EASTERN ITEMS.
A MORMON COLONY TO BE FORMED
IN MEXICO.
Tho Lire of Martin Van Buron-Postal
Appointments California Raisins
In London Brewery Sold
Secret Ballot BUI.
Milwaukee's treasury Is empty.
Evangelist Moody is in New York.
Money loans in Chicago at 4 to 0 per
cent.
Severe frosts aro injuring crops in Da
Kota. Rev. Sam Jones is "shaking" up Dan
ville, Vn.
Rochester, N. Y., is to be lighted with
natural gas.
President Diaz has officially received
Minister Ky;m.
Malarial fever is playing hnvoc with
horses in Chicago.
A feeling of uncertainty still pervades
the copper market.
A pension has been granted Peter 1
"Withers, of Idaho.
Eastern men have lwught the biggest
brewry in Montana.
A $100,000 Cuban sugar grinding fac
tory has been burned.
Tho Secret Ballot bill has passed tho
Connecticut legislature.
Adjutant-General Drum has been
placed on tho retired list.
Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress, is
seriously ill at Pittsburg.
California cherries at $1 ti pound are
admired afar in Pittsburg.
Rails have been shipped for the road
from El Paso to Chihuahua.
Tho Government printing office at
Washington is said to bo unsafe.
Tho mother of Jake Kilrain, aged 58
years, died at Balhnore on tho 28th.
Tho popularity of lawn tenniB is rapid
ly increasing in somo Eastern cities.
Tho Conncllsville, Perm., region is
postered by n band of colored tramps.
R. 8. Simpson has been appointed
postmaster at Amity, Yamhill county, Or.
It is rumored that u Catholic Congress
will bo held this summer in Washington.
Tho Sioux Indians aro said to be will
ing to negotiate tho sale of their reserva
tion. A heavy consignment of last year's Cal
ifornia raisins has just been sold at Ixm
don. M. A. Robertson has been apjointcl
postmaster at Independence, Polk county,
Oregon.
A. J. Floroy has been aptwinted jost
master at Eagle Point, Jackson county,
Oregon.
' Tho Mow York Legislature authorized
tho ajijKj'mtinent of six femalo factory in
spector?. Benjamin Hoover, has been commis
sioned postmaster at Matoles, Crook
county, Or.
A committee has boon formed in Lon
don to arrange for a national memorial to
,"ohn "Bright.
Duncan C. Ross nearly killed Poto
Laroyerin a broadsword contest, at Mon
treal, last week.
Denver, Col., has Iteen seized with an
onidemic of murders and suicides to an
alarming extent.
It !h claimed that there nro defects in
the construction of pirls of tho postollieo
building at Ilaltlmoie.
E. S. Brubaker has received his com
mission as postmaster at Mount Tabor,
juuitnoinnn county, ur.
A peculiar disease, resembling malarial
lot or, is prevalent among horses in the
viulnlty ol inillauapollH.
In the May parties held in Central
Park, Now York, recently, thttro were no
less limn ii,v,v ciiiidreu.
A tremendous hall ami rainstorm, re
cently, caused washouts botweon Kansas
1.- i i ,-
imy uiui j.uwrcncu, mm.
Idaho and Wyoming begin to feel lono
some ttH Territories. They want to como
into tho sisterhood of states.
Sovontcon-yoaf locusts have made their
appearanco in countless numbers in tho
central ortion of Ionnesseo.
George Bancroft has reef ntlycomploted
a mo oi Aiariin win isuron, to tu pub
lished by tho Harper Brothers.
Tho reward of $50,000 for tho arrest of
Tnscot, the murderer of Bunker Knoll at
Chicago, will hold good for sixty days.
Tho wheat crop in Sonora Mexico, is
Immense. For tho first time in the his
tory of Mexico there will bo a surplus.
Tho president's family will spend tho
summer at Deor Parki Md., whoro ho
will bo able to join them every Saturday.
Tho Galveston Nowh says that more
cattle nave neon snipped irom loxnsto
tho North this bcasou than for many
years.
wtr.itt if . 41111 mil vjt i7i. iuiuo. iitin IIVU1I
granted a divorce from Eininu S. Norton,
who eloped with Henry Mooro less than
u year ago.
A plot was unearthed last week for n
' general delivery of convicts confined in
the Hudson County ponltenthiry, at
Snake Hill, N.J.
Tho Canadian Pacific has applied to
tho Secretary of tho Treasury to m Ixmd
ed as a common carrier botweon porta of
the United States.
It is proposed to make iuiortant
changes in. tho monitor Puritan. She
will 1k transferred Into an armored vos
gel of modern typo.
No one hiiH yet been decided on to fill
tho vacancy on tho Supremo Bench, al
though (hero lias been considerable kjhmj.
ulution on tho subject.
Mrs. Coleman, of 181 Mullmrry street,
Now York, is making enquiries for her
father, Peter Rutherford, who canio to
California In 18 ID. A cousin has died in
Scotland, leaving property to which she
would bo entitled if her father is dead,
but she canbot prove his marriage to her
mother, who died thirty years ago. U
her father is living, tho estate belongs to
Mm,
FOKKIM.V KIiANIIKM.
Thj Chilian Government Ordors Somo (
Big Guns Tho Baby King of Spain '
Going to the Exposition. !
The Nipsic has gono to Auckland.
Red is tho fashionablo color in Paris.
London proposes a search for natural
gas.
A tennis tournament is in progress in
Dublin.
Members of tho Italian press in Berlin
were banqueted.
On tho Paris Boulevards Roue has
given place to Roublard.
Tho baby king of Spain is going to tho
Paris exposition in Juno.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is going to start a
fashion paper in Innlon.
King Humbert has gono to visit Em
press Frederick at Frankfurt.
SirMorell Mackenzie has greatly re
gained his health at Madeira.
The number of paupers in England has
increased rapidly of late years. "
Minister Lincoln was given a spcecial ,
train from l.ivcrool to I)ndon.
Tho issue of tho Panama Canal Lottery ,
bonds in Franco has been abandoned. " i
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is one of j
tho best violincello players of the day. J
Americans aro reported as receiving
scant courtesy at tho Paris Exposition,
American women aro Incoming more
and more rominent in Iiondon society.
Tho Sultan sends to tho Empress of
Germany a nccklaco valued at $150,000.
Women in Paris nro becoming more
and more addicted to the morphine habit.
Tho number of persons drowned in tho
recent floods in Austria is estimated at
100.
American delegates havo arrived at
Berlin to study tho German river sys
tems. "
Eleven thousand men havo been on a j
strike in Silesia. The situation is threat
ening.
Buenos Ayrcs has now a port and ves
sels aro freed from oxcessivo litcrago
charges.
Tho Greek minister of war has died
suddenly at Marseilles, whoro ho had
just arrived.
Tho Krupp works havo lcon obliged to
shut down owing to lack of coal causod
by tho strike.
Eight persons wore killed by lighten
ing in a storm at Boskowltz, Australia,
on Friday, May 17.
Tho official rciwrts of Franco show that
they exported last year 34,518 horsos,
mostly to tho United States.
Tho Parisians call him "Buffalo Bool,"
and tho prettiest women in town aro
turning tho heads of his Indians.
At tho horticultural show at the Troca
dero during June, there will bo 5000 rose
trees, of 3000 vanties, in bloom.
Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil is very
ill, and his death, which seem to bo om-
nent, may bo lollowcil by a revolution.
Electric light equivalent in illuminat
ing power to 1,700,000 candles will bo
used in lighting tho Paris exhibition.
In tho Sydney courts it has been de
cided that no Siiudav newspaper can sue
for advertisements, tho contract being
illegal.
Tliero is groat sullbring among tho idle
laWers at Panama. Many aro without
food and shelter and the tropical wet
season is on.
Tho stoamer Slavnnia from Stettin for
Now York, with 200 passengers, broke her
shaft at sea and returned to a Clyde ship
yard for repairs.
Germany lust year imported into that
empire 711,510 horses, most of which were
for cavalry horses, besides what thoy
raised at home,
Tho saloon of Buckingham Puluco,
famous for the three superb crystal chan
deliers which it contains, is now lighted
by electricity.
Several members of parliament will en
tertain John Sherman upon his return
to lOndon from Paris. Sir Lion Play
fair will preside.
Tho Chilean government, it is rejKirted,
has determined to order tor immediate
delivery ten 45-ton Krupp guns for de
fense of tho coast.
Tho evicted tenants on tho Olphort es
tates in Ireland threw trailing water on
tno oiiccmcn and a number woro
Hovorely scalded.
Tho Prussian government has tempor
arily reduced freight rates on all lines, in
enter to alleviate tho distress arising from
the dearth of coal.
It is stated that an international con
ference will shortly bo hold in Rome to
settle the question of the construction of
a tunnel through the Simplou.
All Russian ships-of-wnr nro to ho
lighted exclusively by electricity, anil bv
January next tho whole of tho Russian
licet will bo lighted by that means.
Tho English negotiations with tho
Chinese government for a treaty regulat
ing and restricting Chinese immigration
to tho Australian colonies, aro at a dead
lock. Tho machinery imlaco at tho Paris ex
hibition is tho largest building under a
single roof over built, and tho American
exhibit occupies one-third of tho entire
spaco.
Earl Dudloy, who was caught m tho I
latoradeoua lmdon gambling house,
reached his majority only a few months
ago, and has already gambled away
$.'00,000.
Tho British man of-war Surprise ran
asnoro iu ayruous, Mctiy, on Uio 24th
lust., after colliding with and sinking the
steamer Nesta. Tho man-of'wnr is full
of water,
The match lwtwoen tho Crown Princo
ol Italy and Princess Clemeutlno has fall
en through The Princo may now marry
onoo ties stersof IheKmiM.mr Wlllli..,,
of Germany. ' " "
rvr.i
Vf t"" Bpvcnteen plckiwketaBofarar-!
K...uut! ti nrl8.oxJo. none aro Jlmrn Santa Rosa has been mado. Tho ,
Amur cans. This is nn mithnrltv
' " - - ' - .f V UIHIIU tt Jl
of an
Kngllbli paper.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
PLUMBERS
AND TINNERS
STRIKE.
ON A
Criminally Assaulted Two Ltttlo Girls
A Man Cowbldod by a Young
Lady Tho Astronomical
Society Nows Notes.
Spokane FallB
24,000.
claims a population of
Sokane Falls haB opened a now sav
ings bank.
Ripo figs from Yuma aro exhibited at
Sacramento.
Olive culture is attracting attention in
Yuba county.
Sacramento is infested with a gang of
sneak-thieves.
The Roeso River Rovclle has began its
fifty-third volume.
1""L,flnn,1) t.hmers at Vancouver,
B" - !irc 011 a 8tnko"
Ten acros of barley were burned over
near Merced, recently.
Tacoma is troubled with a gang of lire-
bugs and sncak-tliioves.
A heavy rain and hail storm foil at La
Grande, Or., on tho 211th.
I . ! ,',' . i i
j tho ,jr,ck 1,1 " h,ru kim
The rainstorm at Lakeport destroyed
u unuK. in a targe Kim.
Several cases of malignant diphtheria
havo occurred at Modesto.
Portland's streets was crowded
visitors on Decoration Day.
A K pound salmon trout has
with
been
caught at tho 1'olsom dam.
Tho dwelling of J. Orford, near Peta
luma, was burned last week.
II. W. Fuller.ono of Chico's prominent
citizens and pioneers, is dead.
Charles Walters was shot by a China
man at San Lcandro, on tho -'7th.
Tho ladies of Tacoma gavo tho
tonal party a recoption last week.
sena-
The grocery storo of Monty ik Gunn, of
Tacoma, was burned on the I'Dth inst.
Santa Cruz and Monterey counties had
slight earthquake shocks on tho 20th.
The managers of the Sacramento ball
team havo decided to reinstate Veach.
An organized leaguo of burglars from
Chicago aro working Pugit Sound towns.
There lias been no application for tho
office of Registor of the Stockton Land
office.
Charles Wolff, aged ten years, foil from
a tree at Ventura, last wo.ik, and was
killed.
Dr. John B. Smith, an old physician of
Petaluma, has been stricken with ap
oplexy. A man named Leo was cowhidod by
Miss M. Richmon, at Fresno, on tho
125th inst.
Farmer MHIb, of San Luis Obispo
county, lias planted nino tons of potatoes
this year.
Tho next meeting ot the Astronomical
Society of the Pucilic Coast will bo held
Jul' -'oth.
William Warden, alias Ross, an escapo
from Folsom Prison, has been recaptured
at Seattle.
Creigton, tho San Francisco jury-briber,
is Btill iu Victoria, and refuses to talk to
reporters.
Tho Santa Cruz Sea Breozo has issued
its first number. It is of tho Democratic
persuasion.
Tho Nevada State convention of tho
W. C. T. U. will meet at Reno on Juno
5th and tith.
General Miles is visiting Santa Cruz
anil Monterey to select a site for tho July
encampment.
Tho mines on tho Comstock controlled
by J. W. Mackay will close on Sundays
alter Juno 1st.
Thomas Strachor, a contractor at Otay,
San Diego county, is missing, anil mur
der is hinted at.
Articles of incorporation for tho San
Pedro Electric highland Power Company,
woro filed last week.
An American has opened a restaurant
at Ivomooro, Tulare county, and forced
tho Chines to leavo.
Tho Stato Grange opened at Salom on
tho UOtli in Hccret session, with a full at
tendance of members.
Mrs. John Pago at Butto, M. T., has
been acquitted of tho charge of murder
ing her husband last February.
A nuiulor of men employed in tho
steam engineering department at Maro
Island, have been discharged.
Havwards ch(irrv-imwtra nm .liuc.itiu.
Hod til tho price paid by cannors and aro
shipping a carload a day East.
Tho now road between Sun Lerando
ami 1 lay wards, Castro Valley and tho
redwoods was opened for travel.
The entire business portion of Seattle
was burnod on Thursday, tho tith. Not a
business house left in tllo city.
A man named Pennington shot and
killed anothar man named Bolcom, near
Ryo Valley, in Bakor county, Oregon,
last week.
Tho American Iwrk Emerald was to
tally destroyed by tiro at Port Gamble on
tho I'llth. 1'art of tho cargo of lumber
will Ik) saved.
Mrs. Kramer, of San Francisco, was
rnu over and killed ou tho i.Dth, in that
city, by tho train running on tho Gearv
Btreot extension.
M- Hoad, a music teacher at Fresno,
i luu been missing for several days, not
withstanding nor mends have mudedili.
gent Boarch for her.
i r . . . ,i'ui Kin. wi iiiDiiia. xjiu i;iiei woni lor
" 2 2lWrt!l- ot to rt It In water at
1 " . , w.j-
nemo. I hey will leave Juno tith with I
his stable of races for tho East.
All llllknwil lprnrm flirmr liimu.iW i
front of a freight train near Lathrop, last
wecK. una was uioru uv cut to ii lvoh.
l .1 " t . .
Thoro wan nothing found to identify him.
tho rartSoU of e nlo es of W !
tt,u 1 ai"t'ic ru bs ol emplojes of tho ho
it rv.ii.-i . . .i
k-or Railroad Couqinny, bus obtained
a verdict for tmo aiadnst tho com.mnv. I
-''
Tho fourth attempt in ono week to
caucus aro much tixuitod and a lynohing !
party win ioiiow the capture ol the cul-
I'rit. I
HOJIK AMI KAK.H.
The Caro of Horses Something Good
to Eat To Keep Young Weeds
Down Beo-Keeplnn Notes.
For jxtato culture, manure the land in
tho fall and plow it under in the spring.
It is a mistaken idea that a hen's nest
ought to do duty a year without renew
ing. By planting the red raspberry, bee
keepers would havo one of the best boo
pastures known, and a crop of fruit also.
Common wheat flour mado into paste
with cold water, applied dry, will take
out grease spots without injuring tho
most delicate fabric.
A strong solution of carbolic acid and
water, poured into holes, kills all tho
ants it touches, and tho survivors imme
diately take themselves off.
To stop tho bleeding of a horse or other
stock from a snag or wound, make an ap
plication of dry horso manure, and it will
stop tho bleeding every time.
One jwiind of green copperas dissolved
in one quart of lnjiling water will destroy
foul smells. Powdered lorax scattered
in their haunts will disperse cockroaches.
For good returns for feeding, taking
one year witli another, wo would rather
trust a bunch of even, well selected
wetheis than any other stock on the
farm.
Any man closely observant knows that
a compactly built hog with light bone,
weighing from 175 to 250 pounds, is the
selling hog for the market; and that these
weights aro tho most profitable to grow.
Ordinary buttermilk is a valuable food
not only for pigs, but for the family. It
contains 5 per cent of milk sugar, nearly
1 per cent of mineral salts, as well as
nitrogenous materials and a proportion of
butter fat.
Every young weed that comes up and
is ait down is one less weed to go to seed.
The way to keep down weeds is to allow
the seeds to germinate and then destroy
tho young plants. In this manner the
work is easier and better performed.
A. good way to arrage fruit in a dish
for an ornamental piece, is to set a glass
tumbler in tho center of the dish, around
and over it put a thick layer of moss;
then not nearly so much fruit will be re
quired, and it can bo arranged very hand
somely. Baked Beans : Soak one nunrt of bnnns
in water ovor night; in the morning put
them in an iron kettle with one-half
pound of salt pork and water to cover.
When tender, but not broken, take out
of the liquor with a skimmer and put in
a baking pan with the pork on top and
bake uutil brown.
White Mountain Ciko: Two cups of
sugar, one cup of butwr, one cup of sweet
milk, four eggs, fo ir cups of Hour, two
teaBpoontuls of baking powder. Cream,
butter and sugar together, add the beaten
yolks, then tho milk, Hour with the bak
ing power sifted thromrh it. and lust, tlm
beaten whites; llavoring. Bake in one
loai.
Rosin in soap is a fraud. It makes
poor soap harui and greatly lessons tho
cost. Some say that rosin improves soan
because of the turpentine in it. Thev
might as well say a dry bono makes good
food because of tho meat that was on it
once. 'there is no turpentine in rosin :
it was all'tuken out in tho makiiiL' and
tho rosin discolors and spoils white uoods
and shrinks woolens. But turpontine in
smaii quantities added to boilini! clothes.
sweetens them and improves tho color.
mi. ..I i . . .
mo ijosi dovs and tfiris wo have rvnr
known on the farm woro those whoso
parents gave them an interest in some
thing to raise or cultivate as their own.
To ahoy especially, the feeling of owner
ship is a happy, proud, hopeful one. He
feels that ho has something to work for,
to look forward to. Tho pig will in due
timo become a fat, marketable hog, the
little lamb a lino wool-bearing sheep, tho
colt a handsome horse, the chickens
grow to prolitablo liens, and tho "alf into
a lino milk cow. Parents, give your chil
dren a chanco in this direction,"and vour
farms will be better cultivated and your
homes mado happier by it.
Something to Eat Between talks: Here
is another sweet dish thoroughly to sea
son, lako threo pounds of sweet al
monds, two pounds and a half of crushed
sugar, and ono pound of strawberries.
Pound tho almonds into a kind of jmsto,
and mix them with sugar. Add tho juice
of tho strawberries, which must be prev
iously crushed. Place tho pan contain
ing these different ingredients on a slow
fire, and stir them up continuously.
N hen tho paste seems to havo obtained
a certain consistency, tako it out of the
pan and spread it out on a baking board
Iovdorid with sugar, till it is of tho thick
ness of a half-dollar. As soon as the
paste is cold, cut it out in round or square
pieces, and put them till hot and crisp,
into the kitchener, and then servo.
Coccoa as Food ; As an articlo of food
cocoa dilfers essentially from both tea and
coffee. While only an infusion of thoso
substances is used, leaving a largo pro
portion of their total weight unconsumed,
tho entire substance of tho cocoa seeds is
prepired as an emulsion for drinking,
ami tho whole is thus utilized witli tho
system. While the contents of a cup of
iu.i or coiico can oniy no regarded as
stimulant in its elfect, and almost en
tirely destitute of essential nutritivo prop
erties, a cup of prepared cocoa is really a
most nourishing articlo of diet. as. in ad
dition to the value of tho theobromine it i
contains it introduces into tfio system no
inconsiderable proportion of "valuable
nitrogenous and oleaginous elements. ;
Boiled Salads : All head vegetables, '
lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage, that are to !
bo cooked whole, should be imnu'rsiwl In '
cold water, head downwards first, to free !
rrrun ...it ... !.....,,. I., 1M. l. .' i i.
an, mu to break it apart, leaf by leaf.
wiping off each leaf w 5th a mois towel
This keeps tho leaf crisp. All lettuces of
M.ilml ulinnlil lw tnm nn.i.l ...,! 'Pi...
coarsely cultivated field lettuces should!
bo boiled. I ho "drumhead" variety is
letter cooked than raw. On toast, with
a jKwched egg lightly throned ou tho palo
green marrowy substance, which has
Ih'oii stowed witli a littio stock and n
" " ' Oi.,'u."or- tt"er 1,0 ,K)1,'"r-' hi salt
water, mo largo cioso lettuce ol the mark-
et garden is a real delicacv. am! it mv
ho cleansed in cold water previous to bo-
ing cooked. But understand that no let
tuco in tor a salad
coming to tho table.
PORTLAND MARKET.
FAVORABLE REPORTS FROM ALL
SECTIONS.
CofTee Quotations Remain About Steady
Sugars all Around Havo Had a
Slight Advance Tho Wool
Market Very Quiet.
From all accounts tho wvather is most
propitious forcropsof all kinds, especially
the early fruits, which havo been somo
damaged by tho rains of late, and the only
obstacle to the farmers reaping tho bene
fit of another profitable harvest is, the
present proppect of a low price for wheat,
but as this is early in the season to prog
nosticate, they rely ujkjii hope. In all
lines of business in tho local merchan
dise markets the transactions are good
for the season of the year, and no com
plaints aro heard. Sugars havo advanced
JjjC during tho week, while provisions
continue steady at former quotations.
Tho vegetable market contiues good and
prices aro fairly maintaind for Oregon
product, California having been almost
driven from the market. Buter is firm,
with no danger of tho market getting
overstocked, owing to the commencement,
of the packing season. AVe quote :
anocEitiES.
Sugars, Golden C OrC. extra C 7c.
dry granulated 8?8C, cube, erushed anil
powdered 834C Coffee: Java 227c,
Mocha L'83lc, Costa Rica 21jL'2c,
Rio2223c, Arbuckle'e roasted 125c.
l'KOVISIONS.
Oregon ham 1213c, breakfast ba
con 13c, sides 10 12c, shoulders 8l4
(jJ9c. Eastern ham l313V,c, breakfast
bacon 1313)c, sides )(dil0c. Lard
Do 10s,
KHUIT8.
Los Angeles oranges $2.25, Riversides
$3.7o1.25. California lemens $3.504
per box. Oregon strawberries $1.25 per
crate.
VEGKTABLE8.
Potatoes 3550c, onions $1.75, rheu
barb3c, tomatoes $13 per box.
DIUUD FIIU1TS.
Apples 4 5c, sliced Go, pears 8c, Oregon
plums 57, Italian 8c, silver 7c, German
U0Jjo, plums 5(a)7(! apricots 1314c,
peaches 810c, California figs Sc, raisins
$1.752.25 per box.
daikv rnonccE.
Butter. Oregon fancy 20c, medium 15
lJse, common, 10I2laC, Eastern 22c
California 1820c.
KC1C1S.
Eggs 20c.
POUliTKY.
Chickens $55.50. broilers $2.50rr4
ducks and geeso $010, turkeys 20c per
lb.
wool,.
Valley 10lo, Eastern Oregon 815o
IIOl'S.
Hops 1015c.
OUA1N.
Wheat, Valley $1.20, Eastern Oregon
$1
.10. uats i)(c3uc.
KLOUH.
Standard $4, other brands $3.50.
FKKI).
Hay$1314per ton, bran $1314,chor
$17Jii(a20, shorts $1415, barley $22.50
KKESU MEATS.
Beef, live. 3c, dressed, 7c ; mutton
live, .i'fic, dressed c; lambs $2.50 each
hogs live 6c, dressed, 77jc; veal 08c
1 urposes, like egg-s. unless tnoy uo
hatched into action, will run into decay
Smiles.
I ho best sign that a man boliovos
any thing is not his repetition of its
formulas, but his impregnation with its
spirit. Brooks.
If thero woro no readers thoro
would bo no writers. To indulge in
tho reading of bad books is to give bad
authors their power for ovil. S. S.
Times.
Lovo that luih nothing but beauty
to koop it in good health is short-lived,
and apt to have ague fits. Erasmus.
How can a man expect sympathy
who insists on shinning up his family-
treo only to shako hands with tho grin
ning monkeys at tho ton? Onco i
Week.
irtuo consists in ranking desire
subordinate of duty, passion to princi
ple; tho pillars of character aro mod
oration, tomporanco, chastity, sim
plicity, solf-control; its method is self-
donlnl.
Many of our opportunities must
bo lost to us; it is impossiblo for us to
bo alert enough to profit by thorn all.
But part of our training is to look for
them, and our succoss will dopond on
tho use wo make of them. United
Presbyterian.
ft is doing somo sorvico to hu
manity to amnso Innocently; and thoy
kuow very littio of soci ty who think
wo can bear to bo always employed
either In duties or meditations with
out any relaxation. Sir P. Sidnoy.
it iion wo iook oacic upon our
lives, especially if wo begin to fool
that thoy aro pretty far spout, how wo
amuso ourselves with thoughts of what
wo might havo mado out of thomothor
than they arc. But it is an. amuse
ment that may as woll bo sparingly in
dulged in. Our bettor omploymont is
to make as much us possible of whnt
Is left us.
a is n popular say in? mat ncn
men's sons don't amount to muck. Of
fiOO rich men in New York who havo
sons thoro nro not twenty who nro not
hard at work building themselves up.
Hirnm Williamson, ono of tho im
mortal six hundred who rodo into tho
"valloy of death" at Balakluva in 1851.
has boon mudo chlof porter at the
Boston post-olllco. Ho is sovonty
rears of ago.
In a easo at law in Illinois tho
other day it was shown that a woman
whipped hor boy so that hu was in bod
for throo weeks booaubo ho could not
commit fifty Bible versos to memory In
ono wevk.
LIFE AT HARVARD.
A niillalonlaii Trll How III Time In
Spent In f 1 1 o cc.
Counting undergraduates and special
students together, thero aro 1,140
young men between tho uges of seven
teen and twenty-four now residing at
Harvard College. Tho writer enjoyed
an interview with ono of tho BulTalo
boys, who was at homo for a brief ro
cess, a short time ago. "You will
understand." ho said, "that I am
neither a 'grind' nor a loafer, but an
average student, and the vast majority
of them live just about as I do. A
picture of my college day is about as
follows: 1 turn out anywhero between
7:40 and 8 in the morning, and go over
to Memorial to breakfast at 8 or 8:30
sometimes oarlier than that, so as to
go to chapel. Prayers como at 8:45,
and aro well attended, though wo don't
havo to go unless we chooso. After
this recitations and lectures take up
nearly the whole forenoon, and I have
ono in the afternoon three times a
week. On four days of tho week I
have three recitations, on tho others
two. Other men havo them ditTorently,
according to tho elcctives thoy take.
My studies are over for tho day at 3
p. m., and they occupy, all told, about
soven hours a day.
"I'm interested in athletics, and my
afternoon from 3 to 5:30 is spent in tho
gymnasium, or in out-door athletics in
tho season for them. Part of our train
ing, in suitable weather, consists of a
run of two miles, to Porter's station
and back. Tho gymnasium Is always
crowded, and you got pretty well heat
ed up by your oxorciso, whatever it is.
Then, after a cold shower and a brisk
rubbing, you leel like a king, and don't
you just sleep nights, though! I find
that my athletic training helps my
studios greatly. Dinner comes at six,
and I generally study evenings, though
not always. I've bcon to the theater
some eight or nino times this term, but
I don't like to go to Boston much. It
takes too long and you have to be up
late, which won't do when you are iu
training.
"Many people have an idea that you
can let your studios go and loaf, or
worse, until two or three weeks before
ttie examinations, and then cram up.
This is utter nonsense. It i3 simply
impossible to keep up with your class
in that way, unless, indeed, you can
spond $100 or if 150 for private tutors,
and oven then you wouldn't bo safe.
As for cutting recitations, if you mado
a practice of doing it oftener than twice
a week you'd be investigated, sure as
fato and that is not at all pleasant.
"On 'Sundays I go to church some
where .sometimes to Boston to hoar
Phillips Brooks, sometimes to tho col
lege chapel, sometimes elsewhore.
Thoro aro usually 400 or 500 at morn
ing prayers, and more than that at tho
Sunday evening sorvico, though you
don't havo to go to either unless yon
want to." BulTalo Express.
THE POET LAUREATE."
Interesting mid A mining Anecdotes Con.
cernliiK Tennj'Hoii.
Absent-minded to a degree. Tenny
son often forgets to whom ho is speak
ing, and onco when in full conversa
tion with Robert Browning said, ap
parently apropos do bottes: "I wonder
how Browning is getting on." "Why!"
exclaimed Robert, "I am Browning."
"Nonsense," replied Tennyson, with
nlmost an attemp't at roguish raillery,
"I know tho follow well, so you can't
toll me you aro he."
A few years ago some eiithasiastie
admirers of Tennyson gavo a large
dinner in his honor, and invited all
thoir choicest friends in tho world of
literature and art to meet him. Tenny
son, who rarely accepts an invitation,
did. for a wonder, put in an appear
anco on this occasion; but, during tho
first half of tho dinner, caused the
greatest disappointment by romnining
absolutely silent, and as if lost in tho
most profound revorio. Tho guests,
who had oxpoetod to hang on words
falling like pearls of thought from his
Hps, gazed somewhat wistfully on him,
when suddenly rousing himsolf, ho ex
claimed in a loud, stentorian voico: "I
like my mutton out in chunks!" 1 can
not help suspecting that thoro was
something of malico proponso iu this
burst of confidence, and that tho poor
man folt a not unnatural irritation at
being gapod at, and a corresponding
deslro to punish tho offondors.
An anecdoto told mo not long ago by
tho daughter-in-law is amusing, in thnt
it shows how tho greatest aro not inca
pable of stooping to littio weaknesses.
Somo very dear frlonds of Tennyson's
who had been spending somo years in
Paris, roturned to London, and anx
ious to renew old ties, wrote inviting
him to their house. But Tennyson mis
took tho day, and arriving at tho domi
cile found tho birds llown. Sitting
down to write a note of explanation, ho
had tho misfortune to throw tho con
tents of a woll-tilled Ink bottlo nil ovor
tho boautiful now white Persian car
pet. Tho maid sorvant, in answor to
his summons, appeared with a largo
jug of now milk, which sho poured ovor
the o.Tending Ink stain. "I'll give you
live shillings, my good girl, my very
good girl," confided Tennyson in much
agitation, "if you'll only got rid of that
abominable ink before your master and
mlstross como homo." And together
on their hands mid knees pootund Abi
gail rubbed and rubbed at tho wretched
carpet until not a spot romnlnod. Tuu
girl earned hor live shillings, and when
a few weeks nftorwardsTonnyson wont
to dlno with his friond ho had ovory
reason to believe that she had told no
tales. At any rate tho host and hostess
displayed tliolr gorgeous earpot with
out nuy feign of consciousness. London
Cor. Snu Franolico Chroulclo.