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THE OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, - Publlshors UNION, OREGON. EXILES' BEGGING SONG. on tho Great A Touching Incident of I.lfo Slbcrlnn Jtotul. I Blinll novor forgot tho omotlons rsrascd in mo by this song when I jfceard it for tho first time. Wo wero sitting, ono cold, raw, autumnnl day, in a dirty post station on tho great Siberian road, waiting for horses. Suddenly my attention wns attracted ty a peculiar, low-pitched, quavering Bound which caino to us from a dis tance, nnd which, nlthough inndo ap parently by humnn voices, did not rosomblo any tttlng that I had ever N"-l)oforo heard. It was not singing, nor chanting, nor walling for tho dead, but a Btrango blending of all three. It suggested vaguely tho confused and commingled sobs, moans and cntrcat- . . ies of humnn beings who wcro being subjected to torture, but whoso sufTer- -inga wcro not aculo enough to scok expression in shrieks or high-pitched cries. As tho sound Came nearer wo went out into tho strcot in front of lho statiou-houso and saw upprotich ing a chained party of about a hundred hnro-hcaded convicts, who, surrounded by a cordon of soldiers, wcro marching filowly through tho settlement singing tho "exiles' begging song." No at tempt was made by tho singers to pitch thoir voices in harmony or to pro nounce tho words in unison; thcro wore no pauses, or rests at tho ends of tho lines; and I could not make out any distinctly marked rhythm. Tho filngors scorned to bo constantly break ing in upon ono anothor with slightly modulated variations of tho same slow, molancholy air, and tho olTect producod was that of a rudo fuguo or of a fuuornl chant, so arranged as to bo sung liko a round or catch by a liundrcd malo voices, each indopondont of tho others in timo and molody, but all following a certain sohomo of vocal ization, and taking up by turns tho Baino dreary, wailing theme. Tho words woro as follows: Unvo pity on us, O our fiithorsl Don't forgot tlio unwttlluK traveler, Don't forgot tlio long-imprisoned. Food us, O our fathorw-iiolp us I Food and help tho puor nnd needs-1 llovo cotiipatHlon, O our fathers I Huvo compassion, Oour mothorsl For tho miko of Christ, havu mercy On tho prisoners tho shut-up onus) llchlml walls of stono and grntltiKs, llclilml oalion doors and padlocks, llohlud hnrs and lochs of iron, Wo uro held In close confinement. Wo havo parted from our fathers, From our mothers, Wo from all our liln hnvo parted, Wc nro prlsonors; yity us, O, our fathers I If you can imagine theso words, half Bung, half chanted, slowly, in broken timo and on a low koy, by a hundred volcos, to an accompaniment made by tho jingling and clashing of chains, you will havo a faint idea of tho "Mllosordnnyn," or oxllos' begging rang. Rudo, artless and inharmon ious as tho appeal for pity was, 1 hud novor in my life heard any thing so mournful and depressing. It scorned to bo tho half-artiuuluto expression of all tho griof, tho misery, and tlio do Hpair that had been felt by generations of human boings in tho otnpos, tlio for warding prisons and tlio mines. As tho party inarched slowly along tho muddy street between tho linos of gray log houses, children and peasant women appeared at tho doors with thoir hands full of bread, meat, eggs, or other articles of food, which they put into tho caps or bags of tho three or four shavon-headed convicts who acted as nlms-colloctors. Tho jing ling of chains and tho wailing voices of tho exiles grow gradually fainter and fainter us the party passed up thu Mtrcot, and when the sounds finally uleu away in tlio distance and wo turned to ro-entor tho post station, I felt a straugo sense of dejection, as if tho day had suddenly grown colder, darker, and more dreary, and the wires and sorrows of life more burden tiomo and oppressive. Ucorge Kcniuiii, in Century. LAUGHTER AND WRINKLES. Curium Olwrviitltnu .Mudo liy Cli'ver London riiynU'lun. A London physician has recently lieoii making a study of wrinkles. Says tho doctor: "It is customary to say that wrinkles come from worrying, but tho truth Is that most of thorn coino from laughing. This is rati for paradoxical, 1 must admit, but 1 have only been convinced after tlio most careful investigation. To know how to laugh is just as important as to know how whon to do it. If you laugh with tho sides of your fneo tho skin will work loose in time, and wrinkles will form in exact accord ance with what kind of hu;h you liavo. Tho man who always wears a tuuirk will have a series of soml-clr-oular wrinkles covering his cheeks. Whon a gambler who has been ac customed to Mipprostdug hls'fcolltigs laughs a deep line forms on each slda of Ills uoso and runs to tho upper cor ner of his mouth. In t into this lino extends to the chin and assumus thu tdinpo of a half moon. A cadaverous person with a waxtlko skin is very apt to liavo two broadly marked wrinkles, ouo running up from tho jaw and the other tinder tjjo oyo. These moot ut right nnglos at tho ehuek bono and look as though they formed a knot at tho apex. Tho scholar's wrinkles form on his brow, while tho scheming poUtlohin'hi'Oiuo round his oyos. where they look for all thu world like thu Kpokosofu whool. Homo of tho poo plo who hot on races liavo tho most iwloiiUliIng urop of wrluklos I ovor wiw, suvo on an olophunL'' Loudon I Tit-Mi, FEOM WASHINGTON. THE PRESENT OUTLOOK REGARD ING GERMAN INTERFERENCE. A Novol Scbemo for Coast Defenco The Report of Mexican Outrages Un founded More BIIIb for Ter ritorial Admission. International money orders havo been increased fiom $50 to $10fi. Charges of bribery were made in tho Senatorial contcbt in Minnesota. Tho Senate has ndoptcd tho sugar bounty amendment to tho tariff bill. Tlio Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet last week in honor of Mr. Phelps, the American ambassador. Tho Secretary of Slato has received a cable from the consul ut Oolon, say ing w!!U all lire on tne isuunus are quiet. Tlio English cabinet disclaims co operation with the United States re garding the present misunderstanding witli Germany. Vice President-elect Morton has leased tlio residence of Alex Graham Bell, at Washington, and will occupy it for the nest four years. Tlio supreme court has decided that a broker who fails to oboy tho instruc tions of his principal in a stock trans action, is liable fordamageB. Tho United States District Court, at Balimoio, in a recent decision, says that tho law of civil rights must bo interpreted by public opinion. Senator Dolph has presented in tlio Senate a petition of sixty-eight citi zens of Bellevuo, Idaho, praying for tho enactment of prohibition laws. Tlio War department has been in formed that rapid progress is being mado by the contractors in supplying heavy guns and arnior-plato forgings, and rapid firing guns. Tho Department of State is in formed that tho Japanese government liaB abolished tho export duty on drugs, woven goods, timbor, cereals, spirits, beasts, fuel, etc. Dispatches havo been received at the Stato department from tho Amer ican minister at Berlin in regard to tho Samoan question. Thuir con tents are withheld from tho public. A lato dispatch to a French journal from Zanzibar says an Aniorican sail ing vessel, bound from Zanzibar to Madagascar, was iircd on by a German vessel. Ono of her masts was broken. United States Consul Willard, at Guaymas, Mexico, has sent a dispatch to tlio Stato department donying tho report that a number of Aniorican cit izens had been killed by the Indians in Sonora. Many leading Senators and Repre sentatives of all parties scout tho idea of a war between tho United States and Germany. Nevertheless the arm ament and equipment of war ships is boing pushed at tho various navy- yards. Itopresontativo Springer will intro duce in tho llouso anothor omnibus bill, providing an enabling act for the adniisaion of Arizona, Idaho and Wy oming. Tho bill embodies all the features of tho omnibus bill recently passed by tho llouso. Potitions, said to contain tho signa tures of 1 '1,17-1 ,73-1 porsons, woro tiled in tho Sonato at Washington last week, praying for tlio passago of Sen ator Blair's sunday rost bill, and all woro prepared, bill and all, by tho Women's Christian Tomporauco Union. Tlio conforrcBS on tho bill to amond tho interstate coniniorco law upon threo lunondinontB of importuned agree, witli tno exception tnut ino llouso members recodo from tho ono requiring tlio commissioners to adopt uniform oluBiifioutions for all rail roads. A letter from tho Secretary of tho Intorior in response to a. Sonato reso lution, says there ia not on tho lilos of his department anything to show what part tho citizens of Washington Territory and Idaho took in volun teer service to BupprefS tho Nez Por ces war. The report of tho commissioner of schools of Utah, for tho year 1888, says tho taxation in tho territory for school purposes is in insutlioiont. Ami that tho leaders of tho Mormon church are actively pushing tho scheme to establish Mormon denomi national schools in each county in the territory. Congressman Morrow says his views of tho S.uiioan n Hair aro positive, and that thu statu quo ut tho timo tho rep resentatives of tho United States, Ger many mid England met, must bo re stored, and this would necessitate lho loplueoinont oi King Malietoa in the position ho was so unjustly removed by tlio Gorman agents sent to tho Mar shall islands. Arminta Gardner, of Union county, Iiiih been placed in tho insane asylum at Salem. She is but sixteen years old, nml has beeti.u mother for tho past fifteen niunllis. ino autnoroi her ruin, and also of her insanity, is named Wiggins, and is serving a ton years' Bcntonco for tho outrage. Tho Canadian lumbermen aro re joicing oter a measure which has been introduced m uongroas, ami chum that it will protect tho Cana dian forests from American invaders. It is provided that no rait of logs or timber sloill he brought into or taken out of any harbor or port of tho Unit ed State, or brought into or upon any of tho great lakes, from any part of Canada. Potatoes uro a drug in tho market at Colfax, Wis., owing to lho enor mous crop raiecd in that section. The bent price that cau ho realized is ten coin h oiunei. MISCELLANEOUS, OLD LIBBY PRISON TO BE REMOVED INTACT TO CHICAGO. An Ohio Murderess too Depraved fur the Gallows A Remarkable Well Noar Pittsburg Fruit of tho Dime Novel la Boston General Payne has sold the yacht Volunteer. Tho wife of the Czar of ItuBsia liaB become insane. A threshing machine in England is run by electricity. Teams crossed over the Mississippi on the ice last week. All the American war ships will soon bo icady for sea. A portion of tho imperial palace at Peking has been burned. The Mormon Bottlers in Minnesota are selling out and going to Utah. Oranges are now being moved in Florida in bulk, lho same as potatoes. Tlio Mali li's followers are said to liavo made a saint of Genoial Gordon. At thcro tho Paris exposition this year will bo a band of 1U00 muai cians. A now naturalization bill has been reported to tho House judiciary com mittso. Tho bodies of Mine, di Murska ant her (laughter will bo sent to Gotha to bo cremated. Shoals of black cod in enormous numbers are reported off tho coast near San Diego. A Wichita. Kan., clergyman has boon asked to resign because his sor mons aro too long. Three murders similar to those of tlio Whitechapel fiend have been per potratcd in Jamaica. Threo hundred houses woro de Btroyed by an earthquake in tho Saba ret valloy, Asia Minor, Tho house in which Lord Byron wa born in London will bo demoliaheu, to enlarge a draper's shop The cotton crop this oear will bo tho largest ovor mado. and will up proximate 7,500,000 bales A Paris letter states that tho whole of DeLessope' fortune disappeared in tho Panama canal scheme, The Kansas house has passed tho senato resolution favoring tho opening of Oklahoma for settlement It cost a Nebraska county nearly $3000 to run tho poor farm last yeai There were but two paupers. Tho St. Luwronco rivor roso thir teen feet in four hours, last week, ant submerged tho wharves of Montreal There is apprehension of trouble durimr tho contonnial celebration of tlio French revolution next summer Duiinc the past two montliB Mrs, James G. Blaino, jr., has been study ing hard for her debut on tho profef sional stage. A young physician of Fall Kiver, Miibs., is laid up with a diseaeo of tho tongue, attributed to excessive ciga rette smoking On Decombor 1, threo strong earth quakes woro felt in Iquiquo, Peru witli an intormisaion of only from live to nine seconds. Dr. J. Millo Jenkin, who correctly located the bullot in Gartiold's body dropped doad at Wilkesbnre, Penn., of apoplexy, last week. A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W, says tho Gorman gunboat Olga Iiub taken Malietoa, ex-king of Samoa, to tho Marshall islands. William Picrco, probably tho oldest convict in Now iork in point of continual penal servitude, has been discharirod from tho at-ylum for in sane criminals. A rockinsr stono in New Marl borough. Mass., is so nicely balanced that, notwithstanding it weighs many tons, the pressuro of a single linger is sumciout to move it about an inch. Tho Canadian Knights of Labor aro seeking to securo tho ( xelusion of for eign labor from tho Dominion, and de mand that the government pay no moro nionoy to securo immigration. Joanuin Miller has finished tlio novel ho was to write, as his contri bution to tho literary syndicate. It is entitled "Tho Buried Kiver." lie was engaged but six days in its com position. A remurkablo woll hiiB just boon struck at Pittsburg, Penn. It pro- i duces at one and tho same timo pure, cold water, salt water and a now of iriu that when iirnited illumines tho entire surroundings. Tho Empress of Germany cannot use tho imperial crown on her coat of arms, but must be content with tho in signia of tho Quoon oi Prussia. This is the latent token of the tilial affec tion of her eldest boy. Tho priio light between Frank Sheploy, of Helena, ami John Oronin, of New York, which took place at Missoula Friday, whb a remarkably brutal atlair. Cronin was knocked in sibleuud seriously injured. At Boston Sunday Georgo Grotzon gar. aged twenty, held up his father with a pistol and scoured $10. After ward ho attempted to hold up his mother but she called tho police. He shot two policemen before ho atir rendred. Libby prison is to go to Chicago The work of taking apart tho old structuio is now going on in llioli mond, Ya , and as the bricks and beams aro dbplucud they are num bered o that the building can bo put together again just us it stood in Yir- rUUft; r no interior oi inu urn prison is to be wed us a sort of war museum. THE PACIFIC COAST, INHUMAN TREATMENT OF PRISON ERS IN A PENITENTIARY. Mrs Langtry's Importation of Blooded Stock Tho Lako Washington Ca nalSurvey of Reservations A Brute's Deserts. Fresno, California, has the railroad fever. Numerous burglaries aro reported from interior town in California. The smoking of opium by the while peeple of Spokane Falll is "increasing. The rediscovery of the lost Pen hachapi mine in Arizona is an nounced. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Drain & WcBt Coast Tele graph company. The Southern Pacific is believed to bo building into San Diego behind the Ocean Beach and Delniar railroad. Reports from tho Harqua Hula mines in Arizona are now discourag ing, and many prospectors are return ing. Charles Lumsteller was arrested at Port Townsend last week, charged with tho murdei f his wife in Minne sota. An examination of tlio great regis ter of San Diego gives promise of evi dence of fraud of a sensational char acter. The leading men in New Mexico say that the Territory is moro in need of public schools than State govern ment. Arlee, chief of the Flathead Indians, proposes to inaugurate important re forms on the reservation among the tribes. The bill to remove tho capital of Arizona from Prescott to Phtenix passed tho Territorial council Thurs day. W. B. Reynolds, of Healdsburg, litis been appointed inspector of Chi nese for tho Coast, as provided by the Scott law. Mrs. Langtry has purchased an im ported thoroughbred stallion and four imported brood mares, for her Califor nia ranch. Tho police of Spokane Falls made a raid last Thursday on tho opium dens of that city, and captured twenty-five Chinamen. Thoro is great dittioulty in landing provisions on Destruction island to supply tho mon building tho light house there. Tho mail sorvico on route from Hillsboro to Portland, commencing February 1, has been increased to six times a week. John T. Black, under indictment for tho murder cf his hrother last May, died in the county jail at Virginia City last week. Reports from Helena, Montana, say that indications point to the fact that there will bo no little activity in rail road enterprises in that vicinity the coming season. Tlio estimated cost of cutting a ca nal from Lako Washington to tho Sound, so as to admit deep sea vessels to tho lake, is $1,500,000. Miss Nollio Reach, who was so frightfully stabbed by an unknown man at her homo noar Colton, Cali fornia, recently, will recover. William Johnson whilo trying to dischargo a gun at Hillsboro, Friday received the whole charge in tho side oi tho head, killing him instantly. The grand jury of Elko county, Ne vada, calls upon tho Liko delegation to tho legislature to vote against tho lottery bill contemplated by that body Resolutions wero adopted at a mass meeting held at North i aknna, last week, urging tho Govornor to call a constitutional convention to adopt a State constitution. Tho Pullman palace c.ir company has acquired control of all parlor car companies doing business in tins country, with the exception of tho uglier, which is used on the auder bilt lines. lho badly decomposed body ol a supposed Germ in, about sixty years of age, was found near San Rafael, California, lust week, In a tree, about fifteen fett fiom tho ground. A raised umbrella was above tho body. About .$10,000 of tho $f)0,000 re quired lor tlio esiaunsnnient ot a watch factory at Otay, ban Diego tinty, which a company of Illinois capitalists havo been talking of start ing at that place, has been subscribed. Surveyor General Green, pursuant to instructions from tho land depart ment at Washington, has posted no tices calling for bids for tho survey of tlio Blackfoot, Fort Belknap and Fort Peek Indian reservations m northern Montana. Tho Union of Walla Walla is pun ishing communications from convicts in tho penitentiary concerning the in- luman treatment oi prisoners in that institution. If tho charges are true thu prison authorities should bo 're moved forthwith. Jacob Wilkerson, the colored man who was sont to San Quontin m 1S72 for forty-fivo years, for tho murder of a woman in San Francisco, was par doned in lS7(j on tho condition that he would leave tho Stato and never return. Ho went to Honolulu, but returned a few days ngo, and was rtcoguized by tho police and warned to leave. Ho was arrested Thursday night on tho charge of drunkenness, and is now in tho oity prison. The police will ask Governor Waterman to revoke Wtlkeon's pardon. AGRICULTURAL, A PLAN FOR THE RECLAMATION OF PEAR AND PEACH TREES. Tho Effect of Too Much Pepper in the Fowl's Food Bisulphide of Car bon as an Antiseptic A Model Barn-yard. Very cold weather does not injure stock as much as dampness. A mod erately cold day, with a driving rain storm, causes more illnets to stock than severe cold on a dry, clear day The flower-bed for the next year may be mado very ricli by scattering the sweepings of tho poultry-house over it. Soapsuds may also be well, utilized by throwing them on the flower beds. If the bulbs of certain flowers start to sprout while in the cellar it indi cates that they are kept too warm They should keop cool enough to re main in a dormant condition until spring. Sprouting injures them. The object of the farmer in feeding Animals through the winter should be for profit. Feeding stock to gam a profit from is n nice point, and re quires study and attention. It is not enough to feed a sufficient quantity, but the feed must be of stieh a nature as is best for accomplishing the ob ject of feeding. Bisulnhide of carbon is one of the best nnd cheapest antiseptics and in secticides. Already more than 8,000, 000 pounds of it are used annually to check the .ravages of phyloxera, the tcourge of European vineyards. Bi sulphide of carbon has an extremely offensive odor, and is highly inflam mable and explosive. Feeding pepper often to fowls as a regular appetizer is a bad practice. Although a very little will do no harm, yet the continued use of tho condi ment is liable to cause liver complaint. Warm feed tends to have the same stimulating effect without possessing the injurious qualities of the cayenne. The only way to make roosts is to make them on a movable frame, that may bo taken out of doors, there to be scalded with boiling water in which is a little crude carbolic acid. Make tho roosts all on a level and not more than two feet high, thereby prevent ing much quarreling and tho bumble foot. The kind of feeding that keeps a lot of pigs or stockers from three to six months without grain is a total loss of grain ; also, a loss of time in the maturing of tho animals. That is shiftless feeding that carries a lot of hogs, through winter on one cl.iss of feed. The need of variety brings them to the boneyard when grass is almost in sight. A farmer with considerable exper ience who has siloed clover for two years, says if it should bo left to wilt oh tho ground for two hours after cut ting, and each day's filling of the silo bo allowed to heat before the fresh cover is added, and the sides, not the cantor, kept thoroughly tramped, the clover will come out moist and green, and tho cattle will relish it as thoroughly as summer pasture. To make pullets trot along toward maturity with a wonderful accelorated pace, give them every morning a warm feed of bran and shorts and ground oats mixed up with milk, or moat stock in which is a little salt. At noon give a feed of meat, and at night all the wheat tUoy will eat and a little left to scratch for the next day. In ad dition to this provide green food, crushed bones and pure water, and give each day one heavy feed of brok en dishes; they will be eaten with avidity. Freezing of tlio food and water will bo ono of tho difficulties this winter as usual. Tho troughs become ico bound and tho soft food freezes rap idly when tho weather is severe. In such cases it is best to water the stock at itervals rather than to keep water in the troughs. If you havo no ar rangement for warming water, try tho plan of a Western farmer, who heats stones and drops ono in tho trough when tho water is pumped in. It is better, however, to warm tho water, using a boiler or steam-pipe, and if there is a largo number of animals it i will pay to do so. j A person who has some old pear , trees that havo about run out, asks advice of Popular Gardening and re- j ceives the following : Try tho plan of i digging a shallow trench, say ono foot deop, six to eight feet away from the j body of tho tree, and throwing into I this a liberal supply of soda, leaf mold, I ashes, litno and manure and covering ! with earth, and then cut away all dead limbs and givo tho body and limbs a good coat of whitewash. Wo havo seen old poach treeB renewed beyond belief by this process. In some casos a largo barnyard might woll bo divided into two or more smaller ones for different classes of live etock. A fruitful sourco of loss is the keeping of weak animals with vigorous ones; young with old; horses with cattlo, shoop and hous. By letting ono set of animals out of stables or pons at one timo and another, it may bo possible to get along with a singlo yard, yot the best plan, when much stock is kept, is to have several yards. Why moro men do not make tho dairy pay is becauso they refuse to be- j lievo that thoro is any study or invos- j ligation notded in regard to the care, tioatment and niiuinuoinent of the uairy. ii tuey ciianco on a Riu-cots they call it luck, and if they fail thoy novor investigate the matter to see wherein thoy fail, to as to steer clour of a repetition. . ..... it., . i PORTLAND MARKET REPOR1 GROCEIltES-Sugars have fallen C Jc slnc9 our last report. We , quote cube,. extra C o.c. dry granulated ugc, cuue roasted 23c. PROVISIONS Oregon lnms are qnot 'ed atl20i:ic, breakfast bacon 13(fal3ic' Eastern niat Isqnoted as fololws: Hams 12i(131, SInclntrs 14-aioc, Oregon break fast b icon i:!l(a)14c, Eastern 1313 c. FRUITS Green fruit receipts 1239 bxs. Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap ples not equal to the demand. Apples Co $1 per bx, Mexican oranges 4, lemons 800.60 per bx, bananas S3.0(s4.50 quinces 40 a 00c, VEGETABLES Market well supplied Cabbage jrtUc per lb, carrots and turnips 75c per sack, red pepper 3c per lb. potatoes 3j(M0c per pack, sweet ljtotzc per lb. DRIED FRUITS Receipts 01 pkges. Sun-dried apples 4(6 oc per It), factory slic-d 8c, factory plums 70c, Oregon prunes 7'ffOc, pears 0 a 10c, peaches 810c, ralMn 92J?,25 per box, Call ornla fig 8c, Smyrna 18c per lb. DAIRY PRODUCE Oregon crcamery and choice dairy 33c, medium ;7(33Uc Cal ifornia fancy 30c, choice dairy 27ic, eastern 23!a30c. EGGS Receipts 293 cases. Oregon 25c. POULTRY Chickens 55(85.25, for large youm? and 44 75 for old, turkeys 14(V?15c per lb, ducks ?57 per dozen- WOOL Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon; lOfoiloc. HOPS-Choice 814c. GRAIN Valley 51.35, Eastern Oregon 51.30 Oats 33350. Fl OUR Standard 8t.n0, otner brand 54.25, Davton and Cascade 4.10, Gaaliam. 53.25, rye flour 50, do Graham 55.60. FRESH MEATS Reef, live, 33Jc, dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3jff 3c, dressed "c, lambs ?2!t0 each, hogs, live, 5J(uGc, dressed 77J, veal 0(u Sc. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Peronnot is tho name nl an Alge rian who is gaining famo as a trainer jw crocodiles. Mrs. Levi P. Morton, wife of th& Vice-President-olcct, is a nieco of Al fred B. Street, tho poet. A brother of Millot, tlio eminent French artist, lives in Boston and earns a modest living as a sculptor. Ezekiel Sankoy. father of tho evangelist, died recently aged eighty one. IIo was tho first man to run a canal boat on tho Newcastle (Pa.) canal. Among tho student at, Miss Por ter's school, Farmingtori, Conn., aro a daughter of James G. Blaine, a nieco of tlio Into ox-President Arthur and a daughter of ex-Governor Alger, of Michigan. Pascal Porter, "tho boy preacher," Is really what his title claims. Ho is only twelve years old, and ho has been preaching for two years. Ho not only expounds tho Biblo text, but quotes poetry and argues with all tho force of a logician. His father says ho began preaching before ho left of! pinafores. An absent-minded Georgia traveler put his only coat in his traveling bag before retiring for the night. Tho next morning ho couldn't remember what he had done with tho garment, and consequently, on tho train arriv ing at Atlanta, ho walked eoatless to tho hotel. Some timo afterward, while searching for another missing article, ho found tho coat. Count von Moltko's house at Ber lin is a largo one, with no less than thirty windows looking on tho street, but tho famous old General lives al most exclusively in two rooms of it. ( Ino is his bedroom, tho other his study. Tho ohlof ornaments of tho former aro a largo photograph of his wifo and a picture of hot-tomb. Theso arc always wreathed with palm leaves. Cot-alio Cohen is claimed by the European Jews as a second Floronco Nightingale. She is a Jewish lady, who was an angel of mercy during tho Into Franeo-German war, and passed unharmed among tho wounded in tho two hostile camps. Shois a Knight ot tho Legion of Honor, and has been, elected president of that patriotic body, tho Association des Dames Francnises. Mrs. Russoll Harrison, wifo of tho only son of tho President-elect, will bo tho White I louse beauty for tho next four years. She is a young and bloom ing blonde, with magnificent hair and brilliant eyo. Hor figure is superb, and she carries herself with a vast amount of gr ice and dignity. Miss Saunders was her maiden name. Rus sell Harrison, her husband, is a quiot, woll-drosscd man, exceedingly proud of his handsome wifo. Vorestschagin, tho Russian paint er, when presonted to tho girl students of tho Normal College in Now York, tho other day, said: "Young ladies, you aro Indeed very charming, and, in obodioni'o to ono of our Kussian cus toms, I would liko to salute you all in dividually. But binco I can not I will kiss Professor Dundon instead, and ho will givo you tho kUs in my pluco;" and. suiting tho action to the word, ho turned to tho blushing and dignified professor and, with u hand on each shoulder, imprinted u refunding smack on his ehook. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." An olophnnt muy loso his grip, but ho always has his trunk with him. Washington Post. Stealing jam is not always fatal to tho small boy, but ho is quito apt to bo gathered to his father for it. Uur ling ton Free I'rcss. Smith (doaf) "What's tho mat ter, Jones?" Jones "Pvo got tho hoadaehe." Smith (who mistakes it for toothache) --Why don't vou hnvi it filled r Ha "How different opora glasses make tho actors appotir." She "Yen, ospoohilly thoo ghiSboa you have been out toiftt l,-t ween tho neu," Jaipur's Wnl'-. crushed and powuereuygc. ouoe urm,. Guatemala ISjO'JWc. Costa Ulca 18Jfo21c llo20(a2Uc. SalvadorlllS20c, Arbuckle's-