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A' OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers. UMO.Y. OKRVOX. RELIGIOUS AND fitting suffer EDUCATIONAL. Mint tuoso wno are should 8uj'cr well. It Is TO!Ulo to Murkc Thcro is something wronj; within all those who are afraid to look within Becker. Nineteen million of tho sixty mil lion people in this land are members of churches. Tho UostonSchool Hoard has voted to reduce the time devoted to nrithmc tic in tho public schools and to simplify tiio process of instruction Mr. A. S. Barnes, of New York, liastfiven $10,000 to Cornell University for tho orection of a buihlitir for tho college Christian Association. If I can put one touch of a rosy minuet into the life of any man or woman, 1 shall feci Unit I liavc worked with God. George MacDonaUl. Over 170,000 of tho communicant members in regular connection with tho Lutheran Church in tho United States arc found in tho Stato. of Penn sylvania. In Russia thcro arc 32,000 schools, laving eacli an avcrago of 30 scholars. This is one school for 2,300 inhabitants, nt n cost of less than a half-penny n bead of tho population. Tho Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore has an income of $220,000 from tho endowment funds, and $10, 000 to $60,000 from tuition. Tho .stu dent, therefore, pay only about one ftti of the cost of their education. Dr. Horatius Honar, of Edinburgh, Scotland, an able pronehor, author and fiymn-wntcr, but doubles best known in the hitter capacity, is making ar rangements to rotiro from active min isterial life, after fifty years' service. Tho surprsing fact is noted that while tho Wesleyan Church in Great "Britain had 1,970 ministers, it had 24. 579 lay class leaders, and 15,00'J local Trenchers last year, so that tho greater part of its pastoral and preaching work is dono by laymen and none tho less cflcctivo work for that. N. Y. Witness Unaided by revelation tho human mind thinks itsolf out into an eternity ol gloom. It Is awful to think when tho thought can not striko God. But, oh, what a being it is that can think! Do you notico that man always reasons upwards? llioy aro aspirations, am though veiled at tho top, thoy aro al Tvays towards those high and hidden things. Jlev. Dr. Magce. iasior oenncuer, wno lor moro than twenty-live yonrs hns been at tho Jieau of tho Syrian Orphan's Home in Jerusalem, roports that during the sea son just closed thoro havo been moro tourists and pilgrims in Jerusalem than in any ainglo year in his life in tho holy it'. Thcro wore nearly 30.000 pil- rtm& ltussia Is orectmg a tower on Jtft. Olivet u hundred metres high. It will bo tho highest building in the East AMAZING ADVENTURES. tho line. Thoro was a deserted coaci I drovi Slope, an' had i Ev'ry time I conn DECAYING ROYALTY. - .. T. ... ... . I at pretty near ev'ry station Two Triith-ItntlncrKtngo-miwrii Meet unit I . , i ei .READING .FOR BOYS. U WIT AND WISDOM. Sloth is tho koy of poverty. With tho generality of men, policy u much moro powerful than principlo, There aro fow who concoivo how instrumental tho tougno is to salvation er condemnation. Qitcsnel. Jonnlo Wliy, Annie, your hair is all mossed, your collar is torn and you aro as red as a beet. Annie Charlie called. Now Is tho time of year whon lovo'a young dream gets jolted all out rlmpo beeauso tho hammock lets go. JlercJiant Traveler. If wo strivo to beeomo what wo trivo to appear, manners' may often "bo rendered useful guides to tho per formance ol our duties. Sidney Smith J hero Is a womau in Connecticut who wears a number nino shoe. Whon who sets her shoo down her husband walks around it and says: "Ycssum, 1 will." Ar. Y. Journal "Men and women make sad mis takes about thoir own symptoms tak Jng their vague, uneasy longings, somo .nines nir genius, some times lor rolig iou, and, oftenor still, for a mighty love." Heiress I am afraid it is,notfor me that you como hero so often, but lor my money. Ardent Wooer You ro cruel to say so. How can 1 got your money without gutting you. Motion Courier. Fnthor "Well, young man, you muHt either marry my'daughtor or pay for tho gas you burned all last winter.'1 ioorgu "Er I say you don't happen to havo an engagement ring about you?;1 Tuimts. fanner WaybacTc "I 'want to see your boss." Olllco-boy "Have you a enrd, sir?" Fanner Waybaek "Now you go 'long, yo pert little upstart, an' oil yer boss I wautur see him. Yo an't como no three-card-nionto games u mo; l'vo read tho papers, an' I'm posted." A German was passing nlong Broadway tho othor day when ono end ef an overhanging sign camo looso and id ruck him on tho head. "Oh, I'm dead," exclaimed tho man; but whop lie found lie was still alive ho added "If dot hat kilt mo I would holl'sued the wnerJ Xyack Journal. Somo people speak as if hypocrites wore confined to religion; but thoy are vorywliero; people pretending tt wealth whon thoy havo not n sixpence, aswiniing knowledge of which thoy are ignorant, shnmmiug a cultuio tlyjy are fur removed from, adopting opinions tkey do not hold.L'ev. Albert Uood- i rick. riClit h MlRltty i)uel Just how it happoncd that tho two stago drivers got into conversation to getlicr will probably never bo known; but tho fact remains that thoy did. After somo preliminary sparring to establish tiio fact that each was a pro fessional liar as well as a driver, and a worthy opponent for tho other, tho Western man said: "I've dono somo pcrty rcmark'blc things in the West, which I s'posc would s prise you somo if I was to tell you 'bout 'cm. I was driving stago onco an' at I'ort Steelo somebody stole all tho wheels ofTn tho stage. I put the six bosses on a run an' went to Rawlins, eighteen mile, lickcty-brindle, with the stago llym' in tho air behind 'bout four feet from tho ground." I havo druv stago some, mysolf," mused the Eastern liar, as he closed Ids eyes as if lost In thought, "but always in tho Last, so of course I never met with no such s'prisin' adventures as you have. I remember one little inci dent, though, as might pos'bly bo wuth tellin'. I was drivin' a four-hoss stago 'tween Scrabblevlile and Bono Corners, twelve miles. Ono dav jes's I got ready to start I discovered that somebody had stole tho road between tho two places. Plenty o' wheeu on my stage, unner- stand, but no road to run 'cm on.- I jes' went down to ISiitterworth crock an' got a couplo o' bridges an' stuck ono of 'em out towards tho Corners, druv out on it, drawed tho other out and shoved it ahead, druv on it, an' kep ropeatin'. I mado tho drive in something over four hours." Yc," said tho Western liar, ap provingly, "that was tho best you ould do if you didn't havo no extra roads along. We gon'ly carried 'long one or two to use in caso of 'niergon- cics. J'ver liavo any troublo with road agents?" "Yon mean robbors, I guess?" "Yes." "A couplo of 'oni tackled mcono day, but I chafed 'cm two mile an' finely. run ovor 'em with tho stage." "All tho road agents in tho Wost com bined once near Jiilesburg to down me. Twonty-livo of 'cm opened firo on my coach at once. It mado mo mad, an' I got off with my Winchester an' wont for'om. 1 left my bosses' an' passen gers an' beat 'round in the sage-brush for three days shootin' road agents. Ono would jump up 'bout ev'ry live minutes an' I would crack him over. Lots o' fun, though I needed a good bird dog. Stago company lined me two hundred dollars for delayin' bus'ness. It was further down tho river near North Platto that tho m'skeoters tried to hold mo up noxt summer. Thoy swarmed all ovor. One boss died from loss o' blood good boss, too. I bo- lievo a couplo o' English tourists who wore riding outside got killed by oni, too. I went to smoking some dog-tail torbackor a man from Missoury givo mo an that fixed 'cm " Yo can't skeor Jersey skeetcrs with smoke," said tho Eastern driver, calm ly. "I've druv there and tried it. Ono evening thoy woro coining up out of Sodgwick's marsh powerful thick. I lit my pipe an' 'lowed to drive 'cm 'way, I was pufiln' 'long whon suddenly onu of 'om como up an' asked mo for a light, an' I looked 'round an' seon 'notlierono scratohiu' a match on his log an' lightin' a cigar. Thoy were bad Mint trip. Thoy would como up through from tho rattlln' good team. to a coach I'd havo 'cm tie it behiin an' I'd take it 'long. I got the biggest string of 'cm you ever seed. I an' the passengers on the front end would take dinner at ono meal station, an' the ones on tho hind end nt mebby the second station back. I drove 'bout the streets o' Atchison gittin' that string o1 coaches coiled up 'round tho towi' for two days. Come to find out a whole lot o' movers an' cin'grant trains comiu' back had hitched on, an' I had been haulin' tho whole outfit. You bet my hosses.got thin on that trip." "Durncd if it aint f 1111113 -nit we should have had so maii3' sperienccs 'bout the same. In an enrly day I was drivin' in Maine 'long the coast, an' picked up coaches all 'long, jes' like 3ou did. Tho string got so long that Icouldnttell what did hitch on. an' when I got to Squaghavcn I found I had been snakin' 'long several hundred farmers' wagons, four freight trains that went on a railroad that run bv tho side o' tho wagon road an' two large fishin' vessels, that were goin' toSnuag- havon an' had hitched on tho hind end an' been towed right 'long into port." Then tho two drivers drifted Dakota Dell. upart. UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS. out of that marsh an' stand 'long the road an' sort o' loan over an' look at 1110 liko a turkey lookin' at a grasshopper. 1 guess thoy thought I vas too .small game, bomo o tno young ones picked at mo, though, an' made it sort o' dis-'greo'blo." "Ever havo any sporionco with raw- hido traces ? " asked tho Western man. "No," answered the othor, doubt- fully, "I guess not mobby 1 havo under some other namo, though prob- bly 1 havo. Go 'head." "I tried '0111 out in the Green rivor country thought they would bo very dur'blo, you know. Didn't think 'bout their U'liil'ty to stretch. 1 was goin' from Point of Rocks to Green River. Forded Alkali creek an' them tugs be gun to stretch. I was ridin' tho near wheel boss for a change at tho time, an' fore I knowed it tho coaeli was two milo behind. I thought o' goin' back but seed it wouldn't do no good 'causo they woro tho only traces 1 had, so I kep' goin'. Whon I got to Rock Spring, ton mile, from tho creek, I stopped. I lldu't know what to do at first, but jes' happened to think of a scheme and tried It. I tied all them tugs together and fastened 'om to a tree, an' jes' set down an' waited. Tho sun shone warm, and by-'n'-by them traces 'gun to shrink an' in 'bout two hours tho coach como rattltn' 'long sif there was forty bosses to it." 'I don't b'liovo 1 ovor hud a sporionco z.ieklv liko that." said the Eastern driver, "but I had one most as bad when 1 druv over tho mouiit'ins in INmusylvany. There comu up a rain an' my whip lash got wet. 1 was erackln' It 'round an' tho end of it got aught somo way on a small tree. I kep' holt of tho handle an' went on four or llvo milo, where wo stopped for miner. I throwod tho whip down air it caught on tho funco. After I got .trough eatln' I wont out, an' I'm a ar if that lash wasn't slirlnkin' and towin' in that tree, which it had pulled up by tho roots. I al'ays Mowed thoro was powerful good stutVin that lash!" "Must ha' boon somo raw-hldo in it raps somo o' tho sumo that was in my traces. I reckon 'bout tho most ro mark'blo thing I ovor dono was whon I brought tho string o' coaches into Atchison. Somo disuaso struck into tho bosses uu' killed 'cm off all 'long Many of tho l'rcuwt OMrnr Sulci to bn Too Old for Active Service. The formation of a committee com posed of officers of tho regular arni3 and the militia of the several States to agitate tho question of having annual encampments and maneuvers in which the NutWnnl and Stato forces shall par ticipate is well received by army men, particularly by tho 30 linger ofiicors. The establishment of such a practical school of instruction would be of great value to the National Guard, and equal ly as valuable to tho rank and filo of tiio regular arnij. In conversation, a j'oting otlicer who lias served many years on tho frontier, said: "I heartily wish tho autumn-maneuver project may succeed. What a shaking up it would crcato among the old officers, both field and lino! Wiry, if the regular iirni3 was called upon next week for active service compara tive few of tho field ofiicors could ac company thoir regiments 113 reason of physical disability. You may notico hat occasionally orders aro issued from tho War Department for regiments to exchange stations, and frequently these orders provide that tho exchango shall ho mado In marching. I lie actual marching is done by tiio enlisted men and subaltern oflicors, wiiilo tiio field and stall' do their marching in spring wagons and Pullman ears, not because thoy prefer those vehicles, but because physical disabilities prevent them from accompanying thoir regiments. "Wo havo cavalry officers in tho nct ivo sorvico wiio havo not mounted a horso for years, and many others who are unablo to rido for five consecutive hours. Tho same is true of tho artil lery and infantry. In tho latter corps there aro a fow one-legged company officers. Think of a one-legged Captain or Lieutenant in a marching regiment! The army is now in the condition it was whon tho war began in 18(11. It was thou oflicored b3 old men, who were at once shaken out whon hostilities bogan, and tho young men had to take thoir places. Why not retire these old and disabled officers and promote tho 3'ouug 111011, that the3 ma 1)3 exercise of com mand, be prepared for tho einorgenc3 that is liable to arise at any timo? Tho seniors havo dono good service and de serve grateful consideration, but thoy should not bo continued from a feeling of mere sentiment whon their continu ance is nt tho expense of tho elllcicnc3 of tho army. Lot 1110 show von somo figures I havo collected bearing upon this ques tion. e havo ten regiments of cavalry. This is hard service and requires active young men. 1 ho youngest cavalry Colonel is lifty-fom. Of tho othor nine. four aro over sixty and eight are over liltv-sovon. ur tno Lieuten ant-Colonels eight aro over flftv and three aro over fift3-sovon. Of tho Majors eight are over fifty-live, and eighteen over fifty. Of tho 120 Captains of cavalry, twoutv-four aro over liffy, and tifty-six havo passed thoir forty-oflh birthday. Look at tho artil lery. All its Colonels havo passed sixt3. and all its Lieutenant-Colonels fifty-five. 1 ho oldest Major is fift3-seven anil tho youngest forty-live, while liftv-niio Captains havo passed fort3-tive and five irst Lieutenants havo passed fiftv. Of tho twenty-fivo infantry Colonels twenty-three aro upward of fifty, and tho other two aro forty-uino. Twenty-ono Lieutenant-Colonels and thirteen Majors have passed (1113, while ninety Captains have passed that ago and 193 are over forty-live. Among the First Liouton nutsof infantry I find thirt3-two who aro over forty-live, anil twenty who aro over llftv. If Congress would do soine- The Kin en of Karth All Itrokrn Up and I nob liolni; to l'ierei. What is tho matter with the royalty of the world? It is all broken up and going to pieces. Dom Pedro of Brazil has become almost a chattering im becile and a regent is talked of. Queen Victoria is passing into decrepitude nnd second childhood, and it is no se cret that tiio Princo of Wales docs not expect to ascend the throne, believing that ere it shall bo vacant Great Britain will have become a republic Emperor William has one foot in the grave, and tho Krouprinz is battling with what ma3 prove an incurable disease. Tho Czar of all tho Russias has faced thrco successive attempts at assassination in tho last six months, and contemplates the probabilit3 nay, almost certainty that somo one of the scries still awaiting him will provo fatal. His eldest son and heir apparent is incom petent. Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria and Hungary, is beloved and honored b3 his subjects. But he is a feeble old man, and when he dies the bonds which unite Austria and Hungary aro likely to snap asunder. The Crown Prince is very unpopular, and his mother, the fearless horsewoman, Em press Elizabeth, is almost hated. Spain has no sovereign. It is waiting for a clouted baby to grow up into a Queen. Servia does not know whether it has a King or Queen or not. Queen Natalie, a Russian officer's daughter, is in exilo with the heir apparent. King Milan has ordered that she bo never allowed to return. He himself is in Vienna, and Ristics, tho Prime Minister, is tying awako nights pondering whether ho shall not order both King and Queen to stay out of the county, and he himself run the Government. There is our friend ex-King Tliec baw of Burundi knocked out of his job at Mandulu3 1)3 General Pendcrgast and some English soldiers. Then theio is Abdurrahman, poor vexed soul, wiio can't for the lifo of him tell 3011 to-day whether ho is Ameer of Afghanistan or a mere English figure-head. Then, too, thcro is the fat, economical old Queen of tho Netherlands, who has just scandalized Amsterdam b3 revoking her order for her gaj dresses, lest tho sick King should die and she have to wear black. The King of Corca has asked to bo allowed to quit. Tho roj'alty of earth is sick, and the sick ness is unto death. Cincinnati Post. HAPPINESS OF FLIGHT. The I'ure Kiijoynioiit Which ltlrdg Tnkn In Thoir Arrlnl l''xcurtloii. May wo not infer that all animals whoso muscular development is great er in proportion to their bulk than that of man should derivo from its exercise a greater intensit3 of pleasure, greater absolute in proportion to tho attainments and less interfered with b3 the greater muscular ease with which they aro accomplished. If this is so the majority of tho mammalia and almost all birds should in their powers of speed3 movements on cartli or loft flight in the air possess resources of mental pleasure intense beyond ours and less subject to bo dimmed by tho pain of overstrained muscles. Tho power of flight is without doubt asso ciated with pleasures which wo can not directly gauge or estimate, but of the value of which our desires can givo us somo idea. That birds distinctly enjo3 the exercise of their powers there can bo no manner of doubt. Having once acquired tho power of flight or inherited it from their sauropsidan an cestor, tlu'3 have developed it far bc 3'ond all the requirements of their in dividual or specific life. If it wore not pleasurable, then lliglit would be discontinued whon it was no longer necessuiy. But, as a fact, bird lifo presents innumerable instances of the maintenance of tho powers of flight in species to whoso existence it is I13' no means essential. The sk3lark does not sour from mereenaiy motives; pigeons, domesticated for generations, iy about all diry long, though the need to seek neither food nor shelter. It is not nec essary to watch birds on tho wing for very long to convince one's self that the act of lliglit is ono of pure enjoy ment, that it is cultivated and adorned witli tho refinements which character ize an "accomplishment." Such is the evolution of the tumbler pigeon, such the more refined and masterl hovering of some birds who possess the power of so balancing themselves on a slanting breeze as to remain motionless with re spect to the earth, without apparently moving a wing or a feather, llouting all the time, still and calm. A'inelecnUi Century. Ilurilrtto Dlncouritrs on tho Funny Side of u l'athotlo l.lttln Story. No, oh no; wo arc not going to pitch into the live cent blood and thunder novelette; not right directly at .1113 rate. We were just looking over a ston in a iuit excellent and highly respectable juvenile magazine; a good magazine, that doubtless views witli alarm, as do all the rest of us, the poisonous literature of the news Maud. This story is about a bo, fifteen years old, who, while standing alone on his father's engine on a lonel siding, saw a runaway train of cars, started by the wind, sweep past him down tiie grade. Usual thing tho lightning express ncarty'due; tho train dispatcher always manages to havo a lightning express about due wheji an thing of this kind happens. There is "no telegraph wire cither;" this is also usual; a load with out a wire is apt to run lightning x prcsscs and limited expresses evciy fifteen minutes. Tho Inn thinks quickh; boys of fifteen aro always quick thinkers; he runs his engine out on the main line, setting tho switches for himself, for his father lias gone to supper, miles away in the country, presumably, as it is quite customary for railway engineers to take all their meals on distant ranches, leaving their engines in charge of chil dren. Ihe runaway cars "aro miles away;" and ho has "less than an hour" to catch them. Ho caught the runaways, which were flying liko the wind; he slowed up "with" ex cellent judgment" we should think so crept along tho side of his Hying en gine, got on the pilot, lifted the "coup ling bur with ono hand" and readied over as he "made the coupling and dropped the pin in with the other;" had a struggle with the Hying cars but at last checked them; got them started buck, he making thirty-five miles an hour, and tho "Lightning" in sight making sixty on a road without a wire- he had ten miles to run in this shape, but ho made it, got in on the siding, timo to turn the switch, and the "Lightning" thundered by. Then "the boy fainted dead away." No wonder; it was enough to make a man faint to read it; it was high time some body fainted. Now the question is just tins: does the boy get any thing bottc. out of such nonsense than ho does out of "Kid, tho Sleuth Hound, or Tho Boy m . e ""i 1 j. error 01 uoiy cain'on. isetwceu ourselves and the comma we really find "Tho Boy Terror" quite as easy to neiieve and much more interesting reading. We haven't the least objee tion to fiction; we rather like it. but great Scott, even fiction for boys should have some sense in it. Not much, per haps, but just sonm.Durdctle, in Drooklyn Eagle. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. tiling, even to retire from the army the blind, the lame and tho halt ofiicors, the efficiency of tho military service would bo increased and tho esprit do corps materially advanced. Tho estab lishment of fall maneuvers, provided all officers woro required to oxerciso their proper command, would make plain tho absolute necessity for a closer inspection of tho regular army and tho weeding out of tho inefficient." Wash ington Cor. Chicago AVu.t. According to a Iondou paper tho bean is tho national herb of America and beans and bacon form tho national dUh of tho Eastern States, while fried chickens and tho oluin aro tho dishes of tho South. Tho staple of tho West is hash, according to tho suiixj authority. - Good Housekeeping. A stout, rod-nosed man offered to wager a ton dollar bill that ho could close his eyes, and, simply by taste, namo any kind of liuunr in tho house, Tho bet was takon. "This is genuino port," said the fat man, tasting from a wino glass; "and this is whisky," and soon. A wag then -ourod a few drops of water into a glass, and handed it to the taster. "This is ah ah this is (tasting it several times) by Jupiter! gentlemen, I loso tho bet. I novcr tasted this liquor before" X. Y. Ledger. The volcanoes Popocatepetl and lxtaceihutl, sujvs a Mexican exchange. present a grand spectacle on cloar mornings. Thoy are covered with ico and snow from their tops to within a few hundred foot of their bases. This is a regular phenomenon of tho sum mer mouths. Colonel William T. Shaw, a well known Iowa volunteer ofllccr of tho war, Is writing a history of tho battlo of Shiloh, which will bo published iu bio form. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. Tho Snprpino Court Ducldos That Thpy Can ' Sll OoikU Without IJcennr. The "gentlemen of the road" have become a numerous and important class of late years. A decade or two ag they were few and far between. Mer chants visited the cities and made thoir own selections. Tho drummer would often meet them at their respective hotels, show them the town, and attend to their wants at tho store or Wiiri' house; but in latter times country mer chants need not leave their stores; the commercial traveler will fill his order for every tiling to be wanted. For a - 1 1. . , , imr years oacK many oiaies nave en deavored toincreaso their revenues and at tho same time to protect their manu facturers and wholesale merchants by imposing a tax on travelers offering to sell by sample or on delivery, win come iroin other states. The amount of tho tax was very considerable, in the form of a license, in some cases fifty dollars and in others less. This tax al most precluded the traveling drummer The Supreme Court of the United States has recently mado a decision that "leg islation by States or municipalities im posing taxes on commercial travelers 1 t ... , onyajiuu 111 uiicr-oinie commerce was not warranted by the Constitution." joe u-giMniioii aoicu on 111 this cuo was that of Tennessee, entitled tho "Robbins Case." Another caso arose in Maryland with similar results. While somo of tho States continue to impose penalties for selling without license as" provided by tho local slat utes, tho drummer will thus bo required either to pay or appeal to the United States Court. It is not likely that they will continue to impose it after there has been a decision of the mutter in each respective State. It would seem a most unjust discrimination to make be cause of a drummer representing goods grown or made in another State. If tho States can restrict tho passage and business of residents of other States through their respective territories, it would bo tho most emphatic phase of tho principle of "state's rights" that has yet been promulgated. Every resi dent of tho United States must bo glad that the Supremo Court has taken that very sound view of tho case Let us bo a united people, and as far as possible destroy every burner to our unity let self-interest yield to the public good. Ucmorest s Monthly. An extraordinary sight at tho sea shore is presented by tho girls dressed in 0110 of the largest, most startling plaids iu fashion, and driving on a high seat, while tho young man sits humbly below her in modest demuroncss. As she nourishes tho whip ho is probably blushing with timidity lest the horso should start suddenly. lloston Journal m Rural Item New Yorker "What fresh air you havo out here. It's so nm.li fresher than iu Now York." Fmuor "Jess so! That's jest what 1 y,t.s saying to my old woman. Why ain't all these big cities built out iu the fouutry?" Texas SU'tinas. There are 2,000,000 men engaged in tho building trades in tho United States. The cost of the recent coke striko to tho men and operators is estimated at $2,000,000. There arc 108 cotton mills in tho South. Georgia heads tho list with 3G, Tennessee comes next with 27, and Ala bama 20. A physician living near the sea says that during tho past five years ho has noted the hour and minute of death in uinoty-throo patients, and every ono has gone ont with tho tide, save four who died suddenly b3 accident It is reported that a rich Amorican is about to establish a paper factory at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, witli a capital of at least $500,000. 'The principal ma terial used will be "leohugilla," a fibrous plant which grows abundautly in that section. About midway between St. Peters burg and Moscow, Princo Putiatin has made the important nrcluulogic.il dis- covery of an image of the constellation of Ursa Major engraved on a grindstone of tho Stono Age A similar discovery had nlread been made near Wollmar in Germany. What is termed flexible glass is a useful product just introduced. Paper of proper thickness is rendered trans parent b3 soaking in copal varnish, and when dry, is polished, rubbed with pumice stone, and a la3er of soluble glass is applied and rubbed with salt. Tho surface is as perfect as glass. Doiton Budget. Though electrical storage battcries liavo attracted attention only within tho past seven years, tho discovery of the principle is as old as the century, Gauslierot having first noticed in 1801 that platinum or silver wires gavo otY a current after being disconnected from a voltaic battery witli which thoy had been used for decomposing saline water. Tho first sncondaiy cell of Plantc was mado in 18G0. Arkansaw Traveler. A universal competitive exhibition of science and industry will opon at Brussels, Belgium. May 1, 1838, and continue six months. Fift3-six com mittees representing all industries and various specialties, havo framed ques tions whoso solution forms tho basis of composition. Medals, diplomas and $100,000 in cash will be awarded to ex hibitors, who aro given special induce ments by tho Belgian government in tiie w.13 of transportation, management and duties. In noarly cver3 department of legit imate industry greater or less improve ment is observed in comparison with the like number of many preceding years. Lumber, coal, petroleum, and cotton fabrics are conspicuous for thoir steadiness through tiio usual season of niid-summer dullness. Railroad earn ings gained fifteen per cent, in June, and fifty roads show an increase of 12.8 per cent, for the first wosk of July. Money has become 'moro plentiful at the metropolis, but tho daily dealings in Wall street are small and quotations. sag upon the slightest provocations. Chicago Inter Ocean. Those who have a conscience and put it into thoir woik and never swerve from the plain path of duty achiovo certain triumph. Christian Adcorntc. I ho communistic colony at Port Angeles, on Puget Sound, now numbors 1S0 persons. They own two thousand acres of land, and expect to build and operate a saw-mill soon. Unlike other sueeessfnl colonic-!, thoy profess no re ligious basis, and cast aside creed. 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