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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1888)
Loiu Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin, has been sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment without labor. Eastern capitalists ure consider ing proposition to construct a new telegraph line to the Pacific Coast. Every year 4,000 poor ure buried in Potterstield, New York, in forty-cent coflins. Thk C. P. railroad hat declared a dividend of one per cent., the first in four years. Thk mines of South Africa have yielded six and a half tons of diamonds worth $200,000,000. In England, according to Reynolds, one out of every three of the workers iio in the workhouse or the hospital. A singlk foggy day in London costs the town something like $10,000 for extra gas. The Coinmiss.oner of Agriculture claims to have obtained great results in the extraction of tugar from sor ghum. The incandescent electric light promises to be a great aid to the tor pedo service, as it will illuminate the sea when submerged. John McComu has been elected Warden of Sun Quentin, and Charles Aull takes the Wardenship of Folsom prison. Eighty corn canning factories have been in operation this year in Maine, and over fourteen million cans of sweet corn have been put up. The mechanics of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., have started an educational association to book themselves up in anachinery. The manuscript of "Home, Sweet Home," has been buried in tho coffin with Miss Harden, of Georgia, who half a century ago refused tho hand of the author. The annual production ot the cord age mills of tho United States, it is estimated, is about one hundred and twenty thousand tons, valued at about fourteen million dollars. There is a recorded indebtedness of :$1G 1)8 on every improved acre of land in the State of Kansas. This does not include notes of hand, and store and other accounts. There are eighteen national banks in Washington Territory, with a total capital of $1,-130,000; and five terri torial banks with a total capital of sf.lSfi.OOO, making $1,785,000. It is stated as a fact that on its iourney from New York to Chicago the safety of a fast express train is at one time or another confided to the hands of over five hundred different pt rsons. Scientists claim that a tide-mill located at the Bay of Fundy would generate 700,000 horso power twelve hours in a day. This distributed elec trically and sold to every State in tho Union would save tho coal supply. Stephen Showers, of Pennsylva nia, refused to swear falsely in order to save his father's neck. Tho elder Showers was on trial for tho murder of his grand children, and a false oath might have saved him. There are four great accumulated masses of gold in tho world : $282,000, 000 in the United States Treasury; .$237,000,000 in tho National Bank of France; $107,000,000 in tho National of Germany, and $100,000,000 in tho Bank of England. A Canadian paper has been can vassing for an expression of annexa tion to tho United States. It heard from 910 persons, 800 of whom favored annexation. Nova Scotia is almost unanimous for it. Ontario and Que bec gave a majority nearly two to one in tho samo direction. The Stttes of Pennsylvania and Maine have determined to hereafter treat habitual drunkenness as a disease and not as a crime. The inebriate will bo taken from his homo and on the street, and quarantined in special hospitals the samo as if suffering from an infectious disease. If an incurable, lie will bo housed and made self-sup porting for life. A rill to reduce railroad fares to four cents a milo has passed tho Wash-; ington Territory Council unanimously and will probably paE8 tho other house. It is suspected that tho Northern Pa cific will not obey this law, if tho bill nasseB. on tho ground that tho Terri torial Legislature has no right tor regulato a road chartered by Congress. Tho present rate on tho Northern Pacific is five cents. TELEGRAI1C SUMMARY. Ad Epitome of the Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest The German steamer Isabel and the bark Iiebecca, were wrecked on tho Carribean coast. Five men were instantly killed at Tilton, Tenn., by an explosion of a boiler in a sawmill. Advices from Panama stato that the Colombian government has seized the Cucutna railroad for abetting treason. Three men were killtd at Fleming, Kansas, by a premature explosion of a blast in tho Missouri Pacific coal , mines. At New York, Miss Inez Van Zandt was sentenced to ono month in the penitentiary, in the court of special sessions, for killing two canary birds. John Hooper, member of parliament, has been sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment for publishing reports in his paper, tho Cork Herald, of meet-, ings of suppressed brandies of the league. A serious collision occurred near Newport, Ark , between a passenger train and a freight on the Iron Moun tain railway. Tho fireman of the passenger trai.i was instantly killed and the engineer fatally wounded. The baggage master and tho express messenger were hurt slightly. The captain cf the bark lUmijio, which has arrived from Hakpdadj at San Francisco, states that a Japanese sailor suddenly became insane, and after injuring two other sailors with a hatchet, jumped into tho sea and was drowned. A dispatch from Colnmbus, Ark., says that a half-witted boy of 13, , named Charles Whilsett, enticed a young brother aged 9 and a sister aged G. into the woods and cut their heads off. Ho returned home and informed his mother what ho had done and showed a big knife with which ho had committed tho deed. Tho international contest between Jake Kilrain, of Baltimore, and Jem Smith, of England, for tho diamond Oelt and championship of tho world, took placo on tho Island of St. Pieire, in tho river Seine, Franco, in the pres ence of about 100 persons. After fighting 10G rounds tho contest was declared a draw. Advices have been received at Phil adelphia of the lo!s of tho ship Alfred Watts. The Watts sailed early in October, and it is said she foundered when but seven days out, and all but two of those on board wore lost. Two persons, sud to bo seamen, were picked up by a passing steamer and landed at Liverpool. The officers and crew numbered twenty-seven. A train on the Inter-Colonial railway, composed of an engine, a snow-plow and a passenger car, went off a bridge near Caraquette. Of the thirteen men on board, the conductor, engineer, fire man and four section-men were pinned down under the engine, in the bed of tho river, and killed. Others wore badly bruited, but not fatally injured. At Mabtown Station, W. T., Charles Miller, a single man 32 years old, was struck by a freight train and knocked down, tho car wheels striking his head and dashing his brains out. Miller' was walking along tho track at tho time, and his death was duo to his own carelessness. C'OX; RUSSIOXAIi. A bill was introduced by Senator Cullom to annex a portion of Montana to Idaho. It cuts off tho counties of Beaver Head and Missoula from tho former Territory, and joins them to the latter. Senator Manderson introduced a bill granting pensions, according to length of imprisonment, to all Union prison-1 ers of war confined in southern prisons for moro than sixty days. Senator Bowen introduced a bill for the erantion of a public building ut Boulder, Colorado, to cost $75,000. A bill introduced by Senator Slier-1 man, provides that all persons on the pension rolls for loss of limb shall be entitled to receive arrears of pension from the date of discharge or disability. A bill introduced by Senator Stew art provides for the appointment of chief justices and two associate jus tices to sit at Washington and have 1 jurisdiction to hoar and decide con tested land cases. All applicants for public lands whoso claims are rejected i by tho commissioner ol tno lanu omco are given tho right, within sixty days,' to appeal to ono of tho justices. Juris diction is also confer) ed on ho justices to hear all cases arising on' of private land claims in Arizona, New Mexico , and Colorado. 1 Senator Quay introduced a bill to increase to $72 per month the pension of thoBO who now receivo $50 per month, under the law granting pen-' sions to soldiers und sailors of tho late war who are totally disabled. , Senator Plumb introduced a bill to grant ono month's extra pay for each ; year of enlistment to all officers of the ; volunteer army in tho lato war, who' served the full term of their enlistment and were honorably discharged. Senator Blair introduced a bill do- daring that the act of Juno 11, 1880, i relative to pensions, shall bo construed , as to include all officers and enlisted men in the army, und their widows i und minor children, Senator Mitchell introduced a bill : providing that heroafter tho salo of. lands of tho Umatilla reservation bo mudo ut I lie aourt house in Pendleton, Oregoi-, 5 istead of at tho land oflko ut LuGrando. COAST CULLINGS. A postotlico has been established at Flynn, O.egon, with Elizabeth Ainsler as Postmistress. The British steamer Sardonyx, sailed from Portland with 150 ton? of tlour which goes to China. Kobert Kecord, the young man who fell over a cliff of rocks near Arlington, Oregon, died from his injuries. C. A. Swidquist, a sailor, shot and killed Minnie Lome, and then him self, in a saloon in San Franoisco. A postotlico has been established at Picardville, Washington county, Ore gon, and Charles P. Picard appointed Postmaster. A postoflice has been established at Flynn, Umatilla county, Oregon, and Eliz i Bethaensby has been appointed Postmistress. At San Francisco Fredorick Warri Iow, a painter, fell from a scaflold in the Baldwin hotel, and received in juries from which ho died. Firo at Irvington, Cal , destroyed tho Alameda County Reporter office, the stores of Blacon t Weston and Clark Bros.', tho postotlico and Good Templars' hall. Loss, $20,000. Tho whole number of school chil dren in Washington Territory, as shown by the returns of tho present year, is -17,131. In Oregon the num ber is 87,217. A boat capsized at San Pedro har bor, Cal., during a gale, and two fish ermen wero drowned. Ono of them was "Crawfish Pete," the oldest and best-known fisherman on tho coast. At Olympia, W. T., Judge Allyn sentenced Angus McClain, convicted of tho murder of Harry O'Connor, at Shelton, to be hanged on February 21, 1888. Marshal Blumc, of Petaluma, Cal., whilo attempting to jump oil' a train before its arrival at tho depot, was caught under the wheels, receiving injuries fiom whidi he died. A young man named Harry Shuf fleton was found dead in tho road near Diamondvillc, Cal., with four bullets in his body. No clue to tho murderer was found. The President has decided to ap point Stephen A. l)e Wolfe to bo an Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of Montana, in placo of Judge Galhr.iith, whose term has oxpirod. Christie Doyle, of Vallejo, Cal., ro ceived from a companion some bichro mate of potash, instead of wax to chow. Ho was seized with convul sions shortly after and died. Two others, a boy and a girl, had a inn-row escape. Julius Adler, an enlisted man at tho military station at Walla Walla, was arrested shmo time ago on a charge of being a deserter from tho military sta tion at Omaha. He was tried by court martial, convicted and sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Fort Alcatraz. Senator Mitchell has suc ceeded in securing commutation of his sentence, and ho will bo released. Tho citizens of Medford, Oregon, have, through tho efforts of the Board of Trade of seventy members, raised a cash bonus of $2,000 to be given to Govo it Co., of Portland, who will com mence there, on tho lirut of January, tho erection of a four-story (louring mill to cost not less than $15,000, and to be of 50 to 75 barrels per day ca pacity. It is to bo ready for work May 15, 1888. Kecenlly an injunction was served on Sergeant LaForet, in command of United States troops btationed at tho mouth of tho Klamath river, to pro hibit him from tearing down tho houo of settler John Mclvousie, located on an island near tho mouth of tho river. The injunction was disobeyed and tho property destroyed and burnt. Judge Murphy issued a warrant for tho ar rest of LiForet for contempt of court. As tho steamer Queon of the Pacific, bound for San Francisco, was oil' Pigeon Point, Second Officer William Olton discovered a vessel on firo off tho starboard bow. An alarm was given at once, and three of tho Queen's boats were manned and went to tho resctto. The vessel was found to bo the Pacific Coast Steamship Company steamer San Vicente. Ono of her boats was seen approaching and the occupants called for help. Thoy wero immediately placed in a boat from tho Queen manned by Second Ollicer Olson, and proved to be First Mate Charles Green and four sailors. An other boat, commanded by Third Offi cer Ingruham, picked up Capt. Charles Lewis and Second Mato Charles S. Pratt. The captain and tho second mate had constructed a raft and wero about to launch it from the burning vessel when thoy wero rescued. The S-tn Vicente had a crow of nineteen officers and men, and the Queen of the Pacific still hovered around tho vessel, all hands keeping un anxious lookout for those who had not been saved. Another man was picked up in an open boat in a few minutes, but died a short time after being tukon to the Queen. His name is not known. So far as can bo ascertained at preBont, tho names of the lo8t aro: Purser Ev erett, Engineers John McCardlo and Thomas Grenor, Cook Jackson, and John Grudy, Charles Graham, Alfred Clark, John Wilcox, John Smith and threo others, the lust eight being sea men. None of tho rescued officers or men can assign uny causo for the ori gin of tho fire. When tho firo was discovoied tho men becamo panic stricken, and the officers could not control them. They jumped into tho two bouts but tho stanchions which hold thorn wero burning hot, nnd tho tackle by which thoy hung was soon burned away, and ono by ono the men wero obliged to leap into tho eea. Tho captain und tho second mate remuined on the burning vessel until tukoii off. RATHER EXPENSIVE. Fftlr Young I)pcortnr II imbund Deals In Knot nmt KlRurr. "What do you think of it?" A young housekeeper was exhibiting o an investigator a handsomely deco rated plate which leaned against a neat i-iol on the mantel of her pretty drawing-room. "Beautiful. " "Guess where it came from?" "France, perhaps." "No. 1 bought the plate down, town and decorated it. myself." "An excellent idea! You can now have us handsome a dinner set us there is in New York at a mere trilling cost." "That shows what you know about it," interposed the husband of the fair artist, with just a trace 'of sadness in his tones. "I don't see why you say so, John," retorted the latter. "Let's liguro tho cost. I probably have kept a elo-or wateh upon that de partment of .the business than you have done." "Well, begin." "In the first place, the plate itself cost you 6:1?" "I know." returned the artist, with an air of triumph: "but you can't cut a decorated plate like that for loss than $.1." "That may he so," continued the husband cruelly. "Next you bought about an ounce of liquid gold, which cost $:l.7.". You used about half that amount." "Not all on that plate, John. You know I spoiled about as much as I used." "I know 3-011 did, my dear, and you ruined about sf;t worth of carpet with the stuff; but I didn't intend to reckon that in this table. Then you bought a book of instruction which cost $2..r0 more. And you took six lesson- on the design you painted, at $1 a lesson. If you paint any more plates, you will have to take mote lessons. Isn't that so?" "Yes, hut I will onlv need one ot '.wo on each plate from this time on." "I haven't ni-ntioiied the paints and brushes yon bought. They cost $10 more, but will probably answer for some time to come in your future, work. I've not lini-hcd yet. It cost $1 to have the plate tired. Now, let's see what the eost i-: Hold C rpet spoiled licsvnns Hook l'ents X-'.r.iu 1 hi S 01 0 01 i! f.l 111 01 1 01 l.'T n? "That K ju-l shameful, John. You know my next work won't cost me nearlv so much." "We'll see about that," continued Iter husband "Your plate will cost $11; gohl (barring accidents) say $1, lessons $2. paint, say $1, and tiring $1. That makes 8. Pretty high price to pay for a So plate, eh? This doesn't include tho expense of a headache, backache and loss of temper which a painting always produces in you. Neither does it take in thu amount, of vexation your illness always causes me. No, my friend," added the husband, in conclusion, a-; he turned to the investi gator, "I liud it cheaper to I1113- my china. 1 am afraid a whole dinner set would leave me nothing to buy food to dine on." X. Y. Mull and Jixpress. CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN. UlHCOiiirnrN ICt porli'llrcd by Tourlats liouml fur P(iicriiti')ctl'H Summit. The effects of the rarity of the atmos phere wero felt as soon as the start was made, and it was impossible to proceed more than a few yards withoutstopping to take breath. The ascent was made in zig-zags, and naturally a rest was taken at the end of each direct line. At tho start, to climb for eight minutes and rest live was considered making very good time. It. was not long be fore a rest of eight minutes was re quired for every four of climbing, and after half the ascent was made we rested more frequently anil without exerting ourselves to sit down. We thrust our staves into the snow ami leaned our heads upon them. Drowsi ness overtook us, and progress becamo mechanical. We moved only as spurred on by our ever-watchful .guides. If left to ourselves wo would have fallen asleep. Our hearts beat with fearful rapidity and the breath becanio shorter and shorter.' Hinging sensations in t lie head like tho-io produced by largo doses of quinine wore experienced. The most aeut.i pains shot through the skull. Conversation was suspended, except among the guides, und their voices fell on our ears as If coining from a great distance. It was impos sible to tell what progress was being made, for the top and bottom seemed equidistant all tho way up. We barely escaped tno most sovero oxporionci) likely to occur to those who roach that high elevation: bleeding at the nose, mouth and ears. It would have been the signal that we had gone too far, that heart anil lungs refused to submit further, and we should have placed ourselves in the handb of our guides to he carried hack t Tlamacas. Our physical en birauco was stretched almost to Its II hi t by the time the head giihleshouted, "A -ni wo aro! Smoll tho sulphur!" The whiff of snlphuroiH smoke which givutml our nostrils, tell ing that our tack was nearly completed and rest was athand, acted like a power ful .stimulant. We awoke for a llnal effort, pressed on, and rested not until we stood breathless upon tho summit of Popocatepetl. Arthur Howard Noll, in American Magazine. With !?3,000 capital u Connecticut man went to Australia a year and a half ago and put his money into skating rinks. It Is said (hat hv now owns four teen rinks mid that thoy nut him $73, (W0 a year. SILLY COMMONPLACES. Tim I)riry Clirtiuit tine I Comprlli-d to Hour livery liy. The fact is that most of our popular forms of salutation are meaningless and often silly. They de, however, manifest the speaker's cordial and kindly spirit; and it would bo churlish to resent them. Hut it must he admit ted that many of these greetings are almost as hard to hear as a "dead cut" would be. No man likes to be slighted by an acquaintance, hutan idiotic com monplace is very depressing to most persons. It reveals a poverty of the mind, a leanness of thought that is very like a wet blanket in its effect. "Hello, my dear boy," said one of these cheerful idiots on the deck of a White Staw steamer one day out of New York, "going to Europe?" "No," was the calm reply, "I am going to Skaueatles." Similarly, a pale-faced man emerging from his berth after two days of seasickness on a San Francisco and Honolulu packet ship, was asked if he was going to the Sandwich Islands. "No," was the sad reply, "I am going to walk back." Of course when a man asks; "How do you do?" he does not expect any other answer than the usual conven tional: "How do you do?" This by way of passing. If the interlocutors have time, the sainted man will prob ably say: "Very well, thanks, how are you?" And that settles it. How sur prised a man would be if, in answer to Ids conventional conversation, his friend should say: "1 am not very well myself. 1 did not sleep very well last night; too much nutmeg in that last tumblerful, and I have a touch of gout in my left leg, and the third tooth in my back upper jaw has troubled me these two days," and soon. Nobody is expected to give a full report of his state of health when a brisk "How d'ye do?" is Hung at him. Equally conven tional is the "How do you find your self?" so much affected by the offhand and humorous. Hut the man who should reply: "Thank you, 1 haven't lost myself," would very properly be voted a boor, or at least, "too smart.'' As for the poor creatures who ask: "Is this hot enough for you?" or "Is this cold enough for you?" in the midst of summer's heat or winter's cold, only eorreetioiiary discipline is available for them. llosto n Co it ric r. VISION AND OLD AGE. Appiiri'iil Improvement f Sight In Aecil IVi-nmiH Si'li'lltlllcilll v lixplitliied. Wo see objects by the formation of their images on the retina of the eye by parallel rays of light thrown back from the object. In a perfect eye this image falls directly upon the retina, and the object is seen clearly. Hut, owing to differing foim in the lens of the eye, the rays of light do not always converge at. the right point, and tho image does not fall directly on the retina. Thus, if the lens, or, as we say, the eye-ball, is flattened in front, the rays will not. come to a focus till they have passed the retina, and the object can not bo seen at all unless held at a distance from the eye. Or, if the lens is too rounded in front, tho tendency of the rays of light will bo to converge before they strike tho retina, and the object can not bo clearly seen unless it is brought very near tho eye. These defects, existing as they do in infinite variations of degree, are to a certain extent remedied by means of a muscle called the ciliary muscle, which moves and adjusts the lens. The wan ing sight of the aged is caused partly by the llatteniiig of the eye-hall and also by the hardening of the lens, and the toughening of the ciliary muscle. Now, a person who has been near sighted in youth, as age approaches ami the natural flattening of the eye ball begins, finds that he can see ob jects clearly at a greater distance than before. Many persons who have used the concave glasses made for short sight in vouth, are able after thoy have passed middle life to lay them aside, t and others who have not used glasses. hut. have always suffered from restricted vision, will find as life inhaneos that the usual need for spectacles does not affect them. Of course, the more ex treme the short-sightedness has been, the more marked will this ditl'orenco be. It can hardly be truthfully said that the vision in these eases is actually improved, fot though the point of vis Ion has receded, beyond that point all vision continues to be, as It always is with near-sighted people, blurred and indistinct. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Cross, of Westerly, K. I.., has in his possession n tall eight-day elot.-k which belonged to Commodore Van derbilt's mother, and stood In the kitchen of the old birth place 011 Stateu Island. From the depths of that clock, which' old Mrs. Vanderbilt used as a savings bank, she took one hundred dollars of hard-saved money and gave it to young Cornelius to start in busi ness. That one hundred dollars was the foundation of the Vanderbilt mil lions. Mr. Cross married a daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, and the old clock was her share of thu homestead furniture. Argonaut. m "You don't mean to say that you had to pay just us much for your pew during tho summer mouths, when the cuireh was closed, as when It was open?" "Certainly." "How ridicu lous!" "O, I don't know; I don't be grudge tho money. I enjoyed the pow quite as well us though I was in it better, If any thing." Boston Tran tcript. A Texas newspaper claims to havo received in payment of a subscription ,"tho oldest hen on record." Tim ed itor says she was imported from Mex ico by the local physlciuu eight or Juo years 11,0. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Tho Celtic language is spoken by 910.000 peoplo in Ireland, G 1,000 of whom can speak no other. Tho favorito pin and brooch of tho Parisian woman is ornamented with one or several dogs' heads. Since tho aceldont in tho Theater Comlquc, tho provincial theaters in, France have had only empty galleries. A club has been started in Horlin which has among its rules 0110 which provides that no 0110 shall bo eligible to membership unloss he can converse lliiently In at least one foreign lan guage. Tho titlo of baron was formerly tho only one in the English language; now it is the lowest. Its original name was "vavasour," but the Saxons cliailged it to "thane," and finally tha Normans gave it its present appella tion. Tho cost of tho Hritish medical army staff is 210.000 a year, but, in addition, there Is an item of 200.000 a year for pensions to retired doctors and surgeons. The medical officers retire from tho service at forly.fivo years of age. and receive pensions for the tieiuainiler of their days. The government of Italy is about to undertake excavations on tho sito nf tho ancient city Sy hurls, so famous for its luxury and splendor. Sybari was buried under the mud brought down by an Inundation nearly twenty four hundred years ago, but it is be lieved that the ruins will bo found well preserved. AT. Y. Ledger. Tho Hritish tel egraph service, which is part, of the post-olllce, does not pa) expenses since the rate was reduced to sixpence per message, or about 12 cents. Tho deficit for tho past year was 22:1.000 011 working; expenses and :12t!, 000 for interest on tho working capital in all 6o0,000, or $2,7.r0,000. Tho grosshopper plague is giving serious trouble in Algeria this year. The efforts made to destroy the eggs have proved nsoless. In ono district fiO.000 gallons havo been collected and burned. This represents the destruc tion of 7,2.")0.000,000 insects. Mature. Well may tho peoplo of Franca stand aghast at the financial problem they are called upon to solve. On tho 1st of January, 1880, tho public debt of Franco amounted to $l. 200,000,000. on the 1st of February, 1887, it reached !?7,2 1.000.000. Thus in seven years the debt has swelled to tho tune of l.:t2 1.000.000 an inereiiso of such fearful proportions aj to justly create, alarm for the solvency of France. Public Opinion. A "jubilee" river is the latest dis covery in Now Guinea, where an Aus tralian expedition in the Victory has boon making some valuable explora tions. The Victory found two largo streams iho "Douglas." reached by the so-called "Ainl rivor," which ia only one of the mouths of tho vast Douglas, and a still wider further oast, which tho expedition duly christened "Jubilee," in honor of the Queen. Itotli rivers wore explored for fully ono hundred miles, and live now triboa wero Unmil.Springicld Times. Tho lotal number of persons klllod by wild animals and venomous snakes In tho ton divisions of Hongal during; the official year 188.r-8G was the high est in the last five years, and amount ed to 1 1.821!. As is usual, nine-tenths of these deaths wero caused by snakrs.. Hut of 12,223 buffaloes, oxen, horses and jinnies destroyed in this manner, only 1(11 wero killed by snakes. These annual returns do not take account of sheep, goats, pigs and monkeys, tho, destruction of which is very large. Tho hyena is credited with the destruction of 773 head of cattle. Boston Budget. MOURNING JEWELRY. A l'cw of tlm Mont purloin rreiiks In tha ,l'ulilona of Urlef. Tho strangest freak of all tho fashions of grief has boon tho wearing; of "mourning jewelry;" to demonstrate our Incnnsolablo lot, by a pi rtinont reference to it in our adornment, is surely paradoxical. I saw tho other day a "mourning ring" very interest ing in its quaint frivolity. A slender circle of gold hold an oblong disk of whilo enaniolcd surface, on which vros depicted tho tomb, tho weeping willow, and the visiting relative (In this case a. widow), all neatly placed under glass. It was un old, old ring, belonging to a. groat-grand mother, who wore It for lior first husband's memory, although, as sho survived two more, it may havo done londor memorial services for all three. Tho process which converts tho golden curl, tip) brown tress or tho gray hair of our lost ono Into "hair jowolrv" Is among tho curiosities of soiitlinont. Is it not cruel to woar a portion of our dead for oma niont? Surely tho wiry strand, rc pellunt und rigid, was never tho soft hair about tho "old familiar faces." t rememhor seeing some "mother's hair'1 woven Into tho design of anchors for ear-rlnjrs, and tho daughters wero Booming to derive comfort from tho light tossing of this omblem of security, and no doubt finding somo occult sat isfactory reason for tho incongruity ot design nnd fact. In our youth then clustered about us old maiden aunts wearing chains nnd bracelets of hair their stiffness seeming to testify to an unyielding sorrow, and their quantity that tho "doparlod" must have boon Samsons. Thou thero wero tho brooches with tho bulging serpentine twists of hulr forming a fruino for tho pictur ed face of ih J original pos ssor of tho hair 1111 uncertain appeal to frame, as tho exigencies of a brooch sometime subjected tho head to the vlclssltuda of holng'worn upside down, thus mar ring the act of would -bo respeolfui memory, Jewelry News.
