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ft" iW A - OREGON SCOUT. J(ES& CHANCEY, PuWuhers. ir.VIOM. ORK(iOV. OF GENERAL INTEREST. There exists t ill a form (if eon tract, made i tin- timo of Edward I. of England, in which a man engaged 1o sell and deliver his wife to another man. It is said when the, Poughkeepsic lirielgo is finished there will he no more Miad fishing above it, as, for some nn explained re-a-on, those fish will not pass under a bridge. A system of standard time, similar to that now prevailing for railway pur xises in this country, will probably bo adopted by the Norwegian Parliament. The time for the whole of Norway will lie one hour in advance of that of tiie Greenwich ob.-e-rvatory in England. An Eastern .-dentist wants to know why it is that along the railroads and the highways the -.ow always drifts from the high places and into the de pressions, while in lumber-yards it difts out of the depressions and ac cumulates on top of lumber piles. Chicago Times. President Frank James Morrison, of the Cre-i-out Club of Haltimorc, has lieen presented with a ring that cost ?3,G00. The central stone is an oni raltl that weighs tig carats, and is .-aid to be one of the largest and most, per fect in this country. It. is sot between two diamonds that weigh ." l-l(i carats. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gladstone, Tennyson and Lord Houghton were all 1 eirn in the year IKO'.I. Commenting on this, Holmes writes: "Persons of the same! ye'ar watch each other, especially as the sands of life begin to i nn low, as we can imagine so 11111113' damaged lieiur-glasses, to keep an eye 011 each other."- Iloston Herald. Lcandcr Smith, an aged citizen of Milan, Intl., died not long ago, and the administrate)!' of his estate, in tak ing an inventory ami appraising the effects, discovered a large! amount of hidden treasure, if 1,!(."i0 of old gold coin 1 icing found in a jar eif rancid lard, "while! either large sums were found sc- cretoel in either places. jV. J'. Sun. A merchant in Los Angeles, Cal., paw a newsboy pee'ring down into the grating in the sidewalk in front of ins store one afte'rnoon recently, and lemming that the! lit tie chap hail dropped aejuarter into the place, ami was sting ing upon the best menus of recovering his wealth, sent one of his clerks down into the cellar, recovered the coin, and nolly put it into his till. Ciieayo Jlcrald. A citizen of New Orleans recently found a rat's nest in which were eight Meek little rats. Ne-t and all were placed in a pull of water, which was nrried fifty feet from the original Ill egality of tiie ne-t. Pretty soon the mother rat came back, saw that her homo had been broken up, ami in an instant had discovered the pail, into which she plunged tei rescue horalreadj' drowned little) ernes. Never biiihla chiiniieyein brackets, nays an exchange1, for the chimney msting em brackets, when struck by lightning is entirely demolished, and not einly the chimney, but the entire bouse witli its inmates, can not escape the angry element. Not so, however, when the chimney is built from the ground. Them the electric fluid passes into the earth, doing hut little damage to any tiling but the chimney. The, results of a elay at Monte Carlo to the proprietors of the Casino and to tho Principality of Monaco are testilied in tho boxes, weigliteel with gold, e-nr-v'u-el away before the very eyes of tho l-.vrs. It is saiel that, e'lich table wins from iM.fiOO to l'L',000 a elay, which ilieiwn a gross gain from the eight tables eif from 11 2,000 to ' 1(5,000. Those sums must bo multiplied by JlGa to show tho probable yearly income. Court Journal. Tho horses in tho mountain camps of California are 111 winter provide'd with Ktieiv-sho(s. The Nevada City Transcript thus describes these shoes: "'Jo make one of the shoes you first take a piece of rubber belting about twelve inches in diameter. Fasten to ono side of it a steel plate so perforated tlvit the calks of the horse's usual .-hoe will tit in it. Then by a clamp fasten ono of these witli the rubber .-hlo down securely to each foot of the animal. J. W. Holton, eif New Haven, Conn., who is staying in Hnllalo just now, exhibited to a number of hotel guests a earel upon which had been written, in 188:1, by his cousin, MarvS. Holton, of Ellington, Conn., in a circu lar space no larger than tho butt end eif nn ordinary leail pencil, tho old and new version eif tho Lord's Prayer, with lier full name and the town and State in which she lives. It was e'oneeded to 1h a remarkable performance, but when Mr. Holton stati'il that tho work was executed in fifteen minutes, witli tho naked eyo, his listeners looked with open-moutlii'il wonder.- Iloston Globe. If Mr. Henry Lake's information 1)0 indued correct the year 1887 will be laiowu as that of the re'iliscovery of the lost violin varnish and tho mystery of "L'remonas" will he cleareel up. Olo Hull would have been most delighted by tills discovery. He gavei l.fiOO acres of land on which Pittsburgh now titands for a Stalnor Cremona, and for many years tiie chief interest eif Ids life lay In weirking witli the well known maker, Coltou, of Neiw York, to repro duce tho old varnish. Now somebody hati found It by accident, and thu meret goes back to t'lilnase ingenuity uml tliu Jooiiit lathers who brought it to the SHAYS' REBELLION. Till Mmt Herniation Inuitcnrntrtt In Mu.u cliiictt u CVntury Arc). Daniel Shays had held a captain's commission in the revolutionary war, and does not seem to have had much hi'iirt in tho re-lK'Hion to which ho has given his name. " Whoa the war of tho revolution clo-e-d, Massachusetts wa in a wretched iinaiicial condition from her efforts in the cause of independ ence. Her state de-bt was large, ami the pay of Iter soldiers was heavily in arrears. . He.-ides, she had under taken payment of to,000,000 of the de-bt of tin- Confederation. Com merce and industry were prostrate1. Money, e'xecpt depreciated papers, had disappeared from cireulatieni, and prices of tho necessaries eif living were ex orbitant. While the people were im-povori-lu'd, the courts and the lawyers wi'i e kept bu-y in endeavoring to en force the payment eif the debts. In this condition of a flairs popular discontent nro'e. As there was nei Mirpliis in the Massae'lnisctls treasury for pensions it was propoeil that the' defenders of the country should bo paid out of the property that had been saveel in tiie war. The courts anil the law yers were especial objects of rese-nt-inent, and it was propo-oel in many county conventions to abolish lawyers ami deprive them of the1 right to hold olllce. The advice was largely followed. In many place.- courts were not per mitted to open theirsi'-sions, the judges we're driven from the; bench, and tho service of writ- was obstructed. It was proposeel to i lie' irrede-onlablo Hat money a- legal ti'iider for privatedebts, and to repudiate the State debt alto I gether. In themhl-tof the popular ferment j the Legislature met and the House , passed some of the mo-t extravagant I nu'ii-ures of the malcontents, but they i were rejected by the Senate. This re j sistance only iniTea-od the1 popular fury, an! an insurrectionary army of ' about two thousand men gathered in i Springliohl, under command of General Sliavs. Governor Howdoin, who was aroused by this formidable movement, at once called out, the militia, under General Lincoln, and suspended the writ of habeas corpus. In Springlie-ld the attempt to hold a ses-ion of court was prevented by the in-urgents. Gen eral Sheparel, who conimaudi'il a mili tia force in Springliohl, took po-scs.-ion of the arsenal. On the -'7th of .January, 1787, tins army of the insurgents inarched upon the arsenal in con temptuous elefiaiice of the warning of its eoininaniler. When the insurgents advanced to the forbidden point. Gen oral Sheparel oreh'reil his troops to lire. Four men fell from the diseluirgo of a howitzer, ami three we're killed. Upon this warm rcctjptiou the rest Hod in the utmost oonfu-iou ami never halted till they were ton mile.- from Springliohl. This practically put an end to the re bellion of Shays, although some of the Insurgents lingered in the Held for several mouths. Though the insurrec tion was thus ea-ily crushed, it was not without an important iullui'iiec upon tiie; politioal history of tho country. It caused not only the people of Massa chusetts, but of the other colonics to realize the loo-e character of the con federation, to become more and more convince'el of the politii'al necessity -to form a more perfect union," in the words of the preamble- of the Fe-deral constitution, "establish justice, insure doine'stie trnnepiilily, provide for the general di'fense and secure the ble-s-ings eif liberty." For the unwitting share of Shays' rebellieiu in contribut ing to this beneficent i-onsummatior. due re-cognition should bo given. Ave Moines ((J.) Leader. A MARVELOUS CLOCK. l)c'Mrrlillui !' tin Inlrlctil,' Mcehiinlrul Wumler llt'liii; .Untie ill VlllliiKi'ii. A marvelous clock, which i-iiitendi-d to surpass the mechanical wonders of Strasliurg and Iterno is being made at Villingen in the Hluek Forest, one of the headquarters of tills branch of in dustry. It is in the Gothic style, and indicates the seconds, minute.-, hours, days, months, years and leap years, be ginning with the' lirst seconds of tho lirst ye'ar anil ending with the last se-e-ondsof lUUHU) A. l. It also indicates the eorre-i-t time for each meridian, tho phases of tho moon, and strike's the minutes, ipiartors and hours. Marvel ous iigure-s move round tho clock, time, Christianity, human life, strik ing the minutes and hours; genii, death, a patron saint, a cherub ami the twelve apostles, Christ, the four ages of man, thei four seasons, tin seven heathen gods who give the names to the elays of the week, the signs of tho zodiac and mi forth. During the day a trumpeter sounds his bugle, then comes the night watchman announcing the hours with hi.- horn, and he is relieved at dawn by a crowing cock, in spring and sum mer the cuckoo's note is heard. The angels who attend Christ in Ids hist hours are alo moving on, ami there are also a sexton and an old man who kneels in prayer. Tho clockwork fur ther sets in motion various painting.- -seven pictures of tho creation of the world and tin fourteen stations which represent the life and sufferings of Christ. It is intended to show this wonderful piece of lueehaui.-iu at tho lirst international exhibition. Corres pondence Motion Globe. Caution and Good Sense Plioteigrnpher (to Philadelphia ens tomer) Will you bo taken standing up or sitting down? Philadelphia Customer- How about tin costP Photographer Tho cost is the .-aun-. Pliil.uli lphi 1 Cnstoiui'r Then I'll it uuwu, jf H.111M . .V, J', butt. A LIBERAL MEMBER. 1111 Speech In the l.c-KWIiitiire cm the Scrund D11 y of the Simnloii. Member from Persimmon Count "Mr. Speaker: I arise, sir, to a pics tion of privilege, 1 reckon. 1 don't know much about the inside workin of a Legislature, ami if I am inakiii' a mistake in this step 1 hope you will ex cuse me. I left home in a hurry and didn't have time to change my clothes, ami in fact I didn't have no clothes to change. It makes a proud man fe-el sorter bad to be in a town without be-in' senior dressed up, and I move you, sir, that I bo allowe-d t lit: six dollars for yesterday's service', that I may sorter rig myself up. Down tho street a piece J saw a suit of edothes marked live dollars and a half, if I get my six dollars I can pay for the suit of clothes, anil, when 1 ain't got notluii' particu lar to do, git em a pleasant jamboree with tho extra lifty cents. Tho people; of this here town have accused the leiuntrv members of boin' e-lo.-e, and the reason l want tei get on tho jamboree is to show them that there ain't notion' close about me. We all admire economy,! but we e-an not re-spool a man that is stingy. .Jest before leaivin1 homo my wife said to me an' them that know her will Mow that Sue is a monstrous sensible woman, e;f she ain't none toogood-lookin' saiel tome: 'Jim, when you git eiwu thai-, don't be small. Slosh round "an' show the folks down thi're that the people eif this here community aiii't all slouches. Pay fur your shore of every thing, e-voii if it costs twenty-live cents. Don't let your colleague, Huck.-nort Fnglo.-on, 11 v Idglie-r than you elo.' I shall carry out that advie-e, sir, and elon't you fail to ketch occasional glimpses of that faet. I would like to sta." rigid here, if it ain't strotoliin' theqiio.-tioiiof privilege a leetle too fur. that I've got a mighty line two-year-old heifer for sale. She i- tin- favorite- daughter of a cow whose liberality is eelebrated all over the neighborhood and who-e breath lias not yet begun to smell of I io peiiiiyrilo hill side. This maiden h.s a gentle di-po-.-ition. and has not yet learned to injure her ribs by the- lashing of a tail that's got a two-pound yaller clay .-ling-shot 011 the end of it. She has an active but modest and unassuming ap petite, ami while she may not be wtith as much as the yaller calf that Aaron sot ii). in the wilderness, yet she is wnlh four dollarsof any man's money." Arkaitsuw Traveler. POPULAR PHRASES. Tin Oi-IkIh iT Sii.i Iiikk TI111I llari; I'uhsi-iI Into Kvery-Diiy I'm-. "Mag and baggage" is doubtless an old proverbial expression in regard to tiie movement of an army. Touch stone say.-in "As You Like It": Conic, sliephe-rd, let us make an honorable' re treat; though not witli bag and bag gage, yet with scrip and scrippage." The way in which the phrase i- used shows that it is a well known one, and the joke turns on that fact. "Dead as a door-nail" is an ohl proverbial-comparison which Sliake-spoare repeated. "Hit or miss" is part of a proverbial phrase, "Hit or miss for a cow's he-el." "Love is blind" is simply the obvious deduction from tho old fable and must bo one of the ohlest expressions in the language. "Love is blind, but seo. afar" is an old Italian proverb. "Sell ing for a song" sounds like a proverbial phrase; but whore the clown in "All's Well That Fuels Well" .-peaks of a man that "sold a goodly manor for a song," the tiling looks like a new coinage. "Fast anil loose" is not of Shakt--pe-arean origin. Tiie phrase conies from an ohl juggler's trick employee by sharpers at country fairs. "To play at fast and loo.-e" was to play this game, in which, after both ends of a string sccmcel securely fasleneel, the juggler suddenly slipped it away. "We-tward ho" is probably not a Shakespearean coinage. It was a common phra-o in his day and was tho title of a elrania by Thomas Dekker and ,101111 Web-tor. Shakespeare's contemporaries; anil "F.astward ho" was tho name of the drama In Ken .lon-011, .Maiston and Chapman, which eo-t the authors a state prosecution. "Familiarity breeds contempt" is an old proverb; the Latin form of it is: "Niiuia fuiuiliaiila eonteinptuiu parit." "Mi-cry make strange bod-fellows" is simply a ver .don of the proverb: "Mi-erj aeipiaiuts men witli strange beel-follow.-." "Ilirds if a feather Hook together" is an old proverb. - llachcstcr Kxpriss, Anecdotes Told of An Artist. A Vienna paper relate- the following two anecdotes of the arti-t Anierling. One day he met a girl of itire beauty and boldly spoke to her. She turned nwa without nn-wi-riiig, whereupon In romarkeil: "I am the painter Anierling, and would like to paint 011r portrait oil account of 011r beaut,." She gently declined the honor, whereupon he remarked: "I uiu-t paint aou even though I should have to marry you lir-t." Four weeks later the beauty, whose mother was Spani-h, was his wife, and four mouths Inter a divorce followed. "Tiie .-aelilesl thing aliout her was," he reuiarke-d, "that she did not take the -liglite'st intoro-t in my art work. 1 believe she has never looked at any of lite pictures on my wall-." Anierling was not fond of teaching Ids art, ht one ilaji a huly appeared with a girl and a-ked if lie would not instruct tier. He .-aid no, but added that if she would sit in a eorner and watch him W in king, she might elo mi. For a num ber of da, s -he lad inmo witli the girl and Anierling did not paj tho slightest attention to them, till one day ho dis covered by chance that tin- elderly lady wit the Prince Chn-tiin-of Saxony, niollur of King Carlo All i rt. A' 1'. lust. MATERNAL DUET. Two I'nulilnnnhlo Mottier Throw Somo New I.lclit cm Niirnt-ry .MniinKenieiiU Louise Oil, Helen, henv your baby grows! lie is quito catching up to Rupert. Helen -Yes; you know he's quiu four months old now. I wish lie would wake up. Louise So lie. is aroni't they toe sweet any way? Kupert has two temth, you know. Helen Oil, has he? I am crazy for 11a by to show one. 1 thought 1 felt one ye-stcrtlay, but nurso says I didn't. Louise Oh. of eotn-so not. Itupcrt was six months old before he cut his lirst tooth. Helen Was lie? Fin sure llaby will do better than that; his gums feed really hard. Louise Oil, Hupert's were hard, too, for fully two months before the tooth appeared. Helen Were they? How disap pointing! Louise Oh, yes; it was such an event the elay we discovered the little whlto pearl sticking through! 1 had been out, and Helen Oh, I elo so hope-1 - shall liiiel Baby's tooth lirst Louise And when I came in, thn dear little fellow looked up ami cooeel so sweetly. Helen llaby is beginning to know me, too. Louise That 1 couldn't wait to lay aside my wraps, but snatched him up, ami began, a- usual, to Helen llaby just loves to bury his nose in my seal kin sae-rpie. 1 put it on Mimotinics in the house just to let him enjoy it. L0UI.-0--T0 feel in Ids mouth for the My nur.-e lias me rub my thimble over the gums every elay Loni.-e Anil fancy my delight to encounter a hard substance lleh-n Hniiy seems very restless when 1 am giving him his br.tli. I think it is ids tooth. Louise Very likely. Kupert never cries when 1 bathe him. 1 give him a good meal, and Helen Oh, Louise why llaby is never bathed until half an hour after he is fe-el. Louise (impressively) My dear, you niu-t stop that at once! My book, "Advice to Young Mothers," say:-' a child should never be bathed while "I ugry. ilolon Oil, but you know Doctor Mollyi'oddle. in ids "Nursery Talks," expressly prohibits bathing a child on a full stomach Louise Fxperieneo is the best teach er, and Kupe-rt is nine months ohl, and is always fed before his bath. Helen Oh, I could never think of such a thing. Ha by might have a con vulsion! Louise I should be much more afraid of Kupert's going into a oonvul sion from over-fatigue anil restlessness if he wore bathed when hungry Helen -Oh, I don't "think so. Haby is as good as a little kitten, always. Loui-e- So is Kupert. Oh! lhve got to change my nurse! Helen What a pity! Mine is. an ex cellent one. Loiii.-c Well, Margaret is good about a good many tilings; but so carole.-, I can not 1 tut up witli her. Helen ICIizabetli needs watching, of course; she forgot to put back the crib sheets hall" -an hour before Haby was put to bed last night Liuise'--Why, 1 found t he tempera ture of tiie nur.-ery seventy-one ele grees on Monday. 1 never allow it above or below .-evvnty degree's. Helen Don't you? Doctor Molly coddle favor- sixty-eight degrees. Loui.-o My book recommend-. -evcn-ty ilegrces. Margaret is careless about other things, too; she Helen ICIizabetli, on tho whole, suit- mo very we'll. Louise Margaret didn't tako the temperature of Kup"rl's bath yester tlay. 1 w.- so afrahl it was too warm or too cold, and Helen Oh, ye-, indeed, I am so pellicular about that! Loui-e - Hut I must go. Kupert's next feeelintr lime i- twelve o'clock, and it i- half-pa-t eleven now Ilolon -Oh, but Haby has not waked up. I.oui.-e -I never ary a minute'. Helen I wanted you to sec how much darker Haby's eyes -ire Louise You must bring him over. Come in the afternoon. Kupert only goes out in tho niornii this weather, and you must see him. Helen -Oh, Haby could not be in tho air after one o'e-lock! Louise Oil, true', I forgot. Wt-li. come and sou me soon. I think Kupert's hair is going to curl beauti fully. Helen- Haby has very little hair jot -but Dr. Mollycoddle says, in his book, it will bo all tho thicker hv and Good-bye, dear! 1 saw Kate Dillingham tho other elay. Helen-Did you? Sho sent llaby a lovely pap-spoon. Louise How nico! Sho gave Kupert a set of elross buttons. Helen Poor girl 1 pity hor! Louise Oil, so do 1 such a dreary life no baby! Helen Of course, hor husband wor ships hor Louise And sho is popular with every both'. Helen Hut that doosn't make up Louiso Oh, no, indeed! Good-bye! I'm so Nfrnhl 1 shall bo lato for Kupert Htlou Good-bj'o! Haby will bo awake in another hftoon miuutus if you could only day. Vhiltp II. 11'cVi, in GOLD AND SILVER. Mnrkecl eiroutli In I unit In the Production of tin- I'rec-loii JletiiN. Statistics coinpilcel by the Well-Fargo Express Company show that in the great mining re-gion we-t of the Missis sippi the production of pre-ciotis metals e-ujuyed a period of marked growth in 180 The yield of silver, not counting the receipt- from Mexico, was iJ.Vi.Ktti, x.'iL or .?l,00:t,812 more than in I8S1', tiie best proee-eling year. The gain over was.7,G,.'0,--'o', or abmit 17 per cent. Tlu-e figures, it should bo borne in mind, are in values measured by tlmgolel standard, anil the ine.'e-.ise in the weight of bullion was propor tionately much greater, the price of -liver having been unproceilentedly low last year. As compared witli the average annual production of tiie la-t lifteeui years. 18S0 .-hows a gain of about !tdii.000,000,or -Io per cent., speak ing roughly. La-t year showed a hand-oine gain al-o in the production of gold over the three jut preceding, but in the long run the j ield of this metal in the Cuite-d States is gradually decreasing. It irradtialh roe in the region west of tho Mis-i-ippi from .t:i:?.7.'iti,0i0 in 1870 to f 1 1,880,000 in 1877. and then fell steadily to $.. lWJ.wliZ ill 188L li- 18S) it 10-1 lo i'(i.:i!t:i.7.)ti. anil la-t year there was a further advance to $21), jlil.121, tin increase over the prevl.o.H ve-ar having been .'). I(!7,(iti8, or about 12 per ee-ut, In gold, a- well 35 ir. -ilvor, tiie, pro-poets of the pre-rui year are eueouraging, ami. oven witli uit the po ible tli-covery of now min ing di-tricts. there may be another hand-oine gain. It is certain that 'he resource- of the Tinted States in llii metal have not yet boon vcrv thoroughly te-ted or a'.-proached o.x-han-tion, and altogether the milling iutere-ts of the Far We-t are evident I holding their own willi the other gre-at produi-tive intore-t- of the country. Cleveland Lender. MEXICAN HOTELS. The .sIiiiiIhIiIiii; I iiiUlli-i-c-nre Displayed by the Hotel .Men of Old Mexico. "The Mexican hotel proprietor eloes not rush forth to greet you; does not stir from his accii-toiueel repoe and ease behind hi- olliee counter, and shows not the h-ast anxictj- as to whether you -thp with him or not. I asked the proprietor what he e-hargeu per day. Ho -aitl four dollars, and that without board. 'Why don't jou run a restaurant in connection ?"' I inquired. "Oh. it would bo a bother," replied the landlord. "Why elon't you give meal.- either with board, American -tyle, and make tho profits your-elf?" "It wemhl be too much bother,'' ho replied, shrugging his shoulder-. Actually the proprietor is -o afraid of being bothered ho don't care a straw whether anj- one stop w ith lii in or not. I a-kod for a wash list to give out some linen to bo washed and wa- informed that thoj never furnished li-t- for washing nor had anj' thing to do with hiiiiidrj iug clothes, bee-aii-e it was a bother. Some of the -ervants had kin people, though, who might wash for 1110, 1 was informed. A tourist, J was told, came on ahead ami saiel to the proprietor of a hotel that he had e-iglity in his party who would arrive next day and wanted to know if any roiluctioti would be made from the regular charge of four dollars per elay, on account of the largo num ber. The proprietor with a languid sigh informed the a.-tonished tourist .hat he would charge each of his party fl.oO bee-aiise he. would have so much bother. Tho eating i nor so good anil the varii-ty of di-hes iv limited. The food 1- too highly spice-d to bo e-pooi-iillj' palatable to American-. Fruits and luxuries are scarcer than in the L'niteel States anil therefore higher priced. Gen. Porter, in Detroit Tribune. How to Mnke Yourself Unhappy. In the first plaee, if you want to make yourse-lf miserable-, be selli-li. Think all the time of yourself and your thing-. Don't care about any thing else. Have no feelings for any ono but voiir-olf. Never think of enjoying the -atisfaetiou of seeing others happy, but rather, if you see a smiling face, bo joalou- lest another -houhl enjnj what vein have' not. Euj- every ono who i better oil" in an re-poet than jour-elf; think unkindly toward them and -peak light Ij' of Ihoiu. He eoustautlj afraid lest some one .-houhl eneroach upon your right.-; bo watchful against it, and if any one conies ni-ar your things snap at him like a mad dog. Contend ear nestly for every thing that i- your own though it may not be worth a pin, for your rights are just as much coiicorni'd as if it were a pound of gold. Xever yield a point. He very sensitive, ami lake every tiling that is said to you in playfuliii'ssin tlienio.-t serious manner, lie jealous of your friends lo.-t they should not think enough of you; and if at any lime thej .-liouhl -eeni to neglect you, put the wor-t construction upon their conduct vou can. Christian Weekly. Pretty Nursery Rugs. An English waj' of making nursery rugs is to cut out animal.-, figures etc., in colored llanni-1 and sew them ongaj foundations; making Hour pictures for the babii's and -mail children to crawl upon. Some of the rug.-have domestic scones of fei'iling chickens, or women with milking pails, with a liortlcr of cows, horse's and pigs. The figure- of red or black llaiiucl are buttonholed to tho foundation and e-an be separated in wnshing. Sumo of tiie figures hio nuido uf swan's down, and can ba shaken, or hio-ely combed out, after being wa-lu d. The foundation of these vn- an- iiu..s ami fiingeil vu the end. J'ttnut Triluac. A FORTUNATE BRAKEMAN. It was reported last week that Mr. Frank Corcoran, in the employ of the 111. Central 11. 11., at the stone depot in this city, had drawn a prize of $10. 000 in The Louisiana State Lottery, and ninny bejing . incredulous about it, an -rlrti reporter interviewed hi in on the 'subject with the result of find ing the report strictly correct. He drew it on two-tenths of ticket No. To.SGG, which took the second capital prize of .f-50,000 in the drawing of a' 10th. Mr. Corcoran takes his good fortune as a matter of course, not be ing unduly elated thereby. Although a ninn of moelcst pretensions, he ,was well oft' financially before getting tho prize, and, as he remarks, "a little money docs not bother him." He ex pects to continue right along in his present position as long as the road wants him. He is, and has been for main- years, brake-man on the steam trucks at the stone depot. He is a quiet man and verj' attentive to his du ties, never being absent except when ill. He is a bachelor, about 48 years, af age. Is of Irish parentage and came to Cairo from Pennsylvania in 1852. He has no relatives living here, but has two brothers and two sisters in Scranton, Pa., all in easy circum stances. By exercising prudence in expenditures and investments he has j accumulated a larger' property than ' his prize in the lotterj- amounts to be j fore meeting with that piece of good luck. Such a prize, would completely j turn the head of many a man, but it I does not disturb Mr. Corcoran's ordi , narj' couree of life in the slightest. ' Cairo, (Ills.) Jrflies. May 23. THE CURING OF HAY. A Task AVhleli ChIU for Ccnishlerahl TliouKlitruliirm noil Work. The lime of cutting eleterniiueil. the next, step is the curing. In time of fair weather, this is not ilillieult. Oras, or any of the clovers, cut as soon as the dew is oil", will soon wilt, and bo readj- for raking into windrows,- and if niioel bo, rolling into cocks. It is now found that it, is not necos-arv to -jet hay as ehy as was once thought to be. anil perhaps was, witli the open barn then 11-ed. With tight barns, hay may be put. in epiite green, if thoroughly wilted, and take no considerable) elam ,ig! in the mow. Eve-n tho luoiloru hay-teehler is beginning to bo thought a -uperlliious article, as very little stir ring ordinarily is now found neoes-ary. Too much exposure to the sun is injur ious. H is bettor to cure hay more in the winelrow or in the cock, and not allow it to be so burnt anil elriedbv the sun and hot air as to cau-e the le-ave-: to crumble, as I have seen them do in my younger elays. There is not onl wa-te from this source, but a good deal of the goodness in some form ap pears to be dissipated. A certain amount of moisture is advantageous, and makes tho liaj- more digestible-. It hris long been well known thatherlH dried in the -hade are much preferable to thoe dried in tho sun. Drying in shade is equally advantageous to hay. This end is in a measure secured by earlj putting tho hay into winelrow- or cocks, which maj' be thrown open and e-xposeel to the air, as occasion maj 10 epiiro. (ireat care should be taken not to expose the partly i-ured hay to the blenching etl'oets of dew, or the wash ing of rain, which rapidlj' dcterioratei the epialit Hence, in fair weather, the windrow should be turned over at night, so as to expose the greener por tion to the elew, and in threatening weather the hay should be put into cock.-,. and caps be. .provided to cover Ihein in case of rain. This is a little expense and trouble, but not to such .111 extent that the saving in the quality of the hay i- not a sullicient recom pense. So much depends on epiality that nothing should be omitted which will tend to preserve it. A mow ot hay lacking in qualitj is a frauel on both the stock ami their owner, for it is not onlj- h-s- reli-hahle, but contains less nutriment in a given bulk or weight, bo-ides beinr lc.-s digestible; and tho ell'eets of using such hay are Mire to cause a slower growth and de velopment, if not to cheek them alto gether, and cause di-terioratiou all eif which U -ens future cash receipts. In ferior hay requires more grain 'feed, a.s however freelj- fed, the stu.-k can hard ly be expected to eon-nino enough more in quantity to make up for the loss in quality. If an additional amount should bo consumed, it would produce too great mechanical disten sion of the stomachs and intestines, ami overtax tho digestive organs. Hence, too much attention can not bo paid to the qualitj' and condition of fodder, and in all eases eif inferiority of these) there should be a proportionately heavy grain feeding. Prairie Farmer. Keep the Mangers Clean. Tho moro higlibreel anil spirited tho horse the more dainty lie will bo about his feed, and tho greater earo must bo taken to keep feed-boxes and mangers free from tilth. Almost any scrub would, however, refuse to eat out of mangers as then' often are loft, with portions of the uncoiisiinied hay en grain to be run over and soiled by fowl while the horse is away at work'. This is a too common condition oi many farmers' stables at this season, when increasing warmth dulls tho ap petite ami make soiicsl food doubly otlonsivo b- its decaj'. Manj' a hard workeel hor-o gets oil' lib feed, as it is said, and grows poor from this causo uione. More earo shoulel bo taken to feeil only what will bo oaten oloan, whether of hay, meal or grain. If any remains when tho horso is takou out in tho morning to work it should bo re luovud from tho foed-box and givon to ionie other animal that will eat it out side the stab!c Chicago lkrald. J X