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o OREGON SCOTT. JtffES & CHANCEY, Publishers. UNiox. onr.cosi. CHINESE PEDAGOGUES. AltlmitRh Olml to 'lot I'ordRii Pupil. Tlity Aro Aftliiimml of Tlimn. All of us hnvo our experiences of tfco Invincible contempt in which wo ivro hojd by our stolid montora, who accept our presents with tho air of n chief levying tribute from his retainers. Amusing indeed nro tho ways in which tho frowsy old pedagogues betray tholr Joolings, and childishly ingenious tho devices to which they havo recourse in ordor to preserve their assumption of tholr superiority boforo their country men whilo disguising it boforo tho for eigner. Chinese otlquotto holps them, for they can put it on and off at pleasure, and trust to tho foreigner not being cute enough to follow Its ramifications. But somotimes oven tho ceremonial forms aro a anaro to thorn. Ono who was in tho habit of being reverentially bowed out of tho house after each day's lesson, and stopped at tho threshold to return tho obeisances of his pupil, found on ono occasion a sudden necessity for adjustlnghls dross, and in doing so omitted tho customary formality. Struck by tho singularity of tho proceeding, tho foreigner had the curiosity to follow the teacher into tho Btreot, and thoro saw passing a Chinese Ting-ch'ai, In whoso presenco tho old teacher would not demean himself by doing rovoronco to tho foreigner. Another kindly disposed scholar in duced his teacher to dlno and accom pany him to a theator. Unpleasant as , it is to sit sear to a woll-nourished 1 Chlnoso during tho time whilo his thor acic air passages aro charged with ox ploslvonoss, it must ha allowed that tho courtesy of tho Wo3torn p.ipil was commondablo. Hut tho guest folt Hdg cty, notwithstanding tho solntlve effect of pork and beans, and soon found an oxcuso for leaving his foreign friend. 3Io could not, in fact, endure being publicly soon In tho company of a forolgnor. Necdlosa to Hay that in tho streets your well-bred Chinese walk, liko tho Lovlto, on tho other eldo when they hoo tholr foreign ac quaintances approaching. Chines? Times. SENSE OF HUMOR. It Ik Wall luvnlitittil Ammii: tliu NilttvoH of VorltH'ilro. Dr. Hook possossoit a gift without which ho could novor havo got on in Yorkshire and that was a souso ol humor. Sydney Smith said that It needed a surgical operation to got a joko into a Scotchman's head an opinion in which no ono who has read Dean llamsay's "Itunlnisconcos of Scot tish Llfo and Churactor" can possibly agroo, and there Is something akin in tho grim Caledonian and West Hiding humor. I was preaching ono of a course of sormons in tho upon air In a noii-churoh-golng partof utown parish, whon I wiu pleasantly struck by tho polite attention of tho landlord of a small public house eloso by, who had placed a chair and tablo at my disposal for a tompornry pulpit. So I remarked on it to ono of my hoarors. 'Why, you boo." said ho, "ho reckons on somo of 'out dropping In for a glass, -when you've done." A curato was trylag to make a religious census of his flock, and asked a working man what roliglon ho was. "Why, you may put mo clown as tho roliglon of a whool barrow; 1 go whtuuover way they sliovo mo," '. c, whichever way suited his Intoroit. Auothor man, with n grin on his faco, boasted of his regular iittondiiiieo at ohurch; his comrades burst out laughing tho follow had just left prison, whore attendance at public worship was, of course, compulsory. Dut Yorkshlremou men aro civil after a fashion. Ono day 1 paid a visit to a hand-loom woavor busy throwing his ahuttlo. whilo his loom creaked and groaned so that I could not got a word in. So I ask oil him if ho earned a ponny in livo minutes. ".No;" ho said, 'how should IP'' So 1 laid down a' ponny. "Now," I said, "lot us tulle for tlvo minutes." Tho man stopped, looked at tho olook "l'lvo minutes Is up," ho said at tho and of tho time, "but take back your penny; your talk has boon worth more than tho 'brass' (money.) You may look in again II you've amlnd." -Tonule llur, GRAFTS ON WOUNDS. An 0iniMtloii I'rriiui'iitly INirformiMl by Sktlllul Mircixtii. Dr. lledard has communicated to th Academlo do .Medlcluo of Paris fiimu observations regarding animal grafts on wounds in human beings. In case of severe burn of tho seal) . of eight mouths' standing, in a child of two years of ago, lie obtained a rapid cicatrization by means of grafts from a fowl. Ho llrst tried graftu of frogs' Hlciu. bat as those proved to bo ivind- slvo to patients, and did not give very good results, ho substituted others from tho fowl; and tho wound, which! measured three Inches by two and a half, had completely healed In two mouths. He had boon equally success-: ful In other and subsequent casus. He J takes tho skin from beneath the wlnu i of a chicken, carefully scouring the ad jacunt cellular tissue, hut avoiding adipose tissue. The transplanted plueoa varied from a sixth to a third ol au lneli in iUo, and they were inula. tainod In position by moans of a little ooltou-wotil ami iodoform gnut. Tim hklu of bird and fowl has Urn ail van tage of huluif btipple, dtUauU nud viuiouluri U adapti! ItxtK rwullly to th Murfuoo of tlitf wound, ami tidhnrmt without uiidMi'ifuUitflluJoi'l'tlim .'"( PACIFIC COAST NOTES, j M.fera of Local and Generat Import Uathorcd from All Sources for tho Benefit of Our Readers. Truckcc talks of a toboggan blido. Five CHHC6 of small-pox at Merced. Ilikorpfichl 18 filled with bind spec ulators. The bounty Paw of Sonoma county b h been repealed. Hi- Pinles art? unlawfully trapping li 1 1 in Walker river. Twenty-livo pioneers have just or ganized a society at San Ditgo. Frozen meat is to bo shipped from K nsiis City to Sacramento. A recount of the ballots for sheriff . i Nevada county is to bo had. The building of a railroad from Seattlo to the Canada line is assured. Tho money in tho stnto treasury last Saturday amounted to $1,101, 513 27. Oilo Schultz' sliiuEhtcr-hnuso and ico house at Carson, NeV.,wero burned Sundiiy Harvey II. Chirk has bren appoint ed postmaster at Lodi, San Joaquin county. Violations of the fish laws nie re ported fiom Taylorville and the mouth of Taper Mill creek. Uhncr, Sun Bern irdino county, and Fnieriild B.iy, El Dredo county, aie pOBtollices just established. Jack Logarbo lias been charged by tho grand jury at Sin Jose with the murder of his stepdaughter. A strong protest against statehood for Utah has been signed by tho lib eral teriitorial committee of Utah. Tho governor refuses to pardon Ar thur D. Januaiy. who stolo $50,000 while his father was btuto tieasuier. Tho couivo of tho opium Beizul at Port Huron, Mich., has been traced to the Wiipper, Joselyn, at Victoria, i. l. A bill will bo introduced into tho cumin? legislature of California to make two counties out of Lob Angeles. A company composed of loading men at San Jose is to bo organized to bore for oil and gas in Santa Clara valloy. At El Prsoa strong effort is being made to creato a strike on tno Southern Pacific by dissatisfied en gineers. A largo meeting of merchants of Los Aug) les ono night last week insti tuted a move to bring down rents. Concerted action is to be scoured. John Wesley Hill, a Methodist min ister at Ogden, is delivering radical anti-Mormon lectures, and has in curred great hostility from tho Mor mons. On tho roof beams of an old out building at Nevada City was found Saturday in an old sack 'MOO in $20 pieces. It had evidently been there for yrnrs. At. tho drawing at Sutter City last week Oscar liuehn, of San FrancUco, won tho hotel; II. Best won 1110 2 story house, and W. ICddington an other house. Cases of burglary, highway robbery and small thefts aro plentiful at Los Angeles. Mora than tho regular win ter t-upyly of raFcals has reached that city from tho oast. William Jones, ono of tho four men arrested at Los Angelos for robbing tho railway station at Scpulveda and plundering tho guests at tho d-milo house, has mudo a full oonfDssion. Con. Sohn J. Brewster, in tho oarly days of California deputy county clerk of Sonoma county, and subse quently Hirvoyor-goneral of tho state, wits Kent lust heek to tho county poor liouso from tho town of Sonoma. KusmuB Lnrson is lighting tho Ore gon Railway and Navigation company. The company pussos over his home stead, near Willows, Or., and won't pay him his prict for tho land, so ho tore up tho track and wub arrested. A rich strika is reported in the 1th of July mine, in tho Salmon river country, Idaho. A largo quantity of Bulphato of silver, worth $1000 a ton, has boon found. This is said to bo tho riclu'Bt mino in Washington terri tory or Idaho. Tho mental condition of Kilo Ellon, a rich Truekeo lumberman, will bo contested over the effort to git pos session of the gift toudeceatied daugh ter, jiut provious to her death, of $15,000. It is claimed ho wap incom petent mentally to miiko tho gift. At Santa Ana, Los AnclcM county, Monday, the locomotive of the Suntu Fe Short lino struck a wagon contain ing William Huntley, sr., aged 70 years, his wife, aged SO yean1, and his 'daughter and duughter-in-luw. They wore all four killed outright. They wore residuntsof El Modenu, nix uiilos from Santa Ana. Scours oan generally ho checked by shutting tho pigs up and feeding dry corn for a few days. H pigs are largo enough to wit give them dry, r.iw Hour, or ryo or whwit whole. If too young to oal, a lump of alum the siio ol a walnut inny ho diwolvod in a quart or water anil u UunpoQiiful given morning and evening to n( u voU or to old, luuvwdug Ui- uW lur older MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS j A Brief Mention of Matters of Gorurul Interest.-Notes Gathered from Homo and Abroad. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is in Phila delphia. Tho biiBe-b.ill team at Sydney, Aus tralia, is being lionized. .Tomnv fiitv will not ncrmit soarriiiK exhibitions by noU'd pugilists. Mrs. Diss Debar, of " npirit-pictureb" fame, has been released from prison. Warner, N.. II., with a population of 1500, has not had a death in five months. Natural gas has been struck by the drillers at Thorold and St. Charles, Canada. Senator Beck does not get any bet ter, and ho may never be able to re turn to tho senate. James C. Morford, aged 93 year.-, tho lust member of the Association of Old Defender, iB dead. The rtcent cold weather damaged tho tobacco and enffeo crops in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Bakers in Chicago arc now required by law to stamp tho weight and their names on every loaf of bread. But ono session of the public schools was held ono day last week in Boston, owing to a severe snow storm. F. W. Scot', vice-president of the Pratt county, Kansas, ban ic, is cnargeu with robbing the bank of $100. Georgo Beechman accepts tho chal lenge of Hilton, of tho Pacific Coast, to skate for tho roller championship. A joint resolution proposing an anti-polygamy amendment to the Con stitution waa introduced in the house. Lawler, of Illinois, introduced a bill in tho house last week pensioning veterans when they reach the ago of 50. A report to the forestry congress difcclOBCs tho fact that arbor day is now observed in 31 states and terri tories. General Charles G. Dihlgren, who look a prominent part in tho confed erate army, is dymg at nts nonio in Brooklyn. The switchmen on tho Burlington road who have been on a strike have resolved to continue to try and em barrass the road. Dr. Jeffrey, of tho First Baptist church at Indianapolis, preached a formon recently indicating a disbelief in the orthodox hell. Miss Harris, an ex-clork in ono of tho departments at Washington, is re ported from Indianapolis to have gone iupano through political excitement. A gigantic cattle-stealing scheme has been discovered ut Rawlings, Wy. T., through the stock-growers' com miseion, in which a gang of butchers aro thought to bo implicated. About 100 of Denver's leading busi nets men havo arranged to attond the inaugural ceromonieB in regulation cowboy costume, and accompanied by a genuine cowboy band. A fellow calling himself " Jack, tho Ripper, "has been arrested at Montreal. Ho is evidently a lunatic. He had a bright knife and was running after a scieaniing woman. His name is John L.wighoru. Gehoral Ilustoll A. Alger, of Michi gan, has just paid a visit to Mr. Blaine. While politicians believe tho visit was in rofrrenco to a cabinet position, GGnoral Alger ttates that it had no political character. Tho Maine Poniological society is making a collection of choice apples for exhibition at tho oild's exposi tion, which opens in Paris next May. The apples aro to bo placed in a pre serving liquid before being shipped. It is eaid that thoro is a good pros pect of carrying out the scheme of connecting California by cable with Honolulu. Thoro is no doubt that tho scheme if ono that pron ises many ad vantages to the growing comnicico of the Pacific coast. Tho damage inflicted on the South by tho yollow fevor pestilence is now folt in tho lofs of hotel patronage, and tho coining Beaton will bo a trying ono with tho grand Florida establish ments, as well as with northern capi talists who havo investment' there. The official count of tho voto of Montana shows a total of 40,014, which is well up to tho voto of Wash ington, tho latter being 45,467. Mon tana's vote, by tho usual calculation, would indicate a population of not far from 200,000, but it is probably noarer 150,000. Tho employes of the Now York city library recently discovered an ancient document between tho wall and the bhelviug in the librarian's rooms. It waa an engrossed copy of tho declara tion of independence on vwllum bound in folio form and attested August 2, 1S20, by tho then only Biirviving signer, Ohiulea Cairoll, of Oarollton. A call for a convention was pub lished at Aberdeen, 1). T., Monday, to tako measures to prevent, if possible, tho division of Dakota. A quiot meet ing of tho leading citizens was held on Saturday to devise moans to defeat tho divisiouists. They say that divis ion is u purely politieul move and op potcd to tho best interests of the tux payors. tunny Jones (colored) is under ui root at WostiuUtor, Md., ouuiged with killing u 4 ywiMild boy by inhuman troutmunt, The child had buun left with hor by iu mutlior to bo I ak on tvuouf and th ooloiod woman tor lured It I death. Tho Iwdy was cor-' wed with nam uud burin. THE AGRICULTURALIST Newsy Notes fonco nlng tho Farm a'd of Especial I terest to t- o Pa cific Const Huab.udman, It is claimed that on an aver ge the foci I of a cow should yield 2$ per cent, in dry lood matter of her own weight, hut this depei-ds upon many condi tions. A small cow will sometimes at m large quantity and produce more than a larger one. W. A. Henry fays : "To Feeurf good "results from stover or corn-fod-clef, the crop should be liarvetel while the leaves am yet green, so that tl'iey will dry crisp and bright, in which condition there is no nioro pal- tablo foul on thefanin for horses, cat tle or Bheep." Hedges aro not in most localities an advu-able fence. They take up too much land and do not form a perfect burner, us numerous gaps often occur. If the owner does not rare to root out the hedge he snould at least get some good from it. B rbed wire Htrttehed across the open place will prove an effective barrier, and besides it gives stock a very wholesome respect for the hedge itself, however much they have learned the bud habit of breaking through the weak places. Thoee who intend to set out plum trees should not forget that plums, pigs and poultry are a trio which llnurisli well together, and when plant ed in yards occupied by pigs or chick ens, or both, good crops seldom fail to be obtained, us it i3 believed tbut the continued disturbance of the eoil and the prevention of the growth of weeds and grass prevent, the turculion from secreting themselves at night. Tney also destroy the insects as fast as they expose themselves upon the ground. With even the mos'. abundant capi tal u farmer B'unetimes gets behind hand with work. It is not always pos siblo to procure farm help us needed. For years tho tendency of labor has been to concentrate in cities. Though often idle or more poorly paid than on tho farm, the city lift- is preferred for the social and other advantages that it gives. Tints is making labor in the country harder to get every year, and thus indirectly obliging farmers to subdivide largo farms, diversify thtir crops and do as much as they can without hiring. Crab apples make a' very firm and palatable jelly. The Siberian crab ap ples are easily obtained and aio fi no in llivor, but, if one can get thtin, the wild species, tho sour, green things th.vt grow on tho thorny trees in the ccunir give thegreatestsati.-faction. They have a spicy lluvor and a pleas ant acid which are particularly de lightful to invalids. The juice of the crab tipple, of either kind, may be used for jelly with that of other fruits, such as pi ach, raspberry or cherry, and give firmness without injuring the iluvor. The proportion may bo left to tho taste of the maker. Jellies should stand open a day or two before being put into glasses, that tho moisture may evaporate; but they should bo piotected from dust. It thin, let them stand in the sun's rays. In a day or two cut papers to lit the glasses; dip these in brandy, alcohol or white of egg, and prebs thoni on the top of tho jelly. A very old-fashioned method is to pcur melted butter or clean mutton fat on top and let it harden. All bitch preserves should bo covered, then if mold appears it can easily bo removed without wast ing tho fruit. Aftt.rw.inU put on the glasses the covers matte for that pur pose, or cover with paper, pasting the etlges down. Tho question whether bighorn or j wild sheep of the Kocky mountaiu (ovis montaniO would cross with the donustie sheep bus been successfully sottlcd. The wild sheep was captures ami tamed in Colorado, ami allowed to feed with domestic sheep. It can be teen that the cross has diminished tho length and size of the horns in the progeny. Tho lloeco is also much heavier uud of liner staple. Such a cross as this is highly interesting from u scientific point of view, but is of no economic vaiue, unless further crosses with mutton breeds of domestic sheep should result in permanent increase in size of carcass without impairing tho value of tho lleeh or wool. Tho practice of mowing down straw berry patches is reeoiiiinonded by the American Cultivator only in cases where tho vines are overgrown with wvoJd. The object is to give tho weeds tt setback, with the hope thut u little aro will givo the strawberries thoudvantago in tho race for life. L. i of doubtful utility at best to try bo lurBh a n inetly. Wo tried it once, but wo til o took tho precaution to dig up some of tho best plants and set them in a jilace by themselves where they could be kept from weeds. These were not cut luck; and from these we got all our berries tho subsequent sou son. Wo s.iw onco un old experiment in Blunting giain made by un old unit shrewd farmer. On ono corner of hU field town with oats was u very ru li place, where u burn or Btuok or inu nuio heap hail onco stood. Hf re tho grain tilways lodged. Taking his one from this, the farmer drew u heavy 4 ' tooth drag over his place ufUr the oats were two or throe in. has high, and tin n n ihil it down. Neighbor said this w- ultl hurt the oats. That, ho replied, wu jiut what he wauled to tlu. They wore growing too rik TliBdrug Uhv Urn linivis, ous"l Ho plant to tlllr, mid in th rh i u ih.i gtvwii Ui iU r i ii Mul utwWth Ui i,U'-!" lixxl up ull li itjmnul. Manure has to bo applied with cau tion to the pear to avoid causing blight. Tho 'greut point is never to stimulate a sudden il w of sap by manuring when its effects will bo im mediately felt. For this reason it is best to apply manure just before the pear tree enters the dormant state indi cated by tho falling of the leuves. 3arly in the fall is the best time in practice, however, Aiigus', is earn w be tho proper time, for there are rare ly rains that come early enough to stimnlate growth the same season. Thus during the whole of winter the manure has had an opportunity to be come mixed with tho aoil. The tree starts with a vigor which can be steadily maintained during the sum mer. Heard's Dairyman says : " A great deal of vacuenes exists yet among butter makers on the subject of ripen- intr cream. A great many men and women who have h d a chauce, at least, to know bi.tter persist in putting fre-di skimined cream into tne cnurn Mr, N. G. Gilbert, of Now York, made a little exneritnent to see what the re suit would be. For about a week he had been getting about live pounds of butter from 100 pounds of milk, but not being satif fietl that he was getting all the butter from tho milk, ho trie! the experiment of keeping tho two skimmings separate until tno seconu mess of cream was cured and then putting them together and churning. From ono churning thus treated he obtained six pounds of butter to the 100 pounda ol milk. Here was a gain of 20 per cent., all for an experiment." Thousands of acres of potatoes do not pn duce half they should lor lack of sub-soiling. It is better and safer to plant fewer acres in this crop, which is necessarily expensive, and do the work thorougly. If tho potatoo ground is sub-soiltd, and the manure applied is turned under the surface fuirow, anil a good eeed-bed made, the crop will nearly always pay double what it would without the extra piepiratien i f sub-soiling The benefit fmni the sub-soiling endures several years un less the land is soiklen with wan-r. In fact, there is some difference, in the soil ever after. Professor Shelton, of tho Kansas State Agricultural college, writing ol hlfalfa, says that to raise it success fully the ground should receive thorough preparation by plowing ami hai rowing. Sow no lets than 20 pounds (if seed to the acre, and row this about the middle of April. Hai ow in lightly, following whh a roller, if possible. Do not be discourgod if the plant makes a feeble growth du--ing tho lir-t season, as they usually do Alfalfa Bhoultl not. be pastured or mowed during tho first and critical season. The mower should occasion ally be run over the ground high enough to miss the alfalfa and cut iff the top of the weeds. After this sea son tho alfalfa will take care of itself and all the weeds within its reach. Ab the euld weather approaches, every kind-hearted man who owns a I horse will provide his animal with a j comfortable blanket, both for stable J wear and for covering when hitched lout of doors. Nor is it a matter of i kindness of In art alone, but it is ! reallv a matter of economy with the ov ii'ir of tho horse. An animal which is kept comfortably blanketed will keep in good condition and tome out in tho spring bettor prepared for haul work on less feed than ono that is uf foided none but its natural protection. Tho cost of tho blanket will be moio than saved in the feed, beside adding to tho pflysical comfort anil appear unco of tho beast. When purchasing blankets it is an object to get tho best for your money, and the cheapest are not always those lint cost, le.ift at the start. A good blanket, which will provo dur iblo and last, is the cheapest iu tho end. An E.is ern journal says : "It seems to us that some of the old calculations about the co.-t of fences iu this country anil of keeping them in repair, k.niiti fnjmtntt'uU irruutAr til till tlin Tl tionitl debt and tho interest on it aro becoming somewhat superannuated No doubt femes cost more than they i-hoiild, but their yearly cost is de creasing, in nil the older parts of the country at least, by substitution ol soiling ami ensilago for the old piutur iuo system. The national debt has greatly deci eased since calculations were made, and tho interest account still more; but wo think that tho dis u?o of fencing Iihb kept puco with either of these. A greut deal of fenc ing matoiiul is still tited, but it is every your in larger proportion cf wire. Very ft w rails lire now put up in the old fashion) d worm fence. O il rails urn sometimes in-etl, but lh y are mostly spiked to posts set in straight line-, and gem-rally surmounted with a barbetl wire at the tp, to make the ril go ftn her and to mako the fence nioro fft etivo." There are several States which pro duce, a surplus of corn. Of these Illi nois and I wa uru tiiial, the produei of each iicing is iniaied at 270,000, 000 bnshol-; M'-s iiri ranks an third, with 210,000000 bushels; and of the oMiei four, Km vis has made u gaii of 71,000,000 tn'-ids, as compared with the cm of 1887; Indi um has gained (10,000,000 buslieU; N brisku, 5-1,000,-ti00, won Old. 11,000.000. The total increase for tho )). U believed to b ma f.r Iroui fi'JO.OOO.OOO bushels, oi nioro than tieo tliu entire product of Illinois ut 1 w together- Tho com-imri-oii nil' -rds -id to the imugimnion in f.tiiuiug h oinO) p'ion ol tho Burphis availed Mir uxpormiiou, either di nelly or in ine 'mm of meat nud Oib r .i. vi lour ; ' tit i.nlv when th .inn d ii- i . i . . iii- in . L' 'iMi lf i i l i. ii. tl I ' Hi. ill 1 1, ill i in I IMMI II u li. . m h , r ', t, i, , , I IU I I I 'I'll I I . I 1 1 t t Itlill tiri. i ituw e iiuhd Am king of orrpJ PORTLANDl MARKET IREPORT". Tim stile of tint mercantile market has reninine l unchntiKed throiiKhot the past week, wheat bciiR alone affected. Cab c advices from Liverpool do not give promise of a change for the better until after the ChrlHtnias holidays. The retail holiday tnidc Is verv active, reatty money being more plentiful than usual at this time of the year. G OCKIIIKS - Sugars have fallen c sine -our last report We ciuoto C 'ic, extra C ' Jc. dry granulated 71c, cube, crushed and powdered "gc. Colfcs tlrm, Java a?c, Costa Hlca 1ft c ' 21c Salvador 18'KlOc, Arbtickle'f roasted 'JUc. In canned table fruit, assorted, 24h 2 per d z- Die fruit, assorted, 2Js 51.2J 1.30. 8s $:t.75. PROVISIONS Oregon hims are quot ed at Mitalfc, breukfast bacon lie, boul ders KHc, Eaxtern m-at Is quoted as fol lows: Hams 13(l6c, breakfast b con 13Jc, sides llc. FRUITS-Grecn fruit receipts 1253 bxs. Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap p'es notqual to the demand, yvpplcs fiOfia ti.1 per bx, Mexican oranges ?4, lemons gO'&O.nO per bx, bananas 3.5lXx.-J,50, quinces 40 00c, V-GETAHLE Market well supp'ied. Cabbage leper tt, carrots and turnip "5c per sai k, red pepper 3c per tb, potatoes 40 uA'rc per -ack, sweet Wm c per lb. DB'ED FRUITS-Keceipts 40J pkges. Sun-dried aeules 4 5a per tb, factory slic d 8c, 'factory plums 8a!)c, On-pou prune7 He, pearsl 10c, peacliolOSltc, ral Ins vf.2T per box, Call orala figs 8c, Smyrna ISc per tb. DAIRY PRODU E Butter receipts for the week 150 pkges. Fancy creamery .12jc per lb, choice dairy 3 c, medium 7tg3Uc common 20", eastern 25iu30c. EGGS R'-ceipts 102 cases. Oregon 35c, eastern 32(a321c POULTRY Chickens SS.SO'a, for Urge 3'oiuiR and 9-1 4 50 for old, turkeys 1 i'rrlWc per lb, ducks $537 per dozen, geese 8 a 0. WOOL-Recelpt' for week 221,803 lbs. Valley 18rf2ik Eastern Ort g m 10olf)C. HOPS Receipts for week 1(127 lbs. Choice 12iu 14c. GRAIN Receipts for week 04,260 ctlb. Valley ?1.37fa 1.40. Eastern Oregon 1.324 to 1.40. Oatt 32 35c. F OUR Receipts for week 5070 bbls. Standard tf4,7., otiier brands 1.25. FEKD Hurley 123 per ton. mill do 18Sl.50, shorts .1II50, brau15.50, baled hay 5ft "15, loo eli''- Fit PS H MEATS Heef live, 3c. dressed 0 , mutton, live. 3c, dressed (), lanitw a2 2.)eaeh, hog-, live, 5j 0c, dressed 7 7.J, veal O.u 7e. PITH AND POINT. Wo need each othor's forbearance as woll a9 encouragement in order to do our best. We do not all sco alike; we can not all work in tho samo way. When marriago is a failure, there is a good deal moro wrong with tho man or woman, or both, than with marriage Philadelphia Press. A frog which depends on his brains instead of his logs would stand a mighty pqor show In a puddlo near a school-house. Detroit Free Press. In tho bright loxicon of youth thoro is no such word as fail, but later ou, when tho youth gots Into buslnoss for himsolf, then tho word shows up in good shape. Corn is not only king, but it is the fodder of our country. llonco no American's patriotism can oo ques tioned whon ho shouts: "Gol savo tho king!" Western Plowman. It is a greater wrong to bo extrav agant with strength than to bo oxtrav agant will money. It is poor economy to savo pennies at tho oxponso of a great deal of strength and tJme. Spend all in melioration, but hold timo and strength --.a of more vrduo than money. The liner the naturo tho moro Haws will it show through tho clearness of it. Tho best things aro seldom Been in their best form. Tho wild grass grows well and strongly ono year with anothor; but tho wheat is, by reason of its greater nobleness, Hublo to a bit ter blight. Jinskin. When a man's finger is not liko thoso of other pooplo ho knows to feel dissatisfied; but, if his mint la r.si Ilk that of other pooplo. ho doos not ki'.cw to feel dissatisfied. Thil Is called ignorance of tho relative importance of things. Hindu. f-Tho Portland Orcijonian tells of a 's. . . . . . . viiiai- sijnu wiineseu ino oilier uav bjpassengers on tho ferry from Van couver. A scsil was in pursuit of a salmon. Tho 11-h darted hither and thither, and frequently leaped out of tho water. Tho passengers became very much e idled in watching tho raco. Finally the ih.h darted up t.. tho boat and jumped on board. A member of tho boat's crow sold it to a farmer, to tho groat indignation of tho passengers, who wanted it taken to a safo distance and restored to the water. Thorn is ono old-tiiuo habit, say-, an exchange, that used to bo widely provident in tho United States, especi ally in tho West and South tho tobacco chewing habit- that has certainly de clined in tho present generation. The manufacturers of chowlng tobacco say that the trado in it has not grown with tho growth of our population, but that in many States It is less than half a lurgo as it used to bo beforo tho war. In the Now England States It has be come of very slight account. The States iu which it now has the greatest hold are Kentucky, Missouri, Tennes see, and Aikauwus. It is un unwhole 5omo habit, ofTonslvo to decent people, and ought to disappear, I Two young mon in Franco who wew oiigaged to two sisters quairelcd ovor some trilling matter and agreed to Bot tle tholr dispute by a duel, in which both should ho wounded and ono at least should bo klllod. Tho conditions agreed upon wore that tho right foot of the ouo should bo tied to the loft foot of tho ether, nud thou, each being trim d with m (Ujrger, Uiy wore to tab on,- another hy turns until one "hnii1. 1 dl Kiu h of th combatant! ln'ill I ' li in i . ii. 1. 1 '.. OiOVtU It l' fere one of i t!d to hi vi k1o re- il . I... a dying Ule. r