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THE OREGON SCOUT. A CHANCEY, Publishers UNION, OREGON. CAVALRY RIDING DRILL. An Ex-Trooper TolU How Haw KrcrnttS Are Put Through Their I'lirrK. Tho first riding lesson usually takes -place in tho "riding-school," whore, as -the floor ia covered with "tnn," tho recruits who cotnu off will full softly. Tho military authorities don't want thoir recruits laid up in hospitals. Tho -lesson consists of leading tho horse -around tho riding-school; so that tho axiom of learning to croop hofore walk log is slightly modified here, for the recruit loams to walk his horso boforo riding- him. Whon ho has led his horse uround for awhile, tho horse's bead is brought in from the boards (L c, tho walls of the school), and tho recruit is taught to "stand at caso" and to step from sido to sldo of his horse's fore feet in measured puces. Then comes tho "mount;" and usually tho uufortunato recruit has no sooner got up on 0110 sldo than ho rolls over n tho other, owing to tho vagurles of his horse, who knows that he has a recruit in hand, and takes advantage fit. Presently tho order is given to "march," and away file tho horses around the school wails, many of tho pupils thinking horseflesh is rcry porvorao in rubbing its sldo against tho school wall with a recruit's leg for a buffer. Tho day when I got my first riding lesson many of us itartod off by pulling on our horses' months, and got (to quoto our rough rider) "all over tho shop liko a pack of Bhoep." After a fovv turns round during which tho "rough" taught us tho aids to horsemanship In tho pre liminary stages of tho "walk" wo learned that wo woro not to "pull our korsos' heads off," but to handle tho Tolas gently by feeling them with our wrists and not with our wholo arms. All wo hnd to do (wo woro told) was lo sit thoro and koop our bodies up right with our chests forward, by hol lowing tho back and drawing in our stomachs, as well as to koop our "chins oil our slocks" and our heads up. Wo began to sco that learning to rido was no trilling job. Whon It camo lo fixing our logs, getting thorn well kaclc, raising our toes and sinking our hoels, wo got moro to do than we ovor bargained for. Your toucher Is a hard tan to ploaso; and I'm suro thut by thoor practlco rocrults at Canterbury buvo got all their stomachs pressing p against tho diaphragms. Other wise how do thoy mustor such small waists and such plgoon-llko choslsP riib fact is that lungs, heart, livor, stomach and sploon are all packed logothor chestwards, liko a tin of Australian mutton. Whother uaturo ever intondod such a cramming is a question that tho military authorities don't study. Make your nion as wooden w possible novor mind nature, is inotr uioium; aim coruuniy moy aro -listonod to. After wo had done a llttlo walking around tho riding school wo Koi tnoro ooniidonco; and thought, no ioubt, that wo should liko a bit of a trot," just to see what that was liko Whon It did como to trotting many of ub fell off, or nearly foil off, and wont hobbling around tho school to quote our rough riding again "like a lot of tufloa dolls riding yor horses from nose to croup. " Aim certainly many of us woro moro often on our horsos withers and haunchos than on tho enter of tholr backs, and wo had our arms moro often round tholr nooks than holding our reins. Tho "rough" called us to a unit, anu ovon hero wo woro mt fault. Soino of us pulled too much, or wo pullod too llttlo, or wo -pulled awry, with tho result that our -fcorsos were "all ovor tho shop." At last wo had stopped, our frlond tho "rough" again lot us know a bit of his slud about our first appearance as --avalrymon. Ho never saw snob a feloomlng' lot of asses in all his born days; my old mother could ride better than you," oto. Ho had probably told the sumo yarn to generations of re cruits; but really wo believed that we woro a sot of out-and-out dulTors. After a few months' riding drill tho cavalryman loarns to rido his horse at -idl paces; and when he can take htm through tho turns, circles and wind ings of the inuuago drill, and knows Tmw to use his "arms" mounted, ho la fit to call himself a real cavalry-man, -and Is ready to go on and fight hla country's wars when lie gels the chance. If tho reador wants to learn mora of cavalry equitation, he had K)tUir join. A few months drill will teach him all ho will euro to learn. London St, James' Gazotte. Tho American's Tips. ' Tho tips glvon by Americans in England aro almost always too larfru, and by this thoy add to their expenses ia a manner which greatly astonishes English pcoplo, who regard all tips as an oxuetion. not to bo lultatod lit a wplrit of liborallty, but to be reduced to a minimum in a spirit of economy. An American always likes to seem to "be richer than ho Is. An Englishman does not care a button what tho porter thinks of him, and gives tho man what ho thinks such a man ought to expect, and no moro. In tho same -way Americans ulwnys incroaso their expense by traveling first-olass, on a sort of noblosbO'Obligo principle, a habit which causes Infinite amusement among tho moro economical English, aud gives point to tho old jolco that no ttuo travols first-class oxcopt fools and Americans. EASTERN ITEMS. A BIO REAL E8TATE SWINDLE IN 8T. PAUL. Geronimo Will Not be Bent Back to Arizona Will Test tho Meat In spection Law Local Option Cigarette Smoking. New York wholesale grocers have a trust. Indianapolis men will test tho Meat Inspection law. Yale defeated Harvard in the college regatta on the 28th. i , , i a iauor lyceum ior women naa ueen or ganized in St. Paul. Denver's Fourth of July celebration ex tended over three days. Missouri lias set apart $2000 for wolf scalps for 1889 and 18'JO. Some Chicago cable cars make from 10)4 to 14 miles an hour. Tho Hudson Bay Company report shows a net profit of 08,000. Philadelphia will presently have two new cold-storage warehouses. Tho electric cars continue to scare horses in Boston and vicinity. Fourth of July was turned over to tho small boy in all towns and cities. Two acres of land at Stockbridge, Mass., have been sold for $ 10,000. Mrs. M. L. Evans has been appointed postmistress at Lako Viow, Oregon. A Chicago enthusiast talks of erecting a tower in that city 2000 feet in height. Grano-growing promises to bo a profit able business in some parts of Florida. The Standard Oil Conman v has imr- chased the great Derrick well at Oil City. Tho Pittsburg policemen have sent their old uniforms to tho Johnstown police. S. C. Morgan, cashier of tho bank of Sidney, Neb., committed suicide on the 28th iust. Alnmt ono-half tho adult males at tho Boulo agency have signed tho proposed treaty. Crop reports from abroad aro worse than last mouth in the Atlantic SUitcB and Europe. Richard Brocchk, who challenged Vil- lard to a duel, has been sent to the in sane asylum. Colonel A. M. Saxton, a St. Joseph banker, aud a prominent Missourian, died on tho 27th. According to the new city directory, Chicago has a imputation of over nino hundred thousand. A Cincinnati iurv acnuitted a saloon keeper who sold on Sunday "just to give tho spies a lesson." Erie Canal is reducing rates on grain from Buffalo to New York to compete with tho Lehigh Valley road. Indiana's Supremo Court has docided Unit shaving on Sunday is not a neces sity. Abraham nover shaved. Tho Knights and tho Farmers' Alliance of Alabama will work: together in tho next election for the legislature. Tho lxcol Option bill in Michigan has become a law. Hub means prohibition in halt tho counties of tho State. Tho flguresof justcomplotod directories make tho iopulatlon of St. Paul and Min ncuols closo on to half a million. A now Connecticut law prohibits cigar otto smoking by minors under 10 and the sale of tobucco in any form to Biich per sons. The Standard Oil Company aro prepar ing to buld an 8-inch oil-pie line from Cygnet, Ohio, to Detroit, lor handling fuel oil. A New York estimate is that 40,000 tourists moro than tho number who go -!,! A !.!.. every summer win cross to r-urupo hub season. John P. Hudson of Smyrna, Del., a leading peach-grower, places this sea son's yield of tho Peninsula at 1,000,000 baskets. It Ib denied in Washington that any such projwsition as that of sending Goro nimo liuck to Arizona has ever been con templated. Michigan has passed a law by which one-fifth of tho voters in any county may demand and Bocuro a vote ou a local option law for that county. Kuoxvillo has already raised $2000 of a fund to erect a monument to tho mem ory of John Sovier. It is projwsed to erect a $20,000 monument. Tho Chicago Tribuno is receiving and forwarding to tho proper authorities con tributions for tho relief of the starving coal minors of Northern Illinois. The short's of the Chesapeake Bay aro still strown with timber and wreckage carried into it by the great floods on the Susquehanna and us tributaries. Georgo W. McCann, a brothor of Com- Hiodoro McCann, killed himself at Meri dian, Miss., by cutting his throat. Pov city and drinking was tho lauso. The British steamer Haytlan, supposed to have been in collision with the steam er Victoria, oil" Nantucket, is at Quaran tine Station, below Now Orleans. A. S. Dunbar, living near McDonald, Peun., has a niaro thirty-ono years old with a colt four weeks old. Tho niaro is gray-headed and as sound as over. The fight between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain, on the 8th, for $10,000 a side and tho championship of the world, London rmo lting uiues to govern, was wan by the former In soventy-llvo rounds. Tho local physicians of Joluiptown. af ter carefully going over tho returns of tho people rescued from the Hood, still place the estimated loss of life at 10,003. Judge Bradloy of tho Suproino Court of tho District of Columbia, has decided that there is no cruelty in docking a horse' tail. Thlsis iniiKirtunt, if true. Tho Chicago will booh cross tho At lantic to loin tho European Squadron. and it is said she will convey tho remains of Inventor Ericsson to tho shores cf his native luml. FOKKKJX KI.AMIIKM. Labor Organizations Dp in a Ballon Tho Fast steamship Line Beg gary as a Profession Notes. Bishop Lambrecht of Ghent is dead. Wilkio Collins has had a stroke of par alyses. Copious rainfall in Culm has rejoiced tho planters. Labor organizations are making rapid progress all over ucrmany. Russia contemplates a new loan for strategic railways and forts. Fears in Russia of bad crops liavc been dissipated by favorable weather. Queen Christcna went up in an army balloon 1000 leet at Madrid, last week. The railroad to bo built from Joppa to Jerusalem will have American coaches. Herr Haseuclover, formerly a leading socialist member ot thoreichstag, is dead. Tho three missing steamers belonging to the Wissmann expedition have arrived at Zanzibar. Garter won tho Midland Breeders' stake at Fair Oaks, Birmingham, En gland, on tho 3d. The Shall was recoived by Queen Vic toria at tho state entrance at Windsor castle, on the 3d. It is predicted that tho number of Americans visiting Paris this summer will exceed 100.000. There aro eight ladies of title in En gland who earn on the business of dress and mantle-making. Paris has no flies. The Parisians say that it is on account ol the thorough cleanliness of the city. The American team did the best shoot ing at tho 200, COO and 000-yards shoot ing at London on the 2d. Sir Lcpcl Griflin proposes to colonize Cashmere with 3,000,000 Englishmen aa a bulwark to tho Indian Empire. Tho Russian army is to be equipped with new rifles of small caliber. The weapons will bo manufactured in France. Tho British bark Ecuado, Captain Hughes, Irom JJuenos Avres, April 2.M, for Barbadoes, lias been lost with all her crew. Tho French Chamber of Deputies has voted tho Urgency Panama Canal Relief bill, and later passed it by a vote of 3S8 to 58. A London paper says 500 Cornwall families are reported to be wearing crape for relatives lost in tho Conemaugh Valloy. Tho now Duchess of Portland ranks eighteen in tho list of peeresses, and the American Duchess of Marlboro takes pre codence. Last year tho number of visuors to Shakespear's birthplace was 10,800, Americans constituting one-fourth of the number. Tho National Amalgamated Sailors and riromen's Union ot ureat IJntain aud Ireland is now reported to havo 40,000 members. A subscription bar is soon to be opened at Berlin, where for $160, paid in ad vance, a man can drink all he chooses as olten as ho chooses. Porto Perraio, Naixjleon's laiulin; Clace at tho Island of Elba, is now used y the lleet of steamships which bring iron oro to American. Princess Louise Victoria Alexander Dagmar of Wales, oldest daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, has been betrothed to Earl rife. Russia has readopted the law which forbids heirs to tho throne contracting marriage with persons not memberc, of tho orthordox Greek Church. London is so crowded with Americans that those who have not engaged their rooms in hotels beforehand stand chance of having to sleep in Trafalgar Square. Tho Gossips of Europe tell great yarns about tho Shah of Persia's grandeur. It is said that tho prescious stones im bedded in his throne aro worth $30,000,' 000. Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian patriot, complains that his incarceration at Cey lon is killing Hint. Tho climate is too damp and ho is tortured with rheuma tism. M. Meyer, a Paris financier, has been Bontoneed to imprisonment for ono year and to pay a lino of 5000 francs for being connected with the Society Mobiliere frauds. M. Eiffel, whoso name has beon ex alted by his great tower, is 57 years old. Ills real name is said to bo Bonickhau- sen, and his reasons ior changing it are unknown. Tho watchmakrrsof Prescott, England. who have long been famous, finding that their trado is declining, havo decided to build a factory and work on tho Ameri can plan. The height of snobbishness is reached at English bazars, where monoy is taken as the price ot an introduction to this aud that beauty or titled lady presiding over tables. Beggary lias boon reduced to an art as well as a prolcssiou in Koine, cent case before tho ixaico an In a re- old man admitted that no had as many as fifty lies in daily use. An American has set up a school in Paris and advertises that he "will teach any Frenchman to Bpeak tho only sensi ble language in tho world in six weeks at a cost of only $2o." Tho largo steam hammers in use in England and on tho Continent for mak ing tho forcings required far artillery and machinery aro to Im quite generally ro pluccd by hydraulic presses. Tho ship railway, which is to trans part loaded vessels across tho Isthmus of Chignccto, N. B., is progressing rapidly. Seven hundred men and 200 hcoca iwo at work upon it. Governor Hill of New York, is said to luiv" signed his nuiuo to some bills pasocd by the legislative assembly and then erased his signature with acidfl. Vulgarly shaking, ho soured on them. Tho new treaty between Japan and Mexico mis not Invn ratified. Tho treaty between tho United Suites and Japan, which was sL'iuvl February 20th. will eo Unto force Fobruury 11, 18P0. THE PACIFIC COAST. THE BOY CONVICT DIES IN THE OREGON PENITENTIARY. Calfornla Fruit Shipment-Klllod by tho Cars A Olrl in Male Costume First Regiment Encamp ment "Black Bart." Salt Lake City lias a building boom. San Leandro is now lighted with gas. Tacoma is to have a Produce Exchange. St. Helena is putting down stone side walks. Los Gatos lias repealed its firecracker ordinance. The upper San Joaquin river is almost too low for navigation. A. French, a wealthy land owner at San Diego, has become insane. "Black Bart," the famous California stage robber, is said to be in China. Hon. M. C. George delivered the Fourth of July oration at Albany, Or. Los Angeles has twenty-one school houses, but they are all overcrowded. About three hundred bales of wool were sold at Cloverdale on the 28th at 22 cents. The total value of tho assessment on San Joaquin county property is 30,- 087,000. The lionev cron of Southern Califor-one-seventh of an nia will be less tliaa average. Ex-Judge James W. Bicknell of San Mateo has just died near Modesto, aged 70 years. Tho Parsonage Extension Society of the Pacific Conference met in Santa Rosa on the 28th. 1 ?. tCt K and bit off the e Peter Barger killed his late mistress, ar ot his rival, at iaco- ma, iasi weeK. ma, United States Marshal Hayes of Los ngeles, has Iwen arrested for overdriv ing a Fresno team. Napa is pleased with having secured tho First Regiment encampment. It will last eight days. San Francisco, it is understood, is soon to be the terminus of the Atchison, To- peka k Santa l'e road. Thc'first car for the East from General Bidwoll's Ranch Chico, was loaded with Bartlett pears and plums. The Sonoma County Agricultural Park Association will not hold a fair in con nection with tho fall races. A movement is on foot at Fresno, Cal.. to get the Board of Trade of that city to establish a freo labor agency. William Dolan, serving a life sentence in the San Quentin prison for murder, made his escape on the 3d inst. Tho Yamhill Gountv Herald says a floating island 300 yards in diameter lias been found in Honey Lake, Lliho. David Connoll, of Rockferd, W. T., was struck in the throat by a rocket on the night of the 4th. He cannot live. One man a dav is now tho killing rec ord of tho Oregon Railway & Navigation Company when passing Pendledon, Or. The whereabouts of C. A. Roberts of Huron, Fresno county, is sought for by his wife. He left Huron about a month "go. George Brown, a brakeman, caught his foot in a railroad frog at Carson, last week, and was run over and fatally in jured. Helena, M. T., capitalists, disgusted at the water supply, have formed a now water company and extensive works will be erected. Almost tho entire business portion of Ellensburg, W. T., was destroyed by tiro on the 4th. Tho loss wilt not fail short of $1,000,000. Sarah" Hallett, formerly of Oakland. killed herself with poison at Tucson on 27th, and Charles Kenyon Bitot himself at St. Helena. A non-partisan convention has put a strong ticket in tho field i to bo voted for in tho choice of officers for tho new county of Orange. Stockton's proi)osal to secure the spri ns race meetings under tho State Agricultu ral Society, has aroused Sacramento to increasing the premium lists. Tho prizo of $300 offered by Claus Spreckles to farmers producing tho larg est jwr cent of sagar per aero of Bugar beets, has been awarded to J. B. Hudson. Georgo N. Miller, an electric belt doc tor, well known all over tho Pacific Coast, was arrested at I'ort lownsend on tho 3d, charged with embezzlement at Mer ced. Cal. Tho tri ll of Calvin T. Lewis, tho gam bler who shot and killed John Harring ton, near tho Baldwin Hotel, San Fran cisco, ended on tho 3d, tho jury returning a vardict of not guilty. Charles E. Mervillo, a brakeman on tho Columbia it Puget Sound railroad, was run over by a car at Kent, W. T., horribly crushing both legs, from which ho died on tho 4th inst. Charles Schmidt was crushed to death at Seattle oil the 27th by tho falling walls of building left standing in tho recent fire. John Brewster was seriously iu- jured at the samo time. John McAllister, tho 10-vcar old crimi nal, who poisoned his father at Wood villo, Jackson county, Or., nlxnit ouo year ago, has just died in tno Oregon penitentiary irom consumption. Nancy Howard, tho girl who recently worked at Leech's saw-mill in Yuba county, in tho garb of a mail, says she is tho sister of of tho wife of Forepaugh, tho cirens man, and he ill-treated her. No less than 300 fishermen lost their lives on tho coasts of England and Wales last year. Tho fisherman is bo heavilv clad that, once overboard, there is small hoivo for him. lio usually sinks like a stone. A vacht has recently been launched on tho Thames by electrical appliances, which enabled all tho supiurta to lie re moved ou tho pressing of a button, and tho vessel glided into tho water without tho slightest hitch. The remains of J. C. Flood, tho San Francisco millionaire, who died in Ger many sovoral moths ago, has arrived in Now York. Tho remains will lw interred ill Calvary semutery, San Fraucisco. t JIO.MK A.VI FAItJI. The Wild Horse-Fruit Stnnos-Dlsln-fectans Log Clod-Crusher Salt as a Check for Chinch Bugs. Evcrytldng is useful to a good house keeper. Oil of wintergreen mixed with an equal quantity of olive oil is recommended as a rheumatic pain-killer. A cook of some note says that if peach es are peeled aud put into cold water for lialf an hour they will retain their color. The wild horse, it ia said, is not ex clusively of Asiatic origin, but lias ox isted in America as far back as the ter tiary age. Cold boiled turnips make a nice gar nish for roast beef or lamb. Cut them into thin slices, and brown in butter, pouring hot gravy over them. Place them on the platter around tho meat. A hot salad, which is a well known Pennsylvania dish, is made by slicing green tomatoes and small onions, and a few potatoes and frying them together; salt them well and send them to the table smoking. Instead of "sticking peas" in the usual manner, tho American Agriculturist sug gests setting stakes about a rod apart and stretching wires between them, the first one foot from the ground and the others eight inches apart. After each rain the ground should be cultivated lightly in order to prevent evaporation of moisture Tho loose dirt serves as a covering and shields the earth from tho direct effect of drying winds and heat of the sun. Clovo Cake : One cup of dark sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet cream, two cups of flour, ono cup of raisins, two eggs, ono tablespoon ful of cloves, one-half tablesjxjonful of nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Ono ol the best dismfctants to use about the oultry house is a half pint of crude carbolic acid, two and a half gallons of water and one and a half pounds of copperas dissolved and mixed thoroughly and apply the same as a whitewash into ever' crack and corner. beans, jnias and potatoes very early. It the frost kills some of them the loss will besmall, and if thoy escape you will havo a change, ot rations a month earlier than people who neglesct the garden till all the farm crops are in. Fruit stains may bo removed from linen by rubbing the spot on each side with soap, then laying on a mixture of starch in cold water, very tnick ; rub it well in and expose the linen to the sun and air till the stain comes out. If not removed in three days renew the process Hardy shrubs and flowers should bo selected with tho view of having a sup ply ol Uowers Irom spring until fall, as some flowers bloom early and others late, selections of varieties best suited to the soil and for each month will assist in or namenting the yard until frost appears In a majority of cases it rarely pays to attempt to cure a hen that has fallen into the habit of eating eggs and for tho rea son that sho is almost certain to learn others tho samo trick often almost before you aro aware of it, the be6t plan is to kill as soon as the trick is discovered. It hardly pays to run the risk. A Roly Poly : Beat together two cup fuls of sugar, ouo cuptul of butter, one egg, two cupfuls of cream, half a glass of wine, three cupluls of Hour, a heaping teasiKJonful of baking owder, half a pound of seeded raisins. Pour into a pudding bag and boil for three hours When dono serve hot with a cream sauce, The statement that the dropping of one lion per year are worth 50 cents is gom its annual round. Wo havo kept about iuu liens on that average but tine them credited with only $5 on our Ixiok for manure, or 5 cents each. Ten cents is the very highest that we would be will ing to allow for the annual manure crop from each hen. An effective table scarf is made of scrim. An eight inch border of old gold satin serge, on which has been worked in arrasene embroiderv a spray of eglan tine, applied at oither end by means of fancy stitches in Bilk, corresionding to the tones in the embroidery. A heni Btitched border edges the entire scarf, and tho edges aro fringed with silk in all the colors of tho embroidery and old gold. Ingenious ladies aro using summer jackets of light cloth for house wear. The jackets are without lining, and aro ex ceptionally pretty, useful and becoming. Draped vests of crajM) do chine or surah may bo added, and a fancy revers anil cutis, according to Uio taste. A very wide, strong belt should bo set inside tho jacket, ami so arranged as to fit the figure quito closely outside of the garment. Hot Lobster : Pull about threo pounds of Wiled lobster to pieces with two silver forks, make a sauce of mustard, vinegar, tomato catsup and plenty of caynne pep per and salt. Put tho lobster, tho sauco and half a pound of good fresh butter into a chafing dish, cover tho dish tightly and when the lobster begins to cook open and Btir with either a silver or a wooden siKwri. Cook about twenty minutes in all, and alxiut two minutes before blow ing out the lights open for a minute and throw in a glass of good sherry, stirring quickly and covering again at once. Salt as a Check to the Chinch Bug; Professor Forbes, the Illinois State En tomologist, is credited with having said : "I havo no personal experience with tho uso of salt as a check upon chinch hug increase, but from what I know of the habits of that insect and tho eltcct of other fertilizers, I should not exject any important advantage, except in soil where salt will specially stimulate tho growth of the grain. Somo exieritiient8 with salt, niado within my knowledge by in telligent farmers of Southern Ilhnoise, were without noticeabld effect. A Log Clod-Crusher: A log, preforably of oak or other compact, hard wood, eight feet long and from eight to ten in Inches in diameter, is prepared by re moving tho bark, and tapering slightly toward tho ends. About ono loot from tho end a notch is cut deep enouch tn admit a chain which is Becurelv wrapped around tho log. The douhlo-tre jH ,,. tached to this chain alxmt three feet from ono end of tho log and five feet from tho other. Tho log is thus drawn diagonally. If tho weight of tho log is not sufliciont an additional ono can bo laid in front of it, resting on tho chain, which is made a little longer for this purjKiao. PORTLAND MARKET. SPECULATING ON THE COMING PRICE OF WHEAT. Apples, Flums and Peaches Provision aro Steady No Change in Dried Fruits Chickens in Good Dem nd Wheat Dull. The Fourth of July has come and gone, after having ns usual caused a day's more or less cessation of business, to the great benefit to all. In many portions of the inland empire a good harvest is assured,, thanks to the late sufficient rainfall, but in some sections it arrived too lato to do any good. The merchants aro now busily engaged in speculating on tho likely price of wheat, and tho chances seem to be that they and the farmers will have no reason to complain, for tho cereal yield of the Northwest will be enormous, and the price about average. No cliange in sugars, and coffee is unsettled. Pro visions remain about steauy. ruiw and vegetables aro cheaper all round and aro quite plentiful. No change in dried fruits Chickens in good demand. The wheat market is as dull as ever. GKOCK1UES. Sugars. Golden C 7?aC. extra C 7tc, dry granulated 9&c, cube, crushed and powdered l)c. jouee: Java 0(5-c, Mocha 28fa3ic, Costa Rica 21Jt'22,,-.c, Rio21tg22e, Arbuckle's roasted 24Hc. 1'KOVISIONS. Oregon ham 1313c, breakfast ba con 13c. sides 10c, Eastern bacon 13 13c. breakfast bacon IStglSc, sides 1010c, shoulders Jo. Lard Uo 10s. FllUlTH. Apricots $1.25, peaches $1.251.50, lemons $4.50. cherries 00c, blackberries 10c. Riversides $4.50, Sicily $7.508. VEQETAI1LES. Potatoes 4000o, bew $11.10, onions $1, tomatoes $1.50 per lox. DAIHV l'UODUUK. Butter. Oregon fancy 2oc, medium 15(3 17c, common, 1012'c. Eastern 22c, California 1820c. KCJ08. Eggs 2022c. coinray. Chickens $54.50, broilers $2.503, old $5.50G, ducks $57, geese $7($8, turkeys 15c per lb. WOOL. Valley 1820c, Eastern Oregon 1013c HOI'S. Hops 1015c. QHAIN. Wheat, Vallev $1.151.17K, Eastern Oregon $1.051.07. Oats3d30c. K1.0UK. Standard $4, other brands $3.75. KEEP. Hay $1314 per ton, bran $13.5014, chop $1820, shorts $1415, barley $20 (322. FItESH MEATS. Beef, live. 3c, dressed, GGJc; mutton, live, 34c, dressed 0)c; Iambs $2.50 each ; hogs live 6c, dressed, 77c ; veal G8c. PRIED FKUIT8. Apples 45c, evaporated 06W sliced Go, pears 8c, jHaches 812c, Oregon plums 3, petite prunes 5tic, German G0c, Italian 0c, silver 7c, California tigs , Smyrna lSwloc, apricots 13 14c, raisins $1.25(2.25 per box. 8ecretnry Endicott has a fondness for ye! low gloves. Robert Louis Stevenson was oaid 8.000 foe his last novel. Southern members of congress wear bootH. northern members, shoes. Governor Jerry Rusk, of Wisconsin, stand) bIx feet threo in his stockings. Prince Bismnrek is now known as tho Word McAllister of European society. Senator Ingalls alwavs has a red kerchief peeping out of his breast pocket President IT ydo, of Bowdoin colleco. snonda much of his time at tennis, and is an oxnert player. Secretary Whitnov is considered to h bv long odds tho best dressed man at present ia public life. Bronson Howard recently mode tho witty remark that ho would rather bo playwright than bo president. Until a fow years ago Kai6er William ex changed photographs with every pretty wo man wnoso acquaintance ho made. Gen. Von Moltko savs that Gen. Coulnncw "knows something." From such aroticont old ixjssimist as Vou Moltke this is high praiso. The lato Chief Justice Waite was 73 when ho died. Justice Bradloy is 75: Matthows. 04; Harlan. 55; Blatchford, C3: Gray. CO: Field, W; jailer, 73. and Lamar, 03. King Humbert, of Italy, hns grown very gray of late. He is only 44, but ho looks very much older. Humbert is not a bandsomo man, nor does he look highly intellectual Senator Stanford still affects tho low cut vest of old tunes. His wealth does not show In his clothes, though tho stuff is tho best of black broadcloth and his shirt is of linen from Ireland. M. Goblet, the new French minister of foreign affairs, has a very hot temner. Ev ery ono has hoard of a tempest in a teapot, hub an outbreak of passion hi u Goblet Is soine- tlmig new. Pope Leo has ordered that the walls around tho Vatican jwdaco ho heightened. High buildings have boon eroded in tho neighbor hood which overlook tho garden inhich tho iwiks takes his daily walk. Stenographer D. F. Murphy has been th rejiorter of tho United Htatcs Fenato for nearly forty years. Ho hus reiwrted Clay. elxter and Cass, and later Sumn,r. K.,w. ftnl and other famous men. Austen Chamberlain, eldnst Knn nf TMivh Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, is to enter parlia ment, Hotiasbeeiifctuiryingin Berlin, and It is kald that Prinou lhsmarck took a great muejr u mm anu irequeutiy entertained him at dinner. Ono of the best of the new inventions is a horseshoe without nails. It is made to fit on tho edges of Uio hoof, as you wauld fit tho cover over the rim of a tea cup. It can bo put on or taken off by any ono of ordiuury intelligence in ono or two minutes. By its uso all danger of I'")? aIhorBOIIbJr. Peking or Hounding the foot with nails is averted. As about five horses in a hundred aro lamed or ISSmo LTtST ,,riv,"of nl at least 10 ncr cent aro ruined by cureless shoeing by incon,Ftent iron no" ndors who stylo themselU ho hZ" t2 invention, asido from heapeninJ t o Process, will add to tho vaRf Z 1
