton.-
The university of Toronto has organ
ized a rowing club to compete in Ameii
can college matches. ' :
Although Kansas for eleven years bad
a capital pumsbment law, nobody nas
been hanged except by lynchers.
The stockholders of the Philadelphia
exposition company have resolved to
wind up the affairs of the company.
The Malazassy envoys atBoston devoted
March! 29th to visiting and receiving
merchants and shipmasters engaged in
the Madagascar trade. -Wi?
Twenty-one of the 26 persons arrested
at Ballinrbbe for complicity in the mur
der of Ferrick, in June, 1880, have been
released from Dublin castle..
At a meeting of the board of the San
Francisco supervisors recently, a resolu
tion was adopted providing for the issu
ance of bonds to the amount of $500,000,
at five per cent interest.
Four frame Jhouses in Alleghany City
were destroyed by fire on the 29th. Two
twin bovs, aged fifteen months, children
of David Faulkner, who lived in two of
the rooms, were cremated. t
Dispatches from Tucson of March 28th
sav that the Apaches, Creeks and other
Indian tribes of Arizona and Indian ter
ritories are on the warpath, killing more
than fifty whites within the past few
The following body snatchers have
been sentenced at Philadelphia recently:
Robert Chew to two years imprison
ment; Levy Chew to 18 months; Mc
Namee, eight months; Phillett, four
months.
A Washington dispatch of March 28th
says: JSX-.Fresident .Diaz ot Mexico was
presented to the president to-day by Sec
retary Hope. He was accompanied by
several of his party, Minister Romero
and General Foster.
The Ohio wool growers, assembled in
convention recently, passed resolutions
condemning the action of congress in
lowering the duty on wool, and resolved
to support hone but men in favor of high.
tarin for omce hereafter.
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At Camden, S. C, on the morning of
March 31st, Oliver Bristow, colored, was
hanged as an accomplice of Joe Wilson,
also colored, iu the murder of M. F.
Donell last November. Bristow per
sisted in his innocence till the last. . '
N. L. Dukes, of TJniontown, Pa., re
cently acquitted of the murder of Capt.
Nutt in that place, received a notice on
the 27th nit., to leave town within 28
hours; but Dukes refuses to comply with
The request and the citizens are greatly
excited. 1
Colonel James L. Corley, agent for
several 'insurance companies, cut his
throat at a hotel in Hampton, Va., March
29th. He was. a graduate of West Point
and had a commission in the army be
fore the war, and was General Lee's
quartermaster general of the army of
northern Virginia.
A Yreka dispatch of Marcb 29th says:
Mrs. Luddy, an elderly lady, was found
in a ditch about five miles north of Cal-
l&hans. She was missing since Sunday
night. The ditch was only three feet
deep. ! She had been having much
trouble with her neighbors about water.
The coroner's . jury found that she was
strangled by parties unknown.
News from Richmond, Now Mexico, of
March 27th, says the Indians attacked
the camp of Palmer and Emerick, about
ten miles east of York's ranch, at 3 o'clock
yesterday. Jack Haynes and a stranger
were killeu. The other men in, the camp
escaped to York's ranch. - The military
line between this point, Fort Bayard and
Jbort Cumminga, is abandoned, it is
reported that a band of Indians are se
creted in the mountains north of York's
ranch. : .-':
Late dispatches from Ireland give ac
counts of the suflermga of people in the
distressed uisincis continue. -jurs
- , i i. j t nr
Power Lalor, who is feeding 5000 chil
dren, draws a fearful picture of the little
ones dying in their mothers' arms, and
fainting from want of food at school.
Collections in aid of the sufferers are
now being made in Catholic churches,
and in several localities. No help is being
received from Englishmen. An extreme
ly bitter feeling prevails among -them on
account of the recent explosion, and in
some towns Irishmen are menaced with
dismissal from employment and even
worse. '
A Tucson dispatch of March 27th says:
The Indian situation grows worse, bil
ver advices say that a party that arrived
there from San Carlos reports that the
young bucks in the San Carlos reserva
tion were very restless last week and
showed every evidence of an early out
break. They talk of victory and said
that a big chief in Mexico said that he
would soon be at oan uarios. A courier
states that Indians have been constantly
passing through the reservation and Juh's
band in Sonora, carrying conimunica;
tion and information The band raiding
southeastern ; Arizona is drawing near
the reservation and increasing in num
bers daily. As far as heard from 21 peo
ple have been murdered in .seven days.
Advices from SOnora place the depreda
ting band at 150, who are being driven
to the Arizona border by Mexican troops.
A Pittsburg dispatch of April 1st says:
This afternoon, while two boats were
making: up tows of coal for shipment
south, j7 barges belonging to Joseph
Waltonj & Co., containing 45,000 bushels
of coal ' broke from their moorings at the
pier at Smith field bridge, and were swept
down the river. On- the way down the
runaway fleet first encountered the
steamer Abe Hayes, with a tow of six
barges,! containing 72,000 bushels. The
Hayes was sunk and the barges cut loose.
The steamer Dick Fulton was next
struck,! and a to,w of seven boats holding
lTo.uw bushels of coal sunk. The Ful
ton was damaged, but managed to get to
shore without -sinking. Another boat,
with 25.000 bushels, collided with the
steamer St. Lawrence, and was sunk.
Two more boat?, with 48.000 bushels.
I sunk at Manchester. A number of tow-
1 boats were started in pursuit of the run-
away 8, bat at last
accounts the portion
of the fleet which
escaped sinking was
j pretty well down the Ohio river.
Lent in Jfew York.
"As a European
society lady to me
institution," said a
at 'the Lotus Club
reception on Monday, "Lent has been
thoroughly naturalized in America. It
has taken the first step toward it; that is,
you know "
"Declared its " intentions?" I sug
gested.'.'; ::A v j; ."
"Yes, that's it, declared its intentions,
but it stilf lis an Englishman, and per
haps it is greatly to its credit. The in
fluence of Lent here is over-estimated.
The number of those who obey it through
devoutness is not one-twentieth as large
as the number of those who obey some
of the requirements for other reasons.
Some rest from frivolity because they,
are tired ; some to saye money ; some tx
cause they have formed out their time
otherwise ; a few because their church
commands it, and the multitude affect
merely because their fashionable
neighbors do, and it is considered 'the
thing."
"How about fasting?"
"Well, there is no mortification of the
flesh among the' Protestants, but high
church people and ultra fashionables eat
smaller steak and more black Jaass. The
fish markets thrive. It is getting to be
'the thing now for people of a religious
turn of mind to abstain from some pet
pleasure during this season instead of
changing their food. I know a man and
his two sons who are great smokers, and
who do not touch a cigar during the
whole of Lent. I know a young fellow,
a clerk in a bank, who goes to see his
girl only every other Sunday night dur
ing the season of penance. And I know
a young Bchool girl bless her dear
heart! who abstains from chewing-gum
because she likes it so much. You may,
laugh, if you feel like it, but it has a
pathetic side. I know a good, ! tender
hearted old lady, who always eats a little
less than she needs every meal in Lent,
because she wants to deny herself some
thing, yet she always did, in every seas
on, eat as if it was a disagreeable duty.
Her little granddaughter saw that she
hadn't hit on her favorite enjoyment and
said to her, 'Grandma, if you want to do
something that is real hard, why don't
you stay away from funerals?' You see
the old lady a chief amusement in life is
in going to funerals, just as you go to the
aters. She watches the obituary column
of the Tribune to see what's going on
each day, and she selects the church that
oners the best program and starts off to
sit in one of the front pews. Her son
told me that she attended more than 100
.funerals in a year, and the little girl's
suggestion struck me as being quite to
the point.
I dropped into Pmard s. Tney are, as
it were, artists of the appetite; marine
artists, one might say decorators of the
alimentary canal. "Why, no, said
Pinard the younger, "Lent is not spe
cially a social obstruction. We have nine
parties, for instance, to-morrow gather
ings of all sorts, including Hart's ball of
500 over in Brooklyn : and I don t think
five persons out of a hundred will send
regrets or stay away on account of Lent.
Wo don t see a great deal Qf. difference
between January and February in the
displays and dinners of society people.
For instance, here is Miss Carolina King
Duer s birthday dinner to-night. The
table is set in that back room.'.' I
glanced into the back parlor. The table
was almost round, 15 feet long and 12
feet wide, with a vast expanse in the
middle, filled in with a magnificent
oval bank of ferns and flowers . a foot
high,! and covering the whole area with
greetings spelled in blossoms. .Twenty
plates were laid around it, and before
each gentleman's plate, was a silken card
bearing his name, wreathed with graceful
embroidery of flowers; and Je"f ore each
lady's plate was a beautiful hand-bag of
white-satin, bearing upon it s side an ex
quisite painting of some tender or pic
turesque or comical scene in life, not
"store work,"but every piece painted by
the young hostess herself. If Tiffany
had : furnished them they would have
cost from ten to twelve dollars apiece, so
elaborate and artistic were they. The
menus were not yet on the table-proba-bly
they were not as expensive as those
at A8tor's dinner three years ago, where
they were of silver and cost fifty dollars
apiece.
. A Curious Complication.
"You won't give me away!" she ex
claimed earnestly, as the Question An
swered man handed her to a chair and
assumed his meet sympathetic aspect.
'!( mamma knew I came to you .there
would be no end of fuss! But what
could I do? I want advice, and I knew
you would give it to me."
"What m it all about?" inquired the
Question man, kindly.
"I am in ever so much trouble, and I
want to do what's right," she sighed. "I
wish I could see my way clear."
"Sunday school teacher? asked the
Questions man, eyeing her keenly!
"Yes," she replied. "I am a Sunday
school teacher, and there are two young
men in love with me. One is so good
that he makes me cry to look at him, but
the other is worldly. He smokes and
plays billiards and all 'that sort of wick
edness, but he takes me out and gives
me oysters and cream while the other
one is home learning liible verses.
Every time I go with him I feel so
wicked, and when the good one comes
around to go over the lesson with me, I
feel that I am not worthy of him. Oh,
what shall I do?"
"Don't the good one ever set up any
thing ?" asked the Questions man, scratch
ing his chin.
"Oh, no I He says that oyster houses
and ice-cream saloons ' are snares and
abomination?."
"He's right about that !" murmured
the Questions man.1
?'And he says that I should not inflame
my soul th stews or cool it off with
ice-cream. .
-"Which of them has the most money?"
queried the Questions man.
"Oh, the good young man has the
most money," she replied. "But he
never takes me to the theatre or the
opera. We go to church together and
he talks so beautifully of the 'sweet by
and by.' Yon ought to hear him!"
"What croea the other fellow talk
about?"
"Oh, he always talks about rackets,
and wants to know where I would like
to go next. But I must give one of them
up, and I want you to advise me which I
shall keep."
"It's a pretty plain case, I think,''
commenced the Questions man. "You
should hang on to the bad man who sets
'em up." ... h
"Think so?" she exclaimed, blushing
with delight. "Do you really think I
would be happier with him?"
"Stick to him until you marry the
good one. That's obviously your dnty
as a Christian. A girl never gets so sick
of anything as of a pious lover who never
Bets anothing up. You cling to the bad
one who buys cream and oysters and
maybe you'll convert him. If you don't,
you've got the other fast for the marry
when you get settled down." -
"That's what ma said," faltered the
beauty, modestly casting down her eyes.
"And il you agree with her 5 don't see
what else there is for me to do."
"Strikes me that's curiojs advice," re
marked the law reporter, as the girl
went out."
'Don't you bother, young man ," ob
served the Questions man, with severity.
"That pretty little Sunday school
teacher isn't going to marry either of
them. She just wanted my advice to
hold over that pious chop, and you mark
my words, she'll work both of those fel
lows for all the candy, cream, oysters,
matinees, operas and things of that kind
there are iu the city of Brooklyn from
now to the time they all go out of sea
son. , 1
"And do you call that Christian
ad-
vice?" demanded the law reporter.
"Don't mind, sonny.i Shell go around
and tell what a nice lot of fellows we are
here and it will increase the influence of
this paper among the churches more than
any reporting you can do from now till
that girl gets married, and don't ycu for
get?" ,
And then the Questions man went
back to his work, while! the law reporter
looked at him with the 'awe that worldly
wisdom always inspires in the minds of
the innocent. Brooklyn Eagle.
Harvard and Vale.
As a gentleman is known by his speech
and bearing, the Harvard statement of
the case doubtless is its own good war
rant. "I know a man who had twins so
much alike that the only way to tell
them apart was to send one to Harvard
and one to Yale. Then one came back a
gentleman and one a Connecticut rough."
For native and ingenious modesty this
has its parallel in the historic description
by. the Kentuckian of the guests-at a Cin
cinnati dinner party, iwhioh he had at
tended: "There were! present, sir, one
Kentucky gentleman, whom yon know,
sir; one Huguenot from the old South
state; a Virginian Poindexter stock;
one Wolverine, two (Buckeyes, and a
Qanker son-of-a-peddler from Massachu-
BCbliSi. .
Harvard, at least in former years, has
produced more writing men than her
practical and sturdy ival. It was the
custom of the elder sort to carry their
literary wares to the market town adja
cent. The new generation, however,
with the keen instinct of youth, perceives
that a broader life, a eurer market, a
more various intellectual growth, are to
be gained in the national metropolis,
Harvard men are thronging in the ranks
of the learned professions here, and only
the briefest residence is needed to make
them typical i. e., cosmopolitan J New
Yoikers. The staff of the new comic
journal, Life, is composed almost wholly
of bright young Harvard wits, -who have
found Boston a good training school, but
have discovered that New York hence
forth is the ground for successful liter
ary careers.
An Actress
Transformed
ble Statue.
Into a Mar-
It may interest you to real about the
wonderful new costume which Mary
Anderson brought out a few. nights ago
as "Galatea." Talk of high art in stage
dressing, nothing that; way could exceed
the article in question; It was designed
by Frank Millet, and we are, I suppose,
to expect something reniarkable when a
man turns costumer. Miss Anderson and
others who have appeared as a statue
turned to life have managed to be at
least white like marble, but never before
has cloth been made to look so stony.
Mr. Millet gets all the praise, and that is
not right, for every woman knows that it
is far easier to design the costume which
turns Mary "into statuary than to
realize it in cloth. An exquisite Greek
tunic falls over her tall, slender figure
in a perfection of graceful drapery, and
a kind of heaviness suggestive of marble.
This curious effect ; is produced by
weighting the fabric with ' metal at
various points, by shirring and stay
ing- in at just the right points,
and by fastening : certain portions
to her body with concealed bands. Not
only was she a statue when she posed as
marble on the pedestal, but when moving
; aoout tne stage every attitude was per-
i fectly statuesque. The tjostume seemed
capable of being thrown out of artistic
and beautiful lines. Her face, neck, and
arms were whitened; her wig was quite
like cut stone, and her feet were in
stockings that fitted each separate toe. If
she wore anything at all under this drap
ery it was not enough to conceal any
movement of her limbs. .
VrxEQAB fob the Sick Room. There
is a French legend that during the
plague in Marseilles a band of robbers
plundered the dead and dying without
injury to themselves..: They were im
prisoned, tried and condemned to die,
but were pardoned on condition of dis
closing the secret whereby they could
ransack houses infected with the terrible
scourge. They gave the following recipe.
which makes a delicious and refreshing
wash for the sick room: Take of rose
mary, wormwood, lavender, rue, sage
and mint, a large handful of each. Place
in a stone jar and then turn over it one
gallonof strong, clear vinegar; cover
closely and keep near the fire for four
days, then strain and add one ounce of
powdered camphor gum. Bottle and
keep tightly corked. It is very aro
matic, cooling and refreshing to the sick
room, and of great value to nurses,
A Western young man of 18 eloped
with a married woman of three-score.
His was a minor fault.but she acted like
sixty. .
A New Enoch. .
"What're you doing here?" demanded
a policeman of a-chap whom he - had
caught peering in at the window of a
Fnrman street house last night.
"Nothing" replied the man, jamming
his hands in his pockets and gazing up at
the sfey.
"Didn't I hear a 'woman yell in that
house a few minutes ago?" continued the
policeman. .
"Shouldn't wonder," returned the
man, carelessly. "In fact, I know you
did, for I heard her myself."' -
"What's going on in there?" queried
the policeman, peeping-in.
"I guess he's licking my wife," sug
gested the stranger. '
; "Do you live here?" asked the police
man, in some astonishment.
"I used to, but I kinder fell out o the
habit lately," was the indifferent re
sponse. "What kind of a man are you, to stand
out here and let another man lick your
wife?" demanded the policeman.
."I think ho can do it better than I
can," growled the stranger. "I never
had any luck at that kind of a job and if
there's any one who can make a success
of it I'm not going to interfere with his
fun, now you bet!"
"Who is the man? Do you know i
him?" ' -
"Never saw him before," replied the
stranger. "I guess he and she thinks ;
he's her husband." i
' "And it's your wife?" ;!
"Sure! Only I've been away a long
time shipwrecked, you know and I ;
just got home. I saw 'em at it, and I
thought I wouldn't interfere."
" "Do you want me to arrest him?" in
quired the policeman, contemplating
the returned husband with amazement.
"Just as you like," returned the other;
utsu V J VU U1VU 14 VU lJ '"'Hv Ul
the matter." ;
"But don't you propose to do any
thing about it?" -
"Well, now, you just bet! Just as
soon as that man winds off, that job he's
going to be dry, and if I've got a quarter
anywhere he' going to get a drink, and
don't you interfere; now, you hear me?"
And the policeman strolled off down
the silent street, while Enoch, bending
low his chin upon the window that con
tained Annie, absorbed the scene, then
turned him round as Philip came the
while a little ahead of a flat iron and took
him by the arm. And so they went, and
Annie, left alone, wot wot that Enoch
had been so near, and had him shekels
in his pocket wherewith to assauge the
grief Of Philip.- Brooklyn Eagle.
"More Sinned Against than Sinnin
sr."
1 rom the xiome Daily iiulletm we
have the following sad and pitiful ac
count of a recent attempt at suicide in
that place:
Wednesday nigbtona of the women
known as the "Red Light Girls" was ar
rested for being drunk and disorderly
and lodged in one of the cells in the city
hall building. It, fortunately for the
girl's life, happened that Policeman"
Brown at half-past ten that night passed
around the cells, and in looking into
them discovered a woman hanging, ap
parently dead. The key was promptly
procured and the woman cut down, and
her body fell to the floor, to all appear
ances lifeless. It seems she, after sober
ing up a little,' discovered her condition
and where she was.and concluded to end
her miserable life by suicide. She took
one of her stockings, a very fine one, and
a pink silk garter, and with these made a
strong cord, and after fastening one end
to the ceiling of the cell, and the other
formed into a noose around her neck, all
was ready to start on a long journey.
She then threw her weight on the cord,
and was in a fair way to take her own
life. She certainly would have been
dead before Policeman Brown discovered
her if she had not had the weight all on
the back of her neck. and as it was she
escaped a suicide's fate by the narrowest
chance. A few years ago some ; foul
wretch, called man, possibly under the
pretension of marriage.seduced this then
but an innocent girl from virtue's sacred
walks, and, demon that he was, and hell-
deservingas he is, abandoned her, and
she, homeless, friendless, shameless and
alone, sells her soul to keep her body
alive, and at last remorse and a quick
ened conscience prompts her to hasten
the end. In pity let us draw the curtain
over her sin "more sinned against than
sipning."
More than 4000 floral crowns were
heaped around Gambetta's coffin in the
Palais Bourbon, and a writer in - Figaro
estimates their value at $100,000. Paris
and its environs produced them all,
natural as well as artificial. It is reck
oned that the daily sale of natural flowers
in Paris realizes about $2U,OUO. The
flowers most in fash ion at present are the
gardenia, which sells at five francs each
flower; the lily of the valley, worth ten
francs the pot; the queen rose and the
purple rose, the Spanish carnation and
Yiolet. Of the latter a large number
come from Nice: but they have not the
perfume of those grown around Paris.
The camelia.at one time so much prired,
is now quite or.t of fashion.
The Seneca Indians in western New
York are on a legal war-path They can
not rart with their reservation lands
without the consent of the general gov
ernment. About 80 years ago a strip of
the Cattaraugus reservation was sold to
the Ogden land company: and the In
dians now hold that the consent of the
government was not obtained. Several
farmers have received notices to vacate
their possessions, ;but Jndge Albert
Haight dismissed the first that came
before him, and the prospect of serious
difficulty is not alarming.
A freight train of eighteen cars de
parted from Bloomington, His., on the
8th of March, for Dakota, and severa
cars will be picked uj between Bloom
ington and Pontiac. The cars are laden
with household goods, farm implements
stock, etc., and were accompanied by
twenty-hve of a party of eighty who wil
ail reacn .uasota wis week and locate
As many more will follow in a few days
The whole party of emigrants will con
sist of ltu persons, including many lead
ing iarmers ana ousiness men. unicago
i Times.
SHORT BITS.
The close-fitting street garment worn
by youthfnl damsels is called .the "um
brella case." ,
Miss Catherine Wolfe, of California,
good looking, and worth $16,000,000 m
her own right, is said to receive an offer
of marriage every week. What lots of ...
fun she must have.
An Irishman once received a doctor's
bill. He looked it carefully over, and
said he had no objection to paying for
the medicines, bnt the visits he y ouid re
turn.-
A new book is called "Unspotted from
the World." It evidently refers to Cap
tain Howgate. - He's "nnepotted" as far,
as the poliSe are concerned. Norristowa
Herald, ' . . )
Statistics show that the largest number
ofmarriages are by persons under twen
ty-three years of aga. Does this prove
that as people grow older they become
wiser? Chron.-Herald.
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A man always looks through his pock
ets four times before handing his coat to
his wife to have a button sewed on, and
even then he is filled with a nameless
fear until the job is completed.
A New York druggist is going to open
twenty-four soda fountains in London
this summer. It will be fun to see the
Englishmen sit down to wait for the foam
to settle. Detroit Free Press.
Whenever you see a man coming out
of a country drugstore, wiping his mouth
with the back of his hand, you may know
that the town is suffering under a com
bined attack of malaria and license law.
A Philadelphia baker is having a new "
oven built, which he thinks will beat the
world. It is modelled alter a .modern
hotel, only the central flew haa no eleva
tor in it. Phil. News. v
The clergy do not object to the theatre
so much on general grounds as upon the
special ground that the comparison of the
attractions of pulpit and stage is not al-: v
together flattering to the former. I
A "college graduate" writes to inquire .
if we understand "the generic impor
tance of the term 'fragment?' " We do.
We look upon th eword as the biography ,
of the first man that ever attempted to
trim the tail of a Georgia mule. ;
The scorn which is really kindly and
appreciative, tells much more effectively
than the scorn which is purely con
temptuous. Who you can afford frankly
to praise as you praise a child there '
is no danger of returning to adore.
The Milwaukee hotel clerk feay s he was ;
too busy with his office duties to alarm
the guests in time for .them to escape
from the flames. He was probably mak
ing out their bills so that they could be
presented to . relatives who claimed the
bodies. f.
Impudent little boy (to a very fat old
gentleman, who is trying to get along as
fast as he can, but with very indifferent
success) : "I say, old fellow, you would
get on a jolly sight quicker if you would
lie down on the pavement and let me roll
yon along." - .
Professor Julien asserts that the brown
stone houses of New York will entirely
crumble away in less than one thousand ;
years, so ruinous is out atmosphere.
That settles it. We shall not bnild a
brownstone house. It wouldn't be econ
omy. Nor. Herald. '
Knickerbockers all through: "Qh,
yes," exclaimed Mrs. Suddenricb.es, "our
aunt's sisters were Knickerbockers all
through, and theyused to give balls and
parties in the old cologne days which for
swelldom" and style beat the Dutch!"
New York Jtlail and Express. ,
Fifteen genuine Sioux Indians who are
seeing Gotham amuse the people at a
hotel by eating with their hands and
dressing outlandishly. As they wear silk
hats they think they are civilized. This
is a very common mistake among other
people besides Indians. Lowell Citizen.
A young gilded (or as they Dy now,
nickel-plated) youth of New York, or- -dered
a pair of pantaloons of his tailor,
and returned them , as too tight. "You
told me to make them skin-tight," said
the man. "Yes," said the youth, "I can
sit down in my skin, but I can't in
hese." ;-'":;:,;.".;.-
A judge having fallen asleep durinff a
trial,lawyer X. suddenly ceased pleading
and exclaimed: "I will wit until his
honor wakes before finishing." "But,"
answered the opnesing counsel, "per
haps his honor will wait until you have
finished before waking.' From the
French.
A little boy was out with his bi?
brother shooting. They came to & church
yard. There, in a tree, an owl was sit
ting. . The boy with a gun shot it, to the
horror of his little brother, who ex
claimed: "Oh, Tommy! what have you
been and done? You have been and ehot
a cherrybum?" .
J1 don't want no rubbish, no fine sen
timents, if you please," said the widow
who was asked what kind of an epitaph
she desired for her late husband's tomb
stone. "Let it he short and simnle
something like this: "William Johnson,
aged 75 years. The good die yoan?."
Brooklyn Eagle. .
Rev. Mr. Talmage says the eye winks
thirty thousand times a day. - When
the owner of the eye enters a drug store,
the clerk behind the soda-water fountain
can pick the right wink out of a hundred
the first time. Mr. Talma ere fails to ex
plain this wonderful mind-reading pow
er on we part oi the clerk. Norm town
Herald. , . v.,-..
Mr. de C. is in visit with a painter: be
looks at a portrait. "What beautiful
painting! That is hot of tone in devil;
bravo!. That is living; that i3 superb!
But for what have you chose a model at
figure idiot?" "Take guard, mister, that
is my sisterl" "Ah, Sapristil Thousand
pardons that is true; at the resem
blance, I should have ought me in to
poubt." -
Madame B. called upon the instructor
at the boarding sciool where her boy is
being educated anl expressed her aston
ishment that the pupil was .fifteenth on
the list.when only ten scholars had corn
peted. "I beg jour pardon, madam,"
said the instructor, "this is how the
error happened. As your boy is always
last we put him down the fifteenth, for
getting that there were five pupils ill t:
absent."