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UNION. ORKGOK.
Tiieodohk Thomas's wife
much interest in cookery na
in music.
takes as
he does
Royalty has its drawbacks, Prin
CC88 Louise of Lome is just 40, and
can't pnsR her elf of ae 30, for the fact
is recorded in all tho English almanacs
Wehstkk was in college at fifteen
gavo earnest of his great futuro beforo
lio was twenty-five, and at thirty was
tho peer of tho ahleHt mon in congress
When workmen wore sinkinc tho
well for the sugar works at Douglas
Xan.. a stratum of hvo frogs was
struck at a dopth of 50 feet.
Qukkn Emma of Holland is a bru
nettc, whoso eyes would bo pretty die:
ehe not continually wink when speak
ing, thus giving you tho impression of
preparing for a good burBt of tears.
A peculiar chho of nervousness is
that of a lady in South Troy, Now
York, whoso attacks, it is said, usually
terminate with the dislocation of hor
jaw.
Dm Moinkh, Iowa, has been stirred
tip over an attempt at grave robbery
in n cemetery on tho Biiburbs of Mint
citv. Tho whouls were medical stu
dents and narrowly escaped lynching
The choirs of tho Church of Eng
land includo 154,000 voluntary and
19,000 paid malo singers, and 75,000
voluntary and 2,100 paid femalo ping
T8.
Yai.es historic lenco is again
threatened with destruction, and tho
students havo petitioned tho corpora'
tion to use thoir inllucnco toward its
preservation.
The French Transatlantic Stoam
ahip company has furnished its largo
Hect with complete apparatus for
"dropping oil on tho wavob" during
bad weather.
An EngliBh philanthropist says
there aro no fewer than 30,000 gypsy
children in Englum!, of whom not
more than 5 per cont. are able to read
and write.
Makik Antoinette's scissors and
-penknife were recently sold at auction
for $130. Tho relics were terribly sug
gestivo of tho instrument which
CAUsod her death.
The widow of ex-Governor Colby, of
Hovr London, Conn., aged ninety-two,
mado und contributed a hamUomo
tidy to tho fair lately held by tho
ladies of that place
The IIoubo of Representatives is
constituted of 325 members from
thirty-eight states, and two dologates
from each territory. Tho lattor have
no voting power or places on commit
tees. Only ono civilliun out of tho Presi
dents of this country gained his first
election after ho was sixty, ami that
ono waa James Buchanan. The
chance for presidency aftor sixty is
email and growing less.
Si'KNCEK, Mass., has public-spirited
citizens. The other day ono of them
gave 14 acres of land for a public
park, another gavo $30,000 for a high
school, and another gavo $25,000 for a
public library.
Tin: Arnbs oxhaust their greens
and blues, and purples, and reds, and
black upon tho walls and ceilings and
inuko their apartments a perfect
kuleidoscopcs of colors, and with
beautiful results withal.
Thkui: it; a Shakespeare Hotel in
Stratford-upon-Avon, and instead of
numbers tho names ot playa are on
tho room doors. "Tako ttio gontlo
man'u luggage up to Romeo and
Juliet" is a common ordor.
Thkuu is a concern in Now York
-which employ girls to crack and pick
nuts, tho kernels of which aro sold to
confectioners. Tho shells aro sold to
bo ground up and mod in tho manu
facture of jspices.
William Pitt entered tho univer
sity at fourteen, was Chancellor of
'tho Exohcquor at twonty-two, Prime
.Minister at twenty-four, and bo con
tinued for twenty years ; and at thirty
11 vo was tho most powerful uncrowned
lioad in Europe
Lexington. Miss., has threo femi
nine residents who play an important
part in keeping tho town in communi
cation with tho roat of tho world
Ono of tho Indies aforesaid la poet
juibtreaa, another express agent, and
thu third has charge of tho telegraph
office.
TELEGRAPHIC.
An
Epitome of the
Attracting
Principal KvcdU
Now
lntereit
Two hundred bakerB of St. Louis
arc on a strike.
A tiro destroyed two blocks in tho
heart of the city of Broinard, Minn.
The losses aggregato $50,000.
George Wilson was hanged at Al
won, jN. Y , for strangling his wilo in
January, 1887.
Firo at Ehnora, Colo., destroyed
half tho business portion of the town
Loss, $15,000 ; insurance, $6,000.
Joseph Stafford, of New York, bell
boy, shot and killed Roeio Sheridan,
cook in a boarding house, and then
shot and killed himself.
Wm. Moore, the colored man who
assaulted Mary Bingardiner at Mat-
toon, 111., wiw taken from tho county
jail and lynched by masked mon.
George Arnold shot and killed
George Burton at Minatoro, Nob., in a
ouurrel over tho fottlenient of a debt
of $12.
Marion Stewart, who had been
drinking heavy, shot and killed his
wifo and his brother at their home
near Louisville, Ky.
While Itobert Foster and Mr.
Swart zeman were on their way homo
in Hitchcock county, Neb., during a
terrific storm, thoy wore both killed
by lightning.
James McGeargo and Wm. Smith,
special deputies of the sheriff, got into
a quarrel at Prineville, Mo., and shot
each other fatally. A bystander was
seriously wounded.
Joseph Toniowski, a wealthy farmer
at Warren, Minn., was murdered in
tho woods by lua 18-year-old nophew,
in tho hopo that ho would get somoof
tho old man's property.
About 400 peoplo wero precipitated
from a grand stand at Memphis,
Tenn., by tho scaffolding giving way.
Nono wore killed, but numbers had
legs and arms broken.
During a practico gamo at Recrea
tion park at Pittsburg, Pa., Dunlup, of
tho Pittsburg baseball team was struck
in tho faco with a hard-hit ball and
broko his jaw.
A Lincoln, Nob., firm, with a capital
of $5,000,000, will develop coal lands
and estabhbh furnacea near Alva,
Miss., and will put up an iron and
steel plant at Omaha, Neb.
Joseph Greenfield, who etolo furs
valued at $2,500 from his father's
store, on Broadway street, Now York,
was charged with theft in iho court
by his father, and committed in de
fault of bail for trial.
During a sham battlo that took
place in tho colobration of tho Fourth
at Kilburno, Wis., J. W. Carpenter
was killed and C. H. Footo seriously
injured by tho prematuro dischargo of
a cannon.
Tho five-story building of tho Bead
ing Hardware Company, of Beading,
Ph., was destroyed by hro. Tho loss
aggregated $350,000, well insured.
Seven hundred employes aro thrown
out of work.
Patrick Coffee, a worthless drunkard,
Bhot Miss Agues Smith in Jersey City,
mid then turned the pistol on hnneolf,
Both will die. Colleo, who has a wife
and grown-up children, was infatuated
with Miss Smith.
A big timber raft will bo launched
at JouEins, Nova Scotia, during tho
present month. Iho raft contains
22,000 logs, is valued at $30,000, and
will take six days, at $100 a day, to
roach Now i ork.
Annie Ahrend was arrested at Now
ink, is. J., tor attempting to poison
u-r father, brother and sister. She
confessed that who bought tho deadly
Irug and administered it to the family
out of curiosity to see how it would
act.
M. B. Wilson, of Murquolto, Mioh
ono of tho bosses 011 tho now govern
ment building, was shot and fatally
injured by a Polish workman whom
ho discharged. Tho man then shot
himself in the mouth, indicting a
fatal wound.
Theodora Oastora, a farmer, was at
tacked on hia way homo from Kings
ton, Mich., by threo brothers named
Drost, who demanded his money. He
shot ono dead, fatally wounded an
other, and thinks ho hit tho third, who
escaped.
Petoi" Broneek was hanged at SL
Joseph, Mo.for tho murder of Inn
wifo two yoara ago. Tho prisoner has
homo up bravely, and doniod any in
tent to commit tho crune. Ho claimed
that ho waa drunk when ho did it,
though at tho time ho declared he
killed her because she was uutruo.
Whilo a train was moving up hill
from Butte, Mont., tho cars became
uncoupled from tho engine and dashed
down tho grado, jumping the truck
and killing two boys, mimed respec
tively Green and Burns, of Ceuter
ville, and injuring two brakomon
whoso names are not known.
Lawronco HubboII, of Springfield,
Mo., has been placed under arrest for
inclosing his 10-year-old son in a box
four feet high and making him stand
ilvo hours in that position. Also for
tying tho boy to a plank and smearing
molasses over hia faco to attract dies
to torturo tho child. Neighbors inter
fered and caused tho arrest of tho un
natural futhor.
A storm at Boston, Mass., over
turned the sloop Millie, in Iho cabin
of which wero John Gamon, Mrs.
Catherine T. Tripp, agod 105, and hor
little nieco Katio T. Tripp. Gamon
when taken from tho water was alive.
Tho body of Mrs. Tripp was found
near tho yacht. The body of her lit
tle nieco is supposed to bo still in tho
cabin of tho overturned boat.
COAST CULLINGfa.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
A man named Cleveland Kinno was
drowned while bathing in the surf near
San Diego, Cal.
A Chinaman was found dead in bed
at Anaheim, Cal. Ho had been poi
soned. Itobert Anderson, whilo out driving
at Siinta Cruz, Cal.. waa thrown out
und killed.
Train Dispatcher W. P. Kudd, of
tho Sonora railroad, shot himself at
Nogules, A. T.
Tho garrison building at Walla
Walla, W. T., was burned. Loss about
$5,000.
A drunken man who 0 name 5b un
known, was drowned at Seattle, W. T.,
whilo out rowing.
Frank Gallagher was drowned at
San Rafael, Cal., whilo in bathing.
Tho body has not beou recovered.
Houry A. Caulfield was run ovor
and killed by a tram at Saoramento,
Cal.
James B. Kennedy, fireman on a
railroad, died from injuries received at
Benton, W. T.
A disastrous firo broko out in
Murysville, Cal., in which the most
valuablo business liousea in the city
wero destroyed. Loss about $200,000.
San Francisco customs officials
mado a eeizuro of about 100 pounds
of opium on board tho steamship
Mexico, from Victoria, B. C.
By a prematuro dischargo of a blast
at San Francisco, a man named
Michael McDcrmott was killed by a
bank caving in on him.
A man named Haskell shot and
killed a man named Frayer, near Los
Angeles, Cal. Ho mistook him for a
deer.
Wm. Fulton waa seriously and per
haps fatally wounded at Visalia, Cal.,
by tho accidental dit-chargo of a pistol
ho was flourishing whilo intoxicated.
C. B. Sylveer had tho end of his
noso bitten off by a fellow with whom
ho had a light in a melodcon on Du
pont Btroet, in San Francisco.
Wm. W. Hammer, a young man
who has been stopping at a San Fran
cisco hotel, committed suicide in his
room by shooting himself m tho
head.
An old Indian nnmed Christoro,
while intoxicated fell across n. street
car track at San Diego, Cal., and the
car passed over his body, killing him
instantly.
Ed. Wales, a blacksmith, whilo en
deavoring to stop a runaway tetun at
San Joso, Cal., fell beneath tho wheels,
which crushed his skull, killing him
instantly.
Tho dead body of a Swede named
Oltf Mnhberg, was found hanging to a
tree in an orango grove, at Los An
geles, Cal. Decoasod was about 35
years old.
Fire broko out in tho basomont Of
tho building occupied by tho Oakland
Tribune, at Oakland, Cal., and dam
aged proporty to tho amount of $15,-
000 or $20,000. Fully insured.
Tho Wold county fair buildings at
Grcoloy, Colo., burned, and Win. Mo
Clohuid's $5 000 stallion Bombrandt
burned to death. Tho Johnson flour
ing mill aho burned. Tho loss on tho
mill waa $25,000.
Olo Olsen, a sailor on tho scow
schooner Theresa, was drowned off
tho Vallejo street wharf, at S.m Fran
cisco. Ho fell overboard from tho
vessol and could not bo rescued in
time.
A railroad engine ran over a China
man at Sacramento, Cal., and instantly
killed him. The pilot and a portion
of tho running gear of tho engine
wero splattered witli large pieces of
tho dead man's brains.
Jiii. JJrouso, wlio had neon over
hauling machinery in a sawmill at
Visalia, Cal., sot the engine going to
try its speed, when the great drive
wheel burst, ami a fragment stiuck
Brouso in the head, fracturing his
skull.
Charles Barks, a 13 year-old boy,
waa sitting on a doorstop at San Fran
cisco, when a boy named Hoppo or
dered him to throw up his hands.
Upon hia refusal to do so Hoppo pulled
tho trigger. Tho b.tllontored tho right
temple, and barks fell to tho sidewalk
dead.
Ernest M. Keller, aged 21, wa
drowned whilo bathing in tho surf
at Mantecito, Cal. No ono was with
him except two small children. It is
supposed he got into a hole and Wiis
unable to swim. Ho leaves a widow
and a young child.
An ongino ami car on tho car lino
to the Cliff bouae wero derailod al
San Francisco, Cal. Tho ongino was
thrown on ita side, but the engineer
jumped out, receiving but a few
BOratohoa. Tho passongor coaoh waa
canted on ita side up agains', a sand
bank. The seats were overturned and
all of tho windows brokon. Tho occu
pants wero badly shaken up and some
of them cut by broken glass and
bruised. Thero wero nono seriously
injured, however.
A teamster named E. W. B. Lango
waa driving near tho corner of Jack
son and Dupont streets in Sin Fran
cisco, when his wagon etruck an old
rice sack lying in tho gutter. Some
bones dropped out and ho investigated
tho matter. It waB then found that
tho skeleton waa entirely bare of ilosh,
and only tho head and ribs wero at
tached. Tho body might havo beon
in thu suck about threo months from
appearances. It was presumed that
it was tho skeleton of a Chinese child
that had beon prepared for shipment
to China.
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to the Interests ot Farmer?
and Stockmen.
KnUInc Strawberries.
A successful grower of this berry
tells hia plan of ac ion as follows: To
grow strawborriea well he puts land in
good order in advance (I) by planting
it to some crop tho year previous that
has to be highly manured and well
cultivated. (2) Ho sets in rowa so as
to cultivate them both ways, and runs
tho cultivator close to tho plants. (3)
Never allows weeds to get a start and
bo over half an inch high. (-1) He
mulches old plants with cheap hay
and does nothing to tho plants until
after fruiting, letting them grow up
through tho mulch.
By following this simplo plan of
cultivation ho has no trouble, und
grows strawberries aa cheaply to tho
bushel aa corn or potatoes. Of course
they are more orofitable. Strawberry
beds should bo set threo feet apart in
the row and plowed both ways and
kept in tho best possible order. The
crop is early and furnishes mean at a
season when farmers need money and
would else have to borrow it. If there
aro young peoplo in tho family to pick
them and pack them it will furnish
them pleasant occupation and it will
also pay them well for the time in
vested.
Where a naRturn in nvfirrun with
weeds turn in the sheep, and they will
keep down the young weeds. Sheep
eat olose to the ground and diligently
search for all tho young and tender
herbago.
JtiVerv blossom left on tho vountr
strawberry plant will enfeeble it to a
certain extent. It the plants bo ex
nected to throw nut, riimiprn und
thicken in tho row they must under
no circumstances bo allowed to blos-
aom and fruit.
Tho lawns that aro frequently
moweu will soon uio out unless some
kind of fertilizer bo applied. Every
time tho lawn-mower is used a certain
proportion of the elements of tho soil
uro removed, us it is really cropping
tho ground.
No delay should occur in going to
work in tho applo trees to destroy the
caterpillars, as thoy will quickly fes
toon tho trees with their webs. The
sooner they shall bo removed the
euBier tho work, as tho young worms
can now bo caught in tho webs.
Tho ordinary little hand-weeder iB
tho best implement to use for eradicat
ing weeds among thickly growing
plants, especially where tho boo may
bo detrimental. On heavy, hard soil
its uso ib not profitable, but on light
sous it permits of elleotivo work, and
ut a low cost.
The porsimmon tree does not de
prive the soil of a largo amount of
feitilizing elomonts, and for that reu
son mukea tho beat of shade trees for
stock. In the South, evon on aban
doned holds, tho persimmon is allowed
to grow. Its growth is slow, howover,
but its fruit is highly valued by some
White clover is tho best pasturo
grass that can bo grown for sheep.
Ah white olovor is a short grass, it is
more dosirablo than red clovor for
grazing, aa sheep detest long grass,
preferring to crop close to tho ground.
On a mixture el grasses in a pasture,
oatllo and sheep may bo grazed to
gether, as tho grasses that may be
objootionablo to tho cattle will b ap
propriated by the aheep.
If fruits of any kind aro to bo set
out, see that the supply be purchased
and tho ground picked out and pre
pared, tho stakes set, so that when the
time shall come for transplanting
thero need bo no delay. With many
spring is considered tho best time for
setting out fruit, and if this plan be
intonded, so far aa possible, tho work
should bo done early, so that the
trees or plants will bo ublo to make a
good start to grow boforo hot, dry
weather shall set in.
Many peoplo supposo that artificial
incubation is a modern invention.
Such is not tho case. Tho Copts ot
Egypt havo beon engaged in artificial
egg hatching for centuries. Thero are
700 establishments for that industry
within a short dit-tanco of Cairo, and
tho production of chickens from the
ovens reaches 12,000,000 annually.
Tho season for incubating lasts
through threo months in tho early
summer. Tho country p oplo take
fresh eggs to tho owners of tho ovens
anil give two for each newly hatched
chick.
In olden tinios sowing land with
salt was a symbol of its desolation.
In large enough quantities it will
dostroy every traco of vegotation.
Even those plants which, liko aspara
gus, aro natural lovers of salt, can
havo too much of a doso, but aftor a
timo heavily suited land recovora its
fertility, and may oven bo tho better
for this treatment. Wo havo heard of
farmers who, by mistake, applied too
much salt to wheat ; but thoy seeded
tho following spring, and for several
yoara thereafter tho field that had
beon over-salted produced enormous
crops of hay. The tendenoy of salt
is to make tho soil moist and cool, It
is, therefore, excellent for crops that
require theso conditions.
Sheep aro oloso feeders und can get
a bite curlier than any other domestic
animal. But owes suckling lamb will
need grain ourly to keep them in flesh,
whilo tho succulont grass stimulates
milk product ion. Later in tho season
the lamb domiiuda more milk just aa
tho failing pasturo make less. It is
then that an arm full of cut clover in
blocm to each eight or ton sheep
mrkes a valuablo addition to tho pas
turo feed. It may bo varii d with oc
casional cuttings of greonoats, which
just bofcro they head out aro very
rich and succulent feed.
MARKET REPORT.
Reliable Quotations Carefully Revised
Every Week.
WHEAT Valley, $1 20U 22$'
Walla Walla, $1 121 10$.
BARLEY Whole, $1 101 12$; I
ground, per ton, 25 0027 50.
f I IP) ATMIi too ia,. . f,l .1.1 I
uilio aiming, 1-3101;. , iucu, -1-1
45c.
HAY Baled, $15 0dlG 00.
SEED Blue Grass, 14$16c; Tim
othy, 9J10o.; Bed Clover, 1415c.
FLOUB Patent Holler, $4 00;
Country Brand, $3 75.
EGGS Per doz, 25c.
BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound.
25c; pickled, 1520c. ; inferior
grade, 1522$.s.
CHEESE Eastern, lG20c; Ore
gon, 14lGc; California, 14$c.
VEGETABLES Beets, pr sack,
$1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2Jc. ; carrots,
per bk., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20c. ;
onions, $1 00 ; potatoes, per 100 lbs.,
l)0c.$l ; radishes, per doz., 1520e. ;
rhubarb, per lb., 6c.
HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c;
strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8$o.
POULTRY Chickens, per doz.,
$2 254 00 ; ducks, per doz., $7 00
0 00; geese, $7 00J 00; turkeys,
per lb., lG18c.
PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12$c
per lb.; Eastern, 1313$c. ; Eastern
breakfast bacon, 12$c. per lb. ; Oregon
1213c ; Eastern lard, 10ll$c. per
lb.; Oregon, 10$c.
GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00
2 50; Sicily lemons.. $b 507 00;
California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges
$G 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra
nean, $4 25.
DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap
ples, 7$o. per lb. ; machine dried, 10
11c; pitless plums, 13c,; Italian
prunes, 1014o. ; peaches, 12$14o. ;
raisins, $2 252 50.
WOOL Valley, 12lGc; Eastern
Oregon. 1014c.
HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c;
culls, 67i:. ; kip and calf, 810c. ;
Murrain, 10 12c. ; tallow, 33$c.
LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00;
edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G.
sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor
ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per
M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00;
clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear P. 4
S, per M, $22 50 ; No. 1 flooring, per
M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M,
$22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50;
stepping, per M, $25 00 ; over 12
inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40
to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to GO,
extra, $4 00; 1- lath, per M, $2 25;
1$ lath, per M, $2 50.
BEANS Quote small whites,$4 50;
pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50;
Limas, $4 50 per cental.
MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33$c. ;
dressed, 7c. ; sheep, 3c; dro-sed, Ge. ;
hogs, dressed, 77$o. ; veal, 78c.
COFFEE Quoto Salvador, 17c;
Costa Rica, 1820c. ; Rio, 1820c. ;
Java, 27$c. ; Arbuckle's'a rahted, 22c.
SALT Liverpool grades of fine
quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tho three
sizes; stock salt, $10.
PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at
$1 35.
SUGAR Prices for barrels ; Golden
C,5.Jc. ; extra C,5c. ; dry granulated,
GJe. ; cruHlied, fine crushed, cube and
powdered, 7c ; extra C, 5c; halves
and boxes, $0. higher.
OLD NURSERY TALES.
The Antiquity nftlin !-":itry Stories Told to
Our Children.
"Little Red Riding-hood," being gen
erally supposed to be the story of the
Dawn, or of the spring, first swallowed
and then rescued from tho jaws of Night,
or Winter, is to ho met with in tho my
thology of tho Greeks, the old Aus
tralians and tho Scandinavians.
"Bluo Board" is a well travelod vil
lain. Ho 1ms beou In Zululand, Russia,
Persia, Germany, Italy. Scandinavia
and elsowhoro, wearing successfully
tho garb of each of his adopted homes.
This story is curiously interwoven with
tho myths of Psycho, Somolo. Pandora,
and other examples of woman's curi
osity; so that there seems 110 reason
why wo should not actually look for
tho beginnings of "Hluo Beard" In the
G aiilon of Edon itsolf.
Puss in Roots," so far as it is possi
ble to traco him, appears to havo sot
out on his travels from Zanzibar, in tho
form of a gazello, to havo passed
through India as a jackal, to havo
visitod Russia, Sicily and Mongolia as
a fox, and at last, as .1 cat, to havo
roamed ovor Italy, Sweden and Nor
way, Franco and England. In somo
of theso places tho story, owing to an
episode in which tho hero is punished
for ingratitude to his bonofactor, has
tho advantago of moral, but in most
of tho old versions Puss's evil practices
aro undisguised, and, contrary to all
tho orthodox canons, ha is left smiling
at tho end of tho chapter.
"Cindorella,," whoso romuueo wo
aro inclined to rank as tho most en
thralling of all tho nursory talcs, is
scarcely less widely traveled than her
companions. In Kallirlund sho is
known, disguised as a boy, with a
friendly ox instead of a fairy god
mothor. In Finland, Sorvla and utnonj;
tho Gaelic Scotch wo still have tho pro
tecting beast. Manchester Courier,
Fivo native girls from Alaska havo
beon takou to Massachusetts to bo edu
cated. It Is tho intention to return
thorn to Alaska as teaehors. if thoy
do not marry certain susceptible
luasculiuo Bostonians.
PETROLEUM REFUSE.
The Original Fontulatlon or tho CJiowlnff
Gum of Commerce.
What is chewing gum made from?"
repeated a very largo producer in
Brooklyn of tho now almost universal
ly used substance to a roporter, who,
with others, was being shown around
thocxtensivo works. "That is ono oV
the secrets of tho trade, and wo havo
no desiro to give it away. Sullico it to
say thero aro few only who know its
original foundation, for that is dis
guised completely in tho confections
which are placed around it."
This reply only excited tho curiosity
of tho reporter, and whilo looking out
of ono of tho windows of tho works ho
noticed a largo truck, boaring on Its
sido tho name of a w'l'.-known candlo
manufacturer of New York. Tho truck
was heavily laden with bags of somo
kind of substance evidently Intended
for uso in the works. Following up
this clew the reporter called at the can
,11.. f.i..ti,n- in mmstion. and learned
that tho substance delivered at tho
chewing gum factory was the refuse of
petroleum' after tho kerosene oil had
been extracted. Tho informant said:
"The erinlo petroleum is pressed un
til 1 he black oil is extracted. This is
refined and produces paraflino and
subsequently koroseno which can also
be fu thor refined. Tho refuse is a yel
low scale, which can bomailointo hard
parallino wax, used in tho manufacture
of candies. Tho same yellow scale
can, by a process known to tho chewing-gum
makers, bo mado into a soft
wax which will yield easily to tho ac
tion of tho teeth. It is of such a pe
culiar mtturo when thus prepared that,
if onco chowed upon, it will almost in
voluntarily causo tho person in whoso
mouth it may bo to continue tho work
of mastication."
"But kcroscno oil has a nasty tasto
and smell, whilo chewing gum has
not."
True; but you must remember that
tho oil has been squeezed out, or at
least tho greater part of it. If you
wero to tako tho yellow scalo as it first
comes from tho press, it would doubt
less havo somo of tho samo taste and
smell that j-ou speak of; but after it
has beon subjected to several processes,
and artfully hidden under tho essences
contained in tho confections which
cover tho chewing gum, few would
reeognizo tho yellow scalo or refuse of
the petroleum."
"But is not tho substanco injurious
to health?"
"Not moroso than any other kind of
wax. Of course, excossivo uso of any
thing may prove injurious. Thogrent-o-it
evil that I can suimiso would bo in
the extraordinary exorcise of tho sali
vary glands, thereby depriving them
of that force which nature gives to
them when requiring their uso in tho
proper mastication of food. Of course
1 am now only speaking of tho petro
leum basis of tho chowing gumassold,
and have no knowledgo of tho composi
tion of what covers tho little cakes in
tho shapo of a confection. Tho latter
is naturally taken into tho stomach,
while tho waxy portion is generally
thrown away aftor it has served its
purpose as a chowing gum. If tho
pure paraflino wax was used as soon as
it is refined, it would bo a simple taste
less substance, and consequently les3
attractive than in tho forms it is now
sold."
"As chewing gum is cheap, would it
not pay hotter to mako tho so-called re
fuse into parallino wax candles?"
"It would, if thero was s.s largo a do
mand for tho candles, as thoro is scalo
mado in the process of getting out the
oil. Thero being so much yellow scalo
produced, something has to bt done
with it, or it would go to waste. A
market bus thcrcfu-o b( en found
among tho ehowing-guin manufactur
ers, who get it at an almost nominal
rate, lleneo tho profit, despite the cheap
price at which it is sold." Ar. Y. Mail
and Express.
A Bright Student of Memories.
"Hello, Blank," said a Bo-ton man
to ono of his friends tho other day, "I
hoar you aro attending this memory
school. What do you think of it, any
how?" "Greatest discovery of tho ago!"
says Blsmk, enthusiastically. "I tell you
it's a big thing, sir; a mighty big thing!
Why, two months ago I couldn't re
member ani thing a ibiy. Couldn't re
member names and dates half a day,
even, and now, sinco 1'vo taken up
this Loisetto system I can't forgot any
thing. No, sir, I actually can't."
"That so? I must look into the
thing mysolf. What's tho teachor's
name?"
"Oh, his name's umum let me
see. What is his name? 1 know it
well as I know my own. I've, hea d it
forty times. Odd sort of a name, but
common enough, too. It's it's I
had it right at my tonguo's ond a sec
ond ago. It's sometliing liko liko
hanged if I remember what it is. 1 nev
er could romoinbor names, anyhow!"
Detroit Free Press.
Tho New York Chinoso interpret
ers, who havo acted as "match-makers"
between "Mollcan" lawyers, and
their Chinoso clients, havo decided
that thoy do not got enough pay for
thoir services. So thoy aro now organ
izing into a regular union, and will
thon demand a uniform rate, which
must bo paid in advance, uuloss other
wise gunranteed. Tho union is to havo
regularly elected ofllcors annually, and
by-laws by which to govern tho action
of its members in regard to tho accept
ance of feos, etc. It propo es to obtain
a regular charter from tho State of
Now York.
A Buffalo young lndy tho other
day descriled Joan of Aro as 0110 ol
Noah's seven daughters.