FROM THE CAPITOL.
THE SENTIMENT OP CONGRESSMEN
ON IRISH HOME RULE.
Centennial Celebration of Washing
ton's Inaugural Another Batch of
Nominations Adjournment
of the Special Session.
George L. Shoup has been appointed
governor of Idaho.
Secretary Maine will erect a fine resi
dence in Washington.
Rolcrt Adams, jr., of Pennsylvania,
will be minister at Brazil.
PatEgan.of Nebraska has lecn ap
pointed minister to Chili.
John Hicks, of Wisconsin, has been
appointed minuter to Peru.
George 15. Loring, of Massachusetts,
will be minister to Portugal.
William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, has
been apiwinted minister to Venezuela.
The commissioner of tho land office
has established two offices in Oklahoma.
Lansing R. Miscner, of California, will
le minister to the Central American
States.
Thomas Rvan, of Kansas, will repre
sent the United States at the City 01
Mexico.
Over 1(1,000 applications have been
filed at the state department for consular
positions.
The President has npxinted Robert
T. Lincoln to be United States minister
to England.
William 11. Whitman has boen ap
pointed nsrociiito justice of tho supremo
court of New Mexico.
Murat llalstead, of tho Cincinnati
"Commercial-Gazette," has been ap
pointed minister to Germany.
Tho President has issued his procla
mation opening tho Oklahoma hinds to
settlement on the I'd of April.
The nomination of Ifalstead to bo min
ister to Germany meets with much oppo
sition from Republican senators.
On account of the death of Justice
Matthews the adjournment of tho senate
was deferred to tho present week.
Colonel John D. Washburn, tho new
minister to Switzerland, is said to bo tho
handsomest man in Massachusetts.
The President lias issued an order re
ducing tho San Juan military reservation
in Washington territory to (MO acres.
Among the appropriations by tho lato
congress wasono of $10,000 for continuing
explorations in tho waters of Alaska.
Most of those who call upon tho Presi
dent or cabinet officers every day for ap
pointments, aro members of congress.
John P. Ward, of Oregon, has been ap
pointed appraiser of merchandise in tho
district of the Willamette and Washing
ton.; The secretary of the interior has ap
pointed George P. Litchfield, of Salem,
Or., special Indian agent for tho Pacific
Coast.
Postmaster General Wanamaker says
that tho charge of offensive partisanship
will not be regarded as a sufficient cause
for remova'.
Tho position of minister to Russia has
been ollered Allen Thorndyko Rice, of
the " North American Reviow," and has
been accented.
Mrs. I leaton, sister of President Har
rison, paid, it is said, $22 on inaugura
tion day for u cab lo take her from tho
Arlingio'u hotel to the capltol.
The Rig Hend National bank, of Dav
enport, V. T., has been authorized by
the comptoller of the currency to be
gin business, with a capital of $,50,000.
Naval officers express considerable dis
satisfaction over llio details of tho pro
gramme for tho celebration of tho Wash
ington inaugural centennial next month.
Secretary Blaine says ho will not be
gin to take up tho applications for the
consulates under three or four weeks, and
that there will be many changes made
during tho summer.
Tho state department has received in
formation from tho American consul at
PernamhiK'O, Rrazil, that 12.331 inhabi
tants of the province of Ccara have emi
grated on account of the drouth.
It is reported that the Gorman govern
ment has requested that Klein 1k ar
rested bv tho United States authorities
and returned to Samoa and bo tried by
the representatives of this government.
A sensation has been created in Can
ada by President Harrison's proclama
tion closing Hehrlng sea. This action on
tho part of tho United States has proven
a complete surprise to tho Canadian gov
ernmet. The postollleo department is negotiat
ing with foreign governments with which
the exchange of money orders is main
tained, to secure their consent in a re
ciprocal Increase of tho maximum
amount.
Corjoral Tanner says in regard to tho
pensions of soldiers of tho lato war: "1
believe in giving every Union soldier,
his widow or orphan, who is In need, a
pension, and giving it to him as quickly
as jossil!c."
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, It is
said, is exceedingly angry because of
the oiler of the Philadelphia postmaster
ship to John Picld by Mr. Wanamaker,
without first consulting Mr. tjuay as to
his wishes in tho matter.
The committee in charge of the eeri
tonnial celebration of the inauguration
of Washington has appeal to the Presi
dent to issue a proclamation calling ujmiii
all clergymen ol America to hold thanks
giving Hcrvlccs at H o'clock, on the morn
Fug ofApril 30th.
Owing to tho recent Illness of Mrs.
Harrison, public sentiment has Ir'oii
aroused in favor of a new executive man
sion. It in ""hi the White house is not
only unhealthy liocauso of its miserable
plumbing, but that it is entirely to small
lor tho needs of the Presidential house
hold. Tho officers attached to the navy de
partment at Washington aro highly grat
ified at tho information which has
reached them of the participation of tho
British authorities and forces in tho
funeral ceremonies of Rear Admiral
Chandler, who died In Hons Kong on
the 10th of Fubruury. )
THE PACIFIC COAST.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY MADE BY
THE LICK OBSERVATORY
The Alleged Discovery of a Mistake In
tho Moxlcan-Amortcan Boundary
Llno-Tho Bold Crimo of
Three Masked Men.
Fresno talks of reorganizing ita vigil
antes. Malignant scarlet fever provails at
Fresno.
A case of small-pox was reported in
Tacoma Thursday.
Squirrel fishing is getting to bo quite
popular in California.
'J ho San Francisco "Evening Post"
changed hands April 1st.
Lucky Raid win, it is said, will quit the
turf after tho present season.
Jack-rabbits are becoming a nuisance
in the streets Los of Angelo3.
After June 30, the Seattlo jwstoffico
will bo rated as a first-class office.
Work on the $150,000 opera house at
Spokane talis is progressing rapidly.
A Piute Indian in tho California peni
tentiary has developed remarkable skill
as a crayon artist.
Jacob Pfunder, recently of Portland,
has been held in $2000 bail at Oakland
for embezzlement.
The headquarters of the Sharon estate
is to be removed from San Francisco to
Carson, Nevada.
A man's leg was found hanging to the
breake-beam of a frcght car at Kings
burg, Cal., Thursday.
Governor Waterman has vetoed the
bill appropriating $10,000 for the encour
agement of silk culture.
Tho reported conflict between tho Mex
icans and Americans at the Santa Clara
mines proves to be untnro.
Rawlins was acquitted Thursday at
San Diego for the killing of Captain Gil
bert in a jwlitical row last fall.
Stringent measures have been resorted
to by the San Francisco iolico to sup
press lawlessness in Chinatown.
Ferdinand Ciprico was acquitted at
San Francisco, Wednesday, of issuing
fraudulent Chinese return certificates.
San Luis Obispo is overrun with va
grants and tho polico say thoy are jkjw
crless to rid the town of tho nuisanco.
Frank P. Goodhue, whostolo horses at
Sacramento and professes repentance,
has been released on his own recogni
zance. J. M. Hamilton, son of Scnitor Ham
ilton, of Pendleton, was stabbed in tho
ncek and killed by Clate Ilinton, Thurs
day. Tho report published last week con
cerning the stranding of two whales on
tho beach at Santa Rosa, proves to bo
untrue.
A suit lias been instituted at San
Francisco against tho heirs of Seth Cook
by tho Ronton Consolidated company for
$15,000,000.
A little girl named Casey, of East Los
Angeles, was taken with convulsions
Wednesday ami vomited up a lizard threo
inches long.
Haitian, O'Connor, Uanim and Gau
daur, tho oarsmen, havo been engaged
by the Tacoma Boat club for a regatta on
tho 18th of May.
Tho Moxican government is erecting
stone barracks for troops and a residence
for the governor at the Santa Clara gold
mines in Lower California.
A man by the name of Richy surrend
ered to the Han Jose jKUieoiast wecic, say-
run ho was utility of forgery commuted in
guilty of forgery commuted n
Ashland, Ohio, three year s ago
Andrew Patterson is being tried at
Hollister, Cal., for having wantonly rid
den over District Attornoy McCloskey
last September, causing his death.
John H. Haskins. ex-congressman
from Now York, was victimized by bunko
men out of four checks of $5000 each and
$150 in cash at Los Angeles last week.
Ixcal sealers of San Francisco say that
no attention will be paid to tho Presi
dent's proclamation regarding the en
forcement of tho sealing laws in Hohring
sea.
Governor Torres, of 1nver California,
in a message to tho Mexican consul at
San Diego, says that tho richness of the
Santa Clara mines havo been much ex
aggerated. Clam Hell McDonald has sued tho
sherifi'of San Francisco for $14,000 dam
ages for levying an attachment upon and
selling at auction household furniture be
longing to plaintitr.
A collection of old fashioned firearms,
rush with nge, was discovered near
Tole'do, on tho Cowlitz, last week. It is
HiipnoMul tho guns were left there by the
Indians In tho early days.
Threo masked men entered a saloon at
Sacramento Sunday night, covered the
proprietor and two friends with pistols,
shot tho. proprietor in the seufilo that en
sued, ana then robbed the till.
Manv ol the SiMikano Indians decline I
io receive raunus ironi iiiu uuviTiimi'm,
i . . . ! . i t i 1 ,
and complain of bad faith shown them
by not assigning them to a reservation,
as was promised them two years ago.
William E. McEwen was arrested at
Aziizu, California, last week for desertion
from the army. Hie parents are wealthy
peonlo in New York, and ho says he is a
nephew of Mayor Grant of that city. Ho
was taken away in irons.
J, P. Cox, of Lowiston, while entering
a variety theater at Walla Walla, Thurs
day evening, wns caught under the arms
by one Howard and thrown to the
ground, hi the seutlle Cox drew a revol
ver and shot his assailant twice, killing
him Instantly.
It has Iven discovered that tho boun
dary line between the United States and
liwer l alliornla is located too jar north
by sixty miles. If sueh be thucase it will
wipe out of existence the International
company ana nrmg f.nsenaua ana the
new gold fields within the jurisdiction of
this country.
Verona Raldwin, cousin of " Luekv "
Haldwin, was arrested at Ixts Angeles
Friday as insane. Tho wrongs that nave
Kvn commuted against the ioor gin Itv
those 'whose ties blood should have I wen
a shield in her adversity, was enough to
shatter a stronger liiteflect than that of
u frail uu unprotected woman,
HOME AND ABROAD.
BOLD ROBBERY OP A DENVER BANK
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
A Negro's Fearful Struggle on tho Gal
lowsReported Destruction of tho
American and German War
Vessels at Samoa.
Roulangcr will Ikj prosecuted.
Hrazil is preparing for a war with Bo
livia.
Paris proposes to legislate against spec
ulators. John Bright, of England, died Wednes
day morning.
Tho lalwr movement is spreading in
Germany.
Tho fainting fits of tho Popo are Incom
ing more frequent.
Placer gold has been discovered in the
binds on the Missouri river.
The woman suffrage bill has been de
feated in the New York legislature.
Four inches of snow is rcjwted to havo
fallen in Albuquerque last week.
Mrs. U. S. Grant has given $25 to tho
Confederate Soldiers' home at Austin.
Chicago's monument to tho Haymarket
policemen will be dedicated May 4th.
Tho famous horse, Prince Wilkes, was
sold for $30,000 in New York Monday.
Two ajied inmates of the Ramsey
county, Minn., joor house have elopetl.
Trio gun-boat Yorktown has been de
livered to tho naval authorities at league
island.
It is reported that the Northern Pacific
has secured control of the Wisconsin Cen
tral. Eight tramps were publicly (logged on
tho baro back at Fairburg," Nebraska,
Saturday.
Lord Mandeville, heir to tho Duke of
Manchester, has been declared a bank
rupt. Ex-Prosident Cleveland and party ar
rived at Tampa, Fla., Thursday, from
Cuba.
Sixteen United States marshals have
been slain within a year in Indian terri
tory. A steamer just arrived in New York
reports yellow fever to be raging in Rio
Janeiro.
John Knowles, of Huntington, Term.,
is wanted for burning to death four mem
bers of the Flowers family.
A disease known as "black knot" is
destroying tho blue plum orchards in tho
vicinity of Dayton, Ohio.
A flock of wild geeso flying over Gon
zales, Texas, Wednesday, were struck
by lightning and 72 killed.
It is said that no white child born on
tho Isthmus of Panama has over reached
the age of twenty-ono years.
Southern Kansas received tho news of
tho opening of Oklahoma by tho firing of
cannons, display of bunting'and bonfires.
The discovery last week of an illicit
bomb factor' at Zurich has furnished a
clue to a gigantic plot in Russia to assas
sinate the Czar.
Tho Chinese minister at Washington
expends more money in telegrams and
cabin dispatches than tho government of
the United States.
William Clinehman, aged 15 years,
snapped an empty revolver at littlo Hir
dio Lucas at St. Paul Tuesday. Tho bul
let pierced tho child's brain and she will
die.
Louisa Frely, 20 years old, of Davis
ville, N. Y., committed suicide Tuesday
by taking strychnine, becauso her par
ents refused their consent to her mar
riage. Tho 11-months-old daughter of Mrs.
Schulz, of Rochester, N. Y., while in a
paroxism of coughing vomited a livo
snake which measured 12jv, inches in
length.
Tho Hald-Knobb cases wero finished
in tho Christian county, Mo., court last
week. Four of tho number have been
sentenced to hang April 10th.
John Rosenbargor shot A. Castalian,
in a row over a trivial matter, near
Creighton, Neb., Wednesday. Ho then
burned his own house to the ground and
shot himself in the head.
Assam swarms so with leeches that
lives of men aro in danger, any person
falling from faintness or getting stuck in
a mud hole or swamp being sure to be
sucked to death by hundreds of them.
At Uniontown, Pa., Friday, John Har
ris, thirteen years old, while riding on a j
coal car, stepped olT and into the mouth i
of a blazing coke oven. He was literally
roasted alive before taken out.
Jud Pritchnll, 'a negro ravisher, was
hanged at Danville, Va., Friday. He
fought like a madman on tho gallows, t
ami it required tho combined efforts of ,
four deputies fourteen minutes to force
him through the trap.
Aaron York, an Indiana farmer near J
Peru, placed several sticks of giant pow-1
der under tho kitchen stove to thaw out. I
During ills absence the stud' exploded,
instantly killing his wife and daughter.
Clara llogin, of Spartansburg county,
O,, eloped with l.dwaru .Matlmis Minday
and were married. On returning homo
for the usual parental forgiveness t lie
young man was fatally stabbed in the
neck by Hogin.
The exclusion of strangers from the
pews of St. Thomas Episcopal church.
New York, bin created a revulsion of
sentiment among Episcopalians against
conducting the church on a commercial
Iwisis.
It Is rcortcd that during a terrific
storm which swept over Samoa recently,
the American and German war ships,
six in all, wero driven on a reef and to
tally destroyed. Tho American vessels,
tho'Trenton, Yaudal'a and Nlpsle, lost
four officers and forty-six men, and of
the German ships, the Adler, Olga anil
Eber, nine officers and eighty-seven men
wero drowned.
A man held up tho president of the
First National luink of Denver, Friday,
and with a cocked revolver close to tlio
official' head forced him to s ign a check
for $21,000, after which tho robWr fol
lowed him behind the bank counter and
in the presence of a score of clerks re
ceived t no money, He then cooly lifted
his hat and diaapjean.Hl,
HOME AND FARM.
PROFIT AND L08S IN THE REARING
OF BLOODED STOCK.
The French Method of Packing Butter
Lime as Disinfectant Useful Hints
and Household Receipts
A Novel Experiment.
Fresh pork should not bo eaten unless
thoroughly cooked.
By dinning fish into boiling water the
scales will come ofT easily.
Tho farmers who planted alfalfa near
Lodi, Cal., havo all made money.
Onions are one of the most healthful
and beneficial of all food products.
Keep a small bag of sulphur in the
drawer or closet as a remedy for red ants.
Most of the sardines sold nowadays
are small herrings put up with French
lalK'lfl.
Starch made with soapy wrfc- will
produce glossiness and prevent th iron
from sticking.
A poultice of stale bread soaked in
stron-i vinegar, applied on retiring, is
said to be a sure cure for corns.
Three parts of resin, one part of caus
tic soda, and five parts of water, make a
good cement for glass and china.
It is said that buckwheat flour re
peatedly applied, will remove obstmate
grease spots from carpets, woolens or
silks.
Raw meats should be placed in an
earthen dish, when putting in a refrige
rator, and never put it directly on the
ice or leave it there in tho brown paper
it usually is wrapped in.
It is said that a thousand sheep kept
on a piece of ground one year will make
the soil capable of vielding grain enough
over and above the capacity of the soil
without the sheep manure to support
1035 sheep an errtire year.
See about a few choice now trees. Set
a grove of maples or chestnuts or wal
nuts. Tho trees will be profitable as well
as beautiful. Every year fill up vacan
cies as they occur in your orchards. It
is the only way to keep fruit profitably.
Re sure to empty your tin fruit or veg
etable can when "you open it. Do not
leave any of tho contents in the can, if
you propose to use them. Put them in
an earthen dish. They aro very likely to
become unwholesome if they are left in
tho can after it is opened.
In experiments made in feeding, it has
been found that Jerseys with grain feed
will eat on an average nineteen pounds
of hay or fifty of ensilage, and with en
silage tho butter yield will be about 12
per cent moro than on hay feed with the
same amount of grain.
The object in securing a good breed of
hogs should be to have them quickly
convert the food into meat. The profit
does not depend upon the size or the
quantity consumed, but upon the cost,
which depends, after all. upon the rela
tive increase in weight in projiortion to
food consumed.
A celery sauce for chicken: Cut into
small pieces six heads of celery, throw
them into boiling water and boil for five
minutes, drain, put into a sauce pan, add
a quarter of a pound of butter, a half
pint of stock, a tcaspoonfull of. salt and a
littlo pepper, cook slowly until the celery
is tender, t'en press it through a sieve,
heat it again and add cream to make it
tlio proper consistency.
To make sweetbread pies wasli and
parboil ono pair of sweetbreads, then
pick them into small pieces. Drain and
wash two dozen oysters. Put one tea
spoonful of butter "in a frying pan, mix
until smooth, add a half pint of cream,
tlio yolks of two hard boiled eggs mashed
fine," a half teaspcmful of salt and a dash
of pepper. Put tho sweetbreads and tho
oysters in a baking dish, pour the sauce
over, cover with paste and bako for
twenty minutes in a quick oven.
In Franco butter is packed in bags,
not more than three inches in diameter,
for family use, nor moro than two inches
for restaurants. Each bag holds two
pounds. When filled they aro tied and
packed In brino in tubs or casks which
can bo headed tight. Tho cloth used is
quite freo from lint, and should bo slight
ly starched just enough to mako them
iron smoothly then run together of uni
form size. The bag is placed in a mould
of uniform size and shape while being
filled. Tho plan may not bo unworthy
of a trial in this country.
It is now so common for farmers to
provide stabling for their cattle, espec
ially for cows, that but few who aro well-to-do
neglect it. Still there are somo
who even keep cows without anv decent
provision for them, and will let them
stand out in rain and storm, and even go
out to milk without any protection for
themselves. That cows so treated will
rapidly shrink in their milk goes
without saving. When a man can do no
better, ho should put up a straw shelter
of somo kind, which will serve a good
puriwso until he can build something
better and moro permanent.
An advocate of the "soiling" system,
in the management of eattle, says. " It
is claimed that digestion never proceeds
rapidly, so long as tho animal continues
eating. It is only when the stomaeii is
sufficiently tilled that tho circulation be
comes accelerated, tho temperature of the
lxdv moro elevated, and digestion pro
ceeds with the greatest activity. If this
view Ih correct, then it is seen that
cows searching over a scanty pasture all
dav, for food, would less perfectly digest
it than with abundance of good food in
the stall.
Lime is a good disinfectant. It is es
pecially valuable to place in cellars
where" vegetables have been stored, es
lecially such as havo been put in wet or
hIiow s'igns of decay. Hy ubrorbtng su
lerfiupus moisture tho lime prevents tho
rising of foul odors that dampness with
warmth is sure to generato. Moat vege
tables in cellars are better If covered with
earth and tho llmo sprinkled over tho
top of the heap.
The Illinois Experimont station has
mado home very interesting experiments
in oats during the past year, with tho
following results: In seven plats sown to
test quaiJCity of seed jwr acre, at tho rato
of from one to four bushels per acre, ono
in which bushols were used carno
out first, with tKJ.8 bushels, against mi
average of 60.7 bushels for the six othor
plats. A little more straw, however,
was grown with three bushels ter aero.
PORTLAND MARKET.
THE WHEAT MARKET REMAINS
DULL AND INACTIVE.
Vasclllatlng Sugars-Local Market Con
tlnues o be Anything but Satisfactory-Good
Fruits Com
mand Good Prices.
The wheat market shows very little
sign of improvement over the present
unsettled and unsatisfactory Btate of af
fairs. Tho fluctuating prices in sugars
continues, and the market remains vir
tually unchanged since last report. The
local market is weak, prices, however, re
maining about the same as a week ago.
Fruits in good condition command good
prices and find a ready sale. Dried fruits
of all kinds meet with a tardy sale. But
ter is firm and in good demand. There
is very little activity m wool, the de
mand in the East being also light. A
marked fall is noted in all kinds of feed
quotations.
OKOCEKIES.
Sugars, Golden C 5c. extra C 0e,
cube," crushed and irowdered 7?c. Coffee:
I Java 25c, Rio 20ac, Arbuekle's roasted
I 2oc
ritOVISlONB.
ham 1213e, breakfast ba
sides 10c. shoulders !)10c.
Oregon
con I3e,
Eastern ham 12(fcl3Mc Sinelaire's 13
132!i breakfast bacon 12K13e. sides
loo. shoulders OQOJsC Lard 10i
llc.
FllUlTS.
Navel oranges $4.004.75, Riverside
$3.25(33.50. apples $1.50, lemons $4.00 per
box.
VECIETAM.ES.
Potatoes 30c35c, onions 7075c.
DUIEI) FIIUITS.
Apples 5(5c, sliced (Je, apricots 13
14c, peaches 8(l0s. pears Sc. Oregon
prunes. Italian, 8c, silver 7c, German (5
(fi)7c. plums 57c. Raisins $2 per box,
California figs 8c, Syrna 15c.
DAIRY I'HODUCE.
Butter, Oregon fancy 25c, niediuru 20c,
Eastern 22c, California 'jOh.
eggs.
Eggs 15c.
I'OUI.TRY.
Chickens $0.(j.")0, ducks $12.00 per
doz., geese $10Gil2, turkeys 17c per lb.
WOOL.
Valley 18e, Eastern Oregon 8 15c.
HOI'S.
Hops 814c.
OKA IK.
Wheat, Vallev $1.35, Eastern $1.25.
Oats 3J32c.
Ki.oim.
Standard $4, other brands $4.
FEED.
Hav $1314 per torr, bran $15, shorts
1 $lu, Ixirley chop $2425, mill chop $18.
J KitESH MEATS.
Beef, live, 4c, dressed 8c, mutton, live,
; 4c, dressed 8c, lambs $2.50 each, hogs Ge,
dressed .,(, veal oSe.
ANCIENT LAND LAWS.
Redemption of IlomuttemU by the First
Settlor ol tho WcHt.
As an inducement for tho opening
up of tho country west of tho Alle
ghany mountains, immediately after
tho independonco of tho United States
was secured, tho Government of Vir
ginia appointed threo commissioners
to givo certificates of sottloment rights.
Building a cabin and raising a crop of
grain, however small, ontitlcd tho oc
cupant to four hundred acres of land,
and u pro-oinption right to ono thou
sand acres moro adjoining, to bo so
cured by a land-office warrant. "Thoro
was," says a writer upon this subject,
who claims to havo seon a uumber of
those "tomahawk rights1' when a boy,
"ut at an early poriod of our settle
ments, an inferior kind of land title,
denominated n "tomakawk right,"
which was mado by dcadoning a fow
trees near the head of a spring, nnd
marking tho bark of somo ono or moro
of them with the Initials of tho name
of tho poreon who mado tho improve
ment." These oarly pro-omptors wore
furnished, I learn from the sumo
sourco, with a covering for tho feet,
which now if seen would arouso sym
pathy for tho woarer. Tho moccasins
in ordinary uso caused but a fow hour's
labor to mako them. This was done
by an instrument denominated a
moccasin awl, which was mado of tlio
back spring of an old clasp-knifo.
This awl, with its buckhorn handle,
was an appendage, too, of ovory
shot-pouch strap, togothor with a roll
of buckskin for mending tho mocca
filns. This was tho labor of almost
ovory evening. They wero sowed
together, nnd patched with deor skin
throngs, or whangs as they wero com
monly called. In cold woatner the
moccasins wero wollbtulTod dcors'
hair, or dry loaves, so as to keep tho
feet comfortably warm; but in wot
weather it w is usually said that wear
ing them wius 'a decent way of going
baiefooted;" and such wius the fact,
owliik to tho spongy texture of tho
leather of which thoy are mado.
Tho natives of Ha-tl nro eating
ono another. If this process con
tinues long enough It Is bound to result
In permanent peace down there.
Philadelphia Prow.
The best kind of horses to raise, says
Column's " Rural World," are those
that can be used for most puriwses
thoso that tho greatest demand exists
for. The trotter must not bo bred for
8eed alone, for should they lack that
and le small, it would bo difficult to sell
litem a i Hive ino cost or ruining, nut
should they 1m aliout sixteen hands
high, of good style and iWosessing plenty
of lone and muscle ami weighing from
1050 to 1200 jKuinds, then we have horses
suitable for the carriage or coach, or as
roadsters, or for general utility purjKses.
Such horses will ahvays self well Sbil
should bo moro geucnSly bred.
DRY FORK'JOTTINGS.
Society Point In i I'rojrreiwlvo and Pro
perou Arkmiftn. Community.
The following correspondence from
that most progressive of communities,
Dry Fork, appeared last week in tho
county paper:
Yo correspondent would havo writ
ten last week, but there wns no news
to communicate and, in fact, there is
no news this week worthy of note. I
only write because it is ti rainy day
and I havo nothing else to do.
Rain.
Every thing is quiet. ,
Jeff Filpot is dead.
A good many hogs havo besn killed
during tho past year.
Unclo Hob Joyner fell off his horse
day before yesterday and broke one ol
his hips. Yo correspondent did not
learn which one.
Wind.
More rain.
Shindig at Patterson's night bofore
last.
Unclo Jesse Gait stuck a thorn in his
eye Wednesday. '
Job Balsh is a Har. So Is liill Prultt.
Sim May field's gun went otr acci
dentally the other day and killed a. line
mule colt.
Moro rain.
Saw mills aro doing a good business.
Lytt Hendricks sawed off his left arm
last Friday.
Revival at Round Pond church. The
Rev. Jack Hoyto. who conducts it, is a
pretty good fellow, but is a liar.
Old Mat Morgan killed a wolf last
Monday.
Tobo McCrackon has run away with
Ad Harkrider's horse. Harkrider's
wifo also accompanied him.
Still moro rain.
A good many farmers aro breaking
up land.
Till Alexander is a thief. So is Mosc
High'tower.
Aunt Betsey Rliio died night boiore
Inst. She will be sadly missed at the
mourner's bench. She was a great
hand to make apple pies and was
seventy-six years old. She could alsc
make a fine kettle of soft soap. Peace
to her ashes. 1 shall never forget her
kindness of heart, for she knit mo the
best pair of socks I over had.
Yo correspondent is under many ob
ligations to Rob llonslcy for a mess
of squirrels. Ho is a man righl
and the best shot in our neighborhood.
Wo regret to say that his gun went oil
accidentally day before yesterday and
killed him.
Unclo Hilly Phelps broke ono of his
legs yesterday.
We look for a chango in tho weather
soon.
Hob Taylor professed religion last
Friday, and nono too soon either, for
ho was killed by a saw-log Saturday.
Wo see a largo number of shouts in
tho woods.
Aunt Hetsy Janson poisoned Trot
Mayfiold's dog day before yesterday.
Trot got ahold of some of tho poison
and is also dead.
Cloudy weather.
Squirrels aro scarce.
Ruck Truitt is dead.
Zeb Faneher and Miss Tallio Moore
wore married last week. The happy
pair were congratulated by a large
number of friends. Zeb was shot and
killed shortly after tho ceremony was
performed.
I hopo to send you some news next
week.
Unclo Cad Metford is dead.
Aunt Lizzie Lucas will be dead by
tho timo this reaches you.
Hill Hunly shot his unclo yesterday.
Hill has been killed.
Moro rain.
Clouds ovorywhoro.
Look out for falling weather.
Wilson Ruck killed Hob Patridge
yoslerday.
I will send you some hows soon.
Habbltt Malono killed his uuelo yes
terday. Moro rain. Arkansaw Traveler.
FIGS AS FOOD.
Tho Mont NutrltiotiM or All FruiU Kxcrpt
tlio Olive.
One of tho Persian kings cnused the
colebrated Attic figs to bo set bofore
him whonover ho dined, forcno reason,
to remind him that tho land whore
thoy grow was not yet his, and that, in
stead of reeoiving tho fruit as n tribute,
ho was obliged to buy it from abroad:
and, for another, that it was not only
tho omblom of health, but tho most
wholesome fruit grown. Tho lig is
now pretty well known to be, especially
at certain seasons, almost tho common
food of tho Italian pooplo; and for
months thoy may bo said to llvo en
tirely upon it. As Dr. Nichols says,
it Is not only posslblo for a man to live
upon figs, but sitting under his own
vino and fig tree, a man has plenty ol
food and no landlord. When eaton
fresh tho fig is a mediclno as well as
food; and thoy who oat freoly need no
potions and no aperients. Full of nu
trition and all those properties thnt
make It valuable as an artielo ot dlot.
wo aro confident that tho fig will tako
a prominent position in tho estimation
of all who work for and bollovo In food
reform. For iifcvsolf, I would simply
add that, again and again, without
liquid of any kind, tho luscious green
fig. oaton with whole-meal bread, has
formed a dish at once simple but rich,
and like tho Spaniard's salad, fit for a
king. Tho fig Is not only vory popular,
but It is tho most ancient fruit wo cul
tivate. In many countries tho failure
of this crop also moans starvation and
famine. Travelers in Asia Minor and
southern Europe provldo thomselvos
with figs and olives as provisions for
loniijouriioys. and not only live, but
groft fat on tho diet. The lig has moro
medicinal properties and moro nutri
ment than any othor fruit with the ex
ception of tho olive. Int-CHor.