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FROM THE CAPITOL. CONTRACTS FOR THE OONSRUOTION OP NBW WAR-SHIPS. A Long List of Presidential Appoint- ' mcnta-AmoricanShlp-DulldlnRto be Encouraged Annexation of tbo Hawalan Islos Alt)crtO. Porter, of Indiana, will be minister to Italy. John 1 . Swift, of California, will be minister to Japan. Secretary Blaino advocates an extra session of congress. Arthur C. Milettc has been appointed governor of Dakota. Tlioinns W. Palmer, of Michigan, will be minister to Spain. President Harrison believes in the pro visions of tlio direct lax bill. Since April 17th the treasury lias paid out $145,1:31, 5S7.itf in bond purchases. Lewis Wofley, of Tucson, Arizona, will succeed Governor Zulickof that territory. A broad educational policy for the In dians is being urged upon tlio President Walter Blaino has been apiointel ex uiuuiur ui uianns in uiosinio ucparuncui Eugcno Schuyler, of Now York, has been appointed assistant secretary of state. Jeremiah Sullivan has been appointed collector 01 customs at J-ort lienton, axon- tana. J. S. Clarkson, of Iowa has been ap pointed llrst assistant postmaster gen oral. Senator Hearst has purchased the resi donee of ex-Secretary Fairehild in Wash lngton. Tho admission of Idaho will be one of tho first measures considered by tho next congress. Albert I). Weed, of Montana, has been appointed United States attorney for that territory. John I). Washburn, of Massachusettcs will represent tho United States at Switzerland. Georgo S. Bachelor, of New York, has been designated assistant treasurer of tho United states. Cornelius U. llnntord lias been con firmed as justice of tho supremo court of Washington territory. It is authoritatively announced that Senator Chase, of Rhodo Island, will shortly resign his scat in the senate. President Harrison and all those who accompanied him from Indianapolis to Washington paid regular railroad tare. Tho time within which tho railway mail service is to bo brought within tho civil scrvieo law has been extended from March loth to May 1st. It lias been rumored at Washingtot that General Longstrect will succeed Genoral Jo.oph 15. Johnston as coiiunis sioner of the Pacific railroads. Secretary of tho Navy Tracv has ex tended tlio time for receiving proposals lor the construction ol an armored coaBt' defenso vessel from March 16th to April 3d. Tho contractors who aro building tho now cruiser Charleston at San Francisco have informed tho navy department that tho vessel will bo ready for trial next week. Tho intor-slato comiiiorco committee lias issued an ordor saying that all ad vances or reductions in genoral tarllfs must bo plainly printed and publicly posted. Tho Now York " Herald's" Washing ton special says mat in tho ovont ol tier many's taking possession of Samoa tho United Mates will annox tho bandwicl islands. Senator Stanford has made an urgent appeal to tho President for tho appoint ment of Osborne, of tho Los Angeles Express " to tho olllco of govornmont printer. Secretary Proctor is an advocate of the Sunday rest law, and in consequence ho will soon issue an order abolishing nun day dreHs parados at all points through out the army. The President in his forthcoming mes Bage to congress will recommend tho oa tablishincut of American shipping inter cstfl and clearer and closer relations with our South and Central Amerieiuui neigh lors. Tho conference of tho intor-stato rail road commissioners at Washington has adjourned after having thorough' dis cussed tho subject of accidents and their prevention. Tho olllco of sub-treasurer at San Irancisco remains vacant, and the Pros ident is umihlo to (111 It. The men ho prefers for the place don't want it, and tho largo number who clamor for it ho won't have. Tho President is authorized by tho re cent legislation to open to settlement ulmiit 8,000.000 acres of land in Okla homa, and the opinion prevails that ho will shortly issue his proclamation add ing this lurongo to tho public domain. John A. Kasson, of Iowa, William "Walter l'ltchis, of Now Jersey, and G. II. Hates, of Delaware, havo been appointed commissioners to represont tlio United Suites at tho Berlin conference in tho Satnoan matter. Tho latest advices at tho state dupart ment show that there was no basis for tho sensational rumors of an engagement between tho Nlpsic and tho German cor vette Olga. On tho contrary tho Ger mans have given up their aggressive ik1 icy and abandoned all claim to tho right of searching foreign vessels for contra band of war. After tho" Ix'glniilug of tho next fiscal your, July 1st, contracts will have been Jet lor tlio construction of now war vos ikdri which will increase the tonnage of tho navy 16,000 tons. Although small, they wjll umlKvly In their construction the latest impiccod ideas of high sccd and heavy armament, and will Imj very formidable ships of war, Tho roply of tho commissioners of tho District ol Columbia to Senator Ed jiuind's resolution for Information con cerning Uio exclusion ui purniiiiHiruiu any charitable institution in tho district "on account of raco, color or previous condi tion of Borvitudo," Bhowrt that tho color Unit lu vnrv distinctly drawn so far as as- noclation in tho institutions is concerned, Hlthoughtho treatment of both ruccu Is pnerally the wmo, I THE PACIFIC COAST.I THE FEARFUL LEAP OF A PORT LAND LANDLORD. Tho Selection of tbo Site for tbe Now Navy Yard A Man and Wife Con victed or Murder In Nevada A Levee Broaks. Roseburg is soon to havo a system of water-works. Ashland now rejoices over the intro duction ol the electric light. The Brownsville woolen mills will re move their plant to Albany. Tho clock on the dome of tho court ho'Mo at Redding will cost $1700. The saloonkeepers of Sacramonto havo organized a protective association. Tho Oceanic steamers have stopped running to feamoa and iNew Zealand. A man in Linkville has filed a home stead claim on tho court-house block. Great suffering is reported among the miners who have flocked to tho Lower California gold fields. Heavy storms, with land slides, inter fercd with travel on the California & Or egon road last week. A second nttempt to fire tho Itoth child building was made at Port Town- send Wednesday night. Tho bill introduced in the California legislature to exempt mortgages irom tax- l r i . nuon nan lanou i pass. Four men were arrested at IJakersfield, Cal., Wednesday on suspicion of lreing the Pixley train robbers. Mrs. James Bulger, of San Francisco, was horribly burned Thursday by the ox plosion of a coal oil can. Jennie Hamilton, of Victoria, has be come insane through attending the meet ings of the salvation army. Near Gilroy, Cal., Friday, two men un earthed a can which contained cold dust and nuggets valued at $1200. A break in tho leveo nt Knicht's Land- I.J, Will., --IW.lJ, UlllA '.it KJk tllU llMtll and many farms aro inundated- r,.i i.'-:,i .i ., .... .i it... Tho sheriff of Malheur county captured a crazy man with a lasso and carried him to the insane asylum last week. Gooriro Tavlor. of Marvsville. Cal.. fell beneath a moving train Thursday and his hoad was sovered from tho body. John McKhron and wifo have lcen ar rested at Port Townsend charged witli the murder of their six children. Some excitement prevails at Spokane Falls over the discovery of silver at a point 20 miles north of that place. O. P. Boardslev, of Eola. shot and killed T. L. Porryman Thursday, Tho killing was tho result of an old feud. D. 0. Carrington was admitted at Los Angeles Friday for tho killing of Pat Mul len during an election riot last lJcccmbcr. Marvin Cravon, book-keeper for tho Los Angeles Planing Mill company, has loft the city $2000 short in his accounts. Tlio stone dry dock at Vnlloio, Cal.. is to be completed at once. It has been sovonteon years in course of construc tion. Cornelius H. Hanford. recently ap pointed chief justice of Washington terri tory, has been a resident of Seattle sinco 1850. It is announced that Mexico will de clare martial law in l)vor California in tho event of trouble at tho Santa Clara mines. Paul Schulzo land agent oftho'North- ern Pacific railroad, had ono of his toes taken oil' by a stray bullet at Taeoma Sunday night. W. II. Stono was convicted at Hollis- ter, Cal., Wednesday, of niurdor In the second degreo for tho killing of C. H. Wa ters last July. A school-houso was blown down dur ing a heavy storm at San Diego. Friday. A teacher and ono of tho pupils wore se riously injured. Tho commission apppointed to select a site for tho now navy yard has Becured tho option on 2000 acres of land at Port Orchard, opposite Seattle. Governor Swineford, iust returned from Alaska, reports tho discovery of a number of rich gold strikes on Admiralty island 75 miles from Sitka. Julia Mannix, formerly of Portland, ins brought suit in tlio San Francisco ourts against her brother for 299 for services rendered as housekeeper. Josiah and Elizabeth Potts wero found milty of murder in tho first degreo at El ko, Nov., Friday, for tlio killing of Miles Faucotto at Carlln, January, 1888. Frank Avery, chief of tho San Diego llro department, who was recently ar rested on tho charge of stealing shoes at a lire, was discharged ednesday. Tho man arrested at Nanaimo on sun Ucion of being Tascott. tho nuinlnror nf Millionaire Miell, of Chicago, turns out to be a deserter from tho British war ship Icarus, Several towns on tho Northern Paeillo havo been victimized by ono Gordon who represents nunseii as agent lor tlio "West Shore" magazine. Ho is in lull at Till. tings, .uoiii. ----- 4 A thousand citizens of Colusa round- UI,, visited bacramento Saturday to urge vlovernor Waterman to s hm tho hill recently passed by tho legislature dlvld- g tlio county. Excitement in Southern California towns over tlio alleged gold discoveries in l)wer California is abating. It is said that tho hoax was started by tho Inter nationa) company. Tlio ordinance making It a ndsdo- meaner for proprietors of nubile places to allow minors under eighteen to pla cards or jxk)1, Will Imj strictly enforcisMy the San Francisco police. Charles C. Scott, ono of the nmnrininrj of tho Glhuan house, Portland, committed nimum i i may nignv win O tchlDomrl v limine, by jumping from a third-story window to the Pavement Ikrimv. n iu. tauco of fifty feut. A committee of the California legisla ture has made a roort favoring the claim of Captain John Mullano im agent of Cal ifornia and Oregon at WaMliInitmi in !. lectlng from tho government certain moneys duo to tho states. NEWS MISCELLANY. THE 1HEINOU8 CRIME OF A CHINA MAN AT MILWAUKEE. Tbe Cold-Blooded Murder of a Soutb Carolina Editor An Arlzonlan'a Metbod of Replenishing a Depleted Exchequer. Jake Kilrain returned to England last weeK. Powderly declines to lecture on prohi bition. Pennsylvania proposes to establish tho winpping post. The Chinese laundries of Milwaukee have been gutted. Fifty colored men are studying for the priesthood in iconic. Ex-President Cleveland is planning a pieasuro trip to uuba. A mammoth steel trust was organized at Chicago Av ednesday. The looiner8 will again bo driven out of tho Oklahoma territory. it is reported mat ono ot Loi'itimo's war-ships has been destroyed. In De Lapero county. Dakota, scarlet luvur is raging wiui leanui eueci. t ; .. f i.t. . Win. Bell, a Kansas City cook, killed a notei-kocper and suicided hunday. The cattlo throughout tho states and territories were never in better condition. Admiral .larous. oi rranco. was t v seized with a fit last Thursday and ex pired. The lack of snow in tho Wisconsin lum ber district has paralyzed tho lumber business. The supreme court of Wvst Virginia Wilson is entitled has decided that Gov. to hold over. Tho developments in tho Times-Par- ncll case reflects littlo credit upon Eng lish methods. Tlio supremo court has decided that the label of Cigarmakers International union is not a trado mark. Five school girls attempted suicide at jast Aurora, N. i.. last week bocauso they had been jilted. Chcrrv county. Nebraska, with nn nrn.i larger than soveral Eastern states, has no practicing puysician, A soldier nt Oran. Algiers, has been sentenced to death for firing a quid of tobacco in an oiucor's lace. Firo Thursday destroyed the plant of the Anaconda smelting works nt Butte, Montana, joss, foixi.ouo Great destruction of livo stock by dogs ..tl!....l .-.!l. 1 I 1. !.!.. ! . t iiiiiiuLcu jiyurujHiuuiii is reponeu in .votzei county, w. Virginia. Assistant Postmaster Kelly, nt Detroit, has been systematically robbing the mails for tho last thirty years. Tho polico of Now York aro charged witli bulldozing saloon-kcopers into sell ing a certain brand ol whiskey Tlireo negroes wero hanged nt Littlo Rock, Ark., 1-nday, for the murder of Arthur Horton, colored, in 1887. Mrs. Langtry denies her marriage with trendy Liebhardt. bho has not been in vorced yet from her first husband. John L. Adams, an inmato of tho Georgia penitentiary for stealing $70,000, proposes to starve nunseii to death. A .Montreal man claims to havo a pro cess by which ice can bo'fumished at the rate of 75 cents for a year's supply On account of tho scarcity of farm hands in Oerinany it is proposed to uv troduco Chinese labor into tho country. A masked man nt Phoenix, Ariz., held up tho players in a laro room Tliurs day and they untied to tlio tunc of $000. Tho Now Foundland authorieties will refuso to sell bait and other supplies to American nsiiernien tho coming sea son. A bill has been introduced in tho Ohio legislature prohibiting tho mnnufacturo and sale of proprietary modicinos in that state. Tho Michigan legislature has passed a law authorizing ono railroad to purclmso another a reversal of a former law of tho state. Bv tho burstinir of a battnrv nf hnilnrn at tlio boiler works jof Monroo it Son, at Pittsburg, Thursday, soveral employes wero Killed. Tho cold-blooded murder of Captain Dawson, of Charleston, S. C, has infuri ated tho people, and fears of lynching aro entertained. Tho disputo between tho employes of tho Northern Pacific and Union Pacific roads in Joflcrson canyon has been ami cably settled. A family wero poisoned at Evansvillo. Intl., Sunday, by a package of poison on an upper shell leaking into tho water bucket below. A tiorman newspaper, published m Palestine, states that tho city of Jorusaloin is growing in size and imputation at a re markable rate, Tho jury in tho inquest in the Dawson murder case, at Charleston, S. C, found MclXiw guilty of feloniously killing, and his colored butler as accessory. Joo Snow, aged 14 years, and Chloo Poland, aged 111, wero married at Kovser. West Virginia, Friday. Thoy had been sparking each other for four years. Adolph Mafay was swindled out of $10,000 by Denvor sharpers last week. The loss so preyed ujhiii his mind that on arrival at Kansas City ho took his own life. J. E. Hobiuson, deputy itostmnster at Dalhv Springs. Ark., was accused of as sail ting an eight-year-oid mn last week. and a mob hanged him to a tree and rid dled his lHdy with bullets. CoiiRorvatlvo papers in Moxlco assert that tho United States will eventually ab sorb lx)wer California. Tho Mexican govornmont, however, declare thoro is no ground lor the statement. On account of the enticing of littlo girls into a Chiueso den for immoral puriKises at Milwaukee last week, tho citizens have determined to rid the city of the Hatrron-HkituuHl devils. In conse quence the Chinese aro leaving at a rapid rate. HOME AND FARM. INCENDIARY BARN-BURNINO IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. An Excellent Remedy for Cuts and Wounds-To Promote tho Flow of Milk in Cows-Valuable Cooking Recolpts. Large breeds of sheep require good pasturage. They will pay only when the conditions are favorable. Uneven pasturage, coarse grain and "pickling" will not do for them. They must be sup plied with all they may require. When potato8 are taken from the oven they should be put in a napkin or towel, and the skin broken so as to allow the steam to escape, and this will keep tho potatoto mealy. If cooled without breaking the skins they will bo watery. For cuts, wounds and sores, take of lard four ounces beeswax four ounces, resin two ounces. carlolic acid one-fourth of an ounce. Mix the first three and then melt; then add the carbolic acid, stirring until cool. This is excellent for man as well as Ixwist. To make cluo waternroof. soak for twenty-four hours in water until reduced to a still jelly, iour in a desert spoonful! of linseed oil, nnd mix well with tho jel ly before boiling. It will then be imper vious to damp, and wood-work, if pre viously mended with tho abovo, will re main sound throughout tho winter. jo make urcaKtast ro s rub into a pound of flour half a teacupfull of but ter, add half a teacup of sweet yeast, a little salt, and sufficient warm "milk to make a stiff dough, cover and put in a warm place and it will rise in two hoursl Then make into round cakes. They wil. bake in a quick oven in fifteen minutes. For griddle cakes sift a nint of corn meal, add salt to taste, and a piece of lard the size of a hen's egg, mix into a thin batter with sweet milk, add the beaten yolks of three eggs, and iust bo- fore cooking tlio cakes stir in tlio beaten whites. Lry on a hot griddle well greased, turn tho cakes quickly, and send to the tablo hot. Whether it bo best to spread manure on land intended for cprn in spring de pends on tlio land. If too rolling, much of tho soluble matter of tho manure will bo washed out and carried off bv tho rains, unless tho land has been nlowed nnd left in an unharrowed condition so that tho rains may more easily carry the matter downward. t. few roots or apples or notatos fed daily to cows giving milk promote tho flow of milk and help to keep the animal in a healthy condition. When consider able meal is fed. some kind of green food. at least occasionally, is very much need ed, r armors should raiso more beets for feeding to their farm stock. A little ex perience would soon give them facility in securing a large yield on suitable land. To mako chocolate creams : Mould small bits of the cream flavored with va nilla into cone shape, and set them awav upon an oiled paper to dry. Melt somo chocolato in a bowl set in a kettlo of boil ing water, or over a boiling teakettle. Boil each of tho dry creams in tho melted chocolate until well covered. Set aside to dry. Uso a new hair-pin for roiling too cream, and keep tlio chocolate melted while using. A secretion of puss often takes nlaco under the corner of a cow's eyo as the re sult of inflammation that often causes tem porary blindness. This may be caused variously: Chaff in the eve. a blow. cold. or constitutional tendency may all pro dnco it. It may be removed possibly by the application of burned alum blown in to tlio eye through a quill onco a day for a low days. This will causo an absoi-b- tivo action which may removo tho whito cloud. rhoro aro somo crosses that do not re sult to tho best advantage. Witli dogs it is claimed that tho union of a hairy witli a smooth-coated dog will produce worth less oilspring, and with oultry the cross ing of birds with roso combs" and single combs has not been as productive of such good results as when a single comb breeds havo neon bred togother as cross es. Experiments in this direction nro worthy qf attention. Tho cost of milk depends upon the cost of tho food, henco tho more milk received Irom a cow m proportion to tho food given, tho cheaper the cost. But unless warm quarters bo given, a largo quantity of food must bo diverted to creating warmth lor mo body, and it would, thero foro, bo economical to keep tlio cows coinfortablo, in order to cheapen tho cost by lessening tho amount ol lood reouired for lodily warmth. In other words, shelter is food, as it protects tlio animal against cold and exosure. To mako esealloped cabbage, slico two quads of raw cabbage and let it stand in I JIU IL'l. 1L nUUltl 111 i cold water ono hour. Drain and boil in I iuiu uuu num. jji.iui aim nun in i salted water until tender, then drain and ' chop it a littlo. Melt two teaspoonsfull of butter, ono of flour, ono of salt, a salt- spoontull ot pepper and ono cup of milk. Add tho cahbago nnd simmer ten minutes. Pour into a baking dish that has been buttered, covered with buttered cracker crumbs, and bake until brown. If tho cahbago was not baked with tho crumbs it would bo creamed cabbage. Four pints of soft water, two ounces of pearl barley, ono Kund ot salt beef, ono marrow bono, six shank bones broken into small pieces. two largo onions, ono stick of celeVy, two turnips, and two' car- rois ininiy snood, set the sauce - . pan containing ineso ingredients over a clear firo: when it boils skim it nnd let it sim mer slowly for livo hours. Twenty min utes boforo serving add a teacupfull of chopped parsely and somo salt, and vou will havo an excellent Scotch barley broth. ' To mako hominv drop cakes take ono pint oi iresn ponea hominy (or cold hom iny may Ih used. If the latter, break into grains as light as issiblo with a fork and beat in a farina kettlo without adding water), ono teasjKxmfull of water, two eggs, whito and yolks beaten sepa rately. Stir tho yolks into tho honiinv 1 first, then the whites, and a tensDoonfull of salt if tho hominy has not lwoii salted ?.r B !2? . full tered tin shoots, and iuj, 111 ii-.inixKnisillll, nil Hl'll 1)111 inn n bake to a good . brown In a quick oven mi. i 7, 7Z 7 . nSfe TstS'nf tfrStcS'ate0 senate, Uvauso of the small salary paid to memlKTH nnd tho great cost of llvim? in v. iiHinngion, nui probably havo the etl'ect of increasing senators' salaries from $5000 to $10,000 u year. !. It A ...T . . . "I PORTLAND MARKET. THE LOCAL MARKET ALL COULD BE DESIRED, THAT Sugars aro Weik. and the Provision Markot Continues Unsoulod Ap ples Havo Advanced Meats Roamaln Frm. Business in the local market continues good. The strike on the river division of tlio O. It. & N. company has terminated in a satisfactory manner. The wheat j market remains stagnant witli no pros-1 pect of improvement. Sugars are weak, j Provisions havo again dropped another point, and the market continues weak, j On account of tho scarcity of apples has sent up the prico from 25 cents to $1.23 ' per Imdx. Dried fruits continue a drug in tho market. Tho dairy produce market is weak. OltOCKKIES. Sugars, Golden C 5.jC, extra C 5$a'e, Coffee : cube, crushed and powdered C Java Uoc, Kio20jc, Arbucklo's roasted 2oc. 1'llOVISIONS. Oregon ham 1213e, breakfast ba con 13c, sides 10c, shoulders DGSlOc. Eastern ham 12)J13c, Sinclaire's 13 13c, breakfast bacon 1213c, sides 10c. shoulders 10llc Lard 10a llc.' FKUITS. Navel oranges $4.85o.00, Riverside $3.2o3.50. apples $1.10, lemons $5.50 per box. VEOETABIiKS. Potatoes 30(?:35c, onions 7075c. DIUEP KHOITS. Apples 5Gc, sliced OjC, apricots 13 14c, peaches 8 10c. pears 8c, Oregon prunes. Italian, 8c, silver 8c, German o1 (li,C)C, plums o7c. Itaisins $2 per box, California figs 8c, Syrna 15c. Butter, Oregon fancy 25c, medium 20c, istern32 c, California 22c. daiiiy raopucE. Easterns: EGOS. Eggs 13lSc- rOULTKY. Cluckcns $-5.50(36, ducks $12.25 per doz., geese $1012, turkeys 17c per ft. WOOL. Valley 18c, Eastern Oregon S15c. IlOl'S. Hops 1017c. ou.ux. Wheat, Valley $1.35, Eastern $1.30. Oats 35c. FLOUU. Standard $4.50, ottier brands $44.10. FEED. Hay $1315 per ton, bran $17, shorts $18, barley chop $2324, mill chop $1S. FliESH MEATS. Beef, livo, 4c, dressed 8c, mutton, live, 4c, dressed 8c, lambs $2.50 each, hogs tic, dressed 77sC, veal (i8c. The fall and spring sowing is reported in excellent condition in all parts of East ern Oregon. Tho negro exodus from North Caro lina to Arkansas has depopulated many plantations. The negros are promised torty acres of land, a brick house, a cow and $1.50 a day. It is said that President Harrison will not bo content witli the eight war ves sels, which will bo let by contract after , Juno 30th. lie will advocato in bis mes i sage to congress tho building of a very strong nnd modern navy. Tho grand jury at Missoula failed to re turn true bills "against either J. E. Clif ford or Dr. Cunningham, the parties charged witli killing an Indian nt De niersvillo recently, and which came near causing an uprising of tlio Indians on tho reservation. Hiram Adams, a colored deputy con stable, shot and killed a colored "barber over a 50-cent game of dice at Kansas City Wednesday. Adams was visited in jail by soveral hundred colored people, among whom were ten wives with out j lying districts still to hear from. I J. L. Fisher, a young German farm hand near Napa, Cal., has fallen heir to I an estato valued at $400,000, so it was re-1 ported. On the strength of which ho succeded in victimizing several parties out of large sums of money. j A constable attempted to nrrest B. S. ' I Spraguo, at Garvanza, Saturday, for Incit ing a little girl, and was shot through ! tho head. A posso of citizens started in pursuit and ono of the number succeeded in winging nprague to tno ground with a I Winchester rifle. I Detectives nro at work trying to clear ' up the mvstery of tlio incendiary barn-' burning wliich has completely dazed the ' farmers in York and Adams counties. I 1. , ? . i. n .. - . ' l " f IT m Varc 'uarrou n?y. . , ' . . . , - - Jmit twenty barns havo so far been de- stroyed, nnd a striking peculiarity about mo ares, is unit in every insianco tho owners havo been first notified that their barns would bo burned. After tho fann ers received the warnings they naturally watched their barns with tlio "closest vig ilance, yet were unable to discover any ono either approaching or leaving tlio premises between tho time of warning and the burning. It is believed tlio fires nro started by means of a chemical com pound, which is probably placed in tlio barn Moro tho notice, is given. Tho ob- r... .i..o... ..!.. r. i.. ..... rl""" "AV" ?J r l V"' auiaaa .jttj vii liiu iiiiini'in 111 ii i come lmnie, slrickon imil nui-rilin Hm viui. tation to divine wratli or witches, and aro iiuying cuarius to nreak tlio spell. It la customary to thVow stones at tho United States for tho numorous divorces which tako placo among its pooplo, but statistics show that tho percentage of divorces in England is growing with alarming rapidity. Slnco tho Divorce act was adopted by Parlia ment, thirty yoars ago. there havo been no fewer thnn 13,022 suits brought undor it; nnd In 7,295 moro than half tho court has put nsundor thoso whom tho church has joined togothor. Tiiosliowhi 1 eatS o Z " 5 SLV three decades of dlvorco aro compared vl onah other. In tho first, 1858 to 1807, thoro woro 2,188 applications for mivorco. in tlio second, 1868 to 1877. U'- ?. a'2"' - .'-oase of oO per wmu , "10 l',lru' ia7H to I8S7. thoro woro n lncroaso of about 75 nor oonU In tho noxt docado the 1 A t.it . . . will bo. eny tho lawyers, fully 100 per , wilt.-Toronto MalL ORANGE BLOSSOMS. Origin of the Popular Cntom of Wearing Thorn nt VrilHnK. Tho custom of wearing orange blos soms nt weddings is of comparatively recent dato with us. It camu to us, liko most other female fashions In dress, from tho French, who in their turn had derived it from Spain. In tho latter country it had lone; obtained, nnd is said to havo been originally of Moorish origin. Thcro is, however, an old Spanish legend which gives a different account of its introduction. According to this, soon ufter tho importation of tho orange trco by tho Moors, ono of tho Spanish Kings hnd a specimen of which ho was very proud, and of which tho French Ambassador was extremely desirous to obtain an offshoot. Tlio gnrdoncrvs daughter was awaro of this and in ordor to provide herself with tho necessary dowry to enablo hor to marry her lover sho obtained a slip, which Fho sold to the Ambassador at a high price. On the occasion of tho wedding, in recognition of her grnti tudo t& tho plant which had procured her happiness, Bho bound in hor hair a wreath of orango blossom and thus in augurated tho fashion which has bc pumn nnlvni-s.nl. As tho orango was ! introduced into Spain at a very early I period by tho Moors, this legend sulli ciently establishes tho antiquity of tho ! custom as far as that country is con- I corned, nlthough many centuries elapsed boforo it spread over tho rost of Europe, Up to forty or fifty years ago it was tho practlco for ladies to bo mnrrlod in hats or bonnets; and tho fashion of dispensing with tho bonnet ' scorns to havo established itself after tho oxamplo sot by Queen Victoria on tho occasion of hor wedding in 1840. Hor dress was a rich whito satin trimmed with orango flowers, and on 1 her head sho woro a wreath of tho 1 samo blossoms, over which, but not so ' s to conceal hor face, a beautiful veil j of Honiton laco was thrown. For somo j years after this, however, bonnets wero I still often worn at weddings, tho or-ange-llower wreath, natural or artifi J cial, being placed on them, and not di I rectly on tho head. It is probably not j more than thirty yenrs ago that tlfoy I wero finally dispensed with, and tho j wreath and veil substituted. Evon in Gormany tho time-honored chaplet of myrtle, to which thoro aro so many al lusions in llteraturo and pootry, has now been discarded in favor of orange flowers; and there seoms little reason to doubt that this custom, now becomo universal, and protty and appropriate in itself, will continuo to bo followed for a long timo to come. Annual Reg ister. Doll-Making in Thuringia. i At a tablo boforo a window tho fair haired young Gorman girl sat, minia ture brushes, combs and pins boforo hor. With a steel spring sho fastened dolly (who was dressed out in whito) to tho table, nnd then, with rapidly moving fingors, tho flaxen hair, which literally stood on end, was combed out and rolled into a coronot, a tullo vail somo inches squaro was quickly pinned on with diamonds, rubios and emeralds, and dolly was a brido ready for tho market But tho young brido had yet to pass through other hands boforo sho met hor fato. Whon tho Frauloin had pinned on tho vail dolly was handed over to a boy who sat at another tablo and whoso duty it was to proparo hor for her voyage. Ho wrapped hor care fully in a coarso pieco of muslin neatly and quickly, and then laid hor in a packing caso amid bundles of paper shavings. Even this work, trilling as it appears, was done with a quickness and precision which showed great ex perience. No part of ono doll was al lowed to touch anothor, and all woro so carefully fitted in that no room was lost. For all this work of making tho doll, all but tho head, which had corao from Munich, tho work of dressing nnd packing, tho material being furnished them, tho family rocoived thirty pfen nigs, or six cents, for each doll. Lon don Queen. A yachtsman thus describes an odd uso ho put his riflo to during a recent cruiso on a shooting tour in Maryland waters: "At ono placo," said ho, "whero wo had to tack, ono of tho ropes of our topmast becamo ontangled in tho branches of a pino treo, stopping us at a very critical momont, nnd threatening to tear our rigging all to pieces in an Instant. Thoro was no timo to climb up nnd loosen tho ropes, so I snntched up my Winchester, took n hasty aim at tho waving branch, and fired, luckily cutting tho causo of our troublo in two, and freoing tho boat from a rather awkward position. I think that this is tho first instnnco on record of a riflo having been used in navigation." A young married couplo started housekeeping, and hired n young woman of Hibernian oxtraetion to attend to tho "genoral housework." Sho was a gem tho acmo of neatness, dispatch and culinary proficiency. But sho broko hor young mistress' heart on tho second day by climbing the stairs to tho parlor during tho call of n social ac quaintance, and, in n voico about as melodious as a fish-horn, inquiring: "Say, what timo doos Frank como homo to dinner?" An old wo,n,in In England when n8Kod what sho thought of the weather said: Wol, sir," sho said, "I'vo 'ad tho plumbago now for two days, sir, which U as good as a halinanac, sir, only not soconwonlonU" Tho critics who gush so oxtrav ngantly ovor tho star actresses nnd prima donna nro Hablo to dlo from an ovordoso of lauden W Texas Slft- lUi.