EASTERN ITEMS.
THE TALK ABOUT AN EXTRA 8ES
blON OF CONGRESS.
Presidential Ciemency Heavy Damages
Recovered Robbers Captured
Rainfall In Waanlngton ,
Suicides In Ohio.
"While caps nro yet notivo in Ohio.
A white-lead Trust haa been fonncl.
There were three suicides at Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 8th.
The Scotch-Irish Congress a in session
at Columbia, Tcnn.
Thirteen Bat at tho Presidential table at
the Centennial ball.
Talk about an extra session to organize
Congress is again revived.
Tho Chicago Club gave Minster Lincoln
a farewell dinner on tho 8th.
Great suffering is reported among un
successful Oklahomer boomers.
The prospects for a largo peach crop in
South Jersey wero never better, it is said.
The consignment of trotters from l'alo
Alto has reached New York in good con
dition. Bugs and tho fly aro playing havoc
with the wheat and tobacco plants of
Kentucky.
"Maple syrup on snow" is a treat that
they aro yet ablo to servo among the
Maine hills.
Fifth-avenue Hotel entertained 1500
guests each day during tho celebration in
New York.
The president has appointed Asa Mat
thews, of Illinois, to bo first comptroller
of the treasury.
The White House oalc which was blown
down a few days ago, was planted by
Martha Washington.
About fifteen companies havo loen
organized during tho past month to build
cotton mills in tho south.
Queen Victoria's Birthday The Czar's
Edict Throe Missionaries Held
for a $5000 Ransum.
The Pundita Iiamabai has reached
Bombay.
Vesuvius is in an alarming state of
eruption.
Boulangcr's presence in London is al
most unnoticed.
Gold commands a premium of 50 per
cent at uuenos Ayres.
Two now streets in Borlin are to lo
named Bach and Wngncr.
The Zouavo uniform is to bo aban
doned in tho French army.
Boulanger has lccn elected to tho
Municipal Council of Paris.
Count Tolstoi, Kussian Minister of tho
Interior, is dangerously ill.
The Paris lioulovards aro to be lighted
this summer by electricity.
Lord Cadogan is mentioned an next
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The American pilgrims in tho Holy
1iihI nave arrived at Nazareth.
Kmpcror William is opposed to the ap
pointment of a papal nuncio at Berlin.
It is rumored that the Duko of New
castle will soon be in the divorce court.
Searlo, tho Australian oarsman, sailed
for England May 10th to meet O'Connor.
Tho houses of sixteen Boulangists at
Neuilly havo been bearched by the iiolico.
An International Anti-slavery Congress
will bo held at Lucerne, Switzerland, in
July.
Queen Victoria will celebrate her birth
day Friday, May 24th. Sho was born in
loll).
Tho Katon, England, Steel Works is to
havo shears that will cut nine feet steel
plates.
'THE PACIFIC COAST. i
SEATTLE'S RAILWAY CONNECTION
WITH BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Stage Robber Captured Murder and
Suicides-Criminal Libel Suit
Now York Capitalists at
Ellensburg, W. T.
Santa Cruz is to havo a 2o,000 jail.
Kllensburg, W. T., has 4000 people.
Visalia will soon bo lit by electricity.
Wateonvill has decided to reincorporate.
cherry crop around Vacavillo is
Tho
light.
The "lovers" havo been
Orovillo.
driven out of
San Ixsandro elected the people's ticket
last week.
Portland's exports for
to 1(0,703.
April amounted
IIO.MK A.M FA It 31.
"Jero" Dunn, tho prominent snorting
man wno kilieu Jimmy iMliot in Ulncago,
is uclendunt in u divorce suit.
Edward Hcovell, leading tenor of tho
Boston Ideal Opera Company, is threat
ened with complete loss of voice.
& 111 1 1 1 11,1 Xik lllUlla IIUlUU ?T i Vtl i KJVli fillip
cars belonging to tho Union Paeille Rail
road, wero arrested in Montana.
Tho rainfall in Washington during the
past month was D.llt inches, an excess of
ty$ inches over tho average tor April.
A Kansas family has arrived at Zell
wood, Fla., in u "prairie schooner." Tho
journey took them nearly lour months
All tho Florissant, Col., robbers escaped
into tho mountains but one, who was
killed. Iho may has not been Identulod.
Tho Supremo Court of Michigan has
decided in an instiranco caso that tho
suicide of an insane man is an accident.
A hemorrhage- of tho lungs has caused
John A. Enandor, nptiointed minister to
Denmark, to write a letter of declination
to tho president.
Tramps in tho jail at West Chester,
Penn., aro compelled to break stones on
the street, wearing ball and chain at
tached to their legs.
One of tho most suggestive incidents in
tho great military parade was tho ohoor
ing callod out by tho playing of "Dixio"
uy tho bouthorn nanus.
It is estimated that tho amount paid for
window-rent ol 1 ilth avenue, Now lork,
during tho Centennial parade would pay
all the taxes on that street lor a year.
Work on the branch of tho Mexican
Central road running from AguasCalientes
to ban ljdiiiHl'ohlspols nearly completed,
and trains will bu running in less than u
mouth.
Tho Mayor of Cincinnati has appointed
a wealthy and inlhientiul lady, Mrs
Mairleny, of that city ono ot thu Work,
house directors.
Tha war department has justcomplotod
and published thu allotments of tho
$ 100,000 appropriated by congress for tho
equipment of thu militia.
Six women wero killed and flvo injured
in a collision between a street-car and a
Hwitch-cngino on tho Michigan Central
tracks, in Kalamazoo, last week.
Tho lKwks of ox-Treastiror Wlldmau, of
Tyjiographieul Union. No. 0, of Now York
city, am loing examined by experts, ami
it is reported that he is about :fS0lX) snort.
An nxplosion on tho whaling bark Sea
Fox, of Now Bedford, Mass., while the
vessel was at Kmiimona. killed live men.
injured soveral and badly damaged the
vessel.
Secretary Tracy ban extended for four
months and tour days tho time allowed
the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco,
in which to complete cruiser No. f, tho
San Francisco.
The Interstate Cominerco Commission
lias given the representatives of tho
Western roads a hearing in tho matter ol
mileage allowances on cars furnished by
nhippers, car companies, Individuals or
connecting lines, etc.
Secretary Windom gave a hearing to
jwrsons interested in the question of tho
dutieblo character of Canadian built cars,
used in tho transudation of inert-ban-
-II.... I . t'l lit! I l . '
uihuiHJiwecn amua aim unuou mates
K)ints.
Tho Introduction of high license in Bos
ton has closed out 1700 liquor saloon.
Furnishings to thovaluo of $2,000,000 aro
on tho market, and over two thousand
idle bar-tenders aro readv for professional
engagement in other cities.
'fen years ago the superintendent of an !
Thirty persons who wero selling sooial-
istic pamphlets at Hamburg, have been
arrested.
Sir Charles Dilko will soon deliver a
series of lalor speeches in tho mining dis
tricts of England.
Figaro says tho kings of .Belgium, Sax
ony, Greece and Servia will visit the
French exhibition.
Sir Morrell Mackenzio was offered
$!!0,000 to treat an American patient.
He wants the earth.
Tho steamer Willand has arrived at
Now York from tho Azores, with the
Danmark's passengers.
A Kurdish Ulnel recently attacked an
American village and burned several
prominent citizens alive.
A London paper thinks that telephone
aro more generally used in Sweden than
anywhoro else in tho world.
Three systems of elevators two Frencl
and ono Aniorican aro used in tho Eiffel
Tower at tho Paris Exjwsition.
A storm has destroyed all tho crops in
tho Goorlitzon district of Silesia. Fivo
persons wero killed by lightning.
Tho Popo has removed Father Agostino
! .l .1 T I I 1. .
or invoicing uio uiviuo messing iqou
King Humbert and tho Italian army.
Tho Sultan of Turkoy is aliout to build
a new palace, and has ordered the tiirni
turo irom runs regardless ot expense.
The revolt of tho supporters of tho
British government against tho Sugar
Bounties hill gains in strongth every day.
An oxiwsition of agriculture and for
ostry is to bo hold in Vienna from the
middle of May to tho middle of October
1800.
President Carnot has received Thomas
A. Edison with oxtremo cordiality and
holds almost dally conversations with
him.
May 8th was pardon day at the Califor
nia capitol.
Potahnna has raised its linuor license
from $11 to $100 a quarter.
Iloxhurg has siirned as catcher of tl
Sacramento baseball club.
Tho Portland & Clackamas Itailwav
company imb incorporated.
Work was begun recently on the water
works lor Uinpqua City, Ur.
There aro some prospects of establish
ing a unitary post on Urake s Hay.
At Ellensburg, W. T., 400 houses, it is
estimated, will bo built tins season.
On tho 7th mat., the first train ran
over the lino between Paso and Sehna.
Tho San Pedro, N. M., carlxmate strike
promises to hoa bigtlungforthe territory.
Fishing for porch in Clear Lake is now
all the rage. They take tho hood freely.
It is now decided that tho Pacific Meth
odist College will remain in Santa Itosa.
The AVasliington Territorial Dental As
sociation was held last week at Spokane
fans.
Tho chief of tho Zanzibar insurgents
holds three English missionaries in his
power and schedules thoir freedom at
$1)000.
Belgium's zinc manufacturing business
has developed until one-third of all tho
zinc used in England is made in that
country.
Emperor William proposes to mako a
trip in tho autumn to tho North Capo.
Ho will bo accompanied by Saltzmann,
tno painter.
A pro eet to n aeo an oxnort dutv on
Swedish Iron oro has just boon defeated
in the Swedish parliament by a considor-
ahio majority.
Russian petroleum is competing witli
the American product in tho Dutch EaBt
Indies, which havo been customers of
thu American companies.
Information has been received at Vion
nu from Homo that tho Pope will bestow
the Golden Rose on tho Dowager Crown
rrincess btopiianto ol fans.
Alexander, tho woll-known collector of
Chinese and Japanese works of art, has
offered to give 100,000 to build a gallery
for national historical portraits.
The minora' striko in Westphalia is
spreading. During tho lalwr riota last
weok in Gensen Kirchen, a minor whb
killed and many porsous wero injured.
The Czar of Russia has issued an edict
forbidding members of his family to con
tract morganatic marriages. Hereafter
they must take thoir matrimony straight.
Machinery la driving out hand lalior at
last in the nail-working trade in England.
Tho machines havo had a nionoioly of
tho business in this country for many
years.
In spite of tho attacks of Canon Taylor
ami Mr. Caiuu, tho income of the Church
Missionary Society for tho year just
closed will lo larger than in any previous
year.
Tho Comto and Comtesso of Paris will
Iowa railroad booted i tramp out of bin eolobrato their slider weddlugon the With
o co for hav ni t in c n..L- i nil- " ins rumoreu nun mo iouue
.... .... ;n " ...Ml !
i no woman suuragists aro making a
vigorous campaign in Washington Torri
tory.
Tho hot springs at Temicula, San Diego
county, nro said to bo equal to those in
Arkansas.
James Hutchinson, a logger at Brad
bury, Or., was killed recently by a log
crushing him.
Tho Teliema county clerk says' tho di
vorces aro about equal to the marriages
in that county.
Seattle is to havo railroad connection
with the Canadian Pacific at New West
minster within a year.
Work has boon begun on tho life-saving
station at Point Roys, which is to bo
completed by August 15.
Tho young vineyards at Woodbridgo,
San Joaquin county, havo been ruined
this spring by cutworms.
Nineteen thousand sheep and 133,805
pounds of wool wero Bhippod from Huron,
Fresno county, in March.
A largo doposit of asbestos has been
found near tho lino of tho Cuyainaca rail
road, in San Diago county.
Emil Weber, a woll-known sporting
man of Portland, Or., was shot and in
stantly killed on tho 10th inst.
Now York capitalists havo purchased
180 lots near Ellensburg. W. T., and will
make substantial improvements.
Bill Keogh of Chicago knocked out Phil
Duncan, colored, of California, in three
rounds at Virginia City, last weok.
Tho committeo on Commercial Rela
tions with Canada stopped over at Rono
last week and attended tho theater.
Tho oxcitement over tho gold find in
Douglas county, Nov., has died out. It
is intimated tho claims wero salted.
Mr. and Mrs. John Holser, of San
Huonavontura, churned with tho murder
of Daniol Sheldon, havo been discharged.
A chrome mino has been discovered on
Jacillites creek, in the Coast Range,
twenty miles west of Huron, Fresno
county.
Prisoners in tho Siwkano Falls jail at
tempted an outbreak recently, but a niur-
doress in the woman's coll betrayed them
to tho guard.
On tho (5th inst., Fred Simmons, aged
111 vears. accidentallv shot and killed
Avalardo Aptulaco whilo hunting near
Halfmoou Bay.
Tho city clerk of Stockton says witli a
lax lovy of $1.83 on tho $100. this year.
tho city wi'.l run short $ 10,000 before the
end of tho fiscal year.
Walter T. Logan, an Arizona cattle
man, died at tho Uiko Erie Ranch, near
St. John's, A. T on the tlth inst.. from
an overdose of morphine.
Whale-oil soap is beiug extensively !
used In tho orchards in tho vicinity of
The Way to Test Seed Corn-A Gargle
She p Raising Profitable Stock
Breeding Bee Culture.
Don't plant corn that will not grow.
Don't plow tho land when wet or sticky.
Bo sure and test your corn before plant
ing. Don't breed a draft mare to a trotter or
a thoroughbred.
Mix the dry horse manure with the
wet cow manure.
There is no sweet corn for late planting
that excels Stowell's evergreen.
Don't breed to a misshapen, ungainly
horse, oven if ho has a long pedigree.
Watch tho young owo's for frequently
they will not allow the lambs to suck.
Don't breed to a horse that is accident
ally good looking in spite of bad ancestry.
Young chicks maybe nut upon a crack
ed wheat diet after about three weeks of
age.
Some farmers may not, of course, bo in
a position to keep bees to advantage
this must be a matter of individual judg
ment. It will be readily understood that, to
be a money-making former, ono must be
able to manage men profitably ; he must
also understand to a great extent the mar
kets of the world.
A little soda as welL as salt is recom
mended to boll with cabbage, and effects
the flavor agreeably. For one head of
cabbage take a pinch of soda equal in
bulk to a good sized pea.
The latest idea in window curtains aro
the pretty shades, hand painted. A cool
fawn-colored linen shade is tho back
ground for a branch of lilac ; a spray of
pink hydrangea looks well on gray linen
shades.
Do farmers evor stop and consider their
loss when they allow their manures
around stables, pons, etc., to take the
spring rains before hauling out? Mannro
is too valuable to lose when it can pos
sibly bo avoided.
PORTLAND MARKET.
WHEAT STILL REMAINS VERY DULL
WITH NO DEMAND.
Early Fruits of all Kinds In Demand-
Cured Meats Steady Apples Ex
tremely Scarce Sugars
are on the decline.
A spell ot linj weather is all that is
now needed to ripen the abundant crops
of early fruits of all kinds for market
neat remains very dull, with no im
mediate prospect of any improvement
Sugars have fallen c since our last re
port. Cured meats are steady at former
quotations. Fruits are in steady demand.
The market is well supplied with butter.
The local wool market is rather quiet ami
very little business is reported, Hie
wheat market continues to be depressed.
We quote :
GROCEKIES.
Sugars. Golden C 0?c. extra C GXc.
ury granulated sc, cube, crushed am.
ltass, I o-day that tramp is tho superin
tendent of that Hume road, while the man
that lifted him on his Ivoot keeps a restau
rant and sends him over lunches.
Tho president last week uirdotied John,
an Alaska Indian, convicted of resisting
an officer, and commuted tho sentence of
hanging to ten years in the penitentiary
in tho caso of Grace Sinallwood, colored,
of Washington, J). C, who strangled to
death her illegitimate child.
President Harrison, In a late reception,
courageously "reverted to first principles,"
and rontons! President Washington's cus
tom of not shaking hands with everybody,
but merely receiving tho mH of the
cullors mid saving his right arm and
nervous system for greater usefulness.
will issue a manifesto in honor of tho oc
casiou.
Edmund Yates observes a revival of
coaching in England. There aro this
year ten coaches running out of London,
which is more than twice the number of
a few years ago,
Threo times as much coal as ever Inq
uire- was hummed into St. Petersburg
last year, and a Russian government com
mission is investigating the Russian
mines to find out what ails them.
The Czar has ordered Huron Mohrrn
helm, the Russian ambitssmlor at Paris,
to return homo during tho Parlu exhibi
tion unless tho French government ur
gently requires hiu presence.
Santa Rosa for exterminatin
moth and other insect pests.
Harry Bethuno, the famous sprinter.
and lrnnk Lewis, a raciiic coast runner
of moro than local noto, aro matched for
250 a sido at Seattle, W. T., May 2(5.
The l)s Angeles Herald savs: All tho
employes of tho Southom Pacific living
in tho desert will bo supplied with ico by
tho company during thecoining summer.
W. 11. Pain, a Victoria, 11. U., sculler,
sayB ho will accopt tho challenge of
lleiiceinanund row lor IromjoOOto $1500
in October, at Stockton or San Francisco.
I'ho notorious dance houso at Fresno.
which was closed iy tno viguanco com
mltteo last year, has Ihhui granted a
liquor Ilconso by tho Trustees, and tho
lepers predict trouble.
Delect I vo Stone, of Fresno, haa cap
tured Robert Stowart, colored, and most
of the bullion stolen from the Hildreth
stage lust July. It is said to have boon
concealed in a hollow stump.
O. Anderson and D. D. Lynch, who
published tho Portland Electric Light,
havo leen indicted for criminal libel on
John Sullivan and H. Brandt,4 employes
of tho Southern Pacific machine shops.
A writ of haleas corpus haa Ikhui grant
ed by tho Supreme. Court in tho caso of
tho twenty Chinese hydraulickers im
prisoned in tho Yulm county Jail for con
tempt of court in violating auti-dubris in
junctions.
A gargle inado of strong black tea and
used cold, night and morning, is now tho
fashionable preventative 'in London
against falling a viction to sore throat
during the cold winds of spring and sim
ilar 'cold spells' at other times of the
year.
A delicious pudding is made in this
way : Chop a pine apple quite fine ; take
some cako which iB a little dry. rub it
fino in your hands or crush it on a knead
ing hoard: put it into a pudding dish tn
altornato layers with tho pineapple,
sweeten abundantly, moisten with cold
water and bake in a moderate oven for
an hour and three-quarters.
Tho way to test seed corn is simple and
easy, lake two thin sous; on the soil
sido of ono place tho corn (take a kernel
only from each of several cobs, fiftvor so)
moisten with warm water; place tho
other sod soil sido down on them : put
under tho kitchen stove, keep moist with
warm water threo or four days. Lift up
your top sou you win know what per
cent win grow,
Sow your celery seed. An ounce of
seeds should produco 2000 plants. Sow-
on a fine seed bed and cover tho seeds
very lightly. If tho weather becomes
dry' water tho young plants. Grass must
bo kept out, and should thore bo danger
from heavy winds at niuht or frosts, a
covering of muslin held at tho corners
with weights may bo spread oyer them,
though tho young plants are quite hardy.
For chapped hands take half a gill of
olivo oil and two ounces of beeswax ; cut
your wax into thin strips, put that and
tho oil into a gallipot on tho hob and let
it gently dissolve, after which stir it
thoroughly and let it get cold, when it
will bo fit for use. If two hard, add moro
oil. This is a good thing for all chaps,
whether hands, feet or lips, and is neither
disagreeablo nor unpleasant if applied to
tho lips.
Very rich fritters aro made of ono and
one-half pints of Hour, tho yolks of four
eggs, two small teaspoonfiila of baking
powder, butter tho size of a largo hickory
nut, salt to tasto, "with enough milk to
mako a thick batter, fry in lard that is
heated to tho boiling point. A rule for
plamor ones may bo wished for also. J wo
eggs, ono cut) of sweetmilk, a little, salt
flour onougli to mako a stiff batter.
These aro nico with maple syrup.
Tho early weeds that spring up on
fields not intended for cultivation can ho
kept down by a fiock of sheep. Many
weeds that aro unfit for food whon ma
tured sorvo as choice morsels for many
kinds of stock when thoy are just shoot
ing out of tho ground. Sheep grazo very
close, and forage all over a field very in
dustriously. They find everv vestig of
green food that appears, and y keeping
down tho weeds early tho field can in
timo bo entirely cleared of the pests.
To make a loaf of light corn bread for
breakfast, beat up two fresh eggs, add a
cup of milk, half sour and half sweet, a
lump of soft, fresh butter, a little salt and
a little salaratus. Beat in enough corn
meal to mako a moderately thin batter.
Beat very hard, iour into a buttered pan
and bako in a pretty liot oven one not
)owdered 8UjC Coffee: Costa Rica 21 h
224c, Rio 22a23c, Java 2.ni27c. Mocha
28(rt3lc, Arbuckle's roasted 2ac.
I'KOVISIONS.
Oregon ham 12' (wl 3c. breakfast ba
con 12.4,0, sides lOalO.c, shoulders 8
Do. Eastern ham I3$13,l.c, breakfast
bacon 12)$13c. sides l0c. Lard
10s 9c,
Fill) ITS.
Navel oranges $oo.50, Riversides
$3.25. California lemons $3.504 per box.
VKOETAIIIjKH.
Potatoes 30(?40c, onions $2, rheubarb
3c, tomatoes $2 per box.
DRIKI) KIlUITS.
Apples 4(5o, sliced 0c, apricots 13
14c, peaches 810c, pears 8c. Italian, 8c,
silver 7c, German OtsOje, plums 57o.
California figs 8c.
daikv 1'itonecE.
Butter. Oregon fancy 20c, medium 15c
Eastern 22c, California I820o.
KOOS.
Eggs 20c.
rotn.Tity.
Chicken? $5, broilers $34. ducks $10,
per doz., geese $0, turkeys 20c per lb.
WOOL.
Valley Rial 7c, Eastern Oregon 1015c.
noes.
Hops 1015c.
OKA IK,
Wheat, Vallev l.2.
$1.15 Oats 30a"31o.
KI.OUK.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.00.
FEED.
Hay $1314 per ton, bran $14, shorts
$15(lfi. barley" $22.5025, mill chop
$1720.
FRKSII MEATS.
Beef, live. 34j' dros-od mutton, 7c,
live, 3 4jC, dressed 7c, lambs $2.50 each,
hogs live 6c, dressed 77Je veal G8ci
Appearances Aro Deceitful.
Tho other afternoon a very modest looWn,"
Ecntleruan sauntered Into McClurg's book
storo and began looking at tho treasures In
tho English corner. Mr. Millard eyed tho
stranger with suspicion, for tho reason that
not very long ago a modest looking gentleman
)Ocketed several treasures and inado olT with
them. Out Sir. Millard was not long In dis
covering that tho quiet stranger knew somo
what of books, for he talked very intelligently
of tho best editions. Mr. Millard began, in
fact, to feel sorry for tho man. "Hero,"
thought bo, 'is a gentleman wno Is a biblio
maniac. Seo bow fondly his flreless eyea
gloat on tboso extra illustrated Dilxlins!
What envious, what bopoles Kings are now
urging In bis Iwsoml Poor iluvil, it is tny
duty to steer him away from those incompre
hensible prizes and up against mjiiio lxxks
within tho compass of bis means."
But tho strunger would not bo steered
worth a cent. Ho would Iniect nothing but
the costliest treasures. "I nm sorry that you
huve sold tho Washington 'Hums,' " said bo,
ruefully "1 would have taken It and been
only too glad to get it.''
"Our price was suggested Mr. Mil
lard.
"Cheap enough," said tho stranger, quietly.
'And now may 1 ask you to eud thce live
volumes to tno ut the Kichelieit hotel f Tho
clerk will pay tho bill. By the way. what is
the whole amount"
"Two hundred and thirty-live dollars."
aid Mr Millard, imprevsively
"Well, semi them to the Itichelleil ntonco."
villi the stranger, "ami tho clerk will pay tho
charge for tno."
A far away, a distrustful, a bilious look
stolo Into Mr. Millard's keen eyes. "What
name, please" asked Mr Millard, llrmly but
courteously
"George M. Vnnderbilt, of New York,"
said tho modest stranger, demurely. Chica
go News.
A Conversation.
Eastern Oregon
"Where is Mr Bagley's officer"
"Eleventh Moor, mum."
"Is this the only elevator"
"Yes m." Life.
THE ROSES BY THE RUN.
Tho roses and thp clorpr
Are very mveet and fair.
And I love the fraerant odors
They ureatlio upon tho air;
But sweeter seemed the blwoms
IlesidH the meadow run,
Tho time that you were twentj
And I was twenty-one.
How fondly I rememher
Thp than we culled them there,
And 'neath the shady maples
1 wove them lu'your hair;
How there in bliss wu tarried
Until the set of sun.
The time that yon wero twenty
And I was twenty-ono.
It may havo been the tlowers,
Perhaps a look from thee,
That hade mo whisper softly
How dear thou wert to mo;
I never stopped to question,
I only know 'twas done.
The time that you wero twenty
And 1 was twenty -one.
We've had our summer, darling,
Tho fields of life are brown.
We've traveled up the hill side,
Wo'ro on our Journey down;
Yet oft I wako from dreaming
Those days havo just begun
That you again aro twenty
And I am twenty-ono.
When llfo and lovo aro over,
And 1 am laid at rest,
I hope somo one will gather
And place upon my breast
Such llow'rs as used to blossom
Beside tho meadow run.
The time that you wero twenty
And 1 was twenty -one.
tho codin hot onough, however, to burn the top lo
.foro tho ni'ddlo is cooked. Tho batter,
(with tho nddition of a littio Hour, will
make excellent gruliiio cakes.
Thimble rigging is something new in
tho sowing lino. Somo one has invented
a piece of thimble rigging which is con
ductivo to a seamstress' comfort. A mo
talie ridgo is attached to ono of tho faces
of tho thimble just below tho indenta
tions. This is known as n thread cutter.
and is meant to save the trouble of using
tho Bcissors at every llnibh, not to speak
of thu pernicious habit of biting oil' tho
thread with one's teeth. The enamel of
tho teeth is very quickly destroyed in
tills way, decay soon follows, and your
teeth tiro ruined before you know it.
A simple but excellent remedy for
burns. If you get half a pint of cold
drawn linseed oil and some clean linen
rags, pour oil over tho rag until it is per
fectly saturated, havo ready a uallinot or
other clean vessel to letthe oil drop into;
take tho rag uti with some tones, set it
alight, hold it over and let tho burnt oil
hill into the vessel, keep on until tho
whole is burnt then strain and bottle.
Keep a f- '.it her in tho kittle and when
anyone meets with an accident apply tho
oil to the burn with tho feather, after
wards saturating a niece of lint ami wrap
ping up tho injured part with it; attend
to and dress freouentlv. This is a vorv
old but Bafo and excellent recliH). No
housewife should bo without it. Tho
cost is trilling compared with its useful
ness and beii'jilcial eilbcts.
A Snukn's Ilnttle with a Cat.
itisnotoiten mat a nowspaper man
conies across two truo snake stories in ono
day, but a reporter heard yesterday of
two winch nro well authenticated. Mr.
Cyrenius Hall, tho artist, has a summei
homo nt Isle of Hopo. Threo weeks ngo
Mrs. Uall, to encourago her hens to lay,
bought a half dozen china nest eggs and
placed them in their nests. On looking
for them a few days after they wero not
to bo found, nor wero thero any sugar
bowls or tea sets about to show that tho
china eggs had hatched. Tho disappear
ance or tho eggs was a mystery, until ono
day last week a chicken snako was killed
on Mr. Ilail's farm, and two china eggs
wero found insido of it. His b- teehip
liad been doubtless Buffering from dys
pepsia lor soveral weeks.
Mr. Hall's snako oxperienco did not end
witli the eggs, howover. That gentlo-
maii has a largo cat, which is 6aid to bo
ono of tho best and bravest of the folino
species. A few nights ago tho cat was
locked in tho 6toro room. During the
night a terrific noiso was heard emanat
ing from tho room, and it was supposed
that a 6trango cat had gotten in and tho
houso cat was trying to put it out. Mr.
Hall went to tho plncoand let tho cat (or,
as ho supposed, two cats) out. In the
morning a largo, headless, black 6nako
was found in tho storo room. It had evi
dently attacked tho cat, and, truo to ita
constrictor instincts, tried to crush it, but
tho cat g tawed tho 6iinko'a head off and
enped. Savannah Nowa.
The license law of Sweden forbids any
person buying drink without purchasing
something to eat at thu same time.
Brandy is tho national drink, and it can
not bo sold in a quantity less than two
bottles.
Ionian Hogging exists as a punish
ment in tho Transvaal. All thu South
African press is violently opjwsyl to it,
but only recently a woman was suntoncix
to recoivo tlfteon lashes for usint nl
" O ww4M
language.
A Start In Life.
At GreenstKiro thoy pointed out an old
darky whom thoy said bad just got married
and was going out on a pieco of rented laud
to mnko a start in life, 1 followed him out
to his cart, to which was hitched an old and
faded ox. His bride, n coal black damsel of
IS, sat on a bag of corn in tho cart and held
to tho rope lines urouud the ox's horns. Tho
cart contained, in addition, a skillet, a kettlo,
ten pounds of side pork nnd a jug holding
two quarts of molasses. There was u tick for
a straw bed, a hen's feather pillow and an
old blanket. This was tho outfit.
"So you havo just got married" I asked.
"Yes. sah dun jist got married to dat
gal."
"How old aro you, uncloT
"Shoo, now, hut 1 reckon Izo about 00."
"And you've got a young wifo"
"Yes, sail dun got a gal."
"And you aro happy"
"Happy, sah I Why, Izo walkin' right on
aigs all do timo!"
"And you aro now going out to make a
start in life"
"Yes, sah gwino to start right off. Got
do ox, got do enrt. got do gal and Rot two
hull weeks' purvishuns, an' if dar's un3' ole
nigger in Norf Cnroliny who feels mo' liko
junipin' fo' feet high an' yellin' for Cnnaan
dun 1 does I'll gin two bits to seo him." De
troit Free Press.
The Itevengo of Time.
Tapeyard Who is that stunning girl you
raised your bat to
Itibbot.loy Miss Goldlo Bullion.
Tapeyard (timidly. Shodidn't return your
courtesy. Perhaps sho doesn't know you.
Hibbonley (bitterly) Not sho does not
know mo now; hut when I nm tho only
Voting man at Ocean Foam next summer sho
will not only know mo but pino for mo in
vain. Lowell Citizen.
A Smart People.
First Thief I've got a sure and safe thing
tiow. i go to houses in a hurry and ask for u
Biblo with big print to read to a sick man.
They givo mo tho family Biblo In a hurry,
and 1 sell 'em at second hand book stores.
becotid Thief 1 tried that in ono citv. but
it didn't wori Everybody seemed to soe
through tho guuio, for thoy said thoy hadn't
any Hihles. 1 just tell you there ain't ua
;etthi' ahead o' them Chicago folks. Phila
Iclpuia Itecord.
Very True.
Stern Parent Young man, I am astounded
at your Impudence. You seek to marry my
daughter knowing her to bo wealthy in her
own right, whilo you haven't a cent.
Self Posses.- Youth That's all right,
ft hat's the need of my havimr tuouev when
sho has plenty f Boston Courier.
IIiu Some Kliytlmi.
"Thero niuy bo ueither rhvtno nor noetrv
in timtheinati.," remarked tho hich school
girl, "but thu scieueo Is not devoid of
rhythm."
"N bat do you mean" asked her jmpa.
"1 refer to iccarithms." Pittsburg CMirnn.
icle.
IliTont'iic Americanized.
Citizen Don't you know. Mr. Ah Sin timt
if you kill that enemy of yours you will be
hanged
Ah Sin (vetiireful laundrvmam
Ilgbtee, I gotteo money I co looueo 's vlum.
-I'hiltulelphU iieeord.
riipriireMtlnitul Conduct.
Copeland-1 don't think Chinkins Is tho
sort of a man for a bauk cashier, do you
tnn.nM ...
.K.J uui II uy noil
Coiwland 1 taw hltn mis3 a train vAsfor.
day. Burlington Free Press.
A Watte of Ammunition.
Mrs. Quizziy Why, general, vou don't
seam to like to teo tho ladles kiss each other."
uun. uiuDonu lho result of a military cd
ucatioii, madam. 1 never liko to tco roa
uumiuuitiuti wasted. Troy Times.
Fully i:ulpcd.
"Bromley. I hear vou uru point tn
keepiugr'
Darrlnger,"
"What havo you got toward Itp
"A wifo. "-Detroit rVee IVess,
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