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VOL.11.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1880.
NO, 42.
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
An Independent wcoklr Journal, (ssuod ovo y
Saturdny by
JONES & CHANCEY,
Publishers end Proprietor.
A K. Jones, I
Kdltor. f
J II. Chanckt,
I Foreman.
Hates op subscription:
"One copy, one year $1 60
" " Six months '. l 00
" " Tlirco mouths 75
Invariably cash In advance.
If by any clianco eubfcrlptions are not paid
till end or year, two dollars will bo oharROd.
H.Uesof advertising mado known on appli
cation. Correspondence from all parts of tho county
solicited. '
Address all communications to A. K. Jones,
Editor Oregon Scout, Union, Or.
Lodge Directory.
Grand Iionpe Vai.lev Lodoe, No. BO. A. Fv
and A. SI. Meets on tho second and fourth
Saturdays of each month. .
0. F. IlELt,, W. M. '
C. E. Davis, Secretary.
"Union Lopqe. No. 89, 1. O. O. P. Iteprulnr
meetings on Friday evenings of each week at
their hall In Union. All brethren In good
standing aro invited to attond. lly order of
tho lodge. S. V. Lono, N. O.
Q. A. Thompson, Secy.
Clmrcli Directory.
M. 13. Ciruncii Divine sorvlco every Sunday
at 11 u. in and 7 p. in. Sunday school nt 3 p.
in. Prayer meeting every Thursday oventng
utC:30. Hiiv. Watson, Pastor.
PiiEPiiTTEniAN Ciiuiicii llegular church
eorvicod every Sabbath morning and evening.
Prayer meeting each weok on Wednesday
evening. Babbath school every Subbath at
10 a. m. Itov. II. Veiinon Hick, Pastor.
St. John's Episcopal Ciinncn Service
every Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m.
Hev. W. 11. Powell, Hector. ,
County Ofllccra.
Judgo A. C. Craig
Sheriff A. T. Saunders
Clerk It. F. Wilson
Treasurer A. F. llenson
School Superintendent J. L. Hindman
Surveyor E. Simonis
Coroner E. II. Lowla
commissioneus.
Goo. Ackles Jno. Stanley
Stato Senator L. H. Htneliart
REPRESENTATIVES.
F. T. Dick , E. E. Taylor
City Oillcerfi.
Mayor D. It. ltccs
councilman.
8. A. Pursel W. D. Dcidleman
J. 8. Elliott J. It. Thompson
Jno. Kennedy A. Levy
Hecordcr M. P. Davis
Marshal E. E. fates
Treasurer J. D. Carroll
Strcot Commissioner L. Eaton
Departure of Train.
Hegular east bound trains Icavo at 9:30a.
m. West bound trains leavo at 4:30 p. m.
PROFESSIONAL.
J. R. CIUTES,
ATTOKIVKY AT Uff.
Collecting and probato practico speclaltiea
Olllco, two doors south of Postolllco, Union,
Oregon.
R. EAKIN,
Attorney at Law an Notary Public.
ORlce, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo
Union, Oregon.
I. N. CROMWELL, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon
Ofllco, ono door south ot J. It. Eaton's storo,
lUnion, Oregon.
A. E. SCOTT, W. D.,
1HYSICIAIV A'I si;kj;i;ozv,
lias permanently located at North Powder,
wheroho will answer all calls.
T. II. CRAWFORD,
ATTOniVKY AT Uff,
Union, .... Oregon.
D. Y. K. DEERING,
JPJiyslcImt and Surgeon,
Union, Oregon.
Offloo, Miln street, neztdoor to Jones Bros.'
yarloty storo.
Hesldenco, Main etreot, second house south
of court house.
ChronlodUcasos a specialty.
D. B. REES,
Notary Public
AND
Conveyancer.
OFFICE Stato Land Ofllco building,
Union, Union County, Oregon.
II. F. BURLEIGH,
Attorney at Iair, Ileal Kntnto
and Collecting; Agent.
Land Office Business a Specialty.
Ofllco at Alder, Union Co., Oregon.
JE68E HAHDESTT,
3. W. SHKLTON
SHELTON & HARDEST!,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in Union, Ilakcr, Grant,
Umatilla and Morrow Counties, also in tho
Supreme Court ot Oregon, tho District,
Circuit and Bupremo CourU ol tho United
States.
Mining and Corporation businoaa a spe
cialty. Ottice la Union, Orrfioa J
HIBERNATING ANIMALS.
Xho Almost Complete Cessation
of
All Signs of Life.
Animals vary much in their power
to withstand extremes of heat or cold.
have seen rroid fishes frozen un for
I - o - -
1 several davs in a solid cako of ice and
come out in good condition; and it has
been shown that many small forms of
crustaceans, etc., arc active, and evi
dently enjoy a life in tho frozen sludge
of tho north. Experiments with tho
common snail, Lymnoca stagnalis show
that it can be frozen, but its size and
growth are greatly affected by cold, and
a race of dwarf snails may bo pro-
' duccd by breeding thorn in water.
In observing the hibernating animal
we aro impressed with t ho almost com
plete resemblance to death. The low
est temperature recorded is in tho Zigel
or spcrmophitus citillus, that during
winter sleep had a temperature of 2 de
grees centigrade. This curious animal
maintains a temporature in many cases
almost exactly like that of tho air that
surrounds it. Thus in one instance the
thermometer gave 2 degrees above zero,
' and examination showed that this was
the actual internal temperature of the
animal. In another case tho tempera
ture of the room was !) or 10 degrees,
while that of tho animal was 2 degrees
lower, showing that a warm-blooded
animal could become cold-blooded at
such times.
Some of the other phenomena relat
ing to hibornatcrs is of more than pass
ing interest. Thus, when an animal is
recovering from the sleep or awakening,
it would bo natural to assume that this
is tho result of a rising temperature;
but experiment has shown that this is
not so in somo cases. Thus, in the
i i. ... . .
case oi a weasel, it came out oi mo
I sleep without anv change in tho tem-
' pcraturo of the room, which was 10 de
' grces centigrade, anil, what was more
curious, the animal was two hours and
forty-livo minutes in awakening, tho
body temperature rising more rapidly
during the second part of the time than
the first. Thus, in tho case of the
weasel cited, the temperature rose about
6.6 degrees C. in tho first hour and
twenty-five minutes and 17 degrees in
tho following fifty minutes. In somo
experiment made with an English
hibernating hedgehog, tho animal's
backbone was partly removed with
out awakening it, showing how deep
is this strange, sleep-liko condition.
Tho bats cf southern California
aro not hibernating as aro their
allies and cousins of the north, being
very common on the foot-hills at night.
A long-eared specimen appears to be
quito common, resembling somewhat
tho famous vampire of South America.
In tho north tho bats aro among tho
first to enter upon tho winter sleep; tho
first cold snap that destroys tho insect
life forces them to betake to hollow
trees, etc., and there they hang cither
singly or in clumps until tho following
spring or summer. The winter sleep
of the bat is remarkable for its resem
blance to death. Tho most delicate in
struments used to detect pulsation have
failed when applied to them. Air that
has surrounded a hibernating bat for
hours has upon analysis failed to show
evidenco of having b.'en breathed, and
the little animals have been placed in
illuminating gas that, under ordinary
circumstances, would bo fatal to them
in a few seconds, without tho least re
sult. In fact, all the functions of life
seemed at a standstill, tho animal
neither eating, digesting, growing, or
hardly breathing a condition but little
understood oven in this day of investi
gation. Tho boars of southern California, tho
brown or cinnamon and grizzly, though
frequenting tho upper peaks of tho Sier
ra Madres, roam about all winter, find
ing a sufficient food supply. The black
and white- bears aro the familiar hibcr
naters of tho east and north. In Now
York stato tho former forms a
burrow generally under tho roots of a
tree, inlato November or before, and
is soon snowed in, remaining all winter
without food. When they go in they
are fat, as a rule, but in tho spring gen
erally eomo out lean, hungry and sav
age, showing that thoy have relied to a
certain extent upon their fat Tho
young of Ubo white bear appear during
this imprisonment of the mother, tho
breath of tho latter and the cubs molting
tho ice of the frozon prison, and enlarg
ing it Kirby and Sponcc, English nat
uralists of tho last generation, recorded
a case of human hibernation. It was
observed in India by an English officer
of high rank. lie was a skeptic, and
had a grave dug in a placo of his own
selecting, and in it the nativo was plac
ed, his mouth and nostrils having been
closed, and tho ground tilled in. A
guard was placed over it for three
months, so tho story goes, and at the
end of this timo tho nativo was taken I
out, and in a few hours recovered Tho
numerous cases of long fasts and phe
nomenal sleepers that aro so often re
ported in tho papers would tend to show j
that something of the kind might be
possible, or at loa.-t probable. San
Francisco Cull.
Sir. Wanamaker's Plan.
The greatest merchant in Philadel
phia is Mr. Wanamakor. Tins is tho
theory upon which lie places his adver
tising business: "Thero is always
some trading doing, even in the dullest
season, and we strive to divert tho
floating or transient trade to our place.
Again, when business ordinarily is dull,
people who sec our invitations in the
newspapers are more apt to read them
for the reason that they have more
time to read, and there aro fewer ad
vertisements then.
"Many merchants who have been in
business for a certain number of years
will say: 'Oh, we are so well known it
is no use for us to advertise.' There
never was a greater mistake. Wo
would as soon think of canceling our
insurance pol'uies as our advertising
contracts. Wo spend more money with
newspapers eacli year that goes by;
there are more people who want goods,
and new trade is always coining to the
surface.
"Advertising that is well dono is
cumulative in its character. It is liko
tho compounding of interest. An ad
vertisement in a daily paper ono day
will, in all probability, mako a good
return to the merchant who has the
goods tho people want at the right
prices; each successive advertisement
that he puts in gains an impetus and
influence from the original ono and so
it counts up until t he name of the firm
gets what is equivalent to the 'good
will' of a successful business, besides
deriving the direct profit from immedi
ate sales caused by the advertising.
"To advertise well, a merchant
should give as much care to his news
paper space as he does to any other de
partment of his business. As a gener
al thing a merchant can well afford to
spend in newspaper advertising from
one-third to one-fifth tho amount of all
his other total expenses. If a man in
business talks as earnestly through his
newspaper when he is addressing one
or two hundred thousand people, sim
ultaneously, as when lie is talking to
one customer, ho cannot fail to mako a
success of newspaper advertising."
Philadelphia News.
Nautch Girls.
The Nautch girls, or professional
dancers of India, form one of the great
est sources of diversion to thu natives
of that country. Thoy belong to a par
tieular caste, which is held in similar
estimation to that accorded snake
charmers and jugglers. Selected on
account of their personal beauty or un
usual gracefulness, those girls aro
taught their art from childhood, and
are lorceu to go tlirougn a severe
cour.io of training beforo thoy aro al
lowed to appear at entertainments.
Many of them, when in the exorcise
of their profession, hardly deserved the
name of "girls," as thoy aro often seen
performing with their grown-up daugh
ters. Dancing gins generally sing as
they dance, and are always aecompan
ied by musicians playing on instruments
resembling the violin and guitar. Their
dances requiro groat attention, us their
feet are ornamented with anklets adorn
ed with small bells, which must sound
in concert witli tho music.
In general, tho dresses of these
Nautch girls may be said to bo rich and
gorgeous; and sometimes thero is such
an enormous quantity of colored petti
coats and trousers, so manv shawls
wrapped about their waists, and such
a variety of skirts peeping out, ono bo
low another, that icir figures aro al
most entirely hidden.
Perfumes, flowers and trinkets all are
employed to add further charms to
these public favorites.
Nautch girls aro paid according to
their beauty, fineness of voice and skill
in dancing, and aro employed at wed
dings and all great festivities. In the
palmy days of tho profession, thoy used
to receive incomes as largo as those of
tho ministers at tho courts of uativo
kings.
Even in modem times, since their
popularity has wanod, a girl has been
known to refuse a sum equivalent to
$5,000 for performing three nights. At
present, however, a dancer of moderate
celebrity can bo cugaged for a compar
atively small sum.
A Narrow Escape.
In a suit at Denver a few days ago
the defendant in a caso was asked by
tho opposing counsel: "What did you
pay for this silver mino originally?"
"I gave a revolver and $25, sir." "Did
you take out any oro?" "No, sir; there
was none to take out." "And yet you
sold it to tho plaintiffs (from tho E.ist)
for $28,000? Didn't you deliberately
intend to swindlo them?" "Oh, no,
sir. I thought I was lotting them oil
mighty easy for a couple of men who
were going to form a stook company
and float out a hundred thousand share
at $100 each on the confiding public."
Wall fitrcet tows.
JOHN MORGAN'S DEATH.
Tho Grent Rebel Itnltler Said to Hrtvo
Itccu ltctmyctl.
No less frequently than onco a year,
writes a Greenville, Tenn., correspond
ent of The Louisville Courier-Journal,
some crank in the north will revivo tho
long ago exploded story that John
Morgan still lives somewhere in Texas,
and while tins story is being run down
another ono is started that Gen. Mor
gan was killed while making his es
cape from tho Columbus penitentiary.
All thoo stories aro received in Green
ville with a smile, for there isn't an in
habitant here of mature years who
lived here during the war who hasn't
ocular proof that the great rebel raider
bit the dust on a Sunday morning late
in the year 18G1 in tho door-yard of tho
old Williams mansion, not a thousand
yards from tho East Tennessee depot,
in Greenville. Morgan had coino to
Greenville leading possibly seven thous
and men. They were all camped in
three or four different divisions in the
neighborhood of Greenville. Morgan,
with two or threo members of his stall",
had been received as a guest in tho old
Williams mansion, then tho finest and
most stately of any in Greene county.
Thero is a tradition current in Green
ville that some ono under tho Williams
roof betrayed the presence of the guest
bv sending word to (Jen. Gillam, wlic
was then with his command at Bull's
Gap, now known as Rogersvillo Juno
tion, eighteen miles south of Greenville.
At any rate, between the arrival of Gen.
Morgan at tho Williams homo and tin
arrival of Gen. Gillam thero was just
timo for a messenger to go to Bull's
Gap and for tho union army to read
Greenville by forced marching. Gillam
arrived just before daylight. In discus
sing tho history to-day a man who wa.
a surgeon in Morgan's command said:
"When tho Yankees came up in tho
night it seemed for all tho world to ti.
that there was a million of 'em, and wo
just got up and dusted, and afterward
learned that their army was smaller than
ours."
Mr. Tom A. Baker, a marble-dealer
of Morristown, Tenn., who lived in
Greenvillo when Morgan was killed,
told your correspondent to-day that o
tho fatal Sunday morning, whilo it war
yet dark, ho heard the firing, and, boy
liko ho hurried over to tho William,
homo not two minutes after Morgan
foil. Ho said that the federals had
stolen up to tho house and surroundet
it, when Morgan discovered their pres
ence, and without tho ceremony o
dressing, but arrayed simply in shir
and drawers, made a dash for the streot
and the stable opposite where his hois
was feeding. Through the darkness
tho federal soldiers could see tho some
thing in white lleoing, and a dozoi
shots were fired, one ball only hitting
him, and that ono pierced his heart
Said Mr. Baker: "I saw the dead man
a moment after, and whilo tho blood
yet flowed from tho gaping wound.
"I know when and whore and how
John Morgan died. His body was after
ward thrown across a mule and carried
up to Bristol, where it w;us buried and
whero it rested until the war closed,
when Morgan's relatives moved it to
Kentucky. Tho storv that indignities
or insults were ottered tho remains is
all bosh."
It is related that old Rachel Foster,
who lived near Greenville, and who was
to tho confederates what Mollio Pitcher
"was to tho British, came trooping into
Greenville, mounted on a mulo, an hour
after Morgan was dead, yelling like o
savngo and swearing in a way that
would have made an apprenticed pirate
envious: "Whero is that
Morgan? I heard ho's dead. Let me
sco his corpse. I'll not believe wo'h
not have to light tho d d scoundrel anj
more till I look into his dead face."
Tho folks of (Jreenvillo knew Radio!
and mado way for her to bo satisfied.
Sho looked into tho dead face, ceased
her blasphemy, remounted her mule
and disappeared.
Tho English Rose.
Several years ago a beautiful English
girl was married in Montreal to ono ol
tho handsomest Spanish gentlemen who
had ever been in that city. After two
years spent abroad tho lady for some
cause obtained a divorce, returned to
America, and until very recently gave
lessons in embroidery and water colors,
and lived with an old family servant in
rooms on Trernont street. Two months
ago siio was left nearly $50,000 by the
death of an uncle in Montreal, where
she now is. As sho brought letters to
some of our best-known society ladies,
sho was able to earn plenty of monoy
for her retired mode of life. It is safe
to say that no handsomer face could be
found in Boston titan tiiat of tho "Eng
lish Rose," as sho was onco called.
Boston Beacon.
Old fmhkmed red sealing wafer bare come
Into ii u again, mid already may be laid to
cover ii multitude of corrcupoiidence.
Cattle Raising on tho Plains.
During tho winter of 1871 and 1872 I
Dtigagcd in tho handling of Texas cattle
in tho semi-arid belt of Kansas. 1 had
provided no food for my stock. I know
that cattlo could and did winter on tho
plains far north and west of where I
was; but I did not know that thero was
a dillerenco in tho nutritious qualities
of tho different prairio grasses. I did
not understand the peculiarities of tho
climate of tho semi-arid belt, nor the
ofl'ects of rain falling on dead grass.
Stupid of me, of course, but 1 had plen
ty of company. My neighbors wero
bright Germans, intelligent English
men, and keen Americans from almost
every Stato in tho Union. Wo wero a
hopeful band, young, strong, and easrer.
When wo gathered into our wretched
hovels o' nights, and tho pipes wero
glowing, our talk was of cattle, cattle,
cattle. Tho sales of steers off t he range
at six cents per pound, live weight,
made tho previous spring, were strong
ly dwelt upon. I was repeatedly as
sured that the Kansas winters wero so
mild that I would not need a coat. Tho
height tho new prairio grass would
surely bo on tho 1st of March was
measured on table logs by out-stretched
and dirty index lingers for my in
struction and encouragement Thoro
was not ono of all tho band of eager
men who rodo tho Kansas plains in
tlioso days who did not firmly believe
that our fortunes wero made. Tho
country was full of cattle. November
came in with a blizzard, and, with slight
interruptions, kindly allowed by Niuuro
for the purposo ot affording us oppor
tunities to skin dead cattle, tho bliz
zard lasted until March, and tho cold,
stormy weather for two months longer.
There was no new grass until the mid
dle of May. In all tho Texas herds held
in Kansas tho losses wore heavy.
Hardly a herd lost less than 50 per cent,
and GO, 70, and 80 per cent losses wero
common. By spring wo learned that
great herds of heavy beof cattle, held
on tho Smoky, Cottonwood, and Arkan
sas rivers, had boon frozen on tho
range, and that tho Texans had saddled
their horses and gone homo. Tho crooks
wero dammed with tho decaying car
casses of catlo. Tho air was heavy with
tho stench of decaying animals. Tho
cruelties of the business of starving cnt
tlo to death wero vividly impressed on
mo. Every wagon sent from tho cattlo
ranges to tho railroad towns was loaded
with hides. The next summer, bank
ruptcy stalked over tho Kansas plains
and struek men down. Our troublo
was that none of us know that tho tall
blue-joint grass was worthless for win
ter feed unless it wero made into hay,
none of us knew that tho fall rains had
washed tho nutriment out of it, and
none of us know that about onco in ten
years thero is a hard winter in tho far
West, during which the mercury mod
estly retires into tho bull) of tho ther
mometer, and blizzard chases blizzard
over tho plains in (prick succession.
Some of us learned t ho lesson at onco;
others, who claimed that tho cattlo
needed protection, not food, erected
sheds, which proved to bo death-traps,
the cattlo "stacking" under thorn dur
ing cold weather, and tried it again, and
went into bankruptcy promptly after
the second venture. As it was in Kan
sas, so it is, in a less degree, rn tho so
called "cattlo country." A wet autumn,
followed by a hard winter, kills tho
cattlo held on tho Northern ranges by
tho thousand. Frank Wilkcson in
Harper's Magazine.
A Matrimonial Discussion.
Stockton Wife lour ideas of cor
recting children aro really foolish, l'ou
whip them for small trifles and lot
great faults go unpunished.
Husband That's right; talk away.
It seems to amuse you, and don't hurt
me. .Tho next thing you say will prob
ably bo that you know that I was a
fool when you married mo, and that you
wouldn't havo taken mo if you could
have gotton anybody else.
Wife Oh, no; you aro mistaken. I
didn't know you wero a fool when I
married you.
Husband Why is it that yotr didn't
happen to sco through mo so cloarly
then as you do nowP
Wife Because tho fool was not then
a-parent. PaciJo Jester.
Reaching His Grandmother's
Heart.
"Gran'ma," said a boy of nino years,
how old aro you?"
"About sixty-six," said tho grand
mother.
"You'll die soon, won't voir, gran'
ma?"
"Yes, dear, I expect to."
"And when I dio. gran'ma, can I bo
buried 'side of you?"
Yes, dear," said sho, as hor hoart
warmed towards tho little one, whom
sho folded closer in her arms.
"Gran'ma," softly whispered tho Ht
tlo rouge, "gimme 1Q cents." Clinton
Uuglt.
Tho Loss of tho Oregon.
In the loss of tho steamship Oregon
the Cunard Lino sustained its first
grave mishap, and suffered tho break of
a record that lias been singular for it
freedom from accidents. Since its start
tho Cunard Lino has been exceptionally
fortunato in ocean travel, and those
who aro inclined to bo superstitious
may find something significant in tho
fact that the lost vessel was tho first of
this lino of steamers with a namo thaO
did not end with tho letter A. But thw
good luck of this old lino seems even
now to havo stood it in good stead, in
asmuch as the wreck was not attended
by a single loss of life, a circumstance
that attests tho adinirablo disclplino of
t ho ship's crow and tho excellence of
tho general management.
It was probably another fortunato
clianco that tho Oregon did not havo its
full quota of passengers. Very rarely
indeed docs it happen that a Cunard!
steamer crosses tho Atlantic with so
small a burden of human freight as tho
Oregon carried, the rule being that all
available spaco is taken, whereas tho
Oregon had less than two-thirds the
number of people it was able to accom
modate. This no doubt proved an ad
vantage to tho officers and men when
tho life-saving work began, as another
four hundred of passengers would havo
added greatly to tho confusion and so
much increased tiio risks that it might
havo been impossible to avoid some loss
of life.
Considering tho vast travel back and
forth across tho Atlantic thero aro com
paratively few disasters, and tho loss of
lifo does not begin to equal that oc
casioned by railroad catastrophics, cvon
taking into account the great differenco
in tho passenger traffic of the two sys
tems. Though there aro certain dan
gers that can not bo escaped, now that
travel is continuous throughout nil sea
sons of tho year, ocean voyaging has
been reduced to practical safety by the-"
various operating lines, vessels being
better built and moro competently
manned than formerly, and tho com
petitive spirit is moro judiciously regu
lated. Thero aro twenty-live steamship
linos plying between European porta
and Now York, and tho naturo of their
scrvico may bo determined from the
fact that during tho year 1885 they land
ed in Now York 281,170 steerage and
55,100 cabin passengers.
Tho Central Lino is, as is pretty gen
erally known, tho most favored by first
cabin passengers, becauso of tho repu
tation for reliability and concern for
its patrons it has always enjoyed. Ifc
carried 4,000 moro cabin passengers
than any other lino last year. The
North-Gorman Lloyd, tho Hambttrg
Amencan, tho Whito Star, tho Inruarr,
and tho Red Star lines aro foremost in
steerage passengers, tho first named
from Bremen, boing far in tho lead".
Its steerage list last year numbers 68,.
!195. Tho Hamburg lino carried :)8,9 13
and tho Carr lino also starting fromi
Hamburg, 11,137 steerage passengers.
Tho six lines, which ineludo thoCunanlr
starting from Liverpool, carried 82,
819 steerage. Tho two Glasgow lines
carried 19,078. Tho lino from Ilhrvo
carried 11,551. Theso figures, which
represent a very fair annual average,
are given simply as indicating the prm
cipal sources and volume of immigra
tion to tins country from Europe, ami'
tho importance of the respective car
riers. Tho great considerations with pedplo
who pass back and forth for business
or plcasttro aro comfort, convenience
and speed, safety probably boing the.
last thing tho majority of travelers takcj
into account in booking passage. Thercc
is, of course, a groat rivalry between
tho chief passenger lines in theso sever
al particulars, and in recent years
ocean steamers havo become marvels
of elegance and completeness in all pos
sible directions. In tho matter of speed?
tho Cunard Line, with tho steamer Etrn
ria, leads tho record, having mado titer
trip from Qmccnstown to Now York in
six days, fivo hours, and forty-four min
utes. Tho America, of a tho NntionaJ
Lino, mado tho next best timo, boing:
but ten hours short of tho Etruria'e rec
ord. Eight days is now thought to be
rathor slow time. Tho refcrenco moda
abovo to tho great excess of railroad.'
accidents over those of ocean travel
may bo bettor appreciated when It io
known that from 1&7S to tho end of toa
months of 1885 thero wero killod.by.
railroad accidents not including acci
dents by walking on or crossing tradtei.
or falling from trains in motion ISfilV
parson's, turd 15,997 woro injured,
rathor formidable showing when it' i
remembered how olalrorato is the sys
tem now in operation for tho avoidanca
of accidents. Chicago Inter Occam
A Persian law ay tliat a woman may marry
at any time between ttie age of oue ami ubiety
yeara. Evidently even the ukf pi kwsM
immutable an tliow of tho Medea and lVrlB
knew that It was no use to opjKwe a wohmu
when she get the matrimonial Idea Into ir
bcuu.