The Oregon scout., May 11, 1888, Image 6

OREGON SCOUT
JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers.
Angi,ki:b now fish by electricity.
small battery is attached to tho rod
and near tlio hook ia a small electric
light. Tho fisherman lights up his
lamp and the unueual phenomen at
tracts tho fish. Tho baited hook does
tho rest.
The best conductors of olectrieity
are silver, copper, gold, zinc, platinum
iron, tin. Tho poorest conductors aro
dry air, ebonite, paraflino, resin, sul
phur, scaling wax, glass, silk, wool
dry paper, porcelain.
IIehe's another good argument for
takine tho tax off Df tobacco. A Mis
0
eouri wretch fired a pistol at a passen
ner train near Kich Hill, and tho bal
hit a passenger. It would havo made
a serious if not. fatal wound but for the
fact that ho had a plug of chewing to
W.cn in his vest nocket. Tho bullet
etruck tho plug, and was Hiub stopped
in its course.
A citizen of Orlando, Flo., has
dog that accompanies him everywhere
oven to church. One Sunday tho
owner concluded to break tho canine
of his church-i:oimr habits and or
dered him home. Tho dog retroatod
until his master was out of sight, thon
nromntlv turned buck, entered an-
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other church and remained until tho
service was over.
Jin. Ghaio, of Now York, under
took to drive a oat out of a enfo. Tho
contract was a biggor ono than ho
could fulfill without assistance. Tho
cat jumpod at him, bit him in tho face,
caught tho lappolof his coat, scratched
his .chin, check and nock, and bit his
left wriBt though to tho bono. Tho
waiter had to pull tho infuriated ani
mal off.
Dn. Julius Pohlman thinks tho
reason why our tooth decay so fast is
bocauso wo do not uso thorn enough,
mid, like other orgnns that aro not ox
crciecd, thoy tend to atrophy. Our
teeth become week bocauso unused to
hard work. Tho author warns mothers
and nursos not to givo tho children
eoft food, if they would havo thorn
liavo good tcoth in othor words, make
thorn cat their crusts.
TELEGRAPHIC. ( . COAST CULLINGS.
Ad
Epitome of the Principal Events
Attracting Public Interest
Now
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and .California.
CONGRESSIONAL. j OREGON NEWS.
Legislation Pertaining to the Interest
of the Pacific Coast
Andrew Biebel and Mary Hcnn
were drowned while crossing Grow
river in a boat at Delano, Mich.
Tho factory and warehouse of the
Eau Clniro Sash & Door Company, at
Eau Claire, Wis., burned. Loss, $100,
000 ; insurance, $00,000.
Hear-Admiral Charles Stewart Baggs
died at New Brunswick, N. J., of par-
alysis and general debility. Ho loaves
a widow. I
James Cummings, manager of the I
commercial agency, committed sui-
cido at Dayton, Ohio, by shooting. He!
had been dealing heavily at bucket-
shops, a
C. S. Wcrtmcr, known as a crack
pigeon shot, has absconded with $15000
belonging to tho Waverly Building
Association, of which ho was tho secretary.
Will English, colored, living in Bon-
ham, Texas, stabbed his wifo near the
heart thrco times. Ho thon stabbed
himself in several places, indicting
fatal injuries. Tho cause was jeal
ousy.
William Bullock, an employe of
tho West Shoro railroad at Newark,
Wayne county, Now York, shot Ihb
wifo .'our times with a revolver, killing
her instantly. Ho then shot himsolf,
inflicting a fatal wound.
A serious cutting affray took plnce
in tho suburbs of Fort Smith, Ark.
A six-pound shad was caught at II
waeo, at the mouth of the Columbia.
Gavin Duncan, a young sailor on the
British ship Bhotan, fell from the rig
ging to the deck, a distance of thirty
feet, at San Francisco, and was killed.
1. B. Barrett, of Falls City, Cal., be
came insane and got away from friends
and drowned himself in his own well.
Ho leaves a wifo and four children.
Charles E. Bcvan, a young mer
chant of Wheatland. Cal.. shot and
the
NK STATU.
The house bill for tho relief cf
i irst iNaiionai ij.iiik oi l'omand, nj-
propriatmg ozi) for money advanced
to tho contractor for buildintr
...n. :.. -lorr. rn .
revenue cutter m lo.o ib, was taken
for the calendar, amended by adding
several items lor ship carpenters, etc.,
in connection with tho same contract,
and passed.
Tho conference report on tho house
joint resolution accepting tho invita
killed himself. Business
wero tho causo of the siiicide.
Henry II. Lindenburger, 21 years
of age, and a salesman in San Fran
cisco, Cal., took poison and died. He
had been sick and despondent.
Tho gieat Montezuma, Col., irriga
ting tunnel, which will reclaim 200,000
acres of land, is completed. It is over
a mile long, running under one of the
ranges of tho Kocky mountains. The
tunnel and fifty miles of canal will tap
tho waters of the Dolores river.
,rouj)iC8 tion of the French republic to take
i jjuri, in uiu iiiiuiuiiuuinu exposition in
I fans, was agreed to. It fixes the ap
propriation at $250,000.
Tho senate passed a numberof pub
lic building bills, among which was a
bill appropriating $50,000 for a public
uuiiding at Moulder, Colorado
Tho house bill forbidding tho mak
ing (in Washington and Georgetown)
of "books" or "pools" on the results of
trotting or running races, or boat
j races, or baseball, was passed.
T'nfnt TlnrLrrt ttrna anfiniiultr wmiimIcwI t
at Sentinel, A. T.,bya Mexican named TP w commence jiuiic.ai pro
nnnliiwrf rwv.iim. il... XI... 11.
tega. During a (Hiarrel l'" "K'11"3" u,c union j.aoim
By Anderson Directing tho attor
1 pro.
acilic
education
railroad company
llie senate committee on
Tei.ki'HONIO communioation can bo
carried on botweon ships at sea by
means of a sound-producing appara
tus attached to each vessol, to bo
worked under the surfaco of tho wator,
Each vessel also has a sound-receiving
apparatus to tako signals. Intelligible
f ignals could bo produced by this ap
pnralus which would bo transmitted
throuuh tho water in all directions
with considerable volocity.
Lizzie Fosoy, a lowd woman, stabbed
Josie Martin in tho breast fatally for
appearing against her in tho Police
court. Mrs. Posey is in jail, and Josie
Martin will die.
Phillip Held, a young fanner livinir
fourteon miles west of Lemars, Iowa,
shot and instantly killed his mother,
and shortly afterward committed sui
cide The troublo which existed for
somo tunc in tho family culminated
in a Equabblo over selling a horse.
Hardy Posy, colored, was lynched at
Bessemer, Alabama, for an attempt to
rape a girl 15 years of age. Tho town
is surrounded by armed negroes, who
threaten to burn tho houses and kill
tho citizens to avongo the lynching of
Posey.
Seven children in less than two
years is the record of Airs, l'hoobe
ynch, of Soymour, Ind., who eigh
teen months ago gave biith to triplets,
and who to-day is tho mother of two
boys and two girls. All seven, with
their mother, aro alivo nd well.
Tho abolition of slavery in Brazil
is progressing witn great rapidity.
Hundreds of thousands who were
slaves havo been froed in tho past few
years, and it is proposed to set a fixed
nd early day when slavery shall
coaEO.
Uastillo Urlega. uuritig
both drew revolvers., each shooting the
slightly hurt, and it is thought that I ? ;nd, 'or, ordered favorable reports on
H.frL-o will ,,.P ! lhe following : Senator Blair's bill to
. , ' , . , , ... , ' restrict the sale of opium in the dis
Domingo Solar was shot and killed j trict of Columbia and the territories;
oy james uacuartny at a wooci ration , hmjB0 bi, k) estllblifm H department of
in the southeastern part of Virginia lab 8eimto joint resolution propos-
V - V Vr V" .X . mm i . ' lntf ,U1 amendment to the constitution
y. iui muHUHj- nmucu. xi.u mnuj ForGver I)r0 . , , ,l. mit,1IIf!infro
importation, exportation and sale of
John II. Coumhk, living on tho Ock
lawaha lliver, Flu., Bhot an alligator
over eight feet long. Opening it out
of curiosity, ho was surpiised to find
snugly onsconced therein, a water
snake about a foot long, and olevuu
young snakes. The reptiles had ovi
duntly been in their novel homo somo
time, as tho liver of tho alligator was
six inches out of its normal position
and was flattened out in places by tho
continued pressure of tho snakes.
The family of a Georgian wero
awakened the othor night by a groat
noise under tho houso which shook
violently. At first thoy wero sure that
an oaithquako was in progress, but in
vostigation with a lantern showed that
u cow was under tho liouso. llowsho
got there was a mystery, as sho could
not stand upright. It was her horns
and back that mndo tho noiso and
fthook tho liouso. Tho housoholder
liad to got a pick and spado and dig a
ditch, in which the cow walked out
Mktai.r may bo platinized by a now
and cheap process in which tho met
allic objoct iB covered with a mixture
of borate of lead, oxido of coppor and
spirits of turpentine, and submitted to
a tomporaturo of from 250 dog. to 330
dcg. This doposit, upon molting,
spreads in a uniform layer over tho
objoct. Thon a second coat is laid on,
consisting of borato of lead, oxido of
coppor and oil of lavender. Next, by
means of a brush, tho object is covered
with a solution of chloride of plati
num, which is finally ovaporatovl of n
tomporaturo of not mora than 200 dog.
TJio platinum adheres firmly to tho
aurfaco and exhibits a brilliant aspect.
11 tho doposit bo made upon fho first
coat tho platinum will havo n dead aj
peanmco. Platinizing in this way
costs, it is said, about ouo-tonth the
Jirico of nickel-plating.
The world breaks tho heart ol
Its boat bouefaotor. and thon, aftor
many days, builds thorn sopulchors.
If you would rnlso tho ago in which
you lire, you must Uro nboTo it, ami
to Uro above it is to bo mUundor
Jitsod, porlmps persecuted.
Dexter, tho famous trotter, died at
tho stable of Kobort Bonner, in Now
York. Ho was thirty years old. He
died of old ago and exhaustion. Dex
ter was tho groatest trotter of his day.
He was the first horse to trot a mile in
2:17.
John Bogard, 10 yoars old, pleaded
guilty at Kansas City, Mo., to murder
in tho first degree Ho was sentenced
to be hanged. Bogard held the hands
of James Weir, at Indopondenco, Mo.,
last January, whilo Charles E. Moyor
struck him on tho head, killing him.
Moyor was tried last wcok, convicted
and sentenced to bo hanged.
Capt. Bainon Arguillcs, of tho Mex ican
army, and Adolfo Towesa, clork i
in tho Mexican national railway '
ollicc.s, quarreled in a restaurant At
New Laredo, Mexico. At a meeting
subsequently, Arguilles shot Towesa,
wounding him in tho groin. Tho hit-.
tor returned tho fire, killing his an tag-.
omst. !
Policeman Clancy found a man
named Chester Williams lying appar
ently dead on the back porch of a
hovel in bouth llelona, Ark. Ilia
head was fearfully bruised oithor by a
club or sand bag. Ho was taken to
tho station houso, and was partiallv
restored to sonsibility. Ho says whilo
ho was walking along tho loveo a man
ran up to him and knocked him in tho
head.
At a pravor mooting at a colored
church in Berkeley county, S. C, two
young mon got into a row about a
girl. Thoy broko tho meeting up.
Tho prcachors and church otlleors at
tempted to quiot tho quarreling mon,
but they did not succeed. Ono of tho
mon, named Brown, drew a pistol and
new tho brain of lus antagonist,
lliehardson, out right in the ohurch
building. Tho murderer has boon ar
rested and jailed.
A duel botweon women occurrod on
tho Island of Corsica. Tho two vira
goes concorncd woro named Frances-
ca Forluuali and Bonoita Pat-qualini.
A long and bitter hatred existed bo
tweon thorn, and during a quarrel thov
agreed that ono must dio. Stilettos
woro tho weapons employed, and they
woro plied with mad energy and rap.
titty. Alter a Bhort and sharp strug
gle Bonoita Pasquilini foil, stricken
through tho heart with hor adversary's
stiletto.
is but 17, but has served two years in
state prison for arson. I
A horrible accident occurred near1
Bodega, Cal. John II. Miller was en
gaged in mowing hay, and had cau
tioned his children against tunning
through tho clover in front of the
mower. Later in tho day his three-year-old
child playfully attempted to
run in front of tho machine, when it
was caught by tho knife, and both
legs woro instantly severed from tho
body.
A wagon and team containing M.
Fay, his wife, daughter and baby, Mrs.
J. Sissell ami Mrs. E. Itoohe, broke
through a bridge over the flume of the
Montezuma Mining Company, near
Callnhans, Cal. The llumo was run
ning full of water, and the current was
very swift. Mr. Fay and Mrs. lioche
fell outside tho llumo and were unin
jured. Mrs. Fay, Mrs. Sissoll and the
baby, together with the hoises and
wagon, wont through tho flume about
a third of a milo. Tho baby was
drowned. Mrs. Fay and Mrs. Sissell
were both rescued, though they aro
badly bruised.
The Yaqui Indians are now at wnr
with tho Mexican federal forces in
Sonora. They are fortifying different
places and making a determined
stand against tho troops. Afewdnysj
ago Maj. Enoiso and Lieut. Villareal,'
with two columns of federals, attacked !
tho Indians in a strongly fortified posi-1
lion in the Ainalaguaca mountains, 1
near tho town of Aguaverdo. A ties-1
perato fight ensued, but tho federals,
after a number of charges, routed the1
Indians from their fortification, killing
seventeen and wounding a largo mini i
her. Tho federal forces had ono man j
killed and sovoial wounded.
Win. Holmes, son of A. T. Holmes, ,
of Eborton, met with an unfortunate
and painful accident, which, while not I
necessarily fatal, will cripple him for.
life. Ho was out hunting in the i
mountains noar Palouse, W. T., with I
a rillo, when by somo means not I
learned here, his gun was discharged, !
tho bullet passing through both leg 1
at tho knees, and blowing ono of the
kneo-eaps oil.
spirituous liquors in tho United States,
ilOUHK.
Tho committoo on elections sub
mitted its report in the case of Frank
vs. Glover, from tho Ninth Congres
sional district of Missouri. It finds
the contosteo, Glover, entitled to the
so.it; placed on the calendar.
Bills were reported and placed upon
tho calendar for the erection cf a pub
lie building at Cheyenne, Wyo., and
increasing tho appropiiation for the
purchase of a site for the public build
ing at San Francisco.
A resolution providing for investi
gating the strike of the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad was re
ported, and referred to the committee
of tho whole.
The senate bill granting a pension
to tho widow of Gen. Jams B. Rick
ets, was amended to $75 per month,
and was pasted.
Under tho call of States, Dunn in
introduced a resolution, directing the
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries to investigate the fur seal
fisheries of Alaska, and all contracts
by tho government for the taking of
fur seals. Tho committee is also di
rected to investigate and report upon
the nature and extent of tho riehts
and interests of the United States in
fur seal and other fisheries in Behring
sea, and whether any legislation is
necessary for better protection and
preservation of such rights and inter
ests. Also a resolution calling on the
secretary of tho treasury for informa
tion relativo to fur seal fisheries in
Ala ska.
By Morrow To execute certain
treaty stipulations piohibiting Chineso
immigration. Also authorizing tho
secretary of tho navy to mako surveys
in tho Pacific ocean to determine the
extent and position of d-ingurs in the
track of commerce and navigation;
and for tho purpose of ascertaining
proper locations for submariuo tele
graph cables.
The houso passed tho bill for relief
of tho Omaha tr.be of Indians in Ne-
Ho was brought to his. l)ka, and to extend the time of pay
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.
ment to
Indians.
Butter
Fancy roll. I?
Oregon ,
lU i Inl'ip!nr (rrnt
homo mid ovorything possible done
for him, but tho nature of tho wounds
renders it certain that it will bo im
possible to do moro than preserve the
use of ono leg.
Thomas Treste, of Chico, Cal., aged
i J. years, some nvo weeKs ago havmg; Inferior grade
uuricii ins wue, married iuomo tnvot- I'n-Kiea
foul, who has just served live years in
San Quentin. Trosto is nossessed of
somo property, which tho woman
wanted. Sho got a revolver and at
tempted to fuko tho old man's life.
Sho told him sho intended to kill him
and burn his body with the
purchasers of lands of said
I'OUTI-ANI) IMCOnUCK IIAUKKT,
ft.
tho'
at-
St.
re-
Firo broko out in the second floor
of a four-story flat at Now York. Tho
building filled with smoke, tho inmates
thought that retreat was cut off, and,
piuiic-Htrickon, endeavored to escape
by tho windows. Mrs. Cook jumped
from a third floor rear window into tho
yard, and was almost iiutanlly killed.
Her husband followed her, and also
jumped from tho same rear window,
and was to badly injured that ho will
probably dio, Catherine Mnhoney, a
servant of the Cook family was Bor
olualy injured, n woro a number of
others.
'Presto mado his escape and had
woman arrosted, charircd with an
tempt to commit mutdor.
A shooting affair occurred at
Helena, Cal., which will doubtless
suit in tho death of a young man
named Budd Vann. Ho, with somo
oompanions, woro standing near a
houso of ill fame, when one of tho
crowd throw a roc' through tho win
dow of tho houso, striking ono of tho
inmates. Graham, a brotlior to ono of
tho women of tho liouso, was inside at
tho time, and picking up a rovolvor,
firod into tho crowd, hitting young
VAnn in th abdomen, and intlictint;
a fatal wound. Ho was immediately
arrosted.
California roll
do pickled
Chkksic
Eastern, full cream
Oregon, do
California
Eons Freah
DitiKn KituiTs
house I Applex, ore, ska and bx...
do (Jallforula
Apricots, new crop. ,
Pwichos, impeded, now . . .
Pears, machine driod
Pitted cliorrion
Pitted plums, Oregon
Figw, Cal., in bgs and bxs.,
Cal. Prunes, French
Oregon prunes
JTLOUIt-
Portland Pat. Roller, Fbbl 8
Salem do do
Whtto Lily tt bbl
Country brand 3 60
Superfine 2 60 (
Wheat, Vallo, V 100 lbs... 1 22J 1 25
do Walla Walla 1 15 1 It)
Bsrley, wholo, t ctl 1 12J
ao grouiiu, v ton wro uu
OaU, choice millimt bush 47 50
do feod. Koedtochoice.old id (a 47
Itvo. P 100 11)8 1 10 1 25
40
15 3 25
18 3J
8 35
10 20
14 10
14
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18 28
12J 14
10
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124
0
8 (3 10
10 12J
Tho praotico of thawing tho outside j Bf ":S"L,n in m t7 m
Sliortw, t' ton 18 00 (310 00
Hay, V ton, baled (ml8 00
coverings of dynamite cartridges over
fires is largely provident among tho
miners employed in tho cement quar
ries at Kondout, Cal. John Lynch
was engaged in tho thawing process.
I' our cartridges which ho hold in a tin
pan over tho tiro oxploded. Strange
as it may seom, when the smoke
clearod away, Lynch was not only
alivo, but perfectly conscious, but ho
presented a torriblo appearance His
hands had been blown away as clean
as though they had been out off with
a knife. The larynx, vocal and somo
of the othor organs in tho throat wero
exposed to view. His limbs wero
broken in many places. His whole
body presented an appoaranco as
though ho had boon cut and slashed
by a bowio knife, yet, in that horrible
condition, ho lived five hours.
Chop. V ton 23 00 25 00
Oil cake meal V ton 32 00 33 0C
FltKSlt FllUITH
Apple, Oregon, $ box 1 25 1 60
Cherries, Oregon, tidrm...
Lemons, California, Pbx.. 4 00 4 50
Limes, t 100, l 23
Rlvei-Hldo oranges, V box., ,
Los Angeles, do do . . ,
Poackes, f box g
Hiubs
Dry, over 10 tbs, V lb U 12
Wet salted, over 65 tts (? 6
Murrain hides 7 0
PelU 10 1 25
VKO KTA11I.K9
Cabbage, lb 21
Carrots, ? sack 1 CO
Cauliflower, ? dos
Onions $ l 10
Potatoes, now, ICO lbs . . 76
Wool,
East Oregon, Spring clip.. 14 A 10
Vallar Oregon, tin ., 16 A 18
A postolhco has been established at
Sidney, Coos county, and Samuel
Schuck wa appointed postmaster
George L. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Luko. Creek, Jackson
county, vice Joseph T. Dock, resigned.
The mail service between Vale and
Burns, Malheur county, has been in
creased.
Adam A. Baser, the postmaster at
Spicer, Linn county, has resigned, and
John W. Ball has been appointed
postmaster in ins place.
Senator Dolph's bill, giving to Dalles
City a portion of the military reserva
tion adjacent to that town for a park,
passed tho senate.
T. B. Merry, of Portland, has been
appointed assistant commissioner to
Australia. Lieut. Marx has been ap
pointed secretary of tho commission
John Milligan s team ran away at
Lafayette, throwing him from a wagon
against a tieo and breaking his collar
none.
An east-Dounn freight t'ain was
thrown from tho track near Pleasant
Valley, and tho fireman killed. The
engineer and others were severely in
jured, ana the train badly smashed
I hero was a shooting scrape at Ne-
tarts, in which a man named McCor-
mick was shot by another named Dos
mond, the bullet taking effect in the
groin and making a dangerous wound.
At Astoria, Miss Ilhea Durant was
i i i . i
uwitKuneu uy me noise oi a man en
tering her bedroom, who had eflected
an entrance through tho window. The
young lady making loud outcrv, the
burglar decamped in haste.
Whilo tho foundrymen at the peul
lentiary were running' off a heat, a
quantity of molten metal was spilled
irom a mine upon tne iinio ot a con
vict named Estes. The metal slipped
down the unfortunate man's leg and
into his shoe. In ereat aconv ho ran
and jumptd into a tub of water, where
he stood until the metal was cooled.
His leg and foot was piinfully burned.
Charles Iiobertson, a young man en
gaged in rolling logs near Erw'.n's
mill, two miles above Silverton, Marion
county, nearly lost his life by having
one of the logs roll over htm. The
log, which was a heavy one, and was
rolling down a side hill, crashed over
his legs and things, and then, striking
a maul, leaped over his body. In ad
dition to other serious injuries, Bob
ertson had several ribs broken. His
hurts were considered very serious.
but at last accounts he was getting
along all right.
At The Dalles, the little daughter of
W. H. Miiody, aged about fhree years,
got a bottle of carbolic acid, and be
fore tho mother could take it from her
had innocently swallowed nearly the
whole contents. Fortunately, Dr. Gil
mer, in his daily visits to one of his
patients, passed by the residence and
immediately applied the usual anti
dotes for the poison and an cmetio.
This circumstance, and the little girl
having eaten a hearty breakfast a
short time previously, undoubtedly
saved her life. At l.tst accounts the
child was doing well.
1 ishermen all tho way from St.
Helens to tho Cateadcs are idle, on ac
count of the enforcement of the law
prohibiting them from using nets witl
meshes less than 8 inches that is, a
mesh that stretclas to that long
ihey say there is nothing running
but bluebaok falnion, and ,they havo
to use a 5 to inch mesh to take
I these, and they claim that tho enforce
ment of tho law is all in favor of the
wheelmen at tho Cascades. They say
mat wnen mis large mesh law wa-
niade there were no wheels and no at
tontion was paid to blueback salmon,
which have now become of consider
able importance, as they aro used by
tho cannorynion.
William Garvin, a locomotive fire
man, 31 years old, was killed in the
Albina railroad yards, oppodto tho
coal bunkers. While the locomotive
on which ho was employed, No. 37,
was on its way to tho bunkers to tako
on coal, ho and Engineer Johnson put
in their time oiling the valves, which
they did by standing in tlio cab. When
the bunkers were reached, Garvin un
dertook to step to tho platform by
passing between tho tender and the
locomotive. About this time locomo
tive No. 7, which had been down to
the flouring mills, rounded tho curve
just below the bunkers pushing eight
or nine cars. These cars 6truck loco
motivo 27 whilo Garvin was in tho
position previously stated and tho ten
der being forced forward by the pres
sure, ho was crushed to death. Ho
died in a few minutes. There was a
largo gash on tho right breast and tho
right leg was fearfully mangled. Sev
eral ribs wero broken.
Tho advisability of testing as fo;;gy
wcathor signals sudden llaslios, such as
tlgj So of gtmpowdor, has beon suggest
ed'to tho Hiitisli lighthouse authorities
by Lord Hayloigh ami Professor Stokes,
who think ilio flashes might attract at
tention whero an equal fixed light might
escape notice.
An instrument callod tho auto
graphomotor has lately beon devised,
which autogranhloally roeords tho plan
of tho ground over which it is dragged.
It can be earned about on a light ve
hicle, and when in uso indicates the to
pography and differences of lovel of all
places over which it passes.
There nra about five hundred dif
ferent kinds of humming birds. These
b'mls belong exclusively to tho conti
nent of America and its Islands. From
America they range north to tho Arctto
regions and south to Patagonia; ami
from the lovel of tho sea to the hoighi
of the Andes.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Why aro women extravagant in
rlothcs? Bocauso whon thoy buy a now
dress they wear it out on tho first day.
Tho man who wants tho earth, my
son, is the very man tho earth doesn't
want. liurdclle.
Tho girl who thinks sho ought to
marry no ono lower than a Baron, gen
erally compromises upon a Count H.
Hopper.
- lie was fond of singing revival
hymns, and his wifo named the baby
Fort, so that ho would want to hold it.
Our Dumb Animnlt.
A comely figuro in a woman has
its charms. But it is the incomely
figure that intluenees the average wife
h ti n tcr. Philadelphia Call.
Goliath of Gath was a big man, but
that didn't kill him; it was his bigkou
seat that brot him face to face with
doth. Toronto Qrip.
Women know about as much about
politics as men do about making a
ohaiu stitch tidy. The difference is
that men kcep'still about tho tidy.
"I live for those who love me.'
says a f mladcipiiia pout, it lie is liko
most amateur poets, then, he hasn t
much to live for. Somervillc Journal.
It is all bosh about women being
afraid to tell their age. The trouble is
that people are afraid to ask 'em, and
perhaps it is safer not to. Dansville
Breeze.
"Look hero, Jones, I understand
you called mo a blooming jackass last
night." That is incorrect, Smithers. I
didn't use tho word 'blooming.'" "Ah,
that's all right, then. Shake, old fel
low." Philadelphia I'ivics.
"I'll teach you to play pitch-and-
toss!" shouted an enraged father. "I'll
floir you for an hour, I will." "Father,"
his tali tly replied the incorrigible, as ho
balanced a penny on his thumb and
linger, "I'll toss you to make it two
hours or nothing !" Boston Olobe.
Omaha dame "Didn't you know
before your marriage that the man you
loved had contracted the liquor habit?"'
Neglected wife "Yes, 1 knew ho had
conn-acted the habit, and if it had only
staid contracted I should not have com
plained, but after marriage the habit
expanded." Omaha World.
A Western school-ma'am has be
come famous liy getting all Her pupils
out of the school-house w hile a blizzard
was in progress. Some day sho may
succeed in keeping them all in school
while a circus procession is passing,
and then her name will go down in his
tory.
It is stated that over five thousand
pianos are ruined every year in tlns
eountrv by sudden changes of tempera
ture. When this fact becomes general
ly known, the American people will bo
cheerfully reconciled to sudden changes
of temperature ami some will regret
that the sudden changes are not moro
sudden and frequent. Norristown Her
ald.
An old man was on the witness
tand and was being cross-examined by
i lawyer. "You say you are a doctor.
ir. "li!?, sir; yes, Rir." "What
kind of a doctor?" "I makes Mntmcnt.
ir. I makes 'intment, sir. I makes
intnient. " "What's your ointment
rood for?" "It's good to rub on tho
icad to strengthen the mind." "What
'il'ect would it have if you wero to rub-
some of it on my head?" "Nono at all,
sir, none at all. We have to have some
thing to start with." Concord (Ar. U.y
Monitor.
A JAPANESE GENESIS.
The Oriental Morytif Hih Creation of tho
.M iiiiiIiiiiu siilirrn.
In the beginning all things wero in
chao. Heaven and earth wero not
.separated. The world floated in tho
cosmic mass liko a fish in the water, or
the yelk in an egg. Tho ethereal mat
ter sublimed and formed the heavens
while the re.-iduiini formed the present
earth, from the mold of which a genu
sprouted and became a self-animate
being, from which sprang all the gods.
On the floating bridge of heaven
appeared a man ami woman of celestial
origin. The male plunged his jeweled
spear into the unstable waters beneath
them, and withdrawing it, tho trickling
drops formed an island upon which
thoy descended.
The creative pair, divine man and
woman, designing to make this island
the pillar for a continent, separated,
the male to tho left, the female to the
right, to make a journey around tho
island. When thoy met the woman
spoke first, saying: "How joyful to
uieet a lovely man!"
Tho man, offended that tho first uso
vif tlio tongue had beon by a woman,
demanded that the journoy be repeated,
after which ho cried out exultingly:
"How joyful to meet a lovely woman."
Thus ensued tho proper subjection;
and this, according to the ancient idea
of Japan, was the origin of the human
raco and tho art of love. Overland
Monthly.
Virginia's Old Powder Horn. 1
Tho old "Powder Horn," an histori
cal building at Witftaiiisburg, Va., is
in danger of fallinjr in from norlect
and decay. It was built by Sir Alex
ander Spotswood, Governor of tho col
ony, in the tirst quarter of tlio
eighteenth century, to storo supplies in.
But its greatest interest arises from tho
fact that it was tho building in which
tho colonial ammunition was stored ia
1775. Lord Dunmnre seized tlio am
munition and moved it on board a man-
of-war, thu result being "the firsl
gathering of an armed forco in tho cob
uny in opposition to royal authority."
In later yeats the building was used a
a market, church and stable. It wo
bought of tho city authorities in 18G6,
and its present owner should not allow
ou inifiostiiig a relio of the times that
tried men's souls to be destroyed.-
Spriugjield liepublican.