OREGON SCOUT.
JONES & CHANCEY, Publish era.
UNION. OR-K43 02V.
The Lick observatory will probably
bo completed by tho first of March.
Thk prohibition eloctions of this
year show a net loss of 47,408 votes.
Thk Hoobac tunnel is to bo lighted
by 1,250 incandescent lamps.
A kecknt trial in Japan between
German and English rails resulted in
British victory.
Tho first issue of nickel and silver
oinago in Franco will appear shortly,
amounting to 70,000,000 francs.
A niLij has been introduced in Con
gress to reduce tho rato of loiter post
age to one cent.
Tub average daily wages paid to
miners in tho anthracite coal regions
ia loss than $1 per day.
Thk first issuo of nickel and sdver
-oinago in Franco will appear shortly,
amounting to 70,000,000 francs.
Ad Epitome of the Principal Events
Ailracling Pablic Interest
Now
iTisBaid that out of tho 400,000,
000 inhabitants of tho Chinese Em
pire, fully 300,000,000 spend less than
$1,150 a month for food.
A Chicago physician has a collec
tion of Bevsral hundred bullets which
lio extracted from tho bodies of Union
soldiers who wcro shot during the war
Thk curvature of tho earth is such
that a straight lino a milo long would
bo 204 inches from the surface at
ither end.
Am Arctic owl was captured near
Piah Point, Maine, a fow days ago and
measured about six feot from tip to tit)
TIicbo are rare bin!?.
Thk Mexican government has gran
ted u subsidy of $1,000 a round trip to
a line of steamships botwecn Nuw
Tfork, Now Orleans and Vera Crur.
The kronen printers in itiebco aro
n etriko for nino hours per day and
liigher wages. They aro backed up by
-the K. of L. Bomo of tho French pa
pore have suspended publication.
The patchwork quilt presented to
Jenny Lind bv tho children of tho
United States was buried with her re
mains, in accordance with her oft-
xprcsBod desire.
to
Thk building lor thu ltamona In
dlun Girls' School at Santa Fe, N. M
omtnemorating Helen Hunt Jackson
will coat $150,000, being arranged
accommodate) 150 pupilH.
The latest craze among tlio girls
m hair album, mado up of locks from
tho heads of their gontlemon fr'.omk
This ia another thrust at bald-headed
son.
3Tivk hundred and ninoty-four bills
wore introduced in tho Senato in ono
Jay rocontly. This breaks tho record
So largo a numbor was never beforo
introduced in a single day.
In (ho primary schools of Stockton
Cal., tho boyB in tho two lowor cIiibsos
aro obliged to learn neodlowork just
tho hiuuo a tho little girls, so that
hereafter thoy can mako Binall ropaira
-for themsolvoa
Bktwkkk one and two million farm
eru m tho United States aro affected
by tho decision of tho United States
Bupromo Court that tho drive well
patent aro illegal on account of pri
rity of use.
nun. jonn jacon Astors remains
aro nightly guarded in Trinity ceme
tory, New iork city. Two guardB
parade around hor tomb every night
and Mr. Astor employs two detectives
to watch and guard against any possi
bility of tho remains being stolen.
Akvhka comprises moro than 65,000
nuaro miles. That portion of tho
province north of tho valley drained
by tho Yukon, and lying for tho moat
part beyond the Arctio circle has about
3,000 Etquimaux inhabitants, who
will not Biirvivo long tho presont rapid
disappearance of the walrus and tho
whalo. In tho groat valley of tho
Yukon nro a hundred villages, half on
thu river banks and a fifth on tho
delta, containing 0,870 people, all sav
ages nave ninotoon whites and eighteen
half brcedf. Tho Yukon is 2,000 miles
long, Miven miles wide 1,000 miles
from its mouth, and pours into tho
Behring sea a volume of water ono
third greater than tho Mississippi de
livers into tho Gulf of Mexico. The
lowor valloy of tho Kuskokvim river,
lying beyond tho mountains towards
tho Yukon delta, supports a population
of about 0,000, all savage save three
white mon.
Lord Stanley has accepted the Gov
ernor-Generalship of Canada.
Tho Englirh steamer Maude has
foundered in the Black sea. Twelve
men wcro drowned.
Emerson Littlefield, of Peoria, 111 ,
aged 19, whilo skating, wont into a
liolo and was drowned.
A revolt broko out on tho convict
ship Orno, bound for Cayenne, and
eleven of the leaders wcro shot.
An engine jumped tho track and
rau into New river, at Lynchburg, Va.
Tiio engineer was drowned at his post.
Tho house of Sam Love, colored, at
Chesterfield, S. C, was burned, and
two small children who were locked
inside, perished in tho flames.
Tramps were put off a froight train
at Palisade, Nev., and shortly after-
warus toe iroignt nouso was set on
tiro. Tho tramps aro suspected.
Harry Burton and an unknown man
wero killed, and several other work
men badly injured by the falling of
a bridge span at Cleveland, Ohio.
In a quarrel at Jackson, Miss., Mc
Willie Mitchel and Bob Whitoaides
wounded each other fatally, both dy
ing soon after tho affray.
At St. Paul tho newspapers have all
advanced tho pneo of composition
four cenlB per 1,000 emp, making
morning work 42 cents and ovening
37 cents.
The President sent to tho Senate
tho following appointments: Charles
V. Irish, Biirveyor-general of Nevada;
James Spoakloy of Pennsylvania, com
missioner to Alaska.
At Boulder, Col., Jeadoro Pierce, a
storekeeper, shot his wifo twice, in the
presence of their four children, and
then killed himtelf. Tho wifo ia fa
tally wounded.
Mrs. Sarah G. Ewing, an old lady
living near Shelbyville, Jnd., was at
tacked by hoga in her barn-yard while
milking, and partly devoured. Her
body whs not found until tho following
morning.
Details of tho wreck which occurred
on the N. Y., P. & O. It. It., near
Moadville, Pa., prove tho disaster to
have been a horrible one. Two engi
neers, two liromon and a passenger
were killed outright, and a scoro or
moro wero badly injured.
Two baggagemen and a mnil agent
wore killed by a train collision on tho
Cincinnati Southern It. It. near Groen
wood, Ky. Tho accident was caused
by tho conductor and ongineor mis
understanding thoir ordors.
Reports from Wilkesbarre, Pa., say
that by a premature blast four men j
wero killed and seven Boveroly woun-!
ded whilo at work on a now branch
lino of tho Lehigh Valloy railroad noar
Laurel Run.
Mrs. Ellon O'Neill, a widow, in com
pany with two of her children, ono a
blind girl, while walking on tho track
of tho Hudson rivor railroad, a Bhort
diatanco above lMiinobock station, N.
Y., wero struck by a locomotivo and
instantly killed.
Tho bark A. D. Snow wnB wrockod ot
tho entrance of Waterford harbor,
Ireland, by a hurricane, and hor orow
of twonty-fivo persons lost. Shu sailed
from ban I'rancisco on tho Sth of
August with a cargo of wheat valued
at $110,290. Tho vosael waa chartorod
by Win. Droabaoh.
An oxplosion of dynamite occurred
at a limeslono quarry near Brooktield,
IN. b., killing four mon, ono of them
boing Alexander McDonald, tho pro
prietor of tho quarry. Thoy wero
warming tho dynamite previous to
using it for a blast whon tho explosion
occurred.
A most torriblo accident occurred at
Forgotown, Ala., in which three per
sons wcro killed and thirty injured.
Tho colored B.iptists woio - holding a
festival in thoir church. So groat was
tho crowd that tho lloor gave way and
tho building collapsed. A scene of
terror ensued. Marv Allison and Mrs.
Jones and hor child woro taken from
the wreck dead. .
At Macon, Ga., a man named Na
than Reid, who did not live happily
with his wifo, brutally murdered his
wholo family and then committed sui
cide. Ho sent a half-grown boy, who
lived with him, after tho doctor." When
the doctor and boy returned thoy found
the cabin a heap of smoking ruins and
in them tho charred bodies of Reid's
wifo and thoir six children. Further
search of tho premises disclosed Hoid's
body in a well with his throat cut.
Tho children of Mr. and Mrs. O. O.
White, of Morrison, 111. Lillio, aged
twelve: George, aged fifteen, . and
Charles, aged eight wero playing with
thoir sleds on the thin ice on Hock
Creek, when Charles broko through.
George ran to his assistance, and in
na etlorts to retfouo tho drowning boy
ho also wont under tho ice. Tin ir s is
tor Lillio then mado a frmtio attempt
to Bavo hor two brothers, and all three
wero drowned.
A special from St. Francis, Ark.,
says: Win. Herng, a wealthy planter,
ins for soino time past been jealous of
attentions paid his wife by Win.
Matthowson, and ho forbade him to
como to tho hoiue. Matthewsou called
and invited Mrs. Herrig to take a
rive. While tho woman was cot tine
ready Herrig shot and killed Matthow-
Bon, and then forced his wife to drive
Matthowson's house with tho dead
Mdy. On her return alio found her
homo in Hamce, and was shot and
killed by her husband. Herrig then
ed. Mrs. Herrig was formerly an
aolreBS in Paulino Markhain's com-
any, and later was in W. H. Lvtlo's
combination,
CONGRESSIONAL.
Legislation Pertaiuinj to the Interest
of the Pacific Coast
HK.VATK.
Among petitions presented was ono
by Blair, in favor of a national pro
hibitory amendment., and one by Hoar
against admission of Utah as a' state
to long as its power is in tho hands of
the Mormon priesthood.
Dawes, from tho Committee on In
dian Affairs, reported bills to provide
for cumpulsory education of Indian
children, and in relation to marriage
between white men and Indian women.
Among the bills introduced wero tho
following :
By Piatt For tho formation and
admission into tho Union of the Str.te
of North Dakota.
Mitchell called up tho joint resolu
tion introduced by him for tho ap
pointment of a commission to select
a site for a naval station on tho Pacific
coast, addressed tho Senate in advo'
cacy of it. It was referred to tne
N.ival Affairs Committee.
Tho joint resolution make? it the
duty of tho commission to examine
tho coast north of tho forty-second
parallel of north latitude, in Oregon,
Washington and Alaska, and to select
a suitable Bite, having due regard to
tho commercial and naval necessities
of that coast, for a navy yard, and
mako a-full aud detailed report to tho
Secretary of the Navy, to be by him
reported to Congress. Mitchell said
that while $58,000,000 had been spent
forjiavy y irds and naval stations, of
which am unt only 5 per cent, has
been expended west of the Alleghany
mountains, thero was only one navy
yard on the coast, on which about $3,
has been expended. One establish
ment, no matter how well exuipped,
was wholly inadequate tc meet, the
wantB of tho country on the Pacific I
ocean. Ho contrasted the indifference
or criminal neglect of the United
States government on tho subject of
naval establishment with the caro
given by the British, French, Russian,
Itali n and German governments to
tho building up of great naval eatab-
liahmonta. It ia not safo to act on the
theory that this country could, when-
over occasion roe, provide for it. The
rapid environment of the Pacific coast
by Important military and naval es
tablishments, representing British in
fluence and British power, and military
occupation by Great Britain of islands
in tho Pacific ocean, was of itself a
subject which ought to arrest the at
tention of tho American people, and
prompt tho government to such speedy
and effective action as should be a
fitting response to this formidable ex
tension of British power. The wholo
country, north and west, was in fact
environed and menacod by a cordon
of British military and naval establish
ments, und bv lines of British railroad
and steamships, which, in tho event
of war between Great Britain and the
United States, would give tho former
immenso advantages. These forces
would fall with unimpeded and re
lentless power upon the people, indus
tries and commerce of tho northwest
ern Pacific coast. Orcgon,Washington
and Alaska, with all their limitless
resources unprotected, would become
tho sport and toy ot Groat Britain.
Dolph said that Puget Sound pos
sesacd all tho advantages that could
ho found for a first-class naval station.
Tho importance of tho subject should
not be underestimated. His colleague
had reforred to British influence in
tho Hawaiian islands, out tho United
States cannot permit thoso islands to
pass under control of any European
power, because their possesion by any
modern naval power would give to
that power control not only over the
Pacific commorco of the United States
but also over its world-wide commerce.
Wo cannot afford to allow foreign con
quests and acquisitiona to be carried
to our very doors. If wo do, wo shall )
abdicato the position which our power,
our independence, our wealth and our
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California,
A furniture factory at Los Angeles
was destroyed by lire, loss $125,000.
Martin Hanson, living near Mos
cow, Idaho, committed suicide with
a rifle.
At San Francisco Thomas Adams,
a waiter, was shot and mortally woun
ded by Martin J. Galvin.
A bill has been introduced in the
Wnshington Territory Legislature to
abolish the uso of seals on legal doc
uments. A hotel barn at Milford, Cal., was
burned, with ono man .and twenty-ono
horees. Tho loss is $15,000. The fire
was the work of an incendiary.
Fuller, who killed Archbishop Seg
hers in Alaska, has been found guilty
of manslaughter and sentenced to im
prisonment in tho United States peni
tentiary for ten years and to pay a
fine of $1,000. Tho court has re
quest d that an order bo issued by tho
department of justice to have Fuller
confined in the prison on McNeil's
island.
Ad am Routh, who lives on the
Weippe, near Lewisbon, Idaho, went
hunting and succeeded in killing a
largo bear and a deer. He left them
in tho woods until next morning. On
his arrival where he had left them, he
found three large cougars in possession
of the bear and der, devouring the
same. This mado littlo Frenchman
angry, and with his Winchester rifle
he commenced lir.u i at thoin and
killed all three and took them home
with him.
A very snd incident occurred
Juneau, Alaska, recently. Mrs. liar
ding, an elderly lady resining at that
place, was taken sick with pneumonia
and went to Port lo.vnsond. W.
for treatment. She improved and
Btarttd homo, and on the way up had
a relapse. Shortly after her arrival
at Juneau she died. In duo time the
funeral occurred, the body being fol
lowed to tne grave by a number
friends on foot. Miss Harding, the
deceased s twenty-one year-old dauirl
ter led the procession, and just as tho
graveyard was reached she fell dead
upon the coflin containing tho remains
of her mother. Heart diseake was the
cause.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
at beattle. A force of men wero en
gaged driving a line of piles south of
tlie Uregon Improvement Company'
mills, and wero at work about 400
yards south of the mill when the boiler
suddenly exploded, blowing tho house
engine and boiler into ten thousand
pieces, and covering tho bay with de
bris for 100 yards in all directions. Of
tho half dozen or more men at work
on the driver, not ono was instantly
killed, though one was blown 150 yards
ini3 me water, and was rescue! by
boats. James Livingstone died from
his injuries thren hburs after tho ex
plosion. J. II. Wyman, Win. Drlscoll
and F. McPherson were injured.
Juneau, Alaska, is on tho mainland
150 miles north of Sitka, and is the
distiibuting point for the Yukon and
other mining districts of the interior,
It has a floating population from 800
to 1,600. It has now a small church
a hospital and a school, conducted by
tho sistors of St. Ann, who went thero
in October, 188(5. The new hospital
is a line structure, 4Ux-IU and two sto
ries high, and will accommodate twen
ty-hvo patients. Tho old hospital
building is used for a school. The
chapel is a small building. 22x40, with
apartments in tho rear for the priest
Douglas island, on which is located
the great Tread well mine and stain r
nulls, lies oil the coast about three
miles. Tho hospital at Juneau is a
great boon to the poor miners in that
isolated rogmn.
OKKUO.V.
Mrs. Mary Clark has been appointed
location permit tie to retain among tho POrtmiatreuH at 1 engra, Crook county
.. -i X'.,i :i xi :.. i i
nations of the earth.
Tho joint resolution was n forred to
the Committee on Naval A flairs.
By Dolph To provide for payment
ol claims for damages by Iudiau dep
redations, llo said thero were some
4,500 such claims, abrogating some1
$14,000,000 or $15,000,000.
By Hoar To provide for a world's
exposition at tho national capital in t
1SU2, and thereafter a permanent ex-1
position of tho three Americas in
honor of tho 400th anniversary of tho
discovery of Ainoritta. Referred to
tho select committee on centennial
celebrations.
By Dawes To establish a postal
telegraph system.
no list:.
nas oeen ap
at jtoyai, a,ano
Representative Hermann will in
troduce in the Hoiiku a number of
bills as follows :
Appropriating $1,300,000 for con
tinuing improvements at 'ho mouth
of tho Columbia river; $750,000 for
work on the canal aud locks at the
Cascades; $250,000 for improvements
at Yaquina bay; $100,000 for improve
ments at Coos bay; $10,000 for tho
improvement of tho Umpqua riyor;
$50,000 for constructing a boat railway
at Tho Dalles.
To authorize Tho Dalles city to con
struct a bridge across tho Columbia.
To authorize tho Columbia Bridgo
Company to build a bridge across tho
Columbia between Oregon ami Wash
ington Territory.
Establishing a lighthoiuo at the
mouth of tho Coquillo.
Appropriating $10,000 for payment
of Oregon Indian war claims.
lo establish u hfc-saving statiou at
Yaquina bay.
Nathaniel Martin
pointed postmaster
county.
In Oregon thero aro 2,593.020 sheep,
I lns h more than double tho number
of all ow England.
This year Ooivallis will erect a build.
ing for a public school, costing $25,000
and Uenton county will t nct a court
house at that place costing $40,000.
Astoria statistics for 1SS7 : Polieo
mado 30-1 arrests; 87 deaths: 121
births; 111 marriages; 17 lire alarms ;
150 men declared .their intention be
foro tho County Clerk to become nat
unitized citizens.
A shooting affray occurred in dies
man's 6toro, at Alsea, between Leo Rv-
cratt and il. u. Myers, which will
probably prove fatal to Myers. A dis
pute occurred over a gamo of cards,
wnon Myers drew a kmfo and at
tempted to stab Rycraft.
A most shocking accident resulting
in the burning to death of two chil
dren of John Ralston, occurred at
Lebanon. A littlo boy aged 0 and a
girl aged 7 wero bathing in a bath
room ; whilo Mrs. Ralston waa gone
after a towel, tho lamp either oxploded
or fell ofV tho table. When tho mother
returned ami opened tho door she.
found tho room in flames and tho two
children behind tho door. Tho room
was small and tho children could only
get out by climbing over tho bath tub,
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wmcn inoy attempted to do, when tho
littlo girl fell down in tho tub, and tho
bravo littlo lad stopped to assist her
whilo tho Humes wero burning his na
ked flesh. Tho frantic mothor was
toriotisly burnod in gotting tho club
dron from tho room. Tho littlo boy
died tit 2 o'clock, and tho littlo girl a
fow hours later. The houso was badly
damagod.
A STORY OF 1770.
How a Cnntlnrntal Soldier Dlmipprnred In
a Clnud orSinnkr.
Night had set in, and in a small hut,
a few miles from Trenton, N. J., sat
five men, four of whom were seated
around an old oaken table in tho center
of the room, engaged in playing cards,
whilo thev frequently moistened their
throats from an earthen jug that stood
on tho table.
They wore heavy-bearded, coar.c
looking men. and, from their dress,
which somuwhat resembled the British
uniform, they were evidently Tories.
Tho other was astont-builtyoungmaii,
clad in the centennial uniform. He
sat in one corner of tho room with Ids
face buried in his hands.
"Tom," said one of the Tories, rising
from tho table and seating himself
near the young prisoner, for such ho
evidently was, "Tom, you aud I wcro
schoolboys together, and I love you
yet. xsow, why can t you give up
your wild notions and join us? Ion
are our prisoner, and if you don't we
shall hand you over to headquarters to
morrow; while, if you join us, your for
tune is made; for, with your bravery
and talents, you will soon distinguish
yourself in the royal army, and after the
rebellion is crushed out your course shall
bo rewarded by knighthood and promo
tion in the army. Now, there are two
alternatives; which do you choose?
. . XT . t
jn either, saitt the young man,
raising his head and looking the Tory
steadily m the ej-e.
"I am now, as you say, your prison
cr, but when the clock strikes twelve I
shall disappear in a cloud of lire and
smoke, and neither you nor your com
rades, nor even myself can prevent it
i on may watch me as closely as you
please, tie me hand and foot if you
...i .......
win, Dili a Higher power than yours or
mine has ordained that I shall leave
you at that time."
"Poor fellow! hw mind wanders,"
said tho Tory; "he'll talk differently in
tho morning." And he returned to his
seat at the table, leavii.?; the youth
with his head again resting on his
hands.
When the. clock struck eleven the
young prisoner drew a pipe and some
tobacco from his pocket and asked the
Tory leader if he had any objections to
his smoking. "None in the least," he
said, adding with a laugh, "that is, if
you will promise not t disappear in a
cloud of tobacco smoke."
The young man made no reply, but
immediately filled his pipe, having
done which he commenced pacing tho
lloor.
lie took half a dozen turns up and
down each side of the room, approach
ing nearer the table each time, when,
having exhausted his pipe, he returned
to his seat and refilled it.
lie continued to smoke until tho
clock struck twelve, when ho arose
from his seat, and slowly knocking tho
ashes out of his pipe, said:
"Thero, boys, it is twelve o'clock,
and I must leave you. Good-bye!"
Immediately all round tho room
were scon streaks of lire hissing and
squirming; the cabin was filled with
dense sulphurous smoke, amidst which
was heard a clap of thunder. The
Tories sat in their chairs paralyzed
with fright.
Tho smoke cleared away, but, tho
prisoner was nowhere to bo seen. The
tables were overturned, the windows
smashed to pieces, and one chair was
lying on tho ground ouuido the
build i n r.
The Tory leader, after recovering
from his stupor, gave ono glance
around the room and sprang out of tho
window, followed by his comrades.
Jiey rau through the forest at the ton
1 their ,peid in the direction of th
British encampment, leaving their
muskets and other arms to the morcv
of the tlanies, which had now bojnin to
devour the cabin.
I ho next day two young men dressed
in centennial uniform wero seen stand
ing near tho ruins of the old cabin.
Ono was our prisoner of tho night
previous. "Let us hear all about it.
loin, said the other.
Well,' said ho, Inst evening as I
was passing this place two lories ran
out of the cabin and took pns-ci-sion of
me. licforo I could mako any resist
unci- iiiey iook me m ami who io yon
suppo-e I saw as leader of their party
nut .loan isurton, our old schoolmate!
He talked H'J'J' ino and tried to induce
no to join them, but I told him I
ouldn'l do it; that at twelve o'clock I
was going to escape, disappear in a
cloud of lire and smoke, but he laughed
at me and said 1 was out of my head.
About eleven o clock 1 asked him if I
might smoke. Ho said he had no ob
jection, so I tilled my pipe and lighted
it, anil commenced walking tho lloor.
I had about a pound of gunpowder in
my pocket, and as I walked I strewed
it all over the lloor. When tho clock
struck twelve I bade them rood-bve.
ami told thorn 1 had to iro: mid then
knocking the ashes out of my pipe, the
powder ignited and a dazzling llamo of
tiro shot across, around, and all oyur
the room, tilling it with suffocatinr
smoke. Huforo it cleared away I hurled
chair through tho window, spranjroiit
and departed, leaving them to thoir
own reflections. You know tho resu"
lioston Traveller.
TARTAR BOYCOTTERS.
How Mongolian Laborer 111 the Crimen
Urlvn Out Orrinnn Fnrmcrn.
I should not for a moment imagine
that the Crim Tartars have learned
much of tho Irish agrarian science of
boycotting through tho channels of the
Russian press, as tho Russian vernacu
lar is only very imperfectly understood
among them. Yet they have devel
oped during recent years a system of
boycotting the German proprietors iij
the Crimea, which appears to have
been highly successful. Tho lands
formerly apportioned by the crown to
thirty thousand Tartars in the Crimean
peninsula have through the nomadic
habits and ignorance of these people
been gradually und easily acquired by
the princely and other large proprietor
for what may, in these instances, ba
very appropriately termed old songs.
These lands have been subleased, in
most cases to the ubiquitous and enter
prising Germans. AH thoso ostites
tire worked by Tartar labor, and s
long as the proprietor was there or a
descendant of ono of the old Tartar
chieftain families things went smooth
ly. A German agriculturist with capi
tal a few years ago discovered in these
broad tracts and cheap bargains a
promising field for enterprise, with the
prospect never absent from the Russo
Gerniau's visions gradually ousting"
and supplanting the native. This, how
ever, required time, but tho German,
reckoned on the long-suffering patience
of tho industrious, sober, ignorant and
stolid-looking Mongolian laborer. The
result has proved the German proprie
tor to have been a long way out of his
sanguine reckoning. n many eases
he acquired estates covering areas of
from fifty thousand to two hundred
thousand acres, but the entry of the
German into possession of his estates
was the signal for a rapid migration of
every Tartar laborer and herdsman.
The Tartar proprietors, who wero his
neighbors, refused the services of their
horses, oxen and camels at any price,
no matter how tempting. The store
keepers in the neighboring towns and
fairs would not supply the GernianV
wants. This Tartar boycotting has
now succeeded in driving tho greater
number of the German proprietors to
abandon their estates and holdings at
ruinous losses. The Governor of the
district has now submitted a project to
the imperial Government for thu re
purchase of these lands and their di
vision among the Tartars. It is further
proposed that in addition to these
crown grants of small holdings to some
twenty-live thousand Tartars the Gov
ernment shall in all necessitous eases
supply each Tartar family with a fow
necessary agricultural implements and
a yoke of oxen. There is little doubt
that this project will not be accepted
by thu Government. London Duilij
Acivn.
FAMOUS
Annrdotex of I.IhzI
ito'ilnl,
Mi'jcr and (l..irrK
PIANISTS.
I.t'opold dor
-Mr. Humpiis "I saw y.ui taking a
horseback rido this morning. Your
own horso." Mr. Wiitanus "No:
nly a 1 ivory hack." "He looked like
a vory lino charger. "bo l thought
until I paid the bill. Thou the ownr
uf th stable cast him all in thu shade."
irer's llasar.
, .
Raw Tomutoo.-. Skin tho toma-
tous by putting tho.ni in scalding watv:
for a minute, allow to cool, cut iutc
Micas and squeeze, a goed lemon ovct
Uuuu. UostoH Bud'jd.
Io genius we allow many special
privileges; "artists," of whatever ilk.
claim eccentricity and caprieiousnoss
as a birthright, with which they may or
may not choose to divert thcnis-elves.
Famous opera singers lead tho world
forcapriciousnes:s; not far behind them
comes the great Liszt, of whom and
other eminent pianists and composers.
r. S. baltus gossins as follows:
Pianists, as a rule, are good nafnrod:
Von Bulow is the exception, fur there
muM be one.
Liszt will probably rank with Chopin
nd Rubinstein as the greatest pianist.
of the century. lie was a great deal of
a poseur, aud was a wit. too; but onoo
he met his match and succumbed. The
match was that terrible, sarcastic Ital
ian, Rossini. One night at a parly in
Paris a lady went to tho maestro and
said: "You sec your friend Liszt over
there? Well, ho has refuted to play
for ail the ladies, and you must mm
your inllucuce." "Mada'm." said Ros
sini, "ho will play." Then, in a loud
voice, m that every body in the roont
could hear him, the author of "Har
biere" cried out: "Kh! Ami Liszt,
please give us your usual improvisa
tion." Liszt played. He had a habit
of learning some terribly dillieult n:or
ccau and then making out it was com
posed on the spur of the moment.
Hoini was a superb pianist, him
self, and so was Meyerbeer. One day
a pianist called on Rossini and asked
hin to listen to two pieces he had com
posed. Rossini consented, and when
he had finished the first piece ho said:
"I like tho other one bust."
Leopold lie Meyer was full of fun,
too. Ono day in a parlor he went to
tho piano and played a dillieult pas
sage, saying, "rhalberg does that
better than I do." Then ho r!Lvn :..
liilictilt trill, adding, "RMSsellan can
beat mo on that, but horn is soinethin"-
neither of them can do," aud ho turned
a handspring.
Mot competent judges say the com
ing pianist is Carlos Sobrino. Uir
surely is a marvel in every way. Tho
king of living pianists." Rubinstein.
honored Sobrino when in Madrid bv
choosing him to play with him. "ot
e'est tout dire."
The dreamer pianist, Gottsehalk, will
not bo forgotten. I'his Creole sound
poet passed like a brilliant meteor in
the musical sky, and for a peculiar
Orientalism apd voluptuous languor
will novor bo equaled American Mu
t.cinu.
Lady (to fond niaiiiinal "O. thn
littlo boy will improve as ho grown
older." Foml Miiimim "His papa
gous out of patiencu with him! Ho in
tends to educate him. as he will m
good for nothing olsu." Judge.
,i
Tho Red rivor froze over at Win
nipeg this year uarlior than at any
tinnj within sevouteon yours.