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AT PORTLAND PBIOES.
yol. ix.
EOSEBURG, OREGON; SATJJRDAY, JUNE 21, 1884.
NO. 11.
J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL
Watclimaler. Jeweler ani Optician
ALL WOEK WARRANTED.
Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses. .
AND A FULL LINE OF
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tht only reliable Optomer tn town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles; always on hand. ,
Depot of the Genuine Brasilia! Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses, v
ffice First Door South of Postoffice,
ItOSEBURO. OREUOX. ;
LANGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
ROSEBURtt, OKEtiOX,
a Jackin Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps n hand ths largest and best assortment of
eastern and Man Francises Boots and
Shoes, Gaiters. Slippers,
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
fleets and Shoes Made to Order,
and
Porfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warran
all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notict .
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS LAXdiEXBERU.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
m DENTIST,
ROBEBUKCi, OBECOX,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
MAHONEYS SALOON,
Nearest the Kail road Depot, Oakland.
JAS. MAIIONEY, - - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD T1BLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
ery handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
the OakJauu JJepot. ulve me a call.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
. WILlllIR, OREGOX.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the nest
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ef 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 elaewnere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
. Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber or years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THB-
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
Hi C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
mm u a
FjTTTfl. rlnB iTl OCerieS.
wnnn. willow and glassware.
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
" " w '1
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Such as required by the Public County Schools.
'All kinds of Stationery. Toys and
Fancy Articles,
TO aUlT BOTH YOl'NO AMD OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheoks on Portland, and procures
Draft on San Francisco.
! SEEDS!
SEEDS!
ill KINDS THE BEST QUALITY,
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
II AC HEX Y Sl BENO,
Portland, Oregon.
f Camels on the March.
Chicago Herald.
Samuel W. Baker, the African ex
plorer, is quoted as saving that camels
will cross a desert with a load of 400
pounds at the rate of thirty miles a
dav, in the burning heat of summer,
and require water only every third or
fourth day. In the cooler months the
animal will work seven or eight days
without water, and if grazinj on green
foliage, without labor, will only drmK
once a fortnight.
HE KNEW ABOUT IT.
rhe -1
tasker" Business and
Why
(Seward Bought the Place.
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
"TiTha's all's talk 'bout that Texas fellah
ami this Lasker business" asked one of our
best young men as he stood with his friends
inhaling the maddening fames of the destroy
ing cigarette, j A - long silence followed,
which was at! length broken by the best
young man who makes a living by sucking
the head of aj cane. After pondering the
question fully for a long time, he said:
"What Lasker y' talkin' 'bout?"
The flrss best young man was evidently an
noyed by the question. He looked sadly at
his toothpick shoes, hoping for some inspira
tion from them, but none came. He sighed
heavily, cast an appealing glance toward the
well-informed best young man, who re
mained silent, however, and the fu st speaker
replied: I
"Same Lasker fellah that got into trouble
with Texas fellah Doubiltree was Texas fel
lah's name, b'lieve. Some kind of er ah
..trouble, b'lieve. " w...- ...
The eyes of all the best young men are now
turned toward the well-informed best young
man. He was always looked up to in politi
cal discussions because he once drew a salary
in the custom house for doing something or
other he had forgotten what it was he did
in the custom house, but he did it several
years. In answer to the glances bent upon
him in mute but intelligent inquiry, the well
informed best young man said:
"Aw yaas;Iknow. I said at the time
tber'd be trouble. Said when Secretary
Seward -" ;
"Who's he secretary of J" asked the best
young man whose mother takes in washing.
"Dash if I know," said the w dl-inf ormed
best young man, after a painful silence;
some club or othah I've just forgotten
what. Well, I said when Secretary Seward
bought Alasker of the Proosians said then
Bismarck make trouble 'bout it some day : 'n
so he has."
"Wh'd he buy it for?" asked the best
young man who generously allows bis sister,
who teaches school, nearly one-half of her
salary. .
"Don' know," said the well-informed best
young man. "Spect wanted to build on it"
And the best young men Wandered on to a
place that sold scented cigarettes.
Iteely's Motor Eclipsed.
Inter Ocean.!
The Philadelphia Times claims to make
known the eclipser of Keely in a young man
of that city who has perfected a mysterious
motor and subjected it to definite tests. The
inventor is Jame3 Rodney Barlow, who, after
much study and the gaining secretly of some
knowledge of the Keely motor, set about
making a machine that should conform to
the principle of Keely's motor, with such
modifications as should make it practical in
stead of theoretic.
According to the paper - mentioned, whose
reporter is alleged to have been one of the
experimenting party, a trial was made on
the night of March 15 that was satisfactory
beyond all expectation. A hand-car was
run over the "West Jersey railroad between
Camden and Gloucester, at first moderately,
and then at the rate of speed equal to seventy-
five miles an hour. There were four people
on the car-he inventor, a friend who sup
plied him the money for his work, the re
porter, and an employe of the roaJ. The
success was such that Mr. Barlow was wild
with enthusiasm, and will at once proceed to
make a machine capable of real work.
The internal structure of his apparatus is
st present his secret. The appearance of the
invention is thus described: Two cylindrical
steel vessels, five inches in diameter by eigh
teen m length, placed longitudinally one inch
apart; above these, placed at right angles,
another similar vessel, three inches in
diameter by nine in length; from the head
of each of the lower cylinders projected a
steel tube half an inch in diameter, converg
ing four inches above, where there was a
small hand lever; by the side was a vertical
cylinder, with a rod and plunger, connected
with the upper cylinder of the motor by a
steel tube. That is all there was to it, and
all that will be known until Mr. Barlow gets
his right legally secured. Mr. Keely seems
to have tinkered, promised, and postponed
long enough to retire with the consciousness
that he has played Franklin for a contem
porary Morse.
Artlflcial Flowers to Let.
Boston Globe.
"Bless you, florists are bad enough, but
they have not stooped so low as to hire out
flowers for funerals. I never heard of such
a thing."
The reporter hied him to the largest artifi
cial flower and foliage concern in tht city.
A great many poor people, said a mem
ber of the firm, "order potted flowers and
tropical plants of us for funerals. We
charge 10 per cent, for their use, and in
plenty of instances the flowers might better
have been bought out and out. Take our
foliage bouquets, composed of dracasnas,
begonias, coleus, geranium and ivy they
come cheap and it is poor economy to hire
i mem. ouii yovj.uo ui Biuan uicxiifs UKO tut)
. i T.. . 1 r 1 l , i :i . i.
immediate saving, and the 'long run' is not
' . i - . . Tl i t ... a. .
i uuen into accounu ror xunerais iliac uKe
piac in church we n larse quantities of
hyacinths, etc. jMacurai nowers are 6ome-
?mea lh sama.alr. and
imnv(ihla Trt Toll TOhmVi la tuhinh Thd mi.
im jwoQiuiw nj hvu uiv ta m r u i ja. uu liui
tation of common flowers has been reduced
to a fine art. One can hardly believe how
rapidly artificial plants have sprang into
favor, even among the rich. They are used
in ball-rooms, theatres, restauraut windows,
stores, and most everywhere. We have
some well-known varieties so adroitly made
that they would deceive tho most learned
botanist at a little distance."
An Inaccessible Editor.
Edinburgh Letter to Philadelphia Press.
The newspapers of Scotland are far behind
us m enterprise ana news; tneir lorte is
heavy leaders and long speeches. The offices
are conducted in a manner which is novel to
an American. Having occasion to visit the
office of The Scotsman, I was met by a
female dragon, who guarded the approach
to the sanctum. Her brilliancy startled me
from my usual composure. I have not been
accustome 1 to see in newspaper offices women
at all, but more especially one wearing dia
monds in Ler ears and pearls around her neck,
with an eye glass tipped gracefully n her
nose, ou' of which the eye-glasses, not the
nose she viewed me suspiciously. In a voice
not sweet but strong she demanded my busi
ness. '
"I want to see the editor," I answered.
"The editor is never seen," was the re ly.
"Never seen!" I exclaimed.
"Never seen except by those who know
him," was the answer.
"What's his name?" I asked.
"His name is never given to people who
don't know it," sho said.
"How can I communicate with him?"
"By letter," replied the fair Cerberus. Such
was my experience in the office of The Edin
burgh Scotsman.
A Health Hint.
Don't call a very large, strong, sinewy man
a prevaricator If you are sure he is a pre
varicator, hire another mau to carry the
news to him.
Begging for Benevolent Societies.
St Paul Pioneer Press.)
"I will explain to you how I am a
necessary adjunct to such a society.
Nothing can be done for the heathen
without moneys something which the
society is in need bt. Almost every one
hates .to go begging for money, no mat
ter what the object. Here is where I
come in. 1-present myself to the
society and agree for a certain commis
sion now, if I tell you how much, you
won't give it away ? well, it's 25 per
cent to raise all the money they de
sire, and no trouble to its members
whatever. The society agrees, and I
go to work. I first consult my list of
philanthropists,' as I call them, which
I keep in this little memorahdum book.
Here, just look at these names on the
first page" I looked and read :
Mr. . A good-natured duffer,
pious, has great love for missionary
work. Various sums.
Mr. - . Only good for orphan
homes. Gives $100 usually.
Mrs. . Cries over the sufferings
of "forlorn and poverty-stricken
widows." Fifty dollars or more. Lots
of "taffy" necessarv.
Miss -. Good for $25 or so on any
particularly sad case."
Mr. . Opens his heart for the
leathen. and purse as well.
Mrs.- . "Fair, fat and 40." Her
liobby is the alleviation of the sufferings
of the poor. Fifty dollars or so.
Miss . Donates $10 for anything
that gets her name in the papers.
This list, as you see, the gentleman
continued, as 1 returned it to him. is
quite long, and was compiled by me
after hard, work and long experience.
By it I know just the person to strike
for any given scheme.
The 1 lazue of White Ants.
A letter from St. Helena Btates that
nearly all the storehouses and impor
tant public buildings in Jamestown
(the principal village) are built of iron
and slate, as within the last thirty
years the island has been subjected to
the plague of white ants. These insatia
ble little monsters, who are three or
bur times as large as the ordinary
black ant, are able to destroy speedily
any kind of woodwork. They can
honeycomb a big log till it may be
crushed by the pressure of a hand.
And yet they do their work from the
inside, leaving a thin veneer on the
surtace, so that their presence
is often entirely unsuspected. Large
buildings have been brought to rum by
these minute pests ; and it is no uncom
mon thing to see a chair or sofa sud
denly collapse, and to find that the
ants have eaten everything but the
varnish. They demolish any kind of
wood but teak; and through this they
bore, with the precision and smoothness
of an auger, paths to less hard material.
The ravages of these pests in St. Helena
supposed to have been originally
brought there from one of the East
Indian islands have Cost hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and, though large
rewards have been offered for the dis
covery of means to exterminate them,
no remedy has yet been found.
Ustoa: the "Ankas" on an Elephant.
Barras' Hunting in India.
The native Hindoo, from want of
thought, keeps up a constant drumming
on the beast's head with the goad, or
"ankus ;" I therefore hoped not to use
it at all. Such an improvement all at
once, however, proved more than the
elephantine mind could grasp. He be
aran really to enioy himself, going his
own way more than mine, till at la!st he
marched straight into an immense forest
tree of the banyan species, and com
menced to browse. He seized the
violently at them, brought them down
on my devoted skull. This was too
much. I raised the ankus and brought
it down on hi head with a blow that
brought blood through tho skin. This
had the desired effect, and he at once
bundled off by the road he knew I
wanted to go. He merely took with
him a branch about the size of a small
apple tree to discuss as he went along.
From this moment we were friends, and
I do not think I ever had to use the
hook again so as to bring blood.
The Lota of the Orient.
Pioneer Pre3s.
The famed lotus of the Orient is al
ways described as being blue in color.
From the wife of an ex-cbnsul, who
spent fifty years of her life in India,
and employed much time in botanizing
and painting specimens. I learned that
the lotus is not only blue, but yellow,
orange, purple, and, indeed, decidedly
variable in color. Our northern variety,
which is clearly native, can claim to be
a genuine lotus.
The Arizona Hay Market
Western Exchange.
Every morning about 9 o'clock a hay
train arrives at Ujurjotoa, Arizona, con
sisting of from twenty to thirty Indian
squaws with a regular mule load of
straw on their heads. They go into the
public square and sit by their bundles
until some one comes to buy. They
then lay in a stock of tobacco and
whisky, with which the bucks will re
gale themselves the next day while the
wives are gathering another load of
nickel hay.
Senator's Autographs.
Chicago Times.
Few are, perhaps, aware, whose at
tention has not been specially called to
it. how large a business is done in auto
graphs in Washington. The pages of
the United btate3 senate consider the
collection of those of senators one of
their perquisites, and frequently receive,
it is said, as much as $10 for carrying an
autograph book through the chamber
while the senate is in session.
They Shall Lie Uotvn Together.
There is a museum in the Winder
building in Washington of war troph
ies, in which is to be seen one of John
Brown's pikes tenderly intertwined
with the carbine found on Jeff Davis
when he was captured.
A patent medicine manufacturer ad-
r ertises for bald men who are willing
to have advertisements painted on the
tops of their heads "for a high pecuni
ary recompense.
Servian: When you are guest to the
wolf, see that you have a hound with
jou.
THE HASHEESH SMOKERS
A Couple of Places In Xw York De
-voted to the Eastern Urns.
New York Sun.) i
"There is not much , hasheesh, im
ported regularly, not more than $f,000
worth a year, but ten times tne quan-
tity is consumed," a custom nouse
broker asserted. Where, does it go
to? I can't say of my own knowledge,
but there is always a large demand fori
it. 1 have passed it through the cus-
toms for doctors, actors, society j men,
and even ladies. In point of nation
ality I think the eastern races iise it
more largely. That is, they formerly
did. Nowadays it is pretty even all
around." ? j
I've been selling hasheesh for more
than ten years now," a Bowery jdrug
gist said. When I began I sold about
two pots a month ; I now sell a J hun
dred. I have all sorts ;of customers.
Chinamen, Malays, French, Italians
and Americans. German tkddom call
for it. One of my best customers is a
well-known actress : she usually buys
two pots a month. What does it look
like? Here's some common stuff,"
displaying a small china jar which con
tained a heavy blackish brown paste.
"This is worth $1 a pot. This is first-
class," showing a pot of greenish-brown
resin, with a slight half -pleasant! odor,
and of about the consistency of opium.
"This is worth $3 a pot, and it is five
times as strong as the other." j
How is hasheesh used i j
"The same as opium. Some smoke
it, others eat it in pills, while others
dissolve it in strong wine and drink it
like a punch. The use of it in! liquid
form is, however, very rare. Orientals
prefer smoking it, while the western
users of the drug take it solid. Hasheesh
is gathered from the Indian hemp, and
it contains almost always a very small
percentage of cannabin, the alkaloid of
the plant. I don't believe that canna
bin is the sole essential principal of
hasheesh. It acts similarly, but it has
unpleasant consequences, fwhichj hash
eesh never has. it is used a good
deal by some as a substitute. Here is
a prescription which I have filled a
dozen times in the past three months.
The chief ingredient is cannabis, and
the purchaser is in reality no patient,
but a confirmed hasheesh eater; what's
called in the east a haschaschin. She
is a lady living in the neighborhood."
Are there any hasheesh ! houses
here?"
Only two that 1 know of-rone m
Lexington avenue, kept by an; Ameri
can, and one in Pell street, kept by a
Chinaman. Both do a good business,
and they enjoy the advantage of being
saie from the police, which the opium
joints do not. , f
The reporter experiencedno dithculty
in entering both places referred to by
the druggist. At the Lexington
avenue house a colored waiter answered
the bell and ushered the caller into a
small but neat reception-room. The
proprietor, a tall, slender and emaciated
man, was the manager of an opium dn
some years ago. He led the way to
the second story, where the windows
were thoroughly closed and the day
light excluded. Six small colored lamps
diffused a faint light through a thick
smoke that filled the two rooms. The
carpets, walls, and furniture were sub
dued, but warm and pleasant m color.
Engravings and simple but pretty chro
mos, a few articles of bric-a-brac, and a
bust or two gave the interior a cosy and
attractive appearance. A dozen large
easy chairs and fifteen low and roomy
lounges were tho chief articles of furni
ture, easily accommodating the twenty
haschaschins present. Of these, six
were women ; all were well dressed and
seemingly of good social position. Half
-were asleep, or dozing, a few were be
ginning to come under the influence,
while the rest were beginning the dissi
pation. The proprietor asked in what
style the reporter would take the drug,
and, on being appealed to, recommended
the nargile.
This turned out to be a simple modi
fication of the Turkish article. A hand
some gla:-s vase filled with water, a
long light tube with an amber mouth
piece, and a brazier a metallic cup of
the 6ize and shape of an egg were
furnished. In the interior of the brazier
were two brass grates, and from the
bottom ran a tube down into the water
of the ase. A piece of hasheesh as
large as ai acorn was placed on the
upper grate, and on it was laid a small
mass of glowing charcoal. The brazier
was then closed with a perforated cap,
and the reporter invited to begin. The
first inhalation filled the upper part ol
the nargile with a thick blue vapor ;
the second filled the mouth and lungs
with a cool, uromatio smoke that in
flavor seemed half way between opium
and Latakia tobacco. The smoke
lasted about six minutes. The only
sensation it produced was about the
same as that an eld smoker experiences
with a Keina Victoria a feeling of
mild satisfaction and content. There
were none of the grotesque or beautiful
visions that De Musset and Gautier
have described. A second pipe pro
duced a headache, and the scribe pro
fes ed himself more than satisfied.
The Pell street place is a vivid con
trast to the luxurious establishment in
-r . , mi I xt. .
Lexington avenue. The room is in the
third story of a tumble-down tenement
Low ceiling, dirty floor and walls, win
dows covered and plastered over with
paper and rags, greasy bunks and grimy
Chinese couches, a foul atmosphere,
and all the other indications of Chinese
vice and squalor were there. The room,
not larger than 20x25, contained thirty
one inmates. Seven were Mongols, eight
women who had lost all womanhood
years before, and the rest a variegated
assortment of loafers, tramps and
drunkards. As the reporter entered a
haschaschin was receiving from the pro
rjrietor his ration of the drug. It was
the cheap kind shown by the druggist,
and was as large as a hickory nut
ISogns Butter Best.
Chicago Herald.
Oleomargarine is preferred to butter
by yachtsman who cruise in southern
waters, because it keeps sweet anil
fresh, while butter gets rancid.
Met. L. Saley : There are not the
chances of money-making in staid old
Boston that there are in rushing Chi-
cago; one reason Deing tnac .Boston is
like an old man's framesetfled.
Thirteen Millions from Gnnnnvn.,
Philadelphia Record.!
Mr. Lammot Dunont. who was Trills
by the explosion at Thompson's Point,
is saia lonave Deen worth $13,000,000.
He had a controlling interest in the man-
ufacture of nearly all the high explosives
mat were maae in the United States
ana anaaa east oi the Hocky moun
tains.- len million pounds of these
materials were consumed in the country
to 1882, the Eepauno company's works
as xnompson s romt producing one
third of this amount. He is credited
with having organized a combination of
all the makers of hicrh exnlosives.
When negotiating with the Panama
Canal company for the powder to be
used in that work he guaranteed to sup
ply twelve tons of Atlas powder daily
if that amount were needed.
One of the most daring achievements
recorded in the history of the present
century is one of which he was the cen
tral figure. During the Crimean war
the liussian government ran out of
powder, and the explosive was required
to continue the defense of bebastopol.
A cargo was purchased from the I)u-
ponts in this country and was placed in
m a steamship lymg off Jialtimore.
The British had. frigates posted in wait
ing outside the Chesapeake. After
seven feints the watchers were eluded
and a chase began across the Atlantic,
thrpugh Gibraltar, and up the Medi
terranean sea. With remarkably good
fortune the vessel passed through the
Bosporus and into the Black
sea unchecked; but when near-
ing the place of contention the
English war-ships hailed the stranger.
Young Dupont was at the helm himself,
and insisted that the vessel proceed, not
heeding the signals from the war-ships.
Two broadsides were poured into the
vessel, but she was able to steam ahead
and steer through the rocks, and was
beached inside the Russian lines. This
daring adventurer saved the cargo for
which the Russian government paid the
sum of 3,000,000.
Throughout the civil war the family
rendered distinguished services to the
government, and at the very beginning
of the rebellion Mr. Lammot Dupont
was placed in a position by which,
through his energy and genius, the
country was supplied with the means of
defense for the ensuing conflict.
Hoses in the Soudan.
American Hebrew.
The Soudan is none other than the
Cush of the Bible, which the Septuagint
and the V ulgate render Lthiopia. V hen
Moses had arrived at man's estate Egypt
was invaded bv an Ethiopian army,
which successfully laid waste the coun
try as far as Memphis. In their de
spair the Egyptians prayed to their
oracles for aid, and the advibe they re
ceived was that they should offer
the leadership of their armies to
"Moses, the Hebrew." This they did.
The great dithculty of the campaign
was to traverse the roads which led to
the Ethiopian camp, in consequence of
their being infested with dangerous ser
pents. The wily Israelite provided his
advance guard with a number oi ices m
baskets and instructed the soldiers to
let the birds loose on the serpents. By
this ingenious expedient the roads were
speedily cleared and Moses was enabled
to surprise the Ethiopians ana aeteat
them with great slaughter.
Carrying the war into Meroe itseii,
Moses then laid siege to the capital,
Saba. The obstinate resistance offered
by the defenders prolonged the siege
for some time, but eventually the city
was delivered up by Tharbis, the
daughter of the Ethiopian king, who
had watched Moses from a distance,
and from admiring his valor had fallen
in love with him. The story ends
happily wit! the marriage of Moses and
Tharbis.
Signs ot the Vendetta.
Paris Figaro.
The vendetta still survives in Naples,
but it is curious that warning of it is
never given in words. The language
of si ens. which every Neapolitan of the
lower classes knows, is generally used,
and the gesture most commonly em
ployed is made by pressing the thumb
and torennger togetner in sucn a way
as to leave a small narrow space be
tween them, which is supposed to typ-
ifv the holehe challenger hopes to
make in his adversary's body. In Na
ples, too, men still bite their thumbs,
as they did in the days of Sampson ana
Gregory; and this in not an expression
of contempt, but a declaration of war.
Turned the Laugh.
Nashville American.
There was an amusing occurrence on
the corner of Cherry and Church streets
which was witnessed by passers by. A
printer, nicnamed "Little Breeches,
from his diminutive size, met a oolored
man of Jack Falstaff order. The
former began laughing at the latter,
when the huge proportioned colored
individual, said: "Look-a-heah, white
man. don't you make fan ob de work
ob de Almighty. He done hmshed me,
but He stopped on you before He was
half done.
Washington Not an Angler.
Philadelphia Call
Jones "What an enthusiastic
old
angler George WTashington was!
I .'tK W.n1vA I Wliw li n
Smith Washington I
Why
was
not a fisherman
Jones Indeed he was a great lover
of the sport. He wrote a book about it.
Smith Are vou not thinking of
Izaak Walton?
Jones Izaak Walton ! Why that's a
fact; so I was. It was not Washington,
of course. He was not an angler.
Smith No, indeed; Washington
could not tell a lie.
On a Oeath-Mpree.
Cor. N. O. Times-Democrat -I
saw a young man to-day who had
$2,000 to spend, and only three months
for the job. How was that? Why, he
has consumption, and the doctors as
sure him that he will die about the 1st
of next July. He is a rounder, and has
figured up his finances so as to exactly
leave enough to bury him. The rest he
will spend in riotous pleasures. I read
of such a case, and didn t believe it ;
but this one is a fact, and isn't it horri
ble to think of a death-spree ?
George William Curtis is reported
to have said that there is no important
literary project afoot either in Europe
or America.
A LUNCH WITH FREMCNT.
Dflisiitfa! interview with the
Family of tJ:o Tatliffloder" Mrs.
Fremont' Appearance.
' CivJYtn's Nw York Letter.
I had the pleasure the other day oi
taking a mid-day ; lunch with Gen. John
C. Fremont, and Mi s. Fremont, at their
plea a ;t home at New Brighton, itaten
Lsland. Twenty -eight years ago I made
tlie acquaintance, during that lcemora
ble campaign whea the yoang path
finder" was surrounded by" the enthusi
astic youth of America, and this I had
renewed more recently since their settle
ment in New York.
The residence of the Fremonts is a
moJest white house, perched high on
the inside of the broad road that winds
throujh trees along the New Brighton
beach, and its front windows command
a wide rt ach of the New York bay and
the estuary of fio Kill von Kull. It
must be an agreeable and comfortable
lion o" t: lis-e in; it is certainly a de
lightful house to visit in. The general
and Mrs. Fremont are not seen in New
York society as often as they were, even
in those entertainments for charity's
sake where they used to take so much
pleasure; probably they find the society
of tneir clu.ure i and romping grand'
children pleasanter.
There are two sons and a daughter in
the house of 1 remont. The eldest son,
John Charles, or "Jack," as he is famil
iarly called at home, lives with his
handsome wife and two sturdy boys up
the Hudson. He is in the navy, and
his duties are connected with the ar
rival and departure of ships in this
harbor. His y junger brother, Frank,
is a lie.itenant in the army, stationed up
in Montana territory, whither he has
taken the young wife he recently
captured in New York, a daughter
of John D. ; Townsend, the law
yer. Both of the boys closely
resemble their father. "When Frank
went west-," said Mrs. Fremont,
"I suggested that he stop and call on
Ciftt Sihlrtr .in Minnesota, wlin had
never serin him. He dia it; called in
citizens dress, and said: 'Gen. Sibley.
who am IV Tou're a Fremont,' said
the general ; 'there's no mistak:ng you,
How is your father?" The sons are both
tall, black-haired, black-eyed and
"bearded like a pard," and they both.
like their s's'er, show strains of Gallic
blood tho influence of their grand
father, the poor, scholarly French
gentleman, who carae to Virginia at the
beginning of the century and found
their grandmother in her teens.
Mrs. Fremont that "Jessie Benton,"
tho mention of whose name in the nota
ble campaign of 1853, always evokes a
cheer holds her own remarkably well.
It doesn't seem possible that she could
have made her famous runaway match
near.y forty-three years ago. bhe wa a
handsome blonde when she ran away
from the headquarters of "Old Bullion"
in Washington and joined the fortunes
of the young explorer; now her hair is-
as white as snow, but she shows few
indications of aging and talks as brill
iantly as ever, i
And how much sue looks like her
father, the eminent statesman of
Missouri. Her face is very much like
his and even her gestures and manner
when animated bv conversation remind
me much of him as I saw him in Wash
ington after he h?.d left the senate
She possesses the lineaments of her
father, somewhat softened, as she in
herits his studious and logical mind
and his commanding
spirit.
Kr.l:n- Wax for Letters.
Na-.v,KorkSun.
"Sealing wax, a stationer said, "is
quietly resuming its place for the seal
ing of fetters. The use of gum in t'te
place of sealing wax was a seductive
appeal to the laziness of persons, who
eagerly adopted that method because it
was quick and handy. It is much easier
to run vonr ton sue along the flap of an
envelope and press the surface together
than it is to heat the wax and close tho
letter effectnallv.
"But it has now come to be slowly
appreciated that a letter easily sealed is
nearly as easily opened. It only re
quires a little dampness -to open any
letter sea'ed with gum, and it may be
done so skillfully that it baffles detec
tion. It is about as much protection
now to put a letter in a gum-sealed en
velope as to put the contents on a postal
card. Sealing wax is a protection
against the prying curiosity of persons
not dishonest enough to steal voar let
ter out and out, yet willing to possess
themselves of youo socrets by peering
into your letters after steaming open a
gum-sealed fla .
"A pretty feature of the use of seal
ing wax is the opportunity to use seals,
Seal rings are plenty enough, and if
you have not a seal ring, you may use
a coin, or a bangle, or any rough sur
face, the break of which might be an
indication that1 the letter had been
tampered with. The express companies
will not receive a valuable package for
transmission unless it is carefully
sealed. Seal your letters by all means
with sealing wax if you wish to keep
their contents free from inspection.
Crippled the Engine.
The Brunswick (Ga.) Herald says
that some malicious fellow whom the
law ought to put where he can do no
harm, put five bars of soap in the water )
tauk on the Brunswick & Vaycro3s
road, near Waycross, on Christmas dav.
The aught express tram, that came
along next, filled up with the soapy
water, and soapy water will not make
steam. So the engine was laid np on
the track without steam or the power
to make it until another engine could
be sent ont to pull the former trarn and
engine onward. This is a Christmas
prank that is neither funny nor smart,
but as dangerous as it was malicious
Let it not be repeated. -
Wild HOSK.
Hogs sent to the market from Cali
fornia have to be trapped in the woods
m about the same manner as bears. On
most of the ranches, it in said, the swine
are as wild as deer through the woods,
and if cornered they will place them
selves on . the defensive and fight like
tigers.
M. J. Savage : Howe7er much room
there may always be "at the top." only
a few can ever get there. Society is a
tSdd
pyram .a, oroauesc at the base.
Busslan Jews In Dakota.
Cor. St. Paul Pioneer Press.
In company with one of the young
Jewish farmers of the Cremieux col
ony, your correspondent left Mitchell
at daybreak for a visit, to the Hebrew
farming colony, situated about twenty
two mi'.es southwest of Mitchell. A
commendable characteristic of these
people is their patient persever-
ance. Thev have come to a
strange land, where they are unac
quainted with the customs and language
of the people. They work hard, are
practical, and look at facts as they find
them. They are saving, and not a dol
lar is wasted, nor is a cent spent for
drink, and very few incur debts, and
then only in case of urgent necessity.
borne of the colonists are getting a
good start in stock, but a number by
hard work have not as yet been able to
lay by enough to buy the much-needed
ox-teams. Their numbers will be
largely increased the " coming summer
by relations and friends who will come
from Russia.
The colonists have a private school at
the residence of Mr. Rosenthal, taught
by Miss Burnes, a highly educated lady.
bhe is paid by subscription, and the
school is well attended by the Russian '
children, who are all learning to speak
English fluently. They are, as a peo
ple, fond of music, reading and society.
Even the lowliest have a good educa
tion, and the brawniest has a knowledge
of music. In the long winter evenings,
and on days when it is too cold to work,
they collect together and pass away the
time with music and dancing, and con
sulting together on matters of practical
business. Parties are frequently held,
to which their American neighbors are
always invited and welcomed.
There are now a number of Hebrew
Russian farming colonies in the United
States, but they are all new as yet. The
most numerous is that of New Odessa,
Ore., founded under the advice of
Michael Heilprin, Dr. Julius Goldman,
Edward Lauterbach, and Judge
Isaacs, all of New York city. They
claim that the time will soon ba here
when Hebrew farmers will be no
novelty in the United States. The
colony, young as it is, and notwith
standing the fact that nearly all its
members have co mmenced without a
dollar, embarrassed by all the incon
venience of pioneer life, is self-sustain
ing.
Very Herious Case.
Philadelphia Call.
A New York dude was suddenly
taken violently ill and a physician was
hastily summoned.
After looking at his tongue and feel
ing of his pulse, the usual formula, the
doctor remarked :
He has evidently been overloading
his stomach. My dear sir," he con
tinued, rousing the patient, "can you
tell roe what you ate to-day for din
ner?"
'Nothing, doctah, but a glass -of
watah and part , of., a tocthpick re-
plied the sick dude, wearily. I
H m, mused the physician, ' that is
strange. His faintness certainly comes
from a disordered stomach." - Then he
suddenly said: "Bring me his cane."
The cane was brought him, and after
a careful examination he laid it aside,
with the remark: '
"It is as I thought. A 10-cent cane,
and he has sucked the varnish off the
head. Give him three drops of milk
every four hours, and be careful not to
exceed the dose. I'll call again to-
morrow.
Marriage as a Reward of Merit, j
Paris Figaro.
A party of fifty women left Bordeaux
for New Caledonia sa short time ago
under peculiar circumstances. They
were women sentenced to long terms of
imprisonment for grave offenses, who
have elected to go to the rench penal
colony, where they will find husbands
in the convicts of the hrst class that
J.18'
those convicts who have by their
good behavior entitled themselves to a
government grant of land and obtained
permission to marry. The women were
selected from various prisons, and are
described as young and good looking.
On their arrival out they will be housed
in a religious establishment managed
by a community of Sisters, where
bachelor convicts of the privileged
class will be permitted to visit them,
and, as often as a marriage is arranged,
the Colonial government will provide
the bride with a trousseau and set the
couple up in housekeeping in a small
way. - -
Xeeded in Med leal Education.
Chicago Current
What 13 needed in the medical educa
tion of this countay is rigid preliminary
examination of applicants for admission
to medical colleges in all important
branches taught in literary and scien
tific colleges ; greater thoroughness in
the medical course, and a very decided
extension of the course to three or four
full years, and a searching examination
before certification. This would cut
down the number of students and break
up some medical schools which are con
ducted to make money, but it would be
far better for the medical profession.
Prayer Unanswered.
. tSt Louis Republican.
A colored man entered the African
Bethel church, and, kneeling down
with the converts, indulged in an out
burst of profanity. He said he was
anxious to see what effect the prayers
of the revivalists would have upon him.
Thereupon every member of the church
begank to pray at the top of his lungs.
The place was a pandemonium of en
treaties and exhortations, but above
everything else arose the stentorian
blasphemy of the sinner. A&er two
hours the revivalists gave it up, and the
sinner walked away.
Ob, Cruel Mrs. 1 II ae key I
London Truth.
Mrs. Mackev has rivpn train to all
right thinking persons in Paris by ap
pearing in a dre33 of white velvet
trimmed all over with the wings of
robin red breasts; and, to complete
this barbaric toilet, her shoes oi rea
velvet were entirely covered with the
n,, lutirt rnln'ns. The dress 13
made in the princesse shape, with a
watteau back ana a .cume
L .M 4-x n 1ai nh fttid the corsage is
flagrantly decollete, and is bordered,-
with red teamers, wiw 'u4"'"
train is edged.