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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.