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.
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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
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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. . .