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ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST H? 1883.
NO, 18.
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SiJ.JASKULEIC
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Aealer In Wftten.cs. Clocks, Jewell jr,
Spectacle sad Eyeglasses
l And a Fall Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and. Fancy Goods.
''The only reliable Optometer in town tor the
proper adjustment cf Spectacle ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door Booth of post office, Roe
bury. Oregon.
LAIIGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store,
ItOSEnUKG, OGIV.,
Oo Jackson Street, oppotdte tho Postoffice. Keeps
on hand the largest and best assortment of
'Eastern snd San Framel.co Eoots and
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers
And every thing In the Boot and Shoe Line and
SELLS CHEAP for CASH.
Boots and Shoes Made to Order Perfect
Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all
i my work.
11E21?JLIHIP0 Kently Done
On Short Notice. I keep alwars on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS,
"Musical Instrument and Violin Strinn a So
cially. I.OIJl S LAAGKKHtCKG.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
office on Jackson street,
Up Stairs, over 8. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
IV.AHONEY'3 SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
This. Mn. Honey, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dos
las county, and the best
in the State kepi la proper repair:
r&rtiea trareling on the railroad will find tall
place very handy to visit during the stop
. ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give msacalL
. - Saa. jtAKGKEY.
a 1 1
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constant on hand.
EMPMITIIRC I have the best stock ol
run II I I Unt, mrnlture south of Portland
And all of ruy own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
t& ALL WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND, - - OREGON.
Richard Thomas, Frop'r.
rjpBlS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ot years, nd has become rery
popular with the traveling public First-class
8LEEPINC ACCOMMODATIONS. (
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Motel at the d-pot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
ment of
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND ULASSWARF,
ALSO . !
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
H O II OOL BOO 18
Such, as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and OU.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on B.an Francisco.
SEEDS !a ftr$EEDS !
SEEDS !
ALL KlliDS OF BEST QUAL1IT
ALL OK DISK
1'romptly attended to and Goods shipped
with care. ,
Address. Haclicney & Bem,
Portland. Oregon
Cetewayo, the Zulu king, died July
25th. i.
" Affairs are becoming brighter every
day in .Fern.
At "Bar Harbor. Me.. Julv 27th.a pleas
tiro party of eight, consisting of six
ladies and two gentlemen, mostly from
Boston.were out driving in a buckboard,
and whan thev were on the brow of a
8toephill the rocker-pin broke.throwing
the occupants of the vehicle front on the
nvmaa f riaVifflnino them, and thev ran
dewa the hill. Miss Mafcel Case had her
neck broken and all the rest of the party
, - i j
Were severely mjurwu.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BT TELEQBAFU TO D4.TE.
The number of deaths from cholera in
Egypt August 2d, was 702, including 196
at Cairo.
August 3d the Northern Pacific rail
road had 68 miles of track to put down
to connect both ends.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch of August
5th says: A heavy storm visited this sec
tion yesterday eveuing. It struck the
village of Midlothian and injured seven
people, two it is feared fatally.
A Denver dispatch of August 4th says:
The weather throughout the state is ex
traordinary. Heavy rains are falling
every day, and hail to the depth of six
inches fell to-day at Como, in the moun
tains. The Minnesota democratic state con
vention convened at St. Paul August 2d.
W. W. McNair was nominated for the
governorship, R. G. Frasee, lieutenant
governor, J. J. Green, secretary of state,
and John Lodwig, state treasurer.
The London Daily News of August 3d
asserts that the total number of deaths
from cholera in Egypt so far has been
16,000. It says the disease is now less
virulent. Of ten men attacked among the
British troops an average of six sur
vived. There has recently been transferred
from the war department to the aban-4
doned property division of the treasnry
department a large quantity of confeder
ate scrip, bonds, etc., representing sev
eral million dollars, which, it is said, is
now to be macerated and converted into
pulp, on order of Secretary Folger.
Reports received at the postoffice de
partment from twenty-five of the larger
postoffices show an increase in the sale
of postage stamps, postal cards, etc, for
the quarter ending June 30, 1883, over
the corresponding period of the previ
ous year of $232,457, or about 6 per cent.
These offices in the second quarter of
1882 collected about 34 per cent, of the
total revenne direct.
A dispatch from Concord, N. H., dated
August 3d, says : The forty-second bal
lot resulted in the election of Austin F.
Pike for United States senator for six
yeais, from March 4th, 1883. - The result
of the ballot -was greeted with tumultu
ous applause. Pike is 63 years old, a
lawyer in aotive practice, has been a rep
resentative in congress, and is considered
one of the ablest men in the state.
The inauguration of tha bust of Gar
fit 1 1 will take place at San Franoisco,
August 24th, under the auspices of the
grand lodge of Masons of California.
The procession to the park will be one of
the longest ever in California, as all the
visiting Kuights Templar will take part,'
and so will other Masons. Grand Army
of the Republic, National Guard, United
States troops and officers and marines
from the navy.
Jewish residents of Ekatarinoslay,
Russia, were attacked by a mob on the
22nd ult., and soldiers were called out to
disperse the rioters, ton of whom were
killed and thirteen wounded. The trou
ble was caused by a Jew insulting a peas
ant woman. The town council at Eka
tarinoslay resolved to give the Jews 5000
roubles to compensate them for their
losses, and to provide shelter for those
who were rendered homeless.
A Chicago dispatch of August 3d, says :
A finely educated young Swede was
found dead in the Swedish Lutheran
ohurch at Englewood, near thatcity, yes
terday, having committed suicide. The
morning papers claim that tho young
man has been identified as an illegiti
mate son of King Oscar of Sweden, and
that he was raised in .the family of a
sister of the king. Daring his stay in
this country he has been engaged as in
structor in a private school.
A Philadelphia dispatch of August 3d
says: The memorial celebration of the
sixty second anniversary of the birth of
the Uriah S. Stephens, founder of the
order of the Knights of Labor, is being
held at Renzez park to day, under the
auspices of district assembly No. 1, of
that city. The attendance was large.
T. D. Powkerly, mayor of Soranton, who
suoceeded Stephens as grand master
workman of the order, delivered an able
address in tae afternoon.
A Rochester dispatch of August 3d
says: Trie northern part oi Monroe
county, including the towns of Greece,
Penfield and. Irondequit, were swept
last night with a terrible storm of wind,
hail and rain. Grain, and especially
fruit, were badly damaged. Many
farmers report losses of from $5000 to
$10,000, with many grape vines entirely
ruined. The hail killed birds and fowls
and brought blood from horses and
stock. The belt traveled by the storm
was two miles wide by ten or twenty
miles long.
A San Francisco dispatch of August
4th says: Fire broke out this morning
on Post street, near btockton, and de
spite the fact that the entire fire depart
ment was o ailed out, some thirty houses
were consumed before the names were
ohecked. The territory traversed by the
fire covers half a block. The principal
buildings burned were the Pacific col
lege. Rod Men s hall, tha Winter liar
den. used as a variety theater, Verein
Eintracht hall, Druids' hall and a fash
ionable lodging house kept by Miss
Bissett. A strong west wind prevailed
and the flames spread with astonishing
rapidity to Stockton" street, seriously
threatening Trinity church. The efforts
of the firemen were concentrated on the
Red Men's building and Eintracht hall,
which burned in an incredible short
time. The flames baffled the efforts of
tha entire department. It is impossible
to tlx the amount of the loss. Several
narrow escapes from death occurred,
Officers broke into Winter.Garden, find
ing Mr. Strable and wife asleep, and an
other man almost stupefied by smoke,
Thev had to be dragged from their beds
Another man,when the flames struck the
Red Mens building, stepped from a
window on the second story, after last
ening the window curtains together, he
started to lower himself, but when with
in fifteen feet of the ground, the curtains
parted and he fell on his head, sustain
ing fatal injuries. Chief Scbannell and
assistants were injured from inhaling
smoke. Henry Morgan, an actor, is re
'ported burned in the flames.
There were 887 deaths from cholera in
Egypt on August 1st.
At Semenor, Russia, 180 houses were
destroyed by fire recently.
There were forty-eight deaths from
yellow fever in Havana last week.
General Sir William Fenwiok Will
iams, of the English army, is dead.
The Hanlan-Hosmer-Lee boat race at
Fulton, N. Y., recently, was won by the
former.
Tho next national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be held
at Minneapolis.
At Cairo, July 29th, there were 330
deaths from cholera, and 443 at other
places between Synpett and the Mediter
ranean.
Carey, the Phoenix P&rk informer, was
shot dead by a man named O'Donnell.on
the steamer Melrose, near Cape Town,
July 29th.
The telegraph operators made an ap
peal to the president for an investigation
into their difficulties with the Union
Pacific Company.
Capt. Webb, the noted English swim
mer, who attempted to swim the great
whirlpool lust below the Niagara falls,
July 28th, was drowned.
Coiuage at the Philadelphia mint for
he past month aggregated 3,056.000
pieces, valued at $1,228,800. The amount
includes 1,200,000 silver dollars.
It is stated at the treasnry department
that the reduction of the publio debt for
July will be unusually small, if there be
any. An estimate cannot be given.
Among the injured in the earthquake
at Ischia was Miss Van Allen, daughter
of William K. Van Allen, a well known
real estate dealer of San Franoisco.
The war department is informed that
the body of the late General Ord has
been embalmed and will remain in Cuba
until autumn, when it will be brought
here.
The German government will send
some one of its highest officials connect
ed with railroads to attend the opening
ceremonies upon the completion of the
Northern Pacific.
The French senate has adopted, by a
vote of 139 to 19, article fifteen of the
Judicial reform bill, which reduces the
number of magistrates. The vote im
plies the adoption of the entire bill.
A Berlin dispatch of August 1st says:
A large building on Kopmioker strasse in
his city, used as a manufactory of vel
vet, burned last night. The loss is
heavy. Three firemen were killed by
jailing walls.
A Dublin dispatch says that owing to
he quietness of the country the govern
ment has dispensed with the services of
Clifford Lloyd, resident magistrate, from
the special duty to which he had been
emporarily assigned.
The Pennsylvania democratic state
convention was held at Harrisburg Au
gust 2d. J. F. Taggart, of Warren
county, was nominated for auditor-
general; Joseph Powell, of Bradford
county, state treasurer.
A new telegraph company was incor
porated at Chicago August 2d, to be
known as the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany. The general route is from Chi
cago to Sac Francisco, with intermedi
ate branches. Capital stock $2,000,000,
divided into 20,000 shares.
At San Francisco, August 2d, Patriok
McGrath, an engineer, on being re
proached for his drinking, remarked:
"HI stop it to night for good and for
all," and immediately thereafter went off
and cut his head so completely as nearly
to sever the head from the body.
A mystery involving the fate of a wo
man and child occurred at the Presidio
Cal., recently. A woman, accompanied
by a little girl, was observad to disrobe
herself and child, and proceed towards
the bay, only a few hundred feet distant.
Nothing was afterwards seen of them.
The clothing of tho woman showed the
name of Maria Gotto.
A New York dispatch i of August 1st
savs: The situation ox the telegraphic
strike is about the same. There are ru
mors that an important movement will
soon occur on the part of the strikers,
but nothing can be learned regarding it.
Business is apparently going smoothly at
the Western Union. All the operators
were paid off yesterday and are at work
his morning. Strikers who desire money
were paid off by the brotherhood to day.
The total bushels of grain exported
from New York in sailing vessels during
the six months ending July 1, was
2,692,383, against 1,566,841 the same
period last year. Of the former amount
the American flag carried 41,922 bush
els. The amount carried in steam ves
sels tha sume period this year was 21,-
922,3U0, against 14,441,673 the same
period last year. Tho United States
transported nothing by steam from that
port. The lion's share belonged to
England, which carried in the neighbor
hood of two-thirds each year. Belgium
comes next. Last year corn formed less
than one-half of the exports of giam,
while this year it is fully one-half.
Wheat formed last year two-thirds of
all, but this year a little more than two-
fifths.
A San Francisco dispatch of Aug. 2d
says: Arrangements ar9 about com
pleted for expediting the delivery o
eastern mails intended for eastern Oregon
and southeastern Washington Territory.
Heretofore those mails have been ciis
patched from K el ton, on the line of the
Central Pacific railroad, to Boise City by
stage. It is proposed ou August 15th to
send them via the Oregon Short Line
from Granger, Wyoming, to Shoshone,
making a saving of something over 100
miles. The mans thus forwarded will
be principally for Baker and Union
counties and also for Walla Walla, and
tha arrangement will hold good until the
completion of the Northern P aoific,when
all Oregon, Washington Territorv and
British Columbia mail will be made up
in the east and sent over that road. On
the above date mail matter from here
will be cent to Ogden. and thence on the
Utah Northern to Pocatelle, then on the
Oregon Short Line to Shoshone, from
where they will be taken by stage to
Boise City and finally to Baker City,
making a considerable saving in time.
On such days as steamers leave here for
Portland, mail intended for the north
west will be carried over that route.
. The Dana Paradise.
Mr. Charles A. Dana, the able editor
of the Sun, hascdme prominently before
the publio many, : many times, but one
seldom hears about "bis beautiful home
and accomplished family. Mrs. Dana is
a charming lady past the middle ago,
with gray hair and fair skin. She has
fine expressive eyes, dresses with taste
and is an excellent conversationalist.
They have four children. , The oldest
daughter is Mrs. Underwood who lives
at home, the other daughters are Ruth,
who was married a year ago this Sep
tember to Mr. Wm. Draper of this city,
and Minnie, who is still unmarried. The
daughters are unsualiy well educated
and accomplished; ani.woro at one time
very popular, indeed, 'in the best New
York society. Latterly they have gone
again into society.
They are all fine pianists and linguists
and connoisseurs in art matters. They
have handsome horses and ride a great
deal, especially about their island home.
They are fond o : beautiful dresses, and
have many sent every year from Worth.
Paul Dana, the son, who is an exceed
ingly clever young man. is a graduate of
Harvard in the class of '74. He is tall
and slender, with blue eyes and fair hair.
He is fond of driving, riding, fishing
and hunting, and is an excellent sports
man.
The family spent about eight months
of the year at their beautiful home
'Dosoris," on West Island, three miles
rom Glen Cove, on the Sound. The
origin of the name of the house has an
interesting little story. West Island
and East Island near by were both orig
inally owned by the old Cole family, and
Nathaniel Cole gave West Island to his
wife, and it was then called VDosUxoria"
he wife s dower, which has been cor
rupted into Dosoris.
Mr. Dana purchased West Island
about eight years ago from Mr. James F.
Cox, his brother, ex-Commissioner
Townsend Cox owning and living still
on Etst Island. West Island, the home
of the Danas, is a perfect Eden. It con
tains about fifty acres beautifully laid
out in parks, groves, forests and farm
and, which is highly cultivated.
'Dosoris is the only ; house on the
island, excepting a most artistic little
cottage which is lather a private club
house for the men of the family, and
whioh contains the finest of billiard -
tables.
The house itself is situated on a hill,
and is very commodious. It was built
by Commodore Dickerson, U. S. N.,
who owned the island before Mr. Cox
bought it. The halls are large and airy,
as are also the rooms. Mr. Dana, who
is a connoisseur in all art matters,
especially in pottery, has spent many
years in making a .collection of the latter,
and he has one ol 'the finest in the
country. He may often be seen at the
different galleries in the city examining
the pictures and porcelain, ard when
anv nlatfl nr inc RtrilrAH hia artist if! fanov
he immediately makes a purchase of it
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and adds it to his collection. This is
his one hobby, and he has assisted
American art galleries very materially
by his purchases.
The house is approached through an
avenue of fine old elms, noted for their
beauty all over the country. The in
terior furnishings show a refined and
cultivated taste; the parlors are large
and airy, and the sleeping rooms
veritable pictures of comfort and
quietude.
Mr. Dana leaves home on the o o clock
train in the morning and returns on the
4 o'clock. He has never traveled by boat
since the Seawauhaka disaster. At Glen
Cove he has a private telegraph wire
whioh connects with the Sun office. The
island is connected to the mainland by a
grand causeway, over which Mr. Dana
drives his handsome team every morning
and evening to and from the railway
station. -
In the winter months the family oc
cupies a handsome house up town, at No.
48 West Thirty-ninth street. They are
fond of the opera, concerts and the the
ater, and go into society quite a good
deal. They have a small circle of inti
mate friends, with whom they spend
most of their time, however; seldom
going out to large entertainments.
The family attend the wedenborgian
ohurch, and Mrs. Dana, and her daugh
ters have a great deal of that sweet,
kindly, ohari table graciouBness which
seems to belong to a true Swedenbor-
gian.
Mr. Dana s family have in years past
traveled very extensively, but very little
of late, their home on West Island be
ing almost too fascinating to leave for
any length of time. New York Journal.
Stretchy Religion.
An old couple, man and wile, were
along tne wnarves a day or two ago
hunting for an Hp-shore boat, and the
woman explained lo a steamboat agent
It is a very stormy season and we ex
pect to be seasick, and we'd ruther go
on a boat where the captain is a relig
ious man.
"Well, that's all right," he replied.
"We've got one very religious captain
on our line, and his boat sails to-night.
"Can we go down and see him?"
"Oh, yes. Keep right down the street
until you see the boat.
The couple walked on and finally
boarded the steamer. The captain and
all hands were busy with the cargo, but
the old folks walked up to him and the
woman said:
"Capting, you have been recommend
ed to us as a religious man."
The 1 have!" he growled.
Thev looked at each other with con
sternation depicted in the their face, and
then the old man said:
"Captain what church do you belong
to?"-' " .
"See herel" roared the offioial, "if
vou've oome to bleed me for some char
ity, or want me to sign a petition, or ex
peot this boat to carry a lot of dead
heads up the lake, I won't stand it
What do you want7 Out with it, now,
and no infernal chawing around. I'm
blanked if I ain't bothered with more
blanked lunatics than any other blanked
man on the lakes!
Man and wife retired to consult, and
after getting ten feet away the woman
said: - '
"Henry, he's not a religious man."
"Well, I dunno."
"But he Bwears like a pfrate."
"Yes, Maria, but you Bee this is out
west. We don't swear and belong to the
church too up in New Hampshire, but
they may do different here. He swears,
but he looks like a man. to depend on in
a storm." - -.
"Shan't we look for another?
"I guess not, Maria. I guess the re
ligions out here in Michigan are kind o'
stretchy, and they 'low swearin on the
steamboat and around the depots. We'll
go by this boat, and if he don't swear
any harder than he did to us, mebbe
Providence will let him squeeze through
on the up trip and sink him when he
comes down." Free Press.
SCIKXCE AND INTENTION.
In Krupp's great trun manufactory, at
Essen, compressed carbonio acid is used
for the manufacture of what ice and selt
zer water may be required by the work
men. It has been observed that"right;hand
edness" extends far down in the scale of
creation. Parrots take hold of their
food in their right foot by preference,
and insects like wasps, beetles and spi
ders, use the right anterior foot most
frequently.
For a period of forty-four years none
of the men employed in a German ultra
marine works had been observed to suf
fer from consumption. The immunity
of the employes is attributed to the con
stant production of sulphurous acid by
the burning of sulphur in the course of
the making of the ultramarine.
A composition has been invented by
M. M. Dankworth and Landers, of St.
Petersburg, which is reported to be
tough, elastio, water-proof, insulating
in short, a nearly sufficient substitute for
India rubber. It is composed of a mix
ture of wood and coal tar, linseed oil,
ozokerit, spermaceti and sulphur, which
are thoroughly mixed and heated for a
long time in large vessels by means of
superheated steam.
In a recent German scientific work, Dr.
Otto Mohinke advanoes a new argument
in favor of Darwinism. Small -pox is a
disease supposed to be confined to human
beings, but Dr. Mohinke had a gibbon
(hylobates caucolor) in Borneo whioh
was infected through contact with . his
olothes on returning from a hospital, and
passed through all the stages of the dis
ease, escaping, however, with only a
slight injury to one of his eyes.
Major White, says the J ournal of the
Franklin Institute, has provided the
steam fire engines of the city of Berlin
with pipes for the discharge of com
pressed carbonic acid into the steam
chamber. When the engine starts from
the station the boiler is heated; on arriv
ing at the fire the carbonio acid is at fiat
employed as a motor, then the gas and
steam work together, and finally steam
alone is used. By this arrangement the
engine is brought into action four or five
minates sooner than would be otherwise
possible.
Tne following analysis by Schwartz
tends to show that American barley is
richer in starch, and therefore in ex-
ract, than European barley. Moisture
13.71. starch. 65.05. albuminoids 11.41,
ash 3.23, and phosphoric acid .953. The
percentages of starch, albuminoids, ash
and phosphoric acid are calculated on
the perfectly dry barley. The following
comparative analysis of American and
European barleys by the same authority
have been given by a contemporary:
Moisture American 13.71, European
15.11. Starch American 66.05, Europ-
i t . ai a
ean 04. l. Aiouminoias American
11 41, European 11.21. Ash American
3.23, European nil. Phosphoric acid
American .953, European .995.
A flutter has been caused in scientific
circles by the announcement in the
Union Medioale of June 2d of the discov
ery, on piercing a new gallery in a coal
mine at Bully-Urenay (ras-de-uaiaiBi.of
a series of very remarkable caverns. In
the first were the intact fossil bodies of
a man, two women and three children.
Beside them were petrified pieces of
wooden utensils and remains of mam
mals and fish, as well as stone weapons.
A second subterranean cavern revealed
eleven bodies of gigantic size, the fossils
of several animals, and a great number
of various objects, including precious
stones. Into a third and larger chamber
the miners could not enter on account of
the carbonio acid it contained. If all
this turns out to be as true as it appears
to be the existence of pre-historio men is
a stern fact even to the most skeptical.
Chicago's Cable Cars.
Clang! Clang! The warning sound of
the gong, whioh in large cities means the
rapid rush of the fire laddies and the
"machine to a hre, smote sharply on
our ears as on the evening of our first
arrival in Chicago we stepped from the
obsourity of Tan Buren into the glare of
State sireet. Clang! clang! clang! fiercely
rang out the bell. We stopped and anx
iously scanned the sky, but as yet the
conflagration did not appear to be much
of a success. let from every direction
came the clanging of the gongs, and we
stood expectantly awaiting what, next to
a charge on the neiu oi oauie, is tne
most thrilling exhibition of man s cour
age the charge of the Fire Brigade.
Bnt no one else in the throng seemed to
share our excitement; there was no turn
in? to right and left of teams, no shout-
inor of urchins, not even "one of the
finest" in sight, not a ripple could
be discerned. "Well," said I to mybelf ,
"Chioairo must be fire-hardened." And
on came the clanging bells, and there
passed across our line of vision three
cars coupled together traveling steadily
and rapidly. No plunging eteeds, no
smoking funnels, no shower of sparks.
no hoarse shouts only three horse cars
swiftlv and mysteriously bearing their
heavy freights up and down the busy
street. We bad seen the cable cars! But
on they go now stopping, now starting;
now slower, now faster; no motor in
sight, no cylinder, no esoaping steam
no machinery; yet, under the perfect
oontrol of a driver, they are as docile as
the finist "Baldwin." What, then, pro
pels these numerous trams to say
simply an endless chain would oonvey
to the readers of the Metallurgist a poor
idea of the complexity of the system
But suppose we take a ear and visit the
home of the giant who. Prometheus
like, we have heard rastliag his chains
beneath the pavement. No, not here;
we must go to the farther street cross
ug. raere we are i w itn an easy
accelerated motion we start off almost at
lull speed, and propelled by this unseen
giant, we roll rapidly south. Patrons of
the road tell us there is a great differ
ence in drivers some starting and stop
ping with scarcely a perceptible jerk,
others with a suddenness rather more
than perceptible. But as the, road has
been in operation but little more than a
year, 'it is hardly just to criticize the raw
recruits.-
But here we are at Twenty-second
street. Above the door of the building
an illumninated shield bearing the leg'
lJiWj&w&"'titQa us that wS are
not trespassers; so we enter. The first
that strikes our attention is one of the
"grips" with a section of cable. This is
a very simple contrivance; and (not to
go into detail too closely) consists of two
parallel'shoes of iron, shod with wood,
between which the cable is allowed to
slip either faster or slower or not at all
thus guaging the speed of the car.
For instance: At full speed the cable is
firmly grasped by the grip; at the slow
est it is merely pressed by the shoes. The
cable is of wire, six strands, with a hemp
oenter. Next we look at the en-
ginea.built by Jerome Wheelock of Wor
cester, Mass., two of which are busily
workinsr. They are of 250 horse power
each, and work seven cables, four di
rectly and three indirectly. These cables
move at different rates of speed. On
State street down town the rate is seven
miles, while beyond the busy streets the
rate is increased to eight miles. On
Twenty-second street, for two blocks,
the rate is but four miles an hrur. One
of the most interesting sights is the
"tension carriage," a oar confined by a
heavy weight and chair, which allows it
to move in obedience to the demands of
the cable, keeping the latter at about the
same tension continually, and allowing
or any severe strain by yielding slowly
to the demand. While under the old
system the oompany could run but one
car, it can now run three, and the publio
is given better accommodation and more
of it, and the cable system is deservedly
asuocess. .
Husband and Wife.
The social and domestic relations of
husband and wife were discussed by a
clergyman, who said that the Soriptures
make the relationship very plain. Hus
bands and wives are fellow travelers on
ife's highway, and they are brought
together by choice, not by chance. In
the presence of God and man they have
sworn to bear each other's burdens. They
have not foreseen all the troubles and
responsibilities that await them ; they
ill IS 3 1 i 1 .
will iiiiu ueiects in eacn oiuer wnicn can
only be rightly met by mutual consider
ation and forbearance. As the husband
is the ruler of the family and sustains
be same relation to the wife as Christ
does to the church, the hue band is first
in responsibility, and the wife, instead of
denying this responsibility, as some
women do, should force it upon the hus
band s attention if he be disposed to for
get it. The husband is responsible for
the support of the family and no man is
a Christian who does not do all he can
or his family.
If a man gives the reins of government
into the hands of his wife, and the family
carriage is wrecked thereby, he is re
sponsible for damages. Many men treat
their wives like children They regard
heir views and opinions as of no value.
which is altogether wrong. The key to
happiness is mutual confidence. Have
no secrets from each other. But wives
are to submit to their husbands only "as
it is fit in the Lord." a woman is not to
give up her religion or her conscience.
A good husband will nearly always
made a good wife. A man does not take
a wife because she is a philosopher, but
to satisfy his cravings for the beautiful,
the good and the gentle. Hence it is his
duty to furnish his wife with the means
of making herself as attractive after mar
riage as before. A neat, tidy house and
a neat, tidy wife are bound to exercise a
powerful influence for good upon the
family. Wives should never be slovenly
in dress, and should make themselves
and their homes agreeable. Home
should be the dearest place on earth to a
man, and it generally is when it is made
pleasant and happy.
An Australian Walking Tour.
A walking tour of a very remarkable
character has just been completed by
Mr. Ernest Morrison, son of Mr. George
Morrison of the Geelong Scotch College.
He had already achieved some reputa
as a traveler, having a few years ago, dur
ing a holiday vacation, walked everland
from Qaeenscliff to Adelaide. On this
oocasion, however,hs undertook and has
since successfully completed, the ambi
tious task of traversing the continent of
Australia from tho gulf of Carpentaria to
Melbourne. ' -
Leaving Normantown on the week be
fore Christmas, he passed through Clon-
ourry, followed . down the Diamantina
and the Thomson, and struck the Bulloo
at Thargomindah and the Paroo at Hun
gerford. Following then the Paroo he
crossed the Darling at Wiloannia, the
Laohlan at Booligal, the Murrumbidgee
at Hay, and the Murray at Echuca. He
walked the entire distance alone and un
armed, generally sleeping in the open
air. He was caught by the heavy rains
above Thargomindah and for 350 miles
had nearly as much wading through
water as walking. The journey of over
2000 miles oooupied just 120 days, his
rate of traveling being greatly impeded
by the weight he had to carry. Mel
bourne Argns.
Hominy Croquettes To a cupf nil of
cold , boiled'hominy'add a tablespoon! ul
of melted butter; stir well, then add
gradually a cupful of milk, stirring and
mashing the hominy until it becomes a
soft smooth paste. Then add a teaspoon'
f ul of white sugar and a well-beaten egg,
Boll into oval balls with floured hands.
roll in beaten eggs, then in bread
orumbs, and fry in boiling lard.
There are over sixty-five thousand law
vers in the United States, and the Drum-
mer is not nearly so much surprised that
truth should be crashed to earth as that
it should rise again.
ALL SORTS.
All light, transparent stuffs are much
puffed and draped this year.
We are all in favor of knee-breeches
for the letter carriers.- Many Faithful
Bulldogs.
While her mother was taking a fly out
of the butter, little Daisy asked: "Is that
a butter fly, mamma?"
When a poor fellow begins going to
the dogs.it is only his dog who continues
to sympathize with him.
The man who invented the phrase.
"Jusi as easy as rolling off a log." must
have tried to cross the river on one.
The LL. D. croi) of this vsar is a varr
large but some of it lias been gath
ered oeiore it was - ripe. isoaton trav
eler. If we did but know how Utile soma
en jov of the things they possess, there
would not be verv much envv in the
world.
Tha oonntrv nreaoriAr is Trufri1 In
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be poor and humble. His congregation
mnnfc lrnan tiim nnni- ta T.nrrl will maVa.
him humble.
Money and fame are two things that
men work hardest for; and after death
one is worth just about as much to them
as the other. . ;
If vou don't want evil things said of
vou. don't do evil things. It is poor
polioy to grow feathers for your enemy's
arrows.
"What is meant by a Sabbath-day's
journey?" John "The distance between
any place and the nearest good fishing
ground.
The "Great Eastern" last year earned
$65, and cost $20000. Now, if we
didn't know the "Great Eastern" was a
steamship, we would think it was a
member of Congress.
The vanity of loving fine olothes and
new fashions, and valuing ourselves by
them, is one of the most childish pieces
of folly that can be.
"If ours," exclaims the Chicago Inter-
Ocean, "is not a government of the" sa
loon keeper by the saloon keeper for the
saloon keeper, what is it?
A Pennsylvania man still has in his
possession the first pair of pants he ever
woro. Unlike most fathers, he-hasns
tried to work 'em off on the boys.
The difference between a long and
short yarn is very well illustrated by the
difference of one's feelings in holding a
skein for one's grandmother or for one's
sweetheart.
A desire to make everybody happy
and comfortable can be carried to ex
tremes. An Indiana landlord has been
fined $700 for kissing a lady who was a
guest at his hotel. - .
It appesrs that alum is sometimes .
added to wines to give astringency and
to raise the color. For its detection,
evaporate to dryness, and then set fire to
the organic matter. .
Mr. Sherman loves to sit on the poroh
and watch the lawn mower rattle among
the trees. So do we; and so long as
somebody else - pushes the machine we
don't care how much it rattles. Boston
Star.
It is calculated by scientists that a
man can make more of a blamed nui
sance of himself in five minutes with a
garden hose than he oan in an hour and
a half by any other method. Lowell
Citizen.
The reason the wives of Brigham
Young do not go to his grave and weep
is a good one. No woman wants to go
to her husband s grave to shed tears and
find another woman there doing it.
Boston Post.
I have often noticed that gallant young
men walking with their sweethearts offer
their left arm. Why is this? Edith
The left arm is nearest the heart; the
right arm is nearest the pocketbook.
Jrhiladelphia News.
"Going out of town this summer?"
somebody, asked a drygoods olerk the
other day. "Summer nothing," was the
curt reply. "I can get all the mosqui
toes and stale fish 1 want right where I
board in Harlem." The Judge;
The principal of a Massachusetts in
land academy saw fit to expel one of his
boys, who-then wrote home to his father
in justification of his course : "I got
expelled for riding with the girls, but I
took the neatest, cleanest, prettiest girl
there was in town."
At the dinner to the newsboys at the
Soldiers Home one boy had eaten all he
could possibly hold, when he leaned back
and said to his partner. "Skinny, my
stomach will think my throat is out."
Volumes could not say more. Peck's
Sun.
A lady poet asks: "How can I tell
him I love him no more ?" Probably the
beBt way is to get him into an ice cream .
saloon, eat five dishes and then break the
news gently. If he doesn't accept the
situation you had better try and love him
again. You can never do better.
A Philadelphia police sergeant says he
has arrested men hopelessly, helplessly,
rolling drunk, with $1000 in their pock
ets. Beg pardon, sergeant, but a man
with $1000 doesn't get drunk. He may
succumb to, malaria, or eat' buttered
watermelon, but he doesn't get drunk.
School committeeman (examining a
pupil) : "Where is the north pjole?'' "I
don't know, sir." "Don't know? Are
you not ashamed that you don't know
where the north pole is?" 44 Why, sir, if
Sir John Franklin and Dr. Kane and
Captain DeLong couldn't find it, how
should I know where it is?"
Accustom yourself to submit on all
and every occasion, and on the most
minute, no less than on the most im
portant circumstances in life, to a small
present evil, to obtain a greater distant
good. This will give decision, tone, and
energy to the mind, which, thus disci
plined, will often reap victory from de
feat and honor from repulse. Colton.
- 44 What d'ye leave that door open for?"
exclaimed the gentleman in the office to
the intruding peddler." "Oi thought,
surr," was the quick reply, " that ye
moight want to kick me down stairs, and
Oi wanted to make it oonvanient for ye,
surr," The gentleman was ; so taken
aback that he bought two apples for five
cents; passing off a bad quarter in tha
, transaction.