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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.