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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. An fyiltme 9f the Principal Erents Xow Attracting Pnblic Interest New York Republicans nominate Col. Fred. Grant for Secretary of State The number of nail makers on a etrike in Staffordshire alone is 15,000. A French smack reports the loss of a vessel with fifty hands, in the English channel. Twenty thousand railmakcrsof Wor cester and Stafford aie on a strike for .an advance of wages. Cardinal Tasheran visited S'. Anne )e Raupre, Quebec, to bless the new .statue of St. Anno at the shrine. One of the three cannon used in saluting the Cardinal exploded, killing three residents who were standing close by. Five masked men attacked aud robbed a passenger train on the A. it P. II. li. at Navajo, Arizona. Only the express car was molested. The ex press companies ofler a reward of $5,000 for the capture of the rob bere. Alfred Horn, Win. McGowan and eon, and a man whoso name is un known, put oil' from Seal Rocks, Scotary island, off Newfoundland, to net their nets, while a heavy tea was running. Their boat was "swamped and all four were drowned. While the steamer Yaquina was at Port Rrr.g.4, Cal., August Radian, chief engineer, went out in a small boat fishing, accompanied by the cook of the steamer. When some distance out the boat was ups-et, and both men were drowned. Their bodies were re covered. A Midland railway train, filled with excuisionists, who were going from London to Donoaster, to witness the races at that, place, collided with another train and was wrecked. Twenty-five excursionists were killed and many injured. The total number in jured is seventy. The schooner Arcthusa arrived at Gloucester, Mass., and reports that a terrible hurricane swept over the banks and great damage was done to vessels and many fishermen were lost. Four teen men belonging to (lie (chooner Mance, of Pubrico, Nova Scotia, were bwept overboard and drowned. The Supremo Court of Illinois has xlehvored an opinion in the anarchist case, affirming the judgment of the court below. The execution will take place November 11 between 10 and -1 o'clock. The opinion by Jmlge Ma grtider in this case is that the judg ment of the court below is affirmed, as to all, each aud every oue of defend ants. Three soldiers at Trapani, Italy -wore tent to perform disinfecting duty aud were assaulted by a mob, who tried to force them to swallow carbolic acid which they had been sprinkling about tbo streets and houses. One of the soldiers imbibed the liquid and sopn after died in horrible agony. Tlio other two refused to drink the acid and were killed. An explosion occurred on board the echooner War Eagle, loaded .with naphtha, at her dock in Boston. The vessel was completely burned, together with a bridge and Piatt A. Washburn's faetoiy adjoining. A man named Henry O'Donnell was burned to death. The utewaid jumped overboard, and was drowned. The captain and mate were very badly burned. Four 'long shoremen were badly burned. John Sheridan, a miner, and Chas. Young, a painter, had a row at Win uoniucca, Nov., which culminated in the fatal wounding of Young. Sheri dan attempted to escape to the hills, but was followed by Sheriff Fellows and posse, who overtook him two miles from town. Seeing himself surrounded on the plain by horsemen, ho bran dished his revolver and shot himself through the head, dying instantly. Professor Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, will soon build a winter homo at the new town of Thermalito, Uutte county, Cal. Edson has been for several years experimenting with specimens of black sand deposit from this county, and endeavoring to ex tract tho gold contained therein. A laboratory will be built at Thermalito, similar to tho one erected by him at Fort Myers, Florida, which has hith erto been his winter home. An explosion occurred in tho gro cery store of Dominick M. Messina, at New Orleans, and a moment later tho entire building was on fire and all es cape from the upper stories, whore the Messina family resided, was cut ofl. The fire must havo been burning for somo time before tho explosion, which was doubtless caused by tho ignition of powder, which Messini kept for pale,, When tho firemen reached tho eceno tho voices of tho family could bo heard mingled with tho roaring and cracking of tho ilamo, crying for help. Every effort of tho firemen to rescue tho unfortunate porsons failed, and the entire family, consisting of Mes Bina, his wife and four little children, were burned to death. A dispatch from Oroville, Cal., says : Water has been successfully turned through Big Bend tunnel. This lays ' dry thirteen miles of main Feather river never woikt'd by miners, audit' is thought that tho ground will be im- jnensely rich. Tho tunnel is 2 J miles long and LIxlG feet in mo, and about 100 inches of wator is fluwing thiough , it. A force of 1U0 men have been em ployed on this work day and night for four yenis, and tho cost exceeds $1, OUO.OOO Last year it was thought to bo completed, and when tho low-water eoasou arrived tho wator was turned, but tho tuunol was not largo onough to carry it all j so tho water was turned back into tho rivor bed, ami tho work of enlarging tho tunnel has b.en in progress over tinco. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to "Washington Territory and California. A fine new Methodist church is to be erected in Oakesdale, W. T. Albert Volkner fell from an embank ment at Seattle and was fatally in jured. Washington Bartlett, California's sixtcouth goTcrnor, died in Oakland of paralysis. A quarry of lithographic stone has been discovered at East Los Angelos within tho city limits. A G. A. li. ixj.it has recently been organized at Asotin, I. T. It has been named tho J. J. Lewis post. A hailstorm in Klickitat county, W. T., killed tweuty-four chickens, somo of them full-grown, on one ranch. Two prisoners escaped from the Walla Walla jail through a etovepiie hole in the grating of their cell. James Kinkaid, while on his way from Seattle to Stanwood, W. T., fell into the water and was drowned. John Morgan was found dead in a barn noar Stockton, Cal., having com mitted suicide by taking laudanum. The man Roomer, supposed to havo committed suicide at Los Angeles, is now believed to havo been foully mur dered. Fifteen counties in Washington Ter ritory aro represented by ladies in tho ofileo of County Superintendent of Schools. J. II. Sturtcrant's hop kiln, with his full crop of sixty-five acres in tho pro cess of drying, was burned near Clovor dale, Cal. Win. B. Anderson, a stove importer, committed suicido at San Francisco by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. At San Francisco J. P. Paley, a sailor on the British bark Falstaff, foil from tho main yard into tho hold and biokc his neck. Ex-United States Senator James G. Fair has been elected a director and prcfident of the Nevada Bank, and has assumed active management. In a quarrel between Jack Brannan and V. Dodson's family at Gold valloy, Sierra county, Cal., Brannan was shot twice and young Dodson was killed. Joseph McMillan, 52 years of age, was clubbed to death in a saloon quar rel, by two young roushs named Doni sey and McCarthy, at San Francisco. Charles Darden killed a very large lynx on the farm of D. C. Eaton, o-i the Coppci, near Waitsburg, W. T. The animal had, a few nights before, breakfasted on thirty of Mrs. Hasting's geese. Josoph Furbush, a teanWer, was killed at San Francisco while driving through a lumber yard. Ho fell from a seat on tho wagon and the wheels passed over him, orushiug him to death. Since January, 1SG7, to December 31, 1SSG, fifty-six divorces have been granted in Nez Perce county, Idaho, and between the samo periods 92-i marriages have taken place m that county. Patrick IT. Halloran, one of tho members-elect of the Territorial Legis lature, was found dead, lying in a pool of blood, in his cabin at -Kenton, near Seattle. . Deputy Sheriff Simons shot and killed a cow boy named Joo Smith at Misbee, Arizona, while resisting arrest. Smith was a fug.itivo from Texas for murder. Thomas Phelan, a young minor, aged 2-1, a native of California, fell 200 feet down the shaft in the Buchanan mine, at Sonora, Cal., and was in stantly killed. A colony of negroes will settle on 7,000 acres of land in Shasta county, Cal., which has been purchased for that purpose. Tho colonists will como under the leadership of a minister named Petty. Near Laporto, Cal., James Cunning ham anil John Colter engaged in a quarrel, and finally an affray, wherein the latter stabbed tho former with a pocket knife. Tho injury was fatal, and he died in a few minutes. A little daughter of M. R. Under wood, living in Klickitat county, W. T., was choked to death. The child was playing with a largo iron screw in her mouth, which, by some means, became fast in her throat. Death re sulted before tho screw . could bo re moved. A young girl named Kitty Dugan, and male escort, were returning from a boating party at San Diego, and at tempted to crawl under a train of jreight cars Htanding on the track. Tho train started up and tho wheels passed over tho girl's shoulder and neck, killing her instantly. At San Francieco Mrs. Mary Marsc cano, tied her two-year-old boy to a high-chair, and placed him at a table to play with some pictures, whilo sho prop-ucd supper in tho kitchen. In her absence tho littlo fellow pulled a coal oil lamp on tho table towards him. It broke aud exploded, and tho blazing oil spread all ovor tho infant, literally burning him to death before her eyes. In her attempt to save hor son she burned hor hands and arms sovcroly. Captain Viddio Reeves, ownor in tho Diamond Hitch inino, on Canyon erotic, aged about GO years, was found dead one and a half miles below Wardnor Junction, in tho south fork of tho Ccuur d'Alone river. Tho cap tain hud bonded his mino for a good film, aud had only consummated the doal, a id was supposed to havo about $5,000 on liis porton. His body was found by somo lads in tho rivor, and suspicion points to foul play. When searched only $37 was fouad upon him. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to tho Interests of Farmers and Stoolimcn. Knit lor Stock. A great many fanners and stock men, who aro very careful and partic ular with their stck, aro often very neglectful in giving them saltj.vgularly ; ror various reasons they do not givo it all tho credit it doforves when given to stock. Somo givo it to them very seldom, and then only in very small qnautities, while others neglect it alto gether. To such we will givo a few hints on this point, together with tho result of somo experiments made iu this direction, to show that salt is in dispensable, not only for cows, but all our domestic animals in general. Cattle from GOO to 700 pounds livo weight should receivo about six drains of salt daily. Catilo fed on damp or steamed fodder, or fat stock, may be given more, but it should not exceed two drains to the hundred Aveight. For full grown horses of tho average weight four drams havo been recom mended ; sheep, one dram ; pigs, from ono to two drams daily aro found by experiment U) meet their require ments. Larger quantities have fre quently been given to milch cows, with a view of increasing tho How of milk, or to make putrid feed nu rj eavory, but the result has almost in variably been tho reverse of success. All fodders contain more or less salt, of such the common meadow hay con tains tho most, clover hay contains a littlo less, oats and oats straw con siderable more than tho grain and straw of wheat, bailey or rye. Beets contain from three to four times as much at potatoes. Tho instinct of the animal, however, is our best guido iu this matter ; wo give them the salt in the puro stale, and this in a short whilo will enable us to givo each tho requisite amount. A German experimenter, ono Faprt mann, has found by somo experiments made that salt is indispensable for sheep. He took thirty sheep aud di vided them into threo lots. They all received tho same treatment in every particular. To each lot was fed daily one pound of liny, threo pounds of straw, three pounds of potatoes and one and a half pounds of beans. Each sheep in tho first lot received daily ono dram of salt, in tho second lot one half dram and the third none. At the end of the experiment it was found that on an average each sheep in tho first lot hud gained 17.4 pounds, tho second 15.9 and tho third 13.1. Somo experiments were also undo with pigs. They woro fed exclusively on rye bran, which contains the least salt of all feeding stufl's. and in the course of a few weeks they refused to eat it. After that salt was given them regularly, and the feeding of rye bran was continued for a wholo year with quite satisfactory results. Soiling Ituttcr. The largest profits are realized from dairy butter by the meu who supply thoir butter to families each week, and at a fixed price for the season. This method has itood the test for a long time, and where it can bo adopted in certainly tlio most satisfactory to con sumers as well as to dairymen. Tho consumer can depend on a regular supply of good butter of uniform qual ity, and tho dairyman can take his ordor for the next week. If they run short and find it necessary to buy a littlo store butter tho comparison only leads them to a better appreciation of fresh dairy butter. Tho dairyman has regular sale for a given aniouut of butter, and can determine when to add new customers or dismiss some. Ho jiays no grocer for handling his pro duct and can demand a uniform price for a good article. The method of sel ling is not unpleasant, because his work is with consumers who appreciate his care in supplying attractive and nice goods. All dairymen cannot soil their products in this way, becauso they aro not near a class of customers who aro willing to pay for a superior articlo. It requires some energy and tact to work up customers, but onco found they aro easily rotained. Housekeepers aro always on tho look out for good butter, and patrons will speak of their dairyman to friends, and thus aid him in securing now cus tomers. Within a few years the production of hops upon tho Pacific Coast has in creased vastly, while that of New York and other hop-producing regions of the United States has decreased in like or greater ratio to that of our gain. According to an extract from Lilion thal's hop circular, it is estimated that wo will iu round numbers produce this year on tho Pacific Coast (59,000 bales, and of this more than ono-lhird is esti mated as coming fiom Washington Territory. Compotcnt authority places the estimate of the Now York crop at 75,000 bales, which comprises tho greater portion of tho crop in the United States outsido of tho Pacific Coast; so that, as a matter of fact, wo produce on this coast nearby half tho crops grown on this continent. It is estimated that tho recent rains spoiled 25 per cent, of tho wheat crop about Waitsburg, V. T. Tho Lincolns aro tho largest breed of shoep in tho world, having in somo instances attained a dressed weight of nearly 400 pounds. They yield a beautiful Ilooee of lustrous wool, about ten inches in length and weighing from 8 to 15 pounds. They aro not popular in this country becaiiBO they require too much care to suit the ordi nary farm en Clovor is ono of tho greatest con sumers of lime among farm crops, and tins explains tho marvellous efleots of sulphate of lime or land platter in making clover catch. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form, The steamer Littlo Annie struck a snag in the South Coos river and sunk in deep water. The coming planting season will witness a largo increase in tho orchard acreage about Ashland. The farm residence of M. Moses near Tangent, Lano county, was burned with nearly all tho contents. Fire destroyed tho residence of Geo. Black, situated near Jacksonville. No insurance. Nothing was saved. Wallace Strublo has boon engaged by the Portland Boird of Trade to manago tho Immigration rooms. Tho fifteenth annual fair of Union county begins at the fair grounds near Island City, November 3, and con tinue) six days. John Bazxil killed a buck elk on Marlow creek, which weighed S00 pounds, dressed. ItmoasuredlS hands high and was 11 feet long. Farmers in tho vicinity of Zemin, Polk county, aro now through hauling their grain to tho various warehouses, and aro getting ready for putting in another crop. It is said that tho sheriff of Multno mah county has a braco of blood hounds at the countv jaiPin training to be used in holping to recapture os caping prisoners. Tho proposed now courthouse of Benton county will cost .$55,000, and will bo in the Ionic stylo of archi tecture, and be of brick and blone. It will bo built iu 1SSS. A. J. Porter, an Eastern capitalist, proposes to build a $000,000 hotel in Poitland, provided ho its given a sub sidy of $250,000. W. S. Ladd headed the subscription list with a' donation of ?2o,000. B. F. Jones, of Porrydalo, whilo tan ning a deerskin not long ago cut his linger. The wound mortified and the mortification extended above the elbow, but amputation of tho arm saved his life. Another murder committed on Sis kiyou mountain. Miko Sullivan, shift boss in tho big tunnel, stabbed a Swede named Peterson, from tho ofi'eots of which ho died. At last accounts Sul livan had not been captured. Indian Mac killed Indian Johnson near Randolph, by cutting his throat. Johnson was ono of tho Indians sus pected of being implicated in tho mur der of a white man on Dead Man slough, Coquillo river, in early days. A man named Arch Hastings, in Polk county, was run over and fatally injured whilo driving a four-horso team, of which ho lost control. The ! team ran away, and Hastings was thrown under the wagon, tho wheels passing across his breast. Articles of incorporation of tho East ern Oregon Coul it Railway Company havo been filed. Principal place of bushes, Portland ; capital stock, $!if 000,000; objects, to min o coal iu Gil liam county, and oporato railroad con necting coal mines with tho O. R. fc N. Co.'s lino. Capt. Hansen, of tho John F. Miller, brought a chicken hawk to Coos city with him which ho captured on the up trip. Tho vessel was 400 miles oil' shore whon tho hawk camo on board. A string was attached to its leg, and the presumption is that it escaped from some other ship. Miss Lizzio McNeil, toacher in tho Albany public schools, has resigned and departed for Liberia, Africa, as teacher and missionary. Sho will bo joinod at New York city by forty-nine other ladies, who go under tho direc tion of the M. E. Church aa mission aries to Western A frica. 1'OltTIVXI) J'SEOIMICti JIAItKKT. BUTTEIt Fancy roll, t lh HI Oregon JO Inferior grade 12 (5) 20 Piikled 27i HO California roll !0 do pickled fi 271 ClllUIHK Eastern, full cream Jf (8 20 Oregon, do H (4 1 California 1J Eons Fresh 224a 23 Dawn Fhuits Apple, qrs, sks and bxs. . . 7 8 do California .. . fi Apricots, now crop 18 fa) 28 Peaches, impeded, now .. . lL'Jija H Pears, tituVhino dried 10 Pitted cherries 40 l'lltednlums, Oregon 11 Figs, Ciil., in lifts and bxs. 7 fg 8 Cal. Prune-H, French 8 &i 10 Oregon prunes 10 12J Fj.oijk Portland Pat. Holler. tfbbl 3 4 Ml Salem do do 4 fO White Lily V bbl 4 75 Country brand 4 25 4 .'15 Superllno Z 75 Chain Wlieut, Valley, V 100 lbs... 1 10 (51 1 IB do Wal.a Walla 1 00 1 OiJ Barley, whole, tfctl 1 10 do ground, V ton 20 (M (&25 00 Oats, choice millinc V bush 40 fa) 45 do fi'cd.jmod tochoico,nld 45 ( Rye, t l(X) lbs 1 00 1 10 Fei:i Bran, V ton 18 HO (2,20 00 Shorts, p ton 130 CO 50 Hay, V ton, baled (ial8 00 Chop. S ton 25 fO $27 60 Oil cako uieal f ton 00 (gWJ 0C FjtI5.SU KltUITH- Apples, Oregon, f box 1 25 Cherries, Oregon, prirm... linoiiH, California, lbx.. 4 00 5 00 Liinort, y 100 1 50 Riverside oranaos, t box. . . Los Angeles, do do ... Peaches, t box 1 CO (g 1 ?5 Uiuks Dry, ovor 10 IK p tl) 13 11 Wet salted, over f5 ll Ka 7J Murrain hides one-third off. Pelt 10 (g 1 00 VK0KTAIII.K8 Cabbngo. P It. 2 2J Carrolx, t' sack 1 CO Cauliflower, t? dor Onions 1 25 Potatoes, nw, f bush .... 00 1 Oj Wooi- F-ast Oregon, Sprlnn clip,. in (31 18 Valloy Oregon, do .. SO & 24. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Secret societies at Pinccton Col Ipro have been abolished, and fewer jobs aro put up on the professors. Prof, l'almor, of Harvard, finds that one-third of tho students there spend under $700 a year, one-half un der ?1,000 and three-fourths under 31,. 200. Tho latest statistics givo the Evangelical Lutheran church in the United States an aggrogato of 950,000 communicants, lu'aking it numerically the third in rank anion;; tho l'rotos tants of this country. G. W. McCorinic, a wealthy citizen of Thotnnsville, Ga.,who is not a mem ber of any church, surprised tho sev eral whito pastors of tho different churches in that city recently by presenting each of them with a house and lot. In executing tho deed he mentioned no other consideration than thxt the preachers' lives had boon .spoilt in "going about doing good." Savon imh Ntws. Captain O. W. Lane has forty Sunday-schools of his planting among tho families of fishermen along thu coast of Maine. For many of thoni his visit- arc the only reminders of tho interest of Christians in their welfare. List year he was obliged to mako his jour neys in a littlo boat eighteen foot long, where ho cooked, ato and slopU This year his friends in !ho Sunday-school propose to raise tno money to buy him a new and moro suitablo boat. Chicago Advance. Tho Church Army of tho Church of England, which is at work among tho poor by methods modeled, to somo extent, after those of tho Salvation Army, has brought lorward for con firmation ovor threo thousand adults, mostly gathered at tho street corners and from public houses; has one thou sand moro adults waiting confirma tion, and has over six thousand adult eoiuinunie.iiils, who aro humble speak ers and laborers in the cause of Christ. luduuutpo. ii Journal. A lnnny incident in connection with tho work of women on the Now York school board is told. A janitor of ono of tho schools canio ono day with a comp'.a nt to tho principal, lie said that ho had boon janitor of that building for ninoteon years, and no oiuvh.id ever asked to see thu basement until one of tho women of tho school board came and said that sho wanted to mako an examination, "and that basement wasn't in a fit condition for any ono to sen," ho added, plaintively. i ... .i RICH MEN'S SONS. Victim or tlm I'uputnr lilrn Thut tlm Sulu ITnv iiT Mime M Amuiriiipiit. A wealthy broker of New York be gan life iu a farm-hand in New Jer sey, lie had tho craving natural 'o a poor bay for tine clothes, a splendid house, luxury of every kind. To acquire these, l-e worked hard with brain and body. As ho roso in life, ho was thrown in contact with educated men, great financiers, rulers of commerce, artists, teachers, scientific men. His own intellect, .strengthened by its work, was bold aud broad enough to appreciate them all. By tho time ho was fifty, he cared little for tho phys ical luxuries which his money could buy for him. 1 1 is pursuits, apart from his business, woro noble and elevating those which belong to a many sided, enlightened American, who keeps abreast of his time iu its great movements. His son, on tho contrary, was born iu tho lap of riches. Luxuries, the lack of which urged his father to inces sant activity, wero as familiar to him as tho air and daily sunshino. Fine clothes, rich food, amusements of all kinds, gave him littlo pleasure, they wero matters of course. Ho know no life of which thoy wero not a part. Ho did not work at school or at college. Why should he? Other niou worked to make a place for themselves iu tho world. His place was already made for him. Ho needed no more millions than his father could givo him. Ho had literally nothing to do but to amuse himself. Now, there is 1 ut a lim ited number of ainiiseinonta iu the world, and after a certain time the sense's, tho nerves, tho whole body, grow jaded with o ich of them. By the time this young man reached the age of twenty-five, ho was lis sated with pleasure as a gray-haired do bauclio.'. Cards, wine, sport, travel, bored him; his physical strength was oxausted; his mind though still imma ture, was almost imbecile. Whon a sudden attack of illness carried him cnit of this world, nobody in it was sor ry; liiiusolf, perhaps, least of all. The story of this rich man and his sou has boon repeated countless tin his in the lives of our rich men. The "gilded youth" of our great cities grow weary of balls, of steam-yachts, of even the theaters, gambling and drink. Thoir jaded appetite crave stronger diot. Jn tho great centers of riches and folly Homo of thorn crowd in the small hours "f tho morning to lens unknown to tho polieo, to see brutal combats between prlzo-fightnrs. At a roeent fight between a woman and a dog the ring was surrounded by niou worth millions. "Tho only roal i:iiwatiou I havo enjoyed for years," said ono of this cla-s niuy, "was in China last July, when I saw the execu tioner ohop oil' five I'lmds in an hour." At heart these la's are made of as good, manly stuff as other. Thoy aro victims to tho popular idea that the solo use of money is amusement. Even whon weighted by huge fortune, as Na poleon Bonaparte once wrote to Ids Marshal: "Surely wo should endeavor to do something! to say that wo have llvud; to leave some impress of our lives upon the sands of Timu.'' I'outh't Comvanivn. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Tho biggest mayor in the United States, according to the Chicago Kctos, is Mayor Edwards, of Fargo, D. T.. who weighs threo hundred and ninety pounds. A French art journal states that there arc in France alone 22,357 paint ers, and that of that number 12,000 have had opportunities of displaying; their works at exhibitions. Mrs. Hathaway, of Louisville, Ky., has boon acting as Deputy Commis sioner of tho Chancery Court in that city. Sho is tho lirst woman to fill such a post in Ken tuck v. Chicago Herald. The. elder Agassiz learned some thing one day in Chicago. Ho saw a. workman put five bricks in a pail overt full of water without causing a drop to run ovor, and the great naturalist handed the man a two dollar bill anil mado a noto of the circumstances. Ar. O. Times-Democrat. Colonel Winchester, of West Vir ginia, has given an additional forty thousand acres for hunting purpose ti tho Choat Mountain Sportsmen's Asso ciation. Tho entire preserve now in cludes ninety-six thousand acres, and is the finest and most extensive hunt ing park cast of tho Rockies. Chicago Tribune. A copy of "Tho General Laws and Libortics oTtho Massachusetts Colony," printed in Cambridge in 1G72, was ro contly purchased by a liostonian for tho low sum of two dollars. It is ono. of the two copies known to bo in ox istenco. Tho Huston man was offered. $1)50 for his treasure two days after th purchase, but refused it, Chicago 'J Vines. Hishop, Thompson, of Mississippi, tells this joke nt his.iwn expense: lie says that as ho stepped off the cars ous day at Jackson, Miss., he w-m ap proached by an enterprising duskf driunnier for a local hotel and informed that "all ge.ttimaii stop at the Larcnco House." Another darky standing near by said: "Uis no geinnianj. dis Hishop Toinsen." A ton-niilo-railroad running be tween llillsboro and Chapil Hill, N. C.r has a president, threo viee-presidenta a secretary, an auditor, a gistioral traffic manager, a general freight agent, a general ticket agl-nt, a pur chasing agent, a superintendent of mo tive power, and an assistant general manager thirteon officers in all. Phil adelphia Press. Esquimau Joe, who acted as guide and interpreter to so many Arctic ex peditions, is supposed to have been drowned near Marblo Island. Joe, his father-in-law, and his two brothers-in,-law left Capo Jalebort. last autumn in a whaleboat with door meat to trails with some whalers anchored offMarbla Island. No tidings havo ovor boon re ceived of tho boat or her occupants, mid hence it is concluded that all wore, lost in ono of tho Arctic hurricanes that sweep across the northern seas. J t A LITTLE NONSENSE.- A good thing to try on a dog Carbolic Soap. Puck. Woman is mortally afraid o a mouse, they say. but a niouso-tadie don't scare her bit. St. Pant Herald. Tho most unmitigated nuisance in a reading room is the fellow who la bors under tho impression that nobody objects to his incessant clipping from the newspapers. An exchange has an artiolo on "Tho Rise and Fall of the Pool" On important point is omitted, bowovorK and that is the length of the stait. llurlington Free Press. Hungry Father (Into for his din ner) "Eddie, my son, have you gok any thing in the shapo of pie?" "Yes, sir," said tho waggish Ed solemnly; "pic-plates." (Jolden Days. You can't mako a man a gentle man by calling him one. Hut some times you can please him and carry your point, and that is moro to your purpose. Somervilte Journal. Knock 'em All. Tho bones of tlio wooillilrds nro sweet, Tlio wild notes, and tlioso that uro bleady; Uut thu hwcotobt sound that a iiiini doth crest, la "Hubby, your dinner Ih ready." Goodall's Sun. Ethel "Now I am going to bo nurse, and play I'm taking the baby in its carriage to tlio Park." Hoy (who. has a penchant for Ethel) "Well, then, I'm going to bo yourp'liccnian." Ba zar. "One laugh is better than a thou sand groans." When you come to that, so is oun groan hotter than a thousand laughs, especially when thu laughs are of that variety which speaka the vacant mind. Think twice before you speak ones is a good enough rule for some, but there aro jioimiiis wlio can think of so much meaner things to say on second, thought that we prefer to hear their first inspiration on tho subject. Texas Sijiings. To fasten a delicacy on tho end of string and lot it danglo iu front of tho patient's noso is very effective, and, then to jerk it away when ho reaches tor it causes much ainusoiueut and re lieves tho monotony of the sick room. Ar. Y. Herald. A lady in Detroit advertised for servant, and a colored woman put in an ippearance. Hor first, vqii,o4tloii was, "Has yor got any chlllunPP !No, I 'iiivuiio children. Why do you ask?" "Uokuse, if yor haint got no cliillun, I (mint gwintor stay wid yerP" "What have children to do with your work?" "I don't wuntor stay iu no house wliar 'Jar's no cliillun, bekasu den, whenubor any dishes am broke, It njifHlwiytjiJiL on do sorvnnt and tuckeiioC'irrkfec wages." y Lcdg&r. . .