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The Oregon Scout.
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VOL. II.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1SS0.
NO. 30.
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
An Independent weekly Journal, Issued evo y
Snturdny by
JONES & CHANCEY,
I'ubllslicrs and l'rojnictors.
A. K. Jones, I
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Address nllcomuiiinlcntions to A. K. Jones,
Editor OreKonfccout, Union, (Jr.
Lodge Directory.
GtUNi) Kondk Vai.i i:v I.oixji:. No. no. A. V.
nnd A. Jl. Meets on tho second mid fourth
Saturdays of cneli month.
O. V. IlKt.L, V. M.
C. E. Davis, Secretary.
Union I.oikik. No. !W. I. O. O. F. Itepulnr
meetings on Krldny evenings of etich week at
ihclr hnll in Union. All brethren In ?ood
standing aro invited to attond. lty order of
the lodjfe. S. W. LoNCl, N. G.
G. a. Thompson, Secy.
Cliurcli Illrectory.
M. K. Ciiuncii Divine forvico every Sunday
ntllii.innnil7p.il). Sunday school at II p.
in. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
at0:30. Itr.v. Watson, Pastor.
Piiksuyti:iiian Cnmicit Itosrular cliurcli
Forvlcoa every Sabbnth niornlnj and evening.
Prayer incetiug oach week on Wednesday
evening:. Sabbath eciiooi every Sabbath at
JO a. in. llov. II. Vkiinon Uici:, Pastor.
St. John's Kimscopat. Oilmen Servlco
every Sunday nt 11 o'clock n. in.
1U5V. W. It. Powi:i.t Hector.
Count)" OIlluci'H.
Judpo A. C. Craig
Sheriff A. U Saunders
Clerk 1J. F. Wilson
Treasurer A. F. Ucnsoti
School Superintendent J. L. Hlndman
Surveyor V,. Plmonls
Coroner 13. II. Lewis
co.MMissioxr.its.
Geo. Acklcs Jno. Stanley
Stato Sonator Ull. Klnchart
F. T. Dick ; E. E. Taylor
IiePBKSENTATlVKS.
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City Olllcers.
Jtajor D. n. Hoes
COUNCILMKN.
S. A.Pursol W. D. IleMIcman
J.S. Elliott J. II. Thomnson
.ino. Kennedy A. Levy
Itecorder 51. F. Davis
Marshal E. E. rates
Treasurer J. D. Carroll
Street Commissioner U Katon
Departure ol Train.
Ilegular cast bound trains leave at !:30a.
m. West bound trains leave at 4:20 p. in.
PJiOI'HSSIO.VAIj.
J. It. CRITES,
ATTOKWHY AT H.WY.
Collecting and probnto prnctlco specialties
Olllce, two doors south of I'ostofliee, Union,
Oregon.
It. EAKIN,
Attorney at Law and Notary Public,
Office, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo
Union, Oregon.
I. N. CROMWELL, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon
Office, ono door south ot J. U. Eaton's store,
Union, Oregon.
A. E. SCOTT, HI. D.,
imiysbciaiv ai ij;atii:o-,
lias permanently located at North Powder,
where no will answer nil calls.
T. II. CRAWFORD,
ATTOKNUY AT l,Afl',
Union, - Oregon.
I). Y. K. DFKKINCr,
IMiysiciun iiikI Surgeon,
Union, Oregon.
Oflleo, Main street, nextdoorto Jones Bros.
varietvBtoro.
Itesfdenco, Main street, second house south
ot court house.
Chronlo diseases a specialty.
D. II. REES,
Notary Public
Conveyancer.
OFFICE-Stato Land Oflico building,
Union, Union County, Oregon.
II. F. BURLEIGH,
Attorney at Ijiw, Itctil I'iutc
and Collect in;? Affciil.
Land Oflico Business a Specialty.
Ofilco at Alder, Union Co., Oregon,
JESSE IIAHDKSTV,
J. W. 811 ELTON
SHELTON & HARDEST!,
ATTOICNIJYH AT tXW
Will prnctlco in Union, JJaJcer, Grant,
Umatilla and Morrow Counties, ulsn in tho
Supreme Court ot Orcg"'t ho Dwtrlct,
Circuit and Bunrcmo Courts of tho United
States.
Mining nnd Corporation business a spe
cialty. Oflicc in Union, Oregon.
DOiLESTIC ECOINUUY.
Places Where Trees Can Bo
Raised with Profit lor the Pur-
pose of Producing Fuel.
Arranging a Barn-Yard So as to Secure
the Protection and Comfort of
Animals.
T)oes I'ucl-ltnlsliig Vayi
This dopends on circumstances. It is
not economical to raise trees for fuel on
land worth from $."0 to $100 per acre,
especially when coal is abundant and
cheap. In most cases land is not
worth SoO per acre for agricultural pur
poses except in places that are near a
largo town and whom there are good
facilities for transportation. In such
localities almost everything produced
on farms will have a market value, and
coal will be comparatively cheap. It
will accordingly be tho best economy to
raiso stock, grain, vegetables, or fruit,
to sell them in town, and to purchase
coal with a portion of tho money re
ceived. It takes several years for quick
growing trees, such as willows, pop
lars and whitewoods, to reach a size
that they will n fiord good fuel. At
least twenty years aro required to raise
hardwood trees of a sia that will afford
good cordwood. During this time crops
of corn, potatoes, grass, and small
grains could be produced on the land
that is devoted to tho production of
trees. Tho product of ten acres of
good land would in twenty years pro
duce a fund tho interest of which would
keep a family supplied with coal for all
time.
Rut on man' favms which arc worth
$50 or upward per acre there is consid
erable land that is not suitable for cul
tivation. Some of it is quite certain to
bo broken, rocky, subject to washing,
quite low, or having a soil that docs
not produce paying crops. This land
will produce trees if tho proper variety
are selected. The cultivated crops will
only grow on fruitful soil, that can bo
worked to advantage Avith ordinary im
plements. But little can be realized
from a crop of grass produced on very
poor or uneven land. It costs much to
cut and cure it for hay, and unless
much labor is expended on it the land
will not be profitable if devoted to graz
ing purposes. Still, this land will pro
duce good trees. Observation shows
that the land that is most suitable for
cultivated crops is not the best for for
est trees. The latter will live and
thrive on land that will not produce
paving crops of any sort of gram or
vegetable. Some of tho finest forests
in tho country shade soil that is unlit
for cultivation. Cultivated plants rely
lor tneir sustenanco on sou witnm
very few inches of tho snrfaco of tho
ground, but trees send their roots so
deep into tho earth that tho condition
of the surface soil is a matter of small
importance.
Tho best disposition to maki of land
on any farm that is unfit for cultivation
is to plant it to trees. If it is too moist
to plow or produce good grass it is quite
likely that some varieties of tho ash,
poplar, willow, or larch will bticeeed
well on it. Jf it is Inch, broken, or
rockv all kinds of nut-bearimr ti'ecs.
maples, and evergreens will grow well
upon it. Tho trees will improvo tho
farm to some extent, will hido the por
tions of the soil that had an uninviting
appearance, and will beautify tho place.
Tho production of tho trees will cost
very little, as tho ground they occupy is
useless for other purposes. " Tho trees
win supply luel after a certain nuniDcr
of vcars, and will redueo tho cost of
wanning the house. Wealthy farmers
can enjoy tho luxury of an open hro
during tho winter season if they produco
tho wood to keep it up on their own
places, anu can cut and prepare it with
tiio holp they ordinarily keep. Tho
open wood lircs dt'sorves a rank with
greatest comforts of life, but it can bo
enjoyed almost without expenso by per
sons who raiso trees on their farms.
Tho branches that aro removed bv nrun-
ing a few acres of timber trees will af
ford fuel enough to support at least ono
lire.
With little doubt it nays to raiso trees
to produco fuel in portions of tho coun
try where land is cheap, but whero coal
is dear on account of tho remoteness of
tho mines or tho great cost of transporta
tion. Tho cost of hauling coal over
the poor roads that aro common in new
ly settled portions of tho west is consid
erable. It often happens that a great
amount of suffering takes placo in conso
qtienco of getting out of coal when the
common roads aro hnpassablo on ac
count of the snow or tho railroads are
prevented from moving heavy freight
Jn many places during tho past lew win
ters farmers living quito adistanco from
a railway station Iiavo been compelled
during tho provalenco of long storms to
burn corn, of which tliey haubut a small
amount, in order to keep from freezing.
With only a few acres of trees on tholr
places they would have been compara
tively comfortable, notwithstanding tho
sovero cold nnd tho bad condition of tho
roads. A good wood-lot near the dwell
ing insures a supply of fuel at tho time
when it is tho most needed.
Farmers living a long distanco from a
good market have to study how thoy can
supply thenisek'ce with tho necessities
and comforts of life without spending
much money. If they can raiso trees
thoy can have fuel for cooking their food
imd warming their dwelling without ex
pending money for coal. Wood is the
best fuel to use in keeping up a lire to
do cooking during warm weather. Es
pecially is this the case when tho house
is small, as it is likely to bo on farms
that aro not well improved. It requires
but little labor to prepare wood for burn
ing in the old-fashioned air-tight or com
mon box stove. Hard coal is scarcely
ever used in tho went outsido of large
towns. The choice is between wootl
nnd an inferior sort of soft coal. The
former is greatlv superior for cooking,
especially in summer. It is also much
bettor for heating a room that is well
finished and furnished, as it is cleaner
to handle, while it produces scarcely
any smoke. A good wood lot saves tho
expenditure of money, prevents anxiety,
and adds greatly to tho comfort of a
family.
A Good ltnrii-Ynrd.
Few farmers place a sufficiently high
estimate on the value of a good barn
yard, and accordingly they give little
attention to its location, tho manner of
inclosing it and rendering it comfort
able for tho animals that spend much of
their time in it. In many cases thoy
arc at little pains to so arrange it that it
serves the purpose of making and pre
serving manure. In arranging a barn
yard the lirst consideration should be in
miring the comfort of the animals that
aro kept in it, and it should be remem
bered that most animals kept on farms
pass more than half their lives in tho
barn-yard. It is not practical to mako
a pleasure-ground of the barn-yard: but
it is practical to make it a comfortable
placo m which animals will enjoy stay
ing, and from which they will not strive
to make their escape. To render it
comfortablo a portion of its surface
should bo quito high and dry. so that
animals can stand or lie on it without
becoming wet and dirty. Tho plan of
having one side of the barn-yard elevat
ed a foot or more above tho remaining
portion is a good one, and ono that is
easily carried out. If there is no natur
al decline, stones or timbers can bo
placed across a portion of the yard and
the space back of it can bo fillctl to tho
required height with sand or clay.
Protection from wind and snow
should bo tho next consideration, and
this is a very important ono in tho
northwest. Tho barn or other farm
buildings should have the entiro or chief
protection on tho west side, as tho
worst winds generally como from that
direction. Protection on tho other
sides should bo secured by means of
sheds and tight fences. The best fence
for a farm-j'ard is ono made of strong
posts and boards. A wire fence is very
object ionable, as it a fiords no protection
against the wind, allows tho snow to
blow through it, while the barbs on the
wire are very likely to injure animals
that aro pushed against it, as they tire
likely to bo in the contests that arc go
ing on when many animals aro con-
lined in somewhat limited quarters. A
good fence, somewhat costly to build,
but economical in the end, can bo con
structed of strong posts, in which
scantlings aro inserted near tho top and
bottom, to which boards seven or eight
feet long aro attached in an upright po
sition. Such a fence keens out the
drifting snow and breaks tho forco of
tho wind. Cattle that stand or lio near
it will bo comfortable, providing rain is
not falling. Their fodder will not bo
blown about if it is placed next to such
a fence.
A fence of this kind can bo utilized to
form ono sido of a long shed. If sap
lings can bo obtained thoy can be placed
in lino in the ground twclvo or more
feet Iroin tho feneo and a support for
poles nailed to them at tho proper
height. On this poles can be run to tho
top of tho fence and on them a roof of
straw can Do made. A shed of this
kind will cost but very little, while it
will do much toward affording comfort
to the animals confined in tho farm
yard. A better shed can bo niado by
using cedar posts and 6cantling for
support and by making tho roof of
boards and battens. With little doubt
tho cheapest and best roof could bo
niado of rough boards and building
paper covered with coal tar, rosin, and
gravel. The roofs of many buildings
in largo towns aro now made of theso
materials', and they give excellent satis
faction; but the art of making them Iish
not extended into tho country. Al
though a well constructed barn or sta
ble is necessary for tho protection of
work horses and dairy cows during the
winter, a good shed will afford all tho
protection needed for ordinary storo
cattle, and in tho majority of cases thoy
prefer it to tho barn, as it allowr them
more liberty.
Of courso tho barnyard should bo well
supplied with water. It is not neces
sary, howover, that tho well that sup
plies tho water or tho pump that raises
it bo located in tho yard. There are
many good reasons for having tho well
outsido of tho yard. Its water would
bo less likely to bo contaminated, and it
is mora pleasant to draw water from a
well that is outside the yard to a trough
that is within it. It is much better to
have tho watering trough undor an open
shed than in an exposed place near tho
center of tho yard. If it Is undor a shed
snow win not accumulate about it and
mako it difficult for animals to get a
drink. If tliero aro more nnimuls of
different kinds to bo supplied with
water it is much better to havo moro
than ono drinking-nlace. By having
several troughs tho dangor of crowding
and hooking is obviated. It is a good
plan to havo all tho trouglis filled with
water before cattle and horses aro let out
of tho barn and stublo in tho morning,
as they generally seek to obtain a drink
as soon as thoy aro released.
A portion of tho barn-yard should be
devoted to tho making and storing ol
manure. During tho summer tho drop
pings of tho cattle should be thrown on
tills place every morning. By adopting
this plan the larger portion of the yard
can be kept clean for the cows to lio in.
Clean milk can not bo secured without
great trouble if cows can not lio down
without coming in contact with their
droppings. Bv hiMiring the rotting of
the coarse fodder that is thrown out to
stock, but which is not eaten, a portion
of the yard should bo comparatively
low, so'that it will catch and hold tho
liquid manure and the wash of the dung.
The hay, straw, and corn-stalks that
are rejected by cattle will absorb these
liquids and be converted into excellent
fertilizers. The manure heap in tho
barn-yard can receive additions from
the dwellings and the poultry-houses.
Ashes and soap-suds should bo thrown
upon it instead of being deposited in
the street or near tho house. If tho
manure-heap becomes offensive during
tho summer laud plaster or ground gyp
sum should bo scattered over it every
few days. This will take up tho escap
ing ammonia ami retain it till the ma
nure is taken to the fields, when it will
becoms food for plants. Chicago
Times.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A pretty lamp is made out of tho or
dinary ginger jar. Do not paint it or
paste anything on it. Leavo it in its
pretty bluo and tho wicker covering,
removing only tho handles, and get a
common brasslanip that will lit into tho
jar.
Coffee stands first in tho list of bev
erages for tho breakfast table, though
for nervous people, or thoso who aro
nlllictcd with palpitation of tho heart, it
is not to bo recommended. Now let some
equally good authority tell you .direet
' ly tho opposite. "
Graham Biscuit Threo cups of gra
ham Hour, one cup of wheat Hour, two
lablespoonfuls melted butter, ono tea
spoonful of soda, two tablespoon brown
sugar, two teaspoon cream tartar, one
half saltspoon of salt, milk enough to
mix, and mako into biscuit, bake in a
moderate oven.
Tongue Toast A very nico dish is
prepared from cold boiled or potted
tongue. Slice tho tongue and cut each
slice into small lino pieces; beat it in a
pan with a little butter. To prevent
burning moisten with warm water or
clear soup; add salt and popper; stir
into it two beaten eggs. When set, ar
range neatly on toast.
A foreign disli that is better without
its name, is made by putting ono pint of
split peas into ono pint of water or soup
liquor, boil for live hours, until thoy aro
soft and pulpy, renewing tho liquor, add
a dessert spoonful of curry powder, two
Spanish onions cut up and fried, two
ounces of butter and a little cayonno,
three cloves chopped line. It is bettor
to boil. the peas some hours before re
quired nnd then to heat them with tho
other ingredients. Served with rico so
boiled that each kernal will fall apart
from tho others.
Cream Tic Scald ono pint of milk in
a double boiler. Wet two oven table-
spoonfuls of cornstarch in a little cold
milk, add tho yolks of threo eggs and
three lablespoonfuls of sugar and beat
with an egg beater till very light; then
stir into the scalding milk. Flavor with
lemon and let it cool. Lino si pie-plate
with a nice crust and bake it. Then fill
with tho cream and make a meringue
of tho whites of the two eggs beaten
with two tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar. Cover the top of the pie with
this and set on tho upper gritfe of tho
oven until tho meringue is a pale straw
color.
Thero is ono thing that tho best of
nurses should not be allowed to do, and
that is to stand with a baby at a window
when tho thermometer is much below
freezing. Tho cold fairly radiates from
tho glass and strikes on tho dolicato
little lungs or legs when tho baby is
short-coated. Tho mirso likes to in
diilgo her curiosity as to passers-by in
J ho street, or to watch and see who it
is that is getting out of tho carriage at
tho door, and the next thing a doctor's
carriage has to draw up andtho baby is
treated for croup or pleurisy. At no
timo in winter is the window a good
place for a baby to bo held.
Bice Pudding A quarter of a pound
of rice, the sumo weight of sugar, ono
quart of milk, ono pint of cream, half
an ounce of gelatine. Parboil tho rico
in water and then cook it soft and
thick in tho milk, adding tho sugar and
sonio vanilla, and, when Hourly done,
add tho gelatine, which has been dis
solved in a llttlo water. When dono
set it aside to become cold. Beat tho
cream to a still' froth and mix it thor
oughly with tho cold rice. Put in a
mold which has been moistened with
cold water nnd set it on tho ieo. A li
quor glass of Maraschino may bo added
to tho whipped cream. Xhls amount is
suniciont lor ten persons.
Miss Corson tells us it is quito un
safe to put frozen meat to tho Hro or
into the oven to cook without thawing
it lirst. Tho heac in tho process of
cooking actually hus tho same effect
upon tho frozen tissues that hot
weather would have upon long kept
meat, and tho poultry or joint will
spoil beforo tho lire, as it would in tho
larder or hung out of tho window, in a
sudden change of temperature. Frozen
meats of courso keep well, and tliero is
very slight if any differenco in thoir
flavor if put into cold water and allowed
to remain tliero until sufficiently thawed
to cook. But tho cooking must bo dono
immediately, as "thawed out" meats
are especially liable to spoil.
THE SILK INDUSTRY.
An Advance. In lrlco Vroiiilned
Kndtiiy; a I.onic Competition.
The meeting of sewing-silk and twist
manufacturers in this city last Friday,
by organizing an association to promote
harmony and mutual interests in the
trade, took steps toward closing a long
and memorable strife. This branch of
silk industry is the oldest in the coun
try. Tho value of its annual production
of goods is moru than $10,000,000.
About fifty separate concerns aro en
gaged in the manufacture, but t'-o
great bulk of the business is done by
half a dozen largo firms. Nearly all
their mills are in Connecticut a.yd Mas
sachusetts. Probably they aro about to
open a new page in their history; but
already there is enough of it to point a
moral.
The manufacture of sewing-silk as a
household art in Connecticut began
in colonial times, and attained im
portance in the earlier part of this cen
tury. Then ensued a long series of ef
forts, taxing Yankee ingenuity and
patience to tho utmost, to do tho work
by power-driven machinery. For many
years the product was inferior to the
ho wing-silk of Em ope, and when by a
series of improvements, it surpassed tho
foreign goods in quality, it had still a
hard struggle for reputation. That
this point was carried as early as 18 1!J
is shown by a sort of declaration of in
dependence in that year, signed liy
leading manufacturers at a meeting in
this city, declaring that they would no
longer conceal their goods under for
eign labels. At that period tho compe
tition was sovero, hut it was wholly
with the foreign producer. NoNt came
tho invention of the sowing-machine,
and the demand for a kind of sowing
silk suited to it, which, when duly in
vented and improved, came to be known
distinctively as"tuaehino twist." This
gave a great impetus to tho business,
and the production of "twist" now very
far exceeds all tho rest of this branch of
tho industry. As tho machine and its
"twist" started in life and grow togeth
er in this country, tliero was no foreign
competition in tho case. All kinds of
sewing-silk shared in tho improvements
of manufacture with the result that for
eign competition ceased.
Then sprang up between our own
manufacturers a fiercer rivalry than tho
trade had ever known; and this condi
tion of affairs lias continued with few
brief interruptions to the present day.
In most trades such competition lends
to degrade '.tho quality of tho product
in order to meet lower prices, but this
is not tho caso with sowing silks,' be
cause there are ready means of testing
them, and buyers have been educated
to require goons mat win stand mo
tests. Practically tho competition is sole
ly ono of prices thinly disguised by dis
counts to purchasers, and presents of
"cabinets" expensive pieces of furni
ture to display tho wares. There
could he no more complete demonstra
tion of the fact that home competition
is moro effective than foreign in bring
ing down tho prico of goods. The sowing-silks
of to-day are far bettor than
the once famous "Italian silks," and
are less than half tho price. But though
such proof may bo very pleasant to tho
student of political economy, it is not
equally agreeable to the manufacturer,
especially when it continues year after
year, paring down his margin of profits.
For the last two or threo years tho
cost of raw silk has been slowly but
stoutly falling. This material is the
chief factor in tho cost of sowing-silks,
and bears a larger proportion to tho
value of tho finished goods than any
other branch of tho silk industry in this
country. Under tho stress of competi
tion tho prices of goods wore forced
down in equal step with those of tho
raw material, and consumers got all
tho benefit of tho decline. But within
two or threo months tho conditions
havo changed; prices of raw silk roso
suddenly, rested a little, then roso
again, and now seem still to be rising.
All indications point to a permanently
increased cost of the raw material. Tho
logic of the situation is conclusive as
that of Mr, Micuwbor about income and
expenditure. The manufacturers must
advance their, prices and now, if ever,
they should harnionizu their differences.
New York Tribune.
Fashionable Bonnets.
"My dear," said Mrs. Squihlig, "I
want a now bonnet."
"Of courso you do," said Squihlig;
"but isn't tho ono you havo good yet?"
"It's good enough of its kind, but I
want a felt bonnet, u hey aro coming
into stylo again."
"Oh, that's certainly a mistake"
"Why is it a mistake? What do you
know about the fashion in bonnets?"
"Why, I know that ladies objoct bo
having their bonnets felt. They'd rather
havo them seen."
Then Mrs. Squihlig laughed a diplo
matic little laugh ami got tho money for
her bonnet Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tel
egraph.
Tho Boy in the Cur.
"Room for ono moro" was speedily
niado in a Columbia avenuo car tho
other day by tho naive llendishuessof a
llttlo boy who got on at Boylston street
with his mother. Both wero standing,
but wlillo tho lady looked tired, tho
boy evidently enjoyed it Ho kept look
ing at tho bottom of the car and laugh
ing. Pretty soon he pointed to a pompous-looking
gentleman and said in u
gleeful tone, "Ain't he got awful big
feet, ma?" Boston Jleaeon.
Very 3Iueli Condensed.
Seattle, Wash., shipped IfW.lTo
tons of coal to California nnd Oregon
ports last yenr.
Providence, It. f., put up now build
ings lust year to theextentof $1,087,
1120. British Columbia exported gold last
year to the amount of $71o,7U0.
There are over 1,000,000 volumes
in tho New York public libraries.
About two thousand cases of murder
were reported to the press in lSSo in
the l uited States.
The salmon pack of the Columbia
river, Or., hist year was 511,000
eases.
Of the 072 Yale graduates who died
in the ten jenrs between 3 870 and
1885 there were 21 1 who were past
70 years of age.
Business in ISP." has been very
good with life insurance companies.
In Ohio there are 701 ,22i horses,
2l,:i02 mules. fi.'iO.-l.'in milch cows;
oilier horned cattle, J, 2i) 1,001; sheep,
5,121, 102; hogs, l,U2H,!J0a.
"Considering that death in the most
rortain tiling in the world, it is sur
prising," remarked tho Boston Herald,
"to find how few persons arrangetheir
alTairs with reference to its possi
bility." Tutors at Harvard are said to re
ceive salaries of from $800 to $1,200
a year, whilo the trainer in athletics
sets $2,000.
Tho New York State debt amounts
to $i),.'l!J0, 1 00; the tu x rate for tho cur
rent year is 2.00 mills; tho property
valuation is $3,0l)J,7ai,a57.
The bullion product of the mines in
tho vicinity of Butte City, Montana,
for the veur ending 188i5 foots up
$17,000000 and that of Leadville,
Colorado, 12,000,000.
The public school superintendent of
Wyoming reports I,f00 pupils, 7a
school houses, 147 teachers, and the
total amount paid for salaries at
S88.000.
South Australia. New Zealand nnd
N'ow South Wales remain out of the
new federated -Australia, which em
braces Victoria, Western Australia,
Tasmania, Fiji and Queensland. The
legislature of the live united colonies
met on Jan. 25.
People with weak eyes in New York,
ivho go out of an evening where tliero
wo electric lights, carry parasols and
tnibrellas to protect their eyesight,
fhe sunshade is transformed into a
lighlshnde.
Tho Pennsylvania superintendent of
public instruction reports the number
Di schools to be 20,254, of which
3,351) aro graded. Tliero aro 22,SU4
teachers; cost of tuition last year, $5,
580,180.10; value of school property,
f 32,011,1 10.
Tho consolidated debt of Franco,
iccording to tho budget of 18C5,
amounted, by capitalizing tho rento
3V interest, to 10,052,02-1,230 francs,
Dr nearly $ l000,00(),000. The pub
ic debt of tho United States on tho
Lst of December was $1,81 5,027.15.
A St. Louis medical magazino says
meezing is tho best method of loosen
ing and expelling secret iounry sub-"
itances in the air-passages, and that
sneezing is in other respects an excel
'cut remedial process.
AVoineit in Hgypt.
Lysander Diekerson, wljojs deliver
ing a course of lectures in Boston on
tho Egyptians, devoted a portion of
his last lecture to the condition of
kvomen among them. Hu said that
though thero was no traco of a mar
riage ceremony, there wero lawn and
contracts that made tho women equal,
md oven superior to the man in prop
erty and social rights. Ho read sov
iral marriage contracts to show tho
gradual progress in freedom and inllu
jiico of married women. In 181 B.C.,
1 lie decree of Piillopater that no wifo
should disposooflierproperty without
the consent of her husband, actually
killed women's rights, ami from that
timo it would seem that tho dethrone
ment of women was sure and sudden.
Maniago between brothers and sisters
ivns lawful, the marriage of Isis and
Osiris among the gods forming tho
basis for this. Monogamy was tho
rule.
No Chanco for the Froshleiiej'.
From tho Elmlra Garotte. .
"Itanium' said a littlo Fifth Ward
boy lugubriously tho other day ns ho
'aid down a volume of biographical
sketches of tho Presidents, "I don't
oelievo I'll ever bo a President. I
ain't got tho chance, I wasn't brung
up right."
"Why, my child, you havo the same
chanco that other little boys have."
"No, I ain't; I wasn't born in a log
cabin, nor I ain't drove a team on tho
;aual, nor had I to read the Hpellin'
book by tho light of a pine knot, nor
had to split rails nor nothin' like tha '
rest of the boys who got tlw; I tall
you, mother. I'm handicapped on
this Presidential husinetw,"
From the stress laid on th bayd- "
ships endured by some of tlw Frai ,
lents when boys it is BOtfttraMpUtftt
the juvenile mind should draw Huelt
d deduction.