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TELEGRAPHIC SlillART. h Epto of the Events Attracting Public Interest A. steamer was wreekcel in tho Bay of BamtK). Twenty two passengers "wero drowned. Only ono delegate w:ts on Imnd for the convention of tho National Reform Party, nnnounced to bo held at Syra ause, New York. It is stated tlmt tho Emperor of Brazil has announced his ititeiitir.n of abdicating his throne, owing to Iws hoalth being itnpaireei. Nathan B. Sutton, who shot and .killed Alexander Martin near Liver more, Cal., a year ago, has been ten tonced to be hanged Deeoinber 9. Wm. Rustic, a carpenter, while re pairing windows in tho second story of a Iioueo in San Francisco, lost his foot ing and fell to tho sidewalk. Ho lived but a few hours. The Austrian steamer Hapsburg col lided with nd sank tho Suvarian steamer on Lako Constance, Austria. .Many passengers were drowned, tho exact number being unknown. Tho peoplo of Montana will send a monsttr petition to tho Governor of Idaho for the pardon of Robert Thomas, confined in tho Idaho peni tentiary for burglary, of which they declare him innocent. Assistant, Secretary Maynard has de cided that pauper children, sent to this country to bo provided for by charity socities in this country and forwarded to homes in tho West, can not bo allowed to. land. The members of tho O'Connor family father, mother and two tons were convioted at New York of having robbed and assaulted a young English woman named Mary E. llarwood, and sontoncod by Judge Cowing to state prison for sixteen years euoh. Chicago capitalists aro seriously con lidering tho project of building a large factory in Los Angeles to manufacture) all kinds of time pieces, from tho smallest watch to tho largest church tower clock. It is proposed to build on a scale requiring 1000 men, mostly killed workmen. A special from Ponchatoula, La., says that, a negro drowneu his wife be cause sho refused to live with him any longer. Whilo sho was drowning her brother camo upon tho scono and lired twenty buckshot into his sister's mur derer, who sank with tho body of his victim to tho bottom of tho Amite river. A cloud burst occurred just above tho city of Chihuahua, Mexico, and a Hood came sweeping down on tho town, inundating its streets and alleys and swelling tho stream that ran through tho town to frightful propor tions, carrying away a magnificent bridge 300 feet long that spanned the channel, and cutting tho city in twain. Richard Moore and wife, whilo mov ing at Chicago, acoidontlv knocked over a lamp, tiring tho building, and both wore sull'ocated in tho (Limes. The firo was extinguisned promptly by tho fire department. Moore's body was found on top of the floor, where he had been literally roasted alive in an instant. Mrs. Moore was i-till aljye when found, but died shorly after wards. Tho leport of Land Commissioner Sparks -hows that since March 4, 18Sf, IJl.S-il.-lSl acres have been re stored to tho public domain. Sales, entries and selections for t'ao fiscal year ending Juno liO, 1SS7, embrace 25,1 11, '100 acres, and of Indian lands 740,037 acres, making a total of 25, S5S.033 acres, an increase for tho year ISSOof 3,733,474 acres, and an increase of 4 802,521 compared with tho fiscal yoar 1SS5. Firo broko out in tho Northern Ohio ineutio asylum at Cleveland, during tho weekly dance given tho more tract able of tho patients. Whilo they were enjoying themselves a cry of "firo" wan raited, and (lames and smoko sud denly burst into tho dancing hall, creating a fearful panic among tho 350 inmates. As soon as tho first excite ment had abated, the attendants made a courageous dash and moved t.io un fortunates who had been overcome Tho bodies of six women who wcro suffocated wero recovered, and thro moro wero found in an injured condi tion. A dispatch from Nogales, A. T.,eaj's: All attempts to get further news of tho destruction caused by the storm on the southern coasts have been futile. The supposition hore is that tho cities of Mazitlan and San Bias have boon par tially, if not wholly destroyed ly a hurricano and tidal wave, It is said ' that tho shore of tho hay at Guaynias, in Mexico, is crowded by people await ing tidings from tho swept-away cities and Bchooners. On tho gulf tho storm and tidal wave wero the most severe that have evor boon known. Many of those who have wealth aro rushing to tho scono of disaster for tho purpose of lending aid. A special from North Judson, Intl., nays: Another Chatsworth railroad horror occurred on tho Chicago & At lantic Railway, sixty miles east of Chi cago, near Kout's station. Seventeen passengers wero killed and burned up in tho wreck, and from twenty to thirty wore moro or less injured. A heavy fresh meat train toleircopcd tho even ing accommodation train and tho New York express. Tho accommodation, with ono haggago car, two coaches and ono efeepor, had etoppod at a water tank for wator, about ono mile west of Kout's, and a froight train following crashed into tho Bleoper, tel escoping and burning up tho entire passenger train, as above stated. Tho entire responsibility appears to re.t on the engineer of th froight traiu.; AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to tho and Interests of Stockmen. Tanners Tim IiUli Into. Thcro nro many theories about tho best way to got tho greatest yield. Ono person says lie has adopted tho follow iug plan : Furrow tho land four or fivo inches deep and three feet apart. Cut each potato lengthwise hi to four parts, and drop the pieces from fifteen to eighteen inches apart in tho low. This method, ho finds, gives moro merchantable po tatoes anil less small ones than w hen more seed is ued. Tho yield is also nearly double that obtained by plant ing in hills three feet apart each way. Another good authority says : "The crown eyes of the potato aio tho only ones which yield vigorous plants ; tho prduco of the other eyes is feeble and unromuncrativo. If, therefore, pota toes aro cut for seed they should not be cut lengthwise, by which the crown is divided and eyes of all kinds intro duced into tho seed, but they should bo cut across, the half containing the crown eyes planted, and tho other half used for food." Some like for this crop a deep, sandy loam, which of course is good, but tho strong, dark lands of tho West do not produce a first-class potato, although the yield is often large. Low, wet lands aro not suitable unless drained. It is found that tho high, sandy soil will give good crops, but if not rich in potash thoy must bo made so with proper fertilizers. Ashes and salt have been very successfully used with this crop. Potatoes planted in summer for homo uso may be mulched with great benefit. Covering the surface of the ground near tho roots enables tho soil to retain its moiaturo much longer than if not covered, it checks the evaporation and also condenses the moisture of tho air so that it passes unilor the material used for mulching, thus keeping a re servo stock of moisturo for tho roots to appropriate as needed. Mulching is not only nature's restorer, but its pro tector also. When tho potatoes aro out of tho ground tho best way to keep them is to raise a bed nearly a foot above tho level of the ground ; put the potatoes on this bed, cover with dirt, and then build a potato-bin ovor them to keep off tho rain. This is far proferablo to tho northern cellar, whoro the potatoes and other vegetables lie and rot, gener ating a deadly atmosphere that per vades tho house and is breathed into tho system of all tho inmates, and de veloping, is known by the names of typhoid, bilious and malarial fevers'. Good vegotablo land is usually a me dium between tho high and tho low pine binds. Potatoes take a largo por cent, of potash from the land and re turn but little to it; for this reason the food supply must bo kept up or tho land will bo impoverished. The tops contain considerable fertilizing matter and should bo gathered for tlio com post heap. It will be seen by the abovo that this crop doe3 well on different soils and is, therefore, not a difficult one to giow. If, therefore, you plant anything, try tho Irish potato for homo use, if noth ing more. Uurnt lands aro good, and, with plenty of potash and moisture ap plied, thoy will most likely make you a satisfactory crop. Cheap I'ooil for IIojih. The four great foods for hogs are corn, clover, milk and bran. With those foods hogs can bo raised econom ically and at a good profit, evon it cholera !oes come occasionally. Corn is tho cheapest and best food for fat tening, and it is the cheapest to form tho bulk of the winter ration for grow ing stock. Men go tco far, however, when thoy uso it alono us a growing ration. It needs tho muscle and bone- forming material of some food as bran or milk to supplement it. Clover is the cheap and practielo food with which to form the hulk of tho ration for choats and hogs during summer. It needs tho addition of corn when summer fattening is desired, and must be supplemented by milk, bran and corn for tho best growth of tows with young pigs. Milk is eminently tho young pig's food, but it is valuable in feeding with any other ration. No other food stimulates the growth of pigs liko sweet skim-milk, and no other food aids the hog moro in producing fat from a ration consisting mainly of corn. Bran is merely a supplemental food in most cases and serves to balance tho food ration when foeding corn or other starchy food, whether foeding a giowing or a maturo fattening animal. Cultivating beets should bo still done, as they will continuo to grow until tho frost shall appear. Beets aro relished by all classes of stock in winter, and plenty of them should bo stored away. Carrots should also ro ceivo attention. Give tho late cabbages a good culti vation or hoeing as often as it can be conveniently done. There is no crop that reponds so quickly to cultivation as tho cabbage, and where tho land has been well manured it is a paying crop. Tho free uso of insect powder in the 6tables will greatly lesson tho annoy anco to stock from flies, but tho stalls and doors should bo kept clean. Dust ing tho logs of horses with carbolate of iimo will aid in preventing attacks from insocts. A mixture of marl, wood ashes and rich earth makes an oxcellont munuro for young ttooa. No animal manure should bo used unless it be completely decomposed. Grass is tho natural food for the pig, which should havo plenty of green food of soma kiud. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California, Thoro are 117 office! s and men at tho Bobo, Idaho, barracks 11. E. Bylaw's flue horse Mark Twain valued ut $5,000, died at Spok.ne Falls Montana mines paid Jf2,152,G7S in dividends for the first nine months of tho present year. An undorcround river was struck in the Original Butte mine, Montana, at a depth of 150 feet. JiiX-aenator I). J. Creignton, con victed in San Francisco of jury bribing has lied the country, forfeiting ! 10000 Wm. Cantovioh, a do.-pondent glove finisher, suicided by shooting himself throuth tho body with a revolver at San Francisco. Graco, tho three-vear old daughter of Samuel E. llolden, fell fourteen feet through a skylight at Napa, Cul., and died from her injuries. The Taboo Lumbor Company's saw mill, at Glenbrouk. Nov., waselostrojvd by lire. Loss $30,000, partially in sureel. Tho company will rebuild at once. Tho first church built at Roslyn, W T., Baptist in elenonunation, was recontlv dedicated, and tho Catholics and Presbyterians aro now making ready to build. Axel Peterson, a reepectcil young man, M vears ot nge, coniniuicei sin cido at Valhio, Cal., by cutting his throat and tho arteries in his left wrist, The cause is unknown. J.C Simon, of San Francisco, jumped or fell from the steamer Piedmont when near Goat Island. A boat wag nut out. but tho man sank and the body was not recovered Tho Presbyterian sy.iod of tho Co lumbia, consisting of all tho Presby terian ministers and ruling elders of each church in Oregon, lelaho, Wash ington and Alaska, mot at Tacoma W. T. A seaman named Patrick Denihti omployed on tho steamer Wellington dropped a buckot into tho water at S.in Francisco, and, on hauling it up discovered a human skull in tho bottom. A gold nugget weighing twenty-two and one-half ounces, valued at ifoOO, the largest ever found in Idaho, was picked up by Goorgo Lilea out of his placor claim at Atlanta, Alturas county. W. W. Mow. a U-year-old boy, was drowned whilo bathing at the Pacific Mail dock. San Francisco. TIo was taken out, but all attempts to rosusoi tato him failcel. Ho died after being removed to his homo. A coucar caught and killed Duff Grceno's fino pointor dog on Salmon river, and the varmint only released its hold when tho canino'uownor shoved tho muzzle of his gun into his hide and blow him to piece's. David James, a minor, was killed in the Kennfely mine at Jackson, Cal. Ho was descending tho shaft to com mence work, anel getting out at the 100-foot level, ho thoughtlessly stopped wrong, and fell 200 Ret, Alexander Abernathy was killed out right while sharpening a toed on an emery wheel at S;in Francisco. The wheel was revolving at such a rapid rate that it split in twain, and ono half crushed the hkull of the oporator, A crowel of Indians from Shasta county werei employed to pick grapes on tho Vino ranch in Tehama county, Cal. For somo cause most of thorn contracted a. kind of cholera, and since their return thirteen of them have died. The ship Occidental, with'coal from Cardiff to Acapulco, has arrived at Port Townsend, W. T. On March 10, Captain Williams was murdered by a seaman named Johnson. Johnson was left in ehargo of tho American consul at Valparaiso. Tho wifo of Manuel Gomez, living near Petuluma, Cal., left her four months olel babe in a craelle, attended by its little brother, and went into the yard for somo purpose. Tho litllo boy lighted a candle and set firo tj the cradlo and baby. Tho mother rushed to its assistance, but tho child was so badly burned that it died. Tho heirs of Thos. II. Blythe, the deceaseel niiUionaire,havo formed them selves into a company called the Blythe Company, for tho purpose of avoiding delays and other complications arising from tho death of any of tho Blytho heirs. Tho capital stock is two and a half million dollarn, divided into a hundred thousand shares of $25. The bodies of Mrs. Poavy and her eighteen months child, living within one miloof thoDcSmet mission, Idaho, wero discovered at their homo mur dered, both throats boing cut. A so vore struggle evidently took plnco, as tho mother's hands wcro cut to tho bono in grabbing tho assassin's knife. Tho husband was away from home. Tho bodios had been murdered fivo days before discovered, Inelians aro uspooted to havo been tho perpe trators. Edward A. Stevenson, Governor of Idaho, has submitted his annual report to tho Secretary of tho Interior, and gives tho following statistics : Popu lation, 97,250, an inoreaso of 04,000 over 1880; assessed valuation of tax able property, $20,441,192, an incroaso of $3,000,000 ovor last yo.tr; number of catt!o,4 42,303; sheop, 002,248; hogs, 00,411; horses, 132,422. Tho loss of stock last winter will not exceed 2) por cent. Tho production of gold, silver anil load during the year ended September 30 is estimated by tho usaay oflico as follows: Gold, $2,417,129; ktlver, $1,063,100; lead, $2,195,000. OREGON NEWS. "Everything of General Interest in Condensed Form. Baker City has 3100 population. The Odel Follows of Salem havo in stituted an encampment at Dallas. Tho postolllco at Mount Pleasant Linn county, has been discontinued. .an enort is being made to organize a tiro company at Burns, Grant county. James Riley has boon appointed postmaster at Coburg, and John B Scott at Metro. Jacob Johnson, of Clackamas station claims to have found on his farm a vein of hare! coal. The general fund of the Stato is ex uausuei, ami tno oalem banks aro cashing warrants. Tho corn crop in Jackson county is considereel ot an excellent quality, ami a largo yield is anticipated. A new postollico has been cstablisheil at Weshawin, Tillamook county, with Sarah Pegtas as postmaster. lhe Order of Pocohautas, a sido elo greo of tho Redmen, for ladies, has been organized at Jacksonville. nncu uienn nceitientiy shot, ant killed himself at tho military road camp near Vale, Malheur county. John Eggers killed a California lion in tho mountains near Callahan's mill Douglas county, that weighed about 200 pounds. It is estimated that fully 500.000 biuihols of wheat is stored in Pontile ton warehouses waiting for an im provement of tho market. Edward Perry, a sailor belonging to the ship Moroni, jumped into tho river at Astoria to show bystanders how ho coulel swim, anel was drowned. A Building and Loan Association has been orgauized at La Grande. Tho capital stock is $100,000, divitleel into 500 shares of a par value of $200 each Tho Secretary of tho Treasury has appointed I? rank Carlson assistant lighthouse keoporof the station atCapo Arago, Oregon, vico Thomas Brown, removal. The pioposcd now railroad lino from Forest Grovo to Astoria will tap what is admitted to bo tho finest body of fir and ceelar timbor in the Norlhwcst, says an exchange Win. Dillon, who murelercd Charles Mancient in a Portland saloon, has been found guilty of murdor in tho second eh-groo and sontenced to tho penitentiary for lifo. Mrs. Henry Warner, of Kellogg, Douglas county, had the thumb of tho left hand torn t)ff by a horso sho was leading with a ropo around her hand, suddenly jumping to ono side. Hugo Fredorick, a hand at Allen Perkins' sawmill, Onoatta, was caught by a bell, anel carried over tho flywheel and crushed to death. Ho was 55 years of ago, and leaves a wifo and seven chiltlron. Thcro are sixty-ono persons in Jack son county receiving pensions, anil tho amount paid to thorn for the quarter ending Juno 3, 1887, was $1,911. Total paid in tho stato for tho satno eiuartor was $29,098 -Z'o. Marple, tho convicted murelerer of Corker, having boon resentenced to death by Judge Boiso, tho warrant of execution has been caused by him to rouel Novoniber 11, upon which date Marple will suffer tho full penalty of tho law. At tho annual meeting of tho Ash anel Stock Protective Association, iho following etflieors wero olecteel for the urrent year: Presielent, Philander Powell; -vice-president, 0. B. Kings bury; secretary and troasuror, D. G. Spencer. A Silverton paper savs that sweet potatoes exhibited at tho Butto fair made such a good showing in size and flavor that the farmers who havo a sandy bottom soil feel that they can bo profitably raised in this stato, ami noxt year there will probably bo qtuto a largo yield of that excellent spuel. Tho disease called blackleg, so fatal to cattle has made its appcaranco near Baker City, and several head havo died from its oflVctrt. Mr. L. B. Baker lost six head, Mr. John Paylon several, and so on with othor e:atllo owners. '1 ho disease attacks principally tho young fat cattle, tho older ones escaping gen erally. II. C. Matney died at his homo on Matney flat, near Arlington. Tho cause of his death was the result of an accident which befell him whilo ho was hauling wooel a few days before ho ted. I its horses had balked on a graeic, and in getting them started ho fell under tho brake-block under the wagon as it was moving. Tho Douglas County Fruit Growers' Association met at tho court house at Hoscburg, and a permanent organiza tion was mado by electing tho follow ing named officers: G. W. Riddlo, president; II. Adams, vico-prcsielont; Wm. 0. Winston, secretary; J.Fisher, treasurer; W. V. Johnson, A. J. Bel- ows and F. Ward, directors. Mr. Ramsey, who was digging a well at Moro, Wasco county, mot with a serious accident which will probably cost him his lifo. Ho had to uso pow er in digging tho well, He says that tho fuso he used in tho blast was very nird, find that ho broko tho samo instead of cutting it. Thinking, as tho blast did not explode, that the out- sido end of the fueo had been lit, instead of tho blast end, ho wont to tho woll to look down, As ho did so tho blnst exploited, and a pieco of rock about tho sue 01 a hen's egg, struck him just at tho base of tho noso. Tho rock was buried its full depth, forcing the left eyo out of its socket, and bursting Iho ball. MISCELLANEOUS. The Now York City directory, just .isue., contains 3'J4.813 names, indi cating a population ef 1, COO. 000. - A successful attempt to mako t photograph of a sunrise from the sum mit eif Pike's Peak has been made by C F. Snyder, a member of tho Sign:!' Corps. One evening recently a tall pine tree in front of a Western fanner'? dwelling was struck, killing nineteen hogs ten shouts, four pigs anel live sow? anil crippling two. Not a bruised spot coulel lie seen on an of them. The English co-operatives havo n bank whose transactions amount to SSO.OOJ.OOO a year. Thoy havo 1.400 stores and elo a business of l.r0.000.000 n year. Their 900,000 members receive an annual profit of $15,000,000. Their profits during the past twenty-four iars havo been KiO.OOO.OOO. A Washington lady was canning and pickling poaches, ntid her littlo two-aiul-a-hnlf-voar-eihl daughter was endeavoring tt assist her in every available way. Finally a package ol hole cloves was produced, which were to bo inserted in the fruit for spice, when the little ono .suddenly exclaimed: "O mamma, let ine put in tho tacks!" Farm and Fireside. It is said that t he-re are over ."00, 000 children, between one and twelvo years of age. who are insured in four "hahy-hte insurance companies in tho United States. They are mostly the children of workinginen. mid tho insurance is usually carried to defray funeral expenses in case of death. A baby can not be insureel until it attains the age of at least ono year. The prem ium is paid, as a rule, weekly, and is live cents a week in all cases. Frank Leslie's. A mad elog attacked Mrs. Diary Biekle, near Louisville, anil William lichen, a young newly landed German euipleycd by Biekle, went to her rescue anel strangled the brute, but not before his hands and arms had been badly bit ten. As soon as Bioklo learncel that the elog was mad, anil that Eichcn might have tho hydrophobia, ho promptly discharged the veiling man who had saved l 's wife's lifo, and tho poor fellow, without monoy or friends, was admitted to the hospital. A dreadful story is told of a Chil ian of Los Amies. Ho bail a griulgn against a neighbor, and when small pox recently appeared in the prnvinco he obtained a number of dried pustules and put them inside, a plug of tobacco, which ho placed where tho peoplo he hated were likely to seo it. The neigh bors found it, made cigarettes from It, anil smoked them. A few days aftor ward small-pox broke out in the bouse, and with such virulence that no one of the family escaped. The fiend was at tacked with tho disease a few tlays afterward and tlied after confessing hih crime. A good many of tho uncharitable reports which appear frequently re specting the tendency of Indian youths, educated in the East, to dcire-nerato after returning to their homos, ought to he silenced by a letter of General Armstrong, who savs of twenty Indian students who wont back from Hamp ton to their Dakota reservation, that all but three aro lining verv well as laborers and mt'chanics, whilo some are independent fanners. A captain of U. S. Infantry donii's a statement, widely printed, that any Hampton graduate hail part in the reeeiit Arizona out break. CauarenaliOHulist. In treating a negro in Lcipsie for for an ulcerous nll'cction, it was found necessary to replace portions of tho skin with pieces taken from ono or two while porsons. llio.so lattor piouos gradually grow darkor in color, and finally as black as tho patient's own skin. This singular fact led to an ex periment being made of transposing portions of black ukin on a white pa tient, and it was found that after a few weeks thesn began to grow pale. In hiss than fourtoon weeks thoy had, in fact, grown so white as not to bo dis tinguishable from the patient's natural skin. Boston lludgtt. INFERIOR RUDDER. Fraudulent Tricks I'mi'tli-dl ! DlblinnPMt Slum UiMilnrM. Rubbers supply a favorite (ielel for fraudulent propensities. Consumers know little or nothing of quality from appearance. I im cheapest goods made, if highly finished, may readily bo solel for tho best. Tho best boot made i.s viiown as pure gum. Ranking next to this, but still graded ns first quality, i.s the best dull finish. But of tho dull boot thoro aro, of course, as many grades and qualities as thoro aro coin- lauioH making them. When wearers como to buy them it is surprising how many pure gum shoes some dealers have, and how cheaply thoy soil thoin. few years ago a manufacturer, re marking upon this rather curious feature of the business, uiidertotik to remedy the evil. Ho ordered tho "dull finish" boots stamped "not pure gum." Tho audacious dealers erased the first of those words, and tho remaining two aided sales materially. Certain labol niaiiiifacturiirs havo done considerable business printing and preparing paper nbejs stamped "pure gum, for the, uso of retail shoo dealers, to bo pasted on their boots. Wo havo hoard that tho trick of substitution is practiced by some dealers. The shoos art) selected, fitted, paid for, it may bo, and ledt to bo de livered at tho home) of tho buyer, or taken to nuotlirir part of tho store to bo put up in n pnruil. During tho lattor progress a choapor ami altogether ln- furjor pair, samo sizo and width, are nit in thalr place for t huso purchased. Vo should hope, for the credit of human mil nro, that swindling of this bold nature) was very rarcSAoe and Leather Ktponcr. PERSONAL AND LITERARY." Mis Gabriello Greeley, tho only surviving child of tho late Horncu Greedey, lives on her father's Chappa (pia farm with two lady friends. Tho now volume of tho "Story of the Nations" series will be "Hungary." by Prof. Vambery. It is the first His tory of that country written in English. Bar Harbor boasts of a $75,000 washerwoman. Her house, which she owns is worth that much; but sho re fuses to sell it, and continues to scrub anel starch as eif yore. Tho town of Augusta, Me., with a popifuition of only 8,000 souls, is thet headquarters of 11) monthly maga zines, which have a coml ined circula tion of 1,100.000 copies. Threo of these havo a circulation of 4f0,000. of 300,000, and 12 of 350,000. Six of them are dovoteel to agriculture and the roinnineler are literary. Dr. Ernest T. Hofinann. of Now York, has u dog that is almost tho equal of a human servant. Her nnmo is Victoria, but Vie" U what she thinks it is. She gets her master's hat, gloves, whip, her enwi muz '.so, or what ever else he calls for, and when sho is out shooting with the doctor ho talks to her exactly as ho would to a man, ami she understands anil obeys him perfectly. One of General Grant's host an swers to any question was his reply to William M. Evarts, who, in speaking about Mr. Beecher, asked: "Why i.s It, Goneral, that a little fault in a clergy man attracts more notice than a groat fault in an ordinary man?" "Per haps," said tho Gonoral, thoughtfully, "it is for the same reason that a slight shadow passing ever the pti ro sntw Ls more reulily seen than a river of dirt em tho black earth." Miss Sophia Triooupis, sister of tb l'riine Minister of Greece, is one of Uin leaih'rs of Athenian society. Sho is a slentlor, fragilc-looklt.g olel laely, wlm livens surroundiul with (lowers. Her brother's friends, kneiwing her fonel ncss for thi'in, scuel her dozens of bou quets every' eloy. She never "goes mi- where," but receives from ten. o'clock in tho morning until midnight. In Athens she U a power. As a oop respondent sho is indofntizablc. writ ing dozens of letters in as many dither em languages every day. Fifteen years ago Miss Saralv Clark, of Fort Smith, Ark., bought a. handsome tombstone! ami had it in scribed: "In memory of Miss Sarah. Clark, born January 2.r, 1807. World, farewell; 1 must return to dust till Jesus, in whom I havo believed from, yeuith to olel age, bids me rise and liver with Him in a world without end. Blessed nro tiio dead who dio in thu Lord." Tho tombstone lay in her dooryard covered with beiards until t ho ot lier day, when Aunt Sarah died, ami now it has been set up over her grave.. mi HUMOROUS. Son ( .ho loves travel) "O, for ft. rip 'round tho wor el!" Fathor (whe loves lucre) "Owe for nothinrr. .my boy." Ho mot her in tho hotel hallway It is not strange) that for a moniniit rIio did not know which way to turn when ho said: "Now if you II eo-ihcido wo 11 go outsitlo." "Do y. ill tumble!" asked Amy, afk er op aining soinothing to tho High School "irl. "No, my elea ." replied Mildred, severely, "I elo not tumble. but I precipi ate myself in that direc tion. " I'Utsburnh Chron idle. "You want to buy a stovo? Cer taiuly, ma'am. What kind of a storcP"" "Well, wo'ro just married and think of going to housekeeping, anil, as I don't know how to cook, 1 think I will take a cooking stovo." Good House-L-ixpiiuj. A young man in collogo wroto ns follows to his father: "My dear father, t havo only time bolng greatly nwhoel with my studios to scntl my lore and. toll you that I wish you would sontL nio fifty dollars." Tho father ropliceli "My eloar son I havo only timo being greatly rushed with 1113 hay to stintl iovo and te-11 you that I liavo not sent, you fifty- dollars." Arkansaw jfV-eiy-elor. " Kitty ran into Mary Ann, anil lost a sheet, besides smashing tilings generally. Mary Ann's now suit wa lipped in a dozen placos, ami Kitty lay helpless in the roadway. It was alL duo to bad management on tho part of Kitty's master." The abovo sounds an shocking as a police court item, Imt it is in reality only a report of a collision during a yacht race.', written in tha En glish style, with tho word "the" omit ted from each vcssol's namo. Harper's Ilaxar. Things Mutantur. In boyhood's bright unit sunny dayn, W'hun nil my imtlia wuro pluiuant wiijft How bluKaaU tho clay, with wealth sulilhna When father gavei mo u front bis dlmo Hut now, with wants that yemrly (Trow, V,'hou la my pocliots etoiths I go JInw iilneihod anil hcguuroil is tho tlma Whan I cun only Una u illmo. Burdclte. "What sort of a watch i.s thls?' asked a gentleman, picking up a curi ous olel time-piooo in thu shop of neleal or of curiosities. "That," ropliod thu dealer, "is a roal curiosity. It is a watch that belonged to Alexander thu Great when ho elied on the barrel Island of St. Helena." "The douce it is! Why, man alive, hi the elava of iMoxaudor tho Groat thoro was no seek things ns watches!" "That's just what makes it such a rarity." "And Alex amlor tho Groat didn't dio at St. Helena. " "Ho didn't, ehP Woll, that makes it a still greater curiosity!" Awl taking up tho rare relic, thu dealer locked It up in his burglar-proof wife. A, 1, iMltj&r.