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OREGON NEWS. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. tEverythini: ot ueneral interest in a Condensed Form. A postofhee has been established at Briedwell) Yamhill county, with J. W. 13riedwell as postmaster. Mrs. Louisa Cambridge was exam ined in the County Court of Multno mah county and declared insane. ., Pay Coon, who with one Higby stole a span of horses of Mr. Stowell, of 13 u gene, has been arrested in San Fran cisco. A number of engineers in Astoria are preparing to organize a branch of the National Marine Engineers' Asso ciation. W. G. Todd was tried at Priticvillc for the killing of J. N. Brackett. The jury returned a verdict of man slaughter. Charles Erickson, a stonemason, lost his life by the falling of the crib work at the railway bridge under construc tion in North Portland. It is now estimated that thero will be upward of 200 acres of now orchards planted at Ashland this fall and next spring. The planters are waiting for rain as it is too dry to do anything yet. The railroad company have with drawn the sale of all their town lots south of the depot, at Ashland. This sictually withdraws about -10 acres of land. It is supposed they need it for railroad purposes, as this is to be the end of the Shasta division. At Robert 1 Tally's place, near Salem, a sitgular accident occurred. His sheep we're probably stampeded by a coyote, and ran into a ditch witli water in it, and twenty-five wero piled up dead, either smothered or drowned. They wero valuable merinos. It is reported that a number of drunken fishermen mado a raid on fcome Chinese in their quartets at Ya quina city, drove them out and threw out their furniture. The Chinamen tired at them, hitting one of the as saulters in the back, not hurting him seriously. Frank Hanna was drowned opposite Ash street wharf, Portland, from the steamer Rustler. A small ski fV at tached to tho steamer got loose, and Hanna and another man attempted to jump into a boat for tho purpose of pulling to and securing the skiff. Hanna lost hie balance and sank with out a struggle. Multnomah county, in which tho City of Portland is situated, is very much the smallest county in the State. The value of agricultural land is set Iown at S?:i,5S7,5 15 ; city lots, $9, 737,lK)ft; improvement, $5,039,12.'); merchandise, $l,2G2,OGO ; mortgages, notes, etc., $2,028,-110. The value of horses, cattle, etc., added to this makes the gross value of all property $27, 123,780. The indebtedness and prop erty exempt from taxation is $(i,057, 535, making the total value of taxable property $20,450,215. The Superintendant of the Insane Asylum at Salem was sinking a well for the convenience of that institution When about completed a most remark- .1.1.- ..1 . ji i ... ..... .1 aoie cnange in me onaruoier oi me water took place. Clouds of vapor were seen to lise from the mouth of the well, and investigation showed that the well c attained twenty-five- feet of -water, almost boiling hot, and its tem perature has not changed. Tho pro jectors of the well are much disturbed over the transformation, and fear that the water may not return to its former condition of coolness. Senator Dolph telegraphs from Wash ington to State Senator J. H. 1). Gray, of Atoria, that ho learns that the Sec retary of War declines to suspend the -order for the abandonment of Fort Canby. When Gen. W. T. Sherman was en route to Portland from San Francisco, r.fter the G. A. R. Encamp ment last year, he came on the deck of tho steamer expressly to see Fort Canby. "If that point was properly firLUHHl. III? Hlllfl III LIHlSt? KI.imilIlLr around him, pointing to tho lowering point of land, "it could be made tho strongest position in the United States." Ad 'Epitome of the Principal Events Attracting Public Interest Now The propcllor Vernon was foundered during a heavy galo on Lake Michi gan, and thirty lives were lost. Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish singer, is dead, aged GG vears. She had been seriously ill for some weeks Sixteen thousand miuers have struck work m the Betrinago district, Ger many. A renewal of rioting is feared No less than a dozen small schooners and barges have been reported as wrecked during the same storm on Lake Superior. John Hodel, a silk-weaver living at neuron, Uonn., kuled.his wife and then set fire to the house. Two children were burned to death. It is reported that the British bark, Temple Bar, bound for Rio Janeiro, foundered in Bristol channel, and the crew, numbering eighteen, were lost. Hie French steamer Ilindoostana, winch arrived at Marseilles from New York, took lire and was entirely burned ci. . i.i tir . f . . . one nau .100 ions oi merciianuiso on board. All was destroyed. An explosion of fire damp occurred m a lead mine at Matlock, County jjerby, Ireland. Twenty-live men wero in the pit at the time. Five dead bodies have already been recovered Advices from Warsaw state that tho town of Kusin, in tho province of Minsk, wns totally destroyed by fire. Ihree hundred and fifty houses and number of stores were burned, and many lives lost. Martha M. Crockett has been sen tenced to state prison for life for tho murder of her husband lust December, oy administering poison m fried ap ples, at Belfast, Me. She received her sentence stolidly. The steam launch Mary burst her boiler at New York city, killing John and Patrick Cunningham, brothers. Carl E. Schmidt, owner of tho launch, was blown into tho river, but was saved. Several others were badly bruised. An cngino on the Fort Wayne rail road etruck a street car at Federal street crossing in Allegheny city, Pa., and two passengers who jumped from the cars wero caught under the wheels of tho engine and ground to death. Those remaining on the car were not injured. Count DeLesscps has announced 10 tho Academy of Science that the Pan ama canal will bo opened February 30, 1S90. The work will not then be en tirely completed, but tho passage will bo free for twenty ships a day. It is estimated that the traffic will produce an annual revenue of from 90,000,000 to 100,000,000 francs. A disastrous explosion occurred at one of the peeking houses of the At lantic dynamite works, near McCains- ville, . J. Four men were instantly killed and three aro missing. The names of the dead men are John Fan cher, H. Todd, Fred McDeod and his orouier rump, u no missing men aro believed to have been in the vicinity of the mill at the time of the explosion, and they cannot now be found. George King, who resides in Frank lin parish, La , gave a danco and sup per at his residence. After supper was nearly over, all the guests were taken violently ill. A doctor was sent for and said thoy were poisoned, but did all ho could for them. Since then six wnues and one colored person have died, and all tho others aro seriously ill. No motive can be assigned for the dastardly deed. The cook 13 not sus pected, as she is dangerously sick, and her husband and child aro dead. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to "Washingto Territory and California. A man supposed to bo a drummer 1 for a San Francisco pickle factory had 1 an altercation with a barber known as j Joseph at Stockton, Cal., and pushed ! the barber through a glass door. The ! barber was so badly cut that ho nearly j bled to death, and the drummer disap-: peared. A 12-year-old son of a rancher named Cook, living on Hornet creek, Idaho, saved tho life of an elder brother who iB LLtllllL 111U nUlSL Ul ill lit Ik ilUllb friin in 1 110 iiTiiniiii h fif'jiii linn mmvintr - inr iih iiriiniN. 1 1114 Din NMiiwiMi rii- luurKiiuiu nruauiiuu ui mum. Eugene Semple. Governor of Wash atgion lerntory, in ma annum report tho secretary ot tho Interior, esti- 14d,o(rJf an increase of over lu,UOO tho ltiAt two years. Tho taxable 7 , rf , 1 1 mm 1 iirnnnri.v la mvfln nr. mill. rn l.-i ciii 1 J .JJJ UIU1 IIIOI UU,(lllltUIIV w 111 111 ICMM lllllllir. ITLlj. A 1113 1 UIIU1 Li nnlm ni lit rt lwk iaLinitri)na nvifl .JUUIIILIIjU l J A LI1U V - A A ft ft ft ft- ft ft V crops, siocK-raising, minerals ami ipr nrruinniinn. nm.. ami 01 muir i varioiv aim importance, ui in,- children of school age, tho averago ' attendance is about 22,000. Lsbor .. ... . 1 mi miir finiiii f rv rim finniiinfi. I lift ? A. .WK mo roar, Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, in his an nual report, estimates the value of tax able property 111 tho territory at $10, 000,000, exclusive of tho Alaska Com mercial Company's establishment on tho Seal Islands. The increaso, ho says, will be rapid eo soon as congress, by necessary legislation, gives encour agement to tho settlement of public lanus. 110 says inoro is a very con siderable acreago of tillable land in Southeastern Alaska with a soil that produces the most luxurious vegeta tion, the fact being that 110 one conies into the territory with a belief that either the soil or climate is adapted to either agricultural or horticultural pursuits, but the few experiments that have been mado leavo no room for doubt that all tho cere Is, except corn, can bo grown to per.i otion in many sections. As to stock raising, he Fays tho winters of Southeastern Alaska aro much milder than those of Montana, Wyoming and Dakota, and tho seasons altogether aro quite well adapted to this industry. The giv. 1 nor says won derful results aro being achieved in mining, showing the territory to bo rich in precious metals. The governor says it is reported that Mr. Ogilvio, who was sent out by the Dominion government last spring to locate tho boundary line between Alaska and tho Northwest territory, claims that somo of the new gold fields aro in British territory, and has suggested that on tho strongth of his report hie govern ment is likely to attempt, next sum mer, collections of miners' license, pro vided for in tho Canadian law. Tho governor says any attempt of this kind will bo resisted by the miners, a largo majority of whom aro American citi zens, and if persisted in will certainly end in bloodshed, and suggests that in view of the imminent danger of such troubles, tho rocommondation to con gress in behalf of a joint commission, to definately settle tho boundary line, be urgently renewed. The Baluion, cod and whale fisheries, he siiv, will yield about $3,000,000 during the yoar. Steamers aro now compelled to line over tho rapids of Snako river. One apple tree in the Walla Walla valley tins' season boro 1200 pounds of tine I rm t. ai rrineviuo r . b. Uurrin was sen teneed to live years imprisonment 111 the penitentiary for grand larceny. Arthur dough was killed almost in staidly by falling from the roof of the new sehoolhousc at Tacoma. Henry Edgerton, the well-known orator, was found dead in a lawyer's office at San Francisco. Apoplexy was tho cause. A young man named Henry G Cook was shot and instantly killed by h:s lather-in-law, George Cox, at ranch near San Andreas, Cal. A man was killed at Kamloops. 1 C, by an Indian constable, while re sisting airest bv tho lavter on tho res ervation. Thieves wore discovered making of! with $3,000 wortli of quartz from a Nevada city (Cal.) mine, and tho booty ecov ercd. A. bootblack, aged 1G, name un known, was run over by a train of Hat cars on the Santa Fo road, at Los An geles, and killed. A specinl from reka, Cal., says : A special ran into a work train near Sod Springs, killing one man and injuring six, three fatally. :Vt Middleton, Cal., Thomas G Christie was shot by Wright Farmer with a revolver, tho shot taking effect about an inch below tho heart. Cornelius J. Hanavan, 1. years of age. an apprentice bricklayer, fell from the top of a building at San Francisco and was almost instantly killed. Frank See, of Copelle valley, Cal., whilo unshnging a deer on ms return from a hunting expedition, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rille. V special train consisting of fourteen coal and two box cars was wrecked at Puyallup, W. T. Eight coal cars were smashed and seventy feet of track torn up. A jury in lakimn, W. T., awarded James O'Brien $0,000 damages for in juries received 111 tho railroad accident near Cle-elum, on the 21st day of April of this year. The Piutes are having a big fan dango at Winneinucca. Shoshoins, Bannocks and Washoes will lv) theie. Every other person is invited except the Chinese. In the case of Jochim Henry Tim merman, the Klickitat county (W. T.) murderer, motion for a new trial was overruled, and defendant sentenced to be hanged December 10. The residence of C. A. Sanders, near EUonsburgh, W. T., caught fire from a defective Hue and was burned, together with most of the furniture. The build ing cost $5,000, and was one ot the finest in tho county. Dan Gorman, a laborer, was brutally murderded by two drunken Mojavo Indians, at Mojave. His head was iiiashed and ho was shot. The mur derers were arrested and also the whites who furnished them liquor. Senator Stanford has about com pleted arrangements to bring 100 skilled vineyard hands from the Bor deaux district in France. Thoy and their families will bo located on his proporty in Tehama county, Cal. A boiler explosion took place at the Terrace baths, Alameda, causing the death almost instantaneously of Ilobt. Haley, proprietor of tho bathing estab lishment, and seriously, if not fatally, injuring Charles Beeker, an employe. George Shearer, a sovontoen-year-old youth, was haulted by a highway man at Santa Cruz, Cal., and fired at, but pluckily returned the tiro and the robber decamped. A coin in Shearer's vest pocket stopped tho robber's bullet. During the month of October coin age of tho branch mint at San Fran cicco amounted to $2,500,000. Gold coined was about equally divided be tween eagles and double eagles. Thore is also work just commencing upon an order for $loU,UO0 in dimes. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to tho and Interests of Stockmen. Fanners IIOIHO FctMllllfr. It makes little difference what kind of grain a horse has been fed whilo in the stable, if he is taken out and im mediately driven fast or worked hard on a full stomach ho will scour nino times out of ton. When a horse is to bo driven rapidly a long distance or set to work without previous preparation, his morning meal should bo very light and ho should bo watered before feed ing and not again for nearly two hours after. He should have water and a light luncheon of oats in the middle of the forenoon and afternoon, and ho will step along livelier all day and not be worn out when night comes. It does a horse just as much good to have a drink of water and a light lunch when at hard work as it does a man. and ho will show it in his sprightly an- pearanco and lively gait, and when he comes homo to his regular meal he will not gulp down water by tho barrel l.t.i . 1 1 ... inn uuuoiu ms mod like a ravenous dog. A hungry horse is like a hungry man weak and tpiritles,and the mail who keeps him at hard work when he is in such a condition ought to bo roundly fined or soundly trounced for cruelty to animals. Deep fall or curly winter plowing should be followed by another deon plowing in tho soring. This nronorlv done is the biggest half of the work in growing a good crop. Then let it bo remembered that deep plowing pre vents the soil on tho undulating nn- lands from washing away. Millions of acres in tho older states bovoml tho Mississippi have been scratched and scratched until their soil has washed away and now constitutes the mud bars at tho mouth of tho Mississitmi. Thus have their best uplands been de stroy ed. writer claims that seed potatoes are much 111010 valuable if tho sprouts nave not, started until planting tune; that tho first sprouts that start will inaKe more vigorous plants than any subsequent ones. He says that whore twenty-four bushels of seed are to bo planted, tho increase in tho crop will pay 30 per cent, on the cost of a suita ble building for cold storage. Ho takes great pains to keep his seed potatoes hard and KHind as possible till tho dav of planting. Purnips should not bo dug until late 111 autumn. Like eabbaeo. thov will ( ntinue to grow after tho first light uosts. lliey are canablo of ondurinir low temperature without iniurv. Phey roquiro a cool storage. When placed in a warm collar thov becomo corky, tough and unpalatable for both man and beast. If wintered in a nit or cellar at a point just abovo freezing, inoy win 00 as crisp and as good in the spring as they were when dug. Cabbage for winter uso should bo al lowed to remain in tho field until late in tho fall. We always had tho best estilts when thoy wero gathorod iust before the ground freezes. They will tand a fairly hard frost, but not a bevore one. At best, thov aro a difibnilt egetablo to keep through tho winter. If stored in a cellar or root house, at a temperature of about 3(5 degrees, thoy will come out fresh and sound in tho spring. KEEPING A DIARY. AUrnntncn rnlrtiliitetl to ltrsult from KrrnrdltiK Dully KvcnU. Many people regard the keeping of a diary as a meritorious occupation. The young are urged to take up this cross it it supposed to benefit girls especially. nether women should do it is to some minds not an open question, although there is on record the ease of tho Frenchman who tried to shoot himself when he heard that his wife was keep nig a diary. This intention of suicide may have arisen from the fear that his wife was keeping a record of his own peccadilloes rather than of her own thoughts and emotions. Or it mav 1 1 .1 . . nine oeeii noin ine lear that she was putting down those litt eoniiifal remarks which the husband always dislikes to have thrown up to him, anil which a woman can usually quote accurately, it may be for years, it may be forever, without the help of a diary, So wo can appreciate without approv ing 1 no terror of the 1 ranchman at li ing on ami on in the same hou-e with a growing diary. Tor it is not sininlv .1. .1 . i..i , 1 ... 1 mat mis ni'ie iiook 01 liuigeinent is there in black and white, hut that the maker of it is increasing her power of minute observation and analytic expres sion. In discussing the question whether a woman should keep a diary 1 i. ... fc u is uiuiorsioou uuu 11 is not a more memorandum of events anil engage ments such as both men and women of business ami affairs necessarily keep, but the daily record which sets down feelings, emotions and impressions and criticises people and records opinions isiu uus is a question that applies to men as well as to women, It has been assumed that tho diary serves two good purposes: it is a dis ciplinary exercise tor tho keeper of it and perhaps a moral guide; and it has great historical value. As to the first, it may be helpful to order, method, discipline and it may be an indulgence of spleen, whims and unwholesome criticism and conceit. Tho habit of say ing ngni. out wnai you think ot every body is not a good one and the record of such opinions and impressions, whilo it is not so mischievous to the public as talking may be, is harmful to the re corder. And when we come t tlin historical value of tho diary, wo confess to a growing suspicion of it. It is such a deadly weapon when it comes to light after the passage of years, It has an authority which the spoken words of its k-jeper never had. It is ox parte and it can not bo cross-examined. The supposition is that being contemporane ous with tho events spoken of, it must he true and that it is an honest record. Now, as a matter of fact, wo doubt, if people are any more honest as to themselves or others in a diary than out of it; and rumors, reported facts and impressions set down daily in ihe heat and haste of tho prejudieal hour aro about as likely to bo wrong as right. Two diaries of the same event rarely agree. And in turning over an old diary we never know what to allow for the persona! equation. Th, diary i. grea'ly relied on by tho writers oi' liis tory, but the Drawer doubts if there is any such liar in the world, even when tlie keeper of it is honest. It is certain to be partisan and more liable to be misinformed than a newspaper, which exercises some care in view of imme- SAVED BY A Henry Colby shot and killed Joseph uirard near Granitevillo, Cal. Colby is watchman lor tin Milton Minnie Wator Company, and claims he caught Uirard setting hro to lumber belong ing to the Milton Company. Ho called on him to stop, when Girard ran for his gun. Colby then fired killing Gi rard. One of the most terriffic explosions that over occurred in a mine hap pened at Anaconda, Montana, which resulted in tho death of two men, Jer emiah Lynch and Daniel O'Brien. It seems these two men went wliero fifty pounds of giant powder was deposited, and by some unknown cause this elo ment was exploded. Their bodies wero literally torn to shreds. Not enough of either body was recovered to show semblance of a man. Both wero mar ried and had families living in Butte city. An engine exploded near Ilackberry, A. T killing engineer Schroeder, fire man Long and hrakeman Trapp. The bodies were found about 300 feet- from the track. Several froijjht cars wero badly wrecked. Tho engiuo was at tached to tho east-bound freight train, and tho boiler exploded when the train was two miles from Aeh Fork. Tho bodies wero found about eighty yards from tho sceno of tho explosion, man gled beyond recognition, Thoy wero only identified by clothing. Tho ex plosion derailed six cars and damaged the track for a great distance. Long and Trapp wero raakiug their first trip. The farmer who is producing hay on land that cannot bo easily made to produce three tons to tho acre, had better devote it to somo other crop, and drain and clear up land that will. It is now a well settled fact that fanning will not pay when only small crops aro grown. To skim over three acres for what ought to grow on one, is an ex penditure of tinio that rarely pays any profit. Evory farmer should study and have a general knowledge of tho internal structure of tho horse his greatest helpmate at labor. Ho should know, and probably does, that of all the do mestic animals the horso has tho smallest stomach, and therefore should be fed and watered the oftencst. T. W. Follico, a well-known farmor living near Garfield, W. T raised 11,000 bushels of wheat this year, by weight, on 200 acres of land. This is reported to bo a hilly country, but Mr. Follico hauled on one wagon with four horses just 7930 pound.- of wheat. Clover is considered one of tho best crops to renovate the soil that can bo sown, and it is usually profitable to grow it on tho farm, if for no othor purpose than to enrich and strengthen tho soil. Many good farmers keep horses in stanies during the entire yoar, exoopt when out at work. Those who do not should at least get the horses under shelter at night and during stormy duys. Tho South is increasing its food crop heavily and this year's corn crop will bo 50,000,000 bushels larger than last year, and 100,000,000 bigger than tho unusually largo crop of 1881. It ought- tako but littlo thought on tho subject to convince farmers of tho advanirtgtM derived from keeping good ktrong icams to perform thoir work. Tho whip is the parent of stubborn ness in a high-spirited animal, while gentleness will win obedienco and at tho samo time attach the animal to us. Devon cattle is rich dark to a Tho color of pure red, varying from a palo chestnut. Beasts with small chests do not fat- ton readily and aro vory suscoptiblo to disease. Tho corn crop of 1887 Is nut down at 1,300,000,009 buhU. iliate publicity. The writer happens to know of two diaries which record, on the testimony of eye witnesse-, the cir cumstances of tho last hours of Garfield, and they dill'or utterly in essential par ticulars. One of these m ly turn up lifty years from now and bo accepted as uiie. vu iiiiiiuie amount or gossi.) gousinto diaries about men and women that would not stand tho test, of 1 moment's contemporary publication isut, ny and ny it may all bo used to smirch or brighten unjustly some one's character. Suppose a man in the Army of the Potomac had recorded daily all his opinions of men and events. Bead ing it over now, with more light and 1 juster knowledge of character and of measures, is H not probable that he would find it a tissue of misconceptions? l-ow things are actually what, thoy seem today; the' aro colored both by mis- apprehensions and by moods. If a man writes a letter or makes report of an occurrence for immediate publication, subject to universal criticism, there is some restraint 011 him. In his private letters, or diary especially, he is apt to set down what, conies into his head at the moment, often without much ell'ort at verification. Iftirwr's Magazine. The Season s Favorite. Thore is 0110 thing very notieoabU at all the resorts this summer, too, and that is tho red-headed girls are im mensely popular all round. That must be because they are so agreeable A red-headed girl is sure to be jolly, just as a homely girl Is sure to bo bright, . . ... . 1 nereis 110 nonsense either anout a red-headed girl. She is full of courage and strength. Many of tho pluckiest and most daring swimmers hero have hair of the cardinal hue. Thero were so many of the girls in batliinj; this morning that the surf reminded 0110 of strawberry water ice. Afterwards tho girls .stood out on tho beach wringing the sea water out of their long, thick tresses. When a half-ilozen ot them got in a row, with their shilling hair llowingoiit behind them, you might have fancied, if you had a good imagin ation, that there was a now sun-sot at eleven o'clock in the morning, and one, too, that might put the old sun-set to tho hUish.I'uliiilelphiit Press. An investigation of Spanish earth quakes by two Italian physicists shows that they are moro common in the coast regions than in tho interior, and In the south than in the north; also that thoy occur most frequently In tho autumn und winter mouths. LAUGH. UelUhtMll now 11 Trnvnlrr In AintrnlU Ilnnil or .Viitlvm. The judgment which a superior raco passes upon an inferior raco is arbi trary. When a white man gangos a black man, ho usually stands him alongside of a fine specimen of tho white race. If ap Hnglish Australian, is asked what sort of a race the blacks ot Australia are, ho promptly answers, the most degraded race, physically and intellectually, in the world. Yet tho black Australian is a match for any race under the sun, in swimming.diving, running, climbing, or picking up and following a trail. Men who can do these things aro not physically de graded. "But. my dear sir." the Australian Hnglislmian will add. "these blacks nro so low down, mentally, that they haro never invented a bow and arrow." But they have invented the boomer ang, the most ingenious and scientific ally constructed of projectiles, and tho only weapon that will do what thn Irishman wished his gun would do: "Shoot around tho corner of a hedge." Necessity is the mother of invention, and so long as the Australian black can kill game and enemies with tho boomerang or spear, he has no occa sion for inventing a bow and arrow. The ancient Kgyptian was highly oivil- i.eii, yci ne never invented an um brella. A climate where it rains only once in live years does not provoke tho most ingenious of men to invent . portable roof. If a man is the only creature en dowed with the ability to laugh, -tho Australian blacks are intensely human. Phey have the keenest sense of humor. and nothing which has a ghost of , joke in it fails to provoke them to laughter. A man looking for a pipe which lie has in his mouth, or a dog searching for food upsetting something on his head, and then running awav. will make them roll on the ground in convulsions of laughter. A traveler once owed his life to their keen sense of the ridiculous. They have a bad habit of spearing travelers. and will follow one for days, keeping out of his sight until they get a cood banco to kill him; but they seldom at tack a man on horseback. They pre fer to spear him when he is oil hi horse, eating his lunch or drinking at water-hole. One day a traveler. while riding quickly round tho corner if a patch of scrub, came suddenly upon a camp of blacks. His horso slopped short, and sent him Hying over his head into the middle of tho cainn. If he had shown the slightest sisrns of darni, a dozen speais would have been piivering in his body. Hut he, know ing them, burst into shrieks of laugh ter, as if Iks had tumbled headlong into tin ir camp for a joke. The bucks woro lolighted; all of thorn began to laugh, mil the camp was tho scene of men oiling on the ground, convulsed with laughter. Instead of niolestinir thn traveler, they caught his horso for him. mil sent him away with a laughiny horns. YoutWa Companion. j. f WATER FOR ANIMALS water, a uat- water. Tim Ailviinliiu'i-M ol' It 1 1 it lit 1 1 Sumll tinrliiirc IntoTnlM or Troughs. All animals should be provided with pure water, and with none is it nioro necessary than with milch cows. Sori- oiH results have been known to follow the use of impure or stagnant It is not every farm that has ural and unfailing supply of although many have, a condition that hould bo observed 111 the putehasoof a farm, as it is one of the most valuable considerations that can be named. A never-failing spring of abundant sup ply can not be loo highly prized; it costs nothing for repairs and is always in good working order; but such bless ing aro not shared by all, and hencu irises the necessity of providing somo irtilicial means of .supply. Wells with pumps will answer all demands upon farms with a small number of animals, but upon farms where they aro num bered by scores pumping water from a. well by hand would bo both laborious and expensive. In such cases thero would probably bo no better mode of supply than by wind power, which when adopted should bo so situated that the power could be utilized for other purposes upon the farm. Of course this is an expensive method of procuring water, but under some con ditions becomes a necessity. In a dis trict witli an undulating surface reser voirs can bo formed, whereby tho sur plus of water in autumn and winter can be stored for summer use, and may serve satisfactorily. Upon some farms there are springs, waieh, if utilized properly, by conducting the water into troughs, would be amply sulllcient. but left to themselves are iusiillieieut to do more than make a mass of mud wliero the cattle tread continually toslake their thirst. Quite a small spring run into some troughs or tubs will furnish an abundant supply. Uertnunlown Tclc ijraph. 9 9 m Down in Georgia they havo con cluded that the world will come to an. end in l',177. Their reason for think ing so is that a hen has laid an egg; upon the shell of which is plainly "in- jscribed" the outline of a heart, an acorn and tho number soventy-seven. In Cuba, Mo,, a hen has laid an egg having 011 one side the face of a clock with distinct Homaii numerals. It would seem that the hens are likely to start a kiiidergarteil" after they becomo a little more proficient in object teaching. The Princess Piguatolll Is acting as a waiter girl in a second-rate cafo J11 Vienna. This Is the lady who, attne luarrellng with hor relatives lately;.' nine at a London muslo hall for a livw llhuod. ....