Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1887)
f TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Ad Epiiomo of the Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest Joseph Cheshire died at Hardens- ville, Ohio, aged 112 years. The reduction of the public debt i during the month of July was $5,000, OOO. Eighty-eight persons were summa rily executed near Shanghai for be longing to secret societies. Oliver and Elmer Brumbaugh, sons of a wealthy farmer, were drowned while bathing near Canton, Ohio. The President has appointed Charles Challie Long, of New York, to be Sec rotary of Legation and Consul General at Corea. Tho'election just held in Utah pre sented tho strange anomaly of a nephew of Brigbam Young running on a Gentile ticket. ' At Lynchburg, Vn., in a shooting match Englisle rules, Dr. Carver broke tho world's record, killing fifty pigeons, and making a clean score. The Glenn bill, making it felony to educate white and black children in I tho same school, was passed by tho ' deorgia House by a vote of 121 to 2. Tho Austrian mint has received or ders to make G0,000 silver and bronze war medals, bearing an efligyof Prince Alexander, for distribution in tho Bul garian army. A drunken fight took place at tho christening of a child in Brooklyn, in which ono man was stabbed to death, and a man and woman fatally stabbed and two other persons seriously cut. According to the oflicial reports there were 10,230 deaths from cholera Chili during the period from January to June of this ear, and the govern ment expended $1,007,000 fighting the epidemic. " A freight train on the Atlantic &, Pacific plunged into a canyon over which the bridge had been burned, re sulting in tho death of tho engineer and fatal injury of tho fireman and brakeman, near Needles, Cal. Sergeant Clark, of the Twenty-third U. S. Iufantry, has been acquitted of the charge of murder in shooting a private who was attempting to escape from a military prison near Detroit. The Court held that a soldier must obey the legal orders of a superior offi cer. A disastrous tornado passed over the town of David, Neb. One man was killed and over half the buildings de molished, including the Union Pacific and Burlington and Missouri depots, tho large brick schoolhouse, the Meth odUt and Congregational churches, several stores and many dwelling houses. Mrs. Nellio Grant Sartoris is about to leave England and take up her abode permanently in New York. Ai leron S. Sartoris, her husband, will not it is said accompany her, but will ro main abroad to enjoy his clubs and his races, very much in the same man ner as has been his habit for several f. years. A beer kettle in a browery at Green Bay, Wis., exploded, scalding seven men, six of whom died August Dol forgo and two sons, J. B. Herbe, John Biemert and Goorgo Hrbe. Delforgo and Biemert leave families. Tho ket tle held 700 barrels of boiling water, which poured over the victims, literally cooking tho flesh. A construction train on tho Chicago & Alton road, on which were nearly ono hundred laborers, was run into by a freight train. The trains met on tho OrendoriT bridge, near Hopidale, 111. The following were killed on tho construction train : Martin Bunseth, James Brown, Frank Drake, Piano Barlow and James Kellogg. A dozen or more were seriously injured. A special from llichmond, Ind., says: As Joseph Rich, a farmer, and his wifo and eighteen-months-old " babo, his wife's motlier, Mrs. Hannah Newccmb, were returning home from town, their carriage was struck by a train on tho crossing just west of tho city limits. Mr. Kich, Mrs. Nowcomb and the babo wero instantly killed, all three being horribly mangled. Mrs. Bich escaped with serious injuries. A fire in a Chicago tenement houso resulted in the death of two persons and tho injury of ten others, livo of whom will probably die. Tho two dead are Mrs, Trugo and her two-year-old daughter. They wero being low ered on a rope from the third story and about to bo rescued by Captain Cowan when an outburst of smoke enveloped them. Tho woman and child and Captain Cowan fell into tho flames bo low. They wero pulled out, but tho mother and infant were dead. Tho Captain ie dying. Tho other four per f sons supposed to bo fatally injured are all young members of tho Trugo family. Suit has been commenced in tho Utah Territorial Supremo Court, tin der direction of Attornoy-General Gar land, against tho Mormon church, for confiscation of $3,000,000 in proporty alleged to bo unlawfully held by tho church, and for tho appointment of a receiver to wind up tho affairs of tho incorporation known as tho Church of Jesus ChriEt, Latter-Day Saints. Tho proceedings aro instituted in conformity to tho provisions of tho Edmunds law, , which disincorporated tho organiza- tion and declared nil its property in excess of $50,000 escheated to the gov ernment, and applied to tho benefit of tho public schools of tho Territory. Tho church ha9 immense possessions of every shapo, but held in such a , manncrthatitis thought almost impoe . Biblo for tho government to got hold of them. The suit was not unexpected by the church, and it has boon pre paring for it by transfer. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of Farmers and Stockmen. I'oultry Culture. In this article it is intended to give all tho facts and hints necessary for tho amateur or humblest beginner who is oagtr to do something in tho line of poultry-raising and mako the enterpriso fairly profitable. Without the keeping of accounts tho poultry man cannot certainly know whether ho is going up or down. He should not only make a record of all expenses and all poultry and eggs not sold or con sumed, but thero aro other items of experience of which he should make memoranda. For instance, ono per son of our acquaintance kept a flock of forty-two Horn! an hens. Ho fed them regularly on scalded wheat bran in tho morning, with tho addition of a small quantity of refuso meat and all tho turnips they wouid cat, and at night gave thorn a feeding of dry wheat. Ho got from tho flock an averago of twenty-four eggs per day. Then ho made a chango of diet ; gave a plenti ful supply of wheat in tho morning, and hard, dry corn at night, with no meat. The cost of feeding was about tho samo in both casoe and now tho income. Tho eggs decreased imme diately, and in less than two weeks tho daily number was thirteen. This was a fact worthy of record, and our friend thought ho know exactly what was the matter. ,Ho quiokly resumed the for mer practice, and the egg record went I to an average of twenty-four. Thou he left off meat ontirely and substituted a I full supply of skimmed milk. There I was no decrease in oggs, but a slight increase. A record should bo kopt of such ex periments and their results, but thore is really no necessity for very mauy experiments in feeding. Thoso have been made and published time and again, so that ho who reads may know that full feedings of dry corn given to fowls when confined to small yards will not conduce to large numbora of eggs ; in fact, in this climate it is much better not to use corn at all. Accounts havo been kept by many of our corres pondents owning from twenty to ninety layers, and it has demonstrated what wo have claimed timo and again in tliene columns, that a profit may bo ob tained from $2 to $-1 annually on each hen kept. But in most instances thero is no account kept, and only a guess in regard to tho question of profit or loss. Thoro havo alBO been acodunts kept of poultry on a larger scale, with slightly smaller profits per head. All necessary accounts may bo kopt in a email noto-book that can be carried in tho breast-pocket. There is no elabo rate book-keeping, yet there are many uses for such a book. Wo all know how often points for consideration oc cur to us at inopportune timoi and fade from our memories and booomo lost unless noted down. A few words written with a pencil in tho noto-book may become valuable, as preserving prices oflbred or accepted, paid or duo, orders received, expressago to loading points, dates of hatching, ago of stock markings of different strains or fami lies in fact, such a little note-book may contain a Bulficient record of ovents to guido the breeder next year to facts that ho will think arc of somo importance. No matter how good our memories aro, thoy cannot bo expected to retain tho events of a year ago as satisfactory as the written remem brance in our noto-l)Ooks. By all means wo advise poultry keepers to keop a strict account with their poultry. Chargo tho fowls with their cost, rent of building, cost of feed and the valuo of timo dovotod to their care. Give credit for eggs produced, poultry sold or used for food, and tho valuo of stock, old and young, nt tho olose of the account. At tho end of the year thoro will bo a sound argu ment in the form of figures to prove that poultry-keeping pays, if tho bus iness has been rightly done; if not tho truth will not hurt in tho long run, for a careful survey of the accounts may show that there has been an unnec essary leakage somewhere, that may bo stopped. Somo beginners make mistakes, at first, in any business. It is quito as important to bo awaro of losses as of gains. This is not written for tho men of ample means, who keep fowls for pleasure, but for the thou sands who would bo thrifty and con duct a poultry business, largo or small, in the very best way. It is not enough to know in a gen eral way that fowls scorn to bo doing pretty well. To know what wo aro about, and what kind of labor pays best, wo must havo a system and not go hap-hazard or by jerks. We ought to know how different kinds of food affect health or egg-productions; how a dollar's worth of oats or corn com pares with tho samo valuo in wheat or barley, in lasting or nutritive qualities. The "egg machine" should run with the leaBt possible friction, with no un necessary waato of powor. Then, too, tho keoping of a memoranda as wo havo suggested, will enablo tho breeder to givo moro accurato descriptions of stock to those who wish to purobaso birds, in caso fancy fowls aro culti vated. Ho can readily state the exact ago, strain, or family of particular birds. Tho ability to state to a custo mer that a certain cockerel sent to him is from a mating last year of "Nero," weighing ten pounds, with "Bess," weighing eight pounds, etc., instead of stating vaguely that said cockerel was from good eiro and dam, is worth moro than thoso who havo not tried such a method may suspect. Keop accounts and mako notes. Hog Cholera. Raisers of hogs in Eoveral widely separated localities havo of lato suf fered more or less from the prevalence of hog cholera. Many largo bands have been killed oil by the disease, ami whilclittlohas been publicly said about the matter, it is a well-known fact that the ravages of the malady havo caused serious loss in many places. Those who have lost by the appearance of the dieeaso have more than once been puzzled to account for its appearance They know that is generated by ex cessivo filth and is communicated by contact with diseased animals, but why it should suddenly break out in a band which had never been oxposed to con tagion, and whose surroundings were in as clean and healthy a condition as possible, ha been an unfathomable mystery to them. Yet such has been the coso moro than once, and no ono has been able to solvo tho problem. A correspondent of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, however, thinks that he has hit upon tho solution, and cer tainly his theory has many elements of plausibility. Ho says: "A farmer of my acquaintance, in this locality, informed me that while picking corn ho found three fragments of swine flesh in hie cornfield on the ground. Ono fragment was about the sizo of a man'B thumb, the other two pieces wore smaller. Tho appearauco of tho three fragments indicated that they had been torn, not out, from the car cass of a hog. Now, as tho hog chol era provails to an alarming extent in this neighborhood, and crows abound in this locality, and tho said farmer noticed crows in thoir flight crossing and ro-crossing ovor his liold during tho day ho found tho fragments of flesh, ho is quito confident that theso pieces of fresh swino flesh were drop pod by tho crows. It would teem from tho above that it is very important that all hogs dying from diseaso should be burned or buried immediately, in or der to provont the diseawj from being carried from ono farm to another by crows and Hep li-ca ting birds. Carrion-eating birds aro more abun dant on tho Pacific Coast than any- whore elso. Between the turkoy buz zard and the crow thero aro very few carcaeees of animals, from whatever cause they may havo died, which do not receive attention, and tho danger of contagious diseases being thus spread is tenfold greator hero than in States cost of the Kooky mountains. For this reason farmers who havo any stock die, whether from infectious mal adies or otherwise, should see to it that tho carcasses are at onco burned or buried to far out of Eight that resur rection by carrion-huntors, cither bird or quadruped, is impossible. A lit tle timo and labor spent in this man ner will often save thousands of dol lars in.ft community. Tho matter is an important ono and should reccivo universal attention, especially on this coast, where tho custom is now and alwayB has been to lot the bodies of animals remain wherever they happen to fall, to pollute tho air and breed con tagion. Ntrny Onttlc. In Canada, ob in most other commu nities, when a farmer, picks up a stray animal, ho cares for it, advertises it and calls upon tho owner to provo prop erty, pay charges, and tako tho animal away. To tho ordinary mind this plain transaction appcarB very straight forward, and to offer but a small op portunity for fraud. But the mind of tho swindler is equal to tho occasion, and can convert this sirnplo matter of advertising an eetray into a swindle upon tho farmer who advortiscs. Theso swindlors, as usual, hunt in couples, according to tho Sarina (Out.) Observer. They read tho local news papers carefully, and when a farmer publishes an estray notice, No. 1 calls to look at tho animal. Tho farmer shows tho beast, and tho follow de cides it not his ; then ho return to his partner and describes it minutely to him. No. 2 goes to tho farmer and after proving by a thorough descrip tion that ho is the owner of the ani mal, says ho cannot tako it away and offers to sell at a bargain. Tho farmer buys it, and in a few days tho rightful owner comes and claims the animal. This is a swindle which may roadily tako in an honest farmer and it prob ably will not bo confinod to tho bor der. Farmers, fjewaro how you pur chase estrays. It is claimed that sorrol an bo erad icated from fields by tho generous ap plication of unleachcd wood ashes. Nover nso sulphur on tho bodies of young chicks, for gapes or any other disease Lard and sulphur applied while in the downy stato will caueo sores and severe torture, and eomotimos death. After shearing, ticks will emigrate from the shorn sheep to the lamb ; then is tho timo to drivo the ticks out of tho flock. Watch the lambs, and when tho ticks havo colonized then dip into tobacco water. Twelvo to fifteen pounds refuso tobacco boiled in a gallon or two of water, thon diluted to mako ono barrel, will do for 100 lambB. A stock raiser reports that ho de stroys lico on cattlo by boiling pota toes until they are thoroughly cooked, thon removing tho potatoes, allowing tho woter to boil down to one-half tho quantity to increafo its strength. Tho water is thon used on the animals as a wash. Two quarts of potatoos boiled in three gallons of water aro tho proper proportions. It is assumed that, of courso, tho milk-pail should be most thoroughly washed night and morning, and as soon os possiblo after tho cow is milked. At this season n Blight noglcct in this matter will Boon mako the milk unfit for use. Half of tho complaints of milk aro duo to carelessness of hand ling it, and especially in cleaning tho cam in which it is carriod around for aalo. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California, Sailors arc in demand at Port Town send. Thero are 3 10 residences in Colfax, an increase of GO in a year. The Benton vineyard, near Fresno, Cal., has been sold for $1,000,000. The town of Camptonville, Cal., was almost ontirely swept away by lire. Joseph Vipond was run over and killed by a coal car at Carbondalo, W. T. John Edwards, a musician, fell into tho bay at San Francisco, and was drowned. Tho convicts in tho prison at Walla Walla havo been put to making soap and brick. Thero are 915 school children in So attle, and a $30,000 schoDlhouso is to bo erected. The Catholic Sistors will croct a three-story brick school building at Yakima, W. T. Four hundred men will bo required to build tho Biiow-sheds at Stampede tunnel, N. P. 11. R. A large female cougar was killed in Vancover, W. T. She swam tho river from tho Oregon side. John L. Sullivan, a twelve-vcar-old boy, fell oil' a wharf at South Vallejo, Cal., and was drowned. At Los Angelos, Cal., a Spaniard named Calazada killed his wifo bv shooting her five times. The Manitoba road is now 150 miles west of Euford, and coming west at tho rato of live miles a day. Father Hylabas. of Tacoma, has been elected Vicar-General of tho dio cese of Washington Torritory. Fred Arenson, a section man em ployed on tho Utah Northern road, was drowned in Blackfoot river. V. It. Lancaster, a farmer living near Willows, Cal., fell oil' a load of lumber and was instantly killed. Tho Spokane Itille Club has organ ized under tho American standard rules. Thoy havo thirty members. William Woods, a California pionoer, died near Idaho City, 1. T., from inju ries received by being thrown from a horte. Henry Chapman was instantly killed by falling a distance of fifty feot, while at work on a new shed at San Francises. Jose de la Duiz Bobles fell into an abandoned tunnel at New Alamaden, Cal., and was killed. Ho was fill years old and single. Tho Galena mine, owned by Scott McDonald, James Brady and A. B. Goldstein, has been bonded to Phil O'Kourko for $25,000. Mr. Frank L. Grcon, of London, England, was drowned at Three Forks, Gallatin county, Montana, whilo bath ing in Jefferson river. In 18S0 tho production of quicksil ver in California was 25J81 Husks. This is a docreaso of 2,092 flasks, but tho total value shows an increaso of $80,811, duo to an increaso in prices. About 200 residences aro being orected at Seattle. Tho domain! for lumber is so great that tho local mills aro unablo to supply tho domand, al though tho price has been advanced. Tho present output of coal from tho Iioslyn (W. T.) mines is reported to bo 150 tons per day. This amount can bo largely increased any time, whon thero is domand for a greator quantity. In accqrdanco with instructions re ceived from tho Chief Signal officer of the United Suites army, tho weathor indications for tho Pacific Coast will bo discontinued for tho month of Au gust. While tho government steamer was engaged in replacing a buoy on Brotchio's ledge, near Victoria, tho buoy, which had a holo stove in it, sud denly sank, taking the boat's crew of five with it. Two men wero drowned, Thomas Stratton and Douglas Booth. Tho stockholders of tho South Pa cific Coast Kailroad Company havo olocted tho following now directors : Leland Stanford, C. F. Crocker, Tim othy Hopkins, Cliarlos Crocker, C. P. Huntington, W. P. Huntington and N. P. Smith. Leland Stanford was elected President, and C. F. Crockor Vico-presidont. A tea traiu on tho Union Pacific struck a hand-car while rounding a curve between Piedmont and Loroy. It was not seen until the ongino was within a fow rods of it. Part of tho mon jumped and saved themselves, but tho Boctiou foreman went over in front of tho car and was run ovor by it and out to piocea by tho engine. Georgo P. Tautphax, 15 years old, was killed at San Francisco by falling seventy feet from tho roof of a build ing in course of construction. Tho boy was playing with his comrades in tho building, and in an ondcavor to got to tho ground beforo tho others, grasped a ropo running through to tho sidewalk. Tho ropo ran through tho pulley and the boy foil, emushing his skull. Fish Commissioner Koutior, of Cali fornia, recontly told a reporter : "Wo aro now ready to distribute 250,000 trout in California to whoover wants thorn. In August wo will hatch 2,000, 000 Balmon at tho hatchery, eighty miles north of Bedding. Tho Stato appropriated $7,500 at tho last session of tho Legislature for tho hatching of both trout and salmon. Capt. Tod man has already hatchod about 500, 000 in Lako Tahoo. Thoeo will be nut in that lako and itrcama and lakes , neighboring." OREGON NEWS. Everything of Genoral Interest in a Condensed Form. A fire company has been organizod at Newport. A mop factory has been started at Oregon City. Tho O. P. will build a station on their lino two mileo west of Soio. Nineteen miles of water pipe, at n cost of $125,000 will bo laid in Port land. A Chinaman was drowned at tho mouth of Willow creek. Ho fell in and could not swim. Tho Wallowa Silver Mining Com pany has been organizod at Joseph, with $500,000 capital stock. Thero wero 10,000,730 pounds of freight shipped into Lexington during tho year ending Juno 30, 18S7. A 70,000 bushel grain warehouse is to bo built at Knox Butte, two miles from Seio, on tho Orogou Pacific. Miss Sabina Pago has boen re-appointed Superintendent of tho Indian School on tho Umatilla rosorvation. Thero wero twenty-fivo lire alarms in Portland during tho month of July, tho losses aggregating about $000,000. Tho Mizpah Presbytciion church of East Portland, has becomo an incor porated body under tho laws of Oregon. The people of North Powder havo raised $1,000 and proposo to build a wagon road to tap tho Cable Covo dis trict. Charles Hagce, son of Kobcrt 1 la goo, aged 12, was bitten by a rattle snake near Mikecha, ami died the fol lowing day. Fifteen brick stores aro in courso of erection in Pendleton. Work on an opera houso, to cost $10,000, is pro gressing rapidly. Mrs. Jacob Thompson, of Ashland, has bought tho II. P. Mdl stock ranch and a band of cattlo in tho Cascade mountains for $15,000. An opon war is being waged bctwoon contending fishormouon Miller's sands, near Astoria, for poskcsaion of tho grounds. Sovoral persons havo boon shot. A live-yoar-old son of Widow Itai ney, of Boguo river, was bitten twice by a rattlesnake and lm lifo was saved only by making tho little fellow drunk on whisky. Bill Vickers, who so brutally boat a surveyor in Catalow Valley recently, has killed a man somewhere in that section of tho country and left for parts unknown. While Messrs. Hubbard and Bice wero at work on a now school-houso at Prairio City, a cyclone destroyed tho building and injured both men, Mr. Hubbard's collar-bone being brokgn. Whilo ono of tho narrow-guago en gines was being brought aoross tho Willamette, from Kay's Landing, it slid off tho ferry, and now its smoke stack bobs out of tho wator about a foot. Win. Priest, County Superintendent of Jackson county, died at Jackson ville, suddenly of heart disease. Tho County Court appointed" N. A. Jacobs to fill tho placo mado vacant by tho death of Mr. Priest. A contract has boon lot for building abridge across tho SantiamatMchama. Judge Shaw and the Commissioners of Marion county, mot with tho Board of Linn county Commissioners, and each agreed to'pay ono-half tho prico of tho bridge. ' It will cost $7,-100. Hyman Abram, tho now Colloctor of Customs for tho District of tho Wil lamette, has taken chaigo of his oflico, and mado tho following appointments : L. A. Piko, chief deputy; A. Noltner, weigher and ganger; J. D.MoKinnon, day inspector; John G. Egun, night inspector. At tho Blair placo near Salem, a young colt got soparatcd from its mother, and becoming frightened started to run back and forth in a lane. It continued to run until it became en tirely exhausted and fell on its fiido. After lying a moment in that position its oyes poppod entirely out of its head. It had to bo killed. Plans for tho proposed Buepcnsion bridge across tho Willamotto at Oro gon City havo beon received. The span is to be -175 feot, with 100 feot shoro arms. Tho center of tho bridge will bo seventy-five feot abovo low water. Whilo threshing near WeBton tho driver of Sam Phillips' horso-powor lost control of tho horses and thoy ran away, completely demolishing tho power. Tho ton horses broko looso from tho tangled mess and two of them wero afterward found a mile and a half from tho bccho, with tho whiillotrccs Btill attached to them. Tho steam boilor of Halo & Smith at tho Siskiyou tunnel burst. Half of tho boilor was thrown nbout ono hun dred yards and tho other half was scattered in fragments around tho place. The building was demolished, yet, strango to eay, no ono waa hurt. Tho accident will dolay work on tho north end of tho tunnel about thrco weeks, , Whilo Miss Anna Wishman, a Lano county mail-carrior, waa passing Bocchcr Kock with tho mail, three bears came out of tho river and crossed tho road within a fow rods of hor, two behind and ono in front of hor. Hor horse, a spirited ono and unaccustomed to such a flight, became unmanageblo, throwing her in tho midst of hor un welcome visitors with bucIi violence as to causo unconsciousness, in which condition sho remained a fow minutes. Sho booh recovorcd Btiflloiontly to catch hor horso and continuohor jour noy. Tho wild animals did uot molest her. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. A Japaneso church of forty-two members has been organized at San Francisco. How often do wo look upon God ru our last and feeblest resource. Wo ga to Him bocauso we havo nowhere else to go. Two of tlio wealthiest Episcopal churches in Now York, Graco and Trinity, have determined to mako their pows free to tho public. Thero arc now in tho Prosb . tcrian Church in Ireland morn than 550 con gregations, with 626 ministers and over 102,000 communicants. "Tho Schoolmaster's Club!" ex claimed Tommy, reading from tho newspaper. "My jiniiny! I shouldn't like to go to his school!" Thero are 1,000 moro ministers of the gospol iu ondon than thero are ordained missionaries in all parts of the heathen and Mohammedan world, the number being 4,000 and 3,000 re spectively. God is the wholo llfo of our soul. All the powers of the mind do not find their aim till they (ind God. In Him the heart finds its happiness, tho rea son it.s truth, tho will its true freedom. Luthard'. Dr. 1 tapper, tho veteran Presbyter ian missionary in China, is raising money for tho college in Canton. Ho has received a subscription of $2.r,000 for a professorship in tho new college. N. V. Independent. Tho Church Missionary Sooioty (Knglish) has seven European mission aries and forty native clergy at work in West Africa, with 9.000 communi cants and 7.000 scholars in DO schools and seminaries. Thoro wero 1,22$ baptisms hist year. l'uhlio Opinion. Bowdoin College has received $.1,000, iH'quoathed it by the lato Judge Harrows, to found two or moro "Whit more Scholarships." Also, by the will of the lato Mrs. A. C. Diunmer, of Hal lowell, tho college will receive between $20,000 and $25,000 for scholarships ami general college purposes. Congrega tionalist. The mission of tho American Bap tists in Lower Hunnah is a very strong and successful one. Thoro aro engaged in it 31 missionaries and three medical helpers, with sixty-three female mis sionaries. Thero aro 122 ordained, pastors, 316 self-supporting churches, and 156 receiving aid. Tho member ship of tho churches is 25,857, and thero are ten thousand children iu the schools of the mission. Some gems rescued from tho col lection of small-boy definitions gath erod by a Massachusetts teacher from her examination papers: Hazardous A female hazard. Femur Tho largest hone iu tho human body; it is situated, in tho ear. Spine A collection of small bones, extending from tho head to tho feet. Ash-heels A Greek hero celebrated iu antiquity. (Probably Achilles!) Golden Days. WIT AND WISDOM. Truh loses half of its virtuo whoa It is told with an effort, The girl who marries for monoy often gets a fool thrown in. Judge. Havo tho grass cut if you want your lawn a la mowed. Jioston Com mercial ltullelin. Nover strain your oyes in trying to see tho good you havo dono in tho. world. rm Hits. When a woman gots to bo a little, "sulky," her "wagon tonguo" be comes silent. Horseman's Guide. Do noblo things, not ilmun Uiom nil riny lonpr. Ami m mako llfo, cloiitli, unit thut vast forever Ono Gnmd, bweut itoiitf. Brilliancy is not necessarily an in dication of superior value. A new nickel coin is brighter than an old. silver dollar. On a card. In a Philadelphia Btreet car, is this legend: "Advertising is a great doal like making love to a widow it can't bo overdone." Sound travels a good deal faster in calling a hired man or boy to dinner than it does in tho morning up a pair of stairs. Billings' Almanac. Tho man who is too busy to bo a gentleman during his aetivo business life, generally linds it impossible to bu ono when ho rotiros from trade. Wo Btand, Borono, at sunny point3 lu lifo, and to them who sndlo at see ing us glad say nothing of tho interval of ntoi ins. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. Wifo O, you needn't think you can slide out of that lio so quickly at all that. Husband I don't my dear. I've got tho entire morning to spend, if necessary. 'lHd-Iiits. Wo havo our opinion of thowomnn who deliberately Btcals a man's affec tions away from his wifo. As for tho. man's affections, thoy aro worth about, two oonta per thousand jtounds. Ho would make good stuffing for a sand bag. N. Y. Journal. Conductor B-o-ston noxt sta tion. Granger (catching up his car pet bag ami umbrella Says: Does tlio train Btop thero? Conductor No; passengers havo to jump as wo go ovur tho bridge. Granger makes for thu platform with tho carpot bag bouncing: from scat to mxttiurlingtoti Frca lrcss. "Don'tyou think, Mr.Bluomarck,' aBkod Miss Noisygid. sweetly, "that poets aro born?" "Too many of 'env aro," groaned tho editor, "too many of 'em are," and with a withoring look he rcmtehcd out nlno stanzas of an "Odo to J. T. on Seeing Her Swing In u. Hammock at M , 'May, 1887.' twistod tlio remaining four into a mis fit Bonuot and said wunrlly to tho wait ing foreman, "Put It somewhere under Crash & Linen's out; folk's Ml think U's part of the ad." -frx.