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THE OREGON SCOUT.
S A CHANCEY,
Publisher
UNION OREGON.
RIGHT-HANDEDNESS.
rheMataral Wffy of Protecting tlieVnlo-
able rrt of Our llodle.
Primitive man, being by nature a
lighting animal, fought for tho most
part at first with his great canine
tooth, his nnils and his fists; till in
proccsB of timo he added to those early
and natural weapons tho further per
suasions of a club or 6hillalah. Ho
also foil ght, as Darwin has conclusively
shown, in tho main for tho possession
of tho Indies of his kind against other
members of his own sect and species
And if you fight you soon learn to pro
tect tho most exposed and vulnorablo
portion of your body. Or, if you don't,
natural selection manages it for you
by killing you off as un immediato con
sequence.
To tho boxer, wrestler, or hand-to-
liand combatant the most vulnerablo
portion is undoubtedly the heart. A
hard blow, woll delivered on tho left
breast, will easily kill, or at any rate,
stun even a strong man. Henco from
an early period, mon havo used tho
right hand to fight with and havo em
ployed tho left arm chlofly to cover
tho heart and parry a blow aimed at
that specially vulnerable region. And
when weapons of offenso nnd defense
supcrsedo more fists and teeth it is tho
right hand that grasps tho spear or
sword, whllo tho loft holds over tho
heart for defense tho shield or buckler.
From this simple origin, then, tho
wholo vast difference of right and loft
in civllizod lifo takes its beginning.
At first, no doubt, tho superiority ol
tho right hand was only folt in tho
manner of fighting. Hut that alone
gave it a distinct pull, and paved the
way, at last, for tho supremacy else
where. For when weapons carao into
ubo, tho habitual employment of the
Tight hand to grasp tho spear, sword
or knifo made tho norvo9 or muscles of
tho right side far more obedient to tho
control of tho will than those of the
loft. Tho doxtority thus acquired by
tho right sco how tho word "dex
terity" Implies this fact mado it more
natural for tho early huntor and artill
cor to employ tho same hand preferen
tially in tho manufacture of flint
hatchets, bows and arrows, and nil the
other manifold activities of savage
lifo. It was tho hand with which ho
grasped his weapon; it was thorcforc
tho hand with which ho chipped it.
To tho end, liowover, tho right hand
remains especially "tho hand in which
you hold your knifo"; and that is
exactly how our own childron to this
day decido tho question which is
which, when thoy begin to know their
Tight hand from their loft for practical
purposos. Cornhill Magazine
EASTERN ITEMS.
AN ENORMOU WELL. OF NATURAL
9 AS DISCOVERED.
It Goete a Quarter to Hear Him Amer
ican Ladles Imprisoned Henry
Georgo Given a Dinner An
Entrance to Toronto.
MR A1V1 VAM.
1
A DREAM OF GOLD.
How a Quwrter With Whole in It Wai
Found After Mnny Yearn.
' In 18C8 Lizzlo M. Trask, of Vlonnn,
was dressmaking in Lowlston. Sho
eanio into possossion of a gold twenty
five-cent picco with a hole in it; this she
showed as a curiosity to hor friends.
At that timo sho had a llttlo nloco two
yoara old, daughtor of Jonathan P.
Trask, now tho wlfo of Loman Butlor,
trader In Mount Vornon. Tho llttlo
coin Lizzlo onco showed to hor nioco
when sho was a vory small girl, tolling
hor that sho would glvo It to hor whon
sho was old enough to tako caro of It
Lizzlo died twelve years ago. In hor
possession was a good ladies' wnllot
with sovoral compnrtmonts. This
wallet hor mother used until hor doath
seven years ago. Thou Jamos, a
brothor of Lizzio's had it, nnd it has
boon in constant uso almost dally over
slnco, olthor by him or his wlfo. Tho
llttlo gold coin was novcr soon after
Lizzio's death or boforo for sovoral
years by hor friends, and its whoro
ubouts wore not known nnd In fact its
oxlstonoo had passed from their mem
ory. A fow days ago Mrs. llutlor
mado hor parents a visit, stopping
with thorn sovoral nights.
Whllo thoro sho dreamed that bIio
saw hor Aunt Lizzie's wallet and that
it was faced with groon and in a cer
tain compartment sho found tho llttlo
gold coin which sho saw so mnny years
ugo. On tolling hor mother hor dream
uho was Informed that Lizzlo did have
a wallot which answered hor descrip
tion and that her Unolo Jamos had it.
Tho wallet Addlo had novor soon. Sho
then visited hor unelo and told hor
dream to hor aunt, who laughed at
tho idea of any thing being in it other
than what sho and hor husband had
placed thoro. Hut at Addlo's earnest
bolicltation sho produced It and as
soon as Addlo saw it sho oxclalmed:
That 1h tho sntuo wallet that I saw In
my droam," and polutod out tho com
partment that hold hor treasure. Sho
then took a needle, and, running it to
tho bottom, sho drow forth a small
pioco of newspnpor and in it was In
deed a gold quarter with a hole in it,
wrupped, no doubt, by tho hands of
hor aunt at least twolvo years boforo,
whero it had lain all this timo, and no
ono knows how much longer, without
tho knowledge of any ono until Addlo's
droam cuimed it to bo brought forth.
Augusta (Me.) Now Ago.
A superintendent of a Now York
school was socking to dovolop tho idea
of bipod and quadruped among tho
scholars, for which purpose ho had two
pictures, ono representing a horse, tho
other u rooster. Holding thorn aloft,
In full vluw of tho scholars, ho mild In
eucouraging tones, "Now, which ono
am IP" "Tho rooHtor, sir," was tho
-SHianimous reuly.
Chinese aro pouring into Mexico.
Yellow fever is making tomblo pro
gress in Mexico.
Seven hundred men are ntwork on tho
Nicaragua Canal.
Tho Bennington Battle Monument
now 100 feet high.
Tho Now York Central has secured on
entrance to Toronto.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been again
prostrated by illness.
The Standard Oil Company is grabbing
all the gas lands loose.
August 15th is set for the trial of the
new cruiser Baltimore.
An air-line railroad from Tampa, Fla
to Chicago is projected.
It has cost Now York about $200,000 to
conduct the hoodie trials.
A rabid dor bit four persons at
lioboken, ri. J., last week.
Porpoise-shooting with tho rifle is
Bport for Capo May visitors.
The longest row of corn in tho world is
in Waubunseo county, Kan.
Two of Ukiahama's now counties are
named Harrison and Cleveland.
The natural gas companies of Ohio and
Indiana are talking consolidation.
AtMalono. N. Y., 300 New York child
ren aro Having a two week's outing.
Tho court-martial to try ex-Command
ant Fletcher at Umaha is now in session
The barbers of Philadelphia have de
cided to keep their shops closed on Sun
day.
Tho number of prominent Americans
now m London and Pans is unprece
dented.
Thirty-four Philadelphia school build
mgs havo developed deiectivo drainage
all at onco.
May 1. 1890. has been fixed for eight
hour demonstrations throughout Europe
and America.
It is represented that tho rearrange
ment of tho Ottawa Cabinet IB giving
much trouble.
Chicago claims tho Exposition of 1891
on tho ground that Bho lias moro room
for it than New York.
Soven hundred operatives at tho Fish
Hack Kouing Mills at l'ottsviiio, l'enu
struck for an increaso of pay.
To mako tho battlefield of Gettysburg a
complete memorial it is proposed that
tho rebel lines also shall bo marked.
Out of tho 773 delegates elected to tho
Now Jersey Prohibition Convention last
week, hut 370, or less than half, attended
It is now estimated that 23,000,000
bushels of wheat will be sent to market
from tho country tdong tho Manitoba
railroad.
Three editors wero arrested at "Wil
liamsport, l'onn., charged with Bonding
obscene and lewd literature through the
mails.
About the only thing that tho resub
mission Hurry in Kansas has accom
plished is to revive tho State Temperance
Union.
Twolvo acres in Princo Georgo county,
Va.. havo Bunk alout sixty loot, and a
lake two acres wido has formed upon its
surface.
Tho assessment of tho city of Nashville
for tins year shows an increaso ol $ 1,000 -000
in property value over last year's
assessment.
Tho now electric road to Bay Ridgo,
near Baltimore, just opened, is running
satisfactorily and carrying crowds of
passengers.
Henry Georgo was given a dinner at
Brighton Beach last week, at which ho
predicted tho ultimato success of his
land-tax system.
Deaths are numerous in tho Couemaugh
Valley, Penn., largely tho result of tho
sovero mental and physical sutfering tho
people havo endured.
Thoro has recently boon a wild boom
at Ashland, is., which has just col
lapsed and loft a number of bankrupts
and interesting stories as reminders.
An KHxnlicth. N. J., man holm: pur
sued by the police, leaped from the third
story of his homo to tho ground and ran
oil'. Ho wasn't injured in tho slightest.
All Kentucky is stirred by tho nows
Hint an enormous well of natural gas has
lust boon discovered at Clovorport, in
Breekinridgo county, on tho Ohio river
Tho latest Mormon iiarty to arrive
from Europe numbered 132. Ono thous
and in all aro expected this summer.
Tho missionaries complaiu of their lack
of success.
Tho wealth of tho 300 citizens Mayor
Grant called together to consider tho
holding of a great Exposition in Now
York in 1892, foots up, it la said, fully
(1, 600,000.
Trials of tho now Wall Btreot nnd Main
street electrical railways in Cincinnati
demonstrated their entire satisfactory
working, and regular trips aro now
being made.
Tho Association of Centenary Firms of
Philadelphia has been crguniml. Tho
association consists of firms that have
carried on buBiuesa in Unit city for 100
years or more.
Tho State Department Is engaged In
earnestly invohUgatlng tho caso of tho
three American ladies who wero impris
oned at Mentono, France, for non-settle-
ment ol a uullluer's mil.
Trusts cost their founders something.
Tho SaltTniHt had to pay $13,760 tax to
tho Stato of Now York on tho charter, or
certificate of organization. That will
como out of the people who buy salt.
Sam Jones la preaching at tho High
Bridge camp grounda in Kentucky.
whero ho is said to bo making moro
moiiev than over before. It coats a
quarter to hear him, and ho lias crowds
of auditors.
A Pointer for Wheat Growers Fertilize
the Orchard Roes Inseote Rice
Frit to re Remedy for Pcours.
Running roses may be tied to trellises
now, or thoy may bo Injured.
The final touch which makes a dish
perfect is always an inspiration.
Eight cents per pound is the cost of
sending seeds by mail. The paefcag
must not exceed lour pounds.
Do not try to cultivate onions deep ;
an inch of the surface is kept mellow
and' no weeds allowed to grow, it is all
iho cultivation that wiu be needed
Black Cake. Ono pound each of flour,
v ..u . ' a a . a
uuuer, sugar una citron, cut nne , iwi
pounds each of raisins and currants
twelve eggs, ono tablespoonful each of
nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. Bake
nearly four hours in a moderately heated
oven.
Berry baskets stored in crates in th
samo manner as when filled with fruit
are almost certain to bo damaged by tho
gnawing of mice if the mice have access
If the boxes are nestled together and
packed in they crates the are seldom
attacked.
Rico Fritters. Four eggs beaten very
light, one pint of milk, ono cup of boiled
rice, three teaspoons of baking powder in
ono quart of flour ; make into batter and
drop into boiling lard. Sauce Ono
pound of BUgar, one and ono-half cups of
water, Buck ot cinnamon, boil till clear
Apple Ginger. Mako a Byrup of four
pounds ol granulated sugar and a pint of
water in which cook very slowly four
podnds of finely chopped tart apples
peeled and cored, and two ounces
Add tho grated rind of
Take it off tho stove when
green ginger,
four lemons,
it looks clear.
Coiieo Cake. Une cup ot sugar, one
cup ol melted butter, ono cup New
Orleans molasses, one cup of Btrong
coffee, one egg, one teaspoonful of baking
powder, ono teaspooniul ot ground cloves
one tablcspoonlul of ground cinnamon
one-half pound each of raisins and cur
rants, and four cups of sifted Hour.
Eggless Ico Cream. Scald two nuarts
ot milk, wet lour tablespoontulB of corn
starch with cold milk, put into the scald
ing milk with tour cuphils ot sugar, and
boil until tho taste ol tho cornstarch is
gone ; when quite cold add one quart of
thick cream beaten stiff. Flavor with
vanilla, rose or chocalate and freeze
Raw meat chopped fine and fed once a
day, will produce more eggs than anv
other food that can bo given the hen
Ono pound of rough meat to fifteen hens
is Biilhcient. iho meat should bo lean
and if preferred, may be cooked, but it
gives better results when given raw. It
is not expensive when tho increased
number of eggs is considered
How to Mako Clover Silage. This
biiBinesa is now, or soon will bo, in order,
and hero is a point from a practical man
worth deeding. A farmer with consider
able experience, who has siloed clover
for ooveral years, says if it should bo left
to wilt on tho ground for two lioura alter
cutting, and each (lav's filling of the silo
bo allowed to heat before tho lresh clover
is added, and tho sides not tho center,
ept thoroughly tramped, tho clover will
como out moist and green, and the cattle
will relish it as thoroughly as summer
pasture.
Utilizing Dropped Manure. An Ohio
Iiirmer Bays that a good way to utilize
dropped manure in lanes leading from
barnyard to tlelds is to plough and scrape
them whero tho surface is such that this
can bo done. Many lanes of this kind
contain an undisturbed accumulation of
years. Build one permanent fence in
tho middle of a strip wide enough for two
lanes, Bay sixty feet, then build a port
able fenco out on either side of the lane.
When it becomes desirable to plough, re
movo tho poi tablo fenco over to tho other
side for a lano there.
Rose Insects. Tho insects most harm
ful to rosoB aro tho green fly, red spider,
roso hopper or thrips, and tho roso bug
and tho black slug. Mow, though com
bating thcBO insects involves some little
troubles, yet success will attend all per
sistent etforlB. The green lly, tho thrips
ml tho black slug can all be kept under
by syringing tho plants with a solution
of w halo oil Boap. Ono pound of soap is
BUlHcient for eight gallons of water.
Throw tho water in a lino spray on the
under as woll as the upper sides of tho
leaves. A syringe with a bent nozzle i&
tho best instrument with which to apply
tho liquid to tho lower sides of the leaves.
Tho red Bpidor can bo held in check by
syringing tho leaves with clear water; in
Irv times this should be done overv day.
If tho roso bug (Mololontha subspinosa)
makes its appearance, which is not vorv
often, it can bo destroyed by the insect
exterminator.
Fertilize tho Orchard. In advocating
tho maintenance of the fertility of tho
orchard, Dr. Hawkins, of Vermont says
ho has never yet seen an orchard too
rich for profit, nor one mon which the
last loads of manure did not pay the most
profit. He adds that the most profitable
orchard of tho William's Favorito applo
in tho vicinity oi isoston is kept 'as rich
as a barnyard." Tho fruit is doublo
what might bo called tho normal sizo of
tho variety ; every applo is handled liko
an egg, and marketed at its xint of per
fection. This orchard is very profitable,
though small. An orchard that would
rival this is in tho city of Montreal, con
taining thirty-six Fameuso tiees, tho
fruit from which waa sold, ungathorcd,
ono season, for $800. Tho trees wero
very largo and perfectly healthy, and had
all to themselves, almost an aero of rich
land.
THE PACIFIC COAST. I
rORElUN FLAMHKB.
TO
CONNECT BRITISH COLUMBIA
WITH THE PACIFIC OOA8T.
Adludged Insane-Claims to be His
Wire To Defeat High License
Portland Postmaster's ReportEarthquake.
Drytown, Amador county, is having a
boom.
The Puebla on her last trip north took
ooo tons oi trait lrom san a raneisco
A cork tree in Visalia is now eighteen
1 1! , . I . l 1
incnes in diameter anu mriy ieet nign
A stingaree that weighed 1,000 pounds
1 a Ti 1 1 r, l , 7 I
was Kiueu at. jieuonua ue&cn iaai weeK.
EarthquaKes are still shaking Susan
ville. Five shocks occurred on the 26th.
A lire on uie old Crocker ranch, near
Mprced recently, destroyed considerable
grain.
The old and well-known Cucamongo
hotel, eighteen miles east of Pomona, has
been burned.
Frank Lankrey's house at Mist, Or.,
was burned for revenge by Borne enemy a
few days ago.
A lamp explosion caused the loss of
the residence of W. H. Soule. at Wood
land on the 29th.
A strike in the Gover mine at Dry-
town. Amador county, shows rock held
together with gold.
Two Harney Valley. Or., settlers are
under arrest for resisting eviction by
United States Marshals.
The peach crop of Pomona Valley will
amount to 380 tons. Canneries get the
fruit at 1 cent per pound.
The work of rebuilding the Bmelters
for tho Eureka, Consolidated mine at
Eureka, New, haa begun.
Jack Murnhv. known aB "Jack tho
Ripper," killed James Clooney at Sack
ville, Yolo county, on the 29th.
Joso Sauza of Pomona attempted sui
cide on tho 28th because his daughter
had eloped with a married man.
George Cornwall, a iockev. waa killed
at San Diego on the 29th. While jump
ing a fence his horso fell upon him.
John D. Spreckels is said to have pur
chased a one-third interest in tho Coro-
nado Beach Company, coating him
511 ,000.
Owen Morgan is under arrest at Sacra
mento, charged witli attempting to
destroy by lire the Western Hotel in
mat, city.
A whole family of Flathead Indiana
has been murdered and burned by rol-
bers in tho Sun River country in
Montana.
Sutter county saloonkeepers have com
bined to tWeat high license. Three
have been arrested and warrants are out
for seven others.
Tho taking of testimony in tho case of
11. Li. Uorton lor tho Clipper Gap robberv
last December began at Auburn. Placer
county, on tho nyth.
Tho fruit cannery at Marvsvillo ii fill
ing a apecial order for peaches in half
pound cans to bo 6old on tho railroad
trains to passengers.
A man named Hayes was given ono
hour to leave Potaluma or five days in
tho chain gang for disturbing the Salva
tion Army meeting.
E. L. Cartenon, traveling agent ior a
San Francisco house, has been adjudged
insane at Redding. He is s jbject during
hbt weather to mental tiouola.
L.B.Allen and a companion, fiora
San Diego, who left for Oceansido to Bail
a small yachtdown tho coast, aro missing
and it is feared they aro drowned.
Tom Thompson and eix other men
who tarred and feathered Gus Brannan
at San Pedro a few montha ago, have
been found guilty of simplo assault.
Tho salmon canneries on tho Fraser
lver are each securing lrom 8.000 to
15,000 salmon daily, and the largest pack
in the history of the industry is assured.
mbroso Hierco has a detective work
ing on the Chico tragedy. It is behoved
by some that the bullet wound through
tho temple of young Biorce was not in
fiicted by himself.
J. R. Griffith, from Fresno, haa been
on a protracted spreo at Travor. and
rather than go to jail cut an artery in his
arm with a pocket kmle. I'romnt sunn
cal aid saved nim.
ino mata used to form tho lettv in
process of construction at Eureka Har-
or, Humboldt county, are sixtv-lour
feet long, forty feet wido and four feet
thick. Each weighs sixty tons when
ready for launching.
In Committee of the Wholo of the
Montana Convention on the 27th, Ana-
onda received 32 votes against 24 for tho
location of tho capital. Great excite
monl resulted in Helena.
Denmark's Foreign Trade Threatens
to Run the Telephone Tried Her
Engines With Succeea.
A Point for Wheat Growers. A grati
fying effect ol strowing Btmw thinly over
tho wheat plants on a vory poor Bpot ol
land after tho ground had frozen Iuib
been reported by Mr. Terry, of Ohio.
Tho wheat waa benefitted, but tho ro-
maikablo advantage lay in tho good
catch and good growth of clover sown in
tho spring, which extended exactly to
the limit ot tho straw mul;h ono load to
tho aero. So sayB a writer in tho Weekly
Tribune, ho adds that ho onco owned
two tlelds in which thcro wero Bpota of
the finest and cleanest of loam, on which
clover seed always failed because of tho
surface running together into a compact
glare after tho spring frosts, and ho could
think of no remedy. Tho straw seoms to
havo prevented tno raiua irom so packing
tho Burfaco iu Mr. Terry's valuable ex
perience, and clover, if it can Irs mado to
grov with certainty, will soon amend tho
tcxturt oi tho soil. Farmers who have
poor ppotB lu their wheat field would do
well to try too bimw cure, not oniy to
lHinellt tho crop eown.0hut aa a prepara
tion for clover.
Two cases of death from lighting fires
with coal oil wero reiiortett on tho 27th
Ono at Seattle, Mra Julia Calder, and tho
other near Clay fatatian, in Sacramento
county, Mrs. Arthur Ralphs.
Attorney H. G. Thompson has just re
turned to l'ortianu trom IsntiBh Colum
bia, whero ho closed a deal with tho new
Westminster Southern Railway Com
pany to connect untish Columbia with
tho Pacific Northwest.
Tho Portland Postmaster's report for
tho fiscal year ended Juno 30th shows
tho receipts and payments of tho monoy
order and Kstal funds to havo been
5,427,tll3 12, as compared with $4,403,
074 30 last year, an increaso of $1,000,000.
C. H. Crocker has offered to bear tho
oxjenBo of an expedition from the Lick
Observatory to Cayenne, South America,
next December, and It is expected at
that timo to confirm and extend some of
tho discoveries made at tho laat eclipso.
Hon. Joseph A. Donohoo of Menlo
Park haaollered tho Astronomical Society
of tho Pacific to establish a medal to bo
given to tho first discoverer of ovoiy un
expected comet, nnd to tho first person
making a preciBO observation of a tele
scopic periodic comet at any ono of its
exjiected returns.
The woman claiming to Ih tho wife of
Colonel Ayreu of tho Loa Angeles Herald,
referred to in an Eastern telegram pub
lished in tho Bulletin on tho 27th, is not
his wife. Sho formerly resided in San
Francisco, and nearly a quarter of decn
tury ago sho labored under tho delusion
that sho waa married to Colonel Ayers,
and was a source of great annoynnco to
him.
Siam has begun the issue of pape
money.
Railroad management in Bavaria is in
bad snape.
Mlllais is painting his third picture of
Mr. Gladstone.
A new life of Bruno is to be prepared
by the Vatican.
The Crofters Commission is reducing
rents and arrearages.
Efforts at phonetic writing are active
both in France and Germany.
Buffalo Bill gave a dinner to Russell
Harrison at Pans on the 27th.
The infantry branch of the Austrian
army has been increased by 9,000.
Peru observed its sixty-eighth anni
versary of Independence on tho 29th.
Extensive thefts of arms have been
carried on for years in Bombay arsenal.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is Baid to
be rnging in the Ternes district of Paris.
Denmork'a foreign trade haa grown to
tremendous aize, mainly with England.
Shares in the proposed American Salt
Trust are already selling in London at a
premium.
A German peasant has been detected
in tapping a telephono wire to cure his
rheumatism.
The silver jubilee testimonial to Cardi
nal Manning now amounts to a total of
over 0,000.
August 4th is the date fixed for re-
burying the French Revolution heroes in
the Pantheon.
A German firm has made a contract to
reconstruct the port of Odessa at a cost of
over ?o,ooo,oou.
The Portuguese who fired atDom Pedro
declares ho was instigated by the Repub
lican Association.
Dr. Schmolzkopf. Surgeon-in-chief of
Captain Wiaamann's African expedition,
has been drowned.
An Erzeroum diepatch states that
Russian troops are rapidly massing near
tho Turkish frontier.
Brunn, the Austrian center of textile
industry is suffering under a general
strike ot 15,000 operatives.
Ryan, a seaman on the Jabez Howes.
waa drowned at sea on June 17th. Ryan
waa a native ol fcan r raneisco.
Much curiosity haa been excited by
tho approaching production at Brussels
of Salarabo, a new opera by Reyer.
iNone ot the railroads in India are
equipped with baggage cars and no
traveler is allowed to carry a trunk.
In a recent domestic riflo competition
at AVimbledon Sir Henry Halford, shoot
ing for Hmgland, mado 210 out of hia 23a.
George S. Ladd of San Francisco, a
prominent electrician, is iving danger
ousiy in in a house in I'iccadilly, London
London, excited by the success of
Paris, appears to be very much in earnest
in her endeavor to found a grand exhibi
tion in lb)l.
Bankera in London do not tare for tho
naners of tho Prince of WhIph. The
Pnnco has not much of a reputation aa a
business man.
The English Government threatens to
run the telephone since the businesa haB
been left to one company. France has
already done so.
On account of heavy and repeated falls
oi snow among tno Aipa, the season for
mountaineering promises to be late this
year in Switzerland.
A diepatch from Rome Bays the Vati
can and Quirinal aro doubly guarded on
receipt of information of a plot to blowup
uuui witii uynumiie.
The report that Mme. Neilson has lost
I.. 1, :.... i : i.i
in- ticujiiiK imu iiiciuury io tiuipu.iucatiy
denied. She is suffering from her old
trouble rheumatism.
A "Guide to tho Churches of London
shows that the number of metripolitan
churches has increased between 1883 and
1889 from 928 to 1,010.
It ia stated that at the rate tho popula
tion is leaving Norway lor tho United
States, in the next fifteen yeara not one
win bo leit in that land.
The "Heavenly Foot Society" haa
been started in China by the women.
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in reocuion againBtine venerated lasinon
that compressea their feet.
It haa been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians: but they
must confine their services to children
ami adults of their own sex.
British reports of the inland fisheries
show that out of 7,870 salmon captured
in seventeen districts ',ch were taken
by tho rod. iho others were netted.
It is Btated in London that Germany
and Austria havo instructed ex-King
Milan to restoro tho supreme power in
fcervia in order to check Italian intrigues.
A party of 800 Hungarians who left
Vienna recently for tho Pans Exhibition
proceeded, by way of Torino, to will on
Louis Kossuth, tho great Hungarian
patriot.
Grave fears aro felt at Zanzibar for the
safety of tho Upwapwa nnsaionariea.
Tho Buahiri havo murdered an officer of
tho Last African Company, named
Nielsen.
Tho Duko of Newcaatlo is expending
ncariy xou.wu in oiinuing a church in
tno grounna at clumber, Ihb place at
Notts. It is a beautiful edifice in the
Gothic stylo.
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Occupation Moral Force and ldlnM
ai a MUchlef-nreeder.
Occupation and industry aro so often
recommended merely for tho material
gains they bring that their moral forc
is not always recognized as it should
be. Yet occupation that brings nc
materitl reward, nnd Is, by comparison
with work, the merest trifling, may
be. if innocent in itself, a moral force
simply because it keeps the individual
out of temptations and gives employ
ment to his energies. Idleness is a
fruitful breoder of mischief. Tho
mind, if not tho body, must bo at work
during idle hours. It is difficult to
conceive of a period of inaction for tho
brain except during sleep or insensi
bility. Thoughts como unbidden; thoy
may be mischievous or merely idle,
but occupation supplants them with
other thoughts relating to tho work or
play in which ono is engaged or stirs
tho mind to speculation or planning.
It is not possible, eron though it might
appear to bo desirable, to keep men at
work during all their waking hours.
They must have rest and recreation,
nnd it is during this period that they
need some occupation, harmless in it
self, to keep thom out of mischief.
It is for these otherwise idle hours
that good amusements should bo
provided books or papers to bo
road, eocioties, literary entertain
ments, concerts and theatrical
performances of an improving kind to
bo attended. In a grent city many of
these needs of humanity aro furnished
by business men to meet a want as real
as that for food and elothing. But
there aro many who havo not the
means to avail themselves of such oc
cupation as is thus provided for idlo
hours, nnd for such as these charitable
people estnblish free libraries, schools
and other places for self improvement
Some of tho workingmen's clubs and
similar bodies go further than this and
furnish gymasiums and rooms for var
ious games, lecognizing that occupa
tion for idlo hours is tho main thing,
and that it must bo of a kind contrast
ing with tho daily labor of tho indi
vidual to bo benefited. Tho clerk may
find amusement in manual labor or in
violent exorcise: tho mechanic, who
has had enough of both, is bettor sat
isfied with a book or with a game that
calls only for mental exertion. All
theso different tastes and needs for an
occupation that may fill in idlo hours
aro fairly woll met in a largo city by
tho variety of entertainments pro
vided by businoss men and philan
thropists the ono for gain, tho othor
for tho good he may do humanity. But
it is far different in tho smaller
towns and villages, whero it does
not pay to cator to such needs nnd
whero there is seldom wealth
enough to furnish from its abundanco
free entertainment or educational ad
vantages. For all such places, how
over, thoro is opportunity to do a good
work by co-operative enterprise at
vory little cost. A literary society
meeting in tho school house or church
furnishes occupation for the thoughts
of members not merely during the fow
hours dovoted to tho meetings, but for
many hours in preparation therofor.
It may also furnish tho foundation for
a small circulating library of books or
papors that will provido reading mat
ter, giving useful occupation for othor
spare hours. From such beginnings
in tho course of timo may be devel
oped a lecture bureau bringing to
town or village occasional speakers
from abroad. All such enterprises,
undertaken in tho right spirit, hnvo
undoubted educational and moral
value. In tho smaller corporative
bodies work on the part of tho mem
bers takes tho place of money capital.
A lazy village may bo transformed by
such an institution; tho young mon,
instead of idling away their hours of
rest in useless or mischievous gossip
at tho country storo or tho whool
wright's, may hnvo tlioir ambitions
aroused, bo oncouraged to read and
study, and thus bo given occupation
that will keop thom out of mis
chief nnd promote their mental
and moral wolfaro. Many of
tho great mon of tho country rocoived
tlioir earliest impulses to study iu (so
cieties of this kind. Tho educational
value of tho exercises may havo been
limited, but tho readings, tho debates
and other literary endeavors stimu
lated a desiro to learn and established
habits of study and industry bearing
good fruit in lator years. What form
tho efforts to provide occupation for
idlo hours should tuko depends very
much upon tho community to bo
reached. It should bo adapted tothoir
wants as woll as to their needs. Aim
ing at ton much good may defeat tho
purpose if tho occupation provided
should bo In the naturo of drudgory.
For mon who work hard durinir tho
lay, relaxation and amusement nro
needed. Thoso may bo found in read
ing, in literary exorcises adapted to
their understanding, and games of
various kinds. Hut ns tho main pur
poso is to occupy thoir idio hours with
Ono of Lcgitimo's Generals had agreed exercises not injuriougi enortg townrd
to surrender a iortion of tho defensive
works at Port-au-Princo to Hinpoivto.
Tho plot waa discovered and un ambush
killed thirty of liippolyto's men.
Two hundred and thirtv-ono foreicmnrd
wero expelled from Belgium between the
tiUi oi February, 1888, and tho Cth of
robniary, 1HSU. 'Ihree expulsions only
wero ordered for political reasons.
Tho largest shin in tho Hrhli
fn.'l. i "t Jt
utu ijiunifciix, inuuuiicii iwo yeara ago,
has at last tried her engines with success.
thoir improvement should bo limited
to such things aa will surely enlist
thoir interost nnd ongngo thoir atten
tion, trusting to timo and tho influ
ence of good habits for tho futuro de
velopment of highor tastes and de
mands. Baltimore Sun.
According to a recent lettor from
Mr. Henry M. Stnnloy, tho "arrow
ioison" used with deadly effect 9 tho
juji to .l "A Kiitr I - rt c v I'M i.ti ii
12,818 "ho o power & -o her 17 .'8 k;,oL , , V, , V Cn d,'tr,ot 19
Tt. . v I .t l','ahl'ow- mado of dried red nnts. ground into
Pri ffSSk4. M ( P-r. and cooked in pafm oil. Th
if ho succeeds in his latest project, which
in iu urnuigu u meeting ueiween the Czar,
J!il!oror. FSnh18 Jod('A and Emperor
William In Berlin.
irritant olloet of this preparation la
producod by formic acid, which, In its
puro stato, Is so corrosive that it
:au3C8 blisters on tho skji.