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RX)SEBUIlG,;OREGON,'SATtJIlDAY, JUNE 30. 1883.
NO. 12.
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watchmaker; jeweler, and
ofiician.
' all work warranted.
JDtaler In Watchtt, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles wed Eyegias,
And a Foil Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Gootfs.
Tbe only reliable Optometer In town for the
proper adjustment of Spectacles ; always on
nana.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
taclesand Eyeglasses.
OFFICE riret door south 6 post office, Row
bury, Oregon, . -
Boot and Shoe Store,
ROBBBUIIG. OGN.,
On Jackson Street, opposite the Postoffice. Keeps
on band the largest and best assortment of
Kaatern and San Francisco Boots and
bon, Callers, Slippers
And eveiything in the Boot and Shoe line and
BBIXS CHEAP for CASH.
Foots and Shoes Made to Order FerrYct
Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all
my work.
XI E IT A. I It I IV O
Neatly
Done
On Short Notice.
I keep alwari on hand
TOTS Aim IIOTIONS.
"Musical instruments and Violin Strines a Spe
cialty. I,UI')N L.ASOK.SRH.RG.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
. OPPICE-OS JACKSOS STREET.
Up Stain, over P. Marks & Co. 'a New Store.
(VIAHOftEY'S SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jum. Mahouey, Prop'r.
.
The finest of wines, liqnors and cigars in Dorg
las county, and the beat
BIL.L.IAIID TA.HIL.E3
in the State kept in proper repair?
parties trareling on the railroad win find Uiia
place rery handy to visit daring the atop
ping of the train at the Oak
' land Depot. Giva me a call.
' ' Jap. aaAHOIiEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WJXBUU,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
TIIDtllTllDCr nave the beat stock of
rUnilllUnCi. inrnlturesonth of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Kesidents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
g- ALL WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL
OAIOASD,
OREGON.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
rpam HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ol years, and has become very
popular with the traveling public, k i rat-class
SLEEP. NC ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hot-! t tii i..-Kt of the Kailroad.
H. C. STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coods I
Keeps constantly on hand
ment of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
school
BOO Kg
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
B
UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Draffs on San Frnnciaoo. .
SEEDS JSEEDS !
ALL EIRDS OF BEST QUALITY
ALL ORDER
rromptly attended to and Goods shipDed
with care.
Address, llacheney & Benn,
. ' . Portland. Oregon.
When a young man says his girl is
"worth her weight in gold," ha is not
putting a very high valuation upon her,
unless she is a very heavy girl. At this
rating 120 pounds of girl would be worth
about $30,000, and aDy young man who
doesn't think his best girl worth more
than $30,000 ought to be kicked clear
over the front gate by an infuriated
parent and have the dog set after him.
Middletown, Del., Transcriipt.
The stammerer who told the editor
that he had brought him some Je-June
poetry spoke better than he knew.-Boa-ton
Daily Advertiser.
Ribbons are
Aresse.
used to excess on white
LATEST NETVS SUMMARY.
BI TtXGKAFU TO DATC
At the recent regatta race at Pullman,
111., Hanlanwon. , :
Gen. Sir Wm. Knollis, retire&,is dead.
He was born, in 1797. 3,
Seventy persona were .drowned in
floods in Sibfia recently.
Henry Ward -Beecher celebrated his
eventieth birthdav Jane 25th.
, , , .
Two men were killed by a railroad
accident at East Minneapolis, J ana 20th..
Mayor Michael Nolan of Albany, New
York, resigned June 22d. He gives, no
reason.
At Havana there were fifty -two deaths
rom yellow fever during the week end
ing June 23d. v
The report that the difficulty between,
China and France had been settled lacks
confirmation.
Two passenger vessels recently col
ided off the English coast in which 25
lives were lost.
The closing services at Harvard uni
versity took place June 22d, and was
argely attended.
Lancaster, Pa., still has smallpox in
its mid3t. five deaths having occurred
in one family recently.
Machng has been arrested at Berlin, on
a charge of complicity in the murder of
Justice Young, shot five years ago. .
At a recent cabinet meeting in Paris it
was positively statod that the queen of
Madagascar had been dead six months.
It is stated that a cash dividend of from
to 4i per cent, will be paid on North
ern Pacific preferred stock next month.
The German government refuses to
allow men belonging to Germany to take
to China the Chinese iron-clad recently
aunched. '
The new steamer Oregon, built for the
Guion line, to run between New York
and Liverpool, was launched June 23d
at Glasgow.
Fifty members of the Texas legislature
have been indicted for poker-playing.
Taey have about all settled without trial
by paying fines,
Fifty Texas steers recently brove out
of the Chicago stock yards and stamped
ed through the streets. Nobody killed
and only one man hurt.
Tbe school board of St. Louis issued
an order that after oepteinoer l, next,
corporal punishment shall be abolished
in the public schools of that city.
Recently two feet of 'copper colored
talc containing fine gold was struck in
Nillie's mine, Leadville, on Prenton bay
hill that assays $45,000 to the ton.
A dispatch reports many incendiary
fires in the Knngnar government, Rus
sia, and that several persons have been
arrested on suspicion of having started
fires.
The German town Telegraph, one of
the oldest and most profitable weeklies
of Pennsylvania, has been sold to Henry
J. Raymond, Jr., the transfer to take
place August 1st.
The Mississippi river is again high,
overflowing ts banks, breaking levies,
and doing immense damage to hundreds
of plantations and rendering thousands
of families homeless.
A colony of Swedes for Oregon ar
rived at San Francisco June 20th.. They
report that in another year many of
their countrymen intend settling in
Oregon and Washington.
The vigilantes of Butte, Mont., re
cently took a man by the name of Harry
Gundy in hands and gave him sixty
four lashes for the offense of brutally
attacking a ten-year-old girl.
Business failures for the week ending
June 22d, were 181, as compared with 186
last week, a decrease of 5. New England
and middle 23, western 48, southern 43,
Pacifio states and territories 25 Canada
36, New York 7.
At the sculling regatta on Lake Calum
net, Pullman, 111., June 22d, John
Teemer. of McKeysport. Pa., won in the
three-mile free -to-all race, making the
distance in 20 minutes and 14 seconds,
the fastest time on record.
Two young ladies of St. Joseph, Mi
chicran. recently took nearly naif an
ounce of arsenic for the of purpose beau
tifying their complexion. Miss Emma
Singer was saved by physicians, but Miss
Mary Druneau lost her life.
A St. Gall, Switzerland dispatch of
June 23d says: Serious riots against the
Jews have occurred and a number of
Jewish shops were pillaged and the
police stoned while endeavoring to stop
the excess, soldiers nave been sum
moned to quell the disturbances.
At Vienna, La., June 23d, a colored
man by the name of Duke, who entered
the sleeping apartment of the Misses
Cooper in that parish, two weeks ago
supposed with criminal intent, was found
by a body; of his pursuers to-day and
shot to death.
A Ma tarn or as dispatch of J one 23d
says: - One hundred and fifty revolution
ists attacked Chiattaa, and carried off
two officials. The cavalry pursued and
the revolutionists assassinated their
prisoners. The revolutionists were over
taken by the cavalry and cut to pieces
and thirty killed.
The California Immigration Aesooia
tion has effected arrangements with the
Southern Pacific railroad for low rates to
immigrants from Europe to California
via New Orleans. Through rates from
Amsterdam will be $74.35; Antwerp
$72 25: Cologne. $74: Paris, $68; Zurich
$75.85, and from other European points
at equally low rates.
A mother and five children have
mysteriously disappeared from their
home in Oakland. Cal , June 20, and al
efforts to nnearth their whereabouts have
proved unavailing. The husband. John
Green, went to work as usual Wednes
day morning, taking an affectionate part
ing from his family. Returning in the
evening he found the house locked, bn
finally making an entrance discovered
that it was deserted. - No trace of the
missing was left, and beyond a story of
the neighbors that his wife was seen
speaking to a woman, as if in an angry
tone, and that she subsequently stated
that she was going to see a Bick family.
No olue to their disappearance baa been
reached.
Iho British government announces its
intention to abandon the criminal pro
cedure bill the present session.
The British North Borneo Company
officially deny that the staff of the com
pany were massacred by natives.
' The Ohio Democratic state convention,
in, session at Columbus, June 21st, nom
inated Jndge Hoadley for governor.
Near Gilroy, Cal., June 21st, James
Littleton, aged 71, and a pioneer of '49,
committed suicide by shooting a bullet
through his head.
A recent dispatch from Indian terri
tory Bay&i The ; Caddo- chief, George
Washington, a warm and steadfast friend
of the whites, is dead.
Samuel J. Tflde'n ' has purchased the
yacht Pauline, whioh is undergoing over
hauling, and it will soon make its ap
pearance on the Hudson.
Phillips academy, at Exeter, N. H.,
celebrated its centennial anniversary
June 21st. Governor Butler and staff, of
Massachusetts, were present.
It is stated that John Russell Young,
United States minister to China, is en
gaged collecting material for a work on
China, which he hopes to publish within
two years.
At Salt Lake, June 21st, a fire broke
out in Clawson's wagon shop and the
flames spread to other buildings, dam
aging about $100,000 worth of property.
Several men were injured by falling
debris.
Wesley Warren, a negro, accused of
the murder of a young man named
Price, near Veto station, Alabama, was
taken from jail by a large mob recently.
His body was found hanging, half a 1
mile from town. He had also been
shot.
A stage coach on its way from Butte to
Helena, Mont., was stopped reoently by
wo road agents and the passengers
searched. The robbers succeeded in
getting only $25, although a lady passen
ger had $700 about her person and a
gentleman passenger $600.
The New York aldermen have adopted
a resolution that from the 15th of June
to the 15th of September, every year,
until otherwise ordered, all mechanics
and laborers of the citj government
shall quit work at noon on Saturdays,
without abatement of wages.
A Gibsontown. Pa., dispatch of June
21 says: John Gibson & Co s. ware
house No. 2 took fire this afternoon, and
the flames spreading rapidly warehouses
Nos. 2 and 3 were destroyed. They both
contained about 1000 barrels of whisky.
The loss ia estimated at $500,000; fully
insured. Two men were seriously, and
a number of others slightly injured.
A London dispatch of June 19th says:
The secretary of the committee to place
a bust of Longfellow in Westminster,
has presented the American committee
with 500 letters from persons of note,
who subscribed them to be kept in some
public institution of New England as a
testimonial of the high esteem in which
the poet is held by the best minds of
Great Britain.
The court of commissioners of the Ala-
bama claims decided tnat subjects oi
Great Britain, residents at the time
within the United States, and sailing on
the high seas under the protection of the
United States flag, were embraced within
the beneficial provisions of the two acts
establishing and re-establishing the
court of commissioners of Alabama
claims, on an equal footing with all other
resident aliens.
A Chillicothe, Missouri, dispatch of
June 21 says: A tornado struck the
southern part of the county, about 15
miles southwest of here, yesterday, at
what is known as the Lower Gap coun
try, and swept over twenty -five or thirty
farm houses, spreading havoc in its
track. Two men were killed and fifteen
or twenty injured. Owing to comma
nication being cut off by flood it is im
possible to get particulars.
A Panama dispatch of June 19th savs:
An encounter took place at Morrope,
Peru, on the ldth, between zuu pre-
fectoral troops and 300 Monteneros, a
large number of whom were unarmed
The fight lasted live Hours, and tne per-
fectoral troops were victorious. The
Monteneros lost two officers and twenty-
five men. The prefectorals side had
fourteen killed, including Major Corea.
The Monteneros are being pursued.
At Wheeling, W. Va., a well is being
sunk for natural gas by the Central gas
works. At a depth of 840 feet, after
piercing a thick vein of sand rock, they
struck a strong How of gas. it was con
ducted from the mouth of the well by
pipes and lighted, making a blaze thirty
feet high. The gas will be used for fuel
in the gas houses. This is the fourth
well which has been successful in
striking gas in that place. It will revo
lutionize manufacturing, as the only cost
of the fuel will be the sinking of a well.
A Sunderland dispatch of June 19th
says: The number of deaths from the
catastrophe in Victoria Hall has now
reached 202. The funerals of a great
many of the victims of the Saturday dis
aster took place to day. The streets
were crowded with sympathetic people,
most of whom were in mourning. One
hundred graves were prepared in one
cemetery for the victims. Exclusive of
those for which the parents of children
who lost their lives will pay, fifty-four
bodies were interred in the cemetery to
day and thirty-one in a smaller ceme
tery. Large numbers of generous sub
scriptions are arriving in Sunderland
from different parts to help pay tbe funer
al expenses of tbe unfortunate children.
A Berlin dispatch of June 21 says:
The floods in Silesia wero attended by
waterspouts. A large part of the town
of Huschberg ia submerged and bouses
adjacent to the village flooded. The i
railway near Zlzsburn h washed away.
A number of cattle perished. Dispatches
from Breslau state that during the last
twenty-four hours the rise in the river
Weisse, at the town of that name, has
been most alarming, the water having
reached the highest mark since 182 1.
An Evangelical church and school, two
barracks and part of the postoffice are
submerged. Disastrous floods are also
reported in Bohemia and Moravia. The
Danube is expected to overflow its banks
shortly, as the river Jun and mountain
streams are rapidly rising. The quay at
Line is flooded.
tihost,"
A short paragraph appeared in one
the morning papers of recent date.
of
It
ran thus: "V;f '.
Maqt John R. Throckmorton was bur
ied in the family vault at Louisville the
other day. He died some time ago in a
lonely hut on a Mississippi plantation.
His last moments were, "haunted by the
thought that Ellen Goodwin was still
shadowing him. For "twenty-five years
the woman, followed him, and was known
as Throckmorton's ghost. The reason
for this was never known, ylt is the pop
ular belief thafc. Throckmorton wronged
her in her yputlt. 4 ... V.
Ten years ago the papers of Louisville
contained daily accounts, of 'the trial, or
rather the investigation, of a woman by
the name of Ellen Goodwin. The Cour
ier Journal, the leading paper of the
southwest, took sufficient interest in the
matter to espouse the cause of the pros
ecuting witness, Major John 11. Throck
morton. In the South, until recently,
there was a very clearly defined aristoc
racy, clannish and proud, between
whom and the people there also
was drawn a very distinct
line. Ellen Goodwin belonged to the
people; MajorThrookmorton was a scion
of one of the oldest andjnost aristocratic
families in all the Southern States. At
bis instigation, and in his interest, a writ
of "de lunatico inquirendo" was issued,
Ellen Goodwin was arrested, and put on
her trial to establish her sanity and ex
plain her strange conduct.
The odds against her were heavy. Her
conduct had been most unprecedented
and remarkable. Her opponent was
backed by a powerful journal, by an in
fluential society, by able counsel. Her
only support was her alleged wrongs.her
pluck, and a young, comparatively inex
perienced lawyer, whom the court had
appointed to defend her. This is the
story as told at the trial.
Twenty-five years before that date, and
when Eden Goodwin was a young, beau
tiful and talented girl, but of compara
tively humble origin, John R. Throck
morton met her. She fell in love with
him, and he apparently loved her.
Marriage was out of the question with
him, but not the gratification of his
baser passions. She trusted him too
much she fell. He soon tired of her
and her love. Wbat to him was a "thing
apart" had become to this girl her whole
existence. She could not live away
from him, and entreated and supplicated
him to see her, if only now and then.
For a while he visited her once a week,
then only once a month, then at long in
tervals, and tben quit altogether. Her
conduct now changed. She determined
to follow him through life, to be his
shadow, his other self .
Whether from a spirit of hate or from
some insane delusion, she followed and
tracked him for twenty -five years. She
waited for him in the morning, and saw
him come out from his door. She fol
lowed him to his place of business, to
his meals, to his club, wherever he went,
and patiently watched the building that
held him until he left it. Ho could not
surprise her by beginning the day earlier
tnan usual; be could not tire Jlfer by end
ing it later than was his wont. If he
traveled he failed to elude her watchful
eye. He.could not escape her, go where
and when he might. For a period of
twenty -five years he was conscious of the
presence of this too faithful follower.
When he dined or danced, drove or
walked, gambled or gossiped, he knew
that she waited and watched without.
Neither the sweltering heat of summer
nor the biting cold of winter, j neither
rain, snow, hail nor sleet, neither hunger
nor thiist, could drive or detain her from
her vigil3. Standing in a doorway on
some prominent thoroughfare, her
clothes and face weather-beaten and
worn, per eye seemingly listless, nn-
noticmg and apparently unnoticed, a
hermit in the midst of thousands, she
lived her lonely, miserable life, to
thousands who saw her daily known
only by the name of "Throckmorton's
Ghost." . j
What ever her thoughts as she stood,
nigut alter nignt, alone with her, hate or
her love, and saw others hnrrying out of
tne darkness and storm to comfortable
homes and bright firesides? Have they
been revealed on the other side of the
grave? At the investigation she appeared
changed in dress and manner. ; On the
witness stand she told the story j of her
love, her fall, her revenge. He denied
ever having wronged her, and denounced
fcer as insane. The jury believed her
and returned a verdict in favor of her
sanity.
The writer was in the crowd that had
gathered to hear the verdict. There was
a quiet, deep sentiment of sympathy for
the woman, which pervaded the court,
and which found vent in a hearty cheer
when the verdict was announced. This
sympathy, this kindly notice, this long
deferred vindication was too much for
Ellen Goodwin.1 After twenty-five years
of waiting, sue wept.
The judge, in dismissing her, said: "A
jury of your countrymen have declared
you of sane mind. See that you do not
by continuing your strange conduct, dis
appoint them."
For about two years she obeyed the
injunction of the court. Her insane de
lusion seemed to have disappeared, or
her spirit of revenge had been complete
ly satisfied by her complete'vindication
She paid more attention to her dress, at
tended church regularly, and withdrew
herself from the public gaze. Everv
one thought the verdict of the jury a just
one, and admired her pluck and persist
ence, ana sympathized with her grea
wrong.
But thi did not last. After two years
of resting, she returnsd to her former
habit. Throckmorton had become a part
j of her life. This second crusade resulted
in an assault by Throckmorton, a mutna
arrest and fine, and in a second trial for
insanity, and a second judicial confirma
tion for sanity. Jler physical strength
a t TT m .
oegan now to ian. xier irau woman a
body, though long sustained against the
most wearing strain by an almost super
human will power, broke down, and
'death ended her sentry.
Four years afterward, far from his
hotel and club-room,- from his surround
ings of luxuriant ease, in a lonely hut on
a Mississippi plantation, Major Throek
morton died.
She, the alleged victim of his fatal
love, had passed away, asking with her
Throckmorton,s
last breath that the history of her life bo
Dunea in tne same crave with her tired
ana worn out body. ?He, the real victim
oi ner fatal love or awfur vencreance.
died haunted by the spectre of her terri-
Die presence, -t -a . - ;; v
If her story was true, her revenue was
complete 'and his punishment great. If
it was false, his fate was most cruel.
Argonaut. ; . .. , . , ; .-
Mow tq-.tJet 4n at court.
An old custom of the Spanish court re
quires thafwben a baby is born in the
royal family it shall be- officially an
nounced that a rigorous" infant has
come into the world. The queen of
Spain having beoome the pother of a
sickly child, which lived only two hours,
the court journal chronioled tbe birth
and death in the usual way: "Her
Majesty was delivered at three o'clock
of a vigorous infant, who died at five."
The Epoca of Madrid lately reported that
the town council of Seville, having had
an interview with Alfonso XII., "kissed
the feet of his majesty and withdrew."
It is not to be supposed that the coun
cilors actually went down on all fours
and kissed the king s boots as if ho were
the Pope; but etiquette demanded that
hey should be said to have done so, be
cause a town council does not stand on
the same level of dignity as the Cortes,
whose members are supposed to kiss
hands when they take leave." The three
etters B. b. P. (beso sus pies), which
mean, "I kiss your feet," are still used
by gentlemen in Spain when signing let-
era addressed to ladies, and by subjects
to their king. The letters B. S. M.
(beso sus manos), which are used by
men writing to men. and by ladies to
adies, would seem too cavalier f rom a
gentleman to a lady, and downright im
pertinence from a subject to his sover
eign, j
One of tbe chief reasons of the Dnke
d'Aosta's unpopularity during tbe brief
reign which he closed with a voluntary
abdication, was, that he would take no
pains to study the complicated etiquette
of the Escurial, bnt sought to introduce
simple manners in a country where even
beggars drape themselves proudly in
their tattered mantles and address one
another as "Senor Caballero." He one
day told a muleteer, with whom he had
stopped to talk on a country road under
a broiling sun, to put on his hat; forget
ting that by the fact of ordering a sub-
ect to cover himself in a royal presence,
he created him a grandee. Marshal Prim,
who was standing by, hastily knocked
the muleteer's head-dress out of his
hand, and set his foot upon it, at the
same time offering the man some gold;
bat the muleteer, who was mortally
offended, spurned the money and a few
days later, when Prim was assassinated,
a rumor was circulated that the mortified
individual who had narrowlv missed be
coming a grandee was an accessory to
the crime. On another occasion King
Amadeo inconsiderately addressed a
groom of his in the second person singu-
ar as "tu. Happily the man was an
Italian ; for, as a court chamberlain rep
resented to his majesty, a Spaniard
spoken to with his familiarity might
have claimed that the monarch had
dubbed him cousin that is, had enno
bled him. Another thing that the much
worried Italian prince had to learn was
that a Spanish king must not sign any
letter to a subject with any friendly or
complimentary formula, but must simply
write "Yo el Rey" ("I the IfciDg.")
Etiquette is the code of rules by which
great people keep lesser ones in proper
respect. Prince Bismarck, when a boy,
was rebuked by his father for speaking
of the king as "Fritz." "Learn to speak
reverently of His Majesty," said the old
squire of Varzin, "and you will grow ac
customed to think of him with venera
tion." Young Bismarck laid the advice
to heart, and to this day the great chan
cellor always lowers his tone and as
sumes a grave worshipful look when he
alludes to the Kaiser. If a message is
brought to him from the emperor by
word of mouth or in writing, he stands
up to receive it. When a wedding takes
place at the Prussian court, it is the
practice for the state dignitaries to form
a candle procession -that is to say, that
ministers, chamberlains, high stewards,
take each a silver candlestick with a
lighted taper in their bands, and conduct
the bride and bridegroom round the ball
room, where guests are assembled, and
thence into the throne room, where the
pair do homage to the sovereign. At the
first royal wedding which occurred after
the chancellor had been promoted to the
dignity of prince and highness, Bismarck
failed to appear in the candle procession.
and court gossips quickly concluded that
he now thought himself too great a man
to take part in a semi-menial ceremony
The truth was, however, that the chan
cellor had been seized with a sudden
attack of gout; and at the next wedding
he was careful to silence all carpers by
carrying his candle bravely like other
ministers.
Prince Gortchakoff was alwavs equally
careful to observe the minutest points of
etiquette in relation to tne late czar ana
the imperial family. Lord Dnffenn. ask
ing him whether the emperor's cold was
better, was rather startled to hear him
answer in a reverent voice, with his head
bent and his eyes half closed: "His
majesty has deigned to feel a little bet
ter this morning." The Duke de Morny
said of Gortchakoff, that he seemed to
purr when he talked of any oreature at
court, "even of the Grand Duchess
Olga's monkey." But possibly this im
perturbabie obsequiousness is appre
ciated by the rulers of this earth, for
Gortchakoff remained prime minister
throughout the whole of the emperor's
reign. Chambers' Journal.
Mammoth Mlllionalreg.
Those who watch the new mammoth
millionaires now coming forward in such
numbers from America and Australia,
say that one definite reason for dreading
them is their incapacity for spending
their fortunes in amusing themselves. A
man who has m.ide twenty millions
sterling, say by vast "corners" in rail
vt shArea. finds that unless be goes on
makin&r monev or is one of those f ortn
nate persons who can continuously de-
vote themselves to an ODject, tne excess
to which his fortune transcends that o
other rich men is of very little use to
him. He can, of course, get out of it all
the personal luxury, in the way of fine
houses and good eating, and purple and
fine linen generally, that he rnay happen
to wish for, bnt in those thingg there is
for him no special satisfaction I Any
body with, say, 50,000 a year, or other
bread-and-butter fortune of that kind
can buy all the personal luxuries he can'
enjoy, including in some places social
deference; and the mammoth millionaire
wants something more. He wants to
feel tht value of the difference between
his resources and thoBe of the merely
rich, to do or enjoy something vhieh
they ... cannot attempt. Elephantine
amusements may be amusing, but thev
are only elephantine, and he is a mam
moth, wants larger trses to crush
through, bigger forests to browse In p
deeper swamp in which to" gambol and
roll. In a little planet like ours this is
not easy to obtain. He desires, like the
rest of us, to utilize his special ad
vantage, which is the command of the
modem form of the wishing cap in a de
gree to which no one else can pretend,
and it is difficult to wish for anything
that nobody with a smaller cap can get.
He can travelabout if he likes, travel
very pleasantly; but so can the ordinary
wealthy man, money beyond a certain
amount adding little either to the enjoy
ment or the conveniences of travel. Tue
present writer was traveling once on the
track of an empress, and was so incon
venienced by her wealth that he watched
to see what it gave her. It was very lit
tle indeed, nothing compared with what
she obtained from her European rank.
When crossing the Alps she swept up
for two days in advance every available
horse, engaging at one point no less than
eighty; but she could only sit in one
place in one barouche, and moved, on
the whole, no quicker than other people.
The huge suite seemed to be merely a
burden, choking up the roads, calling
forth tiresome crowds and sometimes
creating wearisome delays. There was a
physioian, for instance, who actually
fell ill, to the loss of eleven hours. The
empress upset the traveling arrangements
of a great line for three days by ber re
quirements in the way of a special train
and extra precautions; but any one rich
enough to hire a saloon carriage for him
self, and pay for a pilot engine in front,
a matter of less than a pound a mile,
would have traveled with just as much
personal enjoyment. The empress' rank,
no doubt, helped her greatly in opening
inaccessible castles, attracting experts as
ciceroni, and securing her near Naples a
paradise .to live in which no money
would have purchased; but the command
of millions of itself produced no more
than thousands would have done.
As to creating a grand place the idea
which Edgar Poe puts into the head of
his imaginary millionaire it is to be
done, no doubt, with skill and judgment;
but when the colossal once enters into an
enterprise of that kind.it becomes unen
joyable. No private man would be hap
pier even in his own thoughts for cre
ating a Versailles, and short of Versailles.
nan a minion well i&id out will do all
that is required. To "found a family" in'
1L. TO 1-1. . . . "'.
m -august! sense, is in America or Aus
tralia impossible; and a great estate gives
comparative little influence, and beyond
a certain limit quite attainable by any
rich man, no particular pleasure. What
is the use of owning square miles when
nobody will "cap" to you, or vote for
you, or recognize your greatness in any
way that is not half hostile? Of course.
if the mammoth millionaire is a collector
he can make a mammoth collection: bnt
when once you have acquired all the
snuff boxes, or jade bowls, or fine cat's
eyes to be procured, a thousand more
specimens add very little to your gratifi
cation. A collection loses its charms
when once it is magnified into a museum.
Besides, all these . things cost compara
tively little. They can, any one of them,
be done to any reasonable extent bv a
man with a hundred thousand a year;
and we are talking of the millionaires, to
wuum mm income seems respectable
poverty. The true mammoth Croesus is
forced to accumulate by the difficulty of
getting na oi nis money, and soon finds
that really to use it with a visible result
adequate to the power expended, there
is no wav excerpt to incmasA his.
business operations. That is the rea
son why, in America, he continues his
trade; and why his son, with still greater
weaun, win De tempted to continue after
him, and to keep on rolling up the snow
ball till smaller men declare as they are
declaring now about the railway kings.
that its bulk is becoming dangerous.
Spectator.
An Innovation.
"My
daughter is to be married next
he said as he sat down and re
week,"
moved his hat.
"And you will present her with a
check for $50,000, of course?" replied
the broker.
"Well, no, that's what I called to see
you about. I believe in innovation."
You'll give her $25,000 in cash, eh?"
"No, sir. I was thinking that you
might take about $500 and buy about
$75,000 worth of some sort of bonds.".
"As an investment for an income?"
"No for a show. Get $1000 bonds,
if possible. Get some that are printed in
red and blue ink, if you can. I! they
have big red or blue seals on so much
the better. If they begin 'In the name
of God, amen,' they will look the more
important. See that the paper is good,
the printing clear, the signature in a
bold,heroio hand, and send your bill to
me. The time has gone by when the
public can be fooled by a check." Wall
Street News.
I was chatting with a bright voung
girl the othhr evening, at a small ger
man when our attention was directed to
a tall and handsome woman who had just
entered the room. "Who is she?" asked
my companion, and I, wishing to be
poetical, answered, "A daughter of the
gods." "I don't know her," my partner
replied, critically examining the new
comer through her lorgnette, "the gods
are not in our set."
The hurricane oi 1866 blew over .hun
dreds of thousands of cocoanut trees in
the Bahama Islands. Instead of dying,
they not only kept on growing in their
horizontal position, but sent up shoots
from the top. . These Bhoots are now
forty to fifty feet in height, and yield an
abundanoe of fruit. ,
FASHION 0TE&
The moat stylish parasols niateii the
oostnme;
French boots and shoes show a marked
tendency to pointed toes.
The loveliest shades of salmon, rose.
corn blue and water green are seen in the
new China crapes.
Purple violets and barbes of -Valen
ciennes lace trim the fine Milan straw
bonnets designed for elderly ladies.
New flannel suits for children are made
of cheviot flannels, garnet, bine, dark
green and gray being the favorite colors.
The "pannier" ! or basket bonnet ia
trimmed KiUx..C0Ckade Jma oaual4s-af -
satin ribbon around the crown and inside
the brim. - - ,
Narrow ribbon of two colors are mnoh
used for trimming straw hats, ribbon
loops and ends forming large rosettes
having succeeded pompons.
The most fashionable stockings are of
black, strawberry or primrose, silk or
isle, in monochrome; stripes and checks
being only Becond in popularity.
The summer silks which come in large
plaids of brilliant blues and reds are
said to sell more readily than any other
in New York for dress skirts.
Brocades with very large figures the
nsed for elegant mantles instead of are
oriental cashmeres. They are lined with
ight eilks.and trimmed with lace chenille
balls, and gilt and jet ornaments.
A pretty novelty consists in tinted
satin "gilets or waistcoats embroidered
in sprays of arbutus, lilies of the valley
or other fine flowers, or worked all over
with white silk rosebuds, outlined with
iny mother of pearl beads. These pretty
vests can bo worn with different toilets.
Summer fans are enormous and more
'bizarre" than ever. Red is still the
favorite color for. both sunshades and
ans, especially for the country and sea
side. Bright scarlet, however, is leas in
fayor than such shades as fire, copper,
nasturtium, terra-cotta and crushed
strawberry.
Cockade bows are all the fashion.
They are made up of a number of loops
and tapered ends of narrow velvet, satin
or faille ribbon, either monochrome or
of several colors, and are nsed for trim
ming dresses, mantles and bonnets;
flowers are also arranged into large
cockade-like clusters for the bodioe,
coiffure and bonnet trimming.
One of a score of novel French bon
nets, all set in a row in an importing
house on Broadway, was a fanchon of
hunter's green crape, with a wreath of
dark moss buds encircling the crown.
Upon a bud here and there was poised a'
large yellow butterfly with wings out
stretched as if just alighting. There were;
seven of these upon the bonnet.
At a wedding which occurred last week
the modiste who prepared the toilets
gave a list of the dresses as follows: The
bride wore a dress of crocus white satin,
the bride's mother a dress of biscuit col
ored surah, the groom's mother a cos
tume of sand colored satin brocade with
sprays of hawthorne, the bride's young
sister a crashed strawberry ottoman silk,
the married sister a toilet of lobster red
surah, draped with black lace, and the
bridesmaids were attired in buttercup In
dia mull over silk slips, with garniture of
crimson roses.
Softly draping and semi-diaphanous
fabrics, such as "voile de religeuse,"
and many other varieties known under
the generic name of veilings, will be
much worn in combination with merveil
leux, white polka dotted foulards, fine
patterned brocades, and also with moire
Franoais. The most beautiful imported
materials in veilings, zephyrs and sum
mer cashmeres are those in box robes
adorned with borderings of various
widths, according to price, the handsom
est patterns being in Irish point or
Venetian cut work, ten inches deep.:
How Flies
Climb.
.
This problem in natural history has
been studied by numerous naturalists,
but only recently has it been satisfac
torily settled. An eminent authority.
Dewitz, reports that he "has watched
the exudation of the sticky matter from
the feet of the flies by fastening one of
the insects to the under side of a plate of
glass, and viewing it under the micro
scope. A perfectly clear liquid was seen to
flow from the ends of the foot -hairs and
attach the foot to the glass. When the
foot was lifted up, to be put down in an
other place.the drops of the sticky mat
ter were perceived to be left on the glass
in the exact places where the foot-hairs
had rested. The adhesive fluid ; appeira '
to pass down through the hollow of tbe
hair, and to be derived from glands
which Leydig discovered in the folds of
the foot in 1850. A similar adhesive
matter appears to be possessed by bugs,
by many larvse, and probably by all in
sects that climb the stems and the under
sides of the leaves of plants."
Sentimental Gush. ,
that the craze for naming everything
"Garneid wmcn arose on tne death of
the late President wss very silly. There
were uarneid Hospitals and Garfield
homes, and Garfield libraries, and Gar
field monuments.and Garfield parks, and
uarneia scnoois, and Garfield this, that
and the other thing until the association
of the dead man's name with every day
matters Decame extremely pain la I. The
New York legislature, just before it ad-
j journed, quietly passed a bill to change
the name of a "Garfield" institntion in
Brooklyn to one that expressed its real
character instead of an affectation. This
example will be followed elsewhere, and
yet the memory of Garfield will not be
dimmed. It will rather be brightened
by separation from commonplace asso
ciations. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
It w:s thought aterrible disgrace that
in Poland, several centuries ago,' a noble
could kill a peasant for $12 to $15 ex
pense, but, it must be confessed-murder
as a pastime is cheaper than that in this
Republic. Taunton Gazette. K
An old lady looking at her glass, and
finding it too faithfully reflected hergray
hair and wrinkled face, was heard to say,
"They do not make mirrors so -well as
they used to do.