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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1889)
WHAT WINS. The world hn full many n hero: Go read what those heroes hare done, And you'll tind that though oft they were tin filed Tbey kept up their courage, and won. They never lost courage In failure, Diving up. as tho wcuK-hcnrted will. Hut said: "Ve will try und keep trying, And conquer all obstacles still," And this they have done, the world over, Their taRlts were accomplished at last IJy often-rcpentpd endeavor. The joung oak may bend to the blast. But It springs to Its place when It passes, And grows to new strength every day. And In time !t stands tlrm In tho tempest Whose wrath whirls the tall pine away. Defeat makes a man more persistent .' the right kind of courage is his; He determines to conquer, and does It, And this is what heroism is. Strive on with a patient endeavor: The steadfast of purpose will win. Defeat comes to-day, but to-morrow May usher the grand triumph In. Eben K. Hexford. in Wlde-Awake. ABOUT ELEPHANTS. Interesting and Amusing Anecdotes of tho Hugo Boasts. They are AnVctionate, l'onil of Delicacies and Knjoy a ,Iole; Hut Their Auger u Something Terrible Some Celebrated Klophllllts. The elephant may well be considorei?. the head of the menagerie. Young and old are never tired of watching theso wonderful creatures; they are so k'uow ing, so loving, yet so terrible in their anger. An elephant can tear oJT hugo branches of trees with his trunk, or stamp tho life out of a tiger with his great feet; yet ttio same trunk can bo trained to pick up a pin. and tho mighty feet to trend gingerly over tho recumbent forms of sleeping or intoxi cated keepers. Strango as it may ap pear, an elephant's skin is very sensi tive; mosquitoes annoy him greatly, and a beating is a terrible punishment for him. Courageous as ho is, an ele phant is very nervous, Ho will light .my other hugo beast, yet a mouse is said to make him shake with appre hension and trumpet with terror. Elephants are very inisehk 311s and inquisitive; they raisu latches, open .loors, and enjoy immensely their own practical jokes, though so ready to resent indignities to themselves. Sensi tive as regards insult, their affection is warm and lasting, and dogs, horses and other animals aro often tho objects of their attachments. Elophants aro pleased with gay colors, delight in sweet perfumes, aro dainty in their tastes, and revel in tho water like an Englishman in his bath. Thoy prac tice theft with tho ingenuity of the "Artful Dodger" himself, aro as med dlesome as monkeys, have the caution and cunning of a diplomatist, and the memory of Magliabeohi. When born, a baby-elephant stands about three feet high, and is not con sidered grown up until thirty years old. Accidents excepted, he is likely to livo about ono hundred and fifty years, if not longer. Though delicato in its tastes, an olophant likes quantity as woll as quality, and at his meals makes nothing of bales of hay and gallons of water. His ingenuity in try ing to enter for himself is astonishing, and often amusing. An American showman saw an elephant pull up a stake to which ho was chained, "goto a feed-bin containing oats, wrench oIT tho lock, raise tho lid, eat all he want ed, put down tho lid again, return to his place, poko tho stake back into tho same hole, and stamp it down with Ins foot, and, when his keeper came, look as innocontas a lamb." A twinkle in his cunning eyes showed his enjoy ment of tho situation when tho man stormed and raged on discovering tho robbery. An incident of an olophant's mvmory Is said t have occurred somo years since, when WomhwoH's menagerie was exhibiting at Bolton. Four years before tho sumo collection was in the town, and ou that occasion, on being released from its van, a large elephant walked across tho Town-Hall squaro to a public house and protruded its trunk into the lobby. Tho bar-maid supplied lhe animal with refreshments, and tho keoper, who had been in search of his charge, then conducted him back to his den. On being released at tho breaking-up of the show on tho second visit, tho samo elephant broke away at a brisk trot In tho di rection of tho hostelry, and tho un wonted charge upon tho promises greatly alarmed tho inmates. Tho former barmaid, now tho landlndy, arrived on tho sceno, and rocognlzlng her old friend, onco tnoro regaled him to hi heart's content Tho elephant then submitted to bo led awuy by his keopor. Although elephants will not submit to nbuse, they aro not dllllcult to teach, and at lirst aro fond of going through thoir tricks on their own account. Porformlng-olophnnts in Koi n woro taught to dance by tho its'-.' .Uon of music and a hot floor. A ' ..ek nnd pulley is now sometimes u- d in train ing an elephant to assumo various po- sltions, and tho word of command given as if it was doing tho trick of its own accord. Good treatment with firmness is nccossary in teaching thorn, and any reboliousness must bo checked by tho whip. Thoy cry out when sub dued, and the trouble is then over for tho time. Even wild ele phants aro said to ho easily taught when onco subdued. Most of us have admired tho wonderful agility of such clumsy-looking nnimnls In bal ancing themselves on inverted tuba, and so forth. At Astloy's, elephants used to delight thousands with thoir performances. Those hugo croatures won miiilo to stand ou thoir hind log with their forefoot poodlowUe dangling in tho air. Auothor stood its head with its hind legs raised perpendicu larly. Placed on pedestals thoj wheeled round rapidly, or balanced themsolves on tho side-legs only, am gavo other evidences of wondorfu training. Well-trained baby elephant! arc great favorites. Ono was taught to sit at table, fan herself, and dc numerous tricks to delight children nnd their elders too. Tho two clevei baby-elephants "Jock and Jenny" wort marvelously trained. They mado theii bow to tho audience, and then ono ol them walked on tho tops of a double row of bottle. On a plank placed over a trestle they see-sawed like a couple of children guess ing tho required equilibrium with almost human exactitude. Playing on an orirnn and drum and dancing in timo to tho jingles ol bolls, were amongst thoir other accom plishments. The habitual cau tion of theso Intel ligent creatures is illus trated wher they are traveling from show to show. Should several be in a car togother, ono of their number will remain awake on guard while the others are sleep ing. Som . years ago experiments wero mado in tho transport of elo phants by railway. Ono of the ordi nary cattle-wagons of tho East India railway was tltted up for tho purpose, and tho animal was placed in tho cen ter space of tho wagon, between six shafts, a breast and back bar. and se cured in addition by anklets on the fore and hind feet, united by couplings transversely and longitundlnally, and further by four diagonal morning chains passing through holes, and lashed round tho corner pillars of the wagon. The first elephant loaded, having his head free, took tho oppor tunity to romovo with his trunk a por tion of the roof of tho truck; it was therefore found necessary to put a collar round tho neck of the olephant, with a vortical chain leading through, se cured to tho floor. In this way a suc cessful experiment was nindo to Pnn dooah and back, tho animal showing no signs of fear, or making any at tempt to frco himself. Many interesting nnd famous elo phants have been favorites of tho circus-going public long boforo tho late Jumbo's successful debut. Ono of these, known as "Canada," was a dos perato character. When in ono of his tantrums, "ho did as much mischief as a tornado," to use a showman's words tossing hacks into tho air and tear ing down signs and lnmp-jwsts. He vas sent with tho rest of a menagerie io a farm, and when there, hud ono of his mad fits. Hushing into tho stable yard, "in a few minutes ho killed two butTaloes, a sacred cow, a couple ol elks, several horses, and a camel. He would soizo an animal, toss It In tho air, catch it on his tusks, and then cither jam or trample the life out of It." Ho then sallied out for tho town, and tho popular excitement can be imagined, "A trap was sot with a long ponderous chain with an onormous corner-stouo at its ond to entanglo tho animal's lfgs and hold him." A man then ran out in sight of Canada, and tho elephant instantly rushed , after him. "Tho trap was successful so far as making tho chain and stone 'ast to him. but ho kept right on, and would havo caught tho man, who was a fast runner, had the lattor not jumped down into an unfinished collar of a now house, ami ran up a narrow flight of stops on tho opposite side. The elephant jumped down after him as easily as a dog would, with tho big stono clattoring behind him." Fortunately, tho stono was largo enough to stick wedged against tho walls on each side of tho stairway, and Canada was fast, but it was a close shave for tho man. They managed to seeuro tho savago animal with more chains, and then wont to work to con quer him. As tho account graphically describes it, "thoy woro out big clubs r him, fired loads of buckshot Into his .funk and oars, and beat and tortured him for hours, until he howled In token of surrender. Tho moment ho was loose, however, ho gave a yoll of rage, dashed out of tho collar, and started to kill. Every one flew for his life; but he was tired, and took up his position under cover of three haystacks, hunting all who ventured near him. "Buckshot fired Into his head only checked his wild rushes, and whenever ho thought pooplo woro on the other side of a stack from him, he tried his best to topple tho hay over on them. Tho fight went ou for throe days and nights, during which timo ho had not a bit to eat for he was too angry ovon to take any of tho hay around him and not a drop of water." At length, despairing of saving him, tho shot-guns wero exchanged for heavy rifles, and several big ballots at close range finally put an end to him. The first live elephant scon in Lou don was in the reign of Henry III., nnd tho citizens closed their shops nnd donned their holiday attiro In Its hon or. King James I. had a private men agerie in St Jamo's Park in which wius kept tho olephant presented 10 him by tho King of Spain. It cost somo hundreds a yoar to keep this animal, besides "tho wyno he must drink from April to September, a gallon tho dayo." An other celebrity was 1" hugo elephant "Chunoo," whoso tragic end during a strango attack of moatal aberration kept all London in a ferment for sev eral days. If wo recollect aright, a show-elephant in London was the mother of tho first olophant born in captivity. A largo olophant, weigh ing honv'er than Jumbo, though not so tail, was rocuutly on viow in Liver pool, whoro theru was quite u run on liis photographs. ElophauU, being so powerful and !n telligent, are worso than any wild ant Onal when in one of thoir sudden fits of ungovornnblo rage. Tho amount of killing thoy take is incredible. Heavy rifles that kick tremendously often have llttlo effect in stopping thoir wild charges, and in ono instance, in India, oven ,;i field-piece, fired repeatedly, failed for a considerable time to put an end to tho career of a mad elephant Chambers' Journal. MR. CLUGSTON'S ESCAPE. An IMIIor's I.lfe Saved br tlir Proper Ap plication of u TurlfT Article. "Is the editor In?" The person who spoko was a tall, raw-boned man. with red hair and n freckled face. Ho had a hand like a canvas-covered ham, and was cross eyed. Mr. Clugston. tho editor and pro prietor of tho Doodlovillo Yolpor, looked up. "Why ah good morning, sir," ho replied, with a frozou sort ol smllo contorting his face, and a Manitoba wave careering madly up and down his spinal column. "It's a tlno day er " "Not particularly," said tho visitor, in a rasuing voice. And it wasn't It was a raw, blus tering, rainy day, and the wild geese wero flying southwestward with a reck less, On-to-Oklahoma, get-there-Eli movement, and a hideously-profane emphasis in their hastily-warbled music. "That's what 1" began Mr. Citig sxon, as ho noted with a sinking fool ing that his caller stood 'in tho only doorway affording an exit from his 8x10 sanctum, and that thoro wasn't a weapon sharper than a paste brush anywhere within sight to defend him self with in case of an attack. "No, it wasn't," was tho snoerlng re joinder. "It wasn't what you meant to say, and you know it wasn't! You don't know what you intended to say, you white-livered, pop-eyed, tow headed disliguror of white paper! You lean, cheap, boarding-house cut from tho shank of a starved mutton! You're scared to death, and you know it! I've come to polish you off, sir! I'm going to knock your two eyes into one, and chuck your No. G head In your twn ink keg!" "Wh-wh-what havo I dono?" nsked the editor, in a trembling voice. "What havo you done?" echoed the largo, red-haired man, coming nearer. "Do you pretend you don't know, you washed-out fragment of a man? Do you pretond you didn't mean me when you printed that pieco in your paper last week about 'How to Mako a White Man of a Strawberry Blonde?' Do you" "That article," oxclaimed Mr. Clugston, earnestly and nppealingly, "was printed L'97 miles from hero, and" "That's a littlo too thin! That may do to tell somo olm-peoler from Krold lor's Mills, but it won't go down with mo. Your pupor. sir, ain't edited and published 2'J7 miles from Doodlovillo. I'm going to show you, sir, how to mako a mop of a Doodlovillo editor!" Ho threw olT his coat kicked over tho editorial chair, and mado a fierce grab at tho frightened journalist In moments of great emorgoncy something like Inspiration comes at times to tho assistanco of hard-pressed humanity. As his antagonist lunged 6avagoly at him, Mr. Clugston cast a wild, despairing glanco around the room. His eye fell on somothlng lying on tho table something that hml hitherto escaped hi.i notico. Quick as a and brought on tho head of flash ho seized it it down squaroly his assailant. For ono brief momont tho gigantic framo of tho red-huired man stood motionloss, and then with a crash that shook the Yolpor otlico from back-door to awning-post In front ho fell prostrate "Carry out this unsightly object," said Mi-. Clugston to tho olllco hands who camo running In from tho back room to see what was tho trouble; and with tho cold, sovoro aspect of a man whoso timo was too precious to be wasted on triflos tho editor of tho Doodlovillo Yolpor sat down at his I tablo again and resumed tho work ol writing a lurid description, at ton cents a lino, of Mrs. Van Sampson's millinery opening. Ho had knocked tho bi, frecklo faced man sonsoloss with an editorial ontltlod "Tariff on Wool." Chicago Tribune. Gladstone on Washington. When I first read In detail tho "Life of Washington," I was profoundly im pressed with tho moral elevation and greatness of his chnraoter, and I found myself at a loss o namo, among tho statosmon of any ago or country, many, or possibly any, who could bo his rival. In saying this, I moan no dis paragement to tho class of politicians, tho men of my own craft and cloth, whom, in my own land and my own ex perience, I havo found no less wanting than other mon of lovo and of admira tion. I namo among thoso who soom to mo to como near ovon to him. Hut I will shut out tho last half century from tho comparison. I will then say that if, among all tho pedestals sup plied by history for publlo char acters of oxtraordlnary nobility and purity, I saw ono higher than all tho rost, and if I wero required at u mo ment's notico to namo tho fittest occu pant for it, I think my choice, at any timo during tho last forty-fivo years, would havo lighted, and It would now light, upon Washington. From Glad. stono'H J.ottor to G. W. Smalley. .... .i .i I,.. A Wisconsin woman describes hor runaway husband ua "an ordinary looking man, troubled with a short breath und a long mustache.' PITH AND POINT? O It Is only tho unlucky who think fortune blind. Dignity is expensive, anil, without other good qualities. Is uot particular ly profitable. Every thing is smooth sailing with us when we havo uo difficulty In rais ing tho wind. Character- like porcelatn-wnro, must be painted before It Is glazed. There cau be no changes of color after it Is burned in. Because a man sleeps well Is no sign that he has u easy conscience. Ho may havo got tired oat committing sin. Somervlllo Journal. Pay your bill twice rather than go to law. There aro as many lawyers clamoring for tho wrong ns thoro aro lawyers clamoring for tho right Atchison Globe. It is only natural that the man who nover has time to do any thing never seems to get any thing done. Mer chant Traveler. It ain't true dat sorrow 'volops all do good p'lnts o' er man, fur do pusson dat grows up In sorrow is llko do stalk o' co'n dat grows up in do shade. Ho mout bo jest ez tall, but ho won't be nigh so healthy. Arkansaw Traveler. Somo men will not shave on Sab bath, and yet thoy spend all tho week in shaving their fellow-men; and many think it Tory wicked to black their boots on Sabbath morning, yot they do not hesitato to black their neigh bor's reputation on week days. Becoher. Whon Drexlllus was asked by a friend how ho could do so much as ho had done he answered: "Tho year has throe hundred and sixty-11 vo days, or eight thousand four hundred and sixty hours; in so many hours great things may be dono; tho slow tortoise mado a long journey by losing no time." Bishop Home. A llfo without sulTorlng would bo like a picture without shade. The pots of Nature, who do not know what suffering is can not realizo it, havo al ways a certain rawness, like foolish landsmen who laugh at tho terrors of tho ocean because they havo nolthor oxporionco enough to know what thoso torrrors are, nor brain enough to imagine them. Humerton. A difference botwoon honorablo nnd dishorablo competition is tho con duct of tho victor to tho vanquished. Somo mon riso abovo others only to crush them others to lift and oxalt them. Somo boast with noisy triumph and scorn thoso who aro loft behind; others havo 'a way of making people fool comfortable." One artist who has risen high in public favor uses his in fluence to dopreciato tho works of his brother artists; nnothor takes them by tho hand and gives them cour ngo for fresh endeavors. MAKING FRENCH WINES. Amuslnc Story of the Alleged I'ulslllou tlon of C'liireU In I' ranee. Tho falsification of winos is onco moro becoming a burning subject in Franco. It is notorious that millions of bottlos of tho vln rougo which is consumed at homo and sent abroad aro guiltless of ono drop of tho julco of tho grape. Concerning this wholesale "falsification" of Bordoaux winos, I was told an amusing story this winter by a French gentleman who was my travollng companion from Marselllos to Paris. Horo is tho story: A farmor In Nor mandy, Booing a wine advertised by a firm in Bordeaux, wroto for a couplo of casks of it, and forwarded the money. A fortnight afterward It ar rived at tho station, and ho sont his carter to bring it homo. Tho carter brought two casks, but, to tho farm er's astonlahmout, only ono cask was full; tho other was empty. An examination of tho cask showed that It had not boon tampered with, and thoro was no traco of leakage. Evidently nn empty cask had been sont by mistake. Tho farmor at onco wroto to tho Bordeaux wlno morchant to complain of the carolessncss. In duo courso a reply was recolvod, which was as follows: "Dear Sir I am sorry for tho mistake mado by my man, but $q1 can easily rectify it. If you will fill tho empty cask with wator and leave it for a fortnight you will find tho wino all right. Tho ingredients aro ut tho bottom of tho cask, but my man foolishly admitted to add tho wator. Waiting your further orders, I am, sir, yours, etc." My French frioud assured mo that this was a fact Tho story bocama public through tho Norman farmor de manding tho roturn of his money, und, tho wino mcrchunt objecting, tho case camo boforo tho law courts. Aftor this, what price for "vln ordlnalro?" If that's what thoy glvo political pris oners, no wondor Boulangor ran awuy. George It Sims, in London Ilofereo. They Would Be So Nice. The ladles of Church woro pack ing a box of clothing to sond to tho wife of a Western missionary. Mrs. A My dear Mrs. H, what can you bo thinking of t ) send off thoso lovely stockings of yours? Tho very newest color, too! Mrs. B It does break my heart to part with thorn, and I shouldn't think of It if I hadn't just road something about tho dyo stuff they used to got this particular shade, being liablo to poison ono frightfully, Mrs. A Oh, horrors! Let's got thorn out of our hands quick! Hero, there's room for them right down In this cor. ner. Munsey's Weekly. Tho leap your privilege is said to bo CCU year old.- LAST OF HARI-KARf. An t'npTppcteit Incident Which Wilt Irtl nlilr Change tlm Mlkiuln'w Method. Tho ancient Japnneso custom of Harl-Ivarl. or- Happy Dispatch, has re ceived its death-blow. For centuries It has been usual for any exalted Jap anese dignitary who may havo mor tally offended his sovereign to receive a polite official Intimation to the effect Hint his suicide will bo pleasing to the authorities; und until recently It has. been tho unvarying practice for the of fender to acquiesce resignedly, and, after summoning his relative around him. to formally disembowel himself in their presence. If tho cuiprit hap pened to bo of exceptionally high rank, the sovereign would, as itmrlc of honor, send him a jeweled sv. ord with which to operate upon himself. But all theso things aro now of tho past Not long ago the Mikado was grtev lously hurt by tho words and conduct of a high court official. The man was nn old and very valued servant of tho crown, but his crime was unpardona ble. Next day, therefore, an olllcor brought him tho fatal sword, a mag nificent weapon, with a blade Inlaid with gold and a handle Incrustcd with diamonds, together with a sympathetic intimation that his early death would bo regarded as a benefit to tho emplro in general and to tho Mikado in par ticular. The culprit received tho sword with all proper respect, but as soon as the emLsnry had departed tho wily Japnneso in whoso mind Euro pean habits of thought had evidently taken linn root walked down to tho quay, went on board a small steamer that was bound for Havre, and upon reaching Paris Incontinently sold his sword of honor for jCt',000. Wo novor mot with u better Illustration of tho eminently practical nature of the Jap nneso character. It Is exceedingly un likely that the Mikado will over again trust ono of his subjects to execute himself. Still less will His Majesty bo inclined to favor exalted criminals with jeweled swords of honor. Tho office of a lo d high executioner will probably bo called into requisition in stead, and wicked nobles will, for tho future, bo saved tho trouble and anxiety of having to bo thoir own butchers. London Globe. PRACTICAL EDUCATION. How to Sal Ut)- the Kver-Cirowlui; Demand fur Hard I'iicIh. While we hnvo novor Insisted that work-benches will bo Introduced into overy district school In our land, wo do insist, and havo insisted for years, on tho introduction of sonso-oxercises and sensible expressions of sense-exorcises in evory school, high and low, rich nnd poor. We are living In an ago of realism. Thoor'es uro at a dis count. Hard facts aro In demand. Tho education that touohos tho llfo that is, is highly valued. In this ma terial ago of ours wo must not loso sight of tho spiritual, but wo must also not loso sight of tho fact that tho spiritual of tho prosont largely comos through tho matorlal, and that by tho material tho truo spiritual llfo of an Individual becomes practical, oarnost and useful. Wo bollove in God, but wo also bollovo in man. Wo believe in tho Kingdom of God, but wo believe also that to tho kingdom of man Ho has committed tho aro of this lower world. Horo in tho midst of things wo light tho battio of lifo, and it is by moans of things that wo handle, see, feel, tasto and smell; and so become lifted abovo tho ma teriality of the world, Into highor, spiritual, oarnost, practical, ooinmon senso religion. Tho groat heart of the world throbs in unison with tho work ing men in It. Tho timo for luzy, dig nified do-nothings has passed away, and tho timo of active, oarnest labor ers In tho shops, on tho farms, among tho mountains, and in tho rooms where tho thinking is dono, has fully como. Wo are going to say, ovor and over again many moro times, lifo is real. Let us mako it so in all our schools! School Journal. HER ENGAGEMENT RING. rimt Hie ltaslifnl Fiancee. Trlen to Hlilo It, Hut She Soon (irowi Hold. Did you ovor havo a chanco to ob serve, iiuobsorved, a young womau'H conduct toward her newly-acquired on gagoment ring? It seems so strango upon nor hand that sho can not refrain examining it a dozen times an hour, always, howovor, on tho sly. On tho first night sho sits up an hour later than usual to ndmiro it boldly in tho seclusion of her own apartment A frequent kiss is administered to tho shining band and its glittering gem, and during the night sho dreams that it has fallen into u stream, and awakes, clutching tho finger to assure herself that tho precious pledge is still secure. Then, on tho following 'ay, sho wears It only In secret, tai. -i,: euro to transfer it to hor pocket . table nnd when in the company of inti mates, but place hor among strangers or among casual acquaintances who can not bo inquisitive, and how brave ly will sho flaunt tho token boforo their eyes us ono who should say: "I may not bo tho lovllost creature Sn tho world, but you will observe that I get thoro all tho samo." Gradually it assumes Us place in hor dally llfo, and hor blushes grow less olont with each succeeding ex phi ttion of its Insignificance und each extravagant description of its donor's attiilutes. But boforo It finally bo-cr.s-n u part of herself, as It woro, hu nniit, of course, leave it a dozen times ut least upon tho withstand, ;id suf- for In consequence of u dozen violent attacks of paljmtatlon of the heart tin til it li rocovoroiL Washington I'oaL THE GIRL BACHELOR. BTie No I, oncer tlomriU, Hat Tke r?n nil Live Without a Clmperon. I was counting on my fingers lost evonlng tho girls I know in New Yorli who havo set up apartments or In stalled themsolves In establishments ol their own. I ran over the digits on one hand, and thou of tho other, and reionted tho operation so often that lost all track of my reckoning. The girl bachelor grows enterprising. She no longer boards, sho mnkesa bachelor home. Sho takes rooms. Sho lives in thom without a chaporotu Her con duct Is unquestioned. There Is no limit to tho pluck and) the independ ence of tho young and unmarried and perfectly decorous and entirely dollght fill unmarried woman. She is no longer an unprotected fomale. Sho has found out that after all a clrl's beat protection is a girl. Tho last decade evolved a phrase. The present decado is now at work evolving another. Bacholor suites Is established in tho language. Maids' suites or Dorothy apartments, as somebody In conversation tho othor day christened thom. are going to find place before long. Yesterday I drank n cup of tea with brown-eyed Dolly. Dolly has a small fortune and Is twenty-two. Her father died, her relations with hor only rela tive, an aunt, worn stralnod. Tho two did not thrive under tho samo roof tree. Tho kettlo sings on tho hearth most morrily since Dolly has hired a flat and a butler, and set up a buffet and re ceives calls on her own responsibility. Novel situation. Piquant oxporlenno. Delightful days. No surveillance and no "larklness." Dolly is a lady and behaves llko ono. Sho is caroful whom sho entertains. Sho Is as domuro us a Puritan damsel, ns jolly as a Parisian bohemienne. Sho pluya ut houskooplng most ehoorfully. Gray-oyod Dolly is a young wood carver. Sho supports herself by one of tho newest occupations found prac ticable for women. Sho has throe dainty rooms In tho last placo you would droam of, ovor a stable. Do llghtfully pretty rooms thoy aro, whoro brio-a-brao picked up in all mannor ol odd places, summor sketches and winter studies, old plaster casts nnd now panels, Inoxponsivo hangings with sud den flashes of color In scarlet ribbons, stained floors and Koula rugs make one forgot that such things as Turkey carpets, silken divans, Louis XVI. chairs and old Sovros china woro ovor by anybody deemed deslrublo. Gray eyed Dolly is wholly solf-dopondont. Sho hits supportod horsolf sinco sho wasllfteon. Shotlrod of hall bodroomo. Sho doesn't like tho droary atmosphoro of tho avorago city boarding house. Sho doos llko hor own llttlo nest of n a stable homo whoro sho has a cat and nn open tiro und can follow tho Inno cont Inclinations of hor own swoot will. I havo known hor whon a callor wont away to offer him a cigar, N. Y Lottor, A WELL-TRAINED OWL tin Iluitm I.Ike a l lttlo Tiger When HU 1)1 ally I Itiiltl il. My own bird is at liberty. This ho uses to tho very host, of his ability, making tho third mombor In our small house. Ho is by no means tho least important, for ho claims and recolvoa tho groatost attention ut meal tlmos. Ho stops from his porch ou to tho hand, sits on tho placo appointed for him, and chatters till tho time It is in prog ress. Sometimes, by wny of a change, ho will run about Inspecting all things; ho is very swift on foot and most in quisitive. Very nffcctlonato, too; h shows that plainly. Ho is about more in tho day-tlmo than In tho ovoning or night, and he will sit In tho full light of tho sun. All through tho hot sum mer of 1887 ho has done so as u muttor of choice. Ills food consists of mice of all kinds, birds of tho finch trlbo, old and young. Starlings, blackbirds and thrushes he will not oat. nor Insects such as chatters and others of a similar kind; ho will not ovon look ways possible ut thom. It is not al to procure birds and mice for him; then ho will content himself with tender, lean hoof, quite fresh. Ho is so particular in that mat tor, though, that ho will not oat fresh pork. Ho soldom drinks water, and novor uses it for tho purpose of wash ing, proforring to roll and scratch about in a lump of drift sand llko a domestic fowl. In flno feather ho now is, and he keops himself beautifully clean! ills legs uro long, nnd ho uses his toes and claws with tho doxtorlty of a monkey; in fact, when ut his llttlo games he is moro llko a little monkey than an owl. Ills conversation, kept up continu ally, Is u croon and chatter, und when in high glee ho will puff, the feathers of his throat out nnd lobs: Intently at mo with his bright yellow eyes and treat us with a solo sounding llko the gobble of somo tinfortunnto turkoy. If I ask him us a particular favor to change that tune, ho will glvo n suc cession of shrill barks like a terrier. Ho roars llko a tiger whon his dignity Is ruffled, nnd squeaks llko u pig. This does not occur very often, nnd whon II docs tho fault Is my own, It generally happens whon he .Is introduced to strangers, which ho hates. As a rule ho Is most amiable. If I wanted to cure u man of moluneholy ' and never smiling grief I would present him with a llttlo owl, the Piinohinollo of blj trlbo. Cornhlll Magazine. It Is stated that tho smallest steam ongliio ovor mado wus recently com plated, after two years of labor, for tho Paris exhibition. It Is composed of 180 pieces of metal, is n shade under throo-tlfths of nn inch in height, und weighs less than one-ninth of an ouncu. A watchmaker tnuao it. t