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OREGON SCOUT JONES & CHANCEY, BuMiriHiafto A laiioe tustlo wtw cauak m tie iBaH Ckuic Jtiver in Tiw -Wio fliete 1SW efc ia tta tvwi4- on its- Jit&l iTr-rr-ra-. Tite Swcot trymg hefbator cultuso oh trke Paoifie Cnt. The iirat Atlantis kistalhnent lure bec-n nnr chorcd at Sana Cruz. Mrs. Wahrkn, the Colorado Cattle Qucon, who is said o bo worth $10, 000,000, is the wife of Bishop Warron, of tho Methodist church. Thk Pope's golden rose goes this year to the Princess Regent of Brazil in honor of tho liberation of tho slaves throughout the Empire. The latest thing in envelopes is an article which will turn black, bluoand red when any inquisitive person at lempts to oyen it by tho use of steam or water. The now Japanese Minister at "Washington served fivo years in pris on, and whilo there translated John Stuart Mill's works ou political econ omy into Japanese. Thk population of Canada is less than that of tho State of New York, and yet, whilo Now York has n debt of only about $7,000,000, Canada has a debt of noarly $210,000,000. The soup served in dinfng-cnra is jiuulo in a manufactory which fills canB at tho rate of live thousand a day with mock turtle, chicken, toma to and all other kinds of palatablo soup. On opening an ice-ladon car at Cin cinnati a tramp emerged and hurriod ly made off. As tho car had been locked threo days boforo, it is supposed that ho ohdured tho wintry tompera iuro all that timo. A VAKMKit near Buffalo, Ponn., whilo plowing a few days ago, camu upon a pot containing nearly $11,000 in gold coin. It is supposed to have boon hidden by a miser who lived near tho spot many yoara ago, The ordinary Chinese girl's de meanor, when among thoso not of her own race, is propor to a precisoness. She holds a handkorchief to hor faeo, uovor smiles, and under no cirouni Btnncos expresses surprise Emi'MJSH Victouia has requested Dr. MuoKonzio to prepare for hor a truo history of tho lato Emperor Frederick's illness, in ordor to corrcot tho Gorman doctors' assertions. It is not known whothor tho empress will make public tho report. Pou tho paBt ton years tho ownor of a Homing mill at Dubuque has had a sign on his liro-proof safo reading: "No mouoy in horo ; ploaso call at the house." It was intended for burglars, and tho other night one called at tho house and sooured $1,870. The lumber from which tho gallows was constructed on which John Urown was executed is owned by a resident of llarpor'a Forry, who is waiting for some rolie hunter to come and take it off his hands. Tho mod est sum of $1,500 is asked for it. Daniel Wkhstkk used to say that tho threo most troublesome clients ho over had wore a young lady who -wanted to bo married, a marriod wo man who wanted a divorce and an old maid who did not know what she did want. And tho lust was tho most troublesome of tho lot. i A Baptist church in Choctaw 'County, Ala., is supported entirely from tho proceeds of tho church farm, a tract of sixteen acres planted in cotton. Tho land is rented by tho church mombors, and on regular oc casions (hoy all got together and give tho ground a thorough tilling froo of charge It appear that, besides having thips with no guns, England has cav alrymen with no horsos, For exam ple, tho Third ltogimont of House hold Cavalry has but 800 horses for 1,300 moil, and J 7,000 dragoons and hussars have but 10,000 horses. In tho Gorman army tho usual proportion ia 1,000 horses for 700 men. OvKit fourteen pounds of ambergris woro found floating in tho surf at JIarblehead Nock, Mass. At first tho iortunuto findor wai ignorant of tho Hubstanco's idontity, hut ho made an Analysis, whioh showed it to bo genu ino ambergris. It is worth at tho prent market quotation about $1,000, , UNION. (MtHIMMW . mm m torn $m eoxmtp, Uk, ata xxuttu wirtw, lb k reported: tha Ed won turn scW liia- Hi-ter-est) m tlw phonograph fur $.1,000,000 to a New Ted taau. NeaF Pa-rkorsbiwg, W. Va., a boy wu nviatake for a gfeumMiog a-nd fntully shot. Sorao of tho bedding of Arkansm convicts, it is asserted, haa not been wuehed or cleaned in four years. England is having a summer worth mentioning. Snow has been falling this month in tho suburbs of London. Threo million dollars, it is now said, is tho extent of the loss by the Hoods' in Pennsylvania and West "Virginia. Will Houghton was hanged at nr: ... xt n t i f ruiBion( vs. kj., lor uio iuuruur ui negro woman. Edward Deacons, a trump who had murdered Mrs. Ada btono because she roiuscu mm ioou, was nangeu at itoolioster, n. i. Kiippendorf, Dittman fe Co.'s fac - tory at Cincinnati, O., was destroyed by lire, .boss, $.UU,UUU ; insurance, $101,000. Charles H. Wright, of tho Detroit postoffice, who has been supposed to have been stealing letters for tho past thirteen years, has just been arrested. A sailboat containing four young men was upset in a squall on tho lako opposite Northwood, Minn., and its oc cupants drowned. Kim: Humbert's nalaco at Bomo' contains two thousand rooms, but the Xing and his of them. is family occupy only 125 ly occupy only Tho Mormon hierarchy is said to pay Mr. A. M. Gibson a salary of $10,000 a year to look after tho inter ests of Zion at Washington. Tho departmont of stato has in formation that incendiary lircs at Port-au-Princo destroyed about one fifth of tho town including many of tho public buildings. Tho Folsom hoirs, ono of whom is Mrs. Cleveland, have filed a petition for a partition of thoir several interests in fifty lota in Omaha, valued at bovoral hundred thousand dollars. A party of fourteon lumbermen wore drowned on Mattawan river, Quebec. Tho lumbermen wore drunk and in attempting to run tho rapids their canoe was overturned and all hands perished. Tho boss aligator hunter of Welaka, Fla., is L. A. Morris, ho having killed last week twonty-threo good-sized ones, which not with teeth, hide and carcass, about $1 60 each. Ho also bagged thirty-six small ones. Henry Itomas was stabbed to doath by Theodore Sutter, at Chicago, 111. Tho murdered man had been kconiug company with Suttor's siator and thereby incurred tho displeasure of tho brother. A collision occurred on tho Norfolk it Western road, near Lynchburg, Va., between two freights, killing both en gineers, ono fireman and livo of the crows. Tho loss of property is $100,-! 000. 11 1 1 . i. nvo puoiogrunuora wno wont, out to i got a photograph of a wrecked train on tho Burlington road, woro sot upon by a mob of strikers and sovoroly beaton. Tho photographic instru ments wero smashed. A passongor train on tho Milwaukee road, struck a cow near Hod Wing, Minn., and threo cars wont down an embankment. W. O. Clark, of Hur ley, Wis., wus crushed to death, and two ladies woro injured, ono having a leg broken. Carriages containing a wedding party on their way to tho preacher's j house at Plymouth, Luzorno county, l'onn., tlio other day, ran over and killed a littlo girl. Tho wholo . party woro arrested, and tho marriage did not tnko place. A fatal boiler explosion occurred at theooal shafts of Williams it Moss, near JCion, Ivy. David Stono, tho en gineer, and Mosos llaskiu, the fire man, wero killed, and Fred Williams, and Frank Throll and Alexander Longneckor woro badly scalded. The latter will die. Final preparations for tho soarch for tho treasure of tho British ship-of-war Braak, sunk near Delawaro break water in 1703, aro complete, and the expedition will Btart in a largo vessel, with ocean charts, maps and nauti cal instrument. The hulk is believed to contain $2,000,000 in Spanish gold. Mr. Zaehar, of Wisconsin, who, on :. r.V :"' , " , inn mmui, una uuuu going WIWIUllt food for fifty-threo days, has at last! oonsonted to eat something. Living on wator, however fat tho animaloiilao may bo, emaciates a man more or less, and Mr. Zaohar is considerably skolo touized. Bon Dutton, a farm hand, went to tho hoiibo of John Lamont, throe niiloa east of Brydon, N. Y., and at tempted to kill Lamont and Miss Hoot, a young woman employed in Laniont'a family. Dutton fired ono bullet at Lamont, whioh took effect in his faco, and four at tho girl, all of which look eilVct. ft a 1 i- i m j recent ueor nuni near marun, Toun., uauio to a queer end. After tho sportcmoii had chased tho animal for several milos, and the hounds woro close to its heele, tho frightened ani mal turned suddenly, and, running up to ono of the hunter, tucked its head under his arm, as if for prolec ion, No one luil the heart o kill tho plead Ing animal, ami tho hum was aban doned. QQAST GULUNOS. I5jn5t6.rjt aiyr (MiToisiia. Lcoara Donogto, aged 40, boyefraak in Clover valley, Woke bis neek. fell off Nov., anc Ex-Justice of the Peace, William ttottly, of Sacramento, Cal com mittcd suicide at the Western bote j by taking morphine. Lee bykes alias W. it. snort, sus pected of complicity in the robbery of u stage and the murder of a passen ger in onasta, county, Cal., was ar rested by Sheriff McCord. Q. N. Galloway, a freight brake- man, was thrown from a train at Tucson, Ariz., whilo making a curve ! west of the depot. His neck was dislocated, and ho died immeu iately. A destructive firo occurred in tho TTidflim 'PrwiHiirn itrift. minn. nf. Knnnv I "-- - -- j ! South, Cal. Two miners, Kobort Mc I Kitchnio and John Bowering have ' beon taken out dead, and several ethers were fatally burned. Mrfl r. Dcmpsey, of Fort Bragg j Cab, forced her two children to drink 1 whisky, and nave them no food. The i oldest, a boy of 3 years, could not sur , vivo the shock to his littlo brain, anc died in convulsions. I Joseph Martran, an Italian, aged 43 j was crushed to death at Los Angeles Cal., whilo making an excavation for sewer pine. Threo other men were badly injured internally, and one had a leg broken. The oustom house officers at San Francisco have seized 360 five-tae boxes of smuggled opium on the I bark I'orest (jueQn, bound for llono- 1 11- Tho opium arrived on the steamer Parthia from Victoria, and was transferred to tho baik. James leary, stumbled and leu in front of a cablo car at San Francisco Boforo tho gripman could apply tho brakes tho car passed over the man leg. Mo was taken to the receiving hospital, and died from the shock in about an hour. Giovanni BiBtano, an Italian, was killed at San Jb rancisco by tho caving in of a sower. Tho trench, winch wa oight feet deep, caved in and covered tho man with aand. His fellow lab orers succeeded in digging Bistano out, but lifo was extinct. Jolin iuurpliy, ij years old, was drowned in tho San Joaquin river, near Stockton, Cal., whilo bathing, Murphy and another boy had been ducking each other. During the sport Murphy ventured beyond his depth and was carried away by the current. Haywood Heed, of Sacramento, Cal convoyed two small boys across tho river in his boat, and on reaching tho other side they commenced wading in tho water. Both went over a step-off and wero dragged into the current, Tho younger, aged 0, a son of Win Lainphoy, was drowned. Tho Otago, 870 tons, Captain W Collins, left Seattle with 1381 tons of coal, bound for San Francisco. Whilo three and a half miles north of Poiu Boyes, sho became lost in a heavy fog and before the captain could locate her position sho was among the break ors, and had struck. Tho vessel and cargo aro a total loss. A disastrous liro occurred at Santa Fo, N. M., by which tho Catron build ing, containing tho opera house, post- oflico, Jfexican office, a book and news stand, and an extenstvo law library and ollices, was destroyed, and several other buildings were badly damaged Tho loss aggregato $70,000 ; insurance $10,000. George Grassel and llhiwold Fryo two coopers, had a fight at San Fran cisco, and tho former was badly dam aged about tho head, lie rotired to his house, followed by Fryo, who at tacked him with a cooper's axe and n long knifo, burying tho knife in his groin- ami nearly severing Grasiol's arm with tho axe iii an endeavor to reach his head. Charles Janson, of Los Angeles, Cal., committed suicide in a most shocking manner, llo used a doublo- barreled shotgun, and tied a handker chief from tho toes of his right foot to tho triggers, so that both barrels wero discharged at once, blowing ono side of his faco and half of his head oil and spatterinir his brains against tho ceil ing of tho room, making a most sick ening sight. J. E. Harrison, a policeman, tried to arrest a Spaniard at San Jose, Cal., when tho man drew a pistol and shot at the officer threo tunes. One ball nipped a pieeo out of Harrison's ear. ono wont through his vest under his loft arm and the other wont between his lingers, breaking a cano in his hand. Tho olficor then drow his weapon and began firing. Ho put threo bullets into tho Spaniard, ono through tho body near tho heart, ono through tho bowels and ono through tho thigh. Tho Spaniard died a short timo after. At a mass meeting of citizons at Sail Francisco, a memorial was drawn for pri'sontaiion to congress, setting forth that 9,000 Chinese havo bcon lauded ou writs of habeas corpus since 1881, and that tho violation of law has boon accomplished through tho agency of fedoral courts. Tho memorial further charges that there aro now -1,000 Chinese in San Fran cisco without certificates, who have been landed on writes of habeas cor pus, and who aro now out ou bail. In coiiolusinn tho memorial demands tho impeachment and removal of Lorenzo Sawyer, judge of tho United States circuit court of tho ninth circuit, and Geo i go M, Sabin, district judge for i tho district of Nevada. AGRI6ULTURAL. Bevoted to the Interests of Farmers and Stockmen. IVhnt Han Mnrio (lie Money? Have you stopped to inquire what has made the money in farming for the laat year or two? It would per hapa bo easier to tell what haa not made money for in the latter cate gory are to bo included our two great eat ataples, wheat and beef. It is tho lesser staples that have paid hogs, fat sheep, potatoes, beans, poultry, eggs, and many of the still smaller eourcos of income on the farm. Corn has been a source of profit to those who have had that grain far sale, and especially the few who can now place it on the market, but the many farm ers who havo bought it and fed it to cattle havo no very cheorful remarks to make on this score. Tho average in smaller products, however, has not been bad, and do not forget that the farmer who makes money every year and there aro thoso who do is the one who alwaya haa some of these smaller products for sale. The new wheat crop of Australia is estimated at ten bushels per acre, which is a higher average than any at tained in the colony since 1875. Young shade trees should be trimmed into shape tho first few years after having them set out. The beauty of a shade troo depends upon the shape given it when young. A bit of freshly burnt charcoal in the water in which Hyacinths, etc., are growing, (in glasses) will keep tho water sweet a long time, and prevent the neceasity of changing it. Lato potatoes can bo put in on the ground formerly occupied by peas. The late crop keeps best during win tor. The chief difficulty now is to get good seed. Cut off all diseased limbs from the pear tiees should evidence of blight appear, and awab the limbs with lin seed oil. Burn the branchea taken off and keop tho soil stirred. Lato corn for fodder can be planted now. Sow it thickly in the rows, so as to have the stalks small and tender. Sorghum also makes an excellent fod der crop, and is highly relished by stock. A correspondent at Albion, Me., says "our farmera are the most intelli gent, frugal and industrioua in the State. Our town is free from debt and has but three paupers, taxes aro low and consequently we havo not the Western fever." Melons will now send out shoots, whilo the eailier kinds will blossom. Do not work them in tho hills so as to disturb tho roots, but work the ground around them and in front of the shoots. Should weeds or grass appear in tho hills pull them up. Corn endures drought as well as any crop grown, but only when tho field is kept clean. A thorough cultivation of tho field after a shower is better than a coating of manure, as it pro tects tho roots and affords a great sup ply of moisture. The work is easily done under the check-row system. It will soon bo timo for tho hens molt. Keep tho hens that begin to! to molt early, as they will bo ready for winter laying beforo thoso that do not molt until late in tho season. Sell off all tho extra males and late-hatched chicks. Feed very littlo corn, and give fresh meat three times a weok. All young animals are more oasily stunted whilo they aro depondent up on milk as thoir principal food than at any other tune, and tor this reason considerable care should bo exercised to see that a steady growth is main tained. A stunted animal is not de sirable, to say tho least. Alter your nrst crop oi clovor is re moved apply 100 pounds of dry-land phistei per aero over tho hold, and it will improve tho second growth. On soiiio soils plaster is a special fertilizer for clover. On light sandy soils a mixturo of two parts wood ashes and ono part plaster is bettor. Tho Ohio Station, having tested nine ditl'eront kinds of tomatoes, viz :, Acme, Advance, Buist's Beautv, Liv ingston s Beauty, Cardinal, Climax, havonto, Mikado, and Perfection, finds that tho Cardinal, from llendorson. gave tho greatest woight of tomatoes to a given number of plants, and Livingston's Beauty, from Livingston, next. It will cost but littlo to keep the surface of tho ground around young trees well sprinkled with lino lime. Many insects will avoid tho lime, and on sonio soils tho liino will prove bene ficial. An oxcollent mixturo for such purposes is two parts wood ashes, ono part lime, and ono part coarse salt. Only a small quantity neod bo used at each application. This is tho season for growing root crops, licets, parsnips and carrots aro now well advanced, but they re quire fllosi attention in order to keep tho rows clean. After each rain tho ground should bo cultivated, and if grass has taken hold between the plants it will pay to uso tho hoe. By so doing it tho roots will bo larger, ( bettor in quality, and a fair yield se cured. I It should lo noticed that when small seeds of tender plants, suoh as purslano, aro buried deep in tho ground, they will lie dormant until, by tho working of tho ground, thoy aro brought quite near the surface, whore tho temperature ami fruouccoss of air favor thoir sprouting. After tho first shower they will usually como up, and should bo killed boforc thoy show nioro than two or threo loaves. After they becomo au inch or two long it is laru to keop them from going to seed without lugging them out of tho field. MARKET REPORT Reliable Quotations Carefully Revised Every Week. WHEAT Vallev, $1 22i$l 23 Walla Walla, $1 151 '18. BARLEY Whole, $1 101 12; ground, per ton, 025 0027 50. OATS Milling, 3G38c. ; feed, 4-1 45c. HAY Baled, $18 00. SEED Blue Grass, 1416c. ; Tim othy, 910c; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 20c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound, 25c; pickled, 2025c. ; inferior grade, 15252. CHEESE Eastern, 1620c; Ore gon, 14lGc. ; California, 14c. VEGETABLES Beets, ptr sack, $1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2Jc. ; carrots, per ek., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20c. ; 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., $3 505 50; ducks, per doz., $5 00 7 00; geese, $G 008 00; turkeys, per lb., 12c. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12$c per lb.; Eastern, 1313c. ; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12c. per lb. ; Oregon 1012c. ; Eastern hud, 10llc. per lb. ; Oregon, lOJc GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00 2 50; Sicily lemons. $7 500 00; California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges $G 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra nean, $4 25. DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap plea, 7c. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 11c; pitless plums, 13c,; Italian prunes, 1014c. ; peaches, 1214c. ; raisins, $2 402 50. WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon. 915c HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c; culls, 67c; kip and calf, 810c. ; 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 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, oxtra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, extra, $4 00 ; 1 lath, per M, $2 25 ; U lath, per M, $2 50. BE ANS Quote small whites, $4 50 ; pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; Linias, $4 50 per cental. MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33Ac; dressed, Gc; sheep, 3c; dressed, Cc. ; hogs, dressed, S9c. ; veal, 78c. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17c; Costa Rica, 1820c. ; Rio, lS20c. ; Java, 274c; Arbuckle's'a roasted, 22c SALT Liverpool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tho threo sizes ; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels ; Golden C, 7c. ; extra C, 7Jc ; dry granulated, 8c. ; crushed, lino crushed, cube and powdered, Sgc ; oxtra C, 5c; halves and boxes, c highor. wn "Ano wisdom. A watch that won't run doesn't need any chain. The very first step toward action is tho death wan-ant of doubt. Wo can not conquer fato and necessity, yet we can yield to thorn in such a manner as to bo greater than if wo could. Lamior. If tho greatest pleasure in lifo is the pleasure of anticipation, tho young man's tailor cortainly ought to bo tho happiont of men. Somcrvillc Journal. We aro habitually trying to get more out of life than wo put into it to empty from tho vessel what tho vessel has never contained, and henco our many failures. United Presbyterian. Every ono fancies that his own neglect will do no harm, but that it is somebody olso's business to keep a lookout for him, and this idea cherish ed alike by all is tho secrot ruin of all. Pericles. Let it bo borne in mind that the cords of love which bind hearts so closoly together that neither lifo nor death nor time nor eternity can sever thorn tiro woven of threads no bigger than a spider's web. George S. Uil lard. They are most fortunate who soon est learn to expect nothing for which thoy have not worked hard, and who novor acquired tho habit of pitying themselves ovorniueh, if over in after life they happoned to work in vain. Lord Macaulay. Whatever, amuses serves to kill time, to lull tho faculties and to banish reflection. Wlmtovor ontortains usually awakens tho understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts is lively hi its nature, and sometimes tumultu ous in its olTiK'ts. Cruhbe. Solon taught that honors achieved far exceed those thut nro created, and his dictum was much esteemed among tho ancionU who set a high valuo on tho praise of ""men. But, nitiny coutu rier later, ono wiser than Solon, being enlighUmed by tho divine Toucher, said: "What ia a miui the ln-ttor for being thought givat.r by man? lor a man Is what he is m UoU's birht, und nothing mortf. JnUnor. GENERAL. An Atchison (Kas.) woman did ft big washing tho other dny, cooked dinner and whipped a child, and then fell dead from over-exertion. George Davis, a colored man of Chicago, will allow a barrel of Hour to fall on his head and shouldors from -a distance of throe foot for two dollars a drop. Kansas has a genuine philan thropist. Stephen Richardson, of Har vey County, has planted throe miles of poach trees in tho public highway for the benefit ol travolers. Electric rille3 aro tho latest. In stead of tho ordinary percussion firing device a dry chlorido of silver battery and a primary coil will, so it was lately stated beforo the American in stitute, firo tho rillo thirty-livo thou sand times without recharging. A Maino newspaper says tho price of lumber in Now York regulates tho price of stumpagc in Maine. If spruco is worth $15 a thousand, tho Maine man figures this way: Lumber $15 in Now York; freight and insurance. $S a thousand; rafting and milling, $4; rutting and hauling. 84. This leave $4, and that would bo the price ot siunipnire. If lumber is worth $16. stumping is '-5 in Maino. The white wild goose of the Pacific slope is a remarkable bird. An edit or of a Riverside papor says that ho once killed one. H took four bullets from a 44-caliber Sharp's rillo to bring tho bird down at a range of sevonty fivo yards. Each cartridge contains ninety-two grains of powder. All tiie bullets passod through tho heart of the gooso and lodged in the skin on ilio opposito side from whoro thoy wont in. An attempt was made to boil this bird. "Strange to say, tho bullets were cooked to a jell before any impression was made on the goose." Warron B. Johnson, of Wobstor, Mass.. thinks that ho can make an in teresting book by writing an account of Ins jonrnov across tho continent. On Juno 1. 1882, being then sixty-two years old, lie started for Wobstor, from Euroka Citj Cal., with a horse, a wngon load of provisions, and a cow. In his j mrnoy of Unco thousand miles ho took his time, stopping wherever tho grand our of tho R ckies or tho beauties of the scenery attract ed, sometimes staying for fn days in one cam). Two yours later, on Juno 14 1884 ho roachod his Now England home, having soon considerably more of this country than most men who have gone over tho samo ground. FEMININE FASHIONS. Iiovlvnl l I'oot-Trlimiilnir on Skirts and tliu ltiiKO lor lllhhoiiM. Foot-triinmings on skirts aro re vived, and occasionally a quite deep ll'Mtncc is seen. A pretty arrange ment for soft silks is a scries of pinkod o.it n files about four inches (loop, gathered very full and overlapped about half tho dopth of each, tho Huffy rnclio thus formed being noarly a quarter of a yard deep. Somotimos there aro only threo or four ruflljs thus arranged, or thoro may bo threo or four plnitings laid in doublo or triplo box-plaits. Tho objoet is to gtvu n fuller o fleet a, tho uottom of tho skii", which cortainly much moro becoming than an untriinmod skirt, unless it bo vory full. Tho brokon outline afforded by a full niching or plaiting always enhances tho beauty of a pretty foot as it poops in and out, whilo it softens tho defects and apparently diminishes tho size of ono that needs such advantage. There seems to bo almost a fureur for tho use of moiro ribbon in narrow widths from ono to two inchos. Druperii's of plain not black, white or croam aro striped lengthwiso with thoso narrow ribbons, and several rows aro sowed around tho bottom thus forming a planted trimming. Skirts of soft woolen fabrics havo sev eral rows from threo to fivo around tho foot of tho skirt, and a similar garnituro often finishes tho drapery particularly if it bo ono of tho ample carelessly-looped stylo mado of plain breadths and draped with roforonco to tho ligtiro of tho wearer rather than with ti "set" eflL'ct. Thoso ribbons aro also disposed in perpendicular, horizontal and diagonal linos to form panels or fronts on skirts, and also in trellis and ladder ollbcts. Demorat's Monthly. American Skipping Ropos. "Skipping ropes woro formerly im ported from Franco," said a dealer to a roporlor, "hut now thoy aro noarl all of domostio manufacture. Canada, turns out a limited ntimbor, ow ing to tho fact that juto is choapor thoro; but, on tho other baud, the woodon handles can ho produced in this country at n consider ably loss cost than thoy aro ablo to mako thom across tho line. Different houses havo sttiriod in to manufacture thorn in this city at va rious times, but it was considerable effort to got thoir bauds broken into thoir work, and at tho ond of tho season thoy generally found that thoy could havo bought tho ropos as chotjj as thoy wero ablo to mako them. Tli aro sell all ovor tho country, and range In prico from twenty conts to $1.75 aploco." r. Mail and Ex press. t Judged by His Clothes. Judgo Tho witness swoars you stole his coat, and havo it on. I must, therefore, find you guilty. 'Iramp-Oi, well, vuur, honor, if you' ro going to judge a man Ivtho ilo'hrs ho wears I s'pi gi 1 h havo to g vo in. -Iitro t Free I ress.