CONGRESSIONAL.
legislation Pertaining to the Interest
of the Pacific Coast
Washington. Mitchell, of Oregon,
"will introduce a bill at the tirst oppor
tunity after Congress assembles to
repeal all laws, whether treaties or acta
of Congress, which permit Chinese
immigration. This is the same bill
which ho introduced at tho last session
.pf Congress. lie said this afternoon
that the general impression that his
bill would prohibit or prevent com
merce between China and the United
States is erroneous. It will only indi
rectly havo a bearing on tho trade
relations of the two countries, in so far
as it absolutely prohibits, the coming
of Chinese to this country, except
those who como in government capac
ities. Also a bill to protect purchasers of
land from tho Northern Pacific rail
road, in case their is forfeiture of the
land granted to that corporation be
tween Wallula and Portland, lie will
also introduce a bill to reimburse set
tlers on even numbered sections of
public land within tho limits of tho
land grants in case of forfeiture of odd
numbered sections. This bill is in
tended to reimburse those settlers who
were compelled to pay $2 50 per acre
for public land within tho limits of
land grants which subsequently be
came forfeited ; settlers receiving no
benefit by the building of a railroad
because none was built, while other
public land has been sold at $1.25 per
acre.
Also a bill making an appropriation
for the establishment of a life-saving
-crew at Yuquina Buy, Oregon.
Also a bill to provide for the erec
tion of a public building for a custom
house at Yuquina Hay.
Also a bill to provide for tho appro
priation of ijil.IHJOO.OOO for continuing
tho improvement of the mouth of tho
Columbia river. Also $750,000 for
improvement of the locks of tho Cas
cades, and also an appropriation for
Yaquina and Coos bays.
Ho til introduce tho bill which was
favorably reported by a Senate com
mittee during tho last session of Con
.gress appropriating $500,000 for tho
construction of a boat railroad at the
-dalles of the Columbia.
Also a bill to amend section 3019 of
tho revised statutes relating to draw
backs on dutiable imported materials
when manufactured and exported.
This bill is designed to bo of benefit
to can tiers of salmon who use tin,
upon which a duty has been paid.
He will also introduce a bill appro
priating suilicioni money for the final
survey and estimates for the improve
ment of the Unipqua river for light
draught steamers, the surveys and
estimates to bo separate, one being
between tho mouth of tho river and
-Seotfe-burg, and tho other between
Scottsburg and Hart's rapids, near
Elkton.
Ho will also introdtico a joint reso
lution for tho appointment of a com
mission by the Secretary of tho Navy
for tho purpose of selecting a site for
-si naval station on the Pacific coast.
Ho will also introduce a bill autho
rizing the construction of a railroad
through the Occur d'Alone Indian
icsorvation.
A bill for relief of settlors on school
lands in Washington Territory.
Also a bill appropriating sufllcient
money for tho re-survey and re-location,
shoriening and improvement of
the military wagon road between
Itogue River valley and Fort Klamath,
Oregon.
Also a bill appropriating money for
the purchase of a site and tho con
struction of a wharf for the use of the
light-house department at Astoria.
Senator Dolph made an exhaustive
study of plans for the coast defense of
tho country, lie has prepared a bill to
provide for carrying out the plans of
tho commission that mado a report on
tho subject some time ago. The cost of
tho work will be $126,000,000. Tho har
bors on tho Pacific coast that would bo
improved under the bill aro San Fran
cisco, tho mouth of tho Columbia, San
Diego, and tho northern coast of
Washington territory. Tho bill appro
priates $27,000,000 for tho defense of
San Francisco harbor. Tho defense
would consist of turrets, barbette batter
ies, submarine mines, torpedo boats,
thirty floating batteries and "mortar
batteries. Tho bill approproates $2,519,
000 for tho defense of tho mouth of tho
Columbia, to consist of barbette batter
ies, submarine mines and 15 torpedo
boats. Tho bill gives San Diego harbor
$591,000 for tho eamo purpose.
On a Denver & Itio Grando train
Saturday, a crazy Chinaman fatally
stabbed a passenger, and was shot by
a brakesman.
At Warsaw, Wis., tho dwelling of
Carl Honikel burned, and ho and his
five children perished. His wife es
caped, but is insane
Near Perida, Illinois, a half-witted
boy killed his brother and sister, aged
6 and -1 years, and then tried to kill
himself with a butcher knife.
In a desperate fight in the Cherokee
Nation country, between officers and
outlaws, two men and ono woman were
killed and two men wounded.
Tho bodies of John H. Gowan and
his 16-year old daughter wero found
frozen stiff at their homo, near Huron,
Dakota. From all appearances they
wero suffocated by coal gas last Friday
night.
Tho Bafo of tho County Treasurer's
ofllco at Centorvillo, Reynolds county,
Mo., was blown open and robbed of
about $20,000 in cash, recent tax col
lections. Thero iB no cluo to tho
robbers.
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.
Itoseburg proposes to have a tow
clock.
Grant's pass is infested with clothes
line thieves.
There are three daily papers pub
lished in Astoria.
A new Methodist church is being
erected at Newport.
A now church is just about to bo
finished at Long Creek.
Scab has broken out in several bands
of sheop in the vicinity of Condon.
The mail route between Knight and
Macley has been extended to Salem.
There are about 500 000 bushels of
wheat stored in Pendleton, awaiting
shipment.
W. T. Hill, of Coos county, was
very badly gored by an ox several of
his ribs being broken.
The President has appointed John
Myers to be United States Marshal for
the District of Oregon.
Thero aro ninety-nine corporations,
firms and persons in Union county
who pay taxes on a valuation of $5,000
and upwards.
Tho past season's catch of salmon in
tho Coquillo river was valued at over
$70,000 ; and about $-10,000 of that sum
was paid in wages.
Wm. Hardin, tho lG-yoar-old son of
Charles H irdin, had his leg broken
while hauling wood from the moun
tains to La Grande.
The Whitman mill at Cornucopia
is said to bo running with great suc
cess, and the output of bullion will be
largo from this time on.
Near Mud creek, Umatilla county,
W. A. Smiley's little boy, about three
years old, was fatally burned by falling
into a kettle of boiling water.
Frederick Bergwall, timekeeper for
Hoffman it Bates, was instantly killed
on tho pivot pier of tho railroad bridge
at Portland, by a box of cement falling
upon him.
H. L. Robertson, living near Grant's
Pass, tho past season raised a blood
beet measuring three feot and ten in
ches, and a sugar beet weighing thirty
five pounds.
John Scheidiger, an old resident of
Southern Oregon, and who has been in
Jackson county hospital for some time
past has been declared insano and
taken to Salem.
Tho building of a now $50,000 hotel
on tho Site of the old Pendleton hotel
is now assured. Over $25,000 of the
stock was subscribed in a few hours.
Work will begin soon.
A correspondent writing from Ol
alia, says that next year the cultivation
of sorghum will receive considerable
attention in that section, as the past
season has demonstrated that it pays
well.
Dr. Shelton's new palatial residonce
at Eugene was totally destroyed by
fne. The house was just about com
pleted at a cost of $8,000. The cause
of tho tiro is unknown, probably in
cendiary. Negotiations have been completed
for tho erection at Milton of a large
tirst-class flouring mill and an agri
cultural machine factory. The mill
site has been purchased and the ditch
is being laid out.
Government employes havo finished
weighing the mail that passes over tho
Oregon Short Line, and find that it is
just three times heavier than it was
at the tame time last year. This is a
striking and indisputable evidence of
the increabod growth of tho country.
The Kerby Irrigating and Milling
Company has completed a 180-foot
dam on east branch of the Illinois river
and have n largo stafT of men at work
digging the ditch to Kerby. It is ex
pected that water will bo flowing
through Kerby in threo month's time.
Messrs. Tomlinson & Brooks, sheep
raisers of Willow creek, Malheur coun
ty, report aloss of -100 tons of hay by
fire, which they had just purchused
for tho use of their heep during the
coming winter. Incendiaries done the
work, but no cluo to tho perpotators of
tho outrage has been discovered.
Rogue River valley's corn crop was
a fair ono this year, although the sea
son was not considered as favorable as
tho average. Tho farmers aro learning
that thorough cultivation often takes
the place of favorable weather. Few
sales of corn are mado, but tho price
is quoted at 50 cents per buBhel.
Joseph Drougard had tho high boat
at tho O. S. P. Co's cannery, Empire,
this seafon, having caught 1,037 sal
mon. Tho company presented him
with a silver watch, six ounco case,
nickel works. On tho back is engraved
a Columbia river fishing boat, with
Fort Stevens, at tho mouth of the
Columbia river, as a background.
Tho body of Thomas De Loughoy.
an inmate of tho asylum, at Salem
was found hanging from tho window
netting by a bed sheet. Do Laughoy
had during tho night fastened tho two
ends of tho sheet to tho netting, made
a nooso by a siuglo twist, stuck his
neck through and jumped from tho
window sill. Ho strangled to death.
Deceased was a violent subject, and
was commitcd from Multnomah coun
ty recently.
Active preparations aro being made
for starting up work at tho Oswego
iron works. Over $200,000 will bo
expended beforo operations begin.
Contracts havo been let for 20,000
cords of wood to bo chopped this win
ter for charcoal. An immense amount
of machinery is now en-route from the
East, and iKiforo many weeks this
groat industry will be in vigorous op
eration, giving employment to about
500 men.
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
Last year Idaho produced in gold,
silver and lead, $9,24G,5S4.
Seattle, by n late census report, has
a population of 8,001.
Fred. Langiree, a carpenter, was
run over and killed by a train, at Oak
land, Cal.
The Southern Pacific Company is
having 1,000 freight cars built at the
Sacramento shops.
Pat. Fly mi, the murderer of Oscar
Shea, at Burke, Montana, has been
admitted to $5,000 bail.
There are 750,000 acres of tillable
land still open for settlement in the
Hailey, Idaho, land district.
At San Diego, Cal., G. A. Burnell
was shot and killed by Luco Marovich.
Jealousy was piobably the cause.
Frank MeCutcheon, a Mexican
youth who was believed to havo kin
dled incendiary fires, was lynched near
Oakdale, Cal.
Young T. C. Michael, aged (5 years,
died at Mt. Idaho from spinal conges
tion, caused by a fall from a woodpile
while playing ball.
Alvin Rondando, aged four, was
fatally wounded by tho accidental dis
charge of a gun being cleaned by
Willie Powers, at Wr.tsonvillo, Cal.
Nearly all tho sawmills on Pugot
Sound have shut down for tho winter.
They will start up again in tho early
spring.
Wm. Hopkins, a laborer on J. C.
Frazier's ranch at Grand Island, Cal.,
was fatally stabbed in tho abdomen by
Matt Dixon.
Fred Salter, a farmer, was acciden
tally killed by tho discharge of a shot
gun, at Hollistor, Cal. Ho was a
member of tho G. A. R.
Willard Smith, 20 years old, who
recently arrived at Pasadena, Cal., from
Chicago, was drowned while bathing
at Long beach.
Goslaw was hanged at San Jose,
Cal., for tho murder of an old man
named II. A. Grant at Los Gatos in
January last.
Tho snowsheds on tho switchback
aro strong. The posts are 10x12 in
ches and tho caps are 10x10, all of red
fir. Tho cover is of four-inch stuff,
also of red fir.
At San Jose, Cal., Andres Robles,
drove his team along the railroad track,
which ho mistook for a wagon road,
and was struck by a freight train, and
instantly killed.
Cat. Lamar, who has been offered
$1,000,000 for his mine at Wagontown
Idaho, has started for London, where
he will attorn pt to dispose of the prop
erty at. the price asked $2, 000,000.
Tho-l yearoldson af W. B. Hock
ing, while playing in a yard, fell back
ward into a heap of burning rubbish at
Nevada, Cal., His back and head wero
terribly burned and he is in a precari
ous condition.
A freight-train ran into a work train
on tho Atlantic it Pacific railroad
near Williams, Arizona. Fifteen men
on the work train wero more or less
injured. A brakeman on the freight
was fatally hurt.
A man named Nicholson, complain
ant in an action against Georgo W.
Palmer, for assault with a deadly
weapon at Tiajuana, Cal., was found
dead with a bullet hole through his
heart. It is supposed tho deed was
committed by Palmer, who is now in
jail.
Whilo tho steamship Yaquina City
was docking at San Francisco, tho wire
connecting with tho house and ongino
broke. Tho steamer plunged forward
at full speed, when she should havo
slackened, and she ran into the wharf,
only stoping when striking tho stone.
She cut a hole twety-fivo feet long in
the wharf.
Emily Doran, a child Bix years of
age, was drowned in Little Wood river,
Idaho. With her brother, two years
younger, she tried to cross tho stroam,
and both children fell in tho water.
The boy was rescued by tho mother.
Tho body of his little sistor was found
in tho willows and grass, two hours
after tho sad accident occurred.
Tho Rod and Gun Club at Kittitas,
W. T., had their annual hunt a few
days since. There wero six on a side.
Gilliam's party scored 2,765 points and
Looney's side 1,110. Tho kinds and
quantities of gamo killed were about
as follows: Three coyotes, four largo
ducks, six prairio chickens, one sago
lien, threo jack owls, ono largo hawk,
about twenty jack rabbits, twenty-nine
snipe, about thirty magpies, ono pheas
ant and other minor varieties.
A Bpecial from Glendivo, Montan.
says: Three Sioux Indians confined in
tho county jail for horso stealing, atta
cked two whito prisoners with table
knives, a pair of scissors and chairs.
After having as they supposed, killed
tho white men, twoof tho Indians han
ged themselves in tho cell with bunk
straps while tho third tried to butt his
brains out against tho wall. Ho only
stunned himself, however, and is all
right now. One of tho whito prisoners
will die and tho other is in a serious
condition.'
Frank McGinloy a young mo
chanic, was accidentally shot and killed
at Sierra Madro Cal., He was there
working on a house and wont out bo
foro breakfast to shoot rabbits. Ho
stumbled over a rock and tho gun
went oH, the charge tearing a great
hole in his abdomen.
J. It. James, a railroad employee,
was arrested at Oakland, Cal., for dis
turbing the peace. During tho night
tho jail look flro and burned to tho
ground, James perishing in tho flames.
It iB supposed ho had been smoking,
and being under tho influence of liquor
had carelessly set flro to tho building.
THE QUEEN'S MAIDS.
Arduous Dtitlr ortlui l.iullc AVlio Wait on
I'liKtiuiir Sovereign.
Tho maids of honor to the Queen
earn every penny of the jL'JiOO a year
which is their stipend for filling a very
ilillienlt position. Whilo on duty they
an not call their souls their own.
After breakfast, which they take in
their own rooms, they havo to hold
themselves in instant readiness to obey
the Queen's summons, which comes
the moment Sir Henry Ponsonhy (puts
her Majesty's presence, with the big
red morocco dispatch-box containing
his day's work under his arm.
After a brief "Good morning" tho
Queen suggests a littlo reading, and
the dutiful maid addresses herself to
tho pile of papers wherein the proper
parages for her Majesty's hearing havo
already been marked by Sir Henry.
Through columns and columns of par
liamentary debate, leading articles and
correspondence has the poor lady to
mtouo her dismal way, often having to
repeat passages, for tho Queen never
leaves a subject till she has thoroughly
mastered it, and is not at all sparing in
her command to ".Just read that
again, please." The maid of honor is
so busy minding her stops and trying
to modulate her voice that she has little
chance of understanding a titho of
what she is reading, ami yet the mo
ment the reading is over she has to
rush oil' and get ready lor a drive with
her royal mistress, during which she
will be expected to make lucid remarks
on tho topics she has just read aloud.
After luncheon is the only real timo
the maids of honor havo to themselves,
and even that is spoilt for them by the
uncertainty as to whether they will be
wanted to walk or drive with tho Queen
later in the afternoon. They must
stay in their apartmouts.for if by chance
they should ho sent for and wero not
to be found at the moment, their life
for a day or two would not bo a happy
one, so that a stroll in tho grounds on
their own account is out of tho ques
tion, till after four o'clock, when, if tho
Queen has departed on a drive without
them, they know they are free till six
at any rate. On tlio Queen's return
there is more reading aloud, this tiino
of ponderous works on heavy philo
sophical subjects, or else tho arranging
of sketches, photographs, or, it may he,
the charity needle-work is brought, out
till such time as her Majesty goes to
dress for her nino o'clock dinner,
where, to the relief of tho maid of hon
or, she is not expected to bo present.
I'y this time she is not unfrequontly
faint for the want of food, for when not
at Court she would naturally bo finish
ing dinner at tho hour when it is tho
Queen's pleasure to commence it.
Young ladies do not, as a rule, jump
at tho post of maid of honor to the
Queen till they havo given themselves
a fair chance of obtaining an "estab
lishment," It is not till season after
season has been drawn blank that dis
consolate ladies havo recourse to tho
dignity, very much minus the leisure,
of joining the "Household." It follows
that, though by no means in the sere
and yellow leaf, tho majority of tho
maids of honor aro not in the first blush
of budding girlhood. The present senior
maid is the lion. Harriet Lepol Phipps,
a cousin of tho Marquis of Normandy.
Miss Phipps will never seo her forty
fifth birthday again. Tho Hon Frances
Drummond, a daughter of Viscount
Strathallaii, is thirty-nine. Tho Hon.
Kthel Cadogan was born in 18!1, which
puts her credit thirty-threo summers,
and the Hon. Maud Okeover. a nieeo
of Lady Waterpark, is only twenty
seven. Jioston Post.
TUBERCULAR WSEASES.
Deuclly florins Contiilnrd In Nmv York'
Milk mill Muut Supplle.
In regard to tho epidemic of pleuro
pneumonia in Westchester County
lately several physicians of tho health
department havo said that tho disease
was far loss dangerous to a community
that tuberculosis, a malady which
atllicts many animals and fowls and is
readily transmitted to man. Thero
has been a noticeablo incroaso in tho
number of deaths from tubercular com
plaints particularly from consumption,
in this city in n-eoiit years. In 1877 of
the 20,'-0:i deaths in tho city, 4,011
wero caused by consumption alone,
and there were about 1,000 deaths from
other tubercular diseases. Tho highest
death rate known in this city since tho
last epidemic was in 1881, when 38,021
persons died. Consumption killed 5,
312 that year, and tho total number of
deaths from tubercular complaints was
0,921. In tho following year the deaths
from tubercular diseases numbered
0,870. Last year 7,000 persons died in
Now York from those complaints, and
consumption alono dostroyed fi,177.
The deaths from all prevailing con
tagious diseases in tho city aro insig
nificant in number compared with tho
loss of life from tubercular disorders.
How much tho mortality among chil
dren is increased by such complaints is
shown by tho deaths from tubercular
meningitis, and tabes meson terica, dis
eases which children sometimes inherit
from consumptive parents, but often
acquire with their food. Hoalth-do-partment
records show tho following
deaths of children from theso diseases
In four years: In 1879, 1.212; in 1880,
1,293; in 1881, l.f01, and in 1882, 1,535.
Tho deaths f city childro.11 from such
disorders last year numbered about
2,000. A German surgeon kept a
record of autopsies on tho bodies of
children who died in a German hos
pital a few years ago, and ho found
that thirty-three per cent, of tho chil
dren died from tubercular complaints,
Dr. Cyrus Edson, of tho sanitary bu
reau behoves that much tuberculosis Hi
brought to tho city in milk. -N. Y,
Tribune,
PROGRESS IN COOKERY.
It tho I'ooil ol To-Diiy Hotter Tluiu Thnt
of rifty Year Abo?
This is a question which at first it
seems dillieiilt to answer. Tho para
phernalia of housekeeping has in
creased tenfold, but wo can not say
that the improvement has been in
ratio to this Increase. Wo are not ten
fold better housekeepers than our
grandmothers. Tho increased work
of tho modern house calls for a reti
nue of servants where ono or two
formerly did the work, or for extra
help in smaller households, where
formerly the work was chiefly done by
the mistress of the house. The vex
ing question of sorvico is continually
arising, and much of tho cooking,
which was formerly dono by tho mis
tress of the house, is now left to tho
unskilled hand of a domestic worker,
who is often utterly ignorant of tho
primary laws of tho kitchen. Our
larders of to-day aro so much better
supplied with good and wholesome
food, our cooking facilities are sc
much greater, our cooking utensils are
so much better, that it must be a poot
cook, indeed, who can not set out
tables with more wholesome and a
greater variety of food.
There has been a great advance in
tho last lifty years in tho supply ol
fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes were
then practically unknown. They were
called "love apples" and were grown
for ornamental purposes. So linn
rooted was the common belief that they
were poisonous that it is related, tho
two culprits who stole some from tho
yard of a justice of tho peace and in
cidentally tasted one, soon found they
were attacked with what they believed
to ho the pains of poison, and hastily
came to confess their theft. The va
rieties of sweet corn in use fifty years
ago were little better than field corn.
Tho culture of small fruits was un
known. There wero no strawberries
but the wild fruit.
The improvement in raising anil fat
tening beef, veal, mutton and lamb i
beyond question. Tho pork fifty years
ago was probably better than it is to
day, but thero has been a steady de
crease in tho uso of pork as propor
tioned to tho population. Other meats
have taken its place. A minister's
wife, who visited a well-to-do par
ishioner on tho Hudson river many
years ago tolls of sitting down to a din
ner table on which the solo dish was a
huge platter of boiled pork with ap
ples, which wero boiled with the pork
and served on the same platter. "1
did my best to oat it." added tho lady,
who had been city bred and used to
comparatively delicate fare, "but 1
was careful never to bo caught at dinner-time
near that house afterward."
It would bo impossible to find so coarse
a dish as this on any man's table to
day. The pork would bo boiled sep
arately and the apples made into sauce.
Whether tho poultry of to-day is bet
ter than formerly is a question in spite
of tho many lanoy breeds of poultry in
market. Our grandmothers took
great care in raising their chickens
and capons and paid careful attention
to fricassees and pies of chicken which
modern cooks may well copy.
Canned fruits and vogetables havo
added immensely to tho resources of
tho modern cook. There havo been
groat improvements in tho speed and
fineness with which grains are ground.
All kinds of meal aro now kiln-dried,
so that they will keep sweet in tho
grocer' hands an indefinite time, but
tho kiln-dried meal is not so sweet as
moist meal of old time which had to
ho purchased fresh from tho mill.
Flour made by the patent-roller proc
ess is not quito so sweet, though it is
easier to niako good light bread of it
than of tho old-time Hour. Wo should
turn baetyto soino of tho simpler ways
of our ancestors in cookery. Tho de
mands of modern society havo driven
tho ladies of the household from the
kitohon, and the preparation of food is
loft too often in tho hands of untu
tored servants. "To your saucepans,
women of Britain!" exclaimed Susan
nah Carter fifty years ago. Tho samo
cry goes forth to tho women of our
own land if thoy would havo happy
homes and strong and healthy fami
lies. Y. Tribune.
REFINED COURTESY.
A Trmimiro J'oirtcmecl Onlr lJ IMslilj
Itrnil null Uultlvatml I'roiin.
A refined courtesy of manner is ono
of tho works of a highly-bred and cul
tivated person. It is tho outcomo of a
kindly heart and considerate feelings,
but it is also something more than this.
It is the easo of conscious dignity an
expression of an intolloct sure of Its
own position, and standing without
need of self-assertion or concolt.
It litis in it the elomont of endurance,
for none but those to whom tho minor
troubles of lifo aro trillos Indeed can bo
courteous under the mosquitoes' bites
of physical and mental annoyances,
without outwardly being milled and
disturbed. It Implies tho most per
fect self-control lest ono bo thrown
from his equipoiso by sudden and unlooked-for
surprises.
And it is In its most perfect form tho
exotic flower of tho hlghost civiliza
tion, which it has taken generations of
wealth and sterling virtuo to produco.
It can not ho counterfeited nor repro
duced except by Inherited growth, or by
grafting on wild stock of firm and vig
orous liber. But once started In its
cultivation it will ropay tho most gen
erous outlay of timo ond rich feeding,
helpful allko to both ownor and bo
lioldor. Christian at Work.
.
Ho "So you don't caro to bo mine
with all that I havo at my command?"
Sho "That's Just tho trouble. 1 don't
want to bo undor your command."
Judge.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Tho boundaries of Scotland om
brace 180 islands.
Loudon has a polico army of 13.
819 men. Tho chief has a salary of
SlO.oOO a year.
Speaking generally, tho avcrago
length of life in England is forty-four
years; the average length among tho
upper classes is iifty-threo years.
Steel-framed cab? aro now being
manufactured In Kngland, with a view
to lightness and greater durability
than if wood wero usod for tho pur
pose. Dr. Barnardo's Homes in London
now hold no fewer than two thousand
poor boys and girls wholly dependent
upon him; the most of whom would,
but for their admission to those homes,
have probably grown up to evil lives.
More than ten thousand other misera
ble children have also been trained in.
these homes lloslon Transcript.
Tho British telegraph service,
which is part of the post-ollice, does
not pay expenses since tho rate was re
duced to sixponee per mosage, or
about 12 cents. ''h0 deficit for the past
year was 22', 000 on working ex
penses and jL'320.000 for interest on tho
working capital in all JL'ooO, 000, or
$2.7o0.000.
In Algeria there is a small stream
which the chemistry of nature has eon
verted into true ink. It is formed by
the union of two rivulets, ono of which
is very strongly impregnated with iron,
whilo the other, meandering through
a peat marsh, imbibes gallic aeid, an
other ingredient in tho formation of
ink. Letters and other manuscript
matters aro satisfactorily written with
thi singular natural compound of iron,
and gallic aeid.
Tho E lglish red-tape army and
navy officials do queer things. Not
only do they send canned meat to
Australia, were tho woods are full ot
meat; rice to India and sugar and rum
to Jamaica, but on a recent occasion
they literally sent coals to Newcastle
for some warships on tho Tyne. Until
very recently they used to send vast
quant ities of gun-Hints to Quebec every
year, becauso such gun adjuncts used
to be shipped there a contuary ago.
Jioston Transcript.
Tho remains of a comotery belong
ing to tho aro of tho Gauls havo re
cently been discovered in Paris, in tho
old F.unboiirg St. G rmau, at tho cor
ner of the Rues Roeroi and Bollochasc.
Fifty-two tombs havo been found with
skeletons, most of which are skolotons
of women and children. Only twelvo
aro skeletons of men. Many weapons
and implements havo also been un
earthedswords, lances, and bronzo
and iron instruments of all descrip
tions. SprinufieUl Jtepnblican.
Tho Parsees of Bombay havo long
been famous for their eharitablo munif
icence, anil tho oxapiplo of tho lato Sir
Jauiseijei) Jejoobhoy, known through
out the civilized world for his liberali
ty, is being emulated at tho prosent
day by another Parsce, Sir Dinshaw
Manoekjee Petit, ' sheriff of Bombay,
wlio has just oll'ired tho Government
of Bombay ono and one-half lakh ($75,
000), for the purpose of establishing a
female college in that city. N. Y. In
dependent. Among tho pooples who inhabit
tho region near Stanley Falls is ono
which has a very peculiar coppor coin
age, consisting of ononnous spear
heads mado out of very thin copper
One of these is valuod as equal to two
hundred English pounds worth of
ivory. Every thing among tliom has.
its value reckoned in terms of coppor
spears. Tippoo-TM), tho rich and in
fluential Arab trader whoso henchman
not long ago, captured tho Stanloy
Falls station, has sent 0110 of thoso
spears to London. This tribo manu
factures highly artistic motal work.-
Jioston Jiudict. (
imxo calculations irom compared
observations show that Alcyone that
ono of tho Pleiades around which tlia
sun and the wliolo solar system wero
onco thought to revolve Is about 954,
000,000,000,000 miles from us, a distanco
that it would take light about 103 yearn
to travel.
How's
Your Liver?
Is tho Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot oxist without a
healthy Liver. When tho
Liver ib torpid the Bow
els are sluggish and con
stipated, tho food lies
in tho stomach undi-
gested, poisoning tho
lood; frcquont headaoha
ensues; a feeling of lassi
tude, despondency and.
nervousness indicate hovr
the whole system ia de
ranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has beoa, thft
means of restoring more
people to health and
happiness by giving thnx
a healthy Liver th in any
agency known on earth.
It acta with extraor
dinary power and efficacy.
NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED.
A t gononUtU tnlly remedr "or DypepJK
Torpid Uvir, Oonntliwttloti, etc., I b-urfty
nvor uo a-jytWuic ulw, mi t have wmw
been (UMBuotnted in Uie u f t prod-iom.;
it hfeaU to be tMmcwt a per) ct out Amc
disease ot tlae Htnmaeh tin Howls,
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