THE OREGON SCOUT. JOHES A CHANCEY, - Publisher UNION, OREGON. TABOOS IN SAMOA. JBupergtltloiin Device Adopted to l'reserw Honesty mill Order. In Samoa tho natives frequently re sort to what is known ns tho "taboo" "to frighten thiovos from their bread fruit trees. Among a superstitious pooplo so slmplo n dovico does much to proscrvo honesty and ordor. Tho "whito shark taboo" was and is an object of terror to a thief. Cocoa- nut loavos nro plaited in tho form of a Bhark, fins and all. and this is bus ponded from tho bread-fruit tree. It is equivalent to nn expressed impreca tion that tho thief might bo devoured by tho whito bhark tho next time ho wont to fish. Tho "cross-stick taboo" was a pleco of any sort of stick suspended hor- izontally from tho tree It oxproswd tho wish of the owner of tho treo that any thief touching it might hnvu a disoaso running' across his body, and remain fixed thoro till ho dlod. Tho "tic-dolourouxtgboo" was mado by fixing a spear in tho ground closo by tho trees which tho owner wisliod to guard. It was oxprcssivo of a wish that tho thiof might suffer from tho agonies of that disease. Tho "death taboo" is mado by pour ing 8onio oil into a calabash and bury ing it near tho treo. Tho spot is marked by a Httlo hillock of whito Tand. Tho sight of ono of thoso plnccs is effectual In scaring away a thief. Tho "rat taboo" is a small cocoanut loaf basket filled with ashos from tho cooklng-houso and two or three small Htoncs and susponded from tho treo. It signifies a wish that rats may eat hoi 03 in tho lino mats of tho thief and dostroy any cloth or othor proporty which ho may valuo. If a man wishes tho lightning to Btrlko nny ono who otoals from his land ho plaits somo cocoanut lotifiots in tho form of a small squaro mat and suspends It from a treo. with tho ad dition of somo whito stroamors of natlvo cloth. This Is tho "thundor taboo." Tho thiof boliovos that If ho IrospasBos ho or somo of his children may bo struck by lightning, or that "his own troos may bo blasted by light ning or rather by tho tho thundor, which ho supposes to bo tho agont of destruction. Youth's Companion. SCIENTIFIC HOCKEY. Tho Old fieliool-Iloy flume. Amilnliifr limit I'opuliirlty la 1'iiu'mtil. "Hockey," tho old game of school boys, Is bolng put upon a scientific "basis in England, and hockoy clubs nro bogmning to crowd tho cricketers out of popularity in many localities. Thoro nro regular hockoy associations and championship games in dlfToronl parts of England, and now clubs nro being formed ovory few days. The rules nro Indoflnlto as yot, and vary in tho dilTorcnt associations, but they nro all modeled upon football. Elovon players form each stdo and nro ar ranged in six forwards, including two centers, two right wings and two loft wings, throo half backs, a throo-quar-tor back, and a goal koopor. Tho hockoy stick is a heavy club, with no limit as to slo or weight, oxcopt that it must pass through a two-Inch ring. It Is curved and shavod lint upon ono sldo at tho lower end. Tho ball is a cricket ball painted white. Tho ground is ono hundrod yards long by fifty yards wide, with goal linos at tho end mid touch lines at tho side, as in football. To scoro a goal tho ball must bo hit through tho goal post and undor tho cross bar. Tho stick must not bo raised above tho shouldur. Tho ball must not bo hit back-handed with tho rounded uldo, and it is against tho rule to chargo in upon a plnyor from his loft side. Tho penal ty for a violation of thoso rules Is tho allowing of a free hit to tho opposlto Bide. Tho "olT-sido" rule Is tho same us in English Asssoulntion football, n man being olT-sldo when thoro nro fowor than throo opposing players in front of him. A goal can only bo fccored from a hit within fifteen yards of tho goal. Tho ball may bo stopped by hand, but no plnyor may kick It except tho goal keeper. Tho best goal keepers do not use a stick, but depend entirely upon their hands and feet to stop tho ball and Bend it away uguln. N. Y. Sun. A Green Lot or Detectives. Among the porsotiul effects of h fakir nrrostod tho othor day on complaint of u hotel for non-payment of board was u wheel of fortune, and while detect ivos were examining this with a great deal of curiosity ono of them found a hidden spring which was worked by pressing a button. "What is this forP" ho innocently usked. "To htop tho wheel nt any desired point," was tho answer. "Hut why should you doslro to stop It nt any certain polutP" "Why hhould 1? Supposo that a John Henry has laid Ills dollar on tho figure seven. Tho pointer stops at that figure and ho wins." Hut do you stop It thoroP" "Certainly." "To lot him win?" Of couru." "Il. " No, of course you don't, but I do. Next time thuie nro from four to eight John Ilonrys with their dollars nt '7? and tho pointer stops at 8. Sorry for you, gontluingn, but if you havou't trnvolod It's not my fault." Detroit l'roo Proas. MISCELLANEOUS. Among tho famous cases of exist enco without food and drink is that of n fast of sixty-six days by a sheep on a farm near Tuscola, 111. Iho poor am mal was imprisoned all that time bo ncath a strawstack. Largo families, with tho middle classes, as a rule, stimulate exertion and enterprise, and in tho districts in which thoro nro tho largest birth rates, thcro Is tho greatest amount of pros perity and tho least pressure on tho mentis of subsistence. "What are tho chiof requisites for success in the literary world, Mrs. Nihson?" inquired Softly. "There nro two that I may mention," replied tho orncle. "One of them is plenty of patience." "What is tho other?" "Plenty of postago stamps." N. Y. Sun. Somo slmplo country peasants came to a celebrated sculptor in Vien na, and ordered a statue of St. Francis. "Do yon want him tU'iid or alive?" asked tho sculptor. "Well, you can mako him alive, and if ho don't suit 'twill bo an easy matter to knock him in tho head. From tho German. Heport says that tho judicious and wholesale advertising of cigarettes had brought tho consumption in this coun try up to moro than 2.000,000.000, which flguro was reached last year. This would give an averago of thirty cigarettes ovory year to each man, woman nnd child in tho United States, or about 170 to each adult male. Tho Chincso do not drink cold water, and an iced drink is an abom ination. They generally use instead weak tea in small quantities. The conscquonco is that dyspepsia is- un known. Water-pipes aro generally standing on a side-table, and after meals, almost ovory one, before leaving, lights a small bowl of tobacco, glvos a put! or two, and passes tho piio to tho noxt comer A Kingston (Out.) girl made up n pnekago of clothing, preparatory to eloping with her most adorable Adonis, and left the said chattels out-of-doors, whoro ho could find thorn and carry them oil. In tho meantime the girl's mothordiscovorcd tho parcel, "gotonto tho racket," and roplaccd tho daugh ter's clothing with somo of her own. Then she laid in wait for tho young man, and on his attempting to tako away tho clothing she had himarrosted for larceny. It is a pity that somo pooplo aro not so quick with their hands as they aro with their tongues. A farmor once had a very lazy holpor. Ono day he returned from markot and caught his man sound asloop undor tho tree. "What!" exclaimed tho farmor, "asleop when you should be at work? You are an idle wretch, and not worthy that the Bun should shlno upon you!" "I know it: I know It;" said tho man, sitting up nnd yawning, "and that's tho reason I lny down hero in tho shade!" youth's Companion. Tho different tonos of a piano are made by having tho wires of different sizes and lengths. I lie longer and larger a wire is, tho lower its tone will bo, but as a piano is too short to put in wtres of tho common slzo which will bo long onough to make tho lowest bass notes, tho wires havo to bo mado larger by winding lino wire around them. This lino wire is sometimes of soft iron and somotimes of copper. Tho sounding-board of a piano is usually made of American spruco, entirely froo from knots. It is fastened to tho frame by tho edges only, so as to leave tho whole middle part of it froo to vibrato when tho strings sound above It. RATHER EMBARRASSING. A Young I.ady'H Kxpcrlence. In n 1'ltt- liiiruli Jewelry Store. A young woman brought a ring to a jeweler tho othor day and requested him to reset tho stone, which she said was loose. She spoke of it as a dia mond solitaire. Tho jeweler took the ring and said he would attend to it. As tho customer wns leaving tho store tho jeweler called hor hack and said: "This stono Is glass, ma am I want you to understand that." Tho young woman colored up and exclaimed with a wrath in hor voice: ' "lt'snosuch thing it's luroal diamond. Glass. Indeed!" "Excuse me, ma'nni," politely ro- jolned tho jeweler, "it's nothing moro than a pleco of common crystal or glass. There is no doubt whatever about It." "Hut it was a present given to mo last Christinas by a very dear friend who wouldn't think of giving me u (.ham diamond," tho young woman per sisted, "I'm sorry, ma'am," replied tho jew eler, "somebody's been deceived very likely, but this stone is absolutely worthless; a chip of glass." Well, tho young woman argued still further about tho ring and Insisted It was very valuable, and at last took It away with hor, saying she would tako It somewhere else to ho repaired, Sho was nearly in tears when she loft tho store. After sho had gone tho jeweler said to me: "I did not want to hurt that girl's feelings, but when n ring of that kind is given mo to bo repaired 1 al ways maku it a practice of having it clearly understood that tho stono Is valueless. If 1 did not 1 should run the risk of having that young woman come back after sho had discovered that tho stone wns not a diamond, and accuse mo of changing it in tho re- setting. Such a charge was once made against mo undor circumstances of this kind, and since then 1 have followed a cautious policy for my own protection. That girl was honest, 1 vo no doubt, but 1 can ant afford to tako any chances. " Pittsburgh Dispatch. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Tho wifo of Senator Kcagan, of Texas, is his private secretary, and as such draws a salary of six dollars a day. .Jose Diazoro is tho namoof a Mex ican living in Santa Harbara County, California, who is ono hundred and twenty-nine years old. "A mother of preachers" this is what a writer calls an elect lady In Ohio who wns tho mother of five living Methodist preachers, nil effective. P. S. Gllmore, tho band master, gives this terse autobiography: "I first saw tho light In tho bogs of Conno mara, but I was born In Hoston in tho nineteenth year of my age." After all, tho queens of art are greater than tho monarch's by birth. Patti refused to sing for Queen Vic toria last year and Hernhardt would not play for the Sultan of Turkey n few days ago. Tho Emperor of China, a boy of seventeen, has a serious hesitation in his speech and speaks with consider able difficulty, lie is quiet in disposi tion, but very obstinate when once ho has formed an opinion. Mrs. Hobecca Robertson, of Now York, a member of tho Church of the Heavenly Host, has givon $200,000 for tho establishment of a summer resort, at somo place near the city, for tho benefit of poor mothers and thoir chil dren. Miss Mossol McGann, of Canada, a teacher of articulation in tho Missis sippi Institute for Deaf and Dumb, who died at Jackson recently, was known In ovory Institution for tho deaf and dumb in tho United States and Canada as a successful teacher. Miss Ilolen Rlnnchnrd, of Phila delphia, is tho possessor of a very largo fortune, which sho dorivos from hor invontlon of tho "over and over" attachment for sowing machines. She borrowed at exorbitant Interest tho monoy necessary to pay for hor patont olllco fees, and now enjoys an income that is exceeded by that of but fow women in that city of rich spinstors. Mr. Windom is tiio oldest mombor of tho now Cabinet, bolng nearly sixty threo years of ago. Mr. Miller is tho youngest, not having reached his forty- oighth year. Mr. Hlaino nnd Mr. Husk aro about tho samo ago fifty nine. Mr. Proctor is lifty-oight and Mr. Tracy sixty. Noxt to Mr. Miller tho youngest man in tho Cabinet is Mr. Wananiakor, who is not quite fifty two. E. C. Carrigan, of Hoston, who died tho othor day, was noted among Dartmouth men not only for his prom inence in all educational matters, but for his activity as an alumnus of tho college. Ho had an interesting col- lego career. Ho worked his way through, taking six years to complete his course. Ho was manager of tho boating club whon Dartmouth won second place at Saratoga. Ho received a scholarship of two hundred and fifty dollars from tho college, and last year paid tho monoy back. Ho was ono of a committeo representing uio alumni in tho management of tho college, and It was through his efforts that tho dogreo of LL. D. was given to General H. F. Butler. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." Young man "Will you glvo as sent to my marrhigo to your daughter, sir?" Old man (firmly) "No, sir, not a cent." "Gontlomon of tho jury, havo you agreed P What is your verdict?" "We find tho prisoner not guilty, if ho will leave town." Descriptions often toll nmiss Tlio jostur shows it wordy sport, For palest men nro somotlmos Hush, Tim tallest liuui Is often short. Merchant Traveler. "This is what might bo called a water-bury," said tho champion skater when ho fell through tho ice In his ef forts to mako time. ,Iowolors' Weekly. Teacher "Now, Johnny Smart, mako iV" Johnny -"Hut it's rain ing, ma'am." To.ieher--"Woll, what of thatP Johnny "i o can only make iv' whon tho sun shines, ma'am." Drake's Magazine. Tommy Twiddles came into tho house crying, nnd In a very mussed up condition. "Now, Tommy," said his mother, "haven't I told you time and again not to play with that wicked little McCarthy boy?" "1 hain't been playln' with him," sobbed Tommy; "he's been playln' with mo." Harper's Haznr. "I do not wrlto for monoy," said a pootess, proudly, to the editor; "I wrlto for love." "Oh, do you?" ho replied, heartlessly. "Well, don't write for it any more, nny how, not to this olllco. Como down after it yourself, and If we've got any to sparo vou can take it along with you, lra-io-lu, Birdie." Washington Critic "What did Noah llvo on whon the Hood subsided and his provisions in tho Ark were exhausted?" nskod a West F.nd Sunday school toaohor of her class, last Sunday. "I know," squeaked a little girl, after all the othors had givon It up. "Well, whatP" Inquired tho toaohor. "Dry land," said tho kid, wisely, and tho answer passed. Washington Post, Police Judge (to oillcor) "What is tho chargo agalnsfc tills prisoner?" Oillcor "Smashing a window inn Jew eler's storo." .Judge "What did ho got?" Olllcoi "A watch, sir." Judge "Then it is a watch onso." Oillcor (surprised) "Yes, sir. Ho was pretty well tilled, your honor, whon 1 captitrod him." Judge "Well, ns a filled ease is not worth so much as solid goods, wo'H glvo hltn houL.anft, lawolers' Weekly. ABOUT BIRDS' EGGS. Interesting Facts Concerning Their Com position and Formation. Eggs are composed of two principal parts, termed, from their color, tho yelk or vhollus, and tho whito or al bumen. The latter does not exist in tho ovarium or egg-bag; there, as wo may see in almost ovory fowl that comes to tho table, is also a numerous collection of yolks of various sizes. When these nro fully developed, they drop, ono by one, through a passage tormed tho oviduct into tho uterus, in which tho egg is perfectly formed, hav ing collected its albumen or white, and its calcareous shell, and from which it is ultimately expelled. Tho very expeditious growth or pro duction of tho whito of tho shell Is an extraordinary exertion of nature a very fow hours only being sufficient to produco it. Tho texture of tho shell is admirably calculated for preserving the contained parts, and for retaining tho heat that is conveyed to thotn by incubation. Immediately undor tho shell is tho common membrane which lines tho whole cavity of the egg, ox copt at its broad ond, whoro thoro is a small spaco filled with air. Within this membrane, tho white, which is said to bo of two kinds. Is contained; and near Its centre, in an exquisitely fine membrane, is tho yolk, which is spheri cal, whilo tho whito is of tho samo form as tho shell. At each extremity of tho yolk, corresponding with two ends of tho egg, is the chalaza, a whito firm body, consisting of threo bead-like globules, and it is nt these points that the soveral membranes are connected, by which means, in whatever position the egg may bo placed, Its various parts aro retained in their proper placo. Near tho miudlo of tho yolk is a small, flat, circular body, named tho clcatrlcula, in which tho rudiments of tho future chick aro contained; and from these, In consequence of incuba tion, or from a certain degree of con tinued heat of any kind, tho bird is ul timately hatched. In this process tho germinal membrane, as It is called, or rudimontal parts of tho chick, is ob served to become separated into threo layors, from tho external layer of which aro formed subsequently tho ossoous and muscular systoms, and tho brain, spinal cord and nerves; whilo from tho middle and intornal layors aro formed respectively tho heart and blood ves sels, and tho intestinal canal and its appendnges. Tho yelk and whito of tho egg gradually becotno thinner, sup plying tho growing chick with nourish ment, which, increasing in magnitude, at longth bursts its coll and comes forth, still retaining in its intestines a portion of tho yelk to servo for Its sup port until its powers aro sufficiently vigorous to enable it to digest extrane ous food. It is a remarkablo fact, that thoso birds, tho nests of which aro most un covered, and tho eggs of which are most exposed to tho sight of their ene mies, lay thorn of a color as Httlo dif ferent as possiblo from surrounding objects, so as to decoivo tho eyes of de structive animals; whilst, on tho con trary, thoso birds, tho eggs of which aro of a deep and vivid color, and con eequently very liable' to strike tho oye, oithor hido their nests in hollow trees, or olsowhoro, or do not quit thoir eggs oxcopt at night, or commonco their in cubation immediately after laying. It must, moreover, bo remarked, that in thoso species, tho nests of which are exposed, if tho females alono sit on the eggs without boing roliovod by tho male, these females havo generally a different color from that of tho male, and more In unison with neighboring objects. Pure whito, tho most treachorous ol colors, wo find to bo tho color of the eggs of birds which build in holes, as tho woodpeckers, the kingfishers, the swifts, tho dock and water swallows, and others; also of thoso birds, as tho titmice and wrens, which construct their nests with openings so small that thoir enemies can not see into them. Moreover, wo find eggs white in birds which do not quit thoir nests, oxcopt at night, as tho owls; or for a very short time during tho day, as tho fal cons. Finally, this color is found in those which lay only ono or two eggs, and which Immediately begin to sit, as tho pigeons, etc. Tho dear green or bluo color is proper to tho eggs of many species which build in holes, as the starlings, tlo ily-catchers, etc.; it is also common to tho eggs of birds the nests of which aro constructed of green moss, or situ ated In tho midst of grass, hut always well hidden. Green eggs, too aro found with many powerful birds able to de fend them, us tho herons. A faint green color, approaching to a yellowish tint, is observed in tho oggs of birds, as tho partridges and pheasants, which lay in tho grass, with out proputinga rogularnust. Tho samo color is remarked In thoso which cover thoir nests whon they leave them, as tho swans nnd tho ducks. N. Y. Lodger. "Your story, Mr. Winterkill," said tho uingazino editor to tho rising young author, "suits mo very well. 1 ob serve lu it somo trivial faults, how over. For instance, you describe tho heroine's canary as drinking water by 'lapping it up eagerly with her tongue.' Isn't that a peculiar way for a canary to drink watorP" "Your criticism sur prises mo," said Mr. Winterkill in a pained voice, "Still, if you think your renders would prefer it, lot tho canary drink its water with a teaspoon." Chicago News. A busy doctor in Soranton, Pa., sent in a certificate of death to the health otllcor, and inadvertently pluced his niimo in tho spaco for "amino of death." This is what might bo called accidental exactness. SOME CURIOUS RELICS. IMbuloun Price, l'ald For Genuine or Im itation Curio. InCnlvin's day there wns enough "wood of tho truo cross" to load a jhip. and there is scarcely an object connected with sacred history which ts not multiplied in a very embarrass ing manner. The saints aro ns freely du "Heated, ind oven triplicated. St. Sebastian's body is in four places and his head in two'others. St. Philip must havo had three feet, if all tho roller associated witli his namo are to bo accepted as authentic, whilo two different monas teries exhibited the 3kull of St. John the Baptist one when ho was a young man. the other after ho was advanced in years and wisdom. In these days wo are less reverential over memorials ( the great, though tho care with which Burns' and Shnkespeare's houses a.o preserved is a proof that tho hero worshiping clement is not eliminated from tho spirit of the nineteenth cen tury: The chairs in which tho litera ti sat fetched, we aro afraid, rather disappointing prices at Mr. Godwin's sale. Yot Antwerp preserves with pious enro tho seat in which Hubens sat when ho painted tho immortal "Descent from tho Cross," and Kam merherro Schemekel paid 58,000 llorins to becotno tho possessor of tho ivory arm-chair which Gustavus Vasa presented to tho city of Lubcck. This was expen sive enthusiasm compared with that ovinced when the prayer book of Charles I., which ho had used on tho scaffold, changed hands for no more than 100; though, on tho other hand, it was small compared with theiGl.OOO francs which were disbursed for tho coat which Charles XII. wore at tho battlo of Pultowa. A tooth of Sir Isaac Newton sold for 790. to set in a ling; and when tho bodies of Iloloiso and Abolard were removed to tho Potits Augustins an Englishman is said to have offered 100,000 francs for ono of lloloiso's teeth. Tho hat which Napoleon wore tit Eyhiu sold for 1,920 francs. Sterne's wig brought 200 guineas at auction, and tho pens with which tho treaty of America wero signed sold for 500. It may, however, bo noted that these prices wero sold at a period when tho 'eurio' vago was moro virulent than now. A fow years ago Thorsvaldsen's hair-brushes went for a good deal less than an "old song" fetches at a Lon don book sale, though tho great sculptor is almost a demigod among his countrymen. Blucher's sword scarcely brought tho price of old iron, and it is painful to roinetnbor that the white kid nether garments of George IV. wero disposed of as a "job lot." London Standard. THE TAME-CAT GIRL. A Sensible Talk About KiikINU mid Amer ican Young Women. Tho reproach aimed by Americans at tho English girl, viz., that sho is of tho "tamo cat" order, and that her husband will trust hor with his bills or the darning of his socks but not with his ideas, is its great a miscon ception, in many respects, as tho En glish estimate of American women, but from tho American point of view it litis somo foundation in fact. Wo need only look at tho life of tho or dinary Englishman to discover tho foundation upon which this exagger ated inference is based. Ho always rotnins a tenderness for his club, whore ho can ventilate among his fol low -men his ideas political, moral and social, to which, it is quito truo, ho does not, as a rule, treat his wife. If ho has a male friend ho can pass hours upon hours in his company without boing bored, which, unfortunately, does not always happen In tho case of his wifo, and tho very fact that women . aro tho first to declare that no wifo wants her husband always with her is a proof, morn or less, of a certain incompatibility of tonporumont and thought. Probably it Is on thoso and kindred grounds that the American forms hor opinion of tho average English girl, and. until sho gains more experience of English habits, imagines herself strictly cor rect. On tho other hand, for a fair and impartial opinion of tho American girl, ono must apply rathor to an En glish man than to an English woman, for ho is more on a level with hor in thought and more in touch with her in idea, it no fecivt that tho unpreju diced, educated Englishman is a gon oral favorite with American women. It ho has a particle of discernment ho very soon discovers that American freedom is by no moans a synonym for licenso, and when ho has fully assimi lated that Idea he finds his relations whh tho "nice" American girl most charming and cordial and fascinating. But in tho matter of propriety of be havior ho discovers that sho is Inex orable, nnd that, so far from bolng permitted more licenso of speech or action, ho in reality enjoys less. Na tional Review. An Elegant Sufficiency. Mrs. Slimdlot Have somo moro of the mackerel, Mr. Boardor? Mr. Hoarder No, thank you; but I'll tuko a bucket of water, If you please. N. Y. Wookly. m A firm who recently sent out "re minders" of unpaid bills to certain of its customers received In response to ono of them, to whom "plenty of tlmo" had boon granted, this touching np poal: "You havo been very good to me. Plouse continue to bo good, and I will pay you soon." So persuasive an application for tin extension of timo had its olTcot, and tho members of the firm voted, in executive suasion, to be "good" n Httlo whilo longer. St. I Albans Madsungur. SYMPTOMS OF GLANDERS. Why All Homes Afflicted vAth the Disease Should Ho Killed at Once. Whero an animal that has been at tacked by glanders is immediately re moved from a stablo, tho thorough dis infection of tho building by tho uso of carbolic ncid and by whitewashing Is considered to render it snfe for use, but to make it more so it is well to romove the manger; etc., from tho stall whoro tho diseased animal stood and burn them. The tenor of our correspond- ent's inquiry indicates that tho disease was spec ally virulent, and the stable having been occupied by glandered animals for several months. It would, in our opinion, bo hazardous to use it again for horses, at least for some time. When it has beon thoroughly disin fected nnd whitewashed, so there will not bo danger of the workmen becom ing infected by getting glanderous dis charges on their hands tho building may safely boused for cattle. Another inquiry regarding this dis ease prompts us to again describe its -ymptoms. that our readers may be on their guard. Wo havo often said that all horses affected with this disease should be killed at once. Glanders ia considered an incurauie disease, aim we- reiterate tnat no ireaimeni wmnumr should bo attempted, but that tho ani mal should bo killed, tho carcass bul led or burned, and every possiblo means taken to prevent the spread of the disease by the destruction or thor ough cleansing of stables, stalls, harness, otc., in fact of any tiling that can by any chanco bo capable of retaining or con veying tho contagious virus. It is :. contagious disease, liable to bo com municated to man, also to most of the lower animals. In tho hor?o it occurs in an acute, also In a chronic form. In the aeuto form it runs its course nip idly. Tho first symptoms of it that would probably be noticed would be, impaired appetite, red eyes, with a watery discharge from them; quick ened pulse and breathing; discharge from tho nostrils, which would at first bo watery, shortly becoming yellow and sticky, and adhering to the nos trils; the lining membrane of tho nos trils will shortly become violent. y in tlamcd and covered with deep ulcera tions, and the nasal dischargo will in the later stages ineroaso in quantity, be thicker, bloody, and havo an ex ceedingly offensive smell. Tho lym phatic glands on the insido of tho jaw bones will usually be, from tho first, enlarged and hard. In the chronic form, which is quito as much to be dreaded as tho acute form, or perhaps moro so, its tho symptoms aro not so readily recognized it. may exist for a long timo without being suspected. Any continuous dischargo from either ono or both nostrils, bo it over so slight, is to bo looked on with suspicion, or oven an occasional slight discharge of blood from a nostril. Tho lymphatic glands on tho insido of tho jawbone are usually enlarged, or If tho discharge is from only one nostril, tho glands on tho corresponding side will bo affected. An animal may work and be in appar ent good health and condition for a long timo with theso symptoms, and yet be unmistakably glandered and equally as liable to communicate the disease to man or othor animals as if he had it in a moro aeuto form. The distinctive and marked symptoms of glandors, either aeuto or chronic, tire considered to be the peeuliac cancer ous ulcers on tho lining membrane of tho nose, with tho enlarged and hard ened state of tho submaxillary lym phatic glands, but either or both of theso symptoms occasionally exist in other diseases; or tbo Ulcers within tho nostrils may exist, but too far up to bo seen. In tho early stages of the chronic form of tho disease thero may bo Httlo or no unpleasant smell. Othor diseases havo often been mistaken for glandors, such as nasal gleet, or a dis chargo caused from an ulcerated tooth. Therefore, in any suspicious caso it Is best to have the animal examined by a competent veterinary practitioner. National Live-Stock Journal. Rules For Family Peace. To take a cheerful view of every thing. When inclined to give an angry answer, to count ten. Whon any good hnppons to any ono, to rojoico tit it. To learn the different temper of each Individual. To try for tho soft answer that "turnoth away wrath." In all tho Httlo pleasures which may occur, to pat self last. In conversation not to oxalt our selves, but to bring others forward. If, from sickness, pain, or infirmity, wo feel irritable, to keop a good watch over ourselves. To watch for tho little opportunities of plon&ing, and to put Httlo annoy ances out of the way. To observe when othors aro suffer ing, nnd drop a word of kindness and sympathy suited to their wants. Evorybody in tho house litis an evil nature as well as ouiwlves, and there foro wo must not oxpoot too much. Whon wo havo boon pained by nn unkind word or deed, to ask ourselves: "Havo I not often dono tho samo thing and beon forgiven?" Washington Critic. "I'll toll you what will draw woll noxt season," observed an actor, seri ously. "What?" asked a manager, looking for a valuablo suggestion. "A mustard plaster," answered tho thes plan, grasping ills eano in a convul sive clutch and determining to sell his llfo as dearly as possible. America. Tho nator who is mado by a bill board is oftun unmade by a board-bUL BuffiJo li'prcsi.