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VOL. VIII.
ROSEBURGy OREGON, SATURDAY, 51 ARCH 1, 1884.
NO. 47.
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J ASIC UL E IC,
PRACTICAL
Watcimater, Jeweler art Optician,
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer la Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses.
and a rcix ixs or
Cigars, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Th only reliable Optomer In town f er the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
taclei and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postofflce,
BOEBCBQ. OREGOX.
LANGEHBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
itdSBBUB, OREGON,
On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and beat assortment of
Eastern and San Francisco Boots and
---r-Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers;
. And ereirthlngln the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
Boots and Shoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed. -
I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all
.... my work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
i LOUIS L.AXGEXBERG.
DR. IYJ. W. DAVIS,
tSS DENTIST,
ItOSEBIIRG, OREGON.
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Ovor S. Marks & Co. s .New wtore.
IiIAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest the Bail road Depot, Oakland.
JA8.MAHOXEY, - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IX PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
the Oakland JJepot.
Give me a call.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN ERASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERVSPRIM MATTRESSES, ETC.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE
1 have the Rest
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ei Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Prices to. Customers,
Residents of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call before purchasing elsewnere.
ALL
WORK
WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon,
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hoteljias been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop
ular with, the traveling public. .
FIEST-CXASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THE
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords.
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Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Gfoods,
Keep constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra "Fine Groceries,
" WOOD. WJIiLQW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY.. AND CORDAGE,
-r. A;.wll sttjck of ,
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Such ss required by the Public County Schools.
All kind or Stationery, Toy and
Fancy Articles,
TO BUTT' BOTH YOCNQ AMD OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS ! SEEDS 1
SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL. ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
wicn care.
Address,
1IA( HEW A BESO,
-Portland, Oregon.
W. C. Prime : After all, the mighty
forces which move, humanity are the
fnfflp'a whieh come from the affections
rather than from the cool intellect.
No less than 500 schemes for improv-
isg the condition of the houses of the
poor in Paris have been presented to
he municipal council.
Peoria Transcript: The cold weather is
nature's plan of relieving, the streets of bad
smells aud corner loafers.
RONDEAU.
Samuel Minturn Peck.
She tossed to roe a kiss! Twas night,
Yet every brooding care took flight.
The fountain leapt andlaughed with glee,
And all the stars leant out to see,
And won-tered at my wild delight.
Though fate my sweetest hope may
To crown with bliss a rival knight,
- One joy I have can never flee,
She tossed to me a kiss!
blight
Should fortune guide my lance aright
That I may win her in the fight,
Oj, 1 will guard her tenderly
And she will never be to me
Less fair than when in beauty bright
one tossed to me a suss I
RINGS FOR BRIDES.
The Style Most Preferred Nowadays
' A Case of Economy.
(New York Jeweler.
"Arid wedding rings expensive . Well,
no; they vary in price, but the dearest
of them would break a comparatively
poor man. This is the cheapest we
have, fourteen carats and not very,
thick; and it only costs $4. TuS again
is the most expensive 1 have in stock,
weighs tolerably heavy, you see ; is of
the finest gold used for manufacturing
purposes, twenty-two carats, and costs
$15. Seems almost too heavy to wear,
doesn't it ? But a ring that would gall
and weigh down a woman's finger
wouldn't be unsuitable to some mar
riages after all. Yes, I sell quite a few
of the cheaper ones. You would natur
ally think that as a man only buys one,
or at most two such articles in the
course of his life, he would not mind
spending a f e w dollars on it. But that's
according to how they feel, too.
borne men aren t overburdened
with sentiment." Why, a man bought a
ring in (September last, naggled over
the price, and chose one at $7. Day
before last Sunday he came in and
wanted the size altered straight away.
He was dressed in mourning and
looked like a well-to-do clerk. He ex
plained that his first wife had died in
November, and be was going to be mar
ried again Christmas day, and as the
ring was 'hardly; worn he thought it
was no use buying another !
"Rings are broader and heavier than
they were thirty years ago, but as a rule
the purchaser's choice is guided pretty
much according to how the lady feels
about it. They say that in England
the thiu, old-fashioned ring is coming
in again, but in in ew lork, as 1 say,
the ladies mostly prefer a broad and
Heavy one, and before marriage any
how a man generally is guided by his
future wife's inclinations, and everv
thing is done according to how she
feels about it."
Her Sweet Revenge.
Detroit Free Press.
As the car stopped at the Opera house
crossing, several i men got in, A laay
was seated at the front end. She had
on a light wrap, bonnet which covered
only four inches of her head, kid gloves,
and only a bit of lace at her neck, The
car windows were iced over, and every
breath spun oat half way across the
car.
"Hanged if 1 amt frozen," said one
of the men in a big beaver overcoat and
fur-lined overshoes,
"Never felt the cold so in rar life,"
added another whose clothing must
have weighed thirty pounds.
"Bet you ten to ona I ve frozen my
ears, said a tnird as ne luted on ma
seal-skin cap and removed a heavy
muffler from his neck
There were two other men, each hav
ing a heavy overcoat, muffler, overshoes
and warm gloves, and yet they stamped
their feet and blew on their fingers,
and declared that they were freezing,
The lady sat there as calm and serene
and as warm as toast. She saw the men
glaring at her, and wondering why on
earth the marrow in her bones didn't
turn to icicles, but she was not dis
turbed. As the last
with a shiver and a
one settled back
groan, she pleas-
antly asked :
''Will one of you
gentlemen please
open the door ? It is
hot enough in
here to fry fish."
A Tramp's Philosophy.
Tramp life, as actually enjoyed by a
man who was once a business man m
New York. wa3 described to a Kocky
Mountain News reporter. The tramp's
father, a New York state farmer, sent the
boy to New York city, where he went into
Dusme.s. feome years later tne y ung
man married his partner a wife s sister.
The partner absconded with the firm s
means: the tramp that is fen in with
an actress, and ran awav with her ; then
his wife and children died and his
father was bankrupt, and the Bon went
to Chicago, but could not get employ
ment. He pushed on t j Iieadville and
got a job, but lost it, and then tramped
to Denver, and there resolved to do no
more work, work being in his
view, slavery. He said : T don't
ask for money; lve got clothes,
and I get my board; nobody gets
much more. My philosophy is : 'Don't
M t TTTI ,
worry; dontirec v nat nave l got to
be low-spirited about ? I get the air
that s free, and the water that s free,
and eatingwell, I live. I usually
carry about $20 in my pocket. You
can't vag a man with $20 as a visible
means of support. I don't trouble any
body ; I-don't drink, and never steal
anything. The police never trouble
me, and I usually find some place to
sleep.
The Cnrse of Poverty.
TV. H. H. Murray.
Oh, cursed poverty! I know thee to
be of Satan, for I myself have eaten at
thy scanty table, and slept in thy cold
bed. And never jet have I seen thee
bring one smile to human lips, or dry
one tear as it fell from a human eve.
But I have seen thee sharpen the tongue
for biting Speech an 1 harden the tender
heart. Av, 1 ve seen thee make even the
presence of love a burden, and cause the
mother to wisn that the babe nursing
her scant breast had never been born.
Sever Did.
Exchange.
A writer, probably of the sealskin
sacque gender and unmarried, asks :
"Did you ever watch dear little baby
waking in the morning ?" We never dii
The dear little angel always awoke so
confounded early that we were not
ready to open our eyes. .
HOW CIGAR BOXES ARE MADE.
Sanrinz the Wool---How the ailin
la Ioi'-Tli4 Jiumber Csed. ;
Chicago Herald.
TLe reporter climbed up five flights
of stairs in one o! the largest blocks in
the manufacturing district of the city
where the largest cigar box factory is
located. A part of the large floor was
occupied by the strips of wood cut into
the requisite thickness, one dimension
for the bottom, sides and cover and an
other for the ends. The strips of wood
are run through the rip-saw, sawed in
long strips, and cut into the required
lengths by a second machine. The ends
are then planed as smooth as the sides,
and the pieces" are ready to be made
into boxes. Lids and sides have to pass
through printing presses, of the same
Eattern as used- in ordinary job-rooms,
ut much heavier, to have the brand,
trademark, etc., printed upon them
with indelible ink.
. f. Then the pieces .jgo to the nailer,
who uses a machine for his work.
The" nailing machines are 1 some
what stiuil&r in appearance to type
setting machines, and require but little
experience to be quite dexterously
handled. The nails are fed into a hop
per on the top, passing through small
brass pipes into little tubes at the
proper distances for the parts to be
nailed together. By the pressure of
the foot on the foot-board of the ma
chine the operator forces the nails out
of the tubes iuto the wood, and accom
plishes with the aid of the machine six
aes as much work as the most expe-
enced workman could do with hand
and hammer ; besides, the work is of
necessity done far more accurately.
The first operation is the nailing together
of an end and head piece, which are
placed in large piles, and then two of
these pieces are nailed together, form
ing the sides of the box. Boys nail on
the bottoms and girls tack on the cOver
temporarily, while other girls paste on
the cloth hinges. The half-completed
boxes are then piled up until they are
perfectly dry. An experienced nailer
averages about 8o0 boxe ? per day, re
ceiving 25 cents for 100 boxes, while the
boys and girls are paid by the week,
earning from $4 to $10 per week.
After the boxes are dry they are
brought under a rapidly revolving
planer which removes all overhanging
wood-work, while whirling sand wheels
smooth off the edges. A large force of
girls is employed in putting on the fin
ishing touches, which means to paste on
the edgings, inside labels, lining and
flaps. For this work the girls are paid
80 cents a hundred, and they earn from
$5 to $9 per week.
The lumber used in the manufacture
of cigar-boxes is, with few exceptions,
either bass-wood or red cedar. Bass
wood grows in almost unlimited quanti
ties in Michigan, Minnesota and the
northern part of Wisconsin. It is
shipped to this city in rough boards
which are re-cut, planed and stained
by a peculiar process, to that it closely
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resembles ceaar wooa. irom wnicn it is
different in color and lacking in that
sharp, pungent odor which is deemed of
particular value for the packing of
cigars. Uas3wood boxes are used for
the ordinary quality of cigars. The red
cedar grows in Mexico, Cuba and Cen
tral America, and forms an imjiortant
article in the exports of these countries.
Cedar costs in Chicago in the neighbor
hood of $40 a thousand lineal feet of
the ordinary lumber dimensions.
Actors and Riches.
Philadelphia Press.
Your great fellow-citizen, Forrest,
died rich, and, by the way, the Forrest
home, which he so' thoughtfully pro
vided and generously endowed, would
be a good subject for inside treatment,
if it was possible to photograph it faith
fully, lhe great Uooth died poor
Charlotte Cushman left a fortune;
Sothern died poor, and Edwin Adams
left nothing. Of all the actors living,
the list of rich among them is very
short. Mr. Jefferson has some money,
not much; Edwin Booth was rich,
became a bankrupt, and is now
making money fast; Lester Wallaok
is not reputed wealthy: "Solon
Shingle" Owens had much money and
has some now; none of the Thornes
have kept a dollar ; Salvini's fortune is
very small; John T.. Raymond spends
money faster than he gets it ; Bobson
never saved a dollar until he found his
mascot in Billy Crane, but now I am
glad to understand the one supple
ments the other so admirably that the
two are getting rich ; McKee Bankin
has a little farm in Canada, but noth
ing else; the younger leading men and
women of the stage are receiving good
salaries, but there are not more than
three who are laying anything by. The
fact is that among the deaths might
very well be put the na nes of economy
and prudence.
As Important a Seme Other.
New York Sur-
A new society wag discovered by a
Williamsburg policeman yesterday. On
one of the dumps at - the Wallabout
basin he noticed an excavation. As he
slipped down into it his cariosity was
excited by hearing voices. Beaching
the bottom he found a door in the em
bankment, and opening it he found
a cave in which were three m?n
seated about a stove, smoking and chat
ting. He thought they were tramps, and,
on saluting them as such, he was in
formed that they were fie foremen cf a
gang of pickers a class of men who
search the dumps for such articles as
' may be carried there with the city ref
use.
"We're here to catch the first ca-t,"
they sa:d, "and keep s range pickets
away. This is oar week on. Third s
a little company of ns, and wo ca'l it
our society. Every damp has it
ciety. You just try and see if you
pick anything oif a dunp without
longing to the ic-iety that watjl.e i
so-i-an
be
it." A8saa1 Sjcial SZ&xira.
Galvestin (Tex.) N.nvs. '
r eopie wno persist in stealing ik :s
should be turned out of meeting and
excluded from good so -icty. -
Rev. E. L. Magoon : It is not the
number of books one reads that coun:,
it is their qualilv. A whole acre o
book-shelves might contain less jooJ
than one or two volumes in a gripsack.
Shakespeare and the 2flrru .lan-
aarer.
Croffu.'s Letter. .
'Judge Barrett, author or "An Ameri
can Wife." recently produced at W al-
lack's, led off with a half-hours speech,
very compact and artistic, in which he
set forth that the main- reason wlij the
American drama languishes is 4 that our
people are too busy to becoms cultured
experts in art. Moreover, he said, our
managers would rather have a poor
play from Paris, than a good play from
New York. "I was recent'y asked," he
said, "If I thought Shake peare could
get his plays produced if he lived to
day in some town up the Hudson, and
should bring them ti notice
for the first time in this city."
Oh. ves. I really think he could. I
fahcy his coming down bringing under
his arm a roll of manuscript, say, "The
Merchant of Venice," and submitting
it I to a manager. The manager conde
scendingly says: "We have rafts of
plays alt the while, but I will have
yours read as soon as we cane to it.
'Good morning, sir.- Shakcsya calls
several times, and in about
three years he learns that it
has been read. 'Mr. Shakespeare,'
the manager says, 'there is some
merit in your play there really is, sir,
some merit, I assure you. l had no
idea there was at first. I think we can
cut it down so as. to make it play. I'll
give it to my man. You see it's awfully
talky-talky. Why, it would put an au
dience to sleep as it is now. ..That ser
mon of what's-her-name's Portia's
they wouldn't stand that. Shall have
to; cut it. Oh, yea, I know you like it,
and think it good, its always so
with authors. Then yon bear down
rather hard on Shylock. This
will have to be toned down.
A good many of our best patrons I
coine from that race, and twont do to
offend them. Then the idea of leaving
Shy lock out of the last act! wny, no
respectable tragedian would take the
part. No; I'll tell you what we'll do.
V ell have a missionary come into the
last act and convert old'Shylock! See?
Capital idea ! Then 1 11 have the more
declamation the talky-talky stuff
struck out; and then, when we get
through the plays at present under
lined. 1 11 give it a trial that is. if I
cah't find a German, French or English
play 1"
Beads) and Their Manufacture.
Inter Ocean.
The use of beads is again becoming
fashionable, and there is likely to be as
great a rage for that sort of ornament
as: there was twelve or fifteen years ago.
Beads are made of a great variety
of; materials, glass, stone, metals, coral,
bone, ivory, amber, etc., but glass is
generally understood when beads are
spoken of without special description.
And they are a verv old institution.
Venice is the place of their
greatest production, where their
manufacture has been a staple in
dustry for more than a thousand year.
Attempts have elsewhere been made to
compete with Venice in bead making,
but living there is so cheap an artisan
is ;able to subsist on 5 cents a day, and
they possess secrets of glass-ooloring
known nowhere else, so that opposition
has not been successful. They give
more than two hundred different tints
tolsingle-colored beads, and when they
come to combinations the possibilities
are unlimited, lhe production is so
great that in Venice a bunch of
small beads of eighty strings, each
string six inches long, can be
bought
for about a cents. Ihese beads aro
chiefly sold to the North American In
dians. It is a singular fact that fashion
in1 civilization and barbarism meet on a
level in the choice of beads, the inhabi
tants of the South Sea is'anls and the
ladies of New York city, in times of
bead crazes, showing preference for
about the same article in color, Btyle,
and make. The most costly and best
glass beads are made in Pari1?. It is
there we get our lioman pearl, mirror
beads, etc. Bead manufacture has been
tried disastrously in this country. The
cost here is too great.
Growinz Power of the Australian
Dominion.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. J. Henniker Heaton forwards
from Sydney a complete account of the
resources of which an Australian domin
ion would dispose. The seven colonies
now own 3,000,000 square miles of (ter
ritory, or three times the surface of Eu
rope west of the Vistula, inhabited by
2,936,000 persons of European descent.
These 3,000,000 have placed 7,128,000
acres under talage. in addition, of
course, to their grass land: and own
1,219,000 horses, 8,429,000 cattleand
r 1 1 j ro a.ia i . rrM. t a: i
io,vo,vvv sueep. Aiiey uae a uuuo
of 114,00:J,000 and a revenue
of $110,000,000 a year; and! al
though their debt exceeds $500,000,000
the state railways are valued at more
than this sum. They have placed 62,-
000.000 sterling in Australian banks as
fixed deposits bearing interest, and ex
clusive therefore of current accounts;
arid they spend 12 per cent of their! en
tire revenue, heavy as the taxation is,
upon public education. In a very: few
yars, probably before 1900, the domin
ion will be a powerful state of 5,000,000
of people, with a practically limitless
territory for settlement, with a revenue
of S18o,000,000, and the power of train
ing a permanent militia force of 150,000
men, b7 drilling only the young men
from 19 to 22. Such- a state, so isolated,
will dominate the South Pacific, what
ever Europe, or even America, niay
have to sav to the contrary.-
English Toadyism.
. London Truth. -,.
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I hear from Florence that the Eng
lish in that city are making fools of
themselves anent the duke and duchess
of Teck, by insisting upon carrying oat
all the strictest laws of court etiquette
wherever the Tecklan highnesses go.
They never think of leaving before
them, and there is so wondrous an
amo-jnfc of kissing of hands and of
prancing backward at evening parties
where they are present, that the Flor
entines, Rtxsflipn3 and Americans j are
lost in amazement. These royal antics
may afford the Princess Mary and the
duke a certain amount of amusement,'
but if persevered in they will render a
residence in r lorence unendurable.
both to them, and to all who are not
flunkeys.
A PLEA FOR ALMANACS.
The Almanac of
the Old Settlers
PnbliHhers to Con-
SuTrestIon for
aider.
Chicago Times.
One of the first publications in this
country that attracted great attention
at home and abroad was 'Poor Kich-
ard's Almanac," which was compiled
and published by Benjamin Franklin.
The wise maxims contained in
this publication became "house
hold words" in almost every
family in the land. They ranked
next to the proverbs of Solomon. Un
doubtedly they contributed much to the
thrift of the early settlers of the coun
try. Books were scarce and news-
Eapers almost unknown outside of
irge towns. The almanac was the
book for daily reference. It was
studied almost as critically a3 the
bible. Before the year had ended, al
most every member of the family had
committed its contents to memory.
Old almanacs were carefully filed away
for the benefit of future generations.
Not unfrequeutly they were bound and
placed in the library.
The almanac of "Poor Richard was
succeeded by others of almost equal
value, which contained a large amount
of useful information. Besides the cal
endar of each month, there were the
names of the officers of the nation and
and state, the times of holding court,
the fees of various officials, college reg
isters, business forms, interest tables,
an abstract of the postal laws, the time
of the occurrence of eclipses, and
various other things of timely impor
tance. It was thought necessary for
every well-regulated family to have an
almanac before the commencement of
the new year.
The decline m reliable almanacs in
this country dates from the advent of
patent medicines. The enterprising
proprietors of these nostrums published
enormous editions of so-called medical
almanacs, heaped the counters of gro
ceries and drug stores with them, and
caused them to be distributed from
house to house. In many cases they is
sued editions in various languages, and
gave them away, and the free almanacs
thus destroyed the market for those
that were only disposed of for a price.
The free almanacs, however, were very
dear in the end, for they induced peo
ple to purchase millions of dollars'
worth of useless if not harmful nos
trums. It is time to revive the publication
of almanacs of the better sort. Their
publication has never been discontinued
in Great Britain and the countries on
the continent of Europe. A journal in
the former country devotes two columns
to a review of the almanacs issued for
the present year. Some of them ap
pear to be volumes of considerable size
and to contain a vast amount of in
formation. A few are largely devoted
to the wants of special classes, as ship
pers, miners, teachers, merchants and
scholars. One is chiefly given to the
discussion of domestic problems as ap
plied to every-day life. Another is de
signed for the dissemination of free
trade principles.
The family almanac, as a means of
doing good in various ways, has not re
cently been appreciated in this country.
lhe Humane society could hardly make
a better use of a part of its funds than
by publishing an almanac that would
be put into the hands of persons who
have the care of animals and birds. The
manufacturers and venders of quack
medicines, fertilizers and dime novels
should not be allowed to monopolize
the publication of a class of reading
matter that goes into every family liv
ing outside of the large cities, and
which is attentively and carefully
studied. The influence of the family
almanao can hardly be overestimated.
Familiar Line of an Old-Time Poet.
It appears that a number of our
familiar phrases are the expressions of
an almost v forgotten English poet.
Thomas Tusser, who was born about
the year 1515, and died when Shake
speare was but 16 years old.
ine loiiowing quotations are given
as illustrations :
A stone that is rolling can gather no moss.
Better late than never.
All's fish they get
That Cometh to net.
Look ere thou leap, Bee ere thou go.
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind that turns none to good.
Time tries the troth in everything.
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the
meat.
A Prentice Chestnut.
The Courier-Journal says that the
late George D. Prentice was once play
ing at poer on a Mississippi steamer.
I'rentice bet a thousand on his hand ;
his opponent raised him five hundred ;
Prentice raised a thousand: his oppo
nent raised him five hundred ; Prentice
again raised the stake a thousand. "Mr.
Prentice," said the opponent, confi
dently, "you are betting more than your
hand is worth." Prentice looked at his
hand, turned it down on the table, and
said: "Sir, if I were playing with
Jupiter at a star ante, I would darken
the everlasting firmament on the hand
I have just turned down."
Poisoning Rabbits.
.The last report of the New Zealand
Agricultural Bociety reveals that its
managers have found it necessary to
resort to the wholesale use of poison in
order to prevent their crops from being
entirely destroyed by rabbits. ; During
the three years which ended in October
last more than 500,000 pounds of poi
soned oats were scattered over the com-
pany's estates, with the result that
nearly three millions , of skins were
picked up and brought to market.
Had to Irop Him,
Yes," said young De Smyth, as he
pensively cnaiKea me ena oi nis cue,
"Jack was my oldest and best friend.
but he married a girl from the suburbs
who wasn t nice m society, so, of conrse.
I had to drop him. My shot?"
"Koyal Boh''
A writer in a Detroit paper gives the
following account of "how Robert G.
Ingersoll came to be called by the ma
jestic title, "Royal Bob." The first
time President Garfield visited Wash
ington after his return from Montor
Bob Ingersoll and several mora of his
admirers went to the depot to meet him.
As the president-elect stepped off the
car Ingersoll went forward, held out his
hand, and said: "How are you, gen
eral?" Garfield smiled and replied:
'Royal, Bob." A reporter wrote up an
account of the meeting between the
president and the noted infidel ; but the
intelligent compositor and the still more
intelligent proof-reader consigned to an
early and unhonored grave the oomma
between "Royal" and "Bob," so that
next morning it appeared in the paper
as "Royal Bob." This spread through
out the United States, and hence the
name.
BEAUTY A-SLEIGHIMQ.
On the ftoad Feminine Ugliness la
Hare and Prize Beauties Common.
' Inter Ocean New Tork Letter.
The sleighing gives wealth a chance
to vary its display. The fashionable
thing on runuers is the Russian vehicle,
with plumes at its front corners, and
J:-7. by three horses abreast, the mid
dle beast bearing a high of jingling
bells. Great quantities of costly for
are in and over the sleigh and on the
harness. The men and women who ride
thus conspicuously are by no means so
uniformly fine to look at. They are of
all sorts and conditions, socially,
morally and intellectually, and I am
bound to say that in none of these re
spects is the trnth indicated by appear
ances. The incidental racing, too, is
helter-skelter and democratic. The
deacon and the gambler speed their
trotters alongside. But if these men
are a fair aver age. of all men in the
matter of face, the same is not true of
the women.
"Probably you havn't any notion,
unless you have bestowed some thought
on it, said my sleigh companion, after
she hal scrutinized the visage 3 of many
of her own sex on the road, "how dis
proportionately large is the amount of
beauty shown in places of pleasure ; and
it gets more so as the cost of the di
version increases. Go to church and
you will strike a true average. Go to
the theatre, and you wul see a consider
ably bigger proportion of pretty girls.
Go to the more expensive operas and
the percentage of beauties go up. Here
on the road ugliness is rare and loveli
ness common.
"The reason is that men let good looks
decide them in choosing a girl to take
out, and the more alluring the sporthe
likelier it is to fetch out the prize beau
ties, it is really too bad on the homely
girls, for only wealth or unusual mental
qualities can command for them such
jolly amusements as this. I'm the ex
ception that proves the rule.
No matter whether she was sincere as
to herself ; but she was right about the
rest of it. Beauty abounded on the
road. Furthermore, and lamentable in
another way than she had intimated,
the beauty was too often of a notorious
kind. It was possessed m a quite
shockng degree by chorus girls from
the comic operas, ballet girls from
the spectacles, a Iventaresses of divers
grades; and the p"1 .Me point in the ex
hibition was thai ..e men who shared
seats with them were by no means all
of a kindred character, but were numer
ously sons of respected families, who
ought to have been ashamed of their
positions, but were proud instead.
There is no direction in which the idle
and moneyed young fellows of this city
are drittmg worse or faster than to this
public association with professional
beauties. It is in imitation of the Eng
lish aristocracy. Ridicule has no re
pressive effect. A spanking law might
be good. "
What Can It Mean f
Olive Logan.
You and I, who belong neither to
the one class nor to the other, who are
observers merely, shut out from splen
dor's highest expression, yet spared
squalor's keenest miseries, can but
look at each other and exclaim in
amazement, " What can it mean ? What
is this fearful secret of life, which con
demns one man to a hand-to-hand fight
with hunger from his cradle to his
grave and laps the other m downy lux
urv, soiter than the plumage oi 'the
swan s white breast, feeds his baby bps
With a golden spoon, and lays his em
balmed corpse in a monument, whose
cost would erect a hundred cot
tages to shelter many more than a
hundred human beings as irresponsible,
as worthy as himself ?
The Bnnko Alan's Victims.
New York Tribune.
The class from which the professional
swindler's victims are usually drawn
consists largely of people who are dis
honest within h'mitations. They will
not subject themselves to legal pains
and penalties, but they will get the bet
ter of their neighbors whenever it can
be done safely. It is because there is
so considerable an admixture of knavery
in the conduct of many of the victims
of these professional swindlers that the
latter are enabled to ply their vocation
so boldly and with such immunity.
Anniversary Extraordinary.
Texas Sittings.
Mrs. Junebug invited several of her
friends to come to her house on a cer
tain day, as she was going to celebrate
her 25th birthday. At the dinner
table Mrs. J. said:
"This day is also the anniversary of
sorrow to me my father's death."
"maeecu And now long nas your
,tatner been dead ?" asked one of the
guests. 4
" Twenty-eight years, replied Mrs.
Junebug.
That Settles It. .
Nym Crinkle.
If to be monotonous is to be gifted ;
if to be one good actor in a group is to
be representative ; if to walk a chaBr
line is to go upward ; if to present one
repertoire in one way for twenty-five
years and to get the same unvarying
eulogiums for its success then Mr.
Booth, no less than-Joe Jefferson, de
serves well of fame, and need bother no
'more about what other people do.
Rev. F. H. Barrows, D. D.: We
make a mistake in writing too many
essays about religion, instead of preach
ing simply and directly and with fiery
earnestness to people s hearts and con
sciences.
LEGS AND ARMS.
An Art by Which Portions of the Hu
man Anatomy Are Successfully Du-
plicated.
Chicago Herald.
"You- want to know how artificial
limbs are made? Why that question
could hardly be answered in volumes,"
ejaculated the doctor, when the reporter
pressed his question. He then opened
a large glass case and pointed to an
artificial leg, which, had it not been for
the somewhat livid color of the enamel,
would have led the observer to believe
it had just been severed from the body.
Now. here, said the doctor, "is the
best anatomical leg in the market. It
sounds funny, doesn't it, to speak of
Tegs in the market? I'll try to give
you an idea as well as I can without the
aid of illustrations. The ankle joint is
formed by a ball of polished glass, ply
ing in a socket of vulcanite of India
rubber, which is a joint that admits of
every motion that the natural ankle
does, without exception. It is the first
joint ever invented which never re
quires oiling. At the base of the calf of --
the leg ' there are four India rubber
springs, which take the place of the
muscles of the natural leg. From these
springs the tendons, witn screw-neads
on the upper end, pass to the ankle joint,
and the nuts serve to regulate the ten
sion of the tendons and springs to suit
the wearer. The knee joint is formed
by an axial bolt plying in two segments
of a circle, one of which is adjus . ble to
prevent looseness and noise. A spring
operates the knee-joint and carries the
foot forward at each step, with any de
gree of motion desired to suit the pe
culiar gait of the wearer. It is made
from India rubber, and adjustable like
the others. The motion of the knee
joint is limited and controlled by a
cord, which takes the place of the cru
cial ligaments of the natural knee-joint ;
so, there is no unpleasant jar caused by
the contact of the solid parts, and the
annoyance and expense of sending the
leg to the maker every now and then
to have the joints bushed to keep them
from wearing loose and rattling is en
tirely avoided. In form, as you see, the
limb is made to correspond exactly with
the natural one. It is then covered
with a delicate skin, which is enameled
with the most delicate tinted flesh-col-bred
enamel, shaded to suit each par
ticular case."
Formerly," the doctor continued,
"the manufacture of artificial legs was
almost entirely left to common me
chanics, and strange to say, to those
who had. suffered . amputation, and had
little or no knowledge of anatomy.
They imitated some of the motions of
the natural leg quite well, but others
not at all. Indeed, it could hardly be
expected that any one but an anatomist
should be able to model a leg so close
to nature as to imitate all the varied
motions'of the nataraUftg.,;',": ;;. ,;. .-, . j..
"There is the so-called 'army and
navy leg, constructed by the earnest
request of surgeons, who wanted for
their patients a strong, durable leg, and
yet not costing a sum too large for a
person of limited means to pay. It has
no lateral or side motion, but has India
rubber springs that cannot be broken,
and which give an easy, graceful mo
tion, like that of the natural limb. Eng
lish willow, leather, silk and steel aro
the principal materials. The leg is
ventilated completely, and the top rim
is bound with brass, whicn prevents
splitting of the socket. Tho leg is
easily taken apart and put together, and
will stand the test cf years.
" The mechanism of an artificial arm.
said the doctor, "is, of course, more
complicated, but still the principle to
imitate nature is retained in this case
also. Inside the thumb a strong spring
is inserted to enable it to press upon any
object put between'it and the two first
fingers of the hand; this gives the natu
ral requirements for holding a pen,
knife, fork, book, etc. The curved and
graceful constructions of the fingers
give the hand an easy, natural appear-'
ance, with shape and strength to carry
a pail of water, to use the lines in driv
ing, or to assist the other hand in lift
ing and working where two hands are
needed. The elbow joint is so con
structed that it can be flexed or ex
tended at will, in fact, without any as
sistance from the other hand, retaining
any desired position."
A Curious Variation.
''Manhattan" in Chicago Journal.
This general rule of squalor through
sacrifice to drink has one curious varia-
tioa. You have doubtless read of the
cheapness and discomfort in which
Itauans live in New York. They do not
endure that kind of existence because
they are saving it. They have no idea
of staying longer in this country than
will suffice to gather a few hundred
dollars, with which to return to Italy,
where the sum will relatively be
a fortune. The grimiest rag
picker, the' humblest organ-grinder,
the meanest chesnut-roaster, is a capi
talist. The Italians are a colony by,
themselves in the Sixth ward. The
houses are bad, and the occupants have
the aspect of abject and hopeless pov
erty. But there are three Italian bank
ing places in that quarter, and not
one pawnbroker. That tells tne story.
Another thing, the Italian stale-beer
dens, in which the dregs from beer
kegs are sold at 2 cents a glass, with
the privilege ot sitting an nigus on a
hard bench by a fire, are actual places.
and no description has exap geratea
their awfulness of degredation ; but
Italians are the keepers of them, and
not the customers. ;
Animal Life.
Scientific JournaL
The largest living animal is the ror
qual whale, 102 feat in length ; the small
est, the amoeboid forms. Whales and
elephants live to the greatest age, ldl
years; May flies the shortest, only a few
hours. The most intelligent of ; the
lower animals, ahead even of the Au
stralian bushmen and others, are the
anta. . .1"' .
Another Solution. -
A Louisville clergyman said
in his
sermon that if women and men would
only dance" in separate rooms he would
not object to dancing. It would be
just as graceful, he claimed, and just as
healthful exercise, and they could keep
step the music just the same.
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