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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1889)
0 GENERAL INTEREST." It ig said thnt ono woman out of three all ovor Utah drinks whlskv and gets drunk about so often. Thoy claim they do it to keop olT malaria. Hasc-ball is going up in tho world. An American sculptor has a statuo un der that title in the Pari Salon, repre sontlng a young man in tho not ol throwing a ball. The Atlanta Journal, suggesting tho bloom of tho cotton plant for the National flower, says: "Is there any other flower of tho country whose product is so essential to tho thrift ol l millions of its people, which is in every way so well fitted for Uncle Sam to woar in his buttonhole?" Ten years ngo there were twenty two railroads which could not inter- j change cars owing to tho gauge. Now all aro alike and cars owned in Maino arc seen slipping over tho rails in Texa. The railroad system of tho United States is declared to bo as per fect as a system can be made. The Governor of Wyoming lately pardoned a man sentenced to a tormol years for a murderous assault on the condition that if tho convict ever drinks another drop of liquor ho shall forfeit his liberty and bo sent back to prison. A simllnr pardon was granted in Mississippi a few years ngo. During 1888 there were 525.0111 immigrants landod in this country. From Germany there were 100,975; from England. 76.040; from Ireland. 71.9G6; from Sweden, 48.815; from Italy. 47,424. and from Russia, 35.504. Tho lowest recorded was 1 from Malta, and tho nox tlowest 21 from Portugal. Recently an old lady died at Beth lehem, leaving an estate of $2,000. which foil to a near relative. The heir secured a Bethlehem attornoy, who in turn secured another attorney. When flnnl sottlemont was made tho lawyor deduced $1,250 from the estato for his sorvicos, and tho near rolativo got tho balance. Among tho curiosities dovoloped in tho hunt for relics of Washington is a contract .with his gardener, in which stipulation i9 mado that tho gardoner shall keep sober all tho year, excopt that ho is to have four dollars at Christmas with which to bo drunk four days, and two dollars at Easter and Whitsuntido to bo drunk twe days. Fancy such a contract being made with tho President of the United States in 1889. "Tho hair of the board in grow ing, raises little hills of flesh around each root," says a barber, "and in shaving a man smoothly tho razor cut these off. leaving tho blood vessels exposed. Under tho microscope these bleeding vessols can be distinctly seen, and tho flesh is seen to be entirely without tho covering of skin it should have. Tho natural result is that the close shaver Is always troubled with colds and affections of tho throat." Tho great plate-glass windows that adorn largo store fronts have their origin in the vanity of women. A woman like to see horsolf as others nee her. She can do that in a mirror. When she is on tho street tho show windows serve as mirrors to tell her how pretty or bad she appears, if her hat is on crooked, her back hair down or her new-fangled bustle awry. Then they aro attracted to the goods in the windows and go into tho storos to in spect and buy. Tradesmen who ob served tho manner in which thoy looked in tho windows urged tho glass manufacturers to make large panes. Thoy gradually mado them larger and lamer until now thoy till tho entiro front. WORN-OUT FOOT-GEAR. now It lit Uttll7.l ill tho Manufacture ol Sluxlily Slums. "Old clo" and "old shoo" merchants never pass an ash can without inspect ing for old shoes. If any is found it soon linds a hiding place in tho capa cious bag carried for tho purpose. Each day's labor is taken to tho homo of tho "old shoe man." whore it is sorted ovor. Shoes that aro not past a fow days of usefulness go undor tho resuscitating enro of an Itnlian cob blor. Ho gives tho old shoo a now lease of life by endowing it with a now solo and other repairs. These go to some Bocond-hand shoo store, of which there are a goodly number in this city. Tho shoes that are past repair aro taken to tho old junk dealers, who in turn ship them to the shoddy factories. There they aro pulled to pieces in or der to remove the steel shank piece, if there bo any, and then ground to a fine dust. This leather dust is then mixed with about forty per cent, ol rubber, which has been gathered in the same way. The mixture of rub ber and leather dust is spread in sheots about two foot square, and sub jected to a pressuro of 6,000 to 10.000 per square foot. Tho substance is thon colored, and sold at prices some fifty per cent bolow that of loathor. This manufactured loathor is used by tho manufacturers of cheap shoes mostly for inner soles. As it is wholly wanting in fiber, it is manifestly a very poor substitute. Shoes with thoso shoddy innor soles aro to bo found in largo quantities strung on polos and bearing tho legend, "All leather. $1." Tho industry of making shoddy shoes has greatly Improved. At first atraw board was used for inner-sole counters, and somotlraes for out soles by pasting over with a thin veneer of jolo loather. Next leather scraps and old shoes woro ground up and mixed with tho straw paper. This guve a little better Hubstance. Now shoddy ;ontaiiiH leather dust and rubber. N. Y. Sun. WHALES OF ALL SORTS Their UablU and Modes of Life and War. fare. The London Telegraph, alluding tc an exhibition of different kinds of whales shortly to be given in the Natural History Museum of London, says: How such a spectacle as this changes the ordinary ideas about the life that is lived under the sea. It is seen almost at a glance that that grievous division of terrestrial existence into-the eaters and the eaten holds good in marine communities also. On tho one side are the toothless whales, prodigious In bulk, but virtually defenceless aga'nst attack; soft-bodieil, and comparatively unwieldy. On the other are the fierce 'toothed whales, smaller in dimen sion, but in proportion swifter, fierce as tigers, and as cruel. Here is the enormous lin-whale, i-ome seventy feet in length, with its great helples paws, for they are little oim', which it uses as paddles, hanging idly down, anil its immen.-c jaws which, fringed with whalebone, served it well enough as a trap for diminutive crustaceans anil cuttle-li-h. but are no weapon against .1.- I!1 . . I. . 11 Hie CrOCOUIlC-MlUUI. Ill IIS Mll.llll-l enemies. rcxt to it is "the killer," Orca Gladiator, the wolf of the sea, which looks upon tho Leviathan as ordinary - beasts of prey regard flocks and herds, and which does not hesitate, with its hundred weight of bulk to its victim's ton, to attack it. Sometimes they will hunt in packs, and, surrounding one monster, will ferociously tear the living thing to pieces, mouthful by mouthful. At oth ers they chase the dolphin add the por poise, or kill the seal and tho narwhal. Except that they do not haunt the har bors of busy ports, follow ships, and otherwise "seek human prey, the "killers," whales though they are, are far more terrible creatures than tho sharks. There have been writers who have spoken of life under tho ocean wave as placidly, monotonously dull, without any decided interests or excite ments. Yet, looking round this whale yault, with its fierce armature of fang and tusk and horn, it is difficult, in deed impossible, to believe that sub aqueous existence is really uninterest ing. On the contrary, when we survey, iorms so active and "powerful in out line, so pugnacious n expression, so dreadfully I'.nnol for battle with natural weapons, and a fero cious rapidity of speed, we see at once how awful must be the tragedies enacted in the impen etrable depths of the sea. and what conflicts of race and for empire must be continually waged. For mere ex istence alone the carnage passes beyond human calculation. Look at that tin ner whale there, with a mouth in which a tea party could be given. Imagine it wide open and going ahead full speed through a dense shoal of shrimps, a porridge of small fry of all kinds. Then think of those jaws suddenly closing upon a good substantial mouth ful .substantial, that is ro say, in pro portion to the mouth and after the water has filtered out through the whalebone fringes into the sea again, fancy the whale swallowing all its cap tives at a snap, and then opening its mouth for more. Compared to this the hecatomb was a mere trilling with sacrifice, a holocaust, pure child s play. Lives by the million, .swirled gulp by gulp down tiie monster's maw; and next day the same monster, torn into shreds by the gladiator "orca," lay scattered' over acres of the sea as food for as many millions more; and what combats the tisli must see! How Ihe lobster must twiddle his long an tenna! with excitement, or the octopus on the rock look up with con sternation at the prodigious duels of tiie rorquals, the leviathan encoun ters of the cachalots! What a .scat tering of smaller folk there mu-t be when the lighting whales come up. and in close battalion charge with their ponderous heads! Over what spacious battle-fields the bijttle must range, and how indescribably terrific tho shock of giants meeting in tho green silence! The conflict might be a nightmare, a phantom struggle, but that the sea i being dyed a deeper and deeper red round the enormous combatants, ami that the furious impact of the great bodies sends responsivo vibration,-, through the sensitive depths, telling the dwellers on the sea-bed and in the crannied rocks that the giants aro at war. Or change the scene to tine weather with a summer horizon unclouded, and pence everywhere what a liberal education it must be to a sprat or a dish of whitebait to see these Lords of the sea ranging tran quilly among their peers, and rolling through unmeasured fathoms in care less ease! To live under the water and watch tho whales " at home " would be almost enough to reconcile one to being a fish. GENERAL. The symptoms of malarial poison ing have been produced in animals by the subcutaneous injection of watery extracts from marshy soil. CMcayo Herald. Among the frauds that alllict the poople is the form of indictment pre pared in many States. Tho thief es capes through the silly mass of ver biage. Current. The little hand-bags so generally carried by Arncr.oan women must go. The only Parisians who use them are the pedicures and manicures, who carry their tools about with them in those re ceptacles. -A'. 1'. 0 rapine. Judge Fane, of Salt Lake, has .ruled that a plural wife has no rights of inheritance, anil can not attain Mich right by long continuance in the illegal relations; that she is no wife in law, and can not, therefore, be a widow. Denver Tribune. Tuesday wns an eventful day in the life of a Leavenworth (Kan.) man who had previously borne a good repu tation. At nine in tho morning ho wan recognized as an ox-convict Just after dinner he slipped and fell into a tank of boiling water. At three o'clock, when he was hovering between life and death from his terrible scalds, a Sheriff arrived with a warrant for his arrest at a highway robbor. He did t nun down. t'h icago Tribu nr.. MISCELLANEOUS. j It was when tho Into Prof. Proctor was an English school examiner that a little girl donned the dlffercnco be tween n man nnd a bruto as follows: "A bruto is an imported beast; man is a perfect boast." John Swift, a Connecticut man, lived to tho ago of eighty-eight with out being sick ono hour in his whole life. Ho never had mumps, measles, headache nor toothache, and when ho died it was more because a tree fell upon him than from any fault of his own. Forty years aero tho United States stood sixth in point of population among civilized nations of tho globe nnd twenty years ago it stood fifth. Twenty years hence it will stand first. St. Louis Globo Democrat- An Indiana man who has attained tho sobriquet of "Lawsuit John," hav ing been continually engaged in some lawsuit for tho past twenty years, was lately sentenced to a year in the peni tentiary. This will give him a vaca tion and plenty of time to plan now lawsuits for the next decade. Newark contributed over $25,000 for the relief of tho Johnstown suffer ers. Jersey City contributed less than one-bulf of that amount. As Jersey City according to tho consus is tho largest city in Now Jersey, wo must account for this discrepancy by reasons not novel. Jersey City people go ovor to Now York to contribute to the relief fund, just as they go there to die, bo born and bo married. Newark Advertiser. In 1816 it took just ono bushel of corn to buy ono pound of nails, now one bushel of corn will buy ton pounds of nails. Then it roquircd sixty-four bushels of barley to buy ono yard of broadcloth; now tho samo amount of barley will pay for twenty yards of broadcloth. It thon roquirod tho prico of ono bushel of wheat to pay for one yard of calico, now ono bushel of wheat will buy twenty ynrds of calico. At a touchers' examintion in Jones County, la., in nnswor to tho question, "What is hygiono?" a young lndy np pllcant for a certificate to teach school answered: "It is tho soft spot on tho top of a baby's head which gradually becomes harder as tho baby growi older." Tho board of directors re jected her application, ovidontly be lieving that tho "hygicno" on top of tho young lady's head had not suf ficiently hftrdoned to qualify her for the stern duties of a teacher. Norris- town Herald. Tho attention of visitors to Mount Reposo Cemetery, at Havorstraw, N, Y., is attracted by a novel grave in a secluded spot. It is the gaava of a pot canary bird which belonged to a wealthy family in Brooklyn. The pot a short time ago became quite ill and was attended by persons skilled in bird doctoring. All their treatment was useless, however, and tho bird died So strong was tho attachmont of tho family for the bird that it was given an aristocratic burial, with all tho honors that could bo bestowed. A Maine villago housewifo, koon of wit and thrifty, not long ago issuod cards for an afternoon party at her house, terming it a "whang." Tho ladies invited were puzzled by tho word, and iidn't know how to dress. but finally appeared in their most stunning toilets. "When they arrived at the hour named, ono p. m., thoy found tho houso in disorder, and everybody scrubbing for dear life. A "whang" is a house-cleaning party, and somo of tho ladies i. s sorry they didn't dross accordingly Thoro i an ablo romancor out West somdwhere who is keeping tho East supplied with excellent "items of interest." Here are a couple of them: "Lightning plnyed a queer caper on a ranch nenr Buffalo, Wy., Tor., recently. It struck a barb wire fence, and for a distance of four hundred yards melted tho barb without injuring tho strands, and pulled ono end of tho staplos hold ing tho wires to tho posts. Tho ex tracted ends were neatly turned into corkscrews and nicklo plated." "Jim Blovlns, living near Whito Rock, Tex., killed a very largo chicken snako a few days ago, and noticing tho snake's body was unusually largo and Ill shaped, mndo an incision and found it to contain a largo cow horn and in tho horn a prairie rat. It is supposed that that the snako chased tho rat into tho horn, and to secure tho rat swallowed the horn." Names of Post-Offices. Postmaster General Wanamakor would accomplish a beneficent reform If he would overhaul tho list of the 68,000 post-offices of this country, and compol a chango in somo of tho ridicu lous appellations that now belong to them. There is no particular objection to Aqunshlcola, Wnpwallopon, Passa dumkeag, Punxsutawnoy, Wytopitlock, Daguscahonda, Mattnwumkeag, Kisha coquillas, Wanopashemot, Quijotoa, Sknneatolos, Qushochontnug, Agua Calicnto or Tajlque, providing they mean anything in this particular. And there may bo some excuse for Bluo Eyes, Dow Drop, Baby Head, Early Dawn, Sweet Lips, Bridal Voll, Roso Bud, Daisy Dell, Sweet Homo, Doll Do light, Keop Tryst, Prairie Queen, and so on. But when it comes to calling a post-office Big Shnnty, Burnt Cork, Dry Bones, Happy Jock, Hanging Dog, Hat Off, Horse Gall, Hump Back, Little Chucky, Mouso Tall, Negro Foot, Parch Corn. Pay Up, Pink Bed, Quid Nunc, Rabbit Hash, Rough and Heady, Rye Patch, Sal Soda, Scalp Level, Shoo Fly and Short, there seems to be room for reform. Boston I SEA-COAST BATTERIES. How the Cadet Manage the Ills flunt at Writ I'olnt. I At five o'clock tho northern hillside was allvo with spectators, Including many ladles, young and less young, beautiful and less beautiful, as well as all tho cadets off duty (that is, otT military duty), to witness the sea coast battery drill by the second class with section leaders taken from tho first, under tho direction of tho in structor of aitlllery tactics, Lieuten ant Gulbralth. Tho battery consists of two 15-inch smooth-bore guns. throwing a solid shot of 450 pounds with n charge of forty pounds of pow der, three 8-inch rifled guns (convert ed from 10-inch columbinds by the In sertion of rifled steel tubes) carrying a solid shot of 180 pounds with a charge of twenty-live pounds of pow der, and ono l!l-inch mortar, throwing a shell of 216 pounds, with a nine pound firing charge and a bursting charge just sufficient to blow out the fuse. The guns aro mounted on iron sea-coast carriages, and the whole battery is arranged liko an ordinary water battery, as. for instance, for tho defense of West Point against a hos tile fleet, no matter whose, coming down tho river, no matter how. Tho heavy projectiles for tho larger guns, It is hardly 'necessary to say, have to bo bundled by mechanical means. Tho popular interest in a drill liko this seems to center in tho noiso of tho big guns nnd tho distant crash and dust of tho big projectiles as thoy hit. or do not hit, tho whito target on tho mountain side, just undor and in front of Crow's Nest; yet thero is nothing more instructive in the whole rnngo of tnctlcs. It is all hard work and "means business. " Tho cadots handle tho big guns with easo. as thoy do ovory thing, loading and tiring them first by piece and then by section, wing, and finally by battery; tho last a tremendous salvo, trying tho ear-drums, but practically as well timed as a volley of musketry. Tho practice too, wns good, considering tho range, winch was 2,100 yards. many shots striking tho target and all scorning to como somownoro near it. Tho five solid shot of tho final volley appeared to hit tho targot simultaneously, though, of courso, at that distance no ono but tho observer at the telescope could distinguish tho effect with any accuracy. In revenge for so much porfect'on, porhaps, ono sholl from the mortar seemed to have gono ovor the mountain and oxplodcd. But this is a way that mortars have. N. Y. Tribune. MOTHERS, SPEAK LOW. I) Not Tench Your Children to Become N'uUy M i'ii unit Women. I know some houses, well built and handsomely furnNhed, whore It is not pleasant to bo oven a visitor. Sharp, angry tones resound through them from morning till night, nnd the in flueneo is as contagious as measles, and much more to bo dreaded in a household. Tho children catch it, and It lasts for life an inourablo dlsoaso. A friend has such a neighbor within hearing of her house when doors and windows are open, and oven Poll Par rot has caught tho tune, and delights in sereaming and scolding, until she has boon sent into tho country to im provo her habits. Children catch cros3 tones quicker than parrots. Where mother sots tho oxnmplo you will scarcely hear a pleasant word among tho children in their plays with each other. Yet tho discipline of such a family Is always weak and irrogular. Tho children expect just so much scolding before they do any thing thoy aro bid, whilo in many a homo, whoro the low, firm tone of tho mother or a decided look of her steady oyo is law. they never think of disobe dience, either in or out of hor sight. Oh, mothers, it is worth a great deal to cultivate that "excollont thing in a woman," a low, sweet voice. If you aro ever so much tried by the mis chievous or willful pranks of tho lit tle ones, speak low. It will bo a groat help to you to oven try to bo patient and cheerful, if you can not wholly sucoeed. Anger makes you wretched, and your children also. Impatient, angry tones novor did tho hoart good, but. plonty of ovll. You can not havo tho ox'cuso for them that thoy lighten your burdens; thoy make thorn only ton times heavier. For your own, as woll as your children's sako, learn to speak low. Thoy will remombor that tone when your bond is undor tho wil lows. So, too. would they remombor n harsh and angry voico. Which legacy will you leavo to your chlldrenP Kindergarten. The Law of Child Life. Indulgence of tho child is tho ruin of tho man. Restraint and control mark tho path of safety and eminence. "Tho rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child loft to himself bringeth his mother to shnmo," is tiie wisdom of Solomon, which, though somewhat discounted in our age, stands woll tho test of experience. Authority, with a firm spinal column, must shape the lifo of the child. The child is not yet competent to judge. Of tho pitfalls about his path he sees not tho danger, but is attracted by tho glaro of many false lights to his ruin. Tho judg ment of another must beguldo for him past the places of danger, and until Ills own faculties become competent to deal with the difficulty. Blessed are those children favored with kind and generous, but at tho same time firm and straightforward, parental Zlon's Herald. -Quite a paradox that In a land of the trvp so many covet bond" TREATMENT OF HOGS. They Need Cleanliness Every lilt as Maoft a a Human ncLn. I often wonder why it is thnt peopla aro so careless with their stock, es pecially with tholr hogs. Thero is moro money realized from hogs, and in less time, than from any other stock fed for market, and yet thoy aro less cared for. It scorns to mo thnt farm ers should bo ashamed to treat tho poor creaturos as thoy do. Of cour.-o thero arc exceptions, but very many farmers aro certainly too careless of tholr swine, so much so that thoy suffer great loss by it ovory ear. If thero was more caro taken of hogs thoro would certainly be less disease. Many farmers havo ponds for watering places for tholr stock, and give tholr hogs access to them, let them wallow and drop thoir excrement in the pond until it becomes too foul and filthy fo frogs to inhabit. Yet the stock must drink this water as long ns it is thin enough to swallow. Thoy aro often fed , In a manure pile, and havo to sleep In . a fence corner with the top rail for n storm shelter. If this class of farmers buy a thoroughbred boar ana his pigs do not do well and make thrco hundred-pound hogs at nlnoto ten months old, under tho above conditions, thoy denounce tho thoroughbreds a failure. Just lot thoso men try drinking filthy water and eating ono kind of food for twelve months and sco if thoy thrivo. I toll you a hog needs cleaullnoss as woll as a human being does. Thoy re quire pure water, good dry slooplng quarters and a chango of food, and they must havo thoso. It Is my opin ion that if all hog raisers would bo enreful in tho treatment of hogs tho lossos would not bo but a fraction of what thoy aro to-day by contagious nnd other diseases. It will cost but a very llttlo to mako comfortnblo quar ters for hogs, and thoso who pay out a llttlo monoy and tr.ko a llttlo time to provido such quarters will Boon got It nil back with interest. Not only this, but when you butcher your hogs you would rolish your pork hotter if you knew that your hog? had not been rnisod in filth, tho meat would taste hotter to yon, and tho pig would not bo squealing in your stomach. Cor. Western Swineherd. Wax Mado By Insects. NB Tho "insoct wax" of Chinn is an exudation from certain troes, formed in consequenco of tho puncture of the branches by a species of Coccus. These insocts aro whito when first dovoloped, but, when thoy yield tholr wax, are red. and attached closoly to tho branches of the trees. At first thoy aro about the size of a grain of rico; but, nftor tho wax is produced the ac cumulation is as largo as a hen's ogg. Tho insoct commences to socroto tho viscous substanco in tho spring, this taking tho form of a silky down, which thickons and hardens. In August or Soptombor tho balls hang like grapes, which aro gatltorod by detaching them with the fingers; and, after being dried in tho sun, they aro purified and re fined. This wax is in general uso in China and Japan, whoro largo tracts of land aro planted with tho treos re ferred to, upon which tho insects uro roared. Tho insect is propagated by means of its eggs, which aro collected in clusters In the sholls of tho balls. As mot with in commorco tho wax is nearly pure, and molts at 190 degrees Fahr. It Is sold in cakos of a circular form, and of different sizes. It dis solves easily in naphtha, and contains eighty-two per cent, of carbon, four teen per cent, of hydrogen and four of oxygen. It is usod liko beeswax in making candles, and for othor similar purposes, whoro its high molting tem poraturo is an advantage. Tho light of thoso candles is of great brilliancy. Nature. Apoplexy Among Fowls. A fowl taken at first with lamoneBS and which in tho courso of a day or two will stagger about, mako a rush for tho food and stumblo ovor It, with an nppetlte always good, is troubled with apoplexy. Blooding, by opening a voin undor tho wing and feeding on light food will ho helpful, and in somo cases may effect n euro. It Is possi ble, howovor, that this may bo ono of tho rosults of a long courso of inbrood lnf?i hy which tho constitutional vigor has been impuirod. Somo fanciers, in their desire to Improvo thoir stock, persistently inbreod until thoy destroy Choir fowls. Possibly too much moat has boon given, or tho lions may bo too fat, and if a warm breakfast glvoi placo to a diet of oats and whoat in equal parts, or hotter still, barley, tho chances are that thero will bo a marked improvement. If tho result be ono whlqh follows inbreeding, tho wisest courso will bo to chango tho stock and get somo fowls thnt nro not so closely related. Tho causes of apoploxy vary. Fat fowls, oven whon not inbred, aro llablo to troublo pro ducing the symptoms. 11. S. Babcock, in Farm and Homo. A circiiK man filled thousands of people with wonder by catching in his tooth a cannon ball, fired from a cannon, without injury to his molars. Tholr wonder increasod n few days lator whon they learned that tho samo man, in a heated discussion with his wife, had caught a flat-iron in his teeth with disastrous results. Five molars were knocked down his throat, and he was laid up for a week. In polite circles out In Arizona they never speak of a gentleman as hav ing run away to escape hanging. Thoy simply say that "Mr. So-und-so has gono away In search of a cllmato for the benefit of his throat." Boston Transcript.. ENGAGEMENT RINGS. A Jeweler ChaU About the Kind of tern Engraved In Them. "What kind of mottoes aro on,- graved in engagement rings? Well, , Usually ancient ones, sometimes In old. jhigllsh letters. You boo tho fashion, of having mottoes, or 'posies' as they woro called, in rings is vory old. It was quite common in tbo sixteenth and. seventeenth centuries, both for be trothed nnd wedding rings, nnd just now is being revived. An English firm of jewolers has published a llttlo pamphlet on tho subject, giving ex amples of 'posies' found in rings which liave belonged to colcbrated people, tonio of them in English, othors In Latin, French and Gorman. Ono. In the ring with which Bishop Bull wed ded his wife, runs: 'Bono parero pa rcro parare del mlhi Deus' 'God mako mo u good mother and an obedient housewife.' I don't Imagine thero will bo many orders given for that motto, nowadays. "Tho posies woro either double op single tho double onos bolng usually serious, and tho single Ugh tor in tone. A favorite in tho seventeenth contury was: " "God our love continue ever. Thnt we In Heaven ni.eT dwell togethor. "And another: "'I.othlra never take a wife, Who wilt not love her as his llfo. "A sixteenth contury gcntloman folt confidence in his futuro happlnoss whon ho had Inscribed In his wlfo'a wedding ring: "I did, then, commit no folly, When I marrlod my sweet Molly.' "And another justified his matrU.. monial plungo by: ""Tls fit men should not be atone, Whloh made Tom to marry Jone.' "Single posies aro moro popular now, as not many modorn rings aro large enough to admit of two linos. Somo of tho old slnglo posies which aro boiDf used are: '"God above tend poaeo and love." "'God and thee my comfort bo.' " 'Love rae little, love mo long. " -I btd adieu to all but you.' "'This and my hoart.' "'Love mo and leave mo not.' "Sometimes wo hnvo an ordor to en grave a fow words from Browning. Tho last lino of 'Lono Among tha Ruins,' scorns to b a favorite, and aliO sovoral quotations from Mrs. Brown ing's 'Sonnets from tho Portuguoso." Occasionally sonic ono comos in and orders an inscription in which thora nocms no oarthly sonso, but It's Intolll glblo enough, I supposo, to tho pnr ticulur financeo for whom it Is in tended. u- "Solitalro rings aro not fashionable ...... ..................... ii. .if i. nro considered tho nroner thlm? now. . 1---- o olthor ono row of stones or two, liko this ono, with diamonds and rubles. Burned topaz is coming in once moro. It was vory much worn about forty years ago, and people who havo jowolry of that dato will find It usofuL Tho prettiest bracolot wo havo in tho placo has two rows of burned topaz, each stone inclosed in a ring of small diamonds." Chicago Nows. CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. Fourteen of Them Higher Than Uin Famous Mount Washington. If you ask almost any ono which is tho highest mountain in tho United States, cast of tho Rocky Mountains, tho reply will bo "Mount Washington, in Now Hampshire." but this Is not true. By reforrlng to a map of North Carolina you will notlco on Its western boundary tho groat Appalachian chain of mountains, which form tho dividing lino between that State and Tennessee. Tho avorago height of this chain ox cecds 5.000 foot. This part of It is a. bold frowning barrior, nearly 175 miles in length. It continues north ward as far as tho Stnto of Pennsyl vania, but its highest peaks and. roughest, wildest sconory nro to bo eoen in Nortli Carolina. Tho famous Mount Washington, mon arch of tho Whito Mountains, is 6,285. feet above tho lovol of tho sea, but in tho "Land of tho Sky" thoro aro four toon mountains of groater altitude than this. Their names and hoighta are as follows: Mount Mltcholl 6,717 foot; Guoyt's Peak, or Balsam Cone, 6,671; Cllngman's llomo, 6,000; Sandy Knob, 6,612; Hairy Bear, 6.567; Cat Tail Peak, 6,595; Glbbo's Peak, 6.586; Mount Alexundor, 6,477; Sugar Loaf. 6,401; Potato Top, 6,893; Black Knob, 6,537; Mount Henry, 6,378; Bowler'a Pyramid, 6,346; Iloan Mountain, 6.318. Those nro tho measurements of Pro fessors Guyot and Mltcholl, with the latest corrections by J. A. Holmes, of tho Stnto Geological Department. It will be notlcod that tho highest mountain In tho list Is Mount Mitchell; It Is 432 feet higher than Mount Wash ington, and every additional foot makes a difference in altitudes. This is ono of tho spurs of tho Bluo ltldge, situated west of tho main chain, In Yancoy County; it was named after Prof. Ellsha Mitchell, a natlvo of Con notlcut, and a graduate of Yalo College. Prof. Mitchell accepted a call from tho University of North Carolina, and tho "Land of tho Sky" becamo his adopted homo. Ho demonstrated, as fur back as 1835, that this mountain was the highest oast of tho Kooky Mountains. American Agriculturist. It is told of a pious, well-moaning' man here that upon ono occasion la Sunday school ho prayed: "And hies tho superintendent of thls.Bohoo), who has led such n long, tedious, Christiia llfo." Even tho superintendent could not suppress a smile." Kingston Free muu. m m Wot grass Is injurious to youajf chicks oven In tho summer. Do sat. turn tbo hen aud her brood out until 1 tha sun U woU up.
