OREGON SCOUT.
JONES & CHANCEY, FublijheiB.
UNION. OKKGOX.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An economist has sagely observed
that, no matter how large its popula
tion may become, there will always bo
enough earth to go round.
j A horse galloped through tho streets
)f Hopkinsville, Ky., during a recent
Storm, when a bolt o'f lightning struck
Ids heels, tearing off both shoes, which
Went Hying through tho air like blazing
coals.
"Ma, why docs God make it rain?"
""So tliat tho corn will grow, my little
Jgirl." "Kilt why does He make it rain
on tho stroots where there is no corn?"
2'ainful and protracted silence. Texas
Riflings.
A French instrument for ro"ording
f)io rolling of a vessel at sea was lately
tried on tho voyage of a steamship
Trom Bordeaux to Brazil, and made a
tolerably accurate register of the mo
tion. Arkansaw Iravclcr.
A company at Mobile aro com
pelled to run their largo establishment
Slight and day making staves, barrels
sind boxes for shipment North. The
time was when this industry was
practically conlincd to the North.
1 A hinged lamp-post has lately been
devised. It lias the advantage that no
laddi-r is required to on nolo it to bo
cleaned and repaired, and it can also
lo lighted by bending it over, tho lamp
lighter carrying a key for the purpose.
Kldcrly Spinster (in drug store)
"I declare to goodness I've forgot wliat
3 come in fer! An' it was on my
tongue's end jest a minnit ago." Clerk
(trying to help her oi't) "Er face
powder, ma'am, or hair dye, or or "
(Exit Kldcrly Spinster.) Harper's
liazur.
A Virginia paper reiaics mat a
whito handkerchief folded in four
layers was placod over the face of a
-woman who died lately in Louisa
County, and when it was removed there
were four distinct pictures of her on
it tho si.o of a epinrter of a dollar.
Spirits of camphor hud been put on the
"woman's face just before her death.
(t was a Ciico, Cal., boy, aged ten
years, who "held up" his stepfather
Tvilh a six-shooter when tho latter
attempted to give him his regular allow
unco of blaeksnako whip. Tho boy
remained on tho front porch until tho
ntcpfat her brought an ofilcor, and read
ily gave up the revolver to tho latter
and accompanied him to the station.
A Chicago man entering a drug
store in that city recently asked to have
small scalp-wound dressed. He stated
that he waa crossing a railroad bridge
when ho was ovei taken by a train, lie
laid down on the ties and tho train
passed over him doing him no harm
ivitli tho exception of tho wound on
his head.
in a small town out West nn ox-
county judgo is cashier of tho bank
"The check is all rigid, sir," ho said to
-n stranger, "but the evidence you olVer
an identifying yourself as the person to
whoso order it is drawn is scarcely suf-
jicicui. i ve Known you to nang a
jnan on less evidence, judge" was the
stranger's response. "Quito likely,"
replied the ox-judge, "but when itcomcs
to letting go of cold cash, we have to
bo careful."
Two lads who worked a neat swind
ling net wero tripped up in Chicago
tho othor day. J hoy dealt in stolen
logs, and while ono was out "finding
canines that wero not lost," tho other
"would bo restoring tho Ixjoty of tho pro-
Tious day to tho owners, and receive
tho reward offered through tho news
papers. When captured, tho young
sters had eighty odd dogs on hand.
A (ierman naturalist has dovoted a
a great deal of study to the violet, and
Jias given us a very pretty biography
f her. Tho violot droops her head, he
lolls us, to protect tho honey from tho
j-ain; she surrounds it witli hairs to
lccop out tho iuquisitivo littl'i ants, who
would run away with it, and, having
no wing or hairs upon their tiny bodies,
would not help to convey the pollen to
other blossoms.
A Pittsburgh merchant, as an ad
vertisement, offered a prize of $20 to tho
tlrst person solving the following prob
lem: Take these figures, 1, 2, ,'), t, o,
6, 7, 8, 9. 0, add them togother and
mko 100 without using any ilguro
Imico. There were a groat many an
nwerp, but tho only correct one received
-was sent in by a young lady, and was
s follows: oO'a
100
Tho Pittsburgh Stockman calls at
tention to churning by staling that if
tho cream be made too warm the globules
-wil burst and the oil mingle with tho
-water in tho cream and rlso to tho top.
finch cream will como to butter very
slowly, If it como at all. Iloillng water
is too hot to uso in the cream; Cti 3 is as
warm as the cream should bo made, as
tho butter will be white and soft. Keep
tho cream as uoar CO3 as possible while
waiting for tho churn.
The description of a German inven
tion a safe that on its lock being tam
pered with, opens its doors, seizes,
lragn and locks in tho burglar, and
liolds him in readiness to be conducted
to tho police court in tho morning is
characterized as a wild tale by tho New
York Tribune. It is said to bo a fact,
liowevcr, tliat a similar device, to bo
set At tho door of a shop or bank, was
invented in England. Hut, on tho prin
ciple that no niun has a right to take
tho law into his own hands, its manu
facture was forbidden. Boston 7Vm-
PRESERVING BODIES.
How TliU Wan Dime hr tlin 1'nnptn of
Alnftkn nml Htlil'iplu.
In Alaska up to comparatively mod
crn times the dead have been mummi
lied. Mr. W. II. Dall, in his recent
work on tho Northwest Const, tell us
that within the last half century bodies
have been eviscerated, cleansed from
fatty matters in running waters dried
and nlaeed in cases, wrapped in fur
and woven grasses. The body was
usually doubled up into the smallest
compass and tho muminy-caso stis
ponded, so as not to touch the ground,
in some convenient rock shelter. Some
times, however, the prepared body was
placed in a life-like position, dressed
and armed. Some wero made to look
as if engaged in a congenial occupa
tion, such as hunting, fishing, sewing,
etc. With them were also placed
effigies of the animals they wcrepursu
ing, while the hunter was decked in his
wooden armor and provided with an
enormous mask, all ornamented with
feathers and a countless variety of
wooden pendants, colored in gay pat
terns. All tho Alaskan mummies wear
masks, so arranged that the wearer, if
erect, could only see the ground at his
feet. J heso were also worn at their re
ligious dances, from the belief that the
spirit which was supposed to animate a
temporary idol was fatal to whoever
might look upon it while so occupied.
Probably an extension of this idea led
to the masking of those who. had gone
to tho land of spirits, and may also
account for the silver masks found tho
other day upon the Aztec mummies in
Arizona."
To tliis day the Aleutian Islanders
embalm their dead with dried grass
and moss, burying them in their best
attire, in a sitting posture, and decorat
ing tho tomb with colored mat-, em
broidery, and painting. With women
they use much less eeroinoity. A
mother will keep hoi; dead child thus
imperfectly embalmed in her own hut
for months, washing it continually, till
at bust the intolerable stench reconciles
her to parting with it.
While on this gruesome subject it
may be mentioned, merely as a matter
of curiosity, that Cary's translation of
Herodotus describes the novel manner
in which the Macrobii Ethiopians pre
served their dead. He says that their
sepulehers wero all prepared from
crystal. Their mode was as follows;
When the body had been dried, after
tho fashion of tho Egyptians, . tlioy
plastered it all over with gypsum and
then painted it to resemble life as
nearly as possible. Then they pntdt
into a hollow column of crystal, which
was easily wrought and could bo dug
up in abundance thereabouts. Tho
laxly, being in tho middle of the trans
parent column, was plainly to be seen,
and it did not emit an unpleasant odor
or become in any way offensive. The
nearest relative kept the column in his
house for a year or more, offering to it
die first fruits and making sacrifices
before it, after which time it, was car
ried out and placed somewhere near
tho city. This appears to have been
an improvement on the mode above
described, for even the Egyptian mum
mies could only be seen in front, tho
back having been covered hv a box or
collln, while the Ethiopian bodies, suuir
in their columns of glass, could be seen
all around. I'hiladelphia llceord.
AMERICAN DENTISTS.
Tlirlr KnpiTlorlly ttvr tlio Tontli-Tlnkrn
of tho Old World.
There aro no people like tho Ameri
cans for having their mouths kept in
oilier. No one else is willing to pay
what our people do for their work, con
sequently they don't get such good
work done.
l.met an English surgeon yesterday
who said: "I will admit that there is
one tiling you excel us in, and tliat is
dentistry. Our people have their teeth
extracted when they pain them, hut
they haven't tho patience to get them
stopped with gold, as you do it over
here, nor will thev submit to the enor
mous expense necessary to gold stop
ping. Why, tho housemaids in Amer
ica have enough gold in their mouths
to astonish a Duchess."
A lady from tho United States, trav
eling in England, had occasion to visit
a dental ollleo.
Ah soon as the man looked in her
mouth ho said: "You come from
iVmerica."
"How do you know?" asked tho lady.
"Why, no one else has gold in their
teeth like tills."
Needing some work done, slio was
amazed to lind that the dentist lacked
some of tho most necessary instru
ments fora simple gold tilling.
Some English ladles "stop ' their own
teeth with a sort of cement furnished by
tho druggist. Hritishers who have
once had work done here will travel
three hundred miles to reach an
American dentist, and so great lias our
fame in that line become that young
men come, to Philadelphia and Ann
rbor and Cincinnati to learn tho art,
and going hack, charge immensely and
get a handsome practice.
lhero is in Paris a doctor from a
sin al town in Indiana who has amassed
a great lortune uy dentistry, ami wiuo
appointments date four or live months
in advance, He can't speak a word
of French, and transacts all his busi
ness through an interpreter. In
dentistry the French show some lack of
their usual spirit of premiership,
though they do better dental work
than any other foreign people. San
Francisco J'ost.
"Beef's all gone, sir," said tho
waiter. "Gimme mutton." "Mutton's
all gone, sir." "Well, have you tiny
un-gono eraqkers and clieeso? Fetch
theiiil"
NEEDLES AND PINS.'
History of Tlirlr Mtiiiiilncttiro In KnRlnnri
hikI Mm Hulled Hmtr.
Needles were no doubt contempora
neous with the very beginnings of civil
ization, as they wero necessary for the
fashioning of even tho rudest skin gar
ments. In their earliest form they were
probably only strong thorns or splinters
of wood, bone or stone, for puncturing
holes through which to draw the thread.
The next stop was to make an eye in the
splinter, that it might carry the thread
at the same time that it pierced the skin;
and some very finely finished and pol
ished needles made of splints of bone
have been found in prehistoric remains,
Pronzo needles havo been found in
Egyptian tombs that must havo been
made several thousand years before the
Christian era, and similar implements
are known to havo been in use by the
Chinese, Hindoos, Chaldeans, Assyri
ans and other ancient nations at very
early periods in their history. The
steel needle is believed to havo been
first made in Spain. It is known tliat
these needles were manufactured at
several places in Europe as early as the
fourteenth century. In tiic reign of
Queen Elizabeth a German came to
England and taught the art of making
line Spanish needles, but for many
years the art was kept as tho secret of
a few persons. Great improvements
were made in this manufacture during
the seventeenth and eighteenth centur
ies, and now the English needles large
ly supply the world. They arc princi
pally made at Rcdditch, near Birniing
Iiain, and neighboring villages, where
over ten thousand ou-sotis are employed
m the work, lhero are some needles
of good quality made in the United
States, but tlicv are of but little im
portance compared to tho imported
needles. Pins are also of very ancient
manufacture. They were made at first
of ivory, bone or wood splints, but
bronze pins aro found in Egyptian
tombs, and also those of silver and
'old. The ancient Romans had metal
pins also, ami so had other na
tions. Thev were made with
ornamented heads, and from one to
eight inches long. The small pin. as
wo know it, was a more modern inven
tion. In England the manufacture of
pins was established about t lie middle
of the thirteenth century, for in 1 -ISii
we find a statute was passed prohibit
ing the importation of foreign pins in
tho interest of home manufactures.
Brass pins were brought from Franco
in loll), anil woro said to have been
first used by Catherine Howard, Queen
of Henry VIII. hi Gloucester tho
business of pin-making was begun in
1(2(, and soon became of great im
portance. It was established in Lou
don in 1 (i.'Ki, and later in Birmingham,
which became the chief seat of this and
other manufacturing operations. In
tho United States no cllbrt was made
at pin-making until the war of 1811?,
when tlie interruption of commerce
had raised tho price of these useful
little articles to ono dollar a paper.
At tho old State prison, in what was
then called Greenwich village now a
part of New York- City the first at
tempts in pin-making were made in
Bcllovuo Almshouse in 18:20. but both
trials were given up as failures. Mean
while, one Lemuel W. Wright, of
Massachusetts, had invented some inn-
hinery to cheapen and improve pin
manufacture. Not finding a sulllcicut
qiening for his plan in this country, he
took his machinery to London ami had
it patented there in 1821. Tho first at
tempts witli these machines did not
succeed, but by means of improve
ments success was achieved, and solid
headed pins were put on tho market
about 18!!.'). In 18.'t2 machines made
by John I. Howe, of New York, were
patented in the United States. These
were the first self-acting machines that
really succeeded. At first they made
the wire head, then the Solid head.
The Howe Pin Company was estab
lished at Birmingham, C onn, in 1S.H8.
Another largo factory was established
at Ponghkeepsie, N. Y., about the.
same tune, and this was finally con
solidated witli a pin com pa 113 of
Waterbury, Mass., which still con
tinues to carry on the manufacture on
an enormous scale. Vhicatjo Inter
Ocean.
The World's Steam Vessols.
Tho number of steamers existing in
tho world last year was estimated at
9,9(59, of an aggregate burthen of 10,-
531,8 til tons. I he corresponding num
ber of steamers existing in tho world
in 1885 was estimated at 9,012, of an
Aggregate burthen of 1 (Villi, I'll tons,
l'he total of 9,909 steamers, represent
ing the world's steam shipping in 1880,
was made up as follows: Iron steam
ers, 8,198, of an aggregate burthen of
8,911,100 tons; steel steamers, 770, of
an aggregate burthen of l,'J0G,tli2 tons;
ompo.site steamers, 109, of an aggre
gate burthen of il'J.S'.'O tons, ami wooden
touniors, 8-2, of an aggregate burthen
of !kS0,0.')o ton-. Of the steamers afloat
in 1885, 0,792 were owned by the
United Kingdom and its colonies their
aggregate burthen being l,.V.).r,87l tons.
The oilier countries of the world owned
steamers as follows last, year: Ger
many, OT9; France, .'109; Spain, -101 ; tho
United States, -100; Norway, 287; Rus
sia, 212; Denmark, 200; Italy, 173; Hoi
laud, 152; Brazil, Ml; Japan, 105;
Greece anil Turkey, 82 each; Belgium,
08; Chill and tho Argentine Republic,
i:t each; China and Portugal, 27 each;
Hawaii, 21; Mexico, 15, and miscellan
eous, 50. it will be seen that, notwith
standing the great depression prevail
ing in steam shipping, the number of
steamers atloat last year increased to
the extent of 827 as compared with
1885. V. r. lt.
It Is estimated that thoro nro ovor
700.000 Poles in the United Status.
DECLINE OF HOSPITALITY.
Tlio Tliroo Cnturn Which Thrrnten Its
Kxtlnrtloii In Cltlr and Town.
First, the enormous increase of
travel; second, the pressure of occupa
pation, and third, tho growing expen
siveness of living, especially in tlio
great centers.
The passion for travel which has de
veloped in all countries, b'lt most hero
in America, makes people unwilling to
keep up a complicated establishment
which must be shut up or left to run
itself when the proprietor takes his.
winter trip to Florida, or his summer
jaunt to Norway. Eacli year, there
fore, increases the number of pcoplo
who prefer to live in a hotel, or an
apartment, with the fewest possible
servants. This at once becomes a hand
icap on hospitality, since the coming of
a guest implies an immediate upheaval
of the routine of living.
A young married man was recently
looking over tiio plan of a flat which
ho was considering for a future homo,
when a friend at his elbow remarked.
"But it gives you no guest room."
"Exactly so," was the cynical response,
"that is why I have decided to take it."
Tiie statement may sceui brutal, but it
is a fact patent to all, that to keep
open house in New York is to keep
a railroad hotel. The strain upon
tlio nervous vitality of t lie host, and
especially the hostess, would bo enor
mous, even if it wero their only occu
pation; but that it seldom is. Never,
perhaps, in tlio history of the world has
the pressure on the vitality, the time
and the nerves of men and women been
so great as it is to- lay. How can a
woman sit down to c iini enjoyment of
a visit, when she i '-launted by tlio
ghosts of unwritten 1 iieis, iinreturned
calls and unread hooi.s; not to mention
such prosaic specters as undarncd stock
ings and uncared-for children. These
duties may be put aidc for one guent,
but when the circle been'ues unending,
they grow with impo--ihilitics. The
strain upon the man of the house is al
most as great. Ho returns from a day's
work at the ofiice, which leaves every
n.irve throbbing with irritation. Ho is
lit for nothing but dressing-sack, pipe
and slippers before tho fire, or a resting
nap on the sofa. Instead, he is requested
to hurry oil' to meet his wife's cousins or
still worse, his own, who are to arrive
at the Grand Central Station from Da
kota at 7:!t0. Their arrival delays the
dinner-hour, tlieieby adding indigestion
to his oilier troubles.
So long as the expenses of living fall
well within tho income, hospitality is
comparatively easy, but the moment
there is any difficulty in meeting the
monthly bills, a visitor is actually
dreaded. The small family economics
must cither be put nMile and tin; finan
cial problem allowed to grow still moro
complicated, or they must be made pain
fully apparent when contrasted with
the aggressive abundance which riots
in the streets about. How true is tlio
saying that New York belongs to tlio
very rich and tho very poor! For tho
modest income there seems to be 110
abiding place in New York. Then the
opportunities which, as country people
fancy, make it so easy to entertain
visitors in New York, are in reality so
many unceasing calls for expenditure.
Tho concert, the theater and the opera
are not, as a rule, gratuitous entortaiu
nien'is. Epoch.
STORY OF A JAW.
Tho DiNtiuiro Wlilrli It Will Travel In tlio
Coiitho of 11 Mini' 1.1ft. ,
The noon-day customers were drop
ping out one by one troin the .National
yesterday when a dyspeptic-looking
man. who sat at the next table and had
been watching with great solicitude a
seedy-looking individual who had evi
dcntlv come from tiio Missouri flats to
attend the show, startled Ids neighbor
by saving: "Have you any idea how
niaiiv miles a man s jaw will travel m
the course of his life, assuming tliat lie
lives to be seventy years of age."
"Well, I never thought of it," an
swered a young man, who halted in Ids
wild career of heofs'oak. Ihoihspep
tie man changed his seat and exposed
a much soiled piece of paper with some
figures on it, which lie proceeded to
explain:
For tho first 10 years a child's jaw
will go about 55 inches daily or 200,750
inches altogether in a decade. From
his tenth to Ids twentieth year, what
witli chewing gum, food and tobacco,
lie will work his jaws say four hours a
lay, at an average of half an inch per
minute; that would make 111 a day 12 J
inches, or in tho 10 years 438,000
indies. During this time he will talk
about fivo hours a day, traversing
about three-quarters of an inch a mill
uto with his jaw; that would give, in 10
years, 822,250 incites to be added to our
former liguros.
"For tlio next 45 years ho will spend
say 00 minutes a day in eating, when
he will open his mouth half an inch a
minute ami seven hours in talking,
when he will average live-eighths of an
inch; that is, when you figure it out,
5,008,025 inches.
"We now havo our man 05 years old.
For the last fivo years his jaw takes a
rest. He will oat no more than 31)
minutes a day at one-half inch a min
ute, or 27,ol5 inches, anil in talking
the distance traveled will not amount
to more than 1138,500 inches. Now for
the total, if wo add the various sums
together, we get 0,835,470 inches, and
dividing bv 03,300, the number of
inches iu a mile, you lind that tho
maxillary journey is a distance of 107
miles and a fraction."
"That is certainly interesting," said
tlio young man. "Havo you over cal
culated the santo lip-trip for a woman?"
"Mv dear bov, came tho slow, sad
reply, "life is too short. "Leavenworth
fAuiyl Times.
CHINESE AILMENTS.
Dj-npejula tlin Mont Prevalent In the Long
I.lnt of Ilri-.
Medical work in tho capital of China
docs not differ very much from the or
dinary run of practice in any largo city
of the United States. Owing to tlio
healthfiilni'ts of tho climate the na
tives, a a rule, enjoy very good health.
By far the most frequent cases that
come to the dispensary arc those re
lating to the digestive tract. Ono who
has ever seen the Chinese cat will not
wonder at this. A bowl of food is
placed under the chin and the contents
scoopeti into the mouth witli most as
tonishing rapidity, Tho process is re
peated until bowlful after bowlful has
disappeared, the only limit as to quan
tity seemingly being the amount which
can be got hold of.
The poorer classes depend chiefly on
rice for food, getting the necessarj'
nitrogenous elements not from meat,
but from a curd made from beans. On
this simple diet it is astonishing what
an amount of work a coolie will do.
Hence, both rapidity of eating and
the quantity consumed tend to produce
all the forms of distress after meals,
that are classed under the head of
dyspepsia. In fact, tlio Chinaman
whose "heart's-mouth" has never
pained is seldom to bo met with. This
"heart's mouth" is a favorite locality
witli tho Chinese as a seat of disease.
The native doctors know nothing of
the dissection of the human body, and
their notion of its construction and
operations is based chiefly on the im
agination. To tiie Chineso anatomist
everything below tho skin is a "terra
incognita." The brain lie puts iu the
stomach, the scat of courage is iu the
liver, tlio bladder communicates di
rectly with tlio mouth by a tube into
which all liquids nwallowed lind their
their way. while a lioleiu tho heart lias
some mysterious relations with the
stomach, and to this orifice is ascribed
much of the pain consequent on indi
gestion. In tins connection I must, not fail to
speak of "worms." This is not an at
tractive subject to the general reader,
but an important one to study up for
any one expecting to practice medicine
in China. The native, be lie rich or
poor, young or old, who does not har
bor specimens of the tieuia or bumbri
coides would, if the facts were known,
be a living curiosity to Ids astonished
countrymen. There is also a great deal
of dysentery in summer, mainly due to
eating unripe fruit.
Tlio other day a neighbor came in
and got some medicine for ids wife,
who had had this trouble for several
days. I told him not to allow Ids bet
ter half to eat any fruit, and he
promised to pay attention to this to
him unnecessary restriction. After a
da' or so the man came iu again, and
complained that the patient was not
any better. He said she had been very
careful of her diet, and had eaten noth
ing but watermelon. Medical Mission
ary llceord.
HOW TO GAIN BEAUTY.
Tlio Cliiirm of livery Woman's Knee Lying
In Hh Ktprt'HKlon.
"It is useless," said an ugly, charm
ing woman lately, "to toll girls that
beauty is but skiu-deep.or to underrate
its value to them. They know that the
beautiful woman has tiie same advan
tage iu life as the princess. All heads
uncover to her on sight, without regard
to her merit."
"Brains and morality," wroto a
French cynic, "are the chief goods of
lite, doubtless; but a bcauutul race is
undeniably in itself a power."
A young girl is apt to overrate its
power. If she lias it, she too often be
comes vain, and her self-consciousness
sliltons the mobile features, gives an
uneasy blink to the eye, and sets a silly
smirk upon the mouth. If she is not
born with beauty, she tries anxiously
to simulate it by efforts which make her
ridiculous. In some parts of this coun
try almost every young girl smears her
face with chalk, which completely con
ceals the skin. In others tho hair is
entirely hidden beneath false, kinky
"fronts." Iu both cases there is. no
attempt at deeoption. Tlio spectator
is openly invited to look, not at
a natural beauty, but at something
which was bought from tho barber or
tho druggist. Other women use arsenic
for the purpose of obtaining a pearly
whiteness of skin. Tho prominent phy
sicians in Now York call attention to
the frightfully rapid spread of this
custom among the uneducated classes.
Ono of them says: "Tiie cause of tho
transparent whiteness of the skin is
that tho ends of tho blood-vessels are
killed. Tho arsonic also destroys tho
action of tho kidneys, and inevitably
brings on a fatal disease of tlio diges
tivo organs."
Tlio Companion will not attempt to
porsunde its girl readers that beauty is
not a desirable thing, anil worth an
ellbrt to obtain; but it does urgo them
to find out, first, what beauty really is,
and secondly, what practicable moans
will command it for them. Regularity
of feature no otl'ort will gain for them,
but some of tho most beautiful women
in tho word havo pot possessed it. A
lillio figure and free grace of move
ment may bo acquired by loosely fitting
garments, shoes made to fit the foot as
nature formed it, and exercise in the
open air. A clear, vivid comploxioii
is the sign and result of daily bathing,
out-door exercise, and plain, healthful
food. Tho chief beauty in every
woman's faco lies, after all, in Its ex
pression, which mirrors tlio sincerity,
tho gontleuess, the intelligence within,
"Hor face," says Lovett, "was the
benediction to tlio world, coming from
her true and tender soul." That beauty
every woman can gain by a pure and
loving life. Youth's Companion.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Kentucky has a banana fiend who
recently ate thirty-four bananas in 0110
hour. Unless he is careful whero ho
throws the skins lie will havo much to
answer for.
Alice M. Longfellow, daughter of
the poet, has been chosen a member of
tlie school committee of Cambridge.
She is also one of the trustees of tho
Harvard Annex.
Prince, a lino Jersey bull belonging
to a joint stock company, created a
sensation one day last week at Talla
hassee by deliberately killing a cow. It
is said tliat lie lifted her on ids horns,
threw her into tlie air, and killed her
almost instantly.
Even fo people who have made
their fortunes, or havo attained so
much property that they aro quite easy
as to tlie future, the dead town lias no
attractions. The evidence of deca
dence can never lie attractive.- "
A natural curiosity exists in Fay
ette County, hid., known as Shaky
Hill. It comprises about twelve acres,
and is occasionally subject to tremu
lous movements affecting several acres
of land. Tliis phenomena is said to
havo been noticed for fifty-seven years.
A man lias been selling patent
churns to the Maine farmers, taking in
payment notes payable on demand
and made "not transferable," and
pledging himself not to demand pay
ment within a certain long period.
Then lie changed the not to note,
and sold the notes, and tlie farmers
were called upon to pay up.
George 1). Ash, livingnoarllagers
town, Mil., is engaged in quarrying
stone on his farm, using dynamite for
tlie purpose. A steer belonging to Mr.
Ash strayed into tlie quarry, and, find
ing tlie dynamite cartridge, ato it.
The dynamite proved unwholesome
diet, exploding and bursting tlio ani
mal. The Savannah Xcirs perpetrates
the following: A lady at Indian spring
lias a hen that is quite a curiosity. It
lias a coat of hair iu place of feathers.
Although it is only a chicken, still it is
a wonderful freak of nature. It came
from a llock of ordinary chickens, and
the cause of its singular coat is a mys
tery. It lays, sits and hatches like
other chickens, and some of its oil
spring is like tlie parent, but she lias
not yet succeeded in bringing them to
maturity.
From Franco comes tlie announce
ment of a iiewly-iiivented rotary print
ing machine, which is said to print,
superpose and fold publications from
two rolls of paper, if so desired. Suit
able devices are provided there are
four cutting and folding cylinders, two
of which cut and fold tho sheets from
one roll, while the other two operate
upon the remaining one. Each of tho
two pairs of cylinders are, however,
capable independently of cutting and
folding the sheets I'ublic Opinion.
The Roman Catholi-j authorities of
Boston are planning to establish ono
great common vcmctery for all the
cities in adjacent parts of the State, to
which the railroads are expected to run
special funeral trains daily, the cars
going directly into tlio grounds and all
expense of carriages being done away
witli, tho undertaker carrying the body
to the station, the city and the railroad
landing it at tlie grave. The Boston
& Lowell railroad is said to be ready to
run funeral trains at reduced rates if.
such a cemetery is established. In Mex
ico they have special funeral cars over
the horse-car routes to the cemeteries.
The history of the toothpick in this
country lias a few curious and interest
ing features. Not many years ago iv
man iu South America, whoso wife was
in tlie United States, whittled out a fow
wooden toothpic! and sent them to her.
In some way not now known tho pro
prietor of a hotel obtained some of
them and, learning who made them, ho
applied for a supply. This led to a largo
sale of tho whittled picks and finally to
the establishment of an agency for their
sale in this country. Tlie toothpick
manemigratcd North and invented ma
chinery by which ho turned out the first
year sixteen million two hundred and
fifty thousand picks, which has since in
creased to above lu4, number per
month.
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n have nsed Simmons XJver
Regulator for many years, hay
ing made It my only Family
Medicine. My mother before
me was very partial to it. It Is
n safe, good and reliable medi
cine for nny disorder of tho
system, and If used In time Is
a oretxt prrvrutlve of- lUkntMa.
I often recommond It to my
friends, and shall continue to
do so.
"Rev. James M. Rollins,
" Pastor M. EXhurch, So. Fairfield .Va."
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aliraun Ueetttna Simmon JUver
Itvuttlator in the house.
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In Jmiigratlon, ColirIlarrhtrt,
milousufsi, and found it to re
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ing a hearty supper, if, on going
to bed, I take about a teas poo 11
ful, I never feel the effects of
the supper eaten.
"own a. sparks,
"Ex-Mayor Macon, Qa."
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