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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1887)
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Ab Epilorae of the Events Now Attracting Public Interest Judge nen, oi aimneapolis, was elected Conimande'r-ui Chief of the G. .. A. R. Polydore do Keyecr, Esq., a Roman Cntholic, haa bee elected Lord Mayor of London. Smith Hetlicrine,ton,of Nevada City, Oil., was blown to pieces by the explo sion of giant powder. It, is reported from London that Jennie Lind has had a stroke of gen eral pninlysis. Her mind is unim paired. The President has appointed Whit taker M. Grant, of Iowa, to be Attorney of the United States for tho District of AJaska. A French fishing boat has been sunk in the British channel by a collision, liightecn of the persons aboard were drowned. The yacht Volunteer ncain defeated the Thistle. No sporting event for years has been watched with such in terest as the above race. George Francis Train has interested himself in behalf of the condemned Chicago anarchists. He is making rambling, incoherent speeches. A Chinese transport has been wrecked on one of the Pescadore Islands, and 300 soldiers and the captain and crew, with tho exception of one man, wore drowned. John Swinton has declined the nom ination of the Progressive Labor Party for Secretary of State, of New York, on nccount of poor health. J. Ii. Hull has-been chosen in his place. In the United States Court at St. Louis, Miss Phoebe W. Couzins took the-oathof olficens United States Mar shal, to succeed her deceased father. Judges Miller and Brewer were on the bench, and the former benevolently expressed the hope that during her term of cilice the new marshal may not have to hang anybody. Miss Couzins is tho lirot woman who has ever held the oflice of marshal. Alfred Warner, of Trenton township, Kenny county, Iowa, wont to a shanty on his farm occupied by his (laughter, Mrs. Nancy Black. Finding the doors fastened, ho entered through a window and was horrified to discover the dead bodies of Mrs. Black and her two children, aged 11 and 13, on a bed. Word was immediately sent to tho cor oner at Mount Pleasant. He sum moned a jury who decided that Mrs. Black murdered her children and then committed suicide by taking arsenic. A miraculous csenpc from a horrible -death occurred in a sawmill at Ta coma, W. T. F. W. Sullivan, boss mechanic, was engaged in repairing the saw dust carriage when tho ma chinery started up and an endless chain commenced to move. In some manner .Sullivan became entangled in the chain, and was hurried along toward the mill, and forced through an apera ture but eight inches square, out of which sawdust is forced. His escapo from instant death was deemed most marvelous by those who witnessed it. At Hamilton, Ont., Win. Nicholas' two daughter, Alice, aged 12, and Su sie, .aged S years, were taken with symptoms of typhoid fever, and a doc tor prescribed some white powder. Each took one of tho powders and both died. The physician thought he had administered quinine but the druggist clerk had put up morphine powders. Mrs. llymal, of Mill Grove, 4ilso died suddenly. She was tho doc tor's patient and was given some of tho fatal drug. As the doctor has a largo practice in tho country, and chills and fever hnvo been provision t, other cases may yet come to light. A woman recently arrived at New York, calling herself Caroline P. Guelph, who claims to bo a daughter of Queen Victoria. She tays the has only recently discovered her parentage, having been educated in a Paris con vent, and receiving regularly from England a liberal allowance of monoy. It was only when this allowance was suddenly discontinued that she investi gated its sourco and discovered her royal lineage. In support of her claim he says she has letters fioin John Brown and Englishmen of high rank who are in tho confidence of the Queen. Iho woman bears a wonderful likeness to the pictures of Victoria. A terrible domestic tragedy occurred sit Haverhill, Mass. Two ypars ago, Emma, eldest daughter o' Junes II. Abbott, n dissolute shoo-makor, mar ried against his will. Ho never forgave lier. Whilo tho rest of tho family wore absent she camo to tho house to nurse Mrs. Hicks, her father's invalid aunt. Coming home, filled with nun, and finding her alone with tho sick woman, Abbott brained her with an ax and then blew his brains out. Unablo to prevent tho crime or givo an alarm, r Mrs. Hicks had to remain over an hour with the deaiF. When tho family returned and discovered tho crime tho unfortunate woman was a raving maniac. The worst wreck that over occurred on tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad hnj pened near Jackson, Tonn. An ontiro passenger train, except tho engine, was hurled fioni a trestle while run ning forty-five miles an hour, and ovor thirty persons were injured, though, by what seems almost a miraclo, none were killed. Tho coaches were thiown forty -feet from tho track, nnd somo turned completely over. Tho scene was almost indoscribablo, women and children screaming for help and re lease from the closed cars. All were, however, rescued, nnd medical attend ance given. Of tho injured four or five may die; ton others uro in n . toilUUS UUIlUlllOll, MIIU lliu huiiv. we only slightly injured. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. Ben Boyd was shot by Bums Lithcre at Healdsburg, Cal. Mariano Elias, n wealthy Mexican, was killed at Nogales, A. T. J. T. Brown was shot and killed by Wm. Purvis near Flacerville, Cal. Sexton it Ellsworth's sawmill, in Colfax, W. T., was burned with a loss of $6,000. 11. H. Odair. a prominent citizen of Riverside, Cal., was found dead in his room at a hotel. Hugo Faschnor, of San Francisco, killed h nut-oil to escape creditors who were bothering him. Two boys named West, aged 7 and 11 years, were drowned in Imw'u river, near La Center, W. T. James Fisher, a miner workinir in the Vancouver Company's mine, was instantly killed by a fall of coal. The President has appointed Chas. M. Force, of Kentucky, to be Receiver of Public Monevs at Lewiston, Idaho. George H. Gordon, a wealthy young Englishman, was accidently 'killed whilo hunting near Laramie," Wyom ing. Colonel M. E. Ball, U. S. Attorney for Alaska, died on board tho Aneoii on its last trip from Alaska, of pneu monia. Fourteen hundred tons of ore are shipped daily from Anaconda, Mon tana, and 510 men find regular em ployment. Alfred Haas, a despondent restau rant proprietor, ended his troubles by blowing out his brains with a revolver at San Francisco. The notorious shell-came swindler, McAvoy, was shot, probably fatally, by a stranger whom ho had swindled at Santa Monica, Cal. Tho freight houo and five cars wore burned at Battle Mountain, Nevada. The tiro was started by a tramp who was put oil a train. Win. Watten, driver of a street car, was Kicked by a horse at Sacramento and instantly killed. Docoascd's famiy lived near Stockton. Two young men named McArdlo and Heardon, from San Jose, were murdered in bed in Indian valloy, Monterey county, Cal. A man was killed at Silver City, Idaho, by falling from a trestle and breaking his neck. His name was Alexander Ducheneau. At San Francisco Otto Mauser, aged 17 years, was instantly killed by fall ing under a loaded cart, the wheels of which passed over the boy's head. Sprague is to have a .$20,000 mill. Tho merchants guaranteed 50,000 bushels of wheat as an inducemont for tho location of the mill at Sprague. Dr. Davidson Scott, a prominent physician of Spokane Falls, committed suicide. His wife had recently died, and this fact with loss of money led to the deed. Joseph Trotier, a teamster, tied his team near tho river bank and went in bathing, near Stockton, Cal. He stepped into a tteep hole and was d rowncd. Captain J. D. Young, city editor of the Sacramento Jlcord-Uiiion, has been appointed State Printer by Governor Waterman. Yorng was State Printer under Governor Perkins. Arthur Weston, aged 21, was drowned while crossing the Sacramento river in a boat, near Orland, Cal. He and his 1 i I 1 ormner jtaiik woro crossing on a hunting trip, when their boat capsized. Frank swam ashore. Customs Officer C. J. Milks, of Ta eoma, has made a soizure of '1,000 ma nila cigars, lound secreted in tho hold of tho bark Discovery, that recent v arrived from Honolulu. They had not paid duty as required by law. Michael Dolan, a laborer, residing at Turlock, Cal., was killed whilo work ing on a railroad bridge across tho Stanislaus river, by getting his head botween two timbers. The engine tartc-d ahead, amming tho timbers together and crushing his head. The body of a well dressed man, about 35 years of age, was found in tho Catholic cemetery at Marysville, Cal. He had committed euicido by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. He is reported assay ing his homo was in .Eastern Oregon. Midway between Lewiston and Aso tiiij Idaho, is a large basaltic cliff, which is tho homo of a countless swarm of swallows. They not only have possessed themselves of every hole, nook and cranny, but have studded almost tho entire face of the immense wall with their nests, which must number away up in tho millions. Benway, nlias'Nino Pipes, a bad In dian and horse thief, had hitherto con fined his depredations to horso steal ing on tho reservation until recently, when ho stole another Indian's wife and carried her oil to Butte, Montana. A few days ago lie ventured back to tho reservation, and policeman Antoino Kicking Horso arrested him nnd took him before Chief Arlee, who personally administered to the culprit 150 lashes. Eight small boys, all botween the ages of oight and twelve years old, boarded a Miiall and leaky ecow in San Francisco bay, and soon drifted far out iuto tho stream. A strong obb tide carried the boat scawnid and it was lost to sight in the darknoss before the alarm was given. Parties started out immediately nnd soarched most of tho night, and the following morning they were picked up by an Italian fishormnn just outsido of tho heads and taken back to tho city. All were cold, hungry and wet from the night's ' exposure, but not Buffering otherwise. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of Farmers and Stockmen. I-'immUiic Hoi-MCa. If the stomach of tho horso were more fully understood its feeding would bo more carefully attended to. Tho benefit that conies from food comes through the process of digestion that is carried on in tho stomach, and oven whilo the process of feeding is going on. In comparison with tho ox, the stomach of tho horso is quiio small. It in claimed that the stomach of the ox has a capacity of 250 quarts, while that of tho liorso is onlv about sixteen quarts; so as n consequence whatever is in uie siomacn niter it is lined must bo expelled into the intestines if feed ing is continued. In that case, if the process of digestion is incomplete tho result is an expulsion of the food with out serving the purpose for which it is intended. For that reason in the use of concentrated food in connection with coarse fodder, there must bo an xcrcise of judgement or tho feeding will do little good. Thus oats may bo fed to a horso nnd followed by hay to such an extent as to expel tho o.its wholly from tho stomach, in which case t.ic only benefit derived is from the amount of digestion going on dur ing tho period of eating. The office of the stomach being to digest tho nitro genous portion of tho fcod, and as a stomach full of oats contains about four or five times ns much nitrogenous matter as when filled with hay, either the stomach must secret its gastric juico iivo times as fast or the period of digestion must be five limes as long. If a concentrated food like oats is to be fed with hay tho latter should bo fed first and then the grains, thus giving ample time for ""digestion between feeding. Ilotv to Save nrleii Heed. Peas and beans should be loft on tho vinos until tho pods arc well wiinkled, when they should be picked and spread until they are quite dry. Small quantities may bo shelled by hand, large crops are thteshed with a Hail. Keep them in a dry place. Melon, cucumber, so uaeh and nunin- kin seeds should be taken only from ripe, perfect shaped specimens. In a small way tho seeds may bo simply taken out, spread out on plates or tins and dried. L irger quantities have to bo washed boforo drying, to romovo tho slinio that adhers to them. When tho seeds are thoroughly dried, lie them in bags, and keep in a dry place secure from mice and rats. Beets, parsnips, turnips, carrots, onions, cauliflower and cabbage will not produco seed until tho second year. Set out in early May strong, woii-miuureu pianis oi last season's crop. When tho seed is ripe, cut tho stalks and put under covor to dry, then beat out tho seeds and tio in paper bags. Seeds of all kinds should bo fully ripo when gathorod, but it is also im portant to harvest them as soon as they aio ripo. For keoping small quanti ties of seeds, paper bags aro preferable to cloth, as they afford better protec tion against moisture and insects. Always mark each package with tho naino of the seed contained in it, and tho year in which it grow. Cold does not injure tho vitality of seeds, bul moist uro is detrimental to all kinds. Those who feed grain in addition to grass, nnd feed it intelligently, so fai ns wo have ever 'hoard them give an opinion, believe that it pays. One prominentMeeder says that he finds that it requires oniy half as much nun iu iuiien an annum on grass as it docs to latton on it in winter or dry ioou. ot, muddy feet and legs aro fully as injurious to tho lower orders of ani mal life as they aro to men. Instinct teacl)es tho animal in a state of naturo to avoid such unwholesome exposures, but man has obliged them to grovol in such miserable places and is thoroforo responsible for tho results. Finely chopped clover hay moist ened with water that has been slightly salted, and sprinkled with corn meal, maKes an excellent food for old stock that cannot woll masticate hay. It should be fed in connection with mixed ground grain also, with a small allow anco of linseed meal. Store beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips in bins in tho cellar, and pack them in dry sand or earth and thoy win Keep won lor winter use. This method will enable tho farmer to uso them at any timo, which will not bo tho case if they bo stored in mounds in tho open air. Give to the cows nono but the beBt and purest food. With no other stock is this to essential, for tho reason that it has beon fully demonstrated by com petent authorities that tho milk is n cry prolific sourco of trnnsinittintr diboa6o gorms from impure food. Hogs are excellent gloanors of wheat fields. We hnvo never observed any ill offects upon tho animals if (bore is plenty of clovor and water as well as somo wheat in tho field. Sheop, on tho othor hand, wo should hardly care to trust on tho stubble. A few lumps of charcoal with a box of wood ashes placed in tho hog pon will provont many ills arising from in digestion iu hogs. Tho charcoal should bo fresh. Old charcoal may be ro nowed by heating it in tho stove for n few minutes. A chenp nnd excellent mixture for colds in jKiultry : "Put a tablespoon ful of tar in a quart bottle, nnd 20 drops of carbolic acid nnd one teaspoonful of crude petroleum. Add hot water, shake woll before using, and give a tea spoon ful." r,') OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Intorest in a Condensed Form. A Board of Trade has been organized ai jMeuloru. A black bear weighing 400 pounds was Kilted near Asuina. 1 ho receipts of the State Fair foot up to botween M ,000 and $15,000 At Grant's Pass about 200 pupils are in allcndanco at the public schools. Tho Bandou Recorder has suspended publication until tho arrival of an editor. The corner stone of the new Masonic hall at Pendleton was laid bv tho Grand Lodiro. A majority of the farmers around Prinoville are sowing wheat instead of rye this fall for hay. Adolph Dauth took a dose of "Rough on Rats," with suicidal intent, and died in a Portland hotel. A largo school building is being erected at Newport. It will bo sixty loot long and tlnrty-six feet wide Jas. Johnson's barn, near Carlton, was burned by tramps with nil itsi eon tents, including several horses; loss, ;j,uuu. Linkville is to have a court houso to cost !jw,500, which, when completed. will bo the most costly building in tho county. Airou Broylcs, a pioneer farmer of Columbia county, was accidently shot and Killed by his grandson near St. Helens. A. Wood's sawmill, near Hood river, was binned with its contents. The loss was $1S,000, with but .$11,000 in surance., .-a i.- J. E. Logan, who has a ranch on tho Claskanino, killed a catamount near his house, measuring seven feet eleven inches. Charles Mancict, aged 21), was shot and instantly killed by a drunken man named Win. Dillon, in tho Argo naut saloon, Portland. Two Swiss families have bought 220 acres of the Starkweather farm near Oswego, for $11,000, and will placo it in the highest state of cultivation. R. E. Maple, tho murderer of 1). I. Corker, at Lafayette, has boon ro sontenced to hang. Tho death will bo fixed by tho judge in tho death war rant. There are several cases of diphthoria at Roseburg. Two deaths from tho dreadful diseaso hnvo occurred, and it is feared several others will not re cover. Jason Wheclor, Indian Agont at tho Warm Springs reservation, has ten dered his resignation on acoount of a dispute between him and sottlers ovor a boundary lino. Dr. S. W. McDowell, who has mado himself famous by contesting the elec tion of various congressmen, judges, etc., was committed to the insane asv- lum lroni Salem. An application has been made for a postoflico at tho North Fork bridgo over me .toini u.y river, near tho lino between Umatilla and Grant, counties The now postoflico will bo named Dor man, and will bo in Umatilla county. J no blato Press Association moots at Albany on October 1-1. J. B. Fithian of tho Portland World, will deliver tho annual address, and Sam Simpson an original poem. Others will deliver short addresses. It promises to bo an interesting event. Tho Portland Board of Trade com rnntteo has raised $.'.020 for the nur- poso oi sluicing out St. Helens and Walker's Island bars. Tho O. It. tfc N Co. subscribed nearly one-half tho amount. The steamer Walla Walla will bo put to work at once. 4 AAT Hrl'..1i . j. . mcuoiiiiKi. a toiecrapii on- erator, fell into tho river at tho foot of D 6treot, Portland, nnd was drowned Hugh Brady, a 'longshoreman who re covered tho body, has rescued or re uiMiueu im.y persons irom mo river during his residonco of several years in rortiand. I ho running expenses of Morrow county for tho past year were about $13,000. Tho indebtedness to Uma tilla county was paid last year in scrip, upon wiucn h per cont. is being paid. This amounted to $5,800. The as sessor found $1,100,000 of taxable prop erty in Morrow county this year, boing nearly $1100,000 more than last. Tho United States mail on route No. 11,212, from Baker City to Canvon City, was robbed by two mnakod high waymen. Three locked pouches woro taken, also money and a watch from the passengers. Tho point whore tho robbery took placo was twontv-fivo miles southwest of Auburn. Tho pouches taken have not vet boon re covered. Last fall a car on tho narrow gaugo went over tho incline at Fulnuartz I ! ! . .. ...... ' . lauiiing into tno viiiamotto rivor, where it remained until last winter. when tho floods of tho Willamette lifted it out of tho mud and carried it ovor tlio falls at Oregon City. Hero a steam boat fastened to it and towed it to an incline at Oregon City, where it was got out, not much tho worso for its swjm down tho river. About a third of tho whole State of Orogon yet romains unsurveyed, and thoro is only $3,000 appropriated for surveying public land in this state this year. '1 ho surveys this year will com prise three fractional townships near Bjrns, Grant county, in all about 95 miles. Nour Random Coos county. about 15 miles will bo run to closo somo nliniBhed work. Near Chetco, Ourry county, 178 miles will bo done; near Onion Poak, Clatsop county. 127 miles; about Fall crook, Luno county,' miles, and near iworeiico, Lane county, 92 miles. . This will probably uo up tho appropriation. "GETTING NEW COINS. Vlieri tlip Ilrlclit Prnnlr Como I'roin nnil llnw Tlirj- nrf ClrculntiMt. "Where do the now pennies come from?" The question is aked daily. Every one has a dimly defined idea that tlun aro turned out of tho United States mint, but under what conditions they are put into circulation few pcopb seei i to know. Boss W. Drum, cashim of the Tfidesmeii'.s National bank. United Slates depository for Pittsburgh was aske l the question tho other dav "Any one can get them by applying to inn i niieu Mates i roasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, and sending th money." The Treasury regulations on the subject of minor coins read thin: Inn 1 ivinurer and As-tistant Treas urer will pay out for lawful money ain minor coin not needed in the current business of their unices. u ine natiKs put. most ot tlicin in circulation?" X . MM r . ... . ih now. i uev iormeriv did, onto late years many mercantile houses have been making a practice of getting their own pennies from tho Treasury De partment. This was rendered neces sary in making change by tho practice oi iiiiiKing prices iu odd numbers, as ninety-nine cents, forty-nine cents and Minimi prices, l ins of course puts a large number oi pennies iu circulation and the stores must havetheni on hand. nnd they have taken to buying their pennies in large amounts." "How is other coin procured from the mints?" "Upon receiving an original eertlli eateof tho Assistant. Treasurer in New ork for a deposit of one hundred dollars, or anv niultii.lo of one hundred dollars, made for tho credit of the Treasurer in general account, th II Ml l.l . . i rciisurer win cause a iikc amount in gold eoin to be sunt from the mint ill Philadelphia at the consignee's expense. ..IT. .1 . r upon i no reeeipi ot currency or gold eoin Mie Treasurer w an Assistant Treasurer will cause to be. paid to ap plicants iu cities where their respective olliees may be situated, standard silver dollar-, in any required amounts. To applicants outside of cities in which the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer may be situated, tho same will be forwaided at the. expense of the Govern ment in sums or multiples of live hundred, upon receipt by tho Treasurer oi an original eortnicalo issued by an Assistant Treasurer or National bank depository that a deposit of currency or gold eoin has been made to the credit of tho Treasurer on general account. factional sure,' coin will bo for warded from tho office nearest to the place of the destination by express at the expense of the Government iu sums or multiples of five hundred dollars, under the sanin conditions that govern the issuance of silver dollars. Also by tho 1 roasurer or Assistant Ireasurer, by registered mail free of charge, in sums or multiples of seventy dollars. at the risk of tho party to whom sent, uiioii receipt of currency or gold coin, J'iltsburfh Dispatch. PUBLIC OPINION. Tho Most Powerful Inllitmtct ICxnrti-il AcitliiHt lliiinun rrciKri'ii. Public opinion is "collective medioc rity." It finds expression in manner, habits, usages, laws and literatures, which react upon it and tend to "ivo it comparative fixedness iu its elementary characteristics, iu spite of its proverb ial fickleness. This complex body of thought, like an organism iu which many parts coalesce and become co-ordinated iu one structure, although sub ject to modifications in the later accre tions, becomes like "tho cake of ens tour Hardened with age. It is not strange, therefore, that in some of the older countries, iike Cliimi, it is hardly ..fit .1 . possioie ioi.ine reiormer io niiiKe so much as a dent in public opinion, in favor of the removal of barriers to progress and the intiodiietion of the ideas and methods of a more advanced and progressive civilization. j'ivon iu me niosi eniigiiioned com munities to-tlav, public opinion is the most powerful Inllueiice constantly ex ertcd against intellectual development and moral and social progress. It pre vents free and impartial discussion of unpopular views, and intimidates into silence and conformity with prevailing beliefs and observances tho great ma jority of those who hold those views; thus directly discouraging iiidepond once, sincerity mid consistency of thought and speech if not indeed mak ing these, qualities the exception among those who hold decidedly un popular views, and silence or acqui escence and a loinpoWzing course the general rule. All original thought must como from Individuals. All great moral and so eial reforms must receive their first im pulse from the few and not from the many. Nothing, therefore, is more imperatively demanded iu tho interest of progress, than the fi'oost and fullest oxpre.ion of those . opinions which clash with the conversation of the day, as a counterpoise to the tendency of an arbitrary and despotic public opinion to make all think alike, mid thus to pro duce "intellectual pence at the price of intellectual death," It is not simply the right, it is the duty of those in ad vance of their fellow-men to speak their hoiifst thought, mid iu a way to ho un derstood. Loyalty to conviction nnd courageous devotion to tho highest con ceptions of truth, regardless of public opinion or personal interests, is n de mand of the times, both in public and private life. There is u vast amount of truth not likely to bo popularly re ceived for n long tlmo and they who de fend it, in splto of the pressure of pub lic opinion, perform n service the value of which can not be oYcrcstimuted. Open Court. SLEEPING WONDERS. taU Areomplljlird l,jr Homo Men Whl! In the AniM or Morplipn. Sleep ill most individuals lasts for tho space of eight hours. Exceptions fo this statement aro numerous; whether these arise from duty or laziness wo shall not venturo to examine. Sir E. Codrington, the famous naval officer, when a midshipman, could watch on deck for nineteen hours; thU left only five for sleep, which in his ea-e was most profound so profound that no noise was sufficiently strong to waken him; yet if the word "Signal!" was whispered in his oar he awoke, and was on deck instantly. Reporters iu the House of Common require groat exertions to keep theni sohcx from sleeping. A few years ago a distinguished member of the "gentle men in the gallery" took down a speech while asleep. His statement rests on his oath. Calvin tells of a friend of hii reading aloud to him while asleep. The organ of vision was alone active. Coleridge, the dreaming philosopher, composed "Knbla Khan" (one of his poems) while fast asleep. Next morn ing he Wiis sure there had been an ac quisition to his literature? hut was too negligent, to write the stanzas. A few da s afterwards ho attempted lo recall the verses, but they had for tho most part lied, and the poem as it nowstamU is but a fragmont. livery one knows that extreme fatiguo induces sleep, and this iu spite of sur rounding relations which, in ordinary circumstances, would hinder any ono from resting. Previous to the shorten ing of the hours of work, factory chil dren frequently fell asleep while work ing at the machines, although well aware that they would incur severe puuiM'unent by doing so. The North American Indian, at the stakis of tor ture, has been known to go to s'eep on the least remission of agony, nnd will dumber until the lire is applied to awaken him. It is on record that, during the heat of the battle of the Nile, some of tho over-fatigued boys fell asleep upon tho deck, and during the attack upon Uau goon, in the Burmese war. the Captain of one of the Meant frigates most act tively engaged, worn out by the execs of continued mental tension, fell asleep mid remained perfectly unconscious for two hours, witliin a yard of his largest guns, which were being worked ener getically the whole period. Habit, and time, place mid circum stances predispose us all to sleep. Tho celebrated pedestrian. Captain Barclay, when accomplishing his extraordinary feat of walking one thousand miles hi as many successive hours, obtained at last such ii mastery over himself thatho fell asleep tho instant ho lay down. Tim doctor's wife never hears tho door-hell diirinr the night, although tho noise is stillieiout to rouse tho woariod husband; hut should a child in the nursery cry, then the mother, oblivious of all other sounds, hours at once the infant's voice. It is related that tho Abbe Faria, who acquired notorioty through his power of. inducing somnambulism, was accus tomed merely to placo his patient in nir armchair, after telling him to shut Ida eyes and collect luinsolt, and pro nounced in a strong voieo, "Dormo."' which was usually successful. ' There seems to be no limit to tha wonders displayed by man iu sleeping. Ooneerdel, the mathematician, solved, one of his most dilliciilt problems whilo isleep si problem, too, which puzzled him during his waking hours. A professor of theology in the University of Basle once wrote a sermon whilo asleep. He found it in his desk msxfc mnrning. The preceding night he could not grapple with the subject as ho de sired, but the performance of his sleep ing hoiii'i- was quite satisfactory to him. Jenny Lind was one of the most cele brated singers of her time. No one' could rival her powers but a factory girl, who sang sometimes bettor than. ilio famous Jenny. The girl could not attempt any difficult piece when awake, but when sleeping she sang so correctly. so like the renowned artiste, that it was difficult to distinguish between their voices. On one occasion Mad. Lind' heard the girl, and oven tested tha accuracy of nor powers by giving her a lontr and elaborate chromatin exercise. This tho sleeping girl performed, much. to the wonder of tlio famous a wed is U singer. London Telcqranh. A TWO-INCH MISS. Nurrmr KuriipH of nil Aliilmini Church from Destruction liy h Cyoliniu. The Colonel had contributed fifty cents at Decatur, a quarter at Birming ham, thirty cents at Vorbenn and thirty- five at Bessemer nil for tho "rebuild ing of colored churches destroyed by cyclones," nnd when wo gottoSlielllohl and an ancient darkey struck him again with the same old chestnut, ho turned on the man with; "See here! Whero is that ehiirchP" "'(out ten miles from hoah, sir." ', "When did the cyclone hit it?" ' 'Lus' September." "I don't believe it! I boliovo von ara lying to me! Now, thon, will you toll mo the truth for half a dollar?" "V-yes, sab." "Very well. Was that church build ing blown down by a cyclone or notf I want a straight and truthful an swer. "An' you'll gin mo fo' bits!" 'yes, 1 will. You only wanted two. bits for the church, while hero aro four; for tho truth." "Den, salt, I shall let do church slida an stick to do trooi an' hope fur du Lawd to forgin met Dat slghcloiio list missed do church by two Inches, but I fought dat wns clus 'miff to collect a few dollars on!" Detroit Free irei. Cheek boldly enters whoro modesty. dare not pull the door-bulU- WhilekaUl Wmea