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rum II 'ill ij IV I .11 An Epitome of the Principal Events Now Ailractinj; Public Interest Inring Trnln Jtolibery. Waco, Texas. The following par ticulars of the train robbery on the International it Great Northern Bail road, at McNeil Station, have been learned. Twelve mounted men did the work, and they went at it with so much system, and their plans worked so well, that they secured a large amount of money from the Pacific Express Company. A passenger on the train says : " When" the train pulled out at McNeil Station it was found that the agent and two gentlemen were in charge. The robbers were mounted and armed. They had rolled a log in front of tho engine, and tho ehgineeer and fireman were guarded by somo of them, while others proceeded to fire into the top of the cars. Passengers were told that if they kept quiet they would not be molested. One passenger was shot in the hand and a brakenian named White had his cheek grazed by a bullet. The e.xpns agent refused to open the ear and the robbers broke open the door and knocked tho ex pressman down. Tho safe was then Inoko open and robbed. The amount of monev obtained was variously esti mated at from $21,000 to $35,000. .After the robbers had bocurt.d the "boodle" they told the trainmen to roll the log ofl' the track and they could go. They then mounted their horses and rode away. The train was delayed only half an hour." itnir.F.K. James Mauni, aged 11, was blown to pieces at a Leadvillo, Colo., mine, by an explosion of giant powder. A dispatch from Bucharest says Bouinania is fortifying rapidly under the suporintendeneeof German ollicers. Brigadier-General Jas. L. Solfridge, shot and. killed himself at Philadel phia. He was despondent, on account of suffering fiom an incurable disease. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that Five of the men who took tho most prominent part in tho late plot to as sassinate the Czar have been executed. Owing to the refusal of the Legislat ure to appropriato funds lor tho'sup poitof malitia, the First Begimcntal National Band Guards of Missouri have distended. The will of Washington C. Depamv, of New Albany, Ind., bequeaths thieo million dollars to his family, and the residue of his estate, estimated at five millions, to benovolent and educa tional purposes, including $1,025,000 to tho Depauw university. Forest fires attacked Lake Linden, a village neur Houghton, Michigan, and tho whole town was destroyed. Tho Comet and Hecla stamp mills, with machinery valued at halt a mill ion dollars, were located there. The damage was over $1,000,000. Miss Dauvray, of New York City, has purchased for $500 a silver vase of ohusic shape and intricate design, known as a Grecian luving cup, which she will present to to the baseball club winning the pennant in 1SS7. She is 4in enthusiastic admirer of the game. Justice W. B.Woods, of the Supremo Court of the United States, died at his residence in Washington. Ho was se riously ill in California about a month ago, but improved enough to enable Iiim to go home. After his arrival be continued to grow worse. His disease was dropsy. A sleeper on tho D. it It. G. Salt Lake express was derailed near Salida, Col. Grace Leslie, hading lady of Jvato Castleton's troupe, was instantly killed. Dr. George Cox received a severe scalp wound and Pullman Con ductor Aubrey was hint on tho head and hip. After the accident tho troupe cancelled all dates and disbanded. John Becker, a farmer near Wan heim, Pa., his wife Catheiine, and their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emma Becker and little child, while crossing tho Pennsylvania Railroad in a buggy, were struck by tho Chicago limited xprcHs. Mr. and Mrs. Becker wore almost instantly killed and their daughter-in-law seriously injured, but their grandchild was carried 100 yards on the pilot of tho engine without re ceiving tho slightest injury. Miss Jano E. Hall, of Montgomery county, Pa., and her sister, have insti tuted a suit 10 recover $1,000,000 from the United States Government. Tho ladies claim to bo lineal descendants of Jacob Dellavcn, a wealthy French man, who, it is claimed, in 1777 loanid tho Colonial Government half a million francs with which to pay the troops, and during the latter years of tho struggle contributed further money. During Washington's first adminifctration Congress allowed his, claims, but there was no surplus at tho timo and tho claimant died before ho received tho money. Tho contract .for constructing tho, largest money vault in tho world has' been let by the Treasury Department. It was ordered at tho last session of Congress. It will bo erected in tho north court of tho Treasury building, tho walls being of solid urir-k four feet thick. It will not bo burglar proof, because tho forco of watchmen about tho Department is thought to bo ample to guard it. from the depreda tions of thieves, beside which en trance would firet have Jo be effected into tho building boforo tho vault -ould bo approached. It is to be fifty, one by ninoty feet and twelve feet high inside, and is calculated to hold 100,000,000 silver dollars. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. W. L. Hauser committed suicide with a revolver at San Jose, Cal. M. Cushman. aged 22, committed suicide at Yreka, Cal., by taking laud anum. Cyrus Smirs committed suicide near Blackloot, Idaho, by shooting himself. A family at Santa Cruz, Cal., were poisoned one day recently by eating Fturgeon. The dead body of an unknown man was found in the brush near Melrose. Montana. Bobert Williams was crushed to death on the steamer Virginia at Port Townsend, W.T. A Swede named Albert Wnlander committed suicide with a revolver at Noith Yakima, W.T. District Attorney Begcnsberg met his death by falling down an elevator shaft at S.m Francisco. Tho new commissioners of Douglas County, W. T have located tho County seat at Waterville. Indian Webb Testament's son, while gunning near Lewiston, Idaho, was scalped by a cinainon bear. William Pallett, convicted of horse stealing at Walla Walla, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Bobert Lynd, a lad of IS years, was killed by the accidental di.-cbarge of a shotgun at Virginia City, Nevada. John Lanier, a miner at Murray, Idaho, lately from Bodie. was run over and killed in an incline of the Yellow Jacket. A warehouse containing .'1000 tons of grain collapsed at San Francisco, killing one boy and wounding several laborers. Patrick Fitzpatrick, aged (10 years, was found dead near Taconia, W. T. His death was caused by whisky and exposure. John Henry Bogers, a negio, was was fatally shot By Policeman Grady while resisting arrest, at San Luis Obispo, Cal. A sneak thief stole a newly planted orchard at Whatcom, W. T., sticking willow sprouts in the "vacuum" left by the fruit trees. Construction of the Point Sur light house near Monterey, Cal., has begun. Congress appropriated $100,000 to complete this work. James Colligan, fireman on tho transfer boat Tacoma, was drovviud near Kalama, while trying to swim a slough after his horse. Philip Keyonbenr, a cabinet maker, aged 20, shot and killed Alary Fessler, aged 23, and then shot and killed him self, at San Francisco. Whitman County, W. T., pays a bounty on squirrel scalps, and since last February 10(5,050 of them were brought in, also 87 coyotes. Two Italians working on the night shift in a tunnel near Buona Vista, Cal., wero caught by a mass of falling rock and both instantly killed. At San Barnadino, Cal., Callahan, who killed George Terris, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Two log drivers on the Palouse Biver, Jack Boyed and John Berger, engaged in a drunken broil at Palouse City, W. T., and the former was stabbed to death. Michael F. Flanigan, convicted Jjof murder in tho second degree for kill ing va sister, Mrs. Murphy, at Gold Hill, New, was sentenced to eighteen years in the State prison. Severe cases of measles are still prevalent on Camas prairie, Idaho, and threo deaths occurred there in one week. Tho disease was carried there by immigrants from Arkansas. The origin of the lire that occurred at Butchertown, San Francisco, is still a mystery. About 500 sheep and 500 hogs were burned. A revised estimate of the loss makes the amount about $125,000. William Allen, on trial for theft at Oroville, Cal., shot the complaining witness, A. P. Frary, in open court, slightly wounding him. He said it was his intention to kill Frary and then himself. A negro harbor named Woods mur dered his wife at Pocatello, Idaho, and endeavored to escape. A icward of $500 was offered by the citizens of Pocatello, and Woods was captured at ' Corinne, Utah. I Henry Beck, an employe of the I Northern Pacific, who was working on j bridge 2G was killed by a timber fall I ing upon him while working upon the j foundation the bridge. His remains I wero taken to Elleiibhurg. A Canadian Pacific conductor at Donald, B. C, was playing poker with a gambler named McGinty, alias " Pedro Jack." Tho latter was discovered cheating and tho conductor shot him fatally. Tho conductor escaped. Tho San Francisco mint haa started up on tho convereion of trado dollars into dimes. lao lirst turned out wore $500 worth in one day. It is the intention to countinuo coining dimes until $50,000 worth have been pro duced. The Piepan Indians of Montana, says tho Bozeman Chronicle, have made over $-1000 this spring skinning tho carcasseH of cattle which perished in tho enow. Tho Indians received seventy-five cents for every hido they brought in, and they exhibited such industry that it beeamo necc esary to wntflh tho herds to prevent them frjm skinning every animal iu the Territory, doad or alive. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. Near Scio is a red paint mine. Albany is to have a fruit cannery. Trout are very numerous on upper Willow creek. Baker City is to have a now steam planing mill. Tho Dalles will soon bo lighted with electric lamps. There are 720 fishing boats on tho lower Columbia. Carlton, on tho West Side road, will have a new depot. The measles are prevailing in Prino ville, Crook county. Lexington has a new town bell weighing 530 pounds. Milton G. Hope bus been appointed postmaster at Vale, Baker county. The residence of A. 1). Culps, near Pilot Bock, was burned ; loss,$S00. George Jackson who lives on Bogue Biver, has this year forty acres of wa termelons. Tho Dalles ships an average of 40 boxes of salmon, 100 to L"0 pounds each, every dav. Tho OreL'on it Califo mill lv'iilri-1'iil company has built eight new stock corrais at urain. Independence hadji fire which de stroyed the residono.e'of Honry Crow. It was insured for $070. Twenty-one tiro plugs are being placed in the streets of Pendleton for liru and street purposes. Over M,000 head of sheep were started recently, via trail, for Kansas. Mot of them were purchased In Baker county. Francis, an eight-year-old son of Fred. Oberg, of Astoria, broke his thigh while playing with some school mates. At Mountain Valley, Umatilla county, William McChesney's resi dence was entered and its contents do moliched. Two box cars ran into the river at Bay's Landing, one was loaded with wheat. A break gave way, causing the accident. Tho postoilice name for Kennewick, the station on tho west side of the Columbia at the Northern Pacific crossing, is Tehe. Frank Berico, who bit the ear ofl' a man- named Wallace, at Wallace's Island, has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Bogus live-dollar pieces are said to be freely circulated in Jacksonville. The counterfeit is said to be a good ono and hard to detect. Many farmers in Linn county, oppo site Corvullis, are losing their colts through some mysterious disease that is not thoroughly understood. A Grant's Pass paper learns that one of the G.iridelli brothers, miners on the upper All house creek, lost his life by a bank caving on him. The convict, Morton, who broke away at Blalock's, is paying for the attempt in forty days' solitary confine ment., on a diet of bread and water. Brank Border, a German, aged '15 at Gray's Bay, while working in tho woods was struck in tho head by a falling limb of fir, Ho was put in a fishing boat for town, but when half way across the river died. He leaves a wife and live children. Brigadier-General Siglin, of tho Ore gon National Guard, has announced the following ollicers of his staff: As sistant Adjutant-General, Thomas G. Owen, of Maishliold, Coos County; Quarter-Master-General, L. II. Mom taye, of Albany; Aides-do-Camp Palmer Wheat, of Portland, and Isaac A. Manning, of Salem. Near, Silver City, Paul S. Gordon, a -10er, met with a horriblo death, hav ing had his foot caught iu the spring of a buekboard to which was attached a span of horses that wero running away. Tho horses ran for live miles before they wero caught, when tho mutilated body of deceased was found beneath the buckbo.ird. Albany Herald: A young man aged 23 years, who was born and raised live and a half miles south of Brownsville, was in tho city for tho first tinio in bra life, and had never before rodo on the steam cars. That a young man should reach that age and remain so exclu sively at home, without even visitrng tho county soat, seems remarkable. Ed. Doty and Dick Lupert caught a largo bear in a trap at Kings valley, but the bear got off with tho trap arid went to tho Luckimute, where he swam with tho trap across tho stream. Ho then went down tho creek with the trap about two miles, whoro ho got caught between two saplings and was held fast until tho hunter camo up and killod him. A correspondent writing from Day's creok to a Boseburg paper, says ; Some parties by the namo of Vaughn, hav ing brought their cattlo to tho Elk creek country from Jackson county last fall, came down this week to seo how thoy had spent tho winter, but to their surmise found nearly fifty head shot down on tho range. This is rather severe treatment to receive in a civilized country. Tho Indians have solected their por tion of the reservation, Fays a Pendle ton paper. It will bo from four to fivo miles from Pendleton, and begin at a point about three miles south of the Indian school and run a straight lino until it strikes the Wild Horse creek at or in tho vicinity of Adams, then following tho Wild Horse to tho moun tains. This body of land will contain about 125,000 .acres, and inoludos all of tho wood and grazing lands allowed tho Indians by the bill. MARK TWAIN AS A FARMER. A Speech That lie .Mlht llnvn Di-IIvitpiI llrfuri an ARrlculturiil Club. 1 have been introduced to you as an experienced agriculturist. (Laughter.) 1 love the farm. Adam loved the farm. (Laughter.) Nodi loved his vineyards, Horace loved the farm, as is shown by that great book, "What I know about Farming." (Laughter.) Washington, Webster and Beeeher wore allured by the attractions of agriculture. Some one said to Beeeher: "Keep your cows out of my shrubbery." "Keep your s rubbery out of my cows," replied Beeeher. "It spoils the milk." Laughter.) Hogs are hard animals to drive over a bridge. (Laughter.) 1 once saw a man carried several miles on the back of a hog that turned back in opposition to the solicitations of tho driver on ap pro filing a bridge. (Laughter.) 1 tell you of a -afe way to get hogs over a bridge: Kill them and' draw them over in a wagon. (Laughter.) Hogs are fond of spring lambs and spring chickens. Hogs will eat their own otl-pring if no lambs or chick ens are ollcrcd in the market. (Laugh ter.) When a boy I was solicited to escort a pig to a neighbor's farm. A strong rope tied to the pig's leg was placed iu my hand. 1 d:d not know before the speed and strength of a pig. (Laughter.) But they do not run the way you want them to run. (Benewed laughter.) A pig can draw a canal boat with the tow-line tied to his hind leg. but 1 would not insure the canal boat. Hogs are cleanly, orderly, silent and not bent on mischief (laughter) lieu cut up and salte I and in a tight barrel, with, a heavy weight on the lid. (Prolonged laughter.) This is all I know about hogs. I love cows. (Laughter.) What so meek and low-ly (laughter) as a niooley cow? City people are fool hi to be frightened at cows. I was never hurt, by a cow but oiiee. He shook his head at mo from behind a strong gate. 1 felt the security' of my position and shied a pumpkin at hi in. He came through the gate as though it was a spider's web, and ihen I was sorry 1 did it. (Laugh er.) ' This kind of a cow should not be fooled with unless you are tired of niootony. (Laugh ter.) The poet loves to dwell upon milkmaids, milking time and lovers sparking over the farm yard gate, but no such poet could ever have milked a cow in 11 v time. (Laughter.) lean not imagine a successful love suit at such a season. I milked the cows one night when the boys were oil' on a Fourth of Juiy. (Laughter.) That is, 1 milked one and one-half cows. (Laughter.) The last one was so busy knocking oil' Hies with her hind foot I thought I had better not disturb her longer. A pail of fresh milk kicked over a boy does not improve his clothes or temper. Some say I milked from the wrong side. (Great laughter.) I thought I would bo sure anil be rifht, so I niibied half on one side and half on the other. (Renewed laughter.) I was on the other side when she knocked oil' most Hies. Can any one tell me why a cow should be permitted to dictate which side a man shall milk from! 1 claim the right of my choice at least half of the tim . Sheep are my special delight. How giaeofully the lambs gambol over the green. I trust you never gamble over the green. Nothing so patient anil modest as a sheep. (Laughter.) Some say a scamp is the black sheep of the (lock, but a black rheep is just as re spectable as any, and the color lino should not thus he drawn. (Laughter.) 1 once fished on the hlull' and "casually discovered a sheep with large crooked horns coming at me with head down and lire in her eyes. The tish were not biting well, so I left my sport and dodged behind a stump. The slnep fell on the rocks below and broke her neck. For this act I have since been accused of non-protection of the wool trallic This reminds me of a commis sioner of agriculture iu old times who purchased six hydraulje rams for the improvement of Ahi'iricau Hocks. (Proloncd laughter.) Feather beds are made from geese, but all woolen goods and drums are made from sheep skins. (Applause.) I take great pride in tho horse. "He is the noblest Roman of them all." (Laughter.) I once led Stephens' horse to water. How proudly ho arched his neck and tail. He was so fond of mo he, tried to embrace me with his front feet. But I was so shy ho turned about and playfully knocked my hat ofi" with his heels. (Laughter.) I told Stephens 1 thought horses looked much better walking on four feet than on two feet, A horse presses hard when your toe is caught under his hoof. I speak not from theory, but from actual experi ence. (Laughter.) 1 went riding with Stephens' horse and he shied and danced prnvokingly. "Treat him kind ly," said Stephens; "never heat a horse." By and by Stephens thought he would get out and walk for exercise. "You may let him feel the lash a little now," said Stephens. "A little discip line now will do him good." (Pn longed laughter.) Here is a composition I wrote on fanning when a hoy: Fanning is healthy work; but no man can run a farm and wear his best clothes at tho same time. Either the fanning must cease while tho new elothos continue, or the now clothes must cease while fanning continues. This shows that fanning is not so clean work as beluga Congressman or schoolmaster, for thoso men can wear good clothes if they can find nionoy to pay for thuni. (Laugh ter.) Farmers get up early In tho morning. Thoy say tho early bird catches tlt-i worm. If I was a bird 1 had rather got up lato and eat ohiimos tu place of worms. (Laughter.) Farmers don t paint their wagons when they can help it, for they show mud toe quick. The color of their bouts is red, and don't look like other people's boots, because they are twice as big. (Ap plause.) Farinc s' wives have a hard time cooking for hired men, and the hired men find fault with the fanners' wives, cooking. Why don't farm ers' wives let the hired men do the cooking while they do the finding fault. ((treat applause.) Fanners dbn't get as rich as bank pres idents, hut they get more exercise. (Prolonged laughter.) Some ask: "Why don't fanners run for Con gress?" They run so much keeping bins out of their peach orchards and melon patches they don't have any time to run after any thing else. If Con gress should run after fanners, one might be caught now and then. Law yers can b' at farmers at running for most any thing. 1 know a fanner who tried to run a line fence according to his notion. The other man objected and hurt the fanner. The fanner hired a lawyer to run his line fence, and now the lawyer runs the farmer's farm ami the fanner has stopped running any thing. Speaking of running teniiiids me of our calf that ran away to the woods. There were not enough men in the county to catch that calf. We turned the old cow loose into the woods and she caught the calf, proving tin' old saving that it takes a thief to catch h thief. (Laughter.) -iV. 1". World. THE GROOM TROTTED. How a Itrltlo from tin- Country l'rmctt lt.- Authority With C.rciit Sticri-n. lie was a tall, lanky young follow with watery blue eyes, faded hair, and a mustache which looked like a streak of rod paint. From head to foot he was attired in store clothes, and but for a very pronounced expression of anxiety on his face he might have passed for a jolly young fanner seeing the city. In his arms were half a dozen bundles, and beside him stood a pretty young woman, who wore over a silk iross a plush cloak of fashionable make and a Cleveland hat. The color on her cheeks was suggestive of long acquaintance with country air. It was plain as a whitewashed fence that they had but rocontl' been married. They stood on the corner of Clark and Madi son streets and watched the cars go by for a few momenta, and then he said, with a little cough of importance: "Well, Sarey, 1 reckon we'll git on one of these cars and ride over tew the depot. It's 'bout time we was goin'." "Mercy, Steven, how you talk. There ain't no use of ridin' when we can just walk over to the dapo." "Now, Sarey, I'm s'priscd at you op posiif what 1 want to do. I'm your husband, ain't I?" sputtered the young man. "And I'm your lawfully wedded wiife." replied the bride with great as perity; "but we might jest as well have it out right here. It nin'tn speck nioro'n fivo squares to the dapo, and that ain't ,uo further than it is from our house to the pump in the mender, an' you've got to walk that, every lnornin' and night, suro's you're a foot high. You can't take no street car for that pump, an' you can't save ten cent no quicker an' no better way than jest n-trojtin' over to that dapo with me. You can argue or trot, jest which you choose, hut I ain't goin' to get into one of them cars if I staid here till Sally Wiggins' baby is an old man." He decided to trot. Chicago News. MISLED BY MIS WIFE. Her I)cKrrlit.!oii XV m Sloro Tlmii niowlnir. Hut tint Words Ciiiiio Clicup. The picturesque is always a feature of a woman's description of any thing. Slie talks grandiloquently of colors, ami if you hear her describe a table cloth you fancy its a gorgeous thing of tapestry or some equally ell'ectivo pic ture. "My wife," said the husband to the man in the store, "has sent me for something she looked at yesterday." "Yes!" "This is tho description of it," and he pulls out a piece of paper which has in II a inn description oi an eiaoo aiu pattern of myriads of colors, and all in nomenclature that souu Is like some elaborate picture. "You'll excuse me, I can't remember the blamed thing." "That's all right, I know what she means." "You'll please wrap it up vory care fully, for if itgets spoiled before it gets there she'll ho mad."- "Certainly." Then tho man goes to a shelf and pulls out roughly a piece of something. Hold on," says tho husband, "that can't be the thing, That's chintz, or damask or soniotlihig, ain't it?" "This is tho article, sir. "What does it cost?" "Forty cents a yard." "Great Scotti Forty cents a yard! I thought from tho description it would come to about ono dollar." Han Fran cisco Chronicle. Knew a Thing or Two. "There," said Fill rip to his friend Dilhy, "there Is a man who has a knowledge of the fitness of things!" "Why, yes," said Dllhy, "ho has an intelligent face what is he?" "Oh, he's my tailor," answered Fil trip, eyeing his new suit complacently. -r-JJctr'oit Free 1'rc-in. The connection between phrenolo gy anil farm work has .been demon strated by an Ohio fanner who has sent a demand to Castle Garden for a farm boy, "a Protestant Irish boy of from twelve to fourteen years old, anil wish him taken to a phrenologist to have his hoad felt," -A'. Y, Herald. A CARNIVAL OF DEATH. Acinic of Mm Horror of tho Pnnilnn Pn-viUlliit- In Imlln In IS?S-':0. After being delayed a week at Jooty, where at the Government expense I lived sumptuously, I was ordered to Madras, where I did not fare so well, but was finally ordered to Tinnevelly. the most southern state in all India. From thence I was sent to Ootipa tlarani, where the eollec'or had catnl lislted a huge camp, and where tu thousand to twelv-i thousand pauper were being fed. The village of Ooti padaram sits on a huge treeless plain, which plain iu better years raised vast amounts of grain, and the village was the most thriving of that district. But now its rich Brahmins wero dead. Used to a life of ease and plenty, they had been the first to succumb to want and privation, and there in their houses with their hands clasped across their knees, or writhing on the tloor in agony, the' had gasped out. their breath calling on God for succor. Women who were once beautiful lay dead with their children iu their arms, ami on the putrid bodies on tho grim skeletons lay golden anklets, bracelets, ear-rings and the fine golden platter which adorns the wealthy Brahmin woman's head. Jewels lit for crowned heads lay scat tered about jewels which had been oll'erod for a handful of millet, and had been refused, and through all this gloom and misery stalked the profes sional beggar, poking and prying" to find something with which to stay tho gnawing at his vitals. There were thousands of human be ings busy making tho camp, and vory little food. But the grain was coining, coming as fast as oxen could drag it, and tho man' hungry people, elated with hope, strug gled bravely against death. In all that. vast and starving crowd there was no murmur. Once or twice an importun ate woman would catch my leg anil ask whether it were true that tho grain was coining. No shudder of hoiror electrified their frames when thrice each day the carts laden with dead would pass from out of the camp and (lump the hudies iu the long trenches. At last the grain train came. Every pauper outside the camp was driven iu and securely locked up within the fence. The grain was unloaded but the food they so anxiously wanted to eat was denied many a one. The strain in many instances was too great. The joy was too violent, and in sight of plenty they died. And after the arrival of the grain the camp was organized and two daily doles were made one in the morning and one iu the evening. The dole consisted of rice and chile water, and after the first day's food tho mortality in the camp was frightful. It rose to over one thousand a day. The paupers were ranged in long lines; each was furnished with a platter, into which was thrown the rice and then sprinkled with chilo water. Ere the hand could convoy the food to the mouth the expectant eater would he dead; others whilst gulping down their food would he seized with convulsions; some who had finished their rice would linger an hour or so, tholr stomachs swollen to an incredible size, and die raving maniacs; somu would dash their heads against, the ground delirious from joy. Iu every horrid shape stood death death iu every revolting and hideous form. Cor. Sun Francisco Chronicle. 'SOME FANCY TRIFLES. ItlriM'tluiiM lor MiiUlin; I rcx lic led Uiutier mill Snrvli'iMililo llriiHh IIoIcIith. Aii ornamental little all'air for tho coimnode iu a sleeping-room, and ono that Is vory useful iu a sick-room, where rat ling, clashing noises are to be avoided, is a liusher for the lower half of tho ewer. It is erouhoted of white knitting cotton. Make a chain of nine stitches, close it into a ring, and work into it loops of nlno chain stitches each. Into these work loops of seven stitches each, working round and round, ami widening at rogular in tervals to keep tho work flat, until you have a circular pieeo as large as a tea plate. Then work about an Inch more without widoning. But In work ing this last inch crotchet back and forth instead 'of round and and round, so as to leave a placket at one side. Somewhere in tho depth of this inch, crochet an orna mental stripe, hut tho last row must ho opon work, into which when tho work is finished, is run a tasseled cord of scarlet wool. Sot tho owor down in the center of tho husher, draw tho crochet work up ovor it vory tightly, cross tho cords under tho handle of tho ewer, then bring them outside tho handle and tie thero in long loops, lot ting the tassels fall about an inch. Another pretty, easily made trifle U a pocket for the handle of tho hair brush or hand mirror. This is crocheted of single or split zephyr iu the same stitch used for tho ii.fslier. Shape it to fit the handle, but make it only two-thirds tho length of tho handle since it looks best drawn ovor it very tightly. The draw ing string I a twisted cord finished with hall tassels. This little affair keeps tho handlo free from grease, be sides being very ornamental. When a hand mirror is to bo given as a Christ mas present, one of these llttlo pockets tied over tho handlo adds much to tho beauty of the gift. Crazy patchwork of velvet makes a pretty holder for uso about a parlor stove. Cut it in diamond shape, lino with woolen, and hind with dross braid. Tho pieces of velvet not qulto fresh enough for other uses do very well for this purpose. Velvet vrnny work also makes a handsome border for table scarfi. Xclly Browne, in iowje-hold.
