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FROM THE CAPITOL. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS IN DIAN AFFAIKS. Increase of Pensions Admlrat Klmber ly'a Heport to the Department Easter Monday at tho White House Zuch Montgomery will practice law at "Washington. ( Alex It. Morrison, of Mexico, will be appointed timber agent. Secretary Rlaino is Buffering from a Blight attack of lumbago. The Chinese minister at Washington is soon to give n farewell ball. E. W. Carson, of Spokano Falls, W. T., lias been granted a pension. John T. Lobaugh has been appointed postmaster at Pullman, W. T. Ex-Congressman 15. .1. Ellis, of tanis iana, died suddenly last Thursday. Julia A. L. Castro has been commis sioned postmistress at New Era, Or. Easter Monday is always children's day atthc White House and grounds. The president was overwhelmed with ofliec-seekcrs and other callers last week. The npK)intment of W. C. Hunt has 1)cen recommended as statistical expert. First Comptroller Durham severed his connection with tho treasury department on the 22 inst. Tho senate committee on our relations with Cunaday, will start for tho Pacific Coast in a few days. Prominent republicans think an extra session of congress will bo convened by the president in October. The president has npixdnted Willis Sweet, of Idaho, attorney for the United Suites for that territory. President and Mrs. Harrison enter tained vice-Presidoiit and Mrs. Morton at dinner, last Wednesday. Charles .1. Gofl' has been appointed special agent of tho treasury department lor tlie lur sea isiuihib in iiuHiiu. At Higltv, Hinglium county. Idaho, a new postolilco has been established, and John Parks appointed postmaster. J. L. Stoddard, pesent disbursing of ficer of the department of labor, has been recommended as disbursing oflicer of the census. No apprehension is felt at the navy department respecting tho non-arrival of the Monongahola and Hrooklyn at their destination. Tho president has appointed tho fol lowing K)stmasters: Edward Anger, at Ilailoy, Idaho, and George P. Cook, at Flagstaff, Arizona. Second Assistant Postmaster General "Whitford has under consideration tho establishment of several star mail routes through Oklahoma. On tho 21st inst.. President Harrison received a delegation of Southern repub licans, among the number being sever:'.! well know n colored men. Tho secretary of state is informed that Russia will send delegates to the Marino Conference, which meets at Washington on the 18th of October next. Commissioner of Pensions Tanner last week rendered a decision by winch tho tension of Henrv Dembetz will bo in creased from $30 to .$72 per month. The resignation of Nicholas M. Hell superintendent of the foreign mail service m tho posio ico ue panuioni. nan uceu accepted by tho postmaster-general. Ailmlnil Kimherlv has forwarded to the naw department a report from Chief Kierstedt, stating thai tno engine oi mo Nipsio has been tried and worKou wen. Tho naval loard unpointed to select a site for a naw van! on the Northwest coast, having completed its labors, havo returned to their respective lonueriiuiics Tho president has appointed as the comm tteo to negotiate with tho woux Indians, Dakota, Hon. William Warner, of Kansas City, and lion. Charles FoBter, of Ohla. Tho acting comptroller of tho currency liaB authorized tho Washington iNiuiona ltnnk. of Tacoina. Washington territory to beinn business with a capital of $100,000. Tho secretary of war has orderod tho commanding otlicers at all tho military iiohIh In lire a national salute of thirty- eight L'uns Anril iiO. tho Centenary of Washington. Consul General Walter, at London, in hubs report to tho department ol state says there has boon a general revival of trade and commerce throughout the United Kingdom. The following residents of tho Pacific Coast have been granted pensions : Wash ington Territory Joel Hradlov, Im Cen ter. U aho Mex can survivor, joiiii Green, Holso Harracks. f Roornbirv ltnnk- Iiiih unpointed Dr. G E. Morrow, of Campaign, HI., to repre sent the Agricultural Department at tho Jubilee show of the Royal Agricultural Society to bo held in England this sum mer. Commissioner Stockslager, of tho gen eral laud ollico, says that from present indications the contests over laud claims in Oklahoma would ultimately involve nearly every quarter Bectlon of land in that territory. Corjwral Tanner, commissioner of pen hIohs, rendered an important division on tho 22d inst., in imssiiig upon the appli cation of John Webb late private of Com pany 1), Indiana camlry, for an increase of pension from $24 to f 10 per moutl. Secretary Windom authorized tho com missioner of Immigration at Philadelphia, to use tho immigrant fund in meeting all proper exjK'iises in giving relief todestl into immigrant passengers of tho wrecked Bteainor Daninark, brought to Philadel phia on tho steamer Missouri. Tho major general coiiiiniindffig tho army lias Issued an order that hereafter all arniB, ordnance and ipiiirteriiuiHter stores und camping oqutimgo issued to states mid territories Iks turned over to tho quartermaster's detriment for truiiB portatlou, to lw borne by tho government. Secretary Noble Iiiih requested that all action iigHlnat the Missoula Mercantile Coiiiiwiiy and tho Nortlteru Puelllo Hall KHid (or Uiutxtr treNpasH on public lauds in Montana bo siwimndod until the hiiiiiu miu Im Invwtlwtod, Over forty million j Urt ot ium In involved, JIOJIK AX I AHIlO.ll. Hundreds of Boomers to tb Oklahoma District Rournlntf HoavjrHall storm In Georgia Notes. Albert M. Froy, died last week. the pool champion, The sanitary commission has reached Jacksonville, Fla. The Michigan legislator has passed the anti-dressed beef bill. The old board of directors of the Union Pacific has been re-elected. Four murderers escaped from the Wichita, Kan., jail, last week. Hundreds of disappointed Oklahoma boomers are on the back track. Tin sleeping car interests are to bo united in one enormous concern. Jackson, Miss., after being dry nearly two and a half years, is again a wet town. For the fourth time in English history the title of the Duke of Huckingham has become extinct. Tho monastry of Melk, in Austria, has just celebrated the HOOtli anniversary of its Inundation. Ngns of effort to establish a Whisky Trust havo become manifest in the United Kingdom. The City of Mexico proposes to follow New York's example and clear the streets of wires and poles. Otto Falko has started iu a small boat from Hangor to New Orleans. Tho trip is made on a wager. Tho heaviest hail and rainstorm ever known iu that section of country, fell in Atlanta, Ga., on the 24th. Tho fellows who crowd tho White House to keop certain other fellows from getting ollico are called "spikors." Claim-jumpers in Oklahoma are creat ing considerable trouble, and several of them have been killed in consequence. The Russian Czar is suffering from ex treme nervousness and excitement, being I in constant dread ot attempts on his hie. A Swedish laborer who landed in New York a few days ago, was shipped back to Sweden under tiio contract Labor law. A remonstrance from leading property owners against an elevated road in Bos ton, is published in the papers of that city. Lord Hrownlow denies that ho has ac cepted tho viceroyship of Ireland. Ho says that he has never been offered the post. C. J. Smith has been appointed general manager of the Oregon Hallway & Navi gation Company, with headquarters at Portland. It is officially announced that Prince Ferdinand, nephew of King Charles, has been selected as heir to the throne of Roumanir.. Tho Farmer's Allianco of Miss'ssippi ban obtained room iu the penitentiary building to operate a bagging factory of a capacity of 5U00 yards a day. A bill is pressed in the legislature of Michigan to establish the business of twine manufacturing iu the state prisons. These movements are hostile to trusts. Hotilanger says he fled from Paris be cause tho government had formed a plot to assassinate him, and railing in that, to sentence him to death by a one-tided court-martial. Tho French Ambassador at Homo has just discovered there a famous portrait of Voltaire that has been missing for more than half a century. It represents him iu his youth. Topoka, Kan., has the largest electric railway system in tho world. There are sixteen and a half miles of track in oper ation, and a speed of lifteen miles an hour can le attained. The Mammoth hotel at Rockaway beach, which was built by tho Hookaway Hcadi Improvement Company iu 1870, has been sold for $20,000. The building will be torn down. There were more than 17,000 Bidoons iu Ohio. Under the olioy ot taxation by regulation this uumler has been reduced one-half and the revenuu amounts to $2,500,000 a year to tho btato. Tho debtor who does not pay in Shun must become the slave of his creditor, who charges him from lf to 30 per cent a year, puts him in chains and takes his work as the interest of his debt. Applicants for country postodices aro now sending their photographs to Wash ington to bo tiled with their papers of in dorsement. It is noticed that nearly all photos represent very good looking mon. The Connecticut State Hoard of Chari ties has investigated charges made against oflicers ot tho state prison of Weathersllold, and a shameful state of immorality and lack of discipline was shown. The Texas Spring Palaco at Fort Worth. Texas, will be opened on tho 20th of May. its ohjct is toexhihit loxas to the eo pie from other states, and to induce men and women to see the South for thorn solves. Grand Old Man Gladstone is to bo hon ored with a emit natural monument. The highest peak of tho Fiuisterro range in .New utiinca is to bo christened .Mount Gladstone. It is said no whito man has yet reached its summit. Count Paponhoitn, formerly adjutant to the late King Ludwlg of Havana, is reported to have absconded to America with the funds he obtained by the sale of estates, leaving a large number of credi tors to bewail his llight. Governor Taylor, of Tonnesseo. has vetoed the bill providing for tho removal of the state penitentiary. The measure was regarded as the first step toward tho alxilitlon of the convict lease system and the governor has raised a storm ol popu lar indignation. Observations niton tho sway of tall hlnmcvs during high winds s'how that one of 115 feet in height and four feet in total diameter, at the top waved twenty inches during a heavy gale, and another 104 feet liich, but with a six and a halt feet diameter of Hue. moved through mi arc of only six and u half inches, The Department of Agriculture at ' uwUuiRton has decided to send uu ex iKrt to Southern California to inveatiguto the new vino disease, having U'on un able to make anything of the aixH-imens sent to Washington und it lietnir thought udvlsablu to experiment Uhju fresh sjkjc- iiuuun, THE PACIFIC COAST. HACKMEN OP PORTLAND ORGANIZE AN ASSOCIATION, Government Land Thron Open for Sot tloment Steamer Sunk Railway Notes Disastrous Collision Items of Interest. Petroleum has been struck at Ukiali. Frasno has organized a Tally-ho club' San Diego complains of the price paid ior ice. Pneumonia is plentiful in Hawthorne, JNuvudu The plant for tho creosote works at San J'cdro has arrived. It has been so far a bad year for bar- racouda in southern waters. The hiK'kmen of Portland are to or ganizo a protective association. ihe cutworms has appeared in some some of tho California vineyards. .Many .Nintu Kosa ladies have been vic tims of endowment associations Konrad Frederick Wiemeyer, editor of tho bacraincnto Journal, died last week San Diego county bee men say the prospects were never better than this year. There is a report that the oil wells at Sespe are not yielding as much oil as for merly. Tho mayor of Portland and city council are at outs respecting the location of a city hall. William Hamilton, a prominent ranch er of Grub Gulch, Fresno county, died recently. Yosemito was connected by telegraph with tho outside world last week for the first time. Santa Cruz has fixed the liquor license at $200 per annum, and the circus license at $250 a day. Two fomalo tramps, who carry their blankets and sleep in barns, are doing Yolo county. Mulky's Tom Daly, Little Dock and Butcher Hoy were the winners of tho races at Fresno on the 18th inst. Frankio Joesink. a 10-year-old ho boy, it St: fell tinder a moving Height tram icra- inunto, recently, and was killed. Los Angeles last vear shipped away 8005 tons of citrus fruits and imported from tho East 7021 tons of beer. Mrs. George lovelock was drowned whilo fishing in a slough near her resi dence, on Humboldt river, Nov., last week. Tho commission to fix a sito for the insano asylum for Southern California voted for a locality last week, but as eacli voted for his own county, no result was obtained. At Victoria. H. C, on the 23d, the cor ner stone of tlie Provincial Royal Jubilee hospital was laid by Mrs. Nelson, wifo of Lieutenant-Governor Nelson. Austin A. Hull, a prominent and very wealthy citizen of Seattle, W. T., com mitted "suicido on the 24th inst., by shoot ing himself tlrough the head. Corbett and Choynski, San Francisco pngilsts, havo signed articles to meet in a tight to a finish for a purse of $1000 a side, Queonsberry rules to govern. A disastrous cohesion occurred at Thompson Falls, on the Northern Pacific, on Monday last, in which tho engineer, tiremau and brulcemau were injured. Charles Mint, an Italian fisherman at Seattle W. T., was arrested last Tuoiduv for attempting to rape Mabel Gilford, tho 5-year-old daughter ot a Iiiuiidryinan of that city. lion. John l . bwitt, the nowiy ap pointed minister to Japan, accompanied by his wife, left San Francisco on the steamer Oceanic, last week, for his now Held of labor. Governor Stevenson's call for a consti tutional convention, to bb held at Hoiso flitv. .Inlv 4. has been iinanimnuslv on dorsed by tho republican territorial cen tral committee. Albert J. Cody, who bit off a portion of Joseph Monti's lower lip, in a fight last month at Portland, has K'on con victed of mayhem. Tho penalty is next to that for murder. N. Cooper was cut to pieces recently by a California halfhreed Indian named Hen Jones, at Colony ranch, Harvy county, Or. Thoy were apparently very friendly a few minutes bel'oro the killing. Tho Orogon Railway it Navigation company is pushing its line through the tho Cujur d'Aleno reservation and Cieur d'Aleue mountains to Mullen. About two thousand men aro employed. Tho steamer Alliance, owned bv tho Portland & Coast Steamship Company, had a collision with tho steamer Danube on Thursday last, near tho Willamette slough, In which tlie Alliance was sunk. Frank Saiifnrd who killed himself at San Rafael last week, was a son of Hon. Stephen Sanford, and a cousin of Con gressman Sanford of Amsterdam, N. Y., which place he left to avoid divorce pro ceedings. A new railroad company, known as the Hockford & SiKikane Falls, has been or ganized to build from. Rockford, twenty- five miles, to Sokano Falls. lion com pleted it will open a now lino to Portland via Fatinington and Pendleton. At Seattle, W. T.. on the 23d inst., the government authorities advertised two townships of valuable tiinlnir laud to bo thrown open for settlement. The rush for tho land ollico almost cqtiallud tho frantic rush of the laud-seekers to Okla homa. The granting of a franchise for street railway lines to the Villanl syndicate by tho City Council of Tacoina. W. T re cently, has created a sensation in that city, inasmuueh as it gives the syndicate practical control of ubotit tuonty miles of the public highways and makes tho fran chise exclusive for llfty years. There Is a bitter court-houso war in Whitman county, W. T. Colfax is tho present county seat and wants to build a now court-house, Tho rest of tho county wants a division of the county. The county commissioners orderod tho county to m landed for ftlf,0O0, und opiwsitlon meetings tiro Mug held iu all the other towns, und there is much excitement iu conaequeneo. IIO.IIF. AXU FAK.ll. The Nursery Toilet Tlie Care of Poultry The Pruning Season Farm 1 1 provements. Plants require their food in a soluable condition. No matter how much manure is added to the soil, onlv the soluable por tions are used. The solids can not be of benefit until they decompose and aro dis solved by the moisture. Knitting silk has been found to wash better than embroidery silk, and so makes more serviceable outliningon dam ask cloths for the figure. Monograms on doylies aro worked with yellow silk, in large letters, at the middle. Poultry need a good, dry dusting place. They like it better on a" level with the floor of tho poultry-house than to climb into a box. Over-feeding or keeping on corn and other fattening food is quite as ! frequent n cause for hens failing to lay as j lack of food. " Pruning when dormant tends to im part vigor, but if done when growing or ! in leaf it checks growth, i n 1 therefore a , feeble tree should never be pruned after growth commences in the spring. Hut healthy, strong growers may be lightly i pruned at either season. " i There is no lack this season of pretty, linirgs for thin black materials. Silk, is' of course, the most desirable, and one I sufficiently good can be pin chased at 50 ' cents a yard. There aro silk-finished ! muslins, sateens and other cotton fabrics that look quito well under grenadine, or other diaphanous fabric, but silk had better be always used for waist lining, as ' any other material is apt to stain the skin and underclothing in warm weather, j Farmers have a much greater sphere i of influence on tho flavor of milk pro - duced than they suppose, or they uo willing to admit. Tho reason why "a cer tain number of consumers in all largo cities are willing to pay what, to a farmer or an average consumer, may seem ex traordinary prices is becaus'e they get butters of high flavors which are always uniform. The makers of these butters nearly all use clover or meadow hav and corn meal, in varying proportiens witli other coarse fodder and meals. Lemon Shortcake: Make a shortcake' dough exactly like a strawberry short-1 cako. While that is baking grate the peel of a lemon and squeeze every drop of juice from it into tlie bowl, then take half a cup of sugar and half a cup of mo lasses, a teacupful of water, a little lump of butter and a tablespoonful of four. Let this boil until it is justabout as thick as a boiled custard. When the suortcano is haKcd cut it in two parts, and pour tho mixture over the lower one, then lay the upper part on this, bottom side up", and over that also with custard. Brown bread, which may be also served as a pudding, is made bv taking one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda dis solved in a hull cupful of boiling water; stir this in tho molasses until it is thor oughly mixed with it, then add three parts ol graham Hour to one ot corn meal in sufficient quantity to make a batter, to this add a tablespoonful of melted lard. Steam this four hours. If you wish to eat it hot in place of bread, dry it in the oven for fifteen minutes; if for pudding, serve it fresli from the steamer with a sour sauce. Fresh salads: Fresh salads ought to lio long in water; tho withered only long enough to crisp them. The outside leaves aro thrown away, the inner ones parted, well rinsed and examined, and, it neces; sarv, plunged into salt and water tor a fow minutes, which will quickly free the leaves of any insects that may cling to them. They may be thrown "into a colander or salad basket to drain, ami thence into u napkin held by its four corners and shaken lightly until it ab sorbs the water hanging about tho leaves. Handle the salad as little as possible in cutting. Do not mix it with dressing until tho moment of serving, and then it is usual to put the liquids at tho bottom of the bowl and stir it up just before serv ing. Salads of fish, meat or potatoes are better made half an hour before thoy aro used, except such as are mixed with leaf salad. Let chives or onions be handled apart when used, not mixed in, as so many object to the flavor. Tho Nursery Toilet: Some ono should make a protest against tho sopping of. children's hair with water, or using a' wet brush in dressing their hair, to save ! tho nurso or mother somo trouble in ar-! ranging it. ater constantly ovaporat ing from tho surface affects tho natural ( circulation, the color and oil of the hair; it should bo used on the scalp only, to cleanse it, or at llxed times to wash tho i hair, and this preferably at night, when I tho head can bo well covered up to avoid j taking cold. It will bo found quito dry i in the morning. The use of hot water, ! instead of cold, for cleansing tho scalp j and hair may bo recommended. Hot; water is a stimulant and should givo tho ! hair a good color. It is known that sul-1 phur is a conionent part of the natural J color of the hair, and somo of the hot water hair dressers avow that thoy can distinctly smell the sulphur developed by' this process in the hair with tho hand ! rubbing that accompanies its use. Hair dries more quickly also, after the hot' water application than tho cold. Hut bo I sure to pin the head up after rubbing iu a towel, which can lo removed and replaced, if it becomes wet. If salt bo applied, it should be in this way. Occa sionally this application will give a sound sleep to restless or fatigued heads. The best and the shortest wav to im prove a farm is to reduce the stock, plow your fallows in winter so that the soil will Ihj warm and dry and thp subsoil de- couiposed early in the spring. Harrow won and then sow ten or twelve auarts of grass Heed to tho aero when you put in your oats. If all take, your chance is good for obtaining from five to ten acres of oats and a Held of grass. Then pre pare us many acres for rye-sowing, pro vided your land is not good enough for wheat, and the two crops will giveou all the straw you need, and the corn field, ' Willi usual good luck, will producp enough to fatten stock. At tho end of tho sea-' son you will have tho produce from tlf-, teen to twenty acres of land, represented i iu oats, corn and iotatoes, and as many acres sown with rye and wheat. Keep just I stock enough to eat up the produce iu grain 1 and hay, and aftor gathering your next , year s crop of hay and grain, covering say llfty acres of your farm of ono hundred acres, you may think of adding as many ' head of cattle as your farm will sustain without purchasing heavily of foreign supplies. Hy tho end of tho fourth year' you are ready to put iu a crop of wheat und save plowing up your Iwttom meadow, you have re-seaded your whole ' farm ami are now ready to enlargo your 1 dulry and ut the end of ten years your 1 laud ought to bo in a condition to double vour crops und tho number of vour cattle, i This is in rotation. I PORTLAND MARKET. THE ODTLOOK VERY PROMISING FOR THE FARMER. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables In Good Demand Sugars Have Advanced Wools In tho Interior are Higher. The condition of the locai'mctvhiindise market continues to be active, and shows that Portland is getting its fair share of the expanding trade of the country trib utary to it, while the favorable spring weather gives every indication of another Iwuntiful harvest. Sugars have advanced tt,'e all-round. Provisions are steady at former quotations. Fresh fruits and veg etables of all khids find ready sale. Dried fruits are selling fairly well, Oregon prunes especially. In dairy produce and poultry the market is about steady, while wools in the interior are held too high by .'1 or 4 cents per iotind. Tho grain mark et is rather quiet, but flour remains steady ami in demand at quotations for standard brands. We quote: OKOCKKtES. Sugars, Golden C 7'jC extra C 7$e, dry granulated SV, cube, crushed and )ovdered ilcijj'. Coffee: Costa Hica21 22.c, Hio 22.i2.1e, Java 25a27e, Mocha 2S(g31c, Arbitckle's roasted 25-?4C 1'HOVISIONH. Oregon ham 121.1c, breakfast ba ' con 12ac, sides lOalO'.jC, shoulders S1 )c. Eastern ham l'J!4&'Mc, break- fast bacon 12e. sides 1010J2e Lard 10s 0,'L;c, KKlllTS. Navel oranges .4.7o, Riversides $3.25. California lemons $3.5U4 per box. VEOKT.lltl.KS. Potatoes 30(f40c, onions l?.j'a2c per rheuoarb lUc, tomatoes .?2.o0 per lxx. MKIKI) FUUITb. Apples 5(?Gc, sliced !c. apricots 13 14c, peaches S10e, pears 8c, Italian, 8c, silver 7c, German (i0jnC, plums 57o. California figs 8c. n.vutv ruonucis. Hotter. Oregon fancy 25c, medium 20e, Eastern 22c, California lStOc. KUHS. Eggs 14c. I'OULTUV. Chickens .f4(i.50, ducks .f 1011 per doz., geese !fl012, turkeys are 3c higher at 20 per It.. WOOL. Valley H5al7c, Eastern Oregon 1015o. HOI'S. Hops 1015c. OKA IN. Wheat, Vallev .fl.25al.27!C, Eastern $1.15al.l7J2- Oats 3031c. FI.OUK. Standard $4.25, other brands $3.93. FEED. Hav $13(S,14 per ton, bran $14al.r, shorts !fl5al0. barley $22.50 24, mill chop $18a20. FXESir MKATS. Heef, live. o!c, dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3jC, dressctl 7c, lambs $2.50 e. ch, hogs live (5c, dressed veal 0jo. Deep or Shallow Plowing. For many years I havo found ft a great advantago to plow in tho follow ing way: For corn I plow in spring ns near livo inches deop ns I can, if it is sod manured. Thus I got tho uso of tho manure early in tho season. I can work tho ground, and by capillary at traction tho moisture can como from be low, which can not occur when tho plowing is dono eight inches deep or more. This is u vory important point. In plowing deop it takes throo horsos, whon tho ground gets hard, and ofton tho fnrinor can not got tho third horso. I havo novor failed to boat my neigh bors in crops of corn whon thoy plow od deop, say eight or ton inches. Tho following spring plowed for oats from oight to ton inches deop. turning tho corn stalks down and kooping tho manure in thoraiddlo of tho furrow, as it wero. At this time of spring it is easy on a team, and can bo dono well. Tho noxt full, whon tho ground is hnrd and tho woathor is hot, I plow for wheat, five inches only, and plow the manuro up. Tho ground will bo mellow thon and easily packed to that dopth for a seod bed. 1 havo found by following this course that good crops followod. J. H. Machamor, in Ohio Fnrmor. Knew Their Sensitive Point "Thoy talk a groat doal nbout beautiful womon of Baltimore," tho said tho strangor In tho Monumontal City as ho loaned up against a lamppost to rest himsolf. "This must bo ono of tholr days for staying in tho house. Tvo walked all ovor this town to-day and havon't soon half a dozen women that would bo called good looking oven in Hoston." Tho mob that quickly collected had fastened ono end of a ropo to tho top of a lamppost and was about to tie tho other ond around lib nock whon tho strangor, with wonderful prosenco of mind, romarkod emphatically: "Hut thoro is ono thing I will say about Haltlmora It's tho only placo in tho country whoro thoy know how to cook terrapin and ciinvass-back duck." In less than live minutes his arm had noarlv boon shiikon off him by tho wildly enthusiastic crowd, and accepte! a hundred invitations nor. Chicago Tribune. ho had to dlu- "Whcrcvor sheep feed, now sweot grasses flourish anil weeds are destroyed. For this reason farmers should niise moro of them, if for no other. Hut there are several other und equally good rea sons why eyory fanner should havo its flock of these useful animals. It has lioeu claimed that some of the lxst cheeses, such as llockcfort, lire made from ewe's milk. Goats are used in Ger many for loth milk and cheese, while in England the shows are nowoHn to dairy gouts for comictition, somo of them yielding larger quantities of milk than ordinary scrub cows. OUR GLORIOUS COUNTRY. Wlint ,mrrlci llm Dono fur tlm Crumb IIiijT Mnimrchlr f Hiiropp. Not long ago I read in thnt hyper critical English journal, tho Spectator, that America had added tho potato, a gift, as tho writer said, of doubtful value, and maize to tho food of man. but tho Spectator doubted whether tho course of European history had in re ality been much improved by the happy stumbling, ns ho called it. of tho fifteenth century navigators upon two gneat con tinents. That is thoroughly English, you know. Those two vasteontinonts, with their boundless prairies and pampas, with their extended lakes, their navigablo and hemisphere-embracing rivers, mountains tilled with iron, coal, silver, gold and marble; lying undisturbed in primeval quiet and unproductiveness, furnishing a hunting ground for tho roving and untutored aborigines, havo been subdued by man and dedicated to industry, to agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, mining, arts, scioueo, free institutions and Christian civiliza tion, and nro turning out millions and millions for tho benefit of the world. Hut that is a mere material and physi cal contribution. In tho Old World men vrero fettered and oppressed by human ambitions, dynastic superstitions, inef fable disdain of human rights, degrading and blasphemous assumption that who ever governs you his religion shall be yours, whilo padlocks wero placed on immortal minds and aspirations wero cruelly repressed. In America our forefathers had a tabula ram on which to write laws and institutions moro in accordance with tlie teachings of tho Now Testament and with the inaliena blo rights of man. This country in largo degreo has been rid of the ex hausting machinery of military con quest, of oligarchy, aristocracy, priest craft and privilege Wo havo liberty of press, liberty of speech, liberation of marriage from the exclusive control of the priesthood, and liberty of educa tion. American ideas aro pervading, uplifting and regenerntiiit,' the effete institutions of tho Old World. Princi ples dimly discerned by seers havo boon practically applied. Much of th? progress in civil and political a Tail's in Europe during tho last one hundred years has had its genesis and inspira tion in the great ideas embodied in American institutions. The overthrow of the crushing and dehumanizing despotism of class distinction has como from tho stimulus of American exam ple, and old abuses and tyrannies have succumbed before our successful ex periments ot popular government. The discovery of America lias given to us tho mastery of tho ocean. Tho victory has been accomplished slowly. Stop by stop, timidly hugging the shore, venturing fearfully across chan nels and narrow seas, navigation has advanced. The obstacles havo been numerous, and efforts were often buflled. In olden times nc plux ultra was in scribed on tho pillars rf Hercules by fear or avarico or superstition. Sam son, in blind strength, seized tho pil lars of tho temple, and he and the tem ple wero crushed. The daring navi gator whom wo commemorate by this celebration uprooted the pillars of Hor eules, with sublime faith boro them across the untraveled Atlantic, planted tbem on these western shores; and Spain, catching the inspiration of the grand deed, inscribed ou her banner in tho spirit of our American Excelsior, the nobler device, plus ultra beyond and still beyond. Hon. J. L. M. Curry, ox-Minister to Spain, in an address at tho banquet of tho Hoard of Promotion for tho Celebration of tho Four Hun dredth Anniversary of tho Discovery of America, held in Washington, D. C. HUNTING FOR HEADS. A Vicious Ilulilt rrovHlllnjr Anion); New Guillen SnviiKPH. Tho bad habit somo savages havo of cutting off the heads of any strangors who fall in their way simply becuuso heads aro required to adorn thoir sa cred houses or to servo in tho dedicato ry exercises of thoir war canoes, has tragically ended the careers of a num ber of white men within the past year. Tho latest news from Now Guinea is that Mr. Armstrong, an Englishman, was recently lured to ono of tho coast islands, whore ho was decapitated and his head sent to tho coast chief ns proofs that tho islanders wore attend Ing to business. About a year ago a brave in ono of tho wild tribes on the Indian frontier was not permitted to wed tho maiden of his choice, becuuso her relatives wero of tho opinion that ho had not acquired a sulllciont numbor of heads to demonstrate his prowess. It was agreed that when ho could show two moro heads ho might havo tho girl, and so ho sallied forth to win rep utation and a bride. It happened that tho tirst strangers tho bravo and his party encountered wore Lieutenant Stownrt of tho Hritish army and his small escort, who wero led into an am bush and slaughtered, and tholr heads taken back iu triumph to tho village This was tho cap sheaf of a series of head-hiintlng outrages, und the bravo had not long onjoyod his honoy-moou beforo an Indian expedition fell upon tho tribe and gavo it somo now views on the ethics of howl-hunting. This fa vorite pastlmo has nourished greatly at Horneo, but U is now in a bad way in tho Hritibh part of that island, whoro tho penalty of death is visited upon overy heud-huifor who is unlucky enough to bo caught. A whilo ago tho Hritfch authorities, iu settling a disputo be tween two tribes, found that ono vil lage persisted iu head-hunting because tho other fellows hud three heads thQ advantage of them. Tho accounts wero baluncod by a small supply of trade goods, and tho rival honil.Tiiintnmi jiromlsod thereafter to live iu amity.