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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1889)
STANDARDS OF BEAUTY. What Constitute Loveline in Some Out-of-tlie-Wny Countries Various are tho opinions held by a wide diversity of races regarding thoir beauties, though it is often difficult for people bred under another sky to share their enthusiasm. Tho Circassian -women, who havo a sort of conven tional reputation for loveliness, are affirmed by thoso who know them best to bo fnr from worthy of their celeb rity. Short legs, glaring red hair, faces so long nnd narrow that thoir head seem to havo been squeezed be tween two boards and flattened, noses out of proportion to tho rest of the features, and complexion of a dull, load-liko hue. scarcely constitute beauty according to our standard. The Moors nnd tho Tunisian Jews re gard corpulenco as absolutely essen tial to beauty, and tho Inmates of rich men's harems aro stuffed with nutri tious food, like Strasbourg geese, for the market. Tho Chlnoso poets sing of deformed feet as 'f.olden lilies" and tho rocking of their women In attempt ing to walk as the "waving of a wil low." Other races havo equally odd ideas of what constitute loveliness, for thoy "improve" their persons by flattening their foreheads, tattooing thoir skins, cutting off their fingers, filling tht-ir teeth or dyeing them black, blue or tartan, painting their bodies, slitting their ears, compressing thoir waists, putting stones, bono or metal through their lips, cheeks or cars, and in a dozen other ways trying to enhanco tho poor prentice work of 'nature. A Falatah lady dyes her hands and feet with honnnh, stains her teeth alternately "blue, yellow and purple, ono horo and there being left Its natural color, pen cils her eyebrows with sulphuret of antimony nnd dyes her locks with in digo. Tho Hydah woman inserts a plug of wood or ivory through her lower lip until it presents tho hideous appearance of a fleshy shelf over hor chin. A Chineso or a Siameso lady cultivates long nails. A Hottentot belle can not got hor noso flat enough or a Persian beauty hers high enough. On tho northwest coast of America no reproach is more bitter than for ono Indian girl to toll another that "Your mother was too lazy to flatten your head." Tattooing is almost universal among half-civilized or savago races; in New Zealand tho Maori women, bo foro thoy began to imbibo European prejudices, oven tattooed thoir lips lest they should havo tho reproach of being red. Somo races slit their ears until thoy hang in loops on their shouldors. Others insert huge rings nnd other ornaments through tho car tilage of their noses. The Louisludo Islanders regard the lid of a sardlno box as a particularly neat pleco of jowolry, and oven European women have not yet ceased to suspond bits of stone and motals through tho lobes of thqir ears. Thoro is in truth no pos sibility of arriving at any standard of beauty. N. Y. Graphic. VERY DISCOURAGING. How a Garrulous l'anaeiiRar Wasl'erftiiaded to Shut Up. "Do you remember as fur back as th' siego of Petersburg, friend?" I sized tho questioner up, got a good grip on my pocket-book nnd cautiously answered: "I do, but I was very young at tho timo." "Wasn't thoro yersolf, then?" "No." "It's a great pity. I didn't know but what I might talk ovor old times with yer." "Perhaps wo can find a congenial subject," I observed, as I let my kneo drop so that his hand could slide off, and moved ovor as closo as I could to tho car window. "P'raps wo kin," ho said; "over been tor Maddygaskor?" "No." "Ever seen a South American dugong?" "No." "What's yer opinion on th1 subjec' of th' sid-oral astronomatics?" "I don't know nny thing about thorn." "Sho! Got nny chowin' torbnekor about vor?" "No." "Say, friend, whoro you from?" "Korgiyackker." "Whoro?" "Korgiyackker." "Where's that?" "Right across tho Yuggornock rivor from YorstiToriski." "Rushy?" "No; New York State." "How fur is it from Yonkors?" "About ten ohms." Ho was beginning to wilt a llttlo, and I followed up my advantage. "I've read somo thing about Peters burg," I said. "Did you fight in Charlemagno's division?" "Whoso?" "Charlemagne's." "It's so long ago I most forglt, hut's near as I kin remember my Glnoral was named Smith." "Was ho monocotyledonously in clined, or did ho favor anthropological cseterotlsni in his manner of conduct ing tho campaign?" "Loolf horo, stranger, ono or th' other of us is a nat'ral fool," ho broko out, "an' I'm puffectly willln' tor tuko th' bonoflt of tho doubt an1 shut up. What d' y or say?" I said, and tho train rolled on. Judge. m m In splto of tho popular boliof, It is not truo that tho rain falls allko on tho Just and an tho unjust. Tho just gonornlly got tho moat of tho shower hiMMUiae tlit unjust havo coolly walked off with lhlr umbroUus. Somtrvidc Juurnui. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL." It was a habit of tho Into Prof. R. A. Proctor to take an hour's nap every afternoon, and his wife always snt by his bedsido while ho was sleeping. Thero aro a dozen men In Milwau kee who carry a lifo insurance of more than $200,000 each. One, n prominent railroad man. is insured for $500,000. G. W. Taylor Is tho wealthiest living Welshman. Ho recently sold an estate in Australia for tlioonormou9 sum of $21,725,000, and wont homo to Wales to contest a seat in tho Houso of Commons. Helen Blunchnrd, who mado a very largo fortune through her invention of nn "over and under attachment" for sewing machines, wns so poor that sho had to borrow money to pay tho patent ofllco fees. In Clevolnnd, O., thero is a lady who is totally paralyzed by ovory thunderstorm. Sho recovers when tho storm ccasos. Years ago tho houso where sho lived as a girl was shattered by lightning and she was paralyzed, but recovered. A lady with whom tho venerablo savant M. Chovroul, now in his one hundred and third year, was exchang ing small-talk in a drawing room re cently, complimented him upon hisox tremc juvenility. "You aro too good, raadamo," replied M. Chovreul, "but I feel I am going down tho hill. What would I not givo to bo eighty again!" Montgomery Sears, who is among tho four wealthiest men of Boston, was tho son of a grocer who lived on half a dollar a day and slept in his storo. Ho acquired somo real estate, and when ho died left his modernto fortuno to his son under tho caro of trustees. Young Sears chafed at this and finally succeeded in breaking his father's will. Ho has gono on acquir ing property until his wealth is esti mated at many millions. Seth Green, Superintendent of tho New York Stato Fisheries, who died recently at Rochester, N. Y., was In his day tho most expert fly fisher man that over whipped a forest brook for trout. Ho had sold or raised fish all his life, and know moro fish stories than over wero dreamed of by modern Munchausons. In fish-culturo ho was an admitted authority. In appear ance Mr. Greon was burly, bearded and patriarchal, and in manner ho was ovory inch n man and a gentleman. It's pretty well known that Mr. Gladstone is a great talkor, and quito apt to monopolize conversation on most occasions, Ono day ho sont for a young nobleman, who is very fully posted on tho Eastern question. Tho young man went, and tho noxt day was congratulated by a friend on tho impression ho had mado on tho Grand Old Man. "Mr. Glndstono says that ho nover met nny ono who know so much about tho Caucasus." Tho young man smiled. "I was with him two hours," said he, "and nover opened my mouth." Commenting upon tho death of John Robinson, circus proprietor, tho Chicago Times recently expressed sur prise that P. T. Barnum should remain so long on earth. When Mr. Barnum received a copy of tho nowspaper, at Bridgeport, Conn., ho wrote a letter, in which ho said: "For that writer's satisfaction and warning, I will re mind him that tho Bible says tho righteous shall live long in tho lnnd, but tho wicked shall not live out half their days." Mr. Robinson was a good man, but ho was profane. Mr. Barnum is pious ovory day in tho year. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." When tho architect spoko of tho groat navo thoro was to bo in tho now church, a pious old lady said sho "know to whom ho referred." Barber "How do you liko to havo your hair cut, sir?" Flanigan "Wld do scissors, av coorso! D'yo supposho Oi wanted you to tako a scytho?" Judge. Mr. Hedge "What seems to bo tho matter with your eldest son? Isn't he thin nnd nervous?" Mrs. Bird "Yes; poor Dickie. This is a vory trying timo in his life. His volco Is changing and tho poor follow is trying to raiso a moustacho." Puck. Thero was confusion in tho faces of Georgo and Matilda, who sat in intimato proximity on tho sofa, as Harry entored. Matilda was tho first to recover her solf-possession. Sho said: "Wo are engaged in a llttlo gamo of cards." Harry "And a mighty closo game too, oh?" Iioston Transcript. End-man "William, can you toll mo why a man sitting on a red-hot stovo is like a man who lias gono to Heaven?" Mlddlo-mnn "I don't know, Mr. Bones. Why is a man sitting on n red-hot stovo liko a man who has gono to Heaven?" End-man "He's better off." Middle-man "Mr. Wheozor will Bing 'When tho Milk begins to Turn."1 In Zanzibar not long ngo thoro was a race botweon a zobra and an os trich. Tho riders wero cruel in tho extreme, and it was painful to soo tho stripes that tho zebra was compelled to carry. The ostrich was in high feather at first, but whon tho zobra eumo out ahead it went and buried its head in tho sand, though perhaps if it had had moro sand it might havo won tho raco. Texas Siftings. Mrs. Ponn "What a quiot young man Mr. Wallnut is. I don't know any ono who is so modost, so retiring, so unobtrusive so " Mr. Ponu "I do." Mrs. P. "You do? Why, WiU liam, who?" Mr. P. "His brother is so inuoh qulotur that comparison ceases to compare." Mrs. 1'. "Ills brother?" Mr. P. "Yon. Ho'sdoad." And then tho bllanutf was no liitunuo thuy could hor tliw w v'uk. -VhiUidtlphia Vull, NATURE OF FOODS. The lllu"erenco Hetween Xltrnceuous anil CurboimrroiiK Articles of Dipt. Foods that supply mutorinl for prowth nnd repair aro called nitro genous foods. They aro also called protelds, from a Greek word moaning "first," because in the living cells which aro the first principle or form of lifo there is always nitrogen. common namo is albuminous foods. Albuminous substances exist in many forms, and aro called by different names in different things. Thoy aro found largely in meat, fish, milk, peas, beans and grains. Tho albumen and fibrin in tho juices and flesh of meat and fish, nnd in tho juices and mem branes of some vegetables and fruits, tho casein in milk, tho vegetable casein in peas and beans, and tho gluten of grains, aro all forms of nitrogenous substances, or pro'olds. The carbonaceous foods aj fats, in cluding butter, tho fat of meat or fish, oils, eggs, and some kinds of choeso. A small amount of fat is neces sary in digestion, aud indlspensublo to perfect nutrition. Starch and sugar as found in vegetables and fruits aro also fat producing. Fats from tho principal material of certain tissues giving rotundity and beauty to tho form and being non-conductors of heat, keep tho body warm. An unduo accumulation of fat is a species of dia easo and is often dangerous. Thus wo see that tho solid part of tho flesh and blood Is largely fibrin nnd albutnon, substances similar to tho fibers and juices of meat and fish, and that eggs, milk, peas, beans and grains also contain fibrin and albumen, and it is from theso nitrogenous foods that tho bodily substance is chielly built up. Ago, occupation, climate and our finances should influence our choico of food. Persons whoso occupations tax their muscular strength often think that they require a great deal of meat, when thero aro many foods that con tain as much as, or more, proteid mat ter than meat, such as peas, beans, choeso and grains. Animal food Is hotter dlot for, cold weather than for hot. Yat Is not di gested easily unless exorciso Is taken. Fruits, vegetables and grains eaton with milk, buttor or oil, furnish tho carbohydrates needed in summer. Thoso who labor or exorciso in tho open air need a largo quantity of wholesome food, and it need not bo tho most digestiblo, as thoy requlro food that will stay by thorn. Persons engaged in sedentary occu pations or who tako little exorciso and live In close, confinod rooms, can not digest as much or as easily as thoso who labor out-of-doors. Thoso who tax their brain severely should avoid fat. Pooplo who consumo much starch or sugar aro liable to grow fat. As a rulo tho majority of peoplo eat too much, and between forty and fifty years of ago an excess of abluminates Is liable to dovolop heart, liver and kidnoy troubles, which aro more or less akin to dyspepsia. An excess of starchy food or of sugar or fat, causes obosity, not only of tho body, but an accumulation of fat about tho heart and other intornal organs which is lia ble to provo very dangerous. Build ing Xcws. TREAT STOCK GENTLY. Why It In Wrung to Worry Animal! by Hough Wo r tin and Way. I havo known a groat many froo-go-ing horsos of nervous temperament kept in a continual worry by tho rough ways and words of their drivers. Thoy would frot and sweat and grow poor doing tho work thoy would thrlvo while doing under mild-mannered, con siderate control. I havo seen a great many heifers and cows in a tremor of oxcitomont while some ignorant or brutal follow was milking thorn. I never know them to bo made quiet nnd willing to bo milked by scolding, kick ing or pounding; but thoy might havo been mado doeilo by early and gentle handling. It is safo to say that rough usage of cows often occassions tho loss of lialf their milk. Thoy refuse to "give down," and that dries thorn up rapidly. Hoys, dogs and heedless mon worry them when driving from tho fiold. Irregular feeding and milking, and ovcry thing out of tho regular or der, disturbs, and thoreforo damages them. Change of residence frequently causes cows to shrink thoir milk for a wholo year. A noted Holsteln butter cow, taken to tho fair to tost her butter-making qualities, made only a pound of buttor from forty-four pounds of milk, whllo in tho quiot of her homo she mudo a pound of butter from twenty-ono pounds and three ounces of milk. Likely sho was extra nervous, but all cows havo nerves enough to requlro that their treatment bo gentle and regular. Hugh T. Urooks, in N. Y. Tribune. In ono respect ryo is a cheap crop becuuso it requires no land for its growth, to a certain extent. That is, if the seed is sown in tho full on land intended for corn in tho spring, and tho ryo turned in boforo planting tho corn, tho ryo simply holds tho land that would otherwiso be unoccupied during tho winter. It is also excellent on tho land intondod for potatoes, and, as it r-sslsts in keeping down the weeds, it saves much labor in that re sped. Dralnago, says tho American Culll valor, marks tho lino botweon swnmr und gruln field; botweon swale aud grassy muudows; between mosquito plantations and pluiunnt oruhurds und irrovtw; butwttun unprolltubly iiitd pro fltablu ugrlouUuru. GENERAL O INTEREST. Down in Brazil tho emancipation of slaves was mainly duo to an editor who kept his paper rod-hot with aboli tion arguments. Ho did not have much success until ho printed a translation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Then tho peoplo waked up. They cried over tho story, and raised such a protest Against slavery that tho Government was forced to abolish it. A Greenville (Midi.) womnn who asked for a divorce tho other day told the court that a little, measly, ono nrmed cuss had licked her husband. "My marriage contract calls for a lord and protector," sho said, "but when a man Is so easy to got away with ho can't be mifjh of a lord to a woman and protect her." Tho court allowed that sho had all tho logic on her sdo. King Mwnnga, who rules over tho black Province of Uganda. Is not a pleasant man for a next-door neighbor. He rules over 10.000,000 subjects, and Is as ferocious as ho Is powerful. Ho has l.oOO wives, and kills live of them every day for his amusement. Ho Is tho largest slave-trader In Central Africa, supplying tho Mohammedan dealers annually with about 150,000 slaves. A passonger on a west-bound&truln from Chicago hid his money in one of his shoes, on retiring for tho night, nnd then placed tho shoo and Its mate In tho aisle, near his berth. A porter, having subsequently blackened tho shoes and found tho "hidden treasure," returned it to tho ownor, who is said to havo domanded a light, so that ho could count tho money and see if tho finder had taken any. A writer In a recent book about traveling in tho East, tolling of tho slow puce and multitude of animals required in caravan traveling, makes tho calculation that tho Israelites, when thoy wont from Egypt undor Moses, must havo had a caravan at least two hundred leaguos long and must havo employed six million camols. What a parade for tho youth ful Egyptian as ho saw it pass. Jefferson's Island, in Louisiana, tho sometimo winter homo of tho genial actor of Hip Van Winklo, Is a superb hill crowned with great forest treos, lying on a trembling prairie or semi marsh, and with a lino lake, called Lake Peynlor, for its outer margin. On this island, which contains 2,000 acres of land, was formerly an orchard of fine oranges. Hero Mr. Jefferson plays at raising lino cattlo. Ho has something ovor two thousand head and u fow bloodod horsos. Extraordinary stories aro told of tho healing properties of a now oil, which Is oaslly mado from tho yolks of hen's eggs. Tho eggs aro first boiled hard, and tho yelks aro then removed, crushed and placed ovor a llro, whoro thoy aro stirred until tho wholo substnnco is just on tho point of catching Hro, when tho oil separates and may bo pourod off. Ono yolk will yiold nearly two touspoonfuls of oil. It is in gehoral uso in South llussla as a means of curing cuts, bruises and scratches. Julius Eichborg, tho woll-known Boston musician, tells this story of an early oxporienco: Ono day a lady, somowhat advanced in years, came to mnko arrangements for taking prlvato lessons in singing. At tho end of tho second losson tho teachor felt con strained to toll her that her oar was not truo. Sho received tho remark very coolly, and at tho next losson sang as badly as before. "I am afraid," said Mr. Eichborg, "that you can never learn to sing in tunc." "Oh, it doesn't matter," was tho surprising answer. "Doesn't matter!" said tho astonished teachor "No," said tho pupil, "I don't caro any thing about music, but my doctor said that singing would bo tho host thing for my dys popsia, and so I docided to tako les sons." Force of Sea Waves. Somo idea of tho tremondous forco possessed or exerted by sea wuvos may bo formed by tho fact that an iron col umn, twonty-threo foot long and weighing somo 0,000 pounds part of a now lighthouse holng built was, in tho courso of operations, landed at Bishop Hock, England, and, a storm coming up, was loft lashed by a half inch chain at each ond to strong eye bolts. Three days aftorwurd it was found, on examination, that the groat column had been tossed up by tho waves a distance of some twenty feet to tho top of tho rock, where It wus swaying about like a pioco of timber. Two days afterward, when tho work mon woro ahlo to land, it was found that a blacksmith's anvil, weighing 160 pounds, which had been loft in a hole three and ono-half foot deop nnd two and ono-hnlf feot in diameter, had also boon washed by tho waves com pletely out. Science. An Intemperate Conclusion. Two ladies mot in a streot car the other day, when ono remarked to tho other that sho had a bud cold, and asked hor if sho wus doing any thing for it. "Oh, yes," sho sale?, "I havo boon udvlsed to tuko a good hot dose of Kin" "Why, Mrs. ," said hor frlond, It can't bo possible that you would st such an example as that In your responsible situation. It would be moral suicide." "You interrupted mo," said the other, coolly, "I was going to say a good hot dose of ginger tea taken very night was u surg aura for u wild." 'OUr-lMroit t'rtc 1'wt, OF 'A JAPANESE HOUSE. j It Oddltle Have No Counterpart In Wrut ern Architecture. How to describe a Japanese houso, where nothing is liko any thing corre sponding to it at heme? From tho outsido it is an uninviting big black barn; inside It Is a spotless rioU'a house magnified a thousand dinmeters, all wood and wicker and white papor. Tho entrance hall Is a platform raised a couple of feet abovo tho ground, where you tako off your boots If you aro a foreigner, or leave your sandals if you aro a Japanese. A screen door slides back and you aro in but that depends on circumstances. Somotimos you aro in one room and somotimos in another. It may bo a gonoral sitting room, fifty feot square; in may bo : bedroom (if you call early In tho morn ing'); or you may find yourself in an improvised sa'ictum and intruding upon somebody writing labored de scriptions for a far-away press. For here walls havo not only ears, thoy have also legs, and whon you wish to make a now room you Hlmply "form square" by sliding enough panels in thoir grooves to incloso tho spneo, or, at your pleasure all tho rooms can bo thrown Into ono, Inclosed, In our case, by forty-six panels. Thoso forming tho sides of tho houso consist each of sixty llttlo papor panes. To wet one's fingor, stick it sllontly Into tho window, and peep through this is tho natural Japaneso counterpart of occidental surreptitious Inspection by tho koy holo. Tho floor is of mats; not mats strewed about as at homo, but solid structures of dollcato stuffed wlckor an inch thick, of conventional and regular size, lot into tho fioor elastic, spotless, immovablo, nover profaned by ovon tho daintiest of sllppors. Chairs and tables are, of courso, unknown, nnd tho posture of roposo Is to soat onoself on ono's hcols. This squatting, by tho way, Is very painful at first, and, like tho "blameless dances" in "lluddigoro,"takosadoal of training." At meal times you squat anywhere and your food is placed boforo you. Whon you aro tired you throw your self anywhere on tho floor, with ne fear of soiling your whlto linen suit. Whon ovoning comes you do not scok your bedchamber; you simply make it, by sliding tho walls round the spol you havo chosen for your slumbers. Tho rough nnd ready way, according to my American frlond, is to troad around on tho floor till you find o spoolally soft mat. and then lay a fow walls upon It for a couch. A moro luxurious ono la to havo a futon ot thick quilt spread out, and roll your self In a rug or blankot upon It. The chief drawback for a foreigner is that his hip-bone, which Is moro prominent than that of a Japaneso, Is torrlbly In tho way, and my journalism not hav ing yet advanced to graduation upon tho plank bod, I havo not learned the trick of obliterating tho natural pro jections of tho body. But you sloof. comfortably In splto of tho marauding rat, whoso Immunity from attack has rondorod him equally inquisitive and harmless, and In tho morning whon yon roturn from the bath, bod and bedroom havo allko disappeared. It Is tho storj of Aladdin domesticated. Toledo Cor. Washington Star. A PROFLIGATE DUKE. How He MaiuiK to 1'uit Away HUTImti In th French Capital. Brilliant novelists nnd dramatists would undoubtedly find a subject worthy of study and description In the person of tho Duko of Mondolfl, an opulent member of tho Important Rus sian colony in Purls. Tho Duko loads a lifo which resembles to a certain ox tent that of ono of thoso Roman Em perors or oriental potentates described by picturesque historians. Ho lives in a splondid hotel in tho Avonuo du Hols do Boulogne with his mother, Princess Woronzoll, who was a slstor of Prince Nicolas Troubotzkol, and a mombor ol tho household of tho Czar boforo hor lawsuit with hor nophow, Count Woron zolT, ono of tho Emporor Alexander's court marshals. Tho Duko of Mondolf, Is reputed to havo $100,000 a year, most of which ho manages to spend In a magnificent manner. Ho nover goes tc bed until daylight does appoar, and he gonorully gets up at throo o'clock in the afternoon. After a meal, und oxtonded at full-longth on a sumptuous divan, he receives his friends and visitors, hit mother, tho Pylncoss, bolng prosont at tho levee. On theso occasions the Duko wours olthor a suporb dressing gown in ivory-colored plush, lined with sutln of tho lute of tho poach, garnished with silver braiding and or namented with jewels, or an nmplt jacket of heliotrope volvot, with gold, and clasped together with ducal coro nots studded with brilliants. Whllo conversing with his visitor tho host, It is said, toys with precious stones ol rare value, polished and uncut. Jr. tho intervals of conversation a band ol Neapolitan singers warblo tho melodi ous ulrs of sunny Italy, und thoso are succoeded by Tzigane rauslcluns, whe mnko tho ducal hall rings with tholi nativo wild and diabolical strains. After each musical porformanco the leader of the band approuoho tho divan, kisses tho hand of tho most noble mastoi of tho houso, and receives his orders foi tho noxt morceau of demoniac bliss. iator in tho evening tho Duko repair to a splendid cafe on tho boulevards, where ho dines with his friends and listens onco more to tho musicians, to whom ho distributes bountiful lurgoss in the shade of fistful of louls, while his guests quaff liberal bumpers ol spuming ohuiiipugiio in his honor. Varii J,tller. On Strimthuiu Common still stuiuii u hollow tree, into which in hoyliooe4 Cardinal Manning used often to ulluil tu oniulc nuts and out hurley sulfur, UNCOMFORTABLE PEOPLE. rtnoia Wlin t:Ut Solely for the, Trial oft Their JfelRhhorn' 1'nlth. They aro thoso who novor let you alone, or lot you enjoy yourself in your own way, but Intend nnd in sist that you shall bo happy in their w.?y or nono; who want you to drink coffee whon you want to drlnlc tea; who Insist that you shall wear your hair plain when your pleasure is to have it banged; who speak to you ns if you had committed somo heinous crime should you havo tho temerity to havo an opinion dllferlng from theirs. Thoy question tho correctness of your knowledge upon any subject un dor consideration, and argue tho most trilling points with a fervor botlttlng tho most weighty causo. Thoir opin ion upon art, literature, science, theol ogy. In short, all human learning, Is so oxhuustloss, their taste so cultivat ed, their code of ethics so just and pure, that you, with your limited ideas, are at onco put to silence, and thoy would fain Impress you with tha belief that from their ultimatum thero is no appeal. Such peoplo novor let you appoar nt your best; they havo tho effect upon you of a moral torpedo; thoy maka you shrink into yourself, mako you ashamed of yourself, instead of inspir ing you to any endeavor worthy ot yourself. I know not whothor thoso high and mighty folk aro not to bo preferred to thoso not moro humble ones who mako no pretensions to culture of any sort, who In fact frown upon any thing of tho sort, thinking It a wns to of timet and energy, but who aro nevertheless, firmly of tho boliof that thoir opinions, aro tho only ones worth having and that knowledge will dlo with them. Their uncomfortablonoss takos tho form of differing from you on any subject that may happen to bo brought up, partly from sheer obstinacy and because thoy aro constitutionally contrary-minded. It matters not what your efforts may bo to plcaso ono of this sort; you wilt meet with no favor. A cheery "good morning" moots with no response, and all your well-mount efforts to en gago hor in conversation brings forth but monosyllable replies, If, indeed any at all. You tako particular pains to poach hor an egg; sho doclaros that it is not fit to bo eaton, sho would rather havo it boiled. Is hor bacon boiled, sho would rathor havo It fried; tho tea i too hot, tho cocoa too cold, and so on, ad injinitum. Do you suggest a walk or a drive, sho is sure it will rain, op it is too hot, too cold, too duBty or too. something olso. You plan a plonsuro trip or a visit to a distant frlond; sho really can't understand whnt pleasure you will ex pect in such a placo, or how you can abido such and such pooplo. Sho novor falls in with any of your plana or In any wlso aids you to compass or fulfill thorn. Sho has novor a word ot chcor or praise for any offort, how ovor laudablo its motive. By soma strange porvorslty sho seeks out tho fiaws and defects. Liko "Iago" was it "Iago?" I havo not my Shukospoara by mo sho Is nothing If not critical. Sho performs tho part of a wot blankot in tho houso, chilling and dampening' ono's cnthuslusm in ovory thing. Such, a porson, man or woman, Is a sad dis couragement, any thing but a well spring of joy in a houso, smoko to tha eyes and vinegar to tho tooth. All such pooplo, taking thorn collect ively now, aro pormlttod to exist for tho trial of our faith and tho perfect ing of our pntionco. Thoy aro tho means of a wholosomo discipline on our road to sulnthood. God grant that wo falter not nnd fall not before wo reach that blessed consummation. But as for you and mo, gontlo reader, lot us not .lend ourselves to bo such luddors to olovato others, let them work out thoir own salvation. I'tila- dclphia J'rcss. AN INTELL.rGEN V DOG. How Ho Tried to Urine it I.onn Mormon taej it CIohu. During a rocont journoy in Canada I mot with a striking instance of rea son in a dog. I was staying at the Mohawk Indian Institution, Brnntford, Ontario. Row R. Ashton, superin tendent of tho school, is also Incumbent, of tho neighboring Mohawk Church (tho oldest Protestant church in Can ada.) Mr. Ashton is vory fond of ani mals, and has many pots. Ono of these, a black-iind-tan torrler, ulwuys ac compunios tho ninoty-nino Indian children to church on Sunduy morn ing. Ho goes to the altar rails und lios down facing tho congregation. Whon thoy rise to sing ho rises, and when they sit down ho lies down. Ono day shortly boforo my visit, a stranger clergyman wus preaching, and tho ser mon was longer than usual. Tho dog grew tired and rostloss, and at lust n thought occurred to him, upon which ho at onco acted. He hud observed that one of the elder Indian boys wax accustomed to hand round tho plate for alms, after which tho sorvlco at once concluded. He evidently thought that ir ho could porsundo this boy to tuko up tho collection tho sermon must nuturully end. Ha run down to the buck seat occupied by tho boy, soated himself In tho ulslo, and gazed stead fastly In tho boy'a face. Finding that no notice wus taken, ho sut up und "bogged" porslstontly for some time, to Alt. Ashton's grout amusement. Finally, us this also fulled, tho dog put his noso undor the lad's kuoo and tried with nil his strength to forco him out of his place, continuing this at IttWr vals till the sermon wan concluded. Did this not provo a distinct powwr of oonsooiitlvo toH)HlnjP hwdm im