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OREGON SCOUT. JOHES & CHAHCEY, Pifclfcbtn. A Chicago nownpapor makes the statement that a railroad train arrives or departs from that city every min ute of the day. Gonde conducted a memorable campaign at seventeen, and at twenty two ho and Turenno, also, were of the most illustrious men of their time. A distinguished negro belle of Tort au Prince, Hayti, has married a "brother of William Black, the novel ist. Perhaps the name attracted her. Mas. Patti Lyi.b Collins, em ployed in the '-dead letter" offico at "Washington, reads almost every known language except Russian and -Chinese. . Tub common thistle, which now covcn largo areas in Southern Chili, is naid to have been introduced there by an Englishman, who imported a bushel of seed and sowed it undor the delusion that the plant would provo aluable for fodder. Miss Mkuk Mkykii, a grandnicco of Anton Rubinstein and a pupil of Xiszt, is tho musical prodigy of "Vienna, Austria. Sho is not yet oigh--tcen years old, but has composed the musi and written tho libretto of an opera. The orange tree and tho lemon are both descended from tho citron. Tho history of tho orango tree is Biiid to date back to the crusades, tho return ing pilgrimB carrying it into Europe 700 or 800 yours ago. Tub .number of fowls kept in .Franco has boon estimated to bo 43, 858,780. Tho average product of ohickenB roared is 3 to each hon and tho avcrngo product of eggs per hen i 100 per year. Tho total money product is $101,000,000. A reader of tho Boston Globo re ports that tho word "dude" is to bo iound in tho dictionary of tho Swalihi langu.igo Bpokon by Pzangibiis nogroes that tho plural is "mast itudo'' and tho word itself probably older than tho Lille. ----. M. Chevreul. tho French contona Tian chemist (who will bo 102 yours old if ho liveB till next August), is uaid by a writor who recontly visited him, to look scarcely moro than 80 years of ago, and to bo as gontlo, even tempered and telf-controllcd as over. Queen Victoria dislikes tho olec- trio light, and refuses to have it in her palaces. Sho hart at length permitted onoof tho royal yachts to bo fitted -with electrio lamps, except her sleop inc cabin and saloon, It is said soft oil lamps best suit tho complexions of elderly ladios. Prince Bismarck's declination to oocomo Duko BiBinarek, on tho ground that ho Imb not ttio ways and means to cut tho propor ducal dash, will oc casion hilarioiiB suspicions that tho Iron Chancellor is goltmg unumally ironical. Bismarck would bo rated A 1 in tho mercantile loxjcniiH. The Princo of Naples, who has just como of ago, has received tho ordor of tho golden floeco from tho Empororof Austria and tho black eaglo from tho lato German Einporor. It is Higgosted that, in view of tho closo friendship Tetween Italy and England, ho ought to be invested with M10 g;rtt'r. Theiie wore lynched during tho year 1887 in tho United Stati'B no fewer than 123 persons. Of tho var ious States and Territories Toxub loads tho list with flftoon lynchings, and JiiBshsippi is entitled to second place with fourteen to her credit. All tho -victims were males, eighty of them being nogrres. One of tho smalUst manuscripts in tho world to bo sold. For sale, a grain of rico with tho wholo first chaptor of tho Koran written on it; givon to an English ofiher in 1812 by an American gentleman, who rtcoivod It from an Arab sheikh, whom ho hud cured of a dangerous fever in tho doaort. A very good and sensitive baromo- ter may bo mado by gluing together trips of red codar and soaBonod pino. A strip of cedar about thirty inches lotiff, ono and ono-half inches wido And ono-oighth of an inch thick is out -with tho grain, and to 0110 Hide of it must bo glued strips of pino of equal thickness, with tho grain running Koroas thut of tho cedar. This com bination is sot : umi, and will, no cording to tho statu of tho weather. bo found to Ijavo bont over on ono wo or tho other, Mnd this may bo d-mr .minwd by trial. TELEGRAPHIC. I Ai Epitem of the Principal EtcdU Nov Attracting Pablie Intoreit. Wm. C. Mitchell fell from a street car at St. Louis, and was killed. The academy of music was burned at Haverhill, Mass. Lose, .$100,000; insurance, $50,000. A construction train and engine on the Joliet & Eastern road was wrecked by obstructions on tho track. Three Italian laborers wero instantly killed. Gus Boylcs, aged 19, was hanged for the murder of Wm. Morgan, in the Creek nation, a year ago. Ho died vory hard. At Bucna Vista, 111., Charles Deck ler, a farmor, aged 55, sent his chil dren out of tho house and then shot his wife, killing her instantly, and shot himself and cut his throat. It. B. Parrish, a wholesale shoo dealer at Louisville, Ky., reputed to bo worth $100,000, committed suicide because ho could not pay a live dollar board bill. Tho street railway stables at Wichi ta, Kan., wero burned. Three em ployes wero very seriously burned and otherwise injured. Tho loss was not ascertained. David Clark and his wife wero found hanging in a corn crib near Sandwich, 111. They left a pnper signed by both, aavinir thov died for each other. Clark was tliirty years old. Firo destroyed half the business portion of Elmoro, Colo., some half a dozen businefs houses, with contents, being consumed. Tho loss is estimated at $75,000; insurance $0,000. Tho body of Alice Kelly was found in tho outskirts of Ottumwa, Iowa, with tho throat cut and tho head badly beaten. Tho naturo of tho wounds indicato murder Hattio do Baum, aged 18 years, was shot and killed by her aunt, Mrs. Jennings, at Terro Hauto, Ind. Tho two had been quarreling for some days. Josiah Wilder, 02 yenrs of ago, a prominont business man of Cincinnati, committed suiciuo. Tho only known cause is an Direction of tho head which gave him great pain and rondercd him despondent. Three men entereu tlio oluco ot an insurance company at Milwaukee, and engaged tho cat-hier and clerk in con versation. Before thoy left ono 01 them stole $2,000 from tho cash drawor. In tho roundhouso of WiiiBlow, Ariz., a fireman named Snyder had a few words witli a night wn tollman about some oil, and tho latter shot Snyder twice. Tho lattor died in ton minutes. A freight train on tho Louisville, Now Albany & Chicago railway ran into a Bmall land slido. Tho locomo tive and ten cars wero wrecked. David Julian, a brakeman, Engineer Harnot and Fireman Blachmau wero killed. Henry Sopor, a farm hand, con fosses to killing (5 year-old Frankic Williams, kicking him to death bo- causo tho child followed him to tho field to seo tho cows milked, at Hunt ington, Long Island. Mrs. Eiizaboth Simon shot and in stantly killed Wm. Dowling at Bury's ranch, Wyo. Dowling was assaulting her 8-yeur old daughter. Mrs. Simon was given a hearing ami discharged amid cheers. A. M. Pulliam called James Miller, a well-to-do farmer, into his olfioo, at Hardinesburu, ky. Shortly aftor- wards shots wero hoard and Pulliam came out mid fciirrondoied to an olli cor. Miller was found dead in the ofiico. Hubert Bryan, a boy, slabbed Riloy agod 19 years, and Smith's nulls, Ky. lb-ycar-olil negro 1 uncock-, white, killed him, near Throo mon started for Henderson with Bryan, when they wero overtaken by fifty masked men who lvinho.l tho murderor to the nearest tree. A large firo in tho business-blocks opposite tho Erio railway depot broke out at Patterson, N. J. Escape by tho ordinary way for tho inmates was cut oil' in a few minutes. Numbers jumped from windows and escaped with slight bruises, but it is reported that several lost their lives. Firo originating in a sawmill at Al ponii, Mich , spread rapidly, and was soon beyond control. All buildings for a space of thrco blocks wido and half a milo long wero consumed, causing a loss of about $300,000. Fif teen hundred persons arc homeless and several seriously injured. Matthias Sohreiuer, a whitewashes was dii-covorcd at Chicago, III., burned horribly and dying, Ho had como homo drunk, and his clothes had boon saturated with kerosene and fired. HiB wifo, mother-in-law and a boardor aro under arrest, and indications are that they wro tho perpetrators of.tho horrible doed. Whilo 300 or -100 peoplo woro seatwi in the grand stand on tho gmuuds of tho Yalobusha county, Mississippi, fair association, tho supports gave way without warning, and tho struoture fell' to tho ground. No ono was killed outright, but nearly fifty peoplo wero lukon from tho ruins with broken arms anil logs. . Laural Fork mooting house in Weakley county, Tonn., was a scone of a torrblo tragedy, Just as tho mini-tor wan announcing hU text a volley of firearms was discharged out side the door. When tho smoke cli-arcd awuy it whs found that Ewell Lawson and his sou, John, wero killtd, ami Ih it three FtiHton boys, Tom, Jim and K'Kis, and John Porter, wero fa tuity wounded, COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. Ten business houses of Deming, N. M., burned. Losses aggregate $00, 000; insurance, half. Pnil. J. Stumpf. was shot and killed in his saloon, at Antioch Cal., by some unknown person. It. Avers, a itink dealer, of Los An geles, Cal., was dragged to death by a runaway team near El Monte. Ten business houses at Deming, N. M.. wero destroyed by fire. Losses aggregate $00,000; insurance half. Henry Movers, ono of tho Lowell murderers, who pleaded to grand larceny u( Sacramento, Cal., was sen tenced to ton years at fcolBom. William G. Butler has been sen tenced to three years' hard labor at Folsom for abstracting an order for $0 99 from a letter at tho postoflico in Los Angeles, Cal. W. F. Neff, a tinner, whilo working on a roof at Lob Angeles, Cal., fell to tho ground, breaking his ntck, the tail killing him instantly. Ho was aged 37 years, and leaves a family. Wm. Heazed, night watchman on the steamer Thoroughfare, at San Francisco, was struck while walking 1 the track by an Alameda local train, and instantly killed. Henry Vanovor, popularly known as "Hanks," a well known hack driver, of Tacoma, W. T., was found dead in his bed at Freeman's livery stable, from an overdoso of quinine. Mrs. K. Paiker. of Cheney, W. T., attempted to commit suicide by taking an ounce of tincture of opium, but tho timely arrival of tho doctor saved her life. Firo occurred in Chinatown of Placorvillo, Cal., in which a row of seven Chinese buildings, and threo white residences woro burned. The Charred remains of a Chinaman wero taken from the ruins. Loss $5,000. Firo broke out in tho Mechanics' mill at Seattle, W. T , but was soon put out with only slight damage re sulting. David Ferguson, watchman on Yoslor's wharf, whilo working at tho fire fell, breaking his collar bone. Simon J. Lark, aged 22, was run over and instantly killed in tho rail- mud vnrd at Winnemucca. Cal. Ho had been in tho employ of the railroad company about three years as assist ant agent and car soalor. Tho shin Bella Vista, loaded with cnal. mink twentv milos northwest of Point Reyes, Cal. Tho captain and crow woro picked up and bi ought to Bowon's Landinir by tho schooner Napa City. D. Davov Harrip.a 12-ycar-old new6 boy, attempted to jump on a moving dummy on Sutter street at Kearny, in San Franeisco, but missed his footing and rolled under tho wheels. Both of his lees wero fractured above the knees. James King, recently convicted of bicamy at Sacramento, Cal., and son tenced to threo years' imprisonment, attempted to commit suiculo in a coll by cutting his wrist, no was oiscov erod by tho jailor in time to prevent him bleeding to death. Firo broko out in tho Hamblotonian stables in Oakland, Cal., totally de stroying them, togother with most of tho contonts. In the stable were ton horses, seven of which woro burned alivo. Soveral othor adjoining build inns woro destroyed. Tho total loss is about $20,000. Amanda Cordoza and Vicente Murines had a porsonal difficulty in a saloon at Sacramento, Cal. Marines knocked Gordoza down. Tho latter arose, Btaggcrod back and fell dead. It is supposed death resulted from heart diseabo. caused in part by tho blow. Marines surrendered himself. Tho main business portion of Chor okee, a mining town near Orovillo, Cal.. was destroyed by tiro. Miss Marv O'Donnoll porished in tho flames. Two hotels, two stores, a sa loon and sovoral residences wero burned. Loss, $30,000; iuBiiranco, $13,500. llnrm- thn nbsonco of Mrs. Ene: bind mid C. Coulthard. of Hollister. Cal.. their houses wero broken into and robbed of jowolry and other ar ticles of value. A nosso was inuned- intnlv nririinizcd and went in pursuit. and captured tho robbers a few miles irom 1 no cuy. Wm. Williams, second mate on board tho British ship Othollo, on tho vnvncu from Nowoastle-ou-Tyno lo Sun Francisco, whilo aloft sendinn down a signal to tho main top-gallant, foil, and striking on tho main-rail bounded overboard and was drowned Whilo tho barkcopor of tho Foun tain saloon at Fresno, Cal., was mak inn nn his cash, preparatory to clos ini? nn for tho nicht. two masked men sprang in from tho roar of tho saloon, and at tho point of pistols compolled him to givo up tho contonts of his Bafo, some $300. Tho robbors oscaped. A darincr robbery was perpotnted on Vells, Fargo Express Company, at Los Angolos, Cal. Ono of tho treas ure boxes whilo on a truck at tho Southern Pacific depot, waiting for the tram for Han Fraucuco, was un locked. $1,230 in sold and silvor coin taken, and tho box rolookod. Three men havo boon arrostod on suspicion. Small bovB nlavinir with flrecrack era at Lodi. Gl.. cot firo to tho olllco of tho Ixuli Nnct. Tho firo gained such headway that before anything could bo done tho otlico 01 the Lodi AVu-j. tho San Joimuin bakery, a rosi donco owned by J. Kevins, and tho rtMhleiu'o of Dr. Grant woro entirely destroyed. Tho loss is $5,000; insur ance unknown. AGRI6ULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of Farmers and Stockmen, To II urn Caterplllnr cnta. Tho caterpillar that was to preval ent in Oregon orcharda a few years ago, have returned this year, and will probably multiply for next year. rrol. Riley, of the department of agricul ture, says: Take a piece of soft brick known as salmon brick, and trim it to an 6gg shape ; then take two flexible wires, cross them over the brick, wrap them around it, and twist tho endB to gether. Then attach it by tho wires to a long stick, and soak tho brick in coal oil ; light it with a match and you are armed for tho work. Asbestos may bo used to advantage, and a little thorough work early enough in tho Benson will obviate tho necessity of more expensive remedies at a later time. The soakinc in tho oil may bo repeated as often as required to main tain the 11 tme. Peach trees that havo been annu ally and heavily banked with wood ashes to keep out tho borers havo been moio free from yellows than those not so protected. Farmers' institutes have become an institution in Wisconsin. Eighty-two wero held last year in forty-five counties, and 279 practical topics were diseussed. Moro than 100 lecturers and specialists impaired instruction, and the State appropriated $12,000 to help the farmers cauee along. Severely cutting back the dead wood on the peach trees will start them in to new life. It the treo be dead at the top, and tho wood near tho trunk green, tlio new buds will soon give a now top. By keeping all the injured old wood cut away the tree will do service much longer than is usually the case with peach trees. Both meadows and pastures re quiro some looking after in tho spring If there bo bare or weedy places throw on a littlo seed. If tho pasture had been seeded last spring and the "catch" was not good it would bo good plan to again go over tho whole, giving seed as would neem to bo needed. Tho Blenheim pippin, is ono of the finest applos in the world. It is good not for one locality alone, but its con stitutional vigor enables it to fruit successfully in every diverse climates and Boils. Tho apples aro perfect in form, coloring and Bize, and of fine fiavor. After a cow has dropped her calf, her system is always more or less fev erish and tho milk correspondingly unhealthful. It is strongly laxative and therefore exactly fitted to too re quirements of tho young calf, for which naturo designed it. But it is not safe to feed it to older stock, ex cept with great caution. It will cause abortion in cows heavy with pigs, though these aro tho ones that inex perienced farmers might think first of favoring with it. "That farm scone you seem to be sneering at, sir," said tho indignant artist, "is valued at $500. It is gener ally considered a fine painting. Allow mo to ask you if you are familiar with works of art?" "Not very familiar," replied tho agriculturist, who was looking through tho studio with his wifo, "but I know something about tho works of nature, young man, and when you make a cow that gets up from the ground by putting out her forefeet first, you aro doing something that nature never did." A poultry an thorny pronounces a cross between a Dominique cock and Wyandotto hens to bo excellent for producing first-class chicks foi broil ers. As tho Dominique is of medium size, an active cock can be mated with twolvo or fourteen hens, and the quick growth of tho Dominique, with tho beautiful yellow logs, and compact, plump appearance usual to tho Wyan dotte, will bo secured. Half-breed Wyandotto hens will answer all pur poses whore the pure breeds are scarco, but tho Doininiquo male must bo pure breed. Old straw stacks, eaten a fourth or a third of tho way under, aro not infre quent sights in barnyards at this sea son of the year. Later on when the dock is taking rofugo from a storm under the ledges of theso traps, a strong wind will topple them over, and sometimes enough stock will bo killed or crippled to knock tho profits out of farming for a wholo year. Aside from tlio danger of injury to stock, there aro good reasons why theso unsightly objectB should be torn down. The Btraw which composes them will not bo fit for food next winter. Tho best thing that can bo ilono with it is to turn it into manure as soon as possi ble This can best and most effect ually bo done by tearing them down, and scattering tho straw thickly over tho ground. In relation to tho valuo of salt in tho dairy tho correspondent of an ex change says : A Wisconsin dairyman lately told mo ho milked soventeen cows tho past soason, and early in tho Bummor ran out of Bait, and having road in ah agricultural paper that cow do just aB well without Bait ho neg lected to get another barrel. Tho drouth camo, tho milk-flow dropped to about 200 pounds of milk a day, which gave no profit, nor did it increase af ter the pastures wero freshened by rains. Ho bought a carload of mill stuff and began feeding, but still re ceived only 220 pounds of milk a day, and several of tho cows would hold up their milk onco or twice a week. Then ho began to salt regularly ovory day, and the increase was stoady until on tho eamo feed they wero producing 3S0 pounds of milk a day, and in stead of beingkept at a loss, yielded a fair profit. MARKET REPORT. Sellable Quotations Carefully Eevised Every Week. WHEAT Valley. $1 20fl 22 Walla Walla, $1 12 1 16. BARLEY Whole, $1 101.12A; ground, per ton, 25 0027 50. OATS Milling, 4243c. ; feed, 44 45c. HAY Baled, $15 001G 00. SEED Blue Grass, 14$16c. ; Tim othy, 910c; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent. Roller, $4 00 ; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 25c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound. 2Gc. ; pickled, 1520c. ; inferior grade, 1522. CHEESE Eastern, lG20c; Ore gon, 14lGc; California, 14c. VEGETABLES Beets, ptr sack, $1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2fc. ; carrots, per sk., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20e. ; onions, $1 00 ; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 90c.$l; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ; rhubarb, per lb., Gc. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8c. POULTRY Chickens, per doz.. $2 505 50; ducks, per doz., $3 50 G 00; geese, $G 007 00; turkeys, per lb., lG18c. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12Jc per lb.; Eastern, ldld$c. ; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12Ae. per lb. ; Oregon 1012c. ; Eastern lard, 10lla. per lb. ; Oregon, lOJc. GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00 2 50; Sicily lemons. $b 507 00; California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges $6 00: Riverside, $4 00: Mediterra nean, $4 25. Viliuu aiiUlia Sun dried ap ples, 7e. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 11c; pitiess plums, 13c,; Italian prunes, 1014c. ; peaches, 1214c raisins, $2 252 50. WOOL Valley, 1718c: Eastern Oregon. 915c. HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c, culls, 67!.; kip and calf, 8$10c, Murrain, 10 12c; tallow, 33c. LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00; edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G. sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor mg. per Al, ifrlo UU; JNo. ceiling, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear 1J 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 60, extra, $4 00; 1 lath, per M, $2 25; l4 lath, per M, $2 50. BEANS Quote small whites, $4 50; pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; Linias, $4 50 por cental. MEA P Beef, wholesale, 33c. ; dressed, 7c. ; sheen, 3c; dre-ced, Gc; hogs, dressed, 77e. ; veal, 78c. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17o; Costa Rica, 1820c; Rio, 1820c; Java, 27c; Arbuckle's's reostcd,22u. SAL'P Liverpool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three sizes ; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels ; Golden C.GJc; extra C,6c. ; dry granulated, 7i;. ; crushed, fine crushed, cube and powdered, 8 c ; extra C, 5c; halves and boxes, c. higher. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. A Baptismal garment known to bo ono hundred and thirty-three years" old is in uso at Pekin, III It is a somowhat singular fact that of all the Christina nations tho United Stales of America aro alono repre sented by Protestant Christian mis sions in Porsia. Tho total numbor of chapels and preaching stations in England and Wales in connection with tho Welsh Presbyterian ehuroli, commonly called Calvauistic Mothodists, is 1,394. ltov. Bartholomew Edwards, rector of Ashill, Norfolk, is tho oldest clergy man in England. lie has just com pleted his ono hundredth year, and has been rector of Ashill sovonty-fivo years. In thodiocosoof London (Anglican church), with a population of 3,000, 000, thoro wero 81,891 bastisms tho past year. Tho wholo number of births was, it is estimated, about 98,000. Fobruary 22 is Arbor Day in Ala bama, when overy pupil of the public schools is expected to plant a treo. Tho day is niemorablo as tho birthday of ono who cut down his fathor's cherry treo when a boy. Tho now Congrogational Manual of Great Britain show? that there are 4.338 Congrogatiol rUurches in En gland and Wales, wiu 1.C25.600 sit tings. Thero aro also 141 chuiches in Scotland and Ireland. Pero Hyacinth said lately that if tho Church of Romo would givo up in fallibility, allow priests to marry, and render oonfesslon voluntary, it would rally to its side "all tho dissenters and all tho lukewarm." A new UiKiuiauqua lias been com menced near Niagara Town, about seven miles from thn falls. About one hundred lots have 4jeon laid out for building purposes, sovoral of which havo boon taken and cottages erected. A vory superior assembly room has been built, and a hotel has also been erected. Tho directors aro sanguine . , .... 1 , ,. ' .. that Xia .' """'""J t'uvunm 11 ..m...r. .u.u ... UI.IOUU bo a Chautauqua on a small scale. 1 ... ..... .., 1, ....I, I... 1 1 FETISH WORSHIP. . ... , ll.H.r ITal .1 t.- ,1,. v.iim or tho Dark Continent. Tho African believes that thoro aro everywhere ovil spirits who are amen able to charms or incantations or, as he calls them, "fetishes," and that con tain unknown or half-known persons whom ho callas wizards aro acquainted vith theso charms and uso their occult knowlcdgo for nefarious purposes. Ho believes further that certain other per sons aro gifted with tho power of track ing or "smelling out" tho offenders So universal is this boliof that almost every villago of pagan Afr.ca. partic ularly toward tho west coast, has its fetish house, a grim and ghastly build ing, often ranged round with human skulls in every stage of decomposition. nd a fetish man, who is its high priest. No human being, surely, ever had a more terrific power committed to him. ind few have used it moro unsp inngiy or unscrupulously. Tho fotish man is bound by 110 law; ho recognizes no rules of evidence Any thing which happens, even in the most ordinary course of nature, ho may pronounce to ho the work of a fetish, or a wizard. and to need his assistance to ferret it out. A heavy rainfall or drought, a murra n among tho cattle, a pestilcnco or a continuation, a child devoured by a wild animal, an illness or a death each and all of theso may be pronounc ed to bo "fetish" somebody has done it, and ho must bo detected. So pos sessed aro tho natives by this belief, it so forms part of their being, that it never occurs to any of them, though ho knows his own turn may come next, to question tho reality of this uncanny power; and, in tho panic terror of this fetish man and hi decisions tho negro los( s for a time 301110 of his most essential and amiable characteristics, his frivolity, his light hoai tedness; even his family affection. A son will join in putting his father death; a brother will help to tear in pieces a brother. If tho accused dare to deny the charge which he seldom docs, however preposterous or impossi ble it may be ho has to submit to some terrible ordeal, such as tho running at full speed under an avenuo of hooped arches about half his height, when, if he stumbles, or-rather, as soon as he stumbles, he is hacked to death; or the drinking of somo deadly decoction, such as tho casea bark, when his ono chaneo of escape is handsomely to bribe the fetish man to givo him the ex act quantity or qu ility which will make him desperately sick, before the poison has well bo.uu its deadly work. In Ashantco and Dahomey, at Bonny anil Calabar, in the Fan country and throughout Angola this terrible boliof prevails, and, as may well bo im agined, it ramifies out into every kind of villainy ami crime. Nineteenth Cen tury. ALGERIAN 'CHILDREN. Tho Most I'romlnpnt IVnturo of Internet in North Afrlt-nii Oltlr. I must again refer to tho children,, for this street was teeming with littlo Tlemcenites who had never left, and probably never would leave, their na tive town. Tho boys, when running about, wear nothing but a long, whito chemise and dark blue vest, but of all bewitching creatures in the world tho little girls can scarcely bo surpassed. They aro everywhere, and must strike stranger, certainly an artist, as a. prominent feature of interest. Somo aro going to tlio baker's carrying un baked loaves piled on a plank on tho head; others with littlo brass-bound buckets lir mining with milk; singly, in crowds, ahva s fascinating; not only pretty, but arrayed in an inlinito vari ety of costumes they dart from shadow into sunlight, and disappear in a twink ling round a epinor or through a door way. 'They wear, first, a white chemise with gauze sleeves, over it a gandoura. or chemise without sleeves, and reach ing nearly to tho ankles, usually of prii-ted calico, glaring in color, and with spots, stripes, birds, branches and leaves; this gandoura is sometimes of rich brocade or light silk. Over tlio first they often wear a second gandoura of tullo with a design in it, ordina rily nothing moro nor less than com mon white lace curtain stulV. All tlio materials hang limp and Hotter when they run; round tho waist n broad ceinturc, and over tho shouldersa littlo bodice. On tlio head a conical cap, always of crimson volvot, moro or less ornamented with gold thread; children and unmarried girls wear them with a strap under tho chin; married women tin them on with a colored handker chief besides tho strap. Their hair is fringed square, just over tho oyobrows, and plaited down tlio hack. Tlio opera tion of dyo'ng it dark brownish wine color requires several days, during which time thoy appear certainly at a disadvantage, ilonua is mado into a mushy paste and plastered all over tho head, as much as the hair, being tied up all over, can hold in place and even more, for it runs down tho neck, tho cheeks, and into tho ears. Tho process gives som what tho appear ance of a head modeled in wax with tho hair studied in masses. Tho palms of tho hands, fingers, and tho feet and toes, aro also stained. F. A. JJridg man, in IJarjtr'a Magazine. To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying anion to what tho world tolls you you ought to prefor, id"" to havo kept your soul alive. Such a man may bo gonerous; ho may bo hon est In something moro than a com mercial sense-, ho may lovo his friends with an electlvo personal sympathy, anil not neetptihein as an adjunct of tho station to which ho has boon called. 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