EASTERN ITEMS.
THE PUBLIC DEBT INCREASED DUR
ING MAY.
A Rich Vein of Gold Found In Georgia
1 Woman to Be Hanf?ed-Doath
From Fear Two Thlov. a
Lynched at Seattle.
. Ohio oil will be pumped to New York
city.
Valentine, Neb., lias an Indian hod-
carrier.
Mind-Reader Bishop's estate was worth
only f 250.
Bangor, Mo., is to run its own electric
light plant.
Oklahoma's inhabitants are disappear
ing rapidly.
SmalliKJX is niukingtcrrihlo ravages in
Guatemala.
The public debt has increased $8,702,
877 during May.
Indianapolis talks of a people's co-operative
ice company.
President Harrison will spend part of
iis summer in Maine.
Internal revenue frauds have been dis
covered at Cincinnati.
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is to
liavo a gravity railroad.
One or two districts in Florida began
shipping peaches last week.
Tho bathing season has already been
initiated at Old Point Comfort.
A woman who had been bitten in Phil
adelphia by a dog, died of fear.
The Valkyrie- finished third in the
yacht races in England, on the .'Id.
Tho incorporation of tho St. Louis
breweries was completed on the .'list.
Some Iowa counties aro paying a bounty
of 5 cents a head for gophers destroyed.
United States Minister Ryan was ban
queted at the City of Mexico, on tho 30th.
A great ollbrt is being made in New
York to promote trade with South Amer
ica. A smallpox patient was discovered in
tho Milwaukee County Hospital, on tho
30th.
A rich vein of gold ore is reported to
liavo been found on a farm near Gaines
ville, tlu.
Tho rumor that an extra session of
Congress will beheld in October, is re
nowed. A vniltvt.wl mriilll ill. Kl mil 1 VVllln. Illll..
lias been arrested for selling tickets on
Sunday.
A miv ruin mi Mm rnnitu i'fnt nf fllli
cago, extending to tho Pacific Coast, is
predicted.
1 N" P fllnntniui. nf fJiilifnrnin
T.J IjlH. III A ' t v ... ........ j - " 7
with his family, is on a Bocial visit to
Washington.
Tho monument over tho tomb of ex
President Arthur, at Albany, will be un
veiled June 15.
1 ..I !... I.1 !..., (1,,, 'M.,t
caused tho people to rush from their
houses in terror.
A heavy fall of snow is roiwrtcd from
several parts of Michigan. Tho damtigo
to crops is great.
A fuiii- i trtli4lfiil nririnl7llt infl lftinwilllH
the "Single Tax Party," has been formed
in South iMKota.
A woman is to bo hung in Jofforsnn
county, Ala., Juno 27, for highway rob
bery. Sho is colored.
Frost damaged tho corn in some por
tions of Indiana ho severely that replant
ing became necessary.
Canadian Forirers are Hying to tho
Unitcdt Sales. It is a queer crime that
doesn't work loth ways.
Congressman Edward J. Gay, a mil
lionaire sugar-planter, died at Thilo
deaux, Ia. the :10th iust.
The American expedition to Iwgin work
on tho Nicaragua Canal, Hailed lrom iNow
York under British colors.
lluoiuetta, Mexico, was almost entirely
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destroyed iy a nan worm uu iiiiiimuuuu
on tho'ilJth. Many lives wore lost.
A convention to frame a Constitution
for tho "'State of Wyoming," has been
called for Jnlv 1th, at Cheyenne.
Thirty divorces were granted in ono
dav durini: tho recent hcshIoii of the
Supremo Court at Manchester, N. II.
Hungarians and Poles aro leaving
Pleading, Penn., in largo numbers on ac
count of tho suspension at the iron works.
Tho jury in tho caHOof tho McClelland
town bandits returned a verdict of guilty
against IxMtis Wasker and the two Sulll
vans. C. P. Huntington is to build a palatial
residence in New York, on thosauthwest
corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh
street.
ft 1h understood that it will bo several
mouths bi'fore tho guns of tho Charles
ton and Baltimore M ill bo ready to go on
tward.
A numler of persons in Atlanta re
sponded to a parrot'H cry of "lire," and
discbvered that a house across tho way
was in Humeri,
Tho Palace Car Company is suing tho
"Wagner Car Company to prevent tho lat
ter from using tho vestibule as u com
pleted structure.
Tho iron market at Cleveland, Ohio,
was nearly paralyzed on tho illst by the
wile of MOO tons of Tennessee iron, A 1
forgo, at $13 (10 delivered.
"Gambling is licensed in Laramie,
AVyo.T." Such is tho deplorable but
truthful item that is going tho rounds of
tho Western press. Laramie Boomerang.
Tho Secretary of War has ordered tho
dismissal from "the army of Private (lus
tavua Kimball, Company 0, Thirteenth
infantry, now in confinement at Angel
Island, Cul.
Tho Pall Mall Garotte greeted our now
Minister to England, on Ims arrival in
London, with a glowing paneiryrio on
Abraham Lincoln, and adds: "Wo wel
come tho eon fort no sako of tho father."
Tho California capitalist retried to
nyo married a lady of Pontic, Mich.,
ipjKisod to bo L. N, Braniino, who
flfo nt Santa Criu. Ho is worth
rK,),000.
0UH of baseball was played at Port
cry Mturday, between tho printers
comets' JK Oreu'onlun tind tho print-
Ka n,,? A lryto" Printing Co.,
to its lini.? tJtf fccatti0 mill'erers.
FOKKl(i FfiAMIIEH. j
The Popo Feeble Prince William of
Hohenzollorn Married Bismarck
a Cnristlan-Earthquakes.
The Pope is showing extraordinary
feebleness.
English shoe-workers are agitating for
eight hours.
Vienna car-drivers get CO cents for
i . i.
cigmeen iiourn.
Bismarck frankly declares that he is
sincere Christian. "
Twelve thousand -men arc still on
strike at Saar, Germany.
Lord Lonsdale protwses to organizo an
ll. 1 1 I -
cxpmmon 10 mo ioriu i uiu.
Two-thirds of the engines exhibited at
I'arn are oi the uoriess pattern.
C.imdcn House, Chiselhurst, the last
homo oi isapoicon in, is to ie let.
Stafibrdshire, England, hlast lurnacc
men demand 10 percent advance.
Tho Dublin Corporation intends to
visit tho Paris Exposition in a IkxIv.
Several prolonged earthquako shocks
have been felt on the Channel Islands.
TIm !,.(. nniMont plinmisl dill tint lllivn
a picture hi ken until ho was 1)7 years of
ago.
Tim .ri4li 1 .rvnl fJnvi'nimunt bill
passed to a reading in tho Commons, last
week. i
novelist l-llCKens unm nun. nuirj
Fieldint: Dickens, is a successful lawyer
i. . i it.!. .1 1I..-..
in England.
Vmtutrnr Willlnm lmB (ifTcriHl a L'old
and silver ship as a prize to tho Berlin
Yacht Club.
ir.v.M Snialor 'Mi'ljinrt fhinL-H Ciniiprnl
Boulanger's influence has decreased since
lie left b ranee.
Vii'lnr Mnpliin. Mm Cnb.m bandit, was
married to his mistress before he was ex
ecuted at Havana.
Uluniiircl- lt'tu Inkon in nnlit.'ilrn. Mid is
lioli in ' its heavy-weight championship
against all comers.
Commons are now in prison for oirenses
under tho Crimes Act.
Tim Hiiuuinti XillllistH im'n nut infor-
ninti in that thev will sbortlv make an
other attempt to kill the Czar.
Heavy storms have been raging at
TlnliidrniKr. n-cmitk. All ilHIIKHlHO
iiinount of damago bus been dono.
A tiinrii-m iui'L-iwii'I.-cIh nrn flocklm? to
tho Paris ExoHition, whero their busi
ness is said to no thriving woiuieriuuy.
The Sugar Bounties Commissioners at
London have signed their reiort and re
ferred it to their respective governments.
Princo Aloiso Schwarzcnborg of Aus
tria, who was badly wounded in a duel
with a Lieutenant of Hussars, is dying.
A London dressmaker advertises that
sho will furnish a complete bridal outfit,
bonnets, boots and shoes excepted, for
iMOO.
Lord Salisbury informed a deputation
of bi-metallists that tho business com
munity, not Parliament, must settle tho
question.
In Venezuela tho yellow fovor is rag
ing. Fears aro expressed that men
enough to handle tho codeo crop will bo
unobtainable.
It is stated that tho Princess of Murat
will claim indemnity from Italy of 61,
OOil.OOO lire for tho confiscated estates of
King Joachim.
In Paris there aro inoro than 20,000
plaecH for tho sale of intoxicating drink.
This is onu to four houses, or one to
twenty-five mon.
Mariotti, who attempted the life of M.
doFroycinet some time ago, and was con
fined in tho Asylum of Bicotro, as of un
sound mind, has been released.
Henry George has finished a remark
ably successful lecturing tour in Scotland.
Ho" thinks the singlo-tax doctrine has
taken deepest root in that country.
There is a new industry for women in
London, that of accountants ami auditors
for largo households. Miss Josie Courrah
was the ono to suggest this industry.
Tho Porsian Shah has the most impos
ing show now on the road in Europe. Ho
spends about $5000 a day on his tour.
Ho is a sort of peripatetic Toyal Hush.
Ship agonts say that heavy lookiiigs
are being made on vessels from England
to America. On tho leading vessels the
saloon berths are full up to November.
Ex-King Milan has privately declared
his intention to return to Belgrade im
mediately. It is rumored that ho is in
some way resiousible for the recent riots.
When a King goes to see the Kaiser, tho
Kaiserspeaks up and says: "IiOt'sgo out
and have some fun ; lot'H go out and give
old Franco a rub on that Strasburgsoro."
Ixml James Douglas, brother of tho
Marquis of Queonsberry, has defaulted in
the payment of his betting obligations
anil lias leen warned oil' tho race-track.
Tim i-ivll nuirrliiL'o of Prince William.
of llohenzollern, and Princess Marie, of
Itnnrlum. occurred lit the vlll.l of the
Countess of Trapanl at Baden Baden, re
cently. President Carnot, of Franco, is a great-
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er nciiovcr in capital puuisnmeiu man
wasM.Grovy. Tho guillotine is much
more active in Paris than It was some
years ago.
The Japanese Government has engaged
two German lawyers in Berlin to proceed
to Tokio and refnuuo tho Japanese Penal
Code to conform to the German instead
of the French code, as now.
Australia has been enjoying a land
Ikxhu, which prematurely collapsed,
owliii; to a severe drought, in ouoous-
land tho dry weather caused oxcosidvo
losses among cattle and sheep.
Tho Italian Government is greatly wor
ried over tho increasing migration from
that country. In uplto of tho stringent
laws which liavo been passed lately
against emigration agents ll).',211 Ital
ians left lu 1S3S, as against 127,718 the
year before.
Gladstone omuied a stumping tour at
Southampton lust week,
The railway from Apraoh to tho sum
mit of Pilatus, Switzerland, has been
opened. Tho Incline Is lorty-elght feet
to the hundred.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
SEATTLE'S, THE QUEEN CITY, LAID
IN ASHES.
Colored Masons A Sardine Factory
Immigration From fcootland A
Lumber Combination
Frult-Gro era.
Napa College is to have a telescope.
Crooks abound alxiut, Seattle, W. T.
Santa Barba school census shows again
of 177.
Last Sundav was Children's day in
Portland.
Santa Paula, in Ventura county, has
ten saloons.
The Castrovillo Gazette has ceasad
publication.
Tucson was shaken by an earthquake
on the .'list.
A lumber combination is reported at
Helena, M.T.
It costs $150 to destroy a shade tree at
Olympia, W. T.
Tulare has reduced the liquor license
to $40 a quarter.
The hills near Beuo, New, is swarming
with grasshoppers.
Bed Bluirhas refused to issue bonds
for a new town hall.
The Napa Cannery has begun work:
with cherries the first.
Smartsville, Nevada, county, is with
out telegraphic service.
Saticov. Ventura county, is to have a
meal station on the railroad.
Contracts for trading and sewering
Bedding have been awarded.
Several cases of small-nox have been
reported from Wallon, N. M.
Every town in tho Northwest have re
sponded to Scuttle's call for aid.
J. V. Chock has been sentenced to the
Shite prison from Napa for forgery.
Woodland. Cal.. is to have a first-class
lawn tennis club in the near future.
A sardino factory has located at ltose-
ville, across the bay from San Diego.
Tho estimated losses by last Thursday's
fire at Seattle, is placed at $10,000,000.
The Grand Ijodtro of Colored Masons of
California, met at Marysville on tho ltd.
Two barues "made a successful voyage
over the Cascade Rapids a few days since.
The last heitvy rainstorn in Walla
Walla county, W. T., destroyed 10,000
sheop.
Marvsvillc sent a shiniuent of black
berries and pears to San Francisco, last
week.
Pomona dedicated the St. Joseph
Church, Boman Cutbolic, .-Sunday, the
2d hist.
158 Gatos will close all saloons on July
1st and prohibit the sale of intoxicating
liquors.
Chinese are said to bo oourinir into
California over tho Mexican border, near
San Diego.
C. P. Fern', whoso wife caused a ereat
scandal in Paris, is suing her for divorce
in Tacoma.
Tho John "Wit-land Browcry Associa
tion, of San Francisco, refuse $2,500,000
for their plant.
Work on tho addition to be made to
tho Shito Printing ofiico at Sacramonto,
has commenced.
A bridge was burned near Hood river
on tho 3d, delaying the Eastern trains in
reaching Portland.
Tho life-saving crow at Capo Hancock
has for the ninth time been successful in
saving life and property.
Tho threatened locust plague of EaBt
Riverside has been stopp.l by burning
over the uncultivated lands.
Tho entire business portion of Scattlo
was burned on Thursday, the (ith. Not a
business house left in tho city.
Tho little 0-year-old daughter of Geo.
F. Johnson, was thrown from a buggy at
Portland, last week, r.nd soverely injured.
A company to encourage immigration
from Scotland, has been formed at
SjK)kano Falls, with a capital of iH0,000.
At Ainsleo, W. T., the 2d, the large
sawmill of 1). J. Ainsleo. with a capacity
of 1000 feet a day, was destroyed by lire.
R. J. Skinner, of Cowichen, Victoria,
father-in-law of Hon. Mr. Davio, the
premier of British Columbia, died on tho
2d iust.
Tho fire in tho Idaho mino at Grass
Valley has been extinguished and tho
bodies of the two burned victims re
covered. Tho German singing birds that were
liberated at Portland, Or., recently, have
settled down to business. They liavo
begun to build nests.
Track-laying lias boon commenced on
tho SK)kano and Northorn Railroad.
Tho work is expected to bo finished to
Colville by September.
The railroad depot of the Oregon TraiiB-1
continental Company at Slaughter, in i
King county, near incoma, w, T,, was
burned on the ;ld iust.
C. M. Pvke anil Martha liiincaster, the
"lx)uise Manfred," of the Tivoli theater,
were married at Martinez, on the 2d iust.,
by a Justice of tho Peace.
Denis Hayes, ex-Coioner at Marys
vill, Cal., and "Win. Potts, were thrown
from a buggy last week, tho former, it Is
feared, was fatally injured.
The fruit-growers in the neighborhood
of llaywards, have completed an organi
zation to ship their own fruit East and to
aid each other in finding a market.
The Hildrcth stage robbery easo is pro
gressing slowly at Fresno, Cal., with an
nereased attendanco of spectators. No
new evidence lias been obtained so far.
During tho lire at Seattle Inst Thurs
day, a thief while trying to ofiect an en
trance at tho rear of one of the burning
banks, was shot and killed by a police
man. Will C. Bailey, formerly of tho River
Bide Enterprise, is to 1h u partner of Mr.
McKle In tho publication of the Coltou
Chroulolo, the Huciessor of the Send-Tropio.
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Trees for Shade Around the House
Rust Stains in Clothln? The Care
of Hogs Good Cooking
Hard boiled eggs and cornme.il makes
a good first feed for ducklings.
To remove stains from machine urease
or oil, wash in cold rain water and soap.
This will not injure colors.
Kerosene oil will soften leather shoes
that have been wetted; or machine belts;
or harness that has been soaked with
rain.
Ammonia water will kill any acid that
has been dropped upon clothes. In most
cases, a few drops of chloroform will then
restore the color.
Trees alout the house make it more
homelike and attractive, and shield it
from f lie cold winds of winter and the
hot sun of summer.
It is better to have a close, warm pen,
excluding snow and cold, and not give
tho pigs two much bedding. If given the
chance they will cover themselves with
straw until they become steaming hot,
and then go outside to the cold, thus
minting themselves sick lrom colds allect
ing their lungs.
A wholesome Dish of Onions. Boil
them in salt and water until they begin
to bo tender, drain the water from them
and wrap each onion in soft paper, bet
them side by side into a dripping pan,
let them bake until done, then put them
into a vegetable dish and pour rich brown
gravy over them.
Rust stains in clothing or ink stains
which are about the same thing can be
removed as follows : Add two parts of
cream of tartar to one part of oxalice
acid, dry, and keep tho mixture in a
liottle ; wet the stained part and apply a
little of the powder; wash out soon after
in clear warm water. Repeat if neces
sary. Swiss Omelette. Break six eggs in a
bowl, add a gill of cream, a quarter pound
of grated cheese, some pepper and salt.
Pour into a buttered pan. Stir the ome
lette well about for a few seconds, so
that it will not set like a sjionge cake.
Let it brown quickly. Fold over on itself
and serve. Parsley and a few fine bread
crumbs added before cooking improve
the dish for some tastes.
Chicken and Macaroni. Cut up a ten
der chicken in neat pieces and fry brown
in fresh butter with a few strips of bacon,
keeping the pan covered. Season with
popper and salt. Boil a handful of the
small Italian macaroni, for twenty min
utes, drain through a colander," add a
large piece of butter, a cup of rich, strong
gravy, and, if liked, some grated Par
me&an cheese. Arrange tho chicken on
a very hot dish around the central pile of
macaroni, which must be thoroughly
moist and rich with gravy and butter.
Screenings consist not merely of crack
ed or imperfect grain, but contain also
many heads of weeds seeds that unfit
them for feeding whole to any kind of
stock. Small seed aro seldom digested,
and some of the hardest of them grow
even better after passing through the
stomachs of horses and cattle. It is this
that makes barnyard manure so prolific
of weeds wherever it is applied. It is
safer to grind screenings, though if
they consist almost entirely of weed
seeds, it may be even better economy to
burn them.
"While a ewe is bearing a lamb part of
her nutrition iroes to sustaining that.
Her lleeco is therefore not so heavy as
that ot the wether, that has no such do
mand and is equally well fed. In lamb
ing time the owe has usually some fever
which injuriously affects tho quality of
tho woo., by making a weak place in that
grown at thU period. But in practical
selling the avooI crop comparatively few
buyers can mako such distinctions. They
buy low enough so that poor wool will pass
muster and leave them a prolltablo com
mission.
In very many places in the west where
wheat was once in-own it now tails so per
sistentlv that its culturo has to be aban
doned. Some parts of Iowa and South
ern Minnesota aro now in this condition.
Tho winters aro not quite so cold as
formerly, but it is tho summer heats that
wither the plant, bomo wheat is still
occasionally grown bv sowing tho spring
variety with oats and harvesting both to
nether, separating the grains afterward
It is not poverty of soil that causes wheat
laihuro. as the crop tans on land broken
up for tho first time, us well as on that
long tilled.
Those who start cuttings in water will
use a bottle with a wido mouth, thoy will
find it an easy matter to removo tho plant
when tho time comes to jKit it, without
injuring tho roots. Or, after the roots
have reached tho sidu of tho glass, thee
can sift the fine earth into tho bottlo till
it is an inch or two in depth. After the
roots have taken possession of this soil,
the top of the bottlo can bo broken off by
a sharp blow with a knife, and then tho
mass of earth can Imj slipped out without
disturbing the roots in the least, in ex
actly the same manner as tho ball of
eartli in which a plant is growing can be
removed from a iot.
Apple and Sago Pudding. Paro and
core a half dozen sour, juicy apples, and
arrange them in a buttered pudding dish ;
fill up the hollow of each apple with
sugar and put a bit of butter on top.
Cover the dish closely and a set in the
oven to bako till the apples aro thoroughly
done. Meanwhile lioil in double kettle
a scant cup of sago with two cups of
water and a little Halt. When dono
which may be seen by tho transparent,
jelly look of the sago and by tho taste
beat in a lump of butter, sugar to taste,
and llavoring if desired. Pour tho sago
over the cooked apples in the pudding
dish ami set back in tho oven to brown
on the toj).
There Ib nothing nicer to servo with
the Sunday morning fish balls or baked
beans than green tomato saucoor picalili.
Chop a peck of green tomatoes, livo green
poppers and two onions; mix them well
in a wooden or earthen bowl, mid sprinkle
a cup of salt over thorn ; put them aside
and lot them stand until morning in a cool
place, lu tho morning drain oil' all the
liquor, put tho chopped fruit into a pre
serving kettle, and put in vinegar enough
to cover ; add ono cup of sugar, ono tablo
HK)onfiil of owdored cloves, ono tablo
HHxmful cinnamon, ono tablespoonful of
nutmeg and one-half a teasioonful of
inaco j sot it over the lire and cook slowlv
until tho fruit is tender and well cooked,
Htlrring it qtiito often to prevent it burn
ing in the loltom of the kettle. If it
suoius two sharp and not mallow enough
to tho taste, mid auothor half a cup of
sugar, and this will soften the taste.
Portland market.
SO FAR CROPS LOOK IN A SPLENDID
CONDITION.
Good Prices Is all That Is Wanted to
Make Times Lively all Round
Wool is In Better Demand
Barley Is Lower.
The local merchandise markets are be
ginning to experience the usual lull in
business that occurs for a month or so
beore the harvest, still the aggregate
transactions are above those of a year
ago. So far tho crops look in a splendid
condition, and all that is wanted ia good
prices for them to make times lively all
around. Sugars have advanced si ightly,
but coffee remains linn and steady.
Lemons and oranges are scarce and high
er. Dried fruits are moving rather slow
ly, now fresh ones are so abundant and
cheap. The local wheat market exhibits
little life, buyers being few and far be
tween. We quote:
OKOCEKIES.
Sugars, Golden 0 7c. extra C 7?jje,
dry granulated 8,'c, cube, crushed and
po'wdered 0lftC. Coffee: Java 2o27c,
Mocha 2S31e, Costa Rica 2122c,
Rio22(?23e, Arbuckle'e roasted 250.
1'HOVlSIONS.
Oregon ham 12C!l3c, breakfast ba
con lac, sides 1010,l2C shoulders 84
(!)c. Eastern ham 13(13,HjC, breakfast
bacon 13(ftl3c, sides 0)5 c Lard 5ac
10s
FllUITH.
Los Angeles oranges $2.25, Riversides
$4.50. California lemons $4.505 per box.
Oregon p'awberries $1.25 perorate.
VKHKTAHI.EH.
Potatoes 50c, onions $1.75, rheubarb
3c, tomatoes $1 fji3 per box.
nitlKD Kltl'ITB.
Apples 45c, sliced 0c, pears 8c, Oregon
plums 57, Italian 8c, silver 7c, German
plums 5((i7o apricots 13((tl4c,
peaches 810c, California figs 8c, raisins
$1.752.25 per box.
da-ikv rnonucK.
Butter, Oregon fancv 20c, medium 15
I7tr, common, 1012c, Eastern 22c,
California 18L'0c.
EQQS.
Eggs 1820c. '
puinritv.
Chickens $44.50, broilers $2.503,
ducks $1011, geese $8, turkeys loo per
lb.
WOOL.
Valley 1019o, Eastern Oregon S1S-.
HOI'S.
Hops 1015e.
OltAlN.
Wheat, Valloy l. 15(1. 17,l.', Eastern
Oregon $1.051.07.. Oats 2830o.
FLOUR.
Standard $4, other brands $3.50(?3.75.
FEED.
Ilav .$13014 per ton, bran $13l4,cbop
$18(320, shortB $1415, barley $20
22.50.
FRESK MEATS.
Beef, live. 3,'c, dressed, 7c; mutton,
live, 3e, dressed 7c; lambs $2.60 each,
hoga live tie, dressed, 77c; veal 68c.
"Sixty or seventy specios of gold
enrod, and ovon tnoro than this number
of nslors," says "Vick's Magazine,"
"aro found all over our land." "No
other flowers so abound and apparently
claim possession as thoso And grouped
together they might appropriately bo
taken as our National ilowors, emblems
of onduranco, vigor, light and froo
dom." ADubuquo newsboy lately got ovon
with a dead-boat. Tho man owed the
boy for papors and would not pay him.
Tho boy wrote to his (tho boy's) brother,
who is attending school in Indiana,
tolling about tho action of tho customor,
and ono day last wook tho man received
a box by oxpross markod "C. O. D."
Tho oxpross charges amountod to sov
oral dollars, and upon opening tho box
it was found to bo full of bricks.
Roforring to tho proportion of col
lege graduates prominent in public af
fairs, tho Philadelphia Nows cites the
fact that fifteen out of twonty-three
Presidents, fourteen out of twonty-four
Vice-Presidents nincteon out of twon-ty-nlno
Secretaries of State, sixteen out
of twenty-six Spoakora of tho House,
thirty out of forty-ono judges of tho
Supremo Court, and flvo out of tho six
Chief-Justices havo received a collo
glato education.
Tho United States Consul at Mar
seilles, In a recent report, says that tho
ollvo oil industry of Southern Franco Is
suffering heavily from tho almost uni
versal practlco of adulterating tho na
tive oils of Nlco and Provenco with
various seed oils, such as sesame, poa
nut, poppy-seed, and ospoclally cotton
seed, which last, by roason of itschor.jf
ness, palatable flavor, and difficulty of
detection, has of recont yours sup
planted all tho others as an adulter-
unions ar about tho bout norvlna
known. No modlclno Is roally so pffl
caclous in casos of norvous prostration,
and thoy tone up a wornout system in
a vory short thno. Green's Fruit
Growor.
An Inflamed bunlonshould bo poul
ticed, and larfop hIidcw wnrn. Tndlna
twelve grains, lard or spormaootl olnU
meat half an ounco, mako a capital
olntmont for bunions. It should bo
rubbed on two or three timoa a day.
1110 narrow-gauge road from Ilivaeo,
on linker's bay, Or., has leen completed
(ft X.'irilftlt nil UliAiilifnia lim. .1 l!atflTtfn
of sixteen miles. It runs tho whole dis
tance along tho shore, in sight of the
breakers and through a succession of ro-
SOrtH frenUOllb'tl bv houmIiIa viultnra lltir-
ing tho bninmer.
Tli. ...(:.. -r t:i. t
wan to. tnkit lilm'A nt ll,ll,i,Llr.l.l,i Tnlv
Uth, has Ikhmi ostonod.
Till Ollin Sfntlt la,... f,,. ( tnr
18-Si) is 2 7 mills, tho lowest rate asse5ad
far thf past forty-nine years. " "
CUYING A PRESENT.
(Ihopplnc Exprillllon of u Mn Who Didn't
31 hut tlm I-..Xmmio.
Ho was one of the old-timers of Pos
sum Ridge settlement, and was down
at the county seat for the first time
since tho war. Be went poking- about
the streets, peering into the stores and
shops with the air of a man who had a
deep-seated purpose in view. He went
on until ho came to a large dry-goods
establishment, where he halted for a
minute as If undecided whether to enter
or pass 011. Finally he blundered In,
and, strikng the Hot clerk he came to.
he said:
' Say, mister, hov yer any thing in
this 'ore shebang es 'ud be suitable for
er birthday gif fer the ole 'omnn?"
'Why, yes," the clerk stammered
out, "I expect so. What would you
like to buy?"
"Wal, thnr yer got me, stranger.
I'm denied if I know what 'ud suit."
"What havo you been in the habit of
gelling for the occasion?"
'Thol's jest it, young foller, I hain't
nercr bought any gif afore, and it's all
ne'.r to mo. ler see, it's this ere way:
Me'n the ole 'oman's been iimitWI nigh
tor sixty year. I say it's edxty past,
but she holds out agin me thct it's
gwlne ontor sixty, but ole 'Squar Beo
son, who jined us. says I'm right, an'
the ole 'Sonar's a mighty lovel-headod
man. Yer know ther 'Squire, I rock
011?" "Yes. I know the 'Squire. But about
thi present1"'
"Yes. that's jist what I wuz gittin'
at Wul, yer see, as I said; me'n thot
ole 'oman's been er joggin' crlong tcr
getlior all them years up thar on Pos
sum Ridge, an' sort o1 humpin' our
selves in ther craps an' out, an' wo
luln't thought much er puttin1 on no
style, nor nothin' o' that sort. But
tether day I fell ter readin' er lectio
piece what sorter sot mo tor goin' in
my mind, an' I felt like es ef I hain't
done jest fair by the olo 'oman, an' I
l;bp' er th lutein', an' by gum, ther fust
thing I Icnowed I'd dono jes' plumb
made up mer in In' tor git 'er er birth
lay gif. I want ter s'prise 'er."
"Yes, and you want something real
oice, I suppose?"
( "That's what, mister. Sumpin' ralo
han'some that'll kin'er mako up fer all
thorn gif's what sho didn't git. An' I
don't heer ef it costs er right sracvet,
nuther, fer ther olo 'oman's been mouty
faithful all them years, an' hain't
never kicked on doiif ther feedin' an'
gittin' in ther wood an' shuekln' out
ther fodder in ther winter, an' holpin'
in ther hay stackiu' an' sech liko in
ther summer."
"Well, now, here is a nice dres
pattern that would suit first rate."
"Thet's kin'er nice, stranger. Wfiut
does it come at?"
"Ton dollars."
"Say, I reckon that wouldn't suit.
Yer see I got 'or er caliker gownd las'
fall, an'"
"Well, then, how is this wrap at eight
dollars?"
"Won't do, I guess. She's got or
shawl, an', asidos, thot's a lectio grain
mor'n I keer tor pay."
"Hero aro a pair of slippers at fivo
dollars."
"I reckon I don't want them, author.
Ks J said, ther olo 'oman's boon faith
ful, an' hain't never kicked aerin kcep
lu' up her eend o' thor work, an' 1
want ter s'piso 'er wuth sumpin' ralo
nice, but. yor see, I don't want ter go
too high."
"Well, here is a pair of slippers at
two dollars. That's low enough, isn't
it?"
"That's gittin' down some, but I'm
afeord it's er leotle mite too high yit."
"About how much aro you willing to
pay?"
"I hain't going ter bo perticlor, mis
ter, fer i started out ter git sumpin'
nico, even if it does come pooty well
up, but I wanter be a leetlo keorful.
Lom'mo see, what does them thar ban
danners come at?"
"Ten cents."
"Hain't none fer five?"
"No."
"Wul, I reckon I'll jest tako ono o'
them. Es I said at fust. I hain't por
ticklor erbout or few cents one way er
tother, an' asides it'll do for us both
tor u&e. Don't yor reckon thor olo
'oman's eyes '11 stick out liko knots on
or lorg wlion sho sees thot?" Dotrolt
Free Press.
Charming House Waists.
House waists of silk or wool to wear
with various skirts will give variety
to tho bride's wardrobe, as thoy aro
now worn at any hour of tho day.
Thoy aro also made in most varied
materials, the newest boing of figured
allies, quaint, small-pattorued brocades
of old-roso or bluo with laco frills, or
else simpler rod or turquoise India
silks with whlto or black figuros or
stripes. Tho chatigoahle silks and
surahs also mako pretty bolted waists
with full sleoves, shirred or tuokod
fronts and backs, and somotimes with
a plain poko to which the fullness of
tho bodice is attached with a narrow
upright rutllo and slight shirring'. Tho
oxcolent pongoo silks also mako uso
ful belted waists for tho houso or for
travollng gowus, with tho tucks of tho
yoke and sleeves slightly foathor
Btltched with brown, red or bluo. A
good plan with these is to lnado tho ,
back tight fitting, with tucks down tho
middle over a light lining, and huvo
the fronts loose, confined only by a bolt
which comos from tho undor-arm
teams. Whlto vailing and the slllc
frtrlpod Hunnols aro prettily mado up
with blouso fronts and fittod tuokod
bck, worn with n ribbon belt knotted
ia fwiut ovfr the fullblousf Harper's
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