One Tear Six Months -Three Months $3 50 1 60 1 00 And other Printing, including Large sua Em pesters ana Slioiy Haul-Bills, ' Neatly and expeditious'; executed AT PORTLAND PRICES. TheM are the terms of those paying In adrance The Bktibw often fine inducements to adTertiaera. Terms reasonable. VOL. IX. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1885. NO. 43. J. JASKULEK, PRACTICAL Watclimaker, ' Jeweler ani Optician, ALL WORK WARRANTED. Oealer la Watches, Cloeka, Jewelry, Mpeetacle and Eyeglae. AND A TVhh LIKI OF v Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods. Tht only reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust ment of Spectacles ; always ou hand. Depot f tli Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. Office First Door South, of PostofSce, LANGENBERG'S Boot and Shoe Store 9a Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office, Keeps on hand the largest aud best assortment of Eastern and Han Francisco Boots and . Mhoes, i alters, Slippers, And everything In tho Boot and Shoe line, and SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. Boots and Shoes Blade 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 LAXGEarUEJlU. GREEK MILLS CLARK & BAKER, Props. Having: purchased the above named mills of K.Stephens & Co., we are now prepared to fur nish any amount ot the best quality of HsLJMIiEIi ever offered to the Trablic in Doucla3 county. We will furnish at the mrll-at the following prices: - No. 1 rough lumber. ...... .$12 f M No. 1 flooring. 8 inch.. $24 $ M No. 1 flooring, 4 Inch. 26 M No. 1 flnsihinf? lumber. : 820 $ M No. 1 finishing lumber dressed on 2 sides $21 f M No. 1 finishing lumber dressed on 4 sides $26 M CLARK & BAKER. L. F. LAN II. JOHN LANE. LANE Sl LANE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Ofntfe on Main street, opposite Cosmopolitan lotei - ,s . .CHARLEY HADLEY'S Next Door Live Oak Saloon. Shaving and Hair Cutting in a Workmanlike Manner. ROSEBURG, OREGON. JOHN TEASER, Home Made Furniture, WILBUR, OUEGOX. UPHOLSTERY," SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC, Constantly on hand. FURNITURE. " have the Iteat STOCK OF FURNITURE South ef Portland. And all of my own manufacture. X Th'o ITices to Customers. Reiitdecta of Douglas County are requested to give inc a call belore imrcnatsiug euewiiere. 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. F1R3T-CLA83 BLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS AND THE Table supplied with tue Best the Market affords Hotel at tho Depot of the Railroad. H. C. STAfJTOW, DKALER LN Staple Bry Goods, Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of Extra Fine Groceries, WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE, ALSO CROCKERY AND CORDAGE A full stock of SCHOOL DOOKS, Such as required by the Public County Schools. All kinds of Stationery, Toys aud Fancy Articles, , . . .. . 10 SUIT BOTH YOl'KO AND OLD. Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes (JheoKs on Portland, and procures Drafts on San Francisco. SEEDS! SEEDS SHEDS! ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY ALL OItiER Promptly attended to and goods ahippe with care. Address, HAC1IEX Y A BEXO, Portland, Oregon. A LONG, LONG JOURNEY. Ppthetlc Story of a Scene Wh'ch, Sooner or Later, Occurs In Every Household. When the doctor came down-stairs from the sick-room of Mrs. Marshall the whole family seemed to have arranged themselves in the hall to waylay him. "How soon will mamma dit well?" asked little Clyde, the baby. Can mamma come down-stairs next week?" asked Katy, the eldest daugh ter and the little housekeeper. 'Do you find my wife much better?" asked Mr. Marshal, eagerly, pale with anxiety and nights of watching. v The doctor did not smile; he did not even stop to answer their questions. "I am in a great hurry,' he said, as he took his hat; . "I must go to a patient who is dangerously ill. This evening I will call again. I have left instructions with the nurse." . - But the nurse's instructions were all concerning the comfort of the patient; she was professionally " discreet and silent The children playing on the stairs were told to make no noise. The loomy day wore on and the pa tient slept and was not disturbed. But that night before they went to bed, they were allowed to go in and kiss their - mother good-night This priv ilege had been denied - thera lately, and their little hearts responded with joy to the invitation. Mamma was better or she could not see them.- The doctor had cured her. ".'.They would love him for it all their lives! 'She was very pale but smiling, and her first words to them were: "I am going ou a journey!" "A journey," cried the children. Will you take us with you?" "No; it is a long, long journey." "Mamma is going to the South," said Katy. "The doctor has ordered her to. She will get well in the orange groves "I am going to a far distant country. more beautiful than even the lovelv South," said the mother, "and I will not come back." , "You are going alone, mamma?" asked Katy. No, said the mother, m a low sweet voice. "I am not going alone. My Physician goes with me. Kiss me good-bye, my ear ones, for in the morning before you are awake 1 snail be gone. . rou will all come to me when you arc made ready, but each must make the journey alone." In the morning she wa3 gone. When the children awoke their father told them of the beautiful country at which she had safely arrived while they slept. "How did she go! V ho came for her?" thev asked, amid their tears. ."The chariot of Israel and the horse man thereof! their father told them solemnly. -',' - People wonder at the peace and hap piness expressed in the faces of these motherless children; when asked about their mother they say; "She has gone on a journey," and every night and morning they read in her guide-book of that land where she now lives: whose inhabitants shall no more say. I -am sick, and where God Himself shall wipe ail tears from their eyes. Detroit Free Press. COLORED GLASS. The Combination of Agents by Which Many Shades of Glass Are Made. With" people who are not acquainted with the facts, it is a matter frequently of great curiosity how glass is colored. The principal factor in the coloring of glass is the oxide of different metals. Finest red and very deep pink are col ored only bv per chloride of cold; blue by oxide of cobalt, deutoxide of copper, per chloride ot gold; yellow by oxide of silver, oxide of antimony, protoxide of iron, ferrus oxide of manganese, carbon, protoxide of copper; green, deutoxide of copper, deutoxide of iron, oxide of uranium, and by a mixture of the niat ter.used in tho coloring of yellow and blue; violet, manganese, oxide of gold and by mixing red and blue coloring; red, oxide of gold, manganese, oxide of silver, protoxide of copper, peroxide of iron mixture; opal (white), deutoxide of tin. phosphate of lime from mutton bones and arsenic; black, gxide of irid ium, manganese in excess and the ox ides of cobalt, copper and iron in ex cess. ;: , "--' By the combination of these agents a great many shades of glass are made, which ! are neither one or " the other color, but shades for fancy work or for coloring wherever particular results are desired for special purposes. The process is entirely too long for ns to de scribe,; but it is a very interesting one, more especially if you have ever seen the fine colored glasses made by the French and German workmen, or more particularly the Bohemian glass-blowers in J Austria. A great deal of skill is required, and only the most ex perienced workmen are emploed in the finer glasses, for the materials are verv expensive and the loss would be verv great if the result was not satis factory, especially as compared with the common colored glass even of tho best quality., Boston Budget. . i -'A Conscientious Juror. Several years ago the Evening Bui Win was sued for libel for its discussion of the marble work in the public build ings. It proved every point that it had made, and the jury evinced its belief of the fact by finding for tho plaintiffs with "one cent" damages. I he jury had a tough " time of it, however, with the proverbial "twelfth man." He was a colored gentleman, and he obstinately held out for a lone: time asrainst the ver dict, and his stubborn argument was: "Ef you's gw'mo to gib the plaintiffs anvvlr.ng, gib um sumhn...what s wur suinlin. , 1 be eleven arjrued the case with him for an hour or so vnthout get ting any other respouse from him, un til at last it occurred to one of the jury men to ask him what he would consid er as "wurf sumfin" in the way of dam ares. . 'tWell," said the inteliisrent col ored jrenlleman, "gib um sumlin wurl sumfin. Gib um a dollah, enny how!" He was finallypersuadedthat acent was the regular form for such a verdict, but he probably still hold3 to the conviction that the 'damajres ought to have been wurf sumfin.1 Philadelphia Bulletin. SILOS. The Secret of Saccess ic. Preserving: tb Contents of a Silo. The silo is a device intended to ex clude the air from green food fit for the consumption of cattle as corn-stalks, clover, rye or other forage crops. It is a scientific advance upon- the ancient method of preserving green food by cov ering it with earth. The silo is a pit usu ally constructed of masonry, the sides and bottom of which must be water proof, into which green fodder is packed and pressed down with such necessary covering and weights as to exclude the air and thus prevent fermentation. The pits are usually twenty feet in depth, and v are most cheaply, constructed if nearly square in form and so divided bito compartments as to be readily cov ered with grooved planking noon which the superincumbent weight is placed. This form of division is advantageous in" allowing the use of desirable portions of the ensSage without removing the pres sure from the remainder. The pits should be near the barns or sheds where cattle are kept. If they can be located against the slope of a hill it affords 61k viou3 advantages in filling and after wards weighting down the mess with stones or some other form of pressure. The whole secret of success in preserv ing the contents of a silo is the thor- rvncrri AvolnsirtTi tit t.h nir Thft f.rm- stalk or other fodder is more readily compressed if it is cut into short lengths ready for feeding before it is put into the silo, and the work of filling should be as rapidly done as possible to prevent the commencement of the heating or fer menting process before the silo is filled. The fodder from a properly con structed silo is better for cattle when taken out than when put in and more readily digested. Another prime ad vantage is in compact storage. In a silo with an inside measurement of 40x16 feet and a depth of twenty feet, 250 tons of fodder may he stored and kept in good condition indefinitely. Mr. VV llliam M. Kingerly, who has ex perimented for the last four years on his farms at Gwynedd, Pa,, in preserving green fodder in silos, has a silo capacity of 1,200 tons. He says that by the oper ation of this method he is enabled to easily keep one cow on the produce of. one acre of ground. He fills his silos mainly with cornstalks cut in three-quarter-inch lengths. Aten-hOrse power engine will cut 109 tons in a day. The introduction of the silos is likely to make a considerable change in agri cultural methods. In England, where owing to wet weather andT late frosts, corn can not be brought to maturity, corn is now sown for fodder and cut when the plant is in tassel, yielding thirty tons to the acre. The fodder is preserved in silos, and the corn is out of the way in time for a late crop of turnips. The English farmers find corn the best crop they can raise for fodder. "V"-' " " ' - - The use of ensilage has been . delayed in this country by imperfect methods of building the silos and by inattention to the single requisite to success storage of . the fodder in good condition and thorough exclusion of the air. There is no doubt that in those parts of the country where cattle are raised and kept over the winter silos must come! into general use as a matter of farm economy. BradstreeV s. - A NARROW ESCAPE. . The Struggle Between a Man and a Fero cious Panther. A Bombay shikaree narrates how he once actually fell into the claws of panther, and lived to tell the tale. After describing the incidents of the hunt up to the time when the beast broke cover, he says: . ' . "I had to wait until the panther was within a few feet of me, and I then put my rifle down to his head, expecting to roll him over like a rabbit (as I had suc ceeded in doing on other occasions), and then place my second bullet pretty much where I pleased. To my horror, there was no report when the hammer fell. The next moment the panther, with an angry roar, sprang upon me Hanging on with the claws of one fore paw driven into my right shoulder and the other round me, he tried to eet at my head and neck, but I fortunately pre vented this by raising my left arm, which he instantly seized in his hu mouth. I shall never forget his sharp, angry roar, the wicked look of his green ish yellow eyes within six inches of mine, the turned-back ears, his fetid breath upon my cheek, and the feeling of his hure faners closing to the bone through my arm above the elbow. "I endeavored, by giving him my knee in the stomach, to make bun let pro. Those who have ever kicked a cat can imagine what little effect this had, It was more like using one's knee to t football than -anything else. The pan ther, with a roar, gave a tremendous wrench to my arm, hurled me some five paces down the side of the hill prone on my face, bringing mv head in contact with a tree. Stunned and insensible, lay some seconds on - the ground, and the brute, thinking me dead, fortunate- ly aid not worry me, out, passing over me, went for the retreating police con stable who had brought me into the dif ficulty. I remember, when I came to, raising my head from the ground, lean mg my head against the tree, and smiling with a certain feeling of grim satisfaction, when my eye caught the retreating form of the constable and the pursuing panther down the hill, and thought the policeman's turn had come. "Ihe civil surgeon of the station probed the teeth-wounds in the arm, and found that the one at the back of the arm ran right to the bone " and was an inch and a half deep. The two wounds on the inner side, in or close to the bi ceps, were one an inch and, a quarter, and the other an inch deep, f The claw wounds on the right shoulder were not serious, and had fortunately just missed the large artery near the collar-bone, injury to which would have resulted in my bleeding to death in a very few min utes. Times of India. For the first feeling of soreness in the throat there is no better remedy or safer gargle than a mouthful of strong salt and water, repeated several tunes. Vlucago Tribune. CRACKERS FOR THE WORLD. American Manufacturer Far Ahead of Their Rivals in Any Land. 'Few people," said, a large cracker andrbiscuit manufacturer "know how the various kinds of biscuits they so often eat are manufactured, or the vast amount of business that is done in this line.' "Has the business growi. lately ?' "It has assumed during the past few years immense proportions, and now we are " able to compete with any country in the world in this line." "To what do you attribute this great success?" "Principally to machinery and the care we have taken to place before the market good and pure articles. -"A. few years ago we used to' .import in large quantities sweet biseuits from England, they on that side being f in advance of us ini their manufacture, but to-day we export to .London, and, m fact, to all parts of the world. The last biscuit that, fnr ft. Inn rr rim w wS&ro vmoKlo tn produce was the sugar wafer. We have recently placed this article in the mar ket, and a superior one to that produced in the old country. Then, through our machines, we are able to sell biscuits that twelve years ago sold at twenty- nve cents a pound for nfteen cents. The reporter and manufacturer ascended the stairs leading to the top of the factory. The latter stated that in this factory not any of the material was touched by hand until the biscuit was baked and readv for packing; that six hundred barrels of flour alone were used, and large quantities of such materials as ginger, lard, sugar, cur rants, etc. "This," said the merchant,-on reach ing the top floor, "is where we begin operations, and from here until the bis cuit is baked is one continual process. With these machines we grind the vari ous ingredients we use. This (pointing to a large sieve) is for sifting the Hour, and after that operation it is placed in this shaft and shot down to the next floor, where we will follow it. This shaft was made simply of canvas, and on the same principle as the shaft in the grain elevators. The end of the shaft came into a trough about fifteen feet long, three wide and three deep. Here the various ingredients used m the man ufacture were mixed together, but.only lightly, as it is placed in another trough ofa similar size through which a large piece of twisted steel is turned; this is a mixer. After it is well mixed it is turned into another shaft and lowered to the next floor. " Here the first operation is to press the dough under verv heaw rollers, answering the same purpose as the cook's rolling-pin. This is done a great number of times until it is rolled to about half an inch In thickness, when it is passed into the last machine before the oven." "How fast does the stamping machine workf ' . V: "Une hundred and hv stamps a minute, and we have a stamp that will cut sixty-eight biscuits each stamp; that makes 7,140 biscuits in one minute. "How 'long are the biscuits in bak ing?":-:.''.. "Stay, a moment. First look at the ovens. We have done away with the old-fashioned tiled ovens. These are four-story high with walls three feet thick. They took as much brick to build as would build a large tenement house. At each floor is a large wheel just like a paddle-wheel, only the pad dles are swung on swivels, and remain in the same position all the time. One shelf is filled with biscuits to bake and then lotvered and the next one filled, and so! we go on until the first one comes round cooked. Then they are pulled off into this chute and placed in baskets. ' "What is the heat of the oven?" "it vanes from four hundred to six hundred degrees. The men are so well informed that .they know if it is the right hsat directly thev place their hands in it. The biscuits take two min utes and a half to bake. 1 he lires are never put out." "What is the next process?" "The biscuits are sent up to the pack ing-room, where they are placed in tin boxes, sealed up, labeled, and ready for export" "How many different kinds do you make?" "Over three hundred, both sweet and dry, from the navy bread to the sugar wafers, a. Y. Mail and Express. A GOOD COMPLEXION. Some of the Things Essential To Produce This Desirable Result. N. W. asks for a recipe for a blood purifier, and how to get rid of "black heads" in the skin, also blotches, red spots and yellow spots on the face. The first thing to do to purify the blood is not to put anything into the mouth that will make the blood impure, such as fried meats, rich gravies, pastries, puddings and cake, but to eat only plain, clean, nutritious, well-cooked food at regular meals, and never be tween meals, and not too much at any time. Abundance of fruit in the diet is essential to a clear complexion. There should be plenty of exercise in the open air. and plenty of pure air admitted to the living room3 and especially to the sleeping rooms.; ea ana couee wu make some complexions dark and opaque, or pallid and sallow. Hot wa ter and milk never produce this effect. Perfect cleanliness is essential to s brilliant complexion. The skin must be washed in cold S or warm water fre quently and change of garments morn ing and night rigidly made. A he clothes worn during the day should be aired at night, and those worn at night aired during the day. In new milk,, in one hundred drops three drops are cream, Let this proportion of fat m the food be ooservea, and eruptions oi me skiu win be very slight, unless there is inherited humor of some sort. As very rich food will injure the complexion, so also wu very poor food. When the blood be comes impoverished for want of the ele ments of nutrition in the food, the com plexion will be bad, as one can easily see in those who do not have enough to eat. Late hours are bad for the cem- )lexion. Plants grown in a cellar are Reached, and people who turn night into day are pallid and nerveless. Early and full sleep is necessary to vigorous health and its appearance m the face. Ar. r. Tribune. GLACIERS. rhey Wax and Wane, in m Mysteriona Manner, Independent of the Seasons. ' We once heard a Zermatt bride ex press the opinion that glaciers have a bedeutende Natur of their own; that they wax and wane in some mysterious manner, independent of the seasons, and past finding out M. J, Nenetzy an en gineer of Canton Vaud, was the first to point out, in a work published in Zurich in 1833, that glaciers are always either waxing or waning; and his conclusions have been confirmed by several subse quent observers, notably by Prof. Forel, of Merges, whose investigations extend over a considerable period. ; The exact observation of glacial phenomena, like icience itself, Is quite modern; but we have abundant evidence that for ages past glaciers have s increased and diminished with periodic regularity. It is on record that toward the end of the seventeenth century the Ipwer Grindel- waid glacier invaded pastures and swept away trees in the beautiful valley be tween the Jungfrau and the Faulhorn. Ihe glaciers of Mount Blanc and Monte Rosa were also, during the same period, pushing forward; for several peaks easily crossed in the fifteenth century had become impracticable in the eight eenth. There exists, moreover, a map of the neighborhood of the Grimsel, drawn in 1740 by a doctor of Lucerne, and when Agassiz, m 1845, compared this map with "the glaciers of the Aar, he found that they had ad vanced a-full kilometer that is to say, their lower extremities were that much farther down the valley. Less than iorty years ago the great Aletsch glacier, which of late has so wofully waned, was waxing in portentous fashion. It uprooted trees and threw down houses which had stood for generations. The times when glaciers gain ground live , r . 1 ... . long m ine memories oi tne mountain eers of the Alps; for tradition and history tell of waxing glaciers which push before them masses of snow so vast as to overwhelm villages, destroy human lives, and sweep away flocks and herds. People are still living in Swit eerland who retain a vivid recollection of the terrible time, some sixty-five years ago, when the swelling glaciers thrust before them 6uch heaps of snow and rubbish that meadows were devastated, woods cut down, dwellings buried, and their inmates smothered, and goat herds starved to death in their huts. Another like period was that between lbOo and loll. In Canton Grams alone hundreds of acres of forest and meadow land were wasted by glaciers and ava lanche. In August, 1585, the sudden forward movement of a glacier de stroyed a herd of cattle in the Vardi Tuorz (Graubunden) , burying them so deeply that their bodies were never seen again. Un December 27, 1819, the vil lage of Randa, in the Valais, was de stroyed by a Gletcher-lawme (glacier avalanche. Almost every building the village contained was either over whelmed and crushed or lifted bodilv upward and thrown on one side. Mill stones went spinning through the air like cannon balls; balks of timber were shot into a wood a mile above the village; the dead bodies of nine were found hun dreds of yards from their pastures; and the church spire was sent flying into distant meadow, like an arrow from bow. In 1855 began that long retro grade movement which seems only now to be approaching its term. Twenty- five years ago the two great Chamounix glaciers appeared to be in a fair way for reaching the chalets that stand near the terminal' moraine; and then they stopped and have gone back ever since, The shrinkage, though neither simul taneous nor equal, has been general and remarkable, and produces a decided and not altogether desirable change to the aspect of many Alpine valleys. The beautiful little Kosenlaue glacier, which twenty years ago gleamed among the dark pine woods and green pastures of the Reichenbach valley, has utterly dis- J 1 ! 1- Vl J ' 1 appeareu, leaving uemnu. it an unsignc ly moraine of rocky fragments. In 1857 the Rhone glacier peached as far as the bridge near the Gletch Hotel; now it is close unon a mile awav. and wanes vear by year. The Swiss Alpine Club, among its other good works, causes to be built every summer in front of the glacier little mound of stones painted black. These mark the glacier's backward progress, and show that from 1834 to 1883 it shrank at- the rate of from twenty to seventy meters a year. But a retrograde movement of the previous tenv-ears was mucn greater, and we may even now be on the eve of a move ment in advance. Venetz attributed the alterations which he was the first to make known, if not to discover, to va riations in temperature; and albeit the climate of Jburope has not changed m historic times, and the world's rainfall is always the same, here are dry years and wet years, and it was thought that after a rainy winter glaciers waved, and that after a droughty one they waned. But, as Prof. Forel has lately shown, this theory does not accord with facts. Ihe Gnndelwald rjarrbuch contains record of the movements of the glacier ior . tuxeo centuries, anu uus recora clearly proves that glaciers advance and retreat over periods which are measured by decades. A glacier wanes or waxes continuously for ten, fifteen or often forty years; for equally long periods it may remain stationary, but it never goes forward one year and back the next, lhus between 1540 and 157o the Grindelwald glacier receded; from 1575 to 1602 it" advanced; from 1602 to 1620 it remained stationary; 1703 marked maximum of advance, 1720 a maximum of retreat; the next twenty-three years was a period of growth the following forty years of retrogression, irom 177b to 1788 the movement was reversed. In 1819 another period of progression set in, the same in 1840, and the present evcloof waning began in 1855. London Spectator. Even Boston children are compelled to endure the criticism handed down from their ancestors of the first and sec ond generations. ; " Boston children seem cold and unnatural,", says Mrs. lorn J numb; "in .New xork they are only clever, bat in quiet Philadelphia they are just what they should be.;' Ohio has more colleges than any other State in the Union. Cleveland Leader. . r A STUDY OF DUDES. One of the Few Happy Mortals Who Is Al ways Well Satisfied with Himself. What is a real dude? Dude is a very much abused word. It s a word that has a real meaning and stands for a real thing. But nine-tenths of the time it fa applied, it is not used correctly. Some seem to have an idea that most any one may be a dude if he tries, but this is not the case. There is a great deal more in a dude than clothes The real dude is something natural. He is a sort of a freak of nature. The way he dresses is only one of lus peculiari ties. Those who are most often called dudes onlv dress like dudes. The real Irve dude is not near so plenty as might be imagined A good sized town gen erally has no more than three or four of these curiosities, it is only now and then that you see a real dude while walking along the crowded streets? of a city, but when you do : see one, you know he is one at a glance, , if you know what a dude is or have ever seen one before. There is something about him that can't be mistaken." He has the form and bodily appearance of a man, and though his clothes may be a little noticeable as being in the extreme of style, it is hi3 face that gives him away more than anything else. There is something about it so remarkably va cant and expressionless. Something almost child-like; or rather more like an idiot, tie is usually a frail, deljcate looking creature. One wonders as he sees him how he manages to live through the heat of summer and the frosts of winter. Yet he survives the hardships of life much better than his appearance would indicate. This is probably be cause he takes such good care of him self. He never takes part in the sports of other young men. They are alto gether too violent and rude for him, and then they are nothing but dull, tire some amusements anyway. Dancing is as far as he ever goes in the way of ; ex erting himself, and then he always clings close to his girl. ! remaps another reason why the dude, so frail and delicate, lasts so well is his remarkable freedom from "all mental disturbances; you will notice he always takes things very cool and al ways appears perfectly composed. This, however, is not the composure and self possession that comes from strength of mind. It is the natural result of a lack of mind. The poor thing has so little brains that he is incapable of being im pressed by those things which affect ordinary mortals. His mind is never agitated or troubled, because he ; ha none Hence the dude sleeps well, and is often less affected by the hard things of life than many who possess greater physical endurance. . Although the dude thinks only oi the girls as far as he is capable of think ingand seldom associates with any one else, there are few girls who think anything of him, artless it happens to be one ftist like himself, ilioering' only in sex. The reason he is tolerated at all by the girls is because he come handy. He is very attentive, and is al ways on hand when wanted. The girls know he is a fool, and despise him all the time they arc enjoying ; his favors and services. : The dude walks along the street in an abstracted, self-important manner. He seems to take little notice of any one or anything going on about him. He ap pears to think he is to be looked at not to look. Although every sensible per son thinks he looks more like an idiot than anything else, he is, apparently, exceedingly well satisfied with himself, an thinks himself an object of admira- tion wherever he goes. Hie Judge. IRON ROADS. Ia It Likely That Our Koadways Will Evei Be Built of Metal ? The co-efficient of friction in the caso of a cart or wagon on a very good roadJ indeed is about one-thirtieth of the load that is to say about seventy-four pounds to the ton; and the co-elficient of friction in the case of a railroad car is about l-280th of the load that is to say about eight pounds per ton. From which figures it is apparent that the advantages in traction on , the smooth surface of an iron rail over those of the very best road that can possibly be con structed stand to one another as seven ty-four to eight , So far from the roads in the most of the.American cities being the very best that can possibly be constructed they are notoriously bad and very rough in surface. And as the American w-heel, with its lightness in structure and thin ness of tire, is destructive of the best roadways " that can be constructed in the ordinary way, the probabilities are that a lower co-efhcient of faction than something very considerably above sev enty-four pounds to the ton will never be reached on our roads and highways. Under these c:rcumstances it must have often suggested itself to many the feasibility of assimilating the case of the ordinary carts and carriages on the streets to that of the tramway cars. In the c-se of these latter friction is re duced to its lowest possible limit;" but it is done-at the expense of cutting up the streets terribly and injuring them irreatlv fcr ordinary traffic. Although it would be out of the ques tion to lay down lines of rail? in the streets on which all carts nd carnages could travel; yet there is one wav out of the difficulty which must have often occurred to the minds of many as pos sible, namely, by constructing a road way of one single rail, or, in other words, constructing it entirely of iron, We are not aware that this has ever been tried anywhere in a satisfactory manner, although we have an impres sion that cast-iron was at one time. tried in a certain way in St Louis. No doubt there wtftald be some objections to it; but still wo can not think of any, at the moment .which could not be equally urged against many of the ap proved road-making materials ordmari Iy in use. Iron would be hard indeed for the hoofs of horses; but then noth ing could be harder than granite, which is so much preferred. . Anything that would reduce the fric tion on our roads from about eighty, as n is .it present, to e'gnt rounm per ten ouia certainly do worth a trial, even i it entailed such a revolution as, the s'riig.up at our doorway of a veritable i.sa'ibabn, or Chemin de Fer, or Via TerrL Midland Industrial Qazette, SCHOOL AND CHURCH. A century-old . school-house was razed at Hartford, Conn., the other day. The Kentucky Methodist Conference reports a loss of 873 members during - the past year. . The Superintendent of Public In struction for Dakota reports fifty thou sand children enrolled La the schools last summer. No other book of the Bible is so much in demand in India as that of Proverbs. Its epigramatic wisdom is highly appreciated by tho Hindoos. The study of historical and political science 13 growing in favor among the universities. At Harvard and John Hopkins more attention ; is paid these branches than ever before. N. Y. In dependent. . A student of the University of Georgia was given t'lis simple sum: 11 the third f -atftree ivhat would the fourth of twenty fcbe? This . bright student after figuring for half an hour, gave it up. . The old Christ Church, Boston, Episcopal, well-known as the North Church in which the lantern was hung as a signal to Paul Revere in revolution ary times, was reopened for worship re cently. Boston Journal. .-; It is very important for the preach er to be iateresting. but it is more im- f ortant for him to be true to the gospeL t is a fatal mistake to aim at being in- as though that were the su preme end of the gospel ministry. Aim to save souls. Indianapolis Journal. At the annual session of the South ern New York Baptist Association, held recently at Emanuel Church, the read ing of the letters from the vanou3 churches showed a general state of pros perity,-and revealed the gratifying fact that in nearly all the churches there had been a deep spiritual interest and an in crease of membership. N. Y. Times. There are now in the United States, exclusively for colored students, 56 nor mal .schools, with 8,509 students; 43 academies, with 6,633 students; 18 col-. eges with 2,298; 24 theological schools with 665; four law schools with 53; and three medical schools, with 125. It is evident that much greater facilities for ne higher education of this race need to be provided.; N. Y. Examiner. Sir Lyon Playfair has collected sta tistics, based upon the death rate, to show that the health of children has im proved thirty-three per cent, under the operation of the compulsory education act in Great Britain. It would be interesting to determine whether . this mproved condition 13 due to the com fortable housing of the children during a large portion of the day, or the m vigoration afforded by enforced mental activity. vurrent. . The old South (TJnitarian,l Church in Poitsmouth, N. H. has had but eight pastors In 169 years, including the Key.. Alfred Gooding, who was installed over it the 15th ult- The others- were John Emerson, who officiated from 1715 till his death in 1782; William ShurtleiF, from 1732 till his death in 1747: Job Strong, from 1749 till his death in 1751; Samuel Haven, from 1753 till his death his death in 1833; Andrew Preston Peabody, from 1833 till bis resignation in 1850; and James DeNormandie, from 1862 till his resignation in 1883. Boston Post. ' PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS With Patti the making of $5,000 is a mere song. iv. . x. Mail ana Express. Base-ball olavers ; wear out a cood many diamonds in the course of a year. Lowell Citizen. : V Some one asks how the great men of this country began life. We are un der the impression that they generally began We as infants. N. Y. Tribune. The latest Georgia man hanged by a mob was seventy-four years old. There is now and then a locality in which a murderer is not allowed to die of old age. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Ah, Bings, where are you going for the winter?" "O, I shall take a run over to Italy and do Mt Vesuvius." "I see going to a foreign climb." Rochester Post-Express. : Robert Bonner ought to look out that Maud S. doesn't elope with her groom. That sort of thing is becoming alarm ingly common with those of her sex. Lowell Citizen, j .,- Pearl-rimmed eye-glasses of violet color are now used extensively by fash ionables of. both sexes in New York. The originator was a Vassar school girl. iv. i. nun. - ', The most depressing news we have had for a long time is the report that Asiatic cholera and Oscar Wilde will reach America next year. Strict quar antine regulations against Oscar should be enforced. Norristown Herald. Would you like this bound in Tur key?'? asked a gentlemanly book agent of his rural customer for "Scatcher's Universal History of, the World." "O, no," was the reply, "no use sending on ic ciear ouc mere; Dina it in rew xorK. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Lankson, who looks older than he is By the way Plampton, - there's about a year's difference in : our ages, isn't there? "Plumpton "who looks younger than he is A year! Why, when I was a little boy and you used to pass our house I remember my father saying: "There goes old Lankson' Life. A Joke that Kicked "I played a good joke on my wife last night, said Tweezers, who isn't kept out of jail on account oc nis Dngntness. -wnacwas it?" "I had our colored coachman stand in the dark .hall and kiss ber so she'd think it was me." r "What ; did she do?" "Nothing. She only came into the parlor where I was sitting and said: Why, Tweezers, I didn't know you had got home.' "Chicago News. ' r.w!i;;. 4I say, young man,," said a physi cian, stopping him on tho street "you are not well, lour face is Bushed and you are in a high fever. Let me feel your pulse." "I I'm aUright"protested the jouth. "No, you are not said the physician, positively. 5 "Your pulse is over 100, and in less than two minutes you will be in a cold sweat You take my advice and go home." "I I can't fo home. I am resolved to ask old ones for his daughter's hand to-night or periau iiLEserauiy m tup - autiuyu. Wrc rong diagnosis," muttered the doc- tor to blms mn3elf.--Texas Sifttngs,