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.