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ir's t'er EIBIPEIIBEITT, 1 M i til 1 1 M t $ i if i I " FINEST JOB OFFICE 13 ISSUED 1 SATURDAY MORNINGS. - BY. THE - i Bellas County Publishing Company. i 4.-. i I, I V . i i t! n M . IN DOUGLAS CCUNTY. i 1 . li CARDS, BILL 5EADS, LEGAL BLANKS, One Year -Six Months -- Three Months $2 50 1 60 1 00 Chsmo2 ajj And other rilntia Isiducliu Largs ci Esa?y Festers ni Ei:2-il3f ThfM we the terra of those paying In mdnwoe. The Independent offers fine Inducements to sdrertiserg. Teruit reasonable. VOL. IX. KOSEBUKG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1884. I'M v' f II US I . II-.- Ei f h -h tin In I I -.: -" : v si f J i f - ; ti ! C .. J fcl H : , : ; j l. Neatly ftad esveUitiouslr eiecutcil AT POETLAND PRICES. WHAT THE DREDGE BRiNCS UP. NO. 38. pJ. jASitULEK, ' PRACTICAL v Watctoato, Jeweler aM Ojticiaa, , ALL WOBK T7AEUA1ITED. Dealer In Watched, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles and Eyeglasses. iss a fou usi or "Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods. Tin oul reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust- , ment of Spectacles ; always on hand. Depot of the Genuine Eraiili&n Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. Office First Door South of Postofflce, - iiosebi'ug. oiieuox. LAIIGEITBERG'S Boot and Ghoe Store ROSK3JURG, OltEGOS, On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post flics, Keep on hand the largest and best Maortment of Eastern and San Francisco Boots and Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, V . , And everything in the Boot and Bhoe line, and j 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 Bone, on Short Notice. I keep always on hand TOYS AfJD NOTIONS. Musical Instruments and Violin Strings a specialty. IjOUIS liANGEXBEKG. : D R J v IV! . W. ? DAVIS, DBHTIST, UOSF.BERQ, OBEGOX, Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs, Over S. Marks & Qo.'s New Store. I.IAHOIIETS SALOOir, Nearest the Sail road Depot, Oakland,' J AH. 3fAiIOXEY, . . . Proprietor The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in .Douglas (Jounty, and ; THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE, KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR. Fartlt trarellng on the railroad will find this place I rry nana; to visit during tne stopping oi toe train i the Oakland Depot. Gire me a call JAS. MAIIONEY. JOHN PHASER, Home Hade Furniture, V I LEU It, OREGON. DPEOLSTERY, SPRINS MATTRESSES, ETC, Constantly on hand. FURNITURE. 1 have the Best STOCK OF FURNITURE South ef Portland. And all of my own manufacture. Xo Two Prices to Customers. Resident of Douglas County are requested to give me a cau oeiore purcnawng euewnere. 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 SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS AND THI ' Table supplied with the Eeit the Market aferds Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad. H. C. STANTON, DEALER IN Staple IDry Goods, Keep oMtantiy on hand a general assortment f .EXtTa r ine iirOCerieS. WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE, ALSO CROCKERY AN D CORDAGE, A full itock of SCHOOL COOKS, Such a required by the Public County Schools. All kluds or Stationery, Toys Faney Articles, re err both yoiko axd and Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes - Checks on i'ortland, and procures Drafts on San Francisco. SEEDS! SEEDS! iLL KINDS OF THE BEST QDALIfl.fnithf'tSMit ALL, OltDKKS Promptly attended to and goods shipped wita care Addreae. ' ; - .... t - : ;. , lIACtlEXY fc BEX, Portland. Oregon. "What H your favorite amusement" asked a mend once of Charles kingslev. "Sleep," was the short reply. . "This answer," says a writer, ''absurd as it , may at first socm to us, has in it a germ of sound physiological truth, especially it we sunsiiLiuc in? wora recreation tor means re-creation trta creating anew. The silver dug onto? the Comstock mina in Nevada would load a wagon, train 547 miles la length. SELECTIONS. Love tbat doth count its gifts U a weak prop Whereon to star a weary human heart. 'We are soul-bound. What though through - Drison bars Wa hear the distant roaring of the sea. Ana eaten tne golden fiory or tne star?, a.na arcam, like ciouos ana ocean, we are free! At beet we do, with-foolishest intents, i But gild our chains and call them ornaments! MAID AND MAN SERVANT. The Growing Fashion of Brlnsins : Attendant Daetc from Europe. : Naw York Sun. No less than seventeen names on the published list of saloon passenger's of the steamer Oregon, whica arri ved . a few days ago, were followed by the words "and maid," or "and man serv ant." One or two of the 'Dassensrefs were accompanied by couriers as well as I other servants, and of two well-known New l ork ladies, one was accompanied by two maids and the name of . the other was followed by the words "courier, man servant, and maid. The relict of the hard-workinz Philadelphia manu facturer of shoe blacking, who went home from his factory in an office-coat three years ago and died of overwork before nightfall, was accompanied on her way over by "three servants." And yet the writer was informed ' by the agent of the steamship line of this city that this was rather a poor steamer for servants. It appears that while very few out going steamers carry personal attend ants for the saloon passengers, the in coming ones are invariably mcected with them, and sometimes in very large numbers. ;. An American can go to Eu rope without any difficulty alone, but after ho has acquired the ac cent and the culture which travel is supposed to stamp him with he finds it " impossible to come back again without a personal attendant. Women manage their maids better in public than men manage the men serv ants or valets. An American usually acts a3 though he were overcome by the presence of his servant. When he first goes to dinner on board the steamer the man stands behind his chair, if he has good sea legs and is in no danger from seasickness, lie is in everybody s way. is of no particular uso to his master, and usually proves a bore to everybody before toe voyage is over. On this side, if he is a bright stay in ISSe long,' as and intelligent man. he doesn't the oppor tunities for his advancement in a social wav are practical! v unlimited. He is constantly out of place, and has no reo- ognizea position even among the serv ants. There is, indeed, the same trouble with ladies' maids. In England tho woman who holds the post of personal attendant to the lady of the house is considered very much above the other domestics in position, , and.; when she comes over here and finds that she must wash her own clothes, make her own bed, and sit in the . kitchen " when her mistress has nothing for her to do, she relieves her mind, leaves her position, and advertises for a place as a gov erness. .trench mams are considered more valuable, though they usually demand their evenings after 8 o'clock, appropri ate the "old dresses" of their mistresses while the garments are still new, and are seldom long in attendance upon one mistress. In a family of girjs, particu larly it two or three of them are in so ciety, one or more maids are considered absolutely indispensable. 1 here is no one of the servants who can be spared from duty to assist the young ladies for a drive or for an evening entertainment, and so the maid takes her place as a matter oi course. - Why anybody ' who can speak the language should-want a courier in Amer- ica is lncomprenensiDie, tor there are certainly no such difficulties to encounter here as meet the tourist m Europe. It is observed that Tery many women are now accompanied by their maids when they go shopping. It is an 'innovation in America, too, for the maids to walk behind their mistresses, but the spec tacle of an overdressed woman strutting about the big dry goods shops and fol lowed by a respectful maid with her arms full of' parcels is by no means rare. i Where Counterfeits Are Detected. s American Queen. in tne counting ana nanuung or pa- per currency, tne treasury women nave I al-mrkcf. ennaraoiul man . FKnv .'. rtTnf better and faster, and in the detection which circulate freely through every bank m the country are readily de tected the instant thev come into the hands of the women operator in the ' I L T L 11 T 1 ireaury. it wiu va noiiceu oy any body who ever gave any attention to the subject that the warnings to look out for counterfeits invariably come from the treasury department. This means that the counterfeit has circulated with incpunity until it reaches the fingers of tne women experts inthe treasury; then it is instantly detected. As an example: A counterfeit of the last issue of $5 bills was known to be floating about some time ago: the trea sury sent out the alarm,but the officials. judging, from experience, knew that it would probably not be detected until one reached the treasury m a package of money from one of the bank& At last it came in a bundle from a big New msianny. . i ne note 7as iracea ana i'ound to have passed through half the banks in New ork without suspicion, to be spotted at the first glance by this young woman, who, it is said, has never yet passed a counterfeit. Not one single cent has ever been stolen by women since their employment in the treasury. v hen the work was done solely by men, dis charges for small thefts were frequent. A Locomotive for Tunnel. Chicago Herald. Honigmann's locomotive is to be in troduced -in the St, Gothard tunnel. It can be charged from a stationary boiler with steam and hot water sufficient to make the twenty minutes' journey through the tunuel without requiring any fire. It, therefore. do:s not vitiate ihe atmosphere with smoke. The ex haust steam is taken up by an alkaline solution in a special chamber. TELEGRAPH TAXES. Sidney '(Neb.) Letter in N. Y. Time. Several old telegraph operators met here recently, and in the course of a long conversation told some of their ex- Eeriences on the frontier. One of them egan by recalling the great bullion rob bery at this place. It was at noon. and most of the depot and stage hands had gone across the yards to dinner. As the operator sat in the telegraph office, alone two men presented them selves at his door and demanded admit tance. Both had revolvers. He jumped up and let them in, and ; they quickly bound and gagged him. Relieving that he was safe, they disappeared, ana ne saw no more of them. As soon as they .were out of sight he managed to get to his instrument, and by lying down on the table found that with one of his hands he could reach the key. It was difficult ; work, but by degrees he im proved his position until finally he raided the Cheyenne office and commu nicated the fact that a robbery was rin' progress. The operator at that point kept him posted as to trie proceedings there, and m a few minutes he was grat ified to hear the intelligence ticked over the wire. that the superintendent and a party of detectives were en route tor biuney on a spec ial train.' The distance was 103 miles, but the run was made so rapidly that the people of the town were hardly aware of the robbery before the train dashed in. The operator had by that time been released, and it was found that the thieves, who had been secreted under the depot, had come up through a hole in the floor made by removing a board. The "bullion v weighed about 500 pounds, and, as it was thought that they could not have carried it far, a rigorous search was made near at hand. Before night the greater part of the gold was found in a hole under the depot, and the remainder was discovered in an adjoining coal-shed, where it had been dropped. The thieves got away with only about $13,000 in currency. Another operator remarked that he was the man who discovered the Oga- lalla train robbery. Ho was in charge of the little office at Kearny. He had had a very stupid afternoon, and as the day was miserable without, he dozed more or less. He tried to read, but after it became necessary to bght the lamps he found this occupation distaste ful, and as no one came m no leaned forward, placing his arms on his table and his head upon them. "1 must i have slept soundly for a while," ha said, "for I lost myself en tirely for an hour or two, but pre- itly 1 had an indistinct impression that some one was calling lor as sistance. In my dream it seemed to me that I could hear the cry 'Help!' Help!' and that I was powerless to render any assistance. Finally I sat bolt upright with a nervous feeling a3 if something temble MChap- f ned which I ought to have preven ed. rubbed my eyes and lool: .. around sleepily. The depot was empty. It was dark outside, and the ram was faiung. I stepped to the door and looked out for a minute, but heard nothing. The j.. I went back to my desk, filled and lighted my pipe, and began to read. My eyes had just fallen on the page when my in strument sounded once or twice very feebly. . I looked at it closely. It ticked again almost inaudibly. 'Some things the matter,' thought 1. 1 got up, and leaned over the sounder and listened. 1 could iust catch the faintest click, as if a child might have been playing with a - key somewhere. While T listened, I began to comprehend the nature of the message that was be ing sent. I could not catch all the let ters, but I got enough after listening to it a dozen times, to make out this much! Ogalalla, Ogalalla. Help, help.1 It flashed upon me all at once. ' The over land train was being robbed, or had been robbed. I grabbo l the key, and let everybody have it from Cheyenne to Omaha. There was some lively tele graphing there for a time. They sent en gines out from two or three points, and got to Ogalalla in time to scare the robbers oil. lou see 1 was a I good deal further oif than . a dozen other ; operators, but ; some how I was the first one that caught on. The way it happened was this: The robbers came into the depot at Oga lalla about an hour before train time, and bound and gagged the operator. After they got . him fixed they sat around and waited. "When the train drew up they left him, and he imme diately got hanself in a position where he could use the key a little. The boys who saw him say it was i a mystery how he ever did it. His legs were tied twice, and his arms were pinioned Dehind him, so that it was almost impossible to move even the finsers. The fact that I could not catch two consecutive letters until had heard the message ten or twelve times shows how faint the s'roke was. It was the queerest experience of my life." A third man said he had seen a good deal of service, on the borderland had had a good many adventures, only one oi wnicn ever impressea mm mucu. Down at Granada, on the Santa Fe road, when it was first opened, he had had a circus all one night with a party of rob bers. The country was . then a very dangerous one, and the management was in continual fear of desperadoes. I was ra tho office in the evening, he said, ''getting .... ready to ; close up when four or five hard men came m. They didn't say much at first, but seemed to be looking the ground over. We were always on the lookout for that kind of chaps, and as tho machine was ticking, I pretended that somebody was asking me a question. I laughed a lit tle, and, seizing the key, I broke m with 'Everybody Don't stop, the ex press at Granada to-night, whether signalled or not. Robbers here.' They eyed me sharply, but sa id nothing. The sounder kept up a merry click, and leaned back in the chair. They fooled around for half an hour,- and then one of them asked me what time the train was due. 'Eleven five,' I said. 'Well we want it one of them replied. told him that I would signal it. About 10:20 1 got out the red lantern and lighted it. Just as I got it fixed two of them Jlumped up with revolvers in their hands and said they would save me tho trorble. Whila ono of them covered rui with a pistol the others tied me flat on my back to . a settee.. couldn't more head or foot. After they got me there I began to think what sort of a scrape I had got myself in. The train would come presently,! and go fly ing by, and then those i cut throats would murder me just for the fun of it. I had thought the thing all over when I heard a sharp whistle and a roar. The men ran out to the. platform! with masks on andrevolfers in hand. )ne of them had the lantern, which he swung vigor ously. In going out on the platform they had Ief 6 the door open! o that I could see thisgs pretty well. I began to hope that tho train would jstop, for I knew it contained men enough to do up that crowd if not taken too much by surprise. The roar came nearer and nearer, until at last I knew by the sound that they were not going to stop. "With the whistle blowing at full blast and the dust flying in clouds; she swept by like a streak ; of lightning, it was all up with me, I. thought. . The robbers dropped the lantern and began to swear, Then I : could hea them talking, and v pretty soon I made up my mind that the train had stopped down the road a way, and that they were watch ing it. Before long ; they took fo their heels, mounted their n horses land were gone. When the train men came up to the depot, ail armed with Winchesters, I was the only occupant. They released me, and I told them what had happened. A couple of them staid there with, me, ana the tram went on. if an express ever came any nearer being robbed without going through the I mill than that one did, I'd like to knotf it." The last speaker was one who had no hair on his head, but who said in re sponse to an inquiry that no i sealping- knue had ver taken it off. "it was just scared off," he exclaimed, "down toward old Juiesburg. One day I was at my desk when the man up at Hooper's siding, ten or twelve miles away, tele graphed down that he was surrounded by redskins and that they wre whet ting their .tomahawks on the .wires, I thought it was a pretty good joke until he telegraphed that the station was in flames, and that a lot of Indians had set out for my place. Then I began to prick up my ears. There was hot many of us there just then, and we wbre in no condition to fight Indians anyway. We tnrew up breastworks ana got every body who had a gun, jar pis tol, a club, or a knife jto faU in. it was about sundown when we got all ready for them. While we were waiting nervously for the on- laught one of the citizens, a "saloon- eeper, came riding up in mad haste and shouted that there were ?ust .'mill ions of them coaling. 'You fellows are all as good as massacred now,! he said 'There's onlv iust one thinsr to do. and that is to telegraph up and down, the - at cy - me for lp. rut it strong, 1 now,' he said to me. 'Beg, implore, exhort them." Well, I could rattle a key pretty welt m those days, and 4 everlastingly beamed : for helr. I was i thorouzhlv scared,. an threw any whole soul into the work - After about ah hour of ag ony Cheyenne broke in with, i'Oh, turn vourself out. vou bie calf ! What's the matter with you?" This cooled me off a ittle, and I looked outside and saw the people going and coming as usual. They had put up a gorgeous joke on! me just because l was a teiegraphio tenderfoot. My hair fell out soon after that, and it has never grown since. A Fall-Grown man.' New York Sun.) Huxley gives the following table of what a full-grown man should weigh. and how this weight should be idivided: Weight, 154 pounds. Made tip thus: Muscles and their appurtonances, sixty eight pounds: skeleton, twenty-four pounds; skin, ten and one-half pounds; fat, twenty-eight pounds; brain, three pounds; thoracic viscera, three and one half pounds; abdominal viscera, eleven pounds: blood which would dram from body, seven pounds. Ihis man ought to consume per diem: Lean beefsteak, 0,000 crams: bread. 6,000 grains; milk, 7,000 grains; pota toes, 3,000 grains; butter, 600 grains, and water, 22,200 grains. His heart should beat seventyfive times a minute. and he should breathe fifteen times a minute. In-twenty-four hours he would vitiate 1,750 cubic feet of pure air to the extent of 1 per cent. A man, therefore. of the weight mentioned ought to have 800 cubic feet of well ventilated space. He would throw off by the skin eighteen ounces of water, 800 grains of soiia matter, ana 400 grams of carbonic acid every twenty-four hours, ( and his total loss during the twenty-four hours would be six pounds of water, and a little above two pounds of other matter, He Got Trough the Crowd. Foreign Letter. I A good story of the Viennese carni val is current in the Austrian capital. At a ball given by the Viennese Choral society, which is always sure to be so thronged that it is the work of hours to reach the entrance, a member of a well- known financial house hit on! an origi nal but successful mode o conveyance. He arranged with four bearers to carry him through the crowd on a hospital stretcher. Of course the crowd made way, and great was their astonishment when he threw ;, off the covering and jumped out alive and hearty. Steno-Telegraphy.' Chicago Tribune. Michela in Italy has constructed a ma chine by which signs corresponding to various i sounds can be telegraphed. Thus we have practically a telegraphic short-hand, to which the name "steno- telegraphy ' "is. given. Michela's ap paratus has now been in regular use for some period in telegraphing the debates of the Italian senate, ana it is claimed that by this method 10,000 words can be transmitted per hour. The Future of Diplomacy. - Chicago Herald. . Lord Dufferin is of the opinion that the diplomacy qf t he world .will soon be in the hands of the Americans. Nearly every member of the diplomatic corps that gets to Washington, he says, tries to bring home an American wife. The wives, in most cases, become erabassa dresscs. Result: No diplomatic secrets anv more, war and peace at the will of the wives, and all wives American. Hurrah for America! Evaporated peaches are said to be sup planting the canned fruit They .ire much cheaper. . ; THE DRESSINQ OF SHOPWlNDOW3 An Art Tl hteu Is KecognLzed by tit Iluslness Community. t Baltimore Sun. Anv one nassincr throuffh a nhonnin? quarter cannot help noticing the taste and profusion shown in the drcssinar of the shop-windows. - Colors and fab rics are grouped ko as to catch the eye and arrest the attention, and the work shows the hand of an artist. ' A reporter made some inquiries on the subject of the window dresser of ; one of our large retail stores. 1 cannot sav." he observed, "that I have any rules that I adhere to in dress ing the; store and windows. Of course, J take care to put such colors together as will harmonize well, but in doing so 1 rely on my taste, and combine such goods as I think look well without any rt of rules on the subject. Window dressing is : an. art I never ' was taught, but acquired from appreciation of color. and the incentive tha' rich stuffs by which I am constantly surrounded give me to, display them to the best advan tage. Tt is not my province here to dress windows, but 1 do it because there is no one else who can do it as well. Window-dressing is an art that cannot be taught. I have tried repeatedly to teach it, but have always failed. I have trained no less than a dozen young men to this work, so as to relieve me of it, but not one of them ever rose above an assistant. If I leave them to them selves and tell them to dress the windows, they make a botch of it If I dress a window, say with lace certains, and my assistant sees me do it, he can do it the same way afterward, but if given a promiscuous lot of stuffs and told to arrange them in the windows, he would be completely at sea." Are there not professional wmdow- dressers?" was asked. ' Yes, there are lots of them in New York and in some of our large western cities, but I do not know of any in Bal timore, i : These professional - window dressers make a eood living at it. Some pf them have a list of stores that they dress two or three times a week, and re ceive a regurar salary Ifrom each. Others are engaged by one only, and are kept simply for this ! purpose. A clerk that can do this will be paid extra. It is strange how few have taste in this way. Out of 1,000 salesmen, perhaps only one will display an aptitude for this work. It is iust like dress drapery. Out of 100 dressmakers . who can sew neatly, and even trim well, very few can drape artistically. Of course, to make a handsome win dow display, you must have the goods to do it with. Kich goods and such as are showy ; and attract attention are best. For rich, brocades, evening silks, etc.. some rich ground must bo chosen that will throw them out welL It js a habit of mine to show goois as I want to sell them thus, if there is a plain and plaid or embroidated goods that go together to make upa costume I will show them that wav in the window. An abomina ble habit with some window dressers is to put stiff paper insido the folds of silks, satins, etc., and set them up in rows in the window, than which nothing can be more ng'.y. The idea with me is to make them look graceful. The way good-i fall is the best - 2o pm3 should be used. It spoils the goo3s and makes the effect stiff. In all my experience of window dressing I never spoiled but one piece of goods, and that was a piece of pmk satin brocade which faded from being placed too close to the g'ass. Delicate tints. such as pink and lavender, will fade from the reflected; light, even when there is no sun directly upon the glass. No goods should ever really touch the glass. In summer the heat and in winter the dampness will affect it. Windows are rarely dressed with dressgoods during hot weather, table linens , and napkins, hosiery and lace curtains, taking their place, Excepting during the dull season, windows are dressed every other day. In Europe they are changed every day. "Much of the effect depends upon the Window and light. Windows cannot be dressed flat, but ' to look well must be higher at the back than in front. Frames or stools are the foundations on which the display is made, f Sometimes after a window is dressed it looks dull and heavy from the street. Then a few laces, handkerchiefs, fan3 and glove3 lighten it up wonderfully, iheres a good deal of Satisfaction in arriving at a beautiful and harmonious result and one's success in this varies, just as I suppose it is with any work that may be called artistic. I think window-dn ssin? is artistic work. It might bo classea under the aal of art decoration." Japan's Professional Siory-Teller. Cor. San Francisro Chronicle. 1 have seen m Japan, on many a warm summer evening, under a tree by the roadside, a group of half -clad cool ies and even better class people in a cir cle round a man in the middle who was relating the old legends of the race in a homely, graphic, interesting style. He had the "gift of the gab werry gallopm' " always, this romancer.". He bad a good voice and a great deal of expression He brought in little bits of joke.3 and light touches of frivolity to lighten the serious interest of his tale. He grew animated, he gesticulated, he acted scenes so vividly that his auditors would unconsciously rise and want to take part, lie interjected every now and again a bit of song, and when he had wound his hearersup to a point he would onw. I a J i VtavrA A . mn. ' deliberately take his smoke and then proceed. .'Vv'vM ;;: .;;:-v::" " mm'- 1 - v nen it was an over tne crowd wonia rain tempos and even bigger coins on to i his little mat and go home' delighted. There was always to me a strange charm in the iuan, and l have often thought that he was a more influential individual and led a happier life than the Daimois or the Samoural. What a fascinating existence, wandering through the loveli est country under the sun, among the most simple, kindly people, spending one s evenings telling stones to grateful audiences. '. t-honld Take the Chances. Detroit Free Frees. w hen Darwin was asked if it were not a more plausible theory to affirm that apes were descended from man he was silent. Great men should seldom ftand in the center of the board to teeter, but take one end and run the chance. . The Hope Dancer's Strange Custom. San Francisco Chronicle. A strange custom prevails in the Him alayan districts. It is a ceremony per formed by the Badia, or rope dancers, to bring prosperity to the villages to which they belong! A rope is stretched from tho summit of a cliff to the valley be neath, the ends . being made fast to stakes driven ;-into . the ground. The Badi, seated astride on a wooden saddle, well greased to make it run freely, rides from the top to the bottom of the rope. The pace, of course, varies according to the degree of inclination given to the rope, but as may be imagined, it is always Very rapid and sometimes terrific. - rrecantiona are taken to prevent acci-. dents. The saddle is fastened, for in stance, so that it cannot slip round the rope (as saddles on norses have some times been known to do, to the, discom fort of their riders), and the Badra feet are ballasted by eand-bags' to Tnaintain his perpendicular, and the only danger is from a possible breaking of the rope. This is usually made of ; bhabar grass, and naturally the Badi takes great care to see that it is equal to the strain it has to bear. The remuneration paid to the Badi for this novel form of Blondinism is 1 rupee (50 cents) for every cubits of rope traversed, and the longest jour ney of the kmd on record is one for which 21 rupees were paid, and which accordingly measured 2,100 cubitsabout 8,675 feet ; The practice is not so dangerous now-a-days as it was in the 4 'good old times" of native rule,' when to the risk of a fall was added the certainly that Buch a mishap would entail death. because it was the custom, whenever a Badi fell, 'for the surrounding spectators to promptly dispatch him wih swords. Ihe rope or bast used for the ceremony is supposed to be endowed with remark-: able properties by the successful ac complishment of the feat, and it is out up and distributed among the people of the village, who hang the pieces to the eaves of their houses to serve as charms. The Badi's hair is believed to have similar properties, and is out off and" preservec, and he himself is supported by contributions of grain from the vil lagers, in addition to the monetary re ward for his feat, the theory being that his share in propitiating the gods to se cure fertility - to the land of others makes his own land unlucky and any 6oed he might sow would be certain not to germinate. A Departed Industry. - Baltimore News.) Two old sea captains were standing on the wharf when a reporter came up. One of them remarked: "J miss some familiar facesthat I used to see on this wharf," and turning to the clerk in charge, he inquired: "Where are the old Dutch women who used to pick up coffee grains h re?" . - The otaer captain echoed the inquiry. saving that he had always seen them as thick as bees when he arrived in port with a c go of coffee, : sugar or mo lasses.", ; :;.;'"::' :s ij''- : "'.- "Gentlemen," replied the clerk, with a serio-comic countenance, that is one of the departed industries of Baltimore. It went with our sugar refineries, great cooper shops and other things connected with our lost foreign trade. Ten or fifteen years ago, these coffee pickers plied their trade regularly. They started out in the morning and made a round of the wharves. The coffee imported by the merchants was then taken -to private warehouses and on its arrival, it was sampled by running a 'tryer into a bag as you see that clerk over there doing. As a matter of. eourae, some of the grains fell to the ground. The stevedores also dropped some grains "in handling and sometimes a bag was torn and more grains would fall out Again, when the bags were thrown cnthe drays more grains would be spilled and these women, Ruth like, would glean after the laborers. ; When the drays reached the merchant's store, the women would be on hand and gather what grains would fall. Often a clerk would sample the sacks to see that the coffee graded all right. This gave them an other chance. So you see they f ollowe d me coaee irom 1110 snip s siue 10 me merchant's store. "Now -you can well imagine that one industrious and lively woman could gather from five to ten pounds a day. They had no expense; they brought their meals with them, and ate when the men stopped work for dinner. Some of them got on the right side f of custom-house men, who, as there was a duty on coffee then, had to be around, and they often got a good gleaning from an extra large rip in a bag. Now, ten pounds of coffee was worth at least $2 then, and, by count- .... j. . . - t ing mat up m a year, you wui see tnat I was not wrong in the statement that the business was a good one. .Besides, coffee was not their only commodity. rhey did very well in sugar, too, ' American Edelweiss. Chicago Tribune. -Tnvers of the edelweiss, who Viav in late years have noticed that it is no longer so common as it was among the mountains of Switezrland, will be glad to hear that specimens of it have re cently bee a met with on Mount Tacoma or, : as it is otherwise called Mount Kanier in Wash ington territory, at a height of 6,000 feet above the level of the sea; ! and. near . at hand, flourishes another Alpine fa von e, the vanilla-scenteq man nertreu. A quarter of a century ago edelweiss grew plentifully but a few hundred, feet above Zermatt; now owing to the thoughtless greed of the Swiss peasantry, and the rapacity of cockney tourists, it is omy to De , seen I upon the higher and more inaccessible summits of the Alps. Want to Find Out. Fan Francisco Chronicle. Ready-made doors and window-frames from Sweden and Norway can be de livered and sold cheaper in Franco f haik the raw material in that country, and the Paris municipal council has voted $800 to enable a delegation of Paris car penters to go to Norway and Sweden to ascertain now these northern people manage the tiling. Loudon's Sunny Days, The sun shone only 074 hours out of a possible 4,456 hours in London during 1883, which was an average of only two Lours and forty minutes per day. Lon don smoke is charged with the loss of tunshma. ' JJany Strange Things 1'onnd on llie Bottom of New T rk Kay, ' New York Times. Eometimes it is a different thing from mud that the . dredge : brings up from the bottom of the bay. Usually it is mud, however mud and gravel, bits of rock, and long strings of slime. It is clean mud, however, and the dredger thinks nothing of pi un gi ag feet fore most into it in search of anything bright that glitters . for a moment in the sun : as the jaws of the scoop are jerked open above the scow. Closo to the dock3 the mud is not so clean, but the , chances of finding something valuable are so much greater that the difference is not taken into practical consideration. Sometimes it is a silver dollar that gutters m . the sun and finds a resting place in the scow; once in a rare while a- watch, made uso leSs by long contact witH salt water, . come tafexdte .in the dredger the blis tering regret that it cannot be told or pawned ? and quite frequently knives of strange shape and rusted out of all sera- , blance to edged steel join forces Mith bits of broken glass, to cut the feet of the dredger who treads unwarily along the bottom of the scow. Twi oe the harbor dredges have brought up, within the past year, a bright-bladed knife, show ing along its point and edge a corroded .. stain, as though blood had stuck there. : Once the sharp jaws of the scooj cut oil both feet of a drowned man, and the tide carried tho body beyond the reach of grappling hooks. A human hand, with ene of the fingers bru ed a3 though a ring had been torn from it by great force, fell out of v the scoop several months, ago. The dredgers thought that the man from whoso arm the hand had been torn had been ied down to a dock while intoxicated, and robbed and thrown overboard by the members of a "gang." It is a common practice, but the dredge rarely disturbs the body. An immense drag-net stret hed 'across the Narrows would catch a multitude of strange and mysterious things. It would be a storehouse ten time3 mora ghasth' than a morgue. There is a tra-, dition that years ago a murderer was convicted by a - blood-fctained. knife brought up in a dredge. The names and dates are lacking. Another tradi- tion says that a dredger once brought up his own runaway daughter from the bottom of the river. A ghastly bruise on her temple told the story of ler death. The dredger beat his brains out against the barred door of an insane asylum two years later. He had lived sane long enough to murder the man that ran off with his daughter, and a merciful court sent him to an asylum for the insane. A third blood-curdling tradition is to the effect that a dredger nursed a grudge against another dredger for many years, hoping for ven geance, At length when the enemy got between the jaws of the scoop to fasten a loose rivet, the -jaws closed on him, and he was swung out -over the water. . Then the dredge went out slowly, and" the last thing that the dredger saw of earth was the face of his murderer grinning, triumphantly over the edge of the scow;- ' These traditions have no facts to make them real, but the dredg ers believe in them. "An old Spanish proverb says: "For the character of the people look in the bottom of the canal." New York would not find much of a character , in the bed of the East river, or in the slip adjoining the mouth of the .sewers. When the water closes over the unlawful deeds done in the darkness or , the night, onlv the dredge can bring it back to life. How many bodies weighted with lead lie in the mud beneath six fathoms of water, how many bodies float out to sea, no man can know. How greatly the number of discovered dead exceeds the number of unknown dead reported by the police can never be estimated. , Other than ghastly things, however, come up itfthe dredge. Down the bay, a few days ago, a big crab was found in a copper kettle, and an eel was found confined in a long-necked bottle, much too small for him. Whilo still young he had made the bottle his home, and had grown so rapidly that he could not get out A lizard crawled out of a rusted musket last snmror-inBurling-slip, and a big "bullhead" was found in a rat trap. A three-foot shark came up .on. the end of a fishing line, and two sting rays were found dead in a crabber's dip net Hammers, hatchets, saws, adzes, pieces of ship s stoves, pots, kettles, ta ble dishes, and various articles of ship's outfitting seem to strew the bottom of the rive?. Few of them are of uso. Only the new ones pay the dredger for his trouble for fishing them out of the , mud in the cow. Those that are of no value help fill up the channel again when the scow is dumping. .: Some time in the future they will be dredged up again, in order that the channel may be kept clear. - Emperor and Worklngman. " Chicago Herald. , A favorite amusement of Dom Pedro II, of Brazil, is to leave his gorgeous turnout in a side -street, and, accom panied by a gray-haired chamberlain and a stalwart lifeguardsman, wall tha distance of a square or more to a irtanu-. factory or other establishment and sur prise the proprietor and employes by hi3 sudden : and unannounced app arance -among them. Of course ho is given the liberty of the establishm sht, and be takes his time in examining the ma chinery and modus operandi. With a kind word of encouragement and com mendation, he goes away, perhaps to pay a similar visit to anotter establish ment These visits he makes impartially to the mechanical and mercantile estab lishments, controlled by foreigners t well as natives. To Prevent Pctrolenri Pir?. Scientific Excban?.! . As a preventive of pctrckura credit s now pronos rd to place a bottle of imaionia in each barrel 0.' the. oii. Ou gn'.iion, by accident or ciher.i-iso, tha .tle would breal:, rnd tne elect of tho unmoniacal vaAor.i wo:,ld be t; ex innish the flames K.eeuness. - A. MV, Araauld, -Keenness in a man i3 not always to be taken as a sign of capaiity, for it is generally observed most in those who are Belash and over-reaching; and his keenness generally encb in that kind ,f penetration into other people's interest which will tsnd to bsnt i ij own.