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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1887)
OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. Around PhilomiUh, farmers are busy putting in fall wheat. Heavy mountain fires aro raging south of Grant's Pass. A toboggan club has recently been organized at The Dalle?. Snow has already fallen on the high mountains in Southern Oregon. The firemen of Dallr.3 will dedicate a new city hall, now completed. Astoria citizens have raised the $150,000 subsidy asked for the railroad. Claim jumping is the popular pas time in the Canyon creek mining dis trict. Miners everywhere are getting ready for winter, says a Jackson county paper. The survey of the Umatilla reserva tion by the contractors is about com pleted. The name of the postotfico at llooster ltock, has been changed to Latourelle. Gen. John F. Miller haa the contract to furnish the Yainax Indians with 63,000 pounds of beef. A new postoflice has been established at Mowry, Crook county, with Mark b A. Carsou as postmaster. ' A new posioflice has been established at Elmira, Lane county, with Martha A. Ballman as postmaster. Mrs. Henry Miller, of Corvallis, is reported to have gone insane from tho effects of a felon on her finger. During tho rodeo in -upper Summit Xake valley tho complete skeleton of a white man was found" near Ana river. The tug Pelican, in attempting to enter Smith river, was thrown on the rocks, whore she remained at last ac counts. Jack Thompson, who killed Shelly, at Antelope, has been hold without bail, to appear beforo the next grand jury in Wasco county. The latest developments from the Canyon City-Baker mail robbery indi cates that the thieves succeeded in .getting away with nearly $2,000. Sheriff Watts, of Columbia county, has offered a reward of .$200 for tho ' arrest of Georgo Upton, who murdered Dejournette near Bradbury landing. Tho Blasdel syndicate havo paid fl50,000 cash for the Nelson placer mine, south of Baker city. They will take possession of tho property in No vember. The Chlorido mine on Rock crook, owned by J. P. Malurkey, has been bonded for $25,000, for a period of six months, to J. K. Itoniig.of La Grande, and others. The M. E. church, south, has es tablished an organization in Grant's Puss. Tho new organization proposes to erect a new place of worship in Grant's Pass next spring. Cattlemen have just finished tho fall ride. They aro now able to make a close estimate of their losses last winter, and plai:e it at about -10 per cent., says an Ochoco paper. Capitalists propose to build a $50,000 hotel at Ashland, providing a sufficient bonus be raised by tho town. An effort is also being made to got tho matter undertaken by a joint stock company. The G. P. Bradley Mining Company, of Sanger, havo about got their mill in running order, and it is expected that they will commence crushing ore in a short time. About seventy men are now at work in the mine. Mr. Street performed tho feat of lassoing a five-point mule deer on Hampton butte. This is a rather novel way of catching deer, but tho bucaroes of Crook county have many novel ways of doing things. On tho lino of tho Oregon Pacific, about seven miles above Mohama, tho body of James Minot was discovered hanging by a bale rope to a small tree. Ho had committed suicide, probably in a fit of despondency. His knees were on tho ground and he had choked to death. Tho general merchandise store on tho Siletz Indian agency, owned by Mrs. Chambers, was destroyed by fire of supposed incendiary origin, Mrs. Chambers being away frm homo at the timo. The amount of tho loss is unknown ; but it is supposed that it will bo quite heavy. At Beaverton there aro about SO acres of muck land (they call it Beaverdam land) occupied by twenty seven families, who raise general pro duce. Tho most important crop is onions of which S00 bushels to the aero have been raided,. which wore sold last spring at $1 50 per bushel, also $1000 worth of rhubarb, $1000 worth of horso'radish, and $G00 worth of as paragUB havo frequently been raised to tho acre. Some of this land is renting this year at $-11 per acre cash. Ono man is giving one half tho crop for rent, which will amount to $150 per acre rental. Tho land sells readily at 230 per acre. Tho muck is from two to twenty feet deep. Muj. Haskins, in command at Fort Canby, received a dispatch instructing him to stop all work and lold tho gar rison in readiness for departure. As Port Stevens was abandoned some time ago, this would leavo tho mouth of tho Columbia river without a mili tary garrison on either side. The As toria Chamber of Commerco hold a meeting and instructed E. C. Holden, secretary of tho chamber, to make ..i proper telegraphic representation to the military authorities and Oregon's Cengresaional delegation, urging tho Tecall of tho order and suspension of action till a proper showing can bo made justifying the retention of the troops at taU important poat. TELEGHA PUICSU MM ARY . An Epitome of the Principal Events Now Attracting fablic Interest The steamer Great Eastern was sold at auction in London for $105,000. Two people were killed and many injured in a jam around a Canton, O., clothing store, where a gift advertising scheme was inaugurated. Mrs. Jacob Steltzfus and Mrs. Bar bara Steltzfus, while out riding at Lan caster, l a., were struck hy a Pennsyl vania train and instantly killed. Keports received from Emery Gap, Colorado, say three Americans and one Italian were killed in tho premature explosion of a blast at that place. Tho ltueDian schooner Johannee was towed into port at Copenhagan. On tho voyage the carpenter murdered the captain and five of tho crew and throw the bodies overboard. A train on tho Galveston, Harris burg and San Antonia Itailro.ul was stopped by robbers near El Paso, Tex., and two of tho robbers wero killed whilo entering tho mail car. Tho Colonial passenger steamer Cheviot has been wrecked at Port Philip, Australia. Thirty-live passen gers and members of tho crew were drowned. The remainder havo ar rived at Melbourne. The steamer Uppa collided with and sunk the German bark Planteur off Beachy Head, near London. Eleven persons wero drowned, and the captain of the bark has sinco died. Only two of tho crew survived. Robert Neil's boarding house was burned at Lake Edward. Threo of the boarders Thomas Landus, of Norton Mills, Vermont; Win, Buchanan, of Little River, and Georgo Sotton, of California wero burned to a crisp. At Moscow eleven detective officers havo just been found guilty of conniv ing at tho crimes of notorious robbers. Five of them were sentenced to hard labor in tho mines of Siberia, and tho others at various terms of imprison ment. Severe snowstorms are reported throughout Italy, greatly injuring crops and animals. The storm was accom panied by a hurricano in somo parts. A number of houses wore unroofed at Pisa, and several persons wero drowned in Lako Como. Tho schooner Herman Banson, from tho Grand Banks, near Gloucester, re ports that on September 30 she fell in with tho French fishing sloop St. Pierre, water-logged. Ten men drowned were found in her cabin. The weather being very rough, the bodies wero not recovered. Threo coaches of tho fast express on tho Chesapeake fc Ohio road, going west, were derailed by a defective switch near Charleston, W. V., and two of them were turned completely over. Twenty-six passengers were more or less injured, but none were killed outright. Those injured wero on the way from Indiana, Kentucky and tho Eastern States. Tho company is doing all in its 'power for the injured. A destructive fire occurred at Han Kow, China. It broke out in a tea house on the Hau-Kow side of the river Han, and after devouring some 500 houses on that sido of the river spread to junks, and then to the other sido destroying GOO junks and 500 more homes, beside some 2000 sampans. The total loss of property, afloat and ashore, destroyed is estimated at fully 2,000,000 taels. The number of lives lost is given in round figures at 1000. A freight train from Spartantburg and a past-enger from Atlanta collided near Greenville, S. C. Both engineers were killed, and tho total killed is esti mated at from threo to ten. Tho colli sion was caused by tho freight train not side-tracking at Grier's to let tho passenger pass. Tho passenger train consisted of nine coaches. Both en gines were wrecked ; also tho postal, baggage and express cars of tho pas senger train, and tho first three cars of the freight. Engineer Harris and con ductor Reville of tho freight train dis appeared. A negro saw them running through tho woods. Ten persons, pas sengers and train hands, wore more or less seriously injured. An unfinished school building at tached to thojjhurch of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, at Now York, fell with a crash while a score of men wero at work in tho building, under tho super vision of Mr. A. E. ICerner, the priest in charge. Five wero killed outright, and ten more or less badly injured. Father Kerner has sinco died. The rest wero workmen. Tho casualty was duo to defective work hastily and ignorantly done. Tho foundation was laid scarcoly two months ago, and the sido and rear walls were up above tho third story, whilo tho front had harflly boon started. Father Kerner had bepn repeatedly warned that ho was going too fast with construction. The following was telegraphed from St. Louis : A strange story comes from Lathrop, Mo. About a month ago Mrs. Andrew Letters, wife of a farmer living fourteen miles from there, was out in the garden with her son. Two snakes wero noticed fighting, and she told her son to kill them. Taking a hoe ho smashed both of their heads, Mrs. Letters intently watching him all tho time. A week ago twins wero born to her. Tho heads of both wero flat and resembled snakes' heads, whilo sheir tongues aro protruding continu ally. No attempt has been made to clothe tho monstrosities, and thoy havo been kopt in eeperato boxes. The moment thoy are put togother thoy commence to fight and run out their tongues in tho most disgusting man ner. They aro at this time alive and well, but the family havo attempted to koop the facts from the nwspapora. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of Farmers and Stockmen. IIochc Uniti-th llotv to Itnlac. Horse-radish is an entirely hardy plant, hence can be planted either in fall or spiing. Tho practico, however, li to plant in the spring; and among those who niuko the most of their land, anitcrop every foot as much as it will carry, it is placed in tho ground for example, as a second crop. The method is somewhat us follows : In the fall and it may bo ono of the last crops to lift and harvest, as a frost does not hurt it all tho young side shoots taken off from tho main or market roots aro selected for tho next spring's planting. Thoso aro cut into pieces six niches long or so, tied in bundles, and stowed away in boxes to keep fresh until wanted. It is said that care should bo taken that all 'are planted small end down. Henderson recommends that the top part bo cut' oft square, tho bottom slanting, as there then would bo no difficulty r.t planting time. In tho spring, where land is no object or as we said before, the fall will do each set should bo in serted in tho ground with a dibble, so as to bo just below tho surface, tho hole being made perpendicular, and tho set made fast by a back-thrust of tho dibble. If no other crop is to bo taken off, they may bo set 15 inches apart each way in a hole 10 or 12 inches deep. Ordinary cultivation during tho summer will by fall givo a olid root sometimes a half pound in weight. As a second crop they are lined between early cabbage and any other vegetable. Tho crop of cabbage for first uso is generally about two feet apart. Lino out a row every foot and plant tho cabbages every alternate row; when through, plant tho horse radish sets botweon. Tho early crop will havo becomo nearly ready for tho market beforo tho horse-radish makes much of a stir, and by the timo tho cabbago or other crop comes off, and the whole land is given up to horse radish, the latter is ready to take hold, and will bring nearly as good returns as if given tho entiro land to perfect in. Of course this doublo cropping can only be done with good soil and that which is well manured. In all cases whore ordinary field cultivation is depended on, one crop will probably bo the bettor. Near largo cities enor mous quantities of horse-radish are sold in the fall to men who make n i business of putting up in bottles this pleasant condiment, and shipping to' all parts. Formerly each family cut' up and grated its own as wanted. It is now put up in vinegar, but it will not, however, keep very long, hence it cannot bo treated as ordinary canned goods. Cul (i vat ion or AMpnrncriiH. The best land for asparagus is a deep sandy loam. Any land that is mellow and not lumpy, and free from stones, will answer; stones and lumps make tho sprouts grow crooked and unmar ketable. The land should bo prepared by previous tillage, so as to bo quite free from conch grass and other weeds, and is prepared by plowing under a heavy dressing of manure early in spring, after which tho land is har rowed and furowed deeply with a largo two-horse plow, running it two or three times in tho same furrow, and then shoveling out the loose loam with long-handled shovels. This will leavo furrows about ten inches deep below the average level of the field. Tho furrows are niado three and one half or four feet apart, and after making two furrows the cart is driven along side to spread a little fine manure in the furrow, and then tho plants aro set at ono foot apart along tho fur row, taking pains to point the heads of tho plants in tho direction of tho row. This will tend to keep them from spreading sidoways, as they aro apt to when planted carelessly. Tho plants aro covered by tho hoe only an inch deop at first, so that thoy may start quickly. After planting two rows, then two moro can bo struck out, or, if phosphate is used in tho furrow, tho wholo field can bo struck out at once. But a manure cart can not bo driven over such deep furrows without destroying them. Tho object in setting tho roots so deop is to allow plowing tho wholo sun'aco of tho field over the tops of the roots to destroy weeds after the plants aro well estab lished. Tho plants are raised the year prev ious by sowing seed in rows fifteen inches apart and treating tho plants like onions that is hoe and weed them often. There is considerable differ ence in tho varieties of tho asparagus used. After planting the asparagus the ridges between tho rows may bo planted with carrots or beets, which will not interfere with tho asparagus, and will pay for keeping the land clean tho first year. Tho second year there should bo nothing elso grown upon tho land. In spring it should receive a good dressing of manure or of somo standard fertilizer containing a liberal portion of potash. Tho sur face should bo plowed entirely over with a ono-horso plow and then har rowed thoroughly with a good smooth ing harrow. Tho report of the Bureau of Sta tistics, on tho wool product, will bo issued shortly. It will cstimato tho wool clip this year at $70,000,000, and tho number of sheep in the country at -10,000,000, an increaso of 5,000,000 sinco tho last census. J. H. Stino recently placed on exhi bition in Portland an Irish potato weighing 7J pounds. Tho tubor was raised by Goo. Taylor, near Lebanon, Oregon. As a breeder of disease few things exocl a neglected (arm houo collar. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted4 Principally to Washington Territory and California. Axel Peterson committed suicido at Vallejo, Cal. The largest winery in America is at Santa Rosa, Cal. The dining car on tho Cascado divi sion has been taken off tho lino Work on tho Cascade tunnel will be completed in May or not later than June. Six new brick business blocks are contemplated in Ellensburg in tho spring. There wero 1180 inmates in the San Francisco almshouso during the past fiscal year. Alout ono hundred students nro now in attendance at tho Olympia Col legiate Institute. Gov. Scniplo will prepare a full re port of tho territorial schools, both public and private. A passenger train, west of Nanaimn, B, C, ran over a miner named James Lawton and cut him in twain. A brick school-house, to cost somo $10,000, has been decided upon by the people of North Yakima, W. T. An unknown man was run over and killed by a train at Martinez, Cal. His head was severed from his body. W. H. Clark was robbed and then knocked into tho bay at Seattle, re ceiving sovere injuries on the head. At San Diego a plasterer named Jas. Mill'ey fell through a skylight, a dis tance of fifty feet, and was instantly killed. A railroad threo miles in length is to be built to tho great iron mines in tho Iron Mountain mining district, near Cle-elum, W. T. It is rumored Chat capitalists will build another largo hotel at Tacom a, expressly for tho accommodation of tourists, to cost, not less than $1, 000,000. ' Harry Grabhorn, who murdered his wife at Dillon, Montana, was convicted of murder in tho second degroo, and sentenced by Judge McLeary to tho penitentiary for life at hard labor, at Butte. A man named Bushon shot and in stantly killod W. J. Martin, a noted sporting mini of Iono, at Wcs Point, Oalavrns county, Cal. It was supposed to havo been caused by a gambling quarrel. It. H. McDonald, tho San Francisco banker, was shot in tho forehead by Ids daughter-in-law, Mrs. Clara Bollo McDonald. Tho tdiooting was tho out growth of tho well-known marital troubles between Mrs. McDonald mid her husband. A waterspout burst in tho mountains near Walker's Pass, Inyo county, Cal. A tcrriblo flood rushed down tho can yon toward Kern river. In the canyon a sheepman was camped with two horses and a wagon. Tho man, tho horses and the wagon wero all swept away. Tho body of tho man was found miles down tho canyon a day or two after tho Hood. At Long valley, Idaho, John Sworda killed Zenas Fry, a former mining partner. Swords, who surrendered himself at Idaho city, claims tho killing was justifiable. Fry bore tho reputa tion of a "gun fighter," and, it is said, claimed tho honor of killing tho first rebel general slain in tho war Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, at Mill Springs, Ky., in 1801. Meyer Zulick, Governor of Arizona, in his annual report estimates tho pop ulation of tho torritory at 1)0,000, an increase of nearly 50,000 over tho cen sus cstimato of 1880. Tho aggregate assessed valuation of property for tho present year is $20,313,500, an increaso of nearly $0,000,000 over 1880. By re duced expenditures, increased taxable values, and gradual lessening of tho tax rate, tho territory is now absolutely on a healthy financial basis. A Butto special says : Wm. Galvey mot a torriblo death in the yards at tho depot. Ho went between tho cars to uncouple thorn, and tho ongineor backed tho train to facilitate the work. As no signal was given to stop tho en gineer began to back. Presently it was discovered that Galoy had caught his foot in a frog ; tho train had pushed him down and tho wheels ran upon him, cutting him to pieces and wrap ping his mutilated romaitiH around tho wheels. His heart was lorn from him, and teeth wero found scattered along tlio track. Oneida Cavelho, an Indian woman, died at Oakland, Cal. Sho was said to bo tho last of tho tribo of Humboldt Indians, who wore almost entirely ex terminated in tho massacre by Modoes ajid whitos in 1800, in Humboldt county. It is said only livo were loft alive, and of these Oneida was tho last to die. Captain Connor, whilo run ning a ship between San Francisco and Eureka, purchased tho girl, thon eight years old, from her mother. Sho remained with Captain Connor's fam ily until a year ago, sinco which timo sho lias been a domestic in the family of S. A. Sandorson. About 200 Lemhi Indians have been camping on tho east fork of Wood river, Idaho, for several weeks, undor pretense of laying in a supply of voni son for winter, and havo slaughtered a vast number of deer for tho hides alone, leaving tho carcasses rotting in tho sun. Their method of hunting, scattering out over milos of country and driving tho gamo to a common rendezvous, generally a deop ravjno where they cannot cscapo, is so effec tive that every animal started within tlio outer circle meets its death. Un less a stop is put to this indiscriminate and ueoless slaughter tho mountains will soon bo exhausted of gamo, which is the boast of that region of country. DOMESTIC ART DESIGNS. Ilcnutirul Vc, .M Illinium nml Cnrylng! for tlio CuniiiiK Huikoii. A very rcmarkablo piece is a Persian vase of the year 1007. It stands nearly twcnly-ono inches high, the body round at the bottom, tapering toward the top in egg-shape, tho center and neck in perforated relief, with tho cover to match. Tho handles, one on each sido, are in old design, mado in low rolief, set into tho piece. There are four panels on the body and two on the neck, held in groon and gold, repre senting Persian tapestry and embroid ery, these reliefs being set off in tho same colors of gold, with tho back ground of deep bronze. Tho body Is cream color, relieved by clouds of gold. Tho Persian urn is another beauti ful design, modeled from ono done in the year 1 100. the original now being in tlio collodion of C. Davillier, of Paris. This is mado in threo sizes, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four inches ' high. Tho largest has a ilianioter of eleven inches and tho smallest of livo inches. Tho smallest sizes are to be used moro particularly as cent jars. Thoy havo different decorations, tho leading idea, how ever, bonig that of vashnicro shawl pattern in subdued colors. The deco ration of tho body of the urn is divided into two parts. At the bottom of tho front is a largo lotus leaf in gold, at tho top a bonier decoration in gold and bronzi On the reverse tho lotus leaf extends into a thistle. Tho cover is of largo open work in colors and gold to match. Instead of handles there aro two largo gold rings at the junction of tho cover and tho top, appearing as if fastened to a wide gold band, A Roman vase shaped somothingllko n bottle is a new design. It is about thirty inches high, and has doublo handles, the top of ono handlo is one-third tho dis tance from the top, and tho lower handlo tho same distance from tho bottom ot tho vase. Tlio handles on tho nook and cover are bisquo work. Bronze decorations aro at tho base, lighting into a gold border. Roses and leaves aro tho decoration for tho body of tlio urn, tho entire coloring be ing yellow, green, old gold and gold. Upon tho neck is a wido diamond shape gold baud, which connects tho two handles. From thoso extending up is a solid bronzo brown, sot oil' in llowers and colored gold. All tlio per forated work on tho handles, neck and cover is gilded to harmonizo with tho colors of gold on the body of tho urn. Tho price is ono hundred dollars. Many of tho pieces in tho now faienco ware aro mado to imitate solid bronze. Thoy aro very antique in shapo and nro in a rich brown color. There Is quite a crazo for miniatures painted on ivory, among tho rich and fashionable. Tho transparency and beauty of these miniatures are appre ciated by thoso of lino taste, but it re quires a pretty good bank account to have pictures of tho family. A minia ture threo or four inches square costs S'MO to ifoOO. A most excellent like ness and oxquisito picturo has just been made of Mrs. George Gould. Artistic carving for household deco ration aro found in ivory. Tho carv ings not only produce tho classical de signs of tho ancients, but represent every phase of tho present life. Thero aro toilot articles, showing most beau tiful carvings of llowers and arabesque, magnificent littln jewel caskets, statues of gonro designs, birds and grey hounds, and very handsome groups and scones from life aro carved out of tho whito substauco and inlaid with different colored ivory. Delioato indeed aro many of tho carvings, and much of this lino work is dono by women, and sinco tho de mand for ornamental pieces for tho house, much of tho Hue polishing and designing is also dono by women, who are gonorally very well paid for their labors. Tho elephant tusk is said lo represent tho llnostspccinious of ivory. When tho tusks are brought into tho workshop thoy are cut in shapes nec essary for carving by machinery, tho objects dosigncd beforehand, and a suitable piece is cutout from tho shoot at ono turn of tho wheal. Those pieces aro thou taken by tho nrtlsls who do sign and polish them until fashioned ready for tho store. Tho carvers sit at long dosks facing windows of light, anil they use salt anil water boneath tho touch of their fine tools. Tho pol ishing is dono upon wheels or "buffs" covered with Canton flannel, and thero are vats of colored liquid for staining tints. When tlio carving is finished tho work is oxquisito in tho oxtronic Brooklyn Eagle. Suffering to Be Beautiful. From their earliest youth tho Bur mese men tattoo their logs from tho thighs down to tho knees with designs both llonil and animal, and puncture tho upper part of their bodies witlt numerous round holes, into which thoy rub vermilion powder. 'Phis operation is such that opium is often adminis tered to dcadon tho agonizing pain that It causes, and I have heard that deaths frequently onsuo from gan grenous inllainiiiatlon, tho result of thoso punctures. lint there is a proverb which says, " faut soujj'rir pour elre bel," and tiio admiration and envy oxcltod afterward may perhaps comjioiiHiito those victims of vanity for tho tortures to which tho decoration subjected them. Tho tattooing Is ef fected by tho julco of a plant which stains 'tho designs an inky black. Fortnightly llcvlcm. Undor tho laws of Oregon ten per cent, of tho bail money forfoltod by de fault of persons hold on criminal t'harg.'S goes to thediatrlot attorney. NATURAL INSTINCT. Mow It I IlcYrlnpril Hen! anil In ninlx. Fowl. ImecU. Chickens, two minutes after thoy have loft tho egg follow with their oyea tho movements of crawling insoota and peck at thorn, judging distnnca and direction with almost infallible accuracy. They will instlnctly appre ciate sounds, readily running toward an invisible lion hidden in a box when thoy hoar her "call." Somo young birds also havo an innate, instinotivo horror at tlio sight of a hawk and of tho sound of its voice Swallows, tit mice, tomtits and wrens, after having been confined from birth, are capable of Hying at onco when liberated on thoir wings have attained thoir ncoos sarj growth to rondor flight posslMo. Tho Duke of Argylo relates soma very interesting particulars about tlio instinct of birds, especially of tlio water ousel, tho merganser and tlio wild duck. Even as to tho clasa ot beast I find recorded: "Five young; polecats wero found comforta bly imbedded in dry, withered grass, and in a sido holo of proper dimensions for suah n larder, were forty frogs and tTo toada. all alive, but merely capable of sprawl ing a little. On examination tho wholo number, toads and all, proved to havo been purposely and dexterous ly bitten through tho brain." Kvidont ly tho parent polecat had thus provid ed tho young with food which could bo kept perfectly fresh, because alive, anil yet was rendered qulto unable to es cape. This singular instinct i like others which aro yet moro fully devel oped among insects a class of animals tho instincts of which aro so numerous, wonderful and notorious that it will be, probably, enough to refer to ono or two examples. Tho female carpenter Lee, in order to protect her eggs, ex cavates, in somo piece of wood, & series of chambers, in special order with a view to a peculiar modo of exit for her young; but the young mother can havo no conscious knowlodgo of the serious action subsequently t en sue, Tho female of tho wasp (sphox afford another well-known, but. very romarkablo oxamplo of a complex instinct closoly related to that already mentioned lu tho case of tho poloeat. Tho fomolo wasp has to provido fresh living ani mal food for her progeny, which, when it quits its egg, (in its it hi tho form of an almost helpless grub, utterly uniiblo to catch, retain or kill an active, strug gling prey. Accordingly tho mothor insect has not only to provido ami placo besido her eggs suitablo living prey, but so to treat it that it may bo a helpless unresisting victim. That victim may bo a mere caterpillar, or ib may bo a great, powerful grasshopper, or even that most fierco, active and rapacious of Insoet tyrants, a foil and venomous spider. Whichever it may be, tho wasp adroitly stings It at tho spot which induces, or in tho sovoraL spots which Induce complete paral ysis as to motion, lot us hope as t sensation also. This done, tho wotq oiitombs tho helpless boing with its own egg, and loaves it for tho support of tho future grub. Fortnightly lit- ... - LOVE IN THE TREASURY. Innocent flirtation In tlio Corridor of A CSuvnrnmniit Ilnllitlm;, Lovo laughs at Treasury regulation as well as locksmiths. Somo timo ago tho chief dork of tho Treasury Depart ment issued an order prohibiting clerks from visiting and promenading" tho corridors during business hours. Prior to this regulation the Treasury girls spent considerable timo in visiting each other and in walking leisurely around tho corridors wl;h favorito niascullno clerks. For a fimo tho now order effectually suppressed tho abusa aimed at, as all persons found visiting and walking about Idly woro reported to tho chlof clerk. Tho ordor still pro duces good results, yet many male and female clerks, with a disposition for fiirtation, havo dovised a plan by which thoy may enjoy a promenade of a milo with out being dotocted by tho minions of tho chiof clerk. Tho Treasury build ing is about throo hundred by two hundred feot in dimensions. It is quadrangular in form, with a contral wing stretching from oast to west, thus converting tho building into a double quadrangle. Two elevator located in distant corners of tho build ing carry all comers from floor to Hoot. The longth of tho corridors of oach, story oxtonded in a straight lino for a full quarter mile, and as there are 'four stories wo havo a full milo of corri dors, forming, with thoir tiled floor, frescoed walls and vaulted ceilings, a most charming promenade. To bo found loitering on any particular floor Is to insure a report and repri mand, and repetition of tho of fense brings admonition of suspen sion or discharge. Somo of tho girla of tho Treasury aro smart, aswolLas pretty, and have devised a plan by which thoy may Join oach other and thoir bonus without four of tho chief clork and his sontlnols. Mooting at nu appointed hour and place, thesa couples will promonado tho entire length of tho corridors of ono floor, And then, taking separata elevators s as to avoid dotectlon, will proceed ta tho next Hour, and leisurely continua thoir "spooning" whilo thoy mako tbu circuit of Its corridors. This is rw pouted until thoy Iiavo travorsod Mia corridoi-H of tho four Honrs, when each will repair to his and her proper divi sion, using both elevators for this pur pose, having walked a milo, killed u. half hour's time, and had n "lovely timo" whilo ho ongagoiL HWiyi Cor. Philadelphia Ltilgr.