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9 NO. fck 1 VOL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1885. The Oregon THE OREGON SCOUT. An Independent weekly Journal, issued every Saturday by JONES & CHANCEY, I'uhllshcrs and Proprietors. Jl. K. .lO.ST.S, ( J II. ClIANCKV, I Foreman. Editor. llATUSOK SUHSCKIITION: One copy, ono year f 1 W " " Six months 1 00 " " Three months T5 Invariably cash in advance. Hates or advertising made known on appli cation. Correspondence from all parts of the comity solicited. Address all communications to A. K.Jones, Kditor Oregon Scout, Villon, Or. Loilue IMrertory. GUANO ltONlIK VAt.LKY I.OIX1F., No. fift. A. F. and A. M. Meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. O. F. Hki.i., W. M. C. V.. Davis, Secretary. Union I.oimik, No. :w. I. O. O. F. ltciiular meeting's on Friday evcnliijrs of each week at their hall in I'nlon. All brethren in Rood standing nro invited to attend. Hy order of the lodjrc. S. W. I.o.so, N. G. (i. A. Tiio.MrsoN, Secy. Cliureli IMrertory. M. K. Council Divine fm vice every Sunday at 11 a. m and 7 p. m. Sunday school at n p. m. I'raycr meeting every Thursday evening at:30. Kkv. Aniikiison, Pastor. I'iiksuvteiuan Cimiirii HeRular church services every Sabbnth mornlntr and ovonlnv. I'rayer meetlnir oach weok on Wednesday evening. Sabbath school overy Sabbathat It) a. m. Hov. 11. Vkhnon met, Pastor. St. John's I"jc)1'.vi, Cnrncii Service every Sunday nt 11 o'clock a. m. Hev. W. It. Powell, Hector. County Olllcer. Judno A. C. Craig Sheria A. I.. Saunders Clerk H. F. Wilson Treasurer A. F. Ilenson School Superintendent J. L. Hinduian Surveyor K. Sln.onls Coroner K. H. Lewis COMMISSIONKIIS. Geo. Ackles Jno. Stanley Stato Senator I. H. Hlnehart IIKI'KKSRNTATIVKS. F. T. Dick K. E. Taylor City Olllcer. Mayor D. H. Itees COUNCU.MKN. S. A.Pursol W. O. Ileldleman J.S. DUIott Willis Skiff .1. II. Katon G. A. Thompson Recorder J. H. Thomson Marshal I. A.Dennoy Treasurer J. D. Carroll Street Commissioner L. baton Departure of Train. Heirular east bound trains lenvo at l):30a. m. West bound trains leavo at p. in. I'KOFIiSSIONAl.. J, It. CltlTES, ATTOKKKV AT I iAW. Collecting and probato practice specialties Oilice, two doors south or Postolllce, Union Oregon. It. EAK1N, Attorney at Law aad Notary Pale, OMlee, ono door south of J. I). Eaton's store, Union, Oregon. 1. N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Offlce, ono door south ot J. II. Eaton's store, UnlOu, Oregon. A. E. SCOTT, M. D., Ini'NICIAIV ab .NrituiMKv, Has permanently located at North Powder, wheroho wlllanswor all calls. T. II. CRAWFORD, ATTORIVUV AT I-AIV, Union, - Oregon. D. Y. K. DEEltl-NG, Kiiyhioiun mid Sui'pt'oii, Union, Oregon. Olilcc, Main street, neztdoorto Jones Ilros.' variety store. Itesldcncu, Main street, second house south of court houso. Chronic diseases a specialty. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Notary Public and Conveyancer. Olllco, II street, two doors cast of Jones Iiros.' variety store, Union, Oregon. II. F. BURLEIGH, Attorney at I-inv. I-uI i:tul; and Oiled liifC Afcnt. q Land Oflicc Business a Specialty. Ofllco at Alder, Union Co., Oregon. J ESSE lUllUESTV, J Wl SHEI.TON THOMAS FITCH. FITCH, SHELTON & HARDEST!, ATTOKHUVH AT IAIV. Will practice in Union, linker. Grunt, Umatilla and Morrow Counties, also In the Supreme Court ol Oregon, tha District, Circuit unil Buprenle Courts ol thu United Htnten. Mining nnd Corporation bualnena a apo iralty. OlUce in Uniuu, Orvgou. FISIUXU IS MAl.NX A Teiuptlng Account from the .V'elchuorhooil of Dan cor. Thn. salmon season on the Penob snot is now closed, so far as taking the iish in nets anil wiro isconeerneil, but lisliinir with a single line will bo legal forsomo weeks jet', writes a Bangor correspondent of The Xcw York Sun. The season has been very successful, an immense catch having been made below the city, and oven the poorest persons hereabout have been able to enjoy dinners of the King of iish. Up to June HO, more than thirty thousand pounds of salmon were brought to Bangor, and from that date to July 15, in all probability, twenty thousand pounds more. Tito great 'bulk of tho iish was shipped to New York and Boston, where Penob scot salmon is rightly considered su perior m llavor to all others. One of the finest iish of the season was sent to Gen. Grant at Mount McGregor. A great many of the iish were packed in ice by dealers and hotel-keepers be fore the catch was over, and bioiled salmon of tho native kind will consti tute part of the down-east menu for a loner timo yet. Tho fish wardens are now having lively times with curtain persons who set the law sit defiance and continue to net salmon for tho supply of hotels in tho big cities. Provincial salmon are now being palmed oil' on tho public as Penobscot rivers, but tlioy aro far inferior, and may easily be distin guished by their coarser llavor. Tho up-river lishormcn aro much disgrunt led at tho restriction placed upon them by law, and by the working of the lisliway at tho water works dam. Two miles abovo tho city is tho upper lim it of tidewater and the first fall of the Penobscot, known as Treat's. Here, in 1875, a great dam was built for the purposo of serving Bangor with wat er, aud in the dam was constructed a lishway to allow the passage of tish up river to tho lakes. At Yeazio, a little further up, and at Ayor's falls, just beyond, groat numbers of sal mon used to bo taken, and the fishery was a source of considerable rovenue to tho people there. But since tho dam and" its lishway were interposed between them and tidewator these fishermen have caught only a fow sal mon, and they denounce tho lishway as an outrago, especially sinco tho law prohibited net-fishing up river. Tho Vca.io men took fow enough witli their nets after tho dam was built, and now, with only a single lino, they do next to nrfthing, and in tho season all hands como down to Bangor aud camp out for tidewater lishing. Tho commissioners havo opened tho fish way at different times and found sal mon nearly through it, but tho fact that tho up river catch ha? fallen oil" so badly seems to demonstrate that no considerable number of fish go up through tho way. Tho porch, bass, pickerel and trout fisherman aro having great luck here abouts this season, and tho native anglers aro dally reinforced by car loads of fancy sportsmen from New York, Boston, and all tho largo cities, who como resplondont in corduroy breeches, velvet coats, and cork hel mets, armed with splendid rods, gayly colored llios, and all the latest para phernalia, not omitting a generous supply of things to cheer the inner man. They bring tho latter commod ity because thoy fancy that nothing stronger than water can bo had down in this country. To Moosehcad and the brooks thoy go for "lakers" and tho pretty speckled trout, while the lakes and ponds near Bangor provide all the white perch, black bins and pickerel anybody could desire. There aro excellent trout streams so near this city that the natives often drivo out of a Sunday morpiug and return with a good string for supper. Tho black bass aro biting lively at Pushaw, only six miles away, and wonderful strings of white porch are brought, in from there overy evening. Tlioro aro few lisli that make better eating than the white perch. Tho bass, however, aro the gamiest lisli in creation, if sport is what ono is looking for. Thoy aro said to be nearly all wormy, how ever, just beneath the skin, and on that account some persons will not eat them. It is very convenient to live in a city that is only twelve Hours distaut by rail and carriage from such a place as Nicatous lake, which is just back of Lowell village, northeast of here. Up thoro trout and other game, fish, boars, deer, ducks, aud grouse aro as filenty as over thoy wore. It is a rogu ar sportsman's paradise Tho eccent ric canoe builder and famed hunter, Jock Darling, has his abodo at Nica tous now, and lots of his old friends of forest and stream aro wending their way thither. Thoro aro places Micro it" costs Jots of monoy to bo a sportsman, oveti for a brief time, but down hero nnyouo can gp hunting or fishing cheaper than ho can stay at home. 1 vent out to a famous lishing pond near Bangor a little while ago, had my horso stabled aud baited, tho use of a boat, linos ami bait all the afternoon, and a good supper, and the bill was 5 cents. It eeeius hardly possibly that miuo host will ever get rich at that rate,, but lie asked no more and was satisfied. Attacked by Ants. Mr. Isaiah Burncrat, u farnior living near Chambcrsbnrg. a small country village a fow milos from Dayton, O., hud a mou wonderful experience, nar rowly escaping being killed by ants. Ho was picking blackberries in a wild patch of undergrowth inadeuso wood, when suddenly ho disturbed million upon millions of largo, black ants. They wore under a thin covering of earth, which ho stepped on, and al most instantly they crawled up his pantalonn legs, and when ho tried to knock them oil showed fight. Before ho could get out of the heavy growth of brush he was covered from head to foot with tho pestiferous ants. They bit him and crawled into his nose, ears, aud mouth. Ho yelled for help, but soon became blinded witli the myriads of ants on his head and face, and bo fore ho reached the edge of tho wood fell helpless to the ground, utterly at the mercy of tho ants, and was only saved evidentlv from deatli by the timely arrival of his brother. The insects were tho common black ants of a very large size. Burncrat was bitten by them all over the body, and while very sore, it is thought, pro viding the bites aro not poisonous, will recover. Tho ease is without a precd deut in this section of tho country, and, it is believed, had not aid arrived when it ditl the ants would not only havo killed but eaten their victim. Acu York Tribune. A Violent South Carolinian. In tho course of a debate in the house in May, 18'tG, on tho fortifica tion bill, Mr. Canibrcling, of New York, speaking of the ' prevailing bloated condition of affairs, declared that "the whole nation was now ono common gambling-house." The next day Mr. Pickens, of South Carolinia. mounted tho rostrum, and in a speech of great ability, abounding in histori cal allusions and "odorous" compari sons, alluded to Mr. Cambreling's re mark and inquired "Who madoitso?" Then he charged tho administration witli the responsibility of all tho ills witli which the country was alllicted. .... I I 1, 1 i.l "oycopnancy ami servility, no sum, "havo taknnthe place of all the heroic and manlv virtues. The rooks, to gotlier with obscene birds, havo porch oil themselves in tho high places of the land, and we sit here boneath, sur rounded daily witli their filth and cor ruption. Ollicoholders (now become miserable (lopcndonts)and ollieescok ors infest every turn and corner; and let it bo known that any man has in Uuonco, from his being tho tool of those who havo patronage to confor, and he is overwhelmed with the bow ing and cringing of these slaves and beggars. C rowds of miserable, hun gry boings creop and crawl, in tho darkness ol midnight, throuch the hidden recesses and gloomy avenues that lead up to the throno of royal fa vor. These creatures, generated as thoy are in despotism, are pervading tho country and becoming more loath some than thn creeping lice or shiny frogs of Egypt over were in the days of God's judgements. Tin's, sir, is tho reform with which wo are blessed. Farther on he declared that "this is the reign of Ciesar," and although ho know of none with tho line taients and acquirements of Mark Antony, he thought we had "many with his protligacy and abandoned principles." For Lopidus he pointed to li. M. Johnson, of Kentucky, for Octavos to Martin Van Buren, tho vice president 'and chosen favorito of him who has trampled upon Iho liberties of his country." This, it must bo admitted, wjts rath er strong language for a man who was elected to cougress as a supporter of the administration. But those South Carolinians always were a queer peo ple, and reaily to boil over at a moment's notice, its thoy did at King's Mountain, and Ninoty-Six, aud the Eutaws. For there is in South Caro lina yet, "for all that's come and gone," n great dctl of tho fiery old blood of Touraino aud La Vendee, that in tho lays of tho Fronde under the great Condo and tho brave Coligny, waged such an internecine war against tho church and crown. Add to these a fair proportion of the decondants of tho old Scotch coven anters and a sprinkling of Highland ers in tho hill country, to say nothing of the Anglo-Americans pure and sim ple, and wo can easily perceive what an explosive mixture is produced. The nitro-glycerino thus evolved generated old Moultrie, Sumter, Marion, aud Campbell, Hagon, tho roscuor of La fayette. Vado Hampton, Wigfall, and the rest. Ah a puoplo thoy havo been full of intellect full of culture and full of fight all premonitory symp toms of insanity. When a stranger in Columbia during the war inquired of Mr. Pettigruo tho way to tho lunatic asylum, ho directed iiim to tho state House, whoro the legislature was in session, with tho rouiark: "Thoy aro as mad as March hares there, every devil of them." Hen: J'crlei I'oorc. Culture and llappiues". Now lhfe is not only what wo make it, but it is, very largoly, what wo think it is. If wo hold before our selves constantly, somo dreary "might have been;" if wo think it is, in some tinexplainable way, finer aud more ex alted to sot ourselves to a minor key of some misorero, wo may become in reality very unhappy. Thoro is no law, unfortunately, against people's making themselves wrotched. Schop enhauer's theory is that culture makes for uuhnppincss; that tho more culti vated is an individual tho more sensi tivOgis ho to physical discomfort or troubles, and that ho is thereby a be ing formed to bo jarred upon at overy turu. It is very possible that tho old ad ago about a little learning nppllo to this case. A superficial cumin doubtless increases one's senslbilitiet iu various was without producing a corrospouding increase of resources but the deeper culture supplies these and enables its nossessor to bear u j thousaud trials or to discover mourn to surmount them as may he, of which the mora Ignorant individual would novor havo dreamed. io(o 'l'ravtl Itr. A CILAUACTKU1STII' JtKXICAN TOWN. ,Thft Most Picturesque Port l!etecn San Francisco and Panama lnteresttns Feat ures of Aranulco. Of all tho ports on tho Paoilic be tween San Francisco and Panama. Acapulco is the most picturesque and the most charming, writes a corre spondent of Thf Sun Franeisco Chroni cle. It is a perfect land-locked harbor. and its entrance lies between two rug ged eminences which rise abruptly from the waves, and to him who is un familiar witli the coast oiler no hint of a refuge for ships, except an indifferent light-house. Tho heights of which 1 speak aro islands. The shores both of these and of tho mainland are very ragged and steep, breakers dashing high upon seamed crags, polished by this incessant beating through hun dred centuries, perhaps. Mountains closely hedge the harbor about, and the town lies on its inner side, close to tho base of a promontory which juts out as if to roach its strong arm tow-aid the sturdy isles that guard the gateway. Two masses of shivered rocks on the shorn to the east of the town look, even through a glass, some what like ruined castles. Groves of palms cast deuce shadows upon tho smooth, yellowish beach when the sun is slipping down the western sky. Palms adorn the coii' ts of the prin cipal houses in Acapulco and cluster about the straggling quarters of tho peons, and masses of them aro to bo seen on the lower slopes of thu moun tains Some of tho streets run back ami up from the shore to a consider able height. They aro lined with tho small adobe or reed huts of tho lower class, generally thatched witli leaves, with here and tlieTo a now awning next to the street covored with tiles. In two or three prine'pal streets there aro sidewalks raised two and even three feet above tho roadway, accord ing to the fancy of the builders of the adjoining houses. . Glancing in at wide-open doors you invariably seo a dusky femalo fonnslowly swinging in a hammock, and porhaps a servant or two extended on the floor, all in tho most comfortable of deshabilles. In the dwellings of the lower class, I was told, not a single imported commodity could lie found. These people aro yet to learn tho primary advantages of civilized trade. But in almost overy one of tho better houses 1 was surprised to ousorvo sowing-niaeuincs, and iu tho shops somo of them were being operated in tho boat of tho day. I struck across somo. rocky knolls covored with huts, through a weed grown lane, where huge, many-colored lizards ran quickly as 1 approached and lazy serpents rustled in tho her bage, and thus reached tho fort, or citadel, which was battered somewhat by the shells of the French, and looks to-day very much tho worse for wear. It is eliielly used as a caboose and contains somo hideous dungeons. A splendid avonue, shaded by live-oaks and olives, loads from the fort down a gentle inclino along tho steep shoro, which hero may be called a bluff, and witli a green parade or common on the other side. Tho Froneh had only to station themselves outsido tho islands when they wore invading Mexi co and rain shells upon the town, with little risk to themselves. Perhaps tho most interesting feat uro of Acapulco is tho life of the peo ple who subsist by tho small trallio which thoy carry on with tho few steamers that touch there. Thoro is one mulatto woman there who weighs at least four hundroa pounds, and who for twenty years has paddled out or been paddled out to tho anchorage ground as often as a vessel is sighted from tho promontory adjoining tho town. She always nieots tho Pacific Mail steamships with two bumboats, loaded with her own person, besides some fruits, eggs, trinkets, and curiositios. Beautiful parrots of a gar rulous turn of mind may bo purchased from hor at $8 each. Of course, she has rivals, but her good-natured, laughing face and abundant charms, which remind one of tho display of dressed meat iu a butchers stall, seem as a rule to carry tho day, and she is credited with possessing a very coniforta bio fortune. No sooner does tho prow of a steamer sliow itsolf around tho sharp corner which vessols have to turu to enter tho harbor than the Dti m boats may bo seen Hocking out from tho shore, aud iu an astonish ly short spaco of time thoy aro along side Tho bumboats at all those Mexi can ports aro tho primitive dugout canoe, which, as ovoryono who Has seen ono will acknowledge, is not un graceful in appearance, especially when tossing about upon tho waves. Tho natives paddlo them now just as their purer-blooded forefathers did six hundred years ago, boforo Cortex sot foot in tho Aztec empire. Tho huts of tho buuiboat people aro on tho beach, closo to tho foot of tho prom ontory. Hero naked children, hogs, ,fowls, and dogs live promiscuously togethor iu the sand. 'Bronze-skinned young women wade out with bare logs and 'loose gowns displaying tliolr shoulders, arms, and bosoms, into tho gently lapping tide, seouro tholr canoes, load them, and tlion, embark ing, push ofl'for tho anchorago ground. A peep into their huts snows thoso people to bo lazily industrious and in variable cleanly. Their life is just as simplo and more peaceful than that of tho patriarchs of old. Tho condition of tho peons forms a sharp contrast, 1 saw a score of thorn bcurng burdens on their backs from tho port into tho town. Thoy woro dressed merely in short drawom, hard ly covering tho thigh, and tunios which loft tho nook and arms baro, Those garments aro of thin white cot ton. The poor fellows hud very much tho air of slaves. Ahou limit heads thoy wrapped a cotton scarf of high figured colors to protect themselves from the heat, and this gave them a decidedly Oriental look. I saw a re mittance of specie coming into the town from tho interior. It was loaded on the backs of paok-hor.e. and men armed with mach-l-s and pistols walk ed beside and behind them. Ahead rode a horseman with a nlle. The mounted Mexicans from tho country had tho broad-brimmed, loaf-crowned lints and the white garments and leg gings, and belts stuck full of arms, with which thoy havo for years been pictured by our'odueatod imaginations, and they looked exactly as if they might just have stopped out of an illustrated school geography. Tho sunset in Acapulco harbor was one to leave its lasting impress upon tho memory. To the west, in a narrow gap botwccn two pyramidal peaks that mark the promontory which closes the port, is a group of lofty palms. Behind thoso the sun disap peared, leaving tho heavens on lire. Tho near objects forming tho horizon were as sharply and distinctly out lined against the intonsoh'-glowing background as if they woro pictures cast upon a scrceu by a magic-lantern. The gathering dusk only heightened this effect by swallowing up every feature of the objects except their clean, yet gineoful outlines, while adding to one's sense of admiration that nivstic feeling which, porhaps, is best defined it we call it "awe." The city's modest towers grow unreal as the darkness deeponed, until at length thoy woro lostontirely, and only twink ling lights against tho dark mass of the lofty hills told of the habitations on shore. American Fables. TUB TIMtKKY AND TUB (UlAKSHOl'PBU. A Young and guileless Turkey was Walking in the Field one day in search of something to stay his Stomach, whn Luck brought him a fine, largo Grass hopper. He was about to swallow tho Insect, when the Hopper exclaimed: "Hold on a Moment, my Friond! What's tho U8o of picking up a small Insect liko me when there are plenty of Hares in the Weeds just ahead?" "That's so, and how foolish 1 was!" answered tho Turkey as ho lot tho Hop per go and sot out to liml liaros. At the end of half an hour ho leaned up against a barbed-wiro fenco, kicked himself fourteen successive times, and remarked: "In tho first placo I couldn't eatoh a Hare, and in the second I couldn't have eaten ono if I had." .mouai.: The Mechanic who runs after Poli tics will go hungry half his time. TUB 11 A ItltlX AND TUB KK(I. On a certain Occasion a Barrel which was half-full of rain-wator found itself beside a Keg of Brandy. Thoro was plenty of room for both, but tho Keg could not repress its vani ty and soon remarked: "Singular that it takes such a stout Barrel to Hold BiiciiwoaK iiquiu. " "And It is singular how much Quar rollng, Murdor an General ltascalitv . ! iiiiMnml tin iHlnunn i aniull mi I L ' retorted tho Barrel "l'vo got tho strength of ton lull barrels of Water." . "Yes, but all good men dotest you." Thov Scolded away for half an hour, taunting oach other with having lived in Chicago aud St. Louis, and finally agreed to leavo it to the Owner of tho store. The Kog stated tho case and askod for a decision. "Whv as to that," ho answered, "You contain a very gocd duality of Fusil Oil, and tho Barrel holds about tho same quantity of ram water, with certain Cliomicals dissolved, r.ncii uy yourself you aro of very littlo value, but wlion I pour tho Fusil into tho Bar rel, as I soon will, behold tho result will bo thirty-two gallons of best French Brandy imported tor tins house direct from Paris. Now shu up wliilo I tio somo more Cobwobs to tho corns oi most) uiiampagno isouios. mohai.: None of us are of much value to tho world when wo stand alone. Detroit Free Press. Too Much. A "Humorist" who marks his para graphs, mooting tho editor of a daily oaper, said: "Say, you've out mo. oil your oxflhango list." "Yes." "W'y. you ought not to havo dono that. For tho last throo months I havo boon Bonding you two copies weekly of my papor. ' "I know it, nnd that's tho reason I cut you oil. By making an ollort could stand ono copy, but when you sent two it was moro than I could boar." Arkamaw Traveler, Tho Itoach Caught Her. 'And wn could walk down throucrh tho vale of this lifo together, and bo happy," said an antiquated femalo iu widows weeds to a rich old bachelor with matrimonial tendoncios. Ami wlivso. dnrliiH'?" ronllod ho "Becauso I saw you extract a roach from tho biscuit this morning, and continue eating as unmindful nnd unconcerned as tho summer sun when it breathes over sleeping vai InvH." And Mrs. Pretzel exclaims, "Did she win him " Pretzel's Weekly. Fortr thousaud dollars mu to lie expended ou a crematory Iu 1'hlUdelphU. IUtoU located at Mauayuuk, and tho lucloiure will compriie eleven acre a ni mnu. A Ilrnoklvn belle, who will not no to tta country for fear of Kttluj; tauued, alt on tht piaua oi uer rraweuce eiery ctcuiujc wtar lug umrrcut UICM TASSINO EVENTS. Nearly all the aged inhabitants of 'crsia eat opium. The population of tho world is es timated at 1,100.000.00a There are (iO.000 families iu London, oach of which lives in ono room. Pittsburgh is to have a national con vention of string bands noxt month. Tho smallest salary a minister in tho Presbyterian Church of Australia is permitted to reccivo is $1,500. It is estimated that 750,000 people go into London by rail every day to earn their living, aim leavo It again overy night. It is said that thoro aro no crippled Chinamen in San Francisco. All such unfortunates aro sent back to China by their countrymen. Sinco tho introduction of electric lights at Bur Harbor tho number of wedding engagements made there has perceptibly decreased. The Indians on tho White Mountain reservation, Arizona, aro reported to havo some two hundred acres of land under cultivation this sea son. An Albany ((5a.) woman who took it into her Head to destroy ev ory photograph of horsolf sent nearly a thousand miles for tlto lust bne. There is only ono girl in ron Elbe who wears red stockings with her bathing dross, aud the other girls cut her. Black stockings are considered in strict society tho only allowable thing. Tho thermometer readied 120 de grees in thu shade in somo places in Tulare county, California, recently. At Calico, in San Bernardino coun ty, 125 tlegrccs in tho shade is re ported. An artesain well in Kern county. California, has been completed, which gives a How of 1,676,000 gallons in twenty-four hours, and tho wator risos 111 inches abovo tho nipo. Tho cost was only $700. Tho word consols is an abbreviation of tho term consolidated nunuitios.Tho linglish consols dilfor from our na tional debt in this way: Tho princi pal may vary in amount, but tho in terest novor. Thoy constitute a per petual obligation of tiro United King dom, bearing H per cont. interest, and representing an irredeemable prin cipal. Fuel is ohoap in tho Pugct bound re gion, sugar is dear, and the cllmato is adapted to tho growth of tho sugar boot. Under those promising condi tions a company litis 'been formed to start sugar works in that region, and havo contracted with farmurs.for 25, 000 tons of boots annually, for fivo years, at $1.60 por ton. In favorable seasons California counts its honey crop by tho thousand tons, and beo-koopbrs find a good profit when oxtraotod honoy com mands no more than four cents or fivo cents por pound, and comb honoy sev en conts or eight conts. This year, however, the honoy yield will bo light Mowers aro fow and noctar scant. A fomalo olllco-seokor iu Washing ton last week maneuvered hor way into tho white house with six small children in tow, and a most pathotic ploa for an appointmont which would enablo hor to support her widowed brood. It was a neat bit of strategy, but it wofully iniscarriod whon she was recognized by ono of tho attend ants. Sho was never married at all, and tho squad of juveniles had been borrowed for tho occasion. Tho author of so ingenious a dovico almost de served success. A special feature of tho approaching celebration of Concord's 250th anni versary is to bo tho placing of many inscribed tablets on tho town's historic spots. Some of them havo boon com-, pletcd. Ono to bo placed on u hugo bowlder has this inscription: "On this farm dwelt Simon Willard. ono of tho founders of Concord, who did good service for town and colony for more than forty years." Anothor says: "Tho British troops retreating from tho old North bridgo woro horo attacked in Hank by tho "mou of Con cord and neighboring towns, and driven under a hot fire to Charles town.,' Tho most curious way of committing suicido which tho physicians Havo over known about was taken by a French butlor in Lennox, Mass. Tho hoad butlor, namod Anatolo Lofort, wont to a room which has two iron bedsteads. Ho moved tho bods so thoy stood a lit tlo ovor four foot apsrt, thon attached an endless towel, ono of the kind that runs on a rollor, to tho iron framo of ono of tho bods In such a way that it loft a pjtpnooso near tho contor. Ho put Ills head through tho noose, then iiftod his foot and stuck thorn through thu iron framo of tho other bod. His weight tightened tho nooso around his nook and ho tiled from Btrangulatlon, Ids body being suspended botweon tho two bods. Tho expenditure of Europoan arma monts amounted last year to 183, 619,997. Russia is oaslly first with a total of more than 10.000.000, France is socoud with more than 83, 600,000, Groat Britain third, with nearly 111,500,000, nnd Gormany fourth with over 22,600,000. Franco is first with a national debt of over 900,000,000. Groat Britain aooond with over 758,000,090, Itusda third, with 003,600,000, and Spain fourth, with 501,000,000. This is a surprising prominence for Simla, which has an annual expeodU ture of only 35,000,000 and a wIlU tary expenditure of only 6,960,000, An for Germany her dubt U a ash parativo trim.