OREGON SCOUT,
JONES & CHANCEY, Publiohars.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Scales aro now mndo so delicate
that a signature on a piece of paper
with a soft load pencil can bo weighed
Arcsidcntof Savannah exhibitsoiic
hundred and twenty-four largo sweet
potatoes, which wore grown on a sin
glo vine. Ihey completely fill a bar
toL
Crows distribute many tree seeds,
such as acorns ami nuts, by plucking
them and carrying them away, drop
ping them again at some distance from
the pl.ooe of starting.
It is related that a Chicago woman
who has had three husbands, all of
whom she has "disembarrassed" her
ecu of, is writing a book on "How to
Iklakc Homo Happy." Chicago Times,
At the beginning of every dramatic
season, tho newspapers say that the
minstrel show is dead. Yes, tho min
strel show is dead, but tho people
never grow tired of sitting up with the
corpse.
In Chesterfield County, Va., re
cently a colored candidate for office
was defeated because he wore a white
shirt. It was tho only immaculate rag
of that kind in the district, but it was
too much for his fellow citizens, and
they "scratched" him. Cleveland
Leader.
Dr. Junker, the Ilusslan explorer,
in an interview at Hrussels said lie had
received letters from Finln liov dated
last November. In those, Eniin Hoy
said tho routes between Uganda and
"Wodeli were open. Dr. Junker thinks
that the success of Stanley's relief ex
pedition is, barring accidents, assured
A woman in Cuthbert, On., is the
mother ot eight living children, the
oldest fourteen years and the youngest
six months of ago. All her children
nro blessed with porfoct eyesight, and
yet neither the oldest nor the voungest
ever saw its father, while all the others
havo seen their father. San Francisco
Chronicle.
A German man of seienco has
taken four heads of hair of equal weight,
and then proceeded to count .tho in
dividual hairs. Ono was of iho rod
YHrt'oty, and it was found to contain
90.000 hairs. Next comes the black,
with lOa.OOO hairs to its credit. The
brown had 109,000 and tho blonde U0,
000. IJoston Budget.
Aloxander K. Tucker, writing to
Engineering, says that ho has success
fully edged grooving tools for chill
rolls by dipping tho actual cutting por
tion in mercury. No more of the steel
than is actually necessary should bo
dipped, as, while imparting extreme
hardness, it naturally makes the body
of the tool extremely brittle. Boston
liudget.
A peculiar will has been filed in
tho registrar's office at Pittsburgh by
Mrs Martha Matthews, daughter of
tho decedent, which reads as follows:
l'msneumi. Mny , issr.
Mnrilm MnttJirws, my mother, luithorlzcil mo
lo collect her inunoy for fiiiiurul oxiiouwoi) bul
ftucti (or mo. tier will, hoi-
ELM1N V, QIU.ESIUE.
UKU'IC.
Wltneimrs i MAIITIIA nillKtt,
viinesBes Kl(IIIKU ki.kjiino.
Iron says that if a continuous tolo
pmm wire worn strung from New York
to San Francisco, and a rainstorm
should bo hi progress along tho entire
route, tho shrinkage caused in tho wire
ly tho rain would amount to ono hun
dred and twenty miles, and for smaller
distances tho proportion would bo tho
eamo. "Tho above shows," says Iron,
"that underground telegraphs have bo
conio a necessity.
Tho revived discussions as to tho
combinations of ink and paper least
trying to tho eyes of roaders has, in
this country, brought into public no
tice nowspapors printed with black ink
ou red and green paper. A Gorman
printer, of Arnheiin, ou tho other hand,
enthusiastically advocates the use of
bluo ink ou green paper as tho least
hurtful tints for tho eyes to dwell upon.
Iublic Opinion.
Tho variable star Algol Is so infin
itely distant from theearth thatittakoi
thirty years for its light to reach us.
Bo wo see it as was thirty years ago,
not as it is to-day. Whou'ono of .its
obscurations occurs, therefore, tho ono
1lat Is visible to us occurred a genera
tion ago, and about four thousand suoh
obscurations havo taken place, and
started on their way hither since the
one woseo happened. A'. I'. Examiner.
Admiral Fnrragut's ling-ship, the
JLu'tford, is tho only ono of the old
naval hulks at Maro Island Navy Yti.il
which has not been condemned. Tho
sloops Lackawanna, Shmiandoah,
Wnohusott and Cyano havo boon or-'
derod bold. Tho Lackawanna was In
tho bombardment of Mohilu,.aiHl while
ramming tho rebel ship Tonnus.'ieo tore
oB about twenty-llvo foot of the side of
l'arrngut's llag-ship. Tho old admiral
looked over tho sidu and shouted:
'Go ahead, boys; thoro aro somo liro
boards left, 1'tiMio Opinion.
-There aro llvo hundred thousand
more women than men in Great ltrlt
uliu There is a liko disparity In Gor
nmny and in somo of tho United States.
Whether this bo accounted as a de
ficiency of tho malo or as a surplus of
the fomalo population, it is a matter
more difficult to deal with than the
surpluses and deficiencies which ptiRstle
tho heads of financiers and economical
Tho statesman or philosopher who
(hall restore a proper balance of tho
oxos will add immensely to the sum
ef human happinojw.iVftVuc'. Ip.tt
Mccord.
THE NEW AMERICAN.
Tho S)crl.- of lltnn.inltjr Derctnpod on
IlieOroat rlultn or tho Went.
The American man, tho Drawer im
agines, only develope3 himself and
3prcads himself andgrows"for all hois
worth" in the Great West. lie is inoro
free and limber there, and unfolds
thoso generous peculiarities and large
nesses of humanity which never blos
somed before. Tho "environment"
has much to do witli it. The great
spaces over which he roams contribute
to tho enlargement of his mental hori
zon. There havo been races before
who roamed tho illimitable desert, but
they traveled on footoron camel-back,
and were limited in their range. There
was nothing continental about them,
as there is about our railway desert
travelers, who swing along through
thousands of miles of sand ami sage
bush with a growing contempt for
time and space. But expansive and
great as these people havo become under
tho new conditions, the Drawer has a
fancy that tho devol'-mcnt of the race
has only just begun, uid that tins future
will show us in perfeetion a kind of
man new to tho world. Out some
where ou the Santa Fo route, whore
the desert of ono day was like tho des
ert of tho day before, and tho Pullman
car rolls and swings over tho wide
waste beneath the blue sky day after
dav, under its black Hag of smoke, in
tho early gray of morning, when tho
men were waiting their turns at tho
ablution bowls, a slip of a. boy, per
haps aged seven, stood balancing him
self On his little legs, clad in knicker
bockers, biding his time, with all tho
nonchalance of an old campaigner.
How did you sleep, Cap?" asked
well-meaning elderly gentleman.
"Well, thank you," was the dignified
response; "as l always no on a
slocping-oar." Always does? Great
horrors! 1 fardly out, of his swaddling
clothes, and yet ho always sleeps well
in a sleeper! Was ho born on tho
wheels? was ho cradled in a Pullman?
Ho has always been in motion, proba
bly; ho wits started at thirty miles an
hour, no doubt, this marvelous boy of
our new era. Ho was not born in a
house at rest, but tho locomotive
snatched him along with a shriek and
i roar before his eves were fairly open,
and ho was rocked in a "section," and
his first sensation of life was that of
moving rapidly over vast arid spacos,
through eattle ranges, and along can
yons. I ho ollort ot quick ana easy lo
comotion on character may havo been
noted boforo, but it seems th t hero is
tho production of a new sort ot" man,
tho direct product of our railway era.
It is not simply that this boy is mature,
but he must bo a different and a no
bler sort of boy than one born, say, at
home on a canal-boat; for whether
he was born ou the rail or not, he be
longs to tho railway system of civiliza
tion, lloforo ho gets into trousors ho
is old in experience, and ho has dis
counted many of thojiovelties that usu
ally break gradually ou tho pilgrim in
this world. Ho belongs to tho now, ex
pansive raco that must live in motion,
whoso proper homo is tho Pullman
(which will probably bo improved in
tune into a dustles-j, sweot-smolling,
well-aired bedroom), and whoso do
mestic life will bo ou tho wing, so to
speak. The inter-Stato commerce bill
will pass hint along without friction
from end to end of tho Union, and per
haps a uniform divorce law will
unablo him to change his mar
ital relations at any place where
ho happous to dino. This promising
lad Is only a faint intimation of what
wo aro all comlug to when wo fully ao
quiro the freedom of tho continent, and
eonio into that oxpansivenoss of feel
ing and of language which character
izes tho Great West. It is a burst of
joyous exuberance that comes from tho
sense of an illimitable horizon. .It
shows itsolf in the tender words of a
local newspaper at Howie, Ariz., on
tho death of a beloved citizen: " 'Death
loves a shining mark,' and sho hit a
dandy when sho turned loose on Jim."
And also in tho olosin j words of a New
Mexico obituary, which tho Kunsas
Magazine quotes: "Her tired spirit
was released from tho pain
racking body and soared aloft
to eternal glory at -1:80 Denver
time." Wo die, as it were, in motion.
uid wo sleep, and there is nowhere any
boundary to our expansion. Perhaps
wo shall never again know tiny rest as
wo now understand the term rost
lioing only change of motion and wo
shall not bo able to sleep excopt ou the
ars, and whether wo dio by Denver
time or by the ninetieth meridian, we
sltall only chango our time. IMcsscd
be this slip of a boy who is a man bo
foro ho is an infant, and teaches us
what rapid transit can do for our race!
ho only thing that can possibly bin-
or us in our progress will bo second
childhood; wo havo abolished first.
diaries Dudley Warner, in Harper's
Magazine.
America's Gretna Green.
Nearly every State in tho Union has
ts Gretna Grcoh. but few has ono that
so thoroughly deserves tho name as
Camden, N. .1. The clergymen of that
town who do so much mari'vimr are
1, Y. Dobbins. Methodist; liov. .1. J.
Sleeper, F.plscopal; Hoy. J. .1. Heislor,
Methodist, and Key. Isaac W. Ilagloy,
naptist, .Air. Dobbins avorasros 140
couples a month, and, as his average
feo Is $1 'a couple, ho makes about
$(,T2Q n year. Mr. Sleeper unites
about CO couples a month, receiving
about tho same nvorago fee: but as ho
as had a diagram lithographed show
ing the most direct route from the for
rhw to his house he will probably soon
bu doliiif a laud-nfrko business. Alto
gether, tliB elr?y of Camdtm miut
nt.iUe fti'l tttf.tkKt a -.u mit of tho
UMi'ii.tc business. - C kiIj .uncs.
EXCITING BEAR HUNT.
! A Mn a flrlxzly unit n Ilatttttinake at tho
j Itottom of n Ills Holr.
! One-eyed Zekc, who hunts for a liv
ing around Owen lake and along Owen
river over in Invo, came in tho other
day to bo doctored for a sprained ankle.
Spraining that ankle saved his life on
tliis last trip. Zeko has a scheme of
his own for killing grizzlies that is
very effective if a man has nervo
enough to work it and his gun doesn't
miss fire. Ho carrios a heavy double
barreled shot-inm and a 41-ealibcr re
volver, but never lugs a rifle even
when ho goes after bears. When he
sights a grizzly ho pops at him with tho
revolver and gets him mad, standing
in the open whero tho boar can seo
him, and shooting often enough to dis
pel any possible doubts in tho bear's
noddle about the annoyance.
A grizzly will go his own way usual
ly if not interfered with, but if insulted
witli pistol-shots lie is pretty certain to
inako a disturbance of tho peace. The
exasperated bear snaps viciously at tho
place where the pistol-ball strikes him,
concludes that Zeko is responsible for
' the trouble and goos lor him. Zeke
waits calmly witli a double load of heavy
shot in each barrel and the hammers
at full cock. Caleb comes right up to
him, and when almost within hugging
distauco rises on his hind legs to throw
himself upon Zcke. Then Zeke turns
loose both barrels at the bear's chest,
and blows a hole as big as two lists
noarty through him. Tho heavy charge
at such close range smashes the griz
zly's interior works in a deplorable
manner, and he dies right away. It
is far more effective than an express
rille-bullet But it requires nerve lo
face a big, ugly bear and reserve lire
until he is within half a dozen feet of
the gun.
Zeko mot a boar in the mountains
near Owen lake and played his cus
tomary game, but not witli complete
success. By some extraordinary bad
luck, both cartridges in his gun had
defective primers, and when lie pulled
tho triggers he was very much puzzled
and disappoincd by the absence of tho
usual loud report It was a critical
moment for Zekc. It took him tho
thousandth part of a second to grasp
the situation and spring desperately to
the right. Another small traction of a
second was consumed in his unexpect
ed descent to tho bottom of an old
prospect hole that was overgrown with
brush and escaped his notice.
Probably that is tho only prospect
hole in that part of tho Sierra Nevada,
and it must havo been duir bv somo
half cracked Forty-niner like Marshall,
who prospected all the wiry from Yuma
to tho Columbia. Zeko vows it was
dug by Providence.
I lie sudden and unaccountable dis
appearance of tho old man with a gun
surprised tho bear, and ho had thrown
himself forward and plunged into iho
ehapparal several yards before be be
gan to eateli on to tho fact that Zeko
was not before hint. As soon its Zeko
struck bottom ho looked up to see if
tho bear was coming down, too, and
then he removed the bad cartridges
and quickly inserted two more in his
gun. lie know tho bear would smell
hint out very soon.
In half a minuto Caleb's wicked
snout appeared at the top of tho hole.
It disappeared, and wits at once re
placed by the bear's hind legs. Caleb
was coming down stern foremost after
tho noxious person who had tired bul
lets at him. As the bear scrambled
down Zeko aimed just under his shoul
der and sent two haudfuls of buckshot
careering through his vitals in a diag
onal line. Tho wound was almost in
stantly fatal, and tho bear eamo down
in a heap at tho bottom of tho hole,
which was about ten or twelve feet
deep.
The excitement boing over, Zeko
realized that ho had been injured in tho
fall, and that standing up was painful,
llo stit down on the bear to rest and
relloct, and to induce reflection lie took
wit his pipo and lighted it. The llaro
fif tho match lighted up the prospect
hole, and Zokewas interested in seeing
a good-sized rattlesnake lying dead un
der his feet, its head crushed by his
boot-heel. Ho had landed on thosnako
when ho fell into tho hole, and the
slipping of his foot had sprained his
tinkle.
Zeko had a hard time climbing out
of t ho prospect hole and uottiusr back
to camp, but ho got thoro, and sent
bonio men up to hoist the bear to tho
surface. The grizzly's weight was es
timated to be uino hundred pounds.
Zeko says ho doesn't euro about tho
fprain, because if his foot had not
hmded just in that spot he would havo
had more company than ho would havo
ared to entertain at the bottom of a
prospect hole. Calicnie (Cul.J Cor. Jv".
1. Sun.
President Hopkins' ideal of a col
lege was "an institution whero a young
man, during tho critical period of
transition from boyhood to manhood,
and even litter, may havo an oppor
tunity to do for himself the best ho can
do; and also ono that shall do for
every such young man tho host that
can bo done for him."
Mrs. Livoriuore has dollvercd
more than eight hundred temperance
addresses. For many years sho has
lectured llvo nights n week for.livo
mouth in tho year. Sho travels yearly
twenty-llvo thousand miles, besides
working lato into tho night to main
tain her immense correspondence.
During tho last year there haj
been it not gain of 5139 members in thn
churches of tho Irish Wosloyan Con
ference. During the year 4111 members
died, emigrated, and 811 "ootuud
to be niombors" by not attending the
.vcouiy ctass-mcoUngs.
PHYSICAL SELF-CONTROL.
Its I'ouestlon the Ilmnlt or Kducatlon
unil tlootl Hrecillug.
It is not possible to sit in an asscm
blago of people and not be impressed
with tho lack of physical self-control
manifested. No matter how eloquent
the speaker, how entrancing tho music,
for but fow minutes at a time aro they
able to control perfect silence on tho
part of the audience; constantly aro
there useless and unnessary move
ments, revealing the aimless, untrained
mind. For, were tho mind held, the
body would bo unrecognized and held
by the grip of its power. It is the dual
life that causes the constant movement,
change of poMtion, arrangement of
clothing, movement of hands and feet
all showing that the mind has-not
sovereignty of the body because it has
not been trained to that sovereignty,
or tho body to yielding to the higher
power.
Perhaps one if not tho one annoy
nnco to speikers and hearers is tho
endless coughing, hacking, clearing of
the throat, that is one of tlio evidences
of lack of control physically. The least
self-restraint on tho part of each in
dividual would reduce the volume of
sound enormously. Tito constant
atifying of an impulse acquired, not
innate, the result of nervousness that
grows by what it is fed on, is an evi
dence of untrained intellect. The ef
fect of gratifying this needless impulse
by fifty or sixty persons at the same
time, in tho same place, "'s out of all
proportion to tho individual effort If
a fraction of the effort made in gratify
ing tho impulse were made in rest null
ing it, great good would result to
health and comfort.
We have associated the idea of self-
control witli tiie moral and mental
nature, ignoring its immense influ
ence in tlie development ot tho
plrysical, and its reflex action on tho
higher powers through tho physical.
The woman who can not occupy a
rocking-chair without keeping it in
constant motion is the woman who
can not meet the everv-day annoy
ances witli a self-poised calmness.
Trifles distress her; and sho excuses
herself for displays of irritation be
cause ot nervousness, wlien it was
nothing but lack of self-control. The
mantle of charity is much enlarged by
this modern fringe wo call nervous
ness. " I must do something; I can
not sit with idle hands," is not tho ex
pression of normal industry, but the
expression ot abnormal activity, it s
the physical Martha instead of mental
Mary that has gained control. Martha
would serve herself and tho world bet
ter if sho recognized the moments
when to sit still meant the learning of
lesson that would reveal true serv
ing.
Ono night a boy of sixteen sat
in an audience apparently listening
to the addresses being delivered. Ho
hung his hat on his umbrella, and, put
ting his linger in the loosely-hanging
silk, swayed the hat back and forth for
nearly one half hour. To do this lie
was forced to make a motion of the
right arm from tho shoulder. Think
of tho wasted strength! A pale, thin
youth, who needed every bit of
strength and vitality in his body to
make legitimate cll'ort to accomplish
tny purpose. Tho movement simply
revealed tho empty, unused mind.
Bestless, aimless wandering about, or
purposeless movements should be edu
cated out of it chihl. All aro the result
of it purposeless mind.
Physical restlessness can bo over
come in an adult who will once ac
knowledge tho tremendous waste of
onorg3', vitality and force in useless,
purposeless movements. Compel your
self to sit still in a comfortable posi
tion that pays all attention to conven
tionalities. Do not give to restlessness
which is the result of mental activity,
and to abnormal physical activitj',
which results from tho mental bar
renness and irritability, tho mime of
uorvousness, and hug tho delusion to
the soul that nervousness is an cvidonco
Df a "highly-strung nature" to use a
much-abused term. Physical self-control
is the result of education and good
breeding, and its possession isasneces
iary to sound health as mental self
:ontrol to sound morals. Christian
Union.
Type Made from Paper.
Typo made from paper is tho latest
novelty. A process has been patented
by which large typo for printing pla
cards can bo made from pulp. Such
letters nro at present cut on wood.
Tho pulp is desiccated and reduced to
a powdered or com tiinuted state, after
which it is thoroughly mixed with a
water-proofing liquid or material
Mich as paratlino oil, or it drying linseed
oil, for instance. The mixture is thou
dried, and subsequently pulverized. In
its pulverized state it is introduced into
a mold of the requisite construction to
produce tho desired article, type or
liloek, and then subjected to pressure
to coiifolidato it, and heat to render
tac'"y or adhesive tho water-prooling
material. Finally, tho typo is cooled
while in the mold, so as to cause it to
retain its shape and solidity. Boston
Transcript.
He Was Truly Grateful.
"So you'vo been drunk agaiu," said
the judge, soveroly.
"Yes, your Honor."
"Havo youauy thing to say for your
self." "No, your Honor."
"1 don't seo what I can do butgivo
yon ninety days and flfty dollars.
"1 hank yo judge, thank ye.
"Thank ino for what?"
"For the lift v dollars you said you'd
gimme. It'll be mighty welcome, cos
I'm hard up." Merchant lYavtier.
J ENGLISH SPARROWS.
I'ticnaclotiit I.tttln IllttU Which AroDrlvInc
Just after tho war, boforo the bonches
in the parivx u -re reserved for the ex
elusive iwe f nurse girls and park
policemen, a naturalist, who lived in
tiie parks wh.-.i ho had nothing else to
do, discovered that the shade trees were
being slowly killed by tho caterpillars
and other insects, llo wrote a big let
ter to one of the newspapers, and
somebody advised th'i Park Commis
sioners to import English sparrows to
check the evil. Acting upon the sug
gestion, a basketful of the birds was
brought over from England in tho fall
of 18G0 and set free in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia. They did so well that in
tlie following year another batch was
let loose in Central Park.
It was not long before it was dis
covered that tho sparrows didn't cat
insects at all, and instead of a boon
they becamo'a nuisance.
Liko many foreigners, they acted as
if the country was made for them, and
they set to work driving out tho other
birds whose ancestors lived hero before
the Pilgrims lauded on Plymouth Kock.
They bossed the wrens, tended the blue
jays and took possession of all the nice
houses which tlie Park Commissioners
iiad built in tlie shade trees. They bred
fast, and in a few years tho army was
strong enough to light all tlie other
tribes of birds together. One by one
they drove out tho orioles and made it
so uncomfortable for the robins that
they moved into the country, and soon
they had tho field all to themselves. In
tiie meantime the caterpillars held high
carnival.
Then the cry went up that the spar
row Wits a nuisance and ought to go.
Dr. Merriam, who is at the head of tho
scientific branch of tlie Department of
Agriculture, sent out printed circulars
to the farmers all over tho country ask
ing them to pass judgment ou the spar
row. He received over two thousand
replies, and not a single one of them
had ii good word for tiie sparrow.
Ornithologist Assemblyman Erwin
was much interested in the matter, and
through his efforts the last Legislature
pa.-sed a bill making it a misdemeanor
punishable by arrest and line to feed
sparrows or harbor them.
"Something ought to be done to
check the ravages of tho sparrows."
said Mr. C. C. Amery, Secretary of tho
Audubon Society, "for there's no doubt
that they arc objectionable. In my
opinion it would be best to treat them
just like the other game birds that is,
protect them at certain seasons ami al
low sportsmen to slaughter them at will
during the rest of the year. I think it
would be well tc set a bounty on tho
sparrow's head, say a cent for each.
This would encourage tho gamins to
kill them and give them a chance to
earn a few honest pennies.
Restaurants would cheerfully pay two
cents more for the birds, which, by tiie
way, are excellent eating and often
palmed oil" for the more gamy rood
bird. Tlie doniastiespaiTo wis not a mi
gratory bird anil never leaves the towns
or villages, and only a few journey to
the country. They are very pugnacious
and can light, any bird of their size.
They eatgrain ami tho scraps of food
to be found m tho ash-hurt els ami gut
ters, iiild ii full-fledged sparrow would
not condescend to oat tho fattest grub
wonn, even if he were almost starved.
It is a singular fact that tho young car.
only be raised by feeding them with
insects until they are big enough to take
care of themselves, but after that they
live like their parent. They breed
from three to four times a year and can
stand any sort of climate, hot or cold.
Although they have only been in this
country a little over twenty years, they
have migrated West rapidly, and v:ix
be found almost anywhere east of the
Mississippi. 1 remember when they
were first introduced into India, whero
they followed tho English army during
the war, and in less than live years tlicy
wcro settled in largo numbers in tho
Punjab and Afghanistan.
"They havo practically driven out all
the song birds, and even tho swallows
that used to build their nests under the
eaves of our houses hero have been
forced to seek another home."
The writer saw a desperate battle be
tween ii big sparrow and a swallow tho
other day. The swallow had built its
nest under the canopy of a tall chitu
ney. Ono line morning a sparrow ap
proached, and, perching himself on tho
nest, peered saucily into it, and began
to peek at the poor swallow, who was
seated on her eggs. A desperate battle
onsticd. Unable to defend herself in
her cramped-up position, tho swallow
left her nest and flow to the roof to get
away from her tormentor, who followed
and renewed the battle. Tho sparrow,
being more skilled in the art of war
fare, had tho host of it, and after cruolly
pounding tho swallow drove her oil!
and then returned to the nost and wan
tonly destroyed the eggs.
Even tho most ardent champions of
the English sparrow concede that ho i
an enemy to tiio small Ainoriean song
birds, and unloss something is done to
check him lie will ultimately extermin
ate them. The fanners also complain
that tho sparrow destroys tho buds of
fruit trees and bushes. .V. Y. World.
It was over twenty years ago when
little Caspar paid a visit to tho West
country with his mother. Tho chief
mode of locomotion, after pedals, wm
in that section by lumber wagons. This
was a now and strange tiling to tho
boy, and ono stormy night, aftor ho
was in bed, while his mother was pre
paring to follow him, hearing a long,
lulling peal of thunder, ho exclaimed;
"Why, mamma, does God ride in lum
ber wagons, toof" llabtfhood.
Variely is the best culinary spice.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Women are the State librarians of t
Indiana. Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana,'
Michigan, Mississippi and Tennessee.
King Humbert, of Italy, never
dances. Queen Margaret always takes
part in two or three quadrilles at court
balls.
Meissonier is engaged on a grand r
canvas in which ho is portraying"
dragoons galloping past Napoleon
with their heads uncovered.
A New York bookkeeper has suc
ceeded in writing on one side of vy
postal-card 7 poems, containing 8, ISO
words. It took him 9 hours to accom
plish tho task. The letters are about
the size of "diamond" type.
A young farmer in Georgia hires a
negro to plow, and in order to seo that
no time is fooled away ho rides tho
mttlo so as to faee the plowman, earn
ing an umbrella- over his own head and t
using a big fan in order to keep cool.
A guide who has conducted many
bridal couples through tlie Capitol at
Wnslwiigton declares that they aro his
best customers, because "if a man is
ever going to throw away money on
his wife, it's when he's first married."
In tho list of letters advertised sis
remaining unclaimed in tlie Perth Am
boy post-offico on April 29 is one ad
dressed to a gentleman who staggers
through life under the megalonymic:
"Kiilyoniihaly Tolopsiz Alcinakovuz'
Malyasgd Dojchornk."
Prof. Bichard A. Proctor, tho emi
nent scientist and astronomer, is here
after to be a citizen of Florid:!, having"
purchased a tract of hind on Orange
Lake. He says the lower atmosphere of
Florida is so clear that constellations
stand out in wonderful brilliancy.
Lady Seton has and takes great
pride in showing to sill her visitors at
Durham House probably the earliest
autograph letter of Queen Victoria in
existence. It is in childish print char
acters and runs thus: "How do you
do. my dear Sir Henry? Your little
friend, Victoria." It was addressed to
Sir Henry Seton.
Mayor Hewitt, of Now York, re
ceived his first money by reading fo a.
rich man threo or four hours a day for
a year. He was then but .sixteen years
of iige. For his year's reading ho re
ceived tho munificent' compensation of
fifteen dollars. Ton dollars of this sunt
Wiis used to Iniy his student's gown and
tlie other five was kept by his mother
for incidental expenses.
Mr. Webster tells a pleasant story
concerning his Italian journey. Ho
called on a prominent publisher in Tur
in, and that worthy upon receipt of 'his
card rushed forth with an eil'nsivo wel
come. Mr. Webster, rather astonished
sit so much cordiality in a total strang
er, suggested that his name could hard
ly be known to his Italian brother in
business. "What!" exclaimed the
Italian, "tho publisher of. the 'PopoV
Life!' And then," with a profound
bow "Your beautiful dictionary!"
Argonaut.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
The rockers ou a chair never stick
out half so far behind attany other time
its when a man is prowling around in
tho dark barefooted.
Transformation.
'Thus a noblo old uth, nnil most braTOly It
Krew,
With nothing its progress to hinder;
Hut u forest litis btruck It, 'twus burnt through
nnd through,
And that ash now Is naught but a cinder.
A young lady having read a very
long paper at a missionary meeting
showing tlie triunipjis of the Gospel,
the minister gave out the hymn begin
ning "Hallelujah, 'tis done." Ho won
dered why everybody smiled.
Little Lucy, running into the par-i
lor where her mother was entertaining
iter daughter Mary's beau until Miss
Mary could complete her toilet and
come down, cried out: "Oh! mammal .
Johnny is dot Mary's tecf and won't
give 'em to her."
"Laura," said Mrs. Parvenu, on
the hotel piazza, to her daughter,
"Laura, go and ask the leader of them
orchestras to play that 'sympathy from
Meddlojohn' over again; it's such an
awful favorite of mine; and your
father's, too!" Chicago Jlcrald,
"1 have used Simmons Liver
JtegmUnnr for many years, hav
ing made it rny only Family
Medicine. My mother before
mo was very partial to It. It is
n safe, Rood and reliable niodl
clno for any disorder of the
system, ami if used in time is
a timit jin-mitte of sichitent.
I often, recommend It to my
friends, and shall continue to
do so.
"Rev. James M. Rollins,
"Pastor M. E. Church, So. Falrneld.Vn,''
TIME AND DOCTORS' BILLS SAVED bo
alirituH keeping MnnnotM Xlvcr
JU'utilator in the hoxutc.
"I havo found Simmons Liver
IU'tjulator the best family med
lolno I ever used for anything
that may happen, havo used It
In Indigestion, ColtCrDtarrhaxt,
ItlUouanets, and found It to re
lieve Immediately. After eat
lnff a hearty supper. If. on going
to bod, I tnUo nbout a toaspoon
ful, I never feel tho effects of
the supr eaten.
"OVID H. SPARKS,
"Ex-Mayor Maoon, Qa."
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