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J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL . " (
Watchmater, Jeweler and Optician,
- ALL WORK WAEEANTED.
Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses. ,
AND A FULL LI5E OT
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Th only reliable Optomer m town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand. .
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec-
" tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
KOSEBVRG. OREUOX.
LANGENBERG'3
Boot and Shoe Store
ROSEBURG, REGOX,
On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and Han Franelse Boots ac3
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
And everything In 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 Warran all
my -work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
- ; I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS L.AXGEXBEKG.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
HOSEBURti, OREGO,
-OFFicE-On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over b. Marks & Co. s New htore.
HAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest tho Railroad Depot, Oakland.
J AS. 3IA1IOSEY, - . . Proprietor
The Finest "Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
.Douglas county, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
stopp
, call.
cne uaiuana uepot. uive me a
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OKEGO.V.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Best
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ef Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Ko Two Prices to Customers.
Residents of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call before purchasing elsewnere.
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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 SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THK
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords'
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
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Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
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A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Such as required by the Public County Schools.
All kinds of Stationery, Tys and
Fancy Articles,
TO SUIT BOTH YOUNO AND OLD.
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Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
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Ancient Projectiles.
Tiie Cur vLt '
A French archaeologist lias discovered
Hint the rnt.imilt proiectiles of the
ancients were of a cylindro-conical
shape, similar to modern rifled-cannon
balls. Tiio more the delvers after relics
of bvgone ages discover, the more de
cided grows the conviction that the peo
ples of those eras did not suffer for the
want of inventive genius. 1
Steele: When a man has no desire
but to speak plain truth he may say a
great deal in a very narrow compass.
Tha Town of Ghent.
Ghent is a town which somewhat re
sembles its neighbor, Bruges, although
it is to me a sterner sort of place, as;
betits it with its long history of inde
pendence and revolution. It preserves
much of its ancient appearance through
virtue of its sturdy walls, its splendid
cathedral and ! other churches, and its
antique belfry, in which the "great bell
Koland still hangs, but it has not the
musty, delightful flavor of Bruges. It
possesses, however, a flavor of its own,
of which, in truth, I cannot say any
thing in praise, for a worse smell than
haunts 5t3 streets my unfortunate nose
never encountered, nor could I in any
wise escape it until I got aboard the
train and left the town behind me.
Ghent is also associated in my mind
with the worst lunch I have yet encoun
tered in Europe. It consisted of some
strange meat, which I am convinced
was kitten,, and had been waiting for a
customer quite as long as was good for
it I tasted it once, but could not take
the second mouthful, and the restaurant
keeper was a severe looking, person who
seemedof a sort to take offense if his
dishes were refused. I did not wish to
become involved in an explanation with
a strange, fierce man, and in an unfa
miliar language, and I could not eat the.
luuch for fear of dreadfnl internal con
sequences. Presently the restaurant
keeper stepped out .for a moment: I
drew a newspaper from my pocket,
rolled up the suspicious portion in it
and stowed it away again; the proprie
tor came back ana looked unsus
piciously at my empty plate, and I
arose and paid him and went away; and I
am sure I pity the dog or cat that found
the package in the gutter into which I
threw it as soon as 1 got around the cor
ner. I have plenty of reason to feel no
agreeable emotion at thought of Ghent,
but in truth my memory of it is exceed
ingly pleasant, and all on account of
my visit to the cathedral, where I went
to study Van I Eyck s splendid picture
of the "Adoration of the Mystical
Lamb." I was the only visitor to the
church that afternoon, and I had the.
services of the sacristan entirely to mv
self. He was a short, stout, little old
man, very wheezy from living in the
draughty old building all his life, and
with a vprv n.ilm. kind anii f hnno-htfnl
face. He spoke a better sort of French
than most Belgians do, and although
my own knowledge "of that tongue is
not profound,1 we got along very well
together. He was very ready to talk of
cne treasures oi arc, in cne catneurai.
and did so intelligently and to consider
able length upon the subiect of the
early system of painting in Flanders,
which he had studied, as he said, in all
the galleries of the country. His ideas
were his own, and very original and
true; and it was good to hear him speak
so eloauentlv uoon the dories of the
past, when the church was the mother
of art and foremost in all its anairs.
His tone changed, however, when he
came to modern times. "The church
has lost her power," he said, "and has
too much to do to hold her own against
the State, and the indifference of the
people to religious things, to find time
or means to encourage painters and
sculptors as she once did. Beside, the.
paiuters, like the people, have lost the
deep faith ia religion which is necessary
for the making of great paintings, and
I fear we shall never see again such
schools as we had in the past. Cor.
Boston Advertiser.
The Lakes of Upper Italy.
They lie iii the lap of the mountains
like jewels dropped from the sky, and
Nature has lavished her love and man
his labor on I the setting. By political
geography they belong in part to Switz
erland; but if there be any force in the
theory of natural boundaries; the Alps
bar her claim with tremendous empha
sis, and in climate, scenery, religion,
custom, and speech they are Italian. No
sooner does the traveler by the St.
Gothard Railway reach Locarno, the
first station on Lago Maggiore, than he
finds another heaven and another earth
from those which vanished when he en-.
tered the great tunnel, a few hours ear
lier. The mountain peaks are sharper
and more serrate, the curves and inden
tations of the shore more delicate, the
outlines of the landscape more finished1
and perfect; the light is at once softer
and more splendid, the sky has a deeper
and more tender blue, the verdure is
richer and darker; the very weeds give
the wavside the grace of a garden run
wild. Already there are terraced vine
yards to bo seen, and vines trained over
.a sort of trellised arbor called pergola,
the supports of which are stone one
of the most ancient modes of grow
ing grapes in Italy and orange walks,
hanging gardens, arcades of shrubberv.
walls of evergreen, stone stairways and
balustrades, pillars, vases and fountains
among the flower beds, a different cul
tivation, a different stvle of gardening,
which adorn3 the humblest plot. The
gleaming towns upon the water's edge
have irregular tiers of red-tiled roots,
broken by arched porticos in the attic
story, by slender Lombard bell-towers,
cupolas, long, blank palace-fronts a
different architecture. All this can be
seen from Locarno, which is vet but a
poor place compared with the towns
lower down the lake. It is worth while
to stop there, though, to wash off the
dust of the long journey in great white
marble bath-tubs, of antique form, filled
with cool, diamond-clear water, and to
rest and attune the spirit to a softer key.
There is a new hotel, a remarkably fine
building, with a lofty hall of entrance,
from each end of which a marble stair
case leads to galleries with balusters,
frlrnTmrtaa rJsino nne above the other.
and intersecting Toner perspectives, like
the backgrounds of Paul Veronese's
banquet pictures a Palladian interior,
every corridor ending in an arch draped
with muslin embroidered in Oriental
patterns, through which a mellow pic
ture of lake and mountain is visible.
.At Locarno, moreover, there is the
first glimpse of the art of Lombardy, in
which some of the towns on the smaller
lakes are so rich, and which has adorned
the entire region with countless churches
and palaces. The front of the Chiesa
Nuova is by Tommaso Ilodari, the fore
most of three brothers who have left
their imark on the architecture and
sculpture pt the late fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries throughout North
ern Italy, j In the pilgrimage church oi
the Madonna del Sasso (Our Lady of.
the Rock), half an hour's walk above
the town, the miia Luina s influence is
seen in an altar-piece by one of his fol
lowers. I trudged up to this sanctuary
one afternoon, to be rewarded by the
expedition itself beyond my expecta
tions, which were not great. Two deep
gorges uong uown iwo noisy, demon-
strative brooks by so precipitous a path;
that the water is "ready to leap into cas
cades at every step, until they unite
and seek the lake together. Up the
strip of wooded rock between them,
which rises higher and higher, broad
ening until it - joins the mountain.
winds the way to the church. It
is very steep ana laid in cordonate.
a pavement of cobble-stones crossed
bv a curb at every few feet, much
like a railway track, ballast and sleep
ers, without rails, raised to an angle of
seventy degrees from the level; the
curbs are about as far apart as cross
ties, and it is as hard to walk either
upon or between them. The pilgrimage
to the Madonna del Sasso should be
made by all but pennitents only after
the sun has set behind the western
mountains. "It is a pretty walk.
although disfigured by the stations of
the cross at short intervals; the way
farer passes out of the village under a
long, vine-wreathed pergola, then over
a bridge, then up the narrow hillside.
between the ravines, to the foot of the
foundation walls of the building, and by
a few more sharp twists to the solitary
little stone piazza from which he enters
the church. It dates from a miraculous
appearance of the Virgin four hundred
years ago, but ha3 few signs of its age
wunin it is as iresnry gnueu, paiuieu
and frescoed as a hotel dining room,
and is in so far a surprise after the lone
ly scramble beside the bed of the tor
rent. I reached it at the hour of the
Ave Maria. The church was empty
save for a woman and two children,
who were kneeling together, telling
their beads. There was a murmur of
pravers and responses uttered by two
invisible ministrants; the voices 6eemed
to come from behind the high altar, but
priest or acolyte there was none to be
seen, ihe effect was so mysterious at
that sunset hour that the renovated
church grew venerable to the quickened
sense of awe. After the last amen,
while looking for the Luini scholar's
painting, I came upon a picture of tho
Entombment, a work of considerable
beauty and religious feeling, by a Signor
(Jerusi, of Florence, as my fellow-wor
shiper told me. A hiodern picture
from our baviour s history, painted
with talent and skill, yet reverently,
and hidden in a side-chapel of this inac
cessible and unvisited little church, was
a strange thins: and worth coming. to
find. The view of the lake from the
steps is line, and still better from a
little pillared side-porch, which looks
as if it were the oldest part of the build
ing, and overhanging the landscape
like the parapet of a castle, the scene
was very lovely; the peaks were pale
rose-color, and a bluish moisture, like
the dew on dark grapes, rested upon tho
surface of the lake. Atlantic Monthly.
Impressions of Amsterdam
Now we entered Amsterdam, to
which we had looked forward as the
climax of our tour, having read of it and
pondered it as "theVenice of the North;"
but our expectations were raised much
too high. Anv thing more unlike Venice
it would be ditlicultto imagine; and there
is a terrible want of variety and color;
many of the smaller towns of Holland
are far more interesting and infinitely
more picturesque. A castle was built
atAmsieruam in izv-t, out uie town vmy
became important in the Sixteenth
. & 1 . rr t I ..I.. 1
Century. It is situated upon the influx;
of the Amstel to the Y, as the arm oi
the Zuyder Zee which forms the harbot
is called, and it occupies a huge semi
circle, its walls being inclosed by the
broad moat, six and a half miles long,
which is known as Buitensingle. Tho
greater part of the houses are built on
piles, causing Erasmus to say that the
inhabitants lived on trees like rooks
In the center of the town is the gi
square called Dam, one side of which is
occupied by the handsome Koyal ralaca
Het Palais built by J. Van Kanipen
in 1648. TheNieuwe Kerk (1408-1470)
contains a number of monuments to ad
mirals, including those of Van Ruifter
'immensi tremor oceani who com
manded at the Battle of Solbay, and
Van Speyk, who blew himself up with
his ship rather than yield to the Bel
gians. In the Oude Kerke of 130C
there are more tombs of -admirals,
Hard bv. in the Nieuwe Markt, Is the
picturesque cluster of Fifteenth Cen
tury towers called St. Anthonienswaag,
once a city gate ana now aweigning
house. But the great attraction of Am
sterdam is the picture gallery of the
Trippenhuis, called the links Museum,
and it deserves many visits. Uooo
Words.
Italian Marriages.
They are a prolific people. To be child
less is regarded as an intense calamity;
and no matter how shallow the purse,
no newcomer is welcomed other than
with smiles and gladness. Now, is it
possible that a people so home-loving,
so affectionate, so fond of offspring,
should be so depraved, so immoral, af
we habitually depict them? We hava
too long looked upon one side only oi
the Italian character; it is high "tim
that we learned to know the other. An
other favorite idea of ours is that tha
Italians never make love marriages. No
doubt their marriages, like those of the
French, are often arranged bv the par
ents; but, unlike those of the French, as
a rule a veto of choice is left to the
young people; and if we could collect
statistics on that point, I am inclined to
think that we should find that the pro
portion of ' these marriages, founded
upon a groundwork of reason ana so
cial compatibility, which turn out well
is as great as, if not greater than, that
of our marriages founded upon youth
ful caprice and unreason. London So-
Clt
Hety.
ii.
A chicken rooster entered a lady's
house the other day, and seeing himself
reflected in a large, handsome mirror,
deemed it his boundeu duty to go for
the reflected intruder, and he forthwith
threw himself against the mirror, shat
tering it all to pieces. With the break
ing of the glass his shadow disappeared,
and he concluded he had demolished
his supposed antagonist. Ihe noise
brought the good lady into the house,
when she found her valuable mirror in
ruins and the rooster perched on the
marble slab crowing for victory.
Boston Budget.
OF GENERAL 1STEKEST.
JFis estimated that the average cost
to the people is five thousand dollars
lor each bill passed by Congress. .
Thirst and starvation have caused
the recent death of two thousand head
of cattle in one drove at Coahuila,
Mexico.
The aqueduct of Washington, D.
C, furnishes the city twenty-five mil
lion gallons of water every twenty-four
hours.
At a late fashionable wedding in
England the bride's bouquet, composed
of white lilies, was large enough to fill
a big wheelbarrow.
Rural Congressmen will be allowed
two million bushels of seeds to dis
tribute among their "constituents this
year. Chicago Times, x '
A patient in the Nevada Insane
Asylum grasped his windpipe so fiercely,
under the impression that a frog was in
his throat, the other day, that it re
quired some hours to resuscitate him.
Cryolite, a mineral which is of great
value in the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone
Park. Heretofore it has been obtained
onlv in Greenland. San Francisco Call.
Parrot-dealers of the East are mak
ing money by teaching their parrots to
eroak "Kiss me, darling." Ladies are
very fond of the feathered tribe when
they can speak so lovingly. Chicago
ltmes.
In an English criminal trial there
are no exceptions, after a verdict of
?;uilty, no matter how erroneous the
aw has been laid down or how illegal
the conviction, there follows no appeal
except for mercy at the Home Office,
which is rarely granted.
-Out of the twenty-two Boston ladies
counted on the piazza of an Isle of
Shoals hotel, eighteen wore eye-glasses
or spectacles, .and ten had scientific
books in their hands. The intellectual
ity of the place is consequently most
pronounced. N. Y. Mail.
The first corn crop of Mexico has
proved a disastrous failure, and as the
weather has been too dry to plant the
second, the farmers have given up hope
of a corn harvest until next June. This
will necessitate a great demand for corn
raised in the United States. Chicago
News.
Curious wedding cards appeared at
Guadalajara, Mexico, recently. They
read: "The rector of the Catholic Sa
grario, Rev. Dr. Barbosa, acting under
authority of the Archbishop, has refused
to marry me to Irene Moreno. I have
married her according to the civil code,
and now have the honor to offer you an
invitation to our house on Calle Car
men, No. 31. Gregorio Saavedra."
Writing to a German newspaper, a
victim of Daltonianism, or color blind
ness, protests against the tendency to
the exclusion of the so-called color
blind from lives of activity in which the
recognition of color is an element. He
declares that, although the sensations
are different, persons afflicted wiih Dal
tonianism possess a distinct recognition
of the different bands of the spectrum,
and are consequently as capable of dis
tinguishing color signals from each
other as persons with normal vision.
While Washington ,was President
the Congress Springs, at Saratoga, was
discovered by a member of Congress
from New York, who was gunning on
the site. There are now fifteen to
thirty springs in the vicinity, not very
diflerent m character. Ihe Congress
Spring is still the most celebrated. The
Hathorn Spring, discovered about thir
teen years ago, has become its nnnci-
pal competitor. For nearly a hundred
years Saratoga has been celebrated, and
continues to be the most remarkable col
lection of mineral springs in the United
States. N. Y. Tribune.
-It is astonishing how much trash
and how many things of one kind and
another can get into a well. The public
well on the court house square was
'cleaned out" on Monday, and, accord
ing to Jake Davis' memoranda, the fol
lowing is a list of the articles taken
from it: Tin cups, tin cans, old shoes,
ax handles, pop guns, bricks, bones,
match boxes, part of chain pump, old
hat, slates, beer bottles, whisky flasks,
base ball, skull of a cow, three well
buckets, well whirl, buggy shaft, vest
buckles and stone coal. Orecnsboro
(Ga.) Herald.
The principal feature about a China
man's costume is the fact that nothing
ever fits but his stockings. His clothing
consists really of three or four shirts or
garments made after the fashion of a
shirt, each opening in front and having
five buttons, a sacred number, these
buttons are never in a straight row, but
in a sort of semi-circle half round the
body. The outer garments have sleeves
a foot longer than the arm, a fact which
affords abundant opportunities for theft
A Chinaman's jackets are his thermom
eter. He will say: "To-day is three
jackets cold, and if it increases at this
rate to-morrow will be four or nve jack
ets cold. Chicago Herald.
We think of Wyoming Territory as
a desert and of Cheyenne as a frontier
camp, but a New Yorker lately re
turned from that Rocky Mountain set
tlement says that he found there a gen
tlemen s club as complete as any in
New York. The members are princi
pally rich cattle owners, many of them
Englishmen. Ihe club house is lllu
minated by the incandescent electric
light, and &cheflrom Delmonico's looks
after the cuisine. Turkish rugs, marble
statuary, a fine library, rich chande
liers, tropical plants, etc., adorn the
interior. He also says that as elegan
equipages arc to be seen every day in
the streets of Cheyenne as in New York,
N. Y. Herald.
Johai tells a story of a gypsy which
illustrates tne nappy ireeaom from al
the ordinary restraints of civilization
which characterizes the race. This
gypsy was the happy father of a flour
ishing progeny of twelve children, one
of whom a hunter happened to shoot
one day, mistaking it for his more law
ful prey. To. console the unhappy
lather tne repentant nunter gave him
compensation in money, which he
deemed approaching adequacy from his
own point of view, but which seemed so
magnificent to the gvpsy father that he
ventured to suggest that if his benefac
tor should think of hunting
again
he
'still had eleven children who might be
turned to account by a similar ad van
tao-eous mistake. Manhattan,
The Hansom Cab.
".Well, I rode in a Hansom cab when
I was in Chicago 'tother day," said an
oi l kicker to another old kicker, as they
met in a saloon for lunch at mid-dav.
"The streets are full of them, and they
make me laugh."
"What kind of thing3 are they?"
asked the second old kicker. "I have
read about Hansom cabs over since I
was a boy, in Dickens' works, and all
English publications, but I. wouldn't
know one if I saw it in the road. What
do they look like?"
"O, they look like the very deuce.
Take your top buggy and knock off the
front wheels, and hitch the shafts on the
hind axle-tree, and put an office-stool
up behind the top of the buggy, with a
driver screwed onto the top of the stool,
with the lines running over the top to
the horse, and you would have a Han
som cab. I looked at lots of them, and,
honestly, 1 couldn't help laughing at
the imitation .English affairs. Those
Gurueys that have been on the streets
of Chicago for a year or two are bad
enough about shaking a fellow up, but
the Hansom cab will dislocate a man's
liver, and shiver his spinal column, and
scare him to death quicker than any
thing. You get in and there is a couple
of doors shut in onyonr lap to keep
you from being shaken out, and then
the driver locks the'doors and throws the
key away, and when you get" to the end
of your journey somebody happens along
with another key and lets you out, or
may be the doors are locked with a
time-lock that opens when you get to
the depot. The driver sits up behind, as
stiff as a frozen pickerel, and I was told
by a Palmer House liar that an
iron rod runs from the seat right up the
spinal column of the driver, to the top
of his head, where his hat, which has
an iron nut on the inside, screws on to
the rod and holds him tight. He looks
as though that was the way Tie was
fastened on, but the fellow may have
been lying to me. The horse seems to
know whereiyou are going, and all the
.driver does is to hold on to the lines.
suppose he is up there so if the horse
runs away the driver could get on
without being run over, and go around
block and stop the horse. In the
meantime a passenger would be killed.
To ride along the crowded streets in one
"of the Hansom cabs, and see th horse
cninor tVirnnrrVi tl nrrwvd j with nn
driver in sight, makes you have respect
for the sagacity of the horse, and yet
you feel as though even horse sense was
not enough, and you are f ;rc that he
will run into the next beer wagon that
comps along. You forget all about the
galvanized Englishman perched upon
the shelf behind, and you feel like grab
bin r the lines that pa-s over -your head
ml driving the horse yourself, and
when you stop to get out, and the
driver appears to open the door, you
look at him in i.stonishment, and say:
Well, how did you get here, for
Heaven's sake?" When the cab strike
a rough place in the street with the
right wheel, your thigh bone goes right
of
and knocks your ear around on top
your head, and you feel lop-sided
until tho left wheel strikes something
and averages you up. When both
wheels strike an obstruction at once,
the bottom of your stomach is struck
by your boot-heels and paralyzed, so
you can't eat anything but soup for a
week, and your liver is iust as liable to
be around bv the small of your back,
or under your arm, as anywhere, when
you get to the depot. It is a lonesome,
melancholy feeling, to ride in a Han
som cab. In any other conveyance
you can hail the driver and talk with
him, but to make the driver of a Han
som cab hear vou, you have to shout
against the side of a building, and de
pend upon the echo coming back to the
driver and waking him up. Jt might
seem as though a Hansom cab wouia
be a good thing for a young fellow to
take his girl out riding in, if ne wanted
to spark her, the driver being away
back behind and blinders on the horse,
but it wouldn't be safe, as the driver
has a hole in the back" of the top so he
can look right through, and he would
be sure to keep awake if there was any
thing going on in the cab that the pas
sengers aiun t care to nave commentea
on; besides, it seems as though the
weight of the vehicle was liable at any
minute to raise the horse right off his
feet and cause him to sit down in your
lap, and no fellow riding with a girl
likes to have a horse sit down in their
laps, when tney become mterestea m a
conversation. The Hansom cab looks
sort of tony, but a man who rides in
one feels as though he was marked.
Everybody looks at the rig and laughs,
and the passenger feels . uncomfortable.
These cabs can never take the place of
street cars, that is sure," and the old
kinker. who had rode in a cab the dav
before, began feeling under his shoulder-blade,
to see if the calves of his
leg3 were not beginning to work back
where they belonged. recVs Sun.
Girls, Beware !
Brown's brow was clouded.
"Some girl scrape?" queried his
friend. Bilkins.
"Well, to tell you the truth," replied
Brown, "there is a girl at the bottom
of it. You see, ever since I made that
strike in Atchison, and thank Heaven
pulled out of it, I've been kinder
keeping my matrimonial weather eye
open, as it were. I thought I'd found
her, but, well" heaving a deep sigh
"it's all over now."
"Tell me about it, old fellow," said
Bilkins, sympathetically.
"Well, you know I've been to New
port for the past four weeks. I met her
there. She was a bud to look at-
tell vou, and I was awfully gone on her.
Everything went smoothly until I found
out how much she knew."
"Ignorant?" queried Bilkins.
"No; just the other way. I happened
to hear her talk the other day to Prof.
Buzzer -it makes me shudder to think
of it! It waff all about esoteric Bud
dhism, planetary changes, and world
periods! Think of it! It let mo out
of course. You could not expect sncfa
a woman as that to take any interest in
housekeeping, now could your
"lhere is much truth in what you
eay," replied Bilkins, thoughtfully, and
Brown looked
cigar. Bos. on
relieved
and
lighted
Globe.
It costs $8,100 to pay the salaries
of the agent and assistants to distribute
postage stamps to the various post-
offices in the United States. Washing
ton Star.
Diversity of Gifts.
"Don't make her study geography,"
said a mother to the principal or a
school where she was putting .her
daughrer; "its of no use, I never could
make anything out of geography myself
and she can't." This lady had no gift
for learning geography, as many have
none for learning music, mathematics,
languages. The: e are really cultivated
people who never can learn to spell per
fect'. We know a graduate of Yale,
the best Greek scholar of his class, who
always misspells certain words and a
disringuishea educator and scientist who
is uncertain in his spelling, though
wearing several honorable titles. Many
of our college graduates have no talent
for languages. They go through the
classic course at college that they may
get the B. A., and straightway forget
all their Latin and Greek as quicily as
they can. Some have no aptitude for
mathematics and flounder about help
lessly in the higher branches of that
science, getting no good from them at
all. The author, par excellence, the
poet, the journalist, the artist, the scien
tist, the mechanic, the laborer, is born
and not made. But a vast number of
people have no special aptitude. Very
good imitation diamonds can be manu
facture 1, just as fair authors and poets
and artists are made of ordinary
people with no special gift in
any one direction, but with fair
average - ability in all directions. A
block of mahogany may be made to
take a variety of useful and ornament
al forms. It" may be made into one
piece of furniture, or cut up into ve
neer and spread over a great many
lieees of furniture. In a parallel man
ner a man may devote nimself to one
pursuit and make a good lawyer, or
doctor or engineer, or professor, or he
may spreau mmseii una over a wiue
range of industries. The present ten
dency is to specialties. The lawyer de
votes himselt to certain branches of the
practice, patent law, or realty or crim
inal practice; the physician devotes
limself to diseases of the eye, the ear,
the vital organs; the engineer selects
minin x or bridge building, or railroad
building; the professor conhnes him
self to physics, or mathematics, or lan
guages, each and ail recognizing the
act that one man in one life-time can
cultivate but a portion of his own intcl-
ectual domain, and but a small portion
of the domain of the knowable.
Giving himself to one pursuit or one
class of pursuits makes a man one
sided; or, to change the figure, gives a
cutting edge on only one side. Charles
Iteade needed and had a "loving
lousekeeper," who would say:
"Charles, leave, those sweets alone;
you'll make yourself ill." "The hero
is no hero to his valet. Ihe valet knows
what need the hero has of being tsken
care of.
We i aie "apt to idealize those
who
have brilliant and positive gifts,
think them altogether enviable,
nearer acquaintance reveals the
and
but
fact
that no cup pressed to the lips of mor
tals is altogether sweet, no mind but
has its dull or undeveloped or craggy
side, no heart but "knoweth its own
bitterness."
There are many men who have no
talent for the use of tools, and who
handle everything they take hold of
clumsily; there are women who have
no talent for the neeaie, ana who can
not learn crochet and tatting and the
like; there are those who cannot learn
to cook well, others who never master
the art of housekeeping, others who
have t no talent for society; there are
mothers who cannot be motherly and
wives who cannot be wifely. These
persons may nave positive talents in
certain directions, but are denied the
power; of developing them, and are
compelled ail their lives to work against
the gram, lhere are poets who 'die
with all their music in them," scholars
to whom the ample page of learning is
never unrolled, generals who never see
a battlefield. We often find the "round
man
in the "square hole," and the
square man
while some
unfortunate men and 1
women seem never to nna a piaee
where they may work to any ad
vantage, j ".They also serve who only
stand and wait." But we can all do
the duty nearest us; we can all tr; to
do what our hands find to do with our
might. If we have but one talent we
can put that out at interest And is
not this all that is required of us? It
is not for us to say " If 1 only had
such and such talents and such and
such opportunities, I would do thus and
thus." The problem is what we shall
do with the talent or the lack of it
which we have,' with the opportunity
or lack of opportunity that is given its.
TTaTnv " anva f'nrlvlv 44 is trift man
that hath found his work!" Yes, and
happy are they, who not having found
the work suited to them and for which
they are suited, yet diligently labor to
do that which is . given theui to do,
however humble or arduous or dis
agreeable it may be. Life is a training
.school. Here we are set to tasks toil
some, uncongenial, difficult, often
thankless, and held to them with un
relaxing pressure until we learn to ac
cept tV.e burden imposed with patience
and work '
" Ab ever :n our Great Taskmaster's eye."
The lesson of life thus learned, we
are ready for promotion, which, though
long deferred, will come at last -N.
Y. tribune. ,
The old women of an English vii
lage have been provided by one of Rus
kiu's disc-pies with distaffs, spinning-
wheels and looms, and already the old
fashioned linen fabrics spun and woven
by them are in demand. "Ay, but they
make good and true stuff, said one
old woman of the town. Waterbury
American.
The mo t expensive thing and the
hardest thing to get in Europe is pure
water. ! At the hotels even in Switzer
land, where the ice-crowned Alps are
in sight; they charge you for ice-water
to drink. There is no water on tne
cars, and at the stations they look at
you in ama -ement if you ask for it.
Toronto Globe.
Thp.-n are thirtv-nine professor-
ships in the University of Edinburgh.
Of these the income of eighteen is
-V J or more a year each. The Pro
f -ss rof A naU.my-receives $16,000, the
roreasor of Greek 500, while the
,.-m1s of the Latin and mathematical
-.fcpartmco's respectfully get $7,500.
Forgotten Valuables.
A messenger boy ran up to J. E.
Kingsley in the Continental Hotel and
handed him a telegrain. Mr. Kingsley
tore open the envelope and read this
message:
S iRATOQA Springs For heaven's sake
send my spectacles at once. I can't sec I
left them in room 18 nl$ht before last.
Have this attended to at once."
sa:d Mr. Kingsley, handing the dispatch
to Cashier Stokes.
The cashier went to tb.ebig.safo back
of the key-rack and pulled out a bask
etful of gold watches, spectacles, rings
and other things. They had all been
left lehind in the course of years " by
guests of the hotel. The cashier fished
out from the collection a pair of specta
cles, to which was attached a little tag
on which was .written: "Found in room
18, September 3, 1881." Tho specta
cles were immediately mailed to theif
owner at Saratoga.
"Do you receive many communica
tions like that telegram?" a Times re
porter asked. :
"Yes; telegrams or letters inquiring,
for watches, ri&giS, poekefcbooks, aha
everything a traveler carries, come to
us every day. We've got lots of things
that have not been asked for. We shall
keep them so long as we have a hotel
here. Everything found is put away
and carefully tagged with its history.";
"Do guests frequently leave valuables
after them?" said Clerk Cormack, of
the Girard Houses echoing the report
er's question. "I shoula say they did;
so frequently, indeed, that we've got a
man, known as the property clerk,;
whoso duty it is to take charge of
everything left in the rooms and try to;
trace the owners. Sometimes he suc
ceeds and sometimes he does not. Only '
this morning we received a letter in- .,
quiring for a seal ring that was left on
a wash-stand. The writer said he vali
uel the ring because it was an heir
loom. We hunted up the nian's name
on the register and found what room
he had occupied and then went to the
safe and found the ring labeled. The
ring's on its way now to Wheeling, W.
Va. A guest with barely time to make .
a train and a thousand and one things
to do in that time will be pretty. sure to
leave a pair of slippers under the bed, a
night-gown under the pillow, or a
watch on the mantelpiece, or an um
brella or cane in the corner of the
!room. General Simon Cameron, with
; just three minutes to reach the Broad
Street Station, started one morning in
a carriage for the eleven o'clock train.
Ten minutes afterward 1 was surprised
to see him walk into tho hotel office.
'I had to let the train go,' he said,
laughingly; 'I left my spectacles up
Istairs. I can't go without then; I
swear by 'ein.' A porter found tho
.glasses, but General Cameron had to'
;stay until 5:30 before he got another
train. -
"Last week a patron of the house,
who lives in Harrisburg, came down
'and staid overnight. When he came
to the office in the morning to pay his
bill he fumbled through his pockets,
looked at me with a puzzled expression,
and said: 4I haven't any money; why,
I've been robbed. I know all about it
now. I went to a theater last night,
and afterward rode in a horse-car. The
car was crowded, and I stood up and
grasped a strap with my right hand,
that pulled my coat away from my
vest. I had $900 in bills in one roll in
my right-hand vest pocket.' Of course
he didn't pay his hotel bill, and I even
had to loan him $10 to take him back
to Harrisburg. He hadn't got twenty
miles out of town before the chamber
maid who fixed up the room that he
had occupied brought tho man's ro!l
down to the office. She said she found
it under the pillow of his bed. 1 tele
graphed to Harrisburg, and that night
received a r?ply telling me to take the
lamount of the hotel bill and $10 out of
'the roll and transfer the remainder by
telegraph. We had a hot time here
several months ago about a lady's soli
taire diamond ear-ring. She lost it in
bed, and made a great time about her
loss. W e took all the furniture apart,
ripped up the carpets, in fact pulled
everything out of the room, but the
diamond could not be found. The wo
man accused the poor chambermaid of
stealing it, buj; we felt satisfied that
the servant was innocent. Two months
afterward the diamond was found in
the mattress. It had caught under one
of the buttons that hold the hair in v
place, and had remained secreted there
all that time.
"We have several watches in the safe
that have been left under pillows, a few
pairs of bracelets, lots of gum shoes
and slippers, a book-case full of novels,
packs of playing-cards, pocket-knives,
razors, hair-brushes and combs, and
various other things I suppose enough
to start a rejgular pawn-broker's auc
tion store. There is any number of
umbrellas and canes. But night-gowns-beat
everything. They have been ac
cumulating for years, and we've got
over five hundred of them, some elabo-;
rately embroidered. A few are trimmed
with expensive lace and a great many
are prettily marked with the owners'
initials. Hardly a day - passes without
our receiving a letter asking after the
fate of a certain n:ght-gown. Some
people won't write for them, and
wouldn't admit the ownership of them
if we should forward them. I received
a letter from a lady this morning ask
ing us to look up a night-gown that was
left here more than two months ago.
I suppose we'll bo able to find it.'
Nearly every day a night-gwn is sent
to the laundry; a label is then put on
it, showing the room it was found in
and the date, and then it is packed
away with the other n'ght-gowns to be
kept until called for. There are a hun
dred of them, yellow with age. Annie
Pixley, the actress, left a white satin
night-dress here the last time she:
played in this city. It was embroidered
all down the front with a dozen differ
ent kinds of sewing silk, and must have
cost seventy-five dollars. We sent it to
her in a few days after she left here."
Philadelphia limes.
A policeman who was patrolling
Montcalm street east the other day.
heard a whistle blow for all it was
worth, and ran a block and a half, to
find a woman with her head out of a
chamber window. "Who blew that
whistle?" "I diet" "Do you want
me?" "No, sir. My gal and her beau
are spopnin' around on the side stoop,!
and I blew the whistle to let him know
that it wai time to skip or look oat for
'clubs." Detroit Free Press.