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.
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