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VOL. IX.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1884.
NO. 15.
J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL
Watclimater, Jeweler and Optician,
ALL WOBK WABRANTED.
Uraler In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Hpeetarles and Eyeglasses.
ASD A Fl'U USI
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Th only reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand.
Depot f the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
ROSEBURG. OBEUOX.
LANGENBERGS
Boot and Shoe Store
ROBEBUlti), OREGON,
a Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps en hand the largest and best asertmeci'of
Eastern and Man Franelsco Boots and
Shoes, Galtors, Slippers,
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. I
Boots and Shoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Don, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS LAXliE'BERU,
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
S?T DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
IiIAHONEYS SALOON,
Nearest tht Bail road Depot, Oakland.
J AS. MAIIOXEY. ... Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties trareling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during tbe stopping of the train at
the UaWaua Depot. Utve me a call.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN FRASEE,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Best
STOCK OF FURN'ITU RJS
South ( Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Prices to Customers.
Residents of Douglas County are requested to give me a
can Defore purcnasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS BLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THE
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
AIXO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of .
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Bueh as required by the Public County Schools.
All kind of Stationery, Toy and
Fancy Article,
TO SUIT BOTH YOUKO AND OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS! SEEDS !
SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
If ACHEXY et. BEXO,
Portland. Oregon.
Strength of the Vlollu.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Dr. Johnson once declared: "There
is nothing, 1 think, in vhich the power
of art is shown as much as is playing
the violin. lhe viol n, although it
seems simple, requires great care in its
.construction .Lach varivty of wood
has, its variety of sound. The pressure
of the four strings of the violin is said
to bo equal to about ninety pounds,
and yet the whole instrument may not
weigh more than two pounds.
THE OLD FIDDLE.
Boston Budget.
We little know the thoughts that sweep
' Each heaving human breast,
As on life's toilsome march they hear
The sounds they once loved best
The cricket with his shrill refrain,
The thrush at close of day,
The cow bell swinging in the lane,
The bleating far away.
Tbe partridge drumming on his log,
The tree toad in his tree,
The yellow-hammer's first spring note,
The humming of the bee.
The moaning winds, the beating rain,
The sift of drifting snow;
All these are sounds that bring again
The thoughts of long ago.
But of them all, each one but brings
Some part of hfe7s young riddle;
While none calls back so many things
As one old, well-tuned name.
CATERING FOR WOMEN.
New Wrinkles Adopted by Shrewd
Landlord of Swell Hotels.,
Cincinnati Enquirer. -The
hotel keeper, of to-day i3 artful. He
caters to woman for his popularity and
wherein twenty years ago her comfort was a
secondary consideration, to-day it is stu
diously consulted and placed foremost. Why!
Because women travel both alone and with
their husbands much more than they did for
merly, and, quick to perceive any deference
to their own tastes and convenience, they in
sist upon going to the same hotel until they
become familiar habitues. It is amusing
note the different dodges emploved by the
managers of the great city caravansaries.
At the most exclusive hotels in Boston it
takes the shape of beautiful flowers
in vases and jars scattered about the
room, and in the latest numbers of
Harper's, The Century, and Atlantic
Monthly ready to the hand. At a New
York hotel, facing on Madison square, at
lunch, when dessert is brought on, a plate of
choice confectionery is put before you, and
wmie maicing use oi a nnger cowi tne aeit-
handed waiter whip3 out a sheet of fresh
white paper, twists it with a turn of his
band into a cornucopia, empties the bonbons
into it, and presents it with an Oriental
obeisance for up-stairs consumption. There
is really cleverness in this, for it has put a
stop without vulgar remonstrance to the
practice of women carting off to their rooms
plates loaded with fruit cakes, and candies
to nibble at between meals.
At another hotel on Madison square, when
a lady is seated in the dining-room, the waiter
has ready for her feet a dainty tapestry-
covered hassock. No one but a short woman,
who has spent a portion of her life in sitting
on the edges of chairs, dangling her feet in
the air, can fully appreciate this comfort. At
this hotel a rose or a few violets are always
found floating in the water of the finger bowl
and lend it pleasant fragrance.
The proprietor of a hotel on Union square
has availed himself of the suggestions of his
lady guests in improving the table appurten
ances. For example, instead of the cruets
full of black or white pepper generally so
adulterated that a deluge is required to flavor
the food, is substituted a tiny and pretty sil
ver mill filled with the whole pepper corns.
1 wo or three turns or tne Handle and you
realize the delightfulness of pepper in reality,
In place of the customary "salts," as they
are called, a small bisque cupid has a spring
in his back, which, if you press, causes fine
sprays of salt to fling from the points of his
cunning arrow, ine rruit at dessert is put on
in the French fashion, dressed with flowers
and leaves, a few sufficing, ana the effect is
most pleasing, as at this season there is a
monumental stiffness about a stack of
oranges apples, and bananas.
The Glory or an "Ancestor."
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
But day before yesterday they buried you,
then yesterday they buried your son, and to
day his sou was buried, and you are a great,
great grandfather. And, oh, to hear them
talk about you now. x our station in society
wa3 only a little lower than the angels; you
sat in the seat of the giants and judged the
city at the gates; you owned all this land,
from the creek here up to the top of the ridge
and six miles up the valley; you used to dine
with the president on Sundays; you would
have been knighted had you remained abroad;
you were as handsome as Apollo, and twice as
good a Christian ; yes, this is your portrait
(a fancy study, painted by an artist who
never saw you) ; there are fifteen children
named for you; see, dear, this is a cane the
Queen presented to your great great grand
father, and it has descended to you; never
forget, my child, that you are a Gubbius, de
scended from the great Jacob Gubbins, your
great great grandfather, who fell at the siege
of Babylon, L. I.
Ah, my boy, yo3 may only be a corporal
now, nve leet, two mcnes short, cross-eyed
and red haired, with a hare lip, bow legged
and a wart on your crooked nose. But when
you get to be a great great grandfather you
will be a general, six feet five inches, and a
combination of Hercules, Adonis and Croesus.
Where is the beauty and glory of the spring
time?
A Case of Vertigo.
Detroit Free Press.
'J udge,
were you
ever a victim to ver-
tigof"
"W ell, I didn't call it by that namo, Mr.
Rogers."
"I've had it for ten years.
"1 presume so. The sentence is for thirty
days."
'Great Scots! But what have I done?"
"Had the vertigo."
"And is that against the 'aws of Michi
gan?"
"It is, unless you have it in a lumber-yard
where the police can't find you. Prisoner.
fall back, and let Bijah ch&k you for the
work-house."
The Snielllnrr-IZottle Craze.
Chicago Herald.
The smelling-bottle craze has been a very
fashionable one with young girls in Washing
ton in tbe past few months. It is a costly
fashion. One belle now has her second bot
tle presented within three months, each of
which cost $60. The first was crushed under
her carriage wheels in coming from
1 A. 1 !l 1 5
a party one nigus, anu iuj gum
stoDDer with her initials on it alone
escaped destruction. Another young
lady carries one at least a root m lengtn, and
beine of very thick cut glass, u is particu
larly ponderous. A bottle of this kind, even
of moderate size, costs $45.
The Dnttes of a Country Editor.
McGregor Plaindealer.l
Jseine" nrom-ietor. editor-in-chief, local
editor, city editor, agricultural editor,
o ' . ...
nuzzle editor, fighting editor, paragrapher,
proof-reader, foreman, compositor, job
printer, bookkeeper, collect? circulator,
solicitor, manager, pressman,
to make
bills, orders, pay bills, pay printers, taxes,
pay house and office rent, pay insurance
premiums, buy clothes, food and shoes
for himself, wife and baby, be bruiser-gen
eral, roustabout, devil, and do chores.
San Franciscan: If it is desirable to make
a man conteuted with a hard and hungry
lot, then it is folly to educate his mind.
a CALIFORNIA WELL
That Supplies Good Drlnklne Water
and Good Fuel at the Same Time.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Cutlar Salmon, of French Camp, not far
from Stockton, Cal., sunk a well with a
B3ven-inch tube to a depth of about 840 feet,
and struck a copious stream of excellent
water. Desiring to learn whether ho could
increase the flow by going deeper, and fear
ing that, should he continue tba well the
same size, he might injure the quality of
the upper strata of water, Mr. Salmon
hit on the plan of sinking a four-inch
tube inside of the seven-inch one, and
thus making what might be called the ex
perimental well four inches in diameter.
This inner one he bored to a depth of 1,250
feet, and then came to water again.
This lower stream came to the surface, and.
indeed", rose in a tube twenty-two
feet above the Ground. The last
water found was unfit for drinking, and but
for an accidental discovery of its wonderful
properties might have been considered a
nuisance. It was found that there was a
large amount of gas in this water from the
lower depth. This came bubbling to the sur
face, making . one think of a gigantic soda
fountain.
Some one suggested - the idea of seeing if
the gas would bum.' A coal-oil can wa3 put
over the top of theubing, and, having a few
holes punched in it, an improvised gas fixture
was at hand. Only a match was required to
complete the preparations. The match was
lighted and applied to a hole in the can, and
flames shot up three or four feet into the air
and burned steadily. The gas would burn.
Mr. Salmon had fire and water coming out
of the same hole in the ground. The
tube of the outer well, that which was
only 840 feet deep and furnished the
good water, was tapped, and suffi
cient water for all domestic uses and for the
stock, etc., was led off in pipes to the house
and other localites. A curbing was built
around the twin wells in such a way that it
formed a reservoir for the water from the
1,250-foot level, and that portion from above
which was hot conyeyed away in the pipes,
All through this water m the reservoir came
bubbling up the gas, generated somehow,
some where down below. When Mr. Salmon
next went to Stockton he had a gasometer
made with a stop-cock, in the top, and this he
took home and fastened over his wells. The
bottom was beneath the surface of the water
in the reservoir, aud the gas speedily filled the
bell-shaped receiver. The next thing was to
attach a gas-pipe and connect his home-made
gas machine with the house.
He put a pipe perforated with small holes
across his large open fireplace, turned an the
gas, applied a match, and the problem of
cheap fuel was instantly solve 1. After that
gas pipe vas put into the fire box of the
kitchen stove, and now the meals are pre
pared with the rfew fuel. Mr. Salmon has
also usod this gas for illuminating, but it
does not seem to entirely fill the bill, although
it is a great improvement on a tallow dip. It
has been suggested that, as this gas seems to
be almost pure hydrogen, it might be car
bureted and its illuminating quality im
proved. The ga3 throws off a great amount
of heat, and, without doubt, such a well
would supply a large number of families
with the means of warming their houses and
preparing their food.
Fred Douglass and Ills Bride.
"Cress" in Inter Ocean.
The other day I met on the train Fred
Douglass md his bride making a pilgrimage
to Harper's Ferry. With them was a well
known literary lady from CamVidge, Mass.,
who, under their guidance, was about to col
lect the material for an article on the his
toric little town. I had never seen Mr.
Douglass before, but there was no mistaking
that powerful swarthy face, with its bril
liant eyes and magnificent bush of white
hair, which would make him a striking fig
ure anywhere.
"Yes," he said in answer to a question, "it
is three years since I have been to Harper's
Kerry; the last time it was to deliver an ad
dress on Decoration day, with "John Brown"
as a topic. The first face that caught my
eye in the front f ow of the audience was that
of John Hunter, the prosecuting attorney m
the great Br wn trial."
Later, when I told hin I was going through
the south, he said rather mournfully: "Pre
pare to find it quite fifty years behind the
tunes."
As to Mrs. Douglass, on being introduced
to her I came to the conclusion that between
fulsome praise and absurd abuse she has
been more misrepresented than any white
woman I know. Ske is, I should think,
somewhere between So and 40 years of age,
rather tall, very slight and ladylike looking.
Her most attractive feature are her eyes,
which are large brown, and most intelligent
Her traveling costume was well-fitting and
becoming, and, to turn to something of more
importance, her manner exceptionally mod
est and refined. Altogether, Mrs. Douglass
struck one as a women having the courage
of her convictions, but at the same time one
who must have felt most painfully the no
toriety given to her marriage. She seems
very devoted to her husband and he very
fond of her.
A Forenoon's Engagement.
New York Graphic.
Oscar Wilde, among his various stories
told in the United States of which he was
always the aesthetic hero, Telated that once,
while on a visit to an English country house,
he was much annoyed by tbe pronounced
Philistinism of a certain fellow guest, who
loudly stated that all artistic employment
was a melancholy waste of time.
"Well, Mr. Wilde," , said Oscar's bugbear
one day at luncn, "ana pray, now nave you
been passing your morning?"
"0! I have been immensely busy," said
Oscar, with great gravity. "I have spent my
whole tune over the proof sheets of my book
of poems."
The Philistine with a growl inquired the
result of that.
"Well, it was very important," said Oscar.
"I took out a comma."
"Indeed," returned tha enemy of literature,
"is that all?"
uscar, witn a sweet smue, saiu ; "liy no
means ; on maturo renection l put back tne
comma.
This was too much for the Philistine, who
took the next train to London.
Wyoming Soda Deposits.
Exchange.
The soda deposits discovered in Wyoming
are unique. Une series is on tne old Laramie
plains, fourteen miles from Laramie City,
where there is a chain of so-called lakes five
to twenty-hve acres in area, averaging
fifteen feet in depth. These deposits are
sulphate of toda. It cuts out in chunks, Like
ice. When wells are dug the water is so
impregnated with soda, that they are filled
up in a few days. In the Sweetwater valley,
near Independence rock, "are thirty-four
deposits varying in size from three and four
acres up to thirty-two acres. A few of these
are simply Doaies oi water mgniy cnargea
with sulphate of soda.
As Jay Gould's income is estimated to
he 9 a minute, a statistician says that he
lost tWo bv lhe change from solar to stan
dard time.
"Lighting" Up the Stage Amazons.
Pall Mail Gazette.
"Now, see," said M. Levy, "the light
is obtained from this battery ; we cal lit
a primary battery. It is fastened be
hind the shield, which each of
the fifty young ladies carries, and
the supplies the lights in the spear
and the helmet, which, make up
the equipment. The number of lumin
ous points varies from seven to ten. 1
call them luminous points, for each
performer carries only three electric
lamps proper, these being in
creased, of couv e, by means of
the reflectors." "No, no. A one
light battery is not at all diffi
cult to manage, but ten ah 1" I may
explain here that each apparatus car
ries three lainp3 proper, one on the
shield, another on the tip of the spear,
a third, in the helmet. In each case the
lamp is placed in a small space in
closed by "jewels," diamonds and ru
bies, four set in the form, of a square,
and one on the top. Surrounding the
jewels composing the pentagon is a
square, wide spray, at each end of
which, con esponciing to the four jewels,
is a mirror.
Just then some of the fifty young
ladies who take part in the ballet, be
gan to troop down stairs from their
dressing-rooms, and came up to the
bench on which were laid out ready for
adjustment tfty oblong batteries,
each in si 'e about seven inches long,
two inches wide, and some four inches
deep) the total weight when charged
being three pounds. " There is but lit
tle time to spare. The 'wait' is but a
quarter of an hour. The ladies have
to change, and ah ! my dear,
come along, there is no time to
lose." And one decided Amazonian
voung lair marched up to the bench
"to be adjusted." Quickly and deftly
M. Levy takes one of the batteries, and
places it in the- receptacle behind the
shield, which rests on the dancer's left
arm, quickly connecting the different
part3. Just then I modestly asked one
of the young ladies "if it was not a little
heavy." "Here, just take it and try it.
It's like a baby." "A very, very little
one, surely," I ventured to remark,
weighing the apparatus. "Well, yes,
we don't mind them now, though they
were a little troublesome at fir t. Ugh !
it's hurting my shoulders." "There.that's
right, miss ; it doesn t hurt you now.
See here, mossoo, I'm not tied up at
the back." "Oh! they've done me up
wrong." "Dear, its burning! there,
that'll do," fragments of a lively con
versation as the process of fitting on
proceeded. bhield, helmet, spear
fitted, the switch tried, a flash of
lights for a second, and the owner
marches off to the wings.
For ten minutes M. Levy and his
assistants were as busy as bees, fitting
on and tying up the flexible cords
which connect the three parts of the
system together. By an ingeniou
arrangement, one switch, easily reached
by. the hand of the wearer, itself not
the least ingenious part of the whole,
controls the ten lights or lumnous
points. The while there was such
clatter of tongues as would have put to
shame the builders of Babel. But it is
good-humored fun, and the shafts of
wit which hurtle through the air so
thick and fast are harmless enough
Indeed, these young ladies are in gooJ
spirits, considering that they wear
tights and cut capers for '25 shillings a
week. "Now, ladies, please," and in a
minute the fifty amazons are dazzling
the eyes of those m front.
A Craze for Matching.
The Brooklyn Eagle "Man About
Town" says niatchin is in vogue for
everything imaginable, from a peanut
to a billiard table. It was particularly
rampant iu wall street. 1 know
broker who matches his bootblack
every afternoon whether he shall pay
him 10 cents or nothing, and it is no
unusual thing to see men of r aques
tioned wealth matching with each other
at the elevated railroad station to see
who shall pay the fares up-town. Fully
one half the men veil something about
"head or tail" when they approach the
bar at Delmonico's, and it is a common
sight up-town at night to see three or
four men in the Brunfiivick or Hoffman
house matching phlegmatically for
$1 a clip for an hour at a time.
know an office clerk m 'a well-known
broker's firm, who returned from Eng
land a month ago, who has, by match
ing dollars, cleared over $100 in three
weeks. IV! en match for luncheons, hats,
canes and theatre tickets.
To Prevent a Panic.
Exchange.!
A theatre manager drops this hint :
"If every theatre-goer should, once in a
while, take out his watch and note
carefully the lime it takes a leisurely
orderly crowd to get out of the house,
he will be surprised. But convinced
how short the time really is, and how
much more danger exists from a crush
than from a fire behind, there would
be furnished the best guaranty against
accidents, in case of fire, the publia
could have."
Electric Light Photographs.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The best photographs of persons yet,
taken by means of the electric light can'
be easily picked out by reason f a cer
tain indistinctness. This ii particu
larly noticeable about the eyes, which
seem blinded, and their expression de
stroyed by the strong glare. The
process, it is generally conceded, is as
yet only a matter of curiosity and not
of practical utility.
A Comins Tragedy.
Exchange.
A Bismarck young man told an old
maid she was "a matchless woman,"
and she smiled so sweetly over the com
pliment that her mouth stretched to its
utmost capacity. After he had gone it
occurred to her that there was another
meaning to the expression, and the nest
time that young man calls there will be
a sickening tragedy to record.
Arkansaw Trave!er : Ebery pusson,
no matter how ugly he is, is made
uglier when he loses his ha'r. Tech a
man erbout his head an' it weakens
him. "
The Century : We think too well of
the American people to assume that
they deem justice a luxury and not a
necessity.
LIGHTHOUSE BIRD CATCHERS.
Mtndles For the Ornithologist
-Dazed
and Frenzied Birds.
Philadelphia Press.
"Run, wife I Go below or they'll
be
dashed to pieces!"
The keeper of the Atlantic City Lighthouse
was watching the hydraulic floating lamp in
the top of the tall tower one night lately, and
had just brushed a speck from one of the
plate glass sashes through which the intense
rays from the great fixed light that warns
off all floating ocean life from destruction,
were streaming, when, turning his bead in
answer to a strange flapping and whirring
noise, he uttered the exclamation. 1
"What shall I do!" asked the plucky Little
woman, who is in the habit of keeping him
company during the early part of his vigils.
"Go for the netl Drive them off 1 Take
my overcoat with ypuand save all you cant"
In the almost white heat glow of the lamp,
outside of whose radius everything was im
penetrable blackness, a spectacle wa3 pre
sented unequaled in any of Dore's grotesque
imaginings. Through tbe light, like motes
in a - sftnbeam, and thicker than musquitoes,
hundreds of dazed and frenzied birds, of vari
ous sizes, were circling and gyrating, per
forming a mad aerial dance round and
round the lantern.
Mrs. Wolf came in directly. "I can do
nothing with them," she said; "there are
thousands and thousands of them." From
out the bulging pockets of the'overcoats birds
began to fly, now dashing at the windows as
if to get out again, and the three or four pal
pitating feathered mites she held in each
hand began fluttering and struggling to get
free. They were of many hues, these south
ern travelers thus arrested and carried out of
their northward migratory course, although
in the fierce splendor of the illuminated arc
outside they had all appeared luminous and
white. There were robins, flickers, mud
hens, and a few rail birds, and one poor Little
pee-wit, perching itself sociably on it. rescu
er's shoulder, uttered its peculiar note.
"Did you notice that scarlet tansiger in the
house as you came up?" asked Abraham
Wolf, the keeper, of his guest, the scribe.
"Well, that gorgeous fellow got here from
the West Indies somehow. I picked him up
in the net one night during a heavy thunder
storm. The net, you 6ee, is on the land side,
where all the birds come, and keeps them
from spattering their blood on the glass. But
the wild ducks, they tear the nets to shreds.
We have had a few spring birds the last
week or two, but this is the first large flock.
Our house during the summer is nearly al
ways full of them. We leave them loose and
let them go where they want to. One night
my wife and I took over 300 birds alive and
let them go next morning. Rail birds, cat
birds, wood thrush, missel, thrush, thistle
birds and all the soft billed fly-catchers are
the most numerous, but we get almost every
sort. I keep a record of their visits for the
American Ornithological society to help
throw light on migration. I like to throw
light on anything, you know it's in my
line."
The Child Who Got Paddled.
"Gath's Letter."!
Twenty-five or thirty years ago, I think, at
Marysville, CaL, which was then an estab
lished, yet shanty-like, town, lived Judge
Stephen Field, and in his law office was a
young leuow named George Gorham, who
boarded with a plain family, and at the table
another guest was a florid, Welsh-looking
stranger. In the same house, or the next
bouse, lived an Irishman named Murphy.
who had a bright, interesting daughter, but
he was fond of paddling her when any thing
went wrong with him. This paddling bad
been going on some time, and one day the
boarders held an indignation meeting and re
solved to go next door and see old Murphy,
and tell him that if he did not stop correct
ing that child on every and all occasions
they would take him down to the stream and
duck him, etc. None of the guests were es
pecially brave, but they put on a very brave
front and held the indignation meeting.
several years aiterward one or tnose par
ties, Field, was called to be justice' of the
supreme court. Still later by several years
the Republicans in California nominated
Gorham for governor, and they put on the
ticket with him the present United States
Senator Jones. When Jones met Gorham
he said: "Are you the little fellow from
Long Island who boarded at Marysville with
me? Don't you know me?" "No, I don't
think I do." "Why, I'm Jones, the Welsh-
looking fellow who formed one of
the posse to go in and make old Murphy
stop keeping that child screaming."
They shook hands warmly, and then Jones
said : "Gorham, do you know what has be
come of that Mary Murphy?" "No." "Why,
she is now Mrs. William Sharon."
My informant 6ays that consequently
there met at Washington City Jones and
Sharon in the United States senate, Gorham,
secretary of the senate, and Field on the su
preme bench all brought out of that board
ing-house. Mary Murphy grew up to be an
interesting woman, and the paddling was
only temporarily disadvantageous.
A Saltan's New York Mall.
New York Cor. N. O. Times-Democrat.
The doing up of a mail for the sultan of
Turkey chances to come under my observa
tion in the office of the Turkish consul
mere were numerous letters, wnicn were
none of my business; but a package of papers
seemed public property, and so it is not
an impropriety to tell about them. What
do you suppose they were? You will exclude
religious papers from your guess, because
you know tnat nis majesty isn't likely
to care for reading praise of Chris
tianity. It is impossible that you will
presume that tbe secular newspapers of
America do not contain much to interest
him, a potentate who knows little of this
free country. But, after all, you will never
hit upon the kind of ephemeral printing that
is collected by order and sent to tbe sul
tan. The bundle was composed wholly of il
lustrated police weeklies, of the kind ex
cluded from several of the states, and the
publication of which here has bee., followed
by the indictment of the owners. I was un
able to learn whether it is altogether his own
taste which he consults in this selection of
American journalism, and I gallantly refuse
to believe that the pictures are liked in his
harem. .
Wanted to Write a Car.
Exchange.
"I want to write a card. 1m Uom New
port, Ky., sir, and I may be exceedingly
green, but when a lot ot giddy girls pin a
card on my back with 'keep off the grass'
written on it in big letters, and I go around
town all morning with it hanging to me, I
think the limit has been reached and tbe
matter becomes a subject for newspaper
comment. Therefore, I desire to write a card.
and a strong one."
He backed out when informed that it
would cost him 25 cents a line.
A Mother Out of Place.
Philadelphia CalL
A pretty girl dropped to the floor in a faint
the other day while she was playing the
piano in the parlor. Her life might have
been saved if a physician bad been , called in
time, but her mother was washing dishes
in the kitchen at the time, and did not hear
her fall.
Some Faets Concerning Australia.
Cincinnati Times-Star Interview.
Sydney is a very handsome city in- i
deed. The ttructsres are built of stone
and brick, the streets are wide and
clean. The houses are not made four j
or fi e stories high, for there is no oc
casion for it. Ground is not so scarce
vet. It is said that Port Jackson, its
harbor, is the most beautiful in the
world. In this harbor you will find
vessels from all nations ; also men-of-
war of irost all empires It is the
center of espcrt ng and importing. The
city itself is growing very i rapidly b 3
sides. Last September another medical
college was opened in Sydney, now
aliinor two in Atistra'ia. ilhe other
one is in Melbourne."
"What do jou mainly import and ex
port:" ' 1
e export a great deal of wool,
mostly to i ngland, and also meats,
then copper, tin and other minerals, j
skins and tallow, etc. We import,
however, from all countries. Iroml
England we get cotton, tilk, woolen
goods dry-goods, et.'.; from Germany
we a.so get woolen goods.' Jb rom
America we import rural implements,
machinery of all kinds, especially tools;
formeily wheat from California. Dried
apples and canned fcoods are very
largely imported from your country.
Tobacco also comes from here.' lhe
best cigars and tobacco in Australia
are American, loumay believe me.'
jokingly remarked Dr. Faithfull, "I
cannot get as good a cigar here as in
Australia; especially the tobacco itself
is much better in Australia. For a
good American cigar we usually pay
there from 12 to 18 cents.
"Tell something about the country in
general?
ell, the country is as large, 1 sup-
pose, as is the l mted btates, witn the
exception of Alas ca. lhe mam occu
pation is grazing. lhe mines are
known as 'quartz and 'alluvial, lhe
latter are situated near rivers. Mining
is a ery dangerous business. It is
something like gambling. Sometime
you may strike a goou thing, ana at
other times again you lose all you have
in ested. ine wages are as nign in
Australia as here, while the cost of liv
ing is much cheaper. The population in
mostly composed of Englishmen, or of
English descent, but the merchants are
of all nations. The climate is about the
same as .'n California. We have a good
many schools and they are free for all
who cannot afford to pay. At present
school-houses are being built all over.
We have new: papers, quite a number
of them. They are cheaper than in
this country. For instance, Sydney's
Morning Herald, the be t in the city, a
twelve-page pai;er, and much larger
than your papers, costs only 4 cents.
Cur strec-t-t ars are' propelled by steam,
and cost ii. c ents ; but if you purcha e a
ticket, which you can get on every
corner, it will only cost you -i cents.
Father and Son.
M. Quad's Lptter.
I want my boy to rub against every
day life a little while he is a boy. Ii
he has the idea that a hunter's life is
full of juicy buffalo steaks and victories
over grizzlies, I'm going, to send him
in'.o the woods for a week to live on
woodchuck meat, carry a cold in his
head and be jumped out of his boots the
first time an owl hoots. If he asks for
money I'm going to give it t hi;n, but
1 want to s't down of a Satu.day n:ght
and see how he spent it, and show up
some ot his foolish barga-ns. If he
wants to sail the bounding billow I
know of a lake captain who will take
him on a trip from Eetroit to Saginaw,
and if he can't cure him in just one
voyage -nobody else need try.
Sit down and talk to your boy as you
would to your brother. Don't bulldoze
because you happen to be his father
and have the bulge on him. Argue and
reason. Don t expect to make asser
tions and have him swallow them as
gospel truths unless you have backing.
Teach him what to avoid, and what to
cultivate, and turn lain loose for a while.
If he seeks the good he ba? the right
instincts; if he runs after the bad, don't
walk him into the woodshed for a
pounding until you have asked your
self if he doesn't come'naturally by that
failing. - '
A Good Institution.
Cinciunati C unmercial Gazette.
Apovel and salubrious institution has
been establ'shed in New York city. It
is known as the "New lork Labor Ex
change and Lodge." Its manager is
Mr. I). M. Davidson. We may gather
its purpose from the following "bill ol
fare:" S
Absolutely clean "square", meals 10 cents
Ulotties cleaned by fumigation. ft centa
Hot soda or sulphur bath 5 cents
Shave or hair cut. , 5 cents
Absolutely clean beds. 15 c-nta
Fumigation and bath compulsory the first
night nnd every week to insure cleanliness.
It is intended to "assist" honest men
who have hard luck in finding employ
ment. It is said people coire there in
a horrible condition of filth, but the
compulsory bath for their persons and
the sulphur fumigation of their cloth
ing is a puruying process mat restores
a sense of self-respect, and they stait
out in the morning in search of work
with a renewed spirit of manhood.
Although not a self -supporting enter
prise, yet Mr. Davidson thinks it soon
will I e, but its beneficent e .Tec lis are
such that it has the sympathy and sup
port of the best people in the city.
Davidson claims that it has already
saved hundreds of men from rum.
Where Were Dolls First Made?
C mi egationa "s .
Nolody knows, but they have been
used since very early times, and by
children in all countries, savage as well
as civilized. The largest manufactories
lor clous are in England, and, as in
other trades, there is a very minute di-
vi ion of labor. Some carve the heads
end the bodies, others paint the faces
and necks, others prerare legs and
arm?, and still others cut out, sew, and
put on the dresses. The extent to
which dolls' glass eyes are manufac-
tured is surprising.
One firm in Bir-
mingbam received
oter $2,000 wcrlh.
a single order for
It is said that the
uiue-eyea aoiis are ine iavontes in
-5 l"t f 11 -
Lngland and black-eyed ones on the
continent of Europe. Black dolls are
made of gutta-percha to export to this
country, where they are in demand by
me colored people.
Narrates the Experience
of
Friend to Ills Assistant.
New York Sua '
"A frent uf mine gits marrit, Suntay,"
said the German barber in the Bowery last
week. "He bopped der quesdion in der ladest
edyle. Der olt-fashioned-luf-in-a-coddage-
grackers-und-kisses-peezness peon blayed
owid. Mine frent he leans ofer his sweet
heart und dakes her lily-vite hant, und,
seezing a momend pedween der raddle uf dwo
elevated drains, he sayt: 'My brecious, my
sveet und lufly darling:. I vould like to pro
nounce yourselluf my vife.
'Chonny, my own sveet luf ,' she hat sayt,
'are you sure you can afford it? I vould not
deceefe you, tarling; you haf calt me brecious
und you vill find me so. Aff egshun cosds
nodings, but sdylishness und high-tone cosds
a beab uf money. Can you all dot affort, my
own dear luff
'He von arm blaced her vaist arount, und
vile he trank in der ligwid egstacy uf her ad
miring gaze, he rebiiedv l dins l can der
pall keeb rolling nghd sdraighd along, my
own, my sveet, sveet piessmg."
"'It's kind af you Chonny she replied, 'not
to dalk apowd such foolishness as luf on a
basemend mit sixbence a veek, for der vorld
is now run on peezness brincibles, und such
dalk makes me dired. I had to git a diworce
avay from my first husband pecause he vos
old-vashionedJ Like dot I musd a first-glas3
allowance haf to pegin mit, so ve ton'd fall
owid apowd money. Dot's vot proke to
bieces up me und my second husband, alretty.
Und now, my lVif, I haf pesides dot only von
dings to say: vamused haf a blain dalk vonst
effry dree months. Den, my sveet tarling, if
I shall some oder man luf more as you, I vill
vrankly dell you so your face in front, und
you must der same dings done by ma Also,
if I should got dired uf you mitowid falling
some oder man in luf mit, I vill sbeak
blainly, und you must py ma sbeak choost
der same. For 1 can'd stand vlghting und
rows, my tarling. My third husband used ta
arkue und dalk mit me, undil I vos com-
belled a diworce to git avay from him on ac-
kound uf my boor nerfs.'
"Veil , said the barber, "my frent vos mit
dot conwersation cradely bleased, und bland-
ing a tousand k sses her cheeks und mout
owitsite, he dolt her uf der drabbles he got
mit dwo brefious vif es, alretty, so dem should
not habbeu again mit her; und haffing bre-
bared der vay for a diworce in case dem
should vish to haf it, he vent avay dickled
mit his pargain.
"Chimmy Hookey I vot a Tickens uf a row
der monkey parber got into himself mit dot
frent uf mine ven my frent vos delling vot a
goot ding such a brobosal of marritch vos,
und how fine diworces are, und all dot.
" 'Yah,' der monkey parber hat sayt, 'dot's
vot I call der msdallment blan uf mar-
jritch.'
" 'Vot der teffil do you mean? sayt my
frent.
"Der monkey parber vent right avay on, .
der same he alvays done. 'Dat'sdernew
fashion of marritch in siffilized gundries, he
sayt, 'but it's olter as der hills mit der saf-
fages. My ungle, vich vosasauor, alvays
got in der Santvitch islands a vife in dot
coma vsv oorh rlimA Via front: fj TTrm r1 n
'Bang! Py Hooky I how dot monkey parber -
did git a licking I My frent viped him up mit
der floor."
How Clrcns Lemonade Is Made.
Philadelphia Record.
Signalling that it was all right, the circus
man Lifted up the flap of the tent for the re.
porter to enter, and quickly followed him in.
side.
This," he said, "is where all the circus
lemonade is made, and," glancing at his
watch, "if you will wait a few moments you
will see it done." '
In the center of the tent stood a large box.
and on one side two huge barrel-shaped
tanks each with a spigote was placed on
strong rests somewhat similar to a saw-horse.
In a short time three men entered, and one
of them proceeded to unlock the box, the
sides of which at once fell apart, dis
closing a very compact and solid-looking
engine, the steam for which was conducted
through a pipe leading to one of the boilers
in tbe cooking tent, while the other " two
brought a large tub, which they laid on the
ground and nearly filled with filtered water
drawn from one of the tanks. A steel lemon-'
squeezer was then attached to two iron arms
of the engine, and a very worn and dilapi
dated-looking half of a lemon placed in it,
the squeezer then being lowered into the tub.
Steam, was turned on, and the squeezer be
gan its work, the lemon emitting the most
harrowing groans of agony from i nd ;r the
water as the pressure became more and more
severe. Gradually these doleful sounds -
ceased, and the liquid assumed an anibar-like
hue, while a faint odor of lemons filled the
air of the tent.
"That'll do; take it out," said the engineer,
shutting offsteam, and the dripping squeezer
was withdrawn from the tub, the unhappy
half lemon being carefully dried in a clean
cloth and placed in a small iron safe which
was then locked. The liquid in the tub was
then stirred vigorously with an hermetically
sealed glass bulb fastened to the end ot a
stick, the bulb being filled with the best
white sugar. The man who stirred the mix
ture stopped at intervals to taste it, and,
after remarking "there, I guess it's sweet
enough, let's get it out, BilL with the help
of his companion carried the tab away.
"This machine is tne only one in tba
world," said the engineer proudly, as he
patted tbe engine in a loving way, "and its
secret couldn't be bought for $50,000. Why,
with this here machine I can make more
leWkmade with one letnoa than any other
circus man can with 500 bushels of 'em. The
pressure on that squeezer can be graduated
from one pound to 250,000 pounds to the
square inch, and one lemon will make lemon
ade for six months at the rate of 100 gallons
a day. ' - - - " -
One Hundred and Thirty Years.
Chicago Herald.
A correspondent who has passed some
years in Russia states that in the village of
Velkotti, in the St. Petersburg government.
an old woman is living who has just attained
her 130th birthday I " The old lady is in the
enjoyment of good health, but complains of
her deafness. Her hair Is still long and plen
tiful, considering her age. She has outlived
three husbands; and had a family of nine
teen children, all of whom are now dead,-
tbe last one to die being a daughter of 93.
She Lives with one of her great-grandchildren,
a man of 50.
The Death or Profits.
Boston Commercial-Bulletin.
An old and accepted economic Tdoctrine is
that "competition is the life of trade," but
many manufacturers are finding that com
petition has been carried to such a ruinous
extreme that it has been the death of profit.
In search from A to Y they passed
And "Marguerita" chose at last
But thought it sounded far more sweet
To call the baby "Marguerite."
When grandma saw the little pet
She called her "darling Margaret"
Next, Uncle Jack and Cousin Aggie
Sent cup and spoon to "little Maggie,"
And grandpapa the right must beg
To call the lassie "bonnie Meg"
(From "Marguerita" down to "MegO
And now she's simply little "PegJ;
St Nicholas.
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